jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The article includes some of the reasons why I changed to DDG quite a while ago, but this is pretty odd:

"When you realise that most things you search for online are really boring and obvious, you soon realise you don't really need Google in your life"

How is this an argument to use one search engine over another? Whether it's boring and obvious or not, you're still using a search engine. I stopped using Google because I was tired of landing on sites that seemed to be chosen by Google rather than finding the types of sites that I was looking for. Not that I'm entirely satisfied with DDG, either. I'm very tired of typing in keywords only to have them ignored.

Side rant: I'm so tired of these headlines being phrased as if they're assuming that "we've all been doing this wrong" or "I did this so you should too".
*groan

i`m flagging this story as flamebait. not really interested in the libertarian hatefest that it invites.
Great advice for a boxing or MMA match. For barfights:

A) Don't.

B) Swing first, while the guy's still jawing at you and before he thinks you'll actually do it. Don't threaten to punch someone or step outside, just punch them. A sucker punch is by far the best way to hit someone square in the jaw.

C) Keep hitting him. Contrary to the article, there's one great time to kick someone in a fight, it's while they're down.

D) Again, seriously, don't.
Some kind of delay tolerant protocol, perhaps? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
That's extremely different from the technique that Glass is demoing - in fact, it's the antithesis. It takes care of unifying the server/client templates (by introducing an unnecessary layer, imo), but it's very obviously string-based output rather than live DOM manipulation like Enlive or YUI on node.js
They are not fake.

http://gizmodo.com/5690820/body-scanner-pic-gallery/

There are 100 of them, those are just a sampling.
Good! This is an excellent thing to have happen. Worst case, the guy gets fined $11k and the internet steps up to cover it, and the TSA looks even more like utter goons than they do now. Best case, this blows the lid off of the insane procedures in place and starts a snowball to help get this thing changed.
Has anyone worn a film badge dosimeter while getting scanned (or just put on in their pocket)? That would be a way to independently test the radiation dose.
Url changed from http://web.archive.org/web/20020907183212/http://www-groups.....

It's a good HN submission, but please post a live original page rather than an archive copy when one is available.
Can you provide a link to an online version? I'd like to read it
Hi. I'm the creator of the site. Unfortunately, each time the globe orientation changes, the distortion caused by the projection needs to be recalculated. Tried to think of ways to make this faster or save computations, but haven't found any good solutions yet.
I was under the impression that the attack had evolved since this tactic. Is there any word on what the current attack looks like? Or is it still this?
Or if you want to take crazy risks with investments, you don't have to worry about going out of business (banking)
Are you being sarcastic? I can't believe anyone would really believe this. Look at the profiles of successful VC-funded startup founders[0], it's all about pedigree:

"Yet on close inspection, the evidence suggests that the keys to success in the start-up world are not much different than those of many other elite professions. A prestigious degree, a proven track record and personal connections to power-brokers are at least as important as a great idea. Scrappy unknowns with a suitcase and a dream are the exceptions, not the rule.

...

That means the founders had held a senior position at a big technology firm, worked at a well-connected smaller one, started a successful company already, or attended one of just three universities - Stanford, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-usa-startup-con...
I wonder how many people actually want to make happy talk when they are in a cab. I don't as one example.
Blablacar(https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blablacar), which specializes in longer rides (>45min) rebranded itself in this way too. It used to be called Covoiturage.fr (which translates to Ridesharing.fr).

It already features profiles and when you select a ride, you can chose whether you don't really want to talk (bla), don't mind talking (bla bla) or really want to talk (bla bla bla) during the ride.

In my anecdotal experience using the service for 1h-2h30 rides, people mostly chat all ride long. I've met really interesting people, although I've yet to keep a lasting connection with anyone.

Of course the first motivation to use the service is financial, but a lot of people like the social aspect of it too, as opposed to a train where you're just not supposed to talk to people. Anyway, they have been quite successful until now in Europe at least.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/think-we...
Perhaps I'm just old fashioned, but I'm making the assumption that people should be rewarded for actual accomplishments. Failure is a learning experience, but it is not an accomplishment.
You were supposed to post at least 200 words. You're fired.
It sounds like you're ready to put the book down and start using the language - finishing the book isn't necessarily important.
Not necessary, because this person and her views are quite well known: http://firstround.com/article/The-woman-behind-the-Netflix-C...

What's basically clear is that the candidates complaining here a) didn't do their basic f-ing homework, and b) are seriously misrepresenting Netflix views on letting people go.

Not I agree with that part of Netflix culture (and it would pretty much be illegal in most Western countries), but there is a clear logic behind it, and I seriously doubt they skipped that part in the interview.
I'm wondering why the chips themselves, once removed from their placement, couldn't just be x-rayed, rather than destroyed?
I agree that "good" (as in, succesful) networkers speak to everyone and remember little details about everyone.

However, the best networker I know (we call him "el trepador", that would be "the climber") spends a disproportionate amount of time on his superiors.

It's incredible the amount of time he spends networking or at social events, when he was at the company I work for he learned the President's and CEOs favourite sports and activities, organized an in-company tournament of the President's favourite sport, played golf with the CEO, played football (soccer) with his coworkers, organized outings, invited other CxOs to barbecues at his house.. he hardly had a night to himself. He also kept track of everyone he met at any kind of event.

He was hired as a programmer, but he managed to avoid any kind of task that involved working in the backend and always maneuvered to work in client-facing or high profile tasks, his favourite trick was building a fancy (but simple) web interface on top of complicated backends (and getting designer time, which was key), which usually resulted on his getting most of the credit.

He's now a CEO (at another company in the group of companies which he's buddies with the president), and he has no university degree and didn't spend any time studying - at the same time he was doing all that stuff, I was working towards an MBA and spent about as much time after work as he did, his time investment definitely paid off a lot better.
Homelessness punishable by death should clear it up.
This same group is covered in the Nova episode Dogs Decoded (available on Netflix US):
http://documentarystorm.com/dogs-decoded/ (starting from 31:11)

I'm not sure if it's this episode or some other documentary, but I remember seeing the food experiment as well. Where wolves would not look to humans for help.
In my experience, Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler is a great second book on linear algebra. But it makes sense to most students only if they've seen and done concrete matrix calculations before. Giving it to a mathematical novice is likely to lead to baffelment. Too abstract.
I mean... that is factually accurate.
A clever response titled: "Blogging Something I Know Nothing About."
This also applies for the job market — if you got an offer with few interviews and little negotiation, you should've asked for more / applied for something more challenging.
No one is forcing you to install parler from the Play Store either.
You might not know the history of employment. Employment is the latest iteration of a series of systems which require the bulk of the population to contribute labor to shared efforts which are designed by small elite groups. Your society explicitly asks you to trade labor for food, shelter, and other basic benefits of living in a civilization.

Specifically, we know that 12-hour shifts (without overtime or adequate breaks) were a thing that employers would want, because they used to exist. Similarly, we know that employers would want to pay below minimum wage, because they used to. In fact, both of these things still happen regularly today, despite the laws having changed.

Yes, when we look at history, we often feel that folks were doing evil/bad/harmful/etc. things, because we can't help but judge them based on our values which we hold today. The best that can be said is that people are complicated and that good/evil is not a good framing for weighing why people did what they did.
In the US, the judicial branch is the arbiter of truth. And yet, even judges write opinions.

The world is a messy place and it is only hubris that makes us think we can organize it neatly.
I love this. I started laughing when I read the description. I laughed because a Harvard physicist (funded by people like Bill Gates) had the same idea to use cooling towers for their DAC project in Carbon Engineering (linked in your post). But as you say, it is still expensive. They are bragging that their design took hundred of man years!

And then you two guys come in with the idea that in hindsight seems completely obvious, use all the cooling towers already out there! The most start up thing ever.

I used to be an engineer at an ammonia plant. Many of them already capture and sell CO2 from their process. So they have the infrastructure to compress and sell CO2 already on site. The plant I worked at was in Augusta, GA. Might be worth checking out ammonia plants as a growth market.
yeah, has been like that for a few years .
Totally blob free? Unfortunately not:
"We aren’t touching the modem’s ADSP firmware, because in addition to the inherent difficulties that come with it, modifying the ADSP firmware could lead to problems with RF regulations or certifications."

The ADSP firmware is the firmware that does all of the heavy lifting for physical communications.
You struggled to make a user name and password? Did someone help you sign up to HN?

Forgive me if I am doubtful.
> You're so lucky to have been born here.

This is right, especially given much of the world is in abject poverty & starvation.
By moving everything into the application, QUIC circumvents the extremely slow pace of innovation in operating systems' TCP stacks. Unlike userspace TCP, which requires elevated privileges such as CAP_NET_RAW on Linux, QUIC does not require any special privileges.
The US is home to over 2M cooling towers: https://www.nsf.org/news/road-map-improve-response-legionnai...

Using the numbers we've calculated with our first partner plant, we're expecting to be able to capture 0.5-1 ton/day with their 25 ton cooling tower. This is a very small tower - for perspective, UCSF operates a 5,400 ton cooling tower to operate their small electricity co-generation plant, and cooling towers at larger power plants can be even bigger than that.

Let's assume though that all 2M cooling towers in the US are the same size as our small 25 ton cooling tower. This equates to an opportunity to capture 730M tons of CO2 / year using really tiny versions of existing US infrastructure.
My ability to search for installed apps goes, but I always can get a SERP for them. Also highly frustrating.
I ended up using the netflix API for a similar need.
Indeed. With the exception of the notification bar's organization, it was quite difficult to distinguish the two.

I'm against overuse of patents and trademarks, but even to me these are very clearly too similar.
That's symptomatic of being a fresh college grad (which this gal is...she's only four years out of school). You're still under the influence of being told you're smart because you got an A in whatever class.

Take somebody like me, who's been out of school for 15 years. I know how dumb I am; it's a measured quantity and unfortunately has an observable and accelerating rate of growth.
Very true. It sounds like the author is doing some hardcore stuff that he needs a bit more brute force. For the majority of us, OS X may be exactly what we need.

Kudos to the author on his depth of hardcore computing, but there are a million ways to use computers, hack, and code and the majority of them don't need that level of l337ism.
Isn't an iPhone4 $99 with a contract?
While I appreciate the sentiment this obviously comes from an author who has very little Unix experience in general. For instance he claims that Darwin is an odd duck and that "Things which build & run clean­ly on other *nixes won’t nec­es­sar­i­ly build & run that eas­i­ly on Dar­win."

Really? Ever tried to compile anything on HP/UX or IBM AIX? Darwin is a bed of roses compared to that. Even Solaris has its problems when compiling things. The author obviously thinks that Linux = Unix even though the heritage of Darwin / OS X is that of the BSD branch of the Unix family whilst Linux takes a lot of inspiration from the System V family.

I kind of agree with the article in general I just think it was so badly written and some of the claims so down right ignorant it masks a decent point.

Oh and as for managing daemons, launchd is a significant improvement over the standard Linux initd and cron scripts. At least launchd will restart crashed / stopped daemons when needed. Plus you don't even need to run the daemon at all times on OS X. It will be automatically started when an incomming request for it is made. To do that on Linux you need to move over to daemontools (which actually also works on OS X as well so that nullifies that advantage).
In my experience, the subjects you have listed such as QA and project planning are indeed useful in industry.

However, they are not complicated concepts. I didn't get a degree in SE but found that within a couple of months of working after graduation, I had been exposed to all of these and been taught best practice. After one or two internships, you may find that you will have too.
For most people, this is not the case with advanced CS theory which you may or may not be interested in.

Since many of the courses are common between the two, do you need to commit to one or the other right at the start?
The only thing missing in Linux web browsing that I have encountered is Silverlight, which remains rare. (Except for Netflix.)
SubEthaEdit was the difficult bit for me, as we often use it for collaborative work in the office.
You can't be bothered to find it, even though you think a short search will turn it up? Interesting.
The people who work at Google, Facebook, etc can’t imagine how everything they make is not, like, totally awesome. If it’s not awesome for you it’s because you just don’t understand it yet and you’ll come around. They can’t imagine scenarios outside their reality and that is how they inadvertently unleash things like the algorithmic cruelty of Facebook’s yearly review (which showed me a picture I had posted after a doctor told me my husband had 6-8 weeks to live).

Dave Eggers' The Circle, all over again (or should it be 'avant la lettre'?)
All true (and as someone who spent years building solutions around the various SP releases, I know about its internal problems all too well). Also, while I will use SQL Server without a second thought for most of our development simply because its easy, does its job without problems and our tooling fully supports it, I also know if I have speed issues I'll just throw another server or a ton of RAM at it until the problem goes away; something game devs obviously can't do.
Cool! I'll definitely give it a try! Currently I have my own fashion blog built on Joomla ( https://www.templatemonster.com/joomla-templates.php ). I'm planning to launch one more blog on culinary. So, maybe I'll go with this GitHub's new platform...or with Joomla again.
Yeah you would build the wall and the enemy would have to destroy it to go past. And if you built a gate your units could go through but not the enemy.
This is just an argument for using IDEs or modern text editors vs joe bloggs scripting pad. Any decent Python IDE (e.g. Pycharm, Sublime + pyflakes) would catch syntax errors.
I have no direct information about this specific case, but in ye olden Unix™ days, there was no /sbin, so all those binaries instead lived in /etc. The Red Hat symlinks could be a backwards-compatibility thing.
This is so funny to me. At my workplace we preferred magnitude phase plots and tables. People had to be reminded how to interpret Smith charts
Even at the time I thought the series was prophetic:-

Janie Crane: "An off switch?"

Metrocop: "She'll get years for that."

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_%28TV_series%29#T...
Actually I'm doing something similar [1] - but beside sharing links, tiomsu.com allows sharing (markdown) notes as well. There is YT video with brief overview [2].

1. https://tiomsu.com

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx7Ai-PhvAM
Many states have 'benefit corporations'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
If you have an iOS device, you may like Craig Smith‘s port of Frotz. It includes a few games, including Curses I think. You can also browse the IFDB and download other games from inside the app.
In the Turing machine formalism that was taught at my university(1), the set of symbols that can be stored in a cell must be finite, but can otherwise be anything needed to solve the problem at hand. For each state in the associated state machine, there’s effectively a lookup table that maps the current tape symbol to some other, and an instruction about how to move the tape head for the next step.

This means, in particular, that you can annotate symbols on the tape by having different variants of each input symbol, so long as the number of variants is strictly bounded.

(1) There are many equally-powerful variants, so there’s no guarantee that others will be working with the same definition.
> a company famous for the CCP removing their CEO (Ali)

[citation needed]

> the company being an arm of military intelligence (Huawei)

[citation needed]
It's very easy to see this as the destruction of value. Microsoft, certainly, pushes this interpretation. Another way to see is that it's taking 10 billion out of the cost of doing business. Those 10 billion will be translate into more R&D, greener manufacturing or lower prices.
I think calling these these kinds of practices "Search Engine Optimisation" is a little perverse. "Search Engine Deception" would be a better term. This is precisely the sort of thing that makes SEO such as shady business nowadays. It might work for now, but it's still a hack based on the current implementation of search engines that will likely be punished later on.
>> so you don't accidentally burn up your electronic parts

The biggest thing to watch out for is incompatible voltage ranges (lots of parts are 3.3V compatible, most parts are not 5V compatible).
Swift has no traced garbage collector which means you cannot represent circular data structure/references.
Also swift support for interfaces (protocol) is sub-par with today standards
I loled at this one:

> What's Newton's modern equivalent doing right now? Probably perfecting a build order in Stellaris.

Newton's modern equivalent is right now doing one of the following: science, technology, programming. Something of that sort.
Haha nice try
> You're missing the entire premise: where can I go sell my USDT directly for USD? Show me where.

https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD
> Democrats are not blameless, and I'm first in line to be critical of the politicians I have voted for, but Republicans are also not innocent victims.

Honestly, I can’t see how or why you would accuse the author of this, given paragraphs like this:

“The Republicans started the cycle of escalation in the 1990s. Rejecting the very idea of a bipartisan consensus, Newt Gingrich disseminated a partisan vocabulary to make it appear that Republicans favored the opposite of everything Democrats favored. Gingrich told Republicans to contrast the “conservative opportunity society” with “the liberal welfare state.” Semantic warfare was combined with quasi-military organization, as Gingrich and his Republican successors imposed a degree of discipline on the Republican Party in Congress that was alien to American traditions.”
Cost and complexity. If you have to send so many to overwhelm and bypass all the countermeasures, the cost and complexity of make it a much less practical and appealing solution than just doing it the old fashioned way. I can't see how brass, lead, and gunpowder will ever be more expensive than light weight plastics/composites, electronics, sensors, motors, batteries, plus the actual lethal component. Add to that the required time/complexity required to configure and deploy, situational considerations such as weather, sensor viability, terrain/environment factors, etc... and we're back to going back to guys with guns. Could there conceivably be a scenario where this might be the best option? I suppose, but in my estimation it would likely be the option of last resort.

If an enemy force has already made up its mind to kill, I don't see this making it any easier/more reliable/more effective than well-established alternatives.
Why are Denver-Phoenix and Seattle-Phoenix so busy?
>Tether has never demonstrated a single USDT redemption

Does that matter when you can withdraw from a USDT exchange and get USD in a bank account, or trade USDT for USD at kraken?
Thanks for posting this. I was considering making the jump to a new messenger but decided to wait and see what others had to say about the changes to the privacy policy and what it actually means from a privacy perspective. The use case for businesses to be able to use it for hosted clients (probably hosted and with messages stored by facebook) makes sense, and doesn't seem as bad as its been made out to be – still get the same level of privacy we've always had between individuals and groups WhatsApp chats.

> but also to less secure messaging protocols like Telegram (or, frankly, Matrix)

Appreciate that Telegram doesn't have a good rep in the security community, but whats wrong with Matrix?

Also, this is off-topic, but I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you've done in the past with Cydia. I was a 1st gen iPhone user, and got a lot of use from services such as Cydia (in fact i'm convinced the App Store was inspired by services like Cydia).
When you have a deadline, you get a bright line between "fast enough" and "too slow", and no immediately apparent benefit from being faster than just enough.

In such cases, if it is known more work could be done, often more work can be found to do, but it is hard to know without actually trying to do more. If it is not certain the extra work could be finished in time, it might be wrong to start it instead of doing something else simpler and more certain.