jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> it's this team's top and only priority, however, and we expect to have it available on the desktop within a couple of weeks, with Android following shortly thereafter

Does this seem unreasonably long? I get that large corps have longer development time, but wouldn't this be behind a internal feature toggle anyways? How do they deploy versions really? Did they already ripped out the code and are unable to go back? They need to rewrite the functionality or something like that?

Probably only someone with insight into this specific problem can answer but would be interesting to hear about it...
nice, thanks for the tip!
All of these have been in free/core since they got released as far as I remember.
Or in other words, stop having fun?

There is value in relaxing, there is value in letting go of control and following your impulses. Trying to drive out all fun may lead to a more productive life, but at the cost of a pleasurable life.
Given the high statistical confidence they have, 7.2 sigma or 1 in 2 trillion, it's more likely to be some sort of systemic issue with the experimental setup.
This is all very cool, but what annoys me the most is that, let’s say you create video authoring software, it creates a piece of unique content and you decide to use a codec that’s licensed; you’ve got to pay royalties. If you use another it’s not supported by default. .FLAC for example or .oggv

To not be liable to lawsuits and to support your own you need to come up with your own codec, resulting in your own platform and the circle starts once again.

Why in this age can we just not all work together and make something that’s usable by everything for everyone without any restrictions.
People like to insist on commonalities.

I prefer to insist on differences. If the salt includes prison camps and religious insanity, I'll have low sodium please.
And you never visit any other sites?

How useful to you is an unfamiliar favicon, or a row of tabs with an assortment of unfamiliar favicons?
My mistake. Thank you for pointing that out.
Our tax dollars at work, seizing domains for sharing the music that people at the label sent them.
I would like to like riot, but not creating a new test instance per test is a Bad Thing™. I just can't abide by it despite the speed boost.
In 2001, there was a contest to see who could name the biggest number using a C program:

The object of the BIGNUM BAKEOFF is to write a C program of 512 characters or less (excluding whitespace) that returns as large a number as possible from main(), assuming C to have integral types that can hold arbitrarily large integers.

See the third line of http://djm.cc/dmoews.html for more, including the (quite interesting, IMO) results.
I don't know about you, but domains don't show up on my tabs or my bookmarks (unless I open one's properties). Only the title and the favicon do, and unlike the favicon, the title isn't a tiny picture that's only useful if I go to a site enough to recognize it.
http://wikiriver.org/
To be comparable to ImpactJS there needs to be collision detection, tilemap support, sprite animation and depth sorting, input and audio abstraction, a loader and framerate locking. So from that list only Akihabara and GameJS remain.
The chips in the 2012 are significantly cooler running than the 2011. IIRC, the chips in the 2011 models were the first generation Sandy Bridges.
We have nice big desks. The chairs aren't Aerons but we don't buy them (in our last office we bought cheap chairs and they sucked. I promised never to do that again, in our next office if I'm buying the chairs, everyone is getting an awesome chair).

We have natural light but I want a balcony. I think if we had a balcony it would be nicer for smokers (smoking's not permitted in the building) and we'd get a decent view of whatever's around.

We're pretty lucky. You can see the Kennet Canal from our roof, but otherwise it just looks like urban Reading, Berkshire, UK. Lately with the frankly crap weather we have more light from above than from outside.

We have a wide selection of alcoholic drinks and hangover cures - ornamental of course. It's mostly wacky stuff we'd never drink, although there's an 'Emergency Guinness' and this weird stuff called 'Dr Hangover - with 47 ingredients!'. We have a Nabaztag that tells us when pentests finish, when investigations are over and when we get paid. Unfortunately he's very insecure so we keep him on his own network.

We don't have whiteboards - we used to but not anymore. Instead we have detachable flipchart paper and blu tack. It's like infinite white boards, that is actually awesome. You just take it down when you don't need it.

We have a golden lucky chinese cat from vegas and a book with pictures of Japanese girls in school uniforms. I think there's a reason for both but I still haven't worked it out.

A good coffee machine/water cooler (hooked up to the mains) is essential. It doesn't have to be in your office, just in your building.

We're near a train station so parking isn't important. Being in a city it turns out is important for us. You can go on your lunchbreak and do pretty much anything and get back in time for work. In our last office we couldn't do that, and frankly compared to our own office it sucks.

I'd avoid game consoles, nap couches, dark rooms etc. What's the point? I worked in one office with a fussball table. It was great to play but bad to work around. Focus on what makes people work well and keeps people happy, not what compensates for suck.
of course you are correct. i am sorry. i was doing it from memory. you can leave out the commit-hash too, to get the same effect. not at a computer now but i think i remember "git checkout <commit-hash> * " being extra fun.

update, this is what i meant:

"git checkout * "

"git checkout <commit-hash> * "

"git checkout <branch> * "

each have the same warningless wipeout of uncommitted changes.
I tried it and it is easy and fast. But the ecosystem is still not very large.
I think that it should support building libriaries directly accessible from python including passing numpy arrays directly to nim. That would make a lot of people to jump right in creating libraries and thus extending its own ecosystem.
I think it's not as much about social proof as it is about feeling protected and cared for. The marketing strategy ("social proof" over "feeling lonely") let the users benefit from the service without feeling shame: loneliness is unfortunately still considered some kind of stigma.

Invisible Boyfriend might be the polar opposite and complement of prostitution: the first simulating the love between a protector and his protégé, the second providing a sex partner. I'm not implying any moral fault, but it's fascinating nonetheless.
> Simply look around any tech center company and look around. It’s mostly younger crowd. The graybeards are few and far between and in mostly few senior roles.

> Even transferring to middle management doesn’t help much. The same type of younger crowd are brought in to keep up the appearances. The olds are few and far between in director and up roles.

I think you have to be more specific. I could totally believe that WRT to SV tech startups and other younger companies, but they often seemed focused on fashion and in some cases be places where only the young and stupid would be willing to work.

There are "tech-centered companies that" are different. For instance I work at a company that's basically evolved to be a tech company, and if anything, our development groups skew old.

Personally, I'm still worried more about outsourcing than ageism.
I would not see any news organizations publishing any leaked document relating to actual technical capabilities.
I don't even think that Snowden shared them with the reporters, the only ones who probably seen the besides Snowden are the FSB officers who "debriefed" him once he arrived in Russia.
That's actually the thing that worries me the most about this incident, Snowden him self said that he kept the truely "nasty" stuff safe to be released in case something happens to him. But while he might not shared this with the press anyone who thinks he didn't had to buy his freedom in Russia with the full uncensored documents is fooling him self.
This means that if he had any operational documents Russia and it's allies (N. Korea, Iran, China) just got a free upgrade to their own computer and communication intelligence apparatus.
While people might not like their privacy being violated for the most part the NSA uses it's capabilities against unquestionably bad people, while in places like Russia and Iran it will be used against anything from reporters to political activists with much more severe consequences.
What about 802.11h? In addition to defining DFS, it also provides for Transmit Power Control (TPC). I was under the impression that it's an FCC requirement for 5Ghz 802.11a Wifi devices.

Here, it appears to be working as expected. I see messages like "Limiting TX power to 27 (30 - 3) dBm as advertised" in the kernel logs of my linux devices.

Is TPC not well supported?

edit: Whoops, I think TPC isn't really that interesting, and I'm confusing it with DTPC which is Cisco-proprietary.
Great example of why Unicode and source code do not mix well... it reminds me of when I taught CS courses and had a few instances of very confused students who managed to somehow get one of those "invisible formatting characters" into their files. Fortunately, a hexdump --- or even just an "old school" ANSI-only editor --- reveals all.
No, but it likely gives way more insight into Iranian society and their gov’t than a random engineer from San Francisco.
Gotta love the first sentence. Made me laugh.

> As happens to so many of us, I was asked to write a sitcom for Croatian television.
MMKV is pretty straight forward, you can use it very easily on obj c or java only. Check the native code on the repo.
Woah man, your tone is a bit over the top here. People may not know what's going on.

I understand you're upset, it's a very upsetting situation. But venting to HN won't really help the things that are upsetting to you.

It's more effective I think to explain the situation clearly and help other on this site understand why mass testing is not a good idea in parts of the US.

EDIT: thanks the edit is much more effective!
Security through obscurity. Pretty sure Blind did this just to piss off scrapers. I mean I've been scraping them for some time until they pulled this encryption trick about a year ago. I didn't have time to reverse engineer their js and keep my scraper up to date, that'd take way more time than it took me to write some 100 lines to scrape them originally. So score 1 for them.
I've driven i3s and, unfortunately, it's not ideal.

Well, the knob is fine - the CarPlay apps aren't. You can find the physical control by touch, but for any non-trivial operation you still have to actively watch the display as you fiddle the dial to get to the action (on-screen control) you need.

Which is dangerously distractive on the road and kind of irritating when parked.
I dunno, how long did it take in South Korea?
Oh look it looks like every other boring Valley building that caters to the <25 yr old crowd only.
his post sounded like he thinks the government ought to be defending instead of attacking
houses, factories, stocks, bonds, bank accounts... all generally expected to provide a positive nominal return.

they provide a negative nominal return, you're better off hoarding greenbacks.

the zero interest rate policy already breaks the banking system. the payments system was historically paid for just by giving the bank an interest-free loan. If the bank can't reinvest above zero, there's no value in running a branch network to collect deposits or running a payments system in exchange for some float. the whole system is on life support because the Fed provided a bank subsidy via interest on excess reserves. but the whole system, things like money market funds, CDs, they make no sense in a negative interest rate environment.

how about all those people with 30-year, 80% loan to value mortgages? the value of the house goes down year after year, the real value of the mortgage and the fixed mortgage payment goes up, they're going to have a pretty bad time.

how about all the (much reduced) companies and municipalities that have defined benefit pensions, or even life insurance contracts that assume a positive, relatively risk-free return? all those pension funds and insurance companies go bust.

how are people going to feel about periodic reductions in their wages? people have a hard time with it, and wages and prices tend to be stickier going down than going up. constant downward pressure makes people unhappy and is hard to get used to, even if relative prices stay the same.

the expectation that prices are not going to consistently go down over time is pretty hard-coded into the financial system and contracts and people's psychology, and if it happened it would cause more disruption than higher-than-expected inflation.
I rent a one-bedroom on my own, but it has a huge lounge with a desk, power points and cable connection on one side. Works brilliantly for me, though my iMac I have living on the desk is getting so long in the tooth I barely use it anymore. Bit of a shame really, I like having a dedicated desktop. I think I need to get a Mac Pro...
Currently going through it now. It's been about 4 months now and it has had an effect on all aspects of my life.

I found recently that instead of doing work while commuting, I was better off reading books of my choosing and listening to music. I look forward to that part of my day. I also started doing more exercise and have found that to have an impact as well.

That's the path I am taking.
They're probably demonstrating that the Chinese government can leverage nearly the entire Chinese internet userbase to DDOS anyone they want, at any time, and the easiest protection mechanism is to block Chinese IPs. Which is exactly want they want.
I work in an open-ish office and have two problems with this:

1. I have glasses and a hearing aid (cochlear implant) and have yet to find headphones that don't make my left ear/head throb with pain after more than six hours.

2. Visual distractions: people walking through, people seemingly approaching me (but actually approaching someone nearby), people waving, etc. are all just as bad as auditory distractions, if not worse for me personally since I tend to rely heavily on vision to replace what I can't hear.
Don't imitate me;
it's as boring
as the two halves of a melon.

poet Matsuo Basho
Mono works well enough that .NET languages can be a good option outside Windows as well.
Better for users, but not for investors.
Given that the NAZI movement could be classified as a populist movement, it seems safe to say that most companies and most people in Germany would have supported actions taken by NAZIs.

However, my understanding is that the NAZI party did not run any ads for the 'final solution', despite Hitler's having totalitarian rule over the NAZI empire, thus, were facebook in existence during the period of Hitler's rule, Hitler would likely not have ran ads through facebook for the 'final solution'.
And it doesn't even have to be sophisticated editing. Slowing down a video of a person speaking is enough to fool a lot of viewers into thinking that person is drunk:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/23/faked-p...
https://www.cnet.com/news/adl-anti-defamation-league-faceboo...

>Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft, among others, are joining with the ADL to form a Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab, the companies and the civil rights group said Tuesday. They'll exchange ideas and develop strategies to try to curb hate speech and abuse on the companies' various platforms and across the internet.

>"These companies have an added responsibility to do everything within their power to stop hate from flourishing on their watch," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. "We look forward to tackling this pressing challenge together."
I'm from Michigan and I prefer "Great Lakes region" when talking about the area described in this post.
But "normals" just aren't always going to do that. If Wordpress installations automatically updated without any user intervention, then maybe it would be better, but I still think it's dangerous to get non-geek friends to use a self-hosted Wordpress unless they really understand server administration—not just following an installation guide, but how permissions work, how to back up databases, how to properly vet add-ons, etc.

Plus, a lot of the Wordpress exploits have been zero-day. Even if they are checking their Wordpress dashboard every day, or even every week (and that's probably not a good assumption to make), their installation could be silently compromised before an update was even available.

I think geeks tend to assume that regular people understand and care about even the most basic (by our estimation) best practices. You could argue that that's their fault, not ours, but I think there's a certain lack of pragmatism involved in thinking that regular users can responsibly administer a Wordpress install. I'm sure contrary examples exist, but there's a lot of horror stories as well.
I had a vizsla when I was a kid. Very good dog.
What's with all the jaded young adults on here and reddit blaming their shortcomings on being told that they were special?

My take on it is this: "you're special" is not a declaration of your supposed super-human intellect or abilities, but a reminder of your uniqueness and independence as a person who can choose to distinguish yourself if you choose to. The moment you stop believing in that is the moment you cease to be special, by that definition.

Don't reject the wrong mantra. "You're special" is fine. "Special means you're better" is what causes you problems.
I'm guessing the map is for me to put in my location. If so, 2 things. 1 the area I live in is labeled wrong (email me and I'll point you to it if you want to fix it), also when I hit take another poll it takes me out to country level, it should stay.
Everyone says you "must" go to college? I don't think so...
There's a lot of hard work required as well but that advice has worked for many people including myself.
IRC handles are pretty much a requirement for me to engage. #hnofficehours on Freenode and ops.
Hey Ben, As i mentioned on FB - I like your design and implementation. One thing that i noticed just now- when i click "vote", would be cool if "take another poll" would appear somewher near so i dont have to move mouse along whole screem. i believe its your major call to action once i voted, right? small thing, but its quite annoying and slows my voting process which i believe is quite fun by itself. good luck with this!
I just tried to contact ezl on both AOL and Gtalk. Showing online on HN Office Hours, he was offline on both networks, at least by way of Meebo.
Oh, that they had included one of those Facebook "Like" buttons at the end of the article.

Edit: This was a weak attempt at sarcasm. Apologies to anyone who was offended. I do not condone the idea of the Pakistani government killing Mr. Zuckerberg because of some Facebook stunt.
Interestingly, that's not quite true: see http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~pbiggar/jea-2008.pdf, section 8.3.

I'll point out too that no quicksort implementation uses a truly random choice of pivot. Typically they use the median of three pivots to be pseudo-random.
While I agree that the usage you describe is the original meaning of the phrase, I find that there are many people who use it as the article describes. It becomes an excuse for mediocrity.

Does it take some extra effort to reflect on a process and figure out ways to improve it? Of course it does, and that's ok. I take pride in my work, and I like to be surrounded by others that do too. I would rather have to put in that extra effort in an attempt to make something really great, than to go through life leaving a trail of mediocrity in my wake.
If you wish to travel around Europe internally, Ryanair can be quite cheap. You can sign up for email alters here:

http://www.ryanair.com/en/about/register-for-offers

(I'm not affiliated with them in any way).

Just bear in mind it's best to have very little hand luggage, be mindful of taxes and charges and that you will often get dropped quite far from your destination (Paris Beauvais rather than Charles de Gaulle etc).

I remember seeing on TV how a young guy in the UK had signed up for last minute offers (a couple of pence per flight in some cases) and he and his mates would dash to the airport and take whatever flight was available to whatever country at that time. They would come home again from Prague or wherever after a cheap weekend away. One way to avoid the nesting syndrome you mention.

Here's a map of all the destinations Ryanair fly to, you can cover Europe quite cheaply as you will see:

http://www.ryanair.com/en/cheap-flight-destinations
I've heard that the North Carolina "Research Triangle" is a "company town" sort of place that works like that.
Now, understanding a concept and grasping it to the point it becomes part of yourself are not the same thing. I don't expect people to remember the whole thing in less than an hour. Just to understand it, and being able to read supporting material without drowning.

A string is a sequence of characters, and "printable" is some arbitrary property. I would of course say as much in my real explanation.

Understand that my comment was just a sketch. I wonder If I shouldn't actually try to flesh it out. A video, maybe…
We do a mix of these things. In this specific case, it failed. We're investigating.
First one is probably a contraction missing the apostrophe: "whencee'er". But that doesn't explain why "wheree'er" doesn't show up.
Unless you've lost your phone, in which case your fingerprints are all over the device, and if they want to log in, they have to reconstruct it using "information" already on it.

Granted re:casual interloper.

And your friend just shoulder-surfed you, he didn't reverse engineer anything ;)
His writing feels so human. In particular, his post about rice cookers really spoke to me, but I'm a cooking geek.

Also: After years working in a public library, I know lonely people. They all have their stories, though many just want to be left alone.
Okay, this definitely helps but I'm still struggling (sorry), I'm probably focusing too much on minutiae but:

* At the static level, what does it mean to start the loop at `case 0` then fall through to the termination of the loop? Part of me is surpisued that it even compiles (again, sorry); it's like the mechancis of the loop itself become dependent on the runtime input, at which point my brain begins to frazzle gently.

* Why is the `to` pointer never incremented? Is that some super-clever thing that I'm not seeing or is it just left out of the algorithm for clarity?

(EDIT: Formatting)
"The position is restricted by [the bequest] to women who are U.S. citizens." This discrimination against women who are legally qualified to work in the U.S. but non-citizens is appalling. Female green card holders unite!