jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Would be good if they could for once apply the changes across the board, it’s currently such a disjointed Frankenstein.
Every time I hear about Windows 10 LTSC I look for a place to buy a key or download the ISO from Microsoft and I can’t find it. It seems like they don’t want to sell it.
Something like 600-700k people die in the US of heart disease every year and yet we don't do much to combat obesity and unhealthy lifestyles.
Don,

Wow, thanks for the detailed ideas! I've resisted joining academia myself, but that shouldn't prevent finding partners there. Recently I started working with 3 transportation/civil engineering professors, and their expertise is already helping to fill some gaps with the project. I'll try more aggressively looking for more academics to loop in. UW in Seattle almost certainly has this sort of meet-and-greet; I'll poke around and see if they have anything happening online these days.

Thanks again!
-Dustin
The point was that "Leave EU" - a group dedicated to leaving the EU and removing the rights of UK people to register a .eu domain - has itself got an eu domain which is unaffected by the leave process because it's registered via an EU company.

Perhaps "hypocritically" rather than "ironically" may have been more accurate, but certainly would have been more political.

To be honest I can't think of any other .eu domains other than leave.eu.
Why do articles talking about this always talk about specific work factors and choosing a correct work factor, as if it's fixed? I thought good practice was to choose the work factor dynamically so it's calibrated to whatever hardware you're running today.
Hi HN,

My name is Jonathan Schwartz, complete coding noob, but longtime fan of HN.

I just finished fumbling my way through my first Meteor.js project (via Telescope) to make an Entertainment Industry Social News site, called "Picking Dailies".

I modeled it in the vein of PH, and I'd love to hear feedback from real hackers -- thanks for your time.

--Jonathan
Right, that's pretty much the same as my process. Did you deal with a W9? or 1099 though? Probably not because you're incorporated right.. So they listed your business. In my case a sole-proprietorship they need my personal info. Makes sense.
MitM takes more effort and is less common. You're only fooling yourself by thinking about it as black and white. How about "it's just as easy to MitM me, but I have reduced how common eavesdropping will be by 80%" I want that. And with how common ISP surveillance is, the number is probably much higher than 80.

>There is no such thing as "kind of" secure, after all.

If you really want to get absolute, then you have to admit that any computer you have purchased parts for is not secure.

Levels of security exist.
JSON.parse takes a string of "JSON" and turns it into a JS object. It doesn't evaluate the string in a JS context at all, which is what eval() does.

Some people have used eval() to do JSON parsing because JSON is a subset of JS, but if the user has any control into making malformed JSON, they could do so to create JS that can do anything the page can from the context of another user, otherwise known as Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS).
I think this, or something like it, would be really useful with zram (Linux RAM compression), which currently uses LZO.
The article makes it clear the guy lived below his means and drove an old car. It's safe to assume he did not have cars, jewelry and mansions. He was also 91, I don't know what he was waiting for, maybe 95 before he cut loose?

But you are right, people have their money and do with it to enjoy their lives as they see fit.

I would be happy to have $5 million and just live off the $20,000 (Assuming 5% return) a month that would give me.
This is what I get on my iPad (which is how I had already happened to view it before coming here to look at the comments): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/Slideshare-iPad.jpg

Works pretty well.
>Many subjects cannot really be learned from books. Regardless of how many history books you may read, for example, it will not shed the same insight as a profound discussion with a highly-experienced academic in the field. This is true for many aspects of the humanities.

Also, if you're really interested in a subject, talking with an expert is fun. You're really missing out on the good stuff if you keep to yourself and your books. I think this goes equally for the arts and the sciences.
Being away from the Toronto area for a while I don't really have my finger on the pulse of the scene there, but I've only ever seen a couple of companies from the Toronto (or Waterloo) area show up in the "Who's Hiring" threads. Is it that Toronto-based start-ups rely more on networking? Or do they just not hire many people outside of their founders?
Most people in the US don't spend hundreds of thousands on undergrad education, just the people who blog about it a lot. I went to Iowa State. Tuition was about 1500 a semester, so 12k total, for a double degree in computer engineering and math. I'm totally satisfied with the quality of the education and social experience.
Do you need a developer license to make apps with WebKit?
More times than not, I've found rewriting code leads to more problems than fixing some trivial error. Some small bug in the code is not necessarily a symptom of a horrible design that will destroy your project.

I don't know about the random guy who wrote this article or his experiences, but I rarely find myself with a few weeks to throw away rewriting code that works.

I submit to you http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?RewriteCodeFromScratch for a more reasonable and comprehensive discussion of the topic.
In short, the net neutrality debate just went mobile.
Wasn't sure what "Apple's 10-3-1 prototyping process" involves; it ends up that the title is pretty self-explanatory:

Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature. Not, Lopp said, "seven in order to make three look good", which seems to be a fairly standard practice elsewhere. They'll take ten, and give themselves room to design without restriction. Later they whittle that number to three, spend more months on those three and then finally end up with one strong decision.

[Source: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/200...]
Lua 5.2 has been feature complete on Parrot for years. Like LLVM and the JVM, we'll keep tuning and improving and fixing bugs and adding features to make language implementation easier, but the correlation between "maturity" and "use" is strong.
One way to suck less is to raise angel money after you've made some progress, such as demonstrating some technology viability, some market traction, or at least commitments from other people to join you if you get funded.
so you're saying the laws in favor of slavery, and against homosexuality, should have been kept? Because they were the established practice and tradition...
I think that Wikipedia article is far too sanguine about the likelihood that NPVIC would pass Constitutional muster.

First, it's not likely that the wording of Article II truly grants state legislatures unlimited discretion in the selection of electors. A state law that required electors to be men or Methodists would surely be unconstitutional today. And as a result, there's almost certainly an equal protection argument to be made against NPVIC: Sure, each individual voter is participating equally in a larger process to choose the President, but that's not the process prescribed by the Constitution. The process demanded by the Constitution is a state-by-state selection of electors, and if a state legislature wants to have an election, it better be an election in which every voter of that state is participating equally. A thought experiment: Could the state of California pass a law that counted every vote for the electoral slate of the Democratic party twice? Surely not. So how can they pass a law which discounts the vote of every voter except those that voted for the nationwide popular winner?

Second, if this agreement doesn't trigger the Congressional approval requirement of the Compact clause of Article I, I can't imagine what would.
The machines are not binary. They trigger specific materials. Some are going to be much more common than others, and like every process where they have false positives they react differently based upon their incidence rate.
I like Heinlein's use of this in "For Us, The Living", he breaks out the Public and Private spheres and addresses how anything done in the private sphere is effectively heavily tabooed to inquire about, and could even become a criminal penalty.
Politicians having a much smaller private sphere of course.
> The affiliations and motivations of the arguer DO affect things when the "facts" he is using can't be independently verified or objectively measured.

Not so. If facts can't be independently verified or objectively measured, then that's case whether they're spoken by a well-known expert in the field or a well-known liar.
I'm sure this isn't the end of the story either. He'll be on the watch list now, and subject to additional scrutiny for every flight forevermore.
I don't like this concept of "first teaching language".

It does not matter at all which one one learns first! It's not the language, it's the ideas and the way of thinking...

This is like talking about whether it is better for a baby to speak english or chinese, in order to learn how to walk
Uber certainly disrupted that industry. I would never get into a cab unless I absolutely had to. Now I'm not getting a new car once my lease is up because I uber everywhere I go.
The person you are responding to would prefer to never having to go through trauma and would be fine with never building that additional resilience. That trauma is not good price for the supposed resilience he got.

And I can add that another benefit for him would be time and money saved on therapist. Therapy takes time and a lot of money. Being in situation where you don't need it is better, even if you lose on tiny bit of resilience.
How so? On the whole, it saves Amazon the hassle of dealing with "unfair labor" complaints that really aren't. And it's not like the NLRB attorneys give the employee some special advantage. Frankly, there are a lot of cases where the employee would probably be better off working with a private attorney whose incentives are more aligned with the employee's. And either way, Amazon had a piece of paper from a lawyer that said "we will pursue this if you don't settle."
He really doesn, he and Scalia were the reliable crazy uncles of the court. Looks like Alito is trying to take up Scalia's mantle. I sear to god if Thomas had to rule on a runaway slave he'd rule for the slaveholder.
That's one of the main findings from the book "The Coddling of the American Mind". Overprotective parents raise children that don't know how to handle conflict, and colleges give in to the student demands for protection from conflict because the colleges care more about collecting tuition than educating.
> [T]hose who will need to collaborate when trying to deal with an APT.

Well, that's certainly a growing market segment, both domestically and internationally. It is starting to feel like there may soon not be anyone left who doesn't have to deal with an APT, if only as collateral damage.

Thanks for engaging!
Because you're far past the point of ever being able to do anything with it, and you know that. You also have to be smart enough to know at that point that you further accumulating wealth is actively hurting the world. I can't see how it's any different than being addicted to drugs. Especially if you're so addicted you're actually willing to put that 8b on the line just to win even more.
Good piece -- here is an excerpt.

"The true significance of Scott Alexander is less in what he writes, than in his whole approach to writing—and not (or at least not only) because Alexander has a particular gift, but because he has chosen to wield that gift in furtherance of Truth. To notice the specifically weird things Alexander or other Rationalists sometimes say is to miss the underlying message that in their company, the Overton window is open. Speech is free. Respectful, authentic pursuit of the truth is permitted no matter where it leads, and no one will be punished for being wrong. Bad thinking will be corrected, if possible, not with ridicule or other rhetorical pressure to conform, but with good thinking. Rationalists, in short, are a group of people who picked up the liberal, academic, philosophical traditions of Western civilization when institutions like the New York Times decided to abandon them."
Thanks, that was a truly good talk
I hear it's possible to find them on the 1337x torrent site
This package basically exposes information that the standard Julia compiler already knows internally (extracted using some hooks I added last year to make the compiler more extensible) and uses for optimization. As such, it has quite good information about whether or not its analysis is complete, because we need that information to generate correct code. It is very possible to just error when the information is incomplete, which we do e.g. when compiling for GPU or TPU. In such a mode, the absence of type errors (or any other kind of error you wish to exclude would be proven). Of course Julia's type system is designed for semantics specification, not proofs, so it's not really what you'd want to use there. I think the most promising way to go is basically to let the users specify their own correctness criteria (for example, some people really care about correctness of array dimensions), and then just go to a full theorem proving system for that. I really like F* in this area as a design point and have played with some ideas in that direction. A package like JET.jl is of course a good step in this direction, since it can at least make use of the static information that the compiler does already need to prove for its internal optimization purposes.
Problem is it’s turtles all the way down. A lot of turtles. Each turtle is hungry.
This is huge! Thanks for sharing.
Almost everything worthwhile I stumble upon gets archived to my private ArchiveBox instance these days. Sadly, there are a few Coursera/EdX courses that have been taken down (eg https://www.edx.org/course/engineering-the-space-shuttle) and coursera-dl/edx-dl seems to be broken OOB these days...
>uniformity of thought in the media has increased.

Has it? How do you measure that?
Inability to fire police officers, even for gross misconduct including unlawful homocide is baked in to many jurisdictions due to PBA contracts.
The public fails to get much science at all, not because they or the scientists are cheap, just neither one can afford the things that were always expceted to be within reach any more.
Prolly not the place to ask this...but I will go ahead anyway...I recently heard that if you have a Rails app that will be accepting files from users (e.g. say images/videos being uploaded) Heroku is not the best host to use.

Anyone have any thoughts/experiences with that? Is that complete rubbish or is there truth to it and why?
If you are looking at Entrepreneurship and/or Marketing, do what I did and attend the University of Houston.

UH has the #1 Entrepreneurship program in the country (http://bit.ly/feQIsL) and the #1 Sales program in the country (http://bit.ly/gTaHte).

There are TONS of companies that recruit here as well for jobs and internships. Entrepreneurship program rankings from Entrepreneur Magazine (http://bit.ly/3jZHv0).

I went there because I wanted to be in a big city and I hate the cold. No snow in Houston :-D

Edit: I double-majored in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. It was only 3 extra courses for both degrees.
Houses of worship and religiously affiliated organizations pull the largest % of donations in the US according to studies. Given the much higher presence of churches and church attendance in the US as opposed to Europe, I could see that driving per capita donations in the US up. However, unless it's only the Christian population that gives more per capita, I'm not sure why other highly religious countries wouldn't also rank high.

The article does address tax breaks in some countries. In regards to the number of charities in the US, not counting houses of worship, we have around 1 for every 300 persons. Not sure what that level is in other countries but would love to find out.
s/relevant/specialized & relevant/
If these dynamic languages are usually used in a mostly-static manner, just without the typing and some added load-time flexibility, doesn't that just mean they operate at a higher level of abstraction? Isn't that a good thing?
One thing that's never mentioned in these types of articles is that the top two categories for donations are churches and schools. Fully one third of US donations are to churches and another 13% for educational institutions (including private colleges and K-12 schools). That's nearly half of donations going to organizations that perform very little actual philanthropy and spend most of their money with organizational self-interest in mind.
Er, isn't that an excellent use-case for hiring more beekeepers?
If this doesn't turn out to be overblown sensationalism, then the team behind this (actual!) cure probably deserves a Nobel for their efforts and results.
This makes the false assumption that resources put into Python 3 somehow prevented "native browser support," something that has always been firmly in the hands of browser vendors and was never blocked by insufficient loyalty to Python 2. The world where just giving up on Python 3 would magically bring huge benefits never existed.

If you don't want to use Python 3, keep using Python 2 through its EOL in 2020+ but why interfere with other people happily using and preferring Python 3 for years now? It is not interfering with you.
What is the general opinion on HN of Allen Downey's Think Stats?
You are assuming a linear relationship between alcohol and risk of death. There is absolutely no reason to think that.
Note this is just Zend's take on what's important in PHP 7: it's not a complete list.

A more comprehensive list:

- Dual-mode scalar type hints (weak by default, toggleable to strict via a per-file syntax) (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5)

- Return type declarations (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_types)

- <=> operator (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/combined-comparison-operator)

- Null coalesce operator (??) (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/isset_ternary)

- Closure::call (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure_apply)

- Abstract syntax tree (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abstract_syntax_tree)

- Context sensitive lexer, allowing the use of reserved words in more places (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/context_sensitive_lexer)

- Unicode escape syntax in strings (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_escape)

- A uniform variable syntax (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/uniform_variable_syntax)

- Expectations (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/expectations)

- Use declaration grouping (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/group_use_declarations)

- Removal of a ton of long-deprecated features

- Massive speed improvements

You can see everything that's been added to PHP 7 on https://wiki.php.net/rfc (look under Accepted and Implemented - PHP 7.0)
I could read this one of two ways: "a company must have been continuously filing for a minimum of 2 years", or "a company must have filed at least once within the last two years". I have no idea which is right (or if i'm completely wrong on both accounts) :-S
It's the same strategy Facebook is employing with its new platform.
Feel like in this article Sanflippo said something similar about the culture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8782667
Thanks, I _just_ threw out the receipts this week for individual meal cost estimation or I would post my results from that.

I was kind of jealous when shopping for the new puppy... why can't I just buy a 30lb bag of bachelor chow and live off of it for a month. (Answer: I'd get to throwing up when I thought about it after a week.) Absolutely right that all of the things that make food good and fun end up being a large portion of the budget, while the things that actually power you can be safely bought in bulk.
There is a lot of speculation that the Chinese govt has infiltrated its' network hardware company, Huawei, though I suppose there is also speculation the US govt has infiltrated Cisco and other vendors.

For those concerned about the original poster, it's relatively clear she or he is no longer in China, based on use of the term, "Back in China"..
I guess you are making fun of someone, but that is a good demonstration why too complex procedures are not a good idea.

Any procedure that aircraft crew is supposed to handle also needs to be something that is trained, memorized, and practiced regularly. Certain simplicity is ideal.
Since GitHub (and other sites) can modify their webpages, something like:

<script>
if (window != top) top.location = 'http://www.google.com';
</script>

returned as a static webpage would do the trick.
You mean Hermosillo.
Who is talking about deceitful or lying?

You are. You suggest that their officially given reasons are not their true reasons. If they aren't the true reasons then they must inherently be false reasons. Lies. Falsehoods. Misleading. Deceitful. Dishonest.

I actually believe that Jobs believes what he writes. I just think what he writes is wrong.

And this is where it turns into proper conspiracy logic. Instead of banning flash because Jobs/Apple thinks it wont run well and provide a good user experience, as claimed, you suggest that:

Apple think they could provide a good flash user experience if they want to, but they would rather ban it to convert advertisers to their ad platform, but the CEO has no idea about either the possibility of making it work or the company's actual motives, and honestly believes his own claims that they are banning flash because it cannot be adequately fixed.

If Apple really where serious about open standards why not disallow flash on the laptops? They have far less battery life than their mobile peers so the reason to remove it from there would be just as strong.

No, because they can be plugged in more easily because of the limitations on where you can use them, they aren't carried around as often while in use, and they have historically had Flash so taking it away is different from never adding it, and they don't have an app store to remove it from and they don't have a precedent or a method for controlling / curating desktop software and their desktop software isn't running a DRM'd environment so they couldn't effectively enforce it and they can support open standards on their desktops by adding safari and let Adobe deal entirely with flash which they can't do on a mobile platform with a very restrictive constraints which they would have to ensure it met.

there is absolutely no reason to believe that HTML5 wont be the exact same things happening.

OK.

If HTML5 is better it will end up replacing Flash

Not true. Better is too vague and better doesn't always win anyway.

At least if it was possible to opt in or out of flash in the setting people would have a choice

People have a choice - Android. We'll see if Android sales skyrocket because of Flash support.

Instead what we have is a bunch of bad excuses for why Flash shouldn't be on the iPad and iPhone.

It's irrelevent whether they 'should', the iPhone is an Apple product and the only reason things get on it or not is because Apple want it that way. 'Should' doesn't come into it.

The only thing apple get out of that is going to be substandard flash emulation with JavaScript and Canvas.

Again, no. Apple get browser stability, reduced engineering costs, reduced support costs, more polished and more pleasant user experience - the main things they are selling.