jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
anarchy is just an unstable state preceding despotism. my rationale for that isn't philosophical, it's game theoretical.

in anarchy, there isn't anything that can stop others from enslaving or murdering me or people I care about. actually, it's likely a positive outcome for my captors or killers. regulation and enforcement give me more freedom in the sense that opportunists exploiting their absolute freedoms go from +EV to -EV. note that the first one to eliminate opponents who employ the same strategy becomes the despot.
Had almost the exact same thing happen to me selling via EBay and PayPal.

The buyer said it wasn’t them that bought it, but they corresponded via EBay and sent payment via PayPal. The unauthorized user had both passwords?

PayPals response was basically that we just side with the buyer on all digital goods transactions.

I’m moving everything off of PayPal now.
> The SI base unit for mass is the kilogram.

This reminds me of something I was unaware of until very recently; the decibel (dB), is one tenth of a Bel. The discussion was that you'll never confuse a B(byte) with a B(bel) because we never specify 10dB as 1B, and we almost never need to specify a 10th of a byte.

But back to your point - we use base10 for everything but RAM. So if we'd stuck to one system to avoid confusion, RAM probably wouldn't have won.
MS-DOS up to 4.1 was coming on 2 floppies, but Windows 3.1 came on a whole bunch of them (probably no less that 10). Windows 95 ans OS/2 came on a enormous stack of floppies, more than 20. I did this install more then once back then.
I can recommend anything by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. He's primarily an author of short stories. Of those, The Library of Babel is how I was introduced to him.

There's a cool programming project already based on this short story that I've enjoyed exploring: see https://libraryofbabel.info/

And looks like there's a link to the story on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheLibraryOfBabel/
Cosigned. I did level design on a game in the Unreal 1 era. The cosmic inheritance hierarchy was a regular annoyance.
[n//(n//g)+(i<n%g) for i in range(n//g)]

Each one of (n//g) groups gets at least n//(n//g) members plus 1 if the remainder is >i.
Yes, if everyone follows ISO.
Run 5 miles a day. Take a hot shower. Then meditate for 30 min. Write everything that comes to your mind.
Not really, first hit on Google for "unknown unknowns" is this wikipedia article which immediately mentions Rumsfeld:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
I don't remember weev from any Usenet groups I used. I do remember hipcrime sporges.
I always come back to Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Thank you very valuable response from you , i will certainly apply what you said there inchallah .
Perhaps neovim with terminal mode and tail -F might be the best of all worlds.
Generally that's true of most algo/AI stuff, initially it goes in as human advisory and then gets switched over to automatic once people trust it.
That’s the weird part—from their blog post, it sounds like they’ve designed a general solution that isn’t tailored to Things:

“We have created and deployed both server and client-side sync components. Both components are completely general and can be used for any application. They have been successfully tested using a special demo program. We are now in the process of integrating this technology into Things.”
very interesting. I am interested in seeing how it actually works though. Its still behind the doors. Hope to get invite. (btw, heroku is not just deployment platform, it helps u scale as well. Interested in seeing if dot cloud helps in that fashion)
It usually doesn't work that way. Usually, when your server is overloaded, instead of serving some fraction of the requests in reasonable time, it tries to queue the requests and serve them in order, and as a result response time goes through the roof. Often, the user at the other end of the causal chain starts getting frustrated and refreshes, adding more requests to the queue.

When servers are getting overloaded, you need to throttle the incoming requests aggressively and early, to keep response time reasonable.
Are saying that the typical experience of a woman in tech is that they are groped by their peers?

I don't often do this, but (non-anecdotal) citation needed.
Direct link to the company:
http://www.dotcloud.com/

If someone can tell me which YC batch they're a part of, I'll edit the title - this is the first time I'm hearing about them.
I wonder how short a good Java programmer's solution would be compared to the J Random Java Programmers used in the study so long ago.
By making the "women in tech" conversation about anything other than talent, you are immediately creating another "affirmative action" situation.

Why should female applicants get a hand-out over more qualified male applicants? That doesn't do a damn thing other than even out some cosmetic "gender gap."

If I am passionate about programming, having done it from an early age, and I lose a position to a person who just discovered he/she could make a pretty penny at this "computer stuff," well, that really pisses me off.
I find it a lot better to use the ripped version of a DVD I own because you can't damage it accidentally, you can skip stuff that's otherwise unskippable, and because you can switch movies somewhat easily. It's infuriating how many unskippable ads are injected in movies today.

Is there a good jukebox application for playing ripped DVDs?
It sounds like you're just at the wrong school. No worries, that happens sometimes. Have you looked into transferring to someplace with a more challenging CS curriculum?
I am not bitter in the slightest, I'm just astounded that so many people expected their parents to pay for their college (and in turn expect to pay for their adult offspring's education). Simply put, it doesn't compute.
There are limits on everything: acceleration, maximal speed and even noise. Formula E will be boring same way as Formula 1. Identical cars circling around the track.
I remember anxiously playing Mc Donald's flexi on my sisters Fisher Price record player. And then realizing, after we lost, it was just a crummy advertisement. Cynicism in me was born.
> The real insanity with make is that it has no interface to check whether a Makefile contains a given target.

>

> Best you can do is to run make -n target to probe, but it's possible to write Makefiles that run code even though -n is used, which will defeat such probes at distribution scale. It quickly becomes an exercise in heuristics and output parsing.
I'd assume that the cars stack up, and then a following car skips a stop in order to re-distribute, like a bus or subway line. The an elevator is a more concentrated system with more easily collected data, so whatever algorithm is controlling it would more easily detect patterns. So the stacked cars might not skip, in the case of say, a horde of people heading from the ground-floor of a hotel to a keynote on the ballroom floor, but might skip in the case of an anomalous delay like someone with lots of packages.
Maybe a naive question, but in the original attack, couldn't the 'bad' requests have been identified using the referrer?
Hopefully everyone realizes that there will always be a free car, so there is no need to block the door to wait for passengers/cargo.

A gentle voice, later reinforced by a siren, could remind people of this simple fact.
Is there any data on the size of the traffic?

Anyway, even assuming the traffic is infinite, (to my understanding) most of the flooding IP's are from china. If that's the case it would most likely only affect the datacenter handling Chinese traffic. So even if it's really bad, only a (relatively small)[1] part of the world would notice.

[1] relatively small in terms of the size of internet, not number of people
Problem is you need to remember the patterns first to be able to think "hey I know this pattern. Maybe if I look up what the identity is it will be usefull"
I've thought for a long time that this is a broader problem with the whole firewalls-and-NAT network security paradigm. It leads to a "soft underbelly problem" and a complacency that leads to insecure internal systems.

From what I've seen: God help most organizations if someone gets to the internal LAN!

The rule should be: If your thing can't run securely on the unfiltered Internet, it's broken. Any firewalling and such should be a defense-in-depth afterthought.

Of course this is kind of perfect world thinking. The reality is that quite a lot of software is either broken or insecure by design (e.g. databases that assume a secure LAN and don't even authenticate nodes) and so in practice we're quite far from this being practical for all but the most carefully managed deployments. Developers are also notoriously lazy about security while developing. I'm as guilty of this as the next dev sometimes.
Are there any numbers for how Google employees at large actually feel about the claims made by organizers (unionization, retaliation, harassment, bad work environments, etc)?

It's hard to tell from the outside how many people actually there agree with, disagree with, or are indifferent to, the efforts of the people who have been fired.
Every iteration of C# has made it less verbose and adds more modern concepts [1].

What do you mean by memory hopping, reference types? C# has had value types since the beginning unlike Java.

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...
The author talks about this in another of his articles called "The tree fusions"[1]

[1]-https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/08/the-three-fusions...
Incorrect: https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works

“The Court may exercise jurisdiction in a situation where genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes were committed on or after 1 July 2002 and:

the crimes were committed by a State Party national, or in the territory of a State Party, or in a State that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court; or
the crimes were referred to the ICC Prosecutor by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) pursuant to a resolution adopted under chapter VII of the UN charter.”

The only way the ICC can exercise jurisdiction over a non-member is through referral from the UN Security Council.
IIRC, you need a 1/5 (Omega 3 / Omega 6) ratio, but our usual diet is so poor in the former that we end up deprived.

Palm oil, which is everywhere, has Omega 6 aplenty, and (virtually?) no Omega 3. In Europe, it is usually listed as "vegetal oil" in the ingredients lists. When it's not palm, they put the full name.
I use OCRKit on the Mac, it's rather inexpensive, integrates well in workflows and works really well. Perfect for making PDF indexable for instance.

I scan on my phone with an app that saves on dropbox, and Hazel launches any new PDF saved to that specific dropbox folder in OCRKit.
They claim to have 1.1 customers, 550,000 which have submitted extensive identification documents for verification.

The large number of AML/KYC verified accounts could be valuable to other exchanges.
"That doesn’t harm investing"

Not true. The cost will be largely passed on from market maker to investor through bid offer spread.
I'm a Legal Designer in Brazil and I'm having being hired by many companies to redesign not only their contracts, but also their internal process. I'm also working for law firms and building new ways to provide Legal Services, such as Legal Bots, Platforms (LegalDPO for data protection services), Mobile Apps (online voting for stakeholders meetings), Data Science, Blockchain (payment of capital to formalize company in cryptocurrency), Artificial Intelligence and many others.
There's also a reason the Ottomans needed to make an idiom to explain organizational failure:
"The fish stinks from the head down."
Interesting! What software did you use to create the landing video?
So why not pay it out as dividends?
"This page deals with issues related to MySQL 4.1 and earlier, not 5.0"

MySQL 5.0 came out over 15 years ago.
Avoiding complex oversize load transports on roads and ships, avoiding the need for nearby airstrips. Just hover above the manufacturing site, lift up the payload, fly to the destination and drop it of. At least this was the main motivation behind CargoLifter [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
Yet the code is hosted on Github (https://github.com/jozefg/pcf) and it generates C. Worse is better.
Try founderdating.com ;)

Good luck!
i think its interesting what might happen if this movement gained enough traction to hurt google's adwords revenue. How much is a tracking cookie worth to them? would they require opting-in to tracking to use google services? is no-track enough of a competitive distinction that mainstream consumers will pay money for no-track services? is it enough money for a no-track business to compete, and will they find unexplored ways to make money?
Interesting, I find Firefox at least will attempt to try www.site.com if site.com returned a connection failure, but not for 400/500 responses.
Transparant HTTP proxying by your ISP isn't all bad. Back when Virgin was NTL, if you didn't pay your bill, instead of cutting you off at the exchange they would just put in place a proxy rule that redirected all HTTP requests to a page telling you to pay.

Some broke friends of mine noticed that their already downloaded torrents still worked. Obviously, all non HTTP traffic worked just fine. They took to going to the pub at the end of the road, grabbing .torrent files and downloading them at home. Pretty resourceful. I considered hooking them up with a SOCKS proxy but never did.
You may think that you are not out-tracking when you turn at freeway speeds, but remember the amount of necessary out-track decreases as speed increases.

If you think that out-tracking is responsible for entering turns at speed, there's an experiment to test this: If the bike leaned by moving the wheels out from under it, the bike should pivot around the center of mass. If you actually look at a bunch of road racers in the twisties, it's abundantly clear that the bikes pivot almost completely around the contact point, not around the center of mass. (Unlike bicycle racers which really do out-track.) Moving the COM without moving the contact point can not be done through wheel forces on the pavement, because they act at the contact point. It's impossible for those forces to lean the bike and move the COM is the same direction. The only thing that can accomplish such a motion is the precession resulting from applying the handlebar torque to the front wheel.
But in practice, we're not at all that different. Every one of us personally is a different, unique character but groups of people always share something: the hacker subculture itself is defined by the common traits of hackers.

The generalizations offered by the article were very aptly at a point; I consider them ringing very much true.

I think the point of the article exactly was that you will never get that hacker in front of you talking with you and much less sitting down with you unless you realize who you're dealing with.
From what I understand, the do not track header is added to ever single browser request when the option is enabled. With virtually nobody actually obeying the do not track header, all it is for the time being is a waste of bandwidth. Certainly not a lot, but it probably adds up.

Yes, in theory a decentralized system for indicating privacy settings is a great idea, but the large scale offenders, the only people whose networks span a great enough breadth in order to collect useful information on people, happen to be a pretty small number. A quasi centralized system with opt out cookies has less of an overhead, less ambiguity and most importantly of all, already exists and works.

Plus, tracking on the web is not a binary thing. Maybe for a simple blog or ad, it might be less ambiguous. But are you still allowed to be able to know how many visitors you have on a given day? If your on a web app, does do not track mean you can't save any documents because they constitute a digital trail of what you've done?

A system to fight tracking needs to be nuanced. Something like that disconnect extension, where it's not simply on or off.

If you think about it, google doesn't really have any real reason to hinder the adoption of DoNotTrack to preserve it's data mining business. A do not track header standard would hinder competitors equally, whereas the opt out cookies would single out google. If i were in that position, I would choose the option that hinders my competitors as well.
well done for a 10 month bootstrapped site. signup for for alpha.
I have liked many of the TED talks, can't point out a single favorite.

This is one I saw recently - It's good. And quite relevant to entrepreneurs - http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_herold_let_s_raise_kids_to_...
My best is The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie.

She was able to articulate the feeling that stereotyped people have. Unfortunately, we are all guilty in some way knowingly or unknowingly. It is a must watch.

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_...
The mirror neurons talk is awesome - I saw it several months ago - thanks for reminding me about it!
I highly recommend replacing those 10kg dumbbells with a set of adjustable dumbbells like http://www.powerblock.com/blocks.html

I purchased a set about 7 years ago and it's probably the best fitness/workout related purchase I've ever made in terms of overall use and value.
I don't want to become a millionaire but if there's one advice I can give you is stop reading HN and JFDI
Well now, this gem was unexpected:

you must create a programming language, or be enslav'd by another man's.

William Blake allusion FTW!

Nothing at all is lost.
SK reformed their entire pandemic response in 2015. They were better prepared for Covid-19 because they were better prepared.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co...
My pointers:

1) Do all day to day tasks with the CLI. It will force you to challenge yourself.

2) Learn line editing with GNU Readline. What is this? E.g., when you have a bash shell open and you hit Alt+B, your cursor moves back a word. This will make your time in the shell a lot more pleasant. Similarly, the basics of VIM, which will make text editing a lot more pleasant. Less friction means everything comes quicker, and you get tighter learning iteration loops. Don't go overboard on this: it's mostly about navigating around and editing text, not installing plugins or anything beyond an hour or two of study.

3) Don't waste time purposefully memorizing userland tools. You'll forget them in a week, and most of the time they're pointless clutter in your head. There is zero value in memorizing all the options for `tar`. Memory will come naturally with use.

4) Do not waste time building the perfect set of dot files (e.g. `.bashrc`, `.vimrc`). Know where they are, but futzing with them should be <1% of the time you spend learning.

5) Do not waste time building a Linux desktop, configuring a window manager, etc. Linux is, first and foremost, an operating system for servers, and the skills needed to get a polished Linux desktop user experience are entirely separate from (and usually dependent on) the skills needed to get a solid Linux server environment up and running.

6) Man pages are your friend. Before Googling how to do `something`, try `man something`. If you don't even know the man page you're looking for, try `man -k something`. If it's totally new, read the whole man page. If you're just looking for an obscure `tar` option, just skip to that section.

7) Cert book for RHCSA. Honestly pretty much every non-junior developer should have the skill level of a RHCSA. It teaches you how an entire system fits together. Note you don't have to pony up some obscene fee to RedHat to actually take the test and get the cert (though, as far as certs go, it's one of the better ones); the point is the content. And actually do all the labs/exercises in whatever book you get.

8) Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (APUE). This is less critical and only relevant once you are vaguely at the RHCSA level (and know how to program), but it can give lots of valuable knowledge about the programming system interface.
I just finished learning hiragana! Looking forward to your extension!
That's an antibody detection test, not an RNA sequencing test. You need to have had the virus for long enough for your body to have started to produce antibodies against the virus. It's useful for determining whether the cough you had last week was or wasn't coronavirus, but not so good for early detection.
I don't really think we disagree on the overall picture to be honest. I realize they're probably doing something (or I should say multiple things) right, and I realize the US has had organizational failures and such. I'm just not clear on what exactly having testing capability would let the US do that it otherwise cannot do right now, and I've yet to see a direct answer to this. If healthcare providers are saying that they'd just tell anyone who might have the disease stay home, then how does testing change the picture? Can't they do it already? Or is the idea that people would only obey this if they actually tested positive? And for tracing, can the US even use GPS etc. data the way South Korea can to trace their contacts, and invade people's privacy just like that? Would testing make that noticeably easier, compared to (I don't know, just thinking aloud) making medical providers report those that call about an illness so their contacts can be traced? etc.
Wow, what a great looking loaf!
SK reformed their pandemic response in 2015.

They were ready long before Covid-19 showed up.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co...
Nice! He're in Poland government _forbids_ taking virus tests. Private companies have plenty of them, but are unable to even give them to hospitals. Ministry of Health forbids hospitals from taking more than X tests per day, so even if somebody has symptoms they need to wait till morning among other patients.
Not all cases are worst-case. Every person who can manage, through these techniques, a symptom that would otherwise need a ventilator, reduces the demand.
Yahoo search?
>Plenty of violence happens in the world, both in response to speech and not, without being 'fascism'. Politically motivated violence is not synonymous with fascism

Correct we call that terrorism when it is to further your own political, religious, social, racial, or environmental views.

Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
Renault does not exist in the US at all (or at least not in my part of the US)

VW Touran has a ground clearance of 156MM or 6.14 Inches and to total height of 1659mm or 65in , my Truck as a ground clearance of ~10in and a total height of 77in, that may seem like a small amount but is huge difference to me.

a VW Touran is exactly the type of vehicle I avoid

Further while available are not practical because there are very few mechanics that can work on them or have parts for them it has to go to the dealer which is $$$$$$

I tend to Stick to American Manufactured vehicles from Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc.