jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not really. These things go slow at first and then all of a sudden. I think Facebook have underestimated the resilience of their network effect to an ultimatum like this. Integrity is a force multiplier, and when you set your integrity to zero it doesn't take long before the rest of your asset is also zero. Anything times zero is zero. Even WhatsApp. How the mighty fall.
It will wrap around both ways and correctly return 0. At least it does on my compiler, I never remember what is part of standard C and what is accident of implementation.

But it won't work for {2000000000, 2000000000}, as stated in the article.
The OP is both right and wrong.

Ballmer may not be the best visionary, product person, or have a good nose for the market.

But I really don't think MS could do anything to compete with the Internet era, and its results would likely be extremely similar with Gates in charge.

Also... let's not be revisionist. Gates was there long enough into the Internet era for us to know what he thought/how he responded. His attitude and approach was quite similar, and in some ways worse.

He was much less complicit to web standards on both the client and server sides.

These days, MS's intranet products retain this approach (Sharepoint), but its Internet ones are really good citizens and saying all the right things (Azure, PHP friendliness. Silverlight is old-school, but still less borg-y than stuff released in Gates-era).
It's only that we have absolutely no reason to use the MS web-stack, and (rightfully)have trust issues that explains their lack of popularity.

So yeah... Ballmer is a dork. But MS's gradual demise is a natural effect of the Innovator's Dilemma and the Internet.
Jay Z and Garth Brooks are also among the best selling recording artists of all time. All three have bigger brands than Spotify. And Swift is currently the best selling artist in the United States, so "bigger artists" is clearly subjective...
Try exploring the yet unharnessed sections of the EM spectrum. We have age-old visible-light porn, Paris Hilton introduced IR-light porn, the TSA pioneered x-ray and millimeter-wave porn, while some researchers dabbled with CAT-scaner machines. There is a huge potential still remaining! Near-UV, far-UV, far-IR (thermal), not to mention luminescence and fluorescence.
They don't mention the price per HIT. If they're paying between $0.01 and $0.05 for these HITs, I'm not surprised by these results.

I looked at the cited paper and did not see the cost, but without the cost I really would not bother interpreting these results. "Machines work for electricity; humans need real money. News at 11."
> One little girl had 6 eggs in her basket by the end. That kid terrified me.

I took our six year-old to an indoor climbing venue last year. She'd never done any kind of climbing before (although always seemed to be "climbing on" anything/everything at playgrounds and in kindergarten, particularly things that aren't really designed to be climbed. Had had a few interactions with gravity, including landing on her face at a playground, one of the reasons that prompted me to check out options for some proper climbing instruction for kids)

We pitched up, she met the trainer, she's the youngest in the group and also the last experienced, they get kitted out and head out to warm up then start climbing, I did what any HN parent does: fired up my laptop to catch up with work and stopped paying attention...

About 15 mins later another parent came over to me and asked "is that your daughter right at the top?" (about 16 meters/50 feet up, at the top of the wall)

Me: "err ... yeah"
Where I grew up mechanical pencils were common but they were either very utilitarian (stick of graphite that you would adjust by twisting the 'shaved' portion of the pencil), goofy, or the regular click to extend. I got one of the kuru togas at a friends recommendation when I was working on my hand writing and it is the first time in over thirty years that I've had a pen or pencil that I've kept and maintained. It wasn't even expensive, about ten dollars, buying 'disposable' pens and pencils had cost more.
"people who already knew how to farm without artificial fertilizers. Today we are nearly 8 billion and a much smaller fraction have any experience farming."

As if it were an expensive and impractical proposition for more people to grow a little food.

The reason fewer people engage in farming is that fewer people need to engage in it, and it is neither well-rewarded nor an intrinsically desirable activity for most people. It's nothing to do with not knowing how or being unable to learn.
One thing of note left out, re destruction of population centers: The article focuses on a most-likely scenario, and doesn't discuss a most-dangerous (to civilians) one. I'm curious how much devastation could be unleashed if weapons were targeted at population centers. Depending on how effective defense systems are (THAAD, PATRIOT etc), I'd bet huge amounts of people could be killed.
Viewing information as a currency, until the chat logs are published, people who know what was in them have an advantage no matter whether or not it is true.
Tax the ones who use the most resources.

In my opinion an income (or wealth-based) tax systems is not really that optimal in a globalized world. Instead I propose a kind of resource-based tax systems: Instead of taxing income tax the amount of scarce resources used. For example, the amount of land owned, the amount of oil used, or even the amount of CO2 emitted.

I think that such a system would have several nice implications:

* Businesses would automatically look for ways to save taxes, and thereby help the environment.

* It better reflects the true cost of a business or person to the society: If someone earns a lot of money this does not reduce my standard of living. However, if someone destroys the environment it does.

* As a country you can avoid loosing many of the Internet businesses to tax havens, as there is a lesser advantage of moving away.

Unfortunately, in many countries it's exactly the other way around. For example, many South American countries endorse usage of scarce resources by subsidize oil. While this works in the short-term, the consequences in the long-term will be fatal.
Bit of a stretch to suggest any $10k of work is a step towards 'the continued betterment of our race.' Certain efforts will help certain entities. Many people's work worsens our 'human condition,' see the opportunity cost of weapons dev or plasma-gigajoule-laser tv research (: But I suppose that's subjective.
Indeed. This article is powerfully misinformed, railways have used hybrid locomotives for a very, very long time.
That would be economics. Nobody in American politics listens to experts like economists - they only listen to "real people", who are above all that elite liberal claptrap they teach in schools.
Adding batteries?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#Diesel-electr...

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

The article does a poor job of pointing out that diesel-electrics are very common already.
His entire blog post is based on the assumption that linux wouldn't have as much malware - however keep in mind that the greatest risk to a system is the user themselves. It doesn't matter how hardened the system is or how many protection schemes are built in, if you have a pop up telling the user "ENTER YOUR ROOT PASSWORD AND WIN $$$ NOW!" eventually someone is going to do it.

At some point users will cry out for a system that doesn't require a password to install stuff, and someone will react to provide that product to the market.

Remember that there's a lot more to computer security than computers.
The current feature set:

* Uses Google's OpenID support for account management.

* Clean UI for displaying all messages from a locale, along with developer descriptions and placeholder examples.

* API for downloading latest locale files.

* It will automatically fill in any translations that have been previously completed for other extensions. For example, if a translator has already translated 'Thank you' into French for another extension, and your extension uses the phrase 'Thank you,' Interpr.it will automatically transfer that translation for you.

* Search function that translators can limit to only extensions needing translation into their locale.

* The site itself is fully internationalized, and since I used Chrome-style messages.json files, I can use interpr.it to translate interpr.it. (http://interpr.it/extension/1)
This argument completely ignore economic factors of taxation and instead looks at motivation, which is going to be different on a case by case basis and virtually impossible to "prove". Personally, as a liberal (who, combined with my wife, is in the "rich" tax bracket), I too see taxes as a necessary evil as well but I also see it as a way provide additional support to those in need with respect to social programs. I don't see it as a way to "level the playing field" as claimed, but thats just my motivation as a counterpoint . A Keynesian liberal (and I probably fall in this camp) sees higher taxes as both a way to fund social programs and fuel the economy so good for the community and good for the pocketbook.

There's a whole other world of hurt when you look at that "at least in theory" part. Recent history has shown conservatives being very good at lowering taxes but totally inept at the corresponding reduction in spending. Liberals tend to be better at staying true to their higher taxes, higher spending line.

I'm a liberal but I can understand the basic conservative, libertarian economic argument (I have issues with libertarian theory but thats another flamewar) and can even see it as, perhaps, a viable model. But if they can't decrease spending while cutting taxes then their model fails completely.
To the downvoters: Do the sheep find being herded by dogs a pleasant experience as well? If not (as I assume), how can you morally justify increasing their suffering in order to reduce that of a dog?
I feel their example (with the ABGX) just makes me think "merging can result in weirdness silently and git and pijul do it different but silent" - it doesn't really argue that one is better than the other.

(Most people probably use git as an effectively infinite string of zip files anyway. https://xkcd.com/1597/ )
Same here, shows: "Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."
Even discounting everything about the ethics, feasibility, state of our conceptual knowledge of brain function, has anyone demonstrated how a six-figure hardware suite like this https://plexon.com/plexon-systems/ is going to be miniaturized into a smartphone sized device mass produced for consumer purchase in the timetable laid out by Neuralink?
I hope they get FB back up and running within the end of the year, otherwise I may actually start missing it.
I would think people would be celebrating.
I'm seeing the same message
Love the idea! Happy to chat sometime. We're approaching this from the other side - a free hiring platform to help small (but growing) companies find people based on more than just resumes. We're at http://www.happymonday.com/
Everything a paid service doesn't give you until you pay is a "bullshit limitation" right? Is all always arbitrary. Why do you refuse to pay for the features if you want them? Why do you feel they should serve you for free?
That's dedication to some seriously old hardware...

I bought a T450s as a travel laptop and put Ubuntu on it -- the detected touchpad driver is crap, so I had to tweak there, but everything else works.

It's a very nice laptop for the $260 I paid for it shipped. And if I somehow destroy it, I don't have to worry about it being a $2k expense out of pocket...
- C++ is evolving at an increasing rate and after C++17 a lot of the projects in these big companies you have in mind prefer that to Go.

- Web is too dynamic to say for sure but I don't think we have something that might replace React for front end on the horizon yet.

- This is where Go might catch up but I have nothing to back up this opinion.
This is really sad to hear. I hope that we're capable of restoring their habitat to a reasonable extent, and that the natural population subsequently rises up again.
i personally give up hope, the sense that someday i will overcome my schizophrenia. instead i incorporate it as a new paradigm, a new side of me so that by knowing it's there i know the cause and be able to handle it more easily, and also by avoiding portraying it as a insurmountable monster so as to convince it is just a trick of the mind on me and move on. no regrets, no cries, no self-pity. that's more easily said than done sometimes but that's the drive

i've never taken a pill so far chosen to take a more holistic approach and i consider that i'm not in a worse condition than i would if medicated and this gives me the extra benefit of considering drugs as a last resort of sorts if nothing else works, if i was heavy on drugs that probably would give me some sense of despair since it seemed there was no exit left, so if you need help seek a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist. also seek support groups with similar conditions in your area or online (that step we seem already making) since we humans are social beasts rather than solitary wanderers and we need the comfort of knowing we are not alone and somewhere there are people going trough the same pains as we; that might be a group instinct bias pushing us over to integrate but i feel that much more appeal with someone on the same track knowing what i am talking about rather than talking generic abstraction like "it will all turn all right" good intended as they may be, i prefer being down with someone that understand my pain than being pushed up to party by someone trying to compulsively cheer me up. i think we live in a society that overall is trying real hard for everyone to feel good because that way we are most likely to buy the junk that everyone is trying to sell each other on this post-capitalist distopia, but i am digressing, the point is i think i have the right to misery and to suffer, not passively but on my own terms, to reach nirvana, whatever that means, on my own pace. so here's my advice: don't put a bright face just for the sake of others, don't represent for them or you will turn into a caricature of yourself, if that way you are turning away some around you, maybe you are pushing the right ones and who's left are the ones you can count on
Wow and so far the death toll from the Arab Spring is only ~127,000... there's a long way to go until it matches Afghanistan + Iraq.

Perhaps before he's out he'll make that grim milestone.

Not to say that he is responsible, only that the chaos introduced by his massive classified data expose contributed to uncorking that unrest. And to think, he was hoping to stop war.
>and no one here knows what would happen if John Smith Anglosaxon set off the same detector in the same situation.

We don't have to have direct knowledge of the impossibly specific situation you've constructed. The FBI agent flat out said that it was about his race when he said "a person of your… background".

And explosive detectors are not really there to find bombs. They are there to reduce manual searches. If they just wanted to find bombs, they could just search everyone. Since that is impractical on multiple counts, the explosive detector is valuable because it narrows down the space. Once you have taken the person aside, searched them, searched their stuff, and come up with no additional evidence ("brown" isn't evidence), it's time to let them go.

Finally, this isn't just about racism, but is also about the TSA and the cops being dangerously incompetent bullies. Instead of being polite and decent, they were rude and intimidating. Someone being reluctant and apprehensive under those circumstances is not strong evidence of wrongdoing.

And when they questioned him about the chemicals he had handled, they wouldn't even tell him what they had found. That's the kind of "withholding information" tactic you would use if you were playing the role of a detective without actually having any idea how to investigate. What purpose does it serve? If he were a terrorist, he'd know what chemicals were in his explosives. The only situation where that information is actually a secret is the one where the suspect is innocent.

In other words, they repeatedly created situations that either made guilt indistinguishable from innocence, or where they'd distinguish them inversely. This is, to put it mildly, "poor form".
People that disagree with me shouldn't be allowed to own a newspaper or write for one, especially if they disclose their affiliations at the bottom of the article.
this is poetically brilliant!
Yes, because eloquence === truth.
I don't get what's so "impossible" about it.

Even if it weren't built, it sounds completely plausible.
Unless you're trying to run iOS 7 on the iPhone 4 or iOS 6 (or was it 5?) on the 3G.

There are definitely times where it DOES NOT END WELL even though the device technically supports the upgrade.

A better policy is to wait for reports and then upgrade after a few weeks if they're positive.
To a large degree that's what Ender.js is trying to do. Whether it'll succeed or not remains to be seen.
Not sure about European sports reporting, but the problem I've found with both the US sports reporting and the Indian sports reporting that I've read is that journalists are allowed to -- perhaps even encouraged to -- use sports jargon without definition. If a tech reporter were to file a story containing undefined three-letter acronyms (CRM, ROI, etc.) and refer to Python without mentioned that it's a "programming language," his or her editor would mark it up and send it back (as she should).
I agree with your basic sentiment that social networking is driven by the tenor and tone of your real life friendships and interests. However, it differs from real-world socializing in that it is a broadcast model rather than a conversation model. When you and I meet for coffee, the cost of telling you about my new 19t Surly steel cog is, shall we say, two minutes. We only have so much time for coffee, and I ought to spend half of it listening to you, so am I going to decide that the cog is worth two minutes of our limited time to tell only one person about it?

But online, I appear to have unlimited time to broadcast what I want to say. If I spend two minutes on the cog, it takes away from two minutes of the Real World, but it doesn't appear to take away from our limited time together, and I blast it out to all my friends, some of whom may care.

I believe this gives me an incentive to talk about fairly trivial stuff that doesn't exist in the face-to-face world.
Well new stuff to you might be old stuff to me. Unless you've looked at every single submission on this site, no need to complain. Just don't open the link or comments.
I used this to parse some XML when creating a shipping calculator. It was a huge time-saver.
Some classics there (there have been versions of this knocking around since at least the mid-90s and probably much earlier) but it's great to see some new ones.
People often point to MS's continued profitability in these discussions, but they're missing the point. The question isn't whether they're profitable today, but whether they're profitable and relevant in ten or twenty years.

Profits are a lagging indicator for a once-successful company. A large company with entrenched products can coast for a long time while in decline. For example, RIM basically sank in 2007-2008. They had opportunities to save themselves well after that, but that's when it started, and they passed up those opportunities. However, their decline didn't really show up in their financials until 2012.

Microsoft looks to me like they're the same way. Surface and the new Windows Phone are analogous to RIM's late, lame attempts to ship a large-touchscreen Blackberry. Microsoft is profitable for the same reason they've been profitable for the past couple of decades: Windows and Office. However, that's now a declining market. It's still huge, and they can milk it for a long time, but it's on the way out. It looks like they missed their chance to move on to something else in favor of hanging on to their cash cows as they sink.
No information about what it is or what it's for.
Very clever, that.
FYI. The Tier-2 category covers a range of "company sponsored" skilled visas, not just intra-company transfers.

Source:http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier2/
A mob occupying private land, for weeks (months?), and declaring autonomy under a radical, explicitly and overtly anti-american, revolutionary flag, threatening and ejecting any approaching officials, including medical services, with violence. Particularly when this mob is affiliated with a decentralized network throughout the united states with similar goals.

Storming the capitol with weapons, having leaders with knowledge of the layout, and actually spilling blood. The picture of the right in this country by media is generally a caricature of an inbred, uneducated southern hick, so it's easy to pretend that they planned for a serious coup and we're just completely incompetent. But the lack of weapons in any significant quantity, or their use, or even their brandishing in the capitol, suggests that there were never any serious plans for a coup or even for violence.

The fact that "insurrectionists" came within 5 feet of the entrance to the chamber with the politicians they were allegedly targetting and obliviously walked past it more likely shows that there was no serious preparation, given that the layout is easily searchable online.

This is manufactured hysteria by the media, for political goals. It comes from the same place as this twitch policy - we are in the midst of a dirty culture war.
because people can’t afford a dozen different services. the story might be a bit overblown but it is significant that netflix went from a near monopoly to one of many services. personally i’d consider cancelling them if i wasn’t using a shared account from someone else
A 1-1 mapping isn't required, IMHO everybody involved would consider a probability distribution as a reasonable expected output, and as long as that probability distribution is reasonably close to reality and is substantially different from the prior, output like that is useful signal and would count as the system working.

The same applies for labeling, if a particular facial expression can occur in an indistinguishable manner because of three different causes, that's okay; there's nothing wrong with a gold standard label in training data marked as "we've observed that 50% people had this expression because they were angry and 30% because they were in pain, but no happy or sleepy people had an expression like that".

Furthermore, for the purpose listed in the article, you don't need to determine an absolute value of some emotional state, but you need to detect large shifts in it (i.e. you get an baseline that implicitly adjusts for part of individual and cultural differences) - i.e. whether the audience (in aggregate!) now looks significantly more frustrated than the same people looked 30 minutes ago.
It's definitely tricky. I think if you just stick to modern C++ and avoid anything advanced unless necessitated, it's a big improvement on your code. But as we know, developers with the discipline not to take advantage of every feature available to be "clever" is rare. And I agree, the standard library is still very much lacking. This is one thing I really like about working with C#, the vast majority of what I'm doing is available and simplified through the standard library.
> Look, it's 2020s. I'm getting put to sleep by stuff like this. You gotta amp the names up to ‘Genital Grinder’ or ‘Vomited Anal Tract’ if you want people to pay attention.

Hmmm. Either BrokenTooth or BlenderWave are apropos to the year.
The really annoying thing is that the content is being split up between “channels” again. It was probably inevitable, but it’s annoying that I have to sign up for Disney’s service to see movies from the studios Disney has acquired.