jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Scheme is excellent, but Python only lacks a couple features that can mostly be bolted on or used from a different interpreter (tail calls, Stackless, etc).

Some languages make exploring certain concepts easier, but the lack of that feature isn't a hard barrier.

I think learning efficiency is an exponential function of the latency between hypothesis and result. Python just happens to have great tooling to minimize that.
i was a physics major, too. the student in our year who was best at math had trouble with the "hand wavy" stuff we'd do. "well, this term is basically zero, so we'll just remove it" and then she'd pull her hair in frustration, like "how can you just do that? how is it still valid?"

it wasn't enough to tell her "well it still gives us the valid results" - she had to be able to interpret every portion of an expression and then make intuitive sense of it.

at first i was annoyed with this habit of hers, but eventually i started doing it to. for a lot of really math-minded people, hand waviness is anathema, and physics was full of "2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2, so we'll just assume that to make things easier"
I live in SF. Get fast LTE everywhere in the city. A bit slower elsewhere in the Bay Area, but well worth it given the significantly cheaper prices.
Dylan and Lisp/Scheme are way more powerful than Ruby and compile to native code.

Ruby pushes what?! I bet you never used a commercial Smalltalk system.
> Because shell scripts are always safe, right?

Hence 'safe (-r),' not 'safe.'

> Personal attacks won't help your case.

It was not an attack, just a statement of fact. He looks just like a movie villain; it's not his fault, and no-one should hold it against him, but I wonder if it hurts him anyway.
Of course, Holder does this as he is leaving, to score some brownie points. What was stopping him from doing this earlier? Nothing. The WaPo did a huge expose a few months back about the abuses in this system, but nobody cared. And others have been complaining about it for many years.

So now that he doesn't need the backing of the LEO community, but wants to line up speaking engagements after he retires, he throws the people a bone.
No, your process supervisor crashing won't be as fatal as init crashing, because init crashing is an instant kernel panic under Linux. Also, very few projects are as robust as the Linux kernel or have development practices that are as good, and systemd is unlikely to be one of them.
Smaller transistors also have a smaller cross-section so for the same number of transistors this somewhat cancels out.
There is only one OLED TV display panel maker. That is LG.

Edit: I think I need to spell things out a little more clearly. If Apple were to use OLED and aim at a top tier market, then it would be competing directly with LG TV, which also happens to be gaining momentum in terms of both OLED display panel ( LG Display ) and TV set ( LG Electronics ). LG Display will also need to built new Fab for Apple. The recent expansion at Guangzhou doubling their capacity, AFAIK has already been booked and has no relation to Apple. i.e LG has little interest to do it with Apple given they are already fully booked on capacity. And Apple doesn't seems to be interested in pushing LG to partner.

The answer to if Apple could do something will always going to be yes given they have hundreds of billions of cash and has little idea what to do with it other than buying back stocks.

The answer to if Apple will do it is always going to complex. And nothing in the supply chain and BOM cost analysis suggest it is a good strategy worth going for.

I do wish Apple prove wrong though.
Atmosphere is required to carry the energy that would cause disturbance. With no atmosphere, there are few molecules in the space around the copter to transfer the energy to the surface.
I think my friends group has a pretty range, we have a Bernie bro, Squad member, Clintonite, Romneyite, Extremely Religious bro, Everythingsucks-ite. (Admittedly, no Trump supporters in my group, in that way we are pretty homogenous).

I think the big deal is we've all known each other a long time and have things we like about each other that aren't politics related, so we pretty self selectively don't discuss highly political stuff very often, and if we do we're able to separate it from our other perceptions of each other.

I will admit, I doubt this experience is typical in 2021 USA.
As far as I can remember reading, Covid does not really transmit when outside. It's mainly happening due to people getting together inside.
Why would that affect the candidate's spend? Is there any evidence of that happening?
At least one gun was seized.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/washington-dc-pro...
Censorship for any reason is disappointing.
Correct! This is an interesting book about organization design.
VP of Facebook about a similar decision on his video: https://twitter.com/guyro/status/1346950532372393985
I would restate this so that software engineering and physics are fields concerned about building practical models. They are similar in a way that they both employ and invent models communicated through a mathematical formalism. "Model" is the key here, not mathematics.
You can if you fancy a peaceful domestic arrangement.
You are probably right about that but I don't think better choices would change the result, but thats just my personal opinion.
Yes, they have really great development tools. They really do. But no sane person would look at Microsoft and say Visual Studio .NET is the reason they've dominated the PC market for almost two decades. People develop for Windows because everybody uses Windows. If nobody used Windows, VS would not be enough to keep people developing for the platform.
Delicious already provides an export mechanism. It is up to other services to read that format.

http://www.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export
It reminds me of the attitudes in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999171 This is a system that a very small portion of our (middle/upper class) population is going to experience. With the chances of interacting with it being that low we ignore the problem and run a numbers game that our lives won't be unduly affected by it (akin to not being too worried about being killed by a falling satellite). So the situation deteriorates because people are under the impression that if you are in prison you deserve it and ignore the damage it causes to some individuals/families who under different circumstances would have been our neighbors or friends.
It depends on the results you want to get-- TAOCP and CLRS are completely different creatures.

If you are expecting TAOCP to be an Algorithms textbook, you're going to be severely disappointed.

Personally, I find TAOCP to be highly underrated. I find Knuth to be an utter joy (and just yesterday, greatly enjoyed watching the video of the 16th Annual Christmas Tree lecture.)

CLRS is a great Algorithm textbook, but it's not the place to go to find why there is a Pi in the formula for the approximation of Catalan numbers.
FWIW, I think Lego is a far better bet to get girls interested in maths, logic, building, creating, thinking, problem solving, etc

Lego is fun and a massive learning tool. A barbie with a pink laptop is just dumb.
Starting from a BMI of 40 there's no way I'd attempt to put on that much lean muscle. :-)
Google maps, cellphones, talking computers, speech recognition, robots, autonomous vehicles, nuclear weapons, space travel, alternative biochemistry, touch screens, GPS, handheld translators, etc.

Yup. Sci-fi generally fails at predicting future tech.
You can work from everywhere. You just have to have a US credit card to pay somebody.
In case you stumble across this item and find it interesting, this later duplicate submission has got some comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015447
In case you stumble across this item and find it interesting, this later duplicate has got some comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015447
Combine the technology with something like http://www.gizmag.com/vuzix-wrap-920ar-augmented-reality-gla... and you could walk down the street and read everything in your own language.
The problem I have with lane detection is that my state's highways don't have the clearest painted lines. And on the road I'd most want to use an auto-drive system on, it's been under construction since the late 80's so the lines are frequently wrong or missing.

Not to mention the effect that heavy rain and snow has on the visibility of the lines. I think it's a fine supplemental system, but should never be a primary guide.
Ah, but do we know the sun isn't made of limbs and muscles? ;-)
Who isn't paying taxes on their land value? Maybe there are some states that do not, but every year I pay a pretty large tax bill based on the value of my land/house.
You need to learn javascript the language whether or not you use jQuery. You do not, however, need to learn the DOM API if you decide to use jQuery (which I recommend)
Microsoft releases updates once per month for Windows and associated components (sans the rare critical RCE etc.) -- for Office, you may be on Current Channel which releases ~3x/month. This would generally be unusual in a corporate environment which favors the Monthly Channel or SAC, both of which get updates 1x per month.
My oldest child is about to enter the Boston Public school system. Many of my peers think I’m crazy to want to send my kids to public school, but we really value community and equity. I don’t yet know what level of academic achievement my kids will achieve. But my choice what will I have, if the public schools cannot serve their needs. I’ll be forced to join growing trend of abandoning public schools for private and charter schools.
Because they think they can predict the future and their business model relies on their customers believing that.
> 1 MHz to 6 GHz operating frequency.

But what is the maximum bandwidth?
ICANN really overplayed its hand with TLDs. It turns out there's obvious massive value in legacy ones like .com, but they acted a bit too slowly with country hack domains like .io, and then massively overdid it with some of the recent expansions.
I don't know why I can't reply to your reply, so I'll post it here.

My argument is that Rust _still_ isn't ready for the Cryptography library because it's not portable enough.

And I am not a direct user of the Cryptography library. I am an indirect user on x86_64, so I am unaffected. They have kept their implicit promise to me.
Isn't Warren himself proof that you can? He beat the index over a very protract period of time.
I’m out of context, is there a reason why the governor would do something like that?
what do you mean by reconnect to my dock?
Feel free to open an issue if you'd like and I'll try and to my best to implement it.
edit: I think I understand, WinWM has a hotkey called refresh after you move windows you can use it to return all windows to the current layout.
That makes absolutely no sense. The online marketplace suppliers are getting their supplies from the same wholesalers, and charging similar prices.

How are they any different?
I've never seen it referenced as such. Is that what you'd prefer it to be?

Rather than a default editorial action, why not simply ask the community to put the YC info in the title?

Like I said, it changes the interest for me. I'm less likely to read marketing. I could be in the minority even in this case as a happy Airbnb user.
Sounds reasonable. So is it possible to mix Haskell in with Atomo to get to the metal so speak? Do you have any examples of this?
I'd change second thing about Computer Programming to: "Something ALWAYS goes wrong and your job is to fix it"
Of course Roku runs Linux.
Maybe a difference is that C++ can be very, very slow to build. And C++20 will likely results in even longer build time now that you have concepts and can have exceptions and allocations in a constexpr context.
I'd rather code review the former but by the end of the code review I'd rather end up with the latter, with really good comments.
What makes you think MobileCoin is not based on privacy? It uses tech from both Monero and Zcash, two privacy cryptocurrencies.
That sounds like the joke in the laser lab I did my PhD in: some alignments you can only do twice.
This is also why a VAT is theoretically better than a sales tax, in my opinion: it removes the incentive to vertically integrate to avoid the transaction tax....
And to be clear, "management" pulls these stunts all the time, so they might even be impressed.
People rationalize with “I don’t look at the bad parts” and “I can quit anytime I choose, I just choose not to right now.” People don’t see that they’re addicted to something that is destroying all that is good. Using Facebook or Twitter on a regular basis is bad, in some cases it turns lethal. Even worse is functional addiction, where it warps you slowly over the years, too gradually to notice. We regulate big pharma, we should do the same with big tech companies that are built around manipulating human minds (google, Facebook, Twitter). They used to put cocaine in Coca Cola. We are at that point with tech products. Coca Cola business model seems far more ethical, and they cause diabetes.
Wayland support is pretty terrible, but usable. I use it for my daily dev work.

- Some graphical intensive parts (such as the markdown preview renderer) cause crashes. Turning preview off remedies this.

- HiDPI situation is garbage as usual (but that's a Linux thing in general). IntelliJ renders at half resolution so it's not as crisp as it can be, but it's perfectly usable.

- The 'everything is a window' design choice, combined with the 'you cannot click on any IntelliJ instance if _one_ of them has a window open' is worse on Wayland. This may be due to my WM of choice (Sway), but there are often prompts that are rendered behind popup windows.

- context menus have issues with immediately closing due to some mouse event. I now use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse clicks as a workaround. As a bonus I am now discovering all sorts of shortkeys that boost my productivity.

- overall rendering performance (like input lag or scrolling FPS) seems to be worse on Wayland compared to X11, but I have not benchmarked this. May just be me being a bit too demanding/expecting from the Wayland performance promise.
What would you recommend? Note that the guy obviously is introvert (even I can usual ...cough... often find people to hang out with in new places), so administrating people/projects might be out.
I personally prefer Obj-C over almost all the fp languages I've tried. Clojure and Scala being the two big ones but I've also spent a little time with haskel and erlang. I don't hate them but feel like I'm being handicapped instead of helped. Scala was my favorite since I could do either oo or fp. They are all just tools and I shouldn't be limited.
The losses are due to investing though. The company isn't starved for cash.
Other than a front page badge of honor, what is the benefit of reaching the front page? I've read pretty profound articles a few pages in which only had a few points
> Still, I think the fact that the fastest man in the world at the time had tried multiple times to beat it and could not definitely puts a damper on anyone else trying to break a record.

It didn't put a damper on Bannister. In fact, you could argue that the press coverage around the limit motivated more people to try to break four minutes for the acclaim. Without that narrative, maybe Bannister wouldn't have been motivated enough to do it.

> Clearly technology and social forces were at work. Believing you can do something does not make it so. But NOT believing you can do something sure as hell isn't going to help you make it happen.

You may be right, but the 4-minute-mile anecdote doesn't show this. In Landy's case, it wasn't new-found belief, but technology and knowledge that pushed him under four minutes.
"Hi, my name is Mark Zuckerberg. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, social media is good for you. For example, you can "like" Khan Academy and get a feed of interesting problems to solve."
> You are wrong "bro."

Please don't do this here. Your comment would be fine with just the next sentence.
I'd beg to argue this point.
Those who are stimulating this employment exercise are more often than not degree holding. And that is where we have fallen. School != expertise in any regard.
HN is a software-heavy site, so you read a lot about software burnout here. If it were a medical-heavy site, I suspect you'd read a lot about doctor burnout (I still see that here sometimes, even though it's not really a medical site).

But doctors are the one counterexample that came to mind. Do architects burn out? Do civil engineers? Electrical engineers?
The submitted title ("The Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia") was taken from the article's subheading, which is a great place to look when a title is baity or misleading. In this case, though, the article title seems more precise, so we've switched to that above.
We're thinkers and want to be free. That's why there is this analysis going on and consequently burnout (due to not being completely free).
I don't know about where you are, but here you can mary just by signing the papers, no ceremony. And if you don't like the default terms, you can have your own stuff in there. Heck I've been to a marriage where the word marriage was actually in parentheses on the invitation.
Why is it that 90% of the stories we hear involving Australia and technology are about stupid moves by the government? Is there something unique about Australia?
Even though, they'll still belong to Greece, it's the same as buying any other property. Just a bit more expensive.
"He's broken numerous laws and they have a pretty compelling case against him."

Are we still talking about the CIA? Has it become a law-enforcement agency and I didn't notice?

If your point is regarding the possibility of the US government going after Assange by legal means (not via some extralegal, shadowy CIA antics), I'm certain they would if they could.

The fact that they haven't leads me to believe their case against him isn't quite as airtight as you believe.

But regardless of what they do or try to do to Assange, it won't stop Wikileaks. The best that the US government could manage is to extract some sort of retribution or send out a warning to future leakers and whistleblowers.
Yes! Harriers can perform vertical takeoff, but they can carry much more weight launching horizontally. More weight means carrying more fuel and more weapons, which makes it much more useful.

See the links below; compare "max takeoff weight" for vertical takeoff ("VTO") and rolling takeoff (also called short takeoff, or "STO").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Harrier_II#Specifications_....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier...
I think the occurrence of autogynephilia and other dysfunction that can be traced directly to porn consumption.
A few vendors make phase-change coolers which can activly cool below ambient. They're pretty expensive and niche and probably not reliable in the long term. Since it's going in the garage Id just get some really loud server fans.
Here is my "crowd-based" dating app idea: let others do the matching -- i.e. decide which couples fit together....
I have two 4k monitors with Intel gfx one in portrait, and have no issues unless I run vlc full screen and there is a lot of movement in the scene. The other 99% of the time it just isn’t a problem. I’m only reminded it exists in threads like this.
> Imgur, which now won't even let you upload images on mobile web

They hide the upload from the mobile views but if you go directly to https://imgur.com/upload you can upload from there even on mobile.

I agree that Imgur has become quite terrible though, and I think it’s a consequence of offering the service for free as they do. They have a lot of users and serve a lot of traffic, and they need to cover their bills and make a living somehow.

I hope to see your paid service thrive and be able to offer a good service and user experience to those of us who are willing to pay. I think your service has a good chance of being able to succeed.
>Why should anyone have to do that?

When there's a browser bug, someone needs to debug it and fix the browser. Otherwise the browser bug will remain forever.
Availability is available :)

Booking is not.
I don't understand why people keep comparing LibreOffice to Microsoft Office, or—God forbid—GIMP with Photoshop.

Sure, my mom will have a great time writing recipes on it and will save $10/mo., but can anyone do any real work that you'd do in Excel? Let's be realistic.

Also, does no one care about design? LibreOffice's interface looks awful on all platforms, and stuck in the 90s. Same with GIMP.
A remotely related idea that I was thinking about a while ago, which came back to my mind while reading Vitalik's "Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency" blog post that I found here[1], yesterday. Specifically the problem of spam is a special case of a Sybil attack[2]. People usually tend to be better behaved in real life than they tend to do in online anonymous/pseudonymous settings. Tying the two in a privacy sensitive way might be the way to go. IMO, any attempt at verifying that people actually did go out on a date after matching on a dating app would be a rich signal that the user(s) are not spammers or bots. The UX for this could perhaps take the form of a QR code that one could scan from their date's phone (or vice-versa).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618079

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
Fair point that I had not considered. However, I would not necessarily say desperate but may be risk-taking, strategic thinking, and/or wealthy (enough to handle congestion prices) men
Real estate is the same as my casino example. If the price of your house changes year to year then your networth changes with it. You might not care, or even know, about the changing price because you have no intention of selling your house, but that doesn't change the reality of your fluctuating networth.
They have a business plan that is predicated on people signing up for a service that they want to use but don’t and fail to unsubscribe because it’s like giving up on reaching their perceived potential best selves. It’s simple.
> beg for payment

Not every rider is confident enough to flat out refuse to pay, walk away with 'lol your problem now', and to deal with the more aggressive kind of drivers.
Jack is as much in favor of censorship as anyone currently on the board. The real reason the board doesn't want Elon in charge is because Twitter doesn't exist to make money. It exists now to steer politicians and drive the news cycle. When a board member says that Twitter is vastly undervalued it's not because he thinks it could be making more money. It's because he knows that much power is impossible to put a price on.
The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than 1% of Twitter. It sure sounds like their interests are not well-aligned with those of the company owners.
Eric Schmidt, the guy who stated that if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn't be afraid of google?
This isn't true and tens of thousands of IBM employees work in areas where writing patents is not part of the job.

IBM has a lot of patents because they invent a lot of things. It's in their culture. And it's profitable for the company, not because it gets individuals a promotion.