jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The device on the table does not control your life. Ignore it and have a conversation if you want. Or, look into the future and imagine this device with live webcams of your food being prepared, perhaps showing you a short article or video describing the culinary history of the meal you are about to eat. Or perhaps you could use it to settle healthy debates with your friends / SO rather than use your phone - this is slightly more communal / social (assuming you have a smartphone; if you don't have a smartphone, then this opens up the world of debate-settling completely).

Use and imagine technology for what it can be. Don't be mad at it if you can't control your insatiable appetite for technology.
It's more like a copy of (http://www.tabletopmedia.com).
Easy enough to do already. Twilio doesn't need to implement this in order to make this interesting.

Not much different than looking up someone's whois and pretending to be GoDaddy.
>>Imagine an ETF that pools shares in pre ipo stocks. Now you can take the positions that the unicorns are over priced and short them. This should give us much better insight into what the entire market thinks these startups are worth.

That goes against the practice of "pump and dump". Investors who invest 50mil+ and raise valuation to billions and sell the company to Googles of the world not going to like your idea. They might do anything in their power to stop it.
I must admit, this is really cool but on a serious note, it's just another way for Google to generate web views on their Google Maps. Perhaps, their trying to advertise their app again in a different approach. It will work, way to go! It's a unique and interesting concept of incorporating Pacman into google maps.
OK. I let it sink in, and I can see it going both ways.

1. The guys who do consumer PC repairs run quick-n-dirty nudity detectors just to find the porn stashes that are on almost every single PC. Because they need that extra set of Hayden Winters or something.

2. The guys who do consumer PC repairs use quick-n-dirty nudity detection to avoid opening customer's sensitive files because of the Sacred Repairman's Oath, and the desire to be discreet and ultra-professional.

I give up - which on is it?
We celebrate Turing because he contributed a lot to a fairly noble cause.

Spying on the rest of the world that you're not currently at war with is not such a cause, it's a travesty, an insult and has the net negative effect of fracturing the world further and reducing the amount of goodwill between NATO allies.

Please do not soil Turing's legacy by trying to conflate the two.

I'm not sure the world is a much more dangerous place than it was in the 1930s, at ground level that's just another appeal to fear, the general consensus seems to be that the world is getting safer rather than the opposite. Unless you live above a bunch of oil in the ground.
You may be right. But if so, beware.

One of the problems in this arrangement is that the companies themselves don't want to encourage it. Therefore there is always going to be a trust issue of, "How do I know that you really can deliver this stock?"

Securitization allows people to get comfort of, "There may be some bad actors, but this is diversified enough that I'm sure that this slice of pie is safe." The problem with that is that now the people originating deals have little incentive to be careful. The people buying deals have no insight. And the people reporting on deals have interests more strongly aligned with issuers than purchasers. This conflict of interest can result in demand being met through ever more shady stuff being in quickly put together deals.

When that blows up, the entire sector will blow up at once. Like subprimes did in 2008. Or like the S&L crisis in the 1980s.

The phenomena is called control fraud. And it is a cycle that repeats in different asset classes. No matter how many times it happens, it will happen again due to the combination of people not learning from history and people's willingness to believe that they've figured out how to get rich.
My own personal story of rage on this front: a site which, at the time I signed up, permitted arbitrary characters for its "security questions". I had the cheek to include characters other than pure alphanumerics.

Later, I return to this site and need to offer up the answers to the security questions. No problem... right up until I discover that some @$!#^%!!?! software developer put format guards on the security question answer fields at challenge time (vs. creation time). Yes, it was possible to create an answer to the (stupid) security questions which could not be answered by the website.

So now, my access to this site is literally sitting behind a several-months old developer ticket.
> I had to study a corpus of 30 texts for the bac as well a couple months ago. I certainly understand how you feel... (I am glad to be done with high-school)

Bravo! I'm curious though: 15 years ago the french part was done a year earlier than the rest. Is it common to do everything together nowadays, or was your curriculum a bit different?
I, definitely, will buy a book about how to write my own programming language in Rakcet.

I has been following Lisp In Small Pieces, but I will love to see something that teach to write different kind of languages like Forth, a OO system in Racket, compile to Javascript, ...

Good luck.
Well, I agree with everything you say. But I just wanted to play with it, just for fun, you know ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb
I believe that is a fairer comparison. My family traveled less distance to holiday in France than it takes my in-laws to visit much of their family whilst remaining within Canada and that's only Ontario to the Atlantic's, that's nothing compared to some of their family that lives on the Pacific and can travel to the Atlantic just to see family.

However I have currently traveled to the US and Turkey (in the legitimately Asian geographical area), and currently live in Canada and am currently planning a trip from Canada to Australia because of my brother. Which will have netted me 4 continents. I'll need to hit up somewhere in South America and Africa, perhaps I'll have to land myself in Japan or China sometime to fully claim Asia.
It doesn't harm me.
True, the best slide decks are slides decks that were intended exactly for this purpose and not for a talk.
When the robot Wall-E, from the movie by pixar, wakes up in the morning he makes the Macintosh PowerBook sound: http://titan08.free.fr/Boot%20Sounds/PowerMac%20PCI%20-%20Bo...

BTW, the MacinTalk software is listed as the voice of the villain robot in the same movie.
But you would never, ever win.

People care about their local school. Their rubbish being collected. Their job being secure.

Abstract stuff like radical transparency is too complicated a platform to run on and not only that it's a single issue that can't win votes.

That's why democracy's pretty weak compared to an altruistic dictatorship. But better than any other form of realistic government out there.
AirBnB also were friends with the Justin.tv guys so they were already "in the mafia" a bit :). Though if they sucked I'm sure PG would have said for them to fuck off.

That said, AirBnB had a large enough vision that even if there was a 95% chance of them bombing, the 5% chance of them rocking it was too big to pass up.
How did Java (as opposed to JVM) try to properly engineer solution to the problem coroutines were created to solve?
It might also illustrate how little workforce you need to integrate with many crypto networks.
It would never occur to me to care, at all, whether something as trivial as a dish scrubber was a genuine name-brand item. What difference does it make? I suppose this is why I have experienced none of the trust issues people have begun talking about with Amazon, recently.
Obviously we can do better. And the best way to go about it is to end Prop 13 in it's entirety immediately.
I see. Thank you for clarifying that.

I'm still a bit surprised that the audio went uncaptured. It is interesting how much information that would be interesting to the public still spills into the ether.
Yes, there's a lot that needs to be showcased :). Comment noted.
There is no "we". I started using it because I can recklessly trade it. I see no utility in the current expensive implemention

I don't care if it is centralized or not
The analogy doesn't really work because cryptocurrencies aren't interchangeable the way phones are. A better analogy would be if each phone could only talk to people using the same phone brand. If everyone is on iphone and you need an iphone to talk to anyone you care about, the iphone becomes more valuable because of its scarcity. The network effects of bitcoin and the lack of interchangeability between different cryptocurrencies helps secure bitcoin's spot as the leader.
Me too. My first thought was "wow, that guy's still alive?" I feel bad for Ryan, he probably gets that a lot.
Sounds easy enough to give it a shot. I also found that lifting weights has that effect.
"Read in bed until I feel sleep coming on"

I have been doing this since I can remember and it works great for me too, but I have heard one theory that it is not optimal since you may start to associate bed with reading instead of sleeping. Theoretically you should read in a chair or something and then move to your bed when you are getting drowsy.

Not sure if there is any merit to that, but it may help.
Pretty sure it was just magic. I don't like no actual explanations to things.
If necessary, use this link to get around the paywall:

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB...
This is precisely the goal of projects like p2p-dns[1] and AlterNIC[2]. It is mostly a chicken-and-egg problem of getting users to resolve non-standard TLDs, so that those non-standard TLDs are registered to things users actually care about, etc, etc.

[1] http://dot-p2p.org/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC
I've seen enough instances of this kind of thing now that I've got two facebook accounts - my real account and my spam account (just like I have two email addresses).
I would have made space shoot, too, incidentally (arrows + space should be the same for just about every keyboard out there), but configuration itself is a great idea.

I also wish that the length of time you held down the jump key controlled the height of your jump rather (up to a maximum, obviously), rather than one-size-fits-all jumps, but that's minor.

Play an old NES game that used that system like Super Mario Bros. (any of them) then play your game to see how much more in control you feel.
So whatever happens, I'd prefer is the underlying html didn't change, so as not to throw off parsing efforts. Perhaps there can be a display:none.
You're right about making connections, but one difficult part is that sometimes you just have to derive too much if all you have are connections and you haven't memorized things that could have created shortcuts for you.

I actually used to have trouble running out of time on tests sometimes when I had all the knowledge connected, but not enough of the right things memorized.
I rolled up to the site and my thought process was 'theres not enough information here as to what this site does, so im not prepared to enter my email address'
Microsoft is not stupid -- WebGL is OpenGL, you know, that standard competing with Direct3D.

I wouldn't be surprised if they released IE with DirectWeb or WebX, or something ;)
We recently built a tool that allows us to ban links across the sytem (as of a few weeks ago) and I wasn't aware that the email auto-generated and sent a DMCA takedown email. This was a tool built for our support team and I'd never personally used it.

Man you guys are dumb.
So I'm guessing you could still get it using dropship...
They've dealt with one of the criticisms which was only libvpx was given a patent licence. The other major criticism was that they are still in control of VP8, unlike H.264 which was developed and is in control by a multitude of different organisations.
Hmmmm, I read it as it costs to be a winner, as in the faster rowers have a lower SAT score (presumably from training more than studying).
In other words you assume that those holes must be the evidence of a conspiracy. Why not just be honest about it? I have met so many of your kind with exactly the same arguments. At the end of the day you think there was a conspiracy. But instead of being honest about it you simply hide behind vague insinuations.

You have answered none of my arguments. Basically you think that most people are idiots being fooled by some clever evil leaders through the use of propaganda. Each and every of your posts illuminates that more than anything else.
I see your point here. I hope non-public files are protected from Dropbox's deduplication
Yes.
But I'd donate half of it to starving African children or other people (more than could be killed with my bomb) in desperate need. Besides, a person who designs a weapon isn't really responsible for what happens when someone uses it to kill people.
> Yes, they tried to kill an open source product, whose purpose was to facillitate illegal file sharing over DropBox.

Where are you getting that information? My understanding it that its purpose was explicitly to facilitate legal file sharing over DropBox - Linux ISOs, for example.
Looks like they want to win some military contract ...

I really like the dent free exterior and the color.
Does the presentation really matter? 99% of people who will buy one of these were not watching. They'll just see the pictures online later.
Real headcrabs, probably
Who cares about rural customers. How will the suburbs like it? That's who actually buys all those trucks.
Everyone in this comment thread is referring to a video of a live event, but I can't find any such thing on the linked site.
This feels more like if Master Chief drove an Aztek
Hahaha... probably. I think it actually made the thing look a lot more bad-ass while he gave the rest of the presentation. I own a Tacoma (and have owned a few) and I've had my truck broken into quite often. Some places you don't even want to park because they're hot spots for getting your windows broken into (I'm looking at you Lombard Street). This will be a bit of a deterrent to thieves which is nice.
Two words, young folk: "Cover painting"
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/169
Outsourcing isn't so bad, but you do have to be careful. I'd recommend against going with anyone who isn't doing the actual development (i.e. someone who hires other specialized people to do the actual work).

I only have two experiences with outsourcing so far, and that was the case for my first time. He emailed me shortly after "starting" the project, saying that development had stopped and that he was looking for a developer to replace the last one. More emails with more excuses followed, taking up the original time-frame for the project, and then he just stopped emailing entirely.

So, if you get the slightest hint that the person you're talking to wouldn't be able to get the job done if a staff member leaves, then go with someone else.

If, however, you manage to find a good developer/team that has either has a strong portfolio, or enough successfully completed projects (on a site like http://rentacoder.com [aka http://vworker.com]), then you shouldn't have a problem.

Just do a bit of upfront research on the person/people before committing to anything. Make sure you feel comfortable in their ability to get the work done, backing that up with data of some sort, and you should be fine to outsource.
Linked in the article is a metafilter post which I found very interesting: http://www.metafilter.com/98385/Board-diversity-by-the-basic...
As they mention on their blog, they botched a significant percentage of their supernodes because of a faulty update they pushed to these clients.

If it was just a side-effect of holiday season, it should happen every year. Also it's likely something like this would maybe cause deterioration of service but not complete disruption for almost the entire user base.
I did a brief freelance gig not too long ago for a company that used a single password for all CMS & site admin user accounts, as well as for the database server and the ftp login to the production server.

It's one of the top 10 passwords on that list.
Maybe you should've made a 250,000 polygon WebGL Santa that waves and wishes us all a merry Christmas, with a Customize button that allows you to add a custom greeting, which is converted to audio via some speech synth engine, for $0.99, and submitted it as your startup. Also available for iPhone and Android. Coming soon for Blackberry. You're going to disrupt the holiday market. You'll be able to make a $46,000,000 exit by Easter, but if you hang on and make a 3D rabbit app, you can reach even greater heights.

I'm going nowhere with this post. :P
> how does consul fit into the "Unix philosophy"

- Single binary executable

- Compatible with ps (Zookeeper has the traditional java problem of showing up as .../bin/java followed by 4 lines of classpath)

- Arguments to consul don't need to be prefaced with -D (another common java problem)

- Passing -h to consul actually helps you figure out how to run it.

Oh, and the download is 1/3 the size of Zookeeper, and the executable includes the Go runtime whereas Zookeeper's java runtime is separate.

Etcd is actually much closer to the Unix philosophy. Consul seems to go more in the direction of similar Go tools like Docker where it bundles related activities together into one executable. But, then again, parts of the Unix ecosystem do this to (openssl, for one).
It seems like teachers and students could benefit from this as well. Teachers are often accused of being unfair or acting unprofessionally. Parents may not know who to believe when a teacher and a student flatly contradict one another.
The softwarization of hardware is the key trend, agreed.

The software-defined radio/network/storage etc are happening quickly now.

For the low-end hardware, e.g. the IoT field, the wearable market etc, the software is also key, for instance, they need the cloud platform to be effective and useful these days.

We just need more workshop/factories to turn the (low quantity) hardware-design into real products with high quality, which is still very challenging and a bottleneck.
There was a virus and i couldn't find toilet paper. You think you'd be able to find any basics after a nuke goes off?

Hope ya have a farm. GL trying to get through an airport, GL trying to drive anywhere.

We thought we were standing on the shoulders of giants, turns out we where standing on cards.
The pithy answer is that honestly, the most likely outcome of posting work online is… nothing happens. It’s a lot of sustained effort over time to grow an audience, and the ‘time’ part is usually crucial here. Dropping 50 blog posts or a repo full of finished projects on day one very probably won’t have the same effect as posting those 50 things over the course of a year, because nobody knows you yet.

Start publishing stuff, try to share it around, keep expectations super low, and try to enjoy the journey :) One concrete book rec is Amy Hoy’s Just Fucking Ship. I feel like it might resonate.
> Even just stating your belief that software patents are invalid or unenforceable terminates your license.

I guess that's the interesting part. Sources would be really helpful.
"clicker training" is also stimulus control. And, I would guess without know more about the actual procedure, differential reinforcement.
Don't forget that they have a stored credit card with payment information as well (via Stripe). That's another barrier to entry - especially considering the effort in building up enough trust to hand over payment details.
reminds me of planarity; same sort of appeal.

bug report: the web version does not work on mobile (chrome for android), though it does if i request the desktop site.
The reason is not just that Apache is well established, it's that it's sane in its extent.

Let's say 10 years from now Facebook decides to go on the warpath over fairly bogus patents. The EFF puts the headline patent on their Most Bogus patent busting list and then puts out the cry for "who is with us?"

No company using any Facebook open source code answers.

How does that make the industry safer?
More:

https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1543934539189348

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05698

http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/babi/tasks_1-20_v1-1...

So, anyone have open source code that can perform these tasks?
Or just get the head steward in there if one of the required crew needs to use the can.
It appears AWS lets you configure this[1]. You may have chosen a policy and never changed it. A note on that page says if you don't choose a policy, you'll always use the latest one. It looks like you can create a custom one, as well.

[1]http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...
> I'm pro privatisation in general because, in my experience, government-run institutions waste more money and provide a worse service.

Of course that is generally true, but some things are natural monopolies. For example the railroads. If there is no effective competition, private companies have no real incentive to improve service, but they do have an incentive to lower their costs, often leading to worse service.
Sole proprietorship here too, but I've registered a company name and do all business through that. The invoices I send have the company name on them, not my personal name.
There may be a problem on Android/Chrome. I selected "play online" and it's unresponsive at the splash screen.
It depends, some people distinguish economic rent from economic profit by restricting it to economic profits that cannot be reduced to normal by competition in the long run. Some additionally include profits without any opportunity costs.

Economic rents run counter to properly functioning markets, e.g. by raising artificial barriers such as patents or counterproductive regulation.

The key tenet of perfect competition is that in the long run, only normal profits exist. Since economic rent stands contrary to this, it cannot be a fundamental law of capitalism. In fact, economic rent is a sign of market failure. But this is reality and markets can't be perfect, so we try for good tax policies to redress this imbalance. Look at the section on rents here: http://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z/r#node-21529784

As an aside, people think Thiel's idea on monopoly is controversial, but really it's just a catchy way of portraying the observation that, since in well functioning markets, competition leads to zero economic profit, you should always be seeking advantages (innovating) and situations which allow you to (temporarily) extract economic profit.
Tracking like this has been one of the reasons for Singapores success to curbing the virus.

https://www.therakyatpost.com/2020/03/23/what-malaysia-can-l...

""If people don’t have symptoms, they’re put in home quarantine. And home quarantine is very strict. A couple times a day, you’ll get an SMS and you have to click on a link that will show where your phone is.

In case you cheat and leave your phone at home with someone else, the government has people knocking on doors now and then. The penalties are pretty harsh. ""