jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First of all, the company could definitely be sued for negligence in the US. Not sure if they could in the UK.

Second, there are not that many similarities between this research and weev's research. In this case, the researcher created 2 accounts which he had control over, then read data from both of the accounts despite not authenticating to either of them. He did not access any other customer's information (or at least he's suggesting he didn't).

Weev on the other hand scraped private information for over 100,000 customers and shared it with friends and reporters.

Both technically violated the CFAA, but weev's offense is a much greater violation of customer privacy, while this researcher has not violated anyone's privacy.

I still don't think weev should have gotten any jail time, but you're making an unfair comparison.
It's not as simple as that, because pages are more than one byte long.

If pages were one byte long, what you say would be (mostly) true. For every allocation, you would just map in some memory at some random place in the address space, and you would map in precisely as many bytes as were requested. You would literally waste no memory, and your reallocs would never need to move memory. Life would be bliss.

But pages are not one byte long. They are usually something like 4k. So if you fulfill a 1-byte malloc() with a 4k page (to leave room for realloc()), you are wasting nearly 4k bytes of real physical memory.

Also: mmap() system calls have CPU overhead, and I highly suspect that two non-contiguous mapped pages create more kernel overhead than two contiguous mapped pages.

Holes are not free.
Well you're right, drug companies bankrolling clinical trials is the biggest (and only) real argument for keeping patents.

On the other hand, drug companies mostly develop lifestyle drugs these days. Drugs that cure people are less subjective and not profitable enough. I'd bet most of the real medical research still comes from academics sponsored by government, *-for-the-cure fundraising organizations, etc.
It will soon! After playing around with their latest Signal 2.0 beta that integrates TextSecure support, I honestly would recommend using Signal unless you specifically need Tor/OTR or want to host your own XMPP infrastructure.
> less than 15% requires the server to be noticably rude or inattentive.

As an Australian, in a country that doesn't have a culture of tipping, I find it very amusing that you would tip a server who was noticably rude.

Edit: For context as well, tipping is on the rise up in Australia, but only at classier/fancier/modern/hipster places, and the extent of a tip would be to round up to nearest $10 (or note, if paying cash)
The capital of the world's sixth largest economy uses a coroner and not a medical examiner? For reference, a medical examiner is a forensic pathologist, and generally one with a forensic fellowship. A coroner is anybody with a pulse, either elected or appointed.

That said, it looks like the Sacramento coroner does in fact employ at least one forensic pathologist, so that lends a little more credence to the finding. Also, in these high profile cases there are often quite a few witnesses to the autopsy, which makes it more difficult to squash evidence.

And, yes, there are plenty of stories of people surviving a gunshot wound to the head, even remaining conscious.
The page now reads:

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Footnote on ad: "Promotion rate flights are for first time flyers only and limted to a single use. Other terms and conditions may apply."

HeliNY, for which they are a reseller, charges $925 for that trip as a charter. Aircraft capacity is 5 (maybe 6). So the regular price, assuming they make you wait for a full helicopter, is probably about $200.
Yes he was, but if you like jazz, his music is amazing and he did many collaborations. Mark Isham is another jazz musician (and film composer) I like and he is also a Scientologist.
Timezones ;)
In his last time he had many videos and livestream events on YouTube where a master would share his wisdom to the aspiring people. I always postponed or procrastinated on this, where always there would pop up something “more important” to do instead and where I’d tell myself “I’ll just participate next time”.

But there won’t be a next time anymore. Chances slid through one’s finger like sand and there will be no next time. It’s your fault to not seize them.

May this great artist rest in piece.
No longer has to follow EU rules. Can become a tax haven shortly after.
That's a really powerful story, but also

> kummerspeck (German for grief bacon)

Raises more questions than it answers
I wouldn't call anything on the likelihood of fertility without genomic analysis. These branches of humanity were similar enough that the offspring could be viable, in fact, sometimes you can find people with more neanderthal residual genomic admixture nowadays too.
You wrote: "food is not included". The US Federal Reserve currently uses the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...

The PCE fraction for "food and beverages" (home, away, alcohol) ranges from 13.8% to 17.0%.

That Wiki page also has a nice comparison to the consumer price index (CPI), which was previously used by the US Fed. US Social Security still uses CPI to adjust national pension payments.

Also, you wrote that food prices had more inflation in 2020 compared to other recent years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people had cheaper transportation costs, which would offset some or all of this food price inflation.
I would have to disagree with you. Seeing what has happened to crypto the last few years, it's very apparent that things are changing. Everyone on here is talking like bitcoin or any other crypto is the disease and not a symptom. I believe that it's merely a symptom, a anarchy of sort, against the old ways.
Because it is perceived to be full of cash and everyone now wants a piece of the action
Most of my receipts are online, I never print them. So I am fearing whether I will miss some when it comes to handing it over to book-keeper.
>I'm sure Apple has evaluated that tech, but chooses not to use it for some reason

The reason is almost certainly limited supply. If you want to sell millions upon millions of a device, and the premium part has limited supply, you simply don't use the premium part. The less obvious reason is that OLEDs simply don't come with that high of a density, so Apple would have had to increase the screen size or go with a lower resolution which, as mentioned in the following point, they didn't want to do (and it isn't to achieve some bogus "retina" quality).

>You characterize the fact that they went super high resolution to accommodate existing apps as a bad thing?

It's bad in that its covering a mistake. The iPhone SDK should have had density-independent pixels from the outset -- geez we've known about this problem for years -- but it didn't. It was remarkably shortsighted, and still they merely duct tape it.

>How many other companies would have chosen the cheap and easy way out?

Apple chose the easy way out, so not really sure what you're saying there. They went with a basic LCD display so I doubt the cost is all that great.
It looks like there's a link to "continue with limited version" but that isn't addressed in the original tweets. Unsure if it works or not
Is there a name for the feeling experienced when you hear an expression with very strong and definite negative connotations used to mean something completely different, almost frivolous?

Because that's what anyone from Germany experiences when the read this article, the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group having been highly present in the public conscience for over 3 decades now. As an American, imagine using "Charles Manson phenomenon" for something like this...
as far as I can tell, EC2 doesn't start to be that great of a deal until you start doing the 70% off for paying a year ahead; in that case, Oh boy. in some cases, I think, they even beat me then (on larger instances, of course.)
lol...Placebo effect then maybe! :)
Dear Mr Suster,

You sound much better here than in the rest of the thread. Perhaps the lesson to be drawn from this exchange is to rise above whatever it is people throw at you. If they act rudely, and you respond cordially, you force them to meet you at your level.

And if that doesn't happen, I assure you the ruder person will be downvoted.

Cordially yours,

Eli James
OP here again. Just got back from my dr visit, armed with questions from HN. Doc is open to investigating Celiac, so he took some blood for that. He's going to recommend me to a gastroenterologist who may pursue an endoscopy/biopsy. I'm tempted to start avoiding wheat now, to see if it has any positive effect. But doc also told me to not do that until after seeing the gastro, as it will affect any test he may do.
But if you're talking about a whiteboard coding problem, people are going to come in with different perceptions of what you're trying to test, and for the sake of brevity they'll do things like use shorter names or global variables. I feel like I'd cringe at seeing "rite," but not as much as when somebody thinks it looks impressive to start by showing you the testing code they would write.
I'm not saying it's not great, but it's not a sustainable rate of weight loss if your goal is to lose a lot of weight.

When I cut soda from my diet I lost 10lbs in a month. In a month! And then it tailed off and I was depressed because I couldn't sustain it, I had unreasonable expectations. And if you're losing 2lbs a week for a very long period of time, it can be an indicator of underlying medical issues.
Wow, cranky guy. I didn't mean it as forcefully as it may read.

That page I pointed you at is an attempt at a quack filter. If Dr Fuhrman passes it, then great. When someone sends me an email with extraordinary claims, my first action is to Google their info with words such as 'hoax'. In this case, that page and his name came up pretty fast.

So what I would do is check extraordinary claims particularly carefully. That page looks like an excellent starting point.

Btw - you don't know me, so losing your rag and throwing around words like 'poser' probably says more about you than me. Get that checked out.
Are you a doctor or otherwise qualified to make the above assertion? Not trying to be confrontational, but very tired of continually seeing people spout information they read somewhere as if it was written-in-stone-fact, even though they have no expertise in the given field.
Agreed. I think 1 lb per week is more in line with the doctor recommended rate, but 2 lb per week is the threshold you're not supposed to cross. 8 lbs per month in 5 months is right at that. That is a damn good achievement.
I wouldn't hope for too much, some of these companies just don't get free software at all. Samsung for example manages to pull off the trick of installing a pirated copy of linux on every consumer electronics device they sell by illegally relicencing other people's GLP2 code under the GPL3...
I am a busy guy with 5 kids, full time job and a wife but would still be very interested in helping out. That is if the business is interesting of course. I have experience with scaling on the cheap, technical development, etc. Contact is in my profile.
I'd like to see a creative commons streaming service that automatically paid artists using Bitcoin. With no intermediary.

But I'm kind of a weird customer. I've boycotted copyrighted works for long durations.

That said, I am not a spotify subscriber. But I'm enough of a fan of these artists that I will likely subscribe.
+1 for duplicity. With the command line tool, you can also:

1- Easily go back in history (if you erased a file and want it again, it's here, in a previous incremental backup).

2- Ask to automatically make a full backup every X months.

3- Ask to automatically remove incremental and full backups older than X months

4- Select the granularity of the backup buckets (very useful to avoid having hundreds of files or if your connection is unreliable).

5- Upload a backup bucket while preparing the next one in parallel.

6- Use S3 reduced redundancy storage if you want (cheaper...)

Duplicity is written in Python and the API is easy to use if you want to rely on a Python script instead of a shell script.

The fact that you can use S3 was a deciding factor: it is a really cheap solution with a big ecosystem of tools and it should still be there in 10 years...
What not to do might be something they should have done, but couldn't for whatever reason.

You can go further than rationalization of one's choices to a desire to validate them by preventing success by others.
A school has an entire staff of administrators and teachers, and they can't manage to allow students to choose their own courses rather than pre-allocating them?
A visit, maybe a base - a self sustaining "colony" is a long way away.

Pay for yourself to be the first man on Mars? People will know your name thousands of years from now.
This has actually happened -- with the spam mail following the same template as yours -- to at least three Hotmail accounts I know, one of which is my old account and the others my friends'. This was maybe three or four months ago, that is before Firesheep (yes, I know Firesheep is just a pretty UI to a general HTTP sniffer). IIRC, on Hotmail the mails did show up in Sent though. I'll check when I can -- on the bus right now...

I'm fairly certain that the system I used to access that account (approx monthly only, to make sure it didn't expire, just in case) was and is clean.
I don't think I really have any habits that kill my creativity. I spent many years deconstructing myself. I don't hesitate to question and discard something about myself that isn't working for me.

The two biggest obstacles to me getting more done are my job and my ongoing efforts to get well. They both take up a lot of my time and frequently leave me too tired, both mentally and physically, to spend the kind of time I would like to spend on other things. If I am 'mindlessly' surfing the web or something, it is because I am not together enough to do something more productive. Still, looking back, little by little, some things gradually make forward progress anyway, in spite of my constant lament that "I never get anything done!!"
i thought submissions weren't supposed to be "editorialized"
What is this linkbait tripe doing in my HackerNews? Flagged.
Ad Tech is filled with superfluous middlemen/ middleware who take from the transaction, they do not add.

As a long time ad tech executive, I can state that there are maybe 3 companies that actually add value to the chain. And those companies are not even in ad tech... The entire market is a fraud based on obfuscation and lies and every single member of the IAB committees are nothing but shills and charlatans hoping for some career visibility and personal gain.
I had trouble telling from the first sentence or so, but after reading to the end I’m pretty confident it’s a sarcastic take on a (hypothetical?) press release.
There is a capability for abstraction we overlook.

Forget for a moment about what we might think about people who succeed in business, and look critically at the ones who fail. People who fail in business are the ones who want friends, honour, fame, validation, sympathy, justice, social good, and esteem. They personalize failures against these needs and stop dealing with the higher level abstraction of the success of the venture. The ones who succeed want something else, either because they already have or self-fulfill those other things, or just don't care. We can moralize and say it's the latter, but it's more often the former.

It's easier when an institution has given you the conceit that you are not morally accountable to the uninitiated or uneducated. The thing about class is that barring crime, there is no downside to betraying someone who isn't a part of your tribe, which is usually from a school. If you believe people get what they deserve, they call that the "just world fallacy," for a reason. It's a noble lie. If it weren't, you'd see more nurses and veterans in business class seats.

Anyway, long topic, but in spite of my opinions, I think it is difficult to accurately criticize management and class without the perspective of an elite education, as (perhaps horrifically) what can instruments know of their players?
Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean users are clamoring for it. I can think of hundreds of things that are easy that apple hasn’t done
Who said the world is ending in 10 years? IIRC this timeline refers to the number of years we have to curb C02 emissions below a certain threshold to give us a 50/50 chance of reducing a level of warming that would be detrimental to humanity.
Interesting idea. Will it always be limited to Macbook users?
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-11-08/delay...
> You print 100, you owe 110 counting interest.

Um, no. I agree that printing money has bad side effects, but this is not one of them.

Here's a better way of looking at it. You currently have a money supply of 1000. That money supply is matched up to 1000 units of goods and services. Assuming this situation has been stable for a while, there will be some set of equilibrium prices.

Now you print 100. The total money supply is now 1100. But the supply of goods and services has not changed. So the first order effect is to raise prices, since you have 1100 units of money but only 1000 units of goods and services, so the previous set of prices is no longer in equilibrium. (Plus, whoever got the 100 that you printed got to spend it first, so they got the advantage of the lower prices; in other words, printing money is a way of favoring some economic actors over others.)

But there is also a second-order effect--at least there is according to Keynesians. If you print money, that makes people think there are more goods and services--i.e., that the economy is growing. So they are more willing to take economic risks--hence growing the economy. So, according to Keynesians, if you print just the right amount of money, you can stimulate just enough growth to match up with the money you printed. In the above example, if we suppose that the 100 units of money printed stimulated just enough growth to increase the supply of goods and services to 1100 units, then 100 units was the right amount of money to print to keep prices stable.

Nowhere in any of this is there any "interest" on the additional money printed. That's not the bad side effect. The bad side effect is that, in reality, the amount of money printed is never just the "right" amount to stimulate the matching amount of economic growth. It's not even clear if printing money can be counted on to stimulate economic growth at all: the Fed has been printing money at a snappy pace for a number of years now, and they are still saying the economy is stagnant.

(It's true that prices have not gone up very much, at least if you believe the CPI numbers; but that's because banks aren't lending the money that's being printed--they're hoarding it in their cash balances, because they don't want to be caught short if there's a downturn. So the actual money supply, the supply that affects the prices you and I pay for ordinary items, is considerably smaller than the total amount of money that's been printed.)
I don't know about nano but Vim has many autocomplete plugins
It seems like a "poor man's" or lazy guy's autogenic training.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenic_training

Did it for quite awhile. And I got great results, amongst them: lucid dreaming, increased focus, reduced anxiety. I used to race downhill bikes at the time - and autogenic training combined with autosuggesty actually helped me reach previously inconceivable levels of performance.

What the book and the article gets wrong (and probably most people who are trying it) is the time frame in which you perform your training.

You absolutely must not think in past or future tense. Form the mantra in present - it doesn't matter if the statements don't sound right. Present yourself with affirmative thoughts and you will get considerably confident and motivated about your goals.

Before races I would repeat in my mind(speaking or murmuring is even better): I am well trained. I am well prepared for the task ahead of me. I know the track. I am calm. My heart rate is low. I am a champion. On this track I am the dog to beat. - while visualizing the track and breathing slowly.

You see I learned this while suffering grave lack of self esteem due to insane levels of preparation and training that left me lacking any considerable results. I also suffered due to lack of acknowledgement of my skill from other riders. And then I came across this writing that proposed that Ego does need to get stroked and patted for confidence. BUT that it is not necessary for other people to do it, any kind of encouragement works - even self induced. This is a case where build it and they will come actually works.
Did , did I just get rick rolled ?
iPads certainly perform well. With hardware acceleration for h.264, the ARM chip may not be seeing the toughest loads it would otherwise. I believe there's an ARM build of VLC.
I've been meaning to check it out to see how video playback is with other codecs. (It's easy to use a USB tuner to record HDTV on a laptop or desktop, but the MPEG2 used in the U.S. is a bit of a chore to transcode to 720P h.264 which is the Apple default for iPad/iPhone/iPod-touch/ and the current Apple-TV (all on ARM now).

I'm not sure how far towards the high end ARM will go, but it sure makes sense to have things like Apple TV on ARM.
It uses less than 6 watts.
Or didn't want conflict of interest / intellectual property issues when developing Atom?
Well job satisfaction with a department really depends on if you're actually doing the work requested and the terms on which you left (or were terminated, right?) Not that I had a love affair with MMe at the end of my job, but that had to do with the policies that Apple employs in terms of mass communication of pre-release products, and not with the level of talent in the existing team.
Yet, this doesn't mean that distributed revocation is an impossible problem: on the contrary, I think it's getting more important as people realize how much online information is out there.

A moments thought should show that distributed revocation is inherently impossible except in an air-tight "trusted computing" environment. Such an environment may be possible to construct but that construction has been shown to quite difficult at the least (especially resulting in systems with exponentially inferior performance, turning O(1) problems into O(n^2) problems, "The Xanadu Project" had conceived of the before CERN but floundered on this problem, etc).

Moreover, such an environment is so undesirable that I, along with quite a few others, would actively work to prevent it coming into existence. "The Right To Read" etc...

...and of course how important some unspecified group of people are coming to see distributed revocation as being itself has no relation to how possible it is.
Hmmm. you're in the same boat as I am, I'm still waiting on an update and a lite version, so I can't really plan a campaign right now..

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937250

How did the showoff go?
Once you JOIN Oracle, you have to abide by their referential constraints, otherwise the general employee database will TRIGGER a DELETE on your records.
It also makes sense for routing and weight purposes. You can run electrical wires where no driveshaft can fit.
Interesting and disappointingly. In this case I was testing it with play services, using the nextcloud app. I believe they are using something slightly custom from an open SDK, and suspect the outdoor was at their end.

It seems strange Google put fido2 into play services, but that's certainly what they seem to "need" to do to get things shipped, given the lack of prompt Android release updates (don't even start me on longevity...)

Still unfortunate every time this happens, as AOSP just loses more and more functionality.