jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do, on occasions. I have, for example, helped a small local museum with their website for free. I've also helped a couple of volunteer groups with setting up computers. And, if in the future, a group I feel is worthy of help, but cannot afford to pay me, asks me to do something which I have the time and skills to handle I'll probably give then a hand.
Most prominently, almost everyone now has social anxiety disorder. It really does exist (i.e. it's symptomatically a lot worse than just "shyness" or "introversion") and it seems like more people are developing it with each generation. Perhaps evolution is finally adapting us to city life by making us more and more neurotic?
I hope so, or else I don't really know any adults.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/scribd.com doesn't really show that, but then alexa is always to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Problems common to most of us, I think, though I can't say I've ever framed them as a matter of adulthood so much as a matter of motivation. Having something to look forward to, something that feels like a net gain to one's subconscious cost/benefit analysis, is probably the most important factor when it comes to deciding whether or not to get out of bed in the morning.
Baby steps. To dig yourself out of a rut, you need to set yourself small achievable goals. Once you achieve those, your confidence grows and you can move on to the next goal. If you keep trying to change everything in your life at once, you will probably fail and fall into the cycle shown in the article/comic. Baby steps.

Also, go to the gym. My mind is so much clearer and I am so much calmer when I exercise.
> I'm going to mostly side-step the de facto response to this ("surveillance isn't about shame, it's about control, etc. etc."), because the more interesting thing here is that there's a good chance your point of view is going to become the predominant one in future generations.

It's not a generational thing, it's power dynamics. Keeping your secrets while learning the other guy's is to your advantage in everything from military operations to corporate trade secrets to loyalty cards used to engage in price discrimination.

There are new technologies that invade privacy but also new technologies that protect it. It's going to be a long fight.

What is going to become increasingly clear is that people who give up their privacy for nothing are suckers.
You say it yourself. The "order of magnitude" is different. It's still present everywhere and always will be. Even places like Iceland, one of the least corrupt societies in the word has corruption:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Iceland

Show me a single case of any society having never had corruption.
And moreover, the new push is towards protocols which seamlessly turn JSON into binary and back again. Which is a very good way to do things, it's just so rare that anyone ever bothers to maintain and standardize both sides of something.
I'm on the phone so I won't google, but this is a very old story and if you go to the guy's website, he has a writeup of exactly how he did it. (and yes, the LEDs are hacked, they contain another hidden component)
Is there an rss feed for this blog?
Yeah, it's kind of like:
There's a problem with too many people making blog posts with dubious metaphors for monads, so here's a blog post with another dubious metaphor for monads.

Quite liked the post, nevertheless..
There are lots of simple succinct examples of monads, for example Option types and Promises. The point is that monad is more like a design pattern than a 'thing'. This means that it's precisely true that it can cover multiple concepts, but that's a good thing, it's where it gets its value and power from. It provides common patterns of interaction that are applicable in a surprisingly wide range of situations.
very timely! the one positive that can come out of this mess is awareness of what we can improve and how bad the direction we are headed is. hopefully we'll take the hint before it's too late...
The syntax for ternary expressions in Python seems pretty hard to confuse:

x if condition else y
It doesn't matter if the likelihood that you're going to be blown up by a terrorist is extremely unlikely. It's that someone out there means you harm, and will strike when you do not expect it.

But that's a lie. No terrorist is ever going to kill me. Or you. Statistically speaking, that statement is as true as saying "you are not going to drown in a bathtub".

Look, I can die by accident in any of a billion ways. An accidental death is much much more likely than being killed by terrorists. So again, why should I care about people who are far far less dangerous to me than traffic accidents?

Al Qaeda's policy goals are the bankruptcy and disruption of western civilization....Al Qaeda and the Taliban are actually, by and large, succeeding at their goals.

I see a contradiction here. Also, I don't think you're correct in describing Al Queda's goals at all; do you have a source?

Also, I'm still unclear on what point you were trying to make about McVeigh....
Ages ago, as a contractor for a BFE, in the early days of the internet there, I wrote something like this for a very specific purpose. We were tasked with identifying "non business-appropriate activity". Make of that what you will. So I wrote a c++ program to pull the logs apart and generate a static web page with findings.

First, I looked for triple X anywhere in the URL. Then, from the workstations that referred to those, I found other interesting words in the URLs (a pivot of sorts there). By the end of the week, I could not read the word list over the phone without running foul of the indecency laws.

It was an effective effort, and ultimately they installed some blocking software whose site blocks were updated frequently.

Further, there seemed to be a lot of tools out there, but tilted to the analytical side of things with pretty graphs.

That work was property of where I was engaged, but there was nothing particularly difficult about that.

Were I to do this today, I would likely use Lisp and if the set was truly huge, consider getting the Franz triples software to help manage access.

This software would take into account time drift, either by synchronizing of a known event, or my manual input for each file or server.

I don't see the parsing differences as much of a problem. They should be relatively self-identifying.

The fun part, as you note, is that you don't know quite what you are looking for, so you need to be able to easily pivot on something that you don't know until you see it, and to be able to spot patterns over long periods of time.

But this was ages ago, so I would be astonished if this doesn't exist in some form already. Fun project.

As an aside, what was not funny was seeing what some of the URLs were--some were bad enough to turn your stomach. That is without looking at the site.

The funny part was noticing repeat visits, kind of nullifying what I imagined to be the "banana peel" defense.
Can you go into more detail about this? I'm struggling with the decision of whether to have a child with my significant other, and wouldn't mind hearing more about how it has affected your mental state, along with your professional life.

Thanks!
Or australia (with under 30 million people, quite small), as they have that whole drop bear problem to deal with.
How is that delicious-like tagging system different than trying to figure out what people will like based on what other people with similar tastes like? It seems that a recommendation system with sufficient input would easily be able to identify the 25% of people whom would find an article worth reading.
Of course! The particle accelerator.

But the morals? This would have to be the biggest weight on this matter.
Wordpress by far. You can get hosting for as low as $15/6 months that should do just fine for your initial efforts (I've gotten hosting from ASmallOrange at that price). Wordpress has the largest number of plugins and themes that can basically turn it into anything you need it to.
It supports it as a language construct, even though the GIL gets in the way of actual parallelism. As far as I'm aware, EMCAScript doesn't provide any concept of threading within the language itself. You can get it by spinning up multiple separate VMs in separate threads and passing messages back and forth (which is what web workers are), but that's a function of how the VM is presented in the context of a larger application, not a feature of the language itself. Jython and JRuby don't have GILs and are able to achieve full parallelism using the same language constructs that CPython and MRI use.
Lots of garbage companies already do this, particularly in SF, Palo Alto, and Portland
Really? Having grown up in TO and lived in both, I would not live in SF for less than $500k/yr and even then only to retire early and GTFO. SF is a decaying, dangerous, smelly, hobo-infested dump with terrible weather.
I have no fight in the game but I've been a Sprint customer for a long time and have never had any problems with service or speed. I've lived in 2 major cities and EBF fly over country and travel frequently.

For the month of December I used over 10GB of data and 8GB of that was Youtube, Netflix and streaming music.
I wonder if this explains the Republican candidates starting their campaigns so early?
I think the top answer is pretty spot-on.

Also, JavaScript has a much smaller API surface area. In addition to optimizing core code execution, a decent amount of work goes into optimizing the core libraries and built-in types: RegExps, string operations, collections, hashes, etc.

In JavaScript, that set of stuff is pretty small. In Ruby and Python, it's enormous.
Can confirm that the law changed from "owning equipment capable of viewing" to the actual act of viewing in 2003. You can fill in a form online to confirm that your TV is not used to watch lice broadcast. When I did that at a previous address with flatmates, they did send an inspector around a few months later to confirm. After a polite encounter to basically simply confirm that "we don't watch broadcasted signals" we were told that all was fine and that we wouldn't be bothered again.
Ironically, that power has its costs. The ability to be made fast is one of those costs.
I agree with you for household garbage. Should be just like any other city utility.

Not for commercial and industrial garbage, though. Which is what this is about?
That still doesn't mean you're the first.
150ms is an incredible number, and the volume of satellites required will also increase bandwidth. This seems like a good situation to be in all around. I hope he succeeds at this work.
Having offensive capabilities and actually utilizing such capabilities are two different things. You can acknowledge the need for the former alongside the dangers of the latter, just as you would with any standing military.
I'm also not a big fan fancy browser demos. People have this fair speciation that anything in a browser will run well on their 5 year old laptop. This is basically true. Except for when you get into 3d content. There's also an expectation that things load relatively quickly. Rich games with tens to hundreds of Meg's of content do not load quickly. Then they continue to not load quickly everytime you go back to that page. (If not everytime, then sometimes, which is even worse)

I do agree that there should be a fast and easy way to experience VR, uh, experiences without having to download native installers for every one. I'm not sure what way that will be. I am extremely unsold on the browser being the solution. But if it works out then that'd be pretty nice.
If I'm on the same machine - the links are gray so I just skip them.

Of course, coming home after work means I might just open same links I have opened at work.

Though, I'm not overcomplicating it all.
> made through repetitive use

now who's entrapping who?

you think its practical for every piece of software to be a massive time sink?

> software that literally wastes their limited time they have on this planet.

There's a saying "linux is only free if you don't value your time", now you're saying that software that takes MORE time commitment saves you time? C'mon, take off your engineering hat for a second.
this is fun, i agree with the suggestions to make it function more like a real terminal. tab completion is a must
That last point might still be the case. Forget to plug your car in overnight and suddenly you don't have enough mileage to get to work. Not everyone will have access at home to a fast charger so the option will be to slow charge over a 110V extension cord or go wait at a public charger that might be a little out of the way from your commute.

I'm definitely ready for an EV but my car sits in a parking lot at home (for at least a couple more years) rather than a driveway or garage and my work has no chargers. It seems kind a dumb decision right now to purchase an EV only to rely on availability public charging stations. I guess that's kind of what I do now with regards to filling up on gas, I don't own my own gas pump at home. But, I know where to reliably find fuel that I can pay for. Maybe gas stations can start to offer charging stations for a small fee. They would be competing with grocery stores that offer free charging but I'd imagine the free part will go away quickly once there is major demand for a public charger.
Isn't that what rich people do anyways? Foundations and corporate shells to hide their wealth?
But what is not considered reprehensible today may be considered reprehensible tomorrow.
In general commercial note-taking apps are not at all simple; they have similar features to those you named. Also consider that automatic syncing across devices (at least, if not also across platforms) is practically a sine qua non, which is complex it its own right.
Actually it's been done randomly. Usually it's Hollywood remaking some not-made-in-the-us movie because they think they can do better, and failing.
Does this apply only to corporations above a certain size? Otherwise, if I can provide my service as a self-employed consultant, then why would I be employed by another company and pay income tax x%, when I could just offer the same services under my own company and pay 0% on the same income?
Oh good, kurzweil is on board. We should be safe for another three centuries or so :-)
> 'The 1%' is not simply a matter of wealth; a person with $500K in the UK and in Nigeria are not really equivalent. The former is just a person who owns a normal home in the South East outright, the latter may well be in a position of power.

Isn't this just trying to correct for people using their wealth inefficiently?
The second defacement reminded me of a geocities page with music playing in the background.

Reference: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/lizard-squad-cl...
Clear evidence that I am getting old and being left behind: of the four technologies named in that title I only have heard of one and have never actually used it.
The fact that people use the word meritocracy in complete seriousness always jars with me, as the word was coined in satire as a warning.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Don't try to reason with Vim fanboys.
That's good to hear. And I can understand that sentiment.
> and you still need a CSS expert.

Like any decent project.
> It sounds like you are claiming that state surveillance is actually a subset of social pressure surrounding what's socially acceptable behavior. You claim the latter to be a bigger and more serious problem

He didn't say it was a bigger problem, he said the problem is bigger than just the government. In other words, it's all part of the same problem.

Governments are not Other. They are part of a society's self-regulatory machinery. Democratic governments in particular are a reflection of society at large. If a government is behaving badly, the root cause has something to do with the society.

That's how I read GP and I can't disagree.

> Socially acceptable behavior is always changing as generations come and go.

Legally acceptable behavior is also always changing as generations come and go. From a sociological perspective laws are simply the formalization of very strong social norms.
Same here, on my Android (Barcode Scanner).
If you're in a state that allows gay marriage and have a non-married co-founder with citizenship ...

I'd just keep talking with immigration layers, until someone gives me a way out.
Never thought I'd say this, but, "this TechCrunch article is a must read". Really good advice and useful context to really understand the advice.
Data constructors still seem vague to me, I don't follow how a gift card specifying another present is different than a ghost specifying another present. I understand that it is, but not how, even metaphorically. Or is it that the only difference is that one is required to be followed and one is not? And in that case, why not make everything optional, and prevent unexpected explosions?

The 3rd does read better, and that extra paragraph helps. I still think a different image / an example of or reason for the trace happening later would be good, as it still seems like X was opened and used (in getting the "2") but no trace output was generated. Kind of. Otherwise, why are they expecting X to be opened? If it's an item in a list that's unnecessary and therefore un-touched, that would make sense, but that doesn't seem to be the situation from the image. Or does it just take time for the trace output to be spat out?
I can't think of a better word, I just know that 80% of what most kids hear is "no" or some variation thereof, so most people have a very negative spin on a lot of language. This fact gets me in enormous trouble because it seems to incline many people towards an assumption of guilt. The things I say and do are usually rooted in very innocent motives, though I fail to conform and such. I think it's a complicated topic and the value of 'breaking the rules' comes in having a different understanding of "the rules", kind of like Einstein's Theory of Relativity technically makes Newton's theory of gravity obsolete -- yet we use the formula for gravity anyway for many things because if you stay on earth, there is no real advantage in doing the more complex calculations. Gravity is close enough. (Or so I gather. I'm not much of a physics person.)

I'm sure this one trait and trying to explain exactly what pg and YC are looking for in that regard could be a paper by itself, but no doubt all that complexity really didn't have a place in the piece he wrote at the time. Still, "naughty" strikes me as kind of a blunt instrument for explaining it. I have two "naughty" kids -- two ASD kids who just are baffled by why most folks do what they do and I spent their lives explaining it to them in terms that made sense. And I couldn't be imprecise in explaining it or it simply wasn't useful information to them. I think "naughty" is imprecise in this instance. It's a perfectly good word for those folks who get what pg means but for those who don't, it's a time-bomb waiting to go off. This may be just the first such explosion given how recent events have ramped up the number of applicants.

But that's just my opinion.

Peace.
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I used to ride Muni out of downtown SF every evening. The train would get really crowded and I'd have no place to sit. The hack was to ride Muni against rush hour traffic for a stop or two, cross the platform and jump on the next train which always had room to sit.
I agree with you. It seems more likely that without these machines, I'd have to wait a small amount of time longer (probably on the order of minutes, though I clearly can't test this empirically) to execute a trade. Also, welcome back.
I think it is usually understood that when people say html5, they are discussing the set of technologies that you mentioned, at least among developers. Unless another buzzword arises, the term html5 is going to stick. When the nyt or wsj write an html5 article, for example, do they really need to explain the details to their readers?
Not to say that physical work is always great, in fact many times it isn't, but i find the devaluation of it a little troubling, I did physical work on and off several years, there is immense value and satisfaction in building and creating with your hands.
Do we really have to report on every freaking small change that happens on the google.com homepage?
You can choose to select black as your race.

How, precisely, is this true? Aside from giving yourself cancer via tanning-bed-overdose? The first person to see you would notice you lied on your form. Not typically good for getting hired.
I'm surprised noone's pointed out the obvious - the US have obligations under stategic nuclear arms reduction treaties such as START I that compel the US to chop up B-52s, put the parts in the desert, and leave them there long enough to allow the Russians time to use satellite imagery to confirm they've been chopped up.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/START_I

"365 B-52Gs were flown to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The bombers were stripped of all usable parts, then chopped into five pieces by a 13,000-pound steel blade dropped from a crane. The guillotine sliced four times on each plane, severing the wings and leaving the fuselage in three pieces. The ruined B-52s remained in place for three months so that Russian satellites could confirm that the bombers had been destroyed, after which they were sold for scrap."
This effort was spawned from an HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428485
It's far worse than irony. Google and FB hire AI ethics researchers as a way of laundering their reputation. IMO selling AI Ethics street cred to an ad tech company is a lot more problematic than any particular NeurIPS paper.
So conservatives are extremists?
That is on the Signal segment, not on the Telegram segment.
Fake it is.

Now I want you to imagine why the WPK thinks that a cityscape at dusk with lit windows might be good propaganda?

Why something that seems boringly mundane to us, is something to brag about for the regime? Something that may uplift the OS's users ie. it makes them subconciously dream of something exotic like we do when our screensavers show us the great barrier reef. Can you spot the "exotic"-part?
> It also uses less than all idle devices plugged in, in the US

I'd bet that _all_ idle "devices" in in the US are providing far more utility by being ready and available to do ... anything (you did say all), than bitcoin which is _only_ a vehicle for speculating on intrinsic value being used by a tiny minority.

Sorry but I'm fed up of these stupid comparisons, if bitcoin uses 0.56% of the worlds electricity, there are a maximum of 178 ways to divide up the rest... it's simply not on that scale of usefulness, _and_ it is not comparable to fucking visa because it doesn't serve the worlds transactions, no one buys coffee with bitcoin. It's also not comparable to the USD for the same reason. Everything you compare it to will be of more material value to the world and almost always consume less energy, even if it's icecream. </rant>
OP here. I hope that's not the takeaway readers glean from my article - the point I was making was just that it doesn't make sense to shoehorn a biophysical learning mechanism into a DNN, rather we should use a DNN to find a biophysical learning mechanism.

As to whether biophysical learning has anything to teach us is an entirely different question which I don't discuss in the post.
Also, the act of filling out a form may cause them to give undue weight to the product since there has been an “investment” made after submitting. So that is another way the pattern tricks you.
Like 20% of the features only for certain cars. Pretty bold claim ;P
equity only?