jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's no doubt that Federer and other great sports figures are well mannered and handle their success with extraordinary grace. However, if your definition of a-hole includes 1) being ruthlessly competitive and/or 2) believing you are better than your competition (even if that hasn't been convincingly demonstrated), I'd wager many of these figures would fit the bill, Federer included.

Personally, I find 2) unbearably obnoxious, but it's something I'm willing to forgive if they provide evidence in the affirmative, as Federer certainly has. I think we have to permit a certain amount of elitism, because it would be dishonest to expect that these players refrain from acknowledging their positions within the respective pantheons of their sports.
Yap, and he made a 1-5 scale for good looking girls as well when he was studying in Germany. Like science, he felt that the best physics development have already been done, and all the best looking girls taken. (Disclaimer: no relation to Lev, even though we share the same name).
That isn't what's bizarre about it.
It's hard to cover much substance in 23 minutes or however long The Daily Show gets. I think they understand this and treat the show as a time to make jokes, but use the interview segment to really dig into current events. The extended interviews especially are fantastic because they're so candid, sometimes tense.

If you're just watching Jon Stewart for 12 minutes of news jokes, you're only getting a small taste of what the show has to offer.
Hi, I'm the author. I do work at Medium, but I wanted to respond to that post because it made me angry - nobody asked me to. And the person who wrote the original post is an investor and STEM advisor. I hoped my post had enough value despite the low quality of the original post, because lots of other people think like Hardaway. I really didn't expect many people to read it and have been surprised at how it took off.
Android doesn't dominate the market for apps, in either app revenue or download numbers. The market domination of android is actually the domination of many separate markets.
Gauss.

Von Neumann.

Erdős.

Euler.
The WSJ says that about 6% of Federal income tax comes from corporations, the rest from individuals. About 38% comes from the top 1% of individuals.

Chasing corporations out of the country in order to raise that to 7% doesn't seem like a good idea.
Quoting a character in one of Stanisław Lem's stories, "People do not really want to live forever -- they simply do not want to die." Always struck me as a rather profound take on the whole immortality deal.
I feel like they should probably advertise this fact somewhere, as I couldn't find it in their docs, website, or readme, and it is quite a significant detail.
> the equation in Newton’s second law isn’t F = ma, but rather the more subtle statement that force is equal to the rate of change of momentum of a body

This is probably the most insightful bit and points directly to the potential of fiddling with the equation.

Drawing an analogy from electricity, F=ma is in a way the "DC version/expression" of a force, in which m and a are constant and F is a fixed quantity. However we can write an "AC version/expression" of the equation as F(t)=m(t)*a(t), in which the average of F(t)=F.

In a way we tend to just be content with dealing with averages instead of looking at the detail and seeing how it varies over time.

There's a lot of potential in looking at the variation. Especially as technology enables it through high speed cameras and instruments with higher sampling rates/resolution.
I was reading about the paywall that Pinterest put up and they did an A/B test and apparently people DO sign up when forced for the paywall... it's amazingly annoying though.
Urban legend?
"expertsexchange"... I can't be the only one who read that as "expert sex change"
I don't think the idea is so much that current technology has much influence, but that the decades of hearing everyone on radio talk with a low tone has influenced that perception of gravitas, up to the current day. And more generally, that cultural biases can effect technological changes that reinforce those biases.
From their about page...

> Pika is building a world where third-party libraries can be loaded, cached, and shared across sites.

Aren't most browsers disabling/about to disable cross-origin caching?
> I find it astounding that a theory like quantum mechanics can have inside it another theory, an approximation, also extremely beautiful mathematically, but radically different. It’s like taking Bach, adding some noise, and getting the best of the Beatles out. I wish I understood better why this can happen.

This isn't really the case. Author should've probably mentioned the Ehrenfest theorem[0]. It's not exactly accurate to say that Newtonian mechanics is "embedded" in quantum (or rather Hamiltonian) mechanics. In fact, we need to do some "artificial" re-jigging to make quantum mechanics work at Newtonian scales.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest_theorem
> The data in your server logs is data that people sent to you on purpose

That's not true: people have no idea what is sent and they're not choosing what's sent (with the exception of some forms.)

It's OK to collect display width, or estimate the time on a page even though people didn't send it to you on purpose.
"I had to find a correct setup of Visual Studio"

Perhaps I'm not understanding you correctly, but do you mean by this? You're not talking about project files are you?

Also, if you don't want to upload new binaries for an ASP.NET website, you can add new .CS / .VB files to the App_Code folder which is subject to JIT complilation.
Good point. If Google did as Gruber suggested, and compete with Blackberry instead of iPhone, they would still end up in the same place (touch screen smartphones), because these are all converging to a consensus view of user experience design. The differences are in quality of execution.
Enough is enough. Moving to Linode tonight.
"containing (a specified element) as part of a whole.".

Checks out.
So... I was raised for a while on a 3 generation compound with quite the animal menagerie, including chickens.

I can imagine a situation where the chickens are entirely confined. Ok, we never did that. For us, the roosters flew to the high branches of the quite large grapefruit trees. There they were mostly safe, and were of course expendable anyway. The hens (sometimes ducks) were locked up nightly in a rather carefully built hen house completely enclosed in a chickewire box. Maybe 20'x10'x10'. You could walk around in it no problem, along with the 10 or so chickens and the roost box.

This was on the edge of the Everglades in S. Florida. We had a variety of varmints. The varmints occasionally breached the defences. Repairs were occasionally required.
Losses happened. That's what I wonder about entirely confined chickens, while granting varmints more or less unlimited time to work on the problem. What's the difference?

And there's that "recently" word lurking in my parent... we'll see what the spillover effects are.

I'm going to add that I've had a box turtle for 27 years, and my last cat lasted 16 years. And we have traveled multiple weeks multiple times a year for decades.

I am all in favor of personal enslavement to an agrarian fantasy. For many years my wife the master gardener has besieged me (the cook) with the fruit of her 5 raised beds. It took us about 4 tries to get through a summer (in AZ at 5500') without having to monitor/water the garden semi daily. We fixed that, with occasional failure. However, you have to concede significant losses if you travel around harvest season: stuff really wants to leap off the plants in a timely manner.

So... all I am saying is that this is not a simple game if it lasts for a significant part of your lifetime, if you want to travel.
The author is a bit dogmatic on some points where reasonable explanations exist to show that the book of Daniel is likely a historical first person account.

https://www.biblia.work/sermons/nabonidusbelshazzar-and-the-...
> No, I do not let either game idle, as I consider it cheating.

On the other hand, I would argue that it is precisely how they are meant to be played. Of course there are always more things that you could do, but ultimately it's meant to be that you set up the system to run and then step back and let it work.
They don't have non US local papers.

Today I learned that Toronto and Winnipeg are in the US.
On Linux, I use mtPaint whenever I can, because it is quick and intuitive. So when I need to use GIMP, it is for a relatively complex task. I keep a GIMP-instructions text file to record every step of these operations so I won't have to research it again the next time.

My colleagues on Windows have been tempted to try GIMP (for casual use), but none I know have stuck with it. They revert to either PhotoFiltre or Serif DrawPlus.
That's weird, we have a very strict maximum parking requirement in my country. Sometimes it's even 0.
I have very little experience with Haskell so I may be wrong about this - I gave up on Haskell because it didn't feel pragmatic, it didn't seem to make trade-offs that maximize productivity. Does purity (and effects of it on language design) really make the language more productive? Do people love Haskell because they are super productive with it or because they find it elegant etc?

Ceylon on the other hand really clicks with me more than the many other languages I've looked at.
vigor 130 -

not the full web interface, but...
try wireshark on it

if you have the right setting enabled, you'll find it is broadcasting its status onto the network for you to pick up

vigor's routers use this info. to show line speed etc. when using a modem via the router
So is this really a genetic algorithm, or is it hill-climbing? Are you combining genomes from different individuals? Or are you just mutating a single genome? There are no controls for crossing genomes, so it seems likely to be hill-climbing.

If not, how are you mapping the genome to the phenome?
I think there is always room for a better mouse trap.
What if their's aren't shitty?
Well, you are talking about risk adjusted return there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_%28investment%29
Women's contributions tend to get airbrushed out of history, look at Rosalind Franklin's contribution to the discovery of DNA for instance.
But you are not Google, and I expect you to have higher standards. Don't take Google as the reference data point, it's a fairly low one as far as reference data points go.

On a related note, Dropbox is not the only company that advertises security even though what really is offered is kind-of-security. See Backblaze, for example — yes, the data is (supposedly) encrypted using my private key, which (supposedly) only stays on my machine, but I can't be sure because it isn't auditable, and to do a restore I have to supply my private key to the Backblaze website, instead of using a local decryption tool. Not good.
> "But poor people have iphones now" when people can't afford food, healthcare, or any leisure time is the 2021 equivalent of "Let them eat cake".

The iPhone is a luxury product within a category of luxury products. No one needs a smart phone to be successful in life - you don't need it to educate yourself, to find jobs, to do work, to entertained, etc. It could be used for all those things, but it isn't a prerequisite or the only way. But the fact that the vast majority of adults in the US can afford the disposable income to acquire such a luxury, a device that we could scarcely envision 15 years ago, is a sign of how healthy capitalism is. But leaving America aside - consider as well that globally, extreme poverty has plummeted under capitalism (https://fee.org/articles/extreme-poverty-rates-plummet-under...).

People today have greater purchasing power, standards of living, and life expectancy than ever before, at every income level. To claim that people somehow cannot afford the basics in a country where immigrants regularly show up, live frugally, grind, save, and find a way to thrive, seems disconnected from reality. Instead of blaming the system fully, some blame must also be apportioned for those who don't show the personal responsibility required to manage their life well. That's not insulting, it's just common sense in my opinion.

> Asking the wealthy to pay a greater share to improve society is perfectly reasonable.

How is this not explicitly unfair and discriminatory?
> 1. You don't decide whats a waste of energy or not.

Whether or not it's a "waste", it's certainly a massive amount. More than all of Argentina or Netherlands[0], as was posted here on HN recently. As of 2020, every single Bitcoin transaction uses the equivalent of 15 full charges of a Tesla car battery[1].

Also: You don't decide whether I (or others) decide what's a waste of energy or not.

[0]: https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26090317
"Fix rate" is an interesting metric, but I don’t think it’s a good proxy for engineering value.

When I see a false positive flagged by a compiler warning or static analyzer, sometimes I’ll fix it just because I’m not sure I want to turn off the rule. For example, I often use -Wunused-parameter with -Werror with Clang or GCC, and then just use (void)arg; to silence the false positives.
I’m saying the nuclear family is a distinctly modern concept that didn’t exist for most of recorded history even in the US, they didn’t make a point about single parenting.
Indeed, I use something like it from a vendor supplied C math library for a noise generator on an embedded app, where I really just care about its crude statistical behavior.

But short of saying "banned," any review of security critical code should include an explanation of where the random numbers are coming from and why they're trusted. Or in general for any code review: Why do you believe your numbers?
I dont like Gnome's defaults. I have the standard GNOME 2 was better mindset. Honestly its the giant app switcher thingy that comes up when you press Super. I just cant stand that. But I wanted the "it just works" aspect of Ubuntu, so I looked around and went with Ubuntu Budgie. I would have gone full solus, but I needed to run Unity3D so I stuck with Ubuntu. I think Budgie is the best looking DE for my tastes. Most things worked great, but I did have a few random problems. I had a bug in Plank where new apps wouldnt show up on it. I gave up on fixing it and switched to Linux Mint. Mint's Cinnamon and Budgie are pretty similar, and Mint just had a few more years of maturity under its belt.

I'm really happy to see Solus continuing development, especially after it's original creator left the project.

I'm very happy with the state of Linux DE's these days. The haters are always gonna hate but Budgie, Pantheon, Cinnamon and MATE are all light years ahead of where we were not long ago. And like other posters have mentioned, we are also witnessing a decay in the quality of MacOS.

Keep up the great work Linux DE developers!
Oh man, Tesla is not covering themselves in glory on this issue. C'mon Elon, step up and do the right thing. Don't burn your goodwill.
Nissan, a normal car maker, released a huge number of Leafs with improperly implemented battery cooling and battery charge/storage voltage management systems, which resulted in terrible cycle life and drops in range capacity in the 1st and 2nd generation Leafs.
Paris helped shaping almost every artist in Europe at that time :)
http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/research/general-equilibriu...
Sales and marketing. Poorly written.
Yeah, I commuted by bike until we had kids. Sadly, the preschool that we liked the most also wasn't easily bikable from the house. The kids now go to a school that is easily bikable, and it's a joy.
>For example with PIA, they are incorporated in the great surveillance kingdom of the UK, which is why I avoided them. They did not take the neccessary legal precautions and their freenode aquisition made little sense from a profit perspective which all in all suggests a grand scheme/vision not obvious to customers.

This summarizes my thoughts very well.
A lot of the things you mentioned are abstracted away from most Software Engineers nowadays. Of course it's good to know how these things work, but for most SWE jobs it is not necessary to have a strong grasp of them.
The world of software has grown tremendously, many companies need rather simple software that is built with high level frameworks and tools.
On the other hand there are still people building compilers, game engines, routing algorithms or work on embedded systems where all the things you mentioned are much more important.
This is already the case in certain jurisdictions. e.g. Quebec explicitly bans free trials that automatically rebill at the end of the trial period. Solution for most companies have been to offer a longer membership periods in Quebec. (e.g. Amazon Prime in Quebec is initially 13 months for $79.)
Those people keep forgetting that Google has been porting Android Runtime (ART) to run on Fuschia for a while now.
This idea comes from Mark Sisson and frankly, if you’ve been a competitive runner for that long, you should likely know that and be prepared to argue it. I’ve been a competitive runner for a fraction of that time and have had this conversation so many times it’s muscle memory.

The article this idea comes from is based on the idea that long distance runners spending their whole runs at 80 - 85% of their max heart rate. That’s only about 20 seconds off my 5k race pace if I want to compete at that distance. There’s no way that I’d keep that pace at distance - my coach would fire me, I’d be an idiot and I’d overtrain myself into oblivion.
Addons/extensions are a major security risk. For example,

Firefox addon: Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history, Access browser activity during navigation, Access your data for all web sites

Chrome Web Store obscures the full permission list, but the comments for that extension admits: right "read and change all your data on the websites you visit" needed

It's 2021, you should view all browser addons as a threat.
These are all great examples. I would add "Adios", which came out recently, is short and bittersweet, and has some of the best writing I've ever seen in a video game.
An incredible usability own goal. One of the problems with low contrast text is readability in non-ideal lighting, such as outside on mobile. But this site is hardly usable on mobile at all.
I only read the comments anyway.
You're using the word 'diff' for 2 different things:

- an efficient way to store 2 very similar files

- the minimal set of changes made by a programmer to a file.

Subversion uses the same diff algorithm for these 2 functions, which is why people conflate them. But git uses different algorithms. The first one (which it calls deltas) are optimized for speed and compression ratio. The second set of algorithms (you can choose from a few, some of which are better at identifying rearrangements of large blocks of text) are optimized for merging 2 programmer's changes without conflicts.
Tangentially, that must be miserable life.
> The resources needed to forge a signature aren't going to be much different than the resources needed to create a deepfake to begin with

I imagine deepfakes will become way easier in the near future because there are legitimate commercial reasons to make them easy and accessible (for example digital art assets). I don't see the same happening for cracking devices, which is more a standard security cat and mouse game between hackers and device manufacturers.
Also noteworthy: the GSM network at the congress works like a charm, it's really awesome!

It's by the guys from eventphone.de running Osmocomm (more info at https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:POC)
roman numerals are rendered in capital letters as far as I know, so it's incorrect usage either way.

Not to mention that the roman system is not multiplicative but additive.
Think about it. You're tired of your job and interested in making a change. It's, say, August. You know that if you wait until the end of January you'll get your annual cash bonus, say, $30K. Also, between August and the end of January you get a few stock vesting periods which amounts to, say, another $50K. So you can leave now, or you can stick it out for a few more months and get $80K to help smooth your transition.

What do you think you'd do? If you're the sort who doesn't need money and only works for the challenge and the chance to contribute to something important, you would probably just leave. If your paychecks actually matter to you, the $80K (plus whatever your salary is during the interval), will probably make you decide that waiting a bit is a good idea.
> The presentation has transformed the (public domain) text enough to qualify for protection.

Do you have a reference for that?
Modern civilization in general must be a huge bane to you then.
I don't think they mean an annual subscription. I assume they mean taking a larger share of the purchase price of apps, in-app purchases, and maybe even ad revenue. In the 12 months prior to June, developers earned $5bln for these things (Apple paid out north of $7.5bln in the same period) [1].

Google used to give developers 70% of app purchase revenue, give carriers 25%, and keep only 5% for themselves. A year or so ago they moved to keeping almost all of the non-developer pie. That pie is closer to $2bln than $38mln. But if they're going to take more, the only place left to take it from is developers. I can't believe that's going to go over well for them, but I already can't believe carriers rolled over so easily despite giving Google things it really needed, like carrier billing for app purchases.

[1] http://www.beyonddevic.es/2014/06/25/what-we-learned-about-g...
"No, abolishing time zones and DST would also remove huge swathes of code in all of today's operating systems, numerous costly bugs, and make time unambiguous without qualifiers like time zone or location."

Because we can be certain that, going forward, we will never need to talk about a time before we made the change.
You're probably looking for the "unshare" command and corresponding system call (or the same flags to the "clone" system call). Specifically, running "sudo unshare -n bash" will get you a shell with no network devices other than lo. You can then find the pid and use "ip link set dev eth0 netns 1234" from outside to move eth0 into the new namespace (more practically, you might make a virtual network device and move one end into the new namespace).

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unshare.2.html

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/clone.2.html

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/unshare.1.html

Loosely a "container" (in the LXC or Docker sense) is a combination of making new namespaces, which isolate the process tree from the rest of the system in various ways (filesystem, network, hostname as returned by "uname", etc.), and making a cgroup, which allows for process tracking and resource allocation.
The project-based method of learning really appeals to me. It encourages goal setting and taking action, in this case writing code, and doing whatever is necessary to get stuff done. When you finally start dabbling on the academic side, you have "hooks" in your mind to hang bits of knowledge that some might gloss over. These are earned from past experiences.

Another benefit is that even when your earlier projects don't turn out the way you want, you have a visible path of progression that you can show your potential employers, potential co-founders, or even yourself just to reflect on.
In a way, my past projects are my programmers diary.
are you telling me that they still use Overture for ads on Bing + Yahoo! Search but they are still using two different and separated versions of Overture, so that I have to get two accounts to advertise on the two search engines? wow...