jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't have a specific one in mind, just the intuition that recursive processes can have a lot sharper of a cutoff than a less differentially-minded intuition might suggest.

You can also look at it probabilistically, rather than differentially. Consider even just "If the probability of a margin call causing a margin call is X, and a margin call occurs, how many margin calls will occur in a chain?" The number sharply goes up as your raise the probability close to one, it doesn't just smoothly increase. It's even worse once you add in to the model that the probability is not independent, but as more occur the probability of the next one also would increase. Especially if you add that non-independence in, what you'll see is a phase change, where you get a surprisingly sharp transition between "a margin call doesn't usually cause another one" to "a never-ending cascade of margin calls occurs", rather than a smooth one.

(I may post a model of this. Someone may beat me to it, too. It's not that hard.)
None of the coverage I've seen mentions the base rate of these blood clots. Without knowing that, the rate is so low that I could easily believe it's background noise being blamed on the vaccine.

That said, we have three other vaccines that are more effective and don't seem to have this problem (assuming it does exist). We don't need this vaccine.
There is no reason for knowledge based employee living in suburbs to commute to a local commuter station for 30 mins and get on a train, travel for another hour and half and take another hour to settle down at the office cubicle.

If the employee was successfully able to work for an entire year remotely its totally unnecessary to be in the office.

Of course there are vested interests. Corporate Real Estate divisions who scare the crap out of Csuite that they are going to lose control of their employees if they dont "herd" them back (yes this is nothing more than herding sheep) into their pens at the offices.
> find a new mac to fix the one you already have

I mean, you don’t need to be the owner of the Mac you run the restore from, so you can visit a Mac-owning friend, or an Apple Store.
At minimum you need to have a special connector like USB in which data lines are disconnected before the power lines. Or a dedicaed pair of cables to detect the link state.

Both will of course require additional support at both software and hardware level. The DVI interface supported hot plugging in theory but I've seen many cases of monitors not working without a full restart.
Which means equally useless. I agree with him about transactional DDL. Having worked both with it and without it I would never want to go back to MySQL.
What applies to TV shows doesn't necessarily apply to movies. The thing TV has going for it? A pilot is twenty minutes long, instead of a hundred and sixty.

To me, as far as actor career trajectory, TV seems to be like a minor league that some actors use to help launch their overall career.
Here's a key insight for the Pinterest team ... your demographics are going to look like the demographics for scrapbooking [1]. I don't scrapbook (I'm male) or know of ANY other men that scrapbook (or at least admit to scrapbooking). Personally, it seems like a very boring past-time and the closest I come is to look at what my wife and daughters have created.

I won't be signing up for Pinterest for the same reason.

Please note: I'm not that macho personae ... I love to cook, can sew and knit and generally do my own laundry. I'd love to be able to draw better (but the engineer in me likes his straight lines and square corners). I'll even occasionally watch (and enjoy) a chick-flick.

[1] http://blog.hummiesworld.com/2011/02/scrapbooking-demographi...

EDIT: Yes - I know the demographics shown at the linked site are affected by Facebook's demographics.
1.85% is pretty small.
(EDIT: This is incorrect. I take it back!)

And learning online may teach you the skills, but won't replace the prestige you earn or the connections you make at an ivy league university.

The fact that you're at a prestigious university in the first place means there's a good chance you're already rich. And the easiest way to get rich is to be rich in the first place. This is the point of the article. Not that education makes all the difference, but that being rich has so many advantages.
A number of the Snowden docs feature GCHQ gloating to the NSA about how they are able to operate under much less restrictions than the NSA.
He meant genetic engineering of adults. Inheritable.
Mock weddings and recipes are popular. It's a little like The Sims with catalogued real-world items (and people). :)
Knuth reduced it to half a page in the comments
This is a Monty Python Skit come to life.
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding my comment, and we're mostly agreeing with each other - apologies if I wasn't clear!

I was quite explicitly referring to speculative future events, and how their odds of happening directly impact current pricing of bitcoin.

USD is reasonably well regulated now and has been historically - by some definition - at least as well as any of its competitor currencies, though none of them are looking particularly great right now by traditional measures.

What are the odds it will remain so for 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? Less than 100%, better than 0%.

As BTC addresses issues over the next 10, 20, 50 years - could it be a viable option for central bank clearing in the way JPY, USD, or gold is now? What are the odds? 100%? 0%?

With the work, attention, and considering the existing progress it's made, will it be a viable option for a trans-national or even national currency over the same time frames? What are the odds? 0%? 100%?

I'm pointing out that 1) none of those options is clearly a 0% or 100% outcome over the time frames we're talking about 2) depending on your individual judgement and how optimistic or pessimistic you are about various parts of these equations, depends on what you think BTC's value currently is.

Even people just hedging their bets against a not impossible outcome can lead to a deflationary spiral, leading to high prices until there is clear data one way or another where things will end up.
> Fortunately, I have HIPPA to get these people away from scenes.

HIPAA, and you don't. (I'm sure the claim works on people, though.)

https://www.ems1.com/ems-products/cameras-video/articles/pho...

> Your basic HIPAA obligation when it comes to the press is very simple. Don't divulge any patient medical information to a journalist. Don’t discuss patient specifics within hearing or recording distance, at least not in great detail. Don’t write notes where they can be read. If you have a clipboard with medical information, turn it over so it can’t be seen in a photograph.

> Your HIPAA obligation does not, however, require you to stop me or others from taking images at the scene.

Can you keep them at a somewhat reasonable distance? Yes. Out of the scene entirely? Generally no, barring a hazmat incident or something where you'd need to be getting out too.
What fucked up ideology do you have to follow to think this is not racist and in any way okay?

And why does it matter that he is gay? What the fuck is happening, have people gone insane?
I'm not one of your friends, and I'm hardly a musician, but I agree that Miles' second quintet is indeed unrivaled in jazz. All of the music they made is sublime, but my favorites are the albums Filles de Kilimanjaro, Sorcerer, Water Babies, Nefertiti, and of course In A Silent Way (featuring late great Chick Corea).
I just had to execute 'flameshot config' and to disable the Image Uploader button.
Except that's not what happened. They also had to define new syntax for the DSLs they embed in strings.
Maybe they even stack rank.
Try not to use God in vain when you're on a public forum. It's just a daft popup mate.
Let me see if I can channel some of ESR's pomposity: If S-expressions are the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
> Aspects of Github could be modularised and added to the editor while still keeping the underlying tool simple and this could change our user experience for the better.

This is essentially what we've done with some Rational tools (such as Team Concert) using by defining a set of loose-coupled RESTful capabilities for tool-based integrated, called OSLC http://open-services.net It has the nice quality, if adopted, as being able to link to you own issue tracker hosted elsewhere (bugzilla, jira, etc), CI, end-user need management, etc.

Atom has some limitations, I could see where OSLC and ActivityStreams would be a bit more interesting.
I was unaware of the BBC (or any) major media coverage of this. It still worries me that this is going the route of "everybody look at this" to keep it secure. It does take a certain amount of trust among participants to go the route of "ok guys, we are going to handle these in a secret place until the job's done and we can distribute all at once," but the chosen route paints a very large bullseye on the operation.

I would imagine that it would not be hard for the police to justify a raid to reclaim classified documents, but maybe someone more familiar with the situation than myself could explain why this is less likely than my paranoid mind tells me?
My advice to her: NEVER get in trouble with any country's government on purpose, completely abandon this line of thought and figure out something else. I bet she would rather live with her "stupid in-laws" than in a Federal PMITA facility.
Looks nice.

I am considering factoring the core of both Flask API and Django REST framework out into a library that could be integrated with any Python web framework - But that's not going to happen right away, so probably not much use to you in the immediate future.

Flask API is pretty simple tho - so there might be bits you can borrow from - perhaps the content negotiation implementation, browsable API implementation, or some of the general API style/separation of concerns that Flask API and Django REST framework both share.

The big win would be having more than one project sharing the same APIs for renderers, parsers, authentication, permissions and throttling policies - that way there'd be scope for writing at least some libraries that work cross-framework.
It doesn't just affect the immature kids, because the immature kids affect the rest.
This blocking shit is so annoying. The Chinese shoot themself in the right knee, then in the left knee and say, look, we have the biggest balls! Yes, you may have the biggest balls, but you can't walk anymore dumbo!

I experienced that feeding someone his own poison is often the best medicine. Providers world wide should block email access to all China based email for a month or two. Would be a picture for the gods having the Chinese executives and CEOs abroad cut off from their email and crying "foul!" "foul!".

This being said, the Chinese are pretty good in what they are doing. What will it buy them in the long run? Even big Chinese companies in China use VPN to access the internet. The final result will be that China won't have internet but something like an intranet. Good luck with that!
I get that. You're lying about your identity to help influence people to know the truth. If you're already willing to lie about who you are, then you're already more willing to do things that might not be so ethical in the first place, which means you probably can't be trusted to limit yourself to only steering people towards the truth.
Yes. Microsoft invented XMLHTTP so they could build a killer web client for Exchange Email. Remember when you first saw that? It was amazing. IE 5 was hands down a more capable browser than any other when it was current. It was nonstandard, but it was very productive. You could do AJAX, XML to HTML transforms in the browser with XSLT, xpath navigation of XML documents, etc. JSON wasn't popular then but support for XML was excellent.

They didn't have the vision to build consumer oriented "cloud" software like Google did, but they were positioned to do it before anyone else was.
I don't notice the oil with the french pressed coffee at all. The coffee was much more oily when I used my moka pot. French pressed reminds me more of turkish coffee, just less sediment.
Unrelated .... but did you create that animated gif on a mac? Which tool did you use?
Even if someone wouldn't see it as a chore, and I don't know if I would because I don't do it, I have a hard time believing most people would enjoy doing it 2 hours a day. As 6 foot long less than 125 pound (but still definitely above average fit ;) male I could certainly use some weight.

How much strength training do you roughly need to do to add x lbs of muscle per year, assuming you haven't done any strength training? And how much do you need to do to maintain 200 pounds? (in hours per day)
Except this is not a standards issue. It is a problem that can be solved in one sentence only if the programmer groks code construction to begin with. A lot of otherwise smart programmers - some of them very experienced - do not understand this stuff and do not develop good programming habits of the Code Complete kind. I probably exaggerated a little in my previous comment. Still, I always test for code construction "instincts" when I am interviewing a candidate. I may give the candidate a take home assignment - nothing difficult, as I really only want to see what the code looks like. Or I may ask the candidate to bring a sample of great code, and ask him why he thinks it is great. But I will always test for good habits, as they are too often taken for granted.
My comment was not a judgement statement about him (sorry if it sounded that way). It was really a statement about myself: I would really have a hard time not "what if'ing" myself to death if I were in that situation.

I actually have a lot of respect for anybody who could find peace after that.
I wish I had access to Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/) back when I was in high-school.
What's so frustrating to me about the iPhone OS platform, especially in the iPad, is that as a jailbroken iPhone user, I've GOT the ultimate next generation general-purpose pocket computer already, and I know that a jailbroken iPad would be a total revolution in general-purpose computing. But the fact that I must fight my vendor at every update, and that the jailbroken platform is seen as completely marginal or even detrimental (due to the piracy it facilitates) by most developers, takes away most of the value. It's frustrating that Apple is so close, and yet it's unclear whether they will ever make the leap into a real general-purpose computing platform. That is the core of most of my animosity towards Apple's implementation of the iPhone OS platform. If they were way off the mark, I wouldn't even care.
Not only did PosterBurner get good results from the sponsorship, but they also get to write an article about the results and bring in still more sales and PR.

It sounds like an all-around benefit to me.
I'm looking through the spec now. There don't seem to be any improvements. Just incompatible changes made in bizarre ways.

I'll post a summary of the changes tomorrow.

These sort of things often seem like they're massively over engineered. You could figure out the best way to do websockets in an afternoon without too much fuss.

Nothing is ever 'finished'. It's just a pain to break backward compatibility that's all.
Like the grandparent, I do the same. I have the copy routine also copy over the final 0.

If you pass in 0 as the character to remove, it still works fine. Nothing is shifted, so the final 0 is copied and the string remains null terminated. Technically this could be undesirable behavior (it's contrary to the spec), but I don't think the behavior if you do pass in a 0 to remove could be easily defined. What does it copy into the place where the null was? How does it know where to stop? Easier to just assume it's remove any non-null character and asking to remove null means remove nothing.
Sure :) I'll try and implement the changes in the next day or 2 and write up a summary of the differences. So far looking over the spec, it's just bizarre incompatible silly changes that don't really improve much.
We "forget" that Buffet makes a lot of money from the inheritance tax. How?

A lot of Buffet's money comes from insurance companies that sell life insurance intended to pay the inheritance tax. No tax, no need for that insurance....

What a guy. He advocates a tax that he won't pay and that results in money in his pocket....
Thanks for the feedback Bostwick,

Is there a specific part of the design you would like to see improved? Yeah, I'm planning on announcing over on other forums too :)
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Just because someone does not know a solution to a given problem does not mean they think it's impossible. The teacher gave the problem as examples of something that seems solvable but nobody has a correct solution to. Then someone with a lot of domain knowledge spent some time and solved it. IMO, that’s says more about the value of domain knowledge than tenacity. It's not like they spent 20 years comming up with a solution.

PS: There are a lot of long standing math problems which people have spent vary little time trying to solve.
It really is a wonderful scam. You're so right, if GS failed we'd just be punishing the world.

You're little comment about "THE WAY THE BANKING SYSTEM WORKS" is so insightful.

Everyone that doesn't support taxpayer bailouts of investment banks are ignorant of the banking system and can't comprehend how it works.

I'm not even going to bother with the rest. If you can't imagine any way for the government to fix the problem other than handing out public money to private companies you're a sheep.
So, why does the fed buy the treasury bonds from the goldman sachs instead of the treasury?
Just try it again -- I think their server is being hammered right now.
When I worked as a researcher the NIH, we took privacy very seriously, as we were liable for information leakage caused by our negligence. The federal government is liable for HIPPA violations.
Part of the journey into Linuxdom is learning a healthy dose of fear for that command. I always pause over the enter key for a few seconds, even when I'm sure I haven't typo'ed.
Not all girls are as "sad and cynical" as
I described.

But the statement I was responding to was

> In a sufficiently connected and unpredictable world, you can't seem good without being good.

So, this statement seems to claim to apply broadly.
So, I just said essentially that the statement
claims too much, that, for some counterexamples,
there are people
with behavior that contradicts the claim, e.g.,
some females, say, adults, using some of what
they learned as children, starting even in the
crib.

I didn't claim, and don't believe, that the
behavior I described, say, that you are describing,
appropriately, as "sad and cynical",
is common among either
males or females. But to counter PG's quite
broad claim, I just need some, say,
counterexamples; I've seen too many
of them.

More generally, from some of what I saw.
in a very "connected world",
some of the complexity of Presentation of
Self in Everyday Life can be
just astoundingly involved and complicated --
some very bright, determined people work
really hard at such presentation.

I would add, a very "connected world"
can lead to more complexity, posturing,
manipulation, difference between
reality and presentation,
etc. than a less connected world.
E.g., a person from such a more connected
world can
feel much better, and act much more like
themselves, posture, pretend, and manipulate less,
in a big city where they
have some anonymity. Presentation in
a "connected world" can be one heck of a lot
of hard mental work!
You mean like this tutorial on writing an interpreter using PyPy? [2011] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-writing-interp...
Well, it is a simple example and has the virtue of being true instead of the often quoted but misrepresented McDonalds hot coffee story. Simple examples showing a situation are best, and much like iOS bug statistics, the parties who would have the statistics on situations caused by tracking are never going to make them public.
And?

I wasn't trying to tell people how to be Stallman's friends, or how to get absolution (for whatever wrongs) by following the FSF's advice. Instead, I want to encourage people to pick their battles. If you can't get permission to release your full program as open source (or, if you plan to become rich and don't see any way to do so after you've published your source code), then perhaps whoever is responsible for the decision would be willing to release less than everything today.
The whole point is they're trying to have it both ways. They want to benefit from other people's work freely (that's why they're accepting pull requests), but do not want to let others benefit from their work in the same way.
>Startup communities welcome people no matter what their background

As long as they'll work long hours for low pay, dress right, binge drink, don't have a family, and somehow maintain an active interest in the open source community despite working 60hrs/week.
> A software developer might be able to do these things in
> California, but only barely, unless they have a very cushy
> arrangement or they've ridden an exit for a startup.

You can live in an affordable part of the state...there is a California outside of LA and the Bay.
The LED light on the webcam is bypass-able. On many cheap laptops it is controlled in software (at the kernel level), but even on Macs where it is meant to be hardware enforced it can be bypassed:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...

Disabling the camera LED is a fairly standard feature in malware suites. Even a lot of USB webcams control the LED from software. The LED is just a feel-good feature.
I can't follow this essay. I'm not sure how the ex-NSA entrepreneurs ties into transit workers working later because the train schedule was expanded. It reads like a list of unrelated complaints instead of a cohesive argument against...what? Trying to attract businesses?
Great post, thanks for taking the time to write it.

I took a similar route– quit my PhD program to join a startup at which I had interned the summer prior– and slowly find myself missing many aspects of grad school.

Will probably end back there at some point– if only there was a magical place with the best parts of grad school and the best parts of the startup world...
Every space in the physical and digital world limits speech. Hacker News limits speech, no? Can I go an insane racist tirade here? Otherwise we would all devolve into 4chan. People set up rails in the communities that they participate in, I don't think that's a bad thing. It's just to which degree you want those rails to be.
Extreme point of view for a technology that hasn't been developed yet. Why kill something, when's not even alive lol
When I first started working on software I was fortunate enough to get exposed to working municipal contracts. One example was building out a payment gateway and website for the LA county coroner and medical examiner. This included making a small e-commerce site for their gift shop (I don’t know why they had a gift shop).

A friends father, who was very involved in local government, told me with regards to government work, “failure is unacceptable but indefinite delay is ideal.”

As long as you are in no immediate hurry to get paid, these sorts of local/state gov projects can be quite lucrative and require very little day to day effort to get them done. The hardest part is learning how to navigate the RFP process but it’s really just about reading the rules and proposals posted. The reason government is often overcharged for mediocre software comes down to this deeply flawed procurement process.
>Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology

It's not really a realistic option for most people.

Many folks just can't change schools at will. They simply don't have that kind of flexibility in their life / options.
Easy solution: marry rich and be good to your partner.
See my above response.