jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some of my favorite "wrong" or erroneous 'beliefs' (apart from the Flat Earth, and geo-centric beliefs)

-- Luminiferous ether: that light propagates via the "ether" medium
-- "Bad air" theory of infectious diseases (which is still held in many countries)
-- "Stress causes ulcers"
-- Leprosy is contagious
-- The belief that first five (or two, or three) years of a child's life determine his/her personality in adulthood. This is one is still widely held and accepted.

Oh, and just for kicks: 'Intelligent Design' and its variants. :-)

And just to throw it out: What will it take to convince that Global Warming / Climate Change is real? This is perhaps one of the leading least-understood / most controversial beliefs of our times.
I have not noticed this phenomenon, other than various paraphrases of "don't be evil".
Quitting quietly wouldn't get any more traffic to his blog...
How is the TSA political?
Virtual desktops are a feature of X11, not GNOME.
No, nonprofit colleges have nothing like the same incentives as for profits. For starters, eg community colleges often, by design, lose money on each student they educate. They also, as demonstrated by points upthread, do a better job of education when education is graded as investing in successful student education.
"Developing design skills is a summer project of it's own."

Correction: "Learning how to use Photoshop is a summer project of it's own".

I appreciate the linkbait and all, but saying you've developed sufficient enough design skills after one site redesign is like saying you should be an engineering manager because you developed your blog in Frontpage.
Implemented in June 2014 [1], [2].

[1] http://cointelegraph.com/news/111786/both_yahoo_and_google_f...

[2] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/88679063982/coinbases-api-brin...
I'm not sure how that means anything when it comes to locking down Macs. If you're trying to make a general argument "Apple is capable of doing bad things", that's of course trivially true but does not at all imply they're interested in locking down the Mac's bootloader?
That's not really the same thing though. Those are just different caches of RAM. There's nothing really special about them.
Right, but the point is to avoid people caring about you, not people knowing about you. It's fine to have your name out there and on some public records about where you live if everybody is indifferent to your existence. It gets dicey when you owe somebody money, and they owe somebody else money, and then when there's not enough money to go around they're like "Shoot, where can I find some money? I know, I'll turn the screws on people who already owe me something and just collect what I'm owed." Little details like the precise payback terms of the loan and recourse available tend to get lost when court systems aren't functioning, and people only think "Oh, who owes me money that I can collect from?"

(As a side note, this is an important and often-overlooked point about mass surveillance. There's a huge difference between large data-hoovering organizations knowing about you and large organizations caring about you. Most people's best defense against identity theft or blackmail isn't cybersecurity, it's boringness, and the law of large numbers.)
I would ask yourself this, why are you making people sign up for a free trial with a credit card? Is it because you're actively looking to capture people who are forgetful, or some other reason.

Having been in sales and marketing, I can tell you that the first reason is usually why companies want the credit card information for. If the product was so fantastic that the trial will sell it, there's no reason to capture payment information during a free trial. For people who forget to sign up, when it gets automatically cancelled at the end of the trial, they'll beg to give you money. Requiring it up front is about producing a false conversion rate.

I refuse to sign up for free things that require a payment method registered. It's not free if you say, let me hold your wallet while you try it out.
This reminds me of when Ryanair bought 100 Boeing 737-800 aircraft in 2002 after 9/11 hammered the airline industry[0], a very bold forward looking move. It was good for Ryanair and for Boeing.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/jan/24/theairlinei...
> Young Iranians already made heavy use of the web in the early millennium

They were are/are prolific Iranian hacking groups too. I had the misfortune of having my small site defaced (in a drive-by) and Googled a string from the usual shout-out and found a lot of matches on similarly defaced sites. I counted that as evidence towards a robust Iranian underground hacking scene. This was way before APT & state-level actors were in the public consciousness.
> Who among regular people are really fooled by the difference?

Just about everyone I've ever happened to talk about it with. Regular people don't know the difference.

One of the most classic complaints in 10+ years of having roommates is how our download speed never matches the one on the tin. And most of the time it's at least kinda close, but the person complaining doesn't realize they're off by 8x and will always feel extremely ripped off.

The responses to my comment are sadly predictable. We have a hard time admitting when computing is failing and deceiving people just because us power-users can navigate the confusion.

I think the opposite assertion of your post is the more realistic one. The only people who want to see the unit of "megabits" are the niche nerds, not my roommate trying to decide which ISP package is going to be good enough for him by estimating how long it would take him to download a 1gb movie. He thinks a 1 megabit connection is going to take 15-20min.
...and might be a way around that user-hostile "secure" boot crap?
What kind of garbage argument is that?

Hamas and 8chan are using the same DDOS protection service. That's all. So all cloudflare sites are by that logic responsible for the content of other sites using cloudflare? Especially considering the problematic dominance of cloudflare, I expected a higher troll logic level of Krebs.
This is a common misconception about Lambda and Functions. They don't always give you a fresh container/VM, but Actions does.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...
Still lower than a McD's in the US
Those two things are not equivalent at all. I don't think you understand what you are talking about.

S-expressions define a class of syntax styles. By themselves, they have no semantic characteristics at all. Macro's are a way in which the compiler rewrites the syntax tree based on user programs. Do you see the difference?
This sounds eerily similar to the so-called startupscene in Denmark.

The events revolve around bankers, bureaucrats, lawyers and consultants trying to make a buck off the entrepreneurs. This is an evil spiral since nobody knows what the heck they're talking about, and drain the few startups of the money and resources they've got. The result is that there are very few startups that succeed, thus fuelling more of the same bullshit with the state giving grants to entrepreneurship events and programs that are promtly sweeped up by aforementioned consultants and lawyers.

And the state keeps pouring money into the black hole not understanding why the new Google doesn't emerge.

Two years ago Ernst and Young's highly publizised entrepreneur of the year in Denmark managed to give the first prize to a company which two days after the event was exposed as one of the biggest frauds in Danish history. A few years earlier the prize was given to a company with 500 employees that was founded in 1956.

I stopped going to these events years ago - they're a total waste of time.

It's a structural problem - if there aren't any successful entrepreneurs there's noone to turn for for guidance, no capable investors and no role models. Which of course leads to even less successful entrepreneurs.

Maybe this is a European problem?
You can use notmuch-search with Gnus: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch
Now there's nothing at all you could possibly miss from Gmail ;)
BTW, I'm just being a messenger here - I got this link off Twitter and thought it'd be of relevance here.

I can't muster much enthusiasm for the initiative myself. My gut reaction is "oh no, as if we needed one more", and I winced at the blog post which said "the most important thing in a new language is that you can println 'Hello world'". I can't find any evidence of design thinking that strives to achieve the lofty objectives set out in the PDF paper.

But I'm looking forward to the discussion :)
Maybe I would pay Google $4.99 per month to use all it's products (not just mail) without Ad's and high privacy settings.

However, I'm not sure if Google wants my money.
Life is easy with an ad-based service.
It doesn't seem very down to me...
I got a "We've detected unusual activity on your account" lockout on my Gmail account this morning. Since I can't find anything suspicious on the account I assume it's just bots hammering away, trying the Gawker password and other guesses. Anyone else get that?
Or, build apps, lots of them, keep them alive, find distribution channels to push them through (platforms), improve the winners, sideline the losers, find a niche, build apps for the niche, keep slugging away at it, build up a portfolio of complementary things.. and then build a business out of it.

I mean, its very very hard to get it right the first time and hit one out of the park, so you have to try a million tiny things to find some things that stick. The trick is knowing when you're on to something and when you need to double-down. If you can't do that yourself, get outside people involved when you think you have something. If everyone walks away disinterested, you may not have anything yet... keep going.
Forums are preferable to email lists, in my opinion.
I was trying to figure out the 'Why' and then I got to Roger Ver being an investor in Ripple.
I don't have a high blood pressure but I do use a CPAP device for handling my spnea. Currently using a Philips Dreamstation. After it was diagnosed I immediately got the device and ever since my AHI dropped from about 50 to 2 or 3 an. I wonder if it is possible to ever get off this device. Would this breath exercises help in reducing the AHI?

Some actions which I have experienced in a positive way of reducing AHI:
- Hiking / workout before going to bed
- Quit consuming drinks containing alcohol.

Any other suggestions would be great and very welcome!
You need to look at countries that have had COVID-19 for a longer time to see the real death rate. Countries like the UK, US, Australia, Canada, etc. are only just spiking on infections, and it takes a while before deaths spike as a result (around a week or two). See this graph to understand it [0]

Italy has a 9.25% death rate [1] as of today.

[0] https://miro.medium.com/max/9350/1*r-ddYhoUtP_se6x-NOEinA.pn...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
I think so, yeah. I copied that quote verbatim.
> You definitely shouldn't rely on nothing ever attempting to put a bad value into the database.

It's a deeper problem than that because etcd doesn't know what Dicord considers as a "right" value, etcd stores whatever you send to it, empty values etc ...

The question is why a single bad formated JSON object created an entire fleet of healthy nodes to fail. There is some JSON parsing somewhere that went really wrong.
> only to configurations that have gotten FAA approval, right?

No, the FAA doesn't regulate seating layouts.

Weight and balance have to be met, and exit time is verified.
It is if it seems to be the result of a service. Don't really have any experience with Medicare / Medicaid and they don't operate their own hospitals / clinics. I do have experience(s) with IHS.
So here is a situation that happened to me. A professor of mine has taught the same class year after year, and builds his tests for this year from last year's, changing only a few numbers. This professor also allows 1 8x11 "crib sheet" to be brought into the test, and distributes past years exams as study material.

For the first exam, I studied honestly and filled my crib sheet with important formulas I didn't want to memorize. I got a decent grade, but nothing spectacular. However, for the second exam I realized that all the questions to the last test were from previous exams, and just printed out the previous years exams as my crib sheet. I got close to a perfect score on this second exam.

Did I cheat?

Once you start limiting the publicly available information student can use to study, the situation gets very sticky very quickly.
The web did not spread quickly from the grassroots up. TBL worked hard selling it. Eventually it had its own momentum, but he makes it sound easy.
The TSA search was punitive and counterproductive. TSA is an ongoing debacle. I'd be angrier about this if TSA wasn't undertaking the harassment of every American citizen in an effort to demonstrate value by causing discomfort and humiliation.

The Customs interrogation was not punitive. Customs agents themselves may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, but part of their charter is to assist in domestic law enforcement. There is a clear law enforcement objective involved in Wikileaks.
For what it's worth man, if we could deal with the decades long threat of nuclear annihilation of the world and preserve our civil liberties, I'm dumbfounded that the threat posed by terrorists even registers.
How about a link to something relevant? Like whatever policy change prompted this.....
Bluespec's thing is that rules are atomic, so they won't ever (appear to) fire in parallel. This is in contrast to Verilog and friends where that isn't guaranteed. The nondeterminism comes in when two conflicting rules are both ready to fire: they can't both fire, so the system needs to choose one. You're warned when the compiler detects this, and it can be resolved by giving one a higher priority.

I personally didn't find the semantics to be unreasonably complicated, but the type system is very much based on Haskell's so if you're not used to that there'll be more of a learning curve.
Wow that sounds fascinating. I'd like to read more about the first dot-com collapse (I was ~10yo at the time!). Any good resources besides wikipedia to get me started? :)
Large cardboard boxes don't especially bother me - they're generally useful to have around and cardboard can be repurposed in a number of ways anyway.

More annoying are multiple layers of completely wasted plastic wrap. Or the notorious blister pack which is essentially designed to be _useless_ once opened.
"already know how rich you are based on where you live"

Of course... Because if you live at place X you're rich and Y you're poor

That is naive at best.

"Published tax forms will have no effect on your probability of being robbed."

Of course not, so maybe you can start and put your tax info somewhere public.
Personally, I think the "maker" culture was (also) a great way to recognize the contribution of women who traditionally made a lot of things from scratch for the home, etc. Someone else here made the same point, I believe.
The article does seem to go out of its way to make a point that could stand on its own. I am the first to admit I question people who don't make things, but "just" criticize, however that has nothing to do with gender, but with a different kind of bias.
I want to throw in that people are too quick to group 'Africa' together. It's like getting mad at Europe for Russia's incursions into Ukraine.
Why the downvotes? If you look at the stock price over the MAX range, you can see exponential growth until 2000 - then it went sideways. Stock price represents the opinion of investors. It's not just programmers.
Perhaps we should considerably increase incentives for telecommuting. A lot of gridlock is from office workers who probably could do their job from home. This might also foster improved community development and less suburban sprawl, as people spend more time in their communities.

Public transportation needs to dramatically improve. In a lot of places public transportation is expensive, takes longer, isn't as convenient and still stuck in the same traffic jams that other cars are. Setting aside single lanes for HOV or broken public transit seems incredibly inefficient.

The simple fact is that moving people around a city is expensive and time consuming. The real solution is not having to move people in the first place.
Fantastico really only works if it's part of the hosting solution. If you sign-up with any shared host offering CPanel, you'll probably have Fantastico, so basically, every CPanel host IS phpfog.

Sign-up, click to install WordPress, or whatever, and you're good to start customizing.
Edit: Do you think it would skew things that much? It seems to show a much wider disparity with Chrome hitting > 5k runs per second and Safari 5 hitting only 308... My only concern about that is the appearance of cherry picking results instead of using their recommended tests.
Apple doesn't even treat its developers well itself. Why would Apple go out of its way to stop other people from mistreating them?
It also doesn't crash when I use PivotalTracker.
>> You fell for the marketing.

I'm only going from my own experience.

Before my current MBP I had a T series ThinkPad - arguably one of the best built laptops. Awesome machine, loved it. There is no comparison in materials or build quality though.

Right now I'm using a borrowed iPhone 2G. Before that a high-end Symbian Nokia. The Nokia worked far better as a "phone". The fit-and-finish of the iPhone is far above.
I would imagine the conversation inside NYT HQ went along the following lines:

"The iPad is our saviour! It's the platform we've been looking for to regain our foothold in dictating the form factor and payment structure for our content."

"Someone is stealing our content on the platform :( Does anyone have Apple's number? They seems to be down with the whole 'form factor and payment structure ownership' thingy"
Isn't there a brand new 2.4 GHz Macbook? Check the online store.

After a long time of using Ubuntu for about 80% of my work, I am drifting back to OS X for the majority of my work. The issue for me is that the MacBook keyboard is just a little nicer for reducing hand fatigue for me - not sure why. That said, MacBooks run Ubuntu great.
This is why thinking about things in terms of "natural" vs "manmade" is only a crutch. It is a reasonably good rule of thumb that if something is sold in the supermarket and was grown and minimally processed, it is good for you, while if it was heavily processed it isn't. But is just a rule of thumb.

For example, while the science is still up in the air on this as far as I know, it may turn out that Vitamin D supplements are healthier than getting Vitamin D from sunshine, because that same sunshine causes skin cancer.

On the other hand, because of selection bias, there is a pretty good chance that something that has been around for several thousand or million years as part of a natural process is well adapted to the ecology of our planet. The natural processes that disrupted things wildly were either incorporated into a new dynamic equilibrium (oxygen producing cyanobacteria) or died off a long time ago. Oil wells that go miles into the planet's crust underneath miles of deep water are neither of these things.
Unlikely, yes, but stranger things have happened during the early Cold War.
Indeed tenure at a top university is much harder, and therefore small number statistics, and so I would be even more surprised to see it linked to a sub-one percentile spread in seventh grade scores.
having a small child did it for me. Now that they're old enough to know how to lie in I find that I'm getting up before them. On the other hand, I'm no longer in a position to pull an all-nighter.
Interesting - I'm only a year and a half out of college, and I don't think any of my undergrad CS friends were making a $110k salary right after graduation (more in the 60-90 range).

I've always used a rule of thumb that rent is $1k/month/bedroom around Palo Alto, a bit less in Mountain View / Sunnyvale / Redwood City, and a bit more in SF. >$2k/month/bedroom sounds extraordinarily high - where were you seeing that?
You're right. It was a mixture.

I started using Google in 2001, after seeing it on the screen of another computer in an Internet Cafe. I was trying to search something, and Altavista was returning shit filled with all kinds of commercials.

Opened Google, typed my search query in that lovely text input, hit Enter, and WOW, the first 10 results were all relevant. And no commercials. I was so impressed that I instantly switched.

Even when they added commercials, they were marked as such, while being clean and non-intrusive (well, that changed in the meantime -- I find their search page a little cluttered with commercials nowadays).
I thought it'd not be too much entropy, though maybe writing it as "kkkohd{3+1}" could have helped :-)
If it's at-will, they can fire you for whatever reason (or no reason). I don't think they have to prove anything, except that you signed an at-will employment agreement.
Moral of this story: drive your marketing decisions by data and analytics, not by fluffy market research. Asking people what they want usually results in "I'd like a pony."
If it's convenient, attend Google's SRE Classroom near you, such as this past one

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/training/sre-classr...

I hope to see it at LISA 2015.
That's your biggest issue with list?
Not long ago lasers, phones, compters were all very large. MRI machines today are very large, but one day. Not saying this approach is the best or that there are alternatives that are easier to adapt to something consumerable.

One thing I do know, that in the not so distant future - HATS will come back into fashion and with that I hope that somebody is not allowed to pattern using hats to contain sensors or any kind. But I have hope that the whole patatent area will be in a far better state of play by then.

I also suspect a whole new area of social issue will arise in the form of thought tourretes, be it having SIRI searching for porn or downloading the latest XRAY filter for Glass - will be interesting times. Me I'm still waiting for a grammer nazi app that fix's the mistakes instead of complaining about them. We all have out dreams and to think beer and have a robot fetch you a cold one is still a dream. But getting closer.
I think you're thinking that class necessarily means economics. Think more "cohort."
They are saying that linodes are on their way back up. Not mine though... alas. Anyone else have any more luck?
I lived in co-ops for two years of college. It was very inexpensive, about $550/month including "rent" (not actually rent since we were technically owners), all utilities, furnished, and all meals, in an excellent downtown location near campus. A comparable apartment in the area might go for $700/month per person, assuming it's a two- or three-bedroom place, and that doesn't include utilities or food. Of course the rooms were tiny, the house was very used-up (the two I lived in were 50+ years old), lots of carpet stains, scuffed floors, and you have to deal with living with 20+ young people (noisy, drama etc.). It was a good way to meet people though. At my school at least, co-ops were basically frats for hippies.
Why do you say LET and LET* have very different uses? I just use LET* if I need to reference a preceding variable in the same declaration (it happens). Actually I vaguely remember PG in one of his Lisp books saying LET* indicates bad code, something I never understood, though empirically I've noticed some evidence for it.
The wrong jobs still have to be done by someone though. When you're talking about an entire system, you can't shift everybody out of a class of work as a solution or your dishes won't get washed.
and step 1 is already done for you
The demo site formatting messes up in IE7.