jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If a president can order armed troops into a warzone without a declaration of war by congress, he sure as shit can order troops out of an illegal prison in Cuba.
There's so much misinformation in these comments, it's kinda embarrassing.

No one received a DMCA takedown notice. Rather, people received an informational message saying that Dropbox received a DMCA takedown notice.

This informational message has absolutely no legal implications. Everyone screaming perjury should stop practicing law from their armchairs.
Yes, almost every song is on YouTube these days. :)
as someone said above, if your Dell hard drive fails, they respond to you in 4 hours, then they ask you to run a series of tests blah blah blah, then you might get replacement that day or in a few days..

this is likely to cost at least 4 hours of a sys admin's time, maybe closer to 10?
Yeah, we had a bug right after we launched where playlists wouldn't get saved if you were logged out. So sorry about that. It's since been fixed.
I suppose that is another way he could end this horrorshow right now in one day, though you end up with the absurd situation where you are pardoning people who haven't been charged with anything. ;)
This is also a great website to generate different types of QR codes: http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/
Haha, you noticed! Just fixed that!
What would you think of a VC who was investing with a thesis that enlarging+enriching the Chinese bourgeoisie (i.e. entrepreneurs) would give Chinese citizens as a whole more power relative to the Chinese state, and thus likely accelerate the shift toward more democratic forms of government that seems to inevitably come to "developed nations" once they have enough people who've "got theirs" and now want to signal their care for the working man, rather than rising on their backs?
Expect Chromebooks to get killed as well.
Yes and everybody else has also stolen or borrowed some idea from someone else going all the way back to the first caveman.

Should we hinder people from appreciating Flutter either then, because I'm sure it too, did not really ""innovate.""

Everything is a copy of BASIC anyway, just without the line numbers.
Yes, there is an expectation that if there's an OS issue there's an enterprise support organization the application developer can work with.

I'm actually surprised to see Ubuntu. It's typically just RHEL and SLES with Oracle Linux occasionally thrown in.
Just adding slices to C would kill a very large proportion of bugs, but there are dimishing returns after a certain amount of safety because you start to reach the end of dangerous code, and into bad code (e.g. you forgot to check the password entirely): You can still catch the latter type of bug using typesystems and formal verification but it's not easy, whereas catching memory safety bugs even using a sanitizer atop of regular C code is actually extremely well-trodden ground now.
Rust uses LLVM, which likely should have easier time being ported than an entire Rust compiler. Rust handles cross-compilation pretty well so you don't have to compile on an actual embedded device, or something.

I wonder if an LLVM backend that issues a very simple and predictable subset of C would be a viable way to support exotic old architectures which only have a C compiler. LLVM-cbe is a thing: https://github.com/JuliaComputing/llvm-cbe
> when they suddenly "decelerate" (i.e. collide with other charged particles)

I think it'd be more accurate to say "interact" instead of "collide" – the electron could still be far away from the charged particle. More generally, bremsstrahlung also occurs when an electron's velocity vector (not necessarily its modulus) changes, i.e. when the electron changes direction, like in a synchroton.

> In fact the name "bremsstrahlung" means "braking radiation," if memory serves.

That's correct :)
The line of best fit changes depending on the choice of independent variable, even for the same data. The quantity being minimized is different for the two cases. (sum of squares of vertical distances between the line and the data points vs. the same for the horizontal distance)

The question is very specifically about the interpretation of the slope, and because the slope would be different for the other case, only one of the answers is correct.
Why not both

1. ban targeted advertising as it exists now

2. if the user thinks they are missing out on recommendations or personalized deals, they can visit a website, enter their personal details, and the website will respond with ads.

We can really have it both ways.
I highly recommend everyone look into Wim Hoff's work. It's not only helpful but he's also a super interesting guy.
So basically the question is: should corporations keep betraying users by giving away their hardware specs?

Why are we asking this question? It should be up to the individual but it’s not - and hasn’t been for years. Virtue signaling.
Best manager I ever had was a engineer.
I use JLCPCB for most everything.

However, they're REALLY prickly about fabricating PCBs with lower tolerances (e.g. drills or cuts too close to PCB edges), and often refuse to fabricate them. I use ALLPCB in those cases.

As my designs are small hobbyist projects just for myself I don't really care about potential IP issues.
5 minute+ rebuilds are enough to move you to WordPress? 5 minute rebuilds does seem high but the benefits you get with static site generators (security, push “anywhere”, performance, etc) far outweigh having to manage everything else coming with a wordpress site. I suppose if you and your team are pushing new articles multiple times a day the builds could become annoying but even then I’d build/deploy and go grab a cup of joe; come back all done
It sounds like you are blaming the victims here. Were the Jews, gays, Gypsies etc. in Germany also partially responsible?
My wife had some luck taking a couple of courses by established writers, who had their own private Facebook group you can join afterwards. Seems like most of the people who are willing to pay a few hundred dollars for the course are more serious about wanting to make a career of it.

I belong to a local writer's group, and except for a short story anthology that gets put out every year (and I participate in sometimes), it's pretty clear that 90% of the people in the group are never going to put forth the effort to probably ever even get a self-published book out there.

And they definitely aren't serious enough to spend any money to have any success. Can't even get them to chip in $15 apiece to pay to get a decent looking book cover so the anthology might grab some eyeballs and their stories get more readers.
They mystery here is why that comic image that is inlined into the page loads so slowly, but if you click on it while it is loading, you get a pop-up which shows the whole darn thing almost instantly, at what looks like the same resolution, even as the in-line one is still loading.

Spooky quantum effect, there!
I feel like putting together a janky tech demo is not especially impressive though. Anybody can think of screens projected onto paper. It's not particularly interesting that the tech demo is possible. Actually making it usable is the really hard part and the reason it remains a tech demo.

That's why Apple is rich. They do the hard part.
Reducing lanes, when combined with other optimizations, can actually _improve_ travel time for cars. The problem is you have to actually implement the changes in order to prove this to people.
I think you're referring to TurboLinks. TurboLinks is still around. Building on that technology and moving towards HTML over socket is https://hotwire.dev/
Elsewhere | Founding Engineer | REMOTE / San Francisco
Elsewhere is a stealth startup recently funded by top investors. We're building a new kind of graphical space for online communities to collaborate and hang out.

My last company (Human Interest, YC S15) is now valued at over $1bn, and this is going to be even bigger.

If you're interested in building products people live in all day, game development, spatial software (https://darkblueheaven.com/spatialsoftware/), or web3 drop us a line.

Especially drop us a line if you're interested in some day being a founder yourself some day, as you'll be the first employee on our time. :)

Tech stack is Node/TypeScript + WebGL and Solidity. It's fine if you haven't used these, as long as you have software engineering experience in at least one other role prior.

Reach out with a short introduction to paul@elsewhere.zone
It must be admitted that while-collar is replaceable, and often more so. Accountants could be mostly eliminated if we had a sane tax structure and automated/standardized banking/transaction standards. Ex: when I buy coffee using my business card in a city I'm not living in - that's definitely a business expense.

Primary care doctors are already just fancied-up mechanics is most cases, and robotic surgery is getting pretty good!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1322098/Patient-pr...
Sorry for the old link. I usually check dates more carefully, but this was sent to me by a newsie so I didn't pay as close attention.

Thanks for the additional info, though: having the follow-up links makes me less sad I posted it.
I never realized this, but he reads like a very bizarre "Old Spice" ad.
wow, and by George Hotz of PS3/comma.ai fame too.
This is one thing I like about type systems where you can declare a primitive type as MyImportantThing. This ensures the string or what have you is explicitly defined as MyImportantThing. Rust does this pretty well. C/C++ AFAIK will let you pass in the raw string, and so will Java if you "extend String".
So much shilling and gaslighting in their KS's comments page.
Given this type of scenario, it feels like the opposite should happen: Investors should be blocked from recovering losses and victims should be compensated.

That's a far better preventative measure.. to incentivise investors to be responsible in what they invest in rather than "just letting shit happen" and reclaiming money if necessary because it's easier. If harm comes to people due to their investment, they only get whatever is left over after victims are compensated.
For frequency use, this already happens with automatic channel selection for neighbours, and DFS for avoiding a regulated frequency as soon as a signature is detected. WiFi 6 presents more efficiency with at a higher layer with BSS coloring to mitigate crowded channels.

But as you said, most consumer wireless access points are still shouting over each other by default and it needs to be in the specification because there's zero incentive for a manufacturer to "worsen" their RF performance.

It's a pointless consumer market IMO, most people don't need a Wireless LAN. Mobile carriers already provide Internet access to thousands of devices with just a handful of radios over several city blocks, but pricing means many homes end up standing up their own emitters for exactly the same purpose. Now we see bickering like this over what should be a far better coordinated EM spectrum.

Worth note, most business/enterprise gear, which typically gets installed professionally, usually defaults to adjusting TX power automatically because more often than not it benefits the RF environment.
Heat pump is heating water with electricity... And it’s not the last thing we should do, it’s economical today if you live in a mild climate. I installed one in my house a year ago. The initial cost was ~$500 over a similar gas water heater but it qualified for a $1000 rebate making it cheaper than a gas unit. Cost of heating is less than I used to pay for an old gas water heater. It might not make sense in a region with cold winters, but in a moderate region they make a lot of sense.
I don't think so

In the general case, maybe a little bit, but mostly not. In the specific case, not.

Baader-Meinhof is about an illusion of high frequency. This specific case (iran + github) is direct coincidence. The general case of the poster above (topics bubble up from multiple sources) is not, because topics can be demonstrated to follow patterns of relatedness (there is a term that I forget) and :. the frequency is not illusionary.

Of course, that supposes the pattern noticed is the pattern that was genuinely in the articles. Baader-Meinhof will apply to anything the user misidentifies. I presume that the direct links between groups of articles (ie, the ones that caused them to be written or posted) are much more prominent than the "background" noise of links that the user will Baader-Meinhof.
I think the king of stringing along backers is still Star Citizen who - 8+ years after the original Kickstarter[1] - are still taking crowdfunding money with no finished product in sight.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen
I’m a big fan of the capability-based photo access in ios; when an app tries to access my photos it opens a system dialog which allows me to select the set of images the app can see.
The person conducting an interview is in a position of power. The interviewee shouldn't have to ask him to stop behaving inappropriately. It's the same reason prison guards get arrested for consensual sex with inmates.
If the original chanology wasn't a disaster, why would gamergate be one?
What about the "parallel construction" scenario whereby NSA uses their alleged attack against Tor to deanonymize SR2, and the Cirrus UC is simply a construction?

Can this be ruled out or unlikely?
Why would your benchmark for intelligence in the human brain be something that less than 1% of humans are capable of achieving? To me that type mathematical proof is an example of a very specific type of intelligence rather than general intelligence.
I doubt flow based programming is going to let the nonprogrammer program but I do think there is some potential in the age of the tablet to get stuff done visually with flow based development and touch friendly tools provided you can easily switch back and forth to source. E.g. something sort of like windows worfklow on speed.
I read the Fountainhead, and it was hard to square the views expressed in that book with her extreme enthusiasm for capitalism and business that she expressed in other writings (I didn't read the other books). In the Fountainhead, capitalism comes off as looking rather corrupt and dishonest, a system that was exploited by Peter Keatings at the expense of Howard Roarks. I couldn't really discern a clear and consistent philosophy from that book, so I interpret it as basically a romance, set in an ideal fantasy world, between a heroic uber-mensch, Howard Roark, and a beautiful woman whose high standards admit only uber-mensches, Dominique Francon. The Dominique character I interpret as an idealized Ayn Rand.
Many people including me were skeptical about Tesla when it just came out. I'm surprised it became that popular at that price. On one hand it's good, because means that people are ready to pay more for technology and innovation.
That's misleading. 98% aren't "successes". 98% of the funds haven't been written off. That's relatively easy to do so when a large bulk of your loans are invested into large Fortune 500 companies with billions in assets.

http://energy.gov/articles/moniz-tesla-repayment-shows-stren...
List on SEC site https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-35
> My manager today was wondering if that's particularly efficient, to which I replied "he knows how to program".

That’s seems an off-axis question to me. “These devs are expensive and a constraint on our growth. I want to hear more tappy-tappy…”

What’s the alternative if you have a good backend programmer and an excess of front-end work at the moment? Have the backend plow further ahead? Move items that “belong” in the front-end to the backend just for dev capacity reasons? Decide your architecture based on which devs are free in a given sprint?

That backend dev might be 50% as efficient and still result in more total value delivered.
I've heard Saudis will similarly pay as much for their license plates as for their sports cars, repeating or alliterative numbers being highly desired.
My own domain. I use Gandi's mail forwarding and SMTP (via GMail).
If something interesting is emerging from the comments, the one taking the time to post it on HN deserves the karma points.
Thanks OP for this link!
Ok, ok, I get it. Next time I'll go commit a crime, I'll leave a cellphone at home. Or will give it to my accomplice to taxi it around at a significant distance from a location where I'll engage in some heinous activity.
The prices you see are from publishers who are using isocket. We give publishers the flexibility to package and price their inventory the way they want. The longer list of URLs are other sites that we've identified as good targets for premium advertising, but we don't list their ad prices.
Listening to you, I'm thinking about just reading the C books and nothing more. If C's usefulness to non-C-programmers is simply that it gives them greater understanding of how computers work, then reading might suffice.
I don't know much about Clojure, but I know an argument from authority when I see it, and Yegge is making an argument from authority. He does a lot of, "You need users and you don't know anything about language marketing and building an ecosystem." With the implication being that Yegge does know all about language marketing. I'm disappointed Yegge would go there...he's a smart guy. But, we all have bad days.

Unfortunately for Yegge's argument, he's never built a sizable language ecosystem from scratch, while Hickey has. So, he's making an argument based on authority that he doesn't have and the person he's arguing with does.

Hickey has done a brilliant job stripping off all the "I know better than you" bits of Yegge's comments, and brings it back down to the discussion of the language and nothing else. Frankly, it was pretty devastating, and I'm surprised Yegge walked so cockily into it. If I had any dogs in this fight, I know whose side I'd be taking.
Thanks. Publishers have accounts through www.isocket.com where they slice and dice their ad packages. It's totally up to them, they configure it their way with their pricing. So for example, Cheezburger chose to sell a $6 CPM medium rectangle.
So, if you're a web developer, you probably use Perl, Python, Ruby, or some similar language. Guess what, these are written in C(+). When you need to add or fix a feature, guess what language you use?

(+) Yes, yes, programming languages are not written in anything. Their implementations are. I know you know what I mean.
Uh, what? Forget about potential employers or open source contributors. You will be spending a lot more time reading your code than you'll spend writing it. So making things readable makes things easy for you.
> new pneumonia of unclear cause in late December

The earliest known case was 1 Dec.

There were suspected cases going back at least as mid-November.
Considering that pro race drivers were able to transition to sim racing and win, and that pro race drivers already extensively use sims for practice and testing claiming that "a simulated race car has almost nothing in common with the real experience other than your hands are turning a wheel and your feet push pedals" seems like a bit of an exaggeration, no?

I will acknowledge that Formula One (and similar like IndyCar) are on a whole other level compared to most other 4 wheeled motorsport though.
The T2 boot security chip (which is ARM and has all of the standard iOS (renamed BridgeOS) security features) which is presently shipping in most/all Macs will be able to foil Hackintoshes just as soon as the installed base is sufficient that a new macOS release can demand an attestation from it to boot.

The Air and mini just got an update that brings the T2. I’m not sure if they are still shipping any non-T2 Macs, I don’t think they are.
Try clementine
No doubt one of the many newly minted epidemiologists across the Internet ;-)
I'm picking up on some thinly-veiled hostility from several commenters here; does Matt have some poor reputation in the tech world that I'm just unfamiliar with?
I agree. We are seeing very old concepts mainly boostraped over communities with a lot of influence.

This is not to say that Quora doesn't add any other value.
Haha I knew someone was gonna say something about that. How about we replace him with... Grace Hopper?
I started hacking with QBasic before the age of 10, in the early 1990's.
Agreed. I became hooked on these series. James Burke made the future seem so incredibly optimistic - "Just think of what we can do tomorrow!"

And now we are here, and it is the tomorrow of which he spoke, and yes, just look at what we are doing!

So what else can we do for our tomorrows?
It helps to leave one poor sap in the Bay Area to talk to investors, but the rest of you can certainly head off into the sticks.

I've done my share of remote consulting for venture-backed, aggressively growing startups. For the last 6 years, at least, I haven't physically set foot in any of their offices.

If you want to do it with a whole team, here's how I've done it in the past:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2006/12/chamonix-branc...
yep, sounds about right.
Quora's Webnode2 and LiveNode[1] systems are very innovative and simplify the creation of real-time web applications. In fact, I believe Quora's choice of tackling the Q&A space is merely to demonstrate the power of these two systems.

One recurring problem in creating real-time web applications is how to sync the display between browser windows/tabs amongst different users (and of the same user).

You can render the page, stream compact JSON data to the browser, and use the data to update the page with javascript. However, doing so likely require you to duplicate your server-side templates on the client-side. You can, of course, avoid duplicating your template code by only implementing them on the client-side. However, doing so will hurt your site's SEO because your webserver would now generate JSON data instead of rendered HTML that search engines understand.

Duplicating template code increases complexity while removing duplicate code using client-side-only templates hurts SEO. This is the problem that Quora solved. Instead of streaming compact JSON data, Quora streams rendered HTML that updates any part of the page (not just a section of the page).

From an answer Charlie wrote: "If I were making a new website from scratch without LiveNode, the first thing I would do would be to rebuild LiveNode. Pretty much everything about web development is easier and faster and more correct using it." [2]

One of Abert's (Quora Engineer) tweets: "Going back to Django after having used Livenode is just painful." [3]

More info:

[1] http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/What-is-webnode2

[2] http://www.quora.com/What-limitations-has-Quora-encountered-...

[3] http://twitter.com/146/status/15005261304