jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"The author doesn't mean 'science' in the literal sense that implies the scientific method, he's using it in a far looser sense that only implies 'the study of a subject'."

But theology isn't the study of the heavens, it's the study of religious doctrine. I get that the author is trying to use poetic license, but describing theology as a science of the heavens is kind of alarming. Maybe I'm just a little on edge because three different people tried to convert me to their religion tonight.
You can always change the keyboard shortcuts to something else if you don't like Cmd-Shift-3 and Cmd-Shift-4.
AutoHotKey + snipping tool has served me well.

Link to script: http://thirderror.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/snipping-to... (if you're running Vista or 7 x64: Run, C:\Windows\Sysnative\SnippingTool.exe)

Gyazo (gyazo.com) is also very quick (automatically uploads the images for you).
Sorry for my ignorance, but is there still no way to watch YouTube and other videos without Flash? I thought some browsers would ship with suitable codecs and be able to play them directly?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=152
Also, I couldn't find any other way to uninstall Flash on OS X to begin with.
Would be interesting to see a setup with textmate editing on the local workstation using this.
and now, they just go "HOW MUCH FOR AN SSL CERT???" and then buy one anyway.
Or they can put the manufacturing in Romania so the beggars never have to leave home and amass debts they'll never be able to pay off as career beggars.
SplatSpace sounds intriguing! I'll have to look for a similar organization in Austin.
Agreed, the auto import is awesome.
Just because it's preconfigured with your account doesn't mean it doesn't need a password. My iPhone has my account on it but I still need to type in a code.
The answer to "Can you sue?" is always yes, yes, yes. You always can.
$149 for Windows 8.1 version and $89 for Linux version, not bad.

via:
http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14...
It doesn't seem like it's really competing with the Chromecast. My impression was that the Compute Stick can actually run software by itself, not requiring a connection to another device.
I am in a similar boat (living in China) and HN is really my only way of keeping in touch with the startup/hacker community and "socialising". I really wish there was a IRC channel/website dedicated to people in our situation who are looking to socialise or collaborate together on projects/startups.

I was thinking about this problem recently and one idea that I came up with was to build a "MVP league" that would combine aspects of eSports leagues and online hackatons (e.g. Node Knockout). Participants could form teams and submit a new MVP every X weeks. Another option would be to have theme/technology based tournaments (e.g. "open source", "node.js", "education"). Winners could be selected after each cycle, new teams could be formed, there could be a leaderboard of teams/participants, etc. Sponsors could offer prizes to winners or investors could offer funding.

There are already a couple of websites that aggregate online hackatons (http://challengepost.com, http://www.wehack.it/) but I haven't seen one that operates as a league and most online hackatons are one off things or once a year things.

Curious to hear HN's thoughts...

PS: I added #lfl on Freenode to my auto-join if anyone wants to hang out :)
2.) Makes a lot of sense. I think it is the most likely explanation for the MitM.

1.) GoGo doesn't need MitM on video streaming to aid in law enforcement, but it's an opportune time to mention that video streaming has been a target of the intelligence apparatus as recruiting videos and indictments of US imperialist activity is condemned there (for example Al-Awlaki's videos were censored from youtube for being seditious; to give context here Al-Awlaki was a US citizen assassinated without a trial and is one of four American citizens killed by drone strikes - while never engaging in violent actions himself he was given the moniker 'The Osama Bin Laden of the Internet' for his recruiting efforts). Another relationship video streaming services have with intelligence efforts is that logins and cookies (associated with Google Accounts in the case of Google) are good identifiers. In this case a MAC address could be associated with online accounts (I'm not saying this is done).
It feels really nice to see that the Indian Government is developing responsive sites now. About time!
Welcome to Web 2.0 NIC :)
Yes, it is very easy to interact with databases from Python. There are libraries available for all of the popular DB engines, as well as great database abstraction layers like http://www.sqlalchemy.org/

Depending on how much of a non-programmer you are, it might be worth investing the time learning to write a basic script which interacts with a database. Writing this in both Python and VB.net should demonstrate that the task is simple enough in either language.

If you manage to convince him that Python can access DBs as simply as VB.net, I suspect he will come up with yet another reason why he prefers VB - in my experience, people always shift the goalposts in situations like this. Once you have answered about ten of these 'objections', he will probably put his foot down and say 'Well, I still say we use VB.net, and I am the teacher, so deal with it".
Wow, your post is like buzzword bingo.
> all the CSAs have the thread available to respond.

That's the catch: they have to read the full thread and then respond... in 18 seconds on average! That is a lot. I can barely read a decent-sized paragraph in 18 seconds; and the average typing speed of a professional is 50 - 80 wpm; which means even a 10-word response will take around 10 seconds to type. So you have 8 seconds left to grok the entire context and form a coherent response! And do this for hours at an end.
The calculus behind this benefiting the user likely involves the belief that most artists are going to cave on the issue.
I understand the ad thing but that idea applies to all software companies (because they want their own browsers and operating systems used by users), not just Google.

To me it feels like they're throwing their competitors under the bus in this way as opposed to running slander campaigns or witty commercials like Samsung, Microsoft, and Apple do. I'm not saying this is their intention but that is the way it comes off and it cannot be good for their reputation.

A non-profit organization funded by the entire tech industry would have more credibility.
Yeah, the next thing planned for it is user-settable hunger. Then, making more and more efficient code is simply a matter of following the unix philosophy

corvus -h 500 | corvus -h 300| corvus -h 200

So on and so forth as you get closer to [,.]

The dead code part was a organic artifact, and I actually don't think that I want to change that part. It sorta makes you wonder about how much dead code is in real DNA.
(I mean, pieces of junk code)
With genetic code you’ll also get junk code, exactly as it happens for DNA :)
You're correct that moral and property rights are distinct in many civil law countries, but both are under the umbrella of copyright

No. Copyright can be used to protect moral rights, since you can't mis-attribute something you can't copy, but that's only done so in the US because there's no federal law defining moral rights. In places where moral rights are in the law, they are not subject to copyright at all. You can even sell or forfeit the copyright, and you'll still have the attribution rights (which are inalienable).

as far as I know, there are no countries that enforce moral rights but not property rights. (...) Which countries' legal systems do you have in mind?

It doesn't matter. My point was that attribution and other moral rights don't rely on accepting copyright. Whether there are legal systems without copyright is irrelevant to this.

According to the idea that we should not respect property rights (and, like you say, only respect attribution / moral rights), this would allow the company to re-license GPL code under an MIT license, then use the newly MIT-licensed code in ways that were unintended according to the original author (i.e. inclusion in non-GPLed code).

What licenses would those be, if there's no copyright? You're still thinking in a matter formatted by the current US law.

Just because in this hypothetical world copyright has been abolished, doesn't mean you necessarily can do what you suggest. As I said earlier, a law could be promulgated that granted the author the right only to prevent others from using code written by him in proprietary binaries - while not granting him/her the right to restrict any other copying.

My only point is that you don't have to accept & respect copyright - the right to prevent others from almost any copying - to defend other rights. They aren't dependent on copyright; that just happens to be, under current US law, the best way to protect them.
...US starts buying fighters from China?
In this respect, the feature would even be to hide the profile.
I've stopped laughing altogether.
I work in IT for an investment bank. No-one really wears ties any more, except for interviews. A few people don't even wear suits. Some people even wear brown shoes and pockets on the fronts of their shirts.
NOT related. This is not meant to track you. This is just a marking.
Sadly, I suspect that statement could have just as easily come from the mouth of someone in Gaza regarding Israel.
Fortunately, in this case you no longer have to wonder if he was right or not.

The Orwell and McCarthy references seem pretty accurate to me - one neatly encapsulates the degree of surveillance we now know is happening, and the other clearly indicates the dangers of it.
Teaching mathematics not in a constructive way is extremely harmful. One have to wipe out all the previously acquired superstitions, all that high school crap out of the students minds before reinstating a proper, constructive knowledge there. Which raises the question - what was the point of filling the minds with all that crap in the first place?

Same thing with languages, there are schools which approach foreign languages formally, starting with grammar and all that. Some of that schools are known for training spies, for example, which is sort of an indication of their quality.
Due to long standing agreements [1] (in place before ECHELON, five eyes etc.) Australia and the US share a huge amount of intelligence. Being from Australia, Assange is aware of the influence that NSA data collection will have on areas outside of the US. Appealing to Americans is the best chance he has of informing the population who can make a difference.

EDIT: Add link

EDIT 2: from link, because I didn't know this and I thought it was interesting:

> Due to its status as a secret treaty, its existence was not known to the Prime Minister of Australia until 1973, and it was not disclosed to the public until 2005. On 25 June 2010, for the first time in history, the full text of the agreement was publicly released by Britain and the United States, and can now be viewed online. Shortly after its release, the seven-page UKUSA Agreement was recognized by Time magazine as one of the Cold War's most important documents, with immense historical significance.

Link to original treaty text [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
[2]: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukusa/
BrainFuck is a great place to start because it's pretty simple. I started with this post on the PyPy blog: http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/tutorial-writing-inte...

This repository helped as well: https://github.com/thoughtpolice/bf-pypy

Getting a basic interpreter working wasn't hard, but I attempted to add a few of the optimizations listed here[1], which meant adding some form of AST and stuff to manipulate it. This is where I got a bit stuck with regards to performance as some of my optimizations meant the program should have been faster, but instead it slowed down.

1. http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck....
One of the best SCI-FI books ever. Many thought the movie couldn't be made because of all the licensing needed. The question is Spielberg the right one for this? For some reason I think not.
We've actually had a pretty good time hiring for both Haskell and Clojure, it attracts a certain type of developer that a team like mine likes to work with.

There are certainly applicants from the groups you mentioned, and we do our best to filter them out.

It's interesting to hire people for stacks that most programmers have no production experience with (and have pretty much no way of getting), but it's certainly been done before.

In my view the tech in a startup pretty much doesn't matter. You either make something someone will pay for, or you don't, and then you die whether you use Fortran or Coq. Thus you might as well make yourself comfortable for the ride and use whatever you'll enjoy building stuff in, something you won't be easily bored of using and teaching others.

If you get to the stage where you need to quickly bring up to speed hundreds of developers, you pretty much already made it and you're experiencing growing pains, that's a good problem to have. Most of your code won't survive that scale without a serious rewrite anyway. You'll deal with that when you get there. The vast majority of people will never get that far.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/fact-check-electo...
I'm not sure it matters. You still have to agree to the policy first. Whether you have an FB account at the moment might change for you in the future right? So FB couldn't be handling all those cases as well. This is a strategic move I think will cover all users.
> servers are closed-source. Th

They are open source. Please see github.
The Amazon Prime 16:9 versions are not the same as this Simon sanctioned re-release. They predate it by several years.

Edit: found a link for this claim. directv did them
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=42c992...
>Only way to change something is by voting

Any party with a chance of winning gets coopted.

The only real way to change is to participate in internal party politics machinery, and be prepared to play dirty, because they certainly will.
You mean every draft is a rewrite, or just that a rewrite at the end is a small amount of work by comparison, or that you only put the final draft on the computer?
Sadly, the Android One program looks to be nearly dead. G7 One owner, don’t want a larger phone, so looks like the Pixel line is the only remaining option for my next phone.
Definitely not "true enterprise", but I have fixed server issues with my phone on a half-hour train ride. Back then I just used SSH password auth to connect to a server, so no security measures stopped me. Nowadays I'd probably wake up my home desktop and SSH into that and go from there.
Uber once had a program called UberFamily. I can find the blog article announcing it but can’t find anything current:

https://www.uber.com/en-TR/blog/uberfamily/

Several years ago, Uber had a big problem in eastern Canada where parents of young children would show up without a car seat. In Ontario law at the time, taxis were considered public transportation so children did not need to be put in car seats, but Uber was considered private vehicles - they were required to.
This reminds me I'm due a visit to https://tweetdelete.net/...
>An alternative take, which I'm sure won't be popular, is that now, with an interpretation taken to the extreme, a megаcorporation can basically steal your (let's say a small startup's) platform (in case you refuse to sell it for ethical or some other reasons), by re-implementing it and investing much more resources which you don't have, to make it more attractive to customers.

GNU/Linux, a free reimplementation of AT&T's Unix interfaces, is largely why commercial Unix isn't really a thing any more.
Uber checks the drivers' licenses of the drivers, no? Criminal background checks?
I wish it were a bit more verbose on the terms and their use. What does he mean by phase "term" and frequency "term"? "Term" -> "error"? And if so why the frequency would set to a relative error of ~25ppm? (Is it measuring the local clock frequency skew, while showing a near zero corrected phase error?)...
the algorithms chosen are a mix of "most common" and what comes out of the box with python's standard library to avoid extra dependencies.
Not when the government does it.

The great self-referential inconsistency, if you will.
Internet latency is much higher than it could be, even using fiber: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10737

And adding an HFT-style microwave backbone could reduce Internet latency even more: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10897
Value is lost to existing shareholders who have the value of their shares diluted. Everything you're saying may seem logical, but economics is often illogical and any 1:1 $:stock sales still tank the share price.
I'll take a crack at it, though I'm only in undergrad (took a course on VLSI this semester).

Making a device at a specific technology node (e.g. 14nm, 10nm, 7nm) isn't just about the lithography, although litho is crucial too. In effect, lithography is what allows you to "draw" patterns onto a wafer, but then you still need to do various things to that patterned wafer (deposition, etching, polishing, cleaning, etc.). Going from "we have litho machines capable of X nm spacing" to "we can manufacture a CPU on this node at scale with good yield" requires a huge amount of low-level design to figure out transistor sizings, spacings, and then how to actually manufacture the designed transistors and gates using the steps listed above.
> eg. fn(n: usize, arr1: &[i32; n], arr2: &[i32, n]) allowed the function body to assume the two slices can be zipped without losing elements.

Often you can wrangle the optimizer into eliminating all but one bounds check by passing slices instead and then slicing one of the inputs in terms of length of the other. The Zip iterator adapter also has optimizations for the case of two slices where iteration will only require two length queries at the beginning and no further bounds checks.
I use Yesscript, which allows blacklisting of specific sites.
In France you get online taxes per-filled with all information. It covers almost all the cases (including when you hire someone to help you at home) so for 99.999% of the popolation it is a matter of 5 clucks, for z total of 2 minutes to fill in your taxes.

I actually do not understand why this is not automatic. If you have a special case you would need to act, otherwise it accepts by default.

I read a few times about the lobby of tax software companies in the US, it is really weird that they can get away with such practices.
Indeed. The only folks in trouble are the ones who decide to remain in VHCOL geographies.
Complexity theory seems only interested in algorithms that shed light on complexity classes.

What has complexity theory done recently that is of practical importance?
The one-hit wonders are few and far between. Most startup success stories have a long history of effort an experience that ends in a successful exit.
So ISPs would reverse-lookup all IPs requested by their customers, mapped onto a list of banned domains or naked IPs?
Posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31051354
> I have seen recently several discussions in the HN/Substack blog milleau about nuclear war “not being that bad.”

I started noticing this sentiment on Reddit sometime last year. Usually with some jingoistic fantasy about whatever country the news media told them to hate.
Yes, I think that's largely right.

What we require is a "bridge" from any particular feature space to the target. A compression of a feature space doesn't produce this bridge. When we look at a photo, its ink-space arragement can be bridged to its depicted situation via our ability to brigde.

We see in the ink, a world. We do this via concepts which bridge. We get those by being in the world.

We can "roughly accept" limited forms of inference which simply operate within a feature space, ie., we can be fooled by photos "made on photoshop" which appear to depict a situation which never really existed.

A machine operates in "inkspace" and we rig it only ever to produce "human-bridgable" arragements of ink. The machine itself doesnt draw a situation -- as with an artist painting a room. A machine isnt in the room.

It is, as-if it were in the room, and as if it had painted it. This illusion is created by us, we rig the system to average historical paintings of rooms, and only ever show the apes-at-home a good picture. They think, looking at it, that the machine has painted something.

One formulation of this, I suppose, is to add "| HumanUnderstanding(Y-as-labelled, Y-the-actual-target)" to everything
I'd just stick with banning what's already illegal - libel, inciting violence, fraud, threats, harassment, criminal activity, etc.
> I'm not going out and buying a muscle car to cruise high school

Why don’t you try it? If it didn’t ever help people would probably stopped doing it.

If you have nothing to lose, then f*ck it! Just do something emotional you almost forgot you wanted.

Why do you care what others will think?
Any chat app would have issues with battery optimizations. Solution is usually to use the mobile OS vendors push notification infrastructure. Work on that in XMPP started around 2015 and most popular clients and servers should have some support by now. It's tricky to make something nice while the platform is working against you tho, especially while those push notification systems use/d XMPP themselves.
Great another tax for the poor who already have to commute 2+ hours for a wage that mostly goes to the landlord. Brought to you by The Most Progressive State™.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/04/30/...

Closest I can find, but I have no idea what point the OP is trying to make.
Unfortunately, that has gotten more difficult in Big Sur8s Preview. It show the icon until you click the file name.

TexEdit keeps the old-style, as does Numbers, so I’m not sure what the preferred way is, nowadays, but I tend to move downloaded PDFs that way, so for me, it feels like it’s worse everywhere.

(Aside: looked at https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ to see whether Preview’s new way is copied anywhere. That page clearly shows document based applications are becoming an endangered species)
I did this too. Another pain point I've found is when logging into websites with github or other oauth provider requires grouping that website in with the services perminent container.
I understand that they provide a disclaimer, I’m saying they shouldn’t sell it as FSD until they can guarantee FSD will exist within the life of the vehicle.

It seems highly unlikely that Tesla is close to fully autonomous driving. The “Paint it Black” demo was over 4 years ago and we haven’t seen anything better since then. We were supposed to get an autonomous road trip from LA to NY by 2017. The videos that have come out of the FSD beta release make it clear that you couldn’t leave the car without intervention for 30 minutes without a major crash occurring.

Tesla doesn’t even have any autonomous miles to log in California, unlike dozens of other companies including GM and Waymo.

www.businessinsider.com/tesla-rolling-stones-song-latest-autopilot-video-2016-10
Because the cappuccino will continue to cost them $4 tomorrow, next week and next month. Sure, its value changes and a cappuccino may even cost a different amount sometime in the future, but its easy to know the value of the money you have because the exchange rate between dollars and items in the shop doesn't change so much.

Contrast that with bitcoin, where the value often changes by many, many cappuccino's in a single day.