jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of Gandhi's non-cooperation attitude and shrewdness in dealing with unjust people or policies in power.

As an individual, you are powerless when you go through the security line. As a group, however, the American people have all of the power. Because this is both a democracy and a capitalist country (however flawed it may be), if there is an organized and concerted effort against the TSA policies, they simply cannot stand. Congress would not be able to oppose a unified voice of the people saying "this is not okay" and the airlines would not be able to tolerate a significant reduction in customers (and therefore would put pressure on the TSA to change its policies).

Gandhi organized a "day of prayer and fasting" which was basically a general strike of all of India. It was a wake-up call to the British. If somebody organized a "do not fly" day where no one flew, that would probably be a bigger wake-up call than opting out of the scan.

Sometimes you have to give up some temporary convenience or comfort to send a message to those in power that you don't agree. During the Montgomery bus boycott, people stopped using the bus and this was extremely inconvenient but they would rather not trade their dignity for convenience.
Reasonable: brushing against someone in a grocery store as you squeeze past them in an aisle

Unreasonable: Running into them full force, leaning your shoulder into their jaw and breaking it into three pieces

The line: somewhere in between
According to the article the fares cover 175% of the operating costs. So even without the additional income from real estate it's still a profitable business.
1noon (Korean web search startup) tried to recognize provenance and was somewhat successful. But that wasn't enough to win in the market. Naver acquired 1noon.
Is that a standard Appium or somehow modified?
Yes, the article seems to imply that homodyne detectors are some kind of magical machines that can determine whether a particle is quantum entangled without having it collapse into a single state. Which would go against all QM knowledge that I have (little though it is). A quick check of the Wikipedia articles doesn't confirm that, but it leaves me confused.
A quick look at the author's tweets reveals this is not as innocent as you seem to say it is. Plato once said something along the lines of: "those who mix art with politics must be either unsure of their art or of their political positions, if not both". We had engaged musicians, now we have engaged developers. This is all the same trash to me.
Then you get no one trying different js engines, or trying different approaches rendering.

IE6 was pretty much a monopoly, how well did that go?
> Elixir is less than a year old

Just a small correction. Elixir was started in 2012. I assume you mean less than 1 year since version 1.0?
> "We just write Type{paramemer}"

It seems odd to say "we just write" for some arbitrary choice with its own tradeoffs; {} mean a set in Python or a literal array initialiser in C# or a scriptblock in PowerShell or a dfn in Dyalog APL or a JSON dictionary, etc. With only a limited set of whatever symbols happened to end up on a US ASCII keyboard 40+ years ago, there is heavy competition for them, it's why J broke the symmetry of pairs and went for two-character symbols, why PowerShell went for comparators like -gt and -lt, why C# has => which is completely different from <=, why << is not a double application of less-than but is bit shifting ...

To act like there's an objectively better use for {} is to miss how many tradeoffs there are, and how many things people want symbols for out of a standard keyboard.
Undefined behavior ;)
RUD-Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly - “It blew up” (more aerospace than straight aviation)
What a comically arrogant species.
Does the job well for the home page ! But comments are still as hard to read through.
Maybe that's what happens when you get tortured.
Indeed. Puppet was created in Ruby and thus requires it to function.

Puppet is generally meant to be a replacement for configuration scripts. Essentially your Puppet scripts define a 'state' that you want the server to be in, thus if you want a user account called 'bob' you'd do something like this:

user {'bob':
ensure => present,
gid => '0',
uid => '0',
password => '<my encrypted password>',
}

From this Puppet would do all the 'difficult' bits for you.

You mention that if you get paid to write Puppet scripts you wouldn't need to know how things work at the shell level. That is extremely far from the truth. You need a strong background and experience with shell commands, configuration layouts, shell/CLI methodology, etc. Without those you would quickly be lost both in terms of managing and dealing with Puppet and scripting in it.

Knowing Puppet is no replacement for Shell knowledge unless the extent of what you need to do with Puppet is understand you're using it to launch your Vagrant instances. Honestly there are things which to build out in Puppet would require extensive Ruby based functions and sometimes you really just need to fall back to using exec {} statements in Puppet (Meaning you're running shell commands from within Puppet). You can see some examples of this in the zookeeper module I built: https://github.com/justicel/puppet-zookeeper

Feel free to message me with Puppet questions and really, if you're just using Shell scripts I highly, highly recommend moving toward configuration-management (even if it's not Puppet), unless you only have one or two servers to manage.
Do they have a moat? What’s to stop 100 other US exchanges popping up?
Using twitter lists might solve that?
combine -> enombic
I challenge you to explain why this matters.
That's funny because BFD linker's original meaning was Big F**ing Deal. Linkers sure are marketable oddballs.
You might want to consider developing a sense of humor, friend.
\s means "sad" here.
And using SSE with Hotwire is even easier than using WebSockets: https://mercure.rocks/docs/ecosystem/hotwire
Atoms are low on power usage. Hence their popularity for net books.
Regardless of the political motivations that sparked the announcement, I was excited to hear about it.

I became interested in Afghanistan in 2001, along with everybody else. Before that, my only exposure to the country was my reading of "The Man who would be King", by Kipling.

Everything that I've heard about the Afghanistan economy has had to do with opium and heroin. To have it announced that there was a very real possibility that there may be a way to grow their economy in a very real and significant way, and a way that benefits the rest of the world, rather than harms it, is exciting news to me.
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke...

A neuroscientist that suffered from a stroke talked about the experience and the interesting conclusion that came from it.
Oversight is a nice word, but rarely beneficial when formalized as an ongoing process. To see this, do you believe that the loss of an entire platform, death of 11 workers, and possible loss of all mineral rights in US territory wasn't enough to motivate the company to follow the engineering recommendations of their best and brightest?

Along those same lines, anyone who would have had the insight to avoid this kind of terrible accident would be highly valuable in the industry, and easily lured away from a mid-level bureaucratic position. An oversight commission will be left with only busy-bodies and those with out of date knowledge and skills.
In parts of Africa you can set up a artesanal diamond mine with a shovel and a strainer. Spend a few weeks there finding diamonds, then smuggle them back to the US and sell them. Document this whole process on video, then sell the rights to a documentary and do a book deal when you get back.

Estimated time to completion: 4 months.
...and that's the difference between an amateur and a professional.
What do citizens in China think of this? When Google Search was effectively banned, some scientists said that they depended on Google Scholar and Google Books, services which were also affected by the ban. Are Baidu and similar services really an effective replacement?

I'm also wondering what would happen if the U.S. takes this to the World Trade Organization. Arbitrarily blocking some company's services could well be interpreted as unfair trade practices. And a more aggressive U.S. government, perhaps with a more protectionist president in 2016, might well decide to retaliate.
The basic service rifles and carbines of WWII were reliable. So was the BAR light machine gun by then.

We're talking about the reliability and effectiveness of the very most basic weapons issued to our troops.

Heck, when counting effectiveness, the current Europellet (9mm) pistol, which has to use FMJ ammo, is much less effective in stopping than the old M1911 (the latter of which just happens to be the design I carry every time I exit my dwelling).
Can someone change the url to:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2888975/Vast-underground-complex-Nazis-developed-WMD-discovered-Austria.html
So the demographic exists - its just the label that's objectionable? Everyone and their dog can learn to be a script kiddie. There's a vast spectrum of skills called 'programming', and us nerds and geeks object to everybody claiming to be a full member of the guild.
While I do agree that what the mind can do is amazing, I don't think fighting reflexes like shaking is a good idea. Shaking is a way for your body to warm up, because it is starting to be too cold to function "normally". While it is definitely not a severe symptom of hypothermia, it should not be ignored.
I cannot help but notice a few commercial hardware projects involved who have made it clear they do not like their hardware/software being used in things like military applications.

While I haven't heard Xbee's stance on such things, would they perhaps care to clarify their stance beyond "most persons are able to use our products, the use is up to the end consumer."

I would wholly appreciate it since hobbyist part manufactures depend on the community around them, and we really do like some of the makers out there as well as their efforts for disseminating open ended hardware for others to tinker with.

edit: Thank you diydrones community and others! Promoting responsible use while not seeking to limit the possible innovations of others.
I think it's unfortunately common to have "Get Shit Done" people that work on making greenfield stuff quickly and "Slow the Fuck Down" that make that stuff work and keep working, which is both technically and politically.

Also, what is MOSCOW?
If security is so important, why should we accept database developers who don't understand that?
Does this mean we don't need to do a census any more?
> It's you and others who have to torture these definitions to begin using a term like "design theft," which very clearly doesn't involve depriving the owner of property or carrying anything away, and is obviously just copying instead.

So you're saying if I rob your bank account it's not theft because it's not a physical good.

Okay.

> Amazon is threatening to turn Allbirds' unique design into an entire category, and Allbirds doesn't like it.

I am convinced you're misrepresenting what Amazon is doing. I've been trying to avoid that conclusion, but I can't avoid it any longer. Wool shoes aren't new. There are vendors before now. What is new is Allbird's specific look and minimally branded aesthetic. That is what Amazon is abusing.

> If you do something new, others will build off of it, and while that may be a challenge for you, it is a very good thing for consumers.

Let's destroy capitalism together to make this more likely to be true.
Nothing close in terms of cost per kwh.
To sack it may have been one of the stupidest decisions ever by a CEO (Apotheker).

After the blow out sale they had something they were lacking before: huge customer base. But the idea to make money with software and apps instead of hardware may not have been compatible with HP business culture.
.onion?
It'd be nice to have a bot listening to a channel and doing that work too. Maybe as a secondary method of data acquisition.
Dualism is a part of it, but dualism is more an ethical question.

Indeterminism is more about emergence, quantum fields and such things. How the universe works.

My impression is that a lot of science that is applied to intelligent machines is based on a deterministic physical model based on Newton and LaPlace. The Bayesian networks was pioneered 200 years ago by LaPlace for example. But how is Einsteins relativity theory applied? Or quantum fields?

There are two different models of the universe involved the "old" deterministic model and the "new" indeterministic model (see Karl Popper -> Open Universe -> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288137.The_Open_Universe).

May be it make sense to bring some newer approaches into the game, instead of reapplying again and again the same approach.
What's really lovely is when you take the electrician's attitude (professionalism), and always do the tests and documentation anyway, and then find that you are avoided for new jobs because of your "perfectionist" attitude and longer job estimates.

Eventually some of the management may learn how unwise this is, but it can take a long time, especially when many projects don't end up being successful/used by intended users anyway (which is its own drag on morale). I don't work in this environment anymore, thankfully.
Zstd and LZ4 look amazing. Here's another compressor I really like: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html
Tests are code and need to be maintained. Type systems remove the need for certain classes of tests that would otherwise need to be written and maintained. Just because you need to write other unit tests doesn't mean it's free to write unit tests to check types.
Agreed, it'd be nicer if it wasn't a spammer though (and a pretty prolific one at that):

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=homeroot
> real world conditions like snowy roads and places with obscured road signs.

Snowy roads are actually much better in many ways for cars (theoretically) than humans, because cars have much shorter reaction time. As for obscured road signs, if self-driving cars become the norm, road signs will likely disappear, because (A) they will use wireless communication to transmit information to cars, rather than visual scanning, and (B) a lot of information contained on road signs would simply be irrelevant or redundant for self-driving cars.

Remember that modern cars are already very autonomous, even though they "feel" manual. Recently, I drove a car[0] that will actually automatically steer the car back into a lane if it senses that the driver is veering on the highway (ie, if he/she falls asleep or is drunk).

We don't think of this as "self-driving" because the improvements are incremental and the driver is still present and feels like he/she is in control, but drivers have been slowly giving up control over cars for several decades now. Self-driving cars are actually much less of a leap from the status quo than people realize; it's simply[1] the final step in a long series of incremental automation of automobiles[2].

[0] Subaru, I believe.

[1] Not that it isn't still an impressive feat, of course.

[2] Let's not forget the prefix or etymology of the world automobile - it's not accidental!
No, it doesn't. Snowden isn't the one who's been releasing these documents; the journalists are. For your claim to make any sense, you'd have to believe Der Spiegel is secretly working for the Russians.
Yeah, you should probably spend less time online too.
Not sure that this is the case. I guess it depends on what opting out is. I never called anyone to opt out, though I did turn it off in the modem itself. Then a few months later I bought a new modem entirely and returned the Comcast one. At no point then or now did I lose the ability to connect to other xfinitywifi's.
Is it for services only or can sites like personal blogs be there too?
Circle can inherit from Ellipse if objects of both classes are immutable. The "stretch" method should return a new Ellipse. The implementation of "stretch" gets inherited into class Cicrle, so stretching a Circle yields a new Ellipse as the method signature says.

That example may look impractical. Here's a better one: define SanitizedString as a subclass of String (if your language allows that). Methods that output HTML to the client can take SanitizedStrings as input, so the type checker ensures the absence of XSS attacks. The constructor of SanitizedString could take an ordinary String and sanitize it, and that's the whole implementation of SanitizedString, because all other methods are already provided by String and none of them can break the sanitization because String is immutable. So using immutable objects allows you to write less code and get more compile-time guarantees.
FWIW, there are many smart phones with much better cameras than what the iPhone 4 has. Nokia and Sony already produce smartphones with very good cameras that rival point-and-shoots.
When they claim they are the only native browser, then the feature set that defines native better be exclusive to them.

It's not negativity to call bullshit on a claim. There are plenty of things Microsoft could be touting about their browser without making up marketing speak.
Why does OP expect the cost of defending a lawsuit to be at least thousands of dollars? Presumably because OP isn't a lawyer, and thinks: (1) it isn't cost-effective to learn to defense him/herself and (2) he/she would need to hire a lawyer to handle the court procedures and substantive arguments.

I reject the OP's delineation of business vs. legal outright. If you're doing business on the web, you need to be able to defend yourself against C&D letters. Whether that means going to trial, settling the claim or calling the letter writer's bluff: you need to be able to do all three.
Any specific food habits, we need to follow?

I avoid coffee and drink Lipton herbal tea.
It sounds kind of fun. How does the company intend to fund the giving away of these items though? It looks to me like they're overestimating just how much money a visiting user brings to the site. This kind of site would need a large number of users to become profitable, that's for sure.

Could be an interesting marketing exercise, though. Even if you don't receive the product in question, you may end up wanting to buy one for yourself anyway.

Also, the 4-step diagram showing people 'how it works' has two steps saying how one signs up, one saying 'Beg & Vote' and then 'WINNING!'. It doesn't explain that well what the site's actually about. Something like "Tell us why you should get this prize","Vote for other users", "Win!" could work better.

Or I might be wrong. I guess feedback is (usually) better than silence, so there you go. :)

EDIT: Aesthetically, the site looks really nice. The scrolling sidebar's annoying, though. Using the scrollwheel or scrollbar makes it lag behind. It distracts from the items on show, which should probably be the focus of the user's attention.
hm, 16 metro areas growing from 72% to 75% of the population in the next 10 years... sounds like that would explain how they decided on 75%.
Yup, complete with 20gb bandwidth caps because we only have the one pipe out of the country.
I did that years ago and found it to be very useful.
Ultimately it comes down to the question of "exit". As a founder, I have no interest in exit or liquidity. I am in business to run a business, not to run away from it. Or as Warren Buffet puts it: Our favorite holding period is forever.

I often get the impression that many people in the tech industry have not internalized that it's possible to make a successful business (and a lot of money) without taking investment. Or that it may be desirable to run and grow a business over a long time period like decades.

While I don't have hard facts on this, I would expect that more entrepreneur wealth has been created through running businesses instead of exiting. Of the wealthy people that I personally know, this statement holds. But it seems reinforced regularly, for example with Gabriel's post yesterday analyzing how an entrepreneur would go about pocketing $5 million pre-tax on an exit.
Nevermind, HTML is no longer posted in such a way that we can inject javascript with the old method. I need to go turn off my troll bot that is now spewing nonsense due to the client being updated.
With regards to GWO, see http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo/compare . Google doesn't use GWO on any page of importance and neither should you.

On the general topic of doing A/B testing server side (with Rails or what have you) versus doing it client side in Javascript:

1) Doing it in Javascript sacrifices one-line A/B tests, and that is a cost I'm totally unwilling to put up with because it means I will be too lazy to actually do A/B tests. (Take a look at the framework posted yesterday and what they have to do two swap two divs. That is fairly representative. Note that it gets harder, fast, if you start doing anything the least bit complicated.)

2) Javascript is not your friend for load times. A/Bingo and similarly optimized server-side frameworks are, essentially, free in terms of user-perceptible performance.
Thank you. I feel like there is a group of internauts who have their hand on the keyboard just waiting for any company to make a mistake just so they can start writing hurtful comments.
Cool stuff, have bookmarked it, cheers!
Pretty ironic that their announcement about HTML5 on the download page is broken on most browsers:

http://www.apple.com/safari

screenshot: http://grab.by/4O3f
Businesses are now free to refuse services to Apple because of their CEO Tim Cook. good luck with that.
There are probably two sides to this story. You might see someone as out of touch when what really bothers you is that you were second-guessed or that a limit was placed on your power. One situation, multiple descriptions.
Porn. The first use case is always porn.

And it seems like a pretty good use case here.
Off-topic: That's a bizarre layout.
In addition to that, the ngx_headers_more module also solves the second issue I mentioned. It can be used to remove the Server header completely.
I was also thinking about Absinthe when I was read the release notes. Especially this line:

Compiler warnings and errors now include column numbers in addition to line numbers.

I remember reading this warning in the the Absinthe book (pg 90).

"Notice that the column value in the error is 0. Due to a current limitation of the lexer that Absinthe uses (flex)."

Do you think this will be solved as well?
Yep, school drop-out here. Spent a few years washing dishes in fancy restaurants, filling the shelves at night in a large bargain store, unloading fishing boats, working the rubbish trucks and always being coated in rubbish dust and rubbish juice, carrying plasterboard around building sites until my fingers went nerveless, etc. etc.

Taught me that I should aspire for better. Dropping out of high school made such aspirations far harder to achieve.
What’s strange here? I’m working remotely for over 15 years, but still, this is not work for everyone. It’s far from idyllic imaginations of office workers, as grass is always greener on the other side.

Also, I'm not sure that remote working will work for such businesses as banks, where keeping bank confidentiality may be hard or even impossible to enforce for remote workers. My girlfriend worked at bank once, they were very strict in controlling media drives, notes, even use of personal phones were not allowed near workstations.