jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Bitcoin is as useful at $100 dollars as it is at $1 million. Why then are we fixated on price when this technology can change millions of lives? Let's talk about the many awesome things we can do by coding trust into a decentralized Internet. Price is just a footnote.

That's a great argument, but for BCH (or any other altcoins without a speculation problem) instead of BTC. There's virtually no technical differences between the bitcoin family of cryptocurrencies. That implies that there's no artificial limit on supply of coins, either. Just fork or spin up a new blockchain if there's ever a real supply crunch for cryptocurrency in general.

The BTC mining pools could trivially mount a >50% attack on BCH or any of the other alt-coins, but it's apparently not even worth it for the lulz. All the more reason to use them as simple currencies if that's the case. Any fiat currency issuer would be overjoyed with a 0% interest in counterfeiting.
Good, because then you can verify your claims in court. Which Amazon will not be able to counter. So they will fear the light.
Like their friends, secret services doing their illegal things, but they are protected by "National Security" claims, Amazon not.
Ha! The headquarters are wherever you’re typing this post, Mr Chief Executive Officer.

No.
“We had an insecure vulnerability that we knew about for five years," the second former U.S.-based employee said. "That's unacceptable. I mean, we knew about it."

In my experience, knowing about a vulnerability and knowing how to fix it are magnitudes of effort apart. Main reason I saw companies avoid fixing vulnerabilities was third party libraries. Third party libraries had switched to a new version of JDK or Node and upgrading production environments carried a lot of risk or would break other libraries. Companies stayed on old versions because they “worked” and eventually were unable to pick up security fixes. It’s one big advantage that startups have over the behemoths.

Upgrading dependencies on products with millions of users without breaking anything is one of the most thrilling and rewarding things I’ve ever done.
> what's wrong with just using the jets we already have.

The problems with the F-15/F-16/F-18 is that Chinese and Russian missiles might be able to shoot them down more easily than the F-22 or F-35, since the F-22 and F-35 are stealthed.

The problem with the F-22 and F-35 is high unit cost, so they can't have as many as they'd like.

It's also possible that their stealth might not work so well on future Russian/Chinese radars, for example they might use different frequencies. You can be sure both those countries are working on countermeasures to stealth aircraft.

Possibly the solution will be an unmanned aircraft. This would be able to pull >10g manouvers, which aircraft with a pilot in can't.
I like the software...
Suppose that I gave away 28% instead of 5%, where they would be required to buy 1% every year at revenue value for 4 years instead of 3.

Would that be fair?
For someone new to ML for Trading, would you have any other courses or links to check out?
I'll take your word for it but it would be nice to have some of the other Google engineering teams singing the praises of Go, writing blog posts, etc.
Yeah, I'll wait for proof instead of trusting one anonymous source that only spoke to CNBC, thanks.
Nah man you make tanks down there
I never understood what was interesting about sports or sports journalism until I moved back to Nebraska.

I've been watching Nebrasketball, the mandatory Huskers games in the evenings, and roller derby, all with a group of very sports-aware people and one aspiring sports journalist. His commentary on the football/basketball games converted me from a bored observer to actually enjoying the sports.

I'm impressed by what this site is generating, but I'm not too worried about it displacing actual writers. It's the difference between a local news affiliate press release, and an article in the New Yorker or the Atlantic, or BBC reporting. There's still something that a passionate human can bring to the equation that will be almost impossible to automate.

That said, StatSheet is really damn impressive.
I've had the images fail to load, as well as the stylesheet (so all the text comes up as Times New Roman.)
Léon Bottou's implementation of Stochastic Gradient SVMs is the most concise implementation of an SVM that you'll find: http://leon.bottou.org/projects/sgd
You mean like Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman? Can you give some examples?
Congrats! I love the simple model and simple pricing for fund transfers.
Just the other day, I decided not to go to a small event for exactly this reason, because I knew that one or two people there believed some fringe stuff. I don't, but being somewhere where they aren't kicked out is professional suicide for someone in my position. One never knows these days who might be recording and has to live his life as though it were being constantly observed.

Edit: to clarify, by fringe stuff, I mean that some believe that the election was stolen from Trump. I don't and have convinced others that it was not, but I guess I can't do that anymore.
> Taking things from obscurity to publicity is literally part of the premise of journalism

What a facile justification. By that metric there was nothing wrong with Gawker's antics. The question is always whether the things a journalist is publicizing in the public interest, and the fact that publications (especially prestigious ones) have an obligation to consider the impact of what they expose of citizens who often don't have an equal platform from which to defend themselves.

The very fact that you can find his real name from his pseudonym means that the NYT wasn't actually "exposing" anything of value. At the same time, they've made it considerably harder (if not impossible) for him to practice normal psychiatric medicine.

Also, does this article even cover what it was originally supposed to be about - i.e. a bunch of people online who saw COVID coming long before the authorities? I haven't gone all the way through, but my understanding is no. Instead there's no so subtle implication that the guy who wrote the "Anti Neoreactionary FAQ" may in fact a secret nazi or something.
Everyday DevOps strays further from SysAdmin's light.
I don't know what happened obviously, and I'm not really wishing for any theory to win (lab or nature). But I've read Chinese virology labs were made in partnership with France and french experts/teachers said many safety protocols were not fully applied.
Facebook is seriously “uncool”.

They’ve very little chance to make their phone cool. Maybe if they use the Instagram brand.
I watched the WHO press briefings in about the first month.

If the Western world would have done what the WHO advised at the time, we all more or less would have a COVID stuation like the Chinese have for some time.
I am a casualty of this. I was originally intending to follow an academic career, until I discovered that my career would be dependent on my ability to secure grants. Something that if I was not bad at (which I think is unlikely), would at least be extremely stressful for me. It isn't the only reason I decided to to switch to being a software engineer, but it is a major reason.
Thanks for the list! For completeness, I think the active older POSIX shells include at least NetBSD's sh, dash, and bash. Not sure if there are any others.

Edit: zsh, ksh, mksh also.
That's literally the whole point of the WHO. Leaving it would mean either a) starting a "new" version and asking all the same people to join it (which seems to be what you're suggesting; what purpose would that serve?) or b) having no forum at all for global coordination over health crises.
The Peter Principle?
> I guess I just couldn't believe it wasn't an already existing feature.

It existed. Django is able to generate SQL DDL on a per-app basis since the first versions. The problem is that people wanted an automatic way of doing that, but there a couple of different approaches. South (and the proposed built-in feature) is not the best approach to everybody.
Yes, Azure. It's developed into a good offering and I'm pleased for them that they're doing well.

But, there was a time when Microsoft entering a market would send all the existing players running for the hills. They used their OS dominance to control what software OEMs installed and killed off every desktop software competitor they ever had. Your best hope was to sell your company to them. But they couldn't do that with the phone, tablet, search or cloud markets. They've built some good products and some of them are doing ok, but they haven't had the kind of automatic win in those markets that those of us around in the 90s remember.
Try the time command (not the shell builtin):

$ command time -f 'max resident:\t%M KiB' ls /
bin etc	initrd.img.old lib32 media proc sbin tmp vmlinuz
boot home	iso	lib64 mnt root srv	usr vmlinuz.old
dev initrd.img lib	lost+found opt run sys	var
max resident:	968 KiB
> there's angularjs, emberjs, knockout, extjs etc etc etc

That answers your complaint. There are many choices, no clear best choice. Frameworks need to balance being not too opinionated (making choices for you) and being convienent/batteries included.

South, over time, became the obvious, best choice.

When a REST plugin gets to same level it probably will be added.

In meantime, doing pip install REST plugin of your choice and adding a single line to installed apps is easy enough even an incompetent developer can do it.
We can predict the behavior of a continuous signal, since it's an ongoing stream of similar events. And we can predict the averages that we can expect to see, but for a single, individual emission of one photon, when we provoke or stimulate the emission of that photon we can't be sure EXACTLY how the photon was emitted, until it bombards the detector, and changes the detectors state. THEN we can infer from the detector, the original state.

The reason it's difficult to know the precise situation of a photon, in-flight, is because it's been emitted from a moving target, whose precise state is difficult to control perfectly: a live atom.

Without having perfect control of the atom that sends off the spinning, oscillating particle, we have a hard time discerning the exact circumtances of the spin/oscillation imparted upon it. We can hazard guesses, but when we're right, it's only because we get lucky. Not because we controlled it.

EDIT: The reason is there are two factors driving the emission:

1. The external behavior of the electon shells

2. The internal nuclear behavior of the protons and neutrons (which do not behave simply as a clump of spherical marbles, the nucleus is it's own volatile, nebulous construct)

And, oh yeah...
3. Any other random cosmological events that might sail in from outer space (literally), as fortuitous signals
I am not sure I agree here. It seems to me this is an area where restrictions have both benefits and drawbacks.

Rails seem much more efficient, safe, and have faster terminal service. Riding on any good rail service is vastly more enjoyable to the passenger than flying. I would rather travel Europe, Asia, and North America on high speed trains than by air.
Not buying it.

I don't spend much money locally. I spend it online.
"couchsurfing" is a worldwide community of people that is quite different from just going from couch to couch.
It's not really, because there is no straightforward way to express something like:

def f():
bar()

try:
foo()
catch KeyError as exc:
print(exc)

Calling recover() in a defer applies to the entire function, so you'll need to wrap foo() in an anonymous function. You also need more work to not use "Pokemon exceptions" (gotta catch 'em all) and recover() only KeyError
The subtitle on this article is ridiculous:

> The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others

The entirety of your personality and conscious thought are controlled by how your brain is "wired". The structure of your brain and the way your neurons etc interact together is literally "you". This is one of the biggest "duh" pop-sci articles I've seen.
Not necessarily true; if you got a mark on copper futures in Europe then you would expect the best American copper futures bid/ask to change fast. Updating bid/ask doesn't require trading.
Boy I miss that Nokia E71 keyboard.
Develop a working methodology which works for you (and remember that new != better): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_%28methodology%29#Seiri

Having your tools where you expect them to be and mastering them (shortcuts, how to save keystrokes, how to type efficiently, how to perform daily/repetitive tasks with low friction) is key factor. Personally this is the reason why I use VIM over some modern IDE, i value more being fast and keep improving over the years than having the latest feature which is likely going to slow you down due to lack of consistency.

The beginner's mind - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
Avoid at all costs to close yourself inside your craft and job. Avoid strong opinions and realize that you will never know enough, you'll likely keep learning from others and improve, this is why you should keep over the years the beginner's mind.

Be a Tenzo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzo
Understand that you have responsibilities and that you must work hard, both for you and for the others.

In short, i think these are the requirements to be a good programmer (as well as a good professional in general).
We hosted R.S. at my school, he was less than pleasant. I feel like this is off topic however.
Camlistore https://camlistore.org/community
In your example journalists would say that you claim to be the son of god. They wouldn't say that you are the son of god.

You seem to be asking journalists to say "he claims to be the son of god (but he isn't, obvs)" which is asking th journalists to provide information they don't have.
Aside from the obvious factors like desire and technical ability, the single greatest motivator to being an excellent programmer is the pursuit of perfection while simultaneously understanding that it is impossible. Building something that is never complete and ever-changing really boils down to how many bad ways you've done it before and knowing which ones to avoid in situations.

The only excellent programmers are the ones who've written a million lines of terrible code and understand which methods have the best probability of achieving a decent deal of success before the inevitable refactor (anyone can pick up a book and turn everything into a Factory).

Write shitty code - each session is a brick in the foundation of an endless skyscraper which gets more complex the higher you go. At some point you'll start to program with the foresight to make your code easier to change down the road without breaking everything and causing headaches. That's really all that anyone needs in a programmer - making the future easier while allowing the present to function as it needs to with as little issues as possible.

At some point you'll work on code made by inexperienced programmers that's been built upon for years. If you are experienced enough, that code is actually the most interesting thing in the world to transform and simplify.

tl;dr: Languages, tools, ides, setups are all insignificant if you've implementing patterns in every wrong way as possible. Knowing what not to do is more valuable than knowing one way to do it.
Speaking with genuine interest... What would you expect the top (i.e. most popular) text editors to be?
I really like reading about projects like this. If I had the means, the patience and the time, I'd do a similar project myself.

Here's Quinn Dunki's Veronica, another 6502 homebrew computer project: http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=1937
This doesn't settle whether it's the earth or the stars that are doing the spinning. That was the controversy in 1620. It remained an open question until Newton came along. The proofs discussed here are tests based on the consequences of Newtonian mechanics.
Google Docs is HIPAA compliant?
The nature of the iPhone and other touch devices makes :hover irrelevant in that context? WELL FUCK!!! BETTER THROW IT IN THE TRASH THEN AND QUIT USING IT ENTIRELY!!!!!! HOLY SHIT LOOK AT ME I'M A FUCKING INTERNET PUNDIT!!! HURF DURF HURRRF
Feminists face an interesting challenge here; STEM seem to be their Waterloo (I believe that's the right phrase). They stand upon the claim that women are totally equal to men.

This means that for their cause to survive, they have to prove that they are totally equal in every way, which means being proven wrong when it comes to STEM would be disastrous. Thus they can never acknowledge the possibility, and will likely do their best to tear down anyone who suggests it. This is, of course, not particularly any different from anything else political, though it seems to be more savage thus far.

I personally wish someone would just figure out a truly unbiased test and get the answer already. I don't care what the answer is, I just want cold hard fact to back up them claims & decisions made in regards to all this.

edit: cummon, if you're gonna downmod, please leave a reason.

edit2: I use equal in the sense of 'the same', not 'superior'/'inferior'.
I wouldn't expect performance to be a problem. For computational tasks, Ruby works just as fine on Windows as on a UNIX platform.

Windows perf suffers because (1) in some rare cases, the needed primitives aren't provided by the kernel, and (2) Windows does some things differently, and Ruby library authors don't have the incentives to design and maintain a separate codepath for Windows.

The issues above don't usually arise in desktop applications. They're seen most often in server code -- fork is missing and that sucks, asynchronous I/O works differently, file monitoring and pipes also work differently, etc.
An ordinary mechanical pencil or pen and the smallest pad of paper I can manage - just as long as they fit well in a pants pocket. It happens all the time that you might want to sketch a thought, take notes, give a signature, etc.
Inspired by this guide, I purchased $8 sunglasses today and wore them when it turned evening. So far they seem effective in lulling me to sleep :P
they've made a special stainless steel that's even stronger...

They've discovered Rearden Metal[1]! The only question now is who will be Dagny Taggart to Job's Hank Rearden.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Plot_summary
A few years ago before I entered university, my mother purchased me a Mac. I had grown up with PCs all my life, but I blindly believed "it was really preferential for using Photoshop", "artistic", bla, bla. That was when I thought I would go into graphic design, and all of my technological opinions were based on word-of-mouth from friends.

Then I got into programming.

Looking back, I'm glad that I had a Unixoid machine to start with, but the more I work in the command line, the more attractive Linux becomes. I would have defended Apple to the death 2 years ago, and now I can't wait to get something that isn't a black-box, hardware-wise, and a more malleable operating system .

I ..might be turning into a Linux fanboy, but I'm much more concerned with functionality now.
When I was growing up, medicine was more focused on social elements. It more explicitly recognized that people spread disease from person to person.

At one time, the way we stopped STDs was we took the names of all your recent hookups, contacted them and let them know they had been with someone who had just tested positive for a particular STD and offered them testing and treatment.

In my teens, the AIDS crisis hit. In the US, it was mostly associated with gay men and IV drug users. These populations had reasonable concerns about giving a list of contacts to authorities and pushed for drug research and stronger privacy policies.

My understanding is we largely no longer use this proven method of stopping the spread of most STDs.

I can also remember going to a doctor with a sibling and a couple of cousins and all of us getting treated so that the issue wouldn't just go round and round through the family. I feel like that was a fairly common practice at the time and we mostly don't do stuff like that anymore.

Historically, doctors did house calls and were one of the smartest, best educated people in town and towns were relatively small. They could address issues that helped contribute to your medical problem beyond just prescribing drugs and surgeries.

Now we act like human beings are specimens in a petri dish and like their physical health is unrelated to their lifestyle or the fabric of their life.

I think this is a big problem. The phrase "We've thrown out the baby with the bathwater" comes to mind but doesn't quite fit.

What we've done is tossed aside wisdom and context to worship at the alter of ooh shiny diagnostics. The high tech diagnostics are useful but the largely unnoticed loss of wisdom and context is a serious problem and we aren't even trying to solve it because we mostly haven't noticed that it matters.
> Adams never revealed the origin of 42.

Actually Stephen Fry claims that Douglas Adams told him. But it seems he is taking it to the grave to honor his vow.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...?
Yes, exactly!

If they hadn't had on-the-ground experience of the plan-9 version, and been able to see what parts of it they wanted to keep and what parts needed to be done different from that actual experience...

Often you can't build the polished thing until you have experienced the thing before.

Lately I get discouraged that there seems to be not so much attention to "prior art" in software development, that's the only way to make progress!
It’s a combination of people not reading the articles AND the absolute crap ton of bad research that gets published.

9 times out of 10, if the finding goes against conventional wisdom, it’s because the research was poor.

I’m saying this as a scientist who has published before.
> shared content on the peer-to-peer network

Making use of of peer to peer protocols to distribute content is something I wish more companies did.

P2P lowers the barrier to entry for new players in a domain, because it allows us to bring a product to the consumers with potentially drastically lower cost of operating, because we can provide service to our users without the massive bandwidth costs to our business.

This is good for the consumer too. So don’t be mad at companies that use P2P technology. Be in favor of it. And demand better terms from your ISP instead. So that the internet can continue to allow for innovation and competition, instead of further centralizing all of the power to only the biggest companies and slowing down innovation and hurting competition.
Yes, but the problem is that you can't really use "likelihood of spread" as a vaccine priority criterion: it's non-scarce. Anyone who wants a shot early will just lie about how many people they interact with, or worse, actually increase that number to try and get an early vaccine.
“Fully vaccinated” is meaningless. What matters is the first dose. After two weeks, regardless of the vaccine, the person has basically reached a high enough level of immunity to prevent getting sick and spreading the virus.
Really? You have megabytes of memory but can't run C++? Which architecture is this?