jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yup. I don't think anybody has an inherent right to make a significant ongoing attempt to influence the public without people saying, "Well who is this person really?"

People living private lives should have that privacy respected. And journalists certainly have the right to agree to protect somebody's anonymity when they think the circumstances merit it. But if somebody is going to step onto the national stage, they don't have any sort of right to demand that everybody else help conceal obvious facts about them. Somebody is welcome to try that, of course, but the opsec burden is on them, not every other person with a keyboard.

As an aside, one of the things linked in this article was really helpful to me in understanding why Siskind's prose never worked for me: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-...
The main issue is we know IQ is meaningfully correlated with real world outcomes, but also that real world environments are meaningfully correlated with ranges of (non-normalised) IQ in a way we can't adequately explain or replicate. It's less obviously correlated with prior knowledge than most tests, but still very trainable (especially if you're a neural network with no generalised reasoning ability whatsoever...)

And like all types of performance test the "something" it measures is a vector of pattern matching ability (both the component generalisable to solving more difficult problems and the component that doesn't except in the domain of career-relevant tests) but also other things obviously correlated with future performance but not fitting most people's definition of intelligence (attitude towards test, comfort in guessing, time management in timed tests, and to a degree experience), so whilst we know what the scale of the apparent impact is, we don't know really know what's behind the cause
> I don't think anyone can actually prove these numbers..

Nobody is making a court case out of it, except for you.

Everybody else is just using their common perception, that it is indeed mostly men holding bitcoins because it’s mostly men talking about it and it’s commonly known that mostly men are into computer technology.

Let me know if you can’t justify a correlation between those things and I’ll help you “read the room” better.

Anyway, the article says that “Coinbase Global Inc.” is mostly men, not holders of Bitcoin. Without even looking I can tell you that’s most likely 100% accurate.
The classical meaning is “character/customs” of a comunity, so it may well be that they were speaking of themselves...
The purpose of horoscopes is to keep people from doing the same thing every day. It doesn't matter which sign you check, or even if you check the same one each time.

So, scrambling them did not interfere with what people used them for. There was no reason for anyone to complain. The astro-BS just randomizes assignments, so everybody doesn't all get the same advice at the same time.

You have spent years feeling smug, but the joke was on you all along.
Todo list never works for me, I always use a calendar (google calendar sync to lightning). For note taking, I use simplenote (nvpy as desktop client). I'm not very satisfied with simplenote, but haven't found anything better.
It's a sort of an accepted insanity that the positions which these large businesses take are considered important.

Certainly information from these businesses on how they believe different legislation will effect them is useful to voters, their representatives and their appointees in performing a legislative calculus.

But what certain companies 'advocate' for? This is hardly useful information for the design of legislation (it's a single bit, and a complicated one). As these large businesses should have no direct say in how they are regulated, I don't see why we the people should care what companies 'endorse'. They don't get a vote.

Whether Google or Sprint or AT&T or Comcast sanctions or opposes net neutrality should mean nothing and should not be worthy of news. The companies that happen agree with the general public do not do so on the ground of ideals or liberty or heroism but on the ground of profit. They are not the stewards of public interest or champions of the public - only the public can do and be this. We can't count on Sprint or Google or any other company to get the legislation we want passed - because if we condone that we also condone their passing of legislation we don't.
Funny enough baas means boss in Dutch.
In late 2007, my wife and I sold our car, quit our jobs, put our valuables and personal records in a storage space, sublet our apartment (for roughly what our rent cost), and then spent three months trekking around Asia. It's really not that hard if you don't have pets or kids.
So some day in the not-too-distant future, the Singularity will emerge in the form of an exceptionally advanced spam-bot network (its "intelligence" distributed amongst millions of zombie computers) that becomes self-aware, identifies the key obstacles to delivering its spam (humans), resolves that issue (develops and releases the right kind of biological virus, or whatever), then achieves its life purpose by sitting there for the rest of time sending monstrous amounts of spam to now-unread inboxes.
The issue with that is when people post ASk HN stuff anonymously, which I think is valuable. Maybe figure out a way to create anonymous posts that don't have the limitation?
The "HN Users, please upvote this" banner at the bottom is disconcerting. If HN is becoming a place people are desperate to get their stories voted up on, I fear the quality is going to start decreasing dramatically in the coming months.
Very true, Here's PG's thoughts: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Remaining at IQ while working on your market research would have been my preferred option.

Fastest way for that, by the way, is to visit the expo of your target industry. I am visiting an expo for beauty products in the near future, for example, as that's one of my target markets. Lots of people will have nothing better to do but to talk to you about their problems while everyone else is in their sessions. :)

You business analytics background will be a major asset when analyzing customer pain.

You have about 6 months to build something to a revenue-positive stage. Doable? Sure. :) See you at one of the many startup events.
Excellent point. Though I believe that ties into the parent posters point of Georgia trying to get into NATO. If they had been NATO the US would have been legally obligated to help, which would have pushed Russian to avoid invading knowing it would start a much bigger war. Since Russia knew Georgia wasn't NATO, and it was up to the US to decide to engage or not, and the US would avoid having a war with Russia, Georgia was open for invasion.
I'm sorry you misunderstood. I was only giving my observations on the difference between blacks from Europe and America.
My biggest issue with this article is the use of "her" in the question, "when should I have sex with an employee?". Can people who are interested in men not run businesses? That's not even subtly sexist.
I wish this resource existed 10-15 years ago. I remember scavenging the internet for information about OS development, assembly and everything.

I think in the end the best resource I found was something called "DS-OS", a basic assembly OS implementation. Looks like it's online at http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22083

This stuff got me into lower-level (than VB) computer programming-- good memories.
"I never understood why people would want to take drugs to see the shit and live the suffering I have all my life but that's where we are..."

MDMA helped this man with aspergers: [1]

And here is a woman talking about how psilocybin helped her cope with cancer-related depression: [2]

Finally, here is a "normal" woman talking about her experiences on LSD: [3]

Hopefully this will give you some insight in to why people take psychedelics.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgWKl_vss0

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7qLnTPhiI

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-jQeWSDKc
Informing people is the first step to causing any impact on this sort of thing, so that alone is pretty significant.
I didn't get the impression that he was left Facebook because of his principles, he was just annoyed by it.

But everything he says can be fixed. Privacy settings can be changed from their defaults, newly added friends can be sorted into restricted-access groups, apps such as Farmville can be removed from your news. As for you and your friends making silly comments which result in drama... well...

Of course, you don't have to use Facebook, but I don't think he gave any good reasons why he'd rather leave than spend a few minutes sorting out his account settings.
> I apologise for the unnecessary harshness of my previous post.

And I apologize for mine. It was far too early, pre-coffee, and I should know better.

That being said, they aren't mutually exclusive services, however. And I did mention a push method as well. How this is accomplished could be as simple as a Dropbox method, maybe with a temporary store.

Being able to easily grab any file on one machine from another machine without having to do anything different (open find, browse to directory, open file and have it sync-on-read) and not being reliant on the disk space available on a remote service is key.

I'm not suggesting a dropbox like service would be useless. I can see the value in having an online store you can easily share with friends (something I wouldn't want my service as described handling, or at least, not in the default setting).

Consider the context of the discussion: Dropboxing your entire computer. That's silly. Rather, Dropboxing selected files, and syncing everything else on reading. Together they could work.

Edit: I realize now where the confusion might have arisen from, and why I think I answered it in my original post. I'm a moron. =)

I did, however, answer it in response to a question here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1911813

The idea of forcing a push was always in my head, but assuming people can read that is pretty poor manners on my part.
This appears to be correct, though it's not guaranteed to remain so: see http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/iplayer_does_... and http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/... .

[EDITED to add: But if you watch a programme at the same time as it's being broadcast, you do need a licence.]
The source says that 33% of withdrawn papers by US first authors were attributed to fraud, while only 25% of withdrawn papers by Asian first authors were attributed to it. So, US first authors are - comparing race cohorts - more likely to publish fake results, are they not (disregarding the fact that there is no possible measure of how likely it is to get caught)?

I agree, though, that the finding is pretty much useless.

Great article in The Atlantic btw - "Lies, damned lies, and medical science"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...
Wot no James May's lego house?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-si...
(With much regret at having to link to the (spit) Daily Mail for description and pics).
So why not provide a three tier system? Free, plus and no commercials. I will put this out there: I will pay as much as I would for cable for no commercials + all the seasons of all the major shows. In my area that's around $50/mo.
No kidding.. there does appear to be a classic Mac in the trash across the street.
ProFounder = MicroAngel
This is worrying then. That's a good argument, that phreaking wasn't constructive. I once started making a Lego robot that could play my gameboy. That's not constructive at all either.

But I'd like both of those to be great examples of hacking.

Is the important distinction motivation then? That phreaks weren't motivated by an urge to crash the system but by an undying curiosity about how things work?
Woah, that is a really cool idea. The idea of walkable state is neat... even if 1 FPS.
The most obvious feature difference is the browsable API.

Flask API also shares the same architecture as the core of Django REST framework, which I think just has a really nice separation of concerns.

Also the interface of `request.data` means is easy to transparently support both JSON and form requests, and the nice content negotiation on responses means it's easy to build services that power both an HTML front-end and an API from the same endpoints.

Right now Flask RESTful is more mature of course, but I've got high hopes for this, and it's been super fun to build so far.
Wouldn't be possible to sue them for misleading of customers (users) or something similar?
cool. a Drupal site. :-)
Assuming the app has implemented the new saving model correctly, it will also keep a history of every version:

File > Revert To > Browse all versions
The counterargument to fears about disease is ridiculous:

> But nature is totally random.

Does David Haussler really believe that? That whatever species exist in an ecosystem today is just some random set? That evolution is noise in the background? How would he characterize natural selection? Would he say we shouldn't care about invasive species at all, since what we humans introduce can't be any worse than "totally random"?

It's a bad argument, and the NYT should not have let him get away with it. They even go so far as to use part of it in a pull quote!
That you are proposing is that MtGox is Too Big To Fail. Everyone else has to take a loss. This is exactly what is wrong with the current banking system and is one of the reasons Bitcoin was invented.

"it would restore public confidence in the protocol and economy" was the same line the government used to spend trillions to bail out the bankers. No Thanks!!
on my mac the scroll gesture works for zoom in and out.
Indeed.
Although, I really expect such a high mind to come out with a much better metaphor of fungibilty (which shouldn't be so hard a concept for sys admins and the like).
Other examples: paper napkins vs silk napkins; Stylographic pen vs bic pens. And so on.

I haven't seen Samsara, but I've taken a note. Vegetarian here, too. I just read "Eating animals" (by JS Foer). That's a very good read, but as an European I must say it feels like it's written from a pretty U.S.-centric standpoint.
Devs love it (in particular web service/app/buzzword-off-the-day devs), admins (at least those not in charge of "cattle") loath it.

This because what it provides it rapid spin up of containers and VMs, while everything talks to each other via APIs and DBUS.

But this rapidity also leads to issues with field repairs and debugging.

"Everyone" is adopting it because the Linux money is in web servers/services.
Then for a moment would you think it was about extremely cold displays limited to -265.15 degrees Celsius?
> 15 years ago we wouldn't have had the tech

There was a whole community of dare I say hackers who were ready to innovate around spectrum crowding at the dawn of the 20th century. They were systematically removed from participating in radio technology, except as passive consumers. Anarchy was working just fine up until then.

With all the power that Clearchannel has had, they could have been helping to be part of that solution. Instead they've been allowed to be lazy, and reap the benefits of a monopoly without contributing back in terms of advancement on this problem.

Knowing whether or not they could have been able to do so is of course an open question and as we learn how to do it right we can extrapolate whether they were capable of it. We could have had Frequency-hopping spread spectrum deployed decades earlier had the right mind been put to the task, and had patents not gotten in the way.
Not that valuations are the end-all be-all, but Automattic was valued above a billion earlier in the year, and has risen since then: http://www.techmeme.com/140505/p14#a140505p14
In my experience Julia is quick with low level array oriented programming which doesn't allocate ("C in Julia"), but if the garbage collector is needed within loops or you use anonymous functions there then you'll suffer greatly.
Here is a slightly longer list of external articles I made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8811132
Something as basic as a wire mesh would fit the bill.
I hypothesize that the ongoing refinement of modern guidance will have a far greater future impact upon warfare than is generally currently recognized. The logical direction to take this refinement is not just enhancing the metre-level precision today to centimetre-grade precision, but also high-precision remote ID. When you possess the capability to real-time ID and track a single individual human target from tens, hundreds or even thousands of miles away, and direct precise fire control upon that target, then it opens an entire new dimension to violent statecraft, with many new challenges.
Samples of size one can invalidate scientific theories.
If you want your readers to follow your advice, tell them _why_ they should, and not simply _what_ to do.

See what I did there?

Are readers of this piece supposed to follow the advice, like sheep, simply because they are told to? Or because they will get more usage? Or because it will make the world a better place? Or some other reason? We can only guess.
In (my) theory your salary is between the company's best alternative (hiring someone else for X) and your best alternative (go work for other company for Y).

Companies do well as they interview many candidates. Developers generally do worse as they go to less interviews - obviously due to resource constrains.

If you are shit hot good, both X and Y go up. The black magic of negotiating is a rounding error compared to how great & unique you are.
Slides can be downloaded without registration at
http://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf
How is it fair? It makes no sense at all and just reminds me of kids growing up with Twitter calling that character hashtag regardless of context.

Solid hacker news etiquette there, by the way.
"American officials know that the plant did not exist in April 2009, when the last Americans and international inspectors were thrown out of the country. The speed with which it was built strongly suggests that the impoverished, isolated country, which tested its first nuclear device in 2006, had foreign help and evaded strict new United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed to punish its rejection of international controls. "
I think there's some dynamics at play here that obscure the situation.

First of all, there's a tendency for depth engineers to be more visible. But this is extreme; there's a handful of top names in StackOverflow for a tag like csharp or django, but that doesn't mean number 1000 in a given tag is an amateur at it, he's likely pretty good. Similarly, not everyone writes respected blogs, but the people who do tend to be ones who spent a heck of a lot of time in one niche. That doesn't mean you need a known blogger for your project.

Second, there's a tendency for hiring firms to want a dev fully trained in some vertical. This may sound sensible but often isn't. If you have some person who did a lot of work in RoR, but you have a Py/Django project, couldn't you expect him to get up to speed reasonably quickly? I think in a lot of cases, yes. Whether you'll be allowed to take that risk depends on the situation, and often you won't be. This works the other way too: a lot of devs will decide not to bother applying.

Third, diminishing returns. Like a lot of knowledge stuff, there's a sort of pareto principle here. You can learn most of anything in way under half the time to learn the whole thing, if that's even possible. If your project is not super specialized in one vertical, but still requires a lot of verticals, you benefit from having a guy who knows a lot about a lot of stuff.
> Now! Altinity runs Altinity.Cloud now in AWS. Feel free to drop by.

Fantastic to hear! This is so exciting.
It seems pretty clear that the model is relative to "total surface area". What you call a "tall and fat" square may be "short and skinny" relative to someone else's bar, but now we're just talking about total level of skill, which isn't really relevant.
See calling a SENTIMENT psychopathic is more coherent than calling a person (a human being) psychopathic. The world is bigger than your views/ideas about it. And you may be wrong. Please focus on the ideas from here on out instead of people. Your ideas may be incorrect.
I’ve had some success. If you’re getting started, resistance bands feel safer (less likely to injure something).

Any exercise transmitting force through the shoulder forces the scapula to hold (otherwise the rotator cuff would get injured instead; learn to avoid that before starting).

Pulling a resistance band is a good start; eg stand on the band and curl up, or wrap it around a doorknob and pull across the body.

Finally, if you’re well paid, get a physiotherapist or physical therapist to walk you through the exercises; the money is well worth avoiding the injury risk.
Const and variadic generics would be nice, yes :)
Being judged attractive is a cultural thing that varies with time and place.

Being judged intelligent is also a cultural thing that varies with time and place.

Unless your culture is static for 20+ generations, don't expect much influence of it on evolution.
The problem I find is you get handed a legacy system and asked to give it new features. You have no idea what the code does. You have to narrow in on the tiny part the customer wants changed. They see the change as simple and easy. So they don't understand why you spent three weeks refactoring and adding test. They just want their new feature. As this goes on the code gets worse and the customer gets more unhappy.
The way those languages implement something that is uncolored is by making everything async. Rust has some other use-cases where that's not acceptable.
In concert with the recent Kinder eggs Salmonella episode just before Easter, I would hazard a guess that there is a supply chain attack at play here and it is specifically targeting Western children.

This reeks of terrorism.
My theory is that the martians built their anti magnetic machine and buried it deep near the Martian core. They themselves live in deep underground colonies near mines where they can find precious metals and water.
I agree it’s surprising. I suspect it’s not an individual phenomenon, but a population level statistic, which is influenced by lifestyle preferences of remote workers versus office workers.

Suppose office workers are more likely to live in an urban center, and conversely remote workers are more likely to live in a rural area. If that delta is large then it would easily explain the trend, because it really isn’t telling us about office workers versus remote, but rather urban versus rural.

Anecdotally, about half the folks I know who have gone remote have moved out to rural areas.
Do you know C.A.Hoare?

I advise you to read his Turing award speech from 1981.
If you had said 8 or 9 years, that would have been a reasonable way to communicate that they live longer than they lay eggs. When you pull out a number like 12 years for an animal that can die of old age at 6, you're either misinformed or exaggerating to make your argument stronger.

I think we're going to be at odds with each other on livestock no matter what because of different views on death. If an animal lives a long, rough, miserable life and dies of old age, that to me is an awful thing to do to an animal. If an animal lives a pleasant but short life and is well treated before it is humanely killed, I see no tragedy in that. My problem with eating meat is that the animal's short life is not a good one in the vast majority of cases. However, I have no problem at all with that life being ended humanely well before they reach old age. Death in itself is not a tragedy. Living in poor conditions or past the point where you can function without pain absolutely is.
How long until it gets closed down because you know dealers and stuff?
On the other hand is it possible to compile the whole thing and run Signal on premises end to end?