jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Another +1 for Braintree, they've been excellent.
I quit WOW a year ago to spend more time learning business/coding. I'm glad I deleted my toons because a part of me would love to go back to feeding the addiction.
It is more than just places. Search for 'windows 7' and one the top results is a google product page that is nothing more than an aggregation of others pages. On it's face this seems fine, but google tells others that they don't want their search results linking to what is essentially another pages search results. Unless of course that other page of search results is a google product.

Here's another example, I've always dominated a vanity search for my name (it's an uncommon name). One day out of the blue I wasn't the top result, some with my name was simply because they put a video on YouTube and being a google product it gets special treatment.
Weird: Sardinia is much brighter than Corsica (density for Corsica (34 hab. per km2) is about half the density of Sardinia (70 hab. per km2), so I guess that explains it?)

Weirder: Portugal (11M people, 114 hab. per km2) is much brighter than Spain (44M people, 93 hab. per km2): the difference in density does not seem to explain the difference on the map. Are Spaniards less social than the Portuguese?
Ahahahahahahahahaha.
Also see http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101210/full/news.2010.665.ht...
Someone outside Facebook tried to do the same with a US map and was sued by Facebook. Data in, data out only for Facebook.

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-s...
They don't 'disappear' you or send you to the torture chamber for going over the speed limit. They do send you away for speaking out against the leader.
Oh, I think it's incredibly complex. I think UI/UX is a huge difficult field and these things always have tradeoffs - not only in terms of usability but in the overhead of being the people tasked with building them. In fact, UI/UX may be the hardest set of tasks we now face as as people making software products that other people use.

But if you think /any/ information is easy to see in that rat's next of anti-design, I think you're wrong. I
Its not just a fucked company, its most of the large defense contractors. The building I worked in had people from most of the largest companies. I don't think we had anyone from Raytheon, but most of the other big names were present.

A lot of the blame lies with the leadership of the organizations that are hiring the contractors. At some places, a government agency will stick with the same company as long as things are going well, at other places, they automatically accept the lowest bid every single year, even though doing it sabotages their own projects and puts people out of work.

Sounds like your company (or at least your part of Raytheon) is willing to fight for its employees. I made the move to private sector a little over a year ago after my entire team was laid-off. Things are so much better now that its hard for me to consider ever working for the government again, but if things change I'll probably look into Raytheon SI first.
I see this kind of behavior every day in gmail and it drives me batty. I'll use the 'l' shortcut to bring up the label drawer, start typing the name of my label, and three to four characters later gmail is actually ready for me to start typing.

Then I'll backspace out and re-type what I already typed, and Gmail highlights and decides I must want the third entry in the list for some reason, and makes it highlighted. So I'm moving over to the arrow keys.

The same kind of behavior in the search input as you're describing, too. Sometimes I get auto-suggest appearing after only one keystroke, sometimes it takes two. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, other than after a while I can usually somehow predict when my query will begin to be understood by the suggestion engine.

The inconsistency is really jarring, but just below the threshold where I start looking for another service because of how much it annoys me. Sort of like when my external monitor is physically positioned on the left side of my desk, but every time I plug it into the laptop it gets the virtual location off the right side of my screen.
This would be great until one of my kids pushed it like 50 times.
This is of no intellectual value for a few reasons...

1. There are millionaires who occupy every part of the political system. So it's not news that some want higher taxes and not relevant unless they can somehow prove they are in the majority of millionaires.

2. The argument against letting the tax cuts expire is that it will bring down tax revenue by causing us to slip back into a recession and shrink the entirety of the economy. These millionaires chose not to address or refute that point on their website.

3. As thrill pointed out these people could easily lower the national debt without a law. Simply buy treasury bonds and continue to invest that money and any profit made off that money into more treasury bonds. By doing so you're effectively giving the government money that goes directly to lowering the debt (since the treasury will reap the gains of the interest paid on the bonds rather than having to pay that money to another entity)
Yeah it's pretty embarrassing/depressing but there's not really any other famous zip codes.
Thanks, but I use 90210 for all ZIP code forms because it's easy to remember. :P
Well it makes sense, in a loose sense you could consider what has been done as hacking, but it seems Microsoft had a different stance on what they deemed hacking.

That being hacking the algorithms and code that make Kinect function on the Xbox itself, since the Kinect hardware just sends all the raw data to the Xbox.

Anyone that wants to use the hardware has to do a lot of the work that Microsoft has already done in making sense of the data, but that is a lot of the challenge that people seem to enjoy. I noticed not a lot of people aren't using the microphones. I believe that would give a lot of additional functionality when used for sonic mapping.
Well the article on the University's web-page states the study was commissioned by the municipality of Alphen aan der Rijn. The municipality's website has two pages about the study:
http://www.alphenaandenrijn.nl/Smartsite.shtml?id=75994
http://www.alphenaandenrijn.nl/Smartsite.shtml?id=63643

The second one, at least, refers to a control group. The first suggests contacting the author for further details. I think it is a case where the news value of a piece of research outruns the peer review and publication process. For all we know the author thinks a lot more research is needed before he can publish anything.
Benjamin Savage doesn’t look polite to me. Is it because I’m not a native speaker?
Even on subsequent updates to the build configuration, I believe it checks if there environment has changed before running a build configuration. The assumption here is that the dependencies are setup correctly.
The bomb really wasn't known. Some people speculated that it may work, some people were sure that it couldn't.

I've finished https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170428.Now_It_Can_Be_Tol... last week, and from what I understand, a lot of people didn't think that bomb is a possibility (for example, the Germans weren't really sure), and even when the Manhattan project was running several years, the scientists still weren't sure that the bomb will work as expected. There was a lot of variables in play, and for example, materials for the bombs weren't available for testing in large enough qualities.

One of the concerns, from what I understand as a layman, was that a critical amount of material will blow itself up too early, so that most of the material won't be part of the explosion. This was solved, I think, by some kind of neutron reflectors, or something*.

There are few chapters about how part of the Manhattan project was capturing scientists from France, Italy and Germany. When they captured them, their housing was bugged and there are transcripts from that time in the book. When the bombs were dropped, they generally couldn't believe that it really worked.

* One of the transcripts shows, that the Germans didn't think of this, and when they thought about the bomb, the thought about basically overloaded nuclear reactor, which would be big, heavy and impractical for use as a bomb.
I reckoned. But I was interested what compilers this one competes against.
That would be fine if it were possible to criminally prosecute the cops.

But it isn't; only the government can do that, and they don't want to.
Not insecure for the customer, insecure for you, the software vendor.
> I'd be more worried about opening myself to tor than some theorized attack on ssh ciphers.

Most of the attacks launched on Tor aren't in the "remote takeover of the tor server via memory corruption" category, they have (in recent history) mostly been in the form of:

* Attack firefox.exe in Tor Browser Bundle
* Control a lot of nodes, do something networky to discover the user's actual IP/location

What is the threat you anticipate will result from "opening yourself to Tor"?
tiny super cheap, lens-free camera

Cover a wall with those. Full 3D capture.

Intersperse those on that wall with tiny pods of directional LEDs. Think "lenticular 3D" but with hemispheres instead of half-cylinders.

Remotely connect two of these walls. Result is a virtual 2-way window, with full natural 3D viewing without headgear. Could revolutionize teleconferencing: participant(s) are "just" on the other side of a glass wall...with the "other side" any distance away. Bandwidth required may be staggering relative to current video, yet is currently manageable.
Nice... examples could be in english!
the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe

The phones that I really like seem to never be available in the US. Admittedly, I have a unique taste in phones. I love the idea of a minimal phone OS with a qwerty keypad (or number pad). The new Blackberry Classic looks really nice too, but it's not available in the US and Blackberry has all but abandoned ship in the US market.

Nokia is getting so close to scratching that itch with this phone. I really hope there's a US version with similar specs somewhere up the pipe.
He explain his intention was another thing, and this post make it more clear, I think:

http://www.lispcast.com/two-kinds-of-bootstrapping
>There are people who face discrimination; or who have learnt patterns of livingthat are not compatible with work; or people who have learned helplessness.

And there are also people with crippling depression, fibromyalgia, and/or pain disorders.

>I'm particularly interested in barriers to employment for people with mental illness. When someone has a leg amputated there is a period where they are rehabilitating and having prosthetics fitted, but then they can return to work. From time to time they may have problems with their stump and they will need new prosthetics. We don't expect those people to never work again. So it's weird to me why we don't see severe mental illness as havig similar times of illness and wellness.

Maybe it's better in the UK, but in many countries, employers simply don't want to hire someone with a history of chronic semi-disability. This can be particularly bad in the United States, where disability and health insurances are provided by the employer instead of the state.
Cheers for the feedback, all valid.

We've heard some of those things before and will definitely keep iterating on it!

Appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Maybe it will collapse before going public as WeWork did? Hopefully not, it will be interesting to watch.
It's an exchange, as soon as you're done trading, you can and should withdraw your coins to your personal wallet.
Good to see some levity in some of these threads.
> Can anyone provide some insight/ ELI5 as to why the coin selection is curated vs a free for all?

Coinbase is a centralized exchange. Any support for new currencies have to researched, developed, tested, deployed and maintained (unless they are ERC20 tokens, then they'll require less of everything but still needs work to be added). So there is no way they can offer "free for all" as not all crypocurrencies are created equal.
Actually, what I'd really like is to be able to use PiP through the standard https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Picture-in-... at all
I interpreted the author’s discussion of the “right” long-term mindset to mean that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it makes more sense to be optimistic than pessimistic about the future.

Personally, based on the past performance of humanity, I expect the long-term future of the globe to be better than the past. It’s based on informed speculation: Hans Rosling’s Factfulness is relevant here. Sure, we might obliterate ourselves with nukes or destroy the world with greenhouse gas emissions, but I’m not going to operate under the assumption that we won’t figure things out and that WILL happen.

As an investor, I share Buffett’s optimism about the future of America. Yes, we have many many fundamental challenges. Yes, it’s possible that, if you put all your money in a broad US market index today, your returns might be negative until a decade or two later. But I’ll continue to bet on America’s continued existence and success (albeit by picking assets I think are undervalued rather than the current price of the stock market).

In other words, I think it’s rational to optimistically speculate that (1) America will continue to be an economic powerhouse and (2) price will eventually converge to value for most assets.
nice to see sqitch[1] in use here

1: https://sqitch.org/
See DeFi
Haha, this was a friend of mine! According to his retellings, the day also included:

* Being asked if he was a communist

* Asking one police officer why he was being detained, and being answered "I don't know, what'd you do?"
Incorrect. Yes, Quebec has less of a split than elsewhere in Canada. However it's 97% of females take paid leave versus 72% of males, and 48.4 weeks paid leave on average versus 5.5 weeks. That's not exactly on par. And I don't know in what universe 76% is considered "pretty much always".

And it doesn't even cover the case when the mother and father split before birth.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2012002/article/11697-...
The government can either take the action itself if it makes sense, or compensate B for its costs.
Perhaps GoJS or Go.js would be a better choice?
You could also have fines proportional to income. Both fines and point systems have their caveats though.
> And don't assume Zip codes have 5-digits only

Aren't ZIP (it's an initialism, Zone Improvement Plan) codes by definition a US-only thing? Even in countries that don't call them post/postal codes, they're not known as ZIP codes.
The vulnerability in question: *The Return of Coppersmith’s A‚ttack:
Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli∗ https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/_media/public/papers/nemec_roca_ccs...

Estonian ID card uses 2048 byte keys which means generating a private key from a public key takes 140.8 CPU years which is quite fast/trivial/cheap using a distributed approach (botnet, your already existing HW that you use for mining etc).. considering the implications.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/security_flaw...
Yes, it is a bit ironic ;)

You're a genius! I love "nowa." (though "OutdoorTemperatureAndHumidityDisplayManagerFactoryInterface" is tempting).
Probably raised a "conspiracy theory-prone discussion" red flag in enough HN-ers.
Slides that go with this: https://www.coresecurity.com/system/files/publications/2016/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663029 this did not get removed
> And of course tides/sea level is almost the same duality as weather/climate.

I tried to argue for the same point but lacked the word “duality” in my corpus. Thank you, will use in the future!
The quality and volume is truly incredible. There are at least 4 classes that I'm interested in at any given time, and that's on coursera alone (not including udacity, edx, etc.).

I wonder how much longer these services are going to stay free. I like to download all the content just to be sure that it's not taken away when they eventually go to paid models.
They are invalid states because, with the exception of indexing into an array or doing something else directly related to the memory size of your platform, INT_MAX is never the point at which the value stored in a fixed-width numeric type ceases to make sense. If I have an RPG where I want to cap a character's stats at 99 (been playing too much Dark Souls, I think...) yet fail to implement a manual sanity check, I open myself to the possibility of, at best, 128-99=29 invalid states (and in the worst-case, if I used a u64, I get the aforementioned 18 quintillion invalid states). My program is invalid during this time, but trapping arithmetic can't help me. This is why I said that to actually solve this problem you need numeric bounds in your type system.
Maybe I misread, but he had a professional firewall but just couldn't afford the traffic shaping feature.
You are 110% spot on. I really don't like PG using his status to push these pie in the sky numbers to back up his buddies in the valley. We all know that the biggest cost tech companies have are there developers and they would love to put the squeeze on them.
Regarding your search, most of those links are explanations of why you're wrong. The problem is that scientists are saying something like, "Given the measurements we've made of the extra energy the earth is absorbing, we'd expect surface air temperatures to be rising even more rapidly than they are. The energy can't just disappear. Where is that extra energy going to?"

What deniers hear is, "Computer models tell us the earth should be heating up and it isn't! The energy must be missing! The earth is cooling!"

But, fair enough I should have said more than "just wrong". So allow me to explain why it's wrong and, since you don't like temperature data, we can do it talking about waves on a beach.

Imagine you're measuring the height that waves come up a beach. You notice that if you look at, say, the last 30 measurements, you can see a clear upward trend: the tide is coming in.

Now you'd like to determine whether or not the tide is turning. So you look at the last 16 measurements (it helps to start from that big wave 16 measurements back), and there you go - no significant increase in the height up the beach.

Does that tell you whether the tide has turned or not? Well of course it doesn't. Otherwise you could continually find moments where the "tide was turning" simply by taking a short enough period of measurement. And you'd continually be wrong.

What's the correct way of doing this? It's pretty simple. You check the longer term trend (tide is coming in) and then take the last 16 measurements and see if that trend is significantly different to your previous trend.

This way adding data strengthens your findings, whereas with the previous way removing data strengthens your findings.

So, basically, you're doing it wrong. Do it the correct way and then tell me what you find.

As for:

> the IPCC merely future proofed their gravy train.

Well, there's no falsifying the Golden Rule: "it's all part of the conspiracy"
Pretty much everyone has enough calories (too many in most cases).
Sure; foods high in sugar and fat have no effects on concentration levels versus healthier food, right?

Those who can't send their children to local schools. What happens there depends on how bright they are, how hard they work and how committed their parents are to education.
This is deeply ignorant. What happens when a smart kid is in the middle of a class filled with kids who have no interest in learning? Do you think the teacher will craft a whole special course specific to that kid? Or do you think the teacher will try to get something basic to stick at the lowest level, so almost all the kids get at least something from their education?

What happens when a kid's peers mock the kid for being a swot? How socially integrated is the kid going to be, when all his friends do things in the evenings, and the kid's stuck doing homework and study? Ever heard of peer pressure? Gangs? Do you have any memories of growing up in a state school in a poor area, of the risk of being beaten up if you venture into the wrong area, wearing the wrong uniform?
I found the interview at the bottom of that article completely surreal. A couple of talking heads applying reason to question of whether the world has enough people or not (and apparently deciding that it doesn't have enough), when all they needed to do was buy a plane ticket to Bangladesh.
That article was pretty much only comprised of anecdotes about drivers being upset about something... They even directly say "hard numbers on tech riders were not available."

I want to see the actual data and how Uber, or Lyft came out after NYE. Wasn't the algorithm supposed to help stabilize the supply of Uber cars on the road? I doubt it is designed simply to gouge people when demand is high.

It kind of sounds to me like the media pumped up this idea of "OMG look at how screwed these few people were by surge prices!" Then Uber responded to the critics by issuing warnings about high surge prices on NYE. This further solidified this idea that the price would always shoot up on big nights no matter what. So now you have everyone who's ever driven for Uber, plus a bunch of newcomers all going out driving thinking they are all going to be cashing in on $200 fares. Supply goes up, surge goes down.

Or maybe surge doesn't go all the way down. Uber would have no reason to make the primary function of their algorithm to make drivers more money, or stabilize driver income. They are trying to increase market share and make money. Maybe they think the NYE demand is very inflexible and thus they can restrict the surge pricing to stay above a certain level and not have much of an effect on demand. This would, however, probably only exacerbate the initial problem with oversupply, as more drivers would see surge pricing in effect and start earlier, and stay out later.

There isn't even any anecdotal evidence in the article about the passenger side of the experience, they only have stuff from Lyft/Uber drivers.

People act like Uber/Lyft should be nice to the drivers and treat them well, when in reality they are clients, not prized employees. Uber's relationship with the drivers is a business relationship that is very carefully maintained and fine tuned. If you showed me a similar company that treated drivers very well and was still able to keep prices from exploding, I would gladly use that service over the current players, but it just seems to me that they are doing what makes sense given the current marketplace. Isn't it supposed to be a lot easier gig to be an Uber driver than a city cab driver?
Which is still irrelevant: in the default configuration the server I'm connecting to is probably not compromised, I've probably just done something to change keys or routes or names or whatever.

The problem is further back: the default configuration doesn't make it easy to avoid these problems in the first place. If I'm logged in and do something which will change SSH host keys or the like, then the default needs to provide a way for me to make that information easily available globally to other clients which might be aware of this system.
I'm replying to the question as to why there isn't selective breeding of raccoon to make them suitable as pets.

A likely reason is that they have a very strong and unpleasant musky odor. Though I suppose that could be bred out too.
There's some relevant discussion on this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244476