jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What is patentable is "this circuit to compute the average" where the circuit is an adder that drops the bottom bit from the addends, instead ANDing the two bottom bits and using the result as a carry-in.

Though actually it shouldn't be patented because it's an obvious implementation of a math formula (and math is not patentable).
So what's an equivalent on the left in your opinion?
Too bad the original nook is still stuck to an obsolete version for that is the one with paper screen that may compete more with kindle ( i have one of those and I regret buying it btw)
That's a pretty unusual conclusion. I would suppose that chess might teach the opposite -- it's apparent that when you practice chess deliberately, you get better and better, and that improvement is reflected very clearly in your results. Beating other kids or beating your dad is a kind of improvement that is more concrete than the other kinds of things you learn in school at that age. It might help demonstrate the virtue of directed effort.

I personally spent some time a few years ago teaching elementary-schoolers chess in a club after school. A lot of them weren't good students, but all of them took a lot of pride in getting better at chess. I think it would be really worthwhile if we had a tool to get the pleasure of self-improvement into kids' heads.
There's a good explanation for why they are few and far between, and I'm going to quote The Dark Knight here:

"Joker: Like my mother used to tell me - If you're good at something, never do it for free."

If they were good, they would charge a lot of money [making them unappealing]. By going with a cheap alternative, you are either going with a new company or with an incompetent group.
Compulsory chess education may work in Armenia, where chess has achieved almost 'national pastime' status, but it would fail terribly in the UK or US. Westerners are incredibly strong-willed, and you'd probably incite more interest in chess by banning it than by forcing everyone to learn it.

People in the west relish controversy, whether it's violent video games being pulled from shelves, or dungeons and dragons being linked to satanism. These incidents only serve to increase the popularity of the banned game. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity (except in your own obituary).
Downloaded the 720p version (it has 128kbps AAC) to play back with a better decoder than flash and it does seem to work - I'd like to hear more demos though.

On rare occasion the old stereo-wide feature on my TV can make a sound seem like it occurred behind me (with just 2 cheap speakers) now that's something they need to research and reproduce - this demo had nothing from behind me.
RMS is a little bit nutty at times. I think everyone acknowledges and accepts this.

I prefer his eccentricities out in the open rather than him try to hide them away.

There is value to open and honest disclosure. We live in a world with far too much "marketing friendly" presentation.
I'm not sure it follows from some people were incited to all individual actions are the result of incitement.
It's already a common troll[1] to just post "FAKE" in anything where the evidence is difficult/impossible to verify. There's a whole subreddit, /r/NothingEverHappens, devoted to making fun of this troll, and adding politics/culture war to the mix will just make the backlash to people who call "FAKE" that much worse.

[1] "Troll" as in "derailing tactic used by people who don't know or care if it's really fake or not" simply to be extra-clear. In politics, throwing out chaff and using derailing tactics to make it effectively impossible to have certain discussions in open fora can be a good way to prevent inconvenient ideas from being spread, in addition to the usual tactics around sowing uncertainty and confusion among the enemy.
You are assuming that timezones wouldn't change if the difference would be great enough to notice, something that I don't see any reason to assume.
Same. The cynical part of me was looking to see if this project came out of MIT Media Lab (it didn't, just MIT)
Sorry, I should have been clearer, I'm talking about whoever is responsible for leaving it completely open to the public internet.
> I feel like this misses the point of high-level languages. In my experience, higher-level code is easier to read and write. For one thing, there's simply a lot less of it.

High level code shifts the burned of understanding the type system from the author and the compiler to the reader.

Yes, there is more text to read in a strongly, strictly typed language, but that extra syntax conveys a lot of important information quickly and cheaply, and this is information that the reader will need to know.

The difference between:

cat( first, second ){ ... }

And

cat( first: LogEntry, second: LogEntry): void { ... }

Is immense. In the later case, I know exactly what this function wants me to provide, what contracts the arguments must honor, and I know something about what the function intends to do with those arguments; it's void, so there are probably side-effects.

In the first case, I have to figure that out by reading the body of the method. The signature could tell me all of this, but it doesn't.

> After all, if you haven't written it correctly, the user will notice right away, too!

My users are not paid well enough to debug my code for me.
Snow sticks it's not always like magic light fluffy movie snow. And ice can seem like it's been welded on. Plus it looks like a very long reach to get to it.

I drive a Dodge 2500 4x4 and my roof is 1/3 the size of that beast. And it's 6'6" high which makes it awkward to be able to remove ice. If ice flies off and hits another vehicle while I am driving I am in big trouble, and rightly so.
Trump adminstration is trying to increase tolling on trucking companies because they don't pay proportional to wear and tear.
I refuse to click that link. I'll just guess the contents based on the title.
"Yet all of our scientific progress is biased, because we have evolved in a very specific environment that we handle well."

I often get discouraged thinking about this. Our entire body of scientific knowledge consists of inferences drawn from human observation, but our sensory apparatus is only sensitive to a few different things/processes. And the mental processes we apply to our observations evolved to simply help us survive our physical environment. We could be fatally under-equipped to ever come close to "understanding" the universe, right?

Also, I'm WAY out of my depth here, but is it at least possible to imagine a system where there are multiple sets of elementary particles, with each set not interacting with the rest? I'm imagining an arbitrary number of sets of particles that are each identical in function to the particles comprising our physical world, but the states of the particles in Set 1 have no effect on the states of the particles in Set 2, and so on. The result could be many intertwined or overlaid physical universes, all occupying the same "space." Could something like this ever be disproved?
You realize that if you are getting junk mail with your name on it, your name and address are almost certainly in a commercially available database that is accessible to anyone with a credit card? I think what you are doing is equivalent to locking the barn's skylight after the horse has bolted.
It's the simplicity that's artificial. Noon is a local event that occurs when the sun is due south. Timezones and standardized times are the abstractions.
It's good to combine efforts. It means potentially a bigger selection of packages that are available to install and more developers maintaining the project since it now has a wider potential user base.
However, in the case of Windows, this issue isn't that much severe as it would be on a unix-like, for example.

With the set up of Windows servers I've seen, only the admin logs in anyway. It's not really used as a "multi-user" system per-se, where you get different users logging in at the same time. It does happen, but it's not common.
It doesn't carry enough ammunition to be more than a slight annoyance to people on the ground. The Air Force envisions the CAS role to be executed mostly by missiles and bombs.
I don't think they take themselves too seriously. Nor should we.
AngularJS or Angular? I was a hold out with Angular 1.x. As a library, it was great.

My team understood the strengths and weaknesses, and we utilised almost all of the features that it provided.

The >2.x releases didn’t provide much value for us, and didn’t solve any problems that we had. So the motivation to migrate and refactor was low.

I still think Angular 1.x is a decent library, and have often contemplated contributing fixes/security to a fork.
I got the impression they weren't racing the base model, but you are spot on.

Regardless. It's still $20k more expensive than the Model 3 Performance it was against.
Some do, some don't. I remember a digg survey a while back - a significant number responded that they had not upgraded because they felt no need to.

So just drop IE6 support - those people will soon wake up. But that has its own problems. If 10% of my users use IE6, and I drop support for it, that could have a significant effect on conversion rates and the like. Those people are going to do something else, maybe even go to a competitor.

The same applies to passwords. If, say, tumblr suddenly required 12 character passwords, then it would be quite a hit to their signup rates. This is simply not going to fly when there exists far less drastic measures (i.e. scrypt).
ssp oughtn't be able to make arbitrary alterations to the kernel, though. As such it's a lot harder to hide your tracks as ssp than it is as root.
I'm not sure why it is difficult to understand that touching someone for search is not a sexual act simply because it involves touching sexual organs. One must generally intend to commit a crime to be guilty of one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
So I can't speak to his particular situation. But in general I disagree with this. I think quitting the job is the most important part. Consulting is the safety.

"Leap and the net will appear" - John Burroughs
http://reallydoesntmatter.blogspot.com/2010/11/elementsnew-a...
There is definitely soft skills training in the US military. This was an interesting read:
http://www.amazon.com/Interrogators-War-Breaking-Al-Qaeda-Af...
It's a military interrogator's account of the techniques used in Afghanistan.
First of all, forget titles. There's really a mush of random titles near the top now, and they can mean COMPLETELY different things depending on the company. Think about your job on a personal level. What skills do you want to refine? What skills do you want to learn? What skill do you want to flex every day?

I don't think that minimal experience managing will completely ground you, but if you want to be a CTO, start to think like one and learn the things that CTOs have to know. You can always start at a young company and grow into a role if you pursue it. Good, young companies like to hire hungry people who want to grow into their roles. You might also get advice from some good headhunters, who see people in your position all the time.
How many people do things like changing their password from "soccer5" to "soccer6" every three months?
Pyramid scheme. Steer clear.
Well a couple of years' ago I heard rumors that Matt had been courted by one of the Big publishers (no names no pack drill) - to leave google and work on a project with them.
But then you'd be using GoDaddy.
Is there a big table somewhere that compares all these? Processing, P5, Nodebox versions, this one, etc.
I know! That’s what makes it even more weird it’s cut off at the start.
I think the conclusion of a death toll estimation exercise may shift if you adjust for expected remaining lifetime.

In Scotland, the mean COVID death age was higher than the average lifetime expectancy[1], which indicates that on average those people would probably live <10 years had they not contracted the disease. The expected remaining lifetime of the average individual in Scotland (if it remains unchanged) is ~37 years, which would reduce the lifetime adjusted death toll by at least 3.7.

There have been a significant amount of excess deaths that are not attributable to COVID [2]. I suspect that such deaths have a lower average age (e.g. due to suicides), than COVID deaths, further reducing the average life years saved due to the lockdowns.

I'm not proposing that we should optimise for life years saved, but I do think that the death of a 86 year old is less tragic than that of a 38 year old, and that we perhaps shouldn't evaluate lockdown vs no lockdown purely based on the percentage of the population which died.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-54433305
[2] https://www.newswise.com/factcheck/are-a-third-of-the-excess...
To anyone outside of tech it's completely obscure. No one besides developers and people who work with them know what the heck JetBrains is. The same way almost no one outside of tech would know what "Vim" is, even though to us it seems like a household name.
Seems to cost around $5 per month according to their website. It's already a tough sell when getting someone to switch to another free chat app.
I suspect SNL would last longer in the public's mind if it was available on youtube, maybe even just clips.
Extraordinarily claims require extraordinary evidence. You have members of both parties state that the election was secure and fraud minimal. You have international observers say the same. 60+ legal challenges thrown out because of a lack of specific allegations and proof. Elections observed by both parties lawyers.

Stop with the conspiracy theorizing. There are literal billions spent on elections every year, and if there was fraud being perpetuated by one of the parties, it would be in the interest of the other party to spend massive amounts of money to uncover said fraud, and they do, and they have found nothing of substance.

In addition to private study, there have been countless academic studies that state the same.

Stop giving breath to ideas that are without evidence and which are corrosive to our democracy.
Yes. That’s precisely how I structure my thinking. It is incumbent on me to imagine the results of policies that I support going wrong.

For example, I tend to be slightly on the side of the death penalty. That means I have to imagine that a loved one of mine could be falsely accused of a crime and be executed for it. It would be morally reprehensible for me not to imagine all consequences of something I believe in.

Likewise, anyone against the death penalty should imagine the case, for example, where their own children are killed and the murderer isn’t punished similarly.

There are usually principle of arguments on both sides and I feel it’s important for me to account for them.
> It really isn’t just Fox. They don’t have a lot of shame about their partisanship or desire to hide it, but there is ideological distortion going on everywhere.

Yes, we agree on this point, what I'm critiquing is your injection of this obvious fact into a discussion about a specific event that can be attributed to the particular type of misinformation spread by FOX, the fact that "there is ideological distortion going on everywhere" is beside the point, obviously that's true, so what? If an oil spill dumps millions of barrels into the ocean and someone exclaims "wow, these oil spills are really destroying the environment" your response is akin to "yes, but pollution is a global problem that includes more than just oil spills", yes, nobody is arguing otherwise, so what's your point?
The internet is nearly entirely private and controls the vast majority of communication.

We conceded our communication to private ISPs, to private, device manufacturers, to private websites.

When people feel they cannot be heard, something is going to give.
Terrorism (by Muslims) doesn't increase around Ramadan. Ramadan is the worst time for extremists to do anything. Ramadan for Muslims is a time of spirituality, being with family, and discipline. While that may not be across the board, being thirsty and hungry makes all activity more difficult, and that applies to all - especially during the 17+ hour fasts while Ramadan is in the summer.

Makes me sad about what happened to the author, but Ramadan has very little (if anything) to do with it.
cough your server could serve gzipped stream and the browser would transparently uncompress it.

Sure there are browsers that can't decompress these streams, but your webserver already knows when to send the full (but minified) JS instead. Its all handled automatically.
I agree with the the grandparent that preventing lock-in is important, but I think in addition to the standard you do want to offer some APIs in your service that are specific to the environment you are in (cloud, HTML5). Kind of like AppEngine with their native datastore and Amazon with EBS.
Hey, you going to the hackers Meetup tomm in NYC? I might see you there.
Well, I got the invitation and while playing around with nodejs, I was really looking forward for Perl support but this is absolutely not the environment I want to work on (wanted to use an in-house framework, not the ones listed and see if DotCloud could be of use for our clients).

To tell the truth, this could be a good occasion to try to make the in-house app works in such environment but

1- don't see any real benefit

2- don't want to decipher the doc

3- no time (will have to work extra hours)

you should definitely support both environment
and not base your choice on the sole feedback of one person
(you know... TMTOWTDI)
I live on ~9AUD per day, AUD being roughly equivalent to the USD.

$3 of that goes towards a coffee, $3 goes towards meat, and the other $3 goes towards vegetables and other foodstuff (rough estimates).

The only issue I have is that most of the meat I buy is cheap - frozen chicken pieces, ground beef/pork, sausages, chuck steak, etc. - and cheap meat can be pretty horrible until you know how to cook it properly. You'll find yourself doing a lot of pot roasts, goulashes, ragùs, etc.
4 hrs off less a day != not productive.

Surely certain tasks can be optimized better through automation, processes, technology, etc. It's almost like tell me to work for minimum wage.
I have a hard time believing they'd move away from the MobileMe brand (I mean, a music locker slots in perfectly), and an even harder time believing they'd call it iCloud - Cloud is very much still a buzzword.

Then again, I thought for sure it would be iMobile instead of iPhone, so what do I know?
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The article is written for an American audience. We use Fahrenheit here. That said, -130°F is so beyond what any American can relate to, I agree the article should use C and provide the -130°F in a parenthetical. Amusingly, the article does just that later on:

> During the first flight, the helicopter will attempt to rise about 10 feet (3 meters) in the air from the middle of its flat 33-by-33-foot (10-by-10-meter) airfield...

p.s. -90°C
It's not a loss - it's training. If the individual created a sole proprietorship it might be deductible, too.
I'd rather consistent behaviour TBH, I'm not too happy that `-` is a non-word character but I'd rather it always behaves the same everywhere without having to think about context
We have a mifold for the older kid, but the younger one still needs a full carseat. When they were infants it was easier because I could strap them into the seat before the car arrived, and then just quickly buckle the seat in. But in the 11mo-3 year range, I need a full carseat that has to be installed before I can strap anyone in. :(
Yes, but the situation is a bit different -- the majority of UNIX rights owners were actually promoting open standards through initiatives like POSIX, X/Open, so the re-implementation did not violate the copyright. As far as I know SCO's suits were not about interfaces of any kind, and the Linux kernel uses C standard library and other posix compliant libraries as an interface.
Uber is just going to add (in the driver signup forms) a checkbox labeled "I agree to comply fully with all ADA requirements" and link to a big confusing document that no driver will ever read then whenever a driver is sued for failure to comply with ADA regulations Uber will hang them out to dry because they are a "contractor" not an "employee"
Ruby/Rails has this in the form of GlobalID[1]. To be honest I haven't seen it used outside of whatever Rails itself automatically does, but the concept is there.

[1]https://github.com/rails/globalid
I am using Brave, which is Chromium based, and I had no problem loading the article.

Sucks to hear you having that issue.
I agree with all your points. Being a gringo now for awhile in this country -- this hits the nail on the head in my experience.
Beautiful country though -- it's hard to leave life on the Praia here for something else.
> "Selling ads" puts it harshly, but it's entirely what this is about.

By the same token, you're a machine that transforms food and oxygen into excrement and CO2. That puts it harshly, but it's entirely what this is about - if you judge things at that level.

What I mean is - selling ads is what keeps their "corporate metabolism" going, but the actual long-term goals of the founders might be (and, indeed, are) very different from that most basic of all levels.
sigh

Not this FUD again. Ubuntu will work well on pretty much any single-graphics Ultrabook currently on the market.

Can we leave the wifi problems complaints in previous decade where they belong?
A tech company I worked for a while back wanted to send me to the States, and also China to do some work. I refused on both requests because of stories like this I've heard.
I just tell them it's because of family commitments, which is always a handy excuse.
Other countries I would never go to are Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE and pretty much anywhere in Africa. It's pretty sad actually, but I guess I'm way too paranoid.
For everyone interested, the issue related to the built-in tools integration can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=6320
I miss the compile times, native compilers and RAD abilities for strong type languages like Turbo Pascal and Delphi that were already available in 16 bit environments.

Funny to see younger developers rediscovering this type of tooling that was killed by C and VM environments.
The detectors are most certainly cheap ion mobility spectrometers. They ionize the sample and sort the resulting cloud by the speed at which the ions move in an electric field in a low pressure gas. The resulting spectrum is fairly unique to each chemical.

The obvious problem is that you get a superposition of spectrums of multiple chemicals from the sample and that the devices being cheap and fast produce "blurry" spectrums, so you get a lot of false positives.
DMCA needs be amended, badly. The automated DMCA takedown notices and with no repercussions for false infringements are making the copyright situation worse. These companies need to be punished for sending abusive DMCA notices.