jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The video is well worth watching.

It gives a very clear picture of what's happening in North Korea, and about the situation for North Koreans inside and outside of North Korea (I was going to write '...their country', but that doesn't really seem correct).

It is from 2007, but (as far as I know) the situation hasn't changed much. Althoug the South Korean "Sunshine Policy" has now been stopped. Due to a change of government a bit over a year ago, not in response to the more recent naval conflict.

Two things the speaker said that stood out to me:
1. This humanitarian disaster is totally man-made.
2. This is a place in which the word "evil" really does apply.
Point well taken. I was intending more technology companies, so I'd concede Microsoft. I wonder if opportunities like that are still viable. There might be a licensing strategy to super company play left... I'd also add Zappos to the list of good examples of how to build a business. A people- and service-driven take on the done-to-death e-commerce market. Tony is a beast.
Wish I'd read this 5 hours ago. (5am...)
He uses canvas to render his text links...
stumbled over this via the referrer list on my host and thought i'd just add something for the record: my jsbfsh does cbc only, not ecb. i think the one making guesses instead of looking at code was you ;-) this was a very interesting and complementing discussion thread.
Good effort. However, if you evaporate more of your water, then the remainder freezes faster.
I remember it clearly. It was the first evening of the Northeast Blackout of 2003 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003] and I was working in NYC.

My wife had gone to her parents, and I wanted to phone her to say that all was well. All the cellphone towers were either without power, or overloaded. But the good old payphones just kept working.

It really is useful that telcos maintained their own power network. I wonder if this is still the case?
Some of these look a lot like iPhone game loaders. It's really interesting how limitations in hardware spur creativity.
Here's the thing: ultimately, investing involves a lot of trust. If Jason wants to "be the most sought-after, and value-added, angel investor in the world" then he probably ought to stop popping up in stories about Facebook accounts and iPads.

Ron Conway isn't losing any sleep at night.
Well, I think he is right.

Have you ever seen how many people each car have in on cities?.

I made the statistic counting traffic samples with friends(thousands of car samples)in Madrid, Spain.

Over 95%cars had only one person per car. That means moving +1500kg for really moving 75kg. 75/1575= 5% efficiency. We are wasting so much energy, nobody cares because oil is dirty cheap. This will change as oil prices(energy prices) go up.

A super kart could do the same thing cars do on cities moving 75kg of kart, that means 75/150 > 10 times better efficiency. It could use much less road space too(and parking). But some changes are needed to make this practical(individual karts for each person or luggage(autonomous car) if needed).

The classical segway is just nerd and impractical(nobody likes it), but I really love the Segway centaur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ntCYYc7lw
I would say that the rise from 0 to super power was definitely fastest in Soviet Russia - look at the difference between 1921 and 1945.

...and why is that a reason to read the constitution, again?
Only thing to miss when HTML5 take over. No more loaders.
I've successfully used Knoppix (a Linux live CD) to recover data from drives that Windows (and even BIOS) claimed did not exist. It's worth a shot before trying other services. If lucky, your drive will be mounted after Knoppix starts and you can copy the files off to a safer spot.

Good luck!
Hey, I'm working on http://codeboff.in. It's just a landing page for now but there's a blog at http://blog.codeboff.in.

My IM is karanvasudeva@gmail.com.
I think the best way to guarantee your data to live on is to get it in a form you can save for the future as easily as a photo album.

Some time ago I saw (maybe even here on Hacker News) something about "setting your data in stone"...

http://primera.eu/millenniata/millenniata-en.html is what I found quickly about it now, there is/was a bigger explaining page with a heat and ice test of this medium.
Although I don't agree that "lazy => sequential", what he/she probably means is that Haskell's lazy execution model sets constraints on program execution, in analogy to an imperative language, which also sets contraints on execution order.

Advantages of an unspecified execution order: more compiler optimizations allowed/possible.

Disadvantages: even harder to reason about. In fact, some functions may or may not terminate, depending on the whims of the compiler.
Thank you for clarifying.

It doesn't reflect very well on the company though when a bug like this is seen as something that people believe you would actually attempt to implement - even if this was a mistake. What does that say about what people think about that company?
On the other hand, don't neglect the classics because you think they're played out. I think someone influential made a snide comment to me when I was young about how overrated and irrelevant Dickens and Shakespeare are, so I didn't read them until after college, at which point I discovered how misguided I had been. But yes, definitely, there is great literature from the 90s, 00s, and 10s that young people are often not exposed to!
Wait, wait. We're talking underlying data format here.

Are you saying that serializing something to JSON (or whatever you fancy here) vs. to XML .. saves battery?

I mean, XMPP is certainly not the battery friendliest tech right now (elsewhere people discuss push extensions for example), but .. that's not related to the use of XML.
Quoting me, from five years ago (since I don't think I could say it any better today):

Rock Climbing, Surfing and Traveling (to do the first two) have always had a higher priority for me than programming computers, which would rank as my 4th hobby that also happens to pay my rent.

I think the fact that most people classify those activities as "hobbies" says a lot about the lives we construct for ourselves: Spend 50 weeks per year doing something unpleasant so that you free up a couple weeks to do something you actually enjoy. If you enjoy your hobby as much as you say, why not find a way to devote at least half your time to it?
Null is much less of a problem than having no static type system at all.

A "billion dollar" mistake is a mistake Google can affod to make :-/
Books are great, read everything you can. That said, my recommendations to a young person would be to make/build things. Make cheese or saurkraut to learn about fermentation. Weld something. Build a fence or a dog house or something to learn the process of taking a plan, measuring, cutting, fastening, etc. Plant a garden. Bake bread. Sew something. Distill something. Do something with electronics. All of these skills have practical applications plus many make scientific concepts more tangible.
Seriously, nice work!
I just worded this incorrectly. I'm sure Kevin is skilled. Being famous for hacking doesn't mean you are a skilled hacker. This is the way the article was phrased. Then they went on to say pen testing and have 100% finding vulnerabilities makes you good. Again, another false point. Thanks for your view of the article though, I'm always curious on other peoples views :)
I'm the one who wrote that ;) Didn't know it made it into the repo!
Even after reading HN for 662 days now, I still have to force myself to concede that not everyone is motivated by product quality or code cleverness. It still feels immoral to me for a company to sell an inferior product with superior marketing, but I have to ask myself: "Who am I to argue with what people want?" Or, more technically, "Who am I to argue with the neurochemistry of the majority of the population?"
> --- Coming Soon ---

> bit anticipates when you'll need to type git status and will display it proactively

huh?
Yes, that’s why a carbon tax is stupid and „emissions trading“ was invented. Under such a system the government sells a limited amount of certificates during an IPO. Later, the biggest energy consumers buy emission rights from the best energy savers.
Sorry to hear you've had relationship troubles with your parents. I hope things get better.

I appreciate the suggestions. I'll add them to my list.
Just in case the speculators here are the over leveraged hedge funds on the short side.
Something like this should probably legislated https://cloud.google.com/access-transparency

But it doesn't stop the government from bulk copying "business data" via powers granted by the Patriot Act.
Very much looking forward to this. An auth mechanism is a must have for my team to adopt new tools.
As someone who has a tangential interest in audio codecs , are there any go to books for learning about them and how they work, including the math involved and the physics / biology of the sound. I’m dealing with some very simple stuff (like G.711) and just working with ffmpeg, but I’d like to learn more about the subject in general.
Absolutely. I'm sure they aren't hiding anything. The results aren't what I expected so it's a learning opportunity for me
dude why did you tell them?
The only icing in the cake is that at least Shopify has been both transparent and quick - it's only taken a couple months and they've managed to get bottom of the case. Couple months might seem long but from what I've seen it takes about a year of lag time from the start of the breach to when the company finds out/acknowledges.

In any case I'm wondering - how did Shopify discover this intrusion? Do they check logs regularly? Did they receive a tip off?
Learning Go and Rust recently, it feels like Go is aiming to be a better Java(GC, excellent libraries, feature rich std library, fast enough but easier on devs) and Rust is aiming to be a safer C.
For what purpose? I've used Excel in the past for developer things but with Google Docs everyone can edit at the same time. I've used that feature as well which AFAIK I don't get with Excel or Open Office.

The bigger the project the more likely multiple people will need to be able to edit the same file. It's easy to write a script to pull down the latest one.

Just a thought.
It's for in case you couldn't have guessed that it would move in a circle I suppose...
Sounds similar to my experience. I remember writing a text-based flight simulator on the TRS-80 in BASIC named "F-14" when I was 10 or 11. It was terrible. My takeoff sequence simply incremented your speed, printed it out, and required the user to hit the "stick back" key on the keyboard once you were in the right speed range. The game was basically a text adventure with a few realtime elements thrown in. It also had music which was more like a set of random beeps that sometimes ended up sounding like a melody. Writing about it now makes me want to build it again.

I remember how excited I was when I was able to write data to a floppy from one of my programs. I felt like I could conquer the world.

All I had back then was the BASIC manual, but I was able to learn enough to be dangerous. My first real exposure to probability was the sample code in the manual for a Craps program. Great stuff for a kid to learn!
Did somebody really thought you get great results without discipline?

One truth from me: No pain no gain.
newservers.com - "dedicated cloud" - the servers are physical servers but they have a provisioning api. they have the cheapest 48GB boxes we can find, and we're running an app where we need a few very high memory boxes

pros - boxes are cheap relative to EC2, boxes are fast as they're all yours
cons - they're slow to provision; up to an hour when you make a request, but the smaller boxes are faster - 10 mins or so. also, only one datacenter, and it's in miami...
I think meta-aggregates such as popurls or googlenews should qualify as a 3rd option. It seems to me that both yes and no would apply if one frequently views the headlines of hackernews(et al.) through such an aggregate but rarely clicks on the stories.
Both. But kids will be taxed on their resource consumption and, when they grow up, their labor.
This is very interesting. Does anyone know a way to do this without knowing the exact size of the object whose distance you want to measure?
IIRC Firefox's built-in PDF viewer has decent integration with the browser back button, so you can search for text, read it, then press the back button on your mouse (or two-finger-swipe if you like making things complicated ;-)) to return to your previous page.
I know and use both Ruby/Rails and Groovy/Grails and wanted to debunk a myth here:

"Interest in Grails/Groovy is diminishing" - I won't comment on trends but there is still a large, active user base and community

I won't list the benefits of Ruby/Rails over Groovy/Grails because I will assume the audience here is familiar with Ruby/Rails.

Specifically here are some benefits of Groovy over Ruby:

- Very good JVM tooling and integration
- Familiar (Java)
- Developer friendly (Ruby has a number of syntax warts, e.g. elvis operator, null safe operator - just to start) syntax
- Optional static compilation
- Optional typing

and Grails over Rails:

- Performance - take a look at techempower benchmarks http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=peak&test=query
- Spring integration - having Spring built in is often useful in an enterprise context where existing Spring use exists
- Typing is nice if you like that (Mentioned above)

When I need to decide between using Grails and Rails, it usually comes down to developer convenience vs performance. I am asking myself do I want to give up a lot of performance (with Grails) for a little more developer conveniences (with Rails)? Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes no.
The author was recently interviewed on Hanselminutes:

http://hanselminutes.com/456/computer-vision-explained-with-...
"Downvoted, but not replied to...unacceptable."

Do not digress from a thread to discuss the scoring system.

Write your post, have your discussion, but do not inject meta-scoring chat into your posts.
Apple is just not the same anymore. Makes me sad.
Care to elaborate why? I've got a CS background, and I'm looking at ITP.
I think you and redwood are violently in agreement. If you have more money, you can save your money and that money will make you more money. If you have less money, you can't.
Another way of looking at it: The data is completely overwhelmed by the super wealthy.

This is the very tail end of Fortune's richest people list.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_The-Wo...

Any one of those people is worth 1 billion dollars, along with all the Gates's and Buffett's of the world. If I were pretty well off and worth, say, $1,000,000, it would take a thousand of me to equal one of him. And if I were a student with just a thousand dollars, it would take one million of me to get to one of him.

Based on that, the top quintile is not rich because of doctors, executives, basketball players or lawyers - it's billionaire company founders, investors, and the like. To test that hypothesis, I tried to find results marked by percentile, instead of quintile:

http://www.lcurve.org/WealthDistribution-1998.htm

The top 0.5% have 25.6% of the wealth and the next 0.5% have 8.4%.

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(Side note, if you're thinking about income taxes: I'll bet there are more than a few people up at the top who get paid a dollar a year in salary.)
<i>The second part of what you said -- about ownership of the "engines of production" -- is straight out of Marxism, which is, by the way, broken. More and more we live in an information economy; it's not about what you own, but what you know and what you can make.</i>

I don't agree: while it's important to know a lot to be valuable today, the people who are in this extreme high echelon of wealth are accumulating wealth through corporate ownership and they seem to be owning a larger and larger percent of those corporations.

Perhaps what you mean is that corporations, while dominant when it comes to dollars, are not necessarily continuing to be dominant wrt. the human experience. And this I agree with: the internet has opened the wealth of human knowledge to all of us. This freedom and the fact that so many of us spend our days doing what are effectively leisure of artistic pursuits means, even if we're not making money, we're contributing to man kind. And this is true: and not reflected in the wealth distribution, I agree.
Why assume universal healthcare is a clearly better way of governance? Leaving aside the question of whether it's "better", I'm also not sure it qualifies as a "way of governance". It's a feature some countries choose to implement in part due to their "way of governance". Arguing over whether some country should implement a feature like "universal health care" is arguing at the policy level; Seasteading is operating at one or two meta-levels higher than that.
Presumably, a CS person isn't going to ITP for the tech education. Are there not other things for them to extract from the program?
Yes they do. Because you pirated it you've lowered the value of the product in the eyes of everyone else.
I confused things by using terminology here. I did not mean partial as in "partial application." I mean partial as in "isn't fully built."

Consider, a bike that doesn't have pedals or even all spokes is a broken combination. You can still spin the parts that are assembled and see what will happen, though.

So, unless I am wrong on this, point B is still troublesome to me.

There is also a concern on whether the "assembly" phase is where time is best saved. How much more effort did it take for some elements so that they would have these "easily assembled" types?
The importance of designing the rescue plan was not simply wishful thinking, but to prevent future disasters. After Columbia, a rescue mission was planned alongside each shuttle launch in case this happened again (it didn't).
> I believe that feature-wise OS X 10.10 and iOS 8 are quite nice.

My feeling is that this embodies the problem pretty well. Apple releases, typically, weren't seen (by tech people) as "quite nice", feature-wise. The "ahhh" moments in keynotes were more or less experience-related. iOS 8 and Mavericks keynotes, however, were full of "ahh" moments related to technical advances.

It seems (to me) that they jumped on the "creeping featurism" bandwagon.
Grabbing the data from the exec response is a super clunky way of communicating between two applications, particularly since Go is really good at keeping long-lived TCP connections.

Even without connecting directly (which is just as trivial as reading a response from exec), you should be looking at a formal message passing system. This also allows you to easily distribute these dissonant applications, which is a good idea when you're talking about "utilizing all the CPUs available" and potentially high network usage.
> I think that Apple is a victim of its decision to release new OS version every year

Why? Why is one year the problem, would two years fix it? Why not 14 months?
One of the small but really good features of Zig that immediately stood out to me was the fact that there are no implicit function or method calls. my.name will never call a hidden function. As useful as @property is in Python, it really makes it hard to reason about performance of code until you dig all the way through every bit of every class and type.
If we weren't paying every mafioso at harvard 200k/yr in summer salary, we could fund a good number of them at subsistence wage. (note: there are also many decent people at harvard...)
I didn't see a lot either.

I just assume it's a direct feed of all your bodily activity direct to Zuck Central. Supported by real time advertising direct to your brain.
Technically you don’t need verified certs to get the encryption
> many feet high

The article said they trained with the poles low to the ground. But even so, it looks very dangerous if one makes a tiny mistake. So do the gymnastic routines that are done in the Olympics. The reason I failed at gymnastics in school was I was unable to commit to the moves (if you didn't commit, you would hurt yourself).
Another use for WD-40. <grin>

Before I looked at the video I was expecting there to be a spot of non-conducting corrosion between the two contacts.

I had a Technics turntable with a speed-adjustment potentiometer. After being unused for several decades, the 'correct-speed' position was corroded out, leaving only (slightly) under-speed or over-speed RPMs available.
"Chinese friends/wife/coworker said" is particularly kind of ridiculous appeal to authority considering the average citizen is not typically a subject matter expert on relevant topics being discussed outside of generalized familiarity with the censorship apparatus. The only useful things the average Chinese person will tell you is Chinese numbers / stats with Chinese characteristics are not accurate, but analysts familiar with Chinese stats will at least use oblique indicators to tell you if numbers are useful, i.e. Chinese GDP smoothing.

Or in this case, how covid19 export case numbers from places like Taiwan, HK, SK, Singapore, Australia, Newzealand all indicate Chinese numbers are not grossly exaggerated - China only exported a fraction of covid19 cases compared to Europe or North America because covid19 never exploded in China due to harsh restrictions. The article you're citing is also sourcing figures from _Chinese_ CDC on antibody prevalence rate which is expected to be higher than pure testing data seen in similar studies in other countries. So again, it's official Chinese numbers being useful and comporting to similar measures elsewhere. The difference is western media like BBC attempting to spin as the numbers being uniquely nefarious and useful idiots eating it up, just like in this NYT article.
eTRF - I didn't know that name.

I listened to a Joe Rogan episode where he interviewed Dr Rhonda Patrick. She said if you ate strictly within 12 (or 10) hours you would have better muscle mass among other things. I see now she calls it time restricted eating.

I tried it a few days but it was really hard, I felt cranky. But it seems like it works for you. Maybe I'll try again - there may be a hump to get over.

When I first tried limiting carbs I would start roaming around the kitchen looking for something to munch on, but after a week or two that calmed down.
Not a mathematician, but some references I found after goolging a bit:

[1] "The meaning of Ramanujam now and for the future", George E. Andrews. http://www.math.psu.edu/andrews/pdf/274.pdf

[2] "The Ramanujam Journal", http://www.springer.com/mathematics/numbers/journal/11139

Quote from the conclusion of [1]:

In his Presidential address to the London Mathematical Society in 1936, G. N. Watson spoke movingly of his emotional response to Ramanujan's achievements. I close by quoting his last few paragraphs [54; p. 80]:

"The study of Ramanujan's work and of the problems to which it gives rise inevitably recalls to mind Lam e's remark that, when reading Hermite's papers on modular functions, \on a la chair de poule." I would express my own attitude with more prolixity by saying that such a formula as:

<snipped formula>

gives me a thrill which is indistinguishable from the thrill which I feel when I enter the Sagrestia Nuova of the Capelle Medicee and see before me the austere beauty of the four statues representing Day, Night, Evening, and Dawn which Michelangelo has set over the tombs of Guiliano de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. Ramanujan's discovery of the mock theta functions makes it obvious that his skill and ingenuity did not desert him at the oncoming of his untimely end. As much as any of his earlier work, the mock theta functions are an achievement su cient to cause his name to be held in lasting remembrance"

To me, it's interesting that a community where fairly easy to build web-applications are called transformative and disruptive also has two out of thirteen comments critical of Ramanujam's impact.