jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> There is indeed a "right"; it's defined by the consensus of how people choose to perceive the speech and writings of others.

No, that's false. The sole purpose of language is to communicate, and that only requires two people. If two very intelligent youngsters create their own private language, and if the language produces communication, how can that not be called a legitimate use of language?

You're speaking as though everyone should agree on the meaning of words, and the greater the level of agreement, the more legitimate the language. If that were true, there would be one language, not thousands, and something modeled on the French Academy would be in charge. But that's fiction, not reality.

> and it's something a dictionary should document: "if you use this you'll be perceived as incorrect".

Dream on. Lexicographers take note of word usage. When a word is used in a consistent way in ten recognized publications, that word and/or that meaning becomes official, and is entered into dictionaries. There is no "correct", there is only how people choose to use words. More here:

http://arachnoid.com/wrong/#Dictionary
The logical conclusion of what you're saying is that while you cannot patent the Pythagorean Theorem, you could patent using the Pythagorean Theorem to solve triangles, perhaps in the context of architecture.

That is of course, patently absurd.

"Software patents do not cover the mathematical aspects of software"

As Knuth explicitly notes in the materials I've already linked, trying to separate the math from the rest of software is a fundamentally flawed endeavor.
Actually, it's pretty trivial to figure out what side of something Florian is going to be on: just reverse whatever opinion Groklaw happens to voice.

Seriously, check out that guys HN account and look at his comments on any article having anything to do with Groklaw. Totally unhealthy obsession.
I've done some research on this since Groupon doesn't release the redemption statistics. 20-30% breakage (non-redemption) seems to be the estimate, but some people go as low as 10% and as high as 40% in their estimates.
I'd caution against drawing general conclusions about HN from spot observations about what does/doesn't get flagged. People usually fall prey to cognitive biases when they do so, e.g. thinking that the community is against them somehow. We're all primed to feel that way; the feeling just hops to different things depending on our different identities.

Occam suggests you needn't look for "Anglo bias" as an explanation for why a story gets flagged when the thread includes "We must get rid of Merkel and the refugees" followed by "What do you suggest, gas chambers?"

(Not that there isn't inevitably going to be something like "anglo bias" on an English-language website. But FWIW the moderators here are acutely aware of, and grateful for, and interested in, the international aspects of the community—definitely including the German ones.)
What is with these 'Why are you posting on HN?' comments.

Should certain questions be in the HN FAQ?

Maybe we should have a list of questions that each commenter, personally, believes should not be posted on HN because of...'reasons'?
> The U.S. education system’s gradual shift away from phonics, solidified by Covid-19, is behind the reading crisis, according to the duo.

> But while reading and math scores have been in decline since 2010, Covid-19 exacerbated that trend, Cantwell and Ooten believe.

That is, the system has been eroding. This is not new. But the Covid tie-in is an easier narrative to follow.

Furthermore, to be fair and accurate, it wasn't Covid per se. It was the response. We weren't prepared. Nor do we seem to be concerned about making up for those shortcomings.

It's not Covid. It's us.
> ...defining privilege as being primarily about skin color is racist.

I didn't say that. Mine was a comment limited to OP's assumption that some people (it wasn't clarified "who" these people are), think he is privileged because of him being of a certain ancestry, which is not true.
You made the mistake of engaging in their dialog. I find that what works is to simply keep repeating the phrase "I wish to cancel my subscription". When they ask you why you are canceling, and you repeat your phrase, they typically just say they are filling something in.

This single-mindedness unwillingness to engage in their dialog might be interpreted as rude. But then again, their scripting is absolutely exploiting your unwillingness to be rude. Screw that.
What you wrote would be taken by most readers as an obvious personal attack. If you say you didn't intend it that way, ok, but we still have to ban accounts that post like that, because such comments are indistinguishable from garden-variety personal attacks.
When everyone started believing in themselves as part-time Zen masters after watching a TED talk video on YouTube.
In general, I'd probably be hard put to argue that any SCOTUS case with a written opinion wasn't noteworthy enough to justify an article. And there's almost certainly no shortage of analyses of essentially all cases.
Nice

I've been building little raspi synths for awhile but they all sit inside Linux because bypassing the os is outside of my dev comfort zone.

But it's obviously the way to go. The dx7 is pretty well tread space, I'd love to see some great granular synths on rpi like the GR-1
There's another episode from Gaming Historian specifically for Tengen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLA_d9q6ySs
It talks about how Atari abuses the copyright system to gain access to Nintendo’s protection system source code.
> have the advantage of being run like a corporation, and when they decide to clean it up, they will do it very quickly

You've never worked for a large corporation, have you?
You mean like how Authy specialised in two-factor authentication, but still managed to have basic string concatenation bugs that rendered their entire 2FA system bypassable?
Going by the paper linked in Xylakant's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277780), if the cost factor was 12, using dedicated hardware would let you test 52 passwords per second. So that would take 192 seconds to try 10k passwords against a single hash. If you were to run this for a month straight you'd have tested 13675 accounts. Slack has over half a million daily active users (and I'm not sure if that stat actually means daily active accounts, or daily active people (who may have multiple accounts on different teams)).

The paper goes into estimated costs as well, but I'm not going to dig through it to figure out how much it would actually cost to run that hardware for a month straight. And of course it's talking about dedicated hardware, which Slack's hacker almost certainly doesn't have.
I think many economists want to discredit him because he points out how many of them are paid by special interests.

BTW, I liked Capital in the 21st Century - a good dead.
"Advice" isn't a commodity. How much it's worth depends entirely on who it's coming from and whether they back it up with action. YC fight hard for the startups they invest in.

For that 6% you're not getting idle advice, you're getting YC on your team. It's a rare early-stage startup indeed whose value this wouldn't increase by more than 6.4%. For most, getting into YC is a state change and has profound effects.

Since by the looks of things you've created an anonymous account specifically to question whether YC is worth 6% of a startup, I think at this point you should either back up your assertions with something credible or be dismissed as a drive-by troll.
It's to make what was done (which is important to the paper) seem important and make who did it (which is less important to the paper) seem unimportant.
I found this link in his profile: http://laksmanv.weebly.com/

Might be what you're looking for...
Here's a nice video, if anyone's curious about what the infrared pattern looks like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvvQJxgykcU
Well, there is always a local copy since you have to commit to the local repo first before you push it to github. That is, of course, as long as you don't remove it for no apparent reason.
The US is the worlds largest exporter of grain. I think we'll have enough even without subsidies that strangle African farmers.
Well the specific proposal the New York Times cites would essentially put Medicare funding on autopilot. Instead of letting Medicare funding be dependent on the whims of the current Congress it would allocate 1% of GDP to Medicare every year. It would be up to the Medicare administrators to determine how to spend that 1%.

I think its a good idea, but its so politically infeasible, it may as well not be considered. I mean, anyone who tries to defend a hard limit like that is going to get totally mauled by the other party, who will demagogue it as, "You're going to kill seniors by taking away their health care."
On a side note: I can't seem to get instapaper to save part 1 and 2 of this series.

The raw .md file doesn't seem to work and bookmarking the rendered github preview just leads to the projects main repo.
Use case 1: Running a torrent site for the distribution of free, out of copyright, abandoned, or otherwise entirely unavailable works.

Use case 2: Distributing ripped off copies of easily available, expensive to produce, copyrighted works, largely made in the last 5 years, that the purchase of would help feed the creators.

I really hope for the first, but I'm depressingly certain it'll be the second. Mass copyright infringement is not some "noble cause". It's parasitic, adolescent, greedy, "I want it, so I'm entitled to have it" behaviour that makes me despair of large portions of humanity.
Now, if we could only get the latter to shut up and listen, and the former to start talking. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
people keep telling me to use ceph... http://ceph.newdream.net/ but it's obviously not ready for prime time. Like the article said, local storage is still the best price/performance/reliability balance. (I use raid 0+1 rather than raid6)

When distributed storage systems like ceph have been around and in production for 5-10 years, I'll re-evaluate. but for now, they present too much risk of data loss in terms of bugs and admin error.

there's also gluster, which is much closer to my own standards in terms of 'time in production' but even so... local disk is simple, and when it fails it fails in a non-spectacular way.

Of course, the other problem with distributed filesystems is that it makes having a good network /much/ more important. Hell, right now I could get away with 100Mbps, so on a gigabit network, I can have some pretty serious network issues before anyone notices anything is wrong. For a widely distributed storage network? even at my current scale, I'd at least need 10G interconnects between the switches, and god help me if there was a network glitch.
Off topic, but I'd like the price of, say, TV shows, to match the price that the current buyers (the advertisers) currently pay.

A buck an episode is a fair few bucks per season. The advertisers are paying pennies.
I've recently used them to replace a many to many relation from table A to table B where the primary query was "give me all As associated with B", so the new table had a schema of unique B, Array<A>, so what was a 20ish second query over several hundred million rows became a 0.3 second query over 600K rows.

We did have a use case that wanted to find Bs for a given A, and using a GIN index on the array column along with the PG array contains operator served that up remarkably fast also.
I believe I can simplify the flow chart for "How to efficiently choose a relational database"

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Walrus01, from a user POV, do you have consistent, reliable service for streaming, large file transfer, virtual meetings etc? Is it akin to having, say, a 100 mb/s connection through a cable service company? Is there anything that particularly irritates you about the service? Thanks for being willing to share your experience. I am in the mountains in Colorado and some neighbors envy my 10 Mbps down/0.5 Mbps up connection. Seems like a nobrainer that this will be better, but at least my DSL doesn't cut out very often.
Curious to learn more about how jails + zones are implemented. In Linux land, I find the notion that containers are a coherent abstraction really hinders developers from understanding how their application is deployed.
Well Said! This is why blindly following somebody creates more confusion and is generally useless.

Always think for yourself.

As the saying goes; "A Teacher/Guru can only show you a doorway, you have to walk through it yourself to the destination".
Why is it not possible that they didn't discover it or pay attention? Or what makes you think if someone gets pushed to github it gets immediately used? I'm sure it gets scanned and indexed by all sort of actors fast but they must work with incredible amount of information.
Yep, try-haxe itself is generated JS+PHP code from shared Haxe codebase.
There is also some bytecode targets: JVM, HashLink JIT (fast in compilation Clang target alternative), neko (older Haxe VM), swf.
What else is worth legislating? If it was in the manufacturer's short-sighted selfish interest, they'd do it. For everything else, there's customer action and legal action.
It's the collateral increase that caused Robinhood and other no-fee brokerages to halt trading. Brokerages which had the ability to charge for trades simply required more cash on hand and charged slightly more for the trade.
Which makes this even worse
Have you tried https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy ?
Was the NNUE trained on the CPU though? It’s intuitive that with the small size of a chessboard and the ability to use incremental update of evaluations, it will be faster to do neural network evaluation on CPU. Training, on the other hand, is typically highly parallelizable, so it would be a big development if we are able to do it faster on CPU.
Every order of the executive branch is null to the degree that it exceeds its constitutional authorization. I don't understand your point. It isn't the CDC's job to prove that Acts of Congress are constitutional -- in fact it is the job of a federal agency to execute those laws, which have much more force than you suggested by calling them "somewhat better than nothing".
Heya! Mind letting us know which features we ignored on the iPhone? If this was done it was an honest oversight. If you'd care to point out the ones we missed, we'll be happy to incorporate them into the chart.
This is one of those things that your branding expert will tell you is a good thing, but will tick off the people who still buy your products.
Setting it up - absolutely. Using it once it's in place - pretty close.

I don't expect them to set it up themselves. Just to hunt someone down and pay them a couple thousand to solve their ridiculously expensive problem.
Yes, should have said that this was in reference to essays on academic topics, not all writing in general. Agree that it makes you sound dismissive, but also teaches you how to write objectively and that is a valuable skill, IMHO.
I have an artist on Oprah today, so I'll post a snapshot of the MRTG and Cacti graphs after. The "Oprah Effect" is very strange, as its three timezones with differing behavior.
Hmm.. I think user popularity definitely has something to do with what you wrote. The user in question is popular for a very good reason, but that doesn't really change the fact :)

Personally, I think that if a post doesn't directly provoke conversation, maybe it shouldn't be posted.
Exactly, this is to make all the devices behave the same.
I had the same reaction. According to the article, Dutch women pity the people (mainly men, it seems) who work the longer hours that enable the (presumably) higher standard of living than a part time work schedule would allow.

Of course, none of this is a problem if everyone is living the way they want to live. Some people are really passionate about work, and you can still have a decent work-family-life balance with a full time job - especially if your income is good and you can support a spouse who provides a lot of domestic support.

But it would be interesting to hear from the other corner of the room some time. The title of this article is "Dutch Women work less, have a big gender pay gap, and they love it". How about the headline "Dutch men work more, have a big gender pay gap, and they <love? hate? feel ambivalence about?> it"
I wouldn't expect many random job offers from simply being a user on StackOverflow, but shortly after posting a CV on the StackOverflow Careers site (which displays your StackOverflow reputation on the CV), I was contacted by an Amazon.com recruiter.
I like the idea, however I would really like short sharing urls for all files. My use case for sites like letscrate is for quick file transfer for things like printing from untrusted computers. I also would like a regular file input box like @leftnode, since many of my files are hidden many layers deep from my desktop.
This is very likely a function of recruiters dealing with HR departments or hiring managers who are merely trying to fill a seat with a warm body. Market dynamics work to the extent that the incentive structure is aligned with the "correct" interests. Where incentives diverge, suboptimal results can be expected.

To add my own experience to this thread, recruiters have always come off as used-car-salesmen-y to me. I have been hiring developers for nearly a decade now, and I have yet to think of a reason to use recruiters. They offer rather expensive terms( 30-40% )in exchange for poor candidates( generally cannot even reason about fizzbuzz, let alone implement it ).

I have always had spectacular luck finding candidates on IRC and craigslist.
Of course, as one of the Hacker Angels, Gabriel himself contributes quite a bit to the pool of startup altruism.
Before you go with anything proprietary or closed source, you should read Tavis Ormandy's "Sophail" papers:

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophail.pdf

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf

I suppose you could try to convince yourself that the Mac version comes from a different code base than the Windows version, or that Sophos (or any other vendor) has cleaned up their act, or that Ormanday was just being bitter. But seriously, folks...
i have been uploading a back up to them for the last, nearly, 20ish hours at near enough my full upload speed of 68Mbits/s... so, i cant see any caps yet... I did pay for the 10TB package too...
TCP over TCP for VPN is pretty useful in places where deep packet inspection blocks UDP by default, eg. GFW in China.
"I wrote a single page web based email client in 2003, years before the launch of Gmail"

Gmail was launched in April 2004, not "years before". A nit, I know. I can summarize this article as "Javascript sucks".

That was true for a long time, but the world has moved on since 2003. ES5 strict mode fixed some of the issues. ES6 fixes a lot more. Since then many frameworks and tools have been developed as coping mechanisms. Closure Compiler, CoffeeScript, GWT, TypeScript, Flow, etc.

I'd actually say that client side Javascript hasn't gone far enough. There is much to do to improve the Web platform itself, and relying excessively on server rendered markup that gracefully degrades is not going to convince people to stop writing native code, if anything, it'll make it far worse, as network radio latency makes relying on server round trips for UI transitions bad on even the best mobile networks, and extremely bad in developing world wireless environments.
We're a non-intrusive advertising startup (giftgaming) -- I personally do not think it is unethical, as they provide no value, and if anything, detract from the website's value and sometimes are plain annoying.

I cannot believe that in 2015, we still have intrusive ads, such as banner ads, popups, interstitials, pre-roll videos -- all technologies from the 90s? There must be a better solution.
I was mistaken. ACT is only a territory(?), but steps are being taken towards scanning paper ballots: http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2015/02/electronic-vote-cou...
> Why wouldn't it be possible to let your API talk to the back-end of your website?

It is. However, since the API is already designed to be used securely by a client, it'll be a lot less work to make the browser be the client of the API.
I remember reading the same blog post in 1997, kinda makes you wonder
It's just phrased differently. Stating that investing the money in the stock market or in developing nations would have a greater return on investment is just another way of stating that we're doing something wrong that is wasting significant amounts of money.
Play with some set of Legos long enough, and you're bound to come up with something cool.
http://www.kayak.com/feedback/form

I'm sure you've found that on your own already, but it answers the question.

I am curious why the submitted link wasn't truncated to /explore/, as it currently links a calgary based search.
That's what MD5 sums should really be more often used.
The US has been proven time and time again to only want countries to grow on the US' terms (China is the example of a country that was too big to control or stop).

You can look at Cambodia and Vietnam prior to the Vietnam war, and you can analyze the history of Central America to discover why all these places are basically third world still when they have had thriving economies at one time or another. The problem was they weren't thriving on the ideals of Capitalism, rather some of them adopted a socialist workers structure.

The issue is the structure of success and how it feeds into the powerful states and their corporations and not success itself. Success that is not wrapped by Capitalist values is very dangerous to the US, EU.

The reason everyone turned on Hugo Chavez after being a man named in Time's influential people list is that his socialist policies (especially the distribution of oil wealth away from large corporations) started being successful and other Southern American states were taking notice (combined with trade deals with China). Of course, since then he has been shown to be misguided in a number of things so I fear even mentioning him.
The article pretends

- That the current salaries of recent college graduates represent their probable average output over their lifetime. This is absurd for reasons that I hope I don't need to explain to all you startup founders.

- That the salary of a graduate is a total representation of that person's value to society (and, transitively, of their education). This is wrong even if you think the total value of an education is in employment. Economics teaches us that for all voluntary economic transactions there are producer and consumer surpluses. It must therefore be the case that an employed person's value to their employer is at least the salary the person is paid. And as cynical as I am about college education sometimes, even I don't believe that the complete value of the education is in its utility for the labor market.

- That there is a reliable way to make a ten percent return on investment overseas. Not as far as I've been able to find, and if you can find it you could probably make a lot of money selling the information to a big player in the American bond market.

- And that the normal personal investment into a college education is really $300,000. This is anti-factual. It is probably also wrong that each marginal elementary schooler costs $200,000, but I can't say for sure about that.

As rhetoric, this article plays well. As honest observation of the American educational system, it's a miserable failure.
First of all, that's not the assertion I was talking about in the comment you originally replied to. I was talking about his stated position on doctors and hospitals. But anyway, the rest of the article is crock too, and if you're curious why you can read my other top-level comment.
And the best part (just like programming) is that with experience comes the ability to alter the recipes/variables and reliably predict the results, instead of stabbing randomly in the dark.