jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An interesting issue. One way around it would be to enact the law in two states that have a similar environments. Continuing the example with gun control if there were two states with similar situations, both of them have an abnormally high gun crime rate, one of them could serve as a control state. If say 10 pairs of states were compared it would serve as a reasonable experiment on whether the law should be passed nation wide or not. Even better if evidence comes up that passing the law would only be beneficial in certain circumstances then it would help reveal the underlying causes of the problem in the first place.
> "which in case of evented framework will be heavily underutilized."

I'm not following your logic here. If something doesn't need 16 CPUs, why is splitting it over 16 cores a good idea? You're going to be adding a lot of inefficiency, complexity etc for no gain.

Most of mine are dual or possibly 4 core.

One core for OS stuff, other processes etc, one core to do networking IO for me.

As I say, networking IO shouldn't be using CPU. If you're doing long or blocking jobs, pass it over to some other thread. (That's a far better way to utilize multiple cores than splitting the whole networking IO over multiple cores).
On 6502-based computers, C was highly unusual. Not only was C not nearly that widespread in hobbyist computing, but it's really painful on an 8-bit CPU with such a tiny stack (256 bytes) and few registers.

Forth, on the other hand received lots of attention for its small size and compact code, and e.g. I remember articles extolling Forth as easier to learn than BASIC at the time....
The youtube vid was an old demonstration of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad software. I will try and find another version.

I'm not sure if there will be an android port of Antigen. The mobile gaming scene is not very conducive to indie devs at the moment:) I also didn't write it in a very cross-platform manner. I won't make that mistake again.
Does that BSD license grant a patent license though? It doesn't seem to. Otherwise arguing their "PATENTS" file doesn't apply means you have no right to any patents exercised by the software anyway.

All it does is grant rights, albeit flimsy ones that can be taken away in stupid circumstances. There's no real use arguing it doesn't count because then you're just saying you never had those right and are infringing in exactly the same way.
Thank you. I rolled my eyes so hard when he started droning on about brogrammers not bothering to learn below their layers of abstraction.

We live in a world where job postings are looking for RoR developers, job interviews test you on FizzBuzz, UML, and vague logic problems, and managers encourage developers to move fast and churn out releases. When exactly was anybody supposed to learn compilers, assembly, or low-level internet routing infrastructure? It was in a CS classroom years ago, and without any practical reason to refresh that knowledge ever since.

Furthermore, the "applications" produced by this "golden age" of the internet were complete shit by today's standards. If they were so wonderful, why do we like to laugh at their miserable UX, ugly design, and lack of functionality?

As if in 1995 they needed to think about javascript frameworks, CSS frameworks, responsive design, mobile anything, (quality) animations, asset servers, enormous databases, application and user analytics, clustered applications with message-passing, advanced caching strategies, an enormous variety of user input, or any of the other multitudinous things I forgot to mention.

In 1995 they thought of everything up to the point where a static HTML document gets sent to the user, and that's where they stopped thinking. In 2015 we have a lot more to think about after that initial transfer. In 2015 we have to, y'know, make applications.
Look at some of Facebook's early code:

https://gist.github.com/philfreo/7257723

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406

There are plenty of people in this industry who would have told you this code wasn't fit for production.

People frequently overestimate both what's needed to build commercially-viable solutions and how easy it becomes to recruit the right people to improve (or reimplement) poorly-architected solutions if they become popular.
HN is big on curated lists lately. Is there one for resources to aid in teaching mathematics the way Lockhart would prefer?

I've seen this posted so many places so many times that surely there's a market for materials and support for it. Where are they?
Looks quite cool and useful. I think a simple and clear demo page (for unregistered users) link near the top would also be nice, to see exactly what interface users are getting.

edit: And 2 seconds after posting that, I just realized you can click the bottom right to achieve that. I'm not sure if that's a UI flaw or me just being blind/too busy with work. I scrolled down pretty quickly and the white-background-on-white-background caused my eyes to glaze over it, I think. Maybe a slight background tint for the box would make it stand out a bit more.
I don't have much experience in the market, but "invest in index funds" seems like a way to inflate the values of all the companies in the index fund, deserved or not, and I find it worrying that it's touted as an easy/simple way to make money. If there's a lot more index fund money than hedge fund / active money it would probably mess with prices, right? Is there any good analysis of when it would stop making sense to invest in an index fund? Or ways to weight certain companies higher or lower in a 'personal' index fund?
The comment they responded to was not a serious comment, which is what they were mocking.

That is t to say that relatives of yours went through horrible things, with some American responsibility. As a nation, America has done some awful things, and we don’t do enough to acknowledge our mistakes.
Actually, it might be easier to simply treat them (NSA and Google) as the same entity, given that Google was created by the TLAs[1]. It seems the surveillance business model isn't really separate.

As for technical solutions - I seriously doubt that will stop much when you're facing what is effectively a new version of COINTELPRO. Especially when your enemy has access to not only the government purse, but also the giant pile of money at Goldman Sachs[2].

I fully agree there is a lot that needs to be fixed in terms of technical solutions - encryption must happen - but this is of government agencies going rogue and they need to be reined in if we want to keep what's left of this country.

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Serious question for everybody:

Many high-level people in the government seem to be explicitly violating the constitution while generally acting like know the law can't touch them, and the NSA and CIA seem to be very successful controlling the situation (CIA: avoiding prosecution for torture when it should have been easy to at least get a trial, NSA: forcing bill amendments like the recent Section 309 mess, not to mention the blatant 4th amendment violation of most of their recent activities). These kinds of activities should be solved by legal prosecution and regulation, but those solutions seem to be growing less and less likely.

If the intelligence community has replaced some or all of the Constitution... at what point can w4e start calling this a coup? Also, at what point does actively trying to subvert the constitution - the thing most of these people should have taken an oath to defend - does this not meet the very definition of "making war" against the country?

[1] https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836...

[2] ibid, towards the the end of "Part One"

/* before claiming that I'm wearing some sort of tinfoid hat, do read the article[1] */
Ghost like faces? It's as if they are... spectral

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To what precision? ;)
I don't think its correct to say "Dark Matter is the popular name for a variable in some models of how fast galaxies of different sizes rotate". The properties of Dark Matter are pretty tightly constrained, not just by galactic rotation properties, but also by CMB observations, gravitational lensing, galactic structure observations, big-bang nucleosynthesis populations and direct detection experiments.

Obviously what one considers a "plainly observable thing" is up for debate. But the effects of dark matter are seen in a very wide range of astrophysical phenomena. Its not true that its just some fudge factor stuck in to account for galactic velocity curves.
Ah, the '70s, the age of orange. (Although complaining about that on HN seems a bit ironic)

And if someone makes a window manager theme for the laptop interface, tell me. Meanwhile, I'm hunting for some basic interpreters...
Wabbits. (Admittedly, not the best reference, since there was no FUD in that episode.)
yep. they made sure to say their browser is firefox. the whole thing would have been a moot point if your browser is draining more energy than the pages you visit...
But you chose to only select a portion of the text. The second sentence is useful, too:

"Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and housekeeping, eating, studying, sleeping, closing the door and so forth"

My school was like that when I was growing up.

Your school proscribed when you go to the toilet and how to close a door?
why? you can send a message with a connection invitation I believe? I've done this without paying for LI premium.
> Give it a few years post Brexit and economic hardship and you'll have them lining up in droves. Scapegoating is a tried and true pastime.

I could see that in theory, but what kind of economic hardship are we talking about? In the world that led to the World Wars, everyday life for poor people was closer in comfort to the life in the trenches of the front than to everyday life for your average western European of today. And lots of people were poor.

By contrast, even an unexpectedly sharp post-Brexit downturn would probably just mean slightly more unemployment, some missed promotions. It's hard to imagine the UK would fall back behind, say, eastern European countries like Poland where people on average aren't rich, but can live an alright life.
I agree with your point, but as a user, I would want Google to rank results lower if the content served to the Googlebot isn't the same as the content served to the general public.

I'd expect this behavior to be a red flag in Google's ranking algorithm. Don't drop Quora, but just let them slide below the fold on results.
Wee Gah
Being obsessed with something is indeed a lot like slavery, or indentured servitude. But the difference is it was my idea.
Lol, that's a pretty good strategy to get people to come back to your site without having to generate new content. Just create(or scrape) some interesting sounding headlines for articles that don't exist and just link to the homepage. ;)

It's a good thing I have a moral compass.
Isn't this a HIPAA violation?
I can testify to the usefulness of Mozart Oz. It is a multi-paradigm programming system. I didn't know it had dataflow as one of its paradigms. Is this something written in Mozart Oz rather than an enhancement to it ?
The Tasmanian devil population is expected to crash over the next five years as well. However researchers are not worried about lack of diversity because I think they are already all seriously inbred. The strategy against devil facial tumour is to let the wild population die out and reintroduce from breeding programs established on Islands and the Tasman peninsular.
Valuations of small startups where the vast majority of staff have a high value to a buyer and can be locked into continued employed relatively cheaply are often valued based on the number of employees. How many of those 3,000 SpaceX staff would be of interest to the handful of companies that might have an interest in buying the company?

Further, that's of little relevance to a minority investor like Google, as they can't turn around and say "let's sell to Lockheed now", and staff moves.

In terms of capital equipment, you have to consider how quickly that equipment depreciates and who might be interested in it. Is there even a market for X billion in whatever equipment SpaceX owns? The purchase price is irrelevant.
Serious: Why are people surprised to find this? I know GA is not ads, but it's tracking. Not the same category, but the same idea.
I'm saying in this case. Doubleclick accounts are usually for ads.
Does China do anything to stop the import of poached animal products? They protect their own native species (nowadays, anyways... their native tiger is likely extinct in the wild), but don't make similar efforts species from other areas. Their ivory and tiger trade are huge international problems for modern conservation efforts.
> I've had traumatic experiences with dogs and being near one sends me into panic.

I can only speak for myself, but I used to be scared of most dogs except guide dogs. Guide dogs always seemed to have a calming effect on me (for some reason).
US News & World Report in particular was embarrassingly bad, but I felt the worst when traveling abroad and the only US newspaper I saw in some locations was USA Today. What they must think of us.
Or at least efficient enough that illiberal movements can't exploit frustration at that inefficiency to seize power.

For that matter, despite all the creepy enthusiasm for dictatorships in this thread, they tend to be remarkably incompetent, being even more dysfunctional than democracies due to lacking their corrective mechanisms.

Despite the myth, Mussolini never made the trains run on time--he just relaxed the definition of "on time" until the trains were never officially late and then punished anyone who complained.
Wouldn't client side data encrypting solve your concerns?
Lately reasoned debate has become very difficult on account of identity politics and social justice. It's as if the concept of debate is biased against them so they refuse to play the game. And they believe all disagreement with them to be illegitimate.
Neat! If I can make one suggestion: I know this is usually not at all what people should with websites, but consider hijacking basic browser hotkeys to augment the shell. Tab for auto complete instead of select next element would be a good start, and I think in this type of situation its acceptable to hijack.
Consistent stylus support ( they call it S-pen) for one thing! Comming from PalmOS and N900 the lack of stylus support was the biggestregression to me on modern smartphones.

Being able to take notes, draw simple pictures, use denser UIs again is just so refreshing! Also new stuff like on-hover translation overlay or stylus button actions.

Really, Samsung is preatty much the only vendor that cares about stylus support these days andvthat's sad. Also if you want to draw on the go, the only usable mobile drawing tablets come from Samsung, unless you want to lock yourself into the overpriced dumbed down closed nightmare that is the Apple ecosystem.
Uber app has been around for a while, blind people too.
Yeah, I saw that after, but since it looks like a Unix shell, my first reaction is to just use typical Unix commands.
US postal service?

Oh wait...
> Black box systems are incredibly common. By definition, there isn't anything readily apparent from the outside.

Citation needed. The author is trying to claim that this kind of extremely opaque black box system is common (at least, common enough that we should take the possibility seriously), but their only argument is a made-up example that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

> While there will always be some ever more convoluted model to explain results, any given model is testable, whereas assuming there is nothing to model is not testable.

The claim that Russell's Teapot exists in any given orbit is testable, whereas assuming Russell's Teapot doesn't exist anywhere is not testable.
It was a riot against the exact process of the transfer of power, rioting under unproven & consistently debunked accusations literally as Congress was officiating the transfer of power. And it actually disrupted that process.

The fact that the transfer of power will occur doesn't mean there wasn't violence involved along the way.
Fox News was founded in 1996.

Fox broadcast stations having nightly news, like your local Fox affiliate news at 11 was and remains different.
Uhh the police have bombed and killed militant black orgs, like the panthers and MOVE in philly
IIRC they charged for the app download on ios, and on android the initial download was free, but with a promise that they would start charging an annual fee soon. But that never happened. They kept extending the deadline and then got bought out.
That’s one of the many reasons I wrote this Rake task!
Today's "protestors" left an explosive device on the Capitol. That's not speech, that's terrorism.
There is a free lunch, it just doesn’t last forever.

Use a service until it’s useful, then be prepared to leave when you no longer agree to its terms. The average user will go through many social networks and apps throughout their life.
Tobacco is/was also extremely lucrative. I don't think that's enough to protect it. But it's effect on societal productivity likely is.
So the TSA is harassing those who are ruining the planet.
It reminds me of a somewhat similar article from NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/21/135508305/the-...
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2sz6n0/godaddy_csrf...
I go through long swinging phases in and out of my comfort zone, if I didn't I would probably lose interest altogether.

For example I went through a phase of "harrowing" books, like Primo Levi's books, books about Stalingrad and drug addiction. Then I needed a break and went back to comfortable, fun sci-fi authors I knew.

At the moment I'm doing a historical fiction binge. The current book I'm reading is very easy reading, almost a bit too pulpy. When it's done I'm considering tackling the Koran.

We'll see! :)
Are you a woman? And yes, but the headline would have been too long
I've been toting around a custom fvwm2 config for 12+ years now, and every year or two I look at new features, then do a little research for how someone accomplished the same or similar in fvmw2, and modify it for my own needs (or just write it from scratch if needed). It makes for an interesting diversion for a day, and everything works exactly as I like it.

I've been using windows for the past two years, but prior to that people that sat with me for a minute while I did something would often comment "wow, what are you using?" The kicker was that the comment wasn't because it looked super great, but because it was effective and efficient. I found that much more satisfying than if they just liked how it looked.
This is covered in the Range-R FAQ:

http://www.range-r.com/FAQ/index.htm

The RF bands they're using apparently don't go through metal so well.
I mean, it’s not google maps asking you to add the opening hours, but even though I had no experience with any mapping software before it was fairly obvious where the streets and buildings should go :P

The recommended tags that have autocomplete stuff are pretty much always good enough.

I agree with you that it would be cool to have some piece of software that would just recommend improvements though.
Well COVID is already a near-worst case scenario for human civilization. Anything much more nasty would not leave any room for denialism (and presumably would burn itself out fast), anything much less nasty would have meant double the Flu hospitalisation burden and no lockdowns. It is hard to see an outcome where the vaccines make things worse, but I admit biology is full of surprises.
I think attacks like this show, that an intervention is very much needed.
And if it is to disrupt the technology industry big time, that might just be needed as well.
I mean you wouldn't have spared the tobacco industry, just because making them liable for lung cancer means disrupting the industry.
In a lot of regards the "vaccine shortage" (hint: there is no real shortage, we are currently just in the early ramp up phase of production) should exaclty be treated like the toilet paper shortage.
They’re not saying there’s no decrease in asymptomatic cases, they’re saying they didn’t check for that. AstraZeneca’s study in the UK did surveillance testing of their study participants and found a significant drop in asymptomatic cases as well. Reasonable to assume the same is true with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Aluminium or Titanium frames make the best travel bikes.

- Unlike steel, they don't rust.

- Unlike carbon, they can cope with rough treatment (for example when loaded into the hold on a plane). They are less likely to be damaged, and the damage is more likely to lead to a gradual failure.

Titanium is reputed to be better but modern Aluminium frames are pretty light, pretty comfortable, and vastly cheaper.

I have an aluminium bike that I use whenever my trip involves a train ride or a flight.
At the end of the day, self-awareness is the highest sign of cognition and intelligence. OK, thats not quite true, but they do use it to test self-consciousness in animals.

I think it's important because, even if you have some really good ideas, and maybe this guy does, if you can't hold a mirror to them they will just end up hitting a wall. Ideas only improve if they can beat themselves up.
10 times that!

The site you linked is really nice! Not sure where they get the numbers from, but regardless a great resource.

One of the more interessting metrics in there is "daily doses per mil", as it shows the difference between the vaccination campaigns. Would be even better if the also shwed when each campaign started.
It is the same over here - I can print off Statements but they are not 'official' instead they are a list of transactions with the bank logo but they can not be used as a means of identification which is sometimes needed. I used to work in a call centre and this greatly frustrated people.
Well, most jobs don't need degrees. That doesn't mean they're any less worthy, mind. But it's the truth.

I'm not even talking about unskilled jobs - just jobs that require some other kind of training that academia.
Or just use a spreadsheet maybe??
Web interface: http://path.com/
For a long time i've wanted to disrupt[1] the UK banking industry and i even came up with a rough plan on what i'd do. While searching around i came across banksimple.com which are pretty much doing a similar thing but in the US, i know a good few people on HN are aware of them.

Unfortunately its highly unlikely i'll ever get to do what i'd like to because i'm simply not in a position to do it, nor have any experience in the banking industry. It'll have to be one of those dreams that never happens.

To me the number one benefit of internet banking is the convenience and less bureaucracy but even then the actual banking industry itself imposes limits on internet banking because of this and stifles innovation. I'd like to see API's for banks and i believe theres ways to do it safely and securely but i really cant see something like that happening in the next 10 years because of the industry behind the online fascia.

[1] i detest using that word in this context
Yeah, I tried an OpenCL FFT example, and it was very sensitive to a number of non-obvious hardware tuning parameters.

That actually turned me off OpenCL at the time. Are there any black boxish GPU-accelerated FFT implementations? I'd like a drop-in replacement for FFTW.
Indeed, the last sentence

> One of the stranger points brought up in testimony was how Ms. Pao, before she was married, had dated a colleague for six months without ever realizing he was still living with his wife.

sounds like the article wasn't even finished.
What bloat? No one is forcing you to install anything, so your OS can be stripped down to a base level. From there on you can compile and install the application using whatever dependencies you like. The problem is that no one wants to do this step manually, so we're back to the issue of packaging which CoreOS doesn't seem to solve.