jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can anyone point me to some good introductions on programming in a functional style for people who can already program in OO and imperative languages?

My day job is Java mainly with some javascript mixed in, did a lot of PHP too. I used to hate JS, untill I learned about closures (and libraries like mootools and jquery). Having functions as first class citizens is truly nice!

I can see that the concept of immutability has a lot of value in a world where multicore reigns. And seeing code as data sounds like an awesome feature. But for me the question remains, how do I use it in practical everyday use? I mean, after 7 years of developing OO has ingrained to my mind. How do I transform that OO mindset into a functional one?

Yeah, perhaps I've become lazy, but most tutorials I've found don't tell me anything usefull. They show me how to print fibonaci numbers. Great, but how many times have you needed to generate fibonaci numbers? I need to know how to sort a list, find your next connecting flight or make a transaction to deposit 100 USD on a bank account.

I've build and helped design a couple of systems I'm proud of, even though I can see big flaws in all of them looking back. I've been most productive in garbage collected OO languages. I'm not willing to throw all that experience away but I am willing to accept that there are better ways to solve problems in code.

I see great potential emerging from both JVM / Closure and .Net / F#. If anyone can give me pointers to resources which learn me how not to reinvent the functional wheel, but how to be more productive in my day-to-day job, I'd be deeply gratefull.
Sure hardware is a commodity and there is no scarcity there but the issue is not hardware it's access to the OS and there is an extremely limited number of mainstream consumer platforms. Right now the only options are proprietary systems run by two giant corporations. UNIX is currently a niche player and the Google Chrome OS is an unknown.

Furthermore, the increasing market share of the Apple platform obliges developers and publishers to develop custom products (e.g. Ulysses) for the iPhone/iPad. Except that now they'll have to self-censor or have Apple play the role of nanny.

I don't understand why Apple feels that this special user experience could be shattered by the glimpse of a human body part or an unsettling political viewpoint.
With transparency, 393 bytes:

http://imgur.com/wIVyT.png

(I used GIMP to add transparency, and pngopt to get the file size down.)
i love my htc evo. the battery isn't as great as my pre but after disabling a few things and some tweaks it is not nearly as bad as everyone is making it out to be. hopefully it will get better with software updates or an extended battery that fits the standard cover will come out.
It's sad the only sound advise is down voted yet fad diets by journalists get up voted.
oh no..the PC police is out in full force
Jesus Christ. Okay, in short, ML fixed some but not all of Lion's issues, and Mavericks fixed a few more but introduced a lot of annoying "features" that still broke my workflow. Yosemite was another huge regression, almost as bad as Lion.

If you want more specific than that, you'll have to find someone who has spent more time than I have on those OS releases. I've tried each one and have yet to see anything better than Snow Leopard; if you don't like that answer, too bad. I'm done.
Thanks - I think you got exactly what I meant, how out of date I am, and answered the real question.
I'll copy a comment I wrote elsewhere in this thread:

I volunteer with a U.S. Scout troop. I see boys that don't know whether or not they can go on an activity/campout because they have to ask their parents if they're free that day/weekend. I try to tell them their old enough (most are teenagers) that they should start deciding for themselves what activities they participate in. Most all of them just seem apathetic.

I'm sure their parents are trying to do what is best for their children, but it doesn't seem to be working.
This lets you connect a raspberry pi as a SCSI device. The Pi does emulation of the SCSI interface by bit-banging the GPIO, and exposes virtual drives that are mounted images from the Linux FS on the pi.
Surely you can see how punting the problem back to academia is not a long-term solution. The industry keeps on being an old-boys club that way, and academia can select only for people who are willing to put up with that aspect.
You need to install homebrew
This post is an article of a series of articles about the "The new paradigm" that will be gradually placed on the site. There are few published posts, you can find at the end of this article.

What is your position about the title statement?
What is the relation between this statement and Bitcoin?
Personally speaking I don't want curation. What is fascinating about generative AI is the failure modes.

I want the stuff that no human being could have made - not the things that could pass for genuine works by real people.
And with (financial) protection for those who refuse to partake and report the crime. I guess the person pressing the dump button would usually make just above minimum wage and would be considered unimportant enough to fire if he stood up for what's right so there is no incentive except for a moral one which I would argue is not enough for most people.
I wondered if you can use hydrogen instead.

Use solar/wind to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen. Compress it to liquefy it. Store this in some temporary storage tanks.

Then when you want to make electricity, pipe the hydrogen and oxygen into a fuel cell. Then electricity and pure drinking water comes out.

Then you can bottle the pure drinking water and sell it locally for an additional profit.

I haven’t analyzed the cost for all the technology and infrastructure. But this idea seems mechanically simpler than the gravity brick idea. Additionally, you can transport the LH and LOX, to other areas if necessary.
Yeah all of them are questionable. The only one that has even a tiny chance of succeeding is the piston idea. You don't have to pay for the weight and you only have to cut the circumference of the piston out.
As a Muslim, almost every "Shariah compliant" financing contract I came across is not compatible with Islamic Law (Shariah). Unfortunately, we're just taking modern parasitic and usurious financial contracts, and wrapping them under "Islamic" terms, and selling them as such. Any actual investigation of such contracts reveals that they're nothing but interest and usury in disguise. Islam seriously warns about this sort of behavior.

Under Islam, loans are are strictly an act of charity. There can be absolutely no contractual obligation for the lender to receive any benefit of any kind (monetary or otherwise) from the borrower in return for the loan. The borrower is encouraged to return more than the amount he borrowed, purely as a show of gratitude, but it can in no way be part of the contract, and in no way implied one way or another (like "off the record" sort of thing).

True Islamic finance is pro risk sharing, with no exploitative and parasitic practices that we see today. Want to start a business? Pitch your idea to an investor willing to put money into it, you put in the effort and he (or multiple investors) puts in the money. If the business succeeds, all parties benefit, if it fails, investors lose their money, and you lose the time and effort you put into it. Fair across the board. Zero debt.

Applying actual Islamic finance rules, we would immediately rule out things like stock shorting, put and call options, margin and leverage trading, mortgages, interest bearing loans, selling debt for debt, and so on. Now you can bet that Wall Street won't be happy, but time and time again those practices have proven destructive to the economy, and further increase the wage divide.
This specifically repel water, or can it repel any liquid?
Same. You have to click the window before typing something, but scroll does follow the mouse.
Or aligning capitalism with society, so a grocery store who buys meat cheaper in order to sell it at a higher price than most of the the market is willing to pay get penalized via including externalized costs of them having to throw it out instead of sell it; just one possible option out of many that would improve the system and reduce waste near to zero.
see David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet

is better than 200 pages
I get curmudgeonly about the concept of “BLUF” (bottom line up front) as it works with most people but can be an absolute disaster in situations where (a) the decision makers want to have a say in the genesis of a solution or (b) the amount of context needed to understand why a specific recommendation was made exceeds the benefits of aggressive summarization.
I was wondering what the trick is, as selling a place without holding its title may not command a very high price, even if you clear it and make it ready for business - for cattle ranching in the case of the rainforest.

Turns out it's similar to the concept of adverse occupation:

> Another factor driving the illegal land market is the expectation of amnesty.

> Mr Alves revealed he was working with others to lobby politicians to help them legally own stolen land.

> A common strategy is to deforest the land and then plead with politicians to abolish its protected status, on the basis it no longer serves its original purpose.

> The land grabbers can then officially buy the plots from the government, thereby legalising their claims.

If the government didn't do that, it wouldn't happen! It's a system of wrong incentives: the executive and the judiciary should be as separate as possible!

> For its part, Facebook claims trying to deduce which sales are illegal would be too complex a task for it to carry out itself, and should be left to the local judiciary and other authorities

If property rights were more clearly defined, it wouldn't happen either.

I see that as a compelling case for defining property rights outside of the government greasy finger reach - maybe a blockchain based register, so land grab attempts clearly stand out, and can be used in name and shame of the land thieves.
The thing is, by the time VGA appeared, the new hotness was "chunky graphics", something that was IIRC very bad on pre-AGA Amigas and even AGA-based models didn't excel at it.

And Chunky graphics became crucial for growing amounts of 3D software.
I have come to beieve that bitcoin is art. No intrinsic value, and each unit is individually labeled, nearly as identifiable as a numbered print.
I think it being first to market in a browser was probably the most important aspect of it being so successful. Microsoft tried VBScript and it got some take-up , but it was ultimately too late.

It was also free. At the time, IDE's and compilers were pretty expensive in the Windows world.
> ADN was a subscription service. The common expression is always true: if you're not the customer, you're the product.

There's a false implication here that ADN was better than Twitter but failed only because Twitter's business model is worse but lucrative. I think that's really not true. If you could build a product that people liked more, even if you made less money you'd still win.
Your notion seems to belong to an existing school of thought on consciousness. I forget its technical name, but the idea is that the thing we perceive as consciousness is just a side affect, an artifact of the process, an effect not the cause, a shadow. That we perceive it to be "the decider" is an illusion. Per this school it is inconsequential except that, like any illusion, it can affect our brain's decisions.
Bitcoin needs to get mapped across 1:1 to something that doesn't require vast number crunching energy use, and the old blockchain abandoned
I am not an astrophotography guy, and I have not built a barndoor tracker (yet), so take this with a grain of salt, but I'll skip right to the double-arm type here if ever get around to it:

https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/photo-articles/astroph...
So true. As the http://usesthis.com interviews have shown, people can be highly productive using highly divergent development setups.

Even serious coders in the neckbeard tradition, which seems to be what the OP aspires to.
I suppose if you really had to store something sensitive on Dropbox, you'd just TrueCrypt it first... Not really an issue then, no?
I posted a comment over on reddit, but someone who thinks linux is the greatest thing ever (I've been using it since the mid nineties, don't get me wrong) should be able to give me just a few of the unix server development features I get for free on OS X:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gt29r/why_os_x_...
i get the sense (no direct insight other than following overall feature trajectory) that openbsd is going to gradually build up some level of quasi-SDN networking/vm clustering around virtual interfaces, VMM, pf/pfsync/ifstated, etc - if even some of this is correct, long run it probably makes sense to provide some kind of dynamic/api driven component in the system to support more flexible DNS functionality

again, just a hunch, but it helps me make sense of the world :)
Well I've kicked heroin but not nicotine. Not because the nicotine is more addictive, but because its harms are orders of magnitude less. I've tried both and I would rather go cold-turkey off nicotine than a strong opiate.

I agree 100% with the "perceived moral failings" part. Shaming people does not help. I couldn't kick the H until I stopped shaming myself. The guilt made my usage worse. It was caused by complex mental health issues, dealing with those got me healthy.

The whole ordeal has made me a much more understanding, compassionate person. I'm extremely grateful to be one of the few that made it out.
He's only been in power for a month - what do you expect, a miracle?
It is friendly to beginners, but of course not limited to beginners.

Thonny just seems to do few things, but do them rather well.
Nigeria may not have the funds to bank roll renewables even if they are cheaper in the long run. Cash flow often matters a lot more than people realise.
So if you aren't a republican or a democrat you don't get to have a bank account? Thats completely fucked up man.
They could go to anyone important who is under investigation/has been indicted but doesn’t know it yet, tell them, then have them do things (data dump from your employer, etc) in exchange for help fleeing the US to Russia.
Thanks for the response. (And for anyone else watching, he also DMd me on Twitter which was nice.) I didn't realize Mercury was a startup which makes the oversights more understa

I did not see the perks, thanks for clarifying that. They are not linked on the dashboard and homepage cannot been loaded when logged in.

And to clarify we don't use Quickbooks. QBO/QBX is a specific file format which most accounting systems expect when reconciling a statement. CSVs /work/, but require you to remap the fields manually which is tedious.
My hobby is golf. Green grass, cool breeze, just you, stick and ball. Bliss.
This is a good idea, you may not like it, but it's definitely worth a try!
I recently bought a new golf cart with GPS, with a golf tag that allows you to monitor the pace of the game, protect sensitive areas, gives a lot of real-time reports and many other useful things, a very cool thing. Here's my advice, if you like golf and you decide to buy a golf cart, order from these guys - https://vantage-tag.com/, they do very cool things!
Well he certainly didn’t spend the rest of his life in prison the first time he was arrested. His family and legal team (who don’t think he killed himself) say he was confident he’d get away with it.

There’s nothing ordinary about his death (or life). There’s been a well documented cover up of his activities by the media and multiple governments going back at least a decade. None of that has been properly addressed.

Any negative connotation associated with people who question Epstein’s death isn’t addressing the main issue with his case: powerful people have successfully avoided being prosecuted for child sex trafficking. That’s the issue, not that people don’t believe what they’re being told about Epstein from those documented to be involved with him.
Are you arguing that shell scripts scale to larger applications better than C#?
My kid will turn 4 in March. It's much better these days than when he was an infant, but there are still many interrupted nights - dreams, peeing, just coming in to say he's awake. It's sweet; I wouldn't give it up for the word. Some day he'll be too old to crawl into bed with us, so I enjoy every night he comes to visit us now.

What I'm finding, though, is that when I get uninterrupted sleep now, it's amazingly refreshing. I think I know how to operate on little sleep for extended periods of time now. When I get to sleep uninterrupted, I feel amazing energy the next day. And when I string together a few uninterrupted nights, it's even better.

I hope to keep the healthy sense of urgency I have in my work time now. Having a young kid keeps me very focused and efficient in my work time, because I know I can't just put in extra hours to get things done. I hope I keep that healthy urgency, but I'm aware it could slip away as I take full nights of sleep for granted again.
my short version:

Every two to three years start looking for another job - chances are you are being underpaid and holding out for a meaningful raise or promotion is usually a bad idea. Few companies seem to keep salaries properly indexed to the market. At least in IT.

When you get an offer - always always counter it. No reasonable business is going to withdraw an offer if you counter. Figure out what you're worth and add 5-10%. If the first offer is already on the 'high end' of the spectrum still counter and ask for a signing bonus, options, better year end bonus, or more vacation. That will most likely be the most profitable email/phone-call you'll have - at least until you repeat the process in 2-3 years.
Kind of undercuts all the points made. Also, if you walk on water you should be working at Google or FaceBook? Hunh?
It wasn't really inability as much as unwillingness. Yes, you are right all they needed to do was purchase more euros. They kind of decided that is not a good idea anymore.
Discussion from two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836219
No no no no and no. You can't train your body to need less sleep. Sleep deprivation actually effects your judgment on how much sleep you need. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1690
I had the same reaction when I found out word docx files are just zip files with a bunch of xml in there.
It saddens me that this dispassionate statement of facts is getting downvotes.
Which ones? I tried to find some before submitting my previous comment, but was unable to find any.
Please use the original title if it's not clickbait: "Why the simulation hypothesis is pseudoscience"
clearly it's not just html because if it was, dragging an epub file into the browser would display the book in a navigable format.
2500k is borderline of the sweet spot, but something like a 4790k, 5775c or 6700k can hold up 7 years later.

That said, the very latest processors (AMD 5000 series, M1 apple silicon) are starting to make real gains in single threaded speed
Just assume the answer is yes. If you are active online at all, you're in a breach somewhere. In fact, you are likely in a breach even if you are not active online (in a state/federal government data breach for example)
ACPI implementations differ, bugs and crappy ACPI stacks. Faulty firmware is everywhere.

Also every device driver needs to handle suspend/resume for the device, which is very hard to implement without documentation. And the only way is to reverse engineer some windows driver...
Your impression of a professional criminal is ludicrous and appears to be based on movies and comic books. "Tells" do not exist when a person is method acting.
Go back and reread the article. The recipient of the supposed takedown notice is listed as being... dropbox.
There was no DMCA take-down request. The "DMCA email" claimed to be notification of a DMCA request, but the email was generated in error.
My problem seems to be the opposite. I spend any free (non-family) time working or tinkering on side projects so I don't get to learn new things like Objective-C or Ruby. Things that I have been interested in for awhile.

If I could get a paying gig on a new technology then I would be golden :)
What's with all the anti-DropBox hostility lately? Is it because they're doing well?
As far as I'm aware, no. That's why RightAWS said they get an F for communication.
Sensationalism. There are many explanations for this more likely than dropbox was intentionally deceiving its users, and the Cory Doctorow knows that. Privacy is an engineering problem as much or more than a policy problem, and Dropbox, still being a relatively small company, is obviously going to have a hiccough or two before things are rock-solid.
Very happy to hear you're optimistic - more power to you! I might even sign up if I end up buying one of the m1 Macs :)

Is the WiFi chip in the M1 Macs a solved problem or did that need to be written from scratch as well? Just curious.
> Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

If for no other reason than how cool and fitting this name is I hope it succeeds.
If the COVID-19 vaccine is botched, multiple generations will lose trust in the medical community. The medical would lose their cultural authority and their rhetorical high ground against the anti-vaccine crowd and other health disinformation hucksters. The damage from a loss of trust is difficult to understate.

Modern healthcare may be expensive and advances may be slow, but it generally works and people trust their doctor.
No joke actually, there really are pro carpenter titanium hammers and they are expensive.
https://youtu.be/IE0-I0T7Xhc?t=399

But these multi taskers are pretty much good at nothing.
I'm at:

- Total: 13

- Scams: 3

- Not delivered: 4

- Delivered on time: 0

- Delivered with <3 month delay: 1

- Delivered with <1 year delay: 4

- Delivered with >1 year delay: 1
>I work for a hedge fund. Every year we send a list of all our transactions to a company. They recover money on our behalf from any legal action that may happen.

Is there an equivelent for a passive investor that just holds ETFs? Or does the fund already do it for me?
The article says they have deployed several Android releases during this time.

Having said that, I agree that the article may be bullshit, hence my question.
What makes you think building a subway system lowers quality of life? Plenty of low cost of living cities worldwide have them.

In the US only high COL cities do so this makes it seem like a subway raises real estate costs. But there’s no logical connection.
No offence to you. If your kids show a genuine interest then fostering that interest makes sense of course. It could be programming or it could be tennis, if they show an interest then go for it. I guess I’m just sick of seeing so much marketing around ‘code-for-kids’ classes and products and all that faff.
And here I thought it was a kickstarter for a hammer invented by a 7 year old kid.
Depends on your fanbase. Are the majority American/European?
Some other good examples are snow plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)[1] and phantom orchid (Cephalanthera austiniae)[2]. It's also probably worth mentioning that this is an example of symbiosis in the borad sense. It's not a mutualistic relationship where both the fungus and the orchid benefit. The parasitic plant is using the fungus essential as a straw to suck sugars and nutrients from the roots of other plants. The fungus does not appear to gain in any way from the relationship.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcodes

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalanthera_austiniae