jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You wonder if the Chinese government is doing the same thing?

I guess the answer is technically 'no', insofar that the NSA isn't doing anything like what the Chinese government is doing. I feel weird giving you these links, because frankly you should know more about this than I, but here you go anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/04/the-grass-mud-horse-dictionary-how-chinese-bloggers-evade-censorship/
Nitrogen cold gas thrusters don't give enough "oomph". Maybe if the rocket was inclined at angles x<10 degrees with respect to the vertical axis it would've been able to correct but this rocket was leaned over at what seems to be 20<x<=45 deg. In other words they wouldn't of have been powerful enough to correct that much of a drastic lean the Falcon had coming down.

But I'm sure with the hydraulic fluid corrections a stronger control system won't be needed to fix large angles of attack but it would be nice to have as an emergency system.

"Have it and not need it/Need it don't Have it" really doesn't work with rockets because of the mass requirements
This is very helpful feedback and does make a lot of sense. Appreciate it.
Not a lawyer, but I'd rather sue them at least for the $500k "deferred income".
*higher than the highest-valuing person currently in the bidding list
> Sounds like the best course of action for someone like me would be to just to log in, find any button that says "delete everything" and use it. So confusing.

Yet that isn’t even close to the best course of action. If your GitHub account was compromised and you had secrets in private repos, deleting everything in your Heroku account isn’t going to do anything to help.
consider putting it behind a cdn like cloudfront or fastly, i think both have free plans - it's a good way to illustrate that you can serve a lot of traffic with very little backend power.
Chrome 39.0.2171.71 on OSX 10.9.4 is also vulnerable.
Not sure where i read it. But i find myself reminded about a sarcastic claim that a truly secure computer was one that was turned off, unplugged from all sockets, put inside a safe, encased in concrete, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Amazing dude! Nice work!
The police in the capital building were on video shaking these "protesters" hands.
> drivers can easily spend up to $2,500 for a basic paint job, which is two years' salary

The two years' salary is for drivers, and drivers usually don't own their trucks. It is probably not the drivers spending on the paint job, but the owners.
What do you think politics is? What do you think morality is?

What a tired old marxist line this is; And one never applied to say, the political theory of marx himself
Very interesting indeed and I had some glimpse of that in my dad, who all his life worked for only one company. And especially as I got older and interested in computers he started talking about some work stuff sometimes. His first programming language at work was 360 assembler. For the uninitiated/too young to remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360. When I started working at the same company for my first job and I had to log into 'the host' - meaning the IBM mainframe they had (I believe by that time a Z series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Z) I noticed how the custom login screen for their entire system had actually been written by my dad.

So all this just as a little context. But when I was talking about SQL like 15+ years ago he would always tell me that sure that's nice and all, but all those joins. They're painfully slow. Why would you do that? They had a table that had exactly all the information that they needed to have and they accessed it via a key. Fast and easy. Need a different view of the data? Make a new table that's organized the way you need it. Done and fast. Ring a bell? (NoSQL :))

I also started playing with Linux and system administration and obviously virtualization (vmware at the time, qemu stuff etc.). So I go talk to my dad about it and how I love the concept and how it does X and Y and Z cool thing. Yeah well, for him that was really old stuff, coz they had that on their mainframe since like forever (now called z/VM, then called VM/370 - in 1972).

We had to learn and use Java at university, which my dad always made fun of. Especially with articles like "The state of Java application middleware" and such that I was looking at. All that new fangled stuff, pah! He had been working with IBM CICS as the middleware for forever. Initial release of CICS July 8 1969, latest release June 12, 2020. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS)

I get it. I say the same thing(s) about some of the new fangled stuff I have to work with nowadays. With the kids. Some of it is great. Other things I'm just asked myself why the wheel had to be re-invented just to come back to square one. Like NoSQL databases that add features you'd expect from relational databases.
There were reports that pipe bombs were found at both the RNC and DNC headquarters today.
Please show me the evidence that CNN was created in response to a Democratic scandal in order to consolidate their messaging and provide a friendly news outlet. Until then, you're "enlightened centrist" and "both sides bad" narrative reeks of conservative FUD.
The fairness doctrine doesn't exist anymore. It went away when it was decided it wasn't a good thing and went against free speech.

Compelled speech or forced speech is not free speech.
Several instances where they vandalized and destroyed tens of thousands of dollars of camera equipment belonging to reporters

https://twitter.com/shomaristone/status/1346941715895250949

https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/13469458353685012...

Also, WTF do you mean by any evidence of buildings being looted or vandalized? Have you stuck your head in sand or not seen the rioters destroying shit in the Capitol? Just look up any legitimate media source or anything on twitter from today. They also fucking placed pipe bombs and explosives in several locations.
Wow! As a kid I used to play with the "group" and "ungroup" feature for clipart for Screen Beans, sometimes with circles of them sacrificing animals or something. I was a weird kid.

I will definitely need to play with this over the weekend.
https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/10/us_preacher_finds_dem...

>"While the Computer Age has ushered in many advances, it has also opened yet another door through which Lucifer and his minions can enter and corrupt men's souls," the paper quotes the Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, as saying. Demons are able to possess anything with a brain, from a chicken to a human being. And today's thinking machines have enough space on their hard drives to accommodate Satan or his pals, the paper reports. Disk capacity is an issue, however. Only a PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit, the minister explained." <g>

Here's the associated Weekly World News article, which in my opinion is way better (The Weekly World News was fake news, that's true and all -- but unlike today's media -- at least it was honest about being fake news! <g>):

https://books.google.com/books?id=CPADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=P...

I believe that there was some quote to the effect that "Any machine with more than 256K -- could host evil and/or demonic spirits" <g>, but I can't find this quote on the web anymore...

Still, I swear it was there, a long time ago! <g>

Must be the ol' Orwellian "memory hole"... <g>
No, the license terminates when you make a claim (of which a lawsuit is a subset of) that any 'right' of any patent claim that Facebook makes is invalid or unenforceable. This would include statements to the effect:

"That Facebook patent is invalid." or "Software patents are invalid."
BTW, I'm pretty sure that this blocking behavior is the best choice (among bad choices). If I memory map a file, I can set bits in that buffer at a much higher rate than the kernel can write those bits to disk... So the choices are: block the writing thread until the kernel can catch up, or simply drop some of those writes... At least with blocking my writes, I have a chance to notice the issue (in my application, this would cause a chain reaction of threads to backup and ultimately block resulting in me dropping network packets)...
>Replace all the decrepit almost dead 2 story apartments in SF with ...

that's was doable back in the USSR and doable today in China. In US it may be easier to build right in the ocean :) For building huge structures 10-20m depth is almost like land and you get added benefit of being able to plan and build all the infrastructure from scratch instead of trying to upgrade and be constricted by the limits of the old. You can build another San Francisco sized city near by just at the cost of the steel and concrete it takes. Smaller number of square miles with 100+ stories high interconnected structure(s) - of any shape/form one can come up with as without historic parcelization you wouldn't be limited to the narrow tall buildings of the standard cities.

>10 story apartments and there would be no crisis whatsoever.

how about infrastructure? water/sewer/electricity/roads?
> The bubble is not a startup funding bubble, it's a dollar bubble.
Ya, it's limited indeed. I just realized you're a pypy developer. Thanks for all the good work you guys are putting on it!
I can see the appeal of Adobe Air and its ecosystem. I guess on mobile the only problem is binding to system services & ad providers. IIRC most of that is already covered by 3rd parties, but it's a bit involved to do it yourself.

Funny you mention Flex, still gives me the shivers, still used by a lot of enterprises around here. Pretty much on par with applets in terms of badness.
Do you quite honestly believe that because we have microwaves and Reddit that there's nothing we, or a 14 year old, could learn from ancient philosophy?
Code Contracts are just assertions. Pex can use them though and is built on Z3, iirc.
I'm not exactly commenting on RMS. It's a point of faith for me that all our strengths can become vices, and all our weakness transformed to virtues. Any of us can be still more ourselves with some reflection and humility. But how RMS might best go about that is beyond my knowing.

But let me speak to stubborn as virtue or vice.

I'm a huge beneficiary of open source / free software. That culture seems founded by people who are a little bit nuts. Who can say whether more or less pragmatism would have accelerated or killed the movement?

It seems to me that some of what he's saying is even more applicable today. I've only lately stuck my head into in corners of the startup culture, and maybe I'm in the wrong corners, but I'm shocked by how little technical proficiency I've found. A lot of the design and implementation seems rote, and I have to wonder if some popular frameworks risk mind capture the way Windows did in the early 90s. (Caveat: New kid! Haven't seen it all yet!) One aspect of "free" is the ability to truly design anew from an understanding of core principles, right? Even where issues of commercial trust and network privacy are solved there is still a problem with not-free, right? I think this could be a real challenge for a new generation.

But we're not likely to hear the RMS take on the above, because he isn't even looking at all this stuff. From a simple rhetorical standpoint, he's missing a chance to make a possibly important point to a whole new generation. And even if he did, he's such an avowed fanatic that anything he did say would now be dismissed as a twist on his zealotry, rather than an honest concern of a viewpoint sympathetic to the generation's viewpoint.

Now, is that a necessary consequence of his radicalism? Is such radicalism necessary for the communal formation of proper principles? Does every Abraham Lincoln pragmatist require a John Brown wild-eyed radical? That certainly seems like an unsatisfying outcome, and one that might be avoided with some creativity.
I think he means a month. FWIW, I know primary school teachers making half that much in Bangalore.
Discussing this with colleagues someone suggested a splendid addition - give the person whose vote was used in a constituency a nice bonus (say £100,000) to encourage people to come out and vote.

[Edit - think how interesting election nights would become rather than the usual few hours of predictable tedium that I always feel compelled to watch.]
Not knocking OP's efforts as a nifty academic excercise -- good stuff. But MSI is a real world (admittedly MS) attempt at writing imperative instructions into relational tables.

And, again...<shudder>
It is rather simple, if you compare it to e.g. the D'Hondt method used in Germany.
Maybe there's a good reason we like linear text: we are humans, we have with 1 stream of attention, we like to communicate serially and verbally. We don't usually "understand" a map, although we can memorize it, in contrast to a book which we can both memorize and understand.
We have been leaking analog radio transmissions for such a short period of time during the lifetime of the universe that any other life out there would most likely be either underdeveloped or overdeveloped to receive the transmissions.

We have barely uttered a sound in the universe.
While my sample size is small < 50. I have seen both types of Indians and yet, I would be willing to suggest that Most Indians who end up as programming H1b's have similar issues. My guess is it's jarring for people because the people who get into software in India are the mostly the type of people who would do something else in the US.

PS: Still it's hard not to draw concussions about a country even know that your samples are biased.
Or they get all the deposits of those who lost their deposits from not getting enough votes?
What do you think of Bitcoins/Ethereum etc. public ledgers?
Also reference Amazon's "Do it without dues" site:

https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/
I feel the justification for exploring space despite the challenges on earth is similar to the justification for poetry, art, and other "non-productive" activity.

Personally, I find "wasteful" uses of our energy to be an essential part of what makes us human. Lifting our eyes from time to time beyond the mere prosaic necessities of survival is something I find nourishing and necessary, and I suspect ultimately also makes it more possible for us to more effectively address things like the pressing challenges on earth.
Well if you hate config syntax you can use rwasa which has ... absolutely none other than command line parameters.
Yes but there are places in the world where the house you buy when you're 30 isn't the one with your deathbed.

Ideally living people will move out and make room for the next generation when they no longer have use for 4 bedrooms in a good school district close to jobs.
You shouldn't. Shadowstats is a crank website, praying on people are already convinced that everything is more expensive than according to official numbers. They're the economics equivalent of homeopathy, anti-vaxers, 5G radiation truthers and sellers of homebew crypto-algos. I.e., they have a nice business and a good susceptible audience, but they're not providing you the Secret Information that the Authorities don't want you to know.
I love the initiative! It's in line with the right to repair movement which, considering the HN crowd, is more than welcome these days.

I wonder though are there any plans to support coreboot?
The methods (messages) will need parameters anyway.
Wondering the same thing. I'd like to explore a setup like this but trying to cobble it together myself without a good guide is daunting.
This contradicts one of the claimed principles of Taler, "Protect the privacy of buyers". Can you please explain how the example you gave would be possible with Taler, in a way that wouldn't be with crypto currency?

(off-topic: thank you for Opus.)
Looks interesting, but a twisted mind might interpret the name differently than you might like
I like to check the link and the comments sentiment.

I don't consciously apply a specific ordering, but I suspect that checking sentiment in comments first edges out clicking on the link first.

Engaging in the comments section is another thing altogether - right now I'm going through a low-engagement phase...
Me too. Maybe it isn't precisely at the top technically, but artistically and musically it just hangs together so well and so accessibly.

A minor but important point in its favour is that it didn't require a Gravis Ultrasound, those things were annoyingly expensive.
Hmm correct me if i'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like it would be that advantageous to take on the chargeback liability just for the statement description unless 'charging thru the platform' also provides a escrow system for the safety of the buyer.
It worked well for me: 5 times our usual sales, at a 60% discount -- that is still twice the usual daily revenue. Plus the option to earn more when it comes to renewals.
It might be different between the Northeast Corridor and other Amtrak routes; I remember when they introduced the ID requirement a few years ago it was somehow rolled out more thoroughly on the Northeast Corridor. (I think I may have been asked for ID on the Lake Shore Limited and not on the Capitol Corridor.)
Yes, the library definitely does need some stronger specs. Thanks for flagging. Addressing these two specific issues:

> Is the rgb space actually sRGB?

Yes. Added: https://github.com/jsvine/spectra/commit/7f1ac6f5287340ed356...

> And what is the parameter to brighten/darken/saturate/desaturate?

The parameter for brighten/darken is a positive/negative linear adjustment to the L(ightness) value of the color's Lab representation. (Spectra converts the color to Lab, makes the change, and then converts back to the original color space.)

Likewise, the parameter for saturate/desaturate is a positive/negative linear adjustment to the c(hroma) value of the color's Lch representation.

Added a note here: https://github.com/jsvine/spectra/commit/fd3cbde9338ce388849...

The goal is to, ultimately, have all these details in the docstrings: https://github.com/jsvine/spectra/issues/1
Is that the same code in FreeBSD 10? I was under the impression that the code in FreeBSD, while pretty old compared to the most recent OpenBSD, has vast performance improvements as far as multi core processing and 10Gbps processing whereas most of those changes haven't been accepted upstream.
So your theory is that we should all be spied on in the off chance some of the low-hanging fruit in a hypothetical criminal organization simply makes a mistake or goofs up enough to put it in the officials lap.

Working off that theory, why not just not spy on millions of innocent civilians and let the criminal bunglers bungle anyway?
If I remember correctly, Dominique intentionally hit Roark in the face with a huge stick while she was riding a horse through the woods. That was before the rape scene.

I think she had to "bring him down" because she loved him, and she always destroyed that which she loved (e.g. a statue), because she didn't believe that such things belong in a corrupt world.

The point of all this was not to condone such a sequence of actions, but to tell a psychological story about two people.
The problem was the DoE gave out loans, not equity investments. If the DoE had received an equity stake in Tesla (and the others), then it would be a more apt comparison to VC and PE. As it stands, the DoE took on tremendous financial risks with little financial reward.

Regarding military waste- there are many conservatives who are just as upset about that. I don't think the media pays as much attention to it, for one reason or another, and thus it is not part of the day to day rhetoric.

Also, defense is also generally considered by conservatives to be the Federal Government's primary reason for existence. ("To provide for the common defense"). Spending a large percentage of the Federal budget on Defense initiatives therefore makes sense within this paradigm.

Lastly, there is a major problem in our society, both right and left, conservative and liberal, that believes that throwing money at any problem will automatically fix it. Is Education lagging? Spend more money on it! Need a next generation airplane and it isn't getting here fast enough? Throw some more money at it! Etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESR_meter
The converse is that I really wish there were an app for managing the Start screen in Windows 8 because having to right click a million icons etc. by hand really sucks.
Something like this? https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
You need to draw a circle and mark it one way, and tag it junction=roundabout
Ridiculous.

We use "special tools" for every other language (Visual Studios, Eclipse, etc).. Calling a language feature, which give programmers style freedom, a "tortured lexical structure" is not an objective argument. Especially since we have a tool (nimgrep) which addresses the issue and takes < minute to learn. Once Nim has better IDE support, no one will be grepping in the first place.
woo doggy!
Lots of tyrants have implemented strict rules against theft as well. It’s really not a great argument on its own.
Hmm, i think we have different thoughts about what a DEX is. Decentralized exchange allows me to conduct exchanges anonymously. I can convert back and forth between many different coins and wallets. Although it still goes on the ledger each time it's transacted, verifying who it went to, who is came from, and how it was traded is impossible. I can use a VPN to connect to the DEX, I can push my trade through a mining firm and many other ways. Any government 'Banning Bitcoin' is just a giant advertisement for bitcoin and will only lead to that nations fall as other nations take the cue to 'Stick it' to the nation that banned it by investing.
Which (giant to very large) companies besides Alphabet/Google and Facebook would suffer dramatically if this happened? (I couldn't really think of any.)
Agreed, but I think it's at least a defensible case if you activate the music specifically and only when you know you're being recorded for a mass audience.
If I'm installing an app, running a credit card transaction, or logging into my brokerage, nobody is checking the CRL, because they're running OCSP to check the cert chain. That's what my code did. That's what a coworker's code did, and that's what (I'm told) browser TLS implementations do.

If a countersigned certificate is revoked by one signer, is it still safe to use? I hope your answer is 'no'. Otherwise, as you say, I can revoke the certificate in Europe but have to wait for the Americans to get out of bed.

Why did they including both certs in the chain if everyone trusts the same CA? They are including them because people cherry-pick. My app is likely not checking both roots, but picking one as the one I trust and seeing what it says, in many if not all implementations. Because I'm looking for a chain that I understand, then seeing if it's valid, and one of the chains I don't understand.

DOS attacks are not an all or nothing thing. Often it serves the attacker's motives if only most of the traffic is blocked, or specific traffic is unlikely to succeed. Taking out a particular person or "just" 75% of users could be desirable.
Eh, C++ was always a bit of a lost cause with respect to "featuritis", wasn't it? It's not like you can't still use C.
"Yes, in some scenarios you can associate the life time of a resource with the life time of a storage location"

In what cases is this not possible? I model the resource as an object and that object has a memory location.

(Yes, in a non-deterministic GC, you can't do this for expensive resources, but that's a problem of GCs, not an in-principle problem).

EDIT: I am guessing the parent actually meant "associate the life time of a resource with the life time of a single, non-/never-shared storage location". The statement as written is one I have seen proponents of non-deterministic GCs make.
Yea he was also wrong about web apps taking over the desktop. They're not even close and it's 2015. Mobile really put the breaks on that.