jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tow of our laws are the rights of assembly, and freedom of speech. They are written into the constitution.

If that's not reasonably interpreted as a right to (peaceful) protest, I don't know what to say.
So is Opera
OCaml is maintened by the INRIA and is widely used in french academics.

In the long term there is far less chance that the INRIA drop OCaml than microsoft drop F#.
> As in you can't do basic maths AFTER the data's been processed.

That's not true at all. It's just a different query language to yours and a different methodology to utilizing it. All the big BI and SIEM tools have post-processing capabilities able to do statistics at the Excel level, typically by creating new columns in the dataset. PowerBI has an excel-like function system for calculated columns. Tableau has a cross between Basic and Excel functions for calculated columns. Splunk and ELK are the standouts for letting you directly modify columns in their query languages, but the same sort of functions exist. In all of these tools, you can extend the query language as well through a plugin system, so for situations where you need a full programming language, there is an escape hatch (though a hard one to use).

> further processing in Excel. This is the part I want to compete with.

If you want to compete with Excel, you're going to have to get on its level. Specifically, the JavaScript must go. The reason big companies use Excel is because they have a couple of people at the company in the reporting jobs that can handle some programming, but most of the data entry and management has to be done by people who wouldn't know where to begin if you sat them down in a programming environment (IT gets called when people accidentally end up in the visual basic environment in Excel).

The majority of users do not want to live in a programming environment, so by having that be the primary interface, you're cutting the already small potential user base by another order of magnitude with the JavaScript environment. The advantage you get for an Excel-like query language is familiarity to the potential user base, less threatening environment, and additional control over the interface with the user (programming languages are generally poor interfaces, and JavaScript is no exception).
That's a good point, and well made, but it is still the case that royal-themed souvenirs fly off the shelves and also that overseas visitors flock to any royal/state spectacle when in the UK; mostly, I reckon, for the sheer anachronistic oddity and weirdness.

But we probably have no need to get rid of our monarchy, the family seems to be doing that job for us. When that happens, we can see whether tourist revenues go up or down :-)
Those vaccinations are against diseases affect everyone the same. These things are highly situational and very specific. There is no generic recipe that can be followed, as you suggest.
I imagine that's what most European Aristocrats born in the 1920s sound like.
If the logistics of worldwide animal concentration camps is achievable, then simply not doing that is a piece of cake.
Why does it signify that? I mean they probably are, but it also seems like the logical step to worship his heir?
No, it's not. There's literally no bid on some issues of commercial paper and MBS. Literally nobody is offering to buy these securities at any price.

And we're not even talking about speculative assets here. We're talking about things like 30-day collateralized notes from Microsoft. Do you really think the market is "pricing" that Microsoft is likely to go bankrupt in the next 30 days? Or is it more likely that there's a huge shortage of money relative to the liquidity demands imposed by the dislocations.
I'd lean towards putting noise under 'nature' as it's uncontrollable.
> This is interesting, i had always thought it was binary, either you get infected or you don't

IIRC, some vaccines work by exposing the person to a tiny amount of virus so that their immune system can "learn" how to fight that particular type of virus.
Microsoft Surface devices use 3:2 (15:10), I've bought one pretty much only because of that and it's nice.
> we can ignore the fucking stock market and move to address the public health emergency as our sole concern

We can. Can Trump? Is he capable of that for more than a week or two?

A panicked President worried about reelection makes bad choices.
When I worked for Zattoo (leading TV streaming provider in Europe; B2C+B2B business), we developed a dynamic ad insertion technology that can do exactly that but without any hardware:
https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2017/03/20/zattoo-offers-dyn...

It replaces ads in a unicast stream with targeting down to an account level - at least from a technical perspective. All server side. No box required.

Feel free to reach out if you want some feedback, advice or industry insights. Love your idea!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-zattoo/
A note taking app that does exactly what I need, and I can expand it. I will soon add sharing of notes with my wife.

A home dashboard that gathers information from family calendars, school timetables, weather. All this readable from distance.

A chores app (that also displays on the dash above) with info about whose turn it is to fold the laundry, get out garbage etc. It worked for some time and then we reverted back to everyone yelling at everyone to do it.

All of these already exist but I wrote them to exactly meet my needs, and nothing more. Plus I learned quite a bit about Go, TS and Vue.
I used to be more careful what I ate, but in the last few years I started a simpler approach: about 60% of my diet is vegetable matter (bok choy, carrots, broccoli , etc. in the winter -- more squash, tomatoes, etc. in the summer).

To the point of the article: I do like fermented foods. My home made pressed cabbage being a favorite, but a local health food store features locally produced live sauerkrauts, kimchi, etc. All tasty stuff.

I think that it is pretty simple: avoid sugar, avoid processed food, and then whatever you eat enjoy it.
This has been in Windows Phone 8 since it came out.
I'm so excited to see your comments here today because I thought that Microsoft would never consider giving us a robust nix-style shell on Windows. I know there is PowerShell but it's just so verbose compared to bash.

I am a multi-OS user and I just wish that I could easily use some simple Unix commands on Windows without having to learn a whole new shell.
I suppose if you are the type of person who thinks that it makes sense to be CEO of BlackBerry, you are the type of person who thinks it is reasonable to ask the the government forces developers to write apps for your failed platform.
I understood it as saying the sensors are reading terabytes of information every second. The data would get selectively loaded into the device based upon the task at hand. I don't see that as far-fetched -- I can hook 100 digital cameras up to my computer and make the same claim.
I really like fluxbox, is very lighweight, so my setup is fluxbox, tilda and chrome. If by some reason I want a full desktop, I just need to type Alt-f2, nautilus, and boile, gnome takes the desktop.
>Another plague is that people will go through your comment history and attempt to use that to discredit you.

I don't know that accountability is a bad thing. If you're so ashamed of what you're saying that you don't want people bringing it up later, don't say it. Or use an alt.

This can balance out the fact that it's an anonymous anything-goes site. Yes, people can say pretty much whatever they want but if they know they will get shamed for it later, it might prevent them sharing the worst stuff.
I'm a bit sad that it is a hexcopter. A plane would be a lot cheaper and more efficient for this application.
Some of us remember "X-ray glasses" advertised in the backs of comic books. 'nuf said.
But they did burn that valuable capability. Did they do it for no gain?
- https://planet.postgis.net/ ( postgis related posts )

- https://planet.postgresql.org/ ( postgresql related posts )

- https://github.com/postgis/docker-postgis ( docker images for postgis ; alpine+debian)
Lets hear some love for Refractions Research out of Victoria BC, who gave us PostGIS! Great folks, very helpful, and a wonderful open source product.

http://www.refractions.net/
"Here the record showed that Google’s new smartphone platform is not a market substitute for Java SE."

Well that nukes it. The courts took how long to identify this precedented principle? It seems like the rest of the opinion is just there to ward off more of this tomfoolery for people that don't get it.
> There would probably still be coal mining in the UK if it were not for the NUM, we import coal now.

While they certainly didn't play an innocent role in the demise (planned, expected or otherwise) of the coal mining industry, to lay blame squarely at the union's feet ignores the _other_ 800lb gorilla in the room. The mines would have and were becoming less economically viable.

But the Thatcher government made a point of starting the closures at the worst possible time, "effective immediately", and then made a point of pointedly ignoring the economic collapse of entire towns and districts whose lifeblood had been the coal mines. There were multiple towns of 20,000 working age people, 15,000+ of whom worked in the coal industry. And there was precisely nothing done to handle that collapse, and just as importantly to the union's handling - there was not even the hint of sympathy or compassion from the Thatcher government - everything was all about the "wicked" union "stealing" from the British people, and an infamous quote that "if miners don't like being out of work, they need to get on their bike and find more [work]". The problem with this is, even if the union had been stubborn, before, this attitude steeled their resolve to be just as hard-headed as Thatcher.
The UDM and UDM Pro are the controller, and you can disable all of the cloud nonsense after initial setup.
That literally is not a mathematical formula.
I haven’t looked deeply at this, but sophisticated level streaming for large areas isn’t something Unreal supports out of the box. Very cool of them to open source this.
And what happens when we don't spend money on social security?
you seem to think that the mines would have lasted longer had unions not been against shutting mines?

At the time, the average ton of coal was costing double to extract than it was worth. Closing the loss making mines was inevitable but the viable mines could have remained open, and would have as there was still the demand for coal.

The Germans do this right, their unions want their workers to have fair share of the rewards and understand that the company must be profitable in the first place for that to happen. British union leaders simply play workers against management for their own gain, then leave both workers and management worse off, but workers get the worst of it.
And to backup a NAS, it requires to regularly change the tapes. Any backup that requires manual steps is likely to be delayed and to be too infrequent to be useful.
> It's likely that you need to work an extra 24 minutes to earn that extra $20.

I guess that's about right. I estimate my take-home pay at about $60/hour, which means working about 20 minutes to earn that meal.

Then again, I think it takes far longer than 20 minutes to prepare a $20 meal. Not to mention that I detest cooking.
CNBC Twitter:
Three Largest Internet Poker Companies Charged With Fraud, Illegal Gambling - Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, & Absolute Poker - Charged
US government has been gunning for poker sites for a while (since 2006 when the UIGEA passed). Some places like Party Poker withdrew from the US market, while others flourished by skirting the rules to the best of their abilities (e.g. can't have ads for internet gambling on TV, so let's make a play money site fulltilt.net that will eventually funnel traffic to our real cash games).

I am however surprised that they're seizing domains as I figured this would remain one of those "live and let live" legislations, like the online gambling equivalent of brown-bagging your drink. I imagine this will not end well for whoever was involved in this decision.

Also, 2+2ers sup bro.
Actually, I think that's his point - by using a longer passphrase instead of a shorter passcode, you get something inherently more secure AND more memorable (added bonus: no post-its, which means one more layer of security).
I had the opportunity to see Pastor Niemoller's cell once. Out back, behind the building, they had the execution wall.

Your reference to Bitcoin is apt, as the government siezed $7M in gold, silver and platinum from a political organization who was advocating the use of generic silver and gold rounds instead of depreciating paper currency.... and just a few weeks ago succeeded in railroading the leader of that organization.
Regarding Clojure, perhaps this is because the audience of the language is different than other Lisps. I do think that a lot of Clojure users are first time lispers or old-time lispers that moved to something else and are now coming back thanks to the current "fame" of the language. Simply put, Clojure-ers have an unusual background compared to other lispers.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm quite pleased by the Clojure ecosystem (even though I do hope it will extend) and, coming from Python, don't have too much trouble getting things done (besides struggling with my OOP habits / lisp itself).
True, but increasing the raw length of the password (which passphrases will give you in spades) makes those leetification tricks combinatorially explosive.

"apple" has 3 characters (2^3 = 8 variations) for easy leetspeak. "apples" has 2^4 = 16. "applestastegreat" has 2^12 = 4,096. Assuming you don't totally fubar your entropy in the underlying passphrase, you'll end up with something both memorable and infeasible to brute force.
There's absolutely no field of knowledge that you couldn't teach yourself about. The benefits of a university have nothing to do with being a monopoly on knowledge, because nowadays such a thing doesn't exist. The benefits, in my opinion, include:

1. Credentialing. I believe this is the number one reason people go to college today. Not to learn, but to obtain a degree that proves some indefinable quality about yourself - that you have a certain level of competence, are persistent, etc. I've heard it described as a "social signalling ritual."

2. Mentorship. If you work closely with a good professor, you can get a lot out of it. I'm a member of a research lab and have weekly meetings with my advisor; these meetings usually devolve to picking his brain for career advice. Also, when you self-teach, it's harder to know when you're wrong than when you have someone to tell you.

3. Perseverance. 4 years can be a hell of a long time.

Of course, no one actually signs up for a "random class" - you're not throwing darts at a course catalog or anything. If you're really interested in something, take a class in it. That's the only way to figure out which classes are worth taking and which ones aren't. I will, however, point you to this pg essay on which subjects are worth studying [1] that I really enjoyed. My favorite part: "Yes, of course, you'll learn something by taking a psychology class. The point is, you'll learn more by taking a class in another department."

One last thing: look through the list of departments. Look at and consider every department before you decide which one you want to spend time in. As a Biology student, looking back, I think Biological Engineering would've been a lot cooler to study, but now I'm not in a position to switch.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html
Websockets are indeed awesome. I made this: http://powerhouse.nf.id.au/
This is a bit ironic, but inside the field of SEO I don't think search rankings matter that much.

Anytime you sell something which is a higher end service or an abstract type of service what drives sales is word of mouth recommendations rather than rankings. This is true for the higher end of the legal spectrum, the higher end of the health spectrum, and the higher end for any b2b services sort of business model.

Those who are buying based on rankings will see the Google AdWords ads for $149 SEO and such...and get sucked into buying trash. Those who are even cheaper will get scammed by their domain registrar or web host.

It is hard to make much money in the SEO game teaching others or providing tools to other. It is much easier to make more as a publisher, as Patrick stated.

One of the reasons I haven't invested more into some tools area is just how much stuff is becoming freely accessible. Google's keyword tool is amazing, Google analytics is amazing, some of the competitive research tools are awesome & cheap.

When you get down to it, its hard to automate the link parts without running into issues. Automating some of the link research areas is still an area for innovation, but most the stuff around keyword research, keyword organization & general content creation have already been heavily commoditized.

Another area where some folks work is baking a semi-legitimate cloaking service into their SEO product & then making it seem legitimate by only working with huge brands who agree to minimum contract amounts in the 5 or 6 figures per month. That model works well for the SEO because they typically get paid by the click, but it is pretty crappy for the client because they end up reliant on a tool that can be pulled out from under them at any time.

Brokering links is a huge business as well...but its sorta a gray area.
> Target and all of the other high profile retailers that were credit-card hacked -- they were all allegedly PCI compliant, yet it still didn't do much good.

How do you conclude that it didn't do much good? The Target breach involved installing malware on the point-of-sale terminals to grab the data as the customer was paying.

As far as I know, the attackers didn't get to the stored credit card data. I suspect that they didn't get to that data in large part because Target was mostly in PCI compliance, meaning that the stored data was encrypted, on database servers isolated from the databases not involved in payment processing, on separate networks with strong access restrictions.

If Target had been treating PCI the way OP's competitor is, the Target breach could have been much much much worse.

> But I am debating the ethics of reporting a competitor for an activity that is NOT illegal, nor is it directly harming your customers or your business.

For a small business that is doing its own credit card storage, PCI compliance costs can be significant. They can easily double or triple the number of boxes you need at the data center.

The competitor is saving a lot of money by completely ignoring credit card security, which gives him an unfair advantage over OP. I'd consider that sufficient harm to OP to justify taking action.
Quoth the Zuck: "This is not e-mail... We don't think that a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail."

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/15/technology/facebook_email/

EDIT: Although reading further, it looks like they will be offering @facebook.com addresses.
Nice explanation.

What I'd like to see next, is an animation of the algorithm in progress, showing the intersections between the parabolic curves sweeping out the edges of the V.D.
Telling somone to use Python 2 is a neat and tidy solution. What problems would this possibly cause? Python 3 is fine too.
I think you could accomplish a similar function using the proximity of a cell phone to a laptop (like this: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18684.html). If the script shuts the laptop down when it's too far from the phone, that's perfect for me.
This is beautiful. I hope he posts videos. It reminds me of the old electronics of my childhood; radios and TV sets that had point-to-point wiring on terminal strips. No circuit boards! But they were never this beautiful.
Ok, so the lifetime output of the plant is 188 GW-years. Most estimates for the expected cancer deaths due to radiation are around 120. The evacuation itself caused 46 deaths due to disruption in medical care and suicide.

That means that Fukushima had .88 deaths per GWyr. That's 1/3 the death rate of coal according to an EU study, but twice the death rate of coal according to another study that looked at a different set of countries. Which I guess makes sense, most coal related deaths are going to be due to mining safety and particulate emissions which rich countries can do a lot to combat by investing in technology for safer money and scrubbing coal emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml
Oh shit, you bring up a good point. Nobody else seemed to mention it, but I bet Tumblr is helping push them over the edge in terms of traffic.
I think any REPL system does the same thing, though.
There are more elements to WoW and similar games though. I am not a massive fan of the grind aspect but enjoy the team based coordination aspect.
@dang? Can someone please fix the title? Something like "I have been unable to connect to Stack Overflow using Tor today" would be appropriate. The title at the moment is rash speculation. One doesn't expect HN to be perfect, but one expects more conscientiousness than this.
I tried this with a laptop battery where I guess the undervoltage protection of the BMS cut off the power. I was successful in replacing the cells but wasn't able to reset the BMS. How do you deal with this?
> The answer is [for European governments to] pour funding into EU startups

Why's that the answer? It wasn't how the US did it.
you mean best case scenario
I stopped in like 2011.

My elderly parents are still hooked on it. Mom is full on anti-vax because of the echo chambers Facebook creates. I’m sure she wouldn’t be as extreme if she didn’t have a daily dose of this shit delivered to her steam.

It’s ruining my parents. Who grew up if a different era and still think there’s someone like Walter Cronkite is personally screening every “news” article. “They wouldn’t be allowed to print it if it wasn’t real…” Oof.

We can all do without Facebook.
Yes. This is an excellent blog. Even though it's stopped for now, the history is solid.
For AMZN software staff (especially in SF Bay Area): was it really 160K capped?

Obviously RSU grants / bonuses are excluded from this, but I still find that surprisingly low (as a salary cap) for FAANG, especially around SF.
https://archive.is/sPVCu
... and it immediately opened a popup with some sleazy ad. Same old, repackaged. So exciting.
There are technical tradeoffs everywhere. But you cannot make a caricature of FP developers, supposedly not willing to spend energy on delivering products.

Lots of tech companies have proved that you don't need to follow Google and constrain your workforce to a small list of vetted languages. Most teams who chose Haskell, OCaml, Scala, Rust... are productive and able to deliver products.
So they where hired to launder the money? Wouldn't the FBI try to make a deal to catch the people who executed the hack?
Most shops in the Netherlands work with maestro of mastercard and vpay of Visa. It is directly linked to our bank credit and has low transaction fees. Maestro and vpay is accepted all over the world. We work directly with IBAN numbers and not with credit card types like mostly in the world.

Normal Mastercard/visa credit don’t work here since shops have to pay way higher transaction fees while almost nobody uses them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_PayPlease

It will be phased out though in 2023 to Mastercard debit and visa debit so likely in the future Netherlands payment system will be more aligned with what other countries use.
I am personally not, but don't you think that use case is obvious?
I was thinking exactly the same thing. This has to be a notion product no? It's identical.
Its not a warning, its a "will not compile" :)