jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You should point out a counterexample. I guess it would reveal that your definition of optimality is different from "evolutionary fitness", and it shouldn't be.

Note I didn't claim that "evolutionary processes strive for streamlined and optimal solutions". I have no idea how you derived that or why are all these people voting you up and me down (I'd appreciate an explanation btw). I just made a joke that I think contains a kernel of non-trivial truth, although I don't believe it's true if you take it literally as a claim for a universal fact.

Edit: Perhaps I figured out part of the voting - people think I disagree with a popular HNer in an irrelevant way. Amusing.
I have NoScript turned on and all I see is a white page with a link to something named Dhiti. I have no reason to disable it when that's all I see. I'd suggest you make a better user experience for those of us with NoScript on.
Who cares how many points a given comment have gotten? Who cares what other people think? I see voting as a way to bury the clearly trolling or off-topic comments, not as a way to take the temperature of some community.

Maybe you get twenty-three down votes and forty-six ups; the point count isn't going to tell you that. I know that I have comments where the score hovers around one but have maybe ten votes that cancel each other out. What to make of that?

A voting system should have modest goals. (While the Slashdot community hasn't been my cup of tea for a while, I feel like they've muddled their way to a system that works pretty well.)
LBESM (requires root, but not a custom rom) can do this for you. I use it to block ads in apps, and to disallow permissions I don't agree with.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?s=1bb0ce5ab51...
I believe 3.0 will be the big UI overhaul. In looking at the change list in 2.3 it seems to me they really focused on cleaning up core issues with the OS. You'll see most of these listed under categories like "for game developers" but I expect they are also in the process of rewriting the UI to use all the new low-level functionality as well.
Learning how to map the linear systems in to vectors & matrices should give you ample opportunity to handle the _why_.
I wonder if Obvious Plant fake items will one day be valuable. https://www.instagram.com/obviousplant/

They seem rare enough...
> Ask the people in the developing world using it to replace their countries' failed monetary systems.

Where oh where is this happening?

The El Salvador experiment failed: https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-bitcoin/

And I hope you don't mean millionnaires of the developing world because they're people who've escaped the rigours of being in a developing world.
PHP has closures.
Apple takes 30% of revenue.

To be fair, Apple handles a lot for that 30%. Accounting/Tax records, payment, bandwidth and storage etc.

They could probably afford to take less, but they do take care of a fare bit of hassle from app distribution and selling.
Outside YC, chasing a 'yes' actively to turn it into a completed investment is even more important. Optimize for speed is closely related to optimize for outcome.

One minor addition to the chart - if investor asks for a longer timeframe, respect that - and chase other investors!
Subscribe to mailing lists of your favorite projects and participate in IRC channels on FreeNode, this should keep you busy procrastinating for some time.
That's fair.

Still, in my experience (which is nothing special, 4 years undergrad, in second year of masters) there are definitely professors who consider teaching an unfortunate side-requirement of their research. And I don't think it's unique to my school. I think this sucks.

I have been working as a teacher's assistant for a few semesters now, and I hear what you're saying about students who really don't care. I think especially in engineering, you get students who chose the major just because they got good grades in math and science and heard engineering pays well. Then those students complain when you ask them to work hard (or even just work).

Sidenote: WebCT :( haha. My school paid (and will continue to pay) a ridiculous amount for some enterprise course scheduling/billing/etc. software that would have been a great project in software engineering (e.g. large project management). All while we're having major budget issues.
Agreed. And I see the larger vision.

Yes, it'll be easier. But I, for one, won't use Facebook Messages for SMS. Why would I text Facebook to text my buddy for me? When I can just select him from my address book?

All of a sudden the idea of unified communications and messaging is out the window.
While the list is 4 years out of date there are some good general tools on the list. You should also be aware that nmap isn't on the list, not because it isn't a good tool (it is) but because the list was organised by people connected with the nmap project.
What makes you think it didn't work ?

If someone does not reply that does not mean your communication was not received. No answer is also an answer...

Your own profile lists an email address but no name, last name, information about you nor any other info.

Maybe give the good example and flesh out your profile a bit ?
This was absolutely my solution to the same problem.

I'd been a solid dev for 10 years and the closest I'd come was being an unofficial team lead a couple of times. I found it hard, in a big company, to work on raising my profile without feeling like I was taking credit for other people's work. Sadly, it's hard to get recognized as being a "leader" if you are scrupulous about acknowledging the efforts of your team -- even if your team-mates recognize your leadership role, nobody asks them.

I'm also, frankly, an insubordinate bastard -- I always get along really well with my immediate manager and co-workers, but upper management tends not to like me because I poke fun. So it's easy to see why nobody was running to promote me, and I can't say I really blamed them.

So I jumped at the chance to be tech lead and co-founder of awe.sm. Now I have my own team, and I am getting to prove my leadership credentials first-hand. I'll let others decide how well that's going ;-)
Lower VSS is better? I wouldn't want to try and explain that in marketing.
I think the issue isn't what we are already using it for, but the things that we can't on account of its cost.
How are you going to convince people to move a rural area where they know nobody just to work for your startup that might not be around in a year? All to save what, $1,000 a year? How are the schools in Tahoe?

Vacation homes, exactly. Lifestyle business guys, freelancers, writers, yeah of course. But trying to found the next Google in Tahoe doesn't make sense unless there's already a major "anchor" tech company in place there.
> If the TSA starts interfering with movement in a single state

You mean, if the TSA starts screening (and, thus, assuming the power to reject) passengers for intrastate air travel, like they have been since day one of TSA operations?
> don't embrace silent failure modes as a feature.

I love Angular and perhaps in some places, and at certain times silent failures make sense (but would a console.log kill you?) but yeah... A-men!
If you like transit apps and detailed UX take a look at iPhone/android apps of www.citymapper.com

So far they only launched for NYC and London but they are truly amazing.

They are pretty much the only thing that makes London public transit bearable.

Their mission is: "to save Londoners from London!"

Disclaimer: I know the founders from London quite well.
Even more specifically, the blog post is an adaptation of the shorter version he told on Conan's show. (linked below the post)
It is also about a lack of accountability. There is no penalty for going to town on the guy - for them its just a more exciting day on the job - for him it's a humiliating loss of personal autonomy.
It was frequently worse than that. I was a Microsoft developer back then, and the thing to do in that world was to join MSDN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Developer_Network). That meant agreeing to pay Microsoft several thousand dollars every year, in return for which they would periodically ship you a plastic crate containing a metric buttload of CDs. On those CDs were copies of every product Microsoft had ever made, along with all the documentation for all those products.

Buying one book every six months would have been a lot cheaper.

They'll still sell you that subscription, of course (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/buy.aspx). Nowadays though the documentation portion is all available free on the Web (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library), at least. Progress!
"There are also no moving parts anywhere on Gaia. Even the antenna to communicate with Earth has been designed to point electronically, not mechanically."

Good, but on the next line...

"And if the satellite does need to make fine adjustments, it has been equipped with thrusters that can squirt just 1.5 micrograms of nitrogen gas a second."

Is there really no moving parts on Gaia?

Hmmm, they could try to use the Earth magnetic field for orientation; I guess the microthrusters were better...

P.S. And saying "accuracy of about seven micro-arcseconds for the nearest stars" is a little bit inkorrect.
Odd, I actually have this book checked out from the library right now (this story, with others, was bound into a collection sharing the same title). Clarke's brand of science-fiction struck me as much more principled and technically interesting than most of his contemporaries. Most of them have the unique property among science fiction stories of actually being possible given our knowledge of astrophysics. The speed of light is a minor plot element in many, especially the fact that it can't be broken (no 'warp drives'). I don't know if it was Clarke himself who said this, but I recall someone stating that many stories break so many fundamental physical laws that they are more accurately classified as "science fantasy," not science fiction.
And use 64-bit systems.
Not everyone has a middle-click or even a mouse. I use Cmd+Click (or Ctrl+Click) on HN but on reddit, a single-click works. On a laptop with a trackpad, it is much easier to tap once than to do a keyboard + click or tap.
http://github.backtype.com/profile?username=16s
You guys need a easily findable 'plans and pricing' page.
On this specific matter, as far as I can tell, (and I'd be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) Apple hasn't beaten them into submission at all.

If I want to buy music from another country, I need a separate account for that country, and I need either a credit card or an imported iTunes gift card from that country. Using multiple accounts on a single iPod, while now possible, isn't exactly fun, since I have to switch accounts to even get updates for free apps, much less make purchases. All this, of course, wouldn't be an issue if the same music was available in all regions.

Don't get me wrong, I give Apple credit where it's due in getting the RIAA and MPAA on board, but as far as I can tell, they haven't done anything to fight region-based market segmentation - not that anyone else really has.
NOT NEWS
Oops... My bad.

Still, half the argument still stands. There is no major IntelliJ IDEA CE release today. ;-)
They've already removed it...
You don't bounce emails you prebounce them and clean up your list. This is part of any sensible data engineers process.
> money that can't be inflated

The supply of Bitcoin has been inflated, on average, every 10 minutes for the past ~11 years.
> The correct perspective, aka reality, is that market value gravitates towards the intrinsic value in the long-term.

What makes that the "correct perspective"?
If you started doing value investing in 1990 and stopped 30Y later today, you would have perform less than the benchmark, so your definition of "long term" could very well be longer than the whole investment horizon of some people.

> And if you're a very long-term investor, you can ignore the market price and just collect the dividends.

Except few companies pay dividends that would even beat inflation nowadays. The trend is more towards share buybacks.
In that world, your intrinsic value does not exist, your only way to make a profit is to sell.
> So we just.. let it play out?

no. ideally "we" use sanctions and economic incentives, but also all the troops should go home or only remain there for civil support (clean up, distribute aid, lot of non-capitalistic, socialist ideas I have as a European which most Americans would hate like the plague). Secondly, people like Eric Prince and other Blackwater, "Wagner Group" type private terrorists should be prosecuted by the ICC. And "we" make the US play by the same rules as they dish out to the rest of the world.

any "call for peace" from the West can never not be hypocritical. Even if we would try, it's a silly pipe dream that will never play out in our universe. (nor is any other reality that advocates for a world without war and blood). But the least we can do IMHO is to _not_ continue what we've been doing since hundreds of years in that part of the world ("protecting our interests abroad" as the US call it). the only thing to be on the right side here morally is to clean up our own act so that nobody in our own countries thinks ICE and children in cages are justifiable. Or that it's OK that refugee children and families get separated, raped and rotting in our FRONTEX secured Greek islands.

Make room in the prisons for all these criminals running companies and not paying their taxes and maintain the death penalty (where it exists) only for white-collar crime or those that abuse the power they've been given (law enforcement & any public office).

Literally any crazy idea that improves society in our own countries would be better than keeping troops in Africa. And none of these idealistic suggestions above (insert your own dreams and lunacy if you think you can do better) will play out the way we want them. But nothing good can come for us in the West if we pretend we're "the good guys" who bring "democracy" and "equal opportunity" or whatever we believe that we're doing there. What we stand for in reality in these countries is hypocrisy, black sites, drones, legalized torture & kidnapping, foreign meddling, ... so apologies I don't believe it when we're saying "we must stay there because we are the lesser evil" or whatever BS
It'd probably make people think "This guy is acting really strange, though I can't put my finger on what he's doing. I don't like this guy. I'm going to get out of this awkward social situation now."
This is a ~1 minute teaser for a longer episode.

TL;DW transcript…

Host: Are there too many companies in this YC class?

JF: The quality of the companies is up. If there is any reduction of attention by the YC folks, (and he does not present that as a given), it is more than compensated by the increased networking of the class.

… not quotes, just a brutal summary of the video.
Here's what we do.

We have 120GB of photos from the last 4 years (when our first kid was born). They are in folders:

- Year
- Month (starting with #, ie "5. May"
- Outing (ie "Air & Space Museum")

Photos that are just around the house are in the root of the month folder.

This makes it easy to search for specific events and vacations (based on the descriptive "outing" folder name), but the weakness is that it's hard to find a particular 'round the house pic if we forget what month it was taken.
I like this idea actually. I'm getting better at it after being forced into it in a way after getting frustrated with a few clients. Feature creep and all that fun stuff
How are you selling your ads? Do you have your own ad server? You should really check out isocket if you're interested cutting out all the logistical crap. Granted I'm biased as the sales guy, but seriously, you should check it out/email me (jason@isocket.com)
thoughts on i/o ventures? email me if you'd like mjhunter at gmail
I've never used Drupal, but EE gives you more than just a TinyMCE field. You can create as many fields as you want. The four defaults are text input, text area, date field, and file field, but you can add new fields through extensions to get WYSIWYG, table fields, etc etc.

These can then be ordered on the publish page how you want, made required fields, searchable, enable or disable HTML, etc, so it gives a lot of control.
If a graduate degree is mandatory, why is there a bonus? Can't they raise the base?
> strict:lazy::manual memory:poorly optimized GC

Replace "lazy" with "non-strict" and I think you're on to something. Strict and lazy both specify a particular evaluation order, but you are talking about leaving the evaluation order unspecified and letting the compiler or runtime decide which evaluation order is best.

I love today's GC, which allows me to mostly forget about memory management, but if GC still meant waiting hours for a collection I would be more inclined to manage my own memory.

Clojure's lazy sequences, combined with doall to force strict evaluation when you want it, seem like a nice compromise for now, but will likely seem archaic when a good evaluation-order optimizer is developed.
Yes. But does a CMS do this in a good way? Custom fields inside a admin interface is not a very modern approach.
> there are rules in place so they can't grow too much (staking rewards decrease quickly)

I think this refers to the k factor, that puts the "soft limit" on decentralization. This I see as a barrier to entry: Ethereum 2.0 is 32ETH and that's it. Cardano has no monetary fee, but has eventual competition between pools, which is variable, likely ongoing cost. Barrier to entry is less defined, and could at some point grow beyond dollar value of 32 ETH (to become a competitive pool). Whereas Ethereum 2.0 will always stay a constant 32 ETH, no matter how many validators exist.
With some languages the problem is solved by simply being so ubiquitous that the runtime is already on your machine. I think this is true of C, C++, Python, Java... The second best thing is a fully self-contained executable like you get with Go or Rust. (I do not think it is a coincidence that both Go and Rust have been massively successful, though I think statically linked binaries are only a minimal part of that.)

The third best thing is shipping the binary alongside the app. The worst thing I can think of is just not shipping a runtime.

(Of course when it comes to package maintainers, it may still be desirable to ship a separate runtime package that everything links to, so as long as the language provides ABI stability for the runtime... but I like to think of package maintainer use cases as being separate from normal usage.)

And of course, for developers who primarily write apps that don't "ship" to external users, it would be normal to feel puzzled about this.
It should not require you to subscribe. User feedback (possibly implicit) should be used to determine what third party code is used for which queries/contexts by default.
Do you think such a long term view is allowed because of the legacy of figuring out search engine advertising?
Yes, they certainly can and frequently do kill. Multiple vectors, the most common of which is animal born E. Coli.

I don't know if anyone has done a toxicity study on organic vs non-organic vegetables, but, I think it would be a great area of research. Keep in mind, that if you aren't spraying on pesticides, you need to rely on "organic" methods to reduce crop loss to things like Fungi/insects/disease, etc... One of those "organic" methods is to breed (naturally) a hardier strain that is more resistant. That, in itself, can be dangerous - these new strains defend themselves with toxins. There are certainly records of amateurishly bred potatoes killing people.

See http://www.fao.org/docrep/T0207E/T0207E08.htm for some useful data on organic toxins found in vegetables.

There is something to be said about toxins that have a well documented and well-defined behavior versus whatever is being randomly grown in the organic farm.

Regardless - It would pay not to come to any conclusions before the traditional double-blinded statistically valid scientific studies are done, which was the point of the grandparent-post.
I've been a Netflix customer since 2005.
Last time I tried to use their "streaming service," it demanded that I use IE instead of Firefox to watch a movie.
I never tried it ever since.
Yet I'm still renting DVDs from them.
I have added "tell me more" and "show an example" links to the page....

Feedback?
Thank G-d this is not me! Don't most people usually take drugs to forget and that's without remember everything to begin with.

Its actually kind of scary when you test savants and realize they are for real.
The full first paragraph of the Safety Notice:

This product contains sensitive components. Do not drop, disassemble, open, crush, bend, bake, deform, puncture, blend (guess we'll never know if it'll bend), shred, incinerate, paint, bring to the moon, or insert foreign objects into the device. Do not spill liquids, rocks of any size, or food on the device. Do not expose the device to water, moisture or rap music.

It keeps going... :)
Pretty cool.

If you want to replicate this, please remember that they consumed only glucose!! Fructose, which is present in equal amounts in table sugar, sucrose, is definitely not good for you (unless you eat fibre with it, like in fruits). It's processed solely in the liver and in a way analogous to ethanol. You can get fatty liver from too much HFCS.

If you're interested, check out this review by Dr. Robert Lustig: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36173697/Bariatrician-Fructose
Thanks for commenting. We've discussed showing off the source code of the example programs up, but we haven't had time yet.
Just ask both, why try to guess who will sponsor?
I really wish they would post what the attacker wants removed so we could mirror it, post it, etc. The streisand effect is a good response to things like this I think.
In brief, you have more bandwidth than your attacker.