jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Clearly, there should have been a young brash Nintendo VP tearing the printed proposal in half, then in quarters, then in one eighths, until all is left is pieces falling like cherry blossoms, all the while looking at the MS exec in the eyes and making a five-minute impromptu address on what it means to be Nintendo and why money-counting accountants will never understand it, until the MS exec runs out of the room crying, punched by the sheer verbal force of the righteous anger.

Yes, everything I learned about Japan, I learned from Japanese dramas, why do you ask?
Jumping from level 2 to 5 is going to be extremely difficult. I have no idea how we will ever accomplish that. Tesla is playing around a bit now, but this strategy will only work up until the moment a Tesla kills someone while provably being operated in "FSD" mode.
That's a trite comparison. Why not include pollution and global warming?
Perhaps relates to sponsored tiles,

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tiles/

I believe those allow advertising without tracking of users.
As someone who has worked in a warehouse facility as a picker - though not Amazon. I find the 'slave-like conditions'a bit unfair.

Now I can't speak for Amazon themselves, most of the complaints seem to stem from the fact that being a picker IS a skill. Not everyone can be good at it. It's physical - which I personally found fantastic, getting paid to stay fit, and on company time. You need to have somewhat a good memory, but more importantly an analytical brain to process the information on the scanner. Whilst the locations of the items might not have any seemingly logical order, the layout of the facility does. If you can process the bin locations immediately then you save many seconds of your target. Which brings me to the targets. It may seem 'slave-like' to have a timer between picks but each and every one is achievable (through analysis of every other pick ever made), and even if you miss a pick by 5 seconds, you've probably saved 5 seconds somewhere else during that same day/week/month (depending on how they evaluate your performance). Again though that's no to say that everyone has the skill to do so.

The episode you highlighted mentions that employees at Amazon tend to enjoy their work. If you can do the job, there's very little stress, pay can be good - we're talking about a generally unskilled job, certainly more than most retail stores. Decent benefits - vacation, healthcare etc. Shifts can be very favourable depending on the facility - 4 in 4 off can mean long weekends and plenty of opportunity for family time.

Some days I wish I was just picking.
There is a difference between "your information" and "information about you." Not just a legal one, but a epistemological one. AT&T doesn't need your permission to keep track of requests on their network any more than Lowes needs your permission to keep track of who buys a lamp.

That said, this is an issue where nitpicky legal and technical analysis is probably going to take a back-seat to politics. After Riley v. California, it seems quite possible that the Supreme Court is ready to say: "it doesn't matter that Mark Zuckerberg can see all your photos if he wants--the 4th amendment applies to the cloud because we want it to."
I can't tell if you are serious or not. OP goes through them by example.

Original type:

type 'a t = | Array of 'a array
| Bytes of bytes

GADT'd (same functionality as before):

type 'a t = | Array : 'a array -> 'a t
| Bytes : bytes -> 'a t

Now using power of GADT to add constraint:

type 'a t = | Array : 'a array -> 'a t
| Bytes : bytes -> char t

Just jumping into it seems like a fine choice to make. Allows for a (narrow) introduction to GADTs without getting bogged down in their full complexity/limitations. Shows that it's useful before/without a theoretical discussion.

Still, I wouldn't have minded a little discussion introducing GADTs.
> The main problem on Android for me is that there's absolutely no way to download a file.

That's really odd given that Android has a proper filesystem that applications can (and do!) access.
Not just his public e-mails. :-)
Was it still buggy on Linux? Release notes mention some other points as relevant to the Windows version only, so it probably made sense to mention it for MSE too to avoid confusion.
Title should read "Android is Doing to Smart Phones What Microsoft Did to PCs".

Not news.
Google trends for books?
I hate to support Microsoft on this one - I was actually checking the rules to see if they forbid you from dual-licensing it - but you pulled this out of context. The license only allows them to use your code to evaluate who won the contest, and use it in promotional materials. Now, the latter part is a bit murky, it seems they have a license to publish a screenshot of your solution. But nevertheless, they are not claiming ownership of your work.

The full text is below:

Other than what is set forth below, we are not claiming any ownership rights to your entry. However, by
submitting your entry, you are granting us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to: (i) use, review, assess, test and
otherwise analyze your entry and all its content in connection with this Contest; and (ii) feature your entry
and all content in connection with the marketing, sale, or promotion of this Contest (including but not limited to internal and external sales meetings, conference presentations, tradeshows, and screen shots of
the Contest entry in press releases) in all media (now known or later developed)

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/spellerchallenge/Doc...
Referencing past discussions is useful, though. That’s where I would see the niche for this bot.
i prefer short names for methods you use so often that there is no chance of forgetting what it means.
While I get that same feel from the rubbings from some ruby folk, (I'm a C/python/Objective C guy mainly), I don't honestly feel their rubbings in relation to github at all. I mean, it's source control, what does it have to do with the language you put into it?

As the author of the original blog entry stated, feature-wise Git is similar to many other source control systems, "The issue wasn't the technology. Mercurial and Git are pretty much at feature parity (as is Bazaar)."

He goes on to say that the differentiator is the community. If the source control system isn't technologically superior to other competing technologies, and the community is the differentiating factor, but the community is one that I'm not extremely enamored with, wouldn't I be wise to stay away?

Maybe what you're saying is that in fact the community is not that important with repect to GitHub. It's a web front end for source control and it's really good, period. In that case, maybe it's worth another look. Although again, pretty much the only people I hear talking about GitHub are Ruby folks, and most of what they talk about is how GitHub is great because of the Ruby community.
In 3 days, wikileaks will expose what the dupdetector really wants.
I don't think it's an unfair comparison at all. Comparing Clojure and Scala can only generate interest in a few small (though growing) communities.

You've done an excellent job of showing Clojure's benefits to a much, much wider audience - programmers not familiar with functional programming. Also it's compelling to hear that you're successfully using Clojure to efficiently "script" larger Java codebases.

Kudos for writing such a hype-less, non-condescending, and educational tutorial for Java/imperative programmers!
I think its a fine article - it delivered exactly what the title said. It wasn't "Thinking in Clojure for programmers of all imperative or OO languages".
I mean, would you do these things now? We live in a different time with now widely considered social conscience, but those ideas came from somewhere to start with.
People should spend or invest thoughtfully, but they should spend or invest - if people are encouraged to hoard a pile of wealth so they can live off the labour of others while contributing nothing themselves, that's bad for society. So central banks tend to aim for low but nonzero inflation (e.g. the Fed's 2% target).
I am not an expert either, but I would say that you have to rehash it either way if it grows (or shrinks).
Tombstones as I understand it, are a way to "mark" deleted entries off of the hash table.
Having these deleted entries marked ensures that your hash table doesn't break its "search chain". This is important so that you still can find entries that are put at another index when one index ("bucket") is already occupied.

However, I also don't shrink my table, once it grows. It stays grown. (Another drawback of my lib I suppose).

Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it! :)
Please don't do this here, even when something seems wrong or annoying.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to them? Their intention is to try to keep this place from degrading so that it can remain interesting for all of us.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
can anyone point some article or describe (if and) how is machine learning helping scientists to find new superconductors with higher temperatures?
Ideally, it's meant to be a recognition of and response to high barriers to entry: we can't have an arbitrarily large number of competing companies all rolling out their own overlapping* infrastructures, and the few we allow must put up a lot of capital up front. The applicability of this description depends on the particular service in question (e.g. it describes running water far better than it does cell phone service).

*If they don't overlap, they don't compete.
Colleges once cultivated unique authority within culture. Even in the 80's, When I went Berkeley, I took courses with a number of people who had no just contributed to their field but had defined their field - Richard Karp who defined the P/=PN question, Lofti Zodi who defined fuzzy logic and so-forth. This kind of thing indeed certainly defined class as well.

Today, that is lost, with or without the loss of university proper. With US incomes skewed more than ever before, I'm not sure if we've lost the class part.
50s best business move was hooking up with Vitamin water early on. He advertised for them and in return got stock options instead of cash. Vitamin water was eventually bought out by one of the big drink makers and 50 made out with ~100M.
intasa, that didn’t appear in the archive. “A new word!” he crowed. Abu Bashar, our Bedouin driver, proposed that it meant “to be forgotten after having once been famous.”

Wow “to be forgotten after having once been famous”.

This blows my mind, if in fact it turns out to be the actual meaning of this word.

People who had to be on constant watch from predators eating their herds, tribes stealing and capturing members of their family, needing to search for food and water and still valued fame and the desire to be known.
Does that mean it was faster at dealing with 16-bit values even if it had 32-bit registers?
On existing hardware it is mostly useless from a security point of view, but if you design new hardware it is way simpler to have per device physical base+lenght limits than a full featured IOMMU. This is to be restricted to somehow light embedded devices though. For a generalist expensible computer it would not make sense.
I know Amiga has modern SSL libraries, but with just 512kb of RAM to run iBrowse? Sure?

I tried to emulate some m68k macs, and definitely, as the PC, 8MB are the minimum enough (with paging) to browse without issues with an old Netscape release, or icab.

PC's have it easier because a stripped Minix2 with Lynx and some light SSL library could do that with ease on a high 486/Pentium and 4MB of RAM.

One day I'll compile a modern Dillo with mbedtls for a virtual 486 with 4-8MB under Qemu.
Will the new American administration (I'm not an American and should have no bone on American politics, but this is how the world works) will significantly enable Twitbookgle to exert powers they did not under Trumpism?
again, we should focus more on education than moderation.
When I lived in NYC I remember the first day it reached 50 degrees, sometime in late March or April, you would see people walking around in tee shirts.

Now that I live in Miami, 50 degrees is cause to break out the warmest clothes you own. Definitely all relative.
Rekonq was stupidly fast and lightweight...
It will be regulated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential
And what is the intention to make the patent?
The second way is actually more useful, not limited to unsigned ints.
Bakeries do exist and bulk orders do make sense for them.
This is true to a large degree at present, but could change with greater adoption.

It's worth remembering that one of the main reasons that people send Bitcoins to a centralised exchange such as Bitstamp is so that they can sell some them for dollars and lock in profit. It's how you cash out of Bitcoin and in to fiat, thus avoiding the inherent volatility of the Bitcoin price for a portion of your portfolio.

With a decentralised exchange such as BitShares you can 'cash-out' within the exchanges using pegged BitAssets such as BitUSD or BitGold. Everything remains as crypto. This means you only ever really need to touch a centralised exchange or gateway and convert to real fiat dollars when you need to actually spend on something in the real world. This too will change over time as more vendors accepts crypto currencies directly such as bitBTC and bitUSD. BitUSD, and other BitAssets held in the BitShares decentralized exchange pay a yield too (i.e. interest).

The BitShares business development team have been busy courting financial institutions that'll be able to act as gateways for $'s and other fiat currencies for when you do need to spend. I think there has been talk of being able to directly charge up credit cards with BitUSD from your BitShares account.
The gaming industry is well known for exercising as much control as possible over their hardware and software. Console manufacturers want to control what runs on the console and software authors want to prevent piracy.
The first reason is "because terrorism". It's difficult to keep reading, because the logic the author follows does not fit with the title or point the author's trying to make. This is a largely list of reasons why sub-orbital airliners aren't already common; it's got baseline assumptions that technology will not rapidly improve, that airports will not innovate, that passenger demand is static, etc.

I don't understand the conclusion, given the points. It's a very pessimistic essay about the future, where all air travel is horrible and nobody will want to fly. I don't buy it.
Houses are rare in L1. Try L9, L6, L7, L4 very commutable to the city centre.
If you haven't spent time with this, you need to stop everything and look at it. It's wonderful.
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If you try that you get:

* What's a polynomial?

* What are variables?

* What's an integer?

* ... a completely blank stare.

You're absolutely right about the usefulness, but most people really won't get past the word "polynomial".
Especially in ruby world, it's amazing how big impact marketing has on open source projects.

It's nothing new that when you prepare a nice webpage with some pictures and logo your project is more likely to gain some traction. But mentioned element of social media and virality makes sometimes seemingly random projects to become popular.

It would seem that when releasing an open source project, your webdesign and marketing skills are way more important than your programming skills.

It gets fixed a bit later because when project becomes popular some good programmers join in and get rid of some silly bugs and so on. But the original design and assumptions stay. API often stays. And since I consider programming nowadays being a lot of like building from lego blocks, API has a huge influence on programmers productivity.
No one is saying that Vim key-bindings aren't incredibly useful, I'm saying that there is a reason those key-bindings are in most text editors and IDE's... because people are using those editors instead of Vim.

Also, most developers are not Linux administrators... It's not that learning Vim or Emacs is hard, what's hard for most users is increasing one's productivity enough to warrant learning Vim or Emacs, especially in the short term. So most developers/users don't; they use text editors that have much more in common with word processors, which many have been using their entire lives.
Making something illegal is not all that needs to be done. The government would still need a detection and enforcement mechanism.
The concept you are talking about is the threshold of originality and it is indeed depending on country and a moving target:

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

As an example: if I use a seed to create a grainy texture, it probably isn't original. If I use the same image as a grain filter for a photograph, the result may be original (in a legal sense). Both operations are trivial and just a click of a button (or two), so I think the discussion about the ease is moot in that context.
This isn't the best way to describe the problem or solution.

Users can be advised to install an ad-blocking plugin for their web browser to protect themselves. Since Google serves adverts from domains other than google.com, users can continue to use the google.com domain for search while at the same time blocking the malware coming from ad networks.
Similar devices are around for 3 years now. PixelQi offered 10" display compatible with most netbooks for $220. It even offered color backlight color mode.

In real life the benefits are not that great, screen is still polished glass and reflects everything.
Nice! Thanks a lot for your hard work, it's really appreciated despite my ranting ;)
what exactly am i voting for?
Mozilla has publicly said that they are shifting to a more chrome-like release model where the hits come faster.
Most of my best friends I met through the internet, or through friends I met through the internet. Specifically, the internet introduced me to one largely internet-assembled social circle that did the rest.
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Re: office suites, the code bases of the major office suites pre-date the rise of Java, which brought GC into the mainstream. Lot's of apps bigger and more complex than an office suite have been written in Java.

As for web browsers... every web browser has a GC...
Great Idea but I don't like how I'm forced to participate right away. Having flash ask me to share my camera as soon as I hit the site is off-putting. I'd like to just watch what's going on.
Compare the reception Googlers gave Lady Gaga vs. Donald Knuth
http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=hNa_-1d_0tA&start1=115...
you would vote for the one you like more. if thats not blindingly obvious then we definitely gotta improve that
Did they mention if users will still be shown a popup about updating then asked to restart their web browser after the update is complete or will they actually get it right like Google and not bother the user at all?
I have a hard time believing doctors will be replaced in large numbers. The nature of their jobs may shift away from hypothesis generation but ultimately a human will be making the final diagnosis, choosing from several options that have been vetted algorithmically. Legally & practically a human needs to arbitrate that process, people would feel uncomfortable otherwise.
Is the same not true for physical cash, gold, or bearer bonds?
I don't usually want to post, "me too" posts but...

I really miss the comment scores.

Sometimes I am not totally familiar with whatever the original post is talking about, often the top rated couple of comments give me some good insight or jumping off points to look into it further.

I respect the HN community and have learned a lot here. I generally trust their judgement and I have found if a comment is rated highly, it most likely adds a lot of value to the discussion.

Sometimes I disagree with the highest rated comment(s). I then see my opinion is in a minority and maybe I re-examine it or stand firm and make a comment to the contrary.
I wish Sony would at least push a patch that stops from trying to log me in before I can do anything. Netflix, for example, prompts me to login twice before I can play any videos. (Maybe it's Netflix that needs to push the patch?)
Analytics packages generally rely on either the application's terms of service or the platform's overarching terms of service, so I wouldn't say 'explicit permission' in all cases. The user likely 'agreed' without reading it.

That said, there's a complete difference between what's actually done with this sort of data and what this guy (or the WSJ) thinks is being done with the data.

In the case of analytics software, things like the phone's location and language settings are used to produce an aggregated breakdown of usage by country, useful for localizing your content and staffing customer support. The phone ID, after being run through a one-way hashing function, is used to provide an aggregated unique user number - since the correlation between downloads and actual active users is pretty weak. There's no user-level records and best practices around data retention are followed.

Oh, the horror.
Someone must have hacked their Gibson.
Disclaimer: I worked on RH2 a bit, but I think it's a pretty innovative approach to addressing the issue of feature discoverability in large applications.
Impatiently waiting for an Android version.
I will use this.

One suggestion: give me a list of mixes to listen to right after I sign up. I had to go to your twitter page to find something.
Yes, the point of Gitbox is to hide the details but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I've had to teach plenty of people how to properly merge files using Git and no one has ever said "oh that makes sense". If a tool can hide the ugliness of merging conflicting files, even a little, it'll help a ton of people get used to using Git.
Sadly, I realized this when I started smoking. When I go smoke outside and come back, I can solve the problem I was working on much faster. Cigarette does have some benefits... sad but true.
Do you version your code with git? You can mimic how CI/CD pipelines handle code updates and builds.

Push your local code into git repo hosted in AWS. Have a git hook setup which will trigger your workflow. Then any worker should clone a specific version of the code:

git clone -–depth 1 --branch <tag/branch/commit> repo-url

Pushed git commits are atomic so that saves you from inconsistent code state of plan filesystem syncing.
Every means and mode of communication can be used for politics. Surely you don't mean to argue that this is impossible when it's TikTok.
Depends on the social norm IMO.
Not an optimising one (yet) but a safe implementation of a malbolge interpreter written in Rust, which can run malbolge programs. Just for fun.

https://github.com/return/malbolge