jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On a budget, and for people trying to limit their saturated fat, cheese works best as a flavor-enhancer rather than a major source of nutrients. IE don't bother with pizza or macaroni & cheese dinners, but sprinkling some parmesan on your meal can make it taste a lot better without really adding a calories or costing that much. (If your goal is ridiculously low, like $1.70/day, it's probably still too expensive, but since the upper average is probably closer to $15-30/day there's plenty of wiggle room)
Wait. Is it really an endless loop, or just a queue that is getting filled up faster than it empties resulting in a more DOS-style problem? Because it sounds much more like the second case, in which case not only does it not brick the phone, but it isn't even a bug...
Do you mean that their server IPs got blacklisted? Or did the URL shortener domain just get added to a URL blacklist?
that's surprisingly brilliant (and ranks up there in the "why didn't I think of that it's so obvious (but I didn't)" hierarchy of things that include the wheel)!
Though interestingly, he doesn't really mention 301 redirects. Is the point that URLs shouldn't change, or that changing URLs shouldn't break the web (or a little of both)?

Considering that no URL shortener I know of will actually let you change the underlying URL it points to, unless the hosting service decides to change what the underlying URL actually points to (tsk tsk), the shortener is pretty much a canonical pointer to that data, despite the fact that the hash doesn't often give much information about the underlying data.

Also: see http://www.301works.org
If story points were to be hidden that would devoid HN of any feedback whatsoever. I already pretty much stopped voting on comments. Not to mention that it would simply make HN way more useless.

I don't think groupthink on HN can be solved by hiding point scores – there is only so much diversity you can have when you gather similarly minded people together.
I am not an investor nor economist, I had a course on technical analysis of stock markets so I have some understanding. To me it seems like a very strange idea to put safety fund into your own stock. If things go bad your stock will be dropping. Sane thing to do if you want to save that value is to buy government bonds or other securities not your own stock.
Around 15% require hospitalization. What do you think happens if they can't get it? My assumption is they die. Decimation (1/10 die) is accurate, if not an underestimation.

Edit: you also have to take the infection rate into account. Also indirect deaths. My point stands
+1 for Reactable.
There is a video presentation on the topic from the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCkyPc72XNQ#t=97
OK - I buy that.

Why would it be then that they push the "apps" part of it? Your comment suggests that for consumers and developers alike it is a PR stunt (a stunt that still generates revenue). But do you think Job intuitively knows that the future is not in apps as they exist today? But probably some locally-run hybrid?

The question isn't "what technology" because that always changes. I think the question is "how will we distribute it?"
I've found Sumatra to render extremely slowly when zoomed in past 100%, particularly on PDFs with high-res images and/or vector images. Are the other non-Adobe readers better at this?
AFAIK, adult websites are already required by law to put a warning.

If they're based in the US, maybe, but there is more to the Internet than just the US.

(I'm not sure this is an actual law, though. My guess is that it's a defensive measure against "won't someone PLEASE think of the children" and the resulting legislation. Self-regulation and self-preservation.)
They're basically starting from scratch with their next iteration, so they're very much behind the iPhone/android.

Their market share is as high as it is only because they've been on the market for so long with previous versions. I believe almost everything is getting scrapped, though, which really decreases the advantage of having such a large user ecosystem.
"If you're a public health official, you probably care about the absolute number of infections, not the number per sexual encounter"

Perhaps they made the assumption that the total number of sexual encounters over the entire population is roughly constant. With this assumption the distinction would not matter.
Two questions come to mind:

1. It would be pretty simple to write a computer simulation to test this, no? Would anyone care to do so?

2. I don't know enough about the AIDS situation in Africa to say whether it is empirical evidence for or against this paper. Is anyone else more familiar with this?
I'm a fan of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (http://learnyouahaskell.com/). It's not quite done (a couple of advanced topics are absent at the moment) but it's a good introduction to the language, and is somewhat less dry to read than your average programming language book.
The preview version's Release Notes say to run the uninstaller first, but perhaps it's not necessary.
It's a pretty good book too (I enjoyed all of Landsman's books).
For me Haskell and Prolog were both like that.
Looks fairly broken to me.
Either Stripe itself or something like Stripe needs to open in Korea. Payments are a major pain here. :(
> The inefficiency stems from the complexity of the law.

Not just that, though -- it also comes from the inherent inefficiencies in trying to recover exactly what happened from any given situation in which the question of whether a crime was committed.

We could start recording everything that happens, but... that's also a potentially terrifying possibility.
Author here, in case anyone had questions!
In my view a vital aspect of the trial is to provide necessary public oversight of the police and courts.

I think that a partial measure towards reforming plea bargains would be to require the police to present their evidence for the court to review before entry of a plea. This creates a public record that somebody could investigate in the future. There could also be a provision that if exculptatory evidence is revealed in the future, the plea can be rescinded.
99.9%+ of all papers published by Math professors are incomprehensible to all but a few experts.

You know all those famous problems that were solved recently? How do you know they were actually solved? Maybe the Math professors are just pretending to check each others' proofs, playing a gentleman's game, and they don't want to admit that these achievements were wrong?

How do you know? Do you really want to spend 5-10 years learning enough to check one of these proofs?

If it's a computer-generated proof, and people checked the source code but can't read the proof (because it's terabytes of details), is that a valid proof? It isn't really leading to any greater understanding.
Replies to comments solve the "I want to know what others think" problem. I agree with the previous commenter: having the comment ratings hidden was unusual at first but I definitely do acknowledge that I used to mentally pre-judge a comment based purely on others' responses to it, despite having dealt multiple times with comments that I disagreed with which had higher upvote counts than the ones I felt were better answers.
someone is buying everything they can at 1.95 right now
October 6, 2009: In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
These days ideally those dependencies would ship a wheel which solves the problem.

If they don't you are expected to have a working C/C++ compiler set up which is definitely not ideal. At least on linux it's often as simple as installing a build-essentials package. No clue what that'd be like on other OSes since I don't use them.
Can you cite an econ paper with that 2% claim? Economists would most certainly not have missed such a massive productivity factor.

I'm guessing it's not true, nor anywhere near true, for such a tiny asset.
The reasoning, as I understand it: if we taxed rich people too much, it would discourage other people from wanting to be rich, which is bad for the economy.
Blood pressure is normal; Slightly lower than before. Heart rate is up a bit - from about 60 to about 67 resting heart rate - BUT the two years I have been prescribed lisdexamfetamine have brought exceptionally and unusually stressful personal events and I've unfortunately not been able to exercise as much as before. The medicine has certainly helped us cope, however!
I attempted to write something for more advanced audience. Not sure if it's a successful attempt though...

https://idea.popcount.org/2019-11-06-creating-sockets/

https://idea.popcount.org/2019-12-06-addressing/
The news they show and the biases they display are definitely left-of-center, but I would say that they're more neoliberal than far-left. They were pretty biased against Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primaries, yet still bash Trump constantly. They seem to focus much more on social issues like race and gender than economics and actual flows of power.
You do realize that single digit percent ownership doesn't give them any access or control, right?
Your question is insufficiently specific ... it could mean nearly anything. You need to be clearer about what equipment you have, and what you're trying to accomplish.

As it stands, I don't think anyone can answer except it a completely generic way:

Almost every system has libraries to help, but it depends on what you're running on, what you're running over, and what you're trying to do.
In that case building a container image and testing it before deployment seems to be the easiest solution, certainly not ideal.

Otherwise, I have no idea how to handle cross language dependencies well. My guess would be that operating system package managers ought to handle it, but I never tried to work with something like Debian repositories. Judging by what I've heard from other people it's a lot of pain.
Love it, any chance for a native implementation?
Not clear. Israel getting along with the small rich Arab states probably reflects a shared interest in making money.
Yeah there's going to be tradeoffs either way, the question is how often they come up in the situations the language is designed to target (versus random examples designed to showcase some obscure corner of PLT)... In this case for TS you might craft your own mappings that work like AllButXOptional<Person, 'age'>, or similar. So it's controlled externally versus internally, which who knows if thats better or not. One benefit of the TS approach is that it's a bit more composable... you can imagine things like OptionalIfRequiredInOther<ComplexPerson, SimplePerson>.
Where are you pumping the heat from?
How is it actually winning, I work in the industry I don't see Blender used but actually the same old "proprietary" tools ( Max ect ... )
> This is like the Post Office deciding not to deliver mail.

Twitter isn’t a government corporation with a legally-mandatory monopoly, so, no, its more like me choosing not to pass on something I got from a politician a disagree with.
Your statistic of:

> 93% of Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceful

Does not contradict jimbob45's point that "BLM [...] incited a great deal of violence this summer"

Going by the numbers in your URL, 7750 demonstations of which 7% violent = 542 violent demonstrations.
Indeed, their hate speech filter is very selective. I've reported threats against jews and they just say it's not a violation. Then advise me to block the content on my own.
In addition to the 1954 gallery shooting there was the document door shooting where someone killed two capitol police officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_Capitol_sho...
In my opinion (and I'm biased as I work on GKE Autopilot), GKE is viable for a 1 developer project, especially with Autopilot mode (I have my own hobby projects deployed on GKE).

If you were self-hosting k8s, then I'd agree with you.
Dropbox!
Do you like others forcing their morals onto you? Assume they feel the same. Treat people as you'd like to be treated. BAM - Golden ruled!

You could tell me how / why I am wrong. I'd appreciate it.
Most of the talk is superficial talk about stuff that doesn't matter. They're telling you because you're listening. They haven't got to the deep stuff yet, perhaps they're not invested in you(?) Why do they enjoy fishing? Perhaps they like the solitude, why? Maybe it's the same reason you enjoy it. Maybe they don't like people either. Why is that? Perhaps it's the same reason as you. Perhaps there is a deeper underlying topic to discuss than that fish they caught that's slightly different than the other person's fish. You're confusing superficial small talk with meaningful conversation. Maybe you're not digging because you don't care and that's fair enough. The bigger question is why don't you care? Is there nothing more to that person than meets the eye? Or do you just not care about them enough to dig past the superficial small talk to the real person underneath?

What is it you prefer to think about rather than reach out and make a meaningful connection with others?
Any specific ones from that list that you recommend?
Yes, that what I thought too - manga is the answer, at least for some time. They have lots of different stuff for all ages, except of course there is also a huge amount of similar mainstream "adult" stuff.
It seems to me that your definition of 'normal people' makes bankers happy, as normal people then pay a lot of money in interest.
> Number of people who died

Zero

> Number of children who get thyroid cancer

Forty so far.

These are just what I could find quickly. Couldn't quickly find anything on Deepwater Horizon.
It's totally normal for a CFO to get $20 million in stock, but shocking news when an engineer gets $3.5 million. How much longer will that last?
First of all, he was playing tournaments with a buyin of $1 maximum- likely less. So he can get away with playing a very simple strategy.

He was certainly not making standard raises, I imagine he was playing a "push-fold" strategy from the start, meaning he either went all-in or folded on his initial turn to act. His range for this strategy probably included TT, JJ, QQ, KK, AA, AK, AQ and maybe a few more hands later on in the tournaments.
It's worth noting that since this article was published (2008) the TSA has begun scanning boarding passes at the checkpoint (at least at some airports) and confirming the name that appears on their screen is also the name on the boarding pass and the ID. The 2D barcode on the pass is encrypted to prevent the Photoshop trickery.

But, it's only taken them years to even attempt to plug this gap. Schneier wrote about the issue in 2003[1] and a kid got his house raided by the FBI in 2006[2] for making a fake boarding pass generator. I wonder why they didn't raid Adobe's headquarters, I hear they produce a wonderful tool for forgery too...

[1]http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0308.html#6

[2]http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/28/fbi_returns_to_fake_.ht...
The feed is more or less done.

http://static.scripting.com/hackernews/rss.xml

Each item points to the article being linked to from the HN entry. The <comments> link points to the HN discussion page.

The feed is realtime, it has a functional <cloud> element, and the notification server works (at least for now, knock wood, praise Murphy).

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/soapMeetsRss.html

I am following it in http://daveriver.scripting.com/. It's a lot of news, but I like having it there. You're welcome to poll it, but please no more often than once a minute. It only updates at most once a minute, so there's no point in polling more frequently.
Agree, they are chasing/riding the "momentum" wave. But as you said, Google has stability. That includes structure, process, bureaucracy. A big piece to these departures is - "Employees are tired of that bureaucracy."
If trains use 90% less energy, then why aren't they 90% cheaper? I mean the cost to run a train is almost entirely fuel, and the same is true for an airplane. (There is some staff, but it's about the same for both.)

So without even reading the study I'm already sure it's wrong.

And I found it - they assumed a load factor of 100% for trains, but 72% for airplanes. When actually in the real world airplanes are pretty full and trains are not - but they run them anyway. And trains will probably use more fuel if they were full, so their entire study is worthless.

(They do it a lot in the study - they use realistic or worse case number for planes and cars, but best case numbers for trains. And explain it by saying "This is how we can make the rail system better.")

Oh, and BTW the study they rely on doesn't say 90% anywhere. They just pulled that number out of thin air.
Would you have said the same thing on the Capitol steps on Wednesday?
It's constantly tested in the wild. Every time your computer does an NTP update and has to jump ahead one second or more, you've just tested it.
Windows 3.1 removed real mode support thus breaking compatibility with Windows 2 and Windows 1 apps.

That's just not true. Windows 3.1 removed real-mode support in Windows itself -- in other words, the last version you can run on a 8086 CPU is Windows 3.0.

But pre-3.0 16-bit Windows apps certainly didn't stop working.

Also, present-day x86 CPUs definitely can run real-mode software using virtual 8086 mode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_8086_mode

This is the same mode that Windows 3.x used to run multiple real-mode DOS apps simultaneously on a 386 processor.
Wait. Am I to believe there's no incentive to virtue signal?
This is "Grey's law", mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
My statement was not correct, you are right. But every user/role in postgres has by default the rights to create objects in the public schema and to connect to every database [1]. The only way to remove this is to remove the rights on the public role affecting every other user. In this case the mysql concept is better as every new user has by default absolutely no rights.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/database/managing-postgresql...
I'm the author of the article. Please keep in mind that I did not want to give any investment advice or any other tips that might sound ponzi scheme.

My original aim was to educate newbies to understand what Bitcoin is without digging into technical details.
The "twice as much as even Europeans" is even more deceptive as there's a difference of at least a factor of 2 between countries in Europe. For instance, Switzerland's consumption of carbon per capita is almost 3 times that of Bulgaria or Portugal, while Luxembourg is apparently over twice as high as the US (not sure why?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
In most countries untried it is illegal... But if you crack open the power supply and remove the "Y" capacitor (usually the only bright blue component in there), these shocks won't happen anymore.

The downside is your MacBook might start giving out radio frequency interference...
I've used EF Core in production for years, and seen it used in production by numerous teams, and it's been at least at stable as EF6 was, while being a lot more performant.

You are correct that you don't get a VS designer, but I've personally always favoured a code-first approach anyway, so this never affected me.

> .NET Core is the Python 3 of .NET world.

I see where you are coming from, but I don't think I agree. There is still a large segment of Python 2 devs, and for many, there isn't a particularly compelling reason to move to Python 3. Dotnet Core is different, in that there are very compelling reasons to move: cross-platform (massively important in our new cloudy world), performance, and of course ongoing support. There are for sure a small hardcore of sad dotnet devs stuck on Framework because of some legacy libraries, but I reckon the majority made the move to Core a long time ago.
Negative addresses? Anathema!
The official NoScript site [1] downloads via the Mozilla Add-ons page [2], so its download count is probably accurate: 67,616,402

NoScript does not publish their individual add-on usage statistics, but the global download/usage ratio can be calculated from the statistics on the Firefox Add-on home page [3]:

1,962,617,946 add-ons downloaded
157,090,095 add-ons in use

About 8% of downloaded add-ons are still in use. Assuming NoScript's usage ratio is comparable to the average, approximately 5.4 million installations of FireFox are running NoScript. Let's ignore the fact that NoScript's usage ratio is probably much lower than the average, due to the fact that it breaks most web pages.

I'd wager that the average NoScript user has at least two machines, so the total number of NoScript users is probably less than 2.7 million.

There are over 230 million internet users in the USA [4]

Even if 100% of NoScript users were Americans, they form 1% or less of the general population. If you, like me, believe that I have been generous to NoScript here, it is likely that no script users are no more numerous than 1 in 1,000.

Even if the user is using NoScript, they can whitelist your site. You can probably add <noscript>WARNING: THIS SITE IS BUSTED WITHOUT JS</noscript> to the top of your page and call it a day. If you are feeling generous, redirect no-script users to the mobile version of your site and tell them why.

tldr: Assume that human user agents have Javascript.

[1] http://noscript.net/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

[4] http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_us...

EDIT: Converted to blog post -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406233
You do make a salient point here. People have used computing devices for years, but their usability has sucked for anyone who isn't into computers. Most people loathe their computers, or at least barely tolerate them. They are at best a means to an end (work, web surfing, etc). Only Apple has succeeded in making computing products that people actually like and think are 'cool'.

There's a really big disconnect between the HN userbase and most users. While we take up arms against Apple's closed platforms (perhaps rightfully so), Apple is raking in more cash than ever.

That said, I think the parent is underestimating Android. While usability isn't Google's strong suit, there's enough momentum behind the platform that I think it will eventually be on par, usability wise, with iPhone. And if not, well, there's still a pretty big market for us hackers who want a platform that's extensible.
It seems like the eventual trajectory of such censorship is the creation of a completely separate Internet that is China-only. With more and more sites from around the world being blocked, the demands aren't going away, and so parallel censorship-friendly sites go up inside The Great Firewall. I wonder if one day, China will get sick of maintaining the Firewall and just turn off connections to the rest of the world.
I think that is an actual alarm tone that's already on the phone. Personally, I've found it's one of the few that are tolerable as a wake-up alarm.
I have exactly the same existential cringe. :(
Not trying to be contentious here. I'm just not sure that the FTC has staked out a clear position on this issue, yet. They seem to be inviting scrutiny.

For example on page 5, the FTC asks the question,

"Is a “wait-and-see” approach preferable at this time, when experimentation to find new revenue sources is ongoing and the likely effects of some proposals may be difficult to gauge?"