jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're referring to Advanced Chess [0]. Yes, humans do add value, or otherwise this form of chess wouldn't exist at all, i.e. the human's best strategy would be to always take the engine's top recommended move.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess
> "until we learn to say what we actually mean, there is no way out."

Disagree. Plenty of people are speaking as plainly as they can, and not being heard. When we have endless articles explaining how "these words didn't really mean what they meant," and "that apology wasn't really an apology," the fault can't be fairly laid at the feet of those speaking when they're misunderstood, can it?

"People should be judged by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin." Does saying this make me a Nazi? Does attributing the quote to Dr King make the difference? Or is it that some people want to call me a Nazi and don't care to hear what I'm actually saying?
In that case it's scary smart. :)
Give yourself an ambitious pet project that requires you to learn and practice new things. Add to it over time so you continue to revisit the project with new requirements. And read all the docs, not just the parts you need to know.
I was once on a flight (capacity of about 30 passengers) where they made several people change seats to balance the load.
If the cargo and the passengers aren't distributed and weight accounted for properly the typical calculations you make to take off based on weight stop working... potentially entirely / catastrophically. It has happened before resulting in crashes.

A few overweight passengers can't do that, but a combo of too many passengers and etc can have an impact.
OMG, even if the telemetry were accurate, 2-3.5% of their users is a non-negligible number of people to use rip audio from... that's ridiculous!
Developer edition is unstable, somewhere between nightly and beta; there is no stable build provided by Mozilla. Only Debian (ESR) and Fedora (stable).
People here underestimate google app engine a lot. But I doubt if there is better one person Saas service out there.
Yes! I love the story with video games - it’s the main draw for me, especially as I get older. It often feels like the plot is held up by having to go do six mundane tasks. I’d be happy having a game where you just walk around and talk to people. Have it almost be like a book, but with the added extras of art and music. Maybe there’s a genre for this, and I just don’t know how to look for it properly.
I'm the same way. Honestly I don't think the current WIMP paradigm works that well for desktops either.
Well, going back to the British use of them in the Boer War, I define them as "camps where significant numbers of people die of disease (or worse)." As far as I know, these camps didn't fit that definition, and they most certainly fit the time of war internment word of art.

Note that seizing the property that they were forced to abandon has been said to be another motivation.
Exactly. David Bowie doesn't scan job boards. But he does do drum programming on his own tracks, on a Roland 707 http://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie-Outside-Earthling-Hours/r.... Even if he did know Haskell, one doesn't see him responding to job ads. Real rockstars have too much of their own thang going on.
Having a security clearance can be job security for the private sector, too (well, government contractors). I interned at a company that decided they needed to do a large round of layoffs. To my knowledge, nobody with a security clearance lost their job, even though it was a 'classified' project that was lost.
What existing sandboxing systems are you thinking of that are more efficient?

Would you be confident using them to run possibly malicious code on your system?
Overall health is not insurable. It’s a misnomer.

There is a 100% chance of everyone needing healthcare in the future. US health insurance does a few things:

1) premiums partially serve as a tax to transfer wealth from young and healthy to old an sick

2) insurers healthcare recipient from the big costs (over out of pocket maximum - $7k to $13k per year), subject to in network providers

3) Negotiates pricing and determine appropriate level of healthcare, I.e. acts as informed agent for uninformed buyers

The last one is controversial, but it’s funny since people complain about high insurance premiums and then also complain about insurance companies denying what might be frivolous charges by healthcare providers.
Chrome will also drop that soon and only allow a tiny fraction of extensions to continue using it.

This is in the name of security. Whether you believe that is up to you, but personally I don’t even install extensions that require access to all of my tabs, let alone something that can read pure requests (with the exception of uBlock)
I'm a simple engineer, I like content, frames are superfluous and distracting, with that web page being a perfect illustration.
Claiming that most queries are simple indexed columns lookups is a far cry from claiming most SQL databases are used as simple key-value stores.
http://www.googlesharing.net/

Moxie's awesome addon/proxy.
That last link is hilarious. It cited a study that found that the mass of solar panels is 300x the mass of SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL. Because, of course, pound-for-pound a solar panel and spent nuclear fuel have the same toxicity?
Exactly. I feel like a lot of people here either didn't pay attention to the article or are using it as an opportunity to go on a tangent about corporate/family taxes. The disconnect between the two is listed clearly in the second sentence of the article. Companies are predominately taxed on profit. Families are predominately taxed on revenue. That drastically decreases the tax burden for high revenue businesses and drastically increases the tax burden for families that are barely getting by (i.e. low profit).
What if you don't earn income, would you say that the nanny's wage is lower?
Author here:

Agreed. This is one of my biggest regrets for not following POSIX syntax more closely. So much so that I did at one point start writing in support for inlining Bash (and others) code into murex as a way of allowing users to make use of the rich content already out there. But I couldn't decide on a clean way of implementing it that wasn't any better than `bash -c 'some code'` so ended up removing the feature.

As it is, I'm still half tempted to incorporate a bit more POSIX support to make code sharing easier. But there's a real risk that I could compromise the design goals of my own language in doing so.

I think this is projects like Oil Shell (https://www.oilshell.org/) have the upper hand. It's gone for Bash compatibility plus new features. I have a lot of respect for what they do as it's a much harder undertaking than what I've done.
This looks fantastic!

In particular,
1. You provide UI widgets (generated from your JSON schema, I presume) to generate the YAML and preview the result so the user can start building without having to invest so much time in learning your schema.
2. You represent web components in a structure (YAML/JSON) that is easy to manipulate with code.
3. Your project is open source so others can build on top of it. I'm amazed how almost every no/low-code project I have seen so far has some form of lock-in with expensive monthly rates when you finally want to deploy.

I recently started building something similar and was actually hacking on it past midnight last night only to wake up and see your post on HN (haha). But fortunately I haven't invested too much time in it--I'm going to rethink my hobby project and perhaps work on something that incorporates what you've done.

Bravo!
Do you mind elaborating a bit? My understanding is that ECS would be providing data in a way not unlike most web applications do, such that building a React UI over that data model should be quite easy.
If that auto parts store guy committed a billion dollars to the fight, hiring and listening to many scientists he'd be an excellent guy to ask.
That link is wrong. Python does ship with a robotparser module in the standard library that parses robots.txt files, but urllib2 does not use it out of the box. This can be easily confirmed using Wireshark or a quick glance at the source: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/08b5e2c9112c/Lib/urllib2.p....
FWIW, Opera doesn't support h.264 either.
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.mkrecny.com/?p=76
The more obvious rationale for this is a lack of real demand for the PlayBook.
It's hard to justify expensive litigation to block a law preventing you from something you weren't doing or intending to do anyway. The only reason to spend all that time, effort, and money is to at the very least make sure the door is open for you to do such things in the future. Or worse, to keep doing them as we speak.
So let's assume that x% of people will say any dumb shit they find funny when asked in a survey.

What would be a question that has an obvious correct answer, but not so obvious that people start fucking around?

"What color is a red ball?" probably would be too easy and people would start answering sarcastically.

"What are french fries made of?" is probably too hard.
I was involved in a mid-sized software company migrating from AWS to GCP. My experience was that the GCP team was very hands on, and that enterprise support was very responsive.

The support isn't perfect, nor is the product -- but I would say the level of customer service for GCP can't be compared to other Google products.
Drone swarms that can counter fighter jets is a concept that makes no sense. At best you can make something like a guided missile that can loiter. But I can't really see much benefit to that. It would still require the same the avionics and performance as a guided missile. Not to mention stealth aircraft counter the concept even further.
No it's just yet another piece of coverage in the decade long coverage of russia hacking everything
MAMR isn't necessarily significant per se. It's the energy assist in general (be it heat or microwaves).

By heating up a small dot on the disk, that small section will change it's bits easier. As such, we can shove more bits into the same area.

Energy-assist hard drives is the next step, leading to more and more bits in a smaller area.
It has certainly changed my life for the better. I escaped a monetary system that was set to enslave me for life.
Does anyone know if pregnant women can go through these machines? I wonder how many women go through who are pregnant but don't know it. We certainly don't know the long-term effects of this on children but I would think a fetus is substantially more susceptible.
> The US jails far more people today than the USSR ever managed to. It seems to be working out okay for us.

Who you jail and the effect that said jailing has on other people also matters.
...is exactly what's killing the quality of goods and services in society these days.

I'm not sure what society you live in, but I live in a society that's jam-packed with amazing stuff. I take most of it for granted most of the time, but I have thousands of amazing products, services, and experiences available with just a few clicks, at prices that are absolutely unbelievable compared with what was available 50 years ago.

Besides, this kind of "fake buzz" bullshit has been around for a long time; it's called advertising.
And really with the amount of time you will be spending building your startup, 12 hours is nothing. :-)
It's marginally productive to read articles about recognizing when you're unproductive.

Also, "fake work" is not not-work.

Of course, the productivity of reading an article is directly correlated to how someone interprets the article and what they learn from it.

Productivity itself is difficult to discuss, because usefulness operates on many axes (axis plural, not sharp metal on the end of a stick). Ex. I find that having a few big projects to mentally plan and chew over with friends or alone has a net positive effect on my happiness, even though such projects will almost certainly never get done. In some ways, thought about such projects is unproductive, but in terms of generating happiness for myself, I find it quite rewarding and, in a certain way, productive.
Oops. Only five days ago - ouch.
Misplaced? No. Under generalized? Perhaps. But what's wrong with a good example?

Rant and clickbait are loaded words, often used to dismiss without discussion.
I played through all the free levels. It's slow, you don't learn a lot, and you end up having to pay to keep going.

If you are learning I'd advise you to check stuff like this: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...

They show you a few shortcuts on a keyboard layout and they keep on adding shortcuts to the pictures so you can learn at a nice pace.
Probably the greatest release since 2.0.
> * Can't go faster than light (or even a large fraction of the limit)

That's a valid argument against traveling to other solar systems for sure. We could still travel to any planet/moon in our solar system in easily less than a generation and probably no more than 10 years.

> * Cost. Look at price per compute vs price to bring something to space and tell me which trend seems more durable. Things will keep getting smaller while space exploration may not.

Space will likely still be expensive for generations to come but reusability of rockets will decrease the expense of space travel by a couple of orders of magnitude. Imagine that we needed to build a new Airbus for each airplane trip, nobody would fly, it would be too expensive. Relative to rockets themselves, rocket fuel is cheap.

> * Space sucks! Very inhospitable. I'd rather live in a biodome on a ravaged earth than mars.

I don't know if I'd want to live my life on Mars either. That doesn't mean we shouldn't explore Mars and beyond.
Well, it is the only one I know of off the top of my head. And I've lived in Africa for close to two decades.

Granted, I'm not big into literature, so that may have something to do with it as well. Though I do view it as some sort of "cut-off" filter, anyways.
Hey everyone! I've been working on an async collaboration app for the last year (https://asyncgo.com) and through talking to customers we've been refining the idea further and further, and are now focused on helping teams discuss and make improvements to how they work. That self-improvement loop is something a lot of teams are struggling with as they move to remote or hybrid, and it felt like an area we could make a big difference quickly even though really our app can help with a lot of different kinds of decisions.

The core idea is pretty straightforward - it's like a discussion forum, but highly structured around raising tensions/improvement opportunities, discussing them, and making a change. It's easy to track open discussions and find already-made decisions, and it provides a template for actually having the discussion. It's also designed from the ground up to be able to make progress async, without meetings. There's a short 2m video on the site that hopefully makes all this even more clear.

There are a lot of (even obvious) improvements we could make, but we're looking to build up our cohort of early adopters so we can build it together rather than us guessing what you're likely to need. It's free for anyone to sign up and play with it, and I'd love the chance to talk to you if you do. Feedback good or bad is always welcome.
Not released yet; will be out later this year.
That’s a pretty big land. Gnu core utils are available for non-Linux platforms such as OSX. And OSX has its own way to do it:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/498358/how-do-i-do-date-...
It is a technology for adtech companies to circumvent operating system and network security features.
Where has anyone blamed anything on bad luck? I think our institutions are terrible, and definitely a factor in things like the pandemic and the hack.

I just think it makes no sense to reduce that to blaming the republicans or even a specific act of the Trump administration, based on pure imagination of an alternative outcome.

If ‘American republicanism’ is to blame for how bad the pandemic is, how do you explain Europe’s performance?
Yes? Most web frameworks do include some form of ORM.
I'm well aware which languages are statically typed and which are not. I was answering your question:

> Have I misunderstood what is meant by strong type checker?
Do you claim no hospital should ever be demolished, regardless of whether it was built with toxic materials, or has been neglected to the point of being unsafe?
Trick is to set up a couple transfer switches and make a deal with your neighbour on a fixed rate plan. Could do it just for the air conditioner and gain most of the savings.

We’re you able to set up anything interesting to take advantage of ebbs and flows in rates?
True, but at this point are the main issues I believe are. Land use, people need to farm and live somewhere. Poor people need to feed their kids, and poaching is rather lucrative for them when their children is starving. Issues it seems the world will never fix, thus wildlife suffers :(
My theory is that this wasn't the only stupid tech stunt done at that party. Some of the others might still have consequences if known. There's also the possibility that people might've been new to the chemistry involved and never remembered what happened once they rejoined consensus reality.
That 1% should go to wealthy investors because they’re the only ones who can then use that money to make the world a better place.

Edit: slash es.
Yikes, this is incredibly cynical.
The 1929 crash and the 2008 crash that started the great recession were both caused by uncovering the bezzle. The "bezzle" is what Galbraith called fake monetary supply: money that doesn't exist because it has already been embezzled (but still shows up on accounting statements). Trump signaled that there would be very lax regulation, meaning "your bezzle is safe from us." The next crash will appear when major corporations believe that it is in their interest to lay off CEO's and take their big baths. That will be sometime when they are convinced that the next Executive Branch administration will be checking accounting statements.
Domain names should never change and be easy to remember whereas legal ties to countries are often complex (i.e not 1 to 1) and subject to change.

Should I really have to remember going to apple.ie because that's where the Apple shop happens to be legally based at the moment? Or should it be apple.eu because consumer protection is an EU matter? Or apple.us because that's where Apple's headquarter is located?

And when a company gets sold to a different country, should all their URLs have to change?
It is a long article without any sources
sigh

Source link without the lifehacker bullshit:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870469400457602...

edit:
Direct link to awesome visualization tool :
http://blogs.wsj.com/wtk-mobile/
Disclaimer: I'm the author of this. The source code for most of it can be found on github [1] and the motivation behind building it is documented on my blog [2].

I'm happy to answer questions and take any feedback :)
Thanks all.

[1]: https://github.com/infosec-au/websec-weekly

[2]: https://shubh.am/introducing-websec-weekly/
For the record, and even if it doesn't help the discussion much, I completely agree with everything you're saying! ;-)
Have a look at http://www.circadiandisorders.org/

I do indeed prefer the night hours, however I am often up during the day. I enjoy the mornings, but only when I've been up all night. I don't enjoy the morning if I've slept then gotten up early.

I'm pretty sure I have quite an advanced case of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. DSPS is an endocrine condition that has to do with when the pineal gland secretes melatonin, or does not. Melatonin production is cyclic, with the cycle being mostly but not all the way synchronized by exposure to light.

In my case my sleeping and waking hours are so irregular that I may actually have "free-running non-24-hour delayed sleep phase syndrome". However that particular kind is thought to occur only among those who are profoundly blind. Most blind people can sense the presence or absence of light, but a very few have no perception of it at all.

My preference for the night, I expect, has mostly to do with it being the time that I have the most peace of mind. There is something about daylight that makes me anxious. I can't really explain why.
I'll stick to RPG/400. And none of this ILE stuff either, I want my column oriented code entry using the SEU.
"Unfortunately, you can’t encrypt your server key and it must be always available, or else sshd won’t start. The only thing protecting it is OS access controls."

You can encrypt the server key and only decrypt it into a loopback mount when you want to start sshd or accept a connection (I don't remember offhand if sshd reads it only once or at each connection), then unmount it. You get the same functionality as typing in your keystore password when you start apache or netscape or whatever web server (because you encrypt your https private keys too, right?). An untested poc:

# making the image
mkdir TMPFS
mount -t tmpfs -o size=4m tmpfs TMPFS
cd TMPFS
dd if=/dev/zero of=servkeys.img bs=1m count=2
mkfs.ext2 -F -m 0 -t ext2 servkeys.img
mkdir MOUNT
mount -t ext2 -o loop servkeys.img MOUNT
cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config MOUNT/
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f MOUNT/ssh_host_key
umount MOUNT
gpg -se servkeys.img
mv servkeys.img.gpg ..
cd ..
umount TMPFS
# running sshd
mount -t tmpfs -o size=4m tmpfs TMPFS
cd TMPFS
gpg -d ../servkeys.img.gpg > servkeys.img
mkdir MOUNT
mount -t ext2 -o loop servkeys.img MOUNT
sshd -f MOUNT/sshd_config -h MOUNT/ssh_host_key
umount MOUNT
cd ..
umount TMPFS
Compile times are an overblown concern, not because compile times don't matter, but because generics don't equate to long compile times. Two things:

1. Talking about C++ doesn't prove anything about the effects of generics on compilation time. C++ doesn't have generics, it has templates. Also, C++ is a particularly difficult language to compile quickly--it shouldn't be hard to compile a language faster than C++, even if you completely ignore templates/generics. If you want to make a reasonable comparison to Go's compilation, you should be looking at Java or C#. I've worked on an 800,000 line Java project and a 500,000 line C# project (the second made very heavy use of generics). The first took about two hours to build completely from scratch, the second, 40 minutes (both on not-particularly-powerful desktop workstations--the difference in time also is affected by the fact that there was 5 years between these projects). And like I said, typical builds of only changed code took <30 seconds.

2. I already said this, so I'll just quote myself: "If your builds are taking so long that server time becomes an issue, your code has built up too much cruft and it's time to refactor to reduce your size (failure to do this will cause much bigger problems than slow compilation)." 4.2 megabytes of code means that no one can reason effectively about the system, especially in a language as dense as C++.
Great to hear, thanks. Now I'll be more likely to do the update.
I think the argument here is that we inherited a country which always paid it's debts. If we decide we don't HAVE to pay our debts, then this is a different country, the world will recognize this and we'll find it more painful to borrow.

If we abolish every federal institution citizens depend on (social security, medicare, education, etc.) to pay debts, I think you're asking for a revolution.