jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Of all the things to pick, you picked accountability and the reduction of the MIC as points of criticism?! I wonder what you think about Obama's Secretary of Defense, who is one of the most fiscally conservative SoDs in recent history, pushing for reductions in spending across the board [1]. Hell, he nuked F-22 production which is like THE symbol of the MIC in the US. I'm also curious what you think about Obama ordering that all DoD interrogations be filmed [2], the voluntary (and unprecedented) disclosure of vistor records to the White House [3], the extensive anti-lobiest legislation created by Obama [4,5,6], and the creaton of a national Declassification Center to speed up the release of documents to the public [7].

Also, how is the Nobel Obama's fault? He knew he didn't deserve it (hint: read between the lines of his acceptance speech). The idiotic committee put him in that situation and I don't think you'll hear anyone arguing it was actually deserved.

Do you really expect people to engage in a conversation with you when you demonstrate such a clear lack of preparation and knowledge of the issues in question? It's a drain for all those involved. Dijkstra had something to say about this....

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates#Fiscal_restraint

[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870431490457525...

[3] http://www.whitehouse.gov/VoluntaryDisclosure

[4] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memo...

[5] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/427...

[6] http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/07/27/ClosingLobbyistL...

[7] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/420...
The suggested solution (modular squaring) already reduces to factoring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function#Modular_squari...

(And we'd use a cryptographic hash function anyway.)
Industries with scale that are deeply embedded into the American economy (as the cable companies and now the wireless companies are) will always be able influence regulation and legislation in their favor.
I remember that the first major release Adobe did for GoLive was to remove a huge feature that we used in a product we were selling. Namely the ability to write dynamic code that talked to a database. Version 6 had it, version 7 nothing. We had 100's of sites we supported on that platform. It was great because the designers could click and point to make new dynamic areas on the page. We actually saved quite a chunk of change by not "upgrading" to that version, not only in costs to Adobe to buy the software, but also in not having to hire an estimated 12 more developers to maintain the code by hand.
Driving on public streets is an exercise in choreography, so they're the same thing.
This average price is a bit complicated to look at, and requires even more understanding of the Texas market.

There are essentially two types of electric customers in ERCOT areas in Texas: those in co-ops and those in open markets where you can choose your Retail Electric Provider and plan. Your physical location determines which kind of market you fall into.

In a co-op, those residents do not get to choose their power plan. Their rates are decided by the co-op, you either have electricity at that rate or you don't.

The open market allows for people to choose from many different Retail Electric Providers offering all kinds of plans. Free nights and weekends, but your rate during weekdays is sky high. Discounts below certain usage, with surcharges going over. Discounts once you use a certain amount, with surcharges if you use too little. Different rate prices for different usage amounts. 100% renewable. 0% renewable. 15% renewable. Flat monthly rate. All kinds of various contracts you can sign up for.

In that open market, I can choose plans way cheaper than that average rate. I can sign up for a plan with 100% renewable energy with an average rate of 9.8c/kWh for 2,000kWh.

https://octopusenergy.com/documents/efls/OCTOPLUS-24M-ONCOR-...

However, lots of people even in the open market just go with whatever plans they hear on the radio or TV. Any REP with a budget to have TV commercials is going to be one of the more expensive ones.

Rhythm - 11.3c/kWh @ 2,000kWh, 100% renewable

https://api.gotrhythm.com/api/pricing/offers/latest-offers-e...

TXU Energy - tons of TV ads - 12.5c/kWh

https://www.txu.com/Handlers/PDFGenerator.ashx?comProdId=ONX...

So yeah, some people just buy what they see on TV and pay through the nose. Some aren't really a part of this open market and get whatever their co-op wants to bill them. However, it can be much cheaper to shop online. I'm still on a 36mo contract for <9c/kWh, putting me cheaper than the average of every state.

http://powertochoose.org/

If you notice in that EIA table, Texas has one of the lowest average commercial and industrial rates in the country. Commercial and industrial customers actually bother looking around at rates and aren't necessarily swayed by the slick looking guy on TV saying "free nights and weekends, 25c/kWh at noon!"
Uber hit the person because they had disabled automatic emergency braking, not because the sensors failed to detect objects.
A seatbelt also doesn’t have a concept of the real world and doesn’t live in a shared reality either.
Maybe Amazon can have a publishing label that hires freelance editors. Amazon already handles a large portion of the publishing role, which is marketing.
May 2010: marketCap(AAPL) > marketCap(MSFT)

"Bah, it's revenue that matters"

October 2010: revenue(AAPL) > revenue(MSFT)

"Bah, profit is the real metric"

April 2011: profit(AAPL) > profit(MSFT)

"Bah, basic research is where it's at!"
> There doesn't seem to be any emphases on native code integration.

Mozilla's actively opposed to any form of JS/native code integration, undoubtedly because that would dilute the effective proprietary control over the Web platform that it shares with a small group of fellow browser vendors. (And maybe because it would wound the personal vanity of its senior developers.) It's already briefing friendly journalists against Google NaCl http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/25/mozilla_on_jaegermon... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/18/google_releases_firs... , using comically disingenuous arguments: oh, it's just too bad that NaCl hasn't been blessed by the web standards process that we ourselves control! Opera is behaving similarly: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/01/opera_on_google_nati... .

Of course, it's another thing to extend this attitude to the desktop, where developers have plenty of alternatives to drinking the JS kool-aid. But presumably Mozilla is hoping that the accelerated-Javascript/"contemporary HTML" juggernaut will be powerful enough to sweep a good number of desktop developers along anyhow. Next Big Language and all that, after all.
Do you think Antitrust pressures will force Apple to accept competing services for the iOS? (Amazon Cloud Player on the iPhone/iPod/iPad)
It gives a glimpse on the rate of change around us, and out there in the world. This big picture is fascinating to behold at, for many people.
You make good points. One point that is proposed by the pro-soylent groups that you may have overlooked: if soylent were to succeed commercially, economies of scale could develop that would make it price attractive even to the global poor.
I could name local places but they won't mean anything to you. However even Burger King's combo meals are around $6/meal [0] as are KFC [1] and McDonalds [2] (all within $1 of $6, some less). Local places are even better value.

However I get the sense this "question" wasn't asked because you legitimately wanted an answer. You just wanted to raise doubt that $6/meal is a thing. As I've shown, it is.

[0] http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/burger-king-prices/
[1] http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/kfc-prices/
[2] http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcDonalds-prices/
They're basically turning it into resistant starch. Calorie reduction is probably the lesser benefit of it. Resistant starch feeds the comensal bacteria in the gut. This is "good" bacteria. Or think of these resitant starches as the pre-biotic to your pro-biotics (the food for your bacteria friends).

Rice is normally not the best for turning to resistant starch I believe, the process works a lot better for potatoes: cook, then chill, voilá. Even re-heating preserves some of the benefits. Not sure if, or how, the added coconut oil mentioned in the article would alter the process, or make it more effective.
It's weird how this has gotten so many thumbs up but nobody has discussed yet.

IMO, it was strategically a bad move or a "dead" move on their part. The value-add was insignificant for a company supposedly worth 1 billion dollars a few years ago.

Quora isn't dead and certainly has value (when bypassing their user-signup wall), but it is now basically in limbo.

Neither Yahoo Answers nor StackOverFlow after it were worth billions, so all the hype around it was just VCs taking a big risk.

If it did help them, they'd have a little more press by now. After getting into that batch though, nobody hears much about it anymore and I suspect another upstart will usurp Quora at the top of the Q&A market in the future (if SO hasn't done so already).
So then we can be pretty sure Apple won't be releasing a laptop/desktop computer with a touch screen?
I agree that this is the most important thing to know about how the GPL works.

I disagree that it is an important thing about what is its intent
1) Soylent doesn't include the vast library of known life extending phytonutrients.
2) we haven't discovered most of these compounds, we just know plants have them
That was never really a thing. More like a hope.

There was V2, v2.5, V3.
With both compute and camera improvements.
It's pretty much expected that you will need some form of hw upgrade if your car is >2 years old when the FSD becomes a thing.
And it's included in the pricing.
That the total mass of neutrinos is commensurate with / exceeds all the hadronic mass is rarely mentioned. With so many interactions emitting neutrinos, does everything end up as neutrinos, finally (neglecting expansion)? Or does something consume neutrinos and yield net hadronic stuff?
yeah - I have bought a fair amount from them over the years - good lights and decent watches and pens
Ada is another option without a GC. I wrote a search tool for large codebases with it (https://github.com/pyjarrett/septum), and the easy and built-in tasking and pinning to CPUs allows you to easily go wide if the problem you're solving supports it.

There's very little allocation since it supports returning VLAs (like strings) from functions via a secondary stack. Its Alire tool does the toolchain install and provides package management, so trying the language out is super easy. I've done a few bindings to things in C with it, which is ridiculously easy.
If you can, find ways to be less dependent on large supply chains. Join a local neighborhood market. Do some canning... get a bidet... make friends with a local farm. Your needs are your needs, but it's probably time for everyone to re-evaluate and strengthen local resources as well as personal methods of independent supply of food, clothes, and shelter as well as wasting less.
Travelling on a shoe string budget is possible for people on modest incomes but it's not exactly living comfortably is it?

People want a million dollars so they can live a comfortable life rather than trudging through life and then going to the grave.

Yes, you could blow the lot on a car, house, long holiday etc but they're short term gains that won't really change your life that much. After all buying an expensive house will land you with expensive upkeep/running costs.

A sensible person (here in the UK anyway) could pay themselves a healthy wage (£35k p/year tax free) for 20+ years and they can save the rest for retirement.

The downside to this though is, once you've done a trip to Thailand and so on, I think boredom would probably set in so you'd want to spend the time after that doing something meaningful like working for a charity
Accusing him of being biased is attacking his character.

As for his funding source, which of his arguments does that invalidate? Which of his facts is false, as a result of him being funded by Verizon (or whoever)?

(By the way, I don't even agree with him. Just pointing out that ad hominem is a logical fallacy, except under fairly limited circumstances - specifically when facts are presented that the reader cannot verify.)

[Edit: just thought of another circumstance where it isn't a logical fallacy. "You are wrong because of XXX. Also you are stupid." In this case, the argument is unchanged regardless of the attack on character.]
Well, I guess we think people are willing to pay for lovely design (and by "design", I'm referring to the way it works, in addition to the way it looks).

You could also ask, "What (other than a lovely design) makes a Macbook/BMW/Dyson/Armani better than a Dell/Lincoln/Hoover/Old Navy?"
That's a good idea. I think we're going to try to figure out something along those lines.
Not to nitpick, but not everybody wants "a million dollars" to leave everything behind and travel. There's a lot of things one can do with "a million dollars"; and yeah, I want some of that too.
A little OT, but where do game designers here tend to buy their artwork? Is there an equivalent of ThemeForest/GraphicRiver for sprites and other game assets?
I was referring specifically to people who want to just hop on a plane but talk themselves out of it because they need more money. People with families will have other reasons to not sell the house and jump on a plane.

Who knows, you could probably take the kids along and home school them from abroad. It would be interesting to learn about history and language while visiting the actual countries. World War 2 looks a lot different in Japan or the Philippines.
It originally derives from the Latin Orcus "Hell"[1] but if you refer to Tolkien's own dictionaries it is cast as an Elvish word meaning "monster", generally the same meaning it had in Old English, and used in place of and interchangeably with Goblin. There isn't supposed to be any kind of physical difference between a Goblin and an Orc in Tolkien's books but there are physical differences among subgroups within the larger Orc/Goblin species. I think this is the source of confusion that has led to there being a distinction between Orcs and Goblins in later fantasy series that derive from Tolkien's work. In his books, Orc and Goblin are simply two words for the same thing. [2]

If you dig even deeper into Tolkien's history of Middle Earth, you'll find that the Orc species or 'race' is actually derived from Elvish predecessors who were 'corrupted' and transformed by Morgoth (fka Melkor)[3] and so we have a literal statement that their 'evilness' is not a product of their biology but was deliberately inflicted on them.

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc#Etymology

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_%28Middle-earth%29#The_orig...
So, I've been googling but can't find any single instance where Apple seems to have threatened a security researcher. I'm new here on HN, but I don't understand why I was down voted. Was it seen as passive-agressive to ask, I could understand that, but any actual source would be appreciated.

We all know that anything that paints Apple in a bad light travels faster than the speed of said light and generally gets picked up by a dozen news outlets, no matter how rumour-esque it is. So it ought to be some traces of Apple taking legal actions against people reporting security issues against them, no?
Okay. I still don’t understand specifically what your concern is. I would love to understand, but I’ll drop it. Given the scope of the foundation and what it is and is not in charge of, I find this attitude very confusing.
A point to note on Excel's empowerment I have discovered. The main reason for its ubiquity is because it's mostly already there and doesn't require the odious purchase order process to be navigated and then an odious IT onboarding process navigated. So fuck that, let's just cram another turd into Excel. That sort of overlaps with your IT request thing but at a higher level I think.
There's no technical reason you can't use a phone plan in an LTE router. The only problem might be data caps, but if you can snag an uncapped plan it's absolutely a viable solution.
It's very easy to believe and it has absolutely nothing to do with the speed and motion of ships and instead with the presence of sonar and engine and propeller noises.
well the thing is, it's not impossible to recycle plastic, but the article also explains that really simple:

> Recycling plastic is "costly," it says, and sorting it, the report concludes, is "infeasible."

1. no infrastructure for sorting, there is no 100% method as of today (basically no research is done on this topic)
2. even if it is feasible, nobody does it becasue it is expensive.
3. there are countries where plastic recycling works, but these are outliners and countries who heavily invest in sorting, recycling on the consumer side.
>> I do however not, in any way, hope that "big tech" buries a news house

The claim that the NYT is a news house is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. Can you provide any?
Both sugar and the wrong kinds of fat are bad in excess. It's not either/or. Rancid seed oils are extremely bad for you.
You need to hit the disk icon (save) on your frames to commit the changes you make to them.
I would argue even that those in power have setup the system to produce BS science. Maybe inadvertently...

Research output is in the end one main criterias that we measure. Actual quality of it not so much. Thus science is driven to deliver publications. Now how valid these are is open to questions. And how many of them actually prove the mechanisms behind the findings? Probably comparatively fewer to those describing some correlation.
SSL Labs is judging what they consider absolute security (I assume - I can't speak for Ivan or Qualys), where Google/Mozilla/etc look heavily at performance and supportability.
Mozilla publishes their approach to what is 'best' here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
A lot more than N-K people have a problem. The fact that K < N drives prices up for everybody, not only for N-K people.
Consider Haskell. It's about as anti-boilerplate as they come. And with automatic type inference.
You might be required to if you care about having legal protection over your intellectual property.

FWIW, I think most YC startups share their employee contracts, and in it, there's a section that mentions you are entitled to your own IP as long as you give notice of the side project AND you don't use any company resources on it (like working on company time, their laptops, etc.).
Also the cost of the server hardware/rack is a fraction of the cost of the electrical and cooling system that is around it.

If I setup my co-location facility to run all Mac Mini equivalents (cool and they sip electricity) and some random person ships say 10 bitcoin miners, with 100 un-cooled video cards, that is going to seriously mess with my electrical and cooling setup.
This really does echo what Schneier said about us returning to a feudalistic society. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht...

Although his context was for users, I think the same thing applies to developers.
Playing along - my trash goes into bags, but my recycling goes unbagged into a bin. If the recycling company my municipality runs or uses actually just dumps my recycling into a landfill, you've been mailing flyers to the wrong address.
Original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225

Pigeon.ly's response:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361
too... meta... does not compute
I've also experienced similar failures. I've tried to learn Haskell several times, and every time I meet the Monad section in the tutorial I lost my concentration. One of my friends who is proficient in Haskell told me to just start coding without trying to understand the advanced concepts, but I wasn't inclined to do that as Monads were hanging over my head, and I really wanted to understand what they are before writing some piece of code.

Funnily enough, things were changed after I learned Rust. (I know I'm saying like a Rust zealot, but it's true!) After using Rust's `Option` type, and realizing its `.map()` and `.and_then()` are similar to `fmap` and `>>=` in Haskell, I finally began to grasp what functors and monads are. And that led me to understand the "implementation details" of Haskell. Before that, I thought `seq` was purely written in Haskell. But it wasn't. It is basically a compiler magic, and GHC specializes `seq` to allow eager evaluation. The same thing goes with the IO type; the monad itself has nothing to do with making I/O be done. I/O is possible solely thanks to the implementation details of the IO type, which resides in GHC. Plus, I can also guess that that part of GHC is probably not written in Haskell, because it is not possible to make side effects in "real" Haskell.

So, Rust was my admirable Haskell teacher. (Thanks, Mozilla!) It's like a stepping stone between the imperative world and the functional world. The funny thing again is, after having fun with Rust for months, now I have less reasons to go back to learn Haskell... Rust is already too powerful, performant, and easy to understand, so Haskell feels less appealing to me. Haskell had been enviable to me in the past, but now it isn't anymore, (un)fortunately.
Thanks, that's much better than what I wrote. Still I think that's a big jump for most programmers - it certainly was for me.
So you are arguing that despite the US (and other Western governments) capabilities at electronic intelligence being openly talked about in the press since the '90's that the terrorists only learned about this due to Snowden?

Osama wasn't keeping an air-gap because of Snowden. He was doing it because Clinton was calling in cruise missiles on terrorist cell phones back in the '90's.

I think a better argument is that only stupid terrorists talked on the phone/internet and eventually they would nearly all be "naturally selected" out of the "gene pool" until all you have left are the smart terrorists who teach their disciples how to be smart.

Unfortunately the stupid terrorists were also the ones least likely to successfully carry out a significant attack.
Ok, so we can't use the word monad because that's bad apparently. How do we answer "How does Haskell, a FP language where composition is a very important concept, compose IO actions?". Because that's almost always done using monadic actions.

Aside, I agree on the List monad thing. I never ever use the list monad, why would I. But if I'm managing state (i.e. IO, Reader/Writer, Conduit etc), then why wouldn't I use the name of the language construct that Haskell provides to manage state?
The source data is based on a different projection to that usually used in web maps so that's not easily achieved unfortunately.
> a guy called Don Knuth

I found this unreasonably funny, given we’re posting on a tech-focused forum. It’s like posting about “a proof by some dude called Albert Einstein” on a physics forum. :)
Another sad lesson why no open source developer should trust Google with their time and effort.

Swift is a gem of a language with an unfortunately Apple-centric ecosystem, but at least you know Apple won't abandon the effort.
Are you losing weight? I had some rash appeared spontaneously after start losing weight and it took almost a year to clear out
Kind of ironic that the author used a whale watching tour to observe the Orcas. These tours are disruptive to resident Orca populations(non-transient).