jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I suspect that if it were easy to merely filter out the music, but leave the voice audio, that would work as well. I think of music as basically a brain hack. It can affect your mental state against your own will, even if you are aware of what it is doing and why.

An example of this is horror movies. Suspenseful scenes will be suspenseful, even without any accompanying visuals. Even if you realize on an intellectual level that the music is engineered to make you feel stressed or nervous, it is exceedingly difficult to prevent yourself from feeling those things when you hear the music.

Or maybe that's all just me. I am very wary of the use of music because of this (primarily in situations where somebody else is subjecting me to the music; I'll listen to it voluntarily when I get to control what it is, but I try to avoid it as much as possible in any commercial setting).

The emergence of internet based video propaganda is particularly interesting to me, since it typically bypasses copyright law to use whichever music it pleases. Lots of popular pop songs being used in the background of blatant propaganda videos. Here is one rather extreme example (in terms of music use, not really content): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqw0VE5SUY My understanding is that the Russians made it.
There is a definition for "very large database" (VLDB) on Wikipedia- the precursor to the term "big data".. although it is somewhat outdated.
It's not about the language.

To me, the author is spot on here. It is only through experience that you begin to see all the ways in which complexity can creep into a system, and why each and every one of them is bad.

Unfortunately, almost every codebase I work on right now is more complex than it needs to be.

To me, the zenith, "The simplest possible solution that does what is needed, but no more", helps a lot.
twitter.com/praveenasara
Why would law enforcement only request this in the iPhone and not in, say, Android or Blackberry or S60 or the plethora of other phone OSs that exist? And why keep it in a simple standardized db format instead of obfuscated or encrypted?
This really is the best writing on the current tech economy I've read all year.

Yes, there a growing financial problem in the tech community. No, it it not like the bubble of the late 90's and it's silly to call it such a thing.

I thought Michael conveyed the message about as clear as possible without taking this thing too seriously.
So high-speed rail is kind of a hard sell: a 5 hour drive is not that long, and a 30 minute flight is worth the cost if you really need to be there fast. The middle ground, a 2 hour train ride, is not really that compelling, and a ticket would probably cost as much as flying. (The first time I took the Shinkansen, I had a little sticker shock. $200 to ride a train!?)

I find that hard to agree with. City center to city center in two hours, in spacious comfort with the ability to do things while I'm travelling (e.g. easily get a laptop out and work as normal, or even just read papers), is a lot more of an attractive proposition to me than five (Five! That's almost a whole working day!) driving or half an hour of cramped flying, with all the airport nonsense surrounding it. It's not for you?

The one place I'd agree a little is on the price - but that's just speculation, and for a lot of people (maybe most of the target marked, depending on expectations), a price compatible to flying is low enough to attract them anyway.
You're not alone, every time I do this I feel like I'm going wrong somewhere. I know it's avoidable via binding/currying/proxying but often those solutions end up looking uglier and are harder to follow.
Also, 2592 = 2^5 * 9^2.
Isn't that basically what the article said? Did you read it?
I'd suggest they make an entire computer that fit in the form factor of a keyboard, but theoretically we've already done that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II ;-)
Pilotlight | Moorestown, NJ (Philadelphia Area) | Full Time | ONSITE

Python / Django Developer

Pilotlight is looking to add an experienced, full-time developer to our team. We are a small, boutique development shop located in Southern New Jersey (Philadelphia area) focused on building web applications for clients large and small. If you have experience with Python/Django or with similar MVC-Style frameworks (Rails, etc..) we would love to chat.

jobs@gopilotlight.com
Out of curiosity, is there any reason why this video is shown as unlisted on youtube?
Seems like it was real time monitoring.
Otherwise why not just use the traditional Holter monitor, which is later reviewed by a doctor?
A few points i would like to remind everyone who criticizes rms.

1) rms is a radical guy. You cannot change that. He fights for what he thinks is right. He is not the kind of person you can ask to censor himself.

If he thinks u.s goverment is to blame for 9/11, no matter how saying it in a lecture seems childish, he will say it.

If you invite rms for a lecture, he is coming with his radicalism. That is to be expected. You cannot invite rms and expect steve jobs.

2) rms is a practical guy. stop acting like he's a mad man who knows nothing. He started GNU, wrote emacs, glibc, gcc and probably others. He created the concept of free software and wrote a license as good as GPL to defend it.

He also managed to gather a community around this very crazy idea of free software.

3) rms doesnt want people only to use free software. he wants people to value their freedom, and as a result of that, use free software.

It doesnt really matter if whole world uses android instead of ios. The point is, these days, most people involved in open source community, do not even care about free software and the freedom it offers.

Most people are interested in technological advancements or affects of an open source project on market. None of them are concerns for rms.

And, what i said above is just what i interpreted from his actions and are not facts.
I doubt many women use high heels to appear taller. Rather to "look pretty", strain the legs and glutes to make them look better.

Personally, I think women should stay away from high heels - they also ruin their feet doing it, which is definitely not aesthetic.
> I think technically LibreOffice is perfectly up to the task.

IT people really need to stop declaring this about FOSS products when it is regarding workflows they have no experience in.
Funny. Your weed-smoking stage of life describes current me to a dot. Except I don't smoke. :(
Java #1, C# #3. Really conservative of you, Mashable.
Not particularly a PG fan, but I think that ("trite/useless") might be a bit harsh. If trite means obvious, well, that sort of thing wasn't obvious to me early in my career, and even now after decades, it's hard to keep advice like this firmly in mind.

I, too, hope that your friend is able to find a happy niche for himself.
It's interesting to read all these comments and more interesting for me to constantly be hearing "But hey, Facebook's built on PHP".
The documentation you're looking at is quite old; I'd recommend looking at the current version for a better view. (The implementation is largely the same; the documentation has just improved quite a bit since then.)

http://perldoc.perl.org/perluniintro.html

Anyways, Perl5's Unicode support is quite different from Python's.

Specifically, it doesn't have distinct "Unicode string" and "byte string" types; instead, it has a single unified string type. These strings may be internally stored as Latin1 or UTF-8, depending on how they were created, but they behave identically for almost[1] all purposes, and there are easy ways to force Perl to convert between the formats. It's still possible to create a nonsensical string if you do something silly like append Unicode characters to a string containing raw UTF-8 data, but that's not something the language can entirely protect you from.

[1]: The only exceptions I'm aware of are functions which explicitly operate on the utf8 status, like utf8::is_utf8(), and bitwise operations like &|^ and vec().
I love the idea, I've also been frustrated, and there has been chicken and egg problems which this may help with. That said, the quote:

> "And lastly, because we're fed up with having to install half-an-universe's worth of Ruby, Python and Perl to bootstrap our servers or run CI jobs"

If this takes off, some will use it some won't, and we'll be stuck installing a "half-an-universe's worth of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Shellfire scripts to bootstrap our servers or run CI jobs"
No mention of Georgism[1] and the economic efficiency of a land value tax?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
For people not yet on one of the newer instance types (HVM VPC), it is possible to migrate directly assuming you can tolerate a few minutes of downtime to make the final switch. This was the guide that helped me: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=155526
I'd add nuance to this:

Ban _involuntarily_ targeted advertising.

I am 100% ok with Google, Facebook etc. knowing that I live in Oxfordshire, UK; that I love cycling; that I play the church organ. That's who I am. If they want to target cycling, classical music, and local ads at me based on this information, that's great. I would happily log onto these sites and click checkboxes based on this (or do it via browser settings).

I am not ok with them building up a detailed personal profile of my anxieties, day-to-day worries and preoccupations. Nor with them selling my information to other sites to which I haven't explicitly volunteered the information.
I certainly hope that his minority opinion translates into reality. That said, adherence to social distancing measures, self-isolation and quarantine seems to be significantly greater in many of the countries he's mentioned as opposed to North America and much of Western Europe. Italian level mortality levels to incite adherence in "slacker" countries would be catastrophic.
Super excited to see that excalidraw made the front page! We published an article yesterday explaining how the end to end encryption works when sharing a link: https://blog.excalidraw.com/end-to-end-encryption/
What are the consequences when you try to move fast and not just break things, but fail?
- It takes longer to resolve incidents.
- You lose customer confidence and sales.
- Employees burn out, and you have a high turnover rate.

The main idea behind the approach is making sure that you can move fast and break things whilst minimizing those consequences. It means absolutely nothing if you just let things break; that would be even unethical.

- Taking longer to resolve incidents will allow you to anticipate minor issues that could add up during a worst-case scenario, which is a valuable thing.

- Impact on customer confidence is less critical in earlier stages, when you are not expected to make a profit. Once again, these minor impacts on it will, ideally, bring attention to things that matter.

- Employee burn out is uncorrelated to this approach. It is all about having the right policies in place, replacing blaming by accountability and treating other people with due respect.
The "move fast and break things" is just a web app version of previous sayings in other domains:

- "A ship in harbor is safe but that's not what ships are made for."

- "If I've made more shots than you, it's because I've _missed_ more shots than you." -- variations of this from Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, other athletes

- "All great writers got better by writing a lot of _bad_ sentences."

- "If you want to learn how to ride a bike, roller skate, ski, snowboard, etc you're going to have to _fall down_ a lot."

All of them are trying to be provocative in the same way: expect repeated failures when experimenting/exploring what success looks like.

So MFABT when compared to variations of previous quotes is pretty standard advice. Nevertheless, everybody likes to poke holes in it because it came from a source a lot of people don't like: Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook.

Should programmers[1] at NASA "move fast & break things"?!? Of course not. I know what the original context of MFABT was about so it doesn't apply to NASA.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
The problem isn't caused by a lack of money, but it's creating one, which exacerbates the crisis.
The main problem with this "prediction" is that nothing stops him from simply not revealing the file after 1 month.
If companies don’t have customers, as you noted in your prior comment, how will they secure debt financing at a reasonable rate?
We owe the existence of Linux to something very much like this. Finnish students not only do not have to pay tuition, they also receive a basic living supplement. Therefore Linus was in no hurry to finish his degrees, and spent his time doing Linux instead / as well.

We'd also end up with more entrepreneurs. Under this scheme, your startup would be "ramen profitable" without any income.

Currently, Canadian welfare pays $3 to bureaucrats for every $1 given to recipients. Most of the money to fund it comes from there.

I'm a huge proponent of this scheme -- I like to combine it with a "flat income tax" -- give everybody $20,000, and tax all income at a flat rate. The resulting curve is nice and progressive, as well as nice and simple, saving even more money on bureaucrats.
The fourth image on the DK effect is identical to the third. Copy-pasted link, maybe.
IANAL, but seems like a typical clause. Essentially you hold the copyright, but you agree to give them a perpetual license to do whatever they please with the stuff you submit (including allowing other users to incorporate it in their own works).
In all honesty, I don't completely see how "a new standard" matches with "just an afternoon hack". If all you want is measure demand, why not write a blog post "Let's make a standard for job posts!" to convince people? Worked pretty well for the markdown guys.

Standards without any effort behind them are worthless. As you can see in this thread, many people feedback the standard (which clearly needs some work), not the concept.
>There isn't anything on the market today that has been proven to work in environments like this and has the tooling to back it up.

Here you go:

http://kx.com/
> They expect seconds to minutes scale queries on hundreds of GB of data.

Use BigQuery from Google.
The reason I post here is that I can see that there is a depth of knowledge and professional experience that I can't tap into with mainstream media. I'm behind saving for my retirement and I really to step up my game for my family. Very open to suggestions and ideas.
In fact [Andromeda's] full diameter on the night sky is six times that of the full Moon.

I was surprised to read this. I remember gazing at Andromeda and the full moon many years ago as an amateur astronomer, but didn't have a sense of apparent size of the two.

Anyway, I dug into NASA's archives [0] which included an image showing perspective. Thought it was pretty neat, so here you go:

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2015-02-e-compa...

[0] http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/fa...
For those interested in learning deeply about deep learning?
I think the most interesting application of Monte Carlo that I've come in contact with is for pruning the game trees for Go (the game). It was similar to using minimax, except the tree was only evaluated at points chosen by Monte Carlo and decisions were made from there. From what I know, this seems to be one of the better methods for playing go ATM.
"absolute free speech" lol. If I used Free wifi at starbucks and before I left the clerk tried to charge me a dollar for internet because it wasn't "absolutely free" then I would call it false advertising.

Don't use the words free and speech together if it's not "absolutely free."
What expectations?
Although there are still certain broad pop culture phenomena, it is certainly a much more fragmented landscape than it used to be. I'm very aware that I'm pretty ignorant of the current music scene for the most part. When I was still going to large tech events pre-COVID, I definitely started seeing bands at parties that I had never heard of (and mostly wouldn't listen to by choice).

And while I watch some shows that are on the pop culture radar to a greater or lesser degree, I'm not necessarily watching them when they first hit streaming. Certainly there's very little that's the equivalent of Must See Thursday on NBC where most(?) people were aware of certain shows even if they didn't regularly watch them.
I learned Clojure and Emacs at the same time, and I have to say that it tested my patience. You need to reset your mind to expect to move slowly for a week or two. With that said, I'm really happy with my current setup, except for days when emacs pinky comes. You can mitigate that with Key Chords [0] and mapping Caps Lock to Control. Emacs' CIDER is the de-facto Clojure(Script) dev environment.

[0] - https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyChord
Not really. The principle in play is "We're all adults; don't be a dick."

Proper etiquette would be to ping the meeting organizer and ask if they mind if you sit in. If they don't, no problem. If they do, you work something out relevant to the reason you wanted to sit in. But one can't even start that conversation without knowledge of relevant meeting topics.

The fact I know what meetings my coworkers are having doesn't imply I should be crashing them any more than the fact I can see when my coworkers are at their desks implies I should be continuously bothering them.
Perhaps you can learn without a calculator, but these timed statistics tests do not function without one. Do you really expect people to do repetitive operations on even n=10 datasets when they only have an hour? You can’t use Excel (because it’s on more capable PC that you can use to cheat).

At the end of the day, if you want to remove the calculator from the statistics classroom you probably also have to remove the standardized test.
Have my vote and never show your face around here again.
Congratulations on the launch. This is a rare instance where the combination of cost, technology, and ease of use makes this solution 10x better than the status quo and a no-brainer.

How extensible is this to other tests? Is it just a matter of pilots and trials or are there certain tests that are too sensitive for computer vision to reliably assess?

What % of the diagnostics market is urine-based versus blood-based?
Supply chain is a definite concern with LSD, and other synthetic drugs. They are often incorrectly dosed and sometimes laced with other chemicals.

Naturally grown drugs like marijuana, mushrooms, even peyote and it's cousins are easy to identify, easy to dose safely and there is almost no risk of supply chain tampering.
We use version control yet there are people I work with that constantly check in commented out code. Even when asked to stop. Its sloppiness and not paying attention to details or caring.
FIFA is full of corruption and connections you might not expect. For example, Epstein and intel agency connections:

"In 2002, [redacted] acquired the rights for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany with her relatively new company [redacted]. The company was best known at this time for its president and chief executive, Philippe Blatter, the nephew of Sepp Blatter, the then president of FIFA. This overt corrupt nepotism left [redacted] as the company to market the TV rights to future major FIFA tournaments. The company went on to acquire the rights to all of FIFA’s World Cups, and even though this deal was watered down in 2006, in 2011 FIFA again gave [redacted] permission to sell the TV rights, in the Asian markets, for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

During her time at [redacted] would be caught flying on Jeffrey Epstein’s “Lolita Express” on three occasions. The first flight recorded, on 22 March 2002, she would share with Epstein, Sean Koo, and one other passenger, but it’s her second trip which really stands out. On Saturday 31 August 2002, Jeffrey Epstein and [redacted] would fly from Paris Le Bourget Airport to Birmingham Airport, in the UK, alone. They would return to Paris, via the same route, on Monday 2 September 2002. For Jeffrey Epstein to fly without any of his normally present entourage is very unusual. So what was happening that weekend? I’ve done a lot of research on these dates, but as of yet, I do not have any answers.

...

The link between [redacted], the Israeli state intelligence services and the Israeli Defence Force is not a tenuous one. The ominously named “Reporty Homeland Security” was the first incarnation of what has now been rebranded “Carbyne911” and is referred to as simply “Carbyne.”

One of the directors of Carbyne is [redacted]. The chairman of the board of directors is Ehud Barak, the 10th Prime Minister of Israel, the 14th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, former Minister of Defense and former Head of Military Intelligence for Israel. Ehud Barak has had a long history as one of the more public faces of Israeli covert operations. Before he was Prime Minister, Ehud Barak was a big name in the IDF. Through the 1970’s, he led many operations including famously disguising himself as a woman to kill members of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation). Ehud Barak has already been linked with Epstein, and Benjamin Netanyahu has helped to highlight those links for his own political gain."

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/07/investigative-reports/t...
There's precedence in the Bible. Ancient Israel had sanctuary cities where murderers could go to escape punishment.
I can only tell you that I’m pretty sure that my writing would change.

I really don’t know whether quality in general would improve. It might but you might also lose many valuable contributors in the process.

I certainly have no problems with communities in which you have to use your real name. It’s a valid path to take, I just would much prefer to keep on commenting here anonymously. But a change of that policy wouldn’t be the end of the world. I would just abandon my old account, register a new one and probably comment a lot less and differently.
You know, I can see where you're coming from. But I feel the gaming industry's a bit like hollywood. You have the big blockbusters with fancy graphics and big-name producers, which usually aren't as great as they're marketed to be. But if you pay attention, there's a strong indie industry that is making a lot of games that are smart, fun, and simple (without being simplistic). In fact, the iPhone is turning out to be a good platform for this. Granted, there's nothing like Fallout, but there is a surprising array of intelligent well-written games there.
I agree, this is something Koreans (both North and South) will have to fight for themselves (only "fighting" metaphorically hopefully). Korea has a history of being oppressed by various other nations and the official ideology of North Korea ("Juche") is basically, amongst other things, saying "f*ck you" to the rest of the world. People are actually serious about it, it's not just some propaganda. Clearly, in a situation like this, foreign intervention is possibly not the best way forward.
Great stuff here, sure to get me going in the right direction! Thank you all!
What if you prefer internal hub shifters?
> In which case you still aren't going to get anything done, but for other reasons (lack of libs, playing with the language instead of doing anything productive, advocating for Lisp instead of doing anything productive, etc).

Curiously, Racket lacks most of these pitfalls, except maybe that the macro system is so good you'll end up toying around with it too much. With some discipline it's essentially the perfect engineer Lisp, though.
I am not surprised. In one of the Ted Talks, Larry Page had clearly mentioned that he would rather leave all his money to someone like Elon Musk than donating to a Charity. He is going down that path.

I think this is a great move by Google.

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_page_where_s_google_going_nex...