jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The government forcing someone to give their estate to random strangers is absolutely a forced sacrifice. This is not me being poetic. I think we can agree on this. Do you not?

The question is, whether we want human sacrifice, or not. I think many people want that and would admit it openly. I, on the other hand, do not support human sacrifice.

> It sounds like you fetishize everyone else having a hard time

Do you want to have an honest intellectual discussion or do you want to try to advocate for your ideal system using emotionalism? Because obviously what you've said in this part has no intellectual content. Seems like you're on the border. Make a decision. Do you want to be rational, or not?
In places like Vancouver and the SF Bay Area, this is no longer true. The down payment amounts are often a multiple of annual household income, and even a drop by 30% will not solve much.
i see the future people and it's RDO: https://andrewarrow.substack.com/p/my-vision-for-the-roaring...
I have heard that switching from a JDK vendor to another can alter runtime performance.
It is to be expected as the JVM is a C++ codebase, its performance depends on the compiler flags.

Hence I wonder if there is a vendor that has found the optimal configuration e.g
-03 + x86-v3 (AVX) + LTO + PGO (e.g autofdo) + BOLT
I have a large collection of auto repair tools, gardening equipment, etc, that have an insanely low utilization. And my neighbours are the same.

A large community shed where we could all pool our stuff would make so much sense. But alas most communities are not organized to make this happen.
Not really. Japan's "sunlight laws" make it really hard to go above around three stories or so, meaning that nearly all of Tokyo's skyscrapers are concentrated in a few hot spots with commercial zoning (Shinjuku, Marunouchi) plus a few mega-developments like Roppongi Hills where the developer could pull enough strings to buy a large chunk of land and bulldoze their way to an exception.

Of course, compared to Silicon Valley, even the suburbs of Tokyo are indeed densely packed -- but then, Tokyo also crams in something on the order of 7x more people into the same area.
ah yes every repo is tracking you. -_-
I sense that for Progressives the pursuit of Equity means that "looking out for your own kind" is not racist for any group that is disadvantaged, underserved, or systematically oppressed.
> I'm leaning on bash/zsh scripting one I finish the utterly gigantic C guide I'm on now... hopefully later this year. But I'm always open to suggestion for topics... :)

That would be amazing, I'd love to read a guide over scripting. The only request I would have is a section over sh as well if you do write such a guide.
> Regarding shared, mutable state - if multiple async "threads" can access that state, then you still need to guard it, but usually with an async-capable means.

Sometimes, but not as often, because the scope of your async function is often the only “shared state” you need.
The hard part about new simple things is getting people to understand the implications. Most people will shrug off something new and simple as the same as just another new complexity, when the implications are vastly different.
> saturated fat in the vast majority of people increases their LDL and that this in turn will increase their risk of cardiovascular disease

I still don't understand this. I thought the cause and effect had never been proven, but only the correlation.

Like people who have heart disease often have high cholesterol.

But was it shown that if they lower their level of cholesterol they can revert their condition?

Or was it shown that it was the increase which led to heart disease?
I work at Amazon and I am not seeing the issue. Please send an email at hn_user_name@amazon.com if you are still seeing the issue and I will escalate internally.
In his Lettres Provinciales, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal famously wrote:

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/02/03/270680304/this-...
The copyright holder could sue, which is rarely the artist. In this case it would be Sony.
Its not ridiculous. Its pretty factual. Can you actually disprove anything in the OP?
> Is it after the speed test is over?

Yeah, you have to let it run thorough first, then the button appears.

(At least on desktop, I can't remember what it does on mobile)
Where does this odd idea come from? I read the iStock page, but I have no idea what legal basis this might have.
rotate between hockey and ultimate frisbee at least 3 times/week. When the wind allows I windsurf and/or kitesurf
I don't see how exclusivity has anything at all to do with a technical point (I am considering "native" a technical point.)

But I'm tired of defending them.

I honestly just don't understand people's negativity. I'll say it again, better browsers make for a better web. You can laugh at their marketing pitch, but we should all be excited that they put a thoroughbred horse in the race.
I think it's a reaction to the over-the-top rhetoric that gets tossed around on HN, especially the "startups are a great learning experience!" sentiment that seems to prevail. That kind of thinking is a recipe for exploitation, especially of less business-savvy people.

I like startups, but you definitely have to go in with your eyes open, and most new grads don't know anything about business or negotiation. There are a ton of douchebags in this world who are only too happy to exploit cheap labor to line their own pockets. If you've got the means, starting a company is nearly always a better risk/reward trade-off than working for someone who is starting a company.
As people in the other thread on this mentioned, ICE is tasked with counterfeit items, and apparently they are classifying copyright infringement in with that (notice that a lot of the domains seized look like they are for selling counterfeit jerseys, etc). So while ICE is part of Homeland Security they aren't solely concerned with finding terrorists.
"People are mostly good"
There are technical realities that you obviously don't understand.

Call me when Google, Microsoft, RIM, or Palm ever allow fully native 3rd-party software.
Maybe it's just overzealous copywriting, but it seems like all they figured out is that a low GI, high protein diet is better than the other combinations they tested, and are far from solving anything rigorously.
What's next, replicators?
or, more neutrally:
"myusername has not listed their skills."

This is incorrect grammar (the subject and pronoun should agree)! Something like "myusername's skills have not been listed" would be ok.
A currency becomes worth something when people begin accepting it for goods and services. This is already the case to a very limited extent with bitcoin.

This also began to happen with QQ coins, in China people began accepting them for goods and services until the government cracked down. And the funny thing is that this was never meant to happen with QQ coins, they were meant simply as a way for QQ to make more money. But once people accepted them they became a form of currency.
Of course, he did a lot of amazingly awesome stuff as a hacker in the early 90s — but he started turning out turd after turd as soon as his W3C took control over web standards from the IETF and he became a bureaucrat.

He produced a masterwork, but I can't think of a second one — from my POV all the awesome post-IETF web developments happened despite the W3C's best efforts to derail them.
My best guess is that some people are using the upvote as a bookmark for later reading. I sometimes do this as well, ashamedly.

HN probably needs to separate the upvote and the bookmark features.
it was also a reflection of the realization on my part that my thirties would be less about bravely exploring new horizons and more about repairing the damage that I’d done in my twenties. - It is so common, so usual. It is called the crisis of the middle age. And yes, it is time when you come to realize that these strange world 'self-help' and 'self-improvement' (diet, gym, regime) now are somehow related to you.

I have very simple visualization for such moment. Imagine an 'U' turned upside down, or a classic bell curve. Before 30 you're going up and looking up, and see something like a blue sky or other positive illusion. After crossing the ridge, you're starting to go down, but you're looking back and up, trying to push out from consciousness what you just saw ahead. All those activities are mostly about supporting an illusion of remaining at the highest point.

For some people (it depends of your culture) it could be a cross, and that is how they come to realize why religion exist. They just didn't saw it from the opposite side.
What are some of the ways that Excel falls short which matter in your experience?
I've also had problems with paypal, due to the fact I needed three accounts for three separate businesses/ partnerships. Even though I formed separate LLCs, Paypal apparently can only link even business accounts to a specific person, so when I had two accounts based off my name it started causing no end of problems. The account would get locked, I'd call and have it fixed, then it would lock up again. They were friendly, but it was definitely a pain.
What made you believe it's a VPS issue and not software issue ?
Whatever the case, that phone never caused any audible signals in my speakers :)
Were your support requests related to the server going down? Was that happening that often? Or were they for server admin support? Because you make it seem that only recently did the machine start dying.

From what I've read you seem to be a nightmare customer. Not only expecting a service you aren't paying for, but complaining about it in a public forum when things don't go your way.

>I know their motto is "We don't assume you are stupid." but charging people money for a service and not providing any support is just rubbish. I've emailed them with some questions in the past and they never get back. A while ago they started issuing ticket numbers and I thought they must be improving the service, but they still never get back.

Are you saying here you are sending support requests because your server is malfunctioning/down or are you requesting server administration support?

Honestly, you signed up for a service that openly states that you are expected to run your own machine and then you complain on a professional forum that the company owner is hand holding you.
Valuation at 135 million...really?

I love Tumblr, but they've not only failed to monetize well, but the few cases in which they have are rather lackluster. Their theme marketplace is a bit of a joke, and they are virtually identical to Posterous.

I realize Tumblr struck first, but if it's that easy to duplicate your business, then how valuable is it?
Symbolic is much more powerful imo.

You could even argue certain guitars or other instruments are totems for musicians. When that guitar is worn, or that synth is used...

Certainly the idea of totems is probably one of the most inate human behaviours.

We all have our favorite 'X'. You could even extend it to software.

People are indisputably more productive when they use the tools they prefer, when compared to the most objectively 'efficient' tools.
I like the idea, but needs a better way to save state. I have started this game twice when it was posted, and each time got so far before I had to do real work and forgot about it. If it were a local application I could have just loaded a saved state, but it being a browser app, there is no good long term storage mechanism. Which is a shame since it is fun, but doing a bunch of EE101 problems for the 7th time in my life isn't. I am sure the later parts of the game are even better.
I find it interesting how little computer power you need to host a highly accessed website by using CloudFlare. When 386's were the cutting edge it would have taken a car load of computers plus some fancy cutting edge load balancing software. All very expensive.
Really? It just feels like dilution from IPOs would make it less percentage than the original stake.
Increase of vitality, imune system, consciousness which includes emotional order, environment awareness and then an increased sensibility to the beauty of nature. Deep feeling of being at the right place. Globally a very enjoyable inner state. And more.
Hahahahahahaha! That's a commentary on marketing, right?
I've been learning my own version of Coq for decades now
Yes it does. Writing concurrent code in Clojure out of the box is a blast, and for the more advanced use cases there's core.async.
Some unsolicited feedback from a potential customer:

1) The animated .gif in the product announcement does not inspire confidence. When you're asking customers to trust you with all of their external API calls, the website needs to be 100% professional and polished from top to bottom. A quirky animated .gif sends the wrong message.

2) The product page is surprisingly vague. I wanted to understand how this compares to a known solution like New Relic, but the product description looks like unfinished placeholder copy:

> Get a complete picture of third-party API usage at a glance. Instantly view all API used, latency, error rate, etc.
> Filter per API and compare usage between time.

3) Finally, locking myself into your product as an intermediary for external APIs feels massively risky versus just adding a known monitoring solution like New Relic. What's the advantage, other than simplicity? As a customer, this feels like an enormous risk for possibly negative gain, because now my developers need to learn and support two APIs (Bearer's API as well as the 3rd-party API) and jump between two sets of possibly conflicting documentation. I'd want to see much more explanation for the upside of this tool before we considered using it for anything.
That’s up to the Attorney General who charges them, and if they’re convicted, the trial judge during the sentencing phase.
Could you link to studies that show CPI inflation create employment? What mechanism causes employment from inflation?
Police at a scene were too busy taking selfies with them to arrest anyone.
This. I wasn't even looking for them last night and I saw hundreds of pictures from inside the building.
You can disable receiving calls on your desktop in settings, I believe
From the article:

>Boeing admitted that two of its 737 Max flight technical pilots “deceived” the FAA about the capabilities of a flight-control system on the planes, software that was later implicated in the two crashes, the Justice Department said.

...what exactly does that mean when "deceived" is in quotation marks? Seems like deceiving regulators would be a straightforward crime. Unless "deceived" means something other than the usual definition.
I don't think the goal is for them to "decide what's good for the world". You can classify disruptiveness/risk of a piece of tech fairly objectively.

Delaying release is to give others (most clearly social media) time to adjust and ensure safety within their own platforms/institutions (of which they are the arbiters). It also gives researchers and entrepreneurs a strong motivation of "we have to solve these risk points before this technology starts being used". While there are clearly incentive issues and gatekeeping in the research/startup community, this is a form of decentralized decision-making.

I don't see a strong case for why access should be open-sourced at announcement time, especially if it's reproducible. Issues will arise when their tech reaches billions of dollars to train, making it impossible to reproduce for 99.99% of labs/users. At that point, OpenAI will have sole ownership and discretion over their tech, which is an extremely dangerous world. GPT-3 is the first omen of this.
Same with "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain".

As well as "The reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane", although I would at least expect that one.
Trump just published his "concession" on Twitter.

Between the jump cuts, strange speech patterns, and bizarre mouth animation this video feels very doctored to me.

Does anyone have the means to verify its authenticity?
SICP SICP SICP
(Some Haskell would be good too, but there's just no SICP equivalent yet.)
Interesting read. +1 for data visualization.
I'd be more interested in a "Why Pollen over Scribble?"...
I'm sure D8 is a lot slower--isn't performance usually the last thing worked before release?--but I don't think D7 has really been distinguished by its speed either. In my experience, D7 speed tuning consists almost entirely of inserting and tuning cache layers at every level. In other words, working around the slowness of the application.

Drupal seems great for a content-heavy site that caches well. Personally, I would not build an account-based, heavily personalized web app in Drupal unless I knew the audience was pretty small.

Even in the dinky D7 sites I've run, we got significant performance improvements just by handing off search and commenting to services other than Drupal (SOLR and Disqus).
NSA advocate: But it's OK, only the NSA can decode the data and they only use the data for legitimate nation security.

Some nerd: The code has been cracked and anybody can download a program to decode them, giving access to private and possible sensitive data to anybody who wants it.

NSA Advocate: Hmm, next time will make the code harder to crack or something other than stopping to coercing businesses from building in far-from-impenetrable back doors into public consumer products that are used by hundreds of millions.
Strange lede for a cool technology. I suppose it is how they managed to get funding, but the other uses are much more interesting. There's a lot more detail in the linked article about imaging Fukushima Daiichi: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientists-are-using-cosmic...
[shameless-self-plug] I submitted mine at https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-devel... :D
One certainly cannot axiomatically assert the internet wouldn't be here without the U.S government. Although it has definitely helped, the community programmers and engineers were the `fathers of the internet`.

If the government hadn't invested, there would certainly be analogous technologies and initiatives built on top of scientific developments. It's just too hard to say how it'd be like
The Earthsea trilogy had such a big influence on me as a child. They were my first true introduction to scifi and sparked a real love of reading fiction.

I can't wait to introduce my son to these books when he is old enough.
When you break up your application up as a set of tasks, which GAE pretty much requires, it's hard to execute them in any sort of order. Your program is not executing sequentially so there aren't any while loops and if-then statements to make sure calculations happen in a certain sequence. So you need a higher level kind system that can order everything. Node.js which is a similar sort of event driven system, but not distributed, has a number of similar libraries https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules under Flow control / Async goodies.
How about trying things like giving startups tax breaks and making the incorporation process less painful?
http://www.faviki.com
Rah. After going to SDSHDH2, I really wanted to start going to the regular SDHN meetups. Sad to say, December is another month I'm missing out on, as I'll be in San Jose.
Wouldn't work. By the time the signals were processed by the digital camera, the photons would have long since slammed into your retina. You would have to literally beat the speed of light, because even just an instance of the light getting through would accomplish the task.

Even placing the sensor several feet in front of your face wouldn't help, the fasted that you'd be able to send your signal from the sensor to the glasses is exactly as long as it'd take the flash to reach you, but you'll still have the lag of the electronics.
It will be sad to see Delicious go, if it indeed does.

I would also like to point out http://pinboard.in/howto/#import
I switched to Pinboard (http://pinboard.in) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.)

Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard.in/switch/
MongoDB for a pastebin? Really? Why not Hadoop?

And you may want to remove *.pyc files from repository. You wouldn't want somebody to think you can't use git and Python properly, would you?
I'm working on wiring Shindig[1] into my project - Quoddy[2] - to allow Quoddy to host OpenSocial[3] applications. I've also been spending some time going through the Programming Scala book.

1: http://shindig.apache.org

2: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

3: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
> I imagine some of the programming language specific shells mentioned in the article have found ways of solving these problems, and I would be interested in hearing what those solutions are.

Eshell does a great job at this; it feels like a shell, but it also feels like invoking lisp functions. Obviously you're not typing direct function invocations otherwise you would have to quote all your strings, etc; but it's pretty close. You can pipe output from processes straight into Emacs buffers or even into functions. All the shell commands that have nicer Emacs equivalents (grep, top, man, etc) get intercepted so you get the enhanced hyperlinks in grep results, etc. I find it absolutely indispensible.

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/12/13/complete-g...
If your environment is anything like mine, someone in your organization probably thought using curses in the build script would be a clever thing to do, but didn't gracefully fall back when the script was not running in a terminal.
My landline has outages. For example, just a couple months ago, workers from the phone company intentionally disconnected my phone line while doing some tree trimming. Didn't even bother to knock on the door and let me know they were going to do it.
I picked * as it is a primary key on a regular cellphone keypad. I might add the option for the user to customize the command prompt. Thanks for the feedback.
Secretly murdering people and then robbing their house has a positive ROI for the murderer too; what a bogus form of argument. You don't look at one party's ROI, you look at the costs and benefits for everyone.
My dad knew a guy who got fired trying to do what you described.

Still, if you were motivated, you could get paid to sit and browse BoingBoing all day. :-)
I can't tell you for sure why 50 people upvoted it, but I can say why I posted it (and why I originally expanded on the given title): because unlike a lot of other articles about drug prohibition (pro or con) or other side non-computer topics (TSA, etc) of some interest to some HN readers, this one specifically explores its effect on average people. Not on crime or prison or nonviolent offenders or "real drug" users (we've heard a lot about all that), but on people who take what the French would call médicaments rather than drogues---which is a lot of people---and on the deeper implications of the "drug war" on their lives, their relationships with the law, and their interactions with police. Also the AS stuff, which is interesting, but it's background and setup for the main argument of the essay.

Also, the original title is not very descriptive and not only doesn't tell you its thesis, it doesn't even tell you which drug-related topic it's about.
> I feel like I'm putting pressure on someone at this time.

It is nothing like the imposition of requiring them to commute to an office to be interrupted at will.
It's certainly not impossible that governments of African countries would spend thousands of dollars per person to prematurely cure sickle cell anemia, but I think we can say that it's unlikely.