jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Reads like socratic method 101, but holds weight from experience.

I used a similar method to teach pretty complex manual artillery firing to 17-20 y/o's with spotty high school education coverage. If a professor can explain (or get them to explain) in simple English a relatively math-free, logic-based solution to a problem, and then add the necessary terminology, it's majorly successful.
The Reddit safe drama was predated by Geraldo Rivera's attempt to find treasure in Al Capone's vault.
you can't skim a chip though
This gives a whole new look to lambda calculus and Lisp concepts that promote to represent everything as a (preferably pure) function.

If the whole logic can be expressed as a pure function without conditionals then it would fully fit into HE.

But what if we want conditionals?

Comparison operators like (a < b), (a > b), etc go out of the question immediately as they would allow to guess the values by a simple binary search.

Equality operation (a == b) seems plausible from the security standpoint as it would not reveal the encrypted value. But there is a challenge in performing that operation because both of its arguments may be encrypted with different randomization. To overcome this, probably some neat trick could be performed but... this is the question of the future.

EDIT: Here is an idea. Some FHE engines have pre-encoded values for some magic numbers like 0, 1 and -1.

What if the equality operation p(a, b) = (a == b) is performed like this:

p(a, b) = (a + (b * -1)) == 0

Does anyone have an intuition regarding the feasibility of the proposed trick in something like Microsoft SEAL? Do both left and right parts of the comparison would have the canonicalized randomness making the equality operation possible?

P.S. On a side note, the sheer existence of an equivalence operation in FHE scheme would decimate its security by allowing to plant bruteforce attacks with a lower guesswork. Not a catastrophe by any means, and some systems would prefer that as a small price to pay for having conditionals in a program.
I would say that your questions are valid, but not necessary to tackle in the short term. In fact, if you don't store the encryption key then the problem doesn't exist at all. It is up to the client library to implement the prescribed encryption algorithm and up to the user to provide the encryption key.

In the end, you are simply storing bits. How those bits are interpreted is up to the client. If a user distrusts a client then they can download, re-encrypt and upload the content.

Btw, I had the same idea for a hosted solution. My concern became that illegal content would be uploaded to my server and I quickly went away from this, but I do think it is an interesting idea.
I'm not surprised, frankly. China is the super power no one talks about.

It's the superpower that America bows to.

Literally, if China is not okay with something that is said in the US, it can get that thing redacted in the US.

Strange to say, but Trump seems to be the only one that has actually addressed this topic (although, in his own way and words).
Awesome, although I don't know why you couldn't have it automatically accept the 'honor code.' But then again, perhaps if you're using this instead of just rolling your own solution you might not really need/want that sort of automation in the first place.

Also, and more importantly, isn't it a bit strange that there needs to be tool like this at all? Is it still going on where Coursera pulls old course material off when the course is finished? If it is, can we have a discussion on that?
I find it too bad that we can't simply create some mirror for the material and have them available indefinitely on a crowdfunded s3 or something similar. All of this because of the terms of use. It feels like duplication of "effort" to me.

Anyways, that's a great thing to be able to download simply.
It's seven pages of "we are clever and not at all insane" with out ever actually mentioning anything clever and merely stating that the driving forces are aware that the birthers and truthers are insane.
Maybe I've been in DC too long, but this article is just boring.
They've been displaying pdfs as text for some time but it was very ugly — just enough to quickly see what's inside. “Quick preview” is new feature. They render pdfs but have raw text too for convenient copy/paste.

Google's reader should be much more light and perform faster, esp. in old browsers with slow DOM implementation. The disadvantage of this solution is non-native (for client) text rendering. Also things like embedded video and scripting would not work, but I think Scribd is not supporting those either.

So, not at all the same thing. Whoever downvoted you have some explaining to do.
"Private benefits actually aren't that expensive. I just checked ehealthinsurance.com and they quoted $79 a month for me."

The issue here has less to do with the cost of private health insurance, than with whether private health insurance provides the same protection as employer-sponsored health insurance. I have seen this issue come up several times on Hacker News (unfortunately can't find links to the stories I remember). Someone has private health insurance, develops a chronic illness, and loses their health insurance as a result.
The term for that idea would be “efficient”.
I use TreePad Lite. You can organize notes in one single file and creating multiple nodes. Using it for more than 3 years.
This is sweet and cool! am so with it...
One person who I think disagrees with you is Warren Buffett.
"Start small, Stay small" by Rob Walling. If you're a solo founder you need to read this, it's gold. An easy read and touches on the surface of just about every facet of a startup. http://www.startupbook.net/
Why is this sneering garbage on HN?

Look, none of this is new. Universities have always been contentious places, students have always been belligerent and uninterested in hearing the views of their opponents. This is what it is to be young: to believe fully, with or without justification. A generation ago in the US, SDS would have barricaded themselves into the room with both these master debaters and held them hostage with a list of demands for the administration. The verbs have changed, but "We demand" has not.

This is a screed from a man who is upset that he is not being handed a platform to speak. Yes, guy. People don't like you. That doesn't make this a free speech issue. No one invited me to speak at Oxford either. Just go home without your rattle.
Should have been 256M for a nice round number.
Yes, while the 5.25" discs had a severe disadvantage in their fragility. Transporting them without protection was a recipe for disaster if a part of it was slightly bent. 3.5" disc's hard shell made them much more physically durable. I remember carrying them loose in my backpack without any problem.
It's the 9-5 plus overtime in the office culture that has no justification, let's not even get into the 80 hour work week cultures you see or 996. It's stressful to the employees and you really don't need your employees all within walking distance of eachother every hour of every shift. That's obvious enough now. Especially when it's costing companies so much money they shove people into overcrowded open offices which gut productivity.
This is so cool, I’m really glad to see someone doing this. Best of luck!
> I've wasted my influence with my non-technical friends convincing them to adopt Signal, and I don't forsee convincing them to switch yet again to something different.

This has bitten me before. Now I'm thinking that every recommendation and suggestion to adopt must come with a "for now this is the best way to do it, but it will probably change again". And somehow try to prepare the non-technical people for that.
This is why I view HN via a telegram bot that posts the top links. Let’s me see what was flagged.
> Companies can't simply dilute away their shareholders like you're suggesting.

They absolutely can. When you buy shares, or exercise options, in an early stage company the documents clearly specify that the shares can be diluted, which is how it's on solid legal footing.
Really not surprised to see rauchg (Guillermo Rauch) steal more ideas for his startup from colleagues.

The entire premise of Zeit is something that I explained to him five years ago in a taxi ride. I was in active communication with Guillermo about developing the idea up until two years ago when he went silent for a month or two and I then I read the announcement for Zeit on Hacker News.

I'm sure he'll sell Zeit to the first high-bidder and completely throw the development team under the bus ( like he did to TJ at his last startup ).

If you don't believe me, you can just look at the Github activity for the Zeit organization. Guillermo has copy and pastied the same Now project into new projects several times ( which deletes the commit logs of several contributors giving him sole Git credit for the projects ).
This could change with support for Apple's M1 chip being added to the Linux mainline hopefully later this year.
I think he was talking about China.
What you say is true, but it's worth noting that, as a rule, phylogenetically "higher" organisms do tend to have more plasticity and (perhaps as a consequence) less ability to regenerate neurons).

Your songbird example is a good one. There are many species of birds that develop near normal song repertoires in the absence of con-specifics (or even, in some cases, hearing!) but trying to extrapolate that to human speech processing, or even mammalian auditory processing, is fraught with problems.
Or you could stuff more than one container on a boat. The Emma Mærsk, one of the largest ships, has over 420,000 m^3 of space, which could hold 81 ZB (8.1 million PB) if Retric's (sibling) comment is correct, moving data at just over 1 Eb (exabit) per second. According to Wolfram Alpha, that's big enough to hold the entirety of human knowledge 7000 times.
it's believed an African (IIRC) elephant would be a suitable enough host to resurrect a mammoth

People believe a lot of things.

The difference between a scientist and an armchair philosopher is that the scientist knows how many tedious hours of painstaking work, followed by screwups, followed by more painstaking work, followed by the tiniest of advances, followed by a setback, followed by more work are necessary before the theoretically possible becomes the known to be possible... or, more likely, the oops, not quite so simple as we thought.

Here's the state of the art in cross-species surrogate motherhood according to an actual biologist:

http://www.askascientist.org/askascientist/answers/how_would...

"There are few successful examples of cross-species nuclear transfer to date. The most publicized case was the cloning of a gaur, an endangered Asian ox, but the calf died two days after birth. Other efforts are ongoing, but questions remain about the incompatibility of nuclear DNA from one species with the mitochondrial DNA and cellular environment of another species."

"Nuclear transfer has been suggested as a way to restore endangered or extinct species. There are a number of problems with this idea. First, the procedure is only possible when intact cells are still available, so long-extinct species cannot be restored. Second, it is difficult and expensive, so it would be feasible only for producing one animal or a few. With only a few animals to start a new population, there would be little genetic variation and the population would be susceptible to extinction factors such as disease. (Incidentally, if only one cloned animal was produced and then backcrossed to a closely related species, the effect on taxonomy would be negligible—similar to a single hybridization event.) Finally, cloning does not address the root cause of extinction, which is usually destruction of habitat. Despite technological advancements, habitat preservation is still the most effective way to save endangered species."
I'm all for descriptivist language, but there's a difference between a new word or meaning coming around because people widely use it, and a common error that does not become right just because it became too common.

It's a difference in perception. I'd argue that even with a descriptivist language, you need three things to produce new words or meanings: widespread usage, widespread understanding, and a perception of correctness (or at least the absence of perception of incorrectness). "literally" has only one of those. That's the same reason that "their" doesn't grow new meanings for "they are" and "a location distinct from 'here'": that error is widespread, and mostly understood in context, but nigh-universally perceived as incorrect.
Bad luck! One thing I'm sure I've read about networking that really rings true is this [1]:

You don't ask the people you network with to employ you. It's taboo and cheapens the relationship. Instead, you expect to refer people to them and them to refer you to people.

This worked here for your friend — you referred him to this company very effectively! But although they referred you to their marketing guy, it didn't work out. Please don't burn any bridges with the CEO. If he really thinks you are a strong candidate, then a short e-mail expressing your regret things didn't work out with marketing and wondering if he knows anyone who's hiring in the area will get you an interview somewhere.

[1] I'd be interested in a source if anyone has it.
You could add Newton OS to that list. It was an attempt to do what iOS achieved: a move out of the Mac into mobile devices. Apple initially planned to implement a large number of mobile form factors based on Newton.
Exactly. Here I am thinking Dropbox is awesome because it's both stable and just works. Who knew a product needed to have a steady stream of feature updates until it subsumed the very operating system it sat on top of.
Seriously? What's the point of private invites to a social network? Who am I going to be networking with if I'm the only one of my friends with an invite?

Better to do something like Facebook. Pick a small, manageable existing network (like Harvard or in this case NYU?) and allow those users to join.
Just curious: Was this submission penalized, too? I noticed it dropped on the front page from #1 to about #25 almost instantly at around 1:50 EST.
Through my network. I already knew my first customer (and more!). If you don't, then how do you know that your startup really has a valid business model?
"Development clients are inherently unstable. If a dev client blows up on a client's machine and deletes all of his or her data - or releases it into the wild - the customer bears the full liability for having taken a chance on a dev client."

How is that any different with a client that isn't "beta" or "dev"? What are you going to do, bring a civil suit against Dropbox because a bug corrupted your data?
I would venture to say that they have something very large in the works. I checked out their team page and they have quite a few employees. They have been funded and are also looking for new hires.

http://www.dropbox.com/about

Regardless, when you purchase something you are buying its current iteration, not something that you hope for it to one day be. This was alluded to in the comments of the original article and I thought it was worth repeating.
"Gabriel and the team at DuckDuckGo"

Gabriel has a team now?
I'd love to hear about your view on which frameworks to use for python (tipfy, webapp, tornado, django ports etc) and their advantages over each other. I've developed a webapp using django-nonrel, it was pretty quick to have it going but I have this uneasy feeling in my gut that something may be wrong.
> Nobody from Planet Fitness or any fitness-related association is walking around the halls of the capitol twisting arms.

The CEO of Planet Fitness was a contributor to Trump's campaign fund in 2016. I think you're underestimating how politically connected these groups are.
Thanks to CloudFlare, it's working now...
I have been very active in the PaaS in your cloud model in past. My analysis leads to the fact that no one has really pulled off heroku in your cloud kind product in recent time. There has been big exits like pivotal et al. Mind you it was before the kubernetes era. Post kubernetes era PaaS in your cloud has become very commoditized. As a PaaS-in-your-cloud (piyc) model as product you are not only competing with other product in the category list here [1] but also the internal platform teams in bigger orgs. Also, it is one of the competitive segment in devtool, devops space. Also having spent over 2 year in the space, I think heroku on AWS is an anti-thesis. I wanted heroku like experience I would start with heroku and not AWS. What you dont know yet is that it is a leaky abstraction as you start acquiring customers and very slow onboarding experience. AWS also made an attempt to build a heroku like product called app runner, which is I think is not that successful.

[1]https://github.com/debarshibasak/awesome-paas
It could also be thermals.On old hardware the thermal paste is often completely fried. I've seen C2Ds barely able to handle anything once they got hot.
That's a good point. Which leads into the question of how many missile subs already have killer 'tails' just waiting to blow them out of the water when they prep for launch. So what happens then if that first strike is weak?

Either way, a sub-based first-strike is strategically risky. You're far better off hitting a single city and capitalising on the resultant horror.
I thought the book was good, but I listened to the audiobook narrated by Peter Coyote which was excellent.
There are typically two kinds of roads these speeds are reached in the US:

1. Expressways, where pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed. They are walled off with specific entrances and exits.

2. Country highways, where pedestrians and cyclists are nearly unheard of, and are typically very easy to spot from a distance and adjust accordingly.

There is a third area where these speeds are sometimes reached in urban areas that Strong Towns calls "stroads", and these have a whole host of problems. Going 10mph over the speed limit in these areas probably doesn't make a huge difference, because the are already so pedestrian and cyclist unfriendly to begin with. Not Just Bikes has a great video about them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
Apps would get user's IP address and device details. Definitely bad for privacy-obsessed folks.
Octordle is definitely like that. I think you want to do a 3 to 4 word opening sequence of some sort unless you get very lucky earlier. That said, going beyond 3 words I found turned it into more of an anagram solving game but not really improving my typical score. (I find it's very hard to have more than one or two guesses left given you pretty much have to use 8/13 for the final guesses unless you luck onto an answer you weren't shooting for.)
I'm not talking about MP3 players really, I'm talking about all of the references to touch displays, wearable computers, solid-state drives, high fidelity ebooks, sales of digital media, etc. Apple didn't really invent these things, but they certainly played a big role in making them ubiquitous.
Presumably the "kick her ass" comment was directed at the other bystanders, not the guy in custody. I could see how that could be considered inciting a riot in some cases, but among a bunch of teenagers who ultimately did not act on it it seems excessive. Not to mention they don't seem to have any evidence it was Marks who yelled it, and in fact I believe the officer even said in her report it wasn't him, yet they charged him anyway.

It seems like they're just looking for someone to make an example of.
If there’s any Daddy Warbucks out there that wants to adopt a 30 year old son, please let me know.
I don't think that would necessarily work with bitcoin. Fractional reserve banking works because bank deposits are fungible legal tender, regardless of what they are backed with at any particular moment.

With bitcoin, the only "authority" that confirms who owns what is the blockchain. Nobody would have to accept that you have made a bitcoin payment just because you transferred some bitcoin based credit that is not actually bitcoin.

Of course bitcoin derived credit/securities/IOUs can work. But it's not the same as bitcoin unless there are laws that ban making that distinction in some context.
Correct . I will move to https://talk.hyvor.com soon.
That kind of testing would not happen on a developer laptop. I normally have a staging environment that duplicates production, including the database. The number of rows in a relational database shouldn’t affect app speed or latency at 10k vs 100k rows. I would expect the number of rows to affect performance logarithmically, if at all.
The page about smart TVs makes me wonder if anyone has reverse-engineered the interface between a Samsung Frame TV’s main controller box and the panel that goes on the wall (it’s a remarkably thin cable that carries both the signal and power and can easily be fished through the wall). I absolutely love the panel itself with its wonderful display characteristics, but the software that drives everything from the main controller box is such trash that I’ll probably never buy one again). I’d happily buy a 3rd party box that would drive that display panel and be free of the buggy, spying, shitty UX that Samsung provides.
There's still time to return to the good old days when the boss called in a private air force to drop poison gas and bombs on striking workers.
I love this: "Make your voice heard! VOTE NOW AND VOTE NO." Those posters are all over the warehouses and it really feels like some 1984-esque parody.
What are the intended use cases here? Not many business are in the business of using custom currencies?
Can someone give me a short synopsis of why one might want to use Rubinius over YARV?
I cannot help but believe that, in the story of the roommates' fight, the calibers of the handguns involved has been inadvertently swapped. The story then becomes much more credible.

Most civil war revolvers are .36 and .44 (very close to .45) and one shot to the heart would easily be fatal. It is not unheard of for someone to suffer multiple .22 shots to the chest yet suffer little injury. However it _is_ simply unheard of for someone to suffer six .45 shots to the chest yet walk around for days.
So if linux is open, why were restrictions imposed on non-mobile internet?
While the choice itself is reasonable by that standard, I doubt Times did it to criticize Zuckerberg. Most likely, they praise him.

One of the core principles of the FSF is that proprietary software is worthless regardless of its other merits. And they do work on alternatives. It's just more expensive and less visible than advocacy.
What legitimate scientific questions can this field answer anyway? What falsifiable hypotheses can it disprove?

Different areas of your brain light up in the FMRI when you're thinking about different things; we've known this for decades, but it hasn't proved much in particular.
Many tech companies perform well despite the (poor) treatment they give their employees. Amazon is not particularly well rated on Glassdoor, and I've heard plenty of horror stories about EA (and other game companies) from people I trust.
Not to hijack the HaXe attention but I also want to point out another multiplatform language:

http://fantom.org/

Fantom has stable and working JVM and CIL targets. These targets are aren't yet finished for HaXe.

Quick comparison of the languages:

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-haxe-2248.html

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-fantom-2563.html

These are both very interesting languages. Hopefully they'll get more attention.
Isn't imagelib already very good and does a few special things like dynamic downscale?