jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The first thing I notice is:

> Please link to <https://raskie.com>, if you intend to redistribute this .exe.

Now that's probably okay so long as it's a nice request ("please"), and not a requirement; AIUI, GPLv3 doesn't (generally) allow you to add conditions (ex. a license file that says "GPLv3 but no commercial users" isn't allowed by the text of GPLv3). But IANAL and I'm sure this is more complex than I think it is. Which brings us to a reasonable useful point: I would suggest never putting anything in a license file other than the exact standard form of the license; adding anything else, at best, makes people have to read it and try to understand what you've done rather than being able to say "oh, it's GPLv3 and I've cached that that's 100% okay for me" and stop thinking about it.
For this sort of math (theoretical), "practically straight" is never straight enough.

And your approach is close enough to calculus that "totally naive..." seems a tad too modest.
Let's pool up funds and buy YC a flash drive to backup the SD card in case of a file system corruption.
when I rented it, HD and SD cost the same amount. but your point is taken
I unfortunately think you mean wechat and not weechat.
I really didn't understand grammars until I started doing hand-rolled top-down recursive descent parsing for Gosu.

It's a shame that parsing in CS schools is taught using theory and lex/yacc type tools when a basic lexer and recursive descent parser can be written from first principles in a few months. It is more incremental, and it gives you a much deeper feel for the concepts, plus it lets you learn a bit about software engineering and organization as well.
In Portugal unlimited means 15GB... Not that we're any beyter for it, mind you. It's really just an arbitrary number.
> Isn't this a pretty strong argument against encryption?

No; totally different arena.

> Isn't this a pretty strong argument against cash?

Cash is a lot more traceable than bitcoin transactions.

> Isn't this a pretty strong argument against email attachments?

? :)
You'd think these DMCA blasters would have some lists of people they shouldn't tangle with because it will be more trouble than it's worth. Fortunately for us, apparently not.
Here is the owners Twitter... https://twitter.com/tdpnate

They seem to be based out of Las Vegas and almost exclusively cater to the adult and amateur wrestling industries.
> "This is not the Holocaust." yet.

Get some perspective.
>There is no way there is less than 100 pirated links somewhere on facebook.com.

Facebook content is not indexed by search engines anyway.
But that's all part of the overall achievement -- 6M requests/day is a key part of the optimisation, and how much real world "traffic" that corresponds too.
This is just unreal. this guy was living a double life of being the greatest criminal ever. So among our community was a $4 billion hacker, just nonchalantly posting.

I don't think he will be commenting anytime soon again if this really is him

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=il

like your neighbor being a serial killer or something
My purpose, identity, and worth have nothing to do with my work. Work is something I do in exchange for money which I use to fund my life and goals. I've never been able to relate with someone who needs a purpose to do work. I would gladly hop to any job that paid more and required less effort than software
I don't think its right to judge the rationality of decisions based on their outcome. The question is whether war was a rational decision at the time. From a realist perspective anything decision is rational if it can lead to an improvement in the chances for survival. If war leads to a relative increase in my power even if I may lose soldiers and resources, then its worth it.

If country A has 100 soldiers while country B has 20 soldiers, even if the cost of war is a 2 to 1 loss in soldiers, war would result in the absolute power of country A.

In a conflict between two countries with nuclear weaponry, the core logic is the same, but the paradigm is different. Nuclear warfare can erase both countries off the face of the earth. This follows from the fact that to combat nuclear attacks, countries started adopting hair-string triggers to destroy the adversary before they can send more warheads their way... except now every country is doing the same thing. In this case, forget the relative nonsense, anyway you cut it, nuclear warfare is not rational for countries because it will end their survival.

My belief is that MAD is sound. And my underlying assumption is that countries tend to think rationally when dealing with international relations. Regardless of leadership, countries do whats best for them an overwhelming majority of the time. Case in point, how often has the U.S. (the bastion of freedom) voluntarily helped countries/people when the U.S.' interests were not directly involved? Also, observe how a seemingly crazy country like North Korea plays the game shrewdly by varying is strategy depending on its adversary.

I agree that there is a threat that nuclear weapons will get in the wrong hands and, in that case, I think its more than probable that disaster would ensue. But the safety and standards for handling infrastructure degradation has improved significantly since the early days of nuclear weapons (when many were lost to the ocean and never recovered) . As for Putin's threats, its nothing a good back and forth of denouncing and condemning can't fix.
If so, seems like kind of a BS test to me. Job interviews are stressful enough without that kind of social experiment nonsense. There are a set of expected behaviors in an interview that don't necessarily reflect how a person would act in day to day life.
You also believe in Father Christmas, do you?
s/average person/average American/
This seems pretty important:

> While the standard for a conventional ventilator uses a mask or nose tubes and follows current guidelines, the pandemic ventilator is at a standard from the 1970s and requires a patient be intubated, the medical word used to describe putting a tube through someone's mouth and into their airway.

Do intubated patients need more attention from nurses/doctors? It certainly sounds harder then putting on the mask.
So, I'm just guessing here, but "basic respect for all people" is the criteria you're applying to put someone into the "liberal" category? Can you explain what makes "petty remarks about gay or races" OK?

Do whatever you want. But don't claim that gives you the right to harm others.
Haha, not so small since this place is filled with smart people!

Thank you for checking it out!
LP expectations are set by VCs.

Reality is most VCs don't generate spectacular IRR (or any IRR at all) outside of the top 5%.

Revenue-based financing to tech companies is one model that is quite interesting.
I think so as well. The ads are too clear in comparison to surrounding area. One other ad I found stuck out a little bit more than the one I posted earlier.
It was time for someone to offer a product like this!

Pls send me a quote for eudaimonia.com.ar
The hamming and hawing on this one says everything one needs to know about C++0x:

http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html#learn
These additions make compact data storage and access much simpler from our perspective. Instead of loading and parsing an entire entry, we have access to just the data we want.

Nice work, Salvatore. Seriously.
Thanks, that's very kind of you! I'll send you an email.
I know I found it pretty depressing the first time I realized that after taking fourteen or so years of math classes I'd never really made it past Advanced Arithmetic.
In business you are rarely forced to murder or whore yourself out. You are, however, constantly faced with changing your direction, compromising your vision or similar, all for some potential upside and downside. That's the nature of business, and trying to tie it to moral questions doesn't do justice to the line of reasoning one should employ.

Of course you should be moral, but most business questions aren't a question of morality, but of direction and the most appropriate path to achieve your objectives.
That gets to the crux of the matter doesn't it.

If your morals are based on principle, then no matter who the person was, your decision would remain the same.

I believe/hope that I am the type of person who would not take anothers' life no matter what the circumstances because I want to be a person of principle. If there were some situation where I did take a life, then I am not the principled person I think I am.

Take the example of Google and their motto,'Don't be Evil'. It was a nice bit of marketing, but when the value of doing business with a repressive government was high enough, they and other company's apparently had no problems working with said governments to continue the repression of it's citizens.

Now, you may say, Google has left that country. But, it was not due to the moral repugnance they felt about repressing the citizens, but the fact they were under attack by agents/citizens of said government and felt it was no longer in their interest 'financially' to stay.
You might be interested in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901782. My response in that thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901808.

A couple additional notes. If you're interested in creating things, a small CS program probably wont suit you. Those tend to be far more theoretical; what you want is a CS department with strong systems. You might also consider getting a degree in something else and minoring in CS and/or programming on the side. Finally, undergraduate research is accessible at any research focused university and I definitely recommend you participate. You'll have to knock down a ton of doors to get a position, but it's worth it.

Feel free to email me if you want to know anything else about UIUC or just have questions in general!
My main reaction to this is "So?"

It seems to me that online music sites are a form of advertisement for the artist and his shows, which is where most of the revenues come from.
I bought her a ring and then she bought me a TV and surround sound system. I get a hot tub later. Then we'll be about even. :)
Go get any reasonable SV lawyer to have him sign back his stock to the company and then cancel the shares. You can make him an advisor and give him a grant to recognize him for his early efforts.

You will need all the equity you can as you build your company and being nice now giving a big chunk to a non-participating founder will make you bitter later.

If you don't think it will, then let him keep his ~25% vested. He'll be diluted, just like you and everyone else as you raise more.
Exactly. In the United States, most people don't realize the impact the interstate highway system had on market pricing. It effectively subsidized cheap land and road travel.
I work for a school district in the US and we see this occasionally. We just wipe the computer and restore files to the Users network drive from backup.

I personally think getting into a good backup regimen is a better use for the money than paying some scumbags.
I agree, but it's a small price to pay. Maybe worth going in every month or so just for that.
Which is not UTF-16 at all, UTF-16 standard clearly says this is not so. So why do they do that?

It's actually a leftover of the earlier UCS-2 standard, before it was realized we'd need more codepoints than that, and that it was a mistake to limit to 16-bit space for codepoints in any encoding.

Software written for UCS-2 can mostly work compatibly with UTF-16, but there are some problems, encoding the 'higher' codepoints is only one of several. Another is how right-to-left scripts are handled.

http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/software-technol...

https://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#utf16-11
The HN post title is severely misleading. From the linked article:

"There was a fault in the system which, when a female passenger checked in for the flight and used or was given the title ‘Miss’, caused the system checked her in as a child. The system allocated them a child’s standard weight of 35 kg as opposed to the correct female standard weight of 69 kg."

So titling it "Root cause: adult females checked in as 'Miss'" is wrong.
The linked article does not even have the word "root".
>The vaccine may be effective against currently known strains but nothing says it is going to be effective against future ones.

It is true. Wonder if vaccine is the only way against COVID?
Flights leaving from Mississippi better watch out
LOL, I choked on my breakfast laughing at this.
Is this expressible as a JQL query?
Well if you slap your computer it only might stop working if you do it strong enough but it certainly won't express any emotion. Just an example.
Where does SMS get used to do payments? (...and how?)

SMS for 2FA is known to be a very bad idea, and some security experts have been shouting about the need to stop doing that for a while.

I also can't see any country managing to implement more restrictions on SMS without either breaking a lot of "legitimate" sources of SMS or being ineffective outside of a very narrow window (e.g. only blocking forged SMS for numbers originating within one country)
I’m a huge fan of the Cartoon History, but I think I’d have to give the prize to Maus for best nonfiction comics. Second runner up would probably be Understanding Comics.
I'm at a loss as to what to do, ideas please folks.

Edit: I wonder if he'll just make-up firing for XYZ cause. Even so, wouldn't a "signing bonus" still apply legally? I do need to pay rent and get food.
Some of my fondest memories are of when the weather was "too" something. Some of them make great stories. But I'm sure you enjoy recounting your tales about how comfortable it was in your little box. I prefer to live and experience the world.

I lived day in day out with a bicycle for years. Do you not believe me? Even now, I have a car, but I don't use it every day and I cycle if it's close enough regardless of the weather.

As for needing to carry something, you make other plans. You're on hacker news, I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out. And being late? What? Are you advocating speeding?
This isn't apologism, but at least Apple provided a way for customers to fix this and a plethora of other issues without strictly needing an AASP.

We frequently have to revive T2 Macs whose batteries won't charge, and the only way to do that in the not too distant past was to ship it off for a logic board replacement.

Telling customers they can fix things themselves means the 10% of people who want to on their own now can, but it's already negated a turnaround of 1-3 months for Apple repairs sent to facilities that are being impacted by covid-19. It's safe to suspect myriad causes.
Does anyone know if this allows you to run certain windows through a separate http proxy?
Also, I wouldn't look down my nose at Dalvik-only apps. The JIT (which, AFAIK, is the target of the litigation) gets pretty close to optimal code the longer it runs - and theoretically games run the same code a lot more than your average application

That's interesting - are you sure about that? There's a big difference between a static translation JIT and the more modern and memory-intensive progressively-optimizing JIT's that are used outside mobile. My understanding was that Dalvik's JIT was a one-time-only translater. Its difficult to find any comprehensive benchmarks of the 2.2 JIT - there are plenty of benchmarks showing the 2.1 interpreter eating CPU cycles compared to native code (think 20-to-1), and Google themselves claimed that the 2.2 JIT would mean a 2-5x improvement in CPU efficiency, but I'm still waiting for a set of comprehensive cross-platform benchmarks.
It looks like a 'remand prison' is similar to the common law 'jail'.

remand prison: Where people who are suspected of offenses and who have been detained by a court while waiting for trial are held.[from the link above]

[0] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Remand+prison
Sure they are about saving money. At least it should be.

It gives you options about power source and an electric motor in itself is much more efficient than a mechanical "explosion" based motor.

We're just not quite there yet on a good, cheap, source of power. Unfortunately cannot plug in to a solar array for a week or two!
It would seem quite a stretch to contribute this to vitamin D, though. What with the environment, amount of sunlight, culture, etc etc.
I know of the perl 6 development. I've not really seen anything else get noticed. Anything noteworthy to mention here?
> I doubt that an employer would have any luck trying to pay an engineer a $60,000 "upper class" salary.

If they've graduated from Michigan within the past three months and have no other prospects. Maybe.
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Maybe they could -- it might not be a wise move, particularly given the political tensions which obviously exist already, and it would certainly be inflammatory, but it may well be technically possible.

Github serves HTML over HTTPS, which means that if they started putting a few well-chosen words in Chinese in every HTML page served to China, the only thing the government could easily do about it would be to block github from Chinese users entirely -- which they've already tried once, and didn't keep up, presumably because cutting off github for more than a few days poses problems for their own domestic software sector.
The abstract says:

> The covid-19 virus isn't the first coronavirus to jump from animals to humans. What can we learn from previous encounters

But we don't. We're heavily to addicted to animal products. Not only on individual level (i'm vegan and it's bizarre to see how people are clinging to "their" animal product indulgence, many straight up admit it is cruel and unnecessary), but also institutionalized (subsidies for animal farms, animal feed products, gov't paid advertising campaigns, etc.).

This covid is an animal abuser's disease. It's about time (or long overdue as we can read in this article) we revisit our relations to the animal kingdom.
> Censorship

> This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (December 2018)

If this isn't irony, I don't know what is…
Anyone interested in this should also check out pcem, https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ it's emulating the hardware rather than the interfaces.
Probably. But the lifestyle where you wake up at 5 so that you write so that you then work full time job is not sustainable.
Your attitude determines your ability to go higher and higher and to achieve your goals. A positive mindset fuels courage and consistency.
I see your desire to not get political, but healthcare in the US is inherently a very political topic.

Both the democrat and republican "Media" want you to think that voters don't support universal healthcare. One would expect that from the right, but from the left? As I see, every question about healthcare reform during the democratic presidential debate had the right's frame: instead of highlighting the failures of the current system (the cost, the quality, un or underinsured people, personal tragedies due to lack of healthcare), the questions were phrased focusing on mainly the positives ("some people love their current healthcare plan").

This Fox News Voter Analysis shows a surprising number of voters support (Strongly/Somewhat favor 70%) "Changing the health care system so that any American can buy into a government-run health care plan if they want to" See: https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results/voter...

I might be too far in my progressive YouTube bubble, but there was definitely pressure to fix it. Very recently, there was tremendous pressure on the progressive members of the Democratic Party to ask for a vote on M4All in exchange to their vote for Pelosi as speaker. You can search for #ForceTheVote on different platforms. Unfortunately, none of the progressives exercised their power, and Pelosi was confirmed.
The problem is management can just abuse this by saying something like "Dispose of these chemicals safely, you have 5 minutes to be back". The manager clearly said to do it safely but 5 minutes only leaves time to dump them unsafely. How do you assign blame to the manager or even higher systems which tell people to do these things without literally saying it.
You may be right, but I wanted to share an anecdote anyway.

When I was 8 years old, my dad offered to buy me a go-kart. I think he was concerned I spent too much time indoors, and wanted surprise me with an exciting idea. I knew that my dad didn't have a lot of money, and I also knew he'd be angry if he bought the go-kart and I never used it, so I lied and said I didn't want one.

My point is that there's often more going on inside children's brains than we realize, even at a young age. The kid could be asking for that present because he thinks it will make his father happy, for example. Just something to think about.
I guess the problem is the higher ups know not to put any of this on record and the new person doesn't know that they should be recording this info so when it gets investigated its all "I never told him to do that".
Until the police follow your returning drone back to your van, jotting down the license plate numbers, and/or pulling you over later.
ZPAQ has much to give, a good recommendation. But I also found obnam awesome for de-duplicated backups as it allows cool snapshots which can be mounted via FUSE to be browsed in Nautilus or extracted via commandline tools.

Package: obnam
Version: 1.8-1
Maintainer: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6), python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), python-larch (>= 1.20131130~), python-ttystatus (>= 0.23~), python-paramiko, python-tracing (>= 0.8~), python-cliapp (>= 1.20130808~), python-fuse
Description-en: online and disk-based backup application
Obnam makes backups. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online
via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any
special software, on top of SSH.
.
* Snapshot backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot, so you
don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real
or virtual tapes.
* Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup
repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used,
even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you
don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them.
* Encrypted backups, using GnuPG.
* Push or pull operation, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on
the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull
from the client over SFTP.

Homepage: http://liw.fi/obnam/