jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a Unix person, aren't dates just number? Why is sort complex? Just parse input and render timestamps
>Not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but I get the feeling they'd be different if you were only counting biological women as female.

Leah is an outspoken defender of FSF.

https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html#rms-is-not-transphobic
https://twitter.com/n4of7
> "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law"

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. 20th anniversary ed., 1999, p. 152.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
Thanks again! This is exactly what I wanted. I'll give a try to the LogParser and the tools that are on stackoverlow and will publish here what is the best one for my needs.
Scalability for one.
Swapping 'built with adapted' doesn't avoid the naturalistic fallacy. Just because we have adapted to cope with something doesn't imply it is good for our current circumstances. Any source of calories would have desirable for our early ancestors - now we have the opposite problem. Instead gazing backwards to our primitive forbears for advice, we need to use science to guide us as to what the best foods to eat are.
The Mibbit backend is Java. It gives us massive advantages over any competition.

The JVM is extremely fast and optimized. We handle many thousands of requests a second on a few VPSes.
While we can't be sure to of the preferences of livestock, we can make pretty good guesses. If the responses of animals in a factory farm are more similar to the responses of an animal that is being injured than an animal that is not being interacted with, then the posterior probability of the factory farm situation being dis-preferred by the animal is reasonably high.

Factory farming or "wild" existence is a false dichotomy. There is the option of having pastured animals. And, critically, there is the option of not existing at all. Furthermore, I'd suggest that domesticated animals are different enough from their wild forebears that spending their existence being chased by predators isn't the default "non-factory farm" option.

From what I know of factory farms, pastured animal husbandry, and the probable preference functions of animals, I would guess the preferences would be: pasturing > non-existence > factory farm

largely from The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Given the past history of how that panned out in other countries, maybe it is actually naive to think bombing will solve anything, no ?

Also, maybe neither the US, S Korea or China want to see a collapse of the region with all refugees that would ensue ? Comparison with east germany is out of touch IMO: difference between south and north korea are much, much wider (not to diminish East Germany shortcomings, but most of its population was not dying from hunger AFAIK), and whereas German reunification happened after Soviet collapse, China is not about to collapse.

Also, West Germany was the top economy of western Europe, and much bigger in population than East Germany (14 millions vs ~ 60 millions in 1990, whereas N Korea is around 25 millions for 45 in South Korea).
If the TechCrunch article is to be believed, Facebook gives itself the power to filter and block outbound private emails between users based on its content.

> Not only is it currently impossible to share a Lamebook link to your News Feed or a friend’s Facebook Wall — you can’t even include them as part of a direct message or email to friends

I'm not on Facebook so I don't really know; if I'm wrong about this then I'm sorry.

But if it's true, it's crazy. Private communication between people that the system knows

1) are human (as opposed to an automatic spamming engine)

2) mutually declared themselves to be "friends"

should not be monitored in any way.

If the recipient wants to set up a filter then it's fine, but if messages are blocked at the source then it's very disturbing.

Everyone used to assume that Big Brother nightmares were imaginary and overblown; now that Facebook is becoming the main communication channel between some people, those nightmares are real...?
Infuriatingly, it's not clear whether Burt Rutan built and designed his early planes by himself from the Wikipedia articles.

I may have bought into a mythical view of Burt, but I would definitely believe that Burt Rutan could build an aeroplane with 2 people.
> Watching the way HN reacts to SpaceX, in contrast to say, NASA, or the ESA makes me think those organizations should hire a charismatic frontman, too.

Well, yes, I think they should. People are drawing the completely wrong lessons from Jobs/Apple. "There's too much worship!" well, duh. Jobs inspired people, and that inspiration led to extremely dedicated fans.

Jobs made use of that in the tech sector, but where we really need it is in sectors which are highly affected by the good will of humans.

Charity. Science. Care of the planet. The development of the human race. Very-long-term thinking. All these need charismatic frontmen, people who inspire others to think about their own future and the future of others.
Uber did not shoot to the moon because all the gains were made in the private instead of public market.

Today's companies , even if they have losses, are cash-flow positive. They are operating at a profit but reinvesting those profits on large capital expenditures, which produce losses. This is similar to Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, and Salesforce.
Hell, it doesn't even have to be ultra advanced. Something close enough to Tk (not GTK, but Tcl/Tk which gets used by Python and a few other languages) would be fine in my book. It is simple, and a start, and allows the community to derive from a working solution to form amazing alternatives.

In fact... Racket has their own UI approach, but I'm not sure if it's just GTK under the hood or what, but it works cross platform.
This is what I meant by a dedicated emulator. That is the hardware is locked down to do absolutely nothing else except emulate a TI. The only reason to use an emulator is to save on dev work.

A company providing this would still need to get it certified etc to get schools on board presumably.
Psilocybin mushrooms were decriminalized in Denver, CO this year.
I buy IKEA furniture for the fun challenge of assembling the pieces myself.
I don't have any research for you but I suffered from "real" depression up to my mid-20's. Everybody gets depressed from time to time but the "real thing" is definitely an actual disorder of some kind.

As for whether normal depression is adaptive, I think you would have to go back in time ~20K and see if pre-civilized humans suffered from it like we do.

It's entirely possible that civilization just kinda sucks and that's the whole reason so many people are so miserable. (E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Disconten... )
Trade secrets are even worse than draconian copyright laws arguably. The copyright at least calls for preservation. Trade secrets keep the knowledge from circulating and laws encouraging it do it more so if someone bypasses them for more competition.
I've just never seen a street sign for one before. But you buttress my point. A certain number of doctors are normal human beings after all, and are perfectly willing to push pills if it makes them money. Entertainment/luxury drugs are at the highest risk for this sort of behavior.
Just so you're aware, your experience does not appear to generalize.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...
nobody uses facebook anymore, it's like a ghost town on there.

i've got like 5+ timers on how many of these facebook trojan power/data grabbing apps fall flat on their face and eventually shutdown.

time to add another one.
That X is not good does not automatically mean that Y is better.

Touchscreens in cars are really distracting. I had to yell to an acquaintance of mine once -- they were trying to change the music while going with 40-50km/h in a suburban area and she almost hit a dog. The reason? Cheap touchscreen that doesn't register half the touches. But it wouldn't matter for the poor creature that gets one ton of steel driven through them.

Maybe the car infotainment system's controls belong to the steering wheel? Or a bunch of extra levers? Who knows, but IMO the touchscreens aren't that good as well. The jury is still out on what's the best way of approaching this.
Definitely has it's place. I use redis for caching and queues. And elastic search for document search.

But I assume you have a relational database somewhere to manage users and do other relational-type things?
Like Porsche with touchscreen control of air vents..
Also, since you're asking users to type in their matrix password onto https://hummingbard.com, it would be nice to have some understanding of why (even though you can host anything anyway).
its impossible, you need passphrase with recovery words to able to transfer it. It might be just a bug because toast wallet is shutting down and there's no more support given. Try download another xrp wallet and retrieve account using your 12 recovery words. It happen for me before and it works
While I had a positive experience with the Uber app software-wise (app functioned seamlessly landing in Mumbai from U.S.A.), Uber as a service was not really comparable to what it is like in the U.S. and developed W. European countries. I got the sense that it was more of a strictly ride hailing / request service, not much accountability required from the driver. Often had > 3 drivers cancel after 10-15 minutes waiting before actually getting a ride. That being said, it was still a hugely valuable service to have in India as a foreigner.
e.g. by discussion of creativity-supressing memes.

Which is exactly what I wanted to talk about when I read "is capable" in your previous post.
Gruber regularly deals with critics that will write basically anything, even criticizing products that have not been announce yet.

Hank Williams' statement:

Essentially, anyone who has criticized the iPhone, or
presumably Apple is just someone not dealing with the
facts. The only reasonable position one could have after
looking at any iPhone related facts is, generally,
acceptance and approval.

strikes me as nonsense. It doesn't even follow from Gruber's original statement. I.e. "seldom" means "not often", it doesn't mean "never". So "anyone who has criticized the iPhone" just doesn't follow.

And unless the so-called "facts" are not indeed facts ("a thing that is indisputable the case") then yes, "the only reasonable position one could have after looking at any iPhone related fact" is "acceptance". IT IS A FACT!

You can criticize the iPhone, but if you say "people are not buying it" then you are arguing against the facts.
My god, how immature are the inhabitants of the web? I was on the site for 2 seconds and was literally quite depressed at what I saw. Why can something like this not exist except with kiddies turning it into an expletive-filled hate and anger textbox?
i don't have 'solutions' for your "easity bored, distracted, paranoid", but can point out to interesting comments here :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666407

hope it helps.

It helped me understand that I am not alone in reading books at a sloth's pace (and feeling guilty about it)
- Co-founder

- Software (High level firmware, all of the web presence / backend)

- Marketing

- Public Relations

- Customer Support

See the blog to gain some more insight into my life (all the posts are mine): http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283
Here is a possible low-budget, low-risk approach to executing: Crack open a ruby on rails book and learn enough tech to build the prototype. You will likely have questions along the way. Post said questions on message boards and IRC. This is a good way to get to know the developer community and learn who the good coders are. At some point you can start contracting them to implement difficult or time consuming problems.
"I see podcasts moving to a space where a person can consume in more than one way. Video, audio, and text."

I feel like a site like Grantland is pretty much there.

Of course, they do a much better job than just providing a transcript. Bill Simmons or Zack Lowe might write a long article about a topic, then discuss it on a podcast, then maybe extract some video clips and add some animation to spice it up.

The key, I think, is the creative people driving the process. Having the right instincts for what deserves a long form piece, a tweet, a blog length take, a podcast, or even a short documentary.
I agree. It is terrible and I have stopped responding to messages on facebook when I'm on mobile.
I don't have the historical knowledge to do it myself, but it would be fascinating to read an in-depth comparison between these services and the economy of servants in the 19th or early-20th century.

The image in my head (from movies and books and reading [about] Piketty) is that the wealthy in earlier eras were more idle, living off rents rather than incomes. I imagine servants would have been more of a status symbol for them, whereas today's upper-middle-class strivers see them as more of a necessity "to dedicate more time to working." I wonder, is that as close as we get to progress, under capitalism? I.e., if we're going to have servants, the people employing them today have a somewhat less dubious reason for doing so than their ancestors?
Sounds like a good project for a graduate level computational electromagnetics course. The method used in this app is FDTD, which is pretty easy to understand and implement compared to other methods for solving Maxwell's equations numerically[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_electromagnetics
It is worth thinking about virality or marketing in general of course. The question is whether it is worth devaluing the product for it. Probably can be answered on a case by case basis but try to think of ways where you do something that increases both virality and the value of the product. Win-wins!
Can't you just open facebook.com in your phone's browser? I've been doing that for a couple of years since noticing that it's both faster and more reliable than the Facebook iOS app.
And Rust is different, since it does incorporate the features that current C++ programmers need (such as GC-free memory management and generics). So I don't see how that refutes the comment you replied to.
I'm concerned that articles like this paint multiprocessing in a bad light. Yes, there are issues like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law but many real-world tasks are "embarrassingly parallel” and it takes little effort to break them into segments that can be processed concurrently.

After skimming the article, I’m thinking the real bottleneck here is latency since it mentions Hilbert curves. Currently networks are orders of magnitude slower than memory but that won’t always be the case. A big game changer is going to be content-addressable memory because we won’t have to worry about network topology as much. It will work more like BitTorrent and locally cache frequently-used data as needed.

Going forward, I have to admit that I’m not hugely fond of big data schemes as they’re currently conceived. There is way too much emphasis on using strange new databases and commodity hardware. I want just the opposite approach - low level access to data with a language like Go or Rust and new hardware with hundreds or thousands of cores on the same chip so we can get revolutionary performance (like with Bitcoin ASICs). Then if we want to double performance, we simple double the number of cores rather than hand-optimizing code, and that is going to be huge for productivity.
I think you misread it, it sounds like he's saying people like popping zips but they don't volunteer that information.
I don't want to take this analogy too far but.. In some ways it is similar to a lawyer or accountant.

A lot of the time, especially with small common issues, the answer is standard and simple and you could have just looked it up yourself. A lot of sites actually just need to pick some decent keywords to target and write titles for the page.

Sometimes, you want a professional to tell you that even though it is mostly just standard stuff because otherwise you don't know if you could be saving tax by doing something else.

Sometimes things are complicated and the difference between a creative (which usually also mean experienced) consultant helps.

BTW, that doesn't mean rely on professionals and don't learn it yourself. Learning a bit of law or accounting might also be a good idea. Certain types of creative solutions are only really going to come from you. Some solutions are best engineered in from the beginning. EG, you might want a lawyer on the founding team of a music sharing startup.
Well, Apple's page seems to emphasize HTML5 and its power, while on the other hand Google would probably explicitly brag about their Chrome browser. If Apple would rephrase the text to say something like "Look how cool Safari (and only Safari) is! You can do all this awesome stuff using HTML5, CSS etc." my reaction would be neutral or more positive.
Actually I'm told that the reason flash doesn't get the HTTP headers is actually due to the browser API, not Flash itself. In that case Silverlight shouldn't have access to them either unless it bypasses the browser altogether for communications.
Hrmm. That's odd. Either I completely missed the poster's contention, or he edited his comment.
Using Chrome in Windows I can't even click through to the examples - I get a blocking pop-up telling me to get Safari. Doesn't that, coupled with the line "soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards" imply that other browsers are lagging behind so badly they can't even try to run the examples? That seems misleading to me. The standards are not complete, but they are more widely supported than this page seems to suggest.

Contrast with Chrome's Experiments (http://www.chromeexperiments.com/) that you can try on any browser and see how it copes.

Edit: lots of the demos work perfectly well in Chrome if run from here instead: http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/
I wonder how many other cars got more than five stars by Tesla's methodology? From the graph, it looks like some have very close ratings.

And clearly, the goal here is to stop every manufacturer from just coming up with their own rules for interpreting the score that give them a different rating from the one that the NHTSA gives. That's definitely worthwhile.
Your comment betrays an extreme misunderstanding of vendor prefixes and the nature of standards development compared to a proprietary system of browser plug-ins. See other comments on this page. And it wasn’t ActiveX that crippled web development, buster. It was the lack of progress and support for emerging web standards like CSS2 and PNG. By contributing to standards, the Webkit team creates the exact opposite effect of IE6. (Accidentally upvoted)
Unit tests may leave you with remaining subtle bugs. This is better than having both subtle and obvious bugs. Obvious under test, e.g. "the class returns null when it should return object y", which can have subtle and easy-to-miss symptoms in a production system
Can't tell if this is serious trolling or a hacked account. Grotesque language in the original post.
Income taxes aren't the only tax. Don't forget sales tax, gas tax, import taxes.

I easily have more disposable income in the US than I did in Canada, even after taking into account insurance costs. Even living in a high-tax US state.
>Isn't this a marker of both gullibility and unscrupulousness?

Companies that take these kinds of reports seriously will usually use a second source to verify the information. My old employer always tried to interview 2 candidates from the same company and region so they can compare the rankings and data presented by the candidates. There was also an informal network of information sharing as everyone had worked for everyone else in the industry at some point and had contacts they could reach out to. Plus, prestigious recognitions, things like Chariman's/President's clubs for top reps, usually get listed in some publicly available form (ours was in our quarterly fluff magazine available on our website).

Now is it ethical? I've noticed that there's a recognized line in sales culture between information concerning a rep's personal performance and proprietary company information. Things like stack rankings (scrubbed of $ figures), activity stats, close ratios, etc are considered kosher by everyone as they don't reveal anything that could realistically damage the company. Things like a rep's list of contacts, anything with revenue figures, etc are frowned upon as they are considered unethical for a variety of reasons. It shows the candidate is willing to damage their employer and knowing that data puts the hiring company in a bad legal position.

Salespeople are judged on their performance and their performance is unique in that it can be quantified in hard numbers. Sales culture has a high level of tolerance for sharing of relevant information as it benefits everyone involved. Candidates get objective proof of their value to a potential employer and employers get objective information, making their hiring decision truly informed instead of a subjective crapshoot like you find in elsewhere.
Not everyone working at those companies is working on something specifically related to ad revenue, the vast majority are working on creating better consumer products that improve millions of peoples' lives. That's what draws people to those companies and those are very valid and altruistic reasons.
Jack Kevorkian. Ralph Nader.
Piracy is closer to someone running a bottling plant off your house's tap and leaving you to pay the utility bill. You still have your water, but that money's pretty clearly been stolen.
These 3rd party ones are pretty good and recent: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:t...
Nancy, like Sinatra, is a general-purpose web framework. You could implement an API in it, or you could implement a user-facing website.

Nancy and Sinatra are typically used for smaller sites. They're based around routes, controllers, and views but they don't (for better or worse) lock you into an MVC project structure like ASP.Net MVC or Rails.

Web API, by comparison, is pretty much "just for implementing a web-based API" and not something you'd want to use for a user-facing web application that serves up HTML pages.
I avoided this problem by skimming the headlines then only reading 3 or 4 articles per section.
> For example, I find myself hating the Either type, because I feel like there is a socially established convention that one half of the Either is the type that matters, the value that you want, the value that is the point of the computation you're doing, and the other half is a garbage value that should never be directly handled. So I really feel like I should conform to the convention and reserve Either for cases where one of the possible types doesn't matter. But how often is it true that one side of the Either doesn't matter? People want me to encode success/failure in an Either type, but if I do that, are they going to treat failure with the care it deserves?

There's always a tradeoff between making the happy path clear and making the error handling explicit. The whole point of Either is to be a middle ground between "both cases are equal weight and you handle them by pattern matching" (custom ADTs) and "only the happy path is visible, the error path is completely invisible magic" (exceptions). Given that people in Python or Java tend to use exceptions a lot more than they use datatypes, I'd argue that a typical Scala codebase puts more emphasis on actually handling errors than a typical codebase in other languages.

Where each case really is of equal weight, consider using a custom datatype (it's only a couple of lines: sealed trait A, case class B(...) extends A, case class C(...) extends A) rather than Either.