jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Buying into the mid-range is fine. It's what I do with beer a tequila. Buying the $200 bottles is where I question the logic. Even the expert tasters struggle to differentiate between a good $20-30 bottle and a $400 bottle in double blind tests.

I don't drink Sanka or Coors, I just use good coffee beans and drink good local beer. I don't spend $200 on exotic coffee beans feral cats have shit out.

The only reason I put the $6 in parens for wine is because I don't drink wine and don't really know where the price point is for a solid mid-range wine is.
That’s fair, I should have written that.
If the average karma score was ever going to be perceived as important it needed to update at regular intervals rather than every few days in a background process. I don't think mine changed at all during the period it was up there.
Those that spell it out do not necessary do it all the same way. I've seen:

jim[at]domain.com

jim( a.t.] domain.com

jim THE WORD AT HERE domain.com

etc. etc.

It might all be for a lost cause but if there is a slim chance at obfuscation it costs them nothing to try.
Right. The Nexus One is a working, production, reference implementation of what an Android phone SHOULD be, not something Google expected to make them rich.
An Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator will not suffice?
For this to work you'd have to have the whole essay mapped out in your mind at the outset.

For me, writing with a word processor is not just about setting down my words, but even before that, setting down the structure of the essay, then going back into it non-sequentially to flesh it out.

I can't imagine how that would be workable, even if the speech recognition were perfect. Things like "go back to the first paragraph of the section, now after the first sentence insert X" is unwieldy, and bound to take far longer than traditional cursor control with keys or mouse.
Seconding this. After years of heavy googling, I just came upon my first Mahalo page a few days ago. It was in probably the 6th or 7th position on the first page, and gave me the answer I needed.
Do you think those types of pages are providing real value to users? Come on... get real.

There's obviously a reverse incentive at play here which stinks (IMHO). If you make the page useful to users, they wouldn't click on any of the ads. So it's in your best interest to create bare minimum pages, or pages that give the users a token amount of value - the bare minimum.

I'm surprised at Google for allowing this sort of thing and specifically allowing you to put even more ads up than is usually allowed.
If you're using a RAID array you should probably be buying a server, not a laptop.
so than they are being worked on and not crawled by Google?
I just create a new account called "applestore" with admin rights. This allows me to give them access to the OS without access to my files (I use FileVault). However, this is something they should be doing on their own instead of asking users to trust them with their password.
If diffing is important, why not use Git as the repository back-end, then?
I have a different model of exit that is my goal. To create companiesnthatncan run without my daily involvement. Then repeat.

I currently am a partner in an LLC that owns two retail stores. We will do a third of this franchise and then move on to something else. I essentially live off the profits currently and spend 10-30 hours a month on them.
In the same way that forcing people to code everything in assembler or C instead of Ruby or Python out of some religious ideology is a good thing.

Word produces acceptably formatted acceptably cross platform documents with low effort and a PDF export option for the last three years too.
Flash has used the browser cache since the inception of the plugin. In fact it routes all http requests through the browser itself, it has no built-in stack of it's own. (unless you're on the desktop)
Reads like the Hacker equivalent of a Harquelin Romance novel... by the end you want his VCs' heads put on stakes :)
We kept a majority of shares

The battle of the wills described in this piece could only have been possible because the founders retained their majority control and even then it was obviously painful as could be dealing with the types of bullying investors described. Had it not been for this, the founders would have been crushed.
Just wait till someone uses an ORM library for configuration.
It was a Transocean rig that BP had leased. The US govt has remained very quiet about that, e.g. Transocean will be paying a dividend to its shareholders this year and not a whisper of criticism about that from Obama.
Media seems to be increasingly part of the enforcement arm of the monoculture. For those that are in the “club” there’s cover, for those that find themselves on the other side there’s smear.
The "their" in the quoted comment clearly refers to the social media platforms owned by Zuckerberg and not society as a whole.
I’ve only ever used Kotlin for competitive programming, but I must say there is no other language that I get so much joy from using. I’m serious, Kotlin makes me happy.

But, I have been worried about it’s future. I hope this helps make sure it has a future.
Kotlin is a really nice clean language to delop with, it should get more and more traction.
As to that second part...

>... In another, he pointed out that Mr. Murray believes Black people “are genetically less intelligent than white people.”

What article (as of right now, there is no link)? What is up with journalists not bothering to cite claims like these?
Google won't let you enable "enhanced security" unless you have more than one u2f key.
Maybe this is more to your liking: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
I did a dropwizard and kotlin project around 1.2.20 (3 years ago) and it was fine even then, with some minor rough edges.

I would imagine everything is fine now.
You can't just trample on people's rights because you disagree with them. Nor say "it's OK that it exists, it just can't be popular."
I’m not actually blaming the jerks (which is rather pointless, jerks will be jerks), I’m blaming governments for ostensibly believing jerks don’t exist and asking nicely is enough.
No, all GPUs released in the last 10 years have a unified shader architecture. Vertex, fragment, and compute shaders all run on the same units, and they are the big part of the GPU.

"Compute units" is AMD terminology for a grouping of ALUs and stuff. Nvidia calls them "stream multiprocessors".

Example: Vega 64 has 64 CUs, each CU has 64 "shader processors", so there's 64*64 == 4096 "shader processors" total. This is the big part.
Tell that to the "shutdown the world people". The entire basis of this response is the exponential function.
Re: drone + artillery, do you have a link to more details? That accuracy look pretty crazy for first shot hits. I was under the impression that 10s of meters was state of the art for indirect fire. Is the drone acting as FO for very high precision artillery fire with GLONAS/GPS guidance? Or is it actively targeting (laser etc) for terminal guidance of the shells?
I'd prefer to put actual money where my mouth is, would you care to bet a fair sum on my comment above? I definitely would. There are peer-to-peer betting option available to us.

I would bet everything I own that this virus doesn't kill half of the flu/pneumonia deaths of 2017 by WHO numbers. That's for even money. Please let me know, we can work something out.
Am i the only one who has no clue what a "Tracker Song" is?

The article barely touches on this, saying vaguely "The songs that were stolen were often used in keygen cracking software that was popular in the 2000s to pirate software" -- so the music was used as a key for the keygen? Or was it just included for giggles? Or is it a fingerprint intended for actual tracking?

edit: thanks for all the replies, some really great info below!
If you think of politics more like sports it makes sense. No one is going to logically tell you why the patriots are the best team. But you’re certainly not going to change their mind.
Virus stays on surfaces for some time.

Dogs have surfaces.
DUPLICATE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25656993
Strong disagreement.

1. In the past, the wrong speech would result in both government, and private sector censure. You're selectively omitting the civil rights struggle, the communist witch hunts, the german witch hunts that preceeded them, the history of internment and concentration camps in this country, the suffrage struggle...

We didn't somehow magically arrive at the world of 2020, without a lot of people being punished for their speech.

2. Our information diet was never as diverse as it is now. Media, prior to the age of the internet, was much more of a monoculture of ideas than it is now. New, radicalizing information arose in university halls and books and rallies, not on the television.

3. People are no more, and no less willing to admit that they were wrong today, as they were in the age of, say, segregation-forever Jim Crow south.

This coup is not the result of offensive speech being restricted, or hurt feelings. It's the direct result of a few people with media and political influence actively directing their followers to undermine our democracy.

This could have happened in any decade - but it happened today because of the particular personalities involved. You elect a president that is very vocal about his lack of respect for the law, the election process, the presidency, or democratic institutions, and this is what you get. The only reason it is happening in 2020, and not 1920, 1960, or 2020 was because the personalities on the ballot in those years had respect for those things - or at least, were adults who managed to check their worst impulses.

When he said that he won't accept the results of any election that he didn't win (back in 2016), do you still think he was confused, or kidding, or misunderstood? He was just being honest. You can't let people who profess such ideas within reaching distance of political power, because they will happily burn the world down around them to retain it.
Not ignorant, especially if trying to understand something!

The idea with Nazi Germany was that it didn't suddenly pop into existence, as many would believe. It had a long, gradual, slide into it.

In 1932 there was The Beer Hall Putsch [0] when the nazis tried to get the power but failed. As a consequence, Hitler was jailed and wrote his book and after he got out he continued his ascent.

The scary implication of the comment is that even if this coup attempt fails, the USA is down a long slide out of democracy and this is just the beginning.

It is quite scary for me as a non-US citizen because I used to look up to the US. Not anymore. The current world order is supported by US hegemony. Upending this could end up badly for the rest of the world, since transitions of power on the world stage are rarely peaceful.

It's scary because the US seems heading down this road that is eerily similar to what happened in the past. And they say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
(As I learned from recent Rust concurrency changes) on newer Intel, it usually fetches two cache lines so effectively 128 bytes while AMD usually 64 bytes. That's the sizes they use for "cache line padded" values (I.e making sure to separate two atomics by the fetch size to avoid threads invalidating the cache back and forth too much).
> Even with strong measures these people aren't going to accept something contrary to their world view. There's no satiating the blood lust of a fascist movement like Q Anon

Only a fringe minority of the right actually believes in this. Most rightwingers, according to this Pew survey, don't even know what QAnon is, and surprisingly, they're even less likely to be familiar with it than progressives, suggesting progressives exaggerate its influence:

> https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/16/5-facts-abo...

The election integrity issue is another matter, and I could easily see most on the right coming away from the 2020 election thinking that it was stolen out from under them, through ballot box stuffing, dead voters, repeat-voters, and illegal immigrant voters. But I doubt the left will compromise even slightly on this issue, and will just keep 'fact checking' it in the hope that it will go away, and denounce measures like voter ID laws as disenfranchisement.
I think that's unfair. On this website specifically we're very tended towards college educated. If you follow the bright path you can end up being somewhat sheltered to the concerns and the motivations of much of the general population.

This leads to people being blindsided by things like Trump or Brexit. Its important to register that we tend towards a slanted world view.
“provide them with the tools to understand what is reasonable” ≠ “defining what is "reasonable"”.

You can help people reach reasoned conclusions without telling them what conclusions to reach.
Seriousness aside, Godwin himself agreed that the law no longer applies after Charleston.
This is the big one.

The late Peter Junger, who brought this case, was a principled civil libertarian and law professor who deserves to be remembered for dealing the final blow to the federal government's anti-encryption regime. He was the first person to secure a precedential court decision that said this:

"Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is protected by the First Amendment." http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1074126.html (The 9th Circuit in _Bernstein_ didn't go that far, despite valiant efforts by EFF, as I recall it.)

Peter was a computer tinkerer as well as a lawyer. He once did me the favor of speaking to a class I taught at Case Western, and, in addition to discussing his own encryption case, talked about setting up a mail server --I recall the school let him place a colo'd box in one of their server rooms because he was an emeritus. He also wrote an article called "You Can't Patent Software: Patenting Software Is Wrong": http://samsara-blog.blogspot.com/

TLDR: One big reason why we haven't seen a proposed US law restricting mobile device encryption today is because of what Peter Junger did in the 1990s.
And that is literally the second point made in the article, to have a local fallback.
I appreciate the concrete experience described in your comment, but please don't do this here:

> So because some people are idiots others should have to suffer?

It degrades discussion and encourages worse from others. And since it was obviously not what the commenter was saying, it breaks the guideline which asks you to respond to charitable interpretations, not weak ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Also, you've gotten into flamewars about drugs on HN before, and we had to ask you to stop. I get that you have reason to feel strongly about this topic, but that doesn't make it ok to bring sharp elbows into the conversations. If you can't be respectful, including to people who seem completely wrong, then please don't post.
No, I'm not wearing a mask, and I don't want too, that the whole point. The fact that people do need my consent before they film me, or make anonymous is state of the law in may places.

I don't see how a mandatory shutter sound is blocking "technological progress".
> No matter how good a person is, they will encounter moral dilemmas (or at least, there exist moral dilemmas that could be posed to them) with no good option. For any one of these situations you can say "OMG! I'm so indignant that they chose A" ... And the same for B.

It's as if you believe every moral choice, including the choice to support or oppose torture, is a choice of equal moral consequence such that a person deserves praise whichever way they choose. I don't intend to sign on to this new ethical theory of yours.
A couple years ago I read an article about a fatal shooting the previous night, next to an ad for The Killers [0] in concert at a nearby venue.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers
FWIW, Chrome has already done that.
From the FAQ:

Q: Does LyfeLens have a subscription service?

A: While LyfeLens will provide superior functionality as a dash cam without a subscription plan, the full LyfeLens experience requires a subscription. The subscription activates the 4G LTE connection and the web portal, which are necessary to support push notifications, WiFi hotspot, automatic cloud storage, live video feeds, and speed and location monitoring.

So, without the subscription it is just a dash cam. But they don't have any info on subscription price. I don't have a problem dropping $200 on a device like this with the full LyfeLens experience. I don't have a problem paying a subscription fee. But I'm not going anywhere near a device that basically requires a monthly/yearly fee to make it more than just a dash cam... but isn't upfront about the price.
As they mentioned in the post, the name was clearly causing problems for their students. Prospective, current and alum.
Cable built an internet infrastructure across America on top of existing outdoor wiring plant (including access to poles) built up over many years.

Cable built up the outdoor wiring plant by offering a compelling new service (great reception for local TV and exclusive national programming) without significant competition (you could get a giant satellite dish, but compact dishes were not available until after cable was mostly entrenched).

It's not easy to overlay additional infrastructure wiring to compete with existing services (most areas already have good enough internet and video services from one or two providers; especially when a new entrant prompts upgrades from the incumbents). On the other hand, it's very easy to use wholesale access (if available) to provide middle mile competition. You would just need a couple routers (one at last mile provider building; one in a local carrier hotel/colo), a leased line between them, and a transit account.
As I said, you can definitely raise aesthetic objections. You're free to hate operators all you want, though it does strike me as a peculiar basis on which to decide what tool to use. My point was whether there are actual practical implications, though, and I don't think the self-selected nature of Haskell professionals has any bearing on that. I frequently hear many other objections from people working in the language, so it's not a case of rose-colored glasses in which we think everything about the language is fine. It's simply a case of operator naming not being very important, from a practical perspective. To the extent that it is important, most people who actually use the language think it's a benefit, not a detriment.
Each state's standards are the Common Core. They are literally the same thing; the name "common core" simply refers to the effort to align the standards from state to state. Why? Because the basics of reading, writing, and math are the same in every state.

State alignment of standards is common. You may have heard of the Uniform Commerical Code or the Uniform Building Code, which are other examples.

Even the states whose governors are rejecting Common Core for political reasons are putting in place new state standards that are not substantially different from Common Core. But since national conservative organizations have latched onto the name Common Core for their fundraising, the name has become messy for conservative governors. But the concept of standards in education is still very popular.

And standards are not the same thing as curricula. The standards define what students should learn; curricula define how students will learn that. The two are constantly conflated, which is not helpful to either.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've been using pygame with my students but kivy looks great.
If you are in the SF bay area, LA, Australia, or another place with wildfire smoke problems, the 3M filtrete MPR 1900 filters with a fan is close to ideal.

All the smoke uses up a lot of filter material, and this alternative has 10x cheaper filter replacement. It also moves a lot more air through a lot more filter, cleaning everything up more quickly. And the lack of aesthetics is fine for a few weeks. It's worth doing even if you rock a normal filter most of the year.

For an upgrade use a few silent computer case fans instead and you can have a super quiet setup to run all day.
Could also simply be for bootstrapping or even for ChromeOS which currently supports Linux and Android apps.
You still haven't provided any data of any country showing consistent inflation. Hell, do it over a 10 year period annually. You still can't. No bitcoin for you and the wetlands.
Rust lambdas look like this:

|ar,gs| expr

So `|| expr` is just a lambda function that takes no arguments and evaluates to `expr`.
It has not been proven that Comcast has the authority to do this:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141208/13222529362/comca...

It has been proven that in many places at least in the US, it is illegal and in some cases is a felony.

Edit: Further, it is not a good idea to connect to any known SSID unless you know for a fact that it can be trusted:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/free-wi-fi-from-xfin...

Your neighbor might be hacking you while you think you are legally using their hardware.
I don't see it.

Let's assume that the app exists and has a good database. Parking rules and regs change on a regular basis in the context of a city, typically both tickets and drivers utilise the same signage to determine if an offense has occurred. So for all intents and purposes the signs are the decider of if a ticket is issued.

So when a driver arrives, they load the app, they'll still have to check the signs to make sure the rules haven't changed. And in the time it took to load the app and have it figure out your location (and you'll likely have to enter side of the street due to GPS limitations) you may have well just read the signs.

And when the app is wrong (as it rarely will be) then the driver has no excuse. Saying "an app told me I could part!!!" will be laughed at, and the app creator will likely need legal protection as they will get sued even if the app is free. Lawsuits that you win are still expensive.