jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is not true. Russian government does not dictate FB and YouTube (which it does not own), and they would have to force ISPs to block these sites if they wanted to ban the content. I doubt ISPs would ban them themselves.
Every conservative narrative will now be about some evidence found on this laptop that will never be materialized in court. Just like the hunter Biden laptop that tucker Carlson supposedly lost in the mail.
The safeguard could be as little as a majority of the cabinet + Pence saying they are willing to invoke the 25th if there is a nuclear attempt.
From the perspective of their respective governments?

Yes. Absolutely yes.

The hands of those on the levers of power change over the years. Beware what you give them.
Here's the message board that takes submissions for Historical "Fact" myths. http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/9551919888
Care to elaborate please? (FIX engine?)
They don't move around of their own accord, attempting to close with the target. Guided weapons do.
Seriously.

This isn't wikipedia.

And yes, this happens.
Agreed! I guess Sony was itchin' for that bank approval.

For the uninitiated: Submitting a transaction with CVV2 has a much higher likelihood of being approved by the bank.
General approximation is what I was going to use. I don't care if it's exactly some set price. Reasonably close is good enough for me.

A bit of magic in the system would be nice, as well. For example: I'm picking the menu(s) the items that I would like to eat next week. While "chicken burrito" may not normally cost me too much, it just so happens that none of the ingredients for the chicken burrito are shared amongst the ingredients for the other 5 or 6 days. This may push my week's allowance too high. Finding things with like/shared-staple ingredients would be nice. Obviously, we wouldn't want a Taco Bell scenario where everything uses the same five or six ingredients, but watching your overall supply/intake could help.

I suppose, additionally, being able to specify some things that you have on hand could help with the process.

I've thought about this off and on enough that I fear I may be over complicating it at this point.

Anyway, if you get around to working on this sometime this fall then feel free to hit me up as I hope to have some free time by then.
How come this post is not in the first page after 8 hours while the following post for example still is?

Joel Spolsky: Lunch (joelonsoftware.com)
275 points by alexlmiller 12 hours ago | flag | 175 comments
Exactly why he's made this post - trying to figure out what information to keep private and what information to expose before formal negotiations begin.
This is what I like to refer to as the "bias of computing." The idea is that we deal with so much scientific progress in our fields that we tend to think that scientific progress can take us anywhere and no restriction will stand up for long.

However, this is a fallacy that really has no grounding in the laws of physics. What reason do we have for thinking that information can travel faster than the speed of light? Moreover, what evidence do we have that the second law of thermodynamics could be reversed on a macro scale?

The assumption that all barriers will fall as others have seems unreasonable and contradictory to our current evidence.
We're tracking this bug down now -- mind letting me know repro steps? We'll fix it asap -- garry@posterous.com

Thanks Emmett!
Don't count this technology out. There is a lot of pressure to take the money loser services like Public IP transport and turn it into a real money maker. Charging by the bit has been on the radar for a long time and there is a significant effort to make it happen.

At least one company (Procera) has demonstrated the ability to identify INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS within a WoW-type game (I think it actually was WoW) and filter/rate-limit traffic BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TYPE. (e.g. Orcs respond slower then elves accomplished at the NETWORK level)
1 item cited? Seriously?

It's not broken.

People are incited to review something for either because the like it or hate it.

How can nobody hate his book? Maybe because the only people who bought it are the ones who already drank the koolaid. They want to think it's great, so they post saying it's great. People who wouldn't like the book knew so before buying, so they didn't waste their money and feel cheated.
How about giving him a chance because he's Orson Scott Card?

Either way, he's done some of my favorite science fiction titles but I mostly have to pretend he doesn't exist in real life. His politics, with regard to social issues, are just vulgar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Politics
Easy, charge for a monthly fee to access the site. Period. Sort of along the lines of Metafilter's one time fee, in order to keep the commentary and content both relevant and interesting you could raise the barrier to entry.
I don't see many small businesses or even teams within large companies using Facebook Groups to collaborate.

Not sure if that's relevant, since I don't see any way that they start using Posterous for that.

Whatever, I'm just throwing out my opinion that this doesn't seem like a big deal in Dec 2010. Maybe the ability to attach inline pictures will make all the difference, though.
True, but if they extended the deal to current customers they'd still have the same outlay ($100,000) but the buzz + new signups would be increased.

I suppose it could be argued that current customers are more likely to sign-up for a second linode independently from any offer; but in counter to that, some current customers might be dissuaded from signing up for a second linode in the near future because the perceived value proposition has been lessened.

I think allowing current customers to sign up for a 2nd linode would be a win-win for Linode (and people like me who currently use them).
TCP over UDP.
Depends... Your phone runs millions of lines of code and you likely browse the web on it which means that any moment an exploit could take over your phone. (or the regularly scheduled bluetooth vulnerabilities).

Bam, someone now have the ability to authenticate as you without even needing physical contact and without you ever noticing - this could run for years without any trace. With yubikey you will notice that it is missing.

There is a yubikey with fingerprint sensor that is supposed to come soon as well.

In my case, the biggest case against a phone app is that the most likely disruption would be either that my phone was stolen (though not specifically to get my credentials) or just break from a fall or something.

And until there is a decent fallback from that passwords are the better choice for me. (Yubikeys aren't that much better in that regard either)
n=1 but i like a good poop joke
Yea devs that use postman crack me up, in my experience you usually just aren’t writing tests
It bugs me to no end that Rust _almost_ got conditions and restarts. Apart from proper macros, conditions and restarts are one of the few things that CL has that no other language has mimicked.

Sure, I have seen it faked in scheme with call/cc, but that will never be a proper, fast solution.
Well, this one had more value than Stadia.
> do the employees are just as unethical

Most people's ethics are easily bought. Does working for a company that operates with questionable integrity outweigh providing a stable income for your family?

Remember Facebook is still a very highly desirable company to work at.
I guess, but I've never driven 100 miles up a mountain to stay for a few days.
Huh. This whole time I thought the crisis was around human waste.
You're paying (or paid) $5k for the lawyer to review the agreement before it is filed, which is why the judge made you get a lawyer to file it.
I'm not going to carry on with you in two forks when you ignore what I said in the other.
From my perspective its missing a lot of features and the culture of 'Go is perfect, features are bad!' is a real turn off. C# is one of those multi-paradigm languages so you can usually write things however you want and I like that.

A lot of the features that do exist seem to have some strange quirks. Package/dependency management comes to mind but maybe its just unfamiliar to me.

Fundamental channels and goroutines is really nice though.
Such as ejaculating sperm up a lady ?

no, oh
Agreed. Maybe if this article was written 5 years ago I can understand, but unless you're live somewhere where you don't have access to Amazon; everyone knows it's not just the prices that Amazon has that keeps customers coming back. People trust it. Amazon has the best customer service I've ever experienced. It is amazing. imo it's because unlike most stores, Amazon keeps your full shopping history so they know your worth to the company (as well as your habits and so on).
Thanks, some really intelligent comments on that thread.
An unstable `std::backtrace::Backtrace` (https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/backtrace/struct.Backt...) exists in nightly Rust. If you cannot require nightly, you can use the backtrace crate (https://docs.rs/backtrace/0.3.40/backtrace/) on stable.

Crates like my SNAFU (https://docs.rs/snafu/0.6.0/snafu/) help abstract this away. Whenever the standard library implementation stabilizes, you will likely see many more errors including backtraces.
I think it's in your best interests to avoid disclosing it if you can do so without losing the opportunity. However once you've been selected and the company is negotiating an offer, disclosing your compensation to the employer (and not a recruiter) isn't so bad.

The two worst cases are that you lose the offer (because you're too expensive or too cheap) or get a low offer (because they are willing to pay more but decide to base their offer on your previous compensation). If you go your separate ways, you are free to start the negotiation process all over again with another employer.

Disclosing your compensation to a recruiter is an absolute no. You are instantly and immediately disclosing your compensation to every employer, for all time.
You mentioned rental properties (mortgage docs?), tax papers, both of which likely have SSN's, maybe you have credit card numbers and bank acct numbers in these pdfs. I'd think you'd want this stuff encrypted. Thanks for a great post though, I'm totally inspired.
If a sum of money (S0) is increased with p percent then decreased with the same percent, the final sum (S2) will be:

S2 = S0 * (100+p)/100 * (100-p)/100

A plot[1] of this equation will quickly show that as p increases, S2 decreases.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28100%2Bp%29%2F100+*+%...
It's not about money. It's about power. Think of it as Meg Whitman trying to turn money into political power.
Exactly! Peyote, aspirin, cannabis, et cetera are real drugs. Most herbs are not active. Some herbs can even worsen the condition they are traditionally used to treat.
While the notion is simple, the math is not.
It'd need to be a symmetric function that appears at least pseudo-random, any suggestions for suitable candidates? But I'd probably have a database with assorted data about the production anyway, so adding a random serial number wouldn't make much of a practical difference.
The ironic part is that Kik is a Canadian company also in Waterloo.
I'm going to take a possibly contrarian view, Paul. Personally, I don't trust many other news sources. HN is one that I do. I find immense value in what people here contribute and comment. The TSA stories in particular, while numerous, have been needed.

We cannot live in a complete vacuum, as many of us that center ourselves around technology do. For some background, I used to be extremely politically active when I lived in South Florida. I ran the Miami Indymedia branch for several years. I got my ass thrown in jail for being on a sidewalk at an FTAA protest and videoing it. I got burned out.

When I moved to SF in 2007, I was disillusioned with politics. I discovered that going to rallies accomplishes little. In a very relevant way, the protest community in Miami was very similar to HN. We only talked to each other and got our information from other Indymedia sites where similarly minded people around the world posted similar thoughts. That's why I got burned out.

So while you are well intentioned in penalizing TSA stories, does it stop there? When the US government makes another serious affront to human dignity next year, is HN going to filter that as well? It's ok for us to post Ask HN type questions all the time, or to post about new weekend projects that mashup Google Maps, checkins, and chickens, but it's not ok to post about serious items of public interest that affect HN-members, their friends, and their families?
That's strange, while that's a normal breakfast task for Apple, RIM's really not the company to do things like that, even if the app affected battery life and what not. Pretty sure there are some dirty things going on behind the scenes, maybe someone else can provide more insight.
> the underlying principles are important.

I have a suspicion that the more the underlying principles are important, the more things tend to decay into discussions that aren't particularly useful. Offhand, I can think of numerous issues that are far more important to the world than pretty much anything on the front page:

* Ireland and the Euro.

* Will Berlusconi finally be turfed out of office? Will it be for good?

* Health care in the US and the broader debate of taxes and the deficit.

* The upcoming vote for independence in South Sudan.

* Korea and Iran's nuclear capabilities.

* TSA

And so on and so forth. Indeed, we could entirely crowd out "hacker news" topics with those that, I think are objectively more important in that they impact more people more deeply than Ruby on Rails ever will. I would be very disappointed to see this happen.
> "Not only had it been the world's worst screw"

I would sue her for slander ;-)
I'm a pretty hard-core CLI person. I spend the majority of my time on mac in either terminal or emacs (cocoa emacs, though I rarely use the menu).

Before I was running OS X, my laptops ran NetBSD. My workflow changed very little (I got over focus-follows-mouse), but I can use omnigraffle now.
There was an incident just last November where the flight systems put a A320 into a nose dive towards the ground and the pilots had to restart the board systems in order to pull the machine up.
Exactly....I swear Feynman could have encountered the proverbial pig farmer and talked for several hours and left, and if someone told the farmer who they were talking to later, they wouldn't believe them, they'd just say he was an extremely interesting guy. He could find interesting things about almost any subject, and get everyone excited about them.
Leading and trailing spaces because more than one username would look the same on the page eg. "user" and "user " which would confuse others when signing comments etc.
The only site that I've seen really get themes right is WolframAlpha. Their small, tasteful theme gallery (http://www.wolframalpha.com/homesettings.html) is really very well put together.
Since Google is the #1 search engine by a extremely wide margin and this change is obviously a response to competition, and the change is poorly implemented, it becomes of interest to the HN crowd. Consider it a water-cooler topic - not earth shattering, but still a way to pass the time.
They probably have their own sources for news and I guess they won’t get around looking at the real deal when they want to know how something is reported.

They could probably do all kind of cool stuff if the wrote their own apps. I have, however, a hard time believing that will ever happen (after all the problems with getting the President a Blackberry). Security concerns might also be the reason why entertainment dominates in the article.
The connection is actually not very metaphorical; it's being able to chat across the two games.

The use case is that you can jump into SC2 and invite your 2v2 teammate to play with you even if they're playing some WoW character you don't know and you don't even have a WoW account.
Although this will not much help you, I have worked on servers where the EFI screen looks exactly like the old PhoenixBIOS interface---I would not have known that it was EFI except that the first line of the screen said so.
I am dumb. (Not even relatively to average person, even in absolute measure)
I think that's a good litmus test. If a job at hot company xyz sounds more like 'wage slavery' than 'great career opportunity', you know you should be an entrepreneur.

You, good sir, should be an entrepreneur.
http://icfpcontest.org/

although "functional programming" is in the name, any language can enter. lots of Haskell and other FP winners in there. Although in '08 a Java team won..
Any recommendations of good talks? A session number is enough info to avoid breaking the NDA.
I think you're conflating "smart" with "brilliant". I know several very smart people who aren't particularly brilliant at anything, and a couple who are brilliant at their domain, but really cannot be described as smart.
When I say "language government," I don't necessarily mean there would be any relation with an actual government. In fact, any free and amendable formal grammar/style guide would qualify as "language government."

I think we have reached an intellectual compromise we can both agree on :-) I think an open style guide backed by a respected foundation and esteemed board (a la the Creative Commons organization) would be an excellent idea.

You are right about the slightly closed nature of style guides. I'm a big fan of the Chicago Manual of Style but it's not free, and nor is the fine AP Stylebook (they even charge $20 or something for their iPhone app..)
That also assumes the dealer doesn't rip you off on the trade in, which is pretty rare. Selling the car yourself for cash is pretty much always better, even if you aren't a slick salesman type.
> now needing to work out the original specifications, work out the current implementation (in case they differ anywhere), and work out whether it's worth re-writing it top-down or just fixing the worst of the loops.

That always seems to be the problem: refactoring is only cheap if you can be sure that your test coverage catches it if you break something. Of course, the code bases that need heavy refactoring probably don't have it, because otherwise they would have been improved already...
In an SSD the board is the drive.
Isn't it well known that trying to make money on the stock market is mostly gambling? You can do all sorts of analysis but in the end it's a hobby.
Is the profit plan to make lots of kelp and use it as cow feed?
Wow, downvoted away. The irony abounds.
I've managed to push amd64/arm64 images to GitHub a while ago, but I was still using Docker proper at the time, so the registry itself should support this.
Why, what are you looking to achieve by sharing your own work?
You missed the most important one... Diet!

I take Choline to help me remember.
And none of those are an ESP32
Can someone provide some context? This tweet is pretty decontextualized.
Yes. Joe’s buildpack was an inspiration for me to start work on Halcyon and Haskell on Heroku.
Because you want autosave to the cloud, and autosave to git would be very weighty.
I recently named my android app and website through them. It was quite a straightforward and pleasant experience.
In Rochester, MN, IBM has been doing several very large rounds of layoffs over the past 5 years. Nearly half the building is empty now and being rented to other companies.
Listen, engineers and scientists: 11 out of 12 balls, markedly different and underinflated compared to the other team's balls? This is a priori evidence of tampering. Any jury would convict. We don't need a Perry Mason-type confession; we don't need to identify the culprit. The team should be strongly punished for breaking the NFL rules. I think the NFL should do an extensive investigation, after the initial punishment, which justly would be done BEFORE the Super Bowl. This investigation needs to determine whether the Pats have cheated with underinflated balls over a period of months and years. It can be done. Then is the time for scientific analysis, testimony by physicists, and so on.

My point is: We don't need to identify the person responsible, and we don't need a confession. Guilt is obvious, a priori. Punishment should be swift.
The riot is winding down. The Capitol Police cleared the building hours ago, and many of the crowd just hanging around have left. More cops from Virginia and DC have arrived, and are slowly pushing the remaining crowd back.

Tomorrow, Congress will finish counting the electoral votes. I suspect that some, if not all, of the planned objections will not be made.
I agree with the first paragraph, but strongly disagree with the second.

Those regimes that filtered information very narrowly constrained ideas to align with the status quo. That was sometimes good, but often held back people with minority views from finding and organizing with each other. Progressive social movements and positive new possibilities have come out of this, in addition to reactionary ones.

What we do have to do is figure out how to have a shared view of the world that is less authoritarian than in the past. People now try to get the private platforms to enforce particular viewpoints through deplatforming and such. I am sympathetic to this as a practical matter, but don't think it is a viable long-term solution, as it will just lead us back to where we were, except with different people calling the shots.
This story would be a lot more useful/believable if you included the judge's name. And maybe what "chat channel of admins" you're talking about, because I have 170,000 across wikipedia sites and have no idea what that is supposed to be.
Can anyone tell me the benefit of using parafilm over tape/clingwrap in the lab?

Not sure if its just a meme or there's something more to it. Seems like even cling wrap would be better.
> but now you have a function call per renormalization and that has a cost that may be unacceptable.

I would go for the function, and pass along Knuth's advice about premature optimization. If you're writing at such a low level that function calls actually aren't acceptable, go with a comment "// renormalize vector." Your instinct should be the function though. I bet there is more than one vector normalization going on in this hypothetical codebase, and that line looks pretty typo-prone.
This doesn't seem to replace PHP whatsoever.

I thought PHP didn't run as CGI, shelling to a separate program with every request. It runs, in nearly all installations, as a plugin, saving the overhead of spawning a new program.

That's just one of the many reasons it did so well back it the day because it allowed a server to handle far more requests than CGI based stuff.
Spoiler: there aren't any. It's something hipsters, wannabe be mathematicians and idiots that haven't done any real programming like to circle jerk over. If you thought well designed classes were hard to understand and bloated than just wait until it's condensed into an ugly, undocumented, confusing set of alien hieroglyphics that denote instructions for a theoretical machine that doesn't resemble how modern computers actually work.