jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
yeah, no wonder. you know there isnt a culture of "traffic lights" beyond major cities and high traffic intersections. Usually you will have a guy waving his hands but thats about it.

where there are traffic lights, common knowledge is "red light means look for a traffic cop and go if no one was seen around".

coupled that with majority of cars having no safety features. do you know just last year or so the govt enforced standard airbags for front passengers in all cars because until then it was "optional" and used to cost a lot of money. Now they just added to the basic cost but just that.
https://www.autocarindia.com/car-news/front-passenger-airbag...

As far as i know, the bulk of cars being sold in india, the very cheap ones dont even offer something like side airbags.
It doesn't have to be designed for them, it just has to stop trying to crush their spirit.
Pharo!
This is fascinating, thanks!

Can you speak about what it took to achieve this? (required knowledge, process, etc...)
Schools do not treat stupid and intelligent children the same, teachers - with few exceptions - do. Not because they are evil, but because to be able to cater to the different levels of intelligence and the variation in interests that you will naturally find in a random sample of children they require the time and opportunities to do so.

As long as we treat teachers as the least important workers, without acknowledging the critical work they do [0], have classes that have more pupils than a teacher can follow individually in a meaningful way and consider education "an expense" that needs reduction, rather than "an investment" we will not have a proper education system.

On the flip side: an uneducated population is easier to sway, so there is not a lot of pressure on the political establishment to change things.

[0] Lack of self awareness - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er2_n9pXUAMZnyq.jpg:large
Well, yeah. People have argued in favour including Fauci famously but I think the dangers likely outweigh the benefits.
You can use a static counter to get around that
Having a popular 'government celebrity' (king or queen) can be bad even if they have no formal power. It can become a sort of national lynchpin or dependency and contribute to political instabillity as in Thailand.
Mark, a little advice. Focus is underrated and oh-so-powerful. Pick one. I'd choose branchr.
I'm quitting my day job to work full time on http://braintrusthq.com and http://toutapp.com.
Can we get the URL changed then please, the context really helps.
That's an impressive achievement. El Sendero Luminoso is rated a 5.12d V climb. For those who don't know, back in the mid 20th century when climbing started becoming very popular they invented the "Yosemite Decimal System" for rating climbs, 5.9 was considered the most difficult class possible. However, climbing improved and starting in the '70s or so people were able to climb routes that were much more difficult than 5.9s, so they just extended the scale. But whereas 5.9 is just one level, 5.10 is actually 4 separate classes (5.10a-d), as is 5.11. That gives you a sense of how difficult (technically beyond impossible from the perspective of a 1960s era climber) a 5.12d class climb is. Additionally, the V grade indicates that it is normally considered a 2 day climb. Honnold's climb is simply astounding.
London -> Sydney takes 22 hours and requires at least one stop. Sub-ortibals will take ~3 hours, saving what amounts to an entire waking day. For an executive making just $10M per year, that's $27k worth of time. Add the cost of First Class or private flight, and the total value of a sub-orbital flight will easily be worth $40k for a larger-than-you-think-it-is subset of the population.
The Clipper Chip[1] immediately comes to mind as the most publicized case of the NSA wanting a backdoor in consumer products. There are also recent stories of the US Government wanting similar encryption disabling mechanisms in other technology[2]. Coupled with the Patriot Act and it letting the NSA eavesdrop on communications, it gives a precedent. A quote I am reminded of is "If you are on the internet, you aren't being paranoid enough".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

[2] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/fbi-backdoors/
Agreed, really beautiful and engaging. http://despark.com/ are responsible by the looks of things.
In this case, C++?
I work from home. I like it well enough, but if it were possible, I'd love to work with my business partner in an office space, but geographically, we're way too far apart for that. I say I would prefer an office not because I dislike working from home, but because I think we could get work done more easily and the face-to-face interaction would just be nice. That said, after doing this for a while, we've a fairly streamlined workflow for working together at this point.
We're talking about key roles, not support roles. Lawyer is not a key role unless you're building a patent troll firm, and in that case you damn well better know how to litigate yourself.
Brian (the post's author) cited a year before he was proficient in emacs. I spent two months with it myself once, with nothing but frustration to show for it, so I can believe him on that front.

That's a huge opportunity cost, when I know I can get the job done efficiently using far more pleasant tools that I already know. Those that want to promote emacs need to come up with real, tangible benefits that I'll be able to realize that will reliably offset that cost and then some. Rainbow parens aren't going to cut it. (That's an honest challenge, FWIW, despite the seasoning of snark. ;-))
I think you may have missed his point
"Out to lunch" is an idiom that basically means "not mentally there." It can refer either to being out of touch with what's happening or just seeming completely insane.
You know how it takes months to power up and down the Large Hadron Collider? MRI machines are kind of like a mini version of that.
Agreed. As soon as this setting became available, I simply went it and set it to "does not incorporate ... encryption of any kind" for all of my projects that do not use encryption.
That’s, as far as I know, not how it works in the German Wikipedia. No extensive coverage of Pokemon there. They very much are willing to decide what’s worthy and what’s unworthy, based on the amount of work that can be done. I have no problem with that.
This sort of corruption is usualy ignored, by everyone over a certain age, because we are now hostageable (family and all, you want some quiet times) and out of those fears for your loved ones, comes a little corruption of our own. Its a "If you make sure the subs are safe, i will look the other way" corruption. And this is why those who make sure, the imagined bad guys get it, get off easy.

Want to fix problem at source?
Or let it ‘drop off’ on an area of private property with a video camera on it. See who comes looking for it.
It's the same narrative all over again. When no strong arguments are present to defend a viewpoint, the topic suddenly becomes a "cultural" thing. Sounding smart and mysterious. In Russia, it's "the Russian way", in China it is "the Chinese way" etc. It's just BS.
Punching that Nazi makes him go viral and gives his movement clicks.
"A worldwide cultural phenomenon"? I have never even heard her name, not a single time. Maybe your world is smaller then I thought.
Including the Heartbleed version of OpenSSL if one so desires.
In the Linux kernel? Good luck…
I believe I replied to the wrong comment; I agree with your assessment about biases. I meant it as a neutral term, I would ideally like the biases to align with my own.
> Sometimes, I can only understand something by implementing it. So, I wrote Gitlet, my own version of Git. I pored over tutorials. I read articles about internals. I tried to understand how API commands work by reading the docs, then gave up and ran hundreds of experiments on repositories and rummaged throught the .git directory to figure out the results.

When the source itself is available, why not just read the code? I understand using articles and documentation to get the high to mid level view, but why not go to the real source of truth if it's available?
Hoarding is Keynesian fantasy, and can only exist if people stuff gold or cash in their mattress. Paying down debt or saving is a healthy base for a a economy to grow from.

Japan suffered a deflationary event, but has not had a deflationary spiral. The problems for japan have been exacerbated by following the madness of Keynesian policy prescription, to the point where they have increased their debt to 2x GDP over two decades, redirecting their resources towards building bridges to nowhere, instead of allowing entrepreneurs and innovators to allocate capital.

All while they have their demographic death spiral in place.

Plenty of other Asian countries have suffered large setbacks, particularly during the Asian financial crisis, but by avoiding the same path that Japan slavishly followed, have rebounded with strong growth ever since.

What is necessary is a short sharp correction, which will include bad debts and higher unemployment. This will be bad. This is still better than two decades of a zombie economy where an entire generation don't experience a growing economy and the benefits that entails.
MMh. Test suite seems to have a lot of gaps.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that, thanks for bringing it up. From the code[0], it looks like it's drawn in the order [White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Other]. You're definitely right, that would skew things.

[0] https://github.com/unorthodox123/RacialDotMap/blob/master/do...
I read an excellent biography/history on Kim Philby (http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Among-Friends-Philby-Betrayal-eboo...) where the author drew on this essay in an attempt to explain Philby's motives for treason.

Born as a shoe-in into the establishment, the UK's inner ring if ever there was one, Philby wasn't satisfied with that, he had to be on the inner ring of the Intelligence community, and even that wasn't enough. He wanted to be (the author argues) on the inside, a club of one, by turning traitor and giving secrets to the Soviets. The great paradox about him as the author explained was while he was betraying he erstwhile stood for, he was still a great fan of all these institutions he joined. Even in exile in Moscow he wore his school tie, he followed 'his' cricket club, and he still seemed to think of his colleagues as friends. The bitter irony being for him there of course, he wasn't even trusted there by his Moscow masters, they always suspicious that he was a grand triple-agent in a British masterstroke.
Unfortunately that proof is made systematically unavailable, hence the injustice.
I like to paraphrase Greenspun's Tenth Law in this context:

"Any sufficiently complicated Flask app contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Django"
I have not seen comments about technical debt. I think you are right: It is good to take shortcuts to ship faster. When you do that, you accumulate technical debt. I think it is important to identify it and to remain aware of this debt. I've seen too many people in denial who resist change.
I don't know why "chance of dying" is there. Long-term damage is a possibility. Hell, even having a fever for 3 days is a real (but much lower than death) cost. I'm not worried about the fever, but I am worried about lung, brain or heart damage.
You can read my comments in this thread. Trust me I know exactly what it’s like having a midterm coming up and staring at a book and being unable to read one word, on the verge of flunking out, and realizing your life is not going to amount to shit. Which means, I was procrastinating even when the consequences and stakes were high.

Either I was reckless, or I had no conception of the magnitude of the consequences. Is that a concentration issue?
Seems to be missing Australia, I was curious to see what data had been leaked about me, since it seems to vary significantly.
Not all phone numbers have finished uploading, check the blog post for details.
Calling it "decompilation" is misleading. That term implies that you can get your compiled binary and turn it back into C++. No automated tool exists that allows you to do that - too much information is lost in the compilation process. Function names are one things that's mentioned, but the very structure of the program (which functions are in which classes, etc.) is lost. You could infer this based on your knowledge of how compilers usually work, and how developers usually develop but it's all guesswork.

Instead what we actually do is 'disassembly'. We just perform the minimal processing to get the human readable form of the assembly instructions that make up the binary. This is very hard to directly get you head round, so 'decompilation tools' are then all assistants that help the manual process of understanding the structure of the program. You can see a very basic example of that in the article where the author is looking for references to an address so they can see which functions reference the string.

The gold standard tool in the space is IDA Pro. You can see in these screenshots the visual tool it gives that allows you to group chunks of assembly together into functions and keep track of the linkages to codify the person's understanding as the process continues.
My phone number (and some other details) were part of Nano Ledger's database that got stolen last year. So, some entrepreneurial scammer started calling me on a daily basis a few months ago. Really annoying. I'm well aware my phone number and email addresses are pretty much public information at this point. I actually put that on my web site even. But stuff like this makes me even less likely to answer unknown numbers. Hilariously, the scammer actually called me while I was giving a security briefing to our company about enabling 2FA. I put him on speaker and we had a good laugh while the guy insisted in broken English laced with expletives that he "had my money".

A few months ago some criminals social engineered themselves past my bank's security as well. The first I learned about this was a funny conversation (by phone!) from an actual Deutsche Bank employee asking me if I recently changed my address and phone number and whether I opened ten new accounts. "eh no?!..." Basically their fraud detection system kicked in before these people did any damage. I made a point of not doing anything else than confirming information they already knew (like my old address, email address) and asked for an on site meeting to discuss things in more detail. I realized instantly I had no way of verifying anything I was being told on the phone and might very well be talking to a scammer. As it turns out this was for real and the person actually managed to find my "old phone number" in some archive. Otherwise all my contact information had already been changed by the scammers. Thankfully I answered that call. Apparently, this happened to several people.

Basically, what happened was some persons just called the bank's help desk, asked them to reset my online banking access codes, and then somehow intercepted the pin codes (thanks Deutsche Post) before they reached me. The theory is that somehow the security of the distribution system was compromised. As far as I an tell, nobody broke into my building or mailbox. Then started they using them to change my address, etc. They got caught only when they created sub accounts and started transferring money.
The point is that the US Government is more like a bank than a consumer. You put your money in, and expect to get your money back out. Your bank isn't in debt just because it owes its customers so much money. In fact a bank will owe customers more money than it has cash on hand, but it's not bankrupt.

The analogy is imperfect (as are all analogies), but it compensates for a lot of the issues that cause so much hand-wringing about the deficit. The more important observation is that inflation is low and so is the interest that the US government pays on new bonds (i.e. "deposits"). That means both that the situation is stable and that it's expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future.

There are more stabilizing steps to be taken in the future, and ideally they'll help lower the deficit and then the debt. But the OP's point is that it's not a crisis.
Someone needs to tell James Blunt he wasn't a soldier in Kosovo then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050

KFOR was a thing, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Force
I'd rather Amazon have their engineers prioritize streamlining end to end movement of essential goods through their system vs. dedicating a team to refund the handful of whiny HN commenters their $4.56 in prorated Prime fees for the year.
I also work on a ~15kloc rust project. I use cargo check all the time. Still extremely slow, not to mention that my whole system can be locked up by rustc, which really kills development.

I'll probably find a way to cgroup rustc just to deal with this issue.
The old Lemur Pro had a high-res screen available. This one probably will too, they must have just failed to put it on this web page.
5% is very much an assumption of yours right now.

> those that have recovered have problems breathing (can't walk up stairs)

Source?
Many of GCP's services did actually grow out of Google's internal tools. For example, BigQuery is a public version of Google's internal Dremel. And Cloud Spanner is of course a public version of Spanner.
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wow seems like this is something they should have investigated a bit before building so much heuristic and actually investing so much in the technology to detect commercials. I hope detecting ads is not the main part of their tech.
I feel like that seems somewhat likely but like most things I'm not at all sure how much we will see it.
I don't mind paying for it if I get sensible results with ranking based on verified users reviews and opinions included. For example, if I searching for taxi service, I'd like to know more about the service based on feedback from verified users before I select it.
Alright, I see what you mean. Some strong exaggerations with unsupported claims. The author could have done more to distance himself from Blanchard's unsubstantiated claims, but he does not lie about them - merely presents a story from the criminal's point of view. And even if you subtract the skydiving and the hot mysterious accomplice it is still an extremely interesting story.
Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't understand what to write in the fields :s.
...A matter of trust between technicians that work directly with this equipment on a regular basis and technicians that have to work over the phone with customers who may not know as much as they think they do.
There is no pixar for Steve Jobs without Apple.
The other point is to test your idea on someone who is not in love with your own idea. It can be easy to be in love with your idea so much that you discount obvious pitfalls. And like the article mentions, this technique would only work with a consumer oriented product.
Thats the LKML. The rude thing to do is to post to it saying they did something wrong and not back it up.
I agree with your argument. Basic income will never work in our society if we are giving it out in the form of spendable money. Basic income in the form of a free amount of utilities provided by the government such as X amount of water and electricity every month I think could work in our capitalist society. Even 'universal' healthcare falls prey to the same flaws as the $1000/month since the quality of the free healthcare will be reduced and the wait times will increase. The best doctors will continue to have private practices that will charge rates that only the richest can afford. As long as capitalism is an integral part of our society, I do not foresee basic income being a good solution to any of our social issues.
on skill which i love to master is "How to build a good design" it can be web page, mobile screen. whenever i look at web page or apps by Google it always exit me because they do everything so perfect
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This is novel. You scrolled to the bottom without reading the top. The top of that page is very clear:

"ALERT

Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi)"

Then it references The Communications Act of 1934:

"The Communications Act of 1934

Section 301 - requires persons operating or using radio transmitters to be licensed or authorized under the Commission’s rules (47 U.S.C. § 301)"

But wait, there's more! 47 U.S.C. 302b. reads:

"(b) Restrictions
No person shall manufacture, import, sell, offer for sale, or ship devices or home electronic equipment and systems, or use devices, which fail to comply with regulations promulgated pursuant to this section"

(Emphasis mine).

Have a read of the Communications Act before you get into trouble.
It seems that way to me too but it (i.e. the notion that QM is needlessly complex and akin to the Ptolematic system) is nothing but conjecture without some candidates for assumptions that might need to be challenged.

[edited for clarity]
I find that implausible having been on many repeaters in many regions of the United States in blue, red, and purple states.
Airliners now also give consideration to the pilots being bad actors, due to a couple incidents where a pilot decided to crash the airplane.

There's also effort at making the airplane survive malicious cargo.
There's no support for Ruby yet #crying

Edit: I've been wanting something like this for ages. Sometimes, I'd draw graphs on paper (similar to what Sourcetrail is doing) to make sense of code. Even my code :).
> Soon BTC will surpass the value of gold

How would one measure that? The price of one bitcoin compared to the price of a kilogram of gold? That seems arbitrary. Total market value? Transaction volume?
I have no clue about your field, so I don't know. But it seems to me it is obvious to you if you want to include them in your list of top stars.

Note also that I never said anything about h-index being a measure for highest-quality. Only experts in a field can say what obvious highest-quality work is.
There's not really anything equivalent in the Go world right now so I chose to just adopt the Ruby/Python term :)

It kind fits in with what Wikipedia describes as monkey patching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch
Also turmeric which many uses in folk medicine for stomach and liver ailments.
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