jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hear, hear! I've never given my LG television any identifying information so it doesn't allow me to use any apps other than those that were installed when purchased. Which is fine but I hate getting notifications about channels they've added or removed. It should just display video as far as I'm concerned. I'd love to be able to sideload other apps without going through the LG store and giving them data.
The tree mentioned in the article, Ficus elastica is actually a plant that you may already know: it's the fig that is grown indoors as a houseplant, commonly called a rubber tree or a rubber plant.

In general tropical figs are rapid growing but not particularly long-lived plants. A tree may live 80 years, but not much longer than that (this is unpublished data that Charles Handley of the Smithsonian Institution shared with me; he studied cohorts of fig trees for many decades, well into his 80's; possibly the only person who has ever done such a long term study on figs).
I get several on a weekly basis. It's amazing how many services do not verify emails and just trust their users to own the email they claim to own.
If you live in a nice neighborhood it's not an issue.
It's not clear that most of this is even "unintended behavior" rather than just abuse. It's like calling it a "hack" to fill water balloons with electrically conductive fluid and throw them at a substation. The people responsible for stopping you from doing that are the police, not the makers of water balloons.

The worst thing they did was the default password.
A recipe for the typical media hype "AI learns physics" discovery

1. Find a well-known classical problem with a battle-tested deterministic model representation

2. Generate synthetic data using the model

3. Train a 1-layer neural network to score 99% in predicting the synthetic data (even if the deterministic model can score 99.999% but let's ignore the minor difference)

4. Claim AI "learns" the underlying physics and does a better job than classical models

5. World dominance
I enjoyed it, and thought it was quite clear. I never use classes in my own Python code any more, treating it as a functional language, except when I'm interfacing with existing library code.
I use http://apidocjs.com/

You define the API in comments within your code. When you run apidoc it scans your code and generates pretty documentation.

I tried various other solutions before this such as apiary.io. Apidocjs is really easy to update as it is part of your code, which also means it goes into your version control!
Can I suggest a different approach? Instead of dodging the question, put yourself in a position that you're happy to answer. "My last contract gig paid $100/hr. That's $200k yearly on an annual basis."
CYOA! That's epic.
I wanted to put in a plug for Open Music Theory [1], for anybody who's interested. It's an open-source [2], Creative-Commons licensed music theory text designed for use in college music theory classrooms. It's written primarily by some friends of mine, all with teaching positions and Theory PhDs, so the material is good. I'm using the 20th-century materials in my class this semester instead of assigning a $100+ textbook. It's not quite as comprehensive as a dead-tree book (yet?), but is a great resource for beginners, or people looking to supplement their knowledge.

[1] http://openmusictheory.com
[2] https://github.com/openmusictheory/openmusictheory.github.io
Excellent points - raising awareness by sharing these type of experiences is part of the reason why I've finally begun to blog. It's important not only for people of color working in or aspiring to work in the tech industry, but also for the demographic that doesn't understand what it's like to be a black unicorn in a tech world. It raises the empathy levels of everyone involved.
Since my dabble with Groovy for a JSF framework back in 2009, I never really used it, except now that Google is forcing it on me.

From a few talks I have watched on the internet, it actually seems that Groovy is trying to adopt every language feature, like being lost while looking for new a direction kind of.

Kind of trying to stay relevant in a world of Scala, Clojure, Ceylon, Kotlin, js_ocaml, who knows what.

Maybe I am completly wrong, this was my impression after seeing recent videos.
To see the full quote, click on the loc.gov linked URL to Biden's bill, then "text of legislation," then "printer friendly."

You'll see this text:
"It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."

Vice President (then Senator) Biden's bill was what led Phil Zimmermann to publish PGP, as he wrote here in the original 1991 PGP User's Guide:

*"It was this bill that led me to publish PGP electronically for free that year, shortly before the measure was defeated after vigorous protest by civil libertarians and industry groups." http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

The more things change...
Swallow. "try to spit" sounds like trying escape, and I think it would intensify the anxiety. But spitting does involve letting go. Hmmm maybe I'll try it. Now what would make me anxious.
>I have a fairly large code base (80K LOC). When the size grows, lack of typing can become a problem.

I do as well, and I find that while we occasionally run into typing bugs, the tests nearly always catch it and they catch it quickly. Moreover, these are tests that we'd write in any language, and static typing would, in most other languages, mean more verbose code. Overall we still come out ahead.

>However, when you end up with meta code, then it can become really difficult to track the types down in the n-th level of recursion...

Yea, I try to avoid that. If there's a library that does meta-code that's unit tested to hell and back, maybe. If I have the time to write one and unit test it, maybe. But, I still try and keep regular projects clear of it.
The pricing table shocked me until I realised the plans were ordered most to least expensive, whereas I had subconsciously expected it to be ordered the other way. Looking at http://ui-patterns.com/patterns/PricingTable it seems there's no real standard approach to ordering pricing tiers. Does anybody have any insight into the psychology of pricing tables from a UX perspective?
Twitch is just the latest organization to jump onto the political silence bandwagon.
We're happy Sidekiq Pro customers too.
@atainter56 the Leopard Index System is on the roadmap. Initially our focus is the ACL implementation, and now the deployment and scaleability will be prioritised. Please join our GitHub and Slack Community and be part of the solution.
Reading this feels like reading a news story from a parallel universe. With fungi it always kinda is.
Excellent questions!

In order to be rigorous, a mathematical abstraction needs to

be characterized up to a unique isomorphism. However, ZFC

does not meet the requirement, because ZFC does not

characterize sets up to a unique isomorphism.

However, there is a theory that characterizes Ordinals up to a

unique isomorphism that as explained in the following article:

"Theory Ordinals can Replace ZFC in Computer Science"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3457802

Orders can be used to block many different contradictions

based on attempted recursive definitions (beyond just The

Liar) as explained the following article:

"Epistemology Cyberattacks"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

The Gödel number of a proposition does not work in

foundations because it does not represent the order of the

proposition and because there are uncountable propositions in

foundations. Criteria for foundations are proposed in the

following article:

"Information Security Requires Strongly-Typed Actors and Theories"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003
Ok, but then they already have that. What does entering the phone number do that makes it dangerous?
"I've had first-hand experience with this but in the opposite direction."

I think it's the same direction, unless I'm missing something.

Magistrates don't have to have a law degree nor pass the Bar. They tend to be very incompetent considering that they are the ones deciding the initial hearing for misdemeanors and felonies (although most of the time they deal with more minor things).

I asked a magistrate to dismiss a case with prejudice, and he thought I was calling him prejudice...
If you want more data points, configure your egress traffic to go through various VPNs to see whether you get the same results. It’s easy enough to do from a computer or a supported mobile device, if you’re willing to spend a few bucks trying a few different services out. I believe several of them offer free trials.
You're just nitpicking vocabulary. This is exactly what I meant, and I would consider the laws and regulations that result from this process the "design" of a city.
Not late enough yet.

I only code productively between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am. If the baby sleeps.

Morning coding time is spent fighting with my inner manager about how to present last night’s work at standup.

Afternoon coding time is spent in a stupor wondering why the coffee has no effect anymore.
Maybe because you’re throwing some junk out here on HN, you can offer up a citation? Who says 1+1=2 is racist, exactly?
The short answer: it isn't, and they're throwing chum to their base. Or lying, because they didn't name any of the material that they've banned. Maybe even some of both.

The slightly longer answer: if you read the claim, it's just a re-warmed litany of current and past right-wing shibboleths. "Inclusions of Common Core." That one's a decade old. "The unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning in mathematics." That one's from the sixties. These are the drumbeat words pounded into the heads of the people listening to talk radio every day. The officials involved know that these phrases cause knee-jerk reactions from their base and the folks doing the banning would like those to associate positive feelings with them the next time they've got an election to win (Corcoran is a pretty well-known Republican flack).

(The comedy answer: some of the word problems probably used identifiably nontraditionally white names. And the tragic answer: the comedy answer might be right.)
His breakfast is 3 eggs, bacon and an avocado drizzled in olive oil! Forget about his blood sugar; what is his calcium score?
I don’t know what impresses me the most: the concept, the execution, the fact that permission was sought, or the fact that permission was granted.
I just wish I'd known of this comp a bit earlier, so I could have had a crack at it (before Christmas busyness).
I started doing so, until I realized the only way you could really contribute an article was to enlist for a lifetime of janitorial duty. Otherwise, whatever work you did quickly degenerates into run-on sentences and trivia.

The article's point resonated with me, because it seems that the whole process is based on the assumption that you're a no-lifer who spends all day patrolling Wikipedia.

They advertised themselves as the "open source encyclopedia", but they have not adopted any other concepts from the software development world, such as "quality assurance" and "stable releases".
Sounds like there's not much point in helping the poor, then, because they're just going to cock it up.

I disagree - I think poor people are indeed capable of making good decisions and planning long-term - but what other point are you supposed to take away from her article?
Go and Rust are new, non-data-science, well designed, corporate-backed languages frequently used for application development when people care about speed and they also have excellent tool chains.
An unencrypted version marker would be pretty useful, too. If anything is long-term, you can safely bet in that it'll need to evolve.
You don't need a license to turn the TV on to play on your console for example.
"the companies involved agreed to not solicit each other's employees. While somewhat shady, it's not on the same level as an agreement to cap wages."

It was more than an agreement not to solicit each others employees, it was an agreement not to hire each others employees. [1].

"Alan,

We’d strongly prefer that you not hire these guys.

Steve"
[2]

These companies created an agreement which prevented people from getting paid their market rate. John Siracusa does an excellent job discussing this at length on ATP [3]

[1]- http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-...

[2]- http://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-steve-jobs-forced-google-to-...

[3]- http://atp.fm/episodes/59-the-little-puck-that-could and http://atp.fm/episodes/76
> Everything, everything, looks scaled and blurry

That's definitely not the normal experience. I only see this in specific applications that either predate DPI scaling or have poor DPI scaling support. Are you running your display at a non-native resolution or something?

> or if they have their shit together but Windows app developers are all wildly incompetent.

Game developers specifically seem to have an issue dealing with slightly unusual situations. I've seen games have issues with plugging in controllers after the game has started, the primary sound output changing mid-game, the user alt-tabbing, a second monitor existing (!), etc.
Interesting, maybe I'll give that a try! (would be nice since I have 16GB of RAM on the Mini vs 4GB on the MBA and it is better suited to leaving on all the time)

When I tried with minikube, the VirtualBox VM would boot successfully, but there was an issue with the networking b/w the VM and MacOS
Isn’t BlueJeans just a wrapper around zoom?
Also a hypothesis that seems plausible as a factor: Smoking. Italians have more of a history of smoking than any other affected area as of yet. Smoking could also explain why the mortality skews more to men over women.
It doesn't "add a flaw", but instead it triggers the instability that exists because of the existing flaws. If large amounts of people stop being able to keep their heads above water (which is happening because of CoVID-related layoffs and reduced business) then their accumulated debt can crush them. Very few people in the US can survive in such poor economic conditions for "4-8 months" -- more than 60% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency[1]!

This is why many people are arguing for (and some countries have instituted) debt and rent cancellation for this period of time. That helps avoid tipping the scale and crushing a large portion of the population under the mountains of debt they already have. The US is also quite unique (in the worst possible way) in the massive amounts of medical and student loan debt that folks are saddled with.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/most-americans-dont-have-the...
These are crazy times especially last week if you are in covid affected areas. What you perceive as laziness can actually be high level of anxiety or even depression.
The headline appearing in the article body is "The Week the Dream Sank". But when I mouse over the browser tab, I get the title "Service Workers Already Lived in the Fringes, Coronavirus Made It Worse". I chose the latter.
Thanks and We have that in our pipeline for a future release :)
Nursing home, obviously.
WeWork branded itself as a "tech company" but it doesn't mean if you have a website or a mobile app that you are tech company.

I think naive investors propelled the failure of WeWork in a way that throwing cash at the company made them think they are going to succeed. It is akin to a teacher telling a bad student "don't worry you are not that bad" or "don't worry you are good" just to make him or her feel better or to incentivize them to work harder.
You aren’t talking about dcom are you?
As someone who taught this at a top 10 university, it doesn't look to me like a very good course. I feel like you should have all the basics to design a CPU by the end of the course and this course fails completely to teach the Breadth necessary for CPU design
Wonder would they also block you if you were lets say takeaway shop that's selling Iranian Street Food. When you source your supplies locally but make it into Iranian food?
their religious convictions stated that they could no longer use the cutlery. they had to dispose of it.

ie, could never be cleaned enough to be "vegan" again...

bloody bonkers really.

Edit, yes it was metal...
This consumers test is a relatively recent phenominon.

"trusts have made products cheaper, have reduced prices; but if the price of oil, for instance, were reduced to one cent a barrel, it would not right the wrong done to people of this country by the trusts which have destroyed legitimate competition and driven honest men from legitimate business enterprise"

— 51st congress
Uber covers insurance. https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/insurance/

It’s not all hard to extrapolate mileage depreciation based on car prices.

I feel like these laws are coming from well meaning people who don’t actually represent anyone earning money driving for Uber.

Why are we not seeing driver strikes driving these changes?
The point of the numbering changes is if you want to insert a new item half way through the list you don't have to change every single line. Unfortunately it probably confuses people more often than it helps them.
> Upvotes from people who have more upvotes count more.

While this will avoid the problem of "junk opinion democracy" (each voice gets one vote, whatever the expertise), this still wouldn't avoid the problems attributed to the scientific establishment, where authority is roughly proportional to impact/prolificness/citations.
By having them only listen on the local network (or localhost).
I don't think this is complete nonsense. At the root of all this, he's weirded out by the concept of entropy. Entropy exists, yet the complexity on this infinitesimal speck of dust in the universe is increasing. Why is that?

tmsh, I wrote a equally disparaged blog entry a while back that you might be interested in:
http://www.jierenchen.com/2009/10/memory-and-evolution.html
andrewf is completely right. You should plan for what capabilities exist today on the platforms you're targeting. Taking advantage of upcoming synergy is a lofty goal, but expecting it and making your plans depend on it would be a mistake.
Usability problem: [Cmd]-[Left Arrow] has been highjacked from navigating my history to navigating the site's stories. Please don't do this.
Bittorrent on the other hand works nicely.
making web apps as polished as web apps is very hard, however you get a lot of the way there and its 10% of the effort.

You can still do distribution through the appstore with a uiwebview, I am not sure exactly how stringent apple are in this regard.

However its fairly obvious that html(5) is the future of these things, and the turnaround on html applications is far far faster, so yeh I would recommend going html5 until you have strong signals that a native app is needed.
They designed and printed a working quad copter. So there's that.
Warning: The following may sound like mumbo-jumbo until you've finished reading.

As someone in another comment here mentioned, the last time something that was not understood was nigh declared magic and unphysical or ignored even by educated men was in the 17th century, and the phenomenon was light.

If you accept panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is not limited to brains (examples: i feel and react to pain but my dog reacts to pain as well, and even certain trees are now known to release signal chemicals into the soil which cause nearby trees to harden their bark when they are damaged), and also accept that consciousness is a field/fundamental force that couples(interacts) with the other fields, and with matter, it becomes plausible to say that an interaction between two particles will also cause an interaction with the 'consciousness field'.

Of course all of this is complete speculation because it seems to be impossible to measure the properties of said field, as the proposed interaction would be one-way (examples: when i burn my hand with scalding hot water, a circuit in my brain/body which relies on known forces and interactions causes my hand to move away, yet i feel pain).

I don't see how wave function collapse, which has frequently been mentioned in connection with this, could be related, as it's not even known what wave function collapse actually is, much like our current problem with consciousness.

Disclaimer: IAAP
Yes, but that implies the app is an end to itself.

What if you just wanted to present an existing web service to mobile users in an "app-like" UI?
I start loving the chinese!
I don't like the idea of notifying him and then being responsible for checking in later to make sure something happened. That's not your job. You should probably report the violation and let the PCI industry handle it.
The quantitative aspect is more important than the qualitative one. Take dog races (breeds) for example:

"We also showed that the genetic variation between dog breeds is much greater than the variation within breeds. Between-breed variation is estimated at 27.5 percent. By comparison, genetic variation between human populations is only 5.4 percent. Thus the concept of a dog breed is very real and can be defined not only by the dog's appearance but genetically as well." - http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2007/5/genet...
agreed - but the problem is two fold. I can say ubuntu to a person on the street and they remember it, because the word is phonetically easy. Libre isnt.

Again, this is not about branding - "libre" is a word that is extremely difficult to pronounce, read and remember for a lot of asians.
...wonders if this is an SIAI affiliated human that I know...

I should say something clever to the fatalist OP to avoid downmod... something about hardware requirements for agi likely being high (imho) and that we have a few decades to work on the really hard problem and we haven't yet worked on hard problems for a few decades since maturing as an information processing species.
Err.. why?
There goes my support for DuckDuckGo.
He's actually moved on to Google Ventures: http://www.google.com/ventures/joe-kraus.html
HN knows what I've clicked when logged in, seems like the sort of thing that could be used to hide resubmissions if desired ...
I think you misunderstand me: I mean that you can only use this argument against a well established, probably experimentally well supported theory, if you have at least some experimental results that are contradicted by the theory (and preferably explained by your alternative).

There are many crackpots that 'have been shocked to realize that library books and teachers were wrong and that they should trust their own thinking in the face of concerted opposition'. Only slightly different from the original, but the italicized words make a world of difference. Einstein's (special) theory of relativity faces scores of opponents that 'trust their own thinking', despite not having a single fact that casts doubt on it.
You are projecting your own preferences. You don't like Node.js stories, I'm sure an equal number of hn users prefer those. I also highly doubt that half of the home page are resubmissions, based on the fact that a lot cover recent news (see the Apple iPad coverage for instance).

So either come up with your own filters, but don't try to push them on everyone else here. We are diverse enough to enjoy a bit of everything.
http://chrisbroadfoot.id.au/2008/03/21/essential-mac-osx-app...

Stopped reading as I found a grammatical error on the first line. I mean, I could just accept that articles that people put on their personal websites might not be copy-edited by professional editors and that despite errors they might be useful or interesting. Probably easier to just dismiss the whole article though.