jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What does it do, what user segment are you looking at?
No. I'm pretty sure that it against the law to accept bets online.
There are some software-only tools like USBlyzer (Windows only I think) that work pretty well. I've been able to sniff traffic exactly like the examples in this Kinect page.

http://www.usblyzer.com
And we have regulations to prevent things like that. Sarbox, for all the bitching about it, does a reasonably good job of insuring that Google won't just fail overnight and shock everyone -- makes it much harder for them to cook the books and stop people from seeing it a year out.

Of course, the libertarian purists argue that we shouldn't have sarbox and shouldn't bail companies out -- which makes me think that if they were in charge the last few years, my electricity wouldn't be working by now.
A company that can pay a developer salary but won't pay the cost of that developer's favorite text editor has its priorities out of whack.
Reasonable higher price without ads. Paying for ads is a dubious notion when there are better options online right now. Sure they might not have larger collection or more recent shows, but its still better than paying for ads IMO.

They could have started off with two options.

- Ad-supported lower monthly

- No-ads higher monthly

They wouldn't have to guess through trial and error to see the ideal model, people would have voted with their money.
What is "crappy software"? Is it certain that hackers, per your lecturer's definition, produce no documentation? What is the criteria for ranking software produced by people following certain processes? How do you pretend to isolate those from other factors in the process of writing software?

Software development methodologies are just processes, followed by people (yes, programmers are people too). You can't enforce them rigorously and you will deviate; dev teams under the milestone plan-driven model will produce some pretty horrible code (I wish I could showcase some), and hackers will in fact write some pretty neat documentation.

I'd expect a lecturer to have the wisdom to stay away from blindly labeling and generalizing in such a crude fashion. Yeah, I'd tell him that as well. :-)
I am surprised that they didn't buy boutiques.com too...
The incentives never line up perfectly.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

— Arthur C. Clarke's First Law
Scoble wrote about Google vs. Instagr.am. I left a comment that answers your question: http://scobleizer.com/2010/11/12/why-google-cant-build-insta...

When you consider Google, Instagr.am and now Boutiques.com, I think that each of these products serves a very different purpose. Google's scrappy startup, innovative days are (and should) be behind it. It's not that Google shouldn't make new products, it's that the products that they focus their core business on should contribute to what has made it successful.

Boutiques.com does contribute to their core product. Instagr.am does not.

In order for Google to keep pioneering, they need to increase their investment in startups. By extending the company through investment rather than core products, the company will allow startups to move quickly while improving their core product incrementally.
I figured it was because of the search volumes.
While this opinion is clearly unpopular, to a certain extend I agree with the johnglasgow. I hope that I would quit if I were in a similar situation as the TSA employees, but I'm fortunate to have finished college and actually have an interest in a relatively lucrative field (computer programming, natch).

While, technically, they might use the Nuremberg defense, I think bringing that up is a little harsh. Some of the TSA workers probably do disagree, but some of them also have been working in this job since before the scanners were introduced, or before other less controversial practices were introduced. If you have a stable job and not too many other prospects, it is particularly difficult to leave, due to human inertia etc... I know how this can be as I'd like to find a new job right now too, because I really hate using CVS where I work now :)

In addition, if they are less educated, they might genuinely believe that what they are doing is helping prevent terrorism. I'm sure there is plenty of mild to heavy indoctrination done during training, and I doubt that many of the TSA agents at the gate are reading Bruce Schneier.

I think it would behoove HNers to have a little more compassion for these people, it is highly likely that they are less fortunate than most of HN.

Needless to say, I disagree with the TSA policies. And actually I think "snide" remarks about the possible health dangers, and educating other passengers similar to a story posted yesterday, is great. Unfortunately, I think comments about the safety of the machines are probably pretty infrequent, and that the agents probably get a lot more incoherent flak than that about all the inane procedures.
I am not an expert, but I've read in many places that the omega-3 in flax oil is far inferior, to the point of almost being worthless, compared with fish oil. IIRC the problem is that flax contains omega-3 in the form of ALA, in contrast to fish oil, which contains EPA and DHA -- the forms we actually need. The body can convert ALA to EPA and DHA, but the conversion process is extremely inefficient (something like only 5% get converted).
Here's a Google Drive link for online viewing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_UAHWnblkuSmZtSVhDQldUb3c
You think it's plausible that the largest law enforcement organization in the United States decided to insert cryptographic backdoors in critical security software used by many hundreds of companies... because they outsourced it to some random company?
I think an ideal persistent-data system would let you mix and match your methods. Sometimes you want a stream, and other times you want a hash, tree or graph type of structure, or a full relational database. A file system that included all of these would give you the essential data structures of programming in a from-the-ground-up persistently stored form.

But the biggest issue is really a standardization one. Hierarchical is everywhere and it's hard to pull away from.
you forgot that to convince enough people i can't be silenced every step on the way.
Meh One can do this already with mutt using IMAP directly with Gmail using vim as the composer.
Completely off-topic: where does the name 'Anim' come from?
Of course that should be mutt + gmail. One doesn't need to use an IMAP app, mutt has this built in now. It's pretty good.
Are you sure about that ? How ?

The author seems old enough to be able to distinguish love and attraction...

I believe that different people have different emotion, keep texting with somebody can be extremely powerful can go a loooong way...
Hey, but what if I've forgotten the passphrase? Get locked up for being forgetful?
True enough to the "notch filter" and the fact that the matter in the air emits IR radiation as well. IR still penetrates, visible light is scattered.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223718/Chinese-man-...

Chinese man sues his wife for being ugly, and the court AGREES... awarding him £75,000

- Jian Feng was confused after his wife gave birth to an 'incredibly ugly' baby

- He accused her of cheating and she admitted to spending £62,000 on plastic surgery

- He then claimed she got him to marry her under false pretenses

(26 October 2012)
That's my point. If you have your laptop locked depending on whether they are close by or not, then throwing the key away will not help you.

I was trying to say that it seems to me as an ineffective method. Just as ineffective as trying to argue with the police that since you don't have the drugs on you (because you just tossed them) you are not in trouble. The drugs don't disappear just as the keys won't, so the agents would just have to get the keys and unlock your laptop.
Code School as a free introduction course that'll get your feet wet and use to a lot of the concepts. It's a nice intro to the O'Reilly book
Who designs the interfaces that the tests call?
I think much more than language syntax and features, it was impressive until ~5-10 years ago just how advanced IDEs for Smalltalk and Lisps were compared to any other language. There has been a massive catch up in recent years, though I think many dynamic languages are still behind on their IDE support compared to these ancient technologies.
Speaking as someone who has done quite a few of these Carpal tunnel surgeries, the story do not fit very well with it. The symptoms are worse at night and tremors are unusual. Common complaints are pain, pin and needle sensation, weakness
Actually very.

Lets go back in time to the modern days of the early to mid 90's. GPU's were very new. Back in that day if you wanted to interface with a GPU you had to know what language it spoke.

Every company had their own language, architecture, etc. So if you made software you had to make a different version for each hardware GPU. Case and point 5 version of MechWarrior, 1 version for each GPU company on the market.

:.:.:

Eventually we got Glide, Mantle, DirectX, and OpenGL. These aimed to standardize our interface to the GPU so that the GPU hardware guys can focus on building blindingly fast vector processors with no regard to architecture backwards compatibility, etc.

Want to completely change register layout every 2 years? No problem. Want to redo caching every 18 months? No problem.

This has lend to blindingly fast GPU scaling. And the market exploding as GPU's currently lead in GFLOPS/watt. Also allows for average customers to have access to TFLOPS level of computing which in turn have us the currently growing open science and data initiatives.

:.:.:

Pandora was let out of their box, its going to be very hard to put them back in. DirectX/OpenGL is more or less a Compiler for the byte code that LLVM/GCC generates for 3D acceleration. This byte code is then compiled into native code for the GPU based on the GPU driver for DirectX/OpenGL.

This is the problem. Your GPU isn't a device, so much a fully feature complete computer that is programmed on the fly by your CPU.
While I agree with your sentiment I think your analogy is a bit off... there is a big difference between adding a utility library like jQuery to your project vs. committing to the project layout of a framework like Rails.

jQuery is actually less intrusive and therefore more of a no-brainer for me! (I know i use Spring as an analogy in my own comment on this thread, but despite being a framework you can use a lot of its libs without committing to any of its other aspects)

sorry for being nitpicky i am just into analogies :)
Correct, that particular study does not draw this conclusion but this one does: "Epidemiology and Transmission of COVID-19 in Shenzhen China: Analysis of 391 cases and 1,286 of their close contacts"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20028423v...
Yep - so many workshops could simply be a list of steps to do X. But often times the real world isn't that simple, and then the workshops are essentially worthless. With an understanding of how something works, I can apply it to more scenarios, or modify it to fit more scenarios. This is often woefully lacking in modern training/documentation.
I'm working on a React Native app showcasing skateparks and skate spots around the world. Only available on App Store so far. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shinner/id1476836516
Agreed. I didn't enter my email during the census
This is one of those stories I go back to reading about from time to time. I remember being a little boy home from school, either sick or summertime, and saw this episode. Well at least the first part where they had to freeze frame mid show and the show’s host Peter Tomarken walked out to tell everyone how Larson was making Game Show history. I was too young too know much about statistics, patterns, etc. to understand how impossible this could be if the board was truly random. Larson just seemed like an awkward but lucky and smart guy.

Hearing this full story some years later shows how much we were in the dark on so many situations before the internet. As hard as you try to bulletproof things, there’s that one person who figures out a way to bypass it.
MRAN has saved my bacon more than once when I need to replicate some R environment written years ago. The package management in R really is terrible.
> who has time to do this for every single update?

Again, you only have to do this for the first install. After that, the local OS takes over and rejects any apk signed with a different key. It's a TOFU system.
"There are only so many features a program can add until something becomes just good enough. At this point new features add less and less value."

I agree 1000% with this! But even most websites this days add way too many features that you don't simply need. Simplicity is the king in everything! I'm a firm beliaver in long term hardware, when building a computer it needs to last at least 10-15 years between builds or upgrades. Only exception is hardware failure or software no longer supporting some hardware (which is rare on linux) Good article thanks!
No, the R package manager can tolerate spaces in filenames.
Well, Trump denied requests to send in the national guard multiple times according to reports. Pence later did when Trump didn't, and that's when things got under control.

This could've been prevented if the president (1) didn't incite this and (2) didn't deny national guard to step-in.

So what's left is the capitol police facing a mob invited by the president, without backup. And they stated they had two choices, barricade the capitol and prevent entry, or evacuate the people inside.

It could've gotten ugly if the people in the capitol got overrun, e.g. Pelosi facing people that think they're sent by Q to fight off a satanic coup by Pelosi, but they got evacuated to safety. Apparently capitol police chose to evacuate rather than to barricade, in hindsight that's clearly the least risky option to human health. If they break through with nobody inside, that's not as bad if they break through anyway with people inside. A bunch of idiots roaming the capitol building isn't a threat per se, shameful and sad yes, but not one that should've been met with violent force from a small number of capitol police at the expense of (and risk of not) evacuating the people inside.
I wonder how much banning DT from Twitter will hit their bottom line and whether this factors in to their decision making process?
Google already do charge, don't they? From memory there was a one-off $25 fee to sign up to sell on the Play Store.

But even if they did, it wouldn't contribute significantly to the company's revenue - not sure how many developers Google has, but Apple has 380,000 registered developers[1], and even if they all pay $99/yr, that's 'only' $38 Million. Against Google's approx $60 Billion revenue[2], that doesn't move the needle at all.

[1] https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/

[2] https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
Err, that's Mr. Robertson of course. Sorry, Michael.
Take a look at any chart of the S&P 500 over decades. What matters is the day you invest, and the day you cash out. The wiggles in between mean nothing.

Buying another laptop doesn't change the math.

If you're consistently having losses that makes insuring you unprofitable, you're likely to see large escalations on your premiums. Insurance companies do keep tabs on this, and premiums are customized to the individual customer. You may be paying higher rates on car and home policies than others.
No, the runtime will still create new threads whenever you call a C function or syscall.
C# and F# are different languages..

Last I checked you could not mix the two easily [0]

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14280001/why-cant-we-use-...
The reason, in my opinion at least, is that Nim does not have a commercial company behind it like Go and Rust who have Google and Mozilla respectively.

This in turn means that Nim does not have as many resources (it is developed completely voluntarily in people's spare time) so development is slower.
I just started my first job and I had applied for a role of android developer. The first I was told that I had to work on PHP. I'm currently working with PHP and Symfony 2. I have to create a campaign manager and make it compatible with the existing backend stack. I have just started to learn PHP and I don't think I have the patience to go through with it. Advice appreciated.
Adverbs for adjectives ending in -ly end in -like instead, e.g. "costly-like", "friendly-like".
Have you read Lessig on this topic in his book, "Code?"

One chapter covers the basic forces regulating behavior:

Physics - The world and our understanding of it place bounds on what can and cannot be done.

Money and Markets - The cost of things place bounds on what can and cannot be done.

Both of these prevent behavior, as in taking behavior off the table no matter how compelling it may otherwise be.

The other two, norms and laws lack this property, instead act post fact.

Laws - Describe acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, and carry consequences, remedies for unacceptable behavior.

Physics takes driving above some speeds impossible. Speed bumps, etc...

Speed limits do not actually prevent anything, only impose costs, by way of example.

Norms - Work like laws, only are largely enforced socially.

There is a lot more in the book.

My point here is leaning on law to manage behavior is not particularly effective. Getting more of the better behavior more of the time is systemic. Requires action on all fronts.
Typical ways to start beam end up doing a lot of work you might not need.

Taking some time to fiddle with the startup settings for a short running task can make a big difference. You might actually get better results by setting it to single cpu, because there's less setup that way. Really depends on how much total cpu time your work takes. If your VM is going to run for a year (or more), startup time hardly matters and so the defaults aren't highly tuned for a 30 second script.
Paradox games release early, patch often, and the core engine is nearly 15 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if the gender of a marriage is assumed all over the code-base and enabling full equality would have been a significant development complication. This all being said I wouldn't be surprised if we see full equality options in the next year or so.

See: Matrilineal Marriages, Gender Equality, Same-Sex Relations, and Sexuality Distribution

https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Game_rule#Gameplay_options
Also CMD+K to clear window
Copyright covers derivative works. If a story is plainly the same with names changed, the original copyright extends to it. This can be applied to the point of absurdity in music copyrights.
Yes - I had to disable them, but then of course I don't know when people I like and follow (comedians, politicians, etc) are engaging in interesting discourse.

I ended up turning them back on but I still get a lot of them even though I've changed the setting they provide to "less frequent".
The value of commercial property is a function of the cap rate. Cutting the rent thus cuts the principal value, which can often leave the property underwater.
Rent control in SF is a big one. I’ve chatted with real estate agents who said “that place has a tenant - if empty it would fetch an extra $300k”.

When rent might total $30-40k per year, it would take 10 years of the place being empty to break even.
Why is it a bad choice? A game set in middle age Europe has no more reason to foresee needing the ability to mod gay marriage into it than accommodating modding cell phones into it. It's not an insignificant amount for work just to include an anachronism.
The optical method is also quite smart, if you happen to, say, have an activity LED wired to a bus without much of a filter in between. LEDs switch faster than you might have thought¹.

This kind of thing is intelligence-agency home turf; they have decades of experience, not necessarily relating to computers.

[1] Joe Loughry and David A. Umphress [2002] "Information Leakage from Optical Emanations." ACM Trans. Info. Sys. Security, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 262-289 <http://www.foo.be/docs-free/tempest/optical_tempest.pdf>
I dont do that much text editing. I use notepad++ . Is vim super amazing or something? ps. I usually work on a windows machine but vim is available for windows.

EDIT: Also emacs is available for windows, isnt emacs meant to be the ultimate text editor type thing? I dont really have any need to these, I'm just curious really. When Ive had to do perform some weird operation on a load of text or source code for example I've just written a script to do it.
Qualify "bloody". You can say it all you want, but once the polycentric system fell to the cultural perks and a new monopoly given to the church and chaos ensued, the people begged the king of Denmark for a relative stability.

We're talking about many centuries before your irrelevant census point. A 2 or 20 person society is relevant on a theoretical level.

Go look on wikipedia for the earliest abolition of slavery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline

>1117: Slavery abolished in Iceland.

After the early rush of settlers, the need for external slaves became unnecessary because the population eclipsed exploitable resources.

Whatever bullshit objection like small population or they are "backwards" subsistence farmers is irrelevant to the fact that civil order was maintained by polycentric law for 3 centuries. Could it work today? Your type won't even allow the experiment so people are forced into schemes like seasteading or "free cities" in Central America.
I've met no trustworthy investors-- that is to say, people who after 3 or more years, I still consider to be honest.

This is over nearly 30 years founding startups.
I'm quoting the data entries for the US that are either nation-wide or multi-state:

decreases

* US (22 states) (1992)	5 mph to 15 mph (8 km/h to 24 km/h) decreases	No significant changes

increases

* US (1989)	55 mph to 65 mph (89 km/h to 105 km/h)	Fatal crashes increased by 21%

* US (40 states) (1990)	55 mph to 65 mph (89 km/h to 105 km/h)	Fatalities increased by 15%
Decrease or no effect in 12 States

* US (40 states) (1994)	55 mph to 65 mph (89 km/h to 105 km/h)	Statewide fatality rates decreased 3-5% (Significant in 14 of 40 states)

* US (22 states) (1997)	5 mph to 15 mph (8 km/h to 24 km/h) increase	No significant changes

So no, I don't see the defining answer here. I'm not saying that the limits should be raised across the board, I'm also not saying that decreases aren't good - all I'm saying is that legal limits should be assessed from time to time (which they are), because of changes in society, technology and new data. Laws are not perfect.
April fools or the real intension faces water at last?
I wonder if this could be the result of some influence from (or competition with) the Chinese - whose companies have been well known to be "unofficially open" as a way to encourage more business: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
I'm usually wary when I see new accounts voting stuff up, but this one is done really well. Bookmarked.
Agreed. Yes, this idea comes from the very issue you mentioned. General advice is not actionable. Thus, we wish to build a community initially for college students and later on build upon it.
It's interesting that when I think of philosophy (which "plato") suggests, I think of a completely different kind of "Category" theory. It puts category in a different category.