jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In a republic, the government - representing the people - is supposed to have the biggest stick. Huge companies with their own agendas are throwing a spanner in the works. And they basically only care about money. So the bigger they are, the more inherently evil they are. And it becomes even worse with transnational companies whose headquarters are basically out of reach.
Or it may have been re-added in one of the later versions. I remember there being several full-3D versions of the game (though I don't recall any idea of whether they were officially linked to the original shown here).
Indeed there seem to be pitch differences between languages, and between regions of the same language. Don't know about kids, but here is some data for adults:

https://erikbern.com/2017/02/01
/language-pitch.html
Taking advantage of different availability zones is a business decision based on cost. Of course I don't mean just cost of the servers in different zones, the highest cost is designing and testing your architecture for the additional uptime. It's easy to say that they "should have" done it without knowing how each one of them (us) evaluated that decision.
Actually,

When Zed Shaw says stuff here, I think sometimes it's up-voted and some times it's down-voted. Sometimes the up-voted stuff is good and sometimes times the down-voted stuff is bad.

In ways, I think that relationship is better. Zed has carved-out the position of being celebrity who's not automatically respected. Being a curmudgeon myself, I respect him more for this...

Also, I've seen some high karma folks here still get -4's (back when karm was visible).
There were plenty of warning signs that Gox had serious issues, and they had existed for months.

The real situation turns out to be far worse than I expected, but what I expected had me off Gox months ago.
Tests would be temperature monitors that alert if the temperature rises beyond a preset threshold and triggers alerts. No environmental monitoring? No alerts? Was it always assumed generators would kick on if there was a power outage?
some ycombinator investments are listed here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator
The exact terms were listed as confidential between the parties -- I'd imagine they negotiated something that seemed fair to both of them.

The larger point of the wager should transcend the specifics, of course.
A lot of people really would find that sentence less offensive than "I jacked off in the shower" or "Fuck, you're awesome" simply due to the more decorous phrasing. The fact that your example describes bestiality and my second example is actually an ecstatic compliment doesn't matter to such people — the phrasing itself is what offends them, not the content of the idea.
My order of preference would be

Python, because I know it already, and its my day to day language. As far as I know it has decent libraries.

GNU Octave, as it was reccomended on the Coursera course.

R as it is an open source alternative, no expensive licensing cost, so I can try it out a no risk.

Would I gain anything going to Matlab, as I can see advantages with the others being open source?
> Paper ballots work fine and, in Australia, would require the systematic subversion of hundreds of electoral officials and thousands of mutually-hostile scrutineers to rig a vote

The paper ballots are scanned:
http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/scannin...

After scanning, "the preference data from those ballot papers was transferred to the electronic voting and counting system (eVACS)"

So you do have an electronic voting system, just not end-user accessible.
Sorry I didn't respond earlier. We work on basically any data-analysis-intensive part of the site, including basic research into what people are using the site for, how features proliferate, deduping and disambiguation on the graph, machine learning, recommendations.

My Facebook profile is on my HN profile, and is the best way to contact me.
It might make more sense to try and get more paying users for a small amount of apps, than more apps for a small amount of users.
Windows 2?! I'm still on Windows 1!

It's too bad there aren't any free operating systems...
You might want to look at the Incremental Funding Methodology stuff:

http://www.softwarebynumbers.org/
Not sure why, but I didn't get your message on Facebook.
Thanks :)

We got quite a few customers from that, plus donations to good causes, and some game developers.

Thanks, Ben (Site5)
Neither method really works for Jazz, though. Sometimes, the group would have a name, but many times, only one person's name is on the album cover. But, some great musicians never fronted a band, and none of them are bandleaders for their whole career, and sometimes the lineup of a group would change while the name stayed the same.
Another great article by John Gruber. It makes me laugh when people thinks Apple is going to fail based solely on % numbers without considering the growth of the market itself.
This is the kind of portfolio you get when you have zero faith in free enterprise. They trust cold, dead gold more than they trust work and creativity.

This is my core question for self-styled libertarians anymore... if government regulation is so problematic for people, isn't that just a market opportunity for entrepreneurs? Those of us who think in terms of finding problems and creating solutions for them for money, see a big problem as a big opportunity.
Elizabeth Holmes is facing 20 years in prison. Pretty smart.
> Y Combinator did not respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/crypto-lau...
According to Messari Cardano oscillates between 2nd/3rd most active crypto

https://messari.io/screener/most-active-chains-DB01F96B

Given the head start for Ethereum I would call this very successful in terms of adoption.
> But Lula's refusenik stance paid off for Brazil which, alone among Western nations, survived and thrived during the 2007-9 bank crisis.

I guess Australia doesn't exist in conspiracy theories.
Hey guys, do you know an alternative service that provides mailing lists (no Ggle groups please)?
There's an English translation (in .doc) at the bottom of the wikipedia article:

http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/russian-culture/lefty.doc
i had to `tar -xzf` twice, the first time the ltbin executable was missing for me as well. not sure why?
LWN had a similar feature posted yesterday which has significantly more background information.
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/564250/0a106d6379c0d741/
* just "wrong"
> This is a “drive-by installer”, designed to catch less technical users and the unwary, to fill their computers with malware / junk ware / crime ware... To misquote Marge Simpson; “They not only crossed the line, they threw up on it.”

And after a little research, it's clear that this article throws up on the truth.

1) “drive-by installer” Drive-by installers don't require user to download and intall, and are definatelly not OPT-IN like this one

2) "malware / junk ware / crime ware" - He listed all of the wares, except the one that it is, offer-installer is adware.

I'm no fan of opt-in adware, but plenty of quality apps depend on it. I've been using daemon tools for almost 5 years now, and I've never had an issue with it. For such a trivial tool with opensource alternatives, most people won't pay, but developers needs to pay their bills and a little adware gets the job done.

For click bait garbage articles like this I wish HN had someway to unvote.
The article is definitely not clear about this. In fact it says "bonus points if it's open source" implying that you expect to see proprietary work. It was a bit of a red flag for me while reading.
Agreed. The interesting thing about DNA is not its raw storage capabilities, but with how it interacts with itself and its environment to expose and withdraw certain portions of itself for protein synthesis.
That's like saying they are a lost cause. And nobody is a lost cause
Right now, we support your iOS device and Windows. The MAC app is coming out shortly.
I don't think putting 'fractals' on the front of a discussion is very useful. A line segment is a fractal. A dot is a fractal. Everything can be a fractal in the right light. Of course they are useful -- but not usually just because they are fractals.

It's too much woo.
I'm so glad you named these specific models/platforms. Thank you for your half-nut, as went with everyone else. Best post on Hacker News. Totally agreed.
That "anonymized technical data" link points to a github repo with no documentation. It's not clear what data you're actually sending. What do you consider personally identifying?
It’s a combination of factors but all with the same theme.

Basically nobody is willing to take any risk for anything.

This is on every level, from being wrong about a simple decision all the way up to not taking any personal risk with your life.

And it’s impossible to argue against it because at any point you can always make an argument for reduction of risk, and anyone arguing against it is demonized.

How can you argue against more health and safety standards after all? More rigourous engineering standards? More environmental protection standards? More consultation with the public?

But it’s not just a government thing, it’s on a societal level. In large companies it’s the same exact phenomenon of buck passing and responsibility dodging.

Each thing only has a tiny multiplicative cost, but the sum total of all of it is the inability to make any progress.
>And as you can see, he's saying that as POTUS, he must speak out against it because he is POTUS; that the US has different cultural norms than China and that we don't condone these things.

But what is he saying about China's cultural norms? Your statement doesn't contradict this statement:

> Wow... Biden's stance is essentially it's a cultural difference.

They are focusing on what Biden thinks are Chinese cultural norms, and you are focusing on what Biden thinks are American cultural norms. The two statements aren't contradictory but also aren't complete.

Ultimately the press should ask for clarification and Biden should clarify. We shouldn't have to interpret like this. To my knowledge that hasn't happened.
http://archive.is/xJzF2
College kids often just took an algorithms course. Experienced devs have to brush up on this stuff to jump through the hoops while also managing their day job and any other commitments.

I do a lot of hiring at a "big n" company and I'd agree with this
I don't think Signal has any plans to scan your driver's license. What they've built is a non-custodial wallet (IE, they can't help you if you lose your keys, and they have no ability to authorize or deny a payment on your behalf).
The vast majority of advertising is not a socially productive activity.

There is a narrow use case that can be productive when informing a buyer of the existence of something they actually need, but this is not the case 90+% of the time.
In my case I was working in a codebase that I largely built myself, so I understood all design decisions and code at all times. It's much easier to operate in this environment.

I have worked on less clean codebases where I spend hours tracing state through spaghetti-like code, and there's no way you can productively code for lengths of time in those environments.

It's always better to refactor that kind of stuff ASAP, assuming the longevity of the product matters, and the refactor is a tangible improvement over the original.
"races" is too general. Safe Rust cannot have data races. It can have race conditions.
Thanks, I did a quick hack to find my Google contacts in leak file, so I can inform them:
https://gist.github.com/gmargari/95976c58d2ef0c05cc1f03fc023...
I intend to use TimescaleDB (+PostGIS) for all other data and last year researched this approach for the raw sensor data. I think they have improved compression since then.

For my use, the raw sensor data should only be retrieved 1) to perform a windowed analysis (the results of which will be stored in PostgreSQL) or 2) to display for the user. I'm planning to archive the raw sensor data in files for archival, so I think it's easier to just jam the data in 15-minute netCDF files and call it a day. Will definitely keep an open mind.
I agree and that gives you a better framework to improve yourself too. If you think about woodworking as an analogue you'll want to learn about new types of wood, new tools, woodworking design and history, contemporary woodworking design and technologies, try to make every chair you make more perfect than the last, etc.

There's no one true way to make a chair, it depends on who will use it and how you're feeling. Craftsmanship does include art in it.
Correct with respect to what?

The answer to, does your code do what you expect it to? is pernicious and difficult to answer if you're not writing specifications, at a certain scope of complexity.
Nobody wants to force you to work from home. I think if you work better from the office you should work from the office, and if I work better from home I should work from home.

The execs advocating for work from office aren’t proposing this though: they are instead insisting everyone work from the office, regardless of preference. That’s what chafes people.
AWS CDK makes ECS a lot more palatable
I used to own a Honda Jazz (Fit) and it could fit an amazing amount of things because of the flat floor, seats that folded flat and squarish rear hatch.

I used it to move a queen size bed, refrigerator, washing machine: stuff you'd normally need a ute or van to transport.
I go to 8-15 hackathons/year. But maybe it is Atlanta's ecosystem or my lack of telling people about what I do, but I am have yet to get a lot of client work out of winning these types of events. I think winning def helps my portfolio, but I haven't seen much in cultivating relationships.

Do you have any advice on how to leverage these experiences more?
One thing left out of these discussions tends to be the views of just about every non-college Republican or independent. It’s just mainstream liberalism against elite Republican views, thirdway-ism, or some niche contrarian take from the right or the left.

If you’re going to bring in contrarian views on things like race, that some view as racist - okay. But I would recommend expanding that to bring in views that are also contrarian but perhaps not so controversial but nevertheless worth discussing.

My impression is SSC readers get caught up in a sort of intellectual exoticism rather than any rigorous analysis of what the landscape actually looks like; the non-conventional but ultimately boring takes are left unexamined.
citation? land has racist and extreme social-darwinist views but afaik he holds identitarian political movements in contempt, he is more of a nietzschean anti-human trying to usher in a machine god than anything like nazi politics
They're called shadow profiles. If you do a search for facebook shadow profile you'll find a number of articles that talk about how Facebook infers connections between Facebook users and non-users.
Surely ships' wakes don't go on for that long? What would the image look like if the tracers of the ships were reduced to a quarter of their size, which would be much closer to reality?
O(1) implementation is trivial and implemented by most teenagers bedroom floors.
?

You can do exactly the same thing, after all async is just a big auto-generated state-machine that puts jobs onto a thread pool and waits for them.

Nginx is hand crafted (artisanal!) event-driven C, which is exactly how async runtimes also work. A big loop (the event loop, usually an infinite `while` blocked on epoll()). For example NodeJS uses libuv for this.

The big advantage of first class async support is that we don't have to do this by hand. Plus it makes some optimizations easier (eg. putting things on the stack instead of assigning each event handler a slice of some global [heap allocated] structure).

Or maybe I'm simply misunderstanding what you meant. In that case cloud you clarify please?
I read an article in the FT recently saying that a new batch of startups is looking at competing with Google in the search-engine field [0].

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/24efc152-a65d-4c48-9032-ee349a2c8...
Scala, Clojure, and Groovy are all mature languages that haven't gone anywhere. No one has a goal of replacing Java, and they all benefit from improvements to the JVM.
Unless it's hidden under the paywall fold, I don't see the article mentioning that's what's planned?
10am in Vancouver, 5am in Syndey, I wouldn't read too much into that. Map of all OSM nodes, it's somewhat close to population density https://twitter.com/phil_osophie/status/1357728257316126722
How do you reconcile that with so much of hackerdom being in and around San Francisco (and a lot of the remainder being MIT)?
So here is the deal. If the phone has WiFi and Skype installed, nearly every single household in India will buy this in a heart beat. Plus they can get all those customers on Skype, for free.

I'm currently shopping around for a phone for my father, he doesn't want a smartphone. He needs a simple phone, through which he can make VOIP calls(Skype/Viber etc). Its perfectly alright if the phone doesn't have a camera, or GPS. But for sure it needs to have WiFi connectivity, you should be able to tether, should be rugged and durable and should be cheap.

Internet is taking off big time in India. And people want to make free calls over VOIP all the time. Smartphones are expensive, and aren't exactly very durable and rugged. Plus they get out of fashion very soon. A simple phone, Nokia standard, which you could use as a internet phone over WiFi with apps like Skype, Viber would sell like hotcakes here.
What a great article / story. I could not stop reading. Very well written and entertaining.
That's a really bizarre analogy. Pigs aren't as intelligent as humans. I wouldn't expect pigs with guns to be a serious threat to humankind unless they've also developed military strategy, for example.
Not all people are comfortable with a terminal window you know...
"Weighing 78.7 grams, the 215 has a VGA camera with space for a 32GB microSD card. ..."

http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/nokia-215/

'Europe' availability specified. 2G in UK for some years to come. Might get one on payg and I can listen to my music and take the odd low res pic of funny signs (what I mainly use the camera for).
> It probably won't even want to take over. That's a very human trait, and Strong AI wouldn't be human.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
That's exactly why I built this, because I wanted a no-hassle way to share images. It also has a very convenient CLI utility (pip install imgz-cli) that lets you upload with one command, or from various apps or whatnot. There's also a very simple API.
Big blocks will scale you one or two orders of magnitude. There are still 3-5 MORE orders of magnitude to go before you approach that of a standard Credit Card transaction processor.
Try to open all your old MS WORD document into libre office and then tell us if you still want to switch...
We should also really update all tutorials out there to use things like `make -j12` and makefiles to link and compile using multiple threads.
I'm not anonymous, I'm not Russian, and I provided the reasoning with which I arrived at my conclusions, so that anyone can evaluate it for themselves.
git is split up in many man pages. That's generally a good thing, but you sometimes have to search or look at more than one man page to find what you are looking for.

You could try

> man -K "bare repo"

to search all man pages for that string, and you'll find that

> man git-clone

has the information you are looking for:

"--bare: Make a bare Git repository. That is, instead of creating <directory> and placing the administrative files in <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR. This obviously implies the -n because there is nowhere to check out the working tree."

If you have Internet connectivity, Google is also an option. Among the first hits should be the book "Pro Git", chapter "4.2 Git on the Server", which begins with a concise explanation what a bare repository is.
Phone number deduplication is an easy way to increase cost on the spammers
People get killed for far less if all involved are very poor. As you go up the socio-economic ladder the price becomes higher, so it makes sense that different people have wildly differing experiences.
Violence as a contagious disease is a concept that isn't going to fare well in certain circles (of proponents of open borders, migration etc.). More research should be done in this area, if possible.
That is good advice that is unfortunately not widely followed in most of the apps I've seen. There's also the caveat that you should be prepared to retry transactions, but for small apps it's probably fine if you don't.
The most coveted camp sites are booked months in advance on the day that the site becomes available. The days vary by park and by site. Individuals trying to plan a backpacking trip have to complete with outdoor adventure travel businesses trying to secure the best places. Park rangers are aware of the schemes and try to impose policies and procedures to promote fairness, since businesses will snipe first come first serve without hesitation if allowed to do so.
> and yes, somebody already turned this into an app

This here?

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/e08sps/woke...

Costs 3,49 Euro in my local App store.
I don’t know what an e-girl is, but I can assure you pornstars pay taxes. Income earned is reported to the government by the studio.
It could be that by implementing the 26 constants, vast magnitudes of processing power and energy have been saved, which allows for good enough modelling and speed.
It was already obvious in the 2000's the analogy with FIFFA is a good one as its the some of the playbook ICANT are using holding meetings in out of the way places and leveraging small countries to maintain power.

BTW I was a member of poptel who owned the .coop registry.
This is a great article. It captures the essence of functors and monads in programming really well without the usual nonsensical analogies from other similar tutorials.

There are just a few tiny pieces missing from the puzzle: the functor and monad laws. They're pretty straight-forward - one would think they're common sense.

For functor, there is the mapping with identity law:

functor.map({ $0 }) == functor

which says that mapping the identity function over a functor results with a value equal to the one we started with

and the law for compositionality

functor.map({ f2(f1($0)) }) == functor.map(f1).map(f2)

which states that mapping a composite function yields the same result as mapping the first function then mapping the second function onto the result of the first map.

For monad, there are 3 additional laws (left identity, right identity and associativity).
Robust software generally refers to it not crashing. "Correct software" would be how I described software that "gives the right answer more often".
Where on earth do you get anything close to that from what I've said?
Here's my stab at it (though I could be wrong). It's like perl, easy for experts to write a lot of it fast, but hard for anyone else to grok what's going on.

As an anecdote, I see it come up with clojure a lot. Some of the clojure devs in my company can spin up a lot of interesting applications and fast. However, trying to read any of there code can be nearly impossible. Why? Usually because of a generous helping of their own metaprogramming constructs that they've built up over time. I've watched them program and it's both interesting and really hard to follow.

The big problem we've ran into is these clojure projects have been really hard for teams to get into. As a result, the worst thing has happened, many of them are being scrapped and rewritten in java because they are too hard to maintain otherwise.
The doctor did not have the _potential_ to fake evidence. He _did_ fake evidence.