jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not so fast. Virtually everywhere there are concepts like "accessory to murder", "criminal organization" and many more.
It is amazing the amount of brain power put into making this language fast-ish. Too that brain power wasn't used to do other things.
I find deepl better than Google translate for some languages now. Just the fact that you can change some specific words in the translated text is a game changer for me
The article says that wind is actually producing more than average. Generation by every other source is impaired.

Also Texas's power grid isn't well connected to the outside. So they can't import enough power to make up for it.

And it's much colder with more snow than usual. Texas is experiencing conditions more typical of the upper mid west.
I am also interested in languages to model board games, and I think your biggest mistake might be in relying too heavily on imperative programming models for a domain that doesn't require them.

Have you tried converting games to your language, or read other literature on codifying game rules? It's much more popular to use declarative or logic based designs to state how a game can evolve. General Game Playing competitions, where the goal is to write AIs that can compete at _any_ game, use a Datalog variant to declare their rules. Extensions of this enable modeling complex games like Dominion (https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/12669/1251...).

Pattern matching is another promising way to model and rapidly prototype games, with the most approachable version probably being PuzzleScript.
Nobody has figured out a roadmap to get to done using only term 1. But we know it will help, and make other things better in the meantime, so it's always worth doing. Meanwhile, term 2 is unsolved but probably the only way to get back to 350ppm.
> You can indeed use backprop to train a separate learning rule superior to naïve backprop.

I used to dismiss the idea of an impending singularity. Now I'm not so sure.

Hopefully AGIs will reach hard physical limits to self-improvement, before taking over the world.
I was talking more about hyperinflation specifically, rather than the normal ~2% annual inflation targets. I don't understand how lack of monetary policy would prevent hyperinflation.
https://unsplash.com/s/photos/star%C3%BD-hrad%2C-nezbudsk%C3...
6 pages of gaming benchmarks and not one compilation speed test. Baffling.
I've only quickly browsed through the online version and already had a few good laughs! And I love the;

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License because I couldn't find a license with an even longer name.
I'm really tired of this. I don't care about anybody's arguments -- regardless of the side -- I just want to be able to play my PS3 in peace.
I thought the key was not managing mutable state. Sharing lots of immutable data can probably shave a lot of performance over ipc.
I can't see one single indicator to suggest that the USD isn't in a long term decline.

The only reason this isn't yet glaringly obvious to everyone, is that the Euro and GBP are also stuck on a downward trend.

Speculatively, I believe the Euro and GBP will 'save' themselves out of trouble within the next 5-7 years, whereas the US will practically have to reinvent the earnings foundation of it's entire economy before it can break out of this current downward spiral of excessive debt.
Joel is a good writer. Especially his early stuff is golden. Go read some of it.
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Is it just me or the guy in the photo looks like Mr. Spock :-)?
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London it's really not bad in my somewhat limited experience. (Usually take transit.) Yes it's more expensive than VC-subsidized rides but is better than taxis in most places.
Last time Uber lost their license in London they got to keep operating while they appealed, so it didn't really have any effect.
It's interesting to note that it's not just comments that can be manipulated but also the stories that are upvoted.
I am unable to negotiate a raise (because I don't even try). I always got (10%-15%) more (in the next job) when I wanted to leave and looked for something else. Usually still having a job that I want to leave but not having to find something immediately allows me to to negotiate a higher salary. OTOH I never left a job just to get more money.
Yup, I’ve done that far too often, I even have a bookmark to a small script that just replaces the next input box I click on with a freeform text input.
This is terrible advice. Whether it's for your own heath or your pet's you should always educate yourself. Doctors/veterinarian are heavily influenced by drug/pet supply companies. From her first days veterinary school, my girlfriend was constantly lobbied and given perks and educational material from the industry. It's not that she's not a good vet, but the system is corrupt.

In the case of my grandfather, multiple times we caught the doctor prescribing expensive prescriptions when more effective generics were available. In the case of my dog, my local vet pushes for Purina pet food[1] and vaccines when my doc is regularly titered. She is oblivious or fails to acknowledge the risks of a Lyme Vaccine carries [2] and serious allergic reactions that her recommended flea control can cause.

The only way to guarantee the best health care for yourself and your pet, is to educate yourself.

[1] http://www.aplusflintriverranch.com/define-menufoods-petfood...

[2] http://www.alldogsgym.com/health-and-nutrition/articles/heal...
> You pick representatives, and they are shown the effectiveness of programs, because they are the ones who vote for the programs.

They aren't always given the information either. Recall Diane Feinstein being quite displeased about being lied to recently. And we still have to elect "them" on the basis of something. By what process is a corrupt politician supposed to be held accountable if the fact of their corruption is a government secret?

> Some things that are not very popular are absolutely necessary nonetheless.

How do you propose to ensure that only the "absolutely necessary" things are occurring?
Padrino is also at a nice waypoint between rails and Sinatra. I recommend Sinatra for hacking out the basics of an MVC app then switching to Padrino once the generators make sense.
I don't really like the endless discussion about what languages are suitable for beginners or not. I think PG's advice is spot on: pick something a programmer friend that is willing to answer the occasional question recommends.

As to JavaScript as a first language: it might be popular, but (like Visual Basic) it is prone to misuse and doesn't force (or even teach) good habits to a new programmer in the way that e.g. Python does. Also, the quality of advice in regard to JavaScript varies a lot and so do the example snippets you find online. JavaScript is a nice language (unlike Visual Basic ;), but you need a background in programming before you can use it well. That being said: go for it if you're roommate is a JavaScript buff.
I desperately want to stay in the country I grew up, but my capital is almost gone. Yet I can't go back either due to not having done the mandatory military service at my country of origin.

Can't you go to a third country?
Makes sense. Thinking about it, most of the DB2 usage I've heard of is behind ATM and core accounting systems in retail banking rather than trading applications/low-latency...
You're already familiar with ASP.NET MVC which takes a lot of its inspiration from Rails ... so yeah ... go with Rails.
When they say days they mean 40 days, not a "few" days.
So someone who buys a copy can redistribute it freely with changes?

http://opensource.org/docs/osd
I disagree. One hour a night or a Saturday here and there do not add up to the required amount of effort for doing something completely different with ones life. Plus, it's very easy to be too tired or have other interests or whatever. When you burn the bridges, you're going to find out much more quickly whether you have both what it takes and the interest to make it work.

I recently quit my well paying job for exactly this reason. For years, I've told myself I'd learn X or do Y or whatever. Instead, I keep waking up Monday morning and trudging into the same soul sucking job I have. On June 1st, I wake up and get to find out a few very interesting things about myself. You might argue that I've already found them out because I can't find the time to do it now but I've saved enough money to be financially able to. When money is of no or little object, I think the truth will be a lot clearer.
Don't parse it all yourself.
http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/
and then you have those of us who buy the refurb, because it's not that bad a machine, especially when compared with the newer one in price per what you get.

It benefits all of us.
Life would go on without the stock market. Life will continue to go on with the status quo. Life would go on if the changes you presumably want were to be implemented.

It's not a question of whether life will go on. It's a question of whether it would go on better or worse than it does now.
> My $900 TV beats the hell out of my laptops as far as picture quality is concerned (I own a matte screen MBP and a latest Thinkpad). And that's just a TV!

So you expect that a <$2000 computer (where almost all of that money is paying for it being a computer) whose screen can only be 1/8" thick to have better picture quality than a $900 device whose sole purpose is to display video and which has less extreme size contraints?
It totally affects the market.
No, the solution isn't that obvious. Even with recent changes, regardless of who's copying who, I still much prefer Google to DDG. The layout makes it easy to traverse more results more quickly, and the typography and colors are a lot more crisp, among other things. All this DDG talk is getting tiring.
Do you have other tasks that you think could be (partially) automated?
"heritable" does not mean "determined by genetics" FYI.
I work for one of these places. I'm sure you can guess which one.

Please wear a suit, when you get the job you're able to wear what you like. I am assuming the culture of the UK offices will be fairly similar to the US ones.

The questions I got were

1) In your own words tell us what our company does (I gave an analogy to explain)

2) Explain our business model

3) Who are our target consumer (educated, females with lots of disposable income)

4) What are your core strengths

5) Tell me about your hobbies

6) What can you tell me about the office environment from just looking around (we have glass windows everywhere so nothing goes un-noticed - work is alot like university)

7) What do you want to do in 5 years?
Reproduction doesn't address the aging problem at all. To quote Woody Allen, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.". The same thing applies to reproduction: I don't want to achieve "immortality" of some fraction of my genetic code, I want to achieve immortality by not dying. :)
JavaScript "encryption" is like sending someone a letter in a package with a TSA lock on it, asking them to communicate secretly with you. They send you back the package with the lock, and instructions on how to communicate securely. You send the package back with the lock and your message encrypted according to the instructions.

It doesn't matter what your encryption scheme is. The TSA lock means the TSA can control the content. But the user assumes their communication isn't controlled by the TSA, because they are receiving instructions that appear normal.
Agree, strongly typed languages are best suited for this as it usually allows to embed business domain invariants into the type system which can be checked at compile time.

Rust does a great job in that regard and is not too slow.
From "Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance" (https://archive.org/details/ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleRepair-R...)

> "But they’re from the factory," John says.

> "I’m from the factory too," I say "and I know how instructions like this are put together. You go out on the assembly line with a tape recorder and the foreman sends you to talk to the guy he needs least, the biggest goof-off he’s got, and whatever he tells you. ..that’s the instructions. The next guy might have told you something completely different and probably better, but he’s too busy."

> They all look surprised. "I might have known," DeWeese says.
Opps I should have said - its also known as Fish And Chips in the UK.

Fighting In Someone's House, and Causing Havoc In Public Spaces.
> would never default in any reasonable scenario

Our reality is about to stray pretty far from any reasonable scenario.
>But how to persuade creative people to do so? First and foremost, there must be ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness. The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. The individuals must, therefore, have the feeling that the others won t object.

Absolutely true. Brainstorming only works if anything goes.
People usually Google when they have some kind of problem with the software...
Ansible is written in Python.
And because I do not feel forced it deserves downvote. Fucking thought police.
Just because someone doesn't have a javascript heavy blog (which is designed to be mostly text) in no way means they think must think the whole web should be kept JS-light, or that JS isn't a worthwhile technology to build interactive applications with. They could believe in an appropriate use of technologies.

There are plenty of technologies for getting JS based apps into app stores, just as there is for Python based apps.

If your argument is is "Here is a highly interactive Python app and a low interactive blog post, therefore Python is more compelling" then:

What people are building with Python-

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex1.html

Vs.

What people are building on the webstack-

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/biolab-disaster/id433062854

I agree that some of the arguments such as library longevity and health are debatable, but in terms of being able to get your application out to people, JS undoubtedly wins.
Yes, but it still makes no sense to compare GA performance with a gradient-based method on the problem GP is talking about, because an explicit gradient is available.
> 'Mankind' still puts one gender ahead of the other;

It is really the other way around, since "man" as meaning both genders is the more original meaning of the word. So there is nothing sexist about "mankind". However it was arguable sexist to use "a man" to mean "a male" rather than "a human".
This was on imgur recently http://imgur.com/gallery/Octdtr3 dog reacting to owner having a PTSD attack.

On the other side of the spectrum I remember a friend taking her young lab back into her car because he wasn't behaving right, and that little puppy, right before closing the door, pulled the most saddest face (yet funny) I've ever seen: sad eyes, tilted head, sad sounds, everything in order for an Oscar.
What is the difference between yourself and you? I don't see any
I never new Andreseen Horowitz is also called A16Z. It's like I18N
https://superuser.com/questions/31512/how-to-synchronize-the...
Give yourself a hard deadline. Its the only way I can get myself into the 'zone' for some of the less interesting pieces of uni coursework.
Wouldn't the easiest way to verify cable internet service for a residence be to simply ask the current owner? They will know better than anyone else (including the ISP) whether their exact location can be serviced.

I'm a little shocked that the author would go through all this back and forth with a company with a reputation like Comcast, and never once ask the previous owner of the house.
Ben commented on another thread yesterday. ComponentKit is similar because it follows Facebook's philosophy for UI, but came about before React Native was attempted. (Hence, it's written in Apple's native Obj-C as opposed to React's JS.)

React Native came after some successful experiments later and isn't as mature.
Is Dropbox working on moving to its own hardware? It seems like being bound to S3 must be a big business risk for them.
1 - Everything is an expression so it's easier to snap code together.

2 - List based = flexibility, get more done faster because lists are simple and everywhere

3 - Strongly nudges in the direction of functional programming

4 - Rocking documentation, advanced libraries

5 - The Dr Racket GUI IDE

6 - X-expressions (don't know what they are)

7 - Hygienic macros

9 - Easy to write powerful DSLs

10 - Many low hanging fruits to contribute
I dunno, I don't really buy your squint test for languages. While it makes some sense for graphical user interfaces, (most) source code isn't graphical, it's textual, and you wouldn't apply the squint test to the arbitrary written word, would you? Where every page of every book looks the same...
"They were minting physical coins."

No, they were not:
"a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as mony"

"They called them dollars."
So does disney: http://www.disneydollars.net/

"Just because they decided they didn't think they were legally coinage"

This is a dishonest characterization. They had opinions from independant council, the secret service, members of federal reserve branches, etc, all saying that the product was legal.

"very obviously the intent."
You believe this because you want to believe it. However, the decade of actions that the organization took, between 1998 and 2008, involved monthly newsletters, and repeated production of brochures, the website, and other writing all of which made it clear that people who had liberty dollars were not to put them forth as if they were us government money. They spent the majority of their educational effort in conflict with what you claim is their "obvious" intent.

"Their whole disclaimer is delivered with a wink and nudge."

I understand that you feel you can just tell lies about people and somehow you feel justified in doing so. But in honorable society, doing so reflects very poorly on your own integrity. I have to wonder, what motivates you, who have clearly no knowledge of this organization or its actions, to attack them with these dishonest smears?

Unfortunately, many americans think like you do. The FBI calls them terrorists, railroads them and people think the justice system works.

It is no wonder things are moving the way they are in the USA if your views, as I suspect, are widely echoed.
Only question with the blending, have they ever tried blending another blender (same model etc)?
I hope this is true.

I still don't understand why they've been so apathetic to using the Windows Phone 7 OS on other types of devices. Many reviews say that the interface would scale well to other device types, and it already runs on ARM.

My hope is that they're being disingenuous, and in fact are doing exactly this.
So here we have:

New-laptop->blender

For your comment we have:

New-machine-->user------------------------->trash/other-user/some-other-market

WTF don't people understand about how wasteful this is?

Also, this machines toxic+precious components are being munger to the point where any hope of recycle is lost. If you aren't already paying attention, countries like China are securing the next 50-100 years worth of natural resources, required for the information age lifestyle, in Africa in such a way that the US will be relatively 3rd world in the next 25 years (with respect to our ability to produce that which we need).

So even though we are focused on the micro - the problem and question are macro.

Please tell me I am misguided, and prove it.
I hate to dignify the original argument using openness to justify something completely unrelated, but... I think you're forgetting that the vast majority of websites accessed on "consumer wired internet" are hosted on Linux servers.
Historically (i.e. based on my intensive study of Hollywood depictions), parole boards have essentially been twisted Christian confessional parlors, right? Maybe the prisoners are to some degree just playing along.
and it would seem that "reasonable force" is where the conflict arises - after all, I suspect that you would agree that simply shooting the suspect would be unreasonable?
If you don't mind, how much caffeine were you consuming prior to weaning yourself off and at what times?

It seems like those that drink caffeine when they wake up or to wake up have the worst symptoms, especially when going without it.
I was very disappointed not to see prison sentences for executives and other fiduciaries in the 2008 financial scandals. Weren't those used in the 80s S&L crisis? I understand that large corporate penalties can hurt society or innocent employees, but we can still deter bad behavior if we hold individuals accountable. Of course the rich will always be more likely to evade justice, but I feel like 2008 was more blatant than usual and sent a strong message that if you're rich you can act with impunity.
hmm, even if we can import the "following" list, I'm not sure how we can invite those people in though. There is no way we can notify those people, that's the challenge.
I know many blind people who use iphones, and they'd love a tool to help them read street signs, cereal boxes, etc...

Blind people are patient by necessity, I'm sure there are many who wouldn't mind waving around their phone scanning for text.
It might also be of interest that I recently posted a gist that shows how to post some basic mechanical turk tasks using Python's boto library.

https://gist.github.com/740267
Get a kindle.

//Actually -- I'm not sure how limited the text-to-speech stuff is in the kindle. (as-in -- how many books in the store allow it. But on the couple that I've tested - it works great)

Also -- audible/various other audiobook retailers are great.
It's great to see Selective Sync in there! The only other big feature I'd like to see is an easy way to host several Dropboxes on one computer!
I liked this conceptual introduction: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/
I strangely feel the same way about most of Mark's posts. I get about 2 or 3 paragraphs in and I'm already thinking "got it, move onto the next point".

Sorry Mark, but I think you should maybe take some of your own advice on this one and apply it to your blog posts. You write well, but I wish I had the Coles Notes.

By comparison, look at Don Dodge's writing vs Mark's
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/01/how-g...
much more concise and to the point.

Probably fits most of the readers of HN better.
@ddayan here, the coolest project I've ever worked on :D
Do it for German and French, and I'd pay $9.99.
I should have looked there...

Linux x86_64: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-1.0.10.tar...

Linux x86: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.0.10.tar.gz
>For example I'm baffled to know that in US, some "pet forbidden" apartment buildings exist. Come on, people not allowed to have pets at their own house??

I don't think it is us vs them.

A few bad apples ruin the bunch.

There are people who just let their pets destroy their apartment because they can't be bothered to train them or even clean up after them. Landlords take the stance of that being an unnecessary risk to deal with potential propery destruction so they just say no pets because they perceive it as the less risky route.
I was kinda thinking of F#'s Computation Expressions when I posted my comment.
I can understand how Europeans are justifiably upset when Americans talk about reforming the American surveillance apparatus in terms of protecting the rights of Americans, but please understand that this does NOT imply an indifference to the rights of others.

It's simply a practical matter of being honest about the political incentives in the U.S. Enraged Europeans don't vote U.S. congressmen out of office. Enraged Americans do. Until U.S. congressmen feel pressure from those who ultimately employ them, nothing will change.