jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In general I think this is an interesting idea, but I feel like this has a lot of overlap with asm.js and WebAssembly.

With this standard we would have standard dynamic JavaScript as the world knows it today, a restricted subset ('constraint spec') that is still designed for human readability/writability, and then asm.js/WebAssembly, which would not be written directly but instead would be an output of code written in other languages. Programmers will want interoperability between all of these paths, and that is a lot of complexity for these engines to manage.
No I never did. Griddy didn't have an API by the time I left. I had thought about setting up something to scrap the data from ERCOT's page, but decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Ah yes, the smartphone, the invention that isn't basically entirely based around the concept of being connected to the internet.
> more often than not nowadays the mainstream journalists ARE the rich and powerful.

Really? Very few, if any. People like Tucker Carlson have wealthy contracts but they don’t even consider themselves journalists, but entertainers (in his case he’s not part of the news division, for example).
I'm not sure what other language you could use to add client-side functionality to a static webpage?

But anyway, if you want to avoid a compilation step, the link GP mentioned shows how TypeScript can check JS files annotated with normal comments. You can run it through the a compiler to remove the annotations if you want, but it's absolutely not required.
I find this to be a bit of a bad comparison. /r/politics downvotes opposing viewpoints - they aren’t banned. And there are many, many other subreddits where you will find opinions completely different from those of the /r/politics orthodoxy.
Hilariously, you are missing the point that it actually is illegal for the power company to deny service. In fact in my country it's illegal for them to cut your power off even if you're not paying your bills since it's considered an essential service.
do you really believe that people never sent money abroad before bitcoins?

my grandgranparent sent money back home to Italy from the US in 1912...
Perhaps. The problem is that crawling the web isn't that hard. Foreach(links) { get(link)} is all you really need. Doing it multiple times is harder though.

The real problem imho is building a distributed index and fighting spam. Both are incredibly hard problems to do well and very expensive. Hence so few are trying to do it.
Congrats, now just don't follow the lead of the secret service by drinking on the job and letting people over the fence
I've been watching the SICP videos this weekend with the goal of making it all the way through this time (I tried watching them about a year and a half ago after taking my first programming MOOC).

What struck me this time was how much the emphasis is on practical software engineering rather than Lisp. That's what Ableson is so intensely passionate about in the video, not the theory. And so picking up the book and looking at the parallel text, I reread it in a whole new light. It was like rereading Eco's Name of the Rose after 25 years and not as the piece of pop fiction I thought it was the first time.

Which brings me to my point that video is just another communication channel. It conveys particular information efficiently and other information less efficiently. Text is no different. Without the video I would never have picked up that SICP and Code Complete have many similarities in subject matter and one just starts with a clean slate and the other in the messy middle.

Video does not need to be fancy to be effective. See Jeffery Ullman's Finite Automata on Coursera. It's PowerPoint and a small talking head and a red pen: And it's better than reading the book he wrote with Who because though dense, it's an order of magnitude less dense than the text.

On the other hand, University of Phoenix operated its online courses with NNTP and was reasonably interactive though asynchronous. It's a matter of curriculum development I suppose. Dan Grossman at University of Washington compares developing a MOOC to writing a textbook and that probably captures the domain of possibilities.
You're spending your karma in the wrong place.

Your logic is simplistic: those people don't have money, so they shouldn't be spending it on things I consider frivolous (for someone in their situation).

You're failing to consider the following:

1. How does a poor country become rich? Why by developing its science and technology, of course (well technically, by becoming more productive, but you know what I'm saying). If we don't develop our own science and tech, we're going to be relegated to manufacturing textiles and outsourced software projects pretty much forever. Doing those things hasn't eliminated hunger so far, so why expect anything different in the future?

2. How much aid does India really receive? According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign_ai...) it ranked 18th on the list in 2012. Sounds high, until you consider that the normally-considered-developed countries of Israel and Turkey are 4th and 5th on the list. On a per-capita basis, I'm willing to bet it is even lower

3. How much do you really know about how the Indian government spends its money? Did you know we spend about 38 times as much on our armed forces as our space agency? Like any other large government, we waste money on some areas and allocate and spend it wisely in others. Research that produces results is never a waste and many Indian government agencies (ISRO and DRDO) have a solid track record in this regard.

4. There are immediate benefits to science and tech spending to even poor Indians. For example Oceansat-2, a remote sensing satellite launched by ISRO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceansat-2). Per Wikipedia, it's used for coastal zone planning and identification of fishing areas, among other things. Other satellites provide weather information, which again is used by fishermen, many of whom are poor. Not to mention all the spin-off technology from defense and other research (handwaving, but I can't be bothered to look up citations right now). EDIT: ISRO also _makes_ money by taking on satellite launching contracts. Their commercial arm Antrix Corp made $33m profit in 2013-2014 (if I'm doing the conversion right: http://www.antrix.gov.in/pdf/ANNUAL_REPORT_2013_2014_English...)

5. Like another commenter has mentioned elsewhere, we produce surplus food. The reason it doesn't get to all the hungry people who need it is pretty much the same reason people go hungry in developed countries: market failures and government aid not reaching the right people at the right time. These aren't things that are solved by diverting money away from research (unless it's to hand out straight cash to poor people, I guess, which almost no country does).

There's always a rash of commenters saying "feed your hungry" whenever they read a story about India doing science. I hope I've reduced their numbers by one at least.
Personal data sold to model and modify behavior. It's even more valuable to gov agencies, which spend spend drastically more than the private sector to get it.
>What's inherently great about file systems that _must_ survive generations?

Filesystems are one example which points to a lack of understanding of how computers work on a lower level. If you can't understand how things work on a lower level you can't repair or innovate on a lower level. Eventually shit breaks down and we're back to bear knives and flint skins.

I would ask -what's so great about NOT knowing about file systems?
Yeah...it's a pretty awesome place to have gone to school.
probably this is a better link, directly to the document explaining the matter:

http://ccc.de/system/uploads/126/original/stellungnahme-dema...
This is interesting and I like the small contract up front, I've done that myself, but I would say that performance anxiety is real and can be treated using not just medications but training your brain to recognize and work through it. My entire career I've been plagued with anxiety issues and have worked through them with help from doctors, reading a lot on the topic, and talking with others that have similar issues. There was a time when I would freeze up just talking one on one with someone. Now I'm capable of giving presentations to rooms full of executives. It is a never ending struggle and I still get nervous. But I can't let it spiral out of control to a anxiety feedback-loop.

My point? Don't just ignore the problem of anxiety when it cripples your life. Address it head on and try to work through it. It will help your life greatly if you can.
++ getting the wordage on _what_ it does and why you'd use it can be tough.
If I understand them correctly, Klathmon is claiming that the marketing dept at Tesla is leveraging Cunningham's Law to get free publicity from reviewers/bloggers/you-tubers.
If you used a different key for each datum then you wouldn't be able to do this type of analyses.

This analyses depends on the property of the same values producing the same ciphertext, which also mean you're leaking information.
You have never tried psychedelics have you? They often have the opposite effect of what you have speculated on.
Anyone know if any of these guys are still out there? Would love to hear what that arrested high-schooler from Tashkent did with his life
sbt is not the only build tool that supports Scala.js. I at least know of support for Maven [1], Pants [2], Gradle [3] (a bit outdated that one, but an interested person could revive it), and there seems to be a path forward for Bazel [4].

That said, I would like to see a Webpack plugin for Scala.js as well.

[1] https://github.com/random-maven/scalor-maven-plugin
[2] https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/tree/master/contrib/scal...
[3] https://github.com/gtache/scalajs-gradle
[4]
Everyone has blood pressure, and it's on a spectrum, but 'Hypertension' is still an actionable and curable disorder.
Another vote for this book - I deal with OCD, and thus my brain is always thrusting all sorts of wild and crazy fears through my consciousness.

I'm not sure I have the stomach to try a psychedelic to try and treat it, as I've seen some success with exposure therapy, but the curiosity is there. I also had some pretty bad experiences with marijuana when I was younger (college), that have kind of scarred my ability to relax before taking any drugs.

There's a part in the book where it was either him on one of his experimental trips or maybe it was someone he interviewed, but while tripping, they were faced with some terribly scary images.

The person tripping said to their therapist guide that they were scared of whatever they were seeing and wanted to run away. The therapist suggested instead that they turn around and face head on whatever it was that they were seeing that scared them. Stare at it, observe it, take it in.

After they did so, the thing they thought they were so afraid of ended up not being so bad, and they sort of peacefully coexisted with it for a bit longer in the trip until the thing went away.

This is how I try and frame the scary things that run through my brain, it's normal to be afraid of bad thoughts, but also learning how to peacefully coexist with them is pretty healthy.
Younger people tend to be the ones hired early on in the life cycle of a product or company because they're cheap, easy to push into a mold (or so management likes to think) and can do just as good a job (or maybe even quicker) than older people in making something that visually looks like it might work.

Then, as the project matures you'll find that that gained speed comes at a price, a price that will sooner or later offset the higher wages demanded by the ones that are further along in their life (dependents, more aware of their value).

If there are young really good programmers (it does happen, I've met a couple) then they tend to be exploited even worse, they will end up creating a large amount of value for peanuts.

But that's rare enough that it doesn't change the situation too much.

So I don't see any inconsistency, it's just time shifted.
It sounds like you had an easy time. Good for you. Many, many parents suffer hell with babies not sleeping and being upset. It seems a bit dismissive to just say “oh just do X and it’s all good”.
"Casey Liss questioned whether flipping the display from vertical to horizontal would make half of its features inaccessible. "It feels like there's that crap way over on the other side and then there's the crap near me," he said."

Given the perennial controversy over portrait vs. landscape, why doesn't anyone make their displays...square?
Takes me back to my apprenticeship days when I went to Reading (UK) in 1984/5 to spend a week with DEC on a VMS systems admin course, which included setting up clustering.

Back in the office we had a VAX 11/750, which was joined by several MicroVAXes.

Lovely operating system.
It was precisely because of Bell Labs that I invested in Lucent back in the mid-90's just as the bubble started going. Their partnership, I imagined, would lead to great things. Did well in the stock (heck, you could do well in any stock then) despite the partnership never really achieving anything.

Bell Labs was a great story. This dark tale of innovation burying and cover-up is even more incredible. One must wonder what other great discoveries lie boxed up in some warehouse.
I have it on good authority[1] that Angry Birds is a native-inclusive app. Also, I wouldn't look down my nose at Dalvik-only apps. The JIT (which, AFAIK, is the target of the litigation) gets pretty close to optimal code the longer it runs - and theoretically games run the same code a lot more than your average application.

In fact, my EUR0.02 is that native-inclusive apps (just like any Java apps which rely on native libraries) are worse, in my opinion, because it limits the number of platforms that one can execute the apps upon. And as a huge Linux fan, current Mac user, and user of x64 Windows at work, I can assure you that I get left out in the cold a LOT.

It's one level of bad to tie your app only to Windows, which coincidentally includes 90% (last metric I heard) of the world. It's another thing entirely to say, "oh, sorry, your Android isn't the same as my Android: too bad for you."

1 = unzip -l AngryBirds_1.3.5.apk|grep -i \\.so
Depends on whether the cars have passenger air vents.
I'm happy to read at least one European country is taking masks seriously. I'm not sure I'm onboard with making face-masks mandatory when going out. But if it were limited to stores and public transport I'd be all for it!

It hurts reading government publications here that advise against mask usage. They say that masks don't offer protection when in actuality they're scared of increasing demand for masks which would endanger people working in hospitals. The Czech example of allowing self-made masks is a hands-on solution!
Didn't the virus start from the Wuhan virus lab?
Many users say the opposite.
We don't usually call a disease that can easily evolve to pneumonie "a cold". And your focus on the supposedly low lethality is misplaced. Way more people need a stay in an hospital (sometimes short). This disease has the power to double (or even worse) the mortality rate of industrialized country during months or even years.

That some people are even asymptomatic is not even a particularly good news IMO. It will just spread more because of that...
If that were true, all the medical professionals in America would already be infected.

Proper use of PPE very much decreases your chances of infection.
> The notion of being able to fix an app by merely upgrading a library it depends on has not worked out in practice.

It works in practice if developers and maintainers adhere to semantic versioning. Unfortunately, there are numerous packages that don't adhere to this standard and that's when widespread breakage occurs.
While it is great if people started businesses when they can't find work this has not been my experience. The people that I see starting businesses are the most ambitious and are seeking more.
Stuff I like:

-The semi-transparent chameleon is clever

-The pricing section is well-designed

-Product looks simple and easy-to-use

Stuff to consider:

-Try making the chameleon 50%-75% smaller. It distracts from the content.

-I would eliminate the "Sign up with Huey" hoverstate. My first question was literally, who is Huey? I now know it's the name of a plan. If you leave it, the default plan should be Iguana, the recommended plan, and not the most expensive one.

-Currently the product comes across as too generic. Add a few more screenshots and use-cases to show off the uniqueness of your product.

-The support and sign-in buttons are too transparent. To draw attention to them, they should probably less transparent and have a solid text color.

-The product may be too barebones for the prices you are selling at. Try adding more features like voting for the best version, adding annotations, etc...
Great work Marc. The site looks GOOD. I love the color scheme, the design and everything inbetween. Its even cooler that you bootstrapped it.

Best of luck,
Matthew M
Just an idea, why not also have a free 1 client, 100mb account?

I would think that this should get you some good user feed-back (past a 7 day usage pattern), and also eventually force users to pay up as they get more comfortable with your app.
Here's a good solution:

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...
There are three components.

Generation -> Grid -> Homes and Business

It is possible to change the type of generation without having to change the way electricity is taken out of the grid to power things. This makes it easier to make changes in the type of generation. Changing from coal to solar to nuclear just involves making a new connection between the power plant and the grid. Everything else then just works as normal.

By contrast, if we converted energy into "Dragon Tears" instead of electricity we would need to lay down a whole new Dragon Tear distribution network so that people could use that energy. Then, a scientific break through occurs and we are able to use the much more efficient "Unicorn Blood". But now we have to rip out the Dragon Tear distribution network and install a new Unicorn Blood network.
Snipshot is one of those apps which I honestly think could be very successful with enough patience and grind.
Awesome job. Ignore the haters.
I am not a designer so I have zero use for your application, so take what I say as coming from a non-customer.

1. Congrats on charging up front.
2. Your price barrier feels high, you attempted to make it easy with a 7 day trial, you can try a 1 project 1 client, 20 file free account that you can try to up-sell if you have trouble demonstrating your value (I'm a non-customer, so hard for me to judge). 7 days feels short specially with design projects.
3. Move the blood sweat and tears comment in the footer to an "about us" type of page.
4. Move support from an e-mail to you to a FAQ page with a "didn't answer your question, contact us form" to avoid getting too many repeat e-mails.
Bear trap, then.
My High School Geometry teacher caught a bunch of us goofing off and talking in class, so he assigned us the squaring the circle problem (with compass and straightedge) as an extra assignment. Said if we solved it, he would give us an A for the semester. We had no idea and worked really hard on that for a few weeks before he told us.
It's truly a spectacle to witness the elegant tactics of Math.random().
I appreciate the "flipping" version but why such an obnoxiously immature primary domain?
Another map supporting the notion that New Zealand is a made up country. Submitted to http://worldmapswithout.nz/
This was my understanding --- actually I designed the licensing structure of this project around the assumption that companies would not want to use GPL licensed code commercially. I offer an AGPL license, and offer a commercial license for a fixed fee.

My understanding is that if you link to the library, your code must also be GPL, which means that anyone linking to your code must be GPL, etc.

This is a problem if you're trying to sell your code. Probably you don't want to make it GPL, and you probably don't want to force your customers to make their code GPL.
> having casual sex

What?

Also, have you tried http://flippinggodateformat.com/ ? It seems they took your considerations into account.
I hope so. I really hope I will be able to become immortal and in a youthful condition. This would be a big thing for me, because I can't enjoy life at all knowing that every single day I spend is one day closer to my death. It's just impossible to enjoy life without being immortal in my view. I always feel anxious that I'm not spending the best time possible, no matter what I do.

One of the reasons I really want to become rich beyond belief too, so I could a) Support this tech, b) Be one of the first to get this as the first ones will be the ones who can afford to bid the most, and also it may be limited, you can't possibly in the beginning stages have all 8B of people have this treatment.
What problems do you have with eshell?
@eropple - I agree and if it pleases the court I'd like to narrow down your statement to the idea that interacting with actual people should take precedence to interacting with your smartphone as that skill seems to be getting whittled away.
This question is from 2011 (missing in the link title).
Does things have changed since then ?
Do you know by chance a list of such time zone islands?
I would put forth that you're not going to get far in this conversation if you can't acknowledge that censorship and government abridgement of free speech are not one and the same.

A company deplatforming an individual is indeed censorship, but is not government abridgement of free speech.
Thanks for the positive outlook among many negative ones :) I hope we can find a good alternative in the market. Anyone know of alternatives that allow end to end encryption with group chat support so far?
Check out emacs-server then ;).
I stopped counting the number of times I called up banks in the UK to give them grief over their "security". My favourite pet peeve is the Mastercard SecureID and Secured by Visa. Both allow only a few characters with just letters and numbers. I get furious that my very secure passwords are not allowed.

One bank blamed the system, saying the reason it's doing it this way is because it's "American".
I'd say the Civil War was about slavery the same way WWII was about fascism--the casus belli wasn't that one side held slaves or that one side was fascist, but having fascists control a couple of central European countries leads to war the same way having a pseudo-aristocratic slave-owning social structure in the same country as a free-labor capitalist society leads to inevitable divisions and attempted secession.

The South was a deeply evil society even then--plantation owners were hereditary lords in all but name, except their slaves were mere chattel rather than serfs, and everyone in the middle were exactly that.
Waiting on my violin to be repaired right now. Downsizing myself and my things, moving out of my apartment to live with a friend and save money.
All this came from reading this-> http://i.imgur.com/ztpGt.png and I think it's pretty accurate.
I was just about to say this, too. I've ended up just splitting up the letter æ in my last name into a and e. Even some Norwegian businesses end up mangling my name, which is really very embarrassing. For them, that is. Æ, Ø, and Å aren't considered ligatures, they're considered separate characters in our alphabet. Worth taking the time not to mangle them, since they're fairly common in names :P
I was thinking that if say Dell tried to move part of their production to a cheaper country (e.g Vietnam), they might meet some resistance from the PRC, in the form of threats, sanctions or whatnot. From what I've read, they value their manufacturing power very highly, and won't be open to the outsourcing thing, unlike the US.
Thanks man, I'll definitely read it.
Yep. Rivington street in fact.