jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Wrong" might overstate it, but certainly, for a long time Euclidean Geometry was thought to be a statement about an absolute truth that existed in the Universe. There could be no other geometry. Recall the shock and dismay with which the educated public first heard about hyperbolic geometry. If math is always true, they wondered, then how could another geometry exist alongside Euclidean Geometry? It was as if reality had been disproven. It took a long time for the educated public to come round to the view that we could have multiple geometries, each true for certain given assumptions.
The problem is they added a timestamp and people assumed they would not need the full 64 bit ID.

IMO, it's not a bad idea on their part. A 32 bit UNIX timestamp * 2 ^ 32 + a 32 bit sequential id let's them track up to 4.2 billion tweets a second and should work just find up to the year 2106.

Edit: As to why it's a good idea, you can have different systems handing out ID's without stepping on each other’s toes or even talking to each other. The full ID is composed of a timestamp, a worker number, and a sequence number. Granted, I would probably put the sequence number ahead of the worker number so sub second tweets are better ordered vs. being ordered strictly based on the system that generated them.
You are correct in your definition. I thought that's how I explained it.

Beta is volatility relative to the entire market. That's why I said "less volatile to market conditions than an index fund" Basically if the market has a big day, it will move up less than the whole market. Similarly on a down day. I think for both Netflix and Microsoft it's because they have strong brands and recurring revenue streams. They are also less dependent on external funding, so whether the market goes up or down has little impact on their P&L.

The converse, which you pointed out, is that they are highly impacted by non-market risks, which is very big, especially in the case of Netflix. There is a lot of discounting of future cashflows, so if something small happens (like splitting off the CDs business) then it creates a lot of volatility.

I think we're on the same page, no? Should I edit the original to be more precise?
Did you read the article? Of course it would be the same result if they put equal weight in the truck beds. The key is the weight, not the torque.
> The difference between slavery and wages is that one of them is enforced by violence. The other is an offer, that may be taken or left. That difference is supremely important, and makes those things completely incomparable.

Sorry, they're not "completely incomparable." You just selectively pulled out some context for slavery to make that claim, but left the wage-work situation in an idealized context-free zone. The context for wage-work can be starvation or death by exposure, if the offer isn't taken. The fact that there's some side that can be reckoned to have made some nominal choice is not sufficient to legitimize it, just as similar choice is not sufficient to legitimize someone voluntarily selling themselves into chattel slavery. Also, contracts and property rights are enforced by violence, and I highly doubt you think they're illegitimate, so being "enforced by violence" doesn't seem to be that significant of a differentiator here.

If we're supposed to wring our hands about the poor businesses that are unprofitable due to the minimum wage, I see no reason why we should not do so over ones that are unprofitable for other reasons, like slavery, child-labor restrictions, and worker safety laws.

> I mean, I think we're saying the same thing. Those free trade agreements are what enabled the labor to be off-shored, because the labor is cheaper. I don't think we disagree here.

No we're not. Minimum wage laws are minimally relevant to offshoring because the wages in countries were the work moved are simply unlivable in the US.

> No they wouldn't. Nobody takes a job at a wage that causes them to starve and die of exposure. Therefore such jobs do not exist. You take a job so as to avoid starving and dying of exposure. If you are going to starve and die anyway, you might as well not be working.

Exactly. There's no way Americans could compete for jobs on price with Bangladeshis. So in a free trade regime, jobs are going to move to Bangladesh regardless of any American minimum wage laws. By itself, free trade is necessary and sufficient for extensive offshoring of American jobs.
That's not how that logical fallacy works and is also the Fallacy Fallacy[1]. An anecdote is absolutely proof that something is possible, just not that it's common or even statistically likely. Also, showing that something is an anecdote does not automatically invalidate the claim.

However, frozen meat exports from New Zealand alone is BILLIONS of dollars a year so I have no idea what point you are even making.

[1] https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
> Why should their priorities be any different than they are?

Because we are all humans with the same priority, to carry on the species / tribe.

> Who are we to say that someone else's way of relating to their own life and their own concerns is wrong?

Humans don't consider their way of life they act on instinct (of self / human preservation) first and only consider their life upon reflection if at all.

Personally I find it difficult setting aside time to consider my life and even more difficult to reflect and deal with the fact that i'm usually wrong, at first.

I know the average person doesn't bother doing this, maybe they are just way smarter than me and don't need to but more likely they have the same default as me and are wrong and just haven't considered.
Could you put that in context in terms of $$? How much does it cost in aws/gcp/azure to run a 1080 ti for 90 minutes?

Would you say that could be a downside of the single image approach? Rather than feeding images into a generalized model you’re training a whole model per image which is costly to scale?
Moun’s for loops make me angry.
Dunno about F# as I’ve never written it, but Kotlin, while not a bad language, to me mostly feels like Swift with extra syntactic friction points. Among other things, its property getter/setter syntax feels awkward compared to those Swift.
You found the OS X UI "bland and ugly" but caring similarly about the aesthetics of hardware is so inconceivable that it "puzzles the hell" out of you? I think you're getting your party lines crossed.
Remember that the diamond engagement ring expectation only exists in a few countries. In most of northern europe both partners wear identical plain gold rings, for example.
Doesn't the doctrine of "the rapture" as now commonly understood date from about the 1890s?
I've just searched google for:

Bingo cards Generator

Printable bingo cards

Create bingo cards

Bingo Creator

In all of them you are not one of the top 3 results.
It might suggest that a better approach would be to work on your SEO than to increase your ad money.
Chrome Dev 6, all of the demo, except number 5, works.
Is this a joke? There were 13 approved drafts of 802.11n. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n#Timeline
That being the case, then the Mac App store is no longer a key feature of Lion. I suppose then that by releasing the Mac App store now, Apple is increasing demand for the new app launcher in Lion.
Not in the sense I mean. Notice how I talked about supply and demand. In a mass media world, supply of advertising is actually very sharply constrained; a 30-second spot on the Superbowl is in short supply. Banner ads are not in short supply, and the idea that I can use ad-supported hardware to access ad-supported internet to use an ad-supported service like YouTube in which ads will be embedded into the video, and that all of these ads will somehow be profitable and something you can build your business on, is quite different from a world in which there's ten minutes of ad time an hour on three major networks to buy, and a finite amount of newspaper space, etc.
Blogging is seriously under-appreciated due to the media portrayal of all bloggers as narcissistic bloggers. In reality, altruistic blogging is very common and requires a lot of thought and hard work from the blogger, who is essentially a scarcely paid writer (a few exceptions aside).
I read it not as saying startups were reliable

well, I read it as "your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of year"

I read it that way because that's what it says.

Do you know of a reliable way to get rich?

Now you're just changing the subject.
> The single most destructive force in a crash is deflationary pressure which can quickly feed on its self and spiral out of control.

Well, that's part of the Keynesian view yes. I'm personally of the belief that currency-fuckery causes crashes in the first place, and that more currency-fuckery isn't the answer [1].

But let's just say Keynes is right for now. That still doesn't explain why the healthy Clinton/Bush economies had crazy-low interest rates, which was the main cause of this mess.

[1] While it has a humorous spin, the Keynes vs. Hayek rap is incredibly well informed about both positions, and it's pretty easy to follow and entertaining -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
For those who are interested, here's a lengthier explanation I wrote that relates PageRank explicitly to solving the eigenvector equation (Mq = q, in the language of the article):

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/lectures-on-the-google-techno...

Skip past the opening, and down to "Basic Description of PageRank". The article eventually gets somewhat technical, but hopefully this at least helps explain the basics. Incidentally, I don't use the term "eigenvector" in the article, but when we're analysing an equation like Mq =q, that's an eigenvector equation!
Interestingly there's no font-styling (or any css for that matter, he is using tables for christ's sake) on that webpage so the reason you are seeing Serif is because of your web browser more than anything else.
Ah, cool. I'll get that fixed. I used the instructions from http://clearcove.ca/blog/2010/11/how-to-secure-a-rails-app-o... however it must have missed a step.
that was mainly back in the 90s, when people changed email providers and didnt have access to original email addresses anymore.
Wishful thinking. For instance, a recurring theme is to predict a given platform will die (Flash, desktop apps, Apple's App Store, relational databases, etc.). Although I often find myself agreeing with those predictions, the arguments presented often take the form of a wish rather than an evidence based observation.
Ah, the Casey Kelso of the Internet: "I have this thing where I say stuff don't really mean."
That's where red-green TDD and pairing comes in. Unit tests != class level tests.
>so they can't hide malware in the same way that the firmware of USB drives, hard drives, and optical drives can.

There's a reasonable chance that many of these floppy drives are USB devices, so they'll have all of the disadvantages that come with USB drives.

Another approach could be to build a device that sits between a host and a USB drive and verifies that only mass storage operations take place, which should stop some of the badUSB attacks.
> makes me wonder why sleep deprivation is such a large part of the college experience

In my experience, all-nighters were due to a combination of several factors: you start having large projects to do, there is little supervision to ensure you are making steady progress, you are starting to figure out how to organize on your own, and the projects are cooler and more open-ended so the sense of perfectionism is stronger.
TL;DR Microsoft stack and 2 datacentres: NJ and Oregon.
Thankyou for a very informative response!
My reaction to that stuff..
1. Good! 200Mb of extra free memory, but big whoop! (when you have 16 gb)
2. Dont care. I never use multiple monitors, cus I only have one set of eyes.
3. Basically the same stuff as before arranged differently (they have just moved some stuff from msconfig into task manager)
4. That does seem like a good improvement

One thing I had heard was that game performance was better on windows 8 and 8.1 compared to 7. Though after looking up some benchmarks investigating that, it does not seem to be the case. There are some differences either way depending on game/graphics card but they are very minor anyway.

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-8-gaming-perform...

I kept using xp until 7 came out. This is also what industry did. So I'll probably wait until they bring out another one aimed at industry.
"That's absurd!"

You misspelled "American".
I'm not sure either. But at least in by country the leftish parties seem the most interested in protecting consumer rights, which might be a way to go. The libertarians seem more worried about protecting the company's "intellectual property" and include management engines in "their own" products.
This is going to cause so much consternation. The microcontroller hacking community already looks down on the arduino because it is vastly overpowered for what most people use it for.

They think people should be using the arduino as a rapid prototyping system, and then making their own circuit board with the individual components arranged as needed.

They is a constant stream of blog posts looking for ways to get noob arduino hackers to "graduate" to designing their own circuits.

While it all seems terribly unreasonable from the point of view of a software developer used to the idea of a tradeoff between hardware costs vs development time, it is very similar to the programming language wars.

See: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/11/how-the-arduino-won-this-is-h...
I just made the embarrassing mistake of verbally telling my co-workers to visit google.com "whack" offers (instead of saying forward slash or just slash )
Software is not math. If you think otherwise, please state OpenOffice in the form of a theorem and proof. :-)

Seriously, though, software patents do not involve patenting math. They involve patenting at most the use of math in specific circumstances. By the same token, you can't patent physics or chemistry, but you can patent the application of physics (mechanical and electrical devices) and the application of chemistry (drugs).
This is not the sites' fault. AWS promised that different Availability Zones would have no common single points of failure, but AWS broke that promise.

I've written a blog post with more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471899
I'm in one now. It's nice, but I've sat in other chairs that are $250 that are also quite nice -- not as nice, but decently close.

However, those $250 dollar chairs only seem to last me ~2 years.

A side note that does make a difference: The $250 chairs are at home and my children are _quite_ hard on them.
If you sit at a desk all day, a good chair is absolutely worth the money. Desk workers are prone to get back problems from sitting all day long. Programmers more so, because we try to get "in the zone" -- and once we're there, we don't get up or move around much.

A high-end chair will probably last for ten years, so you're talking maybe $100 per year. Compare that to the cost of regular massage, or chiropractic, or back surgery, and it's clearly a good return-on-investment.

But the Aeron isn't the only good chair around. I learned this back in 2006 when I was planning on buying an Aeron too. I stopped by a brick-and-mortar HealthyBack store (http://www.healthyback.com) to try out the Aeron, but I tried out the competition too. I wound up buying a Nightingale CXO chair instead. It wasn't as trendy, but it fit my body frame a lot better than the ones people usually mention online. It's important to do this comparison shopping in person, because our bodies are each very different and you need a chair that feels right for you.
And even if you had decided it was worth the cost, multiple AZs broke, which AWS promised wouldn't happen.
Oh I agree. It comes down to law enforcement on every level always abusing every power they are ever given, far beyond the original purpose - doesn't matter if they are left or right thinking, federal, state or local. It's just always surprising to see the left do it because it seems counterintuitive.

I also think Senator Obama would be completely freaking out at President Obama.
Hi, thanks for the feedback.
Currently you decide when the test is over and at the end you can save the result (to compare it with the future ones) or start a new session.
Trying to get as many eyes on videos as possible has no correlation with the quality of video.
Because those that would be regulated and forced to pay for these negative externalities make the rules. Oil and gas companies simply pay off the regulators and it costs them orders of magnitude less than the actual damage they cause to the world.
just click the lock button on the workout resistance (can't be live workout)
Yes, thanks! Something like this.
How about some in-depth analysis of student's mistakes?..
This was first posted without https and with www in 2013. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6756360
Of course the government was spying on everyone since before 9/11. This whole terrorist boogeyman show has happened before, except they were called communists then, and the time was the red scare. Only thing that has changed is that it is much easier for the government to spy on and track the population now since they all seem to be carrying smartphones.

Quit carrying smartphone except for business.
Quit carrying ID...this is legal here, unless I am driving or going to a bar.
Started using cash/btc for everything.
Emailed myself a list of the flagged gov terms.
*Use TOR and Tails to visit certain websites that the men in funny hats might not approve of, and to talk about certain things that they might not approve of.

Wonder if I'll get raided by government thugs...

It is curious that there was not on-demand admin access to any windows/mac os install among the docs that Snowden leaked, maybe Greenwald is saving that for another couple weeks.

Oh and for kicks here's something for the NSA bots to chew through, "Assassination, Attack, Domestic Security, Drill, Exercise, Cops, Law Enforcement Authorities, Hazmat, Nuclear, Los Zetas, Snowden, gPGP, DDOS, Hamas, Bulgaria, Jericho, Chemical spill, Cloud, Bacteria, H5N1, 32D3, F2H3, Toxic, Government, Tyrant, Roman empire, Bread and circuses, Avian, CKIR, Subway, Snowcrash, Moon landings, Area 51, Government, Idiots, Orwell, Gas Mask, Hurcles, Windows backdoor, UNIX, Hackers."
Maybe there's some truth in this...

It's scratching those little itches that often times leads to a business, while many times, the business first product 2nd leads to pivot, after pivot, after pivot.

I think both work, and the answer lies in the middle. Scratch your itch, and then see if it can become something bigger. I think Balsamiq is a great example of this.
Interesting that there's not one mention of what ultimately did it: the fire. Nor is there "fuel" anywhere. Most seem to be thinking that the impact alone would topple the building.

Methinks they need some architecture and physics lessons. Planes may be fast, but they're light. Their momentum is nowhere near that of a building.
There's simplifying, and misleading.

The only thing node.js does that other frameworks don't, is uses javascript as a language syntax.
Not at all. The article mentions David Heinemeier Hansson but it completely misunderstands DHH's philosophy, if anything DHH in favor of this kind of approach- working on the side along with a stable job until you are reasonably confidant that your app has traction at which point you can jump onto your app and monetize it. There really is no point in trying to "build a business" when you don't even know your idea is even remotely feasable. The kind of obsessive tunnel vision about "building a business" is a waste of time of the programmer.
Yes, but even criminals talk. If there were a string of busts and the item connecting them all was the fact that Tor was used by the criminals then it would be an easy conclusion to say that Tor has been compromised.

Most of the CP cases are done with a lot social engineering. Instead of having some sort of super router that can sniff through all the packets its just a bunch of LEOs in an office trying to gain the confidence of the criminals.
> When an integer is cast to pointer in those schemes, the pointer can become invalid

Doesn't that mean the compilers are non-compliant? uintptr_t is defined in terms of supporting round-trip conversions, no?
You're right that the searching and sorting methods discussed are elementary, but note that the article is about how to prove the correctness of the methods (validity and termination); so it's not just the usual fare about binary search and insertion sort - the article's treatment of those methods actually builds on the transition system theory developed at the beginning. That said, this note is indeed used for CS 101 at Aarhus University - more specifically, it's used in the "Algorithms and Data Structures" course that first year CS students go through.
I finished this game three times and I just came back after months? and I stopped midway at Data Flip-Flop and my save state is still there.
This is exactly the sort of plausible just-so story I would expect from QI.

On another episode, Stephen Fry explains with no doubt equal earnestness that the fins on a Saturn V rocket are there to generate lift as it travels through the atmosphere.

It's fun, as any panel show helmed by Fry certainly would be. But you don't want to put too much faith in what you hear on it, at least in advance of checking with a credible source.
Absolutely. April 2020. Lost the job because I couldn't do anything but go from my bed to work, no gym, no social, no stimulation from life. Somehow writing React components that render react components didn't suffice. Also I didn't respect my manager. But now it's better because I can do those things.
You are welcome to propose a better method
Not really.

But I transitioned into it from a one year sabbatical in 2014.

The job I had before was full-time employment in an open office. I never procrastinated more in my life.

Currently, I'm self-employed and work from home. Now, I simply work explicitly less and take time off more often, so the procrastination turned to something more enjoyable.
Well I got the shaft. Early August birthday, nearly the youngest in my grade, public school.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that your own body is your best experimental lab, and that you should pay attention to what works FOR YOU and keep a diary. Other people's experience is good for giving you ideas of things to try, but people vary considerably, and you will find your own experience changes from week to week, as well as evolving over time.
I think the comparison to Windows is a stretch because Windows does not push ads in the system tray and because anything in the system tray is generally identifiable to the user and frequently configured with modest effort by the user as well (though a developer can certainly take steps to make it a royal pain in the ass - printer manufacturers come to mind).
Great to see you in TC talking about Tetuan Valley. Keep growing!
I concur with authors opinion of MBA. The 13in MBA is the best computer I've ever owned. My current Mac Lineup consists of:

* Latest gen 13in MBA
* 17in MBP (~1yr) work paid for it
* 13in Black Macbook (loved this one too!)
* Mac Pro (totally pimped out) work paid for it
* 3rd gen mac mini

The only machine I use now is the MBA. It is everything a Web Dev needs, great resolution, fast, travels well. It even plays Minecraft quite well. The only thing I'd ask for in the 3rd gen models is a back-lit keyboard. Love this machine.

Edit:

Best accessory I've purchased http://www.luxurylapdesk.com/index.php
TV rocks!
Then Zynga(18) is worth less than Geezeo(16), which ain't the case!