skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a fascinating book from 1994, "What You Can Change, and What You Can't"[0], about human plasticity, and how malleable we are in various areas. There is a default assumption in our self-help culture that a majority of our characteristics are open to change if we just apply ourselves, have good character, grit, etc. Alas, that does not appear to be the case. Some things are almost trivial to change, such as phobias. A trained practitioner can typically eliminate phobias in hours. On the other hand, at least from a 1994 perspective, some aspects of sexual orientation never change. Seligman presented a layered model of our sexual orientation, and at the very lowest, hardest to change layer is "what gender do I feel like". I can see there being a huge range of variation on internal feeling, depending on which genes are expressed, and how much, how certain hormones are enabled in the growing fetus, etc. We only have to consider hermaphrodites and the huge array of ways that physical sexual development can go awry and extend that to the invisible variations. I remember reading that book when it came out and thinking that must be about the scariest feeling one can have, to be in an X body but every part of me feels like a Y.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/What-You-Change-Cant-Self-Improvement/...
I dig these little hacks that make the apps you use more entertaining.
Not different, perhaps confirms concerns.
It works great if your intention is to intimidate and fragment communities that promote widespread piracy into irrelevance.
Can someone who knows more about haskell than me explain whether:

1. there are any disadvantages to using this library

2. there are any comparable libraries that I should/could be using instead (obviously with reasons as to why it's better/worse).

because this sounds great and I now want to start using it everywhere!
This is always a difficult task to tackle, especially when dealing with data sources like Active Directory that want a surname and given name, which may not always be the case for everyone.

Admittedly the best answer is to get a "Family Name" and a "Nick Name" (not to be confused with a user name). The big problem is convincing the management they don't need to collect first name, last name, greeting...etc
Who would that be? Not Gates surely.
I think this is to do with media controllers (the managers of the megacorps) predicating value on number of copies reproduced. Shows are not to be allowed to be given only the value of production but must be talked up to have a value according to the number of copies - the more expensive the copies can be made to appear the more realistic it seems that a copy should cost more.

Charging $20 per viewer for content that cost $0.20 per viewer to make is hard; you have to pay off politicians to maintain that sort of control.

If content creation is pushed to a point where the actors, production team, etc. just get a seriously good wage and no further profits are produced then there's no place for media magnates. They must do everything to push against the concept of economy of scale.

I'm imagining a utopia in which a $50M movie takes $100M, everyone gets a bonus (down to the caterers and toilet cleaners), the people who front it get 10%, the rest is fed back in to other projects and the movie is now in the public domain.

We need to support content creators not make those who control the media even more ridiculously wealthy.

Then we have people like the car manufacturer controllers not happy to make piles of money from the effort of the people who work beneath them they want to cripple the product and make cars impossible to repair ...

If you ever buy a supercar society should have you stripped naked and left to beg for scraps in a favela whilst all your personal assets are liquidised to feed the poor.

/rant

[Dammit, I'm really ready to go off on one, enjoy the rants of an over-tired slightly drunk person. Free at source! License: CC0!!]
Allocators are being worked on. It's not a fundamental language design issue. It didn't make it for 1.0, but the infrastructure to eventually supporting custom allocators has been part of the design of the standard library for quite a while.
If you rely on someone else for your success, this is what you will get. Then it will be no use. Instead, ask yourself "How can I help a lot of people with what I know how to do?" Then go do it, and create jobs for other talented people who you see that are overlooked. You don't have to be in America or Silicon Valley to succeed. It comes from inside your heart. Find that which makes you want to succeed the most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCaL8iul50
There is a similar explanation if you search google for `haskell ampersand`[0]

[0] http://qerub.se/ampersand
Doesn't Google now require a phone verification to sign up, thus tying everything to a real id? And you don't get Cloudflare bs all the time on tor?

And have you ever compared speed on downloading large files, or latency? It's bad enough to make me only use it when really needed and not everyday usage.
A tip for new players: I had trouble understanding what to do in KSP when I first tried it out (a while ago when it was very very beta) until I watched a bunch of videos from Scott Manley:

https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg

His videos really helped me understand the orbital mechanics and get more enjoyment out of the game. He knows the best way to transfer and and gave me handy rules of thumb I could follow.
tip the producer somehow

The most anyone has ever raised that way (following a particularly egregious leaking of a film before release in Russia, albeit probably for political reasons) is $14,000. I don't personally know anyone who's made any money from tips, and it's not exactly a promising business model.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/02/02/leviathan-collects-1-mi...
"Say as little as possible so as to reduce the amount of data on which suspicions of impartiality can be cast"
YC founder looking for tenant to sublet our 510sq ft. SF office for 4 mos
About the unit:

- On 3rd floor of historic building @ 222 Columbus Ave at intersection of highly desirable North Beach / Jackson Square / Chinatown neighborhoods.
- Several other startups & small businesses in the building.
- Comfortable for 4 people, could accommodate up to 7
- Recently remodeled office
- Solid hardwood floors, white walls
- 3 separate entrance doors w/ deadbolts
- Security door in hallway plus coded front door entry
- 3 large windows
- Window unit air conditioning
- One large & one small room connected by inner door
- Access to 2nd floor kitchen
- Men's & women's bathrooms on every floor
- Elevator
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RENT: $2028/mo for 4 months
AVAILABLE: June 1 to September 30

I'm the founder of Little Details LLC, and am moving my business to the NY area in mid-June. After the release of our latest project, Patchmania (http://getpatchmania.com), we're taking the opportunity to do the move sooner rather than later. Our lease is up September 30th, which means we have a 4 month gap during which a suitable tenant could sublet our vacant offices. If you like the building, as I hope you will, any further extension beyond September 30th is definitely possible but would require you to sign your own lease with the landlord, which would likely be at a different monthly rent.

$2028 is extremely competitive for this area and the quality of the office space. The market prices have gone up considerably since we rented the unit, but we're offering the space at our current monthly rent which was set a couple of years ago.

Serious tenants should contact me at jon@littledetails.net. Will happily send pictures. Unit will be vacant upon move-in although there is the option for you to purchase some office equipment (desks, chairs etc.) from us should you need it (otherwise it will be moved out of the unit).
Yes, people are very lazy. iTunes is great for lazy people. It's easy to use, extremely high quality, and has the vast, vast majority of pirated content (for Americans). The only thing missing is free. If iTunes were free there would be almost no reason to pirate content. Certainly not in the majority use cases. Therefore the only reason to pirate over iTunes is money. Therefore people are greedy and selfish.
It's just a property of the artifact you're building. You're designing a process instead of a product. The artifact you produce is a description of that process--code.

The closet thing I can think of is anyone who works on processes instead of products. If you look at disciplines that design processes, the larger the scope of the process, the less exact the methods to design them (mainly because the number of variables grows too large).

At one end, industrial engineers who design assembly lines have very rigorous design methodologies backed by math and empirical data. At the other extreme you have politicians designing the process of running a country, and their methodologies are almost never based on math or empirical evidence.

One way I've heard it described is kind of midway between an industrial engineer and a politician--When designing a large scale software system, you should be like an urban planner. You decide what kind of zoning you need--residential over here, commercial over there. Then you build the roads and other infrastructure that connects the various districts.
I don't like the conclusion that students should avoid proving by contradiction unless they really need it.

I almost always start with contradiction as my initial method of choice when taking exams because you don't always have time to completely rewrite your proofs. Contradiction helps with this since it naturally encompasses proving by contrapositive also. Because if you're trying to prove that p->q, you can assume p and ~q and getting to ~p is a contradiction since p^~p (and this is the same structure as a proof by contrapositive if you got to this line without assuming p). And of course if you find any other absurdities along the way sooner, you're done quicker.

This is nice because a proof by contrapositive is more or less equivalent to a direct proof. So simply by always starting with proof by contradiction, you cover the cases where the theorem:

- is simple enough for you to find out exactly why it's true (direct proof hidden in the contrapositive).

- is complex and wide reaching enough for you to hit an absurdity quickly
"But for more than 40 years, his abiding passion has been the idea of a small jet engine for light aircraft."

Williams[1] had that vision too. He'd produced the jet engines for the first cruise missiles, and many other successful jet engines. But he was never able to break the cost barrier.

Below 6 passenger bizjet size, jet engines don't seem to get much cheaper. Smaller engines can be made, but the price doesn't go down by much. NASA had a big push for smaller, cheaper jet engines in the 1990s. Failed.

Maybe with better manufacturing techniques, like making all the plumbing in one big 3D printed piece...

[1] http://www.williams-int.com/
William Deresiewicz on America's “Artificial scarcity of educational resources”
...given the number of players involved...

While there are many good arguments against conspiracy theories, this is not one of them. Given how long it took for people like Snowden and Manning to come along, it seems compartmentalization, patriotism, and NDAs go a long way.

In the Toyota case, not many in-the-know would be required at all.
I recently wrote a highly upvoted comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444578) on another thread whose parent article discussed why people rarely read much any more. I railed against authors who overly enjoy the sound of their own words.

As a follow-up I'd like to point out that this article kept me riveted right through. It was interesting, intriguing, and written without the multitude of irrelevant tone-setting sentences that plague so many so-called "long-form" articles today.

In my humble opinion, well worth a read!
Is your assessment that "in proprietary software people can and do downplay vulnerabilities" based on looking at HN/news stories, or based on directly interacting with security teams at those companies?

In my experience, the worst security offenders are either small businesses or big businesses whose core competency is not in tech. My friend managed to download 50,000 passwords from GreatestJournal.com because they left their MySQL server exposed to the Internet, with no password, and the open-source LiveJournal code stored passwords in plain text in the DB. He reported the vulnerability to them, and their response was to put a password on the MySQL server (and take it off the Internet a few days later), write a blog post saying "You may want to change your passwords if you reuse your GJ.com password on other sites", and then take down that blog post a couple days later.

By contrast, when I worked at Google, a security bug was a drop-everything P0 bug. I recall grabbing dinner at In'n'Out at 11:00 PM because a potential data leak was discovered at 6:00 and the culture is such that when a potential security bug is discovered, you drop what you're doing, assess the impact, fix it, and don't do anything else until you've done that. And I didn't work on a security team, just an infrastructure one responsible for google.com.