jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Confusing World of USB
https://fabiensanglard.net/nousb/index.html
Say hello to Octicons
https://github.com/blog/1106-say-hello-to-octicons
Draft of the Fast.ai Book
https://github.com/fastai/fastbook
Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds
http://news.trust.org/item/20200115150054-km9of/
Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2138014.stm
68 Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard
http://www.bigmessowires.com/2014/11/17/68-katy-68000-linux-on-a-solderless-breadboard/
YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself
https://marketresearchtelecast.com/youtube-ceo-receives-freedom-of-expression-award-sponsored-by-the-video-platform-itself/34449/
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
https://github.com/basecamp/trix
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked
https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6
Routed Gothic Font
https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
“I didn’t meet my girlfriend until 12 years after our daughter was born”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/style/modern-love-how-i-met-my-children.html
GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement
https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/
I would buy way, WAY more iTunes video if I could re-compress the video to any format I want, and share it with friends. (I realize that the latter is highly undesirable to content holders, but video has always been highly social among my friends, with frequent sharing of DVDs and such.)
I just received my first email notice from notifo and it's still not clear to me when I will (and will not) receive email notices at HN:

Will I get them ONLY when someone replies to a specific post I've made?

Will I get them when someone posts a reply in a thread I've created, even though the reply is to someone else's post instead of to mine?

Will I get them when someone posts a reply to someone else in a thread that someone else has created?

These are just a few of the questions that remain unanswered until I do some more testing ... but my current suspicion is that notifo cannot notify me unless the post is a direct reply to one of my posts.

If this is true it means I will NOT get a notice -- even in a thread I created -- when a reply is made to someone else's post.

And if this is the case it will fail to notify me of all the HN activity I want to be notified about.

:(
Are you still actively working on this?
The experience which is validated by many independent tests is the feeling of tapping into something truer and deeper. I don't think the GP is questioning the feeling, just the actual truer, deeperness of it.
I think you're ignoring the fact that there's much more to publishers than just printing a physical copy of a book and shipping it to shelves. There's marketing, editing, screening, etc. Think what looking for books would be like if there was no quality screening or editing and you had to wade through an online catalog of thousands of books of crap just to have the off chance of happening to see a quality book.
This article is all about the problems with Facebook's process, but the thing I found most telling wasn't mentioned. Facebook issued a statement to ReadWriteWeb before contacting Ars as to why their page was taken down or restoring it. They prioritized saving face above dealing with the effected.

The problem isn't process, the process is a symptom of not caring about their users.
Ha! Suing competitors over dubious patents; pushing for legislation to punish people for using their own hardware how they see fit; trying their hardest to keep people from using iPods and iPhones with anything but iTunes; designing special screws to lock people out of working on their own Macs and iDevices, increasing service revenue; abusing their control over the App Store to keep out competitors; instituting a new App Store policy to force content providers to pay 30% to Apple, and disallowing providers from raising prices in the App Store vs. on other platforms to cover this cost...

None of this sounds the least bit shady to you?
Microsoft can keep this up until profits are growing. Here's hoping this research funding doesn't dry up like Bell labs' did. It is hard to quantify the benefits of spending on basic research. Apple puts a lot of focus on design, wheres Microsoft on technology (or science?).
"Willing to learn as needed" needs to be reserved for things like specific frameworks, which can be picked up quickly if you understand the concepts they're built on and have done something similar. Pointers are a core concept, and in particular, they're one of the weed-out points of CS curricula.

Sure, you can get some things done without them, but they're critical for understanding bugs or performance issues that arise due to the underlying implementation, and likely to take more time to understand than things that usually fall into the category of "learning as needed on the job".
Dr. Bose strongly believes that the company would have gone down a terrible path had they taken on any VC money. He had always wanted Bose Corp to focus on research, and thus all profits are poured into funding more R&D. No doubt this decision makes it possible for him to donate the majority of shares to MIT today. I still remember his words: "Those MBAs would have had me fired in no time."

So how did he fund the company initially? According to Dr. Bose, Lee handed over his entire life savings because he firmly believed that Bose would succeed!
The glass walls would be more tolerable if the mid-section was opaque/frosted glass, so you still get the light but you also get a degree of privacy.
Please, please use a vector based editor instead. Inkscape, illustrator, etc.
It's a great idea with a great team behind it and this is a huge win on the biz dev side. Congrats to the guys.

One inconsistency from the TC post though:

> ... announcing that it is processing $1 million in payments per day

vs

> COO Keith Rabois told us in January that the startup is expected to process $40 million in transactions in Q1 of 2011 ...

There are more than 40 days in Q1, even if you limit it just to business days. I'm confused.
You might want to read Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money. It's available free both in pdf and mp3 at mises.org.

The tl;dr reply to the arguments in podcast 3 (banks fail if forced to redeem paper for gold) is that fractional reserve banking is incompatible with the gold standard. The gold standard treats paper money as mere warehouse receipts for gold. But bankers tend to issue more receipts than they have in gold, i.e., they commit fraud. When the public cash in their paper, the banks run out of gold, something that shouldn't happen if the bank only issued paper for gold in the first place. Rather than blame the bankers and put them in prison, governments have taken away people's right to use gold as money and even to own gold. Far from an argument against the gold standard, the history related in your reference 3 (about the collapse of the English and American banking industries) is a lesson of government tyranny, bank fraud, and an argument for real money as a check on government power.
Here is a much better set of textbooks (I own the series recommended in the parent comment and what I recommend here, having learned about both from homeschooling communities when my oldest son was little):

http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Mathematics_Stds_Ed_s/1...

Part of my rationale for recommending the Singapore Primary Mathematics series comes from studies of mathematics curricula by mathematicians who think deeply about pedagogy:

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Lisbon2010_4.pdf

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~askey/ask-gian.pdf

http://mathexperts-qa.blogspot.com/2011/04/math-experts-q-wi...

http://mathexperts-qa.blogspot.com/2011/04/math-experts-q-wi...

http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~jnd/Singapore.Math.htm

http://www.worcester.edu/SMIP/Shared%20Documents/PDFsPowerpo...

I also recommend the Singapore Primary Mathematics series materials, which I have used with all four of my children, because they are known to produce good results. Chapter 1: "International Student Achievement in Mathematics" from the TIMSS 2007 study of mathematics achievement in many different countries includes, in Exhibit 1.1 (pages 34 and 35)

http://timss.bc.edu/PDF/t03_download/T03_M_Chap1.pdf

a chart of mathematics achievement levels in various countries. Although the United States is above the international average score among the countries surveyed, as we would expect from the level of economic development in the United States, the United States is well below the top country listed, which is Singapore. An average United States student is at the bottom quartile level for Singapore, or from another point of view, a top quartile student in the United States is only at the level of an average student in Singapore. I've been curious about mathematics education in Singapore ever since I heard of these results from an earlier TIMSS sample in the 1990s.

After edit: The results of using the Singapore Mathematics materials with our oldest son have been gratifying. He was ready to test into our local state university's accelerated mathematics program by fifth-grade age, so by sixth-grade age he was doing the usual high school mathematics curriculum at double speed (and greater depth) and thus ready for that program's calculus course by eighth-grade age. Moving along steadily in math with good conceptual understanding helped him learn Logo, C, Java, Scheme, and Javascript programming through formal courses while still of high school age, and to self-study Python, Ruby, Haskell, and various other programming and scripting languages. He entered his university course (computer science) with as many accumulated "college credits" as most college students have when they graduate, and is enjoying taking upper-division computer science courses while coding for GitHub projects and planning a start-up. Doing elementary math courses that involve lots of problem-solving gets a learner ready for the problem-solving inherent in programming.
I wonder, and this is not an insult, how much experience you have as a developer. I know that for a good five years, maybe more, as a developer in corporate IT I frequently thought that I was dealing with a "very bad" codebase and rewriting seemed like an easier task than trying to understand the current system well enough to make the changes I needed to make.

I was wrong. Every time. Unless the system is quite small and single-purpose, you very likely don't understand the full scope of what it does, why it is written the way it is, which constituencies it serves, all of its interfaces, etc.

The few times I have been involved in rewrites they always took longer than expected, cost more than planned, and ended up with kludgy patches at the last minute as features of the old system that nobody talked about or knew existed suddenly became showstopper must-have requirements. In other words, they turned out like almost any other corporate IT project.
I was just going to write this, too.

Good luck putting your logo on anything bigger than a screen if you make it as a raster image.
You watched a documentary?

I come to HN for expertise because there are so many knowledgeable people that know a great deal about things in which I'm interested, but am only a beginner. I've come to expect expertise on this site in almost any category. As such, my only expertise is payment processing and mag stripe/ smart card/ contactless (NFC), both the technology and the business.

In short, your documentary was incorrect, and considering the technical nature of this site, this topic needs more color.

NFC is a very low-level protocol, security is determined by the overlaying pieces. Two of the most prominent security implementations (FeliCa by Sony, and MiFare by NXP semi) operate by "security by obscurity." The contactless national passports support FIPS 140 security (based on PKI). This is the best security you can get, As long as the developer has access to the secure element on the device, it should be straightforward how to implement good security. Think of it as SSL, but the issue is doing it well with a data rate so low (424kbps, typically, with 848kbps at most).

NFC technology has been at a stand still for 3+ years because everyone is fighting over who has control. The carriers aren't going to sell phones with their secure NFC elements "open." The carriers will extract some revenue from phone payment transaction unless someone makes a nice NFC "phone sled."
There's no option for 'None of the above' or 'Other'
It sounds like to me that they expect to process in total 40 million during Q1, but they could process up to 1 million in a single day? Clarification would be nice in the article
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In the non-technological society, by contrast, you've got 30% childbirth mortality and a bunch of paralyzed polio survivors.
I think it's likely dependent on the person, and their ability to be close to work (commute).

I'm certainly much happier working from home at this point, but I also used to have a commute of roughly 1.5 hrs a day.

At this point I don't envision ever returning to an office.
Prices climb because real estate is a vehicle for financial speculation, tax tricks, and the exfiltration of pilfered wealth by world oligarchs.
I read an article only yesterday which said the success rate of AA is probably "just" 8% or so. AA themselves claim the success rate is "75% for anyone who really tries", which, if you think about it, doesn't mean anything at all.

The article was specifically about this issue that AA blames it on the participants if their method fails. Which is pretty absurd, again, if you think about it.

It's like claiming I have a cure for cancer that works in 99% of all cases, but only in cases where it works.

(Edit: this is the article, it was on HN after all http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irra... )
There's a guy from Australia who teaches some good courses, he was on LinkedIn when I used to be on the platform. Unfortunately I don't recall his name but he posts in various groups on LinkedIn.
Looking at the studies linked by the article you've linked, their conclusions for high efficacy mostly seem to be of the form "AA increased the likelihood of abstinence". My understanding is that AA, more than other methods, places an emphasis on total abstinence.

It seems that one could support alternative goals (like "reduced incidence of harmful alcohol use") for which AA might not be so well suited.

Your thoughts?
I hope these censorships wake u up
Actually, C/A/P are more like variables you can multiply together. Even more accurately, they define a three-dimensional space with the CAP theorem (especially in Gilbert and Lynch's formal proof) only saying that you cannot be at the point that represents the maximum of all three. There are definitely tradeoffs or "mode switches" that can be made between C and A, and some even believe that you can give up some P to get more C/A. Personally I believe that the probability of partition is always non-zero in even the best designed and fully provisioned networks, even including those that are econonomically infeasible, and that those who choose to treat a small probability as zero to capture a performance advantage or position themselves as "more consistent" than competitors are being a bit dishonest, but those tradeoffs are being made.
Try a reply to both watty and retric, which is, if someone wanted a botnet, the case is that they went after Sony, which indicates that Sony had a vulnerability. Of course, everyone has vulnerabilities, but the coincidence is likely that this is one that both existed, and the hackers knew about. Sorry that my best answer to the inherent question is 'coincidence'.

That's supposing that someone wanted a botnet..and we're all supposing they had a great deal of planning. I'd expect such an event to hinge on a great deal of chance..
Very elegant piece, no doubt. But for what it's estimated to cost, I think I'll be keeping the $10 keychain Swiss Army Knife and the $2 credit-card sized multi-tool that everyone and their mother got as a stocking stuffer for the moment.
What on earth does interracial marriage have to do with software companies? Do we need to fly planes full of singles between Hyderabad and Changdu to jumpstart startups in Asia?
Do you have a source for that definition? Because every definition of zero-day I've ever seen has to do with the days it has been known to the vendor.

> A zero-day (or zero-hour or day zero) attack or threat is an attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application or operating system, one that developers have not had time to address and patch. It is called a "zero-day" because the programmer has had zero days to fix the flaw (in other words, a patch is not available)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack
You could use your parser as a language model to improve recognition along the lines of things that would actually parse correctly, I suppose. That's probably much of a micro-optimization, though.
Elizabeth Bathory was right first — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory
And then promptly rewrote the entire thing in Node.js? Huh?
And yet they still ignore vaccinating the people they occupy who are presently going through an outbreak.
I always loved the handwriting :) So consistent, so charming.
Yeah, it’s fine to have some public facing content online, but the first thing a child used to learn before going online was to never use your real name and to never give out any personal information like your address and telephone number. At least that’s how it was where I grew up.

I remember when Facebook launched I had a visceral reaction after seeing all the content being shared out in the open. My dad didn’t even want our phone number in the phonebook, and now I saw everyone else sharing every detail of their identity online.
These are independent things in bureaucracy. Here in Canada they are starting to talk about passports while vaccinations are under 2%
As another foreign student, this is all excellent advice. OP, follow all of this.
> even the OS/browser you're using is written in C

Those have tons of exploitable bugs!!

NASA rovers and car ECUs have minimal people looking to exploit them, so I'm not overly convinced they're exploit free either.

I'm not a Rust evangelist or even a user, but the current paradigm of "THIS TIME, we'll write safe, complex, performant C/C++ code properly" isn't the solution, nor is manually squashing bugs one by one.

The solution seems to be a combination of improving the tooling around existing C\C++, and starting new projects in safer languages when possible.
I agree that it is a binary state (under or over 1), but over time, it isn't a fixed number that depends only on the achieved immunity level, it also depends on people's risk-taking behaviour, which brings there a whole lot of nasty feedback loops.
Your typical harddrive has a full ARM core in it. Sure, it's an IC, but it's also reasonable to call it a processor (co-processor?).
You are carrying: no tea
The use case is in a local datacenter, with a NAT-ed IP not exposed to the main web
Not just RAM but also TDP - 28W for that form factor is a bit too much. Current i5 NUC IMO hits the sweet spot - it's pretty powerful and can be made silent with the stock fan. I hope in the future Intel can squeeze i7-U into a Baytrail power envelope ;-)
I've never tried mushrooms, but the last time I looked at their prices on the dark net markets (probably 2-4 months ago) they were costing ~$20 for what I'm told would be a dose equivalent to ~100ug of LSD. I was buying ~115ug LSD blotters at $3-4 each. Can certainly see based on those prices why it could be profitable to do so.

That said I know that the magic mushrooms pricing was thought by everyone to be massively inflated due to lack of supply at that time, so possibly it was a temporary situation.
I expect they will be ridiculously deferential, and the last few road hogs driving manual will have a frustratingly easy time of it. It's no fun cutting in, if the nominal driver doesn't even look up from her e-book, and the car politely lets you. And that's how it will feel to you - like nothing. Like a smooth ride. Why would you give a damn how many people cut in?
The sound quality is so good, YouTube prevent it playing on some devices because of the copyright protection on the music.
If you would crawled web using Foreach(links) { get(link)} you would end up crawling useless automatically generated webpages.
Not wanting to appear pedantic (well, a little), but the logo on a Mac Mini doesn't glow...
I'm surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the lean huge startup. They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn't work, they kill it. I think it's actually nice to see such a rapid-iteration product development done by a company with that many resources and talent.
> Is there anything they can't sell?

Sports physio treatments?
How come it's because of speed when every time someone die in a car he's either drunk, on drugs or felt asleep while driving?

Not to mention people die less because today's cars are also millions times more safe, not because we put speed camera on the side or because people drive slow.
A ship whose captain would rather it sink than change course.
You shouldn't be being downvoted for this comment... The content of the page has completely changed from a parody of the wikipedia appeal to a real one asking for donations for sfconservancy. This is the version everybody's talking about: http://i.min.us/idDeBk.png

(TBH I didn't actually recognise the parody myself and thought it was just a fairly crass call for donations that made a couple of silly claims. I guess I should read the small print).
Could you explain prototypes? Most of what I learned about prototypes are hands-on. Maybe it's just me but I find there's a lack of good explanations out there and it would be really useful to have an answer that says, "Here are prototypes in their entirety."
setTimeout drives me crazy. How can I implement "sleep" without going insane?
Pretty much the same reasons as patio11 gave, plus (a) I like being in control (or put another way, don't like it when people pay me for advice and then don't take it), and (b) at +300% Y/Y growth, I think Tarsnap will be more lucrative than consulting in the very near future.

(I would have listed my reasons when I asked the question, but wanted to avoid biasing patio11's response.)
The fact that the apparent randomness seen in quantum mechanics is actually our traveling down one of many possibilities, each of which manifest of their own right. Which means that, if I reach success in my life, thinking back to the hopeful sorry self in my past, I can no longer say, "to think, that sorry guy became the success he is today". That sorry guy also died of cancer, fell off a cliff, died alone, became a heroin addict, and won the lottery. It means that if we as a race ever successfully end poverty or oppression, there will be infinite other amount of scenarios where it never happened and probably got worse. I could imagine all sorts of horrible possibilities but I won't.

I'm just going off of what other people seem to conclude from this theory. I admit it seems a bit juvenile that every conceivable thing is possible. ("Everything you can think of is true" - Tom Waits) There's probably a lot of physical limitations. But I still worry what sorts of horrible scenarios it may allow for.

But, I dunno, maybe not all multiple universe theories are the same.
Thanks you so much, I really appreciate it -- the support you guys have given already is so inspiring
What if a threat to public safety such as a terrorist or drug dealer was to use this service??