jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Plus, it's strange to categorize "humanism" as a religion, as well as categorizing "Wicca" and "neo-paganism" as completely different religions.

Characterizing Lisp as Zen Buddhism seems odd, though the given rationale makes sense; to my understanding, Zen Buddhism seems to entail contemplating questions that don't have logical answers and getting beaten with a stick for answering incorrectly, and while there are many programming languages like that, I don't get the impression that Lisp is one :)
At my school, we have three required math courses: Calc I, Calc II, and basic (non-calculus-based) statistics. There's also one discrete math course aimed specifically at CS.

That's it.
GPA is just a number. It isn't important.
I suspect if you explained yourself more, you wouldn't get downvoted. (I didn't downvote you.)
I was curious where the 'pythonic' coding style played into being unrestrictive when it comes to how everybody writes in that language.
First of all, a lot more people like that syntax than you make it out to be. It's popular enough that objective-j should have caught on. The fact that it didn't is telling.

Secondly, I was only using it as an example. I base my opinion on the lack of popularity of all cross-compilation engines except GWT. There's two ways of looking at that. One is that GWT proves the demand for other languages because of its success. The other is that GWT proves the demand for other languages is not that big, because otherwise those other languages would have GWT-like platforms in the field already. I'm partial to the latter.
I think you may have confused Presbyterianism with Protestantism. The former being a subset of the latter....oh and also...the IO monad kinda throws that off, doesn't it :-P
How do you judge that? If you write a paper and no one cites it, is it important (a tree falls in a forest...)? This is a serious question--I agree that h-index is vulnerable to fads, but if one adds aging (the effect of citations decays with time, so if people stop citing the paper when the fad passes, then the h-index decays--for researchers who are post tenure and intend to stay in the field, they can think long-term) then it's hard to think of a better way. There are so many papers produced (the number of researchers is huge) that I don't see a feasible way of judging research outside of using "crowds"--aka citations....I suppose that one could try to look at page-rank (based on citations as links) as a proxy for citations (I think this has been done) and use it to remove the academic equivalent of link farms--but there are legitimate uses of cross-citing. For example, imagine that you have group 1 with technique A and group 2 with technique B that work in a similar problem space. It might be very natural for them to cite each other if they disagree or agree with each other. This may happen several times--it's not malicious, just economics at work (even if both groups could afford both sets of techniques and one of the groups was really good at both techniques, it would make sense for them to only pursue one--comparative advantage)....

What is your solution?
I, for one, don't have my phone handy when I'm doing laundry in my pajamas, or while shaving in my bathrobe.
Please don't do this here. Your other comment was fine, and can and should speak for itself.

We detached this one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345023 and marked it off-topic.
Is this really EP-lite? The text in the link says nothing about it, but the interface looks like EPl..
If I'm on a semi-obscure platform like Solaris or GNU/kFreeBSD I'd rate my odds much more highly with Ruby than with something that builds binaries.
I wonder if his chat server has been hit by a botnet yet trying to ssh in and then sending tons of shell commands
Moreover, there are some conventions (which you followed but didn't call out) that make the single letter names clearer. Whether that makes them clear enough is more debatable, but I think they're worth noting.

For values:

f, g, h: functions
x, y, z: numbers or generic values
m, n, o: monadic values

For polymorphic types:

a, b, c: arbitrary value type
s, t, u: state or structure
f, g, h: functor (possibly applicative)
m, n, o: monad
i: index

There are probably some others that I'm not thinking of, too.
I am a good example for this. I was planning to use Lyft but then scared of surge pricing and drove my own car. I was lucky to find free street side parking but even paying $40 for parking wouldn't be that bad compared to Lyft/Uber rates that night.
"If that's the case, that's a novel way of doing journalism: publish crap first, then sell more paper by doing a critique of your crap."

I wouldn't assume it was an intentional strategy. Papers and magazines have never been shy about critiquing themselves. (At least, the better ones haven't.) Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon to see an editor at the New York Times take a staff reporter or columnist to task in a sidebar, or even in a followup story. And the role of ombudsman used to mean something. (Whereas today, it's a very underappreciated and little-understood role.)

Second, we shouldn't necessarily presume that writers at the same paper are coordinating with each other. Say what you will about that as a business practice. But it's a fact of life at many publications, with distributed staffs, section-specific editors, shrinking numbers of full-timers, and ever-increasing numbers of independent contractors. I wouldn't attribute to malice what can better be explained by uncoordinated action.

[EDIT: This comment got a downvote, and I'm guessing it's because someone assumed I'm defending the Guardian here. Just to be clear, I'm not. When I say that people aren't always coordinating, I'm not offering that as a defense of lack of coordination. I'm offering it as a possible explanation. Clearly, a lack of coordination is a bad thing.]
> "There should be some regulation on the numbers of drivers you allow to Lyft," another commenter wrote. "Otherwise it may seem that you are taking advantage of the fact that we are not paid salaries, and you reap the benefits regardless if it effects us."

It will self regulate. If there isn't enough money in it, there will be less drivers. When ridership goes up, it will attract more drivers.

Isn't that the point?
Yes, it was previously written in Ruby. https://github.com/github/hub/releases/tag/v2.2.0-rc1 has a standalone binary release for Windows.
could be a bad phone. my skype mobile app used to crash all the time but I switched to a faster Android phone and its smooth.
FWIW this http://www.leagle.com/decision/20061170445FSupp2d725_11105 appears to be the text of the decision, I couldn't find a non-commercial source for the text: gpo.gov only has N, W and S Districts of Texas for some reason.

The patent in question, http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6410835. Espacenet has it too of course, http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=..., but Google is better is it gives the B2 published form of the claims as opposed to the A1 first submitted form. Major fail there for the EPO's ESPACENET in my opinion.

Claims 1, priority date is 24 July 1998:

>"1. A dance game apparatus comprising: music output means for outputting one piece of music from at least one stored piece of music; a floor panel having a step-on base section; said step-on base section comprising a top panel and a support member which supports the panel; detection means for detecting a stepping operation on said step-on base section; said detection means comprising stepping sensors interposed between said panel and said support member at mutually opposing positions of said panel; said stepping sensors comprising longitudinally extending conductive sections having a longitudinal length, one of said conductive sections being moveable laterally relative to another of said conductive sections at any one of a plurality of positions along the longitudinal length of said one conductive section to effect contact with said other conductive sections at any one of a plurality of corresponding contact positions such that said stepping sensors detect stepping on said step-on base sections at plural locations corresponding to said plurality of corresponding contact positions, guidance means for performing a stepping operation instruction to said step-on base section in time with said music; measurement means for measuring a time deviation between the timing of a stepping operation instruction and the time at which the fact that said step-on base section is stepped on is detected by said detection means; and evaluation means for providing a higher score the smaller the measurement result." //

FWIW the Mario Kart patent you cite refers to methods of controlling NPC in order to provide strong rivals, avoid bunching of NPC in racing games and provide variation in race orders despite relatively fixed characteristics (acceleration and top-speed). None of that prevents you having cars with the same styles, having the same tracks, having the same end goals, having the same range of pickups and such - it only relates to specific algorithms for providing competing computer controlled cars/NPC.
California has a local talent pipeline (UC Berkeley, Stanford) and has become attractive for tech talent across the world. Combine that with a fiercely competitive local market, and the Bay is a pretty safe place for anyone who is a reasonably good SWE.

So... lots of money, a willingness to import, and a local pipeline.

When was the last time you sent a recruiter to an American university?
I use ejabberd as chat server and as interface to hubot. Solves both authentication and backlog issues. With a ssh tunnel (or your choice of vpn), it also solves out of network access. Jabber and ssh clients exist for Android (and iOS I presume)
I agree. They did not advise to mask early on (airborne transmission was still largely unproved around May, if I remember correctly).

In my mind it was ‘mask before the apparition of symptoms’, and I realise that my wording was not ideal in the context.
There may be something else in play: carb consumption. If you are 90% carnivore, you eat very few carbs per day, and lots of protein. If you are vegan, it is possible to eat rice and vegan muffins and croissants all day. (The vegan muffins I tried from whole foods were some of the sweetest things I've ever eaten. The vegan croissants I had from WF used margarine and didn't taste anywhere as good as the butter croissants.) So a vegan diet can definitely be less healthy than a omnivore diet.

I think if you are vegan and ate 90% tofu / pea protein / rice protein products, and spent the rest of your intake on avocados and olive and coconut oil and almonds and pecans, you might also look and feel great.
I have to say, I really like http://cablesearch.org/ for this.

He's done an amazing job and as the entire corpus of cables is released, he'll have a valuable and useful little web property.
What does the Smalltalk scalability story look like? Could you build something like Twitter or a Farmville backend on Smalltalk with similar scaling strategies used in Python and Ruby?
BTW Smalltalk Zen has started a series on deploying a Smalltalk (Pharo) server to a cloud hosted service - http://smalltalkzen.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/a-remote-server... .
>>Also, if you bought a product, you've signaled that the current feature set was worth the price.

I question whether this is the consumer expectation for iOS apps. Updates for apps are fast and free, and oftentimes apps are sold with the explicit promise of future updates that will contain various anticipated features. This and the fact that many apps are platforms that consumers expect will be maintained over a reasonable amount of time verses those of competitors.
eBooks are my thing so let me save you time and energy: Format it for Kindle and sell it via Amazon, PERIOD. That's where people go to buy eBooks, period. They have at least 80% of the market and it's not worth it to try to fight that. Most of your customers are bound to have Kindles too.
I discovered that environment where you write is important to give the initial kick to start writing. For example plain paper (or moleskine ;) works great but notepad is very bad due to the typography and risk of easily loosing content with bad undo/redo support.

Last month I found a free app for windows, ZenWriter. http://www.beenokle.com/zenwriter.html (I'm not affiliated with them). It's tremendously nice and clean full-screen app with good typography.

As soon as it pops up it gives some nice urge to start writing and makes it tempting not to stop until you have something down that you are happy with. Writing process seems like it induces a pure connection to your inner mind.
I was at NIPS and talked to one of the authors. I thought the paper was interesting, but I think the "you're not paying enough" critique is spot on. Humans clearly can be better at this task---you just can't give them strong incentives to cut corners on quality, which happens with a low piece-rate and a task that takes on the order of 3 ~ 4 minutes to do properly.
It would be a good idea to get a confirmation of your withdrawal in writing to avoid problems later.
Great resource. While writing is clearly an important task, I would like to hear opinions on making others read the manual. I'm at a big org and not only do other Devs not read the help I've written, they just shoot out messages asking for a session to explain exactly what's in the document. This is true even if I've recorded a demo video. How do you tackle this problem?
Problem with this is, this cuts open the feedback loop of being responsible for ones own health. Credit assignment problem all the way
> I just wanted to point out how it is absurd to simply claim that "as long as people keep recommending recompiling stuff open source won't work" when actually A) people recommend it _because you can actually do it_ , unlike alternatives B) being able to recompile stuff is actually a major if not the main strength of free software, so it is a strange argument to point it as a negative.

And my reply to that is, in the context of mainstreaming Linux to the wider computer using audience, that's ridiculous. You might as well tell every person who owns a car to never pay for repairs again, because you can, via the proper hardware, reprogram the ECM. That "solution" applies only to an interested subculture of (awesome) people who hack shit.

To say to my aunt Doris that Ubuntu can be better for her to use than Windows and then require her to learn a fair bit of bash script and C# to complete that journey is ridiculous.
Agreed, even as somebody liberal-leaning, I think overtly politic-checking somebody like this is tacky and a red-flag. It says to me that this employer can't separate work and politics.
> The challenge for the Julia community today is really to make people new to the environment aware of this.

^This. As we're seeing here in the discussion thread Python folks don't really realize what they're missing when we're talking about composability of of libraries in Julia - it's kind of difficult to explain the impact on productivity without people actually trying it out. I think Julia and Flux are getting to the point where they're quite useable and comparable with PyTorch. Also some of the Neural ODE stuff and differentiable programming in SciML seems just a lot easier to implement than it would be in Python.
An online demo of Tweetylicious running is (temporarily!) available.

See Sebastian Riedel (kraih) tweet from this morning: http://twitter.com/kraih/status/16126503162

The direct link to demo is: http://189.32.185.64:3000/
I have found http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ to be extremely helpful in learning python.
Flash on Linux is unfortunately quite slow. I see the difference whenever I boot to Windows every once in a while.
This is what works for me. Get up Saturday morning and go edit you hosts file and block off the 3 most common sites that you waste time on. Now, pack up your laptop and go to a coffee shop. This will eventually lead you to break the habit for short stimuli and eventually you will learn enjoy longer term projects. Leaving the house prevents you from turning on the TV or finding some other random thing to waste time on. It's all about habit forming.
I'll try to reach out to them and see. They're not founders, but considering their track records, they're worth making an exception for.
What part of the article did you find libelous or untruthful?
A publication can be politically titled to one side and still be factually accurate and stay true to journalistic integrity principles (or at least that's what I want).

With social media and modern communication/publication mechanisms, it is much easier for individuals who know the ground truth to bring their perspective to the fore and poke holes into a major publication's journalistic flaws. This wasn't possible just 10 years ago.

In the case of NYT, their political tilt is very clear (that's ok) but their journalistic integrity is being called into question more and more (that's problematic).
Lisp still might be popular if the Usenet group got banned back in the day. Lisp developers were famously incredibly rude for some reason and if you asked a question a guy named Erik Naggum would write essays screaming at you and tell you to kill yourself, then everyone else would call him "a character". I sort of think this is why people stopped using the language.

Eventually they calmed down and now everyone seem to be genuinely nice. I personally just had to live through a later period, where they didn't scream at you, but instead just constantly implied they were smarter than you in every way because you wrote in "Blub" or "Javascript".
> In 1980’s Tim Berners-Lee realized that the documents are hard to find at CERN, so he started imagining a system of interconnected documents that would supposedly solve this thorny problem for good. Nowadays we know this invention as the internet.
> Despite 40 years of improvements and the internet becoming a part of our daily life, we still face the same problems. You can talk to another person half way across the world while watching a funny cat videos, but somehow we still struggle with finding the important project documents

TIL. But I think the author meant the Web[0]. Iirc internet originates from ARPA.

0: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
> What’s always impressed me about this poem is its conception of civilization as an individual entity. You can almost see him, with his fingers of armies and his skyscraper-window eyes.

Ancient Greek had a term for the concept of this kind of entity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
Didn't spoil the nonfiction in general for me, but definitely did make me ask "why more people on the left can't be like Scott?" I'm not a leftist myself, and this makes me disagree with Scott - who is definitely on the left - from time to time, but even when I disagree I feel like I learned something and maybe improved my knowledge, understanding and appreciation for opposing points. I wonder if more people were like that, maybe we could have proper political discussions instead of the catastrophic calamity we are witnessing now.
I found it interesting that on HN, without concrete evidence, when OP says: don't ever trust {A} on issue {B}. Depending on what A, B is, OP will usually get treated differently.

A -> CCP. OP -> a concerned citizen.

A -> Race/Color/Religion/Gender. OP -> Racist/Sexist.

A -> Trump. OP -> a concern citizen.

A -> Scientist. OP -> conspiracist.

But one thing that I am sure is that it'll never ever be constructive. Not mean to be disrespectful, but I do hope this type of comment won't ever get to the top of HN.
I assumed "cat fuel" was some shorthand for "catalytically cracked fuel" which I simply hadn't heard before.

Which actually works, because that's exactly what you'd have to do!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_catalytic_cracking
Whatever, you & me are both helping to make it what it is.
Your first link was when IANA allocated five final /8s to the RIRs, including RIPE. Your second link was when RIPE reached their final /8, and switched to a "one /22 per company" rationing policy. Today, the rations ran out.
Yeah. MS Word is notoriously incompatible with itself.
My home connection has a /56 (o2/telephonica de) ....
We the internet absolutely need a decentralized way to manage internet names that replaces the centralized ICANN. That is the only way to avoid these types of corruption.
As a counterpoint: any VPN service that claims that they will ignore the authorities legal requests is lying. No matter what, as soon as it is a business, has a registered address and a nominal director it can be put under pressure.
I've used OpenOffice in the past (since 2005-ish), switched to Libreoffice when it came out. During the same time I used Microsoft Office at work. About a year ago I changed my job and now I get to use macOS.

Some huuuge surprises:
1. libreoffice unfortunately is really slow on macos with retina display.
2. The web version of excel does not hold a candle to Google sheets.
3. Excel for windows is not interoperable with macos. Eg: have data in one sheet in excel, create a separate sheet with pivotable from first sheet. Open the file on macos's excel and it will complain that this usage of data sources is not availabale on macos. I thought it was a funky excel file but no. Easily repeatable with very simple cases.

Also, styles management in libreoffice writer is many times easier and understandable than in microsoft word.
This isn't the first time I've seen you in dating-related threads, I recognize the username since it makes me chuckle (aren't we all?).

If you've given up the game, and I can certainly empathize -- it's a real crapshoot --, why do you feel the need to share such a strong opinion in these types of threads as if nobody else is having any luck in the dating world? Isn't this obviously a personal problem?
> the workers rights battles of our ancestors.

The consequence of these battles is that at least for low skill workers, all these jobs were shipped abroad (or just disappeared) where none of these rights exist. Creating huge unemployment, so now low skill workers have rights but no jobs and therefor make even less.

The fact that people are willing to take these jobs is a sign that low skill workers are ok with having lower wages and less benefits if this means getting a job and a better pay. We could ban all these jobs of course but that would not give these low skill workers rights, it would just make them unemployed again.
Much like Hemingway, who also wrote down his thoughts in a moleskine, I feel that there is no friend as loyal as a book.
I'm forever grateful that Calvin and Hobbes introduced me to Peanuts. I became curious about Schulz when I read the foreword he did for the first collection.
I don't think the system I use it on even has anti virus. What I mean is after I do a code change I have to remove all packages from the server, clean the server, run a build, add all packages to server. All of those take minutes.
I do not appriciate those, mail without your address (i.e. you have no relation to the sender). That should be opt in.
I feel the same about targeted advertisement.
Swift just seemed like yet another OCaml-like language to me; there are certainly far worse languages to borrow from, but I don't see any compelling reason why I'd use it over OCaml. ARC has the same worst cases as mark/sweep GC AIUI; exiting any scope might cause an arbitrarily large amount of cleanup work in the general case, and it doesn't solve the memory fragmentation problem which is the main reason you still need to occasionally stop the world (ish) in a mark/sweep GC.