jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One of my faverate series was actually generated based on the idea you can make an interesting story from the worst idea.

B & G: The bet was actually centered around writing craft discussions being held on the then-new Del Rey Online Writers’ Workshop, I believe. The issue at hand was central story concepts. One side of the argument claimed that a good enough central premise would make a great book, even if you were a lousy writer. The other side contended that the central concept was far less important than the execution of the story, and that the most overused central concept in the world could have life breathed into by a skilled writer.

It raged back and forth in an ALL CAPITAL LETTERS FLAMEWAR between a bunch of unpublished writers, and finally some guy dared me to put my money where my mouth was, by letting him give me a cheesy central story concept, which I would then use in an original novel.

Me being an arrogant kid, I wrote him back saying, “Why don’t you give me TWO terrible ideas for a story, and I’ll use them BOTH.”

The core ideas he gave me were Lost Roman Legion and Pokémon… Thus was Alera formed. http://www.fantasyliterature.com/author-interviews/jim-butch...
I like things pretty much the way they are. If a story has a high point value, I'll take a look, even if the title might not grab me. I also dont mind someone contributing a good story to get karma. I havent noticed a lot of story spamming, so I think the present system works pretty well.

That said, improvement will always be necessary to keep the site fresh.
I'm not going to go into the arguments about it, I've given you the link so you can read them all yourself. Though I will quote two big things (edited for note: assertions, not arguments for them; arguments are at the link above) against collapse postulates in general, since you probably didn't read them and perhaps you have a response why it doesn't matter:

"If collapse actually worked the way its adherents say it does, it would be the only non-linear evolution in all of quantum mechanics, the only non-unitary evolution in all of quantum mechanics, the only non-differentiable (in fact, discontinuous) phenomenon in all of quantum mechanics, the only phenomenon in all of quantum mechanics that is non-local in the configuration space, the only phenomenon in all of physics that violates CPT symmetry, the only phenomenon in all of physics that violates Liouville's Theorem (has a many-to-one mapping from initial conditions to outcomes), the only phenomenon in all of physics that is acausal / non-deterministic / inherently random, and the only phenomenon in all of physics that is non-local in spacetime and propagates an influence faster than light."

Second, now paraphrasing, is that many-worlds, aka macroscopic decoherence (QM applied universally), is a strictly simpler theory and Occam's Razor alone rules out collapse as it's an added detail not needed.

Lastly, this is just my own opinion, but just because you learned from a set of standard textbooks or from a physics department at some place, doesn't necessarily mean you learned correctly. Truth isn't what the university teaches, even though there's a lot of overlapping. (I have learned there are apparently still some people teaching that we are evolved from chimps.)
They claim that they're legally free and clear, but a lot of the kernel devs are of the view that kernel modules are derived works of the kernel and therefore have to be GPL.
The author should have left out the 7 condescending "Mark"s within the letter. He comes off as arrogant and perhaps a little jealous.
Linux the ecosystem is bazaar, sure, but Linux the kernel is cathedral with Linus at the helm. Arguably this is what makes Linux kernel so successful and so widely re-purposed yet most distros lacking in getting any traction. There's, again, a clear exception in Ubuntu which is a cathedral amongst bazaars.

So at the end of the day I personally feel that bazaar is the best set of training wheels invented but quality ultimately gravitates towards cathedrals. Both parties do benefit a lot from each other, so mutually benefiting, implicit agreement is at play here, which is something "A Generation Lost in the Bazaar" piece fails to acknowledge.
Really don't have to go back a century. A mere 30 or 40 years ago will do.

The obesity boom began around the mid 1970s with high fructose corn syrup, desk jobs (as deadly as smoking perhaps), the saturation of fast food (convenient, cheap low quality food), and the pasta + pizza (carbs carbs carbs) takeover.

Supposedly ~60 years ago the average American would have walked five plus miles per day. That may be down to a mile or less today from what I've read.

Comparing high school year book photos from the 1980s or early 1990s, versus my nephews & nieces and what their classmates look like today, the change is dramatic in a mere 20 to 30 years.
I liked it just because it's mobile friendly. The cornell site is not. And as mentioned in other comments, cornell is super spammy now.
It's interesting to compare Swift to Julia here – Julia had a base of people who absolutely loved it from the 0.2 days, and has managed to draw many users from Python/Matlab/R. There are many reasons for that, but overall Julia had something that really appealed to scientists: syntax they liked + competitive-with-C performance.

In contrast, S4TF's target audience seems to have been Swift developers, and they didn't really appeal to the data science crowd.
BNF is an archetype of declarative language.

But I used to work on an X.400 system, and we would have to map out data structures in BNF, pass it through a BNF/X.409 compiler that always hashed things up (often our bad, but that was back in the "big iron" days, when we would have to arm-wrestle for compiler passes), then, once we fixed the X.409, we'd need to pass it into a X.409/C compiler.

And fix it again...
Sending out a cold email is one thing (most of that ends up in spam anyway), but why the fuck are these people taking the contact details and plugging them into a social network?

I don't agree with any of it, it's a violation of trust and burying it in small print doesn't change that. But having people reach out on their personal networks takes the cake.
The aspect that reminded me of the paper (and the concept) was how the low level employee can really only screw up. If they do well, then it's a credit to their boss, but if they do something wrong it's on them and they'll be fired.
How are they decorrelated? The most valuable stocks are still those of companies that earn very large amounts of profit, or have lots of potential to grow.
>If all you did was publish an HTML+CSS page, your innocence is self-evident. Anyone can look at your page's source and confirm it. If you link to Google's javascripts though, that should put you into a completely different category of suspicion.

Things change. Back in the day, HTML+CSS page was all it took. These days, wanting to know how people discover your page or how many new readers come to your blog is basics. Reliability and performance tracking is something that wasn't really a commonplace thing back then. For all of those things, you kinda do have to use JS.

The question is, do you necessarily need those features? No. Would it be nice to have? Yes. When I publish a side project, I want to make it nice and great, since I am not getting paid to do it, I am doing it out of pure enthusiasm and motivation for creating the best I can. Forcing anyone in this situation to go through audits and deal with bureaucracy just to be able to publish their personal side-project is a certain way of discouraging people from ever doing so. All you end up with is a bunch of people who are willing to jump through all these hoops because they have something monetary to gain from it or those who know how to jump around those hoops really well.
Its worthy to note that I've never felt Java has had something as nice as Rails/Django/Phoenix/Laravel. SpringBoot seems to be a cluster of libs instead of a full package like the above listed with a nice community and awesome CLI tools around it. e.g `rails routes`, `rails generate` etc
I am not reciting corporate PR. As I said, I'm not speaking for AWS. I only speak for myself, and I'm not saying anything that I don't believe.

You'll find elsewhere in the comments [1] that on actions, not words, I agree with you. "I try to judge based on actions and evidence, rather than what-if speculation."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116542
>Usually, everyone will focus on keeping the strongest player from winning

Do you have any specific examples of how this happens? One of the design goals of Dominion is that there are no "kingmaker" mechanics, so you never have a choice of which player to attack or help. Cards that allow interaction usually target either the player to your left, or all other players.
Not in the list, but the paper that first helped me to understand and implement CRDTs was [Replicated abstract data types: Building blocks for collaborative applications](http://www.cs.rice.edu/~mj6/papers/jpdc11.pdf) by Hyun-Gul Roh and colleagues.

On a separate note, one of the best insights I came across regarding implementation, was to optimize for remote operations, since these are applied many times more than local operations.
> The business-friendly environment means that there is constant development and affordable housing prices.

The far more likely explanation is the almost five times higher population density in San Francisco (6800/km^2 vs 1391/km^2) due to the natural limitations on expanding due to its position on a peninsula - San Francisco is constrained to a much smaller land area than Houston.
Some people are saying that it will be all open source soon.
I have the same question :P
Since provisioning is on a building basis, there may be individual unit wiring required as well -- the antenna goes on the roof, you need a router and Cat-6 to your unit, so there's a wiring run required and some testing.
"And using your cell number as identity and your contacts list as a social graph is diabolically simple."

Tthe linkage of phone number and identity seems to be the main reason why there are no tablet versions of the whatsapp client. I wonder how satisfied whatsapp/facebook are with this constraint, and whether they intent to address it? It is possible to imagine workarounds for devices that don't have a phone number, but they don't seem as friction-free as the current identity system.
Could you expand on the 24x24 unrolling with AVX? How big of a benefit did you obtain, compared to say using a library such as Armadillo, Fastor, Eigen, etc?
I had Simple bank back when it was new on the scene and kept it for a number of years.

As a homeowner it was annoying at times, I remember paying taxes and tags for vehicles was a problem because Simple didn't want to work with government entities so ever year I'd have a hassle of using another bank to do that. The limits on money spend was also a problem, I remember getting a new HVAC system in the house and having to split payment over two different days. Rather embarrassing for me to the installer voicing concerns, annoying that I can't spend my own money when I obviously have it. Finally lack of paper checks you wouldn't think would be a problem these days but a couple times of year it still came up and I was forced to use another bank and transfer funds.

It was an interesting experiment but after I moved to USAA (or any other real bank) in comparison all my troubles just disappeared.
Make sure you write down the name of who you spoke to, and see if they'll give you their email address. Then you have way to follow up, either directly or by calling the office and saying you had spoken to so-and-so and wanted to follow up. Obviously the people you speak to can't promise much of anything, but if you bring up something that sounds important to them, they will do what they can to move it through the bureaucracy. Follow-ups can help keep it on the radar or make it more urgent. Obviously there are no fool-proof methods here (and congress is full of fools). And people don't like to say no, so you may need to read between the lines sometimes to figure out that they decided your requests were inconsistent with whatever political school of thought that representative subscribes to.
Spot could easily last an hour or more - BD quotes about 90 minutes of walking on a single charge.

Atlas on the other hand is still a prototype, so it's not optimised in that regard and also much bigger, heavier and bulkier. I'd guess it doesn't last longer than maybe 20 minutes or so.
> not enabled by default

Not now, but mistakes happen and have happened. Thanks for providing such a perfect venue to illustrate my point.
There are lots of optimisations which have ultimately observable side-effects e.g. in most JS implementations the closed-over environment is optimised to just the free variables (and there's no closure at all if there's nothing being closed over statically), this is extremely noticeable if you drop into a debugger in the inner function because you will not be able to access any variable which wasn't closed over. Likewise, if the compiler decides to reuse part of the stackframe because it sees two variables are only used consecutively, you won't be able to access the first variable despite it still purportedly being "in scope".
My transcript in french:

Corrine Boulangier(44:35): Alexander DeCroo, si Odoo est une réussite, il y a
quand même un point d'attention pour Odoo aujourd'hui, c'est que dans le
recrutement dont vous avez l'ambition, vous avez des difficultés Fabien
Pinckaers à parfois trouver des talents. Ca c'est un enjeu aujourd'hui, faire
monter en compétences les talents du numérique pour répondre aux besoins d'un
Fabien Pinckaers.

Alexander DeCroo(45:53): Tout à fait d'accord, je pense qu'un pays comme la Belgique,
ben voila, ce que l'on a c'est le talent, et il y a trop de gachis de talents. Si
vous parvenez, dans votre rôle que vous avez dans l'année qui vient comme
manager de l'année, c'est d'inspirer les gens, montrer que c'est possible, et
d'expliquer que l'entreprenariat est quelque chose qui est accessible à pleins de gens.
Ben C'est un peu le rôle que vous allez jouer cette année-ci.

Fabien Pinckaers(45:20): Je vais le faire, mais alors vous apprendrez
l'informatique aux années primaires à l'école.

Alexander DeCroo(45:27): Tout à fait d'accord. Tout à fait d'accord avec vous.

Fabien Pinckaers(45:28): Chacun son rôle (rires).

Corrine Boulangier(45:32): Chiche. Comment pourra-t-on vérifier que ça se passe?

Alexander DeCroo(45:34): Mais je suis tout à fait d'accord avec avec ... D'ailleurs,
je le fais moi-même avec mon fils, mon fils a 12 ans, et moi, en fait, comme
enfant, j'ai toujours adoré l'informatique, et donc je fais, je lui apprends le
Python, qui est un language de programmation. On le fait ensemble.

Fabien Pinckaers(45:49): Ca c'est important dans l'éducation.

Corrine Boulangier(45:50): Fabien Pinckaers, vous êtes arrivé à lancer un défi
à Alexander De Croo. On se demandait tout à l'heure quelle était le surprise
pour l'année prochaine, ça va, on l'a trouvé, c'est le codage à l'école, en
mode Python.
I think that was GPs exact point:

there are times when bulletproof is important and in such cases you absolutely should go for it.

But most of the time and most places it is just a giant waste.
The article seems to focus on how to get "acceptable" candidates running for president and how, once there, they can be kept under control. However I think the real questions should be: how on earth did a candidate like Trump ever get to a position where they could win and what is the state of the country such that a candidate like Trump ever came forward?

If none of these are addressed then you might be storing up trouble and in four years time end up with a bigger problem than the one you just solved.
Source?

My understanding was that before Rails, Ruby was considered primarily a language used for mathematics. Anecdotally, it does seem that I see a lot of stories about using python for statistics, but I haven't seen any hard numbers one way or the other.

Python seems to also have a lot of web implementations. I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers from.
.us should be for US stores. .com is more universal.
I've only ever heard "postal code" in the South.
Of which is that true: ES5, ES6, ES7, etc.? Clojurescript, typescript, etc.?
I can list dozens of jobs that are "more frequent and personal" than waiters: cashiers, nurses, bus drivers, cleaners, etc. So again, I don't understand how a restaurant employer-employee relationship differs from any other job.

> It also seems like a very fluid job market where servers can change employers with minimal cost to themselves.

I've never heard servers talk about the fluidity of the job market, I don't know where this oberservation comes from. I'm trying to be objective here, but I don't understand how the rest of the world (Europe is a great example) can work without a tip system, and in the US this tipping system is indispensable.

As a university student I used to work at a pub, I did this for two years. I did it because I wanted to make some extra money. I think I was paid £5.20/hour (this was back in 2003-04). I never got tipped, and never felt I should have. I did the job to the best of my abilities (pouring pints, cleaning tables, and washing dishes) and tried to have fun with everyone. The pub ran like clockwork, half of all customers I would consider regulars, and service was superb (I might be biased). The same as any other regular pub. I couldn't have taken the job if I wasn't sure that I was going to get paid X/hour, I didn't want a "fluid job market", but I wanted a steady regular income for the job they hired me for.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any 'upstream' mirror.

However, I've configured my projects to be mirrored on several locations with one easy command:

git remote set-url origin --push --add <a remote>
git remote set-url origin --push --add <another remote>

Basically, when you `git push origin master`, it will go to both <a remote> and <another remote> at the same time.
Once it's configured, there's no workflow change.

I typically mirror my code with GitHub and BitBucket using this setup.
I love how religious freedom and freedom of speech are used to make opt out anything you don't like for corporations.
I appreciated your comments and learned some interesting things from them. I also admire your ability to have an argument without letting it drift toward becoming personal. I wish there were more people online who could do that.

Unfortunately, I think you're feeding a troll at this point. No amount of logic or reason can undo countless hours stewing in his/her own confirmation bias.
> Who cares if the person next to me at dinner has a pet snake?

I do

A pet parrot can be a death treat to an elderly. Psittacosis kills a few each year, specially old people and children.

Pet reptiles are common reservoirs for Salmonella. You can be poisoned for Salmonella and when this bacteria enter a kitchen can be difficult to erradicate. A restaurant can be closed for this, so is a very abuse-prone field. For instance a dishonest owner of another restaurant only needs to pay an actor and his snake to move to some rival restaurant and sip his coffe each afternoon 7days for 3, 6 months or the time necessary to nuke it. All with the happy help and merry cooperation of this org.

A girl friend of mine had your father sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life for a salmonella poisoning. He lost their job, their mobility, and their former life. Not, is not funny at all.

Some people are very allergenic to some pets, also. Other are phobic or just don't like pets. Is unfair to them to force to be near an animal when they were expecting instead a safe only-humans/dogs allowed area. I could also easily imagine a call for troubles if you put a big pink pig pet farting in a plane full of people of jew or muslim origin.
One has to wonder if that's part of the intent.

"Oh, haha, sorry about that. Our automated tool screwed the pooch on that one. We promise we'll do better next time."
I guess there are 100 failed projects for every financially successful ones. So it could get a bit TL;DR.

Here is one that makes $5-$10 a month from admob. A lot less than I hoped: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.martincapo....

Most of the installs are from non-english speaking countries. I spent about $20 on Fiverr to get the descriptions translated into Russian, Portuguese etc, which helped me get a few more downloads. I now have 1000 downloads, 250 current installs, and about 10 new installs (and 10 uninstalls!!) per day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-ns...
The median income for an individual with a Bachelor's Degree was around $49,000 per year (2003 census data). That's enough to support a family -- maybe not in your favorite high-cost-of-living city, and maybe not with a lot of expensive hobbies, but it's perfectly doable.
Proving bad faith or that someone "knowingly materially misrepresents... that material or activity is infringing" when it's completely automated sounds very difficult.
>But if I claim that something I actually do own the copyright on is infringed by something that clearly isn't infringing... well, there's nothing in the DMCA penalizing that.

Well that's not true. As posted by dangrossman above, the DMCA stipulates penalties if you misrepresent that the material is infringing. You will be liable for damages, including lawyer's fees.
I like how the quote they pulled from the WSJ article at the top of your linked page is out of context to make it look like the federal reserve is specifically investigating ripple technology.
If you send bogus DMCA takedown notices, and this qualifies as one, there can be legal consequences. The DMCA requires:

"A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

Whoops! This particular list of "infringing" URLs wasn't actually, well, accurate. The problem for whoever sent this bogus takedown (Wicked Pictures or its agent) is that now they can be held liable.

In a case brought by EFF in response to an earlier bogus takedown from Diebold, a federal judge in California held that Diebold could be "liable for damages" -- even though Diebold had by that point withdrawn the takedown request and promised not to send another.

DMCA 512 section (f) says that someone sending bogus takedowns "shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees..." In the Diebold case, Diebold eventually paid EFF something like $125K in lawyer fees.

Note that this situation probably won't get that far. That's because the DMCA doesn't require Google or any other provider to comply with bogus takedown notices. And Google happens to have some smart attorneys (at least one ex-EFF lawyer, in fact) on its payroll who are well aware of that fact.
If the musician woke up in the first sentence, how is he still dreaming in the next one?
You shouldn't discount his point so easily.

The TLDs have long lost all their meaning anyways, so dropping them would be a great idea.

Of course it's not gonna happen (too much money to be made by inventing yet another suffix), but technically the root-servers could start resolving all .com's without the suffix tomorrow, except for those that clash with an existing TLD.
Cheers, I'll try those out. I do think, actually, that trying to write X amount per day are a set time (or whatever) is one of the things that is causing problems - I guess different things work for different people.

One thing I am trying is getting out my phone and recording it as dialogue when it occurs to me - then transcribing it later. I really want something to do that automatically but not luck yet :)