jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That is, of course, correct - but surely that is more how Euclidean Geometry was interpreted rather than there actually being an internal problem with Euclidean Geometry.
who says don't focus on features?
I completely agree that this idiosyncrasy of yours doesn't really change anything, as long as you alone do it.

This isn't clear from your comment, but: you do understand that I said Twitter users' use of @user is annoying and offputting to outsiders, not an example to follow?

That said, this isn't a big issue for me; feel free to ignore this comment!
Yes, I am explicitly talking about T5. The SO post refers to T4 and below, although I gather the upgrade path 3 -> 4 -> 5 was non-existant and so pissed some people off (understandably). I guess Howard was trying to just create something better...
Maybe it's just me, but maybe a "hacker's guide" to tea shouldn't contain wild speculation on the health benefits of matcha.

And since everyone seems to be dropping recommendations for tea shops, then I'll say I get my tea from Marketspice in Seattle, though you have to fight your way through swarms of tourists to get there.
1) Kik claimed. RIM may not have agreed.

2) Maybe it was flagged after it was originally approved.

3) I agree. I'm not sure how submitting a BB app works - I assumed the key was at app-level, not company-level, but I've never submitted a BB app before.

4) This is probably related to the battery life issue.

Don't get me wrong - If they kicked it out for being "too similar to BBM", that's a dick move. But if Kik didn't patch their app to sufficiently fix the battery and privacy issues, it makes sense that RIM wouldn't want to officially distribute it.
The idea that medieval people believed in a flat Earth is not true. The shape and approximate size of the Earth was knowm since ancient times (3rd century BC).

Columbus was not turned down at first because people believed he'd fall off the edge of the Earth; they knew he could not have possibly reached Asia, the distance was too great. It was only pure luck (finding America) that saved him. A venture capitalist in those times would have been rational not to buy into the expedition.

As for geocentrism, that has some merits. But note that Ptolemy and his followers were really hindered by a lack of good astronomical data. Using methods of those times, an epicyclical model of the planets was pretty accurate and could have been refined further. The model of Copernicus was deemed superior because it needed fewer epicycles to make the math right. The breakthrough came only after Kepler got the very accurate Huygens observations (taken over 20 years); after he had enough datapoints, he could come up with his famous laws.

And so, let's not blame the Ancients right away. They were not as ignorant as we may believe.
I'm not sure considerations like this have occurred to the dev team when they don't do even very basic webapp security correctly...
But it's not that simple if the client is running as a relaying node as well, is it? The mixture of client traffic and relay traffic would make traffic analysis much more difficult.

Of course if you're that interesting that your ISP is doing traffic analysis on your connection you quite possibly have more pressing security issues.
Buy bitshares, the next obvious step.
BNC also appointed Craig Meerholz, executive director of Sotic and former head of Africa for Trafigura and Jozef Behr as head of trading.
>Every time we transitioned from a blank, text-command driven UI, to a visual one, we dramatically increased the percentage of the general population able to use something.

Is there an upper bound to the benefits of visual information in comparison to textual information when handling complex tasks so that when a task reaches a certain level of complexity it becomes easier to represent it in text as opposed to visually? The history of human communication would strongly suggest that there is.
Well those writing on twitter weren't to my knowledge trying to coordinate protests. They where trying to get the word out no?
Actually, this goes for any series of meetings. At work, I actively 'defrag' my calendar and make sure meetings happen together so that I can pull through a long stretch of meetings and be done with it all. Having fragmented meeting time (30 minute breaks between every meeting, a couple of days between travel trips) messes up your productivity as you really don't feel like starting a project.
Use a different method of measuring bounce: time spent on site. Getclicky.com uses it as a method and I wholeheartedly agree with that metric.
No, The U.S. Didn’t Just ‘Discover’ a $1T Afghan Motherlode

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430125
FTA: "YOUR PROGRAM IS NOT GOING TO BE USED BY OTHER PROGRAMS, it's going to be used by people"

A lot of programs are, in fact, used by other programs. Such programs are generally called libraries, and unit testing can be exceptionally useful for avoiding regressions in them. When testing a library, you can't really get around writing code, so why not check that code in so you don't have to write it again?
Not really. One thing missing from the article is the banana equivalent level for more serious radiation concerns, such as the banana-equivalent of a chest x-ray or radiation poisoning. Otherwise, when someone hears, for example, that living within 10 miles of a certain nuclear plant is equivalent to eating a banana a day, they may well conclude that both the plant and bananas are serious health risks.
Well, they're only muxing IO; each Atom CPU has a chipset CPU and it's own DRAM (up to 2GB (the Atom has a hard 4GB limit), no ECC since Intel only offers that for official server chips).
This only works for GET requests, but it is useful if you need to make a quick couple of requests and don't want to look up a CGI proxy server.
I consider IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera all as major browsers. Sure, Opera only has 1-2% global market share; but consider the fact that 1-2% global market share means somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million users (assuming estimates of 2 billion global internet users is correct). I consider that a fairly significant browser.

Also, there are markets in Europe where that percentage is much, much higher. And those European markets are generally a lot more relevant to me than China (and to an extent other Asian countries like South Korea), where a lot of the IE usage comes from. Due to the greater internationalization, cultural, and regulatory barriers in China, it's not a market that interests me all that much.

I generally consider the major browsers to be ones which have their own rendering engines (though Chrome and Safari share one, they both do significant development of that engine and each have their own JavaScript interpreters), actively attempt to be compatible with the entire public web, participate in the web standards process, introduce innovations to the web platform which are later adopted by other browsers, and have a significant number of worldwide users or users in major markets. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera all meet those criteria.
The New York Times magazine published a longer article on the same subject a few weeks ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h...
What is "freedom"?
I blame eBay for that one. Not actually acquiring the underlying technology to Skype was pure idiocy on their part.
I don't blame Skype one bit for taking advantage. My point was that apparently Craig Walker having kids in school and lawyers saying it would take months for the deal to go through was enough to kill a deal that had a high chance of success. I understand Chan was protecting his territory but shame on Google management for going along with it.
I've had this very same strategy for a while, but never really noticed I was doing it. Thanks for putting a name to something I should reinforce in my practice!
The network effects of going to a good school are enormous. I don't mean just who you know, but also what they can teach you (mostly outside of class). At MIT, I've found that classes have mostly taught me specific course material, while the people around me have taught me how to live/learn. The latter effects have been extremely important in the way I approach my education.

See also, Lesson 6 of Gian-Carlo Rota's "Ten Lessons":
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html

"You must measure up to a very high level of performance. I can imagine a propective student or parent asking, "Why should I (or my child) take calculus at MIT rather than at Oshkosh College? Isn't the material practically identical, no matter where it is taught, while the cost varies a great deal?"

One answer to this question would be following: One learns a lot more when taking calculus from someone who is doing research in mathematical analysis than from someone who has never published a word on the subject. But this is not the answer; some teachers who have never done any research are much better at conveying the ideas of calculus than the most brilliant mathematicians.

What matters most is the ambiance in which the course is taught; a gifted student will thrive in the company of other gifted students. An MIT undergraduate will be challenged by the level of proficiency that is expected of everyone at MIT, students and faculty. The expectation of high standards is unconsciously absorbed and adopted by the students, and they carry it with them for life."

That said, one must weight these benefits against the cost of attendance.
Google has a cult of data that I think is pretty dehumanizing. Perhaps they look ugly because they don't ultimately give a damn about the design -- only that the data told them they are losing market share.
How is this news? If it was anyone but Google, nobody would care.
Maybe it was horrible. At least it was short.
Checking 5,000 possible candidates against a list of 7,000 known stores couldn’t happen instantly on login. That could be 35 million comparisons per user, which is a big number, no matter how well you optimize your algorithm.

Some days I weep for our industry. You can do this, trivially, in one lookup per favorite-d store. Create a hash set of the stores you are interested in, grab the favorites, check if they are in the hash set. The worse case performance will be 5,000 times the cost of one hash lookup. (You can do it in the application server's memory or in memcached/redis/etc.) The typical case performance will be virtually instantaneous since most users will have virtually no favorites.

In practice, the bottleneck will almost certainly be how fast you can get results from the Facebook API.
Suppose you have a website that has completely constant traffic. You can therefore anticipate exactly how much computing power you need, and a dedicated machine or two will suit your needs well.

Now suppose that same site (hosted on two dedicated machines) gets a sudden increase in traffic, beyond the capabilities of your two machines. Instead of reserving another dedicated machines, spool up a cloud instance (or two) to help handle the traffic, and once the traffic returns to normal, release the cloud instance(s).

Here's another possibility. Suppose you need 100 machines to crunch data for an hour. Launch 100 cloud server for that hour at their rate and you pay 100 x $0.15 = $10.50 for the hour instead of 100 x whatever they'll charge for a month of dedicated machine usage.
Tell that to Disneyland and their Coke promotions!
Let's keep the discussion centralized in one post. Another post has more comments as of yet, so let's use it instead: here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419135
News app that takes the latest world news, uses crowdsourcing/mechanical turking to generate coherent paragraph abstracts of news events, then spit back out in a beautiful layout. Much like the NPR app but summarizing all world news (normalized into one language, of course).
Your comments make me not want to be a HN member, I would think most of you would have a better understanding of economics rather than the Keynesian crap they teach in school.

anyway, most studies show being fat is far healthier than being skinny or morbidly obese.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/health/07fat.html?ex=13520...
I believe vector images were also a point of contention.
Agree. Big meh in the sport. Eco considerations aside it's amusing that they're using this as a platform. Racing is largely not about the powertrain. And emissions are... whoops we made them up.
> "Engineers"

Maybe the hint is right there in your comment. Nearly all the people deploying these nodes aren't engineers in the slightest despite having someone given them such a title.
Most of the ML useful in industry is getting commoditized at a fast pace, and not enough people understand that. The focus on modeling for applying ML in a business environment is as incongruous as people believing programming is graph algo and compiler techniques. It sometimes is, but rarely.

It is much easier to learn the basics of ML if you have good software engineering skills than the opposite in my experience. The one thing that needs time learning is experimental design and quantitative analysis, and this is rarely taught well at university before PhD.
100 years is the blink of an eye for a tree. Trees will astound you if you learn more about them. Many species can live for tens of thousands of years; beneath the surface, some apparent "groves" are in fact interconnected appendages of a single living organism which can survive for hundreds of thousands of years.
Thanks!

I actually made this over a year ago, and just this week updated all the deps in order to make it public.

There were thankfully few breaking changes, though I did burn like an hour debugging a weird dependency that wasn't compatible with golang 1.13 modules. So it goes!

So I guess only a slight PITA so far haha
Yeah, it’s juvenile and cheeky. Not what I’m looking for when I just want to find what I need efficiently when I look through docs...
Islands already exist, with national firewalls, corporate networks, dark nets, etc. Decentralization of DNS would just take middlemen out of the picture. A dominant decentralized system would probably handle most requests if one were to ever get off the ground, making it equivalent to what we have now.
Do you have any clue who she thought you were?
This must be an impossibly narrowly used slang word. I've never heard nor read it before today and my (much) younger co-workers haven't either.

This may as well be an article on "plokithorpf"
I've noticed a bunch of spammers starting to strip out anything after the + and before the @. This is why I've long used a catch-all e-mail domain (subdomain.example.net) where I can put anything I want to the left of the @ sign and no one is the wiser for my real e-mail address.
The US and EU have a treaty specifically about enforcing each other's laws. (More accurately, the nations that comprise the EU are individual signatories to such treaties.)
Sorry my point about "excitement" was simply that, computing enthusiasm - not the historical performance of Lisp machine against other hardware architectures of the time.
>The real question is why following the rules of arithmetic/primality never seems to lead to contradiction.

Because they're built up, not discovered down. With some exceptions. But by and large, this is the precise opposite of any empirical (ie: most) sciences which people are aware of. And, as long as the core axioms are valid, it will be consistent - there's no "belief" in the products, only in the axioms.
Strictly speaking only some of those 12 decided she had not case. The verdict was no unanimous.
FYI, if you're in the US this relates to soccer rather than the NFL.
Don't mind getting approval (I am assuming it's a somewhat simple procedure) and submitting periodic audited financial reports. We (Bandhub) think it is very important for our users' community to have ownership in the company. And feel this is a great first step towards equity grants in online communities ( ala Reddit Notes ). So we are happy to go through hassles to get it done ( it it's useful for you guys we can be beta testers of your platform )
You know, you can skip the backspace; pasting something with a selection will replace the selected text with whatever's on the pasteboard (at least on all the systems I've had experience with).
false dichotomy. it is not necessarily going to the be the case that you'll be busy making money if you weren't busy clipping coupons.
Do you have more info on the changes to Australian infrastructure legislation?
What if we could just attach a MasterCard to a bitcoin wallet rather than a bank account and then use it to pay at any ordinary POS terminal so the conversion would be done seamlessly and the store would get ordinary money? Is this what they are going to implement?
It's not any different than precious metal ETFs.
crypto you can't move out of a particular broker is just company scrip
UK and US banks absolutely do have reserve requirements and they are neither 1% nor 0%. I have no idea where you're getting that from. The reserve requirements vary by type of bank and type and risk weighting of asset.

Here is the documentation that explains the capital requirements for a regulated entity (not just banks, but including banks) in the UK

https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/glossary/G1567.html
it's Azure, what can I say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reserving a table through software, while very useful, isn't exactly a new idea. How do you aim to differentiate yourselves?
Some of the comments on the article claim that this is different because it allows write access. But some quick research tells me that some vehicles do allow write via CAN/ODB-II and others don't. It hasn't been explained why this guys effort is any different.
I think you missed my point. The fact that the repo still exists is all that would matter to your former customers. They could download the code and fix the problems themselves (hopefully contributing back to the codebase by re-releasing their fixes).

I have a long list of 'failures' behind me, not a single one I would care to repeat but also not a single one that didn't teach me something, I always cherish the thought that the failures eventually led to the opportunities that worked out and that without them those wouldn't have happened either. For the same money you would have had the next mongodb.

That was a pretty crowded space at the time.
This is a very well known and documented phenomenon, it's called lies on the internet.
It’s active voice vs passive voice.

People frequently use the passive voice when referring to how software works. Like, “I entered my PIN and the phone unlocked”. “I entered my PIN and the phone unlocked itself” is maybe common too, but less common is “I entered my PIN and iOS unlocked my phone” or “I enter my pin and Apple unlocked my phone”[0].

Using the active voice shifts responsibility and autonomy for the action away from the author and onto GitHub. (Which, I mean, is exactly what the author was trying to do I think. But we were talking about ways the post could be changed to do that less.)

[0]: This is confounded a bit by GitHub being both the name of the software and the company. In context though I believe they meant the company?
Too late. They could have done this nearly from the beginning, when people were still using Dropbox and asking to sync any folder on their computer.

Instead they junkified their app and alienated most tech users, who won’t suggest using it anymore.

I hope that documents stuff works out for them though.
Sure, but it's very dependant on geography, if you want to do it at scale. We're definitely going to have to adopt a mixed approach, so I'd say it still makes sense to keep the research into hydrogen, batteries, all of it.
No, I'm suggesting you're seeing intention where it possibly doesn't exist

Am I defending the reporter? Or complaining that they did a bad job by leaving that obvious question of the partner unanswered? Neither, I hope.
Runtime speed is as fast as it gets, because it's C.

Writing an interpreter is a huge task. It works well without it. Actually I'd say it's quicker, because interpreters have startup costs.
In regards to the first point, equal pay for equal work, last week I had a place drop the base salary from 260 to 135 because I'm in Arkansas. The whole state apparently has the same cost of living, and it's a fraction of the stated range for NY/CA. Ridiculous.
It's hard to find a language farther away from V than PHP.
> And when that variation/entropy back-and-forth between red and green is too high, the brain just melds them to yellow?

Not “melds them”: it is yellow. A specific yellow, to a human, is any of the SPDs that triggers the same amount of “red” and “green” cone activity. It’s not some kind of brain interpretation trick, it’s literally the same signals reported by your eyes.
I do not see a reason for anyone to make multiple millions of dollars each year, no matter what they do.

$500k is an incredible amount of money, which should be sufficient for anyone as compensation.
I have a fanton drives 2tb HDD model from like 2010. i dont use it frequently. it seems to run fine to this day. however, if its going to die soon, will it give me signs of failure, or will it just completely lock my data one day? i would like to get a replacement at the earliest sign, but idk how these things die.
So now you can be on the first page of HN with an April's fool article on April 7th?
> Unbelievably, within four years of their arrival,
they had near wiped out all the seals

Not really that unbelievable, given that's pretty much how it went for every seal population when they were hunted for skins by Europeans.
> He seems to have only complaints, not solutions.

I don't see his documentaries as 'his complaints', but more like a view from the current general situation we're in. I see the point of the 'no solutions', but even so, isn't it relevant to discuss and think about the problems?

> I was hoping for something meaty and meaningful to add to my existing set of ideas and tools

maybe someone else is able to come up with meaty part. Not always the problem must have the answer/alternative/solution together with it (math is like that as well, some mathematical problems stayed without solutions for decades, until someone else comes up with a clever/smarter solution to it).
Sigh. I loved my 2013 Google Glass Explorer Edition until Google stopped supporting them in February 2020. So much better than a phone cam for making POV videos requiring changing field of view while using both hands to fabricate.
Yes, yes. And “they” want us to wear masks because of a globalist Communist plot to… something.

The Bircher and conspiratorialist influence on the American body politic is truly criminal.
http://archive.is/LFQhg
Great maybe this means we can be assured the money wont go to the teachers union to advocate for the continued employment of pedophiles and deviants.
Not if you purchase something from Canonical on MS's Marketplace. That's what marketplaces do.
> You’re not presenting your sources accurately.

I am.
In what I imagine is a brilliant twist of irony (I can't read the article), all I see when I open this page is a consent form to be tracked, with a link buried in text to opt out, which brings me to a page that requires me to fill in all of my personal details in order to opt out.

Apparently in order not to track me reading their web page, Reuters requires (among others) my full name, residency, date of birth, street address, and telephone number.
Also I don't think these EV charging companies have any shot at being financially viable given the utilization rate required to turn a profit.

Anybody working in this sector have an opposing view?
interesting to me that the TOS part of this discussion is being prosecuted via screenshots. Most legal disputes online presumably have an element of proving a clickwrap paper trail -- I wonder if there's demand for better tools for capturing what prompts were shown?
I'm very pleased you like it! (tis a side project of mine). Did you try the 3D button? That's quite fun.