jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
10,000 just gets Lego to review it. They don't have to approve it.
I don't get it.

Full end-to-end encryption means you can validate the identity of the sender. Once you can do that blacklisting bad actors or whitelisting known-good actors is trivial.

Even hijacking accounts in this model for the purpose of sending spam doesn't work unless you can also gain access to the private key, which itself would be non-trivial. Encrypt that private key with a strong passphrase and you're in even better shape.

What am I missing?
Really? You don't think they'd want to be able to show their friends?

Mobile might be an artificial use case or a premature optimization, but it is solved with his choice of JS.
Some people can manage being under a lot of stress. Some people can't. It sucks that you can't take preventative measures--such as eliminating the stressful environment indefinitely--if you suspect serious psychological harm.
To clarify, the CHF spiked in value. People who lost had bet against it.
I could certainly be wrong, but I'm not aware of any requirement to always use insurance. However, if you pay for treatment out of pocket wouldn't you still need to involve your insurance company somehow in order for your payment to be counted towards your deductible?
Can a city with a 12am last train and a 1:30am last call really claim to have a "good night life"?
Similarly, I'm surprised that I haven't heard about much overlap between 2nd Amendment groups and those concerned about NSA surveillance. What's the use is your stockpile of assault rifles if all your communications are tapped?
You should look up "regulatory capture" it means something very different than how you are taking it.

Just so it's not a low-content post, a company can lobby the government to change, weaken or not enforce existing regulations, and often they compound this with bribery of the regulator. Many large companies in the United States go further and lobby to extend or re-word regulations specifically to give themselves a monopoly over the regulated market. All of these actions are forms of regulatory capture.

Other examples of it: the present state of the us patent and copyright system, especially if you include enforceable work-for-hire clauses and the language in various treaties referring to copyrights. Elon Musk's difficulties selling his electric cars online in Texas and other states are due to regulatory capture by car dealerships in that state. In general, most government-backed monopolies or "public-private partnerships" can safely be expected to involve a significant amount of regulatory capture.

Still though you should look it up because both the term and the actual process are really useful at figuring out the hows-and-whys of US government domestic actions.
I had a difficult time swallowing this article. Then I realized that, because my wine budget caps at $20/bottle, I am living in a very different world.

Hopefully nobody will try to tell me a $5 bottle tastes worse than a $20 bottle purely because of the price- otherwise, my taste buds must be seriously screwed up.
The most valueable assets are its data and brand. I would be suprised if there weren't already similar open source services.
In a semi-related vein, let me reference my own Ask HN from last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975950

My claim was that HN should bake in a "dup" button that let users flag duplicate posts, not with the goal of removing dups, but with the goal of cross-referencing them (and possibly sharing karma or some other idea). I won't recap the whole thing here, but I find DupDetector an interesting complement to those ideas.
When folksonmies were the current hotness Clay Shirkey made a great point about things that seem similar but aren't.

"Synonym control is not as wonderful as is often supposed, because synonyms often aren’t. Even closely related terms like movies, films, flicks, and cinema cannot be trivally collapsed into a single word without loss of meaning, and of social context. (You’d rather have a Drain-O® colonic than spend an evening with people who care about cinema.) So the question of controlled vocabularies has a lot to do with the value gained vs. lost in such a collapse. I am predicting that, as with the earlier arc of knowledge management, the question of meaningful markup is going to move away from canonical and a priori to contextual and a posteriori value."

http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/08/25/folksonomy.php

I think this can apply to anything where similarity can seem like a problem.

Just because items seem simliar doesn't take into account the context in which said items are used.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008262
The very fact that links are appearing on the front page means that a lot of people haven't seen them yet. It means that they got some utility out of reading them, and it means that they thought others would too.

Assuming the theory works. People may upvote for a number of reasons, not necessarily because they received value from the link. There remains a lot of work to do in the unexplored space of social, user-powered spaces like Reddit and HN. In theory, the upvote/downvote method maximizes utility of the site users, because those who received value from the article upvoted. Unfortunately, what maximizes utility for one set of users isn't the same for others, which is why we can have such a diversity of sites like HN, Reddit, and Digg.

HN has established itself as a high quality, technically and entrepreneurially oriented site, which is why we don't see the same content as say, reddit.com/r/funny. Defending this position by submitting and upvoting high quality links is critical to maintaining the caliber of HN. This is part of why I don't like seeing resubmitted or duplicate content. Duplicate content (even if very high quality) still takes up a valuable front page location. If enough of the community received new value from the piece (ie. haven't seen it before), then they can upvote it and the article can stay. On the other hand, if you upvote something you've already seen for the benefit of others, you aren't necessarily helping them out. Instead, you are tampering with the ranking algorithm.

If enough new users see an old article and upvote it, then the utility for the aggregate user is maximized, and I am happy with duplicate content when this happens, even if I'm not receiving any value.

Still, there is the problem of users new and old not seeing or knowing about these great quality articles from years ago. Inevitably someone will see an old repost and say "I didn't see this the first time around. I'm glad it was reposted." However, I think using a site like HN to get these old articles new life is using the wrong tool to solve the problem.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014089
Awesome.

Some suggestions from film student:

- Obey the rule of thirds.

- Rather than using a blur filter, use a nice lens.

- With talking heads, don't have people moving around in the background.

- Spend a little bit more time working on the lighting.

Other than that, I wish more startups would produce things like this :)
Is there also a button with which you can order the batteries to put in all the buttons? Do they also provide the service of replacing all the batteries for you?
> I think it's ridiculous

Amazon have had a few "ridiculous" ideas (e.g. drone delivery, 1 hour delivery, pre-emptive shipping). I think they know these ideas are a stretch but it gets people thinking in a new way and out of it there may be a few more solid ideas. Product marketing by annealing if you will.
Fwiw we have remote debugging to any OS, so you can remote debug your app regardless of whether or not it's running on azure. We are striving to streamline this experience as much as possible, so any feedback or ideas you have on how to mitigate some of windows issues you've run into would be super helpful. :-)
The problem right now is persistent connections on iOS. You need to use push messages instead, which requires a plugin on the jabber server and a matching client.

Not something you can expect all your friends to set up.
That was my suspicion as well: there could be a very usable and rich subset of Racket that could target JS without significant performance degradation. Sidestepping the deeper darker corners like I think ClojureScript does with Clojure? Herculean effort already it becomes even more daunting when you start picking up features to drop only to discover just how much of Racket depends on say delimeted control machinery. After all Racketeers have been eating their dog food so most if not all their PL research found its way into the design. Bitten by their own success :) The manifesto takes admirably healthy stance here: problems offer opportunity for research. Alas, when u consider the time it takes to build smth like Pyret or Whalesong your pool of researchers and implementers narrows pretty much to academia. Unless of course there's some benefactor who's willing to assume the expense and allow the time
A Forth system. I wrote one for my Raspberry Pi and really enjoy it.
A remote attacker is only able to measure total predetermined latency T = t_work + t_sleep. (Actually, he will measure T + t_noise [network, etc.]).

By what means can he determine which percentage of T+t_noise was spent in actual work?
"If we are hiring for single spots, we need experienced developers."

That's why you don't see openings for entry level positions.
I've hired two people out of Hack Reactor and they were both awesome. Much better than most of the newgrads I've hired out of CS programs. I was quite wary at first, but after being very impressed in interviews, they won me over.

The caveat is you have to be very selective in interviewing. Hand out small take-home test projects, and look for guys that not only do a good job, but go above and beyond. Most of the tech bootcamps guys are mediocre, but there's always a few standouts.
But if you were in the same large scale hiring situation again and can bring on junior devs, would you do it again?
How did you go about marketing this? Did you have contacts at financial institutions or they just happened to stumble upon it?
> 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.

This is what I expected, actually. At night you know that nothing is going to happen, nobody is going to call, and nobody is waiting for you to do anything, because they are sleeping. I wonder if this connection between anxiety and sleep patterns has been explored; not the usual "anxiety keeps you up at night", where you're lying in bed worrying, but "anxiety makes you want to stay up at night", where you're staying up and finally relaxing.
Where are you located? Do you want to work remote or locally?
One important thing to dispel about open source is the idea that good contributions are about galaxy-brain level PRs. Contributions can happen at all level, from non-technical to technical, from reporting issues to opening PRs to solve them. And when it comes to PRs, the gamut is large: writing documentation, adding test coverage, suggesting micro-fixes or refactors are all good and valuable ways to contribute.

As you contribute more to a given project, you become more acquainted with the lay of the land, which in turn opens up more opportunities to contribute to open problems.

Long story short: contributions don't have to be complex and deeply technical to be valuable, and you gotta start somewhere. Pick a project you're interested in or look for issues needing attention (for example, via `Good First Issue` labels on Github), try something out and have a chat with more active maintainers. They'll show you the ropes and get you started!
They do do that: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-dow...

It's just way, way late to the party, so most guests left :(
> Lastly is the ideology of fiscal conservatism in the United States. Anti-tax politicians (usually Republicans) argue that automatic filing would make it easier for future governments to raise taxes, since people would not have to calculate themselves how much they're paying in federal tax.

I kind of understand this, but kind of don't. I live in one of the countries where tax forms are pre-filled and you only make corrections for whatever wasn't already known to the tax authority. I don't really need to actively file everything (only deductions etc. that weren't pre-filled), or in the simplest cases anything, but I still definitely know the number under the line.

I'd understand it better if automatic filing meant that the total is somehow less clear to you, but it doesn't.
How is the inherently bad? With most people having phones as powerful as computers, there aren't any technical limitations to this.
Yeah, and I was a paper multimillionaire around the time of the first dot-com boom. We'll see how it shakes out when the music stops.
> trying to build a connection

The comparison to podcasts is to be "the thing that you listen to while doing something else".
I assume the cheapest way is to burn methane...
I find Reddit more engaging than Clubhouse.
Does not work outside GNUland.
The other day it was Tyler cowen promoting it. Feels like a paid campaign to me. It'slike Quora, but with audio?

https://www.bloombergquint.com/amp/gadfly/clubhouse-success-...
it's more interesting it does not include build/ which in 99% of the cases is something you wan to ignore.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a server-side implementation of the same concept? I've been looking for a good one.
Many text books have accompanying material for instructors, including, sometimes, exam questions. The publishers will absolutely not make it available to anyone except instructors.

This is from the MIT press website, for example:

"Instructors with access to the manual must agree not to share the manual’s password, to make any of the solutions publicly accessible, on the Web or otherwise, or to make any of their own solutions publicly available."

If a student has access to that material, someone violated that agreement, and the student is in possession of an illegal copy.
I'm sorry, but your ignorance of actual criminal case outcomes shows here; in almost every conceivable situation, juries return a verdict more favourable to the defendant than judges do. Requesting a jury trial is rule #0 of any criminal defense attorney's playbook.

Even a little http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification is not unheard of.
in all the universities I've seen in italy you always have access to the previous written exam tests for preparation.
For the oral part, when teachers have repetitive behavior, I've often see people collect datasets and use them for studying.

But the case seem different: the teacher in question actually took the tests from a given set and this set was known in advance.
This is silly of the teacher, not of the students.
The .mp4 are files downloaded from ted.com mostly; I also have m4v files I encoded myself with Handbrake. Just for info...
but tightly-packed communal living is a solution to high rent. Share a bedroom between 8 people. Add office space, kitchen, bathroom, and you've got your entire startup packed into one 2-room apartment.
First of all both Common Lisp and Scheme are excellent languages with impressive implementations to choose between.
Furthermore if you learn one of them, you'll be able to learn the other one in no time.

Instead of comparing languages, I'd suggest you pick between implementations. This suggestion might seem odd, but the Scheme standard (R*RS) is very minimal, which imply that all major Scheme implementations contain many, many libraries and language construct not mentioned in the standard.

I my self is a Racket user, which of course makes my view biased. Here are some of the reasons Racket is the perfect choice for me:

- programs runs on Windows, OS X and Linux
with no source changes

- the installation is pain free

- the documentation of the language and libraries
are in a league of its own
(http://docs.racket-lang.org/)
[that said, the Common Lisp spec is also very good]

- the language is clean with a very good module system
that supports macros the right way (IMO)

- the community is very helpful (ask if there is a
library/construct/feature you can't find
--- odds are you the wrong place)
This thread is about replacing WordPress with a static site generator, so far we've added a dynamic application with a GUI for site editing, WYSIWYG HTML for site content and layout adjustment. My guess is the next addition will be a form or comment input that requires making the front-end dynamic as well with solid caching as a stopgap. At some point further down the line someone will realize why each "complicated" piece is in WordPress.
This is a bad analogy. Coding is closer to writing a book than building a house. The faster you start hacking prototypes the better. As long as you are ready to throw virtually all of it away. Most of you assumptions during planning are wrong anyway so there is little point in planning too much.

The worst thing that happened to coding is business culture with design docs, architecture docs, whatever docs all coming before a prototype is written. This is how you end up with "enterprise grade" garbage.

The best way to create a good code base is to write it inside out a few times over. Documents ain't gonna help you.
> (4) our models of the human immune response suggest delayed vaccination helps more.

Do you have a source for this, I would love to read more on this and understand why this would be?
> The bandwidth of fiber is astronomical.

The bandwidth of a multi mode line is high. The bandwidth of the modems, switches, routers and data centers is much more finite.

You don’t really seem to understand the concurrency of transmissions, redundancy, and how much copper there still is. ISPs are adding fiber all the time.
> somebody not familiar with how research publishing

Yeah and not able to use google about his own work.. The debate is pretty clearly explained everywhere.

That said I have, more controversially, the same opinion about movie piracy. In general don't understand how you can feel good defending Goliath vs David. (The cinema industry never earnt so much money so far, at least pre-covid).
"EU will install a "Great Firewall" to block all the American tech"

That's just censorship with extra steps
Did you read the list? From what i got, it was NYTime > Wapo = FoxNews > random Tabloids, do you have an issue with this?

Do you think in general, Fox News is more reliable than the New York Times (when one is a televised source with article covering their shows, and the other a newspaper with limited editorial content)? In fact, in a nutshell, would you trust a random editorial on science and technology from the NYT or a random editorial on science and technology from Fox News?

I know i trust the scientific doing vulgarization work for the NYT more than scientific ones factchecking the "science" on Fox News, but this is just because i don't know who Fox News hired for this, do you have information on him?

By the way, the man writing science articles for France NYT equivalent (le Monde) is really biased and i don't trust any of his article by principle, so its no a "mainstream media good!" position, i just read articles, compare what i know for sure and the articles, and if its more wrong than right, I throw the man and whatever he ever wrote after that in field i don't really get (so not physics and not compsi). I can't do that for Fox News (its not often signed sadly, and its often shitty pseudoscience). If you have a method that tells you that Fox News is factually better than the NYT (and not an arbitrary one), could you share this method?
The High Court has ruled it is unconstitutional[0]. It cannot simply be overruled by an act of parliament.

[0]Edit: There seem to be objections to my use of the term "unconstitutional." They have ruled it as against common law:

“The aversion to general warrants is one of the basic principles on which the law of the United Kingdom is founded. As such, it may not be overridden by statute unless the wording of the statute makes clear that Parliament intended to do so.”

These sort of "basic principles" are often referred to as the British constitution or constitutional principles, so I believe my choice of term is correct even if there is no single written document called the "constitution." As to the question of whether parliament can overrule it, perhaps, technically, yes, but I find it very difficult to come up with a scenario that would successfully meet the objections in the ruling.
Get a letter sent from an established Mountain View-based law firm, i.e. one that would be known to Google's legal department. It'll cost you some bucks but it beats going out of business.
Amusing to see "even PHP" in there, as the author of the static analysis tool that makes that possible.
He knows what he knows.
Ditto. The fact it does and continues to harass for access is deeply disturbing
Related, gF will also scroll down to the line number if specified as:
File.txt:45

Very handy when using a terminal from within vim and looking at compiler errors/warnings or log files etc.
Author here:

murex pre-dates Rust 1.0 and by the time Rust was stable there was already considerable code committed to murex. I have toyed with the idea of rewriting in Rust but every time I weigh up the pros and cons it becomes obvious the rewrite is just an academic exercise rather than a worthwhile venture (why rewrite something that already works?)

The advantage of Go over C++ is that you get memory safety and cross compilation out of the box. Plus Go is a much faster language (for me -- YMMV) to prototype in; which matters when I have a day job and two young kids :D
Maybe not automation, but it is reasonable to tax the externality, which is disruption. Taxing the speed of change of number of employees commensurate to the difficulty those employees have in finding new employment. Then pump the proceeds of that tax into unemployment benefits and training.

Tough to implement.
Sure there are lazy cops, but it's more of a risk/reward analysis. There's such a small chance of recovering the laptop, and since no violence involved, it's not worth the effort when the loss is relatively small, and there are crimes of greater consequence to respond to and resolve.
Great article!

I write a ton of statistical reporting code at work. We don't deal with the kind of rare cases that the author points out can cause high degrees of imprecision, but it's useful to know. The speedup alone makes changing my implementation worth it.
I wonder if this is an area where drone aircraft would be useful?
> then I'd take the second guy.

Based only on the comment? I'd want something to demonstrate he was who he said he was. Something to back up his claim. Everyone became a drilling engineer overnight with the BP disaster, it seems.

RandomDood123 doesn't have to change his name, either. But something that relates back to who he is. I do check a person's comments for HN, and I generally try to find out who a person is before responding, or taking their advice. If RandomDood123 ran an iPhone App startup, then his advice in that arena would be worth considering.

> Would that make you more likely to take his word over pg's?

It really depends on the subject. If I didn't know RandomDood, then yes. If, however, RandomDood had a blog, and some other information that lead me to believe he was in a specific industry, I'd be more likely to listen to what he has to say.
Like gjm, I'd also like to know what makes you think this.
Whoa I just ate one. Shouldn't I be getting super powers soon?