jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/transitioning-google-cloud-after-three-great-years
Programming the Z3 SMT solver
https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html
Me and SVG
http://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg
A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/12/webextension-tree-style-tab/
DynamoDB 10 years later
https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/amazons-dynamodb-10-years-later
If you have startup stock options, check your option plan
http://blog.conspire.com/post/112700131803/if-you-have-startup-stock-options-check-your
About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-16/protests-swell-as-hong-kong-rejects-leader-s-compromise
Bevy 0.2
https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-2/
The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".
http://www.slate.com/id/2293056/
Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database-1.5745481
California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in
Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers
https://sandstorm.io/
Escher-Like Spiral Tilings
http://isohedral.ca/escher-like-spiral-tilings/
Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam
http://webdesign.maratz.com/lab/responsivetypography/realtime/
What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule
https://www.economist.com/china/what-peng-shuai-reveals-about-one-party-rule/21806441
Super Mario Bros warp zones were intended to work slightly differently [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61m5MiyC17s
Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/
Formal Methods of Software Design an Online Course by Eric Hehner
http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hehner/FMSD/
Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust
https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi
We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/04/weve-got-a-science-opportunity-overload-its-time-to-launch-the-wolfram-institute/
Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax
https://thedriven.io/2020/11/21/shameful-victoria-follows-south-australia-and-imposes-electric-car-road-tax/
Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust
https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron-native
Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base
https://theheadless.dev/
agentzh's Nginx Tutorials
http://agentzh.org/misc/nginx/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-enuk.html
Introduction to Go 1.1
https://go.googlecode.com/hg/doc/go1.1.html
By the 70s crime had skyrocketed and it was clear that they had gone too far.

Any claim that court ruler enabled crime is highly debatable. Factors causing increases and decreases in crime rates are difficult to pin-point.

One argument is returning Vietnam veterans lead to the increase in violent crime - post-war eras have a history of being associated with crime-increases from the return of veterans habituated to violence.
I assume you need to file a 1099-MISC with the IRS for each managed account that's setup on the system?

If so, you might want to make this reporting requirement more visible in your documentation.
That seems an unfair way to frame it: there is an important distinction between actively seeking to deny someone something, and being hesitant to spend a considerable chunk of your resources on it.
I had a strange run in with Amtrak police once.

My wife and I reserved a cabin car for a long trip from Oakland to Denver. After entering the cabin in Oakland there was a knock on our door. I opened the door and a man identified himself as Amtrak police and asked me if a bag he was holding was ours. He was dressed like a normal passenger, undercover. He had a badge which he briefly flashed and then immediately asked me if this bag was ours. He jammed himself into the door and showed the badge in such a way that I could not close the door, and his badge was not visible to people in the hallway.

It wasn't and I had never seen it before, so we said no. He went away. Later he came back and asked the same question again. This time I was sick of him and told him to leave us alone, and that it wasn't our bag. He left us alone after that.

Prior to this I had no idea Amtrak police even existed. The guy was a jerk and was clearly trying to get us to admit to owning this bag. I have no idea why, but but I do regret not getting a better look at his badge. It could have been some plastic kids badge for the amount of time he showed it to me.
In the multiverse of madness, you are welcome to the universe where we had jquery.vbs ;-).
> Masks were known not to help with respiratory viruses (Flu, CoV, etc.)

The Cochrane Library 2010, Issue 1 - emphasis mine:

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

Although respiratory viruses usually only cause minor disease, they can cause epidemics. Approximately 10% to 15% of people worldwide contract inﬂuenza annually, with attack rates as high as 50% during major epidemics. Global pandemic viral infections have been devastating because of their wide spread. In 2003 the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic affected ~8000 people, killed 780, and caused an enormous social and economic crisis. In 2006 a new avian H5N1, and in 2009 a new H1N1 ’swine’ inﬂuenza pandemic threat, caused anxiety. Single measures (particularly the use of vaccines or antiviral drugs) may be insufﬁcient to interruptthe spread. Therefore, we searched for evidence for the effectiveness of physical barriers (such as handwashing or wearing masks) in reducing the spread of respiratory viruses, including inﬂuenza viruses.

We found 60 studies including randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies with a mixed risk of bias.

Respiratory virus spread can be reduced by hygienic measures (such as handwashing), especially around younger children. Frequent handwashing can also reduce transmission from children to other household members. Implementing barriers to transmission, such as isolation, and hygienic measures (wearing masks, gloves and gowns) can be effective in containing respiratory virus epidemics or in hospital wards. The more expensive, irritating and uncomfortable N95 respirators might be superior to simple masks. It is unclear if adding virucidals or antiseptics to normal handwashing with soap is more effective. There is insufﬁcient evidence to support screening at entry ports and social distancing as a method to reduce spread during epidemics.
US government spending was $6.5 Trillion last year. I think it's OK to expect extraordinary results for that amount of money.
Wouldn't this force the fed to become the lender to these zombie firms or let the institutions take a bath?

I can't imagine corporate bankruptcies resulting in corrective change if the fed is the principal lender.
Responding to _ketamine:

"In my state close to 50% of deaths were attributed to nursing homes. So either N95 wasn't available or healthcare professionals were careless. Either way it led to a lot of deaths."

So the problem with this statement is the implied assumption that 'masks are the thing'.

They are not 'the thing' just 'one of the things'.

LTC homes are very sensitive, we didn't have policies and procedures for protecting everyone. They are not Hospitals with highly paid professionals. They don't always have the best PPE. They know nothing about transmission, procedures etc. and generally have nobody to support them whereas Hospitals are full of smart, connected people.

My hunch is that many of them were totally caught off guard, had no idea as to N95 or Surgical, they don't have any special supply chain power, they didn't have testing.

They were in a chaos state and realized too late they had major outbreaks in their homes and then reacted - in some cases, too late.
Greenspan said in '97 that the market reflected a state of "irrational exuberance." If, on that day, you said "oh, cool , I'm exuberant too!" and dumped all your money into random stocks, then you'd still have made money at the bottom of the .com bubble crash.

I totally agree with this guy, but my only reaction is "of course... so what?"

I think any educated observer is wowed by the stock market right now. Anything other than "wow!" is voodoo
> help your friends and hurt your enemies

That, in turn, seems ripe for exploitation by the not insignificant set of people who see politics as simply a route to power.
That is exactly why I recommended it along with his entire website. But thanks for adding the comment.

Suggested edit:

"... the way a world-class mathematician does."

(because it may have a lot to do with why his book is so much better than other texts on this topic like Rudin, Royden, and Cohn.)
Humans are hard-wired to be religious, and in the absence of a well-structured religion, most people will default to poorly-constructed religions like secular state scientism. This doesn't apply to everyone, but I think it applies to at least 80% of the population.
Certificates arise from authentication. What does any part of it have to do with public accessibility? I can share GPG keys with my friend by printing them, but when it's a certificate I should really get it validated by Egypt Mubarak CA services, TurkTrust or RussiaRSA?
Actually most Buddhist monks depend on alms, so they aren't required to adhere to a vegan diet; they eat whatever the populace around the monastery offers. The only thing the Buddha ever said about eating meat is that one should not accept meat if they even suspect that the animal was killed specifically for them.
It's really interesting that you mention China because seems to start to get a bit annoyed and ashamed by North Korea. What North Korea is doing is very bad for business (and war would hurt it even more so), North Korea is not a significant trade partner and China doesn't care about ideology any more as these days it's a communist country only in name; it's de facto a capitalist dictatorship.

I don't think China will abandon North Korea but I also don't think they would be as willing to support North Korea as they have done in the past.
Until recently main memory was close to CPU speeds and RAM cache was pointless. The issue is the speed of light means the distance between RAM chips and the CPU limits you to MHz* speeds which is not an issue for a 286, but CPU's kept getting faster even if the Speed of light is fixed.

*At 1GHz light can do a six inch round trip, electricity is significantly slower than that. SDRAM is fairly high latency but cheaper and as the best case is not all that fast it's considered a good tradeoff. Adding cache increases latency even further, but tends to make CPU's faster on average.
Somebody already said it: while using the chat through a different client than their web chat, you're not looking at their ads, you're not installing their proprietary mobile app, and so on.
Simple answer, everywhere.

Ever look up at the sunset and see the deep red colors in the atmosphere. That's the light reflecting off the dust. Some of it lands here, other lands there, and much of it lands in the ocean since it covers most of the surface of the Earth.

Yes, a lot does go into the rivers (or at least used to), but there it is intermixed with all kinds of other materials, many of them dangerous for human health.
Yeah - the brain replacement stuff is already happening in a very minor way with cochlear implants and the like.

Apart from the technical difficulties of uploading there are a lot of questions on what you'd actually want to do and why. Just having a simulation of you running on some box or a copy on Github might seem a bit pointless and I'm not sure many people would want it.

I've thought of a couple of possibly practical things. Firstly for the benefit of the friends and relatives remaining alive it might be nice to chat to a version of the person who's biological body has packed up. This wouldn't even require uploading in the manner of scanning the brain. It could just be an AI that was good at method acting and 'becoming' the person in the way that a human actor can. I'd quite like an ongoing version of my gran for example who I could chat to. I guess more of a skype type chat than a robot.

The other thing is death is annoying for the creation of art and similar stuff. It would be cool if there was an ongoing version of Beethoven say cranking out new symphonies. Also personally it would be nice to work on intellectual stuff that exceeds what I can do in a biological lifespan. I guess if the AI seems conscious at least as in being aware of stuff and interacts normally with people who are conscious in the normal biological way that's probably enough - it doesn't really matter what the philosophers think of it.
33,655 Ph.D. on food stamps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9248493
Can you go into detail about what features were lacking?

For what it's worth, a lot comes down to what features the server admin has activated. I've heard many complaints about XMPP but this is the first I've heard someone mention lack of features as a problem with it.
I have a hard time taking anything that guy pushes given his associations and flights with Epstein.
Binance did ICO, though. https://whitepaper.io/document/10/binance-whitepaper
This is absolutely untrue. Charles Hoskinson left the Ethereum Foundation in June 2014. The DAO hack occurred in June 2016.

He left because he wanted the Ethereum Foundation to be a for-profit while the rest of founders were looking to make it a non-profit foundation. This is by his own account, the other side of the story doesn't look as good for him but I have no idea what happened so I give him the benefit of the doubt.
From a non-US point of view, this whole anti-union strategy from Amazon is somehow hilarious to witness on top of being sad. This kind of propaganda feels like its coming from another age, or dimension.
"As a trillion dollar company we can't afford better working conditions and pay for you"?

The only reason Amazon raised their fulfillment pay was because Bernie Sanders shamed them into it [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+bernie+sanders+pay
Correct. Add a strong reference from observer to KVOController instance via a property or instance variable and you've achieved un-observation on observer dealloc :)

This usage pattern is quite common. We'll look into calling this out more explicitly in the readme. Thanks for the feedback!
That’s not how this works. You’re claiming an incredible breakthrough: extremely high facial recognition accuracy using 2D input in an adversarial setting. Extraordinary claims require evidence.
I used to use zsh, long long ago. Then, when I became a sysadmin I switched to bash because of its ubiquity. I've been a bash user for well over a decade, until recently when I switched back to zsh.

During my switch, I learned a few things. First, it really wasn't particularly painful to switch all my personal scripts to zsh. I guess I probably wasn't using that many bashisms, and the few I was using were easily convertible to zsh syntax.

Second, day to day use of zsh does not feel all that much different from bash, and it really takes very little time to get used to if you already know bash. Of course, learning and getting comfortable with using some of the completely different zsh features will take time. I'm learning them in small bites.

Third, despite bash's ubiquity, I now wish I'd just used zsh all along, as they're really not different enough to hamper the use of bash when you need to use it.

Fourth, (depending on what you want to do) getting in to the nitty-gritty of configuring zsh is not always easy. zsh is thoroughly documented, but at the same time the documentation is not very user friendly, and there really aren't enough well-written introductory tutorials to quickly get you up to speed on doing more advanced things like writing your own completion widgets (or even editing existing ones, as they're so poorly commented). So if you want to customize zsh's more advanced features, be prepared to spend a lot of time with the man pages and user's guide.

On the other hand, there are some really helpful people on freenode's #zsh channel. With their help your transition to zsh should be pretty painless.

As to your particular concern about debugging existing bash scripts, I wouldn't worry too much about it. The shells are really not so different in syntax that you'd be completely lost when you wanted to debug some bash script. And if you do run in to problems with them, you could always ask for help on freenode's #bash.
This statement is plain wrong. OSI defined the term Open Source very precisely, so using it to describe non-compliant licenses is a clear misuse of that term.

They may have given a definition but that does not give them a monopoly over usage of the term. Language does not have a One Definition Rule! For example, my dictionary states:

open-source: Computing denoting software for which the
original source code is made freely available and may be
redistributed with or without modification.

Under that definition the licence is most certainly open source. Indeed, this definition is more in line with what many people think when they hear "open source".

I understand there are political reasons to have open source exactly equivalent with the OSI definition. However, this does not seem to have happened.
That's a tad judgmental, I'm sure Harvard doesn't just hand out tenure to anyone who punches a time card.
Building a plausible a-religious moral philosophy always reminded me of building a plausible perpetual motion machine.

How can you conceal the fact that you're trying to extract a conclusion from a system that doesn't have a premise? Well, there are indeed lots of methods of misdirection.

The last try at building a perpetual motion machine that I remember involved claiming to have a device for "amplifying power" but not being able to hook the device to itself "somehow". Made the system harder to disprove.
I used to work for Bear Stearns. I was thinking of quitting before the crisis hit but had to stay and watch after the day our stock value dropped to $2 a share.

By the time I left I really hated working there. I tell some of the story here: http://j2labs.net/blog/2010/jan/11/economies-pools-and-piss/

Anyway, when I moved out of the apartment I had, near Wall St, I threw out my suits. I told myself I'd never take a job that required a suit. The suit felt like a hollow nod between business men that the appearance of success was to be regarded just as highly as the ability to succeed.

I'm less hostile to suits today, but I much prefer to do business with the types of people that also don't like wearing them.
Ah yes, that's the patent I was looking for, upvotes all around :). I mistakenly googled for 'heartbeat' instead of 'breath', for which only the GigaOM article turned up.

"The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breaths per minute, which is the rate that the sleep-indicator light fades in and out on most Apple laptops. Older models such as the Macintosh PowerBook, however, use a blinking LED indicator, with discrete pulses in one-second intervals.

The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop had a similar feature but with a shorter fade-in-fade-out period. Its rate was around 40 blinks per second, or the average respiratory rate for adults during strenuous exercise not very indicative of something in sleep-mode."

http://floodmagazine.com/2010/10/14/apples-attention-to-deta...
Giving it a try right now, and first thoughts:

1) icons on the left are too small, they don't match the overall size of other things in the system (they're smaller than text, for instance). Also makes it harder to identify them, especially with the rainbow background.

2) "Menu" button on mouse-over says "index", and while in the index it really needs a "back" button to go back to where you were. I hit the "x", and closed the entire tutorial - maybe that should be the back button?

3) Crashed it after the first example, and now it crashes on launch (ouch). Crash report after the launch-death: http://pastebin.com/inSUPesY next launch worked, couldn't find where it stored its preferences to clear them, so that's good... I can post my console logs if you like.

All in all though, looks pretty good! I'll probably try it on a couple non-programmers, and see what they think. If you see this, do you have a preferred mode of contact for that info?
That makes it sound punitive. I just think it would be a fascinating sociological experiment to let Bitcoin evolve in a way that would allow anarchist ideas about the viability of markets in the absence of centralized power to be empirically tested.
Two very interesting questions! I should work soon on a comparison of Hyperactive and GFO to other packages. If some important features are missing, maybe i could add them.

I will also look into Dlib. If you like you can open an official issue in my repository. We could discuss why it is useful and if it should be implemented.
Anyone who tells you history is shaped by the opinions of scholars is ill informed on the mechanisms of the world. What is true is that political forces will rationalize the actions they take for their material interests by finding a convenient fig leaf.

The people who spread this theory about the decline of the Islamic golden age likely also believe that the Iconoclasm was really about graven images or that the ascendancy of the West was due to the people with all the power accepting the arguments of bookish nerds during the enlightenment.

There were emperors of China who used Laozi to justify the burning of books. Do you think they were just being principled in their hyperliteralist reading?
In my experience getting Kodi set up is a massive time sink, to the point that the programmer time needed to set it up would easily double the total cost of a typical home theater setup. Admittedly my experience with it is a few years out of date, but a quick search for incredibly basic functionality like running the big streaming services makes it clear that this hasn’t really changed. On top of most of them being limited to 720p, it looks like the canonical solution nowadays is to run them in Chrome from Kodi, which (1) phones home to Google, unlike an Apple TV and (2) necessitates a mouse or other pointing device since you can’t rely on “keyboard” navigation with a remote - this alone would be a dealbreaker for me.
Many people have huge TVs these days, not very suitable for hobby computing. Also, people don't want a mess of cables in their homes these days. Giving a kid a console without screen is not a good idea, because their parents will not like the cables, and the kid would just grab the iPad because of its superior UX. So I really think a home-computer should have a built-in screen.
Yes, but:

1. Not all SQL statements are parameterizable (dynamic identifiers vs literals)

2. Stopping SQL injection doesn't stop Insecure Direct Object References

3. Developers make mistakes

4. Plugins are a risk (example: http://www.zdnet.com/article/over-1-million-wordpress-websit...)

For parameterization to work you need to be perfect, always. My suggestions are for when someone else fucks up.
It doesn't. The only case when it's worse is when your laptop is stolen and you don't know about that - very unlikely for corporate laptops
- RV?

RE: Shower/bathroom - PlanetFitness is popular amongst vagabonds from what I hear - $10/mo and has many national locations.
You can use http://gauth.apps.gbraad.nl/ on another computer or on same machine (wouldn't protect if computer is stolen, otherwise the same)