jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can call your carrier and request they unlock the device('s bootloader). There are also a few services that you can send some information to that will unlock it for a small fee.

These sorts of shenanigans are a big part of why I haven't had any desire to switch from my S3, since even with the neat specs, you could hardly call swapping performance, personal control, and extensive added functionality for bloatware and unalterable permanently out of date OS versions an "upgrade".
Do you have a website yet for your efforts?
Get over yourself. This is part of why I hate the Reddit community-- it's a bunch of snarky, pretensious neckbeards.
I’ll let Lockhart speak for himself:

> Now let me be clear about what I’m objecting to. It’s not about formulas, or memorizing interesting facts. That’s fine in context, and has its place just as learning a vocabulary does— it helps you to create richer, more nuanced works of art. But it’s not the fact that triangles take up half their box that matters. What matters is the beautiful idea of chopping it with the line, and how that might inspire other beautiful ideas and lead to creative breakthroughs in other problems— something a mere statement of fact can never give you.

> By removing the creative process and leaving only the results of that process, you virtually guarantee that no one will have any real engagement with the subject. It is like saying that Michelangelo created a beautiful sculpture, without letting me see it. How am I supposed to be inspired by that? (And of course it’s actually much worse than this— at least it’s understood that there is an art of sculpture that I am being prevented from appreciating).

> By concentrating on what, and leaving out why, mathematics is reduced to an empty shell. The art is not in the “truth” but in the explanation, the argument. It is the argument itself which gives the truth its context, and determines what is really being said and meant. Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity— to pose their own problems, make their own conjectures and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs— you deny them mathematics itself. So no, I’m not complaining about the presence of facts and formulas in our mathematics classes, I’m complaining about the lack of mathematics in our mathematics classes.
For an article published in Science, it's remarkable how little follow-up I see to this 2012 article after searching Google and Google Scholar for a while. I wonder what other researchers on the early origins of humankind think about this. On my part, as an amateur about these issues, it does seem plausible that human beings have a lot of capacity for peaceful cooperation, which could readily have been selected for through many forgotten events of human prehistory.
I think they could succeed by modeling themselves after a Costco/Kirkland-type relationship
Thank you, looks like some useful feedback.
Although the level of discourse on HN is (in some ways) better than your average article-comment-section, I think the reason negative feedback cycles don't happen as much here as they might elsewhere is just the minimum number of posts before you can even downvote. You have to carry a grudge a long way to get to act on it here.
Yes. I wanted to be a particle physicist, but decided to teach for a couple years so I wouldn't go straight HS->university->grad school. I stayed in teaching, though, because I found the intellectual challenges of teaching well just as satisfying as hard science. 20 years later, I'm still happy with my decision.

Studying physics meant I have always had a way to think about any science question any student has ever asked. I can't answer every question, but I can always give students a good way to think about answering their question.

These days I'm working hard to apply what I know about programming to solve long standing problems in education. The education field is about 40 years behind the programming world as far as making efficient tools available to everyone in the field, which means there is much low-hanging fruit for someone with a solid grounding in both education and software development.

I want to build the Emacs and GitHub of the education world.
In general grep seems smart enough that it would do that, but it hasn't been my experience. Just last week I was searching through a couple hundred gigs small xml files. I found that:

$ LC_ALL=C fgrep -r STRING .

was much faster than plain grep. This was on a CentOS 5 box, so maybe newer versions of grep are smarter.

But then again, if I was on a newer box I'd just install and use ack or ag.
The issue is that there is no defined elevation above land you own that is designated part of your property.
Hadoop is replacing many datawarehousing dbs like netezza, teradata, exadata. In the process, many datwarehousing developers have become hadoop developers, who write sql code; after all, hadoop got a sql interface via hive.

Informatica (another ETL tool) also provides another tool called powerexchange, which automatically generates MR code for hadoop.

Whenever you hear hadoop, first ask yourself whether it is another disguised datawarehousing stuff.
Of course, welcome to confidence intervals
and/or hypothesis testing 101. What is correct
in such situations is very clear in stacks of
college introductory and
intermediate texts on statistics. And what
to do is known in situations much more complicated
than in the OP. E.g., there is the literature
on distribution-free statistics.
I honestly think this is great. He got a website built that clearly folks need enough to pay for, without any real risk. The wonderful thing about business is you can't argue with revenue, either you have it or you don't. If you do, no one really gets to tell you your doing it wrong (outside of security and ethical issues).
The .NET team has always been on friendly terms with the Mono team. I'd imagine the Mono devs will either keep doing their thing or will merge into the mainline at some point. There's Java VMs that are even commercial, as in people pay for them. I'd imagine that there's certainly enough space for a couple competing CLR platforms.
I would have to purchase one to experience chip failure. That isn't easy.
> for this battle to be won the public has to have trust in him

But many don't, for reasons of Fauci's own making. You can't rally people around a person that lies and flip-flops on issues as important as this.
Well yes, but you still don't want to overbuild capacity.
This is the least controversial proposal, and some of the others leave little doubt as to the true intention here.
'lying about how unions work'. I've seen unions do the same. I was in a union where they promised to accomplish some things... didn't even try. Zero effort to do so, they simply chose not to.

Amazon or any employer should still be able to make their case, even if they're wrong about some things ...
Haha. I have adapted to that too, but why even bother with 1/2 keys then. The look like an afterthought.
This has been _specifically_ called out in Shopify's recent emails to partners. If the private apps are essentially all the same, it's considered abusing private apps and they may come down on you at some point. Private apps, in Shopify's eyes, are for something like a consultant whom is building one-off apps for clients, not as a way to avoid the store.
This confabulated configuration syntax is why I discontinued using NGINX.

This selection of NGINX came after a frustrated debugging session of Apache .htaccess as well.

furthermore, unlike Apache specific IP port assignment capability, I once had to jerry-rig a dynamic configuration to tie NGINX to just one dynamic IP port out of many.

Sorry, I’ve gone lighttpd and haven’t looked back since.
> What/where are the results from those thousands years of mindfulness? If the practice has an impact surely we should be able to see some things at a society level, or at least in some individuals who are particularly good at it.

Oh man, I can't tell you how much it hurts me to hear this. But I get where you're coming from.

It's hard because with mindfulness and meditation there's nothing to sell and nothing to show for it. All you have is your own inner peace. And you can't just give it away, you have to teach how to get there, and it's a long and arduous process that most people just give up on.

So I guess what I'm saying is I take issue with "surely." It's not actually true. The practice has a major impact -- an earth-shattering, mind-expanding impact on one's life -- but because of the inability to "prove" it works or "make" someone do it, people tend to write it off.

If you're more interested in what mindfulness is about you can check out the book The Mind Illuminated. It's an alright book, written for the serious secular meditator, (even though the author isn't secular.) There's also Mindfulness in Plain English.

Here's to hoping that you're able to see past your skepticism and learn a little bit about these potentially life-changing tools. All the best man.
The D Language has scope(exit), instead of defer. Example:

scope(exit) writeln("3");
writeln("1");
writeln("2");

Output:

1
2
3
"I can hardly imagine the experience of people of color being approached in their car by someone with gun and taser, knowing a failing brake light or similar malfunction could lead to violence."

Police don't shoot people just for traffic violations. If a drunk driver does not want to give his car keys to the unarmed civilian, then what happens?

I am a "person of color" (South Asian-American) and have had my car stopped 3 times by a white policeman, each time for a plausible reason. I complied with the policeman and was in no danger of being shot. Exaggerated suspicion of and resistance to the police is what gets people killed.
Plain text protocols are in serious danger as the (confused) desire for TLS-only everywhere spreads with the best intentions. The problem is that the security TLS-only brings to protocols like HTTP(s) also brings with it massive centralization in cert authorities which provide single points of technical, social, and political failure.

If the TLS-everywhere people succeed in their misguided cargo-cult efforts to kill of HTTP and other plain text connections everywhere, if browsers make HTTPS only default, then the web will lose even more of it's distributed nature.

But it's not only the web (HTTP) that is under attack from the centralization of TLS, even SMTP with SMTPS might fall to it eventually. Right now you can self sign on your mailserver and it works just fine. But I imagine "privacy" advocates will want to exchange distributed security of centralized privacy there soon too.

TLS is great. I love it and it has real, important uses. But TLS only is terrible for the internet. We need plain text protocols too. HTTP+HTTPS for life.
I wonder how many twitter clients are going to recognize that as a link: http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/18062117684903937

Twitter itself does, but tweetdeck does not.
That's what my second paragraph was trying to say, if you're doing multiple deals per day and targeting those based on the demographics you collect then it is in fact a more targeted approach.

My current understanding is that it's just one deal per day, per city. If you're saying it's one deal per day, per city, per person then that's quite different and more interesting.

I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Smaller (~700,000 people) AND newer (I think Groupon showed up a couple months ago?)
It's a relatively old term actually. I believe the guys from IDEO first introduced it. Very valid concept though.

Tim Brown from IDEO:
http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=...
(sorry for the long link.)
Pixel art is also my favorite art style. However I worry if it is good for use in casual games made for an audience which might have not been exposed to retro gaming? Or is it a part of our culture that everyone now understands?
This is great!

I'm hoping that it does, in fact, allow you to run as a relay with the option to run as an exit node. Running a relay is nowhere near as (potentially) legally problematic as running an exit node based upon what I've read.
Meh… Sounds like good practice. Same way everyone should buy the .com, .net, and .org of their domain. If you've got the money, (and BofA certainly does: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/bank-of-america-q1-...) why not do a little bit of defensive buying. Of course it's a helpless enterprise to get all possibilities, but it's not bad practice.
The original copyright holders would probably just state that their intent has always been for them to last forever.

What BYTE would need is a "OK. You sat on this copyrighted material for very long. It's now time for this knowledge to be available again" mechanism that would prevent abandoned works from remaining abandoned.
Thank you I will surely go through the book.
sigh One of my previous employers tried to stem a growing flood of criticism by buying up universitysucks.com.

Surprisingly, when evaluating four-year degree granting institutions, most potential students don't first look to see if the institution has garnered a "sucks.com" domain.

The level of cluelessness just leaves me speechless.
You're talking from the perspective of a pseudo-monopolist, which makes sense when we're talking about iPhones, but all it takes is one entrant charging lower prices and your "best price in terms of total profit" calculation goes down the tubes as consumers switch over to the cheaper alternative.

So you're right, a monopolist does not care at all what the costs of the inputs are but with competition the result is cheaper consumer goods (which has its own vices but that's a different issue...)

Think about it; would you really want to live in a U.S. where every good was made in house? Your cashews would be very, very, very expensive.
As an amusing bit of background, the Tazo site was designed by Sandstrom, who have done some other doozies in their time: http://www.sandstrompartners.com/work/tazo
It's even more poignant that Tazo hasn't changed much at all in the last four years...
It's just simple traffic analysis. A page load generates a certain number of request/responses. Each request and response is a specific size, and will be transferred in a specific order. You create a fingerprint of that and it doesn't matter if the page is opened via a plain http channel, or https, or over Tor, The fingerprint will be the same (almost).
precisely what I was thinking.
A happy developer sharing with the world that he has a 30" monitor and a powerful computer and etc, even if it comes close to luxury, may well be more efective than any talent recruiting marketing campaign
For people who enjoy stuff like this, I'd recommend http://vimcasts.org/ — probably has been mentioned on HN at least a few times, but there seem to be people on this thread still amazed by what this guy was doing in the screen cast.

Vimcasts gives many insightful manuals for things that I've used on a day-to-day basis.
Is there any way to get a rss feed with his entire archive?
The reason the ISM bands look so "hot" or busy on a spectrum analyzer is exactly because they're a "free for all." It's a classic tragedy of the commons: everyone keeps "shouting" at max volume to be heard and there's no coordination between operators and users of different services.

Here's an example: in a typical apartment block, each resident runs their WiFi access point at full power. In any one apartment, there's a ton of interference from neighboring units. If everyone coordinated and reduced their WiFi power to just what was necessary to cover their unit, it would result in less interference and higher net data rates for everyone. But no one is incentivized to do take action unilaterally.

LTE and 5G networks are very careful planned to limit intracell interference and handover zones between towers. This central planning maximizes the efficiency of the network. It allows your cell phone to connect to a tower 10km away if you're in a rural area, and results in higher spectral efficiency for the overall network by increasing signal-to-noise ratios for all users.

With a more sensitive spectrum analyzer, you'll see that the cellular bands are actually extremely busy. In fact, macro networks are almost always at capacity during peak usage. However, all the devices are "speaking" at the lowest volume necessary to be heard.
IMO everyone related to a corporate crime should be responsible. If a company dumps toxic waste in to a river, the person who pressed the dump button, the person who told them to and any management that signed off on the idea should all be personally as responsible as if I just took a bucket and walked down to the local river.

Perhaps some exceptions for people who could not be expected to understand the law, for example an untrained retail staff being tricked in to violating laws usually only understood by management or legal teams.
Thanks for the recommendation, your setup has piqued my interest in terms of how I might appreciate the work as compared to Wolfe.
Similar idea with gofuckingdoit.com. I like the execution, curious to see if you can achieve more success.
https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/

and

https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/

are both open source:

https://github.com/alphagov?q=pay&type=&language=

https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api
I wonder whether the ability to discern description and justification is correlated with other abilities. I suspect it is, but if anyone is aware of studies I'd be interested.
That's one way to look at it, but I think the deeper truth is just systems are pretty much always controlled by the powerful and benefit only them. Any new rules will be enforced as such. The HN thread discussing blue state concealed carry laws was very revealing; turns out those laws just lead to pay offs to police departments when some org needs permits. [1]

Senators make millions on insider relief package info? Who cares. You challenge the powerful by revealing embarrassing secrets? Enemy of the state, you're gonna lose everything or at the very least many years of your life in legal limbo.

The power balance in many cases could be the real issue, everyday people just need to (somehow) get way more empowered.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193861
Building a performant wifi network is a serious pain. Building material, channel congestion, network load, AP placement, other sources of RFI, etc all cause issues.

Your best bet is look for APs that support 802.11r or v (also check that clients support it though most modern cards do) which allows seamless roaming between APs then replace the existing AP with 2 or 3 APs. If you want a cheaper solution you can try for a DIY site survey to try to find the best placement and channel for the existing AP.
Houdini is still barely capable comparable with native drawing.

Layout managers were already a thing in Motif.

Where is the great web tooling capable to beat Delphi/VB workflows?
I meant by a single economic theory / equation...
I'd be fine with this as long as there's a way to turn this off (or better yet, to make it something entirely opt-in and have to turn it on). I wouldn't want to be bombarded with ads if I'm not interested in them subsidizing my ride.

Also, is there a way to make these companies just pay me to look at their ads? It'd cut out the middlemen, and seeing how many ads I'd probably be confronted with on a daily basis without things like AdBlock Plus, I could probably turn it into a career if the figures in this article are accurate.
This is awful, dangerous, and compiler designers and writers will yell at you. Well done :)

I've always wanted a way to monkey-patch otherwise statically and well-bound code, but only for testing. In C, it's fairly easy to set up preprocessor rules to do so, though also litters your primary code with test specific stuff. I have mostly focused on how to integrate this into compiler logic; Building some functionality to replace specified symbols in the build phase. Simply replacing the function pointers in the runtime is brilliant, if more than a little hacky and prone to problems.

I look forward to playing around with this.
Usenet 3; Usenet 2 has already been done.
The complaint already says how: after busting Chronicpain in a CD, he turned over his SR1 moderator/admin account, and then Force used the mod/admin ability to reset passwords & PINs to log into big vendors' accounts and transfer their balance out of SR1 to his own Bitcoin account.
Cool, congrats man!
Many of the vaccines were developed with public funding and for those that were not, then an amount that would cover R&D and incentivize future production could easily be reached so as to save millions of lives...
The key issue is the actual wavelength being used. I have yet to see this number published. If you knew the wavelength of the X-ray then you could attain a good estimate of the radiation dose. It is well established that X-rays cause protein damage (in vitro) at 1-1.5 Angstroms which is certainly smaller than what is being used in the is case. The wavelength at which radiation damage does not occur would be interesting to determine.
I don't understand: What constitutes a fake Facebook account? Why does Facebook need to establish your real identity? Serious question, as I am not a Facebook user.
I think Google has a similar tool freely available, although I can't find it right now. Does anybody know?
I have a CS degree, an MBA, and lots of experience.
That's correct! A real editor with 3 decades' experience would have understood things like English has changed over time.
Easily: poor scrolling, slow, shadows at the end of the web views (that the iPhone SDK forces in there (!)), etc. It's fairly easy to tell on an iPhone if something is JavaScript or not, it's one of the reasons I don't use anything that's been near PhoneGap or whatever.
Which I'm utterly sure is in NO way more secure or less of a liability than regular Zoom. Zoom has proven itself to be completely craven about behavior and pseudo-apologies; I'm amazed they have any credibility with CIOs.
The ribbon didn't replace rows and rows of small icons without labels. It replaced a hierarchical menu. Now, did the hierarchical menu have flaws? It did, insofar as it was rather forbidding to explore, and as a result, new users had trouble finding functionality by clicking around. That was the use case that the Ribbon sought to address.

What the designers of the ribbon did not understand was that users have other ways to find functionality. They could look up functionality on the Internet. There were even physical books which told you which specific menu to click on for a particular function.

What the ribbon did was instantly render all those resources useless. Moreover, by attempting to constantly surface different controls based upon the context of the current task, the ribbon made it extremely difficult to make new resources and tutorials. You could make a tutorial with screenshots, only to have users come to you with screens that look nothing like your screenshot, because they just happened to be highlighting a slightly different element.
> Peloton has pretty expensive products

You can buy a set of kettlebells up to 24kg, a barbell, and enough plates to make 315 lbs for the cost of a Peloton. Completely different crowd, though.
This is perfect timing! I just launched a bootstrapped company and thought Typeform's 10 free submissions per month was kind of crazy. Look forward to trying y'all out.
Does the user matter? As long as the commit message is something sensible like 'Autoformat with black' it can be easily ignored when seen, and you can avoid seeing it with blame as simonw suggests.