jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is nonsense, it's not how it works, Congress cannot choose the president unless no candidate gets a majority of Electoral College votes. Trump unquestionably lacks a majority of state certified Electoral College votes. And Biden unquestionably has a majority of state certified Electoral College votes - and per the Electoral Counts Act those certifications made by the safe harbor date, which was December 8, cannot be disputed by Congress.

Everything else going on is a show. And it is working insofar as Trump's sore loser supporters have sent him more money after the election than before the election. They love the lies. They hate the truth. They lack the coping skill to deal with truth, so they sign up for the lies. They purchase lies as a product, that is what Trump sells. It's who he has always been and always will be.

Trump right now: we had an election, that was stolen from us, it was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side...but you have to go home now, we have to have peace.

they took it away from me, from you, from our country

this was a fraudulent election...so many are treated with evil...go home in peace

Translation: We won, but you gotta go home. They stole from me, from you, from the country, but you gotta go home. They are evil, but you gotta go home.

He is unfit for office. He's ill. The proper thing to do is wrap up the counting of ascertained Electoral College votes, declare Biden the winner. And then the House should immediately impeach Trump. And then the Senators can choose to remove him from office and ban him from ever holding public office again. That is the proper way to end this.
Looks good and already has a lot of data.

The problem is that I see a mix of companies from the US, Europe and Asia. Would it be possible to filter by location?
Holy smokes so Trump should get 20 years for organising this? Or is he exempt?
I've heard of these things before, but they always leave me confused.

Common sense either you need to

1. shrink the train (and what more than "light rail" speaks to the pain and embarrassment that accompanies crawling back from automobile culture)

2. expand the right-of-way

3. commit to turning over the trail once the rail is reconstructed

Which is it?
You haven't addressed why you think it was largely unjust criticism.
Pretty.

Those single rear axles though. They are the arch (ahem) enemies of a well metalled road.
The sooner they take such actions the better it is for everyone in the long run. Someone somewhere will come up with an alternative that is better than anything we have today. And sorry but Signal is not the pinnacle of messaging.

I like what Matrix is doing but they are far away from becoming mainstream. Within 2-3 years a new platform will rise and it will fix flaws of existing messaging apps. This will then be followed by social media but it might take another 6-7 years to fix that mess.
and describes the difference between AWS and MS circa 2008-2021
More likely that you a) overrate the quality of the code you wrote today (recency bias) and/or b) have forgotten the context/constraints that you wrote the code 6 months ago under
They probably already had access to the network and just used TeamCity since that was SolarWinds build process. Or someone really misconfigured things to allow external access.
I would not call it ethics, rather a good old quid pro quo, dancing to Apple's tune.
The SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) system is very similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R.
True, though it could cost down the line in terms of overlooking a good (but unemployed) candidate.
Your grandparent comment defended Apple's decision, on the grounds that Gizmodo has abandoned conventional journalistic ethics, and has thus received their just deserts.

I suggest that's still arguable; Gizmodo may have just been very aggressive (and ethical) getting a story about a powerful agent -- Apple -- that otherwise manipulates the press very effectively. Time will tell.

If journalists are competing for favors from Apple, like press passes and advanced review opportunities, then we won't get the full story. Your comment seemed to endorse that sort of competition for Apple's favor -- bad press, no press "perqs"!

If that wasn't your intent, you might have chosen your wording more carefully. Note that I wasn't the only respondent who saw your comment as a defense of access-for-favors journalism.

I'm queasy that Gizmodo may have rewarded theft with its actions -- but I'm also glad that some outlets don't play Apple's game. I'm similarly glad that some outlets don't play the federal government's access-for-warm-coverage game. Most outlets do play that game, sadly, and that's why I mocked it as an 'ethic' of traditional journalism.
Successful by which metrics, though?
Yes you're right he's leveraging a known brand. but marketing and branding - that _is_ business.

The point about staying in one industry is not about your technical knowledge, it's about your relationships. These are hard to build, and are the major barrier for all new ventures in any business: building your customer base, your sales channels, reaching out. That's tough.
I currently use the Motley Fool CAPS site[1]. What about your service is going to be better than CAPS?

[1] http://caps.fool.com
This question keeps coming up, and several sites have tried to fill the void, but none seem to gain a lot of traction.

So I'd say the main question is - why not?

It feels like the demand is there, so why do these sites not work? What could they be doing better?
The story he touches on at the top about the libyan missiles is excellent as well, sadly I can't find a link.

Pretty much anything Shul writes is excellent and readable.
More likely, they'll think, "I should've gotten an iPad!"
This makes perfect sense. If for example you're accepting 140 characters there is no reason you should have an excessive content-length for that URL.
Thanks for the responses all - before posting this I blogged and that seems to have done the trick as the guy has caved.

I am sure this will be useful for future reference, though!
Good point.

In any case, they sold it and it was called Microsoft Xenix.
Never underestimate what you can learn at the water cooler by accident.
In my experiments (http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-per...) lxml performed better than cElementTree for memory -- notably cElementTree creates Python objects for all nodes, while lxml does so only on demand (though I suppose if you ultimately touch every node in Python then lxml will use more memory).

Also lxml preserves the namespace prefixes, which while formally not necessary to understand a document are often in practice both aesthetic and sometimes necessary (e.g., RDF).

Also algorithmically, I find lxml's parent pointer on nodes to be very handy. I find some things really really hard in ElementTree because you can't directly get the parent of a node.
I used to work at a company that had its own teaching academy.

They once sent out a sectionwide e-mail announcing a new mobile app development course. One of my coworkers responded with a "thanks, I need that badly!" to which, amusingly, he was told that he was to be the teacher!.

Edit: I have found that "The best way to learn is to teach" (attributed to Frank Oppenheimer) is quite true.
Looks great! Reminds me of https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/golfffpdocdndgkahj...
Are you playing the Spartan version of Risk, by any chance?
I've had a teacher who didn't know here subject (Chemistry), and opened the textbook to answer very basic questions that I (merely interested in Chemistry, haven't studied it) could have answered without.

I was very shocked because in Germany you actually have to a good part of the Chemistry studies at University to be allowed to teach it. I wonder if she forgot it all in the mean time, or if she had gamed the system somehow.
Definitely. The main reason they didn't reinvest was timing -- everyone was burnt out on startups even if they had won after the dot.com burst.

But now, FB or Google employees are like, wow, that was awesome, let's do it again. I think the startup scene is more mature now and that reinvestment is more likely to happen outside of SV now -- the key difference is that startups are more stable, wiser, far leaner, and more `cool' now, so it's seen as an actually "safe" bet to re-invest. I know if I ever had a win that's exactly what I would do, in fact being able to re-invest is a lot of my motivation for being a founder.
I love bug fixing too, especially if I have a good repro and its from a customer. Few things feel better than fixing a bug and delivering it to a customer.

I actually treat bug fixing as a little treat. When I want a break from coding -- I'll go and find a few bugs to fix.
Here's one that definitely did not:

> Vulnerability n*2: No security settings (at all)

https://limitedresults.com/2019/01/pwn-the-lifx-mini-white/
Passcode it's just an additional feature, you can keep your data safe by setting iPhone's protection (Touch or Face ID).

About the price, we actively work on other functionality as well. An example tracking all your incomes. Expenses will be counted automatically based on balances and incomes. This is only the first version, so a lot of thing to do, but since I do this using my own savings it takes time :)

Thanks for the feedback!
I imagined this was going to happen. Lately PG has been more vocal on twitter regarding Human Rights issues in China.

I understand this is a very difficult decision. I'm not sure if its right or wrong. From the perspective of Human Rights its probably right, but from the perspective of investment its difficult considering China's growth prospects.

I'm torn on the China issue and I personally hope our two countries can work out their differences in a constructive way.
I've been screwed by a counterfeit SD card and it seems like the "manufacturer" probably took older, smaller capacity cards where the back stock had outlived demand for those specs and just reprogrammed them to identify as a higher capacity, premium SD from Samsung, reprinted the label (very well), got their packaging basically identical to Samsung's, sent them to Amazon where Amazon seemingly decided they should be co-mingled with the Samsung-supplied cards and sold off as such.

For the consumer, I only realized something was wrong when I filled the actual size of the SD card and started getting errors, but still those errors came from my phone and basically said the SD want being detected and to reformat. So it could have been a phone issue. Only after going down the internet's Amazon counterfeit rabbit hole and then finding a program that checks counterfeit cards did I find out the card was actually a 32GB card with probably some awful I/O rates and not the 128GB that it was a announcing to devices. And for all that time, energy, frustration, money, and data lost to phone reformats, Amazon didn't give two craps. They said I was outside the return window and if my item was defective I should contact the manufacturer. They probably only didn't say "seller" because they were the seller, no 3rd party. It clearly want on the CS script to consider that you can't call the legitimate manufacturer about a defective counterfeit product sold as legitimate by the same business they count on to sell their legitimate products.
I wonder why they weren't using Public-Private crypto in the first place?

Perhaps because it would use up more space in the ROM? If so, I wonder what functionality they dropped from the ROM to add it now? I somehow doubt they made the ROM bigger - that would be very expensive at this stage of the chips lifecycle.
Yes but you see, there is a correlation between the two ?
Wait, half their shipping green by 2030? That's both too little and too late.

If it had been fully green in 2025 or so... they easily make enough profit to at least fund compensation programs (like Climeworks' recapturing) for the part of CO2 that is currently required for flying the planes (since there is not yet a practical alternative to flying fuel-based planes, that's one area where compensation currently makes sense given that emission can't be avoided).
That's really nice to hear -- thanks for the reply! A "Why do we ask this?" link would probably be optimal.

I do get the aim, but it took me a while --- I'd wondered if it was simply data collection for more classifier training or something, which felt like a dodgy extra ask along with a verification service (even if it's the same strategy as recaptcha).
"MiraclePlus" brings up only "Corn And Callus Dissolving Serum" on the Google SERP.
Well... WYTINWYG should do it
See also "elastic arrays":

https://github.com/Tarsnap/libcperciva/blob/master/datastruc...
https://github.com/Tarsnap/libcperciva/blob/master/datastruc...

ELASTICARRAY_DECL(STR, str, char);

creates a type "STR" and the functions str_init, str_resize, str_getsize, str_append, str_shrink, str_truncate, str_get, str_iter, str_free, str_export, and str_exportdup.
What specific guideline did these comments break?

I believe that you censoring in support of defamation (knowingly false claims an ethical statement is incitement) may incur liability for HN. Incitement has a specific legal meaning (which this is not).

You seem to be directly supporting defamation on your platform, as an administrator.
Well, it depends on what you are looking for, but the traditional-style book that I'm used to is H. B. Enderton, "A Mathematical Introduction to Logic", and Enderton also has an accompanying book on set theory. I guess I'd suggest those as a companion rather than an alternative to the Gallier and Quaintance book. The G&Q book is imho more modern and more interesting from a CS-oriented perspective. It just leaves out too many important fundamentals. Alternatively, since it is still a work in progress, maybe some of the missing stuff could be added.

Boolos and Jeffrey "Logic and Computability", whatever the current edition is, is supposed to be good, but I haven't read it yet.

The G&Q book is weird in that it is about interesting topics that I'd consider slightly advanced, but written in a way that assumes almost no background, so if it's the only thing you read, you'll still be missing important background. I'd like a book that uses the G&Q approach but that includes the background. If it kept all the current contents and was expanded, it would probably end up as 2 volumes, which is fine. Or it could leave out some of the specialized stuff, but I think that stuff is there because that was what the authors wanted to write about, so I won't judge ;-).
Most of the elisp code you run is largely static. It does change, but only gradually; when you update a package, or make a small tweak to your config, you only have to recompile a few files. The elisp isn't being JITed, it's being compiled into shared objects which are cached aggressively. Completely different kettle of fish.

> Embeddable Common Lisp

ECL compiles to c.
Probably, but that will require a lot of testing and a lot of prior studies to occur before we can get there.
This is a depressing article. I like drinking coffee, and now it turns out that it's making me groggy and un-alert by default.

I think I've noticed this at weekends - I drink lots of coffee at work all week, and then at the weekend I'll maybe desist for a day, and end up not doing anything productive. Then when I have a cup, I am suddenly infused with get up and go. I really need to cut down :-/
No, not at all. I know Phillip.

By the way, I'm pretty sure we met at Gluecon '09. Small world.
Great comment but I think there may be one "Fucking asshole" too many.
Yes, I spent a year getting treated for Lyme by a specialist. Tons of antibiotics, no improvement.
Quote from the abstract: "In particular we demonstrate, with simple examples, that asymmetries in regression coefficients cannot identify causal effects, and that very simple models of imitation (a form of social contagion) can produce substantial correlations between an individual's enduring traits and their choices, even when there is no intrinsic affinity between them."

Comes with graphs! Also, be sure to check the manual trackbacks at the bottom.
the ZX Spectrum +2 and +3 could run a CP/M version
Yes I hope they get kicked out of Europe. We have no need for companies that want to get around our employment laws and don't pay social security.

That's parasitic behavior. In the end society has to pay the long-term cost for their short-term gain.
this article is a prime example why i don't give mainstream "journalism" a dime of a chance. the author clearly lacks a big chunk of intellect or whatever to properly deal with the subject. as soon as things get controversial, editorial-staff-sponsored cognitive dissonance kicks in to calm the flock. i'm so sick of the bunch that wapo and co are.
If it's a very specific problem and you have a candidate solution already known, sure. If it's a vague problem or if you just don't know how to solve it, a prototype would do much less, and is probably a waste of time.

In particular, architectural discussions benefit pretty little from prototyping in the initial phases. If you want to decide if your next system should be microservice based or monolithic, prototyping won't do much.

Similarly, if the basic requirements are not yet understood, asking questions about them is more efficient than implementing a version of possible requirements and asking others to correct it.
Don't need a leak for C code to be vulnerable, in fact not using the heap helps - just one missing bounds check on user input and you can write to the stack. OTOH, W^X should catch those.
It doesn't matter much at best case, because even if the conclusion is correct, there's always a maximum of activity after a minimum. Which means that it'll amplify the anthropogenic CC...
At worst case, if the conclusion is indeed correct, I'd expect that nobody will do anything to counteract the ACC a few decades more which is a nice recipe for a real disaster we'll throw on our children.
It is more common to find people spending $1500+ for a single bike in SV, which puts this well within the price range of many sports enthusiasts.
People that use Oracle don't even read HN, it's another league.
I start with the assumption that "All Cops Are Bastards." It may be prejudicial, but it makes me think before I do anything that anyone could mistake for criminal activity.

If this makes the "cops who care" uncomfortable, they should put the blame squarely on the "cops who don't care" not on me.
for the record. 720p is 1280 x 720. As you said, the evo is 25 fps
the iphone is at 30 fps, with the same resolution.

This is being pedantic, and doesn't really help the argument that the iphone 4 is better, but, at least one of your points is invalid.
Do you have any examples of your work so far?
In a related topic. It is surprising that many business applications use floating values to represent currency. That is very wrong, because it creates rounding errors that accumulate. A common symptom is if you have an invoice where the total cannot be calculated from the detail using a regular hand held calculator.

How should you handle currency? At least in Java there is a BigDecimal that should be used instead. Look at the divide() method to see how you can have different rounding behaviors. As an alternative, some people use integers with a convention that there is a decimal point in the nth position. Just remember that floating point shouldn't be used for currency.
How many phones have 300+ DPI IPS screens?
Multi-tasking is only enabled on 3GS and 4 phones. 3G won't do it. The amount of memory on the 3G (2nd gen) and the original is, AFAIK, the same.
It was very easy on the Motorola too. And it worked with every other UMTS phone not only between Motorolas.

I mean, it's not that hard to pick a contact and instead of "call" press "video call".
I agree with your strong claim, with the single exception of "TRNG data that you can physically hide (i.e. in a PCIe card) may be a useful source of keys or entropy". Which was the sort of thing I was using it for in 1996.

As for your last point, I'd personally substitute "intuitively obvious" for "surprisingly", but I will admit I've been playing this game on and off for a long time
Languages aside, I don't think the world needs another VM. Can't people just target an existing one? Please?
The fact that I don't have to worry myself with payment processing makes it worthwhile.

Even before appstores, the most popular way to get software for a PDA/Smarthphone was with dedicated store sites, with the important difference that they bled you dry for cash.
For the sake of argument, let's say that world zero (W0 for short) is at some arbitrary level. Worlds being simulated below that level would be -W1, -W2, etc. Worlds above would be W1, W2, etc. If everything is deterministic then worlds at all levels take the same path and arrive at the same outcome. But if W0 has control over the -W1 timeline, then W0 can view it's own future by moving the -W1 timeline forward. W0 now knows it's own future (lottery numbers for arguments sake). W0 can now use that knowledge to change it's future. The W0 future is now different from the W1 future which contradicts the ability for all worlds to be deterministic.
I agree with you, and I think that anyone expecting this to all happen overnight is sorely mistaken. Consider that one of the other major threads on HN right now is about how Google can't get their OEMs to upgrade their customers from Android 4.3 to Android 4.4 - two OSes that are both obsolete. We as a society just don't large scale change that quickly. Engineers are always quick to ignore all of the social factors that matter in these kind of things.

I think we see driver assist AI become standard on cars for about a decade before full autonomous cars become a thing. Keep in mind right now most cars have a button that effectively lets you set a speed and the car will then hurtle forward in a straight line, blissfully revving the engine to keep you at 75 mph without being aware of anything around you. It would be nice if cruise control could follow a lane and press the brake if there was traffic. That alone would save many lives a year, and would be a feature I would use. Sure I would still drive in cities and when its raining, but next time I'm on an open road, I'd be happy to let the computer take over.
> Also, correct me if I am wrong, but app-based webviews (or app actions that spawn a browser instance) would defer to the default browser [...]

I think that is wrong, based on my phone's behaviour. Still with you, though; neglecting to fix this leaves the most vulnerable users open to attack.
Many tens. Too many.

I generally do without marginal services that require me to sign up, eg if an online shop doesn't have a checkout-as-guest option, or my local council's consultation stuff (so I make merry hell about being disenfranchised instead).

Every extra account is a security risk, and even though I am careful I note that a few of my accounts have been compromised over the years.
I agree with this.

I'm in India, and there are so many times an hour that driving here makes me wonder what autonomous cars is all about.

For example, that guy driving on a two wheeler on the wrong side of the road, with 4 kids somehow balanced on the rear seat? How will an autonomous car parse that, or how would it parse a road where someone decides to take an illegal U-turn just because they can?

Even today, I saw something that surprised me, despite having see just about everything. A bus playing chicken with another bus, so that it could overtake from the wrong side and barrel through an intersection. While I fully understand, that a car will be able to respond through a shared data base of reactions, its still a situation which requires far more of a car than what is being promised right now.

I think the promise of a fully automated city transportation grid is actually what is being discussed. When all traffic obeys the same rules, the cost for automation and the expected degrees of freedom get drastically simplified.