jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"What's a color? What's a country? What's a "week"? What's a leader? What is solid? Which way is up? What's a job? Your brain starts trying to decompose every concept into basic principles, and you realize that for a lot of things in the human world, there are none."

While I've personally never tried LSD, my favorite is, e, which offers a similar, but different, opening of the mind. Since I've never tried LSD, I can only say that e opens one in an emotional way, one that allows you to empathize and understand the universe in a way that you otherwise wouldn't. It also invokes an odd existential dialog within oneself about how the world works and why we think the way we do.

I suppose I quote you because as a musician and software engineer, it is often the case that I ask myself why it is that certain things are the way they are. For example, anyone that's studies AI realizes that one of the harder concepts is that of _understanding_.

How do we make a machine understand when we ourselves don't understand the _why_ around us?

Drugs like e and LSD present an insight to us that allows us to realize that the answer is a lot more distant than just what we perceive.
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/runtime_distribution_faq.h...

Looks like Air is similar to Java in that respect (or in my more cynical view, Visual Basic - but multiplatform).
I like your project, but I honestly can't say if I'm willing or able to commit to cofounding a startup around it right now (as it would obviously be a big commitment, I'd want to be sure its something I can and want to do first - plus I'd have personal projects/startup ideas to cancel or put on hold). I also don't know if I would be a good fit[1].

Still, I would be interested in chatting regardless (even if you already found somebody - one can never have enough good contacts), so feel free to drop me an email sometime. HN username at gmail.

[1] eg, I have no real business experience, nor have I ever used rails - willing to learn on both counts, of course, but I don't want to say I can do something when I don't know for sure. I'm also based in europe (Ireland) and I don't know if the distance would cause problems
Could the "one file free decrypt preview" feature be used to sniff out the crypto key required to decrypt all the other files? Or does the virus need to check in with the backend for every single file for unique keys?
What frustrates me most in the recent time is the wall of bugs I face in Mac OS X and Safari particularly. It is getting so ridiculous that even some Apple-pages do not work in Safari for me, s.t. I have to switch to Chrome to get the content. For example, opening this URL:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18686?viewlocale=en_US

results in just a white page in the latest Safari on Yosemite.
Seems like they may have been the source of inspiration of VALVe for the Team Fortress 2 manuals: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/440/manuals/Sen... Or this whole generation of manuals in general.
I'm part of the dot big bang team and just want to note that we're absolutely a platform.

Our aim is to be a place where people can play games but also one where anyone can make games. We're in the process of unlocking the first stage for the gameplay side of that by releasing our TypeScript based scripting API soon.

Particubes looks great too and it's cool to see so many companies popping up in this space.
Because I am working on another team's code base and my code merges are dependent on their whims and schedule. Submit pull request, wait for one week for somebody to review and give feedback (all of which is bullshit nitpicks about spacing, one style of unit tests over another etc.), implement the feedback, wait for another ten days for the same person to review again and provide another round of more bullshit feedback. In the meantime, my boss says you are not coding enough to get promoted to the next level. I have started doing LeetCode because I was concerned that I might forget coding and also it will help me find another job.
this was out in 2006, but people seemed to think it wasn't happening to them. even on tech literate sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

my problem is now that pretty much the worst stuff i can think of is being done, what stuff are they doing that is beyond my imagination?
So why are you asking here instead of following the directions and contacting them via the support page:

http://foundation.zurb.com/support/support.html

Can I also suggest that you read this:

https://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html

And I'm confused by what you mean when you say "it uses sudo as root". You can login as root by using:

sudo su

and then giving your password. Warning, this is extremely dangerous! As root you can completely screw your system. However, if it's your own install you can easily login as root.
I don't think those sort of stones change shape much even over 5000 years.
Supposedly this?

https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook

I think this one already uses the Graph API directly.
The Panama Papers have personnel information. I wonder if they will ban CNN next.
Car Stunts Game - Android Games - Car Games
:) Always glad to see Sandstorm fans here.

FWIW, there are places Sandstorm could improve here. Probably the biggest one for me is that Sandstorm backups do not happen automatically in the managed space. (You could automatically back up your Sandstorm server with another utility, and you can manually backup/restore individual grains in the web UI, but there isn't yet a really clean integrated way to restore grains inside Sandstorm.) But if this is the one thing you have to figure out outside of Sandstorm itself, that's not too bad (or unusual for many server applications).

Also, the parent suggests being able to offer a hardware box good-to-go, and I'd like Sandstorm to have that, or at least, a full distro release, where you do not have to worry about the server OS at all. It's something we've talked about quite a bit.
This (very important) paper from 1967 calls them "weak interaction" and "strong interaction": https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.19...

Putting the word "nuclear" in the middle seems to just be done in textbooks and classrooms.
Users just want pages to load fast. UI developers (presumably) just want to maximize user happiness.

A SPA is just a way to front-load resources for a website so users don't have to re-load redundant resources for each new page. Whether that is actually worthwhile for the user depends largely on how many redundant resources a site has and how many pages a user is likely to request in a single session. SPAs are a situationally useful tech just like blockchain, machine learning, JS component frameworks, etc.
The biggest problem is that no matter what “scale” of tracking is tolerable on a single domain / subdomain, Facebook still gets the aggregate.

So if you fix it for small multi-tenant domains, nothing changes for Facebook and they still get all the aggregate data, right?

There’s going to be a lot of collateral damage before ads and tracking get fixed IMO.
You can communicate with small groups outside of a few central platforms. Stormfront remains alive. The incels have their own site as well.

You want the ability to communicate with everyone (tweeting is a message to the world) or if you aren't allowed to do that, for nobody to have that ability.
Perhaps we should all stop donating free content to platforms operated by those that built an entire custom datacenter for the CIA to store its drone murder and torture videos in.

I'm not sure how continuing to donate content to enrich such an organization can in any way be worth it, even if they do give you free bandwidth.
Julia has julia-computing to provide this type of enterprise support, but it obviously isn't the same.
We haven’t needed such courts for computers, the internet, or other algorithms. I fail to see how special courts are needed for AI. Our current legal system appears perfectly suited for AI - at least no worse than for other tech.
Today I've heard fellow SREs discussed whether RRDTool is the best solution for monitoring private things. Its only merit: it stopped evolving. Might or might not outweigh the decades of progress.
That's the point.

At the time it was very significant results, just like this one.

Turned out someone hadn't plugged a piece of equipment in right and it was very precisely measuring that flaw in the experiment.

You can't look at any 8 sigma result and just state that it must necessarily be true. Your theory may be flawed or you may not understand your experiment and you just have highly precise data as to how you've messed something else up.
On IfByPhone, the moderator or host sees on the dashboard they dropped, clicks a "call 'em back" button.

http://public.ifbyphone.com/services/conference-calling
> But Blu-ray did win.

For interesting values of "win." It's the format that's being distributed (as opposed to HD-DVD), but DVDs are still the more common format. (No statistics, just comparisons of DVD and Blu-ray sections at local retailers. DVD's always bigger.)

Meanwhile, the only people I know who've bought any Blu-ray discs are those who own a PS3 and essentially got the player for free with the game console they were buying.
The author has given some good reasons why Bitcoin won't become the new global currency, but there's a lot of space between global domination and fizzling out of existence.

Consider probably the most well-known alternative currency, the Ithaca Hour (http://www.ithacahours.org/), which has been going strong for decades now, but has no pretenses of expanding beyond its narrow geographic niche.
You have people literally defending uncommented, unclear code in your replies.

There are phases programmers go through. One phase occurs about after 10 years of professional programming. I call this the "no mercy" phase, where these newly-minted senior programmers think defensive programming is for noobs, and scrunch their C code down to the fewest number of lines and characters. And when someone objects, the reply is, paraphrased (as seen in the replies): "You're just not as good a programmer as me." Sadly, it takes another 10 years for this arrogance to dissipate.
My experience has been that an inability to focus on a task is usually more to do with my fears surrounding that task than my level of discipline.

If I can stop for a second and understand why I'm scared of the task (am I worried the best I can do won't be good enough?) I can employ strategies to work around that fear. One that's worked especially well for me is approaching a task as if I'm a complete novice. If I can pretend for a moment that I don't have years of experience, and start again from the very beginning, I give myself permission to make mistakes and "play" within the space. Approaching learning like a beginner, and letting go of any pretense around results or performance, seems to be the key to engaging in deep work for me.
Viruses live in droplets. Droplets are greatly reduced by cotton masks (that's why they feel damp after a while).
I'm pretty sure you would be correct.

The cost (assuming you have at least a minimal amount of equipment--including an oven obviously) is basically the flour (which, as you say, can be hard to find right now).

A 5 pound bag of flour is normally around $4-$5 in the US, and a large boule (5 cups of flour) takes about 600 grams (~1.5 pounds) of flour, so maybe $1.50. The other ingredients in a basic loaf are negligible and the electricity is about 30 cents at a typical US price (ballpark of 10 cents per KWh).

Call it about $2 all together. So, yes, less than an artisanal loaf but maybe a bit more than cheap supermarket bread (though that's a larger loaf as well.)
A lot of penny dreadful here in the thread.
https://i1.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Int...

But kidding aside. Most of the recipes are bullshit. You have nothing to eat? Eat what is available. Nothing available? Start with tree bark soup.

If you are still able to buy groceries the best basic ingredients are rice, beans, possible some tomato sauce (for flavor). Add some Olive oil for the fatty acids if you can afford. You will be able to eat this for a pretty long time before showing any deficiencies compared to the other suggestions on the website.
Oh sorry. I was homeless for nearly six years.

I've gone to soup kitchens, been on food stamps, gotten food from food pantries, eaten free meals at churches, gotten handouts of food from random strangers.

I've gotten by at times on very little food and I've been seriously underfed at times. But there was usually an element of choice because soup kitchens, etc, aren't very good in terms of cleanliness and food quality and I have a serious medical condition. Being picky about cleanliness and food quality is a large part of how I stay off the drugs I'm supposed to be on.

But in absolute terms, food is usually available. A lot of it is food that doesn't do a good job of meeting my special needs, so I often pass on the opportunity and prefer to buy my own, but actual literal starving to outright death seems rather unlikely to me.

I worry much more that I will be forced to resort to eating things that will aggravate my very serious medical condition.

That isn't intended to dismiss the concerns of people saying "That's been sold out where I live." But if they go hungry, I think it will be more due to comfortably well-off people hoarding food irrationally rather than due to absolute lack of food stores in the country per se.

Maybe some of the Preppers can come out of the woodwork and give a portion of their hoards to food pantries and soup kitchens. Some of them have several years worth of food stuck away.

It would make more sense to try to reduce the degree to which society comes apart at the seams than to sit on it waiting for things to start looking like a zombie apocalypse movie.

Edit: see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/fn3jno/cou...
Ozone therapy is quackery.

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/05/2190robert-j-rowen...

In April 2016, the FDA prohibited all medical uses of ozone, "In any medical condition for which there is no proof of safety and effectiveness", stating "Ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy. In order for ozone to be effective as a germicide, it must be present in a concentration far greater than that which can be safely tolerated by man and animals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_therapy
Agreed that reading with readily-available translations is the most important method of learning, but with technology we can do better than the interlinear texts this article describes, which seems to just be foreign texts where each word has an English translation on top. I see several limitations of this approach:

- The English is hard to not see, so it's too easy to accidentally cheat and avoid practicing active recall.

- Word-for-word translations aren't effective when your current language and target language are sufficiently different.

If you're willing to read on a screen, we can instead have only the foreign text visible by default, but have translations (both word-for-word and sentence-for-sentence) readily available on click or hover. Du Chinese (no relation, just a fan) does this really well for Chinese, and I'm sure there's equivalent tools for other languages.

Still, any American-born Chinese knows that being able to understand a language doesn't mean you can speak it yourself. Du Chinese is great for reading/listening practice but I couldn't find any counterpart for writing/speaking practice. So I'm working on my own counterpart that works sort of like Du Chinese but in reverse:

- Start by showing you English sentences, of progressively increasing complexity

- Click a sentence to reveal its Chinese translation

- Hover over any word of the translation to get the word's definition and etymology

- Along with the translation, a full grammar explanation

I haven't released this side project yet but I've been using it myself, and I feel like this combined with reading practice is close to optimal learning efficiency.
Very cool and I think the pricing is just right. Why are there 3 start now buttons all together though? Does each correspond to the plan you'd like to buy?
In a discussion on HN of sedchess, VladRussian2 post this relevant link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Cross-eyed_Lefty_fr...
Thankfully, we shouldn't see GitHub pulling any shit like that anytime soon (or if they do, I won't be able to see it, as I use Adblock Plus...).
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822817
Running my own L2TP/IPSec server for that as well. Older versions of iOS consistently closes the VPN connection when the phone was locked (or not connected via USB). iOS 8 is more stable it seems, because it keeps the VPN connection active for longer.
Yea, with the speed of SSDs increasing so quickly the speed at which a desktop computer can transfer a file and store it has greatly exceeded what gigabit can provide. At the SME level 10G is still too expensive to justify at this point for regular workstations.
Telescope mirrors:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/page9/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/page11/

JWST vs Hubble: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4076/4813007838_13c736d9ca_z....

Mirror curvature( large jpg ): https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4114/4813106662_0d3eeddc27_o....
That just brought back memories of some of the promo material that came with our Commodore 128 when I was a kid. One of the images showed a guy in a suit carrying his Commodore instead of a briefcase as he walked across some corporate campus. As a kid I thought it was so cool that someday you'd just carry your computer instead of some boring box full of papers.

Of course now we have Penny's "computer book" from Inspector Gadget so it's not quite as mindblowing as it was for 8-year-old me.
If you didn't read it, why are you so sure there was no substance? It's fine if it's not your style, but that doesn't mean the author isn't saying anything worthwhile.
They are not profitable and they are not able to fulfill their original mission due to FDA regulations.
Whenever I see one of their products, I always think "if it's that good on the outside, imagine how good it is on the inside".
The grim reaper could be fitting on some kind of edgy pro-drug patch, but as a serious reference to eg cocaine it's just ridiculous. These patches really illustrate what is going through the thugs' heads as they go about ruining people's lives.

Propaganda is the worst drug of them all.
The problem is that quite often, the article can be regarded as one big "root comment" of the HN debate, and that comment cannot be downvoted, even if it is of lower quality than any of its followups. It can only be upvoted.

Therefore, if you click on a story which has decent upvotes, you still may be taken, effectively to a root post of lower quality than any of its followups (and in a page by itself where the HN followups don't exist).

Feature idea: suppose that submissions could be downvoted, but the downvotes were counted separately and weren't damaging to the submitter. Rather, the dowvotes could be used as an input into some calculation (which also considers the upvotes of the submission, as well as upvotes and downvotes on the replies to the story). A threshold value on that calculation could be used to display some informative icon which tells you "it is better to look at the story than the comments" or vice versa.
> some of the universal, underlying data flow architecture that the likes of Maya and Houdini had from the start

Could you elaborate on that? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "data flow" in the context of a CGI package.
If CNNIC decides it wants to rent out their trust bits like this, they need to realize they are putting their trust on the line. Any actions performed by sub-CAs under their trust authority should be their responsibility. They need to re-evaluate if taking money to rent their CA bits is worth the stakes.

The alternative is that it's a free-for-all for everyone in the trust store. Cash in selling sub-CAs and shrug if they get caught? Really?
> you can't formally be an LLC principal and take W2 wages

That's incorrect. An LLC can file as an S-Corp and the partners can take W2 wages.
That's a good point, though I feel like that may just arise from 'zip' being the less commonly encountered of the two utilities.
Maybe if you spray threads around at random :), but in real-world use I find it much easier to pinpoint where the problem occurred, and the path taken to get there. Also, at least with threads you can get the thread ID and/or name.

Regarding shared, mutable state - if multiple async "threads" can access that state, then you still need to guard it, but usually with an async-capable means.
Parliament in Helsinki also has a paternoster elevator in use still today. This film from (I think) before Second World War shows also other contemporary elevators, and making of them:
https://youtu.be/Cddo-ifmUsA?t=75
Audio track is in Finnish and there is a ruinous VCR time code on top right, but still, a nostalgic piece.

The film says no year of production but I think it is from around 1938-1939 because the Olympic Stadium is there, and the general tone is optimistic in the pre-war style.

It features prominently Kone Oy (still a major Finnish elevator and escalator manufacturer) so it might be produced for or by it.
Thanks, tried it, but with or without cookies, this still tells me I need to subscribe or login.
>Unfortunately, great intentions alone won’t make this work; someone has to actually answer the hard questions about how it’s going to work too.

People did better than that, they already built applications with this model.
Well, I won't do it again :( I have learnt my lesson.

Although right now it could be on the front page (11 points), it seems that someone "punished" it. I guess the only way is to post and cross fingers to be on the right time.
Structurally, they have nothing in common.

In a Ponzi scheme, you've got only one central figure playing everyone off. Classically, there's no underlying assets under it, it all exists on paper. The schemer promises everyone that they're getting great returns (on paper), and use new investors' money to cover the withdrawals of others in order to maintain the illusion. As soon as the rate of money coming in exceeds the rate of going out, the whole thing crumples and everyone loses everything.

Good old-fashioned finding-the-greater-fool doesn't involve any of that. Everyone involves gets to keep all their money. This includes the greatest fool, too. Admittedly this poor soul has since found out that the thing they bought isn't worth what they thought it was worth, but still has exactly what they paid for.
The bank failures you cited are outside of the US and the FDIC is not applicable. Yet, FIDC only covers deposits up to $250,000.
What's often under appraciated about sponsored content is that it does seem to be catching on as valuable channel to acquire customers not just branding exposure.

Here is a case study from Dash as well.

https://syndicateads.net/casestudy/dash.pdf

(Full disclosure I'm on the team at SyndicateAds)
That sounds like a really nice present, something well thought out. Was this a bigger company or a startup?
Good suggestion. I actually am subscribed to my local subreddit. It's occasionally interesting but generally pretty slow.
Hi Malcolm... thanks for the response.

We were thinking the pitch deck is the summary / presentation of a "business plan." We want to have a comprehensive back-up file that contains all our findings in the pitch deck and the corresponding support for those findings plus supplemental findings should investors want it..

Does that make sense?