jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal evidence, but I did well on the SAT and spent very little money. I bought a few books, but easily could have pirated them online (like I did for all of my AP tests previously).

I think the SAT is likely more egalitarian than extracurriculars, although I cannot comment on its effectiveness as an indicator for college performance.

Someone who has to work after high school to support their family would not have the time or energy to play sports, do choir, run clubs, etc. But they could go to the library, pirate some books, print out the pages and practice 20 minutes a day starting 10-12 months ahead of time. It would be more difficult, of course, but I still think studying for a test is easier and cheaper than having extensive extracurriculars.

Anecdotally, I've also always heard SAT test prep is a waste of money.
So what happens to people refuse to work for the cops in other countries? "Sorry for bothering you, bye-bye"?
If someone criticizes government, they can erase his global entry.
Is it possible that Firefox market shares are skewed because of the users disabling telemetry/enabling privacy features?

How to even account for that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376874

> [1] Jelly Bean chips are those that are made in batches of 1 - 10 million with a set of functions that are fairly specific to their application.
Notable that the two post authors sign it with " - Chrome", indicating I presume they are Chrome team members.
At my workplace:

Jira is all over, sometimes customized and tweaked, but we could be convinced to switch. Jira licensing has become a big problem.

For security reasons, we have dozens of little disconnected networks. Each one needs a separate server with a separate license, purchased separately. All software updates have to come via physical media, typically a DVD-R. That's way too many enterprise licenses to purchase.

It's like that with all types of software. If we want Ubuntu updates, we mirror the entire Ubuntu repository onto physical media and then carry that into the room. The physical media is then destroyed, even if it is a hard drive. You're not getting info out of that room.

Usually we want to deploy on a plain Ubuntu box. Sometimes we might use VMWare.

Network speeds are normally fast, but sometimes a whole-network VPN (not browser based, not on a workstation) connects sites that are 1000 miles apart. Be sure to always test your software with high network latency.
I've played this before, it's satisfying to see tour computer go from individual relays to a device controlling a rover.
Art imitates life until life imitates art.
I think it's a good feature. The FB text box is almost insulting in its lack of features and options.
I remember this being somewhat associated with the rise of Java and the adoption of XML as a serialization format for the Java platform. There was an accompanying trend in which XML became the hammer with which to strike all the illusory nails, VR being one of them. I was always impressed by the degree to which things in the XML and web standards space were over engineered and abstract. It makes me think of that quote in which a famous mathematician (can't remember who, Hilbert maybe?) said that the point of mathematics was to avoid saying anything about anything. So too for a certain kind of engineering except we end up avoiding doing anything.
You bring guitar into the idea of an alter ego without https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead
> like how mindfulness increases selfishness in those who think that their existence is independent from the existence of others

... If one was really being mindful, they'd eventually see that the existence of their "self" is only possible in relation to others existing. So there's the self and the other, but in essence, one.

And that's one of the reasons the golden rule makes so much sense.

So I wouldn't blame mindfulness for any side effects. Negative side effects are the result of the ego/self creeping back into the picture.
If you want to ban Google, then just ban Google. You don't need to set this kind of awful precedent while you're doing it.

This weird, "we hate Google, so we're going to pass this massive indirect law that reinterprets fair use, but only applies to them" is pointless and counterproductive. If you don't believe that Google is providing any value, then ban search engines and see how the people of Australia react. But I don't actually believe that the problem people have here is that they think users are forced to look up websites through Google.

If that was the problem, then people on both sides would be encouraging Google to pull out of Australia. It's nonsensical to say that indexing websites isn't a valuable service.
You might not have expected it, but privacy protection is not any sort of obligation encoded in any extant concept of Free Software.
Then write them a ticket. Don't be passive aggressive.
Better than Remington’s fate: being bought out by Cerebus
As a possible alternative, what if we just prohibited the use of passively collected data for monetization purposes? Instead, if a company wanted to do targeted advertising, they would have to ask you explicitly about your preferences, kind of like how YouTube sometimes throws up those interest surveys.

This is still a nascent idea; I don’t know how this would be enforced, and there are a lot of blurry boundaries. I think this would be an interesting thing to explore.
Indeed. Their 17 HMR with varmint barrel is a whole lot of fun and really accurate. (Same caliber as a BB gun but with a lot more powder, in case you’re not a gun geek)
Has hacker news not heard of Virtual Machine Appliances?

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/

You can buy VM Images that do all sorts of things with no configuration whatsoever. Multiple VMWare images running on customer hardware is an alternative solution for this company if they're trying to sell to people like Cisco and AT&T etc.
They go into it in the actual paper, if you're interested. They wanted a document store because their data is flexible (all different sizes and shapes), complex, and they needed secondary indexes. They didn't need transactions and MongoDB was very fast.
Hey ig1,

We have a pretty high reorder rate so the cumulative effect of the sponsorship will probably be more than double the initial sales.
I'm not familiar with swift, but in Haskell, you can't write the following:

flatMap :: Either e a -> (a -> Either e b) -> Either e b
flatMap x f =
case x of
Left _ -> x
Right x' -> f x'

In the case expression, you have to write `Left err -> Left err`, because `x` here has the type `Either e a`, but `Either e b` is expected.
Saying that all systems have intelligence == anthropomorphizing all systems IF AND ONLY IF you consider intelligence to be a uniquely human trait.

A more useful distinction for the realm of intelligence could be 'designed intelligence vs. grown/evolved intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence vs. natural intelligence'; however, stuff like reinforcement machine learning is then neither, or perhaps a hybrid form of intelligence. In the end the pragmatic value of the concept intelligence is low, both for systems as for humans.
Unless you have a very, very, very high tolerance for pain, you should be using Twilio. It abstracts away the entire telephony piece of that puzzle and lets you interface with it using, basically, standard web programming tricks, callbacks, and REST APIs. You don't have to worry about phone lines, concurrency (except as relates to a web application), etc.

Acceptable alternatives on the same model include Tropo and Plivo.

If you're dead-set on running your own telephone equipment, then get a book on Asterisk and may God have mercy on your soul.

(Context: I'm a boring ol' systems engineer who runs several hundred users sending thousands of messages a day from an only modestly complicated Rails app which uses Twilio. Up until a few days ago it fit comfortably on a 2 GB VPS. We use Twilio to provide users with numbers that they can call in and record messages on, and then we do interesting things to those recordings and then repurpose them in a scalable fashion.)
I would at least like them to:

1) state in their Privacy Policy somewhere that they are using end-to-end encryption and they can't see the messages - this means that if they change that later and get caught, they could get in trouble with the FTC

2) show me somewhere in the app that I'm using end-to-end encryption. This should teach their users that they are using end-to-end encryption, and it would make many more angry if they find out they are "lying" if they're using that interface but without actual end-to-end encryption behind the messages

Unfortunately, Whatsapp hasn't even made an official statement about adopting end-to-end encryption. Only Moxie has. So right now Whatsapp gets all the benefits of the media attention from "using end to end encryption", without having to hold themselves to that promise at all ("hey - you didn't see us say anything anywhere about using end-to-end encryption, did you?!").

So I don't necessarily want to see the source code, but at the very least they should publicly and legally commit to using end-to-end encryption.
>>> Western business culture is primarily "profit is the end that justifies the means"

This is certainly not true as otherwise there weren't as many charitable funds sponsored by businesses and as many publicly useful things done by those.

>>> exploit any person, resource or environment to their|it's detriment

That is not true either, moreover - this is not true even if we accept your previous premise. There's nothing in making profit that mandates that it would be to the detriment of any person, resource or environment. Moreover, not ruining the resource supporting your business is certainly more conductive to the profit than ruining it, since it allows to extract profits for the longer period of time, so even from pure profit-driven approach you are wrong.

>>> Equality, helping those in poverty, cultural benefit, elimination of crime - none of these are Western business ideals; they're cultural constraints placed on businesses

Equality taken as equality of citizens before the law is certainly good for business, since inequality usually means inability to conduct certain profitable deals. E.g. when there were place "for white people only" in US, it meant profitable business involving non-white persons could not be conducted there. Crime is obviously bad for almost every business (maybe excluding security guard and alarm systems business).

>>> Now not all businesses are so immoral - but I'd say immorality is indicative of "Western business practices"

Since western business practices is nothing more but Western people conducting a set of voluntary transactions, you've just called the whole set of Western people inherently immoral. Not only this smacks of racism, it is certainly not matching the observable truth of Western people having a lot of morals guiding them.

>>> when those businesses get to exploit people and environments that aren't being monitored and aren't subject to legal protection that's when the abuses of the business ethic rear their head.

Oh, I see what you mean. Western people are immoral in general, but there is a tiny sliver of them - those that enact and enforce the "legal protection" - i.e. the government - that are the moral backbone of the Western society. As soon as the person joins the government, they become moral, and able to enact the protections derived from their freshly gained morality, and as soon as they leave the governmental aegis, they revert to their natural immoral state and only the "legal protections" keep them from running rampant exploiting people around them.
Copying entire works (even a blog post counts) is not fair use.
Just don't give up man - keep pushing to expand your comfort level.

Discipline is something that can be learned, that's why they teach it so much in the military.

Difference here is you have to force yourself through the pain once you want it bad enough. It will be worth it.
Jim was an actual guy, and I wish I had spent more and more time talking with him.
Very true, though I think the OP should have used some judgement. In this case, the submitted article is a short paragraph, followed by a link to the interesting content. It seems like a no-brainer to submit the interesting content rather than the submitted article.
> So the government can somehow hack into the NYTimes editing process and put a retraction of some earlier claim into the newspaper, all without the NYTimes staff cooperating?

Can you come up with a concrete example of how such a court order might come about in a case that the government is intervening in in this manner?

> Similarly, if A is constantly harassing B, B should just shut up and take the money the government pays him in compensation, along with the harassment that isn't being stopped?

See above.

> Are you sure that is the outcome you are advocating for?

It's difficult to know, since these seem to have no relationship to any hypothetical case I can come up with.
I've never met a person that was bothered by the Apple logo.

Hi, nice to meet you. Love my macbook air, best laptop I ever owned. If I had the option to get one without the logo on the lid I'd happily pay $50 extra.
I doubt spending on AWS scales linearly with company revenue so I'm not sure why the author thinks amazon is getting a "cut" from competitors.
Those days are long gone. Even in an deeply embedded world like automotive or AV equipment, code is (or can be) frequently updated.
"That sort of presupposes that your wants should be satisfied as a matter of course, no?"
no.. 'should' is such a misleading term. like i said, this is not a moral issue. 'wants' as a matter of definition 'want' to be satisfied. and from experience, once you remove impediments from peoples 'wants' (en masse) they have no natural inclination to limit themselves. the power dynamic exists purely because 'want' is your weak point in a trading situation, and my ability to keep that from you is my strong point (my weak point is my need to eat).

your example of the coconut is perfect in fact, it dehumanises or de-moralises the idea. the coconut evolved with its fruit/seed high up, hard to crack, heavy and slow germinating. however it came to be, it is resistant to birds eating it and germinates near the shoreline dispersed by the tides. other fruit evolved to be eaten and dispersed by birds. no morals, just different distribution methods. different power differential.

"This is simply not true - there is a fixed cost of supply."
no, there is a fixed cost of creation. supply is unlimited (virtually). the media industry got rich precisely due to the fact that a fixed cost of creation could scale up to massive increase in distribution virtually for free (at scale). and here we are only talking about that small percentage of artists who seek to leverage their fix cost of creation to make the same money time and time over. it is arbitrage on an artificially limited supply. now the industry is feeling the flipside of this 'free' distribution.

"So what you're saying is that you want to be entertained and have your ego stroked"
no. but reading back, i see how you thought that. what i mean is that artists have to respect what consumers pressure points, and their understanding of value is and respond to that rather than to keep pushing shit uphill, so to speak. understand that perhaps the time is gone when an artist can receive 10x value from 1x work. because now to put that 1x work out to a market where the market decides whether it will pay or not completely changes the power dynamic. it forces the artist to foster a relationship with their patrons.

also, as an aside, i put forward a point of view about power dynamics in trade and about the non-existence of morality in this issue. i get the feeling that you are trying to moralise not only about the existence of piracy (which imho is in itself a profound misreading of reality) but about me, about which you know nothing. i find this vaguely offensive.

if you care to know, the existence of piracy, abundance of content, and the leverage of being one of thousands of eyeballs has allowed me to shift from being a powerless consumer to being a producer, and a patron, as i please. which is awesome.
I would estimate 100-500k, or a stock deal at around 5%

closest comparable I found is routes.com for 100k
"I'm eager to see what people do with these."

Is anybody else thinking "custom built rainbow tables for any algorithm you like, delivered directly into your S3 bucket in under 1 hour for $25"?

(I wonder how much this means I should up the bcrypt workfactor to keep my password hashes secure from typical website crackers?)
Last week, a guy from Microsoft Research said that they got multiple cameras in the same space working, but that others in the lab had problems with it. Seems to depend on the setup, but is obviously possible
For other submissions and discussions, here's a search you might find useful/helpful.

http://searchyc.com/submissions/cpu+minecraft?sort=by_date

I have no experience of Minecraft at all, so I have no real idea what's going on in these videos. I've watched a bit, but can't figure out what's going on.

And that's interesting to me for a slightly strange reason.

I give lots of talks about math and computing, and sometimes i can see in my audience a complete disconnect with what I'm talking about. They have no idea why it's cool that there's a square root of -1 modulo 101, but not mod 103, even when I've been talking about the motivation and the reasons.

They have the knowledge, but not the experience. The experience can make all the difference between "getting it" and "not getting it".

It's not enough to read books, blogs and articles. It's not enough to listen to talks and join in conversations. Seomtimes you ahve to do it for yourself, to get your hands dirty, to build an intuition based on direct personal experience, and not just conveyed second- or even third-hand knowledge.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett

----

(Of course, there's always: No. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda)
If anyone's interested, I can just post the kernel memory allocator lab for the Northwestern OS class. Everyone probably should have written at least a user-space memory allocator once (it's probably the kind of question I'd ask for interviewing).
No wiki page for Bitcoin, perhaps now they get one?
I predict Amazon's rank in the top500 is about to improve.
That's a really interesting idea. I was thinking it might have performance implications but I think that will only apply to the password validation. How do you make sure the mapping key doesn't cause collisions when you roll it to reset everyone's passwords?
It was strange to read your comment as I did almost the same thing. I was there in the fall/winter of 1993. I hitched around a bit as well, mostly on tractors because of the whole windows rolled up while smoking thing.

I remember the motto of the PTT (the Turkish telephone monopoly) was "A phone in every village!" They were nowhere near reaching that goal when I visited and it was normal to feel pretty cut off if you went to villages even slightly off the beaten track. It's an experience that's tougher to get nowadays, maybe even impossible in anything short of total wilderness.
why do i want to cry when i see those pictures?
(a) one case I sat on in Massachusetts, the statute was written very obtusely and the judge said she was not allowed to give us the statute in writing. The jury literally went back in 3 or 4 times to ask for the instructions and statute to be read again.

There was the statute, which then referred to other places for definitions of 4 or 5 terms, which also had to be read. Keeping a statute and the definitions in your head is not simple. Lawyers don't make their arguments in the absence of being able to reread the written law. Appeals courts can read the law when making judgments. But for some reason, as a jury, we were expected to keep it all in our head.
[Chesterton's] leisure pastimes included an eclectic mix of the unfashionable and the bohemian—- sketching, collecting weapons, and playing with the cardboard cutouts of his toy theater.

My hero for the day.
Yep. Since mid-sized cities are so much smaller than a place like New York or Chicago, the inner-ring suburbs may be the same size geographically as a metropolitan downtown. It's the best of both worlds for cycling: similar route distances but on much quieter roads, for improved cyclability. You end up with most of the amenities of both the downtown and the burbs.
Reputation is a feature of identity. Tor users are, by definition and intent, unidentifiable. Opting out of identification naturally opts one out of reputation, as is the case in reality as well — for example, Anonymous using Guy Fawkes masks to prevent reputation from being associated with their citizenship identity.

I don’t understand why Tor users would be interested in reputation at all, given the implicit identification it requires.
Swiftscan maybe the solution! They are still not well in the organizing segment,but seems to do the job on the digitizing part at least. I'll check,thanks a lot for making me aware.
Actually while monks do depend on alms it depends what Buddhist tradition you come from. In many schools of Mahayana ('Great Path') Buddhism all animal produce is to be rejected.

It's impossible to declare "the only thing the Buddha said" because the Pali and Sanskit writings we have today are accounts of the aural teachings from the Buddha written 500 years or more after his death. More than that while there is a lot of agreement over parts of the canon there is also disagreement over other parts leading to various traditions and schools of Buddhism.
Nice post, but I prefer to see the whole story instead of having that break down in 3 days...
That was my first thought... who on earth thought that a number (albeit 64-bit) would be enough for Twitter? Who even thought that a 32bit int would have been enough?

I didn't know that Javascript couldn't handle numbers bigger than 53-bits, but honestly, these should have been strings from the beginning.
>My instant reaction is to put my life in risk to injure the assailant, which is wrong because you never know how that person ended up doing what he/she is doing.

It doesn't matter. They probably have a very hard life, and that's sad, but ultimately it doesn't matter. It is completely moral to defend yourself against an assailant, and if that involves injuring them (or even killing, if necessary), then so be it.

This is an inspiring story in its way, even though I reject the thought processes of the victim. But I wonder what happened to the kid afterwards. If he gave up his life of crime, then great; if he continued to mug people, not so great.
Twitter sometimes does purges and people are bleeding followers and followings left and right whenever that happens. And apparently another purge just happened. Twitter says they're just getting rid of bots, but maybe you got caught up in it.
Building next Singapore on high seas?
> if your UX designer is doing their job, you will never even think about them.

UX is not something you can stitch on afterwards. Good UX is deeply ingrained in engineering and an omnipresent, pervasive focus of the team. I think that's what parent is referring to in regards to what Google is lacking.
If you use apple to process the transaction then I would say yes. If you do it some other way ie paypal then probably not.

They would of course take 30% of the cost of the app if it wasn't free.
Can anyone explain this in terms that a nonprogrammer like myself might understand? This sounds stupefyingly interesting, but I have no idea.
> collection of files which can be distributed by others.

You mean like the Anarchist's Cookbook that was passed around on BBS' in the late 80's/early 90's? I was 12 when I first had it emailed to me on AOL in the early 90's. Pretty sure it's still floating around all over the place too.