jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I thought you might be asking the technology used for HN site. My guess would be Lisp. Does anybody know?
You probably don't actually want to make files in your home dir world readable,writable, and executable [the chmod 777]
You might also take a look at Sed & Awk, co-authored by Daniel Robbin's father, Arnold Robbins.

http://books.google.com/books?id=m4ZzElQZxcoC&dq=sed+awk...
This has almost certainly only been shown for a restricted class of adiabatic quantum computers. The full adiabatic quantum computing model is equivalent to ordinary quantum computing (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405098 ). If the linked article is literally correct, then that means quantum computers can efficiently solve NP-complete problems if and only if classical computers can efficiently solve NP-complete problems. That may be true, but I'd be very surprised if someone has proved it.

My guess: the paper under discussion probably shows that some particular adiabatic approach to solving NP-complete problems fails - most likely, some variant on the ideas in http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001106. That's well and good, but a long way from proving that quantum computers are no better than classical at solving NP-complete problems. Variants on this result have been floating around for years - I first heard of one in 2000. This is probably an improvement on those early results.

Unfortunately, the link to the original paper is broken at present, so that's just a guess.
when i saw the title for this thread, i thought:

HN is made of awesome!
Indeed—so hostile that it can only be deliberate. It's an example of why we will probably add the Principle of Charity to the HN guidelines: http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html.

The problem isn't merely the dishonesty of trying to make a person and/or their argument sound much worse than they are. It's the degrading effect it has on the rest of a discussion. Once bystanders see that it's ok to throw concern for the truth out the window and optimize for indignation, every standard drops. I don't know if it's true that sharks go crazy when they smell blood, but that's what this effect reminds me of. It seems to be getting worse, and the Principle of Charity might be a rampart against it.
Well, i'm not sure about that. Aren't we expected to be professionals and act like ones on any given job? Should we just eschew Knuth and express ourselves? Don't think so.

OTOH, it seems like something is clearly wrong here since, we are having a tough time being professional and working with the current crop of languages, tools, technologies, etc and in the same time, fully expressing our vision while enjoining our work.
Dude, you really need to setup a github repo for that! I think many ppl gonna be pissed about the real delicious and would help you creating an awesome clone, with more features.
Let's be clear: we need governments to be transparent because of the power differential between governments and individuals.

Bruce Schneier said it well [1]:

"All aspects of government work best when the relative power between the governors and the governed remains as small as possible -- when liberty is high and control is low.

Forced openness in government reduces the relative power differential between the two, and is generally good. Forced openness in laypeople increases the relative power differential, and is generally bad."

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/privacy_and_po...
Sounds like providing source code under a proprietary license. That's not Red Hat's model.
As far as I remember, "npm registry" is a trademark as well. Isn't it? At least, that's what is written here: https://github.com/npm/npm#legal-stuff .

My point is: any single package README contains a phrase "install me using `npm install whatever`". It feels like it is generalized already...
Why "Code rust"? (The Rust language already has enough problems of confusion with the Rust game.)
There is a technique that might actually be able to do this called compressed sensing[1] that I first heard about it in a Wired article from several years ago[2]. The technique allows reconstructing images, music, etc. by sampling a portion of the original and applying an algorithm that reconstructs the missing information and is apparently used in MRI image processing to get by with shorter scans. Researchers from Rice University constructed a camera with only a single pixel image sensor that, using this technique, produced legible images with as little as a 2% sampling of the final image resolution, although more complex images required 10-20% or more[3]. I don't see why this technique couldn't be used to take already good quality images and "enhance" areas of them like in CSI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing
[2] http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm/
[3] http://dsp.rice.edu/cscamera
If you launch from Baikonur directly into a 46° orbit, you will drop spent rocket stages on China. That is why the Russians launch into a 51° orbit, even though their launch site is at 46°.

With a Proton, you have enough delta-v to launch into 51° and then make a change of plane to 39°. But the Russians don't just have three Protons and three Soyuzes sitting around, ready to launch. They have to schedule these things.

The Soyuz is normally not launched on a Proton these days -- not since the 1970s. They'd have to jury-rig a bunch of things. It would not necessarily have been safer than a NASA Shuttle rescue.
I've not seen anybody disagree with that. But running `bundle update && git commit -a && git push` falls into what I, for myself, consider a grey area on the "I've committed today" scale. I say this as someone who also tries to maintain a GitHub streak.

You, and sferik, and each other GitHub user is totally free to disagree. I don't own the streak system.
Please don't take yet another HN thread into yet another repetition of this. It's not that it's wrong. It's that that lemon was squeezed dry years ago, and now the rind is hard as rock, and the spectacle of HN users competing to gnaw on it is unseemly. It's also off topic. As is usually the case with his writing, there are genuinely interesting things to react to here.

If Wolfram's tic is a thing, the strange way the internet crystallizes on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the thing. Let's resist recreating that here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Apple introduced the Dock connector on the iPod in 2001. The same connector was used for over ten years, before it was replaced with the lightning connector in 2012.

The MagSafe connector was replaced after 6 years by the MagSafe 2 connector, also in 2012.

Both of these connectors where replaced for good reasons. The Dock connector was not reversible, prone to break, and was easily clogged with dust. It was also too big for smaller form factors. The MagSafe connector was often confused with USB and also too thick for thinner devices, and it used a low charging voltage (less efficient).

Switching to a new design is often inconvenient, but also often necessary. To ease the transition, Apple even provided adaptors for compatibility with older chargers.
Looks awesome. I’d love to see some screen shots as I’m not that literate on the jargon
unfortunately, endocrine disruptors causes genetic conditions that mutate through offspring of future generations [1]...

[1] https://www.axios.com/falling-sperm-count-endocrine-disrupti...
> Not much is known about the unusual phenomenon, but this sexual split has been reported among birds, reptiles, butterflies and crustaceans.

From an article linked in another comment: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/science/cardinal-sex-gend...
Sure, but only if you could stomach to hold onto it for 3 years while being down between 20% and 80%.
When I came across the site years ago, I saved a copy of it so I could run it locally in my browser. Only later did I realize there was a GitHub repo: https://github.com/cantonbecker/bitcoinpaperwallet
Because of this:

> Measured by value, Apple’s acquisitions are actually far more restrained than those of many of its tech rivals.
Microsoft paid $26bn for LinkedIn, Amazon paid $13.7bn for Whole Foods and Facebook paid $19bn for WhatsApp.
Apple’s ten largest purchases put together would still be worth far less than any of those deals.

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if ALL of Apples acquisitions were less than $13 bn.
There is a "favorites" button right under the submission title, which you can then access through "favorite submissions" in your profile.
My first two kids (and especially the first one) we left hospital with a feeling of "why on Earth would they just let us walk out with a baby? That seems crazy, we have no training at all in this!" The feeling was incredibly surreal with my first one.

For my third, they made us watch a series of videos on a range of topics over about 2 hours, which made me think "Yes, of course, this should be the absolute minimum required for a new parent".
Interesting! Will keep that in mind!
Not unique to them... An entirely reproducible power glitch in my early honda hybrid causes the power steering to steer at full power to the left... End result is the wheel spins with so much force it broke my thumbs... Lucky I was only doing 5mph at the time!

It's 100% a design fault, and applies equally to any car of this model (I tested it on a friends, same result!). There are simple reproduction steps which can totally happen by accident, yet there has been no recall or service bulletin issued.

I ended up pulling the power steering controller apart and adding my own safety circuit to the microcontroller output so my car is now the only car of this model which won't break your thumbs or steer you into a ditch!
Because when someone wrote 'kill the cops' and then someone reported it the account was suspended.
My best friends growing up were identical twins. They both went to the same university. They both got the same degrees. Both PhDs. They both practice psychology in the same major metro. They both married men with the same _ultra specific_ backgrounds. That's where my knowledge of them ends, I haven't spoken to either of them in a few years -- I should reach out.

I have fraternal twins. They are not at all that similar! Not in looks, or size, or hair color, or personality. They're only ~2 years old and the differences between them, both physically and mentally, is so staggering, already.

Life is so fascinating!
agreed, but somehow the left stick 'racist' and 'fascist' labels on the back of everyone who disagrees with their ideology.

shutting down free speech is one of the hallmarks of fascism, and it happens before your very eyes.
Apologies in advance for side tracking the discussion. I came across this post on r/india looking for a volunteer Russian Interpreter for a talk by Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub. If anyone is interested, please reach out to the OP of https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/kpl5l4/looking_for_a...
Conservatives are in no way synonymous with Trump Republicans. Many of the stalwarts of conservatism have not just disavowed Trumpism, but have worked actively against it. Much of the discussion in modern (Trump) Republican circles would be unrecognizable to self-identified conservatives of 20, 30, 40 years ago.
It's time for real p2p social media. I'm off to tinker.
> We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate

They are not debating. They are yelling and screaming mindlessly.
Or, you know, you can just use printf to overwrite the return address and ROP your way to a shell.
I've worked in most major asset classes (equities, interest rate swaps, government bonds, credit derivatives, fx) and they all have significant real world uses.

In a couple of those classes, for example FX, the volume of speculation trading exceeds the volume of "real" trading, but again that's not without it's benefit. FX spreads have dropped dramatically and liquidity is near instant and it's much harder for an individual company or country to deliberately interfere with the market price of a currency.

Prop trading which is essentially the gambling part of most banks generally tends to be a relative small part of most banks. When it comes to trading most banks make their money from market making rather than any kind of prop trading. Bank share holders generally don't like prop trading due to the high risks involved.

In terms of risk there are obviously cases where bankers are taking excessive risk (because there's a high personal upside and low personal downside risk) and that's one of the factors that contributes to the failure of some banks. But it's not as if the activities the banks undertake are fundamentally wrong, rather that the rewards for the bank aren't matched by the risks.

In terms of morality there's very limited number of banking activities you could point to and say "that's morally wrong". You could for example reasonably argue that a salesperson at a bank selling A* rated CMO's to a pension firm is morally in the wrong if they suspect that the default rate on the underlying mortgages are higher than the triple A* would suggest, but on the other hand it's not as if he's selling it door-to-door to pensioners, he's selling it to a professional banker representing the pension fund whose job it is to do the due diligence on the product he's buying. A certain amount of responsibility for the purchase falls on the buyer of the product. As the old saying goes "It takes two to tango".
If I remember the (full) episode correctly, the presenter went into a good level of detail about the working of the cannon, showing a prototype in the lab and explaining what was happening. What is on YouTube is just the conclusion of the experiment. This is clearly a marketing clip; Bang Goes the Theory is a pretty good attempt at a science show, and indeed is an Open University show.
Is there any manual testing jobs in PA?
Just to make it clear. If gravity was propagating faster than light, then general relativity for how we conceive it would have to be reformulated.
It would be similar to the problem of if neutrinos were actually going faster than the speed of light (they're not).
On philosophy of mathematics, have you checked out Reuben Hersh? Or Lakatos? They're much more interesting to me than the usual platonism/formalism.

I'm guessing platonism/formalism were popular in arguing against other ways of understanding the world, like folk science, authoritarianism and mysticism. (I'm not equating the last three.) Maybe also as a foundation myth for professional mathematics.
how much does canonical make in profits per year? i don't think enough to spend its capital to enter a new market, on a space they have little experience in.

crowdfunding would atleast give them an idea on the demand for Edge, and help generate buzz in the process. of course, if they were confident enough that there was demand for Edge, they would've funded it themselves.
Thanks for the feedback :)

Perhaps I didn't do them justice through my efforts, but all three of them are open source hackers to the bone. Could you expand on what you see as "hackers" and what sorts of people you'd be interested in reading about and expected to find?
For those interested in how it's made, there's a great writeup here on Smashing Magazine: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/15/jelly-navigati...
I'm using text files stored by days (notes/2010/09/19) in a git repository. The git repository is replicated between my work and my home system. I have a quick-and-dirty(tm) script that generate automatically the daily file especially with the date and some recursive ASCII art I'm using like [ ] ( ) or TODO/tag list. The script is also adding a template for those "bloody" meetings that you are forced to go to.

For searching back, I'm using git-grep.

I'm sometime using todo.txt (especially for some large projects @work), I described the process some years ago: http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/2008-05-24_My_Git_To-Do_Pr...

I'm still missing a nice/simple way to add the photography of the whiteboard notes into my text notes.
I think they get to keep the money they raised even though they didn't meet the goal.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/its-bad-rap-...
The difference between RedHat and CentOS is basically just branding. That comparison doesn't make sense.
App all the things!
A lot of the math in this is a little... strange. For instance:

"20 * 60 * 5 = 60k satisfied clients a minute"

Hmm, that's a lot closer to 6k in my mind :-)

Also:

"The throughput of the server went from about 60k requests per second to about 380 requests per second"

The original (incorrect) calculation supposedly took place at 60k per minute, not per second.

Not trying to be a stickler for accuracy, but I feel like it matters when dealing with benchmarks.
If you haven't looked at Heroku I would reccomend it
https://www.heroku.com/

You can quickly deploy a Node app with little to no system knowledge, just push a git repo to their domain and you are ready to roll
Deliberate practice. Make sure you're not subvocalizing the words as you're reading; you should be just looking at them and understanding them. There are gimmicky approaches to reading faster, but I haven't found them to be helpful.
I think it's important to not compare this to Windows. Windows is such a complete disaster on so many fronts of course ChromeOS seems like a better idea. The problem I and other have with it is "ChromeOS isn't really a better idea when compared to other operating systems." It's more crippled then iOS and Android for gains that aren't significantly better. Sure Chrome maybe a better browser but that's just a matter of porting Chrome not a new OS.
You ever been with someone with a strong southern accent in the north? I heard them called "hick" and "redneck" any number of times, and a black man said (direct quote) "I ain't helping no racist" when he was asked (politely) for directions.
I'm a designer in the SF Bay area and this is my little attempt to do a bit of what Hunch is doing - sorting products based on FB profiles. I'd love your feedback, ideas, etc.
Microsoft also saw the opportunity of tablet computing, media players, smartphones, and basically every other category where Apple has kicked them the pants despite coming out way later.

In this particular case, Microsoft wanted an iPad, right down to the complete and total lockout of all third-party app distribution. They wrote a completely new UI toolkit for fullscreen tablet apps that only Store apps could make use of, then shipped an ARM port that refused to load anything but those signed fullscreen tablet apps. The comparatively less-locked-down Intel models succeeded far better than the WinRT/ARM ones, so the lesson was mislearned as "people want Intel".

Apple knows that interfering with how people get their software to try and collect revenue is not a great idea; that's why the M1 Macs have the same security policy as Intel/T2 ones. If they had locked it down iOS style, creative professionals would be fleeing the Mac in droves and Adobe would seriously start considering native Photoshop on Linux.
The danger depends somewhat on the type of radioactive material used and how much of its radiation is alpha, beta or gamma, it's toxicity (independent of its radioactivity, plutonium is one of the most toxic substances in existence), half-life etc. But really, the main problem with proliferation of RTGs is dirty bombs. If you used them in cars or homes you can imagine the kinds of issues you might have with a serious collision or wildfires.

In any case, people actually once proposed cars like that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
Think about the quality of their hardware products.
This is kinda what I envisioned when people talked about backyard small solar reactors. I wish someone was building a commercial venture out of it.
But there is a business reality where you can say "I don't know which architecture option is better, give me 3 months to do some prototyping and I can make a definite decision".

But knowing how to frame that, and manage the expectations of the other people involved in that negotiation, and recognise their objectives and priorities, is a business skill.

And, y'know, if you spend 2 years building a system on the wrong architecture because you didn't know how to ask for more time to make a better decision in the first place... well, you need some management training ;)
> it appears they assume people are using DoH or DoT

Things changed since then, now plain DNS is also allowed.
Were it to work in humans, does anyone know if there is any reason such an approach couldn't be extended to other autoimmune disorders which attack the various other tissues of the body?
This was my thinking exactly.
The point of establishing a formal punishment for criminal business activity is not to set up one that business aren't terrified of. Quite the opposite - it needs to be a very real, very scary source of motivation to do the right thing (since morality alone clearly isn't sufficient)
> The price alone is mostly irrelevant for the buyer.

The price is certainly relevant when it comes time to sell, and a high price due to low interest rates leaves you more vulnerable to price shocks in the event rates need to rise.

Of course we haven't seen any major price depreciation due to rate increases in the last few decades :)
Because it doesn’t actually work that way and it’s in no way an “option”. In reality tipping becomes expected and people withhold it when the service does /not/ meet expectation. That’s awkward and too confrontational for a lot of people so they’ll just tip anyways.

Personally I also find it exhausting to have to judge every single service I get. So I just tip a standard amount, there’s absolutely no feedback involved. So there is no point.

There are lots of downsides with very few upsides.
> From my point of view, the chap blatantly stole the code.

It was open source code he slightly modified. The piece says that some parts where directly related to the Goldman Sachs high-frequency trading code base, but utterly useless when taken out of context.

What makes you believe that he "blatantly stole the code"?
I solve for this by stockpiling small bills in a drawer from which to replenish my wallet. I add to the pile by specifically paying with a large bill whenever the pile starts to dwindle, and I use a card whenever possible otherwise. The trick is to not habitually spend them except in situations (like tipping) where there's no reasonable alternative.
Although we may need to provide our physical devices, I think the more important question is whether or not we are required to provide the password to our devices. It shifts from something we have to something we know.
Wirex is gonna use this, AFAIK.

⌘ https://wirexapp.com/

(Use https://wirexapp.com/r/kseistrup if you wanna sign up through a referral link.)
Looks like NeXT Interface Builder.
Lol, I don't think you got the joke if you needed a paragraph long explanation of why you don't think it's funny.

It's also okay to not get a joke, you can simply move on with your life.
Yes, five years after release. That's an ample span of time in which to find a balance between repairability and novelty.
They dodged that bullet by leaving the old UI around effectively forever. The minute they pull it, they risk a serious exodus.
...and completely uninteresting - at least for me. Having used GNU/Linux smartphones as my main phones exclusively since 2008 I'm really not interested in any kind of Android device.
Well /biz/ was telling everyone to buy chainlink at 20 cents, it's now 26$, and they were posting all sorts of information to back their claims.

If information giving more than x100 ROI in 3 years isn't quality enough for you then I don't know what is.

One would be wise to look past the anonymity, racist jokes, homophobic jokes, etc... to find what you want, it's like diving in a lake of shit that has treasure chests under it you'll find it if you look hard and deep enough, but you'll have to swim in shit.