jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Exactly my thought. The scatterplot he mentions in Footnote 1 seems uniquely in their wheelhouse.
Or, it is keeping with it by saying that the logical place to be searched is a acceptable description. That seems appropriate for a logical entity (or at least one where the physicality of it is transient and irrelevant).
Yup! That's what we're working on a Mixmax - an SDK that makes embedding rich interactivity in email easy. Best of all, there is nothing proprietary about the HTML email it produces. We hope to have our SDK standard adopted by other mail clients also. Stay up to date with our progress at mixmax.com/blog
The article itself is quite interesting, but I almost skipped the video, which is at least as amusing! It was worth the watch.
The www.haskell.org (wiki, mailing list server) has been compromised. Offline until repaired.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/cbkkb/wwwhaskellorg...

Plans are in the works to move from the Yale environment soon.
here is what you are looking for. http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/
With this I built not only a compiler but a virtual machine, an assembler AND the machine it all runs on!
It's the most awesome book I ever came across. You will come away from this so much more confident in your knowledge of how computers really work. I can't recommend it highly enough especially if you don't have a computer science background as I don't.
With rapidshare, the person who uploaded the file gets 1 point each time the file he uploaded is download by a free user. Later, he can trade points for new premium accounts, that lasts for a 1 month, that he can sells directly to 3rd part using paypal for a lower price that rapidshare.

That way, there's a huge incentive for uploaders to use rapidshare and promote their own uploaded files.
Indeed. Who's to say I won't win the lottery tomorrow? We only have experience and statistics. If you're willing to throw those out and just say "who's to say this can't happen!", than you are not in control of your life, you're just blowing in the wind and hoping.
Broken record: if you're liking the results you're getting from the beer cooler, drop a couple hundred on a PID-controlled rice cooker setup. You don't need to shell out for a Sous Vide Supreme appliance to get professional results (in fact, a friend who wrote a review for the SVS was hard pressed to come up with any advantage to the SVS over the "ghetto" setup, other than that it doesn't make your kitchen look like a meth lab.)
Sure I know it's one example, and I have no idea how the numbers would stack up if some kind of research was done on this. All I'm saying is that this is not necessarily good advice, and from a learning perspective potentially counter-productive.

But look, let's keep this in perspective. This is a blog post by an entrepreneur with a new start-up. This is nothing more than press, publicity, visibility, mind-share, whatever, designed to get people talking, discussing, linking. So to be taken with a pinch of salt at best.
On Food And Cooking is an awesome, awesome book. It's on my bookshelf next to my reading chair; I flip it open to a random page any time I get bored. The charts and sidebars alone (for instance, breakdowns of the volatiles in different herbs and spice) are worth the price of admission.

It's also written absurdly well.
We can push out new solar and wind today, right now. The lead time for new renewables is months.

The lead time for new nuclear is 10->20 years. It is, frankly, too late for nuclear (at least without serious regulations overhaul). It might make sense to start building plants, but if we want to curb climate change then the only path is renewables.
Not a Darwin hacker, but:

> What are the big architectural differences or cool features not in Linux?

Darwin is based on XNU from NeXT, which itself is comprised of OSFMK Mach microkernel but with many of the things pulled into the kernel itself for performance. A lot of the stuff with Mach tasks/ports/messages is still there.

> Also, how hard is it to upstream changes/get drivers in mainline?

You can write your own using IOKit but they're not going to be in the mainline tree, because Apple.
I think the awareness is there on the individual level in most countries; what's lacking is that the political process is broken in various way, so that the interests of wealthy people and shareholders overrule the will of the majority of people.

In the United States, for instance, a majority wants significant action to avert climate change. Some of the obstacles to this actually happening are the electoral college, the filibuster, gerrymandering, first-past-the-post elections, the Citizens United decision, regulatory capture, and so on. We don't need to fix all of those things in order to act decisively, but if we reformed at least some of them it would make progress much easier.
It’s illegal to disown children in the U.S.
Woah I had no idea. I've been speaking bricklink's praise for a long time. Very sad to discover this!
I’ve heard this sentiment before, but I don’t see why one would expect a toy company with decades of expertise in toy design, manufacturing, and plastic chemistry to invent a multiplayer computer game. It’s more like expecting Kodak to invent Photoshop.

Also, computer and video games haven’t exactly done to the toy market what digital photography did to the film market.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion throughout this thread, perhaps I can attempt to clarify what's going on at a very high level. The setting is that the user sends their data to a service and wants the service to do useful work on their data without knowing what their data is. In this case, the work that the service does is apply a pre-trained, non-secret ML vision model to the secret, encrypted data. The result is an encrypted answer that is sent back to the user, who can decrypt it and get a useful result. The service is none the wiser about what the user's data was, nor what the answer was.

Does this seem like impossible magic? Yes. Everyone was pretty surprised when the first theoretical fully homomorphic encryption schemes were found. For a while people believed that it might never be efficient enough to be practical. But now it's actually feasible to do limited but real useful computations on behalf of a user without the service learning anything about what it is computing for the user. There is ongoing work to expand what kinds of computations can be done efficiently.
Every attempt to prevent cheating in that way is a huge pain full of edge cases and false positives, and is usually ineffective. Would be better to either embrace technology and accept that the internet is a possible source of help or go manual/mechanical, but trying to artificially limit a cell phone or laptop is doomed from the start.

t. Student who’s had to deal with lockdown browser and similar school-specific proprietary malware.
Yup relate on most of these qualities, including Eastern European, but no Jew via DNA test at least, but anecdotally maybe.
The validity (or compellingness) of that list aside, the copywriting is atrocious. It makes me feel like Dell (or at least their marketing department) is only paying lip service to Linux - I could never imagine that quality of writing showing up anywhere else in their advertising.
They locked my account with no explanation for over 2 months now. Customer support has been extremely slow to respond, and they said they would hold a security interview in 1-2 business days to have my account unlocked... this was 5 weeks ago, with no response since.

Worst support I've ever experienced, I honestly don't know how this is legal.

If they weren't IPO'ing I would've assumed they were insolvent.
> process-fetishism

I've not heard it put so succinctly before.
Not a terribly important question in the grand scheme of things, but what's the rationale behind making the \ key and the Enter key touch each other? I've seen it on other keyboards as well and cannot imagine what's gained by doing it.
The OUYA did not have this problem. They packed stock standard android hardware in to a box. The problem was that it didn't have enough games to make it worth buying or enough developers to make it work targeting.

I haven't read the details of this specific laptop in the OP but I have seen similar projects go nowhere. What usually happens is the product ends up a lot more expensive and lower quality than a mass produced laptop and the project doesn't live long enough to release a second gen of hardware.

It would make more sense for me to buy 2 Dell XPS laptops over the next 10 years that to buy this hobby project and if I even can, buy the upgrade kit.
That's funny. Whenever I hear from people that are "bearish" on contraception, the sexual revolution, etc., I become a little disheartened to think how many people even today have such a dim view of sex and their own human nature...
The author read Domebook 1, the hippie dome manifesto. Kahn, who wrote that, now says it was all a big mistake. (http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/refried_domes.html)

Buckminster Fuller's approach to domes was that they should be made from factory-made components made to tight tolerances, made from modern materials - Fiberglas panels, aluminum connectors, and neoprene gaskets. Such parts are cheap when made in bulk. Domes made that way hold up very well. Some radomes in the Arctic have been surviving winters for 50-60 years now.

The hippie dome movement, as led by Kahn, encouraged do-it-yourself dome making from "natural" or even found materials. This doesn't work as well. A dome has a huge number of edge joints, all of which are exposed to weather. Making them leakproof is hard. Making them leakproof without tight tolerances is very hard. The best solution the hippie movement ever achieved was to nail shingles over the whole dome. Windows presented even worse problems.

A more subtle problem was discovered later. Although the basic geometry of a dome is simple, what happens to a dome when sunlight heats one side but not the other isn't. Large internal stresses develop, and this cycling from relative expansion tends to cause leaks at joints.

The rubber connector is a nice part. It should grab tighter as the struts are bent from flat to the dome shape. Getting the last struts connected, though, might be a pain.
I don't know the essay. The idea is called the Johari window. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window .

The size of 4) is infinite, so decreasing it would be pretty hard. And personally, it's always felt too Aristotelian for my tastes.
i used to post on reddit but now they just delete everything. feel free to post on upvotocracy.
Well laid out. My only quarrel is this: is point 10 really anything new?
What do you think will be the quality of work produced by someone who works all day at their regular job, and then after putting the kids to bed at 10pm, works for another 2-3 hours on the contract project you assign them as part of the interview process, and does this for a week straight?

Personally, my brain is completely fried by the time I get home in the evening.
Oh, is Obama finally beginning to understand that when he promised to create the most transparent administration in US history, people actually expected him to do so?
I'd appreciate some responses from those who downvoted the above post.

update: fair enough, and thanks for the replies. I shouldn't let my own bias against ticket brokers get mixed into commenting on an application like this.
Right, are the continually rising CEOs salaries theft or a sign of health?
Patrick, in order for non-investors to be able to view your profile you have to make it visible to the public using the green box at the top of your profile.
That's totally right: it's a pretty solid solution and frankly, even with the outage, it's still better than the alternatives based on cost and difficulty of configuration.
This is a great idea. FYI, the site does not seem to render properly on mobile devices (tested on Android's native browser and Dolphin Browser HD).
My leaderboards, user-created levels and other miscellaneous bits of Playtomic run on AWS via MongoHQ and I've spent 1/2 the day answering emails explaining the situation. On the plus side MongoHQ are planning to introduce the ability to mirror databases onto our own servers which is going to be frigging awesome.

It at least highlighted another issue - because users are trying to access databases that don't exist they're taking ages to time out which is bogging down the servers' other thousands of requests/second.
>> ""Why wouldn't I just use [most popular competitor]"?"

Unless you were asking them for $1 billion this is pretty dumb.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily dumb. You fail if you're pitching a search engine and you don't have a compelling answer to "Why wouldn't people just use Google?"
Web-based?
I have been using it since at least 2018 to create NuGet packages of dependencies. You can also do zip and others.
I have a very good friend, who was also a fairly accomplished engineer at Google for a time...

He, in the past, had like five jobs - he outsourced all his work to devs in Croatia, and he would take on jobs and present the work on a regular basis - but he was doing none of it.
OK, good!

Now please remove that cryptocoin stuff from the app. Don’t create another avenue for money laundering, tax evasion and drugs sales (if not worse).
He has a point, partially.. I used to use twitter, but naturally curating it with only funny or smart thinkers and creators. My view was mostly impressive tech, art or coding (one dude made fluid simulation in gl shaders). It was peaceful.

Thing is, you're still close to the toxic web you regularly step into it .. and that's why i'm banned from twitter now.
"Rising the price of the cables by 33%" feels really sinister and underhanded. Is this guy totally sure that it was done intentionally.
If they can't pay more, try asking for a 4 day work week.

For smaller companies/startups I also prefer to receive fresh hardware (macbook,mini,etc.) at signing.
"Suppose ... there is a fascist party ... and that they have a constituency that amounts to 1% of the electorate"

Given a legislature of 600 representatives, a party with 1% support would have a vanishingly small chance of winning a majority.
Wow, this is very good thanks!! I was looking for a long time after a good time tracking software. I used timelyapp, but it is buggy and doesn't allow my clients to log in which makes it unusable. I found Harvest really, really nice and simple, perfect for my taste and use case!
Is it still that bad? I haven’t used Windows since 7, I just assumed at some point in the zillion pivots since then MS would take a cue from macOS and make installing apps as easy as a click or drag-dropping a single “file”. It couldn’t possibly be a huge design or engineering feat to copy. Do people who use Windows just actually prefer installers?
I also remember a period in time when I could use Trillian to connect to ICQ, MSM, AIM and have it all in one convenient chat client without having to fire up all the individual ones. Granted it sometimes broke when the protocols updated, but for a moment it was pretty cool.
I was hired as a senior security engineer at $143k salary. 2 months later the employer told me the client wants a much more junior person and they needed to reduce my salary by $53k per year immediately.
I then spent the next 2 weeks applying for new jobs and taking certification tests and left.

This was 6 years ago. I now make $180k - with bonuses often pushing me close to $220k.

Go apply for other jobs and see what others are willing to pay you
Stoked to see Hinton in a HN thread. I refer to his I Ching translation often.
The current overall shortage in the wider ecosystem is not even limited to top-of-line 5nm parts, but the fundamental issue of "you can't just spin up a fab" remains of course.
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...

The feed water system for cooling water froze, and the plant had to be shutdown.

This is what happens when you don't plan your essential services to react to predictable extreme events.

That a nuclear plant can theoretically handle this sort of thing quite easily means nothing if you don't actually implement the systems to do so.
Much of what is needed doesn't have to be 5nm though. IMO the fastest way to get more production capacity is blocked because of politics. Want more capacity as fast as possible (though that is still not exactly fast) on 5nm? Let China upgrade to better fabs and do the high nm work. But China is the evil enemy surpassing us in our own game so they gotta be held outside.
As we are working on complex trading systems it is frequently necessary to correct past record and then be able to make consistent reports based on "as of" date. This means answering questions like "I want to get the state of this population of trades as it was yesterday at 5 pm but based on our knowledge yesterday at 10 pm."

Pretty fun actually when you have billions of these records:)
There's one in regular operation - and you can get your hands on it, too - at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
That's a rather one-sided view. You are ignoring the fact that Groklaw takes a lot of shots at him. He's critical of rabidly pro-software patent company IBM, and Groklaw doesn't seem to like people who criticize IBM.
Because they wouldn't win and that would set a bad global precedent for them.

They won't win in Japan or Germany either, but they have a chance in South Korea. South Korea is part of WIPO, so a favorable ruling there could pave the way for an actual filing in the US.

But anyway, it won't come to that. Apple could own Samsung (and every other Android manufacturer out there) several times over with their patents and design marks. The Galaxy S is a blatant knock-off, which is why Apple got pissed.

But... whatever. They'll settle, with Apple getting a nice discount on Samsung Semi and Samsung changing the design of the Galaxy line. Not a big deal. The end.
It's not clear to me how, or if, failure detection is to be integrated with Doozer. Keith has said on the thread accompanying the announcement blog post that Doozer doesn't have the 'baggage' of sessions (which are used in ZooKeeper to manage timeout failure and the removal of certain kinds of data which can be used to model lock revocation).

Without some way of knowing if a process fails, it's hard to do leader election, locks, other synchronisation patterns. It would be a reasonable design choice to do failure detection completely out of band with the sequentially consistent store, but I'd like to understand their architecture better.
Seems like an awful lot of trouble when the devices could just blink their screens at each others cameras. Do dogs howl when you're file-sharing?

I kind of miss the bad old days of IR. It used to be teh awesome when I waved my palm pilot at my printer and it printed.
Ah, I see it now. I just got a POST from one of your servers in the AWS US-West region. Is Twilio also hosted in US-East (the region affected by today's outage), and, if so, would Twilio have stayed up if it hadn't been spread across multiple regions?
I think this applies to all client-based work, programming included.
- case 0 is first, because this indicates that the modulo operation in the switch statement (count % 8) has no remainder, i.e., all 8 copy instructions should be executed. So, this is first because of the properties of the modulo operation.

- the to pointer is not incremented because it corresponds to a single memory mapped output register (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device#Original_versio...). It does not have anything to do with the use if Duff's device.

hth
That's probably because flashy websites distract you from the content. Most of the websites you listed are content heavy, and although some of them could use a facelift(ex:craigslist), their design doesn't overshadow the information that's displayed.
A paper is not a generic facility for data storage. Text meant for human reading is to some degree sequential. You cannot just change the order of words, paragraphs or sections in it. It would be a different text. But that doesn't mean files in a directory should have inherent order.

Also, they say: "Note that we are not condemning hierarchy in general; indeed, hierarchy can be useful in a variety of situations. Rather, we are arguing against canonizing any particular hierarchy"
Original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1863923
Every computer system that uses tagging is a counterexample. We humans think in tagging as often as we think in hierarchies, but I agree that we tend to think of hierarchies as more well-defined and organized. This tendency can be incorrect.

I think it boils down to this: for hierarchical data, use hierarchies. I believe that files on a modern personal computer will almost certainly not be hierarchical, so it's not ideal to store them hierarchically. Videos, for example, may be movies, tv shows, screencasts, music videos, etc. Videos may also be standard definition, 720p, 1080p, etc. It's difficult to say, for example, which attribute should be the root directory for your videos, since it's reasonable to want to browse by many different attributes. A hierarchy does not apply to videos, but attributes could easily be represented by tags.
Text-based?
Agreed. I think organized synchronized boycotts would be much more effective than doing "civil disobedience" and/or drama queen shenanigans at the airport. Hit airlines in their wallet (and the related travel industries), and that will have a larger effect. Money talks. Large amounts of money talk loudly, especially to Congress.
I disagree.

It's a spectrum that is as wide or as narrow as you wish it to be. I personally think it's more narrow than many others do here on HN, for example. I think a real lame effect that happens though is that the instant someone uses the word assault or abuse it suggests much more evil or sexually explicit or intimate acts than what an actual specific situation may have involved. The phrase "sexual assault" can start off being applied to a hand on the back or kiss on the cheek, and then as the description of the event propagates across many people or channels, suddenly it can morph into "rape" or "molestation" -- even though traditionally those words refer to much more serious and specific, intimate and/or violent sexual acts.

It's one of the things I think we as a society, in any general public forum, with no serious moderation or curation or participant filtering (like HN, in my judgment) cannot discuss intelligently or productively because it's always vulnerable to this particular thought error, among others.
The overwhelming majority of people at risk for suicide broadcast many warning signs. Often, they are subtle, but more often, they represent a loud cry for help for an ultimately preventable situation.

Very few people commit suicide on a whim.

I'd bet my life's savings that enough suicidal people search for the word "suicide" that this showed up in metrics.

Having worked at Google, I could take a guess at how these help numbers came to be a feature. Some search engineers were probably analyzing a question along the lines of "What pattern of searches result in unhappy users that don't come back?"
Because it was the best available option in my price range in all other aspects and I honestly don't care all that much where the AP controller for my home network is located. The APs will continue to work while offline and I'm unlikely to even look at the controller interface more than a handful of times a year provided the vendor doesn't do anything that will outright break things. I honestly don't care if it's hosted inside my network or not.

Ubiquiti has a history of poor software releases that break things and now of trying to gloss over a serious security breach. I'm less worried about HPE in that regard.