jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not exactly sure how they do it in Links these days. If they still take the naive approach to continuations, yes, that's a huge security hole. However, there are moderately simple ways to make this security hole magically disappear. You keep most of the agility and none of this vulnerability.
So, if there is something REALLY great in Rails is its community. For instance, this is a free, high quality screen cast explaining exactly your authentication doubts http://railscasts.com/episodes/21-super-simple-authenticatio...
Ah, the just-world phenomenon. Some people call it a fallacy -- I for one am not so pessimistic.
Maybe on a purely syntactical level, but culturally, Java seems to embrace verbosity.

You don't see C++ programmers making thousand-line XML-based build files, or creating FactorySingletonFactoryVisitors.
Ian McAllister's answer is so refreshingly insightful.
The title is very misleading.

The tie is for number impressions served to iOS versus android devices.

Not the total web ad impressions, nor even ads served on the respective platforms, since Google is serving a significant number of ads on iOS.
I don't endorse 4chan's actions in any way, but a little common sense should tell you:

Don't ---- with 4chan! They will retaliate. Brutally.

It's like walking up to the biggest kid in school and spitting on his shoes. The teachers will not save you in time. Yeah, eventually the bully will get his... But by then, the damage to you is already done.

After reading the logs they posted, I'm amazed at how much smack they talked about 4chan. Not bright.
I agree. Infochimps has a whip-smart group of folks and they're rapidly acquiring the resources needed to be the major player in the data market. Not only that, but knowing a lot of them, they're genuinely decent, helpful people. It's great to see another Austin startup rocking and rolling.
Except that the iPod was introduced in 2001 and the Tune music player in 2006.
I agree, I'm not even that much into docker stuff, but I couldn't stop reading. It was a fun read: took me on a journey, I learnt stuff and I feel more intelligent now.
think about how much tragic suffering occurs every day on this planet. think about how much lies behind and ahead of us. it's unfortunate every moment that humanity isn't wiped out.
creepy church youth groups or after school specials

Yes, yes! Exactly!

I used to read programming reddit, and made a lot of comments there. Then I started to notice a pattern -- people were so happy that they wrote a blog post that it was suddenly forbidden to comment on it. One post I remember reading was something like, "hey guys, I made a PHP app! it's open source so please comment". The app was doing something like submitting a form field like "?shell_command=someapp%20--args". I said it was maybe not good practice to allow the user to supply an arbitrary UNIX command. The reply was, "well, my app sets that, and nobod is going to change it". I told him anyone could change the URL and run whatever they want. This got downmodded and I was told I was being an "idiot jerk".

Then I didn't read reddit anymore. Obviously I was raining on some sort of special parade that I was not even invited to.

Anyway, there's something off about the Reddit community. I think your post sums it up quite well.
But this kind of thing exists: charities and fundraisers are nothing new.

The fact that it is their reddit taking action, and not some church group or NGO, is probably what motivates at least some of the participants.
It's worse than the actions of individual students being dishonest.

The fact that someone can do this, for so many students, in so little time, along with the fact that the students themselves have not been called out for the obvious mismatch between what they write and the signals they send out in real life with other students shows that things are fucked in a strong way; if a particular school and student is named as being part of this, it's not just that the student is called out for not doing the work that represents the degree, but that it serves as strong evidence that the particular degree or school is worthless, and the school's accreditation should be called into question. Higher education has truly gone down the toilet.
That's the reason why Facebook Places is available only in the US and coming to a few selected countries later. They want to populate the database in advance. Same reason for Yelp to take the country by country approach, to make sure it's useful.
Won't someone please think of the kittens?
1 in 45 billion.

One thing the TSA has shown again and again is that they definitely do not want courts involved in their affairs. They certainly aren't going to take this guy to court, because when the ACLU and every similar organization gets involved, it's unlikely to be good for them.

I think the penis-groping requirement is the beginning of the end for them. Something good has finally come out of our nation's irrational fear of anything that could remotely be construed as sexual.
> There are physical realities that happen to your brain that make it more difficult to learn as you get older.

Only if you believe them. Sure, everything gets harder as you get older, including the 'basics' (such as walking). But for some learning was never easy, always hard work. The difference age adds to that is just another hurdle to overcome.

The big trick is to never stop learning.

> Now, I certainly recognize that many aspects of the current education system are overblown. But you're going to have a difficult time convincing me preschool is as dispensable as college.

Attitude is the one thing that is in-dispensable when it comes to learning, all else - including age - can be overcome.
Consider the iterated consequences if you don't allow people to admit a transgression, reform, and move on.

Such a society ultimately turns into a gaslighting double-down deny-everything debacle, where everything must be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt in a court of law. In this situation court cases will be dragged out forever, and asymmetric resources and power really will come into play.

Failing and fixing fast is much more preferable.
But you can’t count that retroactively for vials where 5 shots were administered and at that point the vial was empty. You can only count that for unopened vials.
I gotta say that the dose really is a pain in the arm. We ended up on the list at work and the first dose hurt for a good four days. Others had a similar outcome. My father got the first Pfizer and he reported no issues with his arm hurting. I doubt he was not telling the truth on that one.
Even to zeroth order, this is a bad way to estimate backwards compatability. It's a fine way to estimate pace of language evolution, but that wasn't your claim.

For instance, Fortran 2018 has new features that would fail if you tried to use them in Fortran 2015. However, Fortran 2018 is still backwards compatible with Fortran 2015, and indeed is backwards compatible with Fortran 1977.

That is, in this example Fortran maintains 42 years of backwards compatability, yet only 3 years of forwards compatability.

The two things are effectively decoupled from eachother.
There's no argument you can successfully make that, because the Basilisk is unconvincing, therefore Rationalists are intellectually bankrupt. The connection is stillborn, because there's no path towards bridging the gap between this example and your conclusion.

You will need to use other examples because this example is DOA.
What has most struck me most, from recent pubs on the topic, is how far away spinach is, genetically, from almost everything else. It makes me feel justified in avoiding spinach.

I guess spinach is especially cheap to grow. People used to think (and print) that it had more iron than others, and many probably still believe it, which probably inflates its market.

A recent surprise was that radicchio, a favorite, is a chicory, also (but less) distant from others.
A lot can be done over the internet, but saying "almost anything that can be done" is reaching pretty far.
And exponentiating is (relatively) easy beacuse

a^(xyz) = ((a^x)^y)^z

and as long as you know how to square, you can pretty much compute exponentials in log2(exponent) time.
> employer has the right to treat you like a child receiving an allowance

i can’t understand this pov at all. unlike a child allowance, you can say no and court a different parent.

you are simply labor, and location based pay reflects this. the only ones complaining are those receiving less pay. it’s like when people complain (loudly) that “stealerships” add a markup above msrp for high demand cars, but the same people don’t complain about discounts from msrp for basic cars. if you don’t want the car at the offered price, move on!
Granted. But there is a minimum dose necessary to produce antibodies. If you are in a situation where you are guessing completely blindly (because no trial like yours has been done before), do you worry more about falling below the minimum required dose or above the maximum dose past which you get diminishing returns or even lower efficacy? I think it’s reasonable to worry more about the minimum dose because you can always half the doses later. Finding out at the end of a multi-month trial that you didn’t give enough in your doses would be a big setback. Just look at what happened with Assyria Zeneca when they started mixing up dosing in their phase III. They were the most promising vaccine last summer and they haven’t even concluded their US phase III trial yet as a result.
2 years?! 1 is excessive in my view. Now, if I was paid handsomely for those 2 years, fine. But to not pay me and say I can't go work at other competitors - that's too much to ask for 2 years. I've had a couple 6 month non-competes - that's liveable. 1 year - I'd probably do it. 2 years? I doubt I'd sign.
I'll try to come!
This is interesting. I remember hearing a story about Apple and the record labels. Basically, it took a long time for the labels to trust Apple with their entire catalogues DRM on Apple's servers (DRM was added at time of purchase). It required lots of work on Apple's side to gain that trust so that the labels felt comfortable with Apple essentially housing all of their prized assets.

If Sony was trusting all transactions on the dev network, that seems like they weren't protecting the assets of the movie/TV studios and record labels (not sure if they sell music through the PS Store).

Either way, this seems like a larger shit-storm than just user account details being stolen. It could very well impact future content deals for Sony, and possibly help the other, more trustworthy companies that have demonstrated discipline.
I think boneheaded is a strong word. They're solving a problem that very few sites have to solve (huge traffic with low cache-ability) with vastly less resources than the others who do solve them have. (FB, Twitter, etc).

AMZN in general is a pretty solid 'platform' (especially if you're not using EBS), but because this whole 'cloud' thing is still partially uncharted territory, there are still holes, and you can't treat it like a normal web host.
> Ah yes, implied nudity. You know, like clothes. ;)

Ha, yes. Well, you know what I meant. Not to be confused with I know it when I see it. :)
As a software engineer that doesn't really touch too many documents nowadays, I'm probably completely outside of your target demographic, but on my 3GHz Chrome 6/Ubuntu 10 box, the Flash document viewer was quite laggy. Scrolling the page up and down pegged one of my cores and the page content took 500ms or so to catch up to my pointer position.
It seems like you want something more concrete than abstract to work on, but if you want something that is very challenging and rewarding studying The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 1 is something you should consider.

Depending on the program you're in, you might get this material from your CS program but judging from comments here on HN about the quality of CS programs in most schools, you won't.
Yes. We have a lot of people overseeing content and comments, it's most of our staff. Each person generally does between 4 and 6 sites, with the sites generally posting between 1 and 6 items to the front page (featured content) daily.

For each thing you see on any front page, there are dozens of things that didn't make it through voting, and for each of those things on the voting pages, there are dozens of things that weren't good enough for voting. We're able to crowdsource the generation/submission of content as well as (some of) the curation of content. A lot of what makes a site work is finding the right balance between editorial vision and letting users vote on what they like.
I don't think this type of analysis is simply trying to shatter Western social media fantasies. It's important to know the true effect so the technology is not misapplied in future events: "they don't need our help, they have Twitter...."
I've seen ECC mentioned a few times in this thread but how relevant is it really? At my old job we used both regular COTS hardware from Dell and HP and high-performance gear from SUN, often at four times the price. The latter had ECC memory and, if memory serves, shielded CPUs but I never noticed much difference in stability or performance when compared to regular hardware. If someone has some numbers on this, I'd love to see them.
One only has to examine the current crop of miserable selfish "royal" offspring to discount that theory.

Anyway, if you Want talented dictators there are a dozen obvious ways to find them, the very lamest (ineffective) of which is "choose from the same inbred line for centuries".
Using a Google URL to a bit.ly URL to a third URL makes this explicitly against the rules. Don't obfuscate your submissions.

The site is https://www.truepush.com/ and the title is "World's #1 Free-Forever Push Notifications Services | Truepush"
I was not running any ducting. I just sat the filter down, with the open end facing up, and you can set the fan right on top of it, it will nest inside it slightly. So it was drawing in dirty air from all sides and then just blowing out the top. This was placed in the same closet that my cat's litter box was in.
Hmm; that's fascinating - I am skeptical only because I happen (no kidding:) to own it, and they are the example I used in another comment - people can hear me typing, my wife in another room, etc. When I'm outside, they multiplied the wind as it gets caught between the thick headband and my hair and then picked up by microphone :-/

(I also tend to speak too loud with them, as they block outside noise effectively, but that's a "user error" thing :)

I enjoy them as headphones - convenient, simple to pair, comfy - but they are specifically the reason why I pursued a boom headset and why I'll never go back :)

Without testing I cannot speak to our differing experience; I DO notice that some friends/colleagues of mine have a very very low threshold of what "sounds good" - if they can even remotely understand me, it's "Fine". They are also the ones who don't mind 30 people joining with laptop mic/speakers and the muffled/delayed/garbled sound that results... Others provide much more critical feedback (calling my 75 year old father is a great way to test a new headset :P )

Or, you may have found a button I haven't! :=>
You aren’t talking about libSDL, do you?

:)
This was already discussed yesterday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26730813
Adoring the reproductive parts of our bodies seems like a normal biological response though being so fascinated by them that you would be a a contributor to WikiButt or whatever would also be strange to me.

To fetishize the foot is something different.
To a French speaker, the car "Audi e-tron" may also sound weird, given that étron means "turd". Yet it is marketed that way.

Perhaps people start to make piece with the fact that some words come from other languages, and that one doesn't have to search for the insult in every crevice.
Writing things that do a lot of forking, like using the multiprocess or subprocess modules in python, is basically unusable to my coworkers who use windows.

Startup time for those processes goes from basically instant to 30+ seconds.

I researched this a little bit and it seems that it may be related to DEP.
Not exactly. On isam table the count(*) queries can sometimes directly lookup the answer from the index, or the table statistics.

On innodb, because of transactions, this is not possible, and it needs to actually count the rows.

BUT, the query itself is still cached - at least until the underlying table gets updated, which invalidates the cache (I'm not sure of the exact invalidation strategy, but it's part of MySQL and doesn't depend on the engine).
I ordered mine during the sale.
Oops, I forgot: Sometimes your phone will make contact with the cell network for no apparent reason. Don't be scared! =)
That can’t happen. At least not if you don’t take your finger off the screen before touching and holding.
so so so true. Whats doubly impressive is that many of the core active members are full time academics who are able to frame their research so that they can both spend their time improving their PLT/Racket, and framing their work as also being genuinely top notch research!
Search is broken
you can insert html/javascript anwhere try sticking code in your username.
Only 20 times worse than Hurricane Katrina? That seems like a very conservative estimate...
Unfortunately, it doesn't explain to the newcomer why this language is worth learning. I was expecting some kind of feature comparison or "Why another language?" article.

(That's a first impression. Then I read the comments here, and discovered it's based on PLT Scheme, which at least tell s me a little about what to expect.)
This reminds me of the article on bullshitting the other day. On the one hand this is useless play time that wastes resources. But it's also quite a big project. Everybody who took part in planning and executing it gained a lot of experience in project planning and management, the dynamics of working with people, how to work with their peers.

No matter what random challenge tomorrow brings this group of people is probably better equipped to deal with it than most social groups who have never tackled anything like this together. Of course they may not be great at handling the mundane, and that might be what drives them to hang jacuzzis off bridges.
This other article on HN shows that in Q4 2007, there were large spikes in seemingly normal search terms:
http://nikgregory.com/2010/11/bizarre-google-trend-search-sp...

I wouldn't read too much into Google's protection against search trends. Google cares about its search algorithm, but probably not as much about the trends. Clearly if you do your programming and distribution correctly, Google shouldn't be able to figure out that it was calculated. If anything, they should look at how organic the follow-through on those searches are: If the user searches for something, do they actually click on it or was it just a search?

But then again, checking if the user follows through technically shouldn't factor in, after all, how many people click through to something after searching for "Weather New York, NY"? (Although they probably check if at the very least the HTML was displayed, using their JavaScript).

Getting legitimate, unconnected searches is enough effort. Unless you choose a quite obscure search term, you should need quite a large volume in order to game the system in some sort of profitable/notable way.
The first rule of interviewing at apple is that you do not talk about interviewing at apple.
Or make your own.
Who's we? I don't.
Hmm, I should pay more attention to these things ;-)

Well I just added a Linkedin login option. Hopefully that works -- I didn't see it on the block list.
Huh? I'm confused. I still log in to all sorts of places with my Google account, including Hacker News. And... RSS is dead? Django is dead? I'm getting the sinking feeling that I'm being trolled right now, but...

Source?
Where should I mail a bomb?
The cameras are mounted above roadways on gantry's or overpasses, and they claim to be able to work in all lighting and weather conditions regardless of the vehicle's speed.

My guess is that they aim to identify non-sanctioned actions. They claim to use some sort of machine learning in addition to human verification.

I have no direct experience with them. These are simply the claims made by the authorities when they were trialed.
They might not have been able to keep people there forever, sure. But their walled garden was “the internet” to a major chunk of people in the US for quite a long time.

Remember when TV commercials would tell you a company’s AOL keyword?
> people seem to want to have their own batteries rather than using loaner ones that have possibly been abused by others

I think that's a rational desire when you've bought the battery with your vehicle.

If there were an option to have the vehicle delivered sans battery then enter into a swap program of your choosing which provided the battery that you never actually owned (why would you want to, really, it's _the_ expensive wear component most likely to be meaningfully obsoleted repeatedly), then people would probably feel very differently about it.
I think it really depends on the product, selling goods and online services is easy but having a brick and mortar component is what makes the costs skyrocket. Perhaps I should try things with a low barrier to entry at first.
Yeah I think trade and economic pressure is kind of the only other road; basically put authoritarianism in quarantine. I'm a little unsatisfied with that because it's hard to fully isolate anyone. We can't isolate China from Russia, for example, and it more or less just creates a club of authoritarian regimes. But like, realistically we couldn't have done anything about the Bolshevik revolution, or the rise of the CCP. Maybe we fucked up in the Korean War by stopping, but we failed in Cuba. It's a tough problem, and smarter, more experienced people than I have been trying to crack it for longer than I have.
Formula-E, infact may be having too much of close-in action, some of the race highlights looks like bumper cars, with more than 10 cars at a single corner.
I can't tell if it was a joke, but just in case someone else has problems:

Postres

Nginx

Golang

React

So .. nope! :)
FWIW my trilingual son had no issues in this regard
It's usually only obligatory to accept cash for settling a debt, e.g. if you have eaten in a restaurant, the restaurant is obliged to accept cash, because you can hardly give back the food you already ate (at least in the same form). But if you are at McDonalds, there's no obligation for them to accept cash because you pay upfront.
Not if the money you earn from it matters to you.
That is very insightful thanks for sharing this.
And if the FTC decides that your Mario speed run is kids friendly, because it has animated characters, flashy graphics, and is related to toys? Speed runs most definitely aren't targeted at kids, but according to FTC rules that could be classified as kid friendly.
Belated, but, yeah. You're right. I blew my top a bit there...
Is it true that Bush Jr. can't leave the U.S. because he'd be arrested and tried for war crimes?
> Chrome for Linux exists but ignores that its need for auto-update doesn't play well with distros package management and it also statically-links or ships 3rd party libs.

At least on Debian, it plays perfectly well with the Distro's package management. They use it to auto update google-chrome in preference to their roll their own on effort Windows. The same update system works perfect well on all Debian derived distro's. I'm not familiar with an rpm based distro to say for sure, but I imagine the situation is the same. So "fragmented" means supporting 2 very well tested distribution systems rather than rolling their own - and having the "take out all Macbooks" problems they did on OSX.
Though it does make me wonder if online password managers like lastpass or 1Password could hand that info over if authorities demanded it.