jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a kaleidoscope of arguments, some of which I agree with and some of which I don't. Should TSA be singling Moxie out? Of course not. TSA also shouldn't be handing people to the police for drug offenses. TSA is a debacle.

Should the country be abusing border integrity for domestic law enforcement? No, I don't think so, but, as a pragmatist, I recognize that this ship has thoroughly sailed, it is long past the horizon, and the very fastest cigarette boat of an argument I can devise has no hope of catching up to it.

Is it "unconstitutional" for someone with a demonstrable connection to someone else who is the focus of a major criminal investigation to be questioned? I can't see how anyone could defend that argument. I feel bad for Moxie, and I wish it took a warrant to search people at the border, but I simply don't think this is harassment.
The comparison I am drawing is between the hollywood blacklists and the arbitrary searches of associates of a suspect. The Morrow quote seems fitting whether you think wikileakers are like persons accused of communism or not. We are talking about two things:

1. Investigating associates of a suspect for no reason other than that they are associates, and 2. Performing searches whenever you can without warrants or any kind of direction. These appear to be fishing expeditions, quite possibly the authorities are hoping to catch an associate with evidence of some other crime that they can use to blackmail them into cooperation.

Does this appear to be wild conspiracy mutterings? Too bad the authorities aren't following any kind of process where such accusations can be aired and refuted. Perhaps there's more to it than mere association. If a warrant had been obtained for a search, we could have some confidence that the police explained the justification in a credible manner. Without a warrant, the credibility of the investigation is undermined.

The seriousness of the crime is a red herring. If it's really serious, then there ought to be even greater motivation to ensure that justice is done publicly and fairly. The argument that serious crimes justify skipping all the annoying business of rights and liberties is broken, and I call on you to clarify that you are not arguing that there are some investigations where the ends justify the means.

Finally, the fact that there have been abuses of the border search doctrine for decades is either irrelevant or even greater motivation to fix the problem. By 1969, police agression against people of colour had been a fact of life for at least a century. Was that any argument to shrug our shoulders at the assassination of Fred Hampton?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
When covid started, I was working for a different company that was traditionally 100% in the office. When we switched to work from home, the number of meetings doubled/tripled and I was definitely procrastinating more. It felt like there was no point starting anything because in 1 hour I'd have a meeting. And that statement was true the entire day. It was really hard to force myself to work during those 1-2 hour gaps between meetings.

I switched to a startup that's fully remote and it feels much better now. I went and traveled east from the regular working hours and started work at 12 instead of 9. Then I spent the morning surfing/snowboarding (depending where I was). By the time I came back, I was physically exhausted but mentally prepared to work.

I realized, for me, I procrastinate when I have too much physical energy. I wanted to get up and move around rather than sitting and coding. Maybe that could help you?
Do you have a citation for this? I find this to be surprising given that I have heard the exact opposite: That efficient supply chains lead to eggs too fresh to easily deshell when hard boiled.

When I had my own hens I would deliberately age the eggs I intended to hard boil.
Wow, 6 months?! Why? Supply is pretty continuous, can keep them pretty much anywhere (even if there was just one county in one state suitable for rearing hens.. you could post them to any other faster than that?), what introduces such delay?
It is indeed very astonishing why many people here have such a negative attitude towards this language.
I wonder about the legal aspects of this. I guess one cannot come from Asia/Europe to the USA on a tourist visum and legally telework from there. Other countries seem to have trouble with foreign teleworkers, too. Wasn't there an article about a police raid on a Thai coworking space, a while ago?

But I guess it's allright if you're from Sweden and travel to Spain to enjoy the Mediterrean during the day and work in the evening (both countries are in the EU).
I have also taken programming MOOCs (algorithms 1 and 2, databases, and computational investing), and the programming assignments are a good fit for MOOCs - it's easy to check the result from running a program (for example, the sizes of the five largest strongly connected components of a directed graph consisting of almost one million nodes).

In the fall, I took Financial Markets (Yale, from Coursera). I don't know if that qualifies as humanities or not, but it did have a peer-graded component that worked better than expected. Each week there were multiple choice quiz questions on the videos. But one week there was also a writing assignment. You had to read a fairly technical paper on market efficiency, and then answer three questions on it with max 300 words each.

After the deadline, you have to grade 5 other students answers (as in "Did they summarize the main points correctly?"). This worked much better than I expected. Summarizing the main points, and then reading through and grading 5 other answers really made the content stick. So I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well it worked.

But I think it the peer reviewed writing works best when the assignment is a fairly focused question to answer.

My reviews of the courses:

http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course...

http://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-course...

http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...

http://henrikwarne.com/2015/01/01/coursera-course-review-com...
Meanwhile today in Syria...
This is more thought out than it might appear. In various Fedora releases you can already test GNOME under Wayland. Due to Wayland, certain functionality is not available. The one case which is not resolved yet is the "color picker" from anywhere on the screen. This as security wise you don't want applications to determine the screen content of other applications.

So the switch is actually gradual:

1. Now: Optional GNOME Wayland session (with slightly less functionality)
2. Wayland login session in development distribution
3. QA testing (Fedora has a big QA team)
4. Go/no go decision
5. GNOME Wayland login session in stable distribution
6. Repeat 2-5 for Wayland as default session (for next distribution version)

The login session doesn't use the functionality that might be different between releases. That is why to proceed with testing Wayland, login session is a better test than knowingly reducing functionality.

I'm aiming to also have the Mageia development version switch to using Wayland for GDM. A lot of people use that and we (Mageia) often notice bugs quite quickly.
Those are very very large datasets compared with most typical uses of lzo
We should not be calling it "religious freedom". "Freedom" to restrict and discriminate is simply doublespeak.
Then you would be surprised how bad they are. A great talk on using mobile sensors is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JQ7Rpwn2k

Long story short, expect something like 20 cm/s of position drift trying to do dead reckoning off of mobile sensors.
I doubt all Europeans are as sanctimonious.
I called the office of the governor in indiana and spoke about how dangerous this was last week -- and he ignored or took no action rather.
Is there a feedback button near the bottom? Maybe you can voice your concerns.
It doesn't matter. It says something about him regardless. It says something about the snobbishness here too that nobody else thinks its even noteworthy.
I suggest to also check out WebMatrix

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/06/introducin...
The really cool thing about a one way to mars is that the one-way-naught would be far less isolated than the explorers of old. Today you could carry with you nearly all of the books of earth plus endless TV and movies.

Interplanetary radio would at least allow you to keep up with news on earth. With the tenacity of the amateur radio crowd, it probably wouldn't be long before the first dah's and dit's started showing up.

Back on earth, you'd be one of the most well known celebrities ever to exist.
Honestly, in most of the WP7 phones the SD card isn't accessible, so you'd never know. Does the locked hard drive on your xbox make you feel like a criminal?

I have mixed feelings about DRM. As a developer I like the protections it offers, but as a user I try to avoid it when I can. I'll freely admit it's not a consistent stance. Color me hypocritical.
You can buy a global wildcard certificate that lets you create a domain name for *.domain.com. It costs like $199/year on GoDaddy I think, so you'd have to figure out if you think it would be worth it over getting individual certificates as $12/cert.
One objection to using HTTPS for everything that I occasionally see is the loading of 3rd party scripts (facebook, ad networks, etc.). The premise of the argument against using HTTPS is that these 3rd party scripts are only accessible via HTTP, so users of old versions of IE would get scary popup warnings.

The other interesting item from this article was that you should always load resources via HTTPS, because a malicious script would have control over the DOM. It seems like there is a need for some facility in browsers to let pages delegate limited privileges to 3rd party scripts (maybe only able to read/write in a certain div or something?), so that users can still be confident that their connection is secure.
They use the back of he hand on more private areas so that the fingers are facing outwards. The idea is to prevent any kind of grabbing: perceived, actual, accidental, intentional, whatever.

Edit: iPod typos
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to order the list by the number of distinct successful exploits of an app's vulnerabilities? In that case, unless I am mistaken, Chrome would be at zero.
Thanks for staying around. We have some really cool stuff coming up @Boxcar.
"Pretty horrible" + easy integration with Sharepoint and Exchange + cheap if you're already knee deep into O365 is a tradeoff many large Enterprise IT folks are perfectly happy to make.
Yet proponents of raising the minimum wage seem to disregard this truism when it comes to the case of workers who for whatever reason can only create variable profit at a rate between the old and new minimum wage.

These workers can easily be moved from “profitable to employ” to “unprofitable to employ” by the increase in minimum wage, either entirely or by cutting those hours which would become unprofitable.
Every person in the United States has had the right to access any beach in California for almost 50 years. To act like this case represents an "erosion of property rights" is disingenuous.

Next we'll be talking about "eroding the rights of people to buy the ocean".
Not quite sure. The server load is surprisingly low, but it's gotten locked up a couple different ways.
It depends on the company, and this could be anything from a bad sign to an okay sign. I think the real point here is that you shouldn't get all of your hopes around one company, but be applying to lots of companies so that you're not held back by small number statistics.
Epidemiology and history wasn't as effective as you think in identifying the origins of The Spanish Flu. The origin being Kansas is only one of many plausible theories.
Perhaps it's meaningless, but fully within their purview.
I want to notice a small change in the goalposts. In your previous comment you wrote "If I go to any NY Times article there are always full names attached" and now we seem to be discussing whether the NYT has the right to publish full names against the wishes of the named person. It's an important shift because we're acknowledging the NYT makes this choice and chose to use Scott's full name over his objection, not because of any policy, but just because they wanted to.

If Kendrick Lamar said "It would be better for my image if I was written about using my first and middle name and without my last name" because that's more consistent or he thinks "Duckworth" doesn't conjure the image of a rapper - then I'd say that the NYT should respect that. His concerns make sense and he's much more widely known by Kendrick Lamar than by Duckworth. There's no reason to include his last name, you don't know more or less about him by knowing it or not. It's a balancing act between no benefit on one side and some harm on the other. Seems clear what to do.

I think the NYT has a legal right to publish full names if they want but I think it's a moral flaw that they do so. Same way, maybe it would be legal for you to walk up to a little girl and tell her she's ugly. That's not a crime, but it says something negative about you. You're doing harm for no reason or benefit.
Babylon 5, season 2, episode Geometry of Shadows. The Drazi civil war between green and purple factions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddxIfMRZemc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxds-Co7G1Q
So why write a blog if this is a problem.
If he is a psychiatrist and considers this an issue, he shouldn't have chosen to become a public persona. But, that is exactly what he chose to do.

He himself says that his blog is only psuedo anonymous and it's easy to find out who he is.

So it's a risk he knowingly took, the fact that his name is known is on him, not NYT.
For anyone trying to install on Windows and getting a big scary warning of doom, it's probably nothing to worry about [1].

[1]: https://groups.google.com/g/racket-dev/c/Oxi3dJn-EME
The default assumption for interpreting Google's actions is always that they want to close down communication channels they can't inject their ads into and/or can't control as a monopoly. Such that the fscking web with their millions of trackers dominated by G becomes the only form of digital communication possible. As happened with Usenet, XMPP, MMS, HTML/browsers, etc.
The term partial evaluation tends to be used for research that focuses on automatic evaluation of the static part of the program. When considered as metaprogramming the research would probably discuss type-checking + evaluation as two-stage evaluation, falling under the general umbrella of multi-stage programming.
I guess he was at home at CCMRA in a way he wouldn't have been elsewhere. He seems like a research guy, and although Yamaha had an external R&D stream for a while, it was never going to compete with what was possible at CCMRA and IRCAM.

Not to take away from Chowning, who is certainly up there with Moog for making a difference, but the real father of digital synthesizers is Max Matthews.

FM wouldn't have been possible without the Music-N series, and modern plug-ins are more or less direct descendants of those original card decks.

What Chowning did was classic innovation - taking an obscure and academic piece of code that had maybe ten or twenty users worldwide, putting together a killer practical application for a subset of it, and helping to commercialise it so it was used and heard by millions.

It's cool to realise how experimental it all was back then. Now it's completely mainstream, but that's only because Matthews and Chowning made it so.
Curve fitting is only adapted to analysing continuous data and properties.
Sparse data such as actual semantics of natural languages or an object oriented database are a mismatch for current machine learning.
In re: cybernetics and psychology, Gregory Bateson said that the Neurolinguistic Programming folks achieved what he had been working towards, a cybernetic psychology. If you're interested, start with the very first books "Structure of Magic" vol I and II
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/964154.The_Structure_of_...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821993.The_Structure_of_...

Essentially, by modelling therapists' verbal patterns using Transformational Grammar a formal theory of mind was evolved that has lead to sophisticated algorithms for various kinds of psychological change.

Unfortunately, a lot of pseudo-science and "woo" has grown up around it, but please don't let that distract you, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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In re: creating simple machines with intelligence, IMO cybernetics (i.e. what's in "Introduction to Cybernetics" by Ashby; I'm also not interested in fluff) is pretty obviously the way to go. Even the simple centrifugal governor "seems alive" in the words of early witnesses. Purposive behaviour is the domain of living systems, at least according to instinct and experience, eh?

I think one could use cybernetics to inform the design of robotic systems using e.g. the kind of simple controllers David Wyland talks about at the HomeBrew Robotics Club in this video: https://archive.org/details/HBRobotics_Forth

He's not explicitly talking about cybernetics, of course, but I think he's got the right idea and cybernetics shows the way forward.
FYI, OP is associated with them.

https://irc.com/

https://kiwiirc.com/blog/Kiwi_IRC_gets_sponsored_by_PrivateI...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191022202131/https://gist.gith...

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/private-i...

https://snoonet.org/posts/2016/12/15/introducing-our-newest-...

https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070719/https://snoonet.o...
I'm sure more people could live with a subcompact car than currently do, but it's nowhere near 99%. I can drive a subcompact but they aren't made for tall drivers and anything more than 20 minutes or so hurts my knee.

People with families who regularly take them out aren't going to fit in a subcompact particularly if anyone is tall or there are car seats.

You could design a very lightweight car that could hold 4-5 people comfortably with 1 or 2 carseats and fit tall drivers. But no one does--it's not really an option.

You could buy and maintain multiple vehicles for different purposes, but it's expensive especially when you consider the additional insurance.

>100Kg dingy or a 2500Kg fat-mobile?

No obviously not, I'm saying that 2600kg vs 2300kg is basically irrelevant. And that when you say 2300kg is a waste of energy that statement only makes sense in the context of specific design goals.

>If that's a death trap around the "real" vehicles, should cyclists and pedestrians expect 90% mortality rate

No but motorcycles have an almost 30x higher fatality rate per mile driven than cars do, so I'd call that a death trap.

It's a prisoners dilemma. Everyone else is driving 2000kg+ cars. To make very lightweight vehicles that are safe around those huge vehicles it's very expensive. The solution is regulation, not begging individuals to drive smaller cars.
Thanks - I haven't really put any of this "through the motions" so hadn't encountered that yet.

Thankfully it's a one word change :)
Nice, getting closer. I think US is the only country in North America that uses Fahrenheit so one could say then that less than 50% of people on HN are from the US.
Despite all my downvoters ... when you’re in single comment view the text most definitely is truncated on both desktop and mobile :).
I'm probably a bit naive, but who torrents on their phone or tablet? Like, who does that?
Are free trials unethical? I’m not convinced.
I will say that I noticed sometimes the honors courses, in college, were taught by the absolute worst professors.

I have a theory it was because, "they are honors students, they'll learn the subject regardless, and we need to put this bad teacher SOMEWHERE".

I once got out of a differential equations honors class because it was very obvious the first week, that the teacher was awful. Later, my fellow honors students told me how "lucky" I was to have switched. They were suffering through the course, while I was learning and enjoying my new class.
With the same performance, static protection against irreversible side-effects, and clever aversion of the privatization problem? I'm not aware of any. While STM can be theoretically done in any memory-safe imperative language, Haskell -- mainly because of its purity and type system -- seems to be the only language in which it can be fast enough and correct enough for practical use.

edit: well, Clojure restricts mutability too, so STM is sort of tractable there, but it doesn't get the other benefits that Haskell's type system gives you.
there is http://www.gogrid.com/ but i don't personally have any experience using them.
Is there an actual quote from him saying it will be the dominant platform? The article seems to be lacking that. In fact, there aren't really any quotes in here that even hint at him damning or praising one platform over the other. It'd be interesting to know what he actually said.
I don't recognise the 40%-50% figure. I've been using the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox addon and I notice a very small slow down on some sites, and nothing noticeable on others.
What if bit.ly and other shorteners supplant DNS for affected sites, e.g. http://bit.ly/xAwIp redirects to thepiratebay.org's address, 194.71.107.15.

Will bit.ly have to start breaking every previously shortened URL that redirects to the IP address of an offending site? Or more likely, any shortened URL that redirects to an IP address directly at all?
I'm going to try to make this one. Hopefully there will be successful business types rather than scary looking couch potato programmer types. #nooffense
Bad wording. I simply meant unusual.
Inline anonymous functions don't have to look so funny. Here's an example in coffeescript that takes no arguments and performs a quick action: https://github.com/dpritchett/chatbox/blob/master/public/cha...

Explanation: After the 500ms textbox fadeIn finishes it fires a an anonymous callback function which calls a 3000ms fadeOut.
I think at least part of the point is that the Law of Leaky Abstractions means you always need to think at least somewhat about the infrastructure, just not as much as they do.
Many of those would apply to product management as well.
I am also a lapsed member exactly for the same reasons. The camp makes it impossible to spread the word (for example by linking to their site) because I feel like the cheesiness of the presentation would reflect poorly on me. Frankly they look like a bunch of clowns. Which is unfortunate. I do think they are entitled to their own flair and personality. Thankfully the GPL website is less polarizing. The free software manifesto is great and it isn't packaged in a cloak of easily-dismissed looniness.
For a minute, I was surprised Tennessee of all states would pass anti-hate speech laws like that... then I read the article.

Quite the depressing reality check.
But the author doesn't state why that equilibrium cannot change. He states that is hasn't, which is different.

It's the difference between a double blind experiment and an epidemiological survey. One attempts to isolate a mechanism that is predictive, another attempts to explain historical trends.
ahhh... Joel at his best. great piece of writing. and a gem about programming languages and abstraction.
> That's honestly not much of a counterexample, since you're talking about a 260hp car. Good on him for doing as well as he did, but it seems unlikely he'd be physically able to handle a Formula 1 car at all.

That was 260 hp car that weighed 607 kg. Power to weight ratio is key here, and trust me, this is nothing like your usual full size car that also sports ~250 hp, but weighs 4 times as much. It might not be F1, but it is a real deal.