jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> when trees decompose, they just release that carbon back into the atmosphere

This is false and extremely deceptive. When trees die they don't just release all the CO2 they collected back into the atmosphere over the course of their lifetime. How much CO2 and pollution will your towers produce during its production, while it is being run (it must use some sort of electricity) and when it is eventually dismantled? I assume you, it will be a lot more pollution than anything that a tree would create.

Trees are the answer to CO2 capture. Period. End of sentence. It's cheaper and far more effective to plant trees and pay to stop deforestation than these ludicrous plans to supposedly capture CO2 from the atmosphere.
There’s nothing secure about phone numbers, receiving secret codes via SMS, etc
The existence of an ORM in your framework doesn’t mean you necessarily use it. I’ve worked on several projects where the ORM is acknowledged as very handy when you are doing a prototype/poc and for really simple things, but for anything even a little complex you should be writing your own SQL by hand so you know exactly what the db is doing and the cost of it. I personally have come to the conclusion that letting an ORM generate nontrivial SQL for you is actually harder than just writing the SQL yourself, because you have to think “how do I get this higher-level abstraction to generate the actual SQL I want?” and at that point you may as well just write SQL.
what is legal depends on where/ who you are. most agree with this on other issues, same sex marriage, abortion, even violence.
It could be, as you say, the difference between "a Democrat" and "a Republican." It could also be the difference between President Obama and President Trump specifically.

It might even be the difference between 2008 and a decade later. Sometimes opinions shift over time, as new information comes to light.
> The agreement doesn't say much about how the bomb squad is permitted to use Spot, but it does forbid the bomb squad from taking and posting photos of Spot in use;

I'm surprised that a police organization can agree to this term; surely any of the other bomb squad members nearby will capture the device on their body cameras (assuming they have them), which in turn are public property and subject to FIPA / FOIA.

Is a police department which agrees to secrecy in its uses of secret technology per se a secret police department?
Amazon deserves some blame but the real corruption is on the government agency’s side. Their job is to execute their jobs following rules. Stuff like this shouldn’t be even possible in a well run country.
I think this article sums up pretty nicely the reasons. Go to the chapter 'Do dark themes help your eyes?': https://www.maketecheasier.com/are-dark-themes-better-for-ey...
I'm referring to a single 1cm^2 paper tab; of course the contents can vary due to the unregulated effects of prohibition. This is just not enough to induce strong visual hallucinations and Hunter S. Thompson type experiences. There has also been a recent interest in micro-dosing (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/style/microdosing-lsd-aye...) though this seems extremely difficult to procure in ways that I'd trust, I keep my eyes open.
I do a lot of this stuff, and have friends who did their PhD theses on different engineering challenges in self-driving cars.

Everybody agrees we'll figure out autonomous cars sooner rather than later, but nobody thought a 2020 timetable was going to happen. It's undeniable that we've made huge advances since the first DARPA challenge, but there's a long way to go before we get them to be sufficiently robust.
I'm not sure where the limitation actually was. I've been running RTX Voice on a GTX-970 for a number of months and didn't have to configure anything special other than being told to install "RTX Voice" for non RTX cards and "Nvidia Broadcast" on the newer RTX cards.

The noise cancelling itself is dark magic though - and I especially like the fact it'll work with both input and output - eg it'll clean up your microphone but also do noise reduction on incoming streams too. For me, it's been great in voice chat when other people have rubbish microphones, and has made a number of inaudible youtube videos easy and clear to understand.
Fermi to one of his PhD students:

"You know how much faster I am in thinking than you are? That's how much faster von Neumann is compared to me."
I pay just about €150/month, and that's with added premiums for dental and what not. Which is pretty good.
I wish it were easy. The most important things to do are usually pretty hard, or they'd be done already.
Very impressive!!!

One question. Is DragonRuby, in essence, a mRuby compiler? Or is it an implementation of an mRuby interpretor that calls on a low-level API for fast game functionality?
> I used to have

what happened to it?
No I don't, the burden of evidence is on you. The opinion of one guy in a group of 14k is only that one guys opinion by default. The link demonstrates the guy is outspoken. I can easily find racist comments on HN - it doesn't prove anything about other posters.

Because OK is otherwise a common and totally neutral gesture, infact it only became a symbol of "white power" after essentially a hoax to that effect: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ok-sign-wh...

> what do you think a noose is if not a loop of rope hung from somewhere?

I think it's a rope knotted in a specific way to tighten when pulled. Being "the shape of a noose" is irrelevant unless it bears this quality. I have loops of string/rope all over the place, none of them are nooses.
> asked me where I went to college

Political protip: Answer his question. "I went to X University". Because... you did, didn't you?

And if he asks you what you majored in: "I studied Y. But somehow I ended up in this job! hearty laugh".

I have a degree but it amazes me that people who didn't go to college are never able to glide past this one. It seems like the only people who really ever bring up dropping out is the dropout. Only a very special kind of asshole will continue to press you about graduation dates etc.

Having said that,... I have a sneaking suspicion that people who dropped out like bringing it up just to say that they dropped out. You like bringing it up and debating it and then having people "agree" with you eventually, because you seek validation for the decisions you made.

It's called having a chip on your shoulder and the guy who said "oh you seemed smarter than that" was clearly fucking with you cause he's seen it a million times before.
I believe I am going to switch from Slicehost now.

Anyone have a referral code they would want to me use?
Seems like the same kind of thinking that says e.g. I don't have to pay my income tax.

The law does not lend itself to "hacking." It just doesn't work like that.
This has got to be the move over-engineered checklist I've ever seen in my life. What's wrong with a text file of all these things? It's not even complete.
I agree it is cheaper (I have a full cabinet of hardware co-located myself), but at the expense of being on call 24x7x365. Although hardware is generally reliable, it can and does fail. Do you want to be the guy dealing with the burned out power supply at 3AM?
A good portion of them are women with long nails, who can't use capacitive touchscreens very effectively, especially for typing.
I've been considering writing a post about my experience to this effect.

Basically it boiled down to sheer ignorance. I didn't know that being a single-founder was such a big deal (in a negative sense), so I didn't know I should have been worried/nervous about it when applying/interviewing.

As for working alone... I had done so many personal projects at nights/weekends after work at my day job that working alone was just natural (again, ignorance was bliss). I was also able to draw from each of the previous projects to piece together what I needed to build Notifo very quickly.

This is the advantage of working on a bunch of different small projects all the time. The criteria I used for starting a new project was that I had to do at least one thing I had never done before which required me to learn a new language/technology/framework/API/etc.... after a dozen projects or so, this built up to a huge arsenal of skills to throw at new projects. Never stop learning.

That said, having had a co-founder for about a week, there has been an obvious increase in productivity, so for that I am truly thankful.
Or just use Qubes OS
Is Godot out of the question? Is it mostly a performance thing?
unity always required that you use a mouse to manually drag and drop certain things in its GUI interface (prefabs), and this is intolerable to people who feel like their entire project should be storable in simple (text) files. otherwise what are you supposed to do, take screenshots of the state of the editor when everything is dragged and dropped into the right place? it’s so bizarre
More than those two are quoted.
Why is there such a large focus on writing long essays in US education?

When I went to "high school" in Sweden, I can't ever remembering having to write an essay as homework in any subject. Some tests in some subjects could have essay answers, but that would basically amount to writing half a page or so about something specific. Of course we did have essay writing as part of the Swedish subject, but actually writing them was always done in school, as an exam, i.e. sit down for three hours and write. And the grading of our essays were never on length, it was always on grammar, spelling, style, form and coherency.

University was largely the same. Granted, being a CS major you're expected to write a lot more code than essays. I took a few courses that had essays as part of the requirements such as technical writing and history of technology, but those were outliers, and not the norm. I mean, my Master's thesis was "only" 45 pages, and again, the professor was a lot more interested in it being coherent, correct, and actually saying something, rather than being long.

So what's the point of long essays in every subject? To me, it seems like that will just make students write a lot of voluminous bullshit without ensuring that they actually learn what they write about?
That always seemed strange to me - a blend of advertising and ingratiation. I guess the difference here is I didn't think editors were responsible. Surely though the editors don't catch all YC references? If that's your desire, I'm sure many in the community would be interested in helping, even if the session year has to be corrected/added.
Closely related to the first Thing of problem reductionism: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection... Except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." — David Wheeler
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.

Parents, government, and everybody in between seem focused on pushing as many young people into university education as possible. But it seems to me that we have pushed them too hard if they are cheating on this scale. Lots of them just don’t belong there.

I imagine a fantasy future world in which ageing professors tell stories of the dark ages of their early careers; a time in which most of their students were not really interested in the subject of their degrees. A brave new world in which young people who might like to get a job, start a business, write a book, or just study independently of any official course, can go ahead and do so without putting themselves through three years of painful essay faking and pretense because “that’s what everyone else does”.
You called the communities opinion pathetic, based on some erroneous what "ifs" you came up with. Lot's of people just gave you their point of view on why you're wrong and others just down voted you because you didn't back up anything you said with facts. Here's my take:

1) I don't care about anyone seeing me naked, I've been working out for years, four times a week to look like I look now and if could walk butt naked everywhere I would. That doesn't mean that it's alright to look at other people's naked bodies, and sure as hell doesn't make right the possibility of a predator looking at naked children.

2) Regarding the scanner's radiation in no way is a healthy thing, and in the absence of actual proof stating if it's really negligible or if it poses a serious health risk, everyone should consider it dangerous. You're basically saying that it's OK to walk through that tight dark alley in the middle of a bad neighborhood at midnight because there's no proof that anyone has been killed or mugged there. I'd rather avoid that kind of situation unless completely necessary thank you very much.

You wanted a rational discussion so I'm giving you a rational answer (I have no emotional issue with the topic at hand). I don't care about people touching me or seeing me naked, and I do care (albeit very little) about the potential health risks. I find your comment on how seeing someone's body through X-rays is not a big deal, but seeing someone's luggage through X-ray is a violation of privacy, preposterous and honestly laughable. Tell me what the big difference between looking into your luggage and looking at your naked body is that makes the latter so unimportant in comparison to the former.

You made a comment for the sake of disagreeing (instead of saying anything of any value for the discussion) and then made some utterly incompetent remarks all the while calling people immature and basically saying their opinions have no value because you believe we're all cattle in the herd of the Anti-TSA fad. While I don't agree there was a necessity for down-votes, you're comments did add no value whatsoever so the people where in a way correct to do so. Next time if you're going to disagree do it politely and state facts and opinions instead of trying to come of as the better person.
"Has modern education become so jaded that it now plays out as farce, where learning is not the goal but gaming the system is?"

In a word, yes.

You see, education, for most people, is NOT about learning. It's about getting a job.

We HN types value learning for its own sake, and would happily curl up with a copy of SICP or TAOCP and feel content. The average person wants the whole thing to be over as quickly and painlessly as possible. In the words of some of my classmates, concerning cheating:

"Better to cheat than to repeat."

or perhaps more poignantly:

"Don't be a hero and get zero."

We, my dear grellas, are not normal.
Can you pls post this as a link?
If I tell someone, "bring me a sandwich or a bowl of chili," and the person brings me a bowl of chili, that person has done exactly what I told them to do.
Always a good reminder that tiling window managers have been around for a really long time.
In organic systems, manure should be composted.

According to the NOP (§205.203(c)), raw manure must be composted unless:

- Applied to land used for a crop not intended for human consumption;

Œ- Incorporated into the soil not less than 120 days prior to the harvest of a product whose edible portion has direct contact with the soil surface or soil particles;

or

Œ- Incorporated into the soil not less than 90 days prior to the harvest of a product whose edible portion does not have direct contact with the soil surface or soil particles.

Edit - There’s much more to the compost standards. For more info, see here:

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Manure%20...
I'm not sure where this idea of domain names being infinite came from, but it isn't really true[1]. There is a maximum length per top level domain, and also a finite number of top level domains. Until we're allowed to register top level domains, it's going to stay this way. Even then, we will be limited by the maximum allowable characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System [1]
I'm waiting for my "wakemate" for 6mo+.
Maybe. Google’s draw (for me, and I assume for at least some others) was always that it took a cut the bullshit, focus on the results approach.
I also browse this way, but this is not the issue he is trying to solve. The issue is, that the mere fact that the hyperlink is present in the text will slightly impair your concentration, because a part of your mind will need to evaluate whether to click or not [there was a study proving this].

And I tend to agree, I found the text (especially a long one) without hyperlinks be easier to concentrate on. Really, it's better and I welcome this option to be added.
Here's a more substantive statement:

Only a quite limited amount is known about how knowledge is created at a hardware level.

At a higher level (epistemology -- my specialty), there only exists one viable theory of how knowledge is created: by conjecture/guessing and refutation/criticism. This trial-and-error is an evolutionary process (literally, not metaphorically).

This process of knowledge creation is universal in character. Something either can do it, or can't. It does not conveniently allow for any limits.

Your assertion about limited and varied capacity for learning is clear, but to be compelling it would need some philosophical backing, in particular it'd need a theory of how knowledge is created that it's compatible with.

I think the issue your theory attempts to address is that a lot of people are dumb. If they have universal capacity, why don't they use it? However, this issue can be answered in other ways, e.g. by discussion of creativity-supressing memes.
Totally missing the point. It's not about averting disaster it's about living a life. If your wife is a higher priority than impressing an audience then it makes perfect sense. Brad just has different priorities than you, ie, he doesn't give a damn if you show up or not.
I have the rule for two-fold: a. if my wants to talk to me at any time she can - this makes her feel special and b. other people need to know that my relationship with my wife takes precedence over every other relationship.

I agree with you - I probably won't change the outcome of a disaster if I know immediately.
Mandrill gives you 12000 free email transaction per month. On top of that, they offer integration with MailChimp. Therefore, I recommend mandrill!

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None of it is convincing.

There is nothing extraordinary about the government showing interest when even a private citizen is contacting and meeting to interview someone who is wanted by said government on national security grounds.

Google's increased lobbying was dues to their big antirust battle a short while back, these tend to be expensive. Besides this is American and lobbying is a way of life here.

I'm not sure what Cohen was doing in Azerbaijan but is it really strange that he was getting support in a potentially hostile territory.

As for what ostensibly triggered this post, the "revelations" that firms get reimbursed for their troubles enabling surveillance, it's not new, nor is it a money making endeavor, it's basically the only concession by the government made in these wiretap laws, if they are to inconvenience entities with their surveillance they will at least have to pay for it http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/us/nsa-said-to-have-paid-e...
Also some targeted surveillance might be necessary the problem is with the dragnet sort, and these revelations don't make a distinction between the two which doesn't automatically mean that it's the worst case scenario.

Assange might not have been pleased with his interview with Schmidt but suggesting that Google started the Arab spring is absurd.
I was around in 1995, and in 1995 they hated the start menu. So it goes.
Yes, that is one approach that may be useful for some more esoteric warnings.

All current compilers also have mechanisms to selectively ignore warnings via pragmas, like '#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wfoo"' in clang and GCC, which can be used to suppress instances of false positives of otherwise useful warnings.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa273936.aspx

IMHO not using -Werror is just inexcusable.
Yeah, I would have gone with the 4GB model, but I got this one through a Groupon deal for $130...

I remembered reading about zram being enabled in ChromeOS, not sure why I didn't think to investigate it. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out!
FERPA doesn't make them public records, it just allows a student to access their own educational records.

I think a student could release their own records but that wouldn't fall under defamation from what I know.
Have your packages delivered to work and get Amazon Prime. Problems solved :)
I wonder if there's an opportunity here. What if you had a store where you couldn't actually buy stuff (well you could order stuff from affiliate partners) and it cost money to enter?

Sort of like a fair but always running and on a central position. A gadget paradise of sorts. I think it would work.
Problem is that if the original is old enough, votes won't get it to the front page. And it doesn't need to be very old.
Too easy to game. 2 weeks later there would be someone selling lists of links to import to increase your chances of getting a job offer/interview.
This is a terrible idea. Even in the unlikely event that they manage to pull this off without introducing lots of vulnerabilities on their website, nobody else will implement it.
>I want an application that lets me announce to my friends when I’m out of town and my apartment is vacant

I want an application that notifies me when my mark is out of town and the coast is clear.
Oh I see! I hadn't noticed it was CoffeeScript.
App is very slow to load and I (like most people) don't have the patience to wait. Other than that, looks decent.You might want to look at the code again or the host server to fix the speed issue.
The investors are looking at this the wrong way. If buying employee equity doesn't seem like taking candy from a baby, then perhaps they should not be investing in the deal to begin with. I'd gladly buy shares in Groupon if the price looks right; and if the sale happens because employees want to buy a house then great - distressed asset sales are great buying opportunities, and that's what this is.
This. Middle-Click if you want a new tab.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/880/
> MSI them (MSI makes the disk violate redbook so it can't be ripped)

That, unfortunately, sounds very naive. What reason do you have to believe MSI won't be broken soon? (Assuming it hasn't already been broken.)

(Limiting pre-release distribution is certainly a good approach to the problem though.)
Well considering AT&T can just as easily log the same thing and you wouldn't need to go to all the effort of going to someone's house and confiscating their computer and/or phone, I'm not sure why anyone should be any more concerned than they already are.
Don't all cell phones ping cell towers frequently? My local search and rescue uses this feature somewhat often. It's helped out in more then a few cases.
You're a police informant. You're an undercover cop who didn't realise all this was accessible, but the organisation you've infiltrated just did.

Look, it's so easy to conceive of situations where someone's well-being is seriously impacted by having this location data stored so sloppily that it's almost not worth arguing about. Almost! ;)
Your advice in this thread falls into that category. You take some sort of puritanical ideal of hard work and sacrifice, then apply it to build a... distorted idea of what parenting is and to abstractly shame people who don't fit it, then ignore all requests for references to any research at all done on this, then repeat this over and over with everyone who's trying to figure out what you mean. From what I know, your ideas have no basis in reality. You're only adding noise for parents-to-be to sift through and worry about.

Just raise your kids with love and patience, don't listen to armchair child psychiatrists.