jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the people there are looking for a grand narrative with the feeling of a struggle between two sides. My guess is that Washington is attempting to avoid creating that environment to minimize conflict. That's why we see the burglars strolling like tourists guided by red velvet. [1]

As a disclaimer, I'm not American, so take my feelings with a grain of salt.

[1] https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/13469023580061040...
They fenced off the entire white house property and brutalized anyone who tried to cross the fence during BLM. These people apparently can just walk right in without even a bit of tear gas.
Are you sure that you really want to leave the games industry? Based on what you've said, it seems quite possible that you'd be just as happy if you moved to a new company where you could be able to enjoy your work and take pride in the games you help make.

I just ask because if there is a way for you to really enjoy your work without having to move into a completely new industry, you might find the move a lot easier.
>>>Isn't that actually the job of the police?

What? No. Police are not investigators. They are there to arrest -- or use force -- period. They are intake and barriers, not processing.
I wonder if it's even possible to address this through improving the default UI. That seems to make the assumption that Motorola/HTC/etc use their UIs to address deficiencies in the base product ("Android UI inferiority complex"?), when really they're mostly there to differentiate their products. Who wants to be a clone maker?
You sure about that 35k? In any region I've ever lived in (midwest, southwest, bay area), entry is more like twice that.
I never experienced this in the US. I did experience this in Germany, Sweden, and the UK.
They have both in-house counsels and work with external law firms. A reason for doing this is to avoid liability.

Some big companies retain multiple law firms and ask the same advice a couple of times. If an overworked attorney who barely gets any sleep ever misses a point or drafts his/her advice vaguely in a way that would enable their evil plans, they rely on that single opinion. If there are any problems they don't assume any liability, because hey they got a legal opinion from a respectable law firm. Nobody needs to know/can prove they obtained multiple opinions on the same matter because of legal privilege.

In return, big law gets paid a lot of $$$, because of the risk of providing such opinions under considerable pressure and trickstery.
> Unknown to Bugorski, the accelerator was still running, and the warning lights that would have alerted Bugorski of the hazard had been switched off during a previous experiment, and had not been turned back on.

I'd love to know why a safety mechanism like this had an off switch, and under what circumstances that off switch is to be used. I feel like safety mechanisms should be always on, since they exist to prevent us from making mistakes when we forget things?
Why didnt we test peoples breaths for being potential superspreaders? If the vaccines make people less infectious, superspreaders should have it first. In a privacy preserving way, they should also be advised to avoid gatherings.
Ah, the quirks of English language. I hope it's clear messaging here is a noun modifier (is it an "attributive noun"?). This noun and two prepositive adjectives modify the same noun "solution".
"Every feature you have in C++, Rust does it better"

How does one perform generic fold expressions in Rust lang ? (Possible in C++ 17 and above)

https://foonathan.net/2020/05/fold-tricks/
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/fold
I second "A Brief History" -- it's kind of like Cosmos (the book by Sagan) but more up-to-date and slightly broader.

It seems to me that a lot of the suggestions are are people trying to impress each other with what they've read rather than books they think a bright 14 y.o. might really enjoy or get something out of.
I am a huge, huge fan of imageboard culture, which reaction gifs are _undeniably_ derived from, but I believe just as strongly that it's not something you should let "leak" into normal communication, especially not professional communication. So yes, I agree.
Somewhat interestingly, this would do pretty well, as the semi-fictional [1] Weissman score takes into account both compression speed and ratio.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/soft...

P.S. Yes, semi-fictional is a perfectly cromulent description of this metric.
under the assumption that both teams inflated their balls to a similar psi, under the same inflation conditions

There are zero reasons to believe those assumptions are true.

or some reason the Pats balls (at a home game) reacted differently to the same weather conditions

All we know is that the Pats balls were under the limit and the Colts balls met the limit. To my knowledge, there has been nothing released/leaked about any decrease in pressure in the Colts balls, just that they were within the rules.

The Pats may or may not have done something untoward, but the only reason so many people seem to think it's a slam dunk is that they're misinterpreting the information that's out there.
Very nice. I remember them charging $500 for this last year. Does the WWDC NDA apply to these videos?
> Given a mutually exclusive choice, I'll take a strong test suite over a strong type system any day

That's great as long as you'll only ever work on that one project.

A test-suite yields benefits for one project, a type-system yields benefits for every project.
Woah. I hope I didn't come across as saying that. What I meant to do was reply to the GPs specific comments about this being a big corporate thing. It's not - most big cos don't do it. In the world of big co this is an apple thing.

Of course we should strobe for the same :-)
Well, you sort of could use a static MP3, as long as you had some way of adjusting the phase - i.e. pause/unpause it for a moment, randomly till you get it to match.
Forgive me for asking, but what was the point of reposting the first paragraph of the page?
Unnecessary rock thrown at the iPhone (almost literally). Still a very good presentation.

Since Office on the Mac sucks and has subtle compatibility issues whenever I share files with PC users, I am considering giving the web app a try as my new "have to use MS Office" escape hatch.
It's not a conscience decision. People put the time in because they genuinely enjoy what they are doing.

My thing is bowling. I've been doing it since I was 6 (I'm 26 now). I went to the bowling alley as often as possible, I'd ride my bike down after school whenever I had money. In high school, I bought monthly memberships and would bowl 10-15 games a day, every day. I just couldn't get enough of it.

The past few years I've been averaging in the 220s, which is great, but not professional great yet. In the next few years, when I'm more financially stable, I'm going to try out the PBA Tour, if for nothing else but the experience.

I bowl so much that I developed bone spurs in my elbow that I had surgically removed a couple of weeks ago. I haven't bowled now for over 4 months, which is the longest break I've ever taken.

Moral of the story is, you don't decide to practice something, you do it because you can't imagine not doing it.
Hmmm... So your framework is cross-platform on all C++ mobile platforms (WinMo, iPhone OS, Symbian)? How is that possible? These platform are quite different in terms of APIs and the rest stuff...
It's all relative. Our perception of whether a performance is good is dependent on other performances we've heard. 10000 hours only works because most people don't do it.
Right — I'm trying to get an idea of what people are after in/from a DNS service with an API. Have you looked at running your own database-backed name server at all?
As someone who does the majority of their reading in bed, GEB took a long time to get through, and I definitely didn't pick up nearly as much of it as I should have.

That's not to say it's necessarily dry or boring, it's just, I imagine your brain has to be on to really appreciate it.
I'm a passionate amateur photographer, and after a bad crash where I lost years of work I became really neurotic about my multi-site recovery plan. Today I have Drobos and Time Capsules spread around my house and office, plus Dropbox and even a few rsync cron jobs all keeping me calm.

Today, my Aperture library is 109GB, because I work with archival scans from medium format film.

TL;DR: 100GB is a very small limit. How can I pay you more?
I finished it, but found it pretentious, boring as hell and thin on content. In my opinion (which is not shared widely ;-)) it would have made a good 15 page pamphlet. The rest is turgid verbiage(imo). I can understand someone for whom recursion(say) is some kind of mind blowing concept getting some value out of the book, but I've never understood why programmers find it fascinating. It has a few ultra basic concepts, stretched across multiple pages with lots of padding, then endlessly repeated in minor variations with lots of faux insight.
"[I]magine the possibilities for a Halo movie done right."

This seems a tall order, if you plan to base the story around Master Chief. Now that's not a necessity, of course... but this is Halo.

Master Chief is a vessel character, like Neo from The Matrix or, dare I mention it, Bella from Twilight. The idea is for you, the individual audience member, to slip yourself into that hollow vessel and become the character. Master Chief is me. I am Master Chief. We are one in the same. You are also Master Chief. Master Chief is also you. By design, vessel characters have literally no personality. They should say and/or do nothing which would upset the illusion that you are them. Neo never says anything smart, never says anything stupid, never makes a moral choice we couldn't all see ourselves making. Hell, he hardly even talks period. Same goes for Master Chief. Obviously, you can write for/around a vessel character. The Wachowski brothers did it. But can you write for a vessel character whose story has already been told? Try and imagine, say, a prequel story where we watch young Master Chief running around military school or whatever. Did you imagine something boring? I did.
ok who are we kidding... are we talking about HP here or IBM? :)
I find this kind of disturbing as well. Orientation lock is insanely important on the iPad, and Apple must have realized that because they gave it its own hardware switch to begin with. On my iPhone running 4.1, I only just discovered the double-click-and-swipe orientation lock control because somebody mentioned it on here somewhere... and it's completely broken because it locks the display into portrait mode rather than whatever mode is active at the moment.

Is this true of iOS 4.2 as well -- meaning, you can only lock the display in portrait mode with the double-click-wave-a-dead-cat-and-swipe-the-task-list maneuver? If so, I absolutely am not going to upgrade my iPad to 4.2.

The real frustration is that this would be a perfect place for a system preference: "Side switch: Orientation lock / Mute". But as usual, it's Steve's way or the highway.
This is Bret Taylor, CTO of Facebook.

This was a mistake on our part. In the process of dealing with a routine trademark violation issue regarding some links posted to Facebook, we inadvertently blocked all mentions of the phrase "lamebook" on Facebook. We are committed to promoting free expression on Facebook. We apologize for our mistake in this case, and we are working to fix the process that led to this happening.
When I click to view it on iTunes all the buttons get disabled. Maybe it's because I'm on the Portuguese iTunes Store but why is it on highlight on the iTunes U page then? Anyone with the same problem?
He could input it himself. It wouldn't take much, just some motion on the wrist to input.

But they are actually shipping the product! Such a scam would not last long. Usually scamers avoid ever actually shipping.
This is an impressive list, but it sounds like these programs are all within the same general category, and that category is a particular sweet-spot for lisp.

I think when people complain about a lack of library support in lisp they aren't looking for libraries for symbolic manipulation but for more mundane things.
No, we can't do it because it would involve me getting out of bed an hour earlier.

Tell you what: i'll allow a switch to European time if we move the start of the working day to 11:00. Deal?
Can you point me to an example of a right-libertarian being "such an advocate of Cuba"?
This would be more interesting if they had teased apart more informative axes of belief instead of categorizing people along the uninformative liberal vs. conservative spectrum of US politics. Do social psychologists believe that the class structure of society is meritocratic or unjust? Do they believe that racial discrimination plays a significant factor in social success? Do they believe that it's the appropriate role of government to remedy potential injustices? Do they want their country to be ruled according to religious traditions?

I don't come away with a clear sense of what "conservative" means to the respondents, and it's possible to imagine some definitions which are very healthily at odds with the skeptical/questioning mindset of academics.
Instead we should give them boring tedious problems in a code base with no documentation and an incomplete buggy spec, and grade their solution in a couple weeks?
there is disproportionality in the works.

senior positions that require many years of experience for entrancy due to the nature of the job may suddenly go vacant with noone to fill them.

when older people, {people who understand how to retool and operate a VLSI plant for example, people who are ATCs or surgeons} die and there is only a pool of young inexperience to draw from we will have to make do without some of these things, change laws to allow reduced qualifications, and or accept things like nuclear accidents as a learning curve until we have experienced people ,[after the replacements make time in]
That seems strange. Most results are ready in 24h in Germany I think.
There is so much about papers like this that make me skeptical.

1) It assumes we've been good at measuring growth. Which to me is dubious. Our current system counts the production, deployment and detonation of a bomb all as positive production meanwhile not counting unpaid domestic work. I know economists don't like to out a value to different types of services and goods because they feel they are putting a finger on the scale. But they are doing just as much by using a blind metric which ends up counting some work and not other.

2) It never cost adjusts growth. For example, all that wonderful growth in the midst of the 20th cwntury incurred significant externalities. The system we have now tries much harder to make producers realize their externalities. This curbs growth which is not necessarily a bad thing.

3) It assumes we can atomize historic growth and single out what things contributes to what. But this seems ridiculous especially how these factors interact and are not necessarily seperable. For example, we happen to live in a universe in which the movement of electrons can be used transmit energy and appropriate it to many tasks. The story of the 20th cwntury's economy is very much the story of how we mastered this one property of nature. Electrification doesn't just provide heat and light. It enables the transportation of water. It enables the construction of more and larger structures. It enables the creation of aluminum and plated metals. Aluminum itself allows many features of our world we take for granted. From airplanes to electronics. But does abundant aluminum lay at the feet of scientific innovations? In its infancy for sure but after some basic science it is widespread cheap electrification which allows us to mass produce aluminum. How much of that economy do we count to cutting edge science? It's not easily disentangled from popular politics which allowed the mass construction of hydroelectric damns throughout the U.S. and other countries. There is a possible future in which for centuries, growth has slowed to something more than Renaissance levels but well below mid 20th century levels. In such a future we might look back at this period as the time we mastered the single most useful physical property of our universe and so of course it was an era of unprecedented growth.

I'm not saying they're wrong. But every time someone from Bill Gates to NBER talks about this issue of growth, whether it has slowed, why it as slowed, how it can be increased, I just get this feeling that people are failing to realized what a unique time we live in. How unique the 150 years preceding it really are. And how little we know about why it happened.
I draw the opposite conclusion -- public transit makes pandemics worse and everyone who owns a car is very happy they have one.
Two more possibilities to add onto the pile: Transpilers (like Typescript to Javascript) and custom Domain Specific Languages.
That's fair... although I generally found bad code that are not just bad syntax but rather bad design. Bad syntax or even project structure is easy to fix. Bad design is not.

BTW, this kind of discussion is healthy. The Julia core developers are already taking notes and I'm certain they will continue improving the language or ecosystem.
you might not want copper to conduct electricity if it were conducting electricity to your body.
Hi. Are you talking about gifs in the README file?
I think the $30000 price difference would put a lot of panic in that laugh if Rivian didn't have some insane pre-orders in the bag from Amazon.
Given that the USA has federal and state laws preventing and punishing even muttering an idea about not selling to Israel, I'd say you should consider adding a few names to that list.

If its actually free speech you care about.
Given how homogenous the last 20 years of automotive design has been I'm really impressed by Tesla's willingness to do something so radically different.

Jobs understood the power of great design: Conceiving a product that people don't know they want until you show them. Not normally a big fan of Musk or Tesla, but this feels like one of those products. It feels like the future.
Should this be a cause to correct affected papers? If not corrected, maybe even retract?

I understand that there is still clear value in these papers (defining search space, achieving state of the art).

But it does seem, there is some partially broken science there (not evaluating against baselines, algorithm that performs same as a random baseline).
Electricity wouldn't be an option for exploring / driving extended off road trips for most. An enterprising owner could use some custom PV/mounts/wiring, a battery or cap buffer, and some power electronics provide off grid charging.

Someone could do this with any EV, but tossing it all in the back of a pickup is easier than a sedan or even an SUV.
Have you considered that people use angry mobs because good counterarguments get dismissed historically, and how they are angry, and want to do capture the momentum of rhetoric?

Historically, the mainstream news media would not even cover certain stories and would just spike them. People eventually go upset and found other ways to tell their story or force their opinion, e.g., social media and mobs.
It looks absurdly expensive to produce, and is ugly as sin.
In the end of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ36Kt7UVg he is more relaxed that I have ever seen. I don't think there is any acting in his presentations
At the time, it probably was.
Knuth's Mathematical Typography is interesting too:
http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0...
The short answer is dictionary's of existing passwords people used on actual systems exist. So "I think there fore I am." is about as bad as "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" they will both probably show up within a the first billion tests of a good dictionary attack. Note: "I think, therefore I am" is the correct spelling but common misspellings don't really protect you from an actual password list. Other useful tests use all phrases in the Bible etc.

Another approach is to look for patters asdfasdfasdf is a fairly common password for a reason.
tl;dr: An innocent MetaFilter user posted about Scott Adams's writing. A flame war broke out about whether Adams was right, is self-promotional, is a nice person, etc. One of the users defending Adams was "plannedchaos." After a series of increasingly bizzare statements ("How many people think I'm actually Scott Adams writing about myself in third person?" and "Is it Adams' enormous success at self-promotion that makes you jealous and angry?" among them), an administrator of Metafilter (cortex) emailed "plannedchaos" and asked him to own up to it. Scott Adams did so.

Metafilter traditionally has been good at rooting out sock puppets when they become relevant; no surprise here. (PayPal verification is useful for that)

The original metafilter thread: http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education...

Direct link to Scott Adams owning up to being Scott Adams: http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education...
> [...] it pops up a tool tip saying it isn't allowed, along with a quick list of other characters that are disallowed.

That still leaves me a little ashamed on behalf of the industry. Why should any characters be disallowed?
This was (and still is) common practice for online poker pros. I have some friends who play for a living and I did while in school...

Keeping money online or in a "Neteller" account was a good way to keep a bankroll outside your regular "spending money."

Most professional (or serious) players keep a bankroll as a running tally of gains/losses and for tax purposes (yes, it's true).
"This is simple -- you're not allowed to compete with the US gov't when it comes to providing the currency of the land. There are a lot of good reasons for this, and some mediocre reasons to oppose it,"

I agree. Competition usually hurts the market. . .

There are several examples of competing currencies being used to revitalize economies. One example is the "Miracle at Wörgl." While this system implemented by Silvio Gesell had many problems that I will not address. It did bring the communities who adopted the scrip as currency out of depression.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You may want to take a look at the link above and try again. You'll get much better results.

That said, a great place to start for learning about SEO is here: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Good luck.
Of course not. A random google search led to this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/307262/china-average-ann...

Saying arts major earn better than techies is like saying professional sports are more promising than tech jobs. Both are gross negligence of stats.
Having 5 people install slightly different varations of a stack provided so much value it was and still is the best resource when installing a new stack.
I prefer pairing up. Giving feedback on code that has already been written, and by more junior member of the team, is fraught with problems. People get defensive thinking they have already completed the task and now I am delaying the closure.

It is much easier to share friendly hints and observations while writing the code. When the code is written it is difficult to show how it could have looked or demonstrate the process of getting there.

And so even though my org requires us to conduct code reviews (and I find them helpful, at a hefty cost), I will still ask people to pair up with me regularly.

This to get to know the person better, to see what the problem is (and sometimes I am the problem), to help work out better design, etc. All of which is difficult with regular review.
Man I really hate those antiblogspam people now.

Nothing is worse then seeing a link to a git repo with no explanation of what it does, what it looks like, where sample code is, etc.

Thanks for sticking it out there mind you, just I wish people would give context, explanation and demonstration with new stuff like this.