jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure it wasn't the sole cause but it was definitely a strong contributing factor. Listen to the interviews of the people that were there.

It's human behavior when people don't feel like they are being heard and understood they raise their voice, become less agreeable, and when something is important enough to them and there is no peaceful way to resolve things they become violent.

Acknowledging what someone else says and repeating back to them what they are saying works amazingly well for disarming conflict.

When dialog ceases to be the means by which people can peacefully resolve their differences then violence is inevitable.

Censoring and banning people further escalates conflict because it takes away people's ability to feel like they are being heard and understood.

If instead the dialog going something like "well why do you believe that, what evidence do you have to support that claim, did you consider X, here's why I disagree with you, etc" then maybe people would have changed their minds.

Instead, by and large, the approach taken by the media and tech companies was "you guys are wrong, you're an idiot, and we are going to silence you". I don't think that helps and only further escalates things.

Along your point though, should there then be censorship of the ideas that led people to the BLM riots? I don't think censorship is the answer there either.

Who gets to decide what is true and how does that not lead to dangerous concentrations of power?
Now we have tagging and full text search, such limiting hierarchies are no longer that useful.

In libraries where the stacks are closed, what would even be the point?
I know right? It's like Bush telling the NYPD they can go arrest Bin Laden after 9/11.
1plus1meet was posted to a student Facebook group for my university. The use of Jitsi Meet, an open platform, seems like a great idea!

I'm totally blind, and the way it works has some very nice accessibility implications. The sound of a person's voice is, to many of us, an important factor in physical attraction. Being able to find this out almost immediately, without needing to flip through pictures and barely-accessible profiles, is huge for us – this service finally levels the playing field!
I see this as Microsoft trying to make HTML, which is supposed to work "cross-platform", work best/only on Windows. HTML and native are contradictory terms.
I type "exit" and the app crashes. I think this is a feature.
I agree, you'd think they'd conduct usability tests BEFORE making the choice to switch to Unity. It seems that Ubuntu makes UI changes for the sake of being different, not better. Like moving all the window controls to the left side of the title bar in the current release of Ubuntu. Why?
Good one: even if he cannot stop a thread, he can sure as hell stop the OS process in which the JVM runs. So give each student's program its own JVM or at least explain to the reader why that is not a satisfactory fix.
I believe the whole idea and argument is here, that you shouldn't have to go to this much effort simply to have full control over your domain.

It's like buying a brand new car but always having one seat occupied by someone the car manufacturer thinks needs a ride.
I use an excellent free chrome tool that disables my main productivity killers from 9-5 (hacker news, something awful, nytimes.com). It works for me.
It definitely has something to do with formal editorial usage than drinking the Kool Aid amongst many institutions. But because of this single word "tweet", almost everyone in pop culture can get a good sense of what this writer is talking about by remembering this new phenom. The only culture barrier that I see is if institutional writers do not want to use the word, then it won't change the Twitter ecosystem.

As a matter of fact, Jack and the team initially did not like using that word. It was only when the Twitter ecosystem starting vastly adopting it that they finally adopted the term. Pop culture, once again, wins.
This is precisely where our definitions of justice differ. I think something can be beneficial without being just, and vice versa. Justice is just sort of beneficial overall, so we shouldn't violate it without having a really good reason. This "really good reason" thing is what executive pardons (and similar powers) are for, and even that is abused pretty heavily.

Justice does not mandate that all rules be followed. It mandates that all rules be equitable, and be enforced equitably.

Finally, while using the rule "Do whatever leads to the best outcome" is a perfectly good way to operate as an individual, it is unenforceable on a societal level. This is why we have other rules. It's impossible to figure out just what has the best consequences, so we try to produce more concrete rules that improve consequences overall (hopefully which don't have too many consequences of their own).

Following the personal rule "Do whatever leads to the best outcome", even when it goes against society's laws, is called civil disobedience. When done for a good cause, it is not generally vilified. The catch to civil disobedience is that you must accept the consequences of your actions.
"My printer requires me to have a continuing relationship with the manufacturer to get replacement cartridges."

I don't think this meets the standard of a continuing relationship. Couldn't you have them refilled at Wal-Green's? Or buy a lifetime supply?
Yes, obviously, but how is it possible for the building to withstand the weight of the dirt, grass and trees?
Similar to this, I highly recommend the Google Chrome plugin "Earth View from Google Maps", which replaces the new tab display with a stunning satellite picture of some area of Earth. I occasionally let myself get distracted from whatever search I was going to do to follow the Google Maps link to check out the area.

It's like the geek's version of the Blue Marble Effect [2] ;)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go...
[2] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/0...
Leave it to a hacker to be given two options and picking a third.
As of now, no they are not. If/when the widget takes off, I will start saving avatars to a CDN. I guess that makes it a bit dishonest to mention the CDN on the landing page, but since it will definitely be part of the standard package before I start charging, I let it slide.
Chip-and-PIN would help enormously, if implemented correctly. I've seen several complaints about implementation. But the USA will probably wind up with just chip-and-signature instead.

Of course (here I'm pulling numbers out of the air) losses due to deadbeats defaulting on their credit card bills are probably 100x as high as from identity theft and credit card theft.
I don't know what you think happens if you merge against not tip of tree, and then try to commit against tip of tree -

hint:
It has to merge against tip of tree again if it wants to get back to a single head.
I don't think it's misleading. Since it says that MS profit "drops below Apple's", it's making reference to a relative difference, in which case it did drop.
Two thoughts:

For many consumer products, the value of the product is the experience created by the product in conjunction with the marketing. I think hackers tend to focus to exclusion on "core" or "objective" value. If the consumer market thought like that, everyone would be buying off-brand cola.

Second, I would imagine there's at least one order of magnitude more effort going into marketing optimization than there is into computer algorithms.
Thanks for the explanation. I misunderstood the context of your comment.
This looks promising :

http://events.sfgate.com/search?city=San+Francisco&new=n...
I'm seriously unimpressed, the author's analysis is based entirely on wishful thinking, e.g. VCs "should pay their taxes just like everyone else".

Whatever makes him think VCs are going to take permanent cut in their income without reacting in one or more ways to mitigate it?

You can change the rules in the middle of the game, but to expect only one player to ignore that to his detriment is delusional.
Shame is that at many sites it ’s not really opt-in. If you disagree, you get a lecture on why the site is obliged to track you and then you can accept anyway or leave. A cookie wall, if you will.

Examples:

* http://tweakers.net

* http://nos.nl

* http://uitzendinggemist.nl

NOS (public news broadcaster) and Uitzending Gemist (public television catch up) are interesting cases because apparently they’re actually required by law to collect user statistics.
Seems like a complex enough beast that finding an appropriate outsider would be difficult too.

I think they said the same thing right before Lou Gerstner went to IBM, and that turned out very well, at least from an investor's point of view. Obviously IBM was in a lot more trouble business-wise then than Microsoft is today, but I expect a similar degree of transformation out of a successful new CEO.
Are you using SQL or ?
The newer tessel is actually abandoning this model in favor of a faster system that just runs actual node/iojs and modules built for the platform architecture.
Oh, gotcha. Sorry, brain wasn't parsing right before the coffee today.
It's not about competition or regulation. Someone needs to find a way to drive down the cost of bandwidth.

Disclaimer in bio.
I also like single issue communities. They are indeed a great escape from broader conflicts and focus on specific interesting stuff. But calling them non-political just because it's not the place to argue about e.g. what politics this community reinforces seems wrong. People should understand those are not places to find a balanced view of the world.

But creating a general virtual spaces for people to "live" in while banning discussing on one of the most important aspect of coexisting? This will hardly result in a free society of equally empowered individuals.
Note that Racket besides threads also has places, which allows programs to use more than one core.
I'm very sorry. "Begin again" could well be the best advice anyone could ever give or receive.
"...and most notably mathematical constants to generate entangled key pairs."

That reads like it was generated by gpt-2.
I think that's a concrete area for you to explore. When I hire, I'm often looking to hire to fill a specific skill gap on a project. I look for the specific skills I need right now and for skills I think will help the employee grow into other / more senior roles. But in the initial assessment I'm look for indications that the candidate can hit the ground running and be productive in a relatively short period of time. Of course sometimes I can't find the exact right candidate end-up broadening the filter. The learning for you here is to focus on selling you abilities in what the hirer is looking for. The rest are nice-to-haves.
No, they're not. Why do I have to contend with arguments like this every time to this topic comes up?

"But," you say, "Hashing a value is O(k), where k is at least log n. Therefore hash tables only support O(log n) access and update, not O(1)." It's become a quite fashionable gotcha, as your upvotes indicate.

The problem is, it's wrong. It's correct in a vacuous, put-it-in-a-footnote sense, but not in any real sense, the way we actually talk about data structures in computer science.

We have a longstanding tradition in computer science of ignoring the O(k) operations that you want to ascribe to hashing. The most relevant example of where we ignore that factor is in--you guessed it--balanced binary trees used as dictionaries. Comparison, like hashing, is also O(k), where k is >= log n. So in the technical sense you're espousing, a balanced binary tree would offer O(log n log n) access and update, rather than the O(log n) access and update that everyone describes it as.

Of course, in reality, everyone considers comparison to be O(1), and thus they say that balanced binary trees have O(log n) lookup. Likewise, everyone considers hashing to be O(1) since it's in the same class of operations as comparison, and thus they say that hash tables have O(1) lookup. This is how the real world of computer science actually talks about things, fashionable Internet objections notwithstanding.

(This is all covered in CLRS, of course, but no one seems to be able to look things up in books anymore. "We assume that the hash value h(k) can be computed in O(1) time...If the number of hash-table slots is at least proportional to the number of elements in the table, we have `n = O(m)` and, consequently, `alpha = n/m = O(m)/m = O(1)`. Thus, searching takes constant time on average. Since insertion takes O(1) worst-case time and deletion takes O(1) worst-case time when the lists are doubly linked, all dictionary operations can be supported in O(1) time on average.")
Looks ok, not sure why I would want to use this over GCal, it needs to be made a little prettier, it looks like a generic Gnome app at the moment, you need some rounded buttons and stuff :P (but seriously it does need to be made a little prettier)
And it also matter how this number evolved over time, and how other places do (counting with the same criteria, which is very hard I admit).

I mean if 50% has a chronic illness but in the 1950's 45% had them, then only the 5% increase can be used as an argument, which then holds a lot less weight.
I don't think the question is aimed at the people who believe it's a trackable chip for Bill Gates to control your mind so much as the people who have no clue and know they have no clue but have heard some rumour vaccines have some connection with 5G which is bad, apparently, and want to understand whether it's true. Asking the question in a purposely silly way (is that really what Dave meant when he was talking about 5G?!) and then giving a techy-sounding answer that sounds like they're taking the concern seriously probably does reassure a lot of those people.
I suppose it must be cultural. The term 'in love' and intensifier 'ridiculously' just don't mean 'like'. Otherwise 'like' would do.
Dapper's first public domain checkin is on 31st march 2011. That's very bleeding edge adoption :-)

I didn't find myself productive in Linq-to-sql.

(Must explore Fluent NHibernate, in our project we were too far along to invest in a new ORM).

This project/startup is starting from scratch so I'd rather use the 'best' tool available.
So AIXI is just old stochastic optimal control (decision theory, controlled Markov processes, R. Bellman's work, etc.) plus a way from Solomonoff to make extrapolations. Okay.

For practice, there have been related ideas from D. Bertsekas and R. Rockafellar.

For actual computing, the problem remains the curse of dimensionality: This curse is so bad that, for a brute force approach, which is what AIXI is, or really nearly anything general in stochastic optimal control on big problems, a few more decades of Moore's law still won't scratch the surface.
Bump your price way up and buy one of theirs, possibly many times before they notice.
To clarify - I meant I am not partial to either language (as in I don't grok either very well).

I have mostly scripted in Python and some in Ruby (for some existing codebase). Not anything significant.
And if I can't figure out how to build a smarter brain than mine then it can't figure it out either, so we're still stuck.

For one thing, it's pretty likely that blindly expanding the size of your neocortex would increase your intelligence greatly without any major architectural changes - just pack more neurons in there in roughly the same pattern, or expand the depth of the cortical column (that might be more difficult architecturally, though, I don't think the structure is a homogeneous vertically as it is horizontally).

You're right, though, it's not necessarily true that even if we can improve our own design that means that by continuing to improve it we can achieve neverending gains. It is possible that at some point we'll reach a threshold, and we won't be quite smart enough to pass over it to the next level of intelligence.

But I think it's rather unlikely that we're close to that barrier - if we can beat our own intelligence at all, we should see a roughly exponential increase for at least a little while.
Forvo is great for this.

https://forvo.com/word/uyghur/
The Chinese government must have done a truly terrible job these last few decades, if they have so many radicals. One wonders why people tolerate such abysmal leadership.
How do you expect someone who doesn't have access to banking to set be able to set up a mining rig?

I'm not saying having a bank account is necessary, but the life conditions that prevent bank access (poverty, homelessness, addictions, abuse, violence, etc) will certainly prevent anyone from mining/
That is sample bias. HN moderation of titles and URLs has been the same for many years. It was never rare, and was always happening daily.
If California actually paid to take care of the massive amount of homeless people I think this number would shift blue quite a bit. You cannot tax yourself to prosperity as a society.
Instead of "Google should drop X", Google should allow users to weight domains in search results from zero to some-large-number, and to easily share lists of those weights. E.g. let the SPLC curate a list, the NRA curates another list, etc.

Meta-weights would also be useful, users could subscribe to the SPLC list but weight it by 1.5, weight the NRA list by -1, etc., whatever works for you.
The problems of today are only due to the roles government was playing yesterday. The government only needs to do less and society will fix itself. The people are in prison only because of government in the first place. Felons are only restricted from working because of the government. The danger of saying it's the government's job is we as individuals begin to absolve ourselves of responsibility, because we start to think its someone else's problem.
I'd hope all of those companies use multi-factor authentication
I would get the G2 since it's Googles official development device. It may be a bit clunky but its a solid hardware configuration and Google uses this device internally for development. Also, the hard keyboard is useful when testing for those target devices (folded up and hidden, virtual keyboard should activate).

I still use the G1 and it has yet to fail me.

G2 site: http://bit.ly/g8Ck6E
Gawker is responsible in the same way that you're responsible that your house got robbed because someone found your hidden door key under a rock in front of your house.

Ethically, it's clear that the hackers are wrong.

Should Gawker have had better security? No doubt.
Do you have any sources to back up that claim? Among my friends Facebook Chat has entirely replaced MSN Messenger.
You still need to be able to understand it.
GP claimed that generating dollars using electricity is bad. Isn't that what the majority of companies are doing?

Edit: that's my whole point: mining BTC is generating value by verifying transactions. In turn, the miner gets paid for their work.
You're right, American incursions against native peoples and Mexico exhibit utter disregard for the sanctity of property rights. It's an egregious mischaracterization to call the U.S. a bastion of capitalism.
Fair enough. I don't want to clone from within the container because I like the idea of being able to nuke it at any time and just start over from local code.

Probably similar reasons to what you mean by not having all code committed and pushed.
Though I don't have direct experience with this particular one, I can tell you it's similarly implemented to Resque (the ruby async library). In my experience, Resque has been wicked fast thanks to Redis' excellent in-memory database. From my personal use cases, Redis has been pretty fast on both python and ruby.

It really depends on what you are trying to do really. If you don't want additional moving parts and have Redis installed, I suppose this will do the job fine.
Wait till Apple starts pulling apps they don't want you to run!
One year of virtualised hosting would be pretty cool as well, although hackers tend to already have that...
Well, that's encouraging to hear you've made progress and success in a similar situation. Thanks for the tips and resources. JS seems important, so I'll work towards that. Cool site too...
Absolutely!

And the FPGAs need not even be as efficient in packing as Xilinx or Altera.

The thing that always gets me: you are already charging for HW - that's the only real business model. The CAD tools 1) suck, 2) aren't going to be a major money maker, and 3) desparately need UI design and programming talent well beyond what ever gets applied today.
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against. There's plenty more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme..., but the short version is that it leads to tedious, predictable, and nasty threads that destroy the curious conversation HN is supposed to exist for.

If you keep this up we are going to have to ban you. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.
ah, well yeah I didn't mean all Linux issues are solved.

I have hardware accel running in Chromium. It's really glitchy and would not recommend it. I'd probably just use mpv or vnc if you need hardware accel video.

Really, my biggest gripe with Chromium is that it does not yet support kinetic scrolling with a touchpad. Firefox supports it, however it's still not as comfortable as my Macbook.
> in a computer science book, you could update a caption space that gets its data from the web.

First, there's opportunity for that web endpoint to stop functioning. Second, there's opportunity for that web endpoint to become taken over by malice. And third, there's opportunity to turn that caption space into an advertisement.

So, to put it succinctly: fuck no.

> This would allow you to display an "obsolete sample code" warning below the examples.

So now the book isn't timeless. It changes. It's no longer a book.

A better idea: include the "obsolete sample code" warning in the book and ask the user check for the latest practices at a URL also included in the book.

> When the user is not connected to the internet, you could display "Get online to know code snippet status". And so on.

When the user is not connected to the internet should be the only case ever considered for a book. Otherwise you're not writing a book. You're writing an app.
If physics is climbing a mountain.

G-2 result is seeing the next hand hold (hoping its not a mirage).

Higgs discovery and its subsequent precision measurement is resting your toe into a hold and flexing your calf upwards.
> I think it's a tragedy that just about every developer uses git but most learn add, commit, branch, and merge and then just stop learning.

This is because Git is too hard to use.

How do I know that Git is too hard to use? Because there are literally thousands of blog post tutorials explaining how easy Git is to learn. Things that are easy do not need thousands of different guides telling you how easy it is.
It seems like most people need an app which tells them what apps already exist for the problem they are having. :D
"We made mercurial up to 50x faster than git, more than 2000 improvements"
on big repos with lot of history.

This would be their blog post about this: https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
and the code at http://selenic.com/repo/hg/shortlog/
there is a difference between being robbed and joining the muggers.
I think reservoirs along the San Bernardino mountains would be more effective in the long run. But then again, maybe Oregon could use some "democracy" ;-)
Being an underpaid tech journalist who's jealous of the salaries?