jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm stating the obvious a bit here to HN, but does anybody else think this might have more to do with something completely removed from terrorism. Like tracking the intricacies of various global markets, cultural movements, politicians, judges, activists and other influencers in society. Like basically an opportunity to see everybody at the table's cards (including your friends) in order to maximize power? Basically arranging enough small advantages through calculation in order to statistically improve success in all manner of maneuvers. The ability to further reduce any semblance of the democratic process by taking your average politician's polling strategy to a much higher level?

Is there a book on this that anybody recommends? Is this what Art of War is about or something?
Very nice collection, although I think it has a bit too many martian terrain ones and not enough of other types. I love martian terrains but they all seems to look like abstract art after a few images. How about moon shots and other stuff? EVA's, etc?

Still, very nice!
Not providing update notes is the real mind-boggler for me. It is just a giant FU to the users.

(Messenger does provide release notes; it's just the FB app proper that doesn't.)
This covers what I see as one of the biggest reasons for stopping the collection: It simply does not work. We are "winning" the war on terror just like we are "winning" the war on drugs in that we aren't making a dent at all and some argue that our actions in both fields actually spur on the exact activities they are meant to curb/destroy.

Don't get me wrong, I don't trust them with the data in the first place but even if I did it's been proven again and again that our privacy is being invaded and no positives are coming out of it. The NSA would have a much stronger position if it was "Yes, you have no privacy but there is also no terror" instead we have no privacy and terror attacks abound.
use something like capybara or Rspec Testing (rails ) to stimulate a real user behavior
Abu gran was done voluntary for no good reason, in opposition to the desires of the home office. Aka it happened because the perpetrators enjoyed it.
I've worked with developers who seem to code mostly by going to stack overflow, finding something that seems to fit their problem and then they copy code into the app. No attempt to find a more recent version or a more correct solution of the problem is made. I've seen JavaScript code copied from a stack overflow answer that was dated 2009. There is nothing better than a 6 year old answer to a common JavaScript problem.
Well, if the theories that some very poor economies just require a "push start" to get out of the poverty trap are right, then maybe tourism can do the job.
NOW WE KNOW how the self-driving cars work!
This is certainly true, but it is exacerbated by how these systems are designed. Flat text forums, which have problems of their own, don't specifically discourage you (your post sinks to the bottom) if you have an opinion which doesn't fit the community's "correct" mindset.
It has started to become more common. My current laptop has one PCIe-style and one SATA style (for a SSD and HDD respectively). It is a year old and an Asus.
Anybody care to venture a guess why Twitter would buy them? It is surely not for their business. Is it really only HR acquisition? If not, how could Twitter use their tech?
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk...

You can do the inflation calculation yourself. Income is a poor measure since it excludes non-wage compensation (e.g., medical spending) which have gone up significantly relative to income.

I'm not sure why you conclude life expectancy went up due to medical research. Wealth increases life expectancy, but not due to medical spending.
I just wasted time on that page - thanks. Now I see where everyone's time went on the day that was on the google homepage (which I missed).
"Why Go is not Haskell"
Over the past year, I've restarted the book I'm trying to read three times because too much time will elapse.

The thought of ever finishing it at all is beginning to feel satisfying.
Totally. Made some good money, doing this for small to medium businesses. Easy work, and lots of quick wins.
Points 2, 3, and 5 are essentially "how do we give the government the authority to block or reverse payments even when the sender possesses the relevant private key, or send payments even without the relevant private key".

I'm not saying that's not a fine thing to want, but if that is what you want, then you don't want cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is purposefully antithetical to that goal.
I agree and I also believe that it's important for people that care about these things to be vocal, stand behind and support people and companies that are doing good things. Promote what they're doing to an audience that doesn't know about them, buy their products, share their work... only that way the web may "recover" and a larger percentage of internet users may actually discover and spend their time on the more independent stuff.
I (full stack self taught engineer) recently accepted an offer. Here's my biggest takeaways which you may already be aware of:

- It's an imperfect system but a closest thing to a functioning one.

- Referral is the best way in.

- Apply early, within 24-48h of job posting. I setup a Tuesday/Thursday morning schedule to check and apply for new jobs. Ignored stale job postings (> 14 days).

- Apply to jobs that fit your profile. If you want to switch to a different stack, work on a project/course and add that to resume. That should get you through recruiter's filter.

- Spaced repetition is the real deal. The more interviews I gave the better I became, primarily because I got more comfortable. It also helps internalize all the concepts and bring it to your system A. Also experiment during your interviews to see feedback and engagement. Most results are canned responses so you have find signals elsewhere.

- It's a search problem (numbers game). It's akin to finding a partner. Wider the search the better. When it clicks it makes a world of difference.

The way I rationalized rejects, which is defeatist, was by thinking they know what they are doing and it's better to be rejected than to be hired and be miserable from being a bad fit. If nothing works, I for one know my worth and will build something I value.
My original comment (above) made it pretty clear that I believe we should be doing everything we can to ensure people don't have to make these kinds of choices.

But the way to do this is by adding new, better options, not by restricting existing, 'bad' options.
TLDR: “ Great theoretical progress, pending more real-world evaluation, plz to buy more magic beans. “
Let's check the basics:

1. Do you have a LinkedIn profile, clearly listing your skills, accomplishments, and experience? Also with a clear, professional profile picture? Do you link to your Github page (and vice versa).

2. Do you have an account on StackOverflow careers?

3. Does your resume look crisp and clean (using a good template), with readily available information about skills and experience?

After this, remember that straight-up _applying_ to companies is well known to be the LEAST effective way to get a job.

The better way is to let companies - or at least recruiters or hiring managers at specific companies - approach you (usually LinkedIn, StackOverflow is better). This involves a lot of tending to your professional social-media profiles, love it or hate it.

The best way is of course to get hired by someone you know from prior successful professional collaboration who makes an opening at their company specifically because they want YOU.

TLDR, give a lot of attention to LinkedIn, GitHub page, StackOverflow careers profiles. Let people approach you. Don't fling out resumes to hundreds of companies like a frisbee.
Hello - I founded Rezi - a free resume software for applications at large companies. If you need another set of eyes on your resume, just let me know. I am happy to offer my advice

https://rezi.io
I had actually planned a startup building something similar (+ip geolocation to pick appropriate affiliate links), however I ended up moving onto another idea because I couldn't make the numbers work out.

To make the same amount of money as from CPC ads, you have to get a much higher click-through rate than CPC ads conventionally get. I wasn't convinced I could build contextual ad technology that would result in the higher CTR to make it worthwhile. Congrats if you've managing to pull that off, I'd be interested to hear what the equivalent CPC/CPM would be of your ads.

My own business plan was to target sites which can't use Google Adwords, primarily sites which require logins to access content (dating sites, small social networks) or do dynamic page generation.

Another good market might be blogs which don't monetize very well at the moment if your tech works well in that context. I believe jgc posted a while back saying despite his high traffic on his blog he couldn't see traditional adwords bringing in much.

My plan to monetize initially was to take a percentage cut, use your affiliate code 20% of the time and the websites affiliate code the other 80% of the time. That way you avoid having to handle the payments yourself but get income very early on.
any suggestion for a firebug equivalent and a way to install all versions of IE simultaneously ? I am really struggling with that big time.
A Python version for the kids at home: https://gist.github.com/702001
Ebooks :(

For personal use, this would be fine, but it's much easier to share paper books at work.
Don Quixote comes to mind. Tilting at windmills.
I'm using the cheapest Synology NAS (DS119j) paired with an SSD.
It runs between 10-5 watts.

However it might be a bit limited in terms of computing power to run Kodi and all the other uses you want in parallel.

It has a fan but I have never heard it make any noise.

So depending on your needs it could be an easy "setup and forget" kind of box.
Why isn't there more effort to subvert tracking vs trying to block it. Ruin the data and they can collect as much as they want
Fair, I have no evidence they use fingerprinting info for advertising.

They definitely cluster fingerprints to block whole groups as does any decent antibot.
Decent can still be pretty bad and still work. And of course it's worth it because a phone can find/lose it's connection all the time for a bunch of reasons even if the network is high quality and high bandwidth.
Your example relates to the properties of lazy sequences, which are generally acknowledge as a good idea and implemented as part of the standard libraries of most major languages (e.g. Java, C#, Python 3).

For example, the following Python code has the same evaluation semantics.

def any_predicate(predicate, iterable):
return any(map(predicate, iterable))

What's less clear is whether using lazy evaluation everywhere is a good idea. Certainly it has some really nice properties - for example it blurs the distinction between macros and functions by allowing arguments to be lazily evaluated.

However, It can lead to hard to debug errors (as the error will not necessarily surface at the call site), and make it hard to reason about the performance and memory usage of code.
Given that the default search engine in Firefox was Yahoo for a year or so when Google decided not to pay... sure, why not?
> As an author I know how many of my purchased books are unread.

As a published author myself I'm curious about this statement. While I do know about my books' sales (including the geolocation of buyers) I do not know who actually read a book or not.
Yeah, because those drones only kill 'violent criminals', not also civilians. Also, these 'violent criminals' have a right for a fair process, otherwise it's just murder - which it is.
I have mixed feelings about this. From the privacy angle I am pleased (I've been blocking GA ever since I knew it existed, via HOSTS), but from the "neutral browser" angle, not so much. Then again, FF is already not neutral with things like "safe browsing" and extension blacklists...
You can enable car mode manually! Just go to Settings > Car > Switch to car mode and change it to Always.
Sure. Try it with something worth more than zero and see if you can grab a significant position in order to make the scam worthwhile. Consider what the margins to make a killing on a pump and dump look like on a stock that sells for $100/ share.

Every generation thinks they invented scams.
Interesting, this has been in development since sometime in November of 2013
This is only vaguely scientific and that only in the beginning of the article. It then progressively reads more like some excited, clueless retelling of other people's psychotic-like experiences. I can't even begin to understand the parallel to set theory mentioned in the piece.
>Also, don't do obvious telegraphs like "I have the following days opening" which essentially any person who takes meetings knows actually means "I am always available".

Hang on... explain this, please, in small words. So I'm supposed to pretend I work on a schedule, and that schedule is super full, I get that.

But, wouldn't saying 'i have the following days available' mean that I'm working on a schedule and it's not wide open? What are you supposed to say? "I'm really busy so just call me sometime and I'll see if I can fit you in?"

'cause that's what I do most of the time, not because I'm trying to fool people into giving me money, but because I'm... deficient when it comes to scheduling. Let me tell you, outside of trying to get people to give you money, it works less well than you might guess, and you might guess that it works pretty poorly.
You haven't quite thought this out. Young parents die too, and children need to be provided for.
Proposing hyper-scale projects can make a small group a tidy profit. Being on such a huge scale, early proposals & research can take years (not requiring a large team), and those interested in throwing enormous funds at the actual implementation think little of the relatively tiny funds (but still large for those working on it) for preliminary analysis.

We may not see sub-orbital airliners for a long time, but those working on early analysis now can make a comfortable living on it.
I play piano and guitar.
I've been trying learn how to paint recently.
> You could require, say, that all strings in the radix tree are about the same size.

That's just a specification of an arbitrary subset of the input space.
All I've found is SoC makers have their own driver, but refer to the interface in terms of max resolutions, etc.

I hope it is very similar to the situation with HDMI, where the interface doesn't vary, but alternatively, it could be a matter of proprietary things not being discussed clearly because of NDAs, etc.
I would argue it's not a proper market place, fantasy or not, without such ability. (meaning, whatever values or data that comes from this is of near zero utility without the ability to short)
Then why say "whether or not such claim is related to the Software?" That would imply just the opposite to me.
This license is great since it reduces the chance of patent litigation in general.
Question for the developers: It looks like the iOS app allows you to download apps built with the desktop tool, which supports evaluation of Javascript snippets. Isn't this against the App Store policy for the download and execution of arbitrary code?
I buy and sell stuff from craigs list to ebay when i am not programming, its so much fun to see people buy stuff for a higher price... also i use dealmoon.com to buy stuff for cheap and sell it for a higher price....
scientific research isn't the same as commercial product development.
It feels like its just "magic" number. Probably id() is the actual raw pointer to str class and the string starts at offset 48 ?
My Nexus 5 is broken. Is there a simple way to revert to the old version?
Thanks for the tips! Can you still work out on the fasting days or would that be ridiculous? Can you concentrate at work?
"Hierarchical deterministic wallets" (BIP0032) support parallel generation of public and private keys on different systems.

The bookkeeping system can generate an unlimited number of addresses from the public "seed" that corresponds to the private keys that will eventually be generated using the private key seed stored in the cold wallet.

However, I didn't consider that the hot wallet needs to be replenished as people withdrawal, which would require a steady flow of bitcoins from cold to hot storage. I think it would make sense to have a "warm" wallet for all deposits, then immediately send deposits to hot or cold wallets depending on withdrawal demand.
The way it works is approximately this:

1. Your patent on drug A expires

2. You have an active patent monopoly on drug B which is functionally similar

3. You use your giant network of marketing staff to convince medical professionals to use B instead of A

4. The market for A collapses due to lack of demand.

The generics manufacturers cannot afford to spend nearly as much bribing doctors, so you don't get an equivalent demand push for generics unless one of the competing large pharma groups decide that the generic is profitable enough to counter the targeted campaign with a targeted campaign of their own. But why would they, when they can milk their own patent monopoly cashcows a bit more using the same marketing spend.
Well, it is possible that every subsystem has its own self-destruction procedures, but that would be such an inefficient way to design a system. And nature is usually a very efficient designer.
Point taken, but I'd value my (and everyone else's) personal judgment when it comes to property investment higher than investing in a REIT simply because I have more insight into what I'm buying and have the ability to personally improve my asset by taking good care of it, making improvements and getting involved in my community. Owning a home isn't all that different than running a small business in that way.
I'm looking forward for a 8K, 16 bit per pixel, 120 Hz, 3D display.
We're Lavaboom, we make secure/private email, and have an office in Solution Space (right across the cathedral), feel free to come meet the (tiny) team. :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Am+Hof+20-2...
See the other comment by simonh in this discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9261989): Columbus had a multiplicity of detractors because his estimate of the circumference of the Earth was off by a factor of 2, and to his dying day insisted he'd found the East Indies, not the very fortuitous West "Indies". If the Americas weren't there, he'd be at best a footnote in history, a crazy explorer who'd perished with his crews.
Why in gods name would I be frightened of oblivion? Dying is terrifying, because it comes with implications of suffering. No longer existing is simply enthralling. I will simply be gone. A just reward for making it through a lifetime imo.
I thought this was fair. In what way do you see Apple promoting Web apps in the way they once did?
You want him to wake up at 8:00 so he could keep you motivated. It was your idea, wasn't it? He is being too polite to tell you "motivate yourself!"

You don't need to be in touching distance to come up with an idea. When you do have a great vision, that will motivate you. It is kind of like trying to be motivated to fall in love before meeting the person you're going to be in love with.

Don't force it. On him or on yourself. When a great idea comes to you, no one will be able to keep you from getting there.
Me too - if you are running Ubuntu, it's really easy to stay up to day with nightlies or dev releases via the respective ppa:s.
I am flabbergasted.
Can Xcode 4 compile code using Objective-c blocks into iOS 3.x compatible binaries? This article made me realize how much I miss anonymous functions/lambda expressions from C# and javascript.
Something that I only realised the other day which made me feel kinda embarrassed: in ruby, the reduce method is called inject.

For years I've been doing MapReduce functions, without realising it. MapReduce was in my mental pile of "genius things that cleverer people than me do, must be looked into when there is time."

For info on inject: http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/03/ruby-inject.html
My point was not aimed at the Tera specifically, but rather at this architecture as a solution to the memory problem in general. As you say, supercomputers have been using multi-threaded code for a long time now, so it's not a technical problem for this case, but it can be for the kind of applications 'regular users' may need.

Thanks for the references. I'm in embedded systems but I hadn't heard of the Parallax Propeller before, it's an interesting architecture.
Wow, and they just built Salesforce Tower. Can some floors be converted to housing?
Deep Learning has nothing to do with biophysical neuron simulation, even though there is a confusing overloading of the term "neural network". A good introduction to deep learning is this chapter: https://mlstory.org/deep.html.

STDP falls under biophysical models of neuron simulation, where we try to faithfully reproduce biophysics of brain simulation (trivia: I started my undergrad in computational neuroscience and implemented STDP several times [1, 2, 3]). STDP is a learning mechanism, but it has not demonstrated the ability to learn as powerful models as DNN.

[1] https://github.com/ericjang/pyN

[2] https://github.com/ericjang/julia-NeuralNets

[3] https://github.com/ericjang/NeuralNets
Fully agree, this is why I didn't put numbers and only mentioned pay structure and market rate.
Good luck with your venture. You may also partner with Tesla

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
just need a couple more million people to move out
Yes. Anyone who is interested in making changes to their own website may very well be interested in how changes to the largest website in the world are received by the public.
It’s my homepage. Not for new tabs (those open up empty) but whenever I open up a new window. Mainly because I want to see the doodles.
> I don't even know how to process a comment like that about Virtuozzo.

Well, it'd help if you offered a counterexample to the original claim refuting it.
I generally like that setup better as well, but imo one of the advantages of the emacs approach is that there is more of a culture of providing extensive API hooks for scripting. If you run an RSS reader inside emacs, it's expected that it'll expose many/most of its operations via elisp function entry points, so what's going on in the reader is "transparent" in a sense: scripts can query the list of feeds, the items within the feed, the read/unread status of items, can grab the text of items, can trigger re-fetches, etc. And you can integrate that with a bookmarks manager, outgoing email, whatever.

Most tabbing window managers also provide a pretty good scripting interface, but the programs you run inside them tend to be more opaque. If you run the ncurses RSS reader 'newsbeuter' in a window, your WM scripts can't easily interact with a running instance, short of screenscraping its output and sending it raw keystrokes as input, because it doesn't expose any kind of API.
Yes, that's been done:

http://www.lufthansa-technik.com/famos

See sharkskin bit above.
>After the free year, a minimal always-on VM costs about $13/mo.

It's $5 at Linode, and that's not run by a company known for spying on users.
A similar idea is that one should enjoy a beer on days of week that end with 'y'.
I'm with you on this. I recently drove an BMW X5, a 350D M-Sport, and the high level of body roll was a real surprise - straight out of the showroom I turned at a set of lights and thought I was going to roll the bloody thing!

Also, realistically I don't think sitting slightly higher up gives much better visibility.