jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is getting off-topic but... I don't think it's just underestimating the rate. The problem is that they're just way off, and their hype has a defocusing effect. I don't think it's harmless.

If you look into where real innovation happens, it always happens where people are engaged with the world. It happens where people are trying to solve real rubber-meets-the-road problems.

You don't get innovation by speculating in a vacuum and then throwing around ivory-tower abstractions.

Take the old Bell Labs for instance... it was so phenomenally innovative because they had a good supply of hard real-world problems coming from the telecom buildout. Problems are just as valuable as solutions... maybe more valuable. Problems are the fuel of engineering. The closer you get to the expanding wave-front of real applied technology, the meatier the problems become.

If Drexler-esque nanotech ever starts to happen, it won't be because of hand-wavy speculation about consciousness uploading. It will be because someone somewhere has a hard problem that demands a nanotech solution. As an example I can think of one currently very relevant candidate: cleaning up nuclear contamination. (Of course, bio-remediation coupled with genetic engineering or selective breeding might work there too...)

There seems to be an epidemic of defocus in engineering right now. I keep seeing press releases from certain well-respected universities like "Scientists develop method of using viral particles to harness (tiny amounts of) energy from the vibrations of bull testicles on Wednesdays." A lot of people seem to have no intuition for practicality.

... which brings us back to the topic at hand in a meandering way ...

This is one of the reasons I love the space program. It's an endeavor that supplies us with an ample supply of hard real problems.
Funding: Down
PhDs wanting funding: Up

Less funding per PhD="making it [having a PhD] less valuable"
So why didn't you take issue with the submitter of this story, who is its author, for submitting content that is itself uncivil? Have you read this guy's piece on the "iPad 2 Dumb Cover"? He is a one-man troll army.
You can avoid this in Postgres which supports objects and collections.

So... no. O/R impedence doesn't apply to an ORDBMS
> If the high paying job with money/convenience addiction were really so terrible, why do you need to fallaciously compare it to plantation slavery to make that case?

I'm correctly, not fallaciously, using the word slave. Words are patterns with fuzziness.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slave

> One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.

I chose the word slave, because it highlights a pattern of people being marginalized and losing their freedom. It's slavery in a different form.

Think of boiling a frog with small changes in temperature. If we see words with fixed lines, like a chained slave in the 1800s south, then we fail to see people systemically losing their freedom due to economic inequality & being on the wrong side of leverage.

> Also, talking about inequality completely masks the issue. India has lower inequality than the US. If you want to talk about desperately needing a job, you need to either exclude 1/6 of humanity or else recognize that the lack of rich people doesn't make open defecation more fun.

A False Dilemma; that it's either income inequality or everybody is poor. We have more than enough resources to ensure that nobody lives in poverty. Economic competition & pooling of capital has fundamental issues, particularly with inequality & environmental problems. Cooperation, transparency, & decentralization seems likely to yield better results.

We live in a world where many people are required to waste time working in a job that they don't enjoy. Consumerism is deemed "essential" to the social well being, yet consumerism encourages environmental problems & social marginalization. Instead, we could be working to improve the environment & giving everybody freedom to act on their desires. Instead we celebrate the rich, shame the poor, consume, create wars, plunder the Earth.
Hey, Tim from Realm here. Last month, about 60% of our iOS users already used Swift, and the gap in favor of Swift is growing very quickly (it was 50/50 in November 2015). Some of our Swift users you’d probably expect: apps from Vimeo, Digg, Hipmunk or Misfit wearables. But in the past 1-2 months we’ve seen Swift + Realm apps from some real large companies like Cisco, the NFL, NBC Universal, GoDaddy and 7-Eleven. I hope this helps!
31, which is a Mersenne prime number, and Marin Mesenne lived to be 59 years old which is also a prime number and 59 is the bus route I take on Wednesdays because I like to sit in the 3rd row, aisle seat, right after I eat my sandwich, and please don't sit next to me, that seat is taken.
Another anecdote: most people I've talk to recently outside of the startup/valley/tech scene have heard of Groupon and many of them have used it. My parents have been using it since before I had even heard of it.

But I still think they're crazy for turning down $6 billion from Google.
It's too early to tell without a lot of details what their issues are (if the rumour is true). I do have to agree with you that Flash is going to be a problem. Adobe still can't get their act together with their implementation for Android. Should be interesting to see some benchmarks of the Playbook with flash enabled vs disabled to see how well it does.
On my 256 MB notebook I wasn't able to install Ubuntu with Gnome. I could be that 384 MB is enough, as I had better luck with 512 MB computer. As far as I know Windows XP can install on 64 MB, that's six times less than 384 MB.
"Couch surfing" is a slang term for being homeless (by choice or necessity) and moving from couch to couch. This term predates couchsurfing.com.
You don't have to do that on the iPhone.

There's this magic thing called "autorelease".

Call it on an object, and it'll release itself (and its memory) sometime in the future, after the current call stack (probably sometime a few runloops ahead). Most things come pre-autoreleased for you, the only time you ever have to manage memory yourself is if you are storing it inside the instance variables of an object, at which point you just have to remember to add a line to the destructor to free it.
David Pogue joining the ranks of http://www.419eater.com/ ?
Love it!
A handful of the highest throughput Tor exit nodes (named "blutmagie") are run by a single German fellow who is technically/legally his own ISP. Since it's not the same person, I'm assuming the one mentioned in the article did not go through all the same precautionary steps as the blutmagie admin.

http://anonymizer2.blutmagie.de/
I recently moved from New York to Philadelphia. There is a lot less money here, especially at the top end. New York County (Manhattan) has a per capita income of $59k, versus $21k for Philadelphia County. In a way, it's kind of refreshing. Much less glam, more "well-maintained 1980's construction." Nobody walking down the streets with $200 yoga pants, and I don't even know what would be the equivalent here of 5th Ave. in NYC or Michigan Ave. in Chicago. And even if there was something equivalent, I don't know who would go there. New York has bankers, Chicago has traders, San Francisco has internet millionaires and VCs, but Philadelphia is missing that large class of high-spending "working rich."
You seem to be getting very cheap food in USA. Where I live (Moscow) $6 for breakfast is cheapest you can find, but I wouldn't pay $300 for jeans (I buy mine for like $50-$70; some surely would).
Here's another way to understand it.

The difficultly: Despite the propagation delay, gravity always points to where the object should be, instead of where it was when the gravity was "emitted".

The explanation: Just like the object itself is moving, the gravitational field (or electric/magnetic field) is ALSO moving! It moves at exactly the same speed, and in the same direction as the object which created it.

It's "disconnected" from the source - so if the source suddenly changes direction the field it emitted doesn't know about it, and continues to point to where it expected the object to be.

More technical:

Why wormholes are impossible, and why you can not create a single magnetic monopoles:

What about conservation of momentum? If an object is pulled to where the other object is expected to be, not where it is, then momentum exchange between the two of them would seem to not add up!

But it works because you can never create a gravitational or electric field from nothing. You can only move them around, so the momentum always catches up.

What about a magnetic field? You can create those from nothing - ah, but you can only create magnetic dipoles, with opposing fields, so again it works.

But, you can never create a magnetic monopole because you would suddenly have a magnetic "charge" where none existed before and the momentum would not add up. What you can do is create two monopoles, of opposite poles. (So this implies a conservation of magnetic pole, just like conservation of electric charge - assuming monopoles exist.)

What about wormholes? They have the same momentum problem - an object suddenly appears where none was before and it pulls on other objects. You could then move it away before it gets pulled in turn by those objects, and that would violate conservation of momentum. So you can't do that.

And, faster than light objects would have the exact same problem - they could move out of the area before they properly shared the momentum. So I suspect they can't exist either. (Unless there is some complicated math I didn't think of which "fixes" it.)
I assume that if he was made to step down from the CEO position, TSLA valuation would drop like a fly - so he could easily re-buy everything he would have sold. I don't think that's the path he is going to take, but it's not impossible.
Please don't do this here. We're trying to avoid flamewar hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: if you could please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally, we'd appreciate it. You've been doing quite a bit of that and we're trying to go the other direction.
You can open multiple high performance savings account by going to the normal account application online. It has you login partway through the process and then adds it to your account
"will never have any security vulnerability" that is a good joke considering that css keyloggers have been around since a while
A SCIF was compromised? How was there not armed guards there to ensure this sort of thing didn't happen. Many military bases are authorized to use deadly force to maintain physical security. I'd imagine a SCIF would demand the same security.

Yet Jethro and his Gadsten flag can just roll up into a SCIF?
> "I not familiar enough with the Gumroad model to understand why how the creators made $73M in 2019, but Gumroad revenue was only $5M."

I would imagine that monies collected on behalf of someone else for transmission to them do not count as revenue since they do not at any point belong to the business. Banks do not claim deposits or incoming checks as revenue, for example.
Try one they probably don't have on their whitelist, like https://proof.ovh.net/
We have 4 chickens: 3 hens, 1 rooster. We bought them as 4 "female" chicks. Unfortunately, one turned out the be a rooster. To keep the rooster from making noise during the early morning we keep them in an isolated chicken coop with an automated door that doesn't open before 8:00.

They are funny creatures. They are basically little dinosaurs, with different behavior than other home animals. They are super efficient, rarely get food poisoning, and can eat almost everything. They are interesting creatures just to look at. I would always recommend taking chickens, but please keep in mind the following:

* They do make noise. The rooster is loud. But the hens make many funny sounds as well. When they laid an egg they make (loud) cackling noises. I don't mind this, but make sure your neighbors don't mind as well.

* Roosters don't like each other. They will kill each other if they have the chance! If you buy them as chicks, be prepared that you have to get rid of the roosters if you have more than one.

* Roosters also don't like me. I usually get attacked by my rooster when I enter the chicken area. I don't mind (I'm steeling his eggs, so I understand), but some people might get scared by this behavior.

* Chickens are social animals. Always keep at least two chickens together.

* Chicken feces smell. You must clean the area often.

* Hens don't always lay eggs. They get broody now and then. During the broody they only want to sit on the eggs, and don't have much interest in anything else.

* Hens and roosters have a hate/love relation. Roosters want to fertilize the hens all day long (which they don't like). But they also take care of the hens. A rooster will take care the hens stay together, he makes sure the hens eat first, he supports the broody hens, gather all hens together during nighttime.

* In the first two years they lay eggs almost every day. But when they get older they lay fewer eggs. After a year or five they stop laying eggs.

* I suggest to buy a food-o-matic (or similar) device for feeding. These devices make sure that rats and mice cannot get to the feed.
Your initial criticism said "The pattern with the government is the same from situation to situation". The implications of that are very different if the root problem is that your country doesn't have a functional democracy electing that government. Instead of saying "we need smaller government in America", perhaps you ought to be arguing "we need democracy in America".

That's why you ought to care how much government we have in Australia, and how much government they have in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc. The countries of the world form a natural experiment that provides some evidence about the effects of certain policies. This evidence points against the "big government always bad" hypothesis.
Documentation isn't pointless, but pointless documentation is pointless. If the documentation at any point would turn around to improve on the teacher effectiveness or student learning (and have a specific focus on that), it would make sense, but if the documentation goes into a random folder far away to never return in any form (from my experience) it doesn't help much.
He says he's using the OpenCV library. I assume it's got the tracking and rendering functionality already in the library, and he just plugged the Kinect video and IR depth data into it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencv
If your DRY code is "excessively bound", then by definition you have repeated yourself. The binding which must be expressed on both sides is repeated on both sides. A better language could factor it out.

For any given excessive binding, the "better language" that can factor it out may not yet exist... but then again, you might be surprised. One of the most interesting things about learning Haskell is to see the way that community has used Haskell to refactor out code that you would literally never even conceive of factoring out in another language. The "magical mystical monad" is nothing less and nothing more than the refactoring of a certain common, recurring bit of code; it is worth your time as a developer to progress your Haskell knowledge to the point that you understand what I mean by that, even if you never use Haskell itself. In fact the recurring code in question is actually very, very small, and I've gone from confused about why they do it to astonished at how obvious it is in hindsight and how thoroughly we've screwed up a very simple concept for lo these sixty years.
You can't really use ymacs on an ipad can you?

It would probably have to be more button or menu driven.
If you uploaded this, please de-interlace it (that's what's causing those horizontal stripes)
> Altruism (a pernicious legacy of Christianity, and before that, ancient Egypt) dominates ethics in the West. It is an awful, irrational and anti-life doctrine, but it will trump economics every time, because ethics is more fundamental in an individual's life than economics is.

I'm just curious. You're obviously just mostly parroting this from something you read once. What was it?

I swear Karl Marx is Ayn Rand from the inverse bearded mirror universe.
Sequel Pro for Mac is open source ... could it be ported?

Probably not without the consent of the original authors, as it is released under the GPL and distribution through the App Store violates the GPL.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/762498/iphone-and-gpl
> block the event loop

This is one of the problems Erlang solves: its internal scheduler keeps things running even if some code ends up in an infinite loop or otherwise misbehaves.
"Wage slavery," every time I have seen it used, is used to describe any situation where someone trades their own labor for some payment other than the complete product of that labor.
There's this one as well:

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/14142/bulls_hit_farm_l...

And this one:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/06/05/119393/-Slavery-in-...

I'm pretty sure there are even older reports done in the 90s and 80s

It's sad that even though we're in the 21st century, slavery still exists... in our own country. I'm not even counting forced prostitution.

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria is a real and serious genetic condition. It's why diets sodas have a mandatory "Phenylketonurics: Contains phenylalanine." label.

As to the other "generally bad for you" ideas, they're not solidly substantiated. The idea that artificial sweeteners somehow lead you to eat more by messing up feedback regulation is actively studied, but I wouldn't say established.

However:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healt...

Phenylalanine is one of the amino acids that you always need and have around in some quantities. But if you get too high a concentration in the brain, it becomes too easy to make the neurotransmitter Phenethylamine. That's got a list of possible effects for different people - could be a stimulant, could be a migraine trigger - but, especially since it doesn't do the same thing for everybody, there is no consensus for what it does. Nor have I seen good numbers on how much is too much.
I worked at an office where the beer tap was locked most of the time and could only be unlocked by the residential "Workplace Experience PM" for officially sanctioned events.

A similar locking cabinet could be used for fast-acting cannabis gummies.
Addendum: I think I learned something like autogenous training that way.
There are times in winter when it's really cold (10 Fahrenheit or so) and I start shaking. Then I think about it and "just" stop cramping and instead "relax into the cold". Then suddenly I'm warm :)
It seems they can be used as a little safer enums, like :keywords in clojure. It can come handy if you want to add method to object that nobody will overwrite by accident.

But clojure was designed around :keywords, while js was designed around strings as property names. Adding another possibility now complicates everything.

I don't know if I like it.
Metanarratives. Life might be one big metanarrative (ie people think their life is unique but we repeat a lot of stuff other people do).

Applied to startup pitches: https://medium.com/@seysconstantijn/an-analysis-of-start-up-...
I skimmed through the book it looks quite comprehensive and well-written. Usually books/guides about microcontrollers get lost in the details of interfacing myriad sensors and actuators without going sufficiently deep in how they actually work.

Although I personally favor Atmel's MCUs, perhaps no one can deny Microchip's (the maker of the PIC line of MCUs) wealth of documentation and application notes [1] which could serve as additional material to refer to for some pretty handy tips and guides.

[1] www.microchip.com/applicationnotes/
Right a robot that can perform as well as a fit human firefighter will be available any time now just like fusion, Hard AI is only 5 years away and have been for the last 50 years.
If you read the analysis in the article, it would take many years to crack a random password with this hash function.

You are wrong. Your analysis is based on the premise that an attacker might be able to compute "a billion hashes per second".

As I just showed you in my previous comment anyone with $3000 USD can actually compute at least 6000 billion hashes per second.

This means it takes about 11 days to crack a random 8-character alphanumeric password. Not 200 years as you claim.
Except there are plenty of other sources that clearly show that William Wilberforce did, in fact, support the complete abolition of slavery in the British empire.
Anyone who does business with 1&1 deserves what they get. They're known to generally be amongst the worst in the industry.
If I ever suspected a correspondent of using something like this, they would be dead to me.

I appreciate a human-generated bump now and again, because it is a signal that they continue to care about what we were talking about. But automatically sending me message after machine-generated message to prod me into doing whatever they wanted? With no effort or intervening social judgment? Fuck that.

For people to whom this appeals, I'd suggest my approach: keep a "pending" list. If you haven't heard back and still care, you can always take the 30 seconds to say, "Hey, have you had a chance to think more about this?" or whatever the contextually appropriate thing is.
This site has some nice information on it...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010
If you use your phone a real lot, Republic wireless is still just $20/month.
> the people running HealthCare.gov had no "dashboard," no quick way for engineers to measure what was going on at the website

Someone needs to disrupt the government contracts business pronto.
uh ok, i tell you what. i grew up in germany, i'm highly educated, i speak fluent german without accent(you know like most people that were born in the us, speak english without an accent). in fact i speak 4 languages fluent+ a little of a couple others. everyone that had to deal with me on a personal level tried to hire me at some point.

when i came back from the states i met a buttload of people that were telling me how racist the americans are. so i asked one just a few days back.

"tell me, so everyones telling me how racist they are in the south, and it's kinda true, but how do you guys treat black people over here anyway?"

you know what she answered?

"it's different"

when i entered the train station with my bike yesterday, i almost got beaten up by security guards. you know why? because i got into the train station with a bike, and well just because ... ;) and you know what the two germans did that saw that? they told me this:

"you better run away, they might come down and beat you up"

talk about opportunity. yes, germany gives you the opportunity to study. for free. in some of the best universities of the planet. but you pay the price in a different manner.

you know how much the TSA sucks? you wanna know why you don't hear about patdowns in germany? because they're not even newsworthy.

edit: people make their choices, so what the op does is up to them. i consider it a little foolish. but on other hand think about it. it doesn't seem like she wants to get banned for life. otherwise she could have just posted some stupid thing on twitter like others have done
This one?

http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/hipster-wannabes-forking-over-t...
Yeah, those are the two choices. learning or playing video games. straw man, you say?