jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's really hard to use the site with that mindset when 15/30 of the submissions on the front page are resubmissions. I'm not sure if that ratio has ever happened, but it certainly feels like it quite often.

Other articles that make it feel that way that I wish I could just eliminate all together--anything talking about Node.js, productivity related (how I fooled myself into working), "how can I learn to program." These all seem way too common for my tastes.

I'm not against any of these topics, in moderation, but regardless of what anyone says, the community that has grown here over the past years has become dominated by those with poor taste.
I really think the stability of your robot is a completely separate issue. George W. Bush and Barack Obama both use flying robots with missiles to hunt down and kill people they don't like. Don't you think that perhaps, as these flying robots gain more and more autonomy, that discussions of ethics are actually important, and important now? 50 years is a long, long time in computer science.

I'm surprised that you are so pessimistic about your research that you think ethics won't even be relevant in year 2205. Holy cow you must think AI is hard.
Out of curiosity why does the Spine site look so similar to Backbone's?
Hey man, the value of my Beanie Baby collection can only go up.
This is pretty good information for start ups that are looking to get ad deals from major agencies/brands.
> I would be brutally honest and advise the bottom 25-50% of their classes not to move forward

Seems to be 'grading on a curve' where it's not necessarily applicable. You could have a group where they're all great, and a group where they're all mediocre. Also, you could have different sorts of companies: some that are swinging for the fences and will either do something great, or fail, and others that aim for more modest growth.
learn lisp, instead of reinventing the wheel badly

When someone says something like this, my typical response is "That's true, I should dig more into Lisp. Oh, look! A bug in my software I need to fix. * forgets Lisp entirely *"

If you were to say something like "the difference between Lispy and Lisp is that in Lisp you can do X", then my likelihood of actually going out and learning about X, pulling out the Lisp interpreter and playing around goes up about 1000x.
How difficult is it for a bot to lie?

Though if you've made it clear that only x, y and z can crawl your site, and someone spoofs, say, y, then it would be easy to demonstrate that someone has done something they know they shouldn't.
I think it depends on what the site is being used for. If there is information on the site that I can't get anywhere else, I'd wait. However, if it's an online webapp with many similar competitors, speed is more likely to factor into my decision making.
They have bets there over whether the LHC will destroy the earth, which is an even bigger asymmetrical devaluation of the winnings.
I haven't tested this with 3.0, but I had a dedicated IP for my WPMU installation. If the site is configured in the WPMU panel, it would work, without any Apache config needed.
The major problem I see here is you're measuring "Time Spent" (in the 3rd graph, at least). If a product is really innovative, it should take up less of the user's time, not more.

If Outlook suddenly became twice as efficient, you'd expect to see "Time Spent" decreasing.
SEO is not dead, social media is not a replacement. Ignore SEO to your own detriment.

Real life example: My startup, DoLeaf (http://doleaf.com). We get the majority of our sales via SEO/Google. All we had to do to get there was to make sure to follow basic SEO guidelines (title tag, h1's, etc.)

People find us by searching on Google for very specific plants. They see a result that says "Buy XXX on DoLeaf". Click result, click checkout, done. Google sends high quality, high conversion traffic. Once we set it up, it required no further work on our part. Day and night, Google is sending us sales.

Contrast that to social media. Do we entice people to tweet about our plants? Add them to their Facebook profile? What? And how to do it? Successfully spinning up a viral loop is difficult to do and difficult to track. Finally, social media mentions grow stale pretty quick, so you've got to constantly feed that machine somehow to stay relevant.

We're not planning on ignoring social media, but you definitely should not ignore SEO. It hasn't been replaced by social media, just augmented. A different tool, a different purpose.
Aren't you confusing languages with how they are spelled?
> ...since seeing the character doesn't provide any help in actually saying the word.

Nonsense. There are about 200 or so[1] chinese radicals, and all chinese characters are either radicals themselves, or composed of two or more radicals. For example, the chinese character for ticks, 蜱, is composed of 虫(bug, the meaning part) and 卑(lowly, the sound part), both very common characters that any chinese literate should know; the character can be described simply as 虫左卑右 (bug on the left, humble on the right).

> Chinese dictionaries don't generally (in my experience) provide pronunciation.

Your experience is not typical. Any decent Chinese dictionary should provide pronunciation, either in pinyin or zhuyin. Or you can simply look it up online[2].

> Chinese is really several completely different spoken languages (Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, etc.), all mutually unintelligible but sharing the same writing.

Another complete nonsense. I only speak Mandarin, and can communicate with people who only speak Cantonese if we both speak (really) slowly. Normally I would not know how to say something in Cantonese, but when I hear it, I can recognize it. I have never tried this with "Shanghainese", but the same goes for Minnan (spoken in some southern provinces and Taiwan).

It seems some people are keen to diminish the role of Mandarin in China and exaggerate the differences among Chinese dialects, perhaps wishing a fragmented linguistic landscape would lead to a fragmented and weaken Chinese nation. But Mandarin is what is taught in schools, used on tv, movies, etc, and all younger generations speak it. I don't think that's going to change soon.

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Chinese_radical

[2] http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|zh-CN&...
Drupal 7 should be out in a few months and will address ease of use (along with some major advances under the hood)
I know, that's what I was talking about in the first part of my post. I had to add the the second part just to make sure that I'm not misunderstood.
I wonder how badly the "Chumby" name hurts their organic search.

Of the 18 comments currently on HN, discounting one explicit correction, we have 3 erroneous "Chumpy"s and 1 correct "Chumby".

It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity.
Rotation of my iPhone seemed to really throw it off. All the snowflakes suddenly zoomed off to the left, and then there were no flakes left in the globe.

After I returned back to portrait orientation there will still no flakes :(

EDIT: iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2.1
It is a strange comment. The type theories used in programming languages, certainly in those based on the λ-cube, descend from simple type theory (via the simply-typed λ-calculus), which Russell discarded in favour of his ramified theory of types. I also wonder why Wolfram, originally a mathematician, doesn't even mention the Curry-Howard correspondence, which seems to me a fairly important result linking mathematics and computation.

No one uses ramified type theory these days, at least not that I am aware, although Russell's predicativism lives on in e.g. Feferman's programme [1] (there are some interesting results in reverse mathematics relating to this; see Simpson's book [2]).

Anyone missing the background I and the parent comment allude to might want to take a look at Thierry Coquand's article on type theory in the SEP [3]. Coquand is the originator of many ideas in this area, including the calculus of constructions [4] and the proof assistant Coq based on it.

[1] http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/predicativity.pdf

[2] http://www.math.psu.edu/simpson/sosoa/

[3] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory/

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_constructions
True, but that sounds like "security through obscurity" with regard to naming conflicts--two departments could both invent the same acronym as easily as a plain English equivalent (there must be a ton of "CMS" systems out there, considering "case" and "content" management).

As always it's a people problem that requires communication and coordination (and until that happens we're stuck with CLOTS, BUGR, and NIPL).
Moons of Saturn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn#Table_of_moons
And it'd be nice if they treated their patients with some respect and as if they had a functioning brain instead of as objects. Obviously this does not apply to all doctors but this happens with alarming regularity.
I would be ok with some (not-too-intrusive) ads to make the internet go around. But every single website now links to 30 trackers that try to track and profile your every move on the internet, with no accountability anywhere.

In addition to the NSA, GCHQ, SVR RF, Mossad and other n-letter agencies, there are some 30 corporations that know everything about what and where you browse, keep that data not-very-secure, sell it to the highest bidder - any bidder, actually.

Do you like that? I don't.
Oh, I'm sure the author knows the difference, it's just that he/the CJR had to dig that deep to find something, anything on Fox, it would appear (it isn't even as bad as the article makes it out to be, if you listen to the clip the questionable comments came after remarks on some women who've notoriously stayed with physically abusive men).

No narrative about MSM problems can be complete without a dig at Fox, it is axiomatically evil.
Gotta; overcast :'(

I saw the eclipse a few years back through a telescope, though. That was fun, though we only had a few minutes before (again!) clouds came through.
It's the never-ending AOL bubble. Remember when they acquired Bebo for 800 million dollars?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

I moved to the Bay Area from Lake Tahoe. It was the second or third day of my new job, and I had to bring in my paperwork for human resources. Took BART downtown from the East Bay, then rode my bike to the office. I must have missed a zipper in my backpack, and my wallet (along with my social security card, credit cards, and some cash) decided to bail out somewhere downtown.

I didn't realize it right away, but rather that night when I actually needed to get everything to HR. I immediately called to get my cards turned off, but was pretty worried having my social security card and drivers license out in the wild. I was able to plead my case with an AC Transit bus driver, get a free ride back to the East Bay, and planned on drinking one of the few beers I had in my fridge.

Some point during that beer, there was a knock on the door. The person on the other side was from the south bay, had a meeting in the city, and had my wallet in hand. He took the time to go well out of his way to return my identity. Only thing he asked for?

Pass it on.

So happy to hear another story like this.
Easy. Make bets with strangers that you can guess the number they're thinking of.
Never liked reddit so I missed this entire resource until now. Thanks.
Fossil SCM does not do one thing that does it right, it does many things actually, ticketing, wiki, scm and more I think.
For minor surgeries these days, like when I had my wisdom teeth removed, a common combination is a local anesthetic plus a drug, midazolam, that temporarily prevents forming new memories. Patients are conscious and responsive during the operation, but don't remember being conscious; in retrospect they remember it as if they had been knocked out with general anesthetic. An odd thought experiment: if the local anesthesia hadn't worked well and I was actually feeling pain, do I care in retrospect? I sort of don't, I think, oddly enough. I don't remember it, so it doesn't really matter to me either way. I mean, I wouldn't want to see a video of myself experiencing pain, but so long as I neither remember it nor ever have to see it, somehow it doesn't matter to me a whole lot.
very true

people are concerned with there being too many people. but it is cities, where there are the most people per square inch, that are often the most creative.

Very small countries, like Singapore and Switzerland are often the most competitive. And countries with few natural resources, like Japan, can dominate.

I think what all this shows is that the greatest natural resources are people. This resource needs to be free to function at its peak.

And the freer the country, the easier it is to absorb and utilize this resource. Which is why we should really have no problem saying "give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". They are nothing to be afraid of.
Actually you can't right now. It's broken. Says "Current password can't be blank"
There is no need to walk a superblock because they all have the same structure. You can pre-compute offests, similarly to what you would do to access a field within an array of structs.

Also, at the cost of sounding like the CS equivalent of flat earthers, big-O notation is kind of broken, and specifically, it doesn't make a lot of sense to say that something is O(1). Even hashmap queries, if you think about it, can't really be O(1) for arbirarily large values of N.

The general interpretation of O(1) in theoretical CS literature is "we know it's bugged, but we promise we won't bugabuse".
You're talking low level representation now and not high level.
That raise size (3-4%) sounds pretty typical to me. Getting $10k during performance review time is often real difficult to pull off, so you must've really bailed them out :)
It doesn't? Time series data is a pretty specific use case.
Surprisingly this is a great article about the speculation of there being another tech bubble. I wasn't expecting there to be actual metrics and charts, I have become too used to people voicing their opinions without backing up their claims with actual data. I am still on the fence about whether or not we are entering a bubble (or if you believe some people already within one). Comparing metrics to the early 2000's is one thing, but I think the landscape is dramatically different than it was in the early 2000's to the point where maybe you can't make a direct comparison to what happened.

We are seeing highly successful and VC funded companies like Snapchat and Twitter achieving high user rates, but failing to monetise their userbase. Herein lies the problem: these companies are being valued at billions of dollars because of their VC investment, but they're not making any money (at least not enough to make a profit). In comparison to companies that are making profits, but might only be valued at a fraction of Twitter or Snapchat. Surely this has to have consequences even if they're not on the scale of what we saw during the dot-com bust of the early 2000's.

Maybe we're not in a tech bubble like we saw in the nineties, but I think something is definitely going on. Just because people aren't losing retirement funds due to buying stock in an IPO'd tech company that dies doesn't mean a bubble hasn't formed in other areas that necessarily don't affect your average investor. Like many things involving historical and financial data, nobody knows what is going to happen tomorrow or in 6 months time. We can speculate, but honestly, nobody knows: that's both the beautiful and destructive nature of finance.

VC's are throwing money at these companies that are burning through more money than they are making. Having to go through multiple rounds just to keep the lights on. I don't see how that is sustainable in the long-run, at some point you have to start making money right? It seems the approach most companies take these days is to try and get as much investment as they can and when they reach the point where they've given up X percentage of their company to venture capitalists they either have to IPO or close down.

One thing that is definitely different from the nineties is we aren't seeing startups host ridiculously expensive launch parties and events as much anymore.
Right now I am living in third world country, So believe it or not , Imagining internet speed more than 2 mbps is kinda hard for me

Being a third-world country is not a handicap to have high internet speed. Fiber is not heavy infrastructure. I live in a messy third-world and we have 100mbs fiber at around $80/month.
So, I'm realizing that this whole conversation is somewhat silly because blockchains already provide CT and they do a better job of CT than Google's CT.

If you'd be interested in reading a draft of a blog post on this topic, please shoot me an email (see my profile).
Thanks. I added a bit more after reflecting further. You were right to bring it up, and thanks for giving me a moment to vent.

Back to 'working for myself' now. :)
It does matter because Europe doesn't have a single homogenous healthcare system so I think it is not as easy to generalise about a "European" system.
just wrote the same thing below, didn't see your comment. Sorry for your loss.
Many of the cheap MP3/MP4 players have an 8-bit CPU (Z80, 8051, or similar vintage) with a few hundred K of (banked) RAM and several G of flash, so it's not that weird of a configuration.
Looks like you're also giving up position independent code as that also relies on the dynamic linker.
No free work for platforms that only corporations are using. No, this doesn’t violate the open-source ethos; nothing about OSS says that you have to bend over backwards to support a corporate platform that you didn’t care about in the first place.
Texans had "y'all" right the entire time.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments. You may not owe FB better, but you owe HN better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And so will the stalkers.
1.) Hitching a trailer is a hassle, especially if you're trying to hook it up by yourself.
2.) Storing a trailer can be annoying, depending on style, and some HOA's or apartments don't like the idea of one sitting around in plain site.
3.) The shape of many trailers is not as conducive to some tasks. An example: a lot small/medium trailers are square or enclosed. If I want to haul some 8 foot (or 16 foot if you have an extended-bed truck) 2x4's home from Home Depot, I can throw them in the bed of my truck with relatively little difficulty. There are many trailers that don't work for something like this. In fact, I can't think of any trailers that would work with 16 foot boards..
Models are useful tools, but at the end of the day you’re not going to get a conclusive answer to a question like “what are the impacts of vaping on human health?” without looking at a real life human. At least at current levels of scientific understanding, being able to plug a chemical into an equation and pop out a complete description of the effects (my interpretation of what the gp is asking for) is a bit of a pipe dream.
Wouldn't you have the option of running the helper process within the mount namespace but not the process namespace of the container?

Regardless, openat2 looks like a much better solution. I hope it's backported to LTS distros so I can start relying on it before 2035...
> It's unfortunate that the Commonmark creators ignored requests to handle cases like this.

What’s your proposed solution?

FWIW the main goal of CommonMark is to fix the ambiguity of Markdown.pl and provide a common subset of features for all parsers to target, instead of trying to include everyone’s pet feature.
The space of incorrect-but-reasonable models is infinitely larger than the space of correct models. The way to distinguish between the two is experiment. Experiment is therefore the much more important side of the balance.
I think we’re actually on the same page to a great degree :) Thank you - sincerely - for a refreshingly honest and comfortably reckless exhange.
AFAIK Ford did a similar thing with hemp based plastic car body.
It looks like improvement version of Soviet Russia camps. They also kidnapped kids from "bad" people, plus used mass hunger as weapon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Remember that F and a are vectors and m is a scalar.
This is so incredibly confused. You live in reality. You exist. The things you can observe exist observably. People who choose to believe such existential nonsense remind me of the xkcd with the super soaker.
> I wonder sometimes about the fact that SW engineers are capable of making their own tools in a way that we are not. Do you think this helps to combat some of the super high pricing associated with their tooling?

I can only speculate, since I am not a software engineer, but I think part of maturing is things get more complex and making things more difficult and expensive. Thirty years ago, someone could say "Fuck it! I'm fucking sick of Unix! I'll just go write my own fucking operating system!" and actually do it. Today, operating systems are so complex and large that this is not feasible anymore. Maybe you can write your own AWS replacement today, but would you able to write a replacement for AWS of 2050 in 2050?

It it one of those things that I would be happy to be proven wrong about, but as of now, I am not super optimistic that the current state of freedom of software engineering tools would continue indefinitely.
Misleading and linkbait titles on the front page would make Hacker News much worse.
There is a reason why most journalists are whiney manipulative people.
Damn, really? I've been craving a good bagel shop since I moved out here.
cuban is great. he loves to stir the pot. whether or not he can make a difference in the college football playoff system, when he tosses his thoughts out there on controversial subjects, people pay attention.
I can't in good conscious agree: the Art of Pizza, with My Pi[e?] as an honorable mention.
> http://danielkennett.org/blog/2010/12/analysing-a-touch-to-d...

Jeez, where did you find this junk? Ridiculously lopsided and it reads like the Reeder's designer peed in author's morning coffee at some point.

> The user is moving towards those (quite small) buttons from a fair distance away, and are therefore likely to overshoot.

Likely to overshoot? Really? I take if buttons were larger, the user would just hit them with one flick of the wrist, no correction, not slowing down half way through, no undershooting or overshooting. Just one motion with a beautifully smooth acceleration curve every user is so striving for.

The app is optimized for better reading experience, and the blog guy makes no attempt to account for what the app's primary and routine usage is. It is - suprise - reading. Not clicking the buttons. Reading. Make buttons larger - and you just introduced extraneous visual noise and took away from the screen real estate in the app that (won't hurt repeating) is for reading.

> Someone came out with a Mac OS application that’s clearly a touch UI crowbarred into a point-and-click universe

Someone came out with a pretentious blog post crowbarred into a formal UX analysis format.

> This is NOT how to make Mac apps, guys.

And this is now not to... ah, nevermind.
Aren't these the same docs you can get with a free Apple developer account?
were your grades on your application/resume?
Yes, but formatted as books for iBooks.
Well that was, in fact, the entire point of listing it. It's included because people believe it's for the public good even if the producing company doesn't wish to allow it. If you agree that some things fit this criteria, then all we're arguing about is to what extent companies should NOT be able to restrict how you use their product.