jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's hard to use Israel's purchase of the F-35 as proof that it's an excellent plant. I think it probably is, but FMS sales are hard to decipher; we give military aid to countries via FMS, but require that money to be spent on US produced equipment. We decided not to export the F-22 (which Israel would have definitely purchased), and the F-16 is a bit long in the tooth. So for their specific needs (stealth fighter-bomber) it might have been the best choice. And Israel negotiated a wide latitude of privileges that allows them to extensively modify the Adir.

Plus I don't think being "lightweight" was a goal of the JSF (or its predecessor JAST) program. Being more affordable than the F-22? Definitely.
He is coming for USA?? This is like 10 years old news. He is destroying American at least since the first Obama term. Just turn at any time see the hate they spew. You have to be blind or brainwashed by FN not to see these people agenda is to divide America from within.
I expect some drives to fail within 5 years, but I have many that still have data from much longer ago.

It would be a disconcertingly new phenomenon to find every drive in some old archival NAS failed simultaneously, or every one In a collection of external drives, because all drives last exactly 5 years with little variation, even when switched off, due to helium loss.
Really don't understand the pure hatred that people have for PHP, I'm at network engineer and I don't have any desire to become a programmer because I love my job, however I've wrote some very useful applications that myself and my team use on a daily basis to make networking easier for us.

For me it was simple to learn PHP and create something 'useful', basically every web server is capable of running it which makes my life a lot easier as well.

Surely the fact that someone can hack together code within a few minuets that doesn't profess to be a coder is a good thing, regardless of the language that there using?

There is no better programming language than the one you know.
Do you get anything done with it?
Quite an endorsement; I'll have to try to make the time to check that out properly. :)
Have you been reading the same technical coverage of this story that I have? Because what I'm reading is people saying that their static analysis regimes wouldn't have caught this, starting with Adam Langley. Veracode, which exists to sell a tool designed specifically to catch stuff like this, wrote the same thing.
If you want to do that then encrypt the files with truecrypt or something you trust and let DB sync the truecrypt container file.

But everytime you slightly change the contents, Dropbox will have to resend the entire container - thats one of the features of good encryption
Further suggestions:

You might want to state where you are currently located. For most companies the costs of relocation outweigh any saving on salary you are offering.

What skills do you have? Have you ever done any coding, system administration, security or research? Do you have a resume online you can point people at (or linkedin)?

Note: I am 99.99..INF% sure I will be an asset to any company which hires me.

Write this instead: I am confident I will be an asset to any company which gives me an opportunity.
Agreed, but there was also a lot of insight about how career websites suck, and you're better off using your network and/or working for people on a trial basis
Yes, I know the difference.

I was merely saying that her symptoms sound identical to my friend's, that's all. Just like some people seem to be successful as vegans, others may be unsuccessful at being vegetarians.
It is impossible for me to say this person is "wrong" but I figure I may as well throw my data points into the graph - I've been vegan for 11 years and I am more healthy on every level than I've ever been. I went vegan in my late teens when I was done growing, my younger brother went vegan at 12 a year after me and is now taller/broader than me. I know many people who have been vegan over 20 years who are in great health.

Obviously that doesn't just apply to vegans but regardless, the secret is this: you have to hack your diet! You have to learn about nutrition in general and then in relation to YOUR body and experience. There is no silver bullet and I am glad there isn't: life should be a constant practice of critical thinking and mindfulness. "Practicing" veganism is a great way to constantly engage with the world in an active manner.
Using a router's second radio as a client is probably novel and unexpected to most HN readers.
You won't need to worry about that. Its probably going to be as secret as the rest of this "agreement".
Programmatically generated art is still an immature medium, and rudimentary experiments in the medium still dominate what you see. They don't need to be great art for them to stimulate a little curiousity and interest among people are are following the medium more closely than you are, and that's what you see in galleries like those presented here.

You don't find them remarkable because they're the medium's equivalent of photography's early Daguerreotypes. Those early photos lack many truly artistic qualities. The substrates couldn't capture tonality, dynamic range or action very well. The artists were still surveying the very basic possibilities of photography. It wasn't until decades later that we start seeing great art coming from photography.

The same applies here. Most generative pieces using Context Free or Processing are unremarkable as 'art' because they're just basic surveys. They're still just using tempura paint and seeing what they can do with it.

But keep your mind open -- give it another 30 years, as the medium matures, and you're sure to be embarassed by how trivially you pass it off here. Year after year, more expressiveness will come through in more sophisticated generators made with more and more sophisticated tools.
when I read this question, I thought - let's see how long it takes for me to do this from scratch.
so I got conscript, downloaded scalatra, started coding , and about 26 minutes later, I have created this webapp exactly as you specified.

just another data point.
It depends. I think this is true when you don't factor in cost per square footage of property. Imagine taking the immense square footage of suburban houses and plopping it in the middle of Manhattan, then living there. Unaffordable.

However if living space isn't as a big of an issue, there is definitely a sweet spot where you can find smaller spaces that make living in the city cheaper then suburban life.
> Indeed. But critical thinking and creativity are the things second least prized in US classrooms, right after outright disobedience.

Really?

I never got downgraded for giving an answer that the teacher disagreed with, rather I was given good marks for being able to clearly present my side of a discussion.

For the classes I took that were subjective, History, English (in regards to literary critiques), etc, it was made quite clear that what was most valued was our ability to made a well reasoned and well thought out argument.

I had teachers who would frequently play devil's advocate and argue against any position a student took up, with the same teacher taking opposite sides of an issue for sequential questions asked.

Highlights of Middle School include debating the supremacy of Roman versus Greek societal structures, studying major world religions past and present, and lots long form essays.

High School and College history classes consisted of "well here is the truth about stuff, yeah it is nasty" and the breaking down of nearly every beloved trope and fetishism of American supremacy.

But that is just my experience going through public school. :) (And of course anecdotes aren't worth much, but I don't think there is any sort of nation wide conspiracy to undermine critical thinking!)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this in the thread but you can actually opt out of the xfinitiwifi thing. The deal is that you can use any of the hotspots if you have a comcast account and also share your router. If you opt out, you can no longer use the xfinitiwifi hotspots but nobody can use yours either.
I was really excited for FE, but at the moment is too like gokarts for me. But if your predictions come true, and they open up everything, I would really like FE to become as crazy as the innovative F1 years of 70s, 80s and early 90s - where just the speed and winning mattered, without the carbon and safety levels ruining the sport...
I just had comcast to my home last week. I pay for 120 mbps but when connected via cat 5 it only reached 90 max mbps which would fine considering when using a wifi router it only reaches around 30 mbps. I have moved around the wifi router but it doesn't make much of a difference. The technician told me the 120 mbps that I am being charged for is for for direct access and wifi won't reach 120mbps. I complained to customer care saying if I go to the grocery store and pay for 120 items, I expect to get 120 items, not 30 items. I told them they should tell people upfront that 120 mbps is when you are plugged in directly since most people use a wifi router but this still doesn't make sense to me since they can easily downgrade you to, say, 6 mbps without a problem.

Does anyone know if this OpenWRT works? I would love to push my speed to its limits. Comcast pretty much has a monopoly in my city and they are not very helpful.
Absolutely. The issue was the assumption that anyone who used the term miss would be a child and not an adult which is an incredible oversight.
> "C" is glorified assembly and learning assembly is fundamental to understand how computers work. "C" should be the first language programmers learn when they get serious (ex: first year computer science classes).

I agree that a CS education may include an understanding of low level details, but if you want to learn assembly and understand assembly, use assembly.

> When I write "C" I know exactly what is going on with each of my CPU cycles and where my variables are being allocated. The compiler is a dead simple translator who doesn't play funny tricks behind my back.

It really depends on what you tell the compiler. And if you’re using GNU, g++ compiles both C and C++. The compiler will aggressively optimize your code down to practically nothing, and you’ll find that the resulting machine code has high probability of being identical whether you wrote it in C or C++, so it’s a matter of choosing the language that is shorter and easier to read/understand.

I really do respect where you are coming from, but in my opinion one should use the tool that’s most appropriate for the job in light of what’s available. Just because we can keep using lead paint in buildings, or wire wrapping/vacuum tube amplifiers in electronics, doesn’t mean we should. Maybe for fun, maybe as a hobby, but not professionally, and that’s the mindset I approached this with.
>With this, police will soon stop intervening to stop crimes from happening

They already do this and are legally protected to do so. [0][1] The TL;DR is: the police is not legally required to help you, protect you, or take any action, really. Honestly, Lozito v. NYC makes me wonder what exactly the police is required to do, if anything. I'm certain that individual city's City Attorney's office decide this in their contract(s) with the police, but those provisions are unlikely to be directly related to the day-to-day job of officers AFAIK.

[0] Lozito v. New York City

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0
Can you briefly comment on how revenues are earned?
It's the same for me, but even short (10 minutes) intense exercises during the day help me sleep much better. That's fortunate because I wouldn't be able to fit hour long exercises into my workday.
Rebuttal: Piracy is theft because pirates violate the conditions under which artists/developers made their work available to the public. If they don't like those conditions, they shouldn't be using it but create their own stuff. (Please note, I explicitly exclude software patents or similar constructs whose only raison d'être is to keep competitors from making their own stuff.)
Build something he would be proud of.
I sympathize, but at the same time IMHO the verbal abuse must continue. You need to squeeze the TSA from all possible sides - passengers, their own employees, and the airlines for any meaningful change to occur.

I also find it somewhat disheartening the number of comments that fall back on the "I am a professional, I don't decide policy" argument - which to me smells a little too close to "just following orders" to be comfortable.

Now that the Godwin wall has been broken, I found this tidbit interesting:

> "Do people know what a Nazi is? One can’t describe me as a Nazi because I am following a security procedure of designed to find prohibited items on a passenger’s body. A Nazi is someone with hatred and ignorance in their hearts, a person who carried out actions of execution and extermination of those based on their religion, origins or sexual preferences."

The problem with this statement is that the security procedure will not find prohibited items on a passenger's body.

Secondly, a "Nazi" in the average case is just a guy trying to survive in a nation gone completely mad. What, does anyone seriously believe that every German soldier in the war was filled with "hatred and ignorance" and gleefully executed Jews and gays? I'd argue most were not so much different than you and I - people just doing the only job available to them, morality be damned.

So, at the risk of being inflammatory, I'd say they are like Nazis, or rather that the situation is rather like what the Nazis faced: a lot of batshit insane policies instituted by megalomaniacs blindly being followed by an army of dutiful people, many of whom take pride in the fact that their professionalism prevents them from rebelling from a clearly immoral act. In fact, many German soldiers were able justify their participation by believing that they were protecting Germany, not the Nazis. Sound familiar to any of the comments on the page?

I realize that for many TSA screeners, their career prospects are not exactly widespread, and asking them to quit and starve just to appease their moral conscience is unrealistic. Nonetheless, this does not imply the inverse - which is that just because these people are human, have feelings, and are following unpopular policies, doesn't excuse them from criticism, even particularly harsh ones.

Yes, you have feelings. Yes, you are human like the rest of us. Yes, you are only doing your job. But despite your best intentions, you are still molesting me. Doing so with orders shifts the moral responsibility somewhat, but doesn't change what you're doing still.
One of Scott Adams' great insights, but I'm surprised more people don't notice it. Any time you have a professional seller and an amateur buyer, confusion is the persuasion technique of choice.

Car dealerships institutionalized the practice decades ago in the form of the 'four-square worksheet', where they try to introduce as many variables as possible so that they have plenty of places to hide their margin. This is why car salesmen hate it when you don't bring in a trade-in or use in-house financing. It's hard to baffle someone when you're only negotiating a single number.
We can assume literacy on these boards :)
#11 isn't true. Since a recent update, you can now retrieve more than 1000 results in a single call.
The strangest question that I always get asked about my (quite fancy) bike is: "Is it fast?"

Well that depends what engine you put on it sir...
There is no API to login/comment.

I have web client http://hn.premii.com/ that uses new APIs (No login).

iOS client https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435 where you can login and upvote.
Is there any good reason this isn't the case in America yet?
A good reason? No. A reason? Lobbying.
I don't think they're so much technically helpless as they self-identify as technological victims. They don't see the I in solution. As such, there is no catering to them.
You've spoken to iPhone owners only, of course they don't see a problem :)
It will be of course possible to disable that for customers who wish so.
I never noticed or attempted to prime it. Just go listen to some episodes that you’ve listened to recently and see what happens. It’s not like rolling a projector when you hit play, it’ll fade in and out most likely.
This does not apply to all of the vitamins and is more of a special case behavior for Vitamin A.
> And I'm not convinced for most of the things that Rails is used for it's that big of a productivity boost

It could be a big productivity hit actually...
Just downloaded KeePass. Going to try it out. If it works, I'm going to start getting my non-tech savvy friends and family members moved over.
I guess that would raise costs to 6320/435 = 14.5x. At $1.6 million per seat [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/how-much-does-...] you could buy congress for $10.1 billion. The federal budget is about $3800 billion, so... this seems like an attractive price if the congress you buy is willing to steer a few percent of the federal budget into your pocket.
For purposes of understanding this article, does anyone know anything about the author, Bryan Caplan?

The website is the Library of Economics and Liberty and is funded by The Liberty Fund,[1]. In my brief review they appear to advocate for modern libertarian ideology. Does anyone know more about them?

At least, this seems to be political advocacy and not scholarly analysis. (I'm not criticizing it; just trying to understand what I'm reading.)

[1] http://www.libertyfund.org/
Another useful resource, albeit more beginner level - Quant Economy course. It has both Julia[1] and Python[2] flavors. Recently they even added a small introduction to the data science[3]. And all of this - open-source project at GitHub[4]!

[1] https://julia.quantecon.org/

[2] https://python.quantecon.org/

[3] https://datascience.quantecon.org/

[4] https://github.com/QuantEcon/
Just to be clear, there are longer videos of the event that show people banging doors down. I watched a live stream from one of the people upfront - some cops gave up after overwhelmed, and some even fraternized with people, but it was a confrontation to be clear. I encourage you to look up full livestreams of it.
In theory, you can keep the RAM powered and read the decryption key from it.

I believe a system like Apple’s Secure Enclave (everything contained in one chip) is better in that regard, although I’m not an expert.
Assuming this laptop is old enough to have been accessed as a part of the SolarWinds breach, it may have been pwned twice now.
Here's the one I can find (might not have reported/written others so I don't recall them): https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/7332

I can't tell if I'm just exceptionally good at making bugs explode in my face or something, but these are so simple that it boggles my mind when I'm the first person to report them...
I feel like 2-4 are all on the same level?

Make your own group: valid

Make your own site: valid

Make your own hosting provider: this one is tricky

Make your own ISP: shouldn't be needed

Make your own payment infrastructure: shouldn't be needed
Yes, and every exchange has 'money market' which means the cash reserves that hold user's deposits. Most exchanges use a simple database to hold these balances and there's no way to audit them. Every exchange can 'print' money in their database if they want. Tether is better because it offers some transparency into this side of the market.
200 - 300k is hilarious, 20 - 30k is much closer to a reasonable guess.
having trouble understanding the reference. would you care to elaborate?
It promotes the idea of a magic number, and that hard work and time leads to returns (not true for the majority of startups). It encourages thinking like "Man I'm at the 950 hour mark, I'm almost there!", or even worse, planning one's product milestones around time spent.

He did not mean it that literally. He's proposing a rule of thumb.
these are gamers. They'll want avatars of their favourite characters, and sig lines with the time spent playing, hardware setup, etc.
I don't think generative models are sufficient to model the kind of creativity that the author is thinking about. See this quote from the article:

The prevailing misconception is that by assuming that ‘the future will be like the past’, it can ‘derive’ (or ‘extrapolate’ or ‘generalise’) theories from repeated experiences by an alleged process called ‘induction’. But that is impossible.

He is looking for solutions outside of the distribution that has been previously observed.
I have a bottle of floor cleaner that comes in the exaxt sake bottles that orange juice does.
asyncio would need some work in order to be trully parallelizable on top of pypy-stm. You would need to go around and eliminate all the global state that all the elements are modifying. But in principle it should work (requires work though)
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a "don't let big corporations spy on you" foundation... I'm just saying that it hurts the Free Software message when all the Free Software Foundation talks about is why everything is bad except gNewSense.

I will just mentally pretend that the FSF is just GNU, then I am happy :)
I dont' know about Europe - but "boookie price algorithms" is generally a few guys sitting behind some computers adjusting odds and prices to try to balance out their perceived risk against what the market wants to bet on - so they try ot balance the books and keep their customers.
What's their logic there?
Its funny you mention that. Ive had the same experience with all my code. I found my C++, Java and Python all become more functional thanks to playing around with haskell!
No benefits? Really? None at all?
I would guess because the veggie burger market is basically nothing and McDonald's does not want the conversation to become "Is McDonald's going healthy?" before they are 100% invested into those new marketing avenues. The reality is the whole "fast food chains going healthy" hype has died down almost completely and those succeeding in fast food now are the gourmet fast food shops that focus on delivering quality food (but definitely not healthy).

IMO McDonalds have excelled when it comes to Coffee and marketing the McCafe brand and I don't doubt they could do the same thing with "healthy food choices" I just think the hype around healthy fast food has died for now and McDonalds is not willing to push it until the public demands it again.
You're mixing up your history. The Huns were an entirely different nomadic people (separated from the Mongol Empire by about a thousand years). Prestor John was a mythical Christian king who lived beyond the Islamic lands and whose land was full of wealth and treasures.
There could be more to be gained than you might think -- for example, I prefer using pg8000 to psycopg2 because the former is pure python and doesn't carry with it the dependency weight of compiling native code.

However, I can see what you mean; just wondered if there had been any attempts at it I might have missed.
Ok the builder side, I think there's merit to doing CLI first, then GUI. Or API then GUI, depending on the shape of the tool or app.
There are few million people in Berlin. A couple of hundred of thousand of them are Turkish or Russian minorities. And another few hundred thousand expats are working in the tech industry from all over the world. Most coffee shops in my area don't even have German speaking staff; much to the annoyance of some of the locals.

Some, of those people buy locally and suffer the bad experience of dealing with a sub optimal keyboard. But a lot of them take their money abroad. Local businesses are missing out on that, which IMHO is kind of stupid.
Before Hitchhiker's, he'd interestingly already used that number in a sketch for the Burkiss Way [1], which featured a reference to "42 Logical Positivism Avenue".

[1] https://www.buttercookie.de/The%20Burkiss%20Way/Transcripts/...
Maybe fit it into the GPT3 engine and see what brilliant idea pop out.