jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are quite right. A lot of people underestimate the international connections a specific local place had at some time in history, this is the case with Europe as well. After the Roman Empire fell, its knowledge, writings, and customs were somewhat preserved in Western Europe, but their real preservation and translation occurred in the Byzantine Empire and Islamic world. Then in the 15th century the lifestyle, innovations, and preserved writings from these places and others as far as China gained traction in Europe again. This helped kick-start the Renaissance.
1453? Who is talking about 1453 here?

I am talking about the 12th century.

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The bibliography used to kickstart the Reinassance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th...

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Paper, and by extension, scalable libraries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#Paper_in_Euro...

> The oldest known paper document in Europe is the Mozarab Missal of Silos from the 11th century, probably using paper made in the Islamic part of the Iberian Peninsula.

No paper = Books made out of parchements = Prohibitively expensive books = No libraries = No scholars

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"Our" modern higher education system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijazah

> George Makdisi, professor of oriental studies, theorized that the ijazah was the origin of the university academic degree as well as the doctorate.

No universities = No doctorates = No advisors = No science

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"Our" modern astronomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsine_tables

> The Alfonsine tables were the most popular astronomical tables in Europe and updated versions were regularly produced for three hundred years. Nicolaus Copernicus, known as the father of modern astronomy, bought a copy while at the University of Cracow.

No astronomic data = No modern astronomy = No laws of gravity and motion = No physics

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"Our" philosophy that is tolerant to science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism#Early_Scholastic...

> This period saw the beginning of the 'rediscovery' of many Greek works which had been lost to the Latin West. As early as the 10th century, scholars in Spain had begun to gather translated texts and, in the latter half of that century, began transmitting them to the rest of Europe.

No tolerance to science = Scientists harassed by the church = Science becomes impossible to conduct.

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"Our" understanding of optics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s_law

> The law eventually named after Snell was first accurately described by the Persian scientist Ibn Sahl at the Baghdad court in 984. In the manuscript On Burning Mirrors and Lenses, Sahl used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations. The law was rediscovered by Thomas Harriot in 1602.

No optics = No astronomy = No age of exploration

No optics = No microscopes = No biology = No modern medicine

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... And the list goes on, and on, and on. The Reinassance is the legacy of the Islamic civilization. It is overwhelmingly clear. Your school teachers lied to you, and their teachers lied to them.

Don't believe me? Take a look here: https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/extrema.php

The first doctoral advisors were Islamic. Every known scientist is somehow a student of them. Follow the chain of doctoral advisors and learn the unavoidable truth.

Enjoy your new, more historically accurate perspective on the world. Downvote all you want, eventually your descendants will learn the truth in school one day anyways, when we are done undoing the revisionism.
If you believe that Russian interference had a material effect on the amount of support for BLM[0], then presumably you would agree that Russian interference was also enough to change the 2016 election results by 80,000 votes.[1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-flo...

[1] https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-2016-election-votes-su...
Their app and particulant metrics/ graphing are kind of neat and user friendly. And I don't know, it's furniture kind of. Some people buy expensive furniture because it looks nice, some because it's comfortable and some don't bother and just use a milk crate.
But the people who run the euro zone and the dollar zone have it setup for (they hope) constant mild inflation. This incentivizes a search for productive investments like ycombinator instead of hoarding treasure, which is not a productive investment
You seem a bit confused about the ages.

The dark ages is not a synonym for the medieval era. It's a sub-division of the medieval era - one of three.

The dark ages is a period after the fall of Rome. It's named for the fact that very little written output was produced during this time. It ran about 500-1000AD.

The high middle ages came after, and there was a lot more writing going on during this period. This was about 1000-1250AD. When people think 'medieval', this is usually what they think, if not the late medieval period (the third sub-division).

Then came the Renaissance, then the modern period.

The dark ages actually were pretty dark, mysterious, and primitive, as evidenced by the very low intellectual and cultural output during these years, low populations, low levels of social organization, and so on. Generally, the good parts and achievements of the medieval period that you're gesturing at were during the high and late parts.
(Couldn't a hacker have 500 connections and, though trying each only every 5 secs as permitted, still get 100/s overall?)
When I read your comment I started tinking about Settlers of Catan. I think SoC is more interesting than Monopoly, but there is still way too much luck involved for my taste. I have been trying to come up with a way to take the luck out of SoC, but haven't come up with a good way yet. Of course, one might need to stray quite a bit from the original design. Any ideas?
Given that it's shutting down, what's HN's favourite videos? I'll start.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9077214414651731007 - The Union: The business of getting high

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8653788864462752804... - The Fog of War. Incredible war documentary

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5968506788418521112... - If you only watch one, watch this. This is a Horizon's documentary 5 years after Chernobyl when they were still worried about a second explosion. The people there are all working under massive radiation doses, and there's loads of camera artifacts that are a result of radiation exposure (trails caused by the CCDs being exposed to radiation, white flicks of light on film etc.)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159... - Robert Newman's History of Oil

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3323021761394989726... - The human animal

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3840459477996788886# - A blank on the map

If you want to download the videos to keep then you can use a service such as http://keepvid.com/ or if you're using firefox, search for the flashgot extension. The resulting files can be played with a player like VLC (http://www.videolan.org/).
Is there anything that can be done about the audio lag? In other words, is it something that could be solved in JavaScript, something that needs to be improved in browsers, or an inherent flaw in the HTML5 audio spec?
The least we can do is detect a situation like this and make it a conflict.
Lanyrd.com is your friend for announcing events
if you change the wording from "a partir de 3ª feira da semana" to " a partir de Terça feira da semana" it does translate it correctly
No, you don’t. As a tourist I could get a 30 day (unlimited data) SIM card with a phone number, over the counter.

I detailed my experience in another comment.
Thanks, here it is: https://www.zdnet.com/article/graph-theory-suggests-covid-19...
Oh wow, what a fun read!

I started with the section on Music Typesetting, good stuff: Oxford Music Processor, his Philip's Music Writer, the language syntax to encode notation information.. This is right up my alley, thank you for the link.

So much of it is relevant to our current time, it's still not a solved problem and there's room for innovation.

I'll enjoy reading the rest of his memoir.
> The security flaw exists in the Adobe...

Imagine my surprise. Geez maybe it’s not the best idea to allow Adobe to entirely run the font game?

Source: worked at Adobe years ago
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and more ambiguous if attempting to read quickly. "p_r" is the same on both, and they're the same length, it'd be easy to confuse one for the other.
I'm sure Youtube loved getting spammed with a 1000 very similar videos
See my larger response below. In my own experience the detailed monitoring was always what found our problems and outright 50x was very rare. But I worked at a very large etailer with a complicated SOA, so it might be a "head only" problem. I think my basically plan to was to try to dominate the low level offerings by brining in features that are only available to the high end offerings, even though for the most part they don't require a ton of extra work (browser simulation being the main exception).

Good point about scrapping the credit system. My gut says you're right. I guess the legalese would just need to be rejiggered to say "we reserve the right to put you on a leash."
Different strokes for different folks, but I could count on one hand the number of business emails I've sent in the last four years that went to someone other than a customer, supplier, or "people I know well enough to invite out for coffee."

This might be a weakness in my skillset, but I tend to think that outbound marketing is a very time-intensive proposition, and as a sole businessman time is something I can never really have enough of. I don't want to do anything that has to get over a spam filter, a low-conversion inbox scan, and then a low-conversion salespitch for it to positively affect my business. (And, it goes without saying, spam is right out.)

I don't know what your personal threshold is for writing non-spammy email, but I personally can't put my hands on a keyboard and not type a hundred words. Even at ten emails a day, that is a thousand words. That could be an article, an interview, a blog post (that would be criticized for overlength), etc, etc. All things that I get to keep, that stay available on the public Internet, and that aren't strongly dependent on the reception of individual third parties.

I'd much rather write the thousand words and pull some folks to me. After that, perhaps we could do email and/or coffee.
Just checking back on comment, blown away by all the activity. If someone makes this a reality please post the progress on HN I'd be so proud to see this idea executed
Are you just making the blind assumption that he's a programmer?
"I want to tell them how awesome it is that they are doing it, but am never sure if that's the right thing to do some stranger lol."

General heuristic: If you are not sure, if it is right to approach a stranger, just do it. Really. Talk to them next time.

And don't end your sentences with "lol", please.
"Getting out of the building" is not a task you want to outsource. Speaking to initial potential customers is critical to the start up and must involve the founders. Once you establish product/market fit outsiders can come into play.
Yes, it's been pretty slow lately. The other day it wouldn't load at all for a brief time.
I know rails has the concept of caching HTML snippets, so you still have the page construction cost, but you avoid the database calls.
Actually, I think they have had 38 atoms, since

it is possible to hold on to atoms of antihydrogen in this way for about a tenth of a second.
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It's possible to critique things based on design, just as much as you can critique a project based on architecture if you know the goals/objectives it aims for.

That's the basis upon which I choose to dismiss Go for a selection of uses unless they make some fundamental changes.
Change the name while you still can. John is absolutely impossible to google for.
The problem with SSDs is that they are too reliable and when they fail they fail reliably. The only reason why they fail is usually an intrinsic flaw in the hardware design or firmware which all SSDs of the same model share equally.
I was part of Intel's mass layoffs in 2016. I hated my job at the time, but looking back now I wish I was back in the spot where my compensation was not quite "ridiculous", but great.

I went to a startup after and it was terrible. Luckily I've transitioned to the parent company, but it's still not as ideal.

Can you deal with it for a few more years? Surely you can get to a point where you can retire early?
authors seems to not know melpa and is away from emacs news.

eglot is about to ship into emacs core, emasc has pdf reader for decades and remacs is a rewritten of emacs in rust, that had contributiuon from emacs core devs too.

and guile is ready to use into emacs as a alternative to elisp
"working"

"Just back from walking the dogs"

"Running bitcoin"
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not exactly the greatest at marketing, so any help in this regard is most appreciated :)
again, then why did they unblock it? it is important, we're in a new paradigm for software where developing in the open leads to higher quality software written faster than previous ways
A combination of higher salaries and H1B applicants. I think an important distinction should be the list of companies that are headquartered in Vancouver, versus setting up satellite/branch offices. In contrast, California seems to have many more hi-tech companies headquartered in the state (clustered around SV or SF).
Combined with their recent hack and their exposing of team names a few months ago, I'm becoming wary of using Slack. They don't seem to have a security-focused culture, and that's a massive problem for a communication service.
The line "I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice", a quote from MP3 author Karlheinz Brandenburg, first appeared in the article 'Ich Bin Ein Paradigm Shifter' [1] by Hilmar Schmundt, published June 2000 in the magazine eCompany Now, a year before that magazine merged with its rival Business 2.0.

(The Wikipedia article on Tom's Diner says anachronistically that the quote appeared in Business 2.0 magazine. This has been present on the page since the very first revision [2].)

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20001003052745/http://www.ecompan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%27s_Diner&old...
Oracle has done the right thing to smash Google's own J++.

Google had a easy way out after screwing up Sun, buy it.
I have met other casualties of this, and meeting them when I was teaching undergrads inspired me to write https://jakeseliger.com/2012/04/17/how-to-think-about-scienc...
They’re a democracy in the same way Russia is a democracy.
This is not the bug of the year. Ok, the id is not the encrypted. So encrypt it and next. Nothing to see
Blasting audio in a noisy environment for hours can cause tinnitus, AirPods included and not exclusive. Trust me.

Another case of “OMG Apple!” click bait.
I'd like the best of both Worlds, remote access to my (as yet hypothetical) cameras while being secure from others. Plus being wireless, with decent encryption. It seems reasonable, yet everything I've looked at is a joke.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...

"Retrospectively comparing future model projections to observations provides a robust and independent test of model skill. Here we analyze the performance of climate models published between 1970 and 2007 in projecting future global mean surface temperature (GMST) changes. Models are compared to observations based on both the change in GMST over time and the change in GMST over the change in external forcing. The latter approach accounts for mismatches in model forcings, a potential source of error in model projections independent of the accuracy of model physics. We find that climate models published over the past five decades were skillful in predicting subsequent GMST changes, with most models examined showing warming consistent with observations, particularly when mismatches between model‐projected and observationally estimated forcings were taken into account."
It strikes me how atypical your landing pages are. I can't imagine that it converts into signups as well as it could. The front page offers little of substance. I'm curious if this is the result of testing multiple designs or if little effort has gone into optimizing so far?
Any Portland residents want to comment on the state of the Portland tech scene there? The Oregonian article makes it sound slightly dire...

No big new tech company has emerged in Oregon since the 1990s, though, and the old ones are steadily vanishing. The $8 billion sale of Wilsonville-based Flir Systems, announced Monday, leaves just two publicly traded technology companies in Oregon.
i see what you’re saying in the broader case — i can imagine it would be worth listening to someone who had reckoned with the evil they did — but that’s not how people sold DFW.

The pitch was “here’s a book of good advice from a man who was brilliant, morally decent, and struggled with depression”.
So excited by this ! Im 30 and finally, after reading tons of papers about AS and/or inflammatory pathways it is the first time I can imagine a cure for my anlylosing spondylitis. Too bad it will take years of approval once developed. I volunteer for trials and not in the placebo group please !
Does the Mint budget feature include rollover for money not spent?
And recapture isn’t going to be easy. We’d have to figure out how to drive the global economy off of the recapture process
You want government-run Internet or a government myspace? No, thank you.
I don’t get it either.

Thiel criticizes Google for working with China in a Uiygur genocide (but admits he doesn’t have proof). He criticizes Facebook for its stance on Hong Kong democracy because there are more Chinese born employees at FB than Hong Kong born (is that “evidence”?).

First thing — these are foreign policy issues from the perspective of the USA. We (the USA people and our government) have done far worse in the foreign policy sphere.

Also worth mentioning that Theil’s Palantir moved out of the Bay Area partly because he and the other execs didn’t like that Bay Area tech employees are activist about politics and things like foreign policy in their job as stakeholders at those companies — a role he seems to advocate in this article (he just doesn’t like the direction of their advocacy).

Also worth mentioning that he made these comments at an event dedicated to one of the presidents that most damaged the USA in both domestic policy and foreign policy (Richard Nixon) and Thiel publicly supported another more recent president who managed to destroy USA institutions even more than Nixon.

Worth taking these words with a giant grain of salt and observing that this man has a giant log in his eye.

Please don’t take anything in this post as supporting China or any of the FANG companies mentioned. I’m only pointing out that Theil doesn’t seem to have a consistent stance on government policy or what constitutes “hurting America”.
My knowledge of cooking started from a very young age, I share all the cooking skills, tips, and some tricks to cooking food with easy ingredients that I developed over the years.
Totally agree. If you want an open source editor, just don't use atom. It's not that difficult of a decision to make. I hate it when developers feel "entitled" to open source software. No, not everything is open source. There are some pieces of software that you will have to buy.

I use open source software every single day of my life, but I also pay for software. I pay for Sublime Text, it's worth it. If Atom is better than Sublime, sure I'll buy it.

In my opinion paying for something is about supporting the devs so they can continue making great products and feed their families.

It's fine for a company to make a profit, that's why they are a company after all. In a utopian society everything would be free, but we don't live there.
It's hard to design a good TLS test suite, for at least a couple reasons:

* The TLS stacks all have different APIs, and you'll need some fine-grained configuration over client options to exercise the code.

* There are only a few important TLS stacks, and the effort required to build a test suite is probably greater than the effort required to build a TLS stack.

It would still be a cool project. If it exists, I'd love to hear about it.
If a lot more people listening to your music, lowers the value of this music in the eyes of these people and everybody else, I'd blame the music, not piracy. This phenomenon is commonly known as "shitty pop music", and it just so happens that this "genre" is sold with more DRM than any other type of music.
someone mentioned in that thread that the .app file contains a package.json which states it is under an apache license.

I think the default that npm init gives is BSD, so this seems like a nominally conscious decision on their part.

I don't really think it would make sense for github (a services company) to start selling commercial desktop software, but whatever.
All the languages that get wide adoption at the enterprise level suffer from similar issues.

I think it is something that is bound to the enterprise architect culture.
> Fascism does not see the problem, it is the problem.

Nobody is even close to implementing a fascist system in America. This is the kind of thing people who don't actually know anything about Fascism say. Trump was not a Fascist or even close to it.

Stop falling into the tired rhetoric of the 20th century. New words are needed to name the problem.

The name for the system that you need to start using is "Totalitarian Liberalism". The leader is less important than the sum total bureaucratic control that slowly and "rationally" usurps freedom, flexibility, and leisure time from society for the benefit of the people who have the most influence over policy.

It is not a populist system that benefits the aristocracy and the working class by aligning corporate and state power in the national interest (fascism) nor a system that purports to benefit the working class by giving them the means of production (communism) - it is a system that works to benefit the existing rich by exploiting and undermining social divides, papering over them with rules and laws that marginalize the entire working class while setting it against itself.
yes, but lock-in can be worth it, and Rails is increasingly worth it as the ecosystem and core grows. i wish we had an alternative term to "lock-in" that had more neutral instead of negative connotation. it's got tradeoffs, like with anything, but doesnt mean we gotta be scared of it.