jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was a huge influence on fantasy and MUDs. I don't know which one you used to play. I used to play MUME (currently at https://mume.org/ )

My brother still plays sometimes. He has a lot of friends there. Sometimes they have over 30 people on at the same time! Heh. It used to be hundreds.
How does that relate to P versus NP problem?
Re-implementing matrix math, image processing, signal processing, statistics, scientific mathematics and a much much more is a daunting task. Not impossible, but a lot of work.
It's linked from their offical page: http://www.charliehebdo.fr/
great looking site
How can Uncle Steve know he should say "call me at 2"? Either he has to do a lookup, or he has to internalize that Australia is a place where the workday is 23-to-7

Even now, work days (within a timezone) are not consistent. Most teachers here work from about 8am until 4pm, most office workers work 9am till 5pm, but some work from 9am till 5:30pm. I work 10am till 6pm. I know people who work 6am till 3pm. Lots of people do shiftwork and work completely inconsistent hours. These are just common times, in reality even in the same types of job, there are variations. Its not at all consistent and nobody can know when someone else is working without asking them.

And I certainly don't have to look up when I work (unless I work shifts and have to either way) - I already know when I have to be in work and when I get to leave.

And where I am, the workday would be 1-to-9, the east coast would be 4-to-13, Paris would be 10-to-6, and Bangalore would be 14-to-23. And this system made everything simpler... how?

This is already the case, except that the numbers are confusingly given the same names. What I mean is, even if everybody works 9-to-5 local time, your 9 is not the same as my 9 - you need to know the timezone and if its DST and then add or subtract a number to convert to either your or their local time. How is that easier?

And timezones are not easy. For example, I read someplace that if you happen to live in Israel/Palestine, what timezone your in depends not on location, but on if you identify as Israeli or Palestinian. Simple, right?
Good luck to you! I'm currently setting up my own company now, it's a lot of work, so I take my hat off to you :)
Jayfor/Ink is still far from complete, it's been in passive development for a month or so. No clue why it was posted to HN.
As for choosing a provider, remember the cloud is more about horizontal and dynamic scaling. If your application has a predictable or consistent load the cloud is likely not be the best nor the cheapest solution. We had a client move off the cloud because they were mature and their growth was mostly predictable and usually followed a 3-6 month sales cycle that would mean there was plenty of time to allocate hardware to scale when needed.

I have used AWS and Azure professionally, only played with Google. Right now AWS is the most mature, stable and well documented. We have only had 2 clients come off AWS out of about 25ish we put there. We have had 4 out of the 5 leave Azure. That speaks volumes to me, one is maybe we suck at Azure, but I really feel it is more that Azure just hasn't matured far enough along.

I am sure plenty of people have had good experiences in Azure and Google, but to me it requires more time and resources to manage and resolve issues because both are less mature. AWS takes a little time to understand but it just works, and if you follow their recommendations you will rarely have any major issues. It isn't that things don't fail in AWS, because they do, but if you follow the basic design principles you won't have major issues from them. While in theory this is true with Google and Azure I just haven't seen them be as stable or mature, but I am sure that will change. Personally if I was re-evaluating today, I would look harder at Google since I haven't used it in production yet, but Azure wouldn't even be in the conversation right now.

As for what to consider, AWS can get expensive so you have to manage it properly and closely. Setup weekly cost reporting so you can see how you are trending and properly use a CDN where possible to reduce bandwidth charges etc. Also, properly select your storage in EC2 to make sure you aren't paying for unused space needlessly, same with CPU. AWS has some tools to help show you where you might be wasting dollars which helps too. All this really applies to all cloud environments too, not just AWS.

Features AWS wins hands down, but remember if you build your product depending on their services you have created a solution that is not extremely mobile without some code changes. Specifically this mostly happens with services like DynamoDB, SQS, not necessarily EC2 or RDS.

Support, AWS has rocked every time I have had to use them. Azure was also responsive but honestly seemed just as lost as we were sometimes, which didn't inspire confidence for me.
Thanks—we changed the URL to that from http://kievfprog.net/talks/oleksandr-manzyuk.pdf, which is linked in the first paragraph.
The results of the study are a bit counter-intuitive for me. I prefer to read and write software with <80 cpl, and find it difficult to read programs with longer lines. Maybe the difference between reading articles and software is to great to expect the same kind of outcome. In any case I don't think 95 cpl is an extreme enough line length to be really interesting. It would have been nice if they had run the study with more testing points at longer and longer lines until they found a point where reading speed dropped or comprehension suffered (if there is such a point, maybe not?)
I think you just burned what little you had left here.
Virtually all research can be subjected to valid criticisms and scrutiny. However, these days which research receives that scrutiny (along with social media outrage) is mostly a function of what the conclusions of the research are and how those conclusions align with political ideology.

A simple thought exercise here is to think about how a research paper with the opposite conclusion would have been treated. It would have been applauded, shared broadly in social media, and would have gone unchallenged rather than retracted. In short, science has been corrupted by political power because we've let one side exercise the power of censorship and deplatforming.
Here's a site that sells lotto tickets online:

https://www.lottoland.com/en

Legality of doing something like this is questionable. Plus, there's the issue of trusting the site if the ticket hits the jackpot. I believe they have people that physically go to convenience stores to buy the tickets for you.

I do have some ideas of how to facilitate playing in pools without having to be geographically close to the pool manager. But, overall, the pool manager should be someone you know.
> There are some services so fundamental to participation in society that only the state ought to be able to take them away. Social media is on the list.

Ah, reading that opened my eyes because, personally, I really couldn't disagree more. I suspect that disagreement on this is behind much of why people don't see eye-to-eye on this "private censorship" issue. I know very few people who use social media, and I don't see anything lacking from their role in society as a result. No offense, just my $0.02. :-)
Since I upgraded to Chrome 33, some Flash videos don't work anymore. The screen is just black there, and there's no sound either. Are they aware of this bug? It could be Adobe's fault, but Flash is updated in Chrome only through Chrome, so then it's their fault, too.

For example, the live video here isn't working right now in Chrome, and when I right click, it says "movie not loaded". It works in Firefox.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/27/5453572/the-vergecast-113
I can't speak for everyone but for every site I've created I run it through Cloudflare. Even if it's just for DNS. It takes care of so many things that would otherwise require config/setup, costs or maintenance at the click of a button.
And here you can find software for Pravetz computers: https://www.sandacite.bg/%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B...
Except Michael Jordan is arguably the best ever at Basketball and Elon fails to delivery consistently.
I certainly have shipped dodgy stuff knowingly for lack of time to do better. "This is a prototype, we'll apply the Chinese warranty, if it's broken we'll replace the unit". I would ship non-UV cables to outdoors stuff, because I had no time to select and order a better one, I shipped an outdoor temperature sensor cover that was not open to the air enough and was just tracking the sun. The only red lines were thunder and fire. I don't want to start a fire, and I don't want to conduct the thunder.

But I did that way earlier than Tesla in the process.
I'm not sure you understood what I meant by 'development'.

In poor 1980 China, population was exploding with draconian policies in place.

In better off 2020 China, population is set to decline, the still draconian government policy doesn't really matter.
An era is over. Good bye Chick, we'll miss you!
Haha I deserve the downvotes, it’s okay. I was being dumb because I thought it was funny.
Much better than that actually, those massive investments of money in the stock market is benefitting people outside the US as well. A lot of foreign interests are heavily invested in the US market because it shows stronger growth than domestic stocks.

I am Canadian with a strong exposure to the US market and all these injection of moneys to keep the market high made for nice returns in 2020.
So, a lot would depend on what you plan on passing the protobufs over. Plain TCP? gRPC? gRPC kinda sucks for this, the serialization/deserialization can be moderately expensive (CPU); and gRPC's multiplexing of multiple flows onto the same connection can be hard to reason about (i.e. debug); and the performance characteristics are not great either.
He has systematically dismantled election process and trust in institutions forever.
Don't like it? Build your own Twitter.

Don't like it? Build your own Payment Processor.

Don't like it? Build your own Aeroplane.

Don't like it? Build your own uh.........government?
Americans generally mean something very mild when they "clamp down." Countries like Russia really know what "clamp down" means -- you go into an area and kill or terrorize everyone who openly defies you, rinse and repeat every 20 years.
How do you explain to and persuade people who refuse to listen or even think? At a certain point you’re just explaining into the void and have become the crazy person yourself.

You can lead a horse to water and all...
The biggest reason for the timing IMO is the Senate races in Georgia. Now that Dems are in control of all chambers and Biden's appointments (to FCC and others) can go through, net neutrality is safe and section 230 is no longer in danger of being repealed, so Twitter will not face any consequences for the ban.
> Why are you giving this particular one such outsized proportion?

> You didn't see this sort of reaction in 2000

I think you found the reason? When exactly have we seen such a reaction before?
So you are effectively argueing for a).
Yes, it indeed happens on a non-chimeric person (just try comparing the DNA from a muscle in arms versus legs, or even head hair and genital hair). I don't know the point of the study (except if it is just to undeniably confirm this scientifically because some doctors still don't believe that identical twins are not quite identical).
By sending the people who participated or incited the riot to prison. Seriously, it's either that or the next coup will be successful.
It seems like a criminal act.

But didn't BLM demonstrate that political violence is effective at achieving your political goals? Or is it justified when it's your side committing the terrorism?
> but couldn't this be read with the opposite conclusion as well - that the average time that Google keeps marginal products alive is 4 years

Averages are misleading when the distribution is bi-or-multimodal.
You don’t own a car, a car owns you.
I've never used these VPN services before. Is it possible for them to MITM a connection?
If you have never seen the original 1985 British film that introduced "Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future", you are in for a serious treat. It is so much better than I ever expected -- and it's only 55 min long. More relevant than ever:

https://youtu.be/aZY-yQYVf38
What I still don't understand is why they didn't add support for them to forms.
No idea, but there's loads of world market crew cab pickups around in the EU these days. Though the insane size stuff like Ford F250 and Humvees only seem to turn up very rarely (thankfully) by personal import, which presumably sidesteps a lot of the regs.

I'd be amazed if Tesla simply chose to ignore the whole market though...
I figured the value of TDD was to settle on the higher-level functions and APIs before dealing with the nitty gritty.
Agreed, this looks really bad. And Mullvad is a good option.

So are AirVPN, Insorg and IVPN.

Edit: For background, see https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252466203/Top-VPNs-secre...
No way. Groupon is going nowhere. I use coupon sites.. all of them. There are three different ones in my city and I use them all. If Google Offers opens here I will us it too.
Here's a better one:
http://cofound.org
I have given it a long try and I hate it. It's so annoying.
It may not be the best written post (it's a bit rabid, jumps around, makes logical leaps) but he makes a whole series of clear and difficult to argue against points.

It will be very unpopular on Hacker News (which seems loaded with pro-gee-whiz people) but that doesn't make Diehl's points any less valid.
Oracle's SunOS (now Solaris), HP-UX and IBM's AIX, plus the community-supported *BSDs and Darwin would be the only ones you'd see in the wild today, from that list. IRIX and Tru64 are retired or history, according to Wikipedia. ZDNet in April 2014 reports that Unix server share as a whole is 13.6% according to IDC, Oracle has 4.7% leaving 8.9% to competitors. Since many of these are RISC or Itanium servers, leaving them out means fewer compatibility headaches on multiple fronts. That all said, unless there's a testing service out there for this kind of enterprise hardware, I can't see how anyone writing open source code outside of large enterprises would be expected to support this configuration without patches from the community... which is probably why "standard checks" remain today. Nobody really knows if they're still needed or not, since the original patch might go back to the mid-90s.
Reaver takes 4-6 hours, this takes seconds. I would say that's a step forward.
My GF is an economist, and she takes great exception at any phraseology that describes people as irrational. As far as she's concerned, everybody is rational. See this for more details: http://mises.org/library/what-do-austrians-mean-rational
Wow.
As a former longtime Maya user who quit the CG business for web development, this impresses me from every direction!

Seriously, nice job. I look forward to seeing what Clara.io can do.
Wow - Terminals Terrific was selling a spell checker (Spell Star) for only $144!
This article really got me in the mood to play around with Racket again.

Incidentally, I find it hard to square with Guido's belief that recursion isn't the basis of all programming. Sure, Python has some powerful iterators, but my CS professors made it clear that iteration is basically just a special case of recursion.

It might very well be the right decision for Python to prefer iteration, but to deny the role of recursion in computer science altogether seems misguided.
Why is Trump speech more important than Twitter's?

You talk about censorship but would allow Trump to censor Twitter if he got to decide what they publish.

And that would be unconstitutional.
Yes, you're more accurate. If he won re-election, Twitter would've likely bent the rules around his behavior.
They looted the capitol building today. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/06/signs-p...
Trump's side and Twitter's side are both very far from what I see as moral. I'm not waiting until the tables turn from bad to worse to be horrified. I'm horrified now. Sure, I'd be horrified even if people I generally agreed with were the ones censoring. It's might-is-right level stuff.

Twitter's censorship is just one aspect of the issue. Talented philosophers, scientists, etc. are being excluded from mainstream society (forced out of their education, employment, etc.) for having the wrong opinions. Many of the smartest people I know exist almost entirely outside of established institutions. Not a good situation. Very sad that people have so much respect for those in power.
For early YC history, Justin Kan's convos with Steve Huffman and Michael Seibel have a real college reunion vibe ;)

https://the-quest-with-justin-kan.simplecast.com/episodes
Speech inciting illegal actions or soliciting others to commit crimes is not protected under the first amendment.
https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?searchbox=%22these+are+thin...

> "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"
Well, perma-banning the president is going to stir yet another round of controversy. Since he's going in two weeks, it seems safer to just wait two weeks and perma-ban the ex president of the United States. (Assuming he and his supporters don't try to take it up another notch in the meantime.)
During the period AFTER the advent of sampling/sequencing but BEFORE the rise of YouTube as a channel to consume music you might have been right.

But I think people view music performance now much more than they ever viewed music performance prior and witnesses the actual act of performing is intrinsic to enjoying many pieces.

It's one thing simply knowing a piece was played by humans but seeing it played adds an extra dimension and I think the popularity of some performances now depends on this.
MY PRAYER ANSWERED

I asked for Strength,

God gave me difficulties to face.

I asked for Wisdom,

God gave me problems to solve.

I asked for Courage,

God gave me danger to overcome.

I asked for Love,

God gave me troubled people to help.

I asked for Favours,

God gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted;

I received everything I needed.

My PRAYER has been answered.

-Vedanta Kesari
Don't worry. That's just the first step towards the creation of Corporate Congress.
Thanks for that, I'll have to look into that device and see what it's all about.

Edit: So it's an off the shelf Thinkpad X60 with fully open source software? I thought that was something he was wary of, given his stance on Intel's partially closed designs. Also, wouldn't the TPM chip be an obstacle given the privacy concerns surrounding it raised by RMS himself?[1] From what I saw from the gluglug website, there is no mention of removing or disabling the TPM module, though I suppose one could remove it from the board themselves after purchase.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
The sources I could find say 4% is used for plastic and another 4% for the energy to make the plastic. Nowhere near 50%.

http://www.plasticoceans.net/the-facts/energy-consumption/
Reflect.ownKeys will list all keys (string or symbol or otherwise) of an object. It's not clear from the article if it can be excluded via an ES5 definition with `enumerable: false`; perhaps so? In that case, this is pretty cool.
for me its 6 numeric characters.
This happened to me as well. I remember getting much much worse. Luckily by that point I was in therapy and that helped a ton.
I can barely get candidates to join two tables.
Yes.

func f()->Bool {
return true
}
func f()->Int {
return 5
}

let i:Int = f()
let b:Bool = f()

println(i) // Prints 5
println(b) // Prints true

// This would be compile error as ambiguous
//println(f())
There's s lot of aesthetic issues going on with this app though. Awkward line height, lack of margins, etc. it does not look more readable than the normal HN to me.
What I find so facinating about this is 'complex' charaters in modern fiction are really a dumbing down of the art form.
This week I've now read about Car DRM, Coffeemaker DRM, and CAT LITTER DRM. It seems the ship has sailed on what the public will tolerate.

I want to go home now. This is depressing.
You'll have to be more specific. Which part is the vile part?
I would argue that it is not an even trade. We have less vulnerabilities with technology then we did before.
em-dosbox uses emscripten's packager by default, but it doesn't have to. Anything that can dump files into an emscripten virtual filesystem will work. The Internet Archive's loader uses .zip file bundles via BrowserFS: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
Consider the number of replies on HN and other sources that are essentially "Well I don't see it..." or "Not at my office..." rather than taking women at their word for their own experience.
Has anybody ever reverse engineered the Nielsen (or the UK equivalent) audio watermarking codes that their automated survey apps rely on to record what shows and ads are viewed, and when (DVR)?
Which they lifted out of a reddit thread;

http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2sm3q7/anglecorrecte...
> almost nobody uses it to buy anything other than drugs

This is a patently false statement. You can verify this yourself by looking at serveral Bitcoin survey results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pz3BiQr8jEVM98PuZtSo... and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avvn4_NlztWedEN...

I'll go ahead and use this fact as a good excuse to discredit Matt's entire shitty post.
That's even more impressive then!
good idea, congratulations!
It kind of sounds like you're arguing against artistic freedom within big companies, though. As in, weird little shops can do "sexy" publications. However, once a company is "big" it "should make the decision that they aren't going to sexualise women in comics for no good reason"?

But why should this depend on the size of the company? Either companies should be able to sell a product (it is acceptable to the community, culture, standards, etc), or else they should not.
it still uses flash for the graphs
Reader is a really nice feature. I like the way it's implemented. Bonus points for the fact you can add the nicely formatted readable version to Evernote as a PDF.
The Twitter is really something

> First version of Whiteboard is here. So far you can only create Tree component to see hierarchies. Well, we had to start with something and will add more components based on your feedback.

https://twitter.com/fibery_io/status/1198999705822416897?s=1...
And even Scheme.
Zen isn't very Buddhist either, it's more Taoism with a Buddhist gloss.

Are you sure? That doesn't sound right to me. Zen is traced back to Bodhidharma, who came from Southern India. Taoism certainly didn't come from India. Moreover, Zen's almost nihilistic austerity seems at odds with the back-to-nature lyricism of, say, the Tao te Ching. It is difficult to imagine Lao Tse beating disciples with sticks.