jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The business messenger is the perfect complement to their recently released Anonymous Login and a very smart move.

As a business implementing Anonymous Login, you give up having an email address of your user (or any other kind of contact information) for a very simple and attractive login method. Now with the messenger you can actually contact your (anonymous) users, even if all you have is a facebook provisioned ID.

All this at the cost of giving facebook complete control over your userbase and your means and rights of getting in contact with them.

Brilliant.
I would say that the x86 abstraction is now more distant from the actual design of the hardware, not higher.
It looks like the authors have not heard about kernel-level page cache. No fsync was ever used in the benchmarks, therefore, it is never actually hitting the disk. The only good thing about this paper is that the Java and Python listings are available at the end, for everyone to identify the basic flaws in this research.

It's actually proving that it is faster to write directly to memory than to do a copy before writing to memory. Nothing really impressive there. :)
For increasingly many developers (potential contributors) a project effectively does not exist if it is not on GitHub. And, being a huge centralized service, GitHub is very susceptible to censorship (e.g. repos being taken down via DMCA or Russia blocking GitHub until they started to cooperate with the censors). I see this dependence as very bad and dangerous for the global free software movement.
I definitely agree with you. I've been helping out with https://github.com/buggins/dlangide to improve the editor situation for Linux. Still is pretty alpha at the moment.
I agree with your qualms, but isn't the easy answer to have your brother or sister do the testing? :) Or just a friend. The fear that you won't get an honest answer if people think they are criticizing you seems valid, but you don't need much distance before people can be honest.

My main worry is that you what you should be looking for is not popular validation of your idea by people who've never considered the details, rather you should be searching for hurdles that you've never even considered. The danger is that you conclude that the business idea is good when in reality it's just 'cool'.
Unicode isn't strictly for language characters. It includes many other common symbols, borders, decorations, and other misc.

See here for the full block that it resides in: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/200...
Shunning is monstrously different to killing. It's silly to even compare them.

Tons of people reject the religion of their parents and are estranged from them for life, while still having a great - and in many cases markedly improved - quality of life.
Yup, I'm a native English speaker. And thanks for the thoughts. Seeing as it's just a blog, and not a real "business," going with the more comfortable contraction may be the better move.
Why use Standard Oil and not say Google or even Facebook? Google has a massive share of search. Not because of any barriers to entry, but, because, well, they, had a great idea and it worked.

It is unlikely that google would loose such position until there is an advance or breakthrough. Until then, google can do quite a lot and pretty much whatever it likes if there were no laws constraining it.
Groupon = online advertising for people who don't understand 'cost per user'.

The majority of small business owners fall into this category, and that's why Groupon prints money.
And are you as well?
I think they arrive at these decisions based on power and personal desire. There will always be someone who is happy about capitalism because they have money, but there will also be someone equally angry about capitalism because they don’t have that money. To me everything in America dividing one another is about power, not hard power, but the power to make others submit to a preference or belief. It also seems to be driven by a vengeful jealousy, intent on hurting those who have it better. It’s just unfortunate they the tools this powerless class has is to cancel, and force others to adopt a wokeness which has no positive effect on society, other than to be used as an ideological weapon.
I feel like you're missing the point. I wholeheartedly believe Canonical does not encourage this kind of behavior from their sales rep, but only because it makes it obvious that they're getting data from MS they really have no right to access, when they really intend for it to just stay hidden behind some voluminous terms of service.

You know what they say, the definition of "gaffe" is when someone tells the truth.
The Prince of Whales: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48622001
Being able to open a file to quickly change the fill color of a figure for example is nice.

I first did it with inscape and the file size of the simple logo I was editing went up by 6x due to the inscape metadata so I did it manually.
> How do you know that US rates are highly inflated compared to other countries?

You can see for yourself both in terms of rate per population and total(!) prison population:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

> And, what is the correct breakdown of incarceration rates by race?

Even, otherwise it suggests something is wrong with society that needs to be fixed.
Oh heaven help us if a trillion dollar enterprise gets a fine !!!!
I'd be surprised if they don't support ALAC, Apple's lossless codec. Can't say I have any iPods or iPhones to try it out myself though.

Apple generally has a very strong case of NIH.
It sounds like you basically want a form of document clustering. Seldon has integrated the Semantic Vectors https://code.google.com/p/semanticvectors/ project which can be used to do this or depending on your technical level to look directly at Semantic Vectors or toolkits such as gensim https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/
He was a professor at Berkeley for 29 years.

He's cashed out a number of successful businesses, so it's not likely that he needs money.

He's in his 70s. I would guess he still likes to teach and do research, but maybe not as a full-time professor.

Adjuncts don't have to go to committee meetings. :-)
I presume they keep a table mapping email addresses to breaches and that's it.
Thanks for the suggestion. I usually roll with the default LineageOS Trebuchet launcher. However the last time I upgraded there wasn't a large enough warning that installing the micro gapps would overwrite the Trebuchet launcher, and also make it unavailable for switching.

I'll give your suggestion a try, takes less time than reinstalling LineageOS :)
In the D&D world that I'm familiar with, we call these sort of people "rules lawyers", and there too, they ruin the game for everyone.
Which is sad. Social engineering and operational security are like as, if not more, important as financial literacy in today's society.
The QWERTY layout isn't the best but everyone makes their keyboards the same layout. QWERTY isn't beautiful nor the most effective, it's functional and familiar.
Do Coke and Pepsi really compete? They seem to be content with running ads reminding people that they still exist, but I don't see any targeted against each other. Seems they are willing to co-exist as the two "leading" brands that people think of interchangeably.
I like the outcome from a public policy perspective. The policy the court has imposed is good for the industry. But let's make no mistake -- this is legislating from the bench.

The wholesale expropriation of an API is not the same thing as taking a small snippet of a copyrighted work for analysis, commentary, criticism, or scholarship. It is core the value of the work.

Indeed, it's the most important part, because it defines the functionality of the product. It is what the customer sees and interacts with. It is the means by which the customer gets value. You can completely swap out the backend behind the API and the customer will still get value. Change the API and the value goes away.

From a legal perspective, this decision is 100% wrong. The plain language of the law makes that clear.

What should have happened here is that Congress should have passed an amendment to copyright law allowing for fair use of an API. They should have done so after a free and full debate, with due consideration to all economic consequences.

It is not for our black-robed, un-elected overlords to make this decision.
Javascript, of all things, wasn't neatly "designed" either.
The core language was hacked together in several weeks, by a few developer at Netscape.

Javascript wasn't made for large applications.
It was made for form checking and rollover menues (some of the earliest examples back in the day) ;)

It can be argued that Javascript has many unfixable design bugs, too.
Just sayin.
can be opened in incognito
Yes! As a person raising kids in "the Western way", we ARE weird.

Obviously, this is a broad oversimplification, but I do think the way we manage our kids time and limit their freedom is problematic.

That said, I think many of the problems stem from good intentions and unintended consequences. For example:

1. We don't want our kids to get hit by a car, so we tell them only to play in the back yard.
2. In many homes, both parents want a fulfilling career, so most kids are in some kind of child-care after school, so our kids don't have others to play with in the neighbourood.
As a fellow Québécois, I have one major issue with the current system. I live very near a dairy farm; I know the owners well and I love their approach, how they treat their cows, etc. I'd love to buy _their_ milk, but I just can't. A couple times a week, a truck comes in, takes all the milk and brings it to a plant in St-Hyacinthe or whatever (1+ hour from me) where it gets mixed with the milk from all the other producers.

So yes, we have managed to protect the "family farm" model, but you can't actually buy their milk. To me, that's pretty stupid; I don't mind the price, but I do mind not knowing where my milk comes from.
Comparable to TypeScript, but a little weaker in the advanced features. Nim object types and tuple types are similar to TypeScript interface definitions and just as light weight. The type inference is pretty similar, but Nim's is a little weaker. Nim also has object variants, which can achieve most of what I want out of union types. TypeScript has a pretty long list of advanced typing features, like key types, mapped types, and conditional types, which Nim cannot express. But the Nim macro system can work here in taking code and modifying it before the type system runs.
Not the person you asked but I’ve co-slept three times and have some insights.

My answer would be that you do it while the baby sleeps, and you do it less. Otherwise on the odd occasion you’re away from the baby. It’s a drag. Though in my experience I was always so tired, it was generally a lower priority.

Others might have had a different experience though.
Now I don't know what the real issues were or are, but live in the old soviet block and the general understanding in my area is the heating systems were build badly, designed horribly. Of course the world at the time didn't know much about insulation either. So in order to satisfy the ones who had open walls aka no neighbours both sides, you had to push more hot water which made the ones living middle saunas. Also what floor you lived in, the pressure was never balanced.
Radiators didn't usually have any control mechanism either and there was no real initiative to save. So people opened windows.
I remember my father telling me that the windows were so poor quality where he used to live, it was smarter to isolate the radiators with tons of blankets instead. Wood with big cattle house was the main source of energy here.
Now the systems are usually replaced and since energy costs so much more everywhere it's your wallet that dictates it not some bureaucrats.
I got hit a lot as well. It wasn't a big deal. My brother got hit a lot as well. I grew up antisocial and my brother grew up super social.

It is not the hit, it is the words. Parents manipulate their children using words, and that's worse in my eyes.
How do you even get an unsafe shutdown in a notebook with a battery, unless you yank it out, or a buggy OS that will not shutdown properly/preemptively on low power?
They give up their rights when they put on their uniform.
An alternative to X would be great.

The Linux windowing system is currently a gawd-awful mix of poorly mixed layers.

The problem is that any replacement might follow the dynamics that generated the present arrangement...
Yes I thought about this more after I posted my comment and realized that is is reasonable to be a supporter of both. It did come as a bit of a surprise when I had heard Al Franken voted for this bill since he was so public about his views on net neutrality.
I know this article is about the TSA, but what about people in SV referring to everything as an engineer?
This part of their letter doesn't make sense:

Unlike other scanners, these new devices operate at relatively low beam energies (28keV). The majority of their energy is delivered to the skin and the underlying tissue. Thus, while the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high.

The main issue is that the limit for a smaller volume of the body is actually greater than the body as a whole. Radiation dose is somewhat similar to a density, in that it's measured in energy deposited per mass. Your body is better at dealing with a high dose in a small volume, than it is with a low dose in a large volume.

...these new airport scanners are largely depositing their energy into the skin and immediately adjacent tissue, and since this is such a small fraction of body weight/vol, possibly by one to two orders of magnitude, the real dose to the skin is now high.

This statement doesn't make sense either. Dose is J/kg, so the fact that the volume (read mass) is small is taken into account.

This part sounds the most interesting:

In addition, it appears that real independent safety data do not exist. A search, ultimately finding top FDA radiation physics staff, suggests that the relevant radiation quantity, the Flux [photons per unit area and time (because this is a scanning device)] has not been characterized. Instead an indirect test (Air Kerma) was made that emphasized the whole body exposure value, and thus it appears that the danger is low when compared to cosmic rays during airplane travel and a chest X-ray dose.

The problem with this statement is that Air Kerma is the quantity that you'd use to calculate the dose. It is only measured indirectly in the sense that you can set the detector to have the conversion coefficients built in (you actually measure the quantity Exposure).

It seems that the letter was probably written by people with concern, but not expertise. I just know enough to see some problems.
>assume vegans are doing some sort of twisting to make it look like their diet is workable.

Last I checked, unless vegans are supplementing their diets with multivitamins, they lack all the necessary nutrients needed to survive. As somebody who hasn't taken multivitamins since he was a child, that certainly seems like "twisting" from my perspective. Vegetarianism strikes me as perfectly normal however.

However, I must say it's really none of my business what others chose to ingest, be it meat, veggies, heroin,... I really don't care. I think the only reason most people become wary of vegans is because of stunts organizations like PETA preform.
Why not use harmony generators?

Generators are provided by V8, don't require an external fibers extension (i.e. hack), and will be available in the next node stable via `node --harmony-generators`.

Here's an example for those interested: https://github.com/visionmedia/co
On the subject of medallions, last I heard that was a point of contention. Uber has been operating without them, and taxi companies don't like that. You play by the rules and pay a huge lump sum to be allowed to operate, and then some guy comes along and undercuts you because HE doesn't have to pay that lump sum? You wouldn't like that either.
For what it's worth, I wasn't trolling, but I was arguing for the sake of it. Since I now get that you're pretty upset, I just wanted to say sorry about that.
> The government is doing a lot of interesting things they don’t disclose. You have a unique perspective on what the adversary is doing and the state of computer security at a whole other level.

I believe in our government's right to privacy for security's sake, but reading this makes me sad. They get a bad rap, including from me sometimes. So, If they are really doing things that are that cool and useful, they should share them, so we can see where the tax dollars are working. I have a feeling though that this statement was just for PR. Nothing at the classified level can be all that cool. Coolness is for SAP's.
After all it's all just packet-switching in the end.
Gold has a much higher resistance than copper.
I love that anything new was done with sed.
I think Uber is pretty safe in DC.

UberX is under attack in DC. The Limo/livery (black car and SUVs) businesses is now well protected by DC law and the definitions passed earlier this year. The DCTC rules will classify the UberX hybrid vehicles as Sedans and subject to the new rules. However, Uber has secured enough allies in the DC Council, including the DC Transportation CMTE Chair.

I've watched this fight play out a few times now, and I think the worst case scenario is no UberX through the end of 2013 prior to the next set of DCTC rule-making or council intervention. Uber rightly gins everyone up in DC about these issues, but the truth is they've done a great job in this market attracting the right allies and have been consistently winning their battles.
2 reasons for this:

1 - It generates 2/3 of the money.

2 - It probably requires the most handholding from Sales and Customer Support. There's only so much scaling they can do.
Or if you choose different values for the variables in the Drake Equation for which we have only a single known data point -- i.e. most of them -- there is probably exactly one civilization in the galaxy.
Thanks—looks like this dagger is a particularly well-preserved example.
> It shows a monotone non-decreasing significance because [the value] represents the total amount of accumulated evidence against the null hypothesis.

> if we instead looked continuously at a classical t-test, is the significance would oscillate near the significance threshold

So there's your answer: the y-axis on the chart has an unlabeled different meaning for the blue line.

While I have you here Leo, can you explain why you would want to chart only the accumulated evidence for X? It's meaningless without knowing how much evidence has been accumulated for not X.
I believe they're already here. And it will get easier than that. It's called Apple Pay.
I wonder, are there any stories where the "Political Officer" is actually the hero rather than the villain?
Ed. Snowden summed it up nicely IMO with this:

"Your rights matter because you never know when you're going to need them."

privacy = rights
Now I've read your other comment with the terminology, I think "shotgun hill-climbing" is the appropriate phrase for the sort of materials science thing I'm talking about - you start atoms in random configurations, with minimal bias, and then minimise using the forces (available analytically) on those atoms using gradient descent/whatever optimiser (usually BFGS) until you find local minima. There's no momentum involved, and the gradient is available, but you still start in random positions and minimise to local minima. That sort of method is in competition with other structure finding algorithms that use GAs, SAs or some other fudged hybrids.

My reference to "brute force" was that, as far as I understand, in the limit of lots of attempts, "shotgun" will approach "brute force" -- imagine a really nasty landscape with lots of tiny basins. I understand "stochastic ballistic" modifies things slightly.
Apple TV should be replacing cable set top boxes, the same way iTunes replaced music stores. It has yet to do that (Netflix has gotten closer than Apple has though).
This is particularly true in sports. There is a chapter in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers all about it.
I'm an anti-austrian. I think 'stored value' is the most bizarre concept. All value is future value. From a statistical perspective you can never have full confidence that the thing you are using to 'store value' will actually do so. You can't predict the future. Even gold has its limits. Are we going to load our Space plains with bullion when we fly to mars?

I'm not favoring consumption. This system actually creates a flight to value and sustainable, renewable systems of production. Of course one of the things you can do with your decaying money is spend on consumptions, but you'd be an idiot because you're going to be getting stock in the producer of that thing and if they are strip mining you upper limit of benefit is drastically reduced.
That's not generally how GAAP works.
Imagine this response in the context of a sport like the NBA. If the ref is secretly racist and bans you from the sport because it's "funny" as their excuse, would you react this way? The nature of videogames doesn't make the professional sport of them juvenile and less worthy of rigorous standards for inclusion.
>After reddit started banning people for upvoting the wrong things, this is a logical next step. Contrary to the popular belief, slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy.

People might read this and think that people were banned for upvoting things that were insanely bigoted, or personal attacks.

While I'm sure that was the case, the slope was indeed slippery, and reddit ended up banning people for upvoting posts such as "John Brown did nothing wrong" and "it is justifiable to kill slave-owners".

Moderators that agreed that this was unreasonable then saw their subreddits (some fairly major) banned for advocating violations of reddit policy.

All in order to score PR points and do some both-sidesisms. The actual ethical good didn't matter, it was all PR to Reddit.
Twitch doesn't see itself as a platform for creative freedom even though everyone wants to perceive them as such (because they market it that way). Twitch wants to become a network, like cable TV. It's easier, and more predictable.

Pros: maintain control of the brand perception, market to their target demographic with simple messaging, everyone in the inevitable echo chamber is satisfied (including employees).

Cons: Some people are mad and move to create an opposing "rival" network. (which is likely to happen anyways)

This logic can be applied to other major social media networks, the surviving ones anyway.
It seems to me you mistook one kind of self-interest for a labor toward progress. And you still do, for that matter.
Yes, should be, just because "double-u-double-u-double-u" takes a ridiculously long time to vocalize.
If you clicked the dropdown, you'd see it was a mix of unemployment, welfare, and railroad retirement benefits.
so they paid interest on the national debt but who is paying the principal?
Really soon, working on penal code right now (and open sourcing the scraper)
Check out some of the newer Adobe mobile apps.

http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/mobile.html
you'll want to use something like Modernizr http://www.modernizr.com/ or html5shim/html5shiv to turn them into divs with JavaScript.
Combined P90X and Tim Ferris's body hacking program into an awesome system. I've been putting on about 1/2 lbs of muscle a week, with nearly no fat gain. Due to my height I have a take in a ridiculous about of food, but its well worth it.

The best exercise I'd recommend to anyone starting: the kettle bell. Do 50 reps (you'll need to break them up at the beginning) with 40-50lbs. If you don't see a change with those you never will.
FWIW, https://store.google.com/category/chromebooks lists bunch of chromebooks for sale in the US, including the new Pixel.