jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Exactly!

What is calorie? Is is something? No! It is a unity of measuring heat. That's it! Doesn't matter at all.

Anything can become fat on your body, but what decides it is the hormones saying to your body "this will become fat, this will become muscle or blood or etc, and this is pee or poo".

Counting calories is a proxy at most. But people started to treat the proxy as thing in itself, which it isn't.
I understand that, but it's a chicken and egg problem. How can MtGox prove they own the wallet they're trying to make a fraudulent transaction from if they don't hold the associated private key?
Did you see doctest? (http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html)
To take advantage of the admin issue prior this security release, a user would need to 1) have access to the admin 2) have limited admin privileges 3) be smart enough to manipulate the querystring in the URL.

I got a good chuckle out of this fix because I'm assuming that in practice 2) and 3) are mutually exclusive.
>"Mohawk isn’t just a form of speech,” he said. “It’s a holistic relationship to the cosmos.”

What's that supposed to mean? Apart from as a tautology because we're part of the cosmos.
Anyone have a mirror? Getting gateway timeouts.
As others have said, please write a book if you have the time and interest. This stuff is so fascinating and an amazing way to learn how businesses are really built from the inside.
So you're saying that having a job is "slavery lite"? Why not just call it "employment"? You're free to become your own boss and avoid all these downsides (something I'm working on too, by the way).
Setting a new standard, that's for sure. Thank god you can't patent a simple increase in the number of pixels on a screen.
Anything he says is questionable, because their[sic] is no accountability.

Personally, I don't usually read usernames until after I've read the post, if at all. I'd greatly prefer to evaluate posts based on their relevance, accuracy, and tone. Some posters, like grellas, have a unique style that is instantly recognizable half way through the post, so knowing the username isn't necessary anyway. Other times I've been surprised by the gender, nationality, or occupation of a commenter, and if I'd known that information beforehand, I don't think I would've got as much value from reading their posts.
Photos of the real thing == impressive. That's quite an improvement.
I still haven't figured out what Web 2.0 is supposed to be. The closest I've been able to figure is that it's either a pure buzzword, or synonymous with DHTML.

If NoSQL goes the way of AJAX, that's fine. It's not a very good term, but at least it means something useful. If it goes the way of Web 2.0, no thanks -- I'd much prefer a different term, any different term, so long as it's actually descriptive.
I'm glad this came out - IO Lists are still a big gray area in my understanding of (and love of) Erlang.

There's something about this guy's writing style that is amazingly approachable for me. It just clicks. Wish I could say that about so many other tech writers.
Wowsers, $1999 for the USA version. I'd definitely have to see one in the wild and have a chance to try it out before I dropped that much.
Despite of its age, Beej's Guide is still one of the best introductions to network programming I've seen so far. I love how apart from the basic and concise explanation of TCP and UDP (and generally sockets in UNIX-like environments), there's also a separate, short "Advanced Techniques" section that can be very useful if you want to explore the subject even further.
You can get a preview in Explorer by toggling the preview pane using Alt+P.
If you run it as non-root it is significantly slower than docker as root. Docker can us the overlay2 kernel driver, whereas podkan would use fuse-overlayfs in userspace. This has a high CPU overhead (e.g. don't try to run AFL inside podman), and a 1024 FD limit for the entire container (so a 'make -j40' usually dies).

There are ways around it: raise the ulimit for your user and run new enough podman to raise limit for fuse-overlayfs, use the 'vfs' driver (it has other perf issues).
I heard (but haven't tested yet) that the 'btrfs' driver avoids all these problems and works from userspace. Obviously requires an FS formatted as btrfs...

There are also compatibility issues with Docker. E.g. one container was running sshfs inside Docker just fine, but fails with a permission error on /dev/fuse with podman.
As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
Well, then we should compare Bitcoin to how much energy is being consumed by every apartment/house in the world, which is more closer to how Bitcoin network operates.
>I would argue that Eliza has passed plenty of Turing tests, mostly with people who had a chance encounter with it.

People assume a conversational partner is 'real'. I could write "Hello? Is anyone there?" on a postcard, and it would 'pass' in a chance encounter sort of way.

The Turing test is useless without the tester demanding cooperation. Otherwise I've got an AI for sale that will recite an eloquent speech about the Brooklyn bridge. I call it PRINTFriend.
I had much the same train of thought when I saw this article. I've been very harsh on Microsoft since roughly the Active-X era of the late '90s for doing things that benefit their own dominance at the expense of the ecosystem. I WANT them to be good citizens and good competitors. When I see something Microsoft does that really is innovative, I'm happy. And at first glance, that's what I thought of this napkin-map thing. And then I tried to look at a Bing napkin map on this computer - running Ubuntu. They've done it with Silverlight. Back to disappointment.
Contrarian? Its humor, not philosophy. Lighten up.
Note the title of her blog.
In order:

- Pretty much nothing. Actually I believe that people who request more IPs now, help to push the migration sooner since there's no other solution. ISPs are going to support it as soon as it becomes required.

- Yes, you need an IPv6-compatible ISP. In recent linux distros everything should "just work" as soon as the upstream ISP assigns you an IPv6 address. Not sure about other systems.

- If it supports IPv6, it will probably do that by default, so you don't need to enable anything. If it doesn't, there will be a lot of manuals soon...

- It's something users should not care about and admins should know everything about... so I doubt such document can exist. (actually no - people might want to know at some point why they can't access www.somenewsite.com, but Bob can - vendors will happily explain that to them, while selling a new copy of the system / router / ip-phone / ...)

- Request more IPs, help us migrate faster ;)
I was wondering what happened to Metronaps, since they no longer have a US website. http://www.metronaps.com/
It does embed that absolutely hilarious Cato Institute video.
Oh, that's easy. If the mail doesn't have the word "revenue" (as in "internal revenue service" or "department of revenue") on the envelope, you don't need to open it.
As I said, you don't need an app. All you need is a word processor and a Tengwar font. There is a Unicode version, and there are several ISO-8859-1 encoded versions as well. Google them. You'll find them.
If anyone has experiences (good or bad) about S3 vs CloudFront I'd really appreciate you sharing them.
> some filter for the unwashed masses

I have a feeling that an unwashed boson wouldn't be able to complete the challenge at all.
Maybe the battery would need to get replaced by then...
> That exchange that just flamed out is an example of what the entire financial system would be with no oversight.

The market is actually recovering quite well from that incident, so what exactly is so worrying? A bad business failed; that's what's supposed to happen.
This looks great. The docs really are terrific, too.

Personally, I've been playing around with Bacon.js (or RxJS) instead of the Flux dispatcher. Using `Bacon.update` in conjunction with Facebook's Immutable.js seems really promising. The outcome is a far more functional approach.

A quick and dirty example: https://gist.github.com/rattrayalex/dee40d86813bcaa9de80
I can understand that, but I still disagree with your conclusion.

Know that it doesn't last, enjoy it while it's there and try to lay the foundations for an adult relationship in the meanwhile, so that you could get past the infatuation phase (which, as you say, is inevitable) without breaking up.

Being with a partner who thinks it can last forever if they just find the perfect person can be a recipe for disaster, though one would hope most people grow out of that state of mind after a few attempts.
But the whole point is that video DSLR's are aimed at amateur/indie film makers, not home video shooters. And Rockwell completely misses that, claiming that manual focus cameras are useful only in Hollywood-scale productions.
It's a cool idea, isn't it? Why not encourage marketing ppl to produce more ads like this?
Other information:

My diet is mostly chicken stir-fry with rice, or something based on baked beans for dinner. I'm trying to cut back on pasta because of weight gain but still have it with beans or vegetables once a week.

I often miss breakfast, but when I don't it's muesli or weetbix, on rare occasions porridge.

Snacks are mostly bananas or ham and cheese wraps. Also carrots with hummus, or cuppa soup. My lunch is usually some mixture of these. I only drink once a week, sometimes once a fortnight.

My schedule is approx. 8:30am breakfast, 1pm lunch, 6:30-7:00pm dinner. Usually with a snack before lunch and maybe after dinner.

My height is about 179cm (5 foot 10?) and my weight sits around 98kg (215.6 lbs).

Hope this is what you were after.

Edit: forgot to mention microwaved potato as a fairly common lunch
I'm sure you're great, but I'm sick of seeing: "I have been doing web work since I was nine."

What's up with this? I was probably the most technology savvy kid to come out of my high school, and I'm still not even remotely close to saying something like this!

I bet that when you were 9, you couldn't even do most advanced algebra, let alone real web work.
iPads already have 6% of the market for 2010? Oh, that's a projection too.

My netbook is great for working in cafes, and very fast as a development machine, but it is too underpowered for many websites - especially consumer websites that make heavy use of javascript and flash. As the hardware gets faster, software soaks up those cycles, so it's hard for smaller computers to win with moving goalposts.

But the iPhone/iPad seems to have managed this, perhaps mostly by eliminating flash. If they take sufficient market share, websites will have to adapt to it.
Indeed.

Nothing really related to Hacker News, but that's one of the reasons why I "love" the site... those great off topic articles that apply to almost everybody and that let you see that there is a world beyond bits and bytes.
Why not convert your "1099 boss" into a real freelancer client? This involves a few simple steps:

1. Ask him to be "upgraded" to a real employee (he'll say no, as we suspect)

2. Tell him you understand his decision, and since he wants you to be freelance, you will work for him as a true freelancer, e.g. for a certain number of hours, at a certain hourly wage, at your own home, at the hours you choose.

3. He may "fire" you. However, if you are as indispensable as it sounds like you are, he will come crawling back to you. In any case, he won't fire you until he sucks know-how out of your brain, which he would do over the course of a month of freelance work. So you have some time to do the transition.

P.S. Leading a rebellion is only needed when you have no leverage. In fact, you have tons of leverage, you just don't understand or are unwilling to use it.
I once bought a book by accident but I was able to get a refund on the next page.
less and sass both allow you to compile to css. The live, in browser compiler is just intended to speed up development.
The thing that jumps out to me about this ranking of the bat is how badly Decathlon are doing. Decathlon are an established European/Global bricks and mortar business - I know many of you will know this but I also know they're almost totally absent from the USA. Extremely established, vertically integrated, global sports business with brands.

They're getting 2.2 m hits a month and making 400k rev?? The next three stores down are doing three times that selling similar consumer products.

Okay maybe they have an unusually high number of visits to their store before someone purchases or that pipeline isn't very well worked. 50% bounce rate and people only spending two minutes on the site. The other sites have a 40% bounce rate and I wonder if that accounts for the difference.

My guess is that many people put off buying their sports equipment but they don't put off looking at it?
I see your point when it comes to paper publication in general, but I feel that your post is very unwarranted with respect to the original post: DeepMind has recruited top-quality theoretical researchers from public institutions, it is not just experimental work which your average Joe could do with a few guesses. These researchers published a lot of theoretical papers before they were recruited, and they still publish a lot of them now that they are working at DeepMind, but they have more computational hardware to apply their ideas.

Here is just one uncurated example of a publication:
- https://deepmind.com/research/publications/Taylor-Expansion-...
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.06259.pdf
I don't think life is meaningless, I just think existence as a human being is ultimately so overwhelmingly sad that it's enough to turn anyone nihilistic. The proper way is to accept the sad state of affairs voluntarily and then try to make the best of it and that'll provide you with enough meaning to bear your existential suffering. That's the best you can hope for, really.

(This is what you do if you get diagnosed with terminal illness btw: you get your affairs in order, you gather your loved ones and you try to make the best of your limited time left, and it'll be good enough)
Its a little confusing because they're conflating the idea that you almost certainly read at least the entire word (and not a single byte) at a time with the other idea that you could fetch multiple words concurrently.
"Click here to turn the wind turbine into a really big fan."

("Coolest" hack ever, you could say...)
Most flash ads would be inside an iframe on another domain outside your control :/

So unless I've missed something, I don't see how this helps. No amount of javascript can modify flash elements in an iframe outside of the security box.
Silverlight 2 is supported on Linux by Moonlight as of late 2009. However, the implementation is lacking support for Microsoft's PlayReady DRM.
That's silly. Authors are allowed to forgo describing the childhood traumas and deep-seated desires of every character they introduce. They shouldn't have to choose between making every character a fully explored main character or a transparent cardboard prop.

As for the Malfoys, it's clear to anyone who read the books that they are not one-dimensional villains. Crabbe and Goyle might be, but they were never important.
Think about how fast the "like" button was adopted all over the internet. All these sites did so for two reasons: the possibility of getting additional free traffic from facebook, and access to their fans' feed and potentially friends' feeds.

If FB can make the case that requiring people to FB connect on a 3rd party site will drive traffic, raise revenues, and whatever, many/most sites will make the change. They won't shut out non-connected users, but they may degrade the experience to encourage connectedness.

It sounds Orwellian, but it's not difficult for it to make business sense for large swaths of the internet.
That is because you probably think that most people are like you and me. Interested in the internet.

That is not the case. Most people are interested in stuff like mountain biking, kayaking, photography, cooking, their friends, partying and so on. They couldn't care less where they get their information from. They are in that regards, lemmings. They don't even know that they can search for an answer to an elusive error message. Hell they don't even know what it is.

Google couldn't survive on google maps alone so if they loose the preferred search "war" they are in deep trouble.

Also mind you that Facebook is capable of delivering far more precisely targeted advertising in context of not only your interest, but your current situation at any given day (at least potentially)

It's easy to think that the rest of the world thinks like us, but they don't.

Case in pint. The recent skype re-design that drew a lot of bad reviews are all made by techies with at least a hundred skype contacts.

Yet 90% of people on skype have 5 contacts, 95% use the message window to write "Can I call you"

So all in all I would say that Facebook is in great shape to compete with Google. It's not made for the 20% but the 80%.
I actually agree with almost everything you said. What I said was flip, to be sure, but I didn't intend for it to be forward looking at all. Obviously virtual goods can and do get bought and sold, and I have no problem believing that someday what I said could be precisely wrong in that someone would pay $500k for a fucking virtual space station made out of pixels stored on an Oracle RAC.

I was posting to shine a light on the fact that this company has pulled this kind of thing before, reporting huge dollar transactions that were either provably made up or at least had no way of verifying them. And that the person involved in this report is an employee of the company that sells these virtual goods (but they never, ever mention that). All that info came via researching the claims and not judgements about the value of virtual goods.

I was just trying to give an extra way of evaluating what I was saying. I claimed they're liars, linked to some supporting discussion of that, but it's the Internet - how do you know it's not me that's lying and them that's telling the truth? There a gut check is useful - it's pretty easy to tell that _today_ in 2010 people aren't dropping $500k on virtual real estate in a poorly funded and poorly known (compared to say second life, eve, warcraft, etc) virtual world. At least it's unlikely enough that you should demand a fair amount of proof before you believe it (and you won't be able to find any except for the pr-news-blog circle jerk)

I hope that explains what I meant better. No question that there are many people exchanging real money for virtual property in game type virtual environments.
I'm probably going to take heat for some of my choices:
The safe ones: Apple (for their hardware, Industrial Design, aesthetics) but really only for the iPhone. Lenovo/IBM for the thinkpads (bulletproof! and the tablets are better than anything out there), Wordpress (there's a plugin for that!).

The risky one (here): Microsoft (winge all you want but Windows7 is awesome, XBox is what Apple and Google hope to build beyond the games with all the video/media center/music stuff and Kinect adds a whole new level of communication and interaction, OfficeLive blows away Google Docs in many respects, the entertainment systems in the new Ford vehicles, Zune music subscription (wish it was on iPhone!) and Ballmer is far more fun to laugh at than Steve Jobs is to laugh with.

There are many others that I use but they aren't as well known, local, or very niche. Things that they all excel at are customer service, product updating and reliability, and the intagible "fun" factor. I'd include MyRealPage (real estate IDX and site host), Panago Pizza, Japadog (street vendor of hotdogs with a Japanese twist), and the Ninja Tunes crew celebrating their 20th anniversary this year (weekly solid steel show is excellent and never (almost) disappointing... wish I could have attended their recent tour).
I second the farmer path.

If I had some land and the skills to make it viable to live off of it, then I would. That solves most of my life debt since I'm fairly ascetic.
Generally, for something like pot, agencies are going to want a year of abstinence before they'll talk to you. Likely, it'll come up in your clearance interviews and you may have to sign a piece of paper stating that you won't do it again. For longer term drug use or other drugs, the agencies may funny about it. If you're curious the Adjudicative Desk Reference (ADR) gives some guidelines on how the process works:

http://www.dhra.mil/perserec/adr/ADR_Version_4.pdf

As far as foreign national contact, most of the time, the feds just defer to the wording on standard form 86 (SF-86):

http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf

It's long, but gives a pretty clear indication on the kinds of questions asked. Basically, they're looking for foreign contacts for which you've had "close and/or continuing contact" whose nature falls under 4 categories

1. Affection
2. Obligation
3. Influence
4. Common interest

If I recall correctly, that fourth one was added about five years ago. Anyway, check page 59 in the link.
Node.js was great for this because of the nowjs library which let us use practically the same codebase on both the client and the server side of things which really sped up development ;-)
I've met people who did Peace Corps, and my opinion was much better after meeting them. First they actually became fluent in the local language. Second their focus was often more on enabling locals than on trying to do stuff themselves. For example, they would work with locals on how to push through applications for grant money from developed countries. Dealing with American foreign aid bureaucracy was actually a skill they were well suited for due to their background and education. Finally, they lived on almost no money in the community for a long period of time. The standard of their living was commensurate with the average person in the host community.
In the original version of the article (when I wrote my comment), the author hadn't defined them.
Chromebook can now run Android apps (a few now, more as time goes on). That means soon people will be able to play their android games on them, including Minecraft pocket?
Landsat images aren't taken with the primary intention of showing human level detail. The imaging sensors are designed to image groundcover. In fact landsat doesn't strictly image visible light, it's imaging bands are in visible, infrared and near infrared depending on the satellite used. [1]

This can be used for all kinds of agricultural, environmental, and climate change research.

Having satellite images that are higher in resolution wouldn't be particularly helpful for these purposes and would instead be counter to their purpose because it would take so much longer to image any given area. With large images you can, within several days have images of the entire earth which is much more useful for any temporally sensitive research. To say nothing for the computing and storage requirements.

http://landsat.usgs.gov/band_designations_landsat_satellites...
Hard to read on my phone
So it's like a javascript version of fabric?
STRAIGHT_JOIN is probably my favourite feature of MySQL in terms of planner hints; but there's actually a deeper inconsistency behind the philosophy.

Usually, when you get a bad query plan, it's because the join order isn't right. Outside the start table and hash joins, indexes need to match up with both predicates and the join keys. Get the wrong join order and then your indexes aren't used.

Since you need to specify which indexes to build and maintain, and such indexes are generally predicated on the query plan, why not ensure that the query is using the expected indexes?

If one really wants to go down the route of no optimizer hints, then the planner should start making decisions about what indexes to build and update. Go all in.