jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> can civilly and safely debate whether intelligence is statistically correlated to race and gender

Why would you not want to debate that? If it's not true, or there's no evidence for it, then you have an actual argument for fighting people who believe in it. If it's true, then you have a new societal issue to discuss. Either way, you win.

You seem to be making a case against scientific inquiry and intellectual discussion.

> However, it's slightly alarming to hear that Altman defends the promulgation of such ideas because "people need a forum to debate ideas". Too many of these ideas seep into the discussions even here on Hacker News.

This is anti-intellectualism. What possible reason would there be to not debate ideas, of any kind? Bad ideas get analyzed, exposed, and proponents of such are forced to either change their position or be exposed as dogmatic.
I'm envious of iPhone games, but primarily due to the aesthetics of the games rather than gameplay. Developers (and designers) are still chasing iOS money. I think Android will get there. I'm hoping Unity3D will result in more cross-platform game development.
Slicehost's documentation is the BOMB. I aspire to be like PickledOnion one day.
Google Nav is pretty friggin awesome. I had a TomTom for the first year I lived in NYC and the last year I owned a car, and Google Nav was comparable on all fronts, as demoed in rental cars up and down the Eastern Seaboard since then.

Notable downsides include battery life and built-in mounting options. Notable upsides include no upfront purchase, free updates, constant updates, better information density (pixels per meatspace volume, roughly), ease of ad-hoc "mounting" (e.g. next to the speedometer, behind the steering wheel), and automatic "straight-to-pocket-on-exit" theft protection.

It's free, it works well, and it integrates nicely with other Android apps (notably Google Maps).
Why are consumer choice and fragmentation contradictory? Can’t consumer choice cause fragmentation?
As a total Linux n00b, I was given the advice to also run SSH on a non-standard port 4 digit port like 4232 instead of 22. I don't know how effective that is, but it sounded like good advice to me.
The only problem with this strategy is that 30% may leave you with nothing as the majority owner drives the company into the ground or fires you prior to vesting. You would be in a worse situation than 0 because you would have invested your time and energy. As entrepreneurs, we all know how demanding a start-up is. To be swindled is just not an acceptable result of effort.

Edit: spelling
ClojureDocs is quite nice. One thing I noticed is that a peek in its source code:

https://github.com/zkim/clojuredocs

shows that it's a Ruby+Rails app. RoR is a good choice for this kind of thing, but it would be slightly slicker if ClojureDocs had Clojure under the hood.
If anyone's interested, we're using the Google Graph API for all the graphs (the spark lines and the big transparent ones at the top), and the Bayesian stuff is based on the PHP work I wrote up here: http://danzambonini.com/self-improving-bayesian-sentiment-an...

EDIT: Also, we're not really using it yet, but I thought it was interesting how you can also easily calculate the 'agreement' on sentiment by using the MySQL STDDEV function (or similar) to work out the variance in sentiment.
They moved 1 million units in the first 10 days. Apparently on track for 5 million before year's end.
this is not 100% true: http://chadao.blogspot.com/2008/02/caffeine-and-tea-myth-and...
I think the road from hacking to politics is any exercise of power using the intrinsic mechanisms of a system. So "voting machines", for example, might be a more hackerly means of connecting hacking with politics, than "civil liberties."
21,000 stranger abductions / 74 million kids under 18 = .000289 = 0.03% chance of being abducted per year

(1-.03%) = 99.97% chance of not being abducted in a given year

.9997^14 = 99.6% chance of not being abducted in 14 straight years (from age 4 through 17, assuming kids under 4 are virtually never left alone).

Thus there is a 0.4% chance of being abducted by a stranger by age 18. Of those <1% suffer injury or death. But about half suffer some form of sexual abuse. The other half are unharmed. So the chance of having a traumatic abduction by the time a child reaches 18 is ~0.2% or 1 out of 500.
That is exactly what I meant.

For some reason today appears to be my off-day on HN, as I've made two sentence changing mistakes.
It seems, to my poor caffeine deprived brain, that there's a whole lot of the story missing. There's only three things mentioned, and they seem unrelated (and two of them just plain odd)

* Four years ago, an SAP subsidiary called TomorrowNow admitted to using information from documents it had illegally downloaded to try and woo customers away from Oracle

* SAP's web scraper alone resulted in millions of copies of Oracle's downloaded software and support materials on SAP's servers

* ...thousands of copies of Oracle applications software made from Oracle's CDs
actually, I remember now that most methane emissions from cattle are from burping. But I still have never seen someone analyze the whole system- equally important is how much methane is absorbed back from the atmosphere in a pasture.
I used Flask in two of my currently running apps. It works nicely together. AppEngine limitation never gets in the way, at least not much as running Django on AppEngine.
This was calculated by hand by Skunk Works engineers. They didn't have the benefit of computerized physical modeling back then.

Half true.

Stealth had been known to be theoretically possible [edit] for a long time. I want to say the critical ideas date to papers in the 1930's, but I'm not sure on that. I do know there were flying attempts at it in the 40's. [/edit] But nobody could really pull it off due to the sheer computation required.

Stealth happened when computers got good enough. The critical breakthrough was a computer program. Not a full blown physical model, mind you; a very specific program to solve a very specific mathematical problem created by a very clever mathematician.

But a computer program nonetheless.

-----------

http://www.456fis.org/F-117_STORY.htm

In early 1975, the initial Skunk Works Project Team
consisted of Ed Martin (Project Manager), Dick Schemer
and Denys Overholser. Overholser had recalled a
discussion with his then boss, Bill Schroeder, some years
earlier, concerning the mathematics and physics of
optical scattering. The two had concluded that detectable
signatures could be minimized utilizing a shape composed
of the smallest number of properly orientated flat
panels. In addition, Schroeder believed that it was
possible to develop and resolve a mathematical equation
capable of calculating analytically, the reflection from
a triangular flat panel; this in turn he hypothesized
could be applied in a calculation relating to RCS.
Overholser had hired his former boss out of retirement
and as Schroeder's mathematical computations became
available, Overholser and his team of two engineers were
able to use these to write the computer program that
could evaluate the RCS of prospective design submissions
nominated by Dick Scherrer and his group of preliminary
design engineers. Derys and his team worked night and
day, and in just five weeks produced an RCS prediction
program known as 'Echo 1'. The resultant model was a
faceted delta wing design which had more than its share
of skeptics within the Skunk Works, some in aerodynamics
referring to the shape as 'the Hopeless Diamond'.

[Edit: Fact check]
We're using Java/GWT also on Envolve (http://www.envolve.com)

It's been pretty spectacular so far.
I'm guessing that people like Lars Bak are hard to come by. I remember reading somewhere that Google opened the Aarhus office mostly because he didn't want to move to Mountain View (I might be misremembering so don't quote me on that).
> They are also giving over a year of warning. That's plenty of time for people to migrate to a new service or figure out how to implement an alternative.

Python 2 would like a word with you.
What on earth is that! :)
People mock themselves. He's just giving them the door to walk through. It's entirely within your own power to not show the world you're a fool.

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain
As much as I dislike the general Windows UX, which is largely because I can't run a custom window-manager, I feel like I'm the only person that thinks Windows 10 is a big improvement. Maybe we don't have to look at it as a subjective like/dislike type of thing and just say that for me it's an improvement.

I use the classic non-contracted-to-an-icon task-bar, in the small variant. That's just to say that my task-bar looks and feels the same as it would on Windows 95.

The big improvement for me is the start screen. I use the fullscreen start-menu (I call it screen since it's fullscreen), where I put the shortcuts I want easy access to. It was introduced in Windows 8, but later the defaults were reverted to a 95-style mini-menu.

I have desktop disabled (desktop icons, more specifically), because I find that a desktop has a negative effect on organization, so all my icons are in the fullscreen start.

When I need a shortcut that's not pinned to my start, Win-S pops up the search dialog.

Apart from bloat, I'm pretty content with this UI.
IIRC this was also used for printing from Android, and the "replacement" app they released doesn't have the same features
Which I still prefer to YouTube music, it's theoretical replacement
Awesome slides, thanks for explaining!
Sasha Baron Cohen is a manipulator - that's the basis of his comedy, and for comedy, it's funny. It's not the person who I want to take cues on freedom of speech from.

Yes, you can go to a group of people and get them to sing anti-semitic songs, just as you can bluster them with an unlabeled map or have them fall prey to trivial parlor magic. That's a terrible basis for attacking basic human rights on.

He calls the openness of platforms a defect, and he would like to censor every single word before it is public - that is not freedom, it is authoritarianism.

I suspect he believes that most people are dumb sheep - this is after all how he made his money - and he sees himself as protecting the poor sheep. He believes that because his intent is just, his actions are just - that the end justifies the means. He is the most dangerous kind of strongman: the self-righteous kind.
I think you've got it precisely right.
They might have specific intel on something. Just as possibility...
Not true. If you're alerted to offending material and you remove it, you haven't broken safe harbor status what-so-ever. Otherwise YouTube, DropBox, Instagram and countless other sites would be dead.

The only way you break safe harbor is if you know of offending material, eg by a filter or having been alerted to it, and leave that material in place. If you run content filters (such as at the point of upload), then you have to be more careful.

The difference being between after-the-fact moderation and pre-screening. If you pre-screen you take on a greater burden of risk, in terms of copyright holders being able to argue you knew about something and didn't remove it, or should have known.
Someday (very soon, geologically speaking) you'll be dead and even if you're successful (personally and/or publicly) enough to be remembered past your death entropy will eventually win out.

On a long enough timeline nothing you ever do will actually matter.

So don't worry about it. Have fun. Do what makes you happy.
I think a fair portion of the people who are consciously blocking GA might think that beaming back a ton of information to the Google mothership is also "being dick," because they don't want ad-tracking profiles to be built for them based on their browsing habits across millions of websites.

If you want to balance the desires of your privacy-savvy users and your craving for analytics, why not use Piwik and self-host it on your own domain? No external requests, and no information back to Google.
This idea and the name "Tsunamiball" have been registering as vaguely familiar to me and I just figured out why. The "Halliburton 'Survivaball'": http://theyesmen.org/agribusiness/halliburton/ ;)
I'm in Uruguay, and the difference in quality between Youtube and Netflix is staggering.

Netflix is surprisingly smooth and fast and extremely good quality, while Youtube stutters awfully.

It is, of course, anecdote (and not relevant to the U.S.)
Also, handouts != slides. A good slideshow is sparse, so handouts from it won't have much data. Try to put enough in the slides to make them useful as handouts, and they'll be a mess as slides.

Steve Jobs' unveiling of the iPhone is on YouTube. Watch it! Learn from the master. And watch his slides, and imagine how awful they'd be as a handout, and enjoy how awesome they are as support for his verbal presentation.
You've never passed a callback to a JS function?
Redaction is the pebble in the shoe of anyone reading this. How frustrating to not just be able to read it. It allows the gov. to say, you're not seeing it in the full context. well, no shit, we can't see it in it's full context. frustrated!
Trust is not just in the form of the institution itself being established and trustworthy, though that's important.

It's also whether the institution can effectively do cyber and key security. This is where a non tech first company like Chase would have a lot of trust to build.
I got this one [0] for $79 and it works great.

[0]: https://crane-usa.com/product/1-3-gal-warm-cool-mist-humidif...
Isn’t the real problem here having too many cooks in the kitchen?

If you have a small number of people who have access to your production environment, and they practice their trade like they are actually trusted with said production access, that provides a very small attack surface which can be analyzed and hardened.
Brute force. Usually people put a simple one
What if the passphrase gets stolen as well?
In theory the correct way to send analytics when leaving the page is via navigator.sendBeacon, although it's not clear how reliable it is: https://volument.com/blog/sendbeacon-is-broken (note: read the comments for some rebuttals to the article)
Depends on the events you are tracking.
It's a pretty huge problem: How do we move forward or know how to act or what to do if we can't get any unfiltered and unbiased factual information whatsoever?
I am no longer on the journalists' sides here.

They are right that "raw power" is being wrestled from them by social media.

I am glad to see it, after seeing one-too-many hitjobs and too much activism all emanating from a singular and rapidly narrowing worldview.
Some of the action in the hyperactive cold-war thriller 'Atomic Blonde' takes place in a cinema showing a screening of Stalker [0].

I always wondered whether this was an intentional contrast in tempo given that the other cultural references in Atomic Blonde are music-based [1] and much more contemporary with the late-80s setting of the film

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Influence_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Blonde#track_listing
>The spring is coming, ending the wave like last year.

hight of first wave in Israel was end of march. in Israel it just really started in march.

on average it was in the last weeks colder than last year.
You don't!, forcing it, when the student isn't ready or doesn't care, is the source of students becoming numb to subjects and in some cases hate it for the rest of their lives without ever understanding them
Hey dudes, looking for supercool SaaS design company, which will help us to redesign our project.
Thanks!
Doesn't firefox for android use goolag analytics?
The punycode algorithm is bizarre!
>It’s hard to even communicate about the intellectual center of cryptocurrency, because so much discussion is framed in terms that have no meaning (i.e. “decentralized”, “blockchain”, etc) and the technical obscurantism and mystique is an inescapable and intrinsic part of the investment thesis.

I stopped reading here. The writer is obviously a luddite who doesn’t even want to understand the topic, he just wants to smash all the new machines because he is afraid.
You've got it. This is a complete stack (sdc + lx-brand, sdc-docker, vxlan/portolan) fully benefiting from Illumos's architected OS virtualization.
The problem is nobody knows what's in the contract. What is the liquidation preference? etc.
> This was a substantial threat to democracy as we know it.

The US democracy is not threatened by violence against any single building or even most sets of people.

Had they burned the building to the ground and somehow caused the deaths of everyone inside, the US democracy would continue. They did not achieve anything remotely close to that.

There is no basis for calling some angry rioters smashing windows and smoking pot "a substantial threat to democracy". None.
I love how they give you plenty of time before ultimatum /s
After all, the noose on display outside of the capital is a symbol it diversity. /s
So basically you're saying that a robotics company that periodically ships impressive robot demos should be worth more than a weird video game for kids?

IMO while I tend to agree that achieving what Boston Dynamics did is surely the bigger engineering achievement, that doesn't say much in the company's position in the market.

Also here's a more positive narrative: Why not celebrate that online kids games are now evaluated more than military technology!
Great for you! Here everyone (including the carpenter, plumber, bank/finance people and more) almost expects you to have whatsapp. Even some of the biggest businesses are on Whatsapp offering product/order updates, customer service and more. Not to mention every friend of yours would constantly pester you to be on it. I guess one could live without it, but it will be pretty uncomfortable and you'll lose touch with almost all of your friends and relatives.
His message repeated the same tired stolen election stuff then urged protesters to peacefully go home and respect law and order.

I saved and linked the video in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668883
I agree. The risk from this intrusion is not a whole lot different (and considerably more overt) than from the access that any number of other people have had to this building in the past. (Tour guides, visiting civilians, contractors, cleaners, ...).

Professional attackers were not waiting to follow a Jamiroquai knock-off around during an event whose CCTV footage will be heavily scrutinized.

(See for example (50 years ago) https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-...).

This may be a good incentive to review policies such as full disk encryption and proximity-card workstation lock/unlock but pulling miles of CAT-6 from this building is not a sensible response: defenses _should_ already account for this sort of threat. If purple team has not already "what if"'ed this particular variant of the evil maid problem then that's a serious issue but clearly weak physical security was already a known feature of the threat model.
It's not even the algorithms themselves, it's human behaviour and the magic "engagement" metric.

Of course, it's also a self-reinforcing thing; there's articles telling people to put reaction faces on their preview images to increase engagement, there's articles telling people to use jump cuts, enthousiastic / shouty voices, certain microphone / camera setups, etc. Thousands of "do this ONE TRICK to boost your engagement on youtube by 0.34%" kind of articles and tutorials, trying to cargo cult aspiring video makers into doing the same thing that some of the top youtubers do.

I'll stick to my series of disembodied hamhands and Scottish space nerds, thank you.
Location: Seattle, WA or surrounding areas

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Interests include HPC and distributed computing, but more than willing to explore other fields.
Bluewaters sounds exactly like a name from a scifi novel too . . .
That's a picture of a floppy disk in a museum, though -- and it too probably contains the disassembled source code :)

If I had to guess, the only people who had access to the original source are rtm, whoever he gave it to, and whoever accessed his account at Cornell when they looked through his homedir.

And it's unlikely that any of them would have distributed it. Remember, at the time this code was potentially really dangerous; this was essentially a new type of attack that folks weren't really ready or prepared to defend against.
Very true. His complaints on how the functionally infinite artboard space of a computer fixes the problem of “clutter” is sheer madness.

That’s not to say that Apple’s completely justified in this case. Even though the different apps are pulling data from the same source, there’s enough functional difference to the fans of a team that the clutter would be justified.

On the other hand, Apple is correct in that this is why in-app purchases exist.
one assumes that this is just the converse of a spam score...
Weird to see this on HN. My friend wrote it and published it himself.
The simplest message in the most creative manner. I thought it was perfect to post to HN!
Wasn't this posted to HN almost a year ago? Is there something that makes this relevant again?
I'm curious to hear what your definition is of a good looking and well-designed website/app.

In my mind, a well-designed website is simply something that delivers functionality in an unobstructive way. What's wrong about the 4 websites listed above?
I think you have drastically misunderstood my argument.

To use your analogy, let's say Bob is constantly stealing from you. You urgently need some essentials, and you say, "I know, I can steal them from Bob." But somebody stops you and says, "Wait, you don't want to do that! If you steal from Bob, he'll steal from you!" You would probably not find this persuasive, because you know Bob will steal from you regardless. There probably are good arguments you can make against stealing from Bob, but that particular one doesn't jibe with reality.
And so it starts ...
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002037
Get used to seeing more and more of these types of submissions as the HN user base grows. Digg and Reddit both used to be great sources of tech news, but are now filled with these sentimental posts, countless memes, and tons of left wing politics.
It's really more a translation of karma.

At any rate, I vastly prefer it to the "Golden Rule." Whenever anyone goes on about it, I always say, "what about masochists?" It may sound a trite response, but I think it's a really important aspect of a moral system that people are different, and you should think about what they want, not what you would want in that situation.
EC2 is NOT cost-effective at all for hash computations as I describe in detail in:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42

(This is the machine I built to develop whitepixel).