jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At least not on the basis of backward-looking statistics, assuming that inter-arrival times of major wars are correctly/most closely modeled by Poisson processes as the authors believe. You could make a claim based on other things. For example, you could claim that the speed and fidelity of information transfer render it now more difficult to have a major war. You could argue that the incredible amount and speed of power projection we now have access to render international warfare game-theoretically very difficult. (For example, there will not likely ever be another amphibious invasion conflict between of equiv-tech major powers. There are too many weapons systems that can accurately destroy surface ships, so it would be impossible to get close enough to make landfall.)

But any such claims could not be based on statistics.
Well, taking a step back, this is all a very very poor analogy to describe the mechanics behind why the Yahoo Answers team might choose not to maintain static web pages; bringing up Mitt Romney's arguments in that context is...perplexing, to say the least (and probably flame-bait).

But in the spirit of actually engaging with the comment, Mitt Romney's argument is centered around the debate around whether rights that are traditionally afforded to individuals by American law (i.e. the US Constitution) also extend to individuals acting in a group capacity. That is to say, if I got up on a soapbox and started preaching communism, can the US government prevent me from doing that? If you and I decided to create a group and find like-minded people and collectively use our resources to get up on a soapbox and started preaching communism, can the US government prevent us from doing that? The Supreme Court found that the answer to both of those questions is "No", and — importantly — that the answer to the latter question is "No" for the same reason that the answer to the former question is "No".

So taking another step back, arguing that "America is a person" doesn't make much sense in that context, because the argument is about whether "America" has collective rights under American law; it's like dividing by 0. But groups within the US are different; a group of communists talking about how dope they think Marxism is, in a legal sense, is exactly the same as McDonalds Inc talking about how dope burgers are, or Google Inc. talking about how dope search engines are...or even groups of Indians talking about how dope Shah Rukh Khan is. They're all protected by the First Amendment.
You can't do that. Putting this on the defender is the wrong target.

The two structural changes that I would make are:

1) Any monetary collection by the "justice system" goes to a victim or into a fund which gets redistributed to the general public at the end of the year.

No more funding things with fines (aka regressive tax on the poor). You want funding--it comes out of taxes, period. This stops a lot of the perverse incentives in the system.

Marijuana legalization is mostly held up because the fines from it fund the "justice system".

2) Prosecutors may not offer plea deals.

As we have seen time and again, this devolves into abuse of office. Prosecutors offer deals with far fewer consequences to rich, non-minority defendants.

I would actually go one further:

3) Prosecutors don't get any ability to pick the jury.

The court should be able to strike people for various bias reasons. The defense should be able to strike people with some limitations.

The prosecution should have to make the case with the jury provided by the court system and the defense. Prosecutors already have far too many advantages when conducting a trial (too many jurors are "He's in the chair--he's guilty."). If they can't make a criminal conviction with those, then they shouldn't be prosecuting it in the first place.
How is xQc a bad actor? He just memes with his chat.
> I've never lived anywhere in the US that gets that cold, but in my experience [which we've established is none], I don't think Americans say that much.

It's a thing in Northern climes where the temperatures can get that cold. Everyone living in such places will know the term and you'll hear it frequently when talking about the weather or listening to weather forcasts.
Mine is in the Australia set, is there any meaningful next step to see what was leaked or does it not really matter?
Given the number of smokers I knew when I was in Singapore, and that I never saw anyone smoking in the street, I always assumed public smoking was banned. When I heard there was no such ban, I asked a smoker about it. He said he doesn't smoke in public out of consideration for others, and a lack of public ashtrays (but that the latter was likely a bigger factor).
Exactly... And it wasn't bad. I owned one. But they got eclipsed by camera phones and that was the end of that. Hindsight being 20/20, they probably should have focused on selling constituent parts of the camera to phone manufacturers (like Sony does with lenses for iPhone).
One general HUD use case I think would be beneficial is a driving aid: pedestrian and vehicle detection (or in rural areas animal detection). Whether the HUD is goggles or projected onto the windshield the extra data would be useful when driving. Automatic braking systems are great and all, but if you can see a deer on the side of the road in the distance via a HUD at night you can slow down well in advance (whereas the automatic braking system would engage when the deer crosses the road).
The thing is, none of those headers are even necessary. For example, replace "Beginner Class" with "AIKIDO", remove the "Regular Classes" and "Come Visit" headings, enlarge the text, and you've already improved the poster.

For bonus points, pluralize the days ("Tuesdays 7:30 p.m.") and separate the phone and URL from the address a bit.

The point is, the information is self-describing. It doesn't need a header to announce what it is.
I agree with you, but I do wonder if the destructive acts of the Great Fire and the Blitz had a part to play in that.
Helsinki is building a new library, to be ready 2017. I think they've taken steps toward future of libraries. With more focus on spaces, and learning. I think this is the key here, if the physical books gets marginalized it should re-branded as a learning space. You can read more about Helsinki library project in English here: http://keskustakirjasto.fi/en/
What happens when you are on the HN top site (beside you open a beer and enjoy that little tiny moment after months of hard work):

a live snapshot http://i.imgur.com/0KbPjcx.png
The text in the right hand picture is almost but not quite on a baseline grid. It's not perfect, but it's consistent. The text is consistently further from the page margins than in the "before" version. All the text on the right hand column lines up on a single line.

I don't know what "weight balance" means in this case, but there are more type styles in the "before" than the "after".
You seem to be agreeing with my comment 100%, but taking a tone that implies some sort of correction.
> They were competing with $200 bikes on Amazon and an iPad

Not really when they were selling a far more premium lifestyle experience.

Peloton is an aspirational buy.
It's not hard to type in lambda calculus [1]:

(λ (λ 2 1 (λ 1 (λ λ 1 2 (λ 1)) (λ λ 5 (2 1)) 3) 1) (λ λ 2 (3 2 1))) (λ λ 2 (2 (2 1)))

[1] https://mindsarentmagic.org/2012/11/22/lambda-graham
Anytime I read one of those "just do what you're passionate about!" posts, or job postings that read like "we're looking for people who are passionate about [thing that literally no-one has ever been passionate about]" I try to think whether there's anything whatsoever that I'd enjoy (let alone stay passionate about) doing (at least) 40 hours a week, 49ish weeks a year.

I haven't thought of anything yet.

Left to my own devices, I'd probably spend 100 hours one week programming, then not touch a computer for two or three weeks, reading or building something or doing stuff outdoors instead. Lock me down to 40 hours every week, even weeks when I'm not in to it and would rather curl up on the couch for hours on end with some math books and a notebook or marathon-watch some Criterion movies or go camping with my family or whatever, and any fun I was having in those 40 hours will disappear fast.

It doesn't matter if the thing I'm clocking in to do is play video games of my choice and in the way that I choose, even—I'll be ready to not look at a video game for the next year within a matter of weeks.

That's not to say that I consider all work equally bad, but I'm probably not going to love anything at 40+ mandatory hours every week. The only way I can imagine enjoying that many hours on the clock is by splitting it between at least two very different things, like programming 4 hours/day then carrying heavy stuff at a construction site the next 4 hours, and even that might not do it over the long haul.
... and without giving them a third of the profit (or is it revenue?)
Your link is a good resource, since not all forms should go to Fresno, but that office is more than just California. For instance, in Kansas and Missouri, 83(b) elections are sent to the Fresno office. The receiving offices are organized by regions.
You know, I used to be subscribed to a technical mailing list, around the time that .NET first came out. One guy started abusing the mailing list like mad. Asking extremely simple questions that he could have answered with a brief skim of the published documentation, or a web search.

After awhile, people started to berate him for this behavior. He apologized, but kept doing it. He kept getting answers, and kept learning.

Last I heard, he'd gone on to be a team lead, then run his own, successful company. He didn't let fear of public annoyance or seeming stupid hinder his own progress.

I'm not saying everyone should gleefully annoy others, but I've met far, far too many technical people who spend more time on their anxiety than they spend on actually learning and doing. You have to find a balance, and obsessing over the theoretical time expended across a group of people is probably not productive.
I usually get 8-9 MB/s file downloads with a 100Mbps connection. I think the speed is actually limited by the laptop's slow HDD.
Pete's post today says he'll be getting Google Fiber to his house (and encrypting everything through Xmission):

https://xmission.com/blog/2015/03/24/google-fiber-in-salt-la...
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No one expects that to hold, but even if it does, the US has property taxes most everywhere, and you'd eventually pay for your land again and again just by owning it.

It is speculated that China will drop the land use grant when they institute a real property tax.
> For a frame? How do you make a floor with cinderblock/brick/etc?

Same way as usual, except you use concrete or metal for beams, and e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-core_slab between the beams. For brick, archways e.g. catalan vaults, you can do pretty amazing things with brick archs: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/11/tiles-vaults.html

> Even if it's a single story, how do you make a roof?

You can do them the same way, though a wood bent to support e.g. a tile roof tends to be more common (having just a wood bent is a far cry from a wood house).
"In January, he invited the ire of another part of the internet eco-system when he described domain investors, or domainers, as "domain hoggers."

So domain speculators are now "domain investors"? IMO, if your business model is to horde something scarce in order to sell it to someone else, you aren't generating value, you're just parasitic drag on those who do. Domains should be part of the "commons". If you want to profit from a domain, do something with it.
"I have to say a lot of large companies have security holes" XD

https://youtu.be/O9jstO5KpCY?t=552
Not a valid comparison - the smartphone market was much smaller in 2008. The percentages would be more interesting/valid, but that's exactly the problem - the market is getting closer to saturation/more mature now and so Windows Phone has more trouble getting elbow room because of it.
I usually liken PHP to an AK-47.

Its rickety, it bends and moves when you use it, but no matter what it just keeps working. Although there have been new platforms to come out with superior technology, none can match its simplicity and ease of use, and because of this it has been used in more instances than any other. Hell, even a kid can operate it.
> So you are just going to ignore the vast majority of the history of medicine?

No, quite the contrary -- in fact I just defined the difference between medicine and psychology. Medicine identifies new diseases using evidence. Psychology identifies new diseases using votes. All the new "diseases" in DSM-5 were added by a panel voting in secret.

> Medicine, and science in general, is constantly re-evaluating and often finding they were wrong.

Yes, using science and falsifiability (a hallmark of all scientific ideas) to identify the wrong ideas. Psychology, by contrast, identifies wrong ideas by measuring public reactions to their imaginary diseases. Asperger's wasn't voted out because it's fiction -- most psychological diseases are fiction. It was voted out because it produced an epidemic of phony diagnoses and a public relations disaster.

> Or do you regularly check up on your humor levels?

It's not easy to find humor in stories where psychology gets it wrong and kills children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Riley

Quote: "Rebecca Riley ..., the daughter of Michael and Carolyn Riley and resident of Hull, Massachusetts, was found dead in her home after prolonged exposure to various medications, her lungs filled with fluid. The medical examiner's office determined the girl died from "intoxication due to the combined effects" of prescription drugs. ... The Riley parents were unemployed and the family relied on Social Security Benefits. From the age of two, Rebecca was diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder, mainly on the basis of information given by her mother to child psychiatrist Kayoko Kifuji from the Tufts-New England Medical Center. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_therapy

Quote: "Since the 1990s there have been a number of prosecutions for deaths or serious maltreatment of children at the hands of "attachment therapists" or parents following their instructions."
The problem with articles like this is that it inspires precisely the wrong reaction. The best way to develop "soft skills" of the sort that matter is to stop caring about developing "soft skills" and to be genuine and be in touch with who they are internally. Don't worry about presenting yourself - care about who you are inside and seek to present it genuinely. Social fluence comes naturally when you stop pretending.
Is it Just me or am I hearing this in the voice of Dr evil. Ok they paid several millions total to say a total of a dozen organizations that not going to pay for much when you divide it that way.
I get the same thing, for humankind-001. Oh well.
Nobody reads EULAs. They are irrelevant in a historical context.

They'll clearly be replaced by consumer law at some point.

You don't have to sign a 20 page license to go into a shop and buy a banana, do you? And yet there are all sorts of property and purchasing rights (for buyer and seller) associated with that.

The correct way of talking about this now is to discuss what the consumer law should say which will replace EULAs.
I recommend you read the paper here:

http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/

It gives intuition/light math why the analogy as translation in embedding space should work.
I wouldn't describe it as the worst but I'd say it is not gripping. Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows are gripping. Remember, the 5th book was also a very dense book because JK Rowling wanted to fill in a lot of information that hadn't been given in the preceding books.

So, in terms of how it keeps you excited, it failed but the book packs a lot of other useful information which were referenced in the books that follow.
Very nice!

How come you went with Unity3D instead of Unreal Engine 4?
Some databases are creating compression dictionary during compaction.
Obama is a hawk in a donkeydress.
Glancing over the implementation it looks like you would have to add list manipulation ops to get macros to work, since there's no quote. So, not hard, but not trivial.
Seems a lot more productive to use silicon as a feedback system for the brain via electro-magnetic radiation. Then it could function as scaffolding. Silicon isn't magically becoming more organic than a wet, soft brain full of DNA and other complex organic compounds.

I mean, that's one of the things we've been doing human experiments with for 30+ years now, via the wireless phone network and wifi. "Hold this radiation emitter next to your brain!" "New radiation patterns for the masses!"
I can vouch that he's a coder, and a damn smart one.
Thanks for bringing these two things to my attention. It's incredible what I can overlook in tools I use everyday. I love it when I learn something new though!
Actually, my ability to enjoy food hugely increased when I started eating my prototypes. Focusing on one meal a day means that meal can be awesome.
Why isn't it open source like it was before?
> That's exactly why the term "wallet" should be used. This is cash, and should be treated accordingly and thought of accordingly.

Cash held by someone else on your behalf is an account (even if it is physically stored in their wallet).

So, sure, bitcoins are in a sense analogous to physical cash, and bitcoin wallets are in a sense analogous to physical wallets full of cash -- but some third party business who keeps bitcoins in their own wallets and contracts with you to transmit them according to your instruction is providing you with an account, not a wallet.
There are definitely amazing, luxurious aspects of programming. Something came into view for me recently though, that I never realized before:

When I graduated from high school, I started my own little (tutoring) company, and did software from after that, so I never had the experience of a "normal", hourly job, like retail or coal mining or whatever.

Recently I had an opportunity to do a job like that and the mood struck me to try it out for like a month. I realized something huge about our jobs versus a lot of other jobs:

I make more than $100/hr sitting in my pajamas, and I'm totally blessed. But I work my fucking ass off. My brain is fully engaged, and when I charge you $125 for an hour of my time, you got more than that value, because I was working, firing on all cylinders.

What I realized in this other job was that even though I worked like 10 hours, it felt like I didn't do much because... I didn't. My coworkers and I, we did some stuff, chatted, laughed a bit, did another bit or piece, took lunch, etc. We spent a lot of time just socializing, having down time, not thinking too hard.

I also noticed that there wasn't really room to do "better". The nature of the job sort of set a cap on how productive you could be during a given time period, so the culture just grew around that. Think of a gas station attendant sitting around watching TV most of the day, the night audit at the hotel, or the guy flipping burgers when it's not lunch time.

That's when I really got the distinction between $10-20/hr work and $100+ -- we, collectively do difficult, mentally taxing work that requires long hours of intense focus, and a dedication to craftmanship that most other jobs just don't require. And we do that job under mostly under unreasonably tight deadlines, often for employers that don't understand what we're doing and therefore undermine us in many ways.

Yes, it's luxury in many ways. But it's also a coal mine of its own sort.
I think this will change as prop trading firms wane & consolidate.

They attract the top STEM talent in Chicago and can pay them extremely well through profit sharing. There are a lot of engineers and "Xs who program" (where X ~= trader/researcher) taking home high-six and low-seven figure bonuses at the best groups. The people are usually very entrepreneurial and the firms have a "tech culture" where good code isn't a cost center. Why would guys getting market base, upside that pays yearly or quarterly, and autonomy trade that for $90k and a lottery ticket to build some glad-hander's dream?

Markets are slow and competition is fierce, so I think you will see a lot guys from these Getco-ish firms leaving because the opportunity just isn't there anymore or the firm culture has changed. Most of these people keep a low profile and have cash socked away. Some will end up bootstrapping their own businesses here in Chicago, building them in the image of the firms where they cut their teeth: nimble, revenue-focused, scientific, and sharing success with employees.
My main annoyance with Python, as someone who had C++ as his first programming language, is I cannot stand significant whitespace. Really. I know that this is a petty, peevish, not technically valid reason, but because of that Python irritates me.

Still I would not necessarily recommend against it.

Dynamic vs static typing, I have programmed in dynamic languages and for small projects there is a benefit to not having to worry about strict typing.

For large projects, you end up having to worry about strict typing anyways except manually (of course, there is a degree of this that is always true no matter what, and C++ is not the best example of "strong" typing, but it's a continuum). For that reason, I can definitely see the virtue of static typing for a large project, it does not solve all type related checks, but it at least reduces them, which can save some time.
Curious: How many clicks did you get?
That's not my perception. For example, the language and standard library freeze is in 3 weeks (the beta release), and yet they are doing a complete redesign of the std::io module:
http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/psa-io-old-io/1403

There's no way they could gather enough experience with the new API within three weeks in order to commit to it for the next decades of Rust.
I love this idea. I have wanted to build something similar for a long time.
One of the key features I believe would be to track ingredient changes over time, per product.

I put a great amount of effort into purchasing products without specific ingredients for the allergy concerns of my family. One of those is High Fructose Corn Syrup. I had finally found a brand of BBQ sauce that was HFCS free, and used it for quite a long time. One day I became curious if the ingredients had changed, and sure enough, the company had started using HFCS at home point.

Tracking these sorts of changes of course requires a great amount of crowd-sourcing effort, but I believe that it's worth so much more than the effort put in. In my case, it was just HFCS, and not much of a problem. But had it been one of the allergens that we have to avoid, that would have caused a much bigger problem.

Great work, keep it up! I look forward to contributing.
Interesting. Wouldn't it be an advantage for another network to leak that information to deter signing with att?
ah, the monthly doom and gloom post.

from my perspective, the issue is that HN is becoming more popular. popularity means more people trying to submit more content, and more people with wider interests. on the flip side of that coin, content strictly relevant to HN's interest isn't growing nearly as fast as HN itself is.

the end result is that people are submitting things that stray further from HN's core, and there are more people willing to bump up those submissions.

perhaps to help combat this, HN should take a cue from reddit and allow downvotes on submissions. but in HN style, implement a karma barrier. maybe something like 2500 or higher.