jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>His [false] declaration led to the biggest single-day rise on the German stock market which allowed Schmitz to sell his shares and pocket $1.5 million profit. He was arrested for insider-trading in 2002, sentenced to a term of 20 months and given a 100,000 euro fine.

Why does the law allow people to keep almost all of their ill-gotten gains? Prison sucks, yes, but a white-collar prison and token fine do not appear to be enough disincentive. Crooks do the time, then walk out rich.
Heh. Well, I'm not suggesting he work for them. Just that they may know something about how to procure meteorites. To by knowledge, it's not a big company, so they might be friendly.
I think that is what www.stocklamp.com is trying to do.
At least at my school, there was an informal hierarchy of undergrad majors that indicated relative hardness (and therefore respect): Math > Physics > EE/Engineering > Computer Engineering > Computer Science > Software Engineering > Information Systems > Biology > all soft sciences like poly sci and intl relations > Art > Criminal Justice.

Former physics minor: your hierarchy is useless. Advanced classical mechanics (a weed-out course) is no harder than EECS 310 (discrete math).
"iPhones then create a direct peer to peer connection over the internet. The iPhones deal with all IP addresses, firewalls, NAT issues automatically."

Isn't that impossible without an intermediate server?

Edit: OK, thinking a bit, I never looked into the Skype trick much, but I would guess, send a request to a server (that doesn't respond). Then you have an open connection/port listening to the response from the server. If you can tell the other party about that "hole", it can send a packet across the firewall.

While for Skype that is done by a server (if necessary), the iPhone could send the information via the phone line?

As I said, no idea how the details work, just a rough idea. Or maybe they just use a server.
There's a bunch of obvious problems, off the top of my head: People should be able to to look for a job without necessarily tipping of their current employer. Ambition and hard work, unless expressed very carefully, could well become an endless trap. Those who work in industries with terrible unemployment will continue to be stigmatized even after they abandon their search in their old field and strike out into new ones. There's potential for abuse, e.g. Apple could falsely report all its current employees as submitting bajillions of resumes and thus prevent them finding other jobs. There's the problem of recruiters who submit resumes indiscriminately on a job seeker's behalf, sometimes without permission or even the seeker's knowledge.
It's not actually as creepy as it sounds. It's almost like a game, and employees would try hard to score well on it.
It will be really successful when you can video chat with any device whether it's an iPhone, Mac, Windows, Android, anything. And when it works over 3G.
Well...you have to remember that Washington is not only in the business of spurring the economy, but avoiding disasters.

While I don't think heavy regulation and onerous filing processes make the system completely fail-safe, it does provide some amount of deterrence to would-be crooks.

You can't completely get rid of everything, so we just have to work within the system we have.

Fortunately, man is ingenius. If it weren't for a weaker IPO market and an adjusted acquisitions market, I don't think we would have seen the birth of Y-Comb.

The main function of Y-Comb is to facilitate much earlier stage exits (i.e. $5M, or even earlier) if needs be. You can't do that with traditional VC.

So it's 6 of one, half-dozen of the other.
Any comments on how instructive HTDP is with Racket for introducing a non-programmer to coding?
I had a motorola e1000 with video chat. The difference this time might be that I will actually have other people to talk to.

Not that I particularly want video chat, and I would be surprised if it does catch on that much. A nice aside every now and again, but it is not going to replace what we have now.
To quote Gladstone, "Justice delayed is justice denied." In this case, it's almost certainly deliberate.
The author's website is incredibly clever: http://cb.vu/

It's a fake terminal but it's surprisingly fully functional (lots of commands work, tab autocompletion, etc.)
>the same guys that made a really big deal about cut and paste.

A feature which won't be included in Windows Phone Series 7, and a feature which frankly sucks on my Android phone.
Varied greatly, from Pizza Hut all you can eat buffets, through to toast provided by students who let me crash.

For a long time I used Complan and other "off your food" alternatives as supplements to a bad diet - http://www.complan.com/nutritional-info.aspx . Very much like Soylent is doing today, they provided a simple way to get everything you might need. They say to only have one or two per day, I used to consume 2-3 with milk and also add pasta to the mix (I had a camping stove and pasta was my most reliable simple meal).

It varied greatly though, I was homeless for almost two and half years. Diet was something I got wrong a lot before I got it mostly right. I was much healthier when I was sleeping rough than I was when I was living in damp social housing on a diet of whatever my mother could deep fry.
While I'm reasonably open-minded about using some parts of OO at higher levels of organization (or at least just genuine modules), I'm not sure Akka is the right place to land there. Functions which are just typed as `a -> ()` have lost (or hidden) all their interesting structure.
I guess that's why he founded Calico (http://www.calicolabs.com/)
My boss once told me 'This is not the right place for you' -- I consider this as the best career advice i've received so far, because it came from a person who really cared about me and knows me.

What followed next is interesting...I am chasing my dreams now
Thanks for you feedback. The @ is just a convenient syntaxic sugar. I will explain in the README how to use silicon with plain C++ code.
Yes. Google releases it after a 90-day grace period. So Apple has known about it for a while.
If I owned a pistol I would apply for a CCW simply to make it easier to legally transport. I probably wouldn't carry.

It would also be nice if you substantiated that 2 million figure, or at least clarified exactly what it means.
These bugs appear to be for Yosemite, so they might only look at bugs present in the latest version of the software.
I think if this had been actually clean-room reverse-engineered, it wouldn't be getting the backlash it's getting.

The fact that the LibreBoard devs outright ripped off Trello's CSS and HTML is a bit disappointing. Perhaps with the DMCA notice they got, they'll consider scrapping the current UI and coming up with something a bit more, you know, not blatantly copy-pasted.

That said, being able to use something reasonably-Trello-like for internal use (with data under the control of the entity using it) is a fantastic idea, and the fact that LibreBoard does that reasonably well (from what I can tell) gives me some hope that they'll manage to pull themselves out of this muck.

EDIT: And apparently there is, in fact, an effort to actually create a UI that isn't a blatant Trello ripoff: https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/issues/94
Travel that doesn’t scale is the best kind of travel.
PhD doesn't imply talent level is higher, just knowledge.
Why yes, yes indeed they were asked, and yes indeed they did vote. Look up the voting procedures around the ratification of the US constitution. They are rather interesting. The vote was put directly to the people, intentionally bypassing the statehouses so that the vote would be directly by the people. (Where the definition of "people" is white, male, and I believe also had to be a landowner -- but still, considering the times, a radical level of democracy.)
I have always felt a personal annoyance about this, as it interrupted an episode of "Horror of Fang Rock" - one of my favorite Doctor Who stories.
> Mainly what I feel like is extremely JEALOUS that I wasn't born later. Imagine all the cool fucking shit you could have built as a kid instead of wasting your life trying to find a cracked version of Borland Turbo C that worked right.

Amen. I started programming in Turbo Pascal and Z80 assembler in the 80s, and never laid eyes on a manual, book or documentation about them, except for a few articles on assembler I read from magazines in libraries. I had one beginner Pascal book. Now I can instantly download any paper or book, then instantly download anything they reference. Most software is free too.. I love it, but it's hard not to imagine how very different my childhood would've been. I came across a copy of Zaks' fabled Programming the Z80 in a bookshop a few years ago, which I'd never seen before in person, and I was like My god, I would've given a leg for this 30 years ago.
I thought we're not meant to call ourselves programmers

If you're doing it for any reason other than to gain transcendetal enlightenment you're in the wrong space
I've only been in the industry for 6 years, not counting my student programming job, and I've started to take tutorial-style notes for myself for all the technology jobs. For a part infrastructure, part software engineer person like myself, you're right there's a massive amount of tools you need to know and be a semi-expert in. There's no way I can hold it all in my head. I'm using mdbook and a very simple git workflow to build up a nice searchable notebook, so when I learn a new topic, I can learn it in a detailed way and take some notes that are tailored to how I re-learn. It's taken a huge burden off of me to constantly have every technology in my head.
The concurrent GC is planned for version 1.5 and is only 6 months away. There is also work being done on a compacting GC, but I don't know when that is supposed to land.

Actually, the Go team is making very good progress on all the prerequisites to real-time garbage collection. Who knows if they will manage to get all the way there, but I know there's been some discussion about it on the mailing list.

If you look at how fast the GC has improved over the years, it's kind of ridiculous that anyone bothered to criticize it at all, as if it was not really the temporary solution the devs said it was, and was in fact going to stay shitty forever.
perhaps it's the rise of social networks, facebook, flappy bird, etc which has neutralized all gangs.. kids nowadays can't put their phones down, get off the couch. they've gotten lazier?
A quote from This is Water, the commencement address given by David Foster Wallace:

“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.”

This is not an attempt to convert you to religion. I recommend reading or listening to the entire piece. Reflect on your motivations for doing what you do, and consider if they are even congruent to not being envious of others.
I didn't mean to correlate HL3 with "crummy", I was commenting on two separate things.

For example: I understand that Valve's Steam customer service is pretty hit or miss. Possibly a result of no one at Valve really wanting to own customer service.
That is a very good point; in my attempts previously I simply went alphanumerically but windows at the very least does not follow that rule when copying.

I think the easiest method would be to simply generate a bunch of files, do copies, and compare the datetime stamps with the theoretical values they should have. Once you can model the discrepancies generated in real life you can fake them.

You do make a good point that it isn't really mentioned in cybercrime books that I know of, but it seems like an obvious thing. Would be a fun chunk of code to publish on github; I'll look into it.
Consider reading Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister
Look for literature on "lattice organizations". There are a few case studies published about WL Gore & Associates and how they implemented it.
I don't see the advantage in letting people run around thinking "If I'm really really good at basketball, it doesn't matter if I'm dumb as a rock." It does matter.

Giving people hope isn't worth it if you don't actually make them better people in the process.
> So don't worry about it. Have fun. Do what makes you happy.

i find it very hard to keep this attitude and also believe that i ll be successful. its either one or the other. i am doing what makes me happy, mostly, but there are also lots of things i simply have to do to be successful, one day. but i can't "not worry about it", i can't "have fun" when i know that i have to work harder now to be successful and to be able to do the other two things later.
To be more fair, I'd say people using C are not people solving abstract problems that can profit from a generic approach.
At the company I work at we are using MySQL but we are looking at moving some portions of our product to redis.
Migration en masse to photonics?
Well, the only way to make 100% sure you're not spied on with your mobile phone is to turn it off AND remove the battery.
I recommend this method for the paranoid moments in your life! ;-)
and by saying "proper" I immediately exclude C and Java, so don't even bother mentioning them

If there was a "jrockway award for explaining type systems", this statement would qualify you for one. I am glad I'm not the only person that thinks this :)
no one that lived through the SGML/XML days would describe it as anything close to "simple." That's why the world has developed countless ways to get away from it all... JSON, yaml, markdown, etc. etc.

The world prefers ad hoc rather than formal and verified. Worse-is-better strikes again.

Which is ironic now that we have garbage like GraphQL and TypeScript moving us back to formalism, but built on top of dynamic ad hoc structures. Guys... this... this is bloody fucking ridiculous. It's like trying to build a house out of wet tissue paper.
I very much doubt a subscription based messaging app would take a big enough share to affect Facebook.

Not to say that business can't successful make money. There must be people out there willing to pay for privacy.
Pornhub? America gets gang banged by an angry mob
Hillary Clinton conceded she lost the very next day. There was an orderly transition process from Obama to Trump that started on the second day after the election. Compare that "undermining" to what the GOP and Trump are doing.
Except ARC is horribly broken on, well, most systems. I can't count the amount of systems where a HDMI connection breaks in subtle ways because of the HDMI device in the neighbor HDMI input! Advice number one if you have ARC problems is to unplug the other devices. It is just insane how bad ARC is implemented.
It's not the 'bulsshit the media is feeding me', it is the eyewitness testimony from the rioters.

Instead, I'd suggest you try to re-calibrate what you think is normal.
All the cases had to present enough evidence to allow there to be a chance of a favorable verdict. If the cases are dismissed it's because even if favorably interpreted the claims did not meet that standard. One cannot just say "we'll show our evidence later, just believe me for now".
It's getting there with clients like https://f-droid.org/packages/de.spiritcroc.riotx and https://f-droid.org/packages/org.tether.tether

But just explaining the concept of clients in 2021 is an undertaking.
Fairly simplistic to argue that the government laws are the be all end all of discussions about good/evil.

I can gaslight my spouse into insanity if I want completely legally. I guess that isn't evil since there is no law against it.
> get them to do something that goes against their self-interest and well-being.

This is where I stop agreeing with you. It is an established scientific fact that smoking is harmful to anyone doing it. Why are you confident that social media is also harmful or goes against people's self-interest? People choose to use it; they connect with people they know on it. Is there some study I'm missing that shows social media causes clinical depression or some other adverse affect?

editing: rereading what you wrote and it sounds like your issue is not that FB is harmful but that it is purposely addictive/getting people to do something they wouldn't otherwise. Hmm...when people talk about addiction like alcoholism, gambling, drug use etc. it's always connected to adverse affects -- like overdose, job-loss, divorce etc. The addiction interferes with a person's ability carry out their normal responsibilities. People are not becoming homeless because of Facebook addition. You could make a similar argument about caffeine which causes chemical addiction to change people's behavior but is widely accepted. BTW how do you feel about World of Warcraft addiction?
That is not even near the same galaxy of what I wrote. But you do you.
this port is [optionally] a cross compiler - it will run on x86/arm/whatever and produce pdp11 assembly

on an actual pdp11 it CAN bootstrap
Nice. I'll look for one of those. I'd be perfectly content having some designs/specs handed out and implementing them.
Well, this is always a tradeoff: the cost of being away from the mainstream may outweigh familiarity with a programming language at some point.

I'm not sure if the argument for "HTML+JS+CSS" is purely familiarity, there's also technical arguments like portability and future-compatibility. But I _do_ hope that the portability story will become better in the coming years beyond just this stack.
The article says “Marlinspike has served as a paid technical adviser for the project since its inception” in the same paragraph, so I would say the article is quite clear on the financial relationship.
> Which is expected if he has some form of autism.

There's something ironic about a lynch mob calling someone ableist because he's got autistic communication issues.
While I agree that part of the outrage is probably a bit over the top, I think it's exactly comments like the on linked in the GP that are a good reason why RMS shouldn't be in a top leadership role. That and plenty of other things like him blocking improvements in GCC, Emacs and other GNU projects merely by being able to veto plenty of things outright. This is not the look you want to present to the public if you're the FSF.
This is probably a dumb question, but what language an early COBOL compiler was written? Is that assembly? How the language runtime was connected to the I/O? Was there even an operating system? COBOL and mainframe seems so arcane to me that I'm not sure where to start understanding the whole stack.
Yeah definitely poor choice of words there. I misremembered the book. Anyway here's a cherry picked excerpt from Code Complete, 2nd edition:

> Glenford Myers points out that human processes (inspections and walk-throughs, for instance) tend to be better than computer-based testing at finding certain kinds of errors and that the opposite is true for other kinds of errors (1979).

> This result was confirmed in a later study, which found that code reading detected more interface defects and functional testing detected more control defects (Basili, Selby, and Hutchens 1986). Test guru Boris Beizer reports that informal test approaches typically achieve only 50–60 percent test coverage unless you're using a coverage analyzer (Johnson 1994).

So I would conclude that the best approach is to use both code reviews/inspections and automated tests/linters/analyzers.
Not bad for a simple experiment. Maybe even more interesting is how much one developer can do when supported by open source frameworks and libraries.
The term is Ant Colony Optimization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization
Thanks for the link, I missed the earlier post
Shorter: "myusername has no listed skills."
You've missed the greatest feature of all, though to be fair so did everyone else. Google TV isn't just a device; it's a application platform. The world changed when phones gained applications; why is everyone so myopic about the changes that can happen when television gains applications?
End to end DNSSEC deployment would prevent an attack like this once clients are rejecting any unsigned records. At least in addition to the root name servers the seizing party would need to convince the TLD maintainer and the customer's registrar to sign the new zone files.

All the more reason for you to sign your current zones (including .org, .info, .us and .eu) or pressure your registrar and TLD maintainers to implement DNSSEC yesterday.
True. I'm not suggesting that CS is only about computers, but computers certainly play a bigger part in CS than telescopes do in astronomy.
Programming from the Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett.
Think Python. http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

Can't overstate its usefulness to me. Programming was hard, Think Python made it easy.
This isn't about freedom of speech, it's about freedom to sell stolen and counterfeit goods. You're trying to turn this into something it's not.
Would a better long term fix be to upgrade grid hardware such that it can survive an inadvertent largish island?

Sometimes I think that a DC grid would be better. Issues like frequency synchronization wouldn’t exist.
People underestimate their ability to live car-free.

I have never learned to drive (35). As a California resident, I've only been in a car twice in the past three months. From January through April, I wasn't in a car whatsoever for 3.5 months.

~"The only problems cars solve are problems cars cause."
It varies from province to province [0]. What you're saying is true in some provinces but not all. However, even in the provinces without material barriers, no private sector exists. The article actually provides some solid theories.

Your information about MRI waiting times isn't accurate in general - or rather paints only part of the picture. Even with the COVID situation happening now, in Ontario... Patients who should be scanned immediately receive a scan, immediately. Patients who should be scanned within 2 days are in fact scanned within 2 days. Patients who have a target of 10 days for a scan wait closer to 18 (but 53% are scanned within the SLA). Patients who have a target of 28 days wait closer to 90. [1].

If you don't need one now, you're wasting capacity by getting one now. This capacity should be allocated 100% to the public sector on a need basis. That would reduce wait times for all priorities. This is in fact what the British Columbia government did [2] to excellent effect [3].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80881/

[1] https://www.hqontario.ca/System-Performance/Wait-Times-for-D...

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/4481951/b-c-to-purchase-two-priva...

[3] https://globalnews.ca/news/5256655/wait-times-mri-procedures...