jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A really innovative coin would be a coin that must be mined in a low energy way.

I could envision a special new processor, eg something neuromorohic, that can perform unique algorithms at low power that are expensive to simulate on cpus or GPUs. Then if these are cheap enough to manufacture, the mining must be done on the special device to be worthwhile, and then the mining would have tiny energy impact. I would hope it would be a milliwattcoin. It would only take a milliwatt to mine a block and create a coin, but it could still take 10 mins.

Somehow I think there is a contradiction here, but at the same time it sounds alluring.
Bravo! Imagine the teledildonic applications! ;)
Thank you for your thoughts but you sir are selling me short.

>The first mistake he made was not seeking assistance after the stabbing incident

Sadly I found no assistance. I clarified some things about the surgery decision in another comment that may enlighten you.

>going homeless was the only option

No friends, no family. I have a brother who graduated Harvard Law under Dershowitz and worked for Weinstein. My younger brother. He called the police to tell them I was suicidal and they showed up at my ex-girlfriend's house to haul me away. (I was not, and have never been suicidal).

Sadly for me but luckily for you, you have much more support.
I'm studying Latin and working with customers instead :D
Even Columbus screwed over the Indians on the islands, even before disease had a chance to wreak havoc. Just the fact that they sailed in ships, wore armor, and had steel swords and rudimentary firearms gave a huge advantage to the Spanish.
What Google is doing is hobbling anyone who doesn't want to rewrite their app to be locked-in to Fuschia's arbitrarily incompatible system interface. Muh security isn't an argument. You should adopt Windows. It's got real orwellian acl system that's had a lot of impact annoying people.
I would interpret "fully" waterproof as meaning that at the rated depth it won't leak, no matter how much you swirl it around and push the buttons, and that you can leave it there all day.

Most water-resistant devices do not attempt this. You can put them under water, but if you bump them wrong you can ruin them.
I was more than happy to pay $5, but I don't think it helps with abuse at Chrome's scale. The abuse got so bad that Google is forcing Manifest v3 [1] on developers to seriously limit what extensions can do. Beyond the abuse, most of the extensions in all the stores, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and especially Opera, are not designed and maintained well.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/
Kinect is probably the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a while. If Kinect had come out in the late 90s or even early 2000 (go along for argument's sake) I doubt if Microsoft would have been this ready to embrace community hacking of kinect. More likely we would have seen the heavy handed actions that were synonymous of Microsoft that would have nipped these in the bud and we would have never seen the likes of cool hacks that Kinect is now famous for.

I still wonder how Kinect came out of a Microsoft led by Ballmer.
My 2 paise
- More than half of Indian "startups" are working on next groupon or foursquare clone
- Unlike USA, social security is almost non existent. In India bankruptcy means bankruptcy. This makes devs a bit risk averse.
For a random number m, you'd expect about 1/10 digits to be zero. Why is it surprising that 2^n would behave somewhat similarly?
That's exactly what I thought then I read the article which does state that they are talking about base ten.
Erlang will never have the same appeal to the masses as Python, not will it be as efficient at everyday scripting tasks.
An F# job did come up, and I'm quite happy with it :)

I'd like to be more involved in the functional programming community; it's easy to dip in and out of Twitter and forum discussions, but blogging is one thing that's dropped off since the summer.
Wow, what perfect timing, I'm planning on moving out there in 6 months and just started my research :) I'll add my thoughts to the wiki after I go through the whole process
6 and 13 (use IN not OR) really rely on the optimizer doing its job and can hide some nasty performance issues. I do know one release of Sybase would freak on IN but be fine for an OR (have no idea why). Also, views where very dicey.
I never understood the groans of dismay from other developers when the subject of writing SQL comes up. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool application developer, but I love writing SQL.

Unlike HTML & CSS, which seem designed to spread into a greater morass of obtuse and interdependant hacks with every trial-and-error iteration, SQL has always felt elegant to me.

It takes just as much time to craft an SQL query as it does to translate a design into HTML/CSS, but 99% of the time I can sit back and be proud of my handiwork; even re-using it later.

On the other hand, I have never completed a webpage without looking at the resulting markup and thinking, "What an ugly goddamn kluge." SASS and JQuery and HTML5 and CSS3 don't make a difference. Maybe I'm just bad at it, though.

I eschew ORMs at every opportunity, and it is mysterious to me why "writes SQL for you" is such a common "feature." I would liken it to a tool which "paints paintings for you" or "designs your app for you." Why would I entrust a computer program to do something which requires the creative spark of a human?
Schneier actually recommends writing your password on a piece of paper in your wallet. (even better, just a hint).
Knowing what the phishing in question was, yes, it was pretty harmless. Even if it was not, jacquesm would not risk his reputation in doing something malicious to the HN community, so this is a case where a private email might have done the same as this public notice.

I'm not saying anyone here did anything terrible, but usually when contacted privately you first respond privately, so this is a bit out of order. It's not like jacquesm wouldn't have listened to arguments about this, and so an immediate action in the form of this post is, well, just bad form.

Edit: jacquesm has come forth with it, so I've replaced "a contributor" with his username.
So, time to own up then, it seems the cat is firmly out of the bag, apparently icey thinks the chances of success are better than I do ;)

The evil part in me could not help but wonder about how everybody seems to be so psyched about receiving a chrome notebook that they throw caution to the wind and enter anything and everything in to a form on some server somewhere allowing the google marketing department to significantly update their profiles with all that data they supply, and all that for the chance of getting a laptop.

This sort of action is a very common marketing tactic, but I was actually quite surprised to see how popular it was on HN. Also, the fact that google was happy to collect your information even when you can't receive the notebook was an interesting detail, and lots of people only realized that after filling out the form.

Then the other day a second thing happened, someone solved the contest that was embedded in the video that was used for the launch of the product.

The evil part of me again thought wow, what a large amount of work that was done here, I wonder how people would respond to a second contest, with a much larger number of notebooks to be won?

So, within a few minutes a plan was hatched, a simple idea to see how susceptible a security conscious community is to stuff like this. The domain is plainly in my name and just about all the tell tale signs of a phishing scam are present. Over the course of the last couple of days the text was polished to make it more clear what the intent is.

The url of the site is http://www.freechromelaptop.com/ , the url of the payoff page is http://www.freechromelaptop.com/process.html

Since I'm the main 'driver' behind this little prank I take full responsibility for it and for the fall-out if any, the other co-conspirators would have never done this without me asking for it.

I hope you'll forgive me for having a devious side to me, but I intended for nothing but good to come out of this, and I hope that even if the project never got underway that you will take these words to heart, please be very careful with what you fill out in online forms, even if the page looks genuine and it is google that is giving you a chance to win some laptop you have to wonder if the collective value of the information given up does not exceed greatly the value of the goods they are shipping.

Jacques
If your emails take 30 minutes to arrive then there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
Hi, I tried to post this to the "Ask a question" form but got an internal server error in response. I was going to say:

Hey, any sign of a Linux version of 1.0? If some porting work needs to be done, could you describe it? I'd be willing to help. Thanks!

-- cjb.
Confession: it now runs on Rails 3 :-)
I have. They provide crawlers . We have a curated set of news feeds that we scrape and index. It doesn't really fit what we want to do.
I love Python and all, but how is this extension useful? or are people just liking this extension because it is "cool"?
I didn't see any mention of what he was offering, so why would you say "you want to offer almost nothing"?
Disallowing illegally obtained evidence also has the effect of discouraging the police from illegally obtaining evidence in the first place

Exactly, and arguably it's the only effective deterrent, because courts will be very lenient towards law enforcement officers doing their job, simply out of pragmatism. Law enforcement officers don't all have a precise understanding of the law, there are gray areas in the law anyway, and on top of that, the law is constantly evolving. Prosecuting police officers for illegal searches would be harmful, impractical, and _extremely_ unpopular, so the use of illegal searches and evidence obtained from them would become routine if that were the only deterrent.
And I was so hopeful from the headline that Apple was adopting the Lua Wax SDK as an official API.
Always assume a real estate agent in engaging in hyperbole, but...

In the last year or so I've seen a lot of houses in Hollywood Hills / Beverly Hills purchased, demolished, and rebuilt from the ground up. Needless to say, that's quite an expensive endeavor. Compared to a few years ago when houses in the same area sat on the market forever, it seems like things have taken a turn for the better.
This is still in Beta but i've been developing it on and off for a few months. Over the weekend I think I finally got it to the point where i'm comfortable making it public. Any feedback/criticism on features, usability or design would be welcome!
I wish it would be like that but my experience is that even average IT people are quite interested in what they do. (I'm still a student so my sample size is not that big).
I have the chrome extension that others have mentioned already installed but I'd still like to see this as a default on the site rather than something only a few have.

For one thing I imagine it would spread out the conversations in threads better. Currently most threads have one comment with a lot of replies at the top and not much going on below it.

Is there some stated reason why there aren't currently collapsible comments?
I said "or similar". Is RubyMotion the only Ruby compiler?

Personally I always favor solutions that don't require changing language.

As for RubyMotion, I thought it already supported any UNIX system.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909927
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/01/what-oxfam-...

(What Oxfam doesn’t want you to know: global capitalism means less poverty than ever)
A company called Caustic Graphics built an FPGA ray tracing hardware accelerator once, called the CausticOne and CausticTwo: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Caustic-Graphics...

As I understood it back then (2010), it was a big step forward in performance. But the company was purchased by Imagination Technologies, and I haven't really heard about it since.
Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays.
Even if the chemical detector did trigger an alarm: These devices are not faultproof, and if you can't find an explosive, can't find surgical scars, can't find anything in the baggage, you could safely assume the passenger does not have any explosives on or in himself.

The only explanation that makes more sense if the TSA, NSA or FBI had warnings about very cleverly implanted explosive devices and want to keep that knowledge hidden. That would explain why the pat-downs didn't convince them (maybe they tried to evoke a pain response), why they didn't give him anything to eat or drink, and why the JetBlue representative didn't want him to fly on this day, but was fine with the next day...
What if they weren't republishing the data? I believe it's against TOS to scrape at all.

Presume they were scraping the data to /dev/null, would that still be an issue?

Further, aren't some things INTENDED to be scraped? Like their RSS feeds?
A simple line I've used before:

"Please feel free to CC your technical team so we can make sure we're all on the same page regarding [technical requirements X, Y, and Z]."

Or something to that effect.

If the purchasing agent is feeling over-their-head technically, they might jump at the chance to involve someone who actually understands the requirements.

Disclaimer: I don't do SaaS, but I've been involved in a few enterprise sales in the capacity of "sales engineer".
Default passwords and not enforcing strong passwords are bad idea by design. I thought we learned that 10 years ago.
Google does hire SREs actually. It doesn't mean dev teams aren't on call also. But dev teams do get paged much less frequently.
Agricola filiae arat!
You're saying that WhatsApp needs more data for additional features. But I don't use Facebook Marketplace, I just use messaging; it makes sense for me to compare WhatsApp with apps that act as communication tools only.

I think most WhatsApp users see WhatsApp like this and I'd guess article's authors assumed the same.
This is true. It's also the tremendous irony of bitcoin evangelists narrative that fiat is worthless yet constantly touting every ATH (which is priced in that supposedly worthless fiat). Who cares what BTCUSD is if USD worthless?

And then you realize that this is pure speculation and the most ardent supporters are just praying for the greater fool theory to rain good fortune on them.

You need look no further than Coinbase, supposed beacon of our crypto future, IPO'ing and raising money in...that worthless green piece of paper known as the US Dollar.
The net effect is the same though; the company behind Tether is printing money from nothing and selling it for USD or BTC (which can be sold for USD more reliably).
Just about 1% of fly ash is released into the atmosphere.
Not the Tether price, but that's not what the article is about; the article is that they print USDT and use it to buy BTC, increasing demand and causing the BTC price to go up. No dollars involved, not directly.
Because we tried to use white lines and people complained that was racist and that we shouldn't give into White Privilege. #BlackLinesMatter

/s
I watched people climbing El Capitan when I visited Yosemite. Anyone who manages to get up that cliff face by climbing by any method is amazing. What these guys are doing is right at the limit.
I would say that day 2 is probably the hardest day. Day 3 was when I really started to feel almost normal, I lost cravings for food I mean. The craving and mental occupation of hunger is really distracting the first couple of days. After that you can focus more on your normal tasks without the constant nagging reminder that you are fasting. In fact, after about 12 days someone offered me a cookie at work and I almost took it and started eating it because it just completely skipped my mind that I had been fasting. I finally caught myself right before I started to eat it, but the hunger was so far gone from me that I wasn't mouth-wateringly rabid about eating a cookie, it was just like "sure, I'll take one" without a thought about it. So, I would probably say pushing through to at least day 3 or 4 would be worthwhile. If you steal feel handicapped after those days then it probably isn't for you.

I wish I had done some sort of quantitative test to see if this was beneficial. I was taking 3 summer classes and working 20-30 hours at a pizza place (yes, hand making pizza all day at Shakespeare's Pizza in Columbia, MO while I was fasting.) And I did well in the classes, but I wouldn't say they were the most challenging classes as far as math and science, it was two philosophy classes and one theoretical physics writing class that was a lot more theoretical than practical application and calculation. Perhaps next time I will take some sort of mental performance tests at each week interval and see if there is marked improvement or detriment.
Is it OK to try to establish a correlation between calorie intake and lifespan without taking into account variety in calorie spending, or a "life style"?

It seems that excess of calories have a big negative effect for an "idle/aged" lifestyle, and almost no effect for "hyper-active/young" lifestyle.

It seems also related to urban vs. rural populations.
Can't help but thinking of creating a "lorem ipsum detector" for relevant cms's.

Then if you would try to publish something that looked lorem ipsumish you'd get a warning, much the same way that you get if you try to send a mail w/o a subject field from (most?) modern mail clients.
Combining FastCGI and Rack? You've effectively described Phusion Passenger, because that's exactly what it is. It doesn't use the FastCGI wire protocol but how it works is exactly that: integrated in the web server, reuses a Ruby process for multiple requests to avoid the startup overhead, using Rack as the gateway interface, etc.
>This has been discussed ad nauseum but there exists a group of developers who value other language features, such as ease of deployment, readability, compile time, language simplicity, toolchain simplicity, maintainability, etc etc

All of which are orthogonal to having a more modern language, except maybe simplicity.

And even for that, after a while you understand that not having, say, generics, pattern matching or some such language feature, is not "simpler" is just having to do more busywork manually and in an error prone way.

There's simplicity as in "this is simple to understand and use" and simplicity as in "we ommited some advanced functionality and you'll have to built it by yourself, every time". The second is a false simplicity.

As Einstein put it: "we should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler".

Pointing to a specific point were making something simpler makes it lose the essense it should have.
I don't see anything new here, but for any practioners like myself Scikit-learn and Spyder were the Python tools which finally moved me from a die hard MATLAB junkie.

I grabbed the handy Anaconda package from here: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

Within about two weeks, and with a little bit of discipline, I became a MATLAB->Python convert. Spyder is a solid IDE, and Anaconda comes with all the packages you need (i.e. Matplotlib...).

All that's left now is to find a solution to MATLAB's excellent debugging. You can break to pydb in Spyder but the debug environment is nowhere near as functional as iPython.
Is it just me, or do the pagination blobs on the right really not work at all?
It makes sense in the enterprise world where everyone love Java and Eclipse (at least as far as I can see). It doesn't make sense on HN, not at all.
Yes. English is used everywhere and by everyone.
The US is absolutely not not the only country that can use monetary expansion without causing excess inflation. Basically any country with its own central bank, fully flexible exchange rates, with all Government bonds denominated in its own currency, with a decently large and productive economy, and federal taxing and spending can do it. There are at least several who meet that criteria (even New Zealand, for example).

Once you satisfy all that, high inflation just means you’re either spending too much, or not taxing enough.

A big part of what happened in Zimbabwe, by the way, was that land reforms caused a massive collapse in food production (a major part of their economy) and unemployment skyrocketed. They spent a lot in response (also having foreign denominated debt I believe), but mostly not focused on policy that would increase capacity. At the same time, they were having to spend much of their foreign reserves on food because of the supply collapse. So the spending and hyperinflation were inevitably consequences of previous mismanagement.
I’m not saying a sim is like real racing. I’m saying that human-car interface allows for play-control that maps to the real activity in a way a soccer or snowboarding game never can.
As we would sometimes say in the military, “Yes sir, yes sir three bags full!”
It collects "information you upload, provide, or create while using the service" … I mean it kind of has to does it not? That's how it can give it to other people.
> There is NO WAY in hell the Italians have tested over 200,000 patients for SARS-Cov2 in a matter of 2-3 weeks due to

See https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/#box_6 that graphs shows the number of tampons per day.

https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/#box_5 total tampons: 233222. The source is the Italian Ministry of Health.

Also in Italy, unlike what happens in other countries, all deceased people positive to the test are classified as "Covid deaths", regardless of the simultaneous presence of other serious diseases.
They were merely exercising their human right.
People are hearing about Italy running out of ventilators and choosing which patients to save. Since we don't want that scenario we are looking to have enough ventilators.
between this and Elon's stuff, how long till it is impossible to do astronomy or safely launch anything into space?
You basically present the herd immunity argument with the caveat that it's okay for people older than the median life expectancy to die if they become infected.

I agree this would be a solution, with the huge caveat, that it becomes socially acceptable to euthanize the old instead of dedicating medical resources trying to save them. As others point out, those resources will be needed to maintain normal healthcare operations and treat younger Covid-19 victims who require it.

With the current "save everyone" strategy, I think it should be a fairly easy argument that the older generation, for whom you convincingly argue benefit most from the measures, pays for it. You do this by printing a huge amount of money (diluting those who hold savings) and transferring to the workers whose livelihoods are being destroyed. Increasing public debt should be seen as unacceptable, no bank would ever make a loan for end of life care.

Edit: PS, in Europe printing money will require Germany to allow the ECB to fire up the printing press, which would be fascinating to see.
The EU did not have strategic reserves for a pandemic. This took us all by surprise and the speed with which this evolved into a clusterfuck was breathtaking. Everyone has been freaking out about their own situation. Nobody has enough masks, ventilators, hospital beds or trained staff.

Consider that the first cases in Rome were confirmed on January 31 to my knowledge. We are less than 2 months in.

Also this news about China providing aid whereas the EU refused to do so is probably one in a long chain of fake news promoted by Russia, meant to destabilize EU. Shame on you for spreading it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disinf...
Yeah immediately thought of CFAR after pica
How about this? http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/
You can try with a smaller team and make everyone improve rather than complain.
Who says ((0 1) (1 0)) is a real matrix? It's a complex matrix whose entries all happen to have 0 as the value of their imaginary part :)