jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
might as well link the paper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13863110/The-Unreasonable-Effectiv...
The offline experience is going to be pretty much what you'd get with the offline experience of those apps in Chrome on a Windows or OSX computer, so you can try it out pretty easily.
Thank you. I wish every single article on the Internet had a tl;dr like this.
I wonder if somebody could build a bayesian filter for Epic alerts.

If we can filter out the Nigerian prince scams from your email, why not apply that to save lives?
Any facility for piping, for example to route an adb logcat (live remote log tail from android) through it?

Of course, I could redirect the adb logcat output to a file and point this at that, but it'd be nice to have the sugar to not have to explicitly wrap the process.
Even if fossil fuel supplies were known to be infinite, our use of them is not because of the impact of their emissions.
Maybe. There's a lot we don't know about the NSA. Starting with something as ridiculously basic as what it's budget is. In practice I suspect they answer to the executive branch more than anyone else (hardly ideal) but who knows.

potential_for_abuse = power / accountability
I agree. Microsoft should ignore this because there's no money in it. Still, it's nice that a couple billion new people will be able to afford their first computer.
Open-plan offices require you to trust strangers in a way that most people aren't comfortable with. Being visible to someone while working (i.e. doing an activity where your income depends as much on how you are perceived while doing it as on what you actually do) is a form of mandated trust of others.

It doesn't come naturally to people whose life experiences involve violations of trust, embarrassing illnesses, or physical danger. (With age, the percentage of people who have such experiences increases, and approaches 100%.) You have to still have that sense of immortality to be OK in an open-plan office.

Also, having children makes people less trusting of strangers, for obvious biological reasons. Having a helpless being that you must protect at all costs makes people less OK with the blind trust in strangers you're supposed to have if you want to fit in to the "I'm at one with everyone, man!" California culture.

Older people are also not able to take as much abuse of their fight-or-flight systems, and pregnancy has a similar effect on women.
Anybody from the "stay the f* at home" crowd want to chime in ? How do I make vitamin D when it is illegal/frowned at to be outside ?
Or extensive.
Actually, according to CNET, there's a Linux version of the Intel stick that costs only $89, plus, Intel's has a micro SD card slot, although it lacks the 802.11ac.

http://www.cnet.com/products/intel-compute-stick/
if you don't assume that Reddit is under pervasive surveillance, you are making a huge mistake.

you should probably assume the same of HN, or most things that don't live on I2P or Freenet.
The issue is that you are not average, which is what the CPI uses. The average American doesn't live in NY or SF and doesn't pay student loans for an elite institution.

Here's the issue I see: the rich cities have decoupled from the rest of the American economy. Rich cities are experiencing very high inflation, while poorer parts of the country experience no inflation, or even deflation.

The Fed only has one lever. It cannot make money expensive in SF while making it cheap in Detroit.

When I visit family in Idaho, I'm sort of shocked how rich I am. But in Seattle I'm squarely middle class. The divide seems to be growing very quickly.
This is a wonderful story in many angles !
Ohhhh, interesting. Right, that makes sense.
It is true that there are several such games. The statement I was replying to goes above and beyond that to say that there are as many as the market can bear. The efficient market hypothesis is something of a pet peeve of mine, and so I try to call it out when it is erroneously used as support for, well, anything.
I remember my parents covering my old leaky single-pane windows in our first house with plastic in the winter. It looks goofy, but it's cheap and it really helps. We also had storm windows that we'd replace our screens with in the winter.

We later moved to a house with newer windows that removed this need, and adult me has a ground source heat pump so I'm toasty even with the 15°F weather here.
I think that only works in Tetris.
I think that's a given because it's still invite only and has a very specific demographic creating content. Once it's open it could change dramatically. Or not. I don't know.
In any case, folks should be continuously profiling their networks integrated into monitoring/alerts. I find many firewalls that are doing different things than my clients expect they are -- or have just been left to diverge from reality in some form of config rot. Automated testing surfaces these differences.

Can you really put "simple" in the same sentence as firewall? Vendors prevent that. Folks don't have time to maintain them.
People make computers.
It wouldn't be so bad because there'd be nobody left to feel sorry about it.
Why is it that most ASK PG questions are never answered by PG?
We have up-arrows for that.
Since e is a number, not a function (the function is exp = lambda x: e^x) then 1/e is not log but one divided by e.

I once was told that using, say, 1/cos for acos is specific to English-speaking countries. Does anyone know about that?
Assuming you use InnoDB, is your innodb_buffer_pool_size big enough to hold your data (or a significant amount of it)?
It's by far the most important setting to get speedy reads, which form 95% of the queries in our case.
When you did the testing, did you warm up the RDS instance before, for example by running a number of common queries? It naturally takes a while after booting until MySQL can make efficient use of caches and buffers.

I'm not sure if instance-local storage will give you better performance compared to EBS. From the EBS page: "The latency and throughput of Amazon EBS volumes is designed to be significantly better than the Amazon EC2 instance stores in nearly all cases."

There is a problem with the recovery approach you described: as far as I know you can't use an EBS snapshot to populate local storage on a new instance, so you would be forced to use EBS for the new master. Promoting the slave to be the new master would be the better approach, with less downtime and data loss, provided that MySQL replication didn't break unnoticed.

- Tobi
Why the hell am I being down voted? I think this is a serious issue here. And I am not alone. There are many other people who had something like this.

Please leave a comment as the down votes are cryptic to me.
Huh. I thought it was an article about vector graphics vs bitmaps.
I think that sounds rather more significant than it was. The Nano was very much a natural successor to the Mini, I don't think there was any doubt that it would be at least as successful.
College is a time for exploring the expanses of human knowledge, the beauty of human relationships, and the depths of the human soul (1).

I can think of no other social construct or institution that provides as many broad avenues for personal growth as college (2). Children are limited by their lack of sufficient socialization, professionals and laborers are obligated to focus constantly if not narrowly, and those who have committed to marriage or parenthood pour energy into their loved ones.

College is not life's panacea, nor, I hope, is it the best time of your life, but it certainly can be more than just a bad bet.

(1) Let's not forget bottles, bongs, bottoms, and beats.

(2) There are plenty of alternatives for the intrepid.
I do CS research in academia for a living, so I certainly agree that CS research is interesting, and that universities are relevant to it. ;-)

But I'm not sure that a CS bachelor's is actually as a career move necessary for that. Most people with CS bachelor's degrees do not get researchy jobs, or even vaguely algorithm-creation jobs; and many of the companies doing algorithm-type stuff (you mention Facebook) are the most willing to hire people without degrees. The vast majority of jobs for CS majors are programming jobs, though; that's who hires and is looking for the degree, and where most majors end up. If anything there's pressure on CS programs to move more towards preparing them better for that career path--- more C++, more software engineering, more team projects, less theory.
A very similar piece by V.I. Arnold[1]: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold
Your profile doesn't say anything.
Although I haven't gone through and fact checked all these articles, here are a few prospects:

- http://rt.com/usa/evidence-nsa-illegally-monitored-senators-...

- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/09/nsa-glenn-greenwald...

- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack...

- http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/14/gchq-tools-ma...

- https://www.aclu.org/human-rights-national-security/report-f...

- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald...
Actually, that's quite impressive. Though probably not the expected result, it's surely faster than walking the whole way... =)
That article was a little mean I have to say. First off he's a techie not a Steve jobs. He was clearly nervous and is totally not a politician. The fact is he's been doing a great job and he's been screwing up privacy since the beginning. Beacon anyone. He was honest and came off as weaselly(not a politician). The news feed comment was very fair. People hated it but now love it. I got the impression we will be seeing tons of new news feeds like features in the future. The market will decide. It's his company and I got the impression that he'll do with it as he pleases. He's had countless opportunities to step down or sell and hasn't. Personally I think he's overstepping his bounds....but I haven't canceled my account yet. I'm curious, did the author of that post cancel their account?
With all the open letters adressed to Mark Zuckerberg you'd think his email address is hard to find or something like that.
Replace "med school" with your scientific field of choice. The general principle doesn't depend on the specific example. I only used it because the article's author did.

And as far as your question goes "is it really that simple?" In the context I presented (effective early education versus discrimination in the workplace), I personally believe it is that simple. Women with talents in the sciences wont be ignored simply because they are too valuable to business and society. We just need to figure out a way to produce more technically skilled women. While we're at it, we should probably figure out a way to produce more technically skilled men too. Getting people to go into technical fields is already difficult, it just happens to be more difficult with women because of social factors.
I know (especially by the quick upvotes) that you are preaching to the choir here, but I have noticed a lot of non-thechnical, non-geek, never-even-heard-of-happy-days types beginning to use this phrase (incorrectly) just in the past few months. I've given up explaining who the Fonz is and just accepted this new reality.

Once a meme goes mainstream, the primary idiom dilutes with use until its just a curios catch phrase.

I just nod, smile and go to my happy place where there's a guy water-skiing in a leather jacket...
>This seems pretty polished

Hmmmm, it looks like a standard MS Word template, nothing especially polished, nothing anyone with a proficiency in Word could not knock out.
Still a privacy issue.
So it's like "Cookie Clicker", but instead of baking cookies, you generate pixels like the VIC II chip in a Commodore 64. Great!
Because I'm not talking about that. I never referenced the bitcoin paper, reread what I said.
Italian comics lover here. I’ve never been an Alan Ford fan, but it was a hit for my parents’ generation in the ‘70s. Beyond the merits of Alan Ford stories themselves, the series is a cornerstone of Italian comicdom for other reasons: writer Luciano Secchi (“Max Bunker”) was responsible for the arrival of Marvel comics in Italy, and artist Roberto Raviola (“Magnus”) was one of the best talents the art ever produced, an absolute world-class master who went on to write and draw several masterpieces.

Secchi’s historic publishing house (Editoriale Corno) also published tons of excellent Italian series like Franco “Bonvi” Bonvicini’s Sturmtruppen and controversial dark/pulp series like Kriminal and Satanik, effectively marking a golden age of Italian comics. Reportedly Secchi grew somewhat grumpy and disenchanted with age, becoming a bit of a right-winger, isolating himself from the world of Italian comics and only working on Alan Ford.

Raviola went on to create several masterpieces (Lo Sconosciuto, Femmine Incantate, Le 110 Pillole, Milady nel 3000, La compagnia della forca, and a famous Tex Willer special episode) before sadly dying of cancer way too early (56). He was a reference for generations of Italian comic artists, and a character in his own right with his remarkable moustaches and his jovial attitude.

I wish more of classic Italian comics could be translated properly for the English-speaking market, there is a lot of excellent material and spectacular artists like Magnus and Andrea Pazienza.
What's the difference, for the laymen
There's a lot of software engineers here who are used to having a prototype banged out in a few weeks and think it applies to everything else.
You're being very unfair here. When you choose a place to live you are not only choosing the structure in which you reside, you are choosing the surrounding environment as well. People's desire to keep the environment from changing too much extends beyond financial interests. I live in a quiet suburban neighborhood, and I want it to remain a quiet suburban neighborhood even if the value of my house drops.

In fact, I would love to see the value of my house drop, along with the value of all the houses around me, because that would make it easier for me to move locally and improve some of the sub-optimal features of my current situation, not least of which is that my house is much too big for my needs. But I can't move to a smaller house because the tax hit I would take makes it cost more than I can justify. The smaller houses around me now cost more than our house did when we bought it, so if we move we take both a one-time capital gains hit and an ongoing property tax hit. None of that would happen if houses depreciated like cars.

UPDATE: Please take note that I am not saying I have any kind of right to keep my neighborhood from changing, only that my desire to keep it from changing is not purely financial. (In fact, in my case, it is the exact opposite!)
You are wrong. The revenue impact of more manufacturing heavy and device heavy industries is lower for those engineers - that’s just how the overhead of other engineering and biotech companies work.

Software is fundamentally different and the revenue impact can be multiples or even orders of magnitude higher, in really any industry or company type.

Software engineers, even in Silicon valley, are underpaid relative to revenue or profit contributions.

Paternalistic and entitled employers in other areas have milked the opportunity for rent seeking by suppressing wages due to disingenuous cost of living policies for a long time. Finally workers have options that let them say, “no, I just won’t take your poor pay job. I don’t care that you think someone in Kansas City or Wyoming should earn X% less for doing the exact same job, and I won’t accept that anti-worker paternalism. Improve your offer or get lost.”
It's not "trust the science because it is 100% correct all the time and will never steer you wrong"

It's "trust the science more than guessing because at any given moment, it has a much greater chance of giving you useful information than guessing".

Science is the least bad way we have of learning true things (or at least useful approximations of truth) about the world.
If you could animate it the flow might look like it bounces off the west coast and heads back inland. Technically, cities are infestations of humans.
Then why are there diamond cartels?
"....aaah this was my early functional phase."
In all likelihood, they did the initial research with public funding or built on such research. Since the 1980s academia has been a get rich scheme where the public funds research and then the professors go to the private sector to make money.

I think the inventors should be rewarded, but it seems misguided to do it by making them have to exploit an exclusive hold on their invention which blockades progress. Why not just give them prize money? You could set objective standards whereby a new invention that gets produced over X quantity by any party gets Y prize money.
A compelling way to get holdouts to upgrade iOS/OSX. Get those iPhone 4 folks who are content with iOS 6.x to install iOS 7.x.

God only knows what incompetence and disregard for user privacy and sanity awaits in these "new" versions. What are they adding that we really need? Oh, the ability to use SSL PKI. Yeah, I guess you have to upgrade.

Why isn't HN discussing the effects this screw up has on email? Email is bigger than the web, belive it or not.

And most of the world appears to use webmail.

With this "bug" HTTPS for your webmail is futile.

You have no way to know you are connecting to the real googlemail, yahoomail, hotmail, etc.

The "authentication" functions of SSL need to be made an compilation option, not a default.

It's obvious almost no knows or cares how to use SSL's PKI mechanism properly.

SSL's encryption capabilities have been useful, but using SSL to do server authentication causes more problems than it solves.

History has shown it's just not easy enough to use.

SSH can do authentication without PKI. Alas, it is embedded into a program that only nerds use.

I'm using the authentication framework in CurveCP. I'm working on making it very easy to use.
I'm going to admit up front I'm probably hopelessly out of touch.

I used to buy office from like Word 2.0 up through Office 2007 or so but for the life of me I can't figure out why most people would need Office today. Like I said I'm out of touch but...

If I write docs for publication it's HTML.

If I write for correspondence it's email

If I write for product design it's probably a wiki. Something the entire team can edit.

I am in no way suggesting that people don't have legit uses for Office or OpenOffice. I am saying that I have not had a legit use for Office in 6+ years.

Those few times I need to make a sign for party or a few page letter Google docs works fine. Even presentations I've done in Google docs just fine. Spreadsheets work fine as well. They can even be scripted if you want to do crazy stuff.

Why would I want to install Open Office when I can access Google Docs from ANY machine, not just machines have have Open Office installed?

Especially the Hacker News crowd. Do you find you need Office or Open Office still?
Both were possible already. People in the rationalist community discussed his pseudonymous writing using his real name.
More federated, small time operations. While big company bundling can make a lot of things easy it's stifling innovation and freedom of movement between providers.
I'm guessing if you get really close to the limit predicted by the actuarial tables, then it's not that big of a gamble to play with the telomeres. If something goes wrong, what's the worst that could happen - you could die? Well, you'll probably do that soon anyway.
Chrome automagically updates itself all the time without any end-user intervention at all. IMHO, that's the surest way to keep everyone current. The problem is that corporate IT shops would never go for that because they have too many brittle 3rd party applications that could break.
I'ts hardly fair to ask to see 5 companies who have already grown from bootstrap stage to "national prominence" as a lot of the conditions that have helped create this "bootstrap friendly" environment are still fairly young. Open Source software, relatively inexpensive hosting / cloud computing, rapid development using "convention over configuration" frameworks, etc. are all part of the ecosystem that have led people to believe that you can build a technology company without outside funding.

I'd argue that most everybody noticing the confluence of those forces, and starting to build a company, have not yet had time to grow their company to a large size and level of prominence.
To be fair, I don't think the site creator is a native english speaker.
I'll be adding buy/sell to this over the weekend. I'd appreciate some comments on the picks! :D
For Lyme disease, you literally cannot disentangle the biological diagnosis from the clinical diagnosis. Why? Lyme titers can stay positive indefinitely because you do not measure borrelia directly. It's a spirochete, so this is completely understandable. Once you get infected one time, you will make antibody for years, or indefinitely. This is why the CDC requires biochemical evidence and the right clinical context.

Nobody is saying Lyme doesn't exist. Most doctors have diagnosed Lyme - there are over 30,000 reported cases annually. It's neither rare nor controversial. I am saying that Stage 3 Lyme has a specific set of symptoms that are inconsistent with what savemylife describes. Allen Steere is saying that "chronic Lyme" is not an infectious disease caused by borrelia.

Savemylife's Lyme diagnosis was done only biochemically, which is not consistent with the CDC diagnostic criteria for reasons I described above. He was then treated for a year - a risky proposition in itself - and was unhelped. Spirochetes are notoriously susceptible to antibiotics. If you only take one dose of doxy, you cure ~75% of all Lyme cases. It's that easy! After 2 weeks of doxy, the cure rate is nearly 100%. After a year, you are simply eradicating native gut flora. He does not have Lyme disease. He has a real problem; this is not it, and pushing him towards sexy, grabbag, but clearly incorrect diagnostic labels helps nobody.
The conclusions in particular are fairly bogus.

In reality is not going outside per se that helps, but rather increasing external conditions like natural light and air ventilation

I would argue that allowing your mind to relax and work on a problem in working memory is the biggest factor here. It would be better if there were any psychology at all in this article, rather than speculation.
How to write a successful blog post: Know your material.
If you raise standards high enough, you end up with only cheaters, because past some threshold, it's no longer possible to meet expectations honestly.

Evidence for this empirical statement?
I have an Air as well. I like the visual update, but I do feel like everything runs a bit slower than it did prior to the update.
I was just looking at Beep’s inbound traffic and saw this HN post in the list. Made me smile. Cheers, Trax.
makes sense, unfortunately we wanted decent caching of the audio samples so are using http rather than https for the audio files
That still leaves the problem of sending internal data to outside parties. The accountants may be fine with the programming help, IT certainly shouldn't be.
This reminds me of my experiences learning programming and web development. For a while I used Drupal for everything, because it allowed me to 'program without programming'. The views module (now in core drupal, or slated to be, I think), is essentially a visual query builder.

What I discovered after a while, was that there was a tiny sweet spot where it was nice to do complicated things without writing code, but that it had huge drawbacks. Queries became ridiculous, for one.

And very soon, the stuff I'd build using the Views module was 'complicated' enough conceptually that a normal SQL query would not only be much faster, but easier and quicker to write. The fact that this query could be version-controlled and didn't live in a database was nice too...