jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But they aren't and won't ever be, and people should stop treating them like they are. It's no different than going to your local public square full of 200 people holding camcorders, and making a bunch of stupid statements.

Did we all do stupid stuff when we were younger: absolutely. Would I want the entire world to see what I did as a teenager and judge me for it? Absolutely not.

Which is EXACTLY why I personally think society should just not allow people under about the age of 25 to even be on social media in the first place. I know, I know, that will never happen because insert reason - but if we don't want everyone's actions to be recorded in perpetuity we should probably stop allowing them to post those actions in a forum that's open to the entire world and easily recorded. You can make laws until you're blue in the face, it's not going to stop an individual from saving whatever stupid thing you said or did and leaking it anonymously should the moment present itself.
Great post. Every morning the establishment get up and hope that today is not the day we all step over the line together.

It's policing by consent. Any time we've had enough that's it. We have to keep believing that otherwise we are enslaved.
See my response here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840676), it quotes the creator of DMCA himself who clearly states that he intended to bypass the democratic process. That's unquestionably corruption and a perfect example of undemocratically passed law.

It also highlights how broken the current system is, when corrupted international treaties are used to shape the law bypassing normal democratic ways.

> A tactic which is not actually effective when Congress wants to ignore the "international obligation" at issue.

It should ignore it in theory, but in practice it doesn't have the guts and gives the power away to USTR and the like. That's what all this fast track idiocy is exactly about.
Just wondering, would computer vision inspection systems fit in to the work flow listed above?

I had a friend that worked for an electronics test equipment manufacture, some of the systems they had were pretty awesome. If a component were off center by something like 1/1000 of a meter the visual inspection system would flag a board for review. The sped that it could find defects was amazing. No human could hope to keep up, so every part on the line could be inspected.
The US Netflix Catalog offers a different selection of films/movies, so some people use proxies/VPNs as a way of spoofing their location.

The DNS trick works by having a server that returns a different A record for netflix.com (and some subdomains) - the IP of a proxy server rather than the actual IP. That way, normal traffic avoids the proxy, but Netflix traffic gets routed through.
Usually you find these kinds of figures in articles about 3D printing aircraft parts. For example, "By reducing an airplane’s weight by just one kilogram, an airline can save $1,300 in fuel costs per year, according to the [2011] IBISWorld report." [1] The 2014 report can be purchased here [2]. Of course, these numbers will depend on the kind of plane and its utilization, as well as fuel costs.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/3d-printing-coming-to...

[2] https://www.ibisworld.com/industry/3d-printer-manufacturing....
GTA is fine ... but the storytelling is meh. Missions keep repeating, and there's little to draw you in. You drive somewhere, somebody gets whacked, you drive back. Rinse and repeat. The makers try compensate with shocking and crass violence and humor, but at some point it just feels kind of juvenile.

Maybe it got better in recent releases, I kind of stopped following after GTA4.
Here's a talk on Racket in Naughty Dog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
Signal has a desktop client, though? Not sure where that issue came from.
Yes because whatever you used for app specific configuration like libraries and packages is now done in the Dockerfile and containerized. So the same thing run locally is run in the cloud. Then as far as the infrastructure for running code such as load balancers, service discovery, docker.. That is all given to you just by running K8s. So you are more concerned with shipping immutable containers to k8s than provisioning "machines".

Then you can focus on containers which can be run, tested and built wherever without the fear of broken updates or one thing stepping on another. We found back in the days of ansible and chef that we had very low confidence in upgrading hosts live. So we would then do immutable hosts and blue green deploy them to production. But why think in the scope of hosts and VMs when really you have some application that needs to run somewhere.

K8s IMO isn't the end all, I think eventually we will get to something that doesn't need containers at all and you run just processes. But it is a good step for now. Also once you have your stuff containerized it makes other non k8s stuff easy like AWS Lambda

Edit: Also yes you can use those to set up generic k8s nodes but when we ran bare metal we used kubeadm to make coreOS immutable nodes. I don't think that is used anymore haven't checked but really the best way to set up k8s is to deploy really thin hosts that have nothing but Docker and k8s. VMware and others have solutions for this too where you don't have to mess with building hosts.
Islam as a contributing factor is a signficant ommision from the list you are replying to, mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undang-Undang_Melaka
> I know of at least one game that very close but not quite cross compatible between Windows and Linux due to differences in the way the floating point numbers are handled. People think they can just sweep all of that parsing complexity under the rug by just reading the bytes into their memory structures, but it comes back to bite them in the end.

There is no difference in the binary encoding of floating point numbers between Linux and Windows - any differences there are (default rounding mode, etc) affect calculations and would be the same with a text-based format.

In fact, text-based formats make things worse because people tend to forget that C parsing functions take the locale into account which affects the symbol used for the decimal point in floating point numbers.
A simpler solution is to implement progressive taxes to counteract the natural Pareto distribution of wealth accumulation.

Society should come to some consensus on an ‘I win at life in this society’ amount of income, after which it should just level off like a ceiling function in a feedback loop.
Before the days of the web, we had a solution for this that was better and easier for users and didn't invade privacy: UI design guidelines and UI consistency.

Apple is the only company that still occasionally does this, though even they have driven off into the realm of every application having its own entirely novel interface. Go back in time to MacOS or Windows in the 1990s and you'll find an entirely different paradigm: every application has the same interface... or at least the same interface paradigms. Learn the computer once and you've learned the computer.

Features were remarkably discoverable. They were organized logically in menus. Keyboard shortcuts were always available and usually intuitive. I remember opening a new app I'd never used before on Windows 95 and just unthinkingly hitting a keyboard combo and it doing the general thing I expected, or mousing to where I expected to find a feature I imagined should be there only to find that it actually was there. I never used Mac Classic much but I heard it was similar.

The web is what really broke this. Web UIs overtook desktop UIs due to the difficulty of installing local software and the power of trendiness. Web UIs were never uniform and couldn't be since the web was anarchistic and wild and often driven by designers who wanted to make their product look a specific distinct way.

I remember in the days immediately before the web there being talk of algorithmic generation of UIs from data schema. If the UI is thoroughly standardized then it becomes at least thinkable to examine data structures and generate user interfaces from them, even UIs that aren't horribly ugly or hard to use. This was building on a previous generation of incredible WYSIWYG UI design tools. Then the web came and all that stuff was completely abandoned.

Today's UI design tools in things like Xcode and Android Studio are horrible by comparison to what people were using in 1995. Go back and try Visual Basic on Windows 95. The VB language sucked but the UI designer was aeons ahead of anything we use today.
His court date is today. Is Malaysia ahead or behind US time? We may know the result soon, or even already.
What do you find wrong with the yast/zypper's RPM repo signing methods? I've never seen it add a repo without prompting to accept the signing keys before adding it.
I stopped it running after 2 hours.
Is there a process for getting an approved account without knowing anyone for an invite at the moment?
This was INCREDIBLY frustrating to watch, even as an amateur chess player. Fun project though!
Simone Giertz, the Queen of Shitty Robots.
GMC just got pwned with their electric smooshed truck reveal earlier today.
Extrapolating, the genre of “learn X in 5 minutes” tutorials must only teach you 5% of the language.
For me, those faces signals that the video is garbage.
Exactly the entire force should be dismissed (with no pension) and the senior leadership should be left alone in an office with a bottle of whisky and their side arm
The charitable take is that it was human error. Bad planning.

The conspiratorial one is that it was deliberate. The question in that case is on what level (leadership, or on the ground). I hope investigations will show this. Who raised the issue of too little staff? Who denied reinforcements? Was there a massive number of officers calling in sick that morning? Etc etc.
I'm on opposite side. Literally no one use whatsup, only Telegram or Viber
An engineer's job is to solve a problem creatively, not execute a rote technical procedure. The people who are just fed detailed instructions to execute are called "technicians" in the traditional industries. If you want to claim the title of an engineer, act like one. If all you can do is write code to spec, you are a technician.
Depends on what you do, where you in a cinema and found that the picture quality had a negative impact on your enjoyment of the film?

For films and sports events projectors are great, for the use as a computer screen or for gaming maybe not so much.

Sorry for the late reply btw.
The OS has no anchor when you obtain it from the play store either. Google play can absolutely send you a hacked app with a different signing key if they want to. Signatures play no role in the first installation, they only play a role in subsequent installations.

If you have downloaded the apk using http, you can still verify the signature before installing through other means, e.g. by comparing it to your friend's installed APK, using multiple ways to download the apk, etc. Can you do this with Google play?
Question: If you take your own comment and replace the word "Agile" with "BDUF," does it still ring true? Why? Why not??

p.s. To be clear, I know many ineffective consultants who sell a variety of snake oils, both Agile and BDUF. I'm wary of falling into the "No True Scotsman" fallacy of claiming that what they sell isn't Agile or isn't BDUF. Really, I have no evidence that there is any methodology that turns a bad consultant into a genius, or allows a great consultant to turn a bad development team into software shipping superstars. I don't claim that anything works. But then again, I don't claim that anything "doesn't work," either.
This is not such a big deal as it would be in the US. We have a lot more competition, so "let the market sort it out" is more or less a reasonable position.
No. They were developed by Larry & Sergey.
Do I understand this correctly? OpenCYC now offers the entire ontology AND assertions for free? As I understand, until recently, OpenCYC only featured a subset of the entire CYC database, just the ontology without assertions. Can someone please explain this in greater detail?
The article implies that Kayak may have had privileged information about the Justice Department's investigation of the Google-ITA deal, or else they would have held off on the IPO. Now there's a story I'd like to read.
I suppose that will end up giving ISPs the right to charge the BBC for handling their video stream traffic. Which effectively means private companies siphoning off BBC license revenue for their own pockets.

I really hope that if they go ahead with this that they clear all barriers to allow the BBC to run it's own ISP, and compete on selection of netural traffic. At least that way, people get a choice how many times they pay for the same content.

What good is video content streaming from a public broadcaster if you have to pay private organisations again to see that content you've already paid the BBC for?
I've heard that VCs and angels still don't have enough good startups to invest in. I don't think they are over-invested.
In case anyone else is confused, this isn’t Yoshua Bengio.
If you mean there is more to the credential than the coursework, of course that's true. But the only possible value in the credential is scarcity; if everyone gets it, it ceases to have any value as a credential.

Or if you mean there's more to the experience of going to college than just the coursework, of course that's true as well. But if everyone went to MIT (or any other selective school), that experience would change too; all those people would not be getting the same experience that people going to MIT now are getting.

In short, it is not really possible for everyone to "go to MIT" (or any other selective school) in either of the above senses. So I was focusing on what is possible, namely, for everyone to have access to the same actual learning materials that MIT students have access to.

There is one other thing you could be referring to that the online materials can't give you, namely in person instruction and feedback. Personally, if I think back to the classes I took at MIT, I didn't learn anything significant in those ways; everything significant I learned, as far as the actual academic material was concerned, I learned from reading the course notes and textbooks and working the problem sets and taking the exams (and seeing what I got right and what I got wrong). And all those things are available to anyone who goes to the OCW site. I can't say for sure what other people's experiences are, but I think this quote from Gibbon is relevant:

"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"It's why athletes who take rest periods or have injuries are able to come back just as strong in only a few weeks."

It's more complicated than that. Actual muscle mass has less to do with being strong than leverage and nervous system development.

Leverage is genetic and there's not much you can do about having long arms.

What you call "muscle memory" is the strength and frequency of nervous system signaling - most strength gains come from changes in the nervous system.

That's why there's tons of drug-free power and weightlifters who don't have a ton of muscles but are extremely strong. Conversely, there's tons of bodybuilders using steroids who can't actually lift all that much. This is because muscle mass is mostly dependent on hormones.

You don't gain muscle by lifting weights so much as you raise your testosterone level by lifting weights, which promotes muscle growth.

So athletes can come back quickly in terms of strength, but not so much size.

From what I read about Tim's "muscle gain" advice (he posted the story on his blog) it was mostly just water and fat. I bet he started out by dehydrating before the experiment, too. Assuming you start out slim it's very easy to gain 34 pounds in a month by drinking water, eating a ton of high-carb foods and taking creatine (I've done ~20 pounds in two weeks this way to go up a weight class). The only way you're going to gain any muscle that way is with weightlifting (a lot more than 4 hours) or steroids, and preferably both.
I have to say that, if the Fedex story is true, he is one of the worst leaders I have ever encountered.
I don't think that these are seen as tactical devices, but rather as administrative devices. The bulk of an officer's or NCO's job consists of taking care of his people: leadership, training, and management. If everyone had one of these, they could potentially be a very valuable tool for maintaining accountability (military-speak for knowing where everybody is), disseminating instructions and notices, and other mundane administrative and management tasks that take time away from more important things like training and maintenance.
I know it's too late in this article's life for this comment to be read by many people, but I just wanted to add for the record that I think at least some of the aversion to helping people comes from the fear mongering of the media and some parts of the government. When everyone could be a terrorist, anything out of the ordinary is terrifying.

Fortunately it isn't always like that; for example, when my rear-wheel-drive car's traction control failed during a blizzard (due to being turned off for a brief second as a foolish experiment), and I found myself stuck off the side of a rural road, at least six different people stopped to ask if I needed help before my tow arrived, one of them even getting out of her car.
I can't make the Bounenkai so I'm looking forward to up voting the Shinnenkai..
Why would they want to do this? Don't they have physical access at the endpoints?
A hundred thousand pairs of eyes might not spot a deliberate side channel inserted in a crypto implementation.
"Greatest" could mean so many different things, but I can see some definitions of the word under which Apple could claim that title.
What is this... christmas trolling? This whole story sounds so unlikely: a definite rather than infinite NDA, and in an open-sourced project of this magnitude which welcomes an infinite number of people to peer through it (don't respond to this with "the best place to hide something is in plain sight", please...)

There should be a thousand pairs of eyes going through the current OCF and its historical states by now, so I guess the answer will be out in the blink of an eye.
> as they could just access the harddrive directly regardless of OS security policy.

I think that's wrong if you consider disk encryption.
If you’re on windows you can use AutoHotKey to map a key or key combination of your choice to route to the spacebar in zoom, regardless of focus. I’ve done something similar for media control for apps that don’t have global hotkeys.
I also notice he’s masked. That was unusual for that lot.

There were definitely some folks there with mayhem in mind.
> Why?

For the same reason that the government banning something is worse than when a private company does it.

Because one party has way more power and ability to actually ban someone.

Kicking someone out of my house is less powerful/effective at preventing speech than being banned by a subreddit, which is less effective than the website banning you, which is less effective than a bunch of websites banning you, which is less effective than the government banning it.

The more effective a ban is, the more careful we have to be about it. Because if the government bans you, that is going to have very significantly different consequences than me not letting a friend in my house.
Definitely possible, nothing is perfect. Just Lots of things that make it harder, but not impossible, to do bad stuff. Some places still use PS/2 devices for those peripherals as well, though that's much less common these days.

Was curious, looks like there are a lot of pass through USB keyloggers that probably show up like the original whitelisted device. So definitely a risk there. I know I would want every single device there manually looked over, but I don't know how long that would take with a likely pretty limited staff.
Is it getting faster at the end? Or is it just me? Does light have acceleration?
How about they don't do acts that will get video'd when you know it will become evidence?

If it's distributed some way through the internet the cat's already out of the bag.
Congrats, well-deserved. I hope you encourage other Palestinians and Arabs to follow suit!
Does top google management listen/read HN ? Not that it failed for me ever, but negativity is mesmerising
What motivates them and the intricacies of how their favorite technology or company works.
> "thesis.docx", which of course was not backed up.

Something I find hard to belive from a woman whose husband is reading hacker news.

'thesis' and 'not backed up' are forbidden to appear in the same sentense by "the Universe(tm)". This law is enforced by _always_ deleting the contents of 'thesis'.
Honest question, what are decent tools to find bugs like this in C code nowadays? I was saddened to read that gcc cannot check for unreachable code.
I think the traditional solution is to go say yes, move in. Start breaking things (dishes and stuff) until he asks for a divorce. Bonus points for making it plausibly an accident. Go home. At least that is what I have read about Morocco where the divorce rate is relatively high.

It seems relatively common elsewhere as well, in my experience.

One of the things that is not to like (especially if you are a woman) in many Middle Eastern countries is that the household matriarch is the husband's mother and the households are patrilocal. This means that if you are a woman and you get married, you end up as a very low-status individual until your first son is married and then you have status and power to make his wife as miserable as you were.

So it isn't a good situation but one thing to keep in mind is that being in a more individualistic culture gives you options. My recommendation would not be to try to get denied entry at all but to go. Then evaluate your options, build contacts, and see what you need to do. The US culture and legal system doesn't support the same kinds of things and this can bring some power.
You need to manage growth. Continue to build your side business until you're working 15+ hour days and making too much money with side work that your current job is a hindrance.

And stop using Elance if you want to make real money...
I don't really agree with that. Although Clojure has many great things, for example its out-of-box immutable data structures, I wouldn't say that it's "more modern" than Racket.

If anything, lately Clojure has been drawing on Racket for inspiration in many areas (for example Typed Racket).

In fact, if you wanted to find a criticism of Racket, it might be that occasionally it is "too" modern -- in the sense that some parts are implementations of research papers. You might encounter the occasional module whose documentation isn't much more than "Implements foobars in the sense of Researcher [Year] <link to paywall paper>". To be clear, that is not 98% of Racket. I mention it just to counter the idea that Racket is "less modern". It's constantly evolving with new things.

Finally, for someone getting started with a lisp, Racket is (a) download, (b) install, (c) start coding and running -- within literally 5 minutes. (Of course experienced people aren't limited to DrRacket if they prefer Emacs or Vim or whatever.)