jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You haven't disagreed with me in a reasonable way. I make a flippant remark about fabled 'lisp enlightenment' and it becomes the entirety of my post?

I gave a (reasonable) guide to my experience with lisp, state that I like REAL macros, say pretty much the same thing that you repeated about scheme (and Clojure), give a brief setup guide to emacs/slime, and say to program a lot (because programming a lot is the only thing that makes you good).

AND SOMEHOW I HAVE ONLY TOLD YOU ABOUT MY DICK AND MY SALARY?

Whatever, I'm being trolled.

Good day, sir.
2) multiple tag filters - i.e. search multiple tags for my personal bookmarks. I don't use this much, but it's comfortable that it's there.

I use this frequently enough that I probably won't use trunk.ly without it.
The Japanese to English pack can't come soon enough. Manga comics here I come!
I would have absolutely no problem reading Japanese or Chinese if it just did a word-for-word translation, romanized all the particles, and expected me to know what they meant (or had a handy feature that explained them when the image was paused). Even so far from actual translation, this would still pass for one of the best things ever.

Of course, guessing the correct word when performing word-for-word translation of hanzi is almost impossible, so even the extremely primitive product I'm thinking of is very difficult.
I think the kickstarter over-subscription thing is kind of out of hand. Diaspora asked for 10 and got 200, but it is highly unlikely the result will be 20x better. I wonder how the 128 people who just donated money to the project feel now that it's clear he had no need of donations. Also, not everything can scale well. What if he had a great tooling line already picked out, but now that he needs to do 100x the volume he'll have to find a worse one.

You should have to set a maximum as well as a minimum on a kickstarter project. The first time one of these massively over subscribed offers turns out to be a total scam, or just fails there's going to be a lot of unhappy people.

I think pre-sales projects like this are really interesting, but it doesn't really match the donation model. At a minimum, kickstarter should escrow the money and release it in $xx,000 chunks or something, and ensure people are getting what they ordered. Even better would be to not have people paying until they were reasonably close to an actual delivery date. It's one thing if you're waiting for upfront R&D, but it's another thing if you're simply on the ass end of a one year waiting list.
If I understand correctly, his original offer was just to take one bet?

'This bet is open to the first VC who would like to take it'
http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk

Any bets taken beyond that would be a relaxation of the 'you weren't here in time' criteria which would have excluded all other gamblers.
I worked at Tesla on the CapEx Team, so not chip fabrication but we definitely bought similar things since it is still industrial automation. We mainly sourced from the country we were building in with an emphasis on vertical integration. We even designed our own chips and have them fabbed in the COO. People seem to act like only China makes things. America still makes things, it's just sometimes they are more expensive when you aren't looking at the project holistically.

For Tesla it was simple. Lower lead times means lower safety stock, better quality and usually US suppliers are willing to push payment terms out. So it was a better deal for Tesla. However, some companies use different metrics for their 'deals' and those companies tend to source from China.
There's more than one. Google, Whatsapp, Apple for starters. All of these 3 started from an XMPP server and then fenced it.
In all these videos, I see entitled live streamers who think it's the duty of the police to answer every silly question they ask. Borderline harassment. Playing copyrighted music doesn't prevent you from recording but it does get the annoying streamers to bugger off so mission accomplished.
Not mentioned in TFA, but apparently this method also leads to short timelines (~10 yrs) to reach self-sustaining forests[0]

That article also goes a lot more in depth on how they setup the forest

[0] https://fellowsblog.ted.com/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-real...
Both good points. C gives you rope to hang yourself with when it comes to correctness; Rust gives you rope to hang yourself with when it comes to performance. Personally I prefer the latter, but awareness and understanding of what's really going on is important no matter what language you're using.
For fear of getting sued, ambiguity is a shield of protection, fascinating.

> WebMD solves this by never giving the tiniest shred of useful information to anybody.
Chick's Three Quartets is absolutely brilliant. I hope that he and Brecker, who also passed too soon because of cancer, are together again making great music somewhere out there.
It stands to reason that if Colt's owners could have gotten a significantly better deal they probably would have.

In particular, Colt may have substantial liabilities, making the cost of the purchase to CZG larger than the amount of money that changed hands.
https://archive.ph/LyaCo
> and running with zero swap space. (And the latter point in turn is due to the abysmal, bottom-of-the-barrel quality of phone eMMC storage.) This is not progress, it's just the OOM reaper being overactive for lack of a better option.

And all this grief could be avoided by Linux actually allocating memory when its supposed to as opposed to just saying "Sure!" and then sometime later killing completely random programs when someone actually attempts to use memory they requested.
A long time ago I wrote a blog post called "Statistical Immortality" that led others to recommend the concept of lazy immortality and the book "Permutation City" which I highly recommend.

And the very end of the day you have to take something on faith and proceed. Solipsism is internally inconsistent because it presupposes a mind that can evaluate a truth whilst simultaneously taking the argument that existence isn't knowable. Empiricism presupposes that our senses and mind can be relied upon to some degree. Theocratic foundations for selfhood are rooted in faith in a higher power.

So in a limited sense I agree with this article's argument. Once you allow that the simulation argument may be true you invalidate that your mind is capable of determining if this is likely.
https://killedbygoogle.com/

Cljs never should have been built on top of closure.
The amount of people shit talking the US government and the FBI while simultaneously speaking gloriously about the economic engine that powers it is comical at best, hypocritical at worst.
Land of the free (TM)
I don't even know what a CBD is.
Yoshua Bengio recently won a Turing Award, which was covered widely in the press at the time. He also appears frequently in other news articles (for example, 14 articles in the New York Times). So yes, I would expect most people in the "Technology News" section at Reuters to at least be familiar with his name.

And even if they didn't expect many readers to know who Yoshua Bengio is, he's still more well-known than Samy.
> Who shares a bitcoin wallet or operates one like a bank?

Almost every bitcoin exchange.

It's typical to pool user funds into a relatively small number of addresses.
Hahaha, in a worldview that has little much more to aspire to than the acquisition of wealth and material things, I guess it's not a shock that people start looking at each other in a legalistic mentality as small, poor, not so well protected corporate entities such that we are fashioned in the image of a company. All of the microbes that live in our guts are our employees, our mind is the CEO sitting in the brain as its office, the other organs hosting other managers.
The paid Lenovo shills DO NOT want you to watch this video. =)
Thank you so much! I will definitely learn more about her work.
You are correct on all points. I believe the article is trying to refer to the recent studies:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150218/ncomms7290/abs/ncom...

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150306/ncomms7400/full/nco...
> That's not science.

Science is sometimes harder than a single test.

For example, there's no blood test for autism. There's no blood test for PTSD. But my best friend's brother took years to talk to me, and sometimes still goes into rages; one of my partners would wake up in the middle of the night convinced I was trying to kill her.

Brains, minds, reinforcement learning systems, are complicated. By entirely abstract mechanisms they can be rewired to beautiful and terrible extremes. I very much doubt that the trauma that induces PTSD depends on any pre-existing biological state to allow PTSD to take hold, nor does PTSD necessarily induce some biological state (other than the biological brain-configuration that it is obviously implemented in). PTSD seems to be the best example of the human mind's ability to learn being exploited in the same way a buffer overflow exploits a browser. Obviously something is there; it's impossible to see someone flashback and deny the condition exists; but will there ever be a blood test for PTSD, or any diagnostic test more sophisticated than something like the DSM?

Psychology is not an easy science. Like physics, it depends on reverse-engineering the rules to a complex system, but that system is the human mind, and unlike physics, which exists only at a single level, to understand the mind, we have to cross levels of abstraction, much like it would be utterly futile to try to understand a program by recording the patterns it activated on the silicon of a CPU. And worse, everybody thinks they're an expert, because everyone has N years of experience dealing with human minds.

It's easy to think that any science should have a nice, clean, reductionist, petri-dish and blood-test approach. But the universe is under no obligation to make things easy. In a sense, psychology is the hardest science, because it is simply so difficult to cross these abstraction boundaries easily.
This is still me, in so many things. On an intellectual level, there are things I want to do that I know I would enjoy, and that would make my life better. On an emotional level, I simply lack the motivation to start engaging in them.

What's helping me is the concept of precommitment.

I have a simple system. It started as a simple weekly wager with a coworker: Every Friday, have a plan for your weekend. Complete that plan during your weekend. Failure in either part costs you a coffee, failure in both costs you lunch.

Those plans can be whatever you want. Ranging from taking care of basic life chores, to working on projects, to getting exercise, and to whatever else might seem a priority.

This doesn't fix the lack of intrinsic motivation to get started per se, but does add another, extrinsic, motivation. More wanting to save face than worrying about the hit to our wallets - both of us willing to tease each other and ourselves for being too meek in our planning when we succeed, or for being too ambitious or lazy when we fail. (Edit: Also out of a sense of competition.)

I'm still searching for intrinsic motivation, but at least as a stopgap, extrinsic motivation through precommitment is doing wonders for my life. Given that it took me a decade or so to figure out this much, I'll more than happily take it.
I tried it, and ... eliminating the double-quotes looks like a win. Average password lengths in the order-2 model don't increase measurably; it rounds to 20.0 chars for both models.

I've now deployed this.

Um ... I mean... what quotations? I don't see any quotation marks!

(Many thanks.)
The thing with Prop 13 is, without it or something like it, you could live your whole life in CA, then retire and be driven out when fiscal drag caught up with you. Shades of Logan's Run. So what's the alternative?
An automated installer comparable with anaconda - the one used by Fedora and RHEL. There seems to be a couple of projects or hacks for this, but nothing in the official (upstream) installer.
More than simply filtering as well, I'm willing to pay for e-books by writers I like, so they'll carry on being able to write - and write more things that I'll like. Think of it as distributed patronage. There are many more reasons people pay for something than owning a physical copy of it.
For the fun: check out the example portraits created by Juji, including lady gaga, obama, and NCAA players on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/juji.io You can also check out fellow entrepreneurs or your favorite VCs if they have public tweets.

For serious minds: check out the Science behind Juji (https://juji.io/about#science) and the validations (https://juji.io/about#validations)
Agreed. It seems that we are going full circle from criminals are born to commit crime to criminals can be rehabilitated to criminals should be punished and soon criminals are born to commit crime (predictive/thought crimes). Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" was an excellent example of the French ideology of the period.
I've tried enabling it from the web interface and, even though it's selected and my number is properly configured, it still wont work :(
I guess am sorry that we ended up in bitter ends of a pointy discussion. For what's worth, I was not trolling. I stand by anything that I said (specially the "sprinkle of crypto fairy dust", which I have seen IRL more often that I wish). If I am ignorant or not, I am by definition unqualified to tell.

Other than that, if you prefer to have non combative discussions, please stop bossing professionals around and tell them what to do. Specially if they are not providing a service you paid money for.
The goal of journalism is impartiality. And most good journalism comes as close as it can come. This article is not an example of that.
The stats are right there on the homepage of HackerOne. $2,36m paid bounties and 7,662 bugs fixed. Sounds like a lot of willing participants.
Hi Niels-ole,
It's great that you are doing this and it looks very cool. I noticed that you were using freelist.org for creating the list. Is it easy to use and manipulate?

I am asking this because we are also building a tool named pickot (www.pickot.com). We do list watches as well and you can very easily change the filters and criteria. We current do not have a ranking system for list but can very easily adapt one if you wish.

Would you like to take a look and see if it is useful to you? Let me know and I'll be more than happy to help!

Best,
Wa
That's too simplistic. Pao's claims had huge holes.

* She was sent to the back row during a retreat! (except the day before, when she was given front row)

* She wasn't given enough guidance and didn't have a fair shot at the firm! (except JOHN DOERR actively mentored her)

* Her harasser at the firm was not fired! (except she told the partners over email that the guy should not be let go)

etc
Maybe they are embarrassed about how shoddy they will look in a direct comparison with standard browsers.
for completeness, here's the official announcement from amazon.

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/11/15/announc...
Somewhat related...

As opposed to Berlin specifically, how should an American software engineer get a job in a different country? I'd like to experience different cultures and I'd like to move to another country (after finding a job) but I'm not sure how I should go about doing it.

Initially, I think western Europe is the most ideal place since I do not know any other languages, some place where many people spoke English would be ideal.

If anyone has any tips for how an American (with no foreign contacts, or fluency in other languages) can land a job in a western European country, I'd be very interested in hearing them.
1. cost depends on your location - central is no longer cheap
2. there are a lot of startups but I'm not sure which one is developing in python

try this map to find startups http://www.businesslocationcenter.de/de/B/iii/1/seite11.jsp

there seems to be a django Berlin group http://groups.google.com/group/django-berlin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12985/

Screenshot pimp: I use the non toolbar buttons in the options. It lets you select the area in the browser you want to capture.

Works in mac, too (but not sure about other linux distros)
What are the three free ones you use?
Where are you hosting the content now?
I've taken those courses also - they are still valuable. Take the same book home, or hell, take ten books home on that subject and you will still miss many salient points that only prolonged formal study of the subject will bring.

That's the trick with the humanities - they are not hard sciences, there is no canonical body of knowledge to be passed on; This isn't a straight download. Many things are a matter of perspective, of experience, and of particular schools of thoughts - all of the above poorly communicated via mere books.

That's the difference between a history book vs. a good history professor. Even without the (invaluable) ability to interact directly, it's the difference between a dry recounting of facts vs. more profound linkages into other areas of the field, or entirely other fields of study altogether. Sure, by reading books you will make some of these connections yourself, but it's hardly as good as what you'd get in classes.

That being said, there are certainly bad profs who do just do the dry recounting of facts, in which case you are basically better off reading the textbook at home. The presence of these should in no way discount the enormous positive influence of college educations done right.
If you're going to make blogging your only viable avenue of tech support...
I wish Shirkey would start comparing Wikipedia creation not to TV watching, but to the jobs that the people who write Wikipedia are (theoretically) doing while they're writing Wikipedia.

One could say the same thing about OSS, at least in the context of OSS which management does not know about.

If you think 10 hours of TV a week is a waste of human potential, you should see what some people do for 40 hours a week. (Or vastly, vastly more, in some cases. Why hello, Japanese salarymen...)
I've used Parrot as a target for a language implementation. It supports a lot of stuff out of the box (even multimethods!) and it's quite easy to get started. It also provides tools to help you build a compiler, like a parser generator integrated with the rest of the system. The problem is that right now it is quite slow, slower than Perl or Python, and a bit buggy. It would be an ideal target platform for dynamic languages otherwise. I wouldn't use it for something needed in production at the moment.
I think some of the problems could be traced to performance and power profile of TI OMAP. It was underclocked AFAIK. Probably due to too much heat or power or both.
Actual trains! They're cool too but slightly disappointed that it is not a new type of escrow or delivery method for dark markets.
It's weird to see the backlash against this when people here are the first to speak out about the need to preserve the internet. Like it or not, Tweets are part of the historical record, and I welcome this move.
Yes, of course, I said that in my original comment. I'm arguing the advice as a panacea, not saying the OP was wrong to follow it.
> One thing that Netflix is absolutely terrible at is dubbing. As a German, I grew up with the luxury of all movies shown on TV (Hollywood or European) being dubbed (this is not true for many of our neighboring countries).

Being from one of those neighbouring countries, it’s hard to understand what’s so great about dubbing, and I guess back home people kind of feel sorry for the countries where dubbing is the norm.

Only television for young children is dubbed, because usually they can’t read or read fast enough yet, and growing up reading subtitles becomes a second nature. Once you’re used to them, it’s hard to understand what added benefit dubbing would then bring… Except from an accessibility point of view—I know not everybody can read, and I know there are dedicated dubs for the visually impaired.

The benefits of subtitles are many though—of course first and foremost you get to enjoy the sounds and atmosphere of another language while still being able to understand it. And then being confronted with a language often enough will be a massive help in learning it. English of course is the main language people learn this way, but when I learned French and German in high school the French and German spoken movies on TV and in the cinema definitely helped.

So I guess what I mean to say—of course it’s simply the result of the economical reality of living in a smaller linguistic area, but subtitles feel quite the luxury to me!

It’s interesting to hear that Netflix’s dubbing is subpar though, and I see how that could hurt their bottom-line since in most bigger countries dubbing is the norm.
I'm not quite sure about most other European countries, but German cinema is famously bad. There is the occasional comedy that is at least watchable to pass the time if nothing else is on. But other than that, formulaic, badly acted drivel that is just produced to grab state film subsidies. The only German production I would call good is "Das Boot", and that is decades old by now. With lots of squinting maybe "Lola rennt".

As for German TV shows, there is a bunch of bad soaps and "Krimis", badly acted, formulaic criminal investigation stuff. Usually with the police as universal good guys working through some tough midlife crisis problems, a token dialect actor from the region that episode is supposed to be set and a story that makes your brain bleed. With a raised finger moral point du jour to educate the stupid plebs out there as to how they are misbehaving. You would have to go back to "Raumpatroullie Orion" to even get science fiction, not to mention any other genre that is popular with non-old-people (Yes, Netflix is definitely an improvement there).
Hurry and publish before I have manuscripts ready applying these results.
> No more mornings where you are late for work because your car wouldn't start

That sounds very optimistic. Don't forget that these new cars are increasingly powered by software!
Why should Uber ban drivers that do not comply if Uber faces no consequences for the drivers' actions? Why should Uber spend one cent of investors' money "allowing passengers and drivers to indicate their disabilities in the app" if Uber is not responsible?
After reading this discussion, I'd be sorely disappointed if I ever flew in/out if Israel and wasn't checked out carefully. :-)

But they are probably good at profiling curious tourists too.

Reminds me of when me and a few friends bicycled around Northern Ireland once in the 90s. If I made a querying hand gesture to military at checkpoints if we should get over for questioning, they laughed, without even hearing my non-native English... ("More stupid tourists that just want to get close looks at our bullpups.")
When did PC Mag's ruin begin?
Even though there's no choice (here at least, when you want to use your Visa over the internet) I HATE, HATE, HATE the concept and here's why:

For starters I thought it's a phishing attack, when the frame popped up for the first time.

But the worst is that I don't feel it protects me, despite the marketing crap dished out by CC companies. The only reason is to protect Visa.

What happens if I book a flight at a badly infected internet cafe computer in Chiang Mai and a key logger reads my password?

"No, Mr. Zapp, our logs show irrefutable proof that your password was typed with suchandsuch transaction. Sorry, you're liable, you obviously didn't protect the password."

Scary stuff.
I was joking. I failed to locate the correct reference to the Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, but I am sure there is a joke on gesture recognition somewhere in there.
Is Portland really that much cheaper? Its not expensive there overall, but it doesn't seem all that cheap either.
That was good, yes. And link-browsing from there led me to this feller's site, which so far is also relevant and interesting.

http://federicopistono.org/