jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Email is decentralized, that means I can quit Gmail any time I want and use another service. Or even start my own.

Git is decentralized, that means I can quit Github any time I want and use another service to host my repositories.

Bitcoin is the same: I'm not locked into Coinbase, I can switch them for another service, personal wallet on a phone, a hardware wallet, or a combination of them. Move my coins to a company in another jurisdiction etc.

Just the very fact of how easy it is to switch, creates a pressure on your provider and makes them work harder.

US banking is not decentralized. I cannot simply take dollars out to some other service or wallet. Moving them takes a lot of time, there is no privacy, there is suspicious reports and interrogation everywhere, civil forfeiture laws and for another jurisdiction, I have to sell dollars for another currency which incurs fees, risks etc.

In short: Bitcoin is like Git, fiat money and banking is like CVS.
Hi, this is Matthias from Coworking Camp.

Generally we aim to make Coworking Camp affordable for early stage startup founders. The cost to attend consists of different components:
1) You need a Coworking Camp ticket. It ranges from €250 (1 week) to €650 (6 weeks). There are ealry bird discounts, so make sure to signup to our newsletter. Also there are volunteer opportunities available that get you a free ticket.

2) We haven't finalized the hotel for Tunisia yet, but expect about €30 per night for a single room with all inclusive food/drinks. Double rooms will be slightly cheaper and we are trying to also negotiate an early booking discount.

3) There are cheap flights around €200 to Tunisia from nearly all major European airports. For the cheapest option look for tourist charter flights leaving on weekends. It is also possible to fly to Tunis and then take a cheap bus or train to the hotel. More info once we decided about the hotel.

So the total for the ticket, the hotel and the flight should about €650 (1 week) to €2100 (6 weeks). If you share rooms, volunteer or book early the cost could go down.

($1 is a little less than 1€)
It's important for candidates not to over-emphasize the smoothness of the hiring process.

I almost didn't work for a company because my experience during an internship was that HR, payroll, and other departments that were not part of my day-to-day job were painful and bureaucratic. I was talked into the job anyway, and it was without a doubt the right decision for me. I learned an enormous amount, worked with some terrific people, and helped ship a very successful product. You could argue that the ancillary stuff reflected company issues that ultimately led to the company's demise. But I would certainly not have passed up the 3 years I spent there even if I'd known that in 3 years I'd end up looking for a new job. And that's not least because so everyone I worked with did the same thing, and now I'm still working with many of those same people on much of the same technologies.

What was important about the candidate experience? It was clear that the team was interested in working with me and developing me as an engineer, and that they were very bright and working on important problems. That trumped basically everything for me.
I wish exist something like this but for Sublime...
Yea, this is one reason why I don't consider 1024-bit end entity certs (as opposed to roots) that much of a threat.
Done. Sight v1.0.0 was just released! Please update.
FYI: published in January 2008.
Did no one else notice that this is affiliated to the University of Phoenix? How can anyone take them seriously, even if Pew is involved
Just install EasyPrivacy [1] and Fanboy Annoyances [2] for Adblock Plus.

[1] http://easylist.adblockplus.org/

[2] http://www.fanboy.co.nz/
To quote Joe Armstrong: "As Erlang became popular we were often asked "Is Erlang OO" - well, of course the true answer was "No of course not" - but we didn't to say this out loud - so we invented a serious of ingenious ways of answering the question that were designed to give the impression that Erlang was (sort of) OO (If you waved your hands a lot) but not really (If you listened to what we actually said, and read the small print carefully)."

http://www.sics.se/~joe/bluetail/vol1/v1_oo.html

Erlang is closer to original Smalltalk than most of current OO languages: there are processes (objects) which communicate by messages (messages).

I also should mention OOHaskell: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/ "In the second and major phase, we systematically substantiate that Haskell~98, with some common extensions, supports all the conventional OO features plus more advanced ones, including first-class lexically scoped classes, implicitly polymorphic classes, flexible multiple inheritance, safe downcasts and safe co-variant arguments. Haskell indeed can support width and depth, structural and nominal subtyping. We address the particular challenge to preserve Haskell's type inference even for objects and object-operating functions. Advanced type inference is a strength of Haskell that is worth preserving. Many of the features we get ``for free'': the type system of Haskell turns out to be a great help and a guide rather than a hindrance."

So everyone "can has" his OO everywhere, in case one needs it.
Being a foreigner, it's mind blowing that how evidence is procured matter.

Evidence is evidence. If there were illegal actions while collecting it, then those actions should be prosecuted, but evidence is still evidence and should be used.
Perhaps Moore's law is a consequence of people's ability to design algorithms. Hardware design needs similar resources of the mind. Circuit routing, simulations, benchmarking, design re-use, HDL code bases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language )...
This is just FUD ... I never had problems opening MS Office documents in OpenOffice, except a few problems here and there with formatting: but it's not like browsers do any better.

And I'm talking about reverse engineered formats here, for which there was no documentation, ISO or otherwise.

Also, have you ever implemented an ISO standard to be able to speak about it? I have.
A good rule of thumb: if you show actual code, run it before you post it!
We should call things what they are.

Sure - I wasn't seriously suggesting we rename them, just that in my personal experience, newcomers get scared off seemingly by the name alone before ever actually finding anything out about them. A friendlier name may avoid this for newcomers. It definitely wouldn't be worth it for more advanced practitioners where referring to them exactly and in the context of their category theory roots is much more useful than friendliness.
It also helps given that those countries don't have extradition treaties with China, so embezzling money in China, sending it abroad with your kid and wife, and then making a last minute escape before you are caught and executed is a good strategy (see naked officials).
Weev should probably be in jail for several reasons. Just not the specific reason they sent him to jail for. The EFF had to fight because the conviction set a really bad precedent for other research.
sure let’s talk about how important military spending is while the global economy has come to a halt because of a virus and the advanced nations are crying for help.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663274.
Revolut based in UK
London; Full time; Product
Hi!

I checked the details of the job and I think I may be valuable for you, CV is at https://moralestapia.com/CV.pdf

Only issue I can think about is that I followed the C/C++ path rather than the Python one. Not that I'm not good w/ Python, but my main strength is C/C++, MPI, CUDA and things of the like. I have a good background with math and formal training in genomics and bioinformatics, so that's always a good thing.

I'd be interested in working with you, but I don't know if I am suited for your plans, let me know. You can write me at hn @ moralestapia.com

Best wishes.
If a third grader hangs around third graders all day in school then I would expect those would be his friends. Until he starts participating in activities where kids participate in where the grades get mixed (ie. school basketball team). This seems entirely appropriate to me.

And you're comparing public schools to prison? Remote learning for all of them would fix this?
That's like saying "Exercise should be embraced and not sublabelled". Imagine just telling people "exercise" and them having no idea whether they should lift weights, run, swim, or stretch. "Meditation" is a vague hazy concept to most of the population that have no idea how to get started or what the benefits are. So, imo, you are absolutely wrong. It should definitely be broken up.

edit: Me being one of them. I have a hazy understanding of focal meditation (whether breath, clock ticking, whatever) and what it's supposed to accomplish. Other types of meditation are absolutely confusing to me. E.g. "visualization" - visualize what, for how long, how clear is it supposed to be, what are the benefits?

edit2: You are focusing on "push back", I am focusing on what the original poster said - meditation needs to be better defined.
> At this point I see it as the mental equivalent of "exercise".

Is it though? We can at least all agree on the definition of exercise, not so with meditation. Without a common definition, I'm not sure what kind of empirical claims can be made about meditation.
Don't confuse the road with the destination. They may look different on the surface but they should be taking people to the same brain states.
Subsidies are almost never a good answer to anything. Just give low-income renters cash they can spend on whatever they want instead.
So breaking encryption is accepted; serving malicious scripts is accepted (it's what happened in this attack), but breaking encryption to serve malicious scripts would be out of limits? That doesn't make much sense.
I posted this when I first launched at the end of July; and I figured it's relevant to share it again to show just how useful Delicious data is. Moreofit.com has an index of about 250,000 websites and their tag weights, courtesy of Delicious.com. They're normalized and stored in a manner that allows for a somewhat efficient kNN search to be applied for a given set of tags. The results: For a given URL, you can see the "closest" URLs in 50,000+ dimensional tag space. If you go into "custom tag search" you can very the weights of the tags and explore the tag space that way, also.

More precisely: each website has a vector of approximately 50,000 dimensions, 49,990 of which are 0, but 10 of which have a value. The "closest" URLs in this space are those which have the smallest distance from the searched URL. I've thought of doing singular value decomposition, but frankly never got around to it, because the results are really quite good. This is just the tip of the iceburg -- I'm sure delicious has well over 10,000,000 URLs.

Delicious.com has an extremely rich set of data: A very large, and arguably the most relevant, portion of the web has been described by hand#, by real people, with no incentive to cheat or skew the results. The amount of man-hours spent tagging and organizing the web is really astounding, and I'm glad I managed to make something useful out of it.

I really hope Yahoo comes to their senses and realizes how valuable this data is. Just combining URL (or domain) popularity into search results offers so much more value. One could create a killer search engine with this data.

#: A lot of the end results of tag weights has to do with how the URL was initially tagged, as a lot of people opt to use "auto-tagging" which just copies the most popular tags. Not only are the end results of tagging quite interesting, but I suspect researching how a URLs popularity and description has ebbed and flowed over time would be awesome.
seems to be.
Luckily Xmarks backs up my delicious bookmarks. Oh, wait, Xmarks is going away. Oh, wait, Lastpass bought xmarks. Whew. Now all I loose is the tags. And the community. Oh, wait, that's what I really wanted anyway. Hmmmm.... Del.icio.us as fee-for-service anyone? Couldn't yahoo spin this off to an investor who wants to take it in that direction?
Hmm. OK, I finally 'get' delicious, thanks to that link. That's substantially more powerful and useful than a typical search-results page from Google.

Late to the party as usual...

Edit: Wow. Someone has to take this private. This is one hell of a valuable database. Yahoo must be staffed by gorillas if they're throwing away this kind of data.
Can someone at questvisual say more about the platform? I have some ideas I'd like to try.
You're not consuming time of their staff asking questions and using resources. People who go to the store to get information with no intent to buy are worse than people who just ignore the store.
> I’d love to learn what it actually cost to run Delicious. I just can’t imagine that it was a huge expense.

An analogy.

I travel a lot, sometimes "living on the road" for quite a while at a time. It's a marvelous life.

I carefully consider what I pack. Every little thing takes space and weight, which means less space/weight for something else.

A friend of mine was with me when I was doing some packing, and I was looking at my Kindle charger and iPhone charger. Both of the USB plugs can plug into an adapter so it can plug into a power outlet.

Turns out, Kindle and iPhone USB-to-outlet adapter are the same, and it works for both devices. I tested it, and then was weighing them and trying to size up their durability to choose which one to keep.

My friend said, "Why not keep both? They're small, and maybe there'll be problems later if you don't have both..."

And you know what? He's right. I could totally make the judgmental call to keep both of them, and it'd make no real difference on my space/weight. The problem is, there's 10-15 other little things I have to make the same judgment call on, and it adds up fast.

Sometimes you have to cut, even if this particular cut doesn't mean anything significant, because making 10-15 cuts really does add up to something significant.

This doesn't make Yahoo's decision here a good call or a bad call. But it's something to think about when anyone says "This one isn't too [expensive/heavy/big/cumbersome/time-intensive]" - no, maybe not, but little costs can add up fast.
Oh, sorry, I meant questions like the ones raised about how someone might try to smuggle data past such filters or some of the security aspects of having a single point with access to everything.

I certainly agree that if you have a requirement to watch outbound data like this, having a system to selectively capture it is much better than simply attempting to record everything.
I don't agree with the blog post since the same argument could be made for any design pattern. There is nothing wrong at trying to understand things at a higher level of abstraction.
> jQuery is almost a monad

Curious to know how as I have seen lots of people claiming jQuery to be Monad ? jQuery neither has any laws to govern it nor it has bind or inject interface.
Sounds good. Let's hope Spartan is the mindset the devs are operating with.
Think of all those events (I wonder why, I wonder how) without thinking about their true confirmatory nature, you might find dissonance.
For someone who is opposed to getting diamonds, what alternatives exist?

Every time I think of this, this plays out in my head: "Sorry sweetie, I love you but hate diamonds more. I'm not going to buy you a sweet ring to show off to all your friends. Will you marry me anyway?"
"it creates a nightmare on the server-side"

Actually, last time I used something like this the queries aren't really that bad on a server (to write or execute). Its a fairly easy set of relational queries (build current time at location table -> events) and I would rather take the time on the server versus the client. This is the kind of thing a relation database does quite well and user expectations must be met.
For those with the time and interest to browse I had previously compiled an incomplete list of domestic propaganda activities by the United States. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856218

There is also some compilation done for international propaganda, although mostly the programs, anecdotes and news links are scattered and still need compiling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709976

Some things almost sound like science fiction, like the DoD program to predict successful overseas propaganda by observing brain scans of test subjects: http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf
Yes the police should not be expected to solve cultural problems.
I don't see why you have to post this from a throwaway account, as this is a legitimate question and you unlikely to suffer for it at HN.

To answer though, the committees are much more inbred and affiliated than they should be in theory. It is a complicated mix of academic politics, budgetary allocations and feudal bonds that advisor-student relationships are. There is a lot of leeway in interpreting things like "novelty" and "importance", and amazingly often it is treated in the broadest way possible.

As to me, yes, I'm qualified enough in certain fields to make a judgement, and have enough understanding of some others to cut through bullshit. The issue here is not the knowledge (or lack of) the judges, but rather their complacency with mediocrity due to life realities. I didn't imply they were green-lighting falsified results or outright crackpotry. Just that the amount of meh that shouldn't belong to PhD domain at all but gets through is incredible. If you throw all those dissertations out, the state of respective field wouldn't degrade a iota.
The recent post "Teaching binary to 3rd Graders using the Socratic method" is a good example of a non-imitation teaching/learning method.

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2446316
What's the big deal? Why can't it be a trade and a craft?

Problem is, if you don't have the craft, then you're not gonna get the end result. Just don't shove the craft down the customer's throat. That stuff is for colleagues. The customer wants to hear a different but not necessarily competing message.
I've seen these kind of posts before, but once again, you can't really call this a job offer. They ask to send your resume, that's all.
Really nice chopsticks: powder coloured machined titanium with rough textured gripping ends:

http://www.tistix.com/cart/index.php?main_page=index&cPa...
Oh dear - then I have no idea how the Lisa screenshot got there :O
I clicked on "Book Now".

Next I was prompted to contact the "host" to confirm availability (does this mean they kick out the citizens?)

Oh, and BTW, minimum stay is 2 nights, so this will cost me $140,000.
Hi -- Author here.

Thanks for the word of warning. I'll take a look at removing the battery to avoid any issues.
The biggest problem at the moment is the debt markets have almost completely stopped functioning. Let me repeat what the other poster said: “We are talking about companies with plenty of assets and strong businesses”. And they still can’t get needed short term financing. Should we let clearly creditworthy companies go bankrupt because the credit markets are temporarily closed?
I tried working at night, but found that to be quite difficult as you will be very tired from taking care of the child during the day. Working next to a toddler (in my case: 12 months old) can work, but only if they have something to play with which requires they full concentration. As soon as your child realizes that you are doing something which seems to require your concentration, it will stop whatever it is doing and will try to see what it is.

I think the most promising thing to try is to go to bed together with them and work in the morning until they are awake.
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Several non-essential items (shampoo, conditioner, cat litter, etc) I ordered last week were rescheduled from 2-4 day delivery times to April 20th. I canceled and reordered them without Fulfilled by Amazon. The tracking says they'll be delivered today by USPS and UPS.
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This is a good point. You'll have lifetime symbols everywhere, for example.
> This market downturn isn’t a lack of liquidity, or a lack of money, or toxic assets like the mortgage backed securities.

There absolutely is a lack of liquidity, that's why you see all these stock sales.

To name just one example, lots of companies have been buying back stock on margin because of extremely cheap loans. That stock is now worth far less, the loans keep maturing, new loans are harder to get and more expensive. So how do you raise cash? Sell stock. The cycle continues.

How did we get there? Not being over-leveraged in times of cheap money is a competitive disadvantage.

> People aren’t going to stores, restaurants, and airlines because of SARS-CoV-2, not a lack of credit or money.

They are also not going to work in many cases, supply chains have been disrupted, production has been slowed. That's a lot of income that has either disappeared or been put into question. That income is supposed to turn into spending, that spending is supposed to be someone else's income. It's a vicious circle.

The problem isn't so much what people are doing now, but what they're (not) going to be doing months down the line, and the uncertainty surrounding that.

> Printing money isn’t going to create customers for businesses effected by this pandemic.

Pretty much every business is affected by this pandemic. Without injecting liquidity, a massive wave of bankruptcies is going to follow suit in short order and the whole economy is going to go tits up.

You can argue that liquidity shouldn't have been injected in the past years during "the greatest economy of all times", but that milk has been spilled.
I have a horrible suspicion that the attacks are continuous and ongoing, but the high stress levels of the present situation make it easier for people to click on the wrong email or link on their XP hospital PCs.
With newborns my wife and I tried to give each other a couple of hours a day to have some time off. That was about the limit. We were lucky that here kids get to go to great kindergartens from 18 months. True normalcy in that both are sleeping through the night in their own beds most of the time took until the youngest was three.
Somebody's gonna invest in that I guarantee you.