jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You seem to be infantilizing a lot of women.

Welcome to 2021. If you're born with one or more of certain immutable characteristics, you're automatically a victim who needs to be protected and rescued. Every person with certain immutable characteristics of a different category are all personally to blame.
Pretty good article. I'm glad that it mentions freshly roasted and light roasting as the most important factors. This is true, but most people have never experienced it. Roasts a few hours old are the best!!

Article does not mention types of bean. Beans are themselves also dried in different methods. The most expensive coffee in the world is scooped up from poo after digesting in an animals stomach.

Also getting different types of air to blow over the coffee after roasting can change the taste a lot.

Finally... what you drink as 'coffee' is mostly water (and milk for many). Better quality water goes a long way. Your tap water probably tastes very different to mineral water, or rain water. Different types of blends mix well with different types of milk too. With milk, you can usually get away with a more bitter coffee.

The pour and grind are important I guess... it's what lets people make a ristretto for example. But not as important as the roast.

Finally, what many of these coffee articles fail to consider are asian methods. I guess it is either racism, or ignorance. Try Viet, and turkish styles for example :)

Coffee snobs! There is no 'good' coffee, just different methods and tastes.

ciao! xo
If they make reasonable attempts to keep out Americans, requiring IP proxies and checking a box saying "I am not an American," then is it really their fault when Americans end up using it?
I'm pretty sure that Foxnews was taken over.
And that's why we have plist editor.
They're simple loops. You don't need to copy and paste, you just write them out because it's just ridiculously simple logic. Just like you don't copy and paste if statements.
Crazy smart people often believe crazy things. I'll let you into a little secret - it's because they are very smart. They have the mental horsepower to ignore the wisdom of the crowd and look at the facts for themselves. Sometimes this means they are persuaded by non-sense, but sometimes it means they see what others do not.
off-topic: isn't there already some "serious fiction" about government being controlled by corporations ?

Sometimes I wonder, I want to ask a real politician, in an age of technology, what would happen if corporations were able to control government or to replace its role ? What would go well, what would fail ?
There's the stack people, there's the queue people, and then there's the set people who just randomly work on one thing that feels good right now.
Are generics really that important? Java didn't have generics for 9 or 10 years, C# only got them in version 2. C still doesn't have generics and I never heard anyone complain.

As a former C# developer I would agree that life got easier with the introduction of generics, but you can develop the exact same software with and without generics.
> A single clueless person in a position of trust with non technical management and a huge budget

This is terrifying to me, especially as the CEO (I use the term because it's technically accurate in this case, not to be a douchebag) of a well-funded startup who is semi-technical. I can build basic apps and scripts and started out building things for the company, but now that we have real talent I would slow things down if I were in the code every day.

As such, I end up in a semi-product manager role, and consider myself responsible to make sure we're quickly shipping product in line with our goals, but at the end of the day I have to trust the people I work with, all of whom are experts in their respective areas. Luckily I can.

I have no idea how a non-technical product manager who has hired a contractor from an Eastern Bloc country would know when they're being reasonable and when they're just trying to screw him. That's just a recipe for disaster. It's a blind man in a new city taking an unofficial taxi cab. Makes me cringe.
I'm guessing their research was showing their audience was more price-sensitive than anything, but I wonder if this isn't just a hidden element of price they are failing to take into account. I've seen this sentiment echoed over and over, that people would subscribe if it meant spending more per month to avoid ads.
yeah.. and next breaking news - Microsoft and Google also may be entry points for U.S. Hack because Solarwinds used both Windows laptops and Android mobile phones.

I wish tech reporting is written by technical folks, or at least proof read by tech experts.
Back in April we weren’t able to test anyone outside of hospitals. In march we were likely up in the 100k infections a day just before lockdown, around what we are now come to think of it.

That’s based on taking the IFR and working backwards from reported deaths at different ages.
20 years ago we started an un-ending war in the Mideast that stemmed from a lack of critical evaluation of what the intelligence community was telling us. For you to say things were better then.. for whom? And even if I were to agree with you I'm not sure it's appropriate to lay the blame at the feet of information technology. Social and cultural evolution happens (has happened) without mass adoption of the Internet.
I'd posit that outlets like OAN wouldn't exist without social media platforms hinting that there's a market opportunity to be exploited.
I wasn't taking it to prevent colds in the first place. The main thing that spurred it now is that Vitamin D has been shown to reduce the severity of covid infections. But being up in Canada I assume I'm deficient, so it should have multiple potential benefits. Eventually I'm planning to test my level to confirm, but for now I figured taking it is safer than not.
> unelected “fact checkers”

You're right to point out the dangers of entrusting an unaccountable group with the responsibility of determining what is and isn't true, but I'm not sure that electing the fact checkers would improve their accuracy.

Also, if you think it is suspicious that people in one political party make statements that are deemed lies, your problem might not be with the checkers.
She could have looked into using one of those chairs with half a keyboard in the armrests. Her neck will eventually give out and then she's toast. :(
Looks quite impressive, but I was wondering what language do you use to build your Voxel Engine? And the motivation for such a choice? Looking forward to your feedback.
>The stranger your tastes seem to other people, the stronger evidence they probably are of what you should do.

Completely agree. I came across similar thing 5 or 6 years back. When one-of my co-worker called me to debug/show a problem with his website-download module to export data as spreadsheet. The data came as some junk characters,even though site-page shows proper data and db-records are fine too.

I clearly remember the following conversion.When I tried, I also got spreadsheet with unreadable chars, and I said, "nice,that's interesting!!" and my co-worker laughed and responded "what? is this interesting???"
Well, depending on how many videos you are storing, yes. Let's imagine 6000 minutes of 1080p video at ~8.2mb per minute. That would come out to 50gb of storage for that 100 hours of video. This would cost $1.00 - $1.50 per month for storage. You'll have other charges for the get calls but with a cdn it can be quite reasonable. It depends entirely on your business needs. Frankly the application to deliver this successfully to your customers will be the more costly part. But again, I have delivered some amazing video experiences to customers on custom built solutions with very very high profit margins.
Btrfs snapshots, and then cp --reflink from the snapshot to the current tree whatever files or directories are missing; i.e. no need to rollback to a snapshot.
arguably easier to paint than his earlier work.

This is hard to judge from the outside. My wife is an art school graduate and serious amateur painter. There are some artists that she follow, where she is in absolute awe of what they do, and I just see some quite 'simple' paintings that are nowhere near as detailed or 'interesting' as some of what she paints. Yet she assures me that what those artists are doing is Really Hard, and far beyond what she is capable of.
How so? What is the misleading interpretation here?
Still, some vitamins may be worth supplementing depending upon your diet, exposure to sun, and activity level. For example:

http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/

http://examine.com/supplements/Magnesium/

http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+K/
I think what jbeja meant is "this will be useless for me"
I've heard Nowin runs well on Mono (haven't tried it yet myself). https://github.com/Bobris/Nowin
Whilst cruising the Caribbean, I noticed that local economies may have been severely harmed by tourism. Dependent on highly concentrated tourist areas, the "push start" amounts more to a "push over": cash flow is so concentrated it can't get thru most of the local economy, like trying to satiate the thirsty with a firehose.
I'm European, I think I'll never go to the USA. They are just too aggressive/paranoid with security. Of course, I have no rights there.
To pull this forward, the author is also the author of "Implementing a JIT Compiled Language in Haskell and LLVM" [0].

[0] http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
I agree with you that its essential to lower the amount of time and cost that experiments take, and find needles to replace our sledgehammers. I work in technology/methods development, so I'm happy that I should a job for the next decade! However, I have to disagree with the claim at the end of your response: once we get the methods right, we can start building biology into a predictive and quantitative science.

I think the debate needs to start at, what does it mean to make biology into a predictive and quantitative science? Sure, once that flood of data comes in (and I'd argue its already here), we can build huge dictionaries of perturbations-responses in every system we study. And sure, this will be extremely useful for drug development, synthetic biology, et cetera. But is it "understanding"? Is it intellectually satisfying?

Right now it's unclear to me how to even evaluate where are our current understanding of biological systems are incomplete <b> in ways that matter </b>. Sure, in any system there are remaining things to be discovered, but maybe they are 2nd order, 3rd order, 10th order effects on the behavior of the system. The way people are incentivized though, they will do all they can to convince you that the 3rd order effect they study is really just as important as the 1st order, and it often takes more effort than is worth it to see through the smoke screens.

Developing more methods and technology further fractionates the field more than it serves to unify it (with the exception numbering what I can count on my hands). Until we have any idea where we're going, it's futile to just wait for more data to come in.
I am more of a NetBSD guy these days but when I was into OpenBSD I liked OpenBSD Journal (undeadly.org). Currently I regularly check a site called NetBSD Planet, which has a section called "In Other BSDs":

http://netbsd.fi/
I've actually considered stabbing at it, but at the moment it's best to wait for the idiomatic Go rewrite of the compiler to get further along.

And by "stabbing at it" I mean opening up the compiler to see how difficult it would be, not a commitment. But even for that, the best answer right now is to wait for the in-progress compiler rewrite to get further along.
/offtopic

This kind of discussion is actually something that bothers me even more than generics at the moment :
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/m7k9Epxq...

Come on... removing an item from a list requires tricks ?? I know go aims at being memory efficient, but delete(list,obj) should be idiomatic.
They probably assume that most people either won't really use it or will then be locked in and pay after the year. Seems a bit risky, but if they've done it before they should have a basic idea what is feasible for them?
It actually was given "some level" of generics; arrays and maps are generic (or at least more generic than anything else), but they're programmed as special cases into the syntax and runtime rather than as an instance of generic generic (ahem) functionality.

This is part of why the Go generic debate rages on, while Go itself is continuing to be used. If Go were lacking in any "generic" associative lookup structure it would get no traction in 201x. (If C were introduced today in a world that somehow lacked it, nobody would give it a second look. Which is as it should be... one would hope we've learned something in the past 40 years....)
Amazon doesn’t care if you buy a no margin Alexa device. They will gladly license Alexa to all comers. Kindle is available everywhere. People are “loyal” to Kindle not because of the device that relatively few buy, but because their whole library is tied to the Kindle app that runs everywhere.
Facebook allows you to do this. There is no need to give a third party application access all of your information.

Click "Account Settings", and then "Download Your Information". Voila. You'll get an email within a few minutes.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=download

To be fair, it appears that this project predates Facebook's launch of the download feature by a few months.

I work for FB, but not on this feature.
Currently, patents have worth well in excess of the application cost. Much of this is because patents are generally presumed valid - it's bloody hard to get a court to overturn one, for example. The article points out that this presumption is ill founded - patent examiners don't have time to do a thorough review - and suggests that the solution is to make it much easier to challenge them in court.

You want to talk about a situation where only those with money can make money? Make it easy to overturn a patent by hiring more lawyers. Cost of keeping a patent will skyrocket, value of obtaining a patent will plummet.

If you're going to have software patents, it seems much better for everyone to have strong patents by weeding out lousy patents before they are granted than by inviting constant multi million dollar legal battles.
True. I'll update above regarding n.

However, it's certainly different to the other examples and I would expect fib(2) to be 1 + 0 not 1 + 1.

It's a very minor point though - I think I'll stop now ;)
I just did.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942998
Indeed - what you say is very important. You can legally enter on the visa waiver in order to attend business meetings. If you do this for extended periods you will probably be required too prove that you aren't being paid, have your residence overseas, etc. (IANAL)

In my experience a good immigration attorney is requirement for doing any of thus kind of thing otherwise you're taking an uninformed risk.
Yes. To be precise - I didn't visually connect them. The following text layout:

Free account
X
Y
create account

(especially with the design on ge.tt) looks to me like: "Free account has feature X and Y - create an account to remove these". Looking at the values for X and Y, that couldn't be what you meant, but it took a second for me to realize. Maybe it's just me...

(I like the text better once you've uploaded something. Then there is a header with "Create an account and get access to:")
You are right, the difference is that the one sequence is " 0 1 1 2 3 5 ... " while the other is " 1 1 2 3 5 ..." - so it is just shifted by one. The interesting properties of the sequence still remain.
Didn't Iceland pass a legal power to enshrine the right to free speech on the web, making it a data haven beyond the reach of these kind of power grabs?

Because it isn't criminal activity that Fitwatch was advocating, but making sure that those people being harassed by the cops had the law on their side, not the UK Stasi.
The strong point of Facebook is that so many people are on there, including many who are normally less comfortable using computers. I assume it will keep growing for a while, as there is no real contender in sight. So let's say we reach the point where pretty much everybody has a Facebook account. At that point, it would only seem stronger than before.

The weak point of Facebook is that it lumps everybody into the same "friends" pool. This is not a new observation of course, but is is still a problem, and Facebook hasn't really done much to alleviate it. Sure, you can add people to different groups, set different filters, but for most people (especially those who are less tech-savvy) this is just too much work (or too difficult, even). So the problem remains, and as Facebook gets bigger, so does the problem.

I think that at some point, there will be huge opportunities for "spin-off" sites, that address some kind of niche. There would be a mini-social network were you talk to your family. Another one for friends (of the kind that you go to bars with, for example). One for networking. One for co-workers. Ones for specific games (quite a few people on Facebook have thousands of "friends", most of which they don't really know, but were added for the benefit of playing Mafia Wars, Farmville, etc). And so on.

Some of these already exist, like LinkedIn; and likely, the process is already underway. However, I think such sites would have more success if they were friendly with Facebook in some form or another; log in with your Facebook account, maybe share certain things, etc. (Look at Zynga; would their games have anywhere near the current number of users if they had not integrated with Facebook?)

When you meet new people, online or in real life, in whatever situation, the common denominator would be that they all have Facebook. (Still going by the assumption here that Facebook would get so big that people without an account would be rare.) So it would retain its function as a "hub" where you can find anybody at all; but the actual social interaction, in whatever form, would be done at the spin-off sites. You don't post work-related things to your Facebook because nobody cares but your co-workers. If you had a wild night out, you don't post pictures of it to a specific site, not to Facebook where your mom/kids/spouse/boss can see it. For those things, there would be the aforementioned specialized sites. Likely, it wouldn't be long before we would think of such a situation as normal; you won't post specialized info on Facebook, any more than you would post it in the newspaper.

I am just brainstorming here, but if that would actually happen, Facebook would slowly be supplanted by a myriad of smaller sites, each with their own purpose. Facebook itself would slowly become irrelevant other than as a hub to connect all those specialized sites. Like Microsoft nowadays, it would be big, bulky, probably rich, but it would just kinda sit there; the action and innovation would happen elsewhere.

tl;dr: Hypothetically, there might not be one Facebook killer, rather, it might be replaced by many smaller, specialized sites.
Why wouldn't a simple expected value calculation work? You've shown that you can calculate the extra availability that subscribing to another region provides. Simply multiply the cost of an outage by the extra availability provided by an additional region that would have prevented that outage.

If expanding to another region costs more than just taking the outage, then it's categorically not a good option. If management still says no in the face of numbers that suggest yes, then that tells you that you're missing a hidden objection, and how you proceed will depend on a lot of factors specific to your situation.
If your Iphone starts blinking or vibrating randomly or does something weird repeatedly, do you take 10 minutes to understand what is happening or do you just turn it off/on?
function psg () { [[ -z "$1" ]] && return ; local _first=${1:0:1} ; local _rest=${1:1} ; [[ -z "$_rest" ]] && _rest='[^]]' ; local _com="ps -ef | grep '[$_first]'$_rest" ; eval "$_com" }
Please note that we are discussing in the context of a machine-learning _library_. I didn't repeat that in every sentence, but it's worth remembering.

If you have a startup that uses software that requires machine learning libraries, chances are your business model doesn't just involve living off consulting fees and professional services.
Does seem harsh to brand Amazon as incompetent. Things like this probably happen to Google's server farm all the time, but since they're the only customer they can and do reconfigure everything massively to adapt.

Amazon can't do that to your application that runs on a handful of systems.
These two are the works of very very smart programmers:

1. The Racket source code

2. The Chromium source
It's hard to imagine.

The best I can do is think of Rome's slave based economy. Obviously slaves can do anything the free Romans could, and they did. The Romans were either plebes, dependent on government handouts like bread and circuses, or they were wealthy and then they mostly went into politics.
I guess you haven't seen the Microsoft ads about the cloud? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lel3swo4RMc

Anyway, my bad, I was just trying to make a joke to lighten up the mood. Sorry.
That said, it does play nicely inside browser-based apps, and should work alongside jQuery and other browser-centric libraries. That's something that may get explored later, but downloadable apps are definitely Jo's focus from an architectural standpoint. Thanks for your feedback, by the way.
I meant junk like search engine cheating forum and usenet posts and sites registered to repeat stock phrases and content of spammy aggregator sites, rather than making judgements against lolcats and breakfast time tweets.
I hope not. I've grown attached to the metrics that other URL shorteners (e.g. bit.ly) offer. But if Twitter offered those metrics as well, then... goodbye bit.ly...
> you are free

This argument is made often and is patently in bad faith. You understand and I hope your readers understand there is a power disparity and a prevalent culture that has a certain effect on your ability to "be free" (of what? To go elsewhere and have the same shit done to you? To have your family go hungry because some HR shithead blackballed you?).

On a personal level I would ask you to stop actively trying to make the world worse by parroting capitalist propaganda built specifically to disempower workers.
I've got relatively modestly-specced SQL Servers handling tables with hundreds of millions and even billions of rows without breaking a sweat. Somebody either just really wanted a new toy to play with, or has no idea what indexes are.
> willing to spend what it takes to win and this is the reason why they will win.

Excuse me

"Win" what exactly? Why even use such adversarial polarizing language when we are talking of overall human development?

Huge segments of the US live in economic precarity, do you feel like you have "won"? After all that was the point of the Cold War, wasnt it?
I'm just biased. I hate advertising and I hate tracking even more. I'm sure some companies will be slightly hurt, but I believe it will be a net gain for society.

I worked at a small hardware store as a kid and we got all our business from word of mouth. IDK what the best argument here is, so I suppose I'm just admitting my feelings with this comment.