jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would recommend Sergei Mihkalkhov's Disobedience Holiday. Soviet children's writing was very high quality and at par with what was being written in the west. Perhaps the Soviet ones had better art too and were well printed and bound as well.

Even the lush Soviet inks had a peculiar inviting smell.
The web ended up setting back UI 20 years. Everything good from the 80s and 90s is being slowly and haphazardly recreated in the web browser, and we're still not to where we were in the late 90s.
The author's point is that predictive coding is a plausible mechanism by which biological neurons work. ES are not.

ANNs have deviated widely from their biological inspiration, most notably in the way that information flows, since backpropagation requires two way flow and biological axons are one-directional.

If predictive coding and backpropagation are shown to have similar power, then there's a rough idea that the way that ANNs work isn't too far from how brains work (with lots and lots of caveats).
> Internet marketplaces also have managed to deal fairly successfully with the incentive problems that arise in long-distance and semi-anonymous trade, and in doing so have enabled the entry and participation of small suppliers and ‡exible workers into many markets.
> my email is in my profile

It is? http://i.imgur.com/WRSmk6n.png
Fish oil supplementation is, like most other supplementation, really only applauded by the supplement industry.

There's no proof any of it does much, which is why here in the UK all supplement advertising has to include disclaimers like "May benefit the elderly or those on a restricted diet"
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The part about doing any drug without skepticism. I'll wait.
So you are still stuffing USB keys to your floppy drive?
I think you are proving parents point. Room for a tremendous amount of growth.
I don't agree that there's been an abnormal increase recently; any time Apple launches something major, there's always a followup period in which Gruber does a bunch of his "claim chowder" or similar posts. Similarly, there's usually a short burst of them around quarterly-filing dates, going after market commentators. And, true to form, he's been doing a lot of that lately with iPad coverage, and those posts will probably start tailing off soon.
Somewhat agree with you. I recently blogged about why you shouldn't publicize that you are doing an A/B test http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/3-contr...

Though as you say, the target market and HN crowd isn't exactly overlapping but there may be curious folks who can skew the results or the difference of performance between variations.
"Women feel, while men think" is essentially
a solved debate as far as gender issues go.

Really? Because this is, on average, true. Whether or not it's biological or cultural is another argument, but I think that is also up for debate. The fact is that Meyer-Briggs test show that women are much more likely to be "Feeling" over "Thinking" on that axis of the test.

Now, you can debate all you want over the validity of these personality tests, but when women are asked how they react to situations, they tend choose to select the "feeling" axis. Perhaps that's not actually what they think, and they're just trying to conform to female stereotypes, but I really don't think it's resolved at all.
In what way would this influence things? Sure, it might draw some additional uninterested visitors, but that will just depress conversion rates all around, not exclusively for A or B. The results remain valid.
Make sure you don't have AdSense installed as well!
"If winning is not important, then Commander, why keep score?" --Lt. Worf
It's a good article, but I was really hoping they'd prove the earth round (or not). Sadly the only mention is the title.
Indeed the link was a lot more useful in clarifying terms. It's a shame that the media themselves misuse the term aerosol in this context.
So Google successfully forced content producers, distributors and TV manufactures to adopt smart TVs, capable of showing google ads and ad sense.
Given the deontologists and consequentialists have not quite reached a definitive answer, I'm not sure how everyone would agree with this definition of "more ethical".
>wanting to try to tackle a problem where millions of people of this country can’t be trusted to personally vet what they read/watch online?

Yeah, I don't trust them to do anything remotely competent here. They've happily accepted ad spend from Trump, as-if the past four years were any different. Google is the problem, not the solution. They're an advertising and surveillance company - the last company to be trusted on "vetting" anything. They're entire business model is to get people to click on ads and open their wallet based on "marketing" - which itself is a form of manipulation. For me, Google is at a negative trust level.
This laptop is probably used by staffers in their 20s and 30s. It's not like Nancy Pelosi is administrating IT security.
Wait, there were armed people storming the building and police supporting them. You think their first priority was, "Better secure this workstation attached to a projector!" and not, "Dear god I hope I don't get murdered today!"
We have that. It's called n-gate.com
From Wikipedia (I know...):

> Many scholars consider a coup d'état successful when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days.

They didn't seize and hold power for any time whatsoever. They had no plan. They had no organization. They did not execute a plot in any way. They were rioters. There was nothing close to what could be constituted as overthrowing of the government.
you missed the part where the cops let them in and took selfies
One or two hiding in the crowd could be enough. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was at least one spy from some adversarial nation.

From a security perspective, I think they will need to assume everything is potentially compromised and go from there. Remote wipe, scan for microphones and cameras, etc.
> If you plug a deceive with a different mac address than expected into an ethernet port the port locks down until a sysadmin verifies it and manually unlocks it

Reckon they'd immediately block this laptop's MAC address after it gets reported stolen? If not, that's reason enough to steal it - clone the MAC address and plug in your own device which is now whitelisted. Of course this isn't enough on its own and you likely need some compromised credentials too.
I've only had excellent experience with Krisp, but I have a semi-pro USB mic I use so perhaps it makes all the difference. Sounds great also with a macbook built-in mic.

That said, I'm interested to see open source alternatives as I'm interested to see how they work.
> Canadian media covered the freedom protest in Ottawa as nazi confederates looking to overthrow the government. This was utterly false.

You grossly exaggerate throughout your post. You are behaving exactly in the way that has discredited the protests. Quit shooting yourself in the foot like a damn fool! Report honestly, and you’ll find that people will grant you more credibility.
The latter might be more like: Microsoft > Hardware OEM Partners > Enterprise IT > 3rd-Party Windows Devs > Small-Business IT > Users
As with many things, working from home entails tradeoffs whose [dis]advantages will be weighted differently.

For me, it's great when I need to concentrate and bang out the code. No distractions, and I can poll IMs instead of needing a context switch when someone drops by. If I'm stuck on a problem I'll go for a walk, cook food, or take the laptop out to a coffee shop to work. I enjoy the flexibility.

Downsides for me: I do miss some of the random office chatter -- finding out cool problems coworkers have solved and generally learning by osmosis. And I have yet to find a great replacement for 3-4 people standing at a wall of whiteboards. IMs, skype and meeting highlights solve some problems. Our group is 2/3 remote spanning 8 time zones, so we're used to working a bit harder on communication.

As for social factors, it was hard at first. I'd find myself not leaving the apartment for weeks, which was less than good... I'm making an effort to get out of the house daily, whether hitting the gym, buying groceries, or just strolling around. This is getting easier, especially as spring seems to finally be hitting Boston.

The biggest non-technical advantage for me is not needing a car. I detested commuting. Instead of spending an extra hour or two driving I can take breaks (or even naps) in the day and have the same "door-to-door" time. Financially, it's also a winner. I don't even know how much gas costs here. There are 4 zipcars within a few blocks if I need them.

Work-life separation is trickier. I'd love to have an apartment with an extra room for an office, but that would likely cancel out any vehicle savings. Getting a separate desk to split work and personal computing helped a ton here.
And gratuitous roundtrips are fun, too :P

(You're uploading the data in order to then convert it client-side. Groxx noticed this too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464347)
The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: “Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”

In that sense, it might be useful to think about two kinds of procrastination: the kind that is genuinely akratic and the kind that’s telling you that what you’re supposed to be doing has, deep down, no real point.

From: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/10101...
Can't argue with that. I'm a Thai Forest Tradition man myself. But I have a soft spot in my heart for Zen, formed back when I was a teenager and in the thrall of the exact same aesthetics that have made it such a buzzword on the internet today.
I like the idea very much, and have a suggestion for you, if you are trying to be non-partisan, as indicated by your comment. I think you should change some of the colour scheme on the website, especially on the won/lost bar, because using red to denote loss, and blue to denote winning makes it seem like you are 'siding' with the democratic party. You might also want to change the colour of the banner, and possibly hide the number of votes for each side on incomplete polls, so as not to make users feel like part of a small minority who participates (which would be discouraging), unless there are a large number of voters.

Disclosure: I am a Canadian with no interest in US internal politics, and would just like to see this kind of site succeed.
Yii is the PHP gateway drug to Rails. :)

Once you get the hang of Yii's ActiveRecord implementation (with scopes, behaviors and relations), you're a fair chunk of the way to a) understanding how to use Rails' version effectively, b) coming to loathe CodeIgniter, Zend Framework and CakePHP for not providing similar functionality.
> And so there will be quite a few samples of a thousand that are higher than 66% 1-4.

Yes, roughly half of them. But that's not the point. The point is that the vast majority of those will be only slightly more than 66%. You won't see huge discrepancies.

Taking your example, you would expect out of 1,000 samples for about 333 to be 5 or 6. Suppose you actually got 33 (or fewer). What would be the probability? It is 7 * 10^-125. That's 0.0000000[...]000007 with 124 zeroes before the seven. 330k samples is nothing compared to that improbability. You would expect to roll dice for longer than the lifetime of the universe to see such an unlikely event. Or you might conclude that the dice aren't fair.
> Zuckerberg's response: "I'm building a company that I would want to work for if I hadn't started FB. And I would want to work at a place that shares openly."

Still sharing everything 15 years later
Are you able to ask your current employer if they can switch you to 3 day weeks? or 4 day weeks?

Also government jobs might be worth it - almost every friend I know who works in government says they are full of slackers. It might get busy during the end of the quarter but other than that, it's quite lazy from what I hear.
Work for scientists.
These are crimes reported by victims so I think it’s not the same as buying weed or knocking a bodega and getting caught.
They can coordinate their power; it's called "government". Government employs about 15% of the labor force in America, and that's not even including contractors for whom government is the only customer.

Any large-scale coordination will necessarily eclipse the individual and take on a life of its own; you can't really have it both ways.
On mobile that link redirects to a generic landing page, but thank you.

Web marketers take note. If you redirect from a product page to a landing page, you are making it harder for people to give you money and harder for people to spread the word about your products.
Using the general public as guinea pigs is not ethically sound at all.
Good reminder on the potential issues of being a thought-worker. Companies think they own everything in your head, regardless of whether they would actually act on the idea or not. Keep that in mind as you dream up your next big startup while working at your dayjob... or even when you get home from it.
They have 500 million users. It's probably easier to shoot first and ask questions later, because even if you kill 1000 users a day, you still have a lot of users.

Remember, Facebook is about one thing: eyeballs. If some eyeballs cost them money, it's easier to lock them out than to work with them.

If you don't want some large company to shut down your website, host your own.
A Flattr intern and I were discussing a Pay by Facebook button and we made a point that in order for Flattr to scale, it would need better integration into popular services. Before putting a Flattr button for comments, just integrate it into Disqus so that anyone with Disqus on their blog can now receive Flattr donations. http://ericelias.posterous.com/facebooks-credits-will-trump-...
RockBand is an example of successful application with minimal features. There are many failures that you newer hear about because they lock feature.
Holy shit, thank you for this!

edit: 5 minutes (and -$10) later, I now have a portable third monitor that I can bring with me anywhere in the house. Plus I can easily test my iPhone app in the simulator using real touch gestures, without building to a device (not every gesture is working, but this is still awesome).
You are correct that this is not normal. Both sublimetext and vim make this easy to avoid. I recommend sublime
Any e-pub that has proper drop-caps or LaTex-like hyphenation is always a surprise.
I'd appreciate details of CPU consumption as well. Minute amounts of memory are of no concern for many people, but everyone prefers snappier browsing, every time.
Does the deactivation of Google Analytics impact the user negatively?
I'm not a conspiracy theory type but I wonder how much was declassified vs. how much was not. Do you wonder if this is the mundane stuff the US Air Force releases to be able to give them an argument against UFO phenomenon?

I loosely follow this subject. I get excited when guys like Stanton Friedman speak. I got real interested in this subject when the whole Rendlesham Forest thing exploded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident

And even Niel Armstrong believes. Wasn't there an unencrypted radio communication that was recorded between NASA and one of the space shuttle missions where the astronautes describe a UFO being observed of some sort?

All this just makes me wonder how much is not declassified or if it is declassified that it's probably down played as something other than a UFO???
feel emotions (sad, happy) and take the time to process them (boredom) to be creative?
The leak is from 2019 though
Because ACPI is garbage.
I drop in and out of frequent reading. I find that using my Kindle really helps bring me back into the habit, because I can read in any lighting and it always keeps my place (for some reason I never use bookmarks in real books). Once I've read the Kindle for a bit, I'm ready to put my hands back on real books.

Maybe reach for something easy, too--a book or series you enjoyed in your youth, long enough ago that you won't remember every detail. Save Tolstoy for later :)
So much of what is considered private "PII" today was considered public information only a generation ago. When I was a kid (1970s):

- Names, addresses, and phone numbers were published by the phone company in a book and given to everyone.

- Hospital admissions/discharges were published in the local newspaper.

- Social Security Number was used for everything. Many people included it on their pre-printed checks. Engraving it on valuable personal posessions was encouraged, for help identifying them if they were stolen.

None of this was considered a real violation of privacy, or at least I never heard anyone really express any concerns about it. Unlisted phone numbers were a thing, but very few people had them and it cost extra to have one. Most people wanted to be in the phone book so others could contact them.

I guess the big thing that's changed is identity theft is now a thing. That's because it's become possible to "identify" yourself by providing enough information about yourself without actually being physically present. Also online harassment/doxxing. All of which is only a problem because everything and everyone is online now. That is the real problem, not the information itself. Of course there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
No need, we are all intelligent here. Maybe the sources are a bit lacklustre but it still opens up for a really interesting conversation. I mean maybe someone would approve of the US government supporting free speech in lets say China. That is it is very possible that the government is supporting this covertly but with good intentions.

Even if the article isn't factually correct or even clickbait it can still be food for thought and a good starting point for a discussion?
I have to be honest, I struggle to think of a scenario where simply putting the computer to sleep isn't the better option. If power draw is a concern, just power the computer off? It's certainly not worth having a 16 or 32 GB swap partition on my machine just to enable hibernate
Starting a reading accountability group has been incredibly helpful for me. Every day we post what we've read as we try to make reading (even the tiniest bit) a daily habit.
Aside from an easily-missed sidebar, there's nothing that indicates what flynn was. This happens a lot it seems with XXX is dead posts on HN. The link is to something that says that XXX is dead but there's often little or no indication of what XXX was in the first place.
I'm genuinely curious why you're still pushing the oppressor narrative, given that you see how it's being used as a weapon to enforce equality of outcome? instead of equality of opportunity.
Delivery contracts make them first in line.
or, just hear me out, not use k8s and avoid 90% of the problems in the first place.

There are some specific places that k8s can shine, but easy scaling(1000 nodes +) and low management overhead isn't one of them.
Easier to exercise when there's a purpose to it.
I've found the Django ORM to be, in my own opinion, one of the easiest ORMs to hit the ground running with. What was the confusing aspect of updating relational data for you?
People who aren't arrested and convicted don't show up in crime stats, so crime stats and punishment stats are identical. You're begging the question.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/ema-denies-alr...

Its like a game of ping-pong...
I'm glad to see you're doing something more productive with your time.
> "We also have no clue of how to program within specs at scale. Basically every month we have a huge breach at a major company."

So many of these breaches are caused by absolutely boneheaded mistakes, some of which are known bad practices dating back to the '90s like allowing SQL injection, that I'd say that, no, we darned well do know how to do this. We are simply failing to hold developers (and their employers) accountable for knowing how.
Nobody becomes a reporter at the Washington Post if they're just interested in reporting facts - they get a byline because they're interested in telling a story that needs facts to work.
It's less about confidence in the product and more about having a product that is the right fit for you. Companies like Microsoft are at the very high end of requirements and complexity. Dynamics is more targeted at small to the low end of large enterprise companies.
> Everything has gone from centralized to distributed.

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google like this. (Microsoft also does.)

The illusion of decentralization given by "you don't need a publisher, you need Amazon" and "you don't need marketing, you need a Facebook page" is one of their most successful creations. We haven't gone decentralized. We've given even more power into singular technology monopolies and eliminated many of the intermediaries that gave us actual choice of who to ask for publishing and how to market our products.

Now it's "sell it on Amazon"/"market it on Facebook" or you just don't exist at all.
While this seems to be an horrible attempt to replace NPM, how are the other attempts going?
(d) performing work on a moving train is a bug, not a feature.
Great article. Many thanks!
You're right, I'll never read them. However I'm collecting a shitload of pdfs, I convert them to HTML, put them in an ElasticSearch database, so I can search their content when I need it.

It's more like a complementary documentation database.
The possibility of them being acquired is discussed quite a bit, but of what value is Gox to a potential acquirer at this point, considering they've indeed hemorrhaged money? What remaining assets or loyal customer base would make it worth millions of new capital?
Hey apunic

Thanks for the feedback!

We were initially hesitant in posting this on HN because of this exact reason. However, this was actually posted on our blog and people actually found the content useful. This included not only those who were searching for space, but also serviced office operators and some of the largest commercial agents in London.

We decided to post it on here this week to see if people had the same problems in London, but also in other cities.

The market is very opaque, so it took us a while to figure out and articulate these issues.
It does seem to be a competitor. They could use the same infra to do the HP versioning and builds. Some NIH going on?
The key here seems to be the level of automation, which is great to see.
This is a pretty cool project. Does anyone know if a copy of the node binary is made for each request? My concern is that if it's ~10MB on every request that could become problematic.

It looks from the code that it runs your JS through it's own virtual machine, though. I can't imagine funnelling Javascript through Javascript through Node being worth while.