jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The comment section of the page is predictably full of hand wringing over how this can turn anybody into a sniper. While it is an interesting setup (I'd love to know more about the image processing on board), this device would really not be very useful for sniping.

1) Laser range finder. It will give away your position to anybody with a detector (yes, they exist and those who you would expect to have them do). Also, unnecessary for actual sniping. One of the first things you do when you setup a hide is do a range card - you can do that with a hand held laser range finder, but more often than not you just use simple algebra and known object sizes (height of telephone polls, car widths, width of men's shoulders, etc).

2) Wind. This thing only accounts for bullet drop. A light breeze will push 5.56 far enough off target at 500 yards that you can easily miss man sized targets. At 300 yards wind plays a role in shot placement within a man sized target, at 200 yards you can disregard most wind. At that range you do not want a scope, as it delays target acquisition and reduces field of view.

3) Target marking. It is very rare for a sniping target to remain stationary, so unless their image processing is really clever - this is going to be a much greater hindrance than help. This isn't really a problem for hunters, because they rarely take a shot at critters on the move (except with shotguns). I'd be pretty surprised if their tracking software can handle vanishing targets (transitions in and out of concealment like a window or bush).

It is a great toy for hunters with money, but it isn't going to turn anybody into a sniper.
Unless the ice cube also gains heat from the air above the drink, which you want to slow down.
Patrick has done a much better job at this than me and I wholly second this, please read his guide first, then skim mine to see if there is anything useful in it. When I wrote mine Patrick's did not exist yet, if it had then I would have happily skipped writing it.
I still have the Yosemite wifi issues. It really rustles my jimmies. At the same time, I forgot how much faster ethernet is over wifi so that's nice.
It guarantees that the text you are seeing really comes from that website, that it hasn’t been tampered with by an actor between you and the server.

This means that Internet service providers and others between you and the website cannot insert ads in web pages. It also means that if you’re reading a newspaper online (for example), you can be sure that the articles you read really are from that newspaper, that all the articles are there and that they were not modified.

It also prevents URL or content-based censorship, since mans-in-the-middle cannot know what URLs you visit or what content you received from a website.

It does not prevent domain name or IP-based censorship, since the man-in-the-middle can know these, and it is also sometimes possible for a man-in-the-middle to know what page you are visiting by examining the length of the URL and content and comparing them with public information available on the website.
Are they written in Python?
I initially figured that the work was being done by scholars who knew what they were doing, but from this it doesn't sound like it, and sounds pretty disturbing:
http://www.bricecjones.com/blog/the-first-century-gospel-of-...
While this is a laudable goal, and in this case is really just taking back a word to a more original meaning, I still find myself recoiling at the suggestion of overtly manipulating public opinion by changing (and let's not kid ourselves) eventually policing language.

While that tactic seems to work, it also seems very destructive in how it works, and is very messy in that it catches many that aren't aware that their existing speech has been reclassified without their knowledge by large amounts of people as something else than what they intend to communicate.
don't understand the first question

as for the second point, not sure what this has to do with the original comment/point, specifically the fact that lebron is proof against the idea that "Unions depress wages for top performers". obviously a lot of complex dynamics here, and one could argue that the nba players union has helped make the nba more successful and all the money that came with that. just pointing out that using lebron as a counterargument to the original comment about wages (ie his nba salary) is a bit ironic.
You’re no where near $1M for valuation, but when you’re ready to sell, microaquire is a great place to list.
That was up to the sporting agencies though right? Not some third party network
Just login as "root", no password. I was amazed how familiar it felt.
I wish there was more out there about this. Seems kind of neat despite the limitations but I haven't seen much new come from it since it was introduced years ago.
I agree that something like a Python dictionary is probably unnecessary to make a standalone video for, but simple concepts like that also wouldn't be a 3000 word article unless you're looking for literally every nuance and weird quirk the language has to offer.
Bluetooth on Linux is very simple: it doesn't work.

That quip was originally about something else, I think.
Personally, I have never seen a need for them. I believe they are a waste of bandwidth.
You do understand that that "cash back" is simply your money right.

This literally only benefits CC companies, who take more profit. This is why it's illegal in most other countries.
"Maybe some of the confusion stems from the fact that the documentation you linked seems to assume that the database is created according to convention to run as the "postgres" user (as it usually is)".

The entire point was a reply to someone saying "it's confusing". I'm pointing out how it's confusing, and you come back with that either that 1) MySQL is confusing or 2) you don't think it's confusing. Then you point to documentation which you admit might be a point of confusion.

I've had people say "I installed postgres - here's the password". Then... I can't log in. Because I can't switch to the postgres user. Or they created some login that I can't use. Or something else... because it's somewhat confusing, unless you do this (postgres administration) as part of your regular/periodic work.

re: "I just installed Maria"... If someone uses common default package managers to set up mysql/Maria, and also for postgres, you'll be able to connect to mysql/Maria from any account. You'll only be able to connect to postgres if you switch to the postgres user.

Again - point of the comment was agreeing with an earlier comment that "this is confusing". You seem to acknowledge that it can be confusing.
Believe it or not, I generally find myself in these submissions based on viewing comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments . So yeah, just a bit jarring seeing so many people basically use the downvote button to call me a liar.
Hey - not related to your comment (apologies) but wanted to get in touch . You left a note on a previous post of mine about wanting to simplify FTP. I'd love to work on this project and wanted to see if you'd be willing to connect so I can understand the problem better. Feel free to email me at kunal@mightydash.com, and thanks in advance!
It is nefarious. Just because the elephant in the room hasn't stepped in you yet doesn't mean it isn't there.
Matthew Smith, and later Julian Gollop were definite early "heros" of mine. The former for the obvious reason, the latter almost solely for Chaos.

I can recognize a lot of modern developers who are very productive, and seem to have multiple projects on the go. But I always think of Antirez first, he's humble, quiet, thoughtful, and thoroughly competent.

I'd rather work with a careful, slow, and precise, person that an army of super-coders.
How does this not result in FortiNet customers suing, to say nothing of shareholders and the FTC?

To intentionally design an insecure obfuscation for customer confidential traffic, and then keep it in place for a year and a half after someone discovers and reports it, is obviously negligent and causes real damage to the companies who bought this defective product.
and I see Argentinian meat sold fresh in Italy, plural of anectodes is still not data
Care to elaborate more especially on the subpar issue? Is it related to SLA?

I thought their ml cloud offerings were superior
In any learning situation, this type of language can be deeply demoralizing, because it makes struggling students feel that their teacher is totally unable to understand them and their challenges.

Sometimes they may even be right about that!
A protest starts, people take to the streets, hong kong style. The police force, greatly outnumbered by the protestors, call in the "dogs". Armored trucks pull up, the sides slide open revealing a large hydraulic rack with dozens of "dogs" racked up and fully charged. Armed with tasers, pepper spray and tear gas, these little robot dogs are a cops best friend. The machine whirs to life, extends and unloads the "dogs" battle droid style, while a controlling human uses a RTS like interface to move the dogs into a formation and gives orders to begin herding the human protestors.

In seconds, dozens, maybe even hundreds of these mechanical beasts gallop towards the protestors and begin a herding process not unlike a sheep dog. The attack is swift and chaotic to the humans but highly organized and planned by an AI system controlling them as a flock. Pepper spray and tear gas fills the air as people are chased and intimidated by the mechanical creatures. Protesters who dare attack the "dogs" are recorded by the dogs as they are all equipped with real time video and charged with destruction of police property after arrest. Facial recognition is used to locate high value targets such as political figures or organizers. The terrorfied humans are quickly disoriented, broken up and herded into groups. Surrounded on all sides by robot dogs, their arms raised with their tear gas/pepper spray nozzles at the ready. Finally the human police force rolls up in full riot gear and enough plasticuffs to wrap around the earth.

The protestors are quietly arrested, no one was badly hurt, and not a single officer was scratched in the roundup. Suddenly, a scared protestor bolts past the line, prompting two dogs to instantly give chase and taser the offender. Easy peasy. It's not even noon yet and the protest is fully quelled. The same scene repeats itself all over the world. A man looks down from his ivory tower on the scene below, smiles, and sips coffee from his alphabet security branded mug. I weep for the future.
What are you talking about exactly? Are thousands of humans dying of heat stress due to spending weeks at sea in literally unbearable conditions? It's horrific.
Is number 2, in your view, bad? I can’t really tell but it seems that way.

Raises are how workers get a share of the profit being generated. Otherwise it nearly all goes to shareholders.
To new HN readers, the comments appear to be sorted randomly. There's no explanation for why some posts are at the top or bottom. That's a definite flaw of hiding the votecounts and could dissuade newcomers.
You should never own stocks, never fly or drive, never snowboard, never start a startup, ... Never ever. Because all this is risky.

OK, on a more logical note, I agree that people don't completely understand the game -- the factors, predictable and unpredictable, that influence price of stocks.
Self-posts (those without a link) have a dampner applied. The code is OSS.
Consider making an API available, perhaps as a paid service? I can think of several projects that would like to be able to use something like this.
whoops! Sorry, I am chagrined :/ But, bonus, I got an answer from a co-founder. Thanks!

I thought you were speaking hypothetically (I checked your profile too).
One of the most entertaining things I've read period, and it's by a mathematician talking about his coming of age:

http://www.xamuel.com/homeless-by-choice/
Sure, that would be no problem (it's already built on a REST interface). How do you think other projects would use this?
First reaction: waaayyy too much info required to sign up. Even better: let users play around with the app, even if they haven't signed up yet.
Again. Put up or shut up. Show the stealing or retract the comment.
How about REAL security, like the Isreilies implemented? People get through the biggest of airports in 30 or so minutes, no invasive screenings, the worst you will get is a metal detector sweep and an xray of your belongings.

Israel has good security, better than we have, for longer, with less tech, and no liberties violated, and people get through the airport faster. Wait, its cheaper too. Shit with all the cards stacked in their favor we look like idiots not at least modeling security after them. Sure we can improve on it, lets catch up first then 1-up em.
Your dismissal of his Python material is unfounded. This book is quite good, especially for beginners that literally would be unable to learn to code otherwise.

As a professional educator myself, I strongly disagree with your sentiment about "teaching dangerous practices to beginners". By far, the biggest "danger" to beginners is that they won't learn how to code at all or get frustrated and quit because of pedants.

Do we teach beginning drivers using 18-wheeled tractor trailers? Or using F-15 fighter jets? No, we use cars with automatic shifting driving around in an empty parking lot at first.
Oh, sweet Jesus, have you just started reading the Internet today? People have been convicted on child porn charges for pictures they took of their own children in the bathtub. Any picture of any child or any non-child or cartoon character intended just to look like a child has been treated as full-blown pedophilia for the last ten years or more. Computers have been impounded and people ruined - and it's always won't someone think of the children, until it's the TSA doing it and that's just hunky-dory because we have to stay safe at any possible cost.

I have to go have a little lie-down now, the grar is melting my brain.
Hell is usually frozen over. In fact, it's -7 there right now.

http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Nord-Tr%C3%B8ndelag/Stj%C3%B8r...
I posted this a while back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136710

We were doing £0.20 ($0.31 US), more recently it's been closer to £0.30.

We did have a period over summer of £0.50+, but this was after a phone call from Google..... I think we jumped "on their radar" at this point and they had some campaigns specific campaigns.

We only run adsense on our backfill, after premium and Adjug.
I read on some blog that soon the ebook version will be out. Also it stated that No Starch would be giving the ebook away with purchase of the book.

I know this is exactly the type of book I've been looking for over the last few months. As soon as the book+ebook version is up you have my money.
That wasn't my point. My point was that folks are marking Apple's fate in mobile as their same fate in the PC market. I'm asking why nobody is referencing their success in the music player market, which they dominated with a similar approach to the one they are taking now with phones.
You can share your M1 “pies” with other users. Here’s an example: https://dashboard.m1finance.com/share/H4sIAAAAAAACA6tWKqksSF...
I think this occurs more in some countries than others, with low sign language awareness. Maybe the US especially due to monolinguality. It seems people love to assume things about other languages that are false and can be insulting. Like when you say an English sentence to a Mexican who doesn't understand it, and you respond by saying the same thing again but louder and slower. It looks like you think they're dense.

Another example, the notion that monkeys can "learn sign language". They can learn to use some signs, like a newborn can learn some words, but how would you feel as a French speaker if someone said "look, the monkey speaks French!" just because they taught the monkey some French words? It implies not that the monkey is smart, but that French is so simplistic that even monkeys can understand it.
> the problem is caused by Unix allowing any character in filenames (other than slash and null).

Most Unixes don't allow any character; they allow any byte other than ascii slash or zero. Turning bytes into characters is outside the scope of most Unix kernels and the filesystems therein.
I was thinking about people overbuying toilet paper and realized that I never really think about how much I use. And the sizes are all confusing because it's like double rolls, mega rolls, super plus rolls and stuff. Toilet paper sizes are insane! It's hard to convert. So since I can't go outside I made a small calculator yesterday to help me figure out how many rolls I need per moth. Hope this is helpful to people! Also if you don't see you toiler paper in the list, my email is on the site. Email me and I can make changes.
I went to UT around the time of the dot com crash. The curriculum was not always so Java-centric. It used to start out with Scheme, C++, and Assembler. I think it was a year or two afterwards that most courses started using Java for everything.

As far as startups, I do remember most of us wanting to work at Dell or AMD when I was an EE undergrad there. We would all go to the career expo and put our resumes in these giant piles. Never hearing back from anyone led me to explore other opportunities.
Some bookending it is as least possible. They imply that the draw is no more than 1/60th the input (1 minute of sun for 1 hour). The 3 hours for 6 months would be much lower, checking their documentation, it enters a low power mode that freezes the hands (it still keeps time, the hands are advanced when power becomes available).

The input is limited to something like 10 square cm (that's a bit more than 3 cm by 3cm, or a circle ~3.5 cm across). 1000 watts / square meter is usually used as peak sun, so the max input would be ~1 watt (but actual energy captured would probably be more like 1/10 of that).

3 Watt hours is a very respectable figure for a AA battery, so it clearly isn't storing that much power. After looking up that figure, 10% efficiency for the solar cell is probably high.
A lot of people believe that raising capital is completely necessary for your business to succeed. However, many do it and achieve great success. Not raising money slows growth in most cases but what you gain in control and complete ownership outweigh the the risk. It's not for everyone but I feel like raising money is the benchmark for success in people's minds. Which to me has always been silly. Raising funds is not for every business. Good read. Wish you guys all the luck.
Well the statement is not about logic. It is about revolution.
You say this is your co-founder but the way you describe the situation makes it sound like your dealing with a manager.

They have no business making comments like that about something they don't understand.
To which I say BS, at least for the reason cited.

Sure, the U-232 contaminated U-233 is nasty, but as long as it doesn't make it impractical to make a nuclear warhead it's quantitatively different from the uranium cycle, where after a few months at most plutonium is impossibly contaminated with two even more undesirable isotopes (one is very hot, I've seen estimates of 100kW for a bomb sized quantity (it's used for RTGs in deep space probes), the other precludes much of a bang and required the Manhattan Project to go with an implosion design).

Despite the gamma ray emission drawbacks, it could still be the easiest way to get lots of weapons grade fissionables from civilian power plants.
Servo right now is more of a Rust reference project than a serious engine. They use the most up-to-date features of Rust and don't worry about having to rewrite the code with the next version because they know they're working with a somewhat unstable language spec.

The real value of Servo right now isn't really as a browser engine, but instead its value as the largest software project currently written in Rust. When you're creating a programming language, you always want to know what it will be like to build large projects in that language, and that's exactly the experience being gained right now with Servo.
This is an astonishing demo -- and I very nearly missed it, because I thought the scrolly graphic at the top was just a fancy animated header, followed by a bunch of text that seemed to be refering to something else. I only discovered the full demo when I accidentally scrolled up, and found it lurking there well above the start-point for the page. I can't help but think that a lot of other viewers must be missing it entirely.

So a note to web-masters: please put any content you want your users to see below the top of the page, not above it.
Nope. I'd be hard pressed to not do a little iCal trolling. I'm sure the moon would get destroyed by the Death Star at least a few times per year. Not to mention a new phase of the moon: Space station.
Dating in the context of dating sites and such is inherently targeted at lonely people; fake profiles, trying to invoke feelings of 'belonging', and that there are people like you out there.

Which are all sales techniques to get you to get a subscription. It's worse when you're a woman, put your picture up there and you get a dozen messages a week from guys suggesting you should have sex with them.

To solve loneliness, people need to talk. Not try and find people that 'match' according to some obscure algorithm on an impersonal, protective online cocoon in the form of a dating site.

Also, aren't veterans an army social club of sorts? Annual meetups and the like.
craah on demand in firefox mobile.
Yes insurance is finance. Finance is broken, right? Maybe insurance could be too?
It may be in their interest to correct it, but it's not their obligation. Nor is it their obligation to make a web site sacred, but they did so within a day of the public making its wishes known, and likely well before they had planned to deal with the matter. I don't know what more can reasonably be expected of them.

The press was happy to read between the lines of their initial non-committal statement but not the second one where they said "ok, you win". I guess when there's blood in the water, you can't tide the sharks over with vegetables.
If this is true, it will be awesome (minus the 3d part).

"The Forever War" is a must-read for any diehard sci-fan. Relativistic space travel is not approached by many writers due to the inherent limitations (faster-than-light is a cop-out IMO, most of the time).
When bbc correspondent Justin Webb left america his quotes have always stuck in my head. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...

"There is something about the carelessness of America that gives space for greatness."

"If you do not like your life and you have drive and luck, you can change it because - being American - you believe you can change it."

"But if Sonia Sotomayor is to make it big, there must be something creating the drive, and part of that something is the poverty of the alternative, the discomfort of the ordinary lives that most Americans endure and the freedom that Americans have to go to hell if that is the decision they take.
This is the atmosphere in which Nobel Prize winners are nurtured. A nation which will one day mass produce a cure for type one diabetes, could not, would not, save little Kara Neumann from the bovine idiocy of her religious parents."
noscript is per-source, so you can whitelist their <script> blocks and jquery.js, but that random javascript in an onmouseover in a forum comment will do nothing.
No, even when you do allow a site to run JS, NoScript includes additional XSS, XSRF, and "click-jacking" protections that aren't normally offered by Firefox.
How about one in-between? The 'b' is a bit too obscured in the alternate design but I prefer it overall.
distributed checksumming is what I am talking about

upgrades should be done by putting the new version at a DIFFERENT url. As tim berners-lee says, cool uris don't change: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI