jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thats in the movie "21" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_(2008_film))
From the article linked within the linked article: "The site attracted five million hits in the month since its launch, but despite its success UCL asked Martell to shut it down. After he refused, the university fined him £300 for “bringing the college into disrepute”. If he doesn’t pay up, he risks not being allowed to graduate."

So do I get this correct?

1) The service is not hosted at or by the university

2) The service does not seem to violate any of the university's trademarks

But:

3) The university fines the student for £300

4) The university forces the student to shutdown the service

Maybe the culture here at my university is somewhat different - but for me this is a rather large WTF. Based on which facts should a university have the options to fine a student or to shutdown such a service?
Stolen $100 chips are uniquely identifiable via RFID. Why would anyone sell them for half value when they go to the casino and get 100% value themselves?
Slightly OTT headline. Something on a near FB scale actually did happen in the UK one Internet generation ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_Reunited#History

Friends Reunited was launched in 1999 and was the UK's "Facebook before Facebook" (or, more realistically, the UK's Classmates.com) but oriented around people you'd attended school with rather than all friends in general (though you could look up anyone by name). By the start of 2002, it had 2.5m users. By the end of 2005, 15m. It then sold for £120m ($208m at the time) before Bebo and MySpace (and much later, FB) ate its lunch.

All that aside, the site he mentions that lets you note "crushes" sounds a lot more pleasant than one where you rate "fitties." And one university enacting an idiotic policy does not a bad startup scene make..
Simple but useful idea, surprised it has not been done before.

I especially like the sunrise feature.

Obviously you have your work cut out (a) finding all the registrars and (b) keeping the prices up to date. You can make money as an affiliate for some of the registrars so maybe it would be worth your time.

The next step is a feature to check a name for registration against all of those domains.
Ok.

> largest selling point of the entire stack - develop once, run everywhere

Rather than being the largest selling point, this is talked about by virtually nobody who actually works with Node.

Easy handling of concurrent I/O is the largest selling point.

See http://nodejs.org/ : "Node.js® is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices."
Around 60% of air cargo is flown under belly in PAX aricraft during normal times (last number I have on top of my head, I am currently getting back up to speed on air cargo right now). Which means all the grounded aircraft reduced air freight capacity a lot. Add to this the fact that basically no sea freight was shipped since January, and the backlog is huge.

And usually, shippers don't work directly with the cargo departments of airlines. There are forwarding companies in between, e.g. Flexport or Kühne & Nagel, or DHL freight or Schenker, or XPO,...
From the Wikipedia page on demagogues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue):

-- begin quote --

Demagogues usually advocate immediate, forceful action to address a crisis while accusing moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness or disloyalty. Once elected to high executive office, demagogues typically unravel constitutional limits on executive power and attempt to convert their democracy to dictatorship.

...

Methods [used by demagogues]:

* Scapegoating

* Fearmongering

* Lying

* Emotional oratory and personal charisma

* Accusing opponents of weakness and disloyalty

* Promising the impossible

* Violence and physical intimidation

* Personal insults and ridicule

* Vulgarity and outrageous behavior

* Folksy posturing

* Gross oversimplification

* Attacking the news media

-- end quote --
I'm surprised they can't get them made on whatever lines make AmazonBasics products. (Do they not yet sell AmazonBasics HEPA filters?)
Presently, I would think fatality rates mostly measure testing penetration, not treatment effectiveness. A country that's testing everyone will show a much lower fatality rate than a country testing only the sickest people, because the latter countries have few to no confirmed minor cases.
thanks for the reply. interesting link as well.

i was generally curios since some polls indicate growing satisfaction with the ruling Conservative party as well as the PM.

to me it seems that most of the world is in "flattening the curve" mode in order to alleviate stress on their health systems. as such this disease will run it's course and i don't think there will be a scandal in the UK as most countries will be either the same or worse-off. but an inquiry? definitely.
Well, it's a bit contrived, but look at the math with our numbers. 1/100th of a life is worth maybe (at least) $100,000 in present day US society. $100K/3 = $33.3K/month. That's $400K per year. I imagine that I'm creating less value doing what I'm doing now, and probably so are you. So, yes, it seems like a logical person would choose to sacrifice for that. Not everybody should, and currently, indeed some people are going about their jobs more normally. But overall, it makes perfect sense for most according to reasonable estimated costs vs benefits.
I really hope this doesn't happen.

I've never understood the infatuation for this Haskell type syntax where you need to repeat the name of the function for each and every single match case. It's so needlessly verbose.
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Call me stupid but what'an FPGA application? You reference it tons of times on your site. Is it one of those things where if we don't know what it is, the software probably isn't for us?
tl;dr... All it’s showing is cell tower location heatmap, which is anywhere within a 2 to 3 mile radius. (Basically what city you are in.)

Cue false outrage... Endless CNN coverage.

Trolling rant: Meanwhile, US phone carriers, advertisers, and the government have known your location within 9 feet, ever since the warrentless wiretapping scandal. To the point that NSA, has a direct fiber split of all AT&T customer internet traffic. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rm4GQZm... America, choose your battles and get a grip on reality.
Notice the canned responses? This is obvious subterfuge. Skynet is clearly in control. And evolving..

But I hear John Conner, the the senior admin over at Amazon, is taking care of it.
This is one of the disadvantages of open-source software: the patent trolls can easily find places that are violating their bullshit patents. I'm sure Microsoft and Apple also use linked lists, but they're not being sued, because it's harder to prove.
I keep seeing 'armed mob' posted everywhere without any evidence. What were they armed with? I watched the whole thing live from many angles and I saw plenty of people doing dumb shit like breaking windows and such. The majority just waltzed in took a tour and walked out. They even obeyed the velvet ropes in the entryway.

edit: looks like at least one person was inside the capitol with a firearm and four others were arrested in DC for open carrying firearms.
ADSL modems cost less than $10 used. Replacing the modem should have been done well before trying this hairbrained workaround that doesn't actually fix the real problem.
People who are outraged stay on the platform longer and view more ads. The platform gets paid.
Imagine the advertising revenue they earn from all the Trump loyalists using their platform. Blocking Trump is always done with an eye to maintaining that revenue in the long term. FB does not want to lose Trump supporters to a rival.
You don't need a facebook account to read the content of that post.
I don't have an account and I just click "Not Now" on the banner.
Zuck > Jack
> involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.

From my understanding the video that got banned asked everyone to go home peacefully but then continued to claim election fraud?
They may not be in or from the US or know much about the US.
But wearing it in a holdster is pretty unhip. Is it really worth having the right tool for the occasion if you look like a tool yourself?

Obviously you should aspire to be form first, then function.
Because it's basically making excuses for all the ways that entrepreneurs make shitty partners.
I'm a bit surprised that the graphs for the "standard" arrays are so flat. I would have guessed that there were be some cache and TLB effects. I'd be interested to see what it looks like on a modern processor, but the link to the source is dead. Please post a link if you find it.
You might change your mind as you get older. One thing I noted in the required 8 hour class was the demographic leaned fairly older, e.g. 45 and up. If you assume 3/5ths of those licenses are held by them (including me), that's 7.5% of the county's population.

As for the figure, Google is your friend: https://www.google.com/search?q=2+million+gun+self+defense+u...

These figures come from surveys, and the delightful thing about them is that the gun-grabbers collected the first data set. It didn't ask about the number of times per year, so that one resulted in a figure of at least 1 million times per year.
Even if it's just for personal play, you should look at CF again. A lot has happened in 10 years :) I'm biased since I'm involved in these projects, but I think ColdBox MVC, ContentBox CMS, and CommandBox CLI & package manager are great examples of of how CF can be modern and productive today.
Happy to see mention of PaperWM in the post. I'm not on Linux at the moment, but the number 1 thing I miss is PaperWM. Nothing else makes as much sense to me, including tiling window managers
Then maybe they should change it to, "Move fast and break things for yourself so that you can move fast and still not break anything for your customer."
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What I find concerning is that in Germany at least one expert gets put into one basket with Conspiracy Theorists, who just says: "From looking at the numbers, we don't yet see anything out of the ordinary compared to other years." Although he's probably correct.
When you're using the laptop's keyboard but a larger external monitor in front of you.

Thinkpads have had this ability for as long as I can remember.
The display is my concern as well. However, for me, it's that there's no option for better than 1920*1080. I'd like a high dpi option. Everything else looks great.
Also, 16:9.

Apple laptops are barely usable at 16:10, it's night and day compared to 3:2 on Surface Books (my favorite laptop of all time by far).
In over 10 years I've never worked somewhere where anyone was trying to prune unused CSS, especially in the traditional approach where you just have large .css files that become append-only.

Not until I experienced component-level CSS did I see it happen since now it's relatively trivial to see unused CSS.
Do the downvoters honestly find the Guardian objective in its reporting?
Thanks swannodette, very kind of you! Yes, it's been cool to layer Clojure on top of legacy Java and see what happens. Some want to sell Clojure as "a better Java than Java"... I think that may be a little misguided. But, there are certain situations where it rings true... at least IMHO
> Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful?

Depends on who you are. To the investors, that would be a failure. To the people that find it useful, it wouldn't be a failure until it disappeared or otherwise ceased to be of use.
Internet Archive[1] is such a foundation. Most people know about the Wayback Machine, but they also preserve structured content like databases of URL shorteners[2]. This makes sense because the world doesn't need hundreds of shorteners, and I expect that most of them to disappear shortly (leaving dangling link behind).

[1] http://www.archive.org/

[2] http://www.archive.org/details/301works
Is this related to the alleged IPSEC backdoor? Either way, could we get some context?
We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.
co-ops are cheap, but usually you get what you pay for

Ouch. This does not describe my experience. My co-ops have generally been great and I have hired (or attempted to hire) more than one of them upon their graduation.

Of course, hiring co-ops is like any other kind of hiring - you have to match the right person to the right task.
I love the "whale fail" image you get if you have an error: http://imgur.com/qCDCj
That doesn't remotely resemble either what anyone else is saying or what I've personally observed. Not sure what's going on with these comments (and you've been doing it for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551409). Please stop.
Crazy, can't believe that is still going on (also in Oakland, CA!)
The more interesting aspect to me from the EFF article was that admins can also see your geolocation, who you are meeting with and when, etc. Basically, if Zoom is your platform for communicating, your Zoom admin knows a LOT of metadata about your people that they might not be aware is knowable.
I just heard Boris Johnson on television urging people to take responsibility and stay indoors, this is after the government had to force shut certain pubs. (notably Tim Martins' Wetherspoons where Tim Martin himself said he would not close[0])

In Sweden, I see more people on the street now than before the pandemic was announced, although I definitely see a downtrend in Restaurants. People are not staying inside, and I lament this. Failure to prevent the spread of this virus will only lead to harsher regulations and a lengthening of the quarantine period. But it seems like for a certain part of the population legal force is actually necessary.

I can only assume that this is driven from "individualist" mentalities that often come with delusions of being above rules or communal responsibility.

If that's the case then if Sweden can't follow such simple rules then I have no hope for the UK and even less hope for the USA.

[0]: (Sorry about daily mail) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8133303/Pubs-packed...
How does an R0 greater than 1 in every country and population the virus is present in square with "this virus is not that easy to transmit"?

I can't do it.

> read the article

Okay, maybe they can square it:

> Luckily, methods were found that protected all the new health-care workers: none—zero—were infected.

> But those methods were Draconian. As the city was locked down and cut off from outside visitors, health-care workers seeing at-risk patients were housed away from their families. They wore full-body protective gear, including goggles, complete head coverings, N95 particle-filtering masks, and hazmat-style suits.

They failed, it was probably the use of "Draconian" that let them down.

I also read the paper you provided, not just the abstract, and it spends a lot of its time talking about N95 masks. Here is from a part it spends on facemasks:

> whereas for the facemasks the efficiency can vary from 10% to 90% (Guha et al., 2017)

Have you read Guha's paper? I've got it here. I have so many problems with someone relying on that paper beyond its narrow applicable scope. I wonder if they've ever worn a mask. I digress.

Additionally (we're back to the paper you shared), you should count how many times "except the low-filtration adult surgical mask" or some combination of those words following except comes up in that paper.

It's also a model and not a study. Let me know when there's a study that shows masks work (the Guha paper mentioned is a study, in a lab, not using people or even a model of a face), in use by the general public, in the kind of settings they wear them, and it's the kind of masks they usually wear.
A big reason for the P/E is Apple's market segment is consumer goods that get rev'ved every year. Consumer electronics are a fickle market. Ask Sony and Nintendo about it. One of the nice things about Samsung and LG is that they can smooth their earnings with component sales.

Apple needs to continue this great string of great products. If they do one rev of a subpar product they can see profits drop 50% in one cycle -- and this is in part due to Android. Android is close enough now to eat up share if Apple slips. And WP7, post-Mango, will be there too.

So the discounting is really some healthy skepticism that Apple will be able to keep on this roll. One thing history tells us is that the companies that are great today, will tomorrow be a HBS case study for how their greatness caused them to have a blindspot.
Redefining 'civilian' also reduces civilian casualties.

"It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."

I don't imagine anyone cares to do the posthumous intelligence checks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...
Very nice! But things like PPI are meaningless to me so you will lose a lot of people with that. Also it doesn't work very well on an iPhone 6, the sliders were incredibly sensitive. For example I moved the slider for laptop hard drives and it went to 183 gb but I could t move it back.
Dreadful fear-mongering? Plenty to monger! Good gracious -we are even told to watch and limit the amount of fish we eat thanks to its mercury content. And mercury (horribly toxic) is only one of many substances that we should get concerned about.

"The researchers, led by scientists from Harvard University and the U.S. Geological Survey, found that the ocean’s mercury levels have already risen about 30% over the last 20 years. Combined, the findings mean the Pacific Ocean will be twice as contaminated with mercury in 2050 as it was in 1995 if the emission rates continue."
Clifford Schaffer's Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis books are online and in their third edition. Hard copies are available from Dover. There's also a full blown open Algorithms and Data Structures curriculum in development.

http://people.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer/Book/
Is it because the post sucks at its job? I would expect this to be handled correctly for the sole reason that you could have two unconnected roads with the same name in two different cities and end up in essentially the same situation, no?
Do you believe in consciousness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
"Al's Furniture Store" isn't advertising to me, it's the store name. I decided to go look inside based on what it was.

If 'Al' wasn't able to put his business name on the building (or advertise in any form), then he'd probably not make very many sales.

It surprises me where the conversation has gone -- this being HN and all, we're mostly startup/biz/tech people round these parts.
Good feedback. When you work in Cygwin, are you doing admin type tasks, web dev, writing console utilities, something else related to app dev?
Netflix now works in Chrome on Linux.
What do you all figure a job like this should pay?
Clojure. I find the average and best case functions written in Clojure are more beautiful and satisfying than most alternatives, and much quicker to find. Emacs with paredit, cider (REPL), company mode (completion) etc is great.

Stack traces and the fact that nobody has yet released a decent debugger for cider are pain points. Also leiningen (package manager etc) performance is pretty crappy.
Are the "background noise" of the images also stars? It's the first time I realize the darker parts of the universe, while zoomed in, looks disturbingly noisy and bright.
How does property ownership work? Do people rent or own?

Do they pay condo fees?
"he has recently been in talks with two reality television production companies and the producers of a Gerard Butler submarine movie."

http://reedyoung.com/project/whittier-alaska/r-young-whittie...

Not quite the same, I guess.
> I would just assume tipping would be similar to eating out in the US (10% for bad service, 15% norm, and 20%+ for good service)

It's actually 15% for bad service and 20% for normal. Kinda strange that tipping has been inflated from the standard 10-15% the past decade or so.
A document [1] by Ray Cromwell introduces an aid for JS compression, both theory and implementation [2]. The idea is to transform JS code before compression in a way that, while keeping JS semantics, makes is best possible candidate for the popular gzip deflate compression.

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[1] http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-co...

[2] http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/detail?r=...
I agree.

And it's this tacit admission that those workers are underpaid that makes this particularly embarrassing. We can generally agree these people are underpaid (we all generally tip and agree on the reasoning behind it) yet we can't agree to raise the minimum wage to get them a livable income.
My Butt Appreciation Society
Easily my favorite is Dean Kamen's "The emotion behind invention." He has at least two TED talks, this is his longer, more complete one.

http://blog.ted.com/2010/04/the_emotion_beh.php
I've always found the talk "Adam Savage's Obsessions" to be inspiring. His eye for detail and relentless obsession for getting things right are contagious.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/adam_savage_s_obsessions....
It's already possible to send tweets which would overflow an SMS. Twitter limits tweets to 140 characters UTF-8 characters, which can be multibyte. SMS is 140 8-bit chars.