jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Only if you assume that English should be the default language when it comes to higher education institutions' names.

And we all know Japan has a bit of a reputation for xenophobia. I wouldn't expect this to change any time soon.
Getting called a "nigger" and "faggot" roughly 600 times a day only dulls me, doesn't get in my head.
Reminds me of this article: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
Because it has a cool name.
Depends what you're doing. It doesn't have the depth of libraries of the JVM or JS, so there'll be lots of "oh, can't use that technology" or "is this 3-year-old unmaintained library still going to work with Mongo?" moments.
Actually, this expression is non-conforming: you must not try to modify the string returned by cl:symbol-name.

"non-conforming" means you will get different results in different implementation, perhaps something like a nasal dragon, or perhaps an error signaled, or perhaps some more benign behavior.

$ clall -r '(progn (setf (char (symbol-name nil) 1) #\U) (quote nil))'
CLISP Attempt to modify a read-only string: "NIL"
ECL Detected access to an invalid or protected memory address.
Clozure Common Lisp --> #|symbol not found in home package!!|#COMMON-LISP::NUL
Armed Bear Common Lisp --> COMMON-LISP::NUL
CMU Common Lisp --> COMMON-LISP::NUL
SBCL --> COMMON-LISP::NUL

Some implementations will gladly and blissfully modify the symbol name, and your program will break because it cannot intern the original name anymore (not the best behavior for an implementation IMO); some implementation will detect the non-conforming access. Worse could have happened (remember, you are on the Internet so you can be located by geoip/gps/wifi, and missiles silos can be hacked by botnets).

But otherwise indeed in general, mutable lisp objects are mutable, and you can implement mutating algorithms as well as purely functional algorithm. Foremost, you can have an hybrid approach, using what's best to solve the current problem.
The company I work for has done this. We constantly A/B new designs, and if the new one loses out to the control, that's it. Back to the drawing board, it's gone.

That doesn't mean everything necessary gets chucked out immediately. Sometimes we'll then test individual parts of a design (failed or otherwise) to see if those do better on their own. And complete redesigns with similar aims do sometimes get created (but they're usually completely different in colour scheme, layout, text, etc).

We also do user testing for the same stuff. That too is more important than a designer's opinion would be.

So yeah, it does happen.
Needing an account to read articles is a bit much, IMO. Unless I’m misunderstanding something.

I dont want to make people sign up for something new just to read my shitty links
> “Why wouldn’t you bike? It’s stupid not to bike.”

This article seems aimed at Americans. After all, it's our paper of record.

America doubles down on cars over and over again. Building roads and widening them intending to reduce congestion, causing more congestion. Ride-sharing intended to reduce congestion, causing more congestion. Now self-driving cars intending to reduce congestion, will cause more congestion.

We spend billions making the same mistakes. New York's biking infrastructure, while laudable, pales in comparison to the roads we build everywhere else.

We have so much potential. Instead we create obesity.
This is exactly right. I've come across this theory of obsession on my own and I've been helping my wife find what she's obsessed with. She watches things on YouTube like makeup tutorials that are things I would have never thought she was obsessed with.
Hi, author of large parts of this here! This was written in the lead up to the Rust 2018 edition release last year, but it should still be pretty much up-to-date.

There is a lot of more info and discussions on the associated repo [1]. We didn't have a lot of time to quickly respond to everything recently, but: Questions, typo fixes, and additional chapters are very welcome :)

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg
Or, he just went full on gym teacher and decided there'll be no more of this shit.
Bingo, when I first moved out here I lived a couple blocks west of this place. It was 70% college kids. They also have a massive park and ride garage there, so I think I know where all those car free people will stash their cars.
Well, at this point it’s a tautology because, as you pointed out, “algorithm” is defined in terms of a Turing machine.

To my knowledge, recursive functions alone are not sufficient to describe all computation. To do that, you need to consider functions as first-class values which is the innovation Alonzo Church came up with concurrently with Turing’s work.
The number of unanswered questions grows even faster as more questions are answered.
Just to point out, we not only find stuff where our obsession lies, we can sometimes create complexity and interesting stuff where it lies, out of the thin air.

I'm obsessed about audio/music tech. Some part of this area is immensely complex due to people's obsession with good sound, or new interesting sounds, or new ways of altering it. They don't discover these things, they create it. Time stretch or pitch shift algorithms, for example, were created (I suppose) by obsessed people who like to create complexity and by extension, useful stuff.

So no, Darwin's invention model is not the only possible one.

I can't imagine how you can create useful complexity by collecting bus tickets, but who knows, maybe some key to inventing more efficient public transport lies there. Or at least more efficient bus ticket printing. Can be anything!
the Netflix prize was a million bucks..
I'd question how much of that impact comes from specializing the collection code, and how much of it comes from allocation and locality. The temptation with void* collections is to malloc everything, which is lethal for performance, and one of the very few non-bug things I've come across whose fix actually yields a 10x performance improvement.
http://uthash.sourceforge.net/utarray.html

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=queue
Minimizing latency is still very important in mobile, times of network congestion, and the many places around the world that still have slow connections.
HTML also has the benefits that it's indexable and semi-open-source.
So I hope this is not widely adopted, but it would be awesome for porting existing apps and maybe replacing Flash in some instances.
There is already "archlinux" which is a rolling release distro.

But this would be a killer feature if Ubuntu can pull it off. I think there needs to be a fundamental difference in packaging philosophy to achieve this - for example the "-dev" being packaged separately will now need to go IMHO, etc.
That's not actually true. You can sign an app without going through RIM; they provide code that does it. (Unlike iPhone, you can just download an app from anywhere on the Internet and install it, as long as somebody has signed it with any key at all.) However, you can't use their push servers without a RIM-signed app, which has apparently been revoked in this case.
4 : space colonies
I agree Facebook loses, but I think maybe we differ on how. For example, I have no confidence that humans would behave as logically as you do in your post. I'd expect them to fully blame the government for any number of reasons but primarily because they don't care about their data, and they now can't interact with their friends/memes as they did before. Even if you tried to explain, I don't think most people would care.

That said I also think they'll forget about Facebook in a week or two and move to tiktok or where ever their friends/memes go.

I'm being misanthropic but I really do think this is how it would go down.
O pretty much never click on ads, so ppc campaigns are worthless on me... as to ppv ads, most of them are obnoxious.. including on the main site I work for... I tend to whitelist it only because I need to make sure ads work.

That said, thankfully the new design has fewer ads, which should help a lot. It really just depends, it's easy to go down a rabbit whole with ads... but we get 90% if our ad revenue from 40% of our ads. So cutting out a lot changes the layout of income without nearly so much impact on revenue.
PostgreSQL in production, MongoDB and Redis in the pipeline...
Hi Dan please tell us a bit more about what it is like to work for TC. Is Mike a good boss? ;-)
>I did not mean to encourage anyone to do this

"embrace your moral fortitude" is a pretty positive way of putting something you claim not to advocate.
That's not how trademarks work.

You register in a class, here in the UK FaceTime wasn't registered until this March. It's registered against the Nice Classificiation (http://www.wipo.int/classifications/nivilo/nice/index.htm?la...) meaning that if you want to use the term FaceTime for anything encompassed by classes 16 or 35 then you need to license the trademark.

Apple are an international company and need to abide by trademark restrictions in other jurisdictions in which they are operating commercially.

FaceTime appears to have been registered using the Madrid system in more places than just the US.

So, whilst the US-only classes are quite narrow this is not the end of the locus of operation and so international trademarks have to be considered.
I find it odd I had to restart after upgrading a browser in OSX, reminds me of that old time. In Windows the upgrade went without a restart.

Edit: Yes, talking about Safari only.
I'm afraid people will have to deal with the fact that it's the user who controls the browser. You can't just shove stuff down your users' throats — it's their browser.
I can see how a ban can continually generate reactance, because you'll be reminded of it every time, but a consumption tax will probably only see a smal reactance at the start, and as soon as people forget about it, consumption levels will drop accordingly.
30% for a year of "roughly my current salary". Oh so you want it for free? Sure, why not.
In what Windows did the upgrading go without a restart? Firefox, maybe. But upgrading the MS COM component responsible for drawing shadows on a drop down menu in some obscure MS library for accessing DAO databases ALWAYS requires a restart.

I uninstalled ZoneAlarm a few days ago and clicked "OK" as I went through the motions .. great, now the machine is rebooting and I lost whatever the fuck I was doing.

Compare that to Linux where I was developing custom file system drivers. modprobe foo, and I had a foo driver looking at an intricate piece of chipod, rmmod and it's gone ..

Wax poetic all you want about OS stability, but Windows is the wrong muse to sing to wrt stability, and I say that typing on XP.
Poster and affected residential user here.

Link to an ISP representative quoting the 326Gbps figure is here[1].

Just to add a little more context here for people not familiar with the economic situation of South Africa. While it is true that the majority of our population could be categorized as third world in regards to their education and income, large urban areas are populated by middle class or wealthier citizens, also being highly developed and comparable to many US or European cities in terms of infrastructure.

I have a 25/25Mbps fibre connection which costs me about 800ZAR (~55USD) per month which is maybe a little faster compared to an average middle class person's connection here.

I find this interesting as our remoteness from major connectivity hubs in places like the US and Europe makes us particularly susceptible to what is essentially economic ransom demands.

[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/cool-ideas-fibre-isp...
This is lovely, was just looking for something like this the other day. Gonna see if I can get this nicely integrated into a ClojureScript project and make the transition when writing code between js/wasm seamless. Thanks roman01la!
Thank you. That makes sense to me. I love you.
OOI, where does the Ruby script run?
MacBooks with iPhone stripe don’t have Nvidia hardware.
I mostly agree with you (with the caveat that pushing for nuclear has different cost/benefit ratios in different parts of the world, the U.S. is merely one extreme), but this is exactly why I pay very little attention to public debate regarding energy policy and emissions control.

Outside of IPCC reports (which for all their process issues are generally fairly comprehensive and well written) and a small number of other scientific publications, there are few serious attempts to conduct objective cost/benefit analysis, rank order policy measures, etc. Instead, we have people who pretend science doesn't exist on one side and many of the same "environmentalists" who are, by virtue of their ideological stupidity, just as culpable for this mess as their opponents on the other. Given this state of affairs, I see no reasonable prospect of prevention. Instead, we will simply have more or less local mitigation solutions, which will work fairly well in the rich parts of the world and probably fail miserably in many of the poorer parts. The only silver lining here is that localized measures are far easier to implement as they require cooperation on a much smaller scale and, for the most part, will happen to avert dangers that will by then have become obvious to all.
The girl says "size shouldn't matter". Yeah right, because you are fighting for points.
Yeah. It's definitely not a heroku issue. We were configured to run on a single backend. It's since been increased and should be better now.
I changed my profile out of frustration. Obviously, I am not 13 years old. I just changed it again now to "Dyslexic 31 year old who loves computers and freedom. and I can be reached via gruupr.com.
It's not me in particular, but if you read the EC2 forum going back to 2006 people have been asking for full virtualization, multiple IPs, multicast, non-NAT, reverse ARP, shared EBS, etc.
It very simple to write a quick DataMapper adapter for RailsAdmin. The thing with the history model is going to be changed probably on Saturday's BugMash.
It's also a single point to defend.
I'm at a basic level with Elixir (played around a little bit with Erlang first), and so far I'd say definitely - the syntax choices seem very, very good, and it's a pleasure to work with. I can now read Erlang code pretty easily because of this, the concepts and structure are often the same, but introduced in a far more understandable way, and it's felt a hell of a lot smoother than going Erlang first - YMMV of course.
but you don't get to decide whether to use 32bit or 64bit mode, your firmware does for you.
I could be wrong, but OS 9's Multiprocessing framework actually relies on multiple physical CPUs, from what I can tell - there's no way to use it or test in an emulator (I've tried in the past)
The thing that eats the most resources is joining very large, public Matrix rooms. If you don't do this, it won't be resource heavy.

I've heard of people running Synapse on a RPi 3 (see https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g9h6au/matrixri... for instance) for such use cases. If you want to chat in large 1000+ member rooms, it probably won't be enough. However, even for such a use case, you don't need anything that is out of reach of a common person, just a few gigabytes of RAM. In general, it's hard to make it go over 3 GiB. My server hovers around 2 GiB and I'm in many large rooms, including the beast that is Matrix HQ.

So I would agree that Synapse is not usable on RPi-level hardware in all use cases, but you can definitely run it on such hardware for some use cases. Dendrite is also maturing really quickly and will be less resource hungry.
Is alcohol not considered a grocery? I don't spend that much on alcohol, maybe it's 2% of my grocery spending. But even if it was 10%, I don't see myself keeping a separate mental account for it.

Maybe let me add, when I buy a bottle of wine, it's a $5 bottle.
I'm honestly not sure why you perceive the comment as bitter. In my mind, it's a simple and dry observation; nothing more, nothing less.

What it adds to the discussion is raising the question "why would you want to read 1000+ books a year?"

Finally, I'm not sure why I would delete the comment. If it makes you uncomfortable, I'm afraid that's on you...
Yes...bet sizing is something I worry about a lot, but it isn't clear to me how to apply the kelly criterion to a game where the risk/reward is mostly unknown and only based on a hunch.
I don't think the odds is really part of the distinction. If you find a way to "gamble" with positive expectation, by profiting from sports betting markets for example, you are still labelled irresponsible and reckless compared to real "investors" who buy stocks, even when those bets are clearly unwise.
Previous discussions:

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280239

Community responses:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216680

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12179222
Only if you liquidate all your stocks to cash at what is obviously a very disadvantageous time.

In reality, your rent/mortgage and other commitments would continue to fall due at a very predictable monthly schedule.

So you sell down only as your liabilities fall due. The majority of your holding stays invested so you can capture the rebound over the following months.
Thank you @dev_tty01 really good catch! We will fix it and thank you for the feedback.
It does not matter where the decision to shut off traffic is made.

Be it court order to load an ACL or a central routing point, the outcome is the same. Take a look at FISA warrant approval rates if you think judicial oversight means anything in the face of national security.
This is an amazing topic for getting scientific misconceptions out in the open. Unfortunately, it does nothing for allaying them. People keep on insisting on ridiculous things like dropping the Earth into the Sun, even though there are far more efficient ways to reduce the whole planet to a featureless, lifeless molten glob. Most of the people who have the capacity to learn from such a thread have already learned and the people left haven't the inclination.

This particular article can't hold a candle to rec.arts.sf.science discussions of the same topic from the early 90's.
Um, eBay tried and failed. I worked for PayPal China and it's been a rough slog for them. The only inroads for them was all the cross-border stuff.

Alibaba (the other big Chinese Internet giant) accepts PayPal now.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870446470457520...
This was a while back, but they may still need new people?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309097
I'm embarrassed to say that I almost closed the window after a few minutes because his accent/demeanor made him come off as a bit of a douchebag. Now I'm really enjoying it.
I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display?

My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
in an actual war or emergency, the president would issue one of those things called "executive orders" - basically laws that don't need to go through congress.

There is no justification for this bill to exist, other than because these senators decided "If China can do it, then why can't we?"
Is FizzBuzz actually used as a coder test? Are their really paid coders out there who can't solve that in a couple minutes?
You're taking this entirely too seriously. There is no such thing as a perfect language. Most flaws are features when looked at in the right light. And obviously the reverse is also true.
I came up with the Goldilocks (meta?-)heuristic[1] for that: Only trust someone to say X is too high if they can also tell you when X would be too low.

A corollary of which would be e.g. "Don't trust a skeptic that says 'X won't Change The World' unless they can tell you which developments would Change The World."

[1] Or Scylla-Charybdis Heuristic if you prefer: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2015/12/the-scylla-charybd...
Agree with the point the author is making, but here's an added question – is it wrong to always trust these heuristics regardless?

To use the doctor example, over-diagnosing symptoms is as harmful as under-diagnosing them. You cannot prescribe an MRI and other advanced tests to every patient who walks into your door, since (1) they are expensive and capacity is limited and (2) there is a chance you will get a false positive and end up in a worse condition than you started from. Maybe always sending patents home with an aspirin until the symptoms get worse is the right thing to do?

In more generic terms, betting on the 0.1% outcome is a risk, and one that you may not be able to afford to take.
Yes, the main point is that strings in many cases is the hammer in the toolbox: it always works, even when you needed the saw or the screwdriver.

And many webservices can be manipulated from strings alone.
But an unwritten constitution is easier to change, because there is nothing written down to refer to as a 'base.'
You are very lucky to have never experienced addiction.

That's an assumption. If you have, and still believe the above, then your ethics may be obscuring your compassion or pragmatism.
I actually got pretty proficient at typing on a standard keyboard with one hand. It really spoked my keyboard teacher in middle school. It was mostly about keeping my other hand on the mouse for video games.

I didn't find this device appealing.
The arguments for deletionism are far stronger than a mere appeal to etymology.
FYI- most music stores, and every guitar center I have ever been in, stock gaffer tape. It's a little more expensive {19.95 at B&H vs 29.99 at Guitar Center for a 50yd roll} but it has saved my butt a few times when I've needed it in a hurry. I volunteered as tech crew in a community theater, and there was one time where I hadn't reordered in time and dress rehearsal was that evening. Makes sense that musicians would need it as well.

I'll definitely second that it is really useful stuff, I almost always prefer it over duct tape.
Dattner was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a good deal of printed material about him and the adventure playgrounds that dates from that time. But it is not available online; to find it, I needed to walk into actual libraries.

Sometimes good research takes actual effort.
The 2021 data shows heavy movement away from california and ny toward texas and florida.

California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are all losing representation in the house. Due to losing population.

Is it climate fears? I would tend to agree that those states who are losing people will also be the states in which they care about climate.

Or is it because of poor governance?
Or maybe new ice age is coming.
How can you objectively say that 538 was right or not?

They use numbers to come up with probabilities, but there are a lot of baked-in assumptions about things like turnout, various sampling errors or biases, etc.

They have reasons for their assumptions, such as using information from previous elections. But the current election may violate those assumptions, but it's hard to say how much and with what probability.

I trust 538 for the most part. But it's just models and those models have assumptions and it's quite possible the assumptions were just wrong in 2016. We only have one data point, so we'll never really know.
Consider working for a non-profit, or company with a mission that you feel strongly about. When you see the end result of your days labor bring good to some people, it can be quite fulfilling in a way that bringing home a FAANG paycheck can not be.