jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As someone who has now experienced both sides of the dichotomy (80 hr weeks underpaid and overworked in academia, 40hr weeks bored out of mind doing coding), a compromise would be great.

Personally I'm hoping to keep my job to pay the bills and start a garage lab and pursue my passions in science. It'll severely be underfunded, but I'm hoping to conceive things that can be done with machines that hopefully costs only as much as a boat would. Further, Richard hamming is on to something [1] when he suggests that great science happens when resources are scarce.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
On HN the distinction between "that's idiotic" and "you're an idiot" doesn't matter a whole lot (though you're right of course that the latter is worse) because both vibrate at the frequency that drives HN threads mad.

This isn't about swearing, it's about discussion quality. Inflammatory epithets are noise, distract from the substance of what you're saying, and dramatically lower the expected value of the thread by increasing the odds of an uncivil, low-substance spat. Conversely, if you edit that out and stick to substance, your argument will come through more clearly and you will increase the odds of high-signal replies.

Your account doesn't have a history of being uncivil, so we've unkilled the flagkilled comments upthread.
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Making cents on a dollar, whether from non-whiteness or non-maleness, is hardly an inferiority complex. But hey - don't just take my word for it, see for yourself. Go to a McDonalds and request an item from their 99c menu. When they ring it up, say you only have 3 quarters. When they stare at you, tell them they just need to get over it... and please, don't forget to let us know how it worked out.
Alternative theory: "modern, postindustrial society" means dysfunctional economy.

> Men dominate just two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most over the next decade: janitor and computer engineer. Women have everything else--nursing, home health assistance, child care, food preparation.

We're living in a country where almost all the projected growth professions produce no capital or exports.

This is really all about a shitty job market, heavy on consumption and health care, not some boys vs girls thread.
I think it's much more about expectations. People from poorer countries have much lower "needs". They live in smaller homes, use worse electronics, use older cars etc. They expect less, so their needs are lower. Once they become richer their needs will grow too.
All articles I've read on DIY box fan purifiers suggest sealing the filter to the fan with tape; the box fan filter they used for this definitely does not do so.
odd since you know it says that as a warning on every icognito page what the purpose of it is, it is so disassociate history being logged locally so other people looking at your browser history cant see what you did. noone said its not being tracked. icognito from the perspective or your locally preserved state in the browser, not anyone elses...
My business has been using a Gmail account for email registrations etc for many years. I think the Gmail limit is 500 per hour.
chrome the program could not make network requests to known tracking domains
We can't be completely sure, but the assets, sales, and employee numbers look reasonable to me.

The only weird corporate structure I found was Studio Ghibli. Their museum's store (but not the museum itself) is run by Mammayuto Co., Ltd.[1] This company loses 60 million yen a year but has only 1 million yen in liabilities. I'm guessing it's a way for Studio Ghibli to avoid taxes of some kind.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=https:/...
I think it would be safe. In the Carrington event the damage was caused by currents induced in long wires.

Of course we have a lot more long wires now so the problems would be correspondingly larger.

I suspect that more damage would be caused by secondary effects than the direct effect of the induced currents. Some power lines would trip out and this would add extra load to other circuits which would trip out even if not affected by the direct effects of coronal mass ejection. In a poorly designed or poorly maintained power distribution system this will cause a cascade of failure that can disable power supplies and communications over a huge area. This sort of cascading failure happened in the US North East in 2003, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003.

See https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0902magnetic-storm-disrupts-te... for some first hand comments.
If this is true about Apple, it is true in any retail situation.

It’s not what people mean when they say ‘you are the product’.

What they mean is that if you aren’t paying, then the company is only interested in retaining you as a user so that they can satisfy their actual customers.

When you are paying, you are the customer

It’s also true that iOS developers are customers of Apple’s distribution service.

Buy Apple’s users are not a product in the sense that anyone uses this phrase.
The summary of that comment is "we have to include a ton of stuff that will never be relevant to most users like payments APIs that only work in India."

This is why some global apps have different apps for different countries. It's a trade off. Would you rather have a single fat Uber app, or have to download Uber India when you arrive there?
Flaw in democracy relative to what?

Thought experiment. Zuck & Co., fed-up with U.S. immigration policy, skip the PAC and just import foreign labor in heavily-armed gunships past Navy defenses. Sounds preposterous, but that just goes to show how desensitized people living in democratic countries are to the plight of humanity. A system that forces elite minorities to get buy-in from the majority instead of unilaterally imposing their will is a historical aberration and still not enjoyed by most of the world.

The Tea Party is a great example of the resiliency of democracy. Money buys influence, but billionaires must at least make the case that their interests are aligned with those of the majority. Again, it's not clear what you can do about this within a capitalistic system. The factory owner can always tell his workers: "universal healthcare will be bad for you because I won't be able to keep all of you employed if my taxes go up." And that message will always be tremendously compelling.
Bitcoin isn't anonymous at all. It's at best pseudonymous, but even that is pretty easy to break. There are companies who do nothing but provide analysis services that link real people to bitcoin addresses.
Any good resources on how to go about implementing this?
I talked with them a bit about it at various times. To me, their core value proposition should be "make IT's life easier."

An adversarial relationship with every company's IT department is a rocky road.

When with minimal product pivoting, they can be the savior of IT. Don't bill yourself as "replace IT," do so as "rapid prototyping."

What's the biggest pain in the ass about internal product development? Getting users to explain what they do and tell you what they want built.

By giving them the ability to self-execute, you invert that. "Mock up what you want in UiPath. Run it for 6 months to a year to tweak it how you want it. Then come to us and have it implemented properly."

Cleaner, more accurate specs (because they come from actual production); business does value discovery on their own; IT doesn't have to deal with hotball "this needs to be built in the next 14 days" demands trashing their strategic timelines.
A.I. is going to be a new wave to legal dark ages.

since the 90s everything that involved a computer was not prosecuted because lawefforcement/regulation didn't have the skills, not for lack of laws. But new laws were created spelling out computers.

A.I. is the same, it is not nothing different from enforcing existing laws and regulations, but because the agencies lack the skills, we will see a new wave of stupid laws that only misses the point instead of proper training and funding of what we already have.

There is zero need for new laws if a company doesn't hire or sell to a minority group, or their products explode, or whatever. No matter how much they scream it was the bad-brain-in-the-computer fault. Sadly, lots of companies will get away with this silly defense for a while.
I remember the founder interviewed me to be CEO, when he hit the investment and publicly insulted Papa Elon for kudos and bad assness. The guy was a jerk on the phone and 10 mins in I told
Him to piss off and thought to myself “wow - who would work with this guy” he’s been at it since 2016 so glad it didn’t flop, but looks like he ate his words to Papa Musk.

Nothin’ like some good old humble startup pie.
This is a link to the homepage. Is there a new announcement?

What is new about this? AFAIK Comma.ai has this since at least 2-3 years ago!
I don't want to wiggle into a car crash.
People talk. I'm in a specific industry and on a lot of industry specific mailing lists. When companies charge some of us extra, everyone quickly learns about it and that ends up making the vendor look bad and makes everyone in the industry seek alternatives.
There are various kinds of HFTs, and some will be ganked, but others are generally indistinguishable from trading that the markets believe are healthy (I'm familiar with more than one "buy-side-only" HFT firms, for example, who would still be profitable through transaction taxes and "order must stay in the market at least 5 seconds" rules which had been contemplated).

Though, I'd be surprised if any law gets passed and enforced against HFT as long as Goldman is HFTing. They have too much klaut to make that happen. Once they stop profiting from HFT - everything goes
Have you ever personally tried to optimize a Lisp program? It isn't terribly difficult, as optimizing goes. You have full access to control flow as far down as goto, and you can use machine integers and arrays. Depending on the implementation, you may even be able to use explicit pointers.

Obviously it isn't any closer to modern hardware than C, but as far from the hardware as the high-level parts are, the low-level parts are pretty reasonably close.
Surely this hypothetical bribed engineer will be identified during Apple's post-mortem. Hopefully he's a good liar, otherwise the NSA risks exposure that way. Even if he's a terrific liar, of course his reputation will be hurt: His 'mistake' caused Apple a major PR hit and engineering scramble that likely cost millions of dollars.

And for what? The NSA can hide money, but you or I would quickly find ourselves talking with the IRS if our spending or bank accounts rose dramatically without a commensurate rise in reported income. We could probably hide a few thousand dollars a month under the table, but that doesn't sound like it would turn the head of even a particularly amoral Apple engineer already making six figures.

I'm not saying this scenario is impossible. But to be plausible, it requires both the perpetrator and the NSA to take on a degree of risk that doesn't seem to match the reward for either.

If this is standard procedure for the NSA and happens often, given the risk involved, why hasn't anyone been caught at it and publicly exposed?

If the NSA made an exception and executed some unusually elaborate cloak and dagger to seduce or blackmail an Apple employee for this change, why do we think it was for this vulnerability and not the dozens of others that are discovered annually?
>I am tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology

yes, it is part of our species favoring r-selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

(progressives are the ones who favor K-selection)
Yep, the answer to this question for me is pretty much always "because I'm communicating", followed closely by "because I'm reading". Coordination and research are a bigger and more important part of my job than coding (which is also important).
I don't know if there is a way to restrict search by license, but you can see the license of every item it looks like most are under cc0.
Javascript triumph over Flash :D
It's not mentioned but the lessons are:

1. Use an unique CSRF hidden field in the form that only users on Facebook can get and so it's them that can submit posts to their wall. (More: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cross-site_re... )

2. Regarding video; Don't allow Javascript code to be submitted and presented anywhere. The code to link to videos is unescaped javascript (with space) followed by a video link.
It took me a while to get this, so I made a helpful graph for everyone else as slow as I am.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22926250/pgResponse.png
In uni myself and a friend used this philosophy to get lab space and desks in the postgrad labs (we were undergrads and normally didn't get our own "private" lab space). We had keycards because we needed access for project work[1], found ourselves some unused space, unused desks etc figuring that if anybody minded we would just apologize and find someplace else. Nobody complained and by the time I graduated we had three desks, in three different labs. Besides the two of us, everybody else in my class had no private labs/desks :)

[1] http://dublindan.posterous.com/things-ive-worked-on-1
Indents are included with a simple up arrow with ipython, it also works if you are doing a backwards search (C-r), it just doesn't have the nice formatting you get when you first write the function.

Idle is a bit easier to edit the function though.
Given the inherent dodginess of so many 'social startups' already ("get piles of users now, figure out how to make a big pile of money from later"), this whole 'naughtiness' stuff bothers me. It's a short hop from naughty to 'actively unethical'.

Here's the question: given that you've already demonstrated that you don't really have a lot of regard for the privacy of fellow YC interviewees (however 'intentionally' you outed a bunch of people on Twitter), why should you be trusted with user data?

If you'll pull a stunt like this for seed money, what will you do to get VC money? Just wait until you've got 2-4 years of serious work on a startup and you're 'close' to serious profitability. What 'naughty' stuff will you do when you've actually got some serious skin in the game?
I think the section of the Wizard book (SICP) on streams may also prove helpful to those trying to gain a deeper understanding of lazy evaluation.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-24.html...
Inflation isn't a problem, it's a benefit.

With inflation it starts making sense to invest into human labor and knowledge instead of tangible physical things.

Progress accelerates and income distribution becomes less of a power law.

Inflation benefits you unless you're in the top 1 percent.
Not sure if this is what you're after, but there's also blind by the suckless.org community:

https://tools.suckless.org/blind/
You don't really need to believe in anyone's "vision", you just need to look at what's happening, right now. BTC's transactions fees are very high, and transactions are often stuck in the mempool for quite some time.

That does not happen with BCH.

It's all very well claiming that BTC is more "decentralized", but if you can't actually use it to cheaply and quickly transact, then what is the point?
Also re: io.js + Azure websites - looks like someone wrote a script to make it easier!

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-...
What about people that only want to use chat, without having the Facebook app. Especially since you don't need a Facebook account to use messenger.
Huh? No?

Here the input space is a set of dictionaries. A dictionary is a finite set of strings. A subset of the input space is a set of dictionaries.

Finite subsets of the input space are finite sets of dictionaries, thus they have bounded size.
that's an interesting approach, to just ask!

perhaps the question would be better directed at female colleagues former and present using an anonymous submission system like wikileaks set up, and newspapers currently use.

i have a feeling though it would be seen as narcissistic.
I think with time Typescript and Babel.js are to be merged, if you through in Strong Script to the mix I guess you have the future of JavaScript.
> He's essentially arguing for Probabilistic Programming without using the term. And saying it should be at the heart of all games, no just deep strategy games. Actually a step further he says it should be at the heart of any interactive software

I haven't grasped this at all from the article but let's assume that's what he said.

In that case I think he's 100% wrong. Many games are fun precisely because they are clear cut and straightforward with no probabilities or randomness. Best competitive games avoid random components altogether.
Number() only takes a single parameter. The correct version is:

['1', '7', '11'].map(Number)
> To increase fairness and justice.

It’s not fair for you to decide what other people own. Its injust for you to have that much control over other’s property.

> What's your justification for not?

According to you I am changing the law, same as you. Fairness and justice.

> A will is not a transfer. The law is very clear on this.

Thats not really the case, and I’m unconcerned aboit statutes that were written by oligarchs. A will is a valid transfer.

> Every possible political system does this

You’re not in a position to decide what is and is not possible.

> Property isn't voluntary.

Yes it is.

> It is coercively enforced by the state.

So what if you (incorrectly) believe this to be the case? You can’t imagine a possible political system without coercive enforcement so you’re unable to criticize property on this basis.

> It's literally not their stuff.

In any system of fairness and justice it is.

> Me: This stuff rightfully belongs to A, because of egalitarianism. You: This stuff rightfully belongs to B, because it belongs to B.

You: This stuff rightfully belongs to A, because of egalitarianism. Me: Its not egalitarian for you to dictate what other people rightfully own. That would be a hierarchy with you at the top.

> You're doing a basic circular argument.

No, I’m applying egalitarian principles to your proposed authoritarian restructuring of society.

> This is the thing with libertarianism - it's just pure status quo bias. "This person rightfully owns it because they own it".

Who cares about libertarianism? I’m sharing the joys of egalitarianism with you. Quit trying to dictate the world to the rest of us and embrace the pluralism of egalitarianism.

> Nothing to do with freedom, because property is coercive,

But you like coercion, so to you this isn’t a problem for libertarianism.
Which reality, in your opinion, is the real one according to measurements?
Removing them all is a simple matter of blocking DNS lookups for Google DNS addresses. There are only ~10 hostnames to block.

Sure, some features will break, but it won't be any worse than being disconnected from the internet.
What makes you think it is getting worse.

This particular incident seems to be a case of an overly aggressive manager who should have known better. That happens from time to time. The doctor should be reinstated.

In the meantime, vaccination volumes have doubled over the last month and another vaccine type is about to be approved. The US has vaccinated 12% of its population so far.
Arxiv could also take on that role.

Didn't they?
$('.loader').removeClass().addClass(text);

This function has a dependency on jQuery, even if I have "jQuery" unchecked. It's a simple enough function that you may consider replacing it with pure JS.
Quick math:

Density of air at sea level: 1225 g/m^3

C02: 0.0383% by volume (383 ppmv) corresponds to 0.0582% by weight.

Ergo, 1m^3 of air has 0.713 g of C02 in it.

Ergo pulling 1 metric ton (10^6 grams) of C02 per day requires processing AT LEAST : 10^6/ .713 = 1.4m m^3 of air per day or 16 m^3 of air per second!

(That would assume 100% capture)

I was skeptical that 1 cooling tower generates this much flow, but the example in [1] suggests 17*10^6 ft^3/minute, or roughly 8000 m^3/sec.

Thus, as long as your capture chemical has 2% efficiency, it seems reasonable.

[1] https://www.power-eng.com/emissions/cooling-tower-heat-trans...

[EDITED after I detected an error in my math]

The amazing observation for me is that evaporative cooling towers process A LOT OF AIR per second.
Up until very very recently, “retarded” did mean what we now refer to as mentally disabled

When I was young, it meant children who were not developing either mentally or physically to the timeline of a statistically average child.

It was not necessarily a pejorative. It was just a fact.
In case anyone is late to the party and missed the non-green lights on the AWS status dashboard, here is the page as of about 9:30 EDT...

http://screencast.com/t/p69xAoDJRSer
In English, when you say you have two "somethings", they're generally considered distinct. This is one of the gotchas when translating between English and math.
I thought yahoo's search results are now coming from bing...
Not news at all to someone in the digital forensic community: https://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-major-issues...
I think it's more a question of poor wording than a deliberate attempt to mislead.

No-one with any technical expertise would think that Dropbox was incapable of reading stored files. They'd have to know the encryption key in order to provide their web interface.

So as a technically proficient user, my interpretation of their statement is that they don't give normal employees access to their production encryption keys. However, if the government asks, then presumably they have a legal responsibility to comply.

My guess is that the Dropbox employees who made those statements were also technically proficient, and made the same assumptions I did.
This does seem to be something that needs to be broadly considered when it comes to new technology. For example, Netflix - one account for my household, but there's no separation between recommendations for my wife, my son, myself (which makes for some amusing confusion). In general, the possibility of personalization needs to be considered for applications where you want single-billing but might have many individuals within that account.
So what percentage of the top 1000 sites are now crippled by this?
Depending on how complex a curve, and how many dimensions it is in, couldn't you argues that is essentially what our brains do as well? Not that I am defending the massive hype field that is ML today, but curve fitting is a form of intelligence.
I can vouch for Mullvad. They don't do paid promotions like Nord or Express and enjoy a fairly good reputation. You can actually even pay them cash by mailing a fiver to Sweden with your account number on a note lol.

That's another plus. You don't actually have to register an account with them, but instead their website generates a random number for you that you use to log in. All in all they appear to be very transparent.
I usually implement this as Http delete with a json array of ids in the body.

Probably in violation of some standard, but seems sensible enough.
Kinda defeats the purpose though?

You lose the benefit of your traffic being aggregated with lots of other traffic.