jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I haven’t thought up a framework, but one thing I’m wondering is why the identity of the person alone is newsworthy.

I’m probably missing part of the background here, I’m new to the controversy. Did some kind of mystery arise around the true identity of the author? Your comment implies that NYT obtained the true identity of the author through legal means — how exactly did they do that?

I don’t think finding out the identity of someone who wishes to remain anonymous is, in itself, sufficiently newsworthy to overcome the privacy interests of the individual. I also wonder if this story has a more interesting angle buried in it about the complexities of identity in the internet age: the author of the blog achieved notoriety, but in some ways that character is distinct from the physical person living their life and doing their job. The NYT wanted to publish a link between those two personas over their objection. Why should they be able to if the story can be written in a way that doesn’t?

Consider someone like... Satoshi, of bitcoin. The character has achieved this powerful notoriety and managed to remain anonymous. Do people want to know which person on the planet created that persona? Sure; do they need to know, is the identity alone newsworthy without some reason to need to publish it?

Honestly I tend to say no. That’s just... gossip, isn’t it? How is knowing a different name to associate with the character going to enrich and inform me in any way?

Examples where I think revealing the identity might be of substance:
- suppose someone committed crimes to keep their identity secret
- suppose government officials intervened to help them remain anonymous
- suppose the person turns out to BE a powerful government official

[edit: to add last example]
> Saying “ban humor” leaves the community very sterile.

...or makes it even more hilarious.

Because you really can't "ban" humor. A moderator who actually thinks that's possible will soon have humor flying over their head. Even Stackoverflow has humor despite the best efforts of the self-appointed vote-to-close police.
I think support for IMAP NOTIFY scales better, since it is per-connection instead of per-folder.
Given time, every developer will end up in some company, doing projects, having to go trough other vast requirements, documentation, databases, interfaces and codebases to understand these.

So I think you refer to persons who do not do projects but who stay i one company for a large time versus people who do projects (and are sometimes called consultants) and in general how they communicate with each other.
Opportunistic encryption's really the big news. Will make the NSA's job harder.

Edit: Unfortunately, you must be using SPDY or HTTP/2 to use it. That's a real shame. I already had self-signed TLS and added the header, but then discovered it doesn't work with HTTP/1.1 (and with no good reason, either).
It depends a bit on the model, but in general yes you can. I haven't done it on a Chromebook, but I've completely wiped out ChromeOS and ran Arch on an Asus Chromebox (using instructions meant for the very similar C300 Chromebook). Worked perfectly, great little machine. Only hiccup was I had to flash a custom bios.
This looks really interesting! But I can't see any way to subscribe to book updates. A mailing list (my preferred means of subscribing to this kind of stuff these days) or an rss feed to get notified when new chapters are ready would be really handy.
Cheers Andy!
Perhaps Mt Gox offered high deposit customers an order fulfillment system.

Again, my argument is "Be careful in ascribing moves in the price of bitcoin to the intentional acts of Mark Karpeles.", I'm not defending Karpeles or Mt Gox.
> whether or not it could have been a black hole that consumed it (that literally happened)

Lolwut?! They seriously discussed the possibility of a black hole opening up and swallowing the plane?

AFAIK CNN International did not have any such discussion though they did keep going on and on about the plane.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...

Here's another example of their shit.

I know, it will never be enough.
Spooky, I was just looking at this page yesterday!
Having different sized cars on demand will be amazing. Going to work? 1 seat please. Going to the beach with the family? 7 seat + luggage area please. Going to town with mates? 12 seats. Going surfing with a friend? 2 seats, luggage area, kitchenette, changing area + wet storage area.

I nerds who live in a city and don't really use cars other than to move them and a little shopping around forget about farmers, post men, telecom engineers, water engineers... if I get to a job and need some tools I can get them delivered from the depot while I work on something else! If I need a mini-digger I can order it and get it. Or if I need to take a fallen tree to the dump - easy. All these things I do in my little car at the moment, I have to compromise.
This sort of assumption is prejudicial, but it's the sort of cynicism that leads to erring on the side of caution and making sure your rights are respected. You can't trust most people, cops are no exception. In that regard, it might be viewed as pragmatic.
Or maybe receive a 'call' from elsewhere to trigger local activity?
" I also find that AR queries with a lot of options (order, group, select, limit etc) aren't much of an improvement in readability or abstraction over the raw SQL."

This was how I felt when I first scratched the surface, but by using find(...) instead of raw sql you leave open other options for the future like using :include
I never said there was no liquidity in the markets before HFT came along. I was making the argument that there is much more liquidity because of high-frequency trading. As a result of this much more liquidity, the markets are more efficient. If your only concept of a productive enterprise, however, is one that produces material goods, then there is no point in having this conversation. I do have one response to your sentence:

It doesn't even provide a specialized service that saves people time/money.

You are so far from reality here. Do you understand what the futures markets are for? Do you understand that there are a whole class of speculators, among them are HFT firms, that stand ready to do business with a farmer growing corn, a gold miner mining metal, a cattle producer with cattle to go to the market, etc? By providing liquidity, the farmer can focus on farming, the miner can focus on mining, and the cattle rancher can focus on ranching (whatever they call it) instead of worrying about what they may sell their raw goods at in the market four, five, or six months from now. So, no, I am not out in the fields digging up copper and sand, but I, and others in the industry, make it possible for those that do those things to focus on doing those things. If I figure out a way to make some extra money by using mathematics and computer science, then so be it.
Let's put it this way without any subjectivity: every production kernel that you folks use every day is written in C. NT is, Solaris is, Darwin is, and Linux is.

Not one production-level kernel that is in wide use as a general-purpose operating system uses C++. I don't believe that to be a coincidence.

(Nitpicker's corner: Darwin's device tree subsystem is written in Embedded C++, an extremely cut-down version of C++ that's more like "C with classes" than C++).
Any way you cut it, "investing" in someone else's life insurance policy is ghoulish.
You just need to take it to a personal level. Bring it down to Facebook, see what your friends like/shared and generate options saying "Friend A is thinking of Trip B in Timeframe C. Would you like to join in?" or something along those lines.
Ironically, I am trying to go to your site to see what you do and am getting the following error:

Error

Request-URI Too Large

The requested URL /... is too large to process.
The way I read it, you didn't destroy anything. You had a moment of panic, and could have created real problems.

Regardless, same lessons learned right? :) Whether the server is gone or not, it could have been, and the way we work changes drastically after a real world scare like this.

Did you ever tell the boss, or did you just let it ride? There's nothing like going to the boss in a cold sweat and the old "I f*ed up" look on your face.
Can you give some more info about the project?
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll XSLT.' Now they have two problems."

(edited for relevance)
We have put together a map/chart combo to visualize the data that underlies climate research. You can filter the stations based on several parameters, and get both a visualization as well as a computed rate-of-change.

Tool: http://weatherspark.com/#!climatetrends;ws=29939;ctum=0;cth=...

Additional info: http://weatherspark.com/climatetrends

Feedback most welcome!

(and yes, the data is quite hairy - as are the estimates)

(and yes, the site is still using flash - it will be HTML5 one day, just not today)
Nice. Looks like an update on Microsoft's HTA (HTML Applications).
Then wouldn't it make sense to allow people who are stuck using XML in some places to convert to JSON when talking to those that aren't stuck with XML?
Not LSD related, but drug related:

A friend of mine tried to program while on Salvia (I gave him the programming problem to solve: basically implement Solomon Golombs self-describing sequence) and as he scribbled notes on paper, he kept muttering phrases like "what is she saying to me now". We didn't check the results until the next morning, but it turned out he had figured out an O(1) closed form for the sequence - it was very simple and very fast. He claimed a woman told him the answer.

I have since searched for good solutions to the same problem and the only thing I could find that is better than O(n) is a 70's paper on the sequence. The solution in the paper was complex (I didn't understand it - actually, I don't know if it even came up with a closed form or not...), certainly not as short and simple as the one my friend came up with. Sadly, we didn't think much of it and didn't write it down - which, of course, means I have no proof to back this story up[1]. Still, it was a pretty strange and interesting thing to witness.

[1] We also only tested it with a handful of numbers and did not make any attempt to formally prove its correctness, so its not impossible that it was just coincidence that it worked for the test inputs (we only verified low input numbers against the naive implementation). Still, I like to think it was a full solution.
I still don't understand why I would want to use CoffeeScript when I can just use JavaScript.
An ineffable, inexplicable thing, bound up in the mystery of 5000+ years of culture, that you can only understand if you are Han Chinese, as they are above the rest of us humans.
I once spent a whole week using e-prime. I wrote everything, text, emails, social media postings in e-prime. I allowed myself to speak "normally" for that week, but the following week I tried to only speak using e-prime.

I found trying to only speak in e-prime ridiculously hard as familiar phrases that I would normally use unconsciously, I had to discount consciously. I used a notepad to tell people that I had trouble talking right now because of an experiment which helped!

Writing in e-prime had more benefits. I think non violent communication (NVC) has similar benefits. It appeared like the emails had greater objectivity than before and less "blame". I think I spent more time editing stuff (including this comment) though!
I have already demonstrated that Standard Oil was broken up in spite of not being a "monopoly" or having more than 50% market share. That is an example--you can look up others.

I have no duty to continue to engage to someone who can't exhibit simple reading comprehension or basic use of Google.
ah my bad!
storing a trailer is even more complicated than just having a truck. Also, its extra steps.
The car looks like the car from a B or C level scifi direct to DVD movie :)
I explore, study, read and think about design a lot. This truck is giving me mixed feelings.

In static images, it looks ugly, but in videos, it looks awesome.

Maybe it's because of the extremely minimal design, and as someone said in these comments, it lacks any features at all.

One thing though, you have to give Elon the credit to travel down the road less traveled.
Those look awesome, thanks for posting them. Quick question, how do you learn about all these papers? They all seem very recent.
The practice of asking and answering your own question on StackOverflow is perfectly acceptable. It's even ok to do so after asking and finding the information on Github.
Theres a transformer 120 vac to 12 vac and i use the signal of the 12 vac. Theres 3 wires that goes from the power supply unit to the clock, Ground, +12 DC and the 12 vac 60hz signal.
I couldn't find anything but this type of information would be great with an API.
Says they have 1,000 products... seems quite small in comparison.
I feel bad for criminals who had to team up to haul 36" televisions out of a house during a burglary. These days one robber could haul out a pair of 60" thin LED televisions by themselves.
It could be users, contributors, time, money, or lines. Most or all of these apply to the difference between linux/git and average software. I don't accept it as an axiom that the biggest open source project in the world should be licensed the same as something in the first percentile of (pick one).

What I meant is that the software is used differently, and it is developed differently. It seems obvious to me that the ideal licensing for software that is vastly different from these examples of gargantuan/universal FOSS might not be GPL.
"A significant amount of (shipped, so-called production-quality) code is not fully understood by its authors"

Of course. Time spent fully understanding the code before it's shipped is time that it's not shipped.

This is sort of a Gresham's-Law situation, where "bad code drives out good code". The code that is fully tested & debugged with all situations understood isn't available to the user at first. As a result, they go with the "good enough" solution, build stuff off of it, and by the time "the right thing" comes along, all the momentum has shifted to its crappy competitor. A bunch of crappy software gets built on top of that, and as a result, we end users get the worst thing that could possibly work.

But work it does. Maybe it's worth a shift in perspective to be grateful for the stuff that works rather than worry about the stuff that doesn't quite work right.
Reminds me of one of my favourite @apenwarr articles.

"Programming inside the url string"
http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201212#18
* restrains self from engaging in futile debate with perceived crazy right winger
I've referred to this for years as "ritual-taboo programming". Ritual-taboo societies are ones in which things are done in certain ways because they worked in the past, but no one knows why. Too much of programming is like that.

If you work from the specifications for a library, you'll probably find that some of the documented features don't work. If they weren't used by some "framework", or mentioned in a how-to book, they probably haven't been exercised well.
Yeah, sadly that component of managing was completely missing from the advice in the article, and it's so critical, at any size company. A good manager should be putting in the effort to see that people get credit and kudos for their good work. Moreover, a good manager should protect their people from interruptions and interference from the rest of the company. Bad managers are funnels, good managers are umbrellas.
Why did you change the title?
That's what I meant by "corded phones". You are of course correct this would not work with a single set of cordless phones.

You are right, cordless phones definitely broadcast with no encryption of any sort. There was a recent HN thread about how radio receivers were banned from receiving the band these phones used because of this.
The probabilities spawned QM, not the reverse. The modern interpretation of QM is a reification of those probabilities - an insistence that they aren't the results of a process, but are just probabilities, irreduceably.
> Having said that, I don't think you are wrong on python being "the least worst language for everything" -- very few other languages have an eco system of remotely comparable expansiveness and quality (the top minds in several disciplines mostly use python for their work) which alone kills of huge swathes of would-be-competitors.

Yes, I agree. The ecosystem is part of what makes the language "the least worst language for everything."
except that is not avalaible to do them? yeah...
The admins probably have access to that info. I don't see how its going to help you though. If it was a malicious hack attempt then the person is probably running it through proxy or using dynamically allocated IPs making the IP addr worthless without a court order from a court in the country that has jurisdiction over the ISP/proxy.
It's funny. A lot of my friends say that I'm good at photography, but I use a mid-range point and shoot (and even do some stuff with my iphone 4). When they ask me what SLR they should buy I tell them I don't have one and would rather blow the cash on a cheap camera and a good meal than an expensive camera with features I won't use. I will eventually get one, but I'll want to use it for specific things rather than just for general use (and I haven't decided what those things are yet).

Incidentally if you use a point and shoot, about half an hour of reading here (http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorials.htm) will do much more for your shots than an SLR would.
It seems that by planting Elop on the CEO position at Nokia, Microsoft has perfected the use of outplacement as an offensive weapon.
When you're swimming in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a Moray.
How good are human players, by that metric?
If I'm reading you correctly - this is the classic false syllogism?
But they achieved their goal! The price increased incredibly due to the collective pressure. But of course nobody can keep the price of a stock at such levels for a long time. Even if everyone who bought GME had hold their shares, the prices were destined to fall to more sustainable levels.
This is the way government wants you to think. They want to know literally every dollar (unit_of_monetary_exchange) that you use and don't care one iota about your privacy. They don't want you to value privacy at all.
The big change is Jepsen, https://jepsen.io

CAP tradeoffs are better documented.

And there is more to go on than marketing claims.

Also, SQL is the new NoSQL.
Are you familiar with what happened in France in that year? [0] Young people en masse attempted to gain a voice in the running of the institutions that determined their lives. Yet they were met with police violence, as well as betrayal by the geriatic leadership of France’s major leftist party who saw the fresh new ideas of the youth as too scary and outside their staid old comfort zone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68
You might also check on Perkins Intro to High Energy Physics which also links to experimental techniques.
This is a result of Apple limiting the entropy of marketing data that can be received from a domain (defined as an eTLD+1) to 6 bits.

This causes problems for platforms like Shopify or marketplaces like Alibaba or eBay that may have multiple sellers trying to run ads on a domain and competing for the same small pool of entropy.

This solution? Leverage the "public suffix" list to define your domain as an eTLD and give every seller a separate subdomain so that everyone gets their own data entropy namespace.

Now every hosting provider or online marketplace is scrambling to re-architect their site into subdomains with public suffixes to maintain the status quo.
Given that you have said...

"the bulk of users is either too stupid or unwilling to invest even the tiniest amount of effort into their privacy."

I don't feel the need to pull my punches.

This is the most deluded, idiotic response I've seen on hacker news in a long time.

It seems unlikely that the average person (or even a non-techie person of above average intelligence - e.g. a doctor) will be able to set up matrix in a way that is more secure than just installing signal. Your security relies not just on you but on the weakest node in your network. Getting good security might require trade-offs. Your all or nothing mindset will not achieve it. The saying "Perfect is the enemy of done" comes to mind. Perfect security (or what you purpose) is not one of the options in a secure system that has to exist in the real world.

Please remove your head from it's dark cavernous home.

Love,
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I would pay. I currently pay for some open source projects I enjoy, and donate to Wikipedia and Archive.org whenever they ask for it. I buy Linux games I never get to play. It's important to spread the love when you can.

Most people are not aware of what project they use and that they're not for-profit.

I used to work for an ISP, and people could pay for the WiFi hotspot feature (on phones they owned). People paid when they needed it.

Signal is pretty big, I think, so why couldn't it ask for donations? And possibly get some extra love from eg. The Linux foundation..?
There's definitely lots of overlap in the venn diagram of "process heavy" and "dysfunctional", but there are plenty of each category that is not the other. Lots of industries require process, and lots of startup type places are dysfunctional without being process heavy.
Because a Faraday Cage would make it worst not better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1fsiv9/how_effe...
Why not be a code-ops-janitor? I'd be willing to discuss this with you, see if there's a fit and actually give you this amazing job.

If your actually average good, you could work on toil only - this would require a decent level of discipline for the team you'd be working with to select toil work that could be done in 2-3 hours. Every issue repository has a long tail of issues that never get done, some may just need closing, etc.

You'd take an all the work that never gets done, be paid for what you do and enjoy life.
You can't really get around linear algebra. Geometric algebra is really neat, and you can benefit from taking a geometric algebra approach to linear algebra (Macdonald's book is pretty good for that), but it enhances linear algebra, it's not a substitute for it.
Do you know of any hard analysis on these numbers?
It's a very beautiful letter. I think this should be a standard reading middle school. It not only enshrines a strong purpose for scientific exploration but it is a wonderfully written piece.
Your model is simple, nice, but wrong. Experimentally proven wrong by the fact that developed nations (where food is not an issue for most of the population) there are declining birth rates.
Could these results be driven by sequels? I would expect that a sequel would need less crunch time (many big problems have already been solved) and have a higher ROI (they're likely making a sequel because the franchise is popular, and less effort is needed).
I used a Palm treo up until about 3 years ago, and used to browse HN quite often. My treo was modified and upgraded I should say :) beleive it or not, some poor soul actually stole it, probably not knowing it would be worth more on ebay as an obscure item than at a pawn shop.
I have been checking...not "out" yet.
I'd add that you don't even need to have the machine actually be compromised.

If you think it might be compromised, if you have reason to believe that perhaps something bad happened, you probably should re-image it. There may be smoke without a fire, but it's not worth the risk, is it?