jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Starting with an assumption that all comments are wrong is a prudent approach, which also considerably lowers the utility of HN for certain types of usage.

I read HN primarily for the informative comments, not the opinion pieces. A high comment score on an informative comment that contains a factual statement is a relatively good way how to easily tell that the information has been validated by the community and is likely to be correct.
I share Gary's opinion. I want such things to be "opt it". And I don't want limited quiet time on a schedule.

I've put up with a lot of that socialization. Usually, it meant I ended up fixing their problems.

Fine. Let the marketplace settle it all. The problem was, by forcing me to sit in amongst them, the distraction dragged my own performance down.

That is the grand result of open space. Forced mediocrity.
But make it harder to filter information. I feel safe from groupthink, hence the post.
It's interesting because (although I can't explain why) it actually freed me to post more comments, and I have far lower karma (and avg/post).

So the system could lead to more posts by undesirables (me) and fewer posts by those with more knowledge (you).
I'm a big fan of git, and the branching model explained here: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

The closest thing I use to see stats-like output is the Impact graph of github, but even if I look at that graph, it's mostly an "ooooh, look at that, shiny!"-type of thing.
Add a note, or a link to which formatting syntax you use for posts. For example, is it markdown or similar.
Nintendo has traditionally had 5-6 year console cycles. So it's not really a surprise that they're releasing a new console next year.
What are the other types of software engineering that you mention? I mean this sincerely, I've only ever worked in or around web development.
Interesting article from MIT Tech Review on the topic: https://bit.ly/2OPFjV7
Kroger owned stores in most regions the North-West US still carry mushed or mashed avocado, and diced+frozen is said to do when you've got time to defrost and prepare it but not enough to ripen a fresh one (haven't actually tried either yet, but soon c:)
I think a very simple step that could be taken to improve adoption would be making it more obvious that you don't need an email to try the demo. I would mention it right on the demo "Signup" page.

Judging by some of the comments here, something that simple would likely get more people to try it.
You are confusing land and housing - they are not the same. Land area is fixed but habitable space is not. In built up areas the constraint on building new housing is largely regulatory (mostly planning regulations).
It's not about free market in education itself, but about everywhere else.

Teachers are overworked and underpaid, they can't afford to go far beyond what curriculum says they should. Parents demand schools prepare kids well for their adult life - which for almost all families means primarily preparing for a decent job. Thus the labor market is indirectly but strongly influencing the curriculum. Labor market demands a way to sort people, so standardized testing and pressure to choose your career at even earlier ages appears. On the other side, governments are embedded in the market reality, they need to manage their budgets and seek savings, so their prioritize, tightening the school system to provide what the market demands.

I could go on and draw some other feedback loops. But the point is that you can't disentangle schooling - or anything government - from the economic reality, and that this economic reality is sufficient in explaining the shape of education system. No conspiracy, or ill will by any rich and powerful agents needed.
>What's with downvotes?

Didn't downvote, but I think it's the same as when people read a "letter to the editor" of yore, declaring that some person "cancelled their subscription" because of something in the magazine.

A natural response is "Don't let the door hit you on your way out", which on HN might be expressed through a downvote by some.

>I don't care how good their hardware is. Moreover, good luck sourcing parts if the device has trouble. Apple will not sell you the parts. Even if you wanted.

Well, they repair all kinds of parts, and have guarantees and guarantee extension programs. But in any case, their allure was never "can find parts to build my own / repair damages forever" or in their stuff being cheap to own or fix/replace.

>A walled garden does not make their hardware any better.

Well, it does in a few ways. Mandating how the software is made, and what software is sold, when it should adapt new libs to continue being sold, etc, means that they can move the platform in different ways faster.
And you don’t even need to build a network! Same results can be achieved by using multi threading on a single instance..

https://youtu.be/AnQdP03iYIo
The point is that it's absolutely irrelevant if the lockdown was loosened or tightened, if UK entered tier 4, 5 or 127. The indisputable fact is that millions of people travelled on Christmas day to visit friends and families, allowing the virus to spread. For a large number of those, such a visit was simply not possible just a day before because they were already in Tier 3 where meeting people inside was not allowed. So yes, Christmas day was a significant "loosening" of restrictions for those people.
HN has a huge number of users, most of whom don't comment on any given topic. So I think it's best to not care too much what the handful of individuals who interact with you happen to think.

I went to search through dang's comment history to see whether he's posted any statistics to make that "huge number of users" more precise, but instead I found this comment which explains it better than any statistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523361
Well then why do some people think it is idiotic?
It's all just like numerology or p-hacking. When you look super close and try hundreds of different tricks, some of them eventually show signs of working, but that doesn't mean you found something relevant.

I've seen countless videos of people taking the analysis done by some charlatan on Youtube, then applying the exact same calculation to a bunch of other Republican counties and getting the exact same anomalies.
There will no doubt be an incredibly thorough sweep of all chambers and offices of Congress to ensure the security of the facility, once the building is fully cleared.

Who knows if congressional members can reasonably safely meet before such a sweep occurs.
You can't prove a negative, either.
What do you gain by insulting them and calling them idiots? What if it just makes them even worse?

Not saying they don't fit the definition... but maybe the reaction doesn't actually help.
You have to understand what a woman means when she labels a guy "creepy". It just means she's getting attention from someone she doesn't find attractive.

If spreadsheet guy looked like Benedict Cumberbatch instead of being "creepy" he'd be, you know, innovative. The kind of guy who thinks outside the box in new and exciting ways. Particularly if he had money.
Did you? While I was not alive yet in the 80's, according to my parents, the threat of a nuclear war was gone in the 80's already, due to Gorbachev. (we are 'from the other side')
Let me answer this once and for all:

> What are we optimizing for?

You mean who are we optimizing for. For the guy who has to understand and maintain this code 2 years from now. (This guy could in fact be you yourself).

Thats why I like Go. And C, now that I think about it...
> There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous.

So you're arguing that Osama Bin Laden, who did not himself commit violent acts but merely persuaded others to do so, was in fact not dangerous?
But if you reply to a tweet too soon to be misidentified as Bot & get blocked; then you have no choice but to link your mobile number to get unblocked.
Not a huge fan of the design. But, it just seems like it would be a horrible truck. How are you suppose to get to the bed?
Overachiever :D
In wondering about the funky nature of this problem, it occurred to me that it is an exercise in taxonomy.

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science:
cache invalidation and naming things."
-- Phil Karlton

Coupling and coherence are essentially about naming things, about identifying the core nature of something.
A number of people have responded "just notify IE6 users..." or some variation to get them to change or switch. Digg did a comprehensive study and found the majority of IE6 users would switch if they could. Its a good read http://ajaxian.com/archives/digg-takes-the-time-to-study-the... and for all of you advocating that education is enough either hasn't bee paying attention, or aren't actually developing for the web.

If only we lived in a world where logic dictated everthing...happy friday, good post!
I'd accept C# using delegates, or C using structs and function pointers. Anything, really.
I tend to avoid complexities of any kind or form. As long as there's Slackware and JFS, Linux will be sane.
`filter:` syntax isn't compatible with CSS tokenizer (IE<8 is unparseable without special tokenizer state set by the parser, IE8 uses non-CSS syntax in CSS string).

IE's transform filter uses only matrix, which scares the hell out of designers.
Ideas aren't worthless. Ideas are plentiful. Ideas are made valuable by extraction and refinement of the key elements.
oh you're right!
I mined Ethereum about 3 years ago using the Nvidia 1060 and they never drew max power. Conversely, you could use nvidia_smi to limit their power draw without making much of an impact on hash rate.

I’d be surprised if it was any different with the current lineup of cards.

It would be really interesting to see what the M1 draws doing this. Probably not much. But then it’s not doing a whole lot of hashing either.
I used Jira last year for a project at my work, set up a totally new environment and it ran like garbage. Each page load took seconds and every task required several page loads, often had to do a few extra because the UX was rather horrid and had to look for stuff.
I am curious. Why do you think it helps it doing things on the stack. For me, I understand this to provide more generic type level checks on the size/shape of values. Perhaps, I am oversimplifying this?
The problem with the standard electric stove top is that the "power knobs" are unreliable. You don't know if the setting you hoped for was too high or too low before it's too late.

With gas you can get around this problem just by looking under the pot and checking the shape/color of the flame. Instant peace of mind.

Induction electric cooking is the solution because it combines the predictability of gas with the convenience and health aspects of electricity.
Full of lies.
I never read that blog and don’t read the NYT but I will say in response only to your comment that racists and sexists don’t seem to enjoy Star Wars like they used to. Someone should write a (hopefully thoughtful-seeming) long form rumination on the parallels between what has (allegedly) happened to Disney and what has (allegedly) happened to the NYT.
Years ago I switched from Gentoo to Debian/Ubuntu, because I was looking for more stability. I was just tired of resolving problems, that I don't care. This CentOS switch feels for me like exactly opposite direction.

On the other side, for containers where you can just refer to previous version/build, it doesn't necessarily have to be that disastrous. A lot of apps that I support, are just single package JAR files dropped into Java base image. It's quite hard to break it by OS updates.

The worse thing I see here is that they changed EOL time for already released version. We were building some assumptions about it and they're all gone now.
> Everyone knows this and seems fine with it.

Are you sure? I believe a lot of people interact with blockchains through services like coinbase, without managing their own wallets.
There's also a more charitable interpretation though. It's not clear to me that the lack of disclosure benefited Musk.

Compare these two sequences of events:

1 - Initial purchase followed by disclosure followed by promotion

2 - Initial purchase followed by promotion followed by disclosure

In either case, Musk bought BTC at around 35k.

Do we have reason to think that the BTC price is higher now because Musk followed path (2) than (1)? It's not clear to me that that's the case here. And if it's not the case, then why on a first principles basis are we upset?

I agree though that "best practice" is to disclose upfront, if for little other reason than pump and dumpers (which Musk is not) have muddied the waters and this has become a generally good tradition to uphold as a result.
Yes, just like no researcher will travel to Mars. /s
Time to quit mainstream media. All outlets have an agenda. I quit NYT since they've predicted an 80-20% win for Hillary, and the day after the results I've read their main column. They didn't take any responsibility at all.
It just seems that
a) you're not doing a very good job at staying focused
b) your editor doesn't help you much managing all this chaos
Field-flashing isn't that bad as long as it can safely be done over bluetooth, and I'd be willing to take that risk to have reasonable battery life.
I think the iPad's GPS is just to find a nearby waypoint as a starting point for the automatic approach and landing. Once you have decided upon a route, it's a simple matter of tuning the aircraft's nav radio to the VOR or ILS. From there, you have the full precision that you would normally have on an instrument approach/landing. The innovation is that the passenger doesn't have to know what an instrument approach is.

(I wonder if the code on the iPad gets the audio stream from the radio so that it knows it's tuned to the right channel.)

As an aside, I've read on the X-Plane forums that X-Plane doesn't actually do a full simulation as you say it does. If you try to spin the default C172, for example, you can't do it, because the aerodynamics near the boundary cases are not calculated correctly. (Either that, or the spin recovery for a C172 consists of letting go of the controls and waiting, which is not what the manual says. But I have not tried it.)
I don't quite get how node.js comes into play here. I've seen lots of blog posts about it, but never used it. It seems to be about network programming. Indeed, the node website says "Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs."

Would someone enlighten me what the motivation is to use it as an editor's scripting environment?
>basics of the tech side

This is a very vague target.

Do you want basics on web development? networking? computer science? programming language? managing softwares? databases description? survey of computer science?
The "right thing" is clearly to take the (wealthy, exploitive, capitalist) bank's money and give it to a charity. Not roll over on it.
Send us an email: contact@wakemate.com and we'll figure it out.
There have been several schedule slips. A previous rant of mine details a few: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758288

Addendum: I'm totally still buying it.
Well, they need to make sure they are looking at the right type of data. I know it is blasphemous, but why not include the aneuploidy/chromosomal data as well? These error rates appear to be much higher than point mutations, etc:

"Nevertheless, the rate of chromosome missegregation in untreated RPE-1 and HCT116 cells is 0.025% per chromosome and increases to 0.6 – 0.8% per chromosome upon the induction of merotely through mitotic recovery from either monastrol or nocodazole treatment ( Fig. 3 C ). These basal and induced rates of chromosome missegregation are similar to those previously measured in primary human fibroblasts ( Cimini et al., 1999 ). Assuming all chromosomes behave equivalently, RPE-1 and HCT116 cells missegregate a chromosome every 100 cell divisions unless merotely is experimentally elevated, whereupon they missegregate a chromosome every third cell division. Chromosome missegregation rates in three aneuploid tumor cell lines with CIN range from 0.3 to 1.0% per chromosome (Fig. 3 C ). Depending on the modal chromosome number in each cell line, these cells missegregate a chromosome every cell division (Caco2), every other cell division (MCF-7), or every fifth cell division (HT29)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18283116

Many people claim that aneuploidy is found in nearly all cancer cells:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17046232

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443636/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10687734
I'm Canada, and in Canada, the Queen is the head of state. All bills require royal assent before being passed into law, a task normally done by her representative in Canada, the Governor General.
You do realize that the towers themselves have had that information about you forever, so AT&T (or now Verizon) can plot your every move.
It'd be nice if the title changed to that. I thought it was about Computer Science, too. In this crowd, CS is rather deceptive..
That doesn't address his question. It addresses what every "founder" should have, not what determines a technical cofounder...

OP, I think as long as you can build what you're trying to build and it's solid without serious issues, you're good enough. Most founders will end up hiring more technical people on to help with complex algorithms and such down the road. Not every technical founder have say, a PhD in Machine Learning for example, to build a complex semantic search engine (random example). As long as you're confident in your code to an extent to get the company up and running and be able to lead a technical team, you're probably good enough to call yourself a technical cofounder.
It should be possible to get a best fit curve between all the towers to get a more accurate position.
It wouldn't be that new if they did - we already have interlibrary loan, especially within states and throughout academia. Just go to worldcat.org, look up the book you want, and see if your library can do ILL with any of the libraries that come up.
Am I right in thinking that a naive Bayes classifier is beyond "not even the best out there," and is in fact about as simple a learning algorithm as you can get, and straight out of AI 101?
Absolutely, but it's just one piece of a bigger SEO puzzle. The more pieces you figure out, the higher you'll rank.

I really just wanted to point out that the article wasn't 'Proof of how important website titles are for SEO', as there are other elements on that page that could have been just as responsible for the ranking.
The first SMonologue is here: http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=401

The second is here: http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=402

If all the SMonologue and SMotivate type words annoy you, see the list of SModcast episodes for the derivation of the meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SModcast_episodes
There was an interesting discussion on this very subject 6 months ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Collins-t.htm...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743513
It's notable that 'free' and 'free gift' are alleged "stop words", too. I've seen a lot of confusion about that concept in certain communities; some people think that merely including "stop words" will cause serious dinging in search rankings.
Does this affect ITA directly at all? I will admit I am not clear on the relationship between Orbitz and ITA.
I wrote a pretty generic blog post (not AWS specific) a couple of years ago about how to quickly set up a VPN Server: https://redfern.me/quick-and-dirty-vpn-server-with-pptpd/
Way to repeat the mantra without engaging in the actual argument at all.
I can completely agree with this. I have a shitty machine with 2GB RAM and it's more often than not that it freezes almost completely when I compile bigg(ish) projects because it hits swap. I keep my Firefox open all the time (who doesn't?) and since I disabled AdBlock Plus this wasn't an issue anymore, and from 1.2GB Firefox's resident set size has plummeted to 500MB for me.
Even when taxis are readily available I still prefer Uber. UberX is cheaper than a cab for many thing and it's much less hassle. I get in, the driver drives, then I get out... no fumbling with cash or swiping cards, signing things, and worrying about tips. In San Francisco I can even get a yellow taxi cab via Uber.

Is it worth $3B? I don't know... but it's certainly not as insane as some other valley companies.
This is the first release of LightTable I've experimented with, and I find it to be really promising!

One thing: I fired up the built-in browser and pointed it at a local static server which sits in front of some apps I'm building with Google Polymer[1]. The apps don't work at all in that browser environment -- the console reports lots of errors related to invalid html and css.

I was able to connect LightTable (per the docs) to an external browser, but that seems to lessen the LT experience somewhat.

Would it be possible for the LT team to look into why the Polymer polyfills don't work properly with the built-in browser?

[1] http://www.polymer-project.org/
I wouldn't characterize web layout as "awesome."

I would. I've been doing web development for a long time, along with many other types of development, and although there are quirks (as there are with anything), you can do nearly anything via web layouts. The flexibility of the system, and things people have accomplished with it, is really amazing when you stand back and look at it as a whole.
Try driving from San Diego to Los Angeles: there are permanent checkpoints a solid hour's drive from the border — and quite a few non-white residents complain about getting unpleasant levels of attention.
It's more than that. Google is interested in the movement of goods and services and how they can make those transactions more efficient. Google can umbrella commerce in general and just take a small google tax. It's like amazon's end game, except a lot more lightweight and uninvested.
I don't get it,

console.log(wait.for(fs.readfile,'/etc/passwd'));

won't that execute console.log immediately, whereas fs.readfile will return the data later? "I don't think it means what you think it means" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
Regulation is the biggest obstacle with Uber. The Taxi services have the city regulators in their pockets. Google, with their influence and money, may help solve Uber's biggest issue.
I should google first:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/04/immigration-...

I don't know if they've fixed the problem, but its permanently soured me on flying into England.
> "Well, I can't do any more things now. I can't do any more things."

I just love that. I've encountered that attitude so many times.
"What choice did we have?" is very different from "We had choices but we lacked the perspective required to take them."

The first says, we did something bad, but it was justified, i.e. we didn't do anything morally wrong. The second says we did something bad, we thought it was justified, but it turns out that it was a mistake. Einstein is clearly expressing the latter, whereas official American policy expresses the former, and there has never been an apology.
A better title: FBI wants automatic warrants against VPN and Tor users
One of the things that's interesting about this - and is good meat for further discussion - is how to react when you find yourself on a team with someone who's clearly fighting the last war. I think it's inevitable that people end up fighting the last war, but I'd love to know if there are ways to break the cycle for someone once you see it happening.