jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I make two points that "contradict" here:

Primarily, I argue that we're a social species and cannot employ individuality without a culture and community. This contradicts any notion of being artificially programmed by a deus ex machina. On the contrary, we program and reprogram each other reciprocally and continuously. A strong AI shaping of human kind would be parasitic to existing practice, not a new thing. Kind of like how propaganda presupposes a practice of telling the truth.

Second, and perhaps wrongly so, I address the seeming notion of difference being a moral good; a sentiment I interpret in your final sentence. I might very well have misunderstood it.

Being different is not good, in and of itself. Striving to be different seems to be a recipe for unhappiness, because the internal resources cannot explode the context without a major risk of ending up in social vacuity, where your actions are systemically misinterpreted and the individual itself misinterpret his or herself on the rebound.

The so-called historical individual in Hegel , Nietzsche's grand most free of all superman, relies on contingent reality to succeed; in other words, the successful "being different" is a harmony of the individual's actions and intentions with existing but as of yet unexpressed social trends. Again, individuality presupposes sociality, completely opposing the view that "true individuality" is so rare.

It's unfair to the ant to talk about them in human terms, and I am not an expert in ants. But a human being expressing her taste is an expression of her individuality, even though it's exactly the same thing "everyone else" think as well. What matters is that it expresses her as an individual, not that it differs from the majority.
I do the same, minus the bond funds. 70/30: VTSAX/VTIAX
So we can't get rid of the senior editors after all?
So maybe the upper management can innovate and the employees can't?
>DHS should really be focusing resources on domestic terrorism rather than shutting down a few websites.

Sadly, DHS itself is probably a far greater source of domestic terror than any currently operating independent group.
I am not sure why net neutrality is not seen as a local or state issue

IANAL, but wouldn't this be an obvious application of the Interstate Commerce clause, as traffic is likely to be crossing state lines?
Man, I used a lot of XML in 2005...
I don't?

Here we see a device go straight from production to destruction intentionally and to a state where recycle/rebuild/re-use is impractical.

Sorry but all these arguments for advertising supporting the complete destruction of useful resources are misguided retarded and stupid.

Downvote all you want - but I'd prefer it were you that drank the water into which these toxic particles shall leach.

Fuck advertising.
I believe users with high average karma get highlighted.
But is it good English? I'm not a native speaker, but it does sound somewhat unnatural.
I'll take what seems to be a contrarian opinion: it's too complicated. Meaning, there are too many textareas, checkboxes, and radio buttons. The genius of Craigslist is its simplicity. Title, ad text, submit, done.
A bit more info, here's the EPA's PM2.5 scale:

http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=pubs.aqguidepart

Above 100 is unhealthy for sensitive groups, above 150 is unhealthy for everyone, above 200 is very unhealthy, and above 300 is dangerous.

Here's China's current PM2.5 as relayed by the US Embassy (To prevent official tampering):

http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/us-embassy/m/

The average over the last 5 days is 150, the peak over the past 5 days was 201.
If your pass phrase already exists online somewhere (song lyrics, quote, meme) it's much much less safe than seven random words.
I work on urbit. I'm glad to answer any questions anyone might have.
Oh, that way. I was thinking more of British aristocracy
I had heard of the Birthday paradox previously but didn't make the connection. Thanks for the reply.
All: please note that there are more comments on page 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083&p=2.

(That's what the 'More' links at the bottom of large threads point to)
Looks like a few of the tracking companies only just started to appear -

http://builtwith.com/detailed/healthcare.gov

The only non-ad tool they added was the Twitter Platform to their homepage. Lots of data leakage points though.
Don't blame the browsers for continuing to send Referer headers though. Because browsers take your privacy seriously.
I've had senior developers, who came from a large respected companies, bomb fizzbuzz.

I'll stop asking fizzbuzz when people stop failing it.
Sorry, but how in the world will WhatsApp dislodge AT&T? The ONLY way it could do so is if FB and Musk/Google create the space-based inet access for the globe- then transition the entirety of the WhatsApp user-base to that system.

This isnt a bad idea actually - "if you want access to WhatsApp-X, then you must use Space-X inet service"
They are hiring lots of people to provide new features and keep growing. To add $40m value you've got to add of the order of 4m users which seems quite doable.
Conversely see https://www.google.com/ideas/projects/

Not exactly military tech, but clearly defense related.
My gut says that they've disabled SSL v2/v3, and that the device does not support TLS.
Why is it not worth a shot to ask? I wouldn't necessarily ask for medical advice nor follow it, but there'd be that small chance someone else would know something worth pursuing with my doctor (like what seems to have happened in this topic).

For about 6 months on end this past year I had a laundry list of respiratory issues that several different doctors I went to couldn't figure out the root cause of. All anyone could do was to deal with the symptoms, try to come up with some kind of diagnosis, and hope that it'll fix whatever was going on. I was on at least half a dozen different meds ranging from a monthlong course of Levaquin to prednisone and nasal sprays and more at any given time, and of course none of that stuff would do anything about a nasty, persistent cough that would never go away (great timing with the H1N1 scare!).

So after too many xrays and ct scans and blood tests and blowing into things and who knows what more, I was really fed up. I had been to all sorts of specialists, general practice, even my dentist (sinusitis at some point, had to rule out anything to do with my teeth), and everyone was out of ideas. It was wrecking my relationships with some clients who thought I was giving them the flu, it was preventing me from even climbing up a flight of stairs on a bad day, the cough was bad enough that I'd wake up multiple times during the night, everyone and their mother thought I had a cold or the flu or $deity forbid H1N1... I was on the verge of crying when I was waiting for a flight at an airport when some woman that had sat down next to me decided standing up and away from me was preferable to being next to me coughing into my elbow away from her. And I didn't have anything contagious at that point. :/

I bounced ideas off some friends, I ranted on twitter and irc, went to one of the doctors suggested by someone I knew, and after mixing that all together, a specific combination of a few meds solved every problem I had. A little ridiculous to think about in the end, but my limited crowdsourcing worked for me. Even with the complete lack of domain-specific knowledge, it was a bunch of fresh pairs of eyes thinking things in their own way as I and all my then-doctors had started to become one with "we have no idea what's going on".

However, had any of my doctors pulled a House and ditched some choice assumptions about what happened with "99% of [their] patients" that had any one of my issues or "what happened in [my] medical history", I probably would have been much better off earlier. But I eventually (mini-crowdsourced and) met my House that assumed my medical history is tantamount to a lie and started with a blank slate. What everyone had assumed was the effect was a cause, where it was assumed something would work because it worked in the past was proven to be wrong, and now I'm here, minus most of the problems I had back then and managing the problems I can manage, happy and reasonably healthy today :)
Such spiritedness is very rare on HN, and such comments can be downmoded to invisibility, which I think is enough.
I think the problem is that there are progressively fewer and fewer places where civil discourse is the norm. Many sites start out that way and establish a stimulating environment. As the site becomes popular and attracts a wider audience, civility and discourse are replaced by memes, ageism, misogyny, and sarcastic sniping. I think we've all seen it happen, on many sites. It gets old fast.
Is it also standard to call it an infinite loop?
But what you call the "Internet" is just human society, which isn't new and isn't even artificial. There hasn't even been a qualitative change in human progress since the internet (hardly a quantitative one).
Gah, I wish there was a contact link on there that wasn't twitter. The typo "fondamental" bugs me, then when looking for contact info I found "Developper" done over and over.
Now, while that can be fun to play with, it's pretty dangerous if you are not expecting it.

That's kind of an understatement when it comes to liquid oxygen.
I personally didn't find the screenshot very compelling. I think a "What are your friends reading now" with a few URL's and title's (kind of like a 'what's hot') for the screenshot would be much more interesting and get me to click. Also, as I scrolled down the 'download' page, the green arrow didn't stay with me.
I'm pretty sure that most video downloads these days involve first downloading a file to tell your downloader how to get the rest of the data.
NS. Emacs shouldn't be anyone's first text editor, but if experience is any guide, it will be many's last text editor.
I was only referring to the number of respondents, not the overall methodology. But again, I disavow any expertise or sense when it comes to actual polling. :-)
Interesting. Any theories of why this setup was more efficient than the firewall it replaced? OpenBSD just than much better?
I suspect that you are conflating "I'm turned off" and "many will be turned off". I seriously doubt it will make any difference either way to the hacker news demographic.
> It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.

One thing that nobody has mentioned so far is (I believe) people were much more fit in those days. Today we have a very sedentary lifestyle. Not so much in those days, people were much more active. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2614780/How-F...
You nailed it: Sun Tzu 101 is that information (and disinformation) is power.
That is great to hear!

I really hope that Autodesk starts feeling some pressure from FOSS and cools off on the blatant anti-consumer moves. The whole "now you have to pay us $XXXX/year in perpetuity or you lose access to all of your business files" has killed a lot of the goodwill they once had.
Could the magic bean salesman in ocarina of time be considered prior art?
> Paul Erdös [sic]...was a meth addict

Do you have a reputable source for this? Wikipedia and a quick "Paul Erdos meth" Google were both fruitless for me.
I never use the DDG results when looking for something. People on here will sometimes say that the results are as good as Google, but it's just not true in my experience. I would switch completely to Startpage, but I value the !bang feature too much. So for general searches, everything is prefaced with !sp. It's just muscle memory now.
Looks like group video calling is still a beta feature in Signal. Would love to know if others find it to be near Whatsapp quality.
How does LibreSSL compare with boringssl (google's fork)?
If you replaced your argument for treating potential sociopaths with "treating potential gay people", do you see why that's a kind of dangerous approach to psychiatric diseases?

It's pretty dicey to just say "it's a disorder in the DSM associated with (negative things) and therefore we should push for administration of treatment to otherwise healthy/happy people."

It isn't too long ago now that being gay was also in the DSM. Respected scientists claimed all sorts of "harm" that the "gay lifestyle" caused to people in it and outside of it.

I suppose my question is: your logic would you suggest that it is worthwhile or valuable to administer prophylactic treatment to every DSM disorder, for those considered "at risk." You assert that MDMA is "just a pleasant experience", but I'd counterclaim that no drug is always just a pleasant experience, and you always need to consider the side effects (which for MDMA read like the side effects of many legal psychiatric drugs that affect the seratonin/dopamine/norepinephrine system). Keeping in mind that psychiatric disorders are some of the few disorders where the consent of the patient still isn't absolutely legally necessary to administer treatment, that means that you are arguing that these should be at least considered for administration to actively unwilling patients.

Given the difficulty of diagnosing these illnesses in the first place and the possibility of misdiagnosis (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment), I think it's important to be careful of the arguments made for treatments. Treatments often are applied to involuntary patients (who may be considered incapable), and both the DSM and psychology (as a science) are not some be-all, end-all bible of things that can be stated to be definitively negative or harmful or unwanted which exist outside of the culture they're formed in.
I'm curious to see if there's publicly available data about award usage per subreddit.

I tried quick searching for "award usage per subreddit stats" but can't find anything.
Heads up I'm only an amateur. So this a bit of asking for advise kinda question .
So what do you guys think about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unistellar
This telescope seems promising.
In the longer term, the ability of taxpayers to pay taxes is a signal of the nation's ability to produce enough to meet its debt. It's just spread over an extended period.
You want Typescript because you want to write JS with type ascribtions that will catch some errors (but give you a false sense of security in more complex code). You also prefer to use JS idioms and using hundreds of npm packages, so you want the most frictionless integration for that.

You want PureScript because you want the safety of Haskell style functional programming on the frontend, with strict types, effects tracking, category theory, and all.

You want Scala.js because neither of these extremes are appealing to you. You've been burned by Typescript, you're interested in functional programming but don't want to completely give up the good parts of OOP just yet (or ever).

I'm here to sell Scala.js (of course). You can use it with React or with one of Scala.js UI libraries. It's very nice.
Not if you have aphantasia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Meaning, there are 1 million bytes of storage, but pretty much all filesystems use some of those bytes to represent information about the files in addition to the files themselves. Hence, formatted, the resulting filesystem will have capacity less than that.

You could, if you really wanted to, write 1 million raw bytes to the disk. But you'd need special software to read and write it, because de facto software expect there to be a master partitioning table or whatever it's called.
Saying specifically that Google will track you isn't true either - it doesn't track you and associate the incognito session with your existing ad profiles, it tracks a new identity with its own interests. Google shouldn't have to specifically list itself when it behaves the same as other third-party analytics services or ad networks.
The impact of these changes on FB ads depends on what kind of ads you run - VBO, AAA, and LAL will be challenged. But interest, geo, and demo targeting will continue as is. None of these iOS changes affect FB’s ability to serve ads, nor small business’ ability to run ads and find customers. It’s the tracking of activity and the deeper funnel events that is changing, not advertising for small business
But there's no evidence that either of your assumptions is true. Gogo has said publicly[1] that they're trying to "shape bandwidth" to YouTube and other streaming sites. Let's not spread conspiracy theories about "national security" on HN when the truth about the NSA's domestic surveillance hijinks is disturbing enough.

I say this even though I've criticized Gogo[2] and suggested ways in which they may be legally liable as a result of their fake *.google.com cert.

For those who may not be familiar with his work, David Reed, the author of the linked post, helped with the early development of what would become the modern Internet. That includes UDP and IP signaling, which is one reason (I believe) he won an ACM hall of fame award.

[1] http://concourse.gogoair.com/technology/statement-gogo-regar...

[2] https://twitter.com/declanm/status/552365531798716417
This only works if you change your mask every time you remove it, and have no further contact with the mask until you clean it.
Check blind.com
There are literally hundreds of threads in the last week where multiple people have been let go due to coronavirus.
IMO, if you register n domains to keep someone from misusing them, whoever is out for you will will just register the n+1th domain. There's not really much point to having a higher n. Get the .com, maybe one with your country code, maybe the .io.
We use C++/CLI, because it's the easiest way to use .NET components together with legacy MFC code.
Those are great sources, and the quote you cite is great. I totally believe everything you quoted and sourced.

I still stand by my criticism of the linked to article, of which that quote was not a part.

I think this is great stuff to bring to light.
If it was only authentication then they'd be perfectly fine with unsigned certs. But they're not.
A marketplace for an extremely narrow market? Who’s going to invest their money to develop hardware for this platform? They better do everything themselves in the beginning.
Maybe not to write them, but to run them you need Apple to sign them. A free developer account can be used to have Apple sign your app, but then Apple will only give you permission to run that app for 7 days, and only give you permission to install 3 apps signed that way at a given time. In any case, side loading iOS applications absolutely requires Apple's permission.

Unless you were talking about jailbreaking.
You're implying that the opposite of "imperative" is "nondeterministic." That's incorrect.

Prolog is declarative as opposed to imperative. User source code declares rules/constraints, and the Prolog compiler performs a search algorithm to arrive at a solution that satisfies the constraints.
Fair enough! I can definitely see how I might have taken it too hard (or it came off in my writing of the comment)

I was just more or less intrigued by the actual claim and would have loved to just see some numbers on "higher performance than varnish" and the scenarios where it could reach those performance pieces. It just piqued my interest for future architecture considerations.

Thanks for enlightening me more on turbocache. It's on my list of things to go through tonight.

Edit: I did want to point out my bad choice of words. "They had me until here.", did not mean I didn't read the article in it's entirety. Just that I continued with a bit more skepticism.
Impressive work man.
commenting for reference later.

Thanks for gathering these
How does savedeo.com actually make money? It isn't obvious.
Not sure if this counts, but in 2013 I made ~17k off of freelancing & consulting in my free-time.

I also operate some "for fun sites", which are all small projects for example a video-game discount aggregator (just scapes sites for discounts) all together ~$200/mo.
Surprised no one mentioned Mopidy[0] in the thread. From their github:

Mopidy is an extensible music server that plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a range of MPD and web clients.

[0]:https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy
How is that possible? I was under the impression that it took a long time to be a real exit node.
>who get to decide what should/shouln't be tolerated ? harmful/harmful ? facebook ?

On Facebook's platform, that would be Facebook.

In my home, that would be me.

In your home, that would be you.

I could go on, but I trust you get the point, yes?
Every single instance of the word "cookie" in the ePrivacy Directive[1] is qualified with either a "for instance" or with "or similar devices".

1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
I thought it was a local flight too.

Last year when countries started closing their borders, Air Tahiti had to reroute their Papeete-Los Angeles-Paris flight via Pointe-a-Pitre.

It was a French Polynesia to French Caribbean to France flight.
Sympy is great for people who occasionally need such programs.
Any serious mathematician will have his or her preferred software that he uses daily anyway.

Sympy works for people who know programming (not just programmers, but researchers in general) who need to use it occasionally.
Aren't they the best people to learn how to be private because it's their jobs to break privacy?
I think that's fair, but is certainly a different concern than what facebook is doing.
There is no excuse or what he did.
He admitted hw was part of the Coup attempt.
On twitter he tried to make it sound like he was a teenager who made a bad decision.
He is a Terrorist that attempted to over throw the United States Government. PERIOD
appsnap backend: nginx -> klone -> image matching server
Android 2.1 and earlier shipped with a kernel that could only see 256MB of RAM, and 2.2 fixes this. A bunch of HTC Passion/Desire/Incredible/Evo users are about to get a performance boost with Dalvik JIT and double the RAM.
As off as some of his points may be, this one caught my eye:

Don't worry about being embarrassed [about what you own]

I have always said this, and it may not be 100% correct, but:

The rich don't need to buy things to impress the circle they live in. They are already rich and don't need to prove it to anyone. Wasting money trying to "keep up with the Jones'" is, oddly, a sure way to lose money in the end.
http://beta.broadersheet.com
But in the land of pure unbundledness and light, the upcoming hardware improvements would have been made known to all simultaneously, and more than one group could have been making software for it. Possibly giving you more choice on the first day the hardware was available. So the thinking goes.
I'm not trying to be an apologist here, but he's accomplished far more than I have on a good week.

I don't know if you were going for a backhanded compliment there, but it sure seems like one ;-)
The thing I find most interesting about facetime is that jobs announced it will be an open standard soon. I am looking forward to that. I have been looking for an open alternative to skype but didn't find anything that would come close to it so I welcome any competition in that field.

voip doesn't really work out of the box the way skype does and if apple manages to compete seriously with skype using an open standard that'll be great.
I must admit that these days I pretty much refuse to supply resumes. I really don't feel like a resume reflects at all who I am or what I can do...