jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hadn't thought about how deep fakes could help us explore alternate history before. That's a chilling clip.
The problem, which is always the problem, is that like 12 someones invented different wide encodings at many times in the past.

The result is the chaos of the present day.
Thanks, you're right. At the end, when he's talking geek-to-geek - so to speak - his thought process and speech seem much more aligned. https://youtu.be/cIQ36Kt7UVg?t=805
How do I edit environment variables with new UI, for example? It's pretty common task and I always have to use that old UI. Thankfully it was actually slightly improved in Windows 10. Another thing is hotkeys to switch keyboard layout, it's still the same UI from Windows 98.
> The questions were technical but not very challenging or difficult.
So THATS why Google products are so consistantly shite...
Are you sure your Pixel is vulnerable? Looks like the patch for Pixel 1 & 2 was released October 7th.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-10-0...
Genuinely hope somebody goes to prison for this, but not gonna hold my breath.
I've filled up gas once for the driver in Malaysia.
> You know that feeling you get when a news story hits all the right notes and confirms everything you thought to be true about the evil of the other side?

Funny how that keeps happening! I keep getting news stories that confirm my per-existing biases that the world is mean and we need internet moderators to make it all better again.
Oh, now I see. It's not so much about scaling up, then, as it is about forgetting to scale back down after a spike.
This is strange, why are you all posing the narcissistic blogger as a negative here? I usually write whatever comes to my mind on my blog and still get some readership. I seriously don't get the problem you have with people like me. Blogging mainly started as lifelogs of people which they published on the internet, I believe that is what a narcissistic blogger does and nothing is wrong with that.
I guess this works the same as a casino. They are constantly giving you hope, and occasionally you get paid something, so you keep going hoping that in the end they will pay it all.
Notice the caption in the picture of the metro article
"A broker looks on in horror as the news that Justin Bieber has a mild cold brings about a global economic collapse (AP)"

The article you really want is the one linked to
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/12/16/investment-fund-set-to-u...

I'm still pretty skeptical of this concept in general. That the fund doing this is a "family-owned investment boutique" sets off even more flags for me. I think this is just marketing for their asset management business.
I never meant to imply it was bad. Looking directly at a flash bulb like that from typical movie-viewing distance is perfectly harmless. I would not want to look at one up close, however.
That tidbit about her piano teacher's daughter was from a great talk about creativity she gave at Stanford in 2006.

My notes on the lecture:
http://personalopz.com/blog/nine-lessons-learned-creativity-...
Are these numbers really good? I don't doubt them in this story, but I must ask because recently we've all been regaled with "ZOMG EBOOK SALES PASS BOOK SALES" stories and a few of those have been accused of cooking sales numbers.
Exactly. I only fall asleep thinking about a problem if it's something that is "hard". For instance, coming up with an algorithm I haven't been able to get quite right during the day. If I do that, I usually don't sleep very well. My dreams are filled with odd representations of the problem (once, an old man yelling various time complexities at me). When I do wake up, I often have a good fresh new idea to try out.

But, it's taxing. Nothing good has come of sleeping on a stressful problem, or common work where I know more or less what to do.
I'll agree with that, people don't realize how much stuff costs. Like NASA (17.6 Billion[1]) vs Department of Education (71 Billion[2])

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Edu...
This falls through when the business guys try to build out a spec - especially to be used by outsourced developers. They use "human logic" and the bridge between the database and user experience breaks. Spending 10 hours, learning how software thinks, will make these types of teams way more practical and effective.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. It's the chess of the martial arts world. Practicing it keeps you fit, but more often than not, in competitions and live sparring practice, it's superior strategy that overcomes physical prowess.

I hated lifting weights and running for my whole life, so it's quite enjoyable to spend four or five hours a week getting a great workout where my mind is constantly being challenged also.

The founder of the art called it "the triumph of intellect over brawn". But you will get fit practicing it...
The premise of the article is that you think it's a credible threat of a lawsuit, either because the person's crazy or the law's really broken.

If it's the type of C&D letter that you can laugh at and publicly post a silly retort to on the internet for the lulz, then yeah, go right ahead. Court filing fees may be tiny but screwing up a lawsuit because you didn't take Civil Procedure is expensive. You're saying you're a lawyer downthread.. would you really recommend DIY for any non-lawyer in any real case?
I like Marco Arment's take on this [1]. He doesn't think Apple will release an HDTV, citing the following problems.

1. Consumers don't upgrade their TV as often as they do their laptops, cell phones, and other gadgets.

2. Apple can't make an all-in-one TV. HDTV's need to interact with receivers, equipment supplied by the cable operators, blu-ray players, game consoles, etc. Apple usually prefers to keep such interactions to a minimum.

3. TV's require service at the customer's home, which Apple isn't currently geared for.

He also offers some points I disagree with.

1. Apple serves the high-end market in order to have high margins. How big is the high-end TV market?

I think the same could've been said about the smartphone market prior to the iPhone. As Apple showed, high-end does not equate high prices. Get the price right on a quality product and you can capture a significant share of the market. Better yet, disrupt the market by re-imagining the product (think capacitive touch screens).

2. Retail TV stores need a large display area, which isn't a good fit with Apple's existing stores.

No need for a large display area if you're selling just one model.

[1] http://www.marco.org/2011/04/16/rumored-apple-hdtv
The iPhone 4 camera takes oversaturated pictures. Nokia N8 on the other hand might be that phone that can compete head to head with p&s cameras - there are many comparisons already available online.
This template is using the <section> element incorrectly, see: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

"The section element is not a generic container element. When an element is needed for styling purposes or as a convenience for scripting, authors are encouraged to use the div element instead. A general rule is that the section element is appropriate only if the element's contents would be listed explicitly in the document's outline."
Yah, after looking at the source I saw they are only using php's gd2 library on 8bitalpha.com which is definitely inferior to your work.

The problem is lack of Windows binaries, this is the most modern I can find:

http://sites.google.com/site/bitdepthtools/downloads

BTW this is the original image I am resampling down to icon size, it seems very challenging because of the multi-layered round edges and many gradients internally:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bitcoin.png
(I did not downvote). But have you read Pikkety's book? It pretty thoroughly explains how capital grows more rapidly than GDP.
Individual cases and individual markets. The IT industry over the last 10-15 years is hardly your standard case study in an average part of the economy.
> Either block them...

Can't you already do this by setting the age rating on your videos?
"Finding interesting stuff" maybe. But finding a lot of the things I used to find some years ago is just not possible anymore.

Somehow searching changed as well as the ecosystem of the web itself. The big global players dominate nearly every inch of the web and many sites look like clones of each other.

There is a lot more effort being put into censorship and also more threats to ordinary users in my opinion.

When I loved to use the web it was like a big playground and it seemed that the most people there where extremely curious and open-minded.

Today there is so much hate - no real discussion (this community is a rare anomaly considering this argument) and I think it's not about discussions for these people who spread hate. Also it's all about the money. In the earlier days people used to write blogs and create sites just for fun but today everyone wants to get some money or measurable attention (likes, views, followers etc.).

Constantly you are being bothered by advertisement which gets more invasive from time to time, cryptominers and other malicious software that creeps into your system if you just click on the wrong link.
Don't remember that from the beginnings and I'd love to experience that again some day.
I'm interested. That book would help me with my unix foundations. Go ahead Zed!
Now I understand why PayPal lets scammers register with an address that reads "asd, asdf,asdff, Turkey" and immediately allow somebody with that address to send me funds. (Ultimately stealing/using the credits they purchased instantly from my site with the fake paypal account setup on a stolen credit card)

Without a current streetmap of the entire world, how would you really know it's a bogus address?
I've had to go through a bunch of "cowboy" Perl scripts at work. Some are a ridiculous 2-3000 lines doing things a decently written Python script could do in a 100 lines or less. (I don't fault the language for this... it's the way they were written). Many of them have bugs that have existed for years. Nobody wants to (or practically can) go through and fix the bugs... even the authors. They are full of cleverness, regular expressions, don't make efficient use of functions etc. So, in my limited experience, when Perl is bad, it is really really bad. And that is a very strong negative in a language. I've finally got permission for flat out re-writes in Python and the old timers have been fairly sullen about the short amount of time the re-writes thus far have taken, and how small the code is. Again.. I don't blame Perl for all this. But it's readability sure doesn't help these kind of situations.
Or as Dropbox showed, it really is just a moment, with no real enduring impact.
Hyper is usable, and it has become rather fast when they switched the backend a few months ago. It's real promise is in scriptability, and, unfortunately, there aren't any must-have extensions for it.

I think there are quite a few low-hanging fruits for the terminal, such as better integration with documentation or using an actually good language such as ruby directly on the command line. If I ever get around to try some of those ideas, I'd use Hyper as the platform.
The footage of E.T. for the Atari 2600 was a nice, if utterly nonsensical, touch.
soupnazi, or segvec as some people here are more likely to remember him was a joke among the security community. the times magazine article that made him out to be the next mitnick took some real liberties with the truth. verini tried to paint the picture of a sociopath, but ultimately fell in love with him as well. don't be fooled by the times.
Yeah, you have to set it up locally, but again, it's worth it.
>In the first study, students were placed in pairs and asked to pitch an ideas to their partner for a movie concept. The results: "the ideas impressed the person evaluating the pitch roughly 50% more than did those from the least narcissistic pitchers."

What?
@tylernol: you know this is a threaded conversation forum, right? Click "reply" (right under the comment you want to discuss) next time, and your comment will be nested properly.
uhh, wouldn't you also want a number of simultaneous incoming calls? I mean if you get your service up and running, get everybody memorize your phone number and then incoming calls are greeted w/ busy signals. That wouldn't be good for suicidal situations, right ? :)

Google Voice is good for a single call but I don't know if it has call distribution. What you need sounds like a PBX w/ call hunt-group feature.

I think there are grants and financial aids from Western non-profits and NGOs available for things like what you're proposing. perhaps you can post request for helps in those forums also.
Huh, maybe it's because I already know what it does, but I actually think that racks of machines are really cool looking.

Stuff like this: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Marenostrum&gbv...

is just really cool.
It's not really written in Common Lisp.

"built on top of libev"

The lisp part is a thin ffi wrapper on top of lots of C code.

Not than an ffi wrapper around C code isn't useful, but it's C code that does all the heavy lifting there.
I'm not really seeing the point in this post. I use instagram almost every day and I'm not really seeing a difference between their revision and what I see on my screen.

This isn't to say that it isn't different, perhaps drastically, but I'm not seeing any sort of improvement.
Once, my car died near an intersection; as I jumped out to push, two guys appeared out of nowhere alongside me to help push. It took about 15 seconds, and they waved off my thanks and were gone again. It was shocking how unexpectedly helpful they were... I tend to expect no help in a situation like that.
Someone who's really, really excited about their new admin account.
Then again, anyone who works on md5 password "cracking" for a living would likely already have the set of all 5 character printed passwords hashed and sitting in a database ready for recall with no need to speedily crank through them.
I know I have contributed to the java questions on stackoverflow. I have worked in java on and off for 14 years, but the java frameworks, e.g. Axis (of Evil), are often quite over-complicated. The questions are there because of employment and difficulty, not interest and ease.

That said, when I am prototyping, or doing a quick tool, it's usually in Perl. Quicker to write, and runs quicker as well (when single threaded). At least if "quicker" involves I/O, caching in hashes (maps) or sorting/searching. Java is quicker than Perl if you are twiddling ints, or throwing all your data away just after the network gives it to you, though :-)

Ruby is nice too, but I have done quite a bit less of that.
I agree that the centralization of internet infrastructure (like Cloudflare, who was involved to the sites you mention) is a corollary to my claim that government packet filtering as a potential regime which could result in limiting global speech.
Or you could see it as man + (something) -- i.e. better than man. It really depends on how you take a normal word and assign an agenda to it.
> Margaret Atwood discusses her book "The Handmaid's Tale" and the real life and biblical events that inspired it.

I'm assuming the 'real life events' are simply the Middle East?
If you're buying a new truck, this is not outside of your price range.
“911 has nice lines, I guess, but I really wanted something that looks more like a Fiat.”
Are you familiar with how costly backtrace is?

I fear bubbling an error up and repeatedly adding a stack trace or some junk like that. Admittedly I have not looked too much into Backtrace, but I hope my concern makes sense.
This horse has been beaten to death, repeatedly now.

Trust that Google's "don't be evil" was earnest has evaporated. *

Belief that product/services from Google are anything more then ephemeral has gone up in smoke.

Promises that hardware would be supported and provide a baseline for the future are nothing more then delusional and wispy.

This is what we get when we have faith in a cloud.

edited and updated. Thanks for the correction.
Tim Ferris?
Can someone explain me the current fashion to have pale text-shadows? I find it strange-looking.
Care to elaborate? How is this any representation of the youth of the 21st century?

Thanks.
With all due respect, how is this HN worthy? I don't see this as deeply interesting. There is nothing meaningful about it, there is no underlying pattern.

4chan is a cesspool, and it is not representative of youth or any interesting demographic.
In Fall 2009, with only 1 year of experience with high-level web programming and no computer science background (BS in Management), I created the goal of working at Google within 3 years.

I enrolled in graduate school pursuing M.S. Computer Science, watched online course lectures, read textbooks, worked on a number of pet projects, and learned new programming languages... all while working full-time.

I'm now 9/30 credits towards my Masters degree and currently interviewing with Google (made it through 2 steps thus far). While I may or may not get an offer, it is just another step on the path to reach my goal.
Yes, I think so. Mine had the same cover as the image in the article linked by OP, but it sounds about the right length.
Does ip also replace dhclient?
<pedantic>

There shouldn't be an apostrophe between the number and the 's'.

"Will learn in the 10s" should just be "10s", as some people may have already started programming in the past 12 months

</pedantic>
I'll repost my comment from the last version of this article, since I don't think any new developments have invalidated it.

This connection to QFT is almost surely nonsense. The flag manifold in question comes from matrix groups; basically, consider some subset of 3x3 matrices which satisfy a certain property. I.e., certain types of transformations of a 3d space. While the space of 3x3 matrices has 3x3=9 dimensions, subsets can have fewer dimensions (in this case, 6).

The two-dimensional projections she discovered are functions of the 6 dimensional matrices.
So here is the occams razor explanation for what is happening. Inside the bee's head is an ODE (ordinary differential equation) solver, basically an analog computer. Just think of the ODE solver as a complicated timer, but with output depending on both time and some hidden variable. These are common objects in biology, and don't require many neurons.

The output of the ODE solver is wired to some neurons which reduce 6 variables to 2, according to the formula she discovered.

This is a fantastic discovery, a triumph of applied math. But the connection to QFT is almost surely coincidence: QFT uses symmetries of matrix groups over 3 dimensions, and the bee (which lives in 3 dimensions) also does.
This phenomenon is called universality. Certain objects repeat across diverse areas simply because it is the only logical way (or the most common logical way) that things could happen.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=391396
But we can't really know, can we? The trust is completely eroded. Fool me once...

Put simply, databases change the equation. Never in human history has it been possible to store and mine such a massive quantity of data in perpetuity. If the infrastructure exists to capture and process that much data, included via algorithm rather than by human, that represents such a radical shift in power that its abuse is inevitable, regardless of whatever restraints may or may not exist today. What happens if the next Snowden is a profiteer? What happens if China finds a backdoor, and can suddenly tap all data on every American citizen.

Capturing and storing all data is really really fucking dangerous, no matter who's doing it or why. (I'm not thrilled about Google or Facebook either, but at least it's voluntary, and they never throw anyone into a cage.)

> People die everyday in car accidents and safety is an illusion, so let's stop wearing seatbelts.

I think a better analogy would be a seatbelt that you can't take off, "for your own good". And if you're trapped by your seatbelt in a crashed and burning car, well, too bad, we meant well!
Hm. Piggy back Google Shopping on Uber? Why have two separate sets of people driving around a city when you can have one?
Wuzza-fuzza what now? Where? How? What keys?
Wow I had the idea to do exactly this only a few days ago.
I found I adapted to Erlang's syntax in under a week. I'm far from proficient in Erlang, but it's not an issue of syntax, rather experience.

Erlang syntax is a bit different, and there are even (IMHO) internal inconsistencies, but I didn't find it any more of a roadblock than e.g. python's indentation conventions. Each person is different I guess.
Am I misreading the HN guidelines? People submit their own projects all the time, and quite a few of them are money-making operations. The whole site is run by a VC firm, for gosh sakes.

I could understand "this isn't a good or interesting piece of code", but "this is a commercial piece of code" seems like the wrong thing to complain about.
There are a lot of things that can be learned effectively from books, but I don't think graphic design is one of them. Books can help, but one of the key skills in graphic design is having an internal sense of how a variety of different people with different viewpoints will react to a particular design. I think that skill is best learned through class discussions and the critiques of your peers.
the baked in assumption that what's bad for most humans is bad for all humans is what bothers me.

The implication, or rather question here, is not about what one person likes vs. another person. We are all entitled to opinions, choices, etc., and we all have different ones.

The article is discussing whether a total absence of social interaction is bad for humans not because we just don't like it, but because it is necessary and requisite for your brain to function & survive, the same way a total absence of water is bad for us. Would it be so bothersome if I suggested since a severe (aka total) lack of water is bad for most humans, it's bad for all humans?
>If the US is such an awful country

You're reading quite a bit into a simple observation, shouldn't you be criticizing those who didn't ask for clarification instead?
I can see the yellow dots on the video progress bar but that's all, the ads don't show up.
Note that I didn't suggest replacing structs with NamedTuples entirely - only during prototyping, while you're figuring out what you want your struct to look like. Structs most definitely will be faster.
> Most datacenters only lease by the rack. These racks can hold up to 42 servers and are far too expensive.

Hurricane Electric will happily lease you an entire rack for $400/mo with a 1Gbps connection. I would argue that, in comparison to the prices the OP mentions, Hurricane Electric's price is quite good. Also, there is one fewer middleman between you and the Internet (and power, and rack space, etc, and the front door, etc).

(I believe that $400 number does not include vast amounts of power, so the actual price tag for filling that rack with conventional hardware may be rather higher. On the other hand, depending on your use case, fitting in a small power budget may be straightforward.)
Bitcoin is like coronavirus, it will not disappear until ALL running instances disappear.
Could you cache the requests or write the parameters into a file and then make the call to Juila, and ask it to loop over the requests?