jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, I see blockchain as a social technology. The current, trusted system for tracking ownership is a state-governed system. The account balances we have, share registers of companies, residential property registries, etc.

Blockchains offer an alternative system (outside of government run systems) to keep track of ownership. Now, in my opinion there's little to gain of replacing those existing systems - they are working just fine. But for a new asset class (notably digital assets) blockchains will work very well.

Again, the important change is the change in social consensus. If you told someone 5 years ago that you hold a certain token on the Ethereum blockchain nobody would have cared. If you today ran a registry of tokens on your github repository nobody would care. But if you hold a token today on the Ethereum blockchain then people are willing to pay for it.
I think the concept is that the apparent "acceleration" of distant galaxies is really just their time being slowed down relative to our frame of reference. I wonder if this contradicts the idea of a Big Bang too. It seems like ALT is a superset of Special Relativity while explaining some physical phenomenon more cleanly.
"could move an entire Tesla + person inside 1 mile"... on level ground.

If you've ever had to push a car manually in that situation, you'll notice that it's very easy to keep it moving once you get started, as you only have to overcome the rolling resistance. I've never pushed a Tesla before but I'd bet that it's far easier than a regular car, and a regular car isn't that hard to push already.

According to this page:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/mpg-of-a-human/

A human walking takes between 100-200Wh/mi, so the Tesla isn't that far off.
Love this one!
On the other hand, having a real grass floor in the office, if it could be kept healthy, would be kind of awesome. You'd have to let a lot more light in. The air would probably be fresher. You couldn't use those cheap-ass rolling chairs. IDK, I might like to try it.
On a related note, I've been looking at GPU switching on Macbooks, mostly to get it working better on Linux.

This work might also be useful to keep 2011 MBPs with a damaged dedicated GPU working with just the Intel card. If you have a 2011 MBP and are willing to spend some time developing a software workaround that at least lets you use it with Intel only, check out https://github.com/ah-/gmux-scripts/issues/1#issuecomment-68... and https://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus/issues/150
Collecting information from a combatant engaged in combat (even if by radio) is very far from spying. It may be casually referred to as spying in the sense that they target doesn't know about it, but it really isn't espionage to just listen and look.

If we send a uniformed sniper in to look around, it is reconnaissance.
If we dress him up and give him papers to fit in with the locals he is now a spy.
Yes that's correct.

I use a specific key for only allowing DNS updates to be applied to "example.com" and no other domain, for example.

As others have mentioned the billing alerts are also a useful thing, along with the IAM Simulator.
We had a mix of terminal types from VT100 to VT420 I believe. Yeah, the phone / talk stuff was great. This was in 1991 at my school.
Cars and bikes mix better than bikes and walkers. Which is to say not very well. Walkers move in unpredictable ways and freeze when a bike is heading at them. Bikes move more like cars - they get a bit better handling, and are not as fast, but overall they act like cars.

I wouldn't want to bike when there are many cars in the same lane as me, but it is still safer than biking on sidewalks where are many pedestrians.
Ironically I'm mostly abandoning C# and using Go for the majority of my new development now. I really like the simplicity and stability of Go. The compiler speed, the tooling, gofmt, and lots of other goodies just make it a very refreshing change. I'm sure in 5 years time Go will also feel less refreshing, but I have a feeling that my Go code today will not look vastly different to my Go code in 5 years time and that is very attractive. Also Go really allows one to hire anyone. You can literally just hire a smart person and let them learn Go on their first day on the job which will make them good enough to start picking up the first tasks and be productive. There are not many languages which can do that.
> It's just because OOP relies directly on mutable state

> (in Imperative Languages, which are the most common OOP implementation).

> The Object's methods you call is supposed to mutate the current self or this.

> A lot of complexity will be needed to keep all threads correctly updated and synchronized.

Nothing prevents you to create immutable objects in OOP language. Immutability is the key here, not the functional languages.
I wouldn't say they are powerful, but they are a subculture and subcultures can turn on a dime.
Stealth launch in plain sight. This thing's true form, a full web app SDK with built-in distribution and a podcast directory-like, sandboxed-widget version of the App Store is going to be unveiled at WWDC. Seriously, I'd give this at least a 50% probability.

This is Apple's preemptive assault against the WebOS Ares SDK. They know they could have a situation on their hands if HP doesn't botch the next generation of WebOS devices.
Old article. A few things have changed since recent change in the 7-pack but a good piece none the less!
Not yet, but it is in my wishlist :)
I'm sorry you feel that your poetry isn't any good yet.

I think it was Orson Scott Card who said that everyone has about a million words of garbage in them they have to get out before they can write well.
Because nobody in real life is impressed by your level 160 elf mage.
are you aware of the practises of that script?

I do take a provision to delay 1200msec the request to the Newest page.
I've used both the phones in your post and by and large I agree with you. That said, you seem to be talking about phones in a business environment. Do the users of the phones you're talking about own them? I wonder if they treat them with less respect if they can get a new one just by dumping it on your desk every 3 months.

I'm not saying the problem isn't there, just it might be exacerbated by user behaviour that RIM didn't anticipate.
Interesting story on how search engine "flaws" (or limitations) reward bullying.

From the story, it seems like sites like GetSatisfaction, ComplaintsBoard etc. don't use nofollow on links in user-generated content. 'nofollow' should mitigate the SEO impact and I'm surprised that the sites aren't doing this.
ABC was not a general purpose computer - it was not Turing Complete. It was not in continuous development by the time Mauchly saw it - that was the end of the line for the ABC. Eckert and Mauchly, on the other hand, developed a general purpose electronic computer with the explicit goal of getting it out to as wide an audience as possible.
We've been mulling this over for a while, but we now recommend to startups we fund that they not work out of coworking spaces. A startup needs its own territory, however crappy.

The most successful startups seem to have a very concentrated flavor of themselves. That effect is diluted if a company is working out of someone else's space.
If you try to imagine early Google or early Facebook working out of a coworking space, you just can't do it. They wouldn't have stood for it.

Another problem with working out of someone else's space is that you won't seem as impressive to investors. Investors often like to visit startups in situ. You don't seem as real if you don't have your own space.

Workspaces seem to fall on a continuum, and it's hard to say precisely where the cutoff is. The test is whether the space feels like your own. But there are a lot of borderline cases. E.g. it's ok for several startups to share an office.
Could this cause problems the way that hnreputation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789469) also did?
> I am wondering how they could simulate the loss of an AZ. Any ideas?

Nelson: How many chaos monkeys will there be?
Bart Simpson: One at first, but he'll train others.
I'm very positive on LSD in general, but even to me, "a year of regular LSD use", or any kind of "regular" use sounds extreme and dangerous. I guess I take it for granted that something so intense should be approached with a great deal of respect and caution. I do find it odd that people naturally "get" this for things like driving a car, hang-gliding, back-country skiing, skateboarding, parkour.... but often shut down mentally when the subject is illegal drugs.
Sometimes it pays to take a break from the monotonic techno mumble contained in books quoted by others here.

I suggest you read "English August" by Upamanyu Chatterjee.
how is this different to a hotel?

When you buy time at a hotel, you're buying a bundle of services. You're getting a room, with a door that locks. You're getting regular cleaning service, even if you don't need/want it. You're getting a private bathroom. You're getting privacy from the locals even if you don't need/want it. You're getting geographically limited because you can only get a hotel room in a place where the economics support building a hotel that has at least a few dozen rooms. I mean, hotels that have only one or two rooms aren't very profitable. Which means that hotels tend to concentrate in central business districts and other places where land is expensive.

The point is, all these features that are bundled together have real costs. If you don't need those features, then you ideally you shouldn't have to pay for them.

This is sort of like asking why Zipcar is different from a rental car company. There are efficiency gains to be had in a system where individual cars are scattered all over a city and where customers rent them by the hour as opposed to forcing customers to rent cars by the day from a centralized airport location.
To check I understand: you need to deserialize objects, and you also want to pass in some arguments to some of those objects, so that their initialization is based on both the serialized data and the arguments? Is that to do with currying (is currying in Ruby?) In a complex object graph, how do you know which arguments should go to which objects?

You could use a global object to hold these arguments (or, subclass Thread, and associate the data with that, and yield while the deserialization runs in that thread). Ugly, yes.

BTW: it is possible to set final fields outside a constructor, using some black hacking (by accessing the same hooks that JOS uses internally). A few serialization tools use this, and I recall a project that consisted entirely of providing nicer access to these hooks (I searched for it, but couldn't find it).
I got 3 invitations in the first week. I use Google Voice exclusively for all my calls and a decently high volume of my text messages. My invited users use the service heavily and I've been responsible for getting my brother and both my parents using Google Voice, yet I've never been given additional invites.

:(
Aww, gee, well in that case I assume Obama will veto it, since in this video he makes a "firm pledge" that "no family making less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year will see any form of tax increase":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8erePM8V5U
I wrote my own class which created the data (basically an array) once, passed it around, and automatically deleted the data once its parent function returned.

I did this by having a reference counter which goes up on a constructor, and down on a destructor, and when it gets to zero and destructs, only then does it delete the data.

This gave me about 10% extra speed in the program as a whole, over using the C++ classes in the STL.
1. Whether I can get funding is a second order question. Who cares if I can actually get funding? The first thing to figure out is whether I NEED funding and whether I WANT funding and all the things that come along with it -- and that is all this post focuses on.

1a. Regardless of how hard it may be to get funding, the value equation has changed. I don't NEED funding to build a web startup, I don't NEED the VC... I value it. And that is a difference you are missing.

2. On me not wanting another MASTER: Why would someone give me money without putting in place some sort of accountability? Some sort of plan? I wouldn't even want to take on funding from someone without being sure that I can deliver on what I am promising, and even more importantly, I wouldn't want to take on an investor that throws money at me and just forgets about me.
the blogger closed discussion before I could reply so I'll reply on here for what good it does me.

Whether a technological singularity is desirable is debatable. Whether development of human-equivalent AI would lead to technological singularity is debatable. On the other hand, human-equivalent AI seems inevitable to me. Author asserts some things without much in the way of proof:

"You could take a precise reading of the structure of the human's brain and simulate that brain inside a computer. But taking this initial reading is impossible in practice right now, and may remain so indefinitely, and computers need to be, conservatively, ten orders of magnitude more powerful before the simulation step becomes possible."

Why would this remain impossible in practice indefinitely? It's only a matter of time and effort until the human brain's goings-on can be reproduced outside a human brain, no matter how many orders of magnitude "more powerful" thee equipment needs to be. Unless there is truly some human-inaccessible spiritual process that goes on alongside physical processes in the human brain to produce human intelligence, there's no reason purely physical processes can't be reproduced outside a human brain.
This legislation "targets" people who have deliberately structured their business to take advantage of a tax loophole that allows them to pay lower payroll taxes than owners of LLCs, partners in LLPs and partnerships, startups in C corporations, and sole proprietorships, all of whom are required to pay their fair share of FICA taxes.

Hate on Medicare and Social Security as much as you want, but as long as we have those programs, it is simply bullshit that company owners (not their employees, mind you, just the owners) can organize as an S-Corp, ratchet down their pro forma salaries, and collect the difference as "distributions".

As the parent poster slyly notes, this behavior is already unlawful. You'll find plenty of analyses on Google of people's attempts to skirt payroll taxes with distributions and then getting smacked down in IRS audits with 20% negligence penalties attached. The problem is that in order to catch those people, the IRS has to aggressively audit S Corps and take people to tax court, which is (a) a waste of everyone's time and money and (b) a nuisance for S-Corps who are playing by the rules.

All that's happening here is that a bright line is being created where a dim and flickering line was previously. That's a step forward. The notion that there was some social benefit to this quirk of the tax code is silly. If you try to defend it, you don't get to complain about the tax code being too complex anymore.

The purpose of an S-Corp is to allow the flexibility of an LLC while allowing companies to create real equity incentive plans for employees. It isn't a grant to small consulting companies to exempt them from FICA.
All anti-depressants have severe or annoying side effects for some people. Most anti-depressants have almost no side effects for most people. The trick is to change prescriptions until you find one you like.

(I'm on my third prescription, and have no complaints.)
Yeah, kid, family and relationships seems like the basic answer to "why aren't most people obsessed with obscure X".

The chances are your kid will take all your time when they're young and then probably won't share obsessive interest X when they get older.

Just as much with relationships - you can't be an appealing mate by being successful, well-balanced and well-adjusted. Or you can share interest X with you mate. But latter approach gives one 1/10000th as many people - not impossible but it's something to think about.

I think there are some portion of people who could find hobby X appealing but then, consciously or unconsciously think about these considerations and push themselves back to mainstream.
Just fry them on the way to the customer.
Just bake the pizza on the ride over to the customer.
Self driving, potato fryin future.
> To feel depressed about the state of your life is to demonstrate capacity to imagine something different, and that spark of imagination can prove a motive to change.

This was arguably true for me, but not in a good way. I'm pretty sure that I started having intrusive suicidal thoughts because my depression had motivated me to try to change. Said changes utterly failed to even make a dent in my depression, finally convincing me that nothing I did would ever make me feel good again (this was after multiple trials of antidepressants and talk therapy over the course of 10+ years; it's not like this was the first thing I tried).

All the generic "there is hope" and "antidepressants really work" and "go to therapy" talk that tends to surround mental illness discussion really bugs me because virtually nobody acknowledges the damage that's done when these things fail (and they fail frequently). It doesn't just damage trust in mental health professionals, it hurts the credibility of recovery as a concept.
Yes, that is exactly what Bank of America used to do, including putting an overnight hold on cash given to a teller. Regardless of what the fine-print-nobody-reads said, it was "dark" and illegal and eventually stopped due to a class action lawsuit.

(One of) their current scam(s) has gotten a bit cleverer in that they don't actually break the law themselves but rather just induce their customers to commit check fraud - if you receive a check drawn on Bank of America and present it in person at one of their branches, they won't honor it for the full amount!
It might be a epidemic prevention, similar to apoptosis.

Better the sick person dies voluntarily than infecting everyone else with a deadly disease
Wow, that’s fascinating. Thank you for sharing!
I just youtubed this guy and found a 10hr video of him programming for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hlb8YX2-W8
What really made me think though, is that I never once thought of them as "shock rock" and even found their presence on the show, ironically shocking and misplaced. I'm in my early twenties, so I was a little late to the whole Marilyn Manson/Columbine show, and Cooper has always been a relic to me, but seeing a contemporary band I enjoy labelled shocking was rather odd to me. Of course I'm an American and Rammstein, though popular, was never in the spotlight so I was also never in a situation to have my parents question my choice in that particular band so that may factor into my lack of perspective.

The term is really just something for the previous generation to apply to something they find distasteful or scary. Sitting here writing about it really made me comprehend that term. I suppose +1 for rubber ducking.
"TSA's job is to spot outliers, oddities, and flag them for review"

No, the TSA's job is to prevent prohibited items from being brought into the secure area of the airport and onto a plane.
do you recommend Wordpress open, or a more restrictive open?
Core count, clock speed, and cache quantity are related to yield. HyperThreading, VT-d, AVX, Turbo Boost, AES-NI, TSX, and ECC are all too integral to the core design; they're physically present on all chips and it is extremely unlikely for a manufacturing defect to affect one of those features without otherwise crippling the chip. Those features are used for product segmentation that is not driven by any real marginal cost.
article text is 190 pixels wide in 1600px wide browser window, maybe it should file this bug for me too?
At Oracle I got my own office as an intern
This is some terrible JavaScript. And jQuery?
Not sure why I'm getting an "adult content" warning for this blog, since it doesn't seem to contain anything risqué:

"Content Warning

The blog that you are about to view may contain content only suitable for adults."

(Then again, I'm running Adblock, so if you're displaying pornographic ads, I wouldn't be seeing them.)
Not trying to spread any sort of misinformation but several folks have reported the same on reddit from both the vaccine and an infection.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BFS/
That poll's about a year and a half old - I wonder if it's changed much since then?
That generally applies to anywhere you're coding in something raw like C or assembly on very small datasets and don't want to deal with the mental overhead of picking and writing an efficient sorting algorithm. For sets of less than 100 items, it's not worth the bother.

I actually did that in a programming contest once, having solved the hard part of the problem and being left with nothing but sorting the results.
I visit more than a handful. How useful do you think a dozen unfamiliar favicons on my tabs or bookmarks are?

And why would I have to visit billions of sites? The issue is that billions of sites exist, and a random little picture tells me nothing about what site it's from unless I already have it memorized.
create a niche software product with recurring revenue in a day or 2? Sign me up, i'll take 10!
Most people just walk into a store and get a phone that they think is cool. The Nexus One was not available anywhere except Google's website.

When I went in to the T-Mobile store, I came out with a G1 because the T-Mobile lady was explaining all of the hoops one must jump through to use a Nexus One. They don't carry them so you have to order online and wait 4-7 days for the phone to arrive (my old phone was broken, so this alone made it not an option for me), you can't use T-Mobile's normal plans on them, I wouldn't have been able to buy with subsidy because my previous contract had one month left and therefore manager override was necessary to grant the discount on the phone, and I didn't have $500-$600 cash sitting around to spend on a phone, and so on.

If the N1 got the same kind of carrier marketing and buy-in that the other phones got, I'm sure it would have done well. Carriers, however, did not want to provide that marketing or support because doing so would minimize their death grip on the end-user and count as a success for something not loaded with carrier crapware, which they don't want either.

The carriers know, of course, that nobody really _likes_ having a permanent, unremovable Blockbuster app on their phone. But since people will tolerate it, and the carrier gets a lot of money from Blockbuster (or NASCAR or whatever) for doing that, they want to keep phones that are free from this crapware as far away as possible; if they didn't, people would prefer phones that are without crapware, and this would impede the carrier's ability to sell contracts to include crapware.
Thanks for the correction and clarification.
You forgot the most important part... They're MUCH MUCH faster so you get a wonderful productivity boost, esp when you run your tests with autotest.
Firewalls can protect you from a number of things because they deal with the entire stack at once, which tcpwrappers can't do.

They can detect and take action against denial of service attacks, port scans and probes for known vulnerabilities.
They can manage incoming connections statefully.

They can block outgoing connections (big one there), including replies from the stack that give away information you don't want to give away.

They can also log what's going on.

Really, the ideal system only responds to the one port you're serving (and should stop that if you DOS or probe the system).
Wow, serendipitous, thanks.
HPMOR has hit HN front page on at least 3 occasions (including this one). That in itself tells you how good this thing really is.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385932
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668766
Well, that's because our reading habits are linear.