jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Why do you think Twitter is a publisher, in the sense of a newspaper, for example?

Because, like a newspaper, they provide an actively curated compilation of information received from a variety of contracted sources to readers. Sure, much (but not all) of the curation is algorithmic, and the direct sources are mostly not under employment contract and not getting paid money for the content (either providing it for free or paying money for reach), while for most newspapers many of the direct sources would be under employment contract and they and others would be getting paid money for the input they provide into the curated product, but that difference doesn't seem particularly relevant to whether Twitter is a publisher. And, yes, a lot of the algorithmic curation is driven by explicit reader expression of preference, and some of the rest is driven by inferred reader preference from reader behavior. But that the curated product is highly personalized also doesn't seem relevant to how free expression rights apply to curation choices.

For purposes of civil liability, Twitter is not a “publisher” solely because of Section 230, but since we are discussing how the Constitution applies to them (which Congress could not change by statute) not how civil liability applies to them, that's not relevant.
I have no problem with manufacturers including fake engine noise as a feature as long as it can be disabled by the customer.
http://technicalillusions.com/
Yes, I was one of those, too. And yet, people use employees in arguments for corporate free speech (as did the post to which I originally replied ("people working there")).
Most startups fail - when a company fails people pick themselves up and go and do other things, generally a bit wiser for the experience.

History suggests that when countries fail, or at least when the machinery of civil society fails, things can get very unpleasant.
I think the Gothic games are available in German, as they are made by a German developer. They are good RPG's (1 to 3 that is) and they are quite text heavy. I'm not sure, but I think all the spoken text is also subbed, which I imagine would help you allot.

Viel spaß
Would it really be a lot of work? I'd imagine the effort expended towards security in general exceeds what you're proposing.

EDIT: As I understand it, Cyrillic languages use code page 866 as an extension to ASCII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_866. Is this correct?
Interestingly, there are some district courts/jurisdictions that are turning against bail bondsmen for being exploitative. Some will try and outright ban them from operating (either by explicit local ordinance, or by denying them the agreements on standing credit and prisoner transfer that they need to operate), but more interesting are the courts that try and eliminate them via competition.

As of now, bail bondsmen generally charge a fee of 10% of the bond posted, and then use a standing line-of-credit they have with a local bank to pay the bond to the court. The fee covers their costs and the costs of hunting down people who skip bail, and the line-of-credit is what actually pays the bond. To out-compete them, some courts are setting a normal bail bond, but giving people the option of satisfying the bond by paying 10% in cash (which is refunded if they show up in court) as opposed to 100% on credit from somewhere.

Let's say someone is placed on bail with a bond of $100K. Option 1 is to find $10K in cash, use it to pay a bondsman (which costs $10K), and then have the bondsman put up the $100K to get them out of jail. Option 2 is to find $10K in cash, pay it to the court directly, and then get that $10K back when the person shows up in court. Either way, the person is out $10K - but if they pay it to the court directly, they'll get it back.
Forking would be the key to eliminate the gatekeeper problem, so that for certain topics people could publish their own articles or make changes to existing ones without needing the approval of some opinionated moderator or admin. On the German Wikipedia this problem is so bad that earlier this year we had a really big discussion that even extended from the blogosphere to the major news outlets.

What I mean is that Wikipedia could learn from GitHub how a lot of forks plus easy pull requests can exponentially increase participation and generation of new content while still being able to retain quality.

It's not like someone can work on a feature that later gets merged into the mainline, right?

Why not? You could extend an article or contribute some new articles for a topic, publish the content yourself, and try to get it into the main project. Then on the main site there could be a list of forks, and even a network graph exactly like on GitHub.
2) by being Tor relay, well, you relay traffic for other Tor users. If you find some content objectionable (be it child pornography or cnn.com) you can block that content from being reachable to your relay with other tools (ip/dns blacklisting, content filtering etc.). Your relay will then be relaying content you haven't blocked.

1) ownership of bandwidth is a gray area. I run my Tor relay on the ISP link I pay for, but that doesn't necessarily mean I own the link or it's alright by ISP's ToS. But as long as you're not using most up/downlink 24x7 (not possible on most home links due to asymmetry anyway), I think ISPs won't bother counter-measuring you.
"If you're a 3-time successful entrepreneur with VCs clamoring to give you money at astronomical valuations without an idea, then this might be an option for you. Otherwise, this option is a death sentence."

Not sure if he's trying to provoke people to comment, but he can't just say that and not substantiate it one bit.
Now that I've read through all of his predictions, this is part of a larger trend among them. He calls his predictions a success when the technology problem has been solved, and he is completely ignoring that forces that decide if that technology becomes common or not. He is very bad at thinking about the human factors, and optimistically calls success for things that saw a brief life in the market, and then was pushed to the sidelines.

Take force-feedback in games. Ten years ago I could go into any videogame store and buy a lot more different kinds of force-feedback controllers than I can today. It was tried, and then everyone got bored.

Or his prediction that everyone will have several wearable computer devices on them. Yes, we can do that today, but noone is doing it, because the more devices you have, the more often you have to recharge them. This is why most people consolidate their wearables to one smartphone that they charge every night, rather than ten devices that have to be charged each on their individual schedule.

Or voice-recognition input. Yes, the technology is there, but is is not, and will probably never be, the main input mode for our computers, because it is incredibly annoying in any group of people.

Or his prediction that cables are disappearing. This prediction will not fully come true until we solve the recharging problem. I have a colleague who recently bought an ordinary wired mouse to replace his cordless mouse, and he said it's the best thing he bought for his computer in ten years, because it always works and never runs out of power.

Or his prediction about animated virtual personalities. Yes, I've seen those at a bunch of websites, but less and less these days as people realize that they're just in the way. What people want is an efficient search function where they can type whatever they want and get relevant results.

He also has a bunch of predictions involving virtual reality which are all pretty off. World of Warcraft has over ten million active players, and allows people to interact with each other in the virtual world of Azeroth, and yet a lot of people play it in internet cafés or at LAN parties, they play it with their friends next to them, because the physical experience is so much better than the virtual one.

It's also pretty telling that if you look at professional video game players, they are constantly rejecting reality-like immersion. The best first-person-shooter players are all using the lowest graphical settings, and a distorted perspective, the best world of warcraft players do the same, play with no sound, and have lots of addons that expose as much of the underlying mechanics and numbers as possible, which is completely contrary to the goal of immersive systems.
It depends. Depending on the age of the person and the fragility of the bones. It's not a "requirement" in any sense, more "if it's not a risk, you're not going deep enough" - typical standards call for 1/3 to 1/2 the chest depth.

As often as that - it's much more (almost guaranteed) that you'll tear the cartilage between the ribs at the front.
I once had a conversation with some ER nurses about the best way to commit suicide. They took indeed a very hacker-like approach to the problem. Some of the suggestions were insulin or potassium overdoses. Maybe not what you'd expect as a layperson.

It seems like the go-to drug for terminally ill patients is often hoarded morphine or morphine derivatives, but death is slow and drawn-out, and someone might get the brilliant idea to resuscitate you, leaving you brain damaged and worse off than the situation you tried to escape from.
Good spot. One small nitpick.

Georgists would contend that they do not support collectivized land, but rather support "common" rights to land.

http://geolib.com/sullivan.dan/commonrights.html
It's not just cost, it's also cycle time (as mentioned in the article.) To "do" hardware requires a company to be fully formed, with engineers of all kinds, before they can even really begin. They can get a minimal MVP using a Teensy board or something from mbed, but beyond that, for anything of any serious complexity, they have to build out a company.
Funny, ARM, AMD, and Apple seem to be having no issues. Maybe they should change the company name to Antel?
How did you lose your data twice?
That's a Westmere from Jan 2010. Westmere -> Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge -> Haswell.

Comparing with something from 3.5 years and 3 generations ago is useful?
I think you're confusing Snowden and Greenwald here.

The way I read it so far (please do correct me if I'm wrong) is that Greenwald received a very large dump of information from Snowden and that Greenwald is dictating the pace and selection of the releases.
I gave up on SSH on "glass" devices so this is fine for me. Too easy to FUBAR something from miskeying.

I switch on the WiFi hotspot on the device and use PuTTY on my ThinkPad instead.
"my car registration ends UNX"

well that's certainly more original than having an apple sticker on your car
How about those phones that can slide and open to show a physical keyboard, probably too costly and error prone I guess
On the one hand, no, that sort of cavalier attitude wouldn't be prudent, and most human beings wouldn't say things like that publicly (even sociopaths, who ironically might be less likely to do so).

On the other hand, this sort of humor emerges even in high school among guys. If a group of bankers not very connected to him hear about it, I could see a joke like that beinf said. But the same could be said of any profession. That's humanity for ya.
Again: people do a lot of dumb stuff when they're 19.

Like Vote? or Like Make Porn?

How would you feel if any one of those things were held against you by everyone years later?

You're really missing the Irony here, eh?
What on earth were the kids' parents thinking? You would think they'd be somewhat wary about buying a wild animal known for spreading disease to be a pet for their children.
Oh yes! They open http and https connections just like a web browser would so they load the same elements and run the same javascript as a browser.

My usage seems to be the opposite of yours as I use the web browser as a fallback.
What's "the pledge"? I can't find anything on the page explaining what that means, is it some sort of contract?
Hi Dheeraj, I would like to apply for Java Position. Sent you a mail with CV. Kindly look into it.
"That totally blows out my business model!" may be true [+], but is not an objection which should escape the lips of someone who has the word "capitalist" literally in their job title.

[+] I'm agnostic on this. Pinterest just raised, what, $450 million dollars? That's presumably not intended to buy the world's biggest vat of chocolate pudding.
The tl;dr; version: this 65% number comes from a correlation coefficient on a log-log plot, which means the correlation coefficient has nothing to do with the actual fraction of cancer cases one can attribute to stem cell division numbers.
Very inspiring article! Thanks for taking the time to write it and more for sharing it.
Sorry, I meant that comment for mrcharles.
>That would be a no-go in most of Europe. Cities are too dense, so there is just no land available for that

Bus/Taxi-only lanes are pretty common actually.
The middle ground is what Europe does.

The failures of what the US calls "regulation" is shown by California (where decades of under-investing in both modernization and upkeep has led to countless deadly fires) and the Texas clusterf..k.

In the almost 30 years I've lived in Germany and a bit of Croatia, the only time I can remember I lost power without actively causing it myself by careless drilling was the Nov 2006 europe-wide blackout.
Willful blindness packaged as cleverness won't save you. Climate models show that we only have about 10-15 more years before complete climate collapse. Welcome to the anthropocene.
Since this math is per-person, I'd definitely notice a $25/month increase.
This shouldn’t be downvoted. Indeed, this is something our physician brought up with us as a reason not to let your child join you.

The theory goes that children are programmed by nature to prevent more offspring. A sort of incentive here.

Looking online there are mixed reviews of whether co sleeping hurt the adult relationship.
This article was disappointing. It provided 0 information about whether or not the deregulation was the cause for the increased prices.

The headline could have just as easily been "Texas electric bills were 28B higher as adoption of EVs increased(or any other thing that has changed since 16 years ago)".
This is exactly the wrong mentality that leads to exactly the wrong outcomes (e.g. the title of this article).

The goal of “basic services” should never be cheap, but good instead (i.e. quality, not price). And that is what should be regulated (e.g. metrics like “health outcomes” in medicine, “number of blackouts” in power distribution, ...).

Then, the market should take over, to optimise for price (== profit), because that also optimises for social well-being (e.g. in medicine, “cheaper” directly leads to “more affordable healthcare” and indirectly to “healthier population”). The idea that “profit” shouldn’t be optimised or that the government should take over is obviously misguided, because there is no guarantee or reason why the government would maintain quality if the free market cannot (instead of “profit” they would optimise for “employment” or “corruption” or “size of bureaucracy”).
Note that it's $9000/mWh, or $9/kWh. That's a regulated maximum wholesale price, not a fixed price.
I'm not sure I totally buy this analysis. The ability to shop around for your electricity provider came along with a renewable portfolio standard, which was fully expected to raise overall rates a bit. And Texas has low rates overall compared to most US states.
For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591

OK everyone: At several people’s request, I’ve now taken a look at arXiv:1403.7686, and I can confirm that it’s complete garbage. The author is simply mistaken that solving the Schrödinger equation is “NP-complete” in any interesting sense: his argument for that seems to rely on a rediscovery of the adiabatic algorithm, but he doesn’t mention that the spectral gap could be exponentially small (and hence the annealing time could be exponentially large)—the central problem that’s been the bane of Farhi and his collaborators (and, of course, of D-Wave) for the past 15 years.
Also, even if you thought (for totally mistaken reasons) that quantum mechanics let you solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, that might (or might not) suggest to you that quantum mechanics should be replaced by something else. But until you’d actually found a replacement, and given some sort of evidence for its truth, I don’t see how you could claim to have thereby “solved the measurement problem”!!
As additional problems, the author appears to conflate the P vs. NP problem with the question of whether NP-complete problems can be efficiently solved in the physical world, a common novice mistake. And also, he seems comically unaware of everything that’s been discovered in quantum computing theory over the past 20 years relevant to the issues he’s writing about—as if he just emerged from a cave.
San Diego County, California.

M-F:
06:30 stock market alarm rings. I sleep in.

06:30-07:15 twitter alerts inform me of stocks to trade.

07:30 I get out of bed

08:00 showered, i head downstairs to read more twitter

08:30 leave for work

09:30 arrive at work (yea, suck)... do work all day, non-stop, no lunch, no break.

17:00 leave for home

18:05 arrive at home, turn on oven, crack beer, clean up

18:15 pizza in oven, read twitter, ebook, or other reading

18:45 eat dinner

19:00 watch video lectures, set stock alerts

20:00 write notes, draw pictures, prepare for tomorrow's code session

21:00 tea and quiet time, screens avoided.

21:30 prepare for bed

21:45 in bed, lights out

S-S:
08:30 get out of bed... naturally

08:35 coffee, cold water, email

09:00 notes for items to do today

09:30 eat oatmeal, clean kitchen/house/bathrooms... whatever

10:30 computer time

11:00 programming time (or venture outside for a change)

17:00 make rice

17:45 prepare dinner

18:00 eat

18:30 dishes, tv

20:30 twitter/news/world events

21:30 prepare for bed

22:00 in bed... (possibly read a book)

22:30 lights out
But is saying "waiting" and no money are in. Now I can't play because I have no usable money to play, they are all pending... Also some of "waiting" just disappeared WTF! You should keep all the history to check. I think this happened because you only show the last 5 in history...

Also now is boring... I don't even know if I lost or won..
And yet other Apple users complained about Apple moving to an open standard (USB-C) with replaceable, standard cables and a charging standard that allows for safe usage of 3rd party alternatives.

But those particular users were upset because they lost the magnetic nature of MagSafe.

When you are as big and successful as Apple, literally any decision will meet some form of backlash.
Go 1.5 is going to have real-time guarantees on GC.
This is really cool. I generated the "iWatch": http://www.wf-g.de/wf/20141230/iwatch/
If I read this correctly he thinks that reducing emissions is too expensive but everything else like increased cost through extreme weather or building dams to protect areas below sea level is totally affordable. I am not sure I agree with that.

But this is how things will probably work out. I don’t believe we will make any meaningful reduction in emissions over the next decades so we will deal with the consequences.
> Also, what kind of corporate firewall lets you have access to Github but not tech blogs?

IBM's (although it doesn't block all tech blogs, and who's to know why they've decided to block yours.)
>Cracking down on insider trading, no longer needing guangxi

Wumaos are on HN now?
To add a little bit more to this, IBM promotes Java pretty heavily and has invested a fair bit optimising Java on POWER. So for them it's an "easy" path to get projects to migrate from x86 to POWER.
> Bloomberg is blocked in China, so it has to be credible

Actually, many quack sites are also blocked in China. Along with many political neutrals ones (like Ruby Gems). As a Chinese who has been bypassing the GFW a lot for years, my impression is that it is virtually a true random process that cannot be predicted in any way.
Thanks for that, I included your feedback.
"When I thought of a reasonable maximum number of attachments on an email I'd probably say 64."

We should not be talking of a "reasonable" maximum at all.

Rather, the maximum should be orders of magnitude away from the "reasonable".

At this distance, any arbitrariness quickly fades into meaninglessness.

Detached from the "reasonable" usage, the maximum then becomes informed by processing cost and complexity analysis, which are more concrete.
No part of this is remotely rigorous. It all hinges on a few house of cards-like permises.
How could you take a king with a pawn? Does the game allow it?
Yes, I'm a software developer. I'm currently a Developer III — which they rate as “Senior”, but there are higher ranks like IV, V and even VI, which goes as “Specialists”.

But I know no Spec-rated developer there that don't have a degree. If I recall correctly, almost all of them have at least a Masters.
LinkedIn has never been good. It's always been a snakepit of dark patterns. But I will believe that they've become even worse now.

(I'm still on LinkedIn, because many recruiters find me there and send work my way. But I barely use it. They do.)
> Having at least a bachelors will open doors. My employer excludes many candidates without a degree.
Yep, that's my biggest concern.

However, I can't work part-time here, they don't have part-time positions for developers. I would have to quit.
True, but POTS isn't used for mass media. Politicians have never phoned me to campaign for my vote.
In principle competitive bidding should result in cost savings because anyone who could do it for significantly less could profit by submitting a lower bid.

The problem is some combination of corruption and regulatory requirements. If the bureaucrats write the contract in such a way that only one company can satisfy it, that company has no effective competition so they don't have to compete on price. Same thing if the contract requirements, or the paperwork required to enter into the bidding itself, are such that smaller entities need not apply and you again have insufficient competition to drive down prices.

But none of that goes away by bringing the project in house either, you just trade corruption and high costs by contractors for corruption and high costs by public sector unions, and in that case there is explicitly not even the possibility for competition.

So you still either have to solve the corruption and bureaucracy somehow (effective method unknown), or move the project entirely to the private sector, e.g. by using the money instead to make tax cuts for regular people or transfer payments so that instead of government housing projects you leave people with the money to buy market rate housing directly, or whatever else they need.
>It's not impossible to for someone to swoop in and revolutionize a field with no background knowledge, but it's vanishingly rare in one as old as philosophy of mind, and Einstein is not an example of such a thing in physics.

It's also not something we expected from TFA (to "revolutionize the field")

We just wanted to read a thought regarding the Simulation Argument that occurred to a fellow developer, and we got that.
I did find it quite interesting that the men seemed to do worse with the values exercise than without it, and strange that the article didn't discuss this aspect. The idea I had was that if the men are subject to the same stereotype (that they are inherently better than women at physics), and then they find themselves in a class where the women are doing just as well as them, that they would lose some confidence. Since they only did slightly worse, I think this is perhaps a reasonable explanation.

If so, then I think it is ethical, because all you're doing is challenging an incorrect stereotype that was unfairly giving men a slight boost and women a significant handicap.