jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can only assume there is something that for most people just feels absolutely, intuitively true about more money = inflation = bad.

Since 2008, the Fed has increased the money supply by a factor of 5, inflation has been rock-bottom or nonexistent, real interest rates on Treasuries are negative, but hyperinflation is even now just around the corner. No matter how often the prediction is wrong, new ones are made and the failure of the appearance of hyperinflation on schedule is ignored or handwaved away with vague declarations about how the government is conspiring to hide inflation, or the Fed is using some kind of temporary monetary/balance-sheet magic trick, or as soon as the economy starts up again we're all doomed.

What I have never understood is why computer-technical types so often participate in this kind of thinking when we're usually pretty good on other sciences. To be sure, economics is a field with more cranks than usual - paid cranks, even-, but there are working, well-tested mainstream models that churn out accurate prediction after prediction and are largely ignored in favor of whatever the WSJ or Ron Paul says.
Sure, or it will go the way that Wave and so many other products before did. Or it will linger in zombie obscurity like Notebook did for so long. I'm not too worried about it either way.
Wow, I would love a personal Drew Neil (from VimCasts) to read me bedtime stories.

(Also, great site, I'm learning!)
That link doesn't work for me. Anyone else having issues?
The only people who give a startup a truly fair chance are the founders' parents. Everyone else skims, misreads, jumps around, and then tells their friends about a verdict formed mostly on misconceptions.

Great consumer businesses optimize for this behavior.
It's getting a bunch of connection resets. Strange, I doubt it's large enough to be on the Chinese censors' radar. I bet it's triggering stuff aimed at sites that basically scrape or iframe Google.
Dr. Tae's Solution
Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning
http://vimeo.com/5513063
Becoming a well rounded human being has definitely become underrated. College isn't just for votech. It's where you learn all the civilization stuff that locates you in the human family.
I opted out of the Millimeter waves in Manchester NH airport (BTW, coolest TSA agents I ever met. One of them even said he wouldn't ever go through a backscatter machine himself.). They detected some nitrates or nitrites, I forget which (or what those exactly mean). But that's a potential sign of explosives apparently. It's probably because I had been by a camp fire that morning. If you go camping, or shooting, you should consider cleaning your clothes before going through airport security.

This was a flight to return home, so I didn't ask to leave the airport, but they did give me the option of going through the porno-scanner or staying grounded. I understand that the TSA at least claims that the scanner doesn't actually involve showing anybody an image beyond a diagram (not that I'm shy anyway), and it's nowhere near as risky as the backscatter, so I went for it this one time and I was on my way.
Most of the earth’s surface is still unpopulated, we’re probably fine assuming the same blast size. Even over a population center, it’s a local problem.

Otoh, there’s a lot of risk from human factors, especially if over a city. With the right placement and timing, it could trigger a nuclear exchange.
I was hoping for examples of situations in which blender helped a software developer.
The problem with Bitcoin is that it has no monopoly on being a cryptocurrency. There are so many alternatives that I don't see any point in sticking with Bitcoin if you are looking forward to using cryptocurrencies for purchases or money transfer across countries.
Raw sales numbers are going to be biased because ARM is like Zerg and x86 is Protoss. In the ARM world there isn't the same concept of a central processor so normally lots of chips get built into each individual device.

ARM has also been historically used most often on proprietary systems you need authorization to develop for. So it's made less sense as a target for open source tooling hack projects like this one.

ARM also has so many sub-targets that it's almost like a coalition of ISAs rather than a unified one like x86. So adding ARM support to Actually Portable Executable might not be as simple as including an ARM build in the binary. We might need to have multiple ARM builds for its microarchitectures. Because ARM users want resource efficiency and they're not going to be happy with a generalized build that broadly targets ARM; they want code that's narrowly targeted to the specific revisions of the processor that they're using.

In other words, we can't give ARM users portable binaries because ARM users do not want them.

I also always thought that code for other architectures was the kind of thing that mostly got contributed by the people who build those architectures. Things like how IBM always graces our GitHub issues with patches each time our code doesn't work on s390x mainframes. I like that they do it by contributing patches rather than the feedback of why don't you support this? Why don't you support that? Oh I didn't say I actually needed it.
This. There maybe are some downsides to Firefox but it still feels better than chrome. I'm staying with it
The lack of tape needs to be large suspicion factor. Example: when Nixon couldn't explain the "missing 18 minutes" of tape [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes#The_18....
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/who-killed-sony-s...

Although it looks like a lot of the documentation is still there:

http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/develop/platform/
Here's the thing: true democracy, theoretically, involves individuals voting in their interest with full knowledge of what is being presented.

Last election I was discussing some of the spending bills with randoms in line waiting to vote. It became clear that they did not understand the bills but were "told" by friends or media how they should vote. In my view, there seems to be a distorted-abstract-representative that controls these group-voting circles. Just cause they cast the ballot themselves doesn't mean they are not being represented by this abstract representative. It was clear that some of these people were about to unknowingly vote in direct opposition to their own principles.
I don't know that I will be impressed when that happens. Something tricking you into believing it is sentient is interesting, but inevitable. I want to live long enough that my toaster is an emotional roller-coaster.
It works, for harvesting names and possible domains. Great tool for collecting information for constructing ads or spearfishing attacks.
I can relate to the debugging part. Useless stack traces have been the reason I simply gave up on Clojure.
You may want to show them how you can generate code by emitting assembly hex-codes into a block of memory and then _call_ the block of code after casting it into a function pointer.
Only if you actually apply for citizenship. I believe there's a way for foreign citizens (US? others?) to live there indefinitely w/o actually immigrating.
True. It was obviously a bit more awkward to use, that was all.

Having said that, it was less frustrating that on Linux for me but that was back in the days of PulseAudio being garbage and Jack dropping samples left, right and centre on my sound card (using the ice module I think?).

Anyway, I was just saddened by the money I spent on it versus the output I received. I ended up going to Logic Pro instead.

EDIT: I wasn't trying to minimise the Ardour project's efforts BTW. It is a valiant effort and a monumental undertaking but I was more interested in making/recording music than software for that venture.
That's sort of my point. Most people, with April Fools just around the corner (and already here, for some), it will still be used in mockery comments about the product, even though they know it's a real product.
I'd say that a random person is more likely to have access to a computer and usable internet than access to the library. The "technical knowledge" involved in downloading videos involves having a torrent client and a codec pack installed (two download-and-run installers.. my gran could do it).

Then, you go to your torrent site, click on what you want, and wait. Nowadays, it's no harder than downloading any other random file from any other random site.
I dunno. According to Wikipedia:

Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931)[1]
is an American author and journalist, best known for his
association and influence over the New Journalism literary
movement in which literary techniques are used in objective
even-handed journalism.

The term "objective even-handed journalism" is a link to another Wikipedia article, which begins:

Journalistic objectivity is a significant principle of
journalistic professionalism. Journalistic objectivity can refer
to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship,
but most often encompasses all of these qualities.

Looking over this, it seems that he editorialized and opined on a great many subjects, but those appear at least to have been contained to essays, novels and opinion pieces.

I'll freely confess not knowing the man, or his work, and only know what's contained in and linked from the Wiki articles, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but to the idea that he would laugh at journalistic objectivity seems off to me, from what I'm reading.
"Moxie just sold out Signal’s First Amendment credentials."

Id argue he just created a new front:

freedom of association.

I still think you are right with your concerns.

You say he sold out credentials. I would say he bravely staked out a new claim.
There's some CSS you can use that prevents selection. I can't see any need for selection in your app, so you could just apply it liberally.
> This is irrational and hostile.

The way I interpret this argument is this: the world wasn't meant to be pleasing all the time. Excluding unpleasant facts from one's information diet because it hurts their feelings is what the OP is arguing against. It is absolutely possible to present hostile/offensive statements that are also true. Feel free to agree/disagree, but it's quite rational line of thinking.
It's not strange, it's the natural state of a market with limited and ever-changing information. At each iteration, people ask themselves two questions: "Am I convinced this will alleviate one or more pain points I have?" and "Am I convinced this will be active, well-documented, maintained, and improved for the forseeable future?". Note the questions are "am I convinced this will" rather than "will this", because information is limited.

It is very difficult to know a priori whether something will really alleviate a pain point, or whether it just seems like it will. The ability to do that successfully most of the time is one of the great advantages of experience.

Even worse, it's basically impossible to predict the future evolution of community support for a given project, but support from a company that can pay salaries and is not itself going anywhere is one of the best positive indicators of longevity and maintenance (though it says little of quality).
You cannot control what comes your way (and in all honesty, being a freelancer myself, I totally feel where you're coming from with this bad experience), but you can surely learn to maximise your reaction to it.
I lost any rights I had for a startup I built, managed and worked my a## for, for the past 3 years, so I know what loss is. But regardless of the situation, you have to remember that moving on is the key and the only way to do that is to let go of what you cannot change. The simplest way to understand "why?" is to think of it like this: if you keep wasting time and consuming your energy with negative thoughts, instead of focusing on what is good and productive for your own sake, just to try and shake the ground of the guy's feet, all you'll end up doing is giving him an extra hand in stopping you from your tracks. Don't let him do that, own your thoughts and actions and direct them towards the only thing that really matters: your own progress and evolution.
And don't worry about it: there is a universal balance in place, and it has nothing to do with religion or faith, just with the logical assumption that, if you're a person that screws people to get what they want, eventually, you'll meet someone smarter than you to screw you for their own good. Knowing that should help you focus and leave the screwing part for someone out there, whose role in paying this guy back, hasn't yet been consumed. Yours has. Keep walking!
1. open bash

2. set -e

3. type an invalid command or run one that returns non-zero

4. "crap, where did my shell go?"
Haha, yes I'm a big fan of ATS and I use it in projects. What motivates the dabbling in Rust is that it'll be possible at some point to use Rust in Gecko, and Servo is an interesting project to contribute to.
From the maps I've seen (e.x. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/) it doesn't look like the spill is anywhere near any country except the US yet.
thanks! sevdev.com

sev [at] sevdev [dot] com
Apropos the prognostications about circa-2020 brain implants, when I was a twenty-something, back in the mid-1980s, I read Neuromancer.

And I wanted to be the first guy on my block to have a cyberspace jack in his skull.

Now I am middle-aged and cynical and slightly chewed-up by the dot-com 1.0 startup experience, I want to be the first guy on my block to have, for a brain implant ... a firewall!

(One lesson I've drawn from 20 years of reading comp.risks is that the closer we integrate software into our lives, the deadlier the consequences of security exploits. Also? The exploit may be transient but the fallout from it can potentially last for a lifetime.)
> it would be sucking up the matter on the walls as well

It won't. The first time it touches (or comes near) the wall it will take what it can get, but it will never go farther than that. There is nothing that will "push" it closer to the walls.
Find something in one field and apply it to another.

Disciplines tend to put up barriers to knowledge flowing in from other disciplines, if you are 'cross domain' you can easily capitalize on that.

Becoming a millionaire in three years seems 'doable', after all it's only 300K per year or thereabouts, that's a little over $900 per day. You have to factor in taxes though, and that's where the catch is.
At first I didn't understand the whole paragraph (I had just woken up :-) ) and then it was just the Maya part. I didn't understand his use of Maya.

Thanks for the explanation. It seems the author and I have got a similar view on syntax (how can we not since we both seems to admire Alan Perlis!).
The phone function of your telePHONE is pretty damn important and not something that is _stupid_ to complain about.
That’s a ridiculous idea. It’s a job, not a judicial system. I suspect our real disagreement is around your “disproportionate corporate power” remark. I believe that’s how it’s supposed to be. The people running the company have more power than the workers. If the workers don’t like it, they can go to another company they more prefer or start their own. And don’t tell me it’s not possible. Google is only 20 years old. Facebook is younger than that. Both started in college.

The power lies with the corporation because that’s where the risk and responsibility is. You don’t risk much driving to your job at a big company and collecting your check every two weeks. You risk everything and take on responsibility for a lot of people when you’re the one who starts the company or who has to lead it or a large portion of it.
And both are slowed down by LLVM.

F#, Standard ML, OCaml and Haskell also have such strong type systems.
Using signed integers for values that are always positive isn't necessarily a mistake.
Most notably because for signed integers (in C and C++) overflow is undefined behavior. This allows for more aggressive optimizations by the compiler.

Some advice I've read is to only use unsigned integers if you want to explicitly opt-in to having overflow be defined behavior.
Does this require Docker on the local machine or the remote machine? If it requires it on the local this seems like a non-starter still for a lot of people. If I can't ssh from that machine what are the odds it has Docker or I can install Docker?
A $40 knockoff 16th century gown that falls apart at the seams, that could be a feature for whichever porn actress is to be ravished in it!

Repping is usually an opportunistic play, target fixation being fraught with peril.

First you need a good eye and lots of research about the 1:1 rate before you even think about purchasing some thing let alone from who.

Then there is the haggling. This video proves why you never buy blind. You rarely even accept the first two offers during Quality Control pics before paying. Those items are very much for the uninitiated but you have to call out your unacceptables before and during the sale.
> Gimme a fuckin break.

Sorry if this is a first for you. It's been a very long time however that the US has been successful (and this is a compliment) at commercializing tech that was invented elsewhere. US is a huge beneficiary of the bad business climate elsewhere and international brain drain. This is just a taste of how it works when e.g. european companies emigrate to the US (again, because the US is a better place for them). Consider that the US won the business world because of its openness, not in spite of it.
How can I comment if I can't read the article ? Is this link a promo for WSJ subscription?
> I really wish a jury of peers is used to fire people in this age of disproportionate corporate power.

You mean like a union?

(Or at least how I imagine unions could work, by policing under/non-performing members.)
Yes: Your local library might have article content available online.

SFPL link: https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.sfpl.org/docview/2317834...
Thanks! Which of his stories would you most recommend?
I started laughing at the lines

Stopping squid: ................[ OK ]
rm: cannot remove `/boot': Device or resource busy
Thanks for the link. I know that Bootstrap can be used in a similar way (in theory, I haven't tried it myself) but this just seems much lighter and focused on that specific use-case rather than "also you can use it like this" in Bootstrap.
From http://www.manux.info/en/:

"The kernel was written from scratch"

"shares no code with the Linux kernel"

It's not Linux, just Linux compatible. So I guess the author can apply any license they fancy.
I would like to know which language they are using with Spark: Python, Java or Scala. I have experience with both python and java and while python works very well for prototyping new Spark flows, once a flow becomes too complex I fall back to Java because of generics in RDDs.
Yeah, and evopsych has the same problem as history, that it is not possible to change one variable and repeat the experiment. This makes it easy to make up explanation for observations, but hard to verify or falsify these explanations. It is surprisingly hard to disprove a historical theory, like "the decline of pirates in the Caribbean lead to the Russian revolution".
I tried Atom and to me, the editor just feels slow. I've been using Sublime Text for a long while now and last week I decided to "bite the bullet" and buy a license. It's just too nice of an editor for languages like Ruby, Markdown and even C# (with the OmniSharp plugin).
> "Students, prisoners, pacifists and whistle-blowers"---at least two of these, students and whistle-blowers, have been primarily attacked by the leftist university administrations and the current American executive, also on the left.

What you call "left" in this argument is actually centre right. Sorry but the left barely exists in the US, compared to other nations. Your confusion is probably due to the binary party system where, interestingly, 0 = 1.

Anyhow, though they share some common grounds, the left is not and cannot be "liberal". (For example, no leftist would argue for the corporatization of free speech in their right minds, as you did in your liberalist comment, excusing it as "not perfectly ideal".)

For classical leftism, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

For modern leftism, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left

> leftist university administrations and the current American executive, also on the left

Leftist university administrators do not exist in the US. No leftist university administrator would take an active (pro/supporting) role in a system that depends on the exploitation of adjunct faculty, the active sabotaging of unions by universities, and the overall commodification[1] of education.

The current American executive is not leftist either, as demonstrated by their trend towards building a surveillance system for elitist / corporate US dictatorship.

In light of the above, you are in no position to call any article "idiotic."

edit: [1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/03/29/its-impossible-to-work... is an interesting read.
I hope so, but it'll require significant improvement. From the command line, "subl ." loads almost immediately, whereas "atom" can take 10+ seconds. (on a MBP with 16gb + SSD)
> you won't know what usernames they go with

But if you've got a list of all usernames (probably a relatively small number) and access to a running system, isn't it easy to just try each password against each user until you find a match?

The common practice of limiting logins from a single username wouldn't help with that either.
Was this filmed at Griffith Park?
Killing the internet would seriously disrupt the flow of information, information that is integral to remedy any attack and the psychological welfare of those affected.

A Weather Service Style Notification Service would be much more beneficial, that is unless that is skynet is controlling the robots.
Can we refrain from esoteric abbreviations like these? I don't feel like they save that much space, not that space is even an issue.
At least I can make database connections as an employee in software.
>It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.

I recently saw a full-armor longsword fight. It was fast as hell. I'm talking leather, chainmail, chest plates and metal helmets. I could barely follow the action.

It was pretty awesome and that one live match turned me from skeptic into fan.
I've the same. If I get a popup or an overlay I simply close the tab whatever was on it. Without even thinking. If I notice an advert I think scumbag company, how can they think that interrupting what I am here for is more likely to make me buy their thing and I make an active effort to avoid anything they sell from then on. It's not even concious, it just happens.
If you assume examination, observation, etc are forces then this satisfies Newton's Law
> delivering stable protocols and secure software upon genesis block release

> Elliptic curve (secp256k1, ECDSA)

Isn't secp256k1 and ECDSA prone to implementation errors? Why not use EdDSA instead? :)
I'm well aware of all that, but with all of the intentional unjustified downvoting that goes on around here, I'm happy to burn some meaningless internet points calling people out on it from time to time.

Downvoting for disagreement is allowed, but I still think it's a dumb policy. I upvote people I disagree with all the time for moving discussion along with pointed questions, so it's saddening to see people downvoted or be downvoted myself merely for holding an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Not because I give a flying fuck about internet points, but because it reflects poorly on the community and its capacity for debate. But then again, I think upvote systems are dumb to begin with.