jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What if the computer crashes?

Do you install updates on the computer? Do you browse the internet with it? Would you expect a ten year old computer to work?

Many everyday interfaces that have previously worked fine for decades, nowadays have computers and sampling inputs. Large multi billion dollar industry giants have managed to create unresponsive elevator interfaces where if you press a button, sometimes something happens, sometimes nothing happens. It's a expletive elevator. How hard can it be?

Perhaps I can trust technology like a Boss multi effects pedal - it's been engineered for a very narrow amount of inputs and doesn't need software updates. It can be made to basically always just work. The company has a long history of actually creating quality products.

But a laptop on stage, or off stage and interfaced with some pedals. That's just a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe if you can pay for one person to just babysit the computer and route around it if / when there are problems, then it's probably great.
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wikipedia says that out of the billions there were only 26 who verifiably reached the age of 115 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_claims
" It just baffles me that [Rails scalability] is not a solved problem already."

Maybe if they open-sourced this "Goliath" framework they created we'd be a little closer.
Seems to be very thought out and the detailed documentation is an added bonus. Looking forward to trying this out as that has always been a pain point in Ruby.
I've thought about it enough to know that I don't have a single price. The price depends on attraction, how much I like and trust a person, assurances of discretion and safety, etc. My "ideal" price is zero; I sleep with people for free all the time. Above that, it gets complicated. For example, I can think of a certain girl who's extremely unattractive, abrasive, not very bright, always hard up, and likes me a lot. I definitely wouldn't do her for free; I've been tested on that extensively. $500 would be enough. However, she's in debt, she's a friend of some friends, and she can't keep her mouth shut. Everybody would despise me for taking that much money from this girl who's struggling personally and financially. There's no good price for that example, but it's the most likely example I could come up with in real life. If I imagined she was better-off, $500 would be plenty for ninety minutes of work (including drive time, chit-chat, etc.)
I like this page: http://qntm.org/why

Particularly.

#14 By accident

Obviously there's a limit to how big an accident can get. ... [snip] ...Be creative and the kinds of accidents I'm talking about here seem more and more plausible.

Obviously there's a limit to how big an accident can get.
Are you just trying to take advantage of multiple cores on one physical box, or are you looking to spread work out over a cluster?

If it's the former, JVM threads should be able to take advantage of multiple cores, IIRC. Just read Doug Lea's book on Java concurrency:

http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=020...

If you want to go over a cluster, there are a few options. If your problem can be done in map/reduce fashion, there is Hadoop: http://hadoop.apache.org or if you want a traditional RCP styled approach (eg, MPI), there are Java bindings for MPI:
http://aspen.ucs.indiana.edu/pss/HPJava/mpiJava.html

In either case, Doug's homepage is a great resource: http://gee.oswego.edu/~dl/index.html

and the HPJava page might be of interest as well:

http://www.hpjava.org/
I'm not an artist, and I'm likely influenced by the perceptions (fair or not) of my alma mater. I have taken a few art courses for hobby and thought they were fun. I wasn't great, but probably nothing that practice and perseverance wouldn't overcome. But could you elaborate a bit on what might make an art major hard? Honest question, I really have no idea. To me it seems like mostly learning technique and practice practice practice. But I'm sure that a B.A. in Fine Arts involves something more than an extended 4 year crafts session.
I believe she is going to join people on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths
> Once I'm out of quarantine, I can feel comfortable being outside living a normal life, knowing that all known potential carriers are contained.

I feel mostly the same. That’s what I’m looking forward to after this quarantine. I’m on day 6 as well - The lack of exercise or movement is the worst part.
For you. Plenty of us aren't interested in lower resolution screens when you can get a laptop with one that's better.
Shut Up and Sit Down is a good resource for this sort of thing. https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/15-great-games-to-fi...

If you'd like far more information than you need to know, https://boardgamegeek.com/ is the definitive online board game community.
I see no reason to accept your strict view of aesthetic interpretation. Borge's 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote' gives a perhaps exaggerated but definitely interesting example of how context can be relevant.

Consider the message "NUTS". It was a "legend of World War II" on the US side. (Quoting from https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XxAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CJsE... .)

It clearly does not stand on its own. Without knowing the author, or the context, it's impossible to explain why that message resonated so deeply. (Eg, I seem to recall it being reappropriated in one of the early Star Trek novels.)

The message metadata gives some idea of the context:

December 22, 1944
To the German Commander,
N U T S !
The American Commander

and the larger situation is http://www.army.mil/article/92856 . Even then one wonders why General McAuliffe said "nuts" and not stronger invective. His Wikipedia entry says he was one of the few generals who did not use profane language, which lends some flavor to understanding that word choice.

If I write "NUTS" here, does it have the same meaning and interpretation as when McAuliffe wrote it some 70 years ago? Assuredly not.
Instead of subsidized housing the money could be used to increase salaries.
For when the shit really hits the fan... a terminal server connected to serial port and remote power control for power cycling are indispensable.
The abstract makes it clear that the vaccine is the thing missing the protein:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/03/25/science.a...

Previously, we showed that a whole EBOV vaccine based on a replication-defective EBOV (EBOVΔVP30) protects immunized mice and guinea pigs against lethal challenge with rodent-adapted EBOV.

edit: to be clear, k_sze is not wrong, they tested the vaccine against active virus.
It might be worse if we were to allow another holocaust because we base our risk assessment on faulty analysis whereas our enemies feel free to threaten because they are working from an accurate risk assessment.
I think you're missing what they are doing.

Pyramid is repoze.bfg with some of the good things from Pylons added in. Pyramid is much more extensible with hooks. TurboGears will still be a full-stack, Pyramid + their choices for form library, templating, etc. Pyramid is still very light and makes very few assumptions.

I think it is better since you've brought together three frameworks and that collective mindshare is going to collaborate rather than compete.
I don't work for Factual, so I can't speak to that. Does Yellowpages.com have an API to access this data? I've worked with the Yellowbook API in the past, and wasn't that impressed.
The reason it exists is so companies don't end around the SEC and create unregulated stock markets. Once you get 500 shareholders you don't need to offer shares to the public, but you do need to release financials like you have (AKA send them to the SEC).
I'd be interested to see the gross effects on Media (DVD and Blu-ray) gross, in addition to the Box Office gross, in this comparison. Anyone know where one could find those numbers?

I would think that BitTorrent downloads would have more of an impact on Media purchases than Box Office purchases.
Texas's extremely-conservative state board of education will be changing soon, because at least one of the hard-line board members who pushed the "reforms" mentioned in the Guardian article was subsequently voted out of office in favor of a more-moderate candidate. (I think two of the hard-liners got the boot.)
I'm not defending liberal leaning policies at all. I'm pointing out are that there are education standards for a reason. Sorry you don't like facts but that's the reality of the situation.
http://pythonpaste.org/webob/do-it-yourself.html

Sometimes Python is accused of having too many web frameworks. And it’s true, there are a lot. That said, I think writing a framework is a useful exercise. It doesn’t let you skip over too much without understanding it. It removes the magic. So even if you go on to use another existing framework (which I’d probably advise you do), you’ll be able to understand it better if you’ve written something like it on your own.

This tutorial shows you how to create a web framework of your own, using WSGI and WebOb. No other libraries will be used.
As much as I don't like Google, this is the kind of app that Apple would block.
No joke, I read this comment and realised my ears are ringing.
Excel elicits some equivalent of Stages of Grief in technical people. First, some version “it’s so dumb the world runs this way, I’ll just port a few of <use case> into a modern CRUD web app and people will prefer it since it will reduce errors and be in the cloud”. Then, “oh hmmm the flexibility Excel brings to the user is really hard to replicate in my CRUD app. But I’ll try.”. Then despair - “arrrg if only these dumb users would realize that the flexibility and power of Excel lead to lots of problems! Use my simple CRUD app, please!!!”. Then acceptance (and awe) - “Excel is UI, a DB, and business logic all wrapped in 1 thing that everyone already knows how to use.”

Not saying Excel is perfect. Lots of us have built or are building products that do a better job at specific workflows. But surely it is one of the best pieces of software we have, and if I could only use 1 piece of software forever, it’s probably Excel.
> GPA was 0.023 too low to pass the automated filters

Your application was most likely reviewed by real people, not just automated filters. People with GPAs below 3 do get into competitive grad programs (and med school). An upward trend is the key.
Another victory for Machine Learning!(tm).
At some point Google will ask themselves why they are spending money on running Google Groups in the first place. They may just decide to pull the plug.
That doesn't rebut my assertion or complaint at all, since you are referring to a specific type of genetic disorder.

The research in general on nutrition and hearth health is still mostly correlation. Definitely someone with a specific disorder could have a more obvious causal link with cholesterol and cardiac events, but I've read a bunch of different papers, many from respected institutions, and the conclusions usually are, IMHO (I studied physics), garbage.
Had a number of 1066's back in the day. Pinnacle of Neve's design.
So much projection. Astonishing.

What's discussing is handwaving real-world problems because they don't fit your agenda.
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You know why I like mushrooms? Cause I’m a fun guy!
still, i think that's a better way to get rich than by tracking/snooping on your customers.
They could have said "we need to get rid of jobs and remove your social contact to save a few old people's lives, it's going to cost a fortune, so we're going to implement a one of wealth tax which will mean those who we're destroying the economy for (to implement lockdown and brexit) are the ones that will have to pay for it - the very people that made an absolute fortune from the rise in asset prices, the ones sitting on final salary pensions paid for from the public purse

But they didn't. Instead they do things like closing sure start centres and increasing pensions way more than wages while taxing people 69% marginal rates for a typical middle class job.
As opposed to the constant annoyances with windows, and similarly things I don't like in Mac?
A week ago we heard about Simplenetes [1] (in 17k lines of Bash) and now this.

Seems like people are getting tired of some accidental complexity :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661223
If he spent $1k on this because he truly enjoys it and it went up 100x is that reason to not take him seriously? It’s a good list. Yes this allocation of assets stands out and needs more explanation... but it doesn’t invalidate the rest.
If you lost your job April 2020 and all your spare cash was in stocks you'd be forced to eat a massive loss. Given a downturn makes unemployment more likely this isn't an improbable scenario.
I'll help work on a six pack
Masks will be solved if the user is wearing a Watch after the next update. Like the Mac itself, the Watch can unlock an iPhone.
Yup, I’ve actually been on hn since 2008, but I’ve rotated/lost accounts over the years. I sort of wish I had one of those old accounts however for posterity.
Took a bit of remembering what a pain autoconf can be :)
A nice quality of the `guard` in swift is that you can chain multiple conditions, which is harder to do in rust (maybe with some macros a la if_chain?)
This is similar to how Modi was banned from entering the US for overseeing the Gujrat massacres but was suddendly a champion of human rights when he became PM. Might is always right sadly.
The title of this article is accurate but it's pretty bad advice. For HN crowd you can get 90% of the benefit from

1. pay off CC debts

2. Set bill pay AND investment to auto. Invest in index funds

3. max out 401k

4. Google FI/RE movement if you want to be fancy.
The innovation already happened.

There is no technical reason why multiple orders of magnitude more transactions couldn't be on the bitcoin chain if it wasn't intentionally crippled.

If your internet connection had the throughput of bitcoin it would take you 36 minutes to load reddit.com

Anyone can rent a VPS for $10 USD that can download the entire chain in under an hour and a half.

There are 14TB single hard drives out now, which would be able to store the bitcoin chain for the next 300 years. One hard drive, 300 years.

The only part that doesn't work is the $31.50 average transaction fee.
To make this parallel universe scenario's Windows 3.1 analogous to "real"-universe c.2010's iOS, you'd need to make parallel-Windows 3.1 have about a quarter of the market rather than having a monopoly on it.
OK, well it's fine to use whatever terminology you like if there are standard definitions, but I think terms including "one-to-one" are unnecessarily confusing, whereas "injective" and "bijective" are perfectly clear.
I understand this: I was attempting to show, intuitively, how his theory could demonstrate that there is more than one irrational number.

Apologies if I wasn't clear: this was something that popped into my head to help clear this up!
It's a do-it-yourself PaaS strategy.

Where's the load balancing acquisition?
No problems with my Gmail. Maybe you have some sort of lab features which are slowing things down? Try disabling everything you can to troubleshoot it.
Technical mailing lists. Almost all have an accompanying job list and often the most interesting jobs get filled from there.
The "real" problem here is that the POV the post argues against appears to include the idea that mathematical proofs must be isomorphic to some game between two (or perhaps more) people that a human brain would consider "fair". This is not a generally useful way to approach proofs.

(The word "generally" is not extraneous in this post.)
> Then you may reach a different, but demonstrably more accurate, conclusion.

For that to have much weight, you'd need to list somewhere that a government overthrow actually went well. History suggests that it rarely ever does.
>If I train an AI on classical paintings, can it ever invent Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism?

I see your point, but it's an unfair comparison: if you put a human in a room and never showed them anything except classical paintings, it's unlikely they would quickly invent cubism either. The humans that invented new art styles had seen so many things throughout their life that they had a lot of data to go off of. Regardless, I think we can do enough neural style transfer already to invent new styles of art though.
Oh believe me I fully intend to ride that train, but I'll wait for it to get to the station first.
i predict one day you can create animation/videos in the future with a variation of this, then you could define characters/scripts/etc and then insert a story and it generates a movie.
Bloomberg confirmed that the purchased planes will be operated by contractors.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-05/amazon-ma...
Every time I accidentally hit something on the touch bar, I hate that I still have a Mac. Every time I intentionally use the ESC and have to touch it two or three times, I hate the Mac. Every time I need an F key, or want to do something without looking (like change volume or hit mute), I hate the Mac. Thank goodness this year I stopped using it so much as I did not have to repair the keyboard twice and potentially get COVID as in previous years.

All in all, I am glad to dislike Macs with their abysmally bad keyboards and actively hostile and negatively productive touch bar. WSL is pretty nice.
Learn this way and you'll be able to make excellent websites like... Hmm. Ah.

Make your website decent before convincing people you can teach them to make theirs.
It sounded good until I got to #2. This is utterly false. I would go so far as to say canonically-untrue: the only reason any employee leaves is because of their boss.

A good manager will keep an employee engaged, challenged, and happy. In fact managers can achieve this even if the company itself is not engaged, challenging, and a happy place. Good managers can also shield employees from an array of terrible dysfunction at the company level. All good managers I've ever had have this skill. A bad manager will not only expose company dysfunction, but magnify it, making the employee's job more difficult than if the employee has no manager at all. I've had the latter several times, and it's soul-draining.

The rest of the article reads like a novice's take on the SF startup scene, which I happen to loathe anyways. One funny example is the #7 HR comment, which exposes a pretty big misunderstanding about HR. HR serves no useful purpose to the employee; it exists to shield the company from problems, nothing more. Improving HR will have no meaningful impact on employee retention.

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I've been thinking about building a simple fundamentals strategy. More interested in EOD data and indicative data, though.

HFT itself is just a good way to have your money taken away by smarter people... but long-term alpha is probably still doable.
Everyone thought this thing was a joke and waiting for the real truck reveal esp after all the laughing and smashing of the windows. Next day all of us wants one.
Are you still depressed? I try to have 5 good days out of 7 in a week. I found that CBT helps especially the book Feeling Good by David Burns. He has a podcast out now about a new team base cbt approach. The podcast is great and the workbooks in his books are really helpful. He has an associated clinic in Mountain View as well. The approach is practical and specific. CBT has roots in Buddhism and stoicism as well for the life hacker types we see here on HN from time to time. The basic idea is that your thoughts create your feelings. There are a lot of tools to help identify and understand those thoughts.
lol, it took me a bit to realize this was a troll. I was like "When the hell did toasters get micro-controllers? Every one I've ever had just used two dissimilar metals as a heat sensor."
The Charlie Hebdo attackers used regular cell phones, and they were on security watch lists, and Algerian officials claimed to had sent warnings about them.

The gunman in Canada who tried to shoot up Parliament openly posted his plans and talked to jihadi sympathizer accounts on Twitter in the open. He was also on watch lists and had his passport pulled for trying to go to Syria.

One of the Boston bombers was on a watch list, and Russian officials sent warnings about him.

Seems nobody is watching the people on watch lists
I don't understand why the upper comment was downvotted without any explanation, when it's not far from the truth. Even if the people like the event, it's still a marketing stunt similar to hackathons or other competitions.
U.S. citizen here—what's the difference?
There's a new book on Intel out, /The Intel Trinity/ http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062226761/the-intel-trinity by Michael S. Malone.
Core Storage volumes can be resized with 'diskutil cs resizevolume' even if they're encrypted. It's not documented in the diskutil man page, and thus probably not supported. I've done this maybe a dozen times and on one of those attempts it totally imploded the file system and couldn't be salvaged - so it works most of the time but a backup is still wise.
What do you think that nation-states do?
I haven't been following STL implementations recently, but that definitely wasn't the situation even in 2007 (Over 10 years after STL was finalized..); In fact, the only implementation that it did back then was STLPort, at a huge performance hit, and only at runtime.

And what you say about compilers is EXACTLY why I wrote the "latest and greatest". It's only recent clangs that can give intelligible messages for C++ (if at all) because Clang C++ support is not even ready for production yet.

VC++ 2005 (last I used) did not get give reasonable errors.
Yep, it started becoming terrible a few months ago imo.
The fundamental with this philosophy is that is permits "responsibility" to diffuse into the population such that nobody feels responsible for a reality we all must act to address.
You are spreading fake news. From your article: “ In 1955, Congress had made such strikes punishable by fines or a one-year jail term”
Here's my personal Bitcoin prediction for 2021:

1. Some hedge fund will find a way to short Bitcoins.

2. Someone will inject a lot of illegal sh*t into the Blockchain. People already post images, e.g. https://cryptograffiti.info/

3. Authorities have to intervene, the price goes down, the hedge fund gets rich.

4. Lots of whining from people who didn't understand how Bitcoin works. Shoulder shrugs from those "in the know" who converted to regular money shortly before the fall.
Thread here from nine days ago with 324 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513
Meta: typo in title, "diredctor" should be "director" obviously.