jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What a weird article. I don't get the reason why people seem to need to find flaws in Haskell. It's a programming langauge. You type stuff into your editor, it runs, and you're happy? You are not a genius if you understand Haskell. You are not an idiot if you aren't excited by it. Why all the hate?

Ruby is nice, Perl is nice, Python is nice, Haskell is nice, Lua is nice, C is nice. Computers are nice. Just have fun making things and talking to like-minded people. Whining about the numerical tower is just wasting time that you could spend enjoying your life.

Let's be honest. I have been a language fanboi in the past. But really, it's not the language that's exciting, it's what you can do with it. Imagine a problem, type some words into your editor of choice, enjoy solution to problem. Repeat. That is what programming is about, not these petty flamewars. (And to be fair, I really like Haskell, and don't have the problems the author has. But even I can be swayed away from my own ignorance; I used to hate C [check my posting history!] and now I love it. I got over the superficialities and instead got excited over what I could do. I saw excellent C code in practice, like Mongrel 2, and realized that C is not a problem. Some C programmers do things I don't like, but others do amazing things. So why fight the language when I could do cool stuff other people like instead!? Why fight something that expands my mind and makes me enjoy life more!?)

Let's write code, not criticism!
"Our position has been and remains that the logs include sensitive personal information with no bearing on Wikileaks, and it would serve no purpose to publish them at this time."

How can the "tubes" decide right and wrong in a situation like this? Once the chat logs on the internet, it's not like the internet can collectively decide that Wired was right, that the remaining logs are personal and meaningless, and erase them forever.
The fact that he didn't know what a browser was and that the sidebar says "director of operations" threw me off into thinking the author was "older" and more advanced in his career before starting to learn programming last year.

It turns out that he finished college (Yale) last year and that this is his first job. (source LinkedIn)

I admit it doesn't change his point about keeping pushing to learn programming and that it can be done from scratch with perseverance. It's just that the late career-change would have added some "spice" to the story to me. :)
We need more people like Glenn Greenwald and fewer talking heads spewing talking points.
Here in Finland it seems that marriage is seen as a "standard contract", as in the easiest way to organize common issues regarding inheritance (e.g. non-married couple: kids get their share by birthright, but spouse not without separate agreement) or possessions are divided in case of separation.

All legal avenues have been pursued. Everyone knows what to expect.
Wow and I thought I was arrogant. I'm 21 and I'm sure if I came out with an article deriding the mathematics community for knowing nothing about computer science I would rightly be called an ignorant asshole.

This guy's 20, probably hasn't worked on a piece of software over 100k lines of code but he knows alll about computer science and programming, right?
Greenwald's point is not so much that Wired has committed journalistic errors, but that its decision not to disclose the rest of the chat logs leaves aspects of the case open to wild conjecture.

So Greenwald, for emphasis, goes on to do some wild conjecture of his own. Clearly the people at Wired failed to recognize the irony of this and quote Greenwald extensively in their refutations, something Assange cannot do since the full logs have not been released.
Thanks a ton for this! I'm in the middle of trying to figure out how to incorporate, how much $ I'll need, which route to take, etc... Couldn't have come at a better time.

PS, I still plan on contacting you for advice per your offer on my submission about business filing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946503). Just waiting until I'm actually ready to move my feet :)
When was the last time you bought a new years present, or even card? Stores aren't selling new years, they're selling Christmas - hence the christmas trees they put up.

I've yet to see 'Happy Holidays' when they're selling me Easter Eggs. So I grant your technicality but they're not using it that way given their own usage methods for multiple holidays.

I'd understand this terminology more in British-speaking countries where 'holiday' veritably means any non-regular brake from work. Whilst in North America it is almost literally still used for its original meaning as a Holy-day - with vacation denoting the chiefly British usage of holiday.

So why, in the US when Holiday is virtually still a contraction of Holy day are they not simply using the days name, when they use every other holidays name including other days of religious origin.

I believe the death/martyrdom and ressurection of Christ on Easter weekend is likely to be a more offensive holiday to bring up in the presence of Jews than his birth. But then, you know, that's logic. You can never be logical and politically correct, it must cause cancer or brain aneurysms as by the present date evolution seems to have made them mutually exclusive.
Yes, that's gene x environment interaction, and it isn't ruled out. By taking DNA as input, it DOES rule out environment. People DID argue it's environment, and they should retract that.
Kotlin has already pretty much replaced Java for Android devs. I see it doing something similar to Java use more generally (albeit more slowly than it did with Android).
> In his first post, Mr. Siskind shared his full name.

Absolutely incredible way to end this article, as if him "sharing" his full name had nothing to do with the whole fiasco:

> I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with articles about me in New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. I lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees.

– https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive
That's natural, because the cost of mistakes in the two directions is not remotely close to symmetric. A few delayed messages to comp.lang.c is not the equivalent of [really bad thing].
The last comment stated that Amazon recently spent a lot of effort ripping out Oracle. I would be interested in knowing how that was done and how much better things got afterwards.
Yes. I like full transparency, it saves headaches later.

She doesn't encourage it, nor discourages it. It is completely disjunct from what I do for my employer. And maybe somewhat intriguing, I don't know, she's just never asked for more information.

There's no reason not to hid something that shows another side of yourself, be it art, technology, business, trade, psychology, whatever. Assess the relationship with your colleagues first.

Heck, I had some colleagues that would regularly miss meetings because they were volunteer firefighters. That never caused them any shame.

Assess the conflict of interest. If there is none, declare it. If there is, then tread carefully, because you may be violating a contact you agreed to.
True, dotfiles aliases fixed! :)
Go with Chrome, Safari, or IE 10 for now. There's a very complicated interaction with how Firefox handles the stack.
My experience is that engineers often:

* hate meetings
* prefer slack/hipchat/etc even if seated adjacently (myself included)
* work asynchronously

So the main friction is in the interface between engineering and other disciplines. Remote works well so long as non-technical leadership has a local lead they can interface with.
The NSA accepts reality, period. Most of what they do are mere symptoms of existing insecurity, and the really egregious stuff (eg global passive adversary) have more to do with imposing legacy ambient authority than not.

The topics of politically neutering well-funded governmental adversaries (that use gained data to drive "justice") and directly persecuting hacking are orthogonal. We currently have the worst of both worlds - unaccountable governments along with unlimited liability for running nmap or incrementing the number in a url.

In general, anonymity is directly opposed to accountability. Proper information security does not rely on after-the-fact accountability, so why should we think it prudent to give up anonymity?
I'm still miffed that Excite and Netscape deleted mail I had saved from the earliest days of my internet use. Mail from 2-3 years ago is dull, but after 7-10 it grows historic and nostalgia worthy.
Not that this should close the argument, but having worked at one of the large data analytics startups that works very closely with government, it's laughable what the government is capable of doing with your data.

I'm not worried one bit, as we had the best technology available. And with the amount of data being generated, it's basically impossible for them to arbitrarily find something unless they're specifically looking for it. Privacy by bad technology and hard problems.
The design looks very slick, and I'm very impressed.

My one complaint is that it seems wrong to have a pseudo-hover state for the entries in the lists. I don't know what standard practice is in mobile web interfaces, but it seems strange that scrolling causes elements to look selected because you have to hit a point in order to start scrolling.
To prove your point, you can buy or trade for one of each color property. Then announce "I refuse to grant any monopolies ever, it is highly unlikely this game will end in finite time" These kind of things are not possible in a modern, well-designed game.
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

Like the other one still on the front page?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453832
another solution (i think)

player 1

1, 1 --> community chest, collect 200
4, 4 --> lands on jail, just visiting
2, 4 --> purchases st. james

player 2

2, 2 --> -150 from income tax
3, 7 --> lands on virginia avenue

player 1

1,1 --> purchase tennesse
2,2 --> chance (go to new york), purchase new york
purchase 3, 3, 4 houses (costs 1000)

player 2

1,1 -- lands on st. james, pay -550
1,2 -- lands on new york avenue, pay -800

GAME OVER

shit, this is a hard game...have spent the past half hour going for sub-seven moves...anyway
I like to say that we're burning the last of the fire wood trying to keep it feeling like Summer, rather than saving it for the Winter that's setting in.
It maybe different per country
> People who screen resumes tend to assume that you are unemployed because of one or more other undesirable traits you have, like a tendency to be irresponsible or violent and antisocial. This assumption is a mix of broken societal wisdom and an association fallacy. FWIW, there's another fallacy committed when they themselves become unemployed; everyone else unemployed is a antisocial lunatic, but they are a good person who has simply fallen on rough times -- total cognitive dissonance, but they don't notice, even when it is pointed out to them.

For anyone interested, it's called the actor-observer bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-observer_bias
> The mob wasn't replaced by FSB, it was the FSB from the start

Back in late 80s and early 90s there was a mod and there was a FSB, with former comprised predominantly of criminals and former athletes. I am sure you are well aware of that if you lived in Russia at that time.
Is it bad that I'm reading this guide at 3 AM, on a bright computer screen, wide awake, when I have work tomorrow at 9 AM?
"Viewing is not copying, distributing or making derivative works (in the case of streaming)."

This is blatantly false. Copying for the purpose of viewing is most certainly "copying" in the sense that it can constitute a copyright infringement.
They are /copying/, but they are not infringing because these "technical necessities" (exact wording depends on legislation) are in most IP protection laws excluded from being infringements.
Awesome, thanks for confirming! I came across that package, it wasn't clear from the docs if it was intended to be imported on its own -- i'll give it a go!
the big D-battery speaker ??
People have been arrested in that building for being a little too loud. It's absolutely wild that so few arrests happened.
Wait what's the catch? It's insured and still able to give so much interest? Even CDs don't give anywhere close
It means we give away solar, wind, and energy storage to the poor, and build all of the above as fast as manufacturing allows. You make it economically untenable to burn fossil fuels.

Global PV production capacity is ~170GW per year, current fossil generation capacity in Africa is about 135GW. Not outlandish to get that replaced in short order while accounting for growth. Want it done faster? Build more PV manufacturing capacity. The product is glass and silicon with a hint of rare earths. PV panels are almost
100% recyclable.

Overbuilt renewables should be used to sequester atmospheric carbon instead of curtailing (throwing excess renewables away when unneeded). It’s going to take an incredible amount of energy to stick all of that burned carbon from the last 100 years back into the ground.

TLDR “You must construct additional pylons.”
I really hope we have much larger research into energy storage that is sustainable and environment friendly.

The future of energy is in storage.

Sometime in the future, coal and oil will run out. We, as a society, have to develop sustainable means of generating energy.
Police should also be professional and uphold the law.

I have personally witnessed police brutality in my community. Have you?
That is, unless we put actual scientists in political power who understand that helping fund solar in Nigeria and elsewhere will be a net positive for your own economy by simple aversion of several economic disasters due to climate change.
I've thought about the same thing, but I suspect the main hurdle to overcome would be recognizing it as a data storage device in the first place. If one had an inkling of that use, then some future archeologist wouldn't need to know much about the electronics or controller. They might image the magnetic fields of the platters at 1000x the resolution and sensitivity of the drives original read/write electronics, then treat it like past archeologists might have treated a tablet with cuneiform.
The open letter for face masks is a great example for why this kind of thing is dubious.

All prior high-quality evidence disputed the claim:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/specia...

The subsequent evidence of real-world effectiveness isn’t great: cases are skyrocketing around the northern hemisphere, and mask mandates aren’t making a difference. The only randomized controlled trial ever conducted for masks and covid was not able to detect any protective effect, yet was rejected from multiple journals because of “consensus”:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/89778

Science by signature count isn’t science; it’s a popularity contest. It’s perfectly fine to advocate for a belief, but nobody should pretend that they have the “scientific” argument simply because their signature list is longer.
Separate any questions about whether or not this fellowship is a good idea, I resent that it's only people under 20... does being one or two years out from that, but still in school, really change you in such a way?

Look forward to seeing what kind of people get chosen for this and how their work turns out.
http://www.garmz.com/ effectively does the same thing in the UK.

With both companies why go high fashion instead of mass-market Tween / young buyers style?

That would seem like a clearer path to take to get some serious scale and attention, especially with the clear connection to FaceBook / social media you guys have implemented.

That feels like a clearer path to exit too - a big box store would LOVE their retail to transcend internet / social media.

I'd like to hear your rationale about pursuing high fashion - margins? Built in audience for the boutique designers?
Its always amazing to think that without mass media (and internet ofcourse), Gandhi and his team were able to connect to millions of diverse, educated and un-educated Indians in his cause - via letters, newspapers, meetings and gatherings.

Reinforces the fact that content is the king. No matter how many twitter badges and facebook buttons you put, if you have nothing important to add to what is already out there, it does not matter.

Do not agree with a few parts of the article though - there is a great amount literature on Gandhi and his team. And due to the fact that they spent a lot of time in jail, a lot of it is written by themselves.
Nobody can say who inspired them but themselves.

I like that Frank Lloyd Wright made it on there. Love that guy's work.
zach: the idea is, just to say something, start with an idea and end in the venture capital stage. If we can demostrate (traffic or increasing revenues), we should raise venture capital. Formalizing the startup, maybe the founder can be the CEO, maybe we put another expert MBA. So The idea is to buy only good ideas. Not need to be years to make a succesful startup, if we develop several ideas at time with a good number of experts, time goes down and risk too.
I have been considering using images from wikipedia in a project that is much different than this but I was wondering: is it okay to embed the images so that they load from wikipedia, or would you need to download them and save them to your own server? This might be called inline linking?
Hey, good to find you on here. I've been impressed by the way you've managed to promote Buffer - you've certainly worked hard on it. It seems like you've also gotten good at writing promotional copy, especially since English isn't your native language.

Anyway, personally, whenever I hear a marketing 2.0-type person talk about "relationships" and "conversations", I feel like there's a bit of dishonesty going on. The truth is the marketer has something to sell, that's their real priority, and there's nothing wrong with that. But again, just my opinion. Would love to hear your views...
I only learned this recently: Red Hat is working with NVidia, only expected to work around Fedora 23 release. I've switched quite a while ago to the nouveau driver. Next machine will probably have an Intel. I'm waiting for something which is quiet, doesn't use too much power and can drive an Ultra HD monitor at 60fps without any hacks (seems to require HDMI 2.0).
The conscientious group ("introverts") had lower levels of inflammation, which is an immune response.

Inflammation can also be caused by stress.

It's a lot more plausible that the conscientious group is just less stressed.

The researchers likely invented the immune hypothesis in order to tie in with another study showing the same immune/extrovert link.
Those are old ciphers, so they should be easy to enable in your browser.
Probably the same as IE Edge mode, which has disavowed its heritage completely: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.4; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh869301(v=vs.85...
As far as I understand (from random reading on the net) its more or less the same bunch of procedures for most patients. After a day or two everyone in the ICU probably knows what to do.
From here:

>The officials at the FDA instructed him to test his test against the MERS and SARS viruses, which are also coronaviruses. It wasn’t a terrible idea, Greninger thought. Why not develop a test that catches all these deadly coronaviruses all at once? It did seem strange, however, that the FDA was asking for this in an emergency use application: by this point, COVID-19 cases had appeared in six states. (The FDA did not respond to a list of questions about the process.)

>Still, Greninger complied. He called the CDC to inquire about getting some genetic material from a sample of SARS. The CDC, Greninger says, politely turned him down: the genetic material of the extremely contagious and deadly SARS virus was highly restricted.

https://www.gq.com/story/inside-americas-coronavirus-testing...
There's a toggle "Show Sponsored Images" in the dashboard settings.
It's vernacular, at least. People say copper conducts electricity well, so something with low conductivity would conduct poorly
> Using a browser that the company depends to make money on

Mozilla gets paid roughly 500m/year for letting Google be the default search engine.
I propose: LEO satellites are not a problem for astronomy.

• Atmosphere distorts observations.

• Astronomers do not like distortion.

• Astronomers like dark backgrounds.

• For a satellite to be illuminated, it must be visible to the sun.

a
- - - - -
b/ \
| E| SUN
\ /
- - - - -

Here is the Earth (E), the Sun, and two satellites in low earth orbit, a and b. The dashed lines are the earth’s shadow.

LEO satellites are really low, like 1/20th of a diameter of the earth. That means that in order to be illuminated in a night sky, they have to be on the dark side of the Earth (left of center here), but not so far that they have dipped into the shadow. “a” is in position for that, but “b” is not. Illuminated, dark side satellites are all in a band around the Earth at the twilight line.

Astronomers don’t like lit skies, so they wait until local dark. Once you get to local dark, the twilight lit satellites are off toward the horizon where you don’t want to observe because there is a huge pile of atmosphere.

If you are making a cool picture of Orion rising out of a desert lake, well, yeah, you may need to edit out some satellites depending on the time of year, but astronomers can do their job just fine.
Brave isn't actively scamming anyone. You have to sign up and put your own money in the pot with etoro for anything to get a cut.

If you're willynilly giving people money for complex financial instrument's, you probably shouldn't have control of your own money.
This is profile-guided optimization: you run your program, collect data on what code runs, and use it to optimize the layout of your program. Dynamo runs optimizations at runtime.
It will work on any unix compatible system, which basically means Macs and Linux.

EDIT: I realized it is python based. So it will work on any system.
I wouldn't go all the way and say that you should never hire an MBA, but the article does raise some good points. I think the degree itself can be valuable, but not if it keeps you from getting real world experience. There are thousands of idiots with MBAs just like there are a ton of idiots with no education at all. The MBA will only magnify what you already have. An idiot with an MBA will just be a bigger idiot. An intelligent person with an MBA will just be smarter and have more knowledge. School isn't going to teach someone how to be intelligent--they were never meant to teach this and couldn't do it if they tried. College can only help you use what you already have.
The idea of building communities of experts on a particular topic is great, however most of the proposed sites look like they could almost belong on one of the existing sites (e.g., Web Applications, Gaming, Electronic Gadgets -- all very tech-oriented). This makes perfect sense, since the most of Area 51's users (at the moment) came from SO/SF/SU. I'm a big fan of SO and would love to see this new venture be successful, I'm just interested to see if/how it will be advertised to those who are not users of the Stack Overflow family of sites.
I wouldn't be leaving my six-figure day job if I didn't believe in Braintrust and Tout. They're not getting killed ;)