jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very good, for people on the go. If there was a way to also include the HackerNews users' comments on it, it would be even better.
“Larry Page's grad school project was initially designed to be a way for users to make comments and annotations on web pages.”

Google has been trying to learn social since before its inception.
http://crossbrowsertesting.com is great, and not too expensive
If you haven't used this already,

youtube-dl -U
Looks like you have DSPS .

There's a good wikipedia page on it ; go read that , read the whole thing .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

I got my diagnosis 3 years ago , after a melatonin-test . I had to do 24 saliva samples at 24 consecutive hours , they tell you from the graph whether your melatonin production is off .

The 'fix' is to take melatonin , as a pill , same time every night .
For some that's close to a cure , for others it isn't (it drags my sleep phase about 50% towards a normal phase , if i take it further than that the fatigue kicks in again ) .
Once you get diagnosed a doctor would start you off at 5mg , you can lower the dose later on .

So go get diagnosed , unless you think you can diagnose yourself .
Simplicity of languages can and does (in many cases) translate to complexity of programs.

There are features that complicate the language and simplify programs and vice versa.
VLC apparently streams on http. Is it the same thing?
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo_New
1.HN

2./r/worldnews

3./r/politics

4...More Reddit.

5.Twitter
> sudo make install

Judging from my understanding of the article, you are using Ubuntu. Please, please, please don't ever teach "complete noobs" installing anything this way. I won't insist on full course of backporting with apt-get source, hacking on debian/* and doing dpkg-buildpackage, but even silly `sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local && make install` is more appropriate than Slackware-ish `sudo make install`. And, while far from being perfect, checkinstall(1), is easy to use and should work fairly well.

I had to manage several Debian GNU/Linux-based systems with ton of software installed this way, and it was... well, quite painful. Package management is there for a reason.
Often, it's not so roundabout.
I answered yes but I probably read about the same number of articles linked on Twitter but I don't "go to Twitter" for news. I've stopped using a RSS reader, Twitter does a better job of curating the content I want.
Oh boy! I hope he takes people to task for writing Hello World programs next.
JamisBuck's other maze generation algorithm, based on backtracking (http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/27/maze-generation-recur...) seems to create more esthetical mazes.

(user@pasta) /home/user/prj/ruby $ ruby backtrack-maze.rb 20 20
_______________________________________
| |_____ _ _ | _____| _| ___ |
|_ | |_ |_ |___| _____| ___ | | |
| |___|_ |___| | | _| |_| |___| |
| _______| _ | |___| _|_____|___ | |
|_ | ___ | | | | |_______ | |_ |
| _|___ | | _| |_|_ | |___|_ | |
|_____ |_| |___|_______| |_| | _____| |
|_ _|_ | _ _| | _| | | |_ |
| _| ___|___| ___|___|_ | |___|_ | |
| ___|_ _ |___ _______| | | | |_|
|_ | _|_ |_____| _ | _| |_ |_ |
| | | |_| |___ | _| _|_____|_ _| |
| | | | | |___ | | |_ | ___ | | _|
| | |_|___| | |___| _|___| | | |_ |
| |_____ | _| |___ ___| |___|___| |
| |_ | | | |___ | |___ |_______ | |
| |_ _| |_ | | |___ | _____| _| |
|_ |_| _|_____| |___ | |_________|_ |
| _| _| ___ |_| | | | | ___ | |
|_________|_________|___|___|___|_______|
backtrack-maze.rb 20 20 3751362624

(user@pasta) /home/user/prj/ruby $ ruby eller-maze.rb 20 20
_______________________________________
|_ | _|_ | | |_ | ___ ___ |
| | | _ | | | |_____| _|_|_|_| _| |_|
| | | | _ _| | _| | | |_ | |
| | | |_| | | | | | | _| |___ |
| | | |_|_|_|_| |_| |_| _| ___| |_|
| | | |_| ___ ___|_________|___| | _|
|_ | _|___| | |_____ _|_ | _| | |
|_______ | |_ _| | _| |_ | |_ _|
|_ | | |___ | _ | | | |___| | | |___|
|_ | _|___| |___ |___ | | | | | _|
| _| |_______| | _|_| _| | | |___ |
| |_____ | _| | | _| | | _| |_ | |
| | _| ___| |_ |_ | |_ | |_| |
|_ |_| | | |_ |_| |_|_| | | | | | |
|_ | | | | _| |_| | _ | | | | | | | |
|_ |_| _| | _| _| | |_|_ |_____ |
|_____ _|_ | | | | _| | _|_ |_|
| | | _ _ | ___ | _| |_ |_ |
|_ |_|___ | | |___ |_|_|___| | | | |
|___________|_|_|_____|_________________|
eller-maze.rb 20 20 873996890
4th. Everyone always forgets Aliyun. Google is an also-ran in cloud and will probably scrap it at some point. Look out for it on https://killedbygoogle.com/
Yeah. The tl;dr here is really that some countries just don't care about animal welfare that much, or at all.
The public calendars in question are company-wide public, not publicly accessible.

An employee gathering information off of company-wide public calendars and then leaking that information outside the company can certainly be held accountable for privacy violations (morally and per company policy, at least).
SPOILERS!!! You can't just leak the new Robocop sequel plot like that! Wait, wait this is actually a plausible real-world scenario.

Isn't that just wild? Who needs ED-209 terrorizing the streets when you could have a robotic 'dog' that could just shove its way through a crowd and start emitting an ear-slitting cacophony of disruptive sounds to encourage a crowd to disperse them. Imagine, a line of them directing sound in one direction, creating a disorienting and potentially painful 'wall of sound' slowly pushing the crowd away from them.

If that fails they fan out into the crowd, lower to the ground and and bring their limbs in to protect them and start puffing out a mist of pepper spray straight up into the air while its 'packmates' are similarly spread out throughout the crowd.

If an officer goes down, or a citizen, you can move the dogs to their location and have them start a circle around them to create a defensive deterrent from violent protesters or a stampeding crowd while using a speaker to reassure the wounded person (if conscious) that help is on the way. As help approaches you can even have them create a corridor, nudging people to make a hole in the crowd or again, using a painful sound, to encourage people to move out of the way. You could also use one or more to ferry out body armor, additional ammunition or weapons systems, medical supplies etc. Depending on the situation a drone might not be usable (weight, too conspicuous, low clearance) and these would be more practical.

You could probably slightly modify and use these dogs in a combat/shooting situation as well. Have one run out and hook a clip to the drag handle on an injured person's carrier (body armor) and either use a winch back at a safe location to pull them to safety or simply send enough of these units out to pull them back under the power of the dogs.

For that matter you could arm one of these too with less than lethal or a more traditional round. Send a couple into a building under remote control just ahead of people when clearing a building.

You could also equip these with any number of sensor packages and send them into areas that might be dangerous to humans not wearing a considerable amount of PPE. They could probably cover more distance, and go faster, than tracked robots (that often have wires running back to the operator). They could go in under radio control sending back live video or go in 'roomba' style and explore for x amount of time before returning with whatever data they capture.
Is this Hugo for non-developers?
I know for Australia at least, wine can be labelled as just one varietal if it's only 85% that grape. So "chardonnay" actually means "somewhere between 85-100% chardonnay". Same with regions.

I was shocked by that one. Absolutely humongous margin.
Getting paid X to do Y doesn't entitle the company to abuse you. In the absence of unions that's exactly what happens. You're fired and cast away at a whim, and your rights aren't protected. Acting all self righteous about "getting paid money" is beside the point. That pay only entitles the company to honest work, which you should still do.

The power dynamic is lopsided in the favor of the company, righting this disparity - making things fair naturally hurts the company. Losing your job can be disastrous (especially if fired), and you can't just quit and go somewhere else, if everywhere else is the same. Even moreso for some people. Why don't you let me know all the places that have Engineering or IT unions. I've never heard of one, so they must be very rare, or none existent
As long as you can surveil one person, you can surveil seven billion people. Computers automate processes. As processes digitize, they become automated. The NSA digitized their surveillance process, and automated it. At that point, they could surveil one person via software, so why not scale it?

Should we accept mass surveillance, like nuclear weapons, as inevitable? If so, it should follow that we should adopt a "mutually assured destruction" inspired doctrine, whereby multiple countries agree on the limits of surveillance. Perhaps the world would be more comfortable if constantly surveiled, but wholly informed. Who has my data? What have they done with it? Can I see it?

Or maybe, everybody should be able to surveil everybody. True openness, and therefore predictable accountability.
Roblox has a product that people pay for.

Boston Dynamics has a handful of YouTube videos.
I don't know why but I never encountered issues using npm.
There's no middle ground. Tor enables activists, journalists, marginalized groups etc, as well as pedophiles, drug dealers and all sorts of criminals. You can't have one without the other. It's either censor-resistant or its not. It sounds like you don't think the trade off is worthwhile, which is not an unfair opinion, it's just important to acknowledge there's no middle ground here.
How can the other guy be a 'nice guy' if it was pure self-defense? Was he just having a rotten day?
I think the trick is to leave a path open for a person to discover that their personal social Venn diagrams are this complex. There should be several stages. At each stage, a user discovers some pain (I wish I could leave my parents out of this) and then discovers an easy solution. (Ah ha! I can use this "parent" tag and then it prompts me so I can choose to not let my parents see this.) The user is pleased, until they discover their next pain. (I don't always want all of my friends to know about...) The end result is that you've solved the user's pain several times over, and so they love your product.
"cinema attendance has been growing for a while"

Absolute attendance numbers don't mean much. More interesting statistics would be: Hollywood's percentage of the total entertainment market and the earnings (profits after expenses) of the movie industry.

"Not even netflix is killing hollywood at the moment."

Netflix is mostly just a distribution channel for Hollywood. They're showing Hollywood movies and a big chunk of their revenue goes straight to Hollywood. They may be killing local movie theaters, but they're certainly supporting Hollywood.
I'm pretty sure when he says 'depth of offerings', he's referring to niche lens types, rather than depth of field. He continues:

> Even the most mature of the mirrorless formats – Leica M and M4/3 – both lack any sort of perspective correction lenses, other than using a DSLR lens with a tilt or shift adaptor; there are no native solutions despite them being ideally suited to this kind of work because of live view.

Tilt-shift lenses, long working distance macro lenses, wide angle primes, and fast super-telephotos are all hard to find in mirrorless mounts.
>The only place this kind of favoritism is a negative is with personal relationships. Nobody bats an eye when the riser is a fraternity or alma mater cohort, where that kind of thing is expected.

I suspect that you're projecting here. I think favoritism in any of those situations is both expected and resented.

I don't see how sexual relationships are any less class-based than alma mater or frat stuff. People are more likely to have been in the same frat with someone outside of their class than to have dated someone outside of their class.
What he means is true parallelism (although alternate ruby and python implementations have it).
Exercising is much easier and more straightforward than, you know, actually changing what you eat. Especially when you hate cooking and vegetables.
Why do you prefer to live in a world where professionals are afraid to blog? Scott himself shared [1] an example of a police officer facing disciplinary action and being forced to shut down his blog under similar circumstances (worse, his identity was uncovered through hacking by the reporter) [2]. I think the entire society loses, except for the newspaper that gets a few clicks. Good for them I guess.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Horton_(blogger)
Whether I agree with the post or not, if someone throws a preemptive claim of downvote martyrdom, I will always comply and downvote them.
Disclaimer:

So I have a PhD in mtls science, and I studied a bit of plastics thermo. However I never worked on the recycling problem.

Plastics, or polymers that aren’t cross linked, are in a sense easy to recycle - Just melt them and recast the part. 3D printing hobbyists even recycle their filament.

The problem is that any melted plastic doesn’t mix with any plastic other than itself. So if you have 99% polyethylene and 1% polypropylene and melt them together they won’t mix. But they won’t separate perfectly either (so you can’t skim the PP put).

Instead you get inter-penetrating phases (a spinodal). These phases have surfaces that don’t stick well together so the end result is that any parts made of this are exceptionally weak.

So this is the dilemma: if you have even 1% of different polymer in your mix, the plastic will suck. But we use at least 4 or 5 different plastics in everyday life all chucked into the same bins, all looking more less the same.

Solutions?

1. One solution is to heat all the plastics so that they break apart and therefore use them for feedstock. But this is very expensive, and the feedstocks aren’t very pure.

2 Make cat fuel. Cheaper then above, since the purity requirements aren’t as strong, but it’s basically the same as number 1. This doesnt increase CO2 emissions since the plastic is displacing oil

3. Burn it for energy. This needs far less strict requirements than 2 and lower CO2 emissions (since you don’t have to waste energy getting oil out). However, you’d have to basically ban public use of perfluorinated polymers or make them very expensive, or make them easy to identify (Teflon, gore-Tex.)

Frankly I’d ban perfluorinates except for use in critical industries. That chemistry is ecologically nasty.

4. Force companies to color their containers according to plastic type. I.e no more clear Pepsi or Coke bottles - all PE products are color, say green. All PP colors are red, etc.
Well that's not surprising, we're trending towards a world of increase tightening of the exchange of data, fact checking, labels of "conspiracy", and there will of course be fallout that people will see in retrospect. Today the mainstream view is to knock the non-mainstream views out of acceptable discourse. I would say with QAnon and vaccine shennanigans, a lot of people support that. At some point something important will be covered up (such as during a war) and they won't be so gung ho. So swings the pendulum.
would you deploy six patches at once to all your production servers with no idea what the outcome will be and you have no idea what's in those patches other than their name when you already had a two week outage caused by a previous attempt at doing such?
This graph from a similar paper shows this very well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...

Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3882489/
I wrote this library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/openskill

It's open-license, handles complex matchups (e.g. 5 vs. 3 vs. 4), comparable in predictive accuracy, and is up to 20x faster than TrueSkill. The implementation is also much simpler.
Typing Bhima, you get Bhima quotes first then Bhishma now!
Seems unlikely since there are a ton more dots on my map than there are cell towers around here.
I dont even think the average person DONATES for something they dont know what it is.
As for the average person knowing what is what, i think the avg person doesnt even know what twitter is, much less twit.
Can't our brethren across the pond buy direct from amazon.com? About 7 years ago, I bought an entire series on DVD direct from the amazon.co.uk because the DVD rights in the US hadn't been negotiated (or something). Sure, it was the wrong region, but I watched them on a PC anyway.

The entire global scheme for rights of various media needs to get sorted out. I mean, in spite of huge demand, it took many, many years before Twin Peaks got released on DVD. When I take the time to think about it, I still get pissed that I can't buy/rent China Beach on DVD.

The whole system is indeed shooting itself in the foot, and I can't fault anyone who uses illegal downloads to fulfill a demand that the media industry cannot (or will not) supply for.
OS X user here... and its true. I used Papers extensively to manage academic papers.

http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/
Rock on with your bad self! If you can differentiate with some kind of value not currently available or poorly implemented elsewhere you've got a shot.

Supertopo's the home of crusty legends, dirtbags, and the ocassional crusty legend who is also a dirtbag and a luddite. While the forums there frequently serve as THE source for up to the second info on what the hardman crowd is up to the signal to noise ratio is fucking abysmal. Clean that up and you've got something.

rc.com and mountainproject are basically identical in their strengths lie with an active younger community and good route databases. rc.com tries to be too many things to too many people though so the implementation is muddled, whereas mountain project looks like crap and gets maybe half the traffic but the route content is typically much better that rc's. Clean up RC's mess, harness their community and somehow figure out a way to get the same kind of quality content as mountain project, and again, you've got a shot.

8a is spraylord paradise and home of anyone who's ever dreamed of scoring that big chalk sponsorship. I'd leave well enough alone here.

Edit - BTW, given the domain name, you wouldn't happen to be hanging out with offwidth climbers would you?
Chrome adblockers don't block ads, they "hide ads", unlike FF Adblock.

So the ads are still loaded, but you don't get the visual clutter (I guess that the point of most adblockers), on Firefox, ABP will stop ads from loading in the first place.

AFAIK
It would be cool to see it flooded to test the "Google App Engine" strength :)
When I read the GPs complaint about free markets, I took it to mean that this situation was proof that free market ideas are invalid. To counter this, I was trying to say that people themselves (through creating barriers) are deliberately undermining the free market idea.

Now I see that it can be read to imply that the US (the land of free markets) isn't really so competitive after all (hence the 'legend'). True enough.
Fundraising? I thought they were making money hand over fist.

What is up with all these Silicon Valley "success" stories that can't get profitable enough to sustain themselves w/o more financing (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Mint, etc).

Fundraising is fine early on, but these companies are pretty big and mature. When do you actually start turning a profit? We have some weird definitions of success in the valley.
An interesting experiment done more than 30 years ago and the impact in their lives:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E4DF1130F...
Ah, I recall in high school we made a localized version of Warcraft by hexediting the strings in the executable - though with this approach it was a pain in cases when you needed longer words than English had.
I wouldn't say that, they just didn't provide open access to their feature branches before they were merged (or "production-ready", however you want to put it).
Except the next year, we saw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29

I don't remember and can't find a citation as to when this became public knowledge but feel like it was not much later.

In face of future technology, it does not seem like strong crypto is the answer. Imagine, for instance, mass-scale audio surveillance, perhaps with lasers or microdrones or something. (I'm thinking decades out so I can handwave magical nanotech.) DNA sweeping to collect skin shedding or other stray cells to determine who was where (if face/body recog isn't enough).

We simply leak too much information everywhere to hope for technological solutions.
I'm in the hospital taking care of patients. And I do design for fun.
For posterity: it was revealed that the Kinect has a Marvell PXA168 (1GHz ARM + many peripherals).

Source: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210757/Teardown--Ki...
The UX is not that interesting to me.

Does anyone know how the page avoids a refresh while changing the location url? it changes the path, and not just a hash. i thought all path changes demanded a page refresh.
MySpace is not what it used to be, but I still don't think its dead. Facebook has eclipsed it as the mainstream social networking site but there are still things MySpace does better.

Notably, you just can't do as much with your profile on Facebook as MySpace, especially for bands. Whether that's a bug or a feature is in the eye of the beholder.

As an example, compare the Snowgoons' FB and MySpace pages:

http://www.facebook.com/SnowgoonsMusic

http://www.myspace.com/Snowgoons

The 28-year old me likes the FB page better, but a 15-year old me would have loved the MySpace page.
<p class="content">Then help me translate this into <span class="highlight">JSON</span> please</p>

How about that way:

{tag: "p", class: "content", text: ["Then help me translate this into ", {tag: "span", class: "highlight", text: "JSON"}, " please"]}

And that's just a small example where you can see all the start and end tags on one screen. Now change the example to insert a hyperlink, say, around the word "help". How easy is it to change?
I recently did an exercise on Benford's Law on my blog: http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/10/26/benfords-law/.
That's the wrong response though. It distinguishes between this bill and other internet-monitoring-and-censoring bills, when in reality none exists: all of them are equally silly due to technological reasons. Instead of saying that nothing good can come from the government controlling what domains are accessed (which is true), point out that it's technically impossible and makes us look like idiots.
Hang on, let me crank up the article title drama wheel. Ah snap, it's already at 11.
This site design and programming is crazy! Is it custom-made or a templated solution?
Aren't there problems when something potentially useful wouldn't be patentable (say, it's already known elsewhere) so there's no major profit in going thru the FDA approval process?

I'd think it would be better to tie the temporary exclusivity to who put it thru the approval process directly (and relax the restrictions a bit, but that's a separate issue...).
If you're going to author it, why not include just a few quadrillion \x00 characters every so often in a comment field (or whatever the equivalent is for mp3)?

I mean, FLAC proves that people for some reason cherish wasted storage space, especially when that storage space is used for meaningless content that they can't actually hear.

My scheme does that, only bigger.