jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a slow-boiling sort of thing. Here was their plan:

1) Implement the backscatter machines with a non-invasive opt-out. Most people won't opt-out, but those that do won't complain, because the opt-out is painless.

2) Now that you've had backscatter machines for nearly a year, make the opt-out much more invasive. The complainers will be seen as crazy, since the Backscatter has been something we've been tolerating for a year and people won't understand the difference between "normal patdown" and "invasive patdown"

3) Come 2012 or 2013 or so, Backscatter machines are deployed pretty much everywhere, the opt-out goes away entirely. Anyone who hates the Backscatter has either stopped flying due to the patdowns or already been broken in by punitive molestation and PR pressure.
The background: A lot of Mac users (myself included, in the interest of disclosure) feel that Flash's performance on the Mac is piss-poor in the average case (e.g. making the fans go wild even when not doing anything all that fancy) and advocate for Web standards like HTML and JavaScript to be used in its place wherever possible, because at least those can be improved independent of Adobe, whom they perceive to be lax in supporting niche platforms. Other people feel that this first group is deluded by Apple propaganda and naive to believe that JavaScript performance will be any better than Flash. Thus, the parent was mocking these JavaScript advocates on the basis that the scripts on this page were performing badly on the GP's system.
Actually, a sizable portion of HN thinks that Apple will start to take after Microsoft in the 90's in regards to the web. (They also seem to think Google made WebKit's inspector pane.)

A big complaint is about the -webkit prefix, despite the fact that A List Apart and Zeldman champion it as reducing the amount of browser hacks needed due to the inconsistencies in rendering. (Think how wonderful an -ie6 prefix would be. Now, think about a CSS parser that doesn't fail in specific ways allowing the dev to target it. border-top-left-radius can't be targeted to a specific render, but screws up in different browsers, so it has to be rendered through JS or conditional stylesheets.)

I can't find the actual topical discussion in google, so here's one that links to a news article about the quote in relation to Facebook:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1929796
They usually quantify attractiveness by asking a bunch of (ideally) randomly-selected people to rate the attractiveness of a bunch of photos of people. Datasets of things like this are often published in tables of norms that researchers can buy access to.
GGS is an amazing read. never found a more elegant and simple explanantion of the history of mankind. in hindsight it looks perfectly rational and logical.
Thanks for posting this explanation. I am curious about that part:

> inadvertently blocked all mentions of the phrase "lamebook" on Facebook.

Inadvertently seems to imply that this was not voluntary, more like the result of some "misclick". Is that so? Are there such powerful control tools at Facebook which use is not under strict review? If it was inadvertent, I think there ought to be serious policy revision regarding the use of these big brother tools at Facebook ;)
Sqlite is often used as a quick and dirty database by projects that don't want to burden their developers with the setup overhead of mysql or postgres.

It's a tiny, rock-solid executable that stores data in a single binary file and supports sql access. Access to the file is globally locked. It's good enough for testing out a project on a single developer's machine but the global lock makes it hard to use in a multi-user production scenario.

In a similar vein I could see git as a widely available, rock-solid, "quick and dirty" way for a project to store and retrieve documents.
Yes, just like England lost the power to America, and Spain lost the power to England, so will US lose the power to China. Precisely because of the reasons author listed.
Trespassing and walking around a building taking selfies is insurrection, but burning police stations to the ground and torching federal court houses is justified peaceful protesting.

This whole thing is one giant political flame war. There is no logic, only partisanship. Its good that people are realizing how messy politics is, and how it largely comes down to who accepts whose leadership as legitimate.
It is possible they legally had to disclose publicly. It is information that could (did) materially effect the share price and while it might only be known by top level level staff at Apple, Hyundai may have needed to involve people from all over the company increasing the chance of insider trading.
They use Plaid [0] under the hood. As long as you trust it, it's safe.

[0] https://plaid.com/
Governments and public entities can own shares in corporations, so a tax could be paid in kind.
i support the author and develop with the same ideas of any browser, anytime, in mind.
From the first link you mention:

> we conclude that 20 d after becoming mandatory face masks have reduced the number of new infections by around 45%

A later increase in infections does not invalidate statistical significance for earlier studies. It’s just math, not “an excuse”. You’ll never see the data for how many cases would have been recorded without the measures in place.

You can see the full paper here: http://ftp.iza.org/dp13319.pdf

The second link you posted earlier also says conclusively that higher reported mask usage correlated with lower reports of symptoms. Are you even reading your own sources?

Or maybe you just have very skewed expectations of the impact? The Jena study estimates a 0.23 reduction in R rate. It is nowhere close to eliminating the disease, but this small reduction in transmission rate has an outsized effect on the total number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, and that is what really matters (roughly, a 50% increase in transmission would result in 10x more deaths).

The inconvenience of wearing a mask is an insignificant price to pay even if the numbers are off by an order of magnitude.
After rereading your comment I see where I misread, my apologies.
I think the thread model is a bit off, in that all the "real secrets" are sadly with the executive branch.

However, if congress can learn a bit about the pitfalls of commonplace devices, that would be nice.
Addendum: if you want someone I would consider an outstanding teenage hacker... look at comex.

I've seen that guy work in person and sometimes it felt like he was just streaming keystrokes into the keyboard buffer without regard for any visual feedback. That time at CCC, he was working on exploiting the Wii U. A bit later he called me over, and I was staring at a blank assembly file. He had just completed a full stack Wii U exploit, from WebKit to the kernel to the security CPU to its kernel, and expected me to dictate some assembly to him to dump the eFuses where the keys are held. I stumbled something like "Uuuuh.... I guess we need to deal with banks.... well how much memory can you dump? Uh.... yeah let's just treat it at linear.... errrr.... make a loop? I guess load a register with 0 and loop until, uhh... 0x1000? Yeah and you need to set the top bit and store that into, er.... 0xd8000...dc? I think? Let me check... uhh yeah and then read the data word from e0. I think. And put that somewhere you can dump."

Made me feel like a complete idiot :)
relevant links:

1) http://www.redmondpie.com/listen-to-steve-jobs-slamming-goog...

2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/googles-geeky-response-to...
Can somebody tell me how to run/install the editor? Thanks.
In the trademark world you are arguing that "npm" has become "genericized" [1]. That certainly can happen, but that would be a very hard argument to make given npm's relative youth and the lack of true use as a generic. The people you link are either forking the actual npm client (in which case they are referring to it as a proper noun), or are building their own repo architecture, in which case they refer to it as an "npm registry" or "npm repository", not just "an npm".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
Actually, static and dynamic libs also show up, as do resource files. So I guessed that .obj is .c (not always accurate), .res is .rc, and dynamic .lib is .exp, and so on and so forth.
We've just setup a CNAME for http://status.cachethq.io too.
If I see a coin come up heads twenty times in a row, I'm going to use the power of induction to predict that the coin is biased towards heads. Induction tells me that, the more something has happened in the past, it's more likely to continue to do so in the future. I trust induction because induction has worked for me before.

Somewhere out there in mind-space is someone who believes in anti-induction: each coin flip of heads convinces him that the coin is biased toward tails. Anti-induction tells him that, the more something has happened in the past, the less likely it is to do so in the future. If asked why he trusts anti-induction, he exclaims: "Because it's never worked before!"

That said, just because these two minds are possible in mind-space, doesn't mean that they're equally likely to form naturally in any given physical universe. In fact, to our intuition, one of the two seems particularly unlikely...

Credit to http://lesswrong.com/lw/t9/no_license_to_be_human/
Hey Tibbon, unfortunately the motorcycle industry is about a decade and a half behind the rest of the eCommerce world ;)

We are working on changing that.

You wouldn't believe how hard the suppliers make it to get real inventory and catalog data.

Check out my business, linked in my profile.
It's pretty straightforward. You tell us (I work at Twilio) which numbers you want to port, send us some documentation proving you own them (a copy of your bill and a letter of authorization), we do the rest and get back to you when the port will be complete. It takes about 7-10 business days.
As a developer, I try to "get in the minds" of other developers sometimes. I try to think, "If I had to build this same system, and ensure it was tuned properly, how would I be building it?"

However, I interact monthly with other SEO guys and learn from their thoughts on what they see from the trenches with their content. They commonly tell me that they think that the Google search engine is not fully automated -- that flags are sometimes raised and low-cost staffers react to those flags when enough go off. From there, low-cost staffers filter out the false alarms and escalate to a core team for manual analysis. This makes the most sense. I mean, if you were Google, building the greatest SE on the planet, it makes sense to automate as much as possible, create tools to collect flags and let low-cost staffers check these flags and escalate or ignore issues, and then have a core team do manual reviews to find areas to improve in the SE code.
Eh, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
The counterpoint to that:

Treehouse only has to add 1 feature to encompass all the useful functionality of Facebook, status updates without pictures.
For OpenCV you can check out these pages for a hint on where to start:

http://montamer.blogspot.com/2009/01/opencv-on-beagleaboard....

http://www.computer-vision-software.com/blog/2009/03/arm-wre...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1968414/cross-compilation...

For Python on mobile devices (one of the links on the page may provide more info for Python on ARM Cortex-A8) check out:

http://www.awaretek.com/pymo.html

Otherwise start looking on Google
Oh no, why would you provide me with such a rich source of entertainment so close to the sleeping hours.
That's usually how these deals come about. No figures were revealed in the press release, but it should eventually become public in their yearly IRS filing.
I wouldn't really call myself an expert so take this with an appropriate quantity of NaCl, but AFAICT yes, what is new here is an experimental violation of the Bell inequalities with a "single particle" rather than an EPR pair.

Note that the reason I put "single particle" in scare quotes is that there really is no difference between a "single particle" and an EPR pair. Both are single (non-separable) quantum systems. The only difference is that the "single particle" is in a state that constrains it to deliver its energy at a single location whereas the "EPR pair" can split its energy between two locations. So a "single particle" is really just a special case of an EPR pair, which is in turn a special case of an EPR N-tuple.
> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s
> pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase
> small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.

I never understood why the authors of dwm thought this was a "nice" feature of configuration via source code.
Absolutely. I prefer Hollywood stars to royalty because putting your money towards them is optional.
That happens all the time (in astronomical terms). For instance, when two galaxies collide.
The constitution doesn't mean a damn thing. They would probably just use the commerce clause to justify it.
Humans are pack animals and it comforts the pack to have an alpha.
Indeed! The importance of this distinction is too often ignored in press articles.

One complication is whether it is a shrink-wrap license bought in a store (therefore with reasonable opportunity to read the terms) or a shrink-wrap license bought by title/SKU# and delivered by mail. The former would appear to be more enforceable.
Clarity. That’s the idea. Don’t use words many of your readers won’t understand (except for special effect).

“She wrote on Twitter …” is much clearer then “She tweeted …” and it seems obvious to me that whenever writing formally, you should use the first. Just as you would write “He searched the web …”, not “He googled …” in formal writing.
Ah, I actually mis-read the article. Sorry, I'm wrong, you're right, that would work ;-)

I guess the only situation this wouldn't work would be if the user's browser supports gzipping, but doesn't have javascript enabled, but then it'll just serve everything unzipped by default, so not a big deal at all.

Also, it seems kind of a pain to have to do that if-statement throughout all of your javascripts, html, and stylesheets. But I'm sure you could probably create a javascript 1-liner that runs after everything else that just goes through and changes all the sources for you, so it might end up being even easier than our method.
Could do more as in "let BP and Louisiana dredge sand to build barrier islands in front of vulnerable marshes"?

I just can't figure out what's up with Obama's pocket veto of that....

Or as we recently learned, turning the Netherlands down flat when they offered to come over and help. I think I read that offers by 13 nations have been refused.
awww me3 ... I was enjoying that
>>The greatest support for my thesis is that there are not yet any third party companies that have made a huge amount of money on the iPhone.<<

That's his "greatest support" for his thesis? Apple claims to have paid out US$1 billion to developers so far, what about Android Marketplace? During Steve Jobs's WWDC keynote speech, he quoted Theo Gray: "I earned more on sales of The Elements for iPad in the first day than from the past 5 years of Google ads on periodictable.com".

So if going by commercial success is the yardstick, then the App Store is ahead by at least 1825 times.
"No." --Law of Headlines
what percent of tweets are political?
Do you think ad companies will really trust reverse-proxied ad traffic? Seems like a tremendous opportunity for fraud. Right now with user agents hitting ad servers directly, there's much less opportunity for content publishers to fake impressions and clicks.
Ask yourself - do you need to take care of yourself physically and socially every day of the week? How about allocating 2 evenings in the week to tech stuff that you like? I started https://news.kindandgreenworld.com/ as a result of spending an evening or two on it every week. It's still not where I want it to be but the fact that it exists is a good reminder to me that its nice to accomplish things, and urges me to do more.
How could this be surprising? A small fraction of the population of America is a Twitter user in the first place.
I'm using Hugo with Netlify. I've used just about every tool over the years, and I'm pretty happy with Hugo. Netlify makes deployment a breeze, and there's a free tier with 100GB of bandwidth which is fine for a basic blog.

If you want to do anything fancy, or you have a love for React, I'd suggest Gatsby as an alternative. It also makes it easier to pull in the JS ecosystem. Currently, pulling in JS libraries with Hugo is a bit clunky because it doesn't integrate directly with the standard JS tools (npm, webpack, etc).

Here's the source for my site: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/brndn-io
I think that’s what cloudwizard is saying. They knew that Netscape cost money for professional use, but in trying to get an invoice to actually pay for it, Netscape did nothing.
It's pretty hard to fix a complex black-box query planner with an estimate of when another black box analyze command will fix it.

That said, if you have good monitoring, you can hopefully find out when a query gets hosed and at least have a chance to fix it.. it's not terribly often.
Bookmarked. Again. I think the title is just so different than the content that I never associate the two.

In any case, thank you!
A bit of tangent, but I'm building an app on top of git, a thin business logic on top of very specific type of repositories.

I'd like to reuse an existing api, for example Kallithea or Gitlab layer/api that interacts with git, does anyone have opinions which one would be easier to reuse?

I fail to find documentation from Gitlab on how services are organised, if they have a git api as a separate process and how to run just that.

Now I'm discovering Kallithea, I'll have a look to it, but really appreciate if someone has done this before and has some pointers where to start.
The article says that in the next two years they would like to get it up to $75 an hour and it cites the things you said as reasons why. So I believe they are in agreement with you
...which is then always covered up by some ugly case
There was a spammer that bothered me, I blocked the number, and started receiving spam from adjacent ones (same number, just the last digit increasing by 1). Had to block 5-6 for them to go away.
that product was Steltor Calendar Time which then was purchased by Oracle. For the time, it wasn't terrible (it supported sync to palm pilot). But yes, GCal is a real improvement.
Haha sorry I meant multi arm bandit, which I'd presume you're familiar with.

Although I guess a single arm bandit would be something akin the secretary problem.
Pedestrian or passenger safety ?
come on, C++ IDEs had "go to definition" features for literal decades
No gamma rays at these energies are able to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the ground.

We only detect the particles indirectly.

When a high energy particle enters the atmosphere, it creates a cascade of particles called an air shower. In that cascade, charged particles, mainly electrons and positrons, travel faster than the speed of light in air and thus produce Cherenkov radiation.

This is light in the UV to blue visible range, you may know it from pictures of nuclear power plants.

The telescope measure the Cherenkov light and from that reconstruct the properties of the particle that created the air shower.

This event was not the first time we measured high energy photons on the ground, we do each night.
But it was the first time we measured them from a GRB.
Are you really equating the styling of this pentagon-on-wheels with a lifted truck? This is bosozoku levels of crazy. And that sure isn't common.

The Rivian has 4 motors by the way...
With solar prices hitting negative rates for some periods in a day capturing carbon and converting into burnable fuel will probably start making sense in the next few years.
Consider giving your excess to people in need of it
the original solution was probably just brought over from ESP8266 with little or no modifications. The 8266 had less resources then ESP32.
[..] Steve Sinton, a rancher, was baffled when a company he’d never heard of began buying large tracts of agricultural land near his pastures at above-market prices. The firm, Brodiaea Inc., over a few months in 2012 acquired more than three square miles of a flat-bottomed valley.

“It was surprising, the prices they were willing to pay,” says Mr. Sinton, a partner in a family-owned ranch that raises cattle and grows grapes. A conventional agricultural business’s returns couldn’t have justified those prices. “It didn’t make sense to me.”[..]

[..] The university’s endowment manager, Harvard Management Co., was stealthily building a sizable grape-growing business on the Central Coast through entities including Brodiaea. With the land, it was acquiring rights to vast sources of water in a region where the earth’s warming is making the resource an ever-more-valuable asset.

Drought has plagued California in recent years, hitting farmers particularly hard. The Central Coast experienced drought conditions for 30% of the past two decades, compared with 14% of the prior 100 years, a 2015 study found. Droughts have led to spikes in withdrawals from aquifers, many of which aren’t recharging as much during rainy season, says study co-author Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University professor.

Harvard’s bet has proven prescient. The $39 billion fund, among America’s biggest endowments, now values its vineyards at $305 million, up nearly threefold from in 2013, while its overall natural-resources investments have done poorly.

The wager has also earned backlash from some farmers and other locals who fear Harvard eventually will use up groundwater and unduly influence water-use regulations. “Should they be controlling our groundwater plans?” says Debbie Arnold, a San Luis Obispo County supervisor. “I don’t think so.”[..]

[..] A Harvard Management spokesman says it is the endowment’s policy not to discuss individual investments. In its financial report issued in 2012, the year Brodiaea began buying, Harvard said it liked the natural-resources asset class “because we believe its physical products are going to be in increasing demand in the global economy over the coming decades.”[..]
It's readable because we know what we're expecting. Had the logic been just a tad more complex (e.g validation of input, login flows etc.), it would quickly become unreadable and unmaintainable to anyone not familiar with FP, or specifically Haskell:

- there are fifteen LANGUAGE directives (what do they all bring?)

- there's an ungodly amount of ASCII-art: What do any of these do, and in which contexts: ! @ :> :<|>

And so on: just three things that caught my eyes looking at the code on my phone
cool!

to get rid of the annoying logo in the top left paste:

$('#logo').hide();

into the console of the dev tools (option-command-i on mac)
> Taxing property has a massive advantage of stability and predictability for local governments.

As pointed out by another commenter - this is exactly what Prop 13 provides.

Taxes are predictable for owners, which by definition makes them predicable for local governments too.

It is exactly a compromise - property is still taxed, but in a stable and predictable way.
> And for that it's usuful to have a paid witness on your side

But I'm not sure the union is going to be on my side. I know that's their pitch, but lots of people claim they want to act on my behalf - I'd be a fool to trust most of them!