jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I have been on a kick recently on how to really attack the college market with a different offering, and had thought of some of these same points. (Which you are executing on! Well done!)

My concept was to try to create a study abroad program, which combined a concentrated "learning community," along with some MOOCs, and on-site tutors/navigators. I think you could run this at a RADICALLY different price point than most colleges, and therefore nip at the edges of the market. Basically take a semester or two share from traditional colleges.

Of course, the challenge is in accrediting and ensuring credits would transfer back to the college. But it just seems when colleges are charging $40k / year tuition that there is some room to attack this on the edges. And the college students then get the benefit of a fun study abroad which would be even cheaper than home....
Why don't you grow your own food?
Does anyone else miss the days when you could right-click on any page and see what magical incantations drive what you see? I feel like modern Javascript pipelines and the drive for loading speed is endangering what used to be how we all learned Web technologies.
When you push the button you get a push notification to your phone, which will show you the price and give you the option to cancel it, which at least gives you some way to back out if the price is hiked up.
A physicist's poem:

To wonder as we wander through this world of mysteries many, is to fulfill the purpose of man's creation and destiny; and he who does not wonder, or the mysteries have not moved, should be interred in the dampest earth, for he is dead and never lived.
(Source: the author of a very old Penguin book I once had on relativity)
| but I can't help but scream "why??"

Because it's a tangible reminder that you need to buy new X and it removes all the barriers entirely to that. It's wildly convenient.

Might I remind you:

- Locate mobile device

- Swipe/Unlock mobile device

- Locate Safari App/Amazon app

- Tap and wait for Safari to load

- Access amazon.com

- Type in 'X'

- Locate results and click on option

- Press 'one click purchase' for irony

vs.

- Press a button.
I didn't like much this but having ARM in the hands of financial institution which doesn't have any motivation to invest in the technology doesn't seem any better (and probably doesnt understand/doesnt care about it). In the other hand, Nvidia have a good track record creating good products.
You don’t need ARM to run iOS apps. All iOS apps started life running on x86. When running on the iOS simulator, iOS apps are compiled for x86 and linked to x86 versions of the iOS frameworks.
Or here, right in the browser (via Dosbox)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990
Apple never letting the iPad get full keyboard and cursor support and saying "that's a Mac thing" leaves them open for disruption from Microsoft instead

Full keyboard and mouse support is in iOS
13.4.

The Surface is just another Windows computer with all the baggage that entails - x86 processors with horrible battery efficiency, an operating system that requires more RAM and storage, an operating system that still has parts that aren’t touch friendly and plenty of apps that still have a UI that doesn’t work well with touch.
I could not read this. In the very first paragraph the author lays out the foundations for what I assume must be the rest of the essay in which he categorically states: "Managing (...) violence is the secret reason for all religious and political institutions".

Either the introduction is misleading, in which case I lose interest anyway, or this type of absolutist reductionism is actually what inspires the essay, in which case I lose interest too.

For people who actually believe such, please try to imagine that something as vast and all encompassing as religious and political institutions owe their existence to more than one single factor, "secret" or not.
I'm supposing the thing about fruits and vegetables is partially caused by climate conditions, some fruits and vegetables grow better in certain seasons in certain environments, in the North citrus fruits, bananas, etc. are obviously coming from elsewhere.

Many things we want available year round and it isn't actually available year round without artificial growing conditions - for example tomatoes. I would suppose those could be grown anywhere but as a general rule I don't think they are.
I would be surprised if that happens; free two day shipping for members is Amazon's competitive moat against other online retailers.
Not exactly the secret is it's acidity and it's Hydrogen Peroxide, and is't low water content.

The point of the article is that there were multiple factors involved in Honey's "magical" properties.
if you're going to name it that, surely you'd have to flush the cache after every input
That seems to be a list of the valid words to guess, not the valid answers though. If I were trying to guess an answer from that list, I'd probably go with light followed by limit with others less to very much less likely.
Im of the opinion that the “true position” of the writer behind writing is irrelevant. Teachers are supposed to grade essays anonymously to avoid biases against students but here we are preoccupied not only with the writer, but his “true position”.
> You really think that vegan food producers are more powerful than the meat and dairy industries?

The corn lobby is definitely more powerful than meat or dairy are, yes.
It's astonishing to me that people are actually calling for censoring all social media... like honestly, do you not see any of the good that social media does? E.g. Youtube democratized people's voices.

Social media is a great equilizer and great contributor to the democratization of society writ large.
To aid in my own discovery.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1123172

A little more info, but not alot. More monitoring.

Equally discovered PHPIDS, reading how it works. Im not sure this would have picked up on this attack vector, as it would have been legitimate traffic. Just rapidly used.
Another reason that computerized trading (and speculative trading as well) is theoretically good for the market is that it makes prices more informative. If a trader or computer can successfully predict how a price will move based only on past and present information, then there is an inherent market inefficiency -- the market price is supposed to already reflect all of that information, and only moves when new information becomes available. Of course in reality information does not spread that readily and traders are not completely accurate at estimating prices, so correcting those inaccuracies is quite profitable and helps the market. By selling when a stock is overvalued and buying when it is undervalued, regardless of how that determination was made, the price becomes closer to the fundamental value and thus allows long-term investors to buy and sell at a fair price.
I think the brain switch into anti-deceive mode and customers become suspicious if your price is too low compared to other products. It would feel just like someone selling you a brand new car for $200, you would seek where is the issue, and probably won't buy it even if you couldn't find any issues.

It's very impressive to see the increase in number of licences for v2, but I suppose some of them are v1 user that upgrade. It would be nice to see the number of licences sold to new customers only. That looks like a very good financial move anyway.

I learned a few days ago that there is only two types of customers :
- the one who would pay any price
- the one that won't pay anything
while selling way cheaper software : http://grownsoftware.com/blog/on-the-difficulty-of-not-givin...
A CEO "pushed it a little too far" ? SHOCKED!
I haven't watched the video, so perhaps this is answered there. But I'm curious if the preprocessing of CSS is intended to implement some of the functionality available in SASS (like variables in CSS)?
It's a decrease in novelty-seeking.
Well it's a 960x640 display, which is pretty cool, no? Don't know why they've come up with this whole "retina" BS, but that's just Apple I guess.
I remember when MJ Research thermocyclers were the bargain option. That was nearly 20 years ago.
Amusingly enough 1Password's main area of pain (for me) has been integration with Safari itself. It's much better on Chrome until you turn off Apple's password thing in Safari.

It works great to have both enabled on iPhone/iPad however. No idea why they can't fix the overlapping fields in Safari.

https://1password.community/discussion/116898/in-big-sur-saf...
With React Native you write your apps in JavaScript, in a React.js style.

My understanding is that ComponentsKit has you write your iOS apps with ObjC/Swift or whatever, but it gives you a way of structuring your apps that is similar to React.js
Apparently Ars (or at least Mr. Goodin and his editor) don't know what a "0-day" actually is. But hey, it sounds scary and gets traffic, so let's go with it!
This was advocated by https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/lang/ too. Parsing is fun but in the end I can't disagree, syntax is rarely that much worth it.
Awodey's does not have answers to the exercises, so it makes it hard to find out if I'm getting close or just scribbling things down...
While the dataset is kinda small, I think it makes a lot of sense. This is something right out of Jane Jacobs' "Eyes On The Street" idea from "The Death And Life Of Great American Cities":

> “A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as the streets of successful city neighborhoods always do, must have three main qualities:

> First, there must be a clear demarcation between what is public space and what is private space. Public and private spaces cannot ooze into each other as they do typically in suburban settings or in projects.

> Second, there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind.

> And third, the sidewalk must have users on it fairly continuously, both to add to the number of effective eyes on the street and to induce the people in buildings along the street to watch the sidewalks in sufficient numbers. Nobody enjoys sitting on a stoop or looking out a window at an empty street. Almost nobody does such a thing. Large numbers of people entertain themselves, off and on, by watching street activity.”

I love it. Simple, elegant.

Would love to hear if anybody has any divergent thoughts about how this sort of p2p peer-surveillance/protection mechanism works in other complex systems!
forgive my naiveté.. but can someone explain to me why we are spending SO much $ and neurons on such projects rather than our impending ecological doom?

Honestly i dont care if super symmetry or multi-universe exists. It's becoming as absurd as ...almost as religion itself. Enough is enough.

The hard problems to really solve are all around us now and in the very near future ( as it always has been ) .. The joke will be on us when some scientists in his cave screams AHA i've found "IT"! and sadly discovers that no one is left in existence to even hear it. But different strokes for diff folks no?
I'm all about the Plio diet anyway.

https://medium.com/the-nib/introducing-the-plio-diet-77d3dce...
Regardless of the current conundrum, this is akin to testing the waters, without using the normal legal process. A global registrar that controls address's with very little "real" insight by any citizens or international community? Sounds like a problem that has been waiting to happen for a long time now, this decision was no mistake.

At first I was angered, but then I realized this is a good thing, they are shooting themselves in the foot. We don't need ICANN at all, there are already alternative DNS systems out there waiting for an opportunity for a mass exodus..

They do not control the internet and they will find that out very fast if they feel like making this common place.

ps. I wrote this after reading another post about a godaddy site that was "supposedly" on this and blamed on ICAAN. I had not read the about the homeland security warrant.
You're doing exactly what you need to do, you are putting extra effort into it.

My feeling is the "bad" cs grads usually did not put in that extra effort. Reading GEB is rarely a required par of any CS degree but reading it is an incredibly useful thing in my view. It's a thick book and takes commitment to read.

Side note: Check out this book (http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/0814...) on Godel's proof. It's been updated by Doug Hofstadter the author of GEB. I found it pretty good. Read it slowly, two three time if needed. It will make sense.
Thanks for sharing the link. I have commented earlier on SmartGit, the same ideas apply to SourceTree as well.

PS. The size is almost a non-issue since it does not affect performance and you don't download the app every day. Anyway, the size will go down in the next updates.
Things I like about my Blackberry:

- I haven't had to reboot it since I bought it months ago. I have yet to experience an application, let alone OS, crash.

- There wasn't one instance where any of the applications were sluggish, even a little bit.

- It's actually a phone, and a good one at that.

- The battery lasts for a week, easily.

I don't use email on the BB, and I agree that the browser could be better, but I think RIM-doomsayers should use a BB for a week.

It would then be obvious to them that a company producing such a top-notch product won't be going out business in a long time.
Apple does have a monopoly on devices that use the iPod connector. This monopoly is enforced by patent 7632114 B2.

That being said, the term monopoly doesn't mean much on its own. There is an alternative to everything.
Normal people crave logos. Not just fanbois. They also like to personalise their stuff though.
>> So useful, in fact, every digital computer you see in front of you is a direct descendant of Mauchly's labor, not Atanasoff.

This doesn't make any sense. Atanasoff had some pretty genius ideas and together with Berry built the first electronic digital computer. Mauchly visited their lab, got a ton of information on ABC and later built another electronic digital computer - ENIAC, which was generally ABC 2.0.
The storage service described in the Rationale section looks like it's using something like what Git does: stores a part of a file only once, and uses references to it thereafter if another file uses the same segment.

I don't see why you would need Enchilada if you could just use a Git's libraries from another programming language though. That's what Bup does: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
Yeah I was wrong. I believe early and late refers to cities and the cohorts are taken from early or late cities.
For the most part, they haven’t processed it by the time April 15 rolls around. Your tax transcript is often incomplete until late summer.
> It's the AK-47 of keyboards.

Perfect description. I also took off all the numpad keys on mine and taped a trackball there for maximum usability. It can sit on the desk or my lap and the keyboard / mouse is always right there.
Its not too late, gradual typing can still be added. Maybe in ES7 or ES8.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7580v2.pdf compares the convolutional implementation with the cuDNN layers. For the FC layers, it's just CuBLAS `sgemm`.
> ... to code for 4-5 more hours

Are you really doing this? My personal record ( when I was a full time employee ) was 4 hours of summed coding time ( I track my time with RescueTime [1] ).

I was usually finding myself to code ( commit actual features and finding cause of bugs ) 2 hours before noon and 2 hours after lunch.

The other time I was usually in meetings / discussing issues / planning / writing documentation / improving dev environment / e-mail / communication with team.

[1] http://www.rescuetime.com
I am most excited about template strings, simply because they let you write multiline strings.

e.g. instead of

"hello\n" +

"world";

use

`hello

world`;
Oh right and Covid toes?

No no it doesn't.

What is the percentage of people who have that type of reaction? Have you even looked at that? It's miniscule.

It's argued not to be from Covid directly but by comorbidities and would happen with any illness.

The news media blew it up out of proportion to scare you and millions of other people like you who have a poor grasp ofstatistics and risk... for money and it worked!

Welcome to clown world. Honk honk!
I'm not sure a name change merely in pronunciation must be necessarily large or conflicting, especially if the existing one has an obvious problem. It's essentially a "soft" change - ie, change nothing, don't even announce it publicly. Quietly put "pronounced as: " in the docs and instruct employees to start saying it differently. Not a big deal.

If after a while that resolves the problem or at least sufficiently minimises it, you're done.

If not, I think you have a clear go-ahead to make a big, breaking change.
> The short terse commands and the really awkward, confusing, mistake prone syntax

When used in an interactive shell short commands save time and effort. And it is easy to learn and remember them because in everyday work you need only about 10 commands. For some some commands which I use a lot I have one-two letter aliases to type even less e. g. i=fgrep.

It makes shell scripts less readable for someone who come from windows and and don't know even common shell commands, but for someone who use shell at least from time to time it should be easy to read.
He's not arguing that the value is reflected by the effort put in by the author, but the insight gained by the reader.
We should be more precise.

> "... because he repeatedly set off the bomb detector."

No, the initial pat-down set off a chemical detector. He set it off once before being pulled into the private room. From that point on, it doesn't matter how many more times it was set off. It shouldn't increase the level of suspicion each time.

Would they have let him go if one time it suddenly stopped giving a positive signal? I doubt it.

> "These sorts of batteries were pioneered by the Israelis and are very effective."

But this is not how the Israelis run their security procedures, so the comparison isn't fair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Airport#Security_pro...
As someone who was in a fraternity in college that practiced a waterboarding procedure as part of the initiation process, around our time in Iraq, I have come to never accept torture as someone who experienced one of the basic methods.

So, go ahead, try it. Call me a troll but you should check your moral compass. Do not argue for the torture, psychological or physical, of others if you cannot hack or attempt to at least once. That is where I draw the line.
Attacking someone in many areas is a pretty neat trick for a one-trick pony to learn.
Non-emergency medicine, also inelastic.

There's no hurry on your shoulder surgery, but there's also no point at which you say "Geez, at that price I'd rather not", like it's iMax tickets for Iron Man 3. Maybe there's a point at which you literally can't make it happen and are forced to live with it but it is not a Normal Good with Econ 101 supply/demand curves.

I guess that one could contend that our current f'd up situation is a random historical accident rather than a somewhat predictable outcome from treating an essential good as a market good. But you certainly can't claim it's a functioning market, for any definition of functioning or market.
Works fine for me on both counts.
Yeah. We don't need a government if all we want is majority rule.
>> Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of energy

source? sounds laughable to me
So nice to see this universal issue being discussed, it doesn't seem to get as much attention as it deserves.

IMO, a great solution here is along the lines of "Lift the state up" / "MV(X)". But... there is a vital detail which is usually missed when deciding how exactly the state in your M gets passed to your V for display: you must refresh your entire V when M changes in any way, not just the bit of V that you think changed. It's the only way to completely remove these difficult to test, hard to spot edge cases that the article discusses.

This is almost impossible to talk about without specific examples, so a while back I wrote such an example that I think distills the core problem, and demonstrates how refreshing the entire V not only solves the problem but typically takes less code to do it: https://dev.to/erdo/tutorial-spot-the-deliberate-bug-165k
It's common. It's easy to notice if you save interesting videos to a playlist and go through them, say, a year or two later to find what to watch. And you don't even know what was deleted.
There must be some uncomfortable truth in regards to police officers, the type of thing you only understand if you are responsible for leading/paying them.

Clearly police officers are above the law in America.
Clearly blue lives matter/thin blue line is a very deep cultural problem within the force.
Clearly police unions protect people who shouldn't be protected.
Clearly police officers protect their peers when their peers commit crime.
Clearly there is some level of infiltration by white supremacists into police forces.
Clearly police in major cities do not do a very good job of de-escalation at all.

The average citizen has almost certainly seen a video of a police officer acting outrageously and not ending up in prison. Everyone here has theories that will solve it: end qualified immunity, fix incentives, destroy police unions. Most likely none of us are experts. I can't shake the feeling that there is some truth or barrier to this problem that the average person doesn't know about/the government doesn't think we can handle being told.

If nothing else any reform must have the blessing of police officers. If police officers quit en masse that is something society at large isn't willing to tolerate. Just like the old slashdot e-mail reform meme of ol' (https://yro.slashdot.org/story/04/04/06/1629219/analysis-of-...), I suspect we need a similar meme for police reform.
The game was legit, but there's thin evidence that it was the first.
A lot of people are saying "Ok, but this burns your legs/crotch". But could you do this and then better insulate the outside of the bottom so that the heat transfers into the case faster and out of the case slower per square inch? You'd still have an effectively much larger heat sink.
Funny how i only now discover the inventor of JavaScript is behind the brave browser. I’ve seen a few stories about brave on HN, but it always looked like a semi-scammy project. This adds a lot to the credibility of that projet...
And I'd just managed to convince a quorum of my friends to move from WhatsApp to Signal. At this rate I'm going to be using Mixmaster remailers and talking to no-one again before the year is out. Remember Keybase ICO? I try not to.

There is a near zero-chance my friends and family would have done this without buy-in from their nerd contact. I sold it hard. And this same nerd has been talking about cryptocurrencies too, almost exclusively that they are at best tulip-craze scams, at worst just a way to bait drug dealers and law enforcement onto your device. Not to mention the hideous environmental impact (and you are about to talk about proof-of-stake, just ... don't.)

I can not stress enough how much I want this experiment to fail.
It is never a problem until it is.

And the idea that there is some mischief- or accident-proof alternative is, I'd argue, equally nutty.
Just my two cents, but being a coach for children/teenagers can be a paying job. Up to you to decide if it's better or worse than the job you describe.