jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How can ground control know if the pilot locked out isn't being forced by someone to ask for it? If you're going to rely on his/her word, might as well give him/her direct access.
While paypal is not the best, it does have automatic payment support, so...
Arghh. I can't even escape that tragedy on HN.
The FDA isn't that big a deal.

I routinely see cheeses from France, Germany, Italy, Finland and probably Canada, as well as the domestic producers: New York and Wisconsin are big.

Boston-area people: go to Russo's, in Watertown. I have seen Double Gloucester there, and several other English cheeses (my kids have a thing for Wensleydale; blame Wallace and Gromit). I don't think I've ever seen Cheshire, but I've never been looking for it.
Wonderfully well written piece, summed up with:

> And that when, late in life, he made a formal proposal of marriage, the woman he addressed burst out laughing, then had to summon two servants to help him get off his knees and back on his feet?

> Cohen thinks that it should matter, that we cannot read “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” properly unless we know the person who wrote it, scrotal affliction and all.
I read it as an historical article about meal sizing/timing, with an intermittent fasting perspective.

I’ve been traveling for a couple of weeks, and between the jet lag and a busy schedule, I found myself shifting to a late-breakfast-then-early-dinner two meals per day schedule, so the article was timely for me.
The title should have "2018" in it -- I thought this was more recent.
Nobody forces you to pilot drones. It is very simple, either you do it or you don't. Given that there are other choices there are no justifications.

I'd rather clean toilets my whole life than build a career on the death of innocents.
He sure does but that still would form many issues with compensation as we have seen, many times, with open source companies. Everyone shouts red hat or something but that’s one exception; most other people who make Libre software, die of hunger under a bridge, or, more likely, have a day time job and simply will drop the Libre project when things get too busy. This is why companies now go from Libre to something quasi Libre to try to make money. There are some Libre (supabase for instance) projects now getting fairly large amounts of VC cash to get going, but once they have to ‘stand on their own legs’ usually pattern emerge that are not Libre to pay back (provide ROI to) the investors and then some.

I wish we would find a way to properly do this; I would insist on creating only Libre software, but for now, it is fairly random if it will make money while closed (saas) software is much more straight forward as in; if I have clients, I make money. With Libre software that I ask money for, I might have 100k stars and a lovely following while making no money at all.
Sure. But let’s postulate that people would rather be monitored 24/7 than play the AAA game from even a a few years ago, and in order to stop playing AAA games and start playing free software, what is the realistic path there? Giving a yearly speech?

Being dogmatic doesn’t help here I think. Start from the fact (people must play billion dollar budget games) and work backwards. How can privacy be improved, etc.

Saying “solitaire has fewer privacy issues than this AAA game” is like saying “walking is better than driving”. That doesn’t improve cars.
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I can't remember which of Greg Egan's novels it was (probably one of Diaspora, Schild's Ladder, or Incandescence), but if I remember right there was another interesting portrayal of a digital library as it could be experienced by fully digitized/"simulated" people.
> So all laptops they were issued before 2017 didn't have full disk encryption.

That's an illogical assumption to make. Not encrypted at time of issue != not encrypted ever. Who says all previously-issued laptops weren't encrypted at a later time?
It can only be taken in these events:

1) Seed phrases are discovered (ie. plaintext document or physical artifact).

2) Seed phrases are handed over by willing party.

If #1 doesn't exist, then #2 is the only option.
That actually sounds like a good idea anyway. There should be a full cleaning, de-bugging, and wipe every device on a regular basis.
But you've set a precedent that you will cut and run, which negatively affects how people coordinate with you on things.

Look at Google. We have a bunch of people who don't want to use their new APIs because they've experienced those APIs going away in the past. Ironically, by resisting using them they create a self fulfilling prophecy. An API that lasts 3 years is not more likely to last 6 years than an API that has been around for 1 year will last for 4. By delaying they've just put themselves closer to the drop dead date.

Point is, that dynamic hurts everybody, not just the people avoiding engaging with someone with a questionable track record.
> Imperative thinking is computational. All forms of thinking are computational by definition.

I meant in the mathematical sense. Math doesn’t have imperative statements and side effects.

> What does expressions have to do with anything. Recursion can be both defined in an expression and as an imperative jump instruction. The concept is orthogonal to expressions.

In case it wasn’t clear, I’ve been arguing this whole time for teaching pure FP concepts. Starting with computing a value, then computing a value from input, then with a function returning a value computed from its input... then with a function computing a value recursively from its input. Recursion is the fundamental building block for repetition in FP. Even if you can express it with a loop-like expression it eventually desugars to recursion.

> But people don't think of multiplication this way. The teacher doesn't teach multiplication to you in terms of recursion she literally teaches you it with the "times" keyword. What's 5 * 6? Add 5 to 5, 6 times.

That... is recursion. It’s mind boggling to me that it’s not plain as day, here in this context. It’s literally:

(+ 5 (+ 5 (+ 5 (+ 5 (+ 5 5))))))

And that’s precisely how I was taught multiplication. It was just written with infix:

5 * 6 = 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5

Which, the teacher demonstrated can be partially unwrapped:

5 * 6 = 5 + 5 * 5

And so on. All you have to do to teach that as recursion is declare those operators as functions and call them. You can also use this to teach reduce, which is just a generalized recursive loop expression.

> It has bearing on language. Nobody outside of programming/mathematics communicates concepts recursively. Our communication is a reflection of how we think naturally. Recursion takes training. Looping is just learning syntax for a concept we already know about: repetition.

From a learning perspective, they’re literally just different syntax for the same thing. Recursion is just moving the repetition intent to the body of the loop and eliminating intermediary values. There’s no reason other than tautology that one syntax is easier to learn than the other.
> having people roaming around the halls of a sensitive government institution

Depends on your views on right to rebel.
The way I like to think about it:

If you had a way to keep your old messages safe then you could of just used that method to protect your private key.
Make claims all you want.

Violently storming the capitol to interfere with an election is sedition; "Rebelling against the authority of the state."
Rules and pricing needs to be simple and consistent. Even if it was possible to implement QoS to broadband, it would be awfully confusing for both the consumer and the telco. Why should someone in a busy area be capped when they reach the limit, while someone somewhere else can keep going? It might make sense from a technical perspective, but not at a consumer level.

If the telcos are not price gouging, there shouldn't be a problem with data caps. Stop being a cheapskate!
You're missing the point. Stanford being like the Army doesn't mean anything about any particular individual. It means that institutionally, [the engineering department at] Stanford consciously or unconsciously balances hardcore engineering fundamentals with making graduates industry-friendly, whether that means being Java/C++ heavy (which Stanford is), or encouraging spinoffs with IP policies, or whatever else. MIT (the OP thinks, and I find plausible) doesn't really institutionally pay attention to that in the same way. That doesn't mean that there are no hardcore fundamental Stanford people, or that MIT people can't go into industry.

If you scroll up to the other posts in that thread, it turns out to be a wider discussion about the role of MIT in research and the technology world overall, and in particular the claim that MIT was instrumental in solving a lot of the fundamental technical problems necessary for the Internet to work right, and that furthermore MIT was neutered in its ability to do such huge things by the cutoff of blue-sky DARPA funding in the early and mid 00's. And that, furthermore, a lot of the late-90's Internet boom in SV was dependent on MIT having solved these big fundamental problems, and that we should be worried that MIT is no longer doing things like this.

Rather outlandish, I'd say, but interesting, and at least worth talking about.
You wouldn't have to download anything? You mean emacs comes stock with a F# compiler?

My point is that with a single download (and no real installation besides a single click), you can get a new environment up and running in Visual Studio.

I'm not saying VS is the world's greatest IDE (I use it strictly for .NET work, and use gVIM for everything else--and use, I've used emacs, too). I'm merely talking about it in the context of the ease of integrating new languages/frameworks.
If my X360 had more surrealism and toilet-based enemies I'd probably actually play it instead of leaving it gathering dust.
Thank you for letting us know, we'll check it out.
Of course desktop apps are usually downloaded from the web these days so they're also vulnerable to many of the same problems...
>No it's not

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I've worked in concert halls with half-million-dollar sound systems. You don't flip the power on upstream devices (DSPs, boards, etc.) while the amplifiers are powered on.

In nice, modern installs the system integrator will usually have installed a sequencer. You turn a key and what is essentially a glorified rackmount power strip emits a series of clicks as relays on a timer power on sections of the rack in a safe order. Otherwise it is up to the engineer to start up and shut down according to the correct procedure. A mistake will not necessarily damage equipment, but you will hear it pop - which may be anywhere from subtle to deafening. It is a dumb - and not unheard of - way to blow a speaker.

This is becoming less of an issue as digital audio networking (Dante, etc.) takes hold - there may be no analog connections between the mic itself and the amplifier - but it is absolutely standard with analog interconnections.
>So, they would use magical unicorn dust to remove all bugs?

Did the users use magical unicorn dust to find the bugs? Apparently, Apple the "richest tech company", is unable to afford a test team with a wide enough coverage to find such simple bugs.

>Of course they'll gonna have bugs on OS X, every OS has bugs.

Minor - maybe, Major - no. I don't recall of ever even hearing of iOS 4 rebooting after someone changed the wallpaper. Heck, the phone's OS crashing was a rare, one-in-a-million event. It isn't any more. And on top of that, Apple - after putting out OS updates that degrade the phones performance - block the ability of their own customers, to reset the phone OS's back to what it was originally.

>For graphic cards issues it's usually the driver (so Nvidia/ATI, not Apple),

Apple has like 3 models, with almost identical hardware in their laptop lineup, and they control the entire software and hardware stack. If they STILL can't make a higher quality product than their competition, it's because they're either incompetent or they don't care to.
The policies he specifically mentioned:

-Region-locked DVD's - never really enforced, and DVD's were irrelevant years ago anyways.

-App Store - decision by a private company that many like! Not policy.

-Sony Rootkit. Happened in 2005, never happened again. Not a policy.

-prohibiting printing gun.stl on your 3-D printer. If you think that's the future in the US, you are flat out retarded.

-Self-Driving cars that are self-disabling. Too far in the future to really hammer out a policy framework for yet. Unclear why the government would demand that law enforcement be able to control remotely.

-California. The only policy that's actually real and is pretty minor. Only can be used as theft deterrent.

Even if he doesn't directly mention free software, it's intellectual inheritance is so clearly from RMS that I don't think it really needs to go without saying.
Funny, Gmail will filter any invites/emails to spam.
From what I've read, that is the case for Brasilia. Looks great on paper. They got to start from scratch in the middle of the jungle, kind of like Washington DC when L'enfant had similar blank slate. In any event, while Brasilia looked good and grandiose on paper, it was nowhere near human scale.
Seems similar to http://thewikigame.com/ which has been around for a long time and offers a free, realtime, web-based version.
I'm not sure how you'd manage "privacy outrage" over Twitter messages, since they're almost always public.
My product is http://www.compversions.com

No agencies using it yet, but looking for a few to start off with little by little. So if you know any that you can recommend, I would appreciate it :)
here's a link to the current course I'm taking, in case anyone is interested in working through some assignments. http://dna.cs.byu.edu/CS484/schedule/schedule-winter2010

It uses the llnl tutorials for most of the reading.
More amazing photos from the "Cupola" capsule here: http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMG2856JGG_index_mg_1.html
I don't own an iPhone (or even a smartphone) but this looks really fun, and something I would purchase and actually play.

I watched about 3/4ths of the demo video but wasn't able to ascertain if problems can have multiple correct "paths" or how it might evaluate those paths with respect to correctness/scoring. This question arose when following the Alan Turing -> ? -> Libido problem, as this would be one potential example I could imagine having a couple different paths, and I'm sure there are many others like that. Can you explain how the app handles such scenarios?
"By early in 1997, Ensemble will be an outstanding environment for building Java-based groupware applications that do multimedia conferencing on the Web."

Oh boy, sure brings back memories...
Also, Apache has a pretty good framework for "crossing the t's and dotting the i's" in legal terms for code contributions, so that big companies know that all the code is accounted for and there are no nasty legal surprises lurking - in theory.

For a while, I was part of one small non-Java bit of the ASF: https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ but I haven't been active for a few years, and indeed, as of last weekend, decided to resign from active membership in the ASF and 'go emeritus'.

It's a good group doing good work.
Why wouldn't you hire someone to do this for you? Seems like a waste of your time.
I should have thought of this earlier. If you send it through a redirect url (or even better a special DDG landing page), it is certainly traceable.
Yeah it's pretty crazy. For those who want more information here's a short documentary I watched about jPay a while ago.
Pretty sure they edited it.
I took modafinil for about 6 months while having under treated depression. It only seemed to improve wakefulness like super caffeine minus jitters and anxiety.
Indeed, a simple reading of almost anything by Thomas Sowell, especially Discrimination and Disparities, would go a long way to educate everyone that discrimination is not a meaningful factor in why we have disparities between groups.
eh, this isn't a good read of what happened. Zoning reform needs to go through a lot of reviews like CEQA, and there are places where people can sue to slow it down. It is happening, this is just the legal process by which it happens.
Eh, seems like the opposite to me.

If rates are predictable enough that a gas furnace is sure to pay for itself over the next 10 years, people will easily identify it as a good investment.

On the other hand, if the rates are variable, switching to gas is a gamble. Might save me loads of money, might not save a dime.
Right, that’s the only way to make sense of the litigation threats. Squeeze a few hundred thousand out of each dev, settle for a fraction of a penny on the pound.

>The current value in sterling of the digital assets at the Addresses is approximately £3.65bn, ...
From this talk [0] I get the impression that a large part of the "chess game" of a dogfight is about the aircraft's momentum. You're trying to get the enemy into a situation where his aircraft has too much or too little energy to respond to you, and can't accelerate / decelerate in time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22u4qxm1YjY
The difference is, there are no Americans or Australians alive today who are responsible for any such genocide. China, on the other hand...
What's even stupider is the article making comments like "I didn't think Bill Gates was the type to short TSLA".

WTF. A Tesla short simply means you don't think it's worth it's share price and that you expect the price to go down. It means little else. It does not give anyone any insight on what the person thinks about Tesla as a business or electric cars as a future mode of transportation.

I still cant get over how a bunch of know nothings have somehow spread the idea that shorting = evil.
They have explicitly raised new debt to buy bitcoin twice in the past 6 months or so. It certainly isnt "spare cash".
>r its platform doesn’t have a TLS 1.2 library available

A Pentium3 can run Dillo with mbedtls just fine.
We did contact the site owner with all 15 DMCA's and never got a response. He's based in Turkey. Not sure if that helps to shelter him or not.
But Pakistan is not a Middle Eastern country. It's not a belief, it's a fact. I think he was right to point that out.
97% of people want to work. Like to code. That's what they want to do. And they expect the other 3% to organize these jobs for them. Because they don't know/can't/aren't interested in organizing these jobs on their own. It really boils down to: do you want to be a craftsman or wealthy man. Because if you want to be in the 3% organizing jobs for others, you won't have any time to do coding. It's very easy to end up in the mental trap of: "I just want to code" expecting to see the prize for all the hard work. But the prize always goes to the job "organizer" or creator and not to the one doing it. Never forget that.
You are correct. I'm not writing a research paper.

I'm simply stating an alternative hypothesis that you are free to accept or reject.

I offer it as food for thought and invite you to do some more research into the issue if you are intrigued.

A related discussion here: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-mone...
I took issue with comparing psychological/social warfare to physical bullets...

I felt that while both can be weapons, there is a concrete, perhaps subtle difference between the two.
FYI, I am not going to disable my ad-blocker just to read your content.

Trakt.tv solved this much more elegantly:
http://image.bayimg.com/202673ef61f8e34e90c5a7fd62282ac54a74...
Aw, damn. I didn't realise it was all fake properties, I thought that would produce something.
I live in Lyon, France and indeed the sky was very "spooky" today according to my son :)
Neh, I think the OP was just amusing themselves a bit too much with sex jokes / remarks / one-liners.

(though how could it be taken as incestual? It's kinda the exact opposite)
You are right, we shouldn't interfere with nature but to me if the polar bear is lost through interbreeding it would be a loss. It's like mixing two good perfumes or two good wines, the uniqueness of each is lost to get only one unique thing.
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I spoke with Noah from AppSumo and this was WakeMate's fault. I apologize if this cast any negative light on AppSumo because it was 100% undeserved.
You mention that governments are accountable to the people, probably because the people can vote. I don't see why a vote with a dollar is inferior to a vote on a ballot with respect to accountability.
Thanks for the input. Yeah, we became aware this was missing relative late in the design process. Also, as you'll hopefully see on the blog we did pivot partway through from a more heavy workout schedule to something relatively modest.

There's a lot of evidence to back up the APPROACH (WHO, Surgeon General, etc etc) but what we need is more solid evidence related to our actual users. Other than the fact that BenjieGillam now has pecs :P

One of the interesting things we discovered fairly late in the game was how effective the old apps were at helping weightloss. But the problem with the fitness industry is it's too full of these sorts of claims. We thing there's some much more credible ways of presenting this stuff, and we plan to... just as soon as we have the data.
I agree with the sentiment, but I really feel that Delicious gets stronger with integration into a bigger system. Delicious on its own is a great service. Integrated into gmail and google search, using the data to help me find more interesting content, is something that can actually compete with Facebook for mainstream adoption, once they start to roll-out data-driven features more deeply.

edit: personally, a takeover by a passionate team would be much more satisfying then a shutdown, just trying to point out what I see as an opportunity for the big G.
I assume the reason to stop is due to a feeling of guilt. Instead of considering human influence as a part of nature, many people consider it to be some sort of perversion. So instead of being amazed by the adaptability of life, people feel guilty about causing changes.

Plus there is the whole time scale thing. The fact that evolution took a really long time to differentiate polar and grizzly bears and in a few lifetimes you would see that split undone is concerning.
Definitely; the TC post does a really good job of explaining it.

We included our post here more as a way of introducing ourselves to HN. I'll link to the TC post from the top of ours. Thx! :)
Your reply looks correct but incomplete. Yes, the immediate dominance has to do with networking effects. But the network effects are all based on the branding, and the browser delivers the branding along with the content. Without the branding the network effects are negligible.

People use Google because it says "Google" on the page. People go to Facebook because their friends are there. None of the results they want -- search results or chatting-updating friends, has anything to do with the underlying companies involved, although it has everything to do with the network effect, as you point out.

To demonstrate, let's suppose all of my 300 friends all used different social networking software. If somebody kept a configuration file that allowed my new browser to access their information in real time and assimilate it for me in one corporate-free spot, I could still have the networking experience of being with my friends -- say picking out a new movie to rent -- without the branding having to be part of the networking effect.
I don't find your list of questions helpful, because I've thought a lot more about this topic than you give me credit for.

What would be helpful would be a counter-argument, if you have one.