jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I often wonder though -- if Glass (or Reich for that matter) happened to start their careers at a time and place where sequencing and sampling were commonplace and accepted, and created their work using that medium, would the music really suffer much? Is the superhuman virtuoso musical dexterity and focus required to properly perform these pieces really germane to their success as musical compositions?
Looks like a shill account. It was created only minutes ago.
I see a pen-testing career in your future.
Hipmunk is an example of great UX for advanced users of airline services.
Considering that the primary definition of the word "revolution" actually refers to circular motion, I'd say we're both being a little pedantic right now.
Also, I enjoy your README writing style. It walks the fine line between amusing irreverence and technical specificity very well.

I found the README distracting and hard to follow. I'm still unclear just what the library does or why one might need it, possibly because of an over-emphasis on jokes over technical detail and sufficient examples.

However, there seems to be an under-current of "Ruby is hard to use correctly, so use this."

Do people really find Ruby meta-programming so hard?
This press release served chiefly to remind me that Walmart still exists. Remember when Walmart was the most sinister threat to America's future? Was that before or after the terrorists? Or climate change? I know it came before Sarah Palin was our most sinister threat but after CFCs were. It's tough keeping these sinister threats straight.

(I live in a city, Philadelphia, where our Walmart, if we in fact have one—and we do, right?!—is down there near the Best Buy, Home Depot, Target, and Ikea somewhere. I'm familiar with Ikea mostly because I can see it every time I go to pick up my normally-stationary car after the PPA needs to make quota and decides to tow it.)
This basically does not run at all in my browser. (Chrome 11.0.696.44 beta)
I'm actually starting with Node.js. I was thinking of Python, but Node seemed more up my alley, as a interface designer for web apps. Haven't had much time to dabble, though.
I watched Verizon string fiber optic cable on the pole in front of my home from my porch last week. The Time Warner fiber optics in my area are also riding on that same pole.
I don't see where you're getting that conclusion from, based on the items in the comment you're responding to. The chief conclusion about the social interactions of high-NFC people seems to be that they care more about the quality of arguments when being persuaded than the attractiveness of the arguer.
That link doesn't seem to work.

http://investors.walmartstores.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112761...
Reflected from the surface ?
You forgot to say why Google would be a bigger threat than Microsoft, which is annoying given the person you are responding to clearly listed the reasons why Microsoft is actually collecting more informations than Google.

Also, Microsoft has a much worse historical record than Google regarding protecting their users. For instance, at a time when Microsoft was happyly complying to every rules required to be allowed to do business in China, Google decided to not comply and close its offices in that country, all in the name of privacy.

So yes, bashing Google in the comment section of an article about Microsoft Edge misbehavior certainly sounds like the whims of fashion, if not of organised business propaganda.

edit: beating Android keyboard to oblivion
He does not propose that. He is merely saying that they are going to move SOME users from Mac to iPad. Not all, just some.
For representing a graph of processing nodes, none of these are great. Maybe something like DTS format used by the Linux kernel, where the language parser itself would be able to check connections between processing nodes.
In Bavaria very similar rules have been in force since Friday night already. Yesterday evening the bavarian police published a statement that they did "thousands of checks" and found "dozens of violations". They say that overall most people are following the rules.

This is the official statement, but some newspapers seem to have more details: https://www.polizei.bayern.de/news/presse/aktuell/index.html...
Before you reason about somebody's assumption you should first think about your interpretation. Next time please read it more carefully before you compare apples and oranges.
You can do that under Gtk3 too, but like with Qt5 it only allows small adjustments in line with how the developers built the UI. You can affect layout and style of certain components, but that's it.

From the perspective of making design decisions, it's somewhat equivalent to swapping the phone shell on a Nokia 3310.
Hope you feel better, but you definitely don’t have covid19!

A. Covid takes at least a week or two before being symptomatic. 2 hrs is way too fast.

B. 2L of Tonic water has just 150mg (max) of Quinine. That’s not a therapeutic dose in any shape or form.

You would need to drink about 5L a day for 7 days for a therapeutic dose - safe to say that’s not realistic.

Hope you feel better - this is either cold or seasonal allergy / flu.
From Wikipedia (pandemic and epidemic entries):

> A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide.

> An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time.

AIDS does not meet those definitions, unless you restrict “given population” to mean male homosexuals or recipients of blood transfusions.
You are correct, except they didn't debase it into lead. Late Roman coinage was largely copper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Debasement
> Decentralized Communism

There's not much to point to other than short lived revolutions and communes, or ongoing struggles, such as:

* Aaragon/Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War

* Ukrainian Free Territories in the Russian Civil War

* The ongoing rebellion in the Chiapas, Mexico

* Rojava

* Paris Commune

* Shinmin Prefecture in Korea

And likely some others I am struggling to remember. All of these communities were/are attacked by competing states with enough force that it's hard to get a sense of what decentralized communism would look like outside of an active conflict scenario.
> why turn your money into commodities and back into money if you weren't going to get more money as a result

I'm guessing this is oversimplified, but I haven't read the book. Otherwise, the simple fact is no trade in business is guaranteed, there will be plenty of such exchanges that lose money due to speculation. At the very least your buyer could pull out or go bankrupt before finalising the sale resulting in a fire sale and a loss.

Of course, by sheer probability if not talent, some people will win more than they lose and get ahead. The real danger is the plays that an excessive force of money can enable, like predatory and monopolistic practices in buying up a market (or legislators), or driving a competitor out of business. That's where money really makes money.
Am I crazy to think a "human curated X" is less impossible than we think it is, even at scale?

Once upon a time, back in 1994, a startup used this idea as their first product. It was very popular, very useful. It was called Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.

But, as the WWW grew insanely fast in the 1990s, the human approach couldn't keep up with the algorithms. Eventually it was abandoned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
So many sweet memories with Karateka and Moon Patrol -- and "The Fortress" I think, which is akin to Angry Birds / Crash the Castle. Wouldn't replace that part of my young adulthood for anything else!

Also I was in a fairly small town and the community around computers was very supportive and hardcore.
I wouldn’t imagine you care that much about speed either, right? Unless you’re generating gigabytes of random test data, maybe.
This is simply wrong.

Most people are unlikely to reach top 1% for income in any one year of their lifetime.

The top 1% for wealth is even a much higher bar to reach: you need to hold over $10 million. People ain't moving in and out of that bracket very often.
Well I had a lot of first hand experience with this stuff, growing up in one of the poorest places in the US.

I would say that roughly half the unsuccessful students I knew of were in fact very intelligent, the other half did seem to have lower intelligence. I knew a bunch of them well. Their home lives effectively wrecked them, hampered their learning habits, and their educational stacking progress - in which your knowledge builds year after year, and to succeed each year you must have a consistent rolling forward of that knowledge base from prior years. The unsuccessful but intelligent students had poor habits, poor role models, and often a terrible outlook. Some had been taught very backwards notions about how the world works, or what values should be pursued in life.

I don't think intelligence is a greater a factor than the others. I've known plenty of wildly unsuccessful, broken, smart people, that were crippled by a mediocre foundation at home. I've known successful low intelligence people, with discipline and a strong work ethic; people that can repeat patterns of success, while not having an especially great intellect.
I've thought about it. I've seen these papers they legally have to post for a period of time basically saying they can't find an American worker for the job and have applied for a guest worker visa. It doesn't have a number to call however. If you want to say that's not the case you have to ask for the full application from reception which I'm not going to do.

They also only post the announcement for a couple of days instead of the weeks listed. The idea that they can't hire Americans is BS because I've been part of the interview process with great devs who I never see again because the company wouldn't pay a fair salary.
Judging from usage, I see "parallelism" as an of algorithms problem: how do solve a problem more effectively with k processors running at the same time rather than just one? Concurrency is a system problem: how do you actually run multiple threads of execution correctly?

If you're designing a programming language or OS you're probably more worried about concurrency, but if you're using that programming language or OS to solve a computational program you're more worried about parallelism.
Fuck startup events (and startup "incubators" for that matter.) Everybody wants to 'play startup' these days.

Valuable non-programming skills include, in order of immediate product utility: user experience design, visual design, customer support, business development, marketing. And, more importantly, and much rarer, the ability to find all those people that fit with the team and to create a working environment of mutual respect.
Remember that Apple at this time was a company that made terrible computers and handheld devices too (Remember the Performa and the Newton?)

Doing games on the AppleTV wouldn't be that unattractive for Apple, consumers or developers:
1) The asking price of the Apple TV is very competitive ($129AUD last time I checked) compared to most consoles on the market. You can buy three or four of them for the price of a XBox 360, Playstation 3 or a Wii.
2) Apple currently market the iPod Touch as a portable gaming system and there are a lot of children/teenagers who have bought one because the games are cheap and addictive - theres no need to go to the store or use their parents credit card to purchase.
3) The amount of hit games first sold on the AppStore is testament to the amount of work Apple have done to make their platform an attractive target to game developers.
4) The current Apple TV uses the same SoC that the iPad currently does. While I am no hardware expert, I'd imagine that later revisions of this SoC would be at least as powerful as Nintendo's Wii. While the Wii is "underpowered" compared to the PS3 or XBox 360 it has been a roaring success because the content, not the technical capability, has drawn in casual gamers.
The main takeaway from the article is to be more careful when it comes to handling and preparing meat. Always wash your hands with soap and hot water after handling meat and always be thinking about cross-contamination (everything you or the meat has touched).
> it makes business sense to reduce a co-founder's influence in a startup when it becomes uncertain if that person will be able to continue contributing

Then call him for a meeting, tell him "you know, there is a 50% chance you will die in the next 6 months and we should take steps to reduce the risk to the company". Starting from this point, I am sure some arrangement could be made to protect both the company and his family in the event of his death.

You should treat other people with respect. Gates and Ballmer, obviously, don't have such burdens.
Good day to be a vegetarian.
Camera+ helps with the startup speed (along with a burst mode, better focusing, and other improvements).
grey on white, lightgrey on white, yellow on white

my oh my, my slightly blurred vision is having fun
It relies on annoyingly bad 3rd-party software (so it's not 'fun' like I imagine a Spotify for books would be) but in the US you can get ebooks and audiobooks from your local library.

My wife is a master at this, with library cards in three cities (where we live, where we used to live, and where she grew up). She's literally never not reading a book and she's got a deep bench of books-to-be-read all lined up.

Some libraries are actually going DIY: http://evoke.cvlsites.org/
> One Friday afternoon in 1921, Steinmetz hopped in his electric car and headed off for a weekend at...

Whu?
To be honest, I find your tutting about vulgarity in someone's cheat-sheet to be more obnoxious than the swearing.
I don't think people were offended by your words, they just didn't like that you implied that all of IT was immature.

They may also not have understood how you were offended by the article.
...they do know there are more than 4.7B people in the world, right?
The idea of a tenured academic spending all day coding their non-research library is...let's just call it unrealistic. If you find an hour to write code, it will not be during business hours.

I'm curious why you think there's a market failure here. If a library like this can produce N salaries of value, then it should be able to earn N salaries of revenue. Maybe it takes >N salaries of work to produce it --- in which case, okay. That means this project is more costly than it is useful.

I definitely believe that market failures exist, and are quite common. But the service I'm trying to sell is trying to create economic value very directly. I'm not writing poetry here.
I'm a bleeding heart liberal but every time I see this kind of analysis I get uncomfortable. Most middle aged peole who live in Claifornia west of the I5 and own a house probably have a net worth > $700k. I would guess most people who read this site will have a greater net worth before they are forty, if not sooner.

Are these rich people? If you live in Boston, New York or California you can have that net worth and just be getting by. It doesn't feel like you live a life of priveledge, or you have some kind of power over the world that other responsible employed adults don't have. It's hard to feel like that sort of wealth is really a social ill.
According to Wikipedia, "Oakland has the fifth largest cluster of 'elite zip codes' ranked by the number of households with the highest combination of income and education". That's a good sign.

On the other hand, Oakland is also persistently near the top of the list of most dangerous cities in the US. One recent report put it at #2 [1]. That's generally not a good sign.

Is there much interaction between the high income/high education areas (presumably where you'd want to put your start up), and the high crime areas?

BTW, in addition to having one of the highest crime cities in the nation with Oakland, the Silicon Valley area also has one of the lowest. That would be Sunnyvale, which was the 10th on this recent list of safest cities in the US [2].

[1] http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/11/11/the-most-dang...

[2] http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/11/12/the-safest-ci...
> Yes, but IMO that makes the code a bit more abstract:

> You've left behind an explicit "is this collection non-empty" and you're instead relying on a property of a non-empty collection.

More abstract for who? I think virtually all Rust programmers would easily understand the `if let` snippet, virtually all PHP programmers would understand the PHP snippet, and virtually all programmers of any language would understand that a non-empty array has a first element. I'm not at all convinced that most programmers would correctly guess that a function called `reset` is used to access the first element in an array though.
Check out pip install -c constraints.txt for the equivalent of lock files.
This seems to be a transcript of a now paywalled article from a California newspaper:

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.scientology/c/0Uq5J...

Though certainly covid fostered migration of privileged remote workers as well.
I basically agree with you on all points other than the judge one - the judge didn’t tell them to do anything because they are not an English company. It looks like the censorship is coming from their integration with Yahoo.
Agreed, despite the elephant in the room that when the company is in growth stage, comments rot, documentation rots, things change rather quickly and everything including comments become a liability. I'm not saying they shouldn't be written but they also need maintaining
This invasion of Ukraine has had a different effect on me, and that is that the level of incompetence displayed by Russia's armed forces is staggering and leaves me wondering how Russia at this point could launch an overseas war (nuclear or conventional) against the United States at all.

The amount of technology that must go right and logistics involved to successfully deliver a nuclear weapon to a foreign overseas country is enormously difficult. I now seriously wonder if Russia is actually capable of delivering 10% of their first strike weapons to the United States in an attack.
What cynical vocabulary! How do you have a relationship starting from this point of view? It's completely pointless.

If this is the way our culture thinks, then it deserves to die out. It's inhumane. Disgusting. Indecent.

Even the people who engage in this talk do hope, somewhere, that there is something more than this. They must.
> Myself personally? Parents immigrated on H1B a long time ago. Some of my teammates got their citizenship through their own H1B much more recently

So attributing your presence as foreign born immigrants to the H1B program would be... correct?
The simple answer in most cases is that group selection is vulnerable to free-riders. A free-rider gene that didnt help out would out-compete altruists and spread.

The group of cells in a body is not a group of unrelated individuals - they are all perfectly related!

Non kin-related altruism usually requires mechanisms of enforcement like reciprocal altruism ("you scratch my back, i scratch yours, and if you dont play along you'll be ostracized").

Historically, naive group selection was commonly held until the 1950's and 60's, when George Williams forcefully argued against it in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_and_Natural_Selectio....

Then Hamilton, John Maynard-Smith and other developed mathematical models showing how kin selection and group theoretic models (like a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma) could allow for altruism to evolve even though genes are really "selfish".

E. O. Wilson's late attack on kin selection is odd and misguided, see a response here - http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/big-dust-... or http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/evolution/theory/inclusiv.... There were several replies in Nature as well but of course those are paid.
This sounds incredibly creepy without actually knowing how Google's internal mail system works. I will say, this is one reason I never put personal information on work calendars, etc. I block off time, but I don't use a descriptive reason because my manager knows what I'll be doing during that time.
> I mean, it is pretty ironic to have Google fire someone for intruding on someone's privacy...

Not ironic at all. I remember seeing a Googler commenting that misusing personal data was one of the most serious violation there.

And it makes sense because of all the data they collect. For now, they have been no significant leaks or incidents of that kind. And people trust them with their data for that reason. A leak would have disastrous effects, with loss of trust and lawsuits costing billions. Considering Google scale, it may even affect politics.
There are such things as universal human rights, and China is absolute violating of them.

>You literally just can't.

Right, which is why we let Hitler exterminate the Jews.
Same demographic, and I too just heard this word for the first time.
It's probably not as simple as I think it is but if the test is cheap enough couldn't they just run it again on all affected people just in case?

If ran twice we'd have: 49 correctly detected, missing 11 cases and 250 incorrectly suspected.

Ran thrice keeping the 2 most similar results we'd have: Most people correctly identified?
Not really. Previous administrations had a much greater tolerance before countries were placed in the 'against camp'. The current administration has dubbed more countries enemies than prevously - Germany for example. The the fun of following a nationalist agenda.
The intervention in Libya was due to a security council resolution proposed by the UK and France. It was run as a joint NATO effort.
Checking an employee’s public internal calendar every day, the bastards. /s

Why were they using company resources for personal meetings?
If another driver around you is breaking a law dial 911 if it's an emergency (drunken driving) or the non emergency number if it's small (littering). In the first case you should let the police deal with it and in the second you need to be able to positively identify the driver and be willing to show up in court. You can do this today and don't need to have an iphone app that bypasses legal channels and the the other drivers right to due process.
Truth. I do so much open source work that I'm not used to being in that kind of position.
The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.
The real antidote to that is to network constantly. If you know the local market, you probably know someone who has worked with the person you are considering working for. It's good to know if one of your buddies was owed $12,000 and had to go to court to get paid anything.
Very VERY nice! Gave it a spin for one of our internal webapps and it seems super slick.

Small things I noticed btw:

1. Susrut Mishra's Twitter link in your About page points to Satyajit Behera's Twitter page :)

2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but your ToS don't seem to have been defined yet? The link on your signup merely toggles the checkbox.
These things are especially hard to endure for developers, because they are so obviously stupid. I have two umlauts in my name, basically my name is completely unsuitable for the 21st century.
Yes. I explain my good looks and excellent skin by mentioning my Transylvanian ancestry ;-)

It's wonderful how sunscreens have progressed throughout the centuries.
Great, thanks for setting this up, Ben and Dmitri.