jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love the nonsense people spout. It never ceases to amaze
me. I've been working in AI (robotics, expert systems, etc)
most of my life. I'm currently developing episodic memory
for robot-human interaction at CMU. The system learns from
the episode. By "learning" I mean that it self-modifies so
that it will change its behavior in the future.

The people wandering around claiming that AI will take over
the world soon have no idea what they are talking about.
What is actually happening is the second wave of hype in AI.
The first wave, in the 80s, ended up as the "AI Winter"
when people realized that AI was not going to take over the
world. This second "AI Winter" is going to end up causing
another 30 year research desert. People have such short
memories.

Here is a way to think about AI. The best known systems are
actually people. Imagine you had invented a person for the
first time. Would it take over the world? Probably. But it
would likely take tens of thousands of years. And this new
"person" would be prone to faults and failures, such as
when it can't remember where it put the keys, because some
of these faults and failures are inherent in the system.

I don't fear AI. I fear people who have no idea what they
are talking about who "pump up expectations". Get all the
funding you can now because a new AI Winter is coming.
> a success: It took almost 2 months

This is all based on the idea that people who pirate games (or movies, etc) are also very impatient. I'm sure that's true for a certain percentage, but I don't know if it's that significant.

A current example is Dragon Age: Inquisition, which took a few extra weeks but still got cracked. But the game still has a ton of issues on PC (even for legitimate owners), so it's probably worth waiting another month or so for patches anyway.
In CLOS.
Why did they change the name?
Oh how I love getting tricked into following affiliate links.
"Even though I was fighting some pain, I thought it was good pain — like the pain you get when you’re building muscle when you workout. It felt like I was training my muscles for better posture and this was all part of the process."

Completely the wrong approach. Fighting chronically tense muscles with more tension is not going to help anything, standing or sitting.

It worth noting that muscles can only pull. He should have been trying to relax the tense muscles rather than trying to counter with more tense muscles. This is not easy though. Have a look into the Alexander Technique or Feldenkrais Method, or the book Somatics by Thomas Hanna for some different approaches to re-educate your sense of kinesthesia.

http://www.amazon.com/Somatics-Reawakening-Control-Movement-...

These are popular with dancers, who generally move with a lot more grace and less effort than the average computer geek.
> She completely misunderstood how functions and function invocation work.

How can that be? I remember learning about functions such as f(x) = ax + b in the fifth grade if I am not mistaken and learning about functions in programming was extremely natural. I studied programming in high school taken from the very basic and nobody had troubles with how functions worked. It was so math like that it was simply a non-issue. I am really interested to understand what the problem was and how did she figure it out eventually.

> And his way of teaching boolean logic is to memorize truth tables

But isn't Boolean algebra based on exactly that? Isn't this the pillar field covered by the mathematical logic, how can it be wrong?
I think it's safe to say that 100% of PHP installs have a security vulnerability of some kind, though that doesn't mean the vulnerabilities are known or exploitable.
It was actually pretty interesting -- terrifying, even.[1][2] Not that I disagree with your assertion about zones, of course -- and note that we are (very) actively working on a Linux compatibility layer for illumos zones.[3]

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2011/08/15/kvm-on-illumos/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Ye89cDmKU

[3] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
Very interesting article.

I bet there's a small, yet fun, opportunity to create a service that will predict new slang words based on analysis of twitter and urban dictionary. I wonder if anyone would pay for that?
That assumes that the torrenters have access to a version of netflix that has that movie, mine in the netherlands for example does not.
Wow. That’s really craptastic.
I clicked on this to see if they were being shipped from Colorado.
I get the point of this article but a lot of the vulnerabilities require an attack vector in the form of PHP code written in a certain way. Therefore the number of vulnerable servers is actually far far lower than what's stated here.
The order is guaranteed by the architecture though (not merely by the implementation), provided the target is Device or Strongly Ordered memory. ("For a VLDM, VSTM, LDM and STM instruction with a register list that does not include the PC, all registers are accessed in ascending address order for Device accesses with the non-Reordering attribute." -- v8 ARM ARM.) So you don't need to test at all, you can just rely on the documentation to tell you it works.

Incidentally, the note "Since the write is done with one instruction, a DMA cannot preempt the CPU in the middle of the writes" from the article is likely not correct. The STM may be only one insn but it may generate multiple memory accesses to the bus, so it's quite plausible that a DMA device might get accesses in between words. (Of course RAM is usually mapped Normal in which case caches and store buffers will be heavily reordering it anyhow, so nobody relies on ldm/stm ordering here.)
I mean, it's certainly possible that he is one of a select handful of people that has mastered a skill that almost no one else in history has been able to.

But given how many musicians and producers exist and how utterly small is the percentage of people who are comparable to Max Martin, I think it's reasonable to speculate that his success might be partially/majorly attributed to factors of luck/survivorship bias/branding/popular-music-as-a-mass-produced-product I mentioned.
> Over a decade of experience with merging enthusiastically approved, hopelessly broken code, I've come to believe that code review won't, and often can't, and isn't really designed to find bugs, only nits.

Nits are, both literally and figuratively, bugs that just haven't hatched yet.

(Relevantly, the things you’ve pointed out that code review can identify are all issues that impact maintenance of the code, including the ability to find bugs and avoid creating them.)
Also their software is approved by all the various accounting rules - it makes auditing so much easier compared to rolling your own ERP system.
Would help if it actually installed and ran.
Google surprisingly has a raft of telephony options.

You can use Google Duo to make voice or video calls for (other than data costs) free, Google hangouts also has voice-only plus video options and of course Google voice integrates with the classic telephone network and has cheap international rates.

Google Fi has free calling from the US to over 50 countries and otherwise their plans start at one cents a minute depending on destination. https://fi.google.com/about/unlimited-calling/

Most of my friends from Asia tell me WhatsApp was and is popular because it carried voice over data, bypassing the PSTN which apparently has very high per-minute rates.

If you want to go slightly higher tech there are telepresence appliances like 8x8, Amazon or Google IOT devices or you can just use sip phones and call between the devices free of charge using your own pbx software or a free service like Callcentric's IP Freedom plan.

There a million options that either let you opt out of Facebook's data collection and trade it for Google's, or just opt out entirely.
Don't click, it is a porno dating site.
Unfortunately, bad ideas also, like that meme should refer to a low-effort combination of some stock picture and some caption conveying puerile humor or a subcultural circle jerk.
Mix and match the below link

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=50

I'm sure scraping can be done to make a RSS subscription
How is doing this preparing the students for the real world (I'm being serious and not condescending or anything)? I don't see the real world being particularly more difficult than normal high school. Example - didn't file or pay taxes on time? No problemo - just take a penalty and finish up your work late.
I think he means on arrival in the US, not before you get on the plane.
Niche self-service SaaS, Phone/Facebook apps and games, affiliate-driven product/price comparison/finding/recommending services...basically anything with a medium term strategy to generate profit rather than aggressive growth to attract buyers/investors... provided it doesn't need a US-based sales team, rare engineering skills or high non-people costs like up-front marketing, licensing or datacentres.

The fact that medium-returns internationally would make you rich in the Philippines is part of the appeal.
I don't, but I will come next summer.

I'll be keeping my eyes on what you guys do.
Hey Car Industry, how about just making the iPod connectors a default with the cars you ship? You'd think after a decade of iPods it'd be a given.
Hmm, sorry. I thought you were referring to the book being difficult to find because it would be mixed in with an infinite number of other books, not specifically that there would be an infinite number of fake versions of that book.
The woman who was brainwashed into storming the capitol, forcing police to shoot her, is equally a casualty.

Show me a BLM event where 5 people were killed. You are comparing how many events to 1 event?

And let's not forget the reason BLM were protesting and the aggressive response from police, versus whatever the fuck that was yesterday.

From your link:

> Nine of the people killed during protests were demonstrators taking part in Black Lives Matter protests.

So your number is actually 9. Not 25.

Also, how many police were killed by BLM? My count is zero.
Funny to see you rush to defend the liars and the conspiracy theorists.

From your link:

> ACLED found that the overwhelming majority of the more than 9.000 Black Lives Matter demonstrations that took place across the US after the killing of George Floyd have been peaceful.

Over 9000 protests compared to 1. Interesting! Are you sure you are making the case you think you are making?
Counting votes literally is democracy.
So far those models have been way too optimistic about things not being as bad, so my current priors would expect things to be worse than models say
You are correct about how this works. I think the "Side Journey To Titan" paper makes it obvious the authors also understand how it works.

So if you can magically summon working attacks, you would choose the symmetric AES key yes.

One conclusion you could draw from this paper is the authors are idiots and didn't realise they should attack that key or else didn't have the relevant expertise to do so.

Another, I suspect far more likely conclusion is that protecting AES keys in dedicated security hardware is a problem lots of people already put effort into and these researchers wisely concluded they wouldn't get any traction there because this is a standard component.
It would be brilliant if "Q-Anon" is just a psyop to flush out these morons.
I think some people are in on it. Others are just afraid to say anything, or think it’s harmless.

I’m extremely liberal about social justice, I am. But this critical theory stuff is a powder keg. Building a multi-racial democracy that hasn’t descended into civil war is hard. Look at what’s happening in France right now. Trying to make these untested academic theory into what governs relationships between races in this country is a recipe for disaster.

And at the end of the day, most non-white people don’t want it. The majority of every minority racial demographic doesn’t even want to use race as a factor, even a small one, in college admissions. The recent California affirmative action ban failed miserably. It’s a boutique ideology.

But it’s a boutique ideology with a massive platform. Tomorrow a bunch of people will wake up and see the New York Times and CNN talking about how you can blame the Capitol breach on “whiteness.” And most will brush it off because Americans are good people. But for some it will make them feel attacked based on skin color harden their hearts against condemning something we should be able to condemn universally.
I'm a big CoffeeScript fan, but I would never say just learn CoffeeScript and skip JavaScript. CoffeeScript is really just syntax and abstraction on top of JavaScript.
This is something I was considering. I've never personally dealt with the full deployment process by myself with Rails, so I was going to look at this when I get to coding. I wasn't planning on CI, but it's something else that I'd like to do.

If you use Rails, any recommendations for CI? Thanks for the comment.
I agree. I should have set down a criteria for ranking the domain name registrars. And as far as the affiliate link is concerned, it is there becuase it pays well.

However, I will be careful of the content quality henceforth. Thanks for your frank feedback! :)
The article is right that this came down to execution.

I remember managing ad campaigns (around 2005-2006) on AdWords, Overture and (starting at that time) MS AdCenter. AdWords was just great to use compared to the other two. With AdWords it's relatively easy to manually or automatically manage a campaign of 30,000 keywords and hundreds or thousands of adverts. Overture's UI was simply painful even for a handful of adverts.

MS's offering as I remember required Windows or IE or something so we tended to avoid it altogether.
I only skimmed that "IDM story" page but found nothing which would make it appropriate to compare giving money to them with giving money to a pedophile or a racist. Did I miss something?
Well, it's passing as a 'Notepad Replacement' in its Product page..
Thankyou very much philjackson and stefanobernadi, interesting & appreciated links :)
"turno" can mean either "shift" as in "I work the night shift" or "turn" as in "it's my turn now" (but not the turning sort of "turn").
I suppose you could get that with base64 encoding rather than a hex digest. Something like:

echo -n 'Secret sentence Sitename' | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl base64
Yeah, exactly. I'd also add this xkcd as a general comment about DRM: http://xkcd.com/488/.
As a child I wondered what it would feel like to 'discover' a brand new colour. I'm was delighted to find that I'm not alone in that impossible quest. =)
I don't necessarily think that's a fair question. If I were to start a big-name consumer app today for Windows, I'd choose C#. But most of those types of apps have a long history that either predates .Net or predates .Net being all that great. Because of this, even a lot of Microsoft's apps are still written in C++. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft would completely rewrite say Office in .Net if it could do so without losing decades' worth of code.
I guess it's more than 20 years from now for a robot car to go off-road.
EVE has a single instance world which is a much more difficult problem than what WOW has to deal with. WOW basically caps the total amount of people that can be in one instance (or at least they used to, haven't played in a few years).

It kinda boils down to a massive supercomputer simulation where your limiting factor is the speed, but more specifically latency of communication between servers. Notice how this upgrade brings them far greater internal networking capabilities which should mitigate performance pressure from growth for the time being.

If you look at their hardware you can kinda glimpse how their software stack might function:

TQ Tech Details: (Not the whole system, just what runs TQ)

Servers
64 x IBM HS21
2x Dual Core 3.33GHz CPU's
32GB of RAM Each
1x72GB HDD Each

2 x IBM X3850 M2's
2x Six Core 2.66GHz
128GB of RAM
4 x 146GB HDD

Cores
- 280 total Cores
- ~1 THz

RAM
- 2.3TB of Total RAM

Storage
- 4.8TB of Local Storage
- 2TB of SSD SAN
- 256GB of RAM SAN

Network
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 4Gb/s Fiber Channel
Wrong title, good post, crucial topic. Thanks!
Every once in a while I get too bogged down in software and forget what much of the rest of the world deals with: $2 billion in capital for a product launch. Jeepers.
it wasn't to knock off Apple, it's because Google is building what consumers want and demand now

In retrospect, doesn't it seem like Google should have emphasized the original Android phones and gone after Blackberry's market share? I think Google wants more corporate mindshare. The part of the world's data that both badly needs organization and has big flows of money associated with it is in the hands of big corporations.

By differentiating themselves as the "business-oriented" smartphone, they could have eaten Blackberry's lunch or scared them into partnership while still chipping away at Apple with the Multitouch phones.

Then again, consumer demand is perhaps the way for newcomers to enter the corporate market.
Question: why does the second top-most picture of the phone display a Windows mobile OS?
Thanks, I didn't know about that article.
The URL for this would much better be http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - as this site is CERN's, not W3's
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8395801

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=passive+income#!/story/sort_by_dat...
Just what some of the other replies are stating, serving ads. Mind you it's not generating that much income but it is most definitely passive. :)
When you read about the statements made by abolitionists ("no one can feel proud of himself when he exploits the flesh of his fellow man") do you think "how arrogant, they should have acknowledged that their ethical system wasn't universal"? No? Didn't think so. An argument that a conviction is not universal is a very poor one indeed. Tastes change.

Still waiting to hear what makes you feel proud when you eat meat.
i tried to push some code and was getting DNS resolution errors so i started using google DNS, now everything works.
well done

and in a few days you'll have a dozen clone sites to deal with...
The early car industry had lots of patents and patent fights.

The guy who invented working intermittent wipers was an independent. The big three refused to pay but used it.

There's currently a case involving a safety device for saws. Home Depot installed it and their injury costs went down by $1M/year. They refuse to pay royalties.
Cantor's diagonalisation argument is usually presented as constructing just one number not in your contable list, but it can be seen to construct more.

Take your list of numbers as decimal expansions. In the first place use any of the digits not in the first number, then in the second place use any of the digits not in the second number, etc. That immediately gives you infinitely many numbers not in your list.

But we can do better.

In the second place put any digit not in the second place of the first number, then in the first place put any digit not in the first place of the second number. Similarly with 3rd and 4th, and so on.

But we're not done.

Take any permutation of your list and do it again.

In this way you can see that there isn't just one number missing, there really are lots and lots and lots and lots missing.

And there's more, but this isn't the place for that. I hope this is enough that you can see why most numbers aren't in any countable list.
Craigslist is a good place to start, but you need to be discerning. Find one that has realistic expectations for the job they are asking, and generally it's a good thing when they don't give you a price tag right up front because that means they will pay you based on what you're worth and not some arbitrary number.

My job asked a simple question, what was the title of the book written by 37signals, which reveals a lot about their perspectives. They also included enough information in the Craigslist ad that convinced me they were a technically strong company.
I would almost argue source control period isn't for the non-technical user, but I could see some fringe cases where training non-techies to use it would be useful.
But git is DEFINITELY not for the non-technical user.

Edit: Just to be clear, as a technical user, I love git.
Is this your startup?

I would definitely upvote this on reddit or digg... but I don't think it fits in on hacker news.
I found my current job on the Stackoverflow job board. That same week, I received an offer from another great company that I found via HN.
Yes, I was referring to the space of actual school systems around the world, and standards they would ever be likely to adopt.

For good information about what is possible for young learners around the world, see

http://nces.ed.gov/timss/

and

http://timss.bc.edu/

For thoughts on how to improve teaching in United States schools, see (among many other sources)

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

or

http://mit.edu/6.969/www/readings/ma-review.pdf
Those are good apps. They are not paradigm shifting apps. When he is pointing to killer apps of the past, they literally changed the game in a way nobody saw coming before their launch.
Danger: Accidentally clicked on it. It spun my iPhone into a tight loop with a fake security dialog and a toll free number to call. I was unable to close the tab or get off the page fast enough to keep it from coming back. I finally had to get into settings and turn off javascript to regain use of my browser.
You have plenty of great recs at this point so there's no point to regurgitate what has already been said. (Definitely check out the late McCoy Tyner rec.)

For those who haven't listened to Musicmagic before, that whole album is criminally underrated. Seriously, the name says it all. Been bumpin' to it all day!
it looks like my post is too old at his point to allow me to edit it. If DanG or any mods are around, I would appreciate if you could remove the link on my previous post.
I don't follow the reasoning. Obviously none of these works are going to perfectly reflect everything about our current reality; that's not the idea. The idea is to think critically about what's actually going on around you, and these stories can be a lens through which to look at your situation.

"Only reading 1984 is not" helpful? I definitely do not agree. Reading at least one of these works at least provides the opportunity to consider its relevance. Reading none of them trivially throws out that potential benefit.
It's _to_ the third party, not to the public. Particularly if it's to a named person and for a specific reason. That's just my instinctive take on this.

I haven't researched this issue at all before - though I did read this, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/html/WYSIWYGfiles/file/G..., recently which suggests not publishing any private letters without consent and that letters from "government officials" (which teachers would be here it seems?) need permission from the relevant department. However that's a particular publishers guidelines and doesn't go in to the legal requirements that, inter alia, lead to those guidelines.
Do you get equity, as partial compensation for the lowish pay?