jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Google is also serving a different market (average of lower-end phones on lower-end networks); however, I worry that every day Google's stance on apps and app review starts to look more and more like Apple's.

WRT to Apple enabling this: I imagine developers could get into a bit of a versioning hell-scape there if they were decouple updates of different modules in their app (do you know if your app is working with FeatureA v1, v2, v3, or not at all? How about FeatureB?) If Apple were to do this it would look something like app extensions do today (separate binary stored within the IPA - that's possibly thinned out and rehydrated on device); probably with very little control over what's loaded (similar to how they did rollouts: this percent on this date and nothing else)
See also: using differentiable approximations of cellular automata in PyTorch to reverse Conway's Game of Life; in some cases, you can get striking Turing patterns similar to what's described in this paper! http://hardmath123.github.io/conways-gradient.html
I use internal CA for internal services.
I'm not spreading anything, if you think a lot of people don't like Apple and Google enough to consider linux phones that are objectively less useful then you live in a tech bubble. The VAST majority of people just want their phone to text, show google maps, browse Facebook, and shop Amazon on the apps they know and are used to. It's unlikely in the Extreme that we will see mass migration to Linux. That's not helplessness, I can and have run linux as my main desktop at various times for the last 20 years. It's simply not as good as the commercial alternatives. It's just reality.
We are looking at adding more information such as data retention, etc.
> Brain to computer interfaces

> Very, very, very bad idea. Once this works, we've got a massive box of philosophical and psychological issues to deal with--reality becomes suspect and meaningless.

Objective reality is suspect anyway, since all the methods of accessing it are subjective.

Brain to computer interfaces may draw more visibility to this long-known philosophical problem, but it doesn't fundamentally change the landscape.
I mean god damn stripe has some great front-end engineers.
As someone with little music production interest, from first seeing the novation launchpad in Madeon's Pop Culture youtube video, I always thought there must be some unrelated uses. The art installation your team did looks great, the first application shows how they could be useful for demonstrating cellular automata.

http://wemakeawesomesh.it/standing-novation.html
I liked this write up on the overalls of being a project manager very much.

First of all, it was written in a not boring tone, and it also conveyed at least one point that gave me an "AHA" namely "you are just the PM".

The impression I am left with is that this is first of all written by someone who knows what they are doing, that are also capable of writing in such a way that grasps the attention of their audience (me).

I am going to read all the chapters, I am sure there are nuggets in there.

Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I always read the comments first. They act as a great prefilter before I attempt to the actual article.
I think this is a good point; in fact, we don't know the root cause for most cases of hypertension (idiopathic). In fact, >90% of people who are normotensive at age 50 become hypertensive before they die. This is an astounding stat. We're not going to be able to fix this, IMHO, until we understand the genetic (and/or environmental) basis for HTN.

Nevertheless, treatments for HTN also reduce the sequelae, such as cardiomyopathy, so these are better than just "symptomatic treatments."
According to Cedexis, the top 5 CDN's in the US are:

1. Cotendo
2. EdgeCast
3. Limelight
4. Akamai
5. CloudFront

http://www.cedexis.com/en/charts.html;jsessionid=9523EC359AD...
On the West coast it's pretty common to know a Japanese American family who had a family member, still living, in an internment camp. It's usually not the first thing that gets talked about. It's very real history.
I want to repeat a point that I read in one of Jim Roger's books. He was in favor of repealing all capital gains taxes simply to allow individuals an option in the fight against inflation. The example is of a person who has enough cash for 100 cheeseburgers. They decide to put that money in something like gold. The government prints lots of money causing inflation and the nominal value of the gold is now much higher. If the investor sells the gold he still has enough money to buy 100 cheeseburgers. However the government will say that he has a net capital gain and must pay tax.
Jim Roger's point was that without capital gains tax people could put their money into any form that they thought would preserve their wealth better than fiat currency. With capital gains we all become speculators trying to beat inflation and still realize a net profit after taxes.
Thanks for the answers everyone. I spend so much time on this site, it's nice to be able to participate more fully.
"LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient."

-Ambrose Bierce
What do you see as "aging," and do you see that as a disease process?
I'm having the same problem. R is slow; yet R's plyr, reshape, and lattice packages are indispensable (ggplot2 wasn't quite mature enough when I wanted to learn it). Maybe something could be written around record/structured arrays. (I'm halfway inclined to try...)
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I assume you guessed 50 from the fact that I iterated MD5 1960 times so assume that was my birth year. That is correct.

I don't see how you (incorrectly) guessed Libra. If you took the 108 as the 108th day of the year and assumed that was my birthday, that would be April 18th, which would be Aries. If you took it as meaning January 8th, that would be Capricorn. Did you assume it was 10/8? That would give Libra.

Anyway, the 108 is not a date. It refers to Math 108, an undergraduate math course at Caltech that bestows a curse upon those who take it. Forever afterward, the number 108 starts appearing in their lives more than normal.

One girl I knew there went so far as to build a digital clock that held 1:07 for two minutes so that she would stop seeing 1:08 on her clock.
Agreed. It's hard to see Facebook's vision for the future. Is it their notion that privacy is overrated? Google is organizing the world's information like it said it would.

Most of the draw of Facebook is their 500mil users. I see popularity more than greatness. Google has and continues to do amazing things (unfortunately none of them in social).

Google moving into "social" is like a nerd learning to dance. With enough work they can do it. They'll be awkward at first. Facebook is hosting the dance because they have the biggest house. Facebook is good but mostly because it's the biggest. They don't offer many reasons for users or advertisers to be there other than "everyone else is". They can still become a lesser version of their current glory a la Myspace.
We use an open source product with a paid support contract. I took over admin of this tool last year and was shocked to find that we get a license year-to-year for the product based on renewing our support contract.

So, a free tool has a provisional, expiring license. I think this is kind of bull, personally. Especially given that we pay a 5 figure support contract in an effort to support dev efforts on the product. We generate minimal support requests.

I recently found a bug in their product, their first line of support couldn't figure it out even though I sent them a detailed explanation along with a pointer to their source code where the fix should be. Maybe next year, I'll just fix my own bugs and not bother with the support contract . . .
The coolest features:

"Once you’ve started searching, you’ll notice that tweaks to your query show up in real-time as you type each character, the same way they do on Google Instant. And it shows results for partial-word matches (“Tech” would match for both “Technology” and “TechCrunch”) — which Gmail doesn’t do."

And "a message with 500k of attachments showed up in my search results within a second of receiving it. Not too shabby."

Full disclosure: I work at Greplin :-D I'm just proud of the very cool stuff my coworkers are building!
Do you find the beta to be worth requesting access to?

I feel for the dev - I'm in similar shoes (although I do have a Blackberry co-developer, switching between those two environments is not fun). Sometimes it seems like the only similarity between Java on the two devices is the name.

Hopefully they get the client where it aggressively saves regardless. That's all I ask - I hate losing data more than I hate missing the wake up time. Android very often kindly unloads things, and a combination of being on the original Droid and having some fairly memory intensive apps constantly resident isn't helping my situation, but I don't think I switched off of the app, I just checked the time, so Android shouldn't have killed it.

There's definitely some fat-finger protection the Android client could add. And moving / copying the four options on the main screen (account, ringtone, etc) to the menu would have helped solve a lot of my initial installation frustration - I had to search for how to change the ringtone.

I'm still optimistic about the product. It woke me up perfectly yesterday (although I don't know how much of that was due to anticipation).
Another thing that's changed is who is creating the dominant programming languages.

In the programming-language-as-a-spec days, people versed in programming language design created the dominant programming languages. In the programming-language-as-an-open-source-project world, languages tend to be created by people that are relatively clueless about language design at the start (this holds for at least Perl, Python and Ruby). I don't know what the root of such is, but there seems to be some negative correlation between the design integrity of a given language and its popularity (for web hackers at least – Java and C# adhere to the old model).

In contrast, Lisp seems to be fairly popular among folks that are programming languages enthusiasts. So for whatever reason, there's a gap between the folks that are creating new popular languages, and the sort of people that tend to be Lisp fans.

The other bit is that, well, Lisp looks funny. This is something like someone looking at a language that uses Greek or Cyrillic or Arabic alphabets and assuming that they're by default harder languages because they use different characters. In fact, a reasonably clever person can learn a new alphabet in a day. It's a totally artificial barrier for someone who's serious about learning the language since the investment to learn the new alphabet is dwarfed by the work of actually learning the language, but it tends to make it scarier if upon casual inspection. I suspect Lisp pushes some people away via a similar artificial barrier.
> No, they were not: "a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as mony"

The fact that § 486 exists suggests that, under the law, it doesn't have to be a government minting something for it to be a coin. Otherwise nobody could ever violate that law, right? Courts consider the intent of a law when interpreting it, and it's fairly clear what is meant here; only the government is _allowed_ to mint coins, but you can theoretically mint coins if you're not the government (it's just illegal then).

> This is a dishonest characterization. They had opinions from independant council, the secret service, members of federal reserve branches, etc, all saying that the product was legal.

None of these people's opinions have any legal weight. Only a judge can actually provide a binding opinion stating that what you're doing is legal. Additionally, as cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar#Legal_issues , there have been opinions in the opposite direction from secret service agents and the US Mint; if you're going to try to argue from authority (which is a bad idea anyway), you can't ignore contrary opinions at the same time.

Indeed, the Liberty Dollar project seems to have sued to get a binding opinion stating whether they were legal, and were raided shortly thereafter. This seems to indicate that, since the Liberty Dollar project forced the Justice department to take a side on whether they were legal or not, the Justice department prosecutors may have been forced to, well, prosecute.

> Unfortunately, many americans think like you do. The FBI calls them terrorists, railroads them and people think the justice system works.

Did the FBI really call them terrorist? I'd like to see a citation for that. In any case, this is hardly railroading. It happened four years ago, and with a jury trial. Two years passed from the start of the investigation to the indictment and arrest. The trial itself took another two years. You may disagree with the laws themselves, but I find it hard to see how the laws were misapplied here. § 485 and § 486 are really quite clear if you read them.
UK, as was discussed in the thread above
Given the number of times this quote has been dutifully typed in this thread, HN finally found its narwhal to bacon at data breach, it seems. It’s interesting to watch the competition between those flagging it off the site and those repeating it, apparently unaware it’s been flagged and removed already.
To the best of my knowledge, other than preferential legal treatment, organized crime tends not to aim to influence politics. Terrorism, on the other hand, is the use of violence or threats of violence for political purposes.
Exactly what we're doing now. Democracy. The people vote with their wallet.
https://archive.is/KrRq0
In my opinion, the solution needs to be a guarantee of transfering your account to another provider. We can do it with phone numbers, we can do it with banks (at least in Europe). I don't see a reason why we couldn't apply the same on social media and auth providers.

Banned from "login with apple"? I should have a right to transfer my account to "login with google/facebook/my own server" and it should work. The same way I can call my friend when he transfers his phone number to another phone network.

Trump banned from Twitter? He should be able to transfer his account to Parler and I should still see his tweets in my Twitter feed, be able to retweet it to my followers, interact with it, etc. Twitter wouldn't be able to influence tweets from Parler so it would show in timeline. But they could decide to not display it in proprietary parts of their system (search, trending topics, whatever)

This way we would prevent echo chambers and deplatforming, while simultaneously allowing companies to maintain their freedom to moderate their own space.
I'm curious why you think Democrats encouraged riots at BLM protests. Perhaps you're thinking of the the agents provocateur that were white supremacist: https://www.startribune.com/police-umbrella-man-was-a-white-...

Do you have any evidence to back up your claim where any Democratic official agitated for violence in those protests?
>They'll just instruct them to download the APK on their phones...

I mean, they could always just open their phone's browser and go to parler.com. Apps might be gone but it's not like they're unreachable.
They know what's best for its employees. They should obey, they are getting paid.
I fully agree with you on this.
>Google doesn't need to block websites because they have nothing to do with them

https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/imageapi/20...
I was somewhat taken aback to realize that for all the talk at EFF about their patent busting project (http://w2.eff.org/patent/wp.php), there doesn't seem to be any public database of bustable patents, suggested prior art, or documented harm done.

Chilling Effects has a patent section (http://www.chillingeffects.org/patent/) - but it also doesn't seem to have much of a database-type thing. And the same goes for PUBPAT (http://www.pubpat.org/).

Is there anything else out there I'm missing?
It’s not a „third party“. The image spun up by the user is published to the Azure marketplace by Canonical.
I often use basic command line tools (vm/io/snmpstat, fiddle with /proc with cat/cut) and chart the results along the way, in realtime, with this little tool: http://freshmeat.net/projects/trend
Is there any chance this will be recorded and made available for those of us who are unable to attend for some reason (like living on another continent)?
I get tired of making this same comment on every Canvas-based thing anybody builds, but if they'd taken the 30 seconds it took to write that paragraph about how it doesn't work in IE, and instead used it to paste in the following snippet of HTML, it would actually work in Internet Explorer:

<!--[if IE]><script type="text/javascript" src="/excanvas.js"></script><![endif]-->

Like, IE5 even. Internet Explorer has had vector graphics since 1999, and it overlaps 90% with Canvas (which came out several years later).

http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
Better/easier (to read) than the changelogs are the Perl delta docs: http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html

Update. See the major version deltas for a complete summary of new features:

* 5.12 - http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5120delta.html

* 5.10 - http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5110delta.html
Pretty high Safari usage there. I'm guessing macs are extremely common at the University?
Right, shifting goalposts. The original argument was solely financial.
IE Collection is meant to be a good alternative - http://bit.ly/d992Bn
For people that care about security, I would add those monitoring tools:

-OSSEC - log + file system security monitoring (http://ossec.net)

-Snort - Network-based IDS (http://snort.org)

-Sucuri (not free) - web site monitoring (http://sucuri.net)
> you won't find buttons that delete bank accounts often, but that's beside the point.

I disagree, because in UX, everything is contextual, and one solution doesn't apply to all problems.

This particular one is so serious, banks usually won't let you delete an account via the web UI.

But for the particular case you described, it'd be much better to have a secondary, full screen / red background display explaining the action the person is about to take, and its results. And no "Are you sure?" pop-up.

In this scenario, a bank would definitely do this anyhow, so adding an extra popup is just an annoyance.
End user comment: I interact with the products of this system every day. I shall never look at Microsoft Office or Outlook in the same way again!
On a positive note: Google's massive lobbying effort to undermine EU privacy protections can now be considered dead in the water.
I agree. Well said.

There may be a positive correlation between brilliance and assholism (I'm not advocating that we tolerate this, btw), but I'd definitely not superimpose the magnitude of that relationship for the other side/pole of the spectrum: viz. lack of productivity to peace-making personalities.

My experience in the last two massive enterprisey projects shows that trouble-makers, obfuscators and team members who show little regard for either the creative (innovative) aspects of the project or, aspects relating to structure (admin) are the ones not pulling their weights. They often create social issues to divert from their own lack of productivity. What a waste.

These folks I'd definitely not team up with given a second chance. They are cancer, and the spread can be malignant.

(I am not saying let's be unsympathetic to the problems of the unproductive folks, but when lack of productivity or competence is deliberately masked by other fake reasons, it becomes difficult to engage with such folks honestly. The whole team then starts playing game theory and office gerrymandering becomes a career skill.)
Well, the start of it still applies. Promises aren't better than callbacks. Some people prefer them, but they aren't better.
> SPJ doesn't work for MSR anymore

Interesting. Where is he now? His MSR page hasn't been updated - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/

I thought only Simon Marlow left recently.
Er, it's David Spiegelhalter. He's a friend/colleague of mine.

While on the subject, "More or Less" is quite a good program, and fun to participate in.
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

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> your electronic business activities are probably governed by lawyer-approved documents you signed like an AUP/NDA/consent to be monitored, so why are you concerned about privacy?

I did online interviews through Zoom. I did not sign any NDA and was not presented with a privacy policy from the companies using Zoom about the data they collected during the interview.
You don’t own the money you deposit in the banks, the banks do. Through the act of depositing you are lending the banks your money, therefore it’s not your money anymore. They can default on the loan.

See https://thehutchreport.com/your-bank-account-who-really-owns...

Or read https://www.amazon.com/Where-Does-Money-Come-Ryan-Collins/dp...

Highly recommended.
“loyalty to the nation, always; loyalty to the government, when it deserves it. “
A one way trip - there was no planed way of retreating from that what I recall
he won the championship that year, I was in the lower 20% of the rankings at the end of the season

What was the cause of that? You mention "no motivation whatsoever" but I know nothing about the racing world or what kind of preparation-mental or otherwise-goes into being a competitive driver; what does that mean here in terms of how it affected the results so disparately for the two of you at the end of your season (not sure if "season" is the proper word for your sport, apologies if there's a more correct term), and how would you compare it to Enzo Bonito's two victories?

I know very little about the racing world other than having an appreciation for the mechanics and engineers who create such marvelous machines, but otherwise I know absolutely nothing about what it means to be a racer, if that makes sense.
Probably in terms of being potential carriers spreading the disease to the quarantined? I imagine there is a risk there.
Yup. This was on monoproce for their cheapest option. Which probably would have only come a day sooner anyway.
What makes you think that? People said similar things in late 2008 when the Fed greatly expanded its balance sheet, and then inflation went negative for the next year.