jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Android and iOS are effectively in a different market than the original Windows Mobile because they were designed from the ground up to be used only with fingers on capacitive multi-touch screens. Same thing with the tablets. Windows was designed to be used with mouse and keyboard, which is why it never really worked on tablets. Windows Mobile seemed more like an attempt to make a phone as much like a Windows PC as possible, rather than a genuine rethink of how people would interact with mobile devices. Windows Phone seems much better, but it looks to be too late to get a foothold in the market, even with Microsoft throwing money at it.
In college we got offered free focus group passes to see The Underground Comedy Movie on Sunset. It was gags thrown together into the worst movie I've ever seen. We also got to see King Cobra that way.

It wasn't always bad though. We got to see 2001 as part of a focus group in Woodland Hills when they were considering releasing it to theaters. We were lucky there.
A week is nothing, it's like a detox period. Try several years of interacting with people you don't really connect with and feeling lonely, now that's depressing as hell...
This is definitely a good read for beginners in the area and it does a good job of balancing both application of and theory behind the algorithms. Highly recommended.

Another good read which covers some of the same ground (also by a professor at George Mason University, Professor Kenneth De Jong) would be "Evolutionary Computation" http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Computation-Kenneth-Jong/....
Link to the mentioned app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id399128529?mt=8 (Killer Apps)
Strange, I'm on the same config as you and apart from 'wump' I was in nostalgia-wumpus heaven. :) Chrome 10.0.648.204 (amd64 linux.)
This research is a few years old but, hopefully, things should be even better by now: http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html .. Safari, Opera, and Firefox all go over 80k. I found another source for Chrome that says they "could not find any limits on Chrome and Safari".

Nonetheless, it's tricky because you have no idea if proxies in the middle will be able to cope, mobile clients, and all sorts of things.. so you're right in the sense that it's pointless (if you want it to be universally acceptable ;-)).
I'm glad I could help :) Can't wait to see it when you've updated the pricing.
Also check out the short demo video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PrShZcaR98&rel=0
Sorry about that, should definitively improve the UI for Firefox based drag'n drop deploys.

Chrome is currently the only browser that supports dragging a whole folder directly into the browser and uploading that way (so that's why we recommend it).

We should make sure to change the copy for Firefox to make it obvious that a zipped folder is what works there...
After editing the default note, I am unable to create a box.

- Firefox 36.0.4, Windows 7. Let me know if you need additional information.
Just wondering, what do you find so problematic about it? These kinds of rating prompts are extremely common in the mobile app space. They work there, presumably, or they wouldn't be so common. Why don't you think the idea will work here?

I'm a big fan of Firefox, and I would find being prompted to provide them with useful feedback a positive experience.
No thanks. I would like the freedom to choose where my money goes and not be forced by government or people lobbying government to allocate other people's hard-earned money to subsidize their preferences. Being able to withdraw money from something when it becomes corrupt, outdated, or inefficient is powerful. You don't have that power if government is taking your money by force. You are funding education even if the implementation is shitty, even if people are graduating with useless degrees.

In other words, you aren't entitled to people's money with no strings attached; you have to work for it. Using institutionalized violence to get what you want is lazy and immoral.
Yeah the ui is kind of hit and miss and performance not quite as good but it's getting there and we can have add ons!

Wish I had the time and drive to contribute to the ux - truly appreciate having the option of independent browser on mobile device.
Lithium thionyl chloride batteries can last 40 years, based on a self-discharge rate of 1% per year. They're used for things like sensors buried in concrete where it's a hassle to change the batteries.
Intel had toxic culture since Brian Krzanich took the lead in 2013, around the switch to 14nm.

His mistakes weren't seen clearly until almost 2019, when it became obvious 10nm was a disaster, and 14nm++++++++ was their only workable product.

We're still seeing it today as Intel has 250w TDP products competing with AMD 140w TDP products.

Semiconductors is a space where mistakes take a while to bit you.
That's because depreciation is a paper loss. If you're an average person you're not selling your car for a new one for at least 7-8 years after you buy it. By that time it's worth very little of its original cost anyways. The only actual cost incurred by the driver is repairs and maintenance, which is nowhere near the cost of depreciation on the car. In effect, the depreciation schedule changes, but on the time scales of your average person the net result after 7-8 years of ownership is the same total depreciation. For corporate owners who have to report depreciation as a loss this schedule is not great, but for individuals it's not a real loss.
> I just really didn't like the assertion that this was supposed to be some sort of advert, rather than an arbitrary pick. It certainly isn't an affiliate link or anything.

Feel free to speculate one way or another, I'll do the same based on the data and reasoning provided.

You don't need an affiliate link to advertise btw, referer headers do just fine.

I really wasn't slamming them for advertising, just noting it was and that it didn't fit their reasoning as to why they were plugging them.

If you feel it was an arbitrary selection, that's fine. I was just expanding on the statement as to why it doesn't fit the data. I assume you concede to that right?
I'm not convinced. Counterexample: if the original song is a sine wave, and the distortion turns it into a square wave, then a simple algorithm can turn it back into a sine wave with the right frequency, very easily.
Yes. We glued it back.
Battery cartel did exist tho
Savings is explicitly idle money. Illiquid holdings are very different from cash that can deployed immediately. You certainly don’t hold 100% property and by definition that unspent money is savings.

Savings can certainly be used to purchase securities, commodities, property, but then it’s no longer savings and is an investment.
One entire point of government is to work on multi-generational projects — like nuclear waste storage.
My point is that this business plan is a quick ticket to somewhere where you'll get a considerably more invasive search than you'd get from the TSA.
You could also just flat-out not work with recruiters. Make that your default stance. I'm sure there are a few really excellent recruiters out there, but you're not going to learn about them from cold calls.

People who hire a lot almost universally have horror stories about bad recruiters. Any friend of yours referring a good recruiter should be able to explain what sets them apart from the vast miasma of boiler room telemarketer rip-off artists.
In more conventional programming terms, some languages have REPLs* for a conversation, and support declarative programming ("Here's what I want, figure it out"), but most are procedural ("Do this, than this, than this, then give me the result").

* Read/eval(uate)/print loops

Prolog (also Erlang and some others) is mixed; you reload a file of rules read as a whole, but can easily prompt the system for easy testing, and reloading is very fast. It's very convenient with a Prolog shell terminal and a vi window, two buffers in Emacs, etc.
what's your point? bribery isn't a one-sided thing. if there are government officials that'll sell out for $10, we all very much need to find that out before someone offers them more than $10 for something more valuable than a nudie pic.
This sounds too much like Stallman reading his email.
http://www.linode.com/
http://www.slicehost.com/
http://www.webfaction.com/
xmonad for Mac OS X would be fantastic.

Unfortunately, while OS X can run an xserver to use with programs that are written to use X11, it has its own native window manager for native Mac programs. (To give you an idea of how rare X11 programs are, the xserver is an optional install, as part of the developer tools.)

As far as I can tell, xmonad running on a Mac is still only an X11 window manager.
The website isn't very well laid out.
I've encountered the problems you're trying to solve. First, it needs to handle word wrapping which yours doesn't seem to do. After that, it's i18n text that make this a difficult problem to solve. Specifically, RTL languages and CJK.
I believe the understanding is that without 230, facebook would be liable just like the rest of the press is, and thus be essentially forced to disallow free-for-all posting.

This is a different mode of manipulation, where the people who own the media can shape the public discourse, but isn't that what the whole world had for decades and decades before social media?
Less of a joke, more of a helping hand to young members of this forum:

A small business owner I did some work for once had a ready-made explanation for why spider soltaire was on top of her frequent applications list.

I was an IT guy and she fully expected me to be mad at her.

When I wasn't and just did my job she told my boss and I think that was the start of some completely unexpected and very nice career developments that ended up with some really nice and well paid work 4 years later :-)

So: it should be totally obvious but it seemingly isn't for everyone: Show some basic respect for your customers.

And the reason she played a lot of solitaire? Every time she opened the computer it was so slow that it was the only thing that would run for the first few minutes. Once the pc run fast again gaming stopped. Not that it was any of my business anyway though :-D
While private businesses, homes, and police precincts were burning, many politicians were promoting more rioting and reminding us that "rioting is the voice of the unheard."
Agreed, I have recently built a web server entirely (with timeouts) in Go too and acme.sh for LE certs but I still haven't find a way to support Wordpress from Go to PHP-FPM, I'm not well verse to fix the only this part, if you have any suggestion is greatly appreciate.
> "Just because it's factual doesn't make it true."

May I ask what definition of "factual" you use? Because every definition I can find says that it has to be something grounded in reality and I looked it up just to be sure.
My point in bringing up segregation wasn't about the selection process, but the outcome. I believe that if two groups of people are given different variants of a law to live by, one of those groups is going to discover a way to use the difference in the laws to gain an economic, social, or political advantage over the other group. As soon as that happens, you've got state-mandated discrimination, and we already know how that turns out.
Are there actually any residential ISPs that do native IPv6? I'd switch in a heart beat if there were...
Ezra Klein on why health care proponents are not too worried about this: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/is_the_h...
"are people doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again"

This is a common view in mainland China. Particularly, the last few years, in regards to the U.S.: "They've had a good 200-250 year run, now this arc/dynasty is coming to its end and another arc will replace it. Hopefully the turmoil while bootstrapping the next won't be too painful." 200-300 years is the generally accepted time of a Chinese dynasty. As near I as can tell, this is due to people "forgetting" their history. Written history may not be enough. You need to be able to feel it similar to those that put their lives on the line to create it.
I think the author is attacking a bit of a strawman. It seems that the discussion of "major metropolitan areas" assumes either San Francisco and the Valley, New York, or Boston. Now it's true they're the main tech hubs, but they are far from the only decent sized cities with a booming software market. Here in Philadelphia, for instance, I've never had undue trouble finding a job. However it's generally true that you'll do better in New York than you will in Philly - and a lot better in Philly than you'd do in the middle of the state. It's a simple fact of life that software development, by and large, tends to cluster around the nearest large population center. You'll have an easier time finding a job in the city for a fairly wide range of careers, for that matter, simply because there's more employers around. That's neither exceptionalism or arrogance - that's just how it is.

To lay my cards on the table - I grew up in a small town in boondocks, PA, and live in Philadelphia, which is not exactly a speck on the map. So, I've had it both ways, and I wouldn't even entertain the notion of moving back to where I came from and still being able to have any kind of real career in development.
We are inherently irrational creatures susceptible to dozens of cognitive biases. As a consequence, we are very good at rationalizing things we want to do but would otherwise judge wrong. That was the point neild was making - in that context, saying you will "just not lie to myself" does not address his point.
Sorry my correction, I meant to download it.
I also have a lot of connections there, but it's just a very questionable choice. If they really cared about serving a large population, they would have connected Calicut to Palakkad (both of which were part of British Malabar).
No, the motives aren't noble. This isn't different from people that tried to protect women from the alleged hordes invading the occident.

They spin stories of discrimination of thin air and have an ideological view on how an end result should look like and discrimination by race or sex isn't off the table, the ends justify the means.

Women are oppressed by computer nerds and need to be protected is just the latest instance, but the train of thought is as transparent as it is predictable and there certainly isn't anything noble to find.
> there's a good argument that that's what Twitter et. al are engaging in.

Is there? Who's making it? Can you give examples?
I guess the most valuable data WhatsApp leeches from you is your contacts graph.

Wish Apple would let us choose which contacts to give specific apps access to, like they did for photos.

In the meantime, you can try minimizing what WhatsApp sees about you by turning off access to contacts, using the desktop or web app, and just talking to people via

https://wa.me/{phoneNumber}
I never claimed it was a hoax, I just didn't agree with the math, that's all. No reason to get upset.
Is that absurd? The first railway in the UK was built to transport coal most economically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa...

The need to move masses of freight predates the need to move masses of commuters.
The original quote is from Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++. The quote also doesn't apply here. (You can't just use it to excuse any problem with software that you come across). The author of the article and the library in it just seems out of their depth in many ways.
the point isn't about "lesser". It is about ability to communicate effectively and get things done with a government bureaucrat operating in the male chauvinistic environment. The phrases downstream in the article describe completely expected situation:

>Zhu was better able to communicate with Mountain View. But she had her hands full fending off Chinese government directives.

So they effectively improved interface to Google HQ instead of the interface to the government. That's very typical of western companies still learning how to operate outside of the Western culture.
It's easy to optimise things that we can get numbers for, like how much food the chicken is fed and how much it weighs.

There's no number for taste, even if everyone agrees it's worse.
They are very safe. Toyota uses them for cabling around compressed hydrogen fuel tanks.
I went cold turkey and it was very unpleasant. I cut it down gradually and it worked for me. Good luck!
yet you have no trouble running around defending what is
likely the biggest rights violation the TSA has engaged in

This is exactly why you and many others fail to accept this simple factual point. I'm not defending the TSA. I'm arguing against a single, silly, unnecessary and counterproductive, argument against them. Arguing against an argument against something, does not make someone a proponent of that thing.

And you're just spewing out the FDA report

From my study I have experience with medical applications involving these kinds of radiation. I know effects and dosages. Even if there are false comparisons, they are irrelevant: the numbers are the numbers and they are clear. Dosage: minimal. Even an additional factor 100 due to focusing on the skin is not noteworthy. The different energy might, but there are many reasons to believe it doesn't matter. Finally, the entire point is irrelevant. That it is thought the TSA needs these things in the first place, that is the problem. Focusing on this possibly associated problem does more damage to the general opinion about 'radiation', then it serves the cause of banning these machines.

(e.g. likening the kind of radiation one receives while
flying with X-ray radiation of the backscatter machines)

Sigh. Doctors also comfort patients by telling them the dosage of an X-ray photograph provides a similar dosage to flying to Australia. Yes, there are some caveats. Those caveats on that comparison do not debunk the FDA report. The general point of that comparison is valid. These doctors aren't lying to their patients about the risks involved.
Your local network admin, your ISP, any ad networks your ISP has or will have arrangements with and your government can log all the websites you visit and build profiles of you because https isn't used everywhere.

This might not bother you individually, today. But maybe it will cause problems for you in the future if laws change? Maybe it is causing problems for a lot of people who aren't you today? Maybe it is causing problems for citizens in countries other than yours?

The World would be better off if https was used everywhere.
"Voyage" by Stephen Baxter is a very good hard sf alternate history novel about what could have happened if the US had pushed on to Mars after Apollo.

Not much about the actual exploration of Mars, but a good imagining of the technology and politics needed to get there.
I concur with your distaste for the domain name (@prateek - no use garnering such animosity. Just drop the name and pick something else - desihacker.in is available. you might even get some good press.)

But having a local technology discussion group might not be all that useless - let me explain.

There are other hi-tech communities in India, similar to HotHardware or Extremetech which are hugely popular in the community (e.g. http://www.erodov.com/forums/gigabyte-ga-x58a-ud9-review-ln2...). So this is not something that is of unproven relevance.

India has a chicken and egg problem in terms of programming intellectual prowess. The community is driven primarily by that which can lay down your daily supper - Java/JSP/VB/ASP . By virtue of the existing tech leadership pool, most innovation is driven from the west. And it takes a long time before the community takes root in India.

<begin rant> I blame the community for it. For instance, it would make far greater sense for the Linux community to try and hold their top level conferences in India - which could very well be their biggest customer base (the west is lost to the fruit seller already). Did you know Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. sell laptops with Ubuntu/Freedos preinstalled in India (off the shelf) ? </end rant>

Point being, I think India does need a sunrise period for its technology community to be shepherded in. Hacker News is definitely too advanced in its expectation of the community for... say a fresh-behind-the-ears college student in India.

This community might also be too Yank in its vernacular. Yes, there are a lot of Indians around, but we are all comfortable with the vernacular, prefer it even. That is definitely, definitely not true for most Indians who might feel completely alienated (especially the younger ones)

For all the other Indians, torn between feelings of loyalty and betrayal, I encourage to search out and mentor the fledgling community back home - they need your help so that eventually they can come here and start flaming!
Until XP or IPv4 dies. I'm guessing IPv4 will be around longer than XP though.
Seconded. one of my favourite and compelling films.
It is a salt collision not a hash collision. No, clearly one would not matter, hence staying below that would be entirely safe against a salt collision inside your database.

But if it was feasible to store 10^32 rainbow tables you should make it longer. Ah, it should probably be longer. I think 128 bit salts would be more sensible.
This is not conspiracy theory. Time magazine admitted in 2002 that they are not going to award person of the year title to anyone controversial to United States anymore.

In 1979 after they have chosen Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini, they had dramatical drop in subscriptions. That was the reason why person of the year for 2001 wasn't Osama Bin Laden although he was obviously the one with the biggest impact on news in the world that year.
I believe Wikileaks reached 'climax' (for want of a better word) in 2010.
"realize that if you are procrastinating it might be because part of your brain disagrees with a decision you have made."

Now THAT sounds like wisdom
Use DVR software like MythTV.
Ohio had to close all their indoor trampoline parks. It's getting real out there folks
Facebook's impact on the world today isn't sensationalized (quite the opposite), nor is it exclusive to American politics.
I distinctly remember reading recently that it's absolute, not relative, humidity that counts. The article did not give a reason, nor can I remember the source (sorry).
Ha! Same here. Almost started an IAP session with Senge to let people play it multiple times (with varying demand curves) because it seemed to have a lot of exploration left...
I once asked a friend this question. He replied by clapping with one hand.

I am no longer interested in Zen.
I feel like they'd start doing that even if they thought the chances were ~10% of it working. Its relatively inexpensive and they know its availability would drop dramatically as soon as more data is available.
The advantage is that it would reduce total recruitment cost and burden. I mean filtering on a CS degree and school should be enough but apparently it isn't. There are also non-traditional programmers.
There's a finite set of reasonable problems so there will be some difficulty in hiding the answers when you have access to Google vs in person.

Outside of that, the most important skill is gathering requirements, gathering requirements and gathering requirements. In the startup world this is called finding product market fit.

System architecture design and computational thinking are also necessary but I don't think any software engineer can do those well without gathering requirements which is basically about identifying product market fit within your corporation.
To be fair, "top" gamers were compared to "top" athletes. And "the body of a 60-year old chain smoker" is worse than average.