jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nope, I did the oposite: I already had a generalisation in mind, and used it to try to understand the posting of one persone with a Chinese name.

Mind you, cultural traits of nations are a reality. I'm a Franco/Brazilian guy living in Vietnam, and I have seen it well enough. It doesn't mean that since you're from country X you will do Y, but it helps in understanding general behaviors.

edit: excellent book on this topic: When Cultures Collide, by Richard Lewis

http://www.amazon.com/When-Cultures-Collide-Richard-Lewis/dp...
Another aspect of this thread that I find very refreshing is the fact that the previous implementation may have used magic numbers doesn't reduce anyones desire to actually understand what is going on going forward.

The realization that a magic number was already being used could have caused one of two outcomes:

a) justification for replacing one magic number with another

b) realization that more research needed to be done to understand exactly what was going on in the first place

I appreciate seeing (b) as the option chosen. We should all strive to be this diligent.
As compared to ?
Python is very popular.
I have something to confess. I've been reading about this Gawker site for a long time already (probably ever since it became popular) - but I don't know what it is, I don't remember reading any article from it, only articles about it. Is it another us-centric thing, like the Super Bowl? Or maybe it is just not geeky enough for my liking? Well - to be honest I am not that interested in the answer to this question. I am already assuming that it is not an interesting site.
This is Metal support for Tensorflow, not M1 support. It works on AMD, and it'd work on Nvidia if they updated their drivers.
It could be dosage and timing.

Coffee also affects my sleep but I need it to fight off my depression to some extent. So I have found one cup (250ml) early in the morning doesn't affect my sleep.

I have also found, I can have one more cup on the days I go running! (Physical exercise has something to do with caffeine efect on body)

I have a personal rule of no caffeine after 4PM. It helps with sleep! (6 hours before sleep is the idea)

I wasn't aware of these things until few years ago but now I do and I hope this helps someone!
Here in San Francisco there are various wrinkly old dudes who walk around town naked. Not something I would do myself, but it doesn't seem to hurt anybody.

There's a big difference between just being nude vs., say, performing a striptease which is explicitly sexualized or flashing a particular person which is a kind of personal attack.
I think, judging what is going to be of value for people in the future is a much harder problem than you make it out to be.
Washington Post? It's long been essentially the biggest rival to the NYT in terms of national political coverage, and my opinion is that as of late, it's been higher quality than the NYT.
No, it's a product of the ideological drivel the NYT chose to embrace, identity politics. Not all news outlets are like that.

It became obvious with the literal journalist purge going on there. You can't be a moderate and work there anymore, you have to subscribe to a certain thought framework, if you question it, you're deemed "offensive" and you're out.
depends entirely on where you buy it walk into any gas staton/truck stop and you will get hot coffee for around a $1.00-$2.00 its drip coffee with half&half / nondairy creamer and sugar/assorted non-sugar sweeteners. buying beans and grinding them yourself your coffee is cheaper still. as long as you avoid starbuck/dutch bros *genaric espresso stands or Keurig cups the price is pretty damn low.
> The WSJ has a ton of dubious articles. The Opinion pieces are garbage compared to the average one in the Times although of course both have misses

I agree with you on that. I subscribed to both for awhile, but dropped the WSJ because it had less international content, its articles tended to lack background (great if you're following a story closely, not so great if you haven't), and its opinion section was utterly boring and predictable.
Any organisation, or group, or person who’s granted any power will tend towards trying to accumulate more power. So while your comment is a bit hyperbolic, it’s true of the US government in the same way it’s true of every other government. For any grossly authoritarian policy you see the US government implement, you’ll typically find equivalent policies in Canada and the EU and the UK and Australia...

It’s not a new thing. The (paraphrased) quote “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance” is at least a couple hundred of years old. In practice however it’s not a very simple proposition at all. People typically agree with endlessly granting government additional powers when it’s for a policy they agree with.

The difference between the US (or France, or Germany, or the UK...) and China however, is that we actually have some mechanisms for holding our government to account (however flawed they might be). Whereas Chinese citizens have none at all.
Those that already read the "What If?" section might want to jump to 7:10, which is when he explains what happens after he publishes the article about punchcards[1]. I mean, it's a nice talk, and if you haven't read the article then totally watch it, but as I already read it...

[1] http://what-if.xkcd.com/63/
OK, I've gone and had a look. Here:

Create a directory for Zurb
Change directory to the place you created
Download the zipfile to somewhere
Unzip the file
Open the index.html file that was just created.
Same experience, but I use the reachabilily hack several times every day, and every time I picture Steve Jobs rotating in his grave. How is it that Apple just don't set their design guidelines to have controls at the bottom of the screen? A back button in the top left corner (without swipe option) should mean being booted from the App Store if you ask me...
Oh I am sure we could change the climate, China does with artificial rain. However I am not convinced about the dire predictions or short of a collective effort to affect the climate that we have a large effect by default.

We cannot accurately model changes in the climate yet there is no shortage of people who want to scream bloody murder we are all going to die. Trouble is, far too many of them come off as traveling religious leaders, just missing a tent.
"If you have a US corporation, it is also taxed on worldwide income, so it can be double taxed"

Does this apply to foreigners who incorporate in the US? Living in the UK, co-founders (UK and India) want to incorporate in Delaware, I am looking into it but don't want to be liable for anything unnecessary. None of us lives in the US.
The proper fishing nets won't have nearly the amount of bycatch as the malaria net used for fishing. The holes in the malaria net are small enough that mosquitos can't make it through. Holes in a fishing net are far larger, so will let very small fish or other creatures through.
Reaching to top right corner is NOT going to be an issue soon. In the next iPhone version, Apple is going to duplicate the top right and left buttons on the bottom around the centered HOME button.

This is not a leak. It's what I would do if I were a designer at Apple.
> I haven't yet found a job that pays me to sit around and read a lot [...]

Then I contend that you haven't found a place of employment that values you as an individual and just views you as a cog in a giant machine -- in which case: leave as soon as you can! If possible, start your own business.

(Btw, there are places that value individuals, but they are alas few and far between :(. )
There's nothing modern about sports. We are much LESS* excited about them - than the Romans were. We also don't pay our sports stars anywhere near as much.

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VPENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA56&dq...
*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7942...
> intelligence on the surroundings

In case any reader here weren't aware how Kinect works, it sends to the developer a 2D image of the depth. Of course as walod says, there's work to do to identify surfaces (as you can see on the image below, background elements are excluded).

http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/hands-on-with-the-xbox-one/micro...
I had to get into the medical publications on this subject because a friend approached me one year ago with the idea of commercializing tDCS devices. I warned him that it looked like a fraud.

The thing is, scientists are using transcranial MAGNETIC stimulation (TMS) more and more these days as interesting results are appearing. However, TMS is hard to do correctly. In the meantime, tDCS got branded as "almost the same thing" (I suspect that "tDCS" is a new term purposefuly chosen to sound similar to TMS) and quoted publications about TMS to claim a proven effect.

tDCS is pretty easy: put two electrodes on the cranium and impose a small current between them. Mass-manufacturing them is easy and cheap. The only problem is that they have nothing to do with the tech proven to work.
I really would like a better way to track calls. I don't want to make my calls through Close.io. Sorry, I know it makes their life harder, but I still want it as close to automatic as possible.

Ultimately I think those are tools for sales reps to track their activity, I don't like the idea of imposing it, but I'm happy to provide it. Tools like that have to be asked for, not imposed.

I also tried PipeDrive but the guys were not impressed, they said it was missing key functionality. For example, went to enter a contact's Job Title and the field was missing. Didn't matter to them that I could go into Custom Fields and add it, to them it was an inferior CRM. They know Salesforce, they want to go with Salesforce. It's not a significant cost.

But this question was more about ethics and strategy than tools. I am curious if people think it's worth asking to record a call, versus forgoing the recording so you don't have to ask. Not asking and recording is not an option.
There are also more sophisticated desktop search tools like Recoll, of course.
Yet another example of skeuomorphism...
Electric cars do not pollute. We should force electric cars to emit some thick black smoke to ensure people do not get surprised!

I don't know in what world these regulators live in, but in my world 80% of pedestrians are walking listening to an ipod/iphone/iwhatever. We already live in a society where pedestrians do not hear cars.

But let's make sure cars remain a nuisance to anyone trying to sleep in a city!
FWIW, I've heard the same thing, verbatim, about Nagoya companies. Just like every town in Japan thinks that it is the one that discovered that great water makes great soba and great sake, and that all other towns' soba and sake is deficient due to lack of the proper water for it, I think it may be possible that every town in Japan not-so-secretly believes that only their companies are still Japanese and that all other Japanese companies have succumbed to weird foreign influence.
any insights on using nginx for ssl termination vs haproxy ?
Management in all organizations should be automated by AI, with copious amounts of override buttons sprinkled throughout.

Education administration is a like a thorn stuck in my mind, they make _more_ than everyone else and for the most part only act as a gas to support their own structure.
Vegan is not a food safety label, it's an ethical label. And "vegan" or "0% beef" with drops of animal molecules on the stove become the classical how many angels can dance on the tip of a needle problem.

Gluten-sensitive folks (Celiacs especially) don't trust anything that isn't shrinkwrapped in a sturdy package. It doesn't matter what the menu says, because life gets veeery messy compared to picking stuff up from supermarket shelves.

Plus, 0% is not 0.0000000%, it's one significant digit. Sure, on the other hand it should have been "0 + epsilon % beef", but ... there's probably some beef in the air too in burger fast food joints / restaurants.
GEMA, https://www.gema.de/, is an organization that takes care of collecting royalties for authors.

So far so good, everyone is entitled to be paid for their work.

However they are quite aggressive collecting those royalties, to the point that there are royalty free song books for the children on primary schools, for them to avoid paying GEMA.

Since we are approaching Christmas, several typical Christmas markets did had another set of songs going around, a couple of years ago as protest.

So coming back to YouTube, if there is something on a video that might trigger GEMA to act upon, Google just triggers "Sorry this video isn't available in your country".

It was much worse a couple of years ago, when Google refused to pay any kind of royalty to GEMA and just blocked everything, they have kind of settled now, but it still comes up occasionally.
I am very, very familiar with how the poor and poverty stricken live considering I've been there and have been very public about my and my family's experience.

Which is precisely why I find framing arguments around removing minimum wage as some benefit to the poor to be rather disgusting, because it does absolutely nothing to solve the problem.

A job which can't pay shit isn't going to help you survive when the rent is due and you're earning $5 or less an hour. Even moreso if you're disabled and companies further take advantage of your desperation to work you into the ground until you break.

This isn't about helping the poor, it's about allowing companies to fleece them harder.
Did you even read TFA?

I understand a little of what you're saying in your second paragraph, and personally I prefer the term 'working poor' instead of 'working class'. Since people these days can work 3 jobs and still be poor. But these kinds of definitions are not what should be focused on. I think you're missing the forest for the trees.

I see no evidence for the argument you make in your third paragraph. Nor do I understand why you read this as some neo-fascist trick on class consciousness.
Google Sheets is based on canvas. Works pretty good for me.
I appreciate their commitment to the bit. I wish their team included slightly more diversity however.
Which link are you more likely to click on?

- GitHub satanically messing with Markdown - changes 666 to DCLXVI

- GitHub changes numbers to Roman numerals in lists

I’d call it functional clickbait.
Statements in Presberger arithmetic are equivalent to systems of linear equations/inequalities, which are representable as matrices. That's why both provers and this exponentiation scheme work. If you have two variables multiplied together, you're beyond Presberger arithmetic and linear equations. The simple matrix representation no longer applies.
This is a very nice tutorial. One small point. Coordinates are expressed in a "X/Y" format which was very confusing to me because I was thinking of them as ratios. It might be better to print them the commonly used tuple convention (X,Y)
Shut off your phone for this half hour, leave your laptop in the office or at home and take a walk. An other productive and healthy task one could do within half an hour is cooking. Or just sit back and relax. You need to work !LESS! not more.
It is.

Curious: Does anyone have experience with losing a massive % of body mass and quitting smoking? Which is harder?
See also: Do Rational People Exist? http://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/do-rationalists...
Signifacant figure abuse is surprisingly widespread in science. At least 23.432361% (+-10%) of papers I have read have managed to get their significant figures wrong.
Say I'm a medical student and during an operation I notice unusual numbers on the screen. I don't even know what the numbers mean (hey I'm a student!) but they look freaking unusual. Should I tell Dr. God about these numbers ? Last time he told me to shut up because I could not support my concern.

There are hundreds of situations where you believe something is a mistake but can't give clear supportive arguments. I hope blaming young medical professionals for raising their concerns in these situations is not the norm.
I am a co-founder of floobits- https://floobits.com/about. We build support for real time collaboration into existing editors. I chiefly work on our editor integrations.

In terms of ease of development, the order goes like this:
IntelliJ ~ Emacs > Sublime ~ Ace >> Vim. In terms of community and support, the former ordering is also true.

POLLING:

Here we are trying to get the Window, from the Sublime API. Sometimes it doesn't exist (even when windows are open). There is no reliable API to tell us when new ones are made or when old ones go away. Presumably, post_window_command (http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html#sublime...) would fire off with a close command, but this function has never worked.

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...

Here is another quick hack polling the editor to know when its safe to call the sublime API:
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...

Here is a yet anther example needed for functionality and using callbacks to keep sublime from crashing:
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...

Here is another example of pure craziness forced on us by ST3. We need to patch Views, but ignore our own patches (locally) so we don't form an echo loop. We also need to move the cursor so it doesn't jump. Sublime deals with these changes so poorly, we are forced to jump through hoops. In contrast- emacs/vim/intellij are basically fine just dumping on the entire buffer.

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/blob/master/flo...
Location: Lebanon (Eastern European Time Zone)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Nope

Technologies: iOS/Android, mostly camera apps (Mobile Computer Vision)

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/JAVXXt

Email: mohd.moubarak@gmail.com
What about appcache manifest, service workers in chrome, and hood.ie? There's ways to make the web work offline.
Feel free to share improvements :) My CSS is really not that good.
I wouldn't call The Guardian newspaper 'pro-establishment', let alone 'ultra-establishment'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Stance_and_editori...
Yes, a foot-pound per square inch would be a unit of torque per area. Maybe the bullet twisted its way in.
I used to use my OLPC xo-1 this way. It was a dream.

E-ink screens can make dark mode irrelevant. But the market for them hasn't been built, and the tech isn't effective at fast refresh. Yet.
There are other reasons to invest besides piling cash for retirement. I specifically mentioned that liquidity was important for my objectives.

Your example doesn't fit as perfect timing isn’t required, I just realize gains and invest a proportion of them when opportunity presents itself.

I’m not selling investment advice, just sharing my experience. This portion of my portfolio performs better than the more bogle-ish 401k fund from circa 1996 through 6/2019.
iPads can use GraphNCalc83[1] and Apple Classroom on a teacher iPad/Mac to restrict students to the app[2]. I'm not sure if there's an android equivalent.

I still find using a touch screen much more frustrating than a calculator with physical buttons, but this is a legit alternative.

[1] https://acornaircraft.com/graphncalc83.html

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/classroom/manage-app-usage-a...
I don't see how Vinod is any different than the Sea Ranch authority in the mid 1970s. Precedent is not in Vinod's favor.

The California Coastal Access law was based on Sea Ranch blocking access to the ocean in the mid 1970s. All building at Sea Ranch was blocked until Sea Ranch put in access trails to the beach. The temporary Coastal Access law was then made permanent.

I don't feel sorry for someone of means buying property without any understanding of California state law. Vinod is claiming property rights he never had.
Nice post. Wish I knew how to obtain some (legally or at least safely/discreetly).
Dropping out was by far the best decision I ever made.

Maybe consider college is not a universal good.
That episode annoys me because they're supposed to live in a post-scarcity society in which copyright no longer exists.
I bet Linux is not even possible. How do you force windows to be at the same location across different systems. I use i3. There are plenty of other tiling managers. This is not gonna be cross-platform. Just my two cents.
I’m pretty sure that’s what Cohen meant. Was there another meaning I did not pick up on?
"If generics are a feature then their use will, by definition, be idiomatic."

I'd agree, but for the "by definition". "Idiomatic" is a question of typical patterns of use. This is "a function of the language syntax and features", but that function is not a simple or static one and involves the programming community around the language. It's certainly possible for a feature to fall out of favor and its use to be unidiomatic.
Android Lollipop also broke the led indicator at the bottom of my Nexus 5. I can no longer count on it to reliably indicate if I have messages/emails pending on silent mode.
Well they would be facing the unforeseen consequences while not even filtering the HTTP host header (the youtube page is displayed). Unless they forgot to disable the MITM once the user is granted full internet access...

EDIT: Those are two nice insights about what Gogo does behind the scene, but I would bet the fact Google is involved with both is a coincidence (or is it considering the multiplicity of Google's Services?)
Maybe certificate pinning needs to include being able to forbid clicking through a warning. WiFi services would change their methods fast if they got sudden drop in users.
Or we could simply cut all of the nonsense verbiage out and be more honest about the purpose of the current patent system -- the government offering usage of the courts to protect companies that agree to keep their IP within the confines of the country.

Notice how I'm not making any spurious claims about "useful arts" or whatever.
Azure websites are well priced and have a great UI. But holy heck are they annoying as heck to get anything running on.

I tried to port over some existing PHP software, then utilise an Azure MS SQL database. However it appears that an Azure MS SQL connection requires a completely different PHP extension than a normal MS SQL instance, and while Microsoft themselves have produced one[1] as well as others, I never did get it to work.

I literally spend three solid days trying to get PHP talking to Azure MS SQL. Never did quite get it to work, it took me almost a whole day just to figure out how to install PHP extensions (hint: you have to copy the right type of extension binary into two locations, then reference it in the web-UI as shown[0], if you upload any of the wrong type of binary then nothing loads).

I guess ultimately it was still a "win" for Microsoft as I finally gave up and purchased a much more expensive VPS instead (A0 Basic). $14 Vs. $9. With the VPS I was able to get the whole thing up and running in under an hour Vs. 3 days wasted with Azure websites with no substantial results.

PS - Why haven't the Azure websites team gone through the most popular software on the internet and written guides e.g. Wordpress, Drupal, PHPBB, Magento, etc.

[0] http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-...

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2009...
People could have opted for indefinite life-span if they so chose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Death

They had lots of children, overpopulation was not a problem because of huge habitats that hosted billions of individuals (and that were built with relative ease - The Player of Games). Also I don't agree with the intellectual degradation argument, it's just silly in the Culture AGI context.

Whatever the value of life I think it's best for the individual to decide what to do with it. Most would probably euthanasiate after a while anyway. I would very much prefer suicide than a random age related problem, but I don't really have a choice do I?