jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is bollocks.

The Wright brothers did not break any barriers in basic science, they solved an engineering problem. The basics of fluid dynamics and prerequisites to flight were established in the late 19th/beginning of the 20th century. There were plenty of details to sort out and experiments to do, but the scientific foundation was there. The problem of flight had been reduced to the engineering problem of improving two ratios: Thrust/Weight and Lift/Drag.

What this man in his garage is proposing he's done would be earth shattering if the demo he's impressed upon a rather impressionable reporter (and several HN commenters) were real. More impressive than anything the $10 billion LHC could hope for, but he hasn't, let's be clear.

What's actually happened is a guy tinkering in his garage with electromagnets has gotten himself and a few people surrounding him caught up with grandiose ideas. Electromagnets aren't blocked by faraday cages, which easily explains away any warping he thinks he's accomplished.

You shouldn't need technical knowledge to figure this out though, because the top half of that article isn't about what he's doing, it's about the underdog ignored maverick thinker making revolutions in his garage. It's in an online newspaper hosted at omaha.com. It's written by someone with obviously little scientific training.

Personal bollocks filters are important to develop.
Today's business lesson:

But everyone was friends, right?

Wrong!

That's why you need lawyers and contracts and agreements about who owns what intellectual property. That's why you try to remove any and all ambiguity you can think of. Don't worry, that won't get remove all the "fun". There will be plenty of new ambiguities to squabble over that you haven't thought of yet.
Try and launder a 1Billion to 10 Billion dollor transaction with bitcoin and that's going to fall flat.

PS: For comparison you can fedex ~170,000$ worth of gold in a vary inconspicious 15 LB box. Shipping ~60,000 lb of gold (1Billion$) is much easier to track and more risky.
> Code that is clear and expressive to a human should not be assumed to also be efficient and optimal for a computer.

Yes, but most of the time it's more important that a human can understand it easily than it is for it to be the most efficient code in the world.
IANAL but connecting to any of these VNC's listened here is probably a felony .
At least in the netherlands it probably is. Eventhough these are open to the public, the intention was probably to be private. Deliberately connecting to something that has the mere intention to be private is a felony here. [0]

[0] http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001854/TweedeBoek/TitelV/Arti...
https://github.com/Lyndir/MasterPassword/ is probably a better idea as it has lots more features and supported platforms.
Highly agree with this - I am baffled why the humanities aren't taught this way in US high schools. Writing always seemed difficult to me then, but upon taking my first college class which had lots of essay writing, it dawned on me that making a persuasive argument was the most important part of an essay. This has much in common with the critical thinking touted in the hard sciences & mathematics. If English was taught this way in K-12 education, instead of enforcing arbitrary rules such as page length & word count, I would have done immensely better.

I got the important takeaway from that experience, but many people do not, and it is a shame.
> Nobody wants to write out 150 checks to different people who helped along the way

So it's better to pay some other guy that set up whole unnecessary and obsolete delivery chain instead of picking one of those 150 guys at random?
Why stop at essays or technical articles? As an engineer, I've always been fascinated by the structure and inner mechanics of stories - what makes them work.

As a hobby I've done a lot of reading around this; I've written three feature-length screenplays, and a novel you can find in Amazon[1], using very structure-centric approaches (as a result, my characters tend to be too flat).

Take a look at The Snowflake Method[2], unsurprisingly designed by a novelist who is also a theoretical physicist. Even with The Hero's Journey, there's a surprising amount of well-understood structure behind every story.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI
[2] http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-met...
> Difference is, those non-glass cameras don't come bundled up with Google services fed down your throat and automatically upload your data.

It's not what the discussion in media was about though; people were mostly upset by someone having a camera on them. The connection to Google Services is a fair point, though it's a bit orthogonal and the Glass doesn't change the equation much after everyone has a smartphone connected to those same services.

> I remember you're a "some active" and think that everyone loves taking selfies and that shameless self promotion is some sort of a calling for every person, regardless what the cost is to privacy.

If you're refering to the thread about Facebook from some time ago, I'm pretty sure statements like this were what got you hellbanned; you apparently still have a very false view of my person and on-line activities. HN doesn't discourage disagreement on topics (hell, my attitude to privacy is non-mainstream around here) - it does however discourage personal attacks.

Still, it sucks to get hellbanned; I'm sorry.
It may be worthwhile for you to review the prepared comments of the many civil liberties groups that analyzed the proposed rule change and raised the same concerns as the DC attorney below. Her analysis, like theirs, is focused on application of the rule change and how it would in effect swallow the other safeguards in the rule and elsewhere. http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/RulesAndPolicies/rules/2014...
Just read Marbury v. Madison. I have no more time for a 5th grade civics lesson.
Yes, so Denmark is an exception to the rule where biking is always uphill and against the wind. In Denmark, it's only against the wind.

That said, you are right. E.g. I live in Finland, and biking is more popular in Oulu (which is way up north, but on former seabed and completely flat) than in Helsinki (which has a more temperate climate, but is on exposed bedrock and has small-scale hills up and down all the time).
Make a cool hobby / startup website thingy in your free time. You'll get the degree, and Silicon Valley will still be there when you graduate, and you will be more employable (and immigratable) due to your qualifications and experience.
X is the great leveler of UI. any toolkit can be used. likewise, any app can control/talk-to any other app in any language with DBUS. this is the diversity that only Nokia and OpenMoko managed to ship.
Compare the performance of ≈30 programming languages
using ≈12 flawed benchmarks and ≈1100 programs

It's fascinating (code) reading, and for the most part, decently organized too. Includes common languages, and some more recent ones and their versions, like Python 3 and PyPy.

Someone needs to write the Clojure testing programs. :)
Why on Earth would anyone use the confirmation skip? That's basically security through obscurity. Even less so if the email address you use is known by people.
post+uniqueapikey@posterous.com

Would half fix this problem.
I'm assuming you've already posted up the appropriate Carnegie Mellon mailing lists?
If you're taking classes that you already have mastered, you're doing yourself a disservice. You're not getting educated, you're getting a degree. Perhaps you should be taking different classes. Math classes. CS classes that focus more on theory.
In Russia journalists get killed time to time (mostly by overzealous provincial lords); in the USA they never say anything worth killing for to begin with. They wouldn't get killed, but they would get sued and/or marginalized, and that's enough to keep them in line. Is it really freedom if everyone's too afraid to exercise it?

Remember that guy on TV who got fired for suggesting that 9/11 highjackers were in fact not cowardly? Russian media, bad as they have it, would laugh at this sort of culture.

P.S.: I speak Russian and get to see some of that Russian media in action, unlike most of you who only hear rumors about it from your ideology syndicate of choice. There are probably other Russian-speakers here who know more about it than I do. I'd like to hear what they have to say.
I think the performance of the touch screen is critical to the experience of using a tablet. This device has a resistive touch screen. I've used a number of different touch screens, and all of them were hateful, except for the Apple iPhone/iPod touch screen. That was the first screen that I didn't want to fling violently away after using it. I'd guess that I'd be flinging this one.
On the other hand, if I read that a high-resolution capacitive touch screen was available, I'd be very inclined to give this a shot.
I wonder how long until the cycle comes full circle, and Youtubers are co-opted as subtle spinmakers for political ends. I wonder if it's already happening or already happened.

I feel like that's actually a more terrifying prospect than the fact that the younger generation doesn't watch TV news. You can mock, bash, and discredit TV news with facts and "honesty", and that's exactly what happened. But if your trusted source of news and political ideas is visceral comedy and memetic entertainment trends, that's almost immune to rational debate, since anything and everything can be dismissed as a joke.

I can imagine a future where politicians are elected on the basis of a lulzy hashtag, and that scares me way more than what we have now.
I think Zim is the best thing out there at the moment. Is it trivial to encrypt via the Git plugin?
Same thing, same groups.

Same groups behind Donglegate (or Donglewater, however you prefer to call your scandals.)
I had an eBay transaction go very wrong. Foolishly I used my real email and domain for communication, with a very WHOISable home address.

When the physical threats started I had to get the police involved.

There's also the issue of pseudonymity. If I work on a lot of different projects, I don't necessarily want everyone to know about everything I'm doing with everyone else.

This doesn't mean I ignore NDAs and share sekrit stuff - I most certainly don't. But I've freelanced in the past, and some employers have strange and unrealistic expectations about how much exclusivity they're buying.

This isn't hypothetical. In the past I've been told "You absolutely can't work for anyone else if you freelance casually for us."

Really? How about "no"?

Also it's better for free speech. I can express opinions freely with online privacy. I don't necessarily want those opinions to be associated with - say - a startup I'm creating.

Generally, contact info is a problem. It's actually mandatory for UK companies to include a business registration number and an office address. (I'm not sure how many UK devs know that.)

Problem is, when you can incorporate in Delaware or Kiev, physical contact details start to become meaningless anyway.

My rule now is that contact is easy if there's a networking, customer care, or community-building benefit. But privacy is a fine thing too.

Being able to pick and choose is best of all.
I'd much rather be writing apps using constraint-based layout, much like AutoLayout. It took me a while to grok it, but it's much simpler once you get it.
Getting a library to work for your use case is exactly one of those things that needs quite a few workaround which the bricks are not part of the library. The library is the earth you build your bricks on top and you need to put in some work that your bricks can stand on it.
> There are such things as universal human rights, and China is absolute violation of them.

You mean the ones that the US routinely violates for "terrorists" and "criminals"? China uses the exact same rhetoric for the people whose rights it violates. The situation with the Uyghurs mirrors a lot of the tactics used in the 70s by American police against black Americans under the guise of the "war on drugs" (hint: our police and prison guards were way more abusive than many people realize).

> Right, which is why we let Hitler exterminate the Jews.

What else could we have done? Anti-semitism was considered morally acceptable at the time. The American people were completely against the war until Pearl Harbor. Then we locked anyone who looked Japanese or spoke German up in camps. What we were doing was the exact same thing Hitler said he was doing with the Jews.

Obviously in hindsight Hitler was awful and the Holocaust was frighteningly real. But the extent of the Holocaust was not understood until after the war. By the standards of the time, what Hitler said he was doing to the Jews didn't cross any hard moral lines -- to both the German people and most Americans.

I actually believe it's the belief in moral absolutes like this that allow monsters to perpetuate atrocities: people assume "well, no rational human would round up all the Jews and murder them" -- which is exactly why it was possible.
The Max supports three external monitors!
A few years back I stumbled on a good article that someone had written regarding ADHD: https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html

I have since used it a few times as a tool to help people to better understand me and my quirks, I can say that it has helped in this regard and have often found that people tend to be slightly more conscious/considerate after reading about the struggles that people with ADHD have to face on a daily basis. It’s not that I want sympathy, it’s just that some people truly just do not understand that the reasons why things can be like this, yes they can take it as lazy, tardiness, my being uninterested or just generally unmotivated or side tracked but the reality of the matter is that these are aspects that I still struggle with on a daily basis and I don’t feel like I could ever reach a point where I have defeated them. So the understanding on their part does go a long way in helping me to feel better about myself and in turn, more capable of doing a good job. That’s what counts to them?

I would suggest that you give the article a read through too, or anyone who is wondering if they perhaps fall somewhere within this spectrum as it may help them to better understand themselves too.

I can recommend consulting if you have a good handle on your ability to keep yourself motivated over the long term, that you can communicate your position well and have the ability, to some degree to meet practical deadlines.

If you do not have a handle on things like this, stop to think first at the amount of damage you could do to a business by becoming a consultant and working for them because you need to be a strong person to pull that off for many, many years running.

Personally and although experience has helped to improve on these aspects, I see them as fundamental flaws that I have little control over even on the best of days. In reality what I need too, is a good crew that can help to keep me on track or simply patch up the stuff that I have since left behind. That and no projects that last for more than a few months :-)

Best of luck in life to you all!
> deciduous tree leaves are mostly falling only in the Southern Hemisphere

Here in Florida, and due to the mild climate, certain species of Oaks will hold their leaves right up to the time they put out fresh buds in the spring. I have a large quantity that need to be raked up and mulched/burned/etc.
It's worth the positive associations of the name, imho. Everyone "gets" GrantTree and likes it.
If anyone here could kindly give me some feedback on the question in my above linked blog post, I would much appreciate it. It's buried in a long explanation but here is the actual question/thing I want to know more about:

If anyone here could enlighten me (using little words and talking real slow, pretty please) on whatever is known about the relationship between the TRPV1 and the CFTR, the TRPV1 and the CACC, and/or the CFTR and the CACC or where I can find more info on it (preferably in layman’s terms, if at all possible), I would much appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
Don't forget critical (easy to implement) feature is only available in the most expensive support plan.
I would argue you can have a more honest discussion in the shoes of a bystander than in the shoes of the author.
Where is P6? Was there one and their comments were so bad that they didn't add it to the list? Numbers missing in a list like that really bug me. It also causes me to wonder why it never comes up. I haven't read the thread since a lot earlier and being as I know a few people around the Ubuntu camp I asked them and no one seemed to have any idea why P6 was not on the list.
Right, but to put it simply, character count is the only metric that matters. If your password is a sentence that's 44 characters long, then you're set.
Large cooperative programs are usually written once but read many times. For large projects to succeed, the reading part needs to be optimized.

Lisp being too expressive encourages the optimization in the writing part - I can write my own macros/DSL to make writing MY program easier. The readers needing to learn and understand those are their problem. This encourages people to write their own libraries instead of understand and reuse the existing ones since it's always easier to build a mental model of your own writing than the others.

As noted by the others, Scala is starting to have the same problem in regarding in its ease of proliferating DSL.
Perl5 has had many OO libs but that has not helped. It is when the community standardizes on best practices and standard libs,such as DBI, that you get big advancements. Recent community efforts around "Modern Perl" and the Strawberry Perl distro are helping the language stay strong.

Another example is JavaScript's recent big leaps forward stemming from the community's embrace of jquery and the best practices from "JavaScript: the Good Parts".

Standards allow others to confidently build bigger and better abstractions. Which is the only way to build increasingly complicated software.
When I was at the iTMS, the only competitor that anybody was afraid of was Amazon. I'm certain that that awareness hasn't changed in the last few years.
Why F#? I'm starting to learn F# but didn't know of any benefits for game dev?
That's basically the essence of capital cycle theory isn't it?

Wherever you see high valuations and high returns on capital, competition is bound to come in, which gradually reduces returns and valuations.
I agree with what you said, although I actually meant that students themselves probably don't know what makes a college good for them, education-wise and in the long run.

I really don't know the answer either. Being surrounded by other smart students, class size, specific teachers, research opportunities, campus culture, student body diversity, etc?

I think the biggest thing about going to college is that it's totally different than what you've experienced before. A prospective student will necessarily be deciding on very incomplete information. Unfortunately, you probably need about a semester's worth of experience before knowing if a given school were truly a good fit...
Ah, but students aren't just poor -- they're a tricker state, one which I'd refer to as "probabilistically temporary poor." Consider that people who read Hacker News are probably intellectually curious and are probably more likely to be computer science majors. It's also pretty likely that these students are bright and will grab decent jobs after graduation. After having exprienced the quality of Hacker Monthly, they will probably wish to continue. While they would no longer get the student discount, they now longer need it since they have acquired decent jobs. Since digital distribution costs practically nothing, the only cost to the distributer is marginal, but with the benefit that the students will probably become paying members in the future.
Let's say someone comes over to start a start-up.

Who exactly are they going to hire?

The competition is already super tough for getting good help. The talent pool is limited, so this seems rather zero-sum. The kind of people you want already have jobs, so this isn't creating any.

And startups are uncertain enough without adding that the CEO is here on a temporary visa. It's going to be even tougher to hire people.

I can see it as a nice thing to do on an individual level (so people with dreams who just weren't born here get a better shot at them), but is there a compelling case outside of that?

The majority of startups and small businesses are completely expendable and interchangeable as far as society is concerned; "Most small businesses exist to provide the owner's family with an upper-middle-class lifestyle."

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dgdgw/single_vs...

I know it's great for an individual to have a successful Facebook game, but why should society care?
Related, Negroponte does not have a PhD.
I imagine the reasoning is also related to the potential future income of students - they may be poor now, but their degree will bring them higher earning potential down the road.

Basically: hook them while they're broke, collect the cash when they're less broke.
No barrier to entry? Don't they outfit each customer with a complete table management system including the hardware?
The entire article just reads like a badly regurgitated Hickey talk.
Interesting, I thought that the USA historically imported hardly any oil from Saudi Arabia (the main importers would have been mostly Europe and since a few decades, Asia) (and from the Middle East in general), but it looks like that wasn't quite the case ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/09/16/who-buys-sau...

EDIT : Right, I have forgotten that even though OPEC is 'only' 44% of production, Middle East (and especially Saudi Arabia) is a much larger share of exports :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_expor...

And Saudi Arabia is USA's ally, unlike Russia and Iran. (And this doesn't leave a lot of oil where to import from, once you exclude USA, Middle East and Russia...)
Sort of. The investigation is because there may well be a competition issue here, where Google is leveraging its dominant position in browser to the benefit of its ad business, removing the ability for its competitors to compete.

Google identifies users using Chrome via other means than cookies (Google Signal etc) in a way that no other competitor can or is able to access, and therefore is now pushing to remove the ability for anyone else to do it who doesn't control the browser.

Guarantee you if Google was forced to stop sharing data from its browser business to its ad business, it would not be pushing to remove cookies.

Edit: One final note is that it's a shame because there really is an opportunity to create a new alternative to cookies, better suited to the risks posed by modern tracking methods. But Google leading the charge to dictate how you can be tracked should be a huge red flag for you.
I am personally not a huge fan, but like many statically-typed functional languages, Haskell is great for

- creating new programming languages and DSLs

- problems in finance, energy, medicine, etc., that are more correctness-sensitive than performance-sensitive (it is widely used in Bitcoin brokerages / exchanges / etc, and in general blockchain technologies)

- highly-concurrent scenarios that would otherwise involve a lot of painful management of threads/locks/etc

Facebook’s Haxl is a good example of software that uses Haskell effectively: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/06/10/web/open-sourcing-haxl...
So Bill Gates is doing business with a firm that’s supporting fascism in the US. Nice.
Here is a very good argument on why types are needed, by Bartosz Milewski: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/11/24/types-and-functions/