jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The fascinating thing is that the Titan was completely inertially guided, i.e., no GPS or ground-based navigation. The high precision IMU + gyro send the computer acceleration and angular velocity and you integrate that over time to figure out where you are now. I'd think this would be very challenging and error-prone for inter-continental travel especially when the thing is planning to detonate nuclear war head. I wonder what algorithms they used. Typical code to do dead reckoning from IMU+gyro is fairly short but drifts usually is huge killer.
I think it will fundamentally reshape a few aspects of life - and not all is bad.

Needless, gratuitous (business and other) travel for one - which in turn will lead to much better housing prospects for young people. Treating a house as investment was the most damaging trend of the last two decades.

The loss of accumulated wealth also reduces inequalities.

Wasteful practices will be affected more in all walks of life.

Reducing the carbon footprint is also a massive benefit. We will reduce that more than by any other measure we would have taken.
watching people rediscover old knowledge that’s common among subject matter experts is pretty fun. All of this is standard first year seminary curricula in many denominations.

A standard joke is that “seminary is where eager young fundamentalists go to be turned into atheists”, because the gap of knowledge between the laity and the seminarians is so huge that most of what one group knows is anathema to the other. Tell your average, nominally protestant, church-going american that we’ve known for centuries now that there’s absolutely no way that moses himself if there ever was such a person literally wrote anything and they’ll look at you like you’ve got four heads.

If you believe or think you have to believe that “the”
bible is “literally” “true” then your hermeneutic sucks because you’re using a worldview that’s at best 200 years old to naively interpret a loose collection of texts by hundreds of authors that span thousands of years and a myriad of translations. I don’t care if you’re concerned about the truth of the text or whether there’s a god or what it/he/she/they are like: “gotcha!” readings are a disservice to the texts. The bible is a messy millennia long argument between humanity and itself trying to figure shit out, using every literary trick in the book.

Dominic Crossan’s quote: “ My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”

It’s like being fully and ideologically committed to newtonian mechanics circa 1840 and then talking to a modern high energy physicist: you’re in for a big bucket of ice water down your spine!

incidentally: the jesus narrative came before the mithras cult; the transmission went the other way!
My view is that this isn’t an underlying financial crisis. However, of course the temporary disruptions will be of such magnitude that they will create one. Worst case IMHO is that it could be way worse than the Great Depression due to the very tight coupling, high leverage, high overhead and JIT nature of the global economy today. There will be a huge cascading failure effect.

That said, interventions can have a huge impact on the extent of that. Interventions that delay/defer/mitigate economic damage at the entity and individual levels I think can do the most to simply “pause” the economy and prevent underlying degradation while we deal w the pandemic.

Imagine the benefit of just all debt being rolled over month-by-month to the end of the loan term, and similar for renters. Defer irreversible economic decisions and go into subsistence mode. I think that will be the best best for the maximal eventual recovery. That will be the difference in a return to prior levels taking 6-12 mo vs 5-10 years.

Sadly I don’t think the US is heading in this policy direction. I half wonder if we should just do it grassroots and then there will be ample support to reimburse it via tax or other incentive.

That’s how I am thinking about it anyway.
That wouldn't be good for your anonymity. You get a lot of fingerprinting issues with other browsers which the tor browser tries to avoid.
It seems that the health of the bank is something which is actively obfuscated. Saying "buyer beware" is like telling people that they should be responsible to make sure that the cars they buy are safe enough, or to make sure that the restaurants they eat at have clean enough standards in the kitchens. That's the entire point of regulatory inspections: No one can afford to be attentive to that level of detail or be an expert in everything.
This happens all the time.

If you need to do numerical analysis in a scripting language, you pick python because it has numpy.

I once had to make a QR Code reader and writer back when it was only seen in Japan and the only library available was for Java, so I picked that.

Recently I had some ruby code that parsed a file, but I needed to pump it into a proprietary database with only a JDBC connection... so I picked JRuby.

Often picking a new language is much easier than rewriting a particular library.
I agree with the "exhibits clear and concise thinking" points below, but I also think it has a lot to do with being a distributed company.

They communicate via email and Campfire all day, and their main marketing channel is their blog - which multiple people write for - so being able to write is of even greater importance for them.
It appears as though the Pulse app is back in the App Store http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
Much like this current debate, it depends.

Hi-Def content has a higher resolution, but if you have average vision with an average size TV and you sit the average distance from the screen then you can't possibly see any difference.

When you're in the TV shop where they've carefully arranged the TVs so you can't stand more than a few feet back then there will be obvious differences.

Here's a nice graph to check whether you should be able to see a difference:

http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html

One interesting wrinkle is that if you're at the right distance for HD, then you're too close for any SD content you have and vice versa so unless you only watch one resolution then you either put up with the SD or the HD looking worse than it should.
It's actually really easy to setup a git deployment platform for PHP on pretty much any shared host that offers SSH access.

Here's one example solution that has been working well for me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279169/deploy-php-using-g...
Almost the opposite: my position is that there is a distinction but it's purely lexical, and the two terms are effectively synonymous. That's why it's not quite right to say that people "confuse" them all the time (as my grandparent did); it's more correct to say they're not as precise as you might want.

You yourself show the interchangeable nature of dots and pixels when you say you measure the size of your display in dots, even though (assuming it's not CRT), it's very much measured in pixels, regardless of the resolution you've got your desktop set at. (This whole thing came about because of people saying Bray was wrong to measure his screen in dots, after all).

tl;dr: you can insist on a distinction between dpi and ppi, but it doesn't really get you anything, and it definitely doesn't help people understand printing!
There doesn't have to be just one main focus. Different groups can work on different things.
I suspect much of it is a conflation of the properties of anonymous functions with the properties of first class functions. People see first class functions implemented as lambdas and end up focusing on the wrong part of it (rather than fully understanding what is going on).

I realize that more powerful anonymous functions can make for prettier code, but Python's single expression anonymous functions cover an awful lot of the situations where making a name would make the code substantially uglier.
Yes !
I highly recommand this plugin to those who are not familiar with the strange Emacs shortcuts ... but also to those who are not familiar with vim. evil-mode allows to learn Emacs and Vim at the same time, it's perfect for a beginner.
I'm less certain about the morality of the charges than you are. My certainty also does not have the same magnitude as yours but on the inverse vector. Someone will inevitably premise a reply on the idea that it does, though.

My understanding, after reading the news and the relevant stuff on freebarrettbrown.org (which collects a bunch of filings) is that he faced sentencing for three counts: (i) concealing laptops during the execution of a warrant, (ii) threatening an FBI agents, and (iii) being an accessory after the fact to the STRATFOR hack.

Of those three, (i) and (ii) seem open-and-shut. Even Brown's own motion to dismiss concedes them. (The more damning of the two, about the laptops, was accompanied with a sort of harebrained argument that it's not a crime to conceal evidence so long as you hide it somewhere in the scope of the search warrant, so that it is at least mathematically possible that agents executing the warrant could have found it.) He plead guilty to them, then discussed them in their particulars at his allocution.

Accessory-after-the-fact liability for relaying a URL to a bunch of stolen credit cards is a fuzzier charge. I have no idea what I think about it. But two things worth considering:

(1) Accessory-after-the-fact liability is a much lesser offense than being an accomplice to the STRATFOR hack. Accomplice liability would have charged him as a principal to the actual crime. That's not what he got convicted for.

(2) The charge doesn't criminalize sharing of URLs, but rather intentionally facilitating the spread of stolen credit card numbers. The DOJ had the burden of proving intent. His "actus reus" was, I think we all agree, very minimal. But his mens rea might not have been.

His vulnerability to having mens rea proven at trial was probably greatly enhanced by the fact that one of the open-and-shut charges against him was about his effort to shield Jeremy Hammond from prosecution. It would have been hard for him to argue that he wasn't much more intimately involved in the STATFOR hack than some Twitter rando RT'ing a URL would have been.

I dunno. As usual, nothing is as simple as Boing Boing and Wired make things out to be.

I think the government had a stronger case against Brown than it did against Auernheimer.
I run https://sysadmincasts.com/, which is a weekly bite sized screencast for sysadmins. Also posted to Show HN a while ago [1]. I can tell you that my inbox is flooded with "Thank You" messages, and requests to put out more content, I am struggling to keep up! As patio11 put it, if you can say: "I'll save you 12 hours of Googling and reading Free Information On The Internet (TM) and it will cost you $50" [2], you can make money. There is just so much text content out there, and not very many high quality videos, so there is a major void in the market. Shane Smith (creator of VICE) talks about how he is creating tons of video content, and text is pretty much toast [3], well worth a watch, just think about how this applies to the tech education space.

I am not doing anything unique or novel though, there are countless sites that I have learned from, railscasts.com, railstutorial.org, egghead.io, laracasts.com, gorails.com, etc. Granted, so far this has all been free, and I have not started to monetize yet, but I do have traction, and see a clear need. So, take that for what it's worth. Very happy to have any feedback, or answer questions, just shoot me an email (see profile). Also, if you have a talent in a particular area, I would highly suggest thinking about how to share that via video with other people.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8011081

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8508187

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHjln3yZFs
In addition to the already noted comparison between a web app patch and OS patch it's interesting that the organization that has found these two security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software is (partially?) funded by Google.
There's also tragedy of the anticommons. Remember the Vogons from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

Your solution to the wolf problem involves figuring out how to assign ownership to every molecule of air and every rock on the sea floor, the wolf problem is probably easier to solve.
It is no? It's not easy to rewrite into something else if you need to. With rails the biggest reason you might need to do that is the abysmal performance. You need twenty servers to do the work you could have done with one.
I think you have to address the parent's argument that machines are not "alive", while biological organisms are.

Of course, first we need to define "alive", and then we should ask: can we build something that will be "alive"?

Do you consider the entities in Avida simulation to be alive? How about biological vs computer viruses? Is there a fundamental difference between them?

If we simulate a biological organism on a atomic level, together with its immediate environment, so that it behaves exactly like its real-world counterpart would, do we call it "alive"?
I think you may have missed my point, and that quote you are using is just on the borderline of being taken out of context. Perhaps that's my fault for using the word 'agitprop' in place of groupthink, stunting, or something else less loaded.

I'm not dismissing postmodernity and associated schools of thought, rather I'm dismissing lazily shoe-horning your opponents ideas into a more simplistic, easier to attack strawman. It might sound like postmodernism, but it definitely is not.

Postmodern critical theory is about deconstruction, context and narrative structures -- the absolute opposite of black and white thinking and strawmaning. The latter is what I am dismissing.

The sorts of bad faith strawmen I am referring to are about as close to postmodernism as new age woo peddlers' arguments are to quantum mechanics. It's debasing to the true theory to even call them misapplications. To your point, I dismiss this sort of behavior because I understand it.
Why would a totalitarian state allow 150M+ of its citizens to travel abroad annually pre-covid to experience 'democracy/freedom' yet despite doing so they overwhelmingly returned to their supposedly oppressive country.

As for 'real democracy' no country has it least of all the US which more accurately an oligarchic plutocracy with power held by select few/wealthy(ie top 1%).
The same reason people play the high stakes tables instead of penny slots...orders of magnitude more risk means orders of magnitude more reward.
Gosh those are pretty. Sort of reminds me of Pennant, that lovely baseball stat app from a few years back.
Edit: Silly me, thanks for clarifying.
Yes, 2 weekend & 1 night call in 5 years is absolutely tolerable.

I was at a shop with clever management that fired faster than they backfilled and left the team in such disarray that the replacements started quitting as well. Ended up from a team of 6 down to effectively me & another guy rotating support.
I’m talking about getting woken up once or twice a month at 2-3am to join a live incident bridge & debug systems for 2 hours, while being asked to give an update & ETA every 15 minutes, trying not to wake your wife.. and finishing just in time to see the light in the sky. To then head into the office and deal with more fire drills all day and then get asked why feature releases were behind schedule.

Current org has auto-generating incident channels in slack which seems clever until you are on rotation and there are 5 different incident channels live at any given time with messaging popping in throughout the day as some are resolved in minutes, hours or days.

A lot of this is just management failing the marshmallow test.
I'm going to take an uneducated wild guess that the others are nuclear war, climate change, and pandemics.
Says who?

Okay, that question actually has an answer: the IEC. Unfortunately, lots of software disagrees with them, including Windows, because for some strange reason the IEC thought it was a good idea to redefine an existing measurement and then add a new term to mean what the old term used to mean.

The result was 100% predictable. Files now have two different sizes depending on which software you're using, and it's very difficult to tell which definition is in use. Even worse, the difference between these measurements is quite large, and converting between them isn't simple.

As much as I wish the United States used the metric system, I don't think we should redefine an inch to equal two centimeters...
Where I live (southeastern US) it's $0.089/kWh. There's additional taxes on it that make it functionally closer to $0.10. But yeah, fairly cheap.

Which is a good thing because we have electric heat and it's been a very cold month. I'm expecting an about $350 bill.
This article only seems accurate if you’ve never met any average journalists. Your run of the mill reporter is looking to tell an accurate story, nothing more dramatic or interesting then that.

The idea that these news organizations are monolithic structures where hive minded journalists are endlessly seeking to push their master’s message is on its face ludicrous, as are all conspiracy theories.
Kind of. International Sign[0] is a pidgin language that came together in the early 1950s at the first World Deaf Congress. It was more formalized in the 70s. However, it's never used in a day-to-day fashion (like at home or school), so people don't adopt native fluency.

It's not perfect, but it does help resolve communication barriers at large world Deaf-culture events like the Deaf Olympics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Sign
Can we write data structure libraries? Making a save game editor for old games I like was the first thing that came to mind.
What would the privacy screen regarding the default Google search box say?
It's interesting to me that he has an article a few places below this one on "Contrived versus genuine mathematical problems". Anything that looks at string properties of integers' base ten representations as important seems fairly contrived. Project Euler suffers a lot from this type of problem as well.
They have successfully completed a coast-to-coast trip with no human intervention.
Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov... Yeah, I'm Russian :-p

Among English poems, I rather like this one by Laurie Lee:

A golden fish like a pint of wine
Rolls the sea undergreen,
Glassily balanced on the tide
Only the skin between.

Fish and water lean together,
Separate and one,
Till a fatal flash of the instant sun
Lazily corkscrews down.

Did fish and water drink each other?
The reed leans there alone;
As we, who once drank each other's breath,
Have emptied the air, and gone.

And of course W.H. Auden:

...I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Switching between many programs and systems, I have a hard time keeping track of what colors mean what. Especially when people start customizing their colors. There are enough tools to show you what a file is, I don't need directories printed in red and files in blue and symlinks in green. ls -l is good enough and works everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

Of course, as has been pointed out already, even if all SSL hosting servers with one IP per certificate consolidated their certificates, it wouldn't help much because network routing relies on routing tables not being too big, so it is only useful if entire blocks can shared.

I'd say that deploying IPv6 widely will actually be easier than trying to salvage allocated IPv4 address blocks.
You wouldn't have to apply the sentiment factor for all sites. You could have a rule that would only lower rankings for sites which have an overwhelming majority of negative links (say >90%). I don't think there would be many cases where a spammer could achieve that level of impact and those few cases could be dealt with through manual intervention.

As for determining sentiment, it's not something I've ever tried to do, but is it really that hard ? Intuitively I would think positive and negative articles would have significantly different distributions of certain words.
> Trade barriers, in the sense of protective tariffs to prevent outside manufactures selling cheaply in your domestic market, can be very, very, very good for industrial development.

Not really.

You hurt your own economy because your own consumers now to pay a higher price for their goods. The protected manufacturer has reduced incentive to reduce costs or improve quality. And of course you have hurt people on the other side of the world, who also happen to be humans with families and aspirations, by cutting them out of your market.

The only winners from trade barriers are the protected. Everyone else loses, over and above the ostensible benefits.
If they already have the speed camera installed (assuming they did... thats how they got the before figure), then I would think the mailing the ticket part already exists.

I know all the red-light cameras (close enough) in Toronto get the tickets mailed out. You can even pay them online now!
A meta-question: why do people keep downvoting this comment? It's been up and down ever since I posted it. Is it that I'm critical of Ruby? I would've thought that if I take the time to write some code and respond in a rational way, then it should be worth at least a couple of karma. What gives?
Can you support copyright without resorting to the misapplied notion of having the right to control and profit from your labors?

There are long established rights, 'natural' rights if you want, that pertain to things like being able to do what we want with the things we own and the information we have.

Copyright is a government granted monopoly, which is supposed to be temporary.

The right to control and profit from your labor does not extend to restricting the basic activities of other people.

If you have valuable skills, you can charge for them. The market for services doesn't evaporate when copyright is eliminated.

One problem with long term copyright is that it disconnects doing creative work from profiting from creative work, the opposite of it's original intent.

Piracy is morally neutral.
what's your service and how do you get that metadata?
My fondest memory of the Melissa virus was coming home and my wife asking me why an email looked all messed up. I told her that that was why I run Linux. She looked really confused, and said she wanted to see the actual email since it was from a friend. I explained that she was staring at the source code to a virus, and told her what would have happened had we been using Windows.
Called it back in 2008: https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/

OpenID 2.0 screamed "embrace, extend, and extinguish" loud and clear. It's 8 years later, probably not as evil (TM) as I had prophesied (more likely attributable to the death of OpenID rather than malice), but, yeah...

EDIT: Yes, 6, not 8. I got the 8 from 2008 stuck in my head, apparently. Oops!
It's targeted to iOS devices, so that is not very surprising.
Same, but you will miss some torrents. Both torrentz.eu and kat.ph are complying with DMCA requests.
never tried it. AngularJS gave me a strong feeling of j2ee, bold, tons of reinvetions of old concepts. most of all, the authors are from google which never shipped a high quality Js/browser based product.
except the original gmail.

the only problem i have with this article is: i wrote a hatre comment on angularjs about 8 months ago and got downvoted heavily, but this one just keeps earning points!
Using Firefox 34.0 on Ubuntu, I get a different code in the private browsing window. No add-ons are enabled.
Same here, got same code on OSX 10.9.5 Chrome 39.0.2171.95