skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That minority opinion is what I was referring to. You're willfully misinterpreting my comment in order to express faux outrage at a slight I never made. I'm well aware of Trump's message and his opinions - both have been and remain inescapable, and I don't hold any disdain towards anyone who voted for him out of a sincere belief in his platform, although I do think they were misled by a charlatan and should have seen it coming a mile away.

I do have lots of disdain for Trump as a person, though. Everyone should, his supporters most of all.

Now good day to you, sir or madam jerkstate.
Is it this one?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guédelon_Castle
The issue of what apps & devices trigger when is surprisingly difficult to figure out. I ask about it whenever I interview product managers, so far nobody can explain how it currently works or how it is supposed to work.
That's interesting. There must be other similar trade opportunities as boomers start to retire in larger numbers.

I'd be fascinated to hear more if anyone is informed of other niche occupations that are in a similar position.
indeed ! the 'neural networks for pattern recognition' book (bishop) has exercises in chapter-01 on the same subject.
The article doesn't say "immediately", and false confessions do occur, unfortunately.

I hope you're right, that it's just one tool to help direct an investigation, and that the confession was true, but I'm not entirely convinced by this article.

It starts by claiming he can tell "whether the knot-tier was left- or right handed, skilled or novice at knot tying, and in some cases, whether the crime was premeditated", but only a couple specific stories are given, and one was a knot which "people wouldn’t know of outside of the butcher trade", which is much more obvious and grounded than the earlier claims.

Of the first 14 Google Image results for "square knot" (before it starts returning other things), 8 tie it one way, and 6 tie it the other way -- and as I scroll down, this ratio seems pretty consistent. He claims for a right-handed person "the knot will almost certainly be formed right handed", but at first glance it seems much closer to 50/50.
I have found harder to use Strings. I start build a little interpreted language and boom! the strings is the roadblock.

I still not figure what the hell is the deal with it. Why rust no "just" give a "string for mortals"?
Just curious, has the situation improved in real terms in the 2 years since Macri took over? I visited a couple of times in 2010-11 and the inflation over a 16 month period was evident.

Wonderful, friendly, people but concerning economic stability I'd be more inclined to set up a business in Chile, or perhaps across the river in Montevideo (although the cost of Uruguayan living seemed relatively more expensive.)
At what point is it no longer a gift though? What if I write a contract with Boeing where I "gift" them $X million dollars and they "gift" me a brand new jumbo jet? Do you think the IRS would be interested in the specifics of that contract?
Content under HTTP can be thought of as siloed if the user doesn't have an HTTP client. Same effect no?
I bought an Acer C720 back in 2012-2013, somewhere around then, and just used it for the first time in years last week while my MacBook was getting repaired.

Still runs great. Only difficult part for me is getting used to the lower build quality (coming from a MacBook).

It's $89 on Newegg, but I'm sure you could find it cheaper elsewhere. I believe I paid $199 brand new.

When it was still being used frequently I was running various different Linux distros (replaced ChromeOS) and everything ran smoothly. This likely won't be necessary anymore given Chromebooks are about to have the ability to run Linux apps on ChromeOS in containers, as well as have a terminal.

https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16834316317?ignorebbr=true...
Not all fiber is equivalent. The fiber in legumes tends to be highly fermentable, and provide far more in the way of health benefits than the fiber in vegetables such as broccoli.

Lentils are pretty much nature's perfect food when considering cost, protein and fiber content. Additionally, lentils are low in methionine. I don't put much stock in methionine restriction for human longevity, it does work in rodents, so if you want to be a guinea pig (couldn't resist) they're good in that respect too.

Eggs are also excellent for their high essential fatty acid content, and this may sound counter-intuitive but if you eat a lot of beans dietary cholesterol is actually beneficial. High quality eggs are also a really good source of vitamins E and D.

Finally, though they're unfortunately not so cheap, hemp seeds provide you with both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and minerals. A mix of sunflower or pumpkin seeds and chia seeds works well and is cheaper if you're optimizing for cost.

The only vitamin that I think is worth supplementing is niacin. Niacin has been shown to increase BDNF levels in animals which can help with mood and memory formation, and it has also been shown to increase lifespan by 10-15%. For people who don't go outside and don't consume much milk vitamin D might also be a good idea.
So, I'm not going to get too much into semantics because it's not interesting, and we could grind on it forever. But the essence of social interaction and group dynamics has hundreds of thousands of years of permutation behind it, and I'm pretty confident that human beings aren't going to come up with a new way of reducing friction at the interfaces of its tribalism without changing the definition of human being. The definition which includes what it means to be a human individual or a group, or what it means to communicate between human individuals and groups.
According to the article it was a contract. The University of Chicago entered a contract with the Pearson family to host an institute. That the university reported it as a gift in the press was perhaps unfortunate, but it is understandable as it has better optics.

If the idea for the Institute had been the universities, and they were soliciting donors to fund it, and Pearson was one of multiple donors, sure that would qualify as a gift, but as the article is written, this was a very different beast.
Some pension funds, like one of the largest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...) with over US$1 trillion in assets, you can offered indeed to put some pressure on the companies you invested in. When they can divest ~$700M from British American Tobacco all at once, it can be a serious leverage.
There’s a lot of literature on this in the Erlang world. This post is a very thorough summary of the various solutions available:

https://ferd.ca/handling-overload.html

I don’t find that kind of fully async processing pipeline very idiomatic TBH, at least in Erlang - more typically, every request would be its own actor, and do blocking requests to other actors that own shared resources.
One the way to looking at other things(tm) I found a blog post by a CS language researcher talking about type erasure.

His two points.

Being able to do type erasure is great because it means your language is coherent. (Don't need to do any nasty kluges in the run time)

And then everyone ratfucks themselves by actually implementing type erasure, and now your language will never have good tooling and thus will die a lonely unmourned death.

He commented that C/C++ has type erasure and it's also a massive kludge (via the elf format). No one will invest that much effort into a new language.

tl;dr: Type erasure, it's great, don't do it.
Moviepass is going to get more and more desperate as their money runs out. I don't have Moviepass but it's fun to think of how they could sell out their users in the future.

Like maybe they could force users to write 500-word reviews? Or better yet record their faces so sentiment analysis algorithms can track users every feeling during a movie? Maybe ask users to spot product placement in movies - you don't get the movie free unless you enter every product spotted and write your thoughts about it. Maybe they could force women users to sit next to creepy men users who pay for that "extra service?" There's no limit to how you can innovate when you have no respect for your users.
It's all on the down-low so only works with minimal snackage but no theatre around where I live pats you down.

So it's against policy, but most folks do it.
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I suspect that it was more a lack of knowledge. Before the internet it would've been a lot harder for knowledge of these cartels to spread.

It was based in Switzerland, how was the average American going to find out about it? Even if they wanted to, where would they look?
Same here... All my friends complain about Comcast all the time and I’m thinking there must be something wrong with me cause all my interactions with them have been positive, and my service and price are decent.

(I promise I’m not a paid comcast shill...)
The Number 1 Rule in Communication
Or is it that corporate gifts are not the same as personal gifts?

Just 100% of this. Gift in this case has tax implications, but it in no way implies generosity of spirit, friendship, or the spirit of giving for another’s sake.
Seems like this won't last long, as Apple could just spend the $30,000 to get it for themselves and then figure out what vulnerability it's exploiting.
It depends on your use case. You may find `String` [0] easier to use since it is growable, etc.

As you continue to use Rust you will find that each type has their reason and string slices (what are used in this blog post) have their limits.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html
Most modern pharmaceuticals would not exist without patents.
> What's your favorite web browser?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
Or maybe "Bumble App Capitalizes on Mass Shootings for Extra Press Coverage" in the style of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html? Just seems weird for the NYT to cover this.
I don't agree. I think that while it can be difficult to defend every instance of a patent or a particular implementation of patent law, this doesn't mean that every patent is bad or that the concept of patents is bad and needs to be outright abandoned which is what the OP was discussing.

America's patent system may not be perfect but this doesn't mean it's outright unproductive. This holds especially true when evaluated based on raw innovation. America's tech sector speaks for itself but is far from unique, America's pharmaceutical industry also comes to mind. Although widely criticized, and rightly so, the American industry produces nearly a third of the world's new molecular entities.
> "african" is not a category that has any meaningful genetic definition.

If you want me to be specific, the negroid, is that specific enough for you? I assume not.

> it has value in organizing information. another system of organizing information might be harmful. suppose you had a system of organizing information that weighted irrelevant data and disregarded relevant data. would it have positive value or negative value?

Again, you haven't proved that race can't predict. You haven't even tried to disprove what im saying, you just keep banging on about this stupid aragument that "well what is the color orange? Is it red or is it yellow? or gold even?".

Should we throw away colors because someone might see a yellow and another sees gold? Are colors useless now?

> the computer is just doing what the programmer told it to do based on a bunch of genetic categories that are artificially constructed. you get a guy's genes. what makes you say that guy is asian? oh thats right, a hand wavy mix of phenotypes and culture. thats entirely objective, dont know what I was thinking.

So you agree that cluster analysis proves race can be objectively measured? Thanks.

> you're going to classify him as a hippie because he smokes weed and predict that he smokes weed based on the fact that he is a hippie. and you dont see the circularity?

No see you are just strawmanning, you know damn well I said self reported hippie and i was making a point about self reporting vs actions.

> actually it is much more fluid than you seem to think. parts of africa and asia are geographically close, and have mingled for millennia.

Ok but you agreed with the cluster analysis work i linked to that shows we can still put them into nice little groups with around 99% correctness so I don't see what legs you have left to stand on here.

> thats more an artifact of the limitations of your studies, if you know anything at all about this subject you should know just how genetically diverse the human species is.

The more SNP's the studies add the more clear the race picture is, how on earth could you get the opposite picture from the studies?

Are you even reading the studies or do you just assume they say what you believe? Because at this point your just strawmanning over and over and it's just not a productive conversation.
Some more fun tidbits:

> ProductSub returns 20030107 for Chrome and Safari, because that's the release date for Safari which used an Apple fork of WebKit. Chrome also uses this fork. For Firefox, it's 20100101. I don't know why.

> Vendor returns "Google Inc." for Chrome, but undefined for everything else.

> Navigator can tell if your device has a touch screen

> Navigator can tell how many logical cores you have

> appCodeName always returns "Mozilla" and appName always "Netscape"

> Navigator can tell if you're using: Wi-Fi, Ethernet, cellular, Bluetooth, or WiMAX

> Navigator knows how much RAM you have

> And the exact plugins you're using. A Firefox useragent won't hide 'type':'application/x-google-chrome-pdf'

> Your screen can be shared through navigator -- without your permission

> Languages are set as either `US-en` or `en` to differentiate between Americans and British

> Your battery can be acpi'd by Navigator

> File permissions can be read, revealing usernames

And this is just navigator, wait till you see all the fun things you can do with Javascript and canvas.
> Where is my equal representation, as, say, a first generation Austrian Jewish immigrant with an anxiety disorder?

I think that's Peter Parker a.k.a Spiderman, the nebbish boy living in a multi-generational Brooklyn walk-up, with old-world grandparents.

If we're going to keep making super hero movies (which I couldn't care less about) it seems like we have to keep playing and defying the genres expectations: Spiderman, one of the first, transforms the intellectual into a man of action. Two years ago, Ryan Reynolds transformed the mask crime fighter (Deadpool) from an all-too-serious stoic into a sloppy knucklehead. And now Black Panther transforms the soulful and dirt poor African American into a royal aristocrat and scientist.

I largely agree with your final paragraph. But I think this cultural issue is going to play out like a pendulum where Hollywood is going to make ten more Black Panthers until everyone is completely sick of it, the eleventh movie tanks, and then nobody can make produce even a great Black Panther-esque movie for several years following it.
Death is a pretty grinding halt for me.
> What could have been done differently to end up at a good solution?

Something like a standardized API for feature-detection, possibly.
Or on digital goods more generally. I can't see how it will survive a challenge at the WTO.
To answer the parent's question: Yes, it was necessary. Doing it the way they did allowed source compatibility with pre-generic or non-generic-aware code. Passing a List<string> to something that expects an IEnumerable works just fine and effectively gives you the Java solution (at a source level) when talking to older APIs! This is why interface IEnumerable<T>: IEnumerable.

>I disagree. I think that C# generics are way better. The C# generics are supported at the virtual machine level, whereas Java just pretends to do generics. Java generic types are unknown to the virtual machine since the compiler just compiles a List<Foo> to a list of objects, leaving the VM ignorant of what it really is.

It is worse than that. Java generics don't work with value types at all thanks to this. A C# List<int> is much closer to a zero-overhead abstraction. It does not box the primitive int values. If Java ever adopts primitive generic types it will break compatibility or introduce massive performance overhead, as touching any non-generic API forces a boxing conversion. Either it negates the reason for type-erasing originally or it eliminates the main benefit of non-boxing value type support (performance).

(I should clarify that Java doesn't have first-class value type support either so this really only applies to primitives)

>I thought the Java implementation was almost a workaround to avoid the hard work of a true generics implementation.

It was a deliberate design decision to retain compatibility between pre-generic and post-generic Java code.

Personally I think that was the wrong tradeoff; there is never a better time to make a breaking change than right now. The cost only ever increases with time. It was also clear back then that Java would exist for far longer with generics than without and that far more code would be written in Java post-generics than pre-generics. The result is everyone who uses Java is stuck with limitations and negative performance impacts forever, rather than accepting some short-term pain.

It is also my personal opinion that source compatibility is what developers actually cared about and Sun should have told the stodgy risk-averse big Java houses to suck it up and get ready for JVM v2. It would have been a good opportunity to fix a few other things in the JVM.

C# had the benefit of hindsight in some ways. I'm not sure if Java demonstrates how open delivers inferior results, how bad leadership can impact a project, or just what happens if you pay attention to what "enterprise" customers claim they want.
Kidder's book is awesome. This article reminded me of Steven Levy's iPod book: It's also very good, not a classic but still worth a read: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Thing-Shuffles-Commerce-Cooln...
How disappointing that text editors require such... abstraction. Overengineering at its finest?
The Java implementation is a workaround to avoid breaking processors that executed Java bytecode. ARM Cortex can still theoretically do it, though it now just traps into a soft VM.
For number 3 literally the web 20( 30?) years ago
IE 7 Tax

https://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/
Open-Sourcing our GDPR Preparation for Articles 30, 32, and 35
Why do you say that? Just because most modern pharmaceuticals were created with patents, doesn't mean that they wouldn't exist without patents.
> I don't understand how you can attach strings (i.e. conditions ) on gifts, telling the receipt how they can or cannot use the gift.

Simple, you just attach covenants to the gift. You can do the same with real property (such as during the sale of land), which restricts the ways in which a property can be used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(law)
Note also that Java does have reified generics, but only for arrays. The designers of the JVM from early on did realize the advantages of reified generics. Type erasure is not some principled stand being made by the JVM.
The client hints draft is somewhat helping here (10 years later): http://httpwg.org/http-extensions/client-hints.html
Because trade secrets are virtually impossible in non-biologic drugs, the entire funding ecosystem around pharmaceuticals is driven by patents.
Of course that’s survivorship bias. I wasn’t saying nobody hates the notch, just refuting his annoying assertion that “everybody hates the notch”.
Looks like Kim Jong-un is looking for a way to get South Korea to join him against the rest of the world. Kim Jong-un will never give up power so needs an ally to help him. Who better than the other part of a united Korea?
We definitely had dynamic websites in 1998, guestbooks, forums, etc. Mostly via CGI. But yes, it's very close to that.
Or something like uBlock Origin set to block everything.
Let them be people, with all of the liabilities, responsibilities, and legal obligations as people. Otherwise what are we really talking about? The rights and privileges of personhood, but without any of the accountability? How absurd it is.

Indeed, the faux precedent in the Southern Pacific case would go on to be used by a Supreme Court that in the early 20th century became famous for striking down numerous economic regulations, including federal child-labor laws, zoning laws, and wage-and-hour laws. Meanwhile, in cases like the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), those same justices refused to read the Constitution as protecting the rights of African Americans, the real intended beneficiaries of the Fourteenth Amendment. Between 1868, when the amendment was ratified, and 1912, the Supreme Court would rule on 28 cases involving the rights of African Americans and an astonishing 312 cases on the rights of corporations.

Absurd!
Indeed, I feel like the author loves Python so much and also loves creating parsers and compilers so much, that they've gone down a rabbit hole. Using a practical, "fast enough" language like Go or a language that allows for DSLs, such as scheme or common lisp would have been better.
Actually, as has been pointed out many times around the internet, the vaccuum problem is not as simple as described.

The biggest problem I've seen is that of thermal stabilisation to prevent metal expansion and contraction. That makes tubes in open air a particularly infeasible proposition without masses of insulation. Bridges are already difficult enough as it is, without things traveling over 1000km/h

Or, to directly address this:

* We have the ability to evacuate air from a tube, to low air pressure levels.

We can evacuate tubes, but they tend not to be very long. About the only very long tubes we have evacuated are CERN and it's predecessors, and I think they got around the issue by building it underground.
Spin up a new actor for every message? Actor's are cheap, right? And don't form cycles.
Perhaps you meant to compare the commentor above me to Zhdanov? His views seem diametrically opposed to what I said.
Just for fun: the unemployment rate is the percentage of working age people who do not have a job and are looking for one. So, a negative unemployment rate could be a situation where there are more people with two full-time salaries than there are looking for work. Unlikely, but plausible with enough demand, remote work and results-oriented scope of duties. Again, just a little fun with a wonky number!
I will never understand why people leave Location Services on all the time.

I don't even install apps that request location when it isn't necessary for my needs (active geolocation, like mapping if I'm lost, hikes, and such).

For Moviepass, and for the rare cases where I am lost or really need active directions, I turn Location services on. Then, it gets immediately shut off. (Similarly, I keep Bluetooth and NFC off except when in active, intended use.)

In fact, for Moviepass and other apps that require locations, I install them on a secondary phone that I use only for nosy apps. It just stays in the car. (This is a good use for an old phone without a SIM; most apps will run fine over WiFi.)

And when apps want to update and in the process try to add permissions they didn't originally seek and have no business using (e.g. Stubhub, Magnifier, Flashlight+), I just don't let them update.
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Nice thanks for the link. So if I'm understanding correctly, your app essentially runs as a standalone api, receiving pdf requests, queueing them, processing them, then hitting a specific webhook url on success for other systems to then query the pdf tool to get the resulting pdf.

This is approximately how I was thinking of settings thing up as well, so thanks for this!