jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
NBA is doing this to themselves too. They keep banning these amazing youtube channels that put up 10min highlight reels within minutes of the game ending. These videos are getting millions of views and instead of hiring them the NBA has been legally harassing them for years and the biggest one announced this week he's finally shutting down for good.

There's plenty of other examples of this in the NBA itself (with their half-baked streaming options) which I'm sure exists in most other sports.

One big one is they should have a library of every game ever for a subscription fee or individual access fee - it's pretty much impossible besides bittorrent or DailyMotion to find old classic games online (even from 2012 playoff finals).

They are all just throwing money into a dumpster fire by trying to live in the past generation of media.

This is just like how we all had to wait for a decade to get decent websites from every major retail-facing corporation, instead of a non-interactive static glorified contact form website. I expect it will take another decade for the big media companies to get proper leadership.
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

62% C 35% Python
They played an excerpt on the "Reveal" podcast the other day, so it's probably still around...
Just because someone isn't praising a mega corporation 24/7 doesn't mean they're unhinged.
Was it even 1 FPS? I seem to recall it only took a picture once every few seconds.

She clearly missed out on some product placement opportunities.
Exactly, it's a slightly different set but for all intents and purposes, Lego can just reissue a set that is so poplular/expensive in the aftermarket. Frankly, I'm glad the Lego company is not playing the scarcity and collectibles game--that's not what Lego are about. Because once it's worth 3-4x, nobody is going to open it and play with it, it just gets sold between speculators.

For example, I wanted to get the Saturn V kit for my (adult) brother, and I was afraid it would be gone from stores and cost 500%. But no, there it was at lego.com, along with the moon lander kit as well--easy holiday shopping. Thank you Lego.
I've been using this terminal for a couple of months now with WSL and its been great! Keep it coming Microsoft!
If it’s headed through a wall, you might be better off putting an AP in the room that it will be used and backhauling over power line adapters or a MoCA adapter if you have some unused coax drops. It doesn’t seem like you would get good performance out of power line adapters in that application, but my experience has been pretty good. You can even find Homeplug devices that also do PoE, so it’s minimal wiring at the AP.
It blows my mind that people will hang out in a Discord for a VPS provider and express their political opinions. Communities form around anything nowadays.
How in the world can ML benefit energy consumption?
Oh, ASP.NET Web Forms were awesome! I remember it was so easy to onboard new developers: built-in state management between requests, WYSIWYG editor, high-level controls abstracting from HTML. Maybe because I miss ASP.NET so much :) I started working on https://github.com/pglet/pglet to have something like "ASP.NET on steroids" - server-side controls with React UI. However, it's not a HTML passing over WebSockets, but controls state which takes much less traffic with smaller latencies.
Anybody remember GWT? [1]

Let's not go there again. It's the definition of worse than flash. And mostly for above described reasons.

Networking, Animation, Transitions, APIs, State of Data, State of Synchronization, Unpredictability and Unreliability of UI/UX States... all mixed together in a single socket.

Have fun debugging this blob of autogenerated code and transactions.

[1] www.gwtproject.org
Vim happens to be a real word, which I guess makes it easier to pronounce as such.
I pretty sure the poster meant the general 'fraction' (quotient) construction (set 'a' is like set 'b' but with certain elements to be regarded as the same - 'a rational number is a pair of numbers, where you regard (ax,ay) to be the same as (x,y)'. ), rather than rational numbers exactly. (Similarly, Actionscript 3 had generic lists, but not generic types generally IIRC).
Fuck typewriter. Use a typewriter font and laser printer.
Bill Gates is making the argument that Bitcoin's speculative value outweighs its moral efficacy as an investment vehicle. I think it's a fair argument whether or not he "understands" the internet.
In terms of frequencies used for WiFi and the dates standards were ratified, 5GHz is technically older. 802.11a was ratified just before 802.11b, but came to market a little bit later and hardware was a bit more expensive.
Open-source decentralized financial software is a really amazing phenomenon of our era
- The excitement for email newsletters will peak in 2015 and be considered passé in 2016. Email will remain popular, but other formats will take hold and have higher engagement rates. Targeting newsletter type material at other media and platforms instead of email will become more significant in 2015 (such as direct to Slack channels, CRM systems, etc.)

- Text chat and interactive systems will become more significant in a way I can't put my finger on yet. But expect to see more Slack-style activity creeping out to other types of app. Instead of "form filling", many types of app will begin to request data in a more conversational way on a "need to know" basis.
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Yup. Whether you opt for treatment or not, it's painful to the end for both you and your family. Dying of cancer sucks.
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Yeah, and you have to detail how all of that works in your operating agreement and spend thousands of dollars to do so. An S-corp takes care of everything for you due to the huge body of law around corporate share treatment, you get all of that free of charge with a corp.
It may be a "native control" but if you reimplement UIBUtton and have to recreate what Apple did to create it in the first place, that's where things tend to fall apart.
Until 1983: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes; my point is that the last coal-fired powerstation in London was closed a lot more recently than people might think.
Why would it be in a corporation's best interest to reduce pollution levels below that of the west, or any further than nevessary?

I agree that the top down control structure means that change can come fast, but I don't see how it means the change would go beyond the minimum.

Environmental cleanup is something desired more for people's quality of life, so it seems that long-term improvement would be more likely with democratic pressure than too-down command and control.
She understands function on a theoretical level. But keep in mind, she knows nothing about the cpu and jump commands. So, there was no intuition about functions being pieces of code being stashed somewhere for later use. That the interpreter would read a call and jump to that piece of code and send arguments to it. Instead, she developed her own theory of the interpreter reading a function definition and searching for calls in the code. The book did nothing to develop a healthy intuition about the flow of the program.

From the book:

> Learning logic has to come after you do some memorization. I want you to do this exercise for an entire week. (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex27.html)

Why would you need to memorize that not true == false? All of the others can be deduced by simple reasoning. One example:

not (True and False)
True and False is False
not (False) is True

Instead of teaching people this (basic algebra), he recommends spending a week memorizing stupid tables?

The same thing with spending first ten chapters having people write print statements with convoluted string interpolations. String interpolation is a hard concept to grasp for beginners. Unpacking variables before learning about objects, introducing what he calls "commands" like raw_input(), before even mentioning functions. I could go on and on.
>Simply be aware of the risks, and be sensible.

By their nature of being underage, they cannot understand the risks and be sensible. We can help so they won't have completely crazy ideas such as Mnt. Dew being a contraceptive, but they cannot be fully informed nor make the best decisions.

>Likewise, eating can be fun and pleasurable, but be aware of the risks and make sensible decisions.

Considering the multi-billion dollar industry making it as fun and pleasurable as possible so you won't make sensible decisions, this doesn't seem like a fair challenge.
Is that the Norvig course where the Python interpreter is in the browser?
I've only messed around in the REPL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U gives a fairly practical introduction.
I play roulette and I'm pretty sure I got the math right.
That's true but if you want to learn Lisp (anything) well you will have to see examples, talk with peers etc. Everyone discourages too much imperative code in Lisp so this will be very hard to pick up on your own. So to be an effective Lisp-learner you will have to grok map, first order functions and what not.
I don't have a clue about semiotics, but "The Adjunction Between Syntax and Semantics" [0] gets bandied about a lot in this space. There's also an attempt to use adjunctions to explain "generalization" which might be relevant [1]. Generally, "adjunctions are everywhere".

[0] Technically Galois connection, but that's just a specific kind of adjunction: http://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/Galois.pdf

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1018963029743...
Ad block rules like this block content except on the home site:

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It means that in a sealed water resistance test thing, the watch, sitting there surrounded by water, will still function when subjected to, in the case of your watch, 3bar of pressure. That is without moving the watch, with the crown fully tightened/pushed in, etc. Yours was probably defective, or was advertised in bad faith, even though by those water resistance tables they say 30m isn't suitable for swimming. However, I've taken both 3 bar and 5 bar watches to the sea many times with no problem. It's supposed to handle shallow swimming
He has to show up to a court date and then a jail date.
That looks pretty dubious
With Google's recent changes, I switched to Amazon Photos on my Android phone. I'm a Prime member, so it's nice to get some extra value out of it.

Since I'm in effect paying for it, I also feel better that Amazon are going to keep unlimited (or at least, "a lot") of storage available for Prime members, as it's a good selling point, especially with Google dropping free unlimited storage.

Switching was easy - just download the app, login, and photos on my phone were uploaded to Amazon. I didn't bother trying to migrate anything from Google to Amazon though. Feature-wise, the Amazon Photos app seems pretty comparable to Google Photos, at least as far as I use them. It also does the "on this day 1..n years ago" kind of thing, which is one of my favourite features of both Google and Amaon Photos!

I should add, Google/Amazon are not the only backup target for my family photos: I also backup to a private Seafile instance, and to OneDrive (I get a lot of storage for having the Microsoft Action Pack).
I agree, that was an insane thing to do for those protests. It still bothers me.

But I think we should all be in favor of the police response being more restrained and minimizing force, like we saw this week. We should be advocating for more of this in general.
Yes. The only ones who will notice the difference are the astronomers, who created the problem in the first place (unless the time-difference becomes so big that it starts affecting perceived daylight times).

On the other hand, it would be great if some authority could release a package with time conversion routines that everybody could include in their software projects and be done with it. However, every language needs its own implementation, which is a problem created/not fixed by IT people.
> Human doctors were historically put on call for up to 24 hours at a time as part of their learning process in part so they would see a patient's condition evolve over time while the doctor was still young and healthy enough to endure this grueling process. Having seen it for a time as part of their training, they retained that knowledge when they were older and could recognize a stage of a moving target.

Closer to 36 hours at a time, I am sad to report
twitter is pretty much the literal modern incarnation of pitchfork mobs
PoW was looked at well over a decade ago by Bill Gates personally (and obviously others)

It's never been adequately explained why no one implemented it.

It might be the obvious, incremental gains from filtering spam have kept users happy enough. No one company wants to take the first hit of educating users and the incompatibility with other systems.

It might complex processes like the engineers asked to implement it think users give a shit about mailing lists (maybe they did in 2004 when Gates told Davos he'd kill spam). Maybe marketing drones on about big business in all the meetings, crushing a good idea. Or maybe Microsoft went for micro payments over PoW, not realising micro payments was in itself an impossible dream.

Ask Bill next AMA on Reddit.
Because the market is still working right now. Amazon is raising wages and hiring like crazy.
The landing page for the first one cracked me up haha
Man, don't beat yourself up. Americans are great people and not that bad of a society now. (someone in a WE society). Hang in there, we'll bicker after :)
I doubt it would stop the flu, etc. Maybe slow it down for a little bit, but well there are different strains of flu every year, it stands to reason that every year it starts from just a small group and rapidly spreads. I think the effect on the flu will be negligable shortly after quarintine ends.*

*IANA-person who knows about this subject.
Priorities took 2 weeks. I decided it's time to build it on March 7th, and it's approved yesterday.

Goals took me 2 months to launch, started from an empty repo, then polished over the next 6 months.

Thank you for asking!
Also, addressing your last paragraph, ultimately if something takes long enough to kill you, it doesn't matter in the limit because everybody dies of something. Conversely, anything people notice, like say HIV, is always going to have some pressure applied to it.
Nim, the most elegant new language.

http://nim-lang.org
That snake game is our own little flare! You can't simply click in the direction but need to use the quadrant system. We will update our instructions to make that clearer.
> There's hardly anything built in Haskell out there for you to build your own stuff on.

False. How do you come to this conclusion.

I agree with your overall point mostly, but it doesn't apply to Haskell.
This show is so profoundly good that I could care less about the resolution and aspect ratio. I got so lost in the show that I never would've noticed. The game is the game. Always.
Good stuff. The push-invalidation-plus-refetch technique is sometimes referred to as "hinting". Some more info here:
http://blog.andyet.com/2014/09/23/send-hints-not-data

I've also been working on a protocol definition for REST updates called LiveResource. Anyone interested in this problem space, please send feedback. :)
https://github.com/fanout/liveresource
"may not" != "does not"

I wasn't referring the the graphs anyway in regards to absolute productivity. Rather, I was referring to the parents claim that the library in python makes you more productive, which may be the case.

Also, "why wouldn't they be"? Whitespace is boring. Maximizing useful space on each graph would require a different scale for each language. Also, productivity in each space is varies widely limiting apples-to-apples comparisons across languages (even within languages this is tricky). There's no question that for some workloads Python is more productive than C++ or Haskell. The discussion is really about what the learning curve for the language is (hence the title).
I'm convinced Nim is what Python aspires to be, but it seems like putting the cart before the horse.

Does anyone know of any interesting projects using Nim?
Again, huh? DK2/CV1 is not "a gaming machine". It's just a VR headset you plug into your desktop or laptop. It can then be used for games and non-games as they user pleases. It will not, and has never intended to, be used solely for games. Games are a great use case but so are panoramic images and movies.
Not sure luddite is what I would call it in this instance? I think practical is a better term. My parents have a 70+ year old house. The bell on it, is whatever the builder put in. Still works. Adding complexity adds maintenance. Some people like that. Some dont. I could whip up some very nice decent IoT system for my doorbell, camera and all. But I leave it as a button. The next person to own this place will be glad I did.
> they disappear

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360001513491-Save...

:)
I think this is better than the "Generation PHP" we had before.

Both languages aren't sexy at all.

But JS is more versatile. Runtimes are available (and preinstalled) on many servers AND clients. And it's OO and FP seems to be more flexible to me. I get a more smalltalk-feeling from using JS than I got from PHP back in the days.
I have no illusions about the amount of effort and investment necessary to change technology stacks. Carbon was only officially deprecated in OS X 10.8. To speak of the death of technology is only to acknowledge that it is mortal.

My claim isn't that everything will be rewritten in Swift—far from it. Instead, the article is an exploration of what it would mean for Swift to evolve beyond the constraints of Objective-C & Cocoa interoperability, and how that may occur as Swift gains momentum.
When I first saw the comment threads, basically everything was voted down to 0. It now feels much more like a typical contraversial thread - lots of disagreement, and a few people who've gotten strongly downvoted. I have no problem with that, it's what I expect to see.

It just kind of pissed me off to see the vandalism of presumably one person downvoting everything on the page, because only people with quite a lot of karma can downvote.

I suspect that's also why I got voted up to 7 and then back down to 1 - because people are looking at the votes now see no issue.
"you have to research all those stocks"

That sounds like actual work. I thought the idea of investing is to let the money work for you.
At least as of ~four years ago or so, this is how the compiler construction course was taught at IU, according to one of my co-Ph.D. students who went there. He loved the course and its debuggable-at-each-step architecture.
This is similar in spirit to this much more detailed series of text files, which is a great introduction for a beginner:

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

He spends a bunch of time on parsing, since it isn't Lisp.
I don't see why anybody would need a device like that. There's an offline option in Spotify for example, and there's hardly any way you could make the experience better than that, and it's only 4.99 a month. I don't know if there's currently similar services for US markets though. Probably Apple's going to launch something similar tomorrow.
I've never really found looking at the 'average' (be it median or mean) experience to be very useful here, though.

In the UK something like 30% of homes are owner occupied with no mortgage. But at the bottom, millions are completely stuck struggling to even pay the rent, never mind even think about saving any money or getting the income multiplier / job security / deposit required to start along that path.

Far more relevant is how accessible the bottom rung is, and whether that top portion (and so the average) are simply propped up by legions of modern day serfs.

In the UK in particular I'd be happy to build a wooden shack on a bit of agricultural land near to some utilities, maintain it well and stay out of others' way. Capital costs would be incredibly low.

But then there are the costs of jumping through regulatory hoops. Or simply being shut down by a judgement that your society says you have to live in a city at ten times the cost, or else.

Our version of poverty is 'death by bureaucracy'. The welfare state has created a situation in which many are simply incapable of fending for themselves - and the results when the state turns its back (google for 'UK benefit sanctions' for more information) are truly despicable.
Most SO moderators are unpaid volunteers. Not that this stops the effect, though, much the same is visible on the English Wikipedia as well.
This change was introduced at the same time when google.amp was introduced.

Now both firefox and chrome dont allow you to change the adress easily to manually remove amp.

I wonder if some Firefox developer was bribed
Yes, that's what I said?