jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh, wow. The language was complex already and this makes me avoid C++ unless it's constrained to a narrow subset (something like Google C++ Style Guide). No wonder languages like Go and Rust gain so much traction.
This, plus using a higher quality microphone than the ones that are integrated in webcams and notebooks. Since last year, I'm using a Snowball iCE that is mounted fairly close to my mouth. This not only improved sound quality but also reduced background noise quite a bit.
> and prevents mass surveillance

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. What if you somehow got malware on your device? That's all your Signal privacy out the window. Some phones are stuck on older versions and can't update to mitigate against so called 'zero click' attacks or attacks that require user action like clicking on a link sent via SMS which then spawns a malicious payload that's executed in the default browser. Malware on phones is rampant. It's not just 'spouseware' being installed behind your back or high-profile people being targeted. Millions of devices (billions even?) en masse are getting compromised with malware.
I'll have to check that out - thanks!
Two threads want to send a single block message. Writer one advances the tail pointer by 100 bytes and then dies. Writer two then advances the tail pointer by another 100 bytes, copies its message into the buffer and writes its header. The reader will see the tail pointer 200 bytes past the last processed message but no valid header and this looks exactly like a writer currently in the process of placing a 200 byte message - including the header - into the buffer. Looks to me like thread one blocked thread two indefinitely because the message of thread two is never added to the buffer. Yes, the bytes are in the buffer, but only physically. The reader can not see them, i.e. the write operation did not logically complete.
Free or free gift is not stop words. "a", "the", "or" are stop words. And any way I don't think this is relevant to ranking of the post.
"Surely, the name of the site should be the first thing (and in many cases, the only thing) in the title of the home page."

Surely, this man has investigated known facts about SEO before making this lengthy blog post about it. Surely?

The domain name alone will give you more then enough to go on regarding searchability for the name of your site. Several studies have shown that putting the branding last achieves better results for relevant searches than putting it first.
The first 90% is mostly promotion. The last tidbit is interesting:

It has been a little over a year since [Don left] Microsoft and joining Google. In that year [Don has] not once used a desktop application on [his] Macbook Pro. [He is] living on the web, totally through the Chrome web browser. Gmail for email, and Google Docs for spreadsheets, word processing, and presentations. [He] even [uses] the Gmail Chat for IM, Video Chat for video conferencing, and Call Phone to make phone calls through [his] laptop. Of course [his] Android cell phone is used for most calls. [He uses] Picasa and Flickr for photos, Facebook, Buzz, and Twitter for social stuff.

[Don] wanted to see what it would be like living totally on the web with no client desktop software. It has been totally fine. This month [Don is] completing the move by giving up [his] Macbook Pro and using the Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook. Nothing but the Web!
In my opinion, if you don't remember something yourself and then ignore something telling you about it can be called on purpose.

But maybe it just means, this is not the right service for you.
> that’s not unlike saying a good person would never abuse alcohol

It's more like, I wouldn't say that the vodka distillery is the cause of alcoholism.
As far as I can tell even that is not quite accurate:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

tl;dr: The bar for trademark abandonment seems to be quite high.
Well, he has a football...
In terms of physical intrusion, a tremendous amount of security theater was exposed today. Quite astonishing how easily people were able to gain access.
Four people are dead. The building was ransacked. Bombs were placed. There were people obviously planning kidnapping (kidnapping at the least, most likely the plan included murder). This was not a peaceful protest.
We’re talking about someone who conjures justifications out of thin air. He doesn’t need anyone to believe him
The Social Dilemma movie highlights this brilliantly, as does Tristan Harris in his Joe Rohan interview https://youtube.com/watch?v=OaTKaHKCAFg
I'll admit I was baiting you a bit there - I apologise. I was running out the door and didn't want to forget.

The thing about "what has happened" is that it actually leaves a lot of room for bad faith reporting. You can never include everything. What isn't reported is just as important as what is, whether it's whole stories, certain viewpoints, context, anything.

What criticisms did mainstream news outlets level at George W. Bush that you felt were attacks? At what point in the lead-up to lies-based invasion do you feel it's ok to say "Bush and Cheney just might be lying here, folks."?
Buried lede: Trump suspended from Facebook.

‘Comments continued for more than an hour before the company bowed to internal and external pressure. Trump will be suspended from the platform, as well as from Instagram, which Facebook owns.

‘“We've assessed two policy violations against President Trump's Page which will result in a 24-hour feature block, meaning he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time,” Bourgeois said in a statement.’
LOL. I can't stop. :)

I'm not going down the path of personal attack. Vitalik is smart. He lacks self criticism and focus. I do hope he'll find success.
> Would be interested in seeing the 99.9%ile execution time for BTC vs FedACH transactions

You mean like account to account transactions? Doesn't ACH transactions take "up to 3 business days" or something silly like that? I can't really find any average numbers either as none of the data is being made public.

The transactions speed for one block in Bitcoin has been at max ~30 minutes, you might require up to N amount of blocks depending on your use case. So 10 blocks (safe) would be 5 hours, available 24/7 (granted you have internet access).
Nit: It's "cue" as in "stage cue".
Depends how far along you are. You can always hold off on incorporating until you have a term sheet or ready to get your docs signed.

Of your options:
1. If you end up taking legit money, you'll want regular counsel. Cooley is great.

2. Stripe Atlas is only $500 and takes a couple days. But as soon as you raise money, big law lawyers will update your agreements so you're back to step 1.

Also, remember. Most big law firms will offer you a fixed price for the initial incorporation and financing. Don't be afraid to ask.
Sounds nice and awfully convenient for those supporting the current interviewing practices. But does this apply to all experienced engineers, 50%, 5% ? US only, Europe, Russia, India?

We need better proof and better data than a 2006 blog post.
I think it's a combination of science is simply harder because the low picking fruits have mostly been picked, and environments that lead to breakthroughs like fission appear only under exceptional circumstances
You know what's a little ironic, is that the questions and uncertainty in this thread about how many Swiss Francs actually exist are trivial to answer with Bitcoin.

FWIW, it is surprisingly(?), not so trivial with many other cryptocurrencies.
Does this have anything to do with that Fed outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26254301
Seemed possible? It is... based on it's 100 million users. But, probably not used as expected ten years ago. Things change?
Great to see the excitement and success story for this hardworking person.

Depressing to see leetcode and data structures interview prep heralded as a positive thing and treated as a neutral, accepted, “nothing wrong with this” aspect of the path to getting a job.
Right, and that's why we still source and recruit, to pull in people from outside of our community. It just has a much lower hit rate.
Increases in net asset value are taxed when you realize them by selling the asset, and (to my understanding) at the same rate as qualified dividends. So where is the advantage?
> Now a day the live streaming through smart phone is booming due to the appearance of Meerkat and periscope.

No it's not :p
Do you want to under-perform during all bull markets so it hurts less during the corrections?

If you stayed invested in the broad market through any bubble-pop you would be better off than aggressive diversification and hedging. Unless you can reliably time the tops and bottoms.

Where else will you invest? China? India? Rest of Asia? Europe? South America? Africa? Specific commodities?

Do you believe the next generations in the US will continue to create value or do you think this is the beginning of a perpetual decline?
A lot of people listened to the experts in the room and were late to the Tesla party when people like myself had been telling them to look at the space. Now those same people want a second chance and they're looking for penny stocks in the field.
> Code is law

Oh please! Remember the Ethereum fork? It's mob rule at best.

If code was law then the founders of Ethereum would be broke having lost their fortunes to the genius that exploited a bug in their code.
Gold has two things going for it: there's a baseline of "real" value underpinning it (not just industrial use, but lots of fast-growing Asian countries relying on it for dowries etc), and historically gold holds up quite well when everything else is doing badly. However, it's also fundamentally unproductive (no dividends, no real capital growth), so it's going to be a losing bet most of the time.
> - Make the device use an ACME server to provision its certificate. The device must be publicly accessible so the ACME server can reach it.

This seems like the most reasonable approach given that the need for HTTPS certificates arises from public accessibility.
Also,the fact that you, CEO of an aggressive US corporation, would try to intimidate me like that (with your talk of "libelous" etc.), to stop me from simply repeating the widely held impression that Brave is scammy, is well, really slimy.

Exactly the sort of thing I would expect from a CEO of "Brave".
How did raising the prices work out?
Good write-up. Indeed I'm a novice tinkering with a decent gaming GPU :) . I was initially daunted by ML but the more I read I began to realize the field is quite accessible these days. Most of the time, you don't need to understand why or how this stuff works at a deep level. You just need a good feel of what might work and a training dataset.

Much of that is the enormous amount of work done plastering over complex GPU programming. But some of it is the tinkering nature of solving ML problems.

The field I'm most interested in right now for instance, NLP, is highly dataset dependent. It's fairly easy to exceed SoTA right now using open sourced models if you have a better, more specialized dataset than what's freely available.
If I'm understanding your story correctly your math teacher did the opposite of what the person I responded to said - he separated out the high performers, creating an environment that allows them to thrive and achieve high results. This is great, but what about the ones who weren't picked into the high performing class?

There is nothing saying you can't have good classes for both high and low performers, but with schools that have limited resources it often works out to a poor medium where no one really thrives (hence the caveat of 'in my experience' in my comment).
That sounds like vaporware to me. I might be interested in adopting a visual programming system that had good version control. But so far they don't actually exist.
"A backdoor in Windows' TLS implementation" absolutely falls under the definition of "A backdoor in Windows".
It is happening slowly and incrementally. These changes seem architecturally dirty, but don't rock the boat too much and so are feasible to deliver on time and on budget.

Check out the population count and string compare/search instructions in Intel SSE4.2, and the upcoming Intel AVX which make SSE more useful by allowing more operands, more operator combinations, and wider vectors.
First time I'm seeing Cobra. Of course, there's a 100 altjs languages out there. It's certainly cute. But every Cobra file seems to begin with "class". I have no idea why I'd want to subject a poor child to that nonsense.

Just to be clear, the flip side of Racket's 20 years of work is it is _very sophisticated_. Pyret has nowhere near the same sophistication.
Wouldn't that make a mess though?
Where the hell is the legend?
Ever used smalltalk?
I think this is great. I think more sites should do this. I think I should do this! I'm not a great sysadmin, but I'd like to do what I can to help the ipv6 switch-over.

Does anyone have any experience in operating a ipv6-enabled site? What is involved?
Sweet. Are you going to use that website as a benchmark for https?
The H.264 decoder contains serious added complexity because H.264 supports multiple reference frames and interlacing. It was also based on the shared MPEG-1/2/4 code, even though many of those features aren't used. That results in poor cache locality and data structures with a lot of unused stuff allocated. (Also, the author is very single-minded about optimization and seems to have completely ignored all this for most of its development…)

The VP8 decoder is based on the VP5/6 decoders and isn't as different from them, so it doesn't have that problem.

That said, I believe they're both pretty efficient and competitive with others. By "known to be slow", he means "known to be a bit slower with the same # decoding threads than CoreAVC".
I'm trying to find something that will let me take action. A letter to the President politely asking him to make the Pentagon be nice would be filed right next to all the letters asking him to ban Martians.

It's not actionable. I can't do anything with it. I've gone through the wiki on Presidential powers and don't see it.
Definitely something that we missed. Thank you so much for pointing it out!
I think jobs with computers are, in many ways, more forgiving to those with bad eyesight than other jobs. I have bad vision (just enough so I can't drive) but thanks to Gtk / Compiz, I can arbitrarily change the font size to be as big as I like it, and Orca and other screenreaders would help if I were completely blind. However, if I were a scientist or a taxicab driver or at a factory or throwing darts for a living, I'd be much worse off because I couldn't make those accommodations.
From the article:

>Such statements regarding the death of SF are eternal. In 1960, for instance, a famous seminar was conducted under the heading "Who Killed Science Fiction?"
for the sake of being contrarian, why all the freaking out? it's cool and all, but it's OCR + translation, two things computers are already pretty good at (not to mention word lens seems to be doing word-for-word translation, not context-sensitive).

yeah doing it so fast on a mobile device is impressive, but am I alone in thinking this isn't going to change the world?
Who's to say Pipes isn't getting the axe either?
Skim it for the descriptions of new books. I came away with half a dozen to look into.
So 'fess up. Have you ever bought shoes online?
If I paid someone to produce a work, I would surely want to be able to sell the rights in the future.

You can sell the copyright, but you can't sell your creativity, life experiences, or anything else which allowed you to make that work of art. Having the money to buy the rights to make a sequel doesn't grant you the ability of making a good one, but it does prevent everyone else from trying, even if they might be better at it.
I was kidding around: introducing more invasive species to counter invasive species seems to be a common (unfortunate) trope when attempting to get rid of unwanted critters.

(Also: Arethusa...are you a Cryptonomicon fan, by any chance?)
You should voice your opinions to your local congressman. Meanwhile, shall we go back to building our mobile apps?
Js_of_ocaml is pretty cool and is used by folks at Facebook for Hack and Flow. For another example of its use see the awesome IOCaml notebooks.

http://andrewray.github.io/iocamljs/
This discussion has shown that, if anything, the only thing we can rely on is that our bodies are incredibly complex. There does not appear, at least to me, any consistently correct way to do things when diet and exercise are concerned.

All of this is why I prefer to just stick with the basics:

- Real, unprocessed food

- Calories from food, not drinks

- Consistently getting up and out of the chair

- Sleeping when I'm tired

- Waking up when I'm not tired

- Exercising regularly

I'm happy, healthy, and energetic. I'll let scientists keep working on the hard stuff without stressing too many details.
The Stack Exchange office has a number of open areas where folks can (and do) work if they bring their laptop along. As a developer, though, I like my multiple monitors, my keyboard, etc. Once in a while a change in the environment is nice, but most times I find not working with my optimized setup is more annoying than anything.

(Mind you, since our teams are distributed, there's often no such thing as "working together in a small-group environment" that doesn't involve being on a hangout, and everyone being in a private office helps immensely with that.)
You don't need to spend a bunch of capital on mining equipment to speculate. You can just buy Bitcoin. Usually you buy mining equipment because you think you can make BC cheaper than everyone else with operational efficiency.
See also the discussion thread: http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/orphan-rules/1322/26
The IPCC reports are a good place to start your search if you're actually interested in the peer reviewed literature.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/

However, I find your insistence regarding peer-reviewed reports a bit puzzling in light of the vitriol that you fire at the NYT's opinions, given that they aren't out of line with the conclusions drawn by the scientific community. Is there a similarly thorough and rigorous body of peer-reviewed literature out there supporting different conclusions? Because AFAIK the situation looks like this:

http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/files/2013/05/climate-...
Mentioned this in another thread, but I've been reading Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth Discipline" [1], and it's very interesting. In particular, I feel persuaded that nuclear power is our big shot at bringing atmospheric levels of CO2 down to manageable levels.

Brand was one of the first "Greens". His Whole Earth Catalog inspired a lot of the 70's techno-hippies, like Steve Jobs, and it's fascinating to read how his positions have evolved over the decades, and how he is championing positions he wouldn't have expected to be championing when he was younger.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Discipline
Getting a sub-orbital rocket traveling at multiple Mach to decelerate and land (vertically, nose up) on a point in the ocean that's about 200 square feet in size?

Yeah, that was very close.
Not only were the fins unable to move, the position they were stuck in was a very unhelpful position.
This isn't true. Private entities have never been required to distribute messages from US officials or politicians. I believe the only exceptions are certain emergency broadcasts.
Why bother with these policies? They are not enforced in any type of uniformity. Rather, they should just say we take down anything we want. At least then, they wouldn't be seen as the hypocrites they are.
an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor unpaid.

Do people still think of big, successful open source projects as unpaid? Rails, for example, was created at Basecamp/37Signals. Most Linux contributions come from companies like IBM. Or am I the one who's out of touch?
> What he means is it would tip them over the edge and declare war against the government.

What edge haven't they gone over already? From my reading of TD [dot] win they are 100% already there. What is being suggested is akin to negotiating with terrorists.
Last I saw 52 people had been arrested.

In interviews on C-SPAN last night, the DC Attorney General (an elected official by the city) made clear that many of yesterday's actions fall under his jurisdiction, but that (because DC is a federal district directly controlled by the executive branch) he is only able to operate under the guidance of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, a Trump appointee named Michael Sherwin [0]

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/meet-us-attorney
that 'high standard' apparently allows them to present rumors from anonymous sources as facts as long as it fits a certain political agenda.

The burden of evidence no longer applies neither with NYT not any other heavily biased liberal outlets like WaPo or CNN.
“They just laughed their asses off,” Bachus said to Bloomberg. “Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.”

Yes, a piece of junk telling a store staple that it was a piece of junk would have that effect
That just sounds like "everyone else is smoking, so I should start smoking too". Just because everyone else is doing it does not mean it is the right thing for you to do.

In this instance, if developing friendships relies on me sending my data to some unknown person the other side of the world so that they can build graphs on my activity and follow me around just because everyone else has decided that's what they want to do, then I would choose another path.

Wouldn't you? If not, please send me all your data and details of your activities, all the time. If you can trust that data to some guy you've never met in a datacenter, then why not send it to me. You've got my username - that's more than you'll ever know about the people looking at your data at Facebook.
Still looks better than WhatsApp.
So China is right, there is no other way to maintain social stability other than to control speech.
Thanks for the response.

She obviously has the boilerplate in her emails. The idea is how can she reduce the likelihood of sensitive information getting into the wrong hands.

I think it would be hard to get her clients to install thunderbird and PGP - they are not necessarily tech savvy individuals - think wealthy elderly people.
Saving is highly underrated, so that actually will help...
You need to eat less if you are fat and need to lose weight.
If you aren't overweight, you don't need to eat less. Even if you are skinny you still need to exercise if you want to be "in shape."
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Thanks!
The bigger the CEO's house, the worse the performance of the company: http://www.slate.com/id/2162989