jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you have to go as far a mental hospitals. If you just build half decent government funded accommodation it deals with a lot of the problem. Plus maybe the odd visitor to help them fill forms etc if they are not capable of doing that. It surprises me that the US doesn't do more of that.
Faster than LuaJIT? ;)
He was talking about college level CS instructors, not about developers, senior or otherwise.
I had some very insignificant ad revenue on my hot rod blog, but it was to the tune of two or three dollars each month... :) I do enjoy writing but I am more looking for something with recurring revenue, that I can improve and iterate on.

Thanks for reminding me that there is more to money making than just products and services!
You should only talk about things you understand. For the rest, use questions.
That's not a Bitcoin address, it's an AES key for bittorrent sync.
kdiff3 works on mac
I'd suggest anyone who has a real interest in this checks out the Symantec dossier:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/w32stuxnet-dossier

The virus was first identified in late 2008, and was in the wild, in various forms until June 2010 when it was identified and advertised to the world. Let's assume it went 2 years from release to June. That's a relatively long time, even if half of that was reconnaissance.

To quote the Symantec document:
"Thus, the targeted system is using Profibus to communicate with at least 33 frequency converter drives from one or both of the two manufacturers, where sequence A is chosen if more Vacon devices are present and sequence B is chosen if more Fararo Paya devices are present."

The upshot (to my understanding) is that only one type of frequency converter drive can be targeted per bus. If the buses are mixed, e.g. 50/50, only half the drives on that bus will be targeted.

Additionally, if the bus has less than 31 devices on it, then it is not targeted. We can assume that at least a few of these buses were not hooked up to a full compliment of converter drivers.
What is it about this subject that encourages such hyperbole and overgeneralization?

For what it's worth, I looked it up (thanks linkedin) and the author of this piece spent four years at some place called Linfield College in McMinville, Oregon, getting a BA in History, Philosophy, French and German. It's possible that her personal experiences may not generalize.
Let me start by saying that I absolutely love my WP7 phone (I've had both an LG Quantum and now a Samsung Focus). I can't imagine having to go to Android, and I'm not a fan of iOS either.

This author misses one big thing in all of his reasons. The average consumers don't care about these technical issues.

Now that WP7 phones have 'cut and paste' and most of the other features of comparable phones (except a front-facing camera) so consumers aren't going to be concerned about update schedules, Microsoft not standing up to partners (why would you 'stand-up' to partners, you want to work together), and most of the other reasons in this article.

A consumer goes into a store, speaks to a staff member (hopefully knowledgable) plays with the device and picks the one which they like best, most of which is probably based on appearances and ease of use and what everybody else has/recommends.

Microsoft has done an amazing job with the phone UI. They are showing lots of promise and commitment to the platform. Android was able to take significant market share, and there is no reason to believe that WP7 won't be able to do the same.

Early numbers aren't realistic as the more people using the phone, the more it gets accepted in the marketplace. There have been quite a few posts on engadget recently where TV shows are overlaying Windows UI onto the non-windows phones. This breeds familiarity and branding. Windows phone UI looks so different from all the other OS's that this is a very strong move.

Plus, it's really good (if you've tried it). I'm not saying that WP7 will absolutely be a success, but if it fails, I doubt it will be for the reasons in this article.
I fought with this, to be honest. I know it can get more people into the funnel. I guess the issue I was afraid of - and decided to try and mitigate - is having to support a ton of free users, when I really need to get revenue coming in through the door.

Once things settle down and I have a nice core set of paid users, then I might consider doing that.

Who knows...this is just the first step, so expect lots of iterations from here on out :)
I guess Google needs those Nortel patents more than ever now, if only to fight off such patent lawsuits against its partners.
Looks like Twitter is a little worried about Ubermedia acquiring Tweetdeck and creating an alternate micro-blogging site..
I didn't even notice that at first.
As a parent who has made this decision myself, I certainly wasn't "happy to" do it. But it's very clear to me that without medication, my child lacked control over his thoughts and actions, and it was affecting his life - school, friendships, etc. - to a degree that was very frustrating for him. He's happier and more successful now. And, it's not a "lifetime supply" for sure - many kids do grow out of it and stop requiring medication by the time they reach adulthood. Some don't, and they can decide where to go from there.
I’m not totally convinced by the narrative that Mark doesn’t trust his own tools so he prefers Signal.

He has tape over the camera of his own computer in Facebook HQ
I have two children with ADHD and myself (non medicated).
Having a child with ADHD is extremely hard. All we try and do is workout the way for them to navigate life with out destroying everything around them.

We haven’t had to medicate them yet but the decision would be a very considered one and weighed up to if it would change their lives for the better.
SAT preparation may be a "Super-competitive category, and it was going to be hard to differentiate." But you could say the same thing about online storage. I guess differentiating, and building something special, comes down to the ability and creativity of the entrepreneur, and knowing yourself enough to know whether you've hit a dead end or not.
Anand Rajaraman's blog post explaining this acquisition: Retail + Social + Mobile=@WalmartLabs. http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2011/04/retail-social-mob...
Me too. I was expecting some physics of the curveball.
Not sure that I see the point of responding this negatively and sarcastically to what seems like a harmless clarification.
That's a pretty high bar that would be pretty controversial if you applied it to other fields.

For example, should we scorn genetics researchers who do not have a credible claim that their organisms will remain harmless after a billion generations of evolution and recombination? That's more or less what many of the anti-GMO arguments boil down to, that we ought to require genetically-modified organisms to be provably safe, both as they exist now, and in all possible future ways they could evolve and interact with other organisms. (And since that bar is very hard to reach, therefore, their arguments go, we should be careful about funding such research to begin with, and definitely shouldn't let any of its results out into the wild, e.g. into crops.)

If anything, the argument there is stronger, because evolving biological organisms that can pose a threat to humans actually exist, whereas evolving machines that can pose a threat to humans are sci-fi, and likely to remain so for a very long time. Why regulate the latter one more stringently?
> Spine does class/inheritance closer to the "JavaScript" way [...]

Nope. See later on in this thread. Backbone uses constructor functions and prototypes, Spine uses Object.create. Both approaches have properties resolved correctly at runtime.

> Spine seems to have given up the separation between Controller & View.

Nope. Spine Controllers == Backbone Views. Spine doesn't have an equivalent notion to Backbone Controllers (although if one were added, I'd imagine it would be called a Router).
Hahaha. Wow, that's hilarious.
The real problem with the 10x programmer idea is that the programmers we all think of do not necessarily write more code, or even write a given piece of code faster, they write more valuable code -- code that most other programmers simply wouldn't or couldn't write.

My favorite example of this is the -2000 lines of code story about Bill Atkinson (QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard):

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
$65B is Hollywood's annual revenue. $100B is Facebook's market cap -- its revenue is $5B (2012). Hollywood's revenue is a plenty big enough prize to chase.
I can get anything I need to done in JS and I have no idea what a closure is. I've even written an emulator in it.

Took me a little while reading to figure out what it is. Apparently it's just using vatiables in a lambda that are from a scope higher than it. I do that all the time, I just didn't know it had a special name. To be fair, I didn't know JS could do lambdas. I've only used them in C# and possibly Python.

Well, I guess it's like a closure when you use functions as methods in objects in JS, since they can be defined with this.MyMethod = function(){...} which can then access the object's stuff.
I've found the changing mask narrative to be fairly nonsensical. Variations of the following

- they're too hard to use so only medical professionals should have them (including chastising people who had masks laying around for whatever reason)

- they don't do anything anyways

- they only stop you from spreading so nobody should wear them in public (even though asymptotic spreading is known to occur)
One other aspect that is important to the innocent-until-proven-guilty system: literally everyone is capable of lying. Who knows how bad it gets in accusations with power differentials involved - pretty much impossible to study. I personally believe that in a family law case it is likely that everyone involved is lying. It is even more common that people are trying to be truthful but just are wrong (consider that in formal testing, people are doing their best to be right and typically get a whole bunch of things they were actively taught wrong - how much worse does it get when they aren't trying to remember?).

There has to be a minimum standard of evidence before we can assume someone is guilty of something; even if bad apples are getting away with crimes. Otherwise the system can only fail.
I’m making a real time visualizer for the VeChain blockchain. Every time data is written to the ledger, a bubble appears with size and color corresponding to the amount of gas paid for the transaction. I have the MVP at https://seevechain.com.
Well they already had at least one breach: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-e...
This argument always pops up but I always forget what fallacy this is..
OS X exposes you to a decent amount of Unix stuff anyway. It’s quite a good compromise imo.
> [3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph

You cited the summary, which may be useful but isn’t legally binding. The actual opinion starts after “Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.”

Also, Kyllo isn’t relevant to your concerns. A microphone and radio which picks up audio and transmits it is a technology which has been around for more than 60 years. Use of that technology has been addressed by the court in Katz and its predecessors, which collectively found that warrantless use by the police of such tech is often prohibited by the fourth amendment.

A more relevant question is whether the fourth amendment would allow police to access records stored by Amazon in the case of conversations picked up by Alexa devices. Usually, such data is fair game (third-party doctrine), but there are some constitutional restrictions (See e.g., *Carpenter v. U.S., 2018). However, even if there were no restrictions, the question is probably moot because other laws (Wiretap Act, Stored Communications Act) restrict police behavior. Basically everyone believes that these restrictions apply to Alexa recordings.

Recently there was a case in which a police department served Amazon with a subpoena for Alexa recordings from the scene of a suspected murder. I don’t remember the outcome in that case, but that too is irrelevant to concerns about warrantless collecting or searching of Alexa data, because there a warrant was or could have been obtained.
These things actually exist?!
Clickable: http://dropulous.com
It's interesting to note that a lot of natural language processing is English-centered. It's clear that English natural language processing is way ahead of the curve, but based on the quality of Chinese results on Google Translate, I take it Asian languages don't do so hot when it comes to natural language processing?
Comparisons with Wave seem lazy.

Wave took something that worked and made it worse -- fewer contacts, bloated app, confusing purpose.

FB is taking something that works and making it better (for its users) -- more streamlined (like chat), less hassle (existing friends list), less noise ('Other' bin).
Fantastic work. The improvements to the I/O manager are well worth the price of admission.

I'm curious, is work underway to see similar gains made in the I/O manager on Windows?

Does Windows provide a similar construct as 'select()' and also something equivalent to the newer epoll/kqueue systems, such that boosting the I/O manager on Windows will be rather trivial, or is the Windows I/O subsystem so different that the GHC I/O manager must be designed completely differently on that platform?
I'm of the opinion that personal data is not like a currency and should not be seen as a form of currency.

If you want to barter then I want to negotiate, no one sided contracts. Can't make a deal? Your loss then.
What about dividing your contacts into circles and only give permission to a specific set?
TLDR the article says that nodes are just a "frontend" and the real work is done by backend which is data-oriented anyway.

tensorflow has python frontend and that is "slow" too, yet it doesn't matter because most of the work is done in C++ and python just compiles that graph to something lower-level
Is English your native language?

> What an idiot comment.

I'm pretty sure you're the one making comments without understanding, here.
Optimal boarding in 2020's seems like you use an app and based on a party's seating location, need for overhead bin, presence at the gate/readiness to board the AI buzzes certain groups into a higher priority lane.
All the shady data schemes and dark patterns in todays idea of software business motivated me to look to my phone as an enemy and using the web cautiously all the time. Actually the idea of hyperconnected future in which 24/7 monitoring of the individuals will be normalised and mandatory makes me cringe. The Internet from force of good is turning to dystopian toolchain by the hour. And all is because we as society cannot find an effective way to limit the greed.
Cool! You should record a demo video and post it here so we can see it in action.
Asia's rivers have by far the highest level of sediment of any continent [1] meanwhile the US has quietly destroyed over 1000 dysfunctional dams in the post war period [2]

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/WR0...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/dam-removals/
I went to lunch once with a few people in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They always complained that they couldn't enter their city in address fields. Likewise, though there are many American placenames which are semantically possessive, they usually lack apostrophes, by policy of the United States Board on Geographic Names.
I think it comes from silly belief that some characters are "dangerous", i.e. application fails to escape data properly and tries to make up for it by forbidding anything that author can imagine to be useful in exploits.
How about U.S. government finally uses some of it's many nukes for good of the world?

No, not on BP headquarters, but blast it in proximity to kill the well?
USB drives or memory are in the range of 10MB/s write and 15MB/s read.

Since you need to both write & read to transfer a file, you are looking at about 7MB/s file transfer which is about 50Mb/s (wireless order of magnitude).

Combined with the inconvenience, the benefits of this system are questionable.
Two experiences:

1. A web site that demands your mother's maiden name for a security verification question. Of course, that's ridiculously insecure, so I entered my wife's mother's maiden name instead. It turns out that it won't accept names less than 4 letters -- which excludes a very large portion of those of Chinese descent.

2. New Jersey has all kinds of regulations governing your identity authentication when you go to renew your driver's license. If your current license mis-matches your documents, you really have to jump through hoops. My problems is that my first name is "Christopher" -- a common enough name -- which is too long to fit in their system's 10-character field. So they only put on my license "C S Wuestefeld", meaning that my name mismatches, ensuring that I'll always have a mismatch, and be subject to their extra verifications.
This is one of the most uncomfortable blog posts I have ever read.
Very cool, my org uses something similar internally as well. It's been adapted for our own specific purposes but was originally based on https://github.com/jcalazan/ansible-django-stack, a similar project to yours.
This is a pretty neat hack! Unfortunately it won't work with my setup of NVAlt [0] (OS X) and Simplenote [1] (iOS). I've got NVAlt hotkey'd so I can bring it up anywhere and use it as a scratch pad all the time that I know will be synced to my phone immediately, the problem being it doesn't use iCloud but rather simplenote's syncing solution, I'd wager to bet that I could do something similar that edits NVAlt's local storage and see if it's auto-synced as well (I bet it is).
It's not difficult to explain. The American government acts in the interests of Americans (or attempts to do so). European governments act in the interests of Europeans. The Chinese government likewise. Their rhetoric reflects those goals. What's the alternative: governments that act against the interests of their population in order to conform to notions of morality that only really apply to individuals?

Governments exist to serve a specific population, not humanity as a whole.
Punish the shareholders too. Companies would soon find themselves ethical.
Raw sockets need root permissions on most platforms.
Yes me too. I’d be happy to pay for WhatsApp if I had an option to, instead of sharing my data with Facebook.

It’s almost like I’m compromising my most personal data for access to essential services and don’t know whether we can call the customer a “king” in this scenario.
I'd never heard of Discworld Noir, but now I want nothing more!
Yes. That and most of the codebase, including the UI abstractions Abobe/Affinity have.
Here you go:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/units

All official GNU software is hosted here: http://savannah.gnu.org
Location : India

Remote : Yes

Willing to relocate : Yes, but after corona

Technologies : Unity, OpenGL, Python

Resume/CV : https://drive.google.com/file/d/13b7_EJOTi4-LbPOGfkgHsOT6UP5...

Email : sguwrinderr@gmail.com
I've met bankers. They want money, and for the most part, have no moral center nor do they consider second order effects (ie beyond them or their primary client).

This is how a lot of people live. They're not evil, just indifferent.
No, it's a desktop app, presumably embedded inside node-webkit or something similar.
Not to be argumentative, but I see very little indication that any "normalization" is happening in Bitcoin prices unless you simply mean that it is trending downwards more steadily over time.

Jan 1, 2014: $770.44
April 1, 2014: $478.72
July 1, 2014: $635.59
October 1, 2014: $381.33
December 31, 2014: $315.33

The numbers above indicate massive volatility. At first glance, it doesn't look as bad from October 1 to December 31, but if you look at the chart then you'll see it went up to $427.24 on November 12 before losing an average of $2.28 per day for a month and a half to get where it is today...

I do agree that the earlier prices were simply based on hype though. Typical buy high and sell low behavior.
Yes.

And some of those will go on to learn those fundamentals, and possibly discover new fundamentals.
Why not buy bitcoin directly?

I get gold trusts, like GLD -- transporting and storing and selling gold is a pain. But it's easy to buy and store Bitcoin using a service like CoinBase. Not to mention the fact that you'll be paying management fees.

I suppose if you wanted to put bitcoin in your IRA this would be helpful.
I was quite surprised when I realized Zed Shaw wrote this.
I ran out of runway for my startup, so I took a contract job as a PM in a well-funded startup that has little or no traction.

Company is full of senior management-type guys who have their eyes on the big payout, but because they're well-funded and don't know what they're doing, they want to offshore everything. That's right: they're offshoring a new product that they themselves do not grasp. The only specs are some existing code they bought and whatever comes out of their mouth in a sales meeting. This makes what would normally be just a clusterfuck turn into a royal, 5-star clusterfuck.

I just saw them take 15 people and 3 months to do what 1 guy could do in 2 weeks. And they did it with 20-hour days, yelling, and all the other drama. If it wasn't destroying people's lives like a meat grinder, it'd be a comedy.

Now I have to find a way to ditch these assholes before they ruin my life too.
Anyone seen a similar run-down for 3D grids?
no its because it is far easier to run a dark-yellow/red light and then hit a car vs. a roundabout where you. will. slow. down. because you see an obstacle, not seemingly open road ahead of you.
As crazy as it sounds some HN users defend ISIS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808630
Most of them are too general for this. I just suspect they were being inconsistent. Look at the trailing `/` in the URLs. Probably they copy-pasted without much thought.
This is a follow up to the article and discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856068
California senator Dianne Feinstein, who appears on this list, also sponsored Consume But Don't Try Programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_...) back in the day.

As long as she's on the ballot, I'll be voting for her Republican opponent, however loathsome.
Close. Postgres has traditionally focused on letting the community provide replication solutions, but we've been screaming so long for one that "just works" that they're finally getting around to building it.

I wouldn't say it covers 95% of the use cases. In fact, I find it very limiting, but if all you need is to make sure your database is backed up it's a great step in the right direction.

That being said, the topology limitations suck. If you lose your master server, you are running in a degraded environment until you can rebuild ALL slaves from scratch. This really sucks if you have a very large database that takes a long time to rebuild.

Postgres 9.0 replication is a great first step, but it's only a step. There's still a lot of work to be done.
I'm not. Power is a seductive mistress.
If your problem is spending too much time on HN, do you really think the solution involves posting on HN?

If this is really a problem, close your browser and never come back here and you'll have a much more productive life. If you find yourself coming up with substitutes, do the same with them. Think of this as your alcoholism, and realize that moderation, while it works for some people, is not an option for you.
I agree...it seems much more akin to sport than militaristic action.

Since sport is pretty much a direct offshoot of war, I think the analogy works ok.