jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The deflationary contraction occurred between 1929 and 1933.

Sorry, but are you serious? For starters:

"By keeping industrial wages too high, Hoover sharply depressed employment beyond where it otherwise would have been, and that act drove down the overall gross national product," Ohanian said. "His policy was the single most important event in precipitating the Great Depression."

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/pandering-to-labor-caus...
Might be a good cause, but they're all very stupid commercials that do a poor job at getting to (any) point. Also, are we to expect that these are really going to reach the appropriate audience and have any sort of impact? I mean, here I was all planning to participate in the human sex slave trade, but now that I saw an abstract whacky commercial with Ashton Kucher, I've completely changed my mind and decided to go work in a soup kitchen in my spare time. C'mon.

This is one of those issues that is so widespread and so broad in its reach that merely raising some social awareness isn't going to accomplish anything. There was a lot of social awareness about Darfur, for whatever non-existent good that did. This is a thing that requires significant involvement from many governments. And, sure, you could argue that governments will be more likely to take action if pressured by its people, but there was a good deal of pressure, again, on Darfur (or, before that, Rwanda). Lot of good that did.
1) Using a standing desk so I don't die of sitting
2) Run at least 4 miles twice a week
3) lift weights 3x a week (different sets)
4) Yoga at least once a week
5) Meditation when I need it
6) Eating low-carb or carb free 1-2 weeks each month
7) Getting good sleep (no screens an hour before bed, no electronics in bedroom, no reading/tv in bed, cold dark room)
8) Not coding past point of diminished capacity
Thanks for the link. For some reason, this release totally bugs me! This strategy from the MySQL team is exactly the opposite of what their customers need, in my opinion.

The number of people using key-value stores because of their query semantics is dwarfed by those using them for their speed. What MySQL needs is the converse of this -- a way to lock tables / rows / query results to RAM for custom access patterns as determined by developers.

"Helping customers preserve memcache investments" is just silly -- nobody would have made memcache investments if MySQL did what I just described above.

Anyway, this should be a blog post rather than an HN comment, but, ... I'm surprised. I thought that the Oracle product managers were better than this.
Productive investment means spending cash on something, like property, R&D, or plant and equipment. I don't see how this is the same as hoarding cash.

There is a psychology that iPads, and to an even greater extent iPhones, are a short life time product. So their price in a couple of years does not matter. Buying one now will not prevent you from buying one at the cheaper price in a couple of years as well.
I'm smoking Lights instead of Reds.
With a Truecrypt partition you could show them your insignificant bitcoin wallet, and only go back to your regular bitcoin wallet after they leave.

True this would currently require a lot more security consciousness than most people have, but conceivably all the necessary features could be built into a bitcoin client.
I have heard the performance of using PhoneGap versus a native android app is quite noticeable. YMMV
What you are selling? Indeed. If you are selling to large businesses, you are to some extent selling checklist functionality (even if the UI / responsiveness / workflow is an instrument of torture to the poor dumb bastards having to use your Enterprise nightmare), AND (!!!) absolution of responsibility.

You are selling reputation, support, and a willingness to hold the customer's hand in the middle of the night, and possibly anywhere in the world. You are selling the assurance that your product is safe and reliable, and that selecting your competitor's product would be madness, folly & death, leaving your client out of a job, and his children disgraced and homeless.

This also contributes to the $75K entry level price tag for business software that Joel mentioned. It doesn't all go to "sales porn" -- some of it has to go into at least the appearance of support.
Hypothetical: what if us abandons the dollar and adopts bitcoin instead?
Certainly neat, but let's be real. They don't have time to spend on this because they have to finish Cities Skylines 2 amiright?
It doesn't matter how it's done. When they promise a drop of blood, what they promise is not drop of blood but a value associated with being able to do these test from drop of blood. If similar value can be delivered through other means, it would be fine. Not drop of a blood but saliva and breathing analysis? Just as good.

Blood test nerds can be disappointed, of course. I doubt that the core audience are the blood test aficionado, but you can always make them happy by saying "We are confident that the test can be done through single drop of blood in 2 years".
Copyright law has received many reforms over the last 40 years. It may not have received the particular reforms you want, but that’s a very different issue.
Not really, they have lawyers they're paying anyway, they have to work on something.
The quote is an important conclusion of the article. Discussing facts which challenge popular notions should not be cancelled.
Possibly true
Depends on the point of view.

Asus 1215B released in 2011 with AMD Radeon HD 6250.

Windows and original proprietary AMD drivers, OpenGL 4.1 and DirectX 11

Open source AMD driver replacement, OpenGL 3.3

So in 9 years no one bothered to match the previous proprietary AMD drivers capabilities, while Asus keeps the Windows ones available in the latest Windows versions.
Even if we had zero ICUs or ventilators the COVID-19 fatality rate would only be marginally higher. The vast majority of patients who are going to survive will do so regardless of whether they receive ICU level care. The current care protocol recommends mechanical ventilation only as a last resort. Most of the effective treatments can be delivered at lower care levels.

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_...
Ruter

It's the app for checking bus/boat/subway/tram timetables for Oslo (where I live in Norway).

It shows the next arrival/departures for the stops close to me.

It let's you specify two locations, and tells you how to travel between them.

And it has a favourites, so that you can quickly check if you need to run to catch the next bus to work.
This seems like on overreaction. It's only in the US that sports are so laughably and harmfully bundled with education.
It may be popular to be all super intellectual and look down upon sports as an activity of brute simpletons, but how much of the development culture uses sports terminology and idioms?

"team"
"winning"
"hit a home run"
"move the goalpost"
"sprint"
"scrum"
Any social network, for finding friends.
I'm curious what 'useful' feature set of a laundry machine is enabled by Internet access. The only thing that comes to mind is remote access e.g. to change washer/dryer settings or to check cycle progress, but surely implementation of the aforementioned features requires only LAN (or LAN + SSH etc.), and not public internet access. Or just buy a regular machine which doesn't suffer from these anti-features.
Or:

find . -name graph.db
That last sentence is appreciated. :)
This seems to be very similar to the early 2000s demos at Brown University/Cyberkinetics[1]. In 2008 they demonstrated it in humans[2] after lots of work getting FDA approval. The core difference here (from my non-expert reading) seem to be electrodes are along a thread rather than on a chip.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJPbpHoPWo for a video of the pong demo in humans.

The motor cortex seems to have a clear, learnable signal though it is rather noisy sampling <1000 locations.

Mary Lou Jepsen at Open Water has ideas about how to do this non-invasively [3].

[1] https://www.braingate.org/publications/

[2] https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-...

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_how_we_can_use_lig...
Sorry if it's a bit off topic but are you required by your employer to tell us you work from them and whether your opinion represents them or not? I read such disclaimers a lot about people working in your company, but extremely rarely for any other company.
Nothing says feel'n good and free will like banana smoothies and forced brain implants.
Found an example that's a bit closer, from Minix 1.0, 1987. The "pr" program:

Usage: pr [+page] [-columns] [-h header] [-w with] [-l length] [-nt] [files]

Mixed in this case, with -columns and +page, and all hand parsed. But long options nonetheless.
Yep, I feel like anyone realizes when they first start playing around with NNs in a jupyter notebook that you get faster training on the CPU until you level up to bigger networks.
The PISA scores are not for “China”. They’re for a tiny percentage of China’s population, living in the wealthiest districts, with the most sought after 户口.

The gathered statistics are in no way comparable to Western countries which gather scores from all districts, rich and poor alike.
Who do you think mathematical programming has to be practical?
I had to write scrapers in Ruby for a very large application that scraped all kinds of government information from various states. We found (after a lot of pain working with very procedural scrapers) that a modified producer/consumer pattern worked well. We found that making classes for the producers (they were classes that described each page to be scraped, with methods that matched the modeled data) allowed for easy maintenance. We then created consumers that could be passed any of the page specific producer classes, and knew how to persist the scraped data.

Once I had a good pattern in place I could easily create subclasses of the data type I was trying to scrape, basically pointing each of the modeled data methods to an xpath that was specific to that page.
Implementing a truly constant-time GCM in software without CLMUL is sufficiently hard that noone has managed to create a remotely competitive implementation. They're all either an order of magnitude slower or vulnerable to cache-timing attacks.

Poly1305 isn't a walk in the park, but doesn't need special hardware support for fast constant-time implementation. Though I will agree something like HMAC is much simpler.
Hong Kong and Singapore might be great examples
Mine was the RC759 PICCOLINE: https://rc700.dk
Thanks for the clarification.

Regarding your crypto energy argument, I think I addressed this in the other thread but I will try to explain again.

With the current 1MB block limit and current valuation of Bitcoin, you are absolutely right that the transaction rate per kilowatt can't exceed Visa.

The argument in Nic Carter's post which you are missing is that transaction rate per kilowatt is just one possible way of judging the usefulness of a monetary system.

Monetary systems can be useful for reasons other than their high transaction rate (for example, they might support a particularly high transaction volume, or have a particularly high cost to attack).

Increasing the maximum possible transaction rate per kilowatt would be as simple as increasing the maximum possible block size, since transactions are effectively free (it is only finding blocks which costs money).

There are trade-offs associated with changing the block size limit, but those trade-offs have nothing whatsoever to do with the energy usage of Bitcoin. Changing the block size limit won't affect the energy usage. If the market had enough demand for increased transaction rates, either Bitcoin will be forced to increase the block size or it will simply be outcompeted by a different coin which already has.

> Your retort continues to be that "the state spends way more energy and resources defending the currency that you're not factoring in" -- but you've failed to quantify that in any way.

I actually don't know that that is true, and I didn't mean to imply that I know that for sure.

But, it is what you would expect assuming the market is accurately pricing Bitcoin for the value it provides them.

If it weren't true, and USD is actually cheaper to secure for the value it provides, then it is an easy arbitrage opportunity where you can short Bitcoin and buy the relatively-cheaper-to-secure USD instead. Eventually with enough market participants it is sure to eventually reach the "fair price".
The NSA is believed to have strengthened DES by making its substitutions more resilient against differential cryptanalysis. Careful with with words like "clueless".

On this point I'm inclined to agree with Schneier: why inject backdoors into things, leaving fingerprints and betraying both opsec and tradecraft, when you can just sit back and watch the software companies build the backdoors for you? NSA has as much as come out and said this at keynote speeches already, but it seems pretty obvious from my vantage point.
I'd love to be able to come, but it's a smidge outside my budget :(

Manchester travel + stay + £99 = not something the missus (aka the CFO) would approve of.
I am not so much a Schneier fan, so if you feel like you need cover for leveling any kind of criticism against anything he says, don't worry too much. Are you sure you believe Schneier would know anything about the code quality of a specific IPSEC implementation --- or really, about the code quality of any IPSEC implementation?
Not really, no, I'm afraid, unless I can add a description of some sort to my bookmarks (at which point, it's not much different from tagging, at least in my case) - neither the page titles, nor the urls are good search material for my use case.
Okay. I get it - that makes more sense. Have you thought about how will you target people who are (a) not technical enough to want the 'details', yet (b) are technically savvy enough to know that they should find a video encoder?
Well, in theory, delicious would come with its own team of people who are interested in it, just like YouTube would have.
Anyone knows how they make (or plan to make) money? They don't put ads, and I don't see premium services offered at sign up?
Here is what he said about his fuzz testing in 2000:

http://lwn.net/2000/0803/a/openbsdfuzz.php3
They let the domain expire? Typical laziness.
In much the same sense as stock market investing is "luck": randomness is present, but you're provided extensive tools to mitigate its impact.
If he did, I'd have to admire him for (at least partially) taking his own advice ("I'd... give the money back to the shareholders").
E2C? Do you mean EC2?

Scaling is a very big field, and it's going to be hard for us to provide any useful advice without more information. What's your facebook application? What does it do? Where are you currently hosted? In what way is your dedicated server overloaded (CPU time, RAM, bandwidth, disk...)?
startup success is largely a black swan event

I don't think that is true at all, which is probably the core of our differences. Black swan implies a very low probability like 1% or less. On the contrary, I think that when approached well, the probability for startup success is much higher, like 10-40% depending on what you mean by success. I wrote up some of these thoughts at http://ye.gg/failure & http://ye.gg/success

More practically, consider the co-founder example. Worrying about dilution is not absurd because you have so many choices that may have equal outcomes for the success of your startup. For example, you can do a 50/50 split or you could hire a consultant for a specific aspect you need help with or you could do an 80/20 split like I mentioned in the post. All of those scenarios can be with the same person you have in mind, i.e. with all other things held constant. That's the point. People, especially first time entrepreneurs, reflexively pick up co-founders or reflexively go seek financing before they consider their other options.
Awesome. This looks very promising. Thank you very much :)

Here is the meetup site for anyone else interested: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/
Although the article is purely speculative, it is interesting to note that the iPad's "Videos.app" could easily be replaced by the Apple TV's touchscreen-friendly interface.

Also: "So, one more sidetrack: If video is moved off of iTunes, the App Store is a marketplace for apps, and our books are bought in iBooks, could this mean that iTunes could return, gracefully, to serve its original purpose? Could iTunes just be for music? I just blew my mind."

Unfortunately, this seems extremely unlikely.
Cool, the Jeanna Matthews' book also looks pretty hands-on. I'll check it out (yay! I found it in my country's library network :-).

Otherwise, I know quite a few books that have good and interesting code (say, Norvig's PAIP, but a good list can be found in answer to this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282470/which-books-have-r...). But these books are more passive by nature. You just read and understand the code. While TECS is really all about the projects (there is not much point to the book otherwise).

I also had a good experience with Building Problem Solvers, but I think it's because I used with a particular idea in mind (applying the truth-maintenance systems of the book to debugging metabolic networks; see biohacker.googlecode.com). So I also took a very hands-on approach: not only understanding the code, but running it, fixing it, extending it, etc.
>Viewing is not copying

The site sends you the bits. There's nothing stopping you from caching what you receive.
Why does the law allow people to keep almost all of their ill-gotten gains?

i believe that was the basis for the RICO laws in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO
Wouldn't this depend on how memorable the URL is?

Are there metrics of this?

I'd imagine "Xer3dkasdf.com" would need lots of exposure and a sworn offer of free ponies before anyone would copy it from the screen.
What's left in Vancouver?
I really hope that somebody gets around to implementing a grammar checker in their document editing tool at the level of Office. I don't use it terribly often, but I notice it when it's not there in competing products.
And it get really interesting who their friends are down there in New Mexico :)
Why do people keep referring to WeWork as a tech company?
> Smart bulbs often aren't any better than cheap ones.

But they can have telemetry.
> most of the applications I want to use are x86 only

Really? What software in this space (headless server cluster) is still x86 only?
WAVM can also compile WebAssembly code to an optimized, native object file.

It can also embed the compiled code into the WebAssembly module, so that the same module can directly run the precompiled code (when using WAVM) or be executed as a standard module by another runtime.
The scourge of exit intent popups continues to grow. I'm wondering when pop-up blockers will come out to combat these... Seems we already went through this in the early 2000s with alert box pop-ups.
There are plenty of use cases where Java is too complex and performance is even less of an issue, so Python and Ruby become viable. There are plenty of points up and down the perf/productivity gradient.

I didn't think anyone uses Javascript unless they had to because the code needed to run in the browser.
How is this zen at all?
Rather than spending hours on writing and maintaining tests that are very unlikely to catch any of the future breaking changes, it is indeed better for me than automated testing.
It's designed as a simple and performant language. Embedding within games, for example, is one area where those traits are very valuable. That doesn't mean Lua is only good for embedded programs or games: Lapis and Luvit are testaments to how Lua is great for building web applications.

On top of that, LuaJIT means it blows conventional languages like Ruby and Python straight out of the water. Not only is it a good language for web development, it's a remarkable one.
You can fight the typical C&D letter by putting up a humorous f-you response and getting front-paged on reddit. I doubt that's what the OP was dealing with. Patent claims, for example, could be BS but you very much don't want to be the one footing the bill to test it.
Someone pointed that one out to me after I started. I really like being able to see faces, sometimes I recognize people without remembering names.
Thanks for the feedback, loading message is on my todo list now.
A friend of mine is in the same boat. I forwarded him all the usual suspects, from "Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby", to "Learn Python the Hard Way", to "The Schemer's Guide". But none quite worked for him. He finally found and settled on Harvard's intro CS course, CS50:

https://www.cs50.net/
$175K a year is a LOT of money in most places, so I still think it's impressive.
Haskell's typeclasses are still a few hacks away from perfection :-) See the last part of this document: http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/numbers.html
Why does astronomy "depend" on anything like that? Why should they care how the rest of the world standardizes on time? Seems like they can adapt, rather than forcing everyone else to.

I'd bet the number of non-astronomers inconvenienced by leap seconds outnumbers astronomer 1000 to one.
It's a myth that the primary purpose of surveillance is to prevent terrorism. The purpose of surveillance is to get advantage.
There was a mailing list on Yahoo groups for Corman Lisp for those interested in browsing the history. Most of the activity occurred 2001-2003: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/cormanlisp/info
Not sure where you got that Helsinki is the coldest city, I'm not even sure it's the coldest capital. There are plenty of colder cities, take a look at Kiruna as an example (which was also featured here a few weeks ago):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#Climate

Edit: Ah I think I understand, my original comment was referring to being cold in the depths of winter, not the average temperature. Right now I'm in Vilnius the capital of Lithuania, it get's colder than Whittier (and Helsinki) in the winter but a lot hotter in the summer, so the average isn't that bad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius#Climate
We did the drive from Washington to Anchorage when I was 6 or 7. It was a very beautiful, to say the least, and I have many memories of that part of Canada (BC and Yukon) etched into my head.
Google Analytics does all that, no worries
Oh wow, @InInteraction there are plenty of federated twitter (and facebook, and youtube, and instagram, etc.) alternatives...The key term to search for is "fediverse" (sort of a portmaneau of federated univers of social networks). The following info site might help with a brief overview: https://the-federation.info/

There are many other sites that can provide an overview/intro. Plus, the following is a sample of alternatives:

Blogging => Plume, Write.as/WriteFreely => Comparable to Blogger.com, Medium, Tumblr

Image Hosting => PixelFed, MediaGoblin => Comprable to Instagram

Microbloging => Gnu social, Mastodon, Microblog.pub, Pleroma, postActiv, pump.io, etc. => Comparable to twitter

Pastebin => distbin => Comparable to Pastbin.com, ~GitHub

Social networking => Diaspora, Friendica, Honk, Hubzilla => Comparable to Facebook

Audio/Video hosting => PeerTube, funkwhale, NodeTube => Comprable to Youtube, SoundCloud, vimeo

Events => Mobilizon => Comparable to Facebook, Meetup.com

Forum/Link Aggregator => Lemmy => Comparable to Hacker News, Lobste.rs, Reddit

Good luck!!!
Upd: works. printimage didn't like the jpeg I tried testing with the first time.
lol you lost me at gmail but just for the fun of it.. so that your definition of decentralization ... Could you move your money out of MtGox ??
If I enter "10:00 in Chile" in a calendar app I expect it to stay "10:00 in Chile". And not magically change to "11:00 in Chile". That is what the example was.