jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hope they have enough resources “They already spent millions in engineering time to cut the app size”

The image optimizations, precalculation should be done be apple. But the dev could use a lossy format for certain files. That’s up to the dev, not Apple.

Maybe it’s because I used to write some j2me games. Or some games when Apple only allowed 15mb I think. I had to optimize the hell out of my assets.
Still I think I’d Lucy’s that certain apps are almost half a gb in size
Society doesn’t have any problems? What planet are you spending your time on?
Same here. Even when it's just a folder with a document that has multiple revisions. And especially around this time of year (near the end/beginning of the year).
posit for fairness:
Manufacturers can keep the right to repair to themselves. But are then liable to pay the cost of any downtime caused by faulty hardware.
Sunk costs have no bearing on the logic that "if miners are spending more on electricity than the Bitcoins they mine are worth then they should immediately stop mining".

You're falling for the so-called "sunk cost fallacy".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...

What does have a bearing is whether they intend to sell or hold those Bitcoins. If they believe the value go up before they sell, then they would continue to mine speculatively.
like the idea of automatic curation through influencers streams
My friends and I got community service for trespassing a few years back. We were assigned to a building material recycling center. Some of the people sentenced to work there were doing the minimum work required to not be reported, but there were a bunch of people, including my friends and I, who genuinely saw it as an opportunity to help out. We worked hard and put in as much effort as we would if it was our normal job. Would I have rather been making money or doing something fun with my friends? Of course. But I committed a crime and this was my punishment. Except I could actually see how my punishment was benefitting society, unlike being jailed or fined. Plus, I actually learned a little bit about different types of wood, and that there is actually a building material recycling center where you can buy a bunch of cool house stuff for cheap.

In other words, I think community service works.
I have the same feeling of unease, but what about when the alternative is poverty, which I think is often the case?
Yes, but presumably this was the spread within the same country (India)?
What I wouldn't give to have read your comment 2 months ago. Smart TV integration seemed great since we almost exclusively use Netflix. But the boot time and interface interaction speed is so slow, I now leave the input set to chromecast exclusively.

Add me to your list of people who will only be buying a dumb tv in the future.
Yes, definitely rooted only - Linux will block any attempt to change the MAC without root access. That said, I've got a rooted android and change my mac all the time. Especially useful for coffee shops and airports.
I'm actually reading it right now, and it's kind of eerie reading the things discussed in the article at the same time as the main character in the book is considering them.
Apparently the military actually volunteered satellite coverage, and NASA turned them down.
So this it yet another web base text editor like Brackets and LT, one have it's "live-reload" feature the other his "live-code-evaluation", and which is the selling point for this?. Going throught the website it just give me the idea that is a what i mentioned before.
I meant that Landau notation is a trivial concept, not finding a good algorithm to solve a given problem or determining the runtime of a given algorithm.
It's also open source, so maybe we'll see some creative hacking to the core.
Like Mozilla? Cloudera? any other open-source company? I know hyperbolic statements are fashionable, but this one isn't really true.
I'm so excited to see this. I cannot wait to try one of these on for the first time. I'm going to bet writing apps for this kit will be a lot of fun.

And all the C# .NET developers can say again, thank you Microsoft since they have committed to one platform, one store, all device types. I think it will be a while yet before there are thousands of developers working on this, but it will grow exponentially for a while.

If this is comfortable for extended wear, it's just going to further increase the value of remote workers. You can't beat time zones, but for everything else, there's holograms.

I really, really want to understand how high fidelity this is.

One point is we aren't seeing it used for video conferencing between two people each wearing a band. Probably because face-on you look pretty silly in it. So it's not quite a natural way to meet people. Just yet. I think it has world changing potential.

But in 2016 or whenever, this will not be selling for $499 or $899, it's more like $3299 I would guess. And really, that's more like the price level we expect for a very high quality gear. Actually, you could realistically go upward of $10k if the quality truly reflects that price.

So of course the next thing I did was check MSFT stock price. $382 billion market cap. This is a $100 billion idea, might be a good time to get back in. I guarantee you, the market has not fully priced in holograms. Just saying it, you know it's true. For now I will choose to believe the hype, because eventually, absolutely, this is all possible.
That was a really interesting paper, thank you for posting it
> They are open about their mistakes, issues and tradeoffs, much more so than other companies. I don't think its right for engineers use this as a cudgel to beat them over the head.

This openness gives us consumers an opportunity to look under the hood and evaluate the tech for what it is, which is a good thing and should be applauded.

However.

I’ve used that freedom to look at their code and processes and I’ve decided that this is not software that I want my life to depend on. There are serious outstanding bugs that Comma doesn’t have the manpower to investigate fully, their default assumption seems to be that the hardware is faulty, their test suite is regularly failing, pair programming / code review is sometimes used and sometimes not, PRs are created and merged without a description or comment. That’s just scraping the surface, without going into things like whether or not Python is a good choice for this sort of thing or if there’s a bug in my car’s CAN implantation that will get triggered by this and end up killing me.

All in all, I trust Volvo more than I trust Comma.ai. Maybe that trust is misplaced? For what it’s worth I don’t really trust any level 2 self driving tech.
I loathe wireless keyboards and mice. If the bluetooth isn't giving me trouble, the batteries are.
This can. Just rig the AST in. I'm going to try a prototype.
TF can inline, but if it runs that optimization then the benchmark would be turned into a constant, so it wouldn't be measuring the call overhead of the way arguments are passed.
Then there should be a global tax on carbon emissions. This is not a Bitcoin issue it's an issue with atmospheric carbon emissions not being priced correctly.
Python 3 gets that one, but python 2.7 doesn't:

$ python3 -c 'print("baﬄe".upper())'
BAFFLE
$ python -c 'print "baﬄe".upper()'
BAﬄE
$ python -c 'print u"baﬄe".upper()'
BAÏ¬„E
Yes? No? Let's avoid false binary choices. A better question here is "to what degree?"

That list's methodology seems somewhat arbitrary, but let's go with it.

If you look at many top languages in use by a lot of companies, many have increasing functional aspects: Java (#2), Python (#8), and R (#12). (I may have left out some, too.) Python has many functional aspects. Java 8 brings lambda expressions. R has first-class functions and lazy evaluation.

I'd say this is less about functional programming "destroying" OO and more about programmers reaching for some aspects of FP when OO brings too much complexity. For example, why create a new class just to write an event handler? Even Java is getting the picture!
Maybe you should start thinking about doing more programing? In most teams there is one designer and more programmers so you may have a better chance of finding work.
"I'm suffering from anxiety over whether you'll prescribe me medical marijuana"

"Sounds like you need some medical marijuana."

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1585#comic

-----

More seriously, have there been any implementations of medical marijuana anywhere that weren't trivially gamed for recreational uses?
>> Take a job as a developer. You'll make good money. Make sure it isn't for a demanding startup. Something that guarantees exiting the office at 5pm every day

I have not worked in a developer shop yet, so this may not translate over, but in any of my other jobs (which were stable and not for startups) the idea of leaving the office at 5pm was ridiculous most of the time. Even if I did manage it, nothing stopped a 8pm email from giving me 2 more hours of work. Same with going on vacation, especially if you're the only one in a company who has a certain skill.

The 9-5 itself is dead and competition mandates working hard. Not startup hard, but not 1960's stereotype clock punching easy. When you look at it that way, why not put a year or four into playing a lottery that you can actually influence the outcome of?

>> You are not a unique butterfly that is owed the opportunity to only ever do exactly what you want.

Plenty agreed, and while I legitimately appreciate the snark/slight Fight Club reference, where did he say he is owed the opportunity? I believe he stated that whether given or earned he has the opportunity. There was no normative judgement on how he came about it other than guilt for it not being more austere.

Edit: grammar.
LOL! Apparently I have Euler’s constant in my password cracking dictionaries.
Good advice, though when sharing with the HN audience, humility is probably a decent strategy. In fact, I might have suggested "I am writing..." rather than the past-tense "I wrote" or "I tried to write." This would imply that the writing is an ongoing process, of which sharing on HN is the first major feedback stage.
This is probably the biggest question mark I have about my own choices. I've chosen to live my life focused on achieving my vision of a "not mediocre" life, and I've sacrificed a lot of things along the way: settling down, getting married, having kids, etc.

So when I go home and visit my friends, and watch them playing with their kids and kissing their wives, etc., there's always a pang of regret that says "you could have gone this route instead". But, of course, as they say "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence", blah, blah.

But I never wanted to start a family until I was in a position to give them the kind of life that I would want them to have.

Anyway, getting married and doing all that is potentially still in the cards. Time will tell, I suppose.
Nor in 0.8.23. I think the chaining of the constructor to .fill in `var sieve = new SB(len).fill(0xff, 0, len);` is the issue, because SlowBuffer::fill isn't supposed to have a return value.
I don't know. MP3 players, smartphones and tablets already existed for a while by the time Apple announced it's products. But the products were so successful that they are now credited as having (re)invented the market. I don't see why this can't happen, for instance, with workstations, this market has been stagnant for a while.
OK. What else does OpenID Connect get me, vs asking for a limited-scope oauth?
Whoops -- I forgot to share my own reading list for 2015: it's located at https://50books.org/list/dshaw

I'm certainly up for any feedback on my to-read list, itself, too!
How many meals worth do you eat once? Do you eat the equivalent calories of three meals in one?
Better publicity materials:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uosc-fts06021...

The paper:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2014.04.014

Really it's just not worth even reading whatever the popular press has to say about a particular strand of research, especially when lines like "regenerate the entire immune system" are thrown around. No, no, no. Not what is happening: read the paper or even just the publicity materials. It is a very specific mechanism involving specific cell populations.

This is of interest to me primarily because it draws a comparatively sharp line in the sand between the occurrence of a beneficial immune system behavior that happens after three days of fasting but not prior to that point. There are not too many other items I can think of in connection with fasting or calorie restriction that have this discrete on/off behavior. It would be interesting to repeat this in healthy volunteers rather than cancer patients.
You're talking about whether the MBTI framework is correct, or verifiable, or scientific. That's interesting because the context for this whole discussion is around a rationality checklist which may not be correct, or verifiable, or scientific.

It seems like the more appropriate question when discussing these frameworks might be whether they are useful. Many people find the MBTI framework a useful way to think about themselves. Just like many people find GTD useful for being organized, or Paleo useful for choosing what to eat, or Agile useful for coordinating software development, or [system/lens/framework here] useful for [thing that people do], even though they are not demonstrably "correct" (or even superior to competing systems).

Correct and useful aren't necessarily the same thing, especially when we're discussing systems that are more of a descriptive worldview than an actual set of predictions.
A reminder that the Korean peninsula is pretty much the cold war in caricature, and still ongoing...
related: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001011462
oh no he's onto us boys
Jason Scott created Archive Team. He works at the Internet Archive (archive.org). Archive Team is a community project kept distinct from his work.

* https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Who_We_Are

> This project is composed of volunteers, currently coordinated by Jason Scott.

* https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/User:Jscott

* https://twitter.com/textfiles

> Proprietor of http://TEXTFILES.COM, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur.
If you like to keep it terse, it's perfectly fine not to quote attribute values. The HTML5 spec[1] says:

The attribute value can remain unquoted if it doesn't contain space characters or any of " ' ` = < >

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/introduction.html#a-quick-introdu...
Yes. There are common panels available at Quest/Labcorp that will measure critical nutrients such as Vitamin D or Vitamin B12. In addition, there is a more comprehensive test called ION available from Metametrix.
More or less impossible than jumping from one space shuttle to another, in space, in shirtsleeves while suffering from carbon dioxide poisoning and surviving?
You're ignoring that the military's job is to the defeat the enemy. If a marine is down, then the operation to rescue him/her by necessity involves defeating or inflicting a severe blow to the enemy.

The same is arguably true of a shuttle rescue mission for that matter: having never been done, the thinking and technological requirements of such a thing, and the grand experiment of seeing if it all works, would be worth the effort.

As noted, since the Colombia disaster NASA took to prepping "launch on necessity" shuttle missions.
This does interest me about Bitcoin - who controls the default client? If you can persuade the majority to adopt a new version, you can change the rules by which the currency operates. If it is more widely used, this would become a real issue, because individually users do not have much power over the direction of it.
The FIOS (FTC) role out was objected to in certain posh parts of London because the residents objected to "the ugly green cabinets"

Apparently the second assistant nanny complained that it was hard to maneuver the giant buggy/prams around :-)

BT said ok no FTC for you then and went off and did other less precious areas
No, because software is inherently hard.
I regret that I didn’t do a detailed write up at the time, and that since I didn’t I only have some abstract anecdata to offer but for what it’s worth:

A couple years ago I rooted Android (Planet Gemini), installed my own root CA, forced all network through USB-C —> ethernet, connected the ethernet to a physical network tap, and decrypted almost all the traffic. With only a handful of common apps installed the (idle state, no UI interaction) phone-home traffic and telemetry was non-stop. A majority of it was to Google, blocking it made the phone basically non-functional.

There were also inexplicable calls to strange Chinese IP addresses that would only emerge every one or two weeks that I couldn’t hunt down the source of and Planet said they didn’t recognize.

I want network activity to be 100% correlated with my UI interactions including updates. I feel power users should be given that right and option. Windows and macOS (and sadly Firefox) are also miles away from this but Android was ridiculous. I haven’t tested iOS but I assume it’s about the same.
So as someone who's spent the majority of my programming career using Delphi, it's sadly a bit difficult to give a resounding yes to that.

I do think that for small programs and utilities Delphi is hard to beat.

But C# has become a much more capable and feature rich language, the RAD story isn't terrible for smaller projects (no experience on larger), and you'll have a significantly larger community in the .Net camp. This means more libraries, as well as more articles and people to ask.
If you've got enough cynicism to decide the only beneficiaries of QUIC are just "adtech companies" then I suggest saving a little of that cycnicism to put scare quotes around that word "security" in the second half of your sentence.

If you have effective security neither TLS 1.3 nor QUIC change anything in that regard. But they probably do change things for you. This means you did not have effective security.

Those making appliances or software to deliver "security" would very much like you to blame the designers of QUIC or TLS 1.3 for the fact that their products are ineffective. It is as if the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company had tried to blame doctors for diagnosing Carlill with Influenza rather than accepting that, in fact, Carbolic Smoke Balls don't work and so they owe her £100 per their advertisement.
Is this really cancel culture or just minimizing legal exposure by hosting and supporting an extremist group that gives protection to people claiming to plan to physically hurt others
Are you sure you represent the average?
If everyone used stop losses, they wouldn't work for anyone. You need someone else to buy your share for you to sell. There has to be a bag holder.
Which is a direct result of a platform which allows free speech - including speech which neither you nor I may not like.

But to me, free speech means anyone can speak their mind, no matter how ghastly others find it.

And on Gab, I have encountered some pretty unsavoury speech - however, copious use of the Block feature on those I find especially distasteful means that I encounter less of those I find as such.

I'd rather have a platform based on free speech and be able to filter 'undesirables' out myself, than have the platform itself choose the speech it prefers me to see/hear/read.
Do you have any other example of an Emacs application assuming it is the only thing running? I ask because I use Emacs a fair bit and don't think I've ever come across something like that.
I don't think that is surprising. Smartphones of today are better than most compact cameras I have owned. I used to have a Canon G11 for taking pictures while travelling, but compared to even my older SLRs it produces mushy shots. It doesn't help to have lots of megapixels when most of those pixels are just noise anyway. The iPhone is good enough for these uses.

When I'm taking pictures, and not just shooting random stuff, I still use an SLR because it is just easier (for me) to get what I want from it. It doesn't really matter which SLR you use, they all produce good images, but the glass is important. I do postprocess my images. In fact I usually shoot with postprocessing in mind. But I never spend much time postprocessing. Typically a couple of minutes per image that I want to use.

I've tried some of the smaller cameras with decent optics that are on the market now, but they just don't feel right for me. They have all these great specs, but they don't feel like tools. They have the buttons in the wrong places and they weren't designed to be held with my hands. The camera just gets in the way of what I'm trying to do.

I don't think it is so much about image quality as it is about the tactile experience, efficiency and habit.

(Some of my pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/borud/)
The distinction here is when it’s a marketplace. You buy a product from a third-party vendor on Amazon. Amazon sends details of your purchase to the third-party vendor for fulfillment. Cool.
It’s generally already the wealthy who have maximum flexibility in their schedule. So sure, they can duck out at 3pm for the cheap roads but sounds like those who are on shift based schedules (majority of the working class) will end up having to pay to use these variably tolled roads.
“Do not sell my personal information.”
Umm I've worked in high growth companies where there's almost always more opportunities than the ability to capitalise and I would work out a deal in advance to pull off things most people weren't able or willing to - the total revenue increased and so did my compensation - there was always money preallocated for growth opportunities.

The only time I saw the "fixed pie" mentality is on my first job in newspapers back in the early 2000s right at their collapse to the internet.
Able to write full automated system level regression tests for every platforms/app/system you develop for.
Both this and your above comment might just be the most uninvited and self-absorbed accounts of internal reasoning I've encountered in a neutral space online in a long time. Maybe you can do a deep dive on your presentation and determine the abstract reason why you think colleagues aren't interested in the same things as you (hint: it's not the topics).
Yeah, I wouldn't put down Ubuntu's traditional attitude as "we'll copy something so we can own it" - it's more of a "we'll do whatever we think is better for the experience we provide, screw the community". Which is still misguided and fundamentally doomed to fail in the long run, but not as malicious as, say, Apple's moves.

At the end of the day the scorecard reads:

- Mir: failed

- Unity: failed

- Snap: mostly failing

Meanwhile RedHat takes over stuff that doesn't work, makes it work a bit better, and pushes it on the whole ecosystem as "the" solution. And they win, and win, and win.
The fact that there even is a discussion about whether what he's saying really is sedition is enough. They're a private company, that just opens them up to way too much liability. It's not their responsibility to be a platform for all sides, for better or for worse
> Actual riots, insurrection, disruption of government, assaults on law enforcement, damage to government buildings, theft of government property, violence, and deaths, have occurred.

This describes the past half-year in Portland, Seattle, and more sporadically in many other cities.

I believe that no accounts on the Left: organizing, not merely advocating - have been permanently shut down.

So, I'm very skeptical that anything legitimate has changed. It feels very political.
Oh but Sun did. It’s what made them rich and it wasn’t pretty.