jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wish Rocket Internet read this article when they decided to switch to Phalcon framework because it's 10% faster than PHP but since it's C-extension there is no possibility of debugging, smaller ecosystem of plugins and libraries plus slower learnign curve. But!!!! Well, it's 10% faster so our response times are not 100ms but 90 and real user can appreciate that!
Do you apply this rule evenly? Do you think that some topics are more trouble than they are worth?

Some example topics being US/China geopolitics or the story about "men clamming up" around women.

Fruitful discussion can be made in both of these but it very often is not.
yah, i think my underlying point is that it's certainly worth using this opportunity to further our understanding of the body and its immune system vs. getting infatuated with the virus itself, because the former is likely much more transferable knowledge than the latter.

in general, we have trouble modulating our attention and resource allocation around unique events like this, and it behooves us to zoom out and put it in the proper context.
If anything, Threema is the best alternative.
I would expect most high-end servers in data centers to sit idle most of the time? Do you know of any data on this?
They could also comply with the law, especially important laws like the Fourth Amendment. That's another option they have.

edit: it's occurred to me there's a huge flaw in this claim:

Preventing the cowardly, panicked response
isn't the NSA's department.

The NSA has lied about the effectiveness of its mass data collection, claiming that it foiled terrorist plots. The claims don't actually hold up under investigation.

But in the process of exaggerating the effectiveness of this particular alleged solution to terrorist danger, they also exaggerated the pervasiveness of that danger, which probably did make the panicked, cowardly response in question both more panicked and more cowardly.
Very few people on the internet that I dislike less than a domain squatter....also, do people really have nothing better to do with their time?
I can't understand how they made this conclusion in the article "This means that traditional utilities have turned instead to much more climate-damaging coal for generation." Also cannot find references for the claim "Germans have ended up emitting more carbon dioxide as a result of the extra coal"
Highly recommend "@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex" [1] by Shane Harris which goes into fascinating detail on how the "US is gearing up for cyberwar"

[1] http://www.amazon.com/War-The-Rise-Military-Internet-Complex...
A lot of nice information in the article. I think people can be more creative than they realize if they (1) legitimize associative thinking (this is what I translate "being uninhibited" to mean) and (2) insist that they have a basic capacity for being creative. Creativity often does not come immediately when you want it, so (IMO) when it does not, you have to insist you still have the capacity rather than treat that as a failure and give up.
How is a 3x improvement over LZMA not impressive?
Heavy EC2 user here. This doesn't solve your problems, if you want to do this right, setup an EC2 Auto Scaling group and build an image each time you need to change your server. That is the proven way most large deployments work, including Netflix.
Out of curiosity: why is it hard for compilers to keep track of this automatically? At least, my gut feeling says that if it had been easy to do, this would be a solved design problem in newly developed languages by now - at least the statically compiled ones like Nim.
Italy and the rest of Europe will be 4 weeks into their quarantine in 2 weeks. If we see results over the next week or two then the US markets will skyrocket because it means it will work here too.
There's no real control variable, though, so it's hard to tell how well he really did. But, of course, the simulation is something like the real thing and is better than no preparation at all.
Hmm, I agree, the answer to the question posed varies a lot between different fields. That's another aspect of these articles that I don't like: they talk about "problems with science" as a whole as if it were a monolith.
Call me a doomer but if the demand for Honey Boo Boo, Keurig Cups, and Tuxedoes for Dogs died off I wouldn't be upset, economic devastation be damned.

Climate Change says tick tock tick tock
Maybe a solution would be to credit good behavior? Transit hardly makes much money on fares anyway.
I can see how the hype not matching up with reality leads to cynicism. At the same time, I believe cynicism is worth fighting because we have 50 or more years ahead of us while we are alive to make progress, and just because the last 30 years of hypercapitalism has led to a lot of pain doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and despair.
Absolutely serious.
A link to where it found the image and / or a way to view a larger version of the source would be great. My search shows a couple of things which look like movie posters and some kind of icon, I would like to know what they are.

Interesting project, good luck!
On Erlang, yes, though by no means extensive. Most of it was messing around in Rabbitmq-land.

Yes, you can still do 'bad things' (tm) and wedge the process, its not coroutines, though even if it was you can wedge those too.

Everything in the base libraries and the modules most people are writing though are async/callback based -- so its 'hard' to do something blocking on accident, so the need to farm things out with deferToThread like in Twisted is greatly diminished.
Learn to type faster! I went from 35 wpm to over 100 in just over a year of 4-hrs-a-day practice. I have a USB foot pedal so I can start and stop, rewind and fast-forward mp3 recordings. (It would be better if I could do this with speech command - my foot gets tired) Programs to alter the speed of playback typically suffer from pitch alteration.

If you want to do this for a living, look at http://www.careerstep.com
Everyone already knows that they are "total douche bags", so allowing these videos does little harm. But by allowing these videos NK can show that they are opening up and being progressive etc. which helps foreign relations.

"Look, we are the good guys, we have changed. We even allowed that one video."
Oh yeah, I wasn't disagreeing, just throwing my two cents in the ring.

I'll have to check out Darklands. Not much time for gaming these days, but I love the old DOS games as well, although they were before my time the first time around.

If you've never tried it, you might like Mount & Blade, an indie game that's more action oriented, but you can build your own personal army as you go for fame and wealth. You can even get your own fiefdoms and castles and collect taxes from those, protect them from opposing factions, etc.
Agree completely, but it only takes a few insane recurring thoughts to justify that what one is doing is virtuous. I take solace that there are few Ted Kaczynski individuals deluded enough to fall into this category. Even then, they tend to be targeted killings, not random mass murders.
Thanks ssn for noticing it.

I was quite perplexed today. We hope they did not realized we have realised Vendder into the wild, for some months now, especially as our services overlap so much.

We send them an email some moments ago about this fact. Let's see how it goes.
How is this a surprise?

With tripe like the Duluth Model( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth_model ) in full force, this is completely expected.

Duluth Model is the assumption that men are the abusers and women are abused. In effect, it is more unproven feminist garbage that serves to disenfranchise affected men, because "abusers" don't matter.
"even though you actually earned that money, it doesn't belong to you"

But that's valid for a lot of things. Say, although you own a land, you still have to pay taxes on it, and if you won't, in the long run it will be forcefully seized from you. It's just how the society was designed (or "evolved into", if you please), with its laws that we, for the most part, just come to accept. Similar acceptance exists and/or can be (not that it should be) further extended for many other instances. The only necessary thing for imposing such an order is power. An authority has the power over land owners, thanks to the nature of that owned good - being immobile and having an intrinsic value. Now, given the right kind of power, a similar order of things can be forced on pretty much everything!
He played this game with precompiled headers a decade ago and there's STILL barely any support for it in the GNU tools. When a debate around implementing precompiled headers ten years after everyone else gets them requires lawyers to get involved, maybe freedom isn't ringing as clearly as we were promised.

There's something fundamentally weird about the whole dev ecosystem wrt developer productivity. Next time you're sitting in front of an 8 CPU box with an SSD trying to solve a CPAN or library dependency, watching one C file compile once every three seconds, perhaps think about why things always wind up like this.

I super respect Stallman's position but at some point you have to look around (and beyond!) and say "why are we working with crippled tools?" With few exceptions all the core projects are uncontributable at this point. And RMS isn't even the worst; he's just the most consistent and predictable.
Last time I checked Costco's Kirkland brand flea and tick is also dangerous.
An RSS feed would be handy, too.
Even if it not clear in the readme. The preprocessor is optional. I posted the plain c++ version of the hello_word example here:
https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/issues/2#issuecomment-705...

I will add a note in the readme about the preprocessor and how to bypass it.
Hmm, I think some of those definitions are a bit off. Let me try:

- Ray-casting is the general technique of using ray/object intersections (usually to solve a graphics problem). Could be via analytical solutions or not.

- Ray-marching refers to using an iterative technique for computing ray/object intersections. This type of strategy is used for these 3D fractals.

- Ray-tracing creates an image by casting rays for each pixel in the image (from the camera).

- Path-tracing is one of many random ray-tracing techniques. It averages across many random deep bounces of rays following light paths to accurately solve for lighting.

In this case, the ray-tracing casts rays against the 3D fractal via ray-marching and uses path-tracing to compute accurate lighting.
Haha, I love that site and agree with many of the complaints there. I just hate the unsubstantiated "Obama hasn't done anything" stance when Congress screws stuff up. He's sold out on plenty, no doubt. 4th Amendment and Gitmo are enough to send me up a wall. Right now DADT is much more important to me though.
When someone is suspected of a crime, they are often imprisoned leading up to their trial.

... after a judicial hearing in which bail is denied. People are not just locked up - most countries have very stringent rules as to how long you can keep somebody without a hearing - typically 24-72 hours, though "terror" legislation has eroded that in some countries.
Okay think it's back up now, hopefully didn't lose to much of it's momentum cause it's a pretty shady thing the guy did.
Also, this reminded me of a friend's tweet from a while back.

http://twitter.com/holman/status/20483293633
I'm amazed this blog post devoid of content or insight is #1.

His 4 paragraph message boils down to: "It wasn't made for techies." The same message that has been said about the Ipad, Macbook Air, Kindle and countless others.
Wow, that's kinda cool! What's funny is that by simply coining the term "luck surface area" I've actually managed to increase my luck surface area. ;)
You had it right when you said "They don't think." Should've stopped there.
Is there a need to name him/her? I find myself saying "I'll ask The Duck" as the equivalent of "I'll google it". I don't feel I need to get more personal than that :-)
This is a classic sports writing trope as well -- blaming a team's best player when the team doesn't succeed, as opposed to blaming all the chumps around him who were the real cause of the team's failure. See Alex Rodriguez and the Texas Rangers, Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavs, Landon Donovan and the US Soccer team, Peyton Manning and the early 2000s Colts, etc.
I wrote this post in response to getting a ton of recent inquires from "non-technical founders looking for technical people".

I hope after this business people can see that learning to code is not impossible, and can actually be quite fun if you are serious about starting a tech company. It's always better to have an basic understanding of what you are trying to build as opposed to being scared and never trying to learn yourself.
Most probably. I've spent the last 4 months simply getting a value to be sent from a custom application to a medical billing system . . .

Nice review, it was relevant to my interests.
That may be true, but I think there's more to the "regret" group.

Consider this: I have a degree, so it's in my economic best interest to try and inflate the importance of that degree in the job market.
I can do that by trying to raise the status of my school (see: alumni donations) or by putting down those without degrees (see: degree requirements for jobs). In practice, I'm so disgusted by the entire system that I don't have any desire for my degree to have importance.

This strange thing that's happening is that people with degrees aren't defending them nearly as vigorously. I think the reality is finally setting in that having a degree is not a good discriminating factor for employment. This is awkward to the large group of people who only sought a degree for better career opportunities. Like angry rioters, one possible (though perhaps illogical) course of action for the degreed-but-unemployed might be to tear down the facade of the degree.
Wow the maintainer is being really disingenuous on that licensing thread.
> this all stems from videos

I can obviously not cover every single one, but just seeing a random van and claiming it's full of fake ballots doesn't make it true. In many of these states, the entire counting was livestreamed.

> witness statements

Anyone can give statements, but election fraud requires more than just hearsay.

> and statistical anomalies

Numbers are easy to play with, see p-Hacking. In the majority of the cases, if you apply the same calculations to previous elections, or hell, even red counties in this very same election, you get very similar strange looking results.

> refusal of certain parts of the government to effectively examine these claims and their supporting evidence in a public

Just because you've been told that it wasn't taken seriously doesn't make it true. Courts have gone through the evidence for 2 months and none of it went anywhere. But for some people, being proved wrong means not being taken seriously.
I really don't understand why Signal doesn't just keep a encrypted backup in Google Drive/iCloud. This seems like such a solved problem and yet they instead invented their own Bluetooth sync thing for iOS and manually copying files around for Android.
My very amateur assessment of national and regional Covid trends is that higher rates of spread seem to correspond very highly with "indoors weather" conditions. That's heating season in colder climates, cooling season in warmer ones.

But yes: people gathering, indoors, largely with recirculated air.
> I understand it in this referendum “yes” referred to “become a state” while “no” referred to “become independent”, with no option for “keep the status quo”.

You understand incorrectly. The question asked was:

“Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State? ( ) Yes ( ) No”
I heard a story that Dan Day - Rose Hulman class of 79, once sat down and typed in a complete system of programs and it worked the first time.

Ward Christensen did it once as well, to the annoyance of my late friend Lloyd Smith, may he rest in peace.
If you're in Europe with a typical circle of friends, your advice is basically equivalent to "don't communicate with people, works fine".
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
A lot of the benefits that would be hard to achieve through time may be due to the shocking aspect or intensity of some of these drugs. Think of a rite of passage, it stresses people out of their normal thought/reaction/logic structure in order to help form a new one. Usually promises are made or responsibilities given that are then psychologically attached to the event. Given that, how the event is structured and to what ends is very meaningful.

The damaged people might be due to more factors than the drug. Besides possible use amphetamines or other drugs, too, your experimental pool would only consist of those who would choose to use these drugs a lot for lengths of time and advertise this. There are some decent studies on use of peyote and ayahuasca where participants use it weekly or more for many years. They scored the same on physical well being but scored higher than the control for mental well being.

BTW, I totally agree that the term 'geek wonder drug' is inappropriate.
First off, not everyone knows about Khan Academy.

Secondly, the link is unspecific because the OP hasn't detailed exactly what areas he needs a refresher in. It might be Algebra, it might be Calculus. Better to send him to a general higher level than to one that might be irrelevant to him.

Thirdly, it's obvious that he's not suggesting to follow the entire Academy's course load. If the question had been, where can I get a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" and I had said "Barnes and Noble", that wouldn't be me suggesting he should buy every book in the store.

The irony here is that it's your post that is "all noise and adds no value". Which is, I imagine, along with your tone, why you got so many downvotes.
What part of the OP do you think reflects an "obsession" with economic growth?
Sure, McDonalds is in fact the best food available.
Come on
Thanks for the suggestion. The design does seem fairly radical, but I think the price is also too high for me to justify giving that one a try.
This article addresses the criticism of "merely syntax update"

http://jakearchibald.com/2015/thats-so-fetch/
If I was lying, may Amazon's lawyers strike me down and take me to court! I would love to reveal my experiences there, and of course, the truth is an unbeatable defense. I certainly have more salacious tidbits than the Ellen Pao trial revealed. Including personal experiences with Jeff Bozo.

>Thinking AWS holds most of the engineers really shows how uninformed you are.

Telling a lie about me to attempt to impeach my point is what's known as ad hominem.

>As an engineer, your manager WILL BE a former SDE.

FALSE. During my time there I had multiple managers (due to re-orgs.) and NOT ONE of them was a former SDE.

Not one of them was competent enough to manage programmers. None of them knew what a service oriented architecture was, or how version control worked (they thought of it as a backup), or how to write a simple program in ANY language. And this was true all the way between me and Bezos.

>The type of "stack ranking" people refer to as being evil is not the same that's practiced at Amazon

FALSE. It is exactly the same, with managers having to lobby, and whole teams of people who are "out of favor" with an upper manager getting lower salary because of the higher level stack.

>I have very little contact with "business" people, and they in no way determine how much I get paid

You impeach yourself by admitting that Amazon uses stack ranking which directly contradicts this claim.

Amazon is a terrible place to work at-- in an extensive career, it was, by far, the worst job.

Not only because of the problems, but because the management doesn't give a damn, and is actually hostile to employees-- that's what makes it really bad.

All companies have problems. Amazon has fundamental disrespect for engineers.
If you click vote without selecting any of the options, it looks like it's processing your vote, but never does anything. There should probably be some message telling you to choose something, rather than make you think that there's something going on when you submit a blank vote.

Other than that, cool interface.
Not quite advice, but was a running theme of what many millenial-generation kids were told in the US (think "Mr. Rogers" era).

Many argue it's made use seem overly demanding to others, particularly bosses.
That really depends on how much the government pumps into the roundabout as they recently showed.
Isn't the only thing you have to do to enter your credit card? I did it recently to buy one app, and I don't remember it to be especially painful or complicated.
The big advantage is that you can get to your mid-20s with 10 years of experience and lots of practice, and then be mentally ready without having the commitments of a house, wife, kids, mortgage, etc. tying you down. You can get those same advantages by delaying dating & childbirth until later in life, although then you sacrifice in that your kids may never know their grandparents.
I'm not exactly sure how to word it, and I'm not aware of a single source who advised me on it, but it seems like there's a pervasive feeling in society that "If I want to learn something, I need a teacher." I outgrew this mental model around 14, and now in college I feel so much further ahead of many of my peers who are lucky to have taken a HS programming course once before choosing a programming degree. I wish I had outgrown it much earlier, I feel like there was a lot of lost potential in my earlier years that I wasted because I had no interest in teaching myself things. Who knows how devastating this "cultural advice(?)" is to people who still haven't outgrown it.
First off, it can't tell for certain - just that you have a high percentage chance of getting Parkinsons.

Now with that information, you might decide to live more of your life now... You might decide to have children earlier knowing that you will see the grow up before you enter the risky phase in your life when you could develop the condition.

Like Sergey Brin is now doing, you might pay close attention to the research of the condition - perhaps even donating more.
Got 6 (e)books today for <$100, some ones that I probably would not have gone for without the sale but that will likely be helpful to me. A win-win, I think.
Enlarge the field size of 'google chat', my email won't fit now :)
What other tools present this information visually?