skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried signing up but I'm getting an error. "The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."
i am actually a musician, the rhythm is important and a sequence of 16 notes at the same rhythm and the same tonal distance is too big to be a coincidence
I think there's a linguistic study in there somewhere, tracking how US commercial culture ended up settling on stilted, awkward, passive-aggressive delivery mixed with robotic Gee-Golly Isn't Everything So GREAT phrasing for all communication with the cattle.

I mostly find it ridiculous. Reminds me of stock phrases used by grubby bureaucrats asking for a bribe. But then just about everything about Amazon (and related automate-everything customer service shops) reminds me of the worst sorts of governmental dysfunction. If what you want is what they want or they have some reason to care about you, things are great. Otherwise, you don't even get indifference; you're literally arguing with a machine.
> In fact a student of Lorentz, Fokker, working with Einstein was able to show that Nordstrom's theory was equivalent to an expression involving the ricci scalar and a trace of the stress energy tensor. Unlike Einstein's proposal around this time, it was diffeomorphism invariant.

"I know some of these words."
Whoops, HK is only life in prison. Taiwan is death.
As mentioned by zerofries, the only way this would happen is by consumer pressure. Otherwise there’s no way it would ever make sense to raise chickens in the way you’ve said. There’s not enough ROI on ensuring really happy chickens for anything other than boycotting normal chicken meat to make it probably. At least in the near future (next 100 years) I would say not existing is far preferable to the hell theyre put through in factory farming.
How would a burglary intended to obtain money to buy drugs not be "drug-related"?
Sorry, with regard to comments it was more geared to the comment count (metric) as well as the aspect (anodyne one-two word fawning comments that don’t engage beyond that).
One hour of political discussion and apparently the only news-worthy bit is that last bit about aliens. Vice is certainly living up to its name.

SITE:https://www.vice.com AND bernie sanders
USPS is a public utility that unreasonable people put for profit expectations on.
Slightly ironically an awesome band name.
It's nothing like that because in that case, the latter directly sampled the former.
Luggage might be one big factor;

If someone does not board; their luggage is removed from the hold for security reasons. To do so, safely, would require so much communication between flight and ground staff, that I'm not sure either staff would know how to begin without the middle-ware.
> It wasn't enacted by the 8chan community

It was enacted by a member of the community and other members of the community voiced support for the acts before, during, and after the attacks.

> I have seen many people on Reddit and Twitter who say that all Republicans are evil and should be killed

You can find anyone saying anything anywhere on the internet, but it's very obvious to anyone who has actually used 8chan that it's a particularly toxic community that is generally friendly to violent ideologies.
the repetition is super important. in modern music the rhythm is more important than the variety of tones. the same rhythm and the same tonal distance is too big to be a coincidence
But in that case, Ice Ice Baby sampled the recording of Under Pressure verbatim.
Not to discourage this rally cry (go for it!) I found that Exericsm was a pretty good place to practice stuff: https://exercism.io/
You could do that without steam just by clicking through the UAC prompt.
Fyi if you're going to handle any kind of account signup you should be running in TLS/SSL. I know this is just algo practice but these are best security practices.

Also, I don't see how this is any different from leetcode/hackrank etc. You just support less languages. Your first question is a "island" style problem which isn't a CS algo question, it's just a brainteaser like leetcode often gives you.
"But don't you understand, it reinforces my worldview and tells me that my irrational fear of minorities isn't just racism."
You should check at what's happening/the story behind Hacker Noon. I think it's an interesting read, whether you agree or not.

There's certainly a need to make an alternative, but I don't think the problem is easy to solve because it's not just technical. Creating the community is what Medium was able to do (and the "average" dev usually can't, me included), and this new payment model seems to be what's killing it. Time will tell, but finding the right balance doesn't seem a trivial task.
An Indian market run by 4000 women
This is a good piece. I don't believe (I'm probably mistaken) it's a US take. But it's still good. I came through it from the other side and used software royalties to pay my way through law school. I didn't have a CS or engineering degree and that ruled out practicing before the Federal patent bar: Make sure you realize this if you start taking law school classes, you need the undergrad engrg or CS degree in the US to sit for that exam and practice before the bar in that specialty. My geekdom precedes most CS major offerings and all but a handful of computer engineering offerings.

Other observations-
- Engineers make fucking excellent lawyers. Statutes construed alongside caselaw is sort of like data sheets alongside a schematic and code. You'll blow past everyone else in school and research will be a snap. When you get out to the real world don't spend too much on electronic research. Two services are there to service white shoe firms. You can't afford them if you're not one of the people I reference in the YMMV, infra

- Good engineer attys are efficient and effective and don't hold back the truth. Your clients will come back to you and trust you. You will be a rainmaker on merit. But schmoozing, man, learn it if you don't do it. I can't: It hurt. YMMV if you practice for a large firm and are expected to book 8K billable hours per year. At that point you're doing something exceptional (not a judgment)

- US judges are a mixed bag, elected or appointees. I preferred elected judges but wound up practicing 90% of the time before Federal appointees. Until early noughts the appointees were great. The statutes and binding caselaw in front of them may not make a difference. Unfortunately they're not like compilers or circuitry. You became an atty/engrnr because you're brilliant. But you need to schmooze or latch on to a partner to bring clients in and take the schmoozing bit on for you. Seek them out in law school and hang up your shingle with them. Don't go solo if you neither schmooze nor practice well. Don't go into law if you lie, please. If you don't schmooze, and if you forget to suppress your brilliance in arguments your client will get fucked. You'll get fucked if you have a temper and cross the contempt line (but that's really hard to do if you're sane enough to get through law school without a thorazine drip)

Bottom line: Go for it. My 2.5 years at law school were the most fun I had in my life. My 10 years practicing were stressful and not worth doing (I didn't have the schmoozer partner) but the education and my law license carries me forward in my engineering career, hopefully will get me into a corner office when geeking tires me. And it breaks the ice with my geeky colleagues who always need advice.

Copyedits for slightly improved readability. AMA here or by email if you wanna dig deeper
Here's a minor technical correction about payments lingo. Visa and Mastercard aren't issuers.

Payments are kind of a world of their own, but basically there are 5 parties involved in a credit card purchase:

1. The party that receives the payment. For example, a retailer like Amazon or Target. In payments lingo: "merchant".

2. The merchant's bank. This is where funds are going to end up. In payments lingo: "acquiring bank" or "acquirer" (because they're acquiring funds I guess).

3. The customer's bank. This is where funds are going to come from. Usually on credit. For example, Citi, Capital One, Chase, HSBC, Bank of America. In payments lingo: "issuing bank" or "issuer" (because the customer has an account with them and they issue the actual card).

4. The customer, the person who makes the purchase. This person's name is printed on the credit card. In payments lingo: "cardholder".

5. A payments network. These arrange payments (including operating computer networks as well as defining rules and policies) and facilitate the purchase. For example, Visa, Mastercard, American Express. In payments lingo: "credit card association".

Back to something vaguely relevant, one way you can instantly detect these scams is that they always seem to claim they're from Visa or Mastercard, then try to talk about lowering your interest rate. Your interest rate is between you (the customer) and your issuing bank (Citi, Capital One, etc.), not between you and the card association. Visa or Mastercard doesn't care about your interest rate. The scammers are not even claiming to be from the right type of organization!

I assume they do this because they get a higher hit rate. If they claimed to be from, say, Chase, then lots of people would think "I don't have an account with them" and hang up. If they say Visa or Mastercard, odds are good that you'll think "yes, I have one of those".
What jurisdiction do you live in that permits people to file criminal charges on their own authority at a court house?
Oh yes, finally! That's such a good news! Learning, using, maintaining a qmake + cmake build setup for various platforms is really a pain in my (limited) experience.
Not too long ago I was one of the contributors for this project. Despite my mediocre programming skills, everyone was extremely supportive and gave me a lot of constructive feedback. Hell, I even got a personalized note from one of the original developers in-game, which was pretty awesome.

If you're looking for some fun, then I'd also recommend checking out some of the dev docs.

https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat-doc/blob/master...
Ask HN: What do you think of GitHub explore?
I'm building something of an alternative to it since it's often a bit difficult to find good projects there [0]. Do you use GitHub explore? And what do you think of it?

[0] - https://www.sourcesort.com
I think the main point about taxing aviation fuel is the competition against train industry rather than pollution.
three different tones, but you are ignoring the most important aspect of modern music: rhythm. a modern music piece uses only a few different tones
Read absolutely ANYTHING by John McPhee! He's the best nonfiction writer alive today, he can make anything into an interesting story. Oranges, canoes, geology, fishing...
English has plenty of words for "love" too, even if the distinctions it makes aren't quite the same ones that ancient Greek does. For instance: Liking, caring, lust, enjoyment, admiration, friendship, attraction, affection, worship, loyalty, infatuation. All of them are aspects of things we could refer to as "love", just as much as ἀγάπη, φιλία, στοργή, and ἔρως are in Greek.

(I'm not denying that it's enlightening to look at another culture's words and see how they divide the world up differently from ours, and direct attention to things ours might miss. But I get the impression that ever since C S Lewis's "Four Loves" many people think that the ancient Greeks had a richer variety of understanding of human affections than we do because they had four words for "love" and we have only one, and I think that's all wrong.)
Yeah, sadly no. Ice holds a lot more water than air can. Another interesting effect is that when large amounts of water precipitate out of the air it creates a bigger localized temperature difference because the phase change absorbs more heat. With enough change you can get hail (the water freezes as it precipitates out) and very steep thermoclines between the layers of the air (think tornadoes or hurricanes).
UX Design – How to Get Started
even in punk, it would be plagiarism if you have four sequences of 8 repeated notes but with 4 different tones
Well NHTSA’s trying not to offend Big Auto. Once Administration changes the safety goals should be set at a higher bar. Only one car company can meet them.
USAF MS windows systems in the UK were playing up yesterday as well, everything working really really slowly, been trying to find out if its a windows update that borked something or if its something else.
Where I am there are Amazon branded eurovans that do a lot of the deliveries. They seem to drive alright, but tend to park in the middle of the street and block traffic. Also, the people that drive them aren't super sober all the time. I've nearly run over people that just jump out of the side door as I am trying to pass the van that is blocking the street. It's been a few times this has happened. Like, I know this job is not paying top dollar, and hence the drivers are not top notch. But I am more than willing to pay on par with FedEx and the like if that means that there are safer and more sober drivers in my neighborhood.
Correlations, returns, & market outlook suggest BTC is becoming a global hedge
This should be resolved! Could you try again?
That of course is the most sensationalist headline you could make from the interview.
You're example assumes everyone is the victim. Except that all side collisions and rear ends could be avoided by the stiking vehicle stopping faster. Which vehicles are statistically more often found as being the striking vehicle? It's likely that larger vehicles which can't stop quickly are. And in your example you use an SUV as the plowing vehicle, probably because it's mostly assumed you'll be hit by that type of vehicle, partially for the reasons I just stated.

Again, with the biker statement, since you'll never find a data set that would show accidents avoided on the particular vehicle there's a huge swath of underrepresentation of the reality. And one can argue proportionally bikers are in more crashes because there are less of them overall on top of the fact that most drivers of cars and trucks do not pay considerate attention to smaller vehicles.

And finally my comment about the "friends with fast cars" was a tongue in cheek response to the fact that the parent I was replying to made a large jump by saying SUVs are safer because of size and weight.
Yeah, one could just as easily claim that Joyful Noise ripped that motive off from Red Hot Chili Peppers' Snow (Hey Oh).
If sampling to create new art were better protected, then cases like this wouldn't even come up. The documentary "Good Copy Bad Copy" was talking about this 12 years ago
Should anyone not learn to code?
It's really amazing how little trust people have in the telephone system now.

At least on personal devices/lines, everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize, which is really the only option when 2/3 of the calls you get daily are spam. Most just assume that if it's important, the caller will leave a message.
Apple’s App Stores Have Failed Creative Apps
Same here. Fedex uses a third party to deliver to my house.

I find it amazing that people that deliver stuff do not use Google Maps to get to an address.
Can you grow avocado in a hydroponics system? (2019)
> It just takes a very, very long time, but there have been dogma updates and clarifications throughout the centuries, and even admissions of being in the wrong.

Clarifications, yes. Changes in dogma, no. Catholic doctrine has not changed since the death of the last apostle, John. It has developed, in the sense of being expounded upon for an increase in understanding (clarification), but it hasn't changed. Clarification often occurs in response to attempts at changing doctrine or promoting something which is contrary to doctrine.
What era of mobiles do you have in mind? From my PoV, (smart) phones are getting bigger and bigger up until they cease to become all that mobile. It's why I bought an iPhone classic (not iPhone X) just the other week after a decade of Android phones.
> Every human being should "do no harm". The thing is, you get no money by looking out for others. (...) I don't know how to fix this though.

Ensuring that people are rewarded for contributing to the social good and penalized for harming it would be a good start. While I am hesitant to suggest that money is the solution, paying enough for a modest standard of living would be nice. For those who are typically paid enough, such as teachers and nurses, ensuring that they are not exploited for their compassion would be a good start.

For those who have ambitions for wealth and status, rewarding meaningful contributions and penalizing harmful ones would be a start. Look at the early days of computers and communications technologies. People got rich and empires were built, yet positive contributions to society were made. The later stages of any given industry, which IT is likely in today, seems to be dominated by the consolidation of wealth and power. That does more to steal away from society than anything else.

As for the ones stuck in the middle, the ones who simply want to "do no harm", compensate them properly and give them the authority to act when they see harm. Adjust the tax system so that it encourages wealth to trickle down rather than up. Protect labor in meaningful ways when they speak out about injustices or incentives to do wrong.

Yes, none of these suggestions are concrete. Some of them may not even work. Yet there are plenty of approaches that should be considered before resigning to hopelessness.
Well where the hell was this guy when Perry's team was building their defense? It's apparent what his position is, but he presents well, sounds sincere, and AFAICT has better evidence.
This reminds me of the entire Right to Read by RMS.
Yes. The only number I could find for a Uranium PWR core was 69MW/m^3. Lidsky said in 1983 that "the power density is only one-tenth as large" (fusion vs. fission) so I assume this is what he was talking about. I only wanted to compare apples to apples.

Obviously, additional equipment surrounding the core or plasma adds to the volume, but the major portion of the construction cost is the steam equipment and power generators which is the same cost and volume per MW for either technology (or for fossil fuel power plants for that matter.)
The video is absolutely worth watching, but one of the more relevant bits is this:

> [...] in Dark Horse it's just the background texture for one of the verses. It has the same musical function as a chord progression or a drum groove: it serves to highlight the melody but it's not the song itself. Up until this point it seemed like only melodies could be copyrighted in the composition of song, however the recent court decisions surrounding Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines and Marvin Gaye's Got To Give You Up has thrown all of this into question.

> This is why the lawsuit demanded a trial by jury: because they wanted to confuse non-musician non expert jurors with fancy music theory jargon.

He also specifically calls out the expert witness, saying:

> You're doing it in a fairly intellectually dishonest manner because I sincerely doubt you would make the arguments that you made in court at [an] academic conference for example, or you wouldn't write them down in a scholarly article, because your academic peers would absolutely eviscerate you for saying some of those things -- and yet in front of a jury of your peers you said them.
The critique of anthropomorphisis, doesn't really make a hell of a lot of sense, if you are comparing chickens and higher mammal's relative awareness. And what about it being blurry don't you like? I mean, it is a bit blurry if you start looking for a very smart chicken and a particularly stupid monkey.
It's been posted before on HN (4 years ago), but still relevant I think.
Eh. This might be a case of not really having good data.

Looking at the "data", one would conclude that Autism is on the rise. But we didn't even know what it was not too long ago. And we sure as hell didn't check for it. There are more diagnoses of Autism because we're actually looking now.

Today, domestic violence would be classified as a violent crime. In the fifties, it was called keeping your wife in line.

Lynching a black man was a way to keep him away from your pristine daughter in the fifties. Now. It's a crime.
I'm really waiting for the corollary. Should coders learn law? I'm of the opinion that engineers most certainly should.
To say nothing of reggae, dubstep, etc. etc.
The previous poster is just pointing out that they are no longer an ethical butcher.
Developer productivity when building or redesigning a UI is often far more important than raw performance. There's usually no noticeable difference for a user whether the dialog they opened via a button click is built in highly optimized C++ or from an XML resource stream that is read, parsed, and the UI constructed on the fly by effectively interpreting the UI description.

It's okay to have expensive abstractions where a few milliseconds simply don't matter, but tasks can be done in minutes instead of hours. Declarative UI descriptions also have the benefit of being friendly to visual designer applications, so you need fewer build/run/test cycles (which are far from quick with C++).
Rather horrible breakdown IMO.

The "prior art" from 1984 he mentions is radically different in the note pattern used which alone defeats that entire line of argument. Similarly, reaching back to classical music to talk about modern synth beats is a red herring. All he succeeded in doing here was showing that there wasn't actually prior art.

He does a bit on how the pagan aspects of the lyrics and video are irrelevant, but proving harm is crucial to a legal case. If the music is indeed copyrighted, then he could easily be harmed by the associations that would negatively affect his own song (and most in the US would recognize pagan themes as decidedly at odds with Christian ones).

The final blow is recognition and feel. A huge number of people would recognize Dark Horse exclusively by the playing of that short set of notes much as they could instantly recognize Billie Jean by its opening rift (or any number of other songs). This alone indicates that the notes in question are more than superficial.

Likewise, would the song have been successful without their support? It's doubtful as they try to add a crucial layer of sound over the otherwise very drab and forgettable (if not outright distasteful) melody.

If the notes are derivative and add substantially to the new work, then there is a case here.

EDIT: I say this as someone who doesn't like the current copyright system (either its interpretation or length)
This is a key line from his post:

"Also to be fair, if you have some mileage on your odometer, your pattern-recognition machinery will quickly assign high probabilities to various outcomes."

His combination of personality and experience is leading him to draw conclusions about where Racket2 is headed that is causing him to press pause on using (and contributing to) Racket. I had a similar reaction (described in this post: https://www.travishinkelman.com/post/exploring-scheme-implem...).

It seems that you are not assigning as high of probability to the outcomes that Greg is concerned about. Or you are not as concerned about those outcomes.
>PowerShell execution policy is stupid easy to bypass. You simply pass the '–ExecutionPolicy Bypass' parameter when launching the script.

GPO prevents this but if you have local system you can override that locally and then change execution policy.

I’m sorry, I don’t say this often but you don’t know what you’re doing so I’m not going to take the time for the rest of your post. I’d encourage you to research this more if you like it.
Precisely.

Defenders of police misconduct tend to cite the "it's just a few bad apples" line without noting the full adage is "a few bad apples spoils the barrel".