jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Same - the last time I had a landline was in my college dorm room and it kept getting spam calls until we eventually disconnected it.
it would be an interesting prank to leak some fake documents to Wikileaks and see if you can get 'em to make a big fanfare about them.

It's interesting that you think that they aren't already constantly being bombarded with false information via intelligence agencies as a tactic to discredit them.
Seems like there are at least one js engine based on canvas coming out every day.

I have been working on a pirate game based on canvas at http://constantsail.com , and I have to say, it is so simple to work with canvas that there doesn't seem to be a huge reason for these game engines. If you need canvas to do something that it doesn't you just tack on a function.

I guess the thing is, it is so easy to start building a game engine, everyone is starting to do it. I find it is easier to just start with the basics, and when you start to repeat yourself or do anything complicated, just encapsulate it and keep building.

I built a knockoff of atari combat the same way on the iphone (http://robkohr.com/iphone/tank)
But I don't get the impression that folk like that want to kill Comic Sans per se. If you put another "friendly" font out there, the point about not writing probation notices in it would still stand.
Guess what was already here? Bitcoin NFC and Google Wallet.
> opinion?

It's some quite precisely done mathematics
with one theorem with a careful proof
and some smaller results also proved.

And there's some impressive computational
experience. We're talking a 0-1 integer
linear program with 40,000 constraints and
600,000 variables -- that is an example of
a problem in NP-complete. That we could
do anything with such a problem is a bit
amazing.

That we can apply non-linear optimization
to a problem in discrete or combinatorial
optimization, that is, 0-1, is curious,
in this case powerful, and, thus,
generally welcome.

That we are making good progress with
Lagrange multipliers without
taking any derivatives, e.g., as in
the Kuhn-Tucker conditions,
is also
curious -- so, this is not your
father's Lagrange multipliers.

And I proved Everett's theorem: That's
a famous result, and quite useful,
much more useful than difficult to prove,
in
a wide range of resource allocation problems.
And Everett is a famous guy, a physics
Ph.D. under J. Wheeler (one of the
main guys in relativity theory, in the world)
at Princeton
and the first guy to expound on the
many worlds (parallel universes)
interpretation of quantum
mechanics. Everett thought that his
result was worth publishing, and what
I wrote is more general and more powerful.

Simulated annealing is famous;
that some non-linear duality theory
and Lagrangian relaxation totally blew
away simulated annealing on an impressive
practical problem should also be of
interest.

That it is possible to get better
performance using central cutting planes
is actually not very well known.

Also I covered the mathematics
in essentially full detail (everything
important and not obvious, proved)
starting with next to nothing,
gave a description of an algorithm
that is ready to code (it's basically
just what I did code from successfully)
and also
the impressive computational experience,
all in just that one post.

Simulated
annealing is rarely described so
carefully, and it doesn't provide bounds
on optimality, that is, we don't know
when to stop.

As I illustrated, my work
provides bounds which commonly in practice
provide a good stopping criterion.

Simulated annealing is sometimes regarded
as part of computer science; well, my post
shows something that sometimes is better
and from applied mathematics.

Actually, the mathematics for such
optimization problems is a well-developed
and deep field; try to do much in
optimization, and really should consider
some of the mathematics, e.g., what
I posted.

Oh, by the way, my Ph.D. is in
stochastic optimal control, and
I've published peer-reviewed original
research on non-linear optimization,
e.g., some deep details about the
Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
My professors included some of the
best people in the world in optimization.
The Chair of my Ph.D. orals committee
is a Member, US National Academy of
Engineering and was a student of
A. Tucker of the Kuhn-Tucker conditions --
Kuhn and Tucker were both at Princeton.

You might let us know where you found the
part with the "opinion"?
If you dig into the etymology and history of the word, I'd think yeah, absolutely.

> entrepreneur (n.)
1828, "manager or promoter of a theatrical production," reborrowing of French entrepreneur "one who undertakes or manages," agent noun from Old French entreprendre "undertake" (see enterprise). The word first crossed the Channel late 15c. (Middle English entreprenour) but did not stay. Meaning "business manager" is from 1852.
Reading the example more closely, that's part of a URL:

https://4037109.fls.doubleclick.net/activityi;src=4037109;ty...?

Unfortunately, a quick Google search doesn't explain what the oref parameter does but from the name I'm assuming it's something like "original referrer".

You don't need malice to explain this – it's entirely plausible to imagine that some people wanted to track user activities and they had a staggering lapse in HIPAA auditing due to the rush of getting the site out and stabilized.
I'm a bit baffled by this response. If you go to the front page of haskell.org there is a 'Learn Haskell' section with six links. This is not one of them. Nowhere in the article does it claim to be a beginner's guide to Haskell. It doesn't make the mistake you attribute to it; this is entirely a projection on your and others' part.
Great idea. With some simple transcripts and text-based search, it could be a great searchable tome of information one day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Fisher_Page

Hilary Fisher, and not Ole Kirk Christiansen should get the credit for the brick.
Borg backup is amazing. I've been using it for years now, backing up a few terabytes of data from a few dozen VMs.

The dedupe is downright magical. We've been able to remain super frugal on the storage allocation for backups solely because of how wonderful its dedupe is.

Restores are also really nice and easy since they are just a FUSE mount.

If you have a Linux host or hosts, I can wholeheartedly recommend borg. It's elegant, robust, and fast. And open source.
PS: Just saw you do not want to "start your own company". Building product and selling it doesn't necessarily require starting a "company' per se (in the traditional sense). If you're a creative software developer, and you're young, taking some risk to create a product will motivate you - and can end up making a lot of $dough$-re-mi. ;-)
Wow, that's awesome. Nature can heal, about time they recognize that.
Too late to edit, but I guess I should have mentioned that I'm in Canada so chip + PIN is the standard, gas stations I go to typically have neither swipe nor contactless available.
That whole "new HQ" operation was a brilliant hoax. I hope the people who pulled that off see at least some of their options vest before they get laid off.
My main gripe with elisp is the default to dynamic binding, which is in most systems almost never what you want. In Emacs, the dynamic bindings are used for more productive reasons than in generalized programs, but they should still be a conscious choice.

When it comes to threads, the elisp datastructures are inadequate because they are mutable. It is possible to write functioning threaded programs with shared mutable state, but for the most part, it is going to introduce the kinds of bugs that people solve one of per week on a six figure salary.
I've been hosting a personal server, a company server, and servers for every one of clients since we started as a web consulting company.

It's far superior to Slack for remote work in our experience because it's designed to be primarily used asynchronously, as opposed to something like Slack/IRC where you have a wall of unread messages all mixed together every time you sign in.

The biggest difference is that every conversation must have a topic title and be put into a stream, giving all the benefits of forums or email threads with subjects. Compare that to Slack/IRC where the the default mode is putting your messages in big firehose channels that don't encourage breaking individual conversions out into separate threads.
Is India running concentration camps as well?
Then Plaid needs to be upfront about this, and not bury it in their own small print.
Isn’t Google Cloud Print the standard way you print from an Android device?
Linux isn't an operating system.
> Quantum computers ... do not exist

How can you be so sure? What if a nation state invents one and treats it as a Manhattan Project style secret?

> Whether post-quantum crypto exists today or not doesn't matter

Unless the first "Quantum computers that can break traditional crypto" are invented and announced tonight... then it matters about the current state of post-quantum crypto.
> they would need to reinvent the whole UI stack of Linux like MacOS did.

MacOS X is not based on Linux or GNU and it's UI evolved out of a combination of Next technology and features combined with re-implemented classic Mac OS features. So it wasn't exactly a clean slate.

More relevantly though, they put some effort into maintaining compatibility with programs written for their previous OS by both porting their APIs and providing CPU emulation! And that is on top of bringing the rest of nextstep up to standard for what consumers were expecting out of a desktop OS at the time.

> Keeping a 50 people hired for Kernel development sounds cheaper.

I doubt it, Microsoft can and has rewritten their UI multiple times... if they wanted to, they could write it for Linux atop their own ported windows API with little effort. I think they just lack the incentive to do so, Linux users wont care because they wont use it, Windows users wont care because they don't care about Linux... who will benefit? not Microsoft that's for sure.

From a business perspective MS behavior makes sense, they are embracing Linux because that's the way one half of the market is headed whether they like it or not... meanwhile their desktop business still has a hold on the market mostly out of inertia and legacy, so why would they do something as radical as change the core OS to mess that up?

However as the parent said "one day", maybe, in the future, when windows makes zero sense to run on metal, then perhaps microsoft will create an official and FOSS windows API... if only to relieve themselves from security support hell.
It's not true at all. Turning the CO2 back into fuel would take as much energy as burning it released, but simply capturing the CO2 from the air need not.
I've had similar thoughts myself, but wouldn't have been able to articulate it so creatively. I'm envious of that blogger's diction.
The closest you can get to a simple middleman-free market is eBay, sadly.
Is here where I point out that Google employees have publications in Nature?
It's not hard to make your own Cloudflare-alike. I helped bootstrap this for an organization in the non profit space which now serves dozens of threatened web sites. I even created a monitoring/rotation system that takes care of much of the minute to minute work. The hard part outside state funding is making it profitable / sustainable for real emergencies. But the nature of DDOS is it's largely about fighting fire with fire so basically needs a lot of distributed hosts.

This is an area I'd like to see a peer solution be successful, a bittorrent for hosting with no central dependencies.
This is a good, but probably unpopular, point. Even Stallman's info leaks everywhere. If his great lengths aren't enough where does that leave typical people? The article states satellites can recognize your face. At some point you throw up your hands and say I give up. On Star Trek no one seems to care that the Federation always knows where they are because they trust that their rights are respected uniformly. Attacking the problem from the standpoint of hiding all info about your doings is a castle made of sand.
What I refer to in parenthesis seems to me to be more of a cultural phenomenon than anything inherent in human nature (like selfishness is, understood amorally). I've observed that general culture emphasizes well-being of your own kin at the expense of the other people around you. I personally believe this to be a morally lacking attitude, but my own opinion on the morality of this doesn't change whether this has (or has not) an impact on what we call "corruption".
The copy/cut/paste paradigm is ubiquitous, but I've always thought that a better model would be mark/duplicate/move.

Where copy+paste is achievable by mark+duplicate and cut+paste by mark+move.

That way you don't have the danger of losing cut content if you forget to paste.
I wrote this a while ago, and it's too long for a comment here anyway:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the+dropbox+endgame
When you can afford it, that depreciation is the price of getting exactly what you want, with a warranty, and being able to know that it has always been maintained and driven according to your preferences.

All that said, I'm probably never going to buy a brand new car.
Everybody interested in startups should know this awesome irc channel.

If you are new to irc, here is how you join. First register a nickname by typing

/msg nickserv register <your_password> <your_email>

Open the email and activate you account. Then type:

/msg nickserv identify <your_password>

Voila! Welcome to #startups!
Can someone explain me this one :

Arrogance
"The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence."
"But it moves something."
If you do any camping you can easily be prepared for most disasters that happen when it's not winter. Buy some serious sleeping bags and you could be ready for disasters in winter also.
It's incredibly easy to get away with crimes, as anyone who's been the victim of a crime will attest. The justice system is pretty selective in the crime that it cares to solve. The criteria for pursuit seems to be: is it profitable? did it happen to an important person? or was it perpetrated by a person who doesn't matter?

The police will happily spend hours sitting on the side of the road writing traffic tickets, but if a group of guys kick your ass on the street, good luck getting them to do more than fill out some paper work. Even if there's solid evidence, they perps still need to be people the police are willing to go after.

Also, in America, it's already the case that ~40% of homicides go unsolved. It's almost a coin toss whether you'd actually get away with it.
I'm only a few episodes in and I'm really impressed so far. It's probably the best show that no one I know has actually watched. I really enjoy how it feels almost like a documentary at times, but there's still suspense because you don't know which outcomes will diverge from what happened in our reality.
You think you are shotgunning a beer, but it's an acetone. Happens all the time.
So complain to Biden, no one is saying we shouldn’t stop bombing people in other countries. It’s also not a shock to anyone in the US that Biden is effectively a conservative to every other western nation. I didn’t put my hopes on him fixing things. I wanted the clown in chief to stop breaking things for four years. If Biden keeps breaking things I’ll vote him out too. I just won’t do it to the benefit of more far right demagogues.
What exactly is going to come of this? Forcing the Saudi's to buy more weapons from us in order to keep us from 'doing' something to them?
Speaking of HN support emails, we emailed Daniel at 4:10PM a few days ago and got a reply at 4:12PM. Send a follow up email and another reply 6 minutes later. Brilliant.
Oh yeah that's a good point! (and a really interesting optimization that can be applied to immutable values)
Unfortunately btsync.com is a service offering of the bt sync software. Check out http://www.getsync.com/
You're right, we probably shouldn't use SSH to microwave our food.

But a lot of things where we use HTTP today, we could be using SSH if we had better library support. Some more ideas towards the end of the post.
This used to be the case, but Lyft now takes 20% of the total fare, including surge
> a piece of hardware that can take a varying number of I/O each with a completely unique decoding and encoding scheme.

So, a CPU?
I wonder if all of this could be alleviated by showing the current surge coefficient in the app...
Seems like fibers/coroutines are a curiosity here, how useful are they supposed to be from a performance perspective? Example, say I have a thread with a wren vm instance running with a bunch of fibers inside, and a fiber calls back to a C function that's blocking (on io say) then this still blocks the entire thread.

Seems like there'd have to be a way to integrate with an event loop, and register a fiber with an event (edit or file descriptor/socket). Contemplating this makes me sleepy and grouchy ie it's very abstract, have you given any thought to this use case?
If you mean on TV, I think from the dawn of TV virtually no sci fi being made has been pretty much the norm. (Unless you use a broad enough definition that that wouldn't be true, even excluding ST:TNG, of the early 1990s, either.)
>Don't they do peer reviews before publishing articles to the eyes of millions ?

No.

The closest journalism gets to peer review is fact-checking. I know of no newspaper or website that does formal fact-checking; the only times I recall being formally factchecked were when I've written for monthlies like Playboy, Wired magazine, etc. Here's a famous example of where fact-checking would have been useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass#The_New_Republic_...

At other news organizations there is, in theory, informal fact-checking. I've done that as an editor and reporter, and I've had that done to me by my editors and, more frequently, by the good folks working on copy desks. This is not necessarily a rigorous process, but it can flag more obvious problems, hyperlinks to the wrong web pages, information stated as fact that is no longer accurate, etc.

As <jonnathanson> points out nearby, some of these built-in safeguards have been eroded by the journalism crunch. Others have been removed by the perceived need to increase publishing speed. I know of one news organization that had 3-4 humans involved in reviewing a story circa 2002 before it could be published on the web. By 2010-2012, however, reporters were clicking the "publish" button in the CMS themselves for almost all stories -- and then sending a request to the copy desk for an edit after the story was live.

[Disclosure: I worked as a technology journalist, albeit one with a technical background, before leaving CNET/CBS last year to found http://recent.io/]
Think ebay and all its network effect pixie dust, plus the ability to name your own price.
To be fair, minimum wage is not the $15 an hour that Amazon pays, its half that.
This rebuttal is incredibly shallow.

To summarize and address 6 points:

> 1) US has been accepting philanthropic funding for staffing for 25 years.
Does not discuss the scale, impact or % of Schmidt's influence.

> 2) We are experts at technology and with rapidly changing landscape, we can contribute.

Yes, this is precisly the problem. Google has enormous monopoly power and you, Mr. Schmidt, are the beneficiary of that power. There is a conflict of interest here, need not be spelled out.

> 3) We love helping US Gov because of 1971 IPA act of "tours of duty".

Of course, Mr. Schmidt.

> 4) We don't have any influence. We are one of the 20 orgs. Funding is administered by neutral party.

There is a specific assertion in Politico article. Schdmidt Futures are not directly paying people's salaries, but quoting the Politico article:

> Schmidt maintained a close relationship with the president’s former science adviser, Eric Lander, and other Biden appointees. And his charity arm, Schmidt Futures, indirectly paid the salaries of two science-office employees, including, for six weeks, that of the current chief of staff, Marc Aidinoff, who is now one of the most senior officials in the office following Lander’s resignation in February.

Schmidt's rebuttal completely glosses over the details.

> 5) Schmidt Futures staff had no authority to make any policy decisions and did not do so through OSTP, and the story presents no evidence or examples to the contrary.

Schmidt Futures has no direct authority, that's correct. Politico article explicitly sources indirect authority of Schmidt Futures.

> 6) OSTP has always had and continues to retain full discretion and ownership over appointments, hires and policy decisions.

Mr. Schmidt, we can see the Front door. Clearly, it is locked with US Gov™ seal. You are not addressing Back door claims in the article.

What a fucking joke.
That's not very relevant for the purpose of this discussion though. For example, a common stat floating around is how iPhone has 20% market share around the world but provides 80% of in-app revenue, which is what businesses care about.
There's a lot of interest in this subject but most answers and books fall far short.

For example, no one talks about it but all our existing level of technology relies heavily on machines we've already built, without those machines we've got to resolve the chicken and egg problem. Most technologies rely in some part on chemistry being understood at an advanced level as well.

The last 50 years have seen chemistry fall out of the limelight because job growth has been largely non-existent, and introduction to chemistry is dangerous.

If you do any kind of research on this subject you'll eventually wind up being held back by the Malthusian trap until you have enough people producing a wide variety of resources.

You can only have a modern society after you've reached a critical point in development, prior to that its a struggle to survive and you need lots of people to do it, and people require food.

As for historical mistakes, that's impossible.

History is constantly re-written for the powers of the day, and everyone has their own opinions.

The only way to avoid historical mistakes is to have some technology that can transfer/implant memories from previous generations.

The historical context simply cannot be reliably transferred to future generations.

Without something like that, you end up having situations where a generation that didn't know the horror of war and the people in power brings the world to the brink of annihilation yet again within a generation or two all because no one remembers the important details, or lead up from the last Great War; only what is taught which has been revised multiple times to the point of being useless.
Well they got big money to buy in. Sure Ethereum-based DeFi projects are scams, but the so-called blue chip currencies will probably stick around. Ultimately, the traceability of crypto is its unique selling proposition.
It's entirely rational to think twice about the circumstances before having kids, or more kids.

For one thing, micro-plastics weren't in the brains and bloodstream of past populations. That said, doubtful anyone hesitant to have kids is under the delusion everything was always better in the past. I certainly wasn't when the time came to make those decisions.
That sounds out of date. Linux has reported itself as Windows via ACPI OSI and actually reports FALSE for "Linux" OSI query for well over a decade now.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi...