jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Then the wikipedia article doesnt quite match with whats taught in CS courses. In any case the blog post does not agree with the wikipedia position either. I dont think it helps to overload standard definitions with different concepts, one should use new/different words.

"Concurrency should not be confused with parallelism
Concurrency is a language concept and parallelism is a
hardware concept. Two parts are parallel if they execute
simultaneously on multiple processors. Concurrency and
parallelism are orthogonal: it is possible to run
concurrent programs on a single processor (using
preemptive scheduling and time slices) and to run
sequential programs on multiple processors (by
parallelizing the calculations)."

-- page 25 of Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Must Know a book chapter by Peter Van Roy http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf [Pdf]

Here is SO's take http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...

and from GHC Mutterings http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/parallelism-co...
Sounds great if you're looking to finish your workout with a hypoglycemic attack.. fun fun
real time updates here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/dec/16/wikileaks-la...

It appears that it will not happen until tomorrow.
This hasn't been my experience, but I've ridden BoltBus less than a dozen times. Every time I've had smooth sailing WiFi from beginning to end. In any case, this can be solved via an independent data plan.

I'm not sure how their scheduling works, but certainly they do have some sort of computerized scheduling system. When I called the operator at 8:35 today she put me on hold for ~40 seconds while she, presumably, looked up the status of the bus. I wonder if they don't already have an informal internal service for keeping track of bus status?
it's a vixie cron'ism. vixie cron is in all the bsds, linuxes, and mac os.
What is your scepticism? That people can do this now or that it ever stopped being that way?
Re: #6, don't you worry that they'll discover your side projects and take ownership of them / shut them down? Even if it's open-source contributions and not for profit, it's a liability for the project you contribute to. That's why some projects make you sign an agreement before accepting commits.
Really awesome.

I tested it on a supported Phone but with CyanogenMod nightly from 2014-12-24 and the /dev/diag device exists but when I start the test, the Applications force-closes. But maybe its just my AppOps.
Interesting question for legally-minded HN'ers: Would isolating the drug from urine bypass the patent? I.e. if the patent holder already got their royalty when the initial batch was sold in the factory, would the royalty have to be paid again when the urine extract is sold?
I wonder if there would be even more demand for an e.g. refined English-to-casual English translator, and vice versa. If someone from one of the entrenched higher classes uses a phrase like "acquire the appropriate attire for dressage," one of their new staff might not be educated enough to understand even the own-language equivalent and its nuances. I would think there'd be plenty of demand for something that transcends languages to perform meaning-discovery tasks for the wearer/user.
The downside of course is that Python is very dynamic - so IDEs are of relatively limited use.

I am surprised to hear you say that with "PyCharm" being the first word in your comment. We have had very good experiences with PyCharm + reStructuredText annotations to help it when the return type or arg type is not inferable. Just like its IJ friend, PyCharm has caught quite a few bugs and helps the team edit Python and not text.

PyCharm's usage is not optional on my team; we tried the "use whatever text editor you want" approach and it turns out that people are not as good at memorizing the type signatures of a complicated codebase as computers are.
Per your statement,
(number of universes >= 1) is testable and true ("demonstrated").

Maybe you mean (number of universes > 1)?
I suspect this is more a matter of what "sci fi" you like. The 1990s had lots of sci fi TV shows, including, among others:

X-Files

SeaQuest DSV / SeaQuest 2032

More Star Trek than you can shake a stick at (TNG, DS9, and VOY cover the whole decade, with most of it having two at once)

Babylon 5

Sliders

Stargate SG-1

Farscape

I think there's a better case that the 1990s were the high-point of sci fi popularity on TV than a particular drought (though I can see a case that there was something of a drought starting sometime in the mid-1980s through 1993.)
If I can read between the lines:

1. Start a "socially-good mental health product."

2. Pivot to a completely unrelated, non-"socially good" product.

3. Write an essay to defend your decision to pivot by describing it as the act of a "morally competent person."
You have to wait for the bus outside. And a lot of children in the US still have to either walk to school, or walk to a school bus stop (which isn't their house).
This is why those discussions from a morally neutral standpoint are a waste of time. It’s entirely reasonable for one side to punish the others for having nukes while having those itself. We are not some impartial aliens surveying the planet, each of us is affected by these things.
>Journals don't pay reviewers either,

Some do.

And I am aware of that most don't, having published enough papers, reviewed papers, and been asked by journals to review for them.

However, I never claimed reviewers were paid. I did state Sci Hub is getting benefits they didn't pay for, like keeping out crap, the value from being reviewed, uniform quality from known journals, etc.

If I, having published academic papers, and in many cases keeping my own copyrights as I always try to negotiate that (and a surprising amount of journals will let you if you ask), want scihub to not publish my work, funded by me, and published by journals I selected, will they remove it? No?

Then they are stealing the same as others. It's just their theft is popular since it lets people access stuff for free.
Similar to Wordseye https://www.wordseye.com/
"Mute your microphone" is quite standard.

Most UIs show a microphone, that you can click on to disable. A circle with a slash through it will appear on top of the picture of the microphone. This is referred to as "muting."

This should be enough to see why it is called "muting your microphone." While you could say "disable your microphone," this can lead to confusion, such as thinking that you are talking about more permanently disabling it, such as you do in your computer settings.

The most important thing about language is that it is understood. "Mute your microphone" is going to be understood.
I would switch our self-hosted servers to Mac M1 Minis if this goes through.
I know, but I still don't want unnecessary radiation.
You could make this transparent to the browser. A forward web-proxy on the mars side that has a local 1TB cache that doesn't expire for months. If a request misses the cache, it is queued to be sent with the next upload transmission. An hour later, the requested URLs (and all related data that a simulated browser session required) appear in the cache.

You could auto-crawl sites via RSS feed, transmitting the contents many links deep. Each colonist could then subscribe to whatever sites interested them, including RSS feeds from sites such as HN. All the crawling would be done by a server on Earth which has a reliable (but delayed) channel to Mars.

The transmission between Earth and Mars would not be TCP/IP - it would be a protocol designed to maximise data recoverability without re-sending packets. It could use techniques such as 2d hamming codes for this (hashes within each packet and across many packets).
> except for google

Well, no. You can upload any document you want on google docs now. And they give API to manipulate, there's a company that offers a dropbox like solution based on this. Google it.
It doesn't install on the iPad either. My guess is that they set it to require "sms" or "telephony" functionality.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/General...
Why would you go through the process of switching the language?

Well, if you want to know the truth of it:

If that language just so happens to be PHP, then they might have a whole bunch of reasons. A lot of people just don't like PHP; don't consider it to be a very fun or interesting language to program in, and in particular, don't consider it long-term viable for large, multi-faceted projects.
yep, you'd use something like nginx or apache traffic server and set that up to serve SSL.

One special case though, if you have multiple servers that serve your content load balanced, and if these servers are in different colocations, then you probably need to run any sync between them over SSL. Even if you do control the link between the two boxes, there's that off chance that your link goes down and the IP layer automatically routes traffic through a different set of routers.
I'm pretty sure they added some secondary identity checking mechanism. After hash match, you can compare the first x kbytes of the documents for example.
Thanks. At least I know I didn't imagine it.

I make a disservice to Pascale, the first lady who taught me French, and who was, herself French, by saying it was a Belgian woman who taught me French. The Belgian lady, Catherine, taught me _most_ of my French but I first started speaking French with Pascale.

Which is to say, it's possible I learned "octante" from Pascale, although she was far from old enough to have learned it in the early 20th century.

So I'm guessing "octante" is still used in some French-speaking places, although not that widely.

And I'll probably sound rather quaint if I use it myself :)

[For the record, I'm Greek but I learned French very early on because my dad had cousins in the Greek diplomatic corps and he wanted me to get a job there and he thought French is the language of diplomacy. I was not interested in that, of course. But at least, thanks to my dad's silly ambitions, I grew up practically billingual.]
It's very interesting how the hierarchical file system was something that users couldn't understand, and today with mobile and web we see an almost complete rejection of the file system or hierarchies as a principle of user interaction.

I always found the hierarchical start menu a pain to use. Every company insisted on creating a submenu for their company, then another submenu for their program. And it's quite unfortunate that Microsoft didn't take charge until Windows 10. They didn't set a much better example with their software, and they let everyone do whatever they wanted in the Start menu, resulting in a poor user experience.

What I have been doing since Windows 2000 was to move the shortcuts to the actual programs into the top level start menu folder, and all these useless folders into a top-level folder named Crap. So conceptually the home screen of today's phones. That's what the Start menu should have been about, exclusively: Start programs. Not a help.chm. Not the uninstall.exe. Not a link to the company home page that nobody ever uses. Just the program. And Microsoft should have enforced that from the beginning.

Hierarchies are not needed most of the time. To locate an item, a hierarchy of folders where the items are mostly hidden is probably the worst solution. It's easier for me to locate something in a list sorted alphabetically where every item is visible. And the best solution is spatial consistency: Put the items in a fixed place on the screen (or keyboard). That's how it works in the real world, and that's what the brain is optimized for.
Spot on comment. Can you recommend any good books on the subject?
The latest scientific, technological, engineering, financial innovation is becoming more ruthless, efficient, rent seeking middlemen.

Is it good for science that the richest, most valuable companies in the world, that are worth Trillions of dollars and generate Billions in revenue, are basically slum lords renting out some pixels on screen?

Is it good for society that thousands of engineering hours are spent on getting the boner pill ad faster to you by few milliseconds?
"Most important, guide your wise politicians financially as they strive to make this region of the planet more cost-effective for you by abolishing the evil worker rights laws, corporate taxation, and environmental protections that offend you deeply and drive you away from us. Help them enlighten the more backward cultures by dropping your holy bombs on the people of those demonic nation-states that still refuse to bow down before you. And thank you for undercutting the pitifully small local businesses that would dare defy your divine dominance and threaten the sacred homogenous culture in which you have safely wrapped us. Truly all resources belong to you, and we are but humble stewards of them. Continue to devour the land and excrete into the rivers --- the Earth is your banquet and your toilet. For thine is the empire, the power, and the planet, until you destroy it."
Early Gamestop investors made a lot of money on the trade, but only if they ignored the misinformation in /r/WallStreetBets.

Wall Street is an easy punching bug, but let's not forget that the misinformation coming from /r/WallStreetBets misled a lot of people into believing that the stock could only go up. The only allowable content in WSB was "diamond hands", rocket emojis, and shaming anyone who dared admit they took profits.

It turned into a group pump and dump scheme, but many participants didn't realize that they were supposed to dump the stock before it inevitably crashed back down. The sub is still full of posts encouraging people to hold their stock forever.
Looking from the outside, seems like the police system used to work at some point in the past and now it doesn’t. Maybe taxpayers taking the brunt of it in case of police misbehavior is a case of a system “failing loudly”, a useful indicator that the police doesn’t work well and people should elect differently in favor of revamping the police according to current realities.
You can count 6 shots if 6 shots were given. That's what's happening.
Absolutely. Personally, I am forever grateful to Sal for helping me overcome my fear of math in my late teens. I started from 1+1=2 and eventually got to Calculus and Linear Algebra (using KA and other resources). I particularly liked the randomized exercises on the site, and how it tracked your progress over time. It became kind of an obsession -- I thought, if I can learn math, I can do anything. I believe Sal's style of teaching had a lot to do with it.

There are tons of other people like me, and it makes me sad seeing such bitterness about a person who obviously brought a lot of good into the world.
Is it true that NPC cars are not checked for collision?
And collision checking only starts when something happens near?
I believe the f-35B has an optional gun pod. [1]

[1] http://defensetech.org/2012/06/22/pic-of-the-day-f-35b-shows...
We're discussing an article based on multiple research studies by somebody at the Harvard Business School. Rebuttals should be based on more than vague anecdotes.
> React Native promises learn-once-write-anywhere, which means a single team of engineers can realistically build high-quality apps using the target platform's UI paradigms.

Since when is react providing any semblance of stability? Javascript is already bad enough of a moving target without an unstable api on top of it.
No, 45k ruble is for non-English speaking people to post on Russian municipality websites.
You are about to hit dictionaries and objects, which are quite new. Later you'll build a game and a website.

Stick with it. You've made it this far and the pace quickens as you get closer to the end.
There are only two people I know who ever actually "crushed" anything and who's success was a result of their own actions.

The hundreds of others I've met it was either dumb luck, they started already having been successful, or they just fake the entire thing.

The number of success stories in the Bay Area that are not a result of nepotism are few and far between. I don't say that with a sense of disdain, just reality. Because the majority of my own success can be attributed to nepotism.
I tried Google Drive about a year ago, and it appeared to choke on large files (I had a couple of 4Gb VMs), and pausing during attempted uploads always resulted in having to start over the upload from scratch. Still sticking with CrashPlan for now.
Move the slider for magic.piktochart.com to the middle position (yellow - allow content but not cookies).
MZ Scheme was a precursor to Racket. Same people, AFAIK same core codebase.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/mzscheme
All of them. It is a common accepted reality in game design that players will take any shortcut offered. Players will go so far as skipping content just to "solve" a challenge with the fastest method.

Players would jump at genocide if it solved their problem. It would be an interesting result if it was not so predictable.
One of my favorite albums from my high school years was an AAD. Unlit Cigarettes by Omry Levy and Shany Keidar. I still listen to it sometimes.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3PJot26iNv9FYcXdJUdb0N?si=Lbx...

Track 6, Dirty Water, is the true masterpiece. If you only sample one song, make it this one.
What's the difference between front/middle/back office?
If the first lemonade stand did a stock buyback it would be worth just as much as the second lemonade stand. If the first lemonade stand issues a dividend and holders of the stock automatically buy more stock, then the share price will also be exactly the same as the second lemonade stand.

Why do companies do dividends or stock buybacks? Because they think investors can do better investments elsewhere with the money.
That math assumes one lawyer working on this which I doubt.
Now mega-companies spend money on intangible assets but they can expense immediately, so tax is deferred and they can grow without that tax friction.

Acquired intangible assets must be amortized (aka depreciation for things that don't physically exist) over 15 years, not immediately (some intangibles can be amortized over a 3-5 year time frame). And self-developed intangible assets cannot be amortized at all.
This wasn't helpful, how might OP improve the effort?
They are also trivial to get wrong, can be mangled when the files are moved around, and are easy to use as an attack vector.

They are not far better than the alternatives, it's just that no alternative reached a critical mass due to them not being how Windows works.
They are suggesting that the treaty has a loophole that companies can make shell companies to outsource profit to non-signatory tax havens.

Of course, that is stupid. That loophole is what happens now, and the point of such a treaty would be tariffs or sanctions against non signatories.
If the U.S. and other large governments cared enough about this they could make it happen because they have more power (both economic and military).
The appeal there is that they seem apolitical. They are not - they have baked in political ideas. Moreover they allow people with power to take political actions and can credibly that they are not political.

It sounds like something from a cyberpunk novel, but much of this baked in politics resides within powerful mega-corporations, playing within their moats and exploiting their walled gardens. People high up in those corporations have their own agenda. Much of this agenda is carried out with the aid of lobbying.

Deep inside those mega-corporations, other strata of lower-level functionaries from an entirely different social class are carrying out their own agendas. Often these agendas clash with the higher-ups. Often, these agendas clash with those of the users and ordinary people.

such systems have no vision of the future. That requires people.

Many of the problems arise when people with some power have dehumanized other people in their minds, and start to mistreat them, within whatever level of power they may have. By their very nature, such mega-corporations tend produce many such opportunities.

'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'

This title, as a phrase, describes The Culture in Iain M. Bank's books.
I agree with you and have the skill and facilities to run a VM with node as most of the HN audience does, but this doesnt represent the majority of little nobody sites that litter the web.
What I found is that the more you help the C++ compiler understand what you want the more optimized the code gets. Using std::fill_n instead of memset alone can cause good improvements, depending on the compiler.
BSD wasn't open source back then, you needed to have an AT&T source code licence as well.
Those violent crimes in the UK don't tend to involve guns and/or becoming dead.

UK homicide rate: 1.2 per 100,000 persons
US homicide rate: 4.7 per 100,000 persons

You are more than twice as likely to get beaten up in the UK than the US. You are around 4 times as likely to be murdered in the US than the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

The UK has a violence problem, probably at least in part due to the drinking. I feel less safe in London than LA. But it is crazy to deny that US gun violence isn't a thing.
I was all ready to be skeptical and everything... but this could actually be amazing.

I currently use Chocolat for code editing, which is beautifully elegant and I love it, but there are 25 little tiny things that I really wish I could fix. I file issues, but the developers rightly have their own priorities. It's closed-source, but even if it were open source, I'm not about to learn how to use XCode and Objective C and figure out how to compile and whatnot.

But if Atom is ultimately just a big collection of straight-up node.js files, and anyone can go in at any time to change a line here or there -- and it's in JavaScript, so it couldn't be easier for programmers in general -- and there's no compilation step or anything -- then it's almost a fundamental paradigm shift for what desktop software could be.

It already makes me dream of a word processor I could hack like that, or a music player. Just by opening up a text editor. It's an inspiring thought.
That's an exciting document, particularly the part about creating manufacturing jobs that have a realistic potential of product exportation. I wonder if TSLA threw Texas into the mix as incentive to repeal their Tesla ban.

Re: http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's going to be difficult for anyone in the U.S. to garner enough lithium to go full scale. Anyone know if Bolivia has sorted out their intentions for its epic lithium reserves? Perhaps, Mr. Musk has a friend or two there.

Edit (answering my own question): http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/bol...

Edit 2 (more on the same.. more recent and relevant article): http://seekingalpha.com/article/1971851-tesla-motors-and-bol...
Well, I can only take credit for one of those but thanks. It's always great meeting people that played our stuff all those years ago.
Looks like Tesla is investing in a domestic battery cell factory. Its projected output in 2020 will be approximately equal to the amount of cells output across the entire industry last year. They estimate a 30% decrease in cost/kWhr, which is pretty cool. Oh and they're building a ton of solar panels and turbines to help power it. Pretty cool if you ask me.

It makes sense to me - if Tesla continues to grow, why pay the middleman for one of the most essential items in their cars?