jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm rather shocked at the fairly visceral reactions a lot of people are having here. This is pretty classic conversational shenanigans. We had a blast with this in college; either you play along or counter with something equally preposterous or unprovable. Looking up the answer is cheating. It's like a game of verbal Calvin Ball or Mornington Crescent. As noted elsewhere in this thread (edit: at least one level up it seems (I got lost, apparently)), the goal is to specifically not make it win/lose, since that ends the game and is boring.

Or, if you know your friends well enough to guess what they're going to say, it's the art of picking the third or fourth dialog choice from the top, Monkey Island style. And if you're really friends, they'll do the same and it'll work.

And then there was the other side, where you tried to derive the answer. One of my favorites was attempting to determine if you could neglect the earth's core in modeling gravity; ferocious debate for an hour and a half by a dozen engineers. Best lunch ever.

Really, this is more about people being boring. Jumping immediately to the obvious instead of enjoying a meandering argumentative stroll. It's a way to play. Simple as that.

Otherwise you're just the adult saying, "that's not lava, that's carpet." Killjoy is the word, I think.

Edit: Ah, here we go: Mornington Crescent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjOsOB4erZI
> People waiting for "the breakthrough" that suddenly makes programming easy and available to all are kidding themselves. As others have said there's inherent complexity to programming and solving problems that can't be wished away with paradigm changing strategerized facilitations utilized by flow-optimized programmerators or whatever the secret code knowledge suppressed by scientists was prescribing.

I totally agree with you and would go so far as to say there's probably a kind of upper bound to the rate at which a human can translate an original idea in their head into an unambiguous logical construct of the kind which can be executed by a computer.

However, I would also say that the narrowest bottleneck in this process is the rate at which someone can comprehend the current state and structure of a given program, and I would say that anything that tries to improve on the status quo of text files in a directory is pretty cool.
I am working as a external contractor for few clients, fixing 15 years old shitty code bases. Do I like it? No.

Strangely, my favorite thing in the world is making nasty code beautiful.

I guess in another life I'd be a home remodeler / furniture restorer / auto body specialist / ...
>>>We almost went there again with arabic Americans after 9/11 via census data.
>>Can you source this, please? I don't recall this being suggested by anyone serious.
>Gitmo, extraordinary renditions, enemy combatants...don't ring any bell?

Yes, and none of that implies general roundups, which is what original person asserted.

So, either you're trying to bully the guy who asked because you realize that there were no such suggestions and you don't want to admit it or you didn't understand the question.
You did not address my remark about the difference between accidents and negligence. Also, the public bears the risk of environmental damage which should be offset by an additional disincentive not to have 'accidents' underwritten by taxpayers.
I use the Seesmic web and Android client, mainly because they do a great job of showing conversations (click 'in reply to' in the meta message).
The Navy's F/A-18 aircraft runs software with at least two million lines of C++ code.
Could be even worse if the thing worked. They might get the idea to go start a war somewhere.
Not that I'm aware of.

CockroachDB and FoundationDB provide scalable and reliable transactions. But they don't offer this interface.

Couchbase has conditional writes, but not batch writes.

I think TreodeDB is the first to bring these things together this way.
Just to clarify "sees a big warning" - I had meant the fake warnings that a lot of malware display: "1000 INFECTIONS FOUND, DOWNLOAD THIS NOW!!!"
Yes, the allocation of money and resources has no value to society...
>The Japanese even have a word for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

... which was in the article, for those of us who read it.

>Whenever someone like Moritz pulls 8 all nighters, there is some greedy, selfish, entitled, son of a bitch, benefiting from that.

Yeah, that greedy, selfish, entitled, son of a bitch was Moritz Erhardt. You don't get this kind of internship by accident, nor are there press gangs roaming the street looking for people to force into investment banking.

>When are we going to realize that capitalism is not the ideal and "free" system we idealize it as?

You have an odd notion of freedom. Did B of A keep him chained to the desk, you figure?
That can't happen without them annihilating very quickly. Otherwise it would be violating conservation of mass.
To give an idea of how revolutionary DF is, I'd say it's just as close to The Sims and Minecraft as it is to Angband.
(This is more my personal opinion, and less sourced)

I think the "rice" word (aside from the racial connotations) came from the stereotypical first modification being an absurdly large exhaust to try and lower the frequency of the typically smaller, higher-rev'ing / turbo'd Asian engines.

A noticeably large cylinder shoehorned on to the back of your car? Rice cooker.
This[1] suggests that fighting poverty is a pretty effective way to fight overpopulation. Most rich countries are reproducing well below replacement rates, and as poor countries become rich their average fertility reliably plummets. There are number of theories as to why, but one of the more compelling ones is that peoples' relationship to their children changes when they can be reasonably certain that all of those children will survive to adulthood. If that's correct, then public health initiatives may provide an even more direct impact on wide-scale population control.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox
The difference is that most devices are now running strictly proprietary software. The crypto war and the "war on general purpose computing" mean that privacy is being attacked from two fronts, not just one.

In the '90s, you could distribute code for PGP in a book, and effectively circumvent regulation. Now, you can ban encryption apps in the walled garden and effectively shut down an entire genre of computation.
..aaand this bug happened in 2014 as well?
"Hire 10 reporters to dig into corruption, waste, and fraud"

Isn't that actually the job of the police?
The banner is really frustrating. It says "Part 4" and has four dots, but I can't click the dots to go back to Part 1 and there aren't any header links to Part 1... is there even a Part 1 to go to?
I'm up for charging for personal data, for making entangled data available and many other options - what I don't see is a binary choice between "we need access to everyone's data to catch the bad guys" and "liberty means anonymity"

Neither seem correct in our new world, and one of the many problems with this salvo in the "2nd crypto war" is it assumes the fight is on those grounds.

I think that means I am agreeing with you.

Do you get cable in your hole? It sounds like a nice place to retreat to :-)
Lifespan is a function of organism size (ironically measured in weight, mostly). The bigger an organism, the longer it's lifespan. Keeping in mind normal human lifespan would be about 30-35 years, you find that many animals of similar size have a natural lifespan within a factor 2 or so of a formula that also applies to humans. Normal whales, for instance, have a natural lifespan of about 70 years.

That this formula works would seem to indicate that you are right. Death is natural, but it's "planned". The easiest way for such a formula to work would be that your genes somehow contain a death clock.

But there are multiple death clocks. One limits number of cell divisions. There is another one known that limits the amount of energy that can pass through a cell, after which it will kill itself. There are various others, one that kills the cell if it isn't deactivated on a regular basis (presumably meant as a check on DNA integrity), one that is triggered from the outside of the cell, ... the list goes on.
Hi, Danny O'Brien from EFF, and the person who wrote the headline and the paragraph.

I'd say the headline is actually in this case more accurate, but I didn't really want to add another six paragraphs of insider politics to the blog post to explain why. Long-form HN comment readers are a different matter, of course, so here goes:

It's true there are three more readings in the Lords, but my understanding (and recollection from when I worked more on HoP issues) is that the majority of these are pretty perfunctory, especially with a bill like this which has a high government priority to get through before the end of the current Parliament. Essentially, once these amendments hitch a ride on the process, it will get steadily more difficult to unmoor them. They will cease to become amendments, and more a small part of a very important bill.

Rejecting amendments like this at any step is an unusual act, especially when they are promoted by peers with apparent strong domain knowledge. It's absolutely impossible if you don't actually have time to debate the details.

So what you have to do is to alert politicians to a procedural violation instead. Few politicians are experts on Internet surveillance, so wil not feel confident to go up against domain experts; all of them are experts, however, on the exact moments they might be being bypassed or steamrollered over. That's because they're politicians and human beings, and being sensitive to possible cheating among your peers (pun not intended) is built into their psychology.

That moment of steamrollering is on Monday. If the amendments go through on the nod on Monday without a fuss, then the moment will be lost where we can argue about a violation of procedure. After that, we will have to argue about the substance of the bill. And there is no parliamentary time allotted for arguments of substance, because the whole point of inserting these 18 pages of amendments so quickly is to bypass that debate.

TLDR; yes, there are other opportunities. No, we're really not confident at all that we could stop the bill at those points. The best and possibly only probable chance to stop the Snooper's Charter is on Monday.

(For those wondering how you even begin to make these calculations: EFF works with the Open Rights Group, Britain's own awesome digital rights group. ORG's advisory bench includes MPs and peers, so they walk us both through the probabilities. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/people/advisory )

Hope this helps.
Not yet in my state :( Looks great though, can't wait until the regulatory issues and what-not get resolved. This could be really really cool.
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I would bet there will be a few interviews without tea and buiscuits over this.

I know the peopel are the weakest link but geting the Director of GCHQs number via social engineering one have hoped the GCHQ woudl have trained its staff better.
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In the UK, school goers do a 2 week work placement. Don't do what I did and let them choose for you, suggest an online company and push to shadow a PM, dev...it will at least be interesting and you might just learn a thing or two.
+1 on notmuch. I use it at work and it works great, super easy to configure actions for all the automated emails I get daily and filter the ones that really matter.
I'm not up to date on the latest but last I checked, you basically get penalized as much as you would have made during the time you're offline.

So if you're offline for an hour, you lose out on an hour's worth of profits and you also get docked an hour's worth of profits.
In my experience, Ubuntu 14.04 has pretty decent battery life on laptops as long as they use fairly standard chipsets and don't use fancy graphics switching between embedded and dedicated gpus. You shouldn't need to use TLP or do much hackery.

But to avoid heartache, I definitely recommend using a laptop where the vendor supports Linux drivers etc. I've had good experiences with the driver support with recent system76 laptops.
I always develop inside a virtual machine, with a shared folder in between so I can write code on the host, but everything runs in the guest.
You could already hack something like that up if you want to spend the time: very low power ARM or MIPS board, Linux, e-ink display.
> Then HN has flag kills which are like "super downvotes." I've seen a lot of perfectly reasonable comments flag killed for no real reason (just turn on dead in your settings). In particular when they're flying in the face of the site's culture/popular opinion.

Do you have any example flagkilled comments that shouldn't have been flagkilled?
But of course they could do some fancy user agent check to only give malicious stuff when requested by curl.
I live in the Dallas Area. I wonder what occurred that we now have more pollution...
True, but you could say the same of nearly any pair of general-purpose languages. Even Python and C overlap to some non-trivial extent. Go and Rust certainly have overlap, but I'm not sure I'd agree that they have an unusually high level of overlap.

I think the closest language to Rust in niche is, by far, C++. I'm surprised to see it compared less often to that than to Go.
> Its a nice fable

As if there are not bad choices and bad actors in all aspects of society at all points in history ...
Not OP, but here's a Lancet correspondence on the topic (includes references):

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I fail to understand why any economist would prefer QE over helicopter money. Give everyone a check. If they need it to purchase everyday goods and services, great. If their everyday needs are fulfilled already, they will invest that money into stocks, bonds, treasuries, etc, adding the needed liquidity to the market.

I understand if you're against the idea of giving people money. But this is just giving money to mostly the rich. Neo-trickle down economics.
In my case, I was fine with binary prefixes.

And searches don't even need Unicode to get difficult. Consider: to, two, too, 2, and II. Should those all find each other? Highly dependent on context. And likely you will be reimplementing NLP before you realize it.
Agreed. Fear and other bad feelings (like guilt) also fuel my procrastination so that I don’t even get started on the most important tasks. But the bad feelings lurk under the surface and I don’t even realize I’m procrastinating – I just think I’m “too busy.” Only when I sit down to do the task do I realize “Oh yeah, this is hard. There’s a reason it’s taken me so long to get around to this. This feels really bad right now.” But once I identify the feelings, like you said it becomes a lot easier to deal with them productively.
Doreen, your home health care options are good, and I appreciate your comments! You're not making ridiculous claims or pushing some off-label drugs.

I told several friends about your advice to prop up your head and back in bed when feeling shortness of breath.

Cautiously I also recommend tonic water for a cough - not because of a medical benefit, but because the bitterness makes sputum in my mouth and that soothed my sore throat. Also wasabi for a blocked nose. Normally I think cough medicine would be better, but I know that pharmacies are overloaded right now. I also think the placebo effect is very real - doing something positive might help, instead of just sitting and worrying.
It may have 150 binaries on the ARM side, but most are a) not used, b) don't don anything interesting or very involved c) some are FOSS already, like busybox, or have some code available if you look hard enough on github.

That's also why it's feasible to re-create userspace from scratch.

Anyway, it's gonna be nice having a lot of space to do interesting stuff in the modem's SoC.
Trees capture co2 into the biosphere, and when they do so it is temporary (~100 years by the time they've decomposed and released it back in to the atmosphere). Still, planting trees helps hold more co2 from the atmosphere and needs to be part of the solution. Especially if we can re-green areas that are currently barren, like deserts.

Proper sequestering, which I agree doesn't really exist yet, is to capture co2 back into the geosphere.
Or, worse: By yourself a few years ago.
At some point I had similar issues with every windows machine I ever used :) Macs do benefit a lot from single vendor for software and hardware
> I don't like the flaky sync

Probably relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26145584

> Arxiv PDFs are easy to read only if you crop or zoom

Have you tried another PDF reader, like KOReader[0] or plato[1]? There's also [2] which looks really interesting for cases where you want to save time.

[0]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader

[1]: https://github.com/darvin/plato

[2]: https://github.com/GjjvdBurg/paper2remarkable
As others have said, it's an old sales tactic that benefits the seller. You'll see it mostly in places where:

1. There's not much competition for the product, so the seller has no reason to compete on price and make things easy to compare

2. The sales process / cycle for that industry requires so many stakeholders and agreements etc that pre-committing to a price range up front is just an unnecessary handicap. They'll be in negotiations with numerous executives with a prospective buyer potentially for years before getting a signature. In these situations the buyer is not a naive consumer, they're a corporation that can take care of themselves and giving out the price is a free point in that game.

3. They haven't sold anything yet. They are still in the research phase and are feeling out what people might pay.
I find the self in the method call parameters slightly awkward, but other than that I like writing a lot of 'self'. One of the biggest reasons I prefer Python to Ruby or Perl is that I really agree "Explicit is better than implicit.", and adding the self before your instance variables and method calls explicitly labels their namespace/scope, and I don't find it too distracting. I sometimes do it in Java too, prefixing instance variables and method calls with 'this'.

I do agree that OOP approaches can be a bit overused (especially if someone's been coding too much Java), and I've always appreciate that Python doesn't shove it down your throat. I like that you can lean towards more functional code like this example, or towards simple imperative code. But when I do want some classes, I find the Python mechanism mostly ok.
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I've spotted few of those blenders at Starbucks. Not sure if these videos are ones convinced vendor relations people though...
[2004], but DTrace is still fantastic these days. I hear lots of people talking about how fantastic ZFS is, but out of all the code FreeBSD adopted from OpenSolaris I'd say DTrace is the most ground-breaking.
I would only see chaos. Politics are dirty in nature. When you go into politics, basically, you should be ready to dirty your hand.

I wonder how Wikileaks would make politician honest. I correlate honest with lies. What Wikileaks exposed are not lies, they are secret data/info.
I personally skip nutrition related studies. It seems that for any given study, there is another one that says exactly the opposite.
It is a good suggestion. In my defense, it was raining here in the Bay Area and all I could think of was, "I need a yellow umbrella..".
"... But if you try to run away instead of being given the ticket, the policeman can do whatever it takes to catch you and restrain you. ..."

Bad example.

Did you know it's SOP for AO's to only apprehend in certain circumstances at risk of legal complications. For example if a person has evaded capture:

"... In the event that the offender is able to decamp officers are not to give chase and pursue the offender. ..."

if the person has evaded capture and/or hidden:

"... loose sight of the offender then the pursuit must be abandoned and the officers should resume normal duties. Under no circumstance are officers to conduct a search of the area ..."

if the person is on private property:

"... If it is deemed necessary to pursue a person for a serious offence and that particular person enters private property, the pursuit is to cease immediately; entry to private property may be illegal and deemed as trespass. ..."

These examples are straight from the "Code of Conduct". It highlights how limited the real powers AO's have been supplied, mostly the Transport Act 1983.

[0] CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT AUTHORISED OFFICERS ~ http://www.transport.vic.gov.au/doi/internet/transport.nsf/h...
The way it was worded makes it seem like they were banning language mixing, not all non-Chinese media sources.
The pledges are actually orders for the watches.
Raise the price. For the love of god. Raise the price.

Absolutely, read http://bit.ly/bdHKmm to understand why. (Sorry for the shortened URL, the URL recognition software here doesn't understand URLs with apostrophes in here, so it actually is necessary.)

Something like this should not be $5.
I'm really not a big fan of the direction that they are taking stackexchange. Looking over a list of the avaiable sites you have:

Linux and Unix, System Administration, Power Users, Ubuntu, Programming, Software Engineering/Development, IT Security, and Webmasters

There is so much overlap here that is is ridiculous. From my point of view it feels like they are fragmenting the answers, questions, and participants to the point where individual sites can't survive long term.