jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sci-hub by its own admission is a service that breaks the law by providing unauthorised access to copyright materials.

I don't know whether Sci-hub has violated Twitter ToS (on the platform) but it doesn't surprise me that Twitter would want to distance itself from an organization that is committed to breaking the law. A more dramatic/extreme example would be whether we would think it is ok for other illegal organisations/services (e.g terrorists) to be on Twitter if they weren't breaking ToS on the platform, I suspect many would say no.

On Trump, it wouldn't surprise me if he broke Twitter ToS on the platform but you would have to admit that his ban would involve greyer interpretation of his tweets than a black-white ban of a service that aims to break the law.

And I say this as a big support of sci-hub too.

Generally speaking delete Facebook/Twitter/etc, I did and it has been a big improvement to my life.
FYI, I absolutely read your statement as claiming that all politicians and media outlets are now guilty of "'total fabrication of facts'." I appreciate the clarification, but that sentiment is widespread, so I accepted it at face value.

> It is very unhealthy to use any 'one source' for news in the US right now for this reason,

Strongly disagree here and feel like this attitude is also part of the problem. It's much better to get your news from a single source who employ a large number of fact-checkers and are willing to issue retractions, than it is to get it from a "variety" of sources repeating the same claims with absolutely no independent verification of the facts.

Multiple sources reporting something does not make it credible if the sources in question aren't performing independent verification. Many "news" sites today engage in circular references where they say, "blah is reporting...", then another site picks that up and reports that "multiple sites are reporting..." And none of them bother with independent verification. This is often exploited to spread hoaxes.
When my title included "senior" in it
If it goes the same way as the rest of the internet, we’ll be in a situation where they’re illegal, but large “too big to fail” companies will be exempt from the law.

(For examples of what I mean, see any copyright dispute involving YouTube, Dropbox, etc. or the repercussions of illegal content on pornhub vs. Facebook.)
Flat Earthers and their ilk are easy to joke about.

But it stops being funny really fast when a Science Denier becomes a policy maker.
Geologists studying glaciers have determined we're in an Interglacial Period, where glaciers are contracting and it's also cyclical [1]

There's also natural wonders like the Great Blue Hole, a marine sinkhole off the coast in Belize, which show this has been going on for some time. It was "formed during several episodes of Quaternary Glaciation when sea levels were much lower.. as the ocean began to rise again, the [124M] cave was flooded" [2]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hole#cite_note-NA...
> exist along a continuum of complexity

Isn't that the point? Building a serious scripting language is a huge project. It's far more ambitious than writing a simple text-based calculator.

If you want to build a scripting language worth actually adopting, it's going to have to be far better than Python. That's a very high bar.

The same applies for everything in technology. You could try to write your own OS rather than use an existing one, but it's almost certainly a terrible idea.
A M1A2 main battle tank can travel at 40mph or 30mph offroad. If you know where one is and then lose track it can be 600 miles away from where you thought it was within 24 hours. If you saw the tank in Paris it could show up as far away as Prague or Madrid the next day.

They aren't that slow.
idk about the domestic violence angle, but bored people are more likely to go out and expose themselves/others to the virus. seems like anything that keeps people inside voluntarily should have at least a low spot on the priority list.
Over the last 3 years, I bought three 'google edition' devices (nexus 10, galaxy nexus, htc one m7) and I am less than impressed. I haven't experienced faster updates, and while I appreciate to run the vanilla android. Regressions and overall poor software quality have been my experience with their devices. They must be outsourcing large parts of the software they ship on their devices because I'm absolutely stunned things like this go through QA.

Here's the best-of:
- The responsiveness of the nexus 10 tablet has been enjoying enormous spikes since day 1.

- Running into all sorts of problems with 'Mail app' and now 'Gmail app' using a third-party imap server. Lots of message with an HTML body or attachements are displayed blank.

- Skype, hangout, SIP, have been a disaster with all those devices. Sometimes due to horrible software (Skype), sometimes due to the hardware/OS (hangout with htc).

- Finally, lollipop is the freebsd 5.0 of android
This may sound cliche, but click-bate articles truly are plaguing the nation
Proxies can also work well for cheaper than buying distributed compute.
“confused” by my syntax too
What a waste of time. Just the author feeling smug about being "smarter" than this person.
One should always avoid finding hidden meanings and attributing quotes to people who has not said them. If he wanted to call feminist voldemort then we would have used the word feminist. Assuming that he actually meant that all feminist are voldemort is simply an interpretation, one which clearly not everyone share including the author.

If the New York Times Article had accused the author of being critical to parts of feminist movement it would likely been more true, and it would likely also be less of a news item to include. A lot of people are critical to parts of the feminist movement. If one wanted to gain outrage then the "sane" quote might have been useful, and at least it would then be a true quote rather than an interpretation. I doubt however it too would sounds enough outrageously, which is why they did not use it.
It’s an awful shame that it is becoming so popular to burn out the sensors on these with high wattage infrared lasers
I have an Android. I've been meaning to become cool but thus far it hasn't happened.
Well I mean, economic systems that attempt to leverage human benevolence have all failed. Capitalism at its root leverages our base qualities (greed, fear, desire, etc.) to motivate members to be productive. It has been the most successful system thus far, despite its many, many faults.
Policies get applied inconsistently all the time for very uninteresting reasons. Inconsistency is what happens by default unless people make an enormous and concerted effort to be consistent. I don’t personally see any inconsistency - just two case-by-case decisions that went in different directions. But even if we grant that the two decisions are inconsistent, I don’t see why this is supposed to be a big deal. It certainly doesn’t mean that one of the decisions is necessarily wrong or unjustified. The NYT has wide latitude to do as it wishes in any given case.

The only interesting question here is whether there’s some overriding reason why the NYT should collude with Scott Alexander in keeping his identity semi-secret (it’s not like it was actually secret anyway). There just isn’t any such reason.
Half of HN complains every time a UI is updated; the other half complains when a UI hasn’t been updated.
Even for billing and to detect fraud, it should be sufficient to just record the date and fare and delete them after one billing cycle.
> I have a colleague at work who runs 5 miles in the gym at lunch, every single day, and is about 20-30 pounds overweight. He is a master of discipline, never misses a day - but simply can't drop the weight he's trying to. All that exercise simply results in him being hungrier, and eating more.

Yes. The problem is people eating too much (although 1h of exercise is not that much, and certainly not a marathon…)
Yes, but both of those are (I believe) technologies developed outside of Microsoft that were then purchased.

While Google and Apple do also purchase technologies, they seem to produce more interesting in-house products than Microsoft. At least in my perception.

I can't recall the last time that Microsoft actually developed internally and rolled out a significant "game changer" device or software.
I'd like to see a real translation of this article before I draw any conclusions.

Google translate is decent (and getting better) but I'm not sure I trust it yet for international diplomatic translations.
We use a modified naive bayes extensively in a commercial application -- from what I understand it's extremely quick to classify, easy to modify/customize, and deals very well with gaps in data. For a lot of applications, things like SVM and WAODE are only minor incremental improvements.
I can't tell if he is stating that Android was the buggiest of the platforms that Wakemate is available on, or if the Wakemate app on Android happened to (initially) turn out to be the buggiest of the various Wakemate apps on the various platforms.
Surprise: US national debt is > $13 trillion.

And no, most of it isn't packed briefcases of five-dollar notes.

And discount rate of 0.5% is not as normal, as one might think. Compare with China -- ~3%, or Russia -- 7.75%.
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OK, this is logging on debug level, but when level is decided during compilation. Why don't using logging on debug then? You can also diagnose production code, while log level check is not very expensive.
I'm conflicted,

on one hand this is good in that they are recognizing that debt burdens are a real hinderence to their graduates

on the other hand, this is used to pitch the line that 65K tuition is no big deal

which you're in line for at the full rate at combined 225K income

look, I get that in modern internet culture, no sypathy is supposed to be shown to people with household income over 200K, but that is still really alot

its also not at all obvious that the return on any investment of 200K for education is worthwhile

I'll just link to:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17159

http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2004/10/education....

http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2004/10/education....

for the general case against

also even if it does pay off, you have to work like a dog to make it pay off, its not a passive investment

if you're buying a website on flippa, the degree to which your investment is passive or active factors pretty heavily into the price,

it should be the same for colleges

(I'd also love to see a breakdown of exactly how much of Stanfords admitted class comes form < 125K parent income, between 125K and 225K parent income, and > 225K parent income)

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also, I have a problem with the meme that elite colleges are now cheaper than state colleges

I get that merit scholarship vary by college, but students qualified enough to get into Stanford or Harvard will almost certainly qualify for full merit scholarships at most if not all state schools

(maybe not at Cal or UCLA, but almost certainly at UCSB or UCD or San Jose State or Fresno State)

that meme should stop
More like that:

There's the javascript being bad with no explanation. As if there's something bad with developing tools for the javascript adept to contribute to a platform.

Browsers already doing too much comment. What? Would this person rather the team create new tools from scratch instead of leveraging a tool that the target market for this project is already using?

Notice that the "good" parts have very little or nothing to do with web development and a good number of the "bad" items do. I believe this person is not one of people intended to make use of this tool.
Every language hat it pros and cons. Overall we could do much worse than JavaScript.
There's a very interesting episode of Planet Money about tipping[1].

I was neutral on tipping before listening, and now I'm staunchly against it. Not only is it discriminatory, it has no effect on the quality of service.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/24/137346289/why-we-t...
Diffuse can do n-way merges. So, yes.

Unfortunately (for automation's sake), there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to specify a single default output file. So you need to manually save whichever file you merged in to, and then refuse at the prompt to save the rest.
Original article: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/214596/what_if...
I have difficulty understanding why any discussion of taxes in the US becomes a conversation about the income tax. There are many, many taxes in the US. A rational discussion of taxes would include all of the taxes together. Most states have a sales tax, and the tax is regressive. Several states (North Carolina, Alabama and many others) make the sales tax much more regressive by putting a cap on it. I recall, when I lived in North Carolina during the 90s, the sales tax had a cap at $100. So the kind of everyday items that poor people have to buy would face the full tax, but plenty of consumer goods that the middle class bought (lots of consumer electronics, for instance) did not face the full tax since the items cost over $100. In essence, the poor were the only ones who had to the full sales tax on nearly everything they bought.

In almost all 50 states, the overall tax code is regressive - the middle classes are taxed more heavily than the rich. The regressive nature of the state taxes is offset by the progressive nature of the Federal taxes.

Imagine re-doing the above scenario of 10 men in a bar, but doing it in an accurate way, where there is sales tax on those beers - then the story comes out rather differently.
yep. this is the same reason most JEE development sucks - constant restarting of your app servers during development.

why not "hot deploy"?

hot deploy doesn't work when you're working with other developers who are violating the JEE spec (mainly by starting their own threads.)
Also of note though not specifically enumerated in this article, if you read the linked biography http://govsecinfo.com/events/govsec-2011/Speakers/Speaker%20... of Mark Rasch, who Salon says facilitated this whole thing, you'll notice his title is, "Director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Consulting, Computer Science Corporation".

Computer Science Corporation aka, "CSC" is a major government contractor for IT services. What better way to sell more overpriced crap to the government than to foment a climate of panic around the Wikileaks issue. A problem that CSC no doubt has the perfect multi million dollar enterprise "solution" for.

In other words Mark Rasch has a likely significant and surely direct financial interest in making news coverage about Manning as sensationalistic as humanly possible.
It gets treated like a medical condition because it has, at least in part, physiological roots. Yes, people can get depressed because their life sucks and they feel powerless to fix it. But people can also get depressed because they are ill, because there is something wrong with their brain chemistry, etc. Some studies have shown a connection between diet and depression. Others indicate that exercising more is more effective than drugs for treating depression. So there is definitely a medical aspect to it, even though, yes, sometimes fixing your life (rather than your body) is what is needed.
More elaborate example: http://jsfiddle.net/eterps/4Yacx/1/
"The anti-psychotics made me feel nothing. I don't know how I can explain this to someone who hasn't been there, but it's like your emotions just cease to exist."

I had that when I first took Ritalin. It was spooky, I was completely clinical and hyper-rational. Mr. Spock, basically. And the most disturbing part? I stopped hearing music in my head. I usually have a soundtrack of some kind in my brain, and it just stopped.

Eventually this wore off, the music and emotions came back, but it's damn freaky.

If anyone thinks they may have a mental illness, do some research (e.g., learn what MOA means, what serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine do, etc.), pay attention to what does or doesn't work, and find a doctor who will listen to you and take your self-evaluation and observations into account.

Finding the right meds (or determining if meds are even suitable) will require some trial and error, and if you can work well with your doctor you can reduce the missteps.
A perfectly self-consistent view. But it says nothing about reality - how do we know this is really like what we have here?
"The code backing things like Numpy and Scipy is not small, has been well optimised over many years, and would be extremely difficult to reimplement at speed even with a faster Python."

I assume you're unaware of the numpypy project then, which is doing exactly that, with reasonable results.

I also think you overestimate the performance of numpy/scipy when compared to, for instance, C++ template-based libraries which are able to make large performance gains from compiling specializations for the specific array shapes being used. JITs can potentially go further, being able to compile specializations in places where array shapes are not known at compile-time.
Where are Amazon ELBs located? In Amazon's datacenters? Some people may prefer to serve static content and do TCP handshakes and slow-start closer to the customer.

Other than that, I haven't seen external connections to Amazon break 5 MB/s, but that might just be me renting cheap instances.
Go back to the building metaphor. Building datacenters is not our core business, so we outsource it. Much like building a building is not our core business, nor running a telephone system, so we outsource those things too. All business critical, but still outsourced.
More headache. Sorry, didn't know that it had been posted to HN previously.
They better start writing their explanation now. Multiple AZ's affected?
This is one example of how to remove uninteresting stack frames from Clojure stack traces. http://j.mp/h3xzdN
Yes valisystem linked to it. All good, I wasn't sure if I misremembered.
Teams vary pretty heavily too. I like the team of 12 in my large company, but a few other guys who started around the same time as me hate the people they work with. That makes a huge difference in your day. At a startup, there are 5-25 people and that's it. At a big company, groups and departments have their own cultures and job functions.
That's why I am writing my own: http://crondom.com/

I wanted very basic things (namely application event monitoring for fraud), so I built my own analytics package around cron jobs.
>I have a 17-year-old daughter who went to a private school...It was judged one of the 100 best schools in America. It was phenomenal. The tuition was $5,500 a year, which is a lot of money for most parents. But the teachers were paid less than public school teachers - so it's not about money at the teacher level.

In response to Steve Jobs:

I agree, quality of education isn't necessarily about pay at the teacher level, but this isn't the best argument about why. The students attending this school necessarily have parents who put a high priority on education; at the very least, they are willing to pay $5,500 to a top 100 school. I think those parents are making a huge impact. If you move that exact same school with those exact same teachers into a less affluent environment with a $150 tuition I don't think you would see the same phenomenal results.
> project mailing lists, Github issue tracker, project IRC channel, documentation (changelog, FAQ), and Twitter channels

It's hardly a notice posted in a sub-basement 6 months before instituting a breaking change. They communicated via numerous mechanisms.
I'm not particularly religious (to be transparent)

But maybe thats a little less personal observation from the rabbis perspective, and a little more bible/gospel based hearsay ?
(function() { var x;
x = 5;
return ++x;
}).call(this);

This won't loop but just return 6.
Moore's Law doesn't apply to tanks.
> But perhaps we do need someone, somewhere, looking for good investment.

Do programs on investment-bank servers perform this function?
The article answers that. Look around "We need active managers".
My gut tells me that the price should be an analytic function of the number of users or resources used, with an everywhere-positive first derivative and an everywhere-nonpositive second derivative.

Then again, my service has pricing in picodollars, so I'm clearly crazy.
If this does pass, couldn't we just set up alternate DNS servers which include the blacklisted domains?
The techzing podcast is great easy listening for startup hacker types.

For those who don't know the techzing format is two developers having a regular chat about the startup projects they are working on, their consulting work and the stories they found interesting on hacker news.

There are also guest interview shows, sometimes with tech / startup people and sometimes with more exotic guests (one interview was with a geologist about peak oil and helium 3 fusion. Another was about the evidence behind alien sightings).

If you like startup podcasts I recommend you check out a few episodes of techzing and see if it's too your liking.
looks familiar
http://www.masterresource.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ear...
Gossip about publicly traded companies is always worth something more than gossip.
zoomed http://zoom.it/9qx1
I got a seemingly genuine email from Gawker entitled, "Gawker Comment Accounts Compromised -- Important"

Although I don't believe my email address was in the dump.
I'm curious how many were 'jesus' 'bible' and/or some other obvious one.
My 3 and 5 year old kids have no issue using an iPad.
You are confusing quality of life with money saved for a rainy day. So long as the income holds out they are not much different, but when bad times come one is in trouble
Yes, of course.

Computers should be seen as machines for manipulating symbols, not as machines for manipulating a small number of fundamental data types into which symbols are squeezed, usually with associated wreckage.

A file path, a shell command, a time/date, a URL, on-screen text in a browser, on-screen text in a text editor, and code in an editing window are all completely different data types. They can be implemented as char arrays - usually poorly - but that doesn't mean they're smoothly interchangeable with clear interfaces.

So in reality they're neither abstracted nor standardised nor designed properly, and the result is a lot of pain and confusion, because developers default to "So this is a string..." instead of thinking of them as separate types implementing distinct abstractions with hugely different requirements.