jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd put myself in the same category, math-curious. I missed the TV series, but bought the book instead: http://www.musicoftheprimes.com/thebook.htm It's a good read.

BTW I hadn't seen that website until I went looking for a URL for the book just now. The site seems to have some pretty interesting material in its own right too.
My opinion, being in a similar situation: Build for the future. My SAAS product prototype currently works only in Safari/WebKit, since it's the only browser that supports CSS3 Animations and CSS3 3d Transforms. I have not yet launched anything so this is purely speculation, but I'm willing to wait a year or two, since what I'm building will take some time for a single developer (me!).

May not work for you, but it's my current philosophy.
flag articles as appropriate and upvote things you like.

edit: though, i admit i'd like to see downvotes on submissions, too, just to see how that would work out here. perhaps two front page lists for an experiment. one that shows the results with downvotes counted, one without.
So, so true.

You can self-edit, but you need some distance between the time of writing and editing. Also, editing technical work is different to, say, a novel. You also need to know your written language very, very well. And you need to know fundamental typography, which differs from country to country.

So, yup, there's a lot more to publishing than scribbling out the words and throwing out there.
Do you guys actually like doing voice searches? Because I don't.
I don't understand the wording of A and B. Stories that are getting upvoted by the hackers here (A) are by definition stories that hackers find interesting (B).
Ha! You're not anonymous any more, paulftw. Now we know you're from Sydney.
I think, as an American, the metaphor carries with it the idea of a situation you think at the outset should be relatively easy but once you get invested in it seems to have no way out until you leave relatively defeated.

For history buffs from Europe, the experience of Germanicus (at least as recounted by Tacitus) in the swamps across the Rhine may have a similar implication. Oh look, we're the Roman army, the most powerful army in the world. Defeating a few barbarians should be easy! But then the actual requirements start piling up, one gets into the swamps, can't move about like one would have hoped, logistics gets disrupted, and eventually it takes outside help even to retreat.....
If you switch AND get a new device.
"that's stupid" is a pretty broad statement. There are many reasons why one may choose to write new software in JS while taking advantage of existing investment in Java. If it doesn't make sense for you, don't do it. But for many it may.

As for coding Java on Nodyn, well, yes you can. That's kind of the point in some ways. You can write Java, package it as a jar and access this from Nodyn. Nodyn itself does this for the Buffer implementation.

Yes, vert.x already supports JS (I maintain the mod-lang-js, mod-lang-rhino and mod-lang-dynjs language modules for vert.x). The idea behind Nodyn is to provide drop-in Node.js compatibility in the Vert.x environment.
What exactly will users be paying for, if you can just clone it and build it?
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This is not what this article is about?
insecurity...pfft...it's usually a short lived existential crisis for me :D
> And yet, the fed bought the Keystone XL pipeline for $7B more than it was worth in order to bypass those "strict" environmental (and indigenous) protection policies

This doesn't remotely represent what actually happened with the Keystone XL.

First of all, the government paid $4.5B for it, which makes it literally impossible for them to have overpaid by $7B.

They also haven't bypassed anything in the process. They were deemed to have not done due diligence in consulting native tribes and re-opened consultations which took about a year to resolve before they could start building.

Canada is a huge landmass with a relatively tiny population. We cannot compete on the global scale in terms of population productivity. Our economic edge is our natural resources. How else do you suggest we make money to pay for our healthcare and all of the other social services we've come to expect?

We have what the world needs. IMO we can either dig it up and export it or expect wars to be fought here for control of it.
Seems like I dodged a bullet. Didn't install the app, neither bothered to try the service. All the signals (excuse the pun) about this app seemed off to me. Centralized servers, no f-droid listing, used GCM, apparently the devs were hostile to feedback etc.
Though can't blame everyone who hopped on the bandwagon
The only update that I got since was high school was that electrons aren't on concrete orbitals around the nucleus, but that there is a probability distribution saying that they are likely somewhere around the area where the concrete "orbital" concept is usually drawn.

That and quantum shenanigans, but that comes down to "we can't transport information faster than light."
privacy isn't just encryption. Forcing users to link their phone number as an identifier like signal does is just one of the myriad of questionable choices signal has made. And with their coin based payment they just painted a large bullseye on them.
Godel kind of proved that about Mathematics.
That would require management honestly evaluating employee performance and acknowledging bias. In reality management has spent a year proving to itself that working from home is impossible.

Companies that can take an honest look at themselves based on the last year will do well in the future. Those that don't will continue alienating good employees.
Yuck. This growing practice of bundling the world is a travesty.
A manager not doing their job is terrible for the team. It might work for a year but then all the capable devs are going to leave.
Tell that to Valve. I wish I could change my Steam user name that I chose in my juvenile years.
The sane solution for that is to just use "number of meters since start of street" as the building number. That way you can always fit new buildings between existing ones and get the bonus that if you are at building 100 and want to get to 200 you know that's 100 meters away. Usually you'd also do even numbers on one side of the street and odd on the other to make it easy to know which side to look at. This means you can't have doors closer than 2 meters apart which is usually ok. If you really need more doors then 100A and 100B are the usual hack.
Understood.

I am agreeing with you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/37ylk5/a_linear_pr...
Here's an early legal analysis by one of the pioneers in this field, Cal Law professor (and Macarthur Fellow) Pamela Samuelson: Allocating Ownership Rights in Computer-Generated Works (1986) [0]

[0] https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
It's a matter of practice. I find light backgrounds unbearable in thr nails on chalkboards sense. After looking at one the rest of the environment looks dark and off. I can't make the backlight dim enough for them to be comfortable. With dark backgrounds and light text, I feel the device to be a more natural part of the surroundings. It's not glowing nearly as much and is emitting only the light that's needed to communicate the information I need.

If you are talking about research based on modern oled devices then I'd love to read it. Maybe I'm weird.
How do you define a reasonable dose, and are you speaking from a single experience?

Asking this due to wildly different subjective experiences.
I had a TI-89 in school because having CAS in your pocket was just plain awesome. Besides, it was much cheaper than mathmatica. Interestingly once I got into higher level[1] stuff the abilities of your calculator were of much less importance. Really computational stuff was done on a computer (in the lab) and any math in class could be handled with a basic calculator. When I sat for the FE and PE (fundamentals and professional engineering exams) they require you to use a dumb calculator. No programmability allowed. https://ncees.org/exams/calculator/

[1] I have an electrical engineering degree from a US public university.
It is not aggressive, it just wasn't as obvious before to those outside of the circle.
I agree! I wish I knew you in real life.
At companies where "stupid things happen, but can't be fixed", it's easy to make a list of things that people would like to see fixed, since they've been irritating everyone forever. Netflix isn't like that, and we have the freedom to fix stupid things anyway. So it's a hard question to answer. :-)

There have been technologies that I haven't liked, and I've had the freedom to work on them, change them, improve them, and have. I can list many of those, but it's not too different to what I've been putting in my blog during the past 10 months.
> I think the implication is that while they may have no present use, they will have future use when they develop into adults.

I think even this assumption is dangerous, and besides, you're just kicking the can down the street (how do you define a human's usefulness?).

The simple truth is that not everything on this planet needs to have a use, let alone a positive use. This goes for both things and matters that we have control over (science) and things we have no control over.
Considering pg praises Ronco's investing background without even mentioning his controversial high-profile political background, I think its fair to say that pg probably isn't too concerned with the social issues at play here. None of his essays seem to address labor rights either. I'm certainly using him in a hypothetical for my argument, but its not an entirely fictional and unfair strawman. I think on the investor level, at least from my personal experience, skill workers are just cogs. They are part of a money making machine, and their concerns are very much at the lower end of importance. This is why we can have things like secret deals not to poach engineers and the H1B problem.

I think by the standards of casual internet commentary, my comment is perfectly acceptable and appropriate and using high-profile characters in hypotheticals to make a point is fine. If NVIDIA did something displeasing to the FOSS community and someone wrote, "Oh man, Linus is going to full asshole on them tomorrow," I doubt you would be white knighting him. Lets maybe turn down the pg fandom a bit, eh? He's certainly not above criticism.
I see; the difference is SCOTUS vs. circuit court of appeals precedent. I was referring to the decision of May 9, 2014 that overrulled the Alsup court assertion that APIs are not subject to copyright. But that decision was not from SCOTUS but from the appeals court for the circuit.

Current status, if I understand correctly, is that SCOTUS has not weighed in on whether APIs may be subject to copyright, and precedent in (Edit: Ninth Circuit) should be that they are to be considered copyrightable (and, I suppose, "no precedent in this circuit or from the Supreme Court" in all other circuits).
Another data point: Tesla Model 3 Performance version will go 0-60 in 3.1 seconds (not quite as fast as the Corvette's 2.9) for $52k; about $10k less than the Corvette.
Not every Uber driver has much choice of a thousand companies trying to hire them.
without regards to the hubbub around "AI".

> Epilert contains a monitoring system that enables epileptic patients, their caregivers and doctors to monitor patients’ vital signs, daily lifestyle, medication taking and seizures through dedicated mobile apps.

I live with someone who has epilepsy. For adults, it's largely manageable with some medications. For my partner, this enables her to work and live mostly normally.

The biggest issue for her is having an early warning system. She is unable to obtain a drivers license, though she doesn't frequently convulse at random times. It's typically cyclical for her, and of the time I have known her, it's never been "unexpected". She usually knows before hand what's going on and lies down in bed, takes a secondary anti-convulesant medication and relaxes. Most of the time this - just works.

However, I would love for her to be able to drive, as it's a huge impediment for her being able to work places, or visit places. I don't especially like being a standby taxi driver.

If she could reliably get alerts from a monitoring device, I think she would be low risk for driving. The fear of the DMV is that she has a seizure on the highway and kills herself or someone else. With a good early warning system, she could pull over, or not drive that day or whatever.

Epilepsy is manageable but also can be very rough - it's a lifelong situation and is can be triggered by a sorts of things.

Anyway, just my two cents.
I patiently watch eBay, so mine cost far less.
I don't think there was anyone signed up as a driver with Uber before the ADA existed but for the sake of argument, we can assume those people exist. Yes, I agree that they should receive government-funded training that teaches them to tolerate a service dog in their car.

Every who signs up to be an Uber driver after the signing of the ADA must be capable of transporting service dogs.
It seems to quire naive to give unions all the credit while failing to America’s declining quality compared to Japan and failure to listen to loud market trends.

GM ignoring Deming’s TQM while Japan wholeheartedly embraced this philosophy should be mentioned.

The rapid increase in oil prices and the big 3 ignoring the data and sticking with the “Americans want big gas guzzling cars” philosophy would also be mentioned.

This last one combined with the oil crisis is how Honda killed Harley Davidson, as well as how Toyota and VW killed the big 3. When the oil crisis hit the 15-mile per gallon american behemoths just became irrelevant.

Containerized shipping and a lack of import taxes also had far more to do with the USA losing its doninance.

We wanted cheaper, smaller, more reliable cars. The big 3 wanted to pretend like it was still 1955.
I think I'll start using the term "echo system"
It doesn't seem to be mentioned directly on the Google Ideas site, but it seems to be Jared Cohen's own project [1], which could explain the defense-themed sub-projects. Interestingly, their last public blog post was in late January [2], and there hasn't seemed to be much public press on what they're doing in a few years.

[1] http://www.cfr.org/experts/cybersecurity-iran-technology-and...
[2] https://plus.google.com/+GoogleIdeas/posts
That's fair. I had been assuming you'd use ITCM for tight loops regardless but I can't recall whether you can do that on GBA now that I think of it.

As for copying data around, yeah, if your emu can't copy data to/from VRAM in a sensible manner it's just not going to work out.
"maybe i was a little hard on christianity, but i don't really think so. i think you are vastly overestimating the extent to which "love your brother as yourself" has been the most influential element of christianity. i look at the history of christianity and see a history of using organized religion as an exclusive club to claim superiority over other people, demonize them, oppress them, murder them, etc. any ideology that claims to have a premium on the truth eventually produces people who are willing to do anything to protect their "truth." a non-religion, non-ideology, with zero written rules and only one basic idea (not a commandment)---that suffering sucks for you and everyone else so you should probably try not to cause it--would have served the human race a whole lot better, IMO, though unfortunately people tend to buy into elaborate fables and rule systems."

Actually I generally agree with this. However, the reality of life is, per Hobbes, "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.". That is what religion, probably more than any other force, has mitigated. Religion is diametrically opposed to "human nature", no?

"i guess i don't see a point in living if there is no hope that we can improve, as a collective, at perceiving the traps of human nature that have nearly destroyed the world and choosing collectively to cooperate and overcome them. perhaps i'm a fool, but i feel we don't have to destroy ourselves."

I don't recall advocating self-destruction. If there is a nuclear war, I expect we'll win. ;-)

"capitalism: yes, amazing advances, high standard of living, etc., but you're overlooking the fact that it has also produced weapons that would allow us to vaporize the planet, slowly decimated the biosphere, and made the gap between rich and poor more egregious than ever. arguably those latter three things are pretty big problems with unbounded capitalism."

The arms race is entirely unavoidable. One hopes it will continue as it has lately, with unprecedented peace around the globe. Atomic weapons should be worshiped as the greatest force for peace in history. :-)

As to the "gap" you're referring to, I think that's illusory. The "poor" today have wealth beyond most rulers of yesteryear. (I'm referring to the "poor" in the US.)

As to the "biosphere" the jury is still out. How do you think things will go if there's another Ice Age in just a few hundred/thousand years?

Finally, I'd like to thank you for the civil discourse, and an interesting conversation. :-)
Wouldn't that implicit patent grant be in every other BSD-style license as well?

As far as I understand it, the patent grand terminates when you end up in court with Facebook and then you're effectively distributing software that may or may not be covered by patents you don't own/have a license for.
i was pretty surprised that the technician actually called him out on that.

I don't think you need to be surprised. There's a high likelihood that the operators are educated and intelligent.

I'd imagine that having to stick to a script isn't very fun for the person on the other end of the phone / chat session - especially when you're tied to responding in a certain way and are regularly patronised by annoyed customers.
Usually too many requests mean the machine runs out of memory. How it handles that is different, but it usually means the service goes down and might need a restart.
The parachute paper says this, which I think is their “punchline”:

When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice.

So... was there some kind of selective enrollment in the teacher study? I don’t think that’s the issue here.
One of the things that springs to mind is coding emails.
Once you have a template that works in 99% of email readers you've done the majority of the work.

The downside is getting clients that need emails coded. This means you need to do some work to connect with people and get the ball rolling.

I used to do this kind of thing many years ago for an advertising agency/publishing house. They had 5 magazine brands they ran and each of them would need a bi-weekly email to be sent to their newsletter subscribers.
Their designer would send through a psd, I'd code it up and load it into their mailing list software.

At the same time I was doing wordpress based "catalog" websites for them, also minimal interfacing with the client and the same "psd => html" workflow.

If you can get the energy to talk to an advertising agency or publishing house there may be something minimal that you can do for them.
Thank you. That line made my head turn as well. All IO is just saying "read" and "write." And all systems that do any real world work are doing network IO.
If mail was privatized, they would just stop delivering to rural addresses. Which I'm fine with. Rural communities are subsidized by the federal government far, far too much.
Those are two different things.

FDIC does not protect you from sending money to the wrong person. It only protects you from a bank going insolvent because it lent out more money than it has. That can't happen in Bitcoin, because your wallet doesn't lend your money out to other people.

Bitcoin wallets don't lend your money out to other people because they aren't corporations trying to make a profit. They are just wallets, doing a service for you.

We've come to rely on using banks when we want to send money to other people because USD alone doesn't know how to send itself to other people online. So banks have stepped in to fill that role. Now we can't even pay for things without a for-profit bank existing in the middle of the transaction. And that bank tries to make money by lending out your money to other people, and that gives it a risk of going insolvent, and so FDIC was created so that the government takes the risk of banks going insolvent.

If you send money to the wrong person, a bank may or may not be able to get your money back. It depends on the bank, and how well they know the other person, and what method they used to send the money, and how strong the threat of lawsuits is between the two parties. None of this has anything to do with FDIC, which becomes totally irrelevant when you use Bitcoin.
I know nothing about the F-35, but it sounds like it's basically the Servo of aircraft?

As in, it hasn't evolved into a complete product that can wholesale replace its predecessors, but its innovations will be incorporated into them over time.
I really miss Camino.
What qualifies as a like-minded friend? Same hobbies? Same political ideology? Same profession?
Much appreciated! Figures that it was a 21-year-old bug. I'm wondering why it took so long, but regardless, you're my savior.

Coincidentally, when Mozilla's blog post about shipping a big cookie separation feature was on the front page recently, the first thing I thought was "but when will they let you disable CTRL+Q? It'd be so much easier to do than this." In the age of Chromium, issues like this will lead to death by a thousand cuts for Firefox. The cost of switching is marginal for most people, as Chrome has become too well-architected as a browser which ends up connecting you to Google. I myself was almost tempted to switch because of this and other relatively minor issues that ended up snowballing together, and I'm a person that makes a deliberate effort to like Firefox. I have to wonder why nothing changed in 2002, when so many people were making so much noise about this.
It's not so much that kids shouldn't have structured activities; it's that these activities shouldn't be thrust upon them by parents.

Yeah, the smaller the kid, the more direction they're going to need. But a 5th grader should be able to pick their activities within reason.

I mentioned it in another thread, but when I was coaching youth sports, I saw two huge (IMO) problems... first, kids specializing at a young age - 5th and 6th graders playing a single sport 9+ months of the year (vs mixing it up). Related to that was a disturbing frequency of overuse injuries in younger athletes. Baseball players coming back from summer with stress fractures in their spines from too much pitching practice and things like that.

And also a whole lot of straight-A students being forced to attend extra-curricular tutoring. I'm sure in some regions, it might be necessary to learn advanced subjects, but Fairfax County schools have robust GT/AP/honors programs and allow dual enrollment at the local community college - very few kids are running out of available maths classes, etc.

And with a robust state college system (UVA, W&M, VT, GMU, JMU, and on and on), the "penalty" for not getting into Stanford isn't much (for the majority of subjects).

Anyways, all anecdotal, but of my son's peers, the kids with the overbooked schedules didn't really go to colleges any more prestigious than anybody else. Most just ended up at one of the several excellent state colleges.
Why would you take any risk by not moving your funds right now?