jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, I came to the comments intending to say that. I agree with the author that talking about 9/11 that way just makes him look crazy, but he should not in any way cut down on his free software rhetoric because of "practical" considerations.

An activist like him is selling two things: his ideas, and a call to action. If he restricted himself to giving "practical" recommendations, he would no longer be selling his ideas; he might get some people to switch to using free software, but they wouldn't be part of the "movement"; they'd switch back to proprietary software as soon as their job or some particular task required it, and then he'd be left with nothing. Whereas if he argues for his ideas, and takes them to their logical conclusion, he will convince a few people (many, if he's lucky) that will likely become members for life (if not necessarily active members) and can build a real community that has a chance of growing and eventually achieving total success.

Now, it might help to give people some things they can realistically do right now. But the life of a movement lies in its radical members, and "practicality" should not come at the expense of the promotion of the (radical) ideas. Cf. the abolitionist movement, the civil rights movement.
Emacs had nothing to do with it.
...a major difference being there are not robots yet that can go around breaking into people's less-secure houses and torturing residents for information, all in an automated fashion.
It can help in the following scenarios:

1. Hacker steals db but does not compromise web servers (because the hmac pepper key lives on the web servers and not in the db)

2. Hacker can run SQL Injection via web server, but cannot otherwise access web server memory/process

3. HMAC key is stored in a hardware security module and hacker cannot gain physical access
I agree that they are a package deal. It would have been better to separate Python and include it with something like Ruby then link offsite for both of those languages. To say that it's completely unrelated to the web I think is an overstatement.

I probably learned more about the front end of the web as a side effect of writing scrapers in Python than I did on just tutorials directly about the front end. Then I started writing some front end stuff and it was easier to grasp because of that experience. I just wouldn't assume that everyone approaches learning the web from the same angle and limit them to only learning the front-end-three.
HTML, CSS, and JS were already listed first. It's a bit silly to omit the backend entirely
Are you serious?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
Searching Twitter for examples of people decrying "Chinese virus" can come across as confirmation bias. It's also not an accurate measure of how many people truly disapprove of the name. The point is that the argument for or against it is frivolous. As for speaking in codes, you could just call the virus by its actual name, SARS-CoV-2 and the variant G614[0].

[0]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2032888
Thanks for the feedback. I have some reading to do and some code to checkout.
That's not a measure of your wellbeing though. Usually they just assume that if you have more money you'll be happier.

Maybe a fancy car will increase your happiness, but there is no unit of measure you can divide the purchase price of that mid-life crisis car by.

The value of a life is roughly how much money they would have made if they had lived until some arbitrary end date. Happiness doesn't figure into it at all. It's calculated so life insurance companies know how to price their product, which is ultimately just paying off some fraction of the remainder of someone's theoretical lifetime income if they die early.
On linux, I install Anaconda and just launch JupyterLab from Anaconda Navigator.

But you could just install conda and just `conda env export -n base` to export your environment.
Isn't training data effectively a form of sampling?

Couldn't any creator of images that a model was trained on sue for copyright infringement?

Or do great artists really just steal (just at a massive scale)?
Not McDonalds in general, but one particular McDonalds in Seattle is located at a spot with a large number of homeless people, where crime and open-air drug use is pretty common.
People who know that probably don't walk into car dealerships...
Can we maybe, at some point, all agree that we can now stop putting more parts of the operating system into the browser? Aside from the tech demo aspect (which is moot imo, since webassembly is obviously capable of everything regular assembly would be), why would anyone want to run a binary inside the webbrowser in a virtual javascript machine that he could just run on the regular machine anyways?
This is clearly a designed path.
Not at all.

I’m just saying that if you try to suggest Matrix as a “drop in” replacement for WhatsApp or other dedicated IM platforms, it may not immediately give you that “at home” feeling right now.

It’s much more capable, but different. For better and worse.
I think the problem of the president saying things many find unacceptable is separate from the private vs public platform thing.

In this case I am purely talking about the latter - the fact that to keep up with what the president says I have to agree to a private company's terms of service, privacy policy (which is against my interest) and have to put up with my personal data being exploited for advertising, the advertising itself and various dark patterns.
Try a credit union, they're generally more end-user friendly than corporate banks.
They've been present for at least 5 years
Why is this the top voted comment?

Leaving WhatsApp is nothing at all like cutting off your internet connection.

It is just one out of literally dozens of available text messaging apps, and it is owned by one of the least ethical companies that exists today.
“at the cost of additional complexity in the drive to support spinning at different rates”

I don’t think there was that much extra hardware in the drive, originally. Bytes read from a buffer at every horizontal scan line controlled the speed of the drive through PWM (http://www.mwftr.com/416F20/Apple%20macintosh%20BYTE1984.pdf. That probably changed later, as that method doesn’t cater for multiple floppy drives, and created a hard link between screen resolution and controlling floppy disk speed (the hardware driving the screen also processed the PWM bytes that controlled disk speed (and the bytes that produced audio output. 370 scan lines times 60Hz gives you 22,2 kHz))

And nitpick on note [1]: that code shows 5 different speeds (four if statements and one ‘otherwise’ return value)
There are plenty other reasons I wouldn’t work at the CIA, but the pay is insulting for some positions. I saw a job there that sounded interesting, but demanded some relatively specific skills and the lower end of the salary range was less than I made starting out doing bullshit enterprise type work. On top of that I hear qualifications for higher level pay grades are bureaucratic and generally non-negotiable.
There is a job posting site... However, no technical jobs are posted there. I guess I will have to try somewhere else. Thanks anyway for your suggestion!
Random naturalistic option: After quitting smoking I found drinking cocoa with hot water (not milk) helped me to calm down and concentrate.

Obviously if you're flipping out properly it's not gonna help, but it does appear to have a surprising effect for the tamer challenges in life. I hadn't expected or heard of any such effects, but consistently felt so much more relaxed and focused after drinking it, which piqued my interest enough to look it up. There does appear to be some nebulous positive medical review of its effects in areas like blood pressure.
May I say, look at SpyREST (SpyREST.com) if you consider developing the API first and then produce the documentation automatically simply by exercising the API? This is an open-source tool, feel free to take a look.

I'm developing SpyREST and will be happy to discuss if you want to learn more.
I've been on meds for about 15 years, with one year off. The last 11 years I've been on 75mg of Effexor, and it's been a miracle drug for me, with the only side effect being a mildy suppressed libido. And 75mg is a pretty low dose, less than half what is normal for treating depression.

I'm not keen on being a slave to meds, so I'm currently weaning myself off 1mg a day (Effexor is notoriously bad to quit cold turkey). I did this a couple years ago and got to 30mg before I felt like I was experiencing anxious symptoms. These days I'm married, I meditate, and am all around less of a spazz.

"I'm so practiced at having them, nobody standing around me is ever aware that I'm having a sudden bout of tachycardia and growing concerns that my heart is about to explode in my chest"

Believe me, I recall that sensation, and I don't miss it. If I need to take meds for the rest of my life to avoid those types of experiences, so be it. When I was preoccupied with dealing with that level of anxiety, I was missing out on more than I realized.
If you feel intense anxiety prior to public speaking, you should directly address your issues with public speaking, rather than resorting to self-medication.
The genome is represented by a set of parameters that control the rotation speed on each joint, 3 parameters per joint.

The rotation speed for each joint on each simulation step is given by:

x * cos(y + z * simulation_steps);

where x, y, and z are the parameters. I've experimented with more sophisticated models, but it was hard to get any kind of evolution in the attention span people give to a browser game. :D
As a junior developer I'm really interested in this answer.

If you convert salaries to hourly rates, the greater portion of us (outside SF/NY) make between $35-$70/hour.

How did you get to such exorbitant rates? Is your work very uncommon, or require an extremely refined skill set? Or is just "I charge whatever I want because I know they'll pay it"?
Hah, touché. It's 98% done and only requires a little bit of usability polish before going live. You can shoot me a note (support [at] readme.io) with your project subdomain and I can enable it for you. Appreciate it!
The problem is that system-specific package managers are an obstacle to making portable programs.

Even within Linux and BSD there are many flavours of package managers with slightly different naming schemes for their packages.

This fragmentation makes it impossible to have dependencies that just work. You need to either make users install things manually or every author has to probe multiple package names/locations using multiple tools.

Language-specific managers support all of the OSes and just work, especially for users of macOS and Windows (telling people their OS sucks may state a true fact, but doesn't solve portability problems)
> Americans are almost universally wealthy.

I would beg to differ. Sure, the average standard of living and "lifestyle" in the US is above many countries, but to say that everyone is wealthy is a flat out lie.
That’s the debate happening in the GitHub issue. I think a natural answer is with carrots and sticks. Shopify will police their platform if that is what’s necessary to prevent Apple from destroying its business by cutting them all off.

There aren’t that many “build your own store” SaaS platforms, so it is feasible to maintain a whitelist.

It may sound strange at first to propose that Apple should be essentially auditing the behavior of other companies, but they have shown a willingness to pick up that
mantle. Apple has already undertaken the huge effort of regulating the business practices of anyone on the App Store with the privacy label and other areas such as payments for digital goods. In this case, they’ve sort of delegated responsibility to a volunteer effort, which is understandable given how the situation evolved, but doesn’t seem sustainable.
All 50 states have some form of data breach notification law, not just California: https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informa...
I don't know what to say to stuff like this. I spent a ton of time treating Twitter the same way and in no way do I want to suggest that I am now enlightened or something, but when you hear people (and I include my past self in this) talk about Twitter, it's like they're talking about a really effective chainsaw where there's no guard and the handle is on the wrong end. You can use it to cut down trees if you figure out how, but 99% of people harm themselves in the process.
The point is that they're banning people for things not done in the store.

What if there's a single major provider of groceries in a state and they decide to ban everyone convicted of a felony for life. Would that be ok?
Bikes do not decrease quality of life. More exercise, more fresh air, and better health are all quality of life increases.
If you want to go into the why of cooking, try Cooking for Geeks. It's the best explanation of cooking I've seen.
This reads like an American talking about European cities.
No, I'm not confusing anything. I'm stating my team made a great deal of progress when we got together in the office over a sticky problem; and attributing the progress to the random directions the conversation and problem solving effort took when we were in one room bouncing ideas off each other and poking hardware together.
Actually, he didn't:

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/10/05/apple-skankphone-buil...

"Apple had two teams working on the iPhone in complete isolation from one another. One on the real iOS platform with fake hardware and the other on the real hardware with fake software; AKA the ‘skankphone’."

That is the closest you can get to having no such list.
I think I had more than 5 Palm PDAs during my life, including the Zires and Treos.
They were PDAs, yes. Even smartphones. You could sync them with your computer and people did it, when it worked.
OTOH Grafitti was rubbish and probably one of the reasons why Microsoft ate Palm's cake with WM. The others were ActiveSync and Office.

I'm not sure about the DNA bit, though. They never managed to have a multitasking OS, so it was extremely painful to get a phone call on your Treo while working on some document and losing everything :) I welcome competition and love to tinker with new devices and OSes, but my expectations would be quite low this time.
I think the author is missing the point of the original article. The point was not that files are going away. It's just that the concept of file is not that important for the majority in 2014. Non-tech people go to Spotify to listen to music, open Netflix to watch a movie, work with documents on Google Drive and our Grannies don't have to learn what a file is to use their phones (for something more than just calling us).
>Honestly today i see very little reason to develope your own login mechanism and not use many of the available SSO's out there unless you are big enough for it to matter, and then you have no resource limitation.

On the contrary, I see very little reason to use someone else's authentication infrastructure (Facebook, Google+, et al) without at least also providing the option to register using plain old email, unless you're developing an app that is intimately tied to that service. You lose so much control over your users, and you risk everything on your SSO provider not changing their minds about how you can use their service (see Twitter.)

Regarding your other points about rate limiting, I think you're overcomplicating the situation. It doesn't require a process on your authentication server that sits around and waits for one particular client to be allowed to try again (why would it?), and db sync issues are largely irrelevant unless you're at serious scale, which 99.9999% of web apps never will be, and if they are at serious scale, chances are syncing a "last_login_attempt" field in a login table is the least of their difficulties.

In Apple's case, of course rate limiting isn't the only solution they should be using, but it's a perfectly fine solution in the vast majority of cases where building a heuristic engine to protect a cat forum login page is overkill.
Whoa! Are you saying Wikipedia is a project involving people!?
Just out of curiosity, do US carriers allow you to send inter-carrier MMS and can you transfer your phone number between carriers?
You think for a moment that at least maybe the different content types are allocated different colors, but, no, they're all dark blue. One of two dark blue orbits in Caffeine.
And it once actually contained cocaine.

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
Note: As Raffi clarified, this isn't a "shortener" but a "wrapper"

http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/15739646901
and
http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/15739827266
This is true. For example, few of these tweets contain the search term: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=news.ycombinator

Hopefully they'll be resolving all the way down the redirect chain.
I couldn't tell if it was a joke... "magic internet stuff here"
Not only video but also hardware-accelerated CSS animations and 3D transforms. Safari has the most advanced graphics architecture of any browser right now, and all the major browsers are working on catching up.

Firefox's plan: http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/01/18/layers-cross...

IE's plan: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/04/09/benefits-of-gp...

Opera hasn't publicly announced hardware-accelerated graphics yet, but they are moving to a new codebase that could support it in theory: http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega

Chrome actually seems like the least far along right now, which seems odd given their focus on performance. Some of the work was done for them by Apple in WebKit, but there's still a lot to be done.
In the US its not allowed in most states to do that, some however our looking into it, what is the law like in the UK?

Great article about the problem in US prisons and how the FTC and mobile carriers don't want the bans against blocking removed. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/03prisoners.html?pagewa...
Plus the cost of the cellphone and all the replacements for the cellphone your kid is bound to use.

I'm single and only have a cell, but my friends with kids inform me that landline for a family is the way to go. I see the logic in their argument.
Rennaisance? Even the most advanced modern democracies generally didn't give women the vote until the late 1800s.

(Switzerland didn't have it until 1971, and is still one of the most prosperous and peaceful countries on Earth. Germany granted women the vote in 1918, and we all know how that worked out...)
Optimised to convert.. would be a better way to put it. people waste lots of money on adwords by not having appropriate calls to action, or simple things like adding a number you can call, will also improve conversion rates
Linked doesn't seem to be working.
I created the URL after I noticed that none existed. Maybe the server has cached the negative entry.
I've been trialing both etacts and gist for a while and really preferred much of what etacts was doing, particularly the more sensible time-since-last-contact reminders, etc.
Exactly. Assange's influence has only become widely discussed within the last month. It seems he is more likely to be on track to be POTY in 2011 than to have been skipped over entirely.
Really cool to know a big site like justin.tv is using it. Not that I'm a pro hacker, but I had never heard of haXe until today. Given the number of upvotes this submission got, apparently lots of other people didn't know about it either.
The legal newspaper I read had a 1/4 page advert a few weeks ago along the lines of "__________ Law Firm deeply regrets to announce the untimely death of its senior partner, Mr. _________"

It was, of course, in Comic Sans. Although it seemed rude to inquire, I'm still wondering whether this was some horrendous faux pas by the secretarial staff, or whether it reflected some well-known habit of the deceased and was thus entirely appropriate.
The official website of Diceware does not have a certificate http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
Is it intentional ?

The word list is signed but for someone unfamiliar with crypto an electronic signature is useless while a lock in the address bar is reassuring.
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For the record, everything I said was true, and after calling me a liar, he effectively admitted it!
This article surprised me since funding came from Softbank and not the state government as most does IIRC.

Where I see the problem with all these forms of energy storage is that there is no one efficient approach (yet!) and innovation will come mostly from government funding, so governments decide what they see as the best opportunity.

This seems like its pretty much hit-or-miss and betting on the wrong thing will arguably speed up the development of it but at the same time, we might end up at a point we could have reached quicker and cheaper had we used a different technology.
The company can choose not to, but they will be unlikely to procure the amount of labor they require. You can also choose not to get service from your hypothetical ISP monopoly, and you wouldn't get internet access.

If the UAW went on a full strike tomorrow, GM and Ford would not be able to continue production. There just aren't enough non union auto workers. There is no real competition. This is the problem. It creates a situation that allows for rent seeking.
Something that doesn't often get brought up in these energy "storage" discussions is the potential for duty cycling existing generation to time shift the duck curve. Eg. California (large solar generation) shares a grid with Washington and British Columbia (large hydro generation). When the sun is shining, hydro reservoirs can be filling, as solar is meeting the demand. When the sun goes down, hydro facilities can duty cycle on and drain the overhead. This requires some flexibility in reservoir levels, as well as the ability to stop/re-spin turbines on a daily cadence. But you eliminate all of the efficiency losses with schemes such as pumped storage (though gain some transmission losses due to the increase length of geographic arbitrage).

The same opportunity exists on the East-West axis. The sun is still shining in California after its set on the East coast.
Compare the racial makeup of Sweden and immigration policies (citizenship, not permanent resident) with the United States.
Also molten salt:

https://www.solarthermalworld.org/news/molten-salt-storage-3...

People talk about making "personal" molten salt units for the home, which seems a little terrifying.
SemperHome. I locked the rate back in October and the closing took over two months, but they delivered the rate I wanted. No points either.

Also, the rates have gone up since then, I keep getting Zillow alerts about it.