jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I understand that you are implying, that as an ISP owner you have received no instructions from the government to further impose IP level restrictions on YouTube. That is how you would know.

Now, as an ISP owner, if you only use Turk Telekom (current "Ma Bell" of Turkey) as your backbone, then you also did nothing to improve your own backbone. Then you would also be guilty of the same flaw you mentioned.

But on the off chance that you actually do have your own fast backbone and the most likely chance that there are no restrictions on Google's sites other than YouTube... Today is the day, you should be advertising, by word of mouth, by _anything_ that how we can reach all the sites if we use your ISP.

If not, it is not really _your_ job.
http://www.profounder.com/
Some ideas are easier to execute than others. It is certainly possible to create an award-winning movie about two gay cowboys, but I bet there are far fewer writers/directors who could pull it off than those who could produce yet another successful romantic comedy.

So if your one goal is to make a successful movie, your chances of success are probably better if you choose to do a romantic comedy rather than a movie about two gay cowboys. Unless, of course, you are confident in your ability to make an amazing gay cowboy movie, in which case you should do it.

In other words, execution is everything, but that doesn't mean you should ignore ideas when deciding what to do.
Looks promising, but rendered slowly on FF36 and video could not be played on iOS8.

Is the idea that videos would play automatically and you could skip them like changing channels? Nice concept.
That's truly, truly dumb on twitter's behalf. They should have started with using the whole numeric range and/or switched to string ids long ago.

As I have suggested in a post 9 months ago, and as I would have designed this system at any date since 2002 or so, the twit ID would be composed of userid bits + time bits. In the post below I suggested 32+32, but other divisions are acceptable depending on your "bot user" policy. Such an ID would at the same time be sufficient (up to 4G users, up to 5 tweets/sec/user AVERAGE, up until 2030). You can have two times as many users for just "2 tweets/sec average". Facebook only has 500M, so 4G should be sufficient.

Such a construct makes the entire system significantly simpler and more robust to "meaningful" failure. I haven't seen a single thing tweeter has done right in the technical sense.

They do deserve marketing and bizdev credit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b2u6t/twitter_o...
Wait so the only backlash they get should they break their guarantee is that they credit me for the down time? This doesn't seem like a motivating factor to keep uptime. Is this standard practice in the industry? I know prgmr has refunded me the entire month when they broke their SLA.

All that said, I won't be getting rid of my Linode box in Fremont simply because it's one of the best vps's I've had performance wise. It just seems like an odd SLA.
64 bits is enough to have everyone on Earth send over a billion Tweets and still have enough room to find a new solution. That sounds like more than enough to me.
There is also http://tf2stats.com
and you can view stats of online steam game http://en.allgamestats.net/
Most big (and many small) github projects have a "doc" tag on their issues, for issues that are about documentation work. A general search like https://github.com/search?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22... is a good place to look through these, or you could search for 'label:"doc"' in any specific projects you're interested in helping out.
Make gambling losses refundable unless the bettor posts a bond in advance. Only allow one purchase of chips per day.
This prevents bleeding people drip by drip, while still allowing gambling.

Mandate that all chips display actual cash value.

Require signed disclosures with big warnings about the risks and costs of gambling, every time chips are purchased, like required on
mortgages.

Apply Accredited Investor rules to gambling.

Mandate warning labels like on cigarettes.
Yup, NPEs are not caused in the location that they occur. They are caused by the part of the code that inserts a null where it doesn't belong/isn't expected. This means that getting rid of NPEs requires detailed enforcement across module/method/interface/etc boundaries.

If something is labelled @Nonnull (or @NotNull, depending on the annotations used) then it should never be allowed to be null. The issue arises when there is no enforcement of this paradigm at the compiler level. Similar languages (Kotlin/Swift/...) with the benefit of Java in hindsight, can track nullability as a core feature. Java requires a plugin to track+enforce nullability for backward compatibility reasons.

errorprone is a Java compiler plugin to add extra sanity checks that the base compiler doesn't/can't provide. NullAway is an errorprone plugin and has been shown [1] to get rid of NPEs.

In my experience, anyone who thinks NPEs are unavoidable or even a wanted feature has not sufficiently learned about nullability as a language/type system feature for type systems that allow null values.

NullAway isn't the only game in town (for Java) but it's the simplest and easiest model to adopt for a large body of developers that don't necessarily want to think hard about null values and complex type interactions.

Finally, I'm speaking from first hand experience of wrangling a large Java codebase with many developers. The mental model of the code is far too complex to hold in any one head. Even just the mental model of nullability is too complex to hold in a single head. The good news is that this is the kind of problem a compiler can excel at... and that a PR check can leverage.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.02127.pdf
Money can be a message worth 1000 times more than words...
This is hilariously bad advice. Keep in mind that the FBI needs a good relationship with people out in industry and doing research.

Most of the attempts to recruit informants are benign, as I mentioned in my own story elsewhere in the thread. It boils down to being in Vegas the same few days and having a drink and killing time talking about how great America is (yes, FBI agents generally do love their country). It's good PR for everyone involved.
To ask the obvious unanswered question: Why would someone want to move to Bazel from Maven? What advantages does it bring?
Wuffs does not use a SMT solver. https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/doc/note/assertion... explains.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Tech people on HN pretending to know the intricacies of environmental impact of energy development ...
This headline is preposterously misleading.

This is a link to the actual study. Page 16 is relevant.

http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/National_Seafo...

The group tested 114 tuna samples. Of those 114, 66 were of a fish that the vendor was calling "White Tuna". Have you ever eaten something called White Tuna? Neither have I. It's a fairly unpopular sushi fish sold sparsely around the country.

Why does it make up more half the sample, you might ask? Well, it turns out there is essentially no such thing as White Tuna. Hence 94% of the samples are "mislabeled." [the authors assert that a certain type of albacore tuna sold in a certain form counts as 'white tuna', which accounts for the 6% of correct labels] If your goal was to achieve a result which shows lots of mislabeling, a good strategy would be to considerably oversample 'white tuna'.

They took 48 more samples of tuna other than 'white tuna'. Notably, that didn't include anything from a can, which is by a WIDE margin what most americans think of when they think of tuna. Nevertheless, of those 48, they determined that five were "mislabeled" due to the tuna actually being a substituted variety of tuna. In other words, all 48 were 'tuna', though perhaps not 'albacore' or the specific type it claimed to be.

So where does that leave us? More than half of the samples were of a fish known to be commonly "mislabeled" by standard industry practice, and the rest of the mislabelings were substitutions of one type of tuna for another. In no universe does that lead to the conclusion that 59% of the tuna Americans consume is not actually "tuna". I would venture that no one reading this comment has ever eaten a piece of tuna that was not actually from a tuna fish (though _maybe_ they lied about which specific variety you were eating).

This organization has a history of running biased studies and then churning out ridiculous charts and headlines to push on local newspapers. They ran with a version of this story in New York City around a year ago. It's nonsense. Eat your tuna and enjoy it.
How did you fall into such a niche? I don't mean that as a pejorative. It just seems so specific. And esoteric to me.
Yeah, I'm certainly going to experiment with a small portion first. (I don't really eat large portions of fish anyway.)
I'm in the intended audience group then, as a game developer who works on animation regularly but only has a passing familiarity with geometric algebra. You could say I am "GA curious". But I'm afraid I didn't get much out of that article. I had hoped I would get more information about the benefits of using GA over standard matrix and quaternion methods. Instead, at the first mention of something GA related (which was motors) it was glossed over, as a hand wavy "don't worry about this". Later, pages of difficult math (which I skimmed over trying to find the punch line) were devoted to, if I understood, trying to do the equivalent of slerp that everyone is familiar with and is easy with quaternions (though perhaps just as complicated to derive). What I would have liked to have seen is an article that starts off with some motivation about what benefit one gets from looking at skeletal animation through this lense, for example, are there problems that vex people using standard methods which just don't occur when using GA?
OK so that seems to be 100% applicable to what I'm thinking. Very cool, thank you for sharing the link!
im sure elevated wildfire risk hasnt gone away for good.
I stand with the experts that I’ve been citing. You should log off if you can’t maintain civil discourse.

You couldn’t be more wrong with your accusations, and I will continue to lend my perspective to this debate with a slant toward long-term macroeconomic thinking that I believe is essential in managing a global health crisis, and saving the most lives long-term.
> muscle weighs more than fat

On average, the density of fat is 0.9 g/mL, while the density of muscle is 1.1 g/mL.

It’s just not that much
Even if we grant the premise, this is just such a dumb lie. It's universally obvious that masks work; you can look at pictures of everyone in other countries wearing masks, and the 1 second thought of "the virus has a hard time going through the mask" is substantially correct. How's anyone who realized that they lied about masks supposed to trust their other public health recommendations?
i thought this was about space elevators until i read the abstract
Just checked, it's actually one person, working 12 hours per day (so basically 1.5 FTEs)

Source: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/206/s...
Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who just doesn't get VIM
but there is not really a spirit of "lets build something cool" outside of F#.

Can you give an example of something that is cool? Everytime I think of something cool, I can think of something done on the MS stack, but maybe our definitions are different.
Well the game he's got in mind is a Harry Potter game so I wouldn't be able to create it without getting copyright. But he is talking about maybe somebody who made the other iPhone Harry Potter game will see his video and make his game :)
Multiplayer or even an iPhone/iPad version may help increase sales. Whatever happens in the long run, thank you for giving us this insight!
Thats fine but the parent comment is saying that the video has high praise of the product when the closing quote of the video says something to the effect of "You would be a complete moron to buy this".

He has some interesting discoveries like how they make plastic feel like metal but overall the vibe I got from it is the product does not match the price.
How would the EU shut you out? Would the EU actually dare to begin censorship?
Actually, as a boss I frequently do look kindly on that. I'd much prefer to have that built into assumptions and explicit upfront.

Sometimes I may say "can we do that on our 1K user side project instead?" but I think that if you are managing developmental resources and you are not allowing them learn new things, you are not following a strategy that is likely to work out long term.
It does sound like you were being a bit of a smartass :-)

But at that point, the teacher could have dealt with that two ways: way one would be doing exactly what he did, and way two would be to ask you how you did it, then find you a cool project to channel that curiosity into.

It's a sad thing when a teacher would rather beat someone into submission instead of give them a chance to grow.
If people were thinking like this guy, we would still be living in caves.
You can create shares and assign guest accounts to them. The users will be able to load as a drive in their computers from LAN and over internet.

I would suggest you to try the workspace application that comes with Tonido. Some NGOs are using it successfully to sync tasks, calendar, notes and files. The closest application that you can compare is microsoft groove.
Doesn't beat http://www.hckrnews.com/ for me since that lets me show just the top 50% of stories, top 20%, the front page, etc.
I've been finding zsh to feel extremely bloated lately and killing my workflow. Mainly because I use oh-my-zsh with several additional plugins, and also because I use guake with at least 10 terminal tabs open at any time. Zsh has some strange refresh issue when SIGWINCH is called to switch back to the guake window that results in more cpu usage when switching back in the longer zsh is open for. Has anyone experienced something similar?
I would like to see what the OP would do if they were suddenly forced to live in the Stone Age. Would they spend time doing philosophising or restoring the civilisation and actually feeding themselves?
He seems to have many, ah, "controversial" opinions:
https://campaign.gavinhoward.com/platform/

On religion and LGBTQ issues:
> A strong, free nation can only be made up of religious and virtuous individuals, strong nuclear families with a cisgender father and a cisgender mother, and a lively and effective civil society, all protected under the wise framework of the Constitution as it was intended by our Founding Fathers.
> To have a virtuous people, America must return to its religious roots.
> Strong, nuclear families consisting of a cisgender father and a cisgender mother are the “fundamental units of society." All governments under the Constitution should protect and encourage them and discourage all other kinds of families made through voluntary actions.

On the right to vote and welfare:
> they who have actually paid for the services of government, and thus, should have a say in how it runs. Those who haven’t, and get themselves addicted to welfare, should not, for they do not pay the price of living in society.
> In addition, all government welfare is waste.

You can look at the sidebar for more fun tags, to see his opinions about Black Lives Matter (evil), "censorship" (Facebook and Squarespace taking down his favorite conspiracy pages), and many tags about his Mormon faith, which as an atheist, is probably not my place to criticize.
> I remember times when the equality rhetoric was about "if we just do blind auditions, the racial disparity in orchestra will go away." That didn't happen and ...

It wasn't even tried, really - not in the educational context, at least. You can't talk about these educational disparities without noticing the real elephant in the room - the stark differences between mainstream and minority culture, and the obvious problems with the lack of enduring social capital in these undeprivileged minority communities. But somehow, the whole subject of culture has become a dirty word among equality advocates. For some reason, people seem to have fixated on the idea that it all boils down to race and diversity in some way, even though it's hard to see how these could make a difference.
fair I guess but that's awfully pedantic. today we can write code that runs backwards and forwards but it's because a compiler is generating multiple versions based on context - if we achieve physical reversibility then maybe one version could do. "computing" has many layers - I don't think it's off topic to include the high level ones in the discussion
Yup, Duanathar. It was especially fun when the Clouds were strategically used during raids and skirmishes, people found a lot of creative uses for it.
I think the point this article is making is that the portability was a sham and a mirage from the get go.

Yes, it might compile on an oddball architecture, but a lot of that would be the autotools build system and the C compiler fudging around important details that could easily leave you with something that kinda-sorta runs but is a wide open security flaw. Or that runs for a while and then breaks in ways nobody could have predicted because you aren't meant to try to run cryptographic software on something out of the museum of historical computing.
No place exists where this isn't happening to some extent or another. Where are you going to move to? No place I'd want to be is free from other human beings.
I typed in a lot of these in the late '70s, it was "learning Basic the hard way" to get them to run. My access to computers was limited, so I read them more than used them at a computer. I later bought:

http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-programs-32-basic-programs-for-...

I really liked "The Flying Walloons", simple as it was.

Here's one I never saw but would have been fun, I think:

http://www.trs-80.org/trs80-graphics/

I remember I had to hide them in my other books because kids would pick on me if they saw "nerdy" books like this, and teachers didn't like you reading anything interesting during their boring lectures.
Don't. There are many existing systems to choose from. Very unlikely another design system the user has never encountered before will add value.
I've got a Thinkpad running Ubuntu 10.10 that sleeps reliably and a second-gen MacBook Pro running OSX that doesn't.
Anecdotally speaking, "Canada" is a good answer to many of the questions that you pose.
Unless I missed something, it doesn't appear that the buyer can "use" the domain while in Escrow.
And that's Hamming of the Hamming Window and Hamming Code fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming
Interesting that there is so much anti-company lunch sentiment on HN. At Justin.tv we serve lunch (and dinner!) every week day. Originally, when we were much smaller, it started as a time saving measure (it was a lot quicker to get back to work than if everyone went out). Now, I see it as much more about giving everyone a chance to hang out and eat, and as a cost benefit to employees. If you don't want to eat at the big lunch tables, you don't have to. If you want to go somewhere else, you're welcome to. People do meet friends for lunch elsewhere, or bring them to the office for lunch.

At lunch, people rarely seem to talk about work (or at least, in a specific "x,y,z tasks need to be done" kind of way), and generally talk more about topics I can only really describe as technology and liberal arts. We don't really talk sports or reality tv, as pretty much no one in the office watches.

After lunch usually a few people play Street Fighter 4 for 20-30 minutes or so in our common area which adjoins the lunch room.
Now how did I know that this was a Vivek Wadhwa article before I even followed the link to read the article? Oh, yeah, because this is Vivek Wadhwa's pet issue. As in his previous articles on this subject, he doesn't give any big-picture official statistics (even though those should be available) about how much demand there is under current rules for immigrant visas to the United States by persons from China or India who have completed university educations. Nor does he even relate his anecdotes to the (large) percentage of graduate students in the United States from India or China who somehow manage to stay and eventually settle in the United States under current rules. He simply doesn't provide any thoughtful analytical context for the policy position he supports.

I think it's wonderful for the United States to accept a lot of immigrants--my wife is an immigrant from another country. But I will simply ask the policy questions I generally ask when HN threads include discussion of immigration policy:

1) What country offers BETTER general conditions for convenient immigration by educated persons from China or from India than the United States? Where are that country's immigration rules posted on the World Wide Web? Would you rather live there than in the United States?

2) What countries offer easy and convenient immigration to an arbitrary person from an arbitrary country, say an African person who would like to start a new life by founding a business in some developed country? Where could that person immigrate readily and legally?

3) What countries allow Americans readily to settle with permanent residence status that could turn into citizenship after an application on the same terms that Vivek Wadhwa advocates that the United States offer to citizens of other countries? What countries are currently visible examples of the results of the kind of policy he proposes? Would you rather live in one of those countries than in the United States?

4) Is there any country on earth that has a NET inflow of immigrants from the United States, compared to the number of its own citizens who emigrate to the United States? What country is that? What are its immigration rules? Would you like to start a start-up there?

After edit: If you are sure that there is another country that provides better immigration rules for start-up entrepreneurs than the United States, could you kindly link to some website hosted by that country explaining what the rules are?
For Ruby, check out http://cond.rubyforge.org/
go ahead and try that
Just once it'd be nice if the author was somebody other than Brian Greene. Seems like he's the only advocate for string theory these days.
What I don't really understand is how this could be used to stop piracy. Sure, you could stop recording on a machine with Intel Management Engine, but wouldn't pirates simply use a computer without Intel Management Engine to rip media?

Unless the media becomes impossible to consume without Intel Management Engine (sounds unlikely, how would you explain that to customers), how does it prevent anything?
Register a company. Don't do anything with it, other than keeping it alive.

When asked what you did, just say that you wanted to become an independent contractor, but in the end you realized that you were a much better programmer than a salesperson, so you had really happy clients but not enough of them.

Or maybe you wanted to start a SAS, but again couldn't get enough customers.

Companies die all the time, take your pick.
Frankly, not that much. Rust can primarily protect against memory usage race conditions, it can't catch most kinds of deadlocks or other concurrency issues.
> No buildings are numbered zero
> Counterexample: 0 Egmont Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 2HT

A more fun counterexample: the Black History Museum in Richmond Virginia is located at "00 Clay Street". That's 00, not 0.