jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This rules! And thanks to everyone in #coffeescript for answering my stupid questions as they come up :)
The few bytes you'd save on the png would be lost on the few bytes of additional markup you'd need in your html.
A potentially armed woman was leading a mob through a window.
I think you've answered your question; to escape the Moscow winter to somewhere it's above freezing?
> But I really don't think that's the fundamental motivator for people to move.

It’s not xenophobia, or any other ideological hate for others. It’s simply the result of optimizing for your own kids’ outcome. The country dismantled mental health care facilities and the law doesn’t allow for involuntary committals. The country’s drug policies and lack of economic opportunities created addicts who may not be able to be helped. Overall, we don’t have the stomach for the necessary wealth transfer needed to fix broken families (providing poor parents with sufficient wages and time off and healthcare so they still have time to be at home with their kids).

As an individual, there isn’t much you can do to in the timeframe of raising your kids to solve these issues. So you do the next best thing (if you can afford it). You run away from the problem as much as you can. Which also helps exacerbate the issues. And it’s all part and parcel of the increasingly wide wealth/income/opportunity gaps.
Not that anyone is measuring, but doesn't Canada have one of the foremost talent pools and research for quantum computing? As I understand it, the rest of the world is still playing catch-up.
He pressured his DOJ to act against them.
So long as <messenger service> is dependent on a single entity running the servers it's fundamentally deficient.
Showing ads is one thing, but more savage beasts lurk in the javascript jungle...
The term Yellow Peril was also around for a good half century in the West before it somehow disappeared. I guess they can't say it anymore.
I think a lot of people just don't know the new capabilities of PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL's competition isn't MySQL, its the new hybrid DBs like CockroachDb.

DBAs and Engineers that know MySQL will always use MySQL. In corps MySQL is a safe choice (sadly).
The idea of renting time on someone else's computing equipment goes back at least to the 1930s.

https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-govern...
You don’t think a country where people wear masks to cope with the smog might have existing respiratory comorbidities?
If anything good comes of this crisis I hope it is the dismissal of the 'gig' economy's nefarious cancerous business-models that rely on regulation dodging, negative externality dumping and worker exploitation.

If we have to reboot the economy, let's get rid of the vilest anarcho-capitalist and environmental destructive cruft we have allowed to fester over the years.
Unfortunately representatives tend to get caught up in horse trading for themselves.
There’s an app for that: https://heartrate.hedronvision.com/
> anything to do with any other country at all

Virus spread is inherently a local problem. Are you imaging Xi should order American restaurants closed? The best China can do is watch out for themselves, warn others, and send masks once supply allows.

Closed borders is more about ensuring people do not flee with the virus in-tow.
https://www.dotmed.com/listing/ventilator/allied-healthcare/...

10 "in stock," $3,124.01 each.

There's also another model MCV200, 10 "in stock," $5,091.71 each.

Anyone got $95 grand lying around?

Edit: btw, in 2006/2008, the AARC recommended to the White House and/or HHS to buy 10k additional ventilators for the SNS, but the govt failed to do so. Now, the US, is for lack of better adjectives, royally-proper fucked.

https://www.aarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/issue-paper-...
Detailed investigation results including data on symptoms, time to onset, likelihood and mode of transmission based on the first three COVID-19 clusters in Singapore.
I think In 99% of the cases, the costs, work and effort by far outweighs possible benefits.
"... I'm not sure why you ask the general question about winning. ..."

From the VC point of view and the deal not going ahead unless Alok is totally removed is all about control and winning. I think the most positive lesson Alok demonstrated here is "... Sell when the going is good – not when the time is right. ..." ~ http://rodinhood.com/2010/06/05/confessions-of-a-digital-ent...
And Alexander Graham Bell fought a patent battle against Elisha Gray, who is arguably an independent inventor of the telephone. There were even allegation that Bell stole the invention from Gray.

James Watt is a monopolist who managed to get the government to extend his patent privileges. He waste his time enforcing his monopoly instead of using his brain to invent better steam engines.

Yeah, the heroic inventors are not what they seem to be.
"Liquidity offerings" refers to the sale of some of the shares from the original investment in the secondary market. And by "eventual sale transaction", I think that he just means an exit through a sale — acquisition or otherwise.
This community should adopt a flag-happy attitude to the 'new' section of this site. If it isn't tertiarily related to programming or entrepreneurship, strongly consider flagging it on the basis of being off-topic.

Here's the off-topic stuff on the homepage right now:

-What is Apple hiding on the iPhone4?

-AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads

-Romantic Love: The problem with Western cultures

-This is Why I'll Never be an Adult

-The Bitter Truth About Sugar

-Bing Napkin Maps

-Russia Getting Rid of Capital Gains Tax

"Tech," politics, random neat things, funny things, something just because it's about a business, etc. are a waste of attention on here. There are plenty of other communities for that. Many of you are likely expats of those communities.
You're using a very restricted form of the word 'camp', in fact a connotation that only arose in the last century or two.

They were most certainly camps. A camp is basically just a temporary shelter.
Bing already has a solution for that already, which they call one-click directions. If you search for a place, there's usually a set of options such as "from I-5 South," "from I-5 North," "from 450 West" which give directions starting from those respective highways. I'm a big fan.
I'm aware that China is safer to business people than Russia, but I still do not trust the CCP enough to do business with them. Look at what happened with Google.
It has been my experience that the truly good designers (ones that are skilled in the psychology of usability, as well as design) run just a little less than a senior level developer, $80-$120hr. These are guys that can design sites that convert. Now if you are looking for someone that can just make stuff look good, then that is all over the board $20hr and up.
Because of the controls that were in place with the carriers at the time, and the fact that Apple didn't want to operate under those controls, it was not easy for Apple to find a company to work with. On top of that, there was no guarantee the iPhone would be a success, and it also required significant change to the software operating the cell towers, for things like visual voicemail. And also, Apple was asking for a lot of money.

ATT was supposedly not Apples first choice, but it was the one that accepted the conditions Apple bought to the table.
Non-profit colleges have the same incentives. The main difference is that instead of rewarding shareholders, they reward administrators and some faculty.

Also, the WSJ article you cite shows that for-profit colleges have only marginally higher default rates than community colleges. It makes no effort to control for the quality of student, which could easily be the cause of the small gap.

Research is an important part of education (perhaps not vocational education).

The point is that unlike Ashford, Rutgers also gets research money from Big Pharma, etc. This lowers the proportion of money Rutgers gets from the government.

Regarding research, while it's important for a small minority of students at top schools, it's irrelevant to the sort of students who would enroll at ITT Tech or Ashford.
Everyone should just use bcrypt, period. (Or scrypt if you follow and trust cperciva)
> the killer feature is the ability to frame the problem in a natural language.

That thought has a long and troubled history in the world of computers, and I'm not very convinced by it in terms of Cucumber.
I also agree with your take on Asset Forfeiture. In any case, I wasn't being snarky when I said "misremembered". I had, in fact, misremembered parts of the video, though the sense of recipients not being fully in on it remains.
I actually don't mind the version update notices when they're final and mention new updates. A beta changelog is not worthwhile.
The first definition of coin:
"a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as mony"

These were not coins. They were not issued under government authority, nor were they represented as such.
Yet, if your Gawker password had been "passwords delight entropy enthusiasts", it would have been cracked immediately, due to the 8-character truncation. "i<3turtles" would probably have been much safer. Unfortunately, users rarely know anything about the systems used for authentication, so any advice should keep poor systems in mind. That's why I frontload my passwords with a few characters of high entropy before appending a longer high entropy (but memorable) phrase.
Charging isn't about whether or not it's "cool" to do so, it's whether or not people will actually pay for it. Is your idea significantly better than what already exists so that people would actually pay to use it, instead of some existing free product?

For either option you need to figure out whether there's a viable market that will pay for what you're selling.
Shameless plug. Can I please ask you guys to edit the page for Votizen and add a listing at job4dev?

There is already a very basic entry at http://job4dev.com/company/votizen.

Also: any chance Votizen is hiring H1Bs?
This is wonderful. +1 regular visitor.
I'd recommend looking at a chart of GDP from before the Fed was established for the express purpose of mitigating boom/bust cycles.

It looks like a jigsaw. If you look at a chart of actual numbers, it's pretty clear that the countercyclical tools available to the fed diminish the effect of bubbles.
this is good/ well said!!! As we roll out new features, and identify possible revenue streams, (i.e. processing, additional delivery methods), we will clarify the paid features. we are evolving :]
Except that the patent doesn't do any "expiring of the oldest record" and it's not LRU.
>A few years ago everybody and their brother were deriding Microsoft for pushing hacks into Windows XP to remain backward compatible with selected application -- like memory allocation workaround for the SimCity game. They did unsound engineering for business reasons -- increasing adoption rate of Windows XP. Now don't ask us to backpedal on that, and push bug compatibility into opensourece software. Don't ask for cart before the horse -- Flash Player before any non-buggy program. Don't ask Linux to follow in every footstep of Microsoft -- let's learn from mistakes.

You do realize that the reason MS was derided for that is because MS doesn't believe in backwards compatibility at all, right? They updated their API completely, which broke Simcity, then they went and added hacks to make it run. They had two more correct options. Either tell Maxis that it's their problem and that they needed to fix it, or actually maintain backwards compatibility.

Linux strives to maintain backwards compatibility, unless they absolutely must break it. This means that you maintain buggy behavior if it's used commonly. I work on multiplatform code, and moving to new Linux versions is almost trivially simple for us-99% of the time, we just have to turn on the new compiler and OS combination, and just build it. Most of the time, any actual porting efforts are done because there are new OS features that we can leverage for performance.
But not anywhere near what we see: BeOS on my 1999-era system handily trumped Linux, Windows or Mac OS on 2010 hardware (non-SSD) when it came to interactive performance, solely because it had a better I/O scheduler. Back then, I could surf the web without being constantly reminded that I had Mozilla compiling & DV streaming off of a camera; today I'm regularly reminded that work is happening in the background.

This isn't to say that there aren't real limits or that BeOS was perfect (far from it) but simply that there's considerable room for improvement before we start hitting theoretical limits.
I'm no expert, but I have a basic understanding of radiation physics. And this letter reads like FUD:

The majority of their energy is delivered to the skin and the underlying tissue.Thus, while the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high.

This statement is very shady. When a photon interacts with a cell, it has a certain (small) probability of causing a carcinogenic mutation. The probability that the radiation is safe is (1-P)^N, where N is the number of interactions [1]. The fact that it is all deposited in the skin is irrelevant to leading order [2], this simply makes skin cancer more likely than breast or liver cancer.

I.e., if the dose in the form of a chest x-ray caused a 1e-9 chance of skin cancer and 1e-9 chance of breast cancer, it instead causes a 2e-9 chance of skin cancer with comparably reduced breast cancer risk.

[1] I'm ignoring high field (nonlinear) effects, since if the field were strong enough to cause them, it would probably also vaporize the person being scanned.

[2] It's actually a good thing since many skin cells are dead or will soon die, and thus carcinogenic mutations will harm them less.
I'm more interested in the pictures of the NeXT factory at http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/places/fremont/fremont.htm...

I want the giant-sized NeXT Cube-front wall hanging in picture 4 of the "Steve at the NeXT Factory" set.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-voice/id318698524 <-- Direct link, gogogo, before it's gone ;)
The actual letter from Prof. John Sedat and others, UCSF:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...
Glad to see Patrick's aiming for a November launch. Patrick, have you considered adding Appointment Reminder to the startups at http://www.startupmonth.org/ or joining the facebook group?
If your job makes you that uncomfortable, you can't do it properly and you should seek other employment immediately.

That's like excusing cops for not following the law themselves because they have a "difficult" job.
I'm in the middle of upgrading some code and It Is Not Easy.

I think it's best to think of Rails 3 as a separate project that happens to share some code with Rails 2.

I hope it's worth it in the end...
You forgot tapes (don't seek, and we mean it) and avoid arithmetic.

Today, divides can be cheaper than branch mispredictions and cosines can be cheaper than cache misses.
The absence of a 1680x1050 screen option on the MacBook was one of the two reasons I didn't buy one when I last upgraded. Now I've just got to decide whether to sacrifice the freedom of Ubuntu for the polish of MacOS.
It's never really a surprise when Apple refreshes their notebook lines. They do it infrequently, and there's enough predictability you can simply read the tea-leaves to get an idea: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

The difference in the recent crop of MacBooks is pretty minor apart from the massive gain in battery life due to it being built in. Most of the time regular consumers simply do not care, indifferent to the details. If you're particular about staying current, wait until the new notebooks are released and only by in that window.

Apple's marketing has appealed on the basis of emotion and design, but their hardware is spectacular, especially the solid-body, integrated battery case being used on the MacBook Pro. I haven't seen anything even close in terms of technology.

The build quality with most manufacturers, even their premium products, is extremely poor. They simply do not care, and since their customers shop on the basis of price and value, there's very little incentive to improve.

I just wish that other manufacturers would get in the game and challenge Apple. It's nice to see Google taking Android in that direction and staying competitive with the iOS.

As Nikon has a Canon, Apple needs a foil.
Well, it depends on your motivation for going static, I guess. One of my motivations is to reduce load times and loading page elements via javascript is a step in the wrong direction there.

Just thought of something only tangentially related, though: wouldn't it be cool if the tweets on your blog were completely static? Like, if they never updated. It would be a great way to show a snapshot of what was happening when you wrote the post and the discussions that may have led to it.
No surprise. It is sad to see how going public is now making them force people to sign up for a google account. I'm switching to http://duckduckgo.com/
I think Apple is picking out demographics/cohorts that are the most profitable, then marketing directly to them. It makes perfect sense for them to market to the style-conscious. Style-conscious demand gives the producer the opportunity to make a profit through the value-add of design.

This isn't shallowness. It's very smart economic thinking.
Life's too short to get worked up over dollars and cents.

In general I try to live as if I've set an hourly wage for my time. Arguing over a few dollars change I consider more expensive than paying a little extra. If there's a task someone else/some company has a competitive advantage in compared with doing it myself, it's cheaper for me to not do it. So, offload git hosting to github, rails hosting to Heroku and spare yourself the headaches.

Applying sunk costs also is a great stress reliever for me, time spent on a project is time you won't ever get back. Don't fuzz about it.
Maybe like with New Coke this would the perfect time for Ballmer to step up and declare the "Search Wars" over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Marketing_response_by_...
Ten minutes ago, I would have been behind this 100%. I'm an indie developer, and vie had more than my fair share of rediculous rejections.

However, I'm at WWDC. Ten minutes ago, I met with the head of one of the app review teams. She was kick ass, and gave me no-bullshit reasons why I was rejected, and told me exactly what I needed to do to get approved. Then she gave me her email and said if I get corporate BS again, escalate it to her.

The problem is that tens of thousands of apps are submitted a day and at that scale, mistakes are made. Either the reviewers are going too fast or they are crappy because there's a limited number of good QA people.

I used to think that apple's policies led to crappy spam apps because people weren't willing to invest the time and then get rejected. Now I understand that Apple is just as worried about this problem as I am, but just isn't sure how to solve it.
The chances of one of the hip companies going out of business is much, much higher for the average user than the chances of Amazon terminating their service.

Amazon is not Google; I wouldn't put anything on Drive, given their history of product cancellations.
site is down.

after starting my own company and seeing modest success, i wouldn't want to get rich any other way. i feel much more in control this way, and even if it is an illusion, it's a useful one.
> Its like attending an exam, its not the same getting work done in the real world.

Of course it's not. Real world is much more stressful than an interview. During an interview you chat with another developer in a room with a whiteboard. In the real world you are woken up by a phone call at 4 AM to fix a critical system, knowing that if you screw up even slightly, you'll lose a very important customer.
I've experienced both and I can confidently say that I prefer the former.
I've never had a Facebook page. Which is probably reveals something about personality in and of itself.
Potentially even more useful is the split view. Unfortunately, it only does horizontal splits, and only two at a time. I need to search again sometime for a reader with vertical splits, as horizontal splits are mostly useless on a little 11" screen.

Though Skim is open source...
You're skipping a key detail. Neumann turned $20 billion of other people's money into a billion of his own. Don't tell me you actually believe all the garbage about Silicon Valley trying to make the world better ... it's all about lining your own pocket.
We have had some success with hiring out of General Assembly. Last summer we hired 3 interns out of GA who each first started off with a simple throwaway project and then proceeded on to some easy tasks learning our stack (Java/Groovy). We're not a ruby/python shop and a lot of our work is backend heavy. This was quite different to what these students were taught. During this period they got an internship salary. Out of the three we were interested in keeping two. The third person couldn't catch on to it fast enough. About a year later they are at about the level of a junior dev out of college. Their development since has been comparable to other junior devs. I count that as a success.

We'd probably do it again at some point but our engineering team is not big enough to absorb too many junior devs and train these. GA helped in building a foundation, we wouldn't have had the resources to do this training on our own.

And no, we were not paying 100k to people right out of the program.
Re: curve25519, just do what vendors always do: add it to your implementation as a proprietary extension and wait for everyone to adopt it as de facto standard.
Since 12/18/2014? Not a single person to ack the issue? That seems odd.
Since they mention "scalability", I think they're more concerned with the fact that Go has concurrency baked into the language. Python does not.
The description clearly says "Your phone is able to detect strong radio signals, just like the ones directed at your car by police when measuring your speed.", and the reviews show people expect it to work by radar detection, not crowdsourcing. Many comments are police officers that tested it with their radar guns (and they of course realize it is fake).
I just finished such a bootcamp and I'm looking for a job. I'm in an geographic area where there's somewhat of a shortage of tech talent. My plan was to save up for Hack Reactor or similar (I have some experience, but not professionally, and no CS degree) but I had the opportunity to do this one for free. We've had several companies interested in recruiting, albeit not the coolest startups on the block.

I do not anticipate starting at $100k - maybe half that if I'm lucky.
> Some apps, like Facebook, allow for some data tracking to be manually disabled. But by default, it is turned on. That gives the company reams of personal data on who we are and what we are doing, which it then vacuums up, packages and sells.

Facebook would be giving away money if they ever actually sold your data. As everyone here knows, they use that data to target the ads that they sell.

Do journalists phrase it this way out of ignorance, or is it an intentional lie to make Facebook look even worse than it is?
FWIW there are a few emulators for the Oberon RISC chip:

In C: https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu

In JavaScript and Java: https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

(The JS one runs in the browser so you can launch an emulated Oberon OS from the little web form there. It has the compiler included!)

In Python: https://pythonoberon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (My own project.)
That's awesome, and exactly the kind of thing I want to see from companies selling services! I'll be sure to check it out when I have a minute.