jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One jump ahead of the lawmen. Impressive.

I would think this is heading for trouble, though. The SEC and public policy in this area are oriented toward protecting non-accredited investors (let's call them "noobs") from the potential hazards of stock ownership (getting "pwned").

Now that being public (and even widely-held) is onerous, setting up a noob-free server (a private market) seems like a win. The company gets liquidity, the noobs have no chance of getting pwned, everyone should be happy.

But this particular innovation is a little concerning, because it's primarily going to appeal to noobs and the total amount of noobs at risk of pwnage can get much larger than intended. That's when the regulators are going to step in. So as clever as this seems, this is just begging for trouble.
Personally, I think this bit was the key:
The Serbs had spies outside the Italian airbase most of the bombers operated from. When the bombers took off, the information on what aircraft they, and how many, quickly made it to Zoltan and the other battery commanders.

My guess is, if you know how many airplanes are on their way and at what time, you can prepare. Knowing the ground speed, you can estimate when they're going to be above you and quickly light up your radar, take a pot shot, and then turn it off and scoot.
If you read the Businessweek article he quotes from, the investors are buying shares in an entity that does nothing but own shares of facebook. Shares that they presumably bought on a private secondary market like the one detailed in http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/08/a-secondary-mar.html It sounds rather like a bucket shop to me, and those were made illegal for some fairly good reasons.
Getting outside and looking far distances a couple of times a day (walking/cycling) gives my eyes enough exercise. Maintaining focus at one point for extended periods kills my eyes.
Facebook apparently has 1700+ employees, though: does that mean those who joined at the 500+ mark were either not granted options, or are not exercising them? That seems strange to me. Assuming I was given options in a fast-growing company, I'd want to buy them as and when they vested, to have some protection against dilution :)
Here is a sample index.py that renders index.html. I enhanced webapp with some utilities to make my life easier, I hate typing in excess.

import app

class main(app.request):
app.session.start()
data=app.models.getContacts()
app.render('index',data)

app.run('/',main)

And here the html in the template:

<html>
<body>
<h1>Contacts List</h1>
{% for item in data %}
<li>{{item.name}} - {{item.phone}}</li>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>

Some purists will burn me at the stake, but it works wonders for me.
I would recommend academic articles on cognition, psychology, or neuroscience. The reason is not to push a young person into a technical career, nor into the brain sciences, and nor is the reason to stimulate further reading in academic literature.

I would recommend it because I believe people in those fields write with a very interesting perspective, and also because they write about things which may be more broadly interesting to varied people, and with a narrative form that is more accessible than other fields, and they still write with less censorship than what a young person might be used to.

Such writing also affords a level of respect to the reader that a young person might not be used to. This is the important part. Young people are often exposed to worldly, societal, behavioral, moral, or philosophical matters through authors who yank around the story in any way they please, such as with "Fahrenheit 451", "Brave New World", or "Lord of the Flies".

In my opinion, these young people are being intellectually disrespected without knowing it. Always exposed to a kitsch view through a highly obscured lens with a penchant for melodrama. It's a world of non-seriousness where everything is just opinion, and what's important is to express how you think anything works. Some people grow into adult versions of this.

But when you read what adults think about the phenomena of bullying and predictors of victimhood, it's a little bit different. Or when you read about childhood predictors to different adult styles of drug use, you start viewing things a little different. Or when you read of how a team of adults performed brain surgery on a songbird to investigate human behavior, you start viewing things a little different. You also start seeing the severity of prediction.

Maybe it's a bit cold in doing nothing to shield the reader from the perspective of the writer, but almost never tactless. And it's very respectful to the reader. It might be the first time a young person isn't spoon-fed a highly obscured and Hollywood-ish discussion about the world.
Imagine the effect that would have on Australia.
It looks like what they did was change the url to only serve out the alert in plain text. Which is a lot less resources to use. I would also assume that they are willing to use those resources to fight back.
Monetizing.. not really. Many reasons:

- I don't really see a good way (not that I'm entrepreneurial in this aspect though), maybe except for providing some infrastructure etc

- dealing with others' data is a completely different kind of headache with legal and security responsibilities

- I don't really have a product or anything -- more of a vision which I want to communicate, a bunch of patterns, techniques and repositories. Maybe know some esoteric gotchas.

- It's a very niche thing to think about and 'want' in the first place (although I am trying to change it through my communication :) ). Most 'regular' people don't do backups, let alone this!

But it would be very cool if someone comes up with a business model to provide such service.
Are you guys watching this? eats popcorn I've been watching for like 3 hours and nobody won yet.
I suggest people have a baby as soon as they can -- early 20s. The later you do it, the more problems occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome#mediaviewer/File:...
This pictures explain it nicely. But really, there are a lot of other reasons, scientific literature has a lot to say about that. Don't do it your 30s, do it in your 20s.
Not yet. But I will when it's worth looking at. Thanks again.

An S3 bucket thanks you, too, for keeping it full & busy :)
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/WH4dd#1
What happens when you compare this barrier to that of another career?

Even after reading the article, I still think programming has the fewest artificial barriers of any other professional job. Of course, there is still a mountain of shit that poor people need to climb- but once Maurice can functionally write code, he can find a job that pays WAY more than other entry level work. College would further his career, but isn't a requirement.

Do you think someone could get a white collar finance job just because they were able to figure out some trading vernacular on McDonalds WiFi? Or what about a career in HR? No way. Those have all the same barriers as a tech job, while requiring more institutional accreditation and social proof.
I used to struggle with is this too. So I started with the basics. Stay alive; breathe; eat, drink, sleep; get laid (with someone else in the room); stay fit; get rich; be happy.

That was my first list, and I just added concrete goals to each as time went on. Eat now includes a constraint (never again will I eat what I don't like) with a goal (healthy, balanced). Sex was easy and I now have a son. That in turn changed other goals. I keep refining. When I don't know I don't push it. It will come.
The artistic style of that image looks just like Soviet propaganda.
Actually, many languages which started with hand written parsers do have ambiguous grammars, or have an unambiguous grammar so hideously unwieldy it is best ignored.

This sort of thing can be fixed up with predicates added to the grammar but it always feels like a bodge.
Read the article again. The issue isn't really about the price for wifi, it's that hotels are blocking the spectrum so you can't set up your own wifi or tether (which is not allowed by the FCC).
Then by the same token they should block cellphones and charge $10 a minute for calls.

Also how about bringing the water you purchased outside back to the room? Should be confiscated.
p.s. standard disclaimer: as always, congratulations on doing something / building something. That's worth something. But my honest reactions is that neither the concept nor the execution on this is set up for success (depending on what your definition of success is).
> what I see are floods of cheap talent, some with questionable skills, coming over to compete for my job

Let me be the devil's advocate and argue that even that is beneficial at the national policy level.

The alternative to cheap imported labor for a small company would be to hire a local guy, but for any medium to large company the alternative would be to hire a foreign consulting shop, and there are tons of companies working in the niche.

The "cheap" labor in programmer speak is usually around $50-70k salaries, adjusted for specific area, and I would rather have US capture the value of income taxes, sales taxes and other economic activity from that $50-70k than an outfit abroad.
If they shipped it to you, they had capacity to do so. I think right now their bottlenecks are 1) getting sold out products back into their warehouses, and 2) just dealing with the overall increase in ordering volume.
> are you in Switzerland

Yes. And as said: this is preparation. When the infection doubling rates do not go down (nicely displayed here: https://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2020/covid-19-ausbruch-i...) from about 2.7 to > 3 days, it will come.
This is especially true for smaller commonly purchased items as they get mixed in bins to make them faster to pick. Each bin could containn one DVD, one paperback etc. No practical way to sell those on.
RCE vulnerabilities, joins rooms without consent, tries very hard to persist beyond uninstalls. And their security attitude mirrors SCdF's: Your company forces you to use us, fuck you.
If the world can't get together for one global event then we are really fucked.

It would be pretty important if we could pull this off.

Part I suspect is the money in winning and how some countries won't be at 100% vs let's prove as humans we can achieve something as a global community in a crisis.

There can't be in person spectators and there will be isolations either side.

But we can do it.
For Japan PM Abe Olympic Games 2020 is the point of honor - he does not care if people will die. That's why Japan puts obstacles to coronavirus testing.

It is a long and convoluted story. 1964 Tokyo Olympics - organized by Abe's grandfather - then Japan PM (yes, Japan is democracy but political establishment is hereditary) - are seen as a start of Japan's economic miracle.

https://www.ft.com/content/d6142984-194b-11e3-83b9-00144feab...

https://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/09/05/the-1964-toky...
Audacious has been a loong-time GTK project (2005?) and at some point had a GTK3 port, which was then abandoned. The authors provide some explanation here: https://audacious-media-player.org/news/32-audacious-3-6-rel... & here https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1...
very interesting blog! is there any reading list on similar topics like Moral Mazes?
Actually, this is mentioned in the article, in the "HOW MUCH DO DIFFERENT ROCKETS EMIT?" section, and gets more into it in the linked raptor article[1]

> Although all rocket engines do run fuel rich for the right balance of heat management and performance, so there is likely going to be unburnt fuel expelled regardless of the cycle type, but much more when it is an open cycle engine.

1: https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
You have achieved wisdom! Everything in this "contingent world" is sandcastles.

What will endure?
I have had a car seized from me without even being arrested or charged with a crime. The complete lack of due process is the problem, not seizure from people who have actually been tried and found guilty of a suitable offense. I don't think most people would complain about assets being seized from bonfide drug lords or the guy down the street with fancy rims and gold chains.

I am not clear, but I suspect laws existed to confiscate ill gotten gains from convicted criminals before this forfeiture began in the 80s. RICO perhaps?

Regardless of inspiration or intention, this process is highly flawed and it's far past time to end seizures from people who have not even been charged with a crime.

The second major issue is distributing the money to individual police officers. This combined with the lack of due process creates far too much incentive and ability for crooked police officers to seize funds motivated by their own self interest.
risc with multiply and add instructions :)
I appreciate the juicy center of good humor inside your comment of rage. Maybe the following will help.

You're right, of course. It's just that there are competing values, so we have to make a tradeoff. One value is usability and having web content be less annoying, intrusive, abusive, and so on. No disagreement there. I think most HN readers share similar feelings about these things; certainly I do.

The other value is curiosity. Curiosity likes new things, different things [0], unexpected things—things it can learn from. It doesn't do so well with repetition [1], indignation, or genericness [2].

These two values conflict because complaints about the former tend to be repetitive, indignant, and generic.

How to decide the conflict? That question actually has a clear answer, because we're trying to optimize for just one thing here, namely intellectual curiosity [3]. So that value has to win.

This is one of those cases where it's super helpful to have just one thing you're optimizing for and to know exactly what it is. It's not that this is the 'right' decision, the 'correct' guideline, or anything like that—it's just correct relative to what we're trying to optimize for.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
There used to be a ton of Angular.js posts on HN (even as recently as a few months ago). Now the only ones I see are generally trashing it. So if HN is any sort of representation of the community in which you perceived a "fad", then it seems to be mostly dead.
Another game they made was Spiritual Warfare-- and surprisingly, it's a fantastic game. It plays just like a sequel to the original Legend of Zelda, and I dare say is superior to it in some regards.
Back when I did these sorts of doc tasks for a prototyping team, I used to create BUML* using Visio. It was kind of hard but nowhere near as hard as using Rational's offering. The dev team liked and used them. I like the looks of PlantUML. Thanks for posting about it.

* Bastardized Universal Markup Language.
That's a very different version of the American Dream than what I've always considered it to be. Even as portrayed in movies through rose tinted glasses it's always seemed to be the conjecture that even if you start with nothing, through a lot of hard work, thrift, frugality and determination you can work your way up through the ranks and eventually achieve a good living. They generally make a big deal out of the protagonist living a hard scrabble life while they're working towards their big break.

Seeing it as being guaranteed a home and family on an average workers pay is completely detached from that narrative.
"One EEG suggesting memories, out of one EEG which possibly could have suggested memories."

Memories of what, though? We have no idea.

Weak evidence that one guy maybe* remembered something before he died is virtually worthless.

The article's claim that "Science Confirms That Life Flashes Before the Eyes Upon Death"* is hyperbolic and completely unwarranted.
Or, perhaps, help offer better options everywhere so that the tide rises?
The video is not guaranteed to stay up. I download videos I may want to watch again in the future.
But something like Traditional Chinese Medicine is exactly something that needs to be measured. People may live or die depending on whether it does. Do some treatments from TCM work? Sure. But we only know this because they've undergone the same clinical testing Western treatments do. There's nothing magical about being "traditional". Many Western treatments have a basis in folk tradition as well. The issue is to figure out which traditions are valid and which are myths.
This isn't a direct answer, but I think it'll help understand their relationship/how similar they're likely to be.

All of the above are descendants of an OS that Berkeley released called "BSD". BSD only ran on PDP-11s, and then, VAX minicomputers, with a few proprietary ports to expensive workstations (SunOS, Sony NEWS, etc).

The code was a "distribution" of modifications on top of AT&T UNIX, so it couldn't be freely shared to people without a UNIX license. So the developers released part of their own code separately, the most important released called "Net/2".

Two alumni of Berkeley worked on expanding the free distribution to be 1) a full OS and 2) run on regular Intel 80386 PC clones. This was called "386BSD".

The last "official" BSD was 4.4BSD, which had the goal of wider software and hardware compatibility, adding support for a wide range of computers.

Disagreements with the developers of 386BSD led to a fork, eventually named "FreeBSD" (as in Free86BSD, I think). They continued the goal of a PC compatible BSD.

Another group took 386BSD and reintegrated 4.4BSD code back in, continuing the Berkeley goal of "wide hardware compatibility", which became NetBSD. "Internal disagreements" eventually led to one of the core developers leaving to make OpenBSD, which differed in that the development source repository was always publicly available (at the time NetBSD only released source for a full release, only team members could pull from the CVS repo).

All that to say, FreeBSD is sort of its own thing, with NetBSD and OpenBSD sharing much more. They've all diverged quite a bit, but have simultaneously shared a lot of code (especially things like device drivers).

So, broadly speaking, using any BSD will make you "familiar with BSD", but they really are quite distinct at this point.
It doesn’t help that plenty of claims on the V website was simply ridiculous, like transpiling C to V and making it memory safe (or some insane compile speed claim transpiling Doom, if I remember well?). Also, memory safe without a runtime and without a rust-like borrow-checker.. these are simply impossible lies. Not sure about its current state, hopefully these are all removed and the sane claims are in progress.
Forgive me for bringing up my own material here, but I wrote a piece that is highly relevant in this context only two days ago:

Writing for Engineers - https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/writing/

This text is particularly geared towards Software Engineers and focuses more on the psychology of getting started with writing. Lot's of overlap with the content in this post (which has much more depth on the "how to write well" part).
Can I ask a question? It seems surprising to me that we should compare transgender to lesbian, gay, and bisexual. Shouldn't we compare transgender to male, female, and other genders? It seems to me that being transgender is about an inward-facing personal identity, whereas lesbian, gay, and bisexual are about an outward-facing sexual preference. But these issues can be sensitive and sometimes not intuitive, so I'm never sure what to do except to try and learn the right thing.
Given sufficient technology, what exactly is the difference?
Do the math on what x% is in dollars based on your premoney evaluation. Give him the note for that amount and treat him as if he were a friends and family investor.
Thrilled about the innovation the new browser wars are bringing. Only great things for end users!
It's never clear to me why people answer thought experiments like this in this manner. The point of the question "would you kill someone for a trillion dollars" is to tease out an answer to an underlying philosophical question, such as, "is the act of killing as we know it a moral absolute wrong, or is it merely an act with great negative utility that can be compensated by sufficient positive utility?"

Yes, there are always creative ways to avoid really answering the question (such as doing a brain upload, as suggested), but these answers do nothing to answer the underlying question, which is what the thought experiment is really trying to get at.
The important word in my analogy was "invent." Given that the technology exists, lots of other things would happen—an emulation could be plugged into arbitrary "sensory" inputs, so a simulated universe could be created for it; that simulated universe would seem like an inviting prospect for those that do not wish to continue a life that mostly consists of sitting around on the Internet anyway, so more people (first-adopters) would upload as well, even if their "real" bodies continued separately; the large number of ems would provoke discussions of em rights, which would lead to internationally-funded medical programs to create two-way bridges between our reality and the simulations... and so on.

That's what I mean by "discontinuity": you can't give a cost-benefit analysis to something like a trillion dollars, because one trillion-dollar investment can completely alter the course of civilization with its knock-on effects.
I agree. Calling the command key apple is falling out of use though. Most people these days call it command or use the cloverleaf symbol, and it says command and has the cloverleaf symbol on it. People have started calling option alt and I'm not 100% sure why that's so, but they key says option and alt, so it shouldn't really be confusing (except that some people might think you hold Fn to make it alt instead of option, or something like that).
A 60 inch iPad I could see. But multitasking? Thats just crazy talk.
># Performance is better because data is accessed from memory instead of through a database to a disk.

># Scalability is linear because as more servers are added data is transparently load balanced across the servers so there is an automated in-memory sharding.

># Availability is higher because multiple copies of data are kept in memory and the entire system reroutes on failure.

># Application development is faster because there’s only one layer of software to deal with, the cache, and its API is simple. All the complexity is hidden from the programmer which means all a developer has to do is get >and put data.

All but the first thing apply to disk based databases too... At least the new ones like Cassandra, as well as the old ones with the right packages.
I've collected a few links related to JS cryptography, might be useful: http://disattention.com/13/javascript-cryptography/

There is another SRP implementation in JS+PHP: http://www.denksoft.com/wordpress/web-development/secure-aja...

We definitely need more SRP implementations, glad to see more people working on it.
This is very bad. Even my Motorola e1000 from 5 years ago had one touch video chat.

It seems that HTC can add hardware features faster than they can add the software, or they are taking the stance that the software should be third party, which has its own advantages and disadvantages, as pointed out by the article.

You would think that at the very least they would have worked with the two companies offering video chat to get stuff working easily.

Maybe this will all be sorted out in the next few months.
Dpreview is a great site. So - yes, I'm going to go check DDG out soon. Thanks, thaumaturgy.

PS: Whether or not DDG returns the specific Dpreview site for a specific camera model is still up in the air, I suppose. But I'll remember DDG as an alternative the next time Google results are getting in my way.