jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Aereo tried this but the broadcasters objected and filed lawsuits.

See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/21/aereo-supreme-court....

Spoiler: we (the consumers) lost.
"Obviously a guilty plea still requires work, and maybe a lot of it. But in terms of outcomes, they rarely lose."

Right, but this is the result of:

1. Selection bias (prosecutors only prosecute a case they have a great chance of winning).

2. Negotiation (prosecutors will charge for lesser crimes than those they believe were committed, in order to gain agreement to a plea deal).

The percentage alone doesn't tell you much about how hard it is to gain a conviction. It tells you a lot about how willing prosecutors are to prosecute a case that they may not be able to win.
I thought raising kids in dysfunctional households was how you imbue them with an insatiable thirst for validation that leads them to found companies and become billionaires.
Often when he looked at the multitude of wares exposed for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I can do without!"

- Diogenes Laertius, Lives, describing Socrates
Would this be decent as an audiobook? Or should I go with a hard copy?
A lot of the story regarding the Tetris split between Nintendo and Tengen is covered in the great Gaming Historian video [The Story of Tetris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8&t=1s).
> The project started to solve the company's internal problem for the sales department, but they also wanted it as a complete SaaS.

They is ambiguous, the business or the dev team? If it is the latter, it would apply.
Perhaps I have an unusual viewpoint on here but I'm in the UK and there are certainly people who think that way. The disgust for the rich (or even the "well off") held by what are often called "the working classes" is frequently palpable. I've not encountered this disgust of wealthy people to such a level in the US.
Good to see some cricket love here. :-)

(Dutch cricket player in the Amsterdam area)
I'm beginning to see Linux as simple a broad open platform that is very customizable to individual needs. The idea of the spanning, generally somewhat similar but incompatible enough to be a nuisance, problematic because you have to install it on your own in virtually all cases, desktop Linux is a dying breed. I say this as a sole user of desktop Linux for nearly ten years (currently typing in CrunchBang, a Debian respin).

Why? The places where Linux has slowly started to spin are independent ecosystems each spun from Linux. This has slowly been becoming the case in the mobile sphere. But the mobile OSs that are winning are not the ones that are much codeshared with desktop Linux like Maemo, but those that exist in independent ecosystems like webOS and Android, not to mention the open source devices like Kindles and Tom Toms that you never think about the OS on.

Even the main Linux distros for desktops and similar x86 devices are beginning to separate. Ubuntu is looking at alternatives to the X server. Chrome OS has the possibility to make inroads which is not a traditional distro in any sense. Linux as a kernel is becoming something diverse that can be respun to many different uses.

Used to, the Linux landscape was fairly consistent. Mobile devices that ran the Linux kernel were using much of the same code and software as the desktop Linux distros. For example, Dillo was a web browser used on Linux ports to mobile devices and the desktop. I had mobile Linux devices in the past that ran Pidgin.
He knows, as it is clearly visible in his article. His point is, he should not need to.
What word would you use to describe the government taking money from people who decide it's no longer in their best interest to participate in that government?
"guys drinking beer" is highest amount of complexity that american politicians are willing to use. It's so simple, they're all the same people with the same opportunities, some are just poorer than others... right? There's not barrier to entry, plumbers just don't apply for the CEO positions.
Still, It's not Poulsen's obligation to release the Lamo-Manning logs. If Greenwald wants them so much, he is free to contact Lamo himself. Also, don't forget Lamo could have edited the logs before giving them to Poulsen and it's only Lamo's word that assures their authenticity.
Is this really true? It seems like they would be remarkably close in number of bytes on the wire, accept in cases where you generate really poor XML. In fact, in some basic examples I quickly looked at, I think XML actually puts fewer bytes on the wire.

I do have to agree with the author though. This feels like a really "meh" discussions.
The comments, mostly. For example:

object objects[69];	/* Don't know how many... */

/* This report a sucessful breakin by sending a single byte to "128.32.137.13"
* (whoever that is). */

/* This appears to be a structure unique to this program. It doesn't seem that
* the blank slots are really an array of characters for the hostname, but
* maybe they are.
*/

/* There are pieces of "stub" code, presumably from something like this to
get rid of error messages */
"You can convert losslessly" – that's not the whole truth.
It's an issue that there's no obvious or agreed upon way to render an XML format like ATOM into JSON, because everyone makes up their own transformation rules. Here are two distinct attempts:
* http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-atom2json.html
* http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/json.html
Good point. Also, doing something similar in PhotoShop would probably take a lot more time.
Even if PhotoShop has these capabilities, it's not a tool for the masses. The goal of ScrapWalls seems to be making it easy for anybody to make the collage whereas not everyone has or knows how to use PhotoShop.
Putting in http://www.yahoo.com gave me http://longerfuckingURLs.com/lfsv/yahoo
How would you suggest they run it differently?
I may be wrong, but "Hacker News" does not appear to be trademarked in the US. And the code is open source. So which particular laws are being broken here?
The "woe is mob" TechCrunch author really should have highlighted this piece.

The mob didn't kill a magazine, it killed an ongoing content theft mill.
I love the wine bottle variant [1].

"Guaranteed to frustrate even the most dedicated wine connoisseur: it's difficult to fill, difficult to pour, and difficult to clean."

[1] http://www.kleinbottle.com/wine_bottle_klein_bottle.html
It's like a hipster Web 2.0 version of YTMND.
If the main focus of the class is to code games for smart phones the choice should be the Unity Engine. BUT that would be the entirely wrong choice to learn programming. Games are multi-discipline projects, programming is just a small part of it, there are many distractions when writing a game to get graphics, sound, AI 'look and sound right', and the visual 'rapid prototyping' workflow of modern game engines gives you quick results, but you don't learn anything about programming. You just cobble together code snippets from Stack Overflow and tinker around until it feels right.

Python is a much better choice to learn programming then Javascript IMHO, then take a quick tour into Lisp, Forth and C, and then may be worry about creating games or UI apps.
Here's a top 100 Iranian films list which includes five by Kiarostami and one by Farhadi in the top 10:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-iranian-film...

A Separation is among the best dramas I've ever seen, period. It's been years since I've seen Children of Heaven but I recall very much enjoying it too.
I could believe it. There was one that went around enough to make the news a few years ago. Peppa Pig goes to the dentist. Starts off as you might expect if it were wholesome. Then it begins. Everything is in constantly shifting perspective. A giant syringe comes out. The shadows grow long. Peppa Pig then has her teeth pulled out. The audio has children crying, but not closely synced to the video.

My take was that it was crafted to be optimally engaging to a child of about four years of age. With no other purpose. Maybe even semi-automatically generated. The subject matter is a common fear of children. The video does not have enough to push it quite over the edge to any horror/revulsion response. Any particular frame would not be too out of place in a children's cartoon. As an adult, it disturbs mostly when you realize what's going on behind it conceptually.

Obviously worked as intended, given how many views it got. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39381889
While trying to share these links in Twitter:

As a...

- App user

I want to...

-Have a new menu item load just before I tap the menu item I wanted

So that...

-I can explore parts of the UI I wouldn't otherwise use
The cost of building a new house that size is about 200-250k. Everything else is land value. Note that I was taking about apartments ,when land value us as high as you say that supports tall buildings to divide the land costs between more units.

The mountains don't help, but nobody is building the apartments people want to live in.
The PyPA recommendation is old and out of date. Using a system that doesn't manage constraints and hash-checked lockfiles is bad practice.
(1) https://www.google.com/search?q=boredom%20required%20for%20c...

(2) Ask any animal trainer, like a dog trainer.
You've taken the idea that there are cultural differences in emotional display (which is true) and exaggerated it to an extent beyond any evidential support.

Yes, there are differences - especially in identification of intensity. But in general detection is pretty reliable across cultures.

Eg:

The results show that the overall accuracy of emotional expression recognition by Indian participants was high and very similar to the ratings from Dutch participants. However, there were significant cross-cultural differences in classification of emotion categories and their corresponding parameters. Indians rated certain expressions comparatively more genuine, higher in valence, and less intense in comparison to original Radboud ratings. The misclassifications/ confusion for specific emotional categories differed across the two cultures indicating subtle but significant differences between the cultures.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26730812
I sincerely hope that you are correct, because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
those prices seem kinda low

my sister is moving to nyc at the end of the month, and all the places she found were 2-3K/mo...she'll most likely go with this one place that's $1,250/mo with a roommate for a 2bdr apartment.

Granted she is set on living in Manhattan(Midtown) near her job, so it's a lot more expensive there.

But that's why her job pays her 15-20K more compared to what she'd get outside the city
I'm in a similar position to what he described, although have a huge problem in that we're down in South Africa.

We made it through to the interview round, and then declined when pg made the call that we'd have to interview in person (up until then we were certain video conference would be alright).

I am starting to debate my choice, but since we don't really need the program, a $3000 trip to the US for something we might not get into seems a little silly; but at the same time - that cost is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Give Caesar his due.

If you aren't trying to make money, you may be able to report it as a hobby, deduct your expenses and avoid self-employment tax.
Please solve the halting problem with indirection. Thanks!
I guess it depends more on who you converse with. I mean, just now, I got here via the threads link and I've already forgotten what story this was under.
Like many who have commented here I am a big time Arch linux fan. However if setting up X seems something that you do not want to deal with, you can give Chakra linux a try. Its based on Arch so you get a lean set up. But the installer does some of the heavier lifting for you. Off late they have been moving away from Arch though.

You could also run prelink after the install to make the startup time of your applications snappier.

Often time I do wish there was a more Debian stable'ish equivalent of Arch to put on servers. A distribution that is optimized but does not tip toe the bleeding edge as much and does not have a rolling release cycle.
Living in NYC isn't too bad compared to other big cities, unless you only think of NYC as Manhattan. The other boroughs offer cheaper (and safe) rent as long as you are willing to search a bit.
Anyone else feel that some concrete examples of the different kinds of state and how the error kernel is designed in a real application would be very helpful.
It's fair for him to e-mail but looking over the discussion it was stupid for him to e-mail so much (and cross the line into pestering). On May 4th the Apple guy said he'd need a few days to catch up because he'd been sick. The author then e-mailed him exactly 3 days later. That pattern continues with him e-mailing every few days or so.

I personally use the two week rule. If someone says they'll get back to me in a few days I give them a couple weeks before I e-mail a reminder. If they don't respond I wait another week and if I still get nothing I give up.

This guy comes across as self important and nothing turns other people off more than that.
Well I think the blog title is meant to illustrate the full range of emotion felt by him. I think he knows that any real talk of acquisition would have been a fair ways out, even if everything went as planned. But it's a very reasonable blog title. One that got me to read, and I didn't feel baited.
What he's saying applies to research nowadays too, especially biology-related. People in e.g. my lab (neuroscience) come from EE, Bio, Physics, Medicine, Stats, CS ...

It's working, though. Care is getting better than ever. Science is progressing faster than ever. We just need more. More funding, more education, more scientists, more talent. Especially in biology, we need a lot more computer scientists, especially the theoretical kind. A probabilistic pi-calculus would do wonders for dealing with the sorts of errors that cost Duane Smith his digits. We need more mathematicians to help us handle systems of vast and irreducible complexity, and we need more truly excellent experimentalists to pull off what was thought impossible.

That's what will help medicine the most, I think. More and better science, and intelligent people thinking rigorously about process. It costs money. My "one wish" would be to redirect the resources we've wasted in our War on Drugs, and the War on Terrorism / the Middle-East, and throw it all at the War on Human Ignorance. In truth, it's amazing how cheap progress is. The cost of developing a new cancer drug is way less than the cost of invading Iraq. It's actually cheaper to save lives rather than kill people!

This post doesn't really have a point. I just wanted to express my vote of total optimism for science in these days of rampant pessimism. It works, it's actually pretty cheap, and it gives back a thousand times more than what we put in. If you're in college and you're reading this, please become a scientist (or a doctor) :)
I have a simple counter. A personal smtp server, set to listen some non-standard port, set up to do TLS. The mail isn't encrypted, and your boss can still say that you sent mails if he dig up a bit, but he won't spy the content of the e-mails anyway.

Just don't make the mistake I did: forget to set up your imap server to use TLS as well.
I think in dealing with businesses, as an independent developer (or even as a developer concerned about your long-term career within an organization), you have to think about things in wireframe. Forget shaders, all that is extra.

Wireframe = bottom line and the business requirements and strategies. Everything else on top, giving out free WWDC videos, etc., that's all extra. And it's great when it's available.

But in negotiations you have to look at it in terms of wireframe mode. Otherwise, you'll focus on the wrong local extrema, etc.
Even if Apple almost "acquired" you (I don't really get that impression), I'd say that penning a blog entry complaining about it is not the most productive thing to do (and might even cause investors in the future to think twice about getting involved with you).
I love that book, I was thinking about it too when I read this article.
Soho, London

iPlatform Ltd

We're expanding our team of developers to work both on interactive games and apps on Facebook for big brand clients, and also to work on Conversocial, a Python/Django SaaS tool to help companies manage conversations with their customers across social platforms. We're a bootstrapped start-up, have gone from 2 to 10 people in two years and now looking to grow fast. We buy lunch for everyone every day;p

http://theiplatform.com/jobs/
his assumption sounds too high...

"assuming that Apple will net at least 500 pounds per device (or roughly 740 dollars)"
The thing to do would have been to develop the app and submit it to the app store, get users, become popular, etc. Once you had some real traction acquisition might have been a possibility.
Your argument now amounts to "there will always be issues", which is correct but not useful. What matters is what those issues are, how important, and how severe at each point on the scale. We're now talking at such an abstract level that it's not really meaningful...
It's possible to get around it by selling a device you plug the camera into, and your device has built-in GPS. I think Russia's dashboard camera "culture" might mean the device is a much easier sell - in Russia "Monitor traffic" is a problem people already seek solutions for, while the dashboard cameras is a good enough quality video people don't have to pay for again, whereas in, e.g. USA you will have to convince people they have this problem in the first place, and to pay for the cost of the device including a good video camera and storage.

In Russia people buy dashboard cameras because there is less trust in the "system", and is consistent with the paradigm:

License plate reading, unlike, say, tapping undersea fiber, is not something you need either a government's resources or a government's ability to skirt the law to do.
I meant nothing negative by it. I was just curious.

Sometimes people have a small "accent" in writing even when their English is pretty good.

Germans sometimes write 'as' when they mean '(something) like' or 'than' because of the German word 'als'.

French and Germans sometimes write "I've been doing it since 12 years" instead of "I've been doing it for 12 years" because of the words 'dépuis' and 'seit'.

Danes usually mess up the verbs by getting the number and person wrong (because modern Danish uses the same form for all {singular, plural} × {1st, 2nd, 3rd} combinations). Spanish speakers sometimes leave out personal pronouns (because they can be inferred from the verb form in Spanish). And so on and so forth.
On the news site I occasionally read there was an ad of an insurance company near the article on this tragedy. Not great.
I only scrolled through the article - but the guy's blog is pretty well written http://madmikethehippiebum.blogspot.com/2014/04/captured.htm....
My point was more that the subjects of this odd battle are not the actors in it. Such that the line you are drawing with the context you are drawing it in, feels in bad faith.

From all I have seen, which I confess is not everything, The blogger was asking for basic courtesy to not be named such that their practice could stay easily separate.

For my part, I care more for unpersecuted speech. I don't like the active screaming culture, but I can't bring myself to feel that someone should be able to have consequence free speech, either. Such that most of this debate is around gotcha moments that are people yelling at someone to reach the crowd.

It gets muddy, because I absolutely believe we have to allow people to be wrong. But I don't think we should tolerate active lying and gas lighting with deceptive rhetorical tricks that punish courage in openly exploring the boundaries of your knowledge.
If you are married to a Thai national the only requirement is that you stay there for 3 years.
What you want is "low code". Or less rhymey but more accurate: "minimal code".

Historically visual programming tools did not create this. In fact they generated very bloated code. So visual programming tools got a bad rap.

But there's no inherent reason why they need to generate bloated code. And if well done they can indeed generate minimal code (and program synthesis advancements will help a lot here).

We worked on this from ~2010 at Nudge and we eventually solved it with the discovery of Tree Notation.
A specific example of what you mean would be great. More comments quoting yourself and refusing to explain what you mean would be not great.
In Sweden all schools have to accept everyone, you definitely can't discriminate on social or financial grounds or even based on grades.
Dispersing the operation if things didn't pan out is actually the wrong approach and probably partly to blame for the poor results in Pharma these days. If you disband a research operation you lose all informal knowledge, and if you sell off assets separately you have to reassemble the instrument park again to start another company. In the past, when there were industrial research labs, the scientists and equipmetn would stay and be reassigned to another project.
No, all China has to do is push the origin investigation towards a South Asian country like Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam with large wild game trade. It's scientifically plausible and something Chinese science community suspected / deflected towards early in the outbreak.

Suddenly China's rapid detection and extreme lockdown would literally be properly contextualized as buying the world time, and the Chinese system would be validated beyond measure.
I use both. I use Kiwi with a range of extensions to block JS and trackers and all that, but I also use bromite for when I need to run something like a web app, it is easier than fiddling with extensions sometimes. Also I get some rendering issues in kiwi from time to time even with all extensions turned off.

Bromite has some great privacy centric features baked in, and google cruft removed. I'm not sure kiwi does. If bromite had extension support it would be perfect.
Sometimes, the "science" is wrong. Everything from low-fat diets, to high sodium diets, to DDT, to MSG. Many of the things that we have literally been indoctrinated with have been fully wrong.

Most recently, when the government, most especially the Surgeon General and even Fauci, told people that masks don't work. That infuriated me and they instantly lost credibility with me. And it caused a split in Americans where too many believed that masks didn't work, even after they changed their tune. It was absolutely unnecessary to lie and it killed people.

So read the science. Listen to the science. But read up further, and make educated decisions. Don't just listen to "experts" blindly.
Only a tiny fraction of society is on twitter at all.
I'm saying that the Chinese government has determined that semiconductors are strategically important and is willing to pour yuan into fabs and developing their own process equipment industry. Semiconductor manufacturing is a very capital intensive business and the short-term market view in the West isn't well suited to remaining competitive in that space. Silicon Valley has very little to do with silicon anymore because our markets decided to pour money into other areas where the payoff is quicker.
An interesting story. But the nerd in me screams about an unexplored obvious plot point: such a map of the land would have to contain in it the map of the map, creating infinite recursion, which is especially unresolvable in the last map the Emperor desired.
network chuck too, was my first video of him I watched, and probably most interesting too, but that's probably personal thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cmmVEoftEM