jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Around the world, there are many different patterns of regulation of drugs, and here in the United States, schedule I controlled substances like LSD can be used for legitimate medical research. Research on new drugs is a multibillion dollar industry in several different countries. But there is a dearth of well statistically controlled studies of the safety and effectiveness of LSD for any purpose. Indeed, medical research more often pursues the issue of how to help emergency room patients who appear for treatment of psychotic symptoms triggered by illicit use of LSD.

On the specific issue of programmer or scientist creativity and productivity, that too is a much researched field, but again there are not well controlled studies showing that anyone increases productivity or creativity in any occupation while using LSD. The checkered academic career of Timothy Leary is instructive in this regard. What research shows makes a huge difference in the productivity and work quality of programmers and scientists is steady deliberate practice building up problem-solving skills and growth mindset, along with accumulation of domain-specific knowledge.

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/6/6.055/readings/eric...
I tried it and found it really useful.

It is especially useful for people like me who aren't very well versed in CSS. I guess you should market it as WYSIWYG CSS template builder.
Get a lawyer. What you're doing may be legal (I believe it is), but you still do need to worry about getting sued. It sounds like they're just trying to push you around, get a lawyer to check what you're doing is fine and respond to them with a letter containing lots of legal noise that basically means "piss off".
Zwapp is a neat product, but using sysctl to detect background processes (and therefore other installed applications on the device) would make me really nervous.

Apple has a tendency to shut down interesting workarounds they didn't anticipate -- and while Zwapp's all opt-in, sysctl can just as easily be used by an ad network to get more context for targeting. At that point the feature bounces from security researcher to tech press to class-action troll to grandstanding politician, and then it goes away, leaving Zwapp in a bind.

I wish Apple would allow users to explicitly give an app permission to see their installed apps. App discovery's still a huge problem.
Clearly there is a function in which an impassioned minority can overcome an apathetic majority in America right now (indeed, gay marriage, kind of the poster child for QV right now, was pretty much exactly that scenario). Presumably if you're the kind of person who wants QV, you regard the current method as insufficient or inefficient or both. (Personally, I think that QV is interesting, but I don't ultimately favor it).

Again, though, you're kind of weirdly trying to talk about situations with impassioned majorities. They already win. If they really want to pay extra to win by tons more, well, they're wasting their money.

If your ultimate point is that quadratic functions don't increase fast enough ("the wealthy have exponentially more wealth"), then just choose a faster-increasing function. As I pointed out in another sub-thread, 2^n means that the 20th extra vote you buy would cost 1,000,000 times as much as the first extra vote you buy, and the 100th vote you buy would cost more money than anyone has ever or will ever have. That should pretty solidly allay concerns that the top 5% or top 1% will ever buy a majority that way, while still leaving open some interesting things that happen with a minority of 20% or higher. (Personally, I doubt that an exponential function would be necessary, though a polynomial function of higher order than quadratic might).
We simply touch too many different code platforms to RTFM/RTFD on everything.

Just today I have probably worked with at least 20 code libraries with their own documentation, and most of those libraries will be replaced within 3 years from now.

I think reading the documentation for everything that a webdev works with now could be a full time job in itself.
here is my story bro. https://medium.com/@veermishra0803/90-days-at-a-startup-acce...
It is very rare for people in countries where cards have PINs to both lose a card and give away the PIN to the thief. Banks have educated customers well enough to not write the PIN on the card.

Likewise, a PIN-protected Bitcoin hardware wallet is reasonably pretty secure. You would need a thief with professional equipment to decap the secure chip to access data in the EEPROM that would otherwise be PIN-protected. I would trust this any time over the merchants systems which routinely get hacked over and over.
He's trying to pick on Paul Vixie for such a irrelevant detail. The fact that he had to mention it to boost his ego makes the rest of his post not worth reading.

edit: I also enjoy the reaction of HN readers. It's fun. People take this site too seriously.
You have to be willing to toss anything and everything if it isn't right. The hard part is convincing the boss people that this isn't stupid at all.
Next up: "I'm frustrated because my question on Software Recommendations SE was closed for being 'constructive' and 'a real question'".
Ah I see. I still don't see the point of playing it stupid instead of answer with something like "what were you thinking of?"
Actually 3 years ago.
But they credit original source.
http://habrahabr.ru/post/132668/
Well I wouldn't have turned down the 20% increase I would have taken that to my boss. Did the same thing and was made a counter offer that was better.
Mine tracks bikes well, I think it also uses a camera mounted above the rear view mirror.

It also uses that camera to dip the headlights, which is often tricked by two lights close together (reflectors on bollards or traffic cones). It's also has to wait to see the headlights, where as I can tell they are coming a short time before.
What happens if you define an instance inside of a nested module? When does it become available?
Not the binary or the runtime, since it wraps around some pretty huge stuff.
I wasn't saying the poster was mindless, I was asking if they made their comment mindlessly. I don't yet know anything to make a conclusion about whether they were or weren't mindless in making that comment.
Keep in mind that there are two confounding factors here:

1. The conflict between religion and science is at a much deeper level than "evolution" or any other specific question about facts. Religion is based on belief in the absence of (or even in conflict with) evidence. Science is (or should be) based on doubt even in the presence of evidence. (Quick quiz: Did Albert Einstein waste the last half of his life opposing quantum mechanics?)

I enjoyed Stephen J. Gould's book on the conflict between religion and science, but he rather missed the actual point. ("I make it clear that one can accept evolution and maintain their religious beliefs. They are not mutually exclusive:" yes, at the risk of having to compartmentalize the activities of science and religion; but everyone does that anyway. I like to fancy myself a scientist, but my understanding of most of science is at the level of religion; I don't have enough physics to really evaluate evidence, so I'm just going along based on results. Likewise, I don't have the chemistry or the biology. I suspect the vast majority of any scientists or engineers are in a similar boat, although I know too many of both to expect not to be set on fire for this statement. In any case, I'm mostly going along because I like the results.)

2. "Evolution", on the student side in this article at least, is essentially irrelevant to the lives of the students. (Modulo, of course, the evolutionary medicine points; many of those are as compatible with creationism, though.) This is a course on biology for non-biologists; the facts of biology have no practical, visible effects on their lives. That might change if they go full-crazy and assert something like the immutability of species, but that isn't the mainstream of creationist thought. Whether whales descended from a strange, wolfy sort of critter is as irrelevant to non-biologically inclined students as whether whales' tails are oriented vertically or horizontally to students in Kansas. Or, whether nitrogen compounds are exciting[1].

Teaching evolution in these classes is valuable solely because it teaches an understanding of how science works, which (a) most practising scientists don't really have but which (b) is kind of important if one is going to be dealing with most policy decisions. Which one is. On the one hand, that makes this class one of the most important that the students could take, but on the other it makes this class one of the least important: I don't care if you "believe" in evolution or not if you can make reasonable, reasoned decisions. (Unless you believe the world was created 4000 years ago, all of the evidence otherwise was planted as a trick, and that the god who did so is benevolent. I'm staying away from that guy.)

[1] http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/09/things_i_won...
The searchable (and generally nicer) view of the Archive: http://ifdb.tads.org/
Here's one resolution to the Arrow paradox:

Zeno imagines that the state of the arrow must be represented by a single number--its position. But if its state includes a second number, velocity, the paradox goes away.

Imagine the arrow's life is a game played on a checkerboard. Its column represents its position in space, and its row represents its velocity. On each turn, if the arrow is in the first row, it moves one column to the right; if it is in the second row, it moves two columns to the right; in the third row three columns, and so on.

This game is easy enough to imagine, and represents both time (turns) and space (columns) discretely. No paradox here. No quantum mechanics either.
> By the way, what I can do is hear music in my mind [...] I wonder if other people also experience this.

I remember when I was a kid I told my older brother I could play music in my head just like if I had pressed play in a tape deck. He was really puzzled.

I still can do it and it is definitely accurate. I lack perfect pitch recognition but for some reason when I play music in my head it's played in its original pitch. I use this to my advantage to replace perfect pitch: I just play a song with a known pitch in my head and use that imagined pitch as a relative. This works wonders for interval identification too (e.g. the first two notes in The Simpsons are a tritone apart).
I'll have to take your word for it re. the Android version of Angry Birds, as it fails to run properly on my Android phone, due to the fragmentation problems that Android advocates say are overblown.

http://www.rovio.com/index.php?mact=Blogs,cntnt01,showentry,...

As for iAds, the you're right, I haven't seen any yet, but is there any data yet to indicate that they're more effective/lucrative/gamechanging than the likes of AdMob?
Free contracts are a fiction.

Everyone has obligations that tend to reduce their freedom. The ones who think they don't are called psychopaths.

In personal development, an early stage is to understand that you can be independent. E.g. you can choose how to act and how to react to the outside world.

A higher level of development is to realize that we're inter-dependent. No man is an island.

There will always be constraints on our options. I don't like it, but I'm getting used to it.

There is no absolute freedom, and there are no truly free contracts.
The flyertalk forums came up with this first, and IIRC the mint knows about this now:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milesbuzz/833911-buy-presiden...
Looking forward to being part of it!
there is also a print button :)

not for nothing of course; i usually look for these first.
When Google Checkout first debuted, there was no fee to accept credit card payments (as incitement to get new users). So I once tried to "pay" myself thousands of dollars to get Amex points. Unfortunately, Google did think of stuff like this ahead of time and canceled the transaction, plus sent me an angry email.
UGH DAMNIT stop telling people to deposit them into your bank account, he's ruining it for the rest of us! I get my airline miles, but then I circulate them the way the program is intended. They're great when going out with a group of friends. Everyone has $20 because that's what ATM's spit out, so when I pay with the coins it makes the job of splitting up the bill easier.
I take exception with this point:
"When possible, serve the same content to all browsers. You can use stylesheets and scripts to customize your layout for different display sizes, as in this beautiful site by Jon Hicks."

The mobile experience is about more than just the layout of the page.

Our mobile users are in a completely different mindset than the guy browsing for a few minutes over lunch at his desk. I imagine that's the case for many other sites as well.

The entire reason we made a different mobile version of playlookit.com was because we needed a VERY stripped down and lightweight way to display cell phone pics.

There's a huge difference between the processing power of a Blackberry and it's crappy browser than a MacBook Pro running the latest version of Chrome.

In our case, loading 30 thumbnails and a photo that's wider than the average mobile viewport made for a terrible mobile experience.
Thats Funny :)
brilliant man, and one of my heroes/idols
You're completely wrong. He wants developers, musicians, anyone who releases FOSS content to be compensated for their work if they choose.
Right, hence why I referred to them as a pair.
"3. Lisp syntax is quick and easy to learn."

Yep. This is what a beginner friend told me when we compared it to Java.
I agree...it reminds me of the deal Sirius used to have where instead of paying $12 a month for satellite radio, you could pay $499 one time per device. I think Tivo had a similar deal. The problem was, when these services were new, who knew if they would be around in 5 years, or whether a new service would take their place. In the case of Sirius, HD radio now offers similar service for free, and I prefer to download my TV shows rather than record them. So I was wise not to pay upfront.
That site is s.l.o.w. for me. Wikipedia has the same chart (without the extra trivia, though) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States
I wonder if we'll always have to deal with a world of nubs, or if some day everyone will just "get it." It just blows my mind how little these people seem to grasp about tech-related issues. Especially when privacy is concerned.
So that the US citizens that live there are fully represented.
Given that I was surprised that SNS wasn't mentioned, I think I mean SNS, given they are both queuing services.
Their VPS pricing is competitive but pretty much everything else isn't. Specifically, I'm looking at EKS vs DO managed k8s, block storage for VPS's, and so on.
Neither of these links support your claim. The first link says there was a period years ago where it wasn't true, but nothing about the current state. Your second link just shows that people and businesses prefer Tether over USD. It's also surprising that the author did not know that bitcoin is a very common half of a trading pair.
The first one is obviously wrong, which I mean in the sense that anyone who knows what defer is will know that, not in the sense that you've posted an obviously bad post (it is a fair question!). defer is a statement, not a declaration, and does not take effect until it is executed like any other statement. It follows standard structured programming rules; line 2 does not execute until line 1 is done. (A rule so simple and obvious we often don't think about, especially since structured programming has basically won and everything we use nowadays is structured, but it is still a rule that we use in programming.)
You on the AWS Social Media Team or something? People don't want to do business with Amazon.
What does UTM stand for?
Couldn't find it on google or in the FAQ...
HN's dupe detector only kicks in if a story has already had significant attention (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). This is to partly mitigate the randomness of what gets noticed on /newest — we want good stories to get multiple cracks at the bat!

In the future we'll have some sort of karma sharing so earlier submitters get credit also.
Chrome opens fast on slow hard drives too.
It's interesting that you say that. For some reason I felt under immense pressure to get this out quickly, but I wrote that off as paranoia (should've heeded Kurt's warning).

Now that it _is_ out in the wild, I can't wait to see what people do with it slash build upon it.
We got 56,000 page views in the week when this happened to Akshell, but that was largely due to the fact that the story spread to Twitter.

More info for anyone interested here: http://blog.akshell.com/hn-effect/
Relevant to folks here: what do you think a 60% increase in sales in the Netherlands is worth to Hyundai? Divide by the number of hours you think it would take you to redo this page from scratch. Does that strike you as lower or higher than your hourly as a programmer?

Yeah, that's right.
You 'give up' a lot of your rights simply by using public roads.
>Besides, 'fag' is an affectionate term to a /b/tard...

Case in point: at the bottom of the page the survey author says to contact him at "resultsfag@yahoo.com" :-)
I charge $80/hr and I'm in Ohio. Consulting agencies typically charge $140-$180 per dev hour here.
> There's also the present reality that not borrowing money at the present interest rates would be insane. Real interest rates on federal debt are near-zero and have actually gone negative at some points. People are literally paying the government to hold their money. [1]

Except since you're not ever reducing the debt burden, one day that debt will come due and you'll have to refinance it, and who knows what rate that will be. Having a large debt can be somewhat of a time bomb.

(although I agree with the other things you said - and especially the US is in a great situation where its debts are generally in USD which it controls)
If you have some time, I suggest you read http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-Edition-Andrew-Tanen...

You might also want to follow a CCNA course online.
I love the compromise on integer overflow. Default overflow checking in debug mode will keep most Rust programs free of overflow, and that should ensure that if hardware designers ever come to their senses and implement free hardware overflow traps, Rust code can enable them without issue.
Linode is still second to Chunkhost in terms of value at the low-end, free-beta and beta tester discounts aside. Chunkhost has had 512mb for a year now, and still offers 20% more disk space. In my experience Linode's network speeds to be much less consistent and, at their peaks, considerably slower.

Yes, all this probably change when Chunkhost goes stable.
I hadn't really heard of Fossil, so I went to read this post.

The one thing I really, really didn't give a damn about as I went to read a post like this was how everyone who doesn't like Fossil is merely a lazy, ignorant goon.

Whatever. I know bloggers like to gin up pointless arguments for the sake of controversy, but I don't give a shit about that sort of vapidity.
How does IP65 protection of this device compare to IPX7 of Garmin Oregon 450? (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=145&pID=63349#sp...)
Whoah. I bought that book quite a long time ago and never got around to reading it. Thanks for reminding me, it's probably about time to pull it off the shelf and read it.

3. It is better to be first in the mind than to be first
in the marketplace.

Need more context to understand exactly what point this is making. This is either very insightful or just plain weird.

4. Marketing is not a battle of products, it's a battle of
perceptions.

Yeah, absolutely. See OS/2 vs. Windows 3.x

5. The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word
in the prospect's mind.

This may be the most valuable one of all. When you create default mental associations, so that people make decisions on instinct without even considering alternatives, or at least make your brand the "default choice unless there's a compelling reason otherwise" then you're in good shape.

6. Two companies cannot own the same word in the
prospect's mind.

Interesting point.
This will be our first meetup, so join in on the initial discussion for what we hope to be a monthly fixture!
I take it the downvotes mean "No, it is a real challenge to remember four symbols that are used throughout OS X"
I have a question about VPS, hope someone could help and not be much offtopic:

I have a dedicated server (in Softlayer) with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB (which I only use 5 or 6, so it's not an issue) and 2000Gb transfer. Price is 189$ a month.

Is it worth to switch to Linode's 4GB ram plan? I was thinking in getting a new server in softlayer with 12-16GB ram.

tl;dr: is it worth switching from a dedicated to a vps with similar specs?
That's true. On the other hand, Linode is competitive on price and service. Every ticket I've submitted has gotten a response within a couple hours. That's pretty good considering how much I'm paying. Honestly, I don't know why someone would get a vps from a different company.
What is preferable about Slicehost compared to Linode? They seem extremely similar to me (I've researched it a fair amount), except that Linode's prices are way better.

I've been with Linode for over a year and never regretted it. This RAM upgrade and a disk space upgrade earlier certainly help!
He/she
The word "distributed" is typically used to describe a system that consists of separated units. Decentralization is a more complex idea, but basically means that the authority of the system is distributed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization
It was also written by a noted biographer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson) and was based on many primary sources:

> The book was based on over forty interviews with Jobs over a two-year period right up until shortly before his death. Isaacson also drew on conversations with friends, family members, and business rivals of the entrepreneur whose vision revolutionized computing, music, phones, animated films, and publishing

It also was published shortly after his death (AFAICT Musk is still alive)
> Simply asserting that they are wrong will not change things

No one is “simply asserting”. They’ve dragged this to court and had ~60 cases thrown out for a lack of evidence. They’ve made the choice to ignore this and acted out, violently, at the prompting of their favorite social-media driven personalities.
Censorship opposes the free market of ideas. Maybe it's a private company, but it doesn't make sense to use that principle to justify a behavior that kills free markets, economic or not.

At best it's hypocritical, taking advantage of competition at the market level, but then preventing that competition within your company, then praising one and condemning the other. It's not consistent, platforms need to be platforms and let the information flow instead of control it.
No? We ban the people on those platforms that are creating such plots.
How can the bans (being de-platformed) be more horrific than the actual violence that's occurred?
I find constantly being lied to pretty dystopian. There's a significant cost to parsing, filtering, and refuting lies at both the individual and social levels. Perhaps we should consider trying to quantify that.
presumably they are referring to https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

"Two out of three Democrats also claim Russia tampered with vote tallies on Election Day to help the President – something for which there has been no credible evidence."
I very rarely hear this hope expressed and I struggle to believe it—can you elaborate?
Unbelievable you’re getting downvotes @jedberg, probably one of a handful of people in this conversation with actual hands-on experience.