jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Why is that?"

Complex configurations have more entropy than simple configurations. Life causes entropy to increase more quickly. You can think of living beings as agents of entropy if you like, but that implies that entropy acts with purpose, which it doesn't.

I remember having an argument at college with someone who argued that the laws of thermodynamics conflicted with the theory of evolution. So asked him what entropy was. He gave a bunch of different layman's definitions, such as comparing it "disorder" or "chaos". I wrote down for him, "S = k log N" and told him that if he doesn't know Boltzmann's equation, he has no business lecturing me on thermodynamics. This person also said that there was no natural process that created information. I wanted to tell him that the laws of thermodynamics, combined with Boltzmann's equation, and used in combination with Shannon's definition of information, imply that the amount of information in a closed system must always increase. Interpreted physically, mutation increases the entropy/information in genetic code.

If you want to know more about entropy, talk to a chemist. Chemists have to know entropy or they can't do their jobs.

As for the linked blog post, the idea of applying theories from evolutionary biology to the study of information is usually attributed to Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene". This is the book that coined the term "meme", and I recommend it.
Robots.txt governs automated retrieval of a page's contents. I don't think it makes any comments about what the retriever does with that data. Those uses are governed by other sets of rules. For instance, just because a site's robots.txt invites automated retrieval doesn't make it a legitimate use to just re-host that content elsewhere as your own.

I think Facebook's ToS is an appropriate way for them to send messages about what they'll do if you make certain uses of the content you retrieve from their site. However, these ToS documents aren't omnipotent: they can't restrict some fair uses to which you might put the data, for instance, or bind you to silly terms. IANAL, but I think the ToS is probably best understood as an intent to use still other sets of rules (perhaps selectively) if you do certain things with retrieved data. Disagreeing with that policy is certainly possible, but I don't think robots.txt has much to do with it.
Apples and oranges. Ordinary income is not capital gains. If you buy your first stock, you are using money that was already taxed at the ordinary income tax rate.
You can assign to it, you just have to be explicit about that being what you want to do. (Explicit being better than implicit is part of the python philosophy)
Hi HN,
I've created new REST API client called HammerUI.
It's based on JavaFX and currently supports Windows (MSI package) and Linux (deb package). Portable versions are also available.
I would appreciate your comments and feedback!
I know it’s just a quote but I have to point out that’s not how statistics work. You can’t say 64% of a group were radicalized because 64% of people will join a group suggested by Facebook.

In fact all 3 million of those users could have had the group suggested by Facebook.
I've used Simple since they became available on Android. At the time I had an account with Wells Fargo, but it was just a nightmare. I was working minimum wage, more or less paycheck to paycheck. I had been burned several times by those predatory overdraft fees, and they had started to introduce minimum balance fees.

Switching to Simple was a breath of fresh air. I didn't have to worry about any of those fees anymore. I could look at their tiny list of possible fees and know what to expect rather than having to deal with the nightmare of poor information that I had before. They saved me so much money, and helped me get out of the paycheck-to-paycheck spiral.

Like you the budgeting feature have been incredibly powerful for me too. Being able to hide away money without risking an overdraft or declined payment was a game changer.

Now I find myself in a very unfortunate position where I'm not even in the states so I'm not sure how I'm going to manage a switch to somebody else.
Oh yes, the famous 4 stage strategy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
> Can we just designate Russia as a rogue state and sanction the fuck out of them already?

I have two points on this.

One. The power to sanction is losing the zest it once had. Russia has been building relationships that surpass mere political ties. They'll be fine.

Two. Maybe you don't know you're governments history. Maybe you don't care. I would say ask the middle east and South Americas, the history of any non-EU country that tried building national infrastructure using loans from the world bank and dead democratically elected presidents all over the Levant, Douth Americas and Africa.

Should I especially mention Libya? Did the US want to help Libya from being a top African/Arab nation? What about Venezuela? They're much closer. Are they helping Venezuela?
Have the founders tried to find a buyer for Simple to pull it out of BBVA and save it from being shut down?
It's a shame they don't have an Android version.

But, then, they wouldn't be able to ensure secrecy of messages sent to Android users.
Why isn't XMPP on the list ?!?

In fact I've dumped WhatsApp in favor of Conversations several years ago, when Facebook bought WhatsApp.

(I'm pretty sure that Facebook already helped themselves with all of WhatsApp's data back then, and this recent development is only ass-covering...)
Probably true. As an aside, coming from a Linux/Windows background and having partially moved to Mac recently, I observe the same of the Mac community.

For instance, when Big Sur launched, there was a tiny little utility that did nothing but change the color of the menu bar, and they wanted something like five dollars for it. Lots of stuff like this on Mac, I find. Popular FTP clients and text editors and disk utilities and stuff like that, they all cost money. The equivalents on Windows are more often than not free-as-in-beer. Just an observation.

But yeah, surely AmigaOS would benefit from being open source and free software in 2021, like EmuTOS or RISC OS Open. Unfortunately the ownership of the core parts of the OS has fallen into less than optimal hands (Cloanto...) and/or is still encumbered by patents or rights issues. So it goes. There is AROS though of course.
Most of the web (you type the URL into the proxy's webpag) "HTTPS" proxies found by Google search only give results that the proxy has encrypted. However, through TCP proxies (through which HTTPS can be supported), the attacker can only do an SSL-strip attack.
"Is it fair to say the wealthy are less generous when they are donating more money by one metric but not another?"

In my opinion yes, simply because I feel the "raw $$$ given away" metric is inherently useless when attempting to measure generosity; Exactly because it doesn't factor income into the equation. Someone making $1 million annually could give 100% (or more) of a lower income individual's income away without any serious effect on his quality of life.
Paul's essay "How You Know[1]" has a great analogy about subconscious mind：

“Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.”

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html
Ok, I get it: you don't like how the system full screen integrates with workspaces, and you were peeved when other apps adopted it in place of their own implementations. Of course Apple did not "hijack" anything: full screen support has always been strictly opt-in. But apps would feel pressure to adopt the system implementation.

Full screen was an effort to make OS X more usable on small displays - recall that the 11" MacBook Air had just shipped. It didn't make much sense for media playback apps to adopt the system full screen mode, especially as it was in 10.7-8.

I would have loved to enable a system mode where full screen windows could coexist in the same workspace as unrelated windows, but this would have been a new feature, not something we could have achieved by reversing anything. And eventually Apple did enable a new mode, which was what shipped in 10.9.

Oh, and if you filed a bug, then whoever closed it as "working as expected" made a mistake. There was a (heavily duped) bug tracking the uselessness of secondary displays in FS, and it was closed when 10.9 shipped. I may even have been the one to close it, I don't remember.
How about font size? How long they stay? Etc?

There is a very limited number of things to change in there is what I am saying.
Why? There are very efficient machine-learning-free solutions... There are even rote solutions a human can use n his own head with a bit of practice. The game is basically solved.

https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/?s=blackjack
2015 Community Edition (which is basically VS Pro) will be free for non-enterprise use.
Very impressive! It's so cool to see stuff like this. Great job.
> developers will lobby against it

Eh. I don't believe this is true. For example, in the Great San Francisco earthquake, something like 90% of the damage was caused by fires. Most of these fires were and are caused by unsecured water heaters, rigid gas connections, etc. There are now building codes that improve on these issues -- all water heaters are now strapped, gas connections are flexible, etc. Among other protections that I know of, shear walls are mandated in certain cases, engineering reviews are done, houses are bolted to foundations at more regular intervals, the proportion of various walls that are windows is more limited, etc.

Yes, regulations were slackened in 1906, but

1. Earthquakes between 1906 and now show that regulations DO tighten over time. If developers are trying to lobby against these, they are failing. (More likely, the property owners paying the developers are the ones who would lobby. It benefits the contractor to charge for more work.)

2. Even if we didn't have historical evidence to discount your position, the resources available to the people of that time and the people of our current time are not remotely comparable. Our capabilities for manufacturing and building are dramatically more vast.

More on the evolution of these codes, which further contradicts your view that developers have been able to prevent their strengthening: http://quake06.stanford.edu/centennial/tour/stop10.html
Didn't he step down voluntarily?[1] Or is there some back story to this that is not general knowledge?

[1] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-August/0054...
Surely the important distinction between the 'super-rich' and us mere mortals is that they can afford to acquire stuff that is inherently worth keeping to an extent?

Advertising pushes us not only towards buying 'stuff', but towards buying disposable items, items with high margins built in, etc. I've seen tons of furniture adverts, but never one for antique solid wood furniture, or even its' modern equivalent. Always disposable tat.

Even luxury adverts are generally advertising disposables such as cars.
I'm looking forward to hearing - if you've made good inroads into the MSFT dominated corporate IT world I will personally send a case of beer to your office.
Good point. Darn my brain for being conditioned to drawing concrete correlations from graphs.
What are you talking about? Haskell has done a wonderful job at teaching people how to use Haskell.

This is a feat in and of itself.
You should try following 'More or Less' on Radio-4.

Here's their 'Numbers of the Year 2014' -

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreor...
Do a trial run of a restore. I've seen too many backups fail/be incomplete to trust that backup works without validation; test that you can get back what you need to.
Or even better, put something like [REDACTED] there
The only one that would matter is Lisa Murkowski as she's up for reelection next year. After 2022 people will have forgotten all this and move on to the next shiny object.
Site seems to be down.

But when you're finished, hawk this on /r/nba. Lots of devoted fans there, and contributions are very much appreciated.
Developing apps for Android isn't especially hard - much of the documentation is geared toward that.
Developing on Android itself (porting to new devices, adding functionality, etc) is insanely difficult and very poorly documented (if at all).
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly...
After building iTunes libraries on multiple computers in a single household, multiple iPhones, iPods, and now an Android phone, I can say that I honestly miss having music on a CD that I could rip/play anywhere and I felt like I really owned it. The old book of CD's actually feels psychologically easier to manage than 4 different iTunes + Amazon mp3 libraries.
What am I missing?

What, exactly, did Apple's marketing department do to hype (much less overhype) this announcement? It seems to me that there was a cryptic teaser page on the iTunes site for 24 hours. It's hard to imagine a more low-key launch, other than silently adding the Beatles albums to the iTunes catalog.

It seems to me that it is the tech media who need to have their meds adjusted.
You're right - but that was the point. The patch was trying to fix problems with the process scheduler, and "-j64" is going to make lots of processes that want to do work and need scheduling.
I'm sure this is off topic, but as I was previewing the Hadoop book I saw this quote by the creator of Hadoop as to why he choose the name Hadoop:

The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere; those are my naming criteria. Kids are good at generating such. Googol is a kid's term.

I just see a lot of startups having a hard time finding a decent name, so that seems like a nice piece of advice worth pointing out.
"There was a lot of pressure from my family not really to have a career path in mind, just to get good grades. Getting something less than an A wasn't a disappointment, it was an outright failure. I didn't consider that a very nurturing environment."

Funny how many smart and successful people come from this kind of background but don't want to share it with anyone else.
It depends on many factors what the optimal number of concurrent builds is, but the bottom line is that you want to maximize your CPU utilization and minimize context switching.

If you think that one extra concurrent job is enough to fill CPU utilization in the time that other jobs are blocking on iowait, then you are fine.

So, bottom line, factors to think about:

- your i/o throughput for writing the generated object files;

- the complexity of the code being compiled, - template-rich C++ code has a lot higher CPU usage versus i/o ratio

- the amount of cores in your system
They actually are the same company, both owned by News Corp, run by one Rupert Murdoch.
Front page, 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8900779
Forbes is a hosted blogspam platform. You pay them, they publish you, and folks permanently stuck in the 90s think they're reading something that legitimate journalists and editors were involved in. In this case, we have the pleasure of reading an anti-renewable campaigner's entirely siloed views of the impact of climate change and an argument for how everything will be ok and all the scientists are wrong.

But articles involving mis-targeted casual skepticism make us feel nice and ok with the status quo so we share them, because articles about the need to act are uncomfortable to digest.
They can stop selling GPUs to these OEMs or just deprioritize their contracts as a less extreme option.
>That only happened if you ignored and dismissed updates for weeks.

Given that some updates have caused systems to brick or deleted data I want a way to wait weeks or longer before updating.
I do think that we're going to see more of this. This is just a relatively early example. Rust and LLVM bring things to the table that make them inevitable if we as an ecosystem, on the whole, value privacy and security. This is where the rubber of the ethos hits the road. C for all it's good work and history, is a leaky mess and the source of so many zero-days, especially the bad bad state actor level ones.

If we are to move to a more abstracted and safer system, the ideas behind LLVM are just going to be a fact of life in years to come. The solution to this is to either fund greater LLVM integration (or similar that isn't on the scene yet) or accept the status-quo. I choose the former, but I sincerely hope the future direction leaves as few out in the cold as possible through the effort of smart people. But protecting hobbyists is a stretch goal in my mind compared to improving the security and privacy of the global interconnected world we're in.
> IMHO re-implement these using modern ES6 javascript targeting browsers above IE11 (so ES module support is good) and a simple canvas library (or even P5.js) to really capture the original spirit of BASIC

IIRC, nothing in either volume of the original (not sure if this changed in the later update that targeted SmallBasic) used graphics, they were all text-mode, so there's no real need to target a canvas library. Maybe something that provides a simpler abstraction than the DOM for just dropping text onto the page, though, if you don't want all the display in dev tools.
From the FAQ:

"Why don’t we just take a stand and take our state back? We can persuade people to think like us!"

is this satire?
I get the feeling Apple isn't going to fix the swap issue anytime soon. I don't think they're being insidious about it, though: the BSD memory model is (arguably overly) complicated, and refactoring any portion of it's memory management is guaranteed to be a pain in the ass. The TL:DR is that MacOS doesn't virtualize memory, and when that memory is unified it will frequently spill over into the swap storage. I have no idea how Apple can pull themselves out of this one, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the swap usage will only increase as time goes on.
Sadly, they don't mention Ham Radio, which (along with other shortwave users) is pretty close to obsessed with sunspots. They have a dramatic impact on HF propagation.
Yet another example how the state-funded religion of Psychiatry is used as a means of social control. Albeit, a relatively trivial example, in consideration of all the other political prisoners that have been 'committed for their own good' ..
I don't see a turbine anywhere. There's not even any amplification (boost). It's just a directional antenna.
My Dell XPS 16 has a 1920x1080 screen with RGBLED. It can, quite literally, light up a room. My previous Dell (Vostro 1500) had 1680x1050 resolution. I'm quite liking this laptop, especially since it's $1000 cheaper than a lesser equipped MacBook Pro.
Maybe, but they're often wildly overstated. There are many more exceptions and variations than those who would generalize will admit. This is anecdotal, but I'm an example of what I'm talking about: higher verbal scores than math, as right-brained as I am left-brained -- and I'm male.
I tried the background image, but never see it since I use firefox search bar. I would guess that most advanced google users use an interface akin to the search bar wherein you don't see the google front page.
It's not so stupid but pragmatic. It sounds like those errors are the types of which are whispy and hard to track down. Thankfully at this point we're all pretty familiar with that type of standard and abide almost automatically.

But I hate you if you force me to have capitals or numbers or symbols!
Wired's headline is false journalism...

Phil Plait, a Hubble astronomer politely debunks the Wired article here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...
jacquesm has a pretty good guide: http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant
If you could be a little more specific regarding the problems you see with the argument/perspective we might be able to have a discussion.

Heres my perspective on how the issues are related:

I've never met a hacker who believes a particular line of code should be illegal. This is because code is just a tool which can be put to any number of uses. Even blatantly malicious and infectious code should be legal in and of itself because we can learn from it and put that knowledge to use. You know our adversaries are doing the same. Using that code in a way that causes harm is what should be illegal. Writing the virus or a proof of concept for an exploit is how we become more resilient. This same line of reasoning applies to firearms.
There's nothing a priori clear about punctuation like [ ] { }, you're just used to seeing lots of syntactic markers.
The idea is that you cannot get the first car out of the garage if the second one still is there because that garage, with its single door, is a single-lane dead end street.

A queue would be a single-lane one-way street, like in a car wash.
Simply: I don't think Apple are going to suddenly replace Foundation (or any other Cocoa framework) with a Swift only version. They'll just iterate the frameworks they currently have to make them a little more modern and a little more Swift friendly.

Not that they could anyway: according to Chris Lattner, Swift is currently 1-2 years away from including a language "resilience model" that would allow safe linking to frameworks built with a different version of Swift. Until then, the Swift standard library needs to remain as small as possible because it is statically linked into every Swift app (it can't be shipped separately with the OS).
Without them it doesn't run at all, so I still think they qualify.