jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How can we prove that information actually exists to cause the movements? While you can tap the "wisdom of the crowds" for things like guessing the number of baseballs in a box at a contest, it simply doesn't work if you're asking them a question they don't have any information about.

Given that some of the movements in the stock market have a lot in common with a random walk, you have to excuse my skepticism in wondering how much is signal and how much is noise.

Please note that I'm not taking the absurd position that there's no information to be found. Certainly, there are real events (e.g. SCOX going into bankruptcy) which drive stocks down. Rather, I'm of the opinion that most of the "information" in market movements is noise, not signal. And given things like that "flash crash" we can see that there are times when the noise can completely swamp the signal to a degree I think everyone should be able to recognize.
Pretty magical, my parents were amazed.
Direct link to paper [0].

[0] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/02/aa39650-...
No, I haven't. Thanks for sending this over. I don't know the parties reporting.
In the olden days I could rely on looking at resolv.conf to see my dns settings and servers.

Then systemd came along and broke it (on linux), driving my hatred of that environment up another notch (see also things like ntp, syslog)

I hope BSD doesn’t follow the same path.
There's some investment debate but ethically, there's no debate.

It's simply not "right" to tie the value of everything in society to the value of a specific good. Gold, like all other goods should be free to have a value that is intrinsic to its uses (of which there are many in science and engineering) and other goods should not be subject to price fluctuations due to supply and demand issues related to gold.

Obviously, people have issues with their fiat currency issuer – especially since currencies tend to be a government monopoly and lots of governments abuse that monopoly. However, that's well outside the point I was making. In any case, that's not an issue with fiat currency per se but with government monopolies on fiat currency (something that currencies like Bitcoin have set out to address).
No.

There isn't anyone with enough money.

Just to by a simple suburban street takes millions and millions.

Even someone with the cash resources of Apple could maybe get one or two suburbs of San Francisco before the prices started rising fast and they priced themselves out.

Cornering a market happens periodically in small markets like commodity futures or stocks in a single company - and usually only for a brief period.

You could make the argument that you could 'buy' a government by buying all the available currency. Technically it's true but practically it's not. Who would want to own a monopoly in real estate anyway? People and businesses are sticky, but not stuck. If the rents got out of hand they'd just move.
Curious if anyone has had luck rendering > 100k of these at 30 or 60fps in webgl!
Funny that you mentioned it - but we have ReleaseDebug :) :) :) and Final, and few others.
Apparently not. Registries is something most people don't think about until its too late.
Citation Needed. Project Veritas has successfully challenged 331 "news reports" of misleading editing and gotten those report retracted[1] . Further, they have sued and been sued in court and claim a record of 7 wins, 0 losses[2]. Finally, PV has a page dedicated to the admitting where they were wrong[3]. Please support your claim of "misleading editing and entrapment" with evidence of retractions or court losses by Project Veritas that are not listed on their "Mistakes" page (i.e., events that they are attempting to hide or mislead the public about).

[1] https://www.projectveritas.com/wall-of-shame-retracto/
[2] https://www.projectveritas.com/news/legal-victories-pv/
[3] https://www.projectveritas.com/mistakes-that-project-veritas...
Some unknown but probably large number of people is executed in China every year. Some of them are Uyghurs.

For organ transplantation, a corpse is a corpse, whether they died in a traffic accident or were executed doesn't matter (except probably execution by poison as practiced in the US).

So yes, executed Uyghurs are used as organ donors in China, but the causality is inverted: they're not killed for organ harvesting, they have their organs harvested because they were killed.
> Everyone here is completely pro-Apple anti-Google

Both extremes exist here, just like everywhere else. Anti-Apple articles/posts/discussions also get a ton of upvotes and frequently end up on the front page, and the discussions are filled with comments of people swearing off Apple forever.

Apple is a polarizing company in the tech world and that is just as true on HN as anywhere else.
How would the compiler determine, in this case, that the programmer didn't need the fancier to_lower case function?

At best the compiler could ASK the programmer about it.
If `apt install code` is hard, then using it will be impossible.
What is the purpose of the audio?

Can it or the problematic workload be moved to another device?

Or to put it another way, is the problem the result of necessary complexity or incidental complexity?

An "I want" or an "I need"?

Is an expert required or will a rubber duck do?

Good luck.
Here's an implication of your collusion comment. If a default spot is sold to an organisation with highest market share, it is collusion. Can you imagine scenarios in which this implication wouldn't be true?
If you knew of a flaw like this, you could probably get more than $300 for it.
What part of this post suggests that Bernanke is aimed at growth?

Bernanke states the goal of the Fed setting rates is full employment. Low interest rates encourage spending, which cause more people to be employed. Lower unemployment is generally good.
You can achieve a mutual understanding during the initial technical (not HR) phone screen. This approach eliminates the candidate's ability to ask questions before a multi hour commitment. The traditional phone screen is important. Most questions cannot be answered by HR.

I have a much better understanding a company after the question portion of a half hour phone screen than I can get from searching the web for information about a company.
Bitstamp and MTGox's issues were unrelated

In both cases there was an issue with the service having transaction issues due to the malleability issue. Bitstamp suspended operations to fix the issue. How can you possibly say they are unrelated?

Now supposedly Gox was robbed (over months) using this exploit, but that simply makes no sense at all, and is people grasping, in the absence of anything else. It seems more likely that someone got the private keys on holdings wallets, whether insider or hacker.
You may have found it already, but there is: https://github.com/atom/vim-mode
I hear you. We all hate SPAM!

In the US, short-codes are helpful for B2C SMS communication. US has many regulations on using a regular phone number for sending SMS via Applications and APIs.

For starters, a shortcode allows you to send 40 sms/second which is not allowed using a regular phone number.

We have tried to document some of the differences and cases when a shortcode is helpful: http://plivo.com/faq/shortcode/what-is-the-difference-betwee...
Looks like the Owin dependencies didn't come down - does NuGet run under MonoDevelop?
why not salt and store the salt with the hash?
> If the manufacturer is the only one who can fix the product, you've got yourself a subscription.
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Indeed. I would have zero complaints at all about Tesla's maintenance programs and service center only requirements if they didn't sell the cars, but only leased them. Great, your car, your rules.

Selling the car, and telling me I can't work on it, though... not OK with that.
> you need to figure out a way to do that which doesn’t cause capital flight

land.
I like to think of GraphQL as a specific tool to address a specific set of challenges. Is it convenient to be able to batch up a bunch of requests in one go for a frontend JS client? Would it be useful to be able to specify a subset of the fields to be returned in a query? If the answers to these questions and others are "yes," GraphQL might be a good fit for what one is doing.

I've personally had good experiences with it. It does bring in additional complexity. Is the complexity worth taking on in a specific dev team? This is something that will depend on the team.

It is usually the case that a tool is not useful outside of the set of challenges it is tailored to address. And in some cases a tool is not well designed or implemented. It's always good to use the right tool for the job, at the level of complexity that a team is in a good position to handle.
End of an era...

Are there any viable alternatives to Kubernetes and Nomad?
How many of those people do have intellectual potential that they waste in Factorio or Eve Online? How many of those people ended there because they played games? And how many started gaming because they were fed up with their lack of potential?

Maybe majority of gamers would been the type who would waste themself in a pub or on some other meaningless thing otherwise? I don't think it's so easy to answer those aspects without hard numbers.
Well, paradoxically perhaps, none of that is seen in the single most popular text editor of today.
I like working on a small laptop even when there are multiple large monitors available - probably to do with being a very heavy virtual workspaces + tiling wm user. I also hate sitting at a desk and prefer to flop around whatever couch, recliner, or bit of lawn seems comfortable at the time, and it's harder to do that when you're dragging hardware around. For whatever reasons, I find it way easier to get in the zone working this way.
>Cavaleri provided no evidence to support his comment.

I'm certainly willing to give a professional more attention than Joe on the street but I also expect some evidence or clarity on what would make him say that to go with those statements.
He has a lot of money and he can be the private owner of many things. And farmland is cheap compared to penthouses in skyscrapers (he has many of those as well).
How are they more fragile? Other than load balancing, server IP addresses hardly ever change.
This is a chicken/egg problem. If someone had leaked the truth prior to the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, then over 100K people would be alive today who were killed, some of whom are American soldiers.

I'd argue that the wars and inappropriate secrecy have done incalculable harm to American national security by creating for us many new enemies, people who had probably admired the US until one of their friends or relatives was injured, killed, taken captive, interrogated harshly and inhumanely, etc.

The Apache helicopter video showed a couple of scared-shitless youth raging against anyone in their sights. One can't help but feel sorry for them, and no sensible person blames them for the carnage. But is that really what America is supposed to stand for?

The Afghan war logs show a nation that has supported a war largely due to vital information about conditions being kept from the American people. Are we really supposed to be proud of a war that we only support b/c information is classified whenever it might make the war effort look somewhat futile or mismanaged?

Both the Iraq and Afghan war logs show us how weak the US really is and how under-leveraged. We're negotiating with terrorists, thugs, and criminals left and right. It's far uglier than any realist would have dared imagine b/c of the lofty regard in which we hold our leaders.

I am not persuaded by your argument that Manning poses a risk of additional secrets being revealed. The very nature of his alleged actions (he smuggled out a CD-Roms full of information, less than 1% of which has been leaked via Wikileaks so far) suggest that he'd be able to recite any classified information at all. Unless you tell me he has a flash drive implanted in his finger or an amazing photographic memory I'm going to have to say that your argument doesn't hold water.

They're probably trying to make an example of him or break down his psychological stability. I suppose that's to be expected, but it puts our actions on par with the basest of regimes... at some point the legitimacy of a state comes from how it treats its citizens, guilty or innocent.
denying yourself food for days is starving not fasting HaHa.

I fast every day, 16-19 hrs at a time. I train completely for strength rather than endurance, so lift super heavy for 4-5. Max 2-3 sets. If you are going for muscle endurance (8reps+) then some food prior to training.
I made a similar facebook app a couple of days back (http://apps.facebook.com/collage-frnds/). It creates a collage of your profile picture using your friends profile pictures. It failed to catch attention as the app itself is very slow since it is hosted on a shared server.
When you talk about "subsidies" for abstract "resources" and then try to decouple them from the available market in these resources (through such terms as "other things being equal") you are engaging in a bit of sophistry. Yes, resource usage may be greater per capita in the suburbs, but the most expensive resource in most cases is space/land and it is very, very expensive in urban cores. Urban space is so expensive that it often washes out the more efficient usage of other resources that density can offer.

You can claim that in a city people will have mass transit available, but with only a few exceptions in the US that mass transit is underutilized and really only serves to get a small fraction of the urban residents to work and back; it does not serve other daily needs quite as well, so after taking mass transit back from work you will hop into your car to go get groceries or go out for some entertainment in the evening.

If these magical subsidies truly existed at the level you are suggesting they would be both obvious and a source of growing political friction given the re-urbanization of the American population. Could you point out some examples of these subsidies? [And before you start, "fuel" does not really count since it cuts both ways in this argument and urban residents to not lead significantly more fuel efficient lives than their suburban counterparts.]
The other way to handle this is using automated systems to weed out cheaters early in the degree program.

Christian Queinnec set up what is probably the world's coolest interactive tutoring/assignment/testing environment for the introductory programming courses at Université Pierre et Marie Curie that has tools to detect cheating. He gave a very interesting talk about it at ILC 2007:

http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/speakers#q...
Wow, this is amazing. I'd love to try it out, but I'm not sure what I can do in the morning before breakfast. Maybe stationary bicycle. Anybody exercising before breakfast? What kind of exercise are you doing?
While using basic imports instead of a build step is nice, unfortunately most projects of any size or complexity end up requiring a build stage for components, css, static assets, optimization for the non-modern browsers and more.

It seems like the niche served by a package manager/cdn that serves native ESM modules is rather small.

The code editor seems unnecessary too, but it's built on VSCode so it can probably be repurposed into an extension easily. Better tools for publishing packages are needed though, and I like how it helps setup a modern environment for creating packages.
1. By "a little while ago", you mean 100 years ago--during the May Fourth Movement in 1919.

2. This change wasn't made for the sake of becoming more "progressive", it was to accomodate translations of Western literature into Mandarin.

More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pronouns
It's more like 20% but it shouldn't be affecting your base.

If anything it should be increasing it.

They are, in general, scum of the earth though, so tread lightly and hold no loyalty.

Don't give them your CV in word format unless you feel like finding modified versions of it in the interview.

And please replace referral contact/ name info with "referrals available on request" unless you don't mind your old boss being hit up for new work behind your back.
The de-emphasis of GDP is a boon to anyone who expects their policies to be a drag on the economy. If you re-define economic success so that the mere existence of your preferred policies constitutes success, you can't lose.
> which of these "versions" of the project would be the easiest for me to understand/implement?

I have the same question. Not sure I have an answer yet, but this paper includes some pseudocode that implements the algorithm: https://arxiv.org/src/1911.08265v1/anc/pseudocode.py

I'm planning on trying to train something simple like TicTacToe to both see if it works and understand how it works.
I ditched regular desk chairs for an Ikea Poäng many years ago. But then one day I realized that the Poäng was giving me lower back pain, so I ditched it. Now I sit on the footstool that came with the Poäng. (for the past 4 years now, I'll do cross-leg, squat, any kind of sit you could do on a floor)

My keyboard is an ErgoDox EZ with the lightest key-switches I could find (bought them separate, soldered them on), and my mouse is placed in the middle. I'm happy with other keyboards though, my general keyboard requirements are:

* ortholinear

* as many modifier keys on the inside as possible (eg CTRL/SUPER/SHIFT for pointer and thumb, instead of using pinky)

* split layout

I use a 3M adjustable keyboard tray (atk91le) screwed into my desk so I can easily adjust position for whatever posture I'm in.

If you sit too long without moving you will hurt, so I make a point to switch up how I sit, or get up from my desk frequently. I really like the footstool as a chair because it's like an elevated floor, there are many ways to sit on it.

If my lower back is tired (no backrest on a footstool), I have a Nada Chair that I'll sometimes strap into.

I have scoliosis, so I think I've had to deal with lower back pain much more than the average person my age.
Fair trade laws were repealed by '75, and it took a while for pricing to diverge and become as highly variable as today.

Not sure whether anyone is doing it, but an early presumed advantage of internet commerce was that the seller could set a different price for each customer depending on the seller's knowledge of the customer's preferences, socioeconomic status, and other parameters. The global electronic village as the global electronic bazaar!
Looks like you're not working with a recruiter. (Not a bad thing)

Going off my sample size of three, yes, that looks like the average experience.

It's just a numbers game/funnel like anything in sales.

The 50 applications thing is one of the reasons I get really annoyed at people who claim software Devs have it so easy (we do) but when asked how many jobs they applied for last week it's like, oh I applied for 5 jobs over the last 6 months.

Here I am writing and sending 10 unique, researched cover letters every day. No wonder I get hired in under two weeks.
"Of that total, 552 were from Google domains. That's a mind-boggling 23.8% of the total. To put that into perspective, the second entry on the list of blocked trackers was Facebook, which represented 3.8% of the total. (It's worth noting that these results shouldn't suggest any kind of conspiracy against Google. The fact that Google is at the top of any list of online trackers is a reflection of their business model and their ubiquity. Google Analytics and Google AdSense are embedded on a staggering number of web pages.)"

It sounds like Google Analytics is blocked by default at least in the "Balanced" mode
I actually find Google's higher weighting of StackOverflow results annoying. I've recently been experimenting with a new iOS project, and whenever I search for something Objective-C or iOS SDK related, the first few results are SO questions. In some cases this is useful, but for many queries you really just want the canonical explanation from Apple's docs, not a bunch of people discussing an issue that happens to include those keywords.

SO is more useful when you have a problem that you're trying to debug, and official docs are more useful when you're trying to understand new concepts. Unfortunately Google doesn't allow any way to differentiate between these modes.
Note that that loop function now looks like (the for loop has changed since 0.7):

fn hexdigest(&self) -> ~str {
let mut acc = ~"";
for &byte in self.digest.iter() {
acc.push_str(fmt!("%02x", byte as uint));
}
acc
}
For some niche markets affiliates work pretty well.

I don't think I'm allowed to share Adsense numbers, but from the one (mildly) successful blog I make money on I get around 30 times as much money from affilates compared to Adsense.

(and yes, it's becoming clear I'll need to do the geo-location based filtering of ads)
There is no voice lag in GV that I've noticed, I think it works more like call-forwarding than voip.
oh no, articles like this are so misleading, Google Chrome tops the list as the most security enhanced patched browser -- not the most vulnerable. This probably has everything to do with the bounty that Google has offered and the fact that Chrome is heavily being worked on. To say Google Chrome is the most vulnerable browser is a huge lie, name just one exploit that you can use on the browser right now. If I were Google I'd sue for slander!
How does Facebook validate government IDs without actually having them? Anyone with Photoshop can be anyone they want.
Each SSL cert should correspond to a unique IP

Not true. SSL doesn't even really know what an IP address is, and it's quite possible to use a single SSL certificate on multiple IP addresses if the CN resolves to all of them (in round robin DNS, for example). If you mean that one IP address can only support a single SSL host, that's never been entirely true, as it has always been possible to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP using different ports (example.com:4443, for example). But you probably don't want to specify the port, which is addressed now by Server Name Indication (SNI): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

if you don't have wildcard SSL, that means every single domain and sub-domain

Some CAs now sometimes include a X509v3 Subject Alternative Name for DNS, so you might get www.example.com tossed in for free when you buy a cert for example.com. Unfortunately, not all clients support this field.

Separating requests through host header / name-based virtual hosting is not supported on https.

Once again, SNI is likely to fix this as soon as it is ubiquitously supported by browsers (already support is pretty good). However, note that name-based virtual hosting is a web server feature that really has nothing to do with SSL/TLS. It's quite possible to use it for HTTPS without any problems for at least a single domain. In fact, I do it for all of my secure sites to ensure that content cannot be requested using the bare IP address or a different domain that resolves to the same IP. This should really be a best practice, but there's a lot of shrill advice against it that is extremely outdated and needs to just die.

In any case, most of the problems you mention are solvable now, even for small sites. The real problem is in saying that obsolete insecure web clients will not be supported on your site, and that's getting easier to do every day.