jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been worrying about this for a while.

I think there are 2 things at play; the first is a gradual wearing of our attention span in a world where we can scroll through the whole worlds news and everyone's opinion on it, in the time it takes to defecate. A continuous flow of intellectual snacks - some healthy, some junk - is habit forming. Without judgement whether it's a good or a bad thing, it's certainly a thing.

The second (which I think is exacerbated by the first) is plain old cognitive friction : it requires more brain energy to invest in book. A full page of small font text, vocabulary stretching language, vivid images created by words, high concept theories, different plot elements to assemble; all of these represent a much high load on the cranial CPU - and that's not to say we can't do it, but that we are subconsciously reluctant to make the effort.

In the same way that if your loaded gym bag is waiting at the end of the bed, you're much more likely to get to the gym than if you have to hunt through the laundry, search for your membership card, find your car keys etc etc.

I think this is covered by Dan Kahneman in Thinking Fast & Slow, but i could be mistaken.

Anyway, it's a thing.
>medium-large forum back in the vBulletin heyday of the early 2000

how many people were on such a forum, and how many of such forums were there out there to get on?
Author here. When the timezone rules change, the software updates its timezone database. This is how it should be. You don't have to change the software, the software should be able to handle the changes to the timezone database.

The updates are available here: http://www.iana.org/time-zones So far there has been two new releases of the database in 2015. Last year there were about 10 changes.
Simple. Create an email alias (spacemuffinftw) just for Posterous and post with that, making it your password in a way.

Edit: Seen in other comments -- cool thing would be for Posterous to support SPF. Definitely techie oriented and not for general folks, but in a system like Posterous, it should be baked in from day one. It would protect quite a bit of folks while majority of them not even realizing or even knowing what SPF is.
If I had to choose between Objective-C + Cocoa Touch vs. HTML5 + the-best-HTML-framework(s)-that-exist-in-2010, I'd certainly choose the former.
Here's another perspective on this:

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-2089-mutual_plunder.aspx

The government did quite a bit to weaken this facility in an effort to "create jobs". Union Carbide's big mistake was continuing to do business there when the government kept changing the terms for the deal they had. But that's what governments always do.
> ... sabotage or not, it's still your responsibility to safeguard the facilities...

Half of sabotage is breaking safeguards.

Not that precautions and defenses shouldn't exist, but asking for safeguards that are still safe after being sabotaged is like asking cryptologists to design a system that is still secure after it's been compromised.
"As a user, I fully accept it. http://blog.dustincurtis.com has received almost a million pageviews in the past year, and this is the first time this has ever happened. And It happened because I provoked it in an extremely popular article was posted to a community of hackers. To be honest, I expected someone to try this."

as an EDUCATED user YOU accept it, i'm not sure most of the posterous users understand and would make the same decision to user posterous if they did.

this is like saying car companies could sell shitty locks on their cars because they mostly wont be tested anyway, and the driver will have an easier time getting into the car. it's VERY unlikely my mothers car will be broken into just statistically speaking, but hey even if it happens its just one person. not a big deal.

im pretty sure if posterous made it clear how easy this is many users would stay away, just like many people would not buy toyotas if they came with shitty locks, no matter how little they expected to be broken into.
Not quite sure why this has been re-posted, this time with a fake title...?
Why isn't Drobo in the comments here responding?
hm. well, if i had to venture a guess, i would say that it was because you used gmail exclusively, while mr curtis does not. probably easier to slide by if you're a poster who emails through various different clients over time.
Climate has a lot to do with it. Very few people would like to bike to work during a Houston summer. It's like riding through Equatorial Guinea during the rainy season.
This might not be a feasible reaction to the attacks, but in my mind the people who are "unsuspecting attackers" aren't necessarily trying to access GitHub in the first place.

So, what if they set up automated rule to block all IPs (for a period of time) who show traffic patterns that indicate they are part of the attack, and then for all those IPs who are trying to reach GitHub purposefully but are currently blocked, give them explicit instructions on how to tunnel to regain access to GitHub while the attack continues. This way only those who are (a) part of the attack, and (b) want to access resources on GitHub need to do anything special.

My guess is the number who would truly be affected by this are a tiny fraction of the total number of people who are part of the attack.
I think it's generally safe to assume that a large chunk of people who happen to hold opinions you disagree with don't hold them because they are retarded. Even Fox News viewers.
I've seen a lot of supermarkets doing just that. They simply place a sticker with new price to avoid the problem you described.
I don't notice it much in Office because the font sizes in use tend to be a bit larger. Whereas small fonts are much more common on the web, and the bad rendering is really noticeable.
Yes, definitely he can not know who you are if you won't tell him. Even with us, we're difficult to know who is created the page. We respect your privacy and protect it with strong encryption
Oh yeah sure, there is tons of words to describe criminals, but the problem is the word "criminal" itself works for all of them, if you look at the news and how people speak, you never see those words, you only see "it's a crime to do something" or "this guy is a "criminal".
Reminded me of http://goo.gl/SOecWG
It's not the blog post content that people are reacting to (which I agree was edifying), it's the attitude toward interviews.

No one is complaining about or criticising his code or his discussion of the Towers of Hanoi solution (although some skepticism has been expressed about the exact speedup he's getting). I'm quite sure the man has forgotten more about embedded programming than I know.
The thing I really like about Onewheel vs Boosted is the size of the wheel. Even when I skateboarded 10 years ago, the small size of the wheels would always get me into trouble.

$1500 is definitely too much money for me right now, but if I move further away from the office and the price comes down about $500 in the 6-12 months I may be picking one of these up.
How'd he get caught?
Why is there not a dongle for this. This should have been the first step and part of the announcement.
Large cities often have apartment buildings for 200 or more people with units connected by concourses to their own shops and community facilities. Difference is, people there have alternatives.
The repercussions of such a changed are addressed at http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/

Many things depend on using mean solar time, astronomy being one of them. The places that actually need a strict accounting of elapsed time can already use TAI or GPS time.
> "you gave to persuade more of the high IQ types to go into Enginering rather than the Law, Medicine "

That's under the assumption that anybody can be a good Engineer. I know a lot of excellent medicine doctors (shamelessly including my Dad) that with enough effort would be able to learn programming but they won't be great ones, they just are not passionate enough about programming.

Another point is that most of the great developers that I know are not money driven, their wealth is just a nice consequence of doing something that they love.
http://sitekite.com/here-is-a-quickly-made-site-_uitRw

"We're sorry, but something went wrong. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."
Perhaps the explanation is so self-evident that it seems redundant. The entire point of an API is to abstract away the underlying database schema.
Nice! There was a different tool in the same category, aptly named "Comcast", featured on HN a few weeks ago: https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast
PHP seems to attract the bottom of the barrel "brogrammer" types.

Kayne West of PHP. That says it all.
And the hack fix:

/*
hnokpre.c: LD_PRELOAD shim to bypass valid hostname checking in glibc
gcc -fPIC -shared hnokpre.c -o libhnokpre.so
LD_PRELOAD=./libhnokpre.so curl http://mattias-.github.io/
*/

int res_hnok(const char* dn)
{
return 1;
}

int __res_hnok(const char* dn)
{
return 1;
}
2. The problem is that different opacities of the same color aren't as easily distinguishable. Nonetheless I tried some different variants here http://imgur.com/a/inGAD. (1) simply replaces the different colors with different opacities and leaves everything else the same, I think it looks too random. (2) does not fade out the additional bars to the left, slightly more differentiated but too cluttered. (3) keeps all the additional bars at the same opacity, looks best IMO. What do you think?

3. The reading mode button in IE does not have a label either, so that only leaves the open-in-IE button. Hopefully with the IE icon that one should be obvious as well.

4. Oh yeah the tilt effect, it doesn't really make much sense for those buttons beneath the browser anyway so I removed it there.

5. If you don't mind, I'll email you using the address in your profile once the beta is out. Might take a few more weeks.

6. I was worried about that screen not being very discoverable. The navigation is indeed a bit Android-like, so I tried to compromise by using another icon that makes sense (switch) instead of the hamburger icon. However it seems many people don't realize what the switch button does, and miss out on the settings menu because of it. I'll probably have to replace the app icon with the hamburger icon. Also, you can always use the back button to go back, is that not obvious (honest question, even if it sounds weird)?

7. (1) "Water you doing" is just a silly pun, I'm surprised you pointed out the extraneous space but ignored the "water" part :p (2) That is a margin/spacing issue, did you increase the system font size? The settings screen is kind of thrown together with very little customization, the toggle switch does not wrap its label by default but still there should usually be enough space for the full text. (3) Thanks, the hyphen seems to be more appropriate when it's used as an adjective so I added it.

8. Generally agree, but only if it's absolutely required to understand how to use the app. That's not the case here.

And finally, I really appreciate your feedback, it's useful to me whether you like the app or not :)
If you want to be real careful you should say Portland cement.

(because, for instance, the bitumen in asphalt roads is also a cement)
I once got told of a trader at a large bank that was called "Keep the fucker".

He had been late to work that morning and had parked in a board member's parking space. A security guard was sent to ask the trader to move his car. The trader was mid-deal and angrily waved the security guard away.

Seeing this, the trader's colleagues asked the security guard to keep asking him in order to wind him up further. In the end the trader snapped, threw his car keys at the security guard and said "It's a 3 year old BMW, and I'm doing a billion dollar deal. Just keep the fucker."
Nitpick: There were such marketplaces before so it's not really fair to say airbnb made them. It is the one that's really 'gone mainstream'. There were likely auction sites before eBay, sync products before Dropbox and music players before the iPod.
Yep, see what happened in the Arabic countries (and some other countries outside of the Islam-sphere). People organised to protest using the Internet. People get educated using the Internet. In Cuba they exchange information using thumb drives. And every bullshitter (= our governments) should be afraid of it. They are, of course. And surveillance is their reaction.

What will help is if everyone finally realises that it's NOT about pornography, that it's NOT about terrorism, that it's NOT about drugs, that it's NOT about whatever reason they name..
This is only one department of the bank - Investment Banking. I don't think being an intern in Sales and Trading is as intense. Also, working in technology for a bank is nowhere near as bad.
I hadn't heard the concept of "suggested CCing to the internal team" before. How do you phrase this? Are you asking them to forward your email on, or to CC others on their reply to you?
Quote - "Huge profitability gained by bringing back black money stashed abroad in order to cover Election expenses".

The rupee can't devalue because of this. Large buy orders would only make the rupee appreciate. Rather, what would still make more sense is the politicians and businessmen sending the black money abroad, just before the elections to safeguard it due to the uncertainty if the next government would support them.
They also say a lot of things they truly mean before they develop a "shut up filter" later on in life.
Doing mind-numbing work is one thing, but spending hours and hours doing it when you know it's all for nothing is an indescribable feeling.

This is why I dropped out
Here's the Planet Money episode that explains the history of these laws and why they are so hard to get rid of:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...
I wouldn't hold off on a car or housing - to assume that is ignorant - though with prices going down I would likely purchase a new vehicle much sooner than I otherwise would have.
One thing I like React is it is plain javascript.

Therefore I can use coffeescript to describe the component:

{div, p, ul, li} = React.DOM
...
render: ->
div className: 'foo',
p className: 'bar', 'blabla'
p className: 'bar', 'blabla'
ul className: 'somelist',
@state.items.map (x) -> li key: x.id, x.content

If Riot.js uses a custom parser, it may not be able to do this.
> The government at all levels has simply taken too many of our rights or flat out circumvented the law with weasel speak and it needs to be reigned in.

Agree.. and same goes for our corporations.
I may be wrong here, but I vaguely remember that Infineon chips used in Siemens mobile phones some time ago (sl45i model exactly - C166) had proper memory mapping architecture in place. Especially, someone managed to exploit a stack overflow there by loading a specific jar file -- that would mean the stack at least was executable (and ram itself that way).
The jar did some demo-scene like presentation by injecting the code into a running system and taking the control over from the original firmware. That's another clue that screams "RAM execution".

It was a very long time ago though, so I may have some details wrong here, but the sl45i jar hack should be still available on youtube to prove it. Fast -- it could do 26MHz. Cheap... not sure.

Edit: Now I remember that someone wrote a binary file loader (from the MMC) that were either memory-copied, or memory-mapped. So yes - definitely look at the Siemens-Infineon C16X series - or newer if they exit.
I wonder if their IP lawyers still got paid.
I'm sure there is... It's a problem begging to be "solved". The majority of juice on a drone is taken up by the propellers, not the board running it. Though, to be fair, at that point "weight" is a bigger concern than electricity usage.
My undergraduate program at Georgia Tech attempted to do this in CS2335 (Software Practicum). That I recall, our first project was an IM client/server, our second was a client/sever game involving programmable automatons, and our third project was a hybrid of Space War-Asteroids-Trader-Lander-Pirates.

You had the option of building them all completely separately, but you were strongly encouraged to re-use code form earlier revisions, particular for the client-server bits. The class also included labs on Subversion, although nothing on the notion of things like code review. I could imagine teaching the course today with Github and requiring (or at least awarding some credit for) good use of Pull Requests, meaningful code review, etc.

Sadly it looks like the course no longer exists; I have no idea what replaced it.
2. Human alarm clock

Don't they still do this within, say, hotels?
I won't win this argument (and I won't try), but, I appreciate the time you took to write me a response!

1. I'm working on this and the feature was an attempt to combine both WYSIWYG and Markdown into one formatting experience. This ended up being a gamble and one that I lost and the newest updates will address this. It sucks, i failed, i got it wrong.

2. A lot? sure. i guess. there are tons of great alternatives, for sure!

"More coding"...? #facepalm ...

really?
Not that I question your knowledge about bullets and armor, but weren't the things they shot out of slings also called bullets?
> It's absolutely fantastic that < 100 years of purposeful hardware research and < 1 year of training can compete with 3 billion years of meandering hardware building and 16 years of training, to the point that the latter feels the need to insist that the former will never be as good.

The 3 billion years of evolution are still at the foundation of computer research. It's not like computers are spontaneously appearing out of thin vacuum via quantum fluctuations.
Yes. It's amazing the number of engineers that resist doing that analysis - "oh that part won't ever break". Some safety standards do allow for "reliable components" (i.e. if the component is already been scrutinized for safe failure modes, you don't have to consider them) and for submitting reliability analysis or data. I've never seen reliability analysis or data submitted instead of single-point failure analysis though, myself.

Single-point failure analysis techniques like fault trees, event trees, and especially the tabular "failure modes and effects analysis" (FMEA) are so powerful, especially for safety-critical hardware, that when people learn them they want to apply them to everything, including software.

However, FMEA techniques actually have been found to not apply well to software below about the block diagram level. They don't find bugs that would not be found by other methods (static analysis, code review, requirements analysis etc) and they're extremely time and labor intensive. Here's an NRC report that goes into some detail: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/agreem...
Where did all this prosperity happen if the US isn't a capitalist country? Give an example of what you consider a capitalist country, please.
Monopoly power from two sided markets. Apple is in the position where it outbid competition. They take 20% cut from app sales and sell 200 million units.
What asset class has returned value like crypto for the past 10 years? None.
Absolutely right. Many carbon capture systems that are installed on top of smokestacks have much higher concentrations of CO2 than the air does (~300x higher concentrations in smokestacks). Henry's Law states that as partial pressure of a gas goes up, its solubility in a given liquid also goes up [1]. So, if you have a smokestack with a higher concentration of CO2 available than what you can get in air, it's going to be easier to capture the same amount of CO2 bc more CO2 will want to dissolve in the liquid that it's dissolving in.

There are some cool ways that people are working on to concentrate CO2 using membranes, metal organic frameworks, and other things - we'd love to someday incorporate something like this at the front end of our process!
You're not trying to say that academia is an imaginary world, are you?
downvote me to hell, but: booooring!

I was hoping for streaming :(
If you don't mind making one yourself you can do it pretty cheap. I copied mine off http://www.codeovereasy.com/2013/09/diy-adjustable-desk-for-..., and it took just a few hours and $40.
It's not my reasoning, it's my attempt to repeat the reasoning I've heard from highly intelligent people who really don't think individual differences in competence matter much -- even when their own clearly does. I think they do matter, a lot.

One of the most competent people I've ever known is one of them. He told me that Elon Musk is somewhat intelligent, but his success is due to luck and underhandedness, and he could be easily replaced by another somewhat intelligent and similarly underhanded person. He seemed sincere in believing that merit wasn't much of a thing and meritocracy is a racist trope. I got roundly mocked on twitter for arguing that merit is real. I'd like to understand that point of view better, because I'm at a loss too.
That's what TFA says.

I imagine that the latitude matters, too. Near the poles, the sun is coming in at such an oblique angle that any given surface area isn't getting much heating effect from it anyway, so it's easier for the insulating blanket effect to be a net positive.
I presume you didn't get to have a look at http://www.aros.org/nightly1.php which contains links for multiple versions include rpi.
On the couch usually.
Interesting, my first job was also in hydrodynamic modelling using PDP-11/03 for data capture! I wonder if it was the same place? I left there in 1982 and I don't think they had any BBC Micros at that time.
To be blunt and controversial, do people living in the mentioned region (Asia) even HAVE multiple rooms / a nursery? I mean I don't.
> To hit them would show a lack of understanding, control, reason, and temperance. These are bad things to teach.

This is true, certainly.

> The child hasn’t had the opportunity to develop their reasoning faculties

You're mistaken if you think that poor self-control is predicated on a lack of logical reasoning.

But anyways, point is that no trust is lost when a parent hits a child; children don't apply that kind of transactional logic to personal relationships. We only learn that much, much later when we get to the politics that underlie school and work environments.
> Boys don't need role models.

Boys are surrounded by role models in lots of areas in a way girls are not (and that was even more true a couple generations back.) They don't need any special effort to provide them because their social context is suffused with them, both real and fictional.

> Boys do things because they are driven to do them for seemingly no reason at all.

No, if you pay much attention to boys, there's plenty of direct inspiration from specific role models and images from their social context.
C and C++ were free. Free crap often wins over purchased quality.
Please don't do this here, even if another commenter is being unfair or provocative.
Need to read the fine print. If it is using "processing fee" instead of "fine". It sounds more reasonable.
I've flagged this because it appears to try to hijack an issue in the news to push the authors book.
Try again now
At least if "day" is changed to "week".

He wrote "day" and not "week".

What is "disgusting" about, for example, having the father at home raising the newborn while the mother works?

Nothing. That is a very different notion from the misogynist drivel that I was replying to ("majority of women", "life of leisure", "long-term holiday paid by hubby").
Outstanding comment, thank you for sharing this!

I'm at the point of maybe three or four cups a day. But really, coffee doesn't even keep me awake anymore, if anything it's the exact opposite in that I can be alert (not fully awake, but aware), and the second I grab a cup of coffee I start feeling drowsy after it's gone.