jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Elected officials not being able to turn over laws passed by popular vote is dystopian? It's kind of the opposite.
> you can get shoes that will serve you for the rest of your life, you need 6-8 total, not multiple pairs a year

I have never had a pair of running shoes that didn't structurally break down after around 600 km maximum. I don't do any unusual running and have tried multiple brands and price points over the years. I think they do just have a reasonable life-span. How are you having shoes that last a life-time? I have to replace mine three or four times a year.
Bandwidth, data cap and latency are orthogonal to each other
MI6 got caught with Wi-Fi hotspot rocks as dead drops in Moscow a decade ago for example
Of course not. It's all probabilistic. I feel like the people who think MBTI and personality tests don't make sense are themselves the ones making those over conclusions and they can only think in binary, black and white way, when it really could be something like INTx is likely to be overrepresented in psychometricians fields by 4x, ESFJ might be underrepresented by 5x, etc.

So for instance maybe there's 6% INTXs in the world, but in psychometry field there happens to be 30% INTX representation. Nobody is making the claim that ALL psy
I love gradient-free optimisers - there are so many interesting problems where there aren't analytical gradients available.

An I right in thinking this library doesn't contain a simplex / Nelder-Mead optimiser? To me that's the bread and butter of gradient-free optimisation.

Also no Powell algorithms like BOBYQA?

nlopt has these and many more, and a Python wrapper:

https://nlopt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/NLopt_Algorithms/

So, are those omitted because this library is modern and those are now considered out of date?
> Except, small businesses can still advertise to their customers. They can still use all of the information Facebook knows about its users--like their gender, age, location, and interests, to show ads. If you're a small business, none of that changes. The only person that really stands to lose seems to be Facebook.

I'm not sure that is true:
Facebook would argue that with tracking users interests are better understood. A small model railway business can advertise to people who aren't just members of facebook railway groups and visit railway pages on facebook but also those who are visiting model railway websites outside of facebook too (that have FB tracking pixels). When people are visiting websites reviewing a new engine and start clicking on that businesses adverts for the engine, FB will show the ad to more of people who have visited those webpages too, making the ad more cheaper as you're not competing with other ad purchasers.

[EDIT] I'll still be saying no to facebook tracking.
YPG is Terrorist organization according to Turkey and 90% of its citizens. So nothing anormal here. It is not up to US or you to decide who is terrorist or not. Actually US, even though actively supporting YPG, does not deny that YPG is terrorist organization.
This kind of attitude simply disgust any Turk who see this topic. Especially like platform like this it is frustrating.
> Their job is to report the news

I think they should report news of public interest. Is he of public interst has to be discussed?
I'd say, only option for caring about that is if we actually suspect that values of free speech and personal freedoms in general are NOT important for development: rather, those are the luxuries which we simply can afford because we're rich. And it's wise to press values onto poor countries to prevent them from becoming richer and thus a threat to us. The experiment of helping countries to become rich so they become friendly, failed on China and Russia examples: becoming rich they got only more hostile just because they could, so assumption that it's good to separate countries into friendly or hostile regardless of how is their economy going, and simply suppress growth of the latter, seems a wise one.
I hope to see gradient-free/black box optimization algorithms gain more popularity in machine learning. I'm always surprised when I see a review of ML optimization methods, and it's not even mentioned that you can optimize an ML model without using the gradient.

Also, love or hate Python, there's almost always a library for whatever it is you want to do.
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I can say that GoToWebinar is not the best product. I've used it about 4 times to attend a webinar and there usually is some problem or another (Degraded audio, no audio, getting disconnected.) The organizers of that specific webinar also expressed their dissatisfaction with GoToWebinar.
Yup.

If your rent doubles from $1,000 to $2,000, but your salary doubled from $75,000 to $150,000, you incurred $12,000 more in expenses for $50,000 more in after tax income.
Yes, this is why the title includes the modifier "true".
> The age patterns of COVID-19 mortality are such that vaccinating the oldest first saves the most lives and, surprisingly, also maximizes years of remaining life expectancy.

Neat! Though we usually use something like Quality-Adjusted Life Years when talking about interventions, not years remaining alive -- we're talking about a disease that can decrease your quality of life without killing you.
oh sweet. thanks. I'd imagine these are super common. hn is pretty captcha free.
Or maybe print something more ephemeral like how a mimeograph works (or maybe even silk screen)
For your last question, not only is the answer "Yes", I think the wire transfer wins on flexibility because there's several fallback options for when you don't have an internet connection.
It looks like a lot of time and effort was spent. Good job!
Like you have said, this is obvious. Same with academic positions. In real life, if you think you know better, you go start your own business and don't wait until all your enemies die out.
Completely unrelated to DO, but for 2, yes? You should absolutely do something like that if an app needs to be accessible worldwide. There are many reasons an app might become unavailable for different parts of the world, especially if you're reliant on a CDN since POPs can fail or become unavailable in weird and silent ways. Something like Thousandeyes is good for this.
The point is that that fundamental principle seems to be ignored by people that prefer to bicker over the rules rather than to be otherwise productive:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8596682

And that this in turn is what drives editors away. So it very much supports my point.
Anyone know if this phone will be able to run WhatsApp?
> I thought about it and almost broke down and bought a
> 128GB model outright for over $1000

$1.3 a day, assuming you keep it for two years.

I love my phone like a child, and it is in my hands for probably at least 2 hours a day. I am happy to spend cash dollars on that.
Where in Europe have you been? The diversity between countries is big and even in the same country you encounter differences.
Docker is to the Linux OS as virtualenv is to Python.
I upvoted this, but I think the headline is slightly misleading - I think they are saying that no one drug can cure all different types of addiction.

This seems, in a sense, almost self-evident; it is a bit like saying that it is impossible for one patch file to fix all possible bugs.

At the time of writing, one of the Wikipedia definitions of addiction was "a continued involvement with a substance or activity despite the negative consequences associated with it". Just like it takes some reasoning and domain specific knowledge to decide if something is a feature or a bug, it is not trivial to decide if a consequence is negative or positive, and requires a lot more logic than can be achieved with drugs binding to receptors in the brain.

Pleasure evolved because it makes animals do things which cause the genes for pleasure to be passed on (for example, eating food, having sex, or even more indirect things like solving a problem or acquiring knowledge to help achieve goals in the future). Addictions are really conditions where things which aren't useful to an individual invoke the pleasure pathways, because they are too recent for evolution to have got the pathways right, causing a distortion of priorities.

So it seems self-evident that any workaround to the distortion of priorities will need to specifically lower the pleasure / bump the pain of harmful things, relative to the beneficial things, rather than simply making everything unpleasurable by the same amount.
That's strange. It is showing in my sent messages. Anyway, here's what I wrote:

Hey Venky,

I'm the founder of Pretty Graph (http://prettygraph.com/), a simple web-based tool for making graphs.

I noticed that your data team uses R for their analysis and graphs. Making good looking graphs can be a big time sink in R. When you are trying to publish blog posts, you want to make your graphs look nice and web-friendly.

Pretty Graph also uses R on the backend, but makes creating complicated graphs a lot easier and faster. You can import data in various formats and get a graph ready to publish in a few minutes. So your team can spend more time analysing the data rather than adjusting margins, title sizes and colours.

If it's something that interests your team, I'd love to hear from them.

Thanks,
Hrishi

Feel free to reply to hrishi@prettygraph.com.
Why not just have all the boats going at all times (assuming there is a line)?

Maybe to balance the wait time. If everyone is constantly satisfied, then maybe they don't get the same gratification. Hype and wait builds tension that helps gratification.
1. They don't know much about Windows, either.

2. If they are fast enough for Windows, they are fast enough for GNOME. If not, you can use light desktops like enlightenment.

3. Kids learn way waster than adults(I have worked with kids and Linux at the same time).

4.????? If things continue the way they are, Windows users are those that won't be able to apply their skills, you will need UNIX skills.

5.Also do Linux, who came almost free.

6. When your computer runs Windows or mac, NSA and three letters foreign agencies(for Russians) could tap any computer they want to steal industrial, military and political secrets as they are strategic interest for America.

7. Energy prices are going up, that means Russian economy is going up for the next 2, 3 years, they have money to do what they want.
My iPhone 2G on iOS 3.0 can scroll a list smoothly. Every brand new Android phone (possibly excluding the Nexus S -- I haven't yet used one) cannot. Sadly, since I still see devices stuck on 2.1, 2.0, or even 1.6, that fix will not come to everyone soon (or, for some devices, ever).
> buying make the right processor company (PA Semi)

There still hasn't been any hint of PA Semi in Apple's work. Even the A4 is pretty basic stuff, the work of Intrinsity (very good at optimizing the power/consumption ratio of existing systems) rather than PA Semi (very good at actually creating innovative chips from scratch).

I have no idea what the PA Semi guys are working on at Apple, but I still hope we'll see something interesting for the "A5" (or whatever the chip in the iPad 2 / iPhone 5 is called)
don't be a dick; also, you don't know what you're talking about. It's entirely possible that the guy's code is dominated by routing performance or copying.
Thank god Ello came around! There have never been any decent sites to post art, photography, or journal entries to your followers.

Can't wait until all these fresh ideas kill Facebook, IBM, Tesla, NASA, etc!
Making this an explicit argument would remove that ambiguity, and JS isn't the only language to have done things that way, and to have throughly confused people by doing so.
Thanks for the criticism! This was my first time doing data visualization, so any feedback is really helpful. I'll definitely check out some books by Professor Tufte.
Is it too much to ask that you use some imagination rather than blandly parse a headline?
Yes, it definitely isn't the right way to handle ambiguous grammars. My assumption was caused by extensive usage of YACC for writing parsers in the past. To avoid it's default action, generally ambiguous grammars are avoided (since it is used only to write programming language parsers anyway)
As the saying goes, if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product.
Weird, since the gettext use-case is definitely the least idiomatic and least common use of `_`.
o is too close to 0.
This is a very good point. I can't see CDE and not think about all the environment on all the Sun workstations that I have had in the past.
> Terman found his answers in his longitudinal study on gifted children called Genetic Studies of Genius which had five volumes The children in this study were called “Termites”. The volumes reviewed the follow-ups Terman did throughout their lives. The fifth volume was a 35 year follow-up...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Terman
But then most of the world hasn't got clean water either, so that is kind of a straw man.

In the western world (which is really the only part of the world where we can meaningfully talk about technology) the internet connection is usually fast enough, and smart phones are plentyfull enough that it doesn't matter.
You see this in a lot of industries for various reasons -- space hardware especially (in part due to rad-hard requirements but also due to programmer reluctance to move away from old architecture).
I wish there was an easy way to export the choices I've made. I just turned 2015 into a surplus year!
Everybody is essential, none is sufficient... (and craigslist has a design, it's just a different kind)
I think the Gates, Jobs, Zuck breed are rare and it's hard to know when you (a) have an entrepreneur like that and (b) a business that supports longevity. Lots of entrepreneurs say they are in it for the long-haul, but very few VC-backed businesses are sustainable in the long-haul.
I'm all for napkin calculations but there are so many fudge factors and guesses in this that to draw conclusions would be meaningless. It's a shame, because there's some good information in the article, and some intelligent and reasonable estimation work, but sentences like "I've estimated the average stored file at 1.6MB based on my own account as well as those of a few people I've asked" are unignorable.
If you personally have to brave FREAKING BEES to get to it then you'll probably moderate your consumption enough ;]
Thanks, this summary is a useful recap.

I think a lot of this article is colored by the author's positive experience with his LivingSocial rep and negative experience with his Groupon rep, which may be just the reps he was working with. And, reading between the lines, it sounds like his impression of Groupon customers was created largely by one problem customer (could be a couple, but not many).

Of course this tells you something, but to use an overused phrase it's "just one datapoint."

It is, though, an interesting datapoint... I'm curious if this is truly a general trend.
? So basically, the data is public domain, if you can get it?
2-D Glasses == Sunglasses
FTFY
36% of your customers and 10% of your overall user base is pretty major. This kind of aggregation of down events gives you guys nice visibility into the "state of the Internet" as it were.

It's also good to know you were able to whether the storm.
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You're right about that. I meant to say that even at larger organizations with big projects, python can succeed.
As I understand it, the rules come from typesetting, not common practice. As for myself, I'm fine with "What's for dinner?". That strikes me as the only truly logical choice. Solves hugh3's problem cleanly, too. I mean, what, my old English teacher is going to come dock me karma points?
Sitting around a conference table with physical files is a far traditional way to collaborate than doing it all electronically. At most schools, the admissions office staff all works in the same office, and could easily discuss face-to-face. Face-to-face communication is still richer than electronic, based on the ability to judge tone, facial expression, etc.

Now, one day maybe iPads could replace physical files when discussing around a conference table, but until then physical files are easier to read (especially in bulk) and easier to wave around.
slightly off topic, but i was noticing a correlation between activity on linkedin and people quitting or changing jobs, it's been rather uncanny how correlated they have been (8 out of 8 folks that have left lately have been using linked in aggressively before departing) and this is in china, land of blocked sites (facebook, twitter, etc).

i'm wondering if there's data to be mined from other such sites so that you can make a prediction of who's quitting. i see this as a major privacy issue, i.e. as i'm a user of linked in and someone's trying to predict if i'm quitting my job.
I think the Fiat Multipla is distinct in that it is unlovably ugly.

I can get behind the ugliness of vehicles like the Cybertruck because it just looks absurd, but the Fiat is just grotesque.
I think police can be at fault, it's just the individual police officer doesn't typically pay the fine, it's their jurisdiction (city/county), i.e. the citizens.

I don't mean to sound pedantic, just having a conversation.
Have you seen a Vim master in action? They make a really good case for terminal file manipulation.
Just because you don't think it's useful enough or worth the cost doesn't mean nobody does.

1. Nest is a lot more expensive

2. Not worried about the security. If someone wants in its just not that hard. Locks can be picked, doors can be broken down. Adding hackers to the list isn't meaningfully different.

3. I'm not talking about opening it for me, I'm talking about opening it for other people like they showed in the apple watch keynote.

4. All the things on this list can be done, and obviously they cost more money. For the most part, these are luxury things. Whether they are "worth" it depends on how much money you have to spend. As someone else noted, it might sound expensive, but 275k vs 276k isn't a big deal. 575k vs 580k is even less important.

5.see #4

There are clearly lots of tech products that have nothing to do with reducing cost. They exist only to delight users. With more work in this area the complexity will come down as people make better products.
You think that taxi driver was being paid more fairly? Often they just drove for medallion owners and rented the time. The economics would have been at best same, if not worse since there was probably little oversight since it was a bunch of small cab operators.
= How to make it take 0.0 seconds to 1.0 seconds.

Save early, before the Editor actually presses save. Only commit the change if the Editor actually presses save.

This will improve the Editor experience by making save faster at the expense of CPU time. Predict well enough, or do enough processing client side, then you won't need extra server side CPU used.

What is more precious to you? The human Editors or some dumb pieces of silicon?
There is a way to get around it.

Use the OpenDNS IPs: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 for your DNS.

Look here at how to configure your computer for the new DNS:
https://support.opendns.com/forums/21618384
Thing that weirded me the most about this article? That Fortune put the shorter version in their magazine. You're telling me, if I buy your magazine, I get less content? Do not understand.
>What gives you the impression that colleges are some sort of job training program?

Oh, you know, just my entire upbringing. Job ads asking for a B.S, M.S., or Ph.D. help too.
Where do you think the trade-off should be? For memory to go down, something else has to go up.

Why are you so sure that memory is the wrong place to put the trade-off?
Which raises the question: Is Atom a true open source project or a Microsoft business venture masquerading as an open source project?

I've had similar discussions about Mono.
You are asking for open source developers to make the business decision on Microsoft's behalf?

Also, someone HAS already worked on it, and marked it as done. They have failed that ticket's stated goals, either because it did not align with business objectives, or because of an oversight. Nobody (afaik) has asked this person to take over and do the job properly, or even consult on a better flow. The response has been "You are wrong. It doesn't matter. Don't worry about it. Trust us. Stop using atom"

You can argue that if you aren't paying for the product, then you are the product... and therefore have no entitlement. That's a viewpoint I guess - but one very much at odds with the perceived values of the open source community.
I've actually said that many, many times here.
I wished I could believe that I won't be tracked or I won't see ads if I paid. That is a myth that is easily busted. These guys raced to get big and now really have no clue how to be a tech company. The only innovations I've seen in the past ten years is how to make ads more annoying. Sorry this rant is not directed at you.
I left corporate IT for good back in 2005. Then left the U.S. Moved to a small farm in the middle of nowhere. Never went back.

Regrets = 0. Well, there are no Mexican food restaurants here.
The same that I'd do when a girl I'm dating don't reply my invitations:let it go and go for the next one. Obsessive behavior rarely leads to fruitful outcomes. They might have their own reasons not necessarily related to you. Move on.
I mean, people get banned from Twitter for similar stuff. Or at least similar in the minds of the people banning them.
Serious question: isn't that how SSL/TLS certificates work too, by chain of trust?
How would you suggest we work on improving technology without having it be useful in "evil" ways? Or are you suggesting all of us not take data jobs (or even work on any generalizable tech) at the risk that it somehow in a tangential way could be used for evil purposes?

I understand what you're saying, and actually kind of agree with you (that people are commenting minutiae to avoid an elephant in the room), I just don't know if there's a solution.