jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> scientists predict that the Amazon rainforest will be totally gone by the year 2010. Obviously that didn't happen.

Wouldn't that be natural to expect because of efforts to extend its lifetime?

If this study has a positive effect on policies, etc. I think it'd also be natural to expect that it lives longer than 2064. I interpret 2064 as being the end of its lifetime only if we do absolutely nothing more to prevent it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

It’s mysterious how Bitcoiners hate the Fed printing money but they get awfully quiet with Tether printing money when it helps prop up the price.
When I heard “iPhone mini” rumours last year I was like “Finally! I can get a much more powerful 4S!”

Unfortunately that’s not what happened.
> Does everyone get recalled to the nearest office the first down quarter?

No. The habits of the past were only viable because everyone was indulging them. Those habits have been broken. Whether it's the lower cost of operation due to not squandering money on unnecessary facilities or the greater pool of talent available to those that accommodate remote workers or the business continuity advantages of a workforce that can continue to function despite this and inevitable future infectious disease problems remote work is here to stay. Those businesses that can leverage remote work will outcompete those that might but don't.
And its probably going to go away and future minis sidelined, as its sales are poor.
Spamassassin is storage-agnostic, at heart it is just a script that takes messages piped through stdin. It doesn’t know where your preexisting e-mail archive is stored on disk. Storage is done by either your IMAP server or your e-mail client, and obviously it is up to you to tell Spamassassin where those messages are for Bayesian training.
Deliberately stretching the overtone window to extreme positions is how things go to hell - you might think you are just applying leverage but plenty of others will happily occupy the space you created and push things farther out still.

Overtone creep is how the French Revolution progressed from enlighten liberalism to the guillotine and indiscriminate mass executions.
At the very least, the manager who approved this hack should be charged with a criminal offence. This imbalance in the justice system is beyond disgusting. People need to protest this in front of DOJ offices. There are people in prison right now fur doing security research yet these criminals are off with a fine.
No, human nature inevitably leads to corporatism. Let me give my definition of capitalism and corporatism to start my argument.

Capitalism: People are free to buy and sell their own property as they see fit. This necessarily implies people have enforced property rights. In other words people with economic freedom are practicing capitalism.

Corporatism: Groups of people organize (into corporations) in order to advance their interests (usually to make a profit). One way to advance their interests is to push for laws and regulations that favor themselves at the expense of others.

So in the United States we have a constitution designed to protect freedom from people who are trying to favor their own interests. Now we're all involved in both sides to some degree or another. I want freedom to do whatever I want. I also want restrictions on your freedom to do whatever you want to do to me. Where do we end up? Well we never end up anywhere, we just keep changing what the limits of our freedoms are. Human nature being what it is, given the opportunity we push for personal benefits at the expense of others freedoms - Corporatism.
I am a UTCS graduate, working in industry.

At UT, I spent 2 years programming both Haskell and C++, and then 2 years with very little programming. We focused instead on theorem proving and linguistics. This has a lot to do with Dijkstra's legacy in the department.

Implementation, industry, and start-ups are thought as an exercise left for the reader, and not part of curriculum. Throughout my career, I've always felt proud about this.
I'd say good pay allows you to live your life comfortably, regardless of geographic location.
There is a map in Nagoya station in an alcove. The map is a work of art, so they put a glass pane across the alcove. Unfortunately, this compromises the art's utility as a map, and many travelers (particularly foreigners) don't realize that it is ten feet from the information desk that has real maps. This led to a lot of people leaning into the alcove to see the detail on the map, causing lots of head banging on the glass.

They eventually fixed this by a ranging for an artistic arrangement of dots on the glass, which appear suspended in air over the alcove and clue people in that there is glass. The new problem? People try to touch the dots, so the glass is now smudgy for most of the day, which predictably drives the janitors nuts.
Except the problem is the only people whose voices are heard in this are the rich. Telecoms can afford to do this, while the people on the other side of it don't have the time or means to.
> well over 100 APs..

With that many neighbors I am not sure if there is much that can be done. You can take steps on your network, but getting everyone else to cooperate is a different story. Even if they are willing, how many would be able to manage their channel allocations and transmit power?
how you figure out who your direct and indirect competition is

I talk to my customers. They're very good at telling me "I was using X until I discovered Tarsnap" and (far less often) "I'm not going to be using Tarsnap any more because I'm switching to X".
all of windows was? see: http://xkcd.com/323/
12 tones is not the only possibility. there is also a 19 tone scale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_equal_temperament

there are also some mp3 files using 19 tone scale:
e.g.
http://www.harrington.lunarpages.com/mp3/Jeff-Harrington_Pre...
Not porn. Its a static yellow HTML page with black text with the author talking about his experiments with Perl 6, Haskell and the similarities between them.
Give me some time and I'll capture some of my machines.

But it's strange to hear the Apple II beep and not hear a 5.15" floppy doing it's initial scan.
This is an awesome way to show your support of open source software. I hope to see lots of donations to this!
The village smithy is dead. He's been killed by mass production and the throw-away society. But black smithing is still alive. When you've got the money and the appetite for something unique you can always order a bespoke wrought iron gate (http://www.wroughtironart.net/).
Seems ALT+0173 works here as a "blank" character. I'm not sure of its exact purpose, but I've never seen it dealt with and often use it as "nothing". The only solution I've seen to properly sanitising Unicode characters is just to disable them entirely and print their name.
Getting a nice fatal error, mate. :-)
Sorry about the confusion.

"Omega" was a reference to the Seibel talk I quote from, in which he casually postulates Omega as the most powerful language that might be built for current architectures.
> There are lots of angel investors in the bay area because of exits that netted them 2-5M or higher ($10-20M) as regular employees.

But that happened back in the day when an early employee got a good cut of the stock. VCs have been perfecting their process, especially since the early 2010s. The contracts are different now -- the founders and the VCs get pretty much all the equity now.

Look at even the biggest IPOs this year. Look at how much equity was in the employee stock pools. Not nearly as much as it used to be.

> Today Stripe seems like a good choice to get a good equity return as an employee on IPO

That's highly unlikely. The company is doing well, but a new employee will get a tiny fraction of the equity .
Great debugging work there! (Try doing that on a closed-source OS!)
it's actually pretty easy for a shop with its own servers and network team (in-house or outsourced) to come up with a network diagram that satisfies the PCI DSS 3.0 SAQ requirements.

I think you are dramatically underestimating how many very small businesses, private individuals, bootstrapped start-ups, etc. would be caught by this.

For one perspective, consider that in the current EU VAT mess, some estimates have suggested that over 250,000 microbusinesses are selling on-line in the UK alone right now (or at least were until the end of last year). Many of them are side businesses, either earning a little bit of extra money for selling anything from music to knitting patterns, or second businesses run by folks who already have full-time jobs. Of course some of them are entirely built on marketplace sites, but plenty aren't, they just know enough web design to set up a basic site and slap something like a PayPal or Stripe Checkout button on the page.

To a first approximation, none of those businesses is going to comply with the new rules, despite operating their own site and taking money on-line via credit card. They wouldn't even know what the long words meant. Even the outliers who do, either because they're in an IT field or maybe if they're a bit larger and have slightly more resources, probably don't have the time and money available to comply.

These are ma and pa shops, family businesses, side businesses run in people's spare time, start-ups trying to gain traction, and so on. They don't have their own networking team. They don't even have a dedicated IT guy. And they surely can't afford to double the number of servers they use just to avoid the redirect issue, to pay specialist consultants to figure out all the details of their almost certainly outsourced IT infrastructure, whether or not the infrastructure provider makes available the necessary data in some form, and to spend hours if not days figuring out how to self-certify under the new PCI-DSS rules.

Avoiding that kind of nonsense is, after all, why these organisations use services like PayPal or Stripe or the hosted pages from their bank in the first place.
References to climate change are going to become something like an index fossil for papers written in the current decade. A paper might seem to have no connection to climate science at all, but if the authors can grasp for some tenuous link that lets them put "climate change" in their abstract, they will.

Say you're a researcher fifty years in the future who is doing a literature review. When a paper about anti-hydrogen trapping works in a reference to climate change, you won't even need to look at the date of the paper to know, roughly, when it was written.
Sounds a lot like geizhals.de - price comparison site with detailed info on products, best for tech products though
Typical LED bulbs have shit spectrum coverage, and have terrible flicker when used with dimmers. I’ve been stockpiling incandescents.
I don't usually comment on typos, but that one could be confusing. I assume you meant "needs to exist", is that right?
> they don't want you to be able to effectively search their image system that way)

Why?
This reminds me of The Swarm [1], a fiction book that starts with freak events happening around the world's oceans. The first of them is about a species of marine worms that, together with bacteria, destabilise the methane clathrate in the continental shelf. This causes the continental slope to collapse, creating a tsunami that hits the North Sea's coasts and kills millions.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(Sch%C3%A4tzing_nove...
https://tweakers.net

Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board.

It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).
> ... and archive for consolidating notes into monthly archive files.

Why not just perform the consolidation automatically (the first time textnote is executed after the first of the month), allowing you to do away with the subcommand?

Or perhaps make automatic consolidation configurable / optional (along with any desired default options)?
It always seemed obvious to me that Dropbox has access to your unencrypted files because they make them available to you through the web interface.
Organic SEO. This isn't necessarily limited to early adopters: it is not obvious to the average Internet user that an attractively presented website which ranks #1 to their query is a new entrant in the field.

Most of my customers assume, all evidence to the contrary, that my products are made by some megacorp somewhere. (Most common guess that I've heard: made by Google, because they found it on the Googles.)
I was a science major. Yet every topic I wish I had spent more time studying turned out to be technical. For example, I never took linear algebra, or a course on polymers.

Why not let people be "well-rounded" in a field of their own choosing? We don't insist that every college applicant learn Greek and Latin anymore. Following this further, I can't think of a justification for insisting on any particular requirement at the university, other than to ensure that every graduate should complete a certain number of credit hours with some minimum average course difficulty level. If someone wants to study nothing but chemistry, physics and math, why get in their way? Who is anyone to get in the way of someone who knows what he wants? For those that don't know, how is telling them what they want a legitimate answer?
Dedupe and cleartext metadata as stated in the article I referenced, would allow for the following possibilities:

If an attacker could figure out the hash method used by dropbox on the files and intercept a few hashes from a victim, it's plausible that an attacker could trick the service into thinking that he had uploaded the files on his own account, allowing access to the victim's files.

Could you explain what would need to be done to protect against this attack method?

Security is hard - I hope yours improves.
I'm guessing tarsnap doesn't satisfy the 3rd criteria, nor is tarsnap able to decrypt the user's files, even when the client is connected. Perhaps cperciva can comment.
at the expense of conveniences like web access, document previewing, simple sharing, etc. - sure :-). if your answer to the web access concern is: derive the key from the password, who's to say we wouldn't store the key and later use it to decrypt your data?

web access non-withstanding, you'd be making a leap of faith to believe that the client is 100% trustworthy and that encryption is actually happening. at some point you have to make a decision as to whether or not you trust the entity (dropbox, google, or anybody else). if you don't, you should use something like truecrypt between you and the service.

all arguments made against dropbox apply to your gmail attachments, gmail mail, google docs, etc.
I like hearing your perspective. Mine is different. My filter is that this format works well because there will always be a use for sites with a fairly high information density, and with high quality commenting.
The consequences would be that more people would be able to cancel services they didn’t want. I find it highly unlikely that those people would agree to continue paying for services they don’t need simply to subsidize other users of the services. So no I’m pretty sure that the result would be many clubs closing, the consequences would be exactly as intended.
Don't forget the unfunded part of the current pensions, this has been a problem building over multiple years and probably won't have and easy solution.
This is a good start for setting up rails on your development box, but when it comes to deploying it to a clean server, just following these instructions will give you a headache fast.

This tutorial, and some others on this guys blog helped me do just that.
http://kris.me.uk/2010/08/30/rails3-hosting-all-in-one.html
A few years ago a co-worker and I built a system for integrating our company's statements with the post office's online bill payment system. I picked "Brownlee" and "Harris" for the server names after two postal workers that... went postal.

The names stuck for a while until someone high up asked what the names meant. I had to change the names after that :(
Thanks for this. One of my goals for 2011 is to get into network programming. At less than 1000 lines of code, I think I may just have to go through the source.
from this story and others i read on HN: there is something really wrong with the justice system in america.
Your mom seems quite open-minded indeed. It will take a little bit of time before I can convince my mom ordinary cable TV isn't the only way.
I am a recent convert too (< 1yr). If you are moving over from Ubuntu,the transition will be less traumatic. First thing to figure out is the "state" of dock icons. There is a little halo under the dock icons that tells you have an active window. Then figuring out the Apple+Key convention as opposed to Ctrl+Key convention. Also figure out the ease of installation and uninstalling apps, which blew my mind.

As for the apps, get MacPorts and get meld for file compares. SmartGit client is great. TextWrangler is great too. Figuring out how to get all vim extensions. Actually figuring out the "package" architecture of an installed app is also important.
They're much weaker than annotations and attributes. You can amend the type system with annotations (e.g. nullability detection, as well as compile time validation - check out micronaut to see an example of what they're doing with annotations).
Hydrogen is just another form of battery or energy carrier, just like gasoline today. We still need batteries (of all kinds) to power the future as energy needs and mobility increases.

There are still major issues with hydrogen containment since it can leak out of just about everything (being the smallest atomic structure) and also many hydrogen systems are used as fuel-cells to produce electricity rather than combustion for physical force. In that case, a Tesla vehicle powered by hydrogen would just have a fuel-cell energy store but still retain the same electric drivetrain.
Enlighten us: what is that reason?
The answer is get bought by an ad-funded behemoth or a VC-funded behemoth or struggle to get by. I didn't say better measures of success were viable under this system.

There's a reason I'm not a capitalist. Profit as the only measure of success is how we ended up in this hell world. You're welcome to only care about that, but I prefer to imagine and work toward better futures.
Yes, but work ethic and obsession are the absolute baseline you need.
You don't need Turing machines for P and NP. Most reasonable models of computation are equivalent to Turing machines up to polynomial factors.
> populated by mostly American residents

I'm very interested to see if this is true. Seems like the US (take it you mean US, not all of Americas?) is about 4% of the world population, so my guess would be that there is more non-US residents on HN than US residents. (but I don't actually have any insights into it)
wow, I don't know how I missed this before. Thanks!
Probably a promotion for failing upwards. At least, that's how precedence makes me feel about it.
I worked at a place that was running SQL Server 2012 in compatibility mode with an older version. The place had a pretty high turn over rate, so a lot of the expertise is in the existing tech rather than the people. It was hard enough to try convince them to upgrade SQL Server (I wanted to leverage row level security to get away from having a dozen copies of what was essentially the same app, but that required SQL Server 2016)

Also, when I brought up postgres for a new project & mentioned it being open source, response was "that means it could vanish any day"

Inertia is real
They can. They won't. EMEA accounts for 30% of Google's revenue.
Cool? Take a look at this: https://www.scriptol.fr/xml/code/invaders.svg
> These invaders brought the Vedas (sanscript) which become modern day Hinduism

This is a pervasive myth due to accademia superficially spreadjng such nonsense, and Indians are broadly speaking quite correct to disagree.

The oldest layers of the rigveda describes an environment that seems to lie elsewhere, probably further north. Indo-Aryan religion is different, and Sanskrit is quite different from Iranian too, and this is likely due to local influences. The language too is full of non-indo-european elements (more recently an article by Lubotsky considers a Baktrian substrate for example, but without a solution). It's not really clear where and when Indo-Iranian actually split up, and I'm personally not too fond of tree models that branch out, unless you can trace it to the individual level in detail.

The grandparent's comment to the effect that the genetic lineage and socio-linguistic affiliation has been well understood is misleading as well. I'm not too deep into archaeogenetics but a society to be associated with the putative homeland remains illusive and not just as a matter of finding the bones.

> DNA shows most Europeans are from 5 males 5000 years ago when the Yamnaya invaded Europe from the step (likely Ukraine).

That shows a severe misunderstanding, that can even be found in wikipedia articles. Yamnaya is way too late and shows not the genetic profile to be the ancestor of Corded Wear, Bell Beakers and other archaeological groupings who are associated with the westward expansion.

> The people in Europe before this were called the European hunter gathers

This is not even wrong. There are also CHG (Caucasian), WHG (Western), etc. and as the names betray these are rather loose groupings.

You are very wrong on the level of a typical pop-sci article, and this doesn't even begin to touch upon the linguistic side of things, which is full of Affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent.

It's all very topical because ring species typically emerge around seas, mountains or other barriers when the end of a long line of developed comes back to the start changed beyond recognition. The Indo-Iranian north-west route around the Caspian sea therefore has to deal with the subaltern counter clockwise route, the fact that Greek is considered the closest relative language (and possibly donor of the Indic script, next to Armenian), the problem of tracing Scythian where there is barely any evidence of the language, the fact that Dravidian, Turkic and other origins are so uncertain that it can't be clear to what extent they had an influence, the Armenian homeland problem, as well as the Tocharien and Hittite's origin. There is simply no esteblished hronology, just as different timelines for the Levante are a crutch.

The point where some sense of superiority is aduced and identified with, it becomes racist no matter which side of the debate you stand on, whenever you take a side.
Would you pay, say, $120/year? What if it wasn't nearly as good as Google yet?
> the salesman wasn't supposed to TELL YOU that we are monitoring what you install

Exactly. The old "I'm sorry I got caught" and not "I'm sorry I did it."
I don't have a true scientific source on hand, but the BBC Horizon episode "The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories" goes in a little on how genetics influence eating behaviour amongst other things.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hjnr
Point taken. :-) Mine is down too.
I'm surprised author just have figured that one out, it's been here for like 6 years. As in any system, people will try to game it, and reselling is far from being an incomprehensible one.