jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this is an emotional issue but your inflammatory response is unwarranted. Please try to keep debate civil here.

To answer your first part about enlisting. US Military Justice is covered by Congress, primarily through the Uniform Code of Military Justice (http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm). As I've mentioned before, there will be a process for everything. It will be documented. They will follow it.

He's up for two misconduct charges and will face an Article 32 Hearing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_32_hearing) possibly as a precursor to a courts-martial according to his lawyer. He has been taken off suicide watch according to (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/16/bradley-manning-...).

The standard enlistment/re-enlistment form DD Form 4/1 is used by all branches of the US Military (http://usmilitary.about.com/library/pdf/enlistment.pdf). In Section C, Clause 9 there's a whole load of stuff about being subject to military law, laws changing and still being applicable and being potentially up for court-martial. That's where it says they're allowed.

On your claim that he did not confess - he has not confessed in court, I do not know whether or not he has confessed to any military staff, but he has confessed to Adrian Lamo through various chat logs, which have since been turned over to wired magazine and partially published (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/). I don't have any confirmation that the logs themselves were provided to the military, although there is confirmation in that article that Adrian Lamo tipped off the FBI and Army.
Yes, but somebody adding it to wiktionary doesn't make it a word. It just seems lazy to make up new words rather that taking the trouble to use an existing one.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=performant&ye...

I wonder if the early appearance is OCR error?
I remember my physics teacher explained this one day. He said:

We start with a poor but general understanding, that things fall toward the ground. This is like a big square of stone, it's familiar but undefined and for most purposes it's useless.

We advance our understanding, chipping away at the stone to reveal a model that is more practical. To an understanding that is beyond simply observations. Objects fall at 9.81m/s/s. You'v now got an octagonal disc of stone, you could run a cart on it, but you probably wouldn't get far before you break your tail bone.

Then we go beyond just passively observing and begin testing. We find data, compile it and test it against models. This is like using a finishing chisel and sand paper. You get the Theory of Relativity, it's smooth, it's polished and it's a perfect wheel.

Now just wait for someone to invent a hover car and your wheel and the theory of relativity are old news.
Hey Harry-

Just a quick note for your wiki, since I don't want to make Yet Another Account... on the Misdirection page: http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Misdirection

You mention ExpertsExchange has now hidden their information, and give this page as an example: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel...

But check this out: plug the URL into Google: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&...

Click "cached": http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WHOsXsX...

And then scroooooooooll again like before. There's the answers!

They don't want to lose the Google juice, so they change the contents of the page so that Google sees it all, and regular people don't. You can also change your UA string to "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) and it works...
This app is probably good for showing ads, since my logs show a great average session length. Unfortunately, I've published other apps with free and paid variants (with the free version having ads and lacking some features) and users will still pirate the paid version.
It's dilettante computing without the phallacy of having a shipping product.
Maybe wait until after your exam :)

The tableau method is in some sense the "bubble sort" of simplex algorithms. It's simple, it works and it's easy to explain, but it's not something anyone would use in practice.

That said, if you're not going to actually be implementing these things (and few people are), it's more important early on to get practice reducing problems to linear and integer programs than to know exactly how they're being solved.
Probably a better title would be "How we raised $250k of angel finance in twenty years"

The point is they received funding from friends and established contacts. My guess is it would have been much longer than four days if they didn't have these relationships.
+1 for using basis points, a sensible unit for skimming a small profit off a giant deal. (A basis point is 1% of 1%, or 0.01%.)
Anyone else have 100% CPU storeaccountd with iBooks offline?
Also they might be afraid that older, more experienced programmers won't respect a younger, less experienced boss.
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I'm having the same problem.

Firefox 3.6.3 on Mac OSX 10.5.8

All the other keybindings worked fine.
"We want information, information, information."

"Who are you?"

"The new number two."

"Who is number one?"

"You are number six."

"I am not a number, I am a free man."

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

Btw, why not use encoded pictures?
I notice that they imply that Greenpeace is a terrorist organisation.
It all depends on what you want to build: if you see a future for yourself where you do more than building traditional CRUD web applications, then explore a new application field & a language that fits that field (e.g. AI/Lisp, NLP/Python). I'm glad I did exactly that & discovered Python/NLTK for NLP.
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This is great. Simple, well designed, and just enough features. I especially enjoy the vanity url and password protection. Good work!
Unlikely. When the contractual change is sufficiently tolerable, society adapts and the idea of property rights morphs along with it. That's less expensive and demeaning than revolutions and collapse. It's an advantage compared to god's law, which is rather a bit harder to change than man's law.

When god's law changes, it classically means war, killing all the males above a certain age, marrying the women and girls off while changing their language and religion - i.e. cultural, and hence deity, decimation. So yeah, watch out for that one.
The first part is already outdated. A lot depends on the browser. Chrome will look up stuff as you type it, and by the time you press <enter>, the DNS lookup will likely have happened already. And, likely, the actual request to the page.

It's probably even more complicated than that, I believe "google.com" is a very special case in Chrome.
It's not quite that simple.

Original sin was conceived of as a way to explain and deal with the everyday depravity of the time period. It was often described that people had weird, strange urges they couldn't understand or control. Christian atonement (prayer is nothing if not a form of meditation) was thus an early form of personal development. Later on, after people and modern society started to mature this got recast as a tool for social control.

Social justice philosophy does not make the claim that everyone is racist / sexist. The claim is that injustice and prejudice are institutionalized, and so there exist entire lines of thought, patterns of behavior, and such that arose out of the institutionalized bigotry that never would have existed without it.

To take a currently-topical example, the comic book store article. The author of the article came violently face-to-face with institutionalized sexism and what happens when you allow the economy to structure itself with a completely free hand.

You can debate the merits of whether this structure is right or wrong, whether comic book store owners should feel guilty about it and obligate themselves to change, and that's an important discussion to have; but the real issue is the fact that nobody knows about these consequences until they have this kind of enlightening moment.

Sexism is institutionalized in a way that nobody really digs into or understands it and can live their entire lives without appreciating the consequences it has on everyone. Is everyone racist / sexist? The question itself is a red herring, the real issue is this institutionalization.
I’ve having a hard time figuring out how this is actually going to be any different than the existing “brokerage” services that are common in the solid waste industry. I really hope I’m wrong because this industry is ready for an operational overhaul and I would love someone from Rubicon to jump in here and point out where they are different.

Waste Management purchased one of the largest solid waste brokers in the nation (OakLeaf) in 2011 [1] and through that acquisition now brokers sold waste and recycling collection services to smaller collection companies across the nation. Large national brands like those mentioned sub out the management of collection contracts for their individual location’s waste services to Waste Management’s brokerage division. This sounds just like the business model described for Rubicon.

One of their primary claims that I’m having a hard time with is the claim that current haulers just want to landfill material because that’s the most cost effective disposal method. I’m in a unique position to say most of my clients (private haulers) are not solely looking to landfill material. They’re already trying very hard to extract extra value for the materials they collection so they’ll be more competitive when bidding. Some of them own landfills. Some of them don’t. Most of them landfill material as a last resort.

I absolutely believe there is opportunity here and hope Rubicon’s distinguishing characteristics were simply missing from this article or somehow under represented.

Also, I’m thrilled that HN has a post about garbage mixed with technology. That’s a combo that I’m incredibly passionate about and love the opportunity to get this community more involved in.

[1]: http://www.wm.com/documents/pdfs/oakleaf.pdf
I think it's an illusion. If you look at culture today, there are a bunch of influences from the 80s. (For example, Taylor Swift's latest album is titled '1989' and has an 80s-influenced feel to many of the songs.) In the 80s, there was a bunch of 50s influence. Billy Joel had released "Uptown Girl" and the rest of an album of almost doo-wop pop hits. Grease was a hit movie in 1978, just a few years earlier. You could still catch shows like Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Hee-Haw on TV. So I think it's just a matter of what you remember. I watched and listened to all that stuff and the 50s still seemed like ancient history to me. (My parents were barely teenagers in the 50s!)
History is largely outright violence and violent exploitation, and the early growth in complexity in the ancient world is marked by the move from the former to the latter. Primitive states massacred their enemies, their leaders unable to apply force in any more sophisticated fashion. It required more complex states to produce the ability to effectively enslave defeated foes in large numbers instead, but once that was achieved states capable of it thrived at the expensive of others.

There is little to chose from between Roman slavery and Medieval serfdom. Long-term colonial economic exploitation had many of the same aspects even where it wasn't outright slavery. The institution of slavery in its broadest sense has proven to be very resilient. It is probably too soon to say whether its comparative absence for a few centuries is a passing thing, or whether it is in fact the symptom of another systematic shift in the sophistication of states. If the latter, then the introduction of modern systems of banking has an interesting parallel course in history. Consider all of the associated means for better extracting wealth from populations without provoking rebellion.

One might put forward an argument that suggests these advances make it more practical for the elite to comparatively peacefully farm the local population rather than farming other populations by making and enslaving enemies. Thus more of the elites do this.

All of which still leaves us with a very long to go yet in order to become a moral species. I don't see it happening without fundamental engineered changes to human nature, and that isn't a near term thing. It is worth remembering that a thin line indeed separates present elites in so-called civilized regions from those who in the past massacred and enslaved. If today's leaders found advantage in it, they would do it.
Makes a lot of sense!
They certainly can and have also exercised this. The UK was part already in the EU when the Good Friday Agreement was signed.

"In March 2017 the Scottish Parliament authorised the Scottish Government to seek to hold a proposed second Scottish independence referendum."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_indep...

"The agreement reached was that Northern Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and would remain so until a majority of the people both of Northern Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland wished otherwise. Should that happen, then the British and Irish governments are under "a binding obligation" to implement that choice."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement#Status_o...
Hmm who changed my title on this thread BTW?

The fact it was originally hyped at 230mpg is kinda important.

Anyway, did anyone notice how they did the press release the day before Thanksgiving when the press is completely distracted/idle? What is up with that? Are they trying to hide it?
Being a bad neighbor doesn't imply hostility.
Sounds very useful.

If Chrome can finally get decent cookie management, I might make it my primary browser.
My dude, the new TOS stipulate that "you grant WhatsApp a royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce and derive works from data you upload, send, ..."[0], which makes no sense at all if WhatsApp/Facebook did not have a way to decrypt the things people send via WhatsApp.

[0]: https://twitter.com/FSFTamilnadu/status/1346864102698754050
He's just inspired me to add a little sketch to my next handwritten thank you note. It's definitely a lost art. Cheers to him for giving it a delightful & personal twist.
This seems like it's designed for fun, not a serious comparison. That being said, this is what I expect from a tumblr blog: fun!
I think that optimization can actually be applied to all the languages.
A lot of this seems weird. If I imbibe 0.5 liters of wine exactly once in my life I doubt there's any effect. Same for 2 cigarettes. For a lot of things there are thresholds that must be crossed before any effect is created.
There's no shame in that. It's called "fear" and can be overcome by research or just forging ahead blindly. I prefer the research method. It's a lot slower, but I feel much better about the results when I get there.
Yes. And its ugliness.
In any creative endeavor, the largest barriers to completion are internal. The creator gets tired, loses interest, and never completes the vision.

The author is saying that getting something out is better than having a beautiful, difficult, half-completed and abandoned lump. It's really the same admonition as the ones to build the minimum viable product, or not to worry about premature optimization. Don't do work that isn't necessary! Every bit of unnecessary work increases the chance of total failure.

In the early stages, your biggest obstacle is getting SOMETHING, ANYTHING, out and working. We tell writers: sit down and write. We should tell programmers: sit down and program. Well, stand, if you don't want your back to ache.
Congratulations Jeremy et al.

CoffeeScript has been and will continue to be a tremendously powerful catalyst for change in the JavaScript community.

CoffeeScript has successfully: advanced our organisations attitude towards JavaScript on both the server and client; rendered working with complex systems -- such as node.js and WebGL -- a breeze and allowed us to focus solely on the real problems at hand rather than quirks in a language.

Everyone who has contributed in any way whatsoever, or even only just toyed with CoffeeScript should feel privileged to be part of the fantastic community surrounding the language.

Thankyou for the great gift that is CoffeeScript 1.0 this Christmas.
"But let's not pretend they are a viable solution for any company that has any potential for legal conflict."

And why should they be? Amazon isn't your lawyer and you shouldn't expect them to defend you against legal threats. Just figuring out whether the threat is credible or not would likely cost Amazon more than they'd ever make in profit for hosting your site.
Where would I move my sites? Do other vendors have a more clear statement of what they will and won't do under pressure from the US government?

I think that's the biggest issue here. I think it's clear that amazon bowed to US pressure (no matter what their public explanation was), but I imagine the number of ISPs that would stand by you while they were being called out on the senate floor would be vanishingly small.

We have a short list of companies that didn't stand by wikileaks, but ostracizing them while patronizing others simply because they didn't get tested seems unwise.

They pretty much all have at will terms in their contracts, so you basically have to rely on their will standing fast once the shit hits the fan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...

I don't know of a statute that makes it illegal to attempt to restrict access to works legally in the public domain, so no, I don't think that implication follows. Once a classified work is public, however, the government cannot assert copyright. They must use clauses in laws such as the Espionage Act to attack the release, and the Supreme Court has not looked kindly upon those attemptsº.

ºhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_St...
Consider a turnkey streaming service or one of the major CDNs that provide such things instead of running streaming infrastructure yourself.

What about a "Kickstarter for courses?" (that one's free folks) where potential instructors propose a course and syllabus etc and if they can generate enough interest in x days then it moves forward and you take a cut to cover the live streaming + small margin and hopefully record the lectures along with the questions and answers from students.
One big reason I want economic growth is because I want to live a lot longer than the standard 80-90 years in perfect health, and I want the same for my loved ones. Affordable health care is great, but what you get for it right now frankly sucks. No matter how affordable your health care is, or no matter how rich you are and how much money you pour into it, you're going to die fairly soon, and probably go through a lot of horrible problems on the way.

I want health care that's so advanced it's "perfect." I want people to routinely choose when to die rather than having it thrust upon them. I want forgetting the names of your children to be as weird and old-fashioned as dying of smallpox. The research and development needed to get there has a high economic cost, and growth is how you can pay for it.
He could get paid for doing this over at https://www.pay4bugs.com
This metaphor is all over the place. Water sure as shit isnt free, taxpayer support yes, free no. Should we not support all the people behind getting the water to your end of the pipe?
I'd be fine with this, actually. As long as there was someplace quiet and private to go when needed. I wouldn't mind if these spaces were just booths you could grab when needed. As long as there were enough to go around.
bch has it. Less has ancient command line args, they aren't getopt style.
I wonder if that is due to the nature of how many of us got into programming, i.e. spending hundreds-to-thousands of hours in front of computer.

I've been "programming" in one sense or another since I was about eight years old. Anything that you have been doing that long since that early is going to seem "inborn" if you don't think about it hard enough.

Certainly, some people are better at certain things than others (just watch me throw a ball), but that can be overcome with hard work (IMHO).
I've tried to make myself love Alfred, and it's admittedly very polished for what it is, but to me it seems to miss the entire thing that makes Quicksilver just so productive to use: the [object][verb] syntax.

Alfred kind of bizarrely stops half-way there: you type anything to find the object you want to manipulate, and then... pick a verb by hitting the appropriate command key or arrowing through a list. My hands are already in the middle of the keyboard, just let me type the verb name!
If I hit a wall I have to change things up. If I'm not getting $#!7 done in the office, I go to a cafe. Productivity at a cafe is never as high, but I chock that up to screen real estate. One monitor for Eclipse and one monitor for docs. Otherwise I'm wasting time flipping.
Silence is great, but sometimes silence can be, well, too silent. I bounce back and forth between coffee shops and my home office, because sometimes I want to sit at home in silence or listen to music, and othertimes sitting at a coffee shop with a lot of ambient noise helps me get into the zone. Something about having a lot of random noise around that I don't care about listening too helps me concentrate.
I don't follow -- what is the structure being preserved in this example?
And possibly what theme / blog engine you are using to generate the blogs. They all seem similar with mostly color scheme changes.
Absolutely: it's easier for me to think about my own work when I see it in context (i.e., with the formatting). If I had to mouse around and select "Courier New" and the color green every time I wanted to format a code sample to get an idea of whether it looked right, I would have never finished. I had just enough formatting to tell whether things "felt right," but not so much that configuring it became a distraction.

Though what _was_ a distraction was having to stop writing to switch contents and fix bugs or add features to my editor. This was still happening when I was in the final stages of the book because any time I context-switched, I tried to spend as little time on it as possible so I could get back to work. In retrospect, maybe I should have just taken a day or two to focus on the editor and then never go back.

Fortunately, I'm still using NJEdit for other things now that the book is done, so it seems to have been worth the investment. I've also open-sourced it so others can use it or fork it for their own needs, so hopefully others can find a way to benefit from it.
To each his own. Some tasks I find (writing is one of them) are best done in a coffee shop. Somehow I find it easier to "zone out" the hustle and movement and focus in coffee shops, while a more silent and still environment makes me very restless and leads to jumping around between tasks.

There are other tasks that I prefer to do at my desk, with loud music