jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Basic information is on Wikipedia, if you ever look.

First member was appointed in January 2008. Go reread it.

> Do you have any point besides making endless discursive asides ... I'm starting to think conversing with you is a complete waste of time.

My thoughts exactly - It's not worth my time conversing with someone whose argument is basically "No, you're wrong. You obviously don't know anything about the subject." It's been fun - I'm not going to waste any further time on this thread.
I'm so glad this is happening. I've tried to occasionally propose we use a theorem-prover at work for stuff that "isn't allowed to make mistakes", and I'm always hesitant to recommend Coq because the name will, at best, get some chuckling and jokes, and worst make people feel a bit uncomfortable.
Why would shoes be considered sexy?
Fine. Slippery slope perhaps.-

Make it a "third sector", properly audited NGO (watchdog, thinktank, foundation ...), with ties to some appropriate umbrella (UN, ICJ), that uses some sort of blockchain solution to fine as needed, and then allocate compensation from this to aggrieved parties, or social programs, compensating not only for loss of privacy, but for the other nasty effects (fake news, emotional distress, political polarization ...) that F'book is causing.-

Otherwise, our souls are just another cost of doing business to them.-
If the value of data protection is that high then civil suit reform (lower overhead filing, improved class actions) should accomplish the same thing, and give the money to the owners of the data, without creating a massive defensive moat around the few companies that can afford the risk.
I didn't see anything in there about inverter output, other than it's pretty modest at 3.6 kW. My guess is it will do 120V, like most(all) built-in car inverters right now.

IMO, a good V2L setup needs to have split phase 240V in the US. But that would add significantly to the manufacturing cost of the car, so I won't hold my breath.
That development was not exactly legal even then, but there was no one who would stop them because the superpowers carved up Europe and this was Stalin's area. He could do what he wanted.

1.2M.. I think the current estimates are 2.4M expelled Germans, not counting the expelled Hungarians from Slovakia (many of which later returned and were granted citizenship).
Anyone knows the chart lib he is using in the frontend?
ahhh, good old days.

back when I was in elementary school, my big bro was learning jazz and taught me music (still do, but my progress is slow).

then he went to university. by the end of semester he came back home brought some chunky books printed on 70gsm paper. he give some to my cousins

the blog's hero image reminds me of that book. one of them is still in my house's storage.
Coq means rooster in French. Unfortunately it also sounds like "cock" which is a word people apparently can't handle in 2021...
I don't do this with every book, but I've been doing it with some technical content lately. It's surprisingly effective. Read a chapter, marking up portions I want to revisit. Revisit it with the computer open and type a bunch of things into Anki (or copy/paste if it's a Kindle book or PDF) with appropriate pieces marked up to make the cards.

Really nice for math and CS books if you also have LaTeX as you can get it to render well with a bit of practice. Now I just need to get back into my Anki habit, I was good for a couple years and then just stopped late last year which is frustrating, it was useful but my momentum was lost and I haven't recovered it yet.
Well, sorry about the uninformative answer. I was in a rush...

Anyway, 6 minutes (not 16) is the time people are usually expected to still be alive in a plane after it gets on fire. Airports spend a lot to get cars on their area fast enough for rescue, there's simple no chance boats can get anywhere in the oceans that fast - when a plane falls on the water boats need days to get there. And all "the nearest boat" will do is catching fire together with the plane, you need well equipped boats with trained people.

Anyway, I'm having a hard time trying to imagine a scenario where airplane tracking fails, but people are still alive. I'm about to claim that's currently impossible, but that'd be just asking for a counterexample to happen and prove me wrong... When planes disappear, it's because they were either completely destroyed in air or hit the ocean at a huge speed.
malloc() is already going to be randomized though for security reasons. The test just verifies that the randomization also leaves enough space for a realloc() to be fast and efficient rather than having the randomization putting all of the malloc() calls into a very small area, thereby making realloc() always move the data to a new location.
On [1], what does the underscore mean?

public SampleModule()
{
Get["/"] = _ => "Hello World!";
}

[1] http://nancyfx.org/
My understanding is that social class is a lot more complex in the UK than in the US - particularly "upper class" doesn't mean "wealthy", at least traditionally.

e.g. My wife had a relative who had millions in the bank but was resolutely and proudly working class.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United_...

Note that I am most definitely not trying to defend the UK class system - it is profoundly weird at times.
Interesting that at least one prediction is too optimistic:

Bitcoin is definitely going to be trading at $10,000 or more and in wide use by the end of 2014.
- Many otherwise smart people, November of 2013

And I have to comment on:

Superhuman machine intelligence is prima facie ridiculous.
- Many otherwise smart people, 2015

It's not prima facie ridiculous, but the more common error is to take it for granted. I just don't like it when people start to make predictions about the future based on technology uploading brains to computer or simulating the universe (which was done in the book "Superintelligence" which I just read). It's far from obvious that those things are even possible.
I was resistant to buying a house here in Pennsylvania, but my wife's from Sydney, Australia, and was gobsmacked by how inexpensive real estate is here. By 26, we had bought a small house in the Philadelphia suburbs about three blocks from a train station and renovated it over the course of a few years. We were able to purchase a larger house in Philadelphia proper, and rented out the house in the suburbs - which covered the price of that house's mortgage and subsidized the newer house's mortgage. Aggressively paying down the first house, it's now paid off, and is just straight income, and we're more than halfway done paying off the mortgage on this house.

This year, we actually dumped our investment account for a sizeable property in an amazing spot (on the waterfront, where the historic district meets the trendy hipster district), with commercial space on the first floor, an apartment on the second floor, and we'll be financing the expansion to a third floor by selling off the other two houses we have.

I'll be living in a new-construction home above a performing arts space that I own outright, paid for by a second floor apartment I'll be renting out, in a high density, urban environment - because my wife and I bought a house when we were 26.
This sounds like Henry George, a guy I never heard about in school, but had some quite interesting ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

... in short capitalism for work, but collective use of land to recognize its unique ability in compounding inequity.
Thank you. This seems to be a common sentiment here in this thread.

It seems that the answer is to keep doing what I'm doing.
I really liked the following article, which creates a text adventure language in Racket that looks like this:

===PLACES===
---desert---
"You're in a desert."
[cactus, key]
north start
south desert

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896
Yes, we think about it. This information is not rock-solid and changes with time as the tree re-balances. But for ultimate security, I think, we need something like a proper Oblivious RAM protocol
NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/technology/15starbux.html
As far as I can tell, the card only needs to be active when you register. My account continues to work long after the card has been inactive with a zero balance.

Creating an account is not all that bad. You only need to do it once and Mailinator email address are accepted :)
This might be a long shot or a bit crazy, but what about Whitman or Fiorina?

They were both in big tech companies and now are running for major offices that could drastically impact startups. Maybe they would like the exposure and you could talk to them about policies that relate to entrepreneurs.

Maybe PG (or someone here) knows someone who knows someone ...

http://www.megwhitman.com/contact.php
http://carlyforca.com/eventrequest/
This is the mother of open-ended questions. There are many questions like this on Stackoverflow, be sure to check those answers, too.

Deciding on what to learn is hard, however, deciding on which one to choose from a list of things is much easier. The important aspects are (in order of importance IMO): (i) How does this help with my bottom line, i.e. will knowing this technology earn me money (ii) How "sexy" is it, is in on the bleeding edge, when I list this on my resume, will it catch the eye? (iii) How's the community, are they helpful, do they answer newbie questions? (iv) How's the documentation? (v) Is this a dead-end thing, or will it lead me into learning new things?

If I had to name just one thing, I would say Javascript. It used to be that "real men don't use Javascript", but the latest prominence of web apps is changing that. Also JS has gained a lot of respect for its advanced notions. I would recommend : JavaScript The Goof Parts, it's an easy read. Learn JQuery (and node.js for advanced stuff)

I would add Google web toolkit to the tool bag. This way, you can build complex apps with your Java knowledge, without being a JavaScript guru.

Learn a mobile platform. My personal choice is Android. iPhone has better potential but is kind of saturated. And it's Java, so you don't have to learn Objective C.

Why not Processing? It's extremely easy to pick up, has tons of interesting tutorials/demos and is easily lends itself to creating mind-blowing visualizations in a short time.

I would also start learning a offbeat thing, something that will raise eyebrows while reading your resume and will make it stand out. Could be scheme (learning it know, awesome!), clojure (runs on the JVM), Lua (has always got a life of its own but getting more coverage lately, can run on Android), or if you want to really go all the way, Forth. These will probably not earn you money but will expand your mind.

You can also look into getting your feet dirty with hardware. For years, I've been afraid to do this (I absolutely hate hardware stuff) but Arduiono or the Beagle Board are great.

And one final thing: Learn git! That's where all the good stuff is.
Nice indeed... Does anyone know if there is a browser plugin (pref. Chrome) to bypass the paywalls of popular sites?
There's a great book about this called Bright Sided.
Write one or more non trivial projects a language you already 'know'. It will be far more beneficial.
And 166 days of rain a year.
I'm sure you watched the video and he was neither playing video games or drinking. I would not care what he says when he is doing that. But here he was out in public and people have right to say and note what he is happening around him. Democrats are about one thing, big government and control over people and media.
Recruiting John Scully.
I have no idea if this is rooted in scientific fact, but I've had such a similar experience I almost wonder if we are talking about the same guy. The sad thing is that we almost certainly aren't.
interesting, several weeks ago someone (reddit?) has already hit the problems with EBS availability. Did Amazon paid attention and analyzed the problem back then? Or let it just pass?
I see a blank page. (FF 3.6)

View source shows a div and references some javascript. But it doesn't do anything.
Wait, where does the "bugreport" command come from? I'm running Lucid and it doesn't work. Searching for it on http://packages.ubuntu.com/ doesn't seem to render anything. Do you mean apport?
> I am wondering how they could simulate the loss of an AZ. Any ideas?

They could instrument whatever library they use to interact with AWS and make it report failures or fail to respond to "create new instance"-like commands.
The old limit was actually 50. I know this because I signed up a few days ago.
I'm curious - would it be inefficient to use something that could efficiently compile Ruby into PHP such as Fructose, and then use HipHop for PHP from Facebook to compile the PHP into C++? So far I don't see a lot of tools that utilize the Ruby->C++ direction, and much work has gone into HipHop for PHP.
Great - thanks a lot for that link to 'Public Relations'. I'll add it to my reading list.
I find the entire concept to be unavoidably confusing. In accounting, to "balance the books" means to complete the process of double-entry bookkeeping. Once the books are balanced you can then determine whether you made a profit or a loss.

The political term "balance the budget" seems to be a corruption of the accounting term, and it means just for the state to break even. It seems likely to me that the coiner of this term had some misconception about double-entry bookkeeping - such as that you break even iff your books are balanced
Can you post?
I was hoping that comments would have been shown on click.
But the big bad USA is still much much worse than China let us not forget!
I didn't say that, and besides, that part of my comment was said in humor. Also, I consider myself among their numbers so I'm allowed to joke about it :)
>It should be the same fixed amount for everyone.

We tried that. It didn't work.
almost all tech companies in China are behind VPNs. Yep.
I'm not sure that OO-ness is a desired property.

Alexander Stepanov, original creator of the STL:

"I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting - saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work."

More discussion:

http://www.quora.com/Was-object-oriented-programming-a-failu...
Nice, but I still prefer the more information-dense original client.
Are you sure it's still cheaper to roast your own, if you look into the energy bills? (Not to think of your own unpaid work.)
My take on this is, economy depends on human decisions whereas "pure" physics does not. To predict stock values even for one major company, with the greatest possible certainty you'd have to take into account everything that goes through the minds of the entire world population. And even that wouldn't be 100% precise because there would be unexpected events, such as natural disasters, probably even harder to predict than human decisions.

For some reason the theoretical economics is, instead, trying hard to ignore the human factor and squeeze patterns out of what's happening in the economy, i.e. the system is viewed pretty much like an isolated thermodynamic one. From this perspective a human being is merely an automaton that buys and sells stuff, just like molecules in thermodynamics are just little thingies with a few simple physical properties. Except humans are obviously far more complicated than that!
This is not the same story or question. This is a derailing statement and should be removed.
I'm in Yucatan, Mexico.

>I would assume this discussion is centered on coastal American cities

Did you click the link of this submission? It's about Dublin, Ireland. That said you're right I have never checked out airbnb prices in the coastal US and I'd assume they are much more expensive there
Inattentive-subtype ADHDer here. One thing I've found very powerful is to have a clear idea of the reason why something matters. But even then, sometimes it is far better to change projects than slog through something if the "why?" isn't really connecting with what you value.

Knowing the "why" can also be somewhat helpful for noticing and pulling yourself out of hyperfocus. However, sometimes the thing you're hyperfocused on has its own more-compelling "why".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49178314

I don't think the model in the paper accurately reflects the recent cross-strait relations. China already closed the border to Taiwan several months ago to retaliate Taiwan's arm purchases from the U.S, which brought nearly two months to handles the situation for Tsai. Though, Taiwan's response still has been much better than any other Western countries which already had three months to prepare against the situation while did absolutely nothing for the period.
I haven't seen any ads in Windows 10. Is that a special version?
Yes an N95 mask provides more protection than a surgical mask. That's completely different from whether either mask protects the wearer. Both masks absolutely protect the wearer from infection. I'm sure you understand that, but the way you are wording things makes this unclear.
Google’s primary business is telemetry? Explain!
This is a nice workaround for those stuck under censorship regimes such as the UK, South Korea, Turkey, India or China.

Now, Encrypted DNS (thanks to DNS over TLS/HTTPS) and HTTPS (thanks to Let's Encrypt and HSTS) are getting deployed somewhat widely.

The next step is encrypted SNI[0], and it'll get this much harder to do any meaningful DPI, for censorship or else.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Securit...
FYI:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/fn3jno/cou...
It depends on my day and how hard I'm working as to how much I get paid per hour. But then I've never worried too much about guiding wealth, so long as my family is well provided for and happy. Maybe that's why I'm not wealthy :-)
It immediately started playing noise when I visited the site. How is that not free?
You expected to pay yourself if both:

1) Your car is out of warranty.

2) Your car’s VIN is not listed for the recall.
Why the fuck does everything have to be social!? SOCIAL THIS AND SOCIAL THAT, CAN'T I JUST SIT DOWN AND WATCH A FUCKING VIDEO FOR MY OWN SAKE. I've just about had it with everything Internet 2.0 and beyond these days.
How about "Yes, gravity travels at the speed of light"?
> If someone releases a huge dump of classified files, without any possible war crimes, would we still defend them?

I would. I don't trust the government to decide what should and shouldn't be confidential, and I'd be curious to hear any justifications for why the government deserves even the slightest bit of trust.
There's no reason to trust Blackberry. Even though the new devices can do IMAP directly (not indirectly through the "cloud"), they send your login credentials to RIM.

Details: http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=2379
I can't help but feel that this is typical of Microsoft's sales/PR team.

Generate a false problem:
"You don't wan't ads on your search engine do you!?"

Claim to have a solution:
"You can use Bing! We don't have ads for students!"

As a systems admin for a large school district, I'm very comfortable stating that what Microsoft and Apple offer to education is a joke compared to Google's offerings.

Not even comparable products.
The rates in those countries are way too high to be some optional feature like a messenger. It has to be something that was 100% turned on in those countries, but maybe optional/opt-in in the west? Or maybe they were doing gradual rollout of the feature, and they had rolled out in those countries fully and were at like 10-20% rollout in north america?
You can play with Xenix on 8086 here: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/unix/sco/xenix/086/2...

Click in the window and hit <enter> when you see the word "Boot".
Is that just a paper clipboard that can digitize your notes? What I like about note-taking on an ipad is that I can move stuff around, copy paste, figure-mode, undo button and camera for quickly grabbing a picture of the whiteboard or a slide.
Add zoned areas for the rooms that need heat/cold to isolate your usage.
Excess mortality for the elderly in Israel in the last 6 weeks is the highest it's been (by far) in the last 5 years. Check euroMOMO https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Wordpress.com / Automattic I suppose, they look like they know what they're doing (no affiliation)
250 is the range of the base model. The top end model doubles that.
I'm curious about whether the product name "Postwoman" violates Postman's trademark and whether Postwoman will be getting a C&D letter soon, demanding that the name be changed.

Normally companies don't get to claim broad trademark protection for prefixes -- Facebook has been shut down when trying to broadly enforce its trademark against anything prefixed with "Face" -- but "Postwoman" is close enough and is marketed as a competing product in the same place.

Update: It seems the author is also worried about this. On her blog post announcing the service, someone raised the concern, and she acknowledged that it's a problem: https://dev.to/liyasthomas/comment/ee8m
I'm pretty happy with the PlayStation Now experience for games that don't require fast response times; I would say it is "viable".
I also have an RX1 and it really is a fantastic camera.

I bet the OP was talking about the rumored full frame interchangeable lens camera (possibly a full frame NEX) that Sony is supposed to be announcing soon.
manual error checks are no more complicated than any other code that branches.

Implicitly fulfilled interfaces make it trivial to decouple code, because I can pass a type to a function in a different package, and that package doesn't even need to know that type exists.

You're obviously pushing the pure functional route, which is nice, but 95% of code in production is procedural. There's a reason for that. I could speculate why, but I don't need to.
After reading the Intro and first chapter - is this a joke?
Great summary and references for use in two-spacer discussions!

Article from 2011.
If they'd succeeded in replacing it, there would have been no need to fix it. It's a big task, but I wish they'd succeeded and hope they (and/or others) try again.

Whether you like JS or don't, I think we can all agree that it stinks to have only one choice for client-side scripting.
I disagree: Given the specifics of the situation, I'd say that going to SF is a huge risk and the money dot not justify the adjustments he will have to make (culturally and financially).

Of course everything depends on the details (age, marital status, aims, etc.).
Insync seems nice, but I personally never did manage to get it to work. It just spent over a week "synchronizing" and not a single file appeared on my PC.