jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What killed Google Wave was that it was a confusing product without clear goals. The invite process probably extended its lifespan by hiding how poor it was to most of the public.
Are these all really side projects? It seems like he'd be working full time on his "side projects" - or not doing much else besides working, i guess
Yay! I saw the URL posted on Macrumors and planned on posting it here in the hope of you coming here and unlocking it , but you beat me to it :-).
Even not quite so extreme, going without power for an extended period of time basically forces you to throw all your refrigerated and frozen food away. It takes months each times this happens for the supply chain to catch up with the new and unexpected demand.
I see. Fair enough.
Like this? http://www.patientnavigator.com/get-help-now/

"Navigation Services – $125/hr" -- at that price it may as well not exist.
It doesn't do it by default, it's plain white as usual.

You have to be logged in into Google to have a "different background", thus, any background at all.
In Buenos Aires, old apartments are made of thick, stone walls that really hinder signals. In a long apartment you have to repeat.

I bought 3 WRT-54GS refurbs from newegg for $29 each, installed DD-WRT, set 2 of the three as Bridged Repeaters, put them all on the same SSID (protip: put the word Mega in front of the old SSID), spread them across my friend's house, and he now has great signal everywhere.
They'd probably in 1851 like everybody else.
Reading and Thinking is still requirements. That's not the "bullshit" the author is trying to avoid.
Hopefully it will be less efficient in other aspects. Adaptions like that tend to have costs. Even if not, even if it turns out to make it more efficient, we are buying 10-20 years. Lots of things can happen in that time.
Now if only the headline had been "This person just poured water on their scanner and you won't BELIEVE what happened next. Find out why scanner manufacturers HATE this one weird technique!"

But yeah, I do agree it's a catchier headline than "Immersion Scanning".
Only as of Windows Vista, and how well supported are ICO-wrapped-PNGs in browsers?
Thank you. Please share what you build with us, and get in contact if you need any help.
That JSX element is a function call, not a class that has a render method.

If that <ExpensiveComponent /> was a `class ExpensiveComponent extends React.PureComponent { render() { ... } }` it would not be an issue because diff algorithm can step in.

I think people are just recognizing that all of this stuff can be optimized away by a proper compiler and this will soon be done.

Nothing stops anyone from figuring out the dependencies and doing proper rerenders without diffing algorithms running on every change.
I just wanted to say, that bag looks like a great handlebar bag, I love how it's acting like a base for other accessories so you don't have to overload your handlebar and you can switch everything between bikes with one move. I hope they manage to squash the fakes.
It's the administrator that enables or disables this feature, though. Laptops often come with some pretty advanced encryption hardware (the TPM) built in, and it's mostly useless silicon if you don't find a way to use it.

The kernel trusts the hardware it runs on to do what it's supposed to do, unless it has some good reason to apply security restrictions to a device.

_Real_ root turns on or off the hardware by configuring hibernation in lockdown or disabling it. Leave it disabled if you don't trust the TPM manufacturer, but I don't see a reason why not to use it to secure your operating system. Intel processors run a separate 486 CPU for scheduling reasons, there's so many potential security backdoors in the average laptop that I wouldn't worry about the TPM too much.

In the end, this is just another trick that Windows could already securely do for years that Linux only just learned. "Can I hibernate without compromising kernel security measures when Windows can" isn't a great question to have to answer with "no, because..." if you want to advocate Linux to businesses.
This seems to be a very similar problem to knock off haute couture.
A fuel tank doesn't release its energy all at once. Fuel by itself will not burn unless it's mixed with the right amount of oxygen, so in a fuel tank fire most of the fuel stays put and only the top layer (where it can aerosolize and mix with oxygen) combusts. You'd have to spread it over a huge area for it to burn all at once.

Batteries are similar. Battery fires progress slowly as each battery fails and overheats the one next to it and the cycle continues, so even though the fire from a single battery is scary, it's typically "safe" enough in the sense that it's not an explosion and you have some time to get away before more ignite.

A flywheel by comparison releases all its energy in the form of heavy chunks of metal flying at high speeds, and I don't see an easy way around that beyond just a containment vessel which could add so much weight as to make the whole system pointless.
I took a temporary break from leisure-time coding, in order to finish writing my book on drawing algorithmic art with Go: https://leanpub.com/generative-art-in-golang
Just saw this on twitter. Those shadows add such a feeling of depth it's quite striking.
You should at the least make a stub article for Dattner with a few sentences about who he was, and a few citations to the most important printed material you found about him. If you have time, you could write a more complete biography of a few paragraphs, again with citations to relevant literature. (And likewise for your other suggestions.)

There are many, many interesting people missing from Wikipedia. The only way they ever get added is if those who miss their absence do something about it.

Making a list of “stuff missing from Wikipedia” and hosting it at your own site is much less useful.
How is this different from an opening tree?
Why would you pack it like that with no delimiters? If you want something with only digits then use seconds since epoch.
I guess he was the first to come up with this radial heatsink design?

http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601

Stock Intel coolers do look like this today and have for a while.

I used to spend a lot of time thinking about heatsinks. It is all tower and heatpipe models today, though, e.g.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6830/cpu-air-cooler-roundup-si...

Originally popularized by the Scythe Ninja back in gosh, what, 2004 or so? It was a super effective design, main refinements over time have been more and more "slices" and direct contact heatpipes. Nobody afaik has beaten efficiency of the tower heatpipe design to date.
Wikipedia is causing controversy? Glad to hear it's still working.

On a more serious note, "Wikipedia is wrong" and "Wikipedia is doomed" really need to be separated. These clickbait headlines are getting excessively tiring, particularly if anyone is taking them at face value. A solid attempt at collecting the whole sum of human knowledge will obviously have issues given the nature of how we operate.

However, claiming some >current and developing< topic being misrepresented spells the doom of the best attempt at a concise and well-indexed source on human history, the development of our species, and the thoughts/ideals that our civilization stands on is a bit much.

Perspective, please.
FWIW aarondu appears to have posted an identical comment on three different bitcoin related hn threads.. and is associated with http://boomerangwallet.com. Not sure why this info not on his/her profile page.
I can't cite any off the top of my head, but more recent research has actually directly contradicted this. Being the oldest is definitely a benefit in athletics due to greater size and strength throughout school. And you're right that older kids have an advantage in early grades in academics as well. In later grades though, that advantage disappears, and in fact, reverses. (The hypothesis I've read is that the reversal is due to greater effort being required in early grades by younger children, resulting in better preparedness for later grades, when the innate advantage of slightly greater age becomes less significant.)
That would only be true if the finest component of information in "modern science" could not be represented in true/false/unknown. I know that back in the day folks working on cybernetics struggled with something kind of like this in neural networks, where they were stumped by nonsteady state output (they were hoping to represent everything in true/false). The solution was to just increase the layer of abstraction in representing the output, leaving enough room on lower layers to describe nonsteady state as another potential output state. Problem solved. If you've got an example demonstrating your concern, that would be helpful.
The toothpaste flavor is from sodium lauryl sulfate, and is completely gone if you use SLS-free toothpaste.
iirc, Python 3.4 saw a strong leap in performance largely related to unicode. Could be wrong but the earlier versions of Python 3 did suffer some slow down.
"So if you're Apple, where does the Mac fit in your product line these days, exactly?"

It worries me that everyone, everywhere has been asking for a retina MBA for about three years now, and it keeps not coming.

I'm suspicious that the "new MBA", whatever that is, will be the first step of a "mac" becoming an iDevice. It will be a "macbook" running iOS.

I hope I'm wrong.
I should be more clear: I am a fan of relays. I think everything should have them for convenience and peace of mind.

But at the same time, I'm not willing to dismiss a product just because it lacks an optional feature that would have made it more convenient for me. I'm not going to say something is poorly designed and not worth the cost if every other thing it is meant to do, it does well. I'm more concerned with the core features of the product than added niceties.

My only issues were the idea that this was something that wasn't standard fare (since it is, though the publicity related to this incident has caused quite a few manufacturers to switch to including relays on everything - which I'm perfectly okay with!) and that it is somehow damning to the product design on the whole.

If I buy a Lotus Elise, there's a lot of nice functionality that probably wouldn't cost much to implement that I could find on cheaper cars that I'll be missing out on - but those weren't things I was looking for when I purchased the Elise.
The other 99% of users are just going to quit and restart the application anyway (as we've been trained to do), so why not smoothly lead them down this path?

The fact that 99% of people want to be completely ignorant about the systems that their lives are centered around, and partially controlled by, does not mean they should be restricted from any opportunity to do otherwise. To answer your question,

so why show them to everyone else?

It gives the opportunity for someone to be curious and search for a solution, or at least mention the error to someone who can help. Even if they don't remember the message completely, telling someone "it couldn't foo the bar" even if they don't know what that means is far, far better than "something went wrong". We are told to be as detailed as possible when asking questions or writing bug reports, but these opaque error messages encourage the exact opposite.

This is from someone who has been asked to troubleshoot others' Apple laptops.
This quote is not originally from 1852; it's from Boston in 1769, where the colonists were complaining about the abuses of George III. It has nothing to do with the modern American legal system; the US does not have separate admiralty courts and all maritime cases fall under the jurisdiction of federal district courts.
I agree, there is hardly any need for OPs post.
Welcome to selection bias.

A lot of startups completely fail but that's not interesting, "<a startup you never heard of> has failed" won't get many clicks on TechCrunch.

People share stories about how they 'failed' (got great job offer afterwards, etc) and managed to come out with plenty of cash. But there are a lot of people who get burned. They simply don't make headlines, no one is interested in those stories except from small circles such as HN.

Startup is not a quick, and fail-proof way to get rich as mass media portrays it to the public.

Some people will end up seriously disappointed but real businesses will continue moving forward.
"Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't really out to get you."

I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder. It's much like being manic-depressive and schizophrenic at the same time. One of the schizophrenic symptoms is paranoia; if the paranoia gets bad enough, I have visual hallucinations as well.

Having all this surveillance going on, even to the extent I am assured they're not looking for me, makes my illness far worse.

It doesn't help to take more medicine.

I would be very interested to see a comparison of psychiatric hospitalization rates from before and after Snowden's disclosures. It's not hard to get such statistics but it would be some work to interpret them meaningfully.
I was investigating conference locations a few years back, and many people had suggested a local big chain hotel. It was a techish conference, so I inquired about the wifi capabilities. Their 'list rate' (which I was told I could try to negotiate with the regional office) was $25 per person per day. This was outside of whatever charge for "wifi in my hotel room" my guests would pay too.

I said "so.. for 150 people, for 2 days, you want me charge me $7500 just for wifi access whether people use it or not?"

"Yes sir, that's correct".

Yeah, I know, I know, bundle it in to the ticket price, etc, but.... just... there's a line you gotta draw somewhere, and that was it for me. They were off the list at that point.
10000 words in 36 chapters? 300 words per chapter seems a bit short, doesn't it? This comment is already more than twenty words long, so each chapter would be just one or two paragraphs.
Did you see the "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" adverts? Pretty scary:

http://imgur.com/oR4iFYs
Ever hear of the Kindle?
I find it humorous their solution is to block other people's wifi. How about you just provide wifi that doesn't suck? Stayed at a Hilton in Memphis that I think had 10gbit uplink. It was fast enough that I wouldn't have even considered tethering instead. In most hotels, you're lucky to see 1mbit worth of speed at less than 500ms latency. With a connection like that, it's literally highway robbery if they're allowed to block access points.

If I'm traveling for work and need to download an ISO overnight, and I'm unable to because they're blocking it, it should be criminal.
Its a good example of a disapointing April fools joke polluting a serious issue.

People believe it's a serious issue now which distracts from real issues.
Following on from that, what does the FSF even do now other than making cringe infographics and some weird animated series about proprietary software being supervillains?
Allow customer support at scale / efficiently
Aprox 10 minutes before dang sees this and deletes it
My only question is: can I choose my carrier? I’ll be damned if I’m forced to Sprint network!!! Oh, and another, what kind of plan I am getting, can I upgrade it and most importantly, is it paid for by taxes or will I receive the bills? Either way, I hope it’s tax deductible at least!
Ok I’m missing a key part of this: Why should I care about this recurring drama? Is the leadership of the FSF even important? I’ve gone my whole life without needing to follow board composition of the FSF.
PHP is a victim of a lack of core contributors and a reputation as a toxic environment if you get involved.

We think of Python as severely under resourced (2 FTE devs on the language IIRC?) but PHP has less. PHP's ethos means there's no FAANG sponsorship; companies like Jetbrains do sponsor core developers but the developer of the de facto debugger, unit testing framework and package manager/repository all fundraise for their own work. It's nice in the 00's-era hacker ethos, but for a language so widely used it's deeply under-resourced.

And that's one reason why the infrastructure is old and creaking.

As recently as 2020 there was pushback by php-internals' members to using GitHub because it wasn't open/their own infrastructure. This incident has been a catalyst for change, and there is much more change needed.
Also, won't the vaccine protection start expiring in June for those who got vaccinated in December 2020 and January 2021? Basically, you need to keep re-vaccinating around 7 million people on average every month and this is given the existing vaccine still protect you from the growing number of variants.
What about the more expensive ones? Do they have 5G? What about bitcoin mining? Can we mine bitcoin with any of the vaccines?
Maybe you've heard the expression, "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission"?

Being rigorous about permission-in-advance can result in an involved, costly process that often reaches dead-ends and unthinking default ass-covering "no"s.

On the other hand, being bold and then waiting for objections can achieve much more. And by the pragmatism of common-law, and the rough precedents of DMCA takedown procedures, it's plausibly legally defensible! Or at least in practice not too risky.

Most complainants don't want a legal battle, just a prompt fix-upon-request. And some may even be unofficially indifferent to non-profit reproduction, as long as they don't have to go on-record giving permission. In that way, they reserve the right to object at any arbitrary later date, without incurring any negotiation/legal overhead in the meantime.
"Why is this considered an amazing insight? If you could get an iphone on more than one carrier there might actually be something to discuss here."

A year ago I decided to embrace Android (as a user and as a developer), a principal reason being that it was obvious that the inertia that was going to grow behind it would be huge: The iPhone was so enormously successfully against a litany of foes, that it was obvious that those foes would have to converge on some sort of counter-attack, and Android was there at the right time and place, with the right openness, ability for customization and differentiation, and technology stack.

So I paid attention to the arguments that took place. To say they were completely the opposite of what you and others are now saying is not exaggerating.

Android was doomed, we were told, for any of countless reasons. The iPhone was secure in its pending world domination.

Now of course the argument has changed, over the past quarter absolutely doing a 180. Now it's just all so obvious, right, with so many makers and so many models and so many options against just one itsy bitsy little phone (you know....like Symbian and J2ME, or even the Blackberry, but...well...ignore those because they don't fit the narrative).

The new argument you're supposed to embrace is the "iPhone is for the elite, while Android is for the poor, what with their two for one discounts and low-end phones", while filling out and eagerly consuming self-selecting surveys that comfort that ridiculous notion.
(non-computer tech here) Critical points taken, but what about the value to the Cleveland Clinic's cardiology dept.? See article by Clinic's IT semantic web project staff at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ClevelandClin... Isn't that the utiility of a deductive reasoning engine - taking disparate data overwhelming to humans - and cranking through it as queried in human language terms? I'm just asking.
> She had repeated a Twitter comment urging nationalist protesters to smash Japan's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, adding the words "Charge, angry youth".

She's encouraging racially based violence... I'm all for free speech, but this really crosses the line.

The closest American analogy I can think of would be for someone to encourage the Ku Klux Klan to "string 'em up!" Seriously, I have Japanese friends that won't go to China any more out of fear, which is probably something the Chinese government doesn't want.

There's quite a lot of violence against Japanese businesses, and sometimes people, in China these days. And that's a bad thing. The Japanese did bad things in WWII, but the younger Japanese had nothing to do with it. Not to mention, in the interim other Chinese have done much, much worse things to their fellow countrymen than the Japanese ever did.

Edit: A year in a labor camp does seem excessive, but yeah, publicly encouraging violence and rioting against a specific nationality of people is not okay, and probably should be a crime of some sort, though probably with a lesser penalty.
Linux port: http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html

Has perl module and deb package
No, I divide my time on two fronts: quality time, when I'm fresh and full with energy, and rest time.

Hacker news is always part of the rest time, when I'm tired and lazy so no problem quitting.

On quality time focus and only interrupt it for resting.
Ah, Benford's Law. Hearing about it inspired me to do my master's thesis looking at the statistics of what actually enters an adder when you're running real life programs in terms of neighbor and auto-correlations for the various bits, instead of just assuming that they're all Bernoulli processes.
You claim economics does not use deep math, so I will list some examples otherwise. Then perhaps you can tell me some areas you consider deep math that you think are not used in economics and I'll try to find places they are.

Kantorovich and Koopmans (Nobel Econ) claimed Dantzig (a very pure mathematician, invented simplex algorithm) deserved to share their Nobel Prize for linear programming - they were using cutting edge mathematics, right?

Calculus of variations, optimal control, dynamic programming - used extensively and many areas extended for economic questions (Ramsey, Hotelling). Lots of new math invented for these uses.

Von Neumann introduced functional analytic methods and topology in order to prove his generalization of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem in order to prove existence of optimal equilibrium for his model of economic growth - that is a pure math result, and a nice one, developed for an economic problem. Any generalization of the current best generalization of Brouwer's fixed point theorem is a very nice result. VonNeumann did a lot of other math work for his economic interests.

Nash similarly.

Smale of Field medal fame used Baire category theory and Sard's lemma to establish a new method of obtaining general equilibria for economic questions. Do those count as deep?

Game theory has a host of methods from all over mathematics to prove new results, using new mathematical results derived solely to prove results in game theory. Grab a monograph and see if any of this is deep enough for you.

Econometrics uses all level of statistics to answer measurement questions. Again, the tools and new results are there.

I could go on, but now it's your turn. What math is deeper by your definition than all the pieces already used/needed/invented for current use in economics?
I don't have any specific knowledge of the community dynamics you're talking about, but I have opinions about these technologies, and can speculate:

Personally I find it harder and harder these days to justify writing code that doesn't have static types. Even for personal projects, if I'm writing more than 100 lines, I want editor checks and standardized documentation. Particularly when I'm not doing anything wildly novel, and particularly (but not exclusively) for larger projects.

It's not hard for me to imagine industry reaching a similar conclusion, especially when the novelty of most of the web apps being cranked out tends to be lower, and the scale tends to be larger.

And where industry goes, hobbyists tend to go so that they get to put relevant stuff on their resume (not to mention paid employees who release in-house tooling and libraries as open source).
This will definitely help make it easier for admissions to discriminate against Asian students.