jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
@codinghorror - any update from your conversation with Matt_Cutts? I'm curious on this issue from a justice standpoint, as continuously seeing efreedom results in the Google rankings just doesn't sit well with me.

I looked around eFreedom's site a bit and they are providing some additional add-on value (translations etc.) so that may also be the case. In any case, best of luck in getting SO pages ranked better.
Not that it negates any of HaXe's abilities.. But JavaScript is also a multiplatform language :-)

It's worth taking a look at though. I have to get over a fear of cross-compiling (like CoffeScript or RJS to JavaScript), largely because I had bad experience debugging such stuff in the past.
I was curious about this, as well - from the links, it sounds like dyslexics rely more on the shape of whole words when reading, so fonts with pronounced ascenders and descenders (the stems and tails on t, j, etc.) may be easier to read.

The opposite extreme would be WRITING IN ALL CAPS in a fixed width font, making every word into a rectangle.
Yes and no... you can do desktop development for it as well (that has been my main use for it) - for more information check out:

http://haxe.org/com/libs/swhx
and
http://hippohx.com/

Primarily I have used it as a custom wrapper around Flash applications being developed by my Flash team. By creating these custom wrappers I can give full access to the filesystem and databases without the Flash guys needing much knowledge of the surrounding development. This is a lot like Zinc is, however gives me a lot more control over what is happening and I can create additional dll's to hook in to to further extend what is going on behind the scenes.
Microsoft employees and interns--that is, blue badges--are being offered reimbursement on the purchase of a Windows Phone 7 device through mid-June (in the US; non-US sites are handling things differently). Not every US employee has taken advantage of the offer due to no availability from Sprint and Verizon or just because they didn't want to yet.
Finding arbitrages is the easy bit. (Ok it's not that easy)

The tricky bit is making sure you get both bets on before the arbitrage opportunity disappears.

There are many bots already out there scooping up arbitrages, and the bookie price algorithms will rapidly close these as bets are made, leaving a small window of opportunity.

Also, most price movements (and therefore arbitrages) are when events are in-running: in these cases bookies enforce a delay before your bet is processed, which makes it doubly hard that both bets of your arbitrage get successfully placed.
Ever heard of the "broken window" theory? Ever heard of entropy? Ever read the history of any cultural aspect, from poetry to jazz, to teaching,

Yes, some things, those that are vulnerable, need protection. The Bengal tiger needs protection. The tribal languages in the Amazon need protection. English is in no way vulnerable, so it really doesn't need any protection.

On the other hand, maybe you need to read the history of how English evolved into what it is today. It certainly isn't because of prescriptivist nonsense like "protect[ing]" the language from "decay and dilution".

to coding?

Funny you mention that -- one programming language that's been "protect[ed]" from "decay and dilution" a lot is Java, and look what a boring, unimaginative cesspool that's become.
On a side note: I'm glad you mentioned that there's an HP-48 emulator available for Android, because somehow I'd never thought to look for one and now I'm in nerd heaven.

If by "my handy hp-48 emulator" you mean to say you're the one who wrote it, then thanks and mad props; this is fantastic.
I don't think the failed response matters. You can replay a PUT request without altering the state on the server. (Aside from the single object you're manipulating.) Replaying a POST gets you two objects with the same data.
The Larry Summers of HN!
This was also posted in Reddit, and there are some other comments over there, apparently:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cgckf/the_four_...
Okay, here goes:

FarmVille isn't intended to provide entertainment, it's only intended to addict you (to Zynga's benefit).

That's an absolutely ridiculous statement, and I'm shocked that it has gotten so many upvotes on Hacker News. Slashdot, sure, but not here.

Do you have any insight into Zynga's development of the game? If not you have no grounds upon which to make that hyperbolic statement.

...Unless you're arguing that anything you don't find entertaining was therefore designed solely to be addictive.

Farmville, in particular, was designed to be addictive at the cost of being entertaining.

Are you saying that its entertainment value is lessened by its addictive aspect, or that it's not entertaining at all? If the former, your original statement needs modification.
Sure, but generally money is given to people when they do some sort of service for other people.

If you have a cook, you pay them to cook you food, and you got the money from some other place cause you performed some other service for someone else.

If you paid him to go shopping, thats because he was creating value for you (in saving you time) and you were paying him for it.

But this is different. Sure he is benefiting himself, but he isn't creating value for anyone else. The whole point of society to a certain extent to create a system which encourages people to help one another. This man is essentially getting food in exchange for shuffling papers around. What I don't understand is who else in society is benefiting from his paper shuffling.
Maybe I missed it, but did the article say anything about the differences of the Nautilus file browser compared to Ubuntu's?
Indeed. Competition in the PDF viewer space (not to mention browser) is a wonderful thing.
Summary: Canada passed an email law[1] with teeth. It applies to anyone sending email to a Canadian and takes effect in September.

(Still too long? Let's just call the Canadian law CAN'T SPAM.)

There are three tests, any of which will allow unsolicited commercial email.

• Existing relationship between sender and recipient. (purchase, contract, donor, volunteer, member)

• The recipient prominently publishes their email address and the mail is related to the recipient's professional capacity.

• Recipient signed up for it.

The law and its enforcement will begin to be explained in January.

[1] http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?La... the meat is in section 6, but notice it is written in an "exception" model. It seems a little insane until you get to the end of the section and catch the exceptions.
I care more what my phone does-- than whether or not it has a slightly lower framerate while scrolling lol.
Can you more clearly articulate why you think this (the sex thing) is vile?

What ill effect do you see it having on society? If none, then your argument basically comes down to "ick!", which is not a good argument.
Geez, I KNOW that, but now Barbie has legitimized them! I can be a computer engineer AND have a pink laptop!

Better yet, I can ditch my tv-programmed dream of becoming a glamorous doctor/lawyer/detective in favor of becoming a glamorous computer engineer!

My friends and I will drive around in our pink convertible, hacking systems, meeting new geeks and every episode will end with our band playing a song. Maybe techno.
What's her experiences with Kazakhstan exactly?

I've never been there but would expect from any post-soviet country a great deal of nobody caring about you and not many secret police anywhere.
Possible venues for experimentation and research:
1. Do we have or should we develop a technology to detect incoming bodies like that earlier?
2. Do we have or should we develop a propulsion technology and/or spacecraft that is able to intercept these bodies at some point in their trajectories and send back some useful information
C maps to the machine well. (Low-level programmers will probably crucify me for that.) But take its lack of closures as an example. Closures require either some kind of memory management, or clever program transformations, at which point you lose the simplicity of just having the stack and heap.

As much as a generation of Java programmers (like myself) grew up thinking that C++ was old hat and Java was its natural successor, C++ has been quietly ahead of Java with regard to lambdas, generics, type-level trickery. Not to mention performance and backward-compatibility [1].

But reading C++ makes my eyes bleed. I much prefer FP for business logic and web-app development. Haskell is fast but it's no C++, and that's OK. I wouldn't want Haskell to take C/C++ market-share. I want it to compete against other languages that don't give me performance, safety or terseness.

[1] C++17 on the Commodore 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
mea culpa! I was thinking about a different company, a smallish law or other professional services company, whose name I don't recall. It wasn't a high minimum wage, rather everyone top to bottom was paid exactly the same amount. was
I'm always disappointed when you know there has to be a really really good reason, or a solution, for an issue - but support just can't reach it. Are they not trained enough? Empowered enough? Unable to escalate?
This is true, I mainly didn’t bother mentioning it since it is still a fairly obscure edge case (relative to just getting started in JS anyways,) and because TypeScript catches that too, most of the time.
It seems this is more common in the US than in Europe, for now:

The meat has been cured with nitrites extracted from vegetables, a practice not permitted by the European Commission because of evidence that it increases the risk of bowel cancer. But it is allowed in the US, where the product is often labelled as “all natural”. The powerful US meat industry is likely to insist that the export of nitrite-cured meat is a condition of a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal, which the UK government is under intense pressure to deliver.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/14/uk-us-brexit-t...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11935999
The price of salad is largely the same -- the high cost derives from paying someone to bring it to your table, and the rent on the square footage your table requires
I think it is likely an attempt to beat the echo chamber. If your interests are niche, the only ways to avoid showing content that is, well, cliched is to latch on to the one offs and show a small percentage of those, or show truly random content. The former likely gets much better results.
> A century of negative commentary on the female voice has had wide-ranging effects: a 1998 study of young Australian women found that the average frequency of female speech dropped twenty-three hertz between 1945 and 1993. Margaret Thatcher famously worked with voice coaches to hone her auditory image, dropping her voice sixty hertz between the nineteen-sixties and the nineteen-eighties. One of the most notable of the many bizarre deceptions in the Theranos saga involved Elizabeth Holmes’s deep voice; when I analyzed recordings of her speaking I found that the disparity between what is likely her real voice and her performative one is around a hundred hertz, which, in that range, is equivalent to nearly half an octave.

Wow -- this is absolutely fascinating. I always dismissed Elizabeth Holmes' low voice as a weird quirk, but now I realize there's actually a pretty concrete (and sad) historical rationale to it.
My own permanent switch to DuckDuckGo came in 2013 (with a few previous false starts). Relevance during that period seemed to escallate rapidly.

Mostly: DDG is just a fantastic time-saver. Bang searches from the navigation bar, URLs directly in the SERP, no Google ad spam pushing organic search well below the fold, images accessible from the image page, and of course, no bubbling or tracking.

Yes, occasionally I need to offer slightly more specificity in my searches, which really isn't a challenge.

And yes, the list of shortcomings I'd made on HN in 2014 still largely apply: ranged-date searches, specific media collections (scientific articles, books), and specific Google tools (ngrams, trends) have me going off DDG. But those are much as HN searches (!hn), Wikipedia (!w), or the online etymological dictionary (!etym) a bang away (!gbooks, !trends, !ngrams).

Technical search quality is as good or better than Google at this point.

Archive collection, notably in older content, occasionally weaker.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040695
Same here.

bff [1] has no fancy assembly, not even a compiler, just some basic loop unrolling and jump precomputation, but I too wonder how it compares to wc.

[1] https://github.com/apankrat/bff/

-- edit --

Found words.txt with 466551 words, so replicating it 28 times gets it to the OP's test size. Bff is ~5x slower than 'wc -w' ... which is not unexpected, but still slightly disappointing.

https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words.txt?...
From that chapter: "In general, a method for combining data values satisfies the closure property if the result of combination can itself be combined using the same method."

It sounds like they're just describing recursive data structures? When most people talk about closures, aren't they referring to this (from Wikipedia)?

"In programming languages, a closure, also lexical closure or function closure, is a technique for implementing lexically scoped name binding in a language with first-class functions. Operationally, a closure is a record storing a function[a] together with an environment."

EDIT: My SICP quote was actually from somebody's notes, not the book itself. But the point remains.
Objectives can be evil
Agreed. Not insuring basic human rights is a non starter.
My sources say that she acquired a real passport with real photo and fake identity from corrupt, but "legitimate" sources in Ukraine.
Somehow or another, Stack Overflow is able to maintain very high quality threads. I'm not sure if that is because of filtering algorithms, or human moderation (which is more or less crowdsourced).

I have not run into this kind of spam on SO.

There are a lot of "Kool Aid" threads, where folks get heavily invested in a technique or pattern, but those are legit, if somewhat tiresome.
Hmmmm I'm very skeptical. Insects evolve quickly. We been having artificial light for like a long time. I can't imagine the insects would not have evolved to it by now.
For people who entered into a contact with Blizzard in order to use their system, sure. I'm talking about a 3rd party who obtains their client through an anonymous third party and reverse-engineers it.
flash...no question
Steven also said this live on Startup Lessons learned conference, a few months ago: http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262670582
I think anyone who experiences some success sort of feel like a fraud. I know I do. I think it's a common thing.
A story within a story, summarised as "don't try and re-write the entire codebase", which Joel proclaimed to be "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make" 10 years ago:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

i.e. nothing new
On the other hand all the content on the apple.com homepage has been replaced by the announcement. This is something that Apple do only for big launches.
Almost any country would up security measures and, as a byproduct, deprive itself of civil liberties.

That's exactly wrong:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelifi...
I have an iPhone, but I blame the iPhone for iTunes syncing, not iTunes itself.
Is there any study comparing observant Mormons vs. a similar population showing better health?

Likewise, is there any study comparing observant Muslims vs. a similar population showing better health?

It would be interesting to see either. I'm skeptical (because I feel like every religion claims that their particular diet has health benefits) but open to seeing a study.
No, they're not. You start as a self-employed person with the basis of 30% - because employees are subsidized by their employers, you have to pay both shares. That 30% is Federal, FICA, and SS, doesn't include practically any services you can use or that will protect you as a young person.

Then there's state tax. And oh yes, if you move overseas, you have to be very careful in arranging your affairs if you no longer want to pay state tax. If you want to vote, for example, you must have residence in a state. If you have residence in a state that has state tax, you have to pay.

So we're looking at a base mix of say 35%-45%, depending on how tax-crazy your (former) state is...

And for that, what do you get? Nothing. Not healthcare. Not unemployment insurance.

In Austria, we pay about 55% - but! - that includes very good healthcare, unemployment insurance (even for self-employed), guaranteed maternity/paternity leave, guaranteed housing if necessary (in a place you'd be happy to live in, with gardens and trees), pension, free higher education including in the fields of medicine and law (student housing and stipends!), and a lot more awesome stuff.

I used to pay $600 a month for my American health insurance and still ended up paying $2k when I sprained both my ankles and required several braces, crutches, an ER visit (which took HOURS), and physical therapy. Having used the Austrian system extensively since I got here, I can say that it is better in absolutely every way, even compared to the experience a moderately rich American can buy in the US.

Of course both countries allow substantial tax deductions for the self-employed. Deductions in the US are marginally better.

Oh, and what if you want to start a company? Or especially if you're unemployed? It's easier in the US, right?

Actually, Austria will extend your unemployment benefits and suspend your social insurance payments for an additional 6-18 months if you want to start a business.

The myth of American tax superiority is untrue, except for large corporations, and people who can afford and have the balls to maintain genuine tax shelters.

Oh yeah. And if you are an Austrian citizen who leaves the country? You don't have to pay taxes. Not even to vote.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1412296
This article is like reading my thoughts aloud. Worth reading and sharing mate!
I realize modern religion has tried to blunt the concept (it's all about love etc)... but blood atonement figures very prominently in the doctrine presented in the bible...

Romans3:25, Hebrews9:22, Rev1:5 for instance. There are plenty more. Very prominent concept. Which is why up until recently there was plenty of talk about being "washed in the blood" in Christian churches.

(I believe the manifest brutal cruelty and outright ridiculousness of the concept was one of the primary things leading to my rejection of Christianity at a very early age.... no offense to anyone's particular faith... just my point of view)
> This is strictly worse than WhatsApp.

How? Google has all the whatsapp chats via the drive backups which 98% of users enable. fake E2EE

Telegram has an open API, alternative clients and free cloud storage.

They explain very well why they didn't want to give misleading e2ee claims like whatsapp https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

It is open source.
Yes, it does this job well: Basic Amiga floppy reading and writing. And thus I recommend to anyone who already has an Arduino (and doesn't have e.g. a stm32) and needs to write Amiga floppies to bootstrap the Amiga they just obtained somewhere.

The point to GreaseWeazle and FluxEngine is that they aren't Amiga specific, they can handle the weirdest formats, dump copy-protected formats as-is for preservation and recover data from damaged and otherwise unreadable disks.
> Is this really what people want in the news? A biased political stance?

When we have a great number of people who say things like “but that’s from xyz source so it’s bunk”, without examining the underlying facts or lack of facts, I’d have to say the answer to your question is Yes.

PS I’m willing to examine news from any source and employ discernment.
I am not sure it is a problem for most people though, if anything I believe most people would not like the alternative.

If the choice is between being tracked, which results in many things being free (as in beer) with otherwise almost no practical visible consequences for most people (different ads?), or having to pay for each and every service but no tracking, I think you would face a huge backlash if you forced the latter.

A solution could be to have free access if you accept tracking and pay otherwise, but I believe this is illegal under GDPR.
>Even the most obscure entry or innocuous comment on a forum is usually saved somewhere, and with enough digging can be found. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this.

That's a very interesting throwaway line; anyone know what those products are?
The parent scam company, OneLife, still has a webpage up: https://www.onelife.eu/en however its official denial of OneCoin wrong-doing is a 503.

Fortunately, that denial, a glorious work on its own, can be seen in cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Thanks for making me realise the most obvious thing, that it doesn't stop click fraud if it is on the ADTech customers network as they can connect to the device and pretend to be any device on the internet.
Nothing special about commodity exchange. The difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost is marginal wealth creation (destruction if negative). A world in which MR=MC is in a global maximum and no improvement is possible - any state changes imposed externally can either lead to the same score ('wealth') or make it worse.

In other words, he first assumes that no improvement is possible, and then indeed manages to show that, according to the assumptions, no improvement is possible.
That’s quite a loose definition of “full”.

I think we’ll make from making small, but significant progress, but not get too self-driving soon. For example, a convoy of two trucks of which the second simple follows the first at short distance would decrease personnel costs and fuel economy, and increase road capacity.

A step up would be self-forming convoys of many cars on highways. Then, drivers in the cars would have to trust the driver of the first car, or that car would have to have good automatic lane-keeping. That problem can be simplified by changing the road design.

The result wouldn’t be autonomous and wouldn’t work everywhere, but who cares if it makes things safer and more economical?
Having been the person that despised going to the various sportsball games that everyone at the company went to, and wound up being excluded without so much as a second thought? I'm not sure I'd worry too much about excluding them. No matter what you pick, there's bound to be some people that just can't enjoy it.
AFAIK, during early development they are using a different, simpler welding process, including more welds and thicker off-the-shelf steel plates to compensate strength.

The welding process probably isn't optimized or fully inspected and the weakest parts would expectedly be the welds.
" when they just gave me what I asked for"

was when the web was for hobbyists and companies that could afford a substantial investment. Before the web was 99% professional profit-driven spammers (both automated and human).
I didn't read the comments, but the article didn't mention anything about Google plugins, did it?

I suppose it's possible Google used GA stats and maybe even content fingerprinting to determine if certain pages should be indexed, or reminded from the index, and how often to crawl them if indexed.
How did you handle the properties of floating point? The reason people recoil at that more than likely has to do with lack of knowledge in how floats are wrangled to ensure they're accurate.