jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Yet there is much to debate about the Portuguese approach to drug addiction. Does it help people to quit, or does it transform them into more docile drug addicts, wards of an indulgent state, with little genuine incentive to alter their behavior?

Who the f* cares. It makes their lives better where nothing else has worked so far.

This is like saying, I beat my disobedient kid because I'd rather have a bruised disobedient kid than a non-bruised disobedient kid.

Whether or not someone living addicted to drugs is existing in a state of moral decline is a personal judgement call and it's no business of the state's, so long as that addiction isn't affecting the lives of others in a significantly negative way.

Only a wishy-washy equivocating, journalist can write, "everything about the new system appears to be working and it's making the lives of all better but is it really a good thing."
Yes, I meant try to delete... My first impression about CryptoWall is that it was hacked together quicker than CryptoLocker. It doesn't bother with generating a symmetric key per file but rather seems to use a single asymmetric key. It also apparently make a copy of the file before encrypting and doesn't zero-out after deleting the plain text file (see another of my comment in this thread)
It is actually quite easy if you have a memoized token stream to work on. Just store your trees based on their first token. When you do a parse, check to see if a tree of that type already exists for that token. If it does, just reuse it, and if there is any context to consider, dirty the tree if the context of its creation has changed.

There are more advanced incremental parsing algorithms that do not require memoization, but they really aren't worth it (the ability to parse incrementally is not really a performance concern, but in keeping around state associated with the tree and in doing better error recovery).
"I cannot help old programmers. They are all doomed." tad bit arrogant, I think.
Unlike engineering degrees that no wealthy person would suffer through, MBA's are sometimes obtained by people from wealthy families or who are wealthy themselves. Not everyone starting a business is starting from zero either. Think Winklevoss twins who both did MBA's and are doing startups.
> What immigrant saga would be complete without the peddler's grandson receiving his M.D.? But such an ideal is also at odds with most analyses of what the society as a whole needs if it is to continue to achieve. If everyone has the tenure and security that come with professional status, who will take the risks?

A crowning achievement of Silicon Valley culture is its professionalisation of risk-taking. This culture nudges highly-trained computer scientists, aerospace engineers and M.D.s towards risk. The risks this educated person can take are different from the one illiterate tradesmen a century ago could. They are deeper, more complex and more fruitful–to the individual and to society.
Things like this make me wonder why is anyone using C at all these days. Rust can't come soon enough.
Not all projects are the same. I've used cherrypy over django, for example, when I needed a simple encapsulated application for self-hosting. My point is, Python arguably is not the best choice for a self hosted product so you could dismiss cherrypy with the same argument you made. But we don't often get the joy of solving problems with just a single constraint.

Above all I'm against dismissing something by reflex and crowing about it in a comment. He built it. He's clearly given the problem some thought. What value really is there in dismissing it so quickly and on the grounds of "Python is the wrong choice for this anyway.."
I did a similar walkthrough back in 2004 for x86. Comparing what has changed (and not) may be interesting: http://www.scott-a-s.com/the-linux-boot-process-of-2004/
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If only the following can be applied to patent trolls.

Righthaven has continued to assert that it is
entitled to a presumption of harm to
its market for the work, which makes no sense
given that it is contractually prohibited from
exploiting the work financially.

How about a scheme where people who hold patent portfolios but do nothing with it would be classified as an absentee landlord and temporarily lose their right to block other
parties from exploiting it?
I'd think the law limits their leverage, too.

I don't think twitter can threaten, directly or indirectly, to cripple tweetdeck in any way if the sale doesn't go through or if they sell to another party.
It's a good way to get a lot of karma?
People don't think to do a google search?
Take a look at Rackspace.
i'd like to second this reading recommendation and add that in the first few paragraphs of this book i found one of the more inspired and simple brain hacks i've ever tried (paraphrasing here ... the book's on a 6-degrees loan somewhere):

"to free your mind of its cluttered and stunted awareness, walk around the room calling out at the objects you see, but use different names for everything. look at the chair and say 'banana', then the door and say, out loud, 'desk', and so on. go on walking and calling things by their wrong name out loud. it takes a few minutes, maybe 10, but soon you might notice something happening. maybe a kind of brightness falls over the objects in the room around you. suddenly things appear more vivid, fresh and new, for no particular reason. it's like an adrenaline shot for your creative mind. getting into this state takes deliberate effort at first, but gets easier with practice."

if you're familiar with it, there's a scene from the remake of 'the manchurian candidate' that uses a similar lighting effect to signal an altered state of mind for key characters. but it's nothing like that. those are the movies. -- just to set the right expectation.
You want an API for an application that does nothing but consume an API? Why not use the Twitter API?
Better downvote, just to make sure. --Hackernews
its 10 seconds, I prefer loud and fast to mediocre in both respects.
I wound up paying ~$1600 to replace the entire MCU1 in my 2015 S last year. I’m waiting for the refund of that amount in March and will likely just apply the proceeds to upgrade to MCU2. No way I want an ancient Tegra3 computer that isn’t made anymore in my car.
Normally the government leverages its power to keep its currency stable. If a country fails at that, the residents tend to switch to another country’s currency, for example USD is widely accepted in countries with unstable currencies, and this makes sense, since a lot of commodity prices are set in USD.

What we have seen with crypto currencies are extreme volatility, not useful to base a country’s economy on, and because it is decentralized, no-one can really intervene to control this volatility, by e.g. changing the interest rate, and nothing is priced in crypto currencies, to sort of keep it tied to something.

The only metric for what a coin should cost seems to be the electricity/leasing of computers required to mine one. But even this metric is not good, as it is proportional to the size of the network, which is not a constant, and is likely to grow, as the price goes up.
Well it represents the truth of everything typed on the keyboard, which is useful on shared PCs. Browser histories can be cleared, for example, but the keylogger will still contain every keystroke you typed before covering your tracks.

Plus, it can be used for nefarious purposes to harvest credentials, which is probably illegal most of the time, but might be useful for penetration testing and such.
Negative sum. Corruption destroys wealth. The vast majority loses a lot so that a few can benefit a little.

The difference between creating wealth and merely transferring wealth (aka theft, grift).
Tesla strikes me solidly as a "software company" that happens to make cars. And having worked in software for software companies, and in software for car companies, I would definitely never get a car made by a software company.
Interestingly Quora has also adopted the LinkedIn self-promoting hustling style crossed with positivity/profundity porn.
I used FoxPro 2.6 back in the day. We used to ship machines to our clients, preloaded with our FoxPro application.

As computers got faster, passing the 300MHz mark, our application suddenly started crashing on startup. Apparently FoxPro tries to figure out how fast it can perform certain operations at startup time, and there's a divide-by-zero error on higher-powered machines. The machines literally got too fast!

An old discussion thread: http://computer-programming-forum.com/2-vfp/e6d3528c90cc45d2...
It would be helpful if they specified what platform it's for. It appears to be for Windows, but is it Windows-only?
Easy to ustyse

Is that a typo?
There's some truth to the old saying "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" though. In fact, I'd argue that stressful events are required for growth.
I Want My Name is not an ICANN accredited registrar - they're a reseller of Hexonet / 1API
I'd like to know too. Are there any LLVM specific enhancements that python 3.4 brings to the table?
This is the original title, but I'd like to have more information in the titles. What about

"Polar Researchers are four meters from drilling down into the Lake Vostok"

I still don't understand the difference between the current expedition and the 2012 expedition. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok#Research

> By plan, the following summer, the team was to drill down again to take a sample of that ice and analyze it. The Russians resumed drilling into the lake in January 2012 and reached the upper surface of the water on 6 February 2012.

Are they planning to extract liquid water now? (I think that not.) Are they going to extract a new frozen sample of the water in the lake?
"5. Arguably the best documentation for any language"

I should very much like to see that argument.

My impression of PHP documentation (after using it for three of the last five years) is that it's a endless pile of bullshit whose primary content is in user comments on the doc pages.

That's the core library. Third party libraries are typically wholly uncommented and undocumented.
Why can't you sell your house? Your house has already decreased in value, not accounting for the loss in your books doesn't make it more valuable.
I think there's a difference between attracting and keeping (productive). High salaries can lead to a 'golden handcuffs' scenario where the company can flounder, do stupid things, mistreat employees.. and they'll stick around for the cash.

I think paying well is a good idea, but it's not a complete strategy and I don't think it actually is as likely to bring the lifestyle satisfaction that telecommuting can for many people.
"Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda".

The agenda that America's long record of comparing African-Americans to apes or monkeys, ie sub-human brutes unlike real, white Americans, isn't OK? How terrible!

Googling "black people monkeys" gave me 3.2 million hits. Do I win? "black people apes" rings in at 1.9 million. I just ran "george bush monkey" and only got 2.7m, so I guess I do win the Internet.
Great feedback! Thanks.

We're definitely going to add more detail to our backtesting page, as you suggested. Just so you know, the maximum number of holdings over the past ten years was 31.

Keep in touch with us! We'd definitely like to get your opinion once we've updated the page. What's your email? Mine is yoseph at vuru.co
Trying to decide whether it's worth it — a lot of postings mention that the hotel discounts are great, but it seems like the hotels that are discounted are already very expensive and posh and therefore the discount brings it down to a "normal" hotel cost. Am I making a bad assumption? Anyone else use it for traveling?
Note that the performance benefits for TRIM only affect write performance, _not_ read performance.
usually plants/animals that glow provide their own UV light via a luciferase/luciferin system. Still takes energy.

At that point, you might as well just engineer a luciferase system (three well known ones: renilla, firefly, bacterial) that emits blue light and throw in a chain of flourescent proteins (gfp, rfp) that shunts an appropriate amount of color down the chain. Then, you could use a promoter system to force expression only on the bottom side of the leaf, and only during the nighttime.

Very possible within the realm of current science, the only question is how well would the tree tolerate it. And considering it takes years for a tree to get that big, that's a long time to wait to find out.
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Recently I started doing a thing where I approach every subject in 2 parts, I call them “mini-series of 2”: one where I write about the theory, the math or the intuition behind a model and one where we play with implementation on a small dataset.

It’s fun and I love writing and I try my best to write as much as I can.

Here’s the blog in case anyone wants to see it:

https://programmerbackpack.com
Any good resources on ldap you can recommend?
First thing I was looking for was a download link :(

Why does Apple think I’m unable to decide for myself whether I want this or not.
Yeah, not gonna fly, that one. Although Apple could get off its ass and publish an official app to track if I've been in the proximity of a (self reported) infected person. And if they actually gave a shit, they'd convince Google to share data. And then I'd be able to delete the data from both when this is over. Is this too much to ask? Why this is still not a thing is beyond me, PR wins alone would be worth the ~10 person-days of engineering work this would take to put together (2 days, Apple 1FE, 1BE, Google 1FE, 1BE, and half a person from each company to coordinate efforts; conservative schedule).
Besides working from home for my employer, I do spend time with my family and taking care of our sons, playing with them, etc. That's my side project
> We both basically came to the conclusion that the only e-books that work are prose-oriented, not learning-oriented.

Completely agreed. E-books are great for linear text, but the moment you have any kind of cross-referencing it falls apart (even footnotes are troublesome; why can't footnotes be display inline?) Most importantly, they lack discovery; it's a lot harder to flip to a random page.

That said, I have started reading a programming Apple iBooks textbook [1] and I find the format great because it's interactive and because [edit: in principle...] you can copy and paste code snippets directly. In this sense, I think it's actually a lot better than its paper counterpart–but perhaps coding books are a niche (and, I'm sure, some would argue that having to re-type code yourself is a worthwhile exercise in its own right).

[1] http://scenekitbook.com
With a name like "cbd" () I'm not sure if you're playing naive or if it's a coincidence :) but your concerns are exactly what the medical marijuana establishment has been able to address over the last decade now that it's legal in some states.

Simply extracting the active ingredients of medical grade by heating the cannabis in 1/4 teaspoon of olive oil will only give the patient about 9 calories.

() Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of at least 85 active cannabinoids identified in cannabis. It is a major phytocannabinoid, accounting for up to 40% of the plant's extract. (wikipedia)
He would be happy because he's thankful he isn't dead yet.
Not yet designed for 320px/smartphones, but it's definitely on the road map
Does your dog throw up often when taking Trifexis? I was considering making the switch, but my parents dogs both have had a really hard time with it. Eventually they (my parents) gave up on Trifexis and went back to topical stuff because the vomiting was so bad.

To that end, I wouldn't mind maybe an accompanying table to the OP's medical list that maybe listed the negative side effects of some of these treatments. Might be a bit too much to ask though.
My guess would be that lambdas in Java will look pretty much like lambdas in C#. Something like LINQ in Java would be quite nice.
I am waiting for someone to say, but node.js! Then some of us old-timers can jump in with just how long Tcl's been doing this asynchronous callback thing...
I have a friend who is a senior pilot with a large airline, and the drinking/hazing/partying stories he told me from his younger years were eye-widening. They generally all try and stay sober for the pre-flight period, but outside of that, especially when not at home, boy do they party.

Not sure how much of that still goes on - a lot, I would guess.
So some guy lists a side project of putting a fantasy spin on startup valuations(which i guess is fun for some people?) and thats the straw that breaks the camels back for you?

the exit is to your left, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
> Good thing we're not seeing that, then. The world population growth rate has halved since its peak in the early 1960s, and the rate is continuing to decline.

Good thing? World population was 3 billion in 1960, in the post-war baby boom when population growth was 9% on an extremely anomalous rebound above historical rates. So, the world added 270M people that year to 3 billion.

In 2012, the world hit 7 billion people with a population growth rate of 4.5%. You are right, the rate was half of the 1960 peak. So, it added 315M people that year to 7 billion.

Now that you've seen the arithmetic, what do you think has a bigger impact on the environment, 270 million people added to 3 billion people, or 315 million people added to 7 billion people, who are consuming a hell of a lot more than they did in 1960?

Easing off the accelerator while the world is driven to hell is nothing to pat ourselves on the back for. We need to slam the brakes and go in reverse.

> Good thing modern farming techniques don't need virgin wilderness, then.

Let's just pave and plow every single inch of the planet until we have a lifeless moonscape then. Do you know nothing about ecology? Have you never taken a hike off the beaten track?
For me the first step is easy:

- Stealing a bike is a capital crime

- Capital crimes are .. punished as such

(Naa.. I'm not seriously suggesting to hang bike thieves, although I have commented about that in the past and certainly wished that this would happen to the persons who stole all my bikes so far. Maybe "Twice as much as for copyright infringements" would be okay? German cinemas try hard to educate the paying customers that you might get up to 5 years in prison for these offenses. So .. what about 'up to 10 years for stealing a bike'?)
There are audible sounds that MP3 simply cannot encode correctly. One example is in a song by Planet Funk (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166937). However, better lossy formats shouldn't have this problem.
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There are two way you can deal with things- you can opt to follow the ToS strictly and harshly, or you can opt to behave in a humane way. Robots are expected chose the former option, while human beings are expected to opt for the latter.
While the Zomboid guys cant take Google to court for this, they have every right to say that Google screwed them.
If you keep being unsympathetic to customers in this fashion, you are eventually going to be termed as evil.
I've been following this news pretty closely and the wording of this article gave me that impression as well.

In the end, I think this is for the best, though. With the NGP releasing this year and with all the movement Sony's making towards Android + Playstation products, it just means more (potential) security risks as the network grows. Better to get it over with now before it becomes a bigger problem later.
Is it me or do those company-specific average salaries seem very high (even excluding the top 3)?
And Hollywood execs, if the stories are true.
Good question. That's why I threw in the Haven't Tried option, but you might be right.
I'm admittedly not Microsoft, but if I were Microsoft, I'd pay through the nose to ensure PrimeSense keeps this stuff away from my direct competitors.
... while providing supporting evidence, in the face of Sony's utter silence aside from "down now, up when it's up"? Yes. That makes their link by far the most informative thing I've seen on this to date.
> In BSD and similar you easily can.

Nope. My taking BSD code and producing a proprietary, closed source product it in no way impacts someone else's freedom to do the same, nor does it remove some freedom they previously had.
It was hard for me to take the article seriously after the jab about rappers dying for marketing. Did companies capitalize off of rappers and their entourages being stupid, yes. But to suggest what happened was strictly based on marketing that's a little insulting to the people who died.
And wget as well.
A video would suffice for me (but I've tried it anyhow).
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I'm curious, what else were you doing over those 10 weeks? Seems that's a lot of time to just sit and wait.
They don't send "media-heavy data" back to clients, actually. All the media comes with your installation DVD. Used to play Eve over dial-up.
Blocks in JavaScript do not create scopes. This is different from many other languages (like Java or C).

In fact, Crockford has mentioned this as well: http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html

"JavaScript does not have block scope, so defining variables in blocks can confuse programmers who are experienced with other C family languages."

Which is why this code works:

(function() {

for (var i=0; i<100; i++);

alert(i);

})();

Notice the variable `i` is accessible from outside the for-loop.
"Terror plans or worse" have never been illegal in the United States.
Anybody here using it?
...and the nicely titled New York Times piece "The Trolls Among Us":

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html
I took Navy Security Forces training years ago and our instructors were all ex-cops. They said the exact same thing. It was basically all a big game to see how you could trick or manipulate the "suspect" into letting you violate their rights. Still makes me angry.
There are quite a few public pension funds in US with the same issue:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-aims-at-bp-hits-state...