jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If your point isn't that "Wired has committed journalistic errors", you probably shouldn't name your piece "The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired". But really, that's exactly what Greenwald was saying and I think this response pretty much refutes it.
With regards to call centers, you might want to first ask those with a job there if they want their job destroyed. Without regard to their current job search plans, they are there for a reason...
check out google app engine tos, has creative commons attr license
Wow, that Sally Clark story is tragic. They fell hook line and sinker into the old Feynman numberplate trap [1]. The insanity of it would almost be funny, if someone's life wasn't destroyed as a result.

Had they restated the odds as "every ten years in the UK on average, one woman is going to be unlucky enough to have this happen to them", instead of essentially "there's a 1 in 73 million chance this was a coincidence", I can't imagine a conviction on that alone.

And that's assuming that, once you'd had one baby die of SIDS, the odds stay constant, which is a crazy assumption, especially as it's such a rare even we don't possibly have enough data to verify it.

[1]http://filmer.blogspot.com/2003/05/richard-feynman-erik-red-...
This sort of thing never winds up reflecting well on people involved, just getting caught up in a personal back and forth and speculating on people's motives and nonsense like that. This part seemed particularly silly to me - Greenwald emails on Christmas and when they don't respond by the 26th, he says they're acting unprofessionally -

> Nonetheless, once the Times story — and our explanation — was over a week old, Greenwald sent Poulsen an e-mail inquiring about it, and giving him one day to respond to his questions. He sent that e-mail on Christmas Day.

> When we didn’t meet the urgent Yuletide deadline he’d imposed on himself to publish a piece about a 10-day-old newspaper article, he wrote in his column that we “ignored the inquiries,” adding: “This is not the behavior of a journalist seeking to inform the public, but of someone eager, for whatever reasons, to hide the truth.”
Totally disagree. I regularly down-vote ad hominem, jack assery, and anybody complaining about down-voting. I will never comment because I refuse to lower myself to their level.
If you're interested in a closer look at the topic, you could do worse than looking at the work of Wes Jackson and his Land Institute:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/a-c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2fqNxyqubQ

http://landinstitute.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Jackson
I'm also from a small town in SC, and I also had a pretty good experience in my troop. The religion and heterosexuality aspects were fairly downplayed and while we went through the motions, my Scout Master told my mother explicitly that I could join as an Atheist as long as I didn't make a big deal out of it. This was about 10 years ago when I left.

The leaders (adult and less adult) make or break a troop. They define the character of the group. For me, scouting became a lot less enjoyable when the Scout Master that started me off stopped being as active in the group. That's probably when I started losing interest in the experience, if I think back on it.

I got all the way up to, but not quite, Eagle Scout. I was Order of Arrow, I filled various leadership roles, and I had almost every requirement except for the project. I lost interest before I went through with the project, however, so I never got Eagle. I have absolutely no regrets about that.

I was partly jaded (lots of people did simple projects that seemed unworthy to me), partly lazy, partly annoyed with an organization which was defined by open bigotry, and partly disinterested without the strong leadership. It hasn't had a single recognizable impact on my life, and I don't know that I'd change anything if I could.

I doubt I'd encourage any of my children to go to scouts now, although the experience was extremely valuable for me.
If you want a more personal take on building vector games at Atari, Memories of a Vector World (1998) is a good companion piece:

http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n2/contri...

(Disclosure: I was Guest Editor of the issue of SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics that this appeared in.)
It does seem like something's wrong when http://weather.gov is the best place to get weather (within the US, of course.) I just wish NOAA had an iPhone app!
Huh, I think you're right -- thanks for the correction. Maybe they ought to follow LISP's example, though!
First of all, I don't think that any of these are solved problems besides maybe calculator.

But even granting that they are, having the vision to find an ambitious and original project is part of what it means to be "capable of so much more," and is not a common skill.
I haven't tried the app (I don't own an iPhone), but I suggest replacing average by median. Very high salaries can significantly bring the average up, whereas the median is more robust to outliers.
I'm one of the Co-founders of Socialblaze - here's my response to your questions:

Socialblaze is a social media management application that helps companies measure and optimize their return on investment from social media marketing. It has a lot of advanced social media analytics that most other social media management tools don't have; but that agencies and brands need to measure their social media marketing efforts.

We haven't done a whole lot to market it besides for some SEO efforts, blogging, Facebook + Twitter. There's a lot more we could have done in terms of SEO; but we ran out of funds to continue working on it full time.

We want to sell Socialblaze because we want to pass it along to a company who can work on this full time and who can achieve the vision we have for Socialblaze.

After this, we don't have specific plans. We'd be interested in possibly coming along to continue developing the product. Whatever we do, we want to continue developing products since that is what we're really good at.
Some of the third-party solutions, such as PhoneGap and QuickConnect iPhone, do a lot to alleviate that problem.
It's only strong for distributors. Have you ever met an end user who said, "Gee, I love iTunes! So fast, so responsive, so awesome!"

The only reason I still use it, really, is because the last time I tried using something besides iTunes to sync my music to my iPod, it nuked the whole library. As far as I know, it's the only fool-proof way of synching my iPhone with my iTunes library (which actually lives on my iPod, because its audio jack died.)
You have no idea how many artists use shitty Windows XP laptops. As a computer guy in my school, I had to root out a ton of viruses and other crap. Even my painting professor, a renown watercolor and oil painter, had a 9 year old Taiwanese micro laptop that chugged on IrfanView. Minus the rich kids, designers and myself, I knew only about 10 other students with a Mac in the art department.

Windows is cheap, which is good for an artist. Cultural cache can only go so far when one's judged on their work.
This is a great comment. My new go-to link on NSAKEY threads. Thank you!
That way the users will have to constantly request a password reset.

Accept that your site isn't special enough to have a unique password and stop being so fucking arrogant.
I've always explained to my friends and family that the only real requirement of one passing a PhD is stubborness (or tenacity if I'm feeling charitable). It's certainly not intelligence that's the determining factor, although there is a minimum threshold you need to be over. You have to be stubborn enough that despite all the crap the Economist article is describing, you still want that certificate.

But there is real value in doing a PhD at a prestigious university: it opens doors. Many many doors. I think of it as a cognitive short cut for others that, magically, you're now someone worth listening to. I actually don't like this, but that's what I've observed on multiple occasions.
Several, don't forget dialects.
This is very debatable, it totally depends on what you're looking for. What on earth is the "best".

London is the best in my opinion because I get the best latency to it (not surprising - I live < 50 miles) and its had 0 outages since I've been in it.

They're all equally reliable in my opinion, Fremont just got unlucky. Every DC is going likely to experience some form of major outage throughout its lifetime. If you're running anything serious you should have redundancy in another DC so it doesn't matter if your primary fails anyhow (your primary will fail - don't ever assume it won't just because you picked a "good" DC).
Ah. Well at that rate, I'll be allowed to know about it in 2012 or so. If the goalposts haven't moved by then. :-)
I think it really depends on the type of product you want to build.

My take on the matter is to learn just enough tech to be almost dangerous. Or put another way, you need to understand enough about technology to
(a) understand that it is hard. This alone will make you a better manager/cofounder.
(b) be able to sift the wheat from the chaff. The problem with business only types is that they are more likely to pick 'coders' who promise the earth than those who can deliver.

Learning to code is great. Learning a lot about the various technologies out there is great. Building simple programs is great.

That said, programming is hard. You will not be a great coder in 6 months, or a year. If your problem is non trivial you will need far more knowledge than you can pick up in a year of dabbling.

I suppose my point is that you need to balance the need to come up to speed with technology with the need to actually deliver a working product.
Except we don't perceive the dimensions of color as comprehensively as we perceive multi-dimensional space. We can intuitively construct straight lines, planes, spheres, cubes and various other geometric primitives. We can't construct those things in color space without a lot of specialized knowledge.

We basically perceive colors as similar or not, as well as a few basic attributes like brightness and saturation. If we're missing a dimension, we just can't differentiate between as many colors as other people. This is why people can go their entire lives without realizing they are colorblind.

So, if you can compress the normal range of colors into the range that can be seen by someone with partial colorblindness, it could potentially make all the difference.

Note also that magenta exists as a color (ie unique subjective experience), even though no monochromatic light can evoke it

I don't think any light can evoke it, right? You would have to artificially stimulate the optic nerve to see it.
I know it is going on a tangential, but it surprised me to learn who the Stig (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_stig) may be named after: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_Blomqvist
With Google, the product is you. You (your demographic profile) is sold, by Google, to their advertisers.

This includes potentially identifying information.
> The CMA will look at the deal’s possible effect on competition in the UK. The CMA is likely to consider whether, following the takeover, Arm has an incentive to withdraw, raise prices or reduce the quality of its IP licensing services to NVIDIA’s rivals.

This seems to hit the nail on the head. Nvidia has clear incentives to "withdraw, raise prices or reduce the quality of its IP licensing services to NVIDIA’s rivals."
Given that some of the titles have 1-star reviews, I think the goal is to scam people into buying expensive crap. The books are auto generated and the content is worthless.

In many countries it’s difficult to request refunds for online payments, especially if it was clear what you were buying. There’s a look inside button you can use to see a large selection of pages.

He generated so many books probably to cover all kinds of tech topics, to reach more victims.
Another vote for self-hosted WordPress. It just works and has all the necessary batteries for SEO etc. No need to reinvent the wheel.
I don't know if there's peer-reviewed sources about that claim in particular, but this is a topic that's being addressed often in media. Here's a popular book on this topic; I haven't read it yet, but I'd like to: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1634312023
At Costco and other stores, you can often purchase gift cards for a bit below face value.

When Apple, Amazon, etc, seek to have retailers carry their gift cards, the retailer needs to have an incentive. So the gift cards are usually sold for below face value to the retailer. In turn, some retailers will sell gift cards for below their face value.

So, e.g., at this moment, Nintendo eShop $50 cards are $44.99; XBox/Sony Playstation $100 gift cards are $89.99; a $500 gift card on Alaska Airlines is $449.99; $100 at Hulu is $89.99.

These are not particularly good prices. Oftentimes Apple $100 gift cards will be $79.99.

The other incentives at Costco still hold, too; you can get the Executive Membership 2% back and the 2% credit card cash back.
> One is that people shouldn't own pets. Least of all sapient creatures like dogs. I'd wager that will become a common point of view a century or two after I'm gone.

Considering that cats 1) have been human companions since the ancient Egyptian days, when the penalty of killing a cat was death, 2) ONLY became human companions of their own volition after their utility in eradicating mice and rats was recognized (note that until a few decades ago, pets were kept outdoors most of the time)... I really, REALLY doubt this prediction tremendously LOL.

Also, you have entirely obviously never had a cat. (I've had both dogs and cats. Cats are more interesting. Dogs are like permanent 3 year old boys.)
At the very least, there's also the Definitive edition which plays great in Win 10. I've enjoyed playing that game again.
Oh, it's a psyop, but not for that reason. It's to use these morons. To do… this, as hard as possible. This is exactly why QAnon exists, it's the payload for the entire operation.
You can bridge Ethernet to other things. There are ports for 10/100 on most ISP client devices (eg: Comcast Modem). 10b2-5/10bT bridges are still available
Occam's Razor suggests that the cop was gesturing to other cops on the line that they were retreating from their position and falling back. To suggest otherwise strains credulity and would require much more substantial proof.
> assuming anyone in law enforcement actually cares about identifying these people

Law enforcement is hardly a homogenous group. We're not talking about a State Trooper deciding whether or not to go after him here. We're talking about the Secret Service and FBI who probably feel accutely embarassed this happened on their watch, and are about to be run by allies of the man these protests were essentially targeting.
> “as the climate gets asymptotically closer to what it'll eventually settle on?”

Earth’s climate has never and will never “eventually settle” regardless of the existence of humans.
Why only US/Canada?
Sometimes people interpret explanation as justification. Particularly when they are upset.

To say that the police felt threatened by protests aimed at the police, and that because of that, the police acted more brutally than they otherwise might have, is not a justification of police brutality. It is an explanation.
I understand it like I understand some people are allergic to fish, but I can't directly empathize with them either because I've never had an allergic reaction. You knew what I meant.
Godel, Escher, Bach

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The Dispossessed

Deep Work
You could just backspace repeatedly, but it'd be a waste of bits.
HN seems often incapable of thinking about how audiences and use cases differ.

I'm personally a huge fan of using MD for my stuff. I'm a recent convert, but am finding it works brilliantly for my use case which is idea capture, presentations, etc. Obsidian is my tool of choice. I've written a parser in php which converts this markdown into html ready for web publishing. All good.

But.

I also work with 50+ clients who want to manage their own websites. And they want to manage their websites easily, effectively and visually. They want things to look beautiful. They have audiences that they need to engage with content that is not just words but images, video, timelines, maps, iiif manifests, audio, sliders and much more.

This is a different audience. To ask my clients to "just boot up a jekyll instance and commit your content to GitHub" is the most wildly hilarious thing to expect of an editorially focused non-technical set of individuals.

Yes, plain text works beautifully for simple blogs, documentation, notes and more. But there is huge value in thinking about audience, about design, about engagement which goes beyond just a simple "text is right, wordpress is wrong" argument.

Then what seems to happen in geek circles is that all that "wonderful simplicity" is drowned by an absolutely insane set of tools to actually publish. Yes, you've got plain text files but if your stack then has some cli/npm/jamstack/js/gulp/brew horror attached to it, with a truly questionable maintainability problem attached to each and every one of those tools, how simple now?

Really the point is: different strokes for different folks. You can't make a stunning coffee table book in plain text. Much as you might hate it, InDesign is your tool of choice. And that's ok.

(Also, he's just plain wrong about not being able to get his content out of wordpress. There's a solid and very well supported XML export format for all wordpress instances, even wordpress.com...)
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Anecdotal I know, but I very recently got a macbook air after years of practically exclusively using Linux and the opinionated user interface drives me crazy.

Here's a few pain points:

- Scroll direction can only be set globally so either touchpad or mouse scrolling feels awkward for me

- You need an extra click on another window before you can interact with it

- No focus-follows-mouse (there used to be 3rd party plugins but those seem to be gone now)

- While basic split screen tiling works and you can set up a global kb shortcut to move windows to left/right of the
screen, Firefox seems to completely ignore those

- If you're running multiple displays macos for some reason
always picks the most awkward display to open new windows in

- I really miss being able to grab and resize windows using a modifier key like in XFCE

I'm sure I'd get used to many of those, but the lack of focus-follows-mouse and easy window manipulation are the big one for me and I don't think that'll change much. Actually I think those were already pain points when I last tried out Mac OS in the late PPC days.

There's of course plenty of things that I like, especially the tight integration with my iphone and trackpad gestures (although I'm not sure how ergonomic using the trackpad all day is).

I was hoping it could become my main driver at home, but now I ordered a Ryzen mini PC for that.

edit: Oh, I completely forgot the biggest deal breaker for me at the moment. As of now the GUI version of Emacs (either downloaded through brew or from https://emacsformacosx.com/) doesn't work. MacOS simply refuses to start the binary.
I don't quite understand how it would be an invasion of privacy. All that's needed is a checksum paired with a timestamp, you don't even need to identify yourself. There is no way anyone could extract any meaningful information out of that without the footage.

And you can just upload it to ten different authorities in ten different jurisdictions, or even a hundred if you're paranoid. States are powerful but they're not _that_ powerful. It's the same principle that makes Tor work.

I agree jamming wireless could be an issue, but only for prosecution. In the case of proving innocence it's a moot point because this checksum system only covers after-the-fact fabrication anyway.
Looking at the comments in that ticket, I can understand why ffmpeg developers don't want to help those people, and the devs probably spoiled more time answering this annoying person than it would take to have fixed the issue, making them lose all motivation to work on that issue.
I've heard this argument before and I think it's a cherry-picked factoid meant to sound scarier than it is.

From what I've read (e.g. https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united...), the "slave patrol" thing is only part of the story. If anything, policing was developed first in the 17th century in England and the 13 colonies, and the slave patrols evolved to match the modernizing template of a police force.

If you want to lean a bit farther left, the obvious implication here is that police exist to benefit those who have power and property, projecting the former and protecting the latter; if necessary, abusing those who lack power/property in the process.

That policing ends up being "racist" then is then a natural consequence, and not at all an axiom.
Related to cloud-scale ANN: if anyone is interested in testing an embedding service that helps programmers scale NLP operations without the infra hassle, please reach out! (edward.benson@gmail.com)

This thread has been a wealth of information. I’ve had great success with Annoy so far; eager to kick the tires on Vald.
This sucks.

Why connect random ownable devices to your network, especially for the low low benefit of <checks notes> ... knowing when the clothes' drier is done ?!?

Connected firmware updatable white goods allow appliance manufacturers to do even less QA because they can always fix it later, which wasn't possible before. If you're the paranoid who won't connect random crap to the net, this is bad news, as you'll get lower quality appliances.
He's just crazy! Nah, I did change it, and I should have noted it, my bad.
now is ok, that this problem is caused by a proxy based on cookie auth?
The bigger problem is that Not All Teachers Are Competent, or ever will be. We've really shot ourselves in the foot here - being a teacher is an absolutely thankless job, both financially and otherwise. This greatly limits your talent pool to the following:

- people who can't do any better in life

- people who love teaching so much that they are willing to forgo much more lucrative careers

Not only is this pool rather small, it also selects poorly for talent. This places the poor black kids (as you put it) at an even greater disadvantage, since their teachers lack either the talent or the inclination to pull them forward.