jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure redditors would be more than happy to deal with a day or so extra downtime as you guys switched to a better platform. Just leave a simple page up saying "Dumping Amazon, brb"... doubt you'd get many complaints.
Agree. You can delegate work but not responsibility.
Mine was very slow, but it is performing just fine now: http://www.spottiness.com
Very interesting to watch. I live in an older town in Maine and I think about half the books in the library are from the early 1900's. There is something really cool about reading them knowing somebody letter by letter had to typeset it.
>If someone "owns" the user's phone then they can get their movement history.

Again, it only stores that most recent time that you've seen a specific cell tower, it doesn't store your entire movement history.
Going a few days w/o much food is quite easy for some of us, -I would skip meals after 1800 in the evening and then skip breakfast and then I could go a few days w/o more than a couple of glasses of orange juice a day. I only did this for less than a week. My uncle said most of the good effects started kicking in after a 3-5 days.

As usual, be careful, I'd say have sugar around.

As for the last point you mentioned there are drugs for this, I just have a feeling you'd rather try without but I'm no expert.
For me it just started as trying to understand the why of the Iraq war. I worked my way up the chain from my grunts eye view and kept going up that chain. I think it had a very similar appeal to computers when I was younger, in that I could understand things that most others couldn't, and that was and is a good feeling in a strange way. Combined with a very American upbringing and the fact I swore an oath to the constitution also makes me feel like it is my duty in some way, especially given the kind of insight I have grown into. I started with the question "why", and my eyes didn't really open till I realized I was leaving all the other W's out. This is the obsessive part as referenced in the post, because a part of me wants to let it all go and just focus on trying disrupt society through tech, or art, or something equivalent, but it seems a Sisyphean task I can't let go of.
Google capriciously shut something down?!
Ah perfect, not your keys, not your domain. I mean now domain jackings can be permanent and irreversible! Apple.com can literally be stolen by Tim Apple and there’s not a thing anyone could do about it. Another clear win for the blockchain. Resolving this kind of dispute is why we have central authorities in the first place.
I think your social life or lack of has a large influence on the things you become obsessed about. A lot of friends and people in general are not going to be supportive of your eccentric interests, in the worst case they might judge you poorly for it but in the best case they don’t mind but don’t find it interesting either. It might be great for your startup ambitions to have a lot of eccentric obsessions, but it’s also socially isolating. I think there’s a reason why a lot of geniuses were also social outcasts.
Yea I think we just don't know enough. Even if curve fitting alone wouldn't be sufficient it may very well play a crucial role in the agi algorithm.
uh, most of your list is about what is popular now and wouldn't have been popular in say the 70s or 80s

Only 2 points seem timeless:

- study what you're passionate about

- cultivate interest further, by iterating on building stuff, meeting peers who share similar interests, followup on your ideas and dreams
Yeah this movement shouldn't just be "Save .org" but also specifically "Prosecute Fadi Chehadé", who is a criminal.
> bitcoin

Do they take any other cryptocurrencies, or would I have to convert some other coin into bitcoin to pay them?

OpenVPN is nice, since my OpenWRT router can be a client.

EDIT: I emailed Mullvad and received a reply within 15 minutes! and it answered my questions accurately! I think they win the customer service award for today :D
Cruise (self-driving cars)

[1] https://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/cruiseautomationinc?sid=68
You're coming at this from a very specific perspective related to your experience of government and services. I'm glad you live in a place where you can trust these sorts of fundamental services. This paper was not written for people like you.

Look at something like M-PESA in East Africa. It allows a person to have the equivalent of a bank account and transact with others without having any form of state recognised identity - only a mobile phone. That this is so successful is largely as a result of the complete inadequacy of the local banking system and the regional governments' inability to provide meaningful identity to their citizens.

Consider vaccination programs. Aid agencies responding to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 struggled to place young children back with their parents because no-one carried identity and the state - which had been barely functional before - was entirely non-functional. As reported in The Economist at the time, agencies carried out mass vaccinations against cholera but some people were vaccinated multiple times and others were missed entirely because there were so many agencies all running around like headless chickens.

Again, a simple distributed identity system would have permitted a better response.

Or the other example from the linked paper ... in rural communities in the world's poorest countries, people's identities are vouchsafed entirely by that community. Community-based lending programs (as popularised by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh) are successful precisely because individuals lack identity or their own independent credit record. Micro-lenders offer loans to these community groups rather than individuals and so the individual builds up no credit record of their own.

If they ever need to move (because of drought, joblessness or whatever) they lose the reference and identity they have built in that community. They cannot take it with them.

In the presence of a motivated and functioning state, sure, maybe this isn't needed. Unfortunately, billions of people don't have that luxury.
It's Marc Maiffret from eEye, no doubt trying to get some headlines. Which makes this excerpt all the funnier:

'Maiffret doesn't argue with Bit9's numbers. Rather, he excoriates Bit9's Dirty Dozen list as a "marketing exercise" intended to drum up headlines for Bit9's own self-aggrandizement.'
"However Apple's media strategy is a big part of their iDevice push. Simply selling you a piece of hardware is only a small part of their plans for you."

You say this as if it's a bad thing, like it's some secret plan by Apple. They tell you up front they are selling you the complete package. It's what they tout as their advantage. You want music on your phone? Tap one icon on the screen and you can pick from arguably one of the most complete catalogs there is. Movies? No problem, they are just as easy. Want to play a game? One tap away from the store.

If you don't like to use Apple's services for getting your media, don't get the iPhone, but don't pretend they are hookwinking everyone by integrating it all so nicely on their phones.
This is pretty fantastic. I travel around to universities with the Yahoo! HackU program and have had a heck of a time teaching students ruby and the rails framework from scratch. This is going to make it SOO much easier. :D

As far as the labs thing goes, this feels like the future of interactive learning.
I guess you never really tried to install a full dev environment for Rails on Windows...
i find that small distractions of 10 minutes at a time are fine, but often we get stuck on a site because we haven't finished reading it fully before we tell ourselves to get back to work. long pages (like these comment threads on HN and other sites) don't seem to help the matter.

someone should make a browser extension that visually blocks out parts of a page while you're supposed to be working. it would slowly reveal (say from top to bottom) parts of it the more time you're away from it and actually working. this way, your "reward" would be a fully rendered page every 10 minutes or so.
(posted this in related thread)

Contact your senators and tell them to just say no to S. 3804:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804

http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_se...

No good can come of the gov't trying to control what domains can be accessed, and it won't stop those that wish to do us harm or take advantage of us, because they'll just use another domain.
Ads work for a variety of reasons and those who claim they don't work on them are probably wrong (imo).

Aside from direct action (click and buy my product) there's also a branding goal. Assuming you don't block ads, you do see these ads all the time. There's a certain familiarity with products or brand names that you will develop and that will likely influence you later, if you are ever in the market for that product.
Marriage is a legal contract you often can't negotiate, and even if you can and do (pre-nup) you come off looking like an ass. As a contract, it's even subject to retroactive changes (politicians changing laws).

The way incentives are set up now, there is simply no way I would enter into a marriage in most western countries. That doesn't mean I wouldn't want a means of committing to a legal contract to make things official; it's just the terms of the default contract that I disagree with.
True story: I once told a customer that their requirement to "sort by last name" was likely impossible to satisfy without reworking the system, given what I knew about their user base. It turned out that I was right: the majority of their staff was Japanese, who expect Japanese lexicographic sort. However, they also had visiting professors from overseas, who largely could not understand Japanese lexicographic sort. (There are actually two common lexicographic sorts in Japanese, based on two ways to order the sounds of Japanese. We use the "table of fifty sounds" method, under which Tanaka comes after Aki but before Sato.)

My customers said "Fine, alright, two sort features. One for Japanese, one for foreigners."

They were less than happy when I told them that foreigners haven't agreed on lexicographic sort, either. (To use one example I'm familiar with, in Spanish, "ch" is one letter, so Chisako comes after Consuela.)

Oh, there is a separate right way to order prefectures. (Which I learned about in an email from a coworker saying "Patrick, come on, use some common sense next time. Have you ever seen prefectures listed lexicographically before?!")
No problem. It's one of those things developers don't realize when coming from C-style languages. :)
GMail too. And 37s, etc. [Of course I don't . . . ;)]
For those confused what an article about zombies (first link) has to do with questions marks in one's name, here's the relevant quote:

"Professor Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his surname and not a typographical mistake)"
You're way ahead of the game. Don't worry so much and just keep going--life is long. Learn to use your self-awareness to your advantage.

Did you see vonconrad's post?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438718
Well, I'm not 35, but closer to your age. I'd say that $1 million as a goal only clouds your other actual, action items. Instead the only thing you should always keep an eye on is focusing on stuff people want! That and read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
TweetDeck Inc. (http://www.tweetdeck.com)

We're in London, UK and are looking for people to fill a umber of roles - Backend, Desktop and Mobile Engineers as well as a finance and admin person.

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Be sure to watch out for little Bobby Tables!
Developing anything without root in your own machine these days must be an absolute nightmare. If I may ask, what stack are you using? I can imagine Java, but that's about it. Go, Python, Node, etc, all of them I've needed root access to test some packages, for instance.

I would guess developers must be using a lot of "workarounds" without management's knowledge.
A lot of them do have things to do with k8s, though. Admission webhooks, Istio sidecar injection, etc.

The CPU limits = weird latency spikes also shows up a lot there, but it's technically a cgroups problem. (Set GOMAXPROCS=16, set cpu limit to 1, wonder why your program is asleep 15/16th of every cgroups throttling interval. I see that happen to people a lot, the key point being that GOMAXPROCS and the throttling interval are not something they ever manually configured, hence it's surprising how they interact. I ship https://github.com/uber-go/automaxprocs in all of my open source stuff to avoid bug reports about this particular issue. Fun stuff! :)

DNS also makes a regular appearance, and I agree it's not Kubernetes' fault, but on the other hand, people probably just hard-coded service IPs for service discovery before Kubernetes, so DNS issues are a surprise to them. When they type "google.com" into their browser, it works every time, so why wouldn't "service.namespace.svc.cluster.local" work just as well? (I also love the cloud providers' approach to this rough spot -- GKE has a service that exists to scale up kube-dns if you manually scale it down!)

Anyway, it's all good reading. If you don't read this, you are bound to have these things happen to you. Many of these things will happen to you even if you don't use Kubernetes!
Great points! I disagree with you on this: Wages at the low end rise with the cost of living.

I think this is really an elasticity issue and that we have far too much low skill labor available in the USA (in part because we can import it easily). This means that low end wages have no reason to rise.
> Professionally, I live at the intersection between NLP and financial marketing (pretty small niche!)

The people who hate linkedin with a burning passion (or at least see it as a bizarre, soulless hellscape of inauthenticity) are people who see sentences like this and think "the horror, the horror".

Maybe you really do "live at the intersection between NLP and financial marketing" but to me that just sounds like bullshit.
why doesn't someone just use this strategy now?
This is an inaccurate narrative. The more wealth inequality there is in a nation, the less that increases in the money supply effect the economy. This is why we have no inflation with trillions injected. The rich simply store the money in assets like stocks and houses and it never touches consumption.

The only thing that needed to happen to keep the economy afloat was the Congress passing their bills.
It's a bummer the link to his notebook is broken in the comments. Do you know of a backup repo that includes the sound files? I'd like to give this a whirl.
Most Americans don't have disposable income to invest in the stock market.... there is no amount of investing that will turn their "barely making ends meet" wages into a living wage.
Huh. Given that the City will lose its preeminent spot in the world of finance, I assumed traders would be anti-Brexit. What's the (typical) trader's reasoning?
I really wonder what is the issue causing this. I bought two wakemates, one for myself and one for my mom as I'm home for the holidays, and for the past 3 nights each unit has functioned perfectly. As the package instructions say, before using them the first night we let them charge overnight for a full night because it said to charge fully before using the first time. The first two nights of usage we didn't charge the bands at all and they worked fine. After that we left them connected to the wall chargers all day, and they worked fine last night.

iPod touch and iphone here, but if the devices don't even talk to the phone during the night, I don't see how that variable makes a difference.
It's true.. a lot of the patches are forgotten unless the submitter periodically "pings" Bram (the maintianer) about it.

The vim development model (patches + mailing list) has been pretty frustrating for some people. That's one of the reasons why NeoVim was forked.
Targeted performance improvements tend to make specific operations more efficient. Elegant architectures tend to completely eliminate huge swaths of duplicate and unnecessary operations, and so typically have the opportunity for much greater performance improvements.
Probably because I'm 14 years into a 30 year project... restoring a longleaf pine ecosystem.

A second reason is the night sky. There is no way to properly describe walking outside on a dark cold night, and looking up. Thousands of stars. The occasional bit of debris reentering in a blaze of fire across the sky. Staring at aircraft lights, wondering if they are passenger, military or something else. The dark night sky isn't really dark at all, it is full of wonder.
This is one of the most scattered and unreadable articles I've seen in a while. It took me two passes to figure out what exactly Gillmor was trying to say.

This is yet another example of someone whose life revolves around the "social media" echo chamber having next to no idea how regular people use the internet. Gillmor might use dozens of nearly-useless social networks and thus think that "the stream" is overtaking email, and he might assume that this is a common problem because Robert Scoble and Dave Winer agree with him, but I don't think that regular people, whose lives don't revolve around the never-ending churn of new social networks and new gadgets, would agree in the slightest with almost anything he wrote. They probably wouldn't even understand what exactly he was talking about.

Sure, in the mainstream Facebook is definitely starting to take the place of email, but I don't think that's more of a product of convenience than it was a product of people being overwhelmed by "the stream". I mean, seriously:

"What happens now is that these stream objects are lit up with transactional properties. Code gets run based on incoming events, pulling it out of the teeming inbox before we see it and converted into actions predetermined by our inference engines and workflow rules."

That sentence describes the workflow of maybe 0.1% of the general population. Commentators need to look outside of the echo chamber once in a while before declaring that Google needs to change course because it doesn't fit their extremely niche needs.
Its probably articles like this one that pushed TSA to go to its current extreme.

What I don't understand is that they are screening pilots for weapons, who once they pass the screening, are then given control of the plane, which itself can be used as a weapon.

Some have said we can trust those working at the airport not to place dangerous things on planes because they get background checks. But apparently the ones entrusted with a very big weapon, the pilots, have to be checked for small objects.

And, of course, these scanners don't do cavity checks, another way things can get on the plane. Are those coming next?

I'm just glad they have those bomb-proof plastic bags to contain exploding liquids that do get through security.

Of course, the real problem is that we are afraid to give more attention and ask a lot of questions of passengers that certain criteria. Seems all we know how to do is look up names on a list. Anything more complex is too much to handle.

As I understand it, Israeli security asks suspicious passengers a lot of questions about their trip and background. And they've had very few problems considering the hostile situation they're in.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel...
I don't see why you where down voted, but I did read the message thread and both my comment and the comment of the grandparent make sense after having read the series of messages.
How does that affect your buying process? Does it get in the way of looking for what you need?
Perhaps I wasn't lonely before because I didn't have it, so it couldn't be gone.

This, too. It's absolutely true, at least for me.
I'm also curious what protection or approach is taken to avoid bad things happening to single females renting a room through Airbnb.
Do you mean international shipping or just availability of books on Amazon's non-US sites?
It's up to the franchise owner but it can work the other way too. This particular venture was done from the top down. Subway's CEO ran into us at a trade show and he was able to make stuff happen, which was pretty cool.
It would probably include a few types of tea, plus a tea mug (with a mesh infuser for steeping the loose-leaf tea and a lid to maintain water temperature), some measuring utensils, etc.
Wait... the naive-Bayes was trained on Yelp data? Isn't Yelp data also crowd-sourced information? I may not be thinking about this right, but it seems to me that training the classifier on crowd-sourced data and then comparing that to Mechanical Turk... that in the end you're just comparing the quality of the crowd-sourced data to each other?
A lot of the problem in enacting such a thing is that manufacturers have completely bought into this as a way of life. Take the Samsung Galaxy S lineup, four practically identical phones on four different carriers, with four different names with four different types of lockdowns and preloaded software ontop of Android.

I can't think of a single reason why that makes sense, yet I have a Galaxy S in my pocket right now.
It's not a tiny fraction, it's an undetectable fraction. Keeping electronics 10% longer wouldn't many many times as big a difference, it would make many orders of magnitude more difference.

Commenting that this is waste is like commenting that all the astronauts coming to the launch site in personal vehicles is a waste of fuel. You're about to burn in 10 minutes more fuel than anyone will likely ever use in their entire life. It doesn't matter at that point.

Please don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that since you can't change the big picture, you shouldn't do anything at all. I'm just saying you shouldn't blow things out of proportion.
Do NOT breathe that in.
In fact you're comparing individually crowdsourced data to massively mechanically aggregated crowdsourced data. When viewed like this the results are not in the least surprising.
Very interesting. Those ML models must be huge, I wonder if they are using Spark or something else to run those models.
It appears it is trivial to discover similar content on the platform right now https://www.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=stop%20the%20steal

What AI are they using? It must be like a toddler.
Disagree. I’d rather prefer a practical view —- Big social media tech in internet age have the practical means to perform censorship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the... was a metaphor for writing to oppose the draft during World War I. It was a bad decision that has been partly overturned.
Same thing that would happen if the owner of a restaurant asked the president to leave.
Censorship is the state saying "you cannot say this".

Trump is still free to say whatever he likes, and Twitter is still free to moderate its platform.
This was the right move by Twitter at the right time.

If they had blocked his account years, or even months ago, they would have had maintained no credibility as a platform, in the pocket of the left, etc.

If they don't take a stand now, they're all but complicit in perpetuating this [riot? attempted coup? insurrection?]

That said, people should be careful what they wish for: we don't want a couple of powerful media platforms deciding which speech is considered permissible and which isn't. They have to be very conservative in their approach or these platforms will cease to carry any authority.