jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes. Everyone should run out into the woods with a six-pack in one hand and a gun in the other, kill a bunch of animals, and then leave their bodies in the woods so that the local authorities can't catch you as having hunted more than your alloted share of animals!

I'm of the mind that the number of hunters that want to conserve wildlife and 'be responsible' is far out-weighed by the number of people that view hunting as a way to, "shoot guns, kill things and get drunk." Those people have been hunting, and obviously haven't learned much from it (unless that's the kind of world you are implying that you want to live in). Why do you think that the majority of people will somehow take away more from it then these people have?

While I have more respect for people that hunt their food than the people that just buy it at the store (but wouldn't have the balls to kill the animals themselves), I think that sending people out into the wilderness to kill a bunch of animals just so that they can 'learn valuable life lessons' is a morally wrong (or at least ambiguous) proposition. Why not bring to life The Running Man (or Battle Royale) as a real-life 'coming of age' instead? (Hint: Because of the societal view that animals are somehow 'below us' and that as humans we have the god-given right -- hey, it's even in the Bible -- to do whatever we want to non-human animals. Therefore killing an animal is no different than tearing a piece of fabric or smashing a light bulb.)

[Note: I'm not some hippie that "just doesn't know because he's never been hunting." I have been hunting. I got over the "Omg! I killed an animal!" and spent a few years of my life killing and eating animals in the fall during hunting season.]
You'll learn tons if you work at a even half-way decent startup, more at a good one - and there are plenty of those in the Bay Area. Might want to start here: http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-in-San-Francisco-Bay-Are... and even here: http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-are-hiring-in-the-San-Fr... - as any startup that wants full-time folks wouldn't mind getting free labor as well.

Obviously I'm going to suggest isocket (http://isocket.com) - where I work now. Lots of opportunities to do great work here.
As I see it most startups already do this via pivots. They don't go all in on an idea, they test ideas and then adjust ideas based on feedback. When something starts to stick enough then they go all in. Early funding is often about the team rather than the idea as I understand it.
Show HN: Build your own programming language in your own language.

Why on earth would someone seriously want to use C++ for the compiler, when you created a much better language? Bootstrap it once and your problems are gone. Memory safety, tree management, proper matching, high level. All extremely important for a compiler.
> But then you consult a bunch of experts, who all claim they have additional evidence that the thing won’t happen, and you raise your probability to 99.999%

I lose the line of reasoning here - 99.9 to 99.999 doesn't happen if you don't have new evidence, so why would you raise your probability? or maybe i'm being too literal?
There's lot of inaccuracies here. First, president Park Chung Hee was the only choice as a result of a military coup d'etat in May 16th, 1961. Democratic organs only acted to appease United States, they did not function at all. Yes, Park Chung Hee was from South East (Kyongsang) region. Kim Dae Jung was from South West (Jeolla) region. PCH tried to have KDJ killed many times for his pro-North views and viola, KDJ becomes president in 1998, billions of slush funds travel to Kim Jong Il despite the warnings from US, Kim jong il tests a nuclear weapon 5 years later, KDJ wins the nobel prize. This is why he is mocked in Korea, he traded the security of his country for a fucking medal. The fundings continue when Roh Moo Hyun executes his predecessor's "Sunshine Policy". Of course, KDJ and RMH were popular presidential candidates in South West because of promises of economic development PCH completely neglected (the prejudice against Jeolla region was far more blatant back then).

As you know Park Chung Hee was assassinated by his own intelligence director in fall of 1979 causing a major state of chaos. General Chun Doo Hwan seized power eventually. The timing of the Gwangju Uprising or Gwangju Rebellion is really peculiar as Chun had just begun to seize complete power after 7 months since the tragedy of PCH. A strong response was the only way to stabalize the country as there are reports that it was instigated by North Korean sleeper agents based on first hand accounts. The official case leaves this out but North Korean defectors admitted that North Korean agents in South Korea were placed strategically in cities to instigate armed rebellion should conditions allow it. Lot of pieces are missing with the official version that Gwangju civilians ran into a cache of guns and ammunition but they leave out the first hand reports that the people handing out the guns had a different dialect one that was closer to North Korea. This explains why an Air Force commandos, the military response because they were responding to a rebellion instigated by a foreign enemy country. We see this happening today in Crimea, Donetsk by Russia.

You might have heard that recently, a South Korean lawmaker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_South_Korean_sabotage_plot) was known to have been leading a similar armed saboteur group called RO (Revolutionary Organization) to assist North Korea in the case of a war by assassinating various figures, attacking vital infrastructure. The evidence against them was overwhelming including recordings and informants. He is sentenced to 12 years in prison.

총풍 사건, the "gun wind affair" was blown wildly out of proportion and is a popular topic for left wing elements to use in their arguments but in reality it was found to be groundless accusation and the presidential candidate would try to run for office 10 years later after winning a large defamation lawsuit.

I am Korean btw, and shame on you for attacking me and being flagkilled earlier. If you want to sound convincing please keep it civilized.
I work 50%+ in Clojure as an IT Consultant and here in Europe it's not that easy to find a company that uses Clojure and embraces its benefits.

When I use clojure, it's typically for companies who need to get something done and then I choose clojure to do it, but only once someone specifically asked me for clojure (but it was an American company).

I don't find it as easy to work as clojure guy in Europe.

In comparison, in the US there's much more demand but many companies refrain from remote contracting Europeans (even though I think my background is quite good ML, Data Science, Statistics, ..)

So IMO the TL;DR is: filling clojure positions is only a problem in the US, not in Europe.
That link doesn't inspire confidence, for two different reasons:

1) open-zfs.org points to 4 separate operating systems that support ZFS. To wit: illumos, FreeBSD, ZFS on Linux, OpenZFS on OS X. So what about all the other distributions out there, e.g. OpenIndiana?

Like I said: Fragmentation.

What are the odds that any two of the plethora of distributions are using the same ZFS bits? Which bugs are fixed in which distribution? Which post-Sun features are enabled in which distribution?

2) The PDF mentions ZFS panics and disk corruption, "a dark time" about a year ago. Fortuitously "Matt Ahrens and George Wilson diagnosed the problem".

Great! One of the inventors of ZFS and one of the ZFS tech leads from Sun were available. But what about if the average user has a problem? Maybe you can give us Matt's phone number? Is he available for pro bono consulting when Joe Sixpack has a problem?

I'd love to believe in ZFS. But it seems to me that, right now, it's only usable when supported by a big player. It's probably great if I go to Joyent and sign up for the Manta Storage Service. But if I have a problem while using ZFS in FreeBSD or in Linux, my only recourse would be to start whining on mailing lists.
Wage Slavery is not the same as bonded slavery.

Wage slavery is usually used to describe the situation where a person's wage only just pays their living expense, so they are forced to keep the job because if they lose it they will be unable to survive.

They still have free choice though, in that no one is forcing them to work.

That's quite different to "real" slavery where there is some kind of involuntary nature. In the case of bonded slavery a person is forced to work until their "loan" is paid off.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
“We were not that surprised by the raid. That is something that is a part of this game. We couldn’t care less really,” Mr 10100100000 informed TF through an encrypted channel.

“We have however taken this opportunity to give ourselves a break. How long are we supposed to keep going? To what end? We were a bit curious to see how the public would react.”

Without hearing about the exact issues, we get the feeling that a comeback may be more complicated than most people assume. It seems unlikely that the site will return within the next few days, but if it does eventually come back online people will surely notice.

“Will we reboot? We don’t know yet. But if and when we do, it’ll be with a bang,” Mr 10100100000 says.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-crew-responds-to-the-raid...
BrowserSync (http://www.browsersync.io) would be more useful than Livereload because it also reloads CSS without refreshing the page and synchronizes navigation if the page is open on several devices / browsers.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-domain-back-online-waving...

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-starts-counting-down-to-f...
In what world is a call for a "wild protest" not a call for violence?
> direct calls to violence and to insurrection against a democracy

Why do you believe this? The very last message Trump put out was telling people to go home. I've covered both BLM and Trump reallies and I've always felt safer at every Trump protest than at BLM. Even in the case of yesterday, we're seeing clear media manipulation. No one is covering how Trump supporters were let in; how Capitol Police lowered barricades.

Either Capitol Police were terribly incompetent at protecting one of the most secure buildings in the US, or they let this happen. There are videos of people taking selfies with capital police and patting them on the shoulder, thanking them for their service inside the building!

> But if you believe inciting violence and other kinds of things should be punished by law, then you can hardly disagree with this.

YES! Lets' arrest every single person who burned and looted a building during the BLM protests and put them all in jail! Every last one.

Same with the people who went in to the Cap building and stole things. Those are federal crimes; that will get you 3 ~ 8 years! I'm for that too.

Oh and that Federal Guard that shot the Air Force woman, he certainly needs to go to jail.

Only some of those things will happen. Pay attention to which ones.
The US has contactless payment with a chip on the card too, but this is different.
Think of profit as a natural way to make an activity self-sustaining. And if a product is profitable, it likely has an authentic reason for continuing, namely that it’s creating value for customers. Now, of course, judgment is still required to ensure your profitable activity is good for society, ethical for everyone involved, etc. But to me, I’d rather be working on something that meets the criteria above than a non-profit or gov project that requires donations (or gov appropriations), because those things can continue (or be halted) for very unnatural reasons and there’s no guarantee the value being created exceeds the effort put in. Hope that helps you!
> In a sense, you are often assembling your own framework

No you aren't. This is a thought-terminating cliche. I think what people mean by this is you are assembling your own architecture. Frameworks often come bundled with an architecture, and that is a core value proposition for a lot of folks.

But you're not building a reusable tool to scaffold other apps with, you're building a bespoke architecture for a single app.

Mobile apps, for instance, have no "framework." iOS and Android require you to implement certain classes to participate in the app lifecycle, but it is not at all the same idea of "framework" as Rails, which really pushes you to use DHH's Favorite Things over everything else.
Display the $ amount on which device though? If you want to be secure, you display it on the customer's iPhone and have them confirm.

Either way though, this is different from skimming. Skimming allows the skimmer to make future transactions which is much much worse.
The guy should just join Plutus Pioneers program and become one of the first certified Cardano developers. Can't those guys charge like $1000 an hour? LOL
> What could possibly be the motivation to say no to 13bn EUR in tax revenue just to suck up to big corporations like Apple?

Because if you do that they'll keep their offices open there, which employ a lot of Irish people, as well as bring in a lot of business travelers (current situation not withstanding). Keeping employment up, especially good tech employment, and the PR that goes with it, is probably worth a lot more than 13B .
> A friend of mine is in software sales. She doesn't need to physically be in an office ever. There are a lot of office jobs that can be done remotely.

Lots of things can be done remotely, but that also doesn't mean that they are all done as well remotely.

To counter your example about software sales - A few months ago I conducted an RFP process for some software, and the company that scored the lowest was the company where the salesperson didn't come and see how the processes worked in person. Their software was likely just as capable, but the fact that they couldn't visit probably put them at a significant disadvantage in terms of understanding what they were replacing. If they don't understand how the existing system works, how can they be confident in their commercial offer which has some significant bespoke elements?

Now this will depend on the software and company, clearly, but sales is sometimes a tricky one. Often it's about the relationship, and fundamentally people also warm to people they have seen face to face. Sometimes sales isn't about the software, it's about sitting in a room and eating Nando's together and building a relationship that way. People don't always buy software just based on functionality/cost, there is often a huge element of trust involved, and that is just harder to build over a video call.
Little over hundred years ago, the dashing Dutch Historian Johan Huizinga wrote a book called: "The Autumn of the Middle Ages", with the subtitle: "A study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries".

In it, Huizinga attempts to debunk some myths about the Middle Ages:

"[...] Huizinga presents the idea that the exaggerated formality and romanticism of late medieval court society was a defense mechanism against the constantly increasing violence and brutality of general society. He saw the period as one of pessimism, cultural exhaustion, and nostalgia, rather than of rebirth and optimism."

The original English translation is hard to read as he refers to many paintings in it, but no pictures. Luckily, on the book's hundred-year anniversary in 2020, a new, English translation (a tad expensive, though) with 300 full-colour illustrations was released.
this is a straw man. where in the article / materials related to the case is race brought in to question? are we treating Indian-Americans as a majority group now? that's nonsense. You paint a picture of the "progressive calculus" that's quite obviously not informed by any actual exposure to it. I can only imagine the image you've adopted was gathered from outsider perspectives on what the word progressive means.
> Can provider more links if anyone is interested.

Yes, please, thanks. Can't have too many links! p.s. I can only read the first couple of paragraphs of that link, it wants me to subscribe to read more.
The idea of analyzing existing recordings for information is compelling. I saw a show about Zipf's law, I can't remember the name of it but the basic idea is to plot data with the symbols on one axis and the frequency of each symbol on the other. Highly structure data that conveys information tends to have a -1 slope on a logarithmic scale. More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law

http://www.peterrussell.com/Dolphin/DolphinLang.php

One of the problems with this approach is that data compression takes advantage of these frequencies so that at maximum compression the slope tends back towards 0 (perfect compression is almost indistinguishable from noise).

To me, this is the most likely reason why we haven't discovered extraterrestrials. Without the decompression/de-encryption key, we have no way of seeing the sea of data that's probably being transmitted all around us. That and the fact that aliens have probably learned how to communicate with neutrinos because they are able to build arrays of nano-detectors that can sense the perturbations that are too faint for us to see. Also the beams are probably directional, not broadcasted for all to see. So looking for direct evidence of a civilization, something like a heat signature or particular arrangement of matter, is probably going to be more fruitful than eavesdropping on communications.
Some places are just not affordable. That's been true for literally thousands of years.
Yeah this is one of those articles that reminds me that we almost certainly have no idea what is going on. Not to say we dont have good descriptive models.
It's a common misconception that the energy consumed by Bitcoin is proportional to the number of transactions -- it's not. Energy is proportional to price.

Hashpower is used to stamp a proof-of-work onto the merkle root of each block in the blockchain. That merkle root is the same size no matter how many transactions are in the block. It takes just as much hashpower to stamp an enormous block as a tiny block.

The only thing that leads to an increasing amount of energy used in mining over time is the increasing reward that miners get from mining blocks. This reward is almost entirely from the block reward created by new blocks, which is currently 6.25 Bitcoins per block, or $306,000 at today's price. Since blocks come out every 10 minutes, that equates to $1,837,000/hr spent on electricity at every hour of the day.

As the value of Bitcoin goes up, this block reward goes up, and the amount of money people spend on electricity goes up. The number of transactions processed contributes very little to the incentive, especially when using a Bitcoin fork like BCH without an arbitrary constraint on the number of transactions per second. If you increase the number of transactions the chain can handle, then you decrease the fee for each transaction, and this lowers the block reward to miners, which lowers the amount of energy that is spent on mining.

Source: myself. I'm a Bitcoin miner: https://toom.im
FYI the "S10 with a funny body on it" you were driving does not weigh 500lb or 1000lb. Those are load ratings (very conservative ones).
TLDR >>> The initial `GCP` onboarding call was entirely about how much money I was planning on spending with google (as opposed to the Amazon call where they wanted to help me architect my service)
And those of us that spend govt money generally do this, it's totally fine to not pick the cheapest, you just have to have a sound reason to do so.

I.e. if you aren't willing to stand up in court and talk about why Tootie is better than Tito, despite Tito being 10% cheaper, you better be selecting Tito or looking for another job.
> Israel stops Iran from blowing up or conquering the entire Middle East.

The propaganda poster you paint here is dubious.

Have you ever looked at a map? Sunni majority nations KSA, Syria, Kuwait, and Turkiye probably have a lot more to do with it than Israel.

Having been to every middle eastern / near eastern /
Balkan / North African nation except Libya, I’m not too afraid of Iran.

Iranians have always treated me better than Israelis or myy my fellow Americans have, even after finding out I’m a queer atheist.
That's interesting. In my case, I hardly edit urls manually in the address bar. Usually I end up on a site either by clicking on links or copying and pasting a whole url from elsewhere. So, when I click on the address bar it's almost always to copy that url. Exception may be if you are front end dev testing different paths on the browser in which case editing in the address bar could be common.
Does anyone know were we can find a screenshot of this new feature in action?
agreed. I love them too, but it will be hard to be the underdog in this race.
>I don't know anyone who doesn't write a little main or side program to test out the code they have created.

We're not met in person, but - here I am! As some of my colleagues.

Most of my tests do not leave REPL. Those that happen to be outside of REPL are "functional tests" - tests for a whole bunch of a system.
The "transhumanist" movement advocates that in order to keep up with technological progress in the future (and stay ahead of a singularity) we'll have to augment our brains with cybernetics. And when that happens the lines between human and machine start to blur. I'm convinced that this future, good or bad, may be inevitable.
well, according to recent news, you're going to have to remove "gram" from your product name anyway.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/19/instagram-cracks-down-on-co...
I still wonder when https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications will go away.
> “We’re trying to remove the taboo and the guilt that you should have to do it,” says Alfred’s CEO

every time i use one of these services i feel a bit guilty. twofold; guilty that i have someone literally serving me, and that i'm too lazy to do it myself.

i still use them occasionally though. laundry every 2 weeks because i don't have in-unit, and occasional food delivery when i'm feeling especially lazy - i try to just call local restaurants directly though. i also stopped using homejoy because quite frankly it felt too weird to have someone cleaning my tiny place for me.

> When signing up, customers can choose the option of not seeing their Alfred

haha. wow. i guess that's one way of dealing with it.
John McCutchan caught my attention early on and my hat goes off to him. He brought a unique perspective to advancing performance. I went from Dart to TypeScript to pure JavaScript for a variety of reasons, and I must say productivity in Dart is higher, sometimes much higher. However the Dart2js output and interface makes it less attractive despite higher productivity. I took from the announcement that Google will focus on fixing that, which is encouraging. It's really the only way forward for Dart, since no one else, and now Chrome, is going to include the VM.
So the extent of the obtuse configuration you are talking about is a single environment variable?
pidgin, for all the flak it and libpurple gets, and huge backlog of feature requests and bugs, does a reasonably good job for me.
I think I watched a talk by Michael a few years back about the basics of columnar databases but now I can't find it. I recognized the names of the companies he founded from the article. At least I think it was him that gave the talk! Does anyone know what I'm talking about?