jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is awesome to actually use, but it doesn't have the interoperability that Javascript does. Maybe one day it will, and that'll be awesome. But till then, we'll never know.
I removed DDG from my browsers after his tweet. they are no different from Google
Eh, I'm equally suspicious of everyone who speculates about "what Musk is doing". I think your post is spot-on about what he's NOT doing, but as to what he IS doing… how can you possibly know, what his true intentions are? I, for one, strongly suspect he's not even buying Twitter at all: he's just playing with the share prices to dump his 9% with a nice profit (as he always does). But I also guess he has a solid plan whichever way it goes. What actually IS his plan, if he's going to make Twitter private? I have like 10 versions of what it might be, and I don't expect that even one is close. But then, again, I don't really expect he is going to buy it anyway, so…
Well it was about the announcement of WebM, his reply was basically the one he'd given about Theora (http://hugoroy.eu/jobs-os.php) but shorter and less involved: that WebM is likely subject to existing patents, just like h.264, and that the talk about free-as-in-beer (on top of free-as-in-freedom) is likely a wish. I asked a followup question (on whether Apple would consider the idea, and if Apple's existing patent protection re h.264 wouldn't cover most of the threat landscape in WebOS) but didn't get any further reply.

YMMV
According to the article, they're considering Taiwan, Vietnam, and India.

Taiwan has a ton of electronics manufacturing, and Vietnam and India both have industrialized coastal towns.
This is one place where cheaters can really ruin a system. Once cheaters invade, they can hurt everyone by raising expectations of what can be done. Worse, too often, the natural tendency is to raise the standards if some cheating is uncovered.

If you raise your standards high enough, those who were formerly honest will be forced into cheating while those who remain honest are forced out. If you raise standards high enough, you end up with only cheaters, because past some threshold, it's no longer possible to meet expectations honestly.
See I think that these sorts of tests are looking at the wrong sorts of things. What they should be looking for is relative improvement rather than reaching a particular level. Especially in underprivileged areas, where the kids might be doing much more poorly than more privileged areas.

Don't get me wrong, I think that if there are poor teachers then they should be dealt with, but I think that these standardised tests of kids across the board are not the way to go about it. I'm thinking maybe something like a "peer review" type system could be put in place that takes more into account than just the output of the kids on one test (the results of continuous assessment across the whole year, for example; teaching reviews, etc.). Of course this would come with its own issues, but it would certainly cut down on the pressure that comes from that one test!
Kevin Rudd isn't charismatic, but that doesn't particularly matter to me.
They have to tell you because you couldn't possibly arrive at that conclusion on your own (especially since it isn't true).
these sorts of people do not use standard http to communicate or distribute this sort of content

Well, actually they do. At least the "end user" types.

Whilst it is reasonable to assume that pedophiles are using secure systems to transfer information the majority don't fit that profile.

The ones who do fit that profile are usually the ones creating the content for sale (that operation is extremely well organised :() and a relative minority.

the dumb ones do but they would just as easy to catch without filters or logs like this

Damn straight. In fact it's arguable whether or not we would have much more success with filtering and logs. It would be easier to secure a prosecution because you could turn around and say "well we have a log of you accessing X at Y time, explain that". But to be honest usually such things aren't needed.

The problem with filtering when pitched as a solution to pedophilia is: how do you filter for it? Oh, you could probably watch for keywords. But typing "Lolita" into Google is not illegal, so how do you figure out which traffic actually represents a pedophile downloading images? It's a dodgy path to go down; and I doubt any one of the proponents of this idea will be much impressed to find their computers seized because, say, their teenage son searched "lolita" for a school project or something :)

In actual fact the vast majority of peadophiles are caught in two ways: being reported by a friend, relative, passer by etc. OR because they tried to groom a child over the internet, and we have great success using the current logging methods to track down such individuals. Catching the gangs behind the commercial stuff; well, filtering certainly won't improve our efforts there...
I am not an expert in the scientific method, but know a P value of < .05 (in this case, 39/47 is more like .000001) is pretty strong evidence of the conclusion. Of course things can always be due to chance; I may not be a person, but a chimp randomly hitting keys.

At what point do you say "The hypothesis that a professional investor with a published strategy who returns the best-performing fund in history appears to not be based on chance?".

Do you really think 2% of investors (1 in 50!) achieve 20% compound growth over 48 years? Do you know how many billions that is? (Buffet started with $100k and grew it to the 9th biggest company in the world. Where are the thousands of other investing billionaires?)

Do you really think beating the market long-term is a simple 1-time standard deviation computation? (I thought it was impossible, now 50% of people will consistently beat the market long term by any margin?)

Per the cited article, from trained economists:

"Buffett’s success has become the focal point of the debate on market efficiency that
continues to be at the heart of financial economics. Efficient market academics suggest
that his success may simply be luck, the happy winner of a coin-flipping contest as
articulated by Michael Jensen at a famous 1984 conference at Columbia Business School
celebrating the 50th anniversary of the book by Graham and Dodd (1934). Tests of this argument via a statistical analysis of the extremity of Buffett’s performance cannot fully
resolve the issue."
There's Google's Project Tango [0] as well.

0. http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/
For the media enthusiasts, likely the Chromecast and I believe Amazon also offers a HDMI stick computer.
I work only with a printer... Amazon is my distributor. I found them on Alibaba.

I'm starting to ramp up my marketing but to date I've done some adwords and advertising on Amazon.

Sales are steady, I don't reach $1000 every month but the holiday season more than makes up for it when you average it out.
Wait, so, an HDMI stick similar to those ARM/Android ones that we've all been using as media centers since 2012?
Such an elegant name.
If you don't believe in the correlation of false accusations, perhaps a Bloom Filter could give us some help. Thinking through the details, but check this weekend for a github implementation. Reply or PM if interested in helping out.
The private SSH key never leaves the smartcard, not even during authentication. It is not exposed to the OS or any process, at all. You can't extract it at all (maybe the NSA can, who knows). The actual authentication takes place on the token, not in a process on your Unix system.

The only thing that the malware can do is issue an authentication request while the token is plugged in. That's all. If the PIN is not cached, you'll be prompted to enter it, and you'll be like "why is it asking me to enter the PIN?"

Maybe they could run a spy debugger on gpg-agent, but again, this would not give them your private key.
Oh contraire, mon frere... the US inspection station is just down the road about 300 yards: https://www.google.com/maps/@62.6195443,-141.0060633,3a,75y,...
#2 is v hard, I can confirm that. Infact it should be the first thing to be solved
> There are places where math is hard, needs work, and most people have come to a point where they feel that the effort won't be worth it

The problem with math is that it's seems much harder than it actually is. Every time I have to look into some specific math I haven't worked with before I spend a lot of time decoding what they actually mean. Usually what is happening is not that difficult at all, mathematicians just insist on writing it down in the most convoluted and incomprehensible way imaginable.

It's like they took every bad coding practice and applied it all to math. Why have descriptive variable names if you can just use random greek letters ? Why give a function or operation a name at all if you could make up some weird symbol instead ? And of course you want those symbols to have different meanings depending on context. Imagine if programmers worked like that and wrote everything as obfuscated C++ code, because fuck you.
If this is going to further the trend of websites requiring me to upload my I’d, well then that is bad and you can definitely count me out.
Yeah, some colleagues have absolutely no trouble changing any code... and then it starts breaking for some edge cases that they weren't aware of :D
My comment about how I love my school and math was downvoted, so all comments in this branch I'm taking hostile. Sorry.
Interestingly, politics in Poland, a rapidly de-religionizing country, seem to follow the same trend, even though it is a very homogeneous country otherwise.
I thought it might be about hard it is to cancel a NY Times subscription. Nope.
Started OK, a bit about writing more, then suddenly it turns into something like a bad drug trip.
While it is written from the armenian side, what does it propagandize? It expresses fear for a future war, how is that propaganda?
> If I break something, it usually means it wasn't built strong enough to begin with. I've broken a lot of stuff over the years...

Based on my experience, this statement scares me :)

Not to pass any judgment on your impact or abilities, however the types of devs that have been the most challenging for me to work with are those with this attitude that aren't quite as good as they think they are. It can be incredibly toxic to the rest of the dev team and generally bad for business.

You need to have a very strong handle of both the business side an tech side to do this type of work effectively. Meaning: no matter how much technical debt there may be, some stuff cannot afford to be broken. Judging risk there is quite challenging as you need a holistic view. I would strongly caution people from diving in and making sweeping changes if they don't have this.

The other internal flag that went off is refactors that improve parts of the codebase in isolation while leaving a less cohesive / congruent codebase a whole. This is often worse in the long run than just patching it and actually can make changes harder.

Disclaimer: I am in mostly a management role now so you can take the above with an appropriately sized grain of salt.
Yes and no. Many aren't less 'gifted' just less able - they don't have the right language background for school, dont have the easy ability to study at home, etc.

'Grammar schools' (or something similar of a different name) are reasonably common in UK and its colonies and attempt what you are asking for - with very well documented positives and negatives.

There is definitely a massive issue of equality where children feel they aren't in the 'good' school this becomes an excuse for not bothering with school and then life. Equal education brings a lot of benefits to society at large.
there should be a global ban on gain-of-function experiments on deadly viruses and bacteria.

Would you make the same argument for software vulnerability research? I think the arguments against both are the same, and with the same result: white-hat researchers will halt their work, leaving more of the field available to black-hat researcers.
No, you can also be underprivileged and gifted/talented (assuming you mean economic or racial privilege).
Of course higher intelligence is a privilege, as is higher sportive ability and other attributes given to you from birth. This includes your own personal attributes as well as the privilege that comes from your family's wealth and status. But actually, the word "privilege" muddles the waters, because those are two very different things.

I agree that schools should not differentiate based on families' status and wealth. Schools should treat poor and rich children the same.

However, schools should never treat stupid and intelligent children the same. Not everyone is cut out to be a rocket surgeon. But your argument means that we should hold back all future rocket surgeons and bring them to a lower level of privilege, i.e. dumb them down. This is neither in the interest of the children (stupid as well as intelligent ones) nor is it in the interest of society. We do need rocket surgeons...
Voluntary transactions that are profit maximising and benefit both parties can still be unfair.

For instance, most people accept that for the same job and all things being equal you should pay a black/white person the same wage. If there was a job posting that said ‘we pay this skin colour X and this skin colour Y because according to our analysis people with darker skin tones are willing to accept a lower wage’ there would rightfully be outrage. It would be unfair, while being a voluntary transaction which is profit maximising and in which both parties benefit.

I know you aren’t arguing for that though - we accept as a society that we shouldn’t pay people different based on race, but lots of people do believe that we should pay people differently based on where they were born and what visa status they hold. I personally think this view will change over time as globalisation and remote working continues.
I know what you mean. I feel the same way about not just the display but about phone having physical keys or qwerty keyboards ...I mean, the old casio and palms had it right for useful phones to get shit done as the primary function and taking funny cat pics/videos or playing games as secondary. Ah well, I guess I am just old.

BTW, as far as E-ink displays are concerned, do you know about the yotaphone ? http://yotaphone.com/in-en/ ? The yotaphone2 is scheduled to be released sooish; I plan on getting one.
Yeah, and having a gypsy swab my windshield with a muddy rag doesn't clean my car, that doesn't mean car washes are useless.
The link to the MongoHQ page about their compromise is giving a cert expired error (1 day ago), which then redirects to a page not found on compose.io. Odd.
I guess we'll never know but I think Meerkat's banishment had more to do with lousy behavior than walled gardens. I may be naive.
A computer science degree at University will not teach you 'working skills' for the software world, you only get those from working on software with a team. I started my first job as a part time software developer at a local company in my last year of highschool and I'm now working full time at my second software company (And I'm only 20), I attended the first year of a computer science degree through my highschool which is the only higher education experience I have. As long as you demonstrate the ability to learn I think you would do fine at a software company, it's definitely something I would investigate before committing to university.

Now this is only my perspective as someone living in New Zealand, I'm not very familiar with the UK. But I think it would still be similar in the UK.

P.S I feel I should disclose that I am biased against universities, none of my friends have gone to uni and my flatmate is in the same situation as me. I don't really believe in the reasons most people go to university, I certainly don't think it's a decision someone should make coming out of highschool.
Funny enough I just wrote one of my first blog posts in years, minutes before this article was written, about Magic. [0] My theory is that by positioning themselves as an aggregator, or a "platform for platforms," they retain the cashflow advantages of service based marketplaces, without the need to build supply because they piggyback on existing supply.

Some say this is unsustainable because of low barrier to entry, but I would say actually they are in a perfect position. With investment like this, direct partnerships with service providers are possible. Partnerships are a barrier to entry.

[0] https://milesrichardson.com/the-magic-of-service-business-ca...
That would be nice, or maybe there could be incentives for people to move the bikes. Seeing bikes ride themselves would look great though.
I don't think the author is responding to Graham appropriately. Graham's argument is against the power structure of Big Media, not the enduring value of narrative. Hence Graham's post beginning by pointing to the industries' push for SOPA signaling that they're running out of ideas, not on how to entertain people, but to constrict people to being entertained on Big Media's terms. This has a negative effect on quality of narrative, as many have noted.

I think the nature of the confusion is that Graham hints at his personal preferences on how people should spend time ("It would be great if what people did instead of watching shows was exercise more and spend more time with their friends and families" [0]) right besides endorsements for products that shift demand for screen narratives ("new media", "things... that have little in common with movies and TV except competing with them for finite audience attention" [0]).

But even with that said, Graham's view is ultimately inclusive of Curran's. Graham:

>"There will be several answers, ranging from new ways to produce and distribute shows..." [0]

Curran:

>"The internet has paved the way once again for a vertically integrated system of production and distribution, and we know that today’s youth is hungry for stories that matter to them. Whomever is the first to put that together will win." [1]

Screen narrative was never in question.

Edit: Forgot to add links

[0]: http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html

[1]: http://charliecurran.com/you-have-to-beat-the-man-to-be-the-...
If you are trying to channel Alfie Kohn, you should especially remember his advice that you cannot change other people.
If there is a need for a gate keepers, why do they pass bad movies? And most movies on the screen are mediocre at best. And they also lose money.
Not really, they will still be much bigger due to retrofocus than a dedicated mirrorless lens. Lens redesign is needed really to make the most of it.
I've used Noisy for OS X and also Aire Freshener for Windows (which includes ambient recorded sounds such as rainfall) but notice that after an extended period I tend to have "aural hallucinations" -- I start hearing patterns in the noise that aren't there. This usually worries me and I have to turn it off.
The developers have another in-browser game called Zezenia Online at www.zezeniaonline.com. It's an MMORPG with a similar style.
Screen size isn't phone size, particularly when it comes to iPhones, since they have very large bezels. Here http://j.mp/1uIZZ6f is a size comparison of the 5S, 6 and Z3C.
Womens' rights activists have talked about this since the beginning and often.

Really? Who has said that our society would be better off if the NFL or NBA were replaced by some other league that offered any opportunity whatsoever for women to compete at the highest level?

There have always been women who wanted to play.

Of course! I certainly didn't intend to imply otherwise. In fact I've spent much of my time playing and watching stuff like the horse sports and kendo, which in all important respects women play just as well as men. I've also heard this about distance swimming. Perhaps ski jumping is another such sport? I don't know it well enough to say, but if it is, or if it can be made so, I'd say that it will be better for our culture to have more of it.
And google uses search, in turn, to juice their own properties (such as youtube) by pushing them higher in the SERPs. See, eg, the europe antitrust stuff for demonstration.
> In the same way a dog is never going to understand calculus,

Dogs may never understand calculus as you mean it but they can certainly solve related-rates problems in real time physical situations.
Streaming, downloading multi-GB files like games or HD movies, playing games online while avoiding (at least some) latency, uploading content or hosting your own file-sharing servers.

It's not just a speed problem. Within the Tor community I personally still see a lot of people saying that behaviors like these are selfish because they take up too many volunteer resources. Maybe it's a little unfair of me, maybe those people are misinformed -- but I interpret that as meaning that the community doesn't think Tor can scale to meet those demands.

With either a 3rd-party or a self-hosted VPN, you can reroute literally all of your network traffic from all of your devices without giving it any thought, and the only time you'll really need to get off is if you're accessing a blocked website or doing something that demands very low latency.
> Why people use Linux in place of nix ?

I find it more irritating when people try to score greybeard points by saying *nix (or Unix) when it's obvious that they're talking about a Linux-only mechanism and quite possibly haven't ever used Unix (or a direct derivative).
I'm not sure most people on any side of this debate would agree with that assessment. IMO the more important disagreement is whether or not laissez-faire economics (for lack of a better term) will yield the best results for the most people, or whether some systemic inequalities exist that could be remedied to yield an overall increase in welfare.
I have some sketch notes in the readme outlining production strategy that doesn't depend on using containerized nginx (or postgres), but I should make that more clear.
You can still de-risk the proposition by offering a money back guarantee. Or indeed a free trial where the user gets prompted to confirm they want to subscribe when they try to login in after the free period is up - not a massive issue when the service is actually worth paying for to them. Or indeed a free trial where there's no automation at all and company negotiates a contract with the salesperson after the free period is up.

The only people affected by losing no-confirmation autobilling are those who make non-trivial portions of their revenue on people forgetting to cancel. And the industries and businesses that HAVE to rely on that deserve to fail, frankly.
I guess if you try to quantify a species’ value by looking at its utility, either to the ecosystem or for our amusement, you may arrive at the conclusion that some species are not worth saving. Reasonable even if a little cold.

I tend to take the view that life — all life — is extremely rare in the universe, and that alone is enough to warrant as much action as realistically possible to preserve it. A species might never be useful for anything, but it is the unique product of countless generations before it; a story of complexity and beauty that, it could be argued, dwarfs any of humanity’s greatest achievements.