jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Google Talk is standard. It's all XMPP, which is a kick-ass push-based messaging protocol.
Corporations have become better at promoting technologies to developers, including worse technology. Languages are seen as strategic advantages against the competition ("A language that only work on our devices!"). So I would bet corporate money find its way towards tech blogs and user groups, to bring the kool-aid to the masses.
Also keep in mind that big corporations like Google are dominant entities and anything they do is closely watched by peons. For the success of BigCorpLang they need their toy projects anyway.
Workers are paid significantly less because that is the value of their work on the free market. Anyway, the important thing is whether they have equal opportunity to leave their shitty jobs and start business themselves and earn more through their genius (or loose their savings in free competition on the market).

Our economic and political system (mixed market capitalism) may not be natural phenomenon (what is?) but majority of voters prefer it to other systems.
Ground-based radars a typically constrained by line-of-sight on the horizon, and the curvature of the earth - you can't see anything beyond the horizon. Being elevated gives you a much larger range as that tangent line moves significantly outward.
If I had a guarantee that nobody else would profit due to my donations (insurance, doctors, hospitals), then I'd donate. If everybody else donates in conjunction with my donation, then the system would be worth buying into. Until then, I will not be party to the broken US health care system.
There were no rockets in the UN schools that IDF shelled while thousands of people were taking shelter.
It's also a matter of whose perspective you're coming from. "The US is hurt in diplomatic relations" is bad for some, good for others.
Interesting. The NSA facility is designed to use a massive amount of water daily (17 million gallons a day), and it is nowhere near an ocean.

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/massive-nsa-data-...
tarsnap is great. The problem is you are relying on a single brilliant person (cperciva). If he gets hit by a bus, etc you're screwed.
> However for sheer pragmatism Python wins; almost every API and library you can think of has its own Python bindings.

This is largely true for Ruby too. Both have great C FFIs, so it's not hard to write these kinds of wrappers. I've never been wanting.

I don't think you can really call this a general win for either language, though Ruby does tend to lose out to NumPy and SciPy (from what I hear).
"They may have proven their ability to master a technical subject, but the subject they have spent years mastering has little or no commercial application, which is where wealth is created."

We're going to have to dispense with telling children that it doesn't matter what they want to be, and start telling them they ought to spend at least a little time thinking about whether it actually bring capturable value to society. (Or, more for their speed, "whether anybody will pay them to do it".)

Of course this involves walking back decades of self-esteem BS, which isn't going to be easy. However, I say that the right way to look at it isn't that you're telling Johnny he shouldn't be a particle physicist; I think the right way is that of all the hundreds or thousands of official college majors and the thousands again subspecialities, Johnny would probably like to do quite a few of them and perhaps Johnny should spend at least five minutes considering whether some of them might deserve more consideration than others based on whether they are actually useful to society. It's not that we're denying Johnny his one true calling, it's that Johnny is an adaptable human who could probably do many things and perhaps he should ponder a bit before making life-crashing decisions.

How many of us truly have only one thing they could possibly imagine doing, ever, and of that set, how many of them found it before college? (If you're inclined to say "me", I'm serious. There's no other job you could ever imagine wanting? I'm spotting you the training, an alternate universe where you have just as much experience there as you have here now, not suddenly switching tomorrow. No other science, math, engineering, humanities, or arts appeals to you that much at all? I'm sure there's a non-zero number here, but I also think that's the exception, and that's enough to carry my point.)

My dream job is composing video game music. There were several other things I could have gotten a degree in. I got a degree in computer science, because I did put some thought into it and it was obvious what the winner was. I have no regrets. I have put my money where my mouth is. I'm tired of looking at my peers who followed their bliss right into staggering debt and worthless degrees. Don't be one of them.

(I'm not saying I chose computer science out of the blue because I thought I could make money. I'm saying of the many things I loved or at least liked, computer science among them, the choice was pretty obvious. The next most interesting thing to me was psychology, but since I would not have wanted to be a therapist I would have been in the academic world and I doubt I'm that spectacular of a psychologist. Probably would have wandered into computational neuroscience anyhow....)
I'm also curious of not updating the UI/UX of the experience here. I feel YC is moving more towards a media company anyways ....
Does your mother prefer to live on her own? Seems like you both like having her around the house!

I'm asking because in my culture parents living separately from their adult kids is rare.
If it were any other company I wouldn't think much of it but when they're closely connected to intelligence agencies & the founder has openly expressed anti-democratic ideas the number of creepy coincidences at least makes me curious. Definitely not saying there's anything to any of it either way though.
> apparently the first few attempts at this more agile approach are in fact actually working, like with the NGAD program.

For the clueless like me, NGAD doesn't stand for "Not Give A Damn", but for "Next-Generation Air Dominance"; or less pompously, a sixth-generation jet fighter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_generation_fighter
As another commenter said, there are some nice all-in-one setups or minimal but sane defaults. I haven't used them but hear very good things. And don't forget you always have Evil for Vim bindings in Emacs (I think Spacemacs by default uses it?).

I should finally learn the Vim way. At the very least so when I forget to set EDITOR for root and edit some config, I'm not totally useless. That'll teach me for not opening it up (with sudo via how Emacs handles things like ssh) in my favorite editor. And org-mode is great, I've been doing more and more in Emacs and org these days (email, notes, todo, writing, coding).
Intel too. That dude got fired and the stonk mooned, lol
> The more of this functionality that they break, the more often I need to use Chrome.

On the other hand, if Firefox is just going to be a clone of Chrome (behavior-wise), then what's it's purpose for existing?
Clickable: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/tapha
The freelance market for iOS/OS X is still hot. I recommend subcontracting through established design firms, so you don't waste time dealing with client management issues.

You don't need education (most won't even ask), but you need examples of your experience and skills. Create a beautiful app that doesn't crash and you'll be ahead of the game. Use an API that people have heard of (Instagram, Flickr, etc.). Create a few apps and you'll be seen as an established developer.

Most importantly, deliver your first projects on schedule and they'll likely hire you for many projects down the road.
That's not how it (appears to) work. This pulls from links tweeted by people you follow. It then uses a content extraction library (similar to Readability's I presume) to grab the content and display. Might be a copyright issue there. So the flow is Content -> Curators (Tweeters) -> Extraction Layer -> Display.
It looks hard with no any experience (it was my case). I have send them photos edited a few times before getting accepted. But after you will know what can be problematic it does not look so hard any more. It is the same with each added photo as it is being checked each time you add something new.
My biggest issue with Sparrow is failure to support "Unread" count across a set of labels. Those with a high volume of mail often set up filters to pre-file that mail. I then use Apple Mail's "Smart Mailbox" to roll up the unread messages from only those labels that matter, while ignoring the labels containing mostly bulk content.

For me, any program that interacts with Gmail and doesn't support seeing unread count across labels, can't be used.

Disappointed. I paid for Sparrow, and wish it could be used. The update wasting more screen real estate to let you choose between Inbox and another label could so easily have been the killer feature it failed to be.
I'm not sure what you're trying to find. The main Laravel docs are fine for 90% of what you would want to do. If you're digging into the core of some internal class trying to decide if you can re-use something elsewhere, that seems edge-case-y.

The ORM, relationship model, templating, and routing are all thoroughly documented in the main docs. If you want to find out what obscure methods might be available for your custom package, you're probably competent enough to parse the auto-generated code docs or read the source directly (which is also very clear and well organized).
I think the point is that NFTs are a way to verifiably prove ownership of a digital asset - i.e. the most recent position on a verified chain of purchases.

It's like, imagine if you bought an original Picasso, but a device existed where someone walking past your house could magic a copy of your painting right into their hands, down to the molecule. Sure, you'd still have the original, but the only way to prove it is by referencing the paper trail from the auction house that you're the last person who purchased it through "official" channels. Same for these NFTs - the blockchain is the irrefutable source of who "officially" owns the art.

Personally, I think this is only a thing because people generally want to show off the fact that they "own" something rather than "just" having it in their house. Like, why bother spending $XX millions on an original painting when you could just pay a talented artist to copy it for you with real paints for a fraction of the cost? As long as you're not trying to pass it off as an original for sale, no one would care if you cloned a famous painting.

It's because being able to show off your name on the "who owns this" line is more important than the actual thing.
I love Vinge as much as the next guy, but he really hasn't done much in "the last 10 years." Well, except Rainbows End which was pretty good.
I'm glad you elaborated on your original comment, but you're showing the fallacy of a zero-sum game perspective between Microsoft and Sony. I'd consider both companies to have lost, and lost greatly, to Apple. The battle over media formats and the console market share opened the door to disruptive products and services from Apple. Both Microsoft and Sony gave up an early lead in the mobile device market to Apple, as well. If they aren't sweating yet about those little $99 iOS boxes from Apple, then they still aren't paying attention.
Greedy / non-greedy is one of the main things I use in regexes (well, second to capturing). That sucks. Though if it's non-capturing, I guess it makes sense.

How many people do use regexes for boolean operations? I can only think of an instance or two where I have, aside from regular input validation.
Alternatively, too much too early. Everyone was so quick to jump on the idea it was shutting down with nothing more than a hint that it wasn't going to be with Yahoo! any more.
It's not quite a fair comparison as these two businesses can simply move next door and continue to operate shop. It would be more similar to Microsoft buying land that included the BCC offices and you had to accept it and then move down the block. Depending on the offer it ranges from a really good deal to outright theft.
You can donate in several ways here: http://git-scm.com/sfc
It seems like a cool idea to me. I'd even thought of working on something similar.

How many of you would use a service like that?
Funny this comes up, since I'm applying to this program (see profile). I think it's what I need in place of a college education. In other words, it's the right track for my post-secondary 'education' as opposed to college.
Congratulations on totally missing the point.

[ EDIT: the number I originally used for "requiring hospitalization" were way off. I've edited to reflect data from September provided by the CDC. The 20% -> ICU figure comes from the NYC experience in May, but seems roughly correct from other global hotspots ]

Roughly 0.4% of those who catch COVID19 will require hospitalization. Of those, 20% will require ICU treatment.

In the end, the entire human race will be exposed to SARS-COV-2. If that happens all on the same day, or week, or month or probably even year, no health care system in the world can possibly deal with the case load.

Some of those who might have survived COVID19 with hospital care will die.

But (and this is the important part) those with other medical conditions that timely and effective health care could have treated will also die. Trauma (e.g. car or tool accidents). Infectious disease. Cancer. Chronic health conditions.

And in killing all these people, you've made nothing better for those who survive, because if you think the economy has gone to hell under current attempts to deal with it, you clearly cannot imagine it as the entire health care system melts down.

COVID19 is not a personal health crisis. Most people will not die of it (even though hundreds of thousands will, which is not going to be much comfort to their families, friends, colleagues and neighbors. It is a public health crisis that threatens to overwhelm our health care systems and thus have far worse effects than just the disease itself.
True, though Signal annoyingly wants the user to also enable it
as SMS app. From my own experience with relatives this can lead
to a lot of confusion among non-technical users, for example
when they try to send a picture to a contact and it fails
because that contact does not use Signal. From what I've seen
Signal does not clearly show a difference between those two
groups.

Other than that it's definitely a great alternative.
I wonder if there’s a concept similar to “felony murder” in a case like this? (If you rob a bank and a security guard shoots a bystander, you get charged with murder.)
It seems to be some very specific bug as neither me nor my contacts seen this happen on their devices. We've been using it at work quite often with people having different devices. On mine it shows 2% battery drain atm.
I don't have the answers for if Facebook's good outweighs the bad, nor do I want to get into a debate. I'm just clearly laying out - and I understand that you mean well with the question and I hope others who understand this better will answer - that money and clout are not the sole reason people join Facebook.
Underrated post. I'm still trying to figure out a way to help a nephew of mine come into political awareness without necessarily tainting him with my biases.
Careful scientists tend to say "this is the first time where we know what's happening before this we're unclear"

And "this is where our model breaks down, maybe {big bang singularity, big bounce, etc} happened before it"

The big Bang (fast inflationary persiod in the early universe) is not one of those things? To my knowledge its well measured?
If the moderates in the Republican party and the progressives in the Democratic party could hold their noses long enough to do a deal on bringing in proportional representation, perhaps some good could come out of this.
The thing about conspiracy theorists is they feel smug and intelligent when you call them out.
Do not speak of unintended consequences let the people enjoy short term win.
Check out Power Query formulas in Excel.
They could've choose to go proprietary with all their software, locked down proton, locked down their OS, locked down their hardware, locked down everything.

But instead, proton is open source, their OS is based on one of the most open distros out there and they published a tear down guide (not the best guide, mind you, but it's trillions of year ahead any competition on their space).

So yeah, they are doing it for the money, but they are one of the very few companies that understands that money come from users, and they seem to be doing very good for users.

So don't kid yourself, it's not only for the money.
Thanks for your elaborate answer. I had never (consciously) heard the term.
What does that explain?

Let's say you did add(add("foo", "bar"), "baz").

The inner add would return a String, and then all subsequent adds would have the exact same optimization you're quoting.

There is no downside, performance-wise.
Google (maps/profile) is used far more here now in my experience: I think the fact that users can correct opening times and other info themselves etc is a godsend for small businesses and their customers alike.
What I mean is that the circuit diagram is a way to sneak it past a patent examiner, but the software/hardware distinction is completely artificial as both are designed in much the same way.
Isn't subtraction just addition in the negative direction? :-)
BOINC was actually developed to support SETI@HOME. Without the pulling power of SETI who knows if you had all the others spinoffs. As for many other kind of research, space research often brings very unexpected innovations.
While children should be exposed to both go and chess, I would argue against compulsory extended training.

There comes a point where much of extended training in chess is counter-productive to being a productive human being.

I would trade my Fide Master title in a heartbeat for more learning of discrete math(there is no reason predicate logic cannot be taught in junior high school) and programming concepts at an early age.
Sometimes the author of the comment is relevant information: if pg says something about VC funding, you know that he has experience in it and also what his biases might be. If someone anonymously says something about VC funding, you have no idea what their experience or biases might be.

Also, it is useful to know whether the person who replied to your comment is the same person who wrote the comment yours was a reply to.
Disagreement aside, I'd be interesting to know how many signups they had yesterday compared to prior days.
Regarding programming with tables, see also Subtext: http://www.subtextual.org/
The "z-chip" thing is obvious crap but I read it as adding a (not necessarily believable) story to make the trick more interesting and misdirect you away from the truth. Not a scam someone would "fall for"
Regarding "Vision Zero": I find it unrealistic, for the simple reason that you can't stop people from dying. I think Sweden must share the same way of counting as my country (Finland) where the traffic death statistics include suicides and "natural" deaths.

We have around 250 road deaths per year in a country of 5 million, and about 50 of these are suicides.
This means that practically every week there's someone who kills him/herself by an intentional act in traffic. For instance, a couple of months back a mother killed herself and her three children by driving 100 km/h head-on at a bus where his husband was travelling. This was just an act of defiance, desperation and hate.

When suicides count for about one fifth of traffic deaths, it is not insignificant and leaves the number of traffic deaths well above zero. Also, natural deaths - people dying of a heart attack or a stroke while driving - account for a significant part of the statistics (somewhere around 10-15 %). They're counted as traffic deaths even in cases where no one else is hurt and even the vehicle is unscathed.
If nobody wanted to work on it, yes, it'd not get shipped. That's why there's no Ricochet 2.

What good sources tell me that is happening at Valve is the curse of raising standards. HL2:E2 is much better than HL2 ever was, but it took forever to ship. Portal also raised the bar in many ways. So what they have in HL3 is a game that Valve employees have put so many high expectations on, that getting anything to a state that is good enough to ship is like pulling teeth. Let's also remember that HL3 runs on a different engine than everything else Valve has released in the last decade: Just the new version of Source, plus the updated toolsets to work in it, are a significant cost. It's not as if they are just licensing an engine built somewhere else and rolling with it.

I've been paralyzed by success before in my own projects. I can only imagine what that does to a big organization that has had as much success as Valve has, and that has so much income they don't really have release a game in the next 5 years to remain financially stable.
> Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants.

IIRC Laura Poitros's talk at the CCC a few days alluded to the fact that targets on drone "kill lists" have values assigned to them -- denoting specifically the acceptable threshold of non-combatant collateral damage.
Nor does he address the creation of dialects, an odd omission given how much time he dedicates to analyzing the ways different speakers of english dialects may misunderstand himself. Italian, for example, is primarily spoken in Italy and almost nowhere else except by expat Italians. If Italian were to explode as an international language, you can be sure there would be regional dialects pop up that may misunderstand each other in systematic ways.
I think vast majority of Box's IPO buyers were institutional investors (not counting their existing investors before the IPO). Maybe the reports are not filed yet or Google hasn't aggregated recent data.
Every sale I've done so far has been to my network of friends/colleagues. Most people are eager to get some slight financial exposure to the startup world as part of a well-diversified portfolio. There were two steps required: (1) the person I sold to had to be an accredited investor (2) I had to give the company right of first refusal (which required writing a quick letter and waiting 30 days)
As someone from Indiana, and a person of faith, I've followed this fairly closely.

To call the response "seemingly-exaggerated" is an understatement. Frankly, I wonder if Mr. Benioff has even read the bill that Gov. Pence signed today, or whether he's relying on the rhetoric of those who oppose it, who claim it will inevitably lead to discrimination. What the bill actually says is that the state government can't (with some exceptions) enact a law that curtails religious freedom.

In the 20 or so other states that have very similar laws model after the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Act, the courts have ruled in the cases that have been brought forward that it isn't an excuse by the private sector to discriminate. (One assumes that no Salesforce personnel are allowed to travel to those states, either...)

You can love your neighbor as you love yourself, and still not condone or participate in or approve of activities that contradict your faith, just as on a purely secular level you might like an individual but find some of their behavior distasteful.
Is there any evidence the Dog is actually aware that he's "texting (or otherwise sending) a selfie" -- or even knows what a selfie is -- in any meaningful sense?

"How I taught my dog to thwack his paw on a big red button in response to a keyword signal" might be a better title.
Feature/bug: It doesn't seem to attempt to explicitly negotiate older protocols. For instance, I'm dealing with a site that still has SSLv2 and export ciphers enabled if a client requests it. (Like, if I run openssl s_client -ssl2.) SSLlabs detects this, but tls.so doesn't.