jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do I have to quote the line about preparing for the last war - you cant assume that there will never be a nearpear /pear fight
This is really the key point, and the main thing that many people overlook. The purpose of TrueTime in Spanner is not gained by absolute accuracy. It's gained by knowing the clock uncertainty across all participants and affirmatively ejecting any participant with excessive uncertainty. The atomic clocks are totally besides the point.
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Absolutely agree. Even now you see Sweden is still terrified of Russia, while Russia, I am sorry to say, couldn't care less about Sweden! They have China and the US pointing guns at them!! Sweden is certainly one of the last things in their minds... and there's absolutely no other possible threat to Sweden security that comes even close to this imaginary one (maybe the USA would be that, given its recent history of unstable behavior and alienation of European countries - even suggesting in a nearly threatening tone to buy Greenland from another Nordic country, Denmark). To see people in this thread lamenting that the "preparedness" of an earlier time (i.e. readiness and willingness to fight a war) has been lost makes me sad, to be honest. Russia is a state that could do with some friends, and Sweden, being in such a good standing on the world stage, could be a great help to slowly introduce the Russians to the same side of the table, even if it doesn't agree with every policy from the Russians, but that of course will not happen... and I'm afraid that's not because the Russians are not willing to start discussions, it's unfortunately the Swedish side, and NATO, who are unlikely to do it due to this disproportionate fear that exists deep in their consciousness.
My point about the built-in apps was there is no training required. These things do the basics, generally work without any fiddling, and are supported well beyond what an outside company can do, even if it's your core business.

Meh, maybe I'm just getting old in the my 30's and trying to use less software if I can help it.
What happens to all that heat energy if it's broken?
Evidence? CDC has more funding than ever. And it's a myth trump got rid of the pandemic team at NSC. They just renamed it the bioterrorism team after people left.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/17/instagram-...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/12/joy-behar/...
If you're gonna respond by selling N95s to consumers right now, instead of to hospitals, then I'd rather you didn't bother responding.
Congressional hearings are one big way to hold the executive branch publicly accountable. Then, there’s the election.

My sense is that a lot of the bad decisions don’t necessarily rise to the level of negligence, so civil/criminal penalties are unlikely.
> Technology must be the answer here.

This doesn't require new technology. We know how to make electric cars, electric heat pumps, solar panels, nuclear reactors etc. This is all existing technology.

But take a look at oil prices right now. That's what happens if you start to reduce world demand for oil, and that's the real problem. All we need from governments is to put a sufficient tax on carbon that keeps carbon more expensive than alternatives even as the demand for oil and coal falls off a cliff.

Which doesn't even make oil dramatically more expensive -- it only keeps it at least as expensive as it was last year against declining demand, as economies of scale pick up for carbon alternatives and they become cheaper and thus more customers choose them.

A carbon tax doesn't destroy the economy, all it does is destroy the oil industry (faster).
Probably stupid question: Why not just exchange it to zcash or monero or some other coin that hides transaction details? Then you can send it to a new wallet; theoretically 100% untraceably.

Is this not a valid approach?
>Which is a thorny issue because even if we assign them rights, they themselves will be the intellectual property of someone else. An intellectual slave?

Its not that novel. Take a Corporation it may hire an employee, or contractor - or even unpaid intern - and have them develop copy all day long. That copy will be owned by the Corporation in the future, even if the employee/contractor/intern ceases to work for said Corporation (even if said employee/contractor/intern ceases to exist their work will be owned by said Corporation).
Fine, substitute "Apple" for "Google" in my post. My point remains.
yeah -- it's been rotting. :( Here is a "public" list:

https://www.archivd.com/public/detail/dEuLp5fXxS772U

It also has fulltext search, etc. You can sign up for free.
I did a proof of concept for a better spell checker about 3 years ago. Query groups of two to three words in a search engine and look at the word count. Then replace the word in question with other words that are similarly spelled and run a query with each. The word with the highest result count is extremely likely to be the correct word. Really, it's surprising how accurate it is.

The glory of this is that it works with proper nouns that don't occur in dictionaries (IE: xkcd). In Google's initial demo for Wave, they showed "Icland is an icland" be corrected to "Iceland is an island." I'm fairly confident they took a similar approach. There's also a good chance it could work for other languages, because it doesn't use anything specific to English.

The disappointing part is that most of the accomplishment comes in "Suggestion Intelligence First," meaning that from a list of 5, the top result is the correct result. In most cases, the Suggestion Intelligence is just fine, you will just need to pick the right one yourself.

If anyone's interested, this was my presentation:
http://soe.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/gset/Presentation...

And this was the "research paper." Unfortunately it was a three week program, and myself and the other coder (IE: the ones who understood how the thing worked) didn't contribute much to the paper. Feel free to ask if you have any questions. The email in there isn't actually my email:
http://soe.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/gset/Paper08-Hung...
I doubt they will be bought by Google, Apple is probably already writing cheques. Apple has been getting the pants beat off them by Google in mobile translation for awhile now. If there is a patent behind this then Apple will grab this for their stable just to keep it off the Android platform. It would be a huge 'one-up' for them. (which makes me sad as I strongly prefer Android devices) In time you'll see it licensed to other platforms as a new cash cow.

This should also be viewed as a prime example that it is not always better to push complex processing into the cloud. This would not be possible trying to push to a server somewhere real-time.

Kudos to this team.
I assume you mean "what the company is alleged, by one guy, to have done".
Initiative is orthogonal to academia?
Peter-Paul Koch (ppk) about this, and why developers should call it MSIE12 internally but call it a new browser to non-technical people:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2014/12/a_new_micros...
That's grossly inaccurate.

The rest of the Diehr patent included a combination of elements claimed to be novel, not a general-purpose computer.
Ptex is awesome! Any chance Disney's hair tools will get open sourced?
I don't suppose you have any hints for getting runit installed/running on FreeBSD? There's a runit port, but it doesn't auto-start that I've been able to figure out and I never have found any real documentation on it.

Back to Cast though, the "create instance redis0" example is basically just creating a runit script?

Understood that "just" covers a lot, including the auth, agent, etc. But the thing it's actually doing on the server (after building/installing the requested package) is adding a runit script right?
One might argue there is a market for a product that could deliver a solution to this problem... A company could provide a drop-in solution to sites that requires little overhead to manage. Is there anything out there like this now?

I'm partial to the idea of an open chat room with users providing insight (a wiki-sort of solution). We use this in internal chat channels at my bank. It is helpful because you can pose a question (ex. how can I do X in excel) to a "room" full of experts in the particular subject (ex. an excel specific chat).

Love to hear other ideas.
No, that's only if you're dealing with the C API - it uses a stack-based interface to move data between C and the Lua VM.

Lua itself is nothing like Forth - it's more like a cleaned-up hybrid of Python and Javascript.
This is really interesting, since a lot of the fundamental algorithms you learn about in school (sorting, Dijkstra's, etc.) haven't been improved for decades, and in some cases are even theoretically impossible to improve. What kinds of algorithms have steadily improved over time?
When you write, you don't just type constantly the whole time. You think a bit, decide on something to say, type it, then think of the next thing. The better you can type, the shorter the delay before you get back to thinking again without still having to remember what you're currently writing down. And typing itself is quite distracting for a weak typist, whereas a good typist doesn't pay attention to typing and keeps his mind on the content. The same applies to programing. Typing does matter.
What do you think "average typing speed" is? I find it strange how much people talk about typing speeds without giving any actual numbers.
>"Has India become a better country because of all the offshoring? "

Yes, yes, a million times yes. How is it even a question?

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le...
For me, a person who isn't a natural networker, this article seems to be missing a key element: what's the objective?

Reading articles like these is like reading the underpants gnome plan in South Park: 1. Network 2. ??? 3. Profit

Can somebody explain what step 2 is? For instance, I have a handful of very successful acquaintances. I always think there must be some way to leverage them, but I have no clue to what end. This is probably a really obvious and stupid question to most people, but completely eludes me.
My understanding was that the “first wave”, so to speak, of Gab users were the hardcore folks who genuinely had extremist views.

Free Speech and censorship resistant platforms tend to attract users in waves. The first wave is the most extreme, as those users get kicked off mainstream platforms first. Then subsequent waves of users join as less extreme views become problematic. While those waves are less radical, they still have to contend with being in the same pool as the others. Ordinary folks join for idealistic reasons and then see a bunch of radical content. I’m sure that puts a ton of people off. Parler, it seems, wants to be free speech but not that free speech, if you get what I’m saying.
Why is that a terrible idea?
Use the "..." menu below the video, and click "Open Transcript".
I don't know about dark pattern, but I do know that in most cases, I am so averse to negotiating that I'd rather do without the product/service than reach out to ANYONE to talk about pricing.
I second that with a proper indexed search tool one can stop bothering keeping track of folders hierarchy. You just type in the name of the file and you get it!

However, after using Recoll[0] on Linux Desktop for years, I have to say that searching by file contents is even more convenient than searching by a filename.

And... I have to admit that unfortunately the current state of indexed search (file contents) in Windows 10 is "hit and miss".

I have tried to re-index the whole drive several times, but still, you don't know if the query that you type in with `Win + S` will return any results. Even when you know that it shall.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoll
Well, Discord is proprietary.

I'm not super interested in the chat/IM aspects of Matrix. What I really like is the protocol and the built-in federation and pub/sub mechanism that you can use to build cool decentralized apps that pass events around.
and the paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
Not a fan of the routine anecdotal comments on Hacker News every time something blows up. We saw the same with Snapchat. Clubhouse is obviously popular and the article makes a good case why that is. Isn't that more interesting to discuss than "tried it, don't understand the hype"?
I sort of do. I've sent hundreds of emails and pics home to the fam. I aim to put some of them up. Eventually.

Oh, here. I sent one of those to my boss, and it got forwarded and shared internally, and with my permission the company put it up on their Facebook page.

I'm not on Facebook. If it's still up, I imagine you can find it by searching "Swift Transportation" and "Aaron".

As for burnout ... You'll probably miss the money. I'm making half what I was, and I was nowhere near SV salary expectation.

EDIT: I don't speak for ... disavow all knowledge ... etc etc
> That's obviously false.

It's not obviously false, because there were studies available at the time that showed masks did not work to protect individuals, especially members of the public.

But, again, I'd be interested to read any studies you have that were 1) available at the time and 2) showed benefit of wearing masks.
Not only that, the CHAZ morons managed to carry out a literal summary excution of a black teenager, caught on numerous livestreams - and the end result was an effort by activists to get those livestreams pulled in order to prevent the perpetrators being identified, including (ab)using YouTube's copyright takedown process to get a video of clips from them posted by the police for this purpose deleted. This is just all so totally, frustratingly, cynically partisan...
We can still take little england by force!
what culture? literally all these people care about is demanding blind devotion to their leader and buying Q merchandise to wear at their demagogue circuses. it's time to stop treating them like they're anything other than a deluded, dangerous, cultish mob
Which is wrong, and given Twitter's stance of issuing corrections for tweets, probably should have made her a ripe target. However, that doesn't excuse Trump's use of terrorism.
It took 10 years for Amazon stock to recover back to dot-com-bubble levels.
I said after winning the nomination. It was very big news at the time.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/joe-biden-supreme-co...
This is Trump idolizing nonsense. Most people simply voted for the republican. It could have been anybody.
But your own post makes clear the problem with your logic. This isn’t about convincing people. It’s about the fact that people’s political views are guided by gut, instinct and the bubbles they’re in instead of by critical thinking. These people believe abortion is killing an innocent baby. They don’t want their tax dollars spent on thing X. They believe the election was rigged — evidence doesn’t come into it. How do you change what people believe? I think we’ve tried rational debate. God knows I have. It’s frustrating to be told over and over, “well, if you just explained better...” when the people I’m trying to convince aren’t interested in learning. They’re happy with their beliefs, their beliefs work for them. And that’s a pity, because their beliefs are destructive and increasingly inhumane. That’s my belief, obviously, but I think it’s one supported by facts: abortion is wrong but you can cage Mexican children. The Jews control the government. Voter suppression is a reasonable response to higher turnout in urban centers. Chinese students shouldn’t be able to go to grad schools in the US. I could go on.

At a certain point, just take the hit. I’m sorry, but one side has more moral politics than the other. I don’t see how this is a debate at this point, and I’m honestly frustrated that people like you keep asking us to have the debate. If anything, it’s the right that keeps crying that they’ve been deplatformed when they’re doing it to themselves by having horrific opinions.

AND the right doesn’t even argue in good faith! Like they just make stuff up. For instance, about ANTIFA being behind the attempted coup on Wednesday. You want us to argue with that?
Why does everybody always suggest changing politics is as simple as electing a new congress critter.

What we need is outside of the box thinking - maybe urls which change so fast that there is no way to identify the content behind them for a DMCA? That would obviously mean we would need a way to redirect people but it would at least have a chance of working, were as politics doesn't.
Use virtual machines!

It is one of the better "best practices" you can practice.

Keep whatever Windows came with your computer, install VMWare, and then spin up a new virtual machine to experiment/test in whatever other OS you want w/o mucking-up your base OS. Plus, if you hose your virtual machine, it is easy to revert it to a previous, okay, state by restoring to a snapshot.
Building production apps in Swift, but it's been painful.
Would like to, but Xcode stability and compile time are blockers.
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OtherOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
Submitter here. I still refuse to do business with Sony after this incident.
Show HN: Let's Play Sudoku
https://getsudoku.app
I was a bit sick lately and slightly bored of lying in the bed. I love to play Sudoku when I have some time to kill. So I thought would be a nice idea to familiarise with PWAs.

So I short handedly created an installable Sudoku PWA. Try it! And let me know what you would miss.

For now everything is stored in localstorge. But I intent to add a social sign in and then store the profiles / histories on the server for logged in users
Shares hit by Dubai debt problems
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8381258.stm
European shares have been hit by concerns over Dubai's financial health, after a government-owned company asked for an extension on repaying its debts.
Feature & advantages of OOPS
http://programmingstutorial.com/categories/topicDetail/12
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Ask HN: Successful business owners, what % of opportunities work out?
Hi guys,

I'm interested in getting a bit of perspective from those of you running successful businesses.

What percentage of the possible opportunities that come your way do you think actually turn out to happen?

I'm talking about potential work that customers approached you with or you approached them about. Or potential partnerships and business opportunities that popped up and were discussed with external parties along the way etc.

Did the percentage of opportunities that were successful increase dramatically as time went on and your business grew or has it always been about the same?
Show HN: Sketch Gallery – Share how you solve problems by sketching
https://gallery.sketchboard.me
Sketch Gallery shows public boards from https://sketchboard.me where you can sketch using a sketch style, rather than corporate documentation style to emphasise your idea, not how it looks.
How To Find Time To Follow Your Passion
http://jaysonfeltner.com/follow-your-passion.html
Learn how to escape the 9 to 5 trap you're stuck in by finding the time to follow your passion. This is how I did it.
Shopping Of World
http://www.shoppingofworld.com
shopping,tienda de ropa y grandes descuentos,bonos,ofertas y nuevos articulos en shoppingofworld.com
Mobile Tech and the Evolution of the Nation-State
http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/mobile_technology_and_the_evolution_of_the_nationstate/
This Stanford talk will eventually be available on the web as a video. For those in the SF Bay Area it's a free public talk.
The Best Business iPhone apps
http://www.appolicious.com/topics/the-best-business-iphone-apps-::5
Find or post the best business iPhone apps.
Rails Testing Tools in Real Life
http://blog.tbueno.com/2011/07/27/rails_testing_tools_in_real_life.html
A post about all the good testing tools used during a 6 month Rails project.
Tools, Talent, and How-to for agile teams
http://www.assembla.com
I just signed up for an account with assembla and I am truly impressed. Besides the free SVN hosting they've got a bunch of other tools that'll be very beneficial to the project I'm working on. Has anyone else used this site?
EdgeCast, a content delivery network with an edge
http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/06/edgecast-a-content-delivery-network-with-an-edge/
EdgeCast, a content delivery network that came out of stealth mode today, thinks it can disrupt the content delivery market currently dominated by companies like Akamai and Limelight.
Ask HN: Is Anyone Using Carbonite Pro for PC Backup?
Does anyone have any experience with these guys?

The good-the bad-or the ugly?

Any restore problems?

How is the company to deal with, a pain or admirable?

Anything?

http://www.carbonitepro.com/ProPricing.aspx
The List Interface
http://nourdine.altervista.org/index.php?action=article&id=5
A tutorial on the List interface in java and all the pros and cons of its concrete implementations
Useful jQuery Plugin for UI Developers 
http://www.denbagus.net/jquery-ui-developers/
WinX DVD Ripper for Mac is an all-in-one DVD ripper designed to make perfect 1:1 DVD copy to hard drive and rip your DVD movies on Mac OS to iTunes, MOV, MP4, FLV, etc
Bookmarklet for anyone against SOPA but who needs to view Wikipedia today
http://ummjackson.com/showmethewiki
Something I knocked together for myself, but thought I'd share.

Simple bookmarklet for anyone who needs to view a Wikipedia article today.

If you find it handy, awesome.
Apple: Why Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil Speakers Touch App Was Yanked From App Store
http://www.cultofmac.com/169724/apple-explains-why-rogue-amoebas-airfoil-speakers-touch-app-was-yanked-from-app-store/
Gruber was right, apparently Rogue Amoeba "violated a developer guideline against non-public APIs."
Wozniak on NSA and Snowden (video)
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/06/21/pmt-sot-steve-wozniak-nsa-and-technology.cnn.html
Steve Wozniak interview on Piers Morgan (CNN).