jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I remember when I was child in nineties and my father showed me logo. I didn't find it much interesting but it gave me some idea what programming is about [1]. Then in my teens I started learning C++ - and it was a real struggle. Only in the beginning of 2010 I discovered lisp language family (including racket) and I instantly loved its purity [2]. I wish I could start with it, it would save me much time and frustration. In fact I think I'm going to teach some basic racket to my 10 year-old cousin.

[1] Well, I was 7 years old that time so it was basically something like realizing concept of programming language as a way of communicating with computer

[2] Well, I'm no a lisp expert but they seem pure comparing to C/C++/Java when you write some beginner level programs - no cryptic things like type declarations or pointers
It probably uses the same skateboard design for the battery pack that all of Tesla's other vehicles use. The battery pack spans nearly the entire bottom of the vehicle, giving it a low center of gravity which helps prevent tipping and provides more trunk space.
In running there is an expression, "you have to run your own race". The same is true here.

But specifically in this context psychedelics are generally introduced to individuals who haven't had prior experience with them, and may need additional support that therapists can help with (e.g. survivors of sexual assault, deep depression, anxiety regarding terminal diagnosis, PTSD, etc) and the therapist have been trained specifically in guiding these individuals in psychedelic trips. So they are like the best trip sitters you can have if you are trying to get out of rut.
Assuming no-one else knows about the safe. Wouldn't you at least mention it in a will or other document? Or if someone knew you had some stash, wouldn't they look for it?

I remember a program on TV, where they opened a few hundred old bank boxes hoping to find a treasure map. They of course did not find anything. Wouldn't you check many times if any box had anything of value before decommissioning them?

There is something very exiting and addicting with mystery boxes though...
Do I need to update my filters? Why can forbes detect my adblocker?
> It's a reasonable feature that makes perfect sense if you understand it, but in practice it didn't survive contact with the real world.

I think the same argument can be made for almost every "the machine knows better than the user" decision, so it seems to me that this is pointing out that the Markdown list behaviour should be tarred with exactly the same brush.
You misinterpreted the grammar.

"In the West, it's just all gone to the very wealthy" is the intent. Not "All the growth in the world has gone to the wealthy in the West."
It's fun, and it gives you new perspectives about how you might reason about program correctness in other languages as well, even if only informally in your head.
Because Bloomberg asked at least one of the fired employees for comment, and she would not comment even to deny Google's story.
Consider expanding your definition of what a "therapist" could be and what a "clinical setting" could look like. Michael Pollan's interactions with the therapists (they're called "guides") in "How to Change Your Mind" are not clinical at all in the sense of sterility, beige-walled offices etc.
Nice project. I've got a box full of 8086's and support chips just waiting for that rainy weekend to come around.

If you like this stuff, you have to check out the daddy of homebrew computing: http://www.homebrewcpu.com
Clarify? Collision attacks by definition do not feature an existing digest as input so they are not useful for breaking into a system secured with a digest.
The guy deserves it. He created a tool that a lot of people find very useful. I don't use it myself but I recognize how valuable it is to others.

I still haven't seen any significant revelations come out of wikileaks, so I think they were right to not pick Assange
"Study the color wheel, read analyses of ways to use it."

Do you have any specific resources or tips on how this relates to clothing? I've done this, and tried to argue my case in color choices based on this, but generally I've been laughed at when I bring this up. (probably because other factors also come into play and I'm about as blind as a mole when it comes to choosing colors).
I agree that many people regard .com, .net, etc, to be country neutral -- and I personally would prefer it if they were -- but that isn't really the way they've been used for the past couple of decades. I think most people would agree that .COM domains at the very least have been associated with US organizations or foreign businesses who want to do business in the US.

Though granted, it's not black and white obviously, there are German language only sites (and many others) that have .COM domains and are only targeting Germans speaking peoples.

It's a messy situation... made messier by the fact that the US has significant control over the Internetz.
Simply by having a parser library - and I should mention one meant primarily for natural language parsing - is not indicative of Java being "better" for text processing than lisp. Indeed, one could argue that the mere fact that Java has a library for text processing at all is indicative of lisp being better; after all, the reason lisp does not have an external package could be because it simply does not need one to be just as powerful.
Any X or T series with intel video tends to work pretty well. I've personally had great results with Ubuntu on a T410, T420, T520, T530, X1, X60 in the last few years.
I recently bought a T420 for $300. After upgrading my ram to 8G and the stock hard drive to a samsung SSD, the laptop is easily a better overall laptop than my wife's MacBook Pro.

I'm running Ubuntu, although I may switch to Arch soon, but I haven't had any problems with drivers in Ubuntu and would imagine the same would go for Arch. So far, the only relative downsides compared to the MBP have been:

1) Battery life, although mostly fixed with TLP[a]

2) Keyboard quality...sometimes feels like some keys have more resistance than others

3) Screen contrast. My wife's MBP isn't a retina, but it still has much better resolution and contrast.

[a] http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...
What you're saying is completely false. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567245.

That sentence in the HN guidelines got put there because at one point people were using HN as a kind of customer support, which got irritating. Since that's not really common anymore, we can probably just take it out. We're about to add a bunch more guidelines so it would be nice to remove a few anyhow.

Actually I wonder if "Please don't make claims about HN moderation without links to the specific threads you're talking about" should be one of the new guidelines. We're happy to answer specific questions—and if we've done something bad, apologize and fix it—but the dark sinister stuff is always too vague to address directly.

Edit: btw we get that people sometimes arrive at the wrong conclusion in a completely well-intentioned way. In most cases it really is easy to clear up.
I was having a similar problem at home, but it wasn't remedied by anything like that. Then, one day I've installed DNSMasq on a small SBC on my local network, then everything became blazing fast.

That day I've found out that my ADSL modem is not very good at making huge amount of DNS queries to outside world, and with a fast DNS resolver, Firefox is actually as fast as Chrome.

So, make sure that you can access your DNS servers with the speed they need to be accessed for a good network experience.

If you want to test whether this is true, make your own speedtest. Download the same Linux ISO from different mirrors, or try different speedtest mirrors to go further than your ISP.
For particularly messy eggs I'll do it right before cracking them. But they stay dirty until it's time to cook.
The exact phrase appears few times, but similar things abound. The first one I tried is the Donald Trump article, which for obvious reasons I'd expect this sort of weaseling in.

I wasn't disappointed. "Trump's election and policies sparked numerous protests. Trump made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics, and promoted conspiracy theories. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist, and many as misogynistic."

That's one "numerous" and three "many" in a small space, along with the weasel wording "many have characterized", which is just like "accused by many"--it's used because Wikipedia wishes to imply that the accusations/characterizations are true without saying so explicitly.

Actual information would be something like "Trump made 500 misogynistic statements over his lifetime, but three similar politicians only made 100". Except for the little problem that such data doesn't exist. So the article claims that he made "many" statements. This is of course trivially true.
This is an ableist viewpoint. For example, if she had a close childhood friend, cousin, family member, or she herself had experience with cancer, that would both cause trauma-based behaviors (such as being "a bit off") as well as explain her hyperfocus into going into pediatric oncology from a young age.

It sounds like you didn't know her very well and still judge her as dangerous.
Things disappear all the time, as others have stated. Have you been to a video site recently? 75% of window is engagement garbage. Commercials are aggressive and repetitive.

Most of the time I use to be free from distraction.
Pontius Pilate: the biography of an invented man by Ann Wroe is an interesting 'biography' on the figure:

> The foil to Jesus, the defiant antihero of the Easter story, mocking, skeptical Pilate is a historical figure who haunts our imagination. For some he is a saint, for others the embodiment of human weakness, an archetypal politician willing to sacrifice one man for the sake of stability. In this dazzlingly conceived biography, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ann Wroe brings man and myth to life. Working from classical sources, she plunges us into the world of biblical Judaea under the reign of the erratic and licentious emperor Tiberius and lets us see the trial of Jesus, in all its confusion, from the point of view of his executioner.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490449.Pontius_Pilate

Tries to reconstruct, using records about the lives other Roman governors and notable government types, what kind of person Pilate could/may have been.
I used to unfreeze my unresponsive safari and chrome tabs by opening Firefox. Worked most of the time. Any similar explanation or am I nuts?
QEMU takes much longer to save/restore snapshots, and it's much harder to do via the API
Well, since it's an open API I have no doubt there will be a Linux client soon.

Personally I'll wait until I can get a client that can encrypt my data.
No, every well financed institution does not hire people to role play hundreds of sockpuppets to create a false impression of support for its message.
How do you think I feel? The first thing I did in this thread was link to an image!

(For the record, I agree with your view. If you want to feel even more confused about the issue, check out this video concerning Vladislav Surkov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM)

We should start a pool on who and what is being funded by the russian govt.

UKIP 10/1
Pussy Riot 8/1
Adam Curtis 9/2
Uber 12/1

any takers?
In between GlassDoor data he talks about founders being the Lords of the Startup Feudalism and I kinda agree, companies used to pay 25-40k to an employee, a programmer/engineer can take several jobs from the industry henceforth the salary is 3x the regular salary. However the successful founder become rich and invest in other companies small, medium, big and help raise the inequality.
If this is your standard for failure, you're going to experience quite a bit of selection bias:

- Anyone who actually is driven to the point of actually committing suicide will not be around to tell stories for obvious reasons.

- Anyone who is driven to the point of bankruptcy is unlikely to stick around the Valley with its incredibly high cost of living, (unless you are talking to the homeless, which it sounds like you aren't because there are plenty of stories of failures to hear).

- He or she also probably doesn't have money for a therapist.

Realistically, the reason people like failure stories is because it is encouraging when you are in the midst of one to see examples of cases where "it gets better". It doesn't cheapen our language to use failure in this way any more than it cheapens our language to use any other form of hyperbole.
This is eerily close to what two of the main characters in Ender's Game are doing in order to change events. Internet, the blogosphere, comments, trolls, it was all predicted with quite a bit of detail in that book from 1985.
It's one thing getting your side of the story, and another one blatantly overflooding the forums with your side of the story. In electoral campaigns there are rules against such practices, but bought reviews or fake followers are issues way more difficult to address.
And as somebody else put it, financial institutions seldom try to justify with it an invasion of other countries.
This is a pretty low quality piece of writing.

I don't really object to you posting this to HN as it is on-topic, and I can understand that you want to promote your blog. In saying that, posts with unsubstantiated claims ("...most webmasters and bloggers prefer to pay via Paypal") and spelling mistakes ("Namecheap is a great place to buy domani names") aren't really well received by this community.
It's only wrong for certain criteria of 'wrong'.

Who can say what would be left of Yahoo if MSFT sprinkled their unique webfail all over it? I'd expect that they would have destroyed most of it.
There's a fairly diverse crowd of musicians and web developers. The two sets of people aren't entirely separate.

I probably go to 5 or so gigs per month. I can't tell you how many new albums I listen to per month. It varies considerably.

Usually, bands practice in any space they have available. A few have dedicated practice space; most practice in a garage of one of the members. Most booking is done by knowing someone who knows someone. A lot of shows are set up by some random band, and they find a few other bands that want to play. Very, very few bands actually get paid here to play shows. There are a handful of promoters. My organization (http://elpasoera.com) happens to be one of them. We've also helped organize a few tours. I can think of two recording studios I have connections at off the top of my head, Sonic Ranch being one of them. The other is the recording studio Jim Ward (of Sleepercar and Sparta) recently opened up.

We do all the web work for a somewhat successful musician. I'd imagine he, along with his band, makes well over $1000/month. Some people are making a fair bit of money. Most aren't. I find it's rude to ask.

I actually repair tube amps from time to time. I also know a guy that's been repairing them for 20+ years. I know people who do live sound professionally. I know drummers, but I'll admit, it is hard to find a decent drummer in this town.

So, no, not everyone here is commenting on things they know very little about. Some of us are actually deeply connected to the music industry and web development/entrepreneurial topics.
On the other hand: Chernobyl
Merits of the article aside, I'll have to agree with this. Hopefully not offending anyone here, but I often find myself driving down 101 and looking at lifeless office complexes with little to no charm. Yes, the weather is great, but this area is too spread out. There's also very little here as far as places to walk around, not much to do at night if you're past the drinking stage...

Have you ever seen Hong Kong? or even New York? We'll never have that here because people value suburbia. Does this mean that all the talented minds here also enjoy suburbia, or that they're only here because of amazing opportunities that brought them in, and loathe suburbia as much as I do?
FYI, Redwood City's motto is "Climate Best By Government Test", no joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City,_California

That said, I've lived up and down the West Coast and Southern California's weather beats anywhere else, hands down. But I suppose weather quality is subjective. I'm willing to put up with a few hot weeks and a few rainy weeks a year for nearly perfect weather 3/4 of the year.
Odd that SSDs aren't mentioned in the article at all - they would mostly avoid many of the criticisms levelled at disks without requiring redevelopment
An option for you guys could be to wait until you do your first round of funding and have the incoming investors buy him out. I've seen that done before and it worked well.

Lesson: always include an option to redeem the shares of a founder who leaves. Redemption can specify whether that takes place at nominal or market value of the shares. There should be a good leaver/bad leaver clause that outlines what happens if a founder is fired or leaves voluntarily.
>> It’s not like we actually need to create content. We live in a purely consumeristic world. Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, and all of the other websites create a world where we simply observe, collect, and re-share links that suit our needs. Most content creation is done at work, if ever.

Poe's law?
That paper is epic. It's actually a tutorial for undergrads on compiler construction, however, Ghuloum does nothing but code generation. From start to finish.
Why would the newest version of the ME use SPARC ISA? Does someone out there need register windows?
"As much as I wish Bitcoin would go away"

But why? I don't understand why Bitcoin generates negative feelings in so many people instead of just indifference.
I was a big sports fan in the late 1980's and RBI Baseball had the actual Major League Baseball names and stats along with a big instruction book showing even more stats including speed. I still play it a few times a year and it's still a lot of fun.

As the article said the Afterburner port was pretty good. The Gauntlet II port was far superior to the Gauntlet I version. The Gauntlet II game also supported the NES Satellite / Four Score attachments so you could have 4 players just like the arcade version.
I salute this dude's commitment to Chesterton's fence.

If only my teammates had this mindset...
“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.” — John Andrew Holmes
It sounds like maybe you don't understand the concepts.

Of course you're right that most people don't need to know exactly how encryption algorithms work. But, everybody needs to know what they do -- and what they don't do! That's a deeper level understanding than simply knowing if they're "secure" or not.

For example, too many people think that encryption gives you security. It does not. Encryption can provide confidentiality, but only if you also have integrity and authentication. Those three things are just the beginning of security.

One of the implications is that if you're using a self-signed certificate for HTTPS, you might as well not bother encrypting. If you don't reject a certificate lacking a verified signature, then you can't know that you aren't talking to a MITM instead of the server you think you're accessing. A MITM can trivially decrypt all your data, so why bother encrypting in the first place if you don't verify certs? Too many people ignore the certificates because they don't understand what encryption really gets them.

Many people also discount that danger because they don't understand how trivially easy MITM attacks can be. ARP spoofing is not hard. Some networking equipment is getting better at preventing it, but you can't always count on it. In short, it's best to assume that anybody else with a laptop in your local coffee shop can see _and modify_ all network packets you send. They don't necessarily have to break the wireless encryption to see them, either, so that won't keep you safe.
You mean besides their e-reader, tablet, phone, media device, and whatever-the-hell-the-Echo-is product lines?
This article is one-sided and shortsighted. There are many reasons why engine controls must include anti-tampering measures. There is a business case to extend these principles to other control modules in a car. Disclosure: I've been an automotive DMCA violator for nearly a decade.

An obvious reason is that the manufacturers do not want to deal with warranty issues. Of course you can probably understand that the possibility is there that bad software can result in engine damage. This applies to other systems, too, for instance the guy who demonstrated that he could alternately flash his headlamps like a police car by sending traffic to the lamp controller probably does not realize that he should not be reigniting the HID lamp every couple of seconds, because this will shorten its life.

The automakers are liable to laws in every developed country. The United States has these average fuel economy laws that the carmakers must meet, and in some states, harsh emissions regulations must be adhered to and guaranteed. The emissions testing regime in some of these states has done away with exhaust gas analysis and relies on the engine control's self-diagnosis to show that the vehicle is performing to spec.

However in other countries, increasing pollution emitted by a car constitutes tax fraud.

Road safety is also important. One German carmaker uses the same diesel engine for a range of vehicles which have differing performance levels. I thought it was clever when I found that you could change the low market six cylinder from a cheap model to give the power output of the top model of the range simply by carefully changing eeprom data. But the low market model has a lame exhaust and small brakes. Triple the engine output power and this is potentially a disaster.

For as long as the universe of tinkerers will include those without experience or scruples, the carmakers will have to keep developing anti-tampering measures to show that they are attempting to guarantee that their products will perform within the bounds of the law, and indemnify them against bogus liability and warranty claims. Some tinkerers are smart enough to see the big picture and think about the results of what they are doing. Others either don't realize that these systems were designed by teams of engineers with more degrees and experience than them, or figure that they can sell genitalia enhancements to any twentysomething that walks in the door. These are the guys that scare me.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" -- John Steinbeck
SkyMall was really a pioneer in meme generation, before the Internet took it over.
I think Slack does this. I'm not sure if it does this out of the box.
Rexcel? http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html
FYI, you really don't need a git server, just an SSH host you have filesystem access to.
In Copenhagen, it was revealed a few years ago that racist customers who didn't want a muslim taxi driver told the central when ordering a cab that they were 'bringing a large dog', and the operators at the centrals knew and respected this as the secret code that the customer wanted an ethnic Danish driver. This is obviously illegal but I dont know whether they stopped the practise.
What digikata said. The law doesn't require outside noise for your benefit, it requires it in the hopes that the people in front of you will hear you coming and get out of the way.