jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Bigger problem is having too many founders. You guys have much bigger problems than titles. You now need 3x revenue.
Ah - blessed relief. Quoth Google: "Please be assured these images will only be displayed today, and the homepage will return to its regular white background tomorrow."

See the response from one "Paul" (Google Employee) here:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?ti...
not sure what products/software are you selling, as a guide you can do these;

- having a chinese version of your website/store is a must, the larger portion of the china market still use chinese as their first language. pls get local chinese n not some foreign translator, it an't the same.

- forums and micro-sites as huge there, you need to cross site promote your items. all these websites have huge followers which you can convert quite easily if you done your promotion correctly.

- advertising on the local search engine/portal. google is not that large in china, baidu, sina, etc are bigger there, know where the searched traffic comes from.

- if you have actual products, local endorsement come in very useful. the internet still just appeal to the younger generation, the older generation still use TV as their primarily source of information. with a local celebrity endorsement, acceptance of your product is much easier.
Is there really anyone here who didn't know this already? The Morris worm is as much an essential part of Internet history as the development of BSD UNIX, the creation of the Web, or the millenial dot-com bubble.
Very good point about market price vs costs. But I see the NASA contract as a form of investment. NASA needs a domestic provider, and SpaceX is a good match - good enough to be worth paying at _current_ market price.

What will happen when the technology is proven and ready to scale is a completely different game. As the GP said, the configuration and special requirements will likely keep the price up for government contracts. On the private end however the new market price will depend heavily on how much this technology can be scaled and how the market will react to a lower price. The exact figure is known to nobody, but enough variables are being changed to have a real hope that it will be sensibly lower.
I have his problem, but with Smalltalk, and there is yet another dimension to it, since a lot of corporate Smalltalk is "stupid and ugly".

The Refactoring Browser parser tools save me time and again. Instead of writing code, I write code that writes and transforms code. He should be able to do this for Java with the libraries in IntelliJ. Not sure what's out there in .net land.

Facebook is doing this to PHP with Haskell!
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry
A self-professed perl hacker, my first Real Programming Job had me working eight hours a day in a horrid little proprietary scripting language without pointers (or references), without proper data structures beyond arrays, and with a long list of language warts and misfeatures. Three things got me through it.

#1: Work on a project you believe in. Are you doing something great? Something world-changing? Are there people you care about who are going to really appreciate your work? Do you really, really wish that what you're building existed? That'll help you slog through with the technology you're forced to use.

#2: Mentally prototype in your language of choice. I was coding in CrapplyLang but I as thinking in perl. My code was littered with comments that said, "In perl, this would be <oneliner>" followed by thirty to fifty lines of terse nasty.

#3: Get out before it causes permanent damage.
I am kind of in the same situation, sans the Haskell part (haven't really tried it yet).

One way I hope to at least endure Java is to do Android development - at least then the results are cool.

Otherwise, I guess try proposing Clojure, or move on to Ruby. My problem with that is that I haven't really warmed to Rails yet, but possibly Rails 3 might fix that.
Oh my. Someone complaining that he has to program in a language different than his favorite language to make a living.

Most human beings have to work extremely hard to earn food for the day.

I'm genuinely shocked by such a "spoiled child" attitude.
No it's not, because you wont get the same sound from the beat-up trombone, whereas you can reach the exact same result programming in C# or java
If you start a startup on company time, the company might end up owning your startup.
He answered his own question -- by scraping the bottom of the barrel for projects that should have been outsourced to China for three cents an hour.
It's not just the language, it is everything that Java entails (speaking for myself, not the OP). It entails lots and lots of wasted time.

The wasted time is what gets to me. I have met lots of people who don't mind, as long as the pay is OK. I am not one of them (or maybe they never paid enough).
This. I would buy games on it in a heartbeat if they did this.

The problem is that, to move them to a new platform, for example Steam, they need to pay the platform's cut of the sale price. To give users the option to do this in future, they would need to keep all of the revenue they get from selling games in reserve to possibly do this in future. They would have to do this by charging users what it cost. I think it'd still be attractive though.
My thought process went something like, "Oh come on, how bad can they really be? I bet you could <clicks on link> just put... something... over... No. Nope, those are irredeemable."

There's an awful, awful lot of virtue signalling going on in all of these designs. Extra emphasis on the 'awful'.
I guess. Or maybe we just don't read about the ones who are.
I'm working on a Rust CLI boilerplate/starter template. You can see the code here: https://github.com/omarabid/rust-starter . It's pretty much ready for consumption beside the Readme, documentation and cleaning/re-organizing some parts of the code.

The idea is to have all of this tutorial (and more) in a blank template so that you can get started on your CLI very fast and focus on doing the logic rather than making choices. (Rust-Starter is biased, it picks the crates and you just make use of the structure).

If you are interested, feel free to look at the code, open an issue, or send me an email!
So graphene has been around "forever" (since 2003), has a tone of promised applications including restarting Moore's Law and has never worked out. Anyone know if the applications appearing now mean this is real?
It is commercial, but it is also open source. If you have a license for the game engine, you will get the whole source code for the project and can do whatever you want with it.
I wasn't backing up my bookmarks because I trusted delicious. Lessons learned...
If you've missed the point of this posting:

1. Click the URL, press ctrl+f, and search for "bananas" in the page's text

2. Read the comments

The experiment's results change on page 3 of the comments, around the time that John Timmer (author of the article) tweeted about the experiment: http://twitter.com/#!/j_timmer/status/63361502316474369
By that logic, only sustaining value for some period of x days would allow you to say the value of something is y. That doesn't seem accurate to me. How many days is x?
The last Obama related comment seems like an unnecessary jab and offtopic.
And you know this because of the 0 documented cases of this happening, and your years of experience in counterterrorism operations?
Hmm, Zip2? PayPal? OpenAI? Neurallink?

Oh, you mean Tesla and SpaceX. SpaceX got a commercial contract from NASA to greatly reduce NASAs costs of delivering cargo to the ISS, and fully delivered, saving NASA billions. SpaceX would not have been able to build Falcon 9 without it, or likely survive. Then NASA gave SpaceX and Boeing contracts to fly crew members to the ISS, and SpaceX delivered well ahead of Boeing, and for billions less. Finally NASA has given SpaceX small contracts to gain access to new SpaceX technologies such as in-orbit refueling, which would save NASA tens of billions if it was ever allowed to use it.

And we provide tax credits to zero emission vehicles to make up for allowing ICE engines to omit CO2 indiscriminately. A better solution would be a limited market in carbon emissions, but most of the coal state politicians would lose their jobs if that passed.
Well yeah it's simplistic, since it's 2 sentences. I'm not really prepared or qualified to write a 30 page paper on the nature of medieval combat. Yet there seems to be an obvious truth to it.

There are of course exceptions, such as persuading or paying someone else to fight for you, or concealing a weapon, getting someone to trust you, and stabbing them in the back, etc. It still seems to shape much about reality to know that the majority of people will have no chance of ever winning a remotely fair fight against the enforcers of whoever is in charge.
This is sane way to think. There are awesome workplaces out there. Whether you have a shot getting employed there is another question.
This is using GemRB, which itself is a reimplementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine. GemRB is ported to WASM, and it loads the game demo data in the filesystem. Pure magic, if you ask me :)
I've just used a little script that sets up https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice and it's worked wonderfully, but PulseEffects and NoiseTorch seem cool!
What happens if you simply decline to attend?
They took both houses, and were never gassed nor exposed to rubber bullets, no one was tased, there were far too few security forces on hand, and in spite of the attackers being armed and carrying bombs, only one person was shot. This episode was carefully planned by Trumpers, and went exactly as choreographed. Someone had influence with the Capitol Police, the Capitol Guard, and even the National Guard wasn't called for hours. This was planned and almost succeeded.
> Earth is closest to the sun every year in early January

Earth is currently closest to the sun every year in early January.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis#Perihelion_and_aphelion_...

quote:

On a very long time scale, the dates of the perihelion and of the aphelion progress through the seasons, and they make one complete cycle in 22,000 to 26,000 years. There is a corresponding movement of the position of the stars as seen from Earth that is called the apsidal precession. (This is closely related to the precession of the axis.)
Ball & Russell (2014), SIDS and infant sleep ecology. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 146. [0]

Not a study, but I believe this was the article that got her started down the rabbit hole of looking more deeply into this research. We were both surprised to learn that SIDS is significantly more prevalent in western societies that do not have cultures of co-sleeping, and that SIDS primarily occurs when babies are alone. I am struggling to find the article that discusses the breathing component directly, but this touches on it with reference to poor neurological development of human babies and associated weak physiological regulation.

This was the a ha! moment:

“SIDS-deaths are a phenomenon of infant sleep in Western post-industrialized cultures, normally occurring while infants are alone. … Immigrant groups who maintain their ‘traditional’ sleep ecology in ‘Western’ environments typically exhibit substantially lower SIDS rates than the host community.”

This UNICEF page compiled good research on co-sleeping too. [1]

[0] https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2014/1/146/1846850

[1] https://www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/news-and-research/bab...
No worries, your comment makes more sense to me now :)
Color screen calculators:

-Casio FX-CG50
-TI Nspire CX II
-Numworks
-Ti 84 plus CE
-HP Prime

Monochrome calculators:

-Ti-84
-Casio FX-9860giii
> See Google vs Oracle

Google v oracle happened in the us. I explicitly qualified with ‘in europe’. That lawsuit would never have flown in the first place. Oracle's position was specifically that they held the copyright of the java stdlib APIs, which copyright was infringed upon by google.

> code describing and documenting that API

I'm not sure what you mean by that, can you clarify?
Intersex includes conditions hermaphroditism doesn't.
Whats nonsensical?

I'm a shareholder. I can call back my shares if I want and refuse to lend them. This is what Michael Burry did when he bought a stake.

The rest is assumptions.

> Just because the stock is super high doesnt mean anyone is going to actually accept it as collateral for funding.

if they issue direcly on the market it is going to get bought...
endocrine disrupting chemicals cannot change sex.
Hah. We’ll see. To reliably force someone into compliance you have to have power. Power acquisition requires skill. And these people are fucking clowns
And the US has barely started testing. That is why the number of cases in the US is not 200,000 yet.
It’s the same reason certain folks insist automatic income tax payment schemes would cause people to forget about tax policy.
I'm working on a morse code iOS app that can optionally use Force (3D) Touch. My dad had a stroke recently and is quarantined in a care facility. He can't talk but remembers morse code like a boss. He can't lift his finger off the screen to "tap" and there were no other morse apps out there for people with physical impairment. With this he's able to communicate... I've been coding for 15 years but this was life changing when it worked!

FOSS: https://github.com/zackb/forcecode

only TestFlight right now but AppStore soon under the name "Force Code"
Distracting by design. All these devices are designed to get your attention. That is how they make money.
Headaches and muscle aches are typically symptoms of normal flu and not COVID if what I read online yesterday is correct (can't recall the source sorry).
Pretty happy with Goodreads except that the search functionality sucks. Would like something like this:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/

Where I can search for a novel in a certain genre from a certain publication date with a certain rating from at least x users. Nothing like that seems to exist for Goodreads.
We just started working with Todd. Thanks!
> Where are the 5000/day (hour?) machines doing it for $1 a test?

This fills a different need. Rosch has their tests to market and test quantity is ramping up at designated centers. $1/test is just what Rosch gets, so it's gonna cost more than that.

> It was a matter of automated diagnostic reprogramming?

Nah, you still need reagents.

> So this is promised in 10 days. How many units, 15000?

The Cepheid machines are neat. They make bigger machines, but mostly you buy a machine with 1-8 slots and disposable testing cartridges. When a patient needs a test, you put their sample in the cartridge, stick it in a slot, and that slot yields an answer in 45 minutes.

This will be a very nice tool for individual, smaller hospitals (and even large clinics) to have in the next 10 days when it rolls out, and for situations where we want to get immediate feedback. Probably not a massive number of units at first. And not nearly as cost-effective as the Rosch.
This appears to have started on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/e6nmp/dear_mr_pres...

It will be interesting to be able to pinpoint where this started if it has any actual effect on the situation.
Updated the post to include suggestions by commenters on the blog, HN, and twitter.
>developers now own the test writing and CI infrastructure runs and reports the tests. It has really made software more reliable

I switched from medical, with fierce QA, to more general SW dev over the last 3 years. Developers waste time writing braindead unit tests and don't stress their software like QA teams. Major bugs run undetected for weeks and cause chaos. Managers grin believing they're net-ahead.
Going to zero production for ten years seems foolish. Will they actually be able to turn the machines back on at that point? 1% or 10% would make more sense (unless they’re just planning to permanently discontinue the coins, but can’t publicly admit it)
In the long run, your limiting factor is how much your favorite keyboard layout fucks up your wrist tendons by making them rub against the inside of the bones of your wrist (the “tunnel” of “carpal tunnel syndrome”).
The correct answer to (1) was: "by selling the coins we pre-mined (85% of current float) at a high price, after using the popularity of Signal to pump the price further".

Shameful.
Newer versions of Java are better, but Android is stuck on a hacky version of Java 7 from a decade ago.

Google is planning to fix this eventually.

Android's API is also atrocious.
Just about every Texas building has air conditioning which is blasting for those 100 days of summer where it's often above 100 degrees. I'm surprised that a few days of cold is a bigger load than the crazy heat of summer.
Being an Israeli I wouldn't trust anything coming from Israel related to COVID-19.

Current government is practically crime syndicate, all the decisions related to COVID-19 are made secret for at least 30 years, agreement with Pfizer is mostly secret, case number is manipulated by gauging tests conducted and selecting appropriate population groups and vaccines are forced on population under pain of limiting access to work, grocery and flights abroad.
I think leftists replaced actual arguments with sarcasm sometime around 2010.
Thanks for the history lesson, never knew there was anything besides x86 BeOS, not to mention something called the AT&T Hobbit. Still love BeOS for how fast it was. Probably the most responsive, low-latency UI I ever used.
> I have not previously heard of this person or of their work.

In the late 1980s, he was a significant figure in computer gaming. I knew about him because of Balance of Power.
More like Plato, Aristotle was quite the empircist (originally a biologist of sorts) for his time despite major blunders.
This is also taken into account in software engineering. Most software have defense in depth against single point of failure, they can recover or cope with wrong input.

But you cannot compare them because the context is different: software is less regulated than aviation so while anyone can write of very bad software in 5min and sell it, this is not possible for a plane. And not everyone can pilot a plane, while there is no mandatory licencing and training to use a software.

In addition, no safety feature on a plane can prevent the pilot from crashing it willingly. Setting such an easy password and not adding additional protection (due to lack of training) is self sabotage. So far, anything related to SolarWind points towards a bad usage of the tools.
I bought a bunch of 25w bulbs for my lava lamp :)
madvise() MADV_DONTNEED allows this - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html

It's also a flag in posix_madvise(), so the concept is reasonably portable.
I had the same first response, but then, purely in the interest of stimulating conversation, wondered why I'd viewed the situation in moral terms at all. Shouldn't a rational agent in a free market be doing everything possible to extract value from this relationship?
...With that said, undoubtedly, if he's free and able to do so, yes, this character is better off finding a relationship that requires less risk to extract similar value from.
If you want to see the outcome of a lack of protectionism, look no further than the devastation of the steel, automobile and other manufacturing industries in the ‘70s and ‘80s which effectively wiped out the middle class.
> the license is the GPL, none of which has anything to say about privacy

The anti-patent-trolling, anti-tivoization and copyleft provisions are there to protect developers and users.

Additional clauses around privacy and security would be very nice.

Unfortunately, corporate-sponsored FUD made a lot of people wary of the GPL - which is ironic, given its protective features.
Theoretically if Swift was an extremely marketable language across many domains, there would be more qualified developers available to work on software for Apple products.
There aren't any anti-apple ads in your google amp link. Not even when I load them up in amp-player. Maybe macobserver.com fixed it, but I doubt it.
As a layman, this is so exciting! It feels as though we may be getting closer to finding a cause for a diverse set of neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.

Gut and oral microbiota having influence across the blood-brain barrier seems so plausible. If they get into the nervous system and migrate, they could cause inflammation in the brain leading to damage over time.

The immune system is incredible, and we'll no doubt find it a fertile ground for progress against a lot of diseases.
If you goal is to work on a top down Rpg-style game, as a single developer I would HIGHLY recommend using a tool like RPG Maker (https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/)

Games like Pokemon/Zelda are very content driven and usually don't have any sort of complex systems that require deep access to game engine internals.
As someone working solo, you are going to want to spend most of your time creating fun/interesting content. Tools for this genre have been built many times before by people with far more experience building them. If you spend your time rebuilding them yourself, it's a recipe for stalling out without having much to show.

If your goal is really to just have fun building out gameplay systems as a programming challenge, I recommend using a lightweight code-oriented scripting language engine. Some good examples in this space are LÖVE (Lua, https://love2d.org/) or Phaser (Javascript, https://phaser.io/). These will allow you to jump right in to building games without needing to learn a graphical UI and are usually more agnostic about how you build your game than fully featured environments.

If you prefer the latter, but still want to end up with a finished game at the end, I recommend scoping down from an RPG to something like a Sokoban-style puzzler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban). Use a tool like Puzzlescript (https://www.puzzlescript.net/) to prototype your mechanics. Once you've finalized your mechanics you can then recreate it in the engine of your choice and add any polish. Having a playable prototype will make it much clearer what systems you will need to build.

Best of luck building!
Now I'm scared. (Thinking of the Second-system syndrome.) The 'F' key to the rescue!
First, managing python dependencies and versions, current system is horrible. Focus on fixing that, then performance. Swift is much faster than Python. Third, Swift is a much advance and intelligent language to program in than Python. When I write Swift code, I feel like a PhD and when I write Python, I'm back in elementary school.
Less impressively, a clock: https://www.nayuki.io/res/full-screen-clock-javascript/full-... (50 lines of code)
Isosurface extraction is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down (speaking as someone that's deep underground).

There's a long list of properties that you want your algorithm to have:

- Meshes should be watertight

- Meshes should be manifold

- There should be no self-intersections

- Sharp features (edges and corners) should be reproduced accurately, rather than blurred or bevelled

- Thin features should be preserved (which makes it tricky to sample on a regular grid!)

- The mesh should be adaptive, i.e. having fewer triangles in flat areas

It's relatively easy to get ~3 of these properties, and (last time I checked) nigh impossible to get 5 or 6 in the general case.

If you'd like to read more, Doug Moen has a comprehensive overview of the literature:
https://github.com/curv3d/curv/blob/master/ideas/v-rep/To_Me...

I've also written up a 2D study of Marching Cubes (Squares) vs Dual Contouring:
https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/contours/

And a deep dive into the math that lets you precisely position vertexes in dual contouring:
https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/qef
Pelosi just had a confidential conversation with the general in charge of US nuclear codes.