jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The GPL is enforceable thanks to copyright. So if copyright was abolished, the GPL would loose all meaning.

The point I'm trying to make is, that the protection offered by copyright extends beyond monetytization as it's often reduced to. (understandable in a capitalist econonmy, where Almosen everything has a price) Instead it allows the right holder to limit how it's distributed or attach conditions to the distribution. The GPL with its limitations on how I may use a piece of software licensed under it is one outgrowth of that. If you reject copyright, especially for digital goods, you should be fine with the GPL becoming useless.
I don't know much about language design, how tightly are syntactical/grammatical decisions coupled with other stuff like GC?

I understand, that, if things the language uses are implemented in that language itself, the language design breaks them. But if not?

A language like Java could probably work without GC, give the dev a "free" method and be done with it. The whole language would look the same syntactically.
You are using a very extreme interpretation of the law.

It's illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race and other protected classes. So by extension, it's best practice to avoid asking applicants for their race or asking them for a photo, lest you give the appearance that it's a factor in the hiring decision.

But I've never heard of rejecting someone outright for sending an unsolicited photo. That's just crazy. Would you also reject an applicant who had "President of African-American Student Union" on their resume because it belies their race?
Zstandard beats the Intel zlib tweak (as does Google's Gipfeli, mentioned in another comment) -- Intel's zlib -6 could also be described as "faster than stock zlib with only a little compression loss", but (from the chart in the Intel paper) it's "only" 1.8x faster when Zstandard is closer to 10x.

The IBM implementation's abstract mentions "a factor of 2.6x or higher" so similar deal, unless the "or higher" language hides a 10x gain. Also, abstract says they did it by taking LZ4's matcher + Zlib's entropy encoder, so they can't be expected to outperform the LZ4 author's new work. :)

Of course, those are still some great backwards-compatible gains.

Could be that on modern processors, Huffman coding just isn't the best option to make your compressor scream. Gipfeli uses a simple non-Huffman entropy code, and Collet (author of Zstandard) has been working on a state-machine-based coding approach for a while. deflate is over 20 years old, so it would make sense for it to be designed for different realities.

Speaking of chipmakers and zlib, though, Intel sells "QuickAssist" dedicated compression hardware, and AMD promises a compression accelerator in their server ARM SoC. As with AES, performance in software might come to matter less if systems start doing it in hardware. I don't know the silicon-area requirements for a compression accelerator, though (whereas AES's design was hardware-optimized), and I haven't seen any suggestion that compression accelerators are on the roadmap to be in any consumer chips.
Is this the beginning of an endless stream of products that basically integrate a simple multi-sensor chip and claim to revolutionalize our lives by notifying us that we need to wear coats outside?

I don't want to sound too negative, but I sincerely get the feeling that a new hype wave of IoT sensor products with practically no added value (other than cheerful marketing videos) is now on the way.

I also think that there is an endless amount of truly innovative but yet undiscovered use cases for these sensors.
What I see in journalism today is a classic shift from leadership to management. From substance to imitation. There are a lot of things that were meaningful once upon a time that now are mostly ridiculous imitations. For example, wearing an expensive suit, or a fancy watch, or having a big desk. Those used to be symbols of strength and power - now most people my age see that as nothing but douchebage-ness. The same goes for a lot of what's happening in news. All the holograms and "exclusive" and that other nonsense that is so terribly fake you can't help but cringe when watching cable news.

There was a time when flashing "BREAKING" in big bold letters and exclusive interviews indicated the most important things happening in the news. Now it means nothing. CNN was flashing "BREAKING" on the screens two weeks after the Malaysian airliner went down, preceding a discussion about whether or not it could have been a black hole that consumed it (that literally happened). Conversations between two parties are so canned that correspondents are even using the exact same wording as passed down by the party lines. Cable news is nothing but theater now, and to people who haven't grown up watching the news it seems very weird an disengenuous.

Focusing on externalities such as why someone became famous (a bathtub full of cereal?) lets the old guard not care about up-and-coming forms of journalism, dismissing its legitimacy. The legitimacy doesn't come from the content, but in how serious and domineering one can look when delivering the news. It's BS professionalism.
> Do you trust software with your life?

That depends on what the alternative is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
The problem is that even GOOGLE does not support their customers on the Nexus line. I have, in my drawer, an otherwise perfectly good Galaxy Nexus that is stuck running 4.3 because Google cannot be bothered to update it to 4.4. If Google will not update its own Nexus hardware to 4.4, how can anybody reasonably blame other hardware vendors for behaving the same way?
We already trust software with our lives. Transit, medicine, navigation, finance. People have died because of software failure in the past, but it hasn't deterred adoption or advancement.
Awesome - good job making it even easier to start!
No it isn’t true most kids in India are taught to breathe through stomach not chest.

Watch any lessons in pranayama you will know it’s part of daily routine taught to many Indians and now most yoga practitioners learn it.
I was being a bit facetious. The fact of the matter is there exist people who have not prepped, and grocery stores are a complete mess. Drive through solves both these problems, as letting those that behaved “completely idiotically” either die or come join in the crowds at grocery stores isn’t a great option.
I promise you, there is very little improvisation or "jazz" in the U.S. Army and a lot of micromangement and bureaucracy.

The experience is more akin to being in a massive company with tons of middle managers who are always looking to self-promote and cover their a.

The army has many great men and women in it, despite the bs, but let's not pretend it's some "dynamic" entity.

Don't believe me? Read Bob Gates' memoir, where he recounts how as SecDef he had to fight the Pentagon brass just to get MRAPs that would save lives. And he was in charge of the department!
You had digital sensors thirty years ago?
>>> It became a human rights issue because both of those populations were generally deemed to be sinners and people tended to not care if they died.

My father was a medical doctor at the time, specializing in diagnosing and treating brain cancer, and told me that although docs were scrambling to treat a growing flood of AIDS patients, there was a quiet resentment at the need to reallocate scarce resources for a disease that was largely preventable (except for tainted blood transfusions). Cancer was (and is) a much larger problem, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year; then there's heart disease which kills 647,000 Americans every year.

To say IV users and gay men were "generally deemed to be sinners" who didn't deserve to be cured is a vast exaggeration. Certainly there were and are people who think this way, but the general population, both lay and medical, certainly didn't. That would include the general non-fundamentalists among the American religious community.

The fact is that thousands of unsung researchers worked long hours, first to understand HIV's structure and mechanism, then to figure out how to prolong life, and most recently, how to actually cure it. Unfortunately, some gay activist groups such as ActUp felt these efforts were insufficient, and showed up at medical conferences to chant "killers!" at the scientists who were presenting findings. This created more resentment.

Look, everyone's feelings are inflamed in a time of crisis. It's important to let cooler heads prevail, and not descend to name calling or deriding this or that group. Especially in the current situation, we're all in this together, and we will sink or rise together.
Also in practice. It's one of the check-boxes in the pi-hole settings.
Really? People are hunkering down in their homes and have lots of time on their hands. If a web site is overloaded, they can try again later. Annoying, sure. Life or death? I am skeptical.

Moreover, “getting static” is nice and a fine way to improve performance, but it seems to me that really the goal should be, “be available.” What’s wrong with using a CMS or anything else as long as you have the capacity to meet demand?
I read an interesting article a while back that posited that we have seen inflation but it's been masked in the regular basket of consumer goods by cheap imports from China. Meanwhile we have seen significant inflation in housting but it's not really recognized as such.
> I've been living in the USA for 3 months now, and he doesn't mention the thing I find most surprising / disturbing / worrying / uncomfortable, which is the amazingly strong correlation between wealth and skin colour.

Are you referring to the Indians or the Asians?
I doubt most of those 400k users ever intend on using it. Being an "early adopter" is such a hip and happening thing to be people sign up to new services just to secure a cool sign up date and name now. I have an account with about.me only because I got my first name... I have no intention of ever using it unless it becomes big and worth while.
I have always been a proponent of the 5 second cache for things like blog posts. After you hit Reddit, you can see 1000 requests a second for a few minutes. If you cache for 5 seconds, nothing is ever very far out of date, but you save yourself 5000 requests. Seems like a win-win.

(I'm also a big fan of Varnish. I tried it out this weekend on a site that basically serves an HTML file that says "hello world". Apache can do about 11,000 requests a second, but Varnish can serve 15,000 requests a second. Excellent!)
> If being your own brand is so important than why not just get your own domain name.

99.9% of people cannot or will not deal with that trouble.
The full quote is "The size of the acquisition isn’t being disclosed but our guess is it’s in the tens of millions of dollars."

The only thing separating this from crazy and smart is the price, so I think it's important to keep in mind that we don't know the price.
Usually "phone hacking". "Security research" is what goes on my resume. :)
I think an aspect of many paradigms and then the multiparadigm languages is that people don't see the original two camps of CS pioneers.

Haskell is from math, brevity, correctness.

Perl is a linguist's take on applied math.

I would prefer to write a proof in haskell and a manifesto that expresses what I think, however irrational, in perl.

("If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter." and general sentiment towards first language vs math education imply that perl will be the easier and more comfortable language for most if that is really the primary goal. But the slight irrational thinking as we add more layers means eventual collapse.)
The problem is that you have a two party system, so all viewpoints have to fit into one of those parties. Democracy is a spectrum running from North Korea to Scandinavia.

I.e from Dictatorship > One party > Two party > De-facto Two party (first past the post Parliamentary) > Coalition government with proportional representation.

The huge advantage of coalition government being that unless you have extreme views, your politicians are always at the table so your views are never completely ignored for 4 or 8 years. So yes I’m arguing that the US is actually quite undemocratic compared to other first world countries, and the U.K. where I am is not much better.
I think they just realized that the legalization of it will keep people distracted, whereas the continued prohibition of it would cause social unrest.

What we're 'allowed' to do is basically anything that keeps us too occupied to overthrow the ruling class...
I think this was clearly stated, nothing shocking about that right ?
I recommend Shashi Tharoor's "An Era of Darkness".

The reason why the railways became so developed during the British Era is because the Crown promised up to 10 percent returns in many cases. So it was a speculative boom, with the cost underwritten by the miserably poor citizens of British India.

The mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has a lot of material on the railways boom, which occurred in England and in India during the 1840-1860s.

Many of the rail lines were also quite absurd. The first rail line in Kerala for example. Even 170 years later, there are no major population centres around. Why was this route chosen? To transport teak most economically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilambur%E2%80%93Shoranur_line

https://www.google.co.in/maps/dir/Nilambur,+Kerala/Shoranur,...
Pre-2016 if you would have asked me "Are electronic voting systems vulnerable to hacking?" I would have said "Absolutely yes." Post 2020 if you ask me "Are electronic voting systems vulnerable to hacking" my answer is still "Absolutely yes"

Weird so many people did some kind of dipsy-doo flip-aroo with elections in 2016/2020.
..and then the left goes on about prosecuting anyone who helped Trump, about how Trump supporters need to be reeducated.

Biden doesn't get to say that. The democrats have been vicious, mean, nasty and deceitful. Big Tech and Big Media practically covered up the entire Hunter Biden situation claiming it wasn't true; and now it's clear he was under FBI investigation.

You don't get to shit on 50% of the country, tell them they're all racist Nazis for supporting Trump, and then tell them, "We should unify." No state has gotten their day in court. The federal judges are all cowards. People have nothing else. Had the 7th Circuit at least heard testimony before ruling or the Supreme Court given more than a three line bullshit statement on standing, people would at least believe somebody was listening.

No body is listening.

People are losing faith in the system.

I have lost faith in the system, and I have never been a democrat or a republican. I've always been a centrist.
> "Hey, Stacy Abrams is really in the right to say that her election was fraudulent forever" but Trump can't say the same.

Yeah, that's kinda how truth and lies work.
> So is the author committing to never making any backwards incompatible updates to their new package?

Well, yes, probably. It's not all that hard, and groundhog seems to have a fairly simple API anyways.

And groundhog still uses CRAN packages, it just brings a method of pinning them to a specific version.
Hm. What would seeking middle be with QAnon or PizzaGate folk?
It's just show. That's not going to happen. It's ridiculous to even consider removing him two weeks early. He just put out huge call for peace before Twitter removed his platform.
This is truly tragic. She was an innocent. She should not have died.
Have you not seen that John Oliver episode about the nukes?

Basically anyone could get in there if they want, but they probs don't want to because knocking over a wrench could easily set the whole place on fire in a conflagration of missile fuel
The cable companies saw netflix as Blockbuster's competitor, not their own...and were fairly correct in that belief until netflix changed their game to streaming, and streaming of tvshows and fairly new movies..and even so, the streaming of movie titles was never something the cable companies were hugely good at until recently: Movie studies saw their profits as sourced from dvd and vhs mass market sales, and box office ticket sales, not distribution to tv.

So while the cable companies haven't responded well to netflix, I think its important to remember that only recently has netflix emerged as a competitor to the cable companies...and these industries had been respecting one another's monopolies until netflix changed the game.
wikipedia has links for 'this page in other languages', so just looking for popular pages that are missing an english entry should be a pretty good collection of those

of course you'd probably find a few which are simply missing the appropriate reference, and it would miss out on pages which have an inaccurate language reference to english, as iirc i've seen a few which i would call a bit too broad
But but..., going through Cloudflare makes it lose all what's related to the context of being hosted ony a 386SX etc... :(
HN is full of interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org submissions that never make the frontpage.
You know what they say — Behind every great woman is a handful of dudes.
Hi! Following your appraisal of the post. I have gone on to edit the complete article and made it news-worthy. Please do go through it and let me know.

Regards.
This is one of many reasons I use a tiling window manager (scrotwm). It doesn't set out to make everything gray, but it ends up having pretty much that effect when the screen is tiled with xterms and there's no wallpaper, desktop icons, taskbar, etc. Why use only color to help focus when you can use a WM that's designed with focus in mind?
Or you could get over it, create an account, sign in once, and then never worry again.
The idea behind Groupon (spending marketing dollars on customers instead of media) is changing the face of commerce worldwide. No matter what Groupon does, that cat is out of the bag.

It's up to them to make sure they capture as much of that value as possible. That takes a lot of money but if they succeed, it will be worth it. The chances are not small that Groupon will be a $100B business in a few years.
The kind of people that most e-mail newsletters appeal to are probably the ones that also don´t know how to use syndication feeds. I know my parents (and I´m assuming more of their generation) love getting various store advertisements and so forth through e-mail newsletters and actually look at nearly every one; RSS would probably be more useful, but my dad has never caught on to the format for other stuff. Putting it in Thunderbird like his e-mail works for him, but there is no real content he´s interested in.
It was a thepoint widget showing in a Wordpress blog. It did use all of the technology behind thepoint but used Wordpress as presentation.
The expected lifetime value of a custom acquisition is so high for these services that Groupon makes sense even if the conversion rate is < 5%. And, since most salon owners can push the risk downward to their commissioned (paid by the job, really) staff, there's even less disincentive. Only the staffers still trying to build a book of business will accept Groupon customers, and those employees' opportunity losses are low because they end-up sitting around between clients anyway. So, the risk/reward trade-off of using Grupon in these industries is quite good.
I think it was obvious from the context that by "job" he meant "job where I work for someone else". All he was saying was he won't be happy working for someone other than himself.
2001: Some web search thingy bigger than all the auto and media companies in the US? u-huh.
I know about five Jewish families that also celebrate Christmas as a non-religious holiday--the only Jewish families I know. I´d say the secular Christmas holiday is common enough in the American culture to not offend all that many people.
> What's interesting is that newsletters would be better-implemented as RSS/Atom feeds... but nobody ever does that. Why? Because nobody would actually subscribe. Makes you wonder, doesn't it.

Wonder about what? 99% of the population have no idea what an RSS feed is, and the other 1% largely don't use them.
The simple response to your whataboutism is that we're not talking about other fields like psychology or education or nursing. If you want to discuss sexist attitudes towards men in those fields be my guest, but it's a different conversation.

The less simple response is that cis white men haven't been systematically kept from participating in the full economy, unlike women and people of color until about a generation ago. Systemic sexism and racism were built up over centuries and have not been evacuated from society yet. When engaging in discussion about it it's impossible to look at the entire scope and walk away with concrete actions to reduce its impact, which is why productive discussion needs to hone in on specific issues or else we get in meaningless argument over semantics like "#women < #men == sexist" when it should be obvious that something is wrong there
No. I've actually just gone over last 30 days of comments of dmos62. Not a one referenced that trigger word.
Buy eggs, vegetables, crops and meat from the butcher. To say it otherwise, avoid processed foods.
The bowl flew right over this commenter's head
I remember many years ago when Pivotal's website was featuring a module for Spring Scala saying something about concise API and other functional buzzwords. The same for Groovy, earlier.
It dampens the sound of the train, but people generally end up boosting the volume of the music to the highest level it goes on the phone, and that can cause issues long term. Blocking one sound doesn't help anything if you're replacing it with an equally (if not more) loud sound.
Maybe I'm stupid but how are user IDs and chatroom IDs sensitive information? How can I join a room or interact with a user if I don't know the ID?

Just trying to understand the severity here and if I'm doing something wrong in my apps.
My frustration with VBA is that it didn’t seem very well documented.

If I could record a macro that was “close” and examine it, the ecosystem was very productive. Once I wanted to go beyond that, it seemed like there was an undocumented chasm to cross.
Haha, this is one of the tamest instances of cutting corners in the news lately. It's not like this is super-secret information either. It's not health, finance, or legal data.

Some people on HN seem to take security much more seriously than necessary, as if security is the most important feature. But in business, it usually isn't.
it's probably NOT a good idea to not post cell phone # in the open:

http://txtatlas.com/pins
Some of these unemployed liberal arts majors can be really frustrating to me. A few months back, I was talking to an old roommate of mine, who graduated 1.5 years ago with a BA in PHL and a foreign language (3.9 GPA), who has not had any luck finding a job.

So now he basically sits around surfing the internet all day and looking at foreign films.

3 months ago, I told him I would help him by getting him the right materials he would need so that he could pick up some design skills, since he seemed really interested in graphic design. Initially, he seemed interested, but then he refused because he didn't like the idea of using pirated materials such as a copy of Photoshop or Lynda tutorials. At the same time though, he refused to pay for anything that would actually teach him what he needed to know.

I just don't understand how someone can drift sideways like that for so long. The guy is not picking up any new skills or making any real progression in his life. The other day he complained because he thinks all the clerical jobs he is applying for are automatically going to women. It's like he makes up excuses to cover up for his own laziness.