jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't really want this type of drive-by snark from a newspaper, but I think there is some truth to what was written.

It's seems like any time a merchant announces they'll accept BitCoins, it will get pushed to the front page of /r/bitcoin and probably drum up some business because of it. I know of some local businesses who got online and print coverage for announcing that they're accepting BitCoin have hardly had any actual BitCoin activity.

I'd be interested to see if any of the big companies, e.g. NewEgg, Overstock, etc., have seen sustained business increases from accepting BitCoins.
It was more of poking fun, but I am a skeptic. I believe the government can come up with any data the want to push their agenda. I believe almost any scientist can "prove" almost anything, especially when trying to prove it to people outside their knowledge set(like the general public).

Now don't get me wrong. I believe in making the world a better place for my kids. But to get caught up in all the hype that comes from the media (including the article I linked to) is laughable.

This argument is about politics and $$$ (both sides of the argument).
I must confess that even though I have tried other php frameworks, I have never tried any other language for web development. (I used ASP like 5 years ago, but I guess that doesn't count now)
I will give your advice a shot. Maybe not just learn the basics about rails and django(already done that).. I'd probably need to develop one or two projects to really learn the benefits and pitfalls.
Well, change the pronouns and it is: "Why don't young startup founders hire more experienced programmers?"
I used posterous to keep my family and friends updated when I was on a backpacking trip recently. The e-mail posting feature was indispensable given the sporadic WiFi I had, since my Gmail app would cache the emails until it could send it. Anecdotal I know, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I like the idea of a language agnostic application server, but I'm not sold on this design yet.

Your language still must efficiently implement some protocol to talk to Mongrel2, whether that's HTTP, 0mq, or some custom binary protocol, right?

I'd like a simple, efficient, scalable HTTP server written in C (or C++ I suppose) that I can write multiple language bindings for. Is this feasible? Is there anything like that out there?
Amen on B.

As for A, it became the government's job when provider apathy with regard to infected clients and hosts with botnet controllers etc permitted a situation to arise where the means of a (supposed) attack for a foreign power is actually based within the US. At that point it stopped being a private security issue and became a national security issue.

I don't like it, but the problem it addresses does exist.

How would you separate policy from mechanism in this case?
I think he is pointing to an interesting phenomemon, which is the over-specialization of what we do:

Example:

CS degree --> compression/codec -> video or picture or sound (to me they are different worlds) -> H.264 -> specific standards of H.264 (no one knows everything)
This was a new feature, a real rework of the blogging platform and not just another blogger or wordpress clone. Innovating on the wheel + Trendiness = Success
There are usually conventions where the league organizers/coaches/members meet (e.g. http://www.nscaa.com/annual.php). There's a chance to meet a few hundred or thousand in one place. I'm not sure what your travel budget is, but a weekend at one of these could yield some good contacts.
at first glance, I prefer GitX, as it allows faster and more fine-grained staging and commit.

the only feature this seems to have over GitX is push/pull.

my typical usage is GitX for commits and history browsing and the shell for everything else.
Also as a human, it seems to me that humans have an inferiority complex underlying that superiority complex
The entire point of computers is to make things easier for people. If you want to force people to conform to make things easier for computers, you've got it exactly backwards.
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Sometimes automatic translation seems to be the flying cars of computer engineering.

In 2115 we might be able to technically do a very good approximation of it, but it might not have much use except for very casual contexts.

I think it really comes down to controlling one's communication. For instance, right now businessmen learning Mandarin are not cheaping on translator services, they want a better understanding of someone's culture, the concepts they think in, and want to speak in their own words.

Communication is and always will be extremely important, and as soon as there will be enough stakes, the time we 'lose' in learning will always be worth the gain in control.

Of course a universal translator would help for tourism and casual matters. But I think for translating a menu, street signs or simple instructions we are already having pretty decent applications and won't need to wait for another century.
Sean, I don't think that's really fair to either Scala or Clojure though. Yeah, both of their numbers are small potatoes next to Java or C#, but not insignicant...as in last week there was 4 Clojure users and now there's 16..OMG there's been a 400% jump!.
another mistake javascript developers make: using %s when it's unnecessary. by way of example, the author says:

console.log('delay is %s', chalk.green(delay));

where as it's much clearer to say

console.log('delay is', chalk.green(delay));

This works in node as of at least v0.10.33 and chrome, but probably most modern browsers.
At the end the genepool of species is a natural resource- a mechanism that allows the ecosystem to adapt faster to new (possibly man made) conditions. This is important to us, especially considering that the atmosphere is about to change quite drastically. Obviously there's natural fluctuations in the gene pool, but we should simply regard it as a resource that shouldn't be spent lightheartedly. You wouldn't introduce a fish to a small lake if it means you destroy a billion dollar rare earth material would you?
The article mentioned that smelting gold is easier than other metals.
Yet another "article" that is just a copy/paste of a Quora post. Seems to be happening with more frequency.
Not everything works that way. Some things require cooperation from more than a handful of people. You can launch a company and become very rich and successful even if only an infantesimal amount of people out there buy your product. You can't really change the political direction of a country, especially a large country like the US, without the cooperation and buy-in of a lot of people.

It's not going to happen. I say that with some surety based on dogma, but I think it's also evident from an intellectual perspective that the likelihood for a rebound to good political and general philosophy is not high. Our people bear the tell-tale signs of a decaying society; the arrogance, the skewed sense of invulnerability, the ignorance and decadence that characterize civilizations on the brink of collapse.

Our political landscape is becoming increasingly polarized and dangerous seeds of antagonism and hatred against the "other side" are being sown for political, personal, and commercial gain, and the people are devouring and internalizing this rhetoric nearly as quickly as it can be fed to them. I think it will be not many years hence that we start to see skirmishes, attacks, and other domestic disturbances that grow out of these movements, and I believe that it will only escalate from there.
I've been pretty happy with SpiderOak but I haven't needed to use it to recover files yet -- I feel that the interface may be a little too cumbersome than it should be.
Re the power output, try a different cable.
Yes.

"Oh, there's this hardware where the vendor tries actively to lock people out of other platforms and lock them into their own, they're real nasty guys.. Know what we should do? We should spend a lot of time making their product better, so more people will buy it, so they can continue their policies."
This really isn't news, Reuters et al have been selling tools like ClearForest for years and lots of quant funds have their own tools.
"Any group which sees gays, blacks, and women as fundamentally inferior loses its case for respect in my mind."

It's a good thing the LDS don't believe that. They have actively come out to defend against gay harassment. The injustice to blacks was fixed back when slavery was abolished. Men are taught to cherish and respect women, not that they are inferior. Stop your trolling.
> And the fact that he has been known for good results in the past shows, at least to me that this is the real thing.

It means that the claims should be taken seriously, since he's competent in the field, but he might have made a mistake somewhere (even though, from what I understand of his report, the results seem clear. But since I'm not even a physicist, my opinion is worth peanuts).

The peer reviewed confirmation of his previous discovery can be found here: http://www.superconductors.org/SDARTICL.pdf.
From http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1691466/100k-sites-like-fa...

... 50,000 sites had installed the plug-ins, such as the "Like" and "Recommend" buttons.
Here are the four most noteworthy brands mentioned in the blog:

- WashingtonPost.com's traffic from Facebook skyrocketed by 290 percent.
Just out of curiosity, did you find that link by reading Games Alfresco or Augmented Times?
It's a two weeks old news story, and I just mentioned it yesterday in one of my posts (and it always great to connect with my readers).
To get a good overview of presentations today see: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/day_2010-12-27.e...
For what it's worth, the perl object system was actually borrowed from Python, so perl code is full of $self (or $this) too.
That is true, and it needs wide participation, but my observation from the last time was that "business people" who need an audience for their incantations solicit the necessary investors.

I am entirely unclear if the last bubble was caused by retail investors unilaterally deciding to "invest in tech" because they thought they would get rich, or caused by persuasive people asking folks who didn't know any better to invest in them with the promise of riches.

But I have observed (at least one time, and past performance is no predictor Etc.) that when folks in business school, or fresh out of there, say they are going to do "startups" and they describe them not by their risk, their approach, or problems uniquely suited to them, rather they use a bunch of meta terms like "agile" and "MVP" and "social" and "sharing economy", they have lost sight of the notion of creating value, and shifted into the mode of "executing a process that seems to return more money than you put into it."
NwAvGuy is the truly interesting story, NwAvGuy was some anonymous person who went to audio forums and warred on Schiit pointing out technical problems with their products and the way they do their marketing. I guess someone said if he knew so much about audio why didn't he go out and design and build his own stuff and so he did exactly that designing a headphone amp that has "legendary" status, and then he disappeared... His headphone amp:
http://nwavguy.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" by Russel&Norvig is one of the most used course books in AI. It covers basics of formal logic, search, making decisions, handling uncertainty etc. All at an introduction level, though, so for someone with many years of programming experience many of these things may be known already. As my adviser says: Once AI discovers something interesting, it becomes labeled something else or become a part of "standard computer science". I can recommended the book for an overview of the field and knowledge of the basic techniques, but not as something to read when game AI is the goal.
Pinball restoration is a hoot, just make sure you get someone to show you the ropes. Start with a flipper rebuild - don't attempt to do a play-field swap without someone who has done it before. There is a very active international hobby community over at [1] Pinside who will be eager to show to the ropes. There's plenty of mod options available, such as [2] replacement of all globes with LEDs, [3] replacement of the plasma DMD to full color LCD DMD's, [4] to playfield swaps to brand new reproduction playfields.

[1] https://pinside.com

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2-2dlTH_wg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7E_DgtkJY

[4] http://de.myalbum.com/Album=W3DHWYNS || https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-new-star-trek-the...
I appreciate your transparency. I'm also a designer. I'd love to work for Buffer.
Just travel to Canada instead and stay at one of the many hotels that offer free WiFi to all hotel guests. This is the way of the future. Especially for those families with multiple devices. Mom and Dad's laptops, tablets and phone, plus the kids tablets...
>They were introduced in reaction to the perceived steep learning curve of command-line interfaces (CLIs).

Yes, I'm sure that's the reason MS Paint was created.
I know it's not representative of the consumer space as a whole, but Linux users apparently make up about 1% of the Steam userbase fwiw https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Li...
There's a long documented history of mass media manipulation, and it seems to be getting more aggressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

> So yeah, the press certainly manipulate but it doesn't generally have a "master plan" of manipulation.

Ah, the master plan - code name 'red herring'?
Thanks for the followup, this puts a lot in perspective. The article notes:

> In March 2013, 94.8 percent of private businesses were single-pay-period businesses

meaning that most companies pay all workers on the same schedule. Therefore, if a company has any hourly workers that get paid more frequently than monthly, everyone salaried in the company is going to get put in the same pay schedule as well. All the orgs I've worked at either paid monthly uniformly or were part of that rare 5.2% that had different pay schedules, so I admit that my experience is an outlier here.
Lol, ebooks should have regional pricing like games. Buying these books means I will have to shell out 1/3rd of my total monthly income (student in a third-world country). Makes me wonder if there is a market for a paid service that can make copies of books available for a monthly rate (kind of like a paid ebook library with region locking and special format that can only be read by the app with a constant internet connection - Netflix for books if you will ). But I guess it would be hard to do because its just texts and if there was money in this, Amazon would have done it already.
If you are playing poker and you cannot find the sucker in the table, then YOU are it.
Fwiw, I have 3 of these and I have yet to encounter a service that doesn't support all three, so it hasn't been a issue.

People have mentioned AWS IAMS only supports one at a time, but that's definitely "a nerd thing".

The only "normal" user-facing service I've tried with some unnecessary restrictions is actually Twitch (also an Amazon property), so it sounds like Amazon are just specifically bad at this, rather than most companies having bad implementations.

But in general, it's been fine for the vast majority of services.
Funny how the conclusion is always "just buy bitcoin".

When the conclusion is fixed, you'll get bad faith arguments.
Thanks for telling me! Glad I found a tone that rang well
Daniel Ingalls is a silent hero.

From the description in that YouTube video:

"""

Dan Ingalls is the principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the byte-coded virtual machine that made Smalltalk practical in 1976. He later conceived a Smalltalk written in itself and made portable and efficient by a Smalltalk-to-C translator, now known as the Squeak open-source Smalltalk. Dan also invented BitBlt, the general-purpose graphical operation that underlies most bitmap graphics systems today, as well as pop-up menus. His most recent work, the Lively Kernel and Lively Web, is a live graphics and programming environment that runs entirely in a browser. Able to save its results and even new versions of itself as web pages, if offers the promise that wherever there is the web there is authoring.

"""
It has never been about "cryptos" and "blockchains". It's about bitcoin being a form of ethereal gold you can teleport and memorize. VC funding and ROI are irrelevant.
In that case, as I mentioned, I think Gitlab or Github make no difference and either are valid choices and do make sense for someone starting out since everything is taken care of.
By my count, mp4 video and FTP are the only things you mentioned that Flameshot doesn't do.

I don't know how common my case is, but my video capture needs quickly rise to needing OBS or equivalent. I don't think a "desktop utility" meets the need. For casual image captures, Flameshot more than satisfies.

Last time I had to use FTP, it was because a client faced ridiculous security policies on incoming email and web, but was for some reason allowed to host FTP service.
"Transmission in China happened among family members and close contacts. True “community spread” was less common.

“This virus is not circulating in the community, even in the highest incidence areas across China,” Van Kerkhove insisted.

What’s the difference between spread among close contacts and community spread, you might wonder? Van Kerkhove said the data the mission saw in China pointed to the virus finding its way into households and transmitting there. One family member gets infected and infects others. The “secondary attack rate” — the percentage of people in a household who got infected after someone brought the virus into the home — was between 3% and 10%.

Van Kerkhove said true community spread involves transmission where people get infected in a movie theater, on the subway, or walking down the street. There’s no way to trace back the source of infection because there’s no connection between the infected person and the person he or she infects. That’s not what the Chinese data show, she said.

Marc Lipsitch, an infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, found this claim puzzling. “I have reached out to the World Health Organization to understand the basis of some of those statements. My perception is that there is significant community transmission, especially when you aren’t aware that someone is sick, because there’s not enough testing,” he said.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/06/were-learning-a-lot-abou...
Right now, helping as a mentor for https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/
I’ve started to teach myself Swift and iOS development to prepare for a potential career change if unemployment happens. I need, however, an idea for an app. Any takers? The standard Apple app tutorial ideas are pretty horrendous.
The nurse union has had a small amount of success with just the threat. Unfortunately there isn't a lot to give them. Even time is limited with a shrinking ceiling on staff as they sit two weeks out with symptoms.
(Tailscale employee here) UDP relays - that's roughly our DERP relay network. It currently operates over HTTPS because that's the last-resort "most likely to work in hard networks" transport, but adding a UDP option for efficiency is in the books.

TCP hole punching - I don't understand this, can you elaborate? By running Tailscale you can just talk to the machines on your Tailscale network, no hole punching required. At the transport layer we might do NAT traversal shenanigans to get the mesh network up, but that's invisible to the "user layer". I'm guessing you mean something slightly other and I'm just not parsing correctly?
Thank you, this is very close to what I was hoping for. I tested it out, and if I were in a position to pay for the premium features, I would highly consider it. However, the biggest stopgap for me is that my daily driver phone is a Samsung Note8, which of course means that I'm unable to use NoteFuel for the kind of spur-of-the-moment note-taking that would allow me to transition from Evernote (or else simply add it to my routine).

I would love to hear from you guys when an Android app is available.
Very research-y, but I am working on a pet idea of mine called "compact models" in Machine Learning. Essentially you take a model - say a decision tree of depth 20 - and "compact" it to a decision tree of size 10, without losing accuracy. The motivation is "interpretability": models are interpretable by humans if they are small. Another application would be low memory footprint models - but frankly, I haven't thought of this use case much. I have had some success with producing a model agnostic algorithm [1] (i.e. works for any model with some notion of size e.g. decision trees with size being the depth, linear models with size being the number of non-zero terms) - now I am exploring options to speed up the compaction process. The quarantine has given me some time to think about this.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00003...
Very nice. You should have an email signup and automatically email out daily updates.
Vista bought no improvements? BTW, I think always notify for UAC is a better idea anyway.
They didn't discontinue it.
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