jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That seems overly reductive.

Must all people who want the USA to do well be "Biden supporters" or "Trump supporters"? I think not.
Trading212 (uk based) has already this. They call this investing pies. It is already a hit in europe
(Knight Rider is here :)
Just another form of security theater.
I used Vimeo for the video hosting. They have HTML5 but for some reasons it doesn't show up properly in iPhone : (

Although works in iPad.
Interestingly, while the bystander effect is a real thing -- the Kitty Genovese story doesn't really support it. As wikipedia points out in its understated way, the story that prompted all this research has "been criticized as inaccurate." There were actually very few witnesses who could have seen her murder and it's entirely possible that at least one of them did call the police.
Or I could type nkohari and a password...
Osho Dynamic Meditation. www.osho.com
Nice use of CoreText. You seem to be one of the rare individuals who can apply a design aesthetic and execute the coding. Congratulations on a beautiful app! Love the pop-up hints.
Well, yes. You still have to market your app. Apple won't do that for you. They do give you some keywords that you can use to help searches, though.

And I can't begin to describe how much I loathe seeing page upon page of apps that are largely made from the same boilerplate. Its a waste of space and largely gets in the way of finding something useful.
> There usually is monetary compensation in settlements like this, they just don't disclose it.

They do usually say “settled for an undisclosed sum”.
Pour one out for Radio Darvish.
I doubt the majority of people will turn to piracy as in downloading torrents, account sharing and pay per use movies might increase instead? Netflix and the likes are too convenient with casting/airplay and rememberong what you've seen.

Stremio brings piracy closer to netflix feeling, but it happens that content doesn't match packs, not enough seeds and subtitles might require manual offsets, still quite darn good though.
I worked with COBOL just in time to fix Y2K problems, and I still have nightmares about it -- not about Y2K, mind you, but about COBOL and banking systems. Such a horrible, horrible programming language.
Of half of that it was probably people sharing accounts (and cost) that won't bother anymore.
Is this YouTube specific? I often feel stuck in a bubble
In fairness Disney has never taken a risk. Netflix and HBO are happy to give creative license and see what sticks. A lot of netflix originals are awful, but some are both good and new: something disney will never deliver.
Except if you went to chaz, it was actually fine and the news blatantly exaggerated reality for advertising $$
The issue boils down to roads and parking more than cars. Trees need sunlight, but cars don’t so roads work just fine segregated below street level away from pedestrians and inclement weather. It sounds expensive, but work out how expensive NYC’s above ground road network costs both in terms of land value and ongoing property taxes and you see just how pricy cheap roads end up.

Go 3D to segregate N/S traffic from E/W traffic thereby eliminating traffic lights and things really pick up. Of course it’s much easier to blame cars, but counties only have so many people you can actually build enough infrastructure to solve the root issues.
Can you logically explain why you jumped to the conclusion that the black applicants weren't the best for the job?
He just described the energy requirements: each gram of payload needs 15k of energy put in to escape orbit. He didn't think of fuel which exists simply to move the rest of the fuel (the rocket equation).

Imagine 50 sticks of dynamite separated by metal plates. The bottom stick explodes, lifting the pile a bit (energy split 50 ways). Then the bottommost explodes, lifting more (split 49 ways). This continues until the second stick propels the first into orbit.

You can play with the numbers so

explosion energy * (1/50 + 1/49 + ...) = escape energy

You quickly realize it gets asymptotic, and extra fuel contributes relatively little to the payload.
This is very good step by Indian supreme court. Largest democracy of billion plus people should have all the rights to speak whatever they want online.
Yes, it's a distro where you can find EVERY setting on /etc, even if the software creator decided you should know to look somewhere else.

(That said, making the package self contained is the most sensible way for the developer to release it. It's just not a good option for a distro package.)
Slightly different version of that story from the Tyson quotes link posted by chancho in this thread:

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."
Good shout guys - need more of these in London! See you there.
Does Verified by VISA works (or not working) the same everywhere? I thought each bank has to support it independently, so I'm only blaming my bank for requiring me to use exactly 6-digit numbers as my VbV password.
My vote would be on stupidity. Maybe there really was a time when getting it right was hard (COBOL with custom proprietary databases?), but it is not hard anymore. And seeing as it really is rather important, there simply is no excuse for not fixing it.

Think about it another way: if they can't get even that right, what does it say about the rest of their IT systems?
Even in Python, you benefit from structuring an object to accept its dependencies as inputs, rather than calling to them by their global names. It lets you test each class independently with mock objects that support the same interface.
Backupify offers exactly this service. It would be nice if you could somehow keep the data on your Dropbox.
NotCourierSans Bold 14pt. http://kernest.com/fonts/notcouriersans-bold
DMCA violation!
I have to admit, since I started using Xmarks I pretty much stopped using del.icio.us. My last addition to del.icio.us was July of 2008.
Lemme give you a naive example.

Say you wanted to generate a heatmap using MapReduces. How would you do it? You'd probably need something like this:

1. Map location data points to (region -> weight)
2. Reduce (region -> weight) to (region -> sum of weights)
3. Map data points to (region -> 1)
4. Reduce (region -> 1) to (region -> sum of points in region)
5. Shuffle output of #2 and #4
6. Reduce (region -> sum of points) and (region -> sum of weights) to (region -> average weight)

The pipeline API makes it easy to describe the dependencies between these separate MR jobs, wait for each segment to complete before triggering the next, and lets you reuse this logic as part of a larger computational workflow.

The Mapper framework/MapReduce integration part is not ready yet, but we're getting there. Release early/often~

ps. For those of you who know how to do a heatmap in a single MR: I'm just trying to demonstrate why you may need to pass inputs/outputs between MR jobs.
I think in most places, the speed limit is set to the 80th percentile speed. If there is a road where people routinely drive much faster on, you might want to ask for your county to do a speed study on that road.

In some places, you may be able to use the lack of an up-to-date speed study as a defense against a speeding charge.
> However I really, really hope they can work on a good backup and restore process as losing my message history because I have to reinstall the app on my desktop[1] or have to reset my phone is a horrible experience.

I've tried to report bugs and talk to developers about this but there's one fundamental problem here - the Signal team fundamentally does not value chat history the same way a lot of people do. They think that destroying all chats is a reasonable thing to do when things get hard - which is the exact opposite to many WhatsApp users, which deeply value images and texts sent to them on that platform.

As such, they've been very very resistant at making the backup process for Signal easy for people. This is also why deskop app regularly happily just trashes all its state and fails to resync. This is why they will never let you make the backup process easy and portable.

It's not a technical issue - they just think you're wrong when you want to keep your conversations.

Unfortunately that's can also be a significantly bigger issue than privacy for a lot of people.
In my experience, both with self-study and at university, the best way to gain and retain knowledge is by working problems. To do this you need: demonstrations of the concepts, problems, hints and solutions.

Oddly enough, I found this to be the case, even in my humanities courses. I learned more about a subject by having to write about it, than from merely reading or memorizing for an exam.
for example apps have been rejected for bearing news about U.S. drone strikes[1].

FWIW, the app was eventually approved, although under a different name: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026320/your-iphone-can-now-alert...

In fact, I would argue Apple is causing more damage than a state here or there allowing discrimination, due to their >1Bn install base.

If Apple prevented users from accessing this info at all I might buy this, but considering this info (in this specific case) is still available via the web (the Guardian site works fine on an iPhone), I can't agree with this. Unless you have evidence of some info/activity that is only available via an app and not accessible on the web?
I imagine this varies on a case by case basis. Since this is often not publicly disclosed, its difficult to know exactly. In my personal experience at a few firms, the seed money came with an MVP that had proven an ability to get users and provide value.

Your next question is how many users, I imagine. This varies by the product/service. Working B2B? You don't need thousands. Doing something consumer facing or social? You need a lot, and a hook. Or something no one else has done that catches someone's attention that has a lot of money.
This may be obvious to most, but the loops in question were literal tape loops, it being 1978. ("...running around a series of tubular aluminum chairs in Conny Plank's studio.")
Explains my ex-wife perfectly!
"so by implication you're saying it's immoral to enforce laws against all lesser offenses"

Amazingly, the parent didn't actually say or imply that. "worse crimes go unpunished" doesn't imply "enforcing laws against lesser offenses is immoral".
...I am aware of zero other manufacturers brazen enough in terms of blatant disregard for Engineering Ethics to have embarked on this type of testing before Silicon Valley did.

In fact, there were licensure processes for this sort of thing already in place in California iirc, so this is less gray area, more "lets outsource testing to the end user".

Frankly, it's downright disturbing.
The heavy burden of the internet comedian.
I gave up reading after the first chapter, I found it hard to read, too academic and terse. Does it get better after that? I might give it another chance.
Everyone's full of shit when they get caught cheating. Shit and - if attention is drawn to the shit - anger.
And if you're serving pages to the other end of the world it becomes prohibitively slow. I waited about 30 seconds for anything to show up on the page.
The subject line was "Joe - Your CD Baby Order!" when I ordered last year (but with my actual first name).

Kind of annoying because then you do have to read through all that (same message) to figure out that the order actually shipped and wasn't unavailable. Of course, the use of an exclamation mark in the subject line was a clue all was well.
Scala had some of the same design goals as Ruby, especially the goal of being a pleasant language to live in on a daily basis. Mirah essentially removes the (theoretically, at least) performance advantage that Scala had over JRuby. Of course there is the issue of not being able to use MRI Ruby code with Mirah; overcoming that in a clean way would bring a lot of MRI folks over to Mirah.
> C) will not feel safe with that lock ever again.

My pop-psychology spider sense tells me this is the important factor. People don't like to be made aware that their locks are actually useless. This unhappiness gets taken out on the locksmith, because he happens to be around. It's shooting the messenger, which is less than useless, but still very common. Conversely, putting on theatrics to open the lock makes people feel secure. A false sense of security, obviously, but one that results in better tips.
Yes, unfortunately the community is slowing go down hill. You're not missing much. :)
Contracts are frequently renegotiated because it's better for both parties than bringing in the big guns. He would rather sell the tickets now than deal with recouping the loss later, and she would rather get the tickets for her money than be forced to pay up for nothing.

Basically, he says, "You can pay now and get the tickets or you can pay up in small claims court after the tickets are expired." Knocking a hundred or two off the price saves him the paperwork involved.

It's still a bad idea to agree to contracts with the intention of renegotiating under the threat that it'll be easier than suing, but that doesn't change the fact that a new contract is easier to make than enforcing the old one.
Just like most Java shops regarding Sun/Oracle and IBM/Red-Hat.
Design is cyclical, and we're already seeing more leading-edge content types pushing back to leaner design. Medium is almost an example of a business that started out like this but has since exploded into shit. I've been seeing Gemini coming up more and more as well so people are becoming aware of the issues with modern web "best-practices."

So yes, maybe it is time for somebody to build a business on this.
16 - 21. With 200 students in a room there are vast disparities in maturity levels.
It's really awesome to see the Zanzibar implementation open sourced. I also built an implementation of Zanzibar. From my understanding, one of the core features of the paper is the Leopard index system which delivers fast permission checks at scale. I noticed that your system doesn't have an index algorithm, but there is an issue in your repo to implement it. Do you have any idea when you would implement it? I'd like to potentially use/contribute.
Also the amount of stuff the firmware does nowadays, especially on a laptop, is quite high. The OS-UEFI interface is quite complex and involves a fair amount of firmware code which keeps running after boot. This code is heavily involved in operations like suspend and hibernate, and is usually developed by the laptop OEM themselves, so quality is not very high and they have little incentive to test with anything other that windows. This results in a tendency towards fragility (even with windows), as well as worse battery life under linux.
Great point yeah. I also think it should be easier to tell browsers to make text high contrast, design be damned. Fundamentally it's an accessibility issue.
I disagree. The Linux Kernel power management framework is quite simple and easy to understand. The problem is mostly driver implementations, which are usually mostly self-contained. But it is possible to design a driver so that it works well in terms of power management.
Glad to see others feel this way - I swear often enough myself but I find this type of writing very unattractive despite it being a joke. I had to stop reading.

I was wondering if I'm just getting old or if it's actually a bit tired. Perhaps a bit of both.
Join the contrast rebellion and demand high-contrast text:
https://contrastrebellion.com/
>> ... if I can't figure out how to build a smarter brain than mine then it can't figure it out either

You mean, just like complex processors are impossible, because you personally couldn't design one, since there are just too many work years in doing that?

>>there's no reason to think that brains are capable of building ever-smarter brains.

What happens when you let groups of people build sub-systems? And then the groups iterate over those sub-systems?

Not to mention hardware speedups?

I know enough to be a bit in awe of quantum simulations, so I em a bit shocked to not see a better argument outside your own area of expertise. :-)
you don't give a damn about freedom, you just want a good tool. Its not really that hard to understand the difference.
Thanks for that link. After reading it, I agree: a one-way mission would not be a "suicide mission" but more like a high-risk adventure. History has proven that many people relish these opportunities.

And it's not even that there might never be a chance for return; just that it's not part of any of the current planning. Would be attractive to the same sorts of people who in the 14th and 15th centuries sailed in wooden ships to the "new world"
Opera Mini doesn't have plugins, afaik. It doesn't have an HTML parser; it's a thin client which renders pages sent to it in a binary format from Opera's proxy servers.
We'll have all data on each vehicles soon. Something similar to this: http://twitpic.com/4mm384

The categorization is messed up, yes, I'm working on a flabby set of data for that. That'll be fixed soon, too.
I can personally attest that you can carry and read in the bath with your e-reader. Granted, the humidity must not be great for it.

If someone comes up with a water proof cover for popular e-reader models, surely there would be a market for it.
I don't find myself exhausted by non-fiction and I also don't consider coding text books/articles/tutorials/documentation to be "books". When I say books I mean fictional texts. I find myself exhausted by fiction while I read, it feels like such a waste of time to me to read something that holds little to no value to me in the real world so it really needs to be an author that I like, thus only one or two books a year. I know many people are going to disagree with me but I just don't see the value.
the conditional syntax he describes does exist in many mainstream programming languages

(x==y) ? a : b
The intention was to indicate that it's not just a temporary log file that's not being deleted properly. Poorly expressed though, I agree.
I am sorry - while I don't condone what Anonymous does, these guys got pwned. They need to quietly go away and start another scam business.
That's the wrong way of looking at it. Most people upload stuff few people care about. Their is a large number of people who cater to a small community, and YouTube makes sharing videos easy for that community. A low number of views doesn't equate to low interaction, either.

Take a hobby of mine: miniature painting for $40k. I published battle report videos, painting update videos, etc. I didn't have a large number of views, but the views I got were from highly specific audience. So, I get 500 to 1000 views. That's clearly something that isn't high priority to the masses of YouTube, but for the community that has built up around sharing videos like that on YouTube, it's important.
I'm an MSc student in IT/software engineering, and I am a practicing and believing Roman Catholic.

Some of the main reasons for this is

- having recognized that the teachings are consistent with my embedded worldview and ethical code

- a perception that living according to these teachings is much more beautiful, much less likely to hurt others or get hurt myself, mostly free from anger and bitterness, etc. The often repeated opinion that "God gave you your life and his teachings are the owner's manual" seems to hold true for me.
KVM/QEMU with the OVMF BIOS image provides a full emulation environment for testing and debugging. You can build EFI binaries using entirely Open Source tools.

Also try BITS (biosbits.org) for experimentation with either BIOS, ACPI, and EFI; it's a port of Python to run in GRUB2. (I'm one of the upstream authors.)
The spec should be robust against the possibility of implementation errors that result in the system being less secure. This is distinct from the possibility of implementation errors that simply result in the code not working at all or being obviously broken. You can't prevent those, but you also don't need to. The point is that subtle implementation errors should be ruled out as much as possible.

This is a common criterion in cryptography, against which systems and primitives are judged.
I don't know of any tutorial-style material, but for references, I use both the official specs from uefi.org and the wiki on the Phoenix site (for instance, http://wiki.phoenix.com/wiki/index.php/EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT... ).
The issue that seems to be overlooked here is the objective value of solving the problem itself. Instead it focuses on the developers and their rewards.

A does a thing, it takes a long time, solves the problem and he becomes System Analyst.

C does a thing, it's shorter in both time and effort, and he leaves the company a year later.

What about the value produced by the solution?

It's clear that if a single (inexperienced and poorly communicative) developer can produce a satisfactory solution in a fraction of the time of a majorly architected approach then the first view (A) is overvalued.

The moral of the story seems to be something about how huffing and puffing, self-importance is rewarded over a thought out appropriate solution to the task at hand.

How about going forward in the story? A sequel-sequel?

At Automated, their unrealistic approach to planning and development, and their focus on titles and rewards led to bloated and unmaintainable software, where everyone in the company fought to make something "smart" that demonstrated their intelligence and worthiness of being rewarded - the problem specifications being nothing more than a means to achieving this.

At C, Charles either gained the experience necessary to understand the reasons for communicating efforts and planning to the rest of his management and went on to design appropriate solutions in another company, or he decided that being rewarded for his efforts was more important than solving problems and gaining domain experience and joined the above.
I think you misunderstand what a small business is. A corner hardware store is a micro company. For most intents and purposes a small business is between 10 and 50 employees and/or between 10 and 50 million in annual revenue. In the US the Small Business Administration will classify most of the companies under 500 employees as a small business.
Coincidentally, I was just searching for a good Flux implementation for my first flux-style app, and something about alt really looks good. I think I'll give it a whirl. :)
Making a hydrophobic urinal seems like an interesting prank.
Because of legacy. Spartan based on the old Trident engine, but refactored and without "compatibility" modes and quirks (as they promise). They need Trident to render old sites. Just imagine how huge is amount of old IE-only sites in corp. segment.
Some time ago I bookmarked this comment by tptacek:

> Everyone I talk to uses Signal; even my siblings, who are not technologists and who I do not talk to about this stuff, use Signal (sometimes to my annoyance, since iMessage works just fine when we're figuring out what each of us is bringing to dinner). But for the purposes of this post, almost literally any secure messenger is better than email.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371316

Hopefully the fact that even tptacek can admit that convenience actually plays a role when deciding what messaging platform to use for everyday stuff can help certain people here lower their shoulders somewhat ;-)