jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing in this article isn't the "Ubuntu tablet", but how quickly misinformation spreads.

The original, non-media-spammed article (the one linked in the Register piece), was actually posted on HN a few days ago.

Quite quickly, people realized that the button on the tablet had a Windows icon, which means that this tablet, while probably running Ubuntu, is almost certainly not an "Ubuntu tablet."
I would have it all online/freely available but w/ the ability to purchase a lulu physical copy.
He does mention this though - "I did get the odd subscriber sending me an email saying that he had clicked loads of adverts. This is called demon clicking. I would reply that I would prefer them to only click on adverts they were interested in."

And then there is reference in the article to another commenter mentioning the same in the comments which he then edited to remove.

Sounds like there was at least a reason to suspect - sad if the users did that on their own and he had to suffer due to their actions but I find it hard to believe strangers will do this for making another stranger money.
I'm not sure what you mean.

"That’s the option Paul Preece took with his phenomenally popular Desktop Tower Defense... in Preece’s case, close to six figures."

The article mentions David Scott's game as an inspiration for Preece's game.
http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/109756/7-strange-ways-make-mo...
Its another Hacker News article on the main page. Don't know how to copy the HN link.
Your first six sentences tell us that you were mistaken, that the problem isn't as big as you realized, and that you are partly to blame. That is: you admit that you have grossly exaggerated the problem of incivility on HN.

How, I ask, are your suggestions to help when there is no problem to solve?
I emailed support.
I'm glad there is finally a decent article on how to use / debug jquery and firebug. I've been waiting for one of these for years now. /sarcasm_off
I've heard that some patients with artificial lenses in their eyes can see slightly into the UV range, as the natural lens filters it out. The drawback to this is increased possibility of damage to the retina, so I wouldn't be surprised if most artificial lenses were designed to filter as well.
http://tinychat.com/
Would be nice to know how many goods, bads and skips there are for each article. Nonetheless, I love the concept. "Sort by category" might also be useful to people who want to only read about certain topics.
Another guy who evaluates the Android ecosystem as a pseudo-iPhone. It isn't.

http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/If_Android_was_HTML5_then_the_i...

Read it. Absorb. Learn.
Ah, the 200 km between Cologne and Frankfurt – if only every track were like that :)

(Here’s a overview over the current state of the German network: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:ICEtracks.pn...)
Could anyone enlighten me on how Android developers handle the problem at the moment? Lowest common denominator, optimizing for popular resolutions or releasing versions for different resolutions seem to be pathways one could take, but they all seem inadequate.
This might make a good or well-written post, but for successful -- defined as he says by page-views -- he is leaving out half of the story.

Popularity is largely dependent on promotion or communication of some form. You have to tell people about your blog -- widely and often, for best effect. It won't simply follow from the content.
> At this point, for europe it might just be a better idea to let the TGV network grow outwards from France. It's already started to spread its tendrils in other countries anyway.

You can make the same argument about the ICE network.
C++ doesn't run on multiple platforms? How about Javascript? The core issue is that you choose not to make an app run on multiple platforms using the toolset that APple feels is in their best interests.

That's not a slight against either of you. Your point to Apple is that their platform will live without your app. Their point to you is that the other developers will divvy up the billion dollar cheque they're already written.
Here are my questions about Mixlr (cross posted from the posterous blog):

Mixlr sounds like a great service. I have a few other questions though:

What is the quality of music stored by Mixlr? CD quality? MP3 quality? This is something audiophiles will be interested in.

Do you plan to convert to a paid service in the future to support yourself financially? If so what will happen to current members?

Will there be copyright problems if a DJ is playing songs, for instance, and then saves his performance on Mixlr? If the performance afterward gives public access to download copyright material you might run into some trouble with record companies.
Can't speak too well for other cities, but in Hong Kong, up until very recently, no one besides hedge funds and grad schools had interesting programming problems to work on. So if you wanted to be surrounded by good hackers, you either went into finance, or you were in an M.Phil programme while you wait for a visa to go to a country where there's non-finance jobs with interesting problems to hack at.

Fortunately this is slowly changing (after years of useless government "innovation" initiatives like CyberPort which just turned into subsidies for politically-connected real-estate developers); we've got more non-finance companies doing development (and not just sales), like Artificial Life, and there's more of an entrepreneurial vibe in the air (rather than CompSci majors automatically chasing after jobs in the big companies).
Good, then we should let the industries fail instead of keeping them around as zombies. Mail the employees checks for a year until they can find a new form of employment.
> usage of resizable array-based vectors for all composite data types

Doesn’t this describe many of the modern languages - python’s lists, ruby’s arrays, etc...?
Or is the cool part the lack of more specialized classes like dict or set?
This doesn't make sense to me at all. If you pause transactions temporarily and then resume them later once we've regained some stability, I don't understand how you see your points as being true? Who isn't getting paid? Where is the problem being shifted to? (Are you thinking the courts? That isn't being proposed, it is only mentioned as an illustration that that which is "impossible", is actually fairly routine, the difference is that in this case it would be done at massive scale.

Does this increase risk? I would think so, but I think people should have an obligation to provide at least some evidence or logical reasoning as to why we must accept the particular flavor of corporate socialism we practice. If an idea is sound, it should be defensible.
I found an earlier reference (May 2006) in the context of transmission prevention here [0]:

> The idea that within a week or two of a pandemic's initiation we could quench it by saturating a ring of at-risk population with oseltamivir, achieving 90% coverage and high compliance, and at the same time impose movement restrictions and social distancing—all this depending on the causal virus having an Ro <2·0—is simply fanciful.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067...

It's also referenced here [1] in the context of the SARS pandemic, but I'd argue that the usage isn't quite the same.

[1] https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/bsp.2004.2.265
The old saying goes "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time."
>We can at least all agree on the definition of exercise

Oh really.
This seems super interesting. Is this possible to run at home and e.g. remove ads (or specifically black it out or mute it or something else)?

Also, how accurate is it?
>... for their part in upholding their oath. ...

Which oath? The one where you swear to defend the constitution, or the one where you swear not to?
I'll take that bet.

Here's a recent review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088394412...

They find hundreds of relevant-sounding papers, registered trials, and guidelines, but almost no data beyond one in vitro study to back it up. That one study is promising--and it'll be great to see what the trials show--but the road from "works in a dish" to "drugs for all" is a long, bumpy one at the best of times.

We need to do this right so that if it works, we know that it works, and if it doesn't, we can make informed decisions to do something else.
Segmentation is also commonly used for thread local storage.
Ok my fault i was writing from perspective of ML engineer not reasercher (I'm using Julia for 1.5 year now and my bois reaserchers prefer pure julia solutions cause its easier to write u can use symbols and not using OOP etc.)

But for production ready models PyTorch and TF is miles ahead first of all: NLP, audio and vision based packages building frameworks, (attention layers, vocoders etc.)
then u have option to compile models using XLA and use TPU (about 2/3 times cheaper then gpu for most of our models [audio and nlp])

Next inference performance (dunno about now maybe this change but about ~8 months ago flux was about 15-20% time slower [tested on VGG and Resnet's]then pytorch 1.0 without XLA)

Time to make it to production: Sure maybe writing model from scratch can take a bit longer on PyTorch then Flux (if u not using build in torch layers) but getting in into production is a lot faster, first of all u can compile model (something not possible in Flux) and u can just use it anywhere from Azure and AWS to GCP and Alibaba Cloud make a rest api using Flask/Fast-api etc. or just using ONNX.

Dont get me wrong i love Julia and Flux but there is still a LONG way before most people can even consider using Flux on production enviroment not for reasearch or some MVP stuff.
I love RDR2's world

I hated every second of the main story. I would have been alright with starting at the epilogue and throwing out the entire story before that.

My friends are always trying to get me to enjoy and not skip cut scenes in games so I gave this one a try. NEVER AGAIN.
Added a simple Vs Code extension, please check, if you are interested.
It's not like native speakers care for the distinction.
That’s my hope! I read a lot of OSS code, and so I constantly struggle with understanding how to get started. Assuming folks find something like CodeTour helpful, I’d love to get support for advocating it and bootstrapping the ecosystem with tours for popular OSS projects.
Working on a simple journaling app (web & mobile) that I initially made for myself. Super minimal but it works and it fills my own need.

I was thinking I'd start charging for it when it has more features (hashtags, search, pictures) but right now you can sign up for free to try it out (ignore the current copy).

It's online at: https://days.app

[EDIT] since people seem to be visiting the half baked landing page, here's a screenshot of what it looks like inside: https://i.imgur.com/ZkWtgi5.png (sorry this is my actual journal lol)

And on mobile: https://i.imgur.com/XgWXuBt.png

(I know there are a million projects on here already but if you find this and try it, let me know what you like/dislike! Cheers)
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
> Ciaian’s study develops an empirically estimable model of
Bitcoin price, which accounts for supply and demand fundamentals,
investors’ interest and macroeconomic development
(1).
p
B
t = β0 +β1pt +β2yt +β3vt +β4bt +β5at +β6mt + t (1)
In this model at time t, p
B
t
is the price of Bitcoin, pt
is the general price of goods and services, yt is the size
of the Bitcoin economy, vt is the velocity of the bitcoins
in circulation, bt is the total stock of bitcoin in circulation,
at captures Bitcoins attractiveness to investors, mt captures
the global macroeconomic indicators, t is an error term and
βi
, i = 0, 1, ..., 6 are coefficients which weight each term.

Go ahead and trade bitcoin based on that formula, I dare you:)

It reminds me a bit too much of the drake equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

or maybe more appropriately this form of the drake equation:

https://xkcd.com/384/

I haven't gone through the referenced paper's but the below also seems a bit dubious..

> Ciaian et al. found a high correlation (corr > 0.8) between
the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) and the total stock
of bitcoins and the size of the Bitcoin economy.

How these are so closely correlated eludes me but maybe the reference papers will expand on this.

Having said all of that, the section 5 Factors unique to bitcoin is pretty good. And considering the lack of literature on how to trade bitcoin it's nice to see someone take the time to try and apply some rigor to the subject.

Hat's off to the author.

I haven't spend much time looking at it but the time I have spent show that it does trade differently from a typical currency.

Sadly the Trading Bitcoin section doesn't contain alot of actionable code or information but that hardly makes it unique in the world of trading.
I had a similar experience a while back where it seemed to be the case that I ordered 1 BTC, but then only received ~0.7 BTC because the exchange rate had changed. More recently, however, when I've ordered 1 BTC I received 1 BTC x days later even though the exchange rate had changed (and not in coinbase's favor). So it seems like they've changed how they deal with the large latency in transactions--for the better.

Also, they're doing something called instant pay, which could help normalize expectations of what happens when you buy BTC. I wonder how that works with credit card charge back problems?
In general "citation needed" on its own is frowned on as it is lazy and negative adding little to the discussion. My guess is that this is the reason for downvotes.

Some claims do have to be called out and this might have be one of them. An indication that it doesn't match your experience and that you have done at least a cursory search before requesting the citation would be less likely to be downvoted.
Somewhere on a Dropbox server is a file that you want. Normally the file's owner would have to share that file with you in order for it to appear in your Dropbox. But if you know the hash of file you can trick Dropbox into thinking you already have the file and are just adding it to your Dropbox. Apparently Dropbox notices they already have that file, and instead of you uploading it they just make it appear in your account. Then you can download it.

I wasn't impressed by the OP, but this is actually a really cool hack.
>> Aim for C-style abstractions in Python.

Worst programming advice ever IMHO. As Sir Isaac Newton used to say: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." If you think and program in simple abstractions, you'll be unable to solve complex problems.
It's quite nice but i suggest you to put the not placed pieces in a separat frame or something because it' a bit confusing
> Do people run root GUIs as a client? That seems silly to me.

When you need to su or sudo, do you switch away from X to a separate virtual console, or do you just do it in an xterm (or equivalent)?

How about when you want to ssh to a server and do something, possibly including su or sudo on the server. Again, do you do that from an xterm or equivalent on your desktop machine, or do you switch out to a separate virtual console for all your ssh activity?
I still don't get it. Anyone willing to explain?
I got the email from Lincoln offering the free online subscription, so I haven't been affected by it. I was a subscriber back in the day of their original paywall before they discontinued it, so I'm sort of glad because I wouldn't pay right now if I hadn't gotten the free offer.
I remember when I first used HA-Linux in a project being highly amused when I came across the acronym STONITH and discovering that it meant "Shoot The Other Node In The Head" :-) http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/STONITH

All jokes aside, it is indeed a very important concept when dealing with high availability.
All the different Galaxy S phones have slightly different features and prices.
I like the relational algebra underlying SQL. I don't like the clunky syntax, or the weak type system, or the lack of a good composition mechanism. Agreed that HTML and CSS are even worse!
Add in people being shot with their own weapons...

This is a pretty minor effect, unless you are including suicides. In 2007, there were only 613 accidental firearm deaths. For comparison, there were 1039 "transport, other" deaths (I believe this means plane/boat crashes).
Then raise taxes on everybody except a hundred thousand (randomly selected) people.
I really appreciate guides like these, particularly because I'm preparing for graduate school myself.

Another really helpful read was "Getting What You Came For" by Robert Peters. He walks through the entire Ph.D. process and describes a pipeline that can knock a 7 year program to 4 or 5 and a 5 year program to 3 or 4. That time saved would be incredibly valuable.

I'm always on the hunt for good material like this. What other Ph.D./grad school/research guides have people found helpful?
Icey, I'm presuming you knew that the point of the plan was to educate and remind us all that we're not immune from this kind of thing. So it's quite clear jacquesm had no malice here, if he did do you think he'd discuss it so openly? Since you've come out and spoiled this quite valuable opportunity, do you believe your post is in any way more effective at communicating the message than submitting the fake phishing site would have been?
I have found the opposite. For technical searches DDG really works well for me. The only reason I don't use it 100% is that I find Google's autocomplete very useful (especially for none tech stuff) in that it reduces the number of searches needed to find something.
For about an year and a half I've been using a simple trick that I learned from a friend of mine who is very good at using exploits to enter company websites and find security leaks. He was also very very cautious about security and pretty much didn't trust any software to manage his credentials (not even a notepad or sticky notes).

So his method is: For every domain use separate password which you can simply generate in your head every time you need to log in. For example by the formula f(domain_name)

Ex:

f(domain_name) = "abc"+first_and_third_letters(domain_name)+"123";

f(google) = "abcgo123"

This way if one site you use is hacked and your password stolen, they can't get to any other of your data online.
From the side, the pickup initially looks downright weird. But I think in three dimensions, it looks astonishing and brilliant. But the thing that really gets me is the 3+3 seating. We've got two sets of twins, and I drive one of the very few cars on the road with 3+3 seating, a Fiat Multipla. It just works for big families. To some it's the ugliest car on the road, but to me that car goes all the way around to beautiful, and no one denies its practicality. Whenever I see another one we almost always wave to each other. Hey, beauty is all in the beholder, and the Tesla looks great. I'd love an estate/Station wagon even more.
From the introduction:

Polymaths excel in multiple fields. But what makes a polymath – and can their cross-discipline expertise help tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges?
I mentioned Handshake in another comment. It has a good method for mitigating squatters. Names are won through a vickrey auction so they go to the highest bidder, and your funds are locked up for the duration of the auction (2 weeks) so it inhibits squatters from bidding on all the good names at once.
It might just be a matter of framing, but I do not understand: How could you ever do anything work related, void of competition for any significant stretch of time?

Even if you create or exploit something wildly new that is completely beyond reach for anyone else at that moment – let's say you made time travel viable tomorrow – as soon as you did and started commercialising it, competition would start forming later that day.

For everything else, you will right off the gate be competing with someone over something (at the very least time and money). Airbnb is competing with Hotels/Motels, Uber with Taxis, Facebook with MySpace. MySpace with more specialised communities and GeoCities. The internet was competing with telephones, mail, fax and the yellow pages.

Can you elaborate?
Interesting perspective!

I guess the rebuttal might go something like: Business is inherently competitive. Creating startups, you are usually competing not only with old line businesses but with other startups.

I guess the rebuttal to the rebuttal might sound something like Thiel's startup lectures: Startups should try to be anticompetitive, ideally carving out new niches. You don't want to engage in head-to-head competition.

The 3rd degree rebuttal might be something like: There are plenty of examples of successful startups that began as clones of other businesses (Facebook seems the canonical example).

But then as you say, they moved beyond being a clone of Friendster/Myspace/Tribe/etc... but isn't that the competitive process?
The rest of the world see the standard of living of Europeans and North Americans and want the exact same standard of living. If this means they have to do the same thing that the Western world had to do to reach those levels, then so be it. Go through an industrial revolution with polluting factories and industries. Subjugate nature and move all wild animals into zoos. Have a few world wars. Create terrible working conditions that require the need for unions. Overthrow government after government until one that is good enough to allow personal freedoms comes along. Etc.
It’s not hindsight, it was always clear to anyone not drinking the Space Shuttle kookaid. The Saturn V was a superior launch vehicle from day one. And if we’d have stuck with it we could have had billions in more science projects and likely ended up with drastically cheaper launches as it was improved. Hell maybe NASA would have seen if it could land one on its engines.
In my experience this would be air heating and not air cooling because the air temperature is higher than the skin temperature, unless you're already sweating and being evaporatively cooled from that.