jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would avoid generalizing about black people in America. You might be thinking about "the black urban underclass". Those people are very different from "black investment bankers".
If you're curious and want to try it out on a modern system, there's an excellent DS version: http://www.amazon.com/Chrono-Trigger-Nintendo-DS/dp/B001E27D...

One of the greatest RPGs of all time, in my opinion.
Thanks for the detailed advice Jordan. It's good to know that we're not completely crazy in doing this (just partially). I'm also glad to see that even if the first time didn't work out, you learned an incredible amount and are going to give it another shot. Best of luck!

For our situation specifically, we discussed a bunch of non-terminal options with our employer. This included staying at the job with new incentives, consulting, and prolonging our departure. We also have been given the speech of "call me when you guys need a job again" by them as well.

However, in the end, we think that forcing ourselves, by leaving behind the comforts of a 9-5, is the best way to learn, fail at some things, and hopefully succeed in the end.
I think that issacs is missing the part where other people try to read his code. We put semicolons at the end of each statement, even though it's shorter to leave them out, because it's how JavaScript is written, and how others are comfortable reading it. We spell English correctly, even though it's full of meddlesome "ou"s and "gh"s, because that's the way English is spelled. In fact, issacs' proposed semicolon-less, comma-first style reminds me of Mark Twain's "Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling":

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to
be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be
part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained
would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take
the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it
with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears
6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist
konsonants.

Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez c, y and x — bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez — tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev
a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
"entrepreneurship" inherently favours those who can take risks - which means those who are already financially secure, or from privileged backgrounds where they can be sure of finding a new job quickly. It favours those who can get money from VC, which is very much an old-boys club. And it favours the kind of businesses that make a profit quickly, whatever their other effects.
"but on the other hand..."

This is how you can tell that madness lies that way.
To some extent they are the same, and to other extents they are not. That is why they are two different words, with some conceptual overlap. Anonymity is a type of privacy, and privacy (in the US at least) is a concept that appears in the US constitution and in subsequent jursiprudence.
Apparently I had tried messing with some other environment variables earlier, but this one didn't do it either. It shouldn't be this hard to tell a GPU to slow down when it draws things.
>I think many comments here miss the point.

Is there an area of study that looks at how people discuss things? Including, but not limited to misunderstanding/miscommunication dealing with things analogies, thought experiments, and the like? So that you could make predictions. For example, since "story A" used analogies "B and C", then we'd expect ~50% of the commentators on said article will fixate on B, since that is their favorite topic, and they never tire of discussing B, even if it is purely incidental the point of the article. So you could potentially tailor your article help minimize misunderstandings. Micro-sociology or maybe some sort of specific behavioral psychology?

>I’d be grateful for any references to articles on this topic that can be understood by non-experts.

I liked:

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/cmystery.pdf

"...From his reply to EPR, we find that Bohr's position was like this: 'You may decide of you own free will, which experiment to do. If you do experiment E1 you will get Result R1. If you do E2 you will get R2. Since it is fundamentally impossible to do both on the same system, and the present theory correctly predicts the results of either, how can you say that the theory is incomplete? What more can one ask of a theory?'

While it is easy to understand and agree with this on the epistemological level, the answer that I and many others would give is that we expect a physical theory to do more than merely predict experimental results in the manner of an empirical equation; we want to come down to Einstein's ontological level and understand what is happening when an atom emits light, when a spin enters a Stern-Gerlach magnet, etc. The Copenhagen theory, having no answer to any question of the form: 'What is really happening when - - -?', forbids us to ask such questions and tries to persuade us that it is philosophically naive to want to know what is happening. But I do want to know, and I do not think this is naive; and so for me QM is not a physical theory at all, only and empty mathematical shell in which a future theory may, perhaps, be built."

...and...

"The Chaotic Ball: An Intuitive Analogy for EPR Experiments"

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611037

...but that probably only raises more questions, rather than providing answers.
Interesting could you elaborate?
I'm not sure how making your wireless network open is the "socially responsible" thing to do anymore then letting strangers come in and use your bathroom at will is.

Sure, most people won't cause any harm, but it only takes one asshole (or too many people taking advantage) to make it a nightmare for you.
It's only enabled on Windows in this release. If you're on Linux or Mac that will probably why you are seeing the setting is defaulting to false.
Direct link to pledgie: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14034
That's a metaphor.
One trick I found for researching competitors (once you know they're competitors):
- Do a linkedin search for the competitive company
- Pull the names of the CTO and senior technical staff
- Do a patent search based on those names
Tumble is 10 to 15 people with billions of page views. They could choose to be profitable tomorrow with one google ad on the dashboard. Definitely a company to watch...
I think someone ought to pitch building a hospital to the Iroquois League. They already issue passports, rejecting health law seems in line with tribal sovereignty claims. I'm sure a US-located low cost hospital could dwarf other income sources like gambling and tourism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_passport
Nice syntax? C++ gurus have ascended above that a long time ago.

Nice compiler error messages are the real thing now.

Seriously: I feel the need to express something in a concise and somewhat beautiful way to be a large part of C++ culture and partly a reason for so many people shying away from less expressive languages. Some of the Boost libraries are even centered around the whole idea and required a lot of effort (see Boost::assign).
I felt the same way about my Facebook messages. Before they released the archive tool, I wrote this:

http://fb.quadhome.com/

I wonder if, since the Chrome extension is Javascript, it could be injected into a bookmarklet and made to run on anyone's browser...
This question is funny to me because before Heroku, Rails was universally considered a complete bitch to try and deploy, and PHP was universally considered the easiest system to deploy.
Excellent. I'd also recommend
"Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007NZU848?ie=UTF8&redirectFro...
Faster flight times are like better fuel mileage. Once you reach a decent result, it's harder to justify more. With gas mileage, once I get about 35 miles per gallon, the cost of better exceeds any likely benefit. Once we can travel anywhere in about 24 hours or less, it's hard to justify the cost of better.

In general, there is an economic optimum for most solutions. It's fuzzy because factors like comfort come into play. But it's there. It's a company's job to find it.
> but how can we know for sure that it's intrinsic randomness?

We can't be sure (even though Luboš Motl disagrees). The universe may not be intrinsically random if superdeterminism is true. However, this isn't a popular idea in physics; in fact Gerard t'Hooft is the only Nobel prize winner I can think of that supports this idea.

Local hidden variable theories have almost all been ruled out by experiment in the last few decades (the same kind of theory Einstein was trying to find). There's still some loopholes, but, eh...

Colbeck and Renner have written a pretty powerful paper that given the assumption that measurements can be chosen freely, no extension of QM can have improved predictive power than the current theory of QM, regardless of whether this randomness "comes" from somewhere. Here's the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5173
Portfolio looks interesting, Life360 is big.
Unfortunately, this website is poorly designed to put it lightly.

I get that one of the founders really likes Lovecraft, but spend some money and do the website right instead of finding cthulu pictures off of google images and pasting them into a template.
Federally subsidized student loans charge the same interest rate regardless of the student's major or academic record, effectively giving the largest subsidies to students with poor academic records majoring in subjects that are not rewarded in the job market. This does not make sense and would not happen in a private loan market where lenders bore the cost of defaults.
Memorization is valuable for learning music and speaking performances. You can't add style and flourish to something you don't know. I'd argue you can't reason about things effectively without knowing them "by heart," either.

I do partially agree with another commenter here on Foucalt's quote about universities and education being the tools of one class levered against another, insomuch as you can apply that power relationship to literally anything, not because it's rigorous or meaningful, but because it is sufficiently abstract. Similar to comments I've made here about how "graph based," solutions to certain problems are not new solutions, as anything you can express (encode) as objects and morphisms is going to have "graph," properties. Foucalt and other post-modern (Marcuse, Derrida, etc.) writers simply characterized that simple encoding in a moralistic power oppressor/victim narrative instead of a logical one.

The public curriculum is the bare minimum, and parents and family provide the enrichment to basic education. The outcomes are going to be unequally distributed, but at least a public curriculum raises the boats.
As an aside I really feel like LibreOffice had a lot of momentum back in the day, but when the whole OpenOffice/LibreOffice debacle occurred due to the Oracle purchase, the confusion of the branch (into LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice) just pulled the rug out.

That combined with lack of innovative/unique features and a UI that is essentially unchanged since Office 95, and it is hard to argue why someone should use LO/OO instead of MSO. For example, what is the USP? Free is one, but is that the only one?
Really interesting and effective way to lay out the results of so many tests here.

https://openbenchmarking.org/embed.php?i=1911248-HU-THREADRI...
Individual anecdotes are not meaningful but cherry picked stories from specific google searches is a-ok? (Try searching for "stories about dalit success" and see if you are willing to change/rebase your viewpoint based on that - just like you originally did with a different search.) Nobody said it's a solved problem - but denying that things are much better than they used to be is just biased nonsense.
I have been using open office quite a while and it just perfectly works for me
the plan part is a really interesting idea.
One of the really nice things I found about MUDs was how surprisingly accessible they were for creating your own content. I taught myself to program on an LPMUD, and the multi user nature of MUDs taught me a fair bit about optimising code, even for simple class abilities for characters, since they were typically run on underpowered boxes that people had brought in and dumped on a university network, and when players find out that some times can make the server chug for everyone else by using abilities, they will and encourage others to do so as well :)

Uni taught me a lot about the theory of the things that I'd learned in practice previously through MUDs.
Well barring effective virtualization, booting into Windows disables supernode functionality on Windows and MacOSX in the same sense that a brownout does
The trick is that perfection is usually overrated. Just like human experts, you can be the best at what you do, but you don't need to be the best ever (especially considering future experts).

That's also the key difference between science and engineering. In engineering, you need a good-enough solution, but you are not so concerned with proving that there is possible better implementation.
Wow, Ballmer must be pretty tired by now
Now if someone made a Cappuccino like framework on top of CoffeeScript instead of Objective-J I'd be in heaven :)

Out of curiosity, what are you making?
Congrats on the release! Here's hoping for a CoffeeScriptConf in 2011
I've never invested in derivatives. Can't say that I plan to, either.
Thanks for this Jeremy and everyone who contributed. I've held off really coming to grips with javascript because I found it ugly and full of too many gotchas. But Coffeescript has got rid of all those excuses!
You just inspired me to buy Anathem (by Neal Stephenson) and read it over the break... thanks!
What about "..%2F..%2F" or "..\..\" or "..%5C..%5C"? In Java, you also need watch out for NULL (%00) in the path as well since java.io.File disregards anything after the null (most just test to see if filename ends with "ext" where ext is considered "safe", which is a huge error).

Don't ever allow the client to specify a filename; use an indirect reference such as a uuid. If you must, always perform path normalization and/or only allow alphanumeric characters.
I've found my MBP worth the price for the following reasons:

- I enjoy the 8 hour battery life (This alone may have been worth it)

- The light up keyboard

- The feel of the keyboard

- It can drive my high resolution external display

- The screen works outside in the sun

- Extra large track pad, with gesture recognition

- It's thin

- The speaker quality
Why can't they do both? This doesn't cost them a cent unless they hire someone, and if it's the same price a recruiter would charge, they've nothing to lose by doing both.
I just checked out your blogs. Would you mind sharing which blog drives the most revenue, and what the mix is from Amazon, Google, & other sources? I've blogged on & off for the last few years, and the prospect of making some money off it might motivate me to do it more regularly.
There's also the possibility that this comes more from the change in atmosphere than the particular atmosphere that you change to. Maybe for some people here the change to an atmosphere of ambient sociability is just more of a contrast than the alternatives they've tried.

I've heard and have a lot of anecdotal evidence that would suggest this, but of course that's anecdotal evidence. However, I think most of the answers here are influenced at least somewhat by this.

Thoughts?
It is a classic case of The Vulcan vs the Ferengi.

Programmers are fact base thinkers,unfortunately this skill makes us poor negotiators.
Hiring top people from EA is precisely the wrong way to increase game quality.
> An opinionated prescriptive guide is what I need then.

Indeed; it gives the default values for lots of things in the program / build environment / revision control, etc.

One might of course later decide to change some of these settings, but one can be sure that none of the default settings are outright insane or likely to lead you up the garden path.

I suspect one of the reasons Lisp hasn't broken out of being a niche language is that there is no default value to the question: Which Lisp shall I learn/use?
I tried to submit my city, but it didn't do anything. I checked for JS errors, but surprisingly there were none.
Second the idea that my programming output has declined in terms of quality as I focus more on business related aspects. It forces you to look at everything in context -- better code quality gets you more maintainability, but at what cost? Every decision I now make has a trade-off; as a programmer, I can afford to throw more time to elegantly solve a problem. As an entrepreneur, I just need it to work as well as I've defined, for a specific cost.

Great Baggins reference as well.
The books I listed are only tangentially about Lisp. They are fundamental texts on the craft of programming. The same way that Concept Techniques and Models of Computer Programming is not really about Mozart/Oz.
This is more of a question, but how do you know which state a city that a user submits is for? I guess you don't really care about the limited city submissions for small cities as much as the metro areas, e.g. Phoenix vs. Tempe.
Thanks for that link. I did a bit of reading, and found this [1].

> These are the main bottlenecks when scaling Meteor, and they introduce two main issues: 1. The polling and comparing logic takes a lot of CPU power and network I/O. 2. After a write operation, there is no way to propagate changes to other Meteor instances in real-time. Changes will only be noticed the next time Meteor polls (~10 seconds).

This seems like quite a limitation. So I wonder if there are any libraries out there that successfully solved this?

[1] https://meteorhacks.com/does-meteor-scale.html
My response was a bit of a throwaway pointing out that humans and lab animinals have rather converged in our lifestyles. What is more of a problem is the observation that human ageing has slowed rather dramatically in an evolutionary short time. The concern is that we have evolved this slower ageing physiology via a few simple adaptions (the low hanging fruit) and these are not reflected in the animal models.

The fear is that when we use animal models the interventions we find in them will not apply to humans because we are already utilising these strategies naturally. For example, the level of Uric acid in humans is very high, so high that it tends to precipitate out in the extremities causing gout. One theory of why we have such high levels of Uric acid in our bloodstream is because it is protecting us from age related damage - it is one of the simple 'hacks' that we use to age slowly.

Getting to your question there is some concern that calorie restriction won't work in humans for the same reason - we are already using the same pathways activated by calorie restriction in lab animals.
It might work better to tell your own story about using Racket. How do you work with data structure literals? Perhaps you've found that Racket's built in functions are good enough. In that case, maybe show an example demonstrating that fear is unwarranted.

Trying to please everyone—or convince everyone—is not a fruitful method of language advocacy.
Bah, that kind of money should be spent. Would you rather he sit on it or bought stocks and T-bills? Before you say he should spend it charitably, I honestly don't think it is easy to donate tens, or hundreds, of millions of dollars in a way where you could be sure it would be put to proper use, unless, or even if, you made it your full time job.

Besides, I'm fairly sure Notch will put part of those billions towards worthy causes.
> Streisand effect

An American concept. Foreign to Chinese Legalism. Do note that "Free Speech" doesn't exist over there as a concept.
The battery bit I am with you. I don't understand for example why people complain that smartphones need to be charged every day. It's not that much of an inconvenience. Please, just plug in your phone.

On the other hand, a product's being new does not entitle it to soft treatment in a review. Even without the battery issue, it sounds like this device is not ready for prime time.
Two things: First, they haven't published the actual rules yet, so no one really knows what devil is in the details. (My guess is the rules are published on Christmas Eve...which tells you something about how they think they'll go over.)

Second, the rules will be challenged in court and it's entirely possible they will be overturned. This is because the FCC somewhat inexplicably backed down on an earlier promise to reclassify the Internet as a telecommunications service. As such, their legal authority for regulating it is a bit shaky.
Apparently Salesforce is getting their own AppSumo YC Bundle
That's not a bug, that's an optimization. I think I made this change around 9 months ago.
have a buildbot/jenkins set up which runs your test suite on a buildslave automatically when you push to a git branch?

I would still run my editor locally (your pick. I use vim almost exclusively).
Vast majority of websites integrate facebook or google or both their SDKs.

But they don't work with them. They have to it in order to run ads and as result to survive.
Recipes and menu listings are not. The artistic layout of the menu is.

Disclaimer: IANAL
More like 10 million pages of books, Reading 10K pages does not mean one stole all the knowledge.
This contamination of test data from the training data reminds me of "Overly Optimistic Prediction Results on Imbalanced Data: a Case Study of Flaws and Benefits when Applying Over-sampling" [1] where almost 50% of the 24 peer-reviewed studies that use machine learning based on a particular publicly-available dataset, were claiming near-perfect accuracy at predicting the risk of pre-term birth for a patient, but were actually testing (accidentally) on training data.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06296
Ah that sounds familiar but I must have forgotten. It looks like the arbitrators are reinventing class action lawsuits (which makes sense). Of course that doesn't do anything to fix the larger issue of the huge conflict of interest.
My first (and apparently last, now) LG phone was a V30. It's currently my main driver and I have no plans to get rid of it.

It has expandable storage, a headphone jack, a full screen with a very thin chin and forehead, a decent camera, loud speakers, a good fingerprint reader, FM radio, a battery that still gets me through a full day easily, and almost everything I want from a phone at what was a very competitive price.

The only thing it's really missing for me is a software update. If there was any hope for that before, there is certainly none now.

The only thing that appears to come close to being a suitable replacement is the ROG Phone 5 but it's expensive, lacks expandable storage, and I've heard bad things about ASUS's software support.

As excited as I am for the PinePhone and Linux smartphones in general, I don't see that being a viable main driver for at least three or four more years - probably longer. Maybe I can keep my V30 going until then...
The article is specifically about a blind person, so clearly service animals are not well accepted by many Uber drivers.