jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Isn't the statement "Amazon doesn't have access to the data on the instance" totally wrong? How can you 'not have access' to the data on a VM you're personally running?

Your answer (3) makes sense, but wouldn't these people opt in to lift this limit? I can think of few such applications that someone would elect to run on Amazon without knowing it in advance.

do people really do (4) on amazon's hardware? (instead of their own).

In (5) are you saying that this, combined with (2) is not really possible for them technically? Why not?

It just seems trivial to me. If there are false positives you could lift the restriction out-of-band (not with your normal credentials, like the 'atm card/pin' combination.)

I know I would prefer to keep that protection in place, just as I keep my ATM daily limit in place.
Telling a person they need to just be different is easy; being different is hard, and maybe objectionable for other reasons.

For one, actually becoming more relaxed in confrontations is not something that has been achievable merely by asserting that I want to be -- instead, the only thing that seems to work is being in confrontations enough more often to reduce the stress level of such an environment. While this works to some degree, it raises the anxiety or stress level of the rest of my life, and is thus completely antithetical to most of the other things I do to make my life better. If I can instead just avoid situations which raise my stress level, and in which I would perform less well, that seems more conducive to overall happiness.

For another (and this was somewhat already implied), making changes to one's personality often has other effects on one which may be undesirable. Being more assertive might make it more likely that one bullies others (unintentionally). I've noticed this in myself as my assertiveness waxes and wanes: if I'm feeling especially confident, I'm more likely to say things without qualification, and say things that I would normally stop myself from saying. Later, I wonder if what I said came across as asinine, since that's how I would take such statements.

I sympathize quite a lot with the original poster, because while I'm a pretty good developer (at least, some others praise my skill highly), I'm really, really bad at interviewing, sales, talking to clients in a situation where I actually depend on their response, etc. (A previous commenter was quite right when he compared interviewing and sales -- they raise the same confrontational anxiety). When hired for a previous job, I was told months after the hiring that the interviewer was quite astonished that I'd turned out to be an intelligent and very capable developer, since I'd interviewed terribly, and the only reason he'd hired me at all was that he was having a fight with HR, and had announced that he would hire the next person he interviewed to show them how that worked out. That worked out poorly for his argument, but well for me and the team. :)
The problem with picture is that it doesn't poly fill nicely. You can add srcset attributes and it will still work on IE6. I have been using srcset for over a year, and there is is only a minor issue of retina MBPs double downloading. There is no problem with high res tablets.
Which is why when I want to know that you actually understand something as basic as closures in Javascript, I don't ask for the definition. I ask you to demonstrate it.
And yet palo alto supports plenty of low tier and mid tier restaurants. Even Stanford college students aren't rich.
So I think this article says:

- the earth revolves around where the sun is almost precisely

and rules out:

- the earth revolves around where the sun was ~8 minutes ago

(where 8 minutes is about the travel time at c). Can anyone confirm?
Based on the length of the redaction and the type I would guess "electronic".
> hacked by a group claiming be aligned with the Islamic State extremist group

The article claims that the website was hacked by a group claiming to be aligned with the Islamic State.

> hey journalists, I am literally the second coming of Jesus, you guys should interview me and tell people I'm the Son of God.

Good journalism would be to report that you are claiming to be Jesus. Which is what happened here; they reported a claim of affiliation, not the affiliation as a fact. It would actually be bad journalism for the reporter to take a position on your divinity (or an unknown groups actual affiliation with IS).
Relevant Lobsters thread: https://lobste.rs/s/kwrape/deconstructing_k_rc
I heard the opposite. "A new study suggests that being wealthy primes people to act like jerks."

http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/28/why-the-rich-are-less-...
Yea, i just wanted to solve it quick so I didn't feel like such a dumb ass. I did it again using your solution and now i see what you mean about scalability because your way is much much faster and more efficient. I had to run my solution on my db server using memcache because it was taking too long and too much memory but yours ran on my laptop.
Man I love Disney world but is this crowd control or manipulation?

“Control is Disney’s middle name, so they have always been on the cutting edge of this kind of thing"
I think they are going to create new branding opportunities but it will limited traditional marketing methods where urls needed to be typed.
The least they could do was put a picture, yes a photo, of all their different teas. That would be better than this.
I agree. I seldom type in my native language, and not to mention that I have to type it in for an URL. So I am doubting the values. On the other hand, if UID is more user friendly and next gen net users are more used to native surfing, the value may be bigger.
Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-color-theory/
1,300 new employees by July 2011? Who are these guys? This whole thing sounds like a total fake, especially after reading the cryptome piece on it.
I don't follow the XBOX numbers closely either, but as I understand it, it is profitable and growing. [1]

Regardless, what's more interesting to me is that ten years ago I would have said "what the hell does MS want to make a game console for?" Now that things have shaken out, XBOX has given them a strong foothold not only in gaming, but in home media in general. That's the more compelling ROI to me.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-07/microsoft-xbox-l...
I'm talking about how the middle class is disappearing. A thought experiment that guarrantees middle class status for your whole life seems to miss the point.
More damning than the lack of personal connection, though, was the complete lack of transparency and general decline in software quality, as I perceived it.

It seems that these frustrations against OS X is a mismatch to this user's minimalist requirements: a mail client, iTerm, and a web browser. The OS X ecosystem caters a wide net of users ranging from the pink keyboards of middle school girls to the coffee-infused palms of college students.
Yes, you clicked on that link.
... unfortunately the state of Linux on laptops makes the all-too-common case of _repurposing_ a laptop incredibly painful. :/

... unless you think ahead and only buy (and recommend) Thinkpads.
I feel your pain. Syracuse, NY here... Thanks to Lake Ontario, we're under almost perpetual cloud cover during the winter (with snow falling out of those clouds most of the time).
Rephrase; for most of their targeted audience the marginal cost of mobile to mobile calls inside the US is already $0.

Marginal cost is what matters, and in this case many US calls are already near free for the segment that would be most likely to adopt.
I would like to have a million. Two, if I could get it... three I wouldn't turn down either.

I have defined two very specific and (not too horribly) lavish goals: have $0.00 month-to-month debt and to own a house with some acreage in the American Rockies.

But, more money can be put to use: collage scholarships, investing, hobbies, putting away for family, charities -

If one is not wedded to the urban jet-set lifestyle, one can really stretch the money.
Agreed. this happens to most brands once they get some brand search going. has nothing to do with the site search
There is an SSL equivalent for conversations. Actually, it works more like a VPN. It's called 'go into a private room'.
I guess I would have failed to create complexity theory with my solution --- but everyone involved would have understood it, no long calculations required: give the guard a lock and the spy a key. It's still a sort of one-way function (easier to make a lock from a key then a key for a lock), but it doesn't require squaring 100 digit numbers in the dead of night before deciding whether to shoot a man.
Only procrastinators would ask for a better to-do list software. If you must get something done, you'll get it done.
Honestly, the way I think it'll play out, at least at first, is that now Hulu and YouTube and NetFlix will be able to guarantee the content owners that they can broadcast it uninterrupted by buffering problems (to the households that subscribe).
One way to have the guard get a particular y is to get him drunk and replace his f with a different one.
Is the help center custom built?
If you want a job in F# at enterprise company, let me know. I'm hiring at all levels.
Grand juries indict in >99% of cases. It's just a rubber-stamp. The grand jury only hears the prosecutor's side. They can say pretty much anything. Please find me a case where a prosecutor or LEO was charged with perjury for lying to a grand jury.

I've been indicted twice and both times the grand jury transcripts were just lies.

In fact, I got someone released after 16 months in jail on a burglary charge because their grand jury was lies. The story the cop told was a complete fabrication.
Honestly I'd just like a job writing code that actually benefits people or is even seen by the light of day. That isn't killed off by layers of mismanagement, "agile methodology", moving goal posts.
Or with Prometheus: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

https endpoints will include the probe_ssl_earliest_cert_expiry metric, which is the expiration in UNIX epoch seconds. Use with the builtin time() function.
And alot of the definite proof is obtuse and not readily readable.
In my experience, there's only one way out of the misinformation hole. Read a lot of competing views and keep as emotionally neutral a stance as possible. Learn why people love religion, science, alternative medicine, math, psychology, meditation, fighting, cars, guns, sailing, skiing and politics.

What's the fraction of a % of people willing to spend that kind of effort. To learn for the sake of learning, not to prove a point or show others they are right :(.
i'm too old for this ... while it's amusing, i do not intend to plunge into the abyss of time lost to the exploration of things of small importance.
I would buy this exact device running Ubuntu in a heartbeat.
Right. In other words if you go there as a tourist you will most likely get no problems from the mob. They might own the hotel, but you'll be mostly safe. You won't have to bribe them, you won't have to have a bodyguard with you.

If you go there ready to start a business or invest a couple million dollars, you'll definetly deal with mobsters.
I'm nowhere near as mathematically savvy as RoG, but I do have some practical experience from dealing with game physics simulations. A classic problem with naive collision code is objects popping through each other occasionally, and a common 'fix' is to switch from float to double precision. This reduces the frequency of the errors, but that's seldom good enough.

Plane intersections can be performed completely accurately using bignum code, since there's no irrational numbers to creep in, but the performance penalty is far too severe for everyday use in games (at least it was a decade ago when I was last in the industry). Instead, the best approach was to carefully re-design the algorithms so that they're tolerant to small errors. For example by applying a repulsion force based on how deep inside a surface a polygon is, rather than trying to capture (and possibly missing) the exact point of an intersection, or adding a small 'thickness' to all polygons.

I've found this to be a useful approach in all my subsequent work in both graphics and statistical analysis. I start off using floats for all my real number storage, and if I see precision-related problems, I have a long hard think about how to redesign the algorithm to be more robust, rather than just automatically throwing more bits at it.
Won't your body affect the antennae when you hold the device though?
That seems more like a convenient rationalization to me.
So let me get this straight: You're a person who knows someone that doesn't want to start a blog but cares enough about the links/content they want to share that they will log in to Digg.com and categorize them properly. Oh, and you don't want to bother will yahoo pipes.

Talk about a niche...
Yeah, I would worry about what that top version of me would do. But I suppose, with the simulator it would likely be possible to see. Just run another instance of the universe to the point I found out I'm in the simulation chain, but don't let the new instance see the black sphere. This serves another purpose... when the level that thinks it is the top level sees the level below them running this test, they will have to again wonder if they are in one of those simulations. So they will again have incentive to be nice/benevolent to the simulation chain.
when should you use lazy opposed to traditional eager evaluation? (I understand how it works) But I don't see exactly when lazy would be the preferred evaluation. It smells a bit like premature optimization.
Goodness. Just read about the iPhone using a "Backside illumination" sensor, Googled it, and found this Wikipedia article:

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

At the bottom: "The new iPhone 4 uses this type of sensor in its camera."

I love the times we live in.
It's ironic that the Constitution doesn't apply to those who make a living defending its principles.
I agree, but it happens to ring true.
I shouldn't have to ignore anything. I'm there to buy books and cases of Cafe Bustelo, not to see what others are doing with their money or what others think of the coffee I'm buying.

The fact that there are reviews of 'five star' packages of diapers on Amazon is a little disturbing.

(Edited for spelling.)
By this logic, we could drop all security checks. I'm sure no one would ever board a plane strapped with explosives...
These rules have a simple justification. If an attacker would like to breach airport security but is allowed to walk away once he has started the screening process, he simply needs to continue to try over and over again until he finds a vulnerable location. The Supreme Court has supported this idea [1] and I'm afraid that he may actually get legal action taken against him. :-/

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/08/court-says-trav/
Get the cheapest fare you can get out of your local airport to where-ever. Go there, do this, go home. If you make it through, just don't get on the flight.

Be nice to the airline though, they're not a fault (in this issue, at least). Get there early, let them know (afterwards) that you're not flying. Don't trouble them with a refund. Keep in mind that you're probably violating the T&Cs by not intending to get on the flight.
The frog will jump out when the temperature gets up there.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
Amount of dissatisfaction is too mushy IMHO. Just title it "Crapometer" or "Hate-o-meter".

Better yet, just flip the Y-axis. I'd think that it would be easier to get a company to pay to improve upwards. Do you really have to match the sister site?
Thanks for the sponsorship! A nice next step would be to make a python a first class citizen on Android. After a series of freedoms in permission management have been revoked in the recent years Python has been effectively rendered useless on Android.
Sounds appalling at first, but then I realized there are so many companies these days that will say “for every pair of shoes bought, we will give a pair to someone in need”, etc. It’s just more charity/feel good marketing.
Thanks for at least being honest that you don’t care about Python development.
The size and shape of the trails is misleading. If this is caused by sound waves, then they should use circles around each ship.
Let me also add one thing I didn't phrase clearly last night - if it is true (and I, like you, don't believe it's true) that an Asian Stanford grad has the same perspectives and experiences as a white Stanford grad, then that gives all the more validity to making sure you're not unnecessarily discriminating against one or the other group. Your ratio of Asian to white hires should be roughly on par with the fraction of, if nothing else, Asian and white Stanford grads. If it is wildly different, then it's an indicator that something is wrong.

Perhaps you are not losing out on perspectives and experiences, per se, but perhaps the biased person running your initial phone screens is causing you to lose out on good candidates who are from a race they don't like, i.e., you're limiting the number of candidates of this perspective and experience that you're willing to interview. That would be a problem worth being aware of! Completely ignoring race means you don't have the data. It doesn't prevent the problem from happening.

(See also, "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.*)
That is rather self fulfilling, though. We produce and use significantly more fossil fuels than we have nuclear or hydro power.

If the whole world was run by hydro and nuclear, and fossil fuels were relegated to somewhere between non-existent or hyper-regulated, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine the reverse as well.
> A company as large as Google is kind of expected to be using every technology in existence

Moreover, as a public cloud provider, they are ultimately expected to be supporting virtually every technology in existence. Amazon (explicitly as AWS, usually) and Microsoft have pretty similar degree of foundation involvement
bookshop.org sort of does that, but their prices can be much higher than Amazon's. To the point where you'd actually save money by buying the book on Amazon and just giving your local book store owner a check for $5
It works on mobile for me. Tried it on both safari and chrome on an iPhone running iOS 14.
Yes, but it's a failure of zoning. It's totally absurd that anyone that wants a job in a low density city NEEDS to spend thousands of dollar just to get to their job. This is poverty trap. Tons of places don't have that issue.
I would buy the shit out of a titanium framing hammer but only if they put a soft steel face on it. Older framing hammers are better than newer framing hammers because nails tend to smash the waffle teeth down enough that they don't tear up your thumb when you miss. Titanium is strong enough that this never happens so your hammer destroys your thumb no matter how old it is.
Even better. Interest and commission.

I genuinely wish I'd thought of it.
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

> An array in PHP is actually an ordered map.
Even with favorable exchange rates, living in most metropolitan areas in Brazil is very expensive and you are likely to earn more working for Brazilian clients - right now unemployment is under 4% in general and almost inexistent in IT so wages are up.

The situation in Argentina is good if you get paid in cash because the black market pays twice the official (and artificial) rate. I guess it is not so good if you are being paid through a prepaid card like payoneer.
Regardless of the industry, if the H-1B is designed to allow employers to hire specialists they can't find locally, then a salary-sorted approval process should still be desirable.

Machine shops fighting over top-1% welders with deep materials science knowledge should be no different to software shops fighting over top-1% developers with deep computer science knowledge.
Judging from the first 5 minutes, this Wired article by the same author contains pretty much the same content in textual form - http://www.wired.com/2014/12/government-computer-security
> But the reality for an entrepreneur coming out of a business is usually not super easy. Few companies are looking to hire people who ran unsuccessful businesses - the entrepreneur skillset tends to make it hard to market oneself.

That's just about 100% opposite to my experience, both firsthand and by observing others.

Why do you state this with such certainty? Keep in mind that there are huge differences from country to country about how failure is perceived. In Germany what you write might by true to some extent, but in NL it wouldn't be and in the US it would be a badge of honour and people would be more than glad to have you.
You may be right. I was thinking more from a communicative standpoint than a job requirements standpoint.
For technical reason though, the Académie clearly states diacritics are not optional. So it should be Étude indeed.
Yeah, but they are only because it's a pain to type them on the french AZERTY keyboard: it doesn't have an easy to find dead key for the acute accent.

So either you type an accent-less character, or you waste 10mn looking for a way to have the accent in.

As far as the Académie Française is concerned, diacritics are not optional.
I am no coffee drinker, but I'm surprised that they think their results are conclusive based on a single instance of a placebo administered. Especially when the results are so neurological, that surely the brain compensates the first time a placebo is given -- and gradually (like with any neurotransmitter-affecting chemical) gets rid of its self-generating effects.

'Tests on 379 individuals who abstained from caffeine for 16 hours before being given either caffeine or a placebo...'

Seems like -- cue Pavlovian response, but in your brain.... I'd be more impressed if they were given the placebo/caffeine for a week and still performed the same on the tests..
Three things: 1) I (and other people) like to scroll the page as we read so our eyes stay in a relatively fixed position and the text moves under it. 2) Plenty of monitors can't fit those entire sections. 3) Those two sections didn't benefit much (if at all) from side-by-side comparison.
Just wondering, are you porting to mySQL, Cassandra, or HBase? We're currently moving off app engine also, and would love to hear more about your final setup.
In New Zealand in the late 1960s.
My link is to the CVE official site.
I managed to get my Schwab debit card eaten by ATMs twice in one trip once, and Schwab was able to quickly Fedex replacement cards to addresses I provided in Thailand and Hong Kong. It stopped my trip from turning into a big headache - I was really impressed.
I'm advocating for automating the rules, not the enforcement. In most places speed limits would probably rise. My understanding is that some traffic light timings are already automated in this manner.
Isn’t better to drive slower on scenic roads to have more time to observe the scene?

Or do you think there is an helicopter filming you from above like James Bond movies?