jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're right. In fact, I have my vimperator setup so that it automatically does this for Google Reader and GMail, and only for the relevant tab (i.e. if I hit "v" to view a Reader article, the pass-through turns off on the new tab). I did it with this statement in my .vimperatorrc (Linux):

autocmd LocationChange .* js modes.passAllKeys = /(google\.com\/reader|mail\.google\.com)/.test(buffer.URL)
Who has a "bug" on one of the most visited pages on the Internet. I don't buy it...
However destructive the Morris worm may have been, my understanding is that it wasn't deliberately so. I'd say it falls very much into the traditional hacker style of "creative endeavours".
So I'm guessing their thinking is something along the following lines:

1) Stanford student has idea.

2) We help Stanford student bring idea to market.

3) Stanford student get mega-rich.

4) Stanford student pays for new wing/department/scholarship/professorship.

Is that basically the idea here? I know it's founded by undergrads and the business school has disowned it, but there has to be some reason they would do this, right?
He used to have a back-page article in Scientific American too, which were also very fun :-)
I'm at work (XP, Chrome) and the font looks terrible as well. The thickness of the font changes within a single letter.
Oh! So in that case owners just need to wait 32,768 hours and they'll be fine. /s
I agree with you, the author seems to assume that Brexit/Trump/France are all one-off political movements.

I'm not even so sure as to how homogeneous tech i if the drama at Google is any indication. Academia probably is as they have a financial interest in the federal government expanding.
Health insurance is tied to employment, and an uninsured medical condition cropping up is the fastest way out of the middle class in the United States.

So the threat of losing health insurance is a huge sword of Damocles employers get to dangle over employees.
This immediately made me think of the robot dog in F451.
well compared to dotnet core 3 the java memory management is really really bad.
in java memory is not more efficient than in node.js/php/ruby or python it's worse. what is better is the performance, especially when you have a lot of stuff on the heap the performance is predictable even with a memory size of > 16gb where the other languages lack of. GraalVM still misses a lot of stuff and is slower.

so I think the biggest buck for the bang actual is dotnet (maybe go is as good as well, but does not really play in the same league). I think once valhalla hits the tables might change, but even than ReadOnlySpan<T> is way too awesume than just value types.
Good points.

I was also reading economists' opinions. Though as you can guess, they are quite in favour of lowering tariffs.
He's probably making a space company.
That's 7.4 years, and well outside warranty.
My hypothetical was that now the president can claim to be non-binary or whatever gender they want, not that they actually are. But anyone who publicly disagrees would of course be violating anti-hate speech laws
Yeah, our kerning is not great. We're slowly chipping away at the problem because it requires fixes at several different layers.
Why is this surprising?

Kids, don’t do this.
Congrats to the both of you and on closing the angel round! Hope you guys push the envelope in this space ;-)
Ditto on space constraints. Note also that in urban centers existing structures also include underground electricity, water supply, gas, phone lines, etc. which are usually very costly to relocate.
I look at these teardowns from a different aspect: once upon a time I worked as a computer technician, and built and upgraded hundreds of systems. When I see these pictures, I see a monolithic block of really hard to work with pieces. An appliance, not a computer, in other words. They make me less inclined to purchase.
Yea, I did the same thing. Name must contain only ASCII characters and must be easily pronounceable in English where two of my requirements when naming my daughter.
You may like Ninja Trader, it's free for personal use. This is a great free automatic trading application, you code in C# using their API.
If the programmers actually adding the constraint to their systems didn't also believe the falsehoods, they would have written better error messages than, in essence, "You typed your name wrong!".
Ah, if this is really true as it claims, I am sure in the days of remote work, someone is probably working on a Skype plugin for deeper voice.
No, it's not like saying that at all.

Playing or winning the lottery involves nothing but money. An acquisition involves major changes to an organization's structure, its products or services, and the lives of all its employees.

EDIT: Removed snarkiness.
Um, I should have elaborated in my original post - it most definitely is still heavily used in the UK by, for example, architects when evaluating how much heating a house will need. My original post wasn't terribly clear about that, my bad... Yes, consumer-facing information these days is indeed more likely to be expressed in kilowatt-hours...
The best possible outcome would be "the cyclist was not at additional or different risks".
> The activity isn't harming you, it only "harms" the people with a relationship with the company.

This is not true. As a vendor, I assume costs associated with PCI compliance and other industry-standard best practices. If my competitor is ignoring these I am fundamentally disadvantaged. It's not an equal marketplace at that point.

Whether intentional on the competitor's part or not, this is saving them money and placing their customers at risk of identity theft, financial fraud and who knows what else depending on what's stored in that database.

> But reporting him to the authorities? That's very Stasi-esque.

Holy hyperbole, Batman. As a customer, I deserve to know if my vendor is eschewing industry-standard security practices. And they should be mercilessly shamed if they are.
They did try. Sun had all sorts of innovative projects that didn't work out (such as JavaFX), but they've been forgotten. Java on the server is what remains. It may not be flashy, but it's a survivor (still around even after Sun is dead) and it's likely to last as long as Fortran and COBOL.

It's only in the early adopter community that survival doesn't seem to count for anything.
> I'm a little disappointed to see him attack this initiative to get more people into coding.

That's because I'd rather people have the freedom to be mathematicians, nurses, lawyers, physicists, writers, and accountants while still being able to leverage computers. Instead of forcing people to become professional programmers to get the computer to model things for you, we should focus on teaching people how to model in general and build more tools like Excel that let people do that.

Hell, I'd stand behind a movement to just teach people Excel. With Excel, we don't have to spend the next several years worrying about what flavor of MVC we have to use. Instead, we can focus on doing actually important things like curing cancer.

> Besides programmers and mathematicians, the only people I've met with the faculties to properly break things down are lawyers.

My point is we should fix that, instead of focusing on teaching people Python.
Some areas appear spotty because the default filter is set to exclude anything above 20% cloud cover. You can use the filters at the top to broaden the range:

http://cl.ly/image/3U3H120u2H0f/libra-filter-ex.gif
The HEMA Alliance has a club finder which lists groups all over the US and Europe: http://hemaalliance.com/?page_id=748
Inexpensive installation in already constructed homes.
Ease of installation, primarily.
Sadly, it doesn't play in Chrome on Linux.
I work at Yahoo!. Our interns attend weekly meetings where strategy is discussed. :)
"EC2 is a rentable compute utility, it doesn't provide for automatic failure or redundancy."

Nobody wants to admit that "cloud" became a great way to market (and mark up) traditional web hosting services that we've had since the early 90s.

It still boggles my mind that Microsoft's Azure, which overall I'm a fan of, makes me pick an instance size (and corresponding price) for my app; the original premise of the cloud was to take these kinds decisions out of the mix. What happens when my micro-instance pegs out? It won't automatically bump up to the next higher level or spin up a new instance for me. This isn't "cloud" this is marketing.
There's also gdb-mode for emacs, if you're so inclined: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd...
Here's the 24h latency data on EC2 east, west, eu, apac: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-24h.png

Last 60 minutes comparison data: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-60m.png

time in GMT.

A study we (Cedexis) did in January comparing multiple ec2 zones and other cloud providers: (pdf) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf
You have a point there, but "I won't answer that" doesn't actually communicate anything and seems like a viable alternative.
EBS isn't a shared filesystem, its a block device mountable by only one host (instance) at a time. Much more analogous to fibrechannel or iscsi than to nfs.
At the risk of causing a bunch of you to spend the rest of the day watching the whole 3 seasons of The IT Crowd....The canonical answer to 'Have you tried turning if off and on again':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8
I don't think that's a mistake on his part. If you put a single large video or iso file on there that you downloaded, it's practically guaranteed that someone else has already uploaded it.

And one 700 MB file will really skew that percentage of deduplication savings.
Thanks!

I am clueless when it comes to compiling though so for me that stop right at "linking". I only know that that has something to do with those .o files. :-)

I did find http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/ and just installed that.
Interesting. I didn't read any of the comments, I suppose that would have helped.

What I thought was more interesting than the Hitler comparisons were the allegations of ghostwriting. I thought THAT was the real point of the article, that it was clear he didn't even know what was in his books, and when presented with something he definitely wrote, it was incoherent and poorly written.
It seems like Yahoo! makes more money investing in other companies than it does as a company. They seem to invest lots of startups, including this one, that end up being huge.
I take the opposite stance - if biologists knew about advanced statistical methods they might be tempted to use them.

The general rule in biology is if you need to use statistics you did the wrong experiment. The reason for this rule is it is all too easy to use clever statistical methods to solve a flawed experimental design.
They look so, but they are competent in maintaining the status quo, while doing whatever they fancy.

-- From Russia with love, huh. We have exactly the same kind of stuff here.
It's good that someone is looking into making the most important electronic communication mechanism secure. Making email secure without figuring out a way to make the architecture spam-proof would probably end up in a situation where people would be forced to open up their email contents to someone, thus adding a privacy loophole. Or it might end up with ton of spam similar to usenet, which essentially makes it unusable. Also, why would one want to name something "Dark Mail" which has some negative connotation to that.
Marketing, enterprise sales? Also, snapcash.
Other software companies. Lawyers.
The problem is you need to rectify “MBS had a journalist assassinated” with “The US should stop meddling in the affairs of sovereign nations”.
Perhaps you can understand inflation and still make a mistake?
Maybe they will will, soon. :)

One can hope, anyhow.
Agrees. Next dev project anyone? :-)
Looks awesome.

What gives it that visual style, is it a particular web framework or something else?
Great websites to browse around.

I can only heavily recommend the "did you know" [ http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/didyouknow.html ] and "fast facts" [ http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/fastfacts.html ] pages.

It makes one truly appreciate and wonder about the amazing accomplishments of this machine (and it's sister, Voyager 2) and the men and women who made this 'grand tour' mission possible.

Sometimes I've wished I was born a few decades earlier so I could have been a part of the team that really pushed mankind's space boundaries and knowledge.
Now what I need to do in my future interviews is get an understanding of the 5% of my guests' work that produces the big payoff.

It can't be the only thing I focus on, or else the interviews won't have depth and integrity.

But if I can pull that out, I can give my listeners a payoff for the hour they invest in my interviews.
Is LinkedIn completely down for anyone else? The site's been devolving all afternoon for me. First it said there was a problem and they'd redirect to the homepage in a few minutes. Then there was a LinkedIn-branded Sun ONE Web Server landing page that just had features of ONE for the last hour or so. I just checked back and now it's a totally stock landing page without the linkedin logo. Something seems to be seriously FUBAR today.
No, it's not. Most of my extended family is in Brazil so my wife and I decided to work remote from Brazil for a couple months this fall. It's hard to really understand how crippling the culture of bureaucracy and corruption is until you experience it.

Internet. $200/mo USD for a theoretical 1MB connection. That's assuming the power stays on. Lots of people use the internet (mostly at cafes) but it's only for games and social networking -- nobody thinks of it as legitimate way to make money.

Crime. In many parts of Sao Paulo and Rio people don't even stop at stoplights because the risk of getting shot and carjacked is too real.

Education. Completely broken. Cheating is so rampant most teachers don't even try to prevent it from happening. That's at the private schools where my cousins have attended-- public schools are apparently far worse.

Entrepreneurs. Most people literally don't even have a mental category for this. At best they make vague negative associations about you being a "capitalist." The dream job is either working for the government or getting an engineering position at some multi-national corporation.

All of this is unfortunate because the Brazilian people are really delightful and quite creative. My wife is a designer and she says some of the best design is coming out of Brazil right now. Unfortunately corruption and regulation has completely driven out the spirit of innovation and that is unlikely to change anytime soon.
I hope he's not paid in proportion to his font size. Ouch. 9pt or 10pt Times Roman isn't fun..
Speaking about the UI/UX only...great job. The site is very slick and easy enough to use. There's some cleaning up you have to do but mostly it works very well.
Providing links in HN isn't seen as spam, especially if it clears up a missing point. I, for one, would appreciate any links you've got of ones you trust and use.
They list 2 companies as owners of the data in the article. I guess there would be a good place. I'd love to do that but I'm not on the eu.

But the article says that's possible the actual leak comes from a customer or former customer of these companies and the actual ownership is so far a mistery.
> people already believe things that aren't real

That's the problem: These people can now parade proof when there isn't any, perhaps even rally to garner majority and dilute out actual facts.

> (and don't believe things that are real)

For instance, refusing to acknowledge deep-fakes despite being labeled as such...?
This is way too perfect. If it didn’t know it was a deep fake I would think it’s real. Fake Richard Nixon looks and sounds genuinely upset.
Later in the talk, he draws a distinction between inherent complexity (the focus of the article) and incidental complexity (which you can fix without tradeoffs). Tradeoffs can be critically important, but the latter kind of complexity probably dominates my day-to-day life. I find this oddly encouraging, in a free-lunch sort of way.

"And because we can only juggle so many balls, you have to make a decision. How many of those balls do you want to be incidental complexity and how many do you want to be problem complexity?"

Watch the talk.
I was actually prepared to dislike it before I saw a picture of it, because I'd seen other conceptualizations of hypothetical Tesla trucks and they look sorta like they're trying too hard to look like the sedans, but end up too bubbly and cute.

However, this truck is dope as hell and I'd drive it. It makes you look like a retro-80s action star. I think I would have to grow out my mustache if I drove it, and I don't mean that ironically.
The topic was of Basic Income and the utopian future where nobody has to work if they don't want to. Some writer painted a bright picture where everybody would be volunteering at the senior center. I disagreed.
How the hell do these little kids get control of big botnets?
If they start warmer than the coffee, they may contribute to slowing the rate of heat loss. If they do not, they cannot. Except people don't drink 80C coffie so the absolute time it takes to reach 30C is less important than how long it spends in the drinkable range.

Now I don't know what wax there using or how much, but Paraffin wax for example has about 1/2 the heat of fusion of water. So it would store enough energy to keep ~35 times as much water at a constant temperature rather than failing one degree c at which point the was would freeze and provide negligible benifit. On the other hand if the wax water ratio was 1:5 then the temperature would stabilize though 7 degrees worth of cooling when the coffie was 80C and then 7C of warming when the coffie was 37C which would be noticeable. Granted, 37C is a little to cold for coffie, other waxes have a higher melting point.

PS: I still don't think this would be all that useful in practice. I am just pointing out it's not physically impossible.
Note that "jay-walking" is something that the US car industry came up with in order to drive pedestrians off the road and clear the way for vehicular traffic so that they could sell more cars.

In much of the rest of the world, the concept barely exists & many people find the idea that pedestrians are somehow automatically at fault simply for being on the road when someone drives their vehicle into them almost offensive. Why should the driver's right of way be preferred to the pedestrians'?
Please delay the disappearance of the upvote arrow until the upvote has been received and acknowledged by the HN server. The up-arrow could stay as-is until the upvote has finished sending, or could be dimmed.

Background:

When one upvotes a comment or submission, the up-arrow disappears right away, but there is a bit of network lag before the upvote is actually sent to the server. On some networks, this lag can be significant. Lag on my network has caused me to sometimes upvote an item, close the window immediately, come back later, and then realize that the upvote wasn’t counted. This is more of a problem for submissions, where not only does the submitter not get credit, but the submission also fails to get added to my Saved Links page.

The only way to check whether an upvote has been received is to refresh the page, but that also has the effect of canceling any upvotes-in-progress that have not finished, and requires one to remember which item you upvoted.

My current workaround, after I upvote something, is to leave the tab open, view other pages for a while, and close the tab when I come back to it later. However, this has the disadvantage of me having to remember, when I return to a tab, whether I left it open because there was still something to read on it or simply because I was waiting for an upvote to finish.
Why would this necessitate getting rid of the "-dev" packages?
Yes. I don't put much weight towards the complaints about this

1) there's the facist counter-argument "you shouldn't be able to silence the government," where the government having the ability to force me to repeat what they say scares me more than a company saying "I won't republish that"

2) there's this one, the "what if it was your favored politician"; this is pretty old news; not everything every politican says is published in every news outlet, editorial selection is as old as time, and we have to hope that there is enough competition in the market that things that resonate with lots of people find publishers (if anything, right now we seem to be suffering from being way beyond this, where we even have a lot of publishers for straight garbage nonsense). But this particular instance is an extra-weak-sauce one: nobody NEEDS twitter. Especially not the president!

3) and there's another angle where I think it's important that people act in line with their beliefs, not just with their wallets or their ad view counts, in order to preserve our democracy. There will always be bad actors. Trump is a bad actor. We can't simply throw up our hands and say "we have to accept all the bad actors because we might not always get it 100% right if we try to fight the bad actors." That supposed cure - doing nothing - is worse than the disease!

"Is this person a dangerous nutjob who cares more about their own power than the health of the country" is one of those things that affects which politicians I support, so I'm not TERRIBLY worried about politicians I support falling into this particular trap. Since I believe this is an exceptional moment, I think exceptional action is warranted and am less concerned with supposed precedent. Twitter and Facebook spent 5 years being huge enablers for Trump, even though they never liked his politics, after all, going back to the start of his campaign. Clearly they're willing to tolerate a LOT.
Maybe they died because aliens coincidentally Tele-killed them. Lots of theories!
Firstly martial arts groups don’t incite violence. They encourage control and technique between consenting individuals. Which is totally different to breaking into buildings and attacking innocent individuals.

Secondly the whole “where do you draw the line?” argument is such a stupid one. Just because you can’t create a rule that is 100% perfect 100% of the time it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bother trying at all. Laws are constantly being changed and evolving through court because people recognise that need.
Half of Brazil is excited and the other half is scared. Bolsonaro is very very similar to Trump and has made many comments about the security of elections. There is a probability the same will happen here in 2022.
Or you can blur faces etc.
25 yards? Outside? Humans really are bad at evaluating risk, I guess.
Cite some sources. They clearly do not store your messages in plaintext on their servers

https://telegram.org/privacy#3-3-your-messages
https://telegram.org/privacy#4-1-storing-data
Not so sure that these huge gestures are necessary, depending on the technology - You can play games perfectly fine on the wii with little more than the flick of your wrist.
Isn't this space really crowded already, though? Especially if you consider flash games? Is your thinking that with HTML5 you can get onto platforms where flash won't work such as the iPhone?
This reminds me of a ted talk on games. There is an anti-game sentiment amongst most founders, but in the end it's the future. Game designers have figured out how to leverage and motivate more than all the academics or bosses combined.

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_be...
One of the points of the article was that entrepreneurs don't need VC since it's become so much cheaper to do startups. Thus Sand Hill Road isn't as important as it was.
This is a great example! Thanks for sharing.
That is circular reasoning. That sentence says agreement is secret so that there can be agreement.

What nonsense.