jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So let me get this, if too many neurons firing then it means it is a novice's brain and less neurons firing (targeted firing) means an expert, is that right?
>>Imagine trusting the "Market" to make wise decisions.

The market just means other people, free to act without compulsion.

It works because information is transmitted through local decisions, as the changes local decisions make to supply/demand impact the prices that are communicated to the economy at large.

The resulting price system is a result of more economic calculations than any central economic planner could perform, which is why more market-based economies outperform more centrally-planned ones, as the empirical evidence shows.

Anyway, libertarians as a group are the most educated:

https://www.people-press.org/typology/quiz/?pass&src=typolog...

The above shows they do also have the highest incomes, which would support your "they're trying to protect their privilege" theory.

And libertarians are the most rational:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Libertarian views are more consistent with those of economists:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/11/the_big_four_ec.html
Nah, this would be brewing 1 cup at a time 10 times in parallel, an example not considered in the original post.

To extend the original post, this would be trading capital - to buy more equipment - to improve both latency and throughput.
> But it is precisely for these reasons that the working class is unlikely to be decisive in shaping politics for the foreseeable future. ...

This seems like an odd statement given that the American system of government was designed from its inception to insulate the ruling elites from the masses. The founders were terrified of mob rule. The term "democracy" was used at the time to mean something not far away from "mob rule."

The people don't directly elect the president, the Electoral College does that. The people don't vote on any pending legislation. The House and Senate do that. The people don't set foreign policy - the executive and legislative branches do that. The people don't strike down any legislation - the courts do that, members of which at the top level are appointed for life. The full legislature is never up for re-election specifically to prevent a popular uprising.

One wonders what the article has in mind here. The answer comes shortly:

> ... In countries like France, the working class might still be able to veto certain policies through public demonstrations, but such actions seem unlikely in the United States, and even the most heroic efforts of this kind show little prospect of achieving systemic reforms.

Even in France, that's an extra-governmental action. There's no mechanism to include popular dissent except for routinely scheduled elections in either France or the US.

What's more troubling though is the ubiquitous disengagement from the parts of American government through which people can effect (small) changes:

- jury duty

- elections
Hey, guys, I am a software engineer at phase four. Our company just sent this update and I thought the hacker community would like to see it.

Let me know if you have any questions and I will be free to answer them! Happy Hacking!
for 1/2 you could offer the route /<username>/<channel> to the paying user to help the namespacing issues and keep the shared infrastructure angle. Then charge "enterprise" pricing for private instances
I already really liked Lisp's syntax before I learned about the macros.

No ambiguity; no brain cycles required to work out what element is a child or sibling of what element. Great editing ergonomics.
Shouldn't you be looking at the median for software devs?
I think this is sort of a situation where all the R&D spend just makes advertising value irrelevant. I mean no advertising, but all that investment into R&D. I wonder how long before a return.
PERFECT. Exactly what it felt like trying to learn Japanese in my 30s going to class only 1-2x/week and having no native speakers to converse with daily. Being sort-of proficient or knowing XX% of kanji/vocab/etc sounds a lot more impressive than it is in practice!

At first I made a lot of progress. Eventually I got into the middle where every lesson taught me both some new small thing and opened an entire dimensions of other things I didn’t know.

I eventually settled on being a functionally illiterate holiday traveler with the vocabulary of a kindergartener.

I’m never going to work there, so this is as far as I’m going to go..

I have a few Japanese friends on social media..
When I travel to Japan, and especially in a situation where not in a hurry, I can entertain a taxi driver or make small talk with some older folk in a quieter town I am passing through.

In a cafe / pub in a city I can make a quick order in Japanese and if questioned for more detail I have to switch to English pretty quickly.

It’s a very humbling experience and everyone should try it. It gives you even greater respect for immigrants who come here and learn English... frequently speaking it better than native born!
The point here is that when you know that you're living with the Chaos Monkey, your systems become very fault tolerant. Living with a monkey does that.

But even you don't embrace the concept, the Chaos Monkey is likely going to become a uninvited house guest at some point in time. In StackOverflow's case, they bought a mainstream server with a mainstream OS, and discovered that that server came with a monkey.

Think of it another way. My brother and sister in law never worried about the failure characteristics of dinner plates, so they had lots of nice stuff. Then they had a baby. All of the sudden, falling plates and glasses became something that they had to think about.
Ok boss, i'm working hard here!
It's definitely not strictly "new", but I read a sense of a broader historical narrative in which the current time will at some point be considered the infancy of information physics.
Given the use of a static 'random' variable, who knows what other kinds of trusts were hidden behind simple obfuscation?
Perhaps Don't assemble them - launch them separately and they arrive separately.
This is a nitpick, but when did RMS start calling himself "Dr."?

As far as I can tell, all of his degrees are honorary, and he never struck me as the sort of guy who'd extend that into an actually honorific.

(Don't get me wrong -- I think he's more than capable of doing a PhD. He just hasn't.)
As you say Google were one of the pioneers of the Chaos Monkey concept; they simply run at a scale where the Chaos Monkey occurs through normal failure rates. For sufficiently large MapReduce jobs you can expect one of the compute nodes to fail during the task. If the MapReduce jobs restarted any time this occurred the jobs would never actually complete[1]!

As we're allowed to comment on anything public, I'll focus on a paper about disaster recovery at Google which focuses on the Perforce version control system[2]. As Perforce is centralized and proprietary it even raises a few novel issues. As they can't modify the code themselves it's in fact one of the few vertically scaled pieces of software at Google (Perforce instances run on machines with 256GB of RAM[3]).

Of particular interest to me is the Annual Disaster Recovery Test that Google runs. They assume that the admins/engineers at Mountain View are entirely unavailable and that the fail-overs happen with no advance notice. The idea is that during an actual disaster your staff won't have time to answer queries as to which folder that documentation was in or the order that commands need to be run.

[1] - This is in one of the official Google MapReduce papers, I'll try and hunt it down

[2] - http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2009/Present...

[3] - http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/us/2009/Present...
Mostly some quick aliases in mine: https://github.com/strmpnk/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig

I do like the push mode setting in newer git versions as well.
Makes me happy not to work for a large corporation. Our company has been WiFi-only since 2001
I use a 13" MBP with 8GB RAM and an Intel SSD. I could have gone with the MBA, but didn't like the thought of another Core 2 Duo.

I have a 24" monitor at my office, and a 27" iMac (my wife's) that I use as a second display for my MBP.

Best of both worlds. Speed, mobility, and big screens when I need 'em.
I can say that my time as a trader in a MUD I used to play gave me valuable negotiation skills, and I don't doubt that it takes significant leadership skills to run a WoW guild...
A lot of people, not necessarily you :) My main point is that people have different psychological reactions which we shouldn't ignore.

Also, I think your diet is much higher in fat and lower in protein than you are estimating. For example, the protein sources in your breakfast are only around 30% protein, with 70% fat. Dressing and cheese in your salad are also very high in fat. My source for these numbers is nutritiondata.com. Every food has a percentage macronutrient breakdown, as well as vitamins, fats, and amino acids.
"Over the next two weeks, we may perform relatively short planned maintenance on the site. During this time, the service will likely be taken down."

Translation:

"If the site goes down over the next two weeks, just pretend it was all part of the plan."
I'd be curious to see how many cameras are left on those cars after leaving them overnight in the Tenderloin.
Option #3: Somebody does OpenVBX as a service with predictable billing. They get to take on the marketing and support burdens of dealing with the $9 a month subscribers, and the fact that per-user usage (and hence per-user charges) is all over the map gets concealed by the Plans page. That company pays Twilio a few hundred or thousand bucks a month, in whatever fashion makes sense for their accounting practices.

I considered doing this as my Twilio app, prior to OpenVBX actually existing, but the field was crazy-crowded and I figured the idea appeals disproportionately to cheapskates and frauds. You get to pick your customers. Non-technical ladies who actually pay money for things, I choose you!
Advertising for what? Other content that's also supported by advertising? Someone has to be paying for something at some point in the chain for advertising to make sense.
Markus Persson, perhaps? Different kind of startup culture, though.
How do you ditch email when you're still on wifi, but still keep instapaper and maps? Short of writing your own phone OS, or maybe uninstalling built-in apps (can you do that?) the only answer I can think of is self-discipline. :)
1. The Well Grounded Rubyist

2. Clean Code

3. Metaprogramming Ruby
Note the second author.
Great site. OP might find http://collective2.com interesting as well. Lots of medium-frequency algorithms that might be more accessible if you can't pay big bucks to colo.
Indeed. In Bangkok, every other person on the street is using a Blackberry. The OP is just linkbait with zero research.
That's certainly possible, but I'd be surprised if it came to pass. Anyone who stopped by your house and used your wifi would need to take on your ISP keys, your DVD player would need to be able to accept them, etc. At this point the ad revenue wouldn't seem to make up for the bad user experience.

It would be similar to an ISP requiring you to trust their root CA so they could MITM your SSL sessions. Sure, some enterprises do this through their management systems, but a big ISP that required this would likely get hit by a large amount of negative reactions.
It's not hard for Brazilians to donate via PayPal or credit card. It's as easy as someone in the USA. I donated today (I probably clicked on the English page, though) via PayPal.
unfortunately I've fallen victim to an over ambitious project and a lack of time to accomplish my goal. That said... I'm really pleased with how far I've come and what I did manage to get done. I know I'll miss the end of November deadline but I'm going to turn that loss into a positive and spend some additional time on gameplay and mechanics.

I'm still really glad I participated and hope this comes around again next year. Though I'll do a better job of making public updates at that time to keep everybody in the loop and do some nice pre-marketing.
Photons have momentum. But is it not misleading to say that they have mass? You also say that E and m are just different words for the same property. This, I believe, is not fair. E (J) differs from m (kg) by a conversion factor of c (m/s) ^2. To give an analogy, I think it would be misleading to say that an electric field E(r) is a different word for some charge Q, because without one you cannot have the other, and they only differ by some conversion factor. Could you explain a little bit more thoroughly what you mean?
I think perhaps you don't appreciate the degree of erosion of civil liberties that has come with the reactions of most European governments to modern terrorism. Most European governments took measures more drastic than the US. The things that the police in Britain are allowed to do in the name of "fighting terrorism" are extreme, for example.
The description under startMonitoringSignificantLocationUpdates at

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/CoreLo...

is the place to start, where they state "If you start this service and your application is subsequently terminated, the system automatically relaunches the application into the background if a new event arrives."

The other required piece of information is that when you reboot the phone, it triggers this event for all applications that have registered this service.

More info at:
https://devforums.apple.com/message/307725

If you're further interested, downloading the SongMap sample code from Apple will let you test this functionality yourself.
I keep getting internal server errors (500).
And, incidentally, where I found the aforementioned link.
Why the heck would anyone target mobile web over the regular web? Unless your application is specifically designed for mobile usage it seems ridiculous.

Mobile is actually a big deal now, but it's still a far smaller deal than the non-mobile web already has been for many years. The hype only makes it seem as important.
That thesis would assume that we all live in some sort of bubble were the environment we live in and the foods we consume don't impact our bodies...

Heart Disease is mainly caused by a lifetime of poor behaviour in this regard, for example.
that model of rmbp has flickering keyboard light issue. if you set your display and keyboard brightness to about 2 bars, in a very dark room keyboard will flicker.
I have 3 blade servers in my house, these act as command and control machines, the 167 are rented on EC2
I was diagnosed with moderate-severe OSA last week. This Tuesday I picked up my CPAP. I've used it for two days. I will never sleep without it again. The difference is day and night. I honestly feel like I just snorted two lines of cocaine. I can't remember the last time I was this alert and had this much energy. Unbelievable.
I’m sure they have access to the data that Apple’s devices store for users in the Chinese region. Beyond that I’d be extremely surprised.
Except C# didn't exist in 1995. And the JDK didn't exist until '96.
if that's the only position you're willing to settle for, then i'm afraid your concerns are well-founded D:
Would be cool to have something like this for CUDA as well.
Sorry, no. But a search of GitHub reveals some others have.
Nuvia like the ring ;)
They might yes, but it is orders of magnitude harder to setup and maintain than this, and as a website owner, you have to put even more trust in your ad serving solution than today.
Instead of an alpha-beta search, AlphaZero uses a general-purpose Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm. Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140.full

I agree with your comment about System 2 like reasoning not being common right now. I am not an expert in the field but the closest thing I have seen to learned planning is: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08265.pdf
Yes, eating McD on a daily basis is not only boring but downright unhealthy. I remember eating at McD when in college because it was perceivably cheaper and while I was enjoying the food when I was hungry I always felt not so good afterwards. I haven’t touched any MCD in 10 years and won’t do anytime soon unless there’s an emergency
> The importance with regard to the SONY case is that SONY was not the victim of an opportunistic attack but was targeted specifically.

Amazon, Google etc are specifically targeted all the time. What's different?
I totally agree with you. Capability <strong>"LIKE"</strong> will drive Hadoop adoption, Hadoop should not be seen as replacement of R.D.B.M.S. These are two different tools for made for different purpose.
In my case, I am really in a niche market, so it is pretty easy. But even if you are let say in general iOS App development you can find the commonalities in your work which can help others in the future.

Let say you created a nice messaging system for an App, you then explain that this expertise can be reused from messaging between people on a human disaster zone but also when people are meeting to run a "catch the flag" game in your area.

Here is for example my link at the back I sent this year:
http://ceondo.com/2015

Nothing crazy, the real thing is really, you sent a letter, a real one, you tried to wrote a small note reminding the contact about a good time together or wishing success in the area he is working (be just specific enough so he knows it is not a "I write the same on all the cards" note) and simply try to be nice.
It would be, if the docker containers were actually root safe. Currently, youll probably have to rent an entire physical machine to run your containers on, which will be fast, but not necessarily great for packet as they grow.

Openstack really isnt appropriate for this type of scenario, unless their original goal was to use KVM machines to add some extra security / multi-tenancy.
You can install the Calomel addon in Firefox and see how secure those certificates are. https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/calomel-ssl-vali...
If more developers knew what backward compatibility is, I'd be happily using Snow Leopard right now. The most frustrating part is there's nothing fundamentally new worth all the bugs and a constant envy for new hardware.
Looks and feels like a bikeshed. This kind of obfuscation will only lead to more Linus rants of how his kids need root access to install a printer.
Is ownCloud "ready" for use in an SMB environment?

I have a customer network it would be perfect in (I think): ~15 users, spread across two buildings in two cities with typical broadband connections. There's a definite need to be able to share files between the two offices but Windows filesharing... well, sucks. E-mail ends up being the medium used 95% of the time.

The current plan is to get everyone on the same Windows/AD domain, put in a fileserver at each site and use DFS to take care of everything behind the scenes.

It seems like ownCloud could be a viable candidate to replace that, with the added benefits of giving folks access to their data while out of the office/on the road/travelling/etc.
I can't really agree, although its hard to argue against a contrived example and a general rule that is almost a tautology (don't write code you don't need).

A lot of times "architecture astronauting" is simply good separation of concerns. To take the Dog example: there is a lot of code necessary to get a Dog into the world of minecraft that isn't specific to the concept of Dog at all, such as drawing itself, keeping track of its state in the world, etc. These are the types of concerns you would want in a base class of Dog and potential Cats and Chickens. This is something that should be factored out, not because you may eventually make a Cat, but because those concerns have no connection to the concept of Dog at all. Keeping such code together will just make comprehending the actual Dog specific code harder.
The coercion justification is really bizarre though. The only reason anyone could coerce you because they know you smoke pot is because it's a big deal to the NSA, so the NSA asks because they know that because of their self-imposed policy it creates the possibility for coercion.

If instead they just decided that if they found out one of their employees smoked pot that they wouldn't care the coercion potential would magically disappear overnight.

But I guess that's too logical for the government to consider.
There's an opportunity cost to supporting older versions. Sure, there's always going to be a small group of people who are happy with what they currently have but most people are happy moving forward.

If there's a big enough market, perhaps some company will backport the security fixes. How much are you willing to pay? Another option is that you could volunteer and start the fork.

Of course, there's that other problem where developers are only going to support the latest browser.
LOL at using Windows on a high DPI screen. Windows 8 improved a lot, but using any Desktop apps (Photoshop, IE, Chrome, etc.) is horrible, everything is super tiny. They haven't really given much though to scaling yet, even in Windows 10 scaling is still being figured out.
It is very routine to require job applicants to go pee in a cup.
"Maybe I'll give this new paper that has lower environmental impact a go this time."
It's really hard to predict how our skills and projects will be used. Whether nuclear energy or a surveillance system, it might be primarily amazing and then be used for unethical purposes.

Instead, the technical community should demand more transparency and control over the applications of their technologies.
#4 too, though not routinely – "Mannequin", a song I suspect we'd disagree on, definitely "choruses out".

Edit: hmm, I'm not sure what kind of BS you meant to call this but I'm starting to suspect it might be made up. The few Googleable instances of it all go back to a single source that posted it without attribution. Plus, "negative self-definition" sounds suspiciously PoMo... You realize what it means that I posted this, don't you? Must now explode.

Edit edit: Saved. The image is made up and the caption was added later but the substance did come from Graham Lewis. http://books.google.ca/books?ei=YMQvUeffEsKWiALI4YG4Aw&i...

Edit edit edit: since when else will this ever be apropos, here is some of the most uncomfortable television ever: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/truly_post-punk_suzanne_s...
I've a similar story. Started using Hacker News for finding stories to read about 3 years ago (tho without getting a login), using it alongside Reddit, etc. But eventually I noticed anything worth reading was virtually always on HN, so began visiting other sites less and less frequently. (Got a login a year ago went I first saw a thread I couldnt resist commenting on.)

So just for the links alone, HN is a good visit!
I find it ironic that the bit that bothers me the most about this article is the expressed need to be "touched up to remove imperfections"

That's one of the beauties of any analog medium - the imperfections. I'm sad that someone who would curate such a collection would feel the need to remove those imperfections.
I have been working in C# for 2 weeks, and Googled this last week. I think it's kinda the difference between being interested in making things work, and understanding how the language works.
It also works if you disable javascript.
This comment is counterproductive, because it implies Europe (or more specifically the EU) has no agency.

The fact is that the EU wants to apply even more crazy gov't surveillance tactics, and don't need the US pushing it. By saying this, you're giving them an "out" ('oh, big bad Uncle Sam basically forced us to play along!').