jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not only Chinese, there's a Spanish saying "Más vale ser cabeza de ratón que cola de león", which translates to "It's better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion".

I also see a similarity between the early Spanish immigrants (started small businesses, farming, etc) and the current-day Chinese immigrants (which usually start their own businesses over here as well).
I started to skim after:

Starcraft II is a marketing nightmare. It is the sequel to a twelve-year-old computer game, a beacon in the forgotten era of Deus Ex and Baldur’s Gate.

SC2 is far from a marketing nightmare. Gamers are eager for a new Starcraft; Blizzard would have to screw up much, much more than online-only play for it to bomb.
The article is somewhat confusing, for FV we didn't split our servers across ec2 and a data center. games are either fully on ec2 or fully in the data center.
Around the same time & if memory serves, I saw "Hacking the Google Interview" course by MIT so I guess that tells the story.
I've often thought "If only I could meet a nice girl who defines herself entirely by the operating system she uses".

Finally someone has solved this problem for me.
Or six years ago if you're willing to take some artistic liberties:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2004/crash-at...
Say what? SJCL uses full-width binary keys.
Because CCM is better documented and more popular than GCM, despite its (minor) flaws. If they wanted to look cool, they should have done EAX mode.

Help me understand why people always make a point of sticking up for GCM. I've read the paper and I don't get what's so great about it.

(For everyone else: ECB means "you can can cut-and-paste-and-shuffle blocks in the ciphertext", CBC means "you can't", CFB, OFB, and CTR mean "you can encrypt one byte at a time", and CCM, GCM, OCB, and EAX mean "you can encrypt one byte at a time and authenticate the message automatically so that it can't be tampered with".)
It depends on the overcommit setting. By default it's on, and that indicates Linux doesn't promise to back it with a physical page. Only the virtual address range is allocated (i.e. the only guarantee is that future allocations within your process won't return addresses from that range). This implies that if you try to write to it, your write might segfault due to OOM. If overcommit is turned off, then Linux promises it will be backed with a physical page if you try to it, meaning your write won't segfault due to OOM. Aside from these, I think everything else is an implementation detail, but generally OSes map unwritten pages to the same zero page as an optimization, and then when a write occurs they back it with a physical page.
To be honest, I have no idea how to implement the exact operational semantics of prototypal inheritance in a dynamic language with classes. (Perhaps it is possible, but I would not bet on it.) In JavaScript, objects are statically known to be internally a pair of a base reference and a hashmap. In Python, you can define a tuple or class that has a base reference and a hashmap as members, but internally your program will test for the existence of these members all the time. So, different semantics.

But a static OO language can faithfully reproduce the operational semantics of prototypal inheritance.
Resolved :) But it would be great if you could test to make sure it's fixed.
While that is a horrible idea, it's worth noting that a patent != actually doing anything. So no, they can't turn off your camera… yet.
Nothing, but an IP address is not equivalent to a user. The accuracy of the tracking would be quite poor.
Piezoelectric actuator still relies on a mechanical motion. It has to be - the idea of nitrogen nozzle is to have a storage of nitrogen under some pressure in a closed volume, and to be able to open that volume to let some gas out. That opening has to be mechanical - unless they use some exotic force fields to keep nitrogen from escaping, in which case it's hardly a (regular) nitrogen thruster anymore.

Flexing is still a motion. That, however, can be compensated with an opposite motion in another gas channel.

If other parts of satellite can bend on demand, they'd need an actuator or, alternatively, one can use Earth magnetic fields to reorient the spacecraft and let external forces affect it unevenly, thus providing bending. This, however, is outside of the scope of the article.

So, to summarize - either secondary subsystems on Gaia are quite unconventional, or the article isn't quite precise.
Toronto also has a tool sharing club (http://torontotoollibrary.com/).
Could be also because they have lots of Spanish speakers? La ciudad == the city, Spanglish la city, :)
Any reasearch/evidence on size vs strength, please?
From what I've skimmed through, size vs strength looks like a myth (popular one though). It seemed to me that one can't get bigger without getting stronger (== handling heavier load) and vice versa. (Without pharma)
Nice story! I'd love to try do exactly the same, did you have to move to Cambridge for your CS PhD?

For context, I have a graduate diploma from the Judge business school, but that was a semiresidential program that allowed me to live in my country.
Yes, but only because every other known solution is worse in practice.
I swear the FreeBSD handbook used to (or still does?) have a section documenting writing a CGI program in x86 assembly
Thank you ! Yes it isn't my first language and I wrote the post going at work, on a bus. So no time to review it.
IMHO they've basically missed an opportunity here for many years. They'd be in a perfect position to offer those things, combined with a much better/larger sensor, which enables even better images. On smartphones it's a matter of necessity, as the sensor is (fairly) crappy in comparison, but on a DSLR it could still be a benefit. Personally I'd be perfectly happy to get a pre-processed DNG from the camera instead of having to do this afterwards. And then give me the raw files to do it manually as well.

Perhaps they're trying not to cannibalize their lower market segments or think that professionals would never use those things (on which they might be correct). But I can definitely see that computational photography beyond raw->JPEG conversion with a color profile could have its place in a DSLR.
I agree that passwords are testimonial in nature and should be fully protected, but I have no idea which way SCOTUS will go. There are a lot of things where one can with some reliability predict the general outcome of a case at that level due to previous rulings and precedent -- this one I just don't know that anyone has a good idea which way they'll go.
I can't remember the last time someone asked or even mentioned messenger. So yeah it really depends on the country, the circle you are in and more.

But good point. Even thought I don't like the number requirement it will and does it make it easy for people to change.
I have build a Hans Rosling styled analytics on Covid19 India data. http://randomwalk.in/covid19India/bubble/
If you want more details of how we see it from an Ardour perspective:

https://ardour.org/plugins-in-process.html
Does anyone have any recommendations that require very few dependencies?
I was personally offended, I apologize for my rhetoric.
I don't recommend Hugo for:

- Confusing architecture

- Steep learning curve

I recommend Jekyll more than anything else. It is simple, beautiful and straight forward. Easy.
I tend to think that ML is a kind of automated program generation that maximizes a certain metrics given by human. Some of them are based on real data but some aren't (like RL). So it's certainly more than a curve that needs to be fit. It's more like Turing machine fitting.
and HN refusal to pay attention to data when it relates to depression in 3..2..1...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29477251

for moderate to severe depression, the kind most posters are talking about, they're consistently better than placebo. It is true that placebo is often effective too. But most people I talk to would rather have that extra chance of getting better.
Unpersonalized ads can still serve the same democratic funding model you're identifying as the main positive reason for online advertising's existence. You present a false choice between obnoxious (visibility intrusive) ads versus these odious information gathering schemes. Since the latter make more money and people hate obnoxious ads we must choose personalization. Thankfully we're now fully aligned with how Google has implemented their ad targeting.

Hypothetically if congress could ban both obnoxious and targeted ads (somehow) leaving us with the unpersonalized newspaper model of ads would you be for or against that bill?
I like this. Motivated. Get it over with.
Depends on where you put the emphasis. Most UBI discussion (amongst proponents) start from the assumption that it has to be a certain size with various disagreements of the proper sized vs budget concerns.

I think that is the wrong focus. If we instead start with deciding “just” financing options, an make a public dividend it would be a good start.

One study concluded that an unconditional payout as low as $50/month can help some people tremendously (IIRC this was in Sweden)

“Just” financing to me is to recognize that some resources are truly part of the commons, and any expropriation should generate rent for everyone. Land being the typical example, but also things like fishing rights, carbon emission rights, or why not ipv4 networks and dns-domians.
Do you have a link to one of those debunkings? I'd like to read it, thanks in advance.
I was in the Netherlands for 2 weeks and managed to almost get hit head on by a vehicle that pulled from the 2 lane road onto the separate bike path to overtake a vehicle on the right (on the main road through a village near Hilversum). Looking at imagery of the spot, there was at least 1 meter of separation between the road and path, and I was in the correct lane of the 2 way bike path.

I did quite a bit of other bike riding that all went fine and the amount of infrastructure devoted to it was great, but that incident sort of sticks in my head a bit.
Here's something I wrote a little while ago - an xkcd-style passgen script in ruby. Usage is just `./passgen.rb [number of words]`. Default word count is 5.

https://github.com/kurotetsuka/passgen
Guy who writes kernel code cares about performance, film at 11.
Thank you for making this point. To my great dismay I see more and more people think that you need concurrent threads in one process in order to scale. It seems as if many programmers believe this as scripture and subsequently have difficulty thinking about distributed systems (not just multi-core, but multi-host).
I think this is a natural extension from the content integration already on Twitter in the slide-out panel when there's a link to a supported pic/video hosting service like twitpic or Instagram. It does present some challenges such as:

1) Does twitter have the right to reproduce, even in a preview form, on their website. Sites like the NYTimes and other services with a paywall have a variety of distribution agreements on who can or can't see the content, would Twitter have to strike a similar deal?

2) A cottage industry of twitter/social-media analytics services rely on link shorteners and URL tagging to help clients/businesses track the engagement with their post and how many users get to their site. If the content is being consumed on Twitter, would you still be able to track it and more importantly, does it have the same value?

3) The site loses the pageview and may rely heavily on advertising to support the content.
I use this for www.yourpane.com (to show links your friends sent you in a pane), and it works fantastically well. No more having to open five youtube windows to view five links, you just watch them on one page.
That's what I would think, but what about the danger that it means foreign governments (potential rogue regimes) have access to the same source?
There are also real use cases where octal and hex parsing are desired. To do a search for parseInt\(*[^,]\) and declare all as bugs is myopic.
We can produce a damn fuel cell cheaply.

We can't due to Duponts patents on PEM :(
Erlang:

* You send a message to your hand process to shoot yourself in the foot.

* Hand process sends a message to the gun process.

* Gun process sends a message to the primer process.

* Primer process sends a message to the foot process, using the bullet to contain state.

* Bullet state is passed to the foot process,

* Foot process creates a copy of your foot that contains a hole, and sends a message to the leg process indicating that it should accept the replacement foot...
Yep, seems the way to do it. Not that i was particularly worried about format/appearance but mostly managing artifacts / embedded code samples, as in also, resistant to changes, because i've edited an article or two in online editors and in particular to embedding code, it can be a pain to edit.
The Niemoller snowclone isn't meant suggest the endgame here is like a concentration camp. (If you complete it in your mind, that's not the last line.)

Rather, that if you cheer this tactic on now, simply because now it's used against 'scum', you shouldn't be surprised if this tactic gets abused more broadly against disfavored groups in the future. Did you fail to file your proper FEC election-expenditure reports for candidate advocacy blogging? Away with your domain name! In a back-tax dispute? Away with your domain name! Are you a troublemaker who's publishing unauthorized video of a TSA checkpoint? Away with your domain name!

The authorities should have to win a case, rather than just allege wrongdoing, to wipe a website completely from the net.
I’m not an IP scholar, but my impression is that patents and copyright have basically the same intent; the only big difference is that patents are for methods and copyrights are for expressions.

Where you draw the line between methods and expressions, or discovered and invented things, depends on how much you like Plato’s style of thinking. We can imagine people on either extreme of realism/idealism arguing (A) that 1 = 1 is an invention of our mathematical system, or (B) that Girl with a Pearl Earring is merely the discovery of the pre-existing fact that that pattern of paint is pleasing.

Likewise, as things stand now, I can copyright a map. There’s an obvious argument against this: I didn’t make what the map shows, and I can’t own the fact that land is the shape it is. And an obvious argument for it: it took real work to research, design, and produce, and this deserves a reward. I think that hackers generally tend to come down further on the first argument’s side than most people do.
Now, try that with different shells and report back to us. ;-)

I'm pretty sure that "pdksh" is the smallest (or very close), but I think it's static, so in the context of opening up 30 instances of that shell at once, one of the others (most of which are dynamically linked) might beat it.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/images/photos2010/nn20101105a1a....

They know the structure of vanadium hydride, and have identified those mid-grays to be hydrogen
What's that? The NYPD doesn't want cameras? That sounds like the most ringing endorsement for the idea I've ever heard.

Might also shame them into working on their shooting a bit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Empire_State_Building_shoo... (summary: 9 bystanders wounded, all by the police)
How many startups out there don't have a clearly defined use case or have a use case that is precisely split evenly between desktop/iPhone/iPad/Andriod, and absolutely cannot get traction with out a tailored experience on each platform?

I'd hazard a guess that the answer is none.

It's not a big deal, if the primary users are desktops write for the web first. If the primary users are going to be mobile write for mobile first.

If you have 'the best. idea. ever.' then you should have no problem securing the funding for a 3 person startup.

Since you probably don't and are going to have to do a lot of iteration think about how your service is going to be used and pick the right platform first.

Stop thinking about how to get your millionth customer and start thinking about how to get your first.
Kinda like these guys: http://www.getinpulse.com/

Except it's for blackberry.
I mean the intellisense (autocomplete + docs + method signature) in xcode blows chunks compared to Visual Studio or even Eclipse.

Lots of things individually in Obj-C/Xcode are minor annoyances, but when you add them all together it's a very annoying toolchain. Comparing the UI/Polish in Apple products to Microsoft products, I figured that XCode would be one of the best dev environments ever. I think it's one of the worst.

It's not that any of the issues are insurmountable, I'd just rather not deal with them.
The world needs more people like him and your title is misleading. He is making a point about the inherent value of something and that it can not be measured by a select group of individuals.
That's very good, it provides a framework whereby support or condemnation is indicated based on empirical grounds.
I think he means something like, "Why not build a simple webapp that prints out a users schedule, that they can view on any phone, and can save as an icon if their phone supports that (iphone)"

It solves the problem you're trying to solve, requires minimal effort and is cross platform.
I suspect a lot of what has brought about the over-the-top paranoia these days is the fact that 9/11 was a hijacking. Dogs would be perfect if we wanted to stop people who wanted to blow the plane up, because you have to have chemicals for that- but we also want to stop the people with weapons, and there's a ton of weapons dogs and metal detectors can't catch.

You are correct- there are a bunch of policies and people etc that can help mitigate all that- but I think this explains why there is less focus and/or use of our bomb-sniffing pals.
They did shrink the connectors later on and move away from coax. There’s no reason token-ring can’t work over RJ-45 with 4 twisted pairs.
> you don't get to play for the high school varsity team unless you're getting the coaching from the top-tier youth leagues

This is pretty much the case. By age 12 or so, the local kids who have skill and interest have been identified. They are shunted out of the parks and rec leagues into travel teams and they play together up to high school. Of course there are still tryouts but if you're a freshman and unknown to the coaches, you have to be either a move-in who has been playing travel ball elsewhere, or one of the rare naturals at pitching or hitting to really get noticed at that point.
The borrow checker is actually fairly simple to implement, if you have the types. To deduce types, you need to parse the grammar, understand the control flow, and resolve any builtins. But you don’t need to emit any further representation.
If Goldman had a way to guarantee returns above the market why would they sell that to anyone? Or put it another way, who is the sucker that is taking the other side of those Goldman trades to get returns guaranteed to be below market? Total market returns are zero sum.
Earth-Moon centre of mass is inside Earth, so, it's obvious that the Moon is orbiting the Earth, not both orbiting something else.

1% is an arbitrary threshold and solar orbit is dependent on external circumstances rather than the Earth-Moon system itself.
Right, I was referencing later lessons. Section 2.3 of the book. Surprisingly early.

Granted Knuth's work also did symbolic rather early. A bit harder to work with in his.

Edit: To be fair, I could have worded that first post more clearly! :D
Why would any retailer implement this? Oh please don’t repeatedly come back to my site.

As far as how, there are dozens of things companies could do. Require a credit card verification, don’t allow digital credit cards, don’t ship to PO Boxes, don’t allow VOIP phone numbers, require an account with the retailer, do browser/machine fingerprinting, don’t allow purchasing on a VPN, scan the secondhand market for barcodes and ban people, require linking social media accounts and check for matches, don’t allow different billing and shipping addresses, require phone number verification, and on and on and on.

If retailers wanted to make sure it was one customer per video card, they could absolutely, trivially, do it.

But why would they? That’s a lot of commotion, and things people would probably get upset about. It will lead to less traffic on their site. And, at absolute best, they will get the exact same revenue.
Oh, I forgot that Lush was LeCun's work. It was such an odd beast...
Check out MUD1, which eventually became British Legends on CompuServe and was rather popular in the late 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1
Also it name sounds both like Nivea (skin care) and Nuva (birth control)
I don't think rationality is a good way of looking at it. Rationality is defined over some goal, and there's no obvious goal here. The better way of looking at it is to say that the military teaches them to treat their own life as less valuable. Lives have no inherent value or disvalue, beyond what we apply to them, so this is neither rational or irrational. But the effect is that they are more willing to, as you say, "log off".
I'd use gatsby js deployed on netlify. There are a ton of optimizations you win in that combo.
The bcc script was run on the Kubernetes node itself directly over SSH, but it should be possible to run it in a privileged container as well.
Chilling? That’s normal corporate behaviour. It would be more weird if they didn’t react.
I’m using gridsome.org and it’s awesome. Mainly because I wanted to use vue.js.
404 error. Here's the full link...
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-was...
You can go straight to review articles, which are generally available for free on the arXiv. Or if you want the firehose, you can scan for papers whose abstracts contain words like 'hint', 'anomaly', 'excess', 'discrepancy', and so on [0].

0: https://arxiv.org/search/advanced?advanced=&terms-0-operator...
There's no mention of what I think is by far the biggest negative influence on trust: the media. Trust in media is at an all time low:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com /washington-secrets/trust...

It's a totally self inflicted wound too. Clickbait, outrage bait, blatant political spin, stealthy retractions, journalists on social media starting mobs...

Bots do not even register in most people's minds compared to that.
Ah, I see. I misinterpreted your comment, apologies.

Would you mind elaborating on what societal impact you think participating in torture has on the US? I'm curious to hear the viewpoint of an American on this.

(From the perspective of a heathen foreigner, the US military has done despicable things for decades, so to some degree this is just business as usual.)
Yes I am aware. I am discussing the replies above me, not the article.
Right, so glad that everyone is still on AIM, ICQ, or even, BBM. They had huge networks, and barely anyone uses them now. This market has proven multiple times that users will switch and it will happen suddenly.n especially if whatsapp tries too hard to monetize them.
Hey, guys. The Hackers and Founders open source franchise doesn't have a group in Zurich, yet. If you're interested, we have 8 other chapters worldwide totaling 7,000+ members.

We just started focusing on Hackers & Founders Silicon Valley full time for the past 4 months, so we have some bandwidth to connect and help out where we can.

If you're interested, ping me: jonathan@hackersandfounders.com
Thanks for gathering all the links in one place.

I think this is stuff for the front page, since I can imagine that this list may be interesting for a lot of people, and the front page is way more frequented than /ask. Maybe you want to post a separate link for the front page, i.e. a direct link to http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php?
That is a great story.
IIRC, .bind(this) was used in the exact same way in mootools years and years ago, and maybe even in Prototype before that.

Oh how I wish mootools had won the JS library war...