jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the article but I have read this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Slave-Trade-European-Slav...

Not the best book I've read but it was pretty eye opening.

Slavery was pretty much universal since the dawn off human civilizations.

On the topic of England and slavery, it was so bad that Islamic slavers established a base on lundi island of the coast of Devon at one point.
Indeed. In a conversation about being insufficiently thoughtful in deciding what you really want to build, flying cars are an excellent metaphor.
It's important that it's at the department level and not the individual level too. It turns the "looking the other way for other officers" dynamic on its head right away.
Extremely valuable and noted! Thank you for taking the time to write this out and share.
They would not be able to immediately mint trillions of dollars of crypto assets (at least not bitcoin specifically).
I took his quotes about how the F-35 is now a high end boutique plane instead of the replacement for everything. The Air Force changed the F-35's designation, which the author takes as a tacit admission of failure. How else would you read the Air Force's statement? "That plane that was supposed to replace all our planes will only replace a few of our planes. We need a new plane to replace all the rest."
The whole point of Firefox existing is too be an alternative to Blink.

This is like asking why Pepsi doesn't just copy Coke's recipe.
Are fighter jets a necessity when we have drones? Other commenters bemoan the lack of technological progress in fighter jets, but a drone is capable of maneuvers that humans cannot survive, and the use of drones also limits the loss of pilot lives.

Investing money in drones over fighter jets seems like the cost effective move here. Flying the jet yourself is definitely cooler than doing it by remote control, but I don’t think it will make much sense in warfare in 20 years time. We have to skate to where the puck is going.
Is Australia and HSR really a good example of this? I would think the only viable route would be Sydney-Melbourne, and that seems far enough apart to be directly competing with air travel, likely a major reason for it to be marginal profit-wise.

Also Australian workers are no doubt well paid compared with some, but compared with the U.S. or Western Europe? Taking into account cost of living etc.? Certainly engineers in Australia in general don't seem to be getting SV wages.
We don't know that increased CO2 results in increased temperature. The temperature was already increasing long before human-based CO2 was increasing.

There is evidence in the geological record that CO2 increases lagged temperature increases. There is evidence in the geological record that CO2 levels, and temperatures, were much higher than they are today.

Water vapor and the sun are the two biggest inputs into the greenhouse effect on Earth, not CO2. CO2 is infinitesimal by comparison.
I actually think this could be a serious security issue. They train you to click on links in cryptic emails which are indistinguishable from spam at first glance. So if you're waiting for one important item and get like ten of these "1 item has dispatched, click here to learn more" and mindlessly click through a bunch to find which one is the one you're waiting for... malware could easily hide behind one of those doors, especially for users who are not so alert to potential phishing attacks.
It's frankly completely the opposite of what we want to train users to do.

Such an odd decision from a UX perspective. But then again, Amazon have never really been heroes in the UI/UX field and I guess their reasoning for this change was that frustrating any scraping efforts by Google and others was more important than giving their users the best possible user experience. Quite ironic if you consider their motto, to be the "Earth's most customer-centric company". But then again, as the poet said, what's in a name...
Yeah, Thunderbird is a mess. I wish we had something better.
> And yet many on meta.math also felt they were distinctly unconstructive, to the point of overt rudeness -- including the most highly upvoted answer to that question. You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.

I cannot disagree in the slightest with the idea that the politics and squabbling inherent to academia can be vicious and/or intense.

I certainly do not think /this/ was an example of such however. Like I said earlier I understand there is some backstory I'm not seeing here -- perhaps this was just the very minor straw that broke the camel's back. If that's the case I think it would be a lot more understandable to people if that were clearly stated.

Or, let me ask it another way: What would be the constructive way to ask whether high professional mathematician participation should be expected at a conference sponsored in part by someone who finds mathematicians exasperating and shows disdain for mathematics?

Before you answer: I read the post that Prof. Clark linked to trying to demonstrate your self-expressed "disdain", and I read only that you felt you were terrible at math, not that you didn't like it. Pointing that out would have been much easier than deleting the comment I think, or pointing out that specific mis-interpretation as an example of non-politeness would have proved your point, but I didn't see you doing either.

> And yet many on meta.math also felt they were distinctly unconstructive, to the point of overt rudeness -- including the most highly upvoted answer to that question. You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.

You made me go back and check. You neglected to mention that the "deletion of the comments was questionable", which was the very next part of the highest-rated answer's comment. I suspect it was highest-rated because it is the answer pleading for compromise, but either way very near in the voting is an answer explicitly stating that Prof. Clark's comments were constructive and non ad hominem, and close behind is a comment from Prof. Clark himself. I don't see how trying to point to numbers on meta.math actually helps your case here, Jeff.
it should read javaSchool.
The military gets to conduct Information Assurance (IA) reviews. These are tightly controlled so that only the IA reviewers get to look at the source code, and they are bound by heavy-duty NDAs. This gives DoD the opportunity to be sure that the code is safe, without giving them free reign to do as they please with the code. This process most definitely does not give the government the ability to treat the code as "open source," in the sense that one can freely modify, reuse, or re-purposing open source code.
My cofounder Jamie did.
I cant wait for an app on my phone that can record typed keystrokes based on the clicks it can hear.
For all those asking about reserved-instance data, I posted this a few months back. Somewhat surprisingly, I didn't get any interest back then.

http://blog.altudov.com/2010/11/03/amazon-ec2-reserved-insta...

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah1sNhjIaHmVdFQzSk5...
I hadn't heard of this. I started a similar effort a couple of days ago.

https://github.com/benatkin/pure-ssl

One thing I'm impressed with is sites that allow people to embed images from anywhere but still don't have mixed content. The way GitHub and Convore do this is by making images from an http-only domain available on an https domain. If you try pasting an image from GitHub pages (GitHub pages is HTTP only) and you inspect an image on Convore I think it will point to an https address on Rackspace Cloud Files.
Not really. Many articles discuss that they send the data every 12 hours.

For example, here's one: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Apple-T...
If memory serves there were a number of issues with XHTML2, chief among them being it didn't serve the original intent of XHTML very well. HTTP/2 has good meaning but some of the deign choices were made because Google wanted them not because they were necessarily best (at least from my understanding as an interested spectator).
Actually, I was thinking about this again today. I'm thinking of giving him some non-technical menial task that sucks up dozens of hours of my time every month and see if he can't get it done in 45 minutes. Not in a snarky way, but in a "you wanted to know what I do, here's a small sample" kind of way.
This is more or less how I played tennis in high school. I never had the best skills, but my doubles partner and I were great at getting under the skin of our opponents—essentially making them play down to us.

The whole purpose of drilling—in whatever field of life, whether sports, academics, military, etc—is to get you to stop thinking about what you're doing. In tennis, if you're thinking about how to hit the ball you're going to mess up your shot. You need to get your brain out of the game and rely on muscle memory: footwork, positioning, grip, bend your knees, brush up stroke, eye on the ball, follow through.

Once you frustrate your opponent and get them thinking about their game their technical advantage has been mitigated. Smile at them, talk a bit of trash, ask them questions, position yourself aggressively to signal that you don't rate their shots/serves highly, lob the ball, hit volleys at their feet, etc.

Not the most noble way to play, but a sure way to keep yourself in the game if you never had the money for private lessons.
The NYT article includes a video produced by IBM that shows Watson in action. You can also see it here:

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/

I like how they show probabilities for each possible answer that the computer came up with. I'm only halfway through the NYT piece, but it's interesting so far.
Goodbye Slicehost
Also note that the US high school diploma has been massively devalued over this period (well, Why Johnny Can't Read was published in 1955 and we're still fighting Dick and Jane and Their Running Dog Spot). So as a signal it's nearly worthless, it's not even a guarantee someone can read. A college degree is probably overkill for what a HS diploma used to provide, but it's the best thing employers have ... e.g. as far as I know it's pretty hard to graduate from a real college without knowing how to read.

ADDED: The Instapundit, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, in the context of how grim the situation is for graduates of non-elite law schools, comments "With a college degree now functioning, essentially, the way a high-school diploma used to, a law degree is the closest graduate equivalent to the traditional liberal-arts B.A." (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/101311/).

Hmmm.
The MacRuby folks would claim otherwise.

Yes, I'd also love to see JS become "the next step" (since it seems to be becoming the "machine language" of the future) but it would probably have to be augmented like Objective-J to make Cocoa (Touch) development plausible.
Oh, weev...

http://weev.livejournal.com/

weev as the iProphet: http://the-iprophet.org/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5643217366887354926... (toorcon talk while tripping)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/82 (some background, dox; sorry if this sort of thing is frowned upon here)

The E.D. page: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Weev

Antisec: http://antisec.wordpress.com/

Goatse Security: http://security.goatse.fr/
I think that is the same line of reasoning some warez/piracy sites used to put those "if you are a law enforcement personnel you are not allowed to view this website" messages.
it could be automated or timezoned. a positive message could make the person day great

the privilege has to show up.
> The difference is, once you have a union in an organization its very hard to dislodge it no matter how dysfunctional it gets.

In comparison to a business? With a union I have some voting power. With a business I have zero power.
>happy workers are a good long-term strategy

I always see this cited as a reason but it so rarely happens that it might as well be a Horatio Alger fable. It's not instructive or useful in our current reality and it would be like taking lessons from the workplace successes of Santa's elves.
Do physical units exist yet? Where is the manufacturing done? It looks expensive to manufacture in small quantities. I do like the idea, but I'm afraid that this will become e-waste if Framework doesn't exist, grow, and succeed for years to come.

The MNT Reform also does the "sustainable laptop" thing, via an open source approach. It's a lot simpler to manufacture and easier for end users to modify, and its longevity doesn't necessarily rely on MNT Research continuing to exist. I feel that's the safer approach.
This would be perfect think to spin off your own machines. Imagine downloading a Kicad files for motherboard, adding your own stuff, sending off to JLCPCB or similar for assembly and then stuffing into the laptop shell.
> Unions are just another type of corporation.

No, unions are not just another type of corporation. They are a very special type of corporation: One which is exempt from anti-trust laws.
Thanks for the suggestions. I thought of just setting all minimum prices on lean pub to zero, but then they are paying the hosting costs for free books. BTW, an earlier edition of my Java AI book was available for free on my web site for about five years, average about 300 downloads a day. I was extrapolating from that, again not wanting to burden leanpub with free downloads and just let them handle sales. Maybe it doesn’t really matter.
If you can set the price of everything to infinity then the entire concept is useless. The point is to make transactions mandatory otherwise all you've done is created a sales tax. That was my point about loopholes. (I'm not saying I like sales taxes either.)
Unrelated to the content, but I found that blog so visually appealing.
Yes, I'm in favor of doing away with a lot of the existing regulation and privatized health insurance altogether.

But that's not the question we started with. To get back to the original question -

I still believe using better modeling to make health insurance or loans available only to those who barely need it is highly unethical. If we are staying stuck in the current model of insanely high sticker prices that are only affordable with insurance then i don't believe it's ethical to deprive people who need insurance - because in this current model, there is no easy free market alternative, only illness and death.
What I said holds true if you replace "right to be publicly forgotten" with "freedom to be publicly forgotten."
The "on purpose" bit seems highly implausible. AFAIU the ones with the means would have been the Chinese national labs and maybe their US collaborators. But releasing this right in their backyard would be an implausibly idiotic move on the Chinese part. Planting it by the US would both be terribly hard and a predictable own goal.
Have the right cosmic ray hit the right set of memory chips, and you will be super rich. That can happen in an entirely deterministic world.

I think its important to distinguish between realistic probabilities and unrealistic probabilities. If the chance is 2^-100 %, nobody cares. Bitcoin is a lot less secure than that, but its still not something i realistically would worry about.
The energy argument has been debunked over and over again.

I recommend you read this thread by Yassine Elmanjdra (analyst at ARK Invest):
https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1360343382556483587?s=...
Not quite right. There's the DTC (which carries out 95% of the trades), then there's clearing houses (sometimes a seperate entity, sometimes part of the broker: the larger ones all do their own clearing. e.g. Robinhood has their own clearing house), then there's the brokers, then the traders. The DTC said 'we need 100% collateral on these trades' (probably because they viewed there being a significant risk that someone, somewhere, would not be able to pay up for the trades they're making in a big way), and then APEX clearing (which is the clearing house used by a lot of smaller brokers but not 95% of the market) said 'we can't support opening new positions' because their liquidity would be sucked up by the requirement, blocking most of the smaller brokers. Robinhood did similar for similar reasons independently of APEX, but some other brokers not using APEX could still trade (either because they had more cash on hand or because their customers weren't buying as much of affected stocks).
It was also an "autonomous oblast" under USSR
The UK Government is doing a lot of work to get around these problems. Firstly all new development is preferred to be open source (1), secondly they have created at least two programs where suppliers are pre-vetted and then can offer their products (and services) in an online catalog. (2). I failed to know about either of these in time but there are 700+ SMEs on there.

I am not saying that this is all solved - but a large chunk of the process patio11 described is explicitly "blipped over" for new services into central UK Government.

There are some rays of hope - I will let you know !

(OMG - GCloud 4 is open - if you are a UK software company then I urge you to join if you can.)

(1) https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
(2) http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/about/
(3) http://blog.mikadosoftware.com/2013/08/22/how-hard-can-it-be...
Supporting Liberty [1] could be a good starting point. These are plain old human rights and civil liberty issues.

[1] http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/index.php
backing the previous poster here, I've never experienced anything like this at all. "Network error" makes it sound like you're using KDE or GNOME or something, or Samba isn't liking your configuration...
You do realize that YouTube is still owned by Google, and therefore if they wanted to consider your profiles as one, they probably can already? My guess it's that they're trying (more or less successfully) to reduce the confusion, by not letting users sign up several times for all their products (which in the end is only one product -- Google).
The last point is particularly useful, and quite reminiscent of what 'The Now Habit'[1][2] advocates. Some weeks I get so completely burned out, I have to force myself to do nothing but 'veg out' by watching endless netflix shows through the weekend without thinking about anything else. It's hard to allow it at first because it feels like a ludicrous waste of time, but it becomes surprisingly refreshing by the end of it.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastinati...

[2] Here's a good video series that summarizes it's key points: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Si3Gb1WSg
> the tax has already been paid

Not so. Inflation is yet another tax you'll be paying if you keep your money in a bank. Inflation is a huge thing for governments. Without inflation, they'd be out of so many opportunities to finance various things and the fraudulent financial system governments run would be instantly exposed.

Then you would also have to remember that if you keep your savings in Bitcoin, you can pay for other products and services with them directly. And taxes would be paid only by a company that at some point decides to convert Bitcoins to fiat. That is, if you are A then your bitcoins may be in a chain of payments A -> B -> C. Obviously A (you) paid taxes, C would also have to pay taxes when he converts them to fiat. But because B decides to spend bitcoins earned from you directly by purchasing things from C, taxes are not paid from that deal.
Why does Signal require a phone number, after all these years? It's a gigantic red flag that they unnecessarily require a tie-in to the primary governmental communication surveillance system. I've seen multiple attempted explanations, but nothing convincing.
I don't think there's a large audience for Brooklyn hipster leftist podcasts in Caracas.
Maybe stealing it also removed a bunch of foreign operative bugs and keyloggers :)

"How can we remove this compromised system from the building without letting on that we know"

"just have a 'theft' remove it!"
So all laptops they were issued before 2017 didn't have full disk encryption.

Do you hear that? That's the sound of me face-palming.
Strongly disagree I firmly believe the reason the police held back so much was the number of guns in the crowd. They want to make it home at the end of the day too.
But note that as far as the US is concerned, in the past couple of decades, right wing extremists have killed a significantly greater number of people than left-wing extremists (eg. the CSIS credits them with 90% of all extremist killings in the timeframe 2018/19). They also lead by number of plots - though by body count, Islamist terror still takes the lead for the obvious reasons.
I think part of the problem is that on many issues elections are already irrelevant. If I'm an American and I want the US to withdraw from Afghanistan, who do I vote for?
There is video of DC police putting a bit of stick about later after the curfew
> The day the bulk of far-left idealists advocate violence and racism

You mean everyday?
> On a free cash flow basis, Tesla is profitable.

Free cash flow is not profit though, nor should it be considered equivalent.

> Removing non-recurring revenue (aka regulatory credits) from their income statement is a useful exercise when trying to predict their future revenue. But if you do, you also should be removing non-recurring expenses too (mostly Musk's stock grant).

Dilution still matters if you think about the value of the company. If you think the stock is going to go up, Musk's stock grant is going to be a part of that dilution.
This is an argument worth considering, but on the other hand keeping track of performance regressions using CI is not hard and requires the team to master a new language that isn't the first choice for other code in the project.
Because they often are farmers with equipment in tow that is instable at speed. 20mph (40kmh ?) Is too fast for a hay wagon.
Securing $1 billion of bitcoin? Who needs to secure $827 million of Bitcoin? Securing $937 million of Bitcoin is not a killer app.

In all seriousness, securing the value of Bitcoin is the problem that is not easily solved.
He claimed he wanted to close the borders because he was scared of Mexicans and Muslims. He did nothing when covid came knocking...
I personally was very bummed when etacts got acquired. What a great product that never really saw the light of day.
So many great projects listed here, please keep posting more guys. I will compile a list of all later.
Downvoted, really? Strange.
WordPress - because it's extremely crappy but at the same time insanely accessible. Lots of lessons to learn.

Passenger - code looks good even though it's C++

Rails 3. Beautifully structured application foundation that's not just a pretty piece of code, it's tested and works.

JScheme. Reading this clean implementation and re-implementing it yourself gives a good basis of understanding for lisp.
Rails devs are a dime a dozen so unless you are attempting to entice one to join your company you shouldn't pay a high rate. There's no reason you couldn't find a good dev on elance etc. It might take you longer and you might have to start with offering smaller tasks until you find that right dev but it could end up being a quarter the cost.

If I was you AND I was in a rush AND I thought this particular dev may end up being interested in joining forces as a co-founder I'd consider paying him the high rate. Otherwise I'd offshore it.
Assisted GPS seems to be a very poor choice of name. I have repeatedly met people who wrongly believe that Assisted GPS is not actual GPS.
The github web interface is lightyears ahead of bitbucket's or any other sites. So even if you are choosing to use mercurial or god-forbid CVS, its best to mirror to github for public sharing.
Yep, it's called cell id location. I worked in mobile phone location about 8 years ago and you could find a rough position (about 200m radius IIRC) and we used it as a first pass. That was on GSM networks, 3G cells are smaller.