jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's one thing when the guys running the Large Hadron Collider say that it's very very unlikely that they'll accidentally destroy the universe. (I'm OK with running the LHC).

It's another when scientists say that widespread concern for nightmare scenarios is based entirely on misunderstanding and scientific illiteracy. For instance, I don't worry about nuclear power plants turning into nuclear bombs -- even in the face of terrorism -- not because it's never happened but because the plants are designed to make that scenario impossible. I don't worry about a meltdown that melts through the power plant and the Earth's crust creating a new volcano because scientists say that's not possible.

Yes, there are nightmare scenarios that actually are possible. But when the two sides are "real experts who say the risk is too small to worry about" and "uncomfortable scientifically illiterate public," I put my money on the experts.
If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.

- Omar Hamoui (@omarh)

http://startupquote.com/post/2447295970
I came across many self appointed editors in Wikipedia.
It would be more useful then the current state of affairs. With a proprietary blob to talk to, it would be possible for people to do things like write text-based clients in curses, or the suggested 'server' version of Skype specifically for running as a super node or relay node.
Talking to people without a product doesn't always work. Most people can't imagine what it would be like to use a product, so they can't reliably tell you if they would use/pay for it.
Well... That sucks.

The US is, indeed, a very diverse place, but I always had the impression that it has a very disciplined, if somewhat tense at times, society. At least the places I visited.

My point was that the larger number of inmates in relation to the general population can be, at least in part, attributed to a better law enforcement in relation to other countries. When I was robbed, I could have been shot dead. I am sure the guy would never be caught - if for no other reason, he would have killed one key witness.
I imagine quite a lot in countries like Sweden. I had 100Mbit in my apartment for cheaper than my shitty comcast which barely breaks 5.
That's okay, leaves more to surprise :)
http://vimcasts.org/
CEOs have no free time? They don't eat, sleep, or rest. They will not stop until the stock prices surge?
Artwork Archive - https://www.artworkarchive.com

It's an inventory/career management platform for working Artists. Slow but steady growth, mostly word of mouth and recommendations by influencers in the space. Me and one other business partner. We had our first $1k month in our 4th month of operation. We are well over that now and with current growth it should match the income of my full time job in the next year or so.
Does this mean Canadians (and other non-Americans) can finally launch a Kickstarter denominated in USD ?

From what I understand, unlike Amazon Payments which required a physical US address, to accept USD Stripe only requires a bank account denominated in US funds.
You called him misguided and childish. You lose the argument.
When I was first learning the piano I numbered the notes from Beethoven's Fur Elise, then numbered the keys on my keyboard to match. Then I just pressed the keys in order. Eventually, through muscle memory, I could play the piece pretty well. But I had not learned anything. I just imitated.
At first I didn't get why this result was remarkable - it's just what I would expect, imagining that subatomic particles behave like tiny billiard balls. Is it because I'm not so familiar with the math that I have gotten into the habit of thinking neutrinos are so slippery that they can only be detected in head-on collisions? That seems a curiously binary approach, whereas I would have intuitively imagined that the directness of particle collisions had a Gaussian distribution.
Indeed they are! The notion that each process has its separate address space is called virtual memory for that reason.

See also cgroups: while this feature is used by the container run times, it predates Docker, and can be used standalone with normal processes.
Sadly, the supply and demand of labors really press wages downwards. Especially in industries where "labor of love" marketing is really strong.

If you want to maximize for total compensation, then you should work in an industry where the companies have to compete for your talents constantly.
For others who didn't recognize this quote, it's from Theodore Roosevelt's speech "Citizenship in a Republic" from 1910; full text here:

https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-En...
Same here. Not carrying a knife seems pretty irresponsible.
I just made a backup of my files on DVD for that

But I do not think it worked. It did burn for 20 minutes and the DVD changed its color, but then the laptop reports the DVD is still empty
No, that's not right. The app is the product, the customer is the buyer of the app, and the split of revenue is 70/30 (or 85/15 for small devs).

Saying that developers are "buying" users makes no sense. Devs are not a customer of apple. If anything, devs are a supplier to apple. Since the net money flow is from Apple to Dev.

As always, just follow the money.
Your genes might compel you to try to leave the planet and keep mating after our sun dies, but our species will inevitably be dead once entropy kicks in at the heat death of the universe.

Ultimately we are going to go extinct and there is no point to the colonization scheme other than delusions of grandeur.
> I get dismayed when people think of drugs in terms of social freedom and opposing government. This is quite frankly a highly liberal view. And not one at all in line with the true definition of drugs. (..)

> Drug users WHO ARE IN CONTROL OF THEMSELVES see rules against drugs as oppressive. But the rules were never made for them! [..]

Frankly, most of the rules never really were about solving actual drug problems in the first place. Rather about controlling certain socioeconomic groups of people that happened to be associated with whatever substance.

At least that's the case for the US, however, most of the world has been influenced by their views and still hold them even when US is starting to change. Many parts of the world that lived peacefully (or even synergistically) with certain drugs now have one of the harshest rules regarding them, and that changed during the past ~50-70 years really.

> Using drugs is like balancing the tight rope, not something everyone can do. And advocates need to understand this.

I would say very few people educated on the matter claim drugs are not an issue at all and advocate their use to everyone. In fact, one of the main problems is - knowing the risks associated to drug use, and the fact that it's just gonna happen in the "real world" - how to minimize the harm? (i.e., education and treatment over punishment and rejection)

> Lastly comparing illegal intoxicants as similar to legal intoxicants is a poor justification. You try to stretch people’s benign feelings to one form of drugs onto another.

I'd say the main reason for making comparisons is to draw attention to the inconsistencies of people's judgements. When the statistics show how much more harmful alcohol (or pain pills) is to the mind, health, and society than almost any other substance, both relatively and in terms of prevalence of abuse, I just don't see how one can with a straight face claim it's right to send a kid to a cell for "smoking a joint", but have no desire to have any changes regarding the "normal" drugs.

Inconsistencies is what points you towards flaws in your thinking. Some may ignore it because it's easier to assume you know everything about everything. Some will use the opportunity to investigate.

> Drugs are an intoxicant. They destroy minds. They destroy health. And they can make addicts lose control. Not to mention destroy communities. There are laws on the books specifically for this reason. It affects society. It does not just stop at the individual. There is a reason why neighborhoods around bars fall in value. While those around coffee shops rise in value.

Don't want to be snarky, but these are just talking points. There are a lot of comparisons with other situations that could be drawn here, but as you've pointed out that's not necessarily the best tactic. However, if so, we should also have a "conversational rule" against throwing around three-word claims that are supposed to prove something but are clearly meaningless _without going into more detail_.

P.S. Nothing in life is black or white, it's all about balance and overall well-being.
I guess the most relevant question within an open source context is, "okay, but when/how do we get to play with this fancy new hardware?"

OpenPOWER remains a massive niche - as in, it's big, but it's still a niche - because nobody (in the sense of "just anybody", ie the long tail) can really get their hands on it. It's nontrivially difficult to maintain access to IBM POWER8 kit, and the Talos is also certainly way beyond what I could personally afford from a "directionless tinkering/learning" standpoint.

If I understand this article correctly, cloud-native means there's not likely to be a Talos equivalent for sale, and it's all remote access only.

Also, OpenPOWER is, like, an entire CPU, with a design is extremely old and can be expected to stay around for a long time, and even with that sort of centralizable focus opportunity it's still a niche.

I get the impression this is suggesting the creation of custom components with somewhat shorter design lifecycles - years, certainly, but not multiples of decades, and maybe only months for individual hardware revisions.

If this really wants to attract developers from outside of the immediate focus of the relevant industries... how are the discoverability and accessibility equations going to be solved?

Of course, the more potential cooks you attract to the kitchen the more overheads you have to deal with, but I wonder if is a necessary element to maintain interest and familiarity with what would apparently prefer to be a fast-changing environment.
I've had sub $200 chromebooks before. And upgraded to the Toshiba with intel processor and nice screen.

On the sub $200 model video ran like crap, couldn't cast tabs to chromecast, and more than half dozen or so tabs killed it. Other than that is was great.
I'm pretty skeptical of the invisible hand myself, but overall this seems to be a pretty good response (at least for the second caveat). I don't think they're doing as much good as they could be, but I agree that maybe it is good enough, even if only by collateral benefit.
From the article you linked:

> No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.

That clearly did not occur in this comment thread.
I think one of the "benefits" of the new version of the maps is that they can more easily customize the output per user.

This means that they can show different businesses to you based on your searches, and possibly some day charge businesses to be "put on the map".
Passwords need regulation though. How many people are going to use a common dictionary word, password1, 1234, the name of their cat etc. if they can. Forcing them not to is good for you and good for them.
Even that's not accurate. Advertising is selling access to people matching a certain demographic profile to advertisers.

They maintain a demographic profile (arguable: how accurate and comprehensive it is) by way of this line of business, but at no point is that profile sold to advertisers.

At no point has Google, or any other reputable ad network, had a system whereby you can download the information, personal or otherwise, of a few million people.

This is misleading and hyperbolic. Stop it.

If you want a view as to what advertising is actually like and what an advertiser can actually see, go sign up for Adwords and step through the process. I guarantee it is not as sketchy as you make it out to be.
> Not skimping when negotiating fees. If you try to talk a recruiter down to 20% or 17.5% of a first-year compensation fee, you're actually incentivizing them to only show you candidates they don't think they can place elsewhere.

True - better service always commands higher fees. Offer to pay a full 30% if they promise to deliver and make me happy. * Hat-tip Stuart Diamond.
Huh? There's a big difference between 'never publicly disclose their financials' and 'gotta dig around wikimediafoundation.org for details'. It only takes a few clicks and searches to find lots of detail about their past and plans.

Also, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Wikimedia's annual '990' tax form from prior years is a public record, available (among other places) at nonprofit directory site GuideStar.org.

They could make the info more prominent -- but what if including a link to deep detail results in fewer donations, whether because it distracts people or somehow convinces them their donation is insignificant?

As long as they're being honest and the info is available somewhere, their fund-raising campaigns should be free from other prominent requirements.
At this rate, there will surely come a time where college will be underrated.
That was really insightful. Where's the Temple Grandin[1] of designing web experiences and UIs for Joe Blub? Complaining about not getting a chance to show off what you do is just complaining about your poor understanding of the behavior of the internet herd that's trampling all over your website or app. Stop whining, start designing. See also Luke Wroblewski's ALA article "Sign Up Forms Must Die"[2] from nearly 3 years ago and compare[3].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin

2. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms

3. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5271434/ns/business-consumer_new...
With all the bloody mishaps and atrocities considered, your military is still better at winning hearts and minds than about anyone. Overall record for armies of the world in treating civilians is pretty abysmal, and IDF does not particularly shine there either.
A tutorial would be great. I couldn't figure RVM out from the messy docs; had to have others step me through the install and set-up process.
Yes, that is my point. Abstracting away SMS vs. email is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it doesn't solve any user problems. The sender is the best judge of what transport to use. It's unfortunate, but it's the way the world is today.
The original iPhone did have a niche, more than just did a beautiful elegant implementation. The touchscreen prior to iPhone sucks, and no body used the multi-touch screen yet. With your analogy, iPhone created a rather complex solution (in implementation perspective) to a non-problem (they can use keyboard, touchscreen is a non-problem!). It feels to me to be ignorant to say what original iPhone have done is what everybody else had already done.
Nah, you just invade their country.

[Joking, to point out how stupid such generalizations can be]
I guess President Vladimir and Chairman Xi would be delighted with the comparison.
The Register: Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/05/qt_lts_goes_commercia...
That may have more to do with the pace of mining investment than the total amount of gold, which won't change (until the next meteor impact).
How come it's misleading? It didn't say Chrome can't run the demos. It just said if you want to see my demos (or my products) you have to install my browser. If you don't want to download and install it, don't see the demos. Not really strange for me, I'm used now to the Apple attitude.
It may not be that girls are told they are less desirable if they embrace math/science/tech. I'm very skeptical of that being a widely held belief. It may simply be that girls do not wish to associate with others they perceive as less desirable.

http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/geeks/geeks.html
I'm simply saying "men think and women feel" is a debate we were having a long time ago before the biological arguments for the lack of women in science were refuted.

When were the biological arguments refuted? source? From what I've heard, there seems to be more evidence for the biological side now (eg http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/07... ).
Gruber never had an app rejected and he doesn't have any apps in the AppStore. Are you sure you're thinking of the same site?
I guess I am surprised that the Glider case hinges on the rights surrounding ownership of the client, versus improper use of the server, which is much less ambiguously owned by Blizzard.
The main problem here is not the offending video or else, the main problem is there is a monopoly in Turkish internet backbone and youtube users in Turkey use half of the total bandwidth , They dont want to improve their backbone so they are covering their behinds by banning the site with the most traffic. It's not about politics it's about money :)

And believe me I know this is my job.
Hrmm... how do you switch between views since they're triggered by hover on the desktop? It might actually work better on a mobile device since the hover switching is actually annoying, and would have been much better implemented on click instead.
I think there is a boatload of opportunity in Africa.
One of the most obnoxious, useless professors I knew spent most of his time in lecture recalling his myriad accomplishments and praising himself. As an adult, it's easy to see what a sad, unfulfilled lout he was, but as an undergrad you can be easily impressed by such buffonery. Please extinct the tenure system.
I think he means that HTML5 is a hedge against the coming collapse in the number and quality of native iOS apps from 3rd parties.
Remember, he doesn't speak for Yahoo and Bing...

And even for Google, there is evidence that nofollow is treated differently depending on the site:

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/using-twitter-as-a-sitemap
I'd love to pick your brain about your specific requirements for a solution. Would you mind shooting me an email if you're willing to chat about it? Thanks!
And if that's not a "logical" enough of a structure then you can skip the AST step if you really like and parse directly into the final effect.
Hey folks, thanks for your interest in Seldon. It's exciting to see all of our hard work come to life!

Our plan is to build out and support the strongest ecosystem of data scientists in the predictive machine learning space. We adopted the permissive Apache 2.0 license, so you are free to build domain-specific algorithms and functionality to either contribute back into the core platform or release under a separate license.

We would love to hear your feedback, both first impressions and thoughts as you start using the platform. And, of course, how you would like to see the project evolve in the long term.

Suggestions on the functionality that you would find useful would also be appreciated - we're hooked on customer and developer community feedback! :)
Western as in "white people showed up and ran everything". (like singapore, or Hong Kong)

Japan before WWII but after the West showed up, based it's whole economy and work system on Germany, after WWII it was essentially run by the US. They are completely "Western" (as in white people) when it comes to their way of business and economy.
In other words, always blame the software.

I get it, but the convenience of things like ZFS and Time Machine have a cost. It takes time to implement such things and they take resources. And even then a failure is possible.

E.g. you decide to do some kind of Garbage Collect on a HD, because you lack disk space and you don't want to buy a disk, but you forgot to backup a file you deleted a month ago.
Disgraceful.

One of the providers, web.de, also sends it’s users emails with advertisements which cannot be disabled or marked as spam.
If they offer up to 10Gbps, then why are you making 100+ Mbps seem like a big deal?
Enhance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0
Any source on that? Here[1] it says otherwise : "farmed salmon generally has more omega-3s, it is sometimes a more healthful choice than wild."

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-farmed-salm...
No, not gifted to the community. More like, burned, and thus driving down inflation.
No kidding. His take was much more accurate than others AFAIK.
Meta nee Facebook "solved" this problem by being set up so Zuckerberg would always have effective control of the company, no? Have they arrived at a better place?

What does "stake-ownership management" mean?
Open Source in the OSI sense of the term was created as a reaction to the Free Software movement so I'm guessing probably not.

It's more likely that we'd have the situation we had with UNIX; incompatible forks tied to incrutable hardware drivers that no one can fix with a zillion different combinations so that when you sat down at a terminal you had no idea what to do -thanks to people being able to take the BSD/MIT software and create their own contrarian forks.

GNU wasn't innovative because it was free, or even because it's source was free. It was innovative because it forced people to play nice.

The UNIX Wars demonstrated how well people play with others when left to their own desires (not at all).
One thing I know is that it doesn't matter which field or topic you go into. No amount of career-searching is going to do much in making us less confused. Too often we grow up being told (explicitly or implicitly) that our jobs and careers are our identity. This screws us up big time and sets us up for a life-time of confusion, if not worse.

Maybe tell me more about your personal life. Do you live alone? Have a romantic relationship? How's your relationship with your parents? Or maybe, how do people at work see you?
Pennsylvania is less than 4% of the US population. That's a really small piece and it wouldn't be sustainable if every jurisdiction that small enacted different rules
> Richard Stallman is one of the most influential and respected members of the movement

If you really think so, I’d argue that his hardline position is then justified.

To me Stallman doesn’t have any specific unfair advantage over anyone who would get on their soapboax and preach for a different approach. You or me could make blogposts and go talk to conferences, and rally people around a different approach. If we were to gain traction, there is no hidden lever for Stallman to pull that throws us in dark cave and nobody hears from us ever.

What gives Stallman his influence is that pragmatic approaches have at most kept the status quo, at worse allowed way more encroachment on our software and devices ownership. Even if we don’t reach the 100% free ideal, setting the goal at “a bit freer than now” won’t help in my opinion.

More and more the “realistic” approach feels close to accepting cops have some amount of violent abuse, because non abusing cops make 90% of the workforce and we better be in friendly terms with them to make things progress, right ?
I do not always like FSF and Stallman and their policies. Still I am in complete agreement that they do provide enormous value to the software world in and to the betterment of our lives in general.
> companies will terminate business in Pennsylvania

It's a fairly populous state at over 4% of the US total, I can't imagine national companies nixing PA.