jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Specifically, I meant that usually there's a reasonable work-around. Something you can probe, inspect, and otherwise work with. In this case there really just isn't anything useful at a high level.

A better term might be it seems to violate the Law of Least Astonishment, but from the hacker perspective instead: I have a device that's really just spoofing acting like a storage device. There's a lot of side trips that normally can be taken to work around this, and each are the same sort of no-op, since it's not for real. This sort of thing was common for the old 'dumb' phones, but it seemed like it was because they were too dumb to behave properly; now here's a smart phone being dumb. It's a bit unexpected, at least for what seem like obvious things like "add mp3". But there we are. The whole time there's a feeling of "gosh, surely there's a better way" and there just really isn't: install iTunes and let it do whatever it wants, or you just don't get to put that mp3 on your phone.

And wanting to avoid installing iTunes isn't pointless. I mean, you may not see it, but there are certainly reasons not to. Heck, just failing to update iTunes was useful for a few years due to some odd DRM workarounds (mostly for a WinAmp addon that read iTunes music files). Besides, it's fairly invasive - you may only use it rarely, but it installs a couple services and tries to jump in when the phone connects (all can be administered, but it's a pain cleaning up that mess). While I've finally come to just tolerate it, I don't appreciate it.

(Perhaps I should use counterintuitive? I would hope that would get the same idea across without somehow triggering offense. The problem I'm describing is of expectation and should be orthogonal to intelligence. There's a lot of subjectivity to it, but no reason to take offense. Mindsets filter, so why would a hacker find the same things intuitive as your average user?)
Here's a way to counter this: interview, make them want you, and then decline any offer explicitly because of the comp.

Startup founders are trying to go (even more) lean and cheap out on salaries, relying either on inexperienced new grads, the insecure, or on a "rah rah go team, the company is priority #1" culture of self-sacrifice. Don't play into it.
They're not the first; Path Intelligence tried it in 2007: http://techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/path-intelligence-monitors-...
Specifically 2010 Summer-Fall interns. Even more specifically, it requires a data plan. The FTEs have a different deal—I don't remember how it works.
"...one of the top stories on Hacker News over the weekend. In other words, the ‘bad guys’ already know about it, but consumers may not."

Never thought of this community as bad guys...
I read that page and can't imagine what else they could possibly say. What were you hoping for?
If you believe his best point is that XML is not well-suited for RPCs then you've missed the point.

XML is good for exactly what it stands for: an extensible markup language. It's good for dealing with semi-structured data, especially when you have to deal with data from multiple domains.

Have you ever used SGML (other than HTML)? If so, then you'd likely agree that XML is a superior standard. But I'm guessing that you have not, because for some reason you believe that XML was created for data serialization.

DTDs and XSLT _are_ useful aspects of XML and I doubt the author in unaware of them. Rather the author assumed too much of the readers in understanding the history of XML and the nature of semi-structured data.
"It's not what the Founding Fathers wanted" is not generally an issue of logic. If something is flagrantly against the values they espoused, then whether or not that thing should be opposed is simply a matter of your values. If it's not entirely clear whether they would have supported something but there could be reasonable arguments either way, then it's a matter of opinion. In neither case is it an example of faulty logic.
The Hokuyo device is a linear scanning laser rangefinder with much better accuracy and range than stereo camera + texture projector (like the Kinect) sensors are achieving. It costs around $2000. That device itself was a revolution when it was released since previously everyone used SICK LMS devices at $20,000 each. Now most labs and some undergrad programs can afford the Hokuyo. The Hokuyo is less accurate than the SICK, but it's good enough for many purposes and, hey, it's affordable. The Kinect gives relatively noisy and and low-resolution data, but it's another order of magnitude cheaper AND it's 3D. More choice for the well-off and a whole new world for those without big research grants.
Who decides that? Where is the line drawn? What is the appeals process? How much is it going to cost to appeal (lawyers etc)?

This is censorship and it is a slippery slope, trust me I'm Australian we are unfortunately all to familiar with censorship. :(
Yes. TechCrunch is not exactly known for tact.
You might not know anybody who is not spitting mad, but I have never seen anyone opt out when I have travelled through equipped airports.

As long as people are going through them like sheep, I am not sure the media storm will change much.
Forgot to answer the question in my previous post. It probably has the laser scanner on board because it was already there before the Kinect was attached, used as the input to the SLAM system, and why bother to take it off? It gives better quality depth information (in 2D) so he may still need it.
but not only posting => by not only posting
I'm not one for Randian Hero worship but you're being unnecessarily negative and acrid.

I think the point here is that he's optimistic for his future because he sees a lot of opportunity opening up. I would also go so far as to say that he feels fortunate for having been born when he was.

That's hardly narcissism.
> but I've also read about performance of these languages and there is ample margin for improvement.

Do you really need "number crunching" performance?

Most of the time, it's I/O waits anyway
The article in question is about a stolen desktop that booted into single user mode.
There are more black people in Prison then in college in this country. It's hard to advance when the cards are stacked against you.
The string handling is not great* , but the support for pattern matching on atoms and tuples is nonexistent in most languages, and most programmers don't know to hold that against them.

* Except for the bit syntax, but that's more for binary data.
The company decided to eliminate the subject line on messages after its research showed that it was most commonly left blank or used for an uninformative “hi” or “yo.”

For what it's worth, good ol' mail (/mailx/Mail) makes the subject field explicitly an option.
Seen this elsewhere but:

a) There is no point in the video where the guy that started using his computer /after two years/ is confirmed as the theif, even after the police finally got involved, and;

b) The speaker violates the concept of privacy that is supposed to be a 'hacker value' but not only posting everything he can on this unconfirmed thief (including dick size jokes) but also by posting naked pictures of uninvolved third parties.

This hacker is an arsehole, no two ways about it. The BOFH is funny... when it's fiction.
Juvoni, thank you so much for posting this! One of the best things I've read here in a long time. I always wanted to "hustle" candy in high school too - but never had the nerve to do it. Totally made my day. Keep posting here!
Yeah, I find the article has things 100% backwards.

If you live in a place where you don't need a car, then sure, I guess that might work, but the VAST majority of Americans do not. They would have to move somewhere else. There isn't enough housing in such places, so new apartments (and schools and stores) would need to be built. That takes time and emits a bunch itself. We don't have the time to empty the suburbs (and no chance it'd happen politically). So the fastest solution BY FAR is electric cars as we can decarbonize people where they are.

A lot of cycling advocates massively underestimate just how good electric cars are. (They also last at least 10 times longer than bikes, in terms of number of miles... including tires, etc.)

People want climate change to force solutions to other problems. But we didn't solve ozone depletion by getting rid of refrigeration or air conditioning. We did it by developing and using non-ozone-depleting refrigerants. There's no political will to do much else, except around the edges.

Absolutely, build better biking infrastructure. There are good reasons to do it. But electric cars and trucks are WAY more relevant to actually getting most of America off of fossil fuels in a politically and economically feasible way than telling everyone they have to bike, now. Technological solutions are more feasible than social ones.

(Also, all the inputs to an electric car CAN be decarbonized as well.)
To thaw the freeze you almost have to be constantly fighting the suggestions true nature, constantly scolding it for getting stuck into too tight of loops. It only really works if you feed it lots of negative feedback.

That said, I don’t personally use auto play often. I don’t let YouTube just pick random things for me over and over, unless it’s music in a background. Even on a tv I browse suggestions and pick one vs letting it choose.
Right now the market for recycling EV batteries is still pretty small because there just aren't that many old EVs around. I bet recycling will increase in a couple years.
> False.

What's false? Both the statements you quoted? I'll provide my reasoning for each.

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The first statement:

> The word is often taken to denote a violent uprising.

Here's the definition that pops up when you Google the word:

> a violent uprising against an authority or government.

Or from the Oxford English Dictionary:

> The action of rising in arms or open resistance against established authority or governmental restraint; with plural, an instance of this, an armed rising, a revolt; an incipient or limited rebellion.

I think this is enough to show that it is often taken to denote a violent uprising.

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The second statement:

> The Capital protests weren't particularly violent - the protesters didn't kill anyone.

The easiest response for me to make is a request: name one person the protesters killed. There was a lot of false reporting by the mainstream media at the time, so I don't particularly blame anyone for believing the protesters killed people. But it just doesn't seem to actually be the case. You can read an analysis of the violence here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-c...

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Have you checked out opnsense? It features multi-WAN. I've also had a few acquaintances say they prefer it substantially over pfsense
Many say that. Few do that.

Hell, most struggle with something as simple as losing weight.
I've had those same discussions.

The entertainment industry has set a pretty strange standard for A.I. with the general public. What A.I. will eventually become will probably be wildly different than a limited personification like Data in Star Trek.

The first automobiles looked like horse-drawn carriages, so maybe it's not right to fault people for expecting A.I. to look like humans.
While the web is the most sharable thing ever, it's not the most annotatable or drawable medium. This annotation feature will let corporate office monkeys communicate changes to their intranet sites easier than using vague text descriptions or printouts (or, kill me, scanned printouts).

And guess who the primary target audience is for MS browsers? Corporate office monkeys.
If we reduce meat consumption we can free up large areas of land used today for animal fodder production and repurpose it for this.
> 140000000 curies

I gather 140000000 curies means something like "how many is the least of your problems"
Excel is totally free-form, and for small-scale "databases", it's robust enough (until it isn't). This means the user can do pretty much what they want, without getting a programmer involved. And that's the killer feature, that more advanced or more specific solutions miss.

Let's take an example. If the user wants to stick some free-form text in between the end of sales records for one year and the start of the next, they are free to do that. In any less free-form application, they need to define a "comment record" or similar, and they probably need to get a programmer involved to do that. And although the SaaS web version of their "database" may have a better interface, in a lot of cases, having to get a tech involved to make that sort of change is not a compromise people want to make.

And they have a point. It's not a slight against programmers, it's just that when they need to make that change, you'll be 2 companies and 5 projects down the line, and it won't be possible. The article mentions a sheet that has been in use for 15 years - if that had been made as a proper program, at that time, it likely would have been done as, say, a VB application, with an MDB back-end, and it probably would have had purple buttons. The source code would now be lost, and if the business process changed at all, the choices would be a full re-code, or working around it. I would be surprised if in 15 years time, we don't look at today's pet technologies in the same way that you just did when you read VB and MDB.

For me, the direction that Excel, and other spreadsheet, need to take is the same route that browsers needed to take when IE6 ruled the world. We need standardisation, and innovation. I've written a couple of blogs on this, and for me, the way to go is a central repository of extensions (http://edparcell.posterous.com/how-about-an-app-store-for-ex... for more on that). In the case of Excel "databases", it might be sensible to create an extension to standardise the management and creation of such "databases". It could even allow features like sharing data, backing up etc, but for that to still happen where users are comfortable: within Excel.
I find that I don't like to work at home: It's easy to get distracted, plus I value my privacy. It's almost 5; I'm waiting till everyone leaves, then doing my spreadsheet.

I agree that the pressure will be good for you. Good luck, and keep us posted.
Appending http://www.google.com/url?q= to the URL seems to be the key. Seems to be working fine.
Expand that to 60 years and you include Japanese who suffered long term radiation problems and birth defects as a result of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to mention Chernobyl and those who suffered as a result of depelted uranium munitions in both Gulf Wars.

On the last point:

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/95178_du12.shtml

Over x10 increase in Iraqi birth defects from 1989 - 2001:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m10.shtml
Does this really solve a problem anyone has though?

It seems we have an oversupply of CPU on modern boxes and an under supply of I/O speed (or space with SSDs) and memory.
WordPress has an awful security record:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328583

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806910

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328261

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354254

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328401
I can't speak for them, but in our case we had major users who required open-source (mostly European govt. projects).

All our developers wanted to just post the source online and be done with it, but our boss had security concerns he wanted us to address first -- so in the meantime we gave people who needed it GPL'ed copies, and asked them politely not to redistribute until we were ready.
Hi!
I wouldn't argue that there aren't people who are bothered by the logo (at the very least, it's also a security concern!). But many wear it proudly. This isn't something you usually see with Intel/Asus/Lenovo or whatever stickers.
View source has been around forever. NCSA Mosaic had it.
that is, demos are not available if you use chrome or firefox.

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Soros sold shorts against the British pound, essentially, betting that it would fall in value.

The Bank of England tried to keep the value of the pound high enough to stay within the 'allowed band' of the ERM by buying up the excess pounds (and the bullish side of Soros' short contracts) on the open market, using their foreign currency reserves. If the bank had allowed the pound to fall instead of trying to prop it up though, Soros wouldn't have had a buyer. Moreover, if Soros had lost his nerve or his solvency selling shorts before the BoE ran out of reserves, the pound would have stayed high and he would have lost his shirt fulfilling the contracts.

Once Soros sold his contracts, he stood to lose if the value of the pound stayed high. The Bank of England could keep it high even after their attempts to buy up pounds had failed, by drastically raising interest rates and keeping them high. That would have thrown the British economy into a recession so Soros was betting that the BoE wouldn't go through with it.

In the end, the BoE didn't have the nerve to jack interest rates, so they let the value of the pound fall out of the ERM-allowed band, and Soros was able to fulfill his contracts with cheap pounds and pocket the difference.
I will have a nice weekend, for I don't even have flash on this laptop (Linux). :)

</sarcasm>
"easier to set up than sshfs"

sshfs yourname@server /some/where

How can the setup of bcvi be easier then this oneliner?
Alan Kay is a particularly odd case — he's had to start over with Smalltalk half a dozen times because it was too successful.

Because people from elementary schoolkids to Disney to IBM were invested in it, he couldn't keep iterating. He had to leave it to them for it to rot in stasis, and go off to start over again with a new community until it happened again.
Have you enabled SSH connection sharing? If you have a connection open already, it could leverage that (ssh does it, not tramp).
Alternate title: "Why Britain Stayed Away from the Euro"
I wish I could start playing Pac-man over this text.
I don't really disagree with your premises, but please explain how removing upvotes fixed the problem.
Huuuuuuuh?

My mail is encrypted. You wouldn't be able to intercept the password reset.
> gives leverage to people who doxx others

because of the possibility that personally identifying information might be revealed, anonymity should be forbidden? eh?
Try the Sansa clip. Literally half the price, or quadruple the capacity for the same price. And you even get the most premium of luxuries: a display.
Sup AD bootcamp buddy. I think I did it sometime in 2000.

Really fun weekend.
The title is misleading. RIM thought the iPhone 2G was insanely power hungry and must have terrible battery life.

As an owner of iPhone 2G I attest that was completely true. This is the first phone I'd ever owned that lasted less than two days.

(Apple themselves even cited battery life as the reason they couldn't do 3G, and the iPhone 3G, when it did come out, was thicker than the iPhone 2G)

What RIM probably didn't counter is that customers were willing to trade 24 hour charging cycles for an awesome user experience.
I'm actually glad to see this question come up again & again, because the Ruby world is so fast-paced.

I found the following useful:

- tryruby.org (actually _why's precursor)

- Hartl's railstutorial.org

- Pragmatic Programmers Programming Ruby book

- Peepcode.com videos (great for getting started very quickly on CRUD apps

I saw that nobody's mentioned the previous HN Asks about learning Ruby, so I've compiled some of them here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623619

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984323

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1544100

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=841951

You can find more at:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+l...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1676271
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1877668
Ask them what they do and tell them the ways you can automate their job away.

Tell them that perhaps their job could be done by a machine and you will speak to their supervisor about creating such a project.

In all seriousness ignore it and focus on actually doing your job. If you really want to convince them, rephrase the above as helping them get the annoying parts of their job automated. Then when they tell you, tell them you'll need to do some research on the best way to approach the problem and look what's already been done to automate those sorts of tasks, rather than blindly working and reinventing something that already exists. At this point the light bulb should go on, however you'll have to usually spell it out for them that this is why you think about things rather than charging right in unthinkingly. So that you don't waste resources by reinventing something that could be found for free just be looking (aka. research aka. 'thinking').

Talk to them about how something like a browser requires millions of man hours of work and how if you can find a browser on the internet rather than creating your own you can provide better value to the company.
Can someone explain this part of the article to me?

But after that, The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima quoted from the chat logs and included several parts that (a) Wired had withheld but (b) were not about personal matters or national security secrets; see this analysis here of what was disclosed by the Post, Wired and others. (Nakashima and the Post refuse even to say whether they possess all the chat logs. When I asked Nakashima several months ago, she referred my inquiry to a corporate spokeswoman, who then told me: "We don't discuss the details of our newsgathering." But I focus here on Poulsen because of his central role in these events, his long-standing relationships with the key parties, and the fact that -- unlike the Post, which obviously has nothing to do with journalism -- I actually expect better of Wired).

Is Greenwald saying that the Washington Post "has nothing to do with journalism"?

As in, what the WaPo does is not journalism?
I'd no idea this existed - quite interesting to flick through the source. I wonder how it benchmarks compared to Apache or Lighttpd?
This is something I really can't fathom.

It takes twice as much typing without the chainable, unix pipe like API. I really don't get it, but I've been baffled by this industry's decision for more than a decade.
With WordPress, there's always the possibility of your blog being hacked, because it executes queries and there's always the chance for bugs to exist some where in the huge ocean of code.
On the other hand, with static blog generators (like specter, octopress, pelican, etc) your generated blog will be static html and as far as I know, there's no way you can really question html's security, simply because security doesn't apply to it. You cannot attack html because it doesn't run queries or anything, it's just static data being pulled from the server and displayed by the browser. So, in the end, the security goes back to your host and how good the machines are configured (when you're using shared hosts).
Is any attempt to get people to consider changing their behavior to be dismissed as censorship and ostracism? We should never be able to say to anyone "Hey, you're being a jerk. It would be better if you were less of a jerk."?

(Is this one of those ridiculous "If you're so into tolerance, why don't you tolerate my intolerance?" arguments?)