jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The simplest non-linear differential equations defy quantitative study, and history (and even economics and biology) are nowhere near simple.

This is nonsense. I think you are alluding to the fact that forward integration from an initial condition with a measurement error will have an error growing at the rate exp(liapunov_exponent x time).

This doesn't mean that ODEs "defy quantitative study". One still makes quantitative predictions about them - e.g., "what is the liapunov exponent", "at what precise parameter choice does a phase change occur", "is the system recurrent, and if so what is the recurrence time", etc.

Am I wrong in guessing you don't actually study nonlinear systems and are simply making guesses based on newspaper summaries and pop science?
It's early seed stage for many :)
More baseless personal attacks. I'm neither American nor ignorant, and non-Singaporeans can surely see that. I am however deeply troubled by the assertion that my use of 'lah' may have been judged inappropriate! Singlish is clearly both stylish and useful, and has a definitively bright future in brainwashing, lah. Keep the language pure, latte. Live life on the edge: have another coffee. Political opposition indeed. More like forcibly conscripted psychological operations government mouthpiece.
One big negative is that they're only running a snp pnel for most cases and just now starting to toe the water of exomes
I try to do this any time I get some new theory that seems to explain things: reverse it or switch around facts. Does it still sound like it might mean something? If it can explain reality and counterfactuals just as well, then it's probably useless.

I'm a bit upset with how many things I hear that might just be wrong or trying to influence me.
Do you have insight into the financial operations of every company on that list?

There are a fair number of zombie startups in Silicon Valley that haven't yet exhausted their funding. Some even have enough revenue to keep the lights on. But it doesn't mean they're anywhere close to having a thriving business that will be able to sustain itself and grow meaningfully over time.

When evaluating startups, alive/dead is a lazy means of analysis. This is particularly true in today's funding environment, where companies can raise seven figure seed rounds and establish a fairly long runway very early on. The real question is how many of the startups funded today will ever realistically be in a financial position to return capital, and how much, to their investors.
Yes, they are definitely paying that much (or more). Groupon and Zynga are responsible for increasing the CAC via Facebook ads by 2-3x over the last year and a half.
Whoah, how have I missed ddd completely! I'll definitely give it a try soon. Anyway, I don't know any details about Tenacious C, they are just launching in December.
This is actually a tremendous idea.

One of the main arguments against FB monetizing their ads is because "FB users don't go on FB to click on ads". This is anecdotally true. But when FB Connect and Like buttons have you logged in everywhere, there's nothing stopping them from showing you targeted ads when you are shopping, or searching or doing things where ad CTR would be much higher.
thanks for reposting, sfk. i don't know why the original comment would've been killed ... chbarts brought up a great critique about my presentation of cde.
If you're talking about Pier 39 in SF, then Yelp's suggestion to walk a mile away was probably pretty good.
The parent to your comment is a great example of the kind of content-free snarky comment that Reddit rewards handsomely and Hacker News tends to punish. Ben's new here, but he'll get the hang of it. Took me a bit, too.
I don't think it is reasonable to lay this at the feet of the education system. In fact, it is somewhat difficult to lay this at the feet of any system, to be honest. It is a systemic failure of both the system, and the people who depend upon it to do either what they can't do, or what they wish not to do.

As for the system encouraging people to get a job, it is just responding to popular sentiment. The gauge people use for evaluating any educational system, public or private, is the number of people who move along to the next step of a pre-determined timeline. If you are in secondary school, you move on to college; if you are in college, you move on to employment. It's not that the schools want people to not learn, it's that the people who rely on the schools don't care if the schools foster this attitude. It's not that we are actively trained to be beholden to the executives of society; it's that we apathetically punt to them, because we just don't give enough of a damn, or believe that it is worth giving a damn. You have to believe something is worth caring about before you will expend energy to care about. It just isn't that important to us, as a general population, because we believe it won't make a fucking difference anyway. So we punt, and so do the schools.

I daresay that the sense of accomplishment from solving a problem or truly learning something is a universal human response.

It may be, but never underestimate the power of socialization in general upon any sort of universal human response. There are so many things we have elevated to the level of faux pas; is it really such a stretch to believe that demonstrated learning could not be elevated to the same level?

It is easy to cast aspersion at the system, but it is worth digging several levels of implication deep, and seeing how much of the system is just a reflection of ourselves.
For your first example, you could ask whether there was any corroboration of the story, and whether the scanners were even capable of printing out nude images to be autographed, as he claimed.

For your second example, was that situation, a TSA training session where agents were watching each other go through the machine, applicable to the passenger screening scenario, where the display is in a separate room and the screening agent never directly sees or is seen by the passenger?

For your third example, you can find plenty of evidence online that these machines are safe.

As far as the bomb up the butt, that guy failed because too much force went into ripping him apart. Butt bombs are an unproven technology, and should increase the difficulty and uncertainty for the bombers.
> anyone besides the US government

How about China, the EU, and ISIS/ISIL (if they even have any technology whatsoever)?
The percentage increase in performance in those benchmarks is stunning. They're pushing hard on the multi-thread end and it's clearly working for a lot of modern applications that can take advantage of it.

Pair one of these Threadrippers with a pair of the fastest NVMe SSD's out there, with plenty of high performance DDR4 memory and you've got a near supercomputer from recent past in terms of performance.
Stories of overcharging people are also common.

It is common to hear people talk about a "broken" credit card machine, or about a taxi "taking the long way", or the like.
Article author and SimpleLogin creator here. Surprised and happy that my small rant at Facebook got so much attention from HN!

I wanted to give a bit of context on this article, the story is a bit long though and there was no TLDR.

Here it goes: I wanted to protect my online privacy and having worked in advertising before, I know that user email, in addition to the cookie, is usually the common denominator to cross-reference user data. I tried, therefore, to generate a random email whenever I signed up on a new website via temporary email services like temp-mail but there are 3 issues:
a. I can't remember which email I used. This problem is alleviated with password manager though.
b. No way to reset password later as the email is already expired. This is also not fair if the website happens to be a good (aka not spammy) one and just want to contact me.
c. The flow is unbearable: I need to go to temp-mail, generate a random email, go back to the website, check temp-mail for the activation email, etc.

I dreamt to have a universal login button, like the "Login with Facebook/Google" one but without all the tracking and that can generate a random email at runtime. So SimpleLogin was born.

When creating SimpleLogin SDK, I tried to reverse-engineer popular SDKs like Facebook and Google to learn from them and discovered their not-very-ethical approaches. I haven't found any article talking about these practices so I decided to write one up.

Voilà.

I want to be as transparent as possible about the technology I'm using so if anyone has any questions, please feel free!
I don't agree. There's already Reddit for that
Interesting how nearly all the sites are so darned close to the shore. I'm guessing the conversation goes like this:

• "hey, we need to get rid of these, let's do it in that giant body of water nearby"

• "okay, whatever, what's the minimum distance we legally have to travel? diesel fuel isn't cheap (and my kids don't swim anyway)"

• "___ miles"

• "fine. find a spot that isn't near any important* people's view, and I don't care about the rest"

Does that about cover it?

* i.e. celebrities, journalists, policymakers, rich people ... in other words, those who are influential and likely to care ... not saying I agree with this, just surmising it's probably how the conversation went
In most American cities that aren't New York or San Francisco, half the downtown has been torn down to build parking lots:
http://usa.streetsblog.org/category/special-reports/parking-...

And, of course, most post-WWII commercial development is either malls, strip malls, or big boxes.
Tried that. Guess it could work. But are you really _safely_ overloading the hearing apparatus? To me it's just another way of activating the eardrum, doesn't make it safer per se.
I opened an office in London for a trading firm... So at least one?
Needs a blockchain and AI based classification cluster.
I love this idea. A 'lab space' instead of a maker space. If someone is going to do this in NL then I'd be happy to help fund it.
This is less about 'actual news' and more about the ongoing war between traditional media (like New York Times) and new age media (like Sub Stack).
I don't take it all that literally. To me, "NYT" here represents mainstream or syndicated journalism and author is advocating for blogging to make a comeback. The internet gave us the power to speak our own minds, offensive or not, accurate or not, and author is saying, do more of that! Color outside of the lines, experiment with prose! Stop being a mindless consumer and start creating! You can replace NYT with any other mainstream media outlet you choose. Or social media outlet. But it's far more impactful to write a story against a concrete character (NYT) rather than an abstract idea (syndicated journalism).
Suppose you find that hypothetical mutation. What next? What would you do to prevent the current situation?
Multiple meanings for 'tits' are also a consideration. (Maybe my monitor or eyes suck, but I had to do a tits vs fuck only ngram search to see that the big spike is in fact tits.)
Is Google in the practice of making these kinds of investments in very early stage tech sectors? What is in this for them?
I think that the part of your comment regarding "producing stuff which doesn't explode" is very unnecessary. Your level of bias is clearly evident here. Instead of trying to pull both sides together through the positiveness of such news you add fuel to the conflict. Having family in the region does not make your statement any more authoritative then it would for someone with family in Palestine.

I hope you rethink your intentions here and in future posts about this terrible conflict attempt to be more evenly considerate. Remember there are always two sides to every story.

Thank you.
$941,648 (minus Kickstarter’s 5 percent cut, less then $900,000 in the end).

A million is not accurate (but neither the headline nor the article ever refer to a million) but $100,000 is even less accurate.
In general, it was an interesting read even though there wasn't that much substance to it. This bit frustrated me:

“We broke away from the equations of biology, all of which are sublinear. Every other creature gets slower as it gets bigger. That’s why the elephant plods along. But in cities, the opposite happens. As cities get bigger, everything starts accelerating. There is no equivalent for this in nature.”

It's inaccurate to compare the growth of human society to the physical growth of creatures. Primates aren't the first species to benefit from society; What about ants, or bees, or even hyenas?
I changed the title to reflect this.
What I really want to know is, what did I leave out? And how long is it until "real-time" is a given? Sorta like calling something "social"?
Supervisor, god, monit, circus, etc.

And even though it can handle both init and process supervision, runit has a clear separation between the two tasks. The "runit" program handles init tasks. The "runsvdir" program handle process supervision. And each one is completely functional without the other.
Well, it is in Google Groups's interest to differentiate themselves from commodity suppliers of Usenet feeds, and they've done a good job of it, which has probably had a bad effect on Usenet.
This isn't a new problem.

Do you think the askers are following through, and
actually learning based off of the recommendations?

Some do, but most do not.

Is there any way to compile the information in one
place and point askers towards that?

This has been done so many times over so many years that there's a plethora of pages out there (http://www.google.com/search?q=learn+how+to+program), some current and others in various stages of decomposition.

A truly motivated individual is likely to realize that this question is Googleable and will find tons of information. That leaves us with the occasional capable and motivated person asking for some guidance that HN could uniquely provide, and the rest of such questions are less worthy, IMO.

Making a nice resource, perhaps with some HN flavored info, would be really great were it to be referenced. The best case to me would be that "how to learn programming" posts would get no up votes and a single comment linking the resource. Or something along those lines.
Carr is a well-established and credible blogger whose position on this has been known for a long time. He certainly hasn't crafted it to support his book, but rather the other way around. And the post does inform us. The study is interesting and I'm glad to hear of it.
That would be the case if writing for a more general audience... but in a publication whose audience is, say, digital marketing executives, "ROI" would be perfectly fine. Of course, depending on the editorial guidelines that publication follows, it might not be allowed because they don't like acronyms, but not because it needed a definition.

With sports writing, you can't expect definitions for common sports jargon. In F1 racing you have to assume that readers know what "pole position" is, in football (US: soccer) you assume readers understand "offside", and so on. If you were to explain every piece of sporting terminology in every article, it would drive readers crazy.

As to acronyms, while it makes it even more confusing for people who don't understand the sport, the vast majority of the readers are people who do understand it. And for those who don't, it often wouldn't make a difference. If I wasn't a baseball fan, "earned run average" wouldn't make any more sense to me than "ERA".

The biggest difference between American sports and European sports (I'm not familiar with MLS, so I'm not sure if this difference lies with the sport or where it's being played, MLS perhaps fits with European football or perhaps with sports such as baseball) is that American sports use way more terminology and statistics, not just from journalists, but talked about by fans, shown in stadiums, etc. If you watch a US baseball game, and a cricket game (not that cricket is all European, but it is non-US), you'll see that difference hugely.

And that's actually something that fascinates me - I'm English, so such a big focus on stats wasn't a part of sport for me growing up, but once I got into NFL/MLB, I really love it. But, it still seems like something that most sports fans wouldnt care about, to me. Even though I know that they clearly do.
I don't think the author meant that its simplicity (from a user experience perspective) was the reason -- it was what you can do with Facebook that may make it for people who require less of a cognitive challenge.

The best software is so simple that anyone can use it, but the converse (simple software is only used by simple people) is definitely not true.
In the context of GP comment ("sit until the industry moves on") I think Dropbox has one potential problem -- that people would start realizing that their data is their data and paying more attention to the privacy aspect of the "storing in the cloud" services. They sure are convenient, but the loss of tight control of one's private data is an issue.

It all goes in cycles, and if something happens that prompts companies and individuals to lock down their files, then Dropbox and alike will go from "universal file access" service to a trivial file sharing app. Still useful, but not as grand.
The clients hold copies of old revisions for three days. That's a healthy margin to find the corruption in case of the dropbox servers failing terribly.
> "in 70 percent of Kansas City, Google will be able to string fiber using utility poles."

I was under the impression that fiber needs to be underground; is running it over utility poles a common occurrence?
Another problem with this could be that the nearby stores that don't give discount will get less (or not any) visit from cops.
The standard is "could any random passerby do this with legal and common tools," not "is this technology used commonly." Regardless of how the definition of what is or is not considered common shifts, the fundamentals of the two situations remain different.
That's just not true, most importantly it's not sustainable. Hotels are regulated for a reason and are in taxation, need insurances and permits for whatever makes sense to the host city, although they constantly lobby against it. In thebest case the city can plan their infrustructure accordingly, with unregulated and unregistered hotels that's near impossible. Too much tourism is not what most people who live in those cities want to begin with, they want to live there. People who save bucks on usually one one thing are usually not just frugal in that dimension.
I'm working on an app/website called GroceryFriends.

GroceryFriends allows people in need to create a shopping list and post it so that other people who are feeling generous and/or have surplus can find people in their area in need of certain groceries and provide it for them.

I've noticed a lot of at-risk people are putting their lives on the line (and potentially spreading the virus) just to go shopping at stores that are sold out. Also, a lot of people are out of work and are completely screwed by this, struggling to provide for their families. It's absurd, and there should be an easier way to help for those willing.

https://github.com/warent/groceryfriends-fe
Instead of worrying about how people choose to rent their properties, they should instead look to the source of high rental prices, which is bad zoning laws and insufficient total units.

Meanwhile Airbnb creates a level of convenience and affordability that makes travel accessible to the masses. I'm sure the software engineers down-voting wouldn't be significantly affected if Airbnb was forced out of operation. Just another version of NIMBYism.
yes you are right, don't know how to fix it
Thanks. This idea only occurred to me when another dev friend of mine was whining about all the support calls he got from non-tech people who did not know what Gravatar was, and how he had to spend so much time walking people through the Gravatar process.

Also the fact that setting up a gravatar the way you like requires you to get a Wordpress.com account is insane. Anyway, glad you liked it.
> It took many years before the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) changed its runtime library exemption in a way that allowed for GCC plugins, largely because of fears that companies might distribute proprietary, closed-source plugins.

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that purported "free as in freedom" software is/was being held back because of fears of what someone can do with that freedom?

Though once useful, the GPL and especially the AGPL are harmful, restrictive licenses that have outlived their usefulness and in no way represent "freedom".
Default.

Interesting to see that choosing Experimental interface fixes the problem!
A phone with physical buttons that's not targeted at senior customers? Amazing.
No, it would be better if responsible disclosure was codified in the CFA. That's worthy of a campaign - but weev didn't practice that, so he's a poor figurehead for such a campaign.

Such a protection could provide an equal level of footing with the DMCA (i.e. you aren't liable for malicious attacks on a computer company if you provide full disclosue and advance notice, in the same way YouTube isn't liable for hosting copyrighted content if they provide a takedown mechanism).
It doesn't run WP at all; it only has 8MB of RAM, after all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6970772 <- Discussion

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974543

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6981938

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7091655

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8826340

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8839516
Would that count as Education or Leisure ?
There is only a very small number of sites using Java applets nowadays. I browse with them disabled and never had a problem.
It's really not that most restaurants wouldn't make up the wages to the minimum. The minimum wage in most US states is not for most people would call a "living wage, it's around $15k/yr. It's not uncommon in a major city for waiters to be able to pull in $30-60k/year. The thing is that in many place tips are paid out in cash at the end of their shift, so if you don't tip you're literally taking money out of their pocket for that day.

Many paycheck I've seen from most wait staff is less than $20 for two weeks. The employer is required to withhold taxes based on the hours worked and tips reported, so the whole paycheck basically goes to taxes.

As for cases where someone doesn't make enough tips to hit minimum wage, in many places not making enough tips is a sign that the person isn't doing a good enough job. So they won't be fired for "asking for minimum wage", but because "their performance was unsatisfactory".

So yes, in practice most wait staff do live off their tips. Depending on the locale an extra $10 or $100 in tips could be the difference in what their kid eats that night or whether they can make their car payment tomorrow.

(Personal story time: I will always remember helping my mom wait tables at a local diner when I was young and someone tipped $10 on a ~$10 meal and instead of eating hamburger helper that night we got to go out an eat at Long John Silver's.)
I've been running a candy bar for about 6 months in conjunction with a smart phone (work and personal sims). I did this as I got tired of having a smartphone on 5% battery when I needed to make/receive an important call. I now forward the smart phone number to the dumb phone so I'm always available on both numbers. This way I'm always available for calls and have removed the low battery stress from my life. The downside is getting texts on the candy bar. Using keypad is a pain so I tend to call people rather than text or give yes/no replies to anyone not on a messaging app like hangouts where I can text via the smartphone.

I can really recommend it. Also on a side note I feel like I'm leaving the world behind when I only take the dumb phone out.