jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's no real explanation of why they landed and abandoned the balloon, which seemed to be in good working order at the time and was moving them well, if not exactly in the direction of the pole.

The article says simply, "Early on the morning of the fourteenth, the fog thickened and the car began to hit the ice again. Then the balloon rose 'to a great height,' Andrée wrote. They released some of the gas to lower themselves, then, a little after eight, apparently resigned to disappointment, they landed and 'jumped out of the balloon . . . worn out and famished.' They had been aloft for sixty-five hours and thirty-three minutes, had travelled five hundred and seventeen miles, and were about three hundred miles north of where they had started; that is, about three hundred miles south of the Pole."

So the balloon was still fully functional, and the rest of the account makes clear they had plenty of provisions left (and after all had only been in the air for a few days) so why did they embark on their perilous and ultimately deadly journey across the ice?
Just sent you one.
The one thing that I've hated about Chrome is now fixed. I never have a reason to go back to Firefox now. See ya, Mozilla!
It would actually be interesting to have a browser plug-in that shows you if a page you are on is excluded in the robots.txt file or which agents are specifically excluded/allowed to scan the page. Might make for some interesting viewing on sites like Facebook.
Wait 24-48 hours for 3.0.1 (and then another few days for 3.0.2)

I'm not being funny, it happens with nearly every WP release because they do everything last minute.
Technically, I don't think "log in" is a compound verb. It's a verb followed by a preposition.
I'm actually working in Morrisville during the day these days, so I'd be down with either M'ville or Brier Creek. I actually know a spot that might make a good venue, that's in M'ville not far from my office. I'll give them a call and see if it's suitable, and maybe try to line something up.
It simply is.
MySpace. They were ColdFusion but moved to Asp.Net for performance. They were running blue dragon as a hybrid for a while...not sure if they still are.
Having a different interpretation does not mean the other person didn't read the same thing or as thoroughly as you did. That shows great arrogance.
Fellow Grand Rapidian here. I think we've done quite well with self-promotion (as evidenced by the fact that we're on just about every "best place to live/work/retire/drink" list in the past five years).

I paid just over $200k for 2500 sqft on 3/4 of an acre that's within easy walking distance of four transit lines. It was amusing to hear my friends home for the holidays talking about their $2k+ rents for tiny apartments in NYC and similar locales. Yes, they have access to far more entertainment options than I do, but I have yet to get anywhere close to utilizing all of the options we have here in GR, either.

I also appreciate our easy access to water - I can remember once in my lifetime when we had any restrictions on water usage due to drought (lawn sprinkling was limited to alternating days, IIRC). Lake Michigan makes for a great reservoir.

As one currently seeking a new job, I've also been disappointed with the number of truly top-notch tech employers in the area; there are a few, but less than we should have IMHO, given the potential client base in the area. Part of it is a function of the labor market, I'd guess—the talent pool here is not as large as it could be. I think that this will continue to improve as GR continues to cement its reputation as a "millenial-friendly" city and the healthcare sector continues to explode.
My partner is an academic, a lecturer in film theory. She watches a lot of films, and needs to make a lot of short clips for her lectures, and to take a lot of screenshots for her papers.

This task is becoming increasingly difficult as time goes by. The most reliable method (for her skill level) is now to rip DVDs, removing various bits of protection, before playing the film using VLC on Windows and using VLC to take the screenshot. This is a pain, as she now uses a Mac primarily (as most academia seems to be doing so almost exclusively because it makes presentations easier - connecting to projectors turns out to be the killer feature).

For a lot of films though, she pauses a film and uses a camera directed at the TV. Or worse, she'll record the clip on a camera (using the camera's microphone).

Aside from things like Box of Broadcasts (which is for UK broadcast TV), there are few to no resources for academics to resort to for sources of film that will enable dissemination to students through materials and presentations. All clips are short (10-30s), papers feature only a few screenshots when published.

Regardless of the studio and technology company desire to lock things down and control distribution, there remains a very legal exception to their controls: education.

And of course, education has resorted to alternatives to these locks. There exists private torrent sites that are collections of obscure, international and predominantly non-Hollywood productions. Like torrent sites pre-Netflix, these are actually the most reliable sources of films that academics use for sources. Even when an academic owns a DVD (as nearly all do for future presentation and citation purposes), the torrents deliver files that the academic can use to create clips and screenshots.

As much as possible, I try and help my partner avoid such sites. They are good, but in the hard world of academia I'm not sure her career will survive trying to argue any form of legitimacy of downloading content for academic purposes for already owned DVDs.

There is a very real and present danger that copy protections will harm libraries and education. They already are.
"Our smartphones are becoming weather stations..."

Only to a very limited extent. A phone is not going to give me rainfall data nor wind information. A phone will also skew temperature readings because the phone itself heats up with usage and the fact that it is typically kept close to your body.
That doesn‘t seem too different anymore to the invalidate/paint paradigm of traditional UI frameworks (e.g. win32 GDI).
Ah.. I don't think this comment deserved to be downvoted. I did actually have one place reach out -- a lab at U of Toronto. But they asked if I was international and when I said yes (USA) they apologized and said they didn't have funding to sponsor an international student. But yeah, all the other schools were faceless rejections
For sure, everyone should try to get more on their offer, it can be significant. I'm still not convinced there are many secrets an ebook can unlock, vs just asking for it and trying, as always, to be both confident and likable.

But I suspect it's equally possible whether you're in a low or high CoL area, I haven't seen anything to suggest otherwise. It's unrelated to the issue of whether the company will pay you more in certain locations than others.
Your comment could justify a divide in pay between in-person and remote workers. Presumably, the ability to be available in person is valuable in some companies and the market for that is smaller, so more compensation.

However, what it does not justify is location-based pay. From the company's perspective, there is no significant difference between a remote worker in New York City or Birmingham, Alabama.
You guessed right! Yeah, I know the stereotypes but the thing is that I already had studied a master in Sweden for two years myself, and thought I had gotten used to communicate "like a Swede", but I still was surprised how much more fragile the bachelor students were than anticipated
I have no idea what you're talking about :(
To clarify further, Nvidia and AMD (and probably other small players like ARM, Quallcomm, Imagination) own the patents on core shader tech, which are the building blocks of any modern GPU design.

If you want to design a GPU IP that works around all their patents, you probably can, but unless you're a John Carmack x10, your resulting design would be horribly inefficient and not competitive enough to be worth the expensive silicon it will be etched on and probably not compatible to any modern API like Vulcan or DirectX.

But if you just want to build your own meme GPU for education/shits and giggles, that doesn't follow any patents or APIs, then you can and some people already did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs
I see no legitimate way to call a phone with no filesystem access _smart_.
Yep. But not one recruiter in ten is good.
I don't know that I agree with this, but even if we assume it's 100% true, this is still a problem given Facebook's addictive nature. Practically speaking, most people don't have the impulse control to pull themselves away from mindless, addictive content. And I don't think it's a huge surprise that a lot of the people who have gone down the Facebook rabbit hole are older. Less tech savvy, and perhaps not as sharp as they were at the height of their lives.
Yeah, it certainly doesn't define what great company culture actually is.
I recommend getting off social media and figuring out how to just chat with people whether that be telegram, signal, discord or something like that. Leaving twitter, fb and those has left me feeling much better. It sucks there's no way to chat with people on FB without using FB software anymore (even Frost seems broken now) though.
Countries could decide they have enough in common in terms of taxes and trade that they calculate this over all those countries combined, as long as they exclude tax havens and other countries that seem to take a parasitic advantage of the markets of other countries.
Hypothesis: You don't actually care about the penguins any more than you care about the cows. However, you've just read something that was intentionally designed to make you feel sad for penguins. If you'd read a piece similarly designed to make you feel bad for cows, you'd have a similar experience. For example, most people have a very negative reaction to slaughterhouse footage and videos of cows being abused by frustrated workers. But in a day or two, you won't care about either.

That's not to say what was done to the penguins and what is done to cows isn't truely horrible. Just that human emotional responses to widespread atrocities are surprisingly fleeting, and those emotional responses don't reliabily indicate moral objection and can't be relied upon to bring change.
From an employee perspective, the one fairly definitive upside I can spot is knowing what to expect ahead of time.

Are you implying it's mainly/only great for management?
The message is that consistency matters and that strong leadership can produce good results in the right circumstances. Top-down isn't necessarily a bad thing.

And what are the alternatives? No consistency throughout the company would mean that there wouldn't be any company culture to speak of. And if your processes aren't (ultimately) top-down, then what's the company leadership actually for?
I suppose I could have been clearer.

This is a well-intentioned advocacy piece. It would be at home on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, the Washington Post or even the Wall Street Journal. It seems much of the reporting in SA has gone the way of editorializing the flavor of the month rather than reporting on well, science.

I miss that.
Most of the UI in the samples I saw of this plugin seem good to go as is, I might not need to customize it due to the many options available. I'm not undermining any of the free plugins(I use a lot of free plugins and if not for them I would never have been able to build anything useful).

I'm sorry did not know commercial projects are not to be submitted here. Making money off free apps is so much more difficult. Charging a fee sometimes helps. Completely my point of view, though I may be wrong.
"As a frequent reader of papers in CS I'm of the opinion that peer review is accomplishing very little outside of checking theoretical results with proofs that can be vetted."

As a frequent reader and reviewer of CS papers I totally disagree. Peer review helps narrow a huge incoming flood of new research into a smaller stream of results that are the most novel, important, and correct. Without explicit review, your options would be to either waste your time wading through the mess or use reviews from sources whose advice you consider on an ad hoc basis. I'm sure there are better systems that take advantage of the Internet, the wisdom of crowds, data aggregation and mining, etc. The current system of peer review does adequately perform a major service, though.
MOAR fighting.
I was recently figuring this out. Here is my config:
http://bit.ly/fRpcs7
The mail Theo forwards has a vague description of what has been done (not that I understand it, mind you):

"My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI."
I use a spare computer and a couple virtual machines. The only thing that makes me nervous is the possibility of natural disaster or hardware failure.

The Pogoplug looks like it's geared towards file sharing, but it's very promising.
Lots of things are theoretically possible. However, I'm going to bet that it would be a lot easier to just go off and find the guys with the plaintext (or keys) and hit them until they give you whatever information you want.
"3 million people didn't leak it because there was no compelling reason to leak them."

Or more likely dozens of people leaked them, but they weren't made publicly available until WikiLeaks got them.
Peer review is not "the gold standard of modern science." It is the very first step in a long process of communal collection and evaluation of data. Everyone knows it's badly flawed, but it's better than nothing. It's only when scientific results are reproduced and (more importantly) built-upon that an experiment or finding becomes widely accepted (and thus "true").

The problem comes in when the media pounces on every wild claim in the literature and re-states it as fact before the ink is dry. Actually it's not just the media's fault, a big part of the problem are the press-releases that are becoming a standard part of publishing in high-profile journals.

EDIT: An analogy: saying that peer review is the gold standard in science is like saying that releasing open-source software is the gold standard for security. Just because something is open/reviewed doesn't mean it's been deeply vetted.
This is the kind of ethos that prods people to bolt on security rather than bake it into their code.
how ? because of the flashy 3D graphics ? there is no real value or usefullness passed the wow effect.
What about starting a family? Of course you shouldn't do it just because you feel lonely from time to time, but if you need strong social bonds, then why not? Instead of analysing the shit out of the problem, just do what people have been doing for ages.
anti terrorist training? I suspect these simulators aren't more commonplace precisely because they may be accused of being training software for terrorists.
"You'll never have to say 'Bye Bye Bye' to your data."
Simple, your mailserver encrypts traffic using the public key of the respective device you use to access your mail. To keep things simple, the client could simply send its public key to the server together with the request - if it matches a registered public key for the requested resource, it will be used for encryption.
What about the health impact following a release of materials?
... exactly.
Summary: Reduce memory by running less processes

Use the right tools for the job I think. If you've got a vps with 256-512mb do not run heavy process forking applications when something else has been written exactly for this situation. I'm a big believer in apache, I think its great with mpm worker or event but prefork is really inefficient and in my opinion a legacy mpm. Unless you truly need apache (in our case custom written modules) then switch to lighttpd or nginx. These are proven to be extremely fast, highly configurable and low in memory usage.

I havent found an alternative to spamassassin but that thing consumes far too much memory and cpu than I like. If you find something else, use it. Its been around for a lifetime and someone needs to come out with a new solution.

If you have free or cached memory and think the kernel is swapping out your process then set a value between 0 and 100 in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. 100 more likely to swap.

Here is another thing, look at whats running. The OS brings up alot of unneeded processes, stuff that you'll probably never use. Do ps aux and check it out. Or top and reorder by mem usage.
I actually like multiple pages. I find reading some of the longer (8ish page) NY Times or The Atlantic articles difficult when it's just one enormous piece of text. I like that it's broken down into small chunks, and it offers a convenient place to stop if I don't have time for the full article.

I also don't like it when people here link to Print View instead of the main article page. Partly for that reason, and partly because the text columns tend to be way too wide on print view pages. There's also frequently no way to get back to the non-print-view page.
You can also download a lot of different WebKit builds here:
http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/trunk/mac/1

It should be possible to use them all side by side.

Those builds should be very similar to Safari. Not exactly sure about the difference. I didn't saw any when I tried last time (a year ago or so).
If your site is full of "crud", it's hard to be sympathetic.
Apple's material and build quality are the same, as any other vendor in the same price category.

I have yet to own an Apple product, that does not need to be serviced during warranty.
I'm suggesting someone deliberately introduced water into the methyl isocynate tank with the goal shutting down production for a short time. This was probably done in order to convince UC that they should cave in to union demands.
The problems you mention are certainly real, but are they problems with hover effects in general or with specific uses of hover effects that may not be appropriate?

For example, while I completely agree that nested hover menus implemented naively (as many sites do) can be very annoying, single-tier menus with large areas can be an effective way to provide navigation of larger sites without cluttering the main page with dozens of links that most users won't care about. Likewise, while the "falling off the edge" problem is a real one, there are tools like jQuery's hoverIntent plug-in that can make the UI feel much more natural.
Sometimes I wonder if the lawyers supposedly "protecting" brands release the harm they can do.

I wonder if the Times' legal department actually contacted anyone in product before doing this.
I get it reasonably often when I'm coding my projects late at night, when there's nobody there to bother me. The downside is that it messes with my sleep, since I'll start at midnight, write some code, think "okay I need to go to bed by 1 because I haven't been sleeping well" and I look and it's 5 am.
Which then would be completely besides the point?!

"It's bad that X has happened!"

"But Y has happened, too, and that is good!"

Yeah, so what? Unless Y happening is predicated on X happening, that is just completely irrelevant to the discussion?
As usual, there is a German word for this: "Vorauseilender Gehorchsam"

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorauseilender_Gehorsam
IPv6 will make it easier to access your data anywhere. I am putting this here because so far nobody has mentioned it.
You probably need a system that allows both roots to function together. Maybe a different URL scheme:

http: and https: use ICANN, httplr: and httplrs: use LR

If not specified, browser tries LR first, then falls back on ICANN.

Doesn't feel as solid to me, but they could also register a placeholder TLD that would be use for redirecting requests to LR, or the other way around:

google.com.lrns would tell the browser to resolve google.com in the LR root (hardcoded), or google.com.icann would tell the browser to resolve google.com in the ICANN root. When falling back from one to the other, the browser would display the hostname with the fallback TLD on it.

Just some ideas off the top of my head, I haven't fully considered the implications yet.
Wow, that's a big call this early in the century.

Think back to 1910 and the relative positions of the UK and the US versus their positions by 1990.

Personally, I think China will have exerted its real economic influence well and truly by the third quarter of this century. Couple that with India, and I expect there won't be such a thing as "the dominant" power. There will several economic powers, with the US being one of them.
This seems a pretty unconventional use of the word derivatives.

Unless I'm missing something, the story here is that people are pooling money to setup a company to invest in Facebook. That's just normal investing - exactly like investing in a VC fund that invested in Facebook.

I suppose technically they are investing in a Facebook derivative, because they get returns from the investment company rather than Facebook stock directly. But people don't say a Vangaurd find is a Walmart derivative just because it invests in Walmart, nor do they say investing in the Accel Funx X (which funded Facebook) is investing in a Facebook derivative.
Required reading for the CS 100 course at my school, I liked it. It's pretty cheap on Amazon, too, anyone interested should definitely get a copy.
Having explored it myself, I will say go with flash (Yeah, I am sorry :( ), else you'll run into browserism
TodoPaper is the Windows equivalent:
http://widefido.com/products/todopaper/
Instant recursion. http://featherfiles.aviary.com/2010-11-24/3b89a543083a47cbbc...
There's also Longreads.com
I had my credit card scammed after using a full service gas station in New Jersey (by law there's no self-serve). They took my card inside the store to run it. There's no way to know they're going to do that when you pull into a new gas station.
That could be another way to do it for sure. I went this direction for my own needs really, I didn't want to have to spend time manually managing the ID strings/engine names and Puppeteer login seemed like a good fit. Since I run it locally, it feels pretty safe for me at the moment. I definitely get the concern though. For what it's worth, the Puppeteer session is cached so you could technically remove your credentials after the initial login and re-enter them any time it expires.
Bcrypt is better for BOTH those reasons working together; removing either the salt or the variable-cost key scheduler would be Bad.

Obviously, the variable-cost key scheduler is the central notion to the thing, but not having a large salt completely nerfs it.

bcrypt uses a 128-bit salt, and it uses it for good reason. See the paper, sections 6.2.1 and 6.2.2.
You don't need to do anything like that; bcrypt does all this stuff for you. Don't salt bcrypt.
CSS letter-spacing is under-utilized on the web. Obviously I'm not suggesting it be used for body text, but elsewhere it's a very easy way to make your design stand out online and give the feeling that a print-design level of attention to detail was put in.
I've encountered bugs that were not reproducible due to the speed of local socket connections. I had to use a remote server to debug.
You are a pinch hitter. Better yet, a clutch hitter. You know, when the game is on the line, the chips are down, and the fat lady is about to sing.

The utility infielder is used for late inning defense to protect a lead. Versatile guy on to have on the bench, cheap and therefore hard to let go. Definitely not a rock star though.