jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>No need to treat me like I am a friggin idiot for not guessing your rather fringe needs.

No, I'm treating you like an idiot because you come suggesting things to me that you have no idea about. You're still wrong about what a Mac keyboard layout is. It's not just "some extra function keys". There's a very distinct and different layout in which the keys are, which is evident if you just look at one, which is why I'm referring it my needs as "Mac layout" and not "keyboard with some Mac stickers".

If you can't "guess what someone's rather fringe needs" are, then don't make recommendations. If someone is looking for a mechanical keyboard with a Mac layout, don't just suggest a keyboard with some stickers on it just because you don't understand what they want (and then get upset that the person's needs are "rather fringe" just because you have no idea).

This is like the 100th time that this same exact pattern happens. You're not even the first person in this thread to regurgigate what I've seen online for years. I don't know what it is about mechanical keyboards that makes everyone an expert regardless of what they know. If I was looking for a car with room for three child seats, I doubt I'd be showered with random suggestions ("I have a Honda Civic and it's a good car. Get a Honda Civic!").
Always after the edit period. Internal mental hash table updated. I knew it was an fl-<something>. Picked the wrong one.

Point otherwise clearly communicated though right?
Yes, but the resulting legal and quasilegal maze will trap the rest of us even if we do not give a crap.

The loud vocal minority is perfectly capable of building a dystopia if no one has the stones or stomach to oppose them.
It's not unfair to say that python doesn't do multithreading either.
kick ass Sprint!
Elon is rising up to those around him

Sometimes -- and I'd argue often -- leadership consists more of both 1) getting out of the way of and 2) enabling those who Want To Get Shit Done.

I find the fanboiism somewhat tedious (I don't find the top comment of this thread all that insightful), but I do admire Musk for seeming to hit a number of remarkable goals. That said, I find Tesla and Solar City more impressive/promising than SpaceX (technical challenges and accomplishments notwithstanding) or the Hyperloop (ultimately an idea that's been rightfully junked in the past).

Given the history of US industry of doing just the opposite -- stalling and preventing needed innovation -- if I had to pick a single attribute of his that I find most encouraging it's his leadership in that regard.
> It actually seems to be a bipartisan thing right now.

Virtually everything these past few years has been bipartisan, up to the point it became higher-profile and associated with Obama who (rightly or wrongly) is an incredibly polarizing figure.

It goes all the way back to Obamacare, which was solidly bipartisan (I mean in Congress, not merely in concept) and which Republicans in committee had a veto pen over, particularly in the Senate.

Until it fell directly into the spotlight and became too associated with Obama's platform.

This has happened over and over and over since 2008.
>people lugging banana peels and coffee grinds in their Civics.

if i remember correctly, this is exactly the year when people will be feeding the banana peels into the fusion generators in their Civics.
The guardian have always been open about not publishing operational details. Those black slides in the prism ppt were redacted by the guardian, not by the NSA.

Whether or not this means they "agreed to government demands" is a boring matter of semantics if they were going to do it anyway.
It was the "unmaintainable" comment that got me. This guy clearly doesn't like Perl and is letting his bias affect the list.

Perl is no less or more maintainable than any other programming language. It just depends on the developers you use that particular tool. And the whole "Perl promotes unreadable code" is really a thing of the past; modern Perl has come on leaps and bounds.
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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Yes, assuming the current application domain security allows your code to do it.
Edit: my reading skills suck today. Feel free to ignore/downvote this.

The independent article [1] referred to has an interesting claim:

>The Independent understands that The Guardian agreed to the Government’s request not to publish any material contained in the Snowden documents that could damage national security.

>As well as destroying a computer containing one copy of the Snowden files, the paper’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, agreed to restrict the newspaper’s reporting of the documents.

From this submission's guardian article:

Greenwald: "Speaking for myself, let me make one thing clear: I'm not aware of, nor subject to, any agreement that imposes any limitations of any kind on the reporting that I am doing on these documents"

It might be helpful if the Guardian explicitly clears this up. What a strange situation...

[1]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uks-...
The claim is that humans play better than computers, and computers struggle in the face of the high branching factor, so therefor humans aren't affected by it.

The theory is that humans use "something else" to "intuitively" understand the strength of a position, and what move to make. The same argument was made for chess. In chess it has become somewhat irrelevant because the low branching factor means computers can see so far ahead than any advantage humans have becomes useless.

As far as I know there isn't a generalised theory of what human intuition is doing. People have attempted to build specific models for chess than encoded "chess theory" (which is kinda-sorta formalised intuition), but those models have proven inferior to deep search algorithms.
'Native with runtime' is lack of understanding what a compiled language is all about.

Even C and C++ have runtimes.
if you use chrome, theres an extension in the chrome store that does this, it works really well
The link im2w1 provided has some useful detail. Here's a former neutrino physicist's take:

1) They are looking at atmospheric (cosmic ray) neutrinos, not solar neutrinos like most of the other large underground detectors (SNO, Kamiokande, etc). When cosmic rays (mostly high energy protons) strike nuclei the upper atmosphere, they create a shower of high-energy particles, including neutrinos and anti-neutrinos.

Cosmic rays make an interesting laboratory for some important processes because they have energies that go far higher than anything achievable in accelerators. The LHC has collision energies up to 1.3E13 eV (about 13,000 times the mass of a proton). Cosmic rays have energies at detectable fluxes up to 10E20 eV or and likely useful flux for this kind of experiment at energies a factor of ten or more greater than the LHC is capable of, and they do it for free: all you have to do is build the detector.

2) When high-energy neutrinos or anti-neutrinos interact with the material of the detector, they produce particle and anti-particle showers. How much of each is dependent on the detail of the weak interaction coupling constants and other neutrino properties. So one wants to know in detail how much of each type of particle is created.

There are various ways of doing this, but it is an unfortunate geometric reality that most of the mass in any detector is close to the outside of the volume (this is a pain because most of the background in such detectors comes from the outside, and you typically have to put geometric cuts on that excludes the outer detector volume, losing up to 25% of your detector mass in the process). Because of this, many high-energy particles created by neutrinos in the detector will leave it before they stop, so there is no way to use annihilation radiation to identify the anti-matter (positrons, anti-muons, etc).

Therefore a uniform magnetic field is applied to make the particle tracks curve. By looking at the energy loss in the sensitive (scintillator) layers of the detector the mass and energy can be determined, and the curvature of the track gives the charge, whose sign depends on whether it is a particle or anti-particle.

3) This is a good way for India to approach this problem. I've worked with Indian physicists and they are as good as physicists anywhere. This mine has played a minor role in neutrino physics for many years, and it is the deepest of its kind in the world (SNO was at about 2 km depth, this is over 4). Cosmic ray neutrinos have not been as much studied as they might, and at high energy there is always a change of seeing something odd or unexpected. The technological challenges, while formidable, are likely surmountable and the odds of getting some good physics out of the system are high.
It is better to optimize your menu which is in your hands than wanting your shopping experience to be optimized.
wtf? it's absolutely not, when making wild claims about the inner workings of a project in a field where very few people are competent.

If I start making wild claims about cardiology, you'd be correct to ask me for some credentials.
> among privacy-conscious users and members of fringe communities

Sure, but this is realistically a tiny group, and development effort is probably better spent making the 99% that don't fall into this category happier rather than prioritizing features needed for the 1%.
Pocket. Probably not the best place, but it’s nice to have stuff downloaded offline when I’m traveling.
Also not new: the outsized impact fragile masculinity has on violence…
Imagine being Thailand in 1997: the stock market plunges 75% in one day, GDP contracts ~10%, a wave of bankruptcies, poverty and inequality skyrocketing while the government has to go begging to the IMF, accepting any and all demands that they make, no matter how unpopular.

You're better off being China.
Effectively not anymore. Here is a very recent german article about it: https://www.golem.de/news/crypto-messenger-signal-server-nic...

No updates in the repo for over a year and no answers from the team. The whole crypto currency thing is also a red flag for me. Matrix seems to be the better option by now...
That's an interesting hypothesis which hadn't been on my radar. (I'm one of the authors.)
https://archive.is/Z2Oj2
Hopefully supply-side economics is the next to die. It didn’t work in the Reagan 80s, and it didn’t work in the 2010s in Kansas [0] Laffer and this guy that died are a total joke. Their theories exist to give political cover to politicians who aim to line the pockets of the rich.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
> which is in line with my expectations.

My expectations for a CEO who presided over the level of performance we've seen from Mozilla in recent years would be that their salary would be reduced to zero. Because they would get fired.
It's probably on a manager by manager basis. If I work a weekend day on business--whether because of travel or because there's a software community event on the weekend--I can take a comp day. For nights not really. But if I get home late at night, no one's going to bat an eye if I take it easy in the morning so long as there's nothing I have to do. My time is usually pretty flexible.
Not over certain spending limits you can’t.
Please do not follow this very bad advice. The best lawyers make an effort to keep the tone civil. If you go to trial you will see your own sarcasm presented and judges are human. Acting as.the OP suggests could get very expensive.
Seems to be possible unless you live in Germany, just follow this guide [0]. If in a EU country, I wonder if you could also submit a data subject access request (I'm not too familiar on GDPR).

[0] https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat...
We live in a different world now, a world that moves VERY fast. In a world like this, IMpatience is a virtue. It's the only way your gonna keep up!

This may be a terrible illustration of my point but let's have a look:

Entrepreneurs time to a $1bn net worth.

Steve Jobs - 20 years?

Mark Zuckerberg - 3 years.

Andrew Mason - 1 year! (maybe 1 and a half)
Rings true for programming also. My manager would think the task I completed was very simple if I got back to him within a day. But if I made noise on how difficult the task was and took a while to get it done, he would be more appreciative of my effort. This is especially true if the manager has weak technical background.
I agree. When I read this, it felt a bit fake. While I plan on doing something entrepreneurial after college (June 2011), most of my classmates aren't built for it. I've traveled in developing countries by myself, started small ventures (mostly failed), ran student clubs, studied entrepreneurship in bschool, read a ton of businessy books etc. I've been building up to this for a while. Not that you need any of this necessarily, but I suspect it makes me somewhat more ready for the shitty parts of starting a business.

Most of my classmates (in psychology) would not be able to pull off a venture very easily with so little org or tech experience at 21-22.
An earlier demo released this year:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eREddMjt4

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muhlQYFgLE
Now, this is Hacker News, this community is very close to the SSC one, so I know a lot of people aren't going to take this well. But the Grey Tribe really isn't a nice place to be

You can replace Grey Tribe with any tribal affiliation which short-circuits your critical thinking and leads to agreeing to whatever your in-group believes.

Blind obedience to any tribe is toxic.
Or integrate over an interval of surreals.
We built this years ago in Clay.
You forgot https://www.playframework.com/
Too bad a lot of money can't promise you success in the smart devices category.

See also: Amazon
A better strategy would be to keep the ios apps as they currently are, and release new cool features to Android only. This way there won't be a "big event" catalyst to get people to ditch Facebook, instead over time they'll get fomo from their Android friends. Think of how imessage doesn't completely block users from interacting with Android users but still creates an "in group" feeling for the ios users.
"See, in our century, we've learned not to fear words."
Thank you. You're most kind. I have many business ideas already, but I'll think about it.
Check out Facebook Analytics.
It's used in many smartphone apps, on websites etc. It is an analytics platform free of charge for the website/app operators (and gives FB a huge insight into non-FB users on the side)
The 18Mbps OTA signals you mention are MPEG2. Netflix is AVC. Anything above 6Mbps AVC is pointless because the quality differences become indiscernible. You need to start tuning things like frame rate and filters at that point.
I never understood the criticism over one child policy. Had it not been for that policy, the population of China could well be over 2 billion by now. Is this something the rest of the world wanted? Sure it's cruel and not fair to some of the families, but considering the alternative, I'd argue this is something that has to be done.
Finally, comprehensive article about Windows Functions.
What is the attic?
Yeah you're looking at something external to your application like a layer 7 firewall, I don't think nodejs is the tool for the job here. You want to stop this traffic way before it even hits your web service with an external WAF.
And Russia? Not even on the map: 110 people own 35% of the wealth, more than $1bn each. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-billionaire-wealth-inequ...
"Because better customer service creates better businesses."

It's amazing how that doesn't resonate very often with businesses. Robo-replies and being assigned ticket numbers tells me quickly that the support organization in a company already failed.

What pisses me off the most is when I get a robo-reply with a ticket # and I don't hear back till 2 days later, via an obvious generic templated response (with some variables like my name added in) - and more than likely the response is way too generic and doesn't solve my problem.
I briefly wondered why the King felt smarter than the other pieces before realizing the rules prevent it from taking immediately risky moves or staying in a risky position.
>This is simply not true, because a complex idea depends upon simpler ideas. These ideas can be formalized, where scientific theory occurs at the edge nodes and verification occurs at well connected nodes.

Only this is a very naive reductionistic epistemology, and not enough to cover modern science.
Please do tell or link to more, if you're willing!
The remaining must be residing in the oil-rich middle east gulf countries, royal families who usually never disclose their finances.
You seem to have a pretty good skill set. I would definitely set up a linkedin profile as a starter. I work extensively with open source so i usually look at technologies that interest me, contribute to open source projects and build networks that way. Also look at meetups for nodejs or other technologies and start meeting people on the ground. I personally wouldn't look at recruiters.
This would certainly explain all the publicity over Watson. Perhaps IBM is looking for someone to buy them, and are trying to put as much makeup as needed to seem valuable?

Anyone who read IBM & The Holocaust[1] is probably celebrating right now.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I heard that several people from YC startups and Google are helping out. This is one of the reasons why we're seeing a lot of improvements to the Federal Exchange site.
I'd imagine if you've gone down that rabbit hole, you know Chase Reeves and his reviews?
https://youtu.be/-jYZYKJaqq0
Australian law says you must keep both hands on the wheel at all times unless changing gears or indicating.

And regarding phones; it is illegal for a driver to be distracted by an electronic device -- even if a passenger is the person using it.

It is quite strict, but the number of preventable deaths with this sort of distraction as a contributing factor is staggeringly high.
There's lot of projects like: Next, Nest, Nuxt.. I wonder how this would apply to them.
What do you think is most dire?

(three suggested answer would be charge rate, capacity and price)

I sort of think that if you look at progress over the last 15 years, factors of 2 aren't dire.
"Still, if you’re writing for school or for readers who are versed in English, champing at the bit is probably the safer choice."
Porsche is part of Volkswagen and they didn't axe Porsche motorsports non-electric, did they?
http://vimeo.com/43038579
> Web servers would just server static sets of pages without some means to run dynamic code.

Web applications respond to requests. That's all they do. Web servers parse those requests and deliver responses appropriately. You're reducing the role of all intermediaries (DNS servers, caches, etc) and unfairly praising the web application. The web server serves both non-changing static files and the generated documents.
This is the second time I've looked at that page (saw it on LtU several months ago), and I find it baffling.

In particular, what escapes me is what those videos represent. Why are they showing typing, rather than what some code does? Are you demonstrating a programming language or a live coding environment? The first two paragraphs seem to discuss the former, but the videos look like the latter. And if it is the latter, I can't figure out what the language is doing because I'm so hung up on the typing/deletion/live feedback.

The only way I've been able to get anywhere is by looking at the paper. You might want to link to the paper or some other overview rather than this page.
That sounds like a recipe for hecatomb, in the USA. How many people have been killed because cops confused phones for guns already?
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Well, Scrooge McDuck was popular even in the 90s in "DuckTales". Though I, and I suspect most children at the time, were wholly unaware of such a stereotype. "Strange meats, kilts, bagpipes, and thick accents" is about the extent of the Scottish stereotype here these days.
Not necessarily. Bike shedding refers to arguing about trivial issues. Naming can have a huge impact on how something is perceived so I wouldn't call it trivial.
indeed good advise! I changed the implementation https://github.com/mulderp/pinboard-grid/commit/2a9d2c256ce0... - just saw you use transform instead of adjusting x/y
Agreed. You don't just get sleepy one day and go quietly. The side effects require treatment, even with no possible cure. It's a horrible, drawn out, not to mention expensive, way to go.
Rock & Ice has some daily videos which give a nice first-hand view of the situation: http://vimeo.com/rockandice/videos
Core libraries like glibc and Xlib are pretty well defined. You need to ship your own copy of the widget library of choice, but that isn't a big deal. You could even ship an Xlib copy and rely on the fact that there is an X server speaking the same protocol. It's all perhaps a bit messy, but it works.
It is for me for all the games I have tried so far.
That means you spend too much. It is good to know such things in advance. Not knowing never makes anything better in the long run.
Ah yes, how good for the consumer it is to collude to increase prices and offer zero competition.
Hah! It's hilarious, and sad, that this is a concept in marketing.
While I think change has to come from both consumers and producers, this kind of gimmick (an interesting gimmick, but a gimmick nonetheless) puts too much of the burden on consumers and feels like tinkering around the edges of the real issues. It feeds into a model where the emitters don't take direct responsibility for their emissions, where it's easier to calculate, and pass the costs on down through the supply chain, as other commenters have noted.

It's rather like the successful campaign of companies to push the burden of disposable rubbish onto consumers instead of changing the system: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recyc...
This is cool and reminds me of the Twitter clone[1] I included as a coding exercise in my book[2]. It's a very good way to learn as a basic Twitter clone is relatively simple to implement.

1 - https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/tree/master/Chap...

2 - https://book.picheta.me
> And to me, how could they anyway, I can't find "a Linux desktop". There are many, which one would they port to?

This was the very reason that prevented Google to release Google Chrome for Linux.
The more likely outcome is that he's now focused on protecting that nine figure status as if his life depended on it.
> TechnoFog, an account which literally only tweets lawsuits just got banned too.

I assume you typo'd that handle? There are only five tweets from 2013 on that account. https://twitter.com/TechnoFog