jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Years ago I remember there was an article of someone using brute force to generate every possible phrase of a certain length so that from that point on no one could ever claim ownership of one since they had all already been created.

Also I wonder what defines created. If I create a program that can generate every possible variation of x, do I get copyright when the program is run or do the results have to be saved. Or do I get copyright over the output of my program before it has even run since the result of the program is fixed we can know it would have resulted in the output even if it was never run. What if I just make a webserver with unlimited pages and given the correct url is entered it can output any result at all. That data was available on my website since it was created so do I have copyright over it?

If we allow the output of programs which were not extensions of the users input (photoshop, a text editor) than in theory my program that outputs random numbers now has copyright over every possible work that could ever be created.
In general people like to root for the underdog. Especially here on HN, people like to root for the person who defies all odds to achieve success, the guy no one would have expected to become successful. Why? Perhaps because when we see it, it makes us feel as though we can do anything we put our minds to. And we don't need to go massively in-debt to "the man" in order to do it.

That being said, I posted an essay to HN not long ago which received a lot of positive feedback from the general public. However, it received not so much as one up-vote here on HN and vanished into obscurity. It was entitled "Want to be an Entrepreneur? College May Help."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315158

Just remember, as great and intelligent as the HN community is, it is still a very specialized group of people. No matter how unbiased a given community is, you will never find very diverse points of view as long as you solicit only one source for information.
Very cool. Better bash skills is also target for gradual learning. And 30 minutes/week seems quite doable, something not too hard to commit to.

One way I learn things is to commit to giving a talk. I learned a whole lot of Haskell while preparing for my Hubris presentation at MountainWest RubyConf, certainly much more than if were to just move along in my free time.
> One of the maintainers has responded specifically to you here and you have ignored their outreach.

The maintainer has responded more recently than the GP's last comment. "ignore" feels like a stretch.
Yes, because they are convenient for other reasons (don't require infrastructure over land) which makes them suitable for connecting rural areas where it doesn't make sense to run fiber. But fiber will always be the fastest you can get, and if you get fiber in a vacuum, you could theoretically achieve near-speed of light communication. Satellites won't get you anywhere close to that, even if you use lasers, because there is always atmospheric disturbances that introduce latency.
There's a bit of a lag while they file paperwork to issue the new stock.
The Upper Peninsula is a beautiful place, but when did HN become its police blotter?
I don’t think you can directly compare disease to the stock market. The stock market is a level 2 chaos system: predictions about it are direct inputs into the system affecting outcomes. Disease is generally much closer to level 1: it is random but unaffected by predictions. COVID is possibly mildly affected by predictions in that people might make travel plans based on predictions but I don’t think the majority of people are acting in ways that seriously change their transmission risk based on predictions.
I'm going to be using an RPI as well and have been messing with systemd. I know people have opinions, but I don't and it was straightforward to configure a Python script to run as a service.
US high schools that is. There are definitely countries that require an exam score for a diploma and some fields where you have to pass a test to get your degree.
Perhaps he ascribes to the aphorism "if it ain't broke don't fix it". People keep buying it for better or worse, if he wants to break out and try alternate styles he's probably better to use a pseudonym. Sometimes you like to have an idea of what you're getting in to with a book, sometimes not.
In other news, I need to be in a quantum superposition with coding: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/guys_youre_not_he....
Or perhaps, to be creative, you simply have to be inspired.
X is a reference to the three X'es in the Amsterdam coat of arms. We decided we didn't want to have the three X'es otherwise it would look quite porn related.

Expats are very much welcome though, most conversation is done in English to keep it expat friendly.
Installed on Google Nexus 10. Tapping the "PLAY" button on the title screen results in the Unity splash screen flashing briefly, then the title screen reappearing.

I like the cloud that floats around on the title screen and the music isn't too bad, but the game doesn't actually play on my device.
I really enjoyed this related post from a few years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371253

"Poor people don’t have clutter because they’re too dumb to see the virtue of living simply; they have it to reduce risk. When rich people present the idea that they’ve learned to live lightly as a paradoxical insight, they have the idea of wealth backwards. You can only have that kind of lightness through wealth."

Edit (additional thought): the privilege is the ability to move about as unencumbered as one pleases, (re)acquiring anything they need at their discretion.
Chess orgs do have anti drug policies and test, although this mostly seems driven by nitwit ideas from the Olympics and Wada. If coffee works, it's likely amphetamines work too, although taking them during a game might be noticeable.

Students widely use them for exams.
I had a similar idea upon seeing the power of incredibly terse languages like k and q (both still used in a lot of investment banks). The core language would be boring and imperative, for plumbing, but you'd also be able to write and evaluate array language expressions as a first class construct.
Because 0°C is not 0°F
> But no, European countries can't realistically take too many measures, mostly under the threat of economic and political retaliation.

They can also threaten economic and political retaliation. That's international politics and negotiation and diplomacy in a nutshell. It's a dirty game but the rules have been known for centuries. Europe isn't some tiny South American nation, it's a global power whose GDP rivals the US. That it's failed to successfully do this is the fault of Europe and no one else.

Europe has failed to protect itself against US power and now you seem to be upset that the US wants to not fall into the same trap in terms of China?
I’ve skimmed the articles you’ve linked to. However, I have an honest question: how do I decide whether the linked sources are trustworthy? Ok, there’s a book by a guy who claims to have interviewed Chinese doctors and policemen. But why should I trust him?
> Many or most machine learning and data science developers would probably find that Python + Numpy, Panda, SciPy, SciKit, TensorFlow, is far faster to develop in and probably faster and safer to compute than anything they could write themselves in C or C++.

You are correct; they will find that they are completely unable to replicate papers from 2017 because almost all of the wall-clock time of their training pipeline will be spent running the Python interpreter.
Luckily this mostly concerns mostly non-EU-citizens ;) ( in the EU Version the list of allowed uses is a lot shorter from what I saw)
I think the Emacs doctor drilled down my insecurities down to a bad exam in school. (S)he ? claimed that his/her secretary will send me the bill, but I haven't been back so they must have forgotten.
What are you going to do with just the transmitted data? That's just a tiny part of operations, when the machine is working correctly. What if something breaks? Do you know what all the possible error states are? What does the machine have to do if it gets an eg. "machine on fire" alert? Does your software even recognize the data sent by the machine, if it hasn't been sent before and correctly recognized?

Sniffing a protocol to reverse engineer stuff, is like trying to learn a new language by listening to conversations of a ground-level monitor and a crane operator.
A country with a completely open emigration process which does not have too much corruption and reasonable internet access might be able to capitalize on this.
It’s not that crazy the more I think about it. If he has a spouse and 2 kids (so 4 people in this house), and each person eats 3 eggs for breakfast everyday for 30 days that’s 360 eggs
GNUSocial already exists
K12 education is a crime against humanity. I want this institution to violently die.
Honestly that’s why I clicked through.
> You are conflating different things here.

No I am not.

Race is a political grift. It has been a political grift since the beginning. It's a way for some individuals to exploit social divides for personal profit. It's a political gamesmanship.

It was a grift when "white" was first legally defined during the colonial era. It is a grift now.

The greater wedge they can drive between people the greater the potential for personal profit and political power. If you want to eliminate racism in the USA then the worst possible way you can do it is by trying to force some idiotic and unrealistic notion of "equity" on the american people in the name of racial injustice.
How would a CDN take advantage of the features of HTTP? Will they be able to use server-push? or will using HTTP2 just create more overhead because clients will connect, upgrade, request, get file, close. rinse-wash-repeat?
This seems like a lot of cherry-picked data that ignores many other possible explanations.

MOOCs may have a low completion rate, but if there's no cost to enter, and no penalty for leaving, then it's easy to attract a lot of people who might have only had a passing interest and decided the subject wasn't for them, or who got busy with other things and stopped paying attention to the course (I'm guilty of that). It's not really an accurate comparison to a class where people have thousands of dollars invested in getting a grade.

Also, the fact that one other country has college tuition prices that are approaching the US ($14,000 is still relatively low, even for many public schools if we're talking out of state tuition) is not a good argument that US schools are reasonably priced.
The ones you mentioned are 100x programmers, both in prowess and impact.

People need to stop obsessing over the term. It's awesome that great programmers exist. Stop being so insecure.
I wish they did the same with the xbox.
Don't ask me, ask the people complaining about US stores using GTLDs.
Not a lot of academic research that proves bigfoot exists either.
Unfortunately, the countermeasure for this sort of sniff already exists: the attacking referrer detects traffic from the victim's IP range and returns a sanitized copy of the content with the automatic loading logic removed. "Nothing to see here, officer."

It's a big programming task for a small processing task for a temporary payoff.
I do not stream myself. I do enjoy watching these types of streams. Mostly on stre.am, not meerkat or periscope, stre.am has a better community than those guys. I watch because of the interesting glimpses at people with interesting lives. I avoid the streams of someone at the bar having a drink with friends or the ones of someone grocery shopping, but instead really enjoy the more fascinating streams. for example recently i watched a guy stream his first time landing a plane. I found that quite fun to watch.
>Not a fun time to be a camera company.

It's not a fun time to be acting like an incumbent. Canon and Nikon are too stuck to their old systems to innovate. Sony, Olympus, Samsung, Fuji and Panasonic will eat their lunch, and if they don't watch out Sony will eat their high-end as well. The Alpha 99 is a serious contender already.
I was a little surprised when I caught that in my terminal as well. About to enter hour two of building...
I think for many Europeans it's easy to forget just how big USA and Canada are. I've been on vacation (we just call it holiday) where we've driven SF -> Yosemite -> Las Vegas -> Arizona -> LA, and on another trip DC -> Virginia -> Charleston -> Savannah -> DC, and both times I've forgotten just how long it takes to get anywhere. I suspect this is why so many people fly domestic?
I was going to comment on a different article from the same author, but decided this one was better:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/57.html
Itanium killed x86 compatibility, this had zero chance of success in commodity market, and medium to little in server space. You cant jump out with no user base product when your competitor (AMD) offers better and cheaper processors.

I am proposing removing _unused_ compatibility hacks. No one sane uses Virtual mode. I wonder how much silicon real estate is taken by all this garbage.
what about extensions without a popup UI?
Story about him (from the Guardian, via Reddit):

Hargreaves was a yeoman aboard the destroyer HMS Wallace on which Philip, son of Prince Andrew of Greece, had been appointed first lieutenant - second-in-command - at the age of 21. In July 1943, engaged in the Allied landings in Sicily, the ship came under repeated bombardment at dead of night and its crew realised that they would probably lose their lives.

It was then Philip conjured up a plan to throw overboard a wooden raft with smoke floats that would create the illusion of debris ablaze on the water. As he hoped, the German plane was fooled into attacking the raft while the Wallace sailed to safety under cover of darkness.

Hargreaves recalled the terrifying events of that night on the website: 'It was obvious that we were the target for tonight and they would not stop until we had suffered a fatal hit. It was for all the world like being blindfolded and trying to evade an enemy whose only problem was getting his aim right. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that a direct hit was inevitable.

'There was no question but to accept that on the next run or the one after that we had little chance of survival. I had been through so much that the feeling of anger and frustration was as great as the fear I and everyone else felt.

'It was less than five minutes after the aircraft had departed and - if the previous space in time was approximately the same - we had about 20 minutes to come up with something. We couldn't steam far in that time, not even far enough to make the aircraft think we had moved.'

He continued: 'The first lieutenant [Philip] went into hurried conversation with the captain, and the next thing a wooden raft was being put together on deck. Within five minutes they launched a raft over the side - at each end was fastened a smoke float. When it hit the water the smoke floats were activated and billowing clouds of smoke interspersed with small bursts of flame gave a convincing imitation of flaming debris in the water.

'The captain ordered full ahead and we steamed away from the raft for a good five minutes and then he ordered the engines stopped. The tell-tale wake subsided and we lay there quietly in the soft darkness and cursed the stars, or at least I did. Quite some time went by until we heard aircraft engines approaching.

'The sound of the aircraft grew louder until I thought it was directly overhead and I screwed up my shoulders in anticipation of the bombs. The next thing was the scream of the bombs, but at some distance. The ruse had worked and the aircraft was bombing the raft. I suppose he was under the impression that he had hit us in his last attack and was now finishing the job.

'We lay there waiting for him to leave, which he did, and, in view of the solitary attacks so well spaced apart, we were convinced he would not return. It had been marvellously quick thinking, conveyed to a willing team and put into action as if rehearsed.'
It's not a good idea to judge articles by their headlines. Typically, the headlines aren't written by the author.

The article itself says that breakfast became a more regular occurrence due to longer, fixed workdays. Some people ate breakfast before then, it just wasn't a set routine the way lunch and dinner were.
what does APT mean in this context? thank you!
False.

The method of loci (loci being Latin for "places") is a strategy of memory enhancement which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information.

Yates's work, cited, expands on this.

The method is useful for both specific itemised momorisation (rote) and more general (holistic, integrative, syncretic, synoptic, networked, dynamic) recall and understanding.
That is absolutely not what is happening here. Microsoft hasn't convinced anyone to switch from legacy edge to chromium edge. They end of lifed legacy edge and internet explorer. It cannot be a measure of preference. You cannot even use admin tools to revert or uninstall.
the circumstances are drastically different, so adequate capitalization is unlikely the reason for that. this was a induced recession from outside forces, not from internally correlated ones like 2008.
Did any of the people fired have to pay back their bonuses? Will they be unable to walk into new jobs?
> We are in this spot where there is really very, very little work that needs to happen to keep society rolling along

Half true. Knowledge workers yeah, but there's actually a shortage of skilled blue-collar workers.
I, too have been amazed at the crappy quality of available games for Android. It's why I quit my wonderful job at Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, and started working full time on Android games. You can see my work in progress on my RPG here in a couple of videos here http://tango11.com/?cat=6.

I'm not really sure why there aren't better games out there yet. Certainly one problem I've had with Android that I suspect would be better with iOS is the limited amount of memory that I have to work with on Android. Android doesn't give you all the available memory to work with, so it's an adventure to make a 2d game (bitmaps with a transparency layer get big fast). This might explain part of the delay on better games.

I think better games are coming, but I can't really explain why they're not already here.
I am suggesting that an "Avoid the worst" strategy may be superior to "pursue the best" strategy because the absolute value of "the worst" is far inferior to the margin between this (suboptimal) option that he has and an optimal option that we may only imagine.
I disagree. If you have no money to fix any of the problems while you're growing, you need the faq to explain the shortfalls of the product while you ramp up development after it's a proven product.
In terms of deep integration, anyone know if an Android app can access the phone's text messages? I don't think an iPhone can, right?
Coffee has a long history in the USA - So, blame the Tea drinkers

http://www.teagarden.com/library/tea_library_05.php (bottom story)
Apparently the doctor hasn't heard of the Streisand effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect).

Beyond the fact that the doctor's action is going to have the opposite effect of what he wants, there's a bigger issue. The rise of "reputation" sites like Yelp presents us with new challenges. Previously, it was a bit easier to manage one's reputation. A past bad act or customer complaint wouldn't be immortalized forever on the internet. Even our own postings get archived for anyone in the future to see (and people are starting to care about what they post on sites like Facebook).

On one hand, this is problematic if the statements are libelous (and I'm not saying that they are in this case, but libelous statements do happen). The Streisand effect means, to an extent, that we don't want to draw attention to libelous things said about us since it will bring more attention to them. Whether the claim is true or false, fighting it might bring us greater harm. And some statements are untrue.

On the other hand, this might change the way we view people. Right now, we tend to think that a (singular) bad mark is indicative of a pattern. The thought is that if someone was arrested once, they likely did many other bad acts that they weren't caught for. Likewise, a few embarrassing photos on Facebook are sometimes thought of as evidence that someone wouldn't be a good hire. However, if we find that more and more of our lives are documented, maybe people will stop thinking that a blemish or two on a person's record means that they're a bad person - it could just mean that they're human and interacting with the world.

Personally, I wonder if this fear of documentation might be holding us back. Someone doesn't want their failure documented and so they privately don't try for something. Has anyone else not launched something because of fear of criticism - criticism that would be immortalized online?
I'm 2:40 in and he invents the word "prescriptionize" instead of using the perfectly useful "prescribe". My gut is telling me this is likely to be a bullshit self-help lecture.
The best solution is to self-host your analytics platform, to avoid any data being stored by 3rd parties and it gives you the best chance to not use the next platform that will be blocked like Google Analytics.

If you want to try one, I am building https://userTrack.net, you can PM me on Twitter if you need a discount.
> But the pricing of securities in the market has always regressed to fundamentals in the long arc of history.

I don't doubt this but got any good references?
Yeah, maybe he didn't know. Or he didn't listen.

"Affluent upbringing" or in more plain terms "spoiled kid who always wants to do 'crazy' stuff because he knows dad will be there with the check-book/lawyer to bail him out". (Of course it's more complicated than that, but to the outside, that's what it looks like)

Well, you can't have your dad bail out a bear. You can't live off the land if you can't tell the difference between an orange and a grapefruit in a supermarket. (Edit: the 'theories of malnutrition' on his wiki page are a very good summary of theories, and a lot of things we take for granted in our day to day)

I don't see any point in glorifying people who died for doing something (obviously) stupid who had multiple chances to give up and absolutely zero sense of foresight.
I’m undecided on Bitcoin. Happy to be called ignorant, but only if you can explain why. There are many ways of transferring money across the internet. Why is Bitcoin special if that’s the reason for its value? Genuinely want to be won over.
I was meant to write a blog post like this since forever. Anyway, if you want really advanced stuff this[0] is definitely a way to go. As for ```gx``` since I'm using aerc as my email client, a trick I found very useful to open links using only the keyboard is to open an email then rq (reply with quote) search for the link and gx.

0: https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/vi/009-in...

Edit: add the bit about aerc
Well. This particular case was "Midvintermörker" by Lars Wilderäng. Clearly somebody is using Pirate Bay as marketing ploy. And it works.

Not the greatest literature and Swedish is only my 4th best language, but it was important to know what happens when Sweden is under Zombie Attack.
I thought it's the list of awesome CTO persons and I was going to promote one I know... Looks like it's not.

Upd.: and now it's renamed, of course.
FYI the single dose trials that lead to this were discussed here before as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055731
Suppose someone takes all the words from your comment above and reorder them. Whether this new prose has the same, another, or no meaning at all, combining your words to form something else is a creative act. Sometimes, creativity doesn't take much effort.