jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but to what end? So they breached the Capitol and disrupted Congress. Then what?
I only wish the desktop app would let me send SMS.
This is the weirdest timeline.
They stormed the Capitol, trying to disrupt the process by which the President is chosen. How many times have you seen this happen before in the US? For me personally, it's zero.

France has famously unstable politics, which is why they are on their fifth Republic. No one was surprised to see something like BLM because the US has long-running problems with racism. But this? This was new.
Those "Nazi tunnels" shown are clean, dry, and equipped with modern fluorescent lights. Those are not recently discovered tunnels.

The "Nazi atomic bomb program" never went anywhere. There was one. It was never very big or very successful. The US effort to find out about the Nazi atomic bomb program was bigger than the Nazi atomic bomb program. After the war, the big-name physicists were kept in a mansion called Farm Hall, which was bugged to listen in on them. The recordings were released in the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Epsilon

Even after they hear about the Hiroshima bomb, they can't figure out how it was done. "If the Americans have a uranium bomb then you are all second-raters.", says Otto Hahn.
Right, if your goal is privately hosted/accessible instances then it shouldn't be a problem. Just mentioning in case the goal is to offer it as a public service as it is at your main domain.
> Americans are finally accepting the truth around Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Especially now that so many documents around the war on declassified.

I think portraying it as the "truth" isn't very accurate. There's many versions of history and none is the "truth".
You're getting mad at the wrong person here, full stop. This is gross, inexcusable negligence and incompetence. I'm surprised this guy didn't wait more than a few months, given the severity of this problem.

> whilst protecting customer data from any opportunistic bad actor

Riiiight. Do you honestly think something this basic wouldn't be discovered by criminals soon, if not already?
Apparently the British army were told to break step when crossing bridges to avoid that potential disaster.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
Well I'm a designer so I may see things that a non-designer wouldn't pick up on. The first thing you want to do is to see printed samples of their work. This is a test not just to see the work itself, but to see how quickly they get it to you and if they follow up after it's been sent. When you're looking at the printing see how black the blacks are — are things trimmed well? How are their communication skills? Also a must have for me is the ability to see a printed proof — looking at an acrobat file on a computer screen is a waste of time.
pretty awesome job. fullscreen or a larger playable area would be nice.
I tried doing it for the iPhone (html/javascript, showed in a WebView) -- the experience was horrible for an interface that featured only a couple of text inputs and 2 buttons. And on Android it was even worse.

Browsers for mobiles (WebKit mostly) are very buggy and even have extra restrictions that desktop browsers do not. I doubt they did a better job with the engine on WP7.
Absolutely. In the longer threads I used to use comment karma as a way to decide if a long post/reply was worth reading or if it wasn't. If the rest of the thread was at 10+ and the long comment was at 2, then I knew I could just skip it.

I have to filter information, it is no longer possible with the wealth of information to read everything that is written and decide on its merit. The amount of news I take in daily, and process would overwhelm those who start their day with a newspaper and watch the news at 8 at night.

I hope that pg can reconsider, and add the karma back to the comments, it would definitely help me while reading HN.
"So, how come Ruby is more marketshare than, say, SML? Could it possibly be that most people just find it easier?"

Marketing. Hype. And the familiarity of Ruby's Algol-like syntax.

Recall that before Ruby (and Python) became popular, the scripting language world was ruled by Perl. And most programmers were pretty happy with that. Perl was a mature language. It had tons of libraries. And it generally did what people wanted.

Then, out of nowhere, started a litany of "Perl sucks!" screeches, mostly coming out of the mouths of Python and Ruby fans. By now they've repeated that mantra so often that it's become dogma throughout much of the rest of the programming world, even (and often especially) for people who've never even written a line of Perl.

Ruby and Python took that anti-Perl hatred and rode it all the way to the bank.

Sure, Ruby also had Rails.. which was yet more hype. PHB's started ordering their websites to be written in it, despite having not the faintest clue what it was. Much the same happened with Java.

As for Lisp and SML. They suffer from being "just too weird".

It'll be interesting to see what happens with F# in the long run, as it suffers from much the same "weirdness" as SML (being based on OCaml, which itself was based on SML). Will having a megacorp behind it make enough of a difference?
I have a secret weapon: decaffeinated tea-bags (from Marks&Spencers).

I stick to the rules for caffeine consumption, except I can always go for decaf in the evening.

I've been using Flux on my computers, I think that also helps.

Finally I just set a timer now when I go to bed. Usually 7.5 hours sleep plus 12 minutes to fall asleep is perfect for me, so when that timer goes I actually feel like getting up. And also if I wake up earlier I never stress about what the time is because I know I'm still on the countdown.
Wow, and just when I thought death for mass murderers was a bit too cruel...
You sync playlists to the E71, so you could set up a smart playlist that has everything, or you can use normal (or smart) playlists to select some subset of tracks.

Edit: to clarify - when I installed the Nokia software, it asks if I want to sync my music files with iTunes. Upon selecting "yes" it set up a playlist folder in iTunes that gets synced, and the user sets up playlists within that folder to sync to the smartphone.
Emacs is more than just slinging text. If you spend time in emacs you probably have it configured so that you rarely ever need to get out of emacs to get almost anything done. This doesn't happen over night though, your emacs config slowly evolves into something better than just a text editor.
Instead of pledging money, can I get involved directly, or is this only Tito and Josh?
That would be interesting: if the govt required BP to "buy back" any oil the public can bring in, if it was easily tested to be of whatever quality, such as 50% oil:water mix. Let the public clean it up at ~$50/barrel - it's at $71/barrel now. It would be worth it for most people with a boat and probably higher revenue per hour than fishing.
Yeah, I did read that. You appear to be contradicting yourself. Care to explain? What does Safari for Windows "get away with?"
This guy is upset that Wikipedia deleted an article about a Swedish indie-rock band that appears to have been covered in depth by one alt-weekly in Vancouver and nobody else --- an article, incidentally, that was posted and deleted 3 times before that alt-weekly one-pager was published.

I don't know how we benefit from rehashing this over and over again, and since this is the #1 issue people appear to have with Wikipedia (and the issue most directly and frequently addressed by Wikipedia's voluminous site guidelines), I think it's fair to point that out. But, once again, with feeling:

Wikipedia is not an effort to organize all the world's information. That's Google. Wikipedia is an effort to build the world's best encyclopedia. The difference between an "encyclopedia" and "all the world's information" is that the information in an encylopedia needs to be reliable. To ensure that the information in the encylopedia has a chance at being reliable, the encyclopedia is constrained to information that can be written about notable topics cover in reliable secondary sources.

Virtually everybody who writes an article about a nonnotable topic ends up objecting, often loudly, when the article is deleted. That's understandable. Wikipedia could do a better job of warning people of the bar their topic needs to clear. But they can't make resurrection of deleted articles trivial to anybody, or they will spend all their time re-litigating deletions.

This is not helped by the fact that WP articles gain extremely favorable search engine position almost by default.

People seem to have a really hard time with the idea that Wikipedia imposes restrictions in order to make the lives of editors and maintainers easier. But --- and I say this as a WP-skeptic --- the community effort that built WP is monumental and unprecedented. They get the benefit of the doubt.

Regardless, the likelihood that the particular "speedy deletion" policy this article complains about will ever be resolved is epsilon. Speedy deletion, particularly of no-name bands, vanity books, websites, and tiny companies is almost the first line of defense against article-creep. Changing the policy would be an existential change to the way WP is managed.

Which doesn't matter, because you can resurrect speedy'd articles already; you just need to take the article to Deletion Review and make a case for it. Maybe WP needs an article on First Aid Kit. I like Fleet Foxes, too! (WP has excellent coverage of Fleet Foxes). But WP is run by human beings donating their time, and people make mistakes, and it is utterly disingenuous to pretend like First Aid Kit is an obvious "keep".
Anecdotally, here in my office in New Zealand, we have 4 HTC Magics, 2 iPhones, and then a raft of SE/Nokia devices for lesser peons such as myself ;). This is despite the fact that Android devices aren't available for retail through a large Telco (Vodafone/Telecom) and need to be parallel imported.

Corporates are scared of iPhones, because the level of control that's handed to Apple is reasonably unacceptable.
I wish you well and hope you become whatever you think is 'better'. People make fun of me because I talk to random strangers when in lines or waiting for someone at dinner. Yet the people with me are doing the same thing, just on their phones through text messages and super pokes. One of them made a comment today while waiting in line to order for lunch, "it is ok, most of my friends I really only talk to through IM anyways." We were discussing how difficult it was (not very apparently) to live out of your country. How awesome is that?
As ridiculous as what he did is, ironically the post itself does constitute a germane HN link:

1. He describes a social engineering experiment (a kind of hacking).

2. It's partially about the interesting idea of organizing your writing so that two different readers will interpret the same text different ways. (Literary steganography?)

3. What better way to for HN readers to respond to this than to dispassionately analyze it and then move on? The fact that he used HN and reddit itsef as part of a hack is amusingly recursive - and also irrelevant.
I still don't understand why people are under the impression that Uber doesn't care about its customers while Lyft somehow does.

I've watched a few of Kalanick's talks and he seems like a motivated engineer who actually cares about efficient transportation.
This is not true and this type of fatalism is just not warranted. Malaria deaths have actually been decreasing the last 20 years or so. And that is impressive because population has been increasing.

http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/

The ecology of a country is a very complex system and becomes even more complex if you throw humans into it. So any significant aid is bound to have unintended side effects. Thus, any aid must be accompanied by close monitoring and modified when necessary. This particular problem, for example, can be easily solved by making nets weaker so they break during fishing.

But one should not take any side effect as an excuse to stop aid. Unless of course one is looking for any excuse to stop aid.
I first heard a variant of this story about 30 years ago, either a lot of kids killed themselves jumping out of windows on acid or it's an urban legend.
IMO there is every incentive for employees to compare salaries (except at startups where total compensation is directly proportional to how much risk you took to get there). Everything below is about 1000+ or so employee well-established companies so salary ladders should long since have become consistent.

If you find out you're making more, question why your co-worker is making so much less. It could be you the next round.

If you find out you're making substantially less, you can try bringing it up with your boss, but your boss will likely channel that to HR and then HR will tell you why you aren't worth any more than your current salary (that's their purpose in this situation, don't fool yourself otherwise).

However, if you use this information as a sign that you should go interview to determine your market rate, and you get a better offer somewhere else, you can now use that as leverage against your current employer.

If they need you, they'll match the offer, and your compensation problems will go away for the next few years. At some companies, this is the easiest path to a raise despite the negative perception of "accepting the counter."

If they won't match the offer, then that's a great sign that it's time to leave.

IMO you should treat your job choices as an asset. If that asset starts lagging the market, you need to invest in another one.
Your are correct. The sentence you referenced is in the section that describes RabbitMQ without clustering. The next section talks about the tradeoffs of RabbitMQ clustering.
> i.e. "your salary is 80th percentile in your department" or something like that.

Too little information: There could be 90 people paid peanuts and 10 people paid lavishly, and even in the same "department" some jobs might be radically different.
So to you, that 0.1% is specific to gaming engines, how ? I don't really believe it.

I think "that 0.1%" demonstrates that linked list are really irrelevant and that vectors should be used all the time.

The only useful advantage of linked lists is to be able to insert an element in the middle of the list. I don't understand why anyone would want to insert data in the middle of a list, you rarely want to do that in O(1), and even if you do, you still need to know where exactly you want to insert it.

If you want to have data sorted, use map<>, if you want a faster map, use a hash map.

Maybe lists are relevant for vertex geometry, because it might be interesting to quickly edit and add vertices, but it's such a specific case I don't think it matters. Nobody really edits vertex geometry. You could even just build an index vector instead.
There's a difference between saying that because you are a man/woman, you must desire x, and saying that x will attract more men/women than anything else. One is sexist, one is an observation of fact that can be borne out by experimentation.
Increased lifetime for what? By the time I get anywhere near the announced lifetime of the shutter I will long since have upgraded to a newer model.
Like any strategic team, roles and responsibilities are defined (be proactive) and weaknesses are complemented by strengths, vice-versa...like the divide-and-conquer described, spot on! In similar fashion, I'm starting a company as well, and while I'm not married to my business partner and co-founder, I'm mindful that I draw from best practices from my marriage of 14yrs, e.g. "Let the small things go", "choose your battles", and "there's more than one way to skin a cat"...my two cents - best wishes on the Loveseat... ;)
What kind of videocard are you running? GLSL probably fell back to software mode.
Why are so many people pretending this is being done for the good of the users? I got started in my business because I loved what I was doing (for my users). I stayed because it makes me a boatload full of money. If I see my competitor slipping, I want to take advantage of them. Sure I do have empathy for the users but at the end of the day it is pretty clear.

Believe me, if your competitor saw you doing this stuff they would definitely report you. Kill or be killed. You think Marc Cuban or Donald Trump is worried about their users when they have an opportunity to take advantage of a competitor?
This article prompted me to read more about pole access rights, and this article[1] seems interesting and informative.

The question it begs, though, is why must a pure ISP be classified as a cable provider or telecommunications provider? It seems clear (and is made explicit in the article I have linked) that a good portion of the problems surrounding this issue come from applying yesterday's regulations to today's technologies.

Why is the following not an option:
Add a new classification of utility for ISPs and allow them utility pole access at either one of the existing rates or a new one.

Why is regulation according to Tittle II (a contentious issue) a necessary prerequisite for ISP access to utility polls (a competitive boon wanted by pretty much all internet customers)?

[1]http://www.kandutsch.com/articles/access-to-utility-poles-fo...
> (the Emacs shortcuts everybody knows)

[citation needed]
Limiting one's social circle to fellow practitioners is spiritually and intellectually disfiguring.

If it mixed web devs with truck drivers and CPAs, then you'd be on to something.
We agree she could be dead or end up dead over this, but that could be said for any criminal scammer.
Madoff isn't dead, and he ran the biggest scam in the world.

There is nothing unique about this case, or any specific piece of evidence you can point to that indicates her death, other than a hunch. Bulger lasted 16 years laying low, why not her?
Nope, I don’t. And I’m not a particular proponent of this approach. This is just how I understand it.

I think the ultimate goal is to have smart contracts which don’t require any of the human intervention you’re mentioning. How that’ll be possible remains to be seen...
Right, that's why you usually want to target a basket of metrics instead of "one metric to rule them all."

It's odd that Stiglitz doesn't speak of word of the capability approach, which seems to be a step in that direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach
I read this article and while it's sad the author doesn't pursue passions anymore, I also can't help think that maybe they just aren't as hungry as they once were. I was diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago and it changed my perspective on life. I'm mid 30's now and more productive than ever. I also work full time and am a single father to two little kids. The way I describe it is that I am hungry. I didn't expect it to last this long but it's been years and I'm still regarded as a very motivated and determined person by others.
Highly ironic:

I’m serious — stop it with the gatekeeper introductions to content.

Aaaand the rest of the article is pay walled by medium...
I don't agree. I may be desperate for a result in some situations. If there's a small chance there's something useful out there, I still want to see it. I get to decide whether it's worth my time to look.
It should be because the United States' stance on human rights, specifically those of children in detention camps would be a damn sight more powerful if they didn't violate them with abandon.

From the position of child in China or in the United States detention camps your finer points of morality don't matter one little bit, they are either scarred for life or end up dead.

And now we've crossed into what is actual whataboutism, the pointing at unrelated things in unrelated countries. For the present, the United States is the one country that just might have done something about this and due their own political choices they no longer have much power to speak in the fora where it would matter. You can thank Stephen Miller and his merry band of stooges for that.
What does a blue pill attack look like in this scenario?
I believe that, if you live in Sweden, own an Estonian company and get dividends from it, you'll pay dividend tax in Sweden (not in Estonia), no?
Anyone remember "The Zone"? I grew up playing chess and checkers online through Microsoft's platform. It was silly, but I was able to play with other kids in Canada, the UK, and all over the world. That was amazing, back then, that is.
You'd be annoyed too if you were the only one in the world who seemed to know about the tag that makes IE6 behave like Chrome.
added to the calendar! looking forward to the talk
I like this idea that if you don't feel like an imposter, you're probably not challenging yourself enough. It rings true with my experience starting a blog without much design or web experience (http://wayofthescholar.com) and diving into neuroscience research without any neuroscience background. The most I feel like a fraud, the more I'm forced to find smart ways to figure out where I'm at and where I need to head next.
Nope, not the only one. I don’t use an iPod, or an iPhone, or an TV, but I think iTunes is wonderful as a PC music player. It beats the pants off everything that came before (remember all those music player apps whose selling point was that they had pretty, customizable “skins”?), and hasn’t really been challenged by anything since.

For all the talk of bloat, the changes and additions over the last few years to the main functionality have been quite restrained and user-focused: sorting by album by artist, adding a “sort by” metadata field, improving the organization of playlists, “smart” playlists, and playlist folders, views organized by album art rather than text, improvements to the column browser, &c. Even what I would call “bloaty” features like the “genius playlist” and “ping” can be easily turned off.
Unless Jobs is going to be on streaming video giving a tour of the facility, say, like he did when they opened the first retail store - though that was a pre-recorded video, not live. So I wouldn't bet on this, but it seems like a possibility.
I know graphic artists who are extremely talented visually, but certainly couldn't beat me for putting together Web applications. They may been drawing since they could hold a pencil, and know how to use Photoshop, but simply don't have the thinking I do when it comes to UX. In the past I built a large web application for a business that went head-to-head with a top industry version, and the owner was blown away with how much better my app was, saying it cut his training time for new employees down by around 85%. I don't think this is a black and white issue. I think, like most anything, there are many things that come down to the individual doing the job.
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In some parts of the world, such as the United Kingdom, kayaks are considered a subtype of canoes. Continental European and British canoeing clubs and associations of the 19th Century used craft similar to kayaks, but referred to them as canoes. This explains the naming of the International and National Governing bodies of the sport of Canoeing.</more pedantic>
I can really use some help at http://televite.totalengage.com in terms of design. As you can see, I suck at it :)
It has nothing to do with keeping it in the country either; plenty of non-US countries have US patents.
Except that wasn't the actual message coming from the Surgeon General. The original message appears to intentionally obscure the fact that not only does the US not have enough masks for our civilians, we also don't have enough masks for our health care professionals.