jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think science and religion are two different domains; they don't deal with the same questions. Only academic physicists are still fighting this 18th century war.

Agreed, the fact is we don't know and to take a position either way is faith. To state:

When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.

is pretty irresponsible statement for a person of his stature. The fact of the matter is even though we are not the size of a star or galaxy, or super cluster, does not mean that we do not play a vital role. Who knows each and everyone of us could play a very important part and be entangled with the very fabric that holds the universe together. For all we know the absence of just one of us could have caused the universe to never exist.

I am not saying that it is the case but merely pointing at that we have no idea.

I find it interesting that spirituality has show to have an evolutionary advantage and for the most part we have the core tenants of a moral code embedded into us despite what ones personal belief's are. It could be coincidence that these features where complementary to evolution but again we just don't know.

For me, discounting the possibility of a god would remove a great deal of cool though experiments. I am agnostic by definition but I always have cool thoughts about how a God could use math and physics to do all of this.
http://craigsworks.com/projects/simpletip/

It seems he moved on and cut his losses.
IIRC mythbusters used a medal winning swimmer and he couldn't perform. His body was attuned to swimming in water and he was messing up on his strokes (from what it looked like, he was taking longer to do a stroke in the more viscous liquids but he was going further with each stroke).
Well, in general ad networks show their highest-paying campaigns, followed by their second-highest, and so on. In other words, the more you run an ad network, the worse it tends to perform.

It might be the case that the worst-performing iAd beats the best-performing AdMob campaign, but this seems unlikely - and if it's not so, developers could've optimized yield and made more money by working with both parties. Generally, excluding any partner from your ad rotation reduces yield, which is why many online sites will work with many ad networks simultaneously.
For you Rubyists out there, there is also RAD - a Ruby version of this for the Arduino platform:

http://rad.rubyforge.org/
Oh, I understand what you mean now. He must have brewed up some extra strong coffee or downed a case of Jolt or two. 18 is a lot of posts for one person.
Yes, nothing to get angry about (I probably came across too aggressive), but I believe that the prevalence of pithy-one-liners like these (which get massive upvotes), reduce the quality of HN for reasons listed above. And I don't think I'm the only one: I noticed my comment fluctuate wildly between +6 and -4 over the course of a couple of hours...there's many others who feel the same way, even though we are now in the minority.

Regardless of what pg says, there's many of us that feel that HN has slowly decreased in quality over the last two years (that's putting it diplomatically). Perhaps the time has come to fork HN.
Yea, I'm with you - this is a great way to get people tinkering with a new language. Does anyone know of any similar websites for for playing with other languages? I'd love to see a language test drive site with as many languages as possible in a format like this.
I agree, mostly. Being smart and being good at explaining aren't the same thing, though. They may often go together, but it isn't necessarily the case.
I'm kinda curious what sort of folks prefer not, and why they're still working there.

I can sorta understand it, having worked in one situation where some screwed up incentives meant that I'd be better off personally if my employer tanked. But I'm really glad that I left. It's terribly emotionally draining to want to do the right thing and yet be in a situation where your incentives are to not. Why not find a place where your personal goals are much more aligned with your employer's goals?
These types of things do happen at consulting firms but you never know how long you'll be on the bench till you get your next gig.

Because of that, I don't know if it's any more conducive to developing a startup than any other situation. You could very easily go from the bench to an 80hr/week project in short amount of time. If I were developing something on the side, I'd rather have more of a set, regular schedule.
There's also the generic "that's provably false".
>In the same vein, if you get an iPhone 4 you can every confidence that Apple will make every effort to ensure that innovative and competitive software will be rejected or removed from the app store.

This is just nonsense. Looks like your one of the "anti-apple hoard" the GGP was talking about. It's pretty well known why the 2%-3% of apps get rejected: using a private API, violating the agreement, violating laws (e.g. ignoring codec copyrights).

Name one single piece of "innovative and competitive software" that was rejected without a good reason.
Recently Gruber pointed out that just because you don't like something (in this particular case, the closed nature and strange policies of the App store) doesn't necessarily mean it's a fatal flaw that will doom a platform.

The incredibly illuminating example he used to demonstrate this? The crappiness of the Windows GUI:

It occurs to me that the App Store’s restrictions and control are to this coming mobile era what Windows’s inferior user interface was to the PC era: something that offends some critics to a degree such that they will insist for years, despite the success and popularity of the platform, that it’s a fatal flaw that will ultimately doom it.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/19/fitzgerald

So will "doing it first" doom Android and limit its growing success and popularity, or does he just not like things that aren't done "right"? I also think, like the Windows GUI, that you'd be surprised about how much what you think is "right" has to do with what you're used to.
Wow, talk about impressive. Just curious about the tech behind this. Do they just cache a bunch of average prices together between major airports and just set a max limit? Surely it can't do fully comprehensive search at the speed it runs at.
Your job descrp. sounds like its in the corporate world. That culture demands professionalism at the forefront.

I wouldn't put this in my resume but mention in the interview I think that'll help them relate to me.
Anyone in the channel could have posted it from their own IRC logs - most IRC programs will allow you to log everything you see. That they've censored the nicknames of the people talking before posting gives me the feeling that it was probably one of the people talking in the channel that posted it.
"Disappear" (transitive) is absolutely a reference to a human-rights violation. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disappear:

disappear (ˌdɪsəˈpɪə)

— vb

1.	( intr ) to cease to be visible; vanish

2.	( intr ) to go away or become lost, esp secretly or without explanation

3.	( intr ) to cease to exist, have effect, or be known; become extinct or lost: the pain has disappeared

4.	( tr ) (esp in South and Central America) to arrest secretly and presumably imprison or kill (a member of an opposing political group)
I wonder what real-life airline pilots would think of this. Are they sitting in the cockpits of real 737s right now, bored out of their minds on their eighth Dallas-to-Fresno run of the week and laughing their arses off at the thought that somewhere down on the ground there's a bunch of dudes whose entire hobby revolves around pretending to be one of them?
I could only expect what they outline in their TOSes.

However, that said, mail is different in that mixing signals (email intended for me going into a mailbox now under control of someone else) might leave them open to liability, depending on what kind of information could be compromised). So, I don't think that would be a valid comparison.

Look, her basic argument was her data (content) was lost, then, learning it wasn't, revised the complaint to, my links are broken. That's moving the goalpost. That was my main point.
Honestly, maybe the OP was working too hard? I mean... did he get lots of equity? A million dollar pay-day? If not, I don't think it would be worth it to do 5 years of long-distance with one's significant other.
No, car payments and mortgages are very much similar things. Excluding the land, your house depreciates. You have to spend money to maintain both. The rent expense goes to the landlord, and the mortgage interest goes to the banklord. Rent is often cheaper, saving you money. And the savings can be invested and grow in value. You get that in the end.
>What I've specifically done is have one sheet of the spreadsheet represent the "raw, unreduced data", and write up formulae for aggregation in other sheets, based on the raw data and intermediate aggregations

This is exactly what I do. When it works, it is just way too fast for ad-hoc reporting to consider doing anything else. Pretty much all of my first draft reporting is built this way, so i can cut through the back-and-forth of management change requests before going through the trouble of setting up a full thing.

It is amazing how much you can accomplish with appending a couple columns to your raw data for categorization and then pivoting.

when im in a rush and need another layer (pivottable of a pivot table), I even set up formulas to reference a produced pivottable and then pivot on the formulas. You can extend the formulas far beyond expected use-cases and filter out the irrelevant rows later
What if you buy an old car because you can't afford a new car?
I like the idea of weighted representation, though I think you'd have to take at least the top two to avoid disenfranchising a significant fraction of the population under a winner-take-all approach, given our two-party politics. Taking the top 3 might make things interesting. You could imagine the dominant party's candidates finishing 1st and 4th, for instance, resulting in the minority party having more representation than the majority.
downclocks are only per core, its almost always worth it unless you arrange you workloads very badly (many small bursts of AVX-512 code)
downclocking is per core, it should normally be very simple to get huge net speedups with AVX-512 despite the downclocking, in game physics or anything else.

its also relatively common to write multiple versions of SIMD code (or use tools like ISPC or metaprogramming) to leverage whatever SIMD instruction set a cpu has. Such as the DOTS system in Unity. Games will happily leverage AVX-512 as soon as a fair number of desktop cpus support it.
Video seemed to do the opposite effect to me. Information overload and clutter made me wonder what I was looking at. Plain old terminals without these special symbols convey a lot more meaning with a lot less.
Agreed. This solution can not scale.

I think we have so many people right now that feel like they're not well represented by the folks who are currently representing them. And they feel like broad changes to the system we currently have will give them that representation.

I challenge the validity of the problem. Why do we believe they're not currently represented? I have a small state, but I do feel like we have had the opportunity to elect a representative as a group that mostly represents and is tied to our interests.

I think we're just lacking in decent representatives. Can we find people who are able to model conflict resolution instead of perpetuating this cultural war? As a leader, I'm responsible to represent everybody. Not just the people who put me in that position. And there are bound to be hard choices.

(disclosure: I intend to run for office and I'm currently putting together my plan)
Did you read the whole thing? You can't fit 6000 in a chamber... The idea is that reps stay local. Don't go to washington. Thus it makes D.C. less of a national security target. I could work for FB or Google remotely as a developer, why can't our reps work remotely? It'd even allow people w/ full-time jobs like developers to run for office if it was more a part-time thing because they didn't need a presence in Washington.

If they had a platform like reddit where members could weigh in on bills by 'channel' and have discussion online -- they could do 95% of their jobs remotely maybe even 100%. They may need to travel for small things but that's a non-issue.
I just broke 200 and got the ability to downvote comments...can't downvote submissions though, not sure if that's even a possibility actually
Way more frank than I was expecting. Great article
Good idea! Thanks everyone for your help.
I am now going to compose several paragraphs that I will copy and paste onto any forum/board/chat-area that has mistaken the definition of 'hacker' with this as a basis which people that frequent the /g/ board of 4chan might be familiar with:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an
operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components
comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is
often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's
resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete
operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called
"Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I had no idea Zappos was so big (1800 employees, over $1.5B in revenue), but with a founder like that, I can see why. He clearly cares a lot about his employees and his company's vision. What an enthralling story too!

Easily the best article I've read today.
I'm sorry, the iPhone is a neat phone, but it is far from revolutionary.

Hello...palm pilots? I had a palm m100, then m105, then m500, then zire 71 in the early 2000s and there were thousands and thousands of apps for them. Installing them meant connecting it to my PC and transfering them (love that twee del DEE......TWEE del do sound it would make).

Putting a cell phone into a PDA was an obvious move. Apple didn't invent it, they were just the first to gain mainstream popularity.
Indeed well worth the read. There are many parallel story lines that you could extract, depending on which point you are trying to make, but the best thing to do is read it and decide for yourself.
Your government is practically telling you that they are doing the same thing. What do you think "that is their job" means?

I can't believe it is more likely to you that your government is rolling over and "letting the NSA gain world domination", versus your government is trying to downplay it because they know they may one day be caught in exactly the same situation.
I've used Peopleperhour.com to build my career. It has a good community and isn't a "php-farm" like the other freelance sites (though it has been going downhill a bit lately). I still would highly recommend it but you will need a good profile before you start getting jobs. Though, once I did have a good profile, potential clients kept inviting me to bid to all sorts of jobs, so it's not hard to get good income out of it once you get started.

I don't use it much anymore since I found a full-time job, but it kept me in great shape for almost four years.

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Perl 6 was supposed to be an upgrade but it kept changing. I lost interest and know I will never use it. And if it is a totally different language why is it called Perl?
Google Translate on the text:

"We are down to you. Your pain and sorrow is our great pleasure . All your base are belong to us.".

The title of the site is also set to "Mac Robbery".

Same thing is on their Twitter account.

I don't think this is a prank - they were in the middle of a bundle sale which should have been running for the rest of today.

The background and the picture of Kim don't appear to exist anywhere else on the web according to GIS.
I'd also like to hear more. This is HN - a great place to discuss your product/tool (at the right time, of course)
Of course this comment is getting downvoted into oblivion. The open source community has no problem with sexism... noooo sir.
Don't contract as a contractor to businesses that are programming themselves. Build things for businesses that will be the end user. Most of these types of businesses have less of a notion of how to go about getting tools that will help their business in the first place and it can be a hard sell unless they have an immediate need. Sometimes you have to really learn about the specifics of how the business functions and this can be a pain. But once you build a few small accounting apps that export to CSV or inventory management tools specific to the business...stuff of that nature, you have a good point to take off from and examples to show. You do have to deliver though... a finished product, not just code. But I stay pretty busy like this.
I've been contracting for 4 years. I have received 1 job via my website. The rest have been through contacts, primarily through people I previously worked for when I was a full time employee. I've got a few through people I know from cycling. Cycling is apparently the new golf. http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/04/business-net...

I find events and conferences to not be much use, unless they are very specific to your industry.
Voicemails require an onerous synchronous process to access -- you have to go through your access menus, entering your PIN and some arcane set of numbers before you get to the message you want, and then you have to listen to it at the speed it was left, and press another set of numbers to keep it for future reference or delete it if you don't need to refer to it later (which may not be immediately obvious). If you save the voicemail, it takes longer to access other saved voicemails when you need to refer to them.

It's faster and easier to get an email, click it, and read/skim it, and let it sit in your inbox until you're ready to decide what to do with it.
A system that is not secure for bad people is not secure for anyone.

Tor is pretty good though, and few attacks relate to its core functionality.
It kind of saddens me that the mobile initiative seems to have completely hijacked the Oculus development. I'm starting to think that must have been part of Zuckerberg's deal when he acquired them.

On one hand it certainly makes sense from a mass adoption perspective, if you can make it work on a mobile you immediately have the biggest computing audience in the world.

However I have to assume that there is a ton of time spent on things that just would not be issues if it were hooked up to a full fledged PC. Work in reducing power consumption, increasing framerates, etc, are all efforts that could instead be spent on the actual VR experience instead.
Here's a bit of context: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qilang/HBBjtIxegFY/Wmv3Lh1IR...
And http://gdash.wikimedia.org/ :)
http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/ and http://gdash.wikimedia.org/ too
Not hard at all. Here are few key points to remember:

- parachutes go at the top, engines goes at the bottom
- engines point down
- don't mess up your staging
- if you didn't go high enough, put more boosters
- if you fell apart in flight, put more struts

Sincerely, Jebediah Kerman.
The current licensing doesn't has a name, the author states in the html page of the standard certain restrictions to fork the code, it has to pass some test, but those tests are not clearly defined and there are other restrictions that move people away from Shen. Choosing a BSD license solve the problem of giving a clear answer to the license of Shen and promotes cooperation.
I think it's nauseating when websites have non-ironic conversational copy ("Hey there! How are you feeling today?" as a prompt to write a status update on Facebook).

But on the NPM site I think it's different, it's a joke. It says "you look lovely today, btw". That's clearly mockery/irony. The help section is headed "you need help", for example.
Fair enough. Did you see my point about just hashing log4j.properties's contents? Since I assume you won't be modifying it after you publish as you don't want debugging. As long as you check the hash before you decrypt any XML this should solve your concerns.

In order for someone to then abuse the debugging functionality on Santuario they would need to modify your APK which is frankly just as big of a barrier as finding and pulling the private key(s).
I think this guy has a point, from first hand experience with the ChromeOS. I don't see the value.
If you ever do a write up or have screenshots of this setup, I would love to see it.
I believe that page may be out of date, or they've updated their github repo prematurely.

https://github.com/LINCnil/Guide-RGPD-du-developpeur/commit/...

/edit Ignore me. I appear to have misunderstood the changes when I last read this. Sorry
In my Opinion, the first 5-6 paragraphs are full of inspiration.
This is what I do think so ...
I agree with your "too much fragmentation" argument. Although I think a better solution would be this:

1. Define a common API to text editors. It would have stuff like "change text at" and "highlight line" and so on. Going the other direction there would be a set of well defined events like "text changed" and "do X", and so on.

2. Convince tool makers to write to this api rather than a specific editor.

3. Enjoy awesome source tools from any darn editor you want.

(Also, IDEs don't go away, they become the gui layer in editor/plugin interaction. This is not a small role!)
Its pretty disgusting to track people against their consent, even more so to circumvent their protections against tracking. I added your domain to my blocklist: https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/commit/bb2cd77c9ec028...
Pretty sure that Erlang or Elixir would work there - you can have clusters of stateful servers.
> This looks more like a program more designed to produce press releases than useful results.

Isn't it interesting how often one reads about science in the press that seems more geared towards generating press releases than useful results?
autonomous motorcycles with permanently-blinding laser weapons = not a good thing
This is for the same kind of people who record their heart rate every minute for their entire lifetime... And then proceed to do nothing with the mostly-useless data.
They all offered a VPS, which is basically a Linux box with root access. Any Linux tutorial would work on all three services.

I'm not arguing if DO was a clone or not, but saying that "you could use Linode/Slicehost documentation because DO was a clone" is a bit of a stretch.
They're not spending 20 years supporting it though. They're spending six months and then moving all of their engineers to the next chip. An important customer might be able to get them to get a couple of interns to look at something, but even that's like pulling teeth.

Interrupt controllers take made a couple weeks to design and write a driver for from my experience. Round up and call it a man month. It doesn't take a lot of units sold for that to be cheaper than licensing an IP core.