jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Based on http://dbasch.posterous.com/lamabot-fortune-cookies-and-mark... and text from http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Thank you. Yes, this is based on student self-reporting. The overall reporting quality appears to be quite good. The overall feedback rate (% of students who tell us their acceptances/rejections after the admissions cycle is over) is lower than I'd like, but higher than I'd expect.
From a commercial perspective, it's probably at least true that [most] students won't pay $29 a year for a magazine, affordable or not. Whether that matters depends on whether you think there's a benefit in them reading it free, or if it's fine if they just don't read it.
Giving up 6% for advice is very, very expensive.
Seems like a nice system, my only question is how do you get this data? Just students self-reporting?
In reality the model is a bit more complicated than that. The "market price" authored by an exchange is actually more of a mark-to-model calculation as a function of recent trades. Remember that a market exchange doesn't function like a store with customers buying product from a vendor at a fixed price. In oversimplified terms: In reality it's people selling at some price they want to sell at, and others buying at some price which they want to buy at. Orders are fulfilled by the best available match at the time.
Actually that's completely not how cars are designed. Design comes, then come the engineers, then come the clerks, multiply that by a lot of iterations and you got the car which looks far different from the first concept.

A car is a great example how a fantastic design in terms of aesthetics can fail against engineers' (or economics) limitations. A quite recent example: BMW X6's tail lights were sent back to redesign after engineers found out that one 'beauty' line caused Cx (aerodynamics factor) increase. Imagine it happens all the time during the design process which takes years, not days.
At goodpassword.com you have several password generators to the create random passwords having in mind features to easily remember them. Its an inexpensive subscription service and includes a free trial. Give it a try. Thanks David J.
As a nation, we've decided that we like things like infrastructure should be paid in part by the federal government. We've also decided we want to have a military that spans the globe, able to support regular operations as well as two wars with presences in over 50 countries costing over 600 billion dollars, not even counting the extra war supplemental or military retirement benefits.

The fundamental fact is that the poor do not make enough money to pay for all this. Further, it is the wealthy that most benefit from the government's services -- without the roads, without the extensive police network, commerce would be much more difficult.

Thus, it makes sense that the wealthy, who are most able to afford taxes, would pay for most of it. (When you tax someone to the point where they cannot afford food or shelter, you will see revolution and civil war. Few make money in that situation.

Thus, progressive taxes are the most likely in a wealthy society. (Feudalism works on regressive taxation as an alternative.) Income is one of the easiest methods of progressive taxation.
I think more students need to study how the Nazis came to power; while violent attempts were made (Beer Hall Putsch) and low level political violence between various political factions, the Nazis did not gain power through those acts. Rather a slow burn, leveraging the democratic process in the Wiemar Republic. Violence now, but these people might eventually get it together and use the democratic political process to their advantage.
People don’t seem to understand, censorship is a double edged sword. You never know who will be in charge years from now and will abuse those very same good intentioned laws & we end up a police state.
That deal was incredibly sketchy. His cousin was the CEO, right?
I'm not talking about telling the laptop that it's access is revoked; I'm talking about just revoking it's access, so if it every tries to connect to the House's intranet, it would have no more permissions than any other laptop.

If IT wanted to wipe the drive, then they would need the laptop to phone home in some way.
I mean I really don't need a tinytv but MAN I really need a damn tinytv!
I think you’re overcooking your pot roast.
I think so. I think we will see more investment in progressive web apps for mobile.
I'm talking about real violence.
Maybe in BSL-5 labs?

Must be in rural isolation, NOT a city.

The administrators and janitors and everyone has to sleep inside the fence.

Getting out requires spending 40 days in a quarantine hotel in a different nearby fenced area.

Armed guards patrol the fence.

(EDIT: To be clear. BSL-5 doesn't exist yet... but it should.)
Europa had cases in september of 2019. We didn't know at the time, but checking samples from back then revealed the virus was already internationally active

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03008916209747...

Also, if you look closely, notice that the reason we have no earlier samples then september is, because we have no earlier samples. Can't test one from august, if you don't have one from august.
You can do this at home with very warm water and a soft bulb, squeezing it as hard as you can, and it is terrifying. It feels uncomfortable and sounds very loud. Do it for as long as you can stand, and then do it more. Do it for so long that you feel like an idiot and get dizzy.

About 10-15 squirts past the moment when you think there can't possibly be any point to what you're doing, an eldritch horror will come out of your ear into the sink, and you'll hear sounds you haven't heard in years.

Then do the other ear.
VPN most likely will work if your server IP is not banned. Tor used to work but was not working last time (one ore two months ago) I tried again. Prepare a SSH tunnel as a backup solution.
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Yes I think you might be the only one (btw +380% since 2020)
Whats the site powered by? Did you just throw it together or is it a CMS?
It's not just on "factory farms" where animals raised for meat are considered temporary. If you are going to slaughter a pig in 18 months, you probably are going to be disinclined to form emotional bonds to it.
Mashable reports a wide variety of stuff these days, like this current top story:

http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/russia-protect-ukraine-yanuko...
I don't think the NSA is nearly as technologically capable as people think they are. If they want info from someone all they have to do is detain them and bust open their kneecaps with a hammer. No one would ever find out. So there's really no reason to go through all the shadow games.

If this is an intentional bug, I think it's likely a hacker or just a disgruntled employee. But I'd be willing to wager that it was a tiredness error, rushed to implementation by an overworked and likely underpaid engineer deep within Apple.
While I haven't read HtDP, I've read similar things.

I'm in my late 20s going for a second BS (this time in comp sci), and wanted to go through SICP on my own (plus the online lectures). I felt that I needed a bit of a warmup, though, and chose 'Concrete Abstractions' instead of HtDP. I'm satisfied with it so far.
What's a good source for video and sounds like they've used? I have been meaning to record some, but in the interests of laziness... where can I buy/find for free?

Thank you :)
I'm curious about the process and questions asked to get those answers. Watch this for a concise explanation about why you should never trust an opinion poll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjh13hxehl4
Here is what James Gosling had to say about one of the patents Oracle alleged Google infringed:

Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer’s eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun’s genetic code. Alas….

I hope to avoid getting dragged into the fray: they only picked one of my patents (RE38,104) to sue over.

source: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/the_shit_finally_hits...
One of my mathematics teachers used to regard prime numbers with considerable irritation. She tried to explain to the class why there was no simple formula to determine which numbers were primes. In the end, she gave up and moved on to the next part of the syllabus, leaving the question unanswered. I almost felt sorry for asking her in the first place. Almost.

If this mathematics teacher had had access to the diagram of the Ulam spiral, however, I imagine that this alone could have provided the impetus for at least one student - me - to have made an academic career out of mathematics. As it is, she committed many other crimes against education, including her infamous catchphrase "Don't bother studying any kind of pointless mathematics that you'll never need to use at work." A catchphrase whose validity has been refuted many times over the years, not the least with the discovery of this diagram.
I've been reading Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, and I just finished the chapters of Hellenistic philosophies. Of those discussed, Stoicism seemed the least appealing. I frankly don't see the value in optimizing for some ill-defined "virtue". It seemed like a heuristic for finding utility rendered into a goal unto itself.

That could of course just be Russell's positivist bias speaking through, of course. I really ought to read some of the actual sources sometime.
Was the seismic risk from the nearby New Madrid Seismic Zone taken into account in the planning process?
"McDonald's used to fry their potatoes in beef tallow, giving them extra flavor and making them extra crisp, but they stopped doing that years ago."

Something home cooks can still do.
I really don't see how not inviting Gizmodo to WWDC equates to acting like a 5 year old.
Starting as well at the moment, I can tell you about my strategies and tips:

* Find somebody who already did work with big companies. Make her your test customer.

* I teamed up with an 'old' guy. He is an very experienced businessman and has already a sales infrastructure in some countries. I can focus on development. He makes sure that guys with ties run around and do the selling.

* Prepare to shift from SaaS to shipping hardware.

* Be sure that integration into existing infrastructure is painless.

* Try to talk to the people who would use your software first. With that knowledge go to the person in power to purchase.

* Sort through your friends list and check their companies. Some of my friends are currently calculating how much their boss would save if they could use my product.

* Know your targets. Which person will do the decision? Who reports to and influences this person? (If you would want to sell something technical to my 'old' guy... I would be one of the filters you would go through.)

Unfortunately my landing page is not ready yet. The plan is to divide the information into 'for business people' and 'for technical people'.

Business guys will see how my products saves them money and helps them look good. I will put up some kind of animation to show some use cases.

The technical people can read about the technical concept and how to do integration. As one of the keys in my product is easy integration, I have a ton of examples ready. Although coding is not necessary most of the times, I included some samples in different languages on how to extend the default package.

Hope that helps a bit. Good luck and have fun.
It was intended as a tracking mechanism against counterfeit currency.
I've been slowly getting better with my bash skills by organizing it as a class on my learning website: http://curiousreef.com/class/bash-scripting/

It's useful because it helps me stay on track. I can take off a few days or weeks even and then go back and do a few bash problems out of that book. I know that I'm 38% of the way through it, and it's easy to pick up where I left off.

I don't think I've done the peripheral learning that you mention, but I think 30 minutes a week is still low-impact learning.
Of course he said that. Still I am certain he enjoyed selling that much as a direct result.
Some people - me included, rarely as I eat them - prefer McDonald's fries to most others.
Oh I got my help. I bottomed out, often the only way. Took years of bullshitting, but the dosage just ramps up and up and up.

If you start the kids on it that young, up the pressure, and put them in the same room where everyone else is doped up on it, I can promise you will cook an entire generation of knowledge workers by the time they are 30.
The previous US president used the word "disgust" frequently in tirades. This seemed to resonate with his supporters.

I must live in a bubble. I don't experience the emotion of disgust. I don't know people who experience the emotion of disgust. I'm honestly not sure how one defines the word, and I get the impression that many people who use the word don't really understand it either.

On the other hand there may be some "in the womb" biological tendency toward caution, aversion to change, that correlates with Republican affiliation. Experiencing disgust may just be one of those things, like how some people taste bitter as intolerable.
The Netherlands are exporting even more according to https://data.wto.org/ . The quarterly value of "Total merchandise exports" from Taiwan (listed as "Chinese Taipei") was ($79B, $80B, $91B, $98B) in 2020, while the Netherlands' export value was ($172B, $144B, $167B, $191B) in each quarter.
Considering the reemergence of static sites is a relatively recent counter-trend to the prevalence of bulky dynamic sites, you'd probably call dynamic sites so 1989.
You'll have to be a little more specific. Obviously no institution performed perfectly, but it was a novel situation.
Bullshit, linkbait post. After reading the whole thing, I would gladly spend karma to downvote this.
How does it deal with cycles, or leaning ownership?
I think the counter view here is that video can be incredibly inconvenient depending on your exact use case. E.g. my scarcest resource is time and video is, for me at least, a very slow way of consuming content (compared to text). So if it's content that I need to consume quickly, video is a none starter.

If I'm browsing the web, I'm already reading textual content so reading is about as low effort as can be. Watching a video means "context switching", reading to watching, along with making sure I've got headphones on, pausing any music I'm listening to etc.

That's not to say the above is true for everyone, but for some people, watching a video is substantially less convenient and entails more effort than reading text.
Pedantically, yes. Practically, no.

Basically everybody in the US uses the phrase "zip-code" informally to mean postal code even when talking about international addresses.
> He [Bezos] attended Princeton University, intending to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in electrical engineering and computer science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Early_and_personal_l...

I guess that's not engineering though.
I am kind of disappointed that there is some baity qualities to this article, specifically referencing how Linus chewed out a systemd developer. He did that, but I recall it not being directly related to his work on systemd and it negatively impacting the kernel. Kay Sievers is a well-known problem causer as Linus is concerned, so this is not news.

Keep in mind if you find the mailing list thread referred to, Greg Hartmann (gregkh), the release maintainer of the Linux kernel, arguably part of the inner echelons, is responsible for the kdbus branch eventually getting merged into the mainline kernel, that is the kernel driver that will internalize dbus as a main (if not only) IPC of the kernel and reducing the overheard of using dbus now (reducing 12 operations per dbus call to 3 inside the kdbus driver, IIRC from Lennart's video). Again, this is the work of Lennart Poettering pulseaudio fame, and now much more heated systemd fame. So to pretend the Linux kernel is opposed systemd work is not truthful. Some core devs have taken it on and are staking themselves on it. If this gregkh tidbit does not make that obvious I do not know what does.

Can someone who knows more comment on what the substantive changes are thus far? Is the kdbus work a prime motivator of this? I love systemd hate as much as the next guy, but I was hoping we would get more facts from the HN crowd.

(EDIT: I know I will get downvoted, but I do use systemd and I am not its biggest fan; I just used Arch and got used to it; everyone has a right to choose their tools, and init systems ain't different.)
In what way do they hate engineers?
"I feel many of us are lost swimming in a sea of opinions and juggling frameworks du jour, development methods, and business strategies, that it keeps us from focusing on improving our skills in areas that matter. "

I sympathize with this a lot. It's extremely hard to prioritize learning new things and improving existing skills over just trying to plow through all the things on your plate. However, I keep trying to remind myself that the best way to get more stuff accomplished is to keep "sharpening the saw"[1]. Making time now for improving your skills will pay dividends in the future.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SharpenTheSaw
There's nothing FAKE about what Quora's did. They answered questions as under their real names.

The author, rather deviously, is trying to legitimize shady practices by using a perfectly innocent, open, and helpful activity as his first example of the kind of shady behaviour he's trying to promote. I hope people can see through it.
The absolute worst is when you're linked to a specific page on a site, but you get redirected to the mobile home page so you have no way of viewing the page you want.
Burma's ruling junta offered a small cash reward for each rat tail delivered by the rat collection campaigns

Great way to reward rat breeding!
This seems like an awesome reason to use a Dropbox-esque cloud service. Pull down encrypted files when you need them; don't keep anything on the machines you travel with, and then reimage the drive after the MiB have played with it.

Or would putting your files on a secured server somewhere actually leave them more open to snooping?
I disagree. It doesn't look very well-organized. Python's docs are much cleaner.
That's actually what the plugin does.
Some smart-ass made the comment on the article: "I feel bad for that animal on his head."

EDIT: Marlinspike's web-page ( http://www.thoughtcrime.org/ ), for those interested in making non-smart-ass comments. :)
A great many I would imagine.

Homonyms are also overtaken by many an overbearing counterpart or outright co-option as slang (i.e. queer, gay, faggot, et al)
Language is a fascinating thing to me. It's dynamism is rooted in it's ties to self expression and may only be second to the web itself.
actually one of the nice things about 3rd world countries is that they don't do fine grained hourly tracking and time card punching.
I hate when people ask me if I am an Eagle scout because I feel like they consider me a failure

That's weird. I don't think I've ever been asked if I'm an Eagle Scout (I'm not; I dropped out at Life, a couple of badges and a project shy of Eagle) in the nearly two decades since I quit. I must not hang out with the kind of people that care about Boy Scout ranks.
the potential contributors with other incentives to contribute are also the higher-quality contributors

I'm skeptical that's true in medicine, though it depends on how else they filter their community. My own experience is that non-doctors with strong opinions about medicine that they feel motivated to share are usually precisely the people you don't want medical advice from. Often they are adherents of one or another alternative-medicine system, or otherwise have really idiosyncratic views.
Agreed. I feel like a C# Stan in here at the moment, given how often I'm speaking glowingly of it lately--I use it to make games but my day job is Ruby and Scala!--but you can look at C# to see what moderately progressive (not even "aggressive") iteration on a language to add more and more powerful features in a smart, clean way would look like. Nobody's complaining about C# having too many bells and whistles, honest.
Also, metaprogramming allows one to create find_by_id as a function at runtime after the first use of it, it becomes part of the class.
Funny -- I'm going the opposite direction. I did a few MVPs last year on Laravel which have since moved to Django or Flask.

There is no admin generator I've found that compares to Django. And it is that time savings that is crucial in the beginning. It is shaping up to look like this:

Django and all the goodies on the backend (db migrations, admin generator, auth, rest-framwork)

Flask + SQLAlchemy OR Django-rest-framwork on the Frontend.

Sure, we might double-up on some models (Django models and SQLAlchemy models), but this works really really well.

I would argue that this is even better than using a BaaS for prototyping.
They don't have all that much to gain by lying, but they have much to lose by telling the truth: that they don't know who did it. "We're not yet sure, but we're working on it" is often the honest answer, but sadly, it's a political and PR deathtrap. It's perceived as weakness and vulnerability, and political opponents can spin it up as incompetence.

Quickly, confidently, and decisively fingering a known bad guy, regardless of the apparent connection, is the safest short-term political choice. You'll notice that our government has been pretty big on this strategy over the years. The consequences are often fraught with peril, or at least with embarrassment -- but if the chickens come home to roost, we can always blame "bad intelligence," or fire a Secretary of Something, or just dig in our heels and double down on the confidence.
Location: Remote or upstate NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: I'm a generalist engineer. I've worked from the lowest levels of computing (hardware) all the way up to web programming, and everything in between. I've worked on large legacy codebases and developed systems that serve 1 billion users. You won't find rock-stardom or diva attitudes with me -- just quiet competence and a desire to ship solid deliverables.

If I had to pick favorites though, I'd say my favorite languages are C++ (since C++11, anyway!) and Clojure. My favorite projects involve OS development and distributed computing infrastructure. I can also work with heavily legacy codebases -- if you need something updated but don't know how to do it, I can investigate and make the small, surgical changes needed to fix big problems in a hard-to-understand legacy application.

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Email: On resume.
Youtube can be unified, without displaying my G+ picture and profile on it. It simply requires a checkbox, and a new field - Youtube alias to be displayed.
Check that you've assigned an FSID to each share in /etc/exports
If only there were some sort of tokens employers could give employees as an incentive. The tokens could then be exchanged for goods and services. Perhaps the production and circulation of tokens could be managed by the government to prevent abuse.