jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For whatever reason, the US seems to dislike experience from outside the US - that goes for both regulators and voters.

Despite Canada, Europe and Japan having efficient functional socialized medicine for at least half a decade, the discussion in the US was about "death panels" and "health welfare queens" and other completely nonexistent issues anywhere else.

There are a lot of other such issues, such as gay marriage, gambling, etc - that I don't find it surprising that crowdfunding is also part of that group of subjects. I only find it sad.

(On the other hand, significant gun-associated violence is practically unheard of outside the US, even in places that have comparable gun density such as Switzerland and Israel, where almost all males have access to guns, and some cities in Canada; So maybe the US actually is a special case)
Laptops are starting to look more like netbooks everyday.
>The “ideals” of capitalism were shallow post-hoc rationalizations that came after people called out the problems resulting from the mode by which the elite mercantile class had replaced the feudal hereditary aristocracy as the class around whose particular interests the political and economic order were organized.

This is completely untrue, classical liberals like Adam Smith and John Locke were espousing those ideals well before the word "capitalism" was even coined, it just used to be called Liberalism.
Even without buying, you can spend a higher % of your income on rent and still end up saving more in absolute numbers; and the absolute number is what eventually matters unless you're dead set on picking a place and never moving again.
It's understandable you may have missed some information, so to correct the record (and ensure other readers are aware), Apple highlighted virtualization in their announcement of M1, specifically highlighting Linux. It's been supported from the moment it was public.
I remember my first refund. It actually mattered much more to me than the first sale.

Congratulations on this. You’re doing a stellar job on all of this - your hard work is paying off.
Yes, it’s a lottery ticket. An expensive one, but one nonetheless.
Correct, it mentioned the Information Superhighway instead; that was the revision.

I have and read the first (hardback) edition, and still feel it is sufficiently foretelling. I encourage you to verify this for yourself because the [citation needed] here is telling!
A cynical person would say "Through smartly-targeted ads for devices claiming to use less power than the ones you have" but I'm totally not one of those people.
> Why does Bitcoin need to modernize?

Because ASIC vulnerability has led to the concentration of the majority of the world's mining power among a small number of organizations in China, and because the amount of power consumed securing the blockchain with PoW is silly and ever-increasing.

> There are other crypto projects that can fill in the holes that Bitcoin leaves (tx fees, slow, etc).

It's not just about filling holes, other cryptocurrency projects are superior technologically in every way. And since Bitcoin has been demonstrated to be impossible to modernize this gap will only become more extreme over time.

Bitcoin remains the locus of the cryptocurrency movement through network effects alone, which is why evangelists are so adamantly in favor of Bitcoin specifically. If it loses its throne as the "main" cryptocurrency it will never increase in price to the value that Bitcoin speculators are hoping because other than its network size it has no advantages.

> It needs to WORK, and work very well, which it has demonstrated.

I think it has categorically demonstrated that it does not work, at least not for the purpose that the original Bitcoin paper laid out. The fact that Bitcoin transactions are slow and expensive has so compellingly demonstrated that Bitcoin cannot be a useful cryptocurrency that even Bitcoin advocates admit this and have fallen back to claiming that it will instead be a store of value and that an effective currency layer could be built on top of it.
I'm sure it'll all be in the contract. It's not like people wouldn't know what they're getting into?
More cities will have to consider cycling infrastructure if they want to have happy and healthy residents. We're finally seeing changes in major American cities and it's great!
Yes, this failure mode is not literally impossible. It also isn't literally impossible that Signal accidentally logs all communications to a central server. And as I said: If you want or need to be that careful, just use a different client.
> the People have every right to enter the building and demand accountability.

the "People" can't just do whatever they want just because they feel like it. Can they go and bang hammers on nuclear warheads because the warheads "belong to the People"? Storm the doors of JPL and play horsey on the Mars Rovers?

When some subset of the "People" attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of the other 99% of the People, they are traitors, and should be erased from society.
You have to make decisions somehow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism

It's not perfect, but it's not an easy question and there isn't an easy answer.
I'm sure he'd agree with you. Say what you want about his comedy, dude's smart.
That market probably includes me. I bought a new Honda Ridgeline this year -- a truck that many consider not to be a 'real' truck since it doesn't go offroad or haul 7000+ pound loads. The Cybertruck will surely suffer the same fate.

Are there enough buyers out there of quasi-trucks for the Cybertruck to thrive (no) much less survive (doubtful). Even now, Honda isn't selling as many of their quasi-trucks as they hoped since that market stratum is not as predictable as other more stereotypeable strata like minivans or commuters or... big pickups.

I don't know what motivates a mainstream carmaker to build a niche product like this. But whatever is motivating Tesla to build the Cybertruck smacks of the same cluelessness that gave us the Hummer. And the Edsel.
Freak here. Blockchain stuff is super-cringe to almost everyone. "It's called blockchain because I block u."
Could you explain clearly what is the memory model of the language? Because I haven’t seen it anywhere outside of the ridiculous old claims.
No they’re not. You can just set them
The real purpose of crypto is money laundering. Even easier than art.
If you have a reason to think eggs are unhealthy, state the reason so that there can be a discussion. Eggs are as close to a miracle food that I know, and I think it would be a shame to discourage their consumption.
> Also, it's not completely vaporware since the proposal includes backing the coin by $1B to kick it off.

Note: since the $1 is fictional, this remains 100% vaporware
> I wonder how a decentralized search engine would fight its inevitable SEO war, should it become successful.

> I'd expect that all sites wanting to draw traffic would attempt to grab the reins of the search engine to point toward themselves, and the result would be search results ordered by rein-grabbing power.

I would venture to say that a combination of allow-lists and block-lists from trusted parties, ranked using some kind of distributed web-of-trust system would work reasonably well.
Are you not aware of dozens of streaming websites where you can watch any movie for free? Why would you want to download a pirated movie?
Cool! I bet it needs to be fine-tuned: % of Fortune-50 companies with CEO departures and losses taken on financial statements > 5%. Or something like that.
The most principled approach I've seen on this is at https://github.com/datamade/usaddress. They use tagged training data and conditional random fields. I haven't seen comparisons with other systems, but it's worked well enough for my projects.

Though as the name suggests, it's only trained for US addresses.
Seems highly unlikely. Dallas SEO company? I doubt it.
Checking your coverage for tests is a pretty old concept.

Early 1960's or so!
One of my teachers in College managed to pull it off splendidly. The course was Algorithms. I suspect the normal format for an Algorithms course is that the teacher would write an algorithm and explain how it works and its merits/demerits etc... in short, a lecture.

What our teacher did was:
1) Write a small piece of pseudocode on board and called it a "unit"
2) Present a problem to the class.
3) Ask students to come up with solutions that used the unit (or modified it a bit.
4) Allow Students to present their solutions to the rest of the class.
5) Allow the class as a whole to debate on competing algorithms.
6) (If applicable) Reveal the name of the algorithm the class has just derived.
7) Repeat

The teacher rarely ever lectured. He just presented problems and let the class figure a way out. Occasionally he would nudge us in a direction we weren't considering, but mostly he was there just to ensure things run smoothly and that's all.

On the whole, it worked out great. Before the class I knew most people had trouble designing algorithms. At the end, even the weaker students had a pretty good grasp on the subject because the format itself encouraged everyone to contribute and thus learn.
Never underestimate the stupidity of a bureaucrat.
It handles extraction too, trying to find where the results are and then extracting individually the title/summary/url/date.

To elaborate on the general approach I used, it was to take each node in the web page and get stats about all of them (e.g., position on page, amount of freetext, etc) and plug those stats into a neural net.

I worked on a different project some years ago that took the approach of looking for repeating tag patterns in the page, focusing especially on structural tags (as opposed to ones that are purely for formatting).

Another possible approach might be to just plug the whole result page into something such as Boilerpipe (https://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/) and look at the set of urls in the text block it identifies.
Telegram has had several security and privacy issues in the past. It also stores your messages unencrypted on their server by default.
Social and technological forces. Specifically the interplay between the regulatory and economic spheres leads people to take a survival interest in regulation. But voters are rationally ignorant because the bandwidth of the electoral box is less than one bit per year in most cases. So they're interested, but not informed.

Furthermore the world is so complicated and technology is so powerful that people are more affected by simulated reality than real reality. Major events that affect people's lives are mediated by technology that can be used to convey falsity as easily as truth (perhaps easier).
Doctors wear masks for other reasons like blood and other body fluid spatter. They aren't used to stop respiratory virus.
Very true, even media like NPR is very biased as well. I've stopped reading main stream media entirely.
I've ready about a lot of computational biology programs lately. I would think computational physics would be hot too. Or is it just assumed that Physics majors tend to be good programmers anyway? (I see a disproportionate amount in data jobs)
Is this another India-vs-Pakistan dick size contest?

"A kid from our country got his MCSE at five years old!"

"Oh yeah? Well, a kid from our country got his MCSE, Cisco certification, and developed his first iPhone app at four and a half years old!"

Etc.
It won't be a good hedge. You'll take a bath on that real estate if the venture capital market seizes up (eg with higher interest rates and were a bubble to pop). Rents will fall, vacancies will soar, and a lot of construction will halt.

I can't see what the parent meant, such that it makes sense as a hedge. The hedge (if one were really worried about a bubble popping) on SF real estate would be to sell right now - if you can get a high price - and rent.
The headline should be rewritten: "Dominant Education Publishing Company Continues To Publish Education Materials"
It's useful for situations where you don't need a keyboard:

- Just like the video shows, you could hook it to the videoprojector to display your presentation

- If it has enough power, it could host your Kodi (http://kodi.tv/)
Every company/organization/group etc has multiple "dimensions" that they use to determine who is valuable and who is not.

For example, in a technical organization, one dimension might be ability to quickly create production level code. Another dimension might be ability to refactor legacy code.

In a sales organization the dimensions might be different e.g. ability to make existing customers happy vs ability to find new customers.

NOTE: even in the same company, one group may have different dimensions than other groups.

The key is to:

a. figure out which dimensions your company/group/manager are using to define value

b. if there are multiple dimensions, try to find the ones that are easiest/most natural for you but are hardest/least natural for others

c. focus on maximizing b

d. profit

Case in point: I once worked at a high frequency trading firm. I was one of the few people WITHOUT a STEM PhD. However, I was much better, relatively speaking, at over the phone customer interactions/support. Within a month of being there I was made Head of Customer Support purely as a function of being the group member with the best people skills.

Another key point, be wary of creating "Unspoken Covenants" e.g. "If I do X, my manager should do Y".

No they don't.

Go to your manager and say propose a mutually beneficial agreement. e.g.

You: "I would like an increase in salary/title/benefits/vacation days. I know that's a big ask but I know you value sales/code quality/production rate, correct?"

Manager: "Why, yes I do!"

You: "Great. I can improve that thanks to %ABILITY. If I do that can I get my initial ask?"

They should be saying "Hell yes!!" at this point. If not, you may have either misjudged what they value or you are dealing with someone who doesn't believe in mutually beneficial agreements.
You're obviously not a programmer.
This culture doesn't really invite towards answers improving over the years as more and more people who might know more happen to come across them.
Most people get a decent severance package though, so it's a win-win.
A thousand times that.

And we are being conditioned to think of niceness in the personal level, and even worse judge with superficial BS like nice clothes, clean appereance, etc.

A well behaved rich person will immediately strike as "nicer" (with the meaning of "good" too) than a poor guy on the street or a homeless person, even if the latter has a heart of gold and the first is a huge negative for society. If the rich person is also famous, it's as if people lose their mind to its "aura".

This is probably because as a species we were "evolved" to look for immediate personal threat (attack etc), which looks more probable with a homeless person than with a well dressed oil baron or ruthless businessman. But the glitch is that we use that to also judge for "goodness" and morality.
Love this. Viva Ron Conway!
Yea!!!
Thanks, I love this country comparator from your link:

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#confirmed&...

Also this graph is a really good one from the FT of cumulative deaths by number of days from 10th death:

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Font size is looking pretty small on landing page. Chrome / Windows
Bduerst also mentionned updates that "almost bricked" his phone. I think the standards for "almost bricked" and "unusable" are incredibly low in this comment section.

I still have an iPhone4S in a drawer; it's visibly slower than when it was under iOS6 and even compared to a 5S it's night and day, but compared to other middle range android phones that's still decent. Side to side with a Moto G for instance, it's basically the same reactivity, but no one would call the Moto G an unusable device.
Yes - please elaborate as to how access is different coming from comcast ?
Adding more tradesmen will not increase the demand, and so will not result in any increase in the velocity of money.

The demand for trades may not be fixed, but it is not proportional to the number of tradesmen. Most likely it's proportional to overall economic activity in some way. Doubling the number of tradesmen will not double economic activity across the whole economy, or likely have any significant impact on demand for tradesmen, so the value of tradesmen will drop until some are forced out and an equilibrium is reached, probably not far off where it is now.
When a professional pilot reports what he says looked like a cruise missile, the first thing to think is that it probably was a cruise missile.
> the machine would crash and you would have to reboot

I self taught myself on macs. And not knowing how to correctly validate my inputs, I would crash, reboot, try again until I got it right. So many reboots.
Heh. I think homeopathic is a term tossed around a lot to mean "herbal" or "non-perscription medicinal" or "holistic" and it's probably important to distinguish between that and what homeopathic actually means - diluted to the point of nothingness.
10 years ago mobile was an incredibly hot industry. In December 2000 the market cap of Nokia was around 200 billion, roughly comparable to the likes of Intel or Microsoft. Just a few months before telecoms had bled themselves dry in the German 3G frequency auction, seriously believing that the rights were worth tens of billions.
The alternatives which don't require your own server seem to support themselves through advertising. I consider viewing advertising a cost (and actually I consider it much more of a cost than the $5 I paid to pinboard.in). So, for me, there aren't any widely-available free alternatives.
I've never seen "victimless crime" defined as diffuse versus focused harm, and I would strongly disagree with describing it as such.

For example, dumping mercury into a major river causes extremely diffuse harm, but I'd never describe it as a "victimless crime."

In the other direction, smoking weed in private harms nobody except the smoker. The harm is so focused it doesn't even touch anyone besides the offender. Yet this is almost the canonical example of "victimless crime."

It's not about diffuse harm, it's about whether anyone was harmed at all besides the accused.
Shareholders don't care about G+, Facebook's IPO and returns have already shown them that search advertising is way better and social network ads are not the real threat that was sold.

What Wall Street looks at is search and display ads. Reporting 400 million active G+ users wouldn't do anything, anymore than 700 million GMail users, 750 million Chrome users, Android with 80% of the market. None of those really drive any direct revenue. (GMail does, but not much)
Be prepared to see a lot more teeth coming to the current CFA laws. The law will either be amended with stiffer sentences, and higher minimum sentencing guidelines or you're going to see a rash of federal laws regarding hacking.

Yes, the businesses will react, but you can bet lawmakers are keen to start hammering hackers, making it even more dangerous to be doing this stuff.
If you don't mind, can you say how much you bring in monthly on this...
If you look at the criminal justice system as having some amount of diagnostic sensitivity at each stage in the process (having both false positives and false negatives as all systems do), then our comparatively lower conviction rate means that (assuming end-of-the-day-justice is equal), we should be even more willing to waste people's time developing cases that have no merit (because more of the diagnostic sensitivity is in the trial/conviction stage). So it's not unreasonable to assume it's easier to get a wiretap in the US than it is in Japan -- another explanation is that Japan is substantially more likely to have false negatives (as implied elsewhere -- but the false negative rate for many crimes in the US is quite high, as roughly half of all murders go unsolved). Could also be that the diagnostic sensitivity is extremely bumpy in America or Japan (read: basically one or two steps / people get an extremely high share of the criminal justice discretion).
The parent used the word "Terrorist", but in that context, I think of it as a "Resistance Fighter". It would have been the people in charge, in this case the Nazis, who would have used the label "Terrorist".
"This is, I recognise, a romantic view of dying, but it is achievable with love, morphine, and whisky."

Oh, tell that to a 7 year old who has terminal cancer. What an amazingly blinkered view this guy has!
For reference, here's a fairly detailed response: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-dev/2014-Dec...

Site note: I liked how both authors took pains to be respectful in their tones, keeps the focus on the issues at hand and avoids people getting irritated with one another.
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Does one need to offer an alternative for voicing a concern?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_State...
Oh I don't know, perhaps people in India?

Edit: What, did you not think that might be a remote possibility? :D
I don't think they will change. These events will have an impact the way they see the world in the future.
That was very well said. Thank you.

I knew a VP who always seemed to move up, even though his projects failed. It eventually caught up to him. He wasn't being authenticate.
Sounds like somewhat similar than what docker-nano was doing, see e.g. nano/node.js: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/nano/node.js/

docker-nano is based on buildroot which is kinda automated way of doing that
"Anyone who accuses someone of over plotting is a crappy no-name writer."

I LOL'd.
> Educators should do more to reinforce their students and help improve their passion.

Absolutely. I studied CS, failed at Algebra and Analysis and decided to drop out. Perhaps I lack the talent/intelligence but I've definitely lacked a good math experience in school and tutors at university haven't been helpful at all. Now I am doing my masters degree in business (with little passion for it and mediocre grades) wondering what I am going to do with that degree. I still dedicate my spare time improving my programming skills but only occasionally find time to make significant progress.
Also do their homework. "Queens" love that.
I just installed this and it seems to work great. My only complaint is that, like many UIs, there is a switch to enable it and it isn't clear which way is "on" and which is "off".
Musk says they'll use line-of-sight phased array ground receivers, in the $100-300 range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeZHyOnsm4
And if you have a MacBook, you can just shut the lid.