jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Since the beginning of time, people have anthropomorphized any and every thing that is complex enough to be beyond a person's understanding. Being equivalent to a human mind is the default assumption for anything. If it was a wrong assumption when applied to storms, volcanoes, Babbage's machine, Clever Hans, ELIZA, and a billion other things, then why would you assign any weight to most claims that something requires intelligence?

It makes me think of the saying about atheism, that an atheism disbelieves just one more god out of thousands than a (mono)theist. You disbelieve in intelligence in very nearly all of the things it's been used to explain.
He's really are beautiful and inspiring structures. The challenge for commercializing these methods is that they are very hard to get certified and brought up to building codes. When I lived on the big island of Hawaii I have a lot of friends who were building really cool stuff with bamboo but found that when they went to actually get the building permits there were only a few types of joinery which were allowed for actual legal residential or commercial buildings.
This reminded me of the excellent "What color are your bits" article about the absurdity of copyright in the digital space.

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
>His methods were in keeping with his approach to philosophy: he did not lay claim to any special authority and instead of expounding facts and theories he asked his pupils questions and left them to work out the answers for themselves. When Hermine happened to see him at work she marvelled at his capacity to hold their attention.

It sounds that he, quite before anyone else, had discovered the secret of teaching. Frederick Wiseman, a famous documentarian, produced a couple documentary films titled High School and High School 2. The first documented a typical suburban high school in the US. The second documented an experimental high school in an urban, low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood. The second school was notable in that it went on to produce the largest proportion of students to not only attend college but to finish and acquire 4-year degrees in the nation. The 'experiment' they were trying was quite simple - every single class, regardless subject, was centered totally around critical thinking. No teacher taught by fiat. They served instead to aid and guide students as they explored the concepts being taught through relentless questioning, all including the teachers bound to the rational method.

It's unfortunate that this method of teaching demands a tremendous amount of integrity and knowledge on the part of teachers. I don't know that it would be particularly difficult for someone invested in the endeavor, but for a teacher used to ruling like a mini dictator and able to punish students for questioning their edicts it must be intolerable.
Oh yes, she was emailing a copy of her stuff to “herself”.
What's the virtue they're signalling?
Written version: https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-...

Counterpoint: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191122/00412943432/sacha...
https://www.handshake.org/

Handshake Name Service (HNS) is working on this problem from an interesting angle, with some significant institutional support.
> stolen out from under us.

Who is "us"?

The internet is available to more people in more countries than ever before. There's more content on the internet than ever before. It's a part of every day life for nearly everyone in the world.

That's what's happening to the internet. It's no longer a corner where quirky tinkerers were the only ones who could access it.

And the promise of the internet was never to be just that.

It was meant to be a vehicle for humanity (along with all it's warts). That's what you're seeing. The rest of humanity coming on-line.

The attitude of "this isn't what it was meant to be" presumes that it was meant to be anything at all. Similar to a kid that doesn't want to share their legos with the rest of the class.
Capitalism, and also every other aspect of human life. People get riled up about peripheral issues like Citizens United, but they're uncomfortable considering the basic problem. Corporations are creations of the state. Their every quality, including their existence, is contingent upon continuous government action to protect and sustain them. Some government somewhere should try just not doing that anymore.
> We tend to forget that Microsoft ALREADY did what these "startups" did. MSFT already pushed the envelope and changed the way we use technology in our day to day lives.

We tend to forget that IBM did that in a previous era.

Another example that "in the end companies will seek profit and stability" and be an "enterprise software company"
There are more Italian restaurants funded every year than there are technology startups as a whole. But if you take "startup" to mean "technology startup" you're talking about the same thing I am.

And almost all of these startups were funded by VCs early on. Crowdfunding will replace VCs as it becomes possible for people to get equity in exchange for funding. Your average person is more than clever enough to invest $500 in Dropbox the day it launches as a video on Digg. Only a broken system stops them from being able to profit the way already rich investors do today.

In the same way that Uber didn't replace taxis, crowdfunding will not replace VCs, it will surpass them. The crowd has far more money and are themselves the ultimate judge of what's good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfun...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2014/03/26/equity-cr...
It's just my own view that I developed based on everything I've experienced. It can't be boiled down to a single assumption, or a single piece of empirical evidence. I studied economics so I'm very influenced by economic theory. But on the other hand so called "network effects" do imply that suboptimal technologies can become dominant. In practice, I don't think that languages usually become dominant purely by network effects. They need to have a real advantage.

To take a concrete example, Python has very user friendly syntax. This allows people to quickly iterate on code. Another advantage of Python is its complete standard library, and availability of other libraries. But these things probably would not have existed if Python was not such an efficient language to program in.
"Joel Seligstein, a Facebook engineer, is relieved he no longer needs to keep track of which friends like texts vs. email vs. chat."

Joel seems to wrongly assume that the preference is defined by the person alone. Whereas more often than not, the medium is defined by the nature of the message and the sender _is_ the best judge. - It is an opaque abstraction to not let me choose the medium to deliver in.
3.1421 here :) That was a happy accident. At least it wasn't approaching e.
Generally yes (but not at astronomical scales), when everyone shares the same frame of reference. Moreover the star and earth in all likelihood don't share the same frame of reference.

The distance between the two of us is very tiny. The error in simultaneity between the two of us would be the time it takes a light ray to travel between the two of us. 84 milliseconds in the worst case. So I cannot have a -1 or +5 in age difference with you. The wiggle room is around 84 ms.

If you are 1 light year away, the wiggle room now expands to 1 year! Depending on the observer I am 0 or +1 years older than you.

On astronomical scales the wiggle room is quite huge. For example there is a frame of reference in which the blackhole celebrates its 30th birthday AFTER the year 2009. When such a frame exists it does not make sense to say that the star is now 50M years old. There is no notion of simultaneity. The word "now" is profoundly misleading. There is no absolute time.

Lets say you are a soldier that drops a bomb that kills 30 people. However from your POV you see only 3 dead people. You cannot claim that in your frame of reference only 3 people died. You can only say "I saw 3 dead people". In reality 30 people died. Similarly, there are innumerable frames of reference in which the 30th birthday of the blackhole occured after the year 2009 on earth. So it is misleading to say that the star is now 50M years old.
in response to bretthellman: Zuckerberg is sharp, and he filled a user need with the status update / news feed. But now he's hired a bunch of superhackers, and they are tending to solve superhacker problems. The problem is that superhacker problems are not the same as real user problems. This is the difference between Apple & most other tech companies.
While kind of you to share this datapoint, the fact that there are 5 times more lines of C than Haskell is a bit less than compelling. Especially considering the fact that Haskell can achieve c-like performance (ie: not necessarily a glue language).

Good on you for using it in production though, that's more than most of us have achieved, I'm sure.
I disagree that Apple have a low-risk strategy, remember the iPod mini? this thing was wildly successful and yet Apple killed it and replaced it with the nano. I can't think of another company that would take that kind of risk.

And although it may not seem so today - launching a glass-fronted phone with a single button, was seen by many to be completely nuts.
'In my dressing room, I don't want any brown M&Ms!'

When you are perceived to be a rock star, people are willing to accommodate even seemingly non-sensical requests. Google wants a 3.75+ GPA, thats what they get. Google wants XYZ cert, thats what they get. Google take 5 months to hire you, so be it. It may piss people off individually, but as long as there is a steady stream of applicants, it doesn't immediately impact Google.

Of course the more truly talented, qualified people they dick around with and piss off, the more their reputation begins to slide from 'the best' to 'eccentric' to 'ridiculous'. I think Google is now experiencing some repurcussions that to them seems like a 'talent war'.
3 years for men, 2 years for women. And such security jobs are more easily gained by people who served a bit longer (i.e. signed up for another year or two of paid service, after the compulsory one ended)
Don't forget about the unwritten 'real policy', as opposed to the actual policy:

>Every training program has a “hidden curriculum” (the way things are actually done around here, as opposed to what the policies say or what the administrators told you during that interminable orientation). One of them — passed down from senior residents to the newbies — was, “Ignore all the alerts.”
Wall Street and "The Media" rank lower, substantially, than even the NSA. So it's still hyperbolic, to say the least.

The millennials are distrustful of everyone, and why shouldn't they be?
I don't see how Dropbox wins this. Dropbox isn't going to be able to beat Amazon on price reselling Amazon's own cloud. Dropbox doesn't have any complements, like Google does with Google Docs and Gmail and Android or Microsoft has with Windows and Office or Amazon has with their MP3 marketplace and their Fire devices. It's the whole Jobs thing with 'you're a feature, not a product.'
I really enjoyed the comparison with brutalism here. One of the goals of brutalism was to show off how large public spaces could be constructed for and by the masses out of basic materials. Really fits in with the intent of the lined project!
Awesome! Thanks for the video. The frequency in which it changes position is really interesting. Didn't realize the movement involved.
Your post has been downvoted because you used the R-word. Did you not get the memo from the NYT journalist recently?
If you vote for the right people, and advocate enough, you can get a congressional inquiry into the issue, a change in the law, or a precedent-setting court ruling. Point me to analogous outcomes under the Chinese system.
> Your anecdote doesn't apply here so it isn't a counterpoint.

Sure it does. When I was 16, despite knowing what I wanted to do, I succumbed to pressure from my parents and other family to 'try different things', which held me back.

> She won't be attending High School as her parents have withdrawn her.

Read, don't skim. She will attend classes to focus on development, while completing high school requirements online.

> Mostly with people much older than her.

So? My brother went to trade school and learned how to fix cars with people much older. My sister went to trade school and learned to be a hair stylist with people much older.

Like it or not, with industry looking to automate away the vast majority of blue collar work, software development skills will become a basic skill requirement and blue collar workers will be implementing the rules that automation follows, while white collar software development jobs will be the work creating the automation systems. (This is a massive simplification of some of the changes, but hey, I have a day job so I can't spend all day commenting :D)

Bottom line, the student will get a high school diploma, a marketable skill set, and a chance to be an early adopter of the disruptive changes to primary and secondary education that have been coming over the last generation.
> Outside of high school where are you going to meet new friends?

Sports clubs, theatre clubs, Scouts, neighbours, Homeschooling groups...
This is very confused "Internet economics" take on the issue.

Money in band account that is not used is just a number. As Fed puts more money into the economy, the velocity of money decreases as the money is used less. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

Federal Reserve can increase and decrease effective money supply as it pleases. Money supply does not determine the prices as we have learned over last two decades.

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Edit: some real issues affecting stock price valuation.

(1) Global savings glut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_saving_glut

(2) low real interest rates, typically measured as yields on inflation-indexed government bonds https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFII10 If real interest rate is 10%, only this years earnings matter. If the interest rate is very low or negative, like they are now, time horizons grow accordingly.

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Edit2. "real" things in economy are things like real output.

The level of goods and services produced depends on the factors of production. How much capital, labor, level of technology rather than the amount of currency circulating. This means that the money supply can't affect the real level of output in the long run.
pay real money and read the FT
Why can’t we force containers to be made of the same plastic?

Or use a better material, eg aluminium. I’ve seen aluminium bottles with aluminium caps. I realise the lining is plastic, but that little bit of plastic has to be better than a plastic bottle.
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http://piwik.org/ , you may need to host it on your own servers.
Yes, it is.

I had a problem one time, as I'd authorized my iPod one too many times on many different computers, and forgot to deauthorize the iPod on them. I contact Audible and they reset the authorizations back to 5 without a problem. At the same time, they also let me download the audiobooks again if I want, even if they get a new, higher quality version in.

I look at Audible as Steam for books. Steam is DRM I'm willing to accept. So is Audible.

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not dismissing your comment. It's a valid and reasonable point.

I should also point out that the cost of books through Audibles subscriptions are massively lower than if I bought them from a retailer. The cost is significantly lower that the DRM doesn't feel unreasonable.
I like that the fact that once the ferry arrives at Rosyth it sends you up the Forth and over the Kincardine Bridge rather than over the Forth Road bridge that you would have just sailed under.
That's not an accurate description of the research that has been done in the field. There's certainly not "more evidence for the biological side". Mathematical performance on standardized testing is quite similar (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/321/5888/494). When people read that study many are quick to point out that there is greater variance for men than for women, however other studies suggest (http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801) that could certainly be attributed to cultural factors. Just read the abstract:

"Using contemporary data from the U.S. and other nations, we address 3 questions: Do gender differences in mathematics performance exist in the general population? Do gender differences exist among the mathematically talented? Do females exist who possess profound mathematical talent? In regard to the first question, contemporary data indicate that girls in the U.S. have reached parity with boys in mathematics performance, a pattern that is found in some other nations as well. Focusing on the second question, studies find more males than females scoring above the 95th or 99th percentile, but this gender gap has significantly narrowed over time in the U.S. and is not found among some ethnic groups and in some nations. Furthermore, data from several studies indicate that greater male variability with respect to mathematics is not ubiquitous. Rather, its presence correlates with several measures of gender inequality. Thus, it is largely an artifact of changeable sociocultural factors, not immutable, innate biological differences between the sexes. Responding to the third question, we document the existence of females who possess profound mathematical talent. Finally, we review mounting evidence that both the magnitude of mean math gender differences and the frequency of identification of gifted and profoundly gifted females significantly correlate with sociocultural factors, including measures of gender equality across nations."

Let's be clear here though. There are indeed be biological differences between the male and female brain. Females may be better at certain tasks than males and vice-versa. The question is, is there evidence to suggest biological factors could play a significant role in explaining the extremely low amounts of women in science? Consider the fact that even if some biological difference in mathematical ability could be demonstrated, that wouldn't even come close to explaining the disparity. We're not trying to produce Nobel Laureates here, just scientists.
Funnily enough, my own thoughts about Gruber becoming annoying recently (after reading him for years) is because Gruber has started commenting on things he doesn't understand the facts of e.g. codec patents. He'll just come up with some pro-Apple spin and go with that, actual reality is often replaced with spiteful snark.

e.g.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/03/android-battery-...

The first thing I did with my iPhone 3G was turn off some battery draining options I didn't need. Some people, not me, actually turned off 3G altogether. No, it wasn't fun. iPhone and smartphone battery life is an issue for everyone.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/03/google-pictures

Actually Bing shows a random professional image, not one of your choice from your photo album. Is that not an important enough difference to stand in the way of publishing this hilarious jab at Google.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/21/webm-patents

Uncritically passing on patent threats just because it suits Apple's strategic posturing? Adding commentary to make it seem like a done deal rather than posturing? Ignoring the fact that they'd said they would do this before Google even announced VP8 and indeed have said similar about Vorbis for a decade?.

Also, much like Steve Jobs's one liners, you do get the feeling that cutting and pasting a link is such hard work on the iPad that you're luck to get more than a couple of words of commentary.
Nice! I compulsively cycle through my open browser tabs, so having this nestled in there means that I'll inevitably land on it every once in a while and take a moment to breathe.
They wouldn't talk about what might improve productivity

They being management, or the devs themselves? Because anyone will have a shopping list of how they could be more productive. I'm currently badgering my manager for an upgraded PC (from 4G to 32G RAM) for everyone in my team so we can run entire virtualized environments, for example. This will be a massive boost to use because we'll no longer need to rely on another team to do provisioning for us, and we'll no longer tread on each other's toes in the existing environment we have, requiring work to be re-done. She's smart so she'll probably go for it.
I'm curious what they did different than httprouter to remove the allocations, or if they trick the benchmark tool by reusing memory with a pool.
Your guess is wrong then. I’m more of a person that has been at the upside and downside of things. I know what it’s like to just need the paycheck. But I never looked at it like that, it was mostly a paycheck to create the opportunity via stability to evolve another path. In that case, holistically, that dead-end job had a purpose for creating financial groundwork (once upon a time for me it was literally to buy some server hosting or a domain name - yeah, that’s how broke).
Thanks for the map! Yes I somewhat agree, though superfund sites are designated as such because they’re particularly toxic and in need to remediation. NJ has a long history of industrial activity, though why it may be particularly toxic I do not know.
Have you considered that innocence inspires unparalleled actions?
Something that's coming to mind while reading this is how much company communication these days happens almost exclusively on Slack, and how antithetical that format can be to writing and thinking clearly.
Yup, fully aware.

Should’ve said “Heroku-like” instead of “Heroku for AWS”.
He's risked more for less in the past. Does Elon strike you as being acting purely from a place of logic and reason? If so you might be the only one to think so.
Lets say you're hiring a freelancer and you take bids. The lowest bid is from a member of a historically disadvantaged minority, and the reason their bid is lower is because as a member of that group discrimination makes it harder for them to find work. A good, well-meaning person might still accept the bid.
The submission deadline is January 26th - while it might me tough if you were to start now, together with possible holiday obligations - but it's still possible.
Cricket has also evolved. Now they have 20-20 which is fast and less time consuming. Also, test matches (5 day match) has more results than in the past.
Stay on topic and take your trolling elsewhere
Agreed. Air apps are the Java Apps of this decade. They feel foreign on any operating system.
the first hit is always free
At the very least, maybe this overly clever joke of showing off that you know the original name of the service will finally die with it.
I have yet to find an editor that makes me more productive than VIM.
I'd argue it's not the miners with the power - it's the people selling goods. A seller has to decide whether to accept a payment, and the seller's choice of blockchain (for verification) is what matters - even if only a few miners mine that chain.

Even if 99% of miners are on one of the chains, if sellers does not accept payment through that chain then bitcoin on it are worthless.
What makes you think it's using CodeMirror? My impression is that they implemented their own editor component from scratch.
Mobile plans vary significantly between countries. Using the US pricing structure as an example simply doesn't work. Just because a data plan is more expensive in the US doesn't necessarily mean it will be more expensive elsewhere.
It was "it's" before.
how depressing.