skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I end up on a page that a friend has also ended up on, It would be fun to be able to see that, and maybe I could leave tiny comments scattered around the web, visible only to my peers who come across it, and we can annotate together.

There are quite a few browser plugins out there that offer this, and I seem to recall a browser that had that functionality built in as well
Anathem makes a reference to this. A clock with a complex, human-powered daily winding ritual is no way to make a clock that will run for 10,000 years - except it is, if the ritual helps create the human culture that will maintain the clock and bind it to continue doing so.
It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
There's probably some of that in there too, but the context is history, so when I read 'great men', for instance, there is an implied 'great men of history' in there. I think Acton was saying our view of events and actions naturally lean towards making excuses and we need to be aware of that.

You probably have a point there, but I think the corruption of authority on the rest of us is certainly a major theme.
how? I currently have 118 tabs open and using a little under 450MB RAM.
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Ah, I was getting a loop saying "You need to subscribe to Workspaces" which would then take me to choosing a subscription which after selecting the Basic (free) one would take me back to saying "You need to subscribe to Workspaces" but it _appears_ to be fixed now :)
Sorry, what I meant is that I remember having read somewhere that dead code elimination, or some sort of, will be one of the optimization coming in the future due to the introduction of flambda. When I go back home I will try to find a reference, I might recall wrongly
Linus wanted to compile the kernel in C++ in 1993, but there were bugs in the compiler and performance issues (related to exceptions if I remember well). He has switched back to C in 0.99.13: https://github.com/kernelslacker/linux-historic-scripts/blob...

I think his hate of C++ comes from this bad experience.
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A different animal (no pun intended) but this project also provides the ability to render a web-based shell if that's your primary use for this http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.4/

There's also this https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox
and this http://www.web-console.org/
Just a few weeks ago a headline was "New York has the most segregated schools". It's like these people don't understand that "diversity" creates "division".
Hard to tell.

The seed vault seems focused on plants that are in productive use at this moment, while the seed bank seems to cover wild plants.

The latter may be interesting for the future if we discover that a certain plant have some kind of useful property.
You might find http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-... interesting, on the same lines.
"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C."

I wouldn't call that a nuanced opinion.
Yes, I fully understand that I am the ONLY anti-privacy advocate on HN. I accept all of your downvotes and hold no grudges :) But you are all wrong.
Power corrupts those who are in power to wield influence, eventually in attempts to please all those they serve they find themselves without any ideals or direction of their own. And I agree with some1else that people are rewarded for this behavior but the chances of that changing are pretty slim so I guess the real solution is not be weak/unempathetic people.
I think this is the best explanation per Occam's Razor. Licensing is often complex and a lot of developers would rather not think about, plus the alternative is that GitHub by default waives certain copyrights when publishing which might get them in trouble.
On Azure I believe your MSDN entitlements carry over so you could create a VM on Azure and keep it offline until you need it.
Entropy of unattended music streaming and other useless processes
Obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
And along with my sibling comment, not all schools are walking distance. The county I live in (unified school district, 4 (5 since last year?) high schools with 1000+ students in each), is 30 miles or so in diameter (approximated as a circle). You would need many schools (and the necessary faculty and staff) to make them walking distance for all their students. Urban sprawl is certainly largely to blame here, but once it's set in it can't be undone by mandating everyone move to within walking distance of their children's schools.
Disclaimer: I've actually jumped on Dubset as an Indie but yet to take part in the process - haven't had a lot of time to do any covers/remixes of late. Hoping to see how it works first hand rather soon. Pretty cool approach to "rights management" and compensation in my opinion. YMMV.
I would hope that the Loader spec gets a bit more urgency as developers bump into the limitations of script type=module.
Was it the inhaler?
Was it just a screw up?
I wish they would tell us what caused the mix up.
MakeSureToGetItInPrint importantThing = new Namespace.MakeSureToGetItInPrint(one, two, three);

Dependency management in my experience is not a problem at all in Go. Vendoring might be different but it's not complicated nor strictly worse.

As for automated refactoring, what more would you like to see in the tooling compared to what you already have (renaming)? The death-by-thousand-file-splits that's recommended in Java and for which IDE help is useful, is not idiomatic in Go. The most code you have to write to split a file into two is the keyword `package` and the package name. The rest is just copy+paste and let `goimports` take care of doing the rest.
To the best of my knowledge, I've removed all the pictures associated with my name from the internet... with the exception of LinkedIn.
It would be very interesting to be able to browse through a site known to be running off a 15-year-old CMS.
There is another fantastic book called "Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It " By Ken Alibek.

For example, the USSR supposedly had an annual production of weaponized Smallpox measured in tons, which is a ridiculous amount of virus.
I took a quick look, but it's not for me. It's Windows only, and tops at 2 vCPUs, 7.5 GB of RAM, and 100 GB of storage.
This seems like a scam, or at best a marketing lie. Voice recognition is still an experimental field that's very difficult to get right. Even today's professional voice recognition software requires some voice training. There's no way this thing can accurately pick up speech in a random environment.

And given that most voice recognition software require some decent hardware (think your phone or your pc). I doubt it's gonna fit into that tiny earpiece with today's hardware specs.
Where are you seeing the Enterprise AWS subscription requirement? Looks like pricing is per-user and rather reasonable: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/

The $15k seems to be for enterprise-level support, which wouldn't be needed for trying out the service (you'd probably want a high level of support if downtime in the service literally prevents your entire office from doing work, of course).
They won't be.
Huh? You can run it separately and afaict, install whatever you want on it. A co-worker of mine ran workspaces for a while for $20-30 a month.

You could also just run everything on a VM locally and back up snapshots of the VM.
Right? What a weirdly unsatisfying ending. Did they sue the hospital for not knowing enough about medicine that her inhaler could cause this?
It's not just acceptable, it comes with built in marketing tools. Rather than spending $2000 on a site and then more to advertise it, they make a Facebook page for free and pay $500 on Facebook ads to get some traction. To me it sounds like a better deal.
Does SSRN come with any guarantee of peer review or minimum quality threshold? The only downside with arXiv is that anything can be posted. It works fine as a paper-hosting service but is terrible as a "social proof that my paper is OK". If SSRN comes along with such a reputation, then it might be a hard transition.

However if SSRN is just a paper-hosting service, then everyone should move to the arXiv immediately.
I have the suspicion that what it needs is lawyers, not technology. Firms, families and corporations spread across the globe who must maintain these files via archivists.

A person should be able to produce something now and pay an amount which is invested into the trust. As more people pay, the trust gets bigger and bigger and becomes wealthier via their own investments. It's aim is to keep this information forever.

The cost for a user to store something should take into consideration the length of time in the future that it will be held, and risk. So in the early days, it will be cheaper to store a book than it is when the global network is established in 100 years and much cheaper in 1000 years when the planetary network is achieved. Thats the business case I'm pitching anyhow!
> Paper is made by bleaching wood pulp to remove everything but the cellulose, then pressing and drying it into sheets.

Nitpicking: my book on paper-making talks about fiber, "filler" and "glue" as the main components in any paper or cardboard sheet.

The type of fiber results in different qualities based on source material (types of wood, cotton, etc) and fibre length - every time paper is recycled the fibers get shorter, and less "fluffy". This is why toilet paper from recycled paper is coarser; it's also why toilet paper inherently wastes good fibers: the good stuff is made from fresh fibers. On the other end we have stuff like the paper used in newspapers. Eventually, the fibers get so short they can only be used for the type of brittle cardboard pulp you see in egg carton.

Combined with fiber length, filler materials determine characteristics like how porous paper is, or how stiff. Glue.. well, should be obvious what that does, and how different types and quantities affect paper.

None of this matters for Gallivan’s Theorem, other than perhaps the variation in compressibility that different paper types have. It might have an influence on the whole fusing-into-a-slab thing though.
I tried the app just now. Where is this "70% accuracy"? It just shows you a huge list of vkontakte users with the same facial features (eg a beard) and ratios between the eyes, nose and mouth etc. What is the accuracy claim based on??
It's interesting when he try's this with aluminum foil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SY6PlbJz0Q

My guess, he's not so much folding it as reshaping and mixing the metal under intense pressure in much the same way you might work dough ... (yeah, bad analogy... )
Case in point: "The Network Is The Computer"...
Well, it might be that the beautiful British girl at that Islington flat-party was busy talking to an alien herself.
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More than once, archive.org has hosted something I though was not possible under the current copyright regime.

MAME ROMs, old time radio shows, and, well, this.

So for someone who's not paying attention, does anyone have an explanation of how they're allowed to do this?

For example, do they have special dispensation from the Librarian of Congress?
My town of about 5000 has two high schools . . . I am not sure what your point is.

[EDIT: Of course, there are another 5000-10000 people in the surrounding rural area]
I highly highly recommend writing your own MVC framework. I did this about three years ago because I was tired of working with Laravel which I didn't fully understand or appreciate at the time. Building your own forces you to take apart other frameworks and see how they run and really ask yourself what you would do different. It's a small enough project for you to play with for a week or two and really get a better understanding of how modern web applications are put together and how they could be put together better.
You are misguided in this. For the vendor/service provider/whatever, it's a $15 charge per chargeback regardless of the outcome. So If I sell you a monthly service for $6 per month and you forget to cancel it after three months, then at end of year check your statement and notice the charges and decide to make chargebacks to correct it...Then you just cost me 96 + 915, $189, which means I am in the hole $171 because you suck at managing your checkbook.

This is bordering on ranting, but happens all the time and is just a cost of doing business, which means my regular customers get to pay more to deal with people like you. Contact the merchant first, they are usually very prompt and want to avoid chargebacks like the plague, because they cost real money.
It was (likely) the inhaler!

It can cause a positive meth test (thank you Google):

https://www.labcorp.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/c1/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSS...
Yes, because that would actually be fucking useful.

I almost want to flag this post off the front page due to how goddamned useless that article is. And the thing is? It's actually pretty decently written. It was engaging enough to finish reading it.

Or rather, not finish reading it: there is at least two paragraphs left that have not been published. Was it a lab fuckup? The inhaler (which also indicates a lab fuckup, since they should have looked at her medical records to deal with known false positives)? Is she going to sue for mental distress, malpractice, whatever?

What the hell.

Edit: Oh, and like half the HN community are asthmatics and are on inhalers. Can one of us be whisked off by the government for lab fuckups? Can this go on our permanent record due to their incompetence?

And as for that woman, can she get this expunged off her record? Once you're tagged by CPS, unless you deal with them with a firm hand, they love to fuck up children's lives.

Disclaimer: I grew up in Maine, I've seen repeatedly what CPS has done to families due to their incompetence, I have no reason to think that CPS in other states are any better.

If you're a parent, and you care about your child, treat the CPS like a terrorist threat. Do not talk to them unless you're with your lawyer, do not answer their questions, and teach your child the same. Their job is to make you guilty to justify their budget, not protect children.
Any noticeable latency differences between RDP to Azure and AWS Workspaces? I've noticed that the modern.ie free instances, for example, do have a noticeable amount of lag.
I know nothing about medical law, but I hope they can do something like this. They essentially treated her like a criminal and clearly caused a lot of emotional damage.
Dude this is the dankest stuff I saw on HN for a while. Here an upvote, and thanks for the share. And thanks Jason for this awesome work.
I'm heading right away to listen to some O'school Tupac & Biggie mixtapes. Aw yeah!
>Have you ever seen an actual HSR system?
>We’re talking about 220mph minimum. That’s quite a bit faster than per car.

Sorry, that's complete bullshit.

We're not talking about HSR in Japan, China, or Germany here. We're talking about "HSR" in California, USA.

The California system will be very, very lucky if it manages to ever hit 200mph in a short stretch. Realistically, it might be about the speed of the Amtrak Acela Express, which is basically no faster than any regular train, except that it manages to hit 150mph once or twice, briefly.

You seem to be making the ridiculous assumption that HSR in America will resemble HSR in other countries somehow, in both speed and cost. Nothing could be farther from the truth. HSR here is a horribly expensive boondoggle. It'll be worse than the F-35.
I visit my sister at work sometimes, a nurse who looks after drug addled premature babies at a big hospital... it is heart wrenching to see those little people hooked up to morphine lines because they were born addicts to useless parents.

I am sorry she went through that, it is very unfortunate that statistically some tests will come back with false positives. Arguing that they should have treated her different is much like arguing babies should not to be vaccinated because there is a very slight statistical chance they might have a bad reaction.
Ask HN: How to ask to work with a prof at a local uni as a high school student?
Would I be out of place to ask?
Any tips on how to ask email, phone call, etc?
Here is the relevant piece:

Q: What do the percentages mean in methamphetamine "d" and "l" isomer test results?
A: In order to help determine whether a methamphetamine positive may be due to an illicit source, it is helpful to determine the percentage of "d" isomer. For example, following an individual's use of Vick's Vapor Inhaler, the expected result would be 100% "l" methamphetamine. However, there is a possibility that trace amounts of "d" isomer may be present in the quantitative analysis. Laboratory guidelines have been established to allow for trace presence of the "d" isomer. If the laboratory report indicates more than 80% "l" methamphetamine, the results are consistent with Vick's Vapor Inhaler use. If the laboratory reports more than 20% "d" methamphetamine present, the result indicates the use of "d" methamphetamine other than the inhaler. Illegally produced methamphetamine and amphetamine may contain mixtures of "d" and "l" isomers. LabCorp recommends use of a medical review officer (MRO) to review all non-negative test results.1
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Interesting. I didn't know that the energy we can create with such a simple tool was enough to tear apart chemical bonds. In my head these bonds are somehow a few magnitudes stronger.
> Apple with all their force, is cracking down on sites like datpiff for releasing the tapes they have exclusive rights too.

You might be on to something. I was trying to download Chance The Rapper's new mixtape from Datpiff, and saw a message that it has been taken down due to copyright quibbles and what not. Went to HotNewHipHop and same thing ... I have to say this is the first time I've seen a message of that kind in either website.
If C++ were able to ditch legacy things from both the standard and the implmentations it would perhaps create some wriggleroom for radical improvements?
That was my first thought, too. It's the Network Computer again!
Two approaches to stave off the inevitable come to mind:

1. Do whatever it takes to be "behind the curtain" and one of the people who is in a position to do the exploiting, rather than being exploited. (It's up to you what you do with that power.)

2. The opposite of signal is noise. The same hackers who build these Big Brother tools will inevitably build the tools that flood Big Brother with noise. Disinformation campaigns will always be capable of re-training the surveillance machine.
> sympathy

Dunno. Claiming to have X, Y or Z mental issue do not nearly get the kind of response you get from walking in the door with a bandage around your hand.
You could copy your disk to an external drive and boot from that, or you could copy the files from the external drive into the laptop's drive.
IIRC that's more a phenomenon with clay tablets than papyri – and it's an anomaly because of a rather unique combination of extremely sturdy media (clay tablets especially) and extremely well-preserving environmental conditions (dry deserts).

And without the Rosetta stone, they'd be incomprehensible still. Preserving texts and preserving knowledge of a language are two separate problems.
Woman has destroyed his genitals
Had to use workspaces on a client project a few months ago. There was some bizarre issue between El Capitan and the remote desktop which would send most of my keystrokes to the remote instance, even when the focus was not on the Workspace window.

I'd somewhat narrowed the behaviour to any 'messaging' system - slack, skype, messages and some others - if I switched to slack or responded to an osx 'messages' notice, my keystrokes would also be sent to the Workspace, and generally cause havoc. I'd leave an IDE open, switch to slack to talk to the client, come back, and all the code was replaced with our conversation.

There seemed to be reports of some similar behaviour with a windows client last year, and it was supposed to be 'fixed', but I never saw any reports of similar OSX behaviour.
These bonds are about 1/1000th of typical chemical bonds, the article says.
Exactly. Am I really to believe that people walking around in the time of Jesus were dropping off perfect #3 and #4s on the Bristol Stool Scale on a precise 24 hour cycle? And all that's different now because we have machines that make corn more digestible versus hitting it with a rock like we used to do?

The human body is a magnificent contraption and you should listen to yours -- and not pundits. But people who are trying to "become one with their gut" are likely making themselves sick in other ways. There's way, way too much obsessive behavior around our bodies and it's not helpful. Easy to sell stuff to, though.
I downvoted you because not everyone who is an addict is useless, no more than someone who is going through any other mental illness is useless.
Ahaha damn I hate autosys .jil files! We are still using them even though we replaced Autosys years ago :(

We have an old Oracle PL/SQL system which wrote out these .jil files which were to be picked up by Autosys, built in around 1998. When Autosys was replaced we didn't touch the old PL/SQL code, .jil file parser was written so the jobs could be scheduled through Quartz instead.

Would have been easier to replace the whole job creation and scheduling system instead of just the Autosys part.
Everything he ever did is one big billboard screaming he doesn't believe in stoicism.

First, Of the things mentioned in my own post, which focus on the start of his reign. His rise to power. Do you seriously believe he had no hand in that ? He must have fought, in many ways, to get the position of emperor. He pursued power, and not by working hard in any stoic sense (stoicism accepts only actual "hand" labour as labour, and worthy of reward. Things like holding senate/government/management positions, no matter how well executed, no matter how punctual you are, aren't ever very stoic at all). That, by itself, is very very very very un-stoic of him.

Second argument is his reign. He was an emperor advocating stoicism, known for ... being extremely generous when it came to "bread and circuses". His power was built on what is close to the opposite of what his books advocate.

And third argument is the end of his reign, his kid (and his family, but that would take us too far), and his succession. Clearly the behavior of his kid was an indication of how his household functioned. His kid, Commodus, was described as an extremely self-obsessed neurotic drunk ... It is not physically possible to become either self-obsessed or drunk in a stoic household.
>> So what you're saying is, just because our governments collect everything, everybody else should be allowed to do it too, or stop worrying?

Yes, Strong corporations and public rights, are necessary to ensure, that government does not becomes too powerful. And there is at least some balance of power.

>> The fight for privacy is not for us, it's for generations to come.

Please define "us"?

"us" or "people" or "generations" are rhetorical devices, with little basis in reality. The romantic notion of "people" quickly disappears when those people either organize into corporations or political parties. At certain level Corporations & Governments are people, or aggregate expression of will of the people. The economies of scale necessitates strong corporations which can protect "people" from government and vice versa.