jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One of the interesting things was the 'white noise' which was identified as various animals. I reminded me of people looking at noise and "seeing" data. Which for me suggests that at some level this isn't completely an artifact. If the algorithms developed are so closely modeled on human perception are susceptible to this sort of thing, humans probably are too. Perhaps that explains reports of people seeing things in the electronic 'snow' pattern of a disconnected TV?
The host has more sources that contribute to the kernel entropy pool: network and block IO are more than any individual VM.

Keep in mind, though, that just accessing /dev/urandom in the guest won't need too much input from the host.

However, having a hwrng is obviously the preferred option where there is need for a lot of entropy.
I teach a first year Intro to Unix module (CS and ICT) at a University in the UK.

We ran this for our students as an exercise and it went down really well. We've got people using Vim on a daily basis who probably would have never heard of it otherwise.

It's a great way to beat the learning curve that vimtutor represents, for people who prefer more visual challenges.
Thanks! Colormath does an amazing job handling the mathematical conversions between color spaces, but has (at least to me) a somewhat verbose API. Spectra wraps that API in something simpler, and adds scales, ranges, blending, brightening/darkening, and saturation/desaturation.

Spectra uses grapefruit for parsing HTML names and hexcodes.
Howso? The VPS can shut you down as well? You might say the migration path is easier, but there will be a weak link somewhere. Even if you put up a datacenter in the basement you need to connect to the internet somehow which can be taken away.
Does Tomb Raider with Alicia Vikander count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfQRfYmbZI
There are, e.g. this prettier plug-in: https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettier-plugin-tailwind or headwind: https://github.com/heybourn/headwind
I think "provide their own footballs" can be a little misleading. It isn't like they can go out and purchase whatever brand and model they want. Teams have custody of the league approved balls and can prepare them how they see fit within the league specification. So while there is room for a little customization, it fits well within jonshariat's overall point of standardized equipment.
A unique zen playlist for your next yoga practice
It's more just that "C# is widely used".
Spend my evening going down the rabbit hole and trying to see what you have been up to for a few decades and seems your are pretty spot on and pretty informed on many things. But some of the things I stumble on also seems incoherent and perhaps that’s because you can fill in the blanks in your head but don’t write it or because you deliberately make it hard to decipher. If all you have said is true it’s quite impressive what you have seen over the years but I can also see that it can be hard to believe the way it’s communicated. I was wondering what happened between 2011 and now where your described this guy I think you are referring to as a great guy and I hope that if there is anything to your latest post that you would actually follow through with it and elaborate more on it.
Combining cycling with other forms of public transport (e.g. trains) enables much longer-distance commutes, and effectively increases the "catchment area" of (e.g.) train stations. Other sibling comments have addressed the other points.
Weird, I watch PBS and the News Hour, and I can't remember the last time in the past 5 years that I heard about celebrities or "outrage" on my TV.
Ads are the one thing that folks focus too much on in quest of bubble quarry. I run a large boutique display ad platform, and I'm reasonably confident that advertisements change form, function, and price -- but advertising never goes away. Even the display ad markets in post-Great Recession 2008 were not too bad.
UK/US mileage numbers are different because US gallons (3.8 liters) are smaller than Imperial gallons (4.5 liters). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

If you are looking at liters per 100KM then they should be equivalent.
My mother is into local history. She would often take me to cemeteries and show me several generations of family members. She told me many stories about them, even though they are long since dead. She knew where all sorts of notable people were buried, and told me stories about them. The graves of the first settlers, a soldier who received the medal of honor in the civil war in the locomotive chase, to a tombstone that was carved out of a meteorite.

We spent time planting flowers and keeping the graves nice. Cemeteries are not empty places, there is always someone showing up to visit and mourn for the dead.

It's also not wasted land. Every cemetery I've been to was built on land no one wanted. Usually sandy hills that weren't farmable.

If and when she dies there is no way I will have her cremated. I hope my great grandchildren tell stories about her in a hundred years.
You can no longer download from their website. So, I'd assume yes, we all wasted our time.
I gotta wonder, what were they invested in? I just checked my records, and my investments went down about 35% in 2008, and have long since recovered. I'm not a particularly good investor or anything. How do they manage to have their investments drop to fractions, implying much greater than 50% loss, and still have not recovered in 2015?

Not trying to judge or anything, just wondering what the deal is, because from everything I've seen around me, that is far from typical.
You probably can't give totally equally billing to every app out there, but there's a big gap between that and "just show top lists and featured". The Play Store, for instance, does a pretty good job of recommending me stuff that's not chart-topping based on my ratings and downloads.
Yeah, noticed our CI failing :( ... so not cool
But what features does JS have that no other language has, other than the ubiquity of the browser as a platform? JS has been mostly frozen ever since it was created in the mid 90s and you also don't have much to work with when it comes to the standard library.
> I don't recall which software update it was, but my iPhone 3g was a great example of this.

Do you recall if it was a major or minor update?
while i'm not sure i agree that all work should be valued equally, that would be more reasonable than what a basic income implies. a basic income means you get it whether you work or not, and that is the part that I find undesirable.

that being said the problem with valuing all work the same is that people's definitions of what work has any value at all will be different. it's much easier if the work actually has to have value, i.e. someone willing to pay for it.
A lot of interesting articles coming up? Sounds good to me!
No, the relational operators (<, >, <= and >=) are defined to evaluate to either 0 or 1, and the result has type int.

The same is true of the equality operators (= and !=), the logical negation operator (!), and the logical boolean operators (&& and ||).

There are other C idioms based on this, like !!expr to squash a zero-or-non-zero expression down to zero-or-one.
My iPhone 5 is <2 years old. Since the update to iOS8 (and even now, running 8.1.2):

- the UI crashes several times per day, rendering the phone unusable for 20-40 seconds

- the phone is really sluggish, sometimes freezing for 5-10 seconds, with keystrokes entered during that time sometimes buffered and sometimes lost

- every couple of days, the phone freezes so badly I have to force it to reboot by holding power+home for a few seconds
Honest question: Is this really HN material? I can't remember seeing a photo gallery on here before.
Yeah, having the "history" is a big deal. People are far more reluctant to sign up for things that look fresh out of the gate because it's an unknown quantity, there's little social proof to find, and because so many people give up on projects in the short-term.. There are some "tricks" you can employ to lower these barriers a bit but since I'm still using them, I'll have to write about them a little further down the track!
Thanks for replying. I figured people wouldn't read into it like that, but what I have learned is that one has to state very explicitly on Hacker News.

I agree with you and I was hesitant to state what I did about that.

Off Topic: I really wish one could not up or down vote anything without requiring a comment in reply stating your reasoning. I think it could lead to much more active and interesting discussions breaking out.

Maybe I was a little harsh stating I would down vote the submission.

Edit: Spelling and grammar stuff.
As a recent Sonos convert, I really think that they are going to be hard to catch in terms of nailing so many aspects of the user experience. Not least of which is how good the hardware (esp the Play:1 speakers) sound and look. I Have to admit how surprised I was to learn that the same company that made those janky wall controller systems a decade ago is now the second largest speaker company in the world.
> He had no gps and took a wrong freeway change getting home.

Yeah that was planned. He's trying to run up the meter. About 30-40% of cabbies will take you on the scenic route if you don't give them specific directions. You don't have to be painfully specific. Just give them a curt overview of the route you wish to take when you get into the cab.

Be ready to pay with cash. I'm ready to tip 25% for a no bullshit drive. If they want to put the tip in the meter instead of their pocket that's their call.

Leave if there is any bullshit with insisting on tips or cancelling payments. If he threatens you with police, call his bluff. 'Please call the police, we can both explain the route you took.'
Find some high-quality projects using the language, and study the source. Languages that have their standard libraries written in the language can be good for this. In a lot of languages, there are several different ways to skin a cat, and it can be confusing, particularly when what is considered idiomatic evolves over time as the language matures or different fashions come into prominence. I'm not sure you can really get a good grasp of what good, idiomatic code looks like without reading a lot of it; similar to the way I've always heard it said that the best way to become a good writer is to read a lot of good writing. After a while, you start to internalize it.

I do love using JetBrains tools and editors, since they generally have pretty good linting and stylistic rules engines built in. Mostly, I work in C#, and ReSharper has improved the quality of the code I write immeasurably. At the very least, it helps evolve you towards a consistent style, but it can also suggest more idiomatic usages in some cases.
Hi, thanks for the great work on Backbone! Appreciate it.

How does Backbone relate to the points the original article makes? What are your comments?
When I moved to NYC, there was no credit card payement in the cabs. Some friends told me that they tip about 10% (and at least $1). I was surprised when they introduced credit card payement to see that default tip was much higher than that. I assumed it was just to trick people into tipping more, and I kept with my old tipping habit. But this article makes me wonder, should I tip more?
Thanks for the links. I'll check that out.
Nah, 5th amendment protections...
Wow, it's like reading my own history, especially the beginning, the knowing that gazillions of people will be clamoring for what you build. It's tough when you find that 99% of reactions are "meh..."
The Chromium authors provide information on how to use newer builds here: http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

There's also an AppleScript to download the latest 'stable' continuous build of Chromium (full disclosure: I wrote/modified parts of it) here: https://gist.github.com/370298
Yeah, I certainly understand and appreciate the concern. I simply don't know if there's a set of specific builds for that purpose or I would have certainly included them.
Ya, some occasionally get through but considering PG took the time to write an essay on the topic, you can see why they're discouraged, and hence, problematic as submissions. I'm sorry if I was a bit to blunt in my explanation but I lacked the panache to find a nicer way to phase it and still get the important parts across.
1:23EST and Reddit is back up. Quora/4SQ still down. My site still down.
How do you source your candies? Did you ever have any logistics issues with order fulfillment being time consuming? How did you get around that?
Guessing based on the stuff people have said to and about me (more than I'd wish on anyone, much less than Seth got), it's one part strong feelings, one part callousness and two parts entropy.

Feelings run high, callousness prevents even a veneer of politeness or moderation, randomness inflates either the feelings or their expression. The sum can be awful.
Why would people pay a franchise fee to Candy Japan to start Candy $country?

To access a way to promote to Candy Japan's customers, who are a group of people already proven to be interested in buying candy from other countries.

EDIT: Added a quote to give context after the parent deleted their post. I hate it when they do that.
When I re-read the definitions I can see what you take from it. I think it comes down to what you consider as systemic progress. With respect to the preciseness of the definitions I have likely misinterpreted this. Is the system the algorithm itself or is it the system it lives in? I assumed the latter which may well be a mistake.

Each thread under the algorithm can perform their actions in a finite number of steps without ever blocking. This means the producers can continue to do other work. The consumer can continue to consume from other log buffers without being blocked and complete in a finite number of steps. If a producer is killed mid operation then no further progress can be made on that log buffer. If this is considered blocking then the algorithm is blocking and therefore not wait-free. It would need to be killed by another malicious thread for this to happen.

What is clear is that this algorithm gives the best latency profile of of all the measured messaging systems and the highest throughput. I now have the challenge of searching for a name that best describes its behaviour.
Newton is a great choice to use in the example as he invented calculus which is an incredible abstraction. I tend to look at the lambda calculus in the same way. Yes, calculus is more complex than algebra but once you understand it you can solve much more challenging problems because of the abstraction inherent in the notation.
Of course, there a huge differences in salaries for the same work, even within a company. Anyway, I know some IBM Germany employees in development/project management who don't make 70k after >10 years of job experience.
Do you have any data to share on how much your senior peers at IBM made? Even public German research labs pay their Phd students >38k after graduation, so your numbers don't surprise me so far.

And many employes don't get paid overtime. They officially have to take vacation, which again is usually not possible due to project pressure. Hence, many vacation days become void after deadlines.

I don't have any good data on this, just what I hear from my peers. So my post is as anecdotal as yours. However, if you look at the Heise report, my numbers are not so far off.

I second your last point, but thats not a German/European uniqueness, right?
China would love to be less exposed to the dollar. Unfortunately they buy USD mainly to hold down the yuan. Selling USD would mean the yuan would appreciate, reducing their competitive advantage and harming exports.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179492
Direct link to the github page:
https://github.com/andyedinborough/stress-css

Interesting. I've actually been having similar issues with CSS3 elements - this could become very useful.
We are very probably within a simulation (cf Nick Bostrom), so we might eventually find some interesting hacks. Even to 2nd law of thermodynamics.
What's the emergency? Climate change, animal cruelty, piss-poor management of resources for the production of our food. Good grief, we're _well_ behind the curve for getting things changed in our society and world.

I agree with Burger King is doing it for profit, but that's the point of capitalism: we if want change, we vote with our dollar. I have no huge love for impossible burger. It's too much like the real thing now that I'm years out from eating beef; however, I'm going to be buy some now and then because I want to see the product being sold.
I'm using yourketo.diet for that.
18k$ a year which means you are not working in the US or some other developed country so I am not sure what is the point of that comparison.
>Why are we okay with profits being more important than ethics?

"Why?" aside, there are a few mechanisms behind your question-begging.

Capital itself is amoral. Money doesn't want anything, is not constrained or affected by ethics or morality, and can be used for kittens and torture in exactly the same ways and in the same form.

Companies are created by people, so they can have principles under which the company is guided (by people), and people in turn have ethics (good or bad). Either through weakness or avarice, despite any personal feelings, all public benefit takes a back seat to profits. This is the morality of most capitalist companies: whatever it takes.

It's a cop-out in favor of capital. "Welp, the company doesn't allow me to act according to my ethics because [something about the primacy of shareholders]," say those with power in the company. Any criticism of the morality of capitalist companies is ridiculed as reducing profits, often called "leaving money on the table" and seen nearly-universally in Western societies as a fireable offense for any businessperson hewing to the idea. It's a reason to reduce a person's control over any part of the capital flows that comprise day to day business and finance.

It's a morality of bigotry in favor of capital, and part of "growing up" is learning how to be a "team player" and suppressing one's own preferences in order to perpetuate this bigotry. Comes now Amazon into the picture...
Wow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider.

I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are
Work with my Chromecast
It's AT&T (UVerse). If they can't get it right, I don't have much hope for anyone else.

Also, I don't even use my ISPs name servers, I use Cloudflare or Google, so I don't think it's that unless the ISP is somehow munging the packet in transit, which I suppose is possible.

Honestly I think it is all due to issues with the v6 stack in MacOS.

But my point is, I shouldn't have to be a network engineer to make v6 work. I should be able to turn on my computer and just have it work.
Once a month is standard for salaried work in the US.
It's only cheating if there exists an alternate compiler that works better on AMD.

It may be not-nice for Intel to use this form of "DRM" to lock their high-performance compiler to Intel chips, but they don't owe AMD users a high-performance compiler.

Now, if vendors are shipping pre-compiled software that has the enabled-for-Intel-only fast-paths and don't ofter AMD-optimized versions, those vendors are misbehaving (intentionally or not).
These are not mainstream CPUs; people who do rendering and run server farms for a living will find this level of parallel computing a godsend.
>How to use the Internet to learn: Google, Wikipedia

About 10 years ago, in my second year CS program, I created a program to Teaching secondary school students how to use the internet to find stuff online for free and learn. This was in lieu of a 6-month internship program.

I first spent weeks creating a training manual. (I should have spent time selling before spending weeks on the manual). I then talked a friend into helping me send proposals to private schools. A marketing manager friend of mine proofread the proposal letter - that's when I learned about business writing - Must Be Straight to the Point.

I approached a number of government secondary schools. The teachers there loved it but told me a government approval was necessary for the program. I pursued the approval but it didn't go through.

The private schools were lukewarm. Approached my alma mater and received the same lukewarm response. The students who I spoke to listened to the pitch and gave me a response I would never forget. They said, "Google? I know how to use google."

I didn't expect the naive response. In hindsight, I should have made up a complicated sounding title for the program. It's just that I'm a, "say it like it is person."

I sold only one copy of the manual and received a thank-you note (Found it a few months ago. Unfortunately, there was no name signed to the note and I don't remember who it was).

Now I work in a school environment and 90%+ of the students hate learning. They only go through the motions because it's required.

>memory palace, mnemonics, Sleep's role in learning, note-taking

I did teach this when I handled an elective class and my students loved it. They spread the word, and their classmates who weren't taking the subject started hanging around my class. I also taught them the difference between reading for pleasure and reading for exams. And that perfect practice makes perfect.

Reading for exams simply practices reading. But setting one's own questions, and answering past questions is much more effective at preparing for exams.

>Meditation

I thought deeply about this but never implemented it. Or I didn't know how to. Also, it kept skipping my mind.

>Writing of all forms

This was the first thing I tried with the students - their writing ability is subpar. Out of 30 students, just one did the exercise because I wasn't their English teacher and that was the end of that.

>reading old literature.

Now I mind the library most of the time (it was locked before). And I've spent on different occasions up to 5% of my salary on story books and literature. Wanted to buy 10 used ebook readers from the US (eBay) in October but couldn't work out my own shipping. Buying from sellers who send directly to my country means a 5X price increase.

>Our World

Downloaded kolibri late last month. Downloaded 2,007 khan academy videos so far. Set up one of my laptops as the server and networked it with my phone wifi with another. Created accounts for 2 senior students who are library regulars. And they love it. One other student showed interest this afternoon. Time will tell if their interest is sustained or not.
(a) Approximately 20%, and (b) I have no idea, but it really doesn't matter.

Other large holders include Apple, Ford, Prudential Insurance and the USPS.

More easy answers to similar questions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
I absolutely love this idea. Do it. Ignore the grumpies suggesting objectification or privilege. It's a market for attention. Nothing more, nothing less.
What if I need absolute surety my image(s) is not going to be subject to bit rot and not be available in a few years time? What if I do 'multi-posts' and share the same image across 10,000+ bulletin boards? Your bandwidth will run out very quickly if you saw the types of posting that I do (I use automation software to post to 10,000+ boards). And those posts last for decades. I am not sure I can rely on this service for my needs.

This is why I self-host my own image server and have it hooked up to a well-provisioned CDN for peace of mind. Then I have full control and can renew the domain for ten years each time to keep the images online.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, you have a choice. You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI, pay for IMGZ or pay and set up a VPS yourself. For me, the best option was #2, but it didn't exist, so I made it.

And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer!
what's wrong on having a hot admin?