jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Same here, I thought I accidentally found some new safari zoom (i am constantly confused on all the iOS gestures)
Liquids are nowhere near as effective at satiation as solids.

Fibre and protein can increase the satiety of a drink, though.
How can they continue to advertise unlimited? This is downright lying.
Same here, although since knowledge seeking is a subset of novelty seeking I don't think the meaning is changed too much.
I'm not a video expert, but I did write some software for muxing and demuxing for a company I worked for some time ago. The major problem I had was that video and audio are stored at different "frame rates" (almost in a literal sense). A frame of encoded audio is generally shorter (in seconds of playback) than a single video frame is displayed on screen for. So, if you were cutting and splicing video, you'd end having to decode the audio, break apart the first and last frame's worth of it, re-encode it, and then offset the timing of the audio from the video. This is very obnoxious to get perfect.

I've got no idea if that's what impacted this guy's video though, but I'm sure it's far from the only weird thing involved in video compression.
It's about as popular as ICQ in terms of volume of communication.

Do you think ICQ is worth $10B?
One benefit of snow is that it protects from a lot of the things that would ordinarily cause a flat.
If you could edit while offline, and have it re-sync when you're connected, that would be nice.

It doesn't sound like that is supported yet.
A link to this information was posted earlier, but sank like a rock on the HN list. This Stanford Colloquium talk is scheduled for 11/17 and ought to be of interest to many HN readers. Slides are linked in the abstract.
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But.... that only works for the big boys. Imagine how YouTube would've got going if this rule had been around in 2005 - they'd have been strangled at birth by individual ISPs each demanding their own contract and their own payment.

What we have here is fundamentally ISPs trying to run a private toll booth by claiming that 'others are profiting from their network'. Not at all true. The BBC, YouTube, whoever, all pay their outgoing bandwidth bills to their network provided. I pay my incoming bandwidth bill to my network provider (and outgoing, for that matter, when I put my content provider hat on and legally upload to various sites). All parties are getting correctly paid in proportion to the value of the services that they are delivering, but the ISPs know they are a critical man-in-the-middle and can potentially extract value from this proposition in exactly the same way that rebel armies set up 'checkpoints' in territories they control.

ISPs should be ashamed that they're trying it. The Conservative Party should be utterly ashamed that they think it's a good idea and I plan to write to my local (Conservative) MP to inform him of this.
Totally agree. I watch the movie every few years and I'm always surprised at how much it motivates and moves me. Plus, it's amusing.
I don't disagree re: Cyc.

I am however, trying to draw an analogy between Cyc and an open Semantic Web. If Cyc has issues like the ones you describe, these issues will only be magnified ad infinitum in a completely open graph where there are effectively no controls.
I actually believed it all the way to the last two paragraphs.
Sorry, I might have simplified too much and "designated" is probably the wrong english word.

They wouldn't have forced him to marry a cousin, rather strongly proposed it. Nevertheless, it was clearly expected from him, that he'd stick within this small community.

So the choice left was, to do what he wanted and lose almost everything except his education, or comply.

This was around 35 years ago in rural Zürich. A stronghold of religion and patriarchy you could say. Things changed a lot since then. E.G televisions aren't products of the devil himself anymore, so community members no longer have to hide them in tv-cabinets etc. I actually don't remember how they call themselves and never really cared. It was a subgroup of another subgroup, I believe.
Lack of choice in tax regimen is entirely fine for corporations. They're creations of the state. We should bring them to heel, if they're finding ways to avoid what we're trying to get them to do. Don't like it, don't incorporate, and don't enjoy the state-given benefits thereof. I don't care a bit about increasing choices for corporations, unless doing so improves our ability to harness them to generate whatever we're trying to get out of them (economic growth, infrastructure development, taxes, whatever). I'd surely entertain arguments against this in those terms, though (i.e. "actually this will cause us to be less able to harness corporations to our benefit, for reasons X, Y, and Z")
Having my feet in both worlds, I can say medicine is definitely not a light workload. However, I do think some of that is self-inflicted and unnecessary (in terms of medical organizations doing unnecessary things for the sake of hubris and/or impression management and/or exploitation and/or rent seeking). I also think the costs of academics in terms of work demands aren't generally acknowledged in public discussions, so there's kind of a "default relative assumption" about the two that's a little distorted. Medicine also varies a lot by location, so what's involved in different places is really different (this isn't to say some places are subpar, just that I think training philosophies etc can be really different).

Finally, in a broad sense, the OP is probably right that pursuing academics will be more difficult. In a hours per week sense, maybe maybe not (it's probably about the same), but academics is so completely broken that it's going to be a lot less straightforward and fraught. Europe, from what I get from my colleagues, is much more sane in both areas, but similar costs and benefits probably are involved.

I agree with others that the OP is probably burned out. But I think that's the nature of his problem. I'm more concerned about the fact he's saying that he doesn't have the interest for the math. That might be a function of that program, or might be a clue he's not interested.

Some random thoughts:

1. I might reconsider the goal of going to the US. There's plenty of great places in Europe, and (speaking as an American), academics are screwed up in the US. It's a bubble if there ever was one.

2. The OP might reach out to people in medicine and see if there are projects in medicine they could help out with, in terms of research etc. Even if it's remote I imagine there might be things they could do? It might help figure things out and/or open doors.
It’d be trivial for a rogue payment app to display one $ amount on the screen yet deduct another.
>I think salespeople at these sorts of companies are probably really good at filtering out the second.

Why would they be "really good" at "filtering out the second", as opposed to them just being a minimum viable outsourced sales department?
> By choosing this path though, I’d be giving up on my dreams in machine learning and not living up to my potential.

If I were you I'd reconsider this statement, which I've probably internalized so It's never challenged. Is any part of that statement actually true?
Thanks man. Really appreciate.
The press release includes mention of solopreneurs but nothing about friends and family, so i think there must be some business angle to it.
While these are some great tips, don't focus so much on the mechanics (timing, practice, speaking style, slides) that you fail to spend time on honing, improving and buffing up the actual content, or taking it in a new direction. A compelling and memorable demo or example of your framework in action--perhaps using it some novel or humorous way no one expected, or connecting it to some bigger picture need that the community doesn't yet know that they have--is time well spent.

You want people coming away with bigger ideas and better understanding; that's what will persist long after they have forgotten whether you ran 3 minutes over or had too many "ums".

Don't neglect the mechanics though, but first things first: interesting and compelling content makes up for a lot.
Any argument that implies that the only thing that can achieve the proper energy density is fossil fuels is a dead argument. It's like arguing that computational speed will never overtake the human brain without knowing what Moore's Law is.
Right out of college I took an investment banking job, and it didn't take me too long to realize it definitely was NOT what I wanted to be doing for the next 10 to 20 years of my life.

I had it relatively easy - working for a small firm, our hours were more in 50 to 80 hour range - so not nearly as stressful as many. But it was still pretty brutal, especially when things got busy.

I worked with good people and it's not true that all bankers are insanely greedy and immoral. I met some of the best people I've ever known in the banking world, and also some real scumbbags. But one stereoype is true: just about everyone I worked with was insanely driven and incrediblely competitive.

Already a skinny guy, I dropped at least another 10 to 15 pounds due to the long hours and no lunch hour. Most of the guys simply ate soup at their desk so they could get more work done. I remember my out-of-town girlfriend coming into town for a rare weekend visit and I spent 8 hours at the office on a Sunday. That might have been the day I vowed to quit.

So I started saving my money like a miser, and after a few years had enough in the bank to quit cold turkey. Had no idea what I was going to do, but just let them know I was done at the end of my two-year commitment.

At my going away party, the wives of my co-workers secretly told my girlfriend she was incredibley lucky I was getting out and were happy for her.

I ended up starting an eCommerce business and have been doing that - and loving it - for the last 5+ years. Apart from marrying that incredible woman who stuck with me when I was in banking, leaving to pursue a more balanced life was the best decision I've ever made.

If anyone is interested in the full story, I wrote a blog post about it here:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/my-corporate-escape-story/
Agreed. Thanks for defending civility.
Which Yahoo! properties could potentially be bringing this amount of traffic?
I wouldn't say Google desperately wants you to have one. I use three separate Google accounts and switch between them with ease. YouTube is the only one that hassles me to merge, but given the quality of YouTube comments I can understand them wanting to tie your account to your real name.
This about says it all:

"They called my bluff when they got a contract for the ore car demo. None of the Magplane people had much experience building actual hardware. My specialty is doing the work that turns cool concepts, like a fusion reactor or an ore transport, into a working system.

So I took the job, hired 6 engineers, and spent 1996 to 2000 working on the ore car demo. I designed the motors to survive in a harsh mining environment. The car was as simple as possible. Since ore isn’t in a hurry, the design optimized at 40 MPH rather than 700 MPH. We didn’t need the expense or complexity of magnetic levitation, and found some very rugged wheels made for mining applications. They worked great."

So it's like a very high speed evacuated maglev... except... not at all.

.

The Hyperloop uses two stock features understood to be promising for most of a century now:

A) An evacuated tube (NOT a pneumatic tube)

B Linear induction motors (NOT air pressure)

.

It modifies these with three innovative design decisions:

1) A soft vacuum, with considerable air resistance, but within the capabilities of high-efficiency vacuum pumps rather than deep into diminishing returns

2) Several hovercraft skids inside the tube for levitation instead of maglev or wheels, powered by onboard batteries, and a very weak electric thruster/compressor with a high bypass to sustain speeds, reduce drag, and maintain the air cushion

3) A large inner tube diameter relative to the vehicle, with sufficient airspace that neither the craft itself, nor even the mild transonic shockwaves, induce a gas piston effect.

If none of those three design features are there, it has zero to do with Hyperloop. If it uses air pressure, wheels, or magnetic levitation, it has nothing to do with hyperloop.

Stop title baiting, Techcrunch.
The other possibility is, "X is a hero, we should aspire to have that level of dedication to our work. Only shows how serious you got to be to get anywhere"
Or if you're on Linux, you can use youtube-dl + mplayer to get a high-quality hardware-accelerated glitch-free viewing experience, instead of the RealPlayer-esque experience Flash provides.
"As the water bounces off the super-hydrophobic surfaces, it also collects dust particles and takes them along for the ride... Better yet, it remains completely dry."
You do not want to use a classical bandit for A/B testing. The problem is that most bandit algorithms assume the conversion rate is constant - i.e., saturday and tuesday are the same. If sat and tues have different conversion rates, this will horribly break a bandit.

This is not a theoretical problem. I have a client who wasted months on this.

I know how to fix this (a Bayesian method, BTW), but I haven't published it. As far as I know, there is very little published research into using Bayesian bandits in assorted real world cases like this.
Emacs is unfortunately still single-threaded at its core, so it indeed happens that some subpar code can hang the whole editor while waiting for some network requests to finish, or take down everything in a crash (but this happens extremely rarely; I think I had only a few random crashes on Windows in years of using Emacs).
To give you an example, listen to Waseem Akhtar criticizing Ch. Nisar.

https://youtu.be/qeXlgNZTcmA

You can tell by his grammar that his family belongs to UP.
Those problems were not part of the Pascal dialects.

The largely ignored Extended Pascal ISO standard also had those issues fixed.

The first Mac OS versions were written in Apple Pascal.
"we understand the incredibly complex social, economic, political, and cultural dynamics of countries better than they know themselves."

Yeah, that's exactly what the qualified ones do. Exactly why we send them. But there are not enough qualified volunteers.

The problem with the Peace Corps, from discussion with my cousin who did his tour in Africa in the 80s and scared me out of even considering it myself, is the PHBs say they only send over qualified volunteers but fundamentally, "we need one thousand warm bodies" so they have a ranked list where he came in very near the top with a recent degree in agronomy and unfortunately somewhere between near the top, and warm body 1000, it drops into the article description of "unskilled inexperienced untrained barely educated laborer white girl or boy". They really needed 1000 agronomists and livestock qualified veterinarians and technician level workers, but what they got was like 100 regional teams of ten or so where on average about one guy per local group had any real idea what he was doing. You're going over there to help modernize farming out of the ancient era and you have no idea what soil chemistry is... well, I guess you get to hold the shovel, not much else you can do while I run this soil analysis. Another problem is it dilutes the brand so to speak of the work they do... there really are useful volunteers, just the ratio of useful/useless depends strongly on who volunteered that year and the demand and a variety of political concerns. Finally he spent most of his time basically managing at a distance and without any official authority his unskilled fellow americans as they attempted to do a highly skilled and technical job, so the locals didn't even get any direct benefit from his work (although via levels of indirection he did benefit them). One interesting perspective is that our world wide logistical distribution system can, in the absence of warfare, quite easily provide people in the middle of nowhere with enough rope to hang themselves, along the lines of just because you can now purchase a certain seed doesn't mean it'll grow, or if one unit of chemicals improves yield 50%, you'd be amazed how many otherwise logical humans will want to try a hundred units of the same chemical, what could possibly go wrong? Not to mention intelligent use of modern tools, finally having the technology to wash all your topsoil downriver doesn't mean its a great idea to do so, trying to make the desert bloom is a fools errand, etc, but I digress.

Now it would not surprise me if there's at least four perspectives opposed to each other, that being what they claim to do, what they actually did in the 80s, what they do now, and my cousin's story. But he did tell a compelling and believable story at the time, as I recall it and there might be some insight in it anyway.
Great book. I'm one of the suckers who paid for it months ago.
Yes, this is what sold it to managers.)
It's stealing when a company takes your hard-earned cash (not "copies", but "takes") and doesn't deliver a product you actually enjoy using.
Well, the teens learn some discipline and following orders. The criminals learn not to do whatever it is that got them community service. Everyone wins.
> "People are quite concerned. Mt. Gox's crisis communications have been wildly below the level of professionalism one would hope to see from a company with several hundred million dollars of financial assets."

That's kinda why banks are regulated surely.
Or maybe they should do away with the quotas. Why must immigration be limited at all?
Sure. And why couldn't they share the engine while being separate processes? It's the current browser model we have right now.
This is why I keep coming to HN - you've taken a considerable amount of time to further explain some of the details of an article that already explains a lot, with references, and in doing so have added massive value to my reading and understanding the news of the day.

Unfortunately, I can't see how many points you've received to recognise that contribution, so I'm writing this in case you haven't been fully recongised by other users voting with their mouse. Thanks nikcub.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit tonight and I think it'd be a good move for VMware. They've made some interesting, and smart, moves lately towards becoming sort of the next Sun (in a brains and technology sense, not the hardware company that unceremoniously gets acquired by Oracle sense). Bringing Redis onboard, as well as purchasing Gemstone Systems, are two things that stick out for me.

A VMware acquisition of EY would be interesting for the Ruby world in particular, as VMware would then have the JRuby team, most of the defacto core Rubinius team, and the Maglev team on its payroll. An acquisition of Phusion, Heroku or similar players in Ruby implementations and deployment might then be natural next targets - and with over $2bn in cash, VMware easily has the money to make these deals without breaking a sweat.
Enlighten me, what's all this talk of firewalls? Am I just a caveman for doing everything with iptables?
Time to encrypt everything!
Does this really help? If I just browsed everything sensitive through SSL sure they will have the domain viewed but nothing to prosecute on?
So it's more an issue of: 1) understanding how something specific works and 2) understanding all the related jargon. While both of these might be relatively simple (at least for the base case) it still takes the time to learn them. Many of these things cannot just be learned on-the-fly by picking up context clues in a discussion (though I think that the jargon is a large part of this).
noodle, this is a great idea, don't give this up just because there's another competitor in town.

Please ping me if you are interested in pursuing this further. I can link you up to startup that could definitely make use of this to compliment their trip planning service.

bowei [ a t ] cardmunch. c o m
From what I've seen most of the basic knowledge involved in creating a Rails 2.X app translates well for Rails 3. The basic application structure and the way of thinking about the layout of the application remains largely unchanged.

Some highlight differences difference being:

# ActiveRecord query syntax
2.X: User.all(:conditions => {:name => "aaron"}, :limit => 1)
3.X: User.where(:name => "aaron").limit(1)

# ActionMailer API now closely matches the ActionController API
2.X:
class Notifier
def user_notification(user)
recipients user.email
subject "test subject"
from "system@test.com"
body :user => user
end
end

3.X:
class Notifier
default :from => "system@test.com"

def user_notification(user)
@user = user
end
end

In Rails 3 Gem dependencies are managed using Bundler, which means that you have to explicitly declare all of the gems your application uses, even fundamental things like Rails and Rack. Calls to config.gem need to be removed, and added to a Gemfile instead.

There are quite a few more API changes than what I have listed here, routes in particular will change greatly for complex applications. The full details are here: http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html
Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2 is about whether functions and other variables are in the same namespace or not. Packages are orthogonal to this.

Also, generic functions in Common Lisp don't suffer from nearly the same amount of complexity as can be found in C++: there is always only one signature (lambda-list) for any function name, whether generic or not, there are no implicit conversions, no memory-allocation details, value/pointer/reference distinction, constness, virtualness, overloading of assignment operators etc.
The most interesting thing I noticed on this page is that Flash Player 10.1 is released.
Firefox for iOS. Because it syncs well with data I have in Firefox on my other devices.

And you can send it tabs from other devices through a push notification, which is super cool.

I don't care that it is built on top of Apple's WebView. Since iOS 14 I set it as my default. Works great.
I love the reference to Harlan Ellison's haunting "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream".
That certainly looks like the one I was thinking of, thank you.