jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The way I look at it is that even if you have the option to not pay for things, paying for things is giving you a voice.

When I pay $4.99 to "rent" a movie or $13.99 for a season of TV, I am saying to the motion picture making world, "make more like this and I will pay".

People who don't pay for things give up that voice.

So if, as a creator, you are concerned with financial profit, it would behoove you to make things that are attractive to people like me who pay for things or figure out some other way to make money like embedding advertising in your content.

In the long run I don't know if this will be good for art and creativity and it furthers the recent increasing prevalence of people with money having a louder voice than others, but maybe this is the market based solution to this problem.
What works is consistency between UIs. The QWERTY keyboard has won, for example.

Having used the Mac for so long, I am trained to use my thumb for cut, copy, paste -- command X C V. Using my pinky finger in place of my thumb is a painful amount of gymnastics for me using ctrl X C V on Windows/Linux. At the end of the day I need to use Windows and Linux (and Mac.) Maybe I fiddle with keyboard setting files in Linux or install that old key swapper program that came with Win95, but the reality is I am going to have to use ctrl X C V, even if they conflict with the control key on the command line.

It's like driving different cars. Most things are the same, but you get used to certain things even if they are somewhat awkward, and new interfaces are usually annoying. Driverless cars can solve this. And the same is true for user interfaces. The best UI is no UI at all.
He is not wrong.

Comprehensible Examples from the news that show a trend of dangerous and inevitably technically incompetent control and surveillance.

Doctorow is a great speaker, well versed and full of citations and recognises that an educated populace and individual liberty are the true wealth of nations.

You might think such a seemless and high bandwidth delivery is well rehearsed but the same seemingly effortless intersections of facts and culture occurs spontaneously in the Q & A - as a speaker virtuosic.

The crypto wars, the copyright wars, the war for general purpose computing, chilling effects on vulnerability disclosure, drm, de-CSS - these define the limits of electronic possibility.

Freedom is being eroded by totalitarian feature creep - Doctorow is one of the few technological evangelists who realised this very early on.
An easy way to get around the paywall is to search for this headline on Google and click a link from the results.
Never heard about EPIC, but the EFF is part of the engineering community. Our community solves the problems that the rest of the world creates. The EFF should be involved .. maybe somebody can get arrested for planning flash-mobs at the airports Tuesday and Wednesday to decimate holiday travel plans and put the issue into the national spotlight. That's something a bunch of hackers could put together.
Given the choice to develop in the Java, Python or Ruby language, I'd choose Python and Ruby over Java. But given the choice to develop on the Java, Python or Ruby platform, I'd choose the Java platform over the 2 others any day because with the Java platform I can choose to develop in Java, Groovy, Scala etc. and have many useful OS libraries at my disposal.

I'm just working on my web startup using Groovy and Grails and many things I need are provided out of the box or through plugins (security, search) that are easy to install, configure and use.

I think you should consider platforms as a whole and not just the languages.
Is our intelligence so poor that we do not know where the top 100 or 1000 leaders of the DKRP are? Is our ability so degraded that we could not execute a blitz strike on all leadership centers within minutes? We have so many assets in the region it isn't even funny. Not to mention the South Koreans.

Imho, the only solution is a blitz decapitation. Allowing the petulant DKRP to steer the course of events by violence whenever they feel like it is insanity. Allowing them to enhance their war making capabilities is also insanity.

It is as if Canada were belligerent towards the US and would sink our ships and lob artillery at Detroit without regard. All the while building a nuclear weapons stockpile. I do not think the American people would let that stand.

On the other hand there has been 60 years or so of cold peace with far less casualties than full blown hostilities would incur. The only problem is that the South has lived under a threat of constant war in that time.
I first learnt how system calls transition from user space to kernel space when I read this book. Till then I had not understood the mechanism, though I knew what software interrupt is.
Great article. It's an intelligent conversation over different kind of arguments made by carnivorous and vegan people.

Overall, an enlightening read. Thank you for sharing.
Teaching hippies to program doesn't work, they assume you've been brainwashed by The Man and you're trying to trick them.

(not joking)
Google "Where you can find Chuck Norris" and press I'm Feeling Lucky...

Or back in the day with "Miserable failure" going directly to George W. Bush's page.

These things have happened before.
So why isn't Android innovating in this space?
Is the typical American truly 'poor'? Unemployment is higher than typical, but hardly at unprecedented levels worldwide. Among the educated class, unemployment (4.6%) isn't even particularly high.

At the same time debt-loads among American companies are not particularly out of whack from previous economic cycles. Hell a lot of companies (Apple, Microsoft, and Google just to name three off of the top of my head) are actually sitting on pretty enormous cash positions. Hell there is concern in the economic community that there isn't enough available credit (and thus, debt) available currently.

As for inflation, I'm not aware of any significant inflation issues here in the U.S. As a matter of fact the inflation rate has been trending downward for the better part of this year.

http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/curren...

There is some concern that some treasury activity in the form of asset acquisition might stoke some minor inflationary activity, but that's purely speculative at this point.
that definitely changes the narrative. 800k in legal expenses! That's a lot of money. The headline should be "lawyers make 800k by suing uber". How was the damage calculated by the way?
Reminds me of the old Riders Radio Theater bit for Garth Sings Darth. "Act now, and we'll include the bonus album, Darth Sings Garth!"
A blind woman who was refused rides on 14 occasions - did this happen only to her? Or is it a broaded problem ... I cannot imagine she would be the only blind person taking an uber ...
"Free" if you don't count your time spent dealing with their terrible interface...
That's right, see article 5.2.d under the FIDE Laws of Chess:

http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=171&view=article
That tracking cam that couldn't track is a complete embarrassment. Apollo had better support technology than that hot garbage.
Would someone pleading the 5th count as probable cause? I would hope not. That would go against the idea that you can't be punished for exercising a right.
Given how large the US is, and how large Europe is, I doubt your statement. I can certainly find plenty of well maintained taxis in the US, I bet I can find plenty of beat up taxis in Europe.
I had the same thing with my previous internet provider, I even set up iperf3 test to confirm that and it was clear when watching anything from youtube. It was so bad that it could barely keep up with 144p on YouTube and when speed test was running i could easily watch anything in 4k, but imidietely when test was finished everything was back to snail speed. I ended up with doing download only speed test in loop from cli version, and even with this extra traffic everything was much faster and with better latencies...
Shamir Secret Sharing could be the answer you're looking for... I'm sleeping better at night

here's a quick blog post I wrote with my plan. The app is trivial to write if you find a library for your preferred language

https://g3rv4.com/2022/04/a-plan-for-my-secrets
That’s how it started out - but people began purchasing for use in Uber and then driver rates started dropping, but car payments didn’t.
QubesOS is obviously right and feels like home.
Next we need a wave of great QubesOS-targetting hardware.

And an equivalent for phones, too.
How much does it cost (in energy or materials) to transmit and route 1GB of data?
Care to expound some more on the differences between living in rural places vs. the Californian life? I've spent most of my time in the suburbs of coastal cities.
Well its been "possible" for a long time (over 10 years) using fixed wing craft. My favorite was this story: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/model-airplan...) which talks about the guy who flew an RC model across the Atlantic in 2003.

That said, basic police work can still generally track the origin of a drone back to when it was built/sold. Every electronic component has a date code, and there are records of sales all along the way. That can tie it to a location/purchase, in store surviellance can often provide images of buyers, (mail/internet order is even easier) and get back to who had the drone to begin with.

At the end of the day, the higher the tech 'toys' used in a crime the easier it is for law enforcement to figure out who did it.
68% of the income tax is not nearly enough, considering that the rich own the vast majority of the wealth, and benefit disproportionately from it.

>Other countries manage to education their children well at all sorts of tax levels.

I think you'll find that - coincidentally - those countries have much higher tax rates, and the disparity between high and low incomes is smaller than it is in the US.

Education is always a good thing, and not just for the obvious reasons.

But poor education is as much a symptom of damaged political belief systems as it is a cause.

Fixing education will only fix the political pathologies up to a point.
That's not an especially compelling argument. The Top 10% hold more than 77% of the wealth in the United States [1, 2]. And are much more efficient at converting short-term income into long term wealth than the lower 90% [2].

[1] http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_589.pdf
[2] http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucman2014Slides.pdf
Let's add: flag killing [the original, multi-upvoted front page] links to articulate and well reasoned pieces about why abusing contributors is not OK, is not OK.
My phraseology was wrong, apologies. Yes that is what I was doing. You can probably tell that my default attitude towards git is one of confusion and frustration, this is no different
This is cool! How do you determine which companies to add?
Birdshot. Range would be an issue, but the higher up the target is the more margin of error you have.

That or maybe falcons. Train birds of prey to knock drones out of the sky. Might not be safe for the bird, depending on the type of drone. I wonder if falcons are smart enough to make that sort of judgement call themselves..
Can confirm, Hoosier here.

Also 'clicker' for remote.
And if they keep spending what little money they do have pretending to be millionaires, instead of spending it on their children's education... Then I'm afraid voting with their majority power to get what they want without necessarily earning it is the only way to go if you believe the state is the only way to fix the problem.

Ironically, it's all the individuals that mean well that are constantly planting and reinforcing negative self-fulfilling prophecies into the minds of the poor. We need to stop telling them that they can't do it without help, and that instead they must simply do what they would if they didn't think they're helpless leeches. Because they naturally are not that, at all.
Hi, it's a research project to discover the inter-domain structure of the Internet (connections between ISPs) and to make it publicly available for whoever is interested.

To participate you can download the app for desktop or android that runs measurements for the project in background (max 2MB/day on 2G/3G/4G networks).

The app also includes several network diagnostic tools that you can use to run your own measurements (traceroute, ping, throughput tests, etc).

Don't know why the title of the post has changed, originally it was "The App to help Research discover the Internet structure".
FWIW I'd highly recommend considering doing it at the Coloft space in Santa Monica.
No kidding.... we keep getting an influx of people seduced by the charm of Austin who then turn around and force the charm to go away (see the recent destruction of the Cathedral of Junk for an example). I know, I'm making sweeping generalizations.

The infrastructure is definitely not set up for all of these new people.

Anyway, that's my doom-and-gloom for the day. Welcome to Austin?
WoW uses Shards to split the game world into several servers and then Instances to split off players from each Shard. Eve does the same thing with missions but only has one Shard.

The difference is if you meet a Eve player in real life your characters can meet in game, but in WoW it's unlikely for two random people to play on the same shard/server.
Jason sits here and tries to claim there is nothing wrong with registering trademarks in domains when about a month ago, Mahalo lost a domain to StateFarm because Mahalo had violated their trademark.

http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1317317.htm

So Jason, did you not know you had lost a domain or are you flat out lying about your knowledge of how trademarks and domains work?
I fully agree with this. Getting past big company bureaucracy absolutely requires this attitude in my opinion.
I thought the blonde would say, "That's uncool. We're not friends anymore." But the tech is cool.

I wonder if it could handle a skateboard park in some way?
What I always found interesting how children in the US sound "shrill" to my European ear, I think children have much lower voices here in Europe (Germany). Anyone else with the same perception? Or is it just in my imagination?
It was rarely useful anyway. I saw some stats showing even with jQuery it was extremely unlikely users already had a copy of the version of jQuery from the same CDN cached.
I just checked and there's still a sign up wall. It is not as blatant as it was before, but I can't spend more than 10 seconds or click on anything without getting it. Can't even enlarge the picture or visit the original website.

The spammy results problem is super easy to solve from Pinterest's side. Just make pages full of images non-indexable and provide simple pages with one single image and there will be no more spammy results.

By "easy" I mean technically. Pinterest is a scummy company and I doubt they'd lift a finger to make things better for the web and its users.
The "AC" version of that equation is actually F=dp/dt (p = momentum)
Could you expound on #4 some more?

Would you recommend a specific branch of math?(discrete, linear algebra, etc.)

Also, which math or general skills/fundamentals would you say has helped you the most when implementing compilers?
>The “spammy” results are when Google indexes a page full of images and picks a “representative” image.

No the spammy results are when I search for something on google, it gives me a Pinterest link that matches my search term exactly, the link has absolutely nothing to do with what I was actually searching for and if you click onto it, you're met with a page full of random Pinterest crap for about 3 seconds before it busts out a signup wall in your face and to top it off it'll take you at least 5 clicks of the back button to actually get off the page. I find it happens a lot searching for tutorials for things.

ETA: to address the original question, I find quora annoying, but a lot less than Pinterest. I actually do get decent results when I can view a page. It just seems to be random whether it throws an account wall up or not. I find copying and pasting a link to a related question into a new tab will sometimes work if I close the original tab first, but not always.
Flat design I'd say is the closest, although there's a ton of ways you could describe this. I'd also describe it as minimalist + a strong focus on readable typography with space to "breathe". Other sites like Digital Ocean have a great focus on simple iconography that enhances their message.

All-in-all I love that design trends have gone this direction as I think it's a friendlier and more efficient means to convey information =)

Years ago skeuomorphism was a popular trend which is to try to make things 3D representing real-world objects (buttons, dials, etc). Although it's still highly prevalent in UI design, we've really backed off of the trend. A great example of this is early vs. current iOS. I mention this because there's a ton of great "skeuomorphism vs flat design" stuff out there discussing the ethos of sites like this.
The author is a bit inaccurate, depending on how you count things. At Microsoft we ship the C#, F#, and CB compilers on a cadence faster than 6 weeks; probably every 2 weeks on average. New language features don’t make it in to each of these releases, but bug fixes and performance improvements certainly do. These releases are kore driven by tooling evolution (VS updates, .NET SDK updates) than language evolution though.
Something that I'm surprised they didn't mention:

They say that most Italian people would pronounce the schwas by just omitting the last vowel altogether which, if I'm understanding correctly, is the vowel that indicates gender. That itself seems like an appropriate way to communicate "not one gender or the other". It also strikes me as a very believable way for language to evolve.
I've always thought that was a ridiculous metric, since it's entirely possible for a thread to have more comments than votes without being a flamewar, and for bad comments to be upvoted. Implicitly, it penalizes users who choose to comment rather than upvote (which is probably the majority,) which is penalizing engagement.

Maybe there's data backing the validity of it up though, I don't know.
was there ever a blockchain era? All I ever heard of was the blockchain bubble? Sure it's useful but it's not the end of all traditional exchange and contracts like it's most religious adherents subscribed to.
Live shipping should be banned.
Is it really 'political' if it's based on published figures? It's an informational tool, not a political view.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm...

If it's not, consider this: If an employer really is fair and unexploitative to their employees, the employees have nothing to gain by unionising.
This is what I've done to move an existing Windows 7 installation from an HDD to a SSD.

1. SSD preparation - format the SSD with the correct alignment:

diskpart.exe
list disk
select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in list disk)
create partition primary align=1024
active
exit

2. Ensure that the current OS is not using drive letters to boot:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot
bcdedit /set {memdiag} device boot

3. Use PartedMagic to copy the partition from the HDD to the SSD.

4. Disable the scheduled defragmentation.
Short but wow that's cool. It would be interesting to see how it does against a heavier gauge steel.
Another tactic that I quite like is using battery powered cars in combination with a smart grid to generate power during peak usage. If a car is plugged in and is fully charged, it will use a percentage of that to feed back into the grid.

Presumably, you'd give quite high incentives to doing this. If someone only charges their car when the grid has excess power, and allows up to 50% of that power to go back into the grid at peak usage, that electricity could even be free. There'd likely be a setting on your charging station to handle this.

You don't need many cars generating 5kW before you're talking about quite a serious amount of power.

Of course, there are problems with this approach - most people park their cars somewhere else during the day, the accounting is an issue, and it seems to be more suited to wind than solar, but I really like the idea of repurposing the massive batteries that we're going to have laying around anyway.

For reference, a Tesla battery pack holds 53kWh [1], which will supply an average home with power for two days [2]. So the numbers really do add up for using it to help during spikes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Battery_system

[2]: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/esr/table5.html
I'm on a "crippled" Macbook Air 11". 1.4Ghz C2D, 2GM RAM, and a 64 GB SSD. The SSD makes this machine snappier than my previous 2009 macbook pro. As far as living my life on 64GB, I have room for development (Rails), I keep my music on Amazon Cloud, and any movies on my linux server. It's my portable workstation and it zings along.
All good points. The issue we're facing with DRM, upgradability etc is similar to that faced with moving from LPs to Cassettes to CDs to MP3s to...

Books decay. Digital files get corrupted. Companies rise and fall. I know I'll end up buying things more than once, just like I did with my Depeche Mode collection - at least three times.
Agreed. It is more useful in the end to just push our your code even if you add a "warning: this is one big ugly hack" as a readme.
It’s not really sensible to only look at browsers (and, presumably, only desktop browsers – Apple has more than 6% market share of mobile devices). Which formats do digital cameras use? Which formats is content sold in?
It's also vulnerable to html injection... by design
Actually, I think that may have been the one after MHz. Now we're into how many cores something has.
> there's no sense in implying that one is lesser because of where one sleeps

I think the intended implication is not one of personal value, but that aspiring engineers might have an easier time living in proximity to large pools of talent and opportunity.
Related?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1774592

The timing seems incredible.
The archive of trunk appears to be one with shared assets, not the development trunk of the CMS. I could be wrong however, but I see no similarities between the layout of "trunk" and the other archives that were clearly live web-facing assets.
Can you imagine if the legal world regularly consulted Tufte for clarification and inspiration?
Considering the EPA's past lies about the air quality at ground zero, the mercury levels in fresh water fish, etc., let's just say that if you believe anything they say then I've got a boat load of perfectly safe shrimp from the gulf to sell you.
Stanford's Dan Boneh has written about this quite a bit:
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/pwdhash.html
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/passwordmgr....
Thanks, yes that's what I meant. Didn't realize I've been saying it wrong all this time. Apparently, a very common mistake.
Keep this kind of rhetoric up and you'll end up gaslighting us straight into a real 1984.
I'm not super knowledgeable in machine learning but given that system RAM (not VRAM) in the TB range is really not that rare these days for high end workstations I assumed that the poster meant that you'd have 1TB of working RAM per GPU for the learning job (which would be paged in and out of VRAM as necessary).

I guess the lesson to be learned here is that if you want to use an implausibly huge amount of RAM to make a point, a TB is not safe anymore. Go for Exabytes instead, that should be unambiguous for a couple of years.
Interesting, looking into it. Can you share which browser you are using?
So you acquired and preprocessed some data for them? How did they verify its correctness?

I agree this looks like a great enterprise.
Surprised they don’t have interconnects for emergencies at least. Seems like a strategic own goal