jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sound suppression is largely a function of relatively slowly bleeding off the gas that results from combustion. There is not much powder in a 22lr (22 long-rifle) round, which is why it is easily suppressible. I can make no particular comment as to the frequency of their use by the best hit squads in the world.

The subject of the article was shot with a 22WMR (Winchester Magnum Rimfire) round. This round can use the same bullet as the 22lr round but contains lots more powder.

The velocity of the bullet leaving the barrel of the firearm depends on how fast the charge contained in the casing wants to push it and how much the barrel wants to slow it down due to friction. Almost all rifles barrels are between 16.5" and 24". For a average 22WMR round shooting an 40-grain (unit of mass) bullet out of a mid-length rifle barrel one would expect the bullet to leave the barrel at around 2000 feet/sec. The deceleration caused by friction can be altered by changing the exterior-most material of the bullet: a full metal jacket (usually lead totally encased by copper) is potentially slicker than a jacketed soft-point (only partially encased, with the tip exposed).

A Ruger Single Six is a type of handgun. The story describes a single-action revolver, which the Single Six is not, but let's ignore that. It comes in barrel lengths of 2.75", 4", and 6". Out of a 4" or 6" barrel, the 22WMR has about 1400-1600 feet/sec of velocity. This is roughly comparable with the upper (or hot) range for a 22lr fired out of a rifle barrel.
There was a LeWeb '08 or '09 presentation where he said that he put in around €30mio in the newspaper project.
> Unfortunately, I'm too suspicious of Amazon (and Google, for that matter)

For Christmas, my mom decided to get us both a Google Home and a Facebook Portal (with Alexa built in).

We already have an Echo Dot that lives on our fridge that my wife's parents gave us.

Anyway, I thought it was a bit interesting that out of the "big three" evil data stealing tech monopolies, the Google Home was the only one that made me uneasy. I suppose it's a carry over from the whole Firefox / Chrome rivalry.

I don't really care for the Echo Dot we already have, but it is admittedly quite useful for "Hey Alexa, play Christmas music" or "Hey Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes."

Also I have been legitimately impressed by the video quality and performance of the Facebook Portal because any time I've tried to use their video chat from my computer it's had roughly a 30 second lag and been completely unusable. The Portal is both a crisp picture and no noticeable lag.

I guess the thing I should wonder most about that is why video chat from a traditional computer is so terrible. The only thing I've ever had work decently for video chat with family has been Skype.
It's already here, so "next" is not really accurate anymore. Think of it like linux for the datacenter. Great APIs, abstractions, ecosystem, and community. "Zero to One" in Thiel speak, the moat is likely insurmountable at this point.

I recommend checking out https://cuelang.org for some "next" tech. (hint, it's the configuration half of the Borg / GCL pair)
The 5600m is a BTO option that arrived in the second half of 2020, so it wasn’t available when I bought mine.
Coinbase has historically been unstable during price fluctuations.

Here are some possible explanations:

1. Conspiration theory #1:They somehow benefit from the instability.

2. Hanlon's razor, which means they need to replace their SRE team.

3. Conspiration theory #2: someone attacks them and somehow manages to benefit from the downtime (eg by creating a shortlived arbitrage opportunity).
I imagine looking at the design of electronics that goes into space probes would be a good place to start although that's not quite the design point.
But also fully deductible work-related expenses, including health insurance, and ability to fully fund a solo 401k.
Find a business model that works for independent journalism, then.

Advertising pays more with more controversy. Patronage (having a rich person pay the journalists) comes with strings. Consumers appear willing to pay for journalism only when it supports their political beliefs.
It's a better solution IMHO. A cooling system does nothing to increase battery life. Otherwise you have a creeping race that leads you ever closer to 'fake-desktop' laptops.

I do watch Louis Rossmann about Macs, and how terribly they are designed, but this is universal across many devices.

I had so many issues getting low latency audio to work on my 2 year old XPS, I just plain replaced it with a 5 year old mac and had better performance and stability out of the box.

No company is perfect, but Apple does get consistently close. I'm glad they don't focus on the specs and focus on experience. Who really needs a 4k screen on a laptop?
That's exactly the type of thing I would contribute money to if I had any.
It might have even been this build system. This has been coming up off and on for many years.
IME they're roughly equal in terms of raw skill and experience required to publish a finished product. Its a bit apples to oranges however, there are some things in developing video games that are much more difficult than what I've experienced in non-game programming. A lot of it depends on the complexity of what you're making - you can make games that require almost no programming whatsoever, but some games require a great deal of technical skill to program. For instance, running a large-scale multiplayer game isn't so different from managing a large-scale web business.
The law he cites rather explicitly said "in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design" are all covered. Metal coins of original design are still illegal to manufacture (though I'd agree they shouldn't be).
> Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title [1] or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. [Emphasis mine.]

They were minting physical coins. They called them dollars. Just because they decided they didn't think they were legally coinage or currency doesn't change the fact that, that's very obviously the intent.

Their whole disclaimer is delivered with a wink and nudge.
.me is operated by "doMEn, d.o.o., a Montenegrin joint venture (doing business as .ME Registry), whose partners include Afilias Limited, GoDaddy.com, Inc., and ME-net d.o.o." (http://www.domain.me/about.html), so it seems like it's not under the US jurisdiction.
I have come to the conclusion that communicators must present to different audiences in different formats. Slides used in public speaking are no different from hand gestures. Slides posted online for the same speech have to be touched up or completely redone for the new online audience. The audience who heard my speech might benefit from having a copy of my slides as memory cues.
Before we all jump on the higher education is a vascous bubble !!11! bandwagon, can anyone verify whether this blogspam is using any Al Gore style statistics? For example, are the $s adjusted for inflation since the 70s? I'd check this all myself, but the iPhone really isn't conducive to this sort of thing.
The reason Lisp programmers don't have a fancy IDE is that they don't feel the need for it. Everyone that really understands what he's doing is using Emacs or their own thing.

In a way it is similar for other languages. Why Ruby doesn't have something like Eclipse? Because it doesn't need one. Even for C/C++, the only reason why there is a Visual Studio is that there are so many entry level programmers that will buy it. Experienced C programmers feel much more comfortable using UNIX/gdb.

On the other hand Smalltalk programmers have an IDE because they need it: it is just the way it works for Smalltalk.
Both Erlang VM and HiPE are written in C, which powers..
The point is not who powers which software program, the point is that you cannot write operating systems and drivers in Java. I hope you realize that Java gets run inside a vritual machine. And so is Erlang. Also C and C++ power a number substantially bigger than "a 3d software program", if you want to put it like that, which isn't the point..
I find that the hard part comes from not knowing what to do next. For me I have a notebook that I call my planning notebook. I write in the notebook the outline of what I'm trying to accomplish -

Who it's for
What it should do
When I think it'll be done
Where it needs to happen
Why I'm doing it
How much it will cost

This frames the project for me. Then after that I come up with what I think the next thing I need to accomplish on the project is and write it down. Later when I site down at my computer, I have no questions about what to do next and so I can hit the zone really fast.
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You date stuff associated with the rock. Digging tools found under the rock (eg worked antler). Remains of wood that was used to move the stone or line the pits. Remnants of possible associated cooking fires. If you find a deer skull or bit of leather under a large stone, it is safe to say that the two are related in time.
> more people are middle class+ than ever

Are you citing absolute numbers? The study people usually talk about most here is the Pew one: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

Over the past half century, the middle third of the income distribution has dropped from 62% of aggregate income to 43%, mostly at the expense of the upper third (the bottom third is mostly flat, but certainly not "rising").

> "it's time to try something else" What else is there?

The New Deal seems to have done pretty well. Minimum wage laws used to be vastly more effective due to inflation, and we grew just fine in the 60's. Some of it is just fairness: Upper incomes and short term capital gains used to bear a much larger share of the tax burden, and those cuts seem to have done nothing but make rich people richer.

This canard is so tiresome. Someone does the peasant "I think we should improve society somewhat" thing and inevitably they get accused of being a (pause for breah) COMMUNIST. Every time.
>Generally, when one "buys" something from a "marketplace" the vendor gets to know who the buyer is.

Ummm... no?
Of course there is, but there shouldn't be. _Especially_ in a bigger company like Canonical.
Oh thats dope, will read it! and I'm pretty sure I read your blog once, because of the pianojacq! obs: i'm planning a visit to Amsterdam this year because a conference of recommender systems, so will for sure visit the museum if I'm able to go there. thanks!
> you can see your trip, its aproximate cost, the driver's rating

Here's the thing: I don't want to rate my driver. I want to be able to rely on a third party that all available drivers are punctual and competent. It is not a choice I want to make.

Too much responsibility is already dumped on consumers under the guise of choice. Quality control of services I utilize is something I expect to pay for.
Yes, exactly.

Bostrom is assuming there's a thing called "computation" which is somehow a fully-specified solved problem. (It isn't).

Worse, he's also assuming that this "computation" can somehow simulate something called "consciousness" - which unfortunately for him, is nowhere near to having the formal rigorous definition that "computation" as we know it today would require.

And finally after all that, you get something which is subjectively indistinguishable from life itself.

Well - obviously. If you don't define any of your terms and assume your argument is correct because you don't show your working or get into specifics, you can argue whatever you like.
Use git-filter-branch with --subdirectory-filter to create a new repo (with history preserved) followed by git-subtree.
I think you are getting at the same question Alan Cox had. As quoted in the article:

IMHO the question is what is the actual semantic here. What are you asking for ? Does it mean "at any cost", what does it guarantee (100% or statistically), what level of guarantee is acceptable, what level is -EOPNOTSUPP or similar ?

I think different semantics as Cox mentions would correspond to different threat models. With the right hardware support, it could mitigate against a kernel that falls under an attacker's complete control after the memory has been allocated. With less support it could mitigate against an attacker who can exploit read accesses at kernel privilege. But the details seem a bit open still...
You limit your example to a perfect world scenario in which IR is the only reactionary discipline.

If you want to see just how much Kirk was right look at any major breach and how companies react to it for example the Equifax beach.

Yeah their IR team might have dealt with the no-win scenario as you mention, but their senior management Kirked the hell out of it by selling stock shortly after the breach was discovered to ensure they don’t their fortune and then the corporate machine was set into play to ensure that the company gets mostly unscathed from the entire ordeal.

So IR did their job, they fell on their swords and what not, but the execs, the lawyers, lobbyists an the PR folks just shrugged and said that’s nice let us show you how it’s really done.
70k might be fine for a single person in munich, but when you have a family (single earner), does it work?
> It would be better if you found the real PDF.

If you find an authoritative source available online, I would be more than happy to change the link, but since that doesn't seem to exist and hosting a copy myself would be a violation of copyright, I did the best I could do.

> What is NOT OK is to link to the back of a manual that is a reformatted version that is already not a primary reference.

What exactly about it is "NOT OK"? The content is the same, it is structured the same, it also contains the citations. The only thing that is different is the formatting.

> When I said "JUNK" that is exactly the kind of sloppiness I'm talking about.

Which only reflects badly on you, not me.
They need the money to grow their global network. They can afford to fight the regulators that are in the pocket of entrenched taxi businesses in the short to medium term.

In the not-so-far future, that resistance will be broken by the introduction of the robotaxi. Ueber will be spearheading that one. Too capital intensive for the current "big" taxi companies in the medium term. Too automated for the regulators to defend the taxi drivers working conditions.
That is an awesome hack that basically allows really low cost immediate context switching.
Edit: Ars Technica also published a nice article about the attack today: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/did-feds-mount-a-...

My technical summary is that we now think it is the feds who initiated this 6-month long attack [1] which consisted in them using "a combination of two classes of attacks: a traffic confirmation attack and a Sybil attack." They ran many (115 to be exact) non-exit Tor relays on 50.7.0.0/16 and 204.45.0.0/16 (Sybil attack) to increase their chances of controlling both ends of a Tor circuit: the first relay (entry guard) reached by the SR2 server and the last relay used as a hidden service directory where the service is published. The feds' relays then actively modified traffic to inject a signal into the Tor protocol headers (bits encoded as a sequence of "relay" and "relay early" commands) to help them correlate traffic from one end of the circuit with the other end (traffic confirmation attack). So whenever the SR2 hidden service was being published (which happens whenever the server reconnects to the Tor cloud?) the last relay knew it was for the SR2 service (but didn't know the server IP), and could correlate it with the entry guard which knew the IP address (but didn't know the service name). Once they knew the SR2 server IP, the game was over.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay...
you are using "bank of america" in the url - no trademark problems?
It'll remain usable as long as previous distributions of python are available for download.

PyGame is quite a fun resource for learning programming, there's something there about pressing play and seeing your code changes translated into direct visual feedback which is particularly appealing.
That was a fabulous talk! Today there are far too many people (myself sometimes included) who think that some jobs are "beneath" them. Maybe the are, but someone still has to do them.

Hats off to all the folks out there who do dirty jobs!
I was born in 1980 and I used mouse inversion up until Freelancer came out. Damn you again, Microsoft!
My path to programming, as a product of the internet generation:

As a child, I loved the idea of computer programming. I got books at the library that told you how, but they always needed equipment I didn't have. I actually wrote fake programs in Ami Pro because of sample code I found in books! My parents were cutting-edge with computer purchases, but were otherwise nontechnical. They didn't know that toy programming languages existed, and probably didn't care. They just wanted me outside!

Time passed, and in 8th grade I needed to sign up for high school classes. I saw "Computer programming" in the class listing and I registered immediately. I didn't want to enter the class knowing nothing, so I researched C++ (the language taught by the class) and came across DJGPP. I spent a lot of nights that summer careening through internet tutorials and wrote a mountain of crap, but it was fun!

The first day of school was very disappointing - I got the syllabus, and saw that I'd already learned everything on the sheet. I was equally disappointed 2 years later when I signed up for the AB C++ exam and realized I knew nothing on the sheet. The next year was the worst yet - I knew everything on the AB Java exam, but I had to spend the year relearning it all in Java! Yuck!
This should help you out with Elance/Rentacoder: http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/a2485
>Is there a CLI program out there which does text-only Q&A via some web service?

You could probably whip something up in Python, httplib2 and BeautifulSoup in a couple of hours. If I can't sleep tonight, I might play around with this.
Great to see Patrick Gillespie is still around, I remember him from the AOL programming community (1999!), nice guy and very sharp.

His API spy is still the best I've ever used:
http://patorjk.com/downloads/patorjkapispy51.zip
Also in the same piece

> Incredible as it may seem the prankster managed to obtain mobile numbers for both the head of the GCHQ surveillance centre and the prime minister by bluffing his way past both sets of switchboards.

So, we wonder, which is it ?

And, it also doesn't seem to me that incredible. Humans are the weak link.

> A government spokeswoman said a notice has gone out to all departments to be on the alert for hoax calls following the incident.

I presume, then, that normally hoax calls are not considered likely to occur - that is more incredible to me!
Also if they're charging 25 bps to be a taker vs. 0 to make, people will want a post-only order.

I actually like the idea of putting ClOrdIDs on the feed, maybe encrypted with some key only the sender has? Would make excluding one's own orders so much easier and no concerns about who sees what first: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873237981045784550...
You seem to have misunderstood. I'm not saying that the DupDetector is helping to find good, older submissions. The idea is to get help reduce the endless repeats, to provide space, and then, instead of endlessly repeating the same submissions, have a way that people can find the good ones that are already there.

But what running DupDetector has shown me is that the problem is endemic. There is no way that I can see to reduce the rate of re-submissions. People have got very annoyed when the problem has been pointed out. Indeed, many people don't see it as a problem. The very fact that people see an enormous number of posts by DupDetector tells us two things: There are a lot of duplications, and people don't want to know.

Some discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013666

So that's fair enough. As I say, I'm terminating the experiment. I've learned that the current level of noise caused by constant re-submissions of the same stories, and often the exact same items, won't stop. So instead I'm concentrating on finding items that fit with PG's stated preference:

Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because
good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they
do have to be deeply interesting.

(From http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

On any day, look at the "newest" page and ask yourself how many are really "deeply interesting", how many are amusing diversions, and how many are diverting, but useless. Ask how much you learn from each one. The answer I suspect will be "not much".

Look at the "news" page and ask the same question. The problem is that if enculturated "old hands" don't read the "newest" page, then the "news" page will deteriorate, because the people voting on new items won't be voting the right things for the right reasons.

We see that now. Lots of submissions get votes because they are, in PG's words, "intensely but shallowly interesting."

So I'm going away for a while to see if I can do that. I'll still read stuff, but every time I do I will consciously remind myself that I can get content-free entertainment pretty much anywhere, and that I'm looking specifically for stuff that's "deeply interesting." If I figure out a way to find it automatically I'll certainly come back and share it, although I don't expect I'll succeed. It's a hard problem, and I'm certainly no smarter than others who have worked on it before me.

Currently the best option seems to be to have a small community of like-minded people. That's what HN used to be, and I think that despite PG's excellent efforts, it's getting too big to hold together.

But I'll work on it, and I'll certainly share any useful findings. If there are any.
You should start by purchasing a mouth guard, since if Javascript makes your teeth "cringe" then you're going to need it for every other kind of programming you attempt.

What I really mean by that is you're going to need a great deal of patience and perseverance to get good at any kind of programming, and even when you do get good at it, you're still going to end up battling things that have nothing to do with the programming language you choose (like browser compatibility issues, bugs that are other people's fault, bugs that are your fault that take you 7 hours to track down, etc.)

It's easy to enjoy things you are very good at, but to get there, you're also going to have to enjoy not being very good at all.

To answer your original question, if you are seeking to participate in an exciting new field, work on the tablet programming. If you want something where you can accomplish cool things with relatively few headaches, stick with Python but drop GAE and go with "normal" hosting.
Sleep scientist here. Actigrams based on 3way accelerometers are very common to measure sleep in a very non invasive way and they give a resolution good enough for having an idea of sleep amount and even roughly sleep pattern. I have no idea how well wakemate works, I would love to try of course (wink).

The research-grade equivalent of wakemate is called actiwatch ( http://actiwatch.respironics.com/ ) and it costs a lot more.
I'm glad you guys are shipping, but as an international customer with a pre-order since day one, I'm disappointed (again)