skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we've been conditioned to expect a CTA at the end of many "articles" which has made many of them into pitches rather than articles. Why can't an article simply bring awareness of another culture from a foreigner's perspective?
Native speaker here. Dalchini is the correct Hindi word for cinnamon. Think of it as the English word underdog.
I would love to see more (any?) tech co-ops. I was thinking that a small(-ish) consulting firm would work well.

Co-ops are hard to get off the ground. A big part can be start-up costs. Software engineering is nice because you need relatively small amounts to start. Could even begin as a few people working remotely. Start getting some work, rent an office, bring on more engineers, share profits equitably, rinse and repeat.
On the other hand I find PH comments pretty useless and that it's usually a waste time to read them. The first thing I want to know about the new product is its limitations and possible pitfalls of its usage, and the product's page itself is unlikely to provide that. The "encouraging" comments from "carefully vetted" PH community are just as vacuous as the landing page copy.
The provided link is for those with an MSDN subscription. I'm waiting for the Community Edition to appear.
Do you only hear about good products from paid advertisements?
Hilarious Chameleon reaction on Bubbles
I think pg is wrong here. We're all fans of brevity here but a simple thank you far too often simply lacks substance or insight to upvote.

Reiterating that strong effort needs to be made to resist the possibly inevitable decline in quality - simply getting rid of one or two word comments is actually good general rule even if it results in some otherwise courteous people getting downvoted.

An upvote should mean "Thanks" - saying it is redundant.
I am not a beginner, but I felt it was worth reading the email for the reminder of the perspective that processes themselves are a form of virtualization. I've known about kernels and threads and process isolation for so long that it has become a sort of "atomic" notion in my mind, and it was nice to get a reminder that the current direction of virtualization is an extension of the past.
How about giving me a proper responsive design, and then still letting me zoom in if your design sucks for me and the text is too small?

Not everyone has the same eyesight or the same size phone.
That feels like too much assumption to me. The scenario described well by Michio Kaku is the only one that seems probable to me.

"Lets say we have an ant hill in the middle of the forest. And right next to the ant hill, they're building a ten-lane super-highway. And the question is 'Would the ants be able to understand what a ten-lane super-highway is? Would the ants be able to understand the technology and the intentions of the beings building the highway next to them?"

So it's not that we can't pick up the signals from other worlds using our technology, it's that we can't even comprehend what the beings from Planet X are or what they're trying to do. It's so beyond us that even if they really wanted to enlighten us, it would be like trying to teach ants about the internet."
"...technology required for the development of intrusion software;...". Can't Anything be used to develop software?
Back when it was in place, was 100% contribution a thing or was my info incorrect for back then too?
and i think that spain is responsible for that and not the euro.

if you had your own currency inflation would have increased the prices of all imported goods and thus diminishing the purchasing power...i can remember when italy hat its lira and every trip one got more ond more lira in exchange for our schilling (austria).
No specific knowledge of how this works at HN, but I'm betting you're seeing caching behavior at work. Everybody logged in has potentially quite different HTML to serve up -- everybody logged out needs the same. The latter outnumber the former and, rather than applying a deceptively expensive sort-by-score on every pageview, it makes more sense to generate once and cache for "a long time relative to an HTTP request/response cycle."
I'd argue there's a difference between normal confidence and over-confidence. I work with an over-confident guy. He's regularly a motor mouth in meetings, plays up this wizened master persona, is never shy to aggressively give his opinion, etc which might be okay in some cases but the problem is he's pretty much an idiot. Most of his suggestions are borderline nonsense. Its hard to have a straight face when he recommends things like getting rid of our Drupal infrastructure because, "I can just make a website in Access and run it off the network drive," and other suggestions of that caliber.

Even people who are amazing shouldn't act like this too often. Its bad politics and the guy you think is your force multiplier ends up being the guy who chases the other talent away. These people are toxic to organizations and unfortunately, they seem unwilling to change or even see what they are doing wrong here. I guess most people would call this the Dunning–Kruger effect, which may or may not be right, but personally I think it ties into some level of autistic spectrum stuff and as such is probably untreatable.

The larger question, at least to me, is what do we do with people who don't fit into the typical office culture mold? The overconfident braggart personality probably fit some ancient evolutionary niche that isn't helpful in a lot of fields today. I guess these guys eventually migrate into jobs like sales that value casual bullshiting.
Hey there. I'm the person that was awarded your account. GitHub has/had a form and all I did was submit a request and it was given to me. They said they deemed you as inactive for a substantial period of time. I'm not saying this is right or wrong but I thought you would take solace in knowing your old username is in good hands.

Sincerely,

the other rbishop
Three of those are fission, not fusion. And Daedalus looks more like a very high level concept, without the actual tech to accomplish it.
Hi, I'm a member of one of the GLXP teams. There is progress. But it's hard and mostly invisible to the outside world. Basically we are small teams catching up to what governments or larger companies are doing. It takes time.

1. Tech development: It requires changes in thinking, tools, procedures etc. Perhaps harder than tech itself is to acquire the required mindset.

2. Legal: Space law is fun but complex once it goes into the details. US laws like ITAR (now a bit milder than before) haunt us. Plus plenty of other laws.

3. Funding: It's hard to make business cases for a (literal) moonshot. Sponsorship and payload are the main revenue sources, but most teams don't succeed. Their story (or presentation) is not exciting or convincing, their team is not adequate (skills, mentality, manpower), so they don't get sponsors, investors, or customers. Or they're just in a country where risk is not rewarded or capital is absent.

4. Launch: Finding the right rocket is important; it influences spacecraft design. Then negotiating a contract and sticking to it. Many hurdles. And it's expensive before the launch. Launch is the biggest cost center.

5. Politics: XPRIZE Foundation is a US org, so US law and politics determine much of what you (not) do, e.g. avoid tech or people from blacklisted countries. Or when geopolitics kicks in and the rocket in another country suddenly or potentially becomes unavailable.

And much more. So we're making progress. But it's not something we talk about much.

I just realize that I wrote the five points above in a kind of negative tone. They're not. E.g. once you have the required mindset, you're filled with nearly unshakable certainty about what you do and why. Laws are solved problems--or when they work on them, they make open problems pretty clear. The pressure to find business cases makes you think hard about what is possible and economical at what time, you start to see a roadmap of doable things until you reach your goal; after all to kickstart private space is one of the GLXP's intentions. The launch sector is a funny business, you meet interesting people and it gives you insights into one of the greatest filters that still stops humanity from going into space at large scales. Politics is not always a burden, it can also be a source of support and goodwill; e.g. if you align interests and avoid stepping on the wrong toes, it can be very helpful.

So, yeah, space is hard. But we're getting there.
So it's been psychological trickery that has led people to think, "gee, I'd really like a nice novel to read right now" Or, "boy, I could really go for a fun video game to play"?

How else are consumers going to find out about products? There's no world product registry where products get evaluated on their merits and ranked objectively. There's no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". Even putting a big sign on the front of your building "Joe's Diner" is a form of advertising. Otherwise, people will walk by without any notion that there is food there they might want.

There's no such thing as "If you build it, they will come."
Maybe we were not supposed to cross the Sea. Maybe the reason we did not have wings is so that we do fly across nations. Maybe the reason we are different skin color and speak different languages is so that we remain each in our clan.

Or maybe, the Creator just said "let me see how far these guys will go?"
You still have to put a photo of yourself though! (I'm guessing?)
Where did this meme about Meg Whitman being bold and decisive come from? Everything I've heard on her was that she arrived at the right time. A friend of mine that worked at eBay at the time said something along the lines of "A monkey could have made eBay work at the time."

Anyone else find her a compelling and effective CEO?
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As much as you might be technically correct, there's no reason to antagonize the other guy, especially if the goal is to have him adopt your point of view. While he might have overstepped in his argument, phorese has a point in that guns are designed to deliver (usually destructive) kinetic energy at a distance.

Why might European governments be more restrictive? Are there any non-restrictive ones? Have there ever been? Where are they now? Might America be a different case, allowed to flourish under another set of rules?

I'm not saying you're wrong. You're not. Maybe I'm just encouraging civil discussion. Maybe I'm bored at work. Maybe both.
I think it's just a metal heat sink, no liquid?
Conditional on a Republican presidency and some national disaster happening? Conditional on the son of the first Gulf War's President getting elected President? Some people were certainly speculating in that direction.
But it also creates a community of enforcers of trivial rules who never contribute anything outside that. Good example of that is mathstackexchange. There are users on there whose sole existence on that site is to remove "thank-you"s from the questions.
There are "Thanks" comments that are genuine appreciation for a correction or the revelation of a new piece of information - and then there are "Thanks" comments that are basically just a "This" in a slightly different form. The "This" pattern and anything like it should be downvoted with extreme prejudice.
I've always heard it pronounced as "dalchini", in Hindi and three different regional languages (Bengali, Odia, and Marathi).
The machine's main memory was a physically rotating drum. If you think of how slow that must have been, odds are very good that his optimizations made a noticeable difference.
I can tell you right now you're going to have some trouble with those colours. They reduced the colours to five:

> Toki Pona has a five-color palette: loje (red), laso (blue), jelo (yellow), pimeja (black), and walo (white). Like a painter, the speaker can combine them to achieve any hue on the spectrum. Loje walo for pink. Laso jelo for green.

So, what's Toki Pona for cyan, which two colours would you combine to create that colour? (Blue = cyan + magenta)

Or how would you describe 'magenta' in Toki Pona? (Red = magenta + cyan)

See the problem with using Red, Yellow, Blue + Black, White is that Red and Blue are pre-mixed! You're cutting out two of the true primary colours (magenta, cyan) which means you're significantly reducing the amount of colours you can accurately describe.

On the other hand, still using just five words: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White CAN describe nearly all of the colours we would need to communicate with language.

I wonder if the rest of the language is as well thought out as the colours...
this seems like a good fit for something like the quicktalker or other assistive technology
Is that really appropriate for things that are just launched? Out of infinite possibilities, the number of things an app doesn't do are practically infinite. Is there really value in always whining about all the things a just launched app doesn't do yet?

Why am I talking about only new apps? Because that's what these kinds of sites are always going to mostly be about. Scoops on new things - news - is what drives votes on these kinds of news sites. Therefore, you're always going to get mostly new, incomplete things.

Encouraging people to point out the flaws, on a platform that only votes new flaw-filled brand new things to the top -- results in a very predictable outcome: incomplete stuff always voted to the top and people always whining about the incompleteness.
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It will be available at [1] around 16:30 GMT

[1] https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studi...
I'm working on a conlang called 7erb (pronounced Verb).
It's a language of only seven (7) words in its entire vocabulary.

More information (although not that much more) is here: http://7erb.com
For now I am more interested in terrestrial life which cannot be perceived with our senses alone. Are there others roaming around next to me, but we cannot perceive one another with some additional tool?
That sounds to me like PH's community standards are very close to "be civil", where they've unpacked the word "civil".

Can you give an example of something that you think would be considered civil by HN standards, but fail to meet PH's standards? (Note that a post being upvoted on HN, doesn't mean it meets HN's civility standards.)
TracEE: Track invocations in log statements across your (micro-)services
Actually, I think you're wrong here. Space travel is a very inefficient method of R&D. Almost any other basic research has more practical benefit.
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Thanks for the link! Figured it was a bit more complex than just a host file, being Google and all.
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> Was the "be civil" experiment really a success?

I think it mostly has. You occasionally get the odd person who is clearly New At This™ as is a complete dick, or even a seasoned veteran who goes out of their way to ignore "being civil."

However, since I've joined I have been noticing that they are becoming fewer and farther between. Good debate comes out most comments: even if those comments are fringe or flawed at best. "All in it together" isn't conducive to extremely intelligent discussion: if I'm wrong or being a dick I want to know it and if everyone is pretending to be on my side I'll never find out. There is a nuance to breaking that kind of news and the HN community seems to be slowly working it out.
I agree - their prices are definitely lower.

It concerns me a little bit that they're losing money on each order - that's fine if they plan to have the same discounts at scale, and are just testing, but if they are just using low prices to get people to join, it seems troubling.
Only thing I recall similar to this was Intel's compiler not using SSE instructions intentionally on AMD processors. Or were you thinking of something else GPU related?
the language’s minimalist approach is also designed to change how its speakers think

Corollary:

the language’s minimalist approach is also designed to change how its programmers think

When I was young and stupid, I felt disadvantaged that I only knew 10% of a programming language's syntax. Now the same thing makes me feel empowered.
I think that it will be local in its impact. We're probably not going to see it hurt the wider market. Bankers will have a laugh at Sand Hill's expense. The few pension funds that got substantially invested in VC will be hurt, but I think most Vanguard accounts will be fine.

Sand Hill Road will lose money. The leading VCs will still be rich, just less so. Very high-end California real estate will crash. Unfortunately, it probably won't do much for SF apartments; what we see in real estate is that people hoard
(even at significant financial loss) rather than selling when real estate demand drops, because of emotional attachment.

What made Silicon Valley great in the 1970s-90s will reconstitute itself somewhere else in the 2020s: possibly the Pacific Northwest, possibly the North (Midwest and New England) again, and possibly another country.

2017 is a very approximate date. That could easily be off by five years, or even more.
While I completely agree with you - it's an ridiculous choice - you can just right click and click "Open Image in New Tab" in Chrome. Which ironically is located on the authors own domain.
A single taxi replaces several cars, so its unremarkable that a taxi "causes congestion equivalent to" many cars. You said a 15% increase in taxi cabs reduces traffic speeds by 12% but you didnt compare it with a similar increase in private cars.
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The liquid in a heat pipe can return to the hot end through capillary action, and I believe this is how heat pipes in computer equipment work. They can work in any orientation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe
How to activate this on Firefox on Android? Do you know the name of the corresponding entry in about:config?
I was such a huge Dyson fan, bought a cleaner a decade ago, read his books.

Had the suspicion the cleaner was crap. Lots of reviews said the same. But I convinced myself I and the others were wrong, Dyson is a genius.

Some years ago I finally admitted it was expensive crap and got something else.
The reason that's a problem is because mathstackexchange rewards people for moderating. HN doesn't (as far as I know) reward people for downvoting, so you're not going to get people downvoting thank-yous so they can get more internet points.
"Many think" differently to what you said, as I illustrated. Which therefore actually defines wearables in "fitness" as a huge success, which is the exact opposite of the point you were making.

You have a whole industry built on wearables and fitness with millions of miles run/ridden/hiked/whatevered... That's hardly "non-usage".

Did you forget the point you were making?

If you need further convincing, look at the higher end of wearables, with Garmin, Polar, etc making specialised wearable devices, for specific sports and making a killing. Consumer-ising that space is surely a winning ticket. I mean that's essentially GoPros business model isn't it?
It would help if you provided specific examples.

However, one possibility is this:

Some sites are DOA - designated as overwhelmingly bad in general. Some articles on those sites may be worthwhile, but on balance, anything decent that appears on those sites will appear somewhere else, so it's not worth allowing them.

Perhaps you found a rare decent article on one of the sites effectively blacklisted.

Again, specific examples would help diagnose what you're seeing.
It's a matter of resources. If you get a lot of business from different devices, you can do it the Netflix way, and build customized experiences for everyone and everything.

In practice, we often have to choose between providing a bad mobile experience, or making the desktop experience weaker, by not using many tricks that are not available in the small touchscreen environment. It's not an issue of design, but dollars and cents.
Do you mean impacting their life materially? Why would it have to impact their life materially to be valuable? Sharing a joke with a friend at a bar doesn't have material benefit, but it's one of the valuable things in life.
What I mean is that the accelerated birth-and-death cycle of American organizations isn't entirely the result of technology or widespread access to capital. We've also lost much of our ability to form organizations worth caring about. Google is not even 20 years old and it already has stack ranking, which is a telling sign that an organization has ceased to be a genuine institution and is now just a pile of resources and a crowd of people fighting over them.
what you are describing is substring matching, which can be implemented much more efficiently using algorithms such as Knuth-Morris-Pratt [1]. Fuzzy matching is a different concept, and although the definition is a bit fuzzy (haha), it usually refers to Levenshtein distance (which the author specifically states he didn't implement) or Hamming distance. Note that Levenshtein distance on substrings is easy to implement, you only need to
a) remember the maximum value encountered and what it matched (to match prefixes)
b) not penalize gaps in the beginning (to match suffixes).

Thus:

M[0,j] = M[i,0] = 0
M[i,j] = max(0,
M[i-1,j-1] + (needle[i] == haystack[j]),
M[i-1,j] + 1,
M[i,j-1] + 1)

Additionally, store the highest value x and its position (i,j). When you've got the full matrix, return (x,i,j). In Bioinformatics, this is known as the Smith-Waterman algorithm [2] and the result would satisfy the requirements of fuzzy substring matching.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93P...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit...
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As the author notes, Emacs was an example.

The browser interface is terrible. We use bug tracking software. JIRA. It's horrible. Click here, click there, this screen closes, that one opens, this thing is over here. Ugh. It is just a click fest. For this sort of thing I want an MDI interface. I read a report - it sounds like one a duplicate. I want to search for it. I want to go to a search window, do the search, and compare them side by side. Or I want to look at the backlog and the current sprint.

Sure, to an extent I can open multiple browser windows or tabs, etc. This is another example. - one windows for everything you are trying to do is often cumbersome and terrible. You are forcing UI design on me, the user, every. frigging. time. I. use. your. app. I don't want to open 5 tabs to the same site, maneuver them around, deal with "going back requires page resubmission" warnings, let alone deal with sites that don't understand my 5 tabs are all one session in my mind. Don't make the user solve that problem every day they use your product.
Did I manage to push a hot button of yours by accident? As your comment has nothing to do with the original article or this thread.
I would have thought that community would replace express, but there still seems to be an express edition.