jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi, excellent idea but each time I try to import a file, I've got file parsing ended. New: 0 Dup:xxxxxx. In the site, there is no torrent at all. It looks like the import works but think that it is already imported? I've got a Win8.1 64 bits and I tried the 64 and 32 bits .exe. I run the latest version of MongoDB 2.6. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
It's absolutely marvelous. It also inspired some fun derivative works like Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (Tyger Tyger in the UK).
Wouldn't this be a case of Newtonian mechanics as well? There's nothing "wrong" with the math, other than it doesn't fully explain reality like we initially thought it did, and so the theory is wrong. A lot less wrong than anything we had before, but still wrong.
Hope I wasn't too harsh; I make this mistake myself. You're probably right about your blog audience knowing what you're talking about, but then stuff gets posted here or linked to from DDG and those people may not have any idea.
Sure. But one of the excuses for repetition and redundancy in link content is "we can have a discussion about it," and I only think that's a good excuse if it's a good discussion that we haven't had ten times in the past year already.
A patent suit is possible. RIM has a number of mobile UI patents. I'm not familiar with Kik's UI, but if it's as close as I've heard, they could be infringing on a patent like this one: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=6lKrAAAAEBAJ
That might well be a factor, but I, for one, decided against using Wave for three distinct occasions where I suspected it might have been a good fit, because I couldn't get invites for all stakeholders.
Discrete math and probability have been done to death as computer science-related topics. You cannot get far in a CS program without learning these topics forward and back. That being said, this book is good as a starting point that collects these topics together; I have not seen a similar book that does the same job.

What's not getting enough attention as "mathematics for computer science" is category theory. Put very roughly: it gives you some very powerful formal patterns that will crop up in every computer science-related thing you do. This includes everything from theoretical computer science to the most 'boring' of dead-end programming jobs. Think of it as software engineering/design patterns without all the informal handwaving and zealotry for/against <latest fad process or design pattern> that it allows.

Category theory, if properly learned with an eye toward application, will make you become utterly ashamed of the programs you write, and the languages you write them in. The end result is a program that still does not match the one in your head built with a much more elegant set of abstractions, but is very clear nonetheless.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/
That sounds like it makes life better for everybody. People who would rather use iPhones for corp mail than 3-year-old Blackberries, and who accept that the tradeoff for using them is potential "nuke from orbit", can't... so you can avoid having to think about whether to give your IT department that power. Everybody wins!
It seems like even though your project is further ahead, Diaspora is getting more press. Why is that so?
Came here just to make sure it wasn't only me
Last I checked audio on YouTube is very low bitrate and sounds a lot worse than what popular online mp3 stores will give you.
It's that famous quip about "Macs are trucks, iOS devices are cars"

Describe pre-pointer iPads as Model T fords, and now we're entering the 1950's…
Yeah my family and I were hit by a nasty, nasty, flu/cold. Just when we were done, covid hit.

We were hoping it was covid so we’d have immunity. My wife was just tested - no such luck.
I think my point for comparison is a moleskine or a paperback. Certainly different use cases.
I wonder how many of the solutions would still work for arbitrary unicode strings. It looks like the author assumes only ascii exists. Perhaps the interns would be better off if they were taught that "reverse a string" is a fundamentally dangerous (and pointless) operation in almost any real-life context. Strings are way more complex than people give them credit for.
> Flight simulators are another interesting case where mechanical skills transfer, but that's only a small part of what real world flying really is.

Do you mean for combat flight simulation? Because flight simulation for commercial flight can pretty accurately replicate the whole experience, not just the mechanical skills, when you include people playing the role of ATC etc.
Mr Skurka is a legendary solo long distance hiker in Colorado. He once did the Pacific Crest Trail plus Continental Divide Trail on the same trip.
Hasn't Wikileaks published crypto addresses for a long time? You can send directly to them right now. I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a porn site out there taking payment directly though a Bitcoin address too.
I read it as a test for someone who wants to judge the attempts of others - I don't think it qualifies as gatekeeping since newcomers rarely ever judge other newcomers.
Get a blank key ergodox-ez and program the layout yourself in QMK.
Just allow me to filter your entire stock list by size. No one does this.

"OMG, this shirt is awesome" followed by "Damn it, it's out of stock", after opening it and has M (Medium) greyed out.

Disappointment pattern, I call it.
Excuse me, how is this different from banks, which have money to cover ~1% of their deposit liabilities?

Scratch that, US and UK banks, for example, now have 0% reserve requirements.
>Tether FUD

What's the opposite of FUD, when people with a massive financial stake in something do nothing but tell everyone everything is great all the time, and never acknowledge any issues?
If the feature is significantly different (windows snapping into positions on the screen versus remaining within certain constraints), then the feature might as well not exist. That they're named the same is irrelevant.
If I have 30 containers running, why should a single daemon being restarted cause all 30 to shutdown as well?

Similarly, the docker security model is that there isn't a security model. If you can talk to the docker socket you have what ever privileges the daemon is running as.
Kevin Hearne - Iron Druid Chronicles
Just read 'The Martian'. I wouldn't even call it science fiction, its just science. A fictional but technical and realistic how-to guide on surviving Mars.
You've convinced me that germ-phobic suburbanites will resist pay-per-ride services.

For city-dwellers, it's different, and the Edmunds TCO leaves out a lot. We pay $hundreds more per month for housing with parking. Then, we pay to find parking near our destinations in extra drive-time, money, and walk-time. And we ride for far fewer than the assumed 41 miles a day, 15K miles a year – so the fixed costs of car ownership are amortized over fewer miles.

That makes the per-mile costs of rideservices already roughly competitive or outright superior for many city-dwellers. That's especially true for the non-poor, who face a higher lost-compensation opportunity costs for every minute spent driving/refueling/parking/walking.

That's also before app-assisted multi-rider pooling, or automated-driving. Those could more-than-halve rideservice costs again.
I guess you can find a lot of that on TheDailyWTF.
The down voting is really strange.

If he is Israeli, and in his mid twenties then he has already served in the IDF, likely in a CS capacity. Also if he was Sherut Leumi, then I wouldn't think he would apply for a military contract job in the first place. Furthermore, its especially difficult for people with highly desirable backgrounds like CS or engineering to get Sherut approval.

My only point was that an Israeli in their mid twenties has already served in the military and if they have, or plan to get a degree in CS, they have served in the military in a capacity relating to CS or engineering.

Of course it's totally possible that I'm wrong and he is from Israel.

Just out of curiosity, anyone have any explanations of the down voting? Don't really mind, I just find it kind of bizarre.
friend of mine went to china on vacation and after a dinner with some acquaintances was asked by someone he met there to serve as an expert on an alternative energy panel at a conference.

he's the sort of person who find that amusing, so with no experience, he was a wind energy expert for a night.
Are you one of those people who are more interested in learning about how other people think? If so, it's odd that you're telling me how I think.

If you scroll up a bit, you'll see that it's precisely to avoid "war" that I want to emphasize objectivity. If everyone comes into a conversation with the purpose of discovering truth, the focus is on truth, and not who wins.

Finally, yeah, there is some objectively best way to edit code, and we'll get there eventually--or close enough to it that it would cease to be an issue. Why does this idea bother you?
I really don't find these anecdotes convincing. There's been a fair bit of research showing that the college wage premia is large and positive. Now, there are lots of arguments to be had about the mechanism by which that premia arises and to what extent it is fair, but its existence is not in question.

A degree is not much more than a fresh start, a foot in the door, and some residual credibility.

That's true in some fields. But in some fields, you simply cannot succeed without a college degree. If you want to be a civil engineer designing bridges, you need a college degree. If you want to be a physician or even a registered nurse or physician's assistant, then you need a degree. Period.
I sleep with earplugs every night. It's very relaxing.
Also of note, if you use AJAXy navigation (ie: example.com/#some-other-page) use #! instead to tell Google that it's indexable.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-...
Thanks for the pointer! Here is the link of the article coverage: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KdfV4hF4qz8Ti1XL0i_S3A (it's in Chinese though) I'm based in Guangzhou at the moment.
The same effect was used in the "80s Café" scene in Back to the Future II with Reagan, Michael Jackson and Ayatollah Khomeini:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEU-Lf60LA
Apple has made a lot of practical pushes on this topic and was heavily engaged in the HTML5 standard codec debate. Wiki has a good writeup of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Supported_video_an....

If I remember, they were basically arguing against Google as it favored codecs that put costs on consumers, not the servers? Anyone remember this?

I think video patents have pretty much patented all the basics making new standards nearly impossible. So, organizations are stuck waiting to be sued if they adopt a codec. Apple seems to be waiting.
I agree that "Internet" today is full of creative expression of millions of people able to do that mostly due the expansion it has seen into non-technical crowd. And that's brilliant.

Unfortunately, getting to their creations is ultimately harder: eg. searches for anything will now throw you at some lame stuff on pinterest, which will attempt to lure you into signing up just to find out if they have what you are looking for.

Basically, ability to really "browse" that humongous web is now gone. And most of those creations never reach their intended audience.
PostgreSQL does the following things by default to prevent this:

1. Only listen to localhost and unix sockets
2. Not generate any default passwords

So the only way to connect to a default configured fresh installation of PostgreSQL is via UNIX sockets as the postgres unix user. Where PostgreSQL is lacking is that it is a bit more work than it should be to use SSL.
Performance of what? Building an image?
How about “choosing a lifestyle that expects car ownership is a given”?
What’s the fundamental difference between a dumb TV and a smart one that’s never configured to connect to WiFi?
I switched back to Google because it performs significantly better on technical mathematics searches, which is mostly what I look for. On computer programming searches DDG and Google seem to do about equally well. On some domains I wouldn't be surprised if DDG does better.
Agree with R, but certainly not with Go (not even google is dedicated to make this the next big language, they call it an "experiment") ActionScript is Flash, right?! I would say JavaScript..

And Scala and Scheme? Maybe some academics use that, but I don't know a business which relies on it.
I also switched. Its cleaner, maybe quicker, and not obnoxious.
Can you actually think of any examples where "printing" 3D objects that are protected by patents is likely to be a problem in the foreseeable future?
Been there. I had the "that was my idea" moment a few days ago when I saw http://skillsapp.com/ which is something I had been toying with in my mind.

The thing is, as with apps, there is always room for competition. So what if someone "takes" your idea first? You can execute on it too and build something worth paying for; maybe even a better one.
It is very, very easy. The first 8 characters of your password were hashed using DES without a salt. Your cell phone has enough CPU to crack them all.
The author is referring to the LockFile API call, which only supports exclusive byte-range locks, vs. the LockFileEx API call, which does support shared byte-range locks, but is only available on the Windows NT variants (NT 4 and above), not the Windows 9x variants (95, 98, and ME).
everyone agrees its wrong

Are you saying everyone agrees piracy is wrong? In my mind that's very much still open to debate.
Couldn't someone deduce that his hotmail password is abcho123?

Edit: If they compromised one of his other accounts...
I would think also in jobs there is so much money. Always surprised an effective way hasn't been solved for it yet...
How long it takes to get to the point when such a project could bring real money to leave full-time job? How much knowledge someone has to have to build such a thing?
Extra-planetary colonization is so far-fetched given our impending climate crisis. We will struggle to adapt to the oncoming environmental changes in a planet that we have completely adapted do. The thought that leaving this custom bubble for one that is actively hostile, and thriving there, is a grand delusion. I admire the explorative & scientific nature of space missions, but I am also pro-reality.
I wouldn't necessarily say this is related to the economy (The economy has other issues), but more related to our culture. Our entire culture is focused around consuming, buying the next thing, having the nicest stuff, etc. Heck our high schools even teach us how to properly consume, and how to acquire things we cannot afford.

However in life you will have to pass up some things you want in order to maintain living within your means, as a result you are going against the constant consuming behavior that our culture has taught us, and feel a failure for not buying all that stuff.

I couldn't speak to the social pressures of the past (I didn't live through them). My personal experience is that when I was able to ignore the consuming pressure society gives, the amount of stress and pressure plummet and I have been able to enjoy life much to a higher standard.

Those middle managers may be in that sweet spot of enough to be comfortable and feel successful, but not so successful they feel the need to compete with the consuming elite of execs and millionaires. Don't be fooled though, there are plenty of people in other "class brackets" that are able to shed the stress and pressure of the US culture.
Haha yup, my spelling and grammar is usually pretty crap.
We all know about that last 10% though ;)
Maybe it supports my point. People are getting infected and people are getting vaccinated. They'll be hitting herd immunity at some point at which point they are completely done with Coronavirus.

Meanwhile New Zealand, San Diego, and Ontario will continue to shut down over and over.

Looking forward to seeing the permanent downward trend in Brazil once they hit the inflection point.

More people under the age of 55 years old die of car accidents every year than of Coronavirus.

My point is solid, your point is vague.
I want the government to force private companies to charge the end users for their services, and to start enforcing anti-monopoly laws. This will very quickly introduce competition to the market and will align the corporate behavior with the interests of the users.
Are you a credentials expert? Please substantiate your loaded questions with credentials.
Am I the only one who finds it weird that, because Bezos said "I support X", a large proportion of HN finds itself mechanically saying "X is the worst thing in the world and Bezos only supports it because he's greedy and evil".

I mean, I don't have any strong opinion on corporate taxes (I think they're not the most efficient way to tax large businesses, but whatever), but people here aren't exactly demonstrating great consistency.

Like, the tax hike Bezos is referring to is essentially a partial reversal of the tax cuts Trump put into effect two years ago. I would be shocked if the majority of people who are saying the hikes Bezos supports are bad for small businesses would have said that the cuts Trump passed were good for small businesses back then.

(Yes, there are ways "new tax hike bad, previous tax cut bad" can both be true; if you have any evidence this is the case, I'm really interested; but I'm absolutely certain the vast majority of posters here have no such evidence)
I know you don't ban politics, that's why I chose the specific phrase "culture warring" - I think its a good policy. I think my phrasing after that point was just bad though as I didn't mean to b expand that scope to political speech in general.

Could well be confirmation bias on my part that this place seems to skew Californian in politics.
Arc will be tricky to get a hang of learning to code (essentially) for the first time, I would recommend a language like Python. The syntax makes a lot of sense, it starts out easy to learn, but is extremely powerful.
I'm pretty sure I've seen stuff suggesting that Dropbox occasionally purges copyrighted files from its system (which is made super-easy by the hash fingerprinting system that it uses to deduplicate storage) so I agree that this is not likely to meet most people's use case for torrents; i.e. stealing copyrighted music and films.

I wonder why the github repo has been taken down.
What would stop pirates from querying each other (maybe on some P2P network) for those random bytes?

Client A wants the file that Client B has so when Dropbox asks Client A for some random offset, Client A asks Client B in the background and relays the result to Dropbox.

It really depends on how far pirates would be willing to go.
The irony of a whine about other people being over-sensitive...
he's not saying c code is clear; he's saying that using c code can help you avoid complexity because many things you might attempt in another language are simply too expensive.

nor is he saying (as someone else said) that you should avoid higher level constructs in other languages. its quite ok to use those, as long as you keep things simple.

simplicity does not map 1-to-1 on language features and is hard to explain because it's very context dependent. it's more "YAGNI" than "avoid yield in python".

for example, here's an example from Python i noticed just yesterday. i had some code that expanded a particular kind of data and i wanted to let the user do something with the data. so i added a callback - on each step in the expansion i pass the user the relevant chunk of data through the callback.

but how do i handle errors? i had a use-case that needed to handle errors, but they didn't fit with the callback. so my first thought was to make the callback an object and have a method to handle exceptions. but that looked complicated.

then i realised that i was passing the callback a list of values. if, instead, i passed a generator, then the exceptions, when they occurred, would be raised inside the callback! so by "using yield" i kept things simple.
What a bullshit infographic. They hardly compare like and like in the same rows; purposefully only displaying information that is perceived true for each. For instance, 14-17% of mac users think of themselves as being chic in fashion whereas 71% or so of PC users prefer jeans. How is this a direct juxtaposition? A sixth is hardly the statistic they should have for that row in mac - what was the option with the largest vote count for that question?
I've heard of Mirage and am looking forward to it being ready for prime-time :-)
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There have been some approaches to client-side image generation in computer games [1][2], but they're not very successful commercially.

1. http://ifarchive.jmac.org/
2. http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/
There's one of these in Bangkok as well: https://twitter.com/briantopping/status/555954174697811968
Reasonably good presentation, but this stuck out at me:

> One team that started with Erlang and moved to Java so they could find programmers. Think about those scenarios.

If the people you are hiring can't pick up Erlang in a couple of weeks of being on the job when they are doing that full time, with colleagues around who already know Erlang to help them, you are hiring the wrong sorts of people. Same goes for any other language/technology stack.
If you get to trial and the judge orders you to produce the password, then and there is the time to say it. It becomes a matter of public record, you don't even have to say it continuously, you can spell it, or whatever.
It's the

using flicks = std::chrono::duration<std::chrono::nanoseconds::rep, std::ratio<1, 705600000>>;
What do you believe Krein is recuiting for?
> Oh yeah, especially because core affinities in Windows get all wonky once you go above 64 threads.

Can you elaborate? I haven't noticed any particular "wonkiness" happening?