jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think either is objectivly better - if for no other reason than ruby and php being quite different languages.

Personally I much prefer ruby - but I could perhaps see myself reaching for Laravel for a project depending on requirements.
It seems that you can click on a box and add a letter, or click a letter to remove it. It's only once you complete a word that it registers a guess.
You do actually need the bank's permission to enroll a card for Apple/Android Pay, it is a feature they have to support.
At present the memo is available via one of the links.

http://www.gregpalast.com//vulturespicnic/pages/filecabinet/...
> Isn't that the basis of ALL war?

Its the basis for at least one side in pretty much all war, but every side in every war (at least since treating war as a private rather than public affair and paying troops by overtly giving them either land grants in conquered territory or the right to loot conquered territory fell out of vogue) presents that as the other side, not their own side.
I'm gonna pretend you're just bad with word choice and were sincere with your post...

While it's good to maintain a positive attitude and congratulate ourselves on the progress we've made, it's unwise to call ourselves "awesome." We're anything but.

Web development is still way harder than it should be. Javascript is still much worse than it could be. Node.js is still a bad plan. Software is very much in its infancy. We're still 10-25 years behind the state of the art in the industry, and many people get defensive if you point it out because their egos are tightly coupled with their work work methodology.

It's not hopeless, but it's nowhere near done. And hyper-nested callbacks are a primitive that we should grow beyond, and numerous methods to do so are not only possible, but already researched and proven before you and I were born.
Though you may call them explosive detectors, they aren't. They're chemical detectors, specifically mass spectrometers. All they can do is detect chemicals, and they obviously can't tell the difference between some common chemicals and a true explosive device.
I have yet to see any widely used Web development tool that facilitates local reasoning: looking at a piece of code and knowing what it can or cannot do, without having to look at the rest of the program/page/stylesheet/whatever.
(I used to work at Coursera) It's actually up to the professors to decide - some of them leave them up, some close the classes. Sometimes they'll close because they want to improve the videos for next time or prevent super simple cheating in the next session, for example. We came up with proposals for how we could leave all classes open while also alleviating professor concerns, but I don't know how far those are along. There's a lot on their plate, as you can imagine!
> Discovered, not invented.

This refers to a philosophical debate that asks whether mathematics is part of nature or an artificial invention of man. I think the debate has begun to lean toward mathematics being part of nature, in which case yes, the proper term is discovered.
"The solution is for the people who use these tools to become mindful of these dangers, not to get rid of the tools."

Sure, but after 55 years of Lisp, that hasn't happened. If Lisp is unused because programmers find it hard to resist using a feature anti-socially, then it's time to change that feature.

Of course I have no hope that Lisp will change its macro feature. My interest is in making sure that new language designers realize that Lisp's so-called perfection is the very reason that it languishes.
Certainly Apple's processors are far ahead, but they're a full process generation (5nm) ahead of their competitors. They paid their way to that exclusive right through TSMC.

I'm sure they'll still come out ahead in benchmarks, but the numbers will be much closer once AMD moves to 5nm. You absolutely cannot fairly compare chips from different fab generations.

I don't see many comments hammering this point home enough... it's not like the performance gap is through engineering efforts that are leagues ahead. Certainly some can be attributed to that, and Apple has the resources to poach any talent necessary.
Feedback taken! We'll improve upon this :)
That's very confusing as other BASIC dialects had used the same syntax in lieu of GOTO. `IF B = 15 THEN 40 ELSE 99` would be equivalent to `IF B = 15 THEN GOTO 40 ELSE GOTO 99`.
The internet allows for mass influence of the population by third party actors. This is largely China vs Russia. I have trouble not playing this out at scale and drawing the conclusion the internet inherently invalidates a lot of the assumptions democracy (as in the American Experiment™ version of it) requires to function. I hope I'm wrong and overly pessimistic.
> but this is partially our fault

Yes, I've called dang out on his inaction numerous times. HN is utterly filled with alt-right scum.
Wow - I didn't know about that / on the Mac. You, sir, have just saved me three key presses on probably 75% of both my save And open windows...
"lies shouldn't be allowed"
Uh huh, and who decides what is a lie?
There is a term called "slippery slope" and free speech may have been its founding issue.
> National birth rates where 13 in 2016 vs 9.3 in Beijing demonstrating it’s a poor fit for national trends.

Yes, it's harder to avoid the government's wrath if you live right under their eyes in the capital, so national policies are more likely to be enforced in Beijing than elsewhere.

> In terms of IUD rates. 324 million IUD’s over 34 years vs a current population of 1.4 billion don’t on their own get 60% drop in birth rates.

Did you do the math on that? 1.4 billion population total corresponds to roughly 700 million women; adding 324 million IUDs and 107 million tubal ligations amounts to 431 million sterilizations, about 62% of all Chinese women.

Of course it's not just the sterilizations that cause a drop in birth rates, but also having to pay a fine per "superfluous" child, not qualifying for government benefits, the rising cost of living making raising a child more expensive etc. It's no wonder that many women would choose to have no or fewer children under these circumstances, especially if they know other women who can tell them exactly what it's like.

> Further, it isn’t like Xinjinang was completely outside of the national trends and suddenly caught up,

I do think they were outside national trends in terms of percentage of women sterilized and "caught up" by sterilizing women en masse even when they gave birth years ago; while those sterilizations would have happened routinely after childbirth in Beijing.

I guess we'll see whether birth rates in Xinjiang will continue to drop below even the level of Beijing, stagnate at the current level or bounce back slightly once the figures for 2020 are published (but then there's the pandemic as a confounder...)
I was specifically noting that I was getting a return by not using Spreedly, as compared to having used it. My apologies if that was unclear.
It's storage.
> only useful for niche hpc "measuring contest" applications

It's useful for crypto. I haven't measured myself, but I expect AVX-512 roughly doubles the throughput of ChaCha20. (Not only do you have 2x as many lanes, you also have new bit rotation instructions.) Something similar applies if you use a tree hash like KangarooTwelve.

Whether your application is actually bottlenecked on crypto performance is another question of course.
This is a better guide to tea drinking, at least the British way of tea drinking:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
I've been looking for a databases course focusing on the systems side of things (concurrency control, query planning, disk, etc.), but it seems like it's too niche. If anyone knows of one, I'd be really happy to hear about it.
> reporting by non-technical journalists doesn't help the cause

non-technical journalists

Ever heard of a certain Jacob Appelbaum?
Ah yeah, I found that during my research for the post.
Ideas no, but I sometimes drag snippets of text to the desktop too and they get saved as `.textClipping` files.

I think ideas are folder-like structures so I usually create a folder to store code/links/pdfs/clippings specific to that idea, then file away that Idea folder as one piece.

My general advice is to spend less time planning and more time doing, else you might get stuck on what Ze Frank calls "Brain Crack" http://youtu.be/0sHCQWjTrJ8?t=8s
We're planning to work on better duplicate detection in the new year.
Seriously? We want a new network that big brother can't shut down or spy on so easy so your solution is to let the company that said "If you're worried about others seeing what you're doing maybe you shouldn't be doing it" running the show? I would trust Facebook with this before I'd trust Google with it.
40/40/20 is a very good macronutrient target. Kudos.
About time this got submitted, Kale! I'm surprised it wasn't already, even :-) Kale has been putting in some solid time on this.
Facebook almost certainly has a body count!
> Efficiency is not just drive efficiency but controller time.

Sorry, I should be clear. When I say efficiency, I mean “storage efficiency” only. Controller time I count as a part of performance. Perhaps my comment makes more sense with that definition in mind.
None of that is relevant to my point above.
> Are you saying this rabble of idiots were intending to take power somehow (what power?)

Trump told them he won the election. He told them it was fraudulently stolen from them. He told them that this could be rectified by interfering in the proceedings. His intent was to take and retain power by remaining president through intimidating congress into refusing to count the electoral college votes. So yes - they were intending to take power. The fact it was based on a made up fantasy with no basis in reality does not alter the intent of either the rabble or Trump who incited them and painted that reality for them.
To clarify, before you were comparing a tree of every possible move in a chess game against the decisions in a poker game?

That has to be a joke to compare the games that way. Even here you mention number of relevant moves at a given game state. I have to be misunderstanding that. Bet/check/fold vs say half dozen candidate moves?

I've been assuming difficulty for a human the whole time, to attain any level of skill. Since the chess community/theory is more established, it's going to be a more difficult game.
Requiring the communication medium to be the same for everyone during a meeting is a great idea. However, I don't this conference call method is scalable for phone conversations. I can't imagine 15 person conference call would be very effective.

I think for larger meetings this "level playing field" solution would probably work much better for video conferencing or combined text/audio conversations such as on Skype. This way simple cues such as "I've got something to say when you are finished" can be used without interrupting.
Verizon FIOS is slowly getting to more and more of Pittsburgh... it's available 3 blocks from where I live. :/
The reason I said that is because it seems like NUTS is every where, across all cultures and continents and I don't think it's a great way to really put this label on one particular country. I.e., most of the US are not so creative either.
SkyMall's Stock Price Triples On News of Rise in Web Sales [1998]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB914892097195473500
In my experience, people having too much shit, is not because they have "additional tools simply to maintain the important items that they own", but because they buy all kinds of unnecessary shit. I've seen less poor people with "tools to maintain the important items that they own" and more middle class / rich people with BS tools and sheds full of tooling that they rarely if ever use + all kinds of other consumer crap that is not related to tools.

If someone needs "additional tools simply to maintain the important items that they own" the can still be totally minimalist.
I wonder how much money The Truman Show would have brought in... in my mind, Mars One would have had similar viewership numbers due to the novelty of the program.
But that isn't everything. At a university you start to see that subjects that might have appeared to be shallow at first glance are really quite vast and complex. It's hard to say with confidence you are an expert on any of those subjects after seeing a little ways down their respective rabbit holes (which you rarely get the opportunity to do in high school).
This was promptly followed by 6 hours of pedants complaining that that isn't really computer science, but actually software engineering.
Part of the cost of disposable dishware may be externalized. But except for that, the environmental impact of throwing away dishes after one use differs from the environmental impact of buying and disposing of detergent and using energy to heat water and rinse dishes only by the difference in cost between the two methods.
In Italy, the answer is "we still live at home with our parents."

In San Francisco, the answer was usually "my parents still pay my rent."
> Do complex interview questions really test your educational achievement? ...

When interviewing prospective software engineer employees, a Google interviewer asks software engineering related questions, to test the interviewee's knowledge of software engineering. Questions like these:

http://jpaint.drizzlehosting.com/google.html

That's a nice illustration of the balance of creativity, lateral thinking, logical thinking, and technical competence Google expects from the engineers it interviews. Note that the interview questions aren't in the form of, "Where did you complete your expected MSc in Computer Science?" Instead, the interviewee is expected to demonstrate real achievement from their education; i.e., knowledge and thinking ability.

But Google hires non-engineer craftsmen, too. Catering staff, to steal the article author's example. Just a hunch: Google conducts more than one type of interview: catering staff are not expected to design class libraries or database tables as part of their interview process.
[citation needed]

A number of things you could do to facilitate recovering the property, such as entering someone else's hotel room without permission are illegal, though a defense of necessity might be available. I've never heard of it being a crime to take back the property itself.
Have you talked to the hotel manager? The parking lot is probably their property and they are responsible for what happens in it.

Alternatively, do you have full coverage on your car? If so, just call your insurance company and tell them what happened; they'll probably work something out with the hotel.

Other ideas: (I think) some credit cards cover theft if you use them for travel expenses and stuff is stolen while travelling.

The last thing you should be doing is tracking the down the items and trying to recover them yourself by force.
LocalWiki has awesome potential but they're facing two large problems.

If you browse you're going to see that in the majority of the towns someone signed up, started and then abandoned the effort. They need to implement rules similar to Wikipedia and sweep the ghost towns away.

The other weakness is mobile, that's really where LocalWiki could really shine.
Look forward to using this in linux! Definitely a tool I would use.
Is there a way to do something meaningful with the demo without creating an account?
So we now live in a world where both monolithic and "microkernel" (hybrid) systems are commonplace - there's a bit shy of a billion devices running linux (android) and no shortage of windows and osx hosts around. What can we learn from this?

Well, it doesn't really seem to matter whether you use a monolithic or microkernel design. They both work well enough. Driver development is hard for reasons that have got nothing to do with this, and doesn't appear to change much between the platforms. Success/popularity of operating systems appears to be determined by other factors.

I'm not sure why people feel this is still worth debating. All the evidence points to it being completely unimportant.
Those points are not related to this topic, and derail the conversation. This is not what HN is for. We can start this discussion but it would fully derail anything related to Apple redirecting Safe Browsing traffic. It also doesn't answer if a video is truthful, or a law that people talk about actually exists as described.
Now that I re-read what I said first, I'm saddened. At first it's a "haha you dumbasses have fun with your own wreckage." Then you realize it's coming to your neighborhood!
Everyone's hate boner for Google is making them blind to how bad of a law this is. This doesn't benefit Australian news - it benefits Murdoch's news. Yes Google has a ton of power and it's crazy that it got this way. But this legislation, where the government picks specific companies to target and specific companies to benefit, is not the answer.
> Because it is already destroying the US. It fuels social division, and it distracts from the real problems, which tend to be economic and environmental

I think about this a lot. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the countries lauded for their economic equity or environmental leadership are also largely homogenous societies.

I don't know what the answer is for a fundamentally multicultural country like the US but obsessing about race and "representation" surely isn't it.
> I fear that if we don't find a way to put a stop to this, anti-white and anti-male discrimination will be fully accepted in the near future, which would be absolutely terrible for our society.

I'm concerned that framing it as "anti-white, anti-male" is understating the problem. We're educating a generation of people to identify strongly with their own race and that society should be racially organized. I don't see how you can do this without getting almost everyone to lobby (socially and politically) on behalf of their own race. Sure, you'll have a few woke white people who are anti-white, but you'll end up creating many more "white identitarians" (for lack of a better term)--which is basically what we're already seeing with the uptick of far right groups. Obviously this is bad for white people and bad for people of color; racism is one of those rare lose-lose scenarios and yet we have a powerful contingent advocating for it (albeit in the guise of equality and justice).
How do you feel about grocery stores inflating prices and then offering discounts across the board when using their loyalty programs for which you have to give up your information? This is then used to mail you targeted flyers for products they think you will want to buy based on your purchase history.
And now BBC stands for "Banned By China".
Hoo boy... Someone only watches MSM for their news.
Bigger and utopic.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LS6MOZY
Based on this article, it appears that the exploit is something that takes advantage of IE / Flash / Silverlight. Does this mean if you run Firefox with Flash disabled and no Silverlight, you have nothing to worry about? In any case, if you had accessed the site recently, then it is probably prudent to check just in case, but still, I'm curious if anyone who knows more about the Angler Exploit Kit can explain.
I'd recommend 100TB.com, can even get a box in Softlayer's datacenter from there for $50/extra a month.
Since a large part of initial Tor development was funded by the US Navy and then DARPA, I think it's a safe bet that the NSA et al. have been doing this ever since the first public release.
Object plus object is not a number :)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Please pardon my cynicism. Maybe Saddam Hussein had WMDs after all, and the Spanish sank the Maine.
> The worst we have between great powers today are some economic rivalries.

After WWII there were only two great powers left. Now there's one. It has nothing to do with appetite. The military budget of the US dwarfs the other countries. It would be suicidal to start a war that the US will seriously want to be involved in. Welcome to Pax Americana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
I'm also thinking of the "biological resistance" angle.

Japan is known to have extremely low rates of common comorbidity factors: cardiovascular conditions, obesity, etc. By very significant margins, consider dividing the prevalence of these conditions by 2 to 10 compared to the West.

Add to that a generally balanced nutrition, due to a culinary culture quite aligned with those goals (whether by chance or by design, that's another question...)

Hypothesis: added to the factors you mentioned, you end up with a population 'much less likely' to develop complications with COVID-19 (also possibly immune quicker on average after infection, thus lower R₀). So they get it but instead of 20% requiring hospitalization, maybe only 1-5% do, and that's somehow manageable and results in much lower numbers since they only test critical cases.

We'll only see in the postmortems of all these patients, but I'm willing to bet right now that most cases requiring ICU treatment had some sort of underlying condition that favored the virus progress; age being one such condition (as defined by De Grey, essentially tear and wear of the machine conceptually).

I don't know, but there's definitely something with Japan and COVID-19, and the slow progression of infections (despite the lack of strict confinement measures or systematic testing) is already fact compared to any other country I'm aware of. It's not just luck.
Anyone who tests negative for flu and requires hospitalization.
There's also the factor that Google subsidizes Android phones because they profit from you using the phone to view ads (and buy apps). Apple of court profits from you buying apps. Apple users buy more apps. Not sure which users view/click more ads.
Switch the train station completely and give React a try ;-)
Came here to post the exact same link.
That's very good news. Thank you for breaking it down for me!
I'm sure they can do these things. I'm just not sure why they would. If the NSA wants my encrypted email keys they can ask me, they can hack my server, or they can break my jaw. The last option is considerably cheaper. So the entire organization seems like a gigantic waste of money to me.
In running your own freelancing/consulting business full time, I think you can't be expected to be available to clients full time. You need to leave time to do other essential work such as sales, marketing, accounting, etc.
Didn't know it was using scheme. Kudos. I wonder if anyone is using guix + dmd
Ok, yes that's quite big. I was speaking more about something between 20 and 40€, which are part of the 100 to 200€ yearly tuition fees.
> “We are not yet satisfied that those vaccines have been clinically proven safe,” Dr. Gwajima said at a news conference, flanked by unmasked government health officials.

The headline is fairly sensationalist in light of this quote, which is a fair position to take when the vaccines being considered for the program haven't been approved in many places.
Fed/government actions from the 1970s are responsible for the inequality that has been rising since the 1970s...unpegging the USD from the gold standard in 1971, and the creation of the derivative market at the same time. Money used to have gravity, but now it is created magically at will -- especially in terms of derivatives. The world's money supply now doubles faster than Moore's law.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and...

https://www.ted.com/talks/maneesh_sethi_money_the_greatest_s...