jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm getting this from memory of my high-school chemistry classes, so be careful.

Back then the explanation was that since the He nucleus has twice the positive charge as the Hydrogen one, it'd bring the electrons a bit closer. Both atoms have a single S orbital, He with two electrons.

Also, atomic Hydrogen won't remain atomic for long - it'll quickly connect to another Hydrogen so it's S orbitals share electrons.

Again, from memory of my high-school chemistry classes (30+ years ago).
The biggest part of the transformation is his attitude towards it. If you don't make a big deal out of it, nobody else will.

Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Jony Ive are all media darlings in the tech industry, so clearly being bald isn't an impediment.

If you look at the acting world, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson all make it incredibly clear that baldness doesn't stop you from being considered a sex symbol.
I agree that the article does choose not to say that their claims are backed with evidence. The article in fact does correctly state that they don't have evidence that bed-sharing is safer. However, they do state that room-sharing is current pediatric best practice, and provide links [1], [2] to articles to back that up.

Given that as far as I know, room-sharing is not standard Western parenting practice, I believe they have backed up with an appeal to authority the idea that Western style parenting is harmful. Furthermore, link [1] contains a link to [3] which is an recommendation from a pediatric journal that provides links to scientific papers that suggest room-sharing reduces SIDS risk by up to 50%. (see bullet point 4 of link [3]) Thus I think the appeals to authority are backed by evidence.

Thus I think that the article could have made a stronger point if they had talked about room sharing more instead of bed sharing, but I think they do have an evidence backed point that Western parenting is potentially harmful. They avoid ruffling parent's feathers too much by understating their point.

[1]: https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-ini...
[2]: https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/safer-sleep-advice/
[3]: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/138/5/e201629...
"start ups" are inherently a political topic -- the culture of them promotes hypercapitalism.
Duarte's book of horsemanship is estimated to have been written before 1438. It's also about horsemanship itself, and interestingly, an early philosophical self-help book.

What was not true?

Edit: ah, so their mounted fencing category includes Duarte's book, and other horsemanship books outside the cannon.
Personally, I've never been a great fan of shooting birds. I use birds for another purpose - mental delight. I love bird watching with burning passion. I've just purchased a great set of smart hd binos here https://www.atncorp.com/smart-hd-binocular , so now I can enjoy birding more:)
Apparently Raphael Warnock, the Senator elect for GA, was arrested in the Rotunda a few years ago for praying there as a protest of GOP efforts to overturn the ACA. [1]

1. https://news.yahoo.com/rev-raphael-warnock-once-arrested-233...
You are not going to arrest millions of people. Thats just fantasy, unless you want full on civil war. For all the contempt you feel for Trump voters, they feel the same for you.

This thing escalated when it could have been resolved with just a proper audit of the vote totals by and independent panel in the disputed states. The supreme court should have taken the case, and resolved it. Unfortunately the Supreme court chickened out. And the disputed states governors fought tooth and nail a proper audit.

As a result Trumps people protested a contested election because they feel cheated. Some of them breached the barricades in the legislature. A Small group of them entered just for kicks and selfies. There's no reason to label all of them terrorists, there was no violent intent for most of the protesters. Its called "The Peoples House" after all, and Democrats have occupied legislatures too during protests.

You need to consider that human being are very sensitive to being treated unfairly. Right now its looking like an extreme double standard will be applied with how the BLM protesters were treated and how these protesters will be treated.
>And the local police took the President's side.

That is demonstrably false. The overwhelming majority of officers did their duty, and physically cleared rioters from the building. Many were injured fighting the insurrectionists. One officer was hit on the head with a fire extinguisher and remains in critical care. Mayor Bowser and the DC Chief of Police said this in their morning press conference [0]:

>"There was a lot of valiant fighting by members of the Metropolitan Police Department," Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said. "Just a tremendous amount of heroic acts. I have one officer who's still in the hospital right now. He was snatched into a crowd, he was beaten, he was kicked, he was Tased several times. So, yeah, they fought. They fought very hard yesterday."

[0] https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-mayor-address-public
Just for maximum pedantry: it's normal for cops and prosecutors to coordinate (it's their job). Americans frequently treat state attorneys as if they're not fundamentally "in law enforcement," which is absolutely not the case.

But I do agree with you about Virginia (from personal experience as well), and there should be a firewall between the police and actual trial judges.
The question of normality creates strange paradoxes in the consulting room. Often it is relatively healthy people who feel defective. In psychotherapy, patients may perseverate over vague complaints, feeling off-balance and out of sync. The worriers may believe that they have too much or, more often, too little ambition, desire, confidence, spontaneity, or sociability. Their keen social awareness (a strength), when tinctured with obsessionality, causes them to fuss over glitches in the self. For them, a sense of abnormality precedes any diagnosis and may persist even when none is proffered.

In contrast, seriously ill patients may have no such concern. Those who manifest frank paranoia will insist on their normality; anyone would be vigilant in the face of plots directed at them. Anorexics and alcoholics may profess certainty that they're fine; the degree of "denial" is something of a marker for severity of disorder.

I know how much Hacker News loves the Dunning-Kruger effect. I feel like it definitely poked its head out there.
My current phone has 240 DPI. Which is better than the 3GS. After iPhone 4 comes out, they'll probably leapfrog in return.
This is not detecting bots (as per the title), but detecting user agents that execute Javascript and are assumed to be human.

Detecting bots with JS knowing they don't run JS would be quite challenging.
I frankly don't see why that would be conspiracy theory. [..] I never ever talked about unfair play.

You suggest that Jobs' open letter to Adobe, and Apple's stance on Flash generally, is a deliberately deceitful and misleading cover story for some underlying real motive. Then suggest that the underlying motive is them conspiring to force Flash-using ad providers to move to iAd. Sounds like unfair play to me.

Specifically, I think Apple do want ad providers to move to iAd, but I don't think they are doing so by covering up a big plot with a stance of lies.

Adobe hasn't shown a stable mobile flash implementation yet. That sounds like a pretty convincing technical argument on it's own, and is the one I'm most interested in hearing about it's weaknesses.

Maybe the battery life / CPU use one is something Adobe can solve, maybe the security updates could be rolled into Apple's iOS updates, maybe Adobe could push for stability, maybe they could even come up with a way of mapping mouse/click/hover onto multitouch in a way that works usefully enough for many things without rewrites (though I have reservations that they could do that to Apple quality).

But to put them all together, mostly things which Adobe could have done over the years and haven't, which Apple could not do because of the closed nature of Flash... for what reward? Punch the monkey flashing ad banners filling the small iPhone screen? Games and all-flash websites stretching off the edges? Intro movies to websites? Scribd style "readers"? Flash DRM enforcers and downloaders? Clunky Flash recreations of common GUI elements? Not much reward for a lot of effort, is it?

Particularly when other platforms are trying to promote HTML5 and marginalise Flash, so they would want to support HTML5 anyway.
I should have been more specific--technically the cache would be wiped for a specific post, never for the entire db of posts. But you're totally right about the persistence --that's why something like redis made sense to me.

Useful tip about randomkey and del, thank you.

I def. could switch it over to an incr/decr setup. Maybe I'll do that tonight.
Sure. As this is designed now, HTTPS’s prevention of malicious JS insertion is the big weak point I see. But it’s implicitly asking what you could do if you found ways of getting around that, for example by using client-side caches of the code after a strict initial check.

The real wow for me here is that JS is fast enough to do AES-128 at comfortable chat speed. That’s really suggestive. It’s an epsilon, but it’s a fertile and interesting epsilon.
I downvoted him because I couldn't understand him. You're a lot easier to parse.
You do need an account, but it's with Apple.
While the article doesn't answer this, it does explain how they manage to run a database on AWS without depending on EBS: their database isn't hosted by Amazon at all. "...the exact types of data that would have potentially been disabled by the EBS meltdown don’t actually live at AWS at all – it all still lives in our own datacenters, where we can provide predictable performance." So, while the actual solution they're using might be of interest, it wouldn't say much about how to host a database in AWS without relying on EBS.
That's basically my take on it - I bought it to play around with (and, of all things, run the Kindle app) and it's good for that and not really a ton more.

The speaker's very weak, but mine doesn't feel bendy at all. It's very solid, considering the price.
? I'm curious, because I'm not following you. At least in simple home-networking terminology, wouldn't that be nearly equivalent to putting your device outside your firewall? You put a device that doesn't play well with your NAT into a DMZ, losing the passive security of the NAT in exchange for getting the device to work.
In my mind, there are a couple of distinguishing factors that would make the PSN target a good choice above others. Although I'm not convinced the purpose of the attack is to execute MiTM, DDoS, or spamnet attacks.

* The recent publication of the PS3 private key and shitstorm surrounding Geoh0t debate gives good cover.

* Sony appears to be a weaker than average target, or is at least receiving a lot of attention from the cracking community, resulting in a lot of usable information for orchestrating an attack.

* The PS3 is known for its ability to act as a distributed computing power house, making it attractive to anyone whose purposes require a large amount of processing power.

Given the recent increase in sophistication of malware and the attacks against Comodo, I'm not sure it's wise to write off this attack as such a simplistic plot as a MiTM attack or simple spam network. In a crypto cracking role, the PS3 is a very powerful tool. This could be a single step toward a greater goal involving the breakage of another target.
I see reports of it working for trivial top-level functions with basic parameter types, but what about everything else? Like member functions, trait implementations, etc.
>I guess our definitions of screwed are slightly different. It sounds like they are giving you extra compensation in case your options happen to do poorly one year. They could have chosen to say "we can't control the market, you received 10 shares and whether they go up or down is out of our control". This way you win some and lose some based on the market. Even with having to wait for 2 years that's not too bad (it's basically free money).

I will try to explain again. Let me offer an example that captures one part of the problem.

Let's say you join Amazon today (Day 1). In a year from now, let's say I promote you and give you increasing scope and responsibility. Now if the value of your previous stock grant (from Day 1) has appreciated, I will give you no additional compensation. As your manager, I can get you through multiple promotions without providing you any meaningful compensation increase since Day 1.

Now because your compensation weighs heavily on stock vests, let's say Amazon's stock performs poorly, falling behind even the SP500. So, your total compensation this year will drop significantly. I will offer you additional stock grants that vest in a year from now and two years from now. So if you stay with me for at least two more years, you can "earn" the compensation that you did not receive THIS year. If the stock continues going side ways or drops next year, you can make next's years losses by staying another 2 years (3 years total).

To put it bluntly, if you perform well and the company's stock increases, thank you very much. You previous stock grants have brought your compensation this year to its maximum. We won't have give you another dime.

If you perform well and the company's stock doesn't increase or drops – that's too bad for you. This year, that's YOUR loss to deal with. If you stick with us two years, we'll "try" to give you back the money we "hoped" to pay you this year.

>Were you working something like 80 hours a week for 10 years straight?

There are few people in Amazon engineering that work 40 hours a week, and any organization that normalizes that will get either re-org'd or have their products/services completely canned. 55-60 hours is a baseline. 80 hour weeks is not unheard of, for even 6 months at a time. There is NEVER a down time. You do A and then you move on to B and then C. If you fail to do A or if you decide to take a break between B and C. We do stack ranking and drop whoever falls at the bottom of the stack, even if they're pretty dang good. Somebody HAS to be let go. No way around it.
I have been in and out of AA (thankfully in a good place currently) and I think this idea that addicts are fundamentally different from everyone else is a complete myth that only makes people with addiction problems feel more hopeless and separate from society. Have you ever had a harmful habit you have had difficulty breaking, or been unable to do something that you know will improve your health? Then you can relate to an addict. Their habit is likely a lot more harmful than yours, and affects their brain chemistry, but it’s the same mechanism that prevents you both from stopping even though you know it would help you.

Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who researches addiction and advocates this view. I found his book The Craving Mind[1] to be incredibly illuminating and true to my experience as a person who has struggled with drug use.

[1] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234367/craving-mind/
Is remote-jobs.com down because of that too?
But a drug is a specific mixing of certain compounds and chemicals. It's very definite in how it's made.

Patenting a searchable linked list with expiring timestamped nodes is just throwing together a few algorithms in computer science and saying it's new an innovative. There's thousands of way to implement that.
You really can't write coffeescript without knowing javascript. Really, the /only/ documentation for the language is showing what the compiled javascript looks like, plus maybe handling inheritance a bit better.
Copying is allowed! it's a big part of innovating.

And to quote Eric Schmidt:
"The last new idea in computer science was public key encryption in 1975"

It's the implementation of an idea that sets it apart.
The patent includes expiring the records in the linked list, and removing (some) expired records when doing the search:

#define EXPIRE_LOOKUPS 500

typedef struct node {
struct node *next;
void *data;
int age;
} node_t;

void *find(node_t *head, void *what, int (*cmp)(void *, void *)) {
while(*head != NULL && cmp(head->data, what) != 0) {
if (head->next == NULL)
return NULL;
if (head->next->age > EXPIRE_LOOKUPS)
head->next = head->next->next;
++head->age;
head = head->next;
}
return head;
}

(I didn't see the patent specify an actual expiry mechanism in any specific detail, so here's a useless, but patent-infringing one.)
Thanks. That is a really useful article. I may switch from slicehost to linode as a result, especially as my 1024MB slicehost slice has struggled badly under highish (30,000+ uniques a day) traffic.
Crazy how that crashed and brought other sites like Reddit, Quora etc down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

It's pretty trivial to show that software is in fact math. Not "approximative with math", like a mechanical device with the laws of physics perhaps, but actually math^.

If you want to express OpenOffice.org terms more easily recognizable to the layman as "math", simply translate the program from whatever it may be written in to lisp, at which point a conversion to lambda calculus is quite clear.

(^ Unless perhaps you also have a definition of "math" that precludes something like the Pythagorean Theorem as well, which is absurd.)

EDIT: Addendum: even if you for some reason don't agree with this, it remains a fact that someone that does hold software patents to be invalid for this reason can easily and reasonably criticize a software patent without first reading it.
Yea, I feel like "pet" is probably the nicest thing we could be - that or they may have human sex fetishes ;-)
I also made the same but due to stock appreciation. Practically no one is an IC and getting 7-fig out the gate.
It does seem like an article written by a person with a personal agenda against that particular startup's founder. Maybe a disgruntled employee of that other failed startup that is mentioned in the article ?
> You can still have your car, but the convenience is going to cost you.

In other words: poor people will have to pay for the environmental crimes that rich people commit.

I have lived with and without car, currently I only own a motorbike; but I can't help thinking the hypocrisy of modern green movements stinks to high heaven. Where I live, rich people in leafy neighborhoods get public money to build fashionable bike lanes they'll never use, but whenever it's time to close roads and "disincentive the use of cars" it's always the dense working-class neighbourhoods who get targeted. They keep adding flat congestion charges that businesses can just unload on consumers, which in practice restrict the options only of the less-well-off. Meanwhile, who owns the actually-polluting business interests...? Certainly not white-van-man or Mr. Urban Commuter.

It's just another front in the class war.
I don't know what the law says about this, but "for no reason" is always different than "for any reason". Because you sued them is a specific reason, that they might be prohibited from retaliating based on (or might not, again I don't know).

The classic example of this is race. You can not hire someone, or deny someone service, for no reason. You can't however not hire them, or deny them service, for the reason that they are black.
UBI doesn’t mean every expenditure suddenly becomes out of pocket.

The sensible move would be to keep disability, etc. as a form of insurance where costs are spread across the populace.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=your_username and https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=your_username
I've never found anything better than Enunciate. Works very well and it's guaranteed always up to date because it's a compile time artifact. I really like that all the documentation and code are in one place, next to each other, and have a higher chance of being true and up to date than any other method
If you've learned programming and are bored, you're doing the wrong thing.

You should go "holy crap, I can make such neat stuff now" and go do that.
More Objective-C learning & moving apartments.
This finally fixes Twitter's broken Instant Messaging.. It's about time!
sure.. it's air, but at least java and air run on all the platforms..

The idea behind it is awesome..,Let's hope it gets the traction it deserves..
Imagine everyone having this!
And if I said that, your joke would even have a point. Instead, I pointed out the parent was incorrect, there as a compiled language on the list, of which I offered no opinion as to it's quality. It's definitely algol related, so is a reasonable transition to C/Java et al.
Well, that explains why virtually anyone busted for "computer crime" gets a child porn charge, too.

The article does not explain why the FBI has such an emphasis. That would be interesting in context.
I'm writing this from 2007!

Anyway, thanks for the responses. I was embarrassingly unaware of the changes. Though maybe the moral of the story is that DRM is a good way to lose a customer who won't come back under any circumstances if there's an equal service available without it.
My site isn't nearly as slick as UpOut, but we do offer curated family-friendly events as our second area of focus:

http://www.parkgrades.com/blog/fun-things-do-dfw-weekend

http://www.parkgrades.com/events/dallas-fort-worth
the question wasn't "what were you working on 9 months ago" ;)

Congrats!
I wrote this up after the earlier discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496527 It's nothing fancy, but I figure it might be a nice reference.

Let me know if there is any pages/links you want added.
The problem with arbitrary operations is that they are not composable. I can’t depend on two different libraries if they do conflicting things during the build process. And I can’t have tooling to identify these conflicts without solving the halting problem.
Amusingly - fittingly for our times - in the same issue of the exact same journal (Nature) another paper has been published that indicates that the prior, so much "hyped" discrepancy might be due to the theory having being applied inaccurately in the past. When computed with the new method, the experimental and theoretical models align far more accurately.

So now all that matters is what kind of article do your want to write. A sensationalist one to get eyeballs or a realistic one that is far less exciting. Thus the exact same discovery can be presented via two radically different headlines:

BBC goes with "Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature"
https://www.bbc.com/news/56643677

> "Now, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature"

ScienceDaily says: "The muon's magnetic moment fits just fine"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210407114159.h...

> "A new estimate of the strength of the sub-atomic particle's magnetic field aligns with the standard model of particle physics."

There you have it, the mainstream media is not credible even when they attempt to write about a physics experiment ...
I’m getting a “faster than light neutrinos” feeling about this one
agreed google's customer and creators support is awful. I avoid them as much as possible.
This is a chart of age-corrected excess mortality between the least affected European countries for 2020.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyH8yiZWgAkgt6k.jpg
The political cost within a democratic society is a reality and a real cost you have to contend with if you want to reshape how public roads are used. So, yes, the cost is high compared to switching cars.
Did the PCs have ethernet? Our campus network had a lot of DOS PCs but they ran a bunch of DEC Pathworks stuff to turn them into terminals to the VAX. We also had some PCs with a DOS telnet client to telnet directly to the Unix machines.

Just wondering why they didn't turn the DOS machines into terminals or ethernet / network to connect to the Xenix PC tower.