jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This would introduce another performance consideration though, wouldn't it? You may not be paying the cost for the explicit copy, but now you are paying the cost of allocating space for a Foo on the heap instead of the stack.

It would depend on the situation, but this seems like it might just be wash at the end in terms of performance?
http://www.ubnt.com/rspro
or
http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm
Do you share your anti forgery strategy? That sounds like it would make a very useful open source library.

That would probably improve your security too.
But you see, the difference is... soccer is important. Science is undertaken by and only of interest to krelboynes.
"OnLive has no other games in the pipeline that are Windows-only, and we do not expect to have any others."

As they point out, this is the only game that's not available cross platform. It's understandable that this would happen during the beta period, while they are still trying to prove the model to game developers.
Does anyone reading this work at YouTube, and do you have any insight into what could be going on here?

Disclaimer: I wrote the linked article.
But that's not a sufficient counter-argument that the GGP post's reasoning is sound. Even single base pair mutations can have huge impacts. A surprising percentage of the human genome is retroviral in origin. As far as I know, "Genetic clock" analysis is the only sound application of counting base pair differences.

I don't think the GP is arguing one way or the other. They seem to be mostly questioning how wide the error bars should be on these statements. It looks like a Socratic twist on "citation needed" without an implication that statements are necessarily wrong.
me on dvorak: 110 wpm (10-race average) on typeracer.com

If your typing speed is high percentile, odds are you'd be faster than all your friends anyway, regardless of dvorak / qwerty. (E.g. I type faster than every single one of my qwerty friends! ...)

Given that <0.1% use dvorak, there's >90% chance you won't see a single dvorak user in a random sample of 100 people. Not hard to see why the leaderboards will be "dominated" by qwerty.

Like others have said, dvorak is for comfort, not for speed. Dvorak is MUCH more comfortable than qwerty.

Also, Dvorak users almost never complain that they type more slowly than their qwerty days, once they've gotten used to it.

Many of us dvorak users also are competent at qwerty in a pinch (80 wpm qwerty here).

Cf. http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/
Would be really cool if it wasn't Ruby.
I never said don’t post the link
> All calculations of this sort are fatally flawed because they assume all the coins in one address are owned by one person.

But don’t the calculations equally assume coins spread out across multiple addresses aren’t owned by one person, when in fact they often are?
I'm a double bassist, 40 years with no (physical) injuries. ;-) String players are taught similar principles despite the totally different ergonomics of our instruments.
I recently switched WhatsApp from Android to iOS and I was flabbergasted there was no official mechanism to retain message history. As annoying as it is, it goes to show most people don't actually value it highly.

Facebook would have no trouble funding a basic iCloud-GDrive bridge if there was enough demand for it.
I wonder which alt platform is going to win the lottery when Trump moves over to their platform.
I have never worked on Capitol Hill but I'm going to go ahead and say this is misinformation. I did work for the DOD, and arguably the DOD does not have access to nearly as sensitive information as the State Department or at times Congress. The most basic procedures for classified information require that it be stored behind locked metal cages, in bank-style vaults, with encrypted hard drives, accessed via SMART cards, and transferred via an armed escort. When I left for Afghanistan there was one person carrying Top Secret information and the case it was carried in was handcuffed to him, not only was he armed but he had an armed escort as well.

The notion or idea that some Congressperson has Classified+ information sitting behind a wood or glass door sounds highly suspicious.

Edit: changed "fake news" to "misinformation"
As stated by a previous head of product, great senior engineers can choose to switch jobs and instantly become a great PM.
I know they use VQ-VAE under the transformer, but that would generate one symbol per 8x8 box. When you tile them up they should have some mosaic artifacts along the edges, if they generate these patches independently.
The freedom of the platform holder and the platform user are at odds. The topic does not need to focus on government or the US constitution.
What social media site requires an ID?
There is one Web, yet browsers handle it differently. I'd very much rather have a monoculture in browser rendering engines if that's what it takes to make things just work consistently.
Ok, let's talk about this... pico, the editor and SI prefix, means "dick" in at least some Spanish-speaking countries... Source of endless nerd jokes.
This is definitely an issue in any team or organization. Unless you're smaller than 10 employees, eventually office/career politics will dominate. It's inevitable human nature.
Woah there, I was studying computer science in college 20 years ago and it wasn't even close to a new degree program then.
> the published evidence to support the general public wearing masks was quite weak

The physical basis of a face mask is well understood, and engineers have measured filtering efficiencies in labs. What was weak, was randomised controlled trials where you give masks to people and ask them to use them, with a control group to which you don't give masks. This kind of studies also give at best weak evidence that condoms would help preventing sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009845/

"Despite the public health importance of increasing condom use there is little reliable evidence on the effectiveness of condom promotion interventions."

According to your criteria, we should maybe stop recommending condoms?
Related,

- I think 20-somethings gain more from in-person interactions given they have less experience so are regularly bumping into people with more experience. For the more experienced these interactions feel more like a tax/interruption, but for the person just starting out, they're often missed learning opportunities that add up over time.

- In-office amenities like free dinner are more valued by early-career folks who are less likely to have a family they need to go home to. Even the free drinks/snacks.
I used Arachnophilia back in the day, and when the Java version came out I tried it, it was god awful.
I would grab the "Django Crash Course" from Feldroy[0]. It is a tutorial starting from nothing, and you build a very basic app. Which sounds unimpressive, but it shows you all the best practices for app layout etc and when combined with Two Scoops, provides a great foundation.

After that, to really get to know Django, you'll want to do some "unconventional" things like use a class based view for a page with 3 forms... That should give you the "ah ha" moment.

[0]: https://tinyurl.com/2hkhd6px
You're not wrong, but you're missing the point.

Would you agree that keeping track of the ancestor(s) of a commit, and the fact that there can be multiple ancestors, is central to git's design? If so, why is that the case? Why is keeping track of ancestry, and the ability to have multiple ancestors, central to the design?

It's so you can do diff/merge. So yes, diff/merge is not directly part of the core. But the core is designed specifically to support diff/merge. That's the whole point. That's the reason the core data structures of git are designed the way they are. It's also the reason that git comes with a diff/merge algorithm built-in, and 99.999% of the people who use git use the default diff/merge. And the default diff/merge assumes text.

So yes, you can use git to store binary files, and you can even modify it to do something sane with them without ripping out everything and starting over from scratch. But that's not what git was originally designed for. That the design is adaptable to other use cases is a testament to Linus's foresight, but it does not change the fact that the assumption of text is woven deeply into the design. Dividing up the design into "plumbing" and "porcelain" does not change this. This part of the porcelain is as much a part of the design as the plumbing is.
Sort of, but doing a stare-and-compare, two screens beats two virtual desktops in productivity. It’s the difference between being able to set two documents side by side on a desk vs stacking them. There’s more friction in the swap than in the glance.
Also, being able to have VC people on one screen while full screening content, or full screening content while playing a game is valuable.
Thanks for picking it up- the teacherpreneur new design went live last week. Appreciate the help
In case you hadn't seen yet, I suspect everybody at Slack in a position to comment on the company's behalf in pubilc is probably kinda busy with more pressing matters right now:

http://slackhq.com/post/114696167740/march-2015-security-inc...

(And I can't help but wonder if these two issues aren't connected somehow. Someone may have been sitting on a 0day trying to do the right thing in expectation of a bug bounty program reward, only to discover exploiting or selling it was the only avenue likely to actually pay out... Surely this isn't just coincidental timing?)
This reminds me of the plot of Silicon Valley
I had similar beliefs when I was in my 20s and now I have two children in my late 30s. We all have to row our own canoe. That being said. This is an interesting topic that has to have some academic research and/or modeling behind it. Anyone have some sources? What happens if our best minds do not reproduce? What is the expected outcome of Japan's population decline?
Don't worry.... the patent's expired.
IT in big orgs is the very opposite of entrepreneurship. There are typically legitimate concerns for security. The imposition of standards, methodologies, even specific brands is all part of exercising and maintaining control. Of course, there are politics and financial clout involved as well.

For those who want to be free to satisfy their entrepreneurial instincts, best to leave and create a startup or join one.
Nice, but can you normalize the height of the command-name strips? They can range from 17-19px (before +4 padding) in height, depending on the local font setup I suspect. Cumulatively that's enough of a difference so that in an unusual case (when they're all 19 tall, as they can be in a gentoo+chromium setup), the Local Repository column of strips extends down and obscures the description.
Of course you make the changes. Your client's website looks ugly and as the person implementing it you are ultimately responsible. "Can't he see that it looks horrible," they're thinking. "Why should I give this guy more work if he can't take the initiative to fix things that are obviously wrong?"

This sounds like a day or two of work max. So send the client a note apologizing for the problems, tell them you'll fix the proportion issues and graphics yourself, but that since you weren't expecting to have to do this, it will take a few extra days. Then give them a date when they can expect this to be done. And hit that deadline.

Realistically, the GD could simply not be getting paid for dealing with you. Or they could be uncooperative for other reasons. And this may not be a customer worth having, but if you're dealing with a friend-of-a-friend, you've pretty much got to take care of them or you've torched anyone in that loop recommending you again. And you can negotiate a higher price in the future if you deal with them again, citing this sort of situation.
You can: They were based off marble blocks built by a Swiss company called Cuboro:
http://cuboro.ch/en/Info/Products
They are not very cheap though.
GA does not quite do the job.
Go for legacy large plan - you will get 50 private repos for $50/month. https://github.com/account/billing?plan=large
I think the same happened to Linden Dollars (Second Life). However, I don't see a problem, as presumably they can only tax you on the corresponding dollar value of the currency. Like if you earn 1000 BTC and they are worth 1000$ at current rates, you are taxed for 1000$, if they are worth 0$, you are taxed for 0$.
Getting the 26,27,28th off from work is just genius for a long break!
>"(Which is a big reason why you don't see much criticism of pg here, or when you do, it's very respectful, vs other authors, even when he writes something ridiculous.)"

If you think someone is being ridiculous why don't you say something.
Or a South African 11 day weekend. Easter, and then public holidays on 27 April and 1/2 May are combining this year to provide a massive holiday opportunity.
>But people are downvoted when they act like they've earned credibility when they haven't.

I downvote when people don't add to the conversation; when I consider them to be wrong or misleading (or when we had comment scores if they're comments seemed over-rated).

Personally I don't find anything wrong with the comment made there - the chap is just asking that things aren't done without a proper rationale. Doesn't seem brusque, harsh or patronising to me.

Just decide not to be offended, job done.
"In the event Amazon EC2 does not meet the Annual Uptime Percentage commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described below."

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/
Sounds great, I'd still like a "buy" option.
Staging servers are an easy thing on Heroku :)
My 2016 f150 gets 12.7 l/100km highway, closer to 27 mpg.

edit: woops 12.7 l/100km is actually 18.5 mpg. All these years I thought 10l/100km was 30 mpg! must have done the conversion wrong once and been basing my whole life off it ever since. It's great to find out something you thought was true is not sometimes.
There are plenty of visualizers out there to help out e.g. http://turingmachine.io/

The simplest way I can describe them without any maths is that at any point in time they have two inputs, and three outputs.

The inputs:

* The current "state" of the machine, which is usually shown as a letter - there are a finite number of states the machine can be in, but this number can be as big as you like.

* The value currently being pointed at on the tape. The possible values are again finite, but can be as big as you like.

The outputs:

* A new value to write on the tape.

* A new state to be in.

* Whether to shift the tape left or right.

If you choose your mappings from inputs to outputs carefully, this machine can solve literally every problem your desktop computer can solve. I'd call that pretty amazing.
There's a much more obvious difference between now and 100 years ago: 100 years ago the education and financial support for scientific research was largely a closed shop for European-descended upper middle class men. There are certainly many geniuses obsessively researching into areas that stimulate their intellectual interest today that wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so back then.

I'm not sure being a scientist was that unfashionable 100 years ago anyway: research labs were a thing, academic work was arguably more prestigious than it is today, fortunes were being made from inventions especially in fields where there were low hanging fruit, competitions and societies and exhibitions to celebrate scientific achievement had come into existence and the idea of inventiveness was even tied up in popular contemporaneous notions of national and racial superiority. There might be more subfields and more research to build on nowadays, but the stereotype of scientists being underpaid eccentrics certainly hasn't gone away and nor has the fact a mathematics prodigy can make a lot more money working in financial services than academic research.

I'm also unconvinced scientific progress has slowed because today's geniuses are working on interpreting our genetic code, modelling solutions to climate change and solving scaling problems in computation rather than drawing taxonomy diagrams, inventing new types of consumer electronics and breaking the land speed record.
Nice.

The way I heard it from an English professor:

Writers write. The only way to become a better writer is to write more.
What relates to me is when he was gonna write how awful TDD is, then he actually tried it - and liked it! There are so many things we think are utterly stupid, but have never even tried.
One way is to enter a competition with others. Using the example from the essay, a big part of obsession with bus tickets is probably explained by being able to show off rare bus tickets to fellow collectors. Incidentally, many cool things seem to spring out of some kind of a "scene" (which is defined by this friendly competition among its members).
Is there a single example of a notable great programmer who uses TDD?
TechCrunch has more details than Reuters does. Such as confirming ARM ISA, but custom arch.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/15/three-of-apple-and-googles...
Github is highly remote-able.
Satoshi is dead. It was Hal Finney. The coins aren't moving.
This makes me think of the Red programming language and its many builtin datatypes: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/datatypes.adoc
They understand how little inflow actually moves the market. The bigger the market gets, the more likely Satoshi could cripple it.
Someone on here once said decentralized systems tend to end up centralized, this will be my goto example. A p2p system of exchanging digital tokens end up centralized around the a bank.
> This did happen. Netflix was throttled a few years ago and they reached a "deal" with Comcast and a few months later, Netflix rates were increased.

1) This happened prior to net neutrality regulations.

2) This was a peering dispute, not throttling.

3) Net Neutrality did not regulate peering.
Google Reader ≠ RSS.
Check out the upduino v3. Its as cheap as they come and supported by a fully open source toolchain. I just got one a few weeks ago and it's excellent.
Well regulation of this stuff is a kind of nightmare. Building an exchange is a nightmare - I tried once and scaling the thing is really complicated.
I was reading through the wikipedia page for the building and it mentions that when it was built there was a bylaw that required kitchens and bathrooms to have a window in them.
Excellent read. Blazer looks great. Having all of that data available to more than just the engineers really allows more data-driven decisions. When combined with the insight of someone on the local level, I'm sure it leads to great results.
He addresses that in the post. Phrasing it as other long sentences fared comparatively poorly.
The ArchiveTeam would probably be interested in this: http://archiveteam.org/
You could try http://www.favilous.com - I know the founders and they are in the process of building an importer for Delicious bookmarks. They originally launched back in January on HN - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060022.
$10K? That probably wouldn't pay for a single programmer's efforts to do this...essentially you'll be working for Microsoft for free.

Hell Microsoft, at least do like Netflix and make the prize something worth pursuing.
I haven't tried it yet, but people say good things about http://historio.us/

The founder is on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605908
In the context of what NYC is trying to do, it might be interesting to read PG's thoughts on how to create a Silicon Valley:
http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

The two main ingredients he identifies in his essay are rich people and nerds. I guess NYC has plenty of rich people and Wall Street capital. What's lacking is the youthful nerds and the universities that would attract them to come to NYC.

An unexplored issue is how geographic constraints will affect the Silicon Valley-ization of NYC. Everyone wants to be in Manhattan but that's an island with limited space. When the other major industries in NYC (like finance) bid up the resources (such as land and labor), can startups become equal or even dominant in NYC?
I've been seeing service unavailable pages every few times I load pinboard. I wonder how their infrastructure will handle this unexpected surge.
I'm not sure this move accomplishes that much. It seems none of the technology is moving abroad, just the legal seat. And on trade issues, Switzerland moves pretty much in lockstep with the US, at least officially (cf. Iran sanctions).

To me, this smacks of the kind of legalist thinking that software engineers are prone to: Assuming that if some legal construct is implemented according to some rules, governments and the legal system will disregard the actual physical reality, and will refrain from employing their political leverage.

Then again, I'm sure the RISC-V Foundation has professional legal advice at their disposal.
How plausible is it that they were following people outside their group for union reasons, e.g. to call them for a union meeting, rather than anything more nefarious?
> more akin to a super-placebo, rather than being therapeutic on their own.

As far as I can tell, from my own experience, lsd kind of make you see your own actions/thoughts as an observer[0], it's a very useful tool if you're into introspection. If you're not used to introspection it can be quite unsettling though.

[0] >50ug <400ug, after that you just look a the ceiling and enjoy the lights
The `Three Laws of Behavior Genetics` need to be better known:

1. All human behavioral traits are heritable.

2. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.

3. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.

http://humancond.org/papers/turkheimer00_three_laws_behavior...
>It’s a job, not a judicial system.

That doesn't change that they can easily misrepresent the facts in a way that any person subjected to similar treatment would view it as lying. And given the power differential, they will likely be unable to use the court system to protect themselves against such attacks.

This is a weakness in our current system the strong use to exploit the weak. Isn't that something we should look down upon and punish?
> (Except for the 7 words, but you can pretty much communicate any idea without those 7 words.) The radio stations could play pretty much any music they wanted, as long as they edited out the 7 words or weren't too sexually explicit.

Not that I really think that the American marketplace of ideas was more repressive than the Soviet one—I don't—but, if you need that many qualifiers to assert freedom of speech, then you don't really have it. ("You must avoid these words, but we're sure you can manage to say what you want without them" certainly sounds positively Soviet.)
Personally I wouldn't use it. The biggest problem with ticketing for most teams isn't speed - it's sorting through the noise to identify the bigger picture (i.e. 5 tickets might all be for different parts of the same thing).

However, if it was a way to be notified of tickets in an existing solution like Jira and be able to add comments - THAT would be hugely useful. Essentially Growl for ticketing. =)
How do I delete a snippet once I'm done with it?
It's clearly a matter of taste, but I think Python is very fun to program in. You can just get stuff done.

For kids I would try http://pythonturtle.org/
There's a picture on the front page that says "Wait, what does your startup do? So basically it's like a Twitter for Hacker News.".
I would say that C, an arduino, a bunch of resistors, LEDs, a VU-meter then hack something fun out of that. Nothing could beat the feeling of programming something you can wire and hold in your hand. Especially for children.
Crypto dreamers/con artists (depending on how naive you are...) consistently fail to mention $5 wrench cryptography.