jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
there is also gridcoin but they are not useful pow. they are proof of stake where the stake is the amount of contribution towards boinc projects and the likes, and they are affected by the oracle problem
He is, that's what Ethereum 2.0 is which is being released over the next couple years. He's also worked with academics from outside the crypto space since the beginning.
Thanks for what you do and how you do it. I love, use and recommend VLC constantly.
> Your defense mechanism is actually the exact thing

> described as protection against a simple DDOS attack. With

> a REAL ddos attack [..]

I'm not entirely sure what is really classified as a "simple" vs "real" DDoS attack.

> With a REAL ddos attack you will get so many incoming

> traffic that your bandwidth is saturated before any

> software will come in effect.

I specifically said: "as long as the network bandwidth itself can hold out". If the network is saturated, it's saturated - it's game over, for anybody. But you'll find that most services will die way before this limit is reached. On a WordPress site for example you'll usually find the database will give out long before the bandwidth is saturated.

Even with legitimate users coming through some great filter like CloudFlare, it doesn't prevent a hug-of-death if you don't have some "smart" application level handling of high numbers of users. Like Linux OOM, when you hit your limits, the only choice left is to try and quickly and intelligently start killing without affecting the well behaved.
That’s what the US is all about. Freedom
I don't think that's the same thing: the perl code is a spinning world visualization, the ruby code is code producing other code that in the end produces the original one, where the different programs _also_ are visualization of the world, which is a tad cooler :)
Except the "taking" part didn't happen. Google (or, in your terminology, "the top") created that value.
Where I live, the tab water tastes as good as bottled water, but I've been to other places where the water contains notable doses of chlorine. I think it's those cases where bottled water is the better alternative.
"... or write a faster compiler because everyone has a secret desire to write a compiler?"

A compiler of course! :) [And then once you have your compiler, like Click did, GC becomes an obvious next hack!]
I guess I don't understand how the mark phase can work while the program is running. If the program is constantly modifying references then how does the GC know when it's done marking?

If the program modifies an object that's already been scanned during this mark phase, does the GC have to go back and re-scan that object? If so, then how can you guarantee the mark phase will complete without stopping the program at some point?
and ebay would buy close to anything, if it's hyped well enough...
Any student with a cooperating higher-education centre can get loads of free Microsoft software (of notability, VS 2010, Expression Studio 4) through DreamSpark[1] as well as getting Office for a huge discount[2] (at least in the UK).

[1] https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx
[2] http://store.digitalriver.com/store?Action=DisplayStudentHer...
fitfinder.com :P

Seriously, though, I think that everyone feels the same way when he labours and pours his love into something only for another startup to come out, doing the same thing and get more attention.
Thank you for the tip! I've been hearing about Kiva for a couple of years but never signed up. Your post convinced me and I just lent $100 to a group in Uganda selling shoes.

I think I'll give $25 gift cards to the whole family, Kiva is really awesome!
I think the difference is that you are paying Apple to not abuse your privacy. With Facebook, you know you are trading some amount of privacy, but these new labels make it clear just what that true cost is.
When I was young I sailed and raced dinghies and skiffs.

This is a fairly cerebral sport that usually requires a great working knowledge of the physics invovled in making boats with sails go fast.

Most of the champions I observed were really smart kids in other regards, but every so often I would see regatta winners that were not 'smart' people in any academic sense, but who had what appeared to have an inate ability to rig and sail a boat as fast as possible. This is not a trivial thing, and I am talking about people who would have likely failed a highschool level physics class on the same topic.

Is this a type of genius too?
Perhaps they are reminded of the saying "a fool and his money are soon venture capital"

I think only a very few numbers of YC companies have reached the stage where they coud responsibly choose to risk some cash on an investment. Most liley the ones that have done it have not made a big deal about it, and the others are still trying to figure it out.

In the end though, I would suggest you do not adopt the idea that these other companies have any requirement or responsibility to pay it forward.
Check out voxound.com

Edit: it appears to be down
Actually yeah, we set floors and ceilings. We sometimes use % up or down from competitors but always w/in the floor/ceiling.
I've definitely wanted exactly this in the past. Only thing that stopped me from building it was the law.
It's funny - when I hear people in the press discussing technical interviews [1] I hear questions like this: "How many golf balls could you fit into a school bus?"

When I attend technical interviews I hear questions like this: "How would you implement an arbitrary-precision decimal number class, like Java's BigDecimal? Can you write out the add function on that whiteboard?"

When Google's Laszlo Bock [2] says "On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything." it seems fairly clear to me the idea he's dismissing is brainteasers, not whiteboard coding.

That's consistent with other reports [3,4] from a few years ago saying brain teasers were not used.

The author of the TechCrunch article seems to interpret Bock as saying whiteboard coding is an ineffective practice. I'm not convinced the Bock interview said that.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455230457711...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...
[3] http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-goog...
[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/us-news-blog/2012/oct/0...
For the record they don't send reset links, they send you a new generated password for you to log in and change.
Comes from all walks, but some from those folks. Mostly folks with real problems, like those in these threads, but who have unwittingly entered into a predatory industry that relies on providing overly specific data to people with nonspecific problems.
Heh.. wonder what yegg of DuckDuckGo thinks of this article.
No database. Just flat files cached in memory on demand, IIRC.

I think about that when people worry about scalability. HN seems to do okay.
It only affects ECDSA, if it affected RSA or general smartcard security like PIN access it would be an earth-shattering story since it would affect SIM cards, banking cards, satellite CAM cards, you name it. That's why any talk about cloning should't be so casual and misleading, it promotes FUD.
How about button clicks?
Thanks for reading and your comment :-)
100% agree. Though especially in the context of mission-critical applications and regulatory constraints, the processes and organizational structures have matured over the years. We are now working on bringing AI to these same levels of maturity as we believe many exciting applications are waiting for us with the potential to have tremendously positive impact on society.
I find both disappointing but unsurprising.
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It's the usual NYTimes, WaPo good, FoxNews bad list.
I’d actually pay 1$ a year for most services. Hell 5$ a year for ad free privacy first. But I guess that’a bit as profitable as ads
No, Apple runs its own advertisement platform. This "privacy" PR push is all about forcing developers to advertise with Apple instead of Facebook. What Apple is doing is closing the tab for everyone else while they can look pure as snow because iMessage doesn't need those permissions since Apple already get the data elsewhere in the apple ecosystem. Like opt-out unique advertisement ID on all iPhones, Apple login, iCloud, etc. So iMessage is also bringing in advertisement money, it's just harder to spot.
Definitely not the only one. Capitalization matters. For me, the mental transposition is less likely with 'SciPy' than with 'Scipy'
Raising his company's profile.

It's not that many articles (5 since December 19th, 4 of them about facebook privacy and iphone).

Most likely theory: having someone ghostwrite them from his technical marketing department (in response to a prompt from him).

Second most likely theory: He's doesn't have a lot of day to day work.
Is that true? Is it still true if you take into account that the CO2 emissions are maybe emitted say in China, to produce the goods of those supposedly virtuous countries?
In an internship it's all about the face time of proving you can work hard enough to survive an associate position or 2 year analyst stint. The competition is amplified because firms don't want to hire someone who got rejected from their prior place of employment.

The reason such a strange system exists is the top positions are so lucrative but it's hard to screen for the right abilities so they base it on brute work ethic.

I'm not defending, just explaining.
As an opposing viewpoint, every major advance in my life has come from stepping outside of my comfort zone and tackling something in which I had no idea what I was doing.

-public speaking

-asking women out

-learning to dance

-socializing/making friends

-lifting weights

-starting a business

-doing sales work

-learning to program

edit: The vast majority of these made me very uncomfortable and awkard, not "a little".
As i read it, it doesn't change actual understanding, but rather removes (some of) the confounding variable of test-taking anxiety. Female students actually understood the material just as well as male students, but they didn't believe that they did, and they didn't test like they did, so for all empirical purposes, they didn't.

The writing task was basically a luminosity exercise: making them aware of their own true knowledge and beliefs through introspection, such that they then had the confidence to take risks on questions they otherwise wouldn't have (assuming the tests were scored negatively on incorrect answers to discourage guessing.)
As a musician doing non-mainstream music, I hear this a lot too. People will say something like, "just write somethin catchy and mainstream and you will make a million dollars!". What they don't understand is that you cannot force yourself to create something that is not in your head, no matter how "simple" it seems.
Agree, and I just saw that caving docu-movie (The Last Descent) about that poor guy who got stuck upside down deep in the cave and couldn't move. He died in under 24 hours I believe.
Of course. I found some other stuff in the 1.2 kernel by the way, like the existence of (relatively smart, apparently) network and serial multiplexer cards for the PC-X.

I also reverse engineered how the NMI worked, details about the MMU etc.
EULAs (~1980) are older than the DMCA (1998).

Putting aside copy protection, EULAs let vendors claim a bunch of stuff at essentially zero cost (since customers don't/can't refuse EULAs) so they went ahead and did it.
I have setup hibernation on a arch laptop -

https://austingwalters.com/increasing-battery-life-on-an-arc...

Effectively it will idle for 2 hrs and if I don’t reopen the lid it’ll shut down (saving state to disk). Works really well, boot up is slower than I’d like, but battery life is great. Pretty happy, tbh.
Sigh... Well, at least Thunderbird still has it !
Yeah, that’s right. We’ve removed any identity/auth requirements and have opened up the app to allow anyone to view the KOIs without needing to register. We are just trying to gauge interest in this type of analysis.
Microsoft seems to have some issues keeping their teams running, the Common Language Runtime has turned into C# Language Runtime, as VB doesn't get feature parity with C#, F# is only considered for writing libraries, and C++/CLI is kept alive thanks to WPD and some key partners.

Meanwhile on the native side C++/CX gets killed and replaced with C++/WinRT, lacking VS tooling and no roadmap to when it will ever get it. It is already 5 years old.

.NET Native is stuck in C# 7 and VB 15, without any clear road if it will ever be updated.

Project Reunion started one year ago as the big reunification of Win32 and UWP application models, and what we got was a tiny 0.5 release, where lots of stuff is missing, not clear roadmap on the UWP transition, Xbox and HoloLens support, VS XAML designers are planned only for 2022, if we get lucky and the project doesn't get ramped down.

Just check some of the repos on GitHub and the endless amount of open issues.

Sometimes I wonder what is everyone actually doing.
> So just in case: in a previous world, sitting in a prominent place doing superficial activity such as reading, smoking, or looking at a phone screen was a signal that one was open to casual conversation.

That's not universally true. To my understanding, places like Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland), Japan, and Russia have historically had cultures that don't encourage randomly walking up to strangers and striking up a conversation.
I like this a lot, as a unique selling proposition. The improvements you made to your site based on this also look good. By identifying this market segment, you can tailor your advertising more sharply, which will hopefully make it more effective than if you were trying to market to any/all segments.
It happened decades ago, games consoles have always worked this way. Games consoles are not quite a dystopian disaster ...
Just because you don't need a smartphone doesn't mean you won't get one. Come contract renewal, she'll probably get an Android phone whether she wants to or not (in the U.S., it may take another contract cycle, but here in Europe, everyone is giving out entry-level Android phones from ZTE, Sony Ericsson etc as freephones)
I played Robot Wars on the Apple ][. And Rocky's Boots and A Robot Odyssey. Awesome games for hacker/maker personalities. And yes, I'll be on my rocker.
It'd be extra awesome if it also emulated a front panel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pdp-11-70-panel.jpg
Scrapy is overkill for nearly everything. You'll probably have under a page of code using lxml and urllib.
Am I the only .Net Developer here?

OS: Windows 7

Language: C#

Editor: VS 2010
I wonder if 4chan could be persuaded to become as infatuated with watermelons and fried chicken as they are with bacon. If you're right, we might be able to de-stigmatize a couple of delicious foods and reduce some racial stereotyping.
Maybe we would because it will switfly convert all our world into AI substrate. Maybe it will avoid disturbing us in the process, but it is unlikely.

Maybe it will figure out that material world is a boring place and migrate into some other world we can't imagine. In this case we won't notice AIs because they will all leak away.
First thought was Columbus. That didn't seem to fit. Then came Martin Luther Kng Jr. Is that who you had in mind?
"effecting"
Eh, when you're doing writing rather than coding, sometimes it's hard to be more descriptive than "added more text." I have a few repositories where I don't care much about the "logic" of the history, but I just want things versioned. (e.g. a folder full of text files with random ideas jotted down.) My commit commands tend to look like,

git commit -m "`date`"
In numeric value, but not buying power. The "value" of that money is going down, and they will now have to pay about 1% a year to hold it overseas.
> "They are plotting and coordinating these bad things via communications with one another"

Yes, but has anyone considered the means they might be using to do this? Why assume it's electronic? Check the wikipedia page for the Millennium Challenge, especially the section on 'Exercise action'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
It's not about doing illegal things but more to protect against perceived wrongs. Or someone or people just not being 'pc'. It's cone to the point where being frank can be a liability. That is it would remove possible hooks for people to hang perceived grievances
By that logic you can never prove any prediction wrong. I think you're setting the bar too low.
It's exactly this unrealistic notion of having your cake and eating it too that landed us in this mess in the first place. And what do you mean by "defensive capability"? Secretive military organizations isn't going to protect civil society. In fact their influence is often in opposition to such protection.
and wide open to the funkiest XSS you can imagine--boy did that ever blow my mind when someone explained me the idea, I had been coding hardcore JS for years but it never clicked that this would allows you to pwn everything. except my mind went more into practical joke settings "hey I can inject JS and make all links on this guestbook EXPLODE if you click them?? aahaha"
Predictive coding seems not only plausible but also potentially advantageous in some ways. Such as being inherently well-suited to generative perception.
Snow --> Power outages --> internet outages --> increase cell data usage --> cell data suffering.
S/he apparently hasn't posted because of possible investigations.
If posting daily is perceived as influencing investors, then an investigator looking for someone to blame, would go after such a person.
Anybody have a workaround for the paywall?
inconsistent with contemporary higher education

These are the words of a bureaucrat doing battle, not a teacher.
From what I understand, in Safari at least they tried to make many of the optimizations general. So if you use asm.js-style type indications in your code even without following the full spec, you might see some performance benefit.

I have sometimes found a speedup when adding apparently an superfluous |0.
they should not be denied vaccines but it seems the palestinian authority are anyway happier to shoot themselves in the foot in order to make israel look bad https://www.ynetnews.com/article/S1EnkZNjU and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/world/middleeast/annexati... and as far as not providing medical aid; https://cufi.org/issue/pa-stops-referring-palestinian-patien...
[EDIT]: feel free to explain why i'm wrong to hold israel to the same standards as the PA.
> there’s a good chance that our 40% claim will need to be revised either up or down as we continue to dogfood our product.

The question is not about 40% or 100%, if you are beating the market by a good margin consistently, why would you share that secret with everyone else. You trade/invest for your own account and get rich.

If your system cannot beat the market consistently why bother then, just close your shop and invest in an index fund.
> They truly believe there's a deep state that rigged the election. Throwing around using the 25th Amendment, calling them all terrorists committing treason/sedition, is only going to reinforce that the deep state is not only real but using every tool they have to attack them.

In the words of Obama in one of his last discourses as president (or perhaps his firsts as ex-president?), "reality has a way of catching up with you". The more your beliefs deviate from reality, the more you're going to be hitting your head against a wall.

What should an appropiate reaction be to people that believe that a deep state rigged the election storming a government building, and a president fueling that?
If your employer insists on installing and using a specific application on a phone, ask them for a phone to use it on. Don't feel the need to install it onto your personal device.
Signal can not be bought by someone unless the regulators approve it. WhatsApp was bought only after an explicit approval by regulators.
Most of the things they have to say are reasonable most of the time. Like mundane comments about programming languages and whatnot.

I think they would be pretty pissed off to know that they've been banned for months or more because they said something that rubbed the mods the wrong way at one point.
What do you mean? What kind of problems are you running into? Elements has a trivial 2 taps flow to get to "new direct message", so I'm curious what could go wrong.
Warning: a bit of a shameless plug.

I have recently given an interview[0] for Immutable Conversations where I show some of the techniques described in these blogposts. In the video, inspect the state of the Lisp image, and I evaluate arbitrary code (redefining functions and variables) while not leaving the debugger. Perhaps HN can find this interesting, as it is a livecoding demonstration of how a Lisp programmer might make use of these techniques in real-life scenarios.

The examples are trivial and might be perhaps a bit too trivial for people used to programming, but the secondary point of the video was to demonstrate the livecoding techniques to people who possibly do not know Lisp whatsoever, and I didn't want to burden them with complicated code examples. (The primary point was to describe the Common Lisp condition system, which I have written a book[1] about, and show the basics of control flow in Common Lisp that are the foundation of conditions.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkqQq2Hwt5o

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867548
Yeah, Signal used to handle changing phones pretty poorly but that is sort of solved now (you can store your groups and phonebook in the cloud behind a pin). Other than that it is really nice. The desktop client is arguably better than WA's web solution, although I have run into non-syncing messages, but, you can use the desktop client with your phone off, which is a major + imho.

Honestly, Signal is just super high quality when you take into account how privacy focused it is, I could easily replace WA with Signal, apart from "the network effect".
nobody in my network uses any of the above how are we supposed to switch? by being the weirdo that only wants to use certain platforms?
I've seen this before. Do you remember the name of the algorithm?

The question I've had with this is whether you can prove who you voted for. If you can, you can sell your vote and prove tongue buyer that you voted correctly.

That's also my concern with mail in voting.
One of the beefs I have with current touch solutions is that they require me to move my hand a lot. I set my mice to high sensitivity and then just do things with tiny movements. Most current touch UIs have a 1:1 mapping between screen movement and finger movement, I keep wishing someone implements a microflick based UI where users have to make tiny movements.