jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes and it ignores deferred/async files.
This is an incredibly insightful post, YC companies are overhyped CRUD apps mostly. Meanwhile bitcoin and crypto has a a far larger market cap and is reshaping the entire economy. /s
If this got really bad then I could see how a site like wikileaks would use some secondary domain name service on addition.
The bug in malloc() is an old classic.

From my experience (about 20 years):

1- Obviously...

2- Some libraries are more reliable than others.

3- Missing, are you working for Valve?

4- I sometimes encountered compiler bugs, but it was things like compile-time crashes, never bugs in the generated code.

5- Never happened to me. Or at least no bugs that weren't documented (there is a BUGS section in manpages, read it).

6- Actually more common than the previous two. In fact extremely common in the embedded software business. But even with PCs, bad RAM sticks and things like that happen.
But then, that's my point. The initial, very high risk is underwritten by tax dollars. Only after something is proven to a degree, only after a certain amount of risk is removed, does corporate step in.

But then the rewards are realized by the corporation. I have no issue with the university getting some additional funding to keep working, and I don't see anything wrong with the inventor getting a taste.

But the idea that there is no product incentive without insane IP monopolies for the corporation - the same one that sat out the riskiest part of the whole deal - is wrong on every level. Where there is any profit potential so will there be a profiteer.

The heaviest risk is borne by the taxpayer, and yet they are then asked to pay exorbitantly for the final product, which is often a burden too difficult to bear. It's mind numbing to me then any argument which tries to convince me of how this system is even close to the best we can do.
Pittsburgh will be getting it's first bike sharing program this May, with 50 stations and I believe about 500 bikes.

If you've ever been to Pittsburgh you will immediately notice how hilly the city is in downtown and in neighboring Oakland. I look forward to the bike sharing program but I don't believe people will be very willing to bike uphill a significant distance without some reward like you are suggesting.
Well, to be fair, you were infringing on their trademark (or whoseever trademark it was previously).
Fallacy: a false or mistaken idea. an often plausible argument using false or invalid inference.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/fallacy

Sure, it's a mental map, but why do you disagree with that being a fallacy?
the example of the drunk woman in the bad part of town, she is responsible only for increasing the probability that that she would be raped, but she is not responsible for the rape itself.

This assumes that it is easy to measure the probability of possible risk vs. possible benefit for every action that an individual makes. I'd say that something like that is very difficult to do, given that our desires don't always coincide with what is objectively rational.

Of course we could decrease the probability of bad things happening to us if we stay at home most of the time and don't break any rules/norms, but that would rule out acting on many of our desires.
I wonder how long it will take for a Chatroulette-like app to come out, using these new video call features? Assuming they expose it through an API.
Can you post it or pastebin for those who don't have it? Thanks!
This article talks about anecdotes vs analytics, but in the end, it advocates anecdotes and analytics. It feels like anecdotes give you a gut feeling of where the opportunities are and that analytics give the gut feeling some substantive backing. Companies need to understand and use both types.
Just out of interest, how long had your app been in the App Store?
For a while I was carrying around a Hipster PDA, complete with Space Pen.

I've now taken to using a small, thin bound notebook thing, roughly the size of an index card, and a gel pen. I find the pen better for the kinds of drawings I do.

I need some no-brainer way to carry this around with me in the house. I sometimes think I need to Velco stuff to my forearms.
>Guess who they called to fix it? The NSA. What a disgrace.

Europeans love to believe they are fighting evil America without realizing they are a collection of vassal states.
I'm looking for a system that can do calligraphic pens along paths. (I use this for cartoons).

I know Adobe Illustrator can do this. But Inkscape can't. (Yes, it has a calligraphic pen, but it is too direct, i.e., it doesn't allow the paths to be changed using the anchorpoints; it also doesn't allow the calligraphic strokes to be converted to paths).
Hey, it should be OK. You have to sign up as a Skills Matter member, it's free.
I agree. The site's not mine though, otherwise I would highlight the appearance more; the mind maps are really beautiful.
I don't see how this explains the poor functionality of the web client?

All a web client needs is persistent, large storage - which is provided by IndexedDB - and to access the network to reach the service's servers.

WhatsApp should be able to make a fully-functional web client.
Your solution wouldn't help: my browser would still request the image from your server, and you'd have to send me at least the headers. That in itself could kill your traffic cap. Instead, my request should send you the domain on which I want to display the image, and then you can give me a 400 error.
Maybe you're thinking my use of 'fired' in the archaic sense, but laid-off, made redundant, let-go, are equally the same terms when it's against the will of someone trying to keep a job.

The lowest bar I ever saw was a woman, but a new mother (baby was at home), get 'let go' after she came to me asking me how she could keep her job, because the managers were not giving her any work. I tried to give her some of my overflow, but was later scolded for doing so, and she was 'let go' that Friday. This is among many experiences I've had, including witnessing some nasty acts against my wife when she was 'let go'. The manager who fired my wife was at our wedding just a couple months before.

Apathetic capitalism reigns supreme.
Are you including the cost of people? That is, the cost of paying people to maintain the servers, develop the backend and design the frontend?
Joe Beginner huh? Is this just complaining that web development is hard? Seriously, why don't I start a rant saying: "hey building a house is hard, how the heck are us beginners supposed to do it?".

If you want a web-site made easy use Wordpress or something else that provides what is needed for basic scenarios out of the box. If you are expecting standard interfaces for web-servers, programming languages and web standards that are not going to change regularly as software development matures as a profession you are insane.

Just take an example of something that is already relatively standard like SQL, now write some SQL for MSSQL and then switch to Oracle...

Lets face it beginners should not be building non-trivial web applications where things like scaling matter. At least not on their own, and if they do they should expect it to be a challenge and a difficult learning process they will need to dedicate themselves to. .NET tried this, they wanted to make web development as easy as drag-and-drop. In the end .NET ended up with two things:

1. A ton of absolutely crap legacy spaghetti code in corporate web applications

2. An group of developers who never really learned how to write code or understand the first thing about real web development.
I'm not sure that more compute power = more science breakthroughs (scientific research is kinda screwed up the way it forces scientists to always validate their hypothesis of lose grant funding) ... but it can't hurt.
Ah, sorry, I assumed people would understand that from the post. I added (preview, not production-ready), is that better?
> 1) Have all your nodes syncing at the same time and connected.

That's not necessary. All you need is your nodes to connect and sync at a time before you notice a problem, or if after you notice a problem but accidentally let it connect (consider a non-technical user here).

> 2) Introduce file corruption and deletion.

If this didn't happen, you wouldn't need backups. By discussing backups, we're already assuming this might happen. Unless you consider backups to protect only against theft or fire. Accidental deletion and corruption are also major factors.

> 3) Have all your sync'd machines get the deletion.

That's what the system is designed to do, so that's a given.

> 4) Have Dropbox's file revision history go wonky on their side.

There well be one error that leads to both file revision history going wonky and the introduction of file corruption or deletion.

I'm not having a go at Dropbox, it works as expected. But backups need to be independent, not heavily integrated. Otherwise what you get is some kind of pseudo-backup that won't cut it in particular, relatively common failure modes.

It certainly isn't "one heck of a failure". It's one failure.
Joseph McCarthy and HUAC weren't the government?

Yes, under threat of government sanction, in violation of their first amendment rights, companies were coerced by the government to blacklist people. It was absolutely government driven. I never said it needed to be official.

Official or not, that's not what we're experiencing today, where republican lawmakers are threatening companies for not doing what they want, and the companies are mostly ignoring them.
> Especially with high performance ratings, she should have been getting bonus over target and extra stock.

In these companies each level has a compensation bracket. With high rating it’s easier to hit that upper limit and without timely promotion total compensation can take a nosedive when initial grant dies out.
My uncle in Iran has a ton of videos and photos from years of doing custom tours throughout the region. In case you really want to take the trip, you might get some good ideas here:

https://soroosh-travels.com/adventurous-tours-in-iran-nature...
"I'd also like to point out that the landlords mentioned here have an option that keeps them financially solvent, namely to sell the property."

LOL. No prospective buyer will be allowed to see the inside of the property. Anyone buying it knows it might be months or years before they can even take possession of the property and inspect whatever state it is in. IF landlords are even able to offload properties occupied by tenants, for sure they are doing that at a huge loss.
I remember using the first version of the Netscape browser that had this aesthetic and used this page.
Hm, I was not being particularly precise with my language because I was trying to make my explanation easily digestible, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

The null hypothesis is that there are no new particles or physics and the Standard Model predicts the magnetic charge of a muon. A 4.2 sigma result means that given this null hypothesis prediction, the chances that we would have observed the given data is ~0.0013% (chance this was a statistical anomaly). Since this is a vanishingly small chance (assuming no experimental errors), we can reasonably reject the hypothesis that the Standard Model wholly predicts the charge of a muon.
Under the thin veneer of civilized society it's still the law of the jungle; while our civilization may have become advanced, our DNA hasn't caught up. We are programmed to blindly accumulate as much as possible, because for most of our evolutionary history scarcity and disaster was always just around the corner. In modern times, it translates into those who already hold positions of wealth and power going for even more, at the expensive of everyone else. This has in turn been amplified by technology and globalization.

Having said that, historically we're still at a "high point". It's a cold comfort, but still..
Totally agree, drivers don't respect cyclists' right of way at all, and the bike lanes are often clogged with parked cars. But the bike lanes are still useful, and in places where a bike has to go into the road to go around a car, the cars _expect_ this. I don't have much good to say about the drivers around here, but they're definitely used to the road being filled with cyclists, e-bikes, and grandpas on their 三轮车.
No, probably it would involve explaining why that is bollocks. But I may be biased by the illusion of cognition.
"They were 'astonished' to find it almost completely wiped out staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA."

Not all S. aureus is MRSA; wondering if this is just poor phrasing or if I'm misunderstanding something.
Yes, this is what I did as well for almost a year.

Except that I eventually realized the frequency at which I had to add a !g in front of the query was above 50%.

I really wish I could use ddg as my default search engine. It's just not feasible.
I don’t know about Japan, but FWIW, that would be perfectly legal in the US and nobody would go to prison.

Simple nudity is not inherently sexual or pornographic.
> This is a vanity project not a serious campaign for president.

Which is exactly what most people thought about Trump's candidacy.

These days all kinds of stupid things happen. If you oppose Bloomberg (or any other candidate) you shouldn't sit back and just wait for his campaign to implode.
I don't think that's quite right. 1TB/mo of CloudFront bandwidth is $90/mo (per [1]). Also, that's the on-demand price. The price with volume discounts is much lower.

[1]: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#s=CloudFront&...
Except it wasn't, rather it was pithy and to the point.
*AWS
It isn't the doctor's job to improve medicine, it is a researcher's job.

Doctors can only prescribe to you the 15% chance of survival, knowing that there's no greater benefit to medicine. They're too busy seeing patients to improve medicine.
coolsunglasses - Why did Datomic seem slow to you? Can you describe the problems you had in detail? I'm not from Cognitect, just someone who is developing some prouducts that currently use Datomic among a few other databases.

Would love to hear some honest feedback. Maybe your struggles were because of the tech, earlier versions, bad hardware config, or mis-applied use case?
Oops, yes. Dot net was what I meant.
@krapp makes an incredibly valid point if you look at the autonomous car as a pairing of an android phone and a kia.

if you look at it more like leaves on the surface of a creek, i think the true power of autonomous travel becomes clearer. I know in this place the love of profit is paramount, but i firmly believe we should strive towards resembling the electron and not the intention behind the key press when it comes to infrastructure.
I see. Although I know for sure that it is possible to add images without having to upload them within a browser, I did 2+ years ago. Might have been some experimental feature though so your point might be still valid. And as a "trust issue" I guess it it valid nontheless.
I think that was his point?
I considered that before I posted, which is why I mentioned other treatment options that appear to have better evidence for their efficacy. It seems to me that's the most ethical thing to do when it comes to a life-threatening condition.
Bevy is modular, in the sense that you can remove higher-level parts/layers if you don't want to use them.

For example, you could use only the Bevy ECS if you didn't care about the rest.

You could replace `bevy_winit` (window creation using the winit library) with your own alternative.
Government agencies often have an inspector general's office responsible for reviewing misconduct complaints against the agency itself.

https://oig.justice.gov/hotline/submit_complaint
That's genius. I've seen it elsewhere too.

Again, you should expect every metric to be thoroughly gamed.
Ex-DC/OS user. This explains a lot.

One thing I'd like to say is that CoreOS was the best component of DC/OS by a long mile. We still use its fork (Flatcar) today.
They hold majority..

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There are 250 million units of mobilecoin, and majority of them are owned by the founders. Only 37.5 million have been distributed. With current price ($65), they're worth $14B already. This makes the project a scam and impossible for it to work as a reliable money that holds value. Bitcoin had no pre-mine and has been fairly distributed from the start.
Right, but Wuffs does. I suspect I misunderstood your previous comment.
Officially, not yet, but there is a good community-maintained plugin: `bevy_prototype_lyon`.
> Hong Kong has a very limited territory to build on, while most of the USA is free space. Yes, you are right on the bad government incentive.

Hong Kong has limited space but aren't utilizing it well. Tons of it is empty. See the pie chart here:https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_serv/statistic/landu....
>Would you seriously defend an article that discusses this as "factually accurate"?

Is it not factually accurate? Could local law enforcement not arrest you for doing it and subject you to a trial or try to coerce you into a plea bargain, if they didn't mind the response from the public or the courts ?

Moreover, would you not oppose an effort to remove such a law from the books? How do you imagine anyone would lobby for that to happen without discussing it?
Only a sentence in very rough terms as he's just stringing together an arbitrarily large number of noun phrases. The palindromes are of the form:

S -> "A man", "a plan", (NP,)* "a canal, Panama!"

which I suppose you could call a sentence.
There are a few things wrong with this sentiment:

* The risk of interacting with the first AGI is even harder to put an upper bound on. You might destroy the human race.

* Statistical NLP and ML might be useful "addons" to an AGI but they're unlikely to lead to its creation on their own.

* Google has a lot of really smart engineers and computer scientists, but AGI is neither an engineering nor a CS problem.
Apple did help release a phone in 2005, the badly-received ROKR -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_ROKR_E1

Collaboration on this started in 2004. It's not a smartphone but I wonder if this is what Woz (mis-)remembers.
Been getting ideas from Righthaven?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/righthaven/
If you lose your master server, you are running in a
degraded environment until you can rebuild ALL slaves from
scratch. This really sucks if you have a very large
database that takes a long time to rebuild.

I just tested this, and it's not quite true.

Assume you have 1 master, and 2 slaves(1=new master/2=additional slave) each replicating directly from the master. If they're in sync, then if you:

* shutdown the master
* shutdown slave1/new master
* remove slave1's recovery.conf file
* assign slave1 old master's ip address
* start slave1 as new master

then slave2 will follow and you'll still have a replicated set. If, instead of doing the shutdown/remove recovery.conf/startup dance, you touch the trigger file, a new timeline is created and the slave2 isn't going to follow that timeline. I haven't found a way to make a slave follow to a new timeline yet.
I don't think that's the issue. I think it is more of a case of whether or not the corporation and the foundation really are two separate organizations. Until the new director of the foundation arrived (Mark Surman), the foundation didn't really appear to do anything. To the IRS, this may have looked like the foundation was only a tax shelter for the corporation and not a real thing.

Now there's all this Drumbeat Festival stuff, etc.. coming out the foundation. Clearly they are trying to position themselves as a non-profit that advocates for the open web rather than just a company that gives away a browser. Owning a corporation that gives away a browser is just part of that cause. Hopefully that's how the IRS sees it.

Sadly, I don't think a lot of the foundation sponsored stuff really ever links up with anything happening on the corporate side. At least from the outside, it still looks like the corporation wags the foundation and not the other way around.

Edit: Yes, the foundation does own the corporation.
This proposal seems to make a lot sense for deciding what to tax, but I am curious about how this would affect who is getting taxed and where these changes would be felt.

It seems like decreasing taxes on labor (people) and increasing taxes on raw materials (things we dig out of the ground) would simply shift the tax burden away from urban areas (where people are) to rural areas (where the mines are).

Wouldn't this just make things worse for poorest parts of the country, like Appalachia, where the mining industry is typically the only provider of well paying jobs?
Been running 5.0.1 stock on a Nexus 4 for a week with no problems. Haven't got around to trying to build a 5.0.1 CM port yet but at least stock image I don't have to factory reset constantly anymore.
You can install updates via downloading the updating and flashing. This isn't too difficult (basically what you have to do if you run a ROM). It's often how people opt-in to updates that are rolling OTA before their device wins the OTA lottery.
They could use Whatsapp's Web interface to extract the data (including images/videos). A browser extension or a bookmarklet could do the actual work.
Why is keeping a chat history important? I don't take notes of IRL conversation I have, they're ephemeral.

Not trolling, honestly curious :-)
Far far more kills than was necessary for caloric content. This idea that early humans "took only what they needed from nature" is quaint. They took what they could use, which means basically whenever usefulness outweighed the risk of the hunt. I remember an early history class about a buffalo jump. Teacher told us that "all parts of the animal were used." Well, not that giant pile of bones. If the dogs were hungry, or one needed some fresh bones to carve a tool, some large herbavore was killed. Im sure that lots of useful meat was left to the elements, just as with hunters today.
Some exchanges have no traditional banking ties at all, so you have to send them some for of crypto in order to use them. It's also easier and quicker to move tether from one exchange to another than it is to receive a USD transfer and resend it to another, and that's ignoring regulatory issues.
You're underselling that one, because they count the coastline as a "border":

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/mapping-w...

> the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population
> would be difficult to file under terrorism

"Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."

I dunno man, the attackers had flashbangs, zip ties, molotovs... If the building had to be evacuated, then I'd say it counts as intimidation. It was certainly in pursuit of political aims.

I think this counts.
Something I used to think about during my tenure as a graduate student in computer security: has anyone written the definitive book/study/dissertation on why security incidents happen?

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's a very complex problem involving operational, economic, and technical factors, suggesting (as others have mentioned) it's not something that really can be "sold". Watching bugtraq for a while, I saw a lot of pure tech exploits (buffer overflows, SQL injection, other silly things like that) but also quite a lot of misconfiguration -- insecure passwords, lack of an enforced password policy, employees leaving the company without revocation of their credentials, etc.

Maybe a good commercial opportunity would be policy compliance checking tools. Imagine a simple policy like "the corporate network should not be accessible from the outside world". Would it be possible to check all firewalls/routers/NATs/etc. for compliance with this policy?
I've always refused to own a truck due to the "image" that people often have of pickup truck owners (which are everywhere here). I'd drive this.