jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Additionally, the post title 'Tumblr disappears [someone]' pretty much implies they're not being sent to the gulag or gitmo, it's just a figure of speech.
How does data roaming work on European carriers? For someone traveling from the US, there could be a significant cost to using data in another country. If Europe's prices are more sane, it might not be an issue.
Username and public URL. That's probably why Zephoria went after it so aggressively.
It's a lame move from both tumblr and the company zephoria. Here I'd like to ask if anoyone heard of twitter stealing one's username? I was once very surprised finding that http://twitter.com/#!/bmw is used by some guy, while the company uses other twitter accounts http://twitter.com/#!/search/users/bmw and I wonder if they even tried to get the username.
Beyond pirating the content, they also went out of their way to steal fan translations. They eventually hired their own translators, but not before making boatloads of money off selling other peoples' work.
I'm currently running arch on an x240, and it works perfectly.
I have also had really good experiences with x1 carbon (v2), x220 and x201.

I've ran several different distros on macbooks too, mostly flavours of debian/ubuntu, but also arch and gentoo. In my experience it's all about the amount of work you're willing to put in, but you can defenitely more often than not, get a good setup running on macs(least the machines I tried it on).

The silver lining of getting arch to run on a machine that's not really "plug and play" is that you get to learn a lot of it's internals during install. I would recommend it to anyone with an intrest in linux desktop systems :)
Are you in fact a millionaire?
Most of the answers you'll probably get are pretty cliched, but that's OK... they're popular answers for a reason. So, might as well get it out of the way:

Figure out what you like doing, and find ways to spend more time doing that.

Ok, that said... in real-life, sometimes we have conflicting desires and tradeoffs have to be made. If I like doing "X" and "B" but "B" pays way better, and I also want "Y" which requires money, then maybe "B" is the better choice, even if I actually like "X" a little more. Or not. The point is, there are no perfect decisions... life is a series of trade-offs, learning experiences and opportunities to re-evaluate things. If I have any useful advise to give, I'd say something like:

1. Above all, stay true to yourself vis-a-vis principles and values. Don't compromise on who you are or what you believe in, just to make a buck or whatever.

2. Try to avoid decisions that lock you too firmly onto one path. While it's true - after a fashion - that it's "never too late to $FOO", inertia and lock-in are powerful forces. Sometimes you have to pick, jobs, locations to live, significant others, etc., but try to always keep an eye towards keeping your options open.

3. All of that said, read "Hero With A Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces Watch the movie "Vision Quest" Think about what you want your purpose, your quest, your defining goal to be. Pursue it whole-heartedly. Watch that old Kevin Costner movie "Tin Cup" as well. It's silly, but there's some great wisdom there.

4. Realize that the old saw about "Winners never quit and Quitters never win" is true but represents a double-edged sword of sorts. Read "Moby Dick" and imagine Captain Ahab muttering to himself "Winners never quit, winners never quit..." There's a fine line between determination and obsession. Unfortunately you might not recognize it until you cross it. Some lessons you just have to learn through experience.

5. On the sexual frustration thing... I'm hesitant to say this, because it can open a big can of worms for some people and lead to more obsession, but... If you're not good at connecting with women, there is useful knowledge to be found in the "PUA community" (or "Seduction Community" if you like). There's a lot of BS as well, but some people do gain from getting involved in that. http://www.fastseduction.com
At the risk of making that statistic _dramatically_ worse. . .

Heisen-audience-loss-tracking I suppose.
A proposal in this direction from Dan Wallach at Rice: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dwallach/rebooting-cs-...
Which at least I find perfectly acceptable (as long as the projects are Hacker News worthy).
My update took about 45min (3G). But I don't have that much data on it, only ~4gigs.
No one said you have to upgrade the device's software. It's not like the first-gen devices have killswitches.
You are right about this. Thanks for pointing out this nuance.
Don't hire morons then?

I mean, if employees can hurt your business just by knowing how it works, then you're fucked anyway.
> it is incorrect regardless of your views on rules of
> language

If you've managed to stumble upon an English-language equivalent of Académie française or the Icelandic Language Institute, with the power to define right and wrong in English, I'm sure we'd all love a link... Generally the closest thing we have is "one particular dictionary" (OED) but it aims to be descriptive, rather the prescriptive.

However, regarding:

> That isn't correct usage

You can probably learn something unexpected from:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17337706
I mostly see upsides. Instead of uncertainty about random trivia, the conversation can be based on certainty about amazing trivia.

Did you know that early South-Americans used the shells of giant turtle-like mammals as houses? Isn't that crazy? Here, check out a picture of one. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Glyptodon...

Or as xkcd put it, you are one of the lucky 10,000! http://xkcd.com/1053/
Two bishops here.
It gets boring when there is a few pieces left.. there is hardly any chance random will actually win - it will keep moving around forever.
Um, the horrifying side of the story is of the parents and the child. What other part of the story would be protected by privacy laws.
Nobody's suggesting that it should be a crime to trigger a metal detector whilst trying to board a flight with a checklist of words related to terrorism in one pocket and a book apparently accusing the US of being a "Rogue Nation" as further light reading material. They are suggesting it might be a sufficiently unusual set of circumstances to warrant waiting for a competent investigator to give the all clear.

As entirely explicable as his actions might have been, this guy did an awful lot more to inadvertently provoke suspicion than the several people per day detained for questioning for being in a particular area at a particular time, and possibly even the same colour as the perpetrator. A few of them undoubtedly suffer the inconvenience of missed flights and public embarrassment too, and/or encounter more objectionable behaviour from law enforcement than a overuse of handcuffs and amateurish-sounding line of questioning.
I just saw a promotion to a knight.
Buttercoin, based in Palo Alto and open to US residents only, has been operating for a while. See the 'Legal' section of their FAQ:

https://buttercoin.com/#/faq
From what I remember at the time (keep in mind, this is ~3.5 years ago), backbone had a few issues (and bugs) that were making it difficult for us to use on an app we were building.

We could have spent a good amount of time forking, fixing them, hopefully getting a PR merged (if the changes were even in-line with the project), and on top of that creating an adapter to replace any sort of DOM manipulation with Moo, which I think back then was more then just overriding a handful of methods.

So, composer was born not just out of "jquery sucks, we're redoing this" but more "well, we could fix all the stuff that we don't like in backbone, or build something that suits our needs directly."
I have a feeling that's because a great deal of NLP use is either proprietary or academic. It's either buried away in a combination of academic papers and academic heads or hidden away in a corporate codebase the world doesn't have access to.

The best way as far as I'm aware of to get into NLP is to take a course at a university. My university (University of Melbourne) was lucky to have an undergraduate subject taught by one of the lead authors of NLTK (Stephen Bird) and that was a great help. You can even take the subject on its own without enrolling in a full course.

Plus there are books on it. One of the main ones I'm aware of (by Bird) is http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/natural-language-processing-w...
What Chinese can't do very well in your opinion ?
It seems a little strange that the author uses a slide deck to explain how to write more clearly, but then I only read the first dozen slides. Maybe later he makes a convincing case that an outline is the ultimate form of clear writing?
> The problem is that a large percentage of the stuff
> that's taught in schools in fact IS more or less useless
> in later life

But conveniently almost all of that abstracts out to: "persevere with boring and challenging tasks to obtain reward", which is a great lesson.
Interesting - wasn't aware of that. I wonder how hardy those spores are -- that is, if they're as much of a problem with dried garlic, as with fresh?

One easy options seems to be to opt for garlic vinegar instead, as the vinegar is acidic, and doesn't allow the bacteria to thrive?

http://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-garlic-infused...

edit, see also: http://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/uc_davis/uc_davis_garlic.p...
The world is moving to Linux. Slow but sure. Asia is moving to Linux.
Then why not focus on cutting spending?
If the definitions of open and closed are so well understood, I'm sure someone will be kind enough to post them here, or at least link to them. :)

Also, that's the first time I've been called an Apple fanboy. In fact given my concluding paragraph I'm amused you could draw that conclusion. (FWIW I don't own a single Apple product.)
There is something point-blank disturbing about it. A journalist has an exclusive on a major news story, and he's making no effort to publish it. In terms of suspiciousness, this is like cats not chasing mice - it's just so far outside normal behavior that you just have to assume something else is in play.
The poverty rate in the U.S is about 17%. By your logic, those 17% are not getting ahead because they do not have innate abilities, they dont work hard, have the wrong attitude or dont have moral character and integrity.

Don't you think that is a rather sweeping assertion!
It's good to know there's still interest in GNUstep. You barely ever see work with it or on it any more, Sony's work being a rare exception and only temporary.
There is a lot of unnecessary FUD in the article, but some elements of truth too. Personally, I have always been sceptical and never trusted and used DuckDuckGo because they are an American company. Their relation with Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo also added to the mistrust. (DDG gets its search results from Microsoft Bing and Apple harvests a lot of user data from it by offering it as one of the few default search engines on ios / macOS platform. Thanks to them, DDG is the second most used search engine platform in the US).

As Snowden's PRISM revelation highlighted, the US has outsourced a huge part of their intelligence gathering to BigTech. Thus US companies have a huge profit incentive to collect as much personal data as they can on their users. (It's not just the tech companies - I remember reading about how Ford downloads your contact list, and recent calls, from your car when you take it for servicing from their service center). So it's a no brainer for US companies to harvest as much user data as they can. Who wouldn't love to have the US government as their client, with their near unlimited wealth?

So companies like Apple and DDG have just resorted to using "privacy" just for marketing, to increase their user base, while they slowly abuse the misplaced trust of the user and slowly keep increasing the data they collect from their user.
you'll have done all you can on your own

But you'll never reach that point.

If you're abusing other people's time because you can't be arsed to put in effort on your own, you should feel anxious about it.

Why? What's the better thing they have to spend time on, and why aren't they already spending time there? You're talking about people who spend time on some forum because that is, essentially, a hobby for them. You're not "wasting" someone's time when their time has no particular value in the first place.
Boiling then steaming is the standard method of cooking rice from (at least) Iran to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Not an insignificant number of people.
White people (at least some) cook rice by rinsing once, throwing in rice cooker w/ water ( about 2 part water to 1 part rice), and then turning on the rice cooker.

Source: Am white person. (from southeast Louisiana if it matters)
2. Bram responds the next day. The submitter responds to Bram a week later...
3. Bram responds the next day.
4. Patch was merged after 4 months.
5. Bram responds same day after patch is added to mailing list.

Looks like the response times are great!

Also it looks like a patch that is merged is put on the mailing list at the root and not as a reply to peoples messages.

So it is hard to tell how long someone submits something and when a patch is merged by looking at responses. You would have to find a patch someone submitted, then find Brams "Patch" messages to find when it was merged and compute time difference
Depending on how much insight you could get into the system, you could probably find out when it is doing “random” work and when it does actual work, since they will most likely look different in terms of eg. heat output, power consumption and what not.
the GPL restricts the developer more and forbids restrictions on the user. Just saying it is more "restrictive" does not clarify that

(and yes. If you dont know if you want MIT or GPL, "dont worry about" V2 vs V3)
Calorie-dense foods psychologically bring us comfort

Am I the only one disturbed by this statement? Sure, many people are conditioned to get emotional comfort from eating, but I've seen no evidence it's hard wired. I'm not saying one should hate food, but I find it as unhealthy to have a relationship with food where you use it to fill an emotional void, and I suspect it's a major cause of obesity in places like America. If an obese person lost their emotional attachment to food and stopped eating unconsciously, I'd be surprised if they didn't drop to a healthy weight.
Here is the Abstract from the actual study:

Obesity is an emerging health crisis in many developing countries. To find food based solutions for obesity, rice resistant starch (RS) concentrations and novel ways to increase RS concentrations were studied. A total of 38 Sri Lankan rice varieties were tested; the RS concentrations ranged from 0.30 to 4.65%. The traditional rice varieties had significantly higher RS concentrations than old and improved varieties. Bg 305 had the least RS concentration out of all. However, applying different heating and cooling conditions with pure coconut oil showed RS concentrations increased by at least 10 times. The increase in RS content could be attributed to the increase in RS3 and RS5 types, suggesting potential to increase these types of RS in rice. This study results clearly show that rice, when cooked properly, could be a good low calorie food source for obesity reduction. In-vivo glycemic effects of RS studies are in progress.

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-low-calorie-rice-obesity.html
I am absolutely sure that you could, and many families have. I just have no experience there, so I won't comment on whether it's easy :)
I actually went there for dinner last night, and it is fantastic pizza.

:)
Of course you want a million dollars.

You just don't want the burden/responsibility that comes with it.
Thanks! Yes, that is really similar to what we had planned to do.
Thanks for the feedback. Here's a few tidbits regarding your remarks:

We're planning on allowing users to purchase a book of their photos at the end of the project.

We're also working on adding email-to-365, which would allow you to upload via your phone and other devices since e-mail is pretty widespread. We're also working in webcam integration so you can take a picture from the website itself.

One thing we allow is backlogging. Right now it's basic, but we're planning to implement a verification feature so that pictures that don't match the dates get flagged. They'd still be in the project, but they'd be marked as late. We were thinking about doing this by reading the images EXIF data.
Yes, I'm sure it is (for some definitions of faster) and isn't (for others).

No benchmarks, no comparative NoSQL code, and the example is trivial. There's nothing interesting here.
You're right that it doesn't make sense to compare the groups at an aggregate level but look at http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N... for an attempt to look at comparable job catagories.

For example, registered nurses working for the government received $74,460 per year while in the private sector, the number is $63,780.

The same study found some occupations where the private sector paid more (airline pilots, lawyers).

There is a nice table there with a breakdown by occupation.

So it seems like the issue is a bit more complicated than the headlines would suggest. Imagine that.
When it comes to page load speed, extra network round trips are really bad. Even if you're loading the same total amount of data.
Here's another HN mobile web app: http://hn.meteor.com/
> And no, as a user, I don't want Chrome on iOS.

Then don't install it. Seems to be quite simple.
> - Time limits on websites

What would this look like?
It would be good if there was enough public information available for people to deduce that it is happening in the present.
I once named a file $HOME and then carelessly tried to delete it without thinking twice.
And as long as you're comfortable with ingesting executable code from arbitrary sources.

Why more languages don't adopt Tcl's concept of a safe/restricted interpreter for this exact use case is beyond me.
It's actually not Safari but WebKit. Gnome browser uses it as well (and a few others). I guess that makes it harder to sue? Since it's not a project that "belongs" to them?
> how you protect the signing certificates

You get an HSM like this: https://www.veritech.net/product-detail/keyper-hsm/ that stays air-gapped.

Then you build procedures around it, like https://www.iana.org/dnssec

Not cheap or easy.
Lots of reading game theory & economics, and saying "that doesn't make any sense," then reading it again until it made sense. The "rationalsphere" is where I read most of it; sites like lesswrong, overcomingbias, putanumonit, and thezvi.
Intercal isn't horrible! How could be the only language with PLEASE keyword be bad?
(from wikipedia)
This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite.
Posts like this just make me realize how impossible it is to follow every security best practice and stay one step ahead of the latest techniques. You can maybe try tick the most common boxes, but expecting users to be able to police their machines, networks, and other attack surfaces (and still find time to get work done) is unrealistic, IMO. I'm starting to think the common factor here between secure systems and insecure ones is lucking out on having no interested / skilled attackers...
Please don't do this here. Substantive criticism is fine; snarky meta comments add nothing.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567998 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: it turns out you've been posting a lot of stuff like this. Please don't post any more stuff like this. Instead, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
This reminds me a lot of benchmarking Haskell which does significant dead code analysis and thus was breaking benchmarks. The benchmarks were, of course, modified to do more with the looping code and ensure that all the code paths were run, but the interesting moral is that sometimes artificial benchmarks unsurprisingly don't test what you think they're testing.
The fed did not "spend" anything. There are three things to remember here:

* The Fed creates money

* The money supply has shrunk greatly, so the Fed needs to create money anyway

* The money is not given out, but traded for Treasury securities

Saying the Fed spent money on banks suggests a fundamental ignorance on how these things work. If anything, the Fed spent money of the government, but that viewpoint is not accurate either, only less ignorant.
Steve prefers artists and artisans. Artists can hack and code, but there is a different worldview.
Essentially a content-free posting. Executive summary: any software (open source or not) needs to be evaluated in terms of expected costs and benefits.
Maybe the problem is simply that no one knows what "hacker values" actually are,.
As a counter example, if can only get your broadband via cable, you're stuck with Virgin Media (I think) who have quite an onerous capping policy [1] unless you fork out for 50Mb fibre optic.

[1] http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-... - in particular, note the evening fair use amount: 3.5Gb
Arthur C. Clarke: Science fiction writer.

E.W. Dijkstra: Actual computer scientist.
Yes. I'm not comming up with an excuse.

Other java script engines, like the one in web kit, minimize the amount of analysis they do of java script source, in order to avoid extra overhead. Something like an optimizing compilation pass is generally too slow to be done online. It would delay page load time considerably.

But, if it could be done off line, operating on cached, frequently used pages, it could improve runtime considerably.

If one were to implement such a system for js, it would make sence to use file hashes as keys to the precompiled code index, and fall back on slower methods for cache misses, until such time as the offline process could compile the code. Small changes (non white space), like the ones in the diffs, would trigger hash changes.

Given such a system, precompiling the benchmark is not cheating. My point is that you are confusing necessary with sufficient conditions, and are making damning conclusions without proper evidence.
I think he's actually attacking the mourning of cockpit automation, not defending it. He uses it as an example of Carr's romanticization of manually performed work.
Relevant except from that page:

The Excel team's ruggedly independent mentality also meant that they always shipped on time, their code was of uniformly high quality, and they had a compiler which, back in the 1980s, generated pcode and could therefore run unmodified on Macintosh's 68000 chip as well as Intel PCs. The pcode also made the executable file about half the size that Intel binaries would have been, which loaded faster from floppy disks and required less RAM.
Oh, the turing-completeness is new, it wasn't in the past. Using Lua was to improve template performance.
Of course your comment is being blasted because you actually offer evidence.

So many comments seem to question the veracity of the claim and dismiss it entirely as a political move when this is something that is being adopted and used to indoctrinate
Agreed, it is brutal how awful the zucks and pgs of the world argue about this. What I find bizarre is aren't they aware of how dishonest / douchey they come off when they fail to mention the impact on wages?

There is a way to solve the immigration problem. Create a system where the companies can hire people if they poney up 50k. That way there will be minimal impact on salaries and companies can get all the super stars they can afford.