jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Exactly. For exploratory programming with long running computations losing all your state because of something you could fix by hot-reloading a one line change can be rather frustrating -- I remember cursing at python years ago when I was running some ML experiments and more than once lost all data right at the end due to some silly bug at the serialization stage that would have been one line to fix.

Mind you, with python you can at least run things with ipython --pdb to get thrown into a debugger on failure so you can potentially serialize some state before losing it. And stacktraces are better than common lisp's. But having a robust way to redefine stuff or fixing up a failed computation is definitely very handy in some contexts.
When I was a little kid I asked my father once why there were large trucks driving around covering the streets with salt.

"It's to keep the roads ice free." he said.

'But dad, there's never ice one the roads here!', I responded.

To which my dad says: "mhh, I guess we might as well stop with the salt then."

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Just because the mayhem in Germany was prevented doesn't mean it wouldn't have happened if no measures were taken. I live in the Netherlands, and we just went into full lockdown again because we're running out of hospital capacity.

Some cancer treatments and other non-Covid care have already been postponed / cancelled. Believe me when I tell you your politicians are right; it would be mayhem if nothing was done.
True, but do more people end up in long term care than dead?

I’d guess so, based on what I read so far, but not sure.
I just finished the first two missions. Amazing!!!
> The 5th amendment protects US citizens from being forced to reveal their encryption keys.

This is far far from decided or well settled. I can think of countless instances where it is likely false.
We moved from IBM Connections and WebEx to Sharepoint and Teams. I still think Teams is terrible software[1] but I’ve learned there’s definitely worse software out there.

[1]: the 100% CPU, the fan noise in the background of many peoples calls, the 500-2500ms lag between clicks and a screen update, the UX disaster of teams vs chats vs private channels, etc.
Should we be investigating those Expert Sex Change people?
I've had a lot of taxi drivers tell me they couldn't take credit cards at all. That is, until I tell them "I have no other way to pay, so I guess... later dude". Suddenly it's, "oh, oh, oh, the card reader is working again, look at that!"
Why do you get errors rather than auto-formatting (in the editor or in CI) and moving on with your day? I would have thought Google would have this sorted already?
I think you can also tap a button in the Wallet app that lets you generate a new token
I have to bump up my font size a bit and find 120 characters too wide on a 27" monitor where I need to look at multiple things side by side. It's also harder to read even when viewing a single file.

IMO, < 80 is ideal where possible with an absolute maximum of 99. I think Black's choice of 88 (plus maybe a little more in special cases) is quite good.
Dupe from 3 days ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2449302
Amazing... One thing I would like to point that even though people claim that systems such as Dropbox are "simple" it is really not so simple to implement.
Just ensuring that Windows piece does not mess up your computer (eat all your CPU, bandwidth etc.) is really hard. There are a lot of not-so-sexy work behind the curtains.

BTW, we just started private beta for cloudHQ for Dropbox (http://www.cloudHQ.net/dropbox). Basically this service provides synchronization of Google Docs and Dropbox files and backup of Google Docs to Dropbox. And we have a cool thing that you can edit Dropbox files directly with Google docs (you need to install our Google Chrome extension). We need some beta testers ....
There is much wisdom in improv. I would encourage anyone and everyone to take at least a "Intro to Improv" or "Improv 101" course. It can definitely change your outlook.

And as far as "hacking the status game" goes, this is part of what the Pickup Artists have been teaching for a while... how a given woman reacts to you is largely about how you present yourself. Act like she's the superior in the relationship, "the prize" as it were, and she'll lower her view of you. Treat her as a peer, or someone of lower status, and you actually become more attractive. Well, that's the theory anyway, and it definitely seems to be borne out at times.

Of course this concept is more general than just interacting with the opposite sex. But you have to be careful... too much of this with your boss, and you may get written up for insubordination or something. :-)
Thanks for further clarifying. Unfortunately I feel these are very isolation-friendly types of concepts and indeed we have a growing culture of this but this tends to create "isolated" businesses not the type of culture that would need a tech hub. (It is also high-risk in this country)

Maybe I am mistaken since I haven't personally participated in a start-up but the appeal just often leads to our major businesses eating up the smaller businesses. If there are small businesses that do indeed grow from this without being bought, it becomes such a brand-centric concept that promotes copycats rather than idea inventors.

I hope I am able to convey myself clearly. It's not that I disagree with your idea, it's just that I feel we already have this already. It certainly could be faster or more aggressive but nothing that would develop an idea culture. Even in the money culture - I fear it would end up morphing too much like an online MLM type of educational/culture development - a concept who's offline variety is already very popular among the poor and even middle classes in this country.
> Because often it's a desperate move done by a company to generate cash flow

I think that in this case that's not what's happening. These kind of deals(a la groupon) are to generate awareness about the brand, and hopefully future clients, and not to generate money.
I've had Linodes in Newark, NJ for almost a year now and have not had any issues there at all
Power is expensive as well (it's usually the big expense), but there are a couple of reasons you might opt for more expensive areas for datacenters, particularly if you're selling hosting.

1) Many companies want facilities that are physically accessible to them, it's very difficult to sell to these companies if they'll have to travel 900 miles to do any work and don't trust the provider to do the work for them, or simply don't want to pay for it. Given the target market for hosting, Fremont's a pretty good option.

2) Depending on the service, a datacenter is only as useful as the transit providers you can access. We do all our hosting at a Chicago facility where we can get a cross connect to any bandwidth provider you can think of. Our services are also targeted at end users, so we're better off being centrally located and using providers with extensive peering agreements (less latency, woo!). If we had serious computation requirements rather than delivery requirements, one of those spiff Icelandic datacenters might be a good choice. I'm unsure of what Google and others stick in their rural datacenters, but I doubt it's anything that slows down your experience.
I'm also curious as to how this will interact with system memory and IO. Not many details, but I can't help but be insanely excited -- this opens up so many possibilities in terms of crypto... not to mention the demoscene!

Edit: Just got the product brief. Some more info on the FPGA:

> Features transceiver speeds up to 3.125 Gbps, high-speed LVDS with SERDES at up to 840 Mbps, support for DDR3, DDR2, DDR SDRAM, QDR II, and QDR II+ SRAM memory interfacing, up to four general-purpose PLLs, 312 18 x 18 multipliers and more than 60,000 logic elements and 350 user I/O pins. Each of the high-speed transceiver channels have a clock data recovery (CDR) feature, and support for multiple I/O standards such as 3.3-V LVTTL/3.3-V LVCMOS, single-ended SSTL/HSTL and differential SSTL/HSTL.
Is there a good reason as to why I get two false positives in the brick wall, top left?
I was under the impression you can migrate Linodes between data centres?
Resolved after 44 minutes of downtime (according to http://wasitup.com) for my server.
The link returned a 400 error for me. Got rid of some cruft in the URL.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/preserving-alan-turin...
I would also argue that founders are generally not 'average college graduates.'
Just another instance of applying a wrench to a nail. Why is it that the receptionist/phone operator isn't asked to listen in on phone calls? Why isn't she responsible if someone says something stupid over the phone?

If someone is killing time on facebook to the point that it's affecting their work then the manager should notice the lack of productivity regardless of the cause. Otherwise if it's not affecting their work then why does it matter?

It's a means of abdicating managerial responsibility. The boss doesn't have to be the bad guy anymore now it's IT.
Yea, good point. Could merge both those things together...
I would code in Go.
Googling [why does rob rhinehart hate the new york times] yielded https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...
> I am wondering, what are the legal perspectives of suing NYT for libel at this point.

None at all.
Citations are cheap, and they are being gamed all the time. It's like search engine optimization, but on a smaller scale.

Grants are one of the least bad means of evaluating a researcher, because the decisions are not made lightly. Getting funded usually implies that experts have spent a nontrivial amount of time judging the merits of the applicant and their ideas and found them particularly worthy.
What are the various interpretations when these two line charts cross? Are they expected or not expected to cross to a great extent?
“Everything has already been invented” -1921 and 2021, some things don’t change ;)
Are you talking about political correctness now?
We know height is hereditary too. But our attitude about it is that it's generally irrelevant to most people's lives, and not something people should judge on, give advantages for, or discriminate against. If you are at the extremes, well, yes sometimes you get advantages and disadvantages in certain circumstances, but apart from basketball teams and horse jockeys, no one is ordering society over it.

The problem is the IQ fetishists go past this into kind of speaking about it as a virtue or lack.

It gets a little closer to someone who really really thinks height is important and short people are holding things back. They put way too much societal importance on height as a measure of success, when people of all sizes can lead fulfilling, comfortable lives. There's always something off when they discuss it, which is why I kind of got tired of those people in rationalism. It's like caring that you are only 5'7" instead of 6 foot tall.
How does it work with institutional investors? Like, do Vanguard and Blackrock get to assign a board member each to serve their interests indirectly? Perhaps that explains why.
While this is accurate (for "globo-gyms" like Anytime or PF, not gyms that actually having training components and charge $150-250/mo), that doesn't explain why it made its way into legislation. Legislators don't care about business models and let's be honest most of them aren't smart enough to understand it even if they did care.
> Modern NGFWs are capable of decrypting/encrypting TLS traffic transparently for the end user and server and inspecting traffic for policy compliance based on any attribute in the request payload.

Of course they are. But then the middlebox sees the plaintext and can log it, whether by policy or due to a compromise. The point of this approach is to better protect privacy by letting the middlebox validate the plaintext without actually seeing it.

It’s not really practical, given the extreme performance cost compared to the limited amounts it can accomplish, but to be fair, the abstract only calls it “in striking distance of practicality”.
Thanks; it does have a lightness to it...
I have trouble even listing large Kyoto based companies other than Kyocera and Nintendo. (Hatena is the only prominent web services company there, but it is much smaller).

The reputation I heard from inside japan when I lived and worked there wads that of "weirdness" rather than being necessarily more heirichical. I don't think it's a linear "even more Japanese compared to USA standards" thing going on. They're known for being more cultish and wacky in their own ways, like Kyocera employees' fanatical effort into their annual all company sports tournament.

I can see how this weirdness and cultishness might be seen as being "more hierarchical" from a non domestic person's eyes though.
It could be improved without being taken down.
Oh please hash out the splite before hand though. I did a small startup for gaming and at the end my co-designer/graphics partner tried to make me believe he deserved a mysterious extra cut of the profits outside of actual hours-committed.
If Thomas Friedman told me the sun rises in the East, I'd look to verify.
> I find it interesting.

Note the expression "_new_ and interesting." I find articles about JQuery programming interesting as well. That doesn't make them Hacker News, and that's why I don't post them here and then tell you to skip them if you don't find them interesting.

> early phenomenological and empirical data are important...

Whose case are you arguing here, yours or mine? Early suggests new. These posts are not new or early, they are old and I do not see anything new in this one. And again, this is not empirical data.

I welcome someone investigating the matter and posting data such as a comparison of the number of new apps in the app store to the number being withdrawn, the number of new android developers vs. the number of new iOS developers, and so on. I would find such things interesting and useful.

If there is something new or early in this post, please point me to it so I may retract my objection. My mind is open to the possibility that it adds something to the myriad of similar rants posted here and elsewhere in the last year or more, I just need someone to show me what it is.

p.s. I disagree with your conclusion with respect to this post, but still upvoted your reply. I agree that when such things present a new direction for investigation, they are Hacker News as I prefer it. But at the end of the day... I am only one person with an opinion on how to interpret the guidelines.
What about making the purchase defensively? I.e. to keep it out of Google's hands.
To the contrary, Red Hat is the perfect example for why Open Source does NOT pay. Sure, Red Hat is making money off of OSS, but the thousands of people who built all of those pieces of software are not. Red Hat can make a living off of support contracts because they didn't have to pay for the majority of the development work.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I totally agree with Jason on this one. (I'm usually their devil's advocate)

I had a week vacation in May, and then a long weekend in June where I went out of town. For the last 2 months, everything I've been doing has been clouded by a "I'll start on that when I'm back" mindset. I don't know why, I just couldn't focus on anything new until those vacations were over.

I wish I knew what was happening here on a deeper level. I need to keep this in mind next time I find myself doing this so I can out-think it and just move on anyway.
This study doesn’t suggest any number of infections. We don’t know if by any definition people who have these antibodies had a COVID infection or not.

We know deaths / symptomatic infections really well due to the large numbers involved.
How much money can you get as damages?

Answer under the GDPR is probably: 0EUR.
Is there such a thing as true boostrapping? One always has to put some sweat/time in the pre-revenue phase. This time has a cost (opportunity cost + you could have had a job / did consulting)
> I feel like it’s a honey trap

That's a serious accusation you are 'feeling'. What evidence do you have?
They fail to complete a minimum number of classes with passing grades.

If the bar sounds low and subjective, that’s because it often is, and as such I think it’s mostly useless for colleges looking to measure students against each other to choose who to admit.
You're being downvoted, but I think this sentiment is right and if you take it seriously, it's an argument for the SAT. Pretty much _everything_ in the USA is pay to win, not just the SAT, and the more subjective factors like essays, extracurriculars, and even grades, are more biased.

Test prep companies have an incentive to overhype their services but research suggests the improvement isn't that much.

There's a Jacobin article making the case for the SAT that people following this debate might enjoy reading: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/sat-class-race-inequality...
This would be a more compelling argument if many of the signatories of the anti-RMS letter weren't also former employees of the FSF.
Why can't I use it. This seems like it could be a really fun tool, for anything serious I have to forward it to a real lawyer anyway but I could imagine you get more traction if you publish a basic version of it.

Can you afford to hire a lawyer to assist you with this, I think your big problem here is that you desperately need a co-founder with a legal background to even pitch this thing.
There certainly should be a 'reason', legal redress, and accountability for folks putting someone on such a list.

It would also clear up what even happened here. Did someone do this maliciously due to his lack of cooperation, or did they have an actual reason and when he chose not to cooperate the FBI chose a different path? If they actually thought he was an agent for some group, that would explain it / at least that could be refuted / proven outside some random office with folks whose incentive is something other than sorting out a no fly list... it certainly shouldn't begin and end under the circumstances described.
Furthermore...

This was years ago but there's no particular reason I'd expect things to have changed. But basically if you looked at outcomes--I think this included post-uni outcomes like salary--the quantitative measures like SAT score had a lot more predictive value than interview/letters of recommendation/essays/etc.

(The way the one school I'm familiar with used to do things was that basically everyone went on an X-Y graph with X being a normalized quant score and the Y being a normalized everything else score. Everyone up and to the right. No one down and to the left did. Those in the middle band were looked at a bit more carefully.
I use it daily, but I wouldn't donate. I wouldn't pay for it, and if it was gone, I'd expect its hole would be filled by other websites.

Sorry if that sounds uncharitable, but I don't agree with donating to such a large bureaucratic organization.
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edit: CCV proves that you at one time had access to the CCV number.

Online merchants are supposed to comply with PCI-DSS - not store your CCV ever, never transmit your number unencrypted, never store cardholder information unencrypted, plus tons of management controls and audit controls over the same.

In practice, let's just say lazy programming is everywhere.
I've seen many people who handle online transactions and violate PCI-DSS to some degree, including storing CCV numbers.
It's not about saving time, it's about avoiding context switches. Also I'm really bad at remembering that I'm out of something even 5 seconds later, much less when I'm at the store racking my brain for what I'm running low on.
Isn't the 1st of April tomorrow?
Presumably these buttons would be free anyways, since they generate tons of revenue if they do what Amazon thinks they'll do.

In the end though, the buttons are really just an advertisement for the real product: the API.
They generally had great trust in their people, and didn't think the risk of someone deliberately disobeying orders and using a nuclear weapon was high. Meanwhile, they believed that the Soviets were looking for an opportunity to strike, and that the best and only realistic way to prevent a Soviet strike was to present them with certain devastating retaliation. They never planned to cause Armageddon, only have the capability to respond to the other guy causing it in such a way that they'd never want to cause it.

The scary thing about the Cold War was that the participants generally had the best of intentions (aside from a few people like Curtis LeMay, and they never really got presented with the opportunity to express their evil side) but disaster could have easily happened anyway, purely by accident.

And I really shouldn't put this in the past tense. All of this stuff is still there. We all seem to have just decided to collectively pretend that MAD went away when the USSR dissolved, even though there are still thousands of missiles and nuclear warheads ready to wreck civilization at a moment's notice.
Because so many questions I've found useful were closed, it has had a chilling effect on my desire to ask questions there. I used to ask questions regularly at the beginning.

But now, I feel like my question is probably going to be flagged, so why bother.
Just a few weeks ago someone posted the following study on hacker news:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183507/

Here the authors claim that they were able to identify a particular gene that is likely to predispose an individual to extreme impulsiveness.
Do you want to get strong? You want more in the 2 - 5 rep range for many sets. I followed the Sheiko method (which lays this out) for 2 - 3 years. In June I tested and had the following:

1. Squat - 505lbs
2. Bench - 355lbs
3. Deadlift - 540lbs

Also, eat big!
Translated to actual, y'know, facts, 95% of people don't change Discord from the default, before most stop using it at all.

This has exactly zero usefulness as an measure of what any group (even Discord users) prefers.
This isn't working on IE11, just so you know.
Well, as a fellow swede I can say that this is only half the story, because not only do we have the very extensive right to roam law, but we also have an additional law regarding this in particular called "Strandskydd" (literally beach protection) which makes it very hard and exceptional to make a coast line private.
I’m a serous note though, air pollution is a major problem in places like Lahore, Peshawar etc(Pakistan).

I wonder if the best approach to regulating pollution is go from regulation and policy change or try to come up with solutions (startups) that tackle the problem directly...
This article feels a little fishy to me. The title says an "investigation says" "Indiana manipulated a report," but there's no evidence to suggest this besides one person's claims and it doesn't seem there was any official investigation into whether the report was manipulated. Also, all the figures appear to be an order of magnitude off... All this fuss over only $28,000? And a single $1,000 donation? That's a drop in the pond. I wouldn't be surprised if there was indeed a lot of corruption in bidding for Amazon's HQ, but something doesn't add up here for me.
you know there are several mature mvc frameworks already right? catalyst for example..
Partial Baloney!

Fast food joints could be mechanized. I have a scheme for a nearly fully automated department (grocery/walmart/etc) chain. It would take capital and engineering, but it's a solved problem.
This is the best Festivus present ever!