jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> see: Asimov, with his hopelessly flat characters and dialogue

What? I recently re-read the entire foundation series and was amazed at how I actually remembered a staggering number of the many protagonists from my single time reading the books almost 20 years ago.

I do agree that he might not be sci-fi writer with the best technique - Bester or Le Guin might be better there. Ironically we now suffer (somewhat) from the reverse problems: writers all have a higher education in writing: and end up writing very similarly (in my experience this is a bigger problem with American writers -- but that could be overt and non-overt selection bias: who gets published and who gets marketing/press).

On a side note: after viewing the pilot episode of "Man in the High Castle" (based on the book by P K Dick) earlier this evening, I realized I hadn't read the book. Now I'm a little over halfway through -- and I find it highly enjoyable. And more interestingly highly apropos current events with it's not-so-subtle critique of the US versus the horrors of nazism and ww2-era fascism.

TV show looks great, but I very much doubt it'll manage to pull of the dualism of the novel.
Good to hear they're aware of the issue and working on tackling it.
People conflate opinionated formats with autoformatting for some reason.

An autoformatter removes 99% effort from formatting code, and that includes code actively being worked on. Autoformatters are incredibly useful.

A standardized format removes effort spent learning to read a new format. That's an hour per format at most.

I don't see any good reasons for an autoformatter to enforce a standard. A standard would work just as well if defined as a specific configuration.
[totally naive -no maths background] What happens when you make a circle so large that the boundary in small enough arcs is practically straight?
Even now, they can use a Square wireless terminal and you wouldn't know if its hooked up to their personal iPhone or what.
Looks really great! I like the document style form builder too. Question: I’ve researched many form builders, but none seem to provide a Google Maps place autocomplete input. This is really useful tho, for things like verifying delivery address.

Is there a reason this is hard to add?
Personally I think those are just ignorant teenagers.
This article feels superficial to me. The only explanation he gives is that the paintings look more realistic? Was that it? I guess he mentions the craft, so I'm assuming he's only talking about the craft of portraiture, not the art.
An XML document is mixed content in the sense that it can be validated, signed, partially encrypted (perhaps by multiple actors), can be wrapped by a header, and augmented for application level routing. [edit: where each of these actions may mix-in content with the original document.] And all of this can be done in a standards compliant way.

Now the standards can totally suck - they can be improperly implemented - and they can be difficult to make performant... But those are largely issues of implementation unrelated to the core XML and XML namespace specifications.

It seems unlikely to me that JSON could reasonably be purposed to those use cases...
Maybe that's the next step. This idea has incredibly powerful implications - imagine if Adobe let you do simple filters and previews from an API call. Lots of cool possibilities.
He also worked on Chord, which became a basis for distributed hash tables and a few other things. He is as successful as a researcher as he has been with the whole gaining tenure and doing viaweb/ycombinator with pg thing.

Frankly he's up there with Steve Jobs and maybe Fabrice Bellard in terms of "people who I'd like to know what it is they're doing so right so consistently." It's the consistency that tends to surprise me.
What Mr.Wolfram said (assuming he actually said that) is dumb.
I always found it odd that people seem to consider the national census as an invasive nuisance but have no problem with much more insidious micro-snooping in to their everyday lives. It makes me sad, after they inevitably discontinue it, that there won't be any reliable historical record of families living in the UK.

It's been taken every 10 years, recording the names of occupants since 1841. Access is protected for 100 years to give people a chance to die off. It's the only record you're required to be on in the UK and I don't really have a problem with that.
Not even talking about grand scale things like that. Little things -- the construction next door has been negligent and constantly wreaking havoc on neighbors, the environment, etc. Nobody other than me complains. Nobody files complaints. Nobody cares. Police don't care. Americans are brainwashed into thinking complainers are losers/weak and we all just have to "suck it up" and deal with it.
Because the scope of property rights in the property he bought did not include the right to deny beach access, and the fact that it did not was factored into the market value of the property when he bought it.

And because he is the one using force to prevent access to the public to property belonging to them.

He wants to be treated as if he bought something that was never for sale, and which he didn't buy, and which would have added significant cost to what he actually bought had it been for sale and been included with what he bought.
I'd wager 99% of codes have a big if(200) { // Do stuff } else { // Try again later }

Actually, a bunch of them probably don't even check for response code.

Edit: If dataaccessd is really the iOS native CALDAV integration, that's a bit annoying. Of all people, they should be able to handle that correctly.
Worked fine in Chrome 28.0.1500.95 on OSX for me.
I wouldn't say so. It's far, far closer to a functional programming language than JavaScript is, for instance. But it's clearly nowhere near what Haskell or Standard ML are, either.

Maybe "semi-functional" would be a good term for it and Scheme. It has some of the important elements of functional programming, but not all of them.
>an average of one case of intentional abuse per year has been documented in internal reports [...] the number of reported deliberate abuses is small

According to the WSJ, these were caught mostly through self-reporting by the people who did them [1]. Relying on self-reporting doesn't seem like such a great safeguard, and it appears likely that there would be more non-self-reported cases than self-reported.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-someti...
I am also more socially isolated than most, and I don't feel the emotion of loneliness very often, but I definitely become distrustful and more withdrawn as the article described when I spend more time isolated. I didn't even connect the two, I just figured that was part of my personality. But now I'm remembering that when I did have close friends around a lot I felt much better and could talk to new people much more easily, and the existential angst didn't bother me so much because I don't think about it while talking to close friends. so those things might be how loneliness manifests itself in you.
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> allow breaking DRM for any non infringing purpose

Why not just make building DRM into a consumer product illegal?
God, hearing stuff like this is sickening. I understand that tensions can run high and people disagree, but nobody working on any project should have to put up with that sort of nonsense.

On a related tangent, I have to wonder how much of this is reflective of the community of contributors around Chef or of the OSS community as a whole. I've never experienced the sort of vitriol Seth seems to have run into, but such behavior should not be tolerated in any sort of environment.
> That you can claw back some performance by using a partially conforming alternate language implementation does not prove the "trolls" wrong.

You're talking as if PHP is slow. It isn't, it's very fast, speed is actually one of its advantages (or was historically, anyway). Its alternatives (Python, Ruby) are sometimes marginally slower. With its next release, it will receive a significant performance boost, and minor versions usually include small but significant performance gains.

Yes, it's not as fast as say, C, C++, Java, C#. It doesn't need to be, nor does anyone expect it to be: it's a dynamic language that allows for rapid development. But to talk about it like it's something horribly slow that you'd never use in 2015 is simply wrong. It is competitive.
And tokens can be abused or stolen (given they're not stored or paired with other tokens/keys residing inside a TPM), we have seen numerous cases of people hijacking others' AWS accounts and using them for mining bitcoin, of all things.
Oops, I thought this was going to be about transit systems :P
Presumably, Takedown Piracy LLC and their client would have to have signed the Sworn Statements on Google's DMCA page [0]:

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted
materials described above as allegedly infringing is not
authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

The information in this notification is accurate and I
swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the copyright
owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an
exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Is there any recourse or punishment for falsely submitting a DMCA takedown request for content that is actually not under their copyright?

[0] https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?rd=1
Also they link to a business address service, which isn't a business. Actual cost of just owning a business in the UK is £13/year
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

For example, a police officer was fined 48 euro for accessing "personal data in a police database for private research activities", a housing association was fined 500 euro for "publishing photos showing members of the association without their consent" and Borjamotor, S.A. (which appears to be a Spanish Opel dealership) was fined 4000 euro for "sending commercial advertisements to the data subject via email and SMS, even though the data subject had previously revoked his/her consent to receive advertisements and submitted a request to delete his/her data".
This.

I'm half-black. There was never a glorious past that would have suited me better than this moment, right now. Yes, I do worry about total surveillance.
Mouhaha. Ridiculous comment (worth killing yourself for, following your silly logic). Stuff happens. Science is built on the mistakes of the past. If you take this approach we will end up never building anything new and stay stuck in technology.

So, we shouldnt build driverless cars unless some engineer is ready to kill himself over it? Seriously, stop the drugs.
Shine the emitted light into space, global warming solved!

When did they say these things would be industrial scale again?
> ¿how do you use results from the first function on the second or third?

waterfall

async.waterfall([
function (cb) {
. . .
cb(stuff);
},
function (stuff, cb) {
. . .
[EDIT: I'm talking about the richly-deserving-of-his-hellban "losethos": that guy's ramblings are always worth a drag of the trackball.]

losethos is a talented programmer with schizophrenia. The reason his posts deserve to be killed is because they are 98% content free and occasionally disturbed, paranoid, and racist, hallmarks of schizophrenia. But losethos the person, as a human being in distress, doesn't deserve any of that.
And I'm really glad that we don't have to use it, except for special cases!
>Which is ~$44 you wouldn't have to pay for another metal...

You wouldn't have to pay $44 for another metal because they are vastly more abundant[1], the consequence of which is that they are cheaper to produce.

Yes, demand affects the price too, but given gold currently costs over $32/gram to produce[2] (average, individual mines vary considerably), I don't see how the price is going to magically drop if it stops being used as a store of value.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth'...

[2] http://www.barrick.com/Company/Profile
Probably the operational expertise in efficiently getting cars to pick up and drop off people at arbitrary points throughout a city. They're building that expertise right now with human drivers.
You are unfairly downvoted. Corruption is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples_waste_management_crisis
Perhaps you could mention on your page, what do you expect to be the native language of the learner. After seeing the examples, I've realized that this is nothing for me since I am native German speaker.
Note that Apple set up a large office next to Imagination's in the UK and recruited lots of IMG staff. Probably right to be bitter.

> Apple's has already been recruiting Imagination workers for months, its most prominent get being COO John Metcalfe. Until now, hires were being sent to Apple's main offices in London, or overseas to California.

> The company now has over a dozen listings for graphics-related jobs in South Hertfordshire, the region in which St. Albans and Kings Langley are based.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/07/10/apple-sets-up-off...

Edit to add quotes.
They could easily control it by selling chips to big players only if they want.
I only learned a couple of months ago that Christiaan's dad was a famous ambassador of Willam III of Orange, during the Glorious Revolution. The book is "Oranje tegen de Zonnekoning", which describes the epic rivalry between William and the "roi soleil". Amazing read (unfortunately only in Dutch I think)

If you want to read more about the Huygenses, I (also accidentally) got "Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe" for Christmas, and it seems pretty well written too.

I'm always amazed by how much we know about the inner thoughts of people that lived 400 years ago, simply because their most private conversations were all by mail.

Geert Mak traces the 20th century, by using a narrative focused on his father ("My father’s century", good read too). He says that as of the 70's it is hard to get an idea of what was happening in his family, simply because the phone entered the household. No more long letters to the rest of the family.

I wonder sometimes the challenges that will face historians in 100 years, when they will analyse our culture.
Plus things like performance optimizations; people have been building lightweight alternatives to React for years now, the core concept is not that difficult. Making it performant is the one though.
I mean there are 2 npm packages now - synergy and Synergy
https://www.npmjs.com/package/Synergy
Moiva.io shows names of npm packages
An ICD is a bit more drastic than a pacemaker. They do have a pacemaker-like mode, called overpacing that tries to slow down tachycardia, but their main function is delivering shocks to reset life-threatening arrythmias or to defibrillate in the case of ventricular or atrial fibrilation. ICDs are also much larger than pacemakers, as they have to have much larger batteries and capacitors.
They aren't cloning shit though. They are getting single ECDSA private key after six thousand operations or something.
In a thread about Peter Norvig solving AoC problems in Python, you bashed on 1) Peter Norvig, 2) AoC and 3) Python. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but your comment reads like someone jumping into an enthusiastic conversation among Star Wars fans to tell everyone how much you dislike Star Wars. I'm sure you didn't intend it that way (based on your later comments), but that's how it comes across.
> This is only about the Dart VM, not about the Dart language.

The writing is on the wall already. If Dart hasn't the chance to become a natively supported language, why would anyone pick it as a compile-to-JavaScript language, given there are so many superior options?
Less than you'd think. Starting from scratch is easy at first since you have no users and freedom to do what you like. Maintaining a popular project well requires more creativity in some ways because design constraints built up over time.

Improving the web, in particular, requires that people think like maintainers and innovators.
solid point
The same thing is happening with the EU. The narrative is no longer that foreign companies under contract are shipping vaccines from the EU. That has been replaced with the narrative that the EU is exporting vaccines and other countries are not.

This is of course because the EU completely fucked up the contracts by being slow, inept, and not understanding how manufacturing is booked.
And despite the errors, the credit bureaus have the gall to refuse to make corrections! You skipped on paying a cable bill in Memphis in 2009. Never mind the fact that you've never stepped foot in Tennessee!
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Start a software startup in your free time? Pick a passion and run with it, maybe even try to make a business (or non-profit out of it)?
This is actually a thing people are criticizing Musk for, he is being accused of sending people to Mars with insufficient shielding against cosmic rays.

In my opinion it's a bit silly argument, as there's a whole bunch of other risks and quality of life sacrifices made by the persons who are going to undertake that journey. Some raised chance of cancer is probably the least of their worries.
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> Around that time Tom Petty had a song censored, every time it played on MTV the word “joint” was replaced with indecipherable word-like sound.

Sometimes when searching a song on YouTube, I come across that obnoxious VEVO channel and I have to wonder who the hell is handling the censorship. They’ll bleep out random words and leave like 2 curse words in the next line.
I think restaurants in Japan are often great+ because Japan has an extraordinary service culture. They try. Just giving a tiny little bit of a damn goes a long way...

+ There's obviously tons of pedestrian/fast/chain/meh food in Japan, but even that stuff is generally a few notches above the same thing in the U.S. Even U.S. branches of Japanese chain restaurants generally seem far worse than the home branches...
It has been know, but has it been done before?
I would say yes it fits perfectly, especially if you extend it with java classes for performance critical stuff.
What is Walmart's digital stratergy?
To make sure it's correct make they user type his email address the second time he logs in.
Yeah, some of them are Flash but not all. Check this one out:
http://mrdoob.com/97/Depth_of_Field_HTML5

Mr. Doob has serious chops.
What's the licensing for this theme? Can one just use the source/theme?

Regards
Here's a little experiment that I did.
http://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/do-our-eyes-suck-at-blue...
I tried swapping channels, to cancel any unsymmetric effects like the use of Bayer filter etc. And still I find that the Green channel is always the most pixelated. The difference between Red and Blue channels is not all that perceivable.
It makes people feel safer and is relatively cheap, so public spaces are incentivized to do it.
>If dude wanted psychiatric help, he could get it.

Just to touch on this and not the other issues - many people who are diagnosable as having some problem refuse diagnosis, this does not mean they don't have the problem they could be diagnosed as having.
Thanks for the comment. I see now it was more complicated than I originally thought. I don't think Greenwald fits cleanly into the US political alignment, and I think that's a good thing. Blind partisanship alignment often causes a lot of bickering and anger toward the other side.
Seems to me that Stillman has gone through an obsessive amount of effort to avoid having to change his boorish behavior. You and I would get fired for a lot less.

I'm like, it's his hill he can die on it.
Train AI on its data. There wont be a need for archiving.
Although 3.5% might be small compared to the US or California average on that linked site, it still sounds like a lot to me. In a town with 10000 properties, that's 35 empty units. Even if only 15 weren't actively on the market, that could still get over a dozen homeless people off the streets, or provide a refuge for at risk members of the community who currently live with abusive parents or spouses due to not having the means to live alone.

Obviously building more affordable properties is a longer term solution, but that doesn't mean that people who keep empty houses around aren't also part of the problem. Personally, I think there should be a "use it or lose it" tax on vacant properties.

Edit: I realized after posting I'm off by an order of magnitude. It's 150-350 empty units! That would make a huge difference to homeless numbers almost anywhere.
30.4167 days in a month, per the interest calculation in some software I implemented for a bank
It's not really. SolarWind uses a JetBrains component as a critical piece of infrastructure in the government which may have basically been built by Russia. Now maybe everything is above board but JetBrains does employ developers in Russia and was originally a Russian company. We don't run Kaspersky in the government either.

More to the point this should never have happened.