jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nice, my initial impression of your comment still fits squarely within the door I left open for using causal...except when I was thinking phenomena outside the edges physical space where light reaches us you expand it to outside the edges of time where light still reaches us.

Unfortunately I’m now just sort of stuck thinking about causality, determinism and free will...not exactly knowing where you are on Earth I guess it’s a possibility you have never been and never will in my light cone, yet my comment was the causality of your reply in some sense. And in maybe an HN 1st you’ve made me reconsider my position, and Recognize I need to more deeply consider causality as having good use outside phenomena from outside light at the edges of space and time and spacetime.
I’m not sure that’s the right question.

What we want is for the police to behave better.

The mechanism is increased legal liability. That is, both the fear and effects off law suits.

Presumably, law suits would have to rise, especially at first, for this to work because I’m pretty sure the fear of increased legal liability alone will not change police behavior significantly. They will need to feel the teeth of this.
I stand corrected: a single Taurus G2C 9mm with 25 rounds was confiscated from a man exiting the Capitol. One firearm, not zero.
The powerful are always wrong when they are white men. Otherwise, they are always right.
Does AI will eat jobs?
Yes.

https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples/N...
is that GPL or other licenses?
Interesting article that's somewhat ruined by a click-baity title that it can't support. I first got on the web in 1994. There was far more difference between 1994 and 2014 than from 2014 to 2017. And that's the crux of it: just because it's different doesn't mean it's dying.
Instagram is already working on this, with their new video editing tool Reels [1].

It'll be very interesting to see if these other big players can catch up though, given TikTok's massive numbers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/12/20960916/instagram-faceb...
> Dynamic content management systems are a convenience for the developer/maintainer

It isn't harder to call a script that regenerates the static files.

It is just that dynamic content management systems are more common.
>It's a strange oversight for a language which lets instances override methods.

That's only because everything is an instance in Javascript. There are no classes, it's prototype OO.
I have a Canon MX850 all-in-one. It's almost two years old. It's a good printer, scanner and fax. The printer has two paper trays and a cradle for printing CD/DVD labels. The scanner has a flatbed scanner and an automatic document feeder with double-sided colour scanning. It's listed at US$275 on Amazon.

I've used it with ABBYY FineReader Express[1] on my Mac to achieve the same result as the author for myself and my mum.

If you are after a toaster with a kettle, you can get one from Breville[2] and other manufacturers, including one with an egg fryer.

1. http://www.abbyyusa.com/finereader/express

2. http://www.breville.com.au/products_detail.asp?prod=435
I have also never seen the word derivatives used in this context. Isn't "derivatives" usually used to describe options, futures, warrants, etc?

Derivatives in that sense are used to add some leverage on a bet and are known for their high risk, compared to the risk in directly owning their underlying equity securities. They aren't directly related to the underlying (same idea in calculus: y = f(x) ≠ dy/dx). I don't see how this adds additional risk in addition to the risk associated directly with owning Facebook stock.

While this technically is a derivative (underlying is Facebook stock), I think using the term "Facebook derivative" is a bit misleading.
> Verbosity doesn't equal less productivity.

Disagree. And not based on myth. Based on direct experience over 25 years doing programming. Verbosity -- holding all other things equal -- does equal less productivity.

To put the argument in thumbnail form: it takes about the same amount of time for me to devise a programming design for something in Python as in Java. But to type in, run and test that design? Much less time with Python than Java. The human is the bottleneck at development time, in general, not the computer, not the runtime execution speed. I also only have a finite amount of display screen real estate, so with a more concise language I can "see" more feature points on the screen, all at once, when looking at source code. And since there are less LOC if I ever have to do code surgery or cut-and-paste things around I can do that faster too, in general, with a more concise language. But all arguments aside -- because they are irrelevant in the face of direct experience -- I can say that I now personally avoid choosing Java in all the personal projects I've initiated, and I also bias to advising startups to avoid it (in general) in favor of a lighter language. The issue is more complex when you're dealing with an external client and somebody else's business, however, because sometimes the benefits of Java outweigh it's verbosity -- and there's nothing wrong with choosing it if those factors are critical and pertinent to any particular project.

But when a design is clear, and my implementation choices are clear and fresh in my head, and I know almost exactly what LOC I'm going to write next, then yes I've found that "new line creation speed" does impact the overall time it's going to take to finish a particular feature or change. Years and years of observations backing this up.
I was a purple robot too. I wonder if you're always a purple robot.
Ubuntu: the only distro where only ppl who know some secret hand shake can file bugs.

10.10 is the end for me. Good riddance. Im back to debian
C# is 4553.
Ok, if you wanted data for C, C#, Erlang, Haskell, Lisp, or Perl, I've updated the post. Saw the Ocaml request too late to get it in, but your number is 1658.
Why did they do it? There's video footage showing cops literally pulling back the barricades and waving people in. I don't understand why they did that, and surely their not doing that would have prevented the subsequent violence?
A graphical representation of the dose relative to the patient weight or the dose prescribed relative to the recommended dose would be a great way to help users from accidentally making this mode error.
Yeah, I meant "cute" more in the sense of "elegant". Unfortunately it felt too barebones and there wasn't enough documentation to let me get everything running. I like that lib, though.

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Halcyon, I'l remember that. I still have to try Nix one day, too

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Matter of experience, I guess, yeah

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Precisely, there's a virtuous cycle going around popular platforms due to the larger amounts of features and documentation getting written, and in turn, the larger amount of new devs getting into it. Shame those platforms are built on such bad languages... It's cool to see the web evolving in a direction where Haskell can solve very specific problems without disrupting people's stacks.
That's the only reason I can imagine they'd respond with anything else besides 127.0.0.1 or some internal web server with warnings to obey their overlords.
When the Debian install asks you what device to use, give it /dev/sda or /dev/vda. For some reason /dev/cdrom wasn't working for me either. I ended up switching the ISO's device to virtio and tried /dev/vda and it worked.

The ISO was on /dev/vda and the target disk image was on /dev/vdb. Just make sure you install the bootloader on the disk image. Then when I removed the ISO, everything was just fine.
For all you know you are already in a simulation created by Roko's Basilisk. And that comment made you loose points.
Excellent growth, fair margins. Probably worth about $3bn. If it IPOs at less than $5bn it's probably worth picking up. Long term digitalocean will struggle to maintain its margins when competing with Azure and AWS on one side, and Cloudflare edge computing on the other side, so I don't think it can command the same kind of premium we've seen from other tech IPOs.

A big red flag is that 570,000 customers bring in only 357m in rev. That's $50 a month for the average customer. That's way too low.
So how does one buy ipo shares? One of my resolutions for this year was to buy shares in companies I do business with.
It's not just knowing who he is -- if he's identified he might decide to move those coins. If he did that, it could affect the price. I'm not sure anyone knows what the exact impact of that would be.

I don't personally believe Satoshi was an actual person, and don't believe he'll ever be identified. Most likely the keys to those early blocks have been destroyed, and most people wouldn't do that unless there was an institutional reason for it.
So simple and nice to use
> All of those issues will eventually be solved.

When does "eventually" arrive? For 12 years I've been hearing that all of the problems of cryptocurrency will be solved very soon. But merchant adoption peaked years ago and has notably declined. Most of the problems are still problems. At this point, I'm pretty sure "eventually" means what I mean by "soon" as a teen when my parents asked me to clean my room. That is, "not now and I'd like to keep ignoring the topic please".
I love DigitalOcean. The simplicity of their UI, friendly CLI tooling and (as a hosted k8s customer) the frequency of updates to their offerings.

BUT:

1. Their web UI stability is terrible (constantly hangs and errors out)

2. Their hosted DB IOPS aren't competitive with other PaaS providers. There's also no way to scale DB size dynamically without upgrading to a new price tier which is overkill.

3. Their Kubernetes Control Plane scaling is obfuscated. I had to contact support to realize that the control plane nodes are somehow tied to the size of your node pool when you create the cluster? That's not documented anywhere and was the cause of many control plane timeouts.

4. No ALIAS dns record, no way to serve Spaces from an apex domain. (I know this is a vendor specific implementation but it's table stakes imo)

Again, I'm a (mostly) happy DO customer and wish them the best but if they really want to be seen on the same level as AWS or GCP in terms of some parity, they need to include some of these QoL features.
I thought the same thing. I expect it's just a mistake, but it could make sense in a way: it's possible over-estimates of price aren't counted, because any amount over and you lose. So if only successful guesses are averaged, only the negative side of the variance is going to be shown in the graphs.

If that's true and in reality variance in both directions is higher than it used to be, you might want to play it safe by reducing your guess, to limit the chances of going over.

... but that would probably still be a good way to lose the game, so most likely the author just got mixed up.
http://archive.is/iYBQy
X is very smooth for me. No tearing or other issues.

It's usually a driver configuration issue if you have tearing.
Nice analysis but orders are going through the roof at an unprecedented rate so you have already been proved wrong.
> Aside from the Principality of Sealand

Sealand doesn't seem all that socialist to me but I'm not very familiar with it.

> But to answer your question, apple is first and foremost a US company.

Rights != what the law says rights are. Else it wouldn't be possible for the state to violate your rights on a large scale.

Anyway, Apple is subject to the laws of every country it operates in.
I feel like this article conflates individual cost/opportunity with economy-wide cost/opportunity and then comes to a very wrong and dangerous conclusion.

-The individual case: First, the average graduate with a bachelors earns $50k and the average HS graduate earns $30k (1). So, let's take the worst case scenario, namely that you decided to go out of state without any financial aid. Your opportunity cost is $120k and your out of pocket expenditure is going to be roughly $160k for a total of $280k, which will take 14 years to amortize. I personally came out of college with $4k in debt, and worked p/t and in the summer to pay for rent and food (probably $10k/yr), which I would have had to pay for anyway, so if we adjust the opportunity cost accordingly, that's $80k + $4k = $84k which will take me 4 years to bring to parity. Not to mention, I'll probably enjoy the college educated work quite a bit more. Further, the opportunity cost issue doesn't take into account the fact that I got to spend four years studying abroad, partying with gorgeous coeds, etc.

-The economy-wide case: The key point to note here is that educated workers contribution to the economy is vastly greater than just their salary. If you work at Apple, your work is worth $1.3 million per year (2), and if you work at Matrixx Initiatives your work is worth $3.4 million per year (3). Now, let's say that the $500k figure is accurate. If you're a Matrixx Initiatives employee, in just one year, you justify the entire education of seven people. Of course it's all way more complicated than that: these employees probably have more than bachelors, if they'd started work at six or seven years old in a factory, they would have an extra fifteen or so years of income, etc., but if everyone went to the factories instead of school, our economy would probably look more like Vietnam's.

1. http://www.earnmydegree.com/online-education/learning-center...
2. http://primitus.com/blog/revenue-per-employee-in-china-vs-us...
3. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb100/2006/top_performer...
Did anyone else notice the inconsistency without Zed's help?

Even if I hadn't, it still wouldn't have affected how I thought about the code. It's just a type error that would have been caught by the compiler.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/boost/bind/placeholders...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Friday against the founders of the three largest internet poker companies operating in the U.S. The indictment charges eleven defendants, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses, according to Federal authorities in New York. Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors, while five Internet domain names used by the companies to host poker games were seized, federal authorities added in a statement. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/doj-indicts-founders-of-top...

Indictment
http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/schein...
Visa is a currency. So are travellers checks and regular old checking checks and coupons. All of these are also denominated in dollars. If you were to take some time and study the actual laws, and also check out the legal opinions, from members of boards of federal reserve branches, as well as the secret service and lawyers that were obtained before the Liberty Dollar project was started you'd recognize just how absurd this case is.

But most people do not do the research. Most people assume that only the government can "make money" and most people fall for the idea that putting the word "dollar" on something somehow makes it counterfeit. It is this ignorance that lets them get away with such crimes.

I'm not trying to call you ignorant (as a pejorative). I'm just trying to say that I read the relevant laws, including the ones cited in the case against NotHaus et. al. and they do not prohibit what the Liberty Dollar was actually doing. Not at all.

In fact, the only thing illegal would be to make exact copies of US currency and pass them off as real. That is counterfeiting.

I can make a currency out of coffee beans or silver and try to get people to trade in it... and there's nothing illegal about it.

It is also known as barter.
No, you can just download a binary. It's necessary because the Ruby version was unbearably slow.
It depends on how you define 'hacking' so there is no easy answer. There's not even a single definition of it in the mainstream now.
It may be worth noting that there's only a dependency on Go if you want to build from source. The tool is usable on its own after compilation to a standalone binary. See the Readme's "Standalone" section.
Or like any compiled language they can just grab a binary: https://github.com/github/hub/releases
The same thing is happening in videogames. Budgets are getting out of control and sequels make for lower risk ventures.
How you can place the blame on the general public for the complacency of the major studios is beyond me.
While I'm not at all surprised to see this happening, I'm still astonished that the USA continues to try to stamp out gambling through legislation. I remember growing up being astonished at the number of references on USA TV shows to illegal gambling; I've never once come across it in the UK.

I love cricket, but there's been a persistent series of match-fixing and spot-fixing allegations for years, almost exclusively originating from illegal south Asian (primarily Indian) bookmakers. The legal markets haven't been the source of this sort of problem at all.

Much as I might not like gambling, there is a persistent human desire for it and the evidence seems to be that banning it, as so often, exacerbates rather than minimises harm. The US government should stop trying to hold back the tide on this.
A number of sites completely withdrew from the US (Party, Pacific, etc), either out of fear or because of their particular company's corporate setups / locations.

A few big ones remained operational for US players, the biggest being Stars and FullTilt, with the only change being refusal to accept credit cards as a deposit method. I'd venture to say millions of bank deposits have occurred since then within the US, and the legality of it all was never black and white, and certainly not enforced in any way.
That's wild! I learned about it from a friend from Jamaica and I was able to source it so cheaply. How weird that a rural Canadian girl from a town with a Jamaican mayor (who was the only West Indian family in town ) ended up living off Australian meal supplement.
Some of the loaders I've seen (Coke's sites in particular, in my experience) have ridiculous system requirements to appear smooth. Add in that they're using Flash, which pretty much allows you to do anything... and they're examples of what the removal of limitations has spurred. Google's pacman is a good example of creativity within limitations, given that it's a bunch of divs and even works on IE6, instead of something more capable like <canvas>.

Not that I'm denying limitations spur creativity. There are some awesome things in the Demoscene, and older hardware, and more power can often result in less focus.
Exactly - everywhere there's a natural monopoly, it should be regulated into being a common carrier, when possible.

This allows innovation to flourish on top of a commodity service - fundamentally, the only thing that this kind of provider offers is the last mile, just like the water or electric company.
Mono is viable Linux technology. You probably should learn what the word "shill" means before continuing further.

While investigating the word "shill", a refresher on "ad hominem" would help, too, as the submitted blog entry is not an example of an ad hominem.
Interesting.

I think the answer depends on who you are. It is a choice if you don't believe in religion. Its not a choice if you are religious.
> I don't think it's possible to wrongfully discriminate against someone based on their choices.

Does that mean you're okay with any discrimination against atheists by forcing them to engage in some religious practice?

Or is atheism not a choice?
How does Twitter use XMPP?
/* A friend at MyBlogLog (!) called LinkedIn the "social network of last resort," and it has that air or desperation about it. A sudden request for referrals is akin to a passive aggressive cry for help! /

So you're basically telling me my effort to integrate with LinkedIn is a complete* waste of time, unless I'm trying to capitalize on pathos and desperation? :(
Maybe the reason the Nesquik box is bright yellow and has a colourful cartoon character on it is that kids in the supermarket who might not be able to read or differentiate Arial from Helvetica can still recognise, point to and blackmail their parent with tears to grab the box with Nesquik bunny which they've seen on the TV. This seems to be design in a vacuum.
If XMPP doesn't take over, then something embodying its good ideas will. That seems obvious to me. What form the eventuality will take seems up for grabs, though. Why Gartner would proclaim anyone the winner so soon is anyone's guess.
Ah. I must have missed that. However, the opening to the post pretty clearly says that he had not done so for this particular problem, and so I'm forced to assume that he's either lying (intentionally or otherwise) or that he's referring to other incidents, which would mean that he made no attempt to resolve this incident using a phone.
I agree. Anecdotally, I've never used it, and I've never seen any of my friends use it. It struck me as a surprisingly high percentage.
Ah now that would be interesting. It seems like in the examples provided the virtual SO is reactive, responding to what the user says (ex "I like Downton Abby") whereas when they reach out the messages are generic. I wonder if the conversation would generate its own 'depth'.

This seems to be a worthwhile experiment to me.
not just the placenta, we're full of these botched germ-line viruses.

endogenous retroviruses in mammals are amazing. primates owe to one or more ERVs the effectiveness of the p53 gene activation (p52 is a tumor suppressor gene).
What about them? They’re not the subjects of the article.
vitamin D deficiency is rampant. head of cardiology at one of the most renowned hospitals takes 5000 IU daily, been for decades.
Probably easier to have a hose and a balloon / reservoir of compressed air.
But you can't know all of that.

Imagine some local wallmart having an issue with something (eg. a bunch of expired chemicals, that have to be disposed as dengerous), and they don't want to deal with that in a proper way, and some local manager tells some local worker, to just dump the chemicals into a stream behind the wallmart. Usually noone notices stuff like that, if the chemicals are not "too bad" (=fish die), the worker will lose his/her job if (s)he doesn't do it, and the manager will get someone else to do it. If the worker reports it, it's his word against the managers, the manager will just say it was leaked rainwater, and that they asked the worker to spill it in the gutter, so the worker has no real choice, if they want to feed the kids that night. People above the manager have no idea about that local wallmart, and that one time issue.

Then, the worker dumps the chemicals into the stream, the chemicals just happen to be very dangerous, and a million fish die in the river downstream. Is the CEO really the guilty on here? Did he really know?

On the other hand, you have the VW dieselgate, where a whole team had to work on the software, and atleast a few level of mangers had to have known about the issue. But on the corporate ladder, where every level is squeezing the level below it to "do more", "bring in more profits", it's possible that some manager in charge of something actually didn't tell the people above him, just how exactly he solved the exhaust issue, just that he solved it, and saved millions of euros (and got a huge bonus). On the other hand, coordinating a big team of coders, and such info not getting to higher ups or to members of different teams in the same company (with different managers) is probably unlikely.

What i'm trying to say is, that blaming the CEO by default is bad, because in the first case, it's unrealistic to expect the CEO to even know that that local walmart exists.... and in the second case, that there should be a very thourough investigation just how high the knowledge went, and have the whole chain of comand held responsible.