jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> But they can't ban the website and they can't stop sideloading, can they?

It's all about friction. The more you add friction, the more you slow down the uptake of competitive platforms. Right now you have to turn off play protect and let your phone install from unknown sources to install APKs. Most people probably don't even know how to do that, so it's an effective strategy.
So are we suing the the SMS providers and smartphone companies too that was used in the process too?

really scary that there are Americans who think like this.
It is of course a ridiculous thing to say, and a terribly worded article, but no need to be unfair. They do clarify it in the following paragraph.
Funny thing is these nerds think they’re getting “in” now and that they’ve paid their dues. They never had a chance.
Yes, it absolutely is censorship. And a massively coordinated effort at that.
The outrage it's generated from all corners of American society seem to run against that idea. Just because a relatively small mob of determined extremists can raid a building for an afternoon does not indicate some kind of earth-shattering, society-changing transformative event.
Popular social media platforms using shaky, uneven, and arguably unjustifiable logic to ban both speech and people from their respective shares of the public sphere is, however, indicative of an ever-growing attack by monopolized social platforms on exactly those traditionally liberal ideas that makes such amazingly diverse and open-minded communities to begin with.
Look at this record. Trump is the only President in the last 30 years that did not start a War or major military action.
Agreed. A lot of folk on HN right now are having difficulty identifying or naming treason and sedition.
This is less “censorship” and more “ending a business relationship” which Google is certainly able to do.
1: It was, and they assumed it was due to the hypothetical planet Vulcan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28hypothetical_planet%2...

2: The Voyager anomaly, the rotation of galaxies, black holes.

The rotation of galaxies is assumed to be because of dark matter - but that's just giving a name to it - it doesn't actually answer anything.
That might work for you, but that doesn't mean it will work for everyone.
I don't see why this software is written on an iPad when it could be implemented more effectively in the plane's own control system.
Don't feed it. Flag it. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> We did a lot of work to make the product use minimal battery on the phone so hopefully that helps

As a person who pre-ordered the phone, that is appreciated very much:)
If I wanted to do more math, I'd go to grad school for mathematics (one of my undergrad degrees is in math).

I don't want to beg Sun for grant money to develop new ways to make Java less shitty (you would be amazed at the number of papers that have been written about this topic), since they don't want to invest the money in setting up a real R&D lab with real-world salaries.

I'm not interested in type theory, complexity, encryption, or formal verification. Are there any other areas of CS research where I can get away with not writing any software as a grad student?
Good question.

A) IP - use a VPN. youtube-dl == browser

B) Cookies - youtube-dl doesn't retain cookies, I presume. youtube-dl >= browser

C) Fingerprinting - good question. I'd hope youtube-dl doesn't offer as many avenues. Can it identify you from one visit to the next? Beats me!
I cannot believe someone would look at the current situation and think to themselves "they decided to do this because they weren't allowed to offend people on college campuses." If anything the current situation is caused by a lack of moderation and instead giving absolutely everyone the same level of authority and deference online, regardless of whether they deserve it. Every bozo gets their own twitter and substack and people follow it if they want to, and it leads to delusional and violent people finding leaders to follow. 20 years ago these people would have had much less opportunity to speak and reach followers, not more, and things were better then.
But this is all transparent thanks to edit logs, and there are plenty of tireless editors patrolling to revert excessive agenda pushing.
it sounds like it's not you... if they cannot improve, you need to move on.

Yes. Whether or not you are a good programmer is irrelevant in this particular situation. This appears to be a mismatch in programming philosophies. There's more of them than there are of you. Look elsewhere. Most of us have done that several times in our careers. It's no big deal really.
The woman shot has died now.
Stop promoting services with no federation, they'll just end up in the same spot 10 years from now.

EDIT: To the people downvoting this: I said the same thing a long time ago about whatsapp before Facebook bought them.
Even outside of explicit censorship I think that the US education system has been doing a very poor job lately in terms of promoting critical thinking skills. It's too common to see folks come out of the educational system with too much faith put in "both-sides-ism" it's important to empathize and understand different viewpoints but it is lazy to accept all differing views as being equally valid.
As a data scientist, I feel this. Intel and AMD don't own an OS or an app store, and you might be surprised how hard it is to get good data. Data is the new gold. If a company that can corner a piece of the market, they can collect data no one else can, and from that companies are often forced to partner or they can't properly provide services that will keep them competitive.
I'm in this A/B test too, and like you, it makes me anxious. I've become so accustomed to looking at the full URL (in green) of what I'm about to click on, that without having it there, I trust Google search results less as a whole.

The one that got me was when a search result pointed me to a site that was something like:

example.com/?ipaddr=10.3.4.3

And Google, in an attempt to be helpful, showed me this:

example.com > ...

> It makes people even more ignorant about the technologies they depend on, and exposes them to further risk of being exploited.

This is the point. If you've ever viewed an AMP site using Mobile Safari, you'll still see "google.com" in the Location Bar, instead of the site's own domain name. Google's fix for this is to try to kill the URL.
I used "complete autonomy" half-facetiously. Actually, I said "as complete autonomy as possible," implying, as complete as possible given other, say, existential or intersubjective constraints.

Step 3 is an interesting thought experiment for sure though. Can't say I've thought too much about data structures and algorithsm that might survive me.
is there a self-hosted alternative to google docs?
I'll send you a screenshot from my Inbox so you can see how it compares to other mailing lists. hello is not bad, it could just be a bit more descriptive so I know it comes from Imgz.
You have a very peculiar comment history - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=agashka
Is it particularly surprising? I've never looked into any research on the subject, but it would seem fairly common sense to me that in a huge number of tests, ranging from IQ tests to History exams at school, people who care will try harder and therefore do better.
You can install Unity alongside Gnome, and choose between them using the menu at the bottom of the login screen.

To do this, open Synaptic, go to Settings -> Repositories, and in the Other Software tab click Add and paste this line:

ppa:canonical-dx-team/une

Save your changes, then click the Reload button in Synaptic. When the new package lists are loaded, install the package called Unity. When you log out, you should be able to choose "Ubuntu Unity Netbook Edition" from the menu on the login screen.
It is useful because in our global world you can often live anywhere for certain jobs (at FeeFighters, our designer is in Bulgaria, for example)...

There are many opportunities to earn in USD while living abroad.
If the demand was high enough, someone could make a company that held domains in escrow during these sorts of arrangements.
32 bit "wastes less memory":

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

At least for some things, in my experience.
I think I came away with almost the opposite impression from reading the article.

From my perspective, they did not implement it. Mark Miller and Robert Muir were able to implement the algorithm for the N=1 case, but were stuck until they found the existing Moman code. They did not implement their own code using Moman as a reference implementation, but just used Moman's code to generate the required tables.

From the article, "Not really understanding the Python code, and also neither the paper, we desperately tried to write our own Python code to tap into the various functions embedded in Moman's code". This sounds to me like they did not have a good understanding of the algorithms they were trying to implement.

They did do a fair bit of testing and did uncover a bug in the Moman code base, but, again, they did not fix this bug themselves, but appealed to Jean-Phillipe who then quickly fixed his code -- in effect, they were relying on a third-party.

And, yes, they did apply the end result to make fuzzy searching a lot faster, which is a good and practical end. It took a lot of effort on the Lucene's team part to get this feature implemented, but that does not mean that anyone has a good understanding of the end result.

In short, I don't get the impression that anyone on the Lucene team could give a 1 hour talk on implementing the Klaus Schulz and Stoyan Mihov paper to a formal language and automata audience.
It creates 10 copies of an alarm on the same date with a setting to repeat twice. So I imagine 10 alarms firing at the same time is not a good idea. I don't see where it calls itself like other people are saying.
Not a bad idea...in fact, I'd wage there's a market for this sort of technology. :)
Yes, evidence is a problem for people who do things that have legal or economic consequences. Of course, actions often have moral and ethical consequences even if they leave no evidence behind.
I don't follow...can you connect the dots for me?
Reminds me of a WSJ story from 2006 where a woman was criticized and prevented from planting trees in SF's Tenderloin because making the neighborhood more beautiful would make transvestites and transgender residents feel unwelcome.

San Francisco's red-light denizens fight to stay seedy:

http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2006/10/24/San-Fr...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626837
Saw it last night. Didn't know you guys built a detector as well. That's awesome.
While I don't much like the law either, Singapore has actually been clambering back up the slippery slope and politics is nowhere near as red in tooth and claw as it used to be. Previous opposition politicians who said things the government didn't like have ended up bankrupted or detained without charge for 23 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Jeyaretnam
> I don't know the underlying mechanics that trigger this association, but it's quite consistent. I'm guessing that it's a side effect of how my memory of language is organized, some processing trick my mind is using to make the storage more efficient.

Your description seems closer to what I read about synesthesia than the Google Art experiment. From my reading, it seems to be directly linked to the way the brain process stimulus rather than to memory. Brain scans show that for people experiencing synesthesia some stimulus activate parts of the brain unrelated to their processing. Some drugs (LSD notably) seem to be able to trigger this effect temporarily for people not usually experiencing it.
Of course! I've never encountered any unintentional confusion when using the term "carbon tax." For more understanding of what is meant by the term, see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
As someone who has done a lot in both frameworks, I have found Grails to be more mature from an enterprise standpoint, and the tooling support is outstanding. IMHO, it's a lot easier to track down what is happening where in Grails as opposed to Rails.
try
nested_dd = lambda: defaultdict(nested_dd)
Paper is waiting for ereader screens to increase in size and resolution and to grow a facing page.

I'm not sure if ereaders will get there in time, because laptops may overtake them. We'll see...

Either way ten years from now readers will be all-electronic slabs of foldable plastic, and won't look so much like the limited single page Minimum Viable Product designs that are popular today.

The limiting factors for textbook content are commercial, and will probably be bypassed. Academic papers are already moving to open distribution, and I'd expect a GitHub-for-Textbooks with wiki-able content to appear within the next few years.

Publishers don't have the time, insight, or interest to enhance textbook content. If enhanced content is open-sourced the work can be spread across an entire population, which makes it much more viable economically.

The only catch is how this works financially for authors. About that, I have no idea.
> 96% of Medicare

I'd argue we're not spending those Medicare dollars efficiently. Did you know you get a choice between expensive brand name drugs and generics, even if the generics have the same efficacy? Insanity. Cut the profit out of healthcare, and your Medicare health care dollars are going to go a lot futher.
> Interview situations are very, very different than the others.

How exactly? Freezing up in a meeting can get you fired just like freezing up in an interview can get you turned down for the job. Sure, you'll get comfortable with your coworkers, and they'll get more forgiving of temporarily lapses, but I think most interviewers (for non-terrible jobs especially) purposefully give some extra leeway to interviewees, since it's understandable for them to be a bit more nervous than a coworker would be.
I find it very bizarre that anybody would say something like this. Are you afraid of people who are more confident than you? Would that deter you even if they demonstrate superior technical skills?
Don't joke about drugs when crossing a national border or you're probably going to get a digital rectal exam.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/technology/dutch-approve...

The law hasn't passed yet, but apparently, Scania will start testing trucks in February. I am not sure that will be fully autonomous vehicles, though. It may be trucks that can follow a lead truck driven by humans.
> the principal reason that political journalism exists: to hold decisionmakers accountable to the public

Green's point in this article is that traditional political journalism has made a mockery of this responsibility, and I for one agree with him.

We can't have Walter Cronkite anymore because political media has completely debauched itself. I'd rather have earnest if naive amateurs than however you want to describe what happens on Fox News and MSNBC. Maybe not exclusively, but at least as a counterbalance.
Off of the top of my head, with varying difficulty

* js has UTF-16 strings with the same semantics(compare-by-value, immutable, interned) as lua strings. you could store UTF-16 in normal lua strings, but then you'd need some way of marshalling them for C code that expects const char* values

* JS has a lot of type coercions when doing binary operations, etc. replicating that seems like a source of indirection

* Lua tables have no explicit length, or any way to preallocate, so it's not entirely obvious what Array(len) or a.length = newlen would do
Is there an open source version of the Evernote web clipper or something similar to Pocket? I would love that.
It is the path of least resistance to get to a 'Desktop' experience. And please, what are the alternatives?

Firefox ? I'm sorry, but Firefox lost relevance a couple of years ago now.
Firefox is ethically the best , but it sucks in implementation. Firefox is now the broccoli of the web, stale broccoli at that.
> As I see it, your children are not your property. The children belong to the community at large.

There has been no country stupid enough to ever make such an outrageous claim, no matter how communist they were.

For starters: Children are not property at all, not their parents, nor society at large. They belong to themselves, they're independent and they are people just like adults, not cattle or objects. Second, parents are the primary agents responsible for their children and if at all possible parents should be the ones to raise their kids. Only in extremely rare cases should children be removed from their parents care, the main reasons are that this is the natural order of things, that parents tend to have their childrens best insterests at heart and that parents are by and far the best placed to relate to their children.

Last but not least: the number of violations per capita of the physical integrity of children placed in 'care' vastly exceeds that of those children living with their parents.
I don't agree. In the circumstance that all those bad things happen, you are obviously better off if you did save. Get an infection and can't afford antibiotics, you could possibly die, whereas you could survive if you had money. Kid grows up and you can't pay for college, "Oh honey, we didn't expect you to be so smart so we spent the money on burgers."
Poor people lack mobility and flexibility, though. The poor life, at least as I lived it, was not excessively austere, but it was stifling and the slightest disruption could bring it all crashing down.
> Several leading Wall Street bankers met to find a solution to the panic and chaos on the trading floor.[9] The meeting included Thomas W. Lamont, acting head of Morgan Bank; Albert Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank; and Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York. They chose Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, to act on their behalf.

> With the bankers' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in U.S. Steel at a price well above the current market. As traders watched, Whitney then placed similar bids on other "blue chip" stocks. The tactic was similar to one that had ended the Panic of 1907, and succeeded in halting the slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered, closing with it down only 6.38 points for the day.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
> Keep in mind they're only able to buy US treasuries and mortgage backed securities.

It's those MBS that were the real problem. Total panic on Wall Street with those, because everyone is so heavily tied into them and with all these unemployed people, foreclosures are going go through the roof.

Now that they can offload them to the Fed instead of trying to sell them for pennies on the dollar, it's all champagne and caviar back on Wall Street.
and BOJ https://www3.boj.or.jp/market/en/menu_etf.htm

The scale of BOJ's ETF purchases is quite something.
these questions are in earnest, not meant as a put-down of your position.

how would you draw a line between what's okay to collect and what isn't?

do you think a line could be drawn that would work for most people?

would sites offer different levels of invasive tracking, and the user opts-in as far as they want?

what incentive would users have to opt-in at all?
There's a pretty lively discourse on the internet about the various benchmarking systems, many of which are grounded in that discourse and have solid and nuanced assumptions behind them. There's also an accepted way to measure performance -- eg. averaging hundreds or thousands of tests, meticulously documenting the environment. Unfortunately, neither of these seem to inform this claim to "actual" performance.
the main cause here is that randomness is hard to test so that code was just assumed to be correct. With randomness you can never be sure, http://www.random.org/analysis/
Isn't there also a lot of sugar in juice, even if it is vegetables, not fruits?
Yes. The biggest losers are all the entrepreneurs that could have benefited from this program had it been allowed to stay on the front-page.
I have also had good experience with linode performance (just a small instance I use for a few personal projects). However, AFAIK linode is just using local on-box disk, which is a whole different animal from EBS.
There are some nice middle options out there. I'll use Softlayer as an example as I have provisioned a lot of machinery over there.

I can order machines online and SSH in 3-4 hours later. Even exotic stuff they turn around just as fast - we saw that speed on a quad octocore box with a raid 10 of Intel SSDs.

That's real metal too, with real IO (most of my work is IO bound so VMs and the cloud are not options). You get to pick the exact CPUs, disks, etc and they slot them in solid Super Micro boards and use good Adaptec disk controllers. You pay monthly and can spin down the box at any time (though must pay full months, no per-minute pricing like AWS).

That is on the dedicated hardware side, you can also spin up compute instances and those can be cloned and fired up in bulk. But, they also have the IO problems that all other VMs have.

In any case, just wanted to mention they are a decent middle ground. Not as automated and polished as Amazon on the VM side but you can spin up mixtures of metal and VMs to get combinations that make sense - pushing compute or RAM-only stuff to VMs and keeping DBs and persistence layers on real metal. They have a few different datacenters too so you can spread gear around physical locations.
While i agree that it can be annoying, i think the point is to get users to subscribe to his blog, which i did, but only because i think the majority of the overall blog content will be interesting to me.