jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Well, those are 'tricky' regions. I don't believe that in Rondônia they will say: "what, this tree belongs to Bolívia! don't take it down, please!".

Agree. All the more striking that it does obey borders.

> When [Brazil stops then, and] there are no more trees to take down in its side, then it will stop being a Brazilian problem?

So you think it is a problem of the world. Yet you as a brazilian feel dependent on the world to take positive action, and save the Amazon. In a way you are saying that the world must know how to do what Brazil itself does not know how to do.. Which superficially seems like a weird and unacceptable attitude to take: grow up!?

Yet I sort of agree, as I think stakeholders throughout the world should literally take ownership, buy territory and take action to preserve. Only then can they have a conversation and compete with other (purely capitalist) interests. We are those stakeholders, through the companies we work at, and capitalism (as it ravages the Amazon) is ultimately only civilized by competition.
>The Pentagon is eager to certify SpaceX as a second launch provider, given mounting concerns in Congress about ULA's use of a Russian-built engine to power its Atlas 5 rocket.

What's this about? Is there any substance to it? Or is it congress members upset the engines weren't bought from one of their buddies?
Cool, seems like it would be the beginnings of a sellable game if it didn't use a bunch of Nintendo assets
I've only taken one course in AI, but it looks like everyone is assuming this link's AI is using Artificial Neural Networks. To me it would seem more like an inference engine with a knowledge base. Can anyone find a link that describes what is powering this demo?
Thank you, that explains the steps much better.
That depends on how you hit your kids. It could be abuse but not always.
Of course, poverty in Britain is something the Tories actually do want, whereas in India I'm sure every major party is fighting against poverty.
It’s generally frowned upon.
I agree. Unlike Kerbals, we are wary of potentially catastrophic outcomes. :) Ah well, next attempt on Friday!
I have personally used in the past Fenix - http://fenixwebserver.com/

It's very easy to deploy sites and even runs http://localtunnel.me/ to share your locally hosted site over the web.
It does: it links to the "multiple gunshot suicide" page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide
I wonder if we haven't turned the corner with respect to app pricing. At first, there was a clear gold rush. Lots of developers publishing small applications, trying to make money.

That "oversupply" of developers, coupled with platform limitations allowing only simple apps, immediately drove down prices to the $1 point, as the best professional shop was effectively competing against someone coding on their weekends, and it wasn't really possible to differentiate their product by building something bigger.

But that's changing. With the bigger screen of the latest iPhones, more RAM in the latest iPads, and better inter-app communication, the platform is starting to be capable of hosting significant applications. All of that, plus the fact that some of these products have been under development for several years now, makes it possible to build a competitive moat that will be difficult for hobby developers to bridge.

So that's what I see as positives going into the future. But app developers are going to need to do what Panic is doing, raising their prices, but they are going to have to do it gradually, maybe 10% a year, so the difference in price with competitors doesn't immediately see them reduced to zero revenue.
"..the Andromeda galaxy, although faint in the sky, takes up 5 times more room in our night sky than the moon does."

Correct, although wikipedia says 6 times and adds a clarification:

"Although it appears more than six times as wide as the full Moon when photographed through a larger telescope, only the brighter central region is visible to the naked eye or when viewed using binoculars or a small telescope." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
Makes sense.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Poor people don't have imagination? What?

Besides, MS doesn't have to do everything. There are plenty of providers of solar charging equipment that no doubt will work with this phone. In fact, here's a random search result: http://www.amazon.in/10000mAh-Portable-Direct-Powered-Batter...
ah thanks for the info, I need to fix it for safari and mobile!
Which is exactly why I linked to my original post: Self-Reliance (http://danielzarick.com/post/1642680958/self-reliance). It is a long piece with very practical advice for networking and finding a job. Perhaps I should have just linked to it directly, however, I wanted to give a little insight to 'why' I wrote it.
The 52% rate only applies to the highest bracker of income (above € 54.776). Taxes on other brackets are far lower. The relative high tax rates also buy you good insurance, a government-sanctioned pension, coverage of some costs of studying, etc.

Or in other words, taxes are relatively high because it is a welfare state.
If it seems odd, don't do it. If you're the only person, I think it's fine just to use 'I'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_plural ;)

'In a frequently-repeated story, United States Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover told a subordinate who used the royal we: "Three groups are permitted that usage: pregnant women, royalty, and schizophrenics. Which one are you?"'
True. However, say I'm going to a meeting, I don't want to have to put "Meeting in room x, 13:00 to 14:00" in two separate calendars. Especially if my normal calendar is populated as simply as clicking "accept" on a meeting request.

It would feel inefficient and a bit of a nuicanse to me to have to go into a second calendar and re-enter the information...
Do any of your business plans involve putting ads on your fantastically minimal design? I'm visualizing min.us transforming into yfrog.com.
... At Goldman, it has been reported, nearly a thousand employees received bonuses of at least a million dollars in 2009.
Not surprisingly, Wall Street has become the preferred destination for the bright young people who used to want to start up their own companies, work for NASA, or join the Peace Corps. At Harvard this spring, about a third of the seniors with secure jobs were heading to work in finance. Ben Friedman, a professor of economics at Harvard, recently wrote an article lamenting “the direction of such a large fraction of our most-skilled, best-educated, and most highly motivated young citizens to the financial sector.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...

- The unintended consequences of the Federal Reserve system of monetary distortion.
I find that most, if not all, of the shortcuts on a Mac are confusing. Sure, the icons don't help, but it's even worse when there's no visual indicator.

To this day, I still don't properly remember how to take a screenshot even after using the system for over a year. It's not that I don't take screenshots, it's that I have to form a mantis with my fingers to actually use the shortcut. That really makes it difficult to remember. In the end, I ultimately mash a combination of command, shift, option and some numbers and I hope for the best.
He didnt comment on how much iPad battery was stripped down by MiFi.
I no grok.

Do you mean that a pattern is an abstraction with a name?

A pattern is a physical thing in the world, there whether we see it or not. When we notice it (forming an image of it in our own minds) and name it (assigning its image a single token to be related to other such images, and maybe shared) it becomes an abstraction. The abstraction depends on the pattern, not the other way around.

That's the way I abstract the pattern, anyway.
Seems a superficial argument, C++'s features have not been added into Java to create Scala. Even the Java community is pushing Java7 in a direction with richer features, except the language is beginning to get in the way. Generics are not implemented too well, closures are likely to complicate matters further.
>if I were going to work exclusively on the front-end

This is the important clause.

Imagine looking for a backend developer. A candidate with twenty years of experience shows up. Looking at his resume, you see the chronological buildup of terms: HTML, XHTML/DHTML, JS, JQuery, Prototype, mootools, YUI, Ember, Knockout.js, Angular, Om.

"Well, this is an impressive resume, but we're really looking for someone with more experience on the back end."

And then you cut the interview short, because you need to finish up that letter to Congress about the talent shortage.

I don't know if there's an everyone-wins answer here, but this sort of thing is why devs go into management.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Peeters#Betekenis
Yah, that 48 number doesn't mean much, which is why I was asking if they have released any user or rev numbers. I know some startups did at Demo day, but I guess they didn't or someone would have tweeted or wrote about it.

Would be helpful to pin down the factors that led to Sequoia to invest $12 and take only a little more than 20% of the company.
I look at this article as a criticism of the hadoop being the wrong tool for small data sets.

This starts to become a question of data locality, and size. 1.75 GB isn't enough data to justify a hadoop solution. That data size fits easily in memory, and without doubt on a single system. From that point you only need some degree of parallelism to maximize the performance. That being said when its 35TB of data, the answer starts to change.

The fact that shell commands were used makes for an easy demo that might be hard to support, but if a solution were written using a traditional language with threading or IPC instead of relying on hadoop you should always be faster, since you don't incur the latency costs of the network.
How do you know that you should listen to Mike on this but not the things he said that turned out to be wrong (seemingly more than half lately)?

https://www.backrecord.com/person/mike-shedlock-(globalecono...
I think I'll apply Betteridge's law[1] to this one.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Some but not all. I've been mildly surprised to see family members running chrome (yes, I know, privacy issues with chrome, but better than IE...) or firefox with an ad blocker before.
Yeah corporate consultancies are great. Rates are good. Only have to search for new projects when you feel like it. Time for freelancing on the side.

Takes a little time to adjust to the varying paces of diff corps (some real slow, some real fast). But yeah if mine were remote, I would be in heaven.

But there are so many enterprise Java-haters in the world now... won't sit well with them. Rubbed me the wrong way at first cuz I was coming from RoR & open source stuff to enterprise package software. When I realized that "front-end dev" meant not touching the codebase outside of HTML mocks & javascript POCs, I got really annoyed. But I took a little mental vacation, got more involved in solving implementation difficulties, then the project ended & because of the coding prowess I displayed I got moved to full-stack feature upgrade/maintanenance, and started a new project as a web service developer (never done it) based on managerial faith alone.

I think a lot of these job choices just have to do with delayed/immediate gratification. Corporate is delayed, comes in the form of eventual big $$ or leverage to get into a real interesting position elsewhere. Startup/freelance is open-source fast-paced immediate gratification but poses its own set of problems. In my experience the open source dev work I've done is more of a technical feat, but the discipline required for Java web services is making my mind sharp in a way that RoR wasn't. In a strange sense, there is less action but more discipline.
So from what I've read so far they are trying to deanonymize TOR users by having a large number of relays in the network. This isn't an unknown attack vector. But surely the NSA could easily do the same. What's to say that half the relays aren't already NSA owned?
Trying to keep the wages low of people you know are good is a different issue than trying to hire people from other countries.

Now, BigCos may still want good people they bring from the outside to have low wages, but that doesn't change the fact that they still want to (and can't) bring in good people from the outside.
When I did it one year, we went through a town with an official population of 6. Everyone was out helping, and apparently from neighboring farms/towns.
Sure. But the choice should be upto the user.

If they want to send fake data then they should have the right to do that.

It's my phone, so if I want to set my location to another country I should be able to. Of course this should be on a per app basis.

An SOS button app? This is a niche usecase.
Big discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21636661
this release includes a built-in `generate-completion` subcommand that end users can use to easily install Bash/ZSH completion for your application
My friends/partner and I are designing neighborhood models to go along with these ideas with the goal of experimenting with them on land we give back to native tribes. I'd love to talk to you more about this if you're interested. My contact info is in my profile, if so.
The release notes: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/NEWS/
That's why you would enable GPS for that app.
>Dynamicland

Looks very promising, even a kindergarten resident may run a business with that. Should suggest it at the next hangout as our main development cycle.
I can't find a source for the dataset but going by the hints peppered throughout the article, they likely used <img> `alt` tags for supervision? Fascinating that an accessibility tool is being repurposed to train machine learning models.
Literally decades ago we had a simple version of this. I think it was only for our pool pump...maybe the water heater. My understanding is my parents got some sort of fixed discount if the power company had the ability to periodically cut power. I'm not sure how the signal was sent, but I remember an electrician pointing out the wires. It was probably a small box next to the breaker.
Seriously, as messed up as this is, what TicketMaster did is completely rational if the game is all about making $$ and the rules say, "$10 million fine. 1 guy go to jail. go directly to go and continue to collect $x billion/year".
Sounds like a variation of the Starbucks problem. Starbucks is very cheap, the expensive sugary drinks would be even more expensive at any other coffee shop and their cheap coffee is typically cheaper than the competition by at least a few cents too. So if you're not a consumer with very particular tastes there's no real incentive to get coffee elsewhere when not only is Starbucks going to be cheaper but it's also everywhere and thus probably more convenient for your as well.
I rewrote all my shell scripts to typescript+node.js. I enjoy type safety and good dev tools.

Ever since, I wonder why long shell scripts are needed. Why do some developers still write programs like these? What advantages shell have?
I had something similar offered by Duke Energy. They credited like $10/mo to be able to turn my AC off whenever they felt like it. It was terrible. You know when i want my AC the most? When its hot. And that is exactly when it would be disabled. That thing got removed within days.
> I'd absolutely sign up for a wealth-proportional share of a tax

Very gracious of you to be willing to help but only if all of society signs up to do it with you.

> system that's designed to punish me for doing so above and beyond the intrinsic cost of providing for the kid

Bullshit. Nobody's going to punish you for giving to charity.
Apple deprecates support for older Macs in new macOS releases after 6 to 7 years. It's part of the incentive to upgrade.
In Big Bend National Park, you'll need a campsite at least officially. Your experience boondocking in National Parks should guide you.

In terms of safety, it's not a place where anyone "looking for action" is going to hang out. It's a long way from anywhere and even at peak capacity mostly empty. That's my take on most wilderness areas in the US and the only locals at Big Bend are in Boquillas and dependent on a good tourist experience.

All with the caveat that I'm an old man not a young female.

Anyway, the biggest dangers are the usual suspects: exposure, dehydration, and falls. It's remote and dry with temperature extremes. The average worst event is a flat tire from taking Old Maverick Road without truck tires on your vehicle.
But then you'll need a troubleshooter for the troubleshooter (yo dog). Given that most motherboard manufacturers can't seem to figure out even the most rudimentary software development for bundled utilities, I don't trust them to write a web browser.
I don't know about the army/marines analogy but I know that "IHTFP" would not have taken hold on Stanford campus :)
As a formally very addicted gamer, I have no moral objection to making a game addictive. Sure, I wasted a lot of time, but I had a lot of fun with it.

Unless a game were made so addictive that it was mentally or physically harmful, then it flies with me.
Yeah, the white lettering makes it very hard to read.

Why is Google trying so hard to be more like Bing? The backgrounds are just visual noise getting in the way of what I want my search engine to get done for me.
There is no good reason. Spaces are no special characters in passwords. They should simply be allowed.
I think there's an implied "if we are accepted" after "to be funded by Y-Combinator venture capital."
This is not exactly what was requested by the current tutorial step. Feel free to play with the shell, anyway.

Erlang R13B04 (erts-5.7.5)
> node().
"This functionality has been disabled for security reasons in tryerlang.org."
> q().
"This functionality has been disabled for security reasons in tryerlang.org."
> ls().
"This functionality has been disabled for security reasons in tryerlang.org."
>
There has been a decent amount of research into optical ReLUs. So the nonlinearity you seek is possible.
My instinct says you’re exactly on track.

Unfortunately.

Clubhouse is great right now and it seems to take far too long between “lightning strikes” of awesome communities.
This!
In my case, connecting to enterprise's walled gardens, such as an Outlook Exchange server or Skype for Business, etc. typically don't have out-of-the-box solutions for consumers on linux.

2 apps I paid for are those for which I couldn't really find a nice/free alternative:
1. Hiri https://www.hiri.com/ as I couldn't find a nice email client to work with Outlook Exchange
2. https://tel.red/linux.php Skype for Business client for linux

I think this category of apps have something going for them.
I have since moved to WSL2 though and have found it to be a nice compromise for even serious work.
I agree. This "debunking" is simply a defense of Stallman's views on pedophelia. And Stallman's statement is still on his website. Nothing has changed,

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html
There are certain, specific recruiters I recommend highly, however I recommend those individuals - as people - and not the companies they work for.

Suppose you get a job as a temporary contract programmer. The client - their client - is somehow unhappy with you, and wants your recruiter to fire you.

Would you expect the recruiter to come to your defense?

No, because they won't want to lose a valuable client. You'll get a security guard and a cardboard box, the recruiter will get their commission by placing some other candidate.

I'm building The Global Computer Employer Index at:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

I only have a few cities listed so far, and in each city, not so many companies. However if you tell me where you're moving to - email mdcrawford@gmail.com if you prefer - I'll post whatever I have for your new home, and will make a concerted effort to find more companies there.

Real Soon Now I'm going to automate the process of discovering technical employers. I've been building the site manually while I puzzle over how to do that.

My site does not work well at all for smartphones. Use a desktop box. A mobile friendly website is a high priority but is going to take me a little while.
Is it a problem? I don't think so. The business section of the Times doesn't write for the "average consumer" (whatever that is). They write for people who are especially interested in business. The sports section writes for people who are interested in sports. Likewise the culture section write for people who are especially interested in celebrities. It's ok for people to have different interests.
An additional data point: apparently, AAB (formerly Meinl) was in the process of returning their banking license anyway, as they have had massive compliance issues over the past decade, and just giving up on that part of the business (and instead just focusing on asset management) would be a reasonable thing to do.

I'm somewhat surprised the ECB didn't wait for this to happen. I guess they wanted to send a message, or something.
Ultimately technology will make any attempts at preventing the video recording of police in public completely futile. In another few years nearly everyone will have phones capable of recording hi-def video and streaming it to the internet live. At that point it's Canute vs. the tide.
I'd like to think you're not stupid and homophobic, but your posts keep undermining that. There are pedophiles that rape girls, and there are pedophiles that don't discriminate between the sexes.
Got it. To me, those terms are more understandable.
I bet every entrepreneur here would loved to see your startup get acquired, but buddy there were no hint of an acquisition in this guy's communication. You should have been patient, launch your app and keep the communication going. Then maybe, maybe, after 2 years they would look into you.
Not so surprising really.

Disney, and a few artists under his direction, more or less created the system and criteria used to create and judge animation; at least in the USA, from a professional standpoint. Anyone in the west who is taught "animation principles" is taught material developed pretty much as ordered in this letter. What was known as "Disney Animation" and later "Hollywood Animation" was developed to Disney's specification and taste. (Despite what many think, Disney _was_ an animator, just not a very good one. However few would argue that he was a fantastic producer and aesthete.)

Now...

There _are_ other systems and "principles" and methods of staging for animation that are _very_ different from the ones Disney helped to develop. Some of them use some of the same tools developed by Disney Studios and their followers, but take them in very different directions. This is particularly true to animators working in countries other than the USA. (Take a look at films from Russia and the former Easter Block countries for some interesting counter examples. Or hell, at some of the fantastic stuff coming out of Japan these days.)

When I see a Pixar movie I see animators using "Disney" techniques as applied to the new medium; Disney is very much in their DNA. I'm still looking for the 3D animators to grow a set of principles for designed 3D, as opposed to those developed for "pencil" drawings.
I'm sorry, what do you mean?
Ah. Sorry, that one escaped my filters.