jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> And if China decides to put sanctions on your fabs, you will just get a $10B microelectronics theme park on your hands because you will have nowhere to sell your chips.

China could also decide that they won't sell their more advanced chips to the US (or any chips for that matter if it got serious).
Interesting! What business model are you going for?
Thanks for this. The company his filed many many patents so it sounds like it's possible for sure. There is a lot of crossover in the claims section. Good point on then seeing the MVP and patenting first if they've been working on it already. My feeling is there's probably not much I can do if they've patented first.
Wow! this touched me, it's wonderful and I am happy for you.
This is why its so ironic to me that people celebrate europe, nyc, etc as some dense model for the world, when they too arent building to meet supply and refusing to upzone while local leaders benefit from their property assets exponentially rising in price, same as a suburban US city with the only high rises being offices.
On iOS now, if you’re setting up a new device, Signal will prompt you to transfer your messages from your old device.

Not exactly a backup feature but it covers one use case (I don’t want to lose my chat history when I switch devices).
Since this is a feature request, it would be nice to the project to change the link to their community feature request:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/migrate-from-whatsapp/10...
They should install FTTH while they're upgrading everybody's electrical service. :)
Isn't this already common in Japan?
Where N is the number of physical cores? I do not use hyper-threading (it tends to be bad for the floating point and bandwidth limited operations that I do), but usually find minimal compile times at N+1 jobs (but with little penalty for several more).
1) They argued that moving digital good around should be subject to import tax/duties just like physical goods (steel/ lumber). The case they were making was for finished digital products.

2) The same argument can be used for the unfinished digital goods of the movies - the special effects. Currently large studios outsource the post production work to cheap labor markets.

Using the same justification as the MPAA uses for finished movies, labor activists in the domestic FX industry can have the government slap an import tariff on the special effects digital content as it comes into the country, wiping out the cost savings from outsourcing it in the first place.
You often get reassigned the same ip address. This is nice for things like port forwarding. I am not sure this is enough of a reason.
> I think one mistake we all make is imagine a world in which everybody can and enjoys writing code as a result of that. That makes no sense at all. A lot of people would probably hate it, and even more obvious, most people would just forget.

I thought the idea of teaching kids to code is to show them that it can be immensely rewarding and fun, thus encouraging those that "click" with it to explore it further on their own.

As a guy who gets bored often, I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have discovered a "passion" for computer-y things early on. I'm pretty sure I'd have been bored out of my mind if I had pursued any other discipline.

Coding/Computing/... is the best game there is: we play "Simon^H^H^H^H^H Coder Says" with machines all day long. We'll never completely win it, but the mini-bosses along the way make it totally worth it. I feel like a lot of my classmates would probably get it as well if they were guided into it, but instead "computing class" was basically an MS Word tutorial. Something like Logo (or Sketch, nowadays) would have been much more effective and fun.

If I had to teach high schoolers to code, I'd absolutely approach and present it as a game ("Imagine if you were the benevolent dictator of the universe..."). Because it is. It'll stick with some, it won't with others, and as always - the delivery method will affect the outcome more than the actual message (ever had a $SUBJECT_YOU_DISLIKED teacher that was so awesome that he actually made you perform well in $SUBJECT that year?)

EDIT: forgot this:

> BTW: We need higher-level languages on top of maths (that are not general purpose programming languages) so that people can talk about complex processes and what not.

If it isn't evaluated/compiled, then we'll classify it under the "Maths" nebula anyway. See mathematical logic/boolean algebra, etc.
>but they made tons of mistakes typical of having web developer talent only

What do you mean by this?
3D HD and 100 HD channels. In some years, SuperHD. Easy and instant sharing of files with your friends across town, and later across state and country.
Atomic is a good default, but it's not hard to imagine a case where a non-atomic script would be preferable to sending multiple scripts to avoid overly long execution time.

But as you point out, that can always be added later.
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how comfortable would you be handing over your credit card to a small business like a hot dog stand or a farmer's market vendor

You don't need to speculate. Go down to your local farmer's market and see how many vendors are using Square. This week I've paid for coffee and a burrito with it. And I live in Phoenix, not San Francisco.

Are you unaware that all major credit cards offer no-questions-asked fraud protection? That were someone to fraudulently impersonate Square to steal your credit card info that you could simply reject the charges and get a new card?

Will this service ever take off when there is a perfectly good substitute -- petty cash

Petty cash and credit cards have drastically different properties:

* Petty cash is only obtainable at specific locations (ATMs, banks). Credit is instantly available at nearly all payment locations.

* Petty cash offers no fraud protection. If someone steals it, it's gone. If someone sells you something under false pretenses, you have no redress.

* Obtaining and transporting large amounts of cash for a large purchase (a nice couch, for example) is time consuming and dangerous.

What do you mean by "perfectly good substitute"? I can't think of any way to parse that phrase that makes sense in this context.
Ah, good point. This is generated by OCR + reCAPTCHA, error is guaranteed to creep in.
I have found a lot of books on the subject but most rightly titled books seemed to have only tips and tricks. Some are really good but don't really hit the sweet spot for me.

This book is good but and example of what I am talking about.
http://www.amazon.com/Accelerated-Learning-21st-Century-Mast...

But the ones I have had the most success with are the Neuro Linguistic Programming books by John Grinder and Richard Bandler.

http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Magic-Vol-Language-Therapy/d...
http://www.amazon.com/Frogs-into-Princes-Linguistic-Programm...
http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Hypnotic-Techniques-Milton-Er...
http://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Guide-Sub-Modalities/dp/09169...
http://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Prerequisites/dp/...

Also this is great for learning how to digest technical and college books.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Smart-Students-Know-Learning/dp/0...

These are NOT affiliate links
I understand, I am just pointing out the ultimate situation the exchange arrives in once they (hopefully) patch up the vulnerability you described.

Making parties known via explicit market ids leaves them open to spoofers gaming that process and finding other people to sign up and shred their orders across a pool of ids the spoofer controls. (what I refer to as rat-holing and has been done here [1]). Note that even if a participant doesn't rat-hole/shred their orders doesn't preclude them from spoofing, it just makes it less profitable to do so, and easier for advanced counterparty's to track and recognize bad reputation of a spoofer.

Not making it explicit allows spoofers to trivially run their algorithms without having to rat-hole/shred so it lowers the barrier to entry for spoofers and blends their orders in among the non-spoof orders resting in the book making their strategies more effective.

In any case spoofing is a felony because of dodd-frank. [2]

The only question that remains is does this exchange fall under the scope of dodd-frank's provisions against disruptive practices? What will they do to ensure that spoofing doesn't take place on their exchange? The law doesn't contemplate an exchanges ability to opt-out of this provision. If they are running an exchange that allows people to spoof they could be seen as allowing those felonies to occur through indifference because it generates volume and hence makes them more money, making them an accessory to the crime. In any case someone will need to enforce the provision on their exchange otherwise a perverse moral hazard is created where some participants are willing to risk breaking the law because the worst they will expect is a slap on the wrist, while those that do follow the law are at a severe informational disadvantage.

1: http://www.fbi.gov/chicago/press-releases/2014/high-frequenc...

2: http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/fi...
>Groups is the biggest one. It helps SELLING. YES, call it e-Commerce 3.0! This is how HOUSEWIVES sell stuffs. Through Whatsapp OR BBM.

Can you please elaborate on this.. How does it work? Any links?
Yeah, to be fair I had just gotten out of a series of meetings about having less meetings...perhaps the vitriol was a bit uncalled for. I'm also with you on those "sounds of rain" or other white noise apps for concentration.

But this isn't just for concentration, this is for (quoted from their terms and conditions) "customized relaxation and self-improvement sessions." I'm not of the mind that electronics are an evil presence that infect everything they touch, rather I'm of the mind that there are certain activities which are cheapened by a service like this.

Actual meditation requires some amount effort, not a 20 minute session with headphones and an app.
If that is the case, where does the exchange get its coin?
Well, Amtrak doesn't have that power, and I doubt the freight companies care what TSA does with Amtrak.
Without more info, I would assume data repeated is just data not being reported on a given day, and it will be corrected the next time it’s reported. Of course it could be a mistake, but personally I think it’s a mistake to assume that this data isn’t already off by like 10x in number of actual infections. This is the “confirmed” cases being reported, but we know for a fact already that lots and lots of people have been refused tests, or didn’t have access to tests, or didn’t show strong enough symptoms to care, or any number of other reasons. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with reporting it and trying to fix it, but I wouldn’t get too hung up on slight glitches in the reporting here when the source as a whole has a lot of error. (I’m referring to, for example, the comment complaining about accuracy being super important because people are panicking.)
Why do you say the OneWeb technology is better?
I am working since 2010 on the PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network) protocol: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
As much as Amazon is willing to pay for? Why do you assume Amazon is just being benevolent? I'm all for capitalism but this is what capitalism is, the workers don't have to just be happy with whatever Amazon throws at them, they can negotiate

I guess a good question would be "How much of a profit can Amazon make now?". The answer is as much as the market is willing to give, and that's the same for the workers' salary.
Writing a book on how to set up a simple but flexible tech stack that will scale without issues.

Backend, frontend, testing, team comms, CI/CD, cloud stuff etc. Mostly FOSS.

Friends and colleagues have been bugging me to get it done for a while, guess now is the time..
That's a surprisingly nice approach to the problem.
A personal journal that you can share with trusted ones: https://www.quidsentio.com

I want to evolve it to a quiet social network where the incentive is to nurture relationships with closed ones, not optimize for number of people seeing your posts.

I am writing a few thoughts about my journey here: https://blog.quidsentio.com
I mean I appreciate the attempt, but politics are in a vastly different state compared to 2008. Republicans are essentially the populist far right party now, shown by their willingness to hold the public hostage so that they can get concessions in a time of crisis. Meanwhile, the liberals are in favor of big business above all else and will gladly vote to bail out companies while their attempts to help working class families is an utter joke.

I don't see an easy way out of this crisis becaus of our president, our government and our representatives failing us at every step of the way. Thankfully local governments are stepping in, but this is one of those times where you need a strong governmental response in order to ramp up production, provide guidance and prevent cities from getting destroyed due to the economic ramifications.
I'm sorry, but if your name doesn't fit into Unicode, you need a new name. You do not have the right to your own character encoding and font (on someone else's website).
You got reprimanded for trying to find good talent? Sounds like a great place to work...
This is vital. If you consider something as small as using tables for layout to be a "fatal architectural flaw", then your project will always have a fatal architectural flaw. Tips like "don't use tables for layout" are suggestions. They are best practices. You can probably find mutually exclusive best practices, so it's not a big deal if you don't fulfill every "best practice" tip out there.
It can, but it's usually an impossibly huge search for a way to turn garbage into gold.
For the admiration of your peers, identify the subset of this set of assumptions embodied in the "Leave a Reply" form at the bottom of the article.
I agree. It does not depend on key distribution. Nor on the type of the key. But we do need to be able to estimate this

(key - min) / (max - min)

where the variables are all keys and we want the expression to give a number between 0 and 1. We just need some way of estimating the 'distance' between keys for the subtraction to work. It does not need to be an exact distance, an average estimate better than random should beat the binary search.

The algorithm they give is effectively a linear interpolation. We could beat their algorithm by fitting a curve to the accumulated known points rather than a straight line to the nearest two points.
I am 21 years old and working as a developer at a Lisp company. The main reason I am here now is that I have a good sense of what I'm capable of, a good sense of destination and the guts to make bold moves.

Let me copy from what I read in an article lately here on Hacker News: better beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.

You can only do substantial things if you live like it. Not even a billion dollars is going to help on water problems without vision.

And you can make a difference already without any money.
Indeed - the OS X model fixes (to some extent) the problem in question, not exacerbates it.
Actually there are plenty of cases of honor killings even in the civilized world. Not necessarily in this case.
Similarly, this is a major problem with Chrome showing settings in a browser page.
Sublime is written in C++, the plugins are written in Python.
Well there is also 1984 written in 1948 where there were cameras in every room and most outside places too.
Unlike the iPad, the iPhone, Dropbox, and "The Web," credit for this metaphor may fairly be given to David Gelertner. Although he applied it to naming files rather than servers.

From http://www.edge.org/conversation/the-second-coming-a-manifes... (1999)

> If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don't bother. Nowadays the idea of giving a name to every file on your computer is ridiculous.

For what it's worth he was also the first to use the metaphor of a cloud, although in his sense the cloud represented your personal data and it drifted to follow you, casting a shadow over pavestones representing computers, as opposed to the usual sense of the cloud being an amorphous body of computers.
Third option would also be actual negligence which is an interesting case because people are used to dealing with banks and do not realize that they will not get their money back. Im not suggesting FDIC style protection for Bitcoin exchanges is a good idea, but that is just what people are conditioned to expect and I think that is why so many people leave their money in exchanges like Coinbase or MtGox.
This was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942400
This may not be a programming book but I could not put "The Elements of Computing Systems" down for the first 5 chapters. They are just brilliant, it wasn't a tutorial type of book. The authors don't give you anything actually. Just a bunch of specs and some background knowledge. But when I got down to it, that was all that mattered when presented in a structured way (and of course some reading and questions on the forum).
"Most professors give lectures that aren't directly taken from the book."

If this wasn't your college experience then I think you're in the minority. If you look at a list of the top 10 most popular college majors, I'd be willing to be that the majority of classes in these majors are taught almost directly from McGraw Hill textbooks or whatever. It's not until you get into subjects that are both obscure and also in areas where the professors are likely to be intellectually curious that you start seeing more people creating their own lectures, e.g. a course on methodologies in religious studies or whatever.
I think the point of Zen is that Python and Ruby are also truth ;).

When he came to the sentence, "One should use one's mind in such a way that it will be free from any attachment, " I at once became thoroughly enlightened, and realized that all things in the universe are the Essence of Mind itself. ~ The Platform Sutra
If this is true, it seems we can completely replace all affirmative action, "women in X" programs and special resources, and all that other stuff with 30 minutes of writing.

This is fantastic - now we can stop spending millions on "women in X", and instead spend the money on real science. Right?
That might be a factor, but no, mainly as in "tk interfaces look and behave dreadfully on OSX, as do pretty much all X applications but even more so, when they accept to work at all".

* Even from on a hot start, gitk takes almost 5s between invocation and startup (on a 2.4GHz MBP) where GitX takes roughly 2s on a cold start (cold-start gitk takes on the order of 10s).

* X applications don't behave in OSX: Divvy's resizing doesn't work, shortcuts don't work well, the menus are all broken (and the "OSX Menu" is that of the X11 application rather than the application's own), etc…

* X applications look horrible, even if you discount the clusterfuck that their interface might be, they redraw poorly and slowly, the areas "bounce" and the transitions tend to not "look right", and the whole widget set looks terribly out of place.

Compare: Gitk http://imgur.com/9mtGu.png, GitX http://imgur.com/xS2DI.png gitk looks like I'm back in 1993.
that "You should fear GOD"....its like a new born baby should fear his mother....utterly useless, rather opposite of truth GOD loves us as desperately as one can possibly imagine
You missed the standard solution used in machine learning.

Randomly divide your data into two halves. Train your model on one half. Then test it on the other.

This eliminates most of the randomly discovered patterns. It also leads to a much better sense of exactly how many different ideas you tried, and therefore how high the level of statistical evidence needs to be on your successes.
Chitika: http://chitika.com/

For some people works better than AdSense
this is pretty damning for ie9 js performance isn't it? they are going to have to rework their static code analysis and it sounds like they don't have the js knowhow - what else might they incorrectly be optimizing?
The balance of power between governments and citizens has been changed forever. In 100 years everyone will remember Julian Assange; no one will remember Mark Zuckerberg. And that's true even if WikiLeaks were now to vanish; there will be dozens of replacements (like OpenLeaks).
It would be straight out of a Philip K. Dick novel that this guy is not really a troll, but he's a fake troll, and the article itself is the troll :)
I'll concede that's not the best choice of words. My point was that they probably aren't going to willingly install a drop to your random UBNT radio on a pole. You need that friendly neighbor.
The signup flow isn't working for me.
Here's some prior submissions about this or that are on the same subject[1][2][3]. I think I'm missing a more recent one with more comments though.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420315

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789517
I wouldn't say my social interactions are less or more common now. I never really considered my shopping trips to be social experiences anyway.

I grew up in an area where we were close to our neighbors but the nearest retail anything was a few miles away. Mostly chain franchises. After some years inbetween I now live someplace similar again.

So I had (and have) friends, family, and neighbors. To me brick and mortar shopping was just a really inefficient drudgery I'm glad to have mostly cut out. Those were not really social experiences for me.

There are exceptions. A good local comic or music store is priceless and those can be really social experiences.

AS AN ASIDE: I feel like retail shopping has gotten even less social. Since we usually pay with cards now, we make less eye contact with the cashier, since we're watching for the little screen to say "swipe now" or "enter PIN" or whatever.
That's a zero sum view of a person who probably contributes little to the bottom line. I've worked on projects where I was directly responsible for landing client deals worth millions and I got compensated accordingly.
They basically let them in, it wasn’t a breach. It may as well have been orchestrated to derail the session because now all the objection debates are happening at 1AM o.O
I always meant to create a Greasemonkey script that lets your friends pictures decay physically on Facebook or Twitter if you don't stay in touch. Still think that could be fun.
> If the companies pay the fines within 90 days, they will be able to avoid criminal proceedings

If they prosecute UberEats, who exactly would be the one serving prison time?
This just nailed just about everything I was going to say. I’ve used and liked both since both started and this entire thread is pretty embarrassing.
Keep in mind that a motivated academic research team was able to write a hard drive firmware implant on their own as well: https://www.impeachdonaldtrump.net/Implementation.and.Implic...

But yes, making it work for a bunch of manufacturers would be a lot of additional work (though easier if you can obtain the data sheets for the embedded microcontroller, which is probably doable if you're the NSA).

Side note: don't blame me for the URL, it was just the first place I found that had a PDF of the paper.
New printers usually come with less than full sized cartridges.

Also look at third party solutions like external feeds.

Even if it is cheaper, the externalities are not fully priced in, please think of the planet, thanks.
Thank you! I will definitely get it once that change is deployed.