jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I, too, wonder what this professor did to detect the "cheating" here (which I do not believe was cheating at all, assuming the test bank questions weren't obtained under false pretenses[1]). Did they simply score too high?

As someone with firsthand experience in writing tests, I can't actually blame him for using the publisher's test bank questions -- writing good test items is hard! On the other hand, in the video linked in the article, he never actually claims to have written the questions. He only says that he "creates" the exams (though, granted, his phrasing is a little misleading). Again, as someone who's written exams before, I think creating an exam based on a publisher's bank of questions is a legitimate way of writing an exam.

As usual, I suspect the real truth of the matter is quite a bit murkier than is being presented by either side.

[1] Test banks and solutions manuals are frequently only made available to professors, so if the materials were obtained by pretending to be a professor, I'd definitely consider that cheating.
I can't believe people aren't tearing this asshole to threads. Between all the bullshit in his article, what he's really saying is this: let's pay less for health insurance by transferring more costs to the individual. I suppose you might support this if you're so deluded as to think lots of people are going to the doctors office because they're bored and have nothing better to do than have time consuming, often humiliating, uncomfortable to painful procedures and tests performed on them on a schedule that's extremely inconvenient.

This has been proven experimentally (by a randomized trial) to be true. When people pay more out of pocket for medicine (95% copay vs 5%), they consume 30% less medicine, but have statistically identical health outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/hie/

The reason people consume unnecessary medicine is unknown, but the fact that they do so is not in doubt.

(I'm not even going to address your claim that "anyone who disagrees with me on the purpose of insurance are idiots".)
Can you think of any reforms that would break up the collusion without nationalizing the entire system?

(Published price lists with limits on 'negotiated discounts'? Antitrust actions splitting up larger operators? Tax favoritism for processes that make true costs clear, rather than for processes which hide costs through multiple levels of indirection?)
It would also be plagiarism if the professor claimed authorship of a test which he did not write.
I don't understand the outrage. Some completed this in 7-8 minutes. That's quite a difference from spending hours without a result. Add a few of these problems up (which I hope are representative of actual skills) and you're looking at minutes vs. days. Sure, the aside on resources comes off a bit flippant -- but it doesn't mean it's untrue.
Google Cache of the site:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
My best hack, hands down is: just don't go to meetings.

It's weird at first. Seems like you'll get in trouble, and people do get pissed. But they have a weird way of getting you just the information you need and little more.

I don't skip every meeting, just the ones that routinely offer me little value and waste a lot of time. I just stopped going and nothing changed except I have a lot more time to get things done.

BTW, I switched to Colemak a couple of months ago. If you're doing it to type faster, you might be disappointed for a while. If you are doing it for ergonomics, you'll be delighted. I switched because I started noticing fatigue in my fingers.
I have 307 servers from the smallest to the largest and thousands of customers all round the world so I see the bandwidth problems first hand. There have been a couple of occasions when there network just hasn't been available to parts of America (measured in number of complaints I have to deal with).

The concern is, just because it works for you, doesn't mean it will work for all of your customers. Especially if they're not in the EU.

I'm not so sure on the cooling either -- their hard disks are very hot (I admit I don't know enough about hardware to say whether this is a problem) but generally I don't see many hardware failures.

I do however see plenty of random reboots -- only the HG servers (and strangely a few 19.99 servers with over a year uptime) seem to survive these as you'd expect.
+1.

Regarding 4 and 5 though, will these actually improve your brain function - make you smarter? Or are they just to guard against decline?

I've heard about fish being good in the womb and good for warding off dementia, but I haven't seen anything about it actually making you smarter.

And I guess the warning on drugs doesn't include nootropics.
> so you can appreciate the percentage increase by eye.

Not quite what you asked for, but Settings -> Vertical Scale -> Logarithmic -- one pixel is the same percentage change no matter the absolute price.
I wasn't suggesting that user should be banned; but that a quick glance at his profile and feed can tell me he lies a lot, and if he's your lens into America, you will not be seeing reality.
> I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone.

Absolutely true. The media has hoodwinked the public.

But the real problem, Trump is calling for a coup and the system around that is broken does need to be addressed.

How do you deal what a public to stupid to deal with that? Trump style fool them into thinking a real coup attempt happened?

It's a tug of war over the general population to stupid to believe anything in the media or who stupidly believe everything in the media.

And now, somehow we are in a position private businesses have the power.
If you see their radicalization as the problem instead of a symptom you’re missing the plot.
Included in Twitter’s statement, explaining why it banned Trump: “Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1347696690841739267...
> Murder is quite easy to define

Is it? Would someone refusing to wear a mask, provably resulting in them asymptomatically infecting someone with COVID-19 be charged with negligent manslaughter? This is something that people have been debating.

Many actions humans can take could kill another. Only a subset of these are regarded as murder/manslaughter.
It would be hard to limit algorithmic internal promotion without limiting algorithmic external promotion, including the entire ad bidding ecosystem. And perhaps that’s a good thing - in addition to Facebook taking responsibility for Facebook links its non-opt-in algorithms promote, it should take responsibility for ad content. There are arguments that this could disadvantage smaller businesses in advertising. That’s a secondary concern to the deprogramming of a radicalized populace.
To pretend that there are arguments that it is not socially acceptable to promote is to pretend that the Overton window doesn't exist. Who does that help? People outside it.
That doesn't invalidate the citizen's concerns for safety though, which is what the chief had to do in order to then make assumptions about the writer's lack of aptitude for societal understanding. People were doing illegal acts in mass that directly affected the lives of the people around them with no immediate repercussion. It would have made more sense for the chief to apologize for the citizen's valid concerns and an inability to enforce the law due to the threat of escalation. The belief that any action on the police force's part to enforce the law would have escalated in violence only further speaks to the validity of the concerns for safety of the writer.
What would you do to improve how your subconscious works?
I think the results from "social search" are in there, they're just incorporated at a deeper level.

I wish people who (tried to) write about search engines had a better understanding of modern information retrieval techniques (document similarity, use of metadata, bag of words, etc) and that results are no longer just keyword matching, but try to infer the users intent from context and past interactions.

Search engines could probably due a better job conveying this in the presentation of results.
Yeah, it was done around May, 2007. It was originally Crispy News. I worked with Norimasa Yoshida to get it set up for Dell, and in the process to Salesforce. I agree, I think it was definitely a win for the Linux community at least.
Wow, one of those ideas has a LOT more upvotes than the others. It's a really good idea.

If dell implements that one idea, I'll consider this website a success.

Cell phone manufacturers, take note!
You're giving your password to someone else. You don't magically get some guarantee that they are safe, that they won't be stolen etc. Yes, I know that oAuth perms can be revoked, that is the entire point and that's why it's dumb to give a site your credentials when better alternatives exist.

"I've never given my username and password directly to websites, except for Etacts." This is all about Etacts right? How do you expect someone to be accessing your account? You gave them your user and password. The point is, you hand out your username and password, it just makes you look silly to suggest that your account is being compromised by covert wifi sniffers (you are using encryption right?), etc.

I still don't understand why you need to DBAN to do an OS reinstall unless you are just using the term DBAN loosely.
If you're worried about this, you should use Jython. It gives you access to the JVM optimizer (which is awesome) and all 10,000,000 existing java libs with interop.
If I'm non-technical, the term "job" is throwing me a bit. I'm thinking job as in employment, which doesn't makes sense in the context. Maybe call it a "Harvest". "Harvest a document in seconds" instead of "Start a new job in seconds." The "New Job" button could be labeled "New Harvest" etc.
For those seeking efficiency, accuracy, rigor, error bounds, confidence intervals, sigmas and such: get over it. This is fun; pure fun; a great way to teach your kid how cool science is.
I also believe that one of Steve's biggest advantages is that he loves the products and features he is presenting; the videogame demonstrations in particular seem to summon his inner child.

There are many dubious claims such as the "factual" remarks about the superlative qualities of the products (thinnest, cheapest, greenest), but I am sure he believes it when he starts the talk by saying that "we have some great things to show you".
To the paralyzed and the amputees, absolutely. The faster the advancement happens, the sooner animals models can be deprecated. Nobody wants to use animal models, they are a necessary evil.

Edit: This is a moot point if it turns out we can repair the damage from paralysis and amputation using bioengineering.
The best way to build web applications will be determined by the best applications. If you seek inspiration, look for great web apps and find out what they use.

Everything else is nonsense. I’ve never been impressed by static sites or server rendered apps. I’ve also never been impressed by over the top architected web frameworks. Show me a next.js site where I go ‘woah, unbelievable’, don’t care.

Show me a svelte site that makes me go woah. Show me a React one, etc. Server rendered sites were always some of the lamest things I’ve ever seen.

Go get inspired, and the answer will be clear.
The Jesus shoes, also from MSCHF, happened in 2019, and they apparently didn't do anything. But they filed a lawsuit within a few days of the Satan shoes.
"What better reward for a monkey, than a banana"? what about FREEDOM?

I am not a vegan/whatever/animal activist, but maybe we should allow terminally-ill or death-row volunteers for this kind of experiment... With good money for the family, and I think some people would like to help mankind in the end. It is better than dying without accomplishing anything in life.

So, you have at most one year with an inoperable tumor, and you will not travel because you want to be close to your family. Would you be a volunteer for this research, for 500 thousand dollars? (monkeys are cheaper, but you are the real deal)
Human race: "is that a challenge?"
>> It means it supports a lot of jobs. Large auto plants can directly employ 10,000+ people.

> So do computers.

Computers don't directly employ anyone, yet.

Nitpicking aside, the vast bulk of the jobs enabled by computers in the US, Japan, and Germany will be completely unaffected by computer production delays. I'm guessing there's far more auto than computer production in those countries, so auto production difficulties have a more immediate effect.
The point of the article is that you are taking an ancient interface and using it for something new. Millions of lines of code was written against that interface with old assumptions, and now you've moved it to a new implementation without changing any of it. Things are bound to go wrong.

When you move sqlite to NFS, for example, file locking probably won't work. There is nothing to tell you this.

It sounds like you have experience making NFS work well, but I don't see how anything you wrote addresses this point. In fact I think you're just echoing some of the article's points about "enterprise planning". AFAICT you come from the enterprise world and are advocating overprovisioning, which is fine, but not the same context.
I highly doubt any of it is stock considering SurveyMonkey raised money, presumably, to expand in this way.
> The propulsion system from Earth to Mars could just be a scaled-up version of the systems we've been using to send probes to Mars for decades.

You would have to send a Mir-sized object (in order to accommodate humans on their way up) on a transfer orbit to Mars, with the required shielding and supplies to keep the crew alive for at least 6 months, plus fuel for braking when they need to inject themselves into Martian orbit (or, at least, to circularize the orbit after atmospheric braking). Doing this with chemical rockets is possible, but operational NTRs would decrease the time for the trip and expose the crew to less radiation.

I am not sure the numbers for radiological risk are that low. Besides, the longer they stay en-route, the higher the risk from a CME catching them. If they are on Mars, at least they have a planet to shield them 50% of the time.
there are two problems with your argument:

1) the technology we have now is inadequate for serious colonization. we are better off investing in basic science, education, health care, and the economy in general. we have to create the people who will create the science first.

2) NASA is the wrong way to do colonization, it should be private enterprise, which has a much higher appetite for risk.
The syntax can be considered sort of a mix between Python and Javascript with a couple more keywords + types.

Also blog url?
In 1998 (N64) Nintendo made $1.2 billion in profits, which at the time was being compared to their previous record of $1.25 billion in 1993 (SNES).

There's no public information about how much of that was N64 profit and how much was Gameboy, but at least based on a private Nikkei investigation they said, "This success is attributed to the performance of the N64 and Game Boy, as well as its compatible software."

I couldn't find anything concrete about the Gamecube with a quick search [edit: Gamecube was also clearly profitable; see below link], but I just saw vague information that the Gamecube was profitable but less profitable than any other system up to that point.

Either way, it's common knowledge that Nintnedo sells all of its systems at a profit, so even only selling 20 million Gamecubes, it's unlikely it resulted in a loss, especially after you figure in the ridiculously high first-party software sales.

[1] http://ign64.ign.com/articles/062/062086p1.html

Edit: Here's some concrete information on Gamecube profits.

"GameCube sales leap doubles Nintendo Q2 profits."

From: [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/30/nintendo_q2_results/
I would imagine that all governments that have the technical capability would be attempting to do it.
> the length of a password is approximately proportional to the time taken to perform a naive brute force attack against it

This is incorrect. The time (or resources, in general) required to perform a brute force attack grows exponentially as the length of a password increases. For example, let's say you use lower-case letters only, but choose them uniformly at random. If it takes an attacker one day to crack your password now, then adding a single letter means that it takes the same attacker 26 days, and adding 4 letters makes it so the same attack would take over 1,000 years.
The grocery chain Picard in France trades in this space -- really nice quality food, all frozen. They're a pretty well-regarded brand, I'm told by my French friends.

One blogger's perspective: http://annmah.net/2010/01/23/french-frozen/
Am I alone in thinking this is utterly infantile behaviour?

It makes me rather sad that the art of correspondence (the beautiful letters of bygone times) is now gradually being replaced with Facebook Messenger and animated GIFs.
Moral truths don't change just because an election was held / that new laws are passed is evidence that current laws aren't always what's moral.

Democracies have a better track record than most governments with respect to human rights, but they are not perfect. For the obvious example in the US, slavery was always immoral, and didn't suddenly become so when an elected official decided to outlaw it.
Rainforest RAVEn USB. It looks like an FTDI-type serial port to a host. If you skip their application and just open the port it constantly sends data.

https://rainforestautomation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/...

Might be discontinued now, but I think Rainforest's gateway product is a continuation.
We don't use homework projects at my current job (I don't care for them personally and thankfully have a bit of influence in the hiring process), but I've worked places that did. We always took real-world problems we had but had already solved. This has a couple benefits: a) we have full context around edge cases, bugs, historical stuff, etc. that the candidate doesn't; b) we can see pretty quickly when a candidate does something innovative we didn't think of and it's always lead to extremely good discussions in the interview; c) it's very similar to the work they'd be doing day-to-day, so if they have a lackluster resume and/or don't interview well, but shine on this, their odds of an offer skyrocket; d) the company gains nothing from the work so that settles most (but not all) of the ethical objections to it.
Nothing. Seems a strange question, like What do you read while you sleep.

This Q was last asked 13 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117993
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the ISP was doing something like this. It's an easy way to make their service look better and there are few consequences for getting caught. It's also hard to prove conclusively that it's happening.
Could speed test sites do something about this? Like obfuscate the traffic somehow to get more genuine results?
From my very basic understanding as an interested electronic engineer, while symptomatically pulmonary for the most part, COVID is a largely cardiovascular disease. Medical professionals please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've read that the most dangerous symptom, pneumonia, stems from fluid leaking into the lungs due to dilation of the blood vessels, along with causing joint pain, loss of taste and smell, and swollen limbs.
> simple thenable object

Wouldn't you simply be reinventing promises?
Also, video games tended to not be translated into dutch. Mainly because it is suchs a small language.
Me and most of my peers learned most english from playing video games and watching movies and tv shows with subtitels, mostly because spoken dutch was not available.
so nice to see the hackernews crowd finally figuring it out!

i totally agree with you. i feel that if you keep digging, you'll find yourself convinced over time that BTC's "technical challenges" are not the flaws that they originally appear, and that in the long run crypto does make sense as a currency itself, in addition to a financial infrastructure.
Mhyes, it appears that I misunderstood the precise mechanism of this lib.

I don't know how to feel about the use of template Haskell in this lib (beyond the fact that it seems like it works great and avoids the curse of the weird error messages). I'm tempted to see it as a proof that, while deconstructive pattern matching is great (I really mean it!), it's nearly impossible to get rid of antediluvian dot accessor syntax/semantics.

Either way I'm too tired and incompetent with Haskell to have a meaningful opinion on that.
Thanks for the info. I have considered giving it another shot, but I guess I'll wait for the reserved instances at least. With the 1/n-th visitor: would be especially annoying if it happens to be the Google crawler und the site tanks in the rankings because of slow load times.
> I think the record speaks for itself.

There's something about the way you phrased this that makes me think you were gunning for pg. It would be nice if you included the complete breakdown, as well as your criteria for determining tech vs. finance. Since you had to manually go through the entire list, I can't imagine it would have been difficult to record your results.
Original thread:

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320439

Raw data:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/home.jhtml?passListId=54&pas...

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/54/rich-list-09_The-400-Ric...
That's the "node-name", i.e. the fully qualified name of the tag in its namespace. You probably wanted to ask for the local-name, which in your example would just be "index". Not sure how to with LXML, but it's a common mistake people make when dealing with XML.
The US will become an authoritarian police state when it starts silencing all opposition to the state as a matter of course. That isn't the case yet. However, the processes, institutions and technology available to the US government already seem quite capable of facilitating authoritarian control. Personally, I suspect that it's just a matter of time. All the things you talk about have happened, but they happen rarely. With the right leadership in power, they could easily start to become commonplace. The thing is, anyone who says something that doesn't conform to state ideology can be said to be aiding terrorists, by spreading an "extremist" message and implicitly encouraging others towards terrorism. The general public seem quite happy with whatever treatment "terrorists" get, so I can't see there being much standing in the way.
This was discussed on Reddit after Sourceforge announced the new installer three weeks ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jk1gz/sourcefor... , several users confirmed the crapware in the installers.
ED is an incredible repository of useful factual data dressed as a trolling/shock site. Google is absolutely not de-listing it because they're worried about you. There's much worse content available on google; the difference that the other stuff isn't politically sensitive.
Can you share product you're referring?
> Corruption requires hierarchy, and may well be that hierarchy requires corruption.

this is total nonsense. hierarchys are in no way tied to corruption, except that EVERYTHING requires a hierarchy, unless youre a nihilist.

to value is to rank order and create a hierarchy. valuation doesnt generate corruption.
The way I understand this is: consistency is important for managing expectations.

Change is not a problem but consistent application of expectations is important (in my opinion, this would include expectations around how you manage change).

If you have one set of expectations from one manager, and a different set of expectations from another manager, the complexity of your work just squared.