jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This video inspires a thought. I wonder if there will be successful applications of AI and domestic robots which are super graceful, super-fast half-wits? On the face of it, this doesn't sound half bad. Give robots the ability to rapidly model kinematics and program the AI to prevent things from breaking. An AI that seeks to prevent damage but which otherwise has no volition of its own seems safe. The situations where it wouldn't be safe would make interesting SciFi. (A minimalist Asimov short story, but with only one law, not three.)
The story I read said that only one of the bullets was a blank, but the pattern you mention is the one I have also heard of more often. When I think about it though, that would be even more risky as many people have survived single gunshot wounds, at least for a little while.
I give to NPR every year. I don't see much difference in how I should act towards the two organizations despite the newspapers ostensibly being for-profit (ha). I like NPR's product more, but they both provide a really valuable public service that I'm happy to pay for.

I don't know if newspapers can maintain their newsrooms on an NPR-sized budget, but I'd love to see them go that route.
Clicked on one of their "suggestions" which I love, and was immediately presented with one of my favorite books. So far, I'm impressed.
>"Wozniak called into Engadget to say that Apple would eventually catch up to some of the features Android has that Apple’s iPhone are currently missing"

The ease with which people have come to accept the idea that the iPhone is playing catchup in important areas shows how radically Android has altered the marketplace.

Edit: If Wozniak actually said "eventually" that's not exactly high praise for the iPhone roadmap.
> If you're hungry, in the true sense of the word, you'll have meat and fat and ask for seconds.

If you're really hungry you're going to ask for seconds for everything.

Source: Fussy 11 year old me stuck in a summer camp with awful food. The first morning there I refused to eat and after breakfast they took us hiking up some mountains for 4 hours or so. For lunch I asked for seconds of their awful food and I enjoyed it :-)
Fair, non technical means consulting can be harder (unless you have established creds) but also leaves you open to doing lots of other misc part time jobs. If you are in a major urban area Doordash/Uber/Lyft etc might be viable, but if you are in a more suburban or rural area not so much. Only you know the answer, it isn't a bad option if you can make enough to support yourself and invest in your project. The more time you can put on your project the better but it has to be balanced with not over stressing your personal life since one will affect the other. Good luck!
This is a net positive considering the US population growth rate is declining.
> And I can't tell if Moxie really means to improve the status quo or works for some three letter agency and builds just enough metadata opportunities into popular messengers and opportunistic encryption into WhatsApp to be helpful without being suspicious.

Moxie is an anarchist (or near to it) and has been so for a long time. Secretly working for the NSA would be a stupendously long con.
> could very well be net negative

Have you read the recent HN links to articles about Facebook advertising fraud?
Yes, but it's only local, not cloud, as far as I understand.
Maybe, in essence, the bacteria that we host to help break down carbs start producing something that makes us crave/prefer carbs?

It seems like the bacteria would, in essence, be self interested and might have developed their own evolutionary mechanism to promote the supply of their food source?

In other words, if we, essentially, keep internal bacteria colonies to help break down specific types of food, those colonies may encourage consumption of their specialized food source?

We may also, symbiotically, encourage the preservation/maintenance of internal processing capability?
I think people here underestimate how much money will be made in climate tech in the next decades.

It's literally changing the map of the world, shifting the access (and use) of resources and the livelihood of people worldwide.

Not that i think it's a good thing that this needs to exist but mitigation and adaption to this change will be a huge industry.
There's at least one photo of the screen of an unlocked laptop, with a security warning popup in the corner suggesting evacuation.
The zes and zirs kept getting in the way in this document and caused me to take it less seriously.
You can't comment like this here—not to spare any individual's feelings, but because it poisons the commons, badly.

As a community member, you owe it to the community not to do that, so please don't do it again.
Reddit once has a discussion with someone who was in a similar jail in the u.s. . except for lacking female companion , he liked it pretty much , and even said that's you're freer because you don't have all the responsibilities of a job and raising a family.
I have not been using a bsd system for a long long time, but from what I recall at least freebsd had the same kind of virtual FSs that linux had, procfs on /proc and devfs on /dev but no separate sysfs on /sys.

I suspect though that you may have wanted to investigate sysctl(8) for your tweaking needs http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=...
As a taster ...

What do you mean by "2"?

What do you mean by "1"?

What do you mean by "+"?

What do you mean by "="?

There's more than one way to get to the number 7. You can start at 0 and count upwards, or you can "add" the numbers "3" and "4". Why should it be that you end up in the same place?

Slightly more complex/general ...

Consider the number line, and divide the stretch between 0 and 1 into 9 equal pieces. Start from 0 and move along two of these pieces. Call the place you get to "T".

Now consider the stretch from 0 to 2, and divide that into 9 equal sized pieces. Take just the first one, and call where that gets to "S".

Why are they the same point?
Look at the agents' faces. They were slacking on defense. (joke)
Why 37 mpg? Because when running in fuel-burning mode, the Volt is using the engine to turn a generator which produces electricity to turn the wheels. There's an inherent inefficiency in the extra step.

But that's the price you pay for being able to do your daily commute most days without burning any petrol whatsoever.
Then there's the fact that the Volt's battery pack will likely need to be replaced no less than twice (and likely at an extravagant cost) by the time it gets to 210,000 miles, and we all know that the rest of the car wouldn't last long enough to see this through to fruition.
Why was it killed? What was the Microsoft's replacement for it?
What country? I suspect figures in Europe are very different from those in the US. European versions of Windows are now required to offer a selection of browsers at install time.
>"I think then it fulfills the role I intended, as actual consequences of misinformation."

How so? I am skeptical, but what actual negative consequences have resulted from this?

>"That seems like dangerous amounts of cover for any topic where bringing them up is automatically discounted."

Do you likewise feel the urge discount any story that brings up Antifa? I do. It is because in the minds of most partisans they loom larger than their real life impact. While QAnons and Antifa are completely different, they are utilized as boogeymen by ideologically motivated reporters. Still, the mention of these two groups only serve to raise my skepticism level rather than make me outright deny everything around their mention.
Sounds reasonable. (how) do you do testing (unit test and integration tests)?
Maybe OP saw "Discriminating Guests" on page 6 and jumped to conclusions...
Bit of a tangent, but can you elaborate on that aspartame comment? I've found it difficult to research aspartame risks online, since the vast majority of what comes up appears to be unsubstantiated FUD, and the official sources (FDA etc.) don't appear to recognize any risk whatsoever. There does seem to be a general public perception that aspartame is "bad for you" in some way though.
Not that an Apple cloud service is any sort of secret, but paying $4.5 million for a domain confirms something is coming. It sounds like it might be a separate service from MobileMe, which would be surprising.
In case you are still looking for the other setups, do give http://Pinboard.com a spin. One time pay, but very nice.
Also grab r/python, r/ruby, r/java, r/cplusplus, r/lisp, r/haskell, r/php, etc to suit your fancy.
You can only edit comments written in the last hour or two.
It can be quicker, but does it taste better & is the total time invested lower in the long run? You do have to spend a good portion of time planning out what meal you're going to make, go shopping for the ingredients then prepare & package the meal properly so it's ready to reheat later. Also things like diced fresh veggies do not hold up well in the fridge, freezer or microwave.
No one applies with no idea now.
> It doesn’t necessarily change the semantics, but it does change what kind of programs are sure to crash your machine, and what kind are going to run fast, which is also an important property of programming languages.

Yeah, this is exactly what I meant. The semantics of the language are the same regardless (i.e. the meanings of programs doesn’t change), but in practice it makes a huge difference.
It is nice that the iOS version has that, but it a major pain say, if you are asked to reset your phone and restore from backup.

The recent issue with the Apple Watch not syncing health data meant that to get anywhere I had to wipe my phone, I had no where to transfer my Signal data too, thus - all gone.

It's not ideal when dealing with members of your family who really don't want to lose data, and is probably one of the few things that stops me in my own situation going over.

I do understand that in some cases this is actually a feature too, so I am not discounting it - just in my case this specific reason makes it really hard to justify a move over.

Just annoying that there isn't really a viable alternative anywhere at the moment :(

If iOS had that same option of a encrypted blob option then that would have solved my issue with the phone restore!
It really comes down to what kind of loans Tether has accepted. They haven't disclosed this information.

If Tether gave out a significant amount of USDT for Bitcoin without backing it in some other way, it means Tether isn't actually backed by the USD. Even if they lent out Tether for USD, they might have used BTC as collateral/risk assessment.

The fear is that Thether is held up by a loan of BTC and BTC is held up by in some part by the stability of Tether.
WebAssembly has the power to level the playing field for games distribution. Why do we need Steam, which opposes a 30% tax to developers and only works on PC, whereas the browser is open and platform-agnostic?

This is truly the future of gaming.
Surrogacy and sperm donation aside, in many states, the husband is legally the father, even if a paternity test shows otherwise, leading to men who divorce their cheating spouses being on the hook for financially supporting the result of the affair.
Unpublished words are not automatically copyrighted. If someone steals your unpublished work, and publishes it themselves, you will be out of luck unless you registered the work.
iirc that's similar ($5-20K) to what Paul Graham offers for 6% of a company. This is a better deal imho.
Hmm, that's a fair point. Thinking about it a bit more, I think my definitions fit closer with the idea of concurrent or parallel programs rather than the abstract ideas of concurrency or parallelism themselves.

In any case, I completely disagree with your idea that parallel systems must be concurrent. Concurrency arises completely due to the interactions between separate threads of execution, whether they be executing at the same time on separate processors, or scheduled one after the other on a single processor. This is why we have various process calculii (csp, pi-calculus etc), and things such as session types, in order to try and reason about it and manage it. Parallelism assumes nothing about the interactions between processes, only that they are assumed to be running on separate hardware.

As another poster mentioned, this fits fairly well with what the Haskell, Go, and general programming language research community considers to be the definitions of concurrency and parallelism. Look at any paper that focusses on concurrency, and you'll see it's about managing and making safe communication between separate processes. Look at a paper on parallelism, and it'll be on accelerating a parallelisable program on multicore or distributed hardware.
The big weird variable time buffer required at the airport would seem to wipe out the time you gain, right? Or, at least, what's an extra half hour when you're on the hook for two hours of security and waiting, followed by a couple-hour flight, followed by another hour of transit on the arrival side?
I've seen people do autorotation landings (only for training, fortunately) and... I'll take something with wings, thanks :)
Yes, spinning rotors can cut your skin if they make contact. That has to be weighed against the likelihood of spinning rotors and skin making contact. That likelihood is generally fairly low, but is much higher when a pilot deliberately flies straight at a person's head or throttles up the aircraft while holding it.

Baseball tends not to cause lacerations, so photographs won't look as gory (except perhaps for some eye injuries), but they definitely can cause serious injuries, and can very easily cause minor property damage.
Dupe - See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443114
It's the feds not some southern yokel state attorney. We're just going with the odds. No one here is saying throw them in prison without a trial.
> They should be saying they are interested in solving optimization problems, image quality search problems, etc.

They are. OP has been spending 30 years not being paid to use the tools he wants.

> but that applies to every language barring joke ones

Some languages are far more effective for a domain than others. To stretch it further than Haskell, there's a reason why Verilog is used in hardware over something like C. It would be enormously frustrating to work against my tool to get something done. Programmers who focus on "getting stuff done" in these situations are succeeding despite their tools, which is commendable, but we should still push to using better tools.

> interested in the tool through which the problem is solved not the domain itself

Many factors play into why someone works at a company, whether it's cost-effective to use a certain tool, whether a tool is trendy, whether the candidate is passionate about the domain, or whether the candidate is passionate about the tooling. A lot of people aren't passionate about the domain of adtech, for example, unlike self-driving cars, but they work in these areas because they like the practice of engineering.
2018: "Square become Stripe, while Stripe becomes Square"

Stripe's bread and butter is payment backends, while Square was the point-of-sales system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18007454
Misinformation is really a side-effect of mass manipulation of truth by authority. Yet most of the safe-guards for misinformation in social media have been built to police the wrong group of people.
Backbone looks amazing - plan to deploy with it soon. The idea of creating a model with properties and bind events to that means that if a variable changes, all elements referring to the model are updated automatically. And if that isn't good enough, it supports persistence back to the server, making for interesting possibilities both with having data on the client side, but also supporting exact state reproduction when someone logs back in from an earlier session. Intriguing.
Wikileaks, since a tiny group of people with limited resources has had such a big impact on politics, media, diplomacy, and war. I don't like or agree with some of what they have done, but they have undeniably changed the world.

Quora, for developing an amazing realtime UI and a great core of startup industry content and community.

Groupon, for breakout mass market commercial success from basically obscurity.
This is great, I've been working on a related idea. Its really cool to see this.
I'd like to see the sponsored research agreement. MIT specifies these things in all contacts. Not good for all parties involved because destroys much "value".
Congratulations to the team, it's a big day!

I currently use the Sleep Cycle app, which uses the iPhone's accelerometer to detect motion while asleep.

How does WakeMate stack up against that app?
The type on that page is painfully small, and the page doesn't honor my font preference settings. Hard to read! Other than that, PayFacade sounds good.
Start-ups will be hard to invest in if you aren't an accredited investor, though, which most people with only $100k to invest won't be.
Don't really get it, but I wonder about the debugger part, I can't really imagine not being able to debug anything...
Export as HTML, import into Chrome. I gave my father verbal instructions and he had in done in about 3 minutes. Not sure it requires an external tool that I must trust to use.
The original description of the test had other implications--implications which have now been removed.
What's the advantage to a constant MAC address anyway? There must be a reason for it, but my first reaction to this article was to see if I could change mine.
I don't know about you personally, but I've seen a lot of people confused about exactly this - "what Android is": its architecture, what's its relationship to Linux is, its relationship to Java, its relationship to open source & GPL, etc.

This seems to lay a lot of that out fairly cleanly and simply.
I generally assume they're worth exactly zero million dollars a piece, because that's what they're actually worth. A few places I've been have tried to pass off this whole "half your salary in stock options" rubbish while still giving me an acceptable wage in real money. This put a phantom value on stock options. At best, they're an exit bonus, which is an incentive to do your best to make your company thrive. It gives you a token that could be worth real money if everyone pulls together.

Don't expect anything from stock options.
>> Not being able to do something properly is not an excuse for doing it badly

> Yes it really is.

I don't really know what I can say to this post. You have somehow turned this whole incident into the victim's fault, mitigating the consequences of the company IT staff's mistake into the victim's responsibility, and my argument that it is not reasonable for an employer to introduce such a drastic facility to destroy an employee's personal property without giving the employee fair warning into some unbounded "no-one should be responsible for anything" argument. We live in two different universes.
"A trademark is a distinctive indicator used by a business organization to identify that the products with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish from those of other entities." [1]

As Facebook has become a nearly universal popular phenomenon, do you really have any expectation that another business using the word "face" for a product in the realm of online communication and social behavior should be allowed to conduct business? This isn't a patent on faces or anything crazy like that; there's nothing particularly evil going on here. Implications on your tech startup? Don't mooch brand equity from Facebook.

I mean, it would certainly be confusing to consumers to have, for example, some sort of video chat with a name like Face ... hrm... time. Oh...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark
Those prices are the same as retail.

To give you an idea of the markup, a 15" MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz costs US$2199 on the American Apple site. If it were sold for the same price in New Zealand it would cost NZ$2870. It actually retails for NZ$3799 (nearly NZ$1000 more).
i've seen many times toddlers doing various things to cats or dogs - the animal would never bite/scratch back. It would just get away if it is too much of toddler's "attention"
I see! When Google stopped selling the Nexus One to end users there was speculation that they were done branding handsets. Guess it was just speculation.
I know you read my comment here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935284 ) because you replied to it before writing this comment. Yet you still talk about "invasive wiping of personal data on a personal phone" as if someone somewhere wrote

if (RemoteWipe) {
companyData.Erase();
personalData.Erase();
}

Do you understand that the iPhone does not keep personal and company data separate? Do you agree that the distinction between personal and company is vague and human defined?

What kind of high-end security hardware are you talking about? If you used an advanced Cisco software VPN client, you could (so I hear) have it scan the client computer and enforce policies on it. If it was used on a personal computer, these would be invasive in a similar way yet you would not blame Cisco or the company if the user didn't understand this, would you? Would you be outraged that it's even technically possible?
I wonder why they are so common though.
No. I'm struggling to think of a reply better than "Obviously, not."

I think your statement was already implicit in what I was saying. We should move on to the next bit where I say "But..." and you counter it.
Very nice!

I would suggest to add them to https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books as well.

You will drive an incredible amount of traffic to your website this way.
> within 5 mins from the sender initiating the send?

Based on a strict reading of the readme you actually need to receive in the same 5min window. This means that you have at most 5min. If you send at the end of the window you can have less than a second.

A simple solution is to have the sender always round up (to the end of the current 5min window) and have the receiver search for windows rounded up and down. (Or have the sender broadcast two and the receiver look for one)

If you want more time the sender can keep broadcasting a new window every 5min until the receiver connects.
What, no Karlstad?
Absolutely.

And that, in essence, is probably the biggest issue I see with Android in its fight against the iPhone.

It's even worse than Mac vs PC as at least Windows (at a given revision) looked and behaved pretty much the same on every machine. The theming was light (especially early on, when there was no support for it) and manufacturers added crap, but didn't replace whole subsystems just because.

I also find that to be an incredibly stupid strategy (but in prisoner's dilemma terms considering all the player are bastards...): the first worry of the players in the mobile phone space should be to drive Apple out of it as fast and as soon as possible, avoid their repeat of the iPod and their conquest of a majority marketshare.

Therefore the long term strategy should be to collaborate and make the common platform as good as possible as soon as possible (on all aspects) in order to push Apple out of the market, using hardware to differentiate themselves, and when Apple is stuck into a small minority box (or entirely driven out) they can go back to bickering among themselves and releasing custom shells and stuff.
I love programming; Been learning by myself since I was in high school, its just now that I'm in university I figure out there are much better people out there who would be hired before I am. I wouldn't give up programming for anything!
Hard, but not impossible. I believe for a lot of companies, the reduced customer support pertaining to changing user avatars (esp. for a non-tech based user base) and the better UX, will more than make up for what they pay.
Code terrorism at its worst.