jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I haven't had any major issues with cljs yet. I'm using it for personal side-projects where I prototype random ideas along with Om and React.

I've had some issues with the Austin REPL however, there is sometimes random disconnections and it was hard to setup the first time, but using it is so much fun it completely shadows these issues.
You can also get used to heat. But it takes a while, too, as I learned when I was living in Singapore.
Your choice of tools (including blog vs custom code, PHP vs Rails, etc) doesn't determine whether or not you'll create a "me too" site.

One could shake up the industry with something that leverages blog software. Another could write an amazing piece of news-displaying technology and not make a dent.
> By contrast, warez present essentially zero hassle nowadays.

And they come with free malware to top!
and the best part is you can't change your password in case some website becomes compromised and the hash is leaked. (without changing the secret key and as the result changing all passwords on all websites).
That's what happens with any exercise or anything that uses calories. Your body is meant to survive anything. So any caloric expenditure is met with higher feelings of hunger.
There are two reasonable posts about this, but the other one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8827949) seems slightly more informative, so we're treating this one as the dupe.
I've been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums.

I'll always remember what Mikey told us in December, after the site was back up, could handle a non-trivial amount of traffic, and people who wanted health insurance could finally get it:

"1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're doing here, 5,000-10,000 people will live to see the end of 2014. You should be proud of what you've done, but we should also all be grateful to have this opportunity."

We're all grateful to be here, but there's a hell of a lot more work to be done.

If any of you out there are an amazing software engineer or SRE, and want to help make our government work better, please shoot me an email: brandon@hcgov.us!
This may not work very well for out of organization contacts. But for inside organization contacts it works beautifully. They know youre spamming them but its like a reminder service for them (which they unfortunately wont do on their own).
I bet if you counted the calories in/calories out it would show the calorie deficit accounting for it. The thing with low carb, in my experience, is that it does make it easier to eat less if you have the right attitude about it. I do it AND count calories. Also, just the fact that it cuts out most of the foods in the universe helps to make it an easy decision whether or not to eat something, whereas with just calorie counting all foods are available and that one bite can become 10 bites so easily. I believe those two things account for it's success rather than some trick subverting thermodynamics.
No no no, please do not mention anything about drugs, you will get a lifetime ban.
I've always found it a little off-putting when people complain about this. I get that it's probably annoying, and good for them for being in demand. But it still comes off as a humblebrag.
How do you propose?

Political action has been ineffective so far.
Thanks! Its usefulness to us is why we were motivated to spin it off and release it into the wild.
Bruce Schneier is an exceptionally good writer and a very good public speaker. That alone is sufficient to make him incredibly important in the security community.
Financial accounts. One person can have many bank accounts. I would guess they're using the word "wallet" to avoid regulatory scrutiny that might be applied to financial accounts. People might feel like "wallets" can get lost or stolen. "Accounts" shouldn't.

These are accounts.
I know people who have lost 100lbs and kept it off by starving themselves. Just because a method gets you results doesn't mean it is healthy.
The key parts of Access aren't that it can have SQL queries, it's that it (a) has a UI where you can easily edit tables (without worrying much about schemas and so on), (b) has a UI where you can plug tables into WYSIWYG-edited reports, and (c) has a UI where you can plug tables into WYSIWYG-edited forms.
Yeah, if I'm going to live in a culturally dessicated Bay Area I'd at least like to be getting a piece of the pie. Other reasons for living here are getting chased out at an accelerating clip.
I'm certain that over time, our product would have evolved through user feedback and bug fixes. But he's definitely referring to the products that did launch, because I am also considering the products that we thought would create market share yet went south. This is where Chris's rule #1 applies.
I'm siding with the vulnerability researcher here. This is ridiculous. The spirit of a bug bounty program is for the company to incentivize a researcher to find bugs and work together to squash them.

Maybe this more telling of HackerOne as a platform.
I wonder how much buy-in came from companies like ESPN who I feel are supporting existing cable providers who pay ~$5 per subscriber? If I can triple it to $60/mo and get many (all?) other sports channels, I will not hesitate to purchase.

I also feel this will be a big boon for the satellite company whose products were not previously available to apartment dwellers without a southern-sky view.
But how often do people use cabs in Manhattan? If you used it say twice a weekday then that is like $10K a year on cabs alone!
I live in the city, because I want to be with people
like me, not because I want forced socialization with
people who just happen to live together.

That just sounds like a contradiction...
In fact, from my reading the rate of signups was increasing before hand and continued increasing afterwards, implying the design made no difference. That's what I can see from the trendline anyway, and the rest of the graph is too uneven to draw any conclusions.
Sorry but this chart:
http://www.donotlick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/newdesig...

Doesn't seem convincing evidence to me
I guess my struggle is internal then. I feel crappy about myself for being weak for tipping because I feel like I'm being scammed out of my own money via guilt given to me by their employer. And then I feel crappy if I don't tip.
But you are supposed to tip even poor taxi drivers and waiters.
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Quote from a previous article (so I wouldn't attribute all 8% to bots):

We’re experimentally removing CAPTCHA and using other methods for spambot detection.
We know it’s annoying for humans, and are starting to worry the bots are actually enjoying it.
Plus, our visual CAPTCHA was failing on accessibility for non-visual redditors.
Every time I hear someone talk about hacking, I have to pause and remind myself that most people who use the term really don't know what they mean by it.

It's like of like asking if he "nebulously computer crimed" the server, which the police seem to think he did, and most unfortunately is about as specific as the laws on it get.
> early in their testing they lost a nut

I'm glad I read this till the end. For a moment there I was thinking the kid had actually lost, you know, one of his nuts.
> crypto will adapt to things like custom protocols built to be indistinguishable from regular traffic.

The name is steganography, and has been used since ancient times.

The best way to ensure the secrecy of a message is to prevent the adversary from learning the existence of the message. Second best is to provide a bunch of big dumb decoys for the real message to hide.
They are not.

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1326991996758740994
>> it almost sounds like RIM may be able to acquire their way back into the market.

At this point, they basically have no other choice but to acquire their way back in.
Android handset makers aren't competing with each other? Even if they aren't right now, or if Android is the one thing they don't publicly compete over, that will change. If the iOS slice of the pie shrinks enough at the expense of the Android slice, don't be surprised if unifying "Android" branding starts disappearing from all handset advertising. They'll all want to talk about how they're unique and better an not the other guys, not about how they're holding hands.
Even within a small company cliques are a fact of life. But, something about the way this is worded seems...awful?

"which is open to any employee that meets some pretty strict requirements. A written test is given before an employee can access the facilities, and even then they must be deemed worthy of working on particular pieces of equipment"

I'd like to assume this is a safety issue, but this is Google which is known to be pretty elitist. Some employees will always get more perks than others (more money, more vacation time, more options...). Part of the very nature of picking "haves" is that you inherently devalue the "have-nots".

One step forward for having a more streamlined interview process, one step back for having interviews/tests for access to perks even after you're employed.
Lucene has basically always been really fast for just-plain-indexing-and-search. Certain additional features are pretty expensive to do the obvious way and came in as "it works" first and "it's fast" later. Reading the blog entry, this seems to be the case for fuzzy searches. One thing to take note of is that you can't just change your index structure for one feature, that might make other features slower and not worth it.
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~johanson/publications/poker/2...
But they have that information anyway. If they want to know which subscribers access porn, I'm sure they can find that in the logs, filters or no. Not that I think filters are a good idea, but it doesn't really give "them" any additional information.
That's really unfortunate. Sorry to hear that.

Out of curiosity - where do you live, and what industry are you in?
Ain't Karma a bitch, Twatter?
It did those two separate things. It did not share your local files via P2P.

It scanned the filesystem to find local media files to present for playback. It used P2P to legally share locally cached parts of DRM:ed Spotify tracks to other users in order to lower Spotify's bandwidth costs.

Did you also ban Skype?
So, that's my question then: are those features really mature and available for using in production.

Or is it like some half-done features with several caveats and/or some companies with this or that compiler extension (like Java AOT), that might or might not work well, not have good documentation, or any kind of support, and that some cavalier daredevils opt to use?

I mean, I'm not 100% convinced whether it's devs don't caring, or the tools being niche and "use at your own peril", the reason for that lack of adoption.

GraalVM, for example, probably still has some rough edges, and that's an official Oracle tool.

In your experience which are the maturest alternative Java deployment tools/compilers/options?
Just be more specific, like "java bean"... oh.

Joking aside, I dislike stuff that reuses overly generic concepts and names. I get why it was chosen, it's sorta cute, and it fits the theme, but it would be very nice if it was a uniquely named concept.
I don't believe this observation. I've never met a coworker or a person interviewing at my office who is unable to program these simple examples.

In fact I'm repeatedly amazed at how well people program and think about solutions to problems.
Start from first principles in the physical world. Do more work on what kind of processing we can do at the edge of the sensor and work our way up from there.

For example, build a system that learns to have reflexes. That is, has processing close to or near a sensor and can work collaboratively with other sensors to learn (not explicitly programmed) to take action based on input without a central processing system.

I would argue that if you can build a complex enough physical reflex learning system, then you have enough of the building blocks for a human level system.
Absolutely, check out WASI (Webassembly system interface)

https://wasi.dev/

“...provides access to several operating-system-like features, including files and filesystems, Berkeley sockets, clocks, and random numbers, that we'll be proposing for standardization.

It's designed to be independent of browsers, so it doesn't depend on Web APIs or JS, and isn't limited by the need to be compatible with JS.”
I cannot seem to find it now, but I read couple years back something about TV manufacturers considering embedding a cell and sim card SoC into these smart TV's for exactly this reason.
I have had a strange intellectual interest in the "human-language-likeness" of programming languages for a long time. (In a way, I suppose it is the core of my original question.) Which existing languages seem to be closest to that "metre and rhyme" point in your opinion? Lisp, Forth, Perl, Rebol?

I found an interesting recent discussion on Lambda the Ultimate about human cognition, coding, and programming language syntax:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5614

The MIT neuroscience research that this LtU thread refers to was also discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434854

And another HN thread on perceiving code vs written word:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7091495
You're right that it's not an endorsement. But it's functionally equivalent
> But perhaps it's a bug in Vim since it works when I run * on the lowercase variant.

Per the help it's a feature, and it's infuriating! (From :help star)

> 'ignorecase' is used, 'smartcase' is not.

Here's your workaround:

" By default, * and # respect 'ignorecase'. This mapping forces these commands
" to search case sensitively, which is usually what you want when searching
" code with * or #. May be less good for prose.
nnoremap <silent> * /\C\<<C-R>=expand('<cword>')<CR>\><CR>
nnoremap <silent> # ?\C\<<C-R>=expand('<cword>')<CR>\><CR>
I've had a similar scam experience on Etsy. The seller initially provided a bogus tracking number from a foreign country (the purported location of the store) and sandbagged delivery for 1.5 months to wait out most of the period during which consumers can issue credit card chargebacks. Only after opening an Etsy non-delivery case did they send an item (with a different tracking number, from the US). The delivered item didn't match the advertisement (both in quality and size). And the seller will not provide return instructions or issue a refund.

I'm still contesting the charge with Chase but Etsy's lack of help here has burned it for me as a platform.
Just like all of Google's other products?
I haven’t tried it yet, but his looks potentially super useful.
I have submitted your post as input to your AI, and I am impressed with the results (both informal and formal). That is a really interesting tool!
Perhaps:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw
Great explanation. When I was drinking 10+ cups of coffee/day, I was not only not feeling perked up (pun indented) but more tired. I guess I was producing way too much andenosine.
All I can think is... if ifs and buts were candy and nuts....

It'd be great IF bp were going to be held fully liable. From my understanding there is a limited liability clause that is going to hold BP to some unimaginably low number.

And of course, there will be a question of what cleanup means. Cleaning up the coasts, cleaning up the animals, cleaning up the sub sea plumes? I am sure some big oil lobbyists have already tempered the language of what ever legislation is in place to hold BP accountable.

So charity is going to clearly have to step in a close the gap.

Bing, Bing, Bing!
"Call me crazy, but it seems that there is a large influx of Ruby programmers exploring the Clojure programming language."

This is true in my experience. And this is the reason I stay away from Clojure, although I have great respect for Rich Hickey and admire many of the decisions he made in its design. The migrants seem (completely subjective perception) to be less the thoughtful ultra competent core Ruby devs,(who seem to have largely stayed on in RubyLand) and more ... vocal .... folks from the Ruby on Rails wing of the Ruby community. DHH is strident and competent. A lot of his followers/emulators picked up just the stridency.
Apple created fierce competition by including Media Access Control with their computers?
I did "What causes ulcers?" The results match what I would expect: stress being number 1 (if incorrect), H Pylori being number 3 (most common cause).
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
One cool application of ssh port forwarding missing from the list is https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel

It lets you temporarily give a behind-the-firewall web server a public, port 80 URL.
Doesn't applying no false premise (a la Nozick) remove the so-called Gettier problem entirely though, at least from an epistemological viewpoint? It seems to based on my hour or so of reading just now.

Practically however the NFP formulation of JTB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justified_true_belief) leaves us without a usable word for "knowledge".
"The other letters are B or S" -- are we sure it's not B AND S?
Julian Assange would disagree!?
Interestingly, all graphical advertisements in the picture have been replaced with clickable ads for superinventos.com (e.g. the bus stop on the left side of the river)
It'll be interesting to see how this data changes over the next 20 years given the current state of US politics.
Wait, "Space Command"?
It's funny but also explains Facebook's new move!
>brown goods are tvs, stereos etc

Huh. I've always heard those referred to (on the few rare occasions) as black goods. Maybe it's generational.
I guess "when not to use a deck, and get funded" is the next lesson.
The page you were looking for doesn't exist.

You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.

I am getting the above page for the following;

http://www.taskforceapp.com/jobs
http://www.taskforceapp.com/api
What is there to be skeptic about? Do you mean that you think the author is glorifying Blanchard's escapades (which are pretty impressive by most standards) or that some aspect of the story isn't true? I share a hometown with the guy - his story fascinates me.
Oh look, a big angry reaction to a simple assertion that you should try to look at code and criticisms about code objectively.
There's a similar situation in Switzerland, where a handful of banks dominate the national market despite some smaller (cantonal) options that mostly have their own consortium anyway. The larger banks cooperated on creating a mobile payments platform known as TWINT [1], which allows for fast and free individual payments for splitting the cost of a meal, private sales, or even many in-store transactions. This allows them a competitive advantage over alternatives such as small Swiss banks or foreign banks that the many non-Swiss residents in Switzerland may otherwise continue using. These other options are relegated to IBAN transfers which are notably less convenient.

[1] https://www.twint.ch/en/
I loved this, thanks.
The hardest part about being a creative / writer, or even entrepreneur is the high expectations set by those you admire, and the impossibility of fully imagining the amount of time it will take you to reach their level.

I don't know how true it is, or whether others agree, but I have always felt (except with work of exceptional brilliance), that I have the power (given enough work) to create work on the same level of anything I can see and appreciate - the key, I think is knowing why I appreciate it.
Title of the article is ridiculous. The article states that the FCC requires that devices be locatable when 911 is called, not continuously "trackable". There is no law which states that...
One thing I am sure is that wine in France taste a lot better than any other wine
As someone who has been in the position of having to explain to my customers that our host went down, yes, they did understand, and because I had shown them through the years how hard I worked fir them not one expected a refund or anything. They knew that part of what they were paying me for was to fix these problems when the inevitably would come up. I'm not saying this will work for everyone, but I believe a lot of people are starting to understand the risks of doing business in the cloud, and the truth of the matter is, some patients is required.
I have a few ideas, but don't really have time to implement them. On the other hand, there is a long list of ideas posted on this website by Paul Graham. Have you looked at those? There are some really good ones in there!
For sure. Unlike the RIM story of yesterday, he isn't claiming it's dead. He just talks about the decline and fall.

And I think there's a lot of truth to it. I don't quite buy the junk mail argument -- I publicly publish my email address everywhere because junk mail is generally a solved problem -- however I just think there are a lot of other options that have added value or lower friction.

A big personal use of email previously (5+ years ago) was the sending of pictures. You know -- the relative that sends you the 20 5MB pictures. Thankfully that is a thing of the past now, and people either post them on Facebook, Flickr, etc.

How about sharing other types of files? It was a major problem when Outlook started banning a lot of file types because that impeded how a lot of people used email. Now every uses Dropbox and other avenues to distribute files.

Perhaps the reality is just that email was, for a time, used for a lot of things that it wasn't appropriate for, and now it's back to its core value.
One of my original hesitations about the iPad (especially) was that I couldn't install custom fonts for reading books. It's good to see they've included a range of elegant fonts (though I'd still like the option to add more!)
The one with most direct consequences I can see was that a police officer got sacked because he was a member of the British National Party.

How the hell can that be legal? Are police officers banned from joining all political parties or just the BNP?
A practical use of an iPad, I won one but I really don't have any purpose for it except checking e-Mails/Twitter/any news.
In answer to your question: http://www.htmlbasictutor.ca/html-tag-attributes.htm

But in answer to your other question people only get one chance to vote and if they are on a phone with a touchscreen it sometimes registers as a down vote. The meta commentary on votes is uninteresting though so please avoid saying things like this. See the bottom for hn guidelines.
You already forgot about Iceland?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Modern_Media_Initiati...
The national security of what country? I suspect it could improve the security and life of some affected countries. If there was no exploitation and shady operations that seriously harm others, there would not be such excitement in the US government.