jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also don't buy the study. Further, any questioning about knowledge of Auschwitz should also include questioning about knowledge of other 20th century atrocities, such as the British suppression of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army in China, the Greek, Assyrian and Armenian Genocides under the Ottoman Empire, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, the expulsion and killings of Germans at the end of WWII, the Cambodian Genocide by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, the East Timor and West Papua Genocides in Indonesia, the Anfal Genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, etc. I would guess that Auschwitz is better known than most other 20th century atrocities.
Not your keys, not your coins. You could say the system is working exactly as designed.
Surely by making it difficult to cancel they’re really just making it easier for people to get discounts. If I were a Comcast customer I’d be calling up to cancel every few months.
You can’t get more American than this comment. Cultural clash at its finest.
Well, let's try with literally the first Google hit for "global temperature graph": http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/

The first graph shows that temperature for 1998 (I think) is very high (~0.6C), and indeed temperatures in this century centers around this value. Has global warming stopped since 1998?

But wait, one quickly discovers that the temperature for 1998 was the highest among all years up to 1998. Not only that, it is ~0.2C higher than 1997, which was also higher than all previous years. In fact, 1998 is >0.4C higher than the coolest year in the 1990s.

It doesn't take a lot of statistical expertise to conclude that 1998 was in fact an anomalously hot year, if one were to look at data only up to that year.

In this century, we hover around this 1998 temperature, and even routinely exceed them. What was an outlier became the normal.

Soon the same temperature will be considered a cool year. (Of course, the graph doesn't say that, but thousands of very bright people who spent their lifetime studying these graph say that. I have no reason to doubt them, when the best argument thrown against them is "if you compare the hottest year of the last century with today's average, they are the same!")
Homeschooling requires at least one dedicated, knowledgeable teacher.

These days, where more and more families have both parents working, sometimes even in multiple jobs, homeschooling is only viable for the upper middle class or above.
(Disclaimer: I'm German (from Bavaria, other German countries have different education profiles!) and have passed the Abitur exam, which allows me to enter any university course)

Classic example of what most students think as "unneeded" is chemistry, physics and mathematics - while a solid knowledge foundation is certainly required in later life, more detailed knowledge (i'm looking at you, mathematical analysis) may be entirely unneeded if one decides to pursue a career in e.g. history, social studies or other non-math/tech-oriented courses.

On one side we Germans split up our students way too soon (after 4th grade in Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium), but on the other side we split them up too late... it's a highly complex issue.
See http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollyw... for some background.
What is the supposed meaning of the minus mood? Please explain the points: one, elation +0.25, another point: elation -0.67.
Thanks. There's probably a lesson here: if two paragraphs of text in a comment on HN does a better job of explaining what your web site does than its own landing page does, maybe your landing page needs a bit of a re-think.
It’s compact approved for bike paths and parking.
The question is, are you going to be using your GUI in addition to or instead of the command line. GitX fits into my thinking as a supplement to the command line (I'd never create a repository or commit with it, I just look at the graph and changes), while Gitbox could be a replacement for using the command line on OS X... I just think it needs a graph like GitX (and every other git GUI tool) and it needs to act a little more like Versions.app, which gives the impression that it's not just a few simple tasks for repositories, but the all-in-one experience.
I am strongly reminded of Perl 6 and Lisp.

I guess my question is, "what does Katahdin provide that Perl 6 doesn't" (leaving aside the .NET integration)?
Refusing to accept a piece of paper doesn't mean that he doesn't have a PhD. What he did was a stunt, nothing more.
I don't think the majority of people are pro-piracy, it is just that they are "hackers". Hackers try to figure out how to hack things to their needs.

Online music started with Limewire and ended with iTunes. I feel this is the fate of a lot of other forms of media. A frustrated group of hackers will thwart the current system until there is a viable market option. Most people, if given the chance, will pay for what they want.
> a clear separation of responsibilities

Tacking on: I'm sure everyone has an opinion on "power without responsibility" but the reverse--responsibility without power--is also damaging.

Sometimes dysfunction is caused by giving different people different responsibilities, and giving them only "negative" power to veto or reject, or no real power at all.

This is bad for several reasons. First, it sabotages motivation/fulfillment because people can't feel truly invested in creating and owning the work.

Second, it puts the people involved into a "reject everything, cover my ass" mode, since that is their only way for their role to "add value".

Lastly, people can (sometimes quite reasonably) conclude they are being kept around as emergency scapegoats for mistakes that aren't actually their own, which hurts morale and cooperation.
IPSec is indeed hell with NATs, and an SSL VPN would be much better. But UDP is even better - most NATs do a good job with UDP too, and if done right, it's possible to switch Internet connections without the VPN having to reconnect.
I don't know why the upload stalled but I went back to upload the rest of the files and it worked. I tried downloading and it was a little under 2 mbps which isn't that great.
Ha yeah. It is an expriment I'm wondering how long it will last before someone drops a XSRF or something. Will probably have to take it down within the hour.
I'm thinking about only letting users posts go through if their hash is lower than the previous users hash submission.

Hopefully it is lega.
I suspect most people do clean up after themselves, but it doesn't take very many litter bugs to trash a town.
This article resonates with me. I find myself very often in this situation of trying to find meaning in what I do. When you tie this to evolution and what more or less appears to be biological machines trying to eek out some meaning in otherwise meaningless life, nothing seems to make sense any more. What's the point of anything at all? We try so hard to reason and find it hard when we reach the boundaries of reasoning and enter the domain of faith and beliefs, but choose to ignore them because they aren't scientific enough. I believe a much simpler notion is to treat yourself as an artist or an entertainer and look at your work as a means of enriching someone's life - not because of its utility or function or what not but just because its beautiful and brings out joy to people in your world, however small the number might be. We keep thinking about the whole world and forget about our own small world, when in reality, it's our small world that gives us all of our joy and happiness.
Never give up.

I have a poster on the wall behind my monitors of the 5th Solvay Congress in Brussels. It has many of the greats including Planck, Curie, Lorentz, Einstein, Schrodinger, just to name a few. There are times when, for example, I've been working on a problem or trying to understand a concept and want to walk away; I will look up at the poster and think about how those people spent their entire lives on problems, they were the type that didn't give up.

Things don't happen all at once, sometimes you have to be more patient than you'd like. But I believe it's those people that never give up that make the most impact.

Be realistic with yourself but aim high; work hard and smart and you have a better chance than many to get what you want.
Yeah, same here. Also I interpret it as a already well-established place, something that has been successfully run for a while. The other one screams "Hi, we are a new institution" which gives me a wary response. It just misses some smiling stockphoto woman.

There must be a lot of testing and research in "cheap looking" ads, this might be a great example of the resulting emotional responses.
In my experience, many NATs just drop UDP packets altogether, but still allow TCP through.

Similarly, I find the Internet at my local Starbucks to be some of the fastest, most-reliable networks around; even faster than some local ISPs hooking up to my home.
http://virtual-notary.org/ has been in this business since 2013. It allows more than simple document uploads and will notarize weather, exchange rates, Twitter feeds, etc.
In general I don't think Monsanto has a very strong support group here - most of the discussions about that company I read here was pointing out various evil things they're doing. I myself I'm not a fan of the company - but I believe in what I call 'high-resolution discourse' - i.e. focusing precisely on the actual problem. In case of Monsanto, most of the problems with them is about their business practices, not about the GMO technology - so it's fair to blame them for acting like assholes, but it's not fair to automatically assume the tech is bad (or to extend it to the entire field, e.g. "GMOs are bad because Monsanto is evil").

If the hypothetical pro- and anti-Monsanto crowd is willing to engage in a constructive, high-resolution discourse then I think it's only for the better - everyone can learn something new from it.
Wow. It concerns me that the latest Snowden leaks are more privacy invasive than the first ones. What's next?
Myth Busters did an episode about this. Basically they found that the optimal method mathematically did not get high satisfaction marks and the most satisfying method was definitely not the fastest. I guess we value fairness more than we value overall efficiency.

https://mythresults.com/airplane-boarding
Thank you for pointing this out - it's unfortunate that people can be immediately triggered to react after simply seeing a name that prevents/blocks them from continuing on to understand or critically think to understand what's actually said; it's definitely a sign of the times and state of our health and our thinking ability as a society.
> I think managing remote systems is largely a solved problem with tools like Ansible...

Leaving a server in the dark and remotely prodding it via Salt/Ansible/Chef/Puppet makes sense in a very narrow and very limited scenario set.

Even if you manage all your systems like that (I generally install a fleet via XCAT and manage some of them via Salt), you probably need to login to that server and poke around to see what went wrong with a user's job or why that server is acting wonky.

OTOH, I applaud you for all the work you did and hope this shell makes lots of people's lives much easier.

Keep up the good work, good luck. :)
Thanks for the suggestion, added :)

Yeah as you've said, I often find myself wanting to only download a certain directory, path or package of an especially big repo that I'm currently viewing (without even cloning the entire repo at depth 1) and to do so by simply copy & pasting the GitHub URL so that's why. Probably more instances where this might come in handy ;)
This book is so good I actually bought it twice. The second time was the ebook edition just so I can pull it up next to Vim. Highly recommend it.
Holy smokes, that would be irritating :D

Btw. is there a difference between these two:

(s: string): PlainText => <PlainText><any>s;
(s: string): PlainText => s as any as PlainText;

Syntax-wise I'd rather use the latter for it's more clear in typed JSX-context.
Because not every engine slaps a fancy ECS tag front and center, the pattern evolved concurrently in industry (and we all had games to ship).

If you look really carefully you'll find structured column databases have similar properties since when you optimize for speed cache misses are your number one enemy.
So this is wrong on several fronts.

First, taxing companies is not "double taxation". Companies are taxed on profits. Paying taxes on behalf of employees and paying taxes on profits are mutually exclusive.

Second, not taxing companies allows the rich to disproportionately avoid paying any taxes.

Person A earns $50,000pa and gets taxed on all of it.

Person B earns $5m but is paid through a company but "only" spends $1m/year. So $1m is distributed as effectively as possible through dividends and income and the rest taxed as profits, deferring a portion of their taxes possibly indefinitely.

But it gets worse: getting paid in a company now allows the person to take advantage of transfer pricing and shift profits (and thus any corporate taxes) to a low or zero tax jurisdiction.

And it doesn't end there. Instead of distributing income, the company borrows against those profits and distributes that. Loan interest is near zero so this also defers taxes, possibly indefinitely.

Some argue it's inefficient to tax companies and we should just tax individuals. The flaw should be clear: at best, for the rich who have this option, you're now taxing their spending instead of their earnings (ie distribute what you need to spend, retain the rest as undistributed profits).

I'm a big fan taxing profits based on revenue, which is to say that if 60% of a company's revenues are sourced in the US, then the US gets to tax 60% of your profits. And I'm completely fine with every country doing this if they want.
Yes, I am one, but is Apple really better off selling more machines but having fewer people inside their eco-system?
Oh, I was responding from my personal experience. Some people have other priorities and are currently doing well the way they are and that is perfectly fine by me.
Which makes me wonder is there a statically typed prolog like language out there?
The license plate makes the vehicle's owner accountable, mainly to ensure that the vehicle is fit to drive. But it doesn't identify the driver. I'd hate to see my insurance rates go up due to this app because I lent my car to a friend, or because someone behind us got aggravated when the car stalled while I was teaching my daughter to drive.
Are you asking him to change the account name, or stop detecting dupes?
because the management team can't bear to look real bad when the new owners succeed where they failed.
Delicious :(
and low tech options like browser bookmarks, leaving tabs open or emailing links to myself.
Jony Ive put a sprightly charm into the dull personal computer. But he should have stuck to the oldest design tenet - "Don't change something drastic enough to make it less usable".

There are always bunch of people on both sides of the fence, but the usability & familiarity generally is perceived to have taken a dip with the flat glassy design. Admitted, now we are used to it (the iOS look & feel). But the change between skeumorphic & flat was a hard change & tad unpleasant for its times. Form should have never take precedence over function. This is something that the Thinkpad team got overwhelmingly right.
It happens time and again. Ever notice it's always "just 5 to 10 years away". It's a ploy to gain research funding.
There's a default limit of 2 billion cells (rows * cols) but larger partitions also mean larger indexes and more serialization, repair, compaction and memory overhead which doesn't work well with Cassandra's Java/JVM GC requirements.

It's getting better but likely will never reach the performance potential of Scylla which is Cassandra reimplemented in C++ with a much better sharded architecture.
The time of planes has ended and the time of drones has begun it has.
Since updating to the latest feature pack of win 10 my M$ comfort curve usb keyboard started going to sleep after a few moments of non use, then dropping keys when you started typing again. I had to go deep into the device settings to disable auto sleep for it. its like windows 10 drivers for ms hardware just suck.
So what's the difference between ndb-cluster and https://github.com/logicalclocks/rondb ?
Minio is an s3 clone, so I assume you metadata they mean details about the object you uploaded. So if the actual data is a video file, the metadata would be the headers, filesize, what host/drive the file is stored on. Essentially when you ask for minio.io/my/video/file some service has to transform that to 192.168.0.1/customer/drive/ahe123.blob
So you think every skinny white guy who also likes leather jackets is a neo nazi sympathiser? Don't assume/worry what others think about your look
So, it's fine to jail millions, as long as they're people who sell or smoke pot and not people who you consider important?
The quick answer if that if you are going to sell 1/3 of your company for two months of ramen noodles then you don't really think much of it. Already I can tell this guy is not an angel, he smells blood. Plus he's running his company full-time but wants to be a one third partner? When? on weekends?

You said you would give numbers but then don't. How much money do you need to survive two months? or is it not two months? If the valuation is 750K and he is getting 1/3 the company, is he giving you 250k cash? are you burning 125k per month? what is your monthly nut personal and company?

Anyway, it is super obvious you are not comfortable with this guy and don't trust him, but you are thinking of making him an equal partner? Big Mistake.
There was a time Microsoft made a very solid OS. It was called Xenix.
Or, simply upvote the comment.
How about making you staus "Deleting my account on 12/31/10 -- EMAIL me your contact info prior to 12/31/10"
I love dropbox but giving it complete access to my facebook besides all my files is pretty much handing my "social life" and my "work life" to a single company.
This is a problem with the downloadable version, which is written for the LAMP stack and grew over something like 10 years as an open-source effort. Not surprisingly, YMMV (as with all OS software).

The hosted version (called OnRamp) would be the place to start - it's free, performs better (it's not all PHP), and gives you easy market integration (which the original comment was referring to). OpenX may or may not be what you're looking for, but at least you can test the waters without any initial investment other than creating an account and setting up a few tags.

(Disclaimer: I work for OpenX.)
This is probably the best thing from Google in a long time.
Won't this deincentivize Bitcoin commerce significantly though?
I honestly had no idea this existed. I feel like a fool now that I spent over $70k at RIT. Which, don't get me wrong, is a great school...but I could have went to Standford for free?...that's pretty crazy to me. I really really really wish I knew about this before.
Anecdotally, a number of my high school friends went to Rice and all claimed to be paying very little or nothing in tuition (2008). My high school girlfriend received a full ride offer there (as she did from Caltech, which is what she chose). IIRC 38 students from my high school graduation class received offers from Rice.
I bookmarked this for a later date. I am currently taking a Coursera course and one of the projects touched on Monte Carlo methods, they are super cool, I implemented a rudimentary AI that plays tic-tac-toe(well) in like 70 lines of Python.
Wow. I believe this is the first time I've witnessed prolonged humour on HN.
No one is going to get excited over an idea. Let's see a prototype, a powerpoint presentation, a fancy user-interface, investor commitments, press traction, etc.

We can see clearly what you don't have. Now what do you have? Do you have anything? You don't want to talk about "high rewards" unless you have substantial factors that make us think, "Damn, he might actually pull this off." - big empty promises is a Craigslist thing.
My sleep habits were just as bad as this guy described, but about a year ago I started taking melatonin on week nights. I didn't alter anything else, and the melatonin has solved my sleep issues. I do have vivid dreams virtually every night, which I generally remember (last night I dreamt I drove to my childhood piano teacher's house and had her give me her old records so I could resume learning the piano where I left off a decade ago). None of the dreams have been nightmares; some have been what I would call "disturbing," although I expect them now and actually find them rather interesting.
Ah, not to talk down Mr. Jobs but over in Europe regulation has meant that cellphones were carrier-independent devices years before the appearance of the iPhone. That's partly how Nokia's brand got to be so strong.

I think Jobs' achievement with the iPhone was to look at existing technology like tablets and say 'look, these really are awesome, but they're limited to simple tasks. Cellphones are awesome because they're so portable and popular, but a bunch of buttons is an overly complex interface for the sort of tasks most people want to do with their phones. We can and we will shrink tablets down to pocket size and market them as phones instead of computers.'
Thanks. I have found myself bouncing around books on a common topic because there is often no one book that explains things Just So. It's been that way with learning Haskell. While RWH has been a major help, prior (and now continued) dipping inro a few other sources helps flesh out the bigger picture and makes all of them more clear.
The problem with sunrise is that it changes with the seasons and DST; here in Seattle it's 5 AM in the summer and 8 AM in the winter. Unfortunately my other obligations don't change with it.
Most of the private universities that actually have to market themselves cater to less intelligent folks who will take much longer to catch on to the fact that degrees are overpriced.
A/Bingo does require dynamic parts of the page, and I am very unlikely to change that. I'm always glad to see an increasing diversity of solutions to A/B testing.

Now we just have to keep convincing folks to actually use the suckers. (Do A/B testing! It will make you a lot of money! </plug>)
Melatonin's a good complement to modafinil in that respect. You can take either one, change your mind, and usually be able to get up or go to sleep despite the action of the drug.

Nothing is as important, though, as keeping all sources of light out of your bedroom during the hours you're trying to sleep.
Isn't this basically an attempt at Hong Kong/SEZ/Charter City type development. Not necessarily doomed to failure?
The article is pretty slim on content. The question was whether he had considered taking Dell private at all recently, to which he simply said "Yes" and nothing more. I wouldn't be surprised if it were to happen, considering Acer just passed Dell as the world's second largest computer maker.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archive...
YouTube users? As a content provider, on which site do you expect to get the most viewers?
We need a single application that can be used for anything.
Is that your response when someone has their dog "play dead"?

"Does the dog understand what death is? Is the dog aware of it's own mortality?"
You guys should read about this artist's exhibit, where he has himself shot by a paintball gun hooked up to the Internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafaa_Bilal

Don't do this to the poor dog.
It must be nice, having a metro system where your biggest concerns are the spatial and typographic qualities of the map.

There are stations (perhaps entire lines) on the our very own Chicago Transit Authority that look a lot more like a Soviet relic than that old network diagram.