jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Someone mentioned a while back about using distributed Javascript to generate Mandelbrot sets. This was something I built sometime last year when I messing around with the idea. Please note, I misspelled "Mandelbrot" in the AppEngine name and then could not figure out how to change it.
That's a great app idea but that bothers me to pay for suggestion cards. I understand there is work behing the hood for the iPhone application but still. Does anyone know a website with some free example cards decks to print out ?
I'd assume it's got something to do with user satisfaction. Users hate when things are taken away from them.
I'm not the OP, but on my in-place upgrade to Natty today I had the nspluginwrapper installer die with a segfault. As a result, the update "failed" (only nspluginwrapper failed, really). I had to remove google-talkplugin to fix it (so really, the bug was in Google Talk, but apparently nobody at Canonical has Google Talk 64-bit installed to encounter this). So yes, seemingly-inconsequential system changes can interfere with upgrades.
I think the problem is the opposite. We evolved on a planet, so we're only (naturally) suitable to live on a planet.

Once we're able to modify ourselves and our DNA and outrun evolutionary constraints, that might change. Once we're a swarm of small, near-immortal devices, I suppose exploring the universe on large scale will make a lot more sense.

But in the short run, it's fun and interesting to explore the solar system in human form, even given the limits of our current technology. And to not worry about what a small, insignificant fraction it is, because it's still a hell of a lot more than we've seen until now.
If you don't mind, I'm interested to know why you sold your company. I did a bit of quick Googling and discovered the details of the sale, but I would love to hear a firsthand account, especially since it was out of the blue and you weren't even thinking about selling. Only share if you feel comfortable - thanks! :)
They also don't matter much because they don't have much of an impact on users unless you're doing something you shouldn't do.

This is money we're talking about. If someone finds a way to make millions of euro by "doing something you shouldn't do", by god, someone'll do it. So then what happens?
> On other side author was detained for 5 hours. That is practically rounding error in __ANY__ country.

As someone who was detained for about the same amount of time, under circumstances about as ridiculous as OP's, I take serious issue with this characterization of five hours' illegal detention as "practically a rounding error".
That's nothing compared to recruiters offering me senior jobs although I haven't even graduated. I literally have no idea who would hire those recruiters in the first place.

I feel bad for the decent recruiters because of the image thanks to spammers.
Remove the, dare I say needless, background and watch the design fall flat on its face.

But considering the padding issues on the darn CTA button, I'm inclined to believe this is just a fan's mockup. I hope so, at least.
Switching between the scenes is terribly slow; a thumbnail based selection would be a smoother experience.
„Some services MAY add fields to responses without changing versions numbers. Services that do so MUST make this clear in their documentation“

WTF
I don't know why you're downvoted so heavily. Any "drug deal" you'd do in a bathroom you'd do on any street corner.

Like in most cities, in the US atleast.
> That reason is not "because it is bad".

I think it quite literally is, or at least that's a part of it (I won't say Microsoft strong-arming has zero effect). Linux would be an exceedingly poor experience for most customers—worse even than Windows with all the preinstalled crapware some manufacturers add.

The first netbooks ran Linux. The choice seemed to make sense. Cost was paramount, and manufacturers needed something exceedingly lightweight.

But I remember reviews from the time explicitly recommending that people ignore any netbooks that don't come with Windows. It didn't take very long before they almost all switched over to XP.
Aren't things like $filter, $orderBy etc. straight out of the OData standard[1].

[1] https://www.odata.org/
I’d like to know more about the developments in the last two years as well. I briefly explored some Python NLP tooling more than two years ago, but it seemed like there would be too much work involved to get useful results in my white collar job by writing code in my free time. Sounds like I need to give this another go.
The web spec has been in maintenance mode for some time - https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
They don't seem to be in oracle. Giving more than two parameters to nvl gives me an error but works fine with coalesce. Granted they are basically the same thing if you are giving both two parameters.
I think it's entirely reasonable to not want human feces and strung out addicts IMBY.
I have encountered a few things you can only do in Settings :).
Would this be eventually gamed, spoof all data to come from facebook and get free bandwidth at facebook's expense?
> a temporary free-pass at our technology

This makes me so angry... I just don't know how that thought can be honestly held in a sane mind.
Probably UPS got pissed about them slamming the API or maybe it exposed people to theft since everyone could find out where they were going?
Can I get a pointer to why?
Maybe it has to do with reliance on IDEs? I've seen people completely lost without IntelliSense, etc., and they're usually not familiar with using tags or grep.
Also, Facebook just doesn't handle images well; anything you upload is downsized (though I noticed they've started providing an option for Higher Quality uploads) and you have to look for outside solutions to simple tasks like downloading an album. This is one of the reasons why I upload on my posterous and have it autopost to FB.
IF the allegations are true, I am on the side that says he misinterpreted the NDA. There could be reason to believe that the NDA had to do with his working with the FBI but the backdoor was a separate entity.

Either case, its all speculation. Hopefully this isn't a stunt to discredit oBSD. Some serious combing will be done in the code, I trust the oBSD team will do their best to clean up any mess that exists. We will all have a better oBSD after this.
I'd start a seed fund that specialized in startups driven by technical entrepreneurs and mentor them / provide them with connections to investors. HN would be the major channel for getting new startups to apply.
That's insanity. A large number of Alaskans have to wait 7 days to see changes to DNS? Is this practice prevalent anywhere else in the world?
Cloudflare block comment-spam? That's pretty interesting to hear and not a trivial problem.

I've been running http://blogspam.net/ for the past few years to filter comment-spam from blogs, forums, etc, and it isn't an easy thing to manage.
Checked four major ISPs, Github is accessible from India. Can anyone confirm which ISP is (still) blocking it?
A pure function cannot always be executed in parallel. For that it might need access to shared data. On non-von Neumann machines this may not be possible.
I just don't get how Google keeps getting positive press for its Nexus line. The issues with the early devices were written off as teething trouble, but Google has been developing Nexus devices for 5 years now and still they frequently have fundamental technical flaws and go unsupported after just a couple of years, if that in some cases. I honestly don't know what the benefit of getting a Nexus device is anymore.

To those people claiming all Apple does is assemble components and throw out overpriced crap and the iPhone is essentially just a marketing exercise, this is what it looks like when that's actually true.
Accelerating is the main danger for cars, whether that's making them go faster or slower. The benefit of a roundabout is that your acceleration is minimal: you slow down a bit for the turn, and you speed up as you leave it, same as any other curved road.

The danger of an intersection is that cars are stopping and starting at it. If a car stops unexpectedly, you have to react. If a car starts moving unexpectedly, you have to account for it. Accelerating to make it through a light before it goes red, or slamming on the brakes in order stop in time for a light, are simply well-known cases of this.

This is why highways and freeways are relatively safe: you largely don't accelerate, except at onramps and offramps. Most highway accidents come from a failed overtake: you're accelerating in order to change lanes, and then decelerating to return to the lane. This is also why rubbernecking is dangerous: it's a subtle deceleration that may be missed by the person behind you.

It's not actually different for anything else that moves; it's just that other moving things have lower consequences (walking, cycling) or stronger traffic control (trains are on rails; planes listen to air traffic controllers). The closest thing is boats, and boats are rarely both traveling at high speeds and in dense formations.
Just curious, searched and couldn't find anything meaningful, what is the "standard 21-day interrogation"?
Based on the schools Mr. Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP is following in Linkedin[1], it seems like he studied in IIT Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Assuming he didn't get in using political connections/kickbacks, he is clearly not an idiot. I'm genuinely puzzled by this dumb decision. He is a freaking engineer from a top technical university of India and the guy doesn't know what github is for?!

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/argupta26
As a Chinese, I thought (really) India has freedom of speech and this kind of things should never happen there, I can imagine what you might feel, my India fellows.
Here's a simple rule you can apply - if it's closed source, then it's not worth your time.

Like, don't build on top of freaking closed source platforms and after 17 years of OSI, 24 years of GPLv2 and myriads of open-source alternatives available, you'd think people would learn.
I wish we were more specific though. It's not just 'male' programmers. I've lived in American cities with large African American and Hispanic populations, yet the vast majority of the programmer demographic I've worked with or have worked under or have met are white males with some limited degree of representation of Asian men.

And it's not that I don't care about women's issues, but I feel annoyed when I get grouped with other men just because I'm a man, despite the fact that race could also play a role in opportunities.
> prelude has unsafe functions (eg. head),

`head` is not unsafe, it is a partial function. An unsafe function can lead to u.b.; the behavior of `head` on an empty list is very much defined. Haskell is not a total language.
It was always expected that the tight oil bonanza would be temporary, a few decades at best, a way for the oil industry to be "scraping the bottom of the barrel" and to have its "retirement party".

And of course, if one believes in climate change, it should never having been allowed to proceed.

To make matters even worse, AFAIK USA's tight oil industry, taken in aggregate, has never been profitable so far, and at this point it doesn't seem like it will ever be. So this is yet another an example of bad investing, a financial bubble yet to pop, propped up by Wall Street money, which itself comes from the relief money that went up to prop up the "too big to fail" banks after the previous financial bubble popped.
I'd pick elm for the frontend as it's kind of similiar to haskell syntax-wise but more optimized for the frontend context. Here's a great tutorial for this: https://driftercode.com/blog/ihp-with-elm/
Come on, Twitter has been banning plenty of users for posting blatantly anti-Semitic dog-whistles like "the Zionist regime". It's quite clear that Khamenei is getting preferential treatment.
I'm not a big fan of DSLs. Yes, they allow for convenient notation to express things within specific domains, but they also create more barriers. It is both more impressive and more useful if one is able to create abstractions in mechanical sympathy with idiomatic uses of existing languages. Of course, this is harder to do.

I think DSLs are a bit of a lazy cop-out.

This is not a new idea. The myth of the tower of Babel and the observation that by creating lots and lots of communication barriers and interfaces, you lose the ability to coordinate major efforts is indeed very old.
I think the legal defense would be whether the site acted reasonably and liability would be difficult to establish without harm. If people use your site to coordinate doxxing someone and you don’t take reasonable actions to prevent, stop or legally identify the users behind it, then you’re going to have a tough time getting out of liability. AFAIK doxxing isn’t illegal but harassment can be.

Side note: I wonder what the new requirements that beneficial owners of legal entities be disclosed will do to 4chan, 8chan, etc.
That’s an extraordinary claim that would be very hard to back up with evidence.
Only way is to build things and break things. Or you can work for them
I agree with that, but there's a big difference in scale between political manoeuvrers in Congress and a hostile rabble invading Capitol House - and the millions of aggrieved voters that support them.
Employee equity is usually not significant as equity. It might be significant as compensation. That's more likely if it already has value and the offer is in terms of shares. If it's in terms of percent, then we are talking equity not compensation: we're talking about ownership and control of the business and shaping the direction of the company.

Is the value of 2% of a startup meaningful compensation? Probably not. See my valuation elsewhere in this discussion.
I'm trying to figure out the range of something like this. This is Hans Litjens' jet, he talks a bit more about it here[1], noting that it has 2L of fuel in the wings.

I found one source that estimates that normal RC jet engines use 250ml/minute. If we assume that this thing uses 2x of a "normal" RC jet engine, at 350mph it could go about 23 miles in 4-minutes before running out of fuel. Or, from the border to just south of Del Mar.

With that kind of range and speed, it seems like it'd be reasonable to avoid detection.

[1] http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-jets-120/9133201-fast-rc-...
In my recent memory, I really liked the way Quora executed on the whole closed beta thing - skim this for more details http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/28/quora-has-the-magic-benchma...

Also, http://www.forrst.com has an invitation only approach going on and I think it works really great for a community like that which self-selects.

It really depends on the product you're working with. If the general excitement around it is high, you can do the invitation/referral to get more people interested like Dropbox and Gmail did. The Closed Beta idea also works because it gives some time to work out the kinks and have time to scale up (in the case with Greplin.com).
All both pylons and tg have thousands of users on their lists, bfg has dozens of commiters of users, and a growing users list. And between our three frameworks I wouldn't be surprised to see tens of thousands of live sites, and millions of pages served per day. Heck I work on a site with millions of dynamic pages a day served up by turbo gears So, I'd say the facts show a different story than the casual dismissal you want to paint.

There is a lot that can be said for consolidation. And a lot to be said for the team working on pyramid now, so I'm excited in spite of your skepticism.
Why is a 100% divorce rate a good thing?
Right, I'm an idiot. Good catch - likewise the ggjj earlier can just be :3[enter]
Having great returns and improving humanity are very different things. I'm pretty sure a lot of scams are benefiting their creators very well, and yet...
I've using TurboPascal from 1990 till 2010. Still love it!

Willing to help. Drop me mail to peter at mobiliodevelopment dot com
Exactly this. I'm not sure how wanting a device that can connect only as per my requests/configuration requires that I instead be OK with it willy-nilly connecting to whatever it wants.
Any battery charger circuit without trickle charge disconnect is not worth an engineering 101 assignment.
I've done a little work with e-ink displays. My God, is that stuff a pain in the arse or what.
Are you talking about whether you can skip steps for certain inputs to the hashing function? No not really. If you look at the reference implementation[1] the control flow is the same regardless of what the input is. There's no shortcuts you can take, other than just memorizing the results of certain operations, kind of like how you can memorize a multiplication table to multiply faster, compared to multiplying from scratch every time.

[1] scroll to the bottom of https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/sha256.html
There's still no reason for anyone to carry around a broken watch and no reason to listen to wolf criers who are more wrong than not. Pete Schiff as an anachronistic goldbug is a curious oddity to point out every now and then for amusement. He isn't someone worth listening to though.
Steve might have actually loved it if he'd see it. It is rumoured that Apple put the charging port in such an awkward place to force people to unplug the cable as soon as the mouse is charged.

I can imagine customers using the wireless mouse with the cable attached is something that would grind Steve's gears as well. Preventing the situation with a flipped tortoise design is a Steve thing to do.
It would hopefully reduce the value of those ads, so it may turn at least a few away. That would be a great thing!
Bs. I do quite fine with high school.

Personal anecdotes aren't valid pieces of evidence...

The biggest advantage those growing up in today's environment have going for them is that everyone else their age is lazy. You can do far better today with the same work ethic of the previous generation.

... and neither are broad generalizations. In fact, the college admission process directly contradicts your misguided conceptions [1]. (Whether young people are working hard towards the right goal is another debate, but they are working hard.)

You're going to have to do much better if you want to argue that an extensively researched and reported global trend (degree inflation) doesn't exist [2,3,4,5]. Enough of this hurr-durr-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-because-that's-what-I-did bullshit. People who point out the issues with education are hard working people who have valid concerns. They aren't "whining".

[1] http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/a-few-more-col...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/education/12masters.html

[3] http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/05/27/cb.degree.not....

[4] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/art...

[5] http://www.insidehighered.com/views/sloane/sloane20
Yes, but that doesn't match what the post author says based on his figures.

It could be opentable cost = booking fee per diner + setup costs + monthly fees. I'd like to know more.
I think GP was referring to the undergrad program. For what it's worth, I haven't met many students who knew much about their degree program's curricula or their general education requirements. Not knowing this makes them seem ineffective at evaluating the college. Given all the stories I hear of, for example, art students surprised that they cannot find jobs, I'm not sure I trust incoming students as estimators of employability either. The only things I really would trust them to evaluate are the school's reputation and the first year's tuition.
So, if I sign up with GoDaddy, they'll call me "who bou"?
I guess, but even if that's the case, who cares if the message is formatted right if it's still invalid.

I guess I haven't really worked in a heterogenous environment with a lot of XML before though, I can see the potential value there, but i'm still doubtful.
I'm currently a junior in high school. I am doing some summer work in math and considering doing it as a degree in college, but so far I have only taken basic Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and currently in Statistics (as well as in a math-focused Computer Science track). I'm looking at Calculus I next year.
Markus has shown a strong unwillingness to work with people outside of Sweden.
Can't you change the topcolor in your profile?
I for one like it. Easier on the eyes than the normal scheme, IMHO.
The tricky part here (as it is for grades, I suppose) is that the more these types of rewards are used for real-life evaluation, the stronger the incentive to cheat. While I agree that grades are fairly broken as-is for a number of students, placing such a heavy weight on mechanics such as badges makes them more worrisome and less fun.

In the long-term, yes, right direction...in the short-term, we have lots of work to do first.
I agree in this case (see my edit). It seems most people in a working FOSS community will give quite a bit of slack to someone who's proven their value.

There is also context and a dynamic that outsiders may not always aware of. A colleague of mine could say "you're full of shit - come back with something that works", and I would be more likely to take that as a challenge than an insult. Similarly, within the LKML, this response is somewhat expected, and you better have your defense ready for the ensuing battle.
I think 99% of the time that I search, I find what I'm looking for within 1 or 2 queries. I'm really pleased with google at this point in time. The SPAM/SERP pages just get visually filtered by my brain.

In short, I cannot envision ever paying for general search. Unless it was in a very specialized vertical industry, like court cases, and my current search needs weren't being met (which they currently are, in all fields I use search for).
I've mostly seen posters in portrait, just not the academic kind of poster.
Yes, it was truly free. Because: My house. My rules. Anyone can build their own house.

I also find the whole following culture creepy stalkerish. A lot of times I feel obligated to follow back and end up discovering that person’s entire whole icky persona..and wish that I could just have superficial friendships maybe.

I would still vote IRC over BBS. It was the right amount of cozy and distance. Just what you were willing to implement.

Also..I often think about the Dunbar Number. Even when I design small farm systems, I use the Dunbar limit and cluster to determine how many people can cooperate either as farmer collective or even as customer base(as in they are willing to share/barter).

Human beings are better in small groups. The small groups in turn can interact collectively with other like minded collectives. It seems like we haven’t studied human behaviour and psychology sufficiently to suit the really fast paced growth of social media and it’s interactions.
ECDSA is a completely different beast. I'm not aware of a modern password hashing function that would be broken if it was given a non-uniformly random salt. If such function were to be submitted to PHC (https://password-hashing.net/), I would consider it to be a disqualifying factor.

For password hashing purposes, salt doesn't need to be uniformly random, the only requirement for salt is to be unique and unpredictable to the attacker (see http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6119/hashing-passw...). Most password hashing functions use a cryptographic hash on salt.

This particular function, scrypt, uses one-round PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 to mix password and salt:

https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/scrypt/scrypt.g...

PBKDF2 feeds salt, basically, into SHA256:

https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/pbkdf2/pbkdf2.g...
That's right. You train to recall, by recalling. This was a big revelation for me when I studied mnemonics.

Information can flow in two directions: into your brain, and out from your brain. It is the act of repeatedly retrieving the info from your brain that strengthens your memory of that info, not the repeated input of that info into the brain.