jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I think it is lack of education.

I do not think you mean education as in formal education but rather people have not systematically thought about these things. And, I think people will never be educated enough on this topic. Inflation and Climate change in some sense are pretty much alike. Both are some serious market externalities as a consequence of which they do not benefit from market signals (the biggest teacher of them all).

For issues like this the biggest teacher is the market and not books. A lot of climate change deniers have invested in Tesla and Solar companies and a lot of climate change maniacs have purchased Bitcoins and oil stocks. Some of the biggest proponents of climate change hysteria own private jets and ocean front properties. A lot of people call this hypocrisy and assign motives of fraud to these people but I do not think so. When it comes to climate change the market signals are clear that we need to look for an alternatives to our current energy sources and these sources will be more popular while completely rejecting alarmist claims. One might argue that market signals are not correct. But that is irrelevant. The point is people react to market signals FAR FAR better than anything that gets pushed by intellectuals, even those intellectuals who share their own political biases.

Markets signals around bailouts or inflation are missing. As someone like Milton Friedman pointed out, there is simply nothing that an average American can do to prevent government from printing money. If nothing you do will have an impact people wont do anything. The market signals are missing because there is no competition where you can see what works and what does not.

Instead of taking strong ideological positions I think we should work on making market forces operate more freely in this space. Bitcoin is already challenging the dollar in this space. It is a David (USD) vs Goliath right now but at some point people will figure out that a constant inflation for USD would mean higher price for Bitcoin over time.

For bailouts I think we need ot come up with solution that is more market like. Perhaps increase of creating ad-hoc bailouts for large corporations, pass a clear law that describes the terms of bailout well in advance and provide different options to chose from for the corporations and then stick to it.

You will be surprised how quickly people will vote in favor of better bailout policies.
Are there good alternatives to Cloudflare when it comes to
DDOS protection? I’m interested in this especially in the perspective of avoiding censorship, either from activist hackers or companies like Cloudflare making arbitrary decisions on allowed and disallowed content.
Agreed. This story has moved beyond “politics” narrowly speaking. I’m suggesting that, by not discussing actual politics the people building the technologies enabling the the causes of today, it’s irresponsible.
I heard the argument that US used to more homogeneous ( which was reinforced by the media forcing the same values ). Now that the franchise increased with more groups trying to grab a slice, the values clashed. In other words, the people were always there, but were either not visible, ignored or marginalized.

I am willing to buy this argument.
All: I've turned off the flags because this is the sort of new phenomenon that the site guidelines explicitly allow for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Re the comments about flags: the messy tug-of-war that you're seeing between upvoting, flagging, and moderating is what always happens with this kind of story, so if you're drawing any significant conclusion about HN from this one case, it's probably exaggerated: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

While I have you: before commenting, make sure you're up to date on the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They've changed significantly in the last year. Here's the kind of discussion we want: thoughtful, curious, substantive. Here's the kind we don't want: snarky, reflexive, attacking. Make sure you can follow the core rule—"Be kind."—and its corollary, which hasn't yet made it into the doc: "If you're hot under the collar, please cool down before posting." That's in your interest for two reasons: your views will be better represented, and you'll help to preserve the all-too-fragile commons that we all depend on.

(Also, for those who haven't seen any of my annoying mentions of this yet, large threads on HN are currently paginated for performance reasons, which means you need to click More at the bottom of the thread to get to the rest of the comments—or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661474&p=2

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Interesting response to a constraint on proper working that's not present in any other form of software engineering.

How different is botnet software engineering from other types of software engineering? I mean, that Perl program that IRC botnets are made of gets constantly reworked in-the-wild, as does the WSO web shell. But there's virtually no barrier to entry into those fields of software engineering. Large botnets are another matter - they have to be built up and maintained, and there's clearly an arms race with between the botnet people and security vendors.
I completely agree. When Twitter acts like this, it leaves money on the table for competition. You don't need to give the government more power. The rich will just hook into that power.

Imo, the real story is Parler getting banned just as it was poised to become competition.
I can't seem to grasp this, Notion also has notion.com registered, and it resolves perfectly, but is 302 redirecting to notion.so

Why? Was no one from Notion around during the 2010 takedowns of .ly domains?
All factored into the calculation. Look at the link, before mocking (again).
> There is more to weight gain than lack of willpower.

Is there? The study you quoted suggests the opposite. The drug doesn't directly cause fat to melt off. The fat is lost by eating less. Why is the control group eating more? lack of....
Shared bookmarks are most important to me so I use Pinboard.in and GetPocket on each computer. For documents I use MicroSoft OneCloud or whatever its called today. And lastly, my fav, is I have a SanDisc SD Plus Ultra II that lays very flat in my wallet yet opens to a USB. Love it.
The most interesting part to me is whether or not
such claim is related to the Software - so any patent suit against any software, product or
service of Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates terminates patent license to this software... seems like they went for the nuclear defense!
I appreciate you saying this because meaningful work doesn't need to be highly visible but I dislike your cynicism. It isn't difficult to imagine why a designer would want their work to be seen by the largest possible audience and to suggest it must just be the money is pretty cynical.
Samsung does. If it has not surpassed it at certain periods in time, it's not far behind. Either way - its a huge market. There is no technical problem creating docks for Android devices / micro usb. But for some reason there aren't any I've seen.
Not sure what you are referring to as third party, the full-screen API is a web standard.
With the norm nowadays using JS frameworks on the front-end I would expect more and more search engines to use things like PhantomJS to "scrape" the page. If you decide to reject traffic like this isn't there a good chance your SEO will fall?
That wasn’t true for me personally. I personally lost weight almost with mechanical precision. About a 7500 calorie deficit resulted indeed in 1 lost kg. That’s with about half the deficit coming from exercise and the other half coming from cutting calories and is using all the bog-standard formulas for roughly estimating my base metabolism. I was astonished by the mechanical precision of those number, really astonished. I didn’t expect that at all.

However, this has many moving parts and cheating (mostly by consuming more calories) is ridiculously easy. My guess would be that that’s the effect many people see when they don’t succeed. All of this is really hard and I was lucky to be in an extremely privileged position where I could devote lots of my attention to this task. Not many people are so lucky. Motivation obviously plays a crucial role and I absolutely do believe that it is central to successfully losing weight. The mechanics are simple and do indeed work like clockwork. But that doesn’t mean you can make them work like clockwork for yourself …

So, yeah, the body may be astonishingly mechanical when you execute everything perfectly, but motivation is the crucial second parts that allows you to execute everything correctly. And it may well be that to keep motivated it helps to be active or to eat certain thing. (I, for example, know that eating pasta with tomato sauce – formerly my absolute favourite food – will keep me hungry for longer. Meanwhile the same amount of calories from some salad with a vinaigrette and grilled chicken breast will keep me feeling full for longer.)
I didn't realize that the current overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming is based on "seems like a couple years recently have been pretty hot.". If thats not the case, does that count as a strawman in something you wrote?
The only downside is someone could break into your house and steal all the cash, but of course that would never happen.
The English word "cookie" is derived from Dutch "koekie".

If some Dutch people bring back Oreos as souvenirs from the US and call them "cookies" instead of "koekjes", are they adopting a cringeworthy faux-American accent? Making fun of how English butchers their language? Or just calling them the way Americans do, without any further judgement?
Everybody is trying to sell.. This always happens during a crash.. Its crashing, but you cant get your money out. The bullish people who went into bitcoin forgot the fact that the exchanges are not "Bitcoin decentralized technology" They are just plain old centralized servers that will go down.

If bitcoin prices drops, you're stuck.
Looks interesting. Like that it is based in RWC. THX!
Oh no , there goes my chance for a limited Edition 45 MAGA hat and scarf :(.
"The famous paper Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data (2011) by Dale and Krueger raises the possibility that on average, attending a more selective college doesn’t raise earnings at all. They found that as a group, there was no statistically significant difference in income later in life between students who went to more selective colleges and students who went to less selective colleges. Their finding is somewhat robust: it’s based on a large (~10k) sample size, it’s true both of the class of 1976 and the class of 1989, it’s true of the class of 1976 from age 25 through age 50 and it’s true both of men and of women."

http://cognitomentoring.org/blog/how-much-does-where-you-go-...
It's been quite some time, but every landlord I had which required a check only required having the physical check in-hand by the 1st (or more commonly by the 5th if it was being mailed).

If you're bouncing rent checks because it took too long to clear, you have other issues and immediate withdrawal isn't going to save you anyway.

Besides, if you're cutting checks of the same amount every month, you can setup BillPay (free at most/all? banks) and let your bank handle writing/mailing the check on time.
Thank you for your comment. I feel the same way about food and I'm rather shocked at the response you get.

And I didn't eat fast food as a kid myself, and that didn't make it attractive to me. Although we went to McDonalds every wednesday after going to the library to get a fresh orange juice.
Well in the police brutality protests, there were days and days of protest, escalating, with lots of bad feeling on both sides.

And, let's be frank here: people were protesting the police, and the police took it personally. They felt threatened.
OFAC which manages US sanctions maintains a list of addresses that any entity complying with US regulations needs to block e.g. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

Most exchanges also use a service like Chainalysis to help identify which addresses need to be blocked or are high risk and need additional due diligence.
"I could be wrong, but it sounds to me like you may not have the base of knowledge necessary to accurately evaluate Poul's writing."

Touché. I'm not Knuth or anything, but I try.

"Pages are 4KB on most systems; I don't know where you're getting your 8MB number from."

When I said "a heap big enough to require multiple pages", I actually meant it. Hence, I was referring to the size of the heap he used for his test: 8MB (1M records, 512 elements per page, 1954 pages allocated in memory).

I may not be brilliant, but to compensate for my lack of intellectual horsepower, I tried to read the article closely.

"If you kept the whole heap resident in memory, that'd just mean that other pages which you probably need more frequently than once per minute would be paged out to disk instead....pages you need more, that would stay in memory if you allowed the OS to page out your heap, end up being paged out instead."

Indeed. If you fixed your 8MB heap in memory, you would lose that 8MB of pages for other uses. I guess it's a trade-off then...is it better to use 8MB of RAM on a system with gigabytes of main memory, or to re-write fundamental data structures for worst-case timing of operations that occur once per minute? It's certainly a conundrum....
… rest of world rejects PhD grad.
Thanks for the inspiration :-)
I hope my master's project is something interesting like this.

However, my first thought upon reading the title of the link was about the comments that were going to appear here: either "lisp already does this" or "this will never be accepted as a mainstream language because it's too chaotic to the project."

Section 4.2.3 answered the question I was searching for: what happens in this hybrid model when an "interior" language fails to parse? It's all fun and games to strap on a new mini langage to your source file, but it's less fun and games when you misplace a paren. I wondered if the entire block threw a parse exception or if the whole file failed to load. It appears based on the skim-read that it's the later.

p.s. why is "270 version control commits" an achievement?
As mentioned, Python or Ruby/Rails are your best bets; if you wanted to do something a bit more unusual, you might consider a functional language like Haskell (as functional languages are an up-and-coming development paradigm)...

Check out Real World Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
I can still see other users' average score in their profiles. That feature was added at the same time as average score in the corner. If your hypothesis is correct, wouldn't they both go away?
Some observations:

* I checked one of the sites they blocked at random, and they're using Google Analytics to track views. GA can be used to track a hell of a lot of things, as I'm sure every reader of this site knows, including location of views. They're also using Pikwik analytics. <speculation>Pikwik is OSS, so they could have modified the code to do some thing GA doesn't.</speculation>

* Torrent-Finder.com had about 1.7million page views a day[0], so I suppose it seemed like a good target. However, many of the other sites blocked don't even register. In fact, they all seem like those extremely shady sites that very few people would ever actually visit. Torrent-Finder.com seems to have been the only properly popular site on the list (onsmash.com has rather high pageviews also, ~610,000 pv/d) <speculation>My question is why the hell did they hit torrent-finder.com when virtually every other site on the list probably couldn't have kicked up a media storm?</speculation>

* Every site is now hosted in Charlotte, North Carolina. DHS ICE seem to have some sort of facility there, but I've not been able to find much info on it at all. <speculation>Torrent-finder.com seems to have been hosted in Egypt beforehand. Does this affect the legality at all?</speculation>

* The two (as far I as i saw) most popular sites, onsmash.com and torrent-finder.com, had their traffic peaks during the second half of 2009[1]. Furthermore, the majority of traffic for Torrent-Finder.com was well outside the USA - eastern Europe, mostly[2].

* The sites that have been seized seem to mostly have been sites to buy knockoffs of designer clothing/accessories/what have you. Not as many seemed to be file-sharing websites.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=torrent-finder.com
[1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=torrent-finder.com%2C+onsmash...
[2] http://www.google.com/trends?q=torrent-finder.com&ctab=0...

<hyperbole><opinion>To me, it seems the only real answer is to use alternate DNS roots. This one's been compromised.</opinion></hyperbole>
MacFUSE exists, and sshfs is usually the 'flagship' file system for FUSE, so I would gamble that it exists. It's off-topic, but a few years ago I remember someone creating a bunch of nifty file system plugins to MacFUSE to do things like create a file system that represented the open applications and/or windows on OSX. They seemed to be mostly tech demos, but I found it interesting.
> Except the food which, on the whole, just isn't healthy.

Care to elaborate? Assuming the Walmart has their standard grocery section they will sell fresh fruits/vegetables, meat, dairy, eggs, grains and the like. It may not be the highest quality but it won't kill you.
And how well does it work with languages full of diacritics?
Come now, for years devs have criticized Apple for not having a proper first-party beta-testing solution. Now what might be their step into addressing that developer cry is being used against them in the typical Apple-controls-everything-FUD?

(I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, sadly...)
(And, lets alt-history a bit here: had they rolled their own solution they would have been criticized for "sherlocking yet another indy product")
Jumping into the middle of this, while you're clearly up on your science and math, you're arguing against a straw man of your own making. No one is arguing that there's a defined testable method of consistently beating the market. They're arguing that what traders do is consistently find temporary inefficiencies in the market and arb them away and then move on looking for an advantage somewhere else. So no that doesn't mean believing profit can be consistently had means the market can be drained of equity. And obviously any published strategy will quickly stop working, this is well known and accepted by pretty much everyone.

The argument you need to address is whether it's possible for a person to consistently find new opportunities to arbitrage some inefficiency out of the market without relying on arguments that assume there's only one method and that it always works.
In the name of fairness, we should be sure to allow China to seize domains it finds politically objectionable, and Saudi Arabia to seize domains it finds morally objectionable.
FWIW, this is exactly the model that Penumbra adopts. I'm curious to see how this scales with more complex games. I think there's a lot of awesome research / experimentation /documentation to be done here.
I have been reading through this awesome book series called You Don't Know JS (youdontknowjs.com), and it's helped me SO MUCH to understand JS at the next level.

I had the immense pleasure of taking a workshop with Kyle Simpson, the author, at a conference last year and it covered much of the material from his books. In particular I found the book on 'this' and object prototypes to be fantastic.
We are so far from being able to do any such thing that I take issue with the phrase "working towards creating".
Net gain for humanity
class Window(object):
def __init__(self, minimum, maximum):
self.min_func = min
self.max_func = max
self.tuple_type = tuple
self.minimum = minimum
self.maximum = maximum
self.minimum, self.maximum = self.tuple_type([self.min_func(*self.tuple_type([self.minimum, self.maximum])), self.max_func(*self.tuple_type([self.minimum, self.maximum]))])

def __call__(self, x):
self.x = x
result = self.minimum <= self.x <= self.maximum
del self.x
return result
Nice work although I'd expect at least "cd home; mkdir test" to work in the terminal before claiming to have ported "all of unix" :)

Edit: just noticed it does work in /tmp though! Difficult to know as "ls -l" doesn't print any perms... a little more porting work may be required I think ;)
Yes, that was an absolute fiasco, but it's more of a problem with Head-Fi banning anyone who criticizes their sponsors because they make their money off of nurturing massive audiophile cargo cults.

Schiit products are battle-tested, high quality and high-value. You can tell the company is run by people who care about what they do.
How did it get value to begin with? Can you explain that mechanism? Someone had to be the first to put their money into it.

All fiat currencies are driven by the speculation that someone may want to trade with you in the future. They are useless 'pieces of paper'

You seem to think promotion has stopped because it hit $1000? Such an arbitrary figure. It could be much higher if it was adopted further.
Why do you insist on reverse engineering the meaning of words, when you can just look up the source code in the dictionary?
This is why more people need to learn about and use steganography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Properly used, good steganographic software will hide your use of encryption. Ideally, your communication stream will seem perfectly innocuous to all observers.

Of course, in real life nothing is perfect. So there's always a chance your use of encryption will be detected. But using steganography properly should still reduce that chance to well below that of obviously encrypted systems like TOR, Freenet, etc.

Also, just as importantly, the more people use steganography, the greater the cost of widespread monitoring will become.

As pointed out in other replies in this thread, when you use regular encryption or systems like TOR, you're effectively raising a big red flag for anyone who cares to monitor your communication. So detection is really easy.

But if you use steganography, the snoopers will have to work much harder to even stand a chance of detecting that there's anything unusual about your communication. Multiply this by thousands or millions of people using steganography (especially if it's embedded in huge data transfers, like video streams) and the resource drain for effective, widespread monitoring could become unsustainable.

Right now the snoopers can go after the low-hanging fruit of obviously encrypted communications, and then maybe use rubber hose cryptanalysis to decrypt it, or simply block it. Steganography has the potential change the game drastically.

Here's some steganographic software for you:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=steganography&section=pro...

http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html

http://www.cotse.com/tools/stega.htm
In ruby, #2 is as simple as

num = 42

def num.to_whatever
"whatever"
end

num.to_whatever # => 42
41.to_whatever # => NoMethodError

I agree with my sibling, though. It might be better that this is harder in Python. It's a bad idea, generally.
Wasting e-mail scammers' time is a hobby for many: http://www.419eater.com/
Looking only at the functionality and completely ignoring the design is superficial.

Animations are a core part of the design

Don't stop with just technology, though. Even more powerful: culture and community.
I don't think any stretch of the imagination would say it's unique. Good design choice, but exists many places.