jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd rather see an Lua successor reach widespread adoption. Wren pretty much solved all my gripes with Lua but there is no actively maintained Java implementation.
Apple is doing some cool things to make personally identifiable tracking from Facebook ads much less pervasive, while still providing advertisers/businesses data about whether or not their ads are working. These things include sending batches of data every 36-48 hours instead of data as it happens, etc. But in order for these tools to work, Apple is asking Facebook to rely on this list to see if subdomains would be able to set up conversion events to collect this anonymized batched data.

This system will make ads worse, but I think it's an alright balance. Not being able to have any conversion tracking will make ads dismal.

I wish that Apple would work to maintain their own list that served this purpose, or provided support to the volunteers that were tasked with keeping this updated.
That’s the feeling that companies seek to exploit. I like my job, my profession and the mission associated with it, and have a certain level of pride.

End of the day, I have a contract and meet my side of it to the best of my ability. The company does the same, until it doesn’t. My family, my personal life is why I work.

A big part of the push of a bullshit mission is to make you pause your life. People end up not having kids because they waited till they were 38 because the big “mission” taking priority.
Happy to be corrected if something is actually wrong, but somehow perpetual motion machine peddlers always seem to forget that part.
Most streets of that size Philadelphia do not require a bike lane. But say they tiny fraction they took of 11th which is massive...

https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/philadelphia-street-...
I'd assume it's because Safari's JS interpreter (Nitro) is a different interpreter than Chrome's V8
Looks like Apple is starting to eat its own dog food. Want flash style without Flash? Do it in JS.
> The lag is slow and inconsistent, forcing you to always wonder if you need to hit something again or whether the M-150 is just trying to figure out if you hit S, A, or D.

I almost missed this journalistic easter egg!

Also… did you see the thumbnail they are using to link to this story? They photoshopped in some, er, brown froyo. http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2010/11/m-150-list-thum...

I still can’t get over the IE icon showing up on an Apple-imitating “dock.”
I was afraid to click it until I figured out what "berich"-ing was...
What is your justification? Anything that can be found on Google isn't worth learning?

Just to take a trivial example: take a look at Project Euler. There's no question in my mind that working through those exercises is a valuable learning experience, and (in the context of a programming course) would be worth grading someone on-- even though the answers are readily available to anyone who searches for them.
Same here - displays fine in 7.0.517.44 - not sure if I think this is all that "badass" though...
a cursory search says you are incorrect... looters, rioters arrested (from one event I looked for):

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bellevue-police-upd...

rioters arrested (Weeks later, there was a knock at the door of Little’s Everett apartment when police came to arrest his 25-year-old son and search the family’s apartment): https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/analysis-o...

sometimes the DA decides not to prosecute, or defer for misdemeanors: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/dozens-protesters-arrested-...

you don't arrest legal protesters, that's you know legal. You do arrest, or defer (in the city that had the infamous CHAZ/CHOP) arrest people breaking the law.
hmm. it could be an interaction with some of the other settings I was fiddling with, i.e. could make it better in some conditions but not others.
Hopefully your reasons extend further, but yes, having all speech out in the open is extremely healthy for myriad reasons.
Sigh. The mythmaking contines. In the theory of causation, we distinguish between proximate vs. ultimate causality. Every proximate event can plausibly be claimed to be the cause for a subsequent event. As they say for want of a nail the war was lost. We don't say the war was lost because the nail was missing because 20 years ago they changed the way they cataloged the nails in the hardware store which sold the nails because the owner of the store changed their inventory system.

What is plausibly the cause for the engineering fiasco of the 737 Max? Why go back to the merger in 1997 and why not blame the 9/11 attacks or the election of G.W Bush or Obama's for this disaster?

Why go back to the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas? Because it allows Boeing engineers to deflect blame for the terrible product they built and foisted on the flying public by coasting on their past reputations.
Subtitle: "We can't wait for perfect evidence"
Op-ed by former surgeon general plus 2 other MDs.
I don't find that surprising at all. Emotional intelligence plays a strong part in both holding a job and a family. I am assuming here that IQ is disassociated with emotional intelligence.
They would look at the newspaper's track record and research its reputation more generally. The same way you would establish trustworthiness of any entity you don't know more generally.

This is just a more general case of having a trusted broker. How do you trust your bank? How do you trust airlines to be safe? How do you know your doctor is competent? You don't demand first hand evidence for all of these. You trust a regulator to oversee them and the regulator may absolutely rely on evidence that is not made publicly available. A lot of society ceases to operate if you throw out reputational trust.
Too late, can't edit. I actually meant 4-day work week - 32 hours.
Discussion on front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8841340
This is comparing apples with oranges. HTML5 games are meant to compete with current flash games, not with native (and far more expensive to create) 3D games like the one in the video. Most of the succesful mobile games are created using a 2d engine. In the future, this could be done using HTML5 and its nice to see that some pioneers in the field already release engines to play around with it.
I understand the feeling, but I can't help seeing an undercurrent of "please don't make the mountain look easy/fun/silly or all the macho sunday-mountaineer stockbrokers who pay me won't want to climb anymore"

We got the same flack from the guides (and the police, but that was fair TBH) when we did the massive paragliding group landing summer 2012
Kris Zyp (author, maintainer) has switched to RQL in his newest versions of persevere.

https://github.com/kriszyp/rql
This is nice, but the API requires your app to communicate back to some central web server in order to function...
>My biggest obstacle in getting into Android development is thinking of ideas for apps to make.

I just got a Droid X. I had been trying to brainstorm ideas for dev'ing on it but realized on my commute home yesterday that was the wrong way, for me, to go about it.

Basically I need to just use the phone and anytime I think "wow, i could really use X to do Y" go and try to find X, and if I can't maybe work out a plan for developing X myself.

Like on my commute, I have several routes I can take. I got the idea to make an app that collects statistics based on time of day, route, speed/traffic that will help predict which route is the best depending on when I leave the office.

And hey! It already exists. But can I compete? Or should I just be happy someone already did the work for me?
I just remember the endless minutes spent looking for something I'd mistyped. Happy days with my Video Genie!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
I bought and read the Collective Intelligence one and enjoyed it. It's a good read.
Thanks.
That's obviously and enormously important point you're making, and we'll make some improvements right away.

To enlighten the discussion, Tise is a service to create online classifieds that can be posted on Facebook. The idea is then to use it as a tool to post on various "Buy / Sell / Swap" groups on Facebook.

In my opinion it can be compared to how Instaweather built on Instagram.
Originally Eclipse, but now Android Studio
That's exactly what Nim does, and it works quite well.

The bindings are easy to create (there is an automated tool that does most of the work), they look like Nim function declaration and can add better typing checks on FFI calls. You still have manual memory management and pausable, optional GC.
These types of solutions just add more and more band-aids all the way down. You add caps on rent increases, then people can't find new homes because builders will only build for the top end of the housing market due to the rent caps and people won't move out of their current homes because they don't want to lose their capped rent.

If you want housing investments to be less valuable, just build more if it.
Discussion from when the article was originally posted two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490832

I was reminded of this today, and thought it was interesting enough to bear reposting.
In the kind of finance where you’re dealing with interest payments, you choose/agree on/accept a day count convention and run with it.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/daycount.asp
Linear algebra was like 11 and 1/2 grade math. First semester junior year in high school was trig; second srmester was discrete math.

(I took these in 9th grade)
"Contrary to idealism, which regards the world as the embodiment of an "absolute idea," a "universal spirit," "consciousness," Marx's philosophical materialism holds that the world is by its very nature material, that the multifold phenomena of the world constitute different forms of matter in motion, that interconnection and interdependence of phenomena as established by the dialectical method, are a law of the development of moving matter, and that the world develops in accordance with the laws of movement of matter and stands in no need of a "universal spirit."" ibid

I am quoting directly from the same source and I have firm understanding of the Master-Slave dialectic and draw a very clear connection to Marx's Superstructure.

Are you familiar with Locke or Berkeley? Marxism, quoting verbatim from the Marxist Archive - and from Marx himself - is in direct opposition to an immaterial world which humans occupy. Spirit, by categorical definition in the Western Philosophical Tradition, exists beyond matter. To Marx, man is enslaved to his material conditions which obligates revolution.
Yeah it sounds like they were being sued over building a compatibility layer. That's nuts. Good thing the right decision was made :)
Does anyone know if the Sublime Text 2 plugins are compatible with version 3? I've never done a Sublime Text upgrade. TIA!

Edit: seems like they will need to be ported [0].

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta
This is an open sourcing of Google's internal build tool.

I know it as Blaze, which Bazel is an anagram of. Many files in the source have references to Blaze.
>so-called 'bullshit jobs' - things that have no value for humanity but has "economical value" because they're part of zero-sum games.

?

While I believe there is plenty of inefficiency for bullshit to live in, I am not sure there is enough to create a whole class of jobs. Do you have some examples of what you mean? I am also not sure how you could say that people creating value are engaged in bullshit...
> I'd imagine that 4096 will become the new minimum over the next few years.

That's unlikely to happen. 2048-bit RSA provides a security level of ~112 bits, which would physically require a massive amount of energy to break, and it's unlikely that so much energy would ever be expended on a single task. So 2048-bit RSA is only likely to be broken if there's a mathematical breakthrough against RSA. The thing is, such a breakthrough is likely to break 4096-bit RSA as well, so using 4096-bit RSA is only a protection against a minor breakthrough.

Meanwhile, 4096-bit RSA carries a massive performance cost. It's just not worth slowing down your TLS handshake with 4096-bit RSA to protect against a mathematical breakthrough, but not too much of a breakthrough.

So stick with 2048-bit RSA for now, and in a few years when elliptic curve crypto is better supported, switch to that.
I could write a novel. I'll keep it brief:

1. Walmart provides as much data as possible to it's suppliers, and expects the suppliers to use this data to then advise Walmart on projected sales and inventory in a collaborative manner. Target, on the other hand, has a data feed for it's suppliers, which is VASTLY inferior, unreliable, and the data isn't nearly as complete. A few years ago, they switched this feed from one system to another, and didn't think it was a big deal that the new system barely worked. This made the suppliers/CPG companies I advised scramble and have extreme difficulty in planning. The buyer teams at Target didn't care, and still expected the suppliers to do the same analysis.

2. Walmart has a religion of keeping items in stock and on the shelves. It's not easy to achieve, and they drop the ball at many stores on this, but it's CLEARLY not a priority at Target. They just don't have logistics as a core focus there, and it shows. My wife's experience of expecting a core item that was on the shelf last week at Target to be out of stock is typical.

3. Hearing trucking companies describe what it's like to ship goods to Target vs. WM is sad. Truckers charge extra for Target because they frequently find themselves waiting hours, sometimes days, at Target distribution centers to get their cargo offloaded. This NEVER happens at Walmart DCs. When trucking companies negotiate contracts with Target, this is something they have to "bake in". It's horrible when you hear stories from mom and pop truckers who get suckered into doing business with Target.

4. Target coporate vs. Walmart corporate: Walmart corporate has a shocking number of very high ranking executives (often in their 30s) who never went to college and worked their way up from working in stores. Bentonville, Arkansas is filled with these folks. They have a real "gut level" understanding of the stores/DCs and this is probably the only reason Walmart hasn't collapsed into gross mismanagement. Their worst executives have always been external hires. At Target, it's rare to see people who worked their way up internally in high-ranking roles. Much more typical corporate environment there.

Well, wrote a novel anyway. But yeah, that sums it up.
Based on my very limited experience and the posts above, I'd say sign languages don't really have the luxury of having many "synonyms" with slightly different connotations, at least in the same way you'd list words in a dictionary. jbergstroem mentions "always trying to find the simplest way of explaining yourself", so I think the idea is people just say things how they are, in simple terms. I imagine ideas like politeness are instead conveyed in other body language, facial expressions maybe, instead of dancing with words.

But I'm just speculating, I'd love to hear someone's firsthand experiences here.
We have an application using a web based PDF viewer (PDFTron) and printing PDFs has always been a pain point. That library supports "embedded printing" which only works on Chrome (https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/web/guides/print/overv...). So for now we're advising our customers to use Chrome for our application. Do you know if this is something being improved upon? Sorry this is a bit OT!
Well, I don't know in which world you live, but in mine Outlook is alive and kicking, that's where purchase orders are confirmed, meetings with suppliers are organized, business decisions are made … and in the few instances where it's not going over Outlook, it's because it's on a GApps tenant, in which case it's GMail instead.

The biggest threat to outlook and email today is probably MSTeams, and ironically enough, it federates just fine so that two employees from two distinct companies can chat as if they were on the same tenant.
So true. It’s just a default. No font is less value than Times New Roman just because it’s there when you start a new Word doc. Also not too worried about the hegemony of the piano-style keyboard.

Like physical instruments, electronic ones can be made to suit your needs. Same for composers and automation.
Yeah, I hear you. Rust tries to fit into existing stuff as much as possible, so stuff that works with openocd/gdb should mostly Just Work, but I just haven't tried it. cortex-debug looks cool, I'll have to give it a shot! It does also say in the README:

> Initial support for Rust code (most functionality is working; disassembly views and variables view may still have issues)

So, that's pretty cool.
Is it shift-3 on all keyboards? Maybe it is, but I've seen other keyboard layoutss where symbols are in different locations.
A requirement, not THE [single] requirement. English isn't my first language but I believe that what I wrote is clear enough and you're playing dumb for some reason.
IF you prove them wrong, then you have just earned yourself the top technical position. However that is a big if. So long as lab work is where the company is, IT should be a lower role. In fact for some companies even if you developed the perfect software the correct answer is this isn't what we do so we will sell the division (read you - if you don't like the new company you can quit as they won't allow you a job with the old). If you don't like it find a different company.

OTOH, it isn't clear that any company actually needs another great person with the ones they already have. Be prepared to start in the middle and work up.
Have you tried Horizon EDA?
None what so ever
Fascinating way to HODL to the token indeed.
That's a really useful and insightful way of putting it. Thank you.
So uh, does this money get returned to Bitfinex now? Is this a huge windfall for them? They've fully redeemed their BFX tokens for whatever that's worth.
Without installing or rooting anything, if you tap the correct part of the about screen it pulls up a browser and you can go to netflix.com (there's instructions floating around for this, I can't remember the exact incantation)
Nearly every time I see PHP projects like this, I find massive security vulnerabilities combined with extremely brittle functionality.

Sure, this describes many Laravel and Symfony projects as well, and not every vanilla PHP project is bad. But there is definitely a pattern.
So you find a SRE to manage your enormously complex, responsive site.
It's bizarre to me that you started your post by dismissing an entire language based on popular opinion then end it by saying you don't understand the vitriol people have about a different language.
"Connection to the server lost."
My old ASUS laptop (must have been from 2011/2012) ran nicely on both Ubuntu and Arch out of the box. My only needs to tweak stuff manually were 1) installing Bumblebee (2 lines of bash) and 2) tweaking some PulseAudio settings so my crappy USB headset would work well with Skype.

I just got a new ASUS ROG laptop, and so far my experience has been almost the same with Ubuntu. The new issues were that 3) that while the key backlighting works fine, the screen brightness buttons don't work (although the GUI controls do) and 4) touchpad drivers weren't set up with any way to do a MMB click.
The force touch thing seems extremely minor value. Perhaps in a few years when all hardware has it and every OS supports it, and all applications build around it... but right now? Oh wow I can speed up a video by 2x or 16x depending on how hard I click... as opposed to a million software-based solutions, like pressing longer makes it go faster, pressing a faster button makes it go faster, press and hold brings up a speed slider, clicking on the video bar to move around etc etc. I doubt you'll get any significant value out of this '3rd control' in 2015 or even 2016.

The keyboard design is an engineering effort, not a consumer benefit over alternative laptops. It was redesigned so it could still function while being thinner and smaller. A slightly thicker or bigger (e.g. 13' Zenbook/XPS/Air) laptop doesn't need this redesign. It has a butterfly switch now so that the keys won't sag on the edges, which isn't a problem normally. But for the 12', because the keys were made bigger in a small area, if you sag a key, your finger slides off and onto the other key causing typos. In other words, the butterfly switch is a solution to a problem created by its small size. It's not actually a better keyboard to type on than an Air. In fact, worse, as there's less travel, less space between keys, less space between keys and touchpad. In many ways the touchpad came out of this, too: no space for real travel, so let's remove travel of the touchpad and add magnets that give the illusion of clicking, so you can make it thinner. This isn't a better system, it's just necessary for a thinner device. And then you might as well play with the magnets and add a 'force touch'.

As for all your spec comparisons, read the review. The performance and battery benchmarks are pretty similar between the Air and Asus. And that means the Asus beats the MB, as the MB isn't quite as strong as the Air.

Seems like the Asus and Dell XPS have beat the MB and MBA competition pretty solidly if you ask me. Unless you're not OS-agnostic.
I have a tough time programming with music going. I'm more of a silence kind of guy. lol
Depending on how their OCR works, Mandarin/Japanese->English(/spanish/&c) could be a _lot_ more difficult (thousands of characters to distinguish) and in the case of Japanese the translation a lot trickier (completely different grammar, Mandarin's not so bad though).

This could just be a case of needing to optimize and train their recognizer to deal with a much larger set of possible characters, or it could require implementing kanji-specific OCR techniques like attempting to decompose the characters into their constituent strokes, and recognize based on classification of those strokes (orientation, position, direction).
Wake me when these things finally ship
You can think of 250GB to store in a Dropbox?
If its backups, surely S3 etc would be better suited?

Not that I object to them providing bigger - I certain see no harm for them to do so.
If you REALLY need infix notation in Clojure, Fogus' new book has some an example infix function at https://github.com/fogus/unfix/blob/master/src/joy/unfix/inf... which you use like:

(infix [1 + 2] * 3)
;=> 9
"this proposal" was meant to refer to the article, not SRP. hence my comment that we're measuring it against the wrong metrics: it's no surprise that this proposal doesn't stack up when compared to SRP, since, to my reading, it isn't meant to be compared to it.
I'm not inclined to believe things prisoners say about their conditions.

I am. There's evidence that things are far worse than we complacently imagine. For example, a year or so ago there was a shocking multipart series on NPR about what's going on inside California's prisons. Mostly we just don't want to know.
They could have stopped at just translating and printing it on the screen, but they show it the original form, that is the difference between doing things and doing the things beautifully.

I am spellbound.
This is really not new though. I remember back when I was in 6th grade or so and I got interested in photography (this would have been 1979 or so, well before digital, before online retail, etc). I wanted a 35mm SLR and spent a lot of time in the local camera shop asking questions, learning, comparing brands and models, etc.

When I was ready to buy, I could have ordered the camera from B&H, Adorama, or one of the other big catalogs, and saved some money. And the thought certainly crossed my mind. But I decided, with some counsel from my father, that the right thing to do was pay the local shop their premium for the advice they had provided.
Hm. Maybe taxing and benefits assignation by democracy do not work, either.