jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd be fine with a video-less MOOC. Just give me a textbook and tell me the chapters to study and what assignments to work on, and I'll be fine. It's difficult to do this on your own because you never know what to focus on without guidance. You're likely to waste valuable time down some unimportant or meaningless rabbit hole! Of course, I'd hope the MOOC would offer a support mechanism in case I needed help.
Congrats! I feel like too much of what I read on here is about despair and how TPP is going to eat us and Ted Cruz is going to steal our lunch money. Good for you for taking a positive step.
Whatever these morons have done to the links on their web sites has broken command-click to open a link in a new tab. They need to buy some better web development slaves.
The case is between two private parties. The government is interfering in the case on their own behalf, not as plaintiff or defendant.
Explanation of how this is achieved: https://vimeo.com/57960146
In theory one can reimplement Node on Go runtime, instead of libuv and other libraries Node uses for binding the V8 to the OS.
I'd rather everyone speak two languages: their local/cultural tongue and an invented language that the world shares and could contribute to, such as Lojban or Esperanto.
The idea that the only way to protect unwitting people from falling into some undesirable line of thinking is to limit what they see to the desirable line of thinking seems doomed to fail. Either discourse works and you expect people can be made to come to their own sensible conclusions or discourse doesn't work and every change from the norm must be subversive. I.e. tucking it away doesn't guarantee it ends up less visible to people it just guarantees it will be less visible to the system tucking it away. People are still going to share ideas that don't agree with the majority opinion but now those hearing have zero tools or experience for dealing with such claims.
Given the heavy left leaning media bias

Note that Fox News remains the most-watched cable news network - though online, it ranks after CNN and NYT (and possibly others, depending on the metric).
You're looking at the Wisconsin one, not the Michigan one.
I realized that too but failed editing the question substituting AGI for AI.
Here's a story for you.

I'm not a party to any of this. I've done nothing wrong, I've never been suspected of doing anything wrong, and I don't know anyone who has done anything wrong. I don't even mean that in the sense of "I pissed off the wrong people but technically haven't been charged." I mean that I am a vanilla, average, 9-5 working man of no interest to anybody. My geographical location is an accident of my birth. Even still, I wasn't accidentally born in a high-conflict area, and my government is not at war. I'm a sysadmin at a legitimate ISP and my job is to keep the internet up and running smoothly.

This agency has stalked me in my personal life, undermined my ability to trust my friends attempting to connect with me on LinkedIn, and infected my family's computer. They did this because they wanted to bypass legal channels and spy on a customer who pays for services from my employer. Wait, no, they wanted the ability to potentially spy on future customers. Actually, that is still not accurate - they wanted to spy on everybody in case there was a potentially bad person interacting with a customer.

After seeing their complete disregard for anybody else, their immense resources, and their extremely sophisticated exploits and backdoors - knowing they will stop at nothing, and knowing that I was personally targeted - I'll be damned if I can ever trust any electronic device I own ever again.

You all rationalize this by telling me that it "isn't surprising", and that I don't live in the [USA,UK] and therefore I have no rights.

I just have one question.

Are you people even human?

[1]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/14/nsa-stellar/

[2]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-...
>If we look at bitcoin for what it is (the technology and theory behind it), it hasn't lost any real value.

The question should be: Does it have any value in the first place? It is essentially a really cool monopoly money system. Bitcoin is taking pokemon cards.

A bitcoin is essentially a fancy cell on a very secure distributed excel file. Great, but that doesn't mean it will be currency.

>underlying value do not rely on public opinion

Oh very much so. A bitcoin's value is 100% based on what the public values it at.
Is there a legal conflict here - do writers of letters not have any protections under the law to prevent the letter being made public, or passed on to third parties. Do you lose all legal rights and controls over letters once you mail them?

The teachers maker recommendations clearly had an assumption of privacy in their communication?

If the Uni chose to precis the letter - eg provide a score in its place - would the right to view its content disappear. Is it just by virtue of it being attached directly to your internal academic record that one gets the ability to view it?

Interesting.
I'm very well aware of the revolving door between regulatory agencies and the industries they're tasked with regulating.

That said, you do realize that the Tom Wheeler whose appointment is your go-to example of regulatory capture is the guy who appears to want to classify ISPs under Title II, don't you? That is, a former lobbyist for the telecoms is proposing a regulation that's counter to their interests, so they're buying a law to bar him, and the regulatory agency he works for, from doing that. Which is the corrupt side, again?

Also, hold them accountable how? With an incumbency rate > 90%, and congresscritters being all but necessarily for sale in order to finance their campaigns, how exactly does the farce of democracy and republicanism (note: small-r) that we have in the US punish the bad actors?
I just finished reading The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll this morning (And I highly recommend it!). In the Epilogue, Stoll writes about the Morris worm and briefly mentions:

(Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the brilliant project")

When I read that, I wondered if that was THE Paul Graham.
I'd say it's safe to assume all 1.7 million documents, including the secrets his bot scraped that Snowden didn't want released are in the hands of the Chinese MSS already. I find it hard to believe they didn't set up shop beside his room in that HK hotel to use state intel agency methods to grab his keys, nor do I believe that his hasty destruction of his standard laptop wear-levelling flash drives in the airport before departure to Moscow actually destroyed all the data.

I bet there's a room stacked to the ceiling in printed US secret military documents in Beijing that they trade to Russia for cheap oil+gas imports. I realize Snowden never wanted that to happen but there's a reason why state's have strict methods to store and transport top secret data and they don't include using questionable XTS container software and staying in a HK hotel with the entire secret US archive stored on a commercial device.
"100k transactions per day"

There lies your miscalculation. You use the underutilization of the network (~1.1tps currently) to calculate a transaction cost and you claimed this cost cannot decrease (you said "processing more transaction will or should not lower these costs"). But as it is, the network is in fact capable of processing 7tps, therefore the true minimum electricity cost of a transaction is ~7x lower than what you claimed.

"1 GHash/J"*

This is a second but smaller error. Miners currently average closer to 1.5 Ghash/J, so that is another 1.5x decrease in your calculated transaction cost.

These 2 errors (7 * 1.5 = 10.5) explain why your calculation was 10x off.

Regarding micro payments, opinions are split but personally I do not think Bitcoin is well suited to them, or even needs to be suited to them to be a successful transaction processing system. So a $0.60 or $0.06 electricity cost per transaction is good enough right now, keeping in mind cost will go down as the block size limit is increased and as chips become more efficient in terms of Ghash/J.
Actual URL with Libya dependency removed: https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

HN doesn't have a 140 character limit, so there's no need to post an obfuscated shortened link.
When we set up our agency, here's what worked:

* Work for cheap/free if you have to. You want to do this quickly, if you do a site for free the client will be more willing to go ahead straight away as it requires little decision making. We did a website for a primary school and a couple of photographers we knew to start off with. Charities might be good to approach for this.

* Fake sites sound like a good idea but why bother when you could actually help other businesses/charities and get 'real-world' experience of dealing with clients.

* You need to have low prices to start with. Small businesses are willing to give other small businesses a shot, but won't have as much budget as bigger companies. Over time you can decide where you want to take the business and start charging more as you build a reputation. Your aim at this point is to build a portfolio, so you can charge more later on. Our day rate has more than doubled since we started out.

* Classified ads on Gumtree or equivalent in your area. We met two of our biggest clients through classified ads (just be honest, link to your site and try and get across your ethos).

* Examine personal network, previous employers etc... they already trust you and may have work that can keep you going.

* Get involved with a co-working space, this is a great way to meet prospective clients and other small businesses.

* No one else ever seems to recommend this, but cold calling worked for us, though I admit it was painful. We got one of our biggest hedge fund clients via a cold call. We don't really use this any more as our business comes from word of mouth, but it's something you can do if there's a specific type of client you want and you know how to pitch them.

Remember this is one of the hardest bits, once you gain some momentum and build a portfolio it will get easier.
Maybe not? "Signal is an independent nonprofit. We're not tied to any major tech companies, and we can never be acquired by one either."
There are IP available for FPGA and whole toolchains. This is great if you need some specialised processing too slow to be implemented in software, you can add your own cpu instructions or map custom data pipelines to the CPU i/o space. The IP are not too performant, so there are trade offs to consider.
I think they’re referring to the encryption. Group chats can’t be encrypted end-to-end, direct messages aren’t by default, and the direct messages that are encrypted (”secret chats”) aren’t available on the desktop client.
I'll add a vote for Simple Keyboard. It's lightweight, fast, and does exactly what it says on the package.
'pay once, chat forever'

I don't see how thats tenable with anything that requires a hosted server to relay information.

Someone will need to pay for it going forward and if the users money runs out, what then?
Ah; i had seen the TED talk earlier though i had not looked at the code example in detail.

Thanks for the links.
There are no ways to separate political from non political discourse. You can only remove social media from the political sphere by removing social media, period.

You could, however, try to develop a legal and moral framework for acceptable social media behavior (meaning the way the network itself works, not users' behavior). The particularities that make extreme content rise to the top should be banned/discouraged, rather than embraced in the race for engagement.
Leadership puts an architect in place because they don't have the time to care about code level details. I would personally mention it to leadership but frame it in a way that your work is being rejected but nobody is explaining to you why so that you can learn and do better next time.

Unfortunately in a large software engineering organization tact and political savvy is more important than raw engineering skill. Once you've been in the industry long enough, you'll understand it.

One of the problems that's common in organizations is that most of the work at the junior level is highly focused on individual contribution and that completely flips at some point in your career.
I sa an interview with Nicole Wallace today, the Nicole Wallace from MSNBC that used to be on W. Bush's WH team. Never thought I would agree someone from the W. admin, but she was right in saying, that she hersefl and the media at large were way to soft on trump, already before the election. I gues the same can be said about social media.

i do get the diffficult choice Twitter faced, Trump was / is the president. So everything he says is part of the official record. So I guess banning his personal account would ba quite difficult. Twitter, Facebook, YoutTube and so on could have added disclaimers already much earlier, so.
In any event, the gun doesn't matter that much

The gun matters very, very much if the F35 is to take on the A10's role.
Fair point, the sound levels are similar to a street legal car.

But the important point is they are NOT silent. There's still a rush to hearing them zip by while in the stands.
A bunch of smart Silicon Valley hackers cannot fix what is wrong with government IT. Government IT problems stem from the fact that government IT contracts are worth Billions, and they are doled out through privileged networks of insiders.

There are plenty of smart companies in America that can fix America's IT problems if they are paid to do so. There is no political will to do so. That is why companies you never heard of come up again and again as subcontractors for things like Healthcare.gov

Believe it or not, there are some very smart people working in government. They actually don't need us in Silicon Valley to tell them how to do stuff. They know what they could do with the latest technology. They are not allowed to do so because of bureaucracy.
You mean, like the ACM code of ethics? http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics
For those of you who answered yes - could you elaborate more? And also shed some light to new founders on what to look out for, questions to ask, red flags to look out for, and advice in general when choosing investors?
Even though some of the people operating the government are criminals, the function of government is necessary (as it is for all large human organizations).

"Open, transparent, and efficient" may be a lofty goal, but it's still important for civilians to get involved in moving the government toward that goal.

Nothing is black and white. You seem to be unwilling or unable to see the gray in your chosen area of extremism.
Lodash looks similar to underscore js[0]

[0] - http://underscorejs.org/
Word of warning for anyone experimenting. Magic mushrooms of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata type are fairly mild especially if you only take a few. LSD on the other hand tends to be pretty full on. Sometimes people sell regular mushrooms with LSD on rather than the proper type. Best to ask a drugy mate who's tried the stuff so you know what you're getting.
My thoughts exactly.

"Oh cool, maybe some digital natives are going to beable to bring development practices in government into the 2010's. That would be a cool thing to be a part of! ...Wordpress?"

/closetab
Hm. I had to stop and think at the part: "When the shoes went on sale an hour later, Hebert’s team swarmed the Yeezy Supply website ... each prepped with Hebert’s credit card information and capable of gaming a system meant to limit purchases to one pair per customer.

Are the sellers not able to limit based on CC number? Perhaps not. I know most websites don't actually have any visibility into the payment info that is usually handled by a third party payment processor integration.

Seriously tho, something must be possible. A payment processor feature that has allotment restrictions based on client+card or delivery address must be possible. Payment processors should be jumping at the opportunity to charge extra for that type of protection for clients that are selling limited high-demand products.

Obv using more cards is a workaround, but it doesn't sound like the hoarder even had to go that far.
I feel this in my bones. Some part of this is not new - from the tulip mania to beanie babies - but there definitely feels like more abstraction creeps in every year.

I like concrete things. Rugged tools, reliable cars, but these are boring. You can't build a bubble on boring, moored ideas, you need hype.
No gallows letters in this text, everything is a lot swoopier, I don't think they're related. Really wish Derek Vogt hadn't pulled his videos on Voynich and how to identify obscure writing systems.
Look up the PMS7003, I think I got it for $40 bucks on aliexpress and it's used in many air filters to monitor PM2.5 and PM10 etc sized particles. Easily run by a raspi and i output to a regular segmented display for my particle counts averaged every 5 minutes to see the california fires and how quickly my air filter could clear the room. For reference the winix 545 ($110 from costco iirc) on full blast got me down to about 0 particles in 15 minutes.

edit: oh and regarding fan noise, the PMS7003 has a tiny centrifugal fan in it but I can barely hear it with my ear on top of it. The winix air filter on full blast though... crazy loud compared to the other low/med/high settings it's kind of hilarious how big of a jump it is in fan speed
My diff tool, diff.so, is a web app, but it doesn’t send the text to the server (unless you publish). I wish there were a technical mechanism that could guarantee and enforce that, and certify it to users.
oh my lord, what is this thinking.

People have enough shit to be worried about than to worry about their power ticker going up and down. This is not something we should add as a burden to our citizens.

Next I'm going to hear people wanting to short electricity.
I'm not because without extensions that now you think they should be standard browser features actually existing you may not even have imagined about those features in the first place.

Or to put it in another way: browser developers cannot imagine every possible use case that may come out of browsers nor are always the best judges of what is important and what not. It is just a matter of limited human imagination. The combined imagination of all potential extension authors is much greater than the combined imagination of whoever makes decisions about the features in a single browser - and extension authors do not have to convince anyone about adding those features in the browser, they can just throw them at the wall (users) and see what sticks.

For a similar see X11 vs Wayland and how the latter has to make application-specific extensions for functionality provided by programs written using functionality the former provided since practically forever.
I think it's more consumer friendly when the product number is comparable to competitors, especially when many buyers don't have much familiarity with the products. A parent choosing between an Xbox 360 and PS3 before Christmas is likely better off.

Similarly, Samsung jumped from S10 to S20 for the 2020 model year, which makes great sense to consumers despite being nonsequential.
Since I think this is a study in compatibility and not meant to be paradigm changing new programming concept I think the author is having fun with all of it rather than being overly serious and not concerned about being bookish
Regulation around Do-Not-Track failed, as it often does when captured by industry. The Do Not Call list started in 2003, but it seems it's starting to be taken a lot more seriously lately. Everyone should keep using Do-Not-Track and somehow logging/reporting/publishing violations of it (although I don't even know to whom -- maybe the best we can do is a version of plaintextoffenders for now). It can eventually end up as ammunition for a future bill to actually start regulating this effectively. Calling it a failure and abandoning it is not going to help.
I tend to think of myself as rational, but the degree of introspection suggested by this checklist seems bizarre to me.
Workers can't dictate working conditions in general until unemployment is close to or effectively 0.

As long as there are unemployed, there people to hire at bottom dollar.
Well, that's subjective. When I was in Canada, the local water supply contained a lot of minerals. Some of the locals disliked the taste for that reason, but I positively enjoyed it. Certainly not in the same category as microbial contamination.
At the uni level, aren't they more supposed to help you find the appropriate database rather than find the answer for you?

I might ask a librarian how to access back copies of a journal, but I wouldn't expect him or her to do my lit review for me...
It's pretty common to have unpaid overtime (including crunch periods) in Sweden as well. Actually, I've not heard anyone having overtime pay while working in IT. The lack of overtime pay is usually "compensated" through an additional week of vacation or similar.
Your point seems to contradict itself.

>Even if it was possible to implement QoS to broadband

It most certainly is possible.

>Why should someone in a busy area be capped when they reach the limit

What limit? I'm arguing that there shouldn't be a limit. You just provide a guaranteed minimum bandwidth. When the line is under-utilized the connected clients can use as much as they can. When utilization goes up traffic is shaped down as far as needed to handle it.

With data caps then people in your less busy areas will find themselves completely offline toward the end of the month while the line sits idle. Why?
There is currently an attempt to pass a bill limiting the fees banks can take from merchants when someone buys using a debit card. The supporters of this bill tend to myopically ignore points like this (among other things).

Edit: Recent story on this: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870425660457529...
Is this guy seriously wondering if GUILDS are better than IP Law?

/me facepalms
Good point.

However, if done right, it's feasible that users could end up having $50 or thereabouts perpetually in the swear jar...which (at least for me) would be a big disincentive.

If the penalty is immediate, obvious and doesn't explicitly remind you that you will get your money back, then I contend the brain's instinct is to cringe.

Maybe you get the money back in 3 months rather than 1 month: you see a browser plugin displaying how much you've already spent on HN and you think "ouch...I'm not getting that back for a while".
safety tip for storage is a pressure relief valve on the tank and beware of suffocation risks during/if a LN2 spill, gas volume of N2 may displace enough air for asphyxiation to occur - good labs have O2 sensors in their LN2 storage areas. never transport a thermos of LN2 in your car or a lift etc
From the help for the Vista version of the Snipping Tool:

Can I capture a snip of a menu, such as a shortcut menu or the Start menu?

Yes. Here's how to do it:
Click to open Snipping Tool.
On the Snipping Tool toolbar, click the Minimize button, and then open the menu that you want to capture.
Press CTRL+PRINT SCREEN.
Select the type of snip you want, and then capture the menu.
Or if you like the stand-up form factor why not add a third caster wheel and ditch the gyros, computers, etc.
Hi,

I am trying to se what AJAX calls are being made but cant see noen. Whats the secret to this!
I can understand where you're coming from, but that's also failing to realize that there are technical workarounds to the problems you've presented. Regulatory measures will be key in making these transitions smooth (and AFAIK, lawmakers have been proactively involved).

Things like standardized signs for cars to process and construction workers to hold would already solve 3/4 of the problems you've already mentioned.