jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I meant to say that the PS5 was doing more poorly in Japan than any previous Sony console, and have edited my comment to reflect this.
Suppose you accidentally put an extra pair of braces deeply inside a function. The message you'll get is something like "could not cast to function" without any meaningful information where this happened.
It seems you've missed my point. I don't doubt everyone you've listed has earned their credibility. What I'm trying to ask is "Why do you need to have earned credibility before you can be brutally honest with people?"
Dual core is appealing for a lot of reasons, especially if you buy the company lines about performance and battery life improving due to parallelism offered by two cores. Good luck finding a dual core phone that will easily run CyanogenMod though. That's why I have a little soft spot for Nexus S, even with some of its... missing hardware. :/
"I" (11 times) followed closely by "F" and "H" (both 9 times) seem to the most common letters.
Very interesting to look at the original content of https://github.com/greatfire/ and https://github.com/cn-nytimes. One appears to be a collection of resources for proxying around the Great Firewall [1] and the other has a number of clones of the New York Times translated in Mandarin [2][3].

[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X_4LmyL...

[2]: https://github.com/cn-nytimes/mirrors
[3]: https://dtl1al4e74u07.cloudfront.net/
Waiting for the follow up, "So you want to abolish Daylight Savings Time".

Because that one I actually do.
Go out every day.
And speak to one random person.
Every day.
Do that for a few weeks and you'll slowly build more confidenece
Have you used Baidu or most Chinese apps? I'm not sure this has proven true in that example walled garden.
I live in a bicycle centered city and we have excellent ambulance response _because_ there is less traffic.

Disabled people have various mobility devices that go on the bike paths.

The quality of life is a lot better here.
See also - The Roboexotica cocktail robots party, which just had its 15th annual party in Vienna:

http://www.roboexotica.org/

(and of course, my entry from 2009, Adult Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kiKE3lif8Q)
I thought that affirmative action was a well established part of almost all university admissions. Seems disingenuous of them to put minority in scare quotes, when affirmative action is not something that universities are coy about talking about.
Also, you have the work "partitionning". I believe that should be "partitioning".
Your friend would have been saved with even an aggressive retention policy, from the sound of it. Heinous crimes usually don't take years to pop up.
It's not like Java's the first imperative language to include FP concepts. Whatever lessons it can teach us, we could probably learn them just as well from Ruby, Python, C++, Javasript, C#, and so forth.
Where's your evidence for that? The hearings in congress I think have shown that there are doubts from decision-makers.
Terrorist plots in general are not talked about publicly. As frustrating as that might be, the absence of mention from top government officials is no indication at all of whether something was or was not involved in a plot (terrorist, criminal, etc.)

Typically the only terrorist plots you'll hear about publicly are the ones that have to be public--either because of a public warning (even then, typically extremely vague), or because the break-up happened in a public way.
No; if one person buys two seats, I'd assume naively that it would count that as two adult-sized passengers.

(The actual details of their architecture I'm not privy to).
Can you separate belief from labelling someone prohpetic/visionary? I label a dog a dog because I believe it's a dog. I don't call a cat a dog with plenty of skepticism. I'm not going to give anyone the label of prophetic/visionary, even with plenty of skepticism. As a non-mormon I consider the prophetic/visionary concept to be fiction, and won't use it on anyone because I don't consider it possible - skepticism doesn't even begin to enter the equation - and labelling someone as something I consider them not to be would be odd. I might just as well label them president.
Very much agreed, the point you're making is exactly why I hate languages that try to hide the fact that programming is difficult, to make the life of the developer easy. This almost inevitably encourages bad programming practices, and does not do anything to improve code quality produced by incapable developers. It's why I dislike Java so much and prefer C++, even though both have their strong and weak points, and both can be used to create great software.

That said, I've stopped taking 'OO is bad' articles seriously long ago. Over 15 years of professional software development have sufficiently proven for me that there are many problems that fit the OO model perfectly, and would not benefit in any way from switching paradigms. Just like some (but decidedly less) other problems are a perfect fit for functional programming or procedural programming. There is no silver bullet in programming, what works best is entirely dictated by the problem, and problems come in infinite varieties.
This article has been floating around Seattle for a while and I think it's done a great job illustrating areas which can be improved to encourage broadband competition.

For example, one recent change: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-approves-bill-allows-fi...
> "I think your argument is weakened by the fact that H1B holders pay the same taxes as US citizens"

Not entirely true. For instance, if you are a Canadian you have the choice of paying the taxes to Canada and avoid the double taxation.
Are mormons not christians?
Thank you! If I can at least make one person interested I'm happy to continue.
It means that these UFO claims get sillier by the day.

https://xkcd.com/1235/
The scrutiny is less about the actual facts on the ground and more about who the editorial staff at the NYT decides should get some time in the spotlight.
Hello Fellow HN'ers,

We have all experienced the flakiness of most web automation tools, the complications involved in writing automation code, and the fact that we have to spend so much time updating and managing test automation code after every sprint cycle and every change.

To overcome all of these challenges, I started building Shaztra. It Automates test steps written in English and executes them on the cloud. No coding skills needed.

It is in early stages and I would love for you to try it out and give me some feedback.
There are a few audio games like this on Amazon’s Alexa platform. When I was looking at it a couple of years ago, there was a level a framework for building them with such narration. I don’t know how you’d work in the multi user angle though.
Its little league. Its literally a US institution.
I can't speak for everyone, but on my 4k 40" monitor I appreciate the gap at the left/right border because it can be quite difficult to read the text on the far left/right of the screen unless I'm sitting over 120cm away from the screen. It's literally only the first column of text (in a console) so the left gap just pushes everything over enough that I can see it easier.
I’ll start checking I guess but I’m honestly surprised to read that statistic.

Sincere question: how do we determine that there is nothing wrong with facilitating access to pornography? Shouldn’t we study things of this nature before we sanction them?
Wow, I found over a two dozen flagged comments and I have never purposely flagged a comment.

Interesting! Thanks for posting this. I am cleaning up my giant mess. The data seems to indicate that there is something lacking in the UI, but I'm still not sure exactly what. What was I trying to tap when I hit flag? I am nearly 50/50 mobile/desktop, hmmm.

What a terrible SNR I've been giving dang et al. Sorry!

Edit: yeah, it’s likely just scrolling on mobile and accidentally tapping Flag. What’s a bit odd is that my Hidden list is empty. Why wasn’t I accidentally tapping that sometimes?
"According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy."

Technically this has already happened, as the EU has a larger combined GDP than the US.

It's also not too surprising. For it's land area, the US is very sparsely populated, and 350m people are not going to have the same economic purchasing power as 1000m people, assuming the latter group can catch up in terms of infrastructure and technology with the former group.
Somehow I doubt these predictions are going to bear out. History always repeats itself. In the 1980s it was Japan that was going to crush the American economy. For the last twenty or so years the Japanese economy has been flat (it's still the 3rd biggest in the world however).

Japan tried to boost the economy with massive expenditures in it's infrastructure, to no avail. Compare that to China's approach of building high speed rail networks that get cancelled, and to build huge 'cathedrals in the desert' - cities that are overpriced by the government, who refuse to let the price to be dictated by the market (which is what would happen in a true capitalist system). The result is that most locals are priced out of the market. The reason that the cities are being built in the first place is to drive growth figures. Not having any oversight may result in some dramatic revelations about China's supposed growth in the coming years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8691083.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11748644

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601007/n/China...

Related HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386584

EDIT: Added link

EDIT 2: Typos
Not true. Our primary decision was based on unpredictable latency, but the fact that we didn't/don't trust EBS played a huge role. EBS mucks up our basic availability scenario - systems are no longer individual, disposable, replaceable units. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear from the blog post - I'll go re-read that part and update.
Actually, a single doubling of fuel prices probably isn't a big problem for food prices, not in the US, where food is a tiny portion of most folks' budget.
As far as I can tell, aforementioned statistics are bogus. I've removed them from Wikipedia. Burden of proof, etc.
...really? really? You've forgotten about Abu Grahib and all the extraditions to other countries that practice torture?
Oh yes, lets parade out yet another rising Chinese menace story.

Are we counting the cities worth of empty condos in the Chinese GDP? How exactly did the IMF arrive at these numbers? Is there external confirmation of government stats?

There are definite signs that there's a bubble waiting to pop in China, just as it did in the US, so i view even analyses by the IMF with some skepticism if they're based on government reporting, given that the government of China has both the means and the incentive to present itself as a growing economic power.

How about we hold off on the sound and fury until 2016, mmkay?
Googling "How many Books do Average Americans Read"

Gave me the following link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...

Which states: "One in Four Read No Books Last Year"

Which suggests that 3/4 read at least one book _Last Year_. (that is, in 2006)

They also had the following factoid:

"Among those who said they had read books, the median figure _ with half reading more, half fewer _ was nine books for women and five for men. The figures also indicated that those with college degrees read the most, and people aged 50 and up read more than those who are younger."

I consider this stat debunked.
Yeah, because we've been doing a bang up job in that department.
Amazon has promoted RightScale in the past (and presumably the two continue to have a close relationship). So it seems understandable that RightScale would want to adopt a diplomatic tone.

However, imo an executive summary that starts with "The Amazon cloud proved itself in that sufficient resources were available world-wide such that many well-prepared users could continue operating with relatively little downtime. But because Amazon’s reliability has been incredible, many users were not well-prepared leading to widespread outages. Additionally, some users got caught by unforseen failure modes rendering their failure plans ineffective." seems a little too supportive of Amazon.
It can be a problem/nuisance if you're working with nuclear waste or orbits.

It's also ironic how programmers are surprised by the passage of time when it's one of the only things that's truly guaranteed.
Small business vs Big tech. A clever diversion.
Oh the irony that one of the most profitable and largest companies (facebook) is making the claim that small businesses will be impacted.

I think the honest answer is, yes if facebook protects their profit margins then it will impact small business as they pay more to get the same results. OR Facebook could reduce their margins since Apple's change will reduce their product effectiveness.

Once we frame it that way it is clear what the battle is about. Facebook is fighting apple to protect their own profitability and is using a sympathetic actor (small business) as a shield.
> There is nothing efficient about GME at $100, let alone $400.

You've somehow left out the fact that short sellers are on the hook for over 100% of gamestop's stock, thus whoever is buying stock right now is placing themselves to dictate pretty much the price these short sellers will be forced to pay for the stock.
Voice interface (of the "pull the lever to speak" variety), physical buttons (e.g. T9) , physical dials (e.g. rotate to select key then press to confirm), drawing letters on a touchpad (seen it), etc.
This article is nonsense. Disregard.
I saw the slides and that was the first thing that hit me.
he means projects like diaspora
The OP wasn't asking for a loveletter—he just wants always to receive a confirmation of the "no" answers after they have been made. It's not much to ask.
Blockspring. YC 2014. San Francisco, Remote is possibility depending on experience.

Looking for early hires:

- Lead designer (with UX focus, https://jobs.lever.co/blockspring/6065dd68-93dc-4341-b7a6-55...).

- Full stack dev (https://jobs.lever.co/blockspring/c425991f-62ed-4ea8-8f95-c2...)

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We have had this in our todo list for a while. The leading idea currently is to provide compiler selectable function variants that don't fall into the multiple precision abyss. The biggest challenge here is to come up with data about accuracy of results without the mp path.
Is there a weather station device that lets me query it directly? I just wonder what happens if Weather Underground shuts down or starts charging for API access so I'd rather have one I can access myself.
The Chromebook pixel... You just hook up a bigger SSD, and you are done ;)
I took it personally because my vendor condescendingly told me that the fact that I can't use my environment (multi-monitor) the way I wanted (full-screening applications) was actually a feature. Apple was telling me to STFU or GTFO.

So I did the latter :)
Amen to that. After doing some magic with powertop, I get about 5 hours out of my Thinkpad X201 9-cell battery, which is still less that the 7 on Windows they claim. But it guess the battery is getting older too, I've never replaced it (it has about 2 years)
http://www.foobar2000.org/ is a fantastic piece of software. Extremely efficient/powerful/customizable (and closed-source). I sorely miss it under Linux, Rhythmbox/Quodlibet/Amarok/Clementine don't even come close.
Ironically, Ubuntu was the only distro that didn't present audio stuttering for me out of the box. I usually run Slackware and it was present there, which led me to research it until I found a fix. I chalked it up to Ubuntu staying on the bleeding edge even with their LTS releases, along with having the largest user base by far (more users = more people with this bug = more incentive to fix it).

Either way, it was an easy fix for Slackware and the other half dozen distros I've tried on this machine, and I've found generally that Slackware is the best fit for someone who doesn't mind getting their hands dirty occasionally, in exchange for stability and lack of dependency issues.
Can you tell us about what you are working on?
If you're reading this, care and have some spare bandwidth, may I suggest you set up Tor relay? Because you know, Tor wouldn't be possible without people and organisations willing to volunteer. The setup is pretty trivial with Vidalia UI and UPnP router, and you don't have to be using Tor yourself.
I'm not sure I'd want the opinion of someone who is willing to waste their time talking to a complete stranger on pretenses that seem like an obvious scam just because they offered to buy them coffee.
Anyone else having trouble parsing this list comprehension ?

e2 for e1 in edits1(word) for e2 in edits1(e1) if e2 in NWORDS
1) Finish the iPhone application I've been working on in my spare time within the next 3 months.

2) Find a full-time gig at a fun/energetic company designing and creating products I love.

3) Put on 20 lbs of muscle
Two of my friends had successful startups from UT Austin: audiogalaxy.com (founded in the Napster days, now doing mobile audio streaming) and adtuition/adtuitive (acquired by Etsy).

Maybe UT could be a better place for startups, but I never got the impression that it slowed them down for one second. They were just too focused on getting stuff done to worry about product competitions or entrepreneurship classes or whatnot. In fact, I have to wonder in some cases if those sort of things can be a distraction and give people the illusion that they are an entrepreneur without actually taking any risk or producing anything of value (the two essential ingredients, imho).
Mine is to quit drinking redbull.
Yeah, very very true. I've said for a while that the quality of example code and the "linguistic usability" of a service or API is a major influence on what a programmer does.
I would, but the Solstice is passed :P

Obligatory_Bad_Xmas_Song

Heretic's Christmas Carol

God rest ye merry Pagan folk,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember there's no evidence
There was a Christmas Day.
When Christ was born is just not known,
No matter what they say.
Glad tidings of logic & fact;
Logic & fact.
Glad tidings of logic & fact.

There was no star of Bethlehem;
There was no angel song.
There could have been no Wise Men
For the journey was too long.
The stories in the Bible
Are historically wrong.

Glad tidings of logic & fact;
Logic & fact.
Glad tidings of logic & fact.

Much of your Christmas customs
Come from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations
Of the ancient Middle East.
We know this so-called "Holy Day"
Is but a Pagan feast

Glad tidings of logic & fact;
Logic & fact
Glad tidings of logic & fact.
You realize it's not just me making decisions, right? The company wants what it wants.
I literally couldn't agree with you more, however my mom who has been a teacher for 30+ years, and is a great one by the way, has admitted many times that once a bad teacher gets tenure it's almost impossible to get rid of them unless they do something truly heinous. That to me is a shame because really it's just harming the kids. I was lucky to have for the most part good teachers growing up and I know that it makes all the difference in the world. My 3rd/4th grade teachers were amaazing compared to my 6th grade teacher. Even looking back I can remember science demos those teachers put on to get us excited to learn, whereas my 6th grade teacher was basically lazy and did the bare minimum.

Tests are a huge waste of time and effort, but they also hijack the curriculum also which is even worse!
20. I often find these kinds of tests hard, since there is too little context. Do I enjoy parties? No, not if I don't know people. Yes, if i have some friends I'll be dancing on the tables.
This is what I heard years ago from the doctors in my family when the first z/x name drugs started emerging.
I rarely read the same thing since so much (curated) info is provided. If I do, the title usually gives it away. And regardless, if it's breaking news, it is usually on every news source. That's a problem you can't avoid. I always had multiple news sources reporting the same thing in Google Reader, and I still face it.
Did anyone else find it disagreeable that Q.24 asks whether you'd rather go to the theater than the museum? I really like both - if I had to choose in a real life situation, I'd have to know what's showing at the theater and compare it to what exhibitions are on at the museum before making up my mind. Libraries and parties (Q.13) was also difficult for me; it all depends on which library we're talking about vs. who's throwing a party and who'll be there.

I ended up with a score of 34; same as last time I answered the questionnaire.
Which is funny, because there are so many better ways for them to reduce the data transfer. They have colors specified in hex that could be reduced to shorthand and save 3 characters.

Example: <body bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000 etc

They are also wasteful in their embedded styles:

Example: margin:3px 0 4px;margin-left:4px

Heck, they could even change the path to the images they include on the site to "img" or "i" instead of "images"

Or remove the "http:" from the urls they link to from the homepage. Though, I'm not sure if all UAs will handle this correctly. They should.
Interesting, this goes well with the Wiko french brand which is a Chinese manufacturer behind the curtain. I'd never expect the Alcatel One name to be a tag only.
Would it? Could you elaborate?
Programmers are expected to give and receive style, performance, and idiomatic advice in every code review. Is there some way this sort of peer code review could be integrated into the academic process?
> In the last 100 years especially, religious people have grown anti-science, largely because we see science growing increasingly atheistic.

If I may have a moment? I want to discuss this comment. For a very long time, many people rooted their faith in mystery. Nobody knows how the weather works, therefore God does it. That sort of thinking was very commonplace.

Science has always been "atheistic" in that God has never been a coherent part of any scientific system. It's difficult to account for an uncontrollable and omnipotent force, after all. Nothing there has changed in centuries. What has changed in that science has advanced enough to pull away the mysteries that used to be attributed to God.

Ever hear the phrase "God of the gaps"? For a lot of people, that was - and is - how they understand God. Anything they didn't understand, that was God. Science was just something those rich eggheads did.

Over time, it became possible to see the material world in which we live as comprised of matter and energy that are governed by natural laws. It was no longer necessary to see God in everything you didn't understand. The human body wasn't divinely created in its current form, we're the product of millennia of evolution.

To a great many people, whose primary understanding of divinity is that of a God of the gaps, knowledge and faith are fundamentally incompatible. If they acquired knowledge, the unknowns on which their faith rests will vanish and their faith be shaken.

I suppose this is a very long-winded way of saying that I don't perceive science as becoming more atheistic over time. I perceive religion as being in a slow, painful retreat from territory it never should have occupied.