jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> People in 1989 didn't exhibit a nearly religious devotion to ARPANET as perfect in every way, going so far as to say things like "Bitcoin cannot fail, it can only be failed" (do people realize how absurd this sounds?)

I actually agree with you, but if you're talking about me, I was being wildly sarcastic and riffing off of an old Communist slogan. I'm not aware of anyone who's ever said that sincerely, but if someone did it would be hilarious.
I can't believe you are linking to CSI instead of Blade Runner, the grand daddy of all enhance scenes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0 makes me feel old...
Yet none of this is backed up by evidence that the benefits of functional programming lead to better software.

Amen. I've been hearing exactly these kinds of grandiose claims from FP advocates going back as far as 1998. The funny thing is, the same people almost never seem to getting around to actually writing any code of any substance. As far as I'm concerned there are some good ideas coming from the FP community but the more extreme implementations of FP like Haskell have yet to prove their worth in production environments.
https://www.textdropapp.com - web-based text editor (like nvALT), integrates with Dropbox

This was a scratch-your-itch project that started out in 2010 as a Heroku app that I threw together for myself. Over the the years I collected feature requests and eventually rewrote it from scratch and relaunched it as a paid service. It pays for itself plus enough money to buy myself new equipment every once in a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rRAf1IaWpw&feature=youtu.be. YouTube pays my business, BlueMate.com, for posting DIY videos of our electronic kits. Instead of a marketing expense we have marketing income.
Maybe passing on files to children is not something most people will even have to worry about because social media stores everything forever. Once we've shared our life's worth of holiday photos with our kids on Facebook or G+, they'll still be able to access them after we're gone.

Maybe the things we want to pass on to our kids will be more tactile. Our first iPhone or 3d-printed wrench? Or maybe the same type of heirlooms that have been passed down families for generations - jewelry, watches, paintings. Sure we won't be giving handwritten letters to our progeny but frankly, that's our own fault. I haven't even written a single letter to my wife! And I don't want our banal "where u at" text messages to be memorialized for posterity. Our vacation photos or public blog entries shared online will do just fine.
Unfortunately biologist have been taken for a ride many times by people selling mathematical snake-oil. For example, the whole field of DNA microarrays [1] turned out to be an illusion woven out of applying complex statistical tools to "vast amount of unstructured, unprocessed data". There really is no way you can gain real understanding from poorly designed and unrepeatable experiments by apply obscure mathematical tools.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray
Oh yes please. Linkedin has been feature creeped to hell and hardly a minimization in purpose at all.

Imagine linkedin stripped down to a singular perfect professional profile? Instead of a maze of categorizations, all vaguely similar and meaningless.
The only difference between your definition and that of the parent is that you explicitly deny the existence of state terrorism, and I don't think that is an improvement.

I think we would all be better off separating terrorism (a tactic) from identity (organization/state). Then we could categorize militant groups as whatever you want: state, statelet, militia, guerrilla force, freedom fighters, caliphate, NGO or whatever and separately discuss their tactics with respect to whether they commit acts of terrorism.
Sounds like someone either bought tesla or went into options. Feel free to 14x your account 3 times in a row.
Hey devs! The article indicates jetbrains software might be compromised.
Tried it out, former cyber threat intel analyst transitioned to Rec Cannabis in Oregon. I'm not sure I qualfy, but I did at least serve the minimum 2 years in tech...

I Liked the process, waiting 7 days and I'm sure it'll look fine enough. I'll let it be known if I become an endless spam magnet for those still risk-adverse about it.
What are these idiots protesting? Trump's bruised ego?

Your comparison is a great disservice to history.
And here I am moving from a Tesla back to a Toyota and feeling.... relieved.

Still feeling a little sad. But there’s just something ultra comforting about tactile buttons that each do a single thing and not even a hint of unnecessary complexity masquerading as “clean” or “modern”.
The links don’t open for me, sorry. I’ve seen the first video judging by the thumbnail; it shows a cop waving to someone offscreen. Other cops maybe? Given that we have plenty of video of police being attacked I’ll need stronger evidence for the “cops waved them through” theory.
Wait, you agree what the rioters did?

I assumed everyone understood, they are not there to protest anything. They were there to take over the capitol building.

I am sure that if they succeeded, trump would have holed himself up inside, taken everyone hostage and grabbed power.

Do you even believe in democracy?

trump won in 2016 with even less margins in many states. No one complained of voter fraud.

Republicans really fucked up America. Its all downhill from here.

The only thing I regret is the military power it has. With so much power, and presence across the world, it will be dangerous for everyone.

I couldn't care less if America fell into a dictatorship and royally fucked itself. But its too powerful for that.

Too big to fail.
Where I grew up the phone lines weren't very well isolated, so if lightning struck within a few mile radius the phone would ring before the thunder arrived.
Do we have an idea of low the death rate of covid is when the vitamin D deficiency is fixed?
This claims it was capital police

https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/1347033011880140801?s=21
By no means am I an architecture expert but I've wondered if these statistics would look much different if stackoverflow had more images and video?
The solution of adding the protection first is mentioned but there will be other situations later in which the use of a lot of self cannot be avoided, so it doesn't solve the general problem, if you call it that.

What is being called "defensive" I would rather call "permissive". If at all possible, I would prefer raising a ValueError if x1 >= x2.
This went a bit further than a protest I would think.
Gmail and Runbox both allow the user to not download images (this is the default and is opt-in per sender). I assume this protects anyone using their readers, yes?
Brick and mortar ARE tracking you!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Deliverability issues for personal servers are emphatically not a myth. One reason I moved off self-hosting mail a couple of months ago, after 17 uninterrupted years of doing so, was because of perennial problems with deliverability - and Gmail, while bad, wasn't even the worst; some large providers (glaring daggers at you, Microsoft) make it effectively impossible even to understand why mail is getting blackholed, much less do anything about it.

(Fastmail, in case anyone is wondering. $50 a year, and there's nothing I want that they don't do.)
This comment made me laugh. My light bulbs turn on at the speed of electricity right now.
Go Perl!

(I'll show myself out :)
How is that the most important part? Slavery is already illegal outside of prisons. You know very well this is so companies can cut employees whenever they need to and not face legal repercussions.
Not at all my experience. I was sending paying customers emails with their license key and a link to our starting page for years and it was fine. Recently our emails randomly land in spam v even though:

-we have never sent one unsolicited email

-100% of those emails are opened and read (I know because customers are activating their licenses). It's hard to imagine anyone mark the email with license they paid several hundred dollars for as spam

-we get tons of engagement, we answer around 30-40 emails a day

Something is terribly wrong with Gmail spam filter recently. Some of the emails from my customers land in my spam folder as well. They more often than not don't contain any links or anything out of the ordinary. Just a simple question or two.

It started happening a few months ago. It's a huge pain. All Google support tells us is that their magical box they can't disclose thinks our emails are spam even though there is nothing suspicious about either our website, the link or the content of the email. They can't tell us what triggers the filter cause it will make the job of the spammers easier.

I am now left to play the game against spammers: they try to imitate legit emails, if they get close enough then my emails are similar to spam, I have to modify them in random way, then spammers catch up etc.

Yay for machine learning I guess. Doesn't work so well even you have an adversary trying to fool you.

Btw, we use Gmail and it's Gmail spam filter which is causing problems. Google analytics is able to guess our monthly revenue and number of licenses pretty well. We send exactly as many emails. We are paying customer of Google Suite. It's still not their problem that their magic box puts our emails in spam but it's all on us.
Er, what you have written is wrong. sqrt(2) is not transcendental, and there are uncountably many transcendentals, not countably many.

You may have meant algebraic. sqrt(2) is algebraic, and there are countably many of them.
upboat.. good catch..
So now you want to instantiate a variable of type "A", where "A" is a string that you read in from a configuration file. How do you do it in Python? (I guess it's possible somehow, I'm just wondering what the syntactic advantages are).

Your second sentence I don't understand - what do you mean 'variables whose type is a function'? The equivalent of a function pointer? For variable functions, you take a regular variable (i.e., with a $) and assign it the name of the function you want to call:

function call_me($arg) {}
$func = 'call_me';
$func(1);
First off, the PSP Go is my all-time favorite device, but only once you enable the ability to run unsigned code. Because of it, I can have every NES and SNES game ever released in my pocket at all times! It's incredible.

--

Seriously though, the Go failed for a few reasons. Sony made some critical mistakes with it. First off, the device's main method of obtaining games is wifi. The Go has an 802.11b chip in it, which is extremely slow and outdated.

Most of the problems are UX related.

Turning the device on for the first time, you try to sign into the PlayStation Network to download your first game. First, you must update your firmware. To do so, you have to have the device fully charged (90% doesn't count), even if it's plugged in. So, you have to leave your brand new gaming device plugged in for at least 4 hours while the battery fully charges before you can download and install the system update so you can install your first game.

Once charged, you access your PSN account, and search through the limited selection of available games. Most new PSP games are released on UMD disks only, and take many months to arrive in downloadable form, if ever.

So, if you find a game that you like, you download it and wait 45 minutes for it download over the 802.11b connection. Then you have to wait another 15 minutes for it to be extracted. Then you can play.

Of course, any of the games you likely already own from your other PSPs can never be played on the device at all.

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It's absurd. I'm surprised it lasted this long.
http://carwoo.com/
I guess this is a slightly different use of the term induction than that in mathematics?
Augh! Nice work EGreg, I hadn't run across this before. I'm reading them and I'm so sad there aren't more. Just finished Landscape I and I've been left wanting more.

So... Pretty please? :-)
Wow, somehow I completely missed that another CacheFS exists.
I will definitely be looking for a new name.
You're over-simplifying.

Amazon provides power, servers, bandwidth and their network.

You still need administrators and ops people. If you colo, your data-center will provide power and bandwidth. You just need your cabinet network and the servers.

On top of that, Amazon costs more, and expose you to problems like the EBS outage that you simply don't have with colocation because you haven't gone and developed a (probably necessarily) complex provisioning system to manage it all.

The implication in your statements is clear that the act of purchasing, provisioning and maintaining hardware is a primary driver of your IT/Operations work-load, when in reality that's a minority concern at best for most. It borders on misinformation.
Or maybe to share code and knowledge with fellow coders and users.
for those of you who speaks russian here is a short documentary about the issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8SmQ6dxlyM
From the third link:

> (I still think the Multics path seperator looks more natural >etc>bin - too bad Unix diverted here)

Looks more natural indeed. In fact it's visually similar to how paths are stylised in some file picker GUIs.
There often comes a point where you might as well use some proper embeddable scripting language like Lua for config files.
Author here. Thanks! I was deeply inspired when I read the source code to early versions of Linux and UNIX. The dream of that simple elegant power is something I'm hoping to restore for a new generation. All I'm doing to achieve that is simply standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before me.
"The ubiquity of zero-commission and fractional-share trading means that diversification and customization is easier than ever"

I think what they are relying on is the fact that nowadays you can own fractional shares (so you don't have to spend that much money to own an index since you no longer care about owning whole number units) as well as zero cost trading (so you don't really have costs to maintaining a portfolio or creating one).

Note that in most cases the bid-ask spreads are low (since for major indices there is enough liquidity in their constituents), and as such won't meaningfully contribute to your gains / losses unless you are rebalancing often enough to factor this in(in which case, making an index is pointless).
If I posted the same thing as Elon would the same laws apply to me? Or is this a circumstance whereby him being a CEO it plays out differently?
Yeah. The difference is you are going to be living in central Lisbon vs zone 2-3 London for roughly the same price. Obviously you are going to save a fortune going from prime central london to Lisbon, but that's the same anywhere.

The cold is really the buildings fault. It's hard to explain it you are used to northern European construction. It seems to be colder inside than out! It's quite a common and well talked about problem.

What is good: weather, people, interesting places to visit 30min-1hr away, food, etc. What you'd expect really.
This is a honest question, but may I ask what you found to be hard about it?

For long I was scared of it because so many people say it's crazy complex. But actually it took no more than a dozen of hours for me to learn it and get a working setup on aws.

Maybe being full stack and having a strong knowledge of Linux and Docker helped.

Now I'm not pretending to be an expert with it, and there are certainly traps and mistakes that I didn't experience yet. But I don't understand what people find to be hard about it.
I have set myself a goal of coding/making something new once a month. I made the first thing last night, just a simple premise - but it's something. I'll share it on HN soon once it's ready.

But indeed, being a keyboard jockey does little for your success. Get off your ass and actually do and make something!
25 square feet of new office space for every human in the country.

不可持续
What would enemy spies get out of that.

Even prima fascie top military secrets like battle plans (those must be updated and shuffled regularly to prevent a situation exactly like that) have very little immediate usefulness.

It's 21st century, it's beyond anybody's ability to hide things like size, dislocation, and basic capabilities of your force
> Apple is abusing their market position (100%) to further their own advertisement platform.

Err, what advertising platform? Apple doesn't have an ad platform. Apple doesn't sell data to ad platforms. Apple doesn't do any of the things you're regurgitating here...
> If federal security at Court House shoots BLM protestors who are entering a federal court house, those security people would probably get charged with murder.

Probably? Says who? In fact, multiple people have been shot (fatally or otherwise) during BLM protests, and actions against those officers have been very much the exception.
As an excuse for banning T_D and a bunch of other right leaning subs at the same time, and then blatantly ignored ban-evading r/ChapoTrapHouse2 for months. When they finally took them down for ban evasion, it was an excuse to ban another giant wave of right wing subs.

EDIT: Original claim is left intact for posterity, but it is definitely wrong and I misremembered.

Reddit has its moderation oddities but claiming they target the left more is bordering on silly. r/WatchRedditDie is a great catalog of politically biased moderation.
I'd try to guess that the next move will be facebookification of whatsapp, i.e. whatsapp will slowly morph into a FB client, will all the buzz and whistles.
Either you keep working to pay for their education, or you tell them to take out loans like most families, or you live in a state that pays for education. Georgia, for example, has the HOPE scholarship which pays for kids with good grades to attend public colleges at low or no cost as long as they keep their grades up.
But then how would they make six figures for cushy work that leaves room for activism?
She had clear instructions to proceed no further, then climbed through a broken window towards Secret Service members who had guns drawn.

She was partway through the window to the hallway that leads directly to the congressional chambers and was attempting to get past the Secret Service members.

You don't mess with the Secret Service -- they have a very uncompromising view on protecting elected officials and will absolutely draw lines in the sand and firmly enforce them.

Edit:
Secret Service were present, but the officer who shot was not a member. He was, however, protecting the immediate vicinity to where congresspeople were sheltering in place.
Heh, congress doesn't write any legislation any more, that all happens on K-street now by lobbyists.
A lot of ad hominem and hysterics, for someone who continuously dances around the very simple question. What is your prediction for the effectiveness of a single dose regime?

Because if it's over 50%, then the math is very simple. First doses must go first. Here's my simple proposal: I bet you $500 that the first peer-reviewed study to specifically test one-dose mRNA Covid-19 vaccines finds at least 50% effectiveness.

Talk is cheap, and I'm sure you get a lot of upvotes on Reddit and Twitter by sprouting some "Follow the Science" hashtag. But actual people's lives are on the line, so if you won't even risk a little bit of money on your beliefs, stop risking people's lives.
The standards in engineering largely arise from experience. We have a standard height for headlights in cars because we tried a bunch of different ones and found one that worked best. Without that experimentation, how can you arrive at a standard? If regulations inhibit the ability to experiment in fields where there is not yet a defined standard, we will not be able to reach one, or we will pick one arbitrarily that may not be the best and we will have no mechanism available to find a better one.
I agree with everything you've said. My point was about who needs to be convinced to use Wayland (not the end users). People will naturally get Wayland when they update their distribution and yes, it will take years.
> For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
You are not required to specify colours and fonts when making a web page, and I recommend that in most cases you don't; only specify the language and whether or not it is fixpitch/bold/italic/underline/strikeout. Don't impose your width either; let the user use the width of the window (they can resize if they don't like it).
It leaves out users who do any meaningful gaming beyond tetris or Farmville in the same session.

You could always log in 2 graphical sessions and have one be running x and one sway I presume.
You've got to be kidding.

https://wpvulndb.com/

Six security vulnerabilities in core WP just last month.

It's still a mess, and every plugin gives it a bigger attack surface.
The most effective form of “rest” I’ve found is 10 minutes of boredom before bed.

I don’t meditate, I let my mind wander and don’t judge anything. The only rule is I’m not allowed to physically move, I find a comfortable position and must remain in that position for 10 minutes.

It’s excruciating at first, but about 5 minutes in my mind has processes whatever it had stored up and I’m tired. About 8 minutes in I’m shutting my eyes. Sometimes I have to give and just go to bed.
> Aside from the lack of screen tearing, what can we all agree are big wins for the user?

From what I remember, Wayland makes it easier to mix 4K and HD displays without pain.
I think this is true only if your definition of a free market is what the US likes. After all there are a lot of restrictive laws needed to set up this "free market", like patents, trademarks, etc. Not to mention subsidies and tariffs affecting things as well.

By some measures the US isn't even in the top 10 on market freedom: https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
I lump land and housing together because that's how reality does it. Aside from trailer-houses they all stay on one piece of land for the duration.

If an analysis depends on houses being able to fluidly change land positions I don't think it would be very useful.
In the country where I live no one does solar. The reason is that it doesn't get heavy subsidies, and the utilities have dropped their prices to discourage competitors from entering the market. We also screwed up the feed-in tariff system. So, you can drive around local cities for hours and not see one single panel.

That might actually be good in the long run. Part of the actual cost is the maintenance, and installation. Most of the solar power fanatics fail to count all the costs in their calculation. With a large scale utility those things are all in.
Is there an extension (for either FF or Chromium) that automatically converts `amazon.com` -> `smile.amazon.com`?
Probably because it was off topic. HN discourages these types of contribution; they're seen as more 'reddit-like' than the community here aspires to.
Wow, never would have guessed.
That's not very accurate.

For example, I don't get nearly enough sun throughout the year. My vitamin D levels fell to a 5, which can be extremely dangerous long-term.

I started taking D3 supplements and three or four months later I raised my vitamin D levels to a healthy range.

If your body is starved for a particular vitamin, and you take that vitamin as a supplement, the body will be far more likely to extract value from said supplement. Vitamin D for example is among the most common deficiencies, and is very easy to correct via supplements. The reason most vitamins don't make a difference is because most people are not especially deficient in a lot of things.