jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Huh. So, nobody's heard of PeerTube (https://www.joinpeertube.org/), Friendica (https://friendi.ca), Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) or Diaspora (https://joindiaspora.com/). The overwhelming majority have little to no interest in building and maintaining such things. Interesting…

(It's fine to assert things, but make sure you're right first. Asserting things you don't know to be true is disingenuous, and a bad habit.)
From the article: "First, no credible scientific body has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization much less the extinction of the human species."

They say millions in the US will be displaced due to climate change in the coming decades. And yet, here we are in CA already displacing millions just from this self inflicted housing crisis.
The current meaning of RTFM is well established and it does not contain the word "fine"...
A faster horse.

People value privacy when made aware of the issue, but very few people are aware of how websites track (and manipulate) them.
Not OP, but speed is an issue for me on a daily basis doing basic things. I am a keyboard junky, and find myself at times five steps ahead of the UI, even running Microsoft Office on Microsoft Windows. From the keyboard, I can make a table, align general, turn off wrapping, delete the last row, insert a column, give it a heading, and format it as text. The UI is usually halfway done while I'm sitting waiting. Delay is jarring when I pay attention to it.
Further,

"Ming dynasty ships could have sailed to America if their skippers had wanted to. A replica of the Zheng-era junk in fact managed the China-CA trip in 1955 (though it could not get back again)...If they could do it, why couldn't Zheng?
The most popular answer is that things happened the way they did because in the 15 C Chinese emperors lost interest in sending ships overseas, while European kings (some, anyway) became very interested in it. When Yongle died in 1424 his successor's first act was to ban long-distance voyages...In 1436 the court refused repeated requests from the shipyards in Nanjing for more craftsmen, and over the next decade or two the great fleet rotted. By 1500 no emperor could have repeated Yongle's voyages even if he had wanted to.

...

By Yongle's standards the Portuguese expeditions were laughably small (involving dozens of men, not dozens of thousands) and undignified (involving rabbits, sugar, and slaves, not gifts from great princes), but with the benefit of hindsight it is tempting to see the 1430s as a - perhaps the - decisive moment in world history, the point when Western rule became possible. At just the moment that maritime technology began to turn the oceans into highways linking the whole planet, Prince Henry grasped the possibilities and Emperor Zhengtong rejected them.

...

As breathtaking as Zhengtong's error now seems, we should bear in mind that when he "decided" not to send shipwrights to Nanjing in 1436 he was only nine years old. His advisers made this choice for him, and their successors repeated it through the 15 C. According to one story, when courtiers revived the idea of Treasure Fleets in 1477, a cabal of civil servants destroyed the records of Zheng's voyages. The ringleader, Liu Daxia, we are told, explained to the minister of war,

The voyages of Zheng to the Western Ocean wasted millions in money and grain,
and moreover the people who met their deaths may be counted in the tens of thousands...
This was merely an action of bad government of which ministers should severely disapprove.
Even if the old archives were still preserved they should be destroyed.

Grasping the point -- that Liu had deliberately "lost" the documents -- the minster rose from his chair. "Your hidden virtue, sir, " he exclaimed, "is not small. Surely this seat will soon be yours!"
>One of the first things our current government did was to pass a law requiring that all government-funded construction must be performed by workers belonging to unions which donated to the governing party's last election campaign

It's true that (a) workers must join a union when working on gov't projects and (b) The governing NDP is the "pro-union" party and thus, has received millions of donations from said unions.

The last part of what you wrote is worded poorly IMHO. Read literally, it seems to imply that donating to the party's campaign is part of the law itself. Which it isn't.

I agree, the effect is pretty much the same (due to (a) and (b) above) but I think it's important to clarify that point.
> Ended up in a dumpster

Bummer. Put it on the side of the road and someone would have LOVED to take it.
Thanks, sounds useful.

I guess what I'm also looking for is some sort of JVM/Java intermediate-to-expert level intro ... so far the relevant results have been jvm-performance-related material.
That's really cool, I did not know about that. You were talking about PaaS and Heroku, which I don't think is the same as forking an OS project and owning it yourself, which is fine for what I was talking about. I don't think it's difficult to name companies for whom Heroku is not appropriate. Regardless, it's all about where you draw the line, gradations not black and white.

I still stick to my main point: your organization gets a massive benefit by all using the same toolset. If you are using Cloud Foundry, I'd still suggest the whole company stick with one language, one deployment infrastructure etc.

To be clear, if you're google I'm not suggesting the entire company all be forced to use one language or something. In that case your company is likely working on products that are different enough that it makes sense to do away with some global optimization. Some judgment is obviously required. But if you're in the sub-500 range (which the vast majority are) it makes a lot of sense to really optimize globally with your toolset, even if deployment infrastructure is relatively easy to setup.

PS I love that you are using the phrase Just Works - the company I work for is called Justworks :)
The GFW is advanced enough to do automated blocking based on content. People could keep forking and those projects would keep getting blocked automatically.

Yes you could change wording up, but then you run the risk of either obfuscating it too much that users of the program don't how to find it, or the government updating filters to block the changes content also.

Groups with real desire to circumvent the GFW have other ways to do it. I've been use ssh tunnelling for almost 15 years without major issues.
The cause of high housing prices are low supply and high demand. Housing supply is growing at a slower rate than demand. There are two ways to solve this:

1) build a ton of housing to catch up with demand

2) shrink your local economy to decrease demand

If a lawmaker isn’t working on one of these two options, they do not actually support a platform of low housing prices.

Airbnb is only a small slice of housing demand. It’s an ugly slice, which makes the company a convenient punching bag for politicians who want to act like they are trying to make housing affordable. But the economy in high-demand cities will keep growing regardless of whether you kill Airbnb.
I'm having trouble seeing what the author's definition of freedom is. Financial "security" is one definition I hear people use, and he brings up. But that can be gone in a moment or you can die and it doesn't matter, as his father did.

Freedom from what? Freedom to do what? I think that has to be defined first.

The freest people I have met are those who don't worry about what they can't control, work hard at what they can, and are content with the ups and downs of life. Money seems, to me, to be uncorrelated-- at least above a minimum threshold.
Not-quite-on-topic fact: the military has contingency plans for everything, including a Canadian invasion of the United States. The plans are drawn up, periodically reviewed, and constantly wargamed. By and large they mean nothing, but some day some of them may end up useful.

Fun fact: This was my dad's job in the Marine Corps for awhile. He's still bitter about the invasion of Grenada, since he's convinced it would have gone much more easily if they followed the contingency plan he drew up rather than handling it the way they did.
They also want me to "upgrade" to a browser other than Chrome in order to view their all-Flash site.
"but it seems foolish to toss money at projects which require large-scale construction and worker training"

I understand your argument to not abandon the poppies, but do you really think "foolish" is the right word to describe pursuing vast amounts of minerals that are in high demand? It's literally digging money out of the ground. Wouldn't the large-scale construction and worker training be funded by the profits from the minerals?
How bad are dead pixels, though, at >300 dpi?
Point well taken on the blogpost leaving some important info out — sorry about that. Having been involved in the conversation, I can guarantee you that we came to this conclusion primarily through an analysis of the numbers (both cost & effort). I’ll see what we can do about publishing them.
You should look at DocumentCloud and see if it would be helpful for hosting and managing the documents you're finding.

http://www.documentcloud.org/home

https://github.com/documentcloud

It might be ideal for your needs. The project uses Tesseract‘s OCR to read documents and OpenCalais to pull data from them, including key people, places, and dates.
> That’s kind of the problem, isn’t it?

But those aren't the same thing. Me being able to install what I want on my phone doesn't give me the ability to install it on other people's phones.

I currently have the ability to install apps on my phone from the app store, but I can't make that decision for someone else's phone. So why would it be different for software that doesn't come from the app store?
Seems to be the page:

http://lizardstresser.su/
Glad to see he made it out of Sweden in time and that this time his millions didn't go for a wife that divorced him just for the money.
If the analogy is accurate, then the pre-addressed envelope that comes with your bill already has the unique address on it, so you don't have to do anything special. What's the problem?
That may be true, but I think our current conception of free will necessitates some sort of nondeterministic mechanism. Our brains, being physical systems, appear to be entirely deterministic.
> The reason I've kept it is because I use Facebook Messenger to talk to some people, and because a lot of events use Facebook.

The events part is unfortunate, but just in case you didn't know you can deactivate your Facebook account and still retain access to Messenger.

If you go through the process to deactivate your Facebook account, the last question in the process is "do you want to keep messenger".
Same with groups, no?
* Tons of local stores are closed.

* Many people can't/won't visit the stores that are open due to COVID-19.

* Some people are stocking up on some additional goods due to COVID-19 like bleach/masks/sanitizer.

It's pretty obvious how each one of those factors increases the demand for Amazon deliveries.
Amazon provides perfectly good blue collar jobs.

That woke academics see physical labor as hell says a lot about them, and about the disconnect between these entirely separate communities.
Hello America

Welcome to learning that maybe you should set aside the world police (literal with military and figuratively with your gospel of exceptionalism) thing once in a while and pay attention in more than just hipster nihilist tourist kind of way.
> has already had a major security vulnerability.

Oh no!! Unlike any other technology on earth that is actually used by non-trivial amounts of people?

> “Does Zoom sell Personal Data?” the policy says, “Depends what you mean by ‘sell.’”

That makes it sound like something malefic is happening. What privacy policy says is that they use Google tools (e.g. Google analytics, also used for delivering ads), and they put your data in Google analytics. This is however _their data_, while indeed "shared with Google" it doesn't mean Google is using it in any way, other than aggregate ("Across all our customers, <blah blah blah>") and even that, most likely only for internal statistics.

I for one definitely don't see that as "selling data", I'd agree with Zoom here.
Ah finally someone who understands basic economics. This is exactly right btw
Multi armed bandit methods work best with immediate success-fail metrics. This one has time delays.

An example of how machine learning goes wrong is if a treatment slows down the progression but increases the death rate. Given exponential ramp up in the incoming cases, it will look good until the final horrifying numbers are in. You need to slice and dice the numbers by cohort to detect/react to this.
There's a great collection of topographic maps available here (not my website): https://dzjow.com/2012/04/12/free-online-topographic-maps-fo...
I'm an idiot. I had this conversation after realizing that I posted the article with a bad subject.

me: i sux, i shoulda tailored the HN submission to HN. in fact, that’s what the article is about!

Brian: lulz. meta-fail
Cool. Though your not a hacker and not an MBA or a designer. Is that your pitch?

I'm looking for co-founders in NorCal area too. Right now, my hackers = eLance (i.e. hey, I love the lean start-up method too!)
If some of the things the SEC is considering come to pass, that could be very successful. To do it today, you'd probably have to set it up like a mutual fund (IANAL).
If so then Flatland was a story not so much of mathematics, but of evolution.
The only problem is that you must touch the grimy touchscreen terminal to give or deny a gratuity. The same touchscreen terminal that the last 500 people touched, and nobody has yet cleaned.
> why do we need to have just Facebook or just Twitter or just Youtube?

We don't, but that's the way network effects work. They create a high barrier to entry, with no obvious remedy short of dictating which social networks people can use.
I suspect you are younger than me, if you think the climate has always been like this in the USA.
ITT people who have never used a wrench.
Finally. After so long.
I am a non-US freelancer web designer and developer.

Personally, for $1000 I would provide a custom design and develop a database-driven website (using HTML/CSS/Javacript/PHP/MySQL) with a decent backend. This means you can get almost any kind of website that does not involve advanced things like automatic personalization based on user's activities (except maybe basic recommendations). So you could start a website like HN or Reddit (but not Digg which produces a different homepage for each user based on their preferences).

$1000 is not much for a skilled developer in any country, but its worth more to someone from outside US.

About the process of outsourcing, I would recommend not going with anyone using sites like rentacoder or odesk. Instead ask for references from people you know (offline or online), a lot of people on HN have worked with a freelancer, and would probably be able to suggest someone more reliable.

If all else fails, find someone on the HN Contractors spreadsheet.

PS. Since I am a designer/developer myself, you can email me at alexwyser@gmail.com if you need any help.
Whenever possible, I just enter a randomly generated password for those ridiculous "security question" fields. Isn't "your first job" or "your hometown" easily discoverable via my Facebook profile?
I'm not sure this is what you want to hear, but you might as well give up on Java on the client. No one cares anymore.

The only big company shipping client-side Java software applications is IBM, with Eclipse and their other Eclipse-based products.

Oracle quite plainly doesn't care, and without significant investment it's just not worth the pain anymore.

I'm a Java developer, and I've recently been looking into developing a cross platform client app. Java just isn't a serious player - the reasons why I'm looking a client app (basically hardware access) are exactly the areas Java is spectacularly weak in.

(I'm excluding Android from this, because that is a special case)
One of the key lessons in finance is that you can't make money doing what everyone else is doing. Every known technique is being applied a lot and can rarely bring you abnormal returns.

I suggest reading through the links other commenters posted and trying to think of ideas that you never saw mentioned. Brainstorm wild ideas - for example, can you adapt a lossy compression algorithm to predict the stock market?
Agreed, not to mention that the real bread and butter of our nations military and intelligence networks are completely separate from what we know as the internet.

There is a huge difference between taking, say, whitehouse.gov or army.mil down verse our real command and control networks--which are probably next to impossible to take down considering there are layers upon layers of backup communication systems.

The idea of a "cyber-attack" being used as a first salvo in an act of war against the United States by any nation-state is pretty ludicrous, as it would minimally (if at all) affect our ability to destroy whoever was dumb enough to try it.
My VbV password here in Sweden can contain letters, numbers and most special characters without complaint.
This is kind of a trick question because they are all Turing Complete, but so is Assembly. The best way to interpret your question, then, is not “what is possible” but rather “what is simple to express correctly” and “what is simple to get correct eventually”. Those are questions about how tricky it is to get something to compile in the language and which tools exist to help determine whether a compiled program does what’s expected and does not do what’s not expected.
In the U.S. average inflation over the last century has been 3.2%, while the average interest rate of 10 year treasuries has been 4.9%, so you'd been able to grow your fortunes 5.4 times in real dollars, at a rate of 1.7% per year. That rate is smaller than the average rate of GDP growth, however.

So, after investing your money for a century, you'd be a lot richer than in 1915, but you'd own a smaller slice of the pie.
Some .NET devs tend to separate WPF from the XAML stack.

Personally I never though of myself as having WPF skills, rather XAML stack skills.

All the concepts, XAML, bindings, MVVM, ... are applicable to WPF, Silverlight and Metro, even if the APIs are a little different.
I think this only reinforces my point: this is a ridiculous default. But that is news to me :)
The autopilot on modern aircraft is more than capable of landing the plane. I have a friend who flies for Air Canada who tells me that Air Canada requires pilots to be in manual control of the aircraft from takeoff to 500 feet, but after that the pilot can put the plane in autopilot and not touch anything until they're on the ground if she wants to. The plane will even apply breaking thrust after touchdown and bring the plane to a stop.

At this point, pilots are really there to take care of unusual situations that the computer can't (which do happen from time to time.)
I have the Lenovo X240 and it has been awesome. Super light weight and amazing battery life, I can use it almost 2 days at school without having to charge it.
Overriding the override ;].
But yeah, it's kind of a race-condition.
Not sure, how about some majority vote, enough members on the crew there to vote?
You did claim they could write secure software, at least that's what you wrote.

If that's not what you meant, then I understand.
The way I see it there's two possibilities here, and really these are possibilities on a person by person basis, but we're mostly concerned about the majority of your coworkers/teammates:

1) Your coworkers really are douchebags. In which case, you should find another job. Working with douchebags is never worth it.

2) Your coworkers are OK people (I think it's safe to assume they're not nice), but afflicted with all too common terrible tech industry inter-personal skills. Being more experienced and knowledgeable than you, they recognized your over confidence right away and it turned them off of wanting to be too friendly with you. They assumed you are the douchebag, not entirely wrongly.

The second case might be fixable, if you talk to them honestly. Ask for some advice or help. I wouldn't just come to them teary eyed with your heart on your sleeve, but try being friendly. Most people will take it as a compliment if you ask them for help.

Of course if they react badly to your inquiry, then yeah, they really are awful turds and you should find a new job. This time try to find one with a better environment.
The problem is that you want to do everything in one line. The proper way to do this would be to save things like H.dot(beta) - r in a separate variable and compute it just once.

Moreover, if it's hidden in a library then why does the user care if it's ugly? It's the library designer's job to test it and make sure it's right.
Stallman's terminology is "hoarding your code," btw.
Don't forget that Google personalizes your search rankings. Not everyone will see the same results you see.
I have an SP4 as well and enjoyed the touchpad on it. I don't think it is as good as the macbook one, but the surface makes up for this with the touch screen. I would often mix it up between screen and touchpad touches to navigate and I miss it now I am using a macbook.
I think the information they get from your ID isn't supposed to be used other than to set an "age verified" bit on your profile.
Why the electric chair? My father was accidentally electrocuted (and fortunately survived). He says that he felt nothing.
Which device do you have that gives xml output?
You don't have to do that anyway. Just set your feed to "latest" and there's no algorithm besides "when did this appear on the timeline of someone you follow?"
I saw a documentary on the subject where that was acknowledged in this particular case, the suffering being an important factor.

I can't remember the documentary title, but the example was given of humane, even pleasurable, similar method to use instead of injection etc and it was dismissed angrily by pro campaigners for those honest and believable reasons.

That's not to say it's a majority opinion - so I agree with your objection to that generalisation, but it's definitely a reaction of some who are pro-death penalty.
I love it. This is a great way of boycotting the path we're on to a future controlled by a few megacorps. It's also just a great way to build awareness of how pervasive the reach of these companies is. However, I can imagine adoption will be an issue since getting people to install a browser extension is a big hurdle.
What do you mean income from some casinos? Are casinos downloading videos, or what does that traffic source look like?
heh. Your Faraday cage/hat might be leaking.
If this thing can be made to do Chinese or Japanese... even if it does so haltingly, with mistakes...

Raise the price. For the love of god. Raise the price. This is much, much more valuable than five bucks. There have been times in life where I'd gladly have paid a dollar per minute for this. And I'm a cheapskate.
Honestly, up-voting articles on HN is my bookmarking service. My work bookmarks stay on my work computer and my home ones stay at home. HN posts are really the only thing I reference from both places sometimes.
Yeah that wasn't the point I was making - of course innovation rarely comes from big companies.

My observation was just if you are a $600m/year web serving infrastructure company than a core competency should be monitoring. And thus if a two year old scrappy startup can build out better monitoring, what on earth have RackSpace been building and relying on for the past 12 years?

On the competitive intelligence I think it's insanely useful for RackSpace. Down to shit like being able to monitor up-stream connectivity and routing of other providers and then being able to cross-sell their own proposition knowing the weak points of the current 3rd party solution.
I see two guys on bad chairs. What is up with that?