jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even if shelters had absolutely no protection from blast they would anyway did most of the job they were intended to do: protect from fallout. Just a few days of shelter time will cut number of casualties in half.

Also today's nuclear weapons are in general, weaker than those of 1950s, especially late 1950s. Weirdly, this means that shelters give somewhat LESS protection because fallout is less of a factor than blast and prompt radiation (you probably can't get in a shelter in time to avoid prompt radiation).
Yep its buying into the hype of teleconferencing that the Big Telcos sell to the CEO on the Golf course. The REAL point here is to build software you need teams that work well together not a bunch of solo contributors
I don't think you would look for life in a star. Neither would you look for life in a black hole (that is, as far as I know with basically no understanding, also an entropy source)
Biology is inductive technology, built from the specific to the general through trial and error.

Human inventions are mostly deductive technology, built from the general to the specific through the understanding of principles, and trial and error.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both. Biology's biggest advantage is a head start. However biology while sometimes elegant can also be very dumb. For example DNA is spaghetti code.
It doesn't tell the whole story. Gold is pretty, but we can make prettier things nowadays, or simulate it's look. Gold is useful in electronics, but historically it's useless. It was once good that governments couldn't make gold, but we've moved away from the gold standard in modern days for the same reason.
Really cool ideia, but my comment today goes to Clippy. I thought about using it on my web site, but I was afraid of running into some legal issues. I wrote a pretty decent animation system for it. Did you change the colors of yours to avoid getting into trouble also?
I read about something similar in a scifi novel; guess I have a pretty good idea about where the author got the idea.
Would love to hear more about your background - At what point in your life did you get into coding? What sort of coding work do you do?
I like this idea a lot, but honestly what are you showing us here? The campaign hasn't started yet and there doesn't appear to be any actual product created.
"I only enjoyed about 700. The other 300 were books I felt I had to read; classics that everyone told me I was a fool to miss..."

Classics are just the books that millions of people, over dozens of generations and hundreds of years, have enjoyed more than other books. Of course that is the list you should start from.
> You could head out into an unclaimed area of land, stake out a piece, and live off it.

The native would probably disagree with the `unclaimed' bit.
I have the exact same struggle. I have boxes of unfinished art, folders of unfinished writing, and repos of unfinished programming projects.

I read a great quote from Steve Jobs years ago and it has definitely impacted the way I work now:

We tend to focus much more. People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done.

Right now I have one project. It's hard to just have one because I'm constantly bombarded with new ideas I want to pursue. But it's the only way I actually have the chance of finishing something.
Or, you know, actual sensitivity and sadness for something causes both depression and substance abuse.

It's not like don't have things to be sad and depressed about, creative people doubly so.

Thinking it's all just chemicals gone bad in the brain is the fad of the day, like electroshock treatment for gays and ADD over-perscription in previous decades.

People are always conflating circumstantial pepression with "mental illness" but it's not the same.

Or, even worse, a lot of persons with circumstantial pepression prefer to think they have a "chemical imbalance" to get people to think they are absolved of any influence in the matter. Which is the wrong reason, because with circumstantial depression you also don't have much, if any, influence in the matter. It's not like you can reverse the loss of a love or failed ambitions, for example, and just rewire your psyche to not care about those.

(Doctors of course, eager to prescribe anything and with no time for subtle distinctions, easily assure them that they indeed have a "mental illness". There was a whole counter-culture movement in medical circles criticizing that in the '60s and '70s, with is sadly forgotten.).
And Android!!!
The first thing that came to mind is this (which turns out to have actually been on the general population, rather than on the military like I thought I remembered): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

It seems perfectly reasonable to call that "[a] scientific stud[y] that border[s] on eugenics".
The point is more that it's continuing to socialize the idea that rape in prison showers is a normal part of being in prison, which is sad.
Then why rent only to employees? Just buy some real estate and rent it out.

Make money that way in general and use it to fund the foundation.

> sends your money back to yourself

There is no such thing. Money is fungible, it has no label saying where it came from. If you rent the same property to other people (for more money) and then use that extra money to pay higher salary to the employees the end result is exactly the same.
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (now out in fourth edition) is a pretty good book. It combines a lot of introductory material, but also mentions broader unix topics - AIX/HPUX/Solaris all get an honorable mention. The topics they pay attention to are all pretty relevant.
He may be referring to The Joel Test: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
As far as I can tell, they only disrupted their web pages.
There's one thing missing in this response: do the non-public portions of the chat logs support the public statements that Lamo has been making or not?
I guess everyone's different. My experience with Ritalin wasn't numbing at all; my problem with it was bouts of rage when i was coming down at the end of the day (my coworkers learned the true meaning of nerdrage). I talked to my doctor about it and he now has me on adderall instead, and the only side effect I experience now is loss of appetite - and I'm overweight anyway.

I'd like to mention that people should be very careful about seeking treatment with psychoactive drugs. They can often affect you in ways you don't immediately realize, and in some respects affect your personality or inhibitions. Be sure that you and your family are aware of potential side-effects before undergoing such treatments.
Is that last list comprehension really much better though, keeping in mind that most of us code in several languages, and might be predominantly context experts rather than coders at the same time?

x = []
for i in k:
x.extend(len(i))

is really, really easy for me to understand instantly, if I have just been writing an actuarial model using R, c++, c#, vba, sql, html, css and python for the day, which I have.

Shortness is not always conciseness, methinks.
When I first installed MySQL I also read some chapters in the user manual, like how to administrate the thing, configure users and so on.
Great read, I'm in a very similar boat - I started learning to code about 10 weeks ago from scratch (http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001).

It's immensely rewarding, but then I really enjoy learning new things generally. I don't think programming is any different, all things are challenging and frustrating to learn at first but once you get the hang of it the feeling of being able to achieve things (coding, playing piano, solving maths problems) is wonderful.

Never stop learning new things.
1. You don't see Dick Cheney living it up like Bill Clinton because he can afford to kill his hookers after he finishes with them, and then kill the people who dispose of the bodies. He's smart enough to avoid publicity.

2. The rewards you are referring to (email, HN, MMORPG) have to do with dopaminergic pathways, dopamine release, and the nucleus accumbens.
Androids growth rate = giving away crappy phones
I think you're asking the right question, but I don't have any idea of what the answer is. It doesn't seem like answering that question is something you can crowdsource to us. You need a vision of what you think a great news site will look like. Right now, you're asking us for a vision. As users, we are mostly going to think of features you could implement on a current site like Digg, but if you want to challenge them you need to have your own innovative view of what it will look like. Reddit was "front page for the web," and "democratizing news." What ultimate goal are you trying to achieve?

So, I would say come up with your own vision and launch it ASAP because it will probably change over time. I think when reddit launched, they put a lot of emphasis on the recommendation algorithm, which no one ended up using. They didn't even have comments in the first version, yet the comments are now the most important part.

Edit: Try reading the books "Positioning", "Innovator's Dilemma", and "Innovator's Solution." Your challenges aren't technical ones, they're marketing ones. You're taking on big established websites, and you need to position your website in the correct way to even have a chance at taking them on.
I think you're talking about Titicut Follies by Frederick Wiseman? He's an excellent filmmaker and a lot of his documentaries, including Titicut Follies, are on Kanopy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titicut_Follies#Censorship
> The fed funds rate are not interest rates writ large however

They are interest rates and since they are essentially risk free, they ought to be roughly the floor of interest rates that aren't being subsidized by some other consideration.

> The 10 year is currently at 1% and the 30 year at 2%.

I would argue that 1% and 2% are even more clearly greater than 0% than is 0.08% (the recent effective federal funds rate), so that just reinforces the point, to the extent one agrees that they are the relevant interest rates, that interest rates are not currently at 0.
Yup, and I did consider it. But another semester of college just to boost my GPA would've been expensive. I don't have regrets how things turned out, but point is my story is common
I like your thinking. But Its hard to clean even a garage with a broken spine, and yes I have tried.

I have been seeking employment out of state too but this the Greater Depression we are in.
Would you please stop perpetuating this tedious flamewar? Not perpetuating flamewars, and especially not perpetuating them by getting nastier as you go along, is more important than how right you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Obesity and lack of exercise are risk factors for diabetes. Sugar is not thought to cause it, although there is some debate.

From Diabetes UK [1]:

> With type 2 diabetes, the answer is a little more complex. Though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight. You gain weight when you take in more calories than your body needs, and sugary foods and drinks contain a lot of calories.

WebMD [2]:

> Eating too much sugar does not cause diabetes. Diabetes begins when something disrupts your body's ability to turn the food you eat into energy.

Montreal Children's Hospital [3]:

> True or False? Sugar causes diabetes.

> False. It’s a common misunderstanding that sugar causes diabetes. It doesn’t.

[1] https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eat...

[2] https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/qa/does-too-much-sugar-cause-...

[3] https://www.thechildren.com/health-info/conditions-and-illne...
I think this is the correct link:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vSneGOI2Yo0
I see, thanks for pointing out. Will look into that.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-... is a great article about changes at NYTimes in the past few years.
Obligatory post to cut this argument short http://xkcd.com/1179/
You are welcome! Please bookmark it or add it to your home screen as I'm really hoping to get people using it day-to-day.
Oh man, this happens to me too. So infuriating! I've taken to just hard rebooting it, as it takes about 20 seconds to boot and log in.
First, I wasn't talking about HPKP, I was talking about HSTS. And TLSA is a complement to HPKP only if "the NSA and DOJ are allowed to override your pin" is an acceptable concession. It of course is not.

Second, there is no DNSSEC equivalent to HSTS. Saying that there could be one is not a very compelling argument. There could be a lot of things.

You're also wrong about the "technical" versus "political" nature of DNSSEC's ECC problem. The technical problem with DNSSEC ECC is that every additional DNSSEC resolver that gets deployed without a modern ECC signature record type makes it harder to roll out that record type in the future. Once again: even the (bad) ECC that DNSSEC already supports breaks fully 1/3rd of the DNSSEC installed base. No part of my argument involves Daniel Bernstein's opinion of the CFRG.

I'm not sure what the analog between HTTP/2 and SCTP is. SCTP is a transport protocol. It's something you'd run HTTP/2 on top of.

In any case: DNSSEC is shitty now, makes the Internet shittier, and actually has the interesting property of getting shittier the more people deploy it. Virtually nobody uses it. If DNSSEC stopped functioning today, no Fortune-500 company would notice. I'm mystified by this notion that we're past some "point of no return" with DNSSEC. We clearly are not.
Yes, I read that book some years ago and thought it was a great read too - in the sense of entertaining, like a novel, even though it is mainly about the computer industry and the race to create that computer, a next generation Data General minicomputer. It's also to a good extent about skunkworks style product development. I love that quote about pinball in the book; won't spoil it for readers by saying what it is, but it is likely to appeal to many people on HN.
Well done. How come you decided to go with an iframe instead of a generic popup? Also what do you use for image hosting? s3?
1. Dragging and dropping is by far the easiest way to navigate to an already-open file or a file that you already have selected in another window.
2. You can delete and rename files and folders in the save dialog, no problem there.
For work I use a Mac and I remote into Windows, and I have so much trouble making my brain swap the keys for copy/paste.
Ctrl-C Command-V is so painful.
This is an unconventional verbing of the noun “arm”.

A title more reflective of the article’s content would be “Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Now Has an Arm”.

tl;dr: Title is clickbait.
Bitcoin will be gold-like store of value because people think it is like gold and financialize it with ETFs and a futures market.

However should we change our mind and instead start thinking some other cryptocurrency or maybe just a registration in some more or less distributed database is gold. Then that can become gold.

Or something like that?

Or maybe only gold is gold because it has been like that for a thousand years and throughout multiple empires and wars.
No, I don't mean sales tax. I mean converting from crypto to fiat, in the US, is treated like capital gains. So you get to pay taxes twice on the event.
This is a huge part of why, perhaps surprisingly, libertarian think tanks in the US have started pushing for universal basic income. The sheer weight of the bureaucracy that has accumulated due to this way of thinking means that replacing it with a straight-up program of unflinching wealth redistribution would actually make the government smaller.

And also make markets freer. The amount of rent-seeking behavior around programs like WIC is just staggering. And it serves the interests of neither WIC recipients nor the general public; it's only there because pearl-clutching is easy to co-opt for financial gain.
It's not just selfishness, I think we've run into something fundamentally unintuitive for people's lower brain. For much of human history, shutting out cheats & freeloaders was an important part of making good use of a resource. These days, we have hit a point where the bureaucratic overhead of shutting them out can become more expensive than just letting them in. That's not intuitive for people.
So Docker supports live restore https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/live-restore/ which addresses the first point.

Second point, yep if you run Docker as root and someone can access the socket file they get root.

If that's a concern, you can run Docker rootless.

And as we're talking file permissions on a local host to allow that access, the same applies to podman containers does it not? If there are permission issues allowing another user to use access the container filesystems, you have the same problem.
Do your verification at the application stage, don't attach income requirements, re-evaluate (gently) with yearly reviews of W-2 income. Don't punish people for successfully getting themselves further towards exiting their troubled situation.

Accept that some people getting help will need it less than others.

There's "fraud" and then there's homeless people trying to get their lives on track. People who need help and support. Saddling them with complex frequent requirements and then calling failing to meet them "fraud" is not helping people.

Be interested in helping people instead of helping only the "right" people.
Everyone who invests in bitcoin is breaking the cardinal rule of investing: don't invest in something you don't understand.

If people realized that bitcoin's -average- transaction fee is around $25 USD because it is restricted (for no technical reason) to a few transactions per second (less throughput than 240p youtube videos) they would at least move on to other cryptocurrencies.

If people realized that a sudden drop in price will mean a sudden drop in mining power, which will mean a sudden drop in blocks being generated, which will mean a sudden drop in throughput, they might be even more eager to get out of it. Since transactions are already so extremely limited purely by choice of the people that took it over, sudden drops in price mean less utility while in practice sudden rises in price lead to lots of transactions for speculation, which also prices out any utility.

One transaction is now 4x the hard drive cost to store the entire chain (and users don't even need to store the chain at all).
There is a reason why facebook used PHP, wordpress is in PHP, and a lot of other tools are also. PHP is popular, it's easy to find developers who will write it in it, and it's also easy to find PHP hosting for noobs. When there is a popular platform, you will get lots of apps written on it.

That said, the high art of PHP was always to make really performant apps while having your code as organized as possible. These days, this is being done very well with files, autoloading, and opcode caching. If you do things this way, Rasmus would be happy, and things would be fast.

I am a PHP developer. A lot of what I saw in the past few years was frameworks like Cake and symfony that basically copied Rails or brought some heavy techniques with a lot of overhead. This is not the PHP way. If you want to see a framework that does things in a more PHP way, I would humbly submit my own:

http://phponpie.com

It's open source. It's called PHP On Pie for a reason: because it's easy and it uses real PHP techniques, not tries to emulate Ruby or Python. PHP has its own beauty, such as arrays which can support numeric and string indexes at the same time.

All this said, these days PHP is outdated for large sites. Not because there is a lot of crap written in it -- which I agree with. But because it still works only synchronously, and the culture is too server-heavy. Large sites should be written like this:

Clients (browser, etc.) do most of the interface logic.

Components should render themselves using javascript, and only use the server for data

Server does web services (REST, socket push, etc.)

Server should not have to do things synchronously.

Node.js rocks in this respect. Unlike PHP, I can literally issue 10 independent queries to 10 different databases and combine the results as they come in. In PHP, I would have to issue this stuff sequentially. That's slow.

The second thing in PHP is fixable. People should move most of the logic (that doesn't need authentication) to the client side, and then write all their web services in a very simple way. Stop generating all your HTML on the server. Check out

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/18/why-http-streaming

and

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-p...
> We really need "corporate bullshit removed" forks of both Chrome and Firefox.

And since Google's recent announcement, unofficial Chromium builds will be unable to sync passwords with Google's servers.
This must be regional. I also have AT&T Fiber and have not experienced any throttling under any circumstances, regardless of VPN usage.
We're just fat, lazy, entitled, and lacking all motivation at this point. In the 20th century we went from dropping grenades out of cloth covered biplanes to shooting radar guided nuclear missiles from supersonic jet fighters in 20 years because our survival was at stake. Global hegemony has a predictable way of softening societies that is empirically observable throughout human history. Compare the pace of change and development in the US to what is happening in China now, and you can see where the global locus of innovation has shifted.
I'd consider the 2nd and 3rd derivative of market share more important. As far as I'm observing the status quo, both the 2nd and 3rd are positive already :)
Historically it's in-line with Nintendo's policies around guiding content however.

After the CD-I debacle, Nintendo was not at all on-board with the idea of disc-based storage. One of those reasons was loading times.

Another was likely that they had concerns about games that were more 'FMV' than game; This really -was- a legit problem in the 90s. By keeping things constrained, it limits the temptation for a publisher to push out a crappy title filled with cutscenes.
We don't really do an "Algorithms and Data structures" interview, our interview questions are modeled after real world problems we face(d).
I had a way to avoid that problem. I built a robot end effector that has a 6-DOF force sensor and an end wrench, not a socket wrench. Put it on a low-end $400 robot arm. Got this to talk to ROS. The idea was to have it detect, by feel alone, when the wrench had engaged a bolt head properly. Since all the feel is coming through the wrench part, 6 DOF is enough.

Turned out that a low-end robot arm driven by R/C servos is not smooth enough for this, and not powerful enough to hold up the end effector. Might be worth trying with a better robot arm and stiffer 6 DOF force sensor.
Is he on Citadel payroll ?
I talk about CFML all the time on my blog and Twitter. If you want to hear more chatter about CF, I suggest you start talking about it more too :)
Markus Mattinen submitted the best solution so far:
https://github.com/MarkusMattinen/elevatorsaga-solutions/blo...

And here's my solution, not too bad, had lots of fun:
https://github.com/tasuk/elevatorsaga-solver
That's the trouble with getting someone to be a suicide bomber: you need someone stupid enough to think that killing themselves is a good idea, yet smart enough to pull it off.
I believe he started http://www.hitechnic.com
I have to stick with Ruby for this one. Thanks though!
"I don’t want to see venture capitalists without significant carried interest – timid, risk-averse and totally misaligned with the interests of entrepreneurs and LPs. This will inevitably lead to lower returns – and an eventual decrease in money flowing into venture capital, and by association, startups."