jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure, hence the "had" in the title. There's a lot of rumours swirling around that LHC may have a 115 Gev Higgs signal. I'm just reminding people that LEP also had a possible signal at this energy, which I think is exciting.
ARGs and similar types of viral marketing can be a novel way to engage customers into your brand, but at the same time you run the risk of it leaving a worse impression of your brand if at the end they feel it was a waste of time and nothing more than a roundabout way to say "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

People immediately cried foul citing contractual agreements with retailers not to break the street date and thus saying that Valve cannot release no earlier than midnight on original launch date, and once users had data about the fill rate of the progress bars, it was calculated that at best a 6am Tuesday release would be shorted by a few hours. It felt like an unwinnable situation to those in the know.

While Valve is a company known for experimenting on its customer base, and everyone that complained still bought the game anyway, it does seem a bit cruel to lead your fanbase on a wild goose chase that ended in essentially a ransom to release the game. In the end it boiled down to "Pay us $X or else you'll have to wait to play the game you've already paid for, oh, and you'll still have to wait 90% of the time anyway."
Bitcoin _can_ solve this problem because it is totally distributed and doesn't depend on traditional banks which means transferring value directly between individuals and organization becomes much simpler.
> This is vastly disturbing. Surely there is a gap in the market here for a payment processor that doesn't do shit like this?

While I agree that there is probably a market for a payment processor that doesn't punish TOS violations, I really doubt that's a market anybody would want to play in.

Google's TOS disallow the use of the word "donation" unless you are a non-profit organization. And "donation" is precisely the term used.

For every "benign" TOS violation, I'm sure there must be hundreds of malicious ones trying to scam google or consumers out of their money. Not making exceptions at least is fair and users know exactly where they stand.

Still. I think Google should maybe

a) warn users before just banning them (though even this might lead to people trying to game the system)

b) hand out the money either back to the buyers or to the just banned seller (after manual investigation which might be what Google doesn't want to do)

c) maybe provide an appeal process, though, again, this might lead to people gaming that.
> Right now C is the only true multiplatform language

I have been doing pretty alright with Ada, Object Pascal, D, Go, Rust, C#, C++ and Java (yes even on iOS).
The collateral requirement was imposed because of the incredibly high chance of the stock simply collapsing again.

Trading halts in response to massive movements aren't unusual either.
Such a treasure. I was talking to a priest the other day about a nun that is alive today at the age of 117, to imagine all the things that she's seen for the very first time during her lifetime, to have conscious memory of two world wars and everything that has been invented during that time. That must give such a tremendous perspective on life.

You are - and you probably already know this - very fortunate to have had a father like that.
This is a skill I've noticed that many developers don't have, or don't have sufficiently. This lack manifests itself e.g. when I review a PR that removes feature XYZ. I do `rg xyz` and `fd xyz` to see if there's anything that was forgotten to be removed related to that feature. Very often there is.
You mean an EnderChest? ;-)
The JVM is just a detail, as a language designer, an utterly boring one. Who cares if your language is running on that or via native compilation. In fact, after seeing what happened at Microsoft with UwP, I’ll take convenience over ahead of time compilation any day.

I also find language politics to be incredibly boring. Maybe you have a point, but I just want to write code in a language that isn’t 10 years out of date.
I have to agree with moru here. The latency on memory access will be negligible with respect to the latency of any io operations, even within the same data center. In my experience anything that involves the OS is >> 1us.
Also beware of anything that declares 10x performance improvement.
It's a fair point.

It does seem interesting that the level of usage stays so similar even if the actual way the word is used changes, though.
A down under perspective - some potential conversations to have:

Seed, Kickpay: Xero.com, others in their ecosystem. (data)

NextTravel: Serko.com (direct competition, large)

Industrial microbes: lanzatech.com (did this with 1 use case)

Valor: taggle.com.au (long lasting remote meters)

Open Listings: 200square.co.nz (similar)

Spire: fphcare.co.nz (respiratory specialists)

Smarking: frogparking.com (the parking sensors)

Pretty Instant: magicmemories.com (tourist photos)
Very cool. I sent you a pull request.
I used to get drunk once or twice a week, and I thought it was completely normal ("all of my friends do that too").

Looking back, I now know I had an alcohol problem. It affected my work (couldn't concentrate) and it affected my health (gained weight). I'm still young, so I hope there are no permanent effects from my drinking.
It is not. It is awesome, warts and all.
This reminded me of an article I've read a long time ago which had a really strong impact on me. I've just found it by googling a couple of words that were still in my head after all these years.

Here it is (probably not where I originally read it): http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21643646/ns/health-behavior/t/what...
Maybe it's the American in me, but I have almost no use for a payment mechanism in my messenger, I have too many. Venmo, Cash, Apple's thing, Google Wallet, whatever -- these all provide everything I need when I need to send money to people. Frankly the idea that I suddenly might have to have another goddamn thing is a bit irritating but I've resigned myself to it.

I think the other thing is that it's just a complete misread of how normal people even think about crypto. Literally every "normie" I know who has interest in cryptocurrency, even if they tow the line and say that "crypto is the future of money" or whatever, treat it entirely as a speculative asset when it comes down to it and that's what their usage of it revolves around. It's a thing they put $5 and that $5 becomes $10 later on and now they have $10. Sending it to other people is literally the last thing they want to do. As far as they're concerned, it's the exact same way the stock market works, only faster. None of them care about deflation or border politics or monetary privacy or whatever; it's practically just a way of flipping a bullshit asset into fiat cash, which is what matters. If they want to give people or their drug dealer money in a way that isn't on the record, they don't pull out their instant messenger and say "Let's use a blockchain to preserve our privacy during this transaction", they "pull cash from an ATM and do it in the bathroom of a bar" or whatever. They arrange this over SMS, probably, or maybe Signal already if you're lucky.

Finally there's people like me, people who neither care that Signal is non-federated and don't care that it uses phone numbers, but who just think the cure is worse than the disease here. I'm not even talking about the politics of money exchange or privacy or anything; I just literally mean cryptocurrency invites fraudsters and scammers and all kinds of bullshit along with it, that ends up causing external harm to people. I don't want Signal to expend resources on this stuff because even if it aligns with their goals on paper or is something their competitors might do, I literally think it's turf they shouldn't be on because fundamentally the people who play that game have other goals in mind.
That's an interesting point. I've never done that (only an amateur at ruby) with a class before besides #defines, which just feels like bad juju.

Another good thing about the Obj-C de facto way is that you can immediately tell what a class is vs seeing String string
It's not free to add to. It's computationally extremely expensive, that's why miners are compensated.
Thanks I'm 26 and my dad is 59 and it's a serious cancer (not that any are "not serious") so I'm a similar age. I respect your story. I just wanted to point out the flip side of the equation - the real life, completely true, stories of the 5%.
Particularly excited about the cost reduction of batteries. They remain a barrier to having more affordable electric cars, and 30% goes a long way in putting more EVs on the road.
Isn't all the cost in developing the first pill? It's sort of like software. Sure, it's easy to make millions of copies after you spend the years of work and millions/billions of dollars. Yes, India has hundreds of millions of poor people. Wouldn't it be beneficial if it developed new drugs to help their citizens and sell them with the world? I imagine India could become Big Pharma of the 21st Century.
There may be a downvoting bot, but if the culture here is anything like reddit was 5-7 years ago 'haha' type comments are probably frowned on.
I'm half surprised they didn't define algebra resistance as one of P=?NP Person's super powers.
why did I have to scroll all the way down to find somebody that sounds like he knows what he's talking about? a great majority of discussion in this thread is of abysmal quality. legendary HN moderators failed spectacularly this time.
Man, what ever happened to those fibre interconnects and micro transmitters Intel was working on?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/07/28/intel-claims-op...
Adventure playground is there, but most of the tunnels are blocked off. You can't go inside any of the pyramids any more. It's still a great space, but it's not a free-wheeling as it was perhaps intended to be.
Exactly, there's a term for it: "Investing".

Different words exist for different reasons, and the bootstrapping community has a reason to make sure that term is not being confused with investing.
I agree the ACLU lost its way, but disagree that the FBI would act like this with a redneck in WV.
Writing software is closer to learning how to draw or how to carve wood.

It’s a thing you can “do” over the weekend, it’s fun, and it’s practical.

After writing hello world you can call yourself a programmer, which sounds impressive.

It’s much harder to even get to hello world for a doctor or a lawyer.

Of course, there’s a long road to doing it well.

I can call myself an artist for having used a paintbrush before, but I’m not actually an artist by any sane definition.
I tend to agree with you - but keybase made a similar argument and then sold out their users to Zoom (with all of the concerns around the CCP's influence over Zoom). When that happens there isn't much recourse except to jump ship.

I think this is unlikely with Signal since Brian Acton's $50M donation is contingent on them keeping inline with the mission (iirc) and also Moxie being involved is a good sign. Plus, realistically if the company gets ruined you're probably better of jumping ship anyway (as long as there's somewhere else to go - matrix? urbit?).
> The first time the FBI went to interview him, he should have requested an attorney - whether he had one or not.

Was he under arrest? The FBI is not obligated to bring you an attorney if they are merely interviewing you.

> He should have also gone to the media much sooner or threatened to take this public. Yes, it is now, but had he gone to the media sooner, I'm sure the FBI would've backed off a lot sooner.

I somehow doubt it. Muslims (and antiwar activists) being placed on no fly lists were often in the news. That didn't stop it.
Currently, it is free.
I still working on find out the right model. I tried with subscribe paid model. But I think It is not a good way. Honestly, I make the site project for fun. But still need some money to maintain the service
I think he eliminated them out of performance considerations. CBC is unparallelizeable by nature.
Kind of reminds me of Peach Trees from the Judge Dredd movie - though more cheerful mind you.
Impressed that people can progress in foreign languages to the point that they can get obscure and obtuse sarcasm!
I don't eat lunch.

I have a bulletproof coffee(coffee + butter + mct oil) in the morning, which keeps me full until dinner.

Then I have a large dinner and I'm set.
Considering how much is happening in the 3D printing space this year, I'm surprised that it isn't on this list. It is an enabler of IoT and Crowdfunding, drones, and even the "Sensorification of the Enterprise".

Cdixon even retweeted this recently: "Holograms are like print preview for 3D printing."

Also where is Drones on this list?
An OS-bound browser is a non-starter for me. I like Safari too, but having to use a different browser between different OSs is too much of a hassle.

That alone is enough to keep me from giving Spartan a real chance.
Is there any manufacturer left besides BB that builds qwerty-phones?
HaXe is a "web" oriented language, so the strength is in the write-once, deploy anywhere style of development. However, another key strength is handling communication between layers in a website... such as between php and javascript, or javascript and swf:
http://haxe.org/doc/remoting

Since each layer is written in the same language, it is simple to write proxies and connection layers between them. It's also easy to update or change these protocols all at once. There are already some great serialization, proxy, and remoting classes in the base library.
My gun shop sells .22LR ammo, and at a premium, a subsonic version (or at least, cartridges in boxes marked as such). Of all the .22LR ammo I've shot, none of it was marked subsonic and all claimed to provide supersonic muzzle velocities. Wikipedia seems to claims that 'regular' .22LR is supersonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Long_Rifle#Subsonic). Do you mean that most cartridges don't make their stated muzzle velocity and that in practice most .22LR is subsonic?

(as an aside, subsonic ammo is looked at suspiciously around these parts. since it's mostly used for poaching; when used with a home-made suppressor on a rifle, it's very quiet, like you say, in large part because of the lack of sonic boom).
This is one of the rare cases where bringing a netbook is a better idea than an iPad.
Are you from the southeast US? I've always heard "squih-ruhl". You also mentioned pronouncing "owl" like Al, which doesn't sound right to me either.
> What are landlines good for?

Clear, high quality voice communication. I rarely talk on my cell phone. It's essentially for text. I try to call people at their landlines.
Agreed --- going to miss etacts, and hope one of the other companies can build something similar in. I need something that will automatically remind me to contact people within the network.
I paint every day

Beautiful. In Russian we have a proverb "Дорогу осилит идущий" that roughly translates as "he who walks the path will make it to the destination". It sounds much better in Russian, and I was struggling to translate this into English for a while now, retaining the simplicity and elegance. This might just do it.
Tencent also is the majority interest of Riot Games. Riot Games is the creator of League of Legends which is probably the biggest selling game right now.
People have unreasonable expectations of what an investment is though, just browse /r/personalfinance or /r/investing. If you need liquidity, real estate is not for you. For a tiny period of time that's a rounding error in the history of real estate ownership, yes you could buy a house and see a 100% value increase in a year. But going in expecting that isn't investment, it's speculation (see: bitcoin's run up and crash).

The value in real estate - in any true investment - is over the long term. I'm talking decades, not years and certainly not months. For a primary residence it's worth it just to keep your housing payment steady. Your $3k mortgage payment is going to be $3k today, tomorrow, and forever until you pay it off. What's $3k in rent today going to be in 30 years? Nobody could say for sure, but I'd bet everything I own it'll be more than $3k.

But as with any investment vehicle, you have to choose what's right for your risk profile and your liquidity needs. Don't invest in a startup if you need your capital back in 2 months, and don't buy a house if you need to liquidate it in a year. Every vehicle has tradeoffs, and each vehicle can be mis-used and end up costing the investor dearly.

> How many mortgage lenders do you think cautioned homebuyers against buying real estate they qualified for?

Effectively 0, and I can't see a reason it should be otherwise. Does a car dealer caution you about buying too expensive of a car? Does the Apple store encourage you to buy the smallest iPod? Salesmen are not (usually) your fiduciary, and every single person involved in a real estate transaction is a salesperson. Nobody's looking out for you except for you.

> Homebuyers may loose a home they are unable to pay for

Sure, that happens, and I feel bad for people in that situation. What I've heard a lot of though is from people who could pay, but won't because they feel like it's a bad deal now (see: this thread).
Thanks for the informative post
> Even drill sergeants aren't allowed to hit recruits.

Nope, they sure don't. Don't need to - the institutionalized psychological attacks and tearing down their worldview to replace it with the army's is much more effective than any physical reprimand could be.

> After all, pets can be controlled without hitting.

And how is this done? With pinch collars, crates, kennels, leashes, shock collars, staking them out, fences, rubbing their noses in their feces...

I'd rather the odd corporal punishment to being treated like a "pet".
Sounds like a pretty easy mystery to solve, just walk around the school with a Geiger counter. Can’t wait to hear the results.
“Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.”
Indeed :)

Every new sensible implementation of password store is using either bcrypt, pbkdf2 or scrypt.

I picked the lowest common denominator because it caters for the worst case scenario. Systems where passwords are improperly hashed are quite likely to have other security problems too. And as such are more likely to get breached, whereby their password store is lifted too.
In my experience (as of about a year ago) the jabber.org servers are -I guess- seriously overloaded. Frequent disconnection or failures to login were the norm for my @jabber.org account. If I had to guess, I would bet that they're under frequent "attack", but I really have no idea.

Does anyone have any more recent information on the health of jabber.org's XMPP service?
I am very much looking forward to trying Nix I just haven’t made the time.

That being said the article jogged my memory on some related thoughts...

If you’re building deb packages for your own apt repo aptly is a great tool for powering it https://www.aptly.info/

If you haven’t tried asdf for managing versions of tools it generally does what you’d expect and does it well https://asdf-vm.com/#/ It uses pyenv under the hood for Python management AFAIK.
it's all relative, right? compared to us, sure. but while the government can exert direct control when necessary, they don't have the capacity and/or desire to do that 24/7. look at the public fracas with the ant ipo for example, my concept of a hive mind wouldn't allow for a conflict like that
Just move on to the next one. A lot of recruiters and companies lack professionalism and will just ghost you. Could be for any number of reasons related or unrelated to you.
> I hold the Lego Group in high esteem as a company

Lego started off on the theft of IP, as a company they've been absolutely ruthless in enforcing their fraudulently obtained patents. They then attempted to whitewash this.

They're a great toy, and there is a lot of good about them but their origin story and quite a lot of their behavior is not nearly as nice as they'd like you to believe.
Doing sport is what I started to recommend recently to all my friends who are 30+ based on my experience. It improved my life, my body, happiness, energy, sexual drive and I feel and look better than 10 years ago. For a consultant and engineering lead it had an additional benefit to look fit and dynamic for my clients and co-workers :)

Working full time and (if you want to do more) studying or coding at home becomes hardy sustainable and a problem in 30s. It is in our interest to prioritize the health of our only body, the holder of our brains, a thing we so heavily rely on for basically every activity.

It is so amazing how our bodies can reshape and adopt to physical activities we do! You can pick sport to shape your body in a desired way. My example: I am quite small, sturdy, with tendency to become fat if I do not do enough sport. I did bjj + gym for a few years - I looked like “squared”, the mixture of wide shoulders, muscles, and fat - a bit like Fedor Emelianenko. A few months ago I fully switched to running (2-3 times a week 10-15 km) plus endurance 1-2 times a week of bodyweight exercises. Within 2 months my body adopted to my new activities - I became slimmer, lighter, with stronger legs.
Do you mean the emulation performance on M1? In my experience Windows XP is “usable” and Windows 7 feels like a 10 year old desktop running with a spinning drive.
I think the developer version of this phrase is "getting the customer to pay for R&D" or, more simply, consulting* .

It sounds like you're suggesting doing fixed price software development bids... In my experience that's not a great way to avoid painful outcomes.

*with an ownership clause.
I don't want to break anyone's hopes but this doesn't really sounds good to me :

"[BYTE] will serve as the professional’s guide to consumer technology, providing news, analysis, reviews, and insight across the media gamut"
Levenshtein/edit distance isn't too useful for spell checking though. Edit distance can yield you the absolute difference between two words, but your goal is to find the words that have the smallest such distance with the word in question. Simply calculating the edit distance between the word in question and all other dictionary words isn't good enough - you'll have to be a bit more clever.
Ahh, I see my sarcasm has miserably failed.
You don't have to write extra code in a portable manner, that's the point. You write it how you need it in a real world. But still benefit from refcounting, nice safe strings, higher-order functions, etc. in main part of your program.