jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are they suggesting we can make Nano Crystals/Quantum Dots simply by grinding? .... wouldn't a mill have to be impossibly flat for this method to work?
Unless they were the graduate students working on this:

http://web.mit.edu/cmse/nuggets/research/irg2/7_beetle.html

it is highly doubtful their "exclusive rights to IP developed at the nations' best university laboratories" includes that of MIT's, esp. with the small amount that they have raised. MIT's Technology Licensing Office is more picky than that.
> Not enough speculation is as bad as too much speculation.

When every author of a blog is a genius, and spews such amazing pearls of non-wisdom.

While some degree of risk is required, undershooting gains is never as bad as losing everything, because you can continue to bet.
Author is plain mathematically wrong about how martingales work.

Optimism is never the "right" mindset. Better find some other way to be happy instead of believing untrue things.
Game theoretical and mathematically optimal strategies may exist, as well as ones robust to missing information.

FOMO is a major downfall of many an investor.
These aren't purchases via their app store (I don't know if you can even do that?). They're within our webapp using Shopify's billing API to buy stuff. The Shopify integration is just used for discovery (via their app store), login, installation, email integration, and of course billing.
It generates LR(1) parsers, and can use GLR on an opt-in basis, for handling specific conflicts.
> It is rare to see a house directly across the street from a house that is 4x larger and on 4x as much land.

This is unambiguously as a result of zoning. It's rare to divide a one acre plot into four quarter acre plots because it's prohibited.

> Its the same exact reason why houses cost more in Boston than in Wyoming, but on a different scale. The value of a home is heavily influenced by its location.

Nobody is disputing that. But all that means is that a quarter acre plot in Boston costs the same as a full acre plot in Wyoming. It still costs a lot less than a full acre plot in Boston, which is often the only option the existing zoning makes possible.
According to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2019/ this is not at all the case.
Taubes is a quack, pure and simple. Most of the studies he cites that I'm familiar with use self reported food intake. Any study that uses self reported food intake should be entirely disregarded for physiological purposes (perhaps useful for studying psychology).

You can get razor sharp lean on a diet with lots of carbs in it and you can get nice and fat on a ketogenic diet.

No controlled calorie study supports the idea that carbs, fats or proteins have any particular metabolic advantage over the minor differences in their thermic effects of feeding (TEF) (essentially energy required to digest).
A little outdated but always good to see how far linux has come (although to this day I still have to compile sound card drivers)...
clickable link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCTW2BK
As an iOS developer, I can't stress how important this metric is. I don't care if Android gets 70%, 80%, 95% marketshare if the App Store is generating way, WAY more money for developers.
For anyone who didn't get the 'joke' (like me) and who knows nothing about Star Trek (also me), turns out that "V'Ger" is a Star Trek character. From Wikipedia:

"A sentient being that evolved from Voyager 6, a fictitious space probe from the 20th Century that vanished into a black hole and was given life by a race of living machines. The story of V'ger and its return to Earth to seek "the creator" forms the plot for the first feature film in the Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
Fantastic read!

Fantastic technology! This stuff is old, but it still works extraordinarily well. They sure knew how to engineer stuff then.
They say that they might keep going until 2020 -- I bet those bad boys will surprise us and keep on kicking for much longer!
One that claims to be based on rationality.
Heh, yeah, this is nothing new. There is more than one investment bank in London that hires professional actors to deliver presentations, then the real bankers take the stage at Q&A time. If someone says "now I'll hand you over to my colleague..." that's a dead giveaway. In other shocking news, bankers don't do their own PowerPoint slides either... There are people employed full time to do just that.

We're all human, appearance matters, you can either take advantage of this or get out-competed.
Apparently that was too much to expect. Isn't it sad?
My thoughts on the whole article: "nobody is perfect".

If you have a good idea, and try your best at it (and don't get all the way there), it doesn't make it any less of a good idea. We all need an ideal to strive for.
write-once-run-everywhere does not work for high quality apps.
You can share some of the model code with something like J2objc, but I have yet to see a non trivial app fitting in 2 platforms UX principles written by some sort of write once framework.
That you are the villain type (from the article)
Would love an invite: linrunix at gmail .com
If you're 23, an entrepreneur, fucking terrified and have time to write about it, you're doing it wrong.
Another aspect of XP is that pair programming is a replacement for code review. If you drop pair programming, you should consider a compensating practice.
If you look under the covers "fix" the US budget actually means "delay bankruptcy for another 3 or 4 decades."
Slitaz is tiny, runs in RAM and tends to just work in my experience: well worth a try if you want to get up and running quickly - http://www.slitaz.org

That said, Arch is much easier to set up than it might appear and would be a perfect base if all you're going to run is Chrome. No need for a desktop environment/window manager, either:

xinit /usr/bin/chromium $* -- :1
DNS redirection (and the monetization thereof) is kind of a moot point in the mid/long term in light of DNSSEC.

Consider the example of comcast, an ISP that uses opt-out DNS redirection advertising, but has been forced to give up the practice for its DNSSEC resolvers:

* We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC.

* Comcast has always known this and plans to turn off such redirection when DNSSEC is fully implemented.

* The production network DNSSEC servers do not have Comcast Domain Helper's DNS redirect functionality enabled.

* We recently updated our IETF Internet Draft on this subject, available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect, to reflect this.

-- http://www.dnssec.comcast.net/faq.htm
Your friends can (and almost certainly will) share their contact info (including your name/phone/email) with Facebook , Messenger, or Whatsapp, even if your account is deleted and doesn't exist.
Thanks, this does look interesting! I find any old ITS-related technical discussions like this (despite it being ostensibly OS-neutral standards language) to be very difficult to pore over. Sometimes I wonder if I'm computer-literate or just Unix-literate! Maybe one of these days I will get ITS running in an emulator and see what I've been missing.
To some degree you can write in C++ and expose C interface.
The quest for a promotion-worthy project (that manages to ship, no matter the consequences) definitely drove some bad behaviors from people I worked with while I was there.
Pretend Harvey Weinstein is talking to you. And that he's reading the top-most comment (by newbie789) on this story: that he owns the company, so he can ban you at his discretion. Or gaslight you. Or show you shock porn. That this is fine, because it's how its always worked here.

I'll tentatively assume you got some of the same visceral recoil I got from that mental image. And that we agree that following everything Hollywood does is probably not for the best. So I'll ask you: if you could solve this however you'd like (by passing laws, let's say), how would you do it?
The second part there is the key. Bikes work just fine on roads built for cars and building bike lanes is dirt cheap compared to pretty much any other kind of infrastructure project. You do, however, need the political will to actually take that space from cars and reallocate it to bikes and pedestrians.

In urban areas that are already dense this can be done without any significant infrastructue investments by simply changing how the traffic patterns work on existing roads.

A good example of this is Barcelona's "superblocks":
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/9/18300797...
> Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one.

Wrong. Memory unsafety, in its various forms, is the primary source of exploits in software written in C.

> I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs

Another thing which is hard to do in C, and so much easier in some more modern programming languages (particularly in Rust).
He also has the kind of money to spent to be quoted on TV.
Ikr? Enter weblogic/websphere java ee (bleh)
Another day, another attempt by someone who doesn't understand the financial markets, especially as it relates to GME.

The truth is that the 140% figures is merely a misleading figure

Matt Levine debunks the naked short selling idea here: (see footer #3 to read what I'm talking about) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga...

but the gist of it is that each share can be borrowed more than once, so the float seems higher than it actually is.
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Great feedback. We will definitely at minimum post guides and compatibility test results for the most popular distros and ensure that at least Ubuntu LTS has a straightforward path to full hardware functionality.
Brian from Doppler here. We are an easy way to manage environment variables across projects and services. We did a Launch HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719722. Since then, we've been hearing repeatedly from our users that they want a more secure way to share one-off secrets, like API keys, passwords, credit cards, coupons, wire info, lockbox codes, etc. This is understandable, since using Slack, SMS, or email for this leads to your secrets living unencrypted in those systems forever.

So we've made a new product to address this. It is a one-click way to share one-off secrets, end-to-end encrypted with links that auto-expire after a certain number of views and days.

All the encryption is done browser-side so our servers never see the raw secret or the encryption key. We use AES-GCM to encrypt your secrets, with a symmetric key derived from a cryptographically random 64 character passphrase using PBKDF2. If you want to dive deeper into how the data flows, we documented every step of the send and receive flows: https://docs.doppler.com/docs/share-security

We built this so anyone can use it immediately without needing to create an account or jump through any hoops.

Try it out: https://share.doppler.com/s/zg5aqzfbidn9femgnaas2wf2syedqf0s...

Would love to hear what you guys think!
I can't add too much to what ddingus said, but will try to offer just a couple of subtle points.

Maybe this would be different in some other country. But I think parents in the US who expect the school to educate their kids with no oversight or intervention, are leaving too much to chance. Short of homeschooling, there are some specific issues that could fall directly on the shoulders of parents:

1. Preparation of kids starting at age zero.

2. Gauging if your kids are doing well enough by your standards.

3. What happens when things go wrong, e.g., when a kid falls behind or runs into disciplinary problems? So called "involved" parents will either draw on their own instincts, or learn from the network of involved parents, how to guide the school towards a resolution that doesn't involve a lowering of expectations.
> A gaint check could make a difference in the rate six months from now.

Six months from now, assuming no further ramp in vaccine production (which seems extremely conservative given that it reflects only Pfizer and Moderna production), the US will have fully vaccinated almost 60% of the population, which is likely close to a herd immunity threshold.

Increased production beyond that would be wasted money, as the pandemic will be controlled.
They see it as a better Python for Data Analytics/ML/etc.

After playing around with it and porting some of my python work to F#....they may be right.
I think it probably happens because they are average people with a lot of interests. If you're a person splitting your time between ten distinct pursuits, you probably won't be much good at them compared to a person of similar ability splitting their time between two pursuits. To be good at most of them takes an unusually smart or hard-working person, like da Vinci or (I guess) Steve Jobs.

Who doesn't "ship", anyway? I'm a lousy writer, probably a "dabbler", although I care deeply about writing. I don't publish my writing yet. But I still sit around producing pages; I wouldn't even be a dabbler if I didn't! In my opinion, the difference between me and a "generalist" is that my writing sucks.
Thomas Edison?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
This seems like a nightmare situation for P2P company. Your super nodes get knocked offline and there's no way to force update them until they come back online, which is sporadic at best (based on my own experience today), which means either manually updating them or completely re-seeding your network (which seems to be the route they're going -- though so far it doesn't appear to be going all that well).

As other people have stated on other articles posted here, no discredit to them for having some downtime (I'm sure they're working round the clock on it), but I have to wonder if this could have been avoided with a phased roll out of new version to the super nodes.
I Agree. If one would take "concepts a day" or structures/modules/interfaces/whatever-intelligible-concept a day I could follow he author. But lines per day? Put this way developers seem coding monkeys using smaller paper in their typewriter to produce more pages.
>I'd love to see the entire financial system operate under a meritocracy such as this.

It does. Banks fail every day. Hundreds of banks since 2008.

Oh, I'll bet you're talking about the TBTF banks, that were kept afloat with some interesting finance to prevent the global system from collapsing.

I laugh every time someone says they should have all failed. I don't think people realize who, exactly, loses when banks go out of business. Hint: It isn't Jamie Dimon or Lloyd Blankfein (though they would temporarily lose their jobs). It's everyone who owns shares in the bank, everyone who owns bonds of the bank, everyone who works at the bank, everyone who banks at the bank (yes, FDIC covers some, but that itself is a bailout), pension funds, pensioners, insurance users, and on and on. These aren't some rich "banksters", they're your friends and neighbors.
I've worked with people who are visually impaired many times, and even programmers who are visually impaired more than once, and yet I keep getting floored with things I had never considered as a sighted person, like the fact that silences are not equivalent in Python...
We've banned this account for repeatedly and egregiously breaking the site guidelines. Creating accounts to abuse HN this badly will get your main account banned as well, so no more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Since it's unfortunately necessary to add these disclaimers: No, I'm not siding with your enemies. We'd ban any account that posted this way. Being right is no excuse to behave like this, and no matter how wrong or bad your enemies are, it doesn't give you the right to destroy the commons. It's not in your own interest to do that either, but that's another story.
They've been waiting for republicans to invoke 25th but it seems a step to prevent him from running again in 2024 anyway.
But also, when I search Google, I want to know if what category the results list is coming from. The recommendation engines have gotten so bad that I quite frequently will use private browsing on a lot of my searches that are intended for a single-use purpose (like when I read about something and want more info on it), without having to have future searches (or advertisements!!!) coming back in my face.

A simple example is when I bring up a playlist on Youtube for when one of the grandkids is over. Well I really don't want my default recommendations to be mostly 70's metal but contaminated with The Wheels On The Bus peppered through the playlist.
Where the onus lies is dependent on who you are and what your goals are. If you occupy an elected office, and you want people to believe that you were elected legitimately, then the onus is on you to convince the people of that, if they are skeptical. The burden of proof is not on them to convince themselves that you were elected legitimately.

If you're arguing in a court case that the election was conducted illegitimately and should be overturned, then yes of course you are correct that the onus is on you to make your case, and there will be a somewhat high standard of evidence required.

If you're trying to convince some random person one way or another, then of course the onus is on you to provide arguments, and the standard of evidence is basically whatever can be convincing to your audience.
Compose Space Space on Free OSes. It’s useful sometimes, though I wish there was a default binding for zero-width space — I resorted to a non-breaking one to unbreak a link followed by an apostrophe yesterday.
I'd say Russia definitely has at least a subset of very amateurish spies. An example coming to mind is the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury, UK.
are you sure about it predates the neolithic?

AFAIU, the temple is dated ~8-10000 years BCE, while the neolithic start should be around 12000 BCE, so it would be "early neolithic".
But maybe I'm missing something.
Long, long ago, when I was a Stanford undergrad, Jim Collins spoke in one of my classes. At the time, no one had ever heard of him. But he had a huge impact on me. As soon as I got back to my dorm room, I printed up a big sign reading "BHAG" and taped it above my desk!
>conservative/libertarian

1. That's an ignorant conjoining

2. Libertarians are well aware they're members of a vanishingly small minority
Exactly. They just want some publicity so that people use Chrome. What better way than encouraging people to open lots of Chrome tabs?
> when six-month isolates were exposed to younger, three-month-old monkeys, they achieved "essentially complete social recovery for all situations tested."

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Harry_Harlow#...
I am a college student and 10$ is my monthly allowance
I'm not really sure. I need a bit more crypto knowledge & math, and a good chunk of time to brainstorm for it; no solution comes to mind. They're all necessarily bound by that you need to trust at some point; but ease-of-use is paramount in my opinion, if you want to actually change things. No matter what, there are gives and takes.

Browser plugins might be the eventual solution's first steps, though they're more and more becoming sandboxed websites (which I like. Fewer security issues, easier programming, etc), so you'd have to go with something lower-level, which means it's harder to do cross-platform. But that's likely to be the case regardless, unless a single platform wins or virtualized, standard OS APIs become the norm.

All that said, I'm not sure there is a best solution, nor one which I'd actually be happy with. Much less something which works efficiently on a global scale. But I'm essentially a communication-anarchist: I generally think it would be best if anyone, anywhere could privately, anonymously communicate with anyone else. And I realize just what a can of worms that would be.

edit: Just for clarification, as I sometimes come off this way: this is meant in no way to be an attack on the idea / goal / you. And if I'm missing something, I'd love to know. Discussions like these often lead to solutions though, so I enjoy them and end up saying a lot :) I think some of it comes from having both of my siblings in debate teams, and having judged at a few debate competitions; I tend to come off more certain / forceful than I intend.
To me, it sounds like the author reading too much into the (rather opaque) process to try and make sense of it.

Sometimes its fast, other times its not. Its usually consistent, but sometimes they mess up. Thats all we know for sure.

FWIW, my experience is app reviews take the same amount of time -- a week, plus or minus two days. This is regardless of if the submission is of a new app or an update for an existing one. Recent update, fixing something that caused a rejection or the first update in a few months.
Computers beat the TV like the automobile beat horse drawn wagon. Computers just delivered superior service at a much lower price.
I am unhappy that forced advertisements are encroaching on my Internet. It is only a matter of time until the Internet turns back into one way television, where the big players produce, and the little rabbits pay a large fee to consume.
It's 2015, the PHP ecosystem has progressed. Citing that blog post hurts your argument more than it helps.
"bulky, non-ergonomic and expensive" and you want a 13" tablet for reading!?

I have a Kindle Paperwhite and a Nexus 7, both are perfect for reading books; I don't find them bulky or non-ergonomic (except the zooming problem which I have on all multi-touch devices...I don't seem to have the motor control required to effectively use multi-touch screens). A friend had one of the 10" Kindles and I found it bulky and non-ergonomic. It was just too big. I can't even begin to imagine trying to curl up in bed with something the size of a mid-sized laptop screen!

Current tablets are already cheap, full-color, and have quite long battery life (though not as long as the original Kindles which had tremendous battery life, or the current gen Kindle e-ink models which last a week or so).

Your point 2 is valid, and I agree with it, but not enough to not buy ebooks. I have read more books in the past five years of having a Kindle than at any time except when I was in school and read to escape the tedium of my teacher's talking. And, your predicted deluge of ebook buying has begun, and there has not been a drop in sales, though some of the old publishers are feeling the pinch, thousands of independent authors have stepped in to fill the space.
I am surprised that he isn't over a billion already. I guess the extreme wealth of a few founders makes me assume "CEO of largest company in the world worth 600B should be worth over a billion himself"
I've not used Node.js, but given that it runs on the other side of the HTTP network barrier (where you could have run Python or Go just as easily) it seems that the answer is yes, people really do use Node.js for non-browser applications.
Well, you have managers who are good at both. You want that kind.

But in the absence of any kind of ability to produce something, yeah, you want a manager who is politically savvy, and who can protect you, and can promote you well in the stack rankings. (I had a couple managers who were /terrible/ at this, and my "performance" suffered. In reality it was all presentation and horse-trading).
I wasn't aware of them suggesting anything that I dismissed. It's my policy to consider every suggestion, be it from users or not, and I don't recall them suggesting anything...
Short, succinct, and utterly inscrutable[1]. ;)

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Awesome timepass game. A lot of new feature could be added but still it's great.
Small snippet of a show of his (old) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZDwDE1yr8 Just for fun, the chair drop was priceless.
Here's the video from nginxconf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0fQabvVhIk