jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd take it a step further and and go with a slot. Closer to the structure of the 2 circles with the ease of a slit. I am surprised the operator/programmer of the machine didn't suggest something like your idea or mine, since it is common practice for them to make engineering designs more manufacture-able/structurally sound.
(Source: I used to program water jets and was constantly re-designing parts sent by engineers/designers.)

Also, I would definitely move towards die-cutting once he settled on a final design, but with his sense of tinkering, I doubt he'll ever have a 'final' design.
Functions and lenses and module namespaces tend to alleviate the problem, not that it isn't annoying now and again. It does make some people go crazy though.
My claim is that intelligence is more than just statistical associations and abstract symbol shuffling. It's impressive what large statistical models can do but they still can not solve sudoku so something is clearly missing here because neural networks do not have feedback loops and backtracking. It's like saying all we need to do is continue building bigger and bigger abaci and stacking them in just the right way as to emulate the statistical properties of the real world. Dall-e is dazzling but it is still a statistical model with no symbolic understanding (it's still a giant abacus). It's obvious that people have symbolic understanding (e.g. written language, mathematics, solving sudoku, writing code/software, etc.). So if people are the benchmark of intelligence (dubious but let's assume for the sake of argument) then at what point do you suppose there will be statistical models with symbolic understanding? Furthermore, what reason is there to believe that larger and larger statistical models are going to get us closer to non-human intelligent systems that do more than generate stimuli adapted to our senses?

There is also a meta-problem that no one seems to address when discussing AI. All the systems we have built rely on compositional symbolic systems (mathematics) for expressing statistical associations and human interpretation of their inputs/outputs. Clearly there is something people can do that no existing AI system can which is to generate a symbolic description of statistical models that can be adapted to various data sets.

I could say more here but none of what I'm saying is anything new. Others much more capable of describing the issues and shortcoming of the existing approaches to AI have written books exploring the issues in much more detail, e.g. Gary Marcus, Melanie Mitchell, Douglas Hofstadter, Gian-Carlo Rota, etc.
Because in all too many companies, re-writing from scratch is a no-go, no matter how quickly and sloppily an initial solution was thrown together. I've worked on a prototype => production type project, where the throwaway was never thrown away. (the initial team made some mistakes, chief among them was building one prototype of a whole system, rather than one per major risk)
Bingo. I'm diving into the book sample and already enjoying it. Thanks.
The main reason is they are expanding to an additional data centre, so a lot of the increase relates to capital outlay, new staff and operating costs on the new facility.
I have this bathroom project and I need 2-3 plumbers to finish it. How much does that cost?

Funny comment aside, you need to write specifications, talk to Ruby-on-Rails engineers (or an agency) in person to get a proper quote. Don't be surprised if an agency already charges for the first meeting. Alternatively post it on odesk or freelancer.com.
I guess it's just a different UI to http://www.tangler.com/ or Google Wave...
Tesonet is true cancer. I am amazed how unethical (and successful) they are.

Knowing how quickly it's expanding, do the employees are just as unethical or they do not connect the dots (company got too big)?

I hate fb, et al as any other person here, but most of people know that "if it's free - you are the product". Though with NordVPN users are paying money and are getting stabbed in the back.
> Not enough privacy for a drug deal.

That is SF. Drug deals are done in broad daylight.
> I lived in Philadelphia for many years and it's generally a filthy city. People who live there know it too.

I moved from SF to Philadelphia 2 years ago and have no idea what you're talking about.

None of the things you described are things I've seen more than maybe once in the 2 years I've lived here, and I walk everywhere just like I did in SF.

Granted, all of those things I saw repeatedly when living in SF for 4 years beforehand. The one time I smelled urine in a street in Philly, my brain went "whoa, am I back in SoMa?"
The idea that drug dealing is such a harmful thing (it's not) that we must deny homeless and poor people the basic human dignity of being able to use a toilet in privacy to avoid people being able to engage in it is an idea that needs to be extinguished.
haha, I love this.
That is pretty strong selection bias however...
I would suggest "Processing, a programming handbook for visual designers and artists" by Reas, Fry. It is a lovely book for visual designers with lots of (mostly short) snippets side by side to graphic outputs doing cool stuff, all organized by themes
What I meant was that the cultural impact of the policies of mass arrest, torture, murder and imprisonment probably had a much deeper social impact in the Soviet Union (and the areas they conquered) than in Nazi Germany (and their conquered areas) as the Nazis targeted specific racial and political groups and if you didn't belong to these groups then your chances of being arrested were pretty small. However, in the Soviet Union the arrests were being made primarily to feed the requirements for slave workers in the camps - not just for political/racial reasons so anyone could be arrested - often for trivial things (e.g. having a foreign stamp in his collection got one poor soul 10 years in the camps).
This looks really awesome. The tablet price is almost about right, but the dock is a hair too pricey.

In concept though (and apparently in practice if all of the iPad owners who tote their tablet around with keyboard in tow is any indication) this is a potential future of computing.
I've had great success! Get a referral.
Not as new as you'd think. CNET did this 15 years ago, when they were just starting up. They ran an animation of how O.J. Simpson supposedly committed the murders:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/spirit_trouts/mnookin/simpson....

Incredibly tasteless. This is still the first thing that comes to mind when I see the name CNET, although I'm sure nobody else even remembers it.
Don't forget about the medical people. Army Doctor/Dentist to civilian Doctor/Dentist is not a hard transition.

Anyway, I work in DC with a lot of army people (I am even typing this on an Army PC) and the biggest difference is Army people say I was a _ in the Army but the Marines just say I was in the Marines.
Good dynamic systems don't just die, they halt on the error and fix them on the fly in the debugger. Most of my time is spent on a working program, not on a broken one.
imho, you only need one reference : http://headrush.typepad.com/

Kathy Sierra is the goddess of techniques in bringing out user happiness.
I would suggest you go back to the archives and read from the first blog post (the last posts are a distraction for your objective)

In addition, if you have spare time to read "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin is an awesome read.

edit: I understand you are looking for technical suggestions. Nevertheless, Kathy does talk about "kick ass" manuals.
Yeah I agree. It depends on how brave they feel as to how far they push. But it's definitely something that could be worked into the Glee formula.

An alternate scenario would go something like Rachel is sharing her singing on youtube and gets a court order served for copyright violation. Will decides to represent her in court since it's something he believes in passionately (And he has to be the hero). They go to court and Argue how repressive copyrights are and how they prevent people from expressing their true selves (Something Glee club is there for) and showcasing their talent.

You'd have to end with a non-heavy/funny bit though, so perhaps the copyright owner bursts in court and says he's a massive 'Rachel' fan and she can sing any songs she likes of his with no charge.

For double Glee comedic value and irony, the artist would be someone who has been ridiculously outspoken in favor of the RIAA and copyrights in real life.

(I've watched Glee too much lol)

Actually, I'd say you could combine this with my previous idea in the same show and maybe even intertwine the story lines a bit.
Or perhaps "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
There's one stat in there that bothers me: "About 50% of outsourced projects fail."

What is the percentage of "in-sourced" projects that fail?

I don't know the exact statistic, but I'm sure many software projects just flat out fail.
The problem I have with apps like this is its virtually impossible to accurately track networth. At any given time, I am owed money (like a tax refund) or I am making an "investment" (like renovating my house to increase its value).

Does your app calculate the current market value of real estate or vehicles?
Simple answer really - anything with Kubernetes in the title gets more clicks.
The password format is `ST<YY><L>0001<XYZ>`.

* YY is a year, with the first year being 2015. So right now there's only five options.

* L is the revision, of which there is D, E, F, G, H, I- for six options total.

* XYZ is literally the last three digits of the SSID, which means you get that for free.

With all of this information it will take at most 30 attempts to log into the network.
What you’re saying is not what EMH says at all. EMH posits that there is only one Sharpe ratio: the market Sharpe. In other words, I cannot earn better risk adjusted returns than the market.

But anyways, no one actually believes that. EMH is used as a framework to price securities and as a way to reason about the market. Quant finance doesn’t work without the no arbitrage condition and therefore, EMH. EMH has absolutely nothing to do with “making a profit.” If fact, quant finance and EMH are built on a sure fire way to make a profit: the risk-free rate.

In short, while alpha is, by definition, a zero sum game, beta is not. So we can make profit pretty easily, and this is what most of the world does: obtain exposure to beta and make money.
He has great taste in beer.

In all seriousness I hope people of means on here donate the $100 to take his wife out to dinner. Partners of folk doing this type of work never get recognition for the work they do to enable it
As an owner of a $1,500 Google Glass - which now is pretty much a brick, as the companion app doesn't work anymore - knowing there is a new version in the market isn't very helpful.
> At work I use Vivado

As an enthusiast, that's what I use too.. also on my home Linux system. The tooling is generic enough that you can actually instrument a build system with Makefiles and the Vivado command line programs. If you have the right FPGA board you can also instrument the bitstream upload as well.

I do most of my development like any other programming language and never have to touch the custom GUIs.
I updated the post to reflect reality.

Usually, Posterous catches this stuff and sends an email asking you to confirm that you really are you. They analyze the headers more closely than just looking at the name. For some reason, this didn't work in this case.
I've had exactly this kind of experience working for a Big 4 consulting firm a couple of years back
The fact is, S-corps provide several advantages, and if you think the tax is too high, you are free to forgo forming an S-corp and form a partnership instead. I don't see the coercion; "double taxation" isn't usually a complaint about extra taxes that are voluntarily paid in exchange for extra benefits.
Spend a 5th of your time doing your assignments the day you get them and then :shock: spend the other 4/5ths working on projects that you do find challenging.

Although I comprehend the dream you don't have to be in California to be working on a start-up.
According to him he just changed his email address to your email address in Outlook.

Edit: dcurtis edited his comment. Originally he claimed there was some kind of secret algorithm that prevents spoofing.
While we're talking about Posterous, does anyone know why it adds a random number to the end of article URLs, as in http://blog.dustincurtis.com/apparently-765 ? I know it's not a big deal, but I find that aesthetically unpleasing, as it kind of ruins an otherwise beautiful URL.
For modelling to work generally (in most/all domains), you need some underlying paradigm all these models can be translated into.

For excel, it's grid based dataflow, (for example, you can call it differently).

I saw you tried dataflow already but stepped back from it.

So what paradigm are you trying to use for EVE?
I meant some of us here in the peanut gallery.

(As to whether there are losers as well as winners when the minimum wage is implemented, this seems obvious, and I doubt anyone on any side would seriously try to dispute it. The question is the relative effect.)
And the platform says that particular syntax is intended for code: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Rarely.

Complete rewrites invariably take far longer than expected. That old codebase, however messy, includes almost two decades of decisions, lessons learned, special cases, and tribal knowledge. The rewrite will surface each one of those issues again over time.

Second, you need to retrain everyone on the new software. Surely the new UI/UX will be better, but how many people have years of accumulated knowledge in the old software? It's not just about retraining. Some of the old users will hate the new system just because they don't like change. It may be objectively better, but if it makes everyone complain to your boss's boss every day because 100 people had to relearn a new system, is it really better for the org?

Third, the old software is certainly more complex than you can see from the surface. At minimum, you should start by adding analytics to the existing codebase so you can see which features are used. You will be surprised to learn that people use the software much differently than you would have guessed.

Fourth, you're not off the hook for maintaining and supporting the old software during the rewrite. If a new, urgent feature request comes in and the rewrite is too far behind schedule to be ready in time (it will be behind schedule, guaranteed) then you must still service the old codebase in the interim. This is a constant tax on productivity that slows down rewrites, unless you can justify two completely independent teams.

My advice: Make an effort to calculate the ROI on the rewrite. Include the overhead of maintaining the current system during the rewrite, as well as the costs of retraining everyone who used the old software. If you can't reduce overall costs after a few years with a rewrite, it's hard to justify. It's an unpopular opinion with programmers, but some times it really does make sense to continue to throw developers at an old codebase instead of rewriting from scratch.

If you must rewrite, look for a way to rewrite incrementally. For example, writing a new front-end for the existing back-end with a modular API translation layer. Ship the new front-end, work out the bugs, and then work on replacing the back-end later. Depending on the codebase, you may even be able to write a backend shim and slowly replace individual endpoints and rework the API one feature at a time until the old backend can be fully deprecated.
It's more like: a lot of web developers have a lot of funky requests we can't possibly all fit in the standard. So instead let's give them the tools to extend CSS themselves.
I don't have a particular suggestion. I used the Developer Tools to disable the CSS font directives, so maybe just have an option to switch to a stylesheet that doesn't specify specific fonts?

Also, thanks for your articles. I find them very well-written. I'm reading through the one on impedance right now and it's a very clear explanation of a concept that that can be somewhat confusing.
Most of their broadband subs are from legacy SBC (ameritech, swbell, nvbell, pacbell, snet). They got all their allocations separately. None of them came out of 12/8 or 32/8 traditionally.
I suppose you could say there's room for that under redefining the problem, like "The real problem is that people refuse to employ known solutions to those problems."
All of this is incredibly out of date. ZFS on linux uses SPL, not FUSE and growing filesystems on either platform (FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris) is easy
Well, so much for "you can always make your own alternative if private companies censor you!"
I think you mean to say that if you aren’t allowed to walk into anyone else’s home or business, and yell your opinions into their face, your rights to free speech have somehow been infringed.

My analogy is far more accurate than your tortured newspaper analogy. Parlour still gets to publish unrestricted as a web site and as web apps, it just doesn’t get free distribution, marketing and hosting from Google or Apple.
> The President was just caught red handed asking Georgia to make up votes for him

Did you listen to the entire phone conversation and not the 4 minute clip? That's quite not what happened. Trump laid out all his claims and was asking them to accept investigating anything that cloud make up his very narrow margin.

Another fun fact about that call, it was a Settlement Call. That was literally protected by attorney/client privileged. Barnes, a civil rights attorney who does federal cases, and who is currently contracted by the Trump team, talks about it here(starting at 54:49):

https://youtu.be/bnevIjvohvQ?t=3276
Probably audience reach, I'm guessing tweeting the information directly as opposed to a link to a blog results in more engagement.

As for why Twitter specifically it's because that's where their followers are, it will get the most views presumably vs. other platforms or mediums.

FWIW I personally enjoy tweetstorms, I'm not sure why. I think the break in between each tweet is nice, it's like reading a series of messages rather than a blog post and I find myself more engaged. It also means the author has to be fairly concise
Ah, we’ve had nonsense like that all over the internet for decades.

Liberal pundits are saying similar about conservatives ... elected officials call for disruption in the street, 4chan has crazy stuff, yaddha yaddha.

We have incitement and conspiracy laws. We have an FBI and Secret Service that really take this stuff seriously and are well financed. If anything these posts make it easier for them to keep an eye on the tiny percentage of loudmouths that might actually do something.

There’s a cost to all this ease of expression, to be sure. Maybe people can be radicalized more easily, and that sucks.

But we’ve built this whole society on erring in favor of more free expression, and by and large this value has been a tremendous success, where the downsides are absolutely crushed by the up side.

Nothing will be an unmitigated good but in this case it’s pretty clear where the balance lies, and what these companies are doing -as we speak- isn’t the winning choice, for anyone involved.
I am... I am democrat, but I feel this is deeply disturbing.

I can see how apple doesn't like parler in its app store, and they have every right to remove it. It is a private company, and it shouldn't be forced to host apps that promote violence/whatever they feel is wrong.

But, the fact that you can't download an app, or side-load an app, on any iphone without it being on the app store, makes this decision very worrying.

Tim Cook and apple are being the arbiter of all speech/content, and this is very similar to autocratic countries where they ban entire sites (Like Erdogan did with youtube and twitter).

One rich corporate exec should not have this much power...

The solution is that all computing device makers, should have a away for their devices to be able to download/side-load apps, without having to go a centralized store.
This is better for those countries that are ruled by autocrats as well, where the government suppresses free speech.
The Super Hornet has something like a 350 mile radius with a "normal" strike package. That's not very much, and it gets worse every year as US carrier fleets are forced further into blue water to deal with the latest Moskit descendants.

That's why the Navy is so hot to develop the X-47 into something they can deploy.

If refueling aircraft are available then far more capable land-based aircraft should have been used anyway.

As far as when the Harrier has made the difference, well, we haven't fought many pitched battles lately, so it's hard to say. But you can't design a military with the idea you'll never have to fight a pitched battle.

EDIT: By the way, one of the advantages of the F-35B is supposed to be that its design is inherently less crash prone. We'll see.
To organize myself I use Secretweapon [1] (GTD for evernote) and Folder-System [2] (an hierarchical folder system to organise personal documents based on GTD, making it easy to predict where something is stored). The initial investment (file renaming) pays off very fast.

[1] http://www.thesecretweapon.org/media/Manifesto/The-Secret-We...

[2] https://github.com/we-build-dreams/folder-system
I'd go for aofa
While Andreas is still doing most of the core development it is not true that he is still the sole developer of Nim. I am personally involved with a lot of work on the standard library and there are two others who also work on the compiler. We all have a say in the design of Nim. In addition to that I have built a lot of software for Nim programmers in Nim like for example Nimble and the Nim forum.
The original article referred to "true OO" which actually does't start with classes, but rather objects. The OP is talking about using functions that are grouped together in objects, so it's a different model than standard OO or class-based OO
For the most part yes, but it depends on the position they're trying to get.
In addition to the negative impacts on code and the actual product of going too fast, there is the additional problem of working at an unsustainable pace. That then becomes the norm and is expected even when it can no longer be kept up. This isn't a problem specific to programming. It shows up in almost any job.

Over-performance will never be rewarded. One might get a slightly higher bonus if one is lucky, but generally it'll be forgotten. All those long days, nights, and weekends spent working non-stop will be immediately erased from the company's recollection once the product ships. They will be especially forgotten once the developer can no longer sustain that pace which now has become the norm and needs to be reprimanded (despite still being objectively productive).

In the end, it's only the developer who suffers, and it'll be great suffering up to and including mental and physical disability from not slowing down. Excellent advice.
it looks like we're going back to terminals (renting cloud resources), where owning your own computer will be an increasingly niche hobby
Yes but if you bill them separately using Stripe, that's clearly against their Terms of Service.

> The Shopify integration is just used for discovery (via their app store), login, installation, email integration, and of course billing.

So Shopify is responsible for generating 100% of your revenue, correct? If you are opposed to a 20% cut of that on principle, how else do you expect them to make money?
Nice overview, thanks!
Thanks—that seems a bit more neutral, so I've changed the URL to it from https://internetfreedom.in/cyber-volunteer/.
Yes.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/271