jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are just so many WTF moments in this story.

1) Why are police involved with a kid smoking at school? Kids caught smoking when I was in HS got after school detention.

2) There seems to be zero respect for the police officer. At what point did kids quit respecting police and did the police lose that respect?

3) The DA actually bringing charges against someone who just looks to have been idly filming the event. Where are charges against the more rowdy people?

4) The judge letting this case go forward.
Naah, its just a hypocrite and does what it feels like doing.
That’s what I thought when I first read the text but apparently not. Quote from the article I linked: “In light of its plain text, the Thirteenth Amendment has generally been interpreted to bar legal challenges to unpaid or minimally paid prison labor.”
I don't think there's a UI element for it, but you have to add a registry key, see here:

https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/SkypeConfiguration...
My tip is to simply install an IE-simulating theme for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4129/

Then install the following extension to change the titlebars: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/57/?id=57

Finally a bit of desktop shortcut renaming and icon-customisation, and mother will never be any the wiser!
There's also bromium, which is very similar to qubes-os but backed by a big startup ,so it's polished for enterprise usage. The drawback is probably the price.
In Amsterdam one of the bigger reasons given for the reduction of speeds on some roads is that it reduces the noise pollution. It would seem backwards to require cars to make more noise than they strictly have to. That said in mixed traffic situations it may save some lives, so essentially this proves all those guys that drove without dampers in their exhausts and bumper stickers saying 'loud pipes save lives' right after all.

I think once the background noise of IC engines has disappeared and we can all hear normally again that this will pass, it's just the intermediate period when we can't hear the electric cars over the noise of the rest of the traffic.
Try the App Store. Plenty of ads in there.
Don't bin me in there, much of that stuff is somewhere between hopelessly naive and outright nonsense. :)
Actually, not everyone agrees that that's how it works...whether society should value descriptive over prescriptive policies on its language is a huge debate among linguists. Just as programmers continue to argue over OOP vs functional, JavaScript vs CoffeeScript, etc

Edit: whoops, forgot to link to arbitrary example

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_1998/ling001/prescrip...
Irony in action. Wonder if it's intentional.
The correct way to write this is to not use /1/ in the size of namestr, it's to use a simple []. This tells subsequent programmers that you are using variable length structures. In older compilers, the metaphor was to use '0', but C99 (maybe even earlier) got everyone using [].

Here's a nice discussion in StackOverflow, including a bunch of C++ guys saying to just use Vectors, which ignores the entire point of getting a structure with only one memory allocation:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688471/variable-sized-str...
Being able to manage users directly from Airtable is intriguing. For me I would like to be able to use it with https://clerk.dev. I wonder if this is currently possible actually since all clerk needs is to be able to wrap a react entry point? What would i actually get if i export a site from WeWeb
> But whoever gets to be the one doing the "ton of work" that you are asking for needs to be paid, do you agree?

I realize that this may be a contrarian position these days, but no, I don't.

As an example, the vast majority of Debian maintainers don't get paid, yet as a community project, it has worked exceedingly well for nearly 30 years.

Yes, there are certain notable exceptions like Linus Torvalds getting paid by the Linux Foundation, but this is really not the norm. A lot of big community driven open source projects have managed to work well without serious funding for a long time.

Would money help? Sure. But no, I don't think a project like this (even a large one) is doomed without it.
One of the most voted for issues is closed WONTFIX: single click selects all in address bar and search box.

I use Firefox exclusively and this is the single most annoying change they made for no apparent reason. So annoying.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?votes=133
I really don't know. But the transplanted hair don't have the testosterone receptor, which prevent them from falling (I'm parafrasing my doctor here). I guess I'll have to wait and see.
You don't seem very happy about the situation, do you even have a say in your home?
Telescopes need a mount and tripod (or Dobson-style mount) too! The price and barrier to entry with binoculars is smaller than any telescope you can't fit on your table top, and I think they're a great way to wet your feet and make sure you're willing to drag something out into the cold late at night.
Fraction of the cost? Might I ask how much each A-12 and SR-71 cost, and the total cost of development?
Here is the gold standard for a microdose stack that promotes neurogenesis : https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180021326A1/en
Any reliable debugger would be nice... A major pain point when switching from Python to Go coding.
Not in America, land of the climate change denialists and fearers of sharia law.
The analysis is interesting, but what leads the author to believe that the top charts 'should' be stable, other than innuendo to spice up the story? It seems eminently reasonable for there to be an algorithmic shake up every once in a while so that the performance of otherwise non-charting apps can be sampled.
Stochastic volatility and jump diffusion models
I feel if the 1st stage booster had an attitude control system toward the top like the BRAHMOS missile [1], the lean could've been corrected to at least have the rocket be upright when it impacted the platform. Although the choice to add an attitude control system would probably take up more space and add mass which is critical for a stage rocket.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/5RWkvem.gif
That just suggests that nuclear power is inherently uneconomical! It also doesn't make sense, because there are many nations that have nuclear reactors, but don't have or want nuclear weapons - Japan, Sweden, Belgium, and Spain come to mind offhand.

Think the implications through, in a serious manner. If thorium is cheap and safe, why isn't it being used at all today? This is the question thorium advocates never ask (and will downvote you for asking, as per my example here), and it infuriates me! I don't have an answer for this question. Thorium looks good, on paper. What I do have is observation, and observed facts do not match the written theory. Science says you should question the theory.
Man I wanted to badly to respond to your top comment. You seem like the kind of person who would set someone on fire if they didn't agree with your HK-crazy opinion.

So self-righteous and snotty. They think they're standing up for some noble cause, and all their violence and destruction was justified. But what freedom do they stand up for? They had freedom and look what they did with it. Pissed it away. Squandered the lead economically. And now indulgently chant slogans and play like it's not their fault the mess they're in economically.

The freedom of protest, what did they turn that to? Human rights? No, they burned people, literally, with lasers and set them on fire when they voiced different opinions. So much for tolerance for different points of view. So much for respect for "Western" values and freedoms.

They're fucking crazy, spoiled, entitled little HKers. Big heads. Small potatoes. 2nd place brother now. Can't hack it. Lost to China. Can't hack it. So blame the government, and hurt anyone who doesn't talk their goodspeak. But they're all about freedom, and 'human rights'.

BS. Total, unmoderated BS.

Thank God China brought in the fire and restored order. China saved HK from the HKers. Sometimes that's needed. Put an end to the tantrum of an immature adolescent mindset generation, that's totally fucking lost their soul and their way. I hope out of the ashes of their chaos, they build art and a new fucking entrepreneurial spirit. Better tomorrow only they can build it.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3038421/wife...

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

https://www.truth-hk.com/violences/categories/violence
There are other decent private alternatives to Facebook and Whatsapp beyond Signal,so your argument smells as someone that is trying to rationalize away a horrible decision that they made.

In any case, rest assured that as a "purist" who argues against Signal's centralization, you shouldn't worry about us in the group 1. We are not going to ruin anything "for the rest of you". Signal will do it themselves.

We are vocal and "angry" because history has shown time and time again that systems that centralize power end up corrupt and self-destruct. The "purists" are only warning you about it. Blaming "us" about it feels a little bit too much like Stockholm's Syndrome.
That would be great if he was in NASA, but he pretends to be a businessman.
Sure, this applies for bitcoin, because bitcoin is legacy technology and has no features or utility. Monero does not work like bitcoin

https://steemit.com/monero/@sgp/7yjqso-a-monero-introduction...
It's not the network that's the problem, it's what the web has turned into that's the problem.
It’s not really about payments.

The scam is to create a new altcoin, give most of the altcoin supply to the founders, then try to force as many people as possible to use the altcoin by deploying it as part of something popular like Signal.

Now if anyone wants to use Signal’s money transfer feature, they have to buy MOB. The CEO of MobileCoin was in the threads yesterday pushing the website where they were selling MOB.

They don’t really care about transferring money. They just want to sell MobileCoin and pump up the price by making it look useful.
Thanks for sharing about ag, I'm going to check that out! Luckily I'm on Linux for most of my development, but sometimes I am on Windows and you're right, eshell is a blessing there :)
Say what now? I just opened my Kindle app and the store hasn't gone anywhere.

Are you maybe thinking of Google blocking Amazon from including the Amazon Appstore in the Amazon shopping app? That's a different issue and,
more importantly, that doesn't really affect what's possible on Android, just how convenient it is. After all, anyone who wants to can download the store Google blocked from Amazon directly.
I understand you (maybe including other Nim guys) feels undervalued/offended when I asked for a sales pitch. Nim is an opensource project and probably nobody makes a cent out of it, yet some arrogant guy like me treat the priceless work like something off shelf in the supermarket.

sadly the reality is not everybody has the time to appreciate the beauty of Nim unless he/she is convinced Nim identifies a problem largely ignored by others and solves it beautifully. my point is, could you convince me?
Really impressive! I like this a lot.
One thing I noted however, was when I resize and refresh to a smaller browser size the squares turn into long rectangles. Is there a way to make them scale together so they stay as a square in a narrow view?
Why not a quick check of the upper-left pixel color, and if that's similar to one of the identified "popular" colors, remove it? I'd suspect most of the source material would be photographed professionally on a uniform background color.

I chose upper-left simply because these sorts of photos would likely would be framed in a way that the background is visible in the upper margins, while possibly cropping the object at the bottom of the frame.
I loved coursera's course on audio electronics. Starts from absolute scratch, but has you building an amplifier and giving you an understanding of everything in between.
Yes. I won't pretend I'm not scared of the bad consequences of the tech we have, be it oppressive governments or evil private companies. Though to be honest, it's something we had to deal with since the dawn of mankind, I don't think surveillance tech is anywhere close to the root of the problem.

Since you mentioned it, I grew up watching Star Trek and I guess it might have formed some of my views on society and technology. The technology present in that universe can - and sometimes is - abused, but like you said, they generally trust each other a lot, both on personal and on societal level. It's a way of life I try to follow and a future I hope we'll one day reach.

Pretty much everything again hinges not on the technology itself, but on how it can be used. There's a lot of good we can leverage even current level of "antiprivacy" technologies - optimizing agriculture, traffic and public health, learning more about ourselves and how societies evolve, improving the general well-being of everyone.

The last two or three generations seem to have grown up with irrational hate of centralized systems. Yes, distributed and democratized is great, but those systems also have their failure modes - many of which we see every day not only in technology, but in economy, politics. There are some things that are better done centralized, like any kind of optimizations. With the levels of computing power we have nowdays, I think we should embrace centralization some more.

Another thing - that I do need to check up with history books, but I feel that the current notion of "privacy" is an artificial construct, an artefact of growing urbanization. I can't imagine villages having any level of privacy similar to what people in cities nowdays consider a minimum standard.
"Writing the fastest quick sort in a given language is an exercise for fresh young brains."

I can't see the reasoning here. Surely it's a job for someone who has written previous sorting algorithms, understands the trade-offs between speed and memory, and understand the pitfalls that can be fallen into when sorting different kinds of data?
You could buy a VPS and set up the appropriate software (mailserver, web client, etc.) and offer free registration for that.
This goes against math tradition where classical math texts say things like "this is obvious and left as an exercise to the reader". Implicitly, I think many mathematicians believe students should be made to struggle for their own good.

The problem is that this approach requires patience, persistence and hard work. Do this help students in the long-term? If you learn math without struggling, will you learn to think in the same way? Is this teaching to the test over teaching you how to think?
What happened to those generations before blogging existed?Turned out pretty okay,I guess.Even invented blogging.And then Tumblr.
Nice solution! I'll recommend it to others who complain about the images, thanks for the tip.
As noted, a quotation from Ken Thompson. It appears in the chapter "Bumper Sticker Computer Science" in _More Programming Pearls" along with many other fine aphorisms.
I have this question for every proficient DVCS user. Would it scale? When I say scale, I refer to a codebase running into lakhs of sources with a minimum of 20 filetypes including binary types, and at anytime more than 30 active branches, with frequency of merges/recons being one every week, and average volume of change in a source being 150 SLoC. I ask because am still unable to find a definitive answer and I want to know the things I might end up with, if I attempt migrating such a codebase from CVS to a DVCS like git/Mercurial.

might be relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3320001/source-control-sy...

Thanks.
I wasn't aware the new law did that, but I'm pleased to hear it. Now if only they'd do the same with capital gains.
Though this is (apparently?) a joke, I would donate if there were other options besides Google Checkout. Git is one piece of software that I can unequivocally say has changed my life for the better.
The glorification of dropping out may be a result of sample bias - journalists don't spill as much ink about the people who dropped out of college and ended up failing. That said, some dropouts scare me more than others. For instance, dropping out of high school to be an athlete, rock star, or actor seems very risky. It all worked out for Andre Agassi, but what would he have done if he'd only been a top 2,000 tennis player? Dropping out of college or (especially) grad school to become a startup founder seems much less so. If someone has succeeded through the first two years of computer science, they'll be able to go back and finish that degree if they are so inclined.

One major weakness of the article is that it points to the contributions of professors and researchers who made it all possible for gates, ellison, the google guys, and so forth by publishing unpatented research that served as the foundation for blockbuster companies. Great that they did this, of course, I love these guys, but he seems to be saying that everone else is depending on some other underpaid schlub to stick it through. Next career day, I'm going to go to my local college and say "some of you need to finish grad school and do PhD's - otherwise, how will other people get rich off your ideas?" Jeez, what a pitch.
The joys of naming: "pire" in french means "worst".
I kinda like his hacks, but jeez why run if you hate it. Figure something else out. He should hack his goal instead. It seems like he thinks exercise is punishment. At the least, I would recommend he ease into it instead of taking the flagellating monk approach.
Remembered years ago when I was still using Ubuntu desktop (7.x ~ 9.x) and the following things just killed me completely:

resume/suspend

video card

”enterprise” encryption over wireless (read: Windows)

less-known USB printers (no Linux driver at all!)

various other little things like indicator LED's etc

Spent countless hours configuring these things and finally got to a state where the computer was usable. And the laptop was a Thinkpad which was one of the better supported hardware.

Then a upgrade came half a year later and I had to repeat the whole process to reconfigure all over again, because some tricks used to work became useless, and parts of the things used to work fine now broke again.

Having done this for several times (I think the last major release I used regularly was Ubuntu 9.10) I thought: that's enough! I'm not going to spend my life fighting the endless battles. And at the time a roommate spilled a glass of juice of the old laptop, killing it instantly.

I bought the 1st gen Unibody MacBook then. Couldn't be any happier.

I still run several Ubuntu and Debian instances in Virtualbox, though, but they are all server editions. I just SSH into them from OS X.

Recently I'm wondering maybe the only way for Linux desktops to go mainstream is probably something like Chrome OS there you eliminate everything else except the laptop… (wireless support is still a potential area of pain, though).
>Isn't governance what governments are for?

All As do B, but not everyone that does B is an A. I don't need an organization with a geographic monopoly on police powers to run my son's little league.

>There is no guarantee that companies are going to take care of our interests better than governments do.

Straw-man. The argument isn't that companies are going to "take care of our interests", it's that both politicians and CEOs respond to self-interest, but at least firms have competition for our dollars, thus are incentivized on a continual basis to meet our wants.

The problem with the preceding is that government -- either intentionally, or as an unintended consequence -- helps to constrain the competitive market pressures.

I would put a lot more stock in the "net neutrality" legislation advocates if they even bothered to look at what extant legislation might be contributing to the hypothetical problem before agitating for increased government manipulation of the market.

Further:

- Firms can operate in different markets; I can choose my barber independently from my grocer. With governments there are often competing factors in making electoral decisions, such that we are left with choosing the lesser of the evil package-deals.

- Multiple firms can service different sets of preferences. We don't need to vote on what color tie to wear, and then have the minority yield to majority's preference.
Is this too little, too late? Why wasn't this blog post made yesterday? Now "Delicious is closing" has pretty much become "truth," even with this damage control. Many have already started trying out alternate services.

Kinda scary how fast this happens...
She studies behavioral accounting issues. Her dissertation was on the effect of internet stock message boards and their influence on investor decision making.

In her case she overlaps very heavily with behavioral economics (think freakonomics, predictably irrational, etc...). It can be pretty amusing watching these academics fight over what is in the realm of behavioral accounting and what is within economics. No one really knows;)

There is a capital markets side of accounting research which is much more focused on the analysis of accounting in the wild.

It is hard to sort of put your finger on what accounting research is. It does exist tho:)
I didn't used any of them before, is this any better than Kröhnkite?
Are you saying that these things haven't happened, or are you saying that I should not care whether my father can get an 'elective' surgery done sometime this decade? Or that the next election will be ran in a fair manner?
I looked around a bit and couldn't find Dall-e in there. A higher post in this thread said they don't usually release their models. It's a shame, this would have been fun to play with.
How big & immediate (powerful) leaders' reach were 200 years ago?

Were they able to send their message to 10s millions of people instantly and lead them to things? or how long would it take them to reach all those people.

I wonder if today's leaders have a very different power compared to when most of these laws and systems were put in place?
I would counter that when looking at the causes of behavior in a highly dynamic system, you should look at more proximate causes, and ask you to enumerate the causes established by the Obama Administration you deem responsible for the positive upswing.

I'd furthermore question that anyone is very good at accurately assigning proximate causes for people doing what people do, but the more economically minded tend to get upset when you do that as they're rather fond of their equations.
On one platform. He still can pull up a press conference whenever he wants just like every other president has done when they need to communicate with the public
He deescalated and they don’t want him to suddenly change his mind
We fail all the time. We get illover every silly thing, develop cancer, break down little by little over time. It's just that we evolved to handle this better than a artificial designed high spec-machine which was primary optimised for low budget.
How is it that they're not all under arrest?
Nice, it only took 4+ years of violations.
This is blatant censorship of the President of the United States, regardless of anyone's thoughts or opinions about him.

Edit: It may be fun to downvote and might make some feel great for a period of time, but it doesn't change the fact that the President of the country of free speech is being censored.
Addictive and relaxing. Loved it.
I'm warming up to the SF cycle scene - http://butterlap.com/ was a lot of fun last night!
I'm sure the same defense could be used for Indiana.