jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> However Germany also gets decent manufacturing benefits from the income disparity in the east.

Strangely enough, the east has (by far) the highest unemployment rate in Germany:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Arbeitslo...

The big German manufacturing plants for e.g. cars are usually also found in the south/west (Daimler + Porsche around Stuttgart, BMW in Bavaria).
This goes even as far as adding a "solidarity surcharge" to help the east:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#Solidarity_...
There's nothing proprietary about Groupon, only a large volume of sale people on the ground.

If this aquisition is true, the number 2 & 3 in the sector can attract other buyers (namely YHOO). Just out-pace Groupon in your own demographic or stay within distance and you will probably attract top dollar.

But I can't see where Groupon currently fits with Google though. Maybe they are seeing declines in local Adwords spending?
The dichotomy you present implies that governments can't contract out efforts to make people safer. I don't see the logic behind that.

Separately, governments are perfectly capable of using law enforcement as a revenue generator, so that downside isn't specific to private companies.
The "power" of Wikileaks rests on the perceived need of the US government to govern secretly.

I would question the need for a massive security state with a vast flow of secret information within it.

Further, if the such a state is threaten whenever a flow of secrets are exposed, it says more about the fragility of such a system than the power of those who might reveal its secrets.
He's referring to this: http://i.imgur.com/KqMcq.png

From here: http://getsatisfaction.com/decormyeyescom

Despite what the blog entry says, they ARE contributing to the problem.
That's my primary reason for not believing this story. I just can't think of a plausible reason Google would want them. Their technology is laughably simple to replicate and combined with Google's existing advertiser relationships would be much more powerful -- this seems like a clear case of build, not buy (especially when the purchase price is so steep).
I don't care. Especially when simplistic individual-level observations are stated as population-wide truths.
If you're in the lowlands, then the risk of flooding during a storm is most definitely non-zero. In the UK, developers have been building on flood planes because the land is cheap. So a floating house just cuts out the middleman.

In holland, people have been living on barges for _years_. It's partly why I'd never swim in the canals in amsterdam, because those old barges discharge effluent. However hooking up utilities is trivial, pipes are bendy, and moorings are mostly fixed.

The advantage of floating houses in this instance is the portability. Not only can a house be built at a factory and moved, reducing price. But if the mooring terms and conditions are terrible, one can move.
>enormous metal machines that could easily get into an accident

Changing brake pads is a easy job that I did in the backyard a number of times.

Then I moved to the city and got an office job.

A 40 year old engineer that works on safety critical software gave me a snide remark about how stopping a car is too important and he'd be afraid to take that into his own hands.

I quickly learned not to talk about DIY on anything that wasn't toys unless I wanted to listen to people generalize from their own lack of experience and consider me reckless.
Why would big Capital let racial inequality subside when they profit of it? And even if it were to subside, history teaches us that's it's very easy to divide and rile up people along ethnic and cultural lines.
Learning self regulation is probably developing a coping mechanism rather than solving the problem directly. These are probably good strategies to employ in addition to pharmaceutical options when necessary. From what I understand, US doctors make book and counseling recommendations in addition to drugs. At least for children, even the drugs themselves don't have specific dosing requirements and there is a process for identifying what works and side effects. It seems very outcome/evidence based, which makes sense.
> Join order

Had to fight this a few times, planner thought it was smart to scan an index for a few million rows, then throw almost all of them away in a join further up, ending up with a few hundred rows.

Caused the query to take almost a minute. Once the join order was inverted (think I ended up with nesting queries) the thing took a second or two.
As a Syrian who have used many throw-away accounts on FB, this is a life or death matter for many of us. I'm sure the Syrian regime will use this information to track activists. I have checked and there are 7 million leaked accounts from Syria, probably covers everyone who uses Facebook in the country. Facebook made it mandatory to provide the phone number and now that this is leaked, they bear the moral responsibility for all the people who will be affected by this.
My quest for languages that say "Yes" ended with assembly. I started in BASIC and found the strait jacket it imposed much too restrictive. Then Pascal was the big teaching language but it has it's own ways. It wasn't till I got good as x86 assembly that I felt totally in control and able to do things just the way I wanted.
Having achieved that feeling 20ish years ago I've been running away from it ever since. C and C++ proved that at some size of code base even the most brilliant programmers can't do memory management correctly[1] so I love that modern language said "No" to memory management. I've worked at large software companies where the programming style guides ran to 80+ pages. That's 80 pages of documentation of how people will format their code so that it's done consistently. I love that Python said "No" to letting people format their code however they wanted. It's likely that these aren't the kinds of things that Steve Yegge is talking about, but there are a lot of things it's worth saying "No" to, and if they bug you (like they used to bug me) there's always assembly language.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/70226/tr-2005-139.pdf
> I'd love to see a product/social network that confront their users with opposite point of views.

It has dawned on me over time that HN is like this, mainly because there's a single front page, i.e. no subreddits into which people silo themselves. That means that on any divisive topic, anyone who feels strongly has comments in their face that they strongly dislike, and vice versa. (I wrote more about this downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003205).

This is not an entirely good thing. It's responsible for most of the conflict that happens here.
> I'm rather tired of the "both sides" rhetoric.

That's what Republicans and Trump supporters say too. You are tired of it because it's true.

> One candidate refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power.

Neither candidate committed to it. The DNC was going to do exactly what the RNC did.

"Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that Joe Biden should not concede the 2020 presidential election “under any circumstances," anticipating issues that could prolong knowing the final outcome."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/hillary-clint...

> One candidate has a history of racial bias (Central Park 5, apartment zoning, Judge Curiel, etc.).

Yes and Biden help push a law that sent millions of minorities to prison.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-controversial-19...

> One candidate openly asked for and received aid from a foreign nation.

Are you for real? Biden and his son's ukraine, russia, china, etc endeavors are just as bad or worse.

> One candidate built up a mob and pointed them at the Capitol in an attempted coup.

Right. And no rioting from biden's side.

The only people who think like you are brainwashed political zealots. You are part of the problem. The only difference between you and a tea party or trumpist is political party affiliation. That's it. And it doesn't really matter because DNC and RNC are ultimately on the same team. They serve the same master. And it isn't the american people.

But whatever, you do you and keep up the good fight.

I may be mistaken, but you sound like the type who cries about "privileged white males". But man, you sure do love Biden.
Repeated exposure to things you know to be false or to bad arguments has been shown many times to shift your beliefs towards those false beliefs. It effectively wears your mind's defenses down. This 'repeat a lie enough and it becomes the truth' idea is a Trump specialty: 'Crooked Hillary', the wall, voter fraud, etc. Re: extermism, the far right's arguments are bad but if you're not actively exposed to counterarguments/lived experience it's easy to fall prey to such bombastic arguments that cities are crime ridden shitholes, BLM burned down everything, urban voting is rife with fraud, etc (not to mention even more harmful dehumanizing memes about minorities that further ingrain negative sterotypes). They offer a facile, comforting (to white suburbanites) view of the complex, often unsatisfying world that is easy to lower your defenses to.
"In a Weibo post on Thursday, Dr Tao refuted allegations that he had blasted Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine.

He argued that his previous blog was an 'extremely sarcastic' column aimed at pointing out the errors in the manual of the Sinopharm vaccine.

He claimed he had suspected that many of the side effects had been listed by mistake. Therefore, he decided to write a blog to mock the flawed handbook to call for the drugmaker's attention.

To ensure his followers the safety of the medicine, Dr Tao claimed he had received the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine and would get his second dose on Saturday.

'Hereby, I extend my apologies to numerous web users and citizens across the nation, and express my despisal against the evil actions of overseas media,' Dr Tao wrote."

Over the top retraction actually gives more credence to the original post.
Is high-rise (>10 storeys) really needed? Or would mid-rise (5-10) be sufficient?

Certainly some areas could use high (near major transit hubs), but towers don't have to be planted everywhere.
Well said. It is hard work too.

Quality post. Thanks for it.
Buy why can't they enable iCloud backup? What's so bad about uploading an encrypted blob to the cloud.
Against what threat model? The general answer is "yes, most of them, including all the ones being used as defaults in major distros" -- they will not allow a user that isn't in possession of the password to log back into the session.

They don't necessarily prevent against other threat models, like "the attacker dumps the laptop's RAM" (which you could technically protect against if you froze all session processes and encrypted their working set with a key held in a secure element).
eBay's pretty useful for stuff like that. You might make an easy $1k if you still have everything that came with it. I don't think you can do anything besides sell it at this point, unfortunately. I think it's cool, just not cool enough to be worth a huge pile of money.
I came expecting to read the story of Upworthy.
I'm not sure if by researchers, you mean "CS researchers". I do materials science work and have used Julia on Titan (#2 supercomputer in the world). It's becoming very relevant in the HPC space. It has SSH-based cluster capabilities even though it doesn't support MPI (although I'm not using it for millions of CPU hours... yet). I've introduced it to other colleagues in my field and many of them are exploring it as well.
Ancient desktop is todays (or at least yesterdays) embedded. I guess this dates me but instead of taking the legacy Z80 embedded micro controller class a long time ago, I took the then new brand new 68hc11 class, although the Z80 guys got to use two DACs and a scope to display a cube on the scope as one of their labs. Now using a mhz class cpu to output a table at khz speeds isn't very impressive, so logically the next step in the lab was rotating the cube. I donno if they had to dream up their own trig or got a canned library. Maybe they canned the whole thing and just stored 30 or so frames of rotation data and switched which frame they displayed every tenth of a second or whatever. Donno didn't take the class but we got to see their work on lab day.

I would imagine whatever took a "sheet of paper" sized development board with dedicated hardware DACs and eproms around 1990 could be done as a single chip solution today, assuming you can find a single chip solution that actually has two on board DACs. Or up the challenge by synthesizing PWM signals and low pass filtering them, essentially a class D amplifier controlled by software.
It's been suggested by Robin Hanson (who coined the name "Great Filter") that an ethical super-civ would see a galactic war with another super-civ as the worst thing possible, and so wipe out other civs to stop that worst thing possible,

I don't buy it, FWIW, because "ethical" doesn't overlap with "wipe out all other life" in my book. (Although you could certainly, say, have some system that stops any civ from leaving their planet by dropping rocks on them each time they launch something into orbit.)

But you can search Hanson's blog for more talk about this if you want to see more discussion.
In Germany the debit card would be tied to a bank account. In that case you select a different payment method and just type in your (SEPA) bank account number.

For VISA debit and credit cards some banks now require online PIN (different from the card PIN) and then send a transaction code to your mobile which you type into the web form.
So it sounds like they are just renaming Internet Explorer. Nothing to see here. What would be compelling is if it was open-source.
I think what they said was that there's no way a burger that was made of vegetables could taste better than fresh vegetables.
No, it doesn't. Much of the area to the east is protected under open-space laws. Also, there have been limits imposed on the vertical height of buildings intended to control the atmosphere of the town.
Obviously only now matters now. Not 150 or 15 years ago. Don't ask me why.
Is it? That's how humans learn to speak their language, one of the most complex tasks they need to achieve in their life...
I know of many people who have multiple cars but only one crucial electronic device that is a must-have. Your car can also likely be serviced faster than your computer or mobile phone, when either goes kaput. Your argument can go both ways.
> Refers to the understood native population of, roughly, Australia

Does this mean aboriginal Australians, Papuan type people? I had not realized that they had also reached South America. I am fascinated by that population set as it seems to have a deep culture of exploration "walkabout", "dreamtime" concepts. It is a shame so little is known about their adventures and history.
If 46% of the Pacific garbage patch is fishing nets doesn't that make it easier to clean up?

Some of the nets will have disintegrated but surely some must have large pieces of them intact?

All the photos of the patch I've seen tend to be individual plastic items - bottles, cups etc. – so wondering if anyone's seen different

EDIT: Found this https://mymodernmet.com/ocean-voyages-institute-great-pacifi... the majority of 103 tons dredged up were fishing nets etc.
I don't think ditching the "basic" operator precedence (MDAS etc.) is a good idea, but I strongly agree that operator precedence should be a partial order, not a total order. See also [1].

[1] https://foonathan.net/2017/07/operator-precedence/
most features of my laptop don't work reliably (MSI GS65) if I don't use the acpi_osi line, why would that be in that case ? I'm on archlinux with pretty much always the latest kernel
>many things about Go that people attribute to "googlism" is really attributable to work done at Bell Labs.

We're 50 to 30+ years away from that Bell Labs work. They could have checked what happened in the meantime with the rest of the computing world, before re-imposing obsolete ways with the full power of Google behind them...
I watched this series as a kid. At the time I thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen.
Oh Siegler. Where's the real original article instead of this TC shit. I don't know which is worse, TC's blatant attitude in their posts or Engadget's terrible perspective on everything.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/22/2011-will-be-the-year...
Why is anything wrong? Perhaps the simplest form of morality is that of the Golden Rule.

Thus, how would you feel if you were stolen from? If something of yours went missing? It might be anything from a small little toy to a family heirloom. It's not just the physical loss that matters, but also potential emotional loss and further damages.
This is already happening with the iPod Touch.

I'm currently working on a similar project for a large retail company. We're using the Linea-Pro [1] cradle, which has both a barcode and magnetic strip reader. (Same device as used in Apple stores.)

[1] http://www.ipclineapro.com/
Lisp on Lines (http://www.cliki.net/lisp-on-lines)
Perhaps what is needed is a non-profit devoted to suing spammers. Then we could donate to that organization.
Sounds like this could open the door to a lot of private communication being exposed:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents...
but smartphones can read what you type and provide suggestions when you make spelling mistakes, like writing "prolly" instead of "probably".
Wait, is this article about phones or the author? Is it mandatory at tech crunch now to ensure each feature has the maximum amount of smugness allowed by law?
thank you very much for this! Added a pull request to fix some issues with relative paths :)
Eric Evenchick (@ericevenchick) did a great talk called "Hopping on the CAN Bus" at BSidesTO2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPIscmaIt8U&list=PL02T0JOKYE...
I tend to do the same.

I find there is some kind of "logic" to this idea :D
Deathbed Vigil by Dave Haynie might also be interesting, the last days of Commodore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5QKnGTEiJo
I'd be much more impressed by one small, interesting project than a bunch of large, overengineered ones. ;)
Only if your TCP VPN is listening on one of the allowed ports ;-)

(I do keep a TCP VPN running on port 443 ready to go for these situations, but UDP is always my first choice.)
As an engineer, programmer, and human being I would be thrilled to hear these sorts of war stories. If you've a book or lecture series, I'm all ears (err, eyes, as the case goes). This is a great, fascinating look - thanks for continuing to weigh in!

(And, incidentally, cruel to just skim over this stuff; some of this is Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman material :)
Hah, yeah. I think if I take up blogging again I'm going to just host it on a github page.

You might find this useful: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
Cmake.
This is great if you're "all in" on Mesos. However the advantages to a truly independent service discovery system (such as Consul etc.) are that it:

* Doesn't tie you to Mesos, as it can move to another "datacenter OS" along with your software.

* Allows you to mix software-on-Mesos with software that's not.
The way I see it, you hear about thought experiments in physics because of Einstein. Because of him they can't avoid giving them some credence. But the odds of a new thought experiment purporting to show a bug in general consensus physics being given consideration today is nil, and I'm talking about before the text is read. Using thought experiments to discuss current physics is fine as a starting point only. For new physics they are junk that immediately labels one as a crackpot.
I've been using Fluxxor http://fluxxor.com/ for a relatively large application. Has been working well! When I started the project the flux concept was still very, very new and there were not many implementations. It took care of the basics and has gotten out of my way. I'm looking forward to trying marty out on a new app.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

Source is at https://github.com/ctm/executor

I think the OP is of by two OS versions, but I didn't work at ARDI, so I may be wrong.
The brain as a prediction and inference engine (the Bayesian brain) has been accepted by many in neuroscience. I think this article is novel because he rebels against this idea. I do think that many of the things that we consider intelligence are prediction, image recognition, speech comprehension, understanding other's theory of mind, and many games (e.g., chess).

I think Deutsch's argument is that there is also creativity (and creative reasoning) that is omitted from today's approaches to AI.
Try playing both sides of say a game of chess. I bet if you do it seriously you can't predict the outcome.
That's not what I'm referring to.

She is hypocrisy personified. A person with her track record has NO BUSINESS telling anyone how they should behave, let alone doing it with her flamboyant berserk style.

Deal with it.
Is that can your kid is drinking from a soda, or paint thinner? I love this idea as a concept, but there are some "brands" you really want to be able to see.
What you are in effect saying is that when 'only' 1 in 4 men get robbed in divorce court, have their children stolen, have their human rights trampled upon ... it's OK.

Thanks for telling us.
The question is at what point flight software can be demonstrated to have a small fraction of the failure rate that humans have.

We could certainly have software flying a plane tomorrow if we wanted to, at the cost of failure rates several orders of magnitude higher. Humans have the capacity look around, intuit what's going on and what doesn't make sense, and work around it. Software that can detect and understand what to do when 3 things that each occur only one in 1,000 flights, happen simultaneously while 3 out of 10 of the sensor networks are down for maintenance and rare weather patterns are occurring on the route.

We have 100,000 flights per day to cover. Right now, we have lethal accidents roughly monthly, but we have contingency conditions that might plausibly cause a lethal accident a thousand times more often, conditions that are caught, troubleshooted, and successfully mitigated by a human.
I refer those interested in this topic to the INTERCAL character naming conventions, now hallowed by tradition and skirting the edge of madness. As a taster . is one-spot : is two-spot , is tail and ; is hybrid. # is mesh. <- is known as an 'angle worm' and is pronounced 'gets'. It goes on from there.
In california you had traders turning off power plants so that energy had to be purchased from other places at higher price. That is not speculating, that is blatant abuse and lack of properly written contracts. They exploited a loophole in a newly created market, this would eventually be fixed as the contracts would have provisions so that what they were doing would be prohobited.
He isn't expecting to witness an increase in sales from this.

"I don't think the error isn't (sic?) going to boost GMod sales.. I just like to give people that paid something to be smug about."
http://twitter.com/#!/garrynewman/status/58100503036432384
I have had similar experiences putting it on my friends laptops.

If you come to me asking for a reformat job twice in 6 months, you get ubuntu. They never need to ask again after that.
"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. 'That sucks.'"

Man, I love that quote. Advertising is a pestilence. The real problem with ads is that they invariably take the form of insincere communication. As such, they are fundamentally at odds with the open and thoughtful (on a good day) nature of the Internet.
Some people pronounce "?" as "Huh"?

Might as well call it a "WTF mark".