jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It says something truly ugly about science as it's practiced today that the authors' call for requiring fallibility in this grand unified theory domain is motivated in part by pointing out that the reverse will call into question the grand unfalsifiable climate change consensus (or as I uncharitably add, gravy train, $4 billion a year for climate "science" as of the Climategate release; BTW, seems like they're lying about ocean acidification as well by ignoring 70+ years of inconvenient facts: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/12/23/touchy-feely-science-o... (the plus comes from mention that recordings, evidently not systematized NOAA ones, started in 1850).

ADDED: when I went back to the article I noticed they explicitly used the phrase "climate change", meaning they also have bought into (at least for the purposes of publishing an item in the world's #1 journal of science) the unfalsifiability of climate "science" as it's now practiced.

Rather than e.g. noting that the lack of required falsifiability in climate "science" could well be infecting physics, and for that matter, why stop there, as long as it's important (where, as I note, "important" starts with getting grants from the usual suspects).
"libev is really easy to embed and that’s what we’re going to do for the next version: put all the dependencies in the release tarball. Hopefully this will reduce the number of build problems people get. This will also remove the number of possible variations of gevent because of different library versions used. There still will be an option to dynamically link against the dependencies, it just won’t be the default."

Will this really reduce the number of library version used? I would expect every linux distribution to dynamically link gevent to their existing package of libev.
I get the personal appeal, but the problem is you only get x seconds from a users attention before they move on to the next site. If the first words on the website are "Hi, I'm J and I have something great to show you", I think to myself "Great, that's why you have a website, why didn't you use that space to actually show me rather than talk about it?"

It also might go against you to mention things like you are 19 years old and a freshman at college. If I am a business and want to order cards from you, I do an analysis: would I pay a steep price ($36 for 250 cards) to get something from someone who may be less experienced in business practices (or in production in general) because they are still in college, or order from a known website that's cheaper?

There's nothing preventing you from having a separate link at the footer of the site for "About" describing the things you mentioned, but if you are trying to sell something, you don't want to include any unnecessary information to push people away from buying from you. If people have credit cards in hand, you don't want to keep talking about how much you love photography!

(I hope you don't take any offense to anything I said, I'm really just trying to tell it like it is)
I don't think there'll be very much replacement of computers with iPads but there'll be lots of iPads (including personal ones) supplementing computers.
Are people willing to donate via Flattr also willing to pay for subscriptions?
I had a totally different reaction to Joel's post. He seemed to emphasize shaping corporate culture deliberately in positive ways, rather than letting things happen by accident. He emphasizes creating a positive social environment in the office: welcoming new people and promoting inclusivity.

It seems like you mostly object to one line in Joel's post:

when new people start work at the company, they’re not allowed to sit off by themselves in a corner

I agree with you that it sounds a bit Draconian. But I don't think that was Joel's primary point. It's more of an implementation detail. He's contrasting his efforts with other environments, where people don't naturally get included. Point being, by deliberately defaulting to inclusion, corporate culture can be improved. You might disagree with his implementation technique, but I think his objective is noble.

The overarching risk Joel is highlighting is the risk of "programming by accident" applied to corporate culture -- as is done at many companies.
Thanks for this! I'd love to see some more recommendations for this but it's hard to find reviews. Can you elaborate a bit about what you liked about it?
This will be addressed in the following years by the WENDELIN project (http://www.wendelin.io/) which has recently been financed (well, we're still waiting for the contracts and the money, actually) by the French government.
Can a UPnP renderer pull audio from a cloud service requiring login and authentication? Genuine question.
Motorola and Google goes (dumbly, imho) completely opposite on this.

they sell devices that are unlocked/developer edition, that are full of disclaimers that if you unlock boot loader some guaranties do no apply etc. and instead of providing h the new images first to this users to help then test, they usually roll out to the general population and weeks (Motorola, months) later make the images officially available.

i guess there's two reasons, one is that they can get some money from operators to release first on one network or another, the second is that they have no consumer support so they couldn't care less. alternatively it's just honest incompetence.
"In May 2014, David Willetts, the ex-UK Minister State for Universities and Science,[38] described as a non-scientist with a degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science,[39] expressed opposition to the abolition of leap seconds. He indicated that as a layman, he wanted to keep "the link between time and people's everyday experience of day and night." He also wanted to keep Greenwich Mean Time in Britain, and "warned" that it would drift towards the United States.[40] An article in the Times science section suggested that the abolition of leap seconds would mean the demise of Britain's role in timekeeping.[41]"

Just gah.

UK: please realize you are a medium-sized EU country, not a global super power. :)

Sincerely, the rest of Europe
The purpose is survival, failing to adapt means extinction.
Extensive discussion a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8616952
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The police should be spending their time in public places, and their actions should be open to scrutiny by the public. If the police enter a private home with a warrant, privacy concerns have already been addressed by the warrant. As long as the system for cataloging and accessing the videos is open source and available for the public to scrutinize (and to check for ways it might be used beyond auditing the police themselves), where do you see a privacy problem?
Ok my friend has done this and it is definitely interesting. However, if you do polyphasic sleep, you age several times faster during that time, approximately around 5 times faster. So if you do Polyphasic Sleep for a month, you'll actually age 5 months. If you do it for 5 years, theoretically you will 25 years, whereas I believe the aging process accelerates every month.

There are no research results on these numbers yet and it could be only 4 times faster, 10 times faster or accelerate by one time faster every month, however the reason for accelerated aging process is the fact that with Polyphasic sleep you only hit the REM phases of sleep, which regenerates your mind.

So you can give your mind a break and it will be back to speed again, however you never hit deep sleep phases which is where the cell regeneration happens.

So as long as you're doing Polyphasic Sleep, you are essentially going without cell regeneration, thus the accelerated aging process.

So you have to be aware of the trade off between increased productivity to accelerated aging. However, Polyphasic Sleep for 2 weeks in a crucial time in your life (finals, startup just getting traction etc.) it can definitely be an attractive option, because it can improve your life dramatically and it doesn't really matter if your lose a couple of weeks of life span, since you can get it back when your can harvest your fruits of work. :)
"first dev build actually been fixed/changed"

I think you answered your own question. Dev builds change to fix oversights in design and logic. Not that much has changed with the over all design theme of iOS 7. Over all most of the design implemented is here to say.
That's extremely shortsighted.

Special chars, like PHP $, Rust's ~, Ruby's @, help the programmer tell things apart easily.

Vastly better than having to keep the information in your mind after the declaration -- and much lighter and better than full-on hungarian notation madness.

As for the braces, they never went out of style. In fact, with the exception of Python, the languages that don't use them are not that popular, compared to the ones that do. Coffescript, for example, is insignificant compared to the plain Javascript use.
Their blog says the offender is someplace in "Eastern Europe". I think that C&D would end up being a 300 dollar piece of toilet paper.

Like many other folks are saying, I think a DMCA filing citing infringement against their art assets would be most effective.
It is uglier, very easy. How? The dollar signs, curly brackets and angle brackets.
If you think about what a butler would do, that's the logical endpoint, it could mostly be done in software I think. Given a budget and a set of goals (keep certain things stocked, fresh, replace when used) it would try to satisfy them. It might warn you if it can't, and you could adjust criteria if you don't like the results. Given the API that appears to be behind the buttons I think we're already at the point where you could create a device so you could just yell in frustration "GODDAMMIT I NEED MORE TIDE™" and then it shows up an hour later (in select cities).
This is awesome!

If there is no con anywhere, everyone is happy:

- The customer

- The outsourced developer

- And, of course, the website promoter, AKA Jarod

Thank you for this project, it's very inspiring for anyone waiting with an idea to actually make it come true.
For national security positions; absolutely. Those questions are due to the potential for coercion as well as character determination. As far as Europe, MI6 definitely asks those questions. Not sure about DGSE in France though. If you answer in a way that's "negative" that doesn't hurt you as much as lying. If everyone knows about your transgressions, there is less leverage for cohesion by a foreign agency. But if you're keeping a secret, that's exceptional leverage that can be used to blackmail you into betraying secrets.
On the whole, though, it is fairly easy to make more capital with capital (e.g. tracking the stock market, at least in the medium term). And the more capital you have, the easier it is to make more capital. In general, having more capital offsets deploying it effectively.
It has to do with confidence. The nicest scientists are often very old, without anything to prove, and genuinely passionate about their subject.

Hotshots that are mid career have a bimodal distribution - there's some incredibly nice ones, and there are some sharks that enjoy pushing their students to the brink of exhaustion to crank out another paper so they can feel bigger than the person with the office next door.

The meanest people tend to be mean not out of malice or spite, but out of insecurity and a constant need to prove themselves.
>I hold no opinion on Trump,

Everyone has an opinion about Trump. Are you too afraid to say yours? I'm asking in good faith here - not trolling.
> Looking at old source code, the earliest implementation I found is 4.3BSD Tahoe (1988).

You are the HN historian of the day.
I agree with you. I think there is something wrong with the way we are reacting to these people and it's ratcheting up every day. I personally think they are deplorable and retrograde and, above all, willfully ignorant. But there is something wrong with this entire system and the path forward feels as untenable as the path we've been on.

There has to be a detente, but I would never suggest that amongst my orbit of people. The language of the moment is so loaded, I'd probably be called a bootlicker. At the same time I had friends calling for the gunning down of these people as they overran the Capitol.

It's very hard to reconcile all of this turmoil.
This is gasoline on the fire.

When banning someone like donald trump you need to have a great press release for justification. You need to point to something that people who are in the middle will read and think, yeah that makes sense, I'm surprised you didn't do that earlier.

Instead, they have this PR that I honestly disagree with, even in the current climate, I don't see it.

I can only think, they wanted to ban him before he left office in order to set a precedent that they could ban him before he left office, and use that for some sort of future legal justification. I could see this as a use to ban future presidents before the 4 years are over. Or if he became president again they wouldn't have to re-instate his account.
> Plotting armed violence to overturn a legitimate election result isn't.

Not condoning any sort of violence or the riots from Wednesday but I think it is worth observing that the problem isn't that there are people who are trying to "overturn a legitimate election result". The problem is that there are people who believe that the election results were not legitimate. They are acting on that premise and so in their mind they are acting to overturn an illegitimate election result. Simply asserting that they are wrong will not change things, in fact it has a good chance of making things altogether worse as it simply emphasizes the grievance that their concerns aren't being addressed.

Resolving these issues isn't going to come from simply insisting that the other side is wrong. and it isn't going to come from disappearing Trump. Trump is not the source of the problem. Anything we can do to create extreme transparency and rebuild trust in our voting mechanisms would be a good start.

Even if we could magically convince everyone that the vote was 100% accurate as is, the result is still evidence of significant divisions in the American electorate. Resolving these political differences isn't going to be easy.

I'm not going to pretend to have some magical solutions to these divisions but we are going to have to find a better way to understand and mediate our differences. We need to find a way to rise above the tribalism that is growing stronger every day.
twins? hell, you’ll see different sequences between individual cells in the same person.
Despite the often exaggerated claims of singular victimhood, I actually do realize that the current right-wing rage does come from real suffering, and sympathize to an extent. What makes me wonder is that extent to which this rage is directed at the new wave of black civil rights movement; they both have roots in economic or cultural marginalization of certain populations, and from what I can tell, they’re not competing for some common resource. Which, in my mind (and many others similarly puzzled), leaves racist hate as a likely candidate.

Point being, if your goal was genuinely to bring awareness to and address some real suffering in your community, you’d just do that; get out on the street, break a few windows, punch a cop, petition for legislation, like BLM does. That’s called civil disobedience. “Insurrection” starts when you try to override and overrule the very fabric of the system, like the federal legislature.
Would not supporting open URLs for those things which users have chosen to share reconcile these seemingly opposed desiderata?
I find this to be the most interesting part:

"Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash"
The article does a piss-poor job of separating paraphrases and editorial content.
Just use an unsupported browser (Opera)!
well, um... er... wow. I'm not sure how to respond to that at all.
The sale is exciting to those of us who want to buy the ebooks, which are not available from Amazon. (I'm thinking about now buying Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages on Friday.)
i have seen that these huge deployments of git run into problems, that is why git is less than perfect as a system-wide backup tool.
Lots of men work part-time too... In fact it's fairly common to see both spouses work part time to have a higher-than-single provider income, yet not be in the traces 40 hours per week.
They sell to geeks, and this is good PR. Quite straight forward actually.
More info: https://coinfire.cf/2015/01/05/bitstamp-confirms-deposit-add...

"We are working to determine what has gone wrong. The majority of our coins are swept and placed in cold storage often so this shouldn’t be a major issue right now but we are still working to determine the breadth of the issue. This seems to be a server issue and not a compromise but our teams are still investigating."
Head First Java is a pretty good book. It's an interesting style of teaching in it. It's very much geared towards novices though. I think they use it at my University now for their intro to Java classes.

If you want something more advanced, O'Reilly books are always a good way to go. Nowadays there is a ton of stuff on YouTube as well.
I agree, these linkbaits are killing me. I guess it's essentially equal to the BBC article "Backlit e-readers 'damage sleep and health'". It was submitted twice with interesting discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787218 (34 points, 12 days ago, 48 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8788209 (35 points, 12 days ago, 75 comments)
So you're going to listen to the "AppStore"?

I always reinstall and rsync my home directory back and reinstall applications on osx. I never have any of the problems people seem to have here. Just as an anecdotal point.

Upgrades "work" but honestly I don't trust upgrades on any operating system. I'm working on finishing up ansible plays to get things sorted out entirely.

Upgrade if you want, but accept you probably have skeletons in your closet.
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Indeed I too have a new XPS and I was pleasantly surprised that everything works fine.
Also Linux updates for Bulbasaur are quite regular visitors.
If you are on the tech side and work for a financial institution, you'll always be an afterthought, because the core product is finance, not software. This can only change by joining a company where the core offering is tech.
This isn't efficient at all though (and the reason why industrial farmed animals fed on crops aren't efficient either):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...

> When organisms are consumed, approximately 10% of the energy in the food is fixed into their flesh and is available for next trophic level (carnivores or omnivores). When a carnivore or an omnivore in turn consumes that animal, only about 10% of energy is fixed in its flesh for the higher level.
A wild guess is 3:1 (3 working 0-day exploits in existence for every 1 found with exercises like this). My reasoning is because every time there is a very high-priced bounty on an exploit, it seems to get discovered and pay out. So if governments and blackhats have people hunting full time for these exploits, you better bet they are finding them too.
Famous quotes by the Prince:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/04/prince-phili...
Thanks, I'll try PopOS out - hopefully I can finally use the integrated mic on my BT headset.
“Makes calls safer”. It fixes this particular no user input RCE vulnerability, but how many others remain? If this type of vulnerability is present at all in Zoom, then it stands to reason more wait to be discovered by sufficiently motivated attackers.

These things shouldn’t end with a bounty for the researcher and a patch by the vendor. It should end with a root cause analysis and a plan to fix that type of vulnerability across the entire app, or better yet, the whole industry via a research paper.
Same story already posted a few times, and the original post about Tiobe's index, which generated some discussion, is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26711698 .
There are no boundaries to our "rights". These are not affordances, nor privileges provided by the state. These are all our "inalienable rights" as a free people.

We the People further reserve the right to struggle for life, freedom, and happiness should any subset of the people get funny ideas that they are 'above the law'.
The owner of Skiplagged did an AMA on reddit a month ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2o831k/i_run_skiplagge...
The owner of Skiplagged actually did an AMA almost a month ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2o831k/i_run_skiplagge...
The definition of "hidden city ticketing" appears to be "book A -> B -> C, get off at B".

Out of curiosity, is it all possible to book A -> B -> C, and travel the B -> C leg?

Would the airline sell your seat if you didn't show up at A?
You should read about von Neumann and Morgenstern, too.
to put this in laymans terms:

imagine you want to go from city A to city B

normally you would search for tickets from A-B

however, during your search, you would NOT see tickets that go from A-B-C.

why is that relevant? sometimes tickets from A-B-C are cheaper than A-B. so you would buy a ticket (A-B-C) and simply leave the airport of city B (not boarding the B-C flight).

the website in question made it easier to find these types of tickets. These tickets are commonly known as "hidden-city" tickets.

the airlines would prefer you to spend more money on an A-B flight rather than buying the cheaper A-B-C ticket.

they are now suing this website to enforce their preference on consumer choice.

if there were something illegal going on, it would be limited to your individual contractual obligations as the owner of an airline ticket. (there could be a term that requires you to actually be present on the airplane for an A-B-C flight)

This website is simply _enabling_ people who intend to violate this (potential) term of their airline ticket agreement.
Thanks for the adnaseum mention, looks like it's still in a pretty early stage but it's exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for (and contemplating coding myself).
They would typically cancel your ticket if you didn't show up at A.
If that is their thinking, then they are quite naive. Comparing WeChat's success in tackling payments with a crypto-based attempt is laughable. WeChat is using real money, and it has explicit official endorsement by the state - an extremely powerful state at that in terms of internal control.

In contrast, any crypto-currency based solution will be inherently distrusted, and few if any states will endorse it. It is more likely to be actively discouraged by many states, and the crypto support may well end up as a pretext to ban Signal on economic rather than censorship grounds.

It is overall a disaster of an idea.