jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting question.

In doing some research to formulate an answer, it really is quite striking that the US Constitution is the first of its kind, in that it conceives of a federation of co-equal sovereign states combined under a federal sovereign state. The Federalist Papers explicitly compare the proposed model against the then-existing models of Germany (i.e., Holy Roman Empire), Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands, and then-US. Keep in mind that none of those countries retain their same government form today.

In the Federalist Papers, the Netherlands is explicitly singled out for the problem of the domination of one state (Holland) over all the others, although my understanding of their history is that the state started out that way, so it's not a problem caused by the capital being part of Holland's territory. There are other examples I can think of single-state-dominant confederations (Germany provides a few examples!), but again, I'm hard-pressed to attribute any cause of that to the actual location of the capital.

At the end of the day, I don't think it would be a problem today. However, a lot of that also derives from having 200+ years of case law and custom firmly cementing the roles of federal and constituent state in a federal republic. In 1787, when the Constitution was written, that custom and precedent doesn't exist. When you're arguing that a federal government needs its own locus of power, independent of state authority, and a lot of people fear giving it that power, giving it a territory where no state can reasonably claim to be able to exercise state authority goes a long way to letting that locus of power be truly established.
The guy at Ars Technica who writes the fantastic OS X reviews, John Siracusa, also has RSI. He uses Dragon Dictate to write most of his articles.

He recently discussed RSI in length in an episode of the Pragmatic podcast:
http://techdistortion.com/podcasts/pragmatic/episode-50-acci...
It would be cool to study things like politeness, top speed, acceleration, etc in different cities and then create traffic profiles that represent these cities and see what kind of tweaks can improve each one.
Alternatively, look for a local credit union. I belong to one that was originally set up for firefighters and their families but is now open to people living and working here.

Pros:

- Most credit unions cooperate on a shared ATM network, so I have zero-fee access to way more ATMs than any bank does that I know of. Also, they reimburse any other ATM network fees (but I try not to rack up too many of those because I don't want to cost my CU money).

- They also usually cooperate on physical location resources: although my CU doesn't have a branch nearby, I can walk into another CU's location around the block to make deposits and withdrawals. Try walking into Wells Fargo and depositing money in your Bank of America account.

- Their lending rates are SO good. When I wanted to buy a new vehicle, I emailed the loan manager who gave me a pre-approval for about 50% more than I needed (just in case I stumbled over an awesome offer on something more expensive that I was looking for) at a ridiculously low rate. Then they recommended a dealership to me. My wife and I went to the dealer and picked out our vehicle. The sales manager said "I know you have financing, but let me see what I can do for you. What's your APR?" I told him and he started laughing: "yeah, I'm not gonna be able to touch that. Congratulations on it!"

- They have amazing customer service. Any time I've need something, from adjusting the date my loan payment is due to asking them to please stop putting a hold on the deposits of my wife's paychecks, has been a call or email and they just do it.

Cons:

- Nothing that I can think of after being with them for 5 years.
How much would that run for 5K?
Very disputable. They haven't made the .org tld, it wasn't a private resource (read: private as in used to generate profit), they just captured it and turned it into private property.
>"We unfortunately started with Linkerd and it actually is the cause of most reliability/troubleshooting issues"

Would you mind elaborating on what those Linkerd issue are/were that were effecting reliability and troubleshooting?
I came from an AWS background to my current company's GCP setup and was very confused at how IAM worked on GCP for a long time. Now that I know the system, though, I agree with you. It really makes a ton of sense and works really well.

The biggest problem I have with GCP is that something will say "you need the foo.bar.baz permission", and when I go to the IAM page to give that to myself... there is nothing in the search results for "foo", "bar", or "baz". Instead, I have to guess the "friendly name" for the permission.
Looks like they finally figured out where to store the rolling ladder (what they used to fetch merchandise from the overhead shelves). This was back when Apple had their store-within-a-store feature at BestBuy.

People in online Apple forums remarked that the ladder was always parked in the Apple section no matter which Best Buy you went to (probably due to the fact that not a lot of people went to BB to buy Apple stuff, this was pre-Apple Store).
I'd recommend you a Chromium fork but I'm not brave enough to do it here.
CSS 3D transforms are an emerging W3C spec. WebKit has the hooks for supporting CSS 3D, but a WebKit port like Chrome still needs to add an underlying scene graph engine ala Core Animation to get 3D rendering going. It's non-trivial, but possible.

Scene graph engines are hard to build, much like vector graphics engines and font rendering engines.

That said, Clutter ToolKit (the same one Chrome OS is using for its windowing manager) is about the closest open source ready-to-go replacement that can do 80% of what is needed by WebKit to do CSS 3D on top of OpenGL. It's on Google's list to add to Chrome, but not for awhile.

Google seems to be favoring WebGL over CSS 3D (too much detail to discuss pros, cons, and the politics here), and is making WebGL implementation a higher priority for now.
The date says June 3rd, but then the text says "the Android Marketplace has only just broken the 50,000 mark". That number is, like, so last month. http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx

Ordinarily a month-old fact would probably be fine, but things are moving a bit fast in the smartphone world these days. So in this case it leads to an error of 26%.
The supply of all domain names is infinite, but the supply of short domain names is definitely finite. That's why it's so damn hard to find good short ones.

It doesn't matter how you get the limited resource first. What matters is whether there is an efficient trading system for such resource. You can always buy a domain name from someone you want if you are willing to pay big bucks.
Reinvigorate is doing a great job. It's in beta stage, but you can apply for an invitation: http://reinvigorate.net
This seems like a case where they really ought to consider starting 'lean'.

Initially buy a small house in an area densely populated by redditors and turn it into a coffee house or something where they can go to hang out. When you've gotten past a certain point, move to a small resort location, then eventually get to the island stage. It just seems like setting yourself up for failure to go straight to the island, which has soooo many more obstacles in the way.
This is wrong on many points; First, AFAIK, Zuck is not just another founder, he is a major driver of internal FB culture, which is intensive, akin to Brin&Page. You can't just oust him and replace him with a corporate raider MBA type that the troops won't respect.

Second: "Because Facebook has treated us so badly, there is still the possibility that we can just turn and walk away." Can we just put this misguided idea to rest, nobody's leaving FB, at least for now. Checkout the recent post on HN about "leave FB day" and how very few people actually did it. People have invested greatly in their social networks, this is not something you switch individually, e.g. like your search engine choice, the majority of your network has to do so, too. FB has to make much larger snafus than the recent one to provoke large scale user drops.
Try some language course of the Michel Thomas series, each lesson is roughly 60 minutes and audio only, it's aimed at the development of the spoken part of the language and so there are no books exercises to do. Perfect while driving.
I've listened to a few CDs of the japanese and mandarin courses, really well done.
The 900's are my reference solutions. I'm intending to create solutions with the various feature sets to try to create clumps around them. If there are suitable submissions, I'll just identify and use them instead. For example, g080.d is pretty central.
I find it difficult to believe that the basic mechanism of the BPO is unworkable. It's composed of 4 sequential independent valves, usually hydraulically-activated from a remote location: closing any one of the 4 should shut the well down. It should be possible to disconnect/bypass the communications, electrical, and hydraulic circuitry and manipulate the individual valves directly. The parts are of extremely high quality metals. At the very least several options are available:

a) disconnect the current hydraulics, connect to an alternative hydraulic source and then close one of the valves,

b) disconnect the current hydraulics and use physical methods (e.g., ramrod, jackhammer, wrench etc.) to mechanically force each side of one of the valves closed. In other words, simply screw (in the case of the valve rods being threaded) or beat (if valve rods are smooth) the valve plates into position by hammering on their external valve rods. A jackhammer might work well since, should there be any obstruction in the valve, it should tend to break it up. If the valve rods are threaded, alternately tightening and loosening each side of the valve should tend to break up obstructions.
You should try "Wolf Among Us" as well. It was amazing how that game tricked my normally passive personality into acting out in anger, chasing down leads for revenge instead of justice and then feeling like the monster I had become. By the end, I felt redeemed, but still vulnerable because my weaknesses had been exposed. All of that and I played the entire thing on nothing more than a tiny PS Vita screen.
I think what you'll see is an extension of what's done in the calendar app in iOS 4. That is, the calendar database is a specialized database just for calendar, other apps can access and modify it, and it syncs with the cloud and all your devices.

I think you will see the same thing for many other types of databases, but they will all be dependent on type. The databases already there are music, contacts, notes, PDFs in iBook, epubs in iBooks. I think you'll see the full ability to access and modify those databases, and full cloud syncing of them as well. But, they will still be different and separated by file type or task.
Is the ux as great as SnapPages?
I like that the price point makes it one of the most affordable Android "tablets" but the e-ink refresh rate must make motion games like Angry Birds hard to play. Has anyone given it a try?
I agree that there ought to be better exit routes for failure, and, as you say, the system just doesn't have an incentive for that. Luckily for me I was simultaneously both fulltime employee in the industry and a postgrad student, and by the 2nd year was forced to choose. In retrospect, it spared the world from another worthless dissertation.

You obviously thought about it before; do you have any ideas how the situation could be improved? Sometimes I feel the whole mentor/advisor thing is flawed, and postgrad students would do better if it was abolished, but you'd think if it was that simple, it'd already be sorted out..
"I know, how are you going to test touch screen interactions if you don't have a surface pro 3?" I hear that at the water cooler every day.
Spotify is essentially a "rent this song" model.
I got it from this podcast: http://www.radiolab.org/story/brown-box/
I work in academia and I have job security and full benefits. I can't work on projects like this all the time though. I'm responsible for more generalized infrastructure like webservers, but when I have free time I'm welcome to work on stuff like this. I think more academic IT departments should leverage their talent like this.
> Cancer has risen dramatically recently

Has it? All I can find is

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/cance...

and

http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html

The first says it's basically holding for everyone but the very old who weren't well represented 100 years ago, and the second seems to show a slight decline in the past ~20 or so years with a peak in 1975 and holding almost steady after that. Basically what you would expect with improved diagnosis.
Do you have a source for this? Cancer incidence was steady in women and declined by 1.8% per year for men between 2007-2011. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821931 Did it get more prevalent in the last few years?
I find the premise of the article odd. Characterization of Hobbit in the movies as something that was made "trying to honor every one of J. R. R. Tolkien’s footnotes, appendices, and letters" and fit into LOTR film trilogy. Since Jackson did not have a licence to anything other than Hobbit, LOTR books and its footnotes, that's what they used. Where they went with it made it impossible for me to watch more than the first film...

I don't get what are the values of this "morally bankrupt" middle class according to Moorcock, if Tolkien's work is confirmation of those. Destruction of nature for profit, corruption of power, strong being capable of using evil either blindly or wantonly. That is shown as bad, whereas simple, polite and modest (albeit with great amounts of food, ale and tobacco) life is good. I'd want a any "class" to adhere to those.

As for being Anti-Tolkien, I'd have to see some one produce as much content, build a world so intricate and even write a fable of it. Works of Tolkien have so many aspects beyond the stories of Hobbit and LOTR, that saying something is anti- to that feels too simplistic. I have read only a few of Eldrich books, but what I remember from those was not so encompassing or ambitious.

If you choose this one aspect from Tolkien's works and decide to attack that, you certainly can, but what you actually accomplish? I'd rather read good fantasy from any writer, be it simple or complex. I'm currently re-reading Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy, which might be classified as a children book, but it's still very enjoyable and intelligent for an adult me.
People now are less likely to die because of another reason, such as heart failure, and more likely to live long enough to die from cancer. That said, I would want to read the manuscript carefully before I accept its findings.
"Hosted by" as in "lives on the 18...* network", sure.
Hopefully this month I'll have something more official. The news got leaked on Twitter a bit early, but hey, nothing like instant feedback to keep the fingers flying. :)
To clarify this, (and yes, it still works this way), any student can request foo.mit.edu for their personal box (and bar.mit.edu for their other personal box, and so on). It's an automated system and there is usually not any moderation of hostname requests unless they would conflict with an existing MIT department.
traceroute fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu
...
11 nox1sumgw1-PEER--207-210-142-234.nox.org (207.210.142.234) 49.015 ms 52.072 ms 53.086 ms
12 B24-RTR-3-BACKBONE-2.MIT.EDU (18.168.1.26) 49.024 ms 50.020 ms 53.364 ms
13 FUCK-THE-SKULL-OF-JESUS.MIT.EDU (18.244.1.102) 54.338 ms 55.264 ms 55.258 ms

definitely "hosted by".

edit: oops, didn't notice you mention senior house. anyway, in my book, on your network = hosted by you.
Didn't even know such indispensable iconoclasm was hosted anywhere. Tart, yes. But not quite "The Onion."

More surprising to me are:

• How slowly its tiny web pages load.

• How stuck its html is in cira 1998, now-deprecated tags.

• The anonymity - and the fact that the author doesn't

want credit for harpooning everyone from JC to pope to Clinton.
I don't understand, do you mean there's something wrong with the name 'Kate' (KDE Advanced text Editor), that the appearance and conduct Kate developers are not professional, or that there is something unprofessional about the program?
I do not understand your point. If someone wants to learn Clojure, she certainly knows about Clojure. But she may not know (or care) about Leiningen, Emacs and the rest.
Really, a downvote? I flagged the article because I come here to Hacker News to read about stuff that otherwise doesn't make it through the filters on all the other meta news sites I visit. I am very, very much aware of what's going on in the gulf, but I'm just not seeing how this article fits in with the topic here.

Never mind the topic of this particular story isn't even especially new - they've been talking about these plumes for weeks, this is just a rehash of "Scientists tracking undersea oil plumes, BP in denial, continues to mislead."

I suppose if I had articulated that instead of snarking, I wouldn't have the downvote, but if this story were on topic...
It's impossible to block open source software exports. Anyone in the entire world can download anything from anywhere; an attempt to block by country reflects a lack of understanding of how the internet works.

Blocking export of closed source/commercial software is more realistic, but still, the targets can always pirate or obtain what they want through a third party.
It might be worth it to take some time out of your day to journal about why the two things effect you so differently.
This is blogspam, original article and discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1890538.
Games only have value if you have emotional investiture in them. I have no investiture in Stack Overflow points at all, but I do like seeing my karma go up in HN (cue epic downvoting now) as I get some sense that I can hang with the cool kids.

People see World of Warcraft and say "it's just a bar going up", which is entirely true, but with investiture of that bar (say, for comparison, or sense of progress/reward etc etc) it becomes something else entirely.
Um, what you're referring to is a form of high-frequency trading. For that you'll need (1) a direct connection to the exchange, and possibly even co-location; (2) historical tick data for backtesting; and (3) the hardware and software capable of executing the logic. The kinds of time-sensitive arbitrage opportunities you're hinting at take a TON of skill and start-up capital to perform.

Basically, if you haven't done this kind of stuff before, this not the type of strategy you should start with.
Hopefully this will fix my memory problems. I have Dropbox running on several machines. For some reason, on my 64 bit Ubuntu machine it eats up more and more memory as time goes on. It's fine on my Debian and OSX boxes though. My account only has 22MB of data in it. I've had to resort to restarting Dropbox once a day from cron.
Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Machinarium, Flower, etc have no progress bars.
> A surprise domain-name seizure without notice only makes sense in emergency situations.

Do you think that the police give the owner of a store filled with pirated DVDs a chance to make their case? No, they seize the stolen property and close the store.

> Our culture is richer because whole genres of music and other creative arts have at times ignored the rules against sampling, collage, and other reuse.

You seem to be picking and choosing here. The subjects of these domain name seizures weren't using this stuff in a fair use manner, they were straight up distributing (and profiting from, through ads) stolen goods and selling counterfeit goods. Our culture isn't being made richer by someone selling counterfeit purses or helping people steal movies, TV shows, and video games.

It's easy to make these statements in vague terms, but imagine if you were an iPhone game developer whose $2 game was being distributed to tens of thousands of people by piracy networks, hurting your already lower-middle-class income. Do you think that's making our culture richer?
I'm not pro-piracy, but I don't see it as an offense as serious as stealing either.

In my opinion, copyrights and patents are the things that discourage innovation, not 'piracy'. They make it unnecessarily difficult to do anything, especially for smaller companies, because almost everything is encumbered in a complex web of cross-licensing. This makes it no longer about leading in technology, but about hiring tons of expensive lawyers.

Invention is not about protecting what has been. It's about staying ahead.
Not impressed with turning the ban on Parler into a marketing opportunity.

Especially if this is to cater to so called “freedom fighters“ who committed treason.

Back to tech: wouldn’t it make more sense for these people to migrate to Mastodon? After all, it’s Twitter they’ll miss.
Step 1: Do not sign up for the AWS certifications.
Java started with the same concurrency primitives as Ada and Modula-3.

Java 5 got the concurrent package, with support for futures, chained computations, ability to create ou own schedulers, only matched by .NET dataflows.

Java 8, integrated the concurrent package with parallel streams.

Recent versions are being refactored so that eventually virtual threads are surfaced across all runtime, so instead of not knowing if green or red threads are being used like in the early Java days, the developers get to choose which ones to use.

On .NET side, naturally it copied the Java primitives, then came TPL, Dataflow, async/await, PLINQ, F# agents, F# async/await (not the same as standard async/await, based on F# computations).Additionally there is the research done with Axum, Cω, Singularity, Midori, Immutable C#.
It is nothing like that.
To develop mRNA vaccine took what, ~10 years?
It's about how long it takes to develop the printing press vs. how long does it take to print a book.
The outcome of the current situation is clear: people's minds are influenced by unchecked, politically slanted, big corporate entities under a guise of social interaction.

I struggle to see how additional measures aimed at said entities (which is the kind of amendment typically sought) would remove competition.
re. cookies - only for browsers that accept 3rd party cookies

which seems to be the default for the major ones
To be fair, CNN has proven multiple times in the last few years that their credibility is worth very little. They have a VERY extreme slant to the left, so much so that news casters were even becoming anti-vaxxers against the Covid-19 vaccine simply because Trump was the president at the time trying to push for people to take it. Their handling of Covid-19 early on was also atrocious. I don't mean to demean them if they're your favorite news source, but they've lost a lot of faith in the past few years.

The others, NPR, NBC, etc, I think you'd be surprised how many Republicans watch them for a differing point of view. There are many republicans who are more libertarian, classical liberal, or independent leaning than classically conservative leaning.

That's part of the problem though with this argument, is that the "right" or "conservative" or "republican" can actually be very different things. It seems that most people on hacker news lump them all into the same category.

Also, not every conservative is an over-the-top Trump supporter. I'm definitely not. It doesn't mean I don't like some of the things he did, but he's got a lot of issues and was FAR from my ideal candidate.
SELF, Smalltalk beg to differ in what concerns JIT compilation.