jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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> "We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol.”

This is what they were banned for. Find me evidence that /r/BLM and its moderators were doing the same and I'll gladly cede the point.
I believe it's also Option-Space on a Mac, which one my old colleagues would manage fairly regularly while typing at speed...
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I also walked into my congressperson’s office when I was on a field trip as kid. The security was similar to going to the airport.

> Might as well argue that you should be able to just walk into the white house and speak to the top public representative.

Entirely different situation. The reason that people need to talk with the legislature is because those are the people’s representatives.
I'm afraid it's too late, the democrats have won and they don't have such interest.
> It's weird to talk about "switching" to atomic time.

The biggest reason to describe it as "switching from UTC to TAI" (at least for me) is due to Unix time. Unix time is an elegant concept at first glance, ideally it's a free-running, monotonic counter that abstracts us away from timezone problems, an unambiguous representation of time. You only adjust the timezone settings or the timezone database, the time itself is never adjusted.

Unfortunately, using UTC rather than TAI as Unix time's foundation is a fatal mistake. As Unix time cannot represent leap seconds, all the previous advantages break down - we had to freeze or advance the Unix time itself to compensate for that limitation. If there's a TAI-based "new Unix time", the leap second handling can be simplified a lot. The underlying time is always correct regardless of leap seconds. Sure, a missed leap second notification makes all civilian time faster or slower by 1 second, but the situation is the same for UTC if there's no time synchronization.
Have you been shooted?
I have a lot more respect for something like Doug Lenat winning a 1981 Traveller (pencil & paper RPG) Trillion Credit Squadron space navy warfare competition by using an AI program to come up with a strategy that followed the rules but was totally unlike what anyone else was doing: building massive numbers of small, cheap, individually weak, disposable/suicidal ships, rather than designing a smaller traditional fleet of big, expensive, powerful capital ships.

http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=14095

For one thing, the strategy he came up with is not unlike the use of suicide bombers in real life conflicts. I expect something similar will apply when large numbers of small, cheap autonomous drones start being deployed. It has real-world applicability. It was also effective, I believe, in EVE Online. Plus, it was an interesting application of technology. It wasn't just "shoving".

By comparison, Ferris' shoving tactic is virtually useless outside of the context of a ring-based martial art competition. (Maybe if you got in a fight on the edge of a cliff, or on the roof of a building, or next to a pool of sharks...)
Written to read and reread. What's wrong with that. After 6 years our mind might already loaded and bloated with many things.

That's why the 'refresh' button is there.
We got a three day turnaround last year after the iTC holiday shutdown. Submitted on December 29 or 30 I think, and it was approved by the 2nd of january. Guess everybody was trying to get in before the holidays, and then just took a break, meanwhile Apple had beefed up their team for the holiday spike.
Perhaps this is something that may be mined from the Twitter firehose (which may be easier than marketing a new site).

Let's be generous and say:

Two mentions in the firehose would be sufficient for a correlation
8% of people twitter
25% of twitterers would tweet that they were food poisoned AND name the restaurant
25% of the patrons got food poisioning

Any restaurant with at least (2 / 0.08 / 0.25 / 0.25) 400 patrons for the given time period would trip the alarm.

Those are pretty generous numbers though, with the figure jumping quite significantly as they're tweaked. A 25% poisoning rate for a reasonably-sized restaurant would probably hit the news beyond Twitter anyway.
This is hardly amazing to anyone who fasts regularly. I saw increases in all my major lifts when I train fasted and eat plenty of good fat (60% of total kcal).

I would love to get a hold of the full study for a better look at it.

Edit:

Reading this article a bit closer, and taking to look at the study, it is clear that the author has some serious bias against the idea that a high-fat diet with fasted training will be of benefit. The people who lost weight were eating 30% more than usual. If they modified there diet to 50% of fat, and not increased calories, you would have seen an even great weight drop.
Wow.
Really informative.

I have used strace to try to debug unpredictable or unresponsive programs, but it never occured to me to just run it against the commands I rely on that actually work.

I did a combination gasp/chuckle when I saw the 'write(l, "bar\n" ...' at the end of the ls dump. There is something both humbling and obvious about seeing under the hood of the platform that I just take for granted.
Although you can get people to pre-buy at a discount (i,e, Groupon or, less directly, the various coupon books.)
I'm very impressed. I wonder if we're approaching the point at which our simulations are so true to life, you need to hire a chef to tweak the simulation parameters to achieve the best results.
How users use computers has very little to do for a useful AI.
Care to share some hard evidence to support that? Privately held companies certainly have some more freedom in their actions, but public corpos are a slave to the shareholder.

Public corpos only incentive is to create value for their shareholders.
There was someone who got caught increasing prices for iOS users.
Spent a bit of time in Fiji. A thing that struck me instantly was how well fed the frogs were and how little effort they had to put in to get food. At dusk they just go near little ground lights and eat every bug that would come near them. It's a perverse ecological system.
The typeface they used and can be seen in the screenshot at the end of the article makes the schwa look almost like a regular a.
This. I feel bad for the people who were scammed but my sympathy is limited. It seems most just wanted an easy way to get rich and didn’t want to ask the obvious.
Keyboard:

1. Microsoft Sculpt: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

2. Ctrl pads (especially for emacs users): Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/7zvw2b/my_weapon_aga...
I would say remembering to pay capital gains tax on a coffee transaction is pretty shitty too.
Dockerizing Python apps provides a nice isolation that makes managing dependencies across multiple apps much easier.
Yes, everything by myself. It's not that hard, really, but it's really time-consuming.
It rarely seems to have the effect of promoting healthy and respectful discourse. Instead it appears to always inflame.
I encourage you to Google images for "overloading trucks pakistan". Those pictures are the norm.

I've often had to drive slowly behind a truck on a main road because the truck's load was hanging off the top, and out the sides and blocked the adjacent lanes. And yes, these trucks are huge.
None of the filenames appear to exceed eight characters in length. Did filesystems for Windows have a limit back then?
They’re all white, so the software would actually work, for once.

But no, still not in favor of its use. Democrats, or me at least, aren’t quite as quick to give up their principles.
It was always a clear business transaction: acess to a messenging service for access to meta data (and now message data).

I wonder how Out of curiosity:

Does anyone know how the new Whatsapp TOS differ from the Gmail TOS in regard to user data and privacy. How does the Facebook group use data differently than, say Facebook or Microsoft?
Vacillating that much eh. Nothing remotely dodgy about that!
Too bad I can’t get rid of whatsapp. Clients commonly contact me via whatsapp
I don't understand your point. There were widespread riots across the US during the summer of BLM, with many police forces standing down in the face of them.

And your point about black people in no way justifies the indiscriminate violence perpetrated by the rioters.
I gathered that you'll only start to feel sated after about 20 minutes after starting to eat, so yeah, eating slowly would definitely help. Of course, limiting portions to what you actually need instead of a seemingly infinite stack of food will also help.
I really think the medium for recording/displaying history has a lot to do with how 'current' recent history feels. And I think b/w to color is a much bigger jump than SD -> HD.

e.g. 'WWII in color' films make things feel remarkably more relatable than B/W footage

Wouldn't be surprised if we see a similar change, if not more dramatic, if/when VR becomes a more prevalent form of media
Finally! I can ditch facebook now.

Is it US only? I have version 2.11.498 and I don't see the option to update, yet I don't have the web option.
Why would Microsoft have to backdoor HTTPS if they control the browser?
Because Halo is the strongest brand Microsoft has built in the last fifteen years.
I can't find a "WhatsApp Web" entry on my Android app even though the play store says it is up to date. The version I have is 2.11.476
something like The Artvertiser perhaps? http://theartvertiser.com/
Probably because it's more AR than Holo. But meh, still wicked cool.
As I understand it, the light is not merely being projected or reflected, but dispersed on a coordinate system, so the display actually illuminates where it was transparent before. That would interfere with natural light coming through (it's tinted as well) allowing the 'hologram' to obscure the real world. I could be wrong, though.
This is exactly my point, though. You shouldn't put much value in what other people like to read. Maybe it's a good place to start, to find books in the first place, but tastes are inherently subjective. Even if hundreds of millions of people enjoyed House of Leaves, that should have no bearing whatsoever on your opinion of it. All that matters is if you enjoy the story or not.
not sure if people understand what is free speech
When a programmer is willing to stay up two days straight to get done what they need to be done, that's one thing. When the programmer's company expects and demands that the programmer work 80-100 hours per week for six months at the 40 hour per week payrate because the management doesn't understand or care about estimation, scheduling, and sustainable productivity, that's another.

I don't want a union that tells me I can't work more than 40 hours a week, but I wouldn't mind a union that forces my company to pay me for overtime when it's necessary. In the case of a start-up, that payment can be in the form of something deferred, like partial ownership of the company. As a start-up programmer I'm willing to take on some of the risk that the owners do, and contribute my time and effort towards making the start-up a success. But I expect to be rewarded for that too.

The other thing I'd like a union for, and maybe this is more of a professional organization with some teeth, is to enforce some basic standard practices. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I find it appalling how seldom basic engineering practices are followed in the software development world. There's a wide variety of tools, practices, and processes in software development so I wouldn't want anything specific to be required, but some things are generic:

- Use version control

- Have and use a requirements definition process

- Have and use an estimation process

- Have and use a scheduling process that tries to keep a sustainable level of productivity

- Provide developers with opportunities to improve their skills (as simple as a book budget and company time to study, up to in-house or out-of-house training)

- Provide a career path, including both management and non-management tracks. (Programmers who don't want to manage shouldn't be stuck in dead-end positions.)

A "professional organization with teeth" could be an organization that developers can join, which could audit employers work practices at the employers request. A positive audit could lead to a certification of that employer, which could make it easier for the employer to hire better developers from among the ranks of the organization. The organization could also provide training and certification to the developers for basic software engineering practices, relevant legal practices, etc, making them more appealing to the employers.
Could anyone today really start a bank, an oil company, a car company, etc?

Actually, a few businessmen in my home town got together and started a bank. Tesla Motors is an example of a car company started, according to Wikipedia, by a couple of guys with personal funds (while they created the business plan). Regularly, although rarely, companies start out small, attack some market, and then grow into the multinational corporations.

some markets are more closed than ever.

I definitely don't agree with this, at least not the examples that you mentioned. Technology makes it easier in all industries. Biotechs in pharma. Five Guys Burger and Fries in restaurants. Boutique hedge funds in finance. While I don't know the oil industry, it sounds like there are a lot of areas where a small startup could focus on and eventually become a bigger company, like owning a drilling rig (and run it well and according to best practices), or underwater surveying, or something.
No I don't, if I don't want to work on the weekend, I don't.

It looks like possibly the Unions had something to do with weekends in the US, so perhaps you're thanking them for that. I think globally the practice of resting on the sabbath goes slightly further back.

Everyone has a choice. Either they decide to take a job or they don't. Unions are all about blackmail and holding employers to ransom.

Unions are sort of a fun idea, but they end up as a 'them' vs 'us' mentality which quickly escalates to strikes and blackmail.
Come to the UK and spend a while enduring the strikes by Union members.

They hold their employer to ransom, trying to blackmail cash out of them, while the public/customers suffer.

Also read up on Walt Disneys biography. Unions pretty much destroyed Disney for a decade.
I wrote about the "end of men" about 4 years ago. http://1women1.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-am-writing-this-for-yo...

We are now at the inflection point and from now on it is downhill for men.
I'm not sure I agree with the analogy for MIT/Stanford as an _institution_ (in terms of the curriculum, administration's goals, etc.), but I definitely think it's true for the students and overall atmosphere.

Blowing things up and hacking on random projects :is to: MIT students ||
Starting a new business :is to: Stanford students

MIT folks also often use the word "Sloanie" (referring to someone in the business school) as a fairly derogatory term. (Though I guess this is a common view in general).
A good understanding of Graph Theory would help too. The books "Graphs and Hypergraphs" by Claude Berge and "Random Graphs" by Bela Bollobás are among the most important in the area.
At least this concept made me really lol. After reading the article, it's less entertaining. They're just delusional people who bicker with each other and call each other liars for believing they're the son of god.
> People simply don't care

that's because they think email is already private. They don't understand that it's the electronic equivalent of printing their conversations on billboards and hope nobody will actually look at them. As soon as you demonstrate with a simple sniffer, they are outraged.

We just need "Firesheep for email" and then demand for privacy will explode.
The compiler isn't completely stable yet. Often I ran into problems combining multiple features, when I filled up Nim's Rosetta Code entries: https://github.com/def-/nim-unsorted http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Nimrod

The libraries aren't really there yet. Their number is growing, but some important ones are still missing: http://nim-lang.org/lib.html

So Nim really needs more active users and contributors.
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> Each write is striped across all of the disks.

It's reasonable to expect that issuing a batch of 100 writes at the application layer followed by a fsync would not always require doing 100 writes to each underlying block device. The OS/FS should be able to combine writes when the IO pattern allows for it, and should be doing some buffering prior to the fsync in hopes of assembling full-stripe writes out of smaller application-layer writes.
I think you have to get with the times a little. Crypto is an asset (some coins a security) and has been recognized as such under the law for several years, and it's taxable.

Crypto is on the balance sheet of individuals, businesses, financial institutes and even at least one nation (El Salvador). There's crypto index funds and ETFs trading on wallstreet.

And here you are philosophizing about whether crypto can really be owned? You're a decade too late.
Yeah, i would not do well under those conditions. At least with boxing, at an amateur level, that kind of precision isn't vital. There's room to make mistakes — you can miss a punch or get pushed around for a round and pull yourself together. The problem is when the accumulation of mistakes drains you of all your confidence and you're left focusing on things that you know should be second nature. That thought spiral can be funny and absurd in retrospect, but in the moment is dreadful.
That's a good point, so it could be both. I'm not sure how high the average distribution of CO2 would have to be to offset that. The petroleum/gas could also be compressed under pressure, which might offset that effect to some degree.
Namely convertible arbitrage.
"Google Chrome in the No.1 spot with 76 reported vulnerabilities"

Reported by Google's bug tracker and security team, if the random sampling of vulnerabilities I looked at are any indication.

Seems like the secret to "winning" this list is to just hide everything in-house. I wonder what the list would look like if Microsoft's bug trackers were public viewing.
I had exactly this happen to me. After a week of explaining the issue, they finally threatened me with the cost of the lineman's visit if my computer was at fault ($1500). It had gotten so bad (128kbits) that I said I'd pay it in any case if they could just fix it. I didn't hear anything. The lineman missed his appointment and never showed and my ticket vanished from the system.

The issue dragged on for 5 weeks. Finally I called a local cable provider and begged them for service. In a miracle of bureaucracy, the place I was renting had cable a decade ago and was so on their "served locations" list. They ran more than a mile of new cable and hooked me up.

Months later I was talking to some local telephone linemen (we do a lot of T1 installs requiring truck rolls) and lo and behold, he knew exactly what had gone wrong.

The DSLAM in our local exchange had gone bad and began running in degraded mode to compensate for the failure. AT&T decided that there just weren't enough subscribers to justify fixing it right away. It was scheduled to be repaired in 18 months.

Edit: My takeaway from the entire episode is that you are so impossibly far away from the reality of boxes and wires when you're on those tech support lines that you might as well be trying to direct the mars rover from your back yard with a megaphone.
This bug is an internal QA bug. The reporter is a Red Hat tester. The buggy RPM was never released outside Red Hat, and so there's no requirement to release the source. When RHEL 6.7 comes out the source will go up on ftp.redhat.com.
My experience with linode:

* Customer for ~4 years

* At one point my server catastrophically failed

* No backups. Or, now it's an add-on for an extra fee. See point above.

* They don't offer support for much... officially. But they make their internal IRC channel public so if you go in there and ask they'll just help you anyway.
It's a cluster, each node is a single core processor with a chipset chip, DIMM and 1/2 of an ASCI providing virtualized I/O (e.g. each core sees 4 virtual SATA drives) and an connection to a supercomputer style interconnect. Memory is not shared, each core is running it's own OS image.
I did specify that the IP address is not clearly associated with Etacts, though it turns out that it probably is them. However, that's not the point. My post is an an invitation of sorts to check one's Activity Window, plus my suggestions in terms of what steps can be taken when an intrusion is suspected. BTW, the tone of my post was not meant to be outrageous nor accusatory of Etacts.

> Also, wiping your computer or using 1Password isn't going to stop you from giving your password to random web apps...

I'm not incautious with my password in the least. It's generally not hazardous to sign in with Google elsewhere, provided you trust the site. You can make an assessment of the risks and benefits of singing in through your Google account yourself on a site-by-site basis. If you have reason to believe that they've violated your trust or that a security breach has happened, you can revoke access (from that site) and change your password (or even decide to be paranoid and never login elsewhere again).
I agree but what happened is that the server did go down and initially I could not access any of my sites, including root domains. Then the server seemed to have come back to life, but the subdomains still weren't working. That turned out to be some Apache issue, which I resolved by restarting it.
We just bought a half dozen MacBookPros so the QA team would be on something the Dev team could write automated testing tools for. After seeing how much time we had been wasting on Windows, when we finally asked for the switch, management didn't even flinch. You could say it was a cost saving measure.