jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that you're conflating two assertions: 1) the original, "the US was behind the 9/11 attacks", and 2) your offered alternative, "the VP and a handful of others had specific, actionable information on al Qaeda's attack and did nothing to stop it". The two are not the same, and the preceding comments were made regarding the first.

In either case discounting a conspiracy as impossible isn't silly if there's no evidence of said conspiracy nor even a plausible hypothesis of how such a conspiracy could have worked. The onus of proof is on those proposing a conspiracy, not on everyone else to prove a conspiracy didn't occur.
Have you seen Light Table? Go check it out!
I think what's most important is that kids get something rewarding out of their work. If they can use their coding skills to make something cool that they want to show people, it will keep them motivated. I think the biggest problem with most curricula is that they have students writing to the console for the first year. The kids are doing "real coding", but the results aren't things that they consider "real programs" (like Microsoft Word, or Flappy Bird).

In the long term, we need to change the way we do programming everywhere, not just how we teach it. In the short term, I think students who can grasp the basics, find programming fun and understand why we use the console won't be held back by it.
Agreed 100%. If this guy had to resort to this stuff, he has bigger problems than fundraising that he might be ignoring for one reason or another.
GitHub is based around open source software. Ruby on Rails, Git, various other tools in deployments. Working inside open source browsers mostly. Breathing the open source community on its site.

For me, GitHub is an open source company even if they don't open source all of their code...

I don't equate git with github, I just don't like bloating my posts with too much nitpicking.
Datomic purports to solve the O/R impedance mismatch. I attempted to explain this in a blog post: http://www.dustingetz.com/2013/03/26/orm.html
Right. But it was mostly on philosophy and artsy contexts that I saw it. Now its everywhere, news to blogs to inane comments. I haven't checked google trends but I think its popularization began some time in the early 2000s and then mainstreamed.
Hi there, Pachyderm looks like it really fits into the architecture we are going for.

I only took a brief look, but it looks like it is only loosely tied to CoreOS? So hacking it to run on Kubernetes/Apache Mesos etc. should be relatively easy?
My mum was the same, including with plastic food containers. Turns out those are really bad as well. It’s also amazing how we continue to use products knowing they are toxic.
The RIAA has been actively abusing the DMCA for as long as it has existed. It was unethical then and it's unethical now.
Welp, that's fraud.
I don't think there is any social media platform that will remain decentralised/open. Remember Twitter or for that matter Facebook in the beginning were not moderated as much as now. Entities like Governments can end up forcing that.
@dang, can we please ban coup advocacy on this forum?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
That's exactly how the right feels about the left.
> I don’t think they are evil. I think they, like other tech companies, are just idealistic in a way that works best for them. I think this because I used to be one of them (*4). The people who work at Google, Facebook, etc can’t imagine how everything they make is not, like, totally awesome. If it’s not awesome for you it’s because you just don’t understand it yet and you’ll come around. They can’t imagine scenarios outside their reality and that is how they inadvertently unleash things like the algorithmic cruelty of Facebook’s yearly review (which showed me a picture I had posted after a doctor told me my husband had 6-8 weeks to live).

This.
Thanks! That's one of the coolest changelogs I've ever seen. It's pretty amazing to see 9000 lines represent 32 years of changes.
if the board wanted to sell they would establish that in a reply and ask for the details of his financing. They don't want to sell and financing isn't the issue, its just a red herring.
"They improve ROI on the margins, but automating basically broken inferential rules at scale -- it is the automation here, and speed that is useful. Not the actual quality of inference."

This is trivially incorrect, and again shows a lack of curiosity. A couple obvious counterexamples are AlphaGo (and descendants) and AlphaFold, both of which have quality of inference far out stripping previous efforts. In AlphaFold's case the results are pushing forward a whole field of science. Plenty of systems at this point in history outperform human experts, and not just on speed metrics.

'"The pen is mightier than the sword!" is something I can agree, or disagree with; I have a feeling about it. And in inferential contexts which require me to feel, I feel.'

What are these feelings? Are they necessary for learning? Will airplanes never fly until they learn to flap their wings like birds?

'we the dumb apes who have the concepts are fooled into thinking that some machine assembling of these words had something to say.'

Still arguing with straw men here...

'The relevant structure to be learnt, the representation, has nothing to do with sequences of characters.'

Of course it does. For BERT, the output is a conditional probability of words based on surrounding context.
In my experience, the average PC gamer upgrades their PC with a few new parts every few years, and even that isn't certain. Replacing the whole thing every 5 years seems atypical, that's a lot of money to be throwing around (particularly when many PC gamers are in it for the long-term economy.)
> In the video Öistämö goes over once more why Nokia decided to partner with Microsoft ...

A couple $billion reasons come to mind right off the top of my head.
Downvoted.

I read your comment as condescending and I strongly disagree with your advice for the OP to complete the app before asking for feedback.
Hi..
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Give a clear deadline to the client/employer and be responsive.

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Ahmed.
How is it related to the Ralph described by Mikel Evins at http://lispm.dyndns.org/news?ID=NEWS-2004-08-14-1 ?
Care to point me to a good "Why you should use zsh, instead of bash" guide / page?
I'm pretty sure the recent sharp rise in angst is due to inflation. The job situation is of course bad, but it doesn't hit the employed that hard. Pretty much everyone in the middle class and below is getting slammed with inflation at the gas pump and grocery checkout line. And I at least am seeing small but significant in total increases in most of my monthly bills (rent, electricity, water and sewer, AT&T DSL, medical insurance).

This is classic '70s stagflation (Phillips curve is again failing, inflation is not resulting in more jobs) for pretty much the same reasons, for those of us who were around back then and paying attention it's nothing new but roughly as unpleasant.

A lot of people think we've also reached a preference cascade as to the reason(s) but that's perhaps beyond the scope of this discussion.
too bad there's no oh-my-zsh selfupdate
Props to TextyTeam for cleverly emailing new beta users to ask them to upvote this post on Hacker News :)

This looks really sweet. Just the other day I was asking for an easy way to send text messages from my computer rather than having to grab my phone.
I meant wide genetic i.e. about the origin/cause and not narrow genetic, i.e. about the genes.
And yes about Dx, not even talking about epigenetic...
The only way to improve Hacker News is to submit more and upvote interesting stuff. If the TSA material is interesting enough to people on here to make the front page, then submit something more interesting and people will upvote it.

FWIW I don't mind technical stories about the scanners, but the political side of things doesn't directly affect me, nor a significant number of the 5.7 billion other people who are not in the United States. That's why I've been trying to post every day here in the hope that it will give others better things to read.
Wait, is the term "cloud host" now being used to define shared web hosting as well as everything else it already means?
It's invite only. It is more useful than the others because of its high SNR. It's useful for members of the Silicon Valley echo chamber because it's entirely populated by members of the Silicon Valley echo chamber.

They seem to also have good usability and cool tech that helps keep thing even more relevant, but the challenge will come when it is opened to the "How is babby formed?" Yahoo Answers public.
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but I'm just about done with Head First Wordpress (http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-WordPress-Brain-Friendly-Cr...). It covers Wordpress 3.0 (although not the MU integration) and I've tried to make it more about using Wordpress as a content management system. This is exciting news from the WP team and there are a ton of cool new features in this release--my favorite being the menu admin and custom header images.
Good anecdote and thank you for providing it. Still, there are some differences between contracting work and interviewing for a full time position.
> However as it stands our current economy does mandate that artists make a living for them self

It does not mandate that they need to make their living from a particular business model. You already mentioned patronage as a method of funding for art - crowdfunding is one natural extension of that. Performance also does not rely on artifical scarcity. Demand for new art does not rely on artificial scarcity. There is also nothing saying that artists need to make their living from their art - and in fact this is not something most artists can do even with society being burdened with artificial scarcity.

> and while we still live in a world of 40 hour per week minimum wage where most people have little energy and time to work on art/hobby in spare time

I don't think the 40 hour work week is something that should be reinforced in any way at all. If society can have people working full-time on art then there is no real need to keep this outdated model where everyone needs to dedicate a majority of their waking time to survival.

> artists selling their art with artificial scarcity follows logically.

An economy built around articial scarcity reinforces a need for artificial scarcity? Maybe, but not an argument for anything.

> All that being said, this is not what we were talking about with the Wu-Tang Clan record. Their piece was a unique piece that works as a commentary on how the rest of musicians distribute their art. I look at this more like a fine art piece (or even performance art piece) then music. A lot of fine artists incorporate music with their art pieces and nobody expects them to distribute it digitally (though many do). This is kind of like the reverse of that.

I have nothing against an artist only distributing their work to a single person if they want to do that for whatever reason - but I don't think that society should then help them in any way in ensuring that that art stays with only that recipient once it leaves their hands.

> Finally, by allowing our artists this freedom of distribution, we get nice things, including a diverse and healthy art world.

Hahaha no. We get art that is optimized for profitability which tends to work against diversity while almost all transformative creative endeavours are prevented - except when copyright is ignored, as it is with most UGC, game mods mods, youtube videos etc. where it is mostly the platforms profiting off that art and not the artists.
The blog post's author lists a Ferriss book as one of his "3 favorite books" in a video on his channel, so it's more like "guilt by endorsement".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2 in action
A few reasons:
1) You loose facial expression communication
2) Its slower to digest (small/slow text scrolling across bottom of screen)
3) Its harder to learn to read as the process is aided by phonetics
Let's not forget Big Paper and Big Plastic, both of whom are threatened by a thriving hemp industry.
I don’t understand the point of this Bill - companies can and already do partner with the government in order to achieve democratically decided objectives (let’s ignore for a moment lobbying and other pseudo corruption).

Does this achieve anything other than simply giving companies more power? Time will tell. If anything we need to go in the other direction - allow people to have the same powers as large companies, not large companies having the power of governments.
FreeNow is as good as it's ever been. Better, in fact. It's the only app I use for this kind of thing as it uses legit, local taxis.
Remember that you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. So you can ask any "interview" type question. What do you feel are this company's strengths compared to the competition? What are the biggest challenges or opportunities the company will face over the next 5 years? For startups, ask about profitability, revenue, growth, investment plans.
Inadequate? I think this does the opposite for me showing that there's hope for the common folk who are just passionate with their projects :P
So why can't I see the stored number plate lists?

It's just doing "what a human could do, but much more efficiently" - I could go and stand by the roads and watch and take notes myself, so why is this obviously public information, collected by taxpayer funds, locked in closed databases?

Except it's not what a human could do; I couldn't practically do that; for one thing I can't be in more than one place at a time, and for another I can't dedicate my life to writing down registration plates with no breaks, no income, and no sleep. Similarly, the police could not do it on bulk scale - they can't fund enough people to track every major road junction.

Adding up ten numbers is something a person could do and a computer could do quicker. Adding up ten million numbers is something it feels like a person could do, at first thought, but they really couldn't. Not in a useful time, not without too much error. "Quantity has a quality all it's own", and all that.
I run 150 DPI on my desktop, 220 DPI on my laptop. High resolution screens are definitely around for Windows machines if you can pay the extra few hundred dollars for them. I'm not going back to low res displays, though I do much prefer OS X font smoothing for those screens.
Hi Djent,

Would you mind sending an email to support@github.com with details on what you were doing when that happened?

Thanks
Author here. If you have any comments or questions, I am welcome to answer them.
So is this iPhone to iPhone only, or can the customer use any NFC enabled credit card directly, or (shudder) their Android phone?
> original copy-to-paper mechanism

And when the pressure-stamp machine broke, the merchant would use a pen, and write the card number by hand. No problem.
As other commenters have noted, they stored the public/private keys on a cloud drive. A coin mixer isn't going to save you from that.
If #1 was a concern they wouldn't be pushing AtScript. Angular has already conceded that extra build steps are a good thing, so why not add JSX into the mix as well.
Plex is pretty awesome for casting content on your own network if you haven't looked at that.
The sad thing is that you don't have to have real surveillance to do this. All you need is the belief that the surveillance is going on.

It would be a great plot for a movie: Snowden et al, were given fake information to lead the world to believe it was being surveilled, eliminating a lot of bad behavior.
How about becoming a pro at Battlefield? So many startup people but a pro at a game that you enjoy, now that's more special and niche.
This is awesome. I look forward to following the progression.
In addition to Compiling with Continuations, I found Compiling with Continuations, Continued by Andrew Kennedy very useful, as well.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64044/compilingwithcontin...
This is a poor analogy. It's like making a soccer / football player answer a test on the history of the sport, how the ball is made, the geometry involved in kicking the ball, the mesh size of the goal net, etc.

There may be some relevance but in the end if they're a good player none of that matters. You'd be testing the wrong things to know if they're a good player.
> The main difference is that it chose javascript instead of lisp as its universal language,

That is not the main difference. The main difference is that Emacs can be extended on the fly. While VS follows the traditional plugin approach.

For VSCode to the have the same kind of extensibility it would have to allow opening an inspector on the _running_ instance. Click an element, jump to its source edit the source on the fly and have that change persisted. Or allowing your settings to patch (which by the nature of ES6 modules is not something you will be able to do).

The on the fly extension is crucial for quick QoL improvements to your workflow. You can spend 5 minutes writing a function instead of having to setup a project/plugin to something as trivial as say, copying a .env file and updating some values when you create a [git] worktree.

> Which is exactly the reason why... VSCode is winning the editors war.

The main reason why VSCode is 'winning' the 'editor' wars is because Microsoft is spending tons of money to build a great product. Emacs, vim, and other open source projects can't compete as they don't have nearly the same amount of resources. They have healthy communities and are thriving FLOSS communities but people who are scratching an itch won't be writing monthly tours of new features like https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_52 f/e.

> ask anyone who had to maintain bash/awk/perl labyrinthine assemblies...

Text in Emacs is richer than plain-text. You have overlays to annotate it with metadata, text properties, you can attach callbacks to it, etc. It is only at the boundaries that you have to resort to plain-text for interoperability purposes.

This means it is easy to inter-op with CLI utils but present a richer, more powerful interface. Ej. dired uses ls.
> Personally, I really can't see why all this hatred is directed at Facebook when Twitter and Reddit are around. But this isn't a binary choice either.

Can't speak for anyone else, but as OP my post isn't about deleting Facebook because social media is rampant cesspool of dopamine hits. But because Facebook, Inc is an evil company and we shouldn't use their products.
How can the IRS be satisfied when someone else's identity is being used? It doesn't make sense because the launderer is still in possession of dirty, now stolen, money.

I'm guessing they are using the identify of "real" authors to bypass some kind of check Amazon has on new accounts selling books from unknown authors. Otherwise, what you're saying makes sense.
Extraneously strenuous use of "useless" when using "redundant" would have done...unless useless has another usage.

EDIT: The commenter echoed, duckly.
When I was younger, a friend created a Facebook account in my name as a joke. My facebook-using parents found it and became very panicked that someone was stealing my identity.

I now have a minimal facebook account that I log in twice a year to keep a current photo. It's like how businesses have to squat their own domain names on TLDs they don't use.
> Why is this important? I use WhatsApp instead of SMS for contacts who don't have (free) SMS or who want the extra security.

Because WhatsApp (and other messengers) offer a far superior messaging experience to SMS: higher fidelity media, on time delivery, delivery status, e2e, and many more. Better experience means that people actually use it.

As you say, for “extra security”. But not everyone arrived at the decision of “how much security” they need at the same moment in time. People come to and leave the WA platform, and it’s desirable for me to know where people are at now so I can use e2e in new places as opposed to only with the subset of my social graph that I manually copied and pasted in which had installed WA before me.

I don’t deny that you like your setup, but it sounds pretty painful and pretty unlikely to appeal to a broad swathe of people, which is essential when trying to combat mass surveillance.

(is mass surveillance why you jump through these hoops?)
(Working on a Mint competitor)

It's great to see Mint making improvements, since they were basically the first player in this space and really set the standard... but hadn't evolved much in years.

I still think they'll be handicapped by their business model and their existing product. The article touches on this a little bit, but free and supported by ads / data just makes it really hard to build a great product. And most of the newer competitors are experimenting with subscriptions/etc.
But the problem is that "information on the web" must be kept alive constantly. Everything to do with digital storage is far more transient than a hard copy of a book or a photo.

With a book or a photo, the storage of information, and it's mechanism for display are one and the same. With all digitally encoded media, one must have the appropriate decoder.

If I keep a journal on wordpress.com, it can't be left to grow old and musty, with no effort. It decays absolutely the instant it is not being maintained, where as if I keep a journal on a notepad, it can take up a tiny amount of physical space in the real world, and lie somewhere unmaintained for centuries without decaying to the point of unusability.

As the speed of information creation and transfer has increased, so too has the longevity of that information decreased. From stone tablets, to papyrus, to SMS messages stored on an SD card - the volume of the world's information is now increasing at an astounding rate but would archaeologists be able to discover it thousands of years from now?
The payment plan provides easy named URLs at showoff.io currently. This is the first minimally viable version. More features are forthcoming.
can you add (an) email to your throw-away profile?

Interested in knowing which languages you know/prefer and if you have a few examples (portfolio, github, etc)
You can turn of "Enable auto-scanning of sources" which makes it loads better.

But netbeans will still have to scan projects from time to time. I've had to keep just a small number active at any time to prevent it from scanning too much and slowing down.

Those two steps do help a lot though.
People who work in the music production see a lot wider spaces inbetween subtle variations in sound than most of us. There are as many ways to construct a song as there are to construct a program, even if you know the "general idea."
That might be argument like when aluminum was the most expensive element and rich kings had aluminum roofs on their castles, because nobody was able to manufacture it cheaply. We might just be clumsy...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
Water memory is pseudoscience.