jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It was definitely that. The queries were built to take advantage of MySQL features.I joined after they just switched and was told to optimize queries. Was a pretty toxic job, I was hired work on streaming media systems (like Hulu, ESPN, etc) but instead they had me doing query optimizations. I quit after 5 months. I was never able talk to my boss once, he avoided me and was always too busy.
I wonder if the same performance benefits apply to Encoding PNGs.
yet another reason why I laugh at the 'ideas are worthless' mentality: blab about your idea and someone might register the best domain, even if they don't intend to implement
A globally routable v6 network isn't too hard to do at home with tunnelbroker.net and similar services. A Dlink DIR-825 has enough v6 support to hold up it's end of the tunnel and route a /64. Clients (Mac, Windows, Unix's) 'just work'. Tunnelbroker does the hard part.

To move a whole enterprise is hard.
Step 5 does more harm than good, IMHO. In most LAMP scenarios, you don't want your MySQL server to be facing the public.

The default, on the other hand, is pretty secure, and I recommend it (unless you have a really good reason to do otherwise).
Fantastic. Applying it to my site right now.

I'm a little humbled to realize I've stopped viewing source as much as I did five years ago.

I really should do it more often so I can see cool things like this, especially for sites with great SEO.

Love the random Wag's Revue shout-out. I happened to meet one of the editors at E3 and discovered it that way, but via Google would've been a lot easier. It deserves more notice.
Very few people want, need, or are even wishing for exactly one million dollars, and zero cents. '1 million dollars' is just a placeholder for 'enough money' that originated in a time long past.

It's a bias that's not hard to detect. If I examine my own thoughts, I find that 'millionaire' is almost synonymous with 'arbitrarily wealthy' while 'billionaire' and 'trillionaire' don't really hold meaning beyond the literal definition.
What is this, amateur psychology hour? Aside from reading a couple paragraphs on HN you know pretty much nothing about him/her or his/her life. As far as how conducive his or her philosophy is to generating wealth, do you have statistics on this? Do you even have anecdotal evidence? Are you a HNWI or just talking out your ass?
Better deal, maybe not. He could've and should've forced their hand by calling out those Republicans who were pulling for the rich and against the common man. The same must be said for the assholes who are voting down the 9/11 responders bill. Why should that fall on the shoulders of Jon Stewart? The young people want Obama to do this. His failure to do so has been the greatest disappointment to me.
Just the other day I was pleasantly surprised to notice my MacBook using IPv6 to stream a song over to my Apple TV (remote speakers). For grins I disabled v6 on the interface to see what would happen. The stream cut out briefly and then resumed over IPv4.
Agreed!!! But it helps if we have a tool which favors organization. Plus, having it in cloud is an added advantage.
I'll be working mostly on Quoddy ( https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy ), but may also work on Neddick (https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick ) a little. Both are part of something called ScrewPile: http://code.google.com/p/screwpile/

I'll also be spending some time with the Programming Scala book, and probably fiddling around with Twitter's FlockDB ( https://github.com/twitter/flockdb/ ) a little.
It is very useful for a beginner to start with python3, as python3 makes the difference between strings and byte sequences much clearer.

The majority of python code on my computer is now python 3.
Initial feedback:

* it would be great to be able to submit comment,

* I use "collapse thread" quite often so it would be beneficial to do it in one tap.

Overall good design and better than other, probably abandoned clients for WP8. Keep up the good work!
Wow. I am stunned! Never been too much of a tv show watcher, but your comment really makes me think if I have chosen wisely. I don't have much time to waste ("spend").
why is shit like this on the HN frontpage?
It was easy to see that coming once the media story took off the way it did. But this just generates more coverage of Tesla's results.

I doubt that anyone at Tesla is feeling the least bit chastised. Musk is certainly not the type of person who is afraid to generate a little controversy.
I would assume (read: hope) that both defense and prosecution would have access to the entire taped incident. And if the taping were lost that the benefit of doubt would go to the civilian, not the officer.
Some of the biggest innovations that Apple made, IMHO, were pricing related.

The push to mandate unlimited data with every iPhone (and make that data plan $20 with 200 SMS) was critical to the iPhone's success - for me, coming from the Palm platform, it was simply amazing, while one the road, to go to the App Store, download an app, and in seconds be using it. Wouldn't be possible for most if they had to have a conversation with AT&T for 30m to add a data plan prior to doing the above.

Also, the innovation with the iPad to allow you to sign up for the 3G anytime pre-paid was incredible.
That’s not a dilemma, that’s a solution to two problems.
Good question, particularly if interpreted in a very broad sense. The
FCC is the portion of the US Fed Gov that handles things like validating
the acceptable RF interference and frequency transmit/receive parameters
of products. If you reverse engineer something, and the resulting
reimplementation violates the FCC rules, then you'll have legal trouble.
Similar would be true for Europe with the CE regulatory/testing body.

For example, most wifi (802.11-) chipsets have "modes" for various
countries due to the fact that the "freely available" RF spectrum varies
from country to country. Though illegal (according to the FCC/CE/etc), it
is often possible to make wifi chipsets use chunks of frequency that are
not legally accessible (within some jurisdiction). This can be done via
software (drivers) or firmware (blobs), as well as through the use of
additional or modified hardware (amps, antennas, ...).

When you get into "licensed spectrum" that is supposedly "owned" by a
company like a mobile carrier, things get even more "legally risky"
since messing around in those bands can wreak a lot of havoc. I don't
know if the operation of the (mobile) baseband processors qualify as
"classified" but such info is definitely protected from disclosure by
both technical (hardware/software protections) and legal (contracts,
NDA, etc.) means. Of course, using a self-modified baseband processor is
definitely illegal since the device has not been tested and approved by
the required regulatory body (FCC or CE), but the laws do have some
limited exclusions/registrations for test/development purposes.

If you cause problems for a carrier that spent many billions to
own/license a chunk of spectrum, then you also open yourself up to civil
liability for damages, in addition to the legal problems you'll have
with the Fed Gov regulatory body. Needless to say, if you go mucking
around in the frequency bands dedicated by law for use by the military
or law enforcement, then you are going to have a whole lot of legal
problems.
I don't think the death penalty is a good idea, but I also don't think opposing the death penalty is a necessary consequence of opposing, for instance, health care reform, since they involve completely different types of government systems.

I also think it's pretty well understood that conservatives tend to trust policemen, prosecutors, and juries even though they tend to distrust federal regulators. Policemen and prosecutors are generally employed and even elected on local levels and perform a well-defined job that has to be done, and juries are (ideally, if not in practice) a random sample of the people, while federal regulators are, in the conservative view, trying to do a job that the market would do much more effectively--as well as appointed at the federal level, which is a lot farther from your local DA in terms of accountability to the public.
I've tried developing Ruby on Ubuntu using the ruby packages, and it's been a huge pain every time. They've also handled ruby1.9 in a maddening way--with separate 1.9 binaries for everything. And rubygems is very broken (though it's probably their position that ruby libraries should be installed through apt also). I accept that their decisions were made with an eye towards users and they may well be the right ones for them. For developers, though, it's awful.

Fortunately RVM gives the best of all worlds: it's consistent between distros and operating systems (I develop on OS X and deploy onto Ubuntu and Cent OS--everything works the same in both places). Switching between ruby versions is as simple as `rvm 1.9.2`. You can easily specify a ruby version to use for different scripts, ensuring that whatever is best for a particular program can be used. And most importantly, it just works.

RVM is in my mind the biggest improvement to ruby development in the last couple of years. I'm sorry if the Debian packagers feel its encroaching on their territory, but it serves our needs as they do not.
The problem is the distorting effect that wealth has on equal representation in a democracy.
At night, almost all streets are much much brighter than necessary, probably about an order of magnitude too bright.

I've heard complaints about the Tenderloin, but being too well lit I don't think has ever been one of them.
That would be pypy largely. From what I've seen it's got the biggest backing of the community and tends to be really fast computer to other interpreters.
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. Mark 16:14
I definitely don't object to the "Star Trek is inconsistent with the rules it sets out for its universe argument" but also... it is a massive series so after a certain point I don't care. You don't watch Star Trek for that.
No need to remove chargebacks. But there does need to be an electronic analogue to paying with cash, a utility provided by the federal government. Supposedly it is being worked on and called "FedNow".

https://frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/
I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith as “out of this world” did not appear until this comment.

This would be similar to calling Einstein a cow, then waiting an hour to say it’s because he’s outstanding in his field.
Will give a try once more ... Last time wasn't so great though.
The obvious one: war with another nation.

Along with threat deterrent.

I can't think of any good argument for why the US military should have no offensive capabilities in the digital realm. It'd be the equivalent of staying out of the skies when flight became possible.

In any war, the US is going to come under digital attack, and it should be fully capable of responding both defensively and offensively. Besides that, shutting down the power grid of a country you're at war with via digital means, sure beats doing it with hundreds of missiles.
Not explicit enough. Perl is the only language I've ever seen where

sub f { return 1, 2 }
my %x = (a => f(), b => f());

produces a three-element hash that has '2' as a key and 'b' as a value with no warnings. "Even offsets are keys" is far more error-prone than an actual syntax for hash literals, and splicing a list (not a hash!) into a hash doesn't need syntax this terse because it's hardly ever what I wanted. I think even PHP is more sane here.
A simple way to generate random numbers:

Let's assume we have N positions that we want to elect MPs for. Each ballot contains an ID and a secret number between 1 and N (both numbers are physically on the ballot, but you can only see it by scratching an area). Next you define a hash function that takes a vote and returns an integer. For each 1 to N, you simply take all the ballots with the secret number and sum the hash of the votes. You can then use that value you choose choose a ballot ID.

The good thing about this solution is that you can easily re-count the votes and you end up with the same answer. And, you can place all the information in public so other parties can verify it.

Hm... Any randomness problems in this solution?
Or shipped to a precise location in a container
You do realize that china is one of the countries that has the best gender equality cultures right.....
Don't forget the original Star Wars cabinet!

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/50arcadecabinets/star-war...
No offense taken and I see your point. My feeling generally is taxes should be easier, and not require a tool at all. So focusing on a niche could give this app an edge and ideally encourage more people to go out and live their lives and enjoy their money.
One of the worst things you can do as a designer is to move an element around while the user is trying to target it with the cursor.

(This is also why I'm not terribly fond of the default animation of the OSX Dock)
Let people know which are of the world or states you are in, and perhaps they can provide employment for the whole of your team.

It sounds like you are very hard working, so anyone will be happy having you in their team.

Do you have equity in the company, that keeps you there?
The distinction that memorizing 3 simple rules is not exactly a deep understanding of category theory.
"... But when it came time to order screws, that $800 almost brought the whole mess down. ..."

The best line from this factory tour at SME [0], a maker of high precision audio [1] is, 'we make our own screws'. [2]

[0] History of SME, http://www.sme.ltd.uk/content/History-1307.shtml
[1] http://www.sme.ltd.uk/content/History-1307.shtml
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xQkexHT-M
Ward's wiki launched in 1995 (or 1994, depending on how you count), actually:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb
The loss is a bit of convenient tooling but it can be replaced with some slightly less convenient tooling. It's not going to be an architectural limitation and you can treat it as a relatively simple per company/team/project tradeoff.

Especially when working with syntax heavy compiled languages like Rust, autoformat on save frees me up enough mental capacity for me that the costs are well worth it for the extra development speed. I just use Git Lens and some custom git aliases to get around the messy logs, whereas my last team handled the payment frontend for a large company so tracing the history of changes was taken way more seriously and reformatting someone else's code outside of organized refactorings, let alone autoformat, was disqualified from the start.
Seeing as even locking everyone in their houses doesn't slow down the virus in the slightest (see Italy, where the exponential growth is still full steam ahead, and will clearly only slow at this point once the virus runs out of new people to infect), honestly the UK's original plan is clearly the best one: just let everyone be exposed, it'll be over the fastest and there will be herd immunity to prevent new waves every few weeks for the rest of our lives.

Even if the worst-case estimates were true (which they basically can't be at this point), you're looking at 0.25-0.5% of the population dying.

Compare that with the effect that the permanent collapse of our free and prosperous societies, converting the world into Venezuela will have.

If we don't change course, the living will envy the dead
> for example, by letting me inadvertently slip into extremism

You are right to worry - I remember reading an article about (FB?) moderators on anti-vaxxer pages finding themselves inadvertently internalizing that worldview, despite previously consciously not believing in it. The human mind appears to absorb information after repeated exposure, despite any conscious efforts not too - I assume it's similar to how the placebo effect works even when the person "knows" it's a placebo.
> My mom constantly tells me she doesn't get my text messages from android to her 100% apple ecosystem.

That is weird and never happened to me. SMS works everywhere. Does she maybe have your number in a blocklist?
> Whatever they call it, this is censorship.

By definition it is not. Only governments can censor. This is just a private entity making a decision.

You have the right to say what you want, but I don't have to let you into my living room to say it.
Have you visited it? It's basically a pro-china circlejerk subreddit.
It's not conjecture (it's abductive reasoning) and it's not about left vs right. It's about the precedent being set.

Once that precedent is set, people who once felt they were "on the right side of history" will equally be silenced for whatever reason the mob wants and then wonder "what happened?" This has played out before in history. The only difference is now we have smartphones.

A quote I just saw that encapsulates this well:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” - C.S. Lewis
I was providing counter evidence to:

> I've also heard that the congressional paging system locks devices when an emergency is announced

If computers locked automatically when an emergency is announced, it doesn't matter if the staffers evacuated quickly.
This is a really cool, small utility!

TBH, I have been wondering if there is a "wishlist" of small utilities/apps people would want to see on the Linux desktop. I have been looking for project inspiration and would love to do something that actually gets used.
Scenario:

Eth is $400 on Coinbase, Bitcoin is $12000 on Coinbase

Print 1,000,000 Tether

Buy $1,000,000 of Eth on an exchange that supports Tether

Sell $1,000,000 of Eth on Coinbase

Buy $900,000 (arbitrary post-sale amount from selling Eth) of Bitcoin on Coinbase

Another scenario:

Bitcoin is $12000 on Coinbase

Bitcoin is $12000 on another exchange that supports Tether

Print 1,000,000 Tether

Buy $1,000,000 of Bitcoin on the exchange that supports Tether

Bitcoin is now $12050 on another exchange

Coinbase price of BTC rises as arbitrage bots and manual traders purchase cheaper Bitcoin on Coinbase and sell it for profit on the other exchange until prices equalize
Well, there was this one guy who singlehandedly revived the Hebrew language by teaching his children to speak it. It worked pretty well for him.
The protestors in front of the German Reichtags clearly wanted to get into the building, but were stopped by the reinforced glass doors and the three police officers, who acted very differently from what I saw until now from the Capitol Police [1].

In the end the three officers in front of the Reichtag were able to act this way, because they knew that reinforcements in the form of 100 riot police were only 200 meters away. Badly positioned to prevent the initial compromise of the perimeter, but still there to handle a protest like this.

[1] Video of the incident in Germany. I think the intent of the protestors to enter the building is visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdX5952CFTU
Thankfully his approach is not the only approach - just don't use WhatsApp! I never have despite the pleadings of my friends to use it.

If they can't be bothered to email or send an SMS to me or use Signal or video call via the multitude of alternative messaging services (Duo, FaceTime, Skype, Signal etc. etc.) I don't think they're that bothered about being my friend are they?

If their friendship hinges on me using a specific mobile app, that's a shallow friendship.
There is a lot to criticize about the Obama Administration. Including the illegal and immoral drone strikes.

But is Obama still President? No.

I’m criticizing Trump because we are talking about now.

My apologies - I did assume you were American.

If you are not a fan of the Trumpists then I retract the shame ;)
That represents a greater danger in vehicle-vehicle collisions, but I doubt it's anywhere near as a large an effect for vehicle-pedestrian collisions.

It's possible, though, that the larger vehicles represent a greater danger due to poorer visibility. I don't have enough experience driving a contemporary truck or SUV to know the driver's experience, but I do know that, when parked along the street, they present a serious visibility problem for pedestrians compared to coupes and sedans.
Started with certain chats and will end with probably full on profiling since it's the most profitable
The parent wrote: "John Doe (some public figure)"

Yes, most mainstream publications do strive for truthfulness (fortunately) but it's not really a requirement for 1st amendment protection and I'm sure we can think of fairly mainstream news outlets that don't let the truthfulness responsibility cramp their style too much.
Did you perform a system migration or a fresh install?

If you have an external SSD, you could potentially try a fresh install on it and see if the problem persists, then try to drill down to the offending driver/application.

I for one, have had no issues, but that's not to say they don't exist. Could be a process that is blocking or anything.
It's a part of the Cyanogen 6.1 ROM which enables me to listen to FM radio via the dormant-on-stock FM transceiver in my Nexus One. I specifically denoted that it was available via Cyanogen because it is the exception.
I must be really unlucky, mine has been the same for a few weeks.
This is not how sentiment analysis work (or should work). I worked on something similar (Naive Bayes based sentiment analyzer https://github.com/mohitranka/TwitterSentiment).
I also work for a company which is in the same space as groubalcsi.com (Brand/Product opinion mining)

Sentiment analysis is not a classification problem (like spam detection), but it is an identification problem, because sentiments are always associated with an entity (and attribute, if specified).

For example, a tweet saying, "Dell is not as good as apple" requires to identify entities (Dell and Apple) and associate sentiments to them (Negative and Positive, respectively). It is incorrect to try to associate sentiment (whatever it may be) to the tweet itself.
It includes exposure, yes, but the idea is to encourage the patient/client to decide to seek out triggering stimuli themselves.
NZ seems to have a high number of pirates per capita (N=2). Could be the excellent fibre internet.

Also, this is an example of why a criminal should spend ill-gotten funds. What was the point of all the effort to profit from piracy? The money is all gone now and he’s going to jail. He has actually incriminated himself more by having all the money sitting there.
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122828
I wouldn't mind half the police force being reassigned to fine the sort of people who let their dog shit and run.

My buddy had a small garden patch on the sidewalk in front of his house. It was the only patch of garden on the block, so it was basically chock full of dog feces within a day after he cleaned it from people walking their dogs. You'd get a whiff of it just walking to his house.

He eventually had the tiny patch of land paved over.