jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Doctors are a heterogeneous mix just like people in any profession. There are good guys and bad guys... but nobody thinks that they are the bad guy. ;)
Thanks the presentation, helps a lot.

Quick question though. On this slide ( http://i.imgur.com/m02CMxx.png ) it shows a network split condition and shows how the 2 split networks will eventually negotiate and the 3 node split wins because it had a majority while the 2 node side's uncommitted changes are thrown out.

What happens if the split happens right down the middle (3 active nodes on each side instead of the 2 and 3)? Wouldn't both sides elect leaders that both have majorities with committed data?
Hence the issues described in TFA.
I'm at work, so I haven't been able to read the article thoroughly (yet I still have time for HN).

Could anyone who has read it comprehensively point out if Kurzweil talks about the recent discovery that one human brain contains more switches than the entire world's computers. Maybe that was a discovery blown out of proportion, but the finding that human brain synapses have more than two states seriously impacts the trajectory of the singularity. No?
Yes, in the same sense that we want lots of government services and low taxes. Meanwhile, our harmful ignorance regarding nuclear power continues.
Agreed. I want to play but I'll not login with FB or Google.
I really wish this would be available for Amsterdam. I feel like GVB (the organization which organized public transit in the city) wouldn't publish an API.

Half the time I feel like the drivers don't even know where their trams are headed.
Companies come and go but your family is with you for life.
He is wrong about the accuracy of speech recognition. I know he is wrong because I have actually used Speech Recognition to get real work done. AND to make it worse I have a crap Norwegian accent.

MAYBE it is as bad as he describes when you do not train the system and just start speaking. But that is like complaining about Emacs after using it for only 10 minutes. Retarded.

I wouldn't be able to code with it though, but for producing prose in English. It. Actually. Works.

(I recognize that the problems described in the post is about recognition "in the wild" and not with one person in one quiet room with one microphone like I use it)
Right now you're in the trenches. Once your youngest is out of diapers you start climbing out of the trenches and your life gets some more balance. But all this bonding time you're putting in now will pay off.

Hang in there.
Of course. If you need your system to be distributed from the start, these benchmarks are irrelevant.

But most people aren't writing telecommunication software and can handle having a few single points of failure.
Yes, "the dose makes the poison", I've found NO support for the zero threshold hypothesis.

Best example of bogus "research" about this from way back when: a study showing US public school scores falling ... that didn't mention this wasn't happening in private schools. Needless to say this was in the "Why Johnny Can't Read" era where we were realizing that US public school education had started going downhill fast a bit before WWII (Dick and Jane and Their Running Dog Spot).
Other articles in this series:

Why Johnny can't repair a carburetor.
Why Johnny can't stack his vinyl records properly.
Why Johnny can't ride a horse.
Why Johnny can't prepare a basic white sauce.
Why Johnny can't find the outhouse.

</JustKidding>

I've been around long enough to understand OP's argument and sympathize with him. I've also been around long enough to appreciate that there has never been a better time to learn programming.

Why? Two words: "View Source".

I've been through many modes of programming (all the way back to punch cards and once a day compiling) and I am nostalgic for none of it. I can't imagine going back.

Today, anyone can learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Resources are everywhere. Results are instant. And best of all, examples are everywhere. How many times have you been to a webpage and wondered, "How'd they do that?" "View Source" is often your window into so many other worlds. It's hard to believe that there was a time when you couldn't do this.

Like OP, I get nostalgic, too. I miss a lot of things about the good old days, like Willie Stargell hitting 500 foot home runs without steroids, 35 cent Stroh's drafts, and hot Big Macs. But not old technology, even BASIC.

OP, turn your kid on to the "basics" of web programming and let him find his way with his generation's technology, not yours. You'll think he's missing something because his experience won't be your experience. You'll be partially right, but don't forget about all the stuff he'll be able to do that we couldn't.
Native apps might always be superior in performance. Nevertheless, I doubt that the performance benefit of native over web will be big enough to justify a significantly longer development time as we're approaching (near) native performance. Things changed quite a lot last year: WebGL enabled by default on iOS, Ionic had massive adoption, Firefox OS makes the web a first-class citizen again. IMHO it's only a question of time.
TIL there are still people writing web applications in Perl.
Why complicate things? If it means so much to you, you can just

var butt = require('butt');
var but = function(fun) {
return butt(fun, 1);
};

or even

var but = function(fun) {
return function(arg) {
return fun(arg);
};
};
What if art was called an industry ?
Convenience, I suppose; I had a few headaches when I first transitioned to Javascript and discovered the odd signatures its collection functions' callbacks are expected to have.
I think for the vast majority of at least pure-Python projects you could just use poetry and upload your packages to PyPI or a private index. You can go from an empty directory to publishing a package within minutes with poetry (although, of course, you probably shouldn't).
Yes, there are many people in situations where there is a constant domino effect of negative stressors that prevent being in a 'productive commuting mood'(having a baby for example, disorders, disabilities). But if you're in a perpetual state of exhaustion from mainly your job and 30 minutes on a train is putting you in the ground, I would go on a limb and say you're not just wasting the 22 days, you're wasting a whole lot more than that.
I'm not disagreeing, but I am curious if you have anything specific you would point to with regards to Guido's role being successful. I'm just ignorant really, it's not intended to be a leading question at all.
If you need to run the configuration only once, it's probably not a problem. It's surprisingly often though that we get into a situation where we unexpectedly need to run a task many times. Trivially, this happens when you need to make a change in the configuration and require feedback.
Sadly I bet you’re right on this. My small sliver of hope is that Guido van Rossum’s ideas to “make using Python better” [1] include better packaging.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25071847
We must have just missed each other. I started in January 2014.
That seems like a fun “karmic justice” ideas but it will just end up like the “3 strikes law” where some person gets life in prison for a relatively minor error.
I actually think one should do the exact opposite to what you're suggesting. I've experienced modern package management through Cargo and anything below that level now seems like returning to stone age.

In the python ecosystem, poorly defined packages is a wide problem. You never know what you get in the next version upgrade.

So my suggestion: burn all the "simple" python packaging tools in a big fire and move eveything to Poetry today. It will be painful at start but will increase the quality of the ecosystem by a huge margin if just 50% of the projects do this.
Apple is literally the one recommending the PSL I have no idea what you're talking about
Why the focus on oral? Ubiome had a great product that worked on fecal sample to determine what bacteria's are present in the intestines.

Do you see your company expanding into that area?
RenlyCoin - The rent friendly coin. Also the coin that never was.

When my start-up was failing, the team decided to diversify and explore new ideas. The CEO called me one day and said "RenlyCoin" I said, no thank you. The CTO called me later and he said it's actually a pretty good idea. I said no thank you. We met with our investor and turns out they had already pitched it to him. I said we have no business doing crypto. We should instead try to figure out why things are not working. Yes, among the co-founders I held the title Naysayer.

Turns out the CTO didn't come up with the idea. It was not the CEOs idea either, well it was a new friend of his that proposed it. He would create the coin for us for only $25k. he would take care of everything.

They did, they gave him the money.

Banned because: Well not banned really, because they never saw him again. I only learned about it two weeks after they couldn't get a hold of him. I left the start-up.
How long do people expect a short squeeze to last? It came and lots of working class people made millions. Those who came in after the fact and held “with diamond hands” expecting to stick it to institutional money lost out because they became over zealous. Robinhood also cut short due to liquidity reasons but even if that wasn’t the case, Robinhood has been blocking buys of highly volatile stocks since before I quit using it in 2017. Most of those were penny stocks, sure, but the point remains there was nothing special about GME except for it being expensive and in the news.
I saw a lot of downvotes and defenses like you say, but the down votes, as far as I have seen, were on rants or reddit type blurbs about Trump which people do not like here. And the defenses were well thought out. Anyway that is what I have seen; i started checking because I thought it weird there are so many Trump supporters on here (might still be the case: as eu person I also find it strange there are a fair amount religious people on here; I do not mind, I am just curious to things I do not expect to find).
I was on a team where they asked the weakness question. In discussions afterwards, they used it to basically disqualify any candidate who was honest enough to give a real weakness--even if if was fairly benign like 'sometimes I don't get along with people' or 'sometimes I have anger issues'.

I understand that isn't how this author intends it to be used, but effectively it is. Never answer this. It's a trap.
Similar example in Node

const http = require('http');
const url = require('url');

http.createServer((req, res) => {
const queryObject = url.parse(req.url, true).query;

return res.writeHead(200, {
'contentType': 'text/html'
}).end(world(queryObject.depth));
}).listen(8080);

function world(depth = 0) {
return `
<head><title>iframe loop</title></head>
<body><h1>iframe loop ${depth}</h1>
<iframe width="800" height="600" src="/?depth=${parseInt(depth)+1}"></iframe>
</body></html>
`;
}
I went into my math undergrad having gotten hyped online about CT and HoTT.
...And basically the only time i've seen CT come up is in algebra (they use aluffi). And the only time Ive heard anything about HoTT was when I tried bringing it up with the logic graduate students and got some light teasing.
What's your next project (s)?

Are you interested in working in auto industry?
3M command adhesives are really great in my experience, I'm using their cord hangers [0] for cable management under my desk and haven't had any issues. The only thing that might be causing problems is if the bottom side of the desk is unfinished MDF, in that case any adhesive won't work since the fibers themselves are coming off. Painting the underside should solve that issue.

[0] https://www.command.com/3M/en_US/command/products/~/Command-...

edit: fix broken link
> This is just trickle down theory

The laws of economics are real; increased supply will generally depress prices, damaging an asset's speculative value; increased prices will generally mean increased profits from building and thus attract more supply.

It is always something to find those who deny the laws of economics so vigorously, in the manner that many deny climate change. I am certain that you had a cold winter in Missouri last year, and I am certain that you have found a neighborhood where someone is renovating old housing stock into luxury homes which some weirdoes are renting unused. Nevertheless the general laws hold: the globe warms, and new supply lowers prices.

There are a finite number of people who will buy luxury homes of the sort you describe, they have finite amounts of money, many of them have alternatives in which to invest, and it is such a pathetically small and ineffective thing to make an campaign of class warfare against these people the centerpiece of one's housing policy, instead of simply encouraging more building by any reasonable means necessary, public or private, and removing barriers to that building.
Sadly, I lack the faith that such re-examination of our country will happen anytime soon. The inmates are in charge of the asylum and replacing them is going to take decades.
That might be a cure for Goldman fat fingers, but it won't be a cure for an exchange's security problems. If an entity gets a bad trade due to fraudulent security violations, It seems fair for them to expect the exchange to bust that trade.
Now I feel much better about missing Mad Men.
"If you add back pancreas, you simply end up becoming hyperinsulinemic and, while that will work for awhile, it doesn't get at the core of the problem. "

That's pretty much what we do now with sulfonylureas and other insulin secretagogues, not to mention insulin therapy.
The linkbaitish headline is how the article makes its point. Between seeing the link, clicking on it, and viewing the article, I guessed what the feature was going to be, and guessed wrong. Without that mechanism, the article wouldn't have affected me in the way it did.
I think he's mixing it up because, like he said, he doesn't like reading programming books. He probably didn't read everything very thorough and skipped a few chapters. I used to do this too. I ended up not being able to solve simple problems which could've been solved easily if i had read some of the chapters more carefully.
Oliver Sacks and V. S. Ramachandran have written several good books about the functional organization of the human brain. YouTube has several Ramachandran presentations, and those will have links to many other interesting videos. They are neurologists, so they excel at showing what happens when certain tiny regions of the brain are damaged.

Scott Adams (Mr. Dilbert) writes about losing his ability to speak, then regaining it using rhyming and singing. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-08/ff_adams?...

The attention deficit disorder literation has a lot about attention and focus. Edward Hallowell and John Ratey's books are particulary readable; their Delivered From Distraction is a standard work.

Scientists have been mapping the connections between various "machines" in the brain using an MRI technique. It looks remarkably like a network of computers, with different modules for different functional tasks. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630200947.ht... http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/21042/?a=f
I only recently spent enough time with regexs to learn them to the point where I no longer need to consult a reference every time I wanted to write one. Now I wish I had learned regexs sooner. Regexs are fantastical useful and I've noticed a productivity boost not only in writing programs but also for manipulating tools such as grep and emacs.
life-changing decisions aren't going
to sit around and wait 3 years for
limerence to wear off.

True, that's a tough cookie.

I guess the best choice in that case is to recognize the situation and try to rationally analyze it (e.g. "I'm not really in a good position in life to marry that women/have kids/move thousands of kilometers to a different continent to peruse this cute girl I've met 3 days ago while backpacking in the Himalayas[1]") and act accordingly - even though that's not very romantic.

Easier said than done, though.

[1] Unfortunately that one comes from personal experience.
Whoa, none of those things are commercially available yet.

Looks like the future is in 2-3 years? :D
Perhaps the Apple entertainment TV is already out there in the form of Macs, iPads and iPhones. Maybe it is just me thinking stupidly but from the way I see, the iTunes is the new Apple set top box. Certainly the Airplay and other features they are adding seem to point that way.

What if they are able to have cheaper subscription rates for shows (entire season, maybe?), entire NFL season etc. I chose what I watch and when I watch and the experience can hardly get any better.

Of course I am not saying that iTunes is at its peak of innovation, but just saying that perhaps Apple is not bringing innovation to TV but bringing TV to a host of innovative devices.

For me every bit of TV watching happens online and I would like to believe that that is the trend the industry is witnessing. What else defines YouTube buying rights for streaming live IPL matches for India, a country where TV sets definitely outshine the web streamers.
No idea where I copy & pasted this headline from :) Agreed that we create projects & services, not startups per se.
I have never heard of anyone treating a SE degree differently than a CS degree. Mostly because as you point out they aren't really that different. One is more theory the other more practical.
A lot of our nanotech is still in the micro domain or dealing purely with chemicals. A CPU's fundamental organization is too small to be seen without a really, really good microscope, nanomedicines currently only deal with germs and minor changes to their environment, and so on. We have yet to touch the macro domain. For example, nobody has built a car body out of carbon nanotubes so far, and just imagine what would happen if someone found a way to make photovoltaic cells self-assemble on boards dipped in a vat.
{MySQL: [:"Percona Server", :MariaDB, :Drizzle],
Java: [:Clojure, :JRuby, :Scala]}
> can it run APK files?

I don't see why it'd need to. It's not like iPhone is running the APK either.
Like ... as common as over the counter bedbug spray?
I believe both sides are missing the point, that we should allow the market to dictate how technology develops and use all our resources ( ie, fossil fuels and sustainable ). We don't need the government to determine our future for us. When sustainable technology becomes more viable as a energy source it will naturally turn away from fossil fuels. As of right now fossil fuels allow for people to buy cheap cars, get to work. buy food because we are able to produce more food then ever before. And that extra income will naturally be invested into technology, things that allow people to save money. Right now the electric car who can afford it. Does anyone in this forum own one? Is it able to sustain the logistics such as Semi's moving produce and products across this nation? The real revolution will be when they can create a electric engine that can haul 80,000 pounds in 5 days across the country. Until then, the electric car is a gimmick that only rich people can afford.
I figured surely one of the many links must be to the actual memo, but I couldn't find it either.
From what I gather the system is built so that "the server" does not hold any secrets. I suppose there is a possibility of metadata leakage and/or denial of service, but the message bodies would remain safe due the end-to-end encryption.
> Don't you think introducing patient choice into the equation would put some downward pressure on prices?

If you could magically make healthcare look like an Econ 101 market where rational choice theory and perfect competition both were even remotely reasonable models of what was going on, sure.

But "patients don't pay directly for services" isn't even close to the only way that healthcare doesn't look like an Econ 101 market. Rational choice theory is a deeply and fundamentally flawed model to start with, but its a tolerable approximation of behavior in lots of important cases (mostly, classes of products which are frequently purchased and used and whose utilities are very clear upon use, allowing any misperceptions about expected utility to be resolved so that most purchase decisions are in fact made with reasonably strong information about costs and utilities.)

Look, the rest of the developed world does as good or better (by most measures) healthcare than the US at vastly lower cost (whether measured per capita or per GDP), and they don't do it by making patient pay directly for services. The whole idea that we have to resort to abstract Econ 101 theory to determine how to control prices in healthcare ignores the fact that the rest of the developed world exists.
The fact that it's like a functional set of transformations, using closures?

Perhaps you're thinking to imperatively. Read a simple D3 tutorial and things will click.
I have to admit that I don't know a thing about TPM. Like is it also available in virtual environments like AWS is providing? How could this be automated? You don't want to enter a passphrase every time a server (re)boots.
Would love to hear if anybody successfully used that.
Just doesn't seem very informed at all. The article claims third party developers will stop writing native apps on the app store because web allows them to avoid paying the app store revenue share. That just doesn't make any sense.

As a third party developer I would still write native apps on the app store even if I lost 90% of my revenue instead of just 30% because the app store is the only way to get users. 10% of the revenue from an app with a million users is much more than 100% of the revenue from an app with a thousand. Meanwhile buying users via ads is only cost effective for a tiny number of apps such as paid offline GPS, real money tournaments, etc..
Apple has incentives for engineers to file patents.

Always something to be mindful of.
I want a system that can build an API and corresponding UI for any labor of my choice :)
It is just tedious and you need motivation. Especially as Linux has a lot of interfaces, many of which are frustratingly annoying - there are three file change notification interfaces, of different dates. In fact there are at least two of everything!

I amagine much of the Joyent code could be easily ported to NetBSD/FreeBSD (which now has a 64 bit interface as of a few months back). epoll may well be the most difficult (it has edge and level triggered events and other annoyances). But a not very performant version should be doable.

Mostly, few people have been interested. I have a decent test suite though (rump based) so email if you are interested...
So the key advantages of realm over coredata are speed and correctness, and over sqlite you don't need an orm layer? Is that fair?
If you just want a slab with an inscription, there's no need to 3D print it. Plastic (and metals!) are already easier to mill than stone.
Damn I should have gone into carpentry.
Separation of HTML, CSS and JavaScript isn't always useful or straight forward but separating business logic from the user interface is incredibly important, in my opinion.

I agree, but if we're talking about using a front-end framework like React here, wouldn't that mean we're only talking about the UI parts of the application anyway?

Personally I'm not a big fan of either big frameworks generally or some details of React in particular, but the people behind React do make reasonable arguments in favour of their more component-based separation of concerns.
I can only work on one thing at a time. Just because I didn't implement this, it only really means that I prioritized implementing something else over this.

Do you believe that implementation has no time-cost?

Also, I don't think your appropriated quote addresses the implications of the MIT License, its history and associated institution, or the liberation of knowledge.