skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4/20/2016

Me: I'd like to either change the username (jasonkostempski) on my account or delete my account completely. Can help me do that?

HN: Account renaming is something we plan to implement but haven't
yet. You're welcome to email back in the future and check if it's
done yet.

HN doesn't delete accounts. We do sometimes delete specific
comments when users are worried about getting in trouble from them.
Would that help?

I realize this isn't a very satisfying answer and am sorry.

Me: I didn't say anything nasty so I'm not too worried about it :) I'll just wait for the feature. Thanks.

7/26/2016

Me: Just want to check in and see if account deleting or username changing has been implemented.

HN: Not yet, sorry. There are some technical difficulties because YC uses HN IDs in its internal systems, which are separate, so we need to be extra careful not to make a breaking change. But we'll get there.

2/19/2017

Me: I need my account deleted immediately. It's a matter of national security, cannot explain in detail, orders from the President of the United States.

HN: That does sound urgent, so I'm sorry to have to reply this way, but we don't actually have the ability to do this. At some point we will have the ability to rename accounts to something anonymous, but unfortunately we don't have that yet either.

Me: Damn, now he's gonna make me go work on that wall :/

2/22/2018

Me: Are you able to change user names or delete accounts yet?

HN: Not yet, sorry, but it is coming. Do you want to be on an email list to get notified when it's ready?

Me: Yes, that would be cool, please add me.

HN: Ok, you're added.
A lot of that is because XML is objectively insane: it's a monumentally over-specified version of something that a sane community would have sketched out on the back of a cocktail napkin. XML is S-expressions done wrong. It's a massive amount of ceremony & boilerplate, IMHO due to the pain of dealing with dynamic data in static languages. It's basically the Java of data-transfer languages.

And it shouldn't even be used for data transfer: it's a markup language, for Pete's sake!
As part of my job, I often have to convince business folks that they don't need to buy a fucking private blockchain (from IBM of course, because they're old enough to think that no one ever got fired for buying IBM). This is very close to the arguments I make, and adds some excellent, articulate points!
I just noticed that the recursion depth test mentions 10000 opening brackets, while the test code uses `'['*100000` (one order of magnitude more). I am curious about the actual recursion depth they can handle but don't have access to xcode myself.
Niggers shadowbanned me so let him know that lad delete his account. Dang is a nigger.
Apple's device relies on Siri, which is very much behind in the smart cylinder race, or maybe you're interested on its audio quality capabilities, for that it sure excels.
Just to restate because I was not expecting to have to have this post pop up to top of thread: The selfish mining paper shows a significantly worse result than 1/3. I feel the need to lay this out very plainly because folks may not be in on that joke.

It's a joke at 1/3rd because that's sort of a naive threshold of for the BGP anyways.

Bitcoin was supposed to provide a stable solution where distributed actors could come to consensus on a ledger. That's how it was sold in the original paper. Majority attacks against the system will always exist, but the paper mentioned proves that the Bitcoin proof of work algorithm is much worse than we realized, and (more troublingly) that bad actors are harder to detect than it was passively assumed.
I don't find the insurance argument compelling because so many other colleges and universities have official outing clubs that are covered by the institutional policy. It's not an unusual addition to a college insurance policy.
This is not what the article discusses but the title made me think it would: why do we only have libraries for books? Why haven't we made libraries for other useful resources? It makes sense from a perspective of evening the playing field, as libraries are supposed to, but also from a sustainability perspective too.

There are so many things that people will buy and only use once or twice a year, if even that often. We could save ourselves a lot of productive effort and resources by putting a few versions of these things in a library for hundreds of people to make use of. Things like say power tools, or any fairly specialised tool in general. I think you can take this idea really far, like even having clothes libraries - you could have all new clothes all the time and someone else could have new clothes when you're tired of the ones you've been wearing.
> There's no way to tell staring at a JSON string if "2018-04-22" is meant to be a date rather than a text string.

I believe the op meant you should do something like this:

"created": { "type": "datetime", "format": "iso8601", "value": "2018-04-etc" }

Now there's no ambiguity and the serialization is still json compliant. You have to let go of the notion that you can just put a date formatted string in there and things will magically work.
Mormons are non trinitarian.
Library's should be more than just books.

When the idea of the public library was first conceived, information was published and disseminated using print media - books, newspapers, magazines and the like. The role of the public library wasn't to give books to the public, it was to give information to the public. But at the time the best way to give access to this information was using a room full of books, they used the same name for both a room full of books (a library) and a place where the public could get information (a library).

Now days, since the source and publication of information has changed so dramatically, the role of the public library must stay the same - to provide free and easy access to information to the public. But how they perform that role must change.
The issue is not one of carefully acknowledging the past and noting that some of its lessons don't apply.

The issue is how Musk typifies a certain sort of arrogance that runs through much of Silicon Valley tech culture. This is why the n-gate summaries love to describe Hacker News reinventing everything from first principles -- there's this ingrained assumption that it's literally impossible for anyone outside of SV to have ever had any kind of relevant experience or possessed any kind of relevant knowledge, and so there's no point in studying the history at all.

Tesla is now learning, in a very painful way, why hubris is traditionally considered a major flaw, and that maybe this stuff is harder than they thought and they could have benefited from standing on the shoulders of some giants.
Actually, he wasn't being sarcastic. I see how you may have thought that, but his response was genuine, and the commenter took it as so.
Kick out the MBAs.
"Both are hosted and built on WordPress." As I expected when reading the headline.
Why would someone need to learn about load balancers in high school or earlier?

Also, don't mistake her teaching approach as indicating the people in the room weren't aware of what load balancers are or how they work. It's a good teaching technique to start out with some basic ground-work leading in to the point you wish to make. Starting out as she does ensures that everyone in the group knows _exactly_ what she's talking about before she gets to the key point, _and_ should be able to immediately understand what is going on and why.

Regardless of that, there's a lot of subtleties of dealing with load balancers that people rarely think of until they've been bitten by them. I've used load balancers quite regularly when interviewing candidates because I can almost always find some aspect of land balancers and load balancer behaviour that people aren't aware of. That gives me an ideal chance to explore a subject with a candidate and find out how quickly they can piece things together and learn.
The Unmasking of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto – The Fallout
Westworld Season 2 has really interesting real world parallels:
It's happened before, with Microsoft, too. They've transitioned from an OS where you pay with cash (win7), to a spyware OS where you pay with cash and your data (win10).
Both it and YC have made it rather clear they don't want to touch the EU.

Not sure where you are getting that. YC have funded a lot of EU companies, and some partners are from the EU.

YC certainly has revenue (from investors). HN isn't some separate legal entity - it's right there in the domain name.
i think you’re being generous calling austin’s city development and urban design even a “strategy”. austin for a long time didn’t want to grow at all, so they did everything to basically discourage it. then growth was forced on the city, and they’ve had to scramble to try, unsuccessfully, to catch up. that’s why there’s a double decker highway that doesn’t really help the traffic, an expensive highway that goes around the city that no one uses, a highway with practically no exits that goes through people’s backyards, an expensive train that no one uses and is almost pointless, no way to get across the city quickly, hardly any bike lanes in a city where bicyclists are plentiful, and more and more. austin is a poster child for how to not design and develop city infrastructure.
Why a house is a terrible investment (2013)
> Nobody had landed a rocket that way before SpaceX and Blue Origin did it.

Let's not give SpaceX accomplishments that weren't actually theirs - it makes it easier to dismiss everything else they're doing. The DC-X did this (as a sub-scale SSTO demonstrator) in the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
The sports/activities that college outdoor clubs are involved in often require gear which can cost $100s or $1000s per sport. Most college students cannot afford to spend that kind of money just to try a sport. These clubs often use the dues to buy gear which can then be used by the members. Even hiking which is the cheapest could require a backpack, 3-4 season tent, zero degree sleeping bag, etc which is still expensive especially for a college kid.
I think you missed this part: I am in no way defending Amazon they deserve all criticism [..]
WhatsApp (pre-FB) back in 2012: https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads
This is happening at both of my companies now. I'm almost to the point of telling them to buy it just so they can tell their golf buddies they're using blockchain too.
That's because it would be a health issue. If I wrote a book for fun, and said you could have a free copy, it wouldn't be my responsibility to make sure you enjoy it. The VLC team does an amazing job at making their software solid anyway, so it's not even a good metaphor.
PWM is just one (very inexpensive) way to implement a DAC (digital to analog converter). Other methods actually set the output voltage to the target voltage, such as a R-2R ladder. I don't think R-2R ladders are used very much in practice anymore but I can't remember any other implementations off the top of my head.
Stairway to Heaven Amazing Fireworks
It doesn't make sense to compare Tesla to other car companies that way. The others have much higher volumes to spread costs on and they have been doing this stuff for over 100 years. That means the basics of car manufacturing has already been developed.

Tesla R&D isn't just about creating yet another model, but about creating the very first car model in that category that they have ever done.

I think it would be very odd if they kept having equally high R&D when upgrading their models.
In that case the authoritarian regime already has all the guns it needs and the threat is not significantly bigger than before.
Maybe they can take virtual reality walks in a padded room—provided there's cell service.

We may need a great many more padded rooms if such insanity continues in the world. It has never been easier to rescue someone in serious trouble in a remote location, cell phone or no cell phone.
> Before JSON, XML and standard binary formats, there were just CSV/TSV and random binary formats which was a bigger minefield.

S-expressions predate both, are simpler to parse than either, are more legible than both and are cheaper than either.

Here's a JSON example from http://json.org/example.html:

{
"glossary": {
"title": "example glossary",
"GlossDiv": {
"title": "S",
"GlossList": {
"GlossEntry": {
"ID": "SGML",
"SortAs": "SGML",
"GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
"Acronym": "SGML",
"Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
"GlossDef": {
"para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",
"GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
},
"GlossSee": "markup"
}
}
}
}
}

In XML it'd be:

<!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">
<glossary><title>example glossary</title>
<GlossDiv><title>S</title>
<GlossList>
<GlossEntry ID="SGML" SortAs="SGML">
<GlossTerm>Standard Generalized Markup Language</GlossTerm>
<Acronym>SGML</Acronym>
<Abbrev>ISO 8879:1986</Abbrev>
<GlossDef>
<para>A meta-markup language, used to create markup
languages such as DocBook.</para>
<GlossSeeAlso OtherTerm="GML">
<GlossSeeAlso OtherTerm="XML">
</GlossDef>
<GlossSee OtherTerm="markup">
</GlossEntry>
</GlossList>
</GlossDiv>
</glossary>

And as an S-expression it'd be:

(glossary (title "example glossary")
(div
(title S)
(list
(entry (id SGML)
(sort-as SGML)
(term "Standard Generalized Markup Language")
(acronym SGML)
(def (para "A meta-markup language, use to create markup languages such as DocBook.")
(see-also GML XML))
(see markup)))))

Which is, I believe, a huge improvement.
But adding up any one person's carbon budget over a lifetime might be fairly significant. (And if it isn't, then why should any one of us make changes to their lifestyle?) Multiply that by the millions/billions and then it's really significant.

As the oil companies have rightly pointed out in the current court case (and this may matter a lot from a legal perspective), they aren't actually the ones who are emitting all the carbon - their customers are. (That would be "you" and "me".) The coal mines and the natural gas companies can make much the same claim, except their direct customers are generally the power companies.
That reminds me of the punchline to an old IKEA ad: https://youtu.be/TsQXQGaasUg

That said, I think sympathy for a living creature is quite a bit more justified than for furniture.
That's already done. It's called multiplex. The projectionist controlls the 6-35 digital screens in his theatre complex, and the money comes from the foodstand. Since the studios demand too high fees for the movies, theatres have to stay profitable by selling food and drinks. Quality of the movies and the projections sink, but interestingly the quality of the food is rising.
The other main way would be using a constant current driver[1]. By adjusting the amount of current to the LED, you can control the brightness.

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/256336/does-...
> Only if your monetization goal is less than a few bucks per month.

It's a service that exists solely through a platform that already provides a competing service for free. A few bucks per month is as good as it's going to get.
I think they might be referring to the fact that in this case the eggs seem to have failed to begin the development of embryos.
While there are bad actors in every system, how that system handles bad actors is still relevant and to the point when judging it.
They require every founder to come to the US and register as a US company. That's not particularly touching it.
> I don't think any reasonable person is advocating to turn San Francisco into Manhattan

What is that supposed to mean? I would settle for it being a less shitty Brooklyn though.
Citrix Takes Action to Protect Its Innovation
Honestly? I'm with the author here. "Response.ok" should tell me that the response is ok. It's the most natural expectation. If it's only going to check status code, Response.status_code.ok would be more reasonable.
I would love to see "Jupyter for power users." I think the programming language tooling community needs to take a serious look at how interactive programming interfaces could work in the development cycle for all expert programmers, not just novices or data scientists.
These sorts of interfaces were very much of the atmosphere of the mid 1990s. Another somewhat better known one (although known as a flop) was Microsoft Bob.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
I agree. Using the Newton was fun in a way the modern devices simply aren't. The same happened with desktop operating systems. The original Mac was more fun than what we have now.
So how would you rank Rugby here?
On the plus side, it's sprawl with train and subway stations, and plenty of buses and taxis.
If there were a Paris or Barcelona in the U.S, tons of people would move there. Cost of living in this "Paris" or "Barcelona" would skyrocket and you'd see the transit system hit the max and cost of housing skyrocket. There are just fewer cities in the United States with good transit systems, low-crime, high quality of life and urban amenities. This hypothetical city would go through similar growing pains as NYC and San Francisco have gone through with decent transit systems that just can't keep up with population growth.

The logical conclusion of this article is that a higher entity, likely the federal or state government, needs to step in and provide resources to help these mid-tier cities with their growing pains, assuming the optimal scenario is not another metro area with suburban sprawl and lots of traffic. As it stands now, it's unlikely this will change until the system gets much worse due to the high cost of intervention. It costs $1 billion for just one mile of rail in Los Angeles and New York City, and Paris has 133 miles of rail to support a population of only 2 million.
The PHP serialisation format has many issues, especially since it allows all sorts of PHP data structures to be encoded. This allows defining references and serializing objects using custom routines into arbitrary binary blobs. Also PHP's unserialization can be used to trigger the autoloader as it tries to resolve unloaded classes, which can trigger unsafe routines in those.

Certainly no data format for data exchange between systems, especially untrusted sources.
Switzerland/France. I've seen farmers take their mobile milk-carts up mountains to milk them in-situ. Not sure whether they do the same thing with calves or not though.
Tesla is now producing at a weekly rate equivalent to hundreds of thousands of cars per year

That's only true if you're a time traveler from the future. But it's only April 2018 here, and Tesla is producing about 2600 cars a week. They produced 12000 cars during the first 3 months of the year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

Also it would be very difficult to get millions of cars out of the Fremont facility.. they already ran out of space there over a year ago.
Valve Acquires Firewatch Developer, Campo Santo
The argument is resolved pretty simply by considering that the term "pass-by-reference" was defined well before Java even existed, and that Java does not exhibit behavior required of that calling style. (In Java, you cannot change a variable in the caller's scope to point to a different object.) Java is demonstrably not pass-by-reference.

But don't take my word for it. Pass-by-reference was understood by the person who invented the calling style used in Java (Barbara Liskov) not to apply to that calling style. [1] The argument was resolved before it could even be had, 44 years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_sh...
Not related to your point, but I do think it's entertaining that every time I post something about programming languages, there is always at least one person who says "Lisp already solved it!" [1] [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726379

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12221818
> The Jews in the Warsaw uprising had guns, grenades, etc. but nowhere near enough people to defend against an army.

Well, they delayed the Germans. That is impressive. Another time when the international community isn't too busy looking the other way it might buy enough time to save some people.

> If you want to avoid atrocities, strong civil institutions matter a lot more

Don't disagree. But there is no conflict between driving carefully and also wearing a seat belt.
LEDs are current devices; any mechanism for controlling current precisely can be used to control LED brightness. there are a lot of them.
The thing is, most of the changes MLB (well, basically Rob Manfred) has proposed lately don't really "improve" anything.

The last good change was introducing the ability to challenge a call and get it reviewed. Since then we've seen the slide and collision rules, which mostly nobody -- even, at times, the umpires -- seems to understand well enough to apply. And the new pitch-less intentional walk, which was just pointless as a time-saver. And this year the mound-visit count, which is pointless again. And now proposals like starting extra innings with a runner in scoring position, because apparently the drama of a tied game with potential sudden-death situations isn't interesting and we just need to make sure it ends as quickly as possible, or ideas for how to make defensive shifts illegal so hitters never have to adjust to how the defense is playing.

Baseball is always going to be a more slow-paced game than the other major sports. That's inherent in the game. The solution should be to find ways to embrace that and showcase the interesting things that lead to it having the pace it does. And really the biggest focus ought to be on solving the ridiculous maze of restrictions on watching major-league baseball without a cable TV subscription, since the game needs to maintain a base of younger fans and those fans increasingly are not going to have traditional TV subscriptions.

Baseball is currently literally in the business of telling people "it's nice that you want to pay hundreds of dollars to watch our sport, but we're not in the business of letting you do that". This recent article gave a good overview of how that happened despite MLB having probably the best streaming and online service of any major US sport:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/major-league-baseball...
INSTEAD3 – Simple Text Adventures, The Interpreter
I don't think NYC is seen as a bad model everywhere. There are plenty of medium-sized cities that are trying to conjure up a high-rise downtown with condo buildings and office towers through various kinds of development incentives. Some because they see that as key to attracting certain demographics and businesses, others because they feel it'll subjectively make them be perceived as a "real city". But in SF specifically, "Manhattanification" has been a kind of bogeyman for a while now.

My amateur hypothesis is that a certain portion of SF residents have a local self-identity in part defined by being not-LA and not-NYC. So a planning proposal can be attacked by claiming it would make SF either more like LA, or more like NYC.
This can easily be done using the program BitBar. https://github.com/matryer/bitbar
ReasonML is by far my favorite emerging JavaScript tech. Not only is its JS code output small, it's also performant. For immutable updates it generates code faster[1] that Object.assign! :)

[1] https://medium.com/@javierwchavarri/performance-of-records-i...
Its pretty hard to walk more than a few hours in a straight line anywhere on the east coast without hitting a road of some sort.

Even the so-called 100 Mile Wilderness on the AT in northern Maine is crisscrossed with dozens of logging roads.

Basic map and compass training would be better than GPS
No, to the contrary. The image is sharper, the contrast is higher, the display is active, not passive. This helps the eye. Think of Amuled smartphone displays with its superior quality.