jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Personally, I found it the "Jimmy Appeal" banner the most irritating and invasive out of all the different methods they've used.
Because of this (negative emotion), it was the only appeal that really affected me. So this morning I was wondering whether Wikipedia folks do test the impact of different methods.

I was also wondering how an attractive looking model would affect the contributions. Certainly worth the experiment.
I love the counters. It turns rating into a bit of a game :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot

Well, it could mean lot of things in broader sense. Thats probably the reason Google choose this name instead of more obvious/common 'Hotspot'. Hotspot is synonymous with wifi hotspots which is not the reason for this website.
Wait a month or two. They'll have more reviews in their database, and they'll have had time to tweak their recommendation engine.
And how does one fix/change it?
Not sure it's deniers of warming so much as people who are skeptical that there is a 2017 cut off date.
This is true, but as a cyclist, often the sound of my own tires on the road, plus the wind in my ears and sometimes even my own breathing, masks the road noise of an oncoming electric car.
True. Without knowing how are values distributed around the average, my observation that people do good self-assessments is poorly justified. Worse, a reduction in scale introduces worse granularity, so the end result is guaranteedly less precise. My observation is on the formality level of back of napkin calculations (i.e. it may be true, given the information provided, but is not proven true)
If the complaint is "the DOJ routinely hides evidence and engages in corrupt behavior", it isn't exactly a counterargument to say "but you're always near some corruption at the DOJ, and besides, the DOJ hasn't released any evidence that they're not to be trusted".

It is entirely likely, a priori, that there will be abuses in a system where violations of the law are, to a close approximation, unpunished, it is to their great professional benefit to violate the law, and it is to their great professional benefit to ignore violations of the law by their coworkers. Nothing in this indictment makes me revise that opinion downwards.

Besides which, these agents in particular have a pattern (according to the indictment) of initiating investigations against targets who had become obstacles to their corruption.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/products/conterminous/201...
> Immediately after every lecture, meeting, or any significant experience, take 30 seconds — no more, no less — to write down the most important points. If you always do just this, said his grandfather, and even if you only do this, with no other revision, you will be okay.
And please take self-censorship into account as well, this is something deeply embedded in our subconsciousness (if not consciousness).
here you can see how I'm using Shamir Secret Sharing, I gave clear instructions on how to use the shares and in what circumstances.

based on their dynamics, I'm feeling pretty good. I know I have some people there that are tech savvy + some that will take good care of their shares and when they should send those to whom.

Implementation is trivial (especially if you find a library) but maybe you can be inspired by my plan https://g3rv4.com/2022/04/a-plan-for-my-secrets
That was it, thanks! I had no idea there was any kind filter active.
This doesn't mention anything about the light promoting wakefulness, but rather simply assesses levels of comprehension: "These dependent measures included subjective (visual) fatigue, a letter search task, reading speed, oculomotor behaviour and the pupillary light reflex."

Staring at a light producing screen all day then not staring at one could still be a good move.
That sounds great! Would love to see it
I think "Do things that don't scale" applies perfectly here, the part where Ross initially seeds the marketplace by selling magic mushrooms which he himself grew; may be this explain why new Darknet concepts failed to take off, not due to technological limitation or lack of market need.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/5285/torbroker-anonymous-finance...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-th...
Wrong thread? i think you meant the tuxedo thread
Those results are fantastic. I have to say, I like the noise that path tracing creates (you can see it in the video for the Brigade engine as well, mentioned in another comment). It looks rather like the noise you get from a lower-end digital camera, which actually rather enhances the realism for me.
I don't think it helps to conflate a common consumer hardware with purpose built professional racing cars.

At most, the kind of car we'd be looking at would be an Audi or BMW and they have pretty standard ports and desktop software for tuning the in car firmware. The reason it's standard and widely available is because while their cars are premium end, they're still widely bought and widely driven so those respective car manufacturers need to make maintenance accessible. Apple, on the other hand, are part of an increasing new trend where manufacturers intentionally remove the ability for 3rd parties to maintain their own hardware. So Apple (and others who pull the similar stunts) should absolutely be called up on this unethical practice.
He has two halves of a brain.
I tend to agree that the world generally is more dull than people like to believe. However, I'd say that mostly applies to people trying to make more ordinary events more extraordinary. But in the case of covid, we already have an extraordinary situation.

I don't have any evidence that the CDC was deliberately withholding information (not to say it doesn't exist), but I do have evidence that medical leaders have felt it okay to lie to the public with regards to covid.

> In the pandemic’s early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent... And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said “75, 80, 85 percent” and “75 to 80-plus percent.”

> In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.

> “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...
Is it just me or... why do people even share their phone number with Facebook? What did you use it for? It wasn't mandatory or anything. Why the Pikachu faces?
School, the institution is not for everyone, and is definitely not normal, even though society has normalized it. My son went through periods of anxiety and stress through school and there was a push by a teacher and an administrator to have him diagnosed with something, anything really. If my daughter hadn't been at the same school and witnessed a couple of incidents of him being publicly shamed and bullied by the teacher, I wouldn't have known what to do.

He's now in a private school which takes place predominantly outdoors, nature based, and the transformation in him is phenomenal. The anxiety is gone and he's such an open mind and engages in conversations in ways he'd shy away from before.

I wonder and worry about kids who've experienced the same but suffer it for their entire grade-school experience with no reprieve.
For me, the problem here is that there is no logically consistent way to rule in favor of Google without undermining the concept of software copyright itself. APIs are creative expression: at a basic level, it is possible to change the names, the order, and to some extent the type of parameters and achieve the same result. It is also possible to change the structure of the API itself at a large scale in such a way that the programmer still can do what the API purports to provide, in a completely different way. Therefore, if one were to call APIs merely functional "declaring code" that cannot be copyrighted, then that would put all software code at risk of being called such. The idea that, say, a certain algorithm can be expressed in many different ways lies at the heart of how we justify making such expressions copyrightable.

With this ruling, either software will be found to be entirely (or mostly) uncopyrightable, which is unlikely, or software copyright will turn into an even bigger legal morass that requires a team of top-tier lawyers just to understand which parts of your software are effectively copyrightable (or potentially infringing) and which aren't.

The Supreme Court should have found in favor of Oracle, and told Google to bring their case before Congress if they're so worried that API copyrightability would destroy the industry.
>I'm honestly curious in what branch of SW development this happens

Most. It is based on some well studied and established averages, anywhere where it's actual core programming (ie. not counting churning out boilerplate html/css/CRUD code N times for the same/same-ish functionality).

Actully 100 lines/day is on the optimistic side:

"Capers Jones has compared many methodologies (RUP, XP, Agile, Waterfall, etc) and programming languages over thousands of projects and determined that programmers write between 325 and 750 lines of code (LOC) per month"
> I agree. Honestly I don't grasp the value in such stories except the typical clickbaiting via emotional content.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but this story has some value in disrupting the stereotypes many people probably have about the mob members (e.g. low education/rural people).
NeoCities [0] And you could use scripts + ImageMagick [1] + ffmpeg [2] to make thumbnail pages or albums for your images and videos. I do not have any links handy for making albums, but you can find them in your language of choice. The advantage to this method is that if some day [image host site] does not like you or they go out of business, you can push your albums to a different site. Most git repo sites like Github and Gitlab should also work.

[0] - https://neocities.org/

[1] - https://imagemagick.org/

[2] - https://ffmpeg.org/
> The reason a positive leap second was such a problem was because it add an "invalid entry", ie. 23:59:60.

It's only a problem if you have a hardcoded assumption that all minutes have exactly 60 seconds. You'll encounter the same problem if 23:59:58 is followed by 00:00:00

Computers don't usually count time in this manner and the display is converted via mathematical formula. It'd just have to be adjusted to account for leap seconds, positive or negative.
I think the author might be confusing volume for inflow, but they're 2 different things.
> The overreaction to what happened is fucking insane, especially compared to what actual Rioters where allowed to get away with for the past year. In May, DC was literally on fire from the BLM riots, and we didn't see this type of DoubleSpeak.

Not really when you consider that the protests in may were for the correct side with the media and elites fully on board. They were for all intents and purposes sanctioned events. The 6th mob was absolutely terrifying for the media and elite since they had zero control over it. What looks like just another mob riot to a common peasant appears to be an actual threat to those which never see threats.
Sure, there's lots to consider. But as a user of whatsapp since they wrote this article, and that has been trying to get my friends and family off whatsapp since they got acquired by FB, I am terribly sorry that they took that deal.
I am kind of curious about that. Are they allowed to use the same computer for official business and campaign work? I know a fuss was made in the past about someone using the wrong phone in the White House. In theory donor interactions should be done on non-publicly funded devices. Though I doubt that actually stops them. I am curious what policy actually states.
Such further isolation and radicalization was inevitable, large companies weren't going to host the process on their servers.

As they have every right not to do.
The burden of proof is on the pro-STEMmers to show that we really do need a bunch more STEM majors, not on the rest of us to prove we don't.

Edit: and are you sure that your higher-wages claim (source?) is not just evidence that STEM majors act as an effective filter for the smart and driven.
> This document is the property of the Python Steering Union (not to be confused with the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does not exist). We suppose it's okay for you to read this, but don't even think about quoting, copying, modifying, or distributing it.

Take that.
Is it my imagination or is every single person mentioned in the article a guy?
If you like them well enough, offer them some sort of early stage special deal - but only if they invest. But if they didn't pony up further for your previous venture and let it die, I'd be inclined to say "Sorry, guys, you already buried that investment."
The key bit of that explanation:

"The organization that established P3P, the World Wide Web Consortium, suspended its work on this standard several years ago because most modern web browsers do not fully support P3P. As a result, the P3P standard is now out of date and does not reflect technologies that are currently in use on the web"
I make additions and contributions occasionally, often anonymously. Thus I was disappointed recently when the threshold to vote on some Wikipedia issue was 200 edits, and my signed edits fell short.
Great job - but again, I'm reminded how slow Firefox is, in comparison to Chrome. I really hope it gets up to speed in 2011.
It's a neat idea, but wouldn't work for any image format that's actually used. The code targets PPM, which is an ASCII-based image format. In a binary format like JPG or PNG, different values of zero would be indistinguishable.
Happy Holidays is indeed more politically correct, but offense at celebration of Western traditions is one of the most noisome aspects of political correctness.
The Constitution sets limits on the scope of federal powers. It also originally banned income taxes. The only money mentioned in the Constitution is gold or silver. All of these restrict the size of the government and its budget.
How many upvotes on this off-topic post (and comments)...
And today is not even Christmas! Breaking news here!
Sorry but twitter is way to ghetto.
I typically deploy on slicehost, so I setup a 256meg slice [$20/mo] and put nginx [http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUpstreamModule] on it to split the traffic. This configuration can handle enough traffic that if traffic became an issue, I would be making enough money to move the application to a dedicated environment.
This seems dubious. Everyone and his dog will soon have read it, and he'll better to work in the U.S. intelligence community by being the only one not having looked at it? If this really is the reason, it seems this indeed would reduce his value to work in this domain. Would be weird.
Actually the scary thing is I think that it really is the motivation.

Good intentions are usually the culprit when bad things happen.
I do basic SEO as part of my job, so I know a few basic tools that can look through this. Google keyword checker gives 590 searches a month for that phrase, so it's not too competitive. I'm sure he ranks for a lot of these tail phrases though.

A lot of his juice comes from every page on his site linking with good anchor text to every other page (seems to be over 10,000 according to Yahoo Site Explorer). The fact that he ranks so low (on my Google he's number 6 or so) even with this on such an easy term shows something, doesn't it?

There's another massive site that links to him with anchor text a lot too. It's hard to even find any of these criticism backlinks in there: it's entirely possible these critics don't count at all anyway. After all, it seems to be just a theory of the store owner.
Macbook, Kindle, Scotch.
Previous discussion, with 39 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584597
Untrue. As noted, leaks are already quite punishable and yet they happen all the time (as we're seeing now). The issue is one of focus: The government can't track down all the leaks - impossible.

However, the government needs to spend its resources keeping the "real/important" secret stuff under-wraps and opening up the rest(via low-level leaks).

A system like I proposed would lead to a better allocation of intelligence/security resources by the government and increased transparency for us - without removing all barriers to secrecy, which is highly unrealistic.
You're expressing opinions ("arguable") when hard evidence is readily available.

Mouth and lung cancers and cardiovascular disease get all the headlines due to their mortality rates and hideous pictures.

But there's a whole spectrum of harm that exists well before you get to those extremes, and the evidence is easily found if you care to search for it.

See this 1993 study "Influence of cigarette smoking on human autonomic function" [1]

In habitual smokers, smoking acutely reduces baseline levels of vagal-cardiac nerve activity and completely resets vagally mediated arterial baroreceptor-cardiac reflex responses. Smoking also reduces muscle sympathetic nerve activity but augments increases of sympathetic activity triggered by brief arterial pressure reductions. This pattern of autonomic changes is likely to influence smokers' responses to acute arterial pressure reductions importantly.

Also, "Endocrine Effects of Tobacco Smoking" [2]

Over many years a large number of studies have demonstrated that exposure to cigarette smoke produces marked neuroendocrine changes. The effects of nicotine on the hypothalamic–pituitary axis (HPA) were first studied by Balfour (1989), who showed that nicotine was a potent activator of the HPA. The basic mechanism of action of nicotine on these systems appears to be contingent on its ability to mimic the effects of acetylcholine at selected central nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptors (Rosecransland & Karin, 1998). There are at least three types of nicotine binding sites in the hypothalamus (Fuxe et al., 1989). Nicotine stimulates neuronal firing directly by acting at the binding sites or indirectly by causing the release of acetylcholine or monoaminergic neurotransmitters (such as dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin) (Pickworth & Fant, 1998). Nicotine can thus affect HPA function through a variety of paths (Rosecransland & Karin, 1998).

FYI it's often been observed that dysfunction of the HPA axis is a factor in depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, hypothyroidism and other debilitating illnesses. Eg...

One of the most enduring and replicated findings in biological psychiatry is activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in a subset of patients with major depressive disorder. This review will discuss some of these findings and their pertinence to the assessment and treatment of depressed patients. [3]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8339419/

[2] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/496223_2

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC181180/
There’s almost no way you could know. Personally I don’t like our voting technology coming from Venezula but maybe that’s just me.
An old joke among Bitcoin speculators was "All technical analysis in a nutshell is basically: Bitcoin may go down, but Bitcoin may also go up. Time to add a new punchline: On the other hand, we're all sure that Coinbase always goes down.
Yep, if you run a Minecraft server you are most likely using the Java version with a wrapper such as Spigot (or one of its forks)
Oh, thanks. I'll put that book on the to-read pile.
$19 billion according to wiki :-)
No expertise, but just offhand one could use beanbags, rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, tranquilizers, etc - Is there a good reason that these are not options? Why jump straight to shooting someone multiple times? Maybe I’m just not understanding something.
This is pathetic, and I would be embarrassed to be a Facebook employee after what has transpired over the past 5 years.

Extremely too little too late. The damage has already been done, and done, and done. Over and over again. Journalism is a husk of what it was before Facebook's algorithms became the primary way many consume news. Engagement as the key performance metric has damaged the human project.

This company cannot be brought to heel quickly enough. I have zero faith in american regulators, hopefully the EU can do something, anything, to lessen the penetrative rot of this company.
It was investigated, and it is not the federal government's job to police this; the law states that individual States are responsible for that.
Thank you all for shining a light on this. I didn't know this was so bad. I'm simply annoyed that some social groups use Facebook to organize, our neighborhood group, the parenting class, so I just can't be a part of that and try to move individual people, like my immediate neighbors, onto other platforms. But "bills, ordering food, govt services, parent teacher communications", that's extreme.

At least for bills and govt services I wonder, who approves something like that?
Spammers and abuse.

I used to run personal email server some years ago. The spam was harder and harder to manage - first local SpamAssasin was fine, the I had to tweak rules, then I tried distributed filtering (DCC)... and then I gave up and started paying for Fastmail. This ended up working much better than I could ever do.

Usenet was similar -- I remember looking at the newgroups which were at more than half spam (and some were 95%+ spam) and then just leaving for forums. (plus there were a major UX annoyance: unlike with email, there is no simple way to sync read status across multiple devices)

Our free(digital) land has been killed by a handful of bad actors. I no longer believe in "free for all" systems. The best we can do is many independent systems, each with its own rules and policies.
Ran the above query on my Fx 34.0.5 profile, which is set to clear all history, cookies, cache, etc. on close of each session.

Among the entries was one named track.nextuser.com

"About NextUser: We believe every user should have an experience personalized for them..."

That doesn't sound very promising.
I can see why people do use a parser generator. For me though, the language I'm making has a fairly simplistic syntax, and I value code size and parser performance more than I should.
Here's a Chrome version too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...
Agreed with the corruption and over-legislation, which in my experience coincide. Bidding on governement projects in QC is very painful to do and corruption is sky high so competition cant set in

EDIT to add: example of QC bidding: most companies underbid the construction work to later postpone the deadline and request more money than originally bargained, and there doesnt seem to be any (enforced) legislation to consider that
My desk surface is as close to knee level as possible, so about two feet off the ground. The desk is an electric standing one, so I can regularly stand or sit. My chair allows for full support of my hamstrings and let's my foot sit flat on the ground. I try to maintain a vertical posture. I use a Microsoft eurgonomic 4000 keyboard. My monitor sits high enough to be at eye level. I also do power and Olympic lifting several mornings a week. Additionally, I have a forearm gadget for rolling out the muscles there called an Armaid Extreme Foam Massage Tool with Orange Ball Myofascial Release Tool (Trigger Point Therapy for RSI in Forearm and Upper arms).
What do you think would be a better title?
Still lower than the U.S. I went to a couple of cities in Canada in the past year and there's construction everywhere, from skyscrapers to roads. My corner of the Bay Area has a couple of 5-story apartment complexes going up.