jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested in "good form running", what it means for the human body and the benefits that are associated with it, I wholeheartedly suggest reading up on Daniel Lieberman (he has videos on YouTube about it). His studies about foot strike and gait especially are mind-opening and can really help you achieve good result and avoid some of the running-related injuries.
It is the correct model. You can learn more about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIftg3cM4BM
Even when tech-savvy people is high enough in the company's hierarchy, the business culture usually is to avoid fixing a bug until the bug costs more money than its fix.

In my honest opinion this sucks, but oh god, most companies live with a "only money matters" mindset...
Does this mean that if agencies from different countries get into an arms-race trying to take control of the network in such a way, it would actually make tor stronger?
I stumbled upon this PAVP thing in an old Thinkpad just last week. My first thought after reading about it was basically this. Somewhere, some very talented software developers probably spent years working on this obscure, essentially useless thing.
Alcohol is an unusual drug because it's ubiquitous (socially and economically acceptable), and it has a very different effect in low doses than in high ones.
I graduated ten years ago. I am just now starting to regret not paying enough attention to those general education classes that I thought were wastes of my time. I wasn't mature enough to realize how important economics, marketing, political science, and sociology would be to me in 2011.
>Their investment strategy was based on an idea that was unique at the time [late 2003]: the belief that the Internet’s "next wave" would be in Web services, the "application layer." (Back then, apps were still a novel concept.)

WTF?
Scratch that. I've got an even better design than what I was thinking of above. It makes it so the service provider never has access to the unencrypted data, and they can fully de-dup immediately, and it supports all Dropbox features.

Let F be an arbitrary file.
Let N(F) be the name your client knows the file by.
Let H(F) be a hash of the file that produces a 256 bit hash.
Let AES(X,K) be X encrypted using AES with key K.

When you upload to the cloud, you upload AES(F,H(F)). In a local database, you store (N(F), H(F)). When you later retrieve the file from the cloud, you receive the encrypted data, and you can lookup the key, H(F), in your local database.

Note that if two different upload files with the same content, they pick the same encryption key (since the key comes from a hash of the content), and so the same data gets uploaded. The service can thus do de-duplication, even though it has no access to unencrypted data.

So far, all this provides is secure storage. What makes Dropbox useful is that a file uploaded on one computer can be downloaded on another, and that only works if the downloader knows H(F).

This is solved by also uploading a copy of that local database I mentioned, the one that stores the (N(F), H(F)) pairs. This can be encrypted with the account password.

Syncing between different devices on the same account is then a two step process. First, the name/key database is synced, and then both devices have access to the keys and then the files can be synced.

I believe web access can be handled via this system. Dropbox's web interface requires Javascript, so it could have the browser retrieve the name/key database and decrypt it using the account password, which gives it the access to the key to decrypt a given file.

For shared folders, you can use a public key system, where the keys for the shared files are encrypted with the public keys of each person you are sharing the folder with, and the encrypted key files are stored in the cloud. Anyone accessing the shared folder grabs the key file for the folder and uses their private key (which is protected by the account password) to get K(F) for the file.

I believe this covers everything Dropbox does, with the properties that:

1. They can't decrypt your files.

2. They can de-duplicate completely.

3. Your account password is the key for everything for you.

4. It satisfies all of their advertising claims for security.
Tahoe-LAFS seems to fit the bill, except I don't know about #3. From what I understand it's rather stronger on #2, though.
I've been doing this for a while now and it works quite well.
Russia's an easy target because of its history and its positioning against the west, the same is true of China. It's obvious that they're taking advantage of this situation - it directly weakens NATO which directly increases their power. It's not because "they're the big bad." It's because it makes the most logical sense and there is a lot of pretty easily verifiable smoke.
Crazy. I somehow got locked in to $45/yr pricing. I really like YNAB but I don't know if I like it for twice the price I'm currently paying..
So if anyone wants to see a more respectful counterpart culture to the Mongols, I'd recommend looking into the Xaela from Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood.

They've never claimed in the slightest to be historically accurate, but their cultural practices are surprisingly well-researched, and more importantly the Xaela are written as fundamentally decent people and not a vicious unrelenting horde of uncivilized barbarians.

I found an excellent twitter thread on this a while back... unfortunately it appears to be gone, but I was able to find some of it in the Wayback Machine...

http://web.archive.org/web/20200715161430/https://twitter.co... [make sure to scroll both up and down, this is the archive link I found that had the most of the original thread, and it's kind of in the middle]
> Fox News is well known for massive bias in the US

It's also worth emphasizing that the rating of Fox News changes dramatically based on the type of programming. The talk show segments (e.g., Fox and Friends) are rated as bad content. They also indicate that you should use caution citing Fox News for politics and science since it's biased.
Guy on the right wears his job ID card, fwiw.
Unfortunately medical software is enterprise software, because Hospitals are large, risk adverse institutions with high price tags and purchasing is done by management not users. Like most enterprise class software UX is a complete after thought.
I have never had a Hangouts meeting that could be described as "smooth" other than 1:1
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"I failed to steal anything, slipped over and banged my head on the way out. I don't mind though - I've sued the company for thousands of dollars... far more lucrative than a few boxes of Marlboro!"
So basically proving this was always about killing Flash.
Excellent points.

With regards to this being twitters fault.

Twitter was originally thought of as a SMS broadcast service where friends and families update each other on where they where.

It wasn't until much later that it became a link recommendation powerhouse. This happened when twitter became more of a professional tool, unlike Facebook.

So it's perhaps a little harsh to claim it's their fault.

But otherwise I agree with our points completely.
Did you mean SVG?
This is really a bad title, but random numbers indeed need not be uniformly distributed - for example Gauss distributed numbers aren't distributed uniformly (from definition:).
I think it's more likely that the iPad will do a similar x2 increase in resolution, i.e. go from 1024x768 to 2048x1536...

You don't need the same level of DPI on the iPad and it would just take too much grunt to push the same DPI as the iPhone on that screen.
Oh, come off it. Forever disgraced? Do you even know how many other groups have protested there? Nobody burned it down. Nobody defaced any art. It's still there in one piece. You're being melodramatic.

Maybe it's easier said as a Canadian, but the problem people like you (yes, you personally) have is that you can't find your way to see common cause with the mass of people that were protesting. You think you're different from them, for some strange, artificial, media-induced reason. You think that they're reprehensible, when at the end of the day, they want the same thing you do: a stable income, a safe city, a place where they can raise a family, some amount of upward mobility, and less financial fragility when something unexpected happens like an injury, disease, or loss of employment.

Don't you understand that a wedge is driven between red and blue folks in order to ensure you never get these things? Every single media narrative you are reading today is designed to make you hate and scorn those people. The purpose of this is clear from the outside: it's to make sure you NEVER make common cause with them, and NEVER hold the entire system accountable.

Go ahead and play your side, champ. It's what everyone does in their 20s, it's natural, but one day you'll look back at it and realize that this mob was just as correct in their ultimate yearning for a more just world as any other mob has been. The problem is finding any conceivable step forward that gets you there, rather than continually attacking people who are ultimately far closer to being your class peers than the elites who rule you both.
You are cracking me up. I haven't laughed so hard out loud in front of my computer in years. Thank you!
That’s why they sample each trait repeatedly through a dozen lenses. Just do it fast without thinking. Unless you’re STJ then I can’t help you. :-)
I dont see usecase even for a family of five, because this is solved with authority/responsibility and habits, and it works good enough most of the time.

However this could be useful for Airbnbs management, open-spaces with kitchen, and also that new trend of young independent people living together but sharing a kitchen. All these cases need more accountability.
What’s crippled about it?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652047 for some discussion on using heart rate
Yes, it does feel that way. And yet I am doing it the second time. As a founder you are the janitor and the CEO and everything in between at the same time. It’s fun when it works out like last time, but I will find out soon if it’s fun the second time around.
Thanks Peter. After perusing the site, I was excited to try it out. However, after registering:

"To use Quill, a teacher must create a class for you."

Would you know any freelancing teachers who're using quill.org? Being outside the US, we aren't affiliated with any schools there.
The original intent of patents was to provide the inventor a window of opportunity to profit from their invention. Unfortunately corporations are gaming the system and have weaponized patents. The basic problem is that whilst you can get a patent granted for tens of thousands, large corporations wilfully infringe upon patents because it costs millions to defend them and the typical inventor does not have the resources to defend.

As with most things the IP laws have resulted in perverse incentives benefitting those who can afford to spend the shareholders' money in their quest to protect their monopolies. The little guy gets screwed, yet again.
Why do you need this information? What's the use case?
nope, the best type of evangelism is evangelism. adoption by most heavily used sites jsut proves technical feasibility.

Unless the devs of "most heavily used sites" evangelize, it makes no matter which sites use svelte. As a matter of fact, Vue's adoption increased after Taylor Otlwell (Laravel's creator) and other started _telling_ people that they are planning to use Vue, instead of react.

Wide range adoption followed next.
A lot of it is the fed lowering rates which increases the returns to existing capital and drives prices upwards. It's almost like the older generation is taking out a mortgage on the future of the younger generation.... Oh wait. No, that's exactly what it is!
When I said natives I meant Palestinians who were forcefully displaced from their lands. Those lands then turned into colonies which are occupied to this days by Jewish immigrants from Europe, North Africa, and other regions in the Middle East (Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, and Lebanon).

I’m not sure how I could have phrased this better to make sure I steer clear of any potential offense.
I went gray young. The downside is that most younger women turned away and would no longer approach. They would also not respond very well if I did. And I did not want to date a person 15 years my senior, so it became hard.
Hah just tape a clipboard to the back of your laptop and suddenly all notes are available. Expecting this software to actually prevent unauthorized use of notes/references is foolish.
Am I the only one who think calling it "Daft Punk Break Up" means it sounds like a bitter parting of ways, rather than them retiring?
I'm on mac, but I used to have the same problem also in other apps: I use a system wide app that makes you long press cmd-Q to quit any app (with an allow/block list): "SlowQuitApp". Just in case you never thought to try to find something similar (assuming ctrl-q is a common shortcut in linux, I forgot)
What is the current median transaction fee?

Also, Bitcoin could drop a transaction if a fork occurs and you were tracking the one that fizzled out; that is why people wait for roughly 5 confirmation blocks before proceeding and that takes roughly 1 hour.
> Parents in other cultures who share the room (or the bed) do not get the same level of extreme sleep deprivation

That was my direct experience as a kid growing up in a non-Western society (I'm 40 now, am from Eastern Europe). When I first read about the Western tabu of parents not being allowed to sleep in the same bed with their children anymore I was a little surprised at first, and then saddened for those kids: "do you mean 3-year or 5-year old me should have slept all alone in his bed at night with no parent close to me? That is pure madness!"

More than that, one of my most vivid memories as a kid was sleeping with my brother and my two grand-parents in the same 3x4 meter room (give or take), my brother with my grandma and 6-year old me with my grandpa (there were two beds, a stove, a TV set and a small table in that room). I can still remember my grandpa peeling apples or pears and sharing them with my brother and me, just before we all went to sleep while we were watching some TV, very, very nice memories (in fact my nickname is taken from a Soviet TV series we were watching then [1]). Afaik neither me, nor my brother (who is 2 years older than me) were making any unwanted sounds while we were asleep at night.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088635/
Or anywhere else for that matter. I've talked to a bunch of people who have posted apps for review here and had to spend the better part of the next 2 days filtering out obscene submissions on their sites.
This is Hacker News. As long as masturbation doesn't cause aids, all is good.
It is true that there is a lot of fluff around the golden ratio, but it does have some cool properties in five-fold symmetry and the Fibonacci sequence, and as a result of the latter, in the spiral patterns of plants.
Make sure you catch the issues with the data and presentation of the viz. First there's the basic "albums vs. tracks" equivalence, and then someone's reply post is here: http://freshspectrum.com/2010/06/04/critiquing-the-infograph...
I think this infographic got debunked a while ago. I cant remember where or why though.
Absolutely, seconded. Not only in it's stereotype of geek men (and it's implicit erasure of geek women) but in how the advice could essentially be summed up as "Find this dude that you don't really relate to and cater to his every whim. Watching him play video games while you bake cookies is what every relationship should aspire to." Utter dreck.
I think "the stick" is a pretty bad motivator overall

Totally agree. Isn't one of the imputed advantages of American entrepreneurship over, say, European, that founders don't lose everything (money, social standing) when they fail? This article seems to be claiming the opposite.
There is a difference between a geek and a nerd, and I think this piece occasionally confuses the two. Then again, I wonder whether my understanding of the terms is universal or not...

I've always considered geeks to be those who "know their shit" about some technical topic (often multiple topics), and nerds to be more along the lines of "gamers and dungeon and dragon players."
I feel like my answers are quite trivial since nobody
really knows how to design a good language, including me.

(the rest is not related to the above quote)

Alan mentions that education doesn't happen fast enough. Here's a crazy idea, what if we leveraged the Internet to accelerate education? If 100 average programmers from HN paid $1000/year to a great computer scientist to teach them a few lessons per week it seems like everyone would win. That's a simple example and there would be overhead costs for the infrastructure to setup such a system, but it could have some interesting results. It would have the potential to become a new kind of higher education. You could choose to subscribe only to people you were interested in learning from.

I know there are a lot of unanswered questions about how it would all work. A big one in my mind is whether it would be interactive & collaborative, or broadcast style? I'd lean towards the former even though it'd be more complex.
In HPC the situation seems a little weird. Fundamentally, lots of HPC workloads should scale pretty well to lots of little ARM cores. If anything the x86 advantage is more that it is just a conservative field full of scientists and engineers, who are happy with their old math libraries, which grew up on x86 and are heavily tuned for the environment.

If I were AMD or Intel, I'd keep investing in HPC, but be terrified that my lead there was just one good ARM BLAS library away from evaporating.
Reminds me of newer appliances (such as washing machines/toilets) that brag about water efficiency yet don't do nearly as good a job, requiring a second cycle, thus using more water.
In the sense that browser vendors decided to put on a privacy protection facade by enabling a "privacy protection" flag that webshites can easily ignore. The earn kudos from users while websites can keep abusing said users. Win-win for greed.
It's mostly a myth that there was a 90% marginal tax rate. It's technically true, but when the top tax rate was removed they also removed all the loopholes and deductions that were being used to reduce the effect tax rate on top earners to below 45%. All the while the proportion of tax receipts as a percentage of GDP has remained constant.

Meanwhile, the proportion of taxes paid by the top quintile earners has increased from 55% in 1980 to 70% by 2013.

In 2017 the top 1% of income earners paid 38.5% of all taxes, vs the bottom 90% who paid 29.9% of all taxes. The top 50% of taxpayers paid 97% of all taxes in 2017.

But all this ignores the main fact, which is that actual rich people make most of their money not as income, but as unrealized capital gains. High marginal rates on income taxes affects high-earning professionals. Not the private jet crowd.
Spectacle is unmaintained. https://rectangleapp.com/ is a fork with active development.
Revolut is pulling the exact same bullshit to a T.

If it weren't such an obvious move I'd say PayPal carbon-copied it from Revolut. Can't wait for the competition to put pressure on them.
https://archive.ph/FsOHN (as the article is now removed)
I share your hope that there will be no war, and most of your points about exploration, but am less pessimistic. Wars are fought over oil on earth because it is a limited, nonrenewable resource. Solar energy is not practically limited, is already cheaper than oil, and can be harvested directly on earth. Perhaps war will be fought for access to the asteroid belt (similar to the US’ strategic position in the Middle East regarding access to oil), but if current trends continue, I doubt - and hope - that we will never go to war again over energy itself.
You are arguing we should ban renting?

Won't this be extremely problematic for anyone who can't afford to buy a house?
I wish there was an "email" input. Last time I had a Facebook account was 10 years ago (probably before phone numbers were de facto identity) and I would be fascinated to learn if my old accounts were in the leak, because Facebook was supposed to fully delete those accounts :)
There are io threads just like there are for xhr in the browser -- but your app code is single threaded.
Just a tip: some people will never try your service unless you show them that it won't do anything malicious. But I wouldn't spend all your time creating a pseudo app just for them (though it would be interesting to test this reluctance to signup to see if it's worth your time). Just a simple video or screenshots would suffice.
Does this only apply to a profit making projects? A project or startup with business model? Or does this also apply to personal projects?
Interesting project. I agree with the others who say you definitely need some sort of demo to convince users to sign up.

Question though: how did you guys get around the copyright issues? It sounds like you're grabbing the content from these links and displaying them in their entirety on your page. Won't the content providers complain about this?
Although I can't see it as a total replacement for my twitter stream, it definitely is a neat app and I will be using it. However, it would be really cool if you also could parse the links in the articles. For instance, this News Desk piece from the New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/to-do...) has a lot of links and references, but they do not appear in the read stream.
Unless you're going to charge that students are being judged on their conclusions and not on their process, or are being indoctrinated to a particular viewpoint rather than exposed to and challenged by various viewpoints in the service of cultivating critical thinking tools, I don't think the issues raised cause any problems.

The fact that professors may live in their own cultural bubble isn't a problem so long as they are competently presenting views to are new to the students.

The primary goal is to develop the tools necessary to critically examine any incoming view. Not to simply be exposed to some representative panoply of views. Any such array of views will inevitably be incomplete (due time, if nothing else) and the evenness of their presentation inevitably open to challenge.

So if failings of variety or fairness in presentation are deal-breakers, we're essentially throwing out any possible real-world examination of such topics, regardless of the particular bent of a particular professor or institution.
Media Temple grid server has awful uptime. It's always down for some reason or another. Stay away, folks.
That's not how Zite works either. Zite doesn't pull links from your feed, it derives interests from your feed and then serves content it thinks you'll like from an internally maintained database.

This looks more similar to Flipboard in how it works on the backend; it just serves the links provided from the feed (although Flipboard probably has much more complicated relevancy algorithms than this weekend project). Also Flipboard, I almost certainly believe, probably doesn't show full articles unless they have an agreement with the content owner (or the full article can be found in RSS). Flipboard's business model is partnering with content owners to create dedicated sections and to feature certain content.