jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Its a trade-off, of course. When the potential probability for causing deaths goes below a certain point, then the benefit of the activity (economic, human happiness etc.) outweighs and it goes ahead. If that were not the case, we'd all have already been locking ourselves away due to the many occasionally fatal things that we expose ourselves to. Take the flu, driving, attending a party, going out in any public place, etc.
Plus, the venues are going to operate at greatly reduced capacities with space between parties, which has shown to lower the chances of infection.
All of that adds up to a really low probability of causing death (even indirectly), making it relatively safe. When something passes our standard of "relatively safe", and we want to do it, we do.
Since a counter-argument is: "You're not just risking your own life", to that, I'd say that that is true for most of the risks we take routinely, as well. An example would be driving. When someone gets in an accident, other people can die, say a bystander on the sidewalk. But there is a very low chance of that, so we go ahead and do it, even when the trip is not necessary.
When the benefit outweighs the risk, we do things.
Your reaction indicates you think the risk is still significant of people dying from going to these future concerts, so I would encourage you to look into some of the current numbers. Different people have a different sense of this though, and to answer your question, yes, for myself, I think it is a good idea. They are still being very careful and restrictive.
KYC = Know Your Customer/Client.
This isn't that surprising. In general Go is about half the speed of C to barring specifically optimized code or calling out to a faster library this would be expected.
> I don't like puzzles, something I've noticed, if you don't like solving puzzles, then programming probably isn't for you.

Maybe what you meant by "probably", but I've seen my share of fantastic developers that hate programming after hours, and hate solving puzzles if it's not part of the job.

Not sure what it speaks to. Might just be I've run into more "programming is a job" types than normal.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715360
I run a site with fairly high traction with teenagers specifically teenages from california and tumblr is very popular with that demographic. From the outside looking in, they seem as excited about it as I was about friendster circa 2003, like this blogging thing was just invented. My take on the success of tumbler, for this demo at least is that it successfully implements standard blog tools that were once too nerdy for the masses (rss subscriptions, auto posting to twitter / fb, making it easy to post any type of media, making it easy to theme their blogs). In fact most of them use it like a twitter on steroids, posting pics and videos and viewing them without having to click on a like to a seperate service.
This is a great point. These things are never black and white. I suppose you could argue that the pain of developing a new skill could be enjoyable to you and this is how you identify things that don't feel like work. I generally find this to be true (to a degree) for things i truly enjoy and/or have accumulated the most ability in.
That's something worth remembering about reading graphs. When you're looking at the aggregate of a trend, it's worth asking what changes in that aggregate represent. Sometimes, growth means taking on dead weight. Sometimes recession means shedding it.
QE has nothing to do with VC
I've used Car2Go on and off for a couple of years.

I've never used Zipcar, in large part because I know the round-trip requirement would limit my use of it to specific errands rather than place-to-place transportation, and there's no way I'm going to pay a monthly or yearly fee on top of hourly costs for something I'd use maybe once every few months.
Does the ProxyCommand directive run the rc scripts of the bastion account? If so, control over the box isn't needed, just control over the bastion user account. Setting a custom $PATH and providing a custom sed, or a custom echo for that matter, would be easier then. Absolute paths are important for this reason. This is exactly why ./ isn't in $PATH (like in DOS/Windows), so someone can't drop a commonly named executable somewhere that accidentally gets run.
Strong type systems absolutely save lives.
I think there's a good majority of us who grew up playing RPGs or city-builders. We're unfortunately unaccustomed to the ravages of war... even when it's just war on an internet-based tank game.
Youtube has supported HTML5 playback for about 4-5 years, though some videos do not.

There's a few plugins (eg: youtube-center) that let you play any video via the HTML5 player.

Personally, I got rid of flash sometime around 2011. The only side effect is firefox not crashing ever.

As a bonus, I noticed that a few months ago youtube added video ads that you can't skip to lots of videos (noticed it on my gf's iPad). You'll never have to deal with those with the HTML5 player (or maybe it's just adblock).
What is it supposed to be?
I wasn't freaking out on ya man! More a statement that I don't mind if people know I use (and love) .Net.
I'll definitely follow along, it's been interesting. And I'd probably come up with something like the last one after a little thought, because it's pretty idiomatic of string copying.

I just tend to seriously dislike code refactoring instead of algorithm refactoring, and anything that advocates it. Typically, the compiler is far better than the coder, especially when you turn on optimizations, but the compiler (nearly) can't swap out your code for a better algorithmic approach. Thus, you'd be much better off with expansive, seemingly inefficient code from a smart programmer who knows the be(st|tter) algorithm(s).
So, which of you wise guys did this? http://imgur.com/HIJCj.png
Clearly they ditched the radio transmission and switched to transmitting secret messages over the Buzz API.
>>Really, "massive"? Invention of the transistor massive? Design of the first computer massive? Design of basic computer algorithms and/or languages massive? Or, to be more specific, design anything massive? Well, in point of fact, no -- none of the above.

Massive in the sense of "co-founded the world's largest and most profitable technology company and later turned it around from the brink of death."

Ask yourself how many technologies we have today because of Apple, and how many innovations those technologies and products drive. Heck, you don't even have to compile a list, because I can prove my case with a single example: if it was not for Steve Jobs, Wozniak would have remained at HP for the rest of his career.
Brackets does the same, which is frustrating as platforms like FirefoxOS and ChromeOS emerge.

It'd be nice to see the backend be a drop-in replaceable API so it works just as well hosted in a browser/on a Chromebook/in a NodeJS process.
No not even that I think. People in the USA perceives any kind of added tax, as money stolen from the state. Most of them do not have the notion of public regarded as something positive.

Let's say it's a very different perception of property, compared to Europe.

I am trying to convince myself that it's not wrong it's just different.

I try to accept the fact that I don't understand their approach and get over with, otherwise turns me kinda crazy.
The one time I did that I used PayPal. Otherwise I send a P.O. and get a check or wire transfer. It was a training course and each department wanted to pay for their own students. I made sure to let them know that I would be charging more, to cover the PayPal fees. They were fine with that. There was some paperwork to let PayPal know that I was a real company, but otherwise it wasn't a problem. The total was only about $2500, so rather less per transaction than what you are doing.
You can get a no-name Android phone for not much more (if at all)
> Essentially you're agreeing to a EULA of some sorts, that "offer", and the offer has terms which include a reporting back to publisher. Imagine Oracle using this to capture enterprises that are skirting their license empire.

https://twitter.com/dezren39/status/1359726235929223168?s=20
I want this so much. If your business model relies on invading people’s privacy. Then screw your business model.
The register article on this https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/microsoft_azure_ubunt... has responses from Canonical and MS, which shed a bit more light on the situation.

The Canonical quote is the most illuminating :-

"As per the Azure T&Cs, Microsoft shares with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, the contact details of developers launching Ubuntu instances on Azure. These contact details are held in Canonical’s CRM in accordance with privacy rules.

"On February 10th, a new Canonical Sales Representative contacted one of these developers via LinkedIn, with a poor choice of word. In light of this incident, Canonical will be reviewing its sales training and policies."
Well I think we all know why. They make money from it. The question that’s more relevant is how many of you are going to cancel your Azure accounts and move to a different host after seeing this and will it lose MS enough money to stop the practice. I’m taking bets that not enough will at 50:1 odds.
The voice in the article is an ordinary every-day frame of reference for Eastern Europeans; you're simply reacting to the lack of an American Capitalist frame of reference and the every-day American talking points.
It is an open question is the point. Like there should be someone at DHS that can credibly answer "No" if you want to set it aside.

And I wasn't arguing that there was intent, I was arguing that intent isn't the standard that we should use to judge governance.
If you haven't heard or seen any presentations about the work coming out of the Levin lab, it is super interesting. I don't really know anything about biology, but the work around modifying organisms via changing electrical circuits rather than genes is fascinating, and to a lay-person such as myself seems like the future of bio.

https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/presentations/
Have you written up any notes about your conventions/system in org-mode? I'd be really interested to read more from you about this, as I'm using org-mode as well, and it's really helpful reading about how other people are putting it to work for them (I'm fairly new to org-mode myself, and at the moment my conventions are fairly loose.)
I have two friends that did this. One to learn app development, and the other to learn Ruby. The app developer started her own company and is doing pretty well (at least paying her own bills), the ruby guy didn't like it, and went back to his sysadmin job.
It also correctly identifies the shooters of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and Mr Burns.

In unsolved mystery news, it told me that Jimmy Hoffa is buried under Giants Stadium (I thought Mythbusters busted that one...) and John Karr did not kill JonBenet Ramsey. In answer to "Who was Jack the Ripper?" I was simply told "the fictional world is Jack the Ripper", which seems a little too abstract to be useful.
> the white will likely get more jobs than the black guy.

All else held equal, that is simply not true in modern America. There are very powerful incentives to hire the equivalently qualified black guy in order to avoid lawsuits.

Anyway, all this affirmative action stuff will have to be dismantled in the next twenty years when whites are a minority. It will simply become impossible for institutions to function if they have to make sure their loans/admissions/hires correspond to the new population profile.
"Antitrust law provides some interesting insight into the question IMO. It was established because laissez faire economics failed to prevent monopolies."

This is obviously false, both from a logical and historical view.

A monopoly cannot exist in a free market as no company, no matter how successful, can actually restrict entry into any given market without the government banning entry into that market. This is accomplished though various legal means including licenses, trade barriers, so-called "intellectual property" protections, and other tactics. Without the barriers for entry into any market provided by government, establishment of a monopoly on any desired service would be impossible.

Now, you might cite some historical examples like Standard Oil and the like as examples of why monopoly protections are needed, but this standard example only illustrates my case. The price of a gallon of oil, for example, was around 30 cents in 1870 and fell to around 6 cents at the time of the anti-trust trial. And their market share was continuously dropping despite their supposed monopoly.
Fix a bug, two more take its place, your enemy researches the two still out there instead of the one you fixed and you're right back where you started.

Fix a bug and keep the fix in reserve (to be applied via a latency-privilidged backdoor and/or traffic filter if a large-scale attack is detected) and you've parried the first blow in a cyberwar. This has the added advantage that you don't have to nag people to install the fix.
I don't understand why mobilephones respect the no zoom thing.
Two words: Source maps. You don't get that with concatenation.

As others point out, Browserify is not complicated at all. Moreover, it gives you an actual pipeline process for creating the "bundles" of code. It supports transformations such as brfs and envify, which let you share more code between the client and server. And it's super trivial to set it up so that bundles are served dynamically (via Node) during development, so that you only have to reload the page without running any kind of watch process, but have it generate static, minified versions for production.
That's an interesting spin on what the article said. To quote:

According to a European Parliament report, published in 2001, America's National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted faxes and phone calls between Airbus, Saudi Arabian Airlines and the Saudi government in early 1994. The NSA found that Airbus agents were offering bribes to a Saudi official to secure a lion's share for Airbus in modernising Saudi Arabian Airlines' fleet. The planes were in a $6 billion deal that Edouard Balladur, France's then prime minister, had hoped to clinch on a visit to see King Fahd in January 1994. He went home empty-handed.

James Woolsey, then director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recounted in a newspaper article in 2000 how the American government typically reacted to intelligence of this sort. “When we have caught you [Europeans]...we go to the government you're bribing and tell its officials that we don't take kindly to such corruption,” he wrote. Apparently this (and a direct sales pitch from Bill Clinton to King Fahd) swung the aircraft part of the deal Boeing's and McDonnell Douglas's way.
Interesting that Techcrunch mentions traffic percentage drops of other AOL owned properties like Huffington Post and PawNation, but carefully leaves itself out of that particular paragraph. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a Techcrunch article shared on my LinkedIn or Facebook feed, it feels like TheVerge has done a better job at taking the tech mantle (but that is just my opinion), maybe the people I know just prefer sites like TheVerge instead.

I think Techcrunch needs a little bit of a shake-up to be quite honest. The quality of the articles have been very sub-par for a very long time. I am surprised Shingy hasn't had one of his "brain farts", yelled gibberish for 20 minutes like he usually does and save AOL.
I don't think "climate disaster" is inevitable. Right now temperatures are tracking substantially below the models, even as we head beyond 400 PPM CO2 concentration.

Regardless, it's still a win/win to replace dirty coal power with clean nuclear. "Renewable" energy has its place, but we need clean, non-intermittent baseline power. Lots of it.
Using existing cooling towers to capture atmospheric CO2 seems like a much better idea than using energy to otherwise pump tonnes of air through a process. However, I can't help wonder whether it is better than capturing the exhaust emissions (primarily CO2 and H20) directly from the exhaust gasses, before they are released to the atmosphere.
You don't even need to sign up.
How does this compare to the environmental impact of the millions of people constantly surfing sites like Reddit all day? I always hear about how bad Bitcoin is in terms of energy consumption, but nobody seems to perform similar analysis on actually frivolous activities we all accept in our society.
Wargames are more popular than ever, and cover a wider variety of topics than before, but (from the perspective of the 80s, surprisingly) the focus has largely moved back to analog games.

The budget to make an analog game is considerably less, especially at "wargame quality". Selling 1k units at $30-70 of a unique system on a marginal topic is sustainable in a way that a digital version is not (and may never be; print-on-demand quality is improving, but the cost of cross-platform development and supporting digital distribution is rising). And the most interesting adversary in asymmetric, multiplayer, non-zero-sum situations often remains another human even given unlimited programmer and compute time.

Also, the field of wargame design is professionalizing, and the major clients with the "big" budgets (governments and NGOs) generally want dynamic, transparent, refereed games. Sometimes those have some digital support for the referee, but only for time or communication efficiency, not to increase the mathematical sophistication of the simulation. Think Excel spreadsheets, not SVMs.
I dunno, there are some weird places where idiomatic F# allocates even when you avoid the usual suspects, but can be trivially rewritten not to allocate. (There are even bugs which cause allocation. Try iterating over an array of `unit -> unit`, calling each in turn.)
Is the an annotated unobfuscated version ?
You just justified to yourself a reason to use an even more controversial word out of the blue in a contrived way. I hope you were being intentionally ironic.
"TL;DR can be used as a good way to describe the entire piece in other contexts."

Absolutely. Perhaps we just shouldn't be using tl;dr within a piece. There's other words for short forms: abstract, summary, conclusion.

Signed, your friendly tl;dr nazi
- scaling into friend-of-friend territory will cause email traffic to grow very quickly and needs limits (namely comment visibility has to stay in the friend circle of the original message)

- messages are pushed instead of pulled, which is a waste because not every status update from every friend will be read.

A rapid scan of the site did not reveal any solutions to these problems, which are indeed huge problems. Ashton Kutcher can't send ten million emails a day. Social needs to be built on a pull protocol.
This is exactly the sort of things I would say, if I could send younger me a note. Broaden your horizons, self.

Academically, professionally, it's all worked out fine- just do what you do, me-of-the-past.

But I would that I had invested a bit more effort into music, culture, arts- and a lot more effort into health & exercise. I basically wrote off physical fitness, which was a huge mistake.

FWIW I'm not the rotund sort, in fact the opposite, skinny as a bean pole in school and it developed a lot of bad habits that I am still correcting and hurt my overall performance & success (being terribly underweight dulls the mind...) I really should have developed a bit more cardio & a lot more muscle.
iSH is reasonably popular and is ripe for Apple to either Sherlock them or bless them by allowing them on the app store https://ish.app

edit: "but iSH is Linux, surely Apple would do Darwin!" you say. By looking at how poorly they're maintaining the command line experience on the Mac (deprecating their bundled Python, Ruby, not updating anything GNU GPLv3 etc), it's easy to imagine them happy to outsource that drudgery to the Linux community, like Microsoft is with WSL. Add to that all the web developers telling them they want a deploy-ready environment...
https://archive.md/doeNm
Never heard megadollars. Megabucks on the other hand...
One day I was scrolling through my Youtube Favorites playlist, and was devastated to discover 10-20% of the videos were deleted or unavailable. The worst part is it's nearly impossible to get any information about which videos were deleted, so I can't look for re-uploads or even know if they are worth looking for in the first place. Ever since then, I run a script to periodically backup my Favorites playlist with youtube-dl.

More generally, I've learned the hard way to never trust that any content on the internet will stay up forever. If something is important to you, back it up, sooner rather than later. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is great but it does not backup everything!
Google comments are invaluable for one thing--identifying the name of that song in the background.
I sympathize with that perspective. I was a huge Thrift fan five years ago. But it became clear early on that, despite your experience and mine, most people had a really hard time wrapping their heads around Cassandra's Thrift API. Teaching CQL for the last 8 months has been a night and day difference. Ease of use does matter.

It doesn't hurt either that CQL is substantially more performant [1]. Perhaps that will sweeten the pill for you. :)

That said, while CQL may get the most publicity, we certainly haven't been neglecting the rest of the stack, e.g. [2], [3], [4], ...

[1] https://twitter.com/karbonized1/status/369472202015399936
[2] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/performance-improvements-in...
[3] http://www.slideshare.net/jbellis/cassandra-summit-2013-keyn...
[4] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
How do I leave a comment on his blog? WTF is up with people disabling commenting... if you don't want any feedback then I don't care to hear what you got to say.
Good point. Maybe the best approach would be to let the interviewer choose the approach that works best for them. It would be sooo refreshing for a company to present me with interview options that will showcase my skills the best.
To keep people from wasting their time.
Wouldn't it be funny if malleability has confused MtGox about its own hot->cold->hot wallet transactions, and it really has way more coins than it knows?

Then, when MtGox finally has someone with half a clue patch things & rescan, 700K BTC reappear, and they post on their homepage, "Nevvvvvermind – it was all a bad dream."
Is there a catch? In theory I like it, but are the users now becoming the product?
What you might think the article is about: Poor security in app leaks private information including SSNs

What article is actually about: Infosec blogger says Police can mention SSNs and other private info on police band, imagines complicated chained social engineering to ruin someone's life to get their ID, somehow an iPhone app that emulates police scanner is involved even though real police scanners are cheap and have been available for decades, oh god, I've wasted my life reading stupid blogposts like this ...
agreed. Matt made some very good points, and i can see arguments for revising the voting scheme. but a long-time poster citing as his #1 issue the problem that "a vocal minority" (whose views he doesn't want to hear) is getting a handful of stories on the front page comes across as very elitist, and so do a lot of the comments in this thread