jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Brave already does this as far as I know (cross-site cookies are blocked by default). Don't know about Vivaldi, but I would not be surprised if they do.
Piazza is asking me for a princeton.edu email address (I tried to sign up through the link you gave above).
Can I sign up for the course if I am not a Princeton student (or any student of a university, for that matter)?
I went through the period of nostalgia and fascination the author exhibits years ago with Amiga, c64 and dos emulation and virtual machines.

It's impressive and convenient that this runs in a browser, but does itreally change anything about emulation? We've had this capability for windows, mac and Linux for years which covers about every platform with a browser. I suppose it's convenient if you wanted to emulate windows 3.1 on your iOS device.
Nothing wrong with 'feature freezes' rather than complete code freezes. It's a great opportunity to get work done that you've been putting off all year. If the management aren't expecting new features, it's a perfect time to fix bugs, improve reliability and experiment.
Nice writeup, but[1] I'm wondering, could the author have saved himself from a lot of grief by not using an ancient, outdated bootloader in the first place?

[1]: I don't want to spoil the fun, but look at [2] in the article and wonder: who the hell is still using grub 1? Even mainstay isolinux (which in addition has to deal with lots of weird / broken BIOS implementations of cd booting (El Torito, anyone?)) does a lot better.
Tried this article as a test, only got a portion of it:

http://us.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/north-korea-the-inte...
Games and streaming audio/video aren't common scenarios on the internet?

Don't be distracted by latency/packet loss/bandwidth configurations, the main problem here is that TCP was never intended to serve the needs of soft-realtime communication. It's not relevant to deterministic lockstep, but for most realtime problems (I'm thinking of multiplayer FPS, but you can think of Skype if that's not "serious" enough for you), if you miss a packet of data, it might as well have never existed. Better to hear blips and glitches on a phone call over a shitty connection than to start adding seconds of latency.

You missed the point about deterministic lockstep as well, which is intended for scenarios where trying to transmit i.e. the entire state of a virtual army per tick is prohibitive. Designing the program to behave deterministically so that you can send only the player inputs per tick is the exact opposite of an "extremely high available bandwidth" solution.
There is something powerful about David's work. I remember stumbling onto it some time ago and thinking "there is a way of using this kind of communication to make information so much more accessible". Projects like the Google Public Data explorer [1] are a step in this direction but by no means are the final solution.

I find that when I am researching something I have to spend so much time wading through people's attempted (and sometimes good) prose in order to find the conclusion I need.

In an era of overwhelming data I feel like we should have a way to make common data much more accessible and David's work (despite it's potential flaws in regards to empiricism) seems to be a step in the right direction.

[1] http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Thanks for sharing! Certainly will inspire and motivate HN users.
It's not perfect, but it's the simplest option for me for normal background noise that works reasonably well as long as you don't change much. Definitely an option if you want to play games or work at the same time as talk.
"They" are the racists.
Organizing an insurrection is expressing yourself peacefully?
> It would bring new jobs but to who? It would bring quality food but for whom? It would increase tax revenues but for who?

Fair questions, I'll grant you that. My question to you: is doing nothing (an empty lot) better than ambiguity about the people who will finally benefit from this economic development? If TJ moved in and somehow ended up providing only a net of 1% benefit to the local community, would that be worse than 0%?
Out of curiosity what event are you refering to?
Hey Romeo,

This is incredible. I love this idea and hope it can come to light.

Quick question, I took a look at the price in the FAQ:

"We're looking at $12/day as our absolute ceiling and aim to hit significantly lower than that. MealSquares will come down in price as we scale. At $12 a day a MealSquare costs $2.40, which is very competitive with other options."

Is this for 1 day worth (2000 calories) of MealSquares? Is this assuming a bulk purchase (1 week or month)?
Yeah, we'd hope they have some serious M-of-N key system in place to safeguard access to the wallets.

The biggest thing that gives me pause about Coinbase is their decision to use MongoDB. There may be a reason, but I certainly can't find one. Their use case is perfect for proper, old-fashioned, reliable RDBMS. They've also had a fair amount of customer service issues, including "we rebooted and our job queues didn't run anymore" problem where they tried to rip that guy off.

Even so, the security of the offline wallet is so important, you'd think their investors will have insisted on some auditing and third party implementation. Maybe some of the big wallets are even partially held by outside people.
Hey vyrians - thank you for the feedback.
Traffic from HN took the SMS API down but it should be back up. I also sent a link via e-mail for you to try to connect again. Let me know if you need support at louis@shelf.so ! Cheers
That's correct!

LXC offers primitives for containerization with a bit of sugar which projects like Docker leverage to provide a much lower barrier to entry for most people. Today, you lose some flexibility due to lack of options, but it appears that should only be temporary.

Depending on context, Docker containers can be thought of as a fat binary for your application. Meaning, as long as a Docker Host is running, your application can run without any additional dependencies. It's the exact same environment your application is running in no matter where you are. The cool part about the Docker internals is that pushing an update to another Docker Host is incremental. Very similar to a `git diff`.
Yup you're absolutely right, this was something I just left from the dev days and didn't think too much about. I've merged the PR.
Not true. You most certainly can default on a student loan, even those held by the Department of Education.
Fine. Name one anything-to-JavaScript compiler that generates better, faster code than a "normal" developer would do.

I assume we have different interpretations of what's normal.
You are referring to Landauer’s principle with the "minimum amount of entropy associated with a single irreversible bit flip". While it is proven (or "trivial" if you believe some scientists on the subject), its applicability to all possible computation systems is not clear.

Recent theory and experiment have re-emerged to study this field both in the classical and quantum regimes. See http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0210/0210005v2.pdf for a nice review and "Breakdown of the Landauer bound for information erasure in the quantum regime" (http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v64/i5/e056117) for a specific case.
> It makes me happy that people like this exist.

i find people like this extremely unnerving. this kind of oceanic "awesomeness" enthusiasm comes across as someone struggling to convince themselves that just the opposite isn't the case.
How many hours does HN distraction cost you? For me it was like 2 hours per day, until I reached a point where I felt that I knew just enough to actually go and start doing something. Building something was the way to test my knowledge. Now I'm in progress with my first startup and HN browsing takes 15 minutes, I mainly bookmark stories that might benefit the project I am working with, it keeps me going.

So my advice would be, go and test how well you know "THE GAME", build something!
I inherit 42 in one month from the 11th :)
Yes, but it's ok - my code is compiling...
Don't forget his father Robert T. Morris Sr., who wrote the passwd program for Unix and worked at the NSA when the worm got loose.
I'm not a techie. I couldn't tell you what a BSD licence is exactly, but I'm aware of the differences, and reasons for choosing between them.
Check this out, too. A little more expensive, but a clear, led lit a2600 USB joystick is awesome: http://www.reflexaudio.com/products_joystick.htm
> History is always the tool to justify the status quo.

Strong disagree on this one, especially on the _always_ part. Many times it is, in state propaganda especially. But history is the study of things that have happened and there are many facets and things in the past worth knowing and thinking about. It need not be the only about the things thaught in schools. It is much more, much richer than that.
Boredom was the biggest thing for me at my startup. When waiting around for the business guys to make the right partnership for 3 months while you refactor for a demo for the nth time....
They are far from 90% of the quality. The production standards at Lego are decades ahead of anything a Chinese company has produced so far in terms of tolerances, durability and quality control.
I've always wondered this and can never find a satisfactory answer online. You'd think that if ReLU works then LASSO shouldn't present any problems either right?

In addition L2 tends to discourage sparsity by spreading out the influence of weights, which seems antithetical to the mission of pruning. (for example, if you run a ridge regression with two identical features the L2 penalty will assign equal coefficients to both instead of zeroing one out like L1 does)
Take a sabbatical and then meditate on this. If you are serious then you will not go back or you will at least have seen the problem from distant. Its like debugging a bug :)

Traveling solo during sabbatical would also help.
> announcing the appointment of Jack Smith or Marilyn Clark

If they wanted fair comparison they’d choose both name equally strong and with the same surname, eg Jane Smith for woman or Oliver Clark for man. Or better choose many different names to make sure name itself is not a factor. Especially if one of the name looks like not a real name but as a placeholder.

This and couple other signs show this is not a proper study and should be ignored.
I used to sell debuggers a decade ago. We even had reversible debugging. The amount of personal development productivity I had was unmatched; I’ve never gotten back to that point.

It is true, nobody wants to pay for engineering tools. I wish the author luck.
For the same reason that ReactOS is helpful for you to build Windows applications: you can install the vendor's actual SDK on it (that'd be XCode here), without needing a license for the OS (which, in macOS's case, translates to "without needing to use Apple hardware.")

You know that there's entire data centers just running Mac Minis as VM hosts, in order to comply with Apple's OS licensing requirements? PureDarwin can just run on AWS.

Sure, running the XCode GUI needs Cocoa. But running xcodebuild doesn't, IIRC. It just needs some other, lower-level libs, ones that (reimplementations of) are in scope for PureDarwin.
> The way I want to write code is directly as it is executing. I think the distinction between writing code in an editor and debugging is arbitrary - I want to edit programs as they are running and see the data as it flows through beside the code.

I do something like that every day, especially when I'm dealing with weird and arbitrary APIs (which is most of them). I write as much of a function as I know how to do, set a breakpoint on the next line, and run what I have until it hits that breakpoint.

Then I can write the next few lines of code while looking at actual data.

If it happens to be Python code and I'm using IntelliJ, I can also open a Python console - a REPL running in the context of my breakpoint.

This helps me understand the libraries and APIs I'm working with in a way that just editing static non-running code doesn't.
I was in a shop when I heard the lilting strains of a woman with an Irish accent at the next table over.

Being quite partial to an Irish accent, I decided to eavesdrop and sate my desire.

The first words I heard her say once I 'tuned in' - and I swear this is true - were "potato potato potato". I had to leave the shop quite quickly for fear of losing my composure :)
Yes, definitely. In systems administration, too, you become less valuable the better you are at your job. People only value "firefighting" and so the people who set up systems that don't need constant maintenance are penalized, while those who constantly make trouble are rewarded for their "heroics" ... even if they caused the problems to begin with.

Upper management neither knows nor cares to be informed, sadly.
This idiom appears exactly the same in Dutch (and thus possibly other languages too?)
I spent three months crossing the US and what struck me is how outgoing the Americans are. Back home (Australia) if you're standing at a bus stop, no-one will talk to a stranger unless it's a sardonic comment about how late the bus is. In the US, total strangers just started talking to me apropos of nothing, just to talk and pass the time. I think that this is my favourite aspect of the American character.

The stereotype of the American who just wants to hear their own voice didn't hold up either - almost all of them were genuinely interested in conversation, though that may have been partly coloured because I was a foreign tourist a little off the beaten track.
With the little work I've done with Amazon Flexible Payments, I had to redirect to Amazon as well.

Although not free, cheddar getter will probably be cheaper than brain tree.

There are also some paypal functions that even though they take users to the paypal website, you can send them to a php?get= page where you can store subscription values in your database. I did this for a project I was bootstrapping a while ago.
Site is down right now.
> I might be getting a chance to work with Dot Net Nuke soon.

Prepare to be disappointed.

I used DNN back in '08, and there were plenty of vulnerabilities if you peeked around in the code a bit.. The up side I guess was that they're rarely actually discovered, since there's not much of anyone paying attention.

Actually working with it was slow and tedious as well, really not an experience I'd like to relive (though for all I know it could have improved a lot in the past years.) When forced into using a .Net CMS I find that Umbraco can do the trick and be.. comparatively painless.
It is hard to justify a $150 surcharge if you're using a tool that costs less than that (of course, knowing how to use the tool is a skill worth far more, but most people think it is as easy as putting it in the lock and pressing a button). I'm reminded of the apocryphal tale of the mechanic who, after some um-ing and ah-ing, hits the engine just once with a small hammer and fixes it. He presents his bill for $100, and is asked to justify it, so produces:

Hitting engine with hammer - $1
Knowing where to hit - $99
The video ends with the message "brought to you by ebay deals".
> I keep saying to people who ask what I'm doing next (currently taking a break) that my problem is I love coding but hate doing it as a job and this article has every reason why.

I used to feel this way, but then I realized it's not useful. You're not going to change anything, and nobody's going to feel sorry for you because most people spend their whole day at work doing things they don't want to do. And I mean in general, not just software jobs.

Work to pay the bills, and if you want to write code for fun do it outside of work on your own terms.

If you want to enjoy work then start your own company. If you're working for somebody else it's always going to mean doing things you don't want to do sometimes.
Do you query verisign? Maybe godaddy subscribes to a "service" from verisign?
That's one very interesting observation. I've commented in that vein a short while ago where I noticed that once I finally understood what some paper was about my usual response (definitely not always) would be 'That's it?'.

Wikipedia has been a godsend for me, to be able to understand core principles without having to wade through what seems to be obfuscated English in order to hide something relatively trivial at the heart of the document.
> Because Facebook hired climate change deniers as fact-checkers.

Source:

> Facebook has announced that it was teaming up with CheckYourFact.com, which is an offshoot of the anti-science media site, The Daily Caller

> The CheckYourFact website brags that: "Our mission is a non-partisan one. We're loyal to neither people nor parties — only the truth. And while the fact-checking industry continues to grow, there are still countless assertions that go unchecked. We exist to fill in the gaps."

Source's source:

> The Daily Caller, which has published misinformation about climate science for years, was co-founded by the science-denying Fox News host Tucker Carlson and is backed by major conservative donors, including Charles and David Koch, the billionaire fossil fuel barons who are the single biggest funders of climate science misinformation.

They use a source, which uses a source, which argues that CheckYourFact employees are climate change deniers because it's a spin-off of a site that was donated to by climate change deniers.

Looking at the evidence, one of the first links I saw on CheckYourFact's site was debunking a bad thing that Hillary supposedly said [1], which suggests it is not the same in agenda as The Daily Caller.

To the creator of this site: If you want this to have an impact, present the facts as-is, with no sensationalism or dramatization. Most of what you're writing very well may be true, and this seems like a noble cause, but if a reader can pick apart one questionable if not false statement, its legitimacy will be destroyed.

(If you're interested in a great piece on the importance of making claims conservatively and retaining legitimacy in reporting/writing, highly recommend checking out Spotlight, which chronicles the Boston Globe's exposure of the Catholic Church protecting pedophile priests).

[1] https://checkyourfact.com/2019/11/20/fact-check-hillary-clin...
I'm disappointed in Stripe on this one. There should be better rates for micropayments.
And we don't learn from history. The same exact thing happened with the '60s TFX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvar...), except in planned roles it had air superiority and not V/STOL.

It ended up with one model for deep interdiction, then the various services were able to get back to procuring more specialized planes like the F-14 and F-15. In the meanwhile the Air Force had to swallow its institutional pride and fly Navy designed F-4s.
An impressive demo, but I'd like to see this being done with photos of varying quality and see how the performance fairs. I've got a Chrome extension that I could probably use this with...
as someone who took his advice a few years ago about weightlifting, i can tell you firsthand that what he said then was reasonably accurate. my efforts, by generally doing what he suggested, produced generally similar results.
Holy shit. This is such a good idea.

Really good implementation as well! I hope you guys are adding the Amazon affiliate link to the amazon links! :)
django-admin.py commands are run once every blue moon. Explicitly documenting them even if they are slightly more verbose is a good practice. None of the most frequently issues Django commands are long, and all of them autocomplete with bash and zsh.
What is it that you don't believe? I have direct experience (at either end) of all the elements of the story - people in poor situations refusing money because of their pride or principles, people in bad situations helping for no reason at all... There isn't a single element in the OP that I could say "I've never heard of such a thing!". The family's behaviour is perfectly consistent of what I know of certain cultures.

I am sorry you have reason to be so cynical. I can't vouch as to whether the OP is true, but I can assure you that real life can and does "play out like that".
1. Measure what you eat.
2. Brief, intense, and regular workouts.
3. Repeat every day.
If you knew you'd die in 35 days you would probably be in hospital and too sick to do any of these things.
'Moving on' sounds like failure, but 'pivoting' is hot startup jargon, so to make sure to sound successful, you need to 'pivot' and not 'move on' :)

(Disclaimer: I caught myself saying 'pivot' in a pitch last week, and literally cringing in my chair when I realized it - luckily it was on the phone so I don't think anyone caught it ;) )
Lots of negative reviews on your apps on the android store, (which is to be expected for "just for fun" apps) but that's pretty much irrelevant so long as you're making money and getting experience. I wish I could say I was doing either.
This is a discussion of the consistency of advertised security claims with disclosures about availability of data to government subpoena.

In that context, statements like "we believe that what we advertise is in our userbase's best interest" make my ears prick up. I'm not a crypto expert, but this sort of thing does not seem like a straightforward response to the OP.
I doubt we'll see it open sourced, or saved in any form by Yahoo. It's too much cost/effort for them, when that's the reason they're scrapping it in the first place.

What i'd like to see is people quickly rolling out tools that help us get our Delicious bookmarks into other sites easier. Eg into Google Bookmarks. That currently requires you to install the Google Toolbar and import them through that (ugh).
China has a nasty opinion of what Japan did to them during WWII, largely because of the nasty things that Japan did to them during WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
Obviously the set of questions they ask relating to "thinking" versus "feeling" do not have a 1-to-1 relationship with those characteristics. But it's not bad: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas...

To address intuition, INTPs- where N stands for intuition- are actually the "scientist" types. However, like you note, the combination is comparatively rare. "Intuition" for MBTI talks about how you perceive incoming information. http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas... But you're right, the definition of "intuition" in MBTI is... unintuitive.
Needs another app with an icon that says "Don't Panic"
The Houston Python users group has some NASA / Constellation guys... I suspect they might have a Python api.
Only a matter of time before someone comes up with a way to install Linux on it. (There's already someone who's put Android on an iPhone 2G.)
without a doubt http://www.outright.com free, awesome, and it generates tax forms and such automatically. we use it to track our expenses.
This is the ASCII version of the infamous Drawball(.com).