jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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There are uncountably infinite real numbers and countably infinite rational numbers, so we cannot represent all of them using a {0, 1}^n where n is a finite number. No matter which numbers you can exactly represent, there will always be uncountably many real numbers which are not exactly representable, and, conversely, the set of real numbers exactly representable using a finite number of bits will have measure zero.
That's the issue I'm worried about - after a doomsday scenario like war / cataclysm / plague my descendants would most likely be deprived of that medicine, likely resulting in my direct ancestral line dying off.

In a more general sense, I'm very concerned about the point in human evolution when we can't live our lives and reproduce anymore without the aid of technology. Then it takes one cataclysm to wipe us out.

I see your point though, this kind of event seems unlikely.
sniffing isn't the main issue I'm trying to avoid, it's accidental exposure. I.e. minimising the risk that during normal operations the secrets get exposed somehow.
personally i like the amish approach, before you make decisions on some technology, watch how others use it and take time to understand it before adopting it yourself.
This was my highlight:

"Appmakr dealt with 170+ actors, including VCs, angels, seed funds, middlemen, corporates and even an angel group.

- They were rejected 130+ times, but raised $1M from 14 top investors."

Exhausting doesn't even beging to describe what having to even _pitch_ 130 people would be. Forget about being then rejected 130 times.

I have new respect for what founders have to go through to raise money. And I have new appreciation for the importance of what Yuri Milner's no cap convertible offering will have in freeing up founders' time and mental energy.
Hi! Waves hands in hopes of getting your attention.

Yes, this is me. Yes, the Squeak on RISC OS page very, very, out of date. I have excuses. Good excuses. The best excuses.

a) I haven't done anything specific for RISC OS in a long time; the latest would be making a then-recent basic system to enable people to play with the Scratch updates I was working on on behalf of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
b) I haven't had time to try to set up to build the newer Cog virtual machine for RISC OS. It needs some support for things like atomic 64 loads/stores and an equivalent for the ticker thread used in the linux VMs. I'm sure it's possible, just time consuming.
c) Life. You know, that stuff that gets in the way of hacking. Plagues, death, jobs...

To get the best current experience of Squeak Smalltalk on ARM you can do one of two things -

1) On a Raspberry Pi running 32 bit Pi Os, download the system from squeak.org http://files.squeak.org/5.3/Squeak5.3-19435-32bit/Squeak5.3-...
2) On a Pi running the 64 bit beta OS, you'll need to do the source-download-read-instructions-make-dance. It works well enough that several of us have been using it for daily work for some time. An Apple M1 version is also ongoing. And very fast.

If you really want to have fun with RISC OS and like the idea of contributing, contact me and I'll see if I can help you get started on solving some of the issues referred to above.
Well its good for government :-)
thanks Zach!
I got the directive this weekend to transfer stuff off of the cloud immediately. We lost a weekend of work for a lot of people, and nothing I can say as a tech will account for that. Upper management wants us the hell off.

I'd argue that the overall cost is much less than having all of these services in house, and in house services go down too.

But I think for the moment, they want someone to yell at, and Amazon gives the most unhelpful lack of communication, with no even remote eta, and that's unacceptable.
The short answer is that when Google started, Perforce was the best kid on the block. Once you get as far down the road as Google, it's hard to change that incumbent, even if culture dictates the use of open-source software.

The other problem is that Google just has a whole lot of code. They've got engineers cranking out code all day all over the world. Working at that sort of scale rules out other alternatives (note that Google hired the Subversion guys, and Google isn't using Subversion... this should tell you something).
The url from the dropdown is a url you can share from where no edits can be made. For example, for sharing code on twitter, or broadcasting it (any changes from the main url are still seen in real time).
If you play Civ, you should really check out victoria II. Much more realistic

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/victoria-2
Both links are dead.
The rational thing for Sony and Microsoft to do is to stand down on any new console. Both consoles push 1080p and there's been no mass adoption of 3D or other display technology to warrant a new introduction; Crysis 2 is being released for both platforms and there's no real consumer demand for yet more polygons. Both companies are able to turn profits on their gaming divisions; Nintendo isn't likely to outcompete them on a technical basis, either.

In short, I think the 10 year horizon might actually be too short.
Yes, Papa Sangre uses real-time binaural 3D sound, www.papasangre.com. I'm not aware of any other real-time binaural solutions. I'd like to know too if there's more. OpenAL and other out of box 3D sound engines are stereo, not binaural.
Ironically, the iPad-styled UI doesn't fully work on the iPad because it depends on mouseover.
yeah shows how much I read. Hence why i like short lists. Take the time to also listen to CH on Carson Workshops [0] & this one [1]. Also check out the O'Reilly chapter from the book [2].

[0] Carson Workshops, 'The Future of Web Apps, carsonworkshops.com/summit, Cal Henderson'

http://media.libsyn.com/media/carsonsystems/Cal_Henderson.mp3

[1] Carson Workshops, 'Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget – How We Built Flickr, ~ 10Mb, 10 min.'

http://odeo.com/audio/1207043/view

[2] O'Reilly, 'O'Reilly, Building Scalable Web Sites, Cal Henderson. Chapter 5: Data Integrity and Security, ~ 5Mb'.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/web2apps/chapter/index.html
I don't know about "brutally quick". Anyone who's driven an M3, S4, or any similar performance sedan isn't going to be blown away by the speed of the Model S. It's fast, but it isn't mind-blowing.
I think you've massively devalued an entire people based on the actions of their government...

Let's not forget the great value and results of CS education in the US:

- spying for pretty much everybody, regardless of location

- drone guidance systems to kill people unlawfully

- missile systems for air strikes on countries purported to have WMDs

- millions of $ spent on silly apps that arguably do nothing to improve quality of life, whilst millions suffer and die of starvation

Do you really know enough about North Korea's tech community to say that "More likely, these students will go on to make software for less-than-ethical purposes"?
> This means that you don’t have to touch the accelerator during stop and go traffic because it will do it for you. Soon Model S owners will be able to change lanes by only tapping on the turn signal stalks. No, they do not have to buy a new Model S to get this feature, they can simply connect their car to a wi-fi connection and get firmware updates.

As someone who grew up in NYC and never learned to drive that is not only really cool but immensely appealing.
Some of the "natural" stuff is also extremely dangerous.

Neem oil, for example, can kill your pet. You should never use neem oil anywhere near an animal.
Open-source. Betaware. Fun project to hack on being terrible at money management.

https://github.com/franklovecchio/running.budget-public
Awhile back I was chatting with one of my friends who was working security at the local Whole Foods, when a woman walked by the produce section literally dragging her defecating dog through a pile of its own crap.

This is why pets aren't allowed in grocery stores. Yesterday, I counted 5 dogs inside another local grocery store. Some of them may have been legitimate emotional support dogs (although none of them appeared to be service dogs), but surely the others were just people behaving badly.
Do you really think Will Scott gave the DRPK the breakthroughs it needed in any of those areas? I think you would be delusional to think he set them up to significantly improve in these areas. The only thing holding the DRPK back is the fact the socio-economic situation in the country is in complete shambles. Not that lack of American Computer Science teachers.

Plus, More than likely he (and others like him) are providing intel or participating in espionage on behalf of Western Governments.
A dog is comparable to a human in many ways.

For example, there are studies showing that many dog owners react to the loss of a pet as strongly as they do to the loss of a human family member.
You read my whole comment right? The context is in heavy rain / wind. Do you do that too?
1. Feelings

2. Children

3. Dignity

4. Character that makes your org great
You said it yourself, it isn’t quality content that gets rewarded, it’s entertaining content or, more specifically, content that gets you engaged. So it isn’t the opposite, it’s their point exactly.
No, he's including in the compensation the experience etc.

It's not strictly a free market so the market closing price will be lower than true equilibrium because a no-agreement for one negotiator (labour) results in starvation but a no-agreement for the other negotiator (employer) results in minor discomfort.

Perhaps allowing the former to negotiate freely by guaranteeing life will bring negotiation outcomes closer to true market closing price. That's got its own problems, of course, but unions aren't a bad idea to attempt to increase power of labour vs employer.
it is low. over the course of my career I have witnessed skilled people earn less and less, almost always for the sake of "shareholder value" (more generally called "profit" at smaller places) and it is sickening.

when I was very young, one could be promoted simply by demonstrating a willingness to learn and be better when others were not. now, if you are not doing at least that, you are not considered for a raise.

last year I got a perfect yearly evaluation, and a 0.6% raise, which equaled inflation for the same year.

a raise is supposed to be a raise. a reward. incentive to continue the good work.

it used to be that if you could perform well that you were rewarded. now, if you perform well, you stay afloat. that's it.

I really hate this planet because of things like this. if humans were a decent species, money would not work it's way toward people who already have more.

honestly, I can't wait to be done with this life. the black abyss is better than working harder than anyone else simply to keep your head above water.
I am not aware of any such protections in Europe. It may be, but in the 3-4 countries where I know the legislation there is no such thing.
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well DO decided to lock me out of my account that I had for years because they decided that I'm a fraud and had to deal with their terrible customer service
Companies exist to make money, the market is very limited, the sales process is long etc. but feel free to compete.

People generally dont try to replace a 100k job with another one when they start companies, but are looking for a (multi) millionaire upside instead
I have also written perfectly reviewed, manageable and well tested piece of code that didn't.

Ok, so I'll bite. The fact that not all bad code scores poorly on cyclomatic complexity scores does not imply that code that scores poorly in cyclomatic complexity isn't bad code.

So you wrote a function with cyclomatic complexity greater than some accepted value (50?) and you claim that it's well tested. I'm skeptical. How many of those code paths did you follow in your tests? What was the ratio of lines of logic code to lines of test code for that function? Can you really say that your tests provided adequate coverage of this function?

I've fixed a lot of cowboy-code with horrible cyclomatic complexity and no state separation, and this report about the 1500-line throttle control function dipping into system-global pool of universally-accessible variables sent shivers down my spine.
When the supervisor crashes, which should occur extremely rarely in any case, the state of which services are running is lost, and its child processes are re-parented to PID1, so when a new instance of the supervisor starts it cannot tell which services are running, and which of the running processes belong to which service. During the time the supervisor needs to re-start (presumably init would respawn it?), some of the running processes could exit without notice.

What is gained by restarting then? You'll likely want to reboot to get the system into a consistent state anyway.

Here is a war story of an embedded developer who actually created his own init system with separate supervisor process, and found that it doesn't actually make the system as a whole more robust:

https://lwn.net/Articles/623527/

For a good disucssion of the trade-offs involved see this comment by JdeBP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8384251

Edited to add: Also, is your comment about bad development practices in the systemd project purely based on statistical conjecture (which would mean it applies to every single project, except of course the Linux kernel where presumably you have personally observed the absence of bad practices), or do you have anything to back that up?
Do note that 443 is typically the web interface for OpenVPN, not the actual VPN port.
I just posted a follow-up blogpost, comparing Node 0.11.15 and io.js 1.0.3 which were both released yesterday.

In that post I also benchmarked the various fixes for the typed-array slowdown you mentioned. BTW --nouse-osr makes all three tests run faster.

http://geekregator.com/2015-01-21-node_js_0_11_15_and_io_js_...
> So far, it has been defined by the German standard that limits the heating and cooling load to 4,755 British thermal units per square foot (or 15 kilowatt hours per square meter)—about one-tenth that of homes built to current U.S. codes.

In the comments section, there's a clarification that this is per year. (Kind of a shame to see "unit fail" in a publication that should know better.)

I'm kind of curious to know what sort of new technology (if any) makes high-efficiency targets easier to meet these days. The article talks about triple pane windows and thick walls. Are these stick-frame houses with fiberglass and offset 2x6s in the walls or something like that, or are there new materials? I recently read that aerogel has been coming down in cost to the point where it's plausible that someone with deep pockets might insulate their house with it if they didn't want super thick walls. Insulated concrete forms and autoclaved aerated concrete are also something that some builders use. What else is new?
> This was mostly based on the fact that Albert approached Physics as a "New age day dreamer" (e.g.: thought experiments) rather than primarily from mathematical models or experimental insights.

Remains true today. Certainly no paper consisting only of a thought experiment could get published in a top journal. Many self-described physicists have told me that thought experiments have zero scientific value. Brian Greene who wrote The Elegant Universe says he thinks Einstein's original papers would've been round-filed if submitted today. (And they weren't just thought experiments.) I suspect we know about Einstein today only because of the open-mindedness of Max Planck, who was Einstein's original reviewer.
would be interested too
Personally, I put a rebump on an email to someone I need a yes/no answer from. Maybe it's a proposal that needs approval. Maybe it's whether they'll be joining us this weekend for a beer (because I have to make reservations). I don't expect an immediate response, but I set a rebump for a day later (default is 3 days) because I shouldn't have to chase you down to get a simple answer.

Definitely see your point about how annoying it would be to get these one email forwards from my great-aunt, though. We are trying to convey to users that Rebumps should be used judiciously. It seems to be working so far.
Because they run what I suspect to be a fairly lucrative business which, if operated competently, should make them a lot more money in the long run than if they just stole everyone's bitcoins?
Also, why is there always a new version of Acrobat Reader to install? Also, why does adobe launch a relatively huge app to detect and tell me this whenever I'm in the middle of doing something important. It's like it knows "Oh, the system is under a lot of load already, I should fire up now since the user is clearly at his computer"

I only have Adobe Reader installed to handle fill in form apps (IE, passport renewal). In the past, I've manually deleted the adobe autoupdater from my system to avoid the slow downs. It's worse than spyware.
On which system you run has very little to do with how successful you can get your company.
The story comes from a friend who was involved in the project. If you have any specific questions I would be happy to ask them on your behalf.

A quick google search returned a news item posted on the corporate website of Coinstar which claims the machine processes 600 coins per minute. They also have some general information about customer behavior on the page as well. http://www.coinstar.com/us/WebDocs/A3-2-2
But that articles and ars's comment aren't about the general practice of vendors putting on a show. They are about the specific case of customers estimating value by perceived vendor's effort.
Ohohohohoh merry Christmas to me. I am so jumping on that, luckily its my company that bought the existing accounts.
44:40:01, 44:40:00, 44:39:59
probably based on http://www.quantcast.com/runwayfinder.com
The author of this article gave one of my favorite Ted Talks on the same topic:

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
Financial transactions don't require ID. Cash, alternative currencies (not that BTC is anonymous), or prepaid credit cards all work.

The anti-progress-cause-jobs is silly and makes RMS look bad and hypocritical.
The UEFI talk [1] and EFI bootkits for Apple MacBooks [2] are both really interesting. ( Both are about flashing firmware. )

And for a rather impressive demonstration how fucked the western IP law is, bunnie's and Xobs talk about the MT6260 SoC. [3] (They try to implement a free as in freedom OS on a cell phone SoC which is open in a Chinese context. The hops they have to jump through are rather ridiculous.)

[1] http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6129_-_en_-_...

[2] http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6128_-_en_-_...

[3] http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6156_-_en_-_...
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I don't have anything to say on the matter above what this guy says: http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/140521/do-writers-get-better

He questions whether the writers actually get better over time, as a rule. His conclusion is: not necessarily, because they are not getting the feedback.

NB: fimfiction now accounts for 2-3% as much reading as do all of the new books sold in America? http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/401563/we-are-the-twoandahalf...
> many critics of veggie meat offerings complain that it doesn't "taste like meat", so they can't eat it.

No, that's not how it works. Most taste critics of veggie meat are that it doesn't taste good and it doesn't taste like meat, so isn't a suitable replacement for it.

Fish doesn't taste like meat, yet it's ruddy delicious. But fish does not market itself as a drop-in replacement for, say, beef. Fish indeed would be a very poor drop-in replacement for beef and I'm fairly certain people would notice if their burger suddenly tasted like salmon.

I had a similar problem with bread during my keto diet. Everyone doing keto around me kept saying "oh you can do this and that to make a low-carb bread and it's a perfect replacement for it!". Well no, it's bloody not. I'm french and have very high expectations for bread. "Wiping your plate" is not the main feature of bread in a dish.

I love meat (and as a sidenote, I love chicken tikka). I like some veggie "meats" (although I've tasted repugnant ones as well), but they don't replace meat, I'm sorry. Just because they can take the place of meat in the diet of some does not make them suitable for it, and that is why people complain it doesn't "taste like meat". The complaint would not be about the taste if it weren't there to replace something else.
Be sure to read the whole post, as well as the email chain below it.

This was part of a complaint email sent to him:

>>I wanted to send you this email to express my frustration and outrage at how the situation of these protesters is being handled in Nashville. The first night protesters marched here after the incidents in Ferguson they never should have been allowed to shut down the interstate. Instead of at least threatening to arrest them, they were served coffee and hot chocolate.

This is how you deal with protests. Good job Nashville police; much respect. My own frustration lies with whoever sent this complaint.
Cool. I don't have enough to support.
>I have my doubts if smartphones can ever cost the same as regular phones.

The contract freebie "dumbphones" today are better than the $300 phones from 5 years ago. The oldschool Nokia candybars that placed calls and played Snake aren't even carried in stores anymore. Current smartphones may not dominate in the next two years, but at some point, carriers will just stop offering the current crop of dumbphones and the freebies will provide feature parity with current smartphones.
Yes, all or nothing.

Resistance does go lower as temperature drops, but when you hit the transition temperature it suddenly drops to zero.

There are other unusual things that happen too, and only with superconductors.

One of the main ones is that Meissner effect they talked about - that's the exclusion of magnetic fields from inside the superconductor, and regular conductors don't do that.
Having buy button in every page might give the idea its for sale to a random visitor.
Yes. And lots of it is open source: https://github.com/twitter
Wouldnt that be just "conductive" ? For the usual metals resistance does go down with temperature, but they wouldnt hit zero at zero K.

p.s. I am aware that the article talks about O C and not 0 K.