jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback.

Talking to potential customers is surely something I am going to do.

> read "Four Steps to the Epiphany" and actually follow the advice.

First time I heard about this book. Looked at the review and summary at amazon. Sounds interesting.
Most people will tell you that you can't be passionate about being successful (whatever that means) nor about being happy. Passions are like: real-estate (Donald Trump), sports and media (Ted Turner), human rights (Nelson Mandela), the ecology (David Suzuki). I'm passionate about finding ways of using IT more effectively and in ways to reduce our impact on our environment. Some people are into flying, teaching, healing, etc, etc.

Now, it's our turn: What are you passionate - or at least very interested in?
They've gotten in rather a lot of trouble for doing that in the past. Do you have any evidence that they have been doing it since the emergence of the netbook market?
>> I am a scientist. This sure doesn't seem like science to me.

maybe it's nietzsche or one of the romanticists you should start with then
I prefer to think of it more as "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk."

I'm trying to like Objective-C but I don't. It feels like coding simultaneously in two different languages and you're never quite sure which one will be less painful to use.

It makes you write statically typed code, but you still can't figure out what methods a class has in the IDE. On top of that half of a protocol usually doesn't need to be implemented but you have no idea which parts, and the IDE again can't just fill it out for you. I find I spend more time looking through documentation and copying interface signatures than coding. It has some kind of 'automatic memory management' but it seems barely better than that of C. On top of that if you get a compiler error it usually points you to a piece of code that has nothing to do with the actual error. I'm sure Objective-C was impressive in 1986, just like Java was in 1994, but it's 2010.
What happened? Our leaders pursued a policy of fear and vengeance and the public ate it up like starving dogs.
Since when did Oracle sell OEL? They give it away for free.

They sell support.
Wholeheartedly agree. Who doesn't like LaTeX? This makes it better because it saves me having to install a local copy of one of the absolutely humongous LaTeX packages (MacTeX was 1.6GB last time I looked), which, on my small SSD, is considerable. Also, I can now pump out LaTeX-perfect copy when I'm stuck using a dronebox with nothing but MSWord installed.
I really admire Netflix as a company but would probably not bet on them succeeding in the long run. I would never bet against them either.

Years ago, we had Moviefone which controlled the cinema ticket distribution biz, it aggregated almost all American theaters and had superior technology. Eventually, the cinema owners decided to cut out the middleman and came out with Fandango, their own distribution arm. This pretty much busted Moviefone.

Similarly, I think Netflix faces a tough spot. I think their moat comes from already having a massive customer-base who is willing to pay and has their credit card information installed for recurring payments. Still, online distribution is an area that's much easier to enter and compete on than with mailing DVDs through the postal system.

So I have to wonder if the Studios will decide to try to cut out the middleman and offer their own instant streaming products. Starz is set to re-negotiate their contract soon and I believe they'll get a rate that is more in line with the Epix deal. I can imagine that the studios will press for more money, so Netflix's margins might not actually increase. Instead the money they save on the shift from postal to streaming will go towards content acquisition expenses.

The big benefit I see Netflix offering is the ability to aggregate content that is separated from the studios... it's a third/neutral party. We saw a bad example of what could happen when Fox pulled their content from Hulu for Cablevision customers because of a contract dispute over rate hikes for Fox's television networks.

What I wonder is whether Netflix will ever start distributing original programming. If you look on the premium cable networks (HBO, Showtime, Starz) they all started out as just ways of distributing movies. Eventually though they branched out and started distributing original content -- HBO really pioneered this when Chris Albrecht was leading (he now runs Starz which is bankrolling new shows like Spartacus: Blood and Sand). Offering original content helps add value and increase the moat a bit.

Or, maybe Netflix should use some of their overvalued stock to acquire controlling stakes in studios that have rich content libraries and try to control their own destiny.
This prompted me to go back and search Kayak's S1 filing[1].

From that we learn that mobile represents 1% of their revenues (7% searches). And that's for Kayak, whose mobile app has been hugely successful (4 million downloads).

Obviously it's a big growth opportunity, but for Hipmunk you have even more opportunity for growth (and revenue!) on the non-mobile web. Kayak less so.

"Queries conducted on our mobile applications accounted for 7.0% of our total queries for the nine months ended September 30, 2010. However, mobile applications accounted for less than 1% of total revenues during that period. We believe mobile applications will continue to gain prominence, and we expect to continue to commit resources to improve the features, functionality and commercialization of our mobile applications. We also believe over time mobile applications will begin to contribute meaningful revenue to our business."

...

"KAYAK mobile applications have been downloaded nearly four million times since their introduction in March 2009. For the quarter ended September 30, 2010, we had over one million downloads, representing growth of 152% compared to the same period in 2009."

1. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/0001193125102...
What else are you thinking of that would contribute to such changes, these almost look planned.
I wonder what percentage of the students might delay collecting their diploma until next year even if they have to spend money on a few extra classes. A business degree from the UCF class of 2011 may be regarded as irreparably tainted now, in a sort of academic guilt-by-association. UCF advertises its business school as a new but rising college, whose graduates get the best career ROI of any business school. Mind you, since attendance there is heavily subsidized by the state of Florida, this tells you more about the cost of attendance than lifetime earning potential.

http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=002400...

This professor places more emphasis on a test with recycled questions than practical work.

Actually, the syllabus for the course shows the midterm and final exams being worth 200 points each, out of 1000 available. The other 600 are split up between various individual and group projects. Success in one of the competitive practical projects exempts the winning students from taking the final exam.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ikyDBGZvhpqxPEloRLNPlwv...

from
http://www.bus.ucf.edu/capstone/fall/
The reason the story is important is that transgender people are pretty much erased from the everyday media, this is something that the media cannot ignore.

I don't mean to downplay this, because it is largely true, but in recent memory, the music media has been very favorable to Laura Jane Grace. Becoming Chaz has also gotten a lot of media attention.
Congrats, you're a literal child! In turns out in-depth information takes time to properly explain and discuss. If you want a 10 minute summary that teaches you nothing, watch a TEDtalk. If you want to actually learn and understand an issue, read long form journalism.
This super sad. Amazing that foam is what caused it.
Grass fed beef is apparently also a good source of Omega-3

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874
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Us, not very much, because we still use the criminal justice system to treat medical problems. But we are getting a little smarter, repealing some of the marijuana badness.
more information: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=amd-zen-c...
I pulled this from Startups Open Sourced. Here's the context:

Q: Did you ever do any other big changes or pivots?
A: Payment forms is a big feature that we have at Wufoo and that’s something we
even didn’t think about when we launched the service. It’s one of those things that our users ask us about, constantly. People are asking for payment integration like crazy; let’s just see what we can do to make it happen, and our payment integration is something that we’re really proud of—it’s this really easy way of assigning prices to different choices in the form fields, and a significant driver of revenue for us. Interesting fact: Wufoo has helped people collect over $100,000,000 worth of revenue for the users and we process probably about $200,000 in payments—in transactions—every single day. So Wufoo helps generate a lot of significant revenue for our users.

full interview: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2481804
I found this to be absolutely fascinating, and I'm extremely excited about the linked f.lux application!

I read about this melatonin-suppressing blue light theory recently. It seems very plausible to me, since I have the tendency to stay up arbitrarily late doing absolutely nothing productive on the computer. I thought it would be brilliant to modify the display settings to ramp down the blue light after a certain time.

This struck me as such a novel approach to the issue that it never even occurred to me that such an application might already exist! I also didn't know that so many other people had the same general set of problems with sleeping.
Don't know about the color printing issue, but I use Sumatra PDF reader instead of Adobe Reader for 95%+ of my PDF reading:

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

It's free, and it's light, and it's fast. And it doesn't bother you at inopportune times asking whether you want to upgrade. Given that, why would you want to use Adobe's software?

Every now and again a document won't render correctly, and then I'll use Acrobat Reader--which sometimes also fails to render it correctly. But what can you do.
Amazing! Kudos to the team and everyone behind getting this code into the tree.
Division is a bit limited without a decimal point.
In the context of crypto-as-property constructivism, I'm neither an absolute institutional nor a communal conferralist. Presently, it appears like there is much more communal conferralism constructing crypto as property, I'd like to avoid institutionalization. In practice, this would not look like prohibition, rather the avoidance of extending existing property laws to encompass crypto assets. ie: courts and lawmakers saying, "No we're not going to get involved." Unfortunately, any future crisis where crypto can be blamed is a convenient way to extend to crypto the legal construction of it's status as property.

Since you brought up prohibition, I'll take the bait. We already have prohibitive socio-legal constructions which few people use to form the basis of "prohibition has never worked, so we should not prohibit it." Some examples that are socially and legally prohibited are: murder, rape, incest, slavery, torture, buying and selling of children. I'm unsure if you believe that the prohibition of these acts has also never worked as intended and should be left unprohibited.
Yeah that needs some polish but absolutely fits the pattern of other realistic space lego sets that have sold well.
You can drag letters to any position you'd like. The red dot just seems to be a helping hand for when you want to tap a letter to commit it to a spot.
I can't "prove you wrong" but have a personal ongoing commitment to donate small amounts monthly to projects I enjoy and like.
It may be that you're judging the success of Bitcoin as a micro tipping option a bit too soon as it's just very recently been cropping up consistently on various mediums as an alternative option.

Lately it's even easier to justify as the price remains lower, spending a few Euro/Dollar's worth just for the novelty of sending such low amounts without any friction to someone I don't know anything about except I like their work.
How the fuck do people do this with git? I loved doing pretty commits with mercurial's patch queue. Git is awesome but it seems like the only option for pretty commits is rebase (ew). All the git patch queue implementations are basically dead or unmaintained. :(
So, I did not get an interview. The purpose of me entering was to network and connect with possible team members for my current project. I am a non technical founder who has gone at it with a team of hired individuals. I am a business guy at heart and understand tech from a product and design standpoint better than most, but I can’t write code. I have invested over $100k of my own money into the project. I am looking to bring on board two rockstar programmers as cofounders.

The site is www.stuzo.com. We currently have close to 7,000 community members and the site has some revenues. The site was originally launched as an intercampus textbook exchange that enabled college students to buy and sell online and then to meet on campus for the exchange. The model and the site have gone through a complete overhaul over the past 6 months. The new site just went live today. We are tidying things up this week and will begin a grassroots on/offline marketing campaign next week. My goal is to connect people through the media they own, love, and want. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to build out the vision.

Check out the site and drop me a line if you like what you see. You can reach me via aim/gtalk/skype. My name for all is stuzoguy.
I'm hoping that always on video news falls apart with the cable bundles. CBS is hoping it won't (they've launched a 24 hour internet news channel), but I wonder if that is a good sign.
Chromebooks (which use linux) accounted for over 5% of laptop shipments in Q3 of last year. They also grew at an astounding rate of 67% quarter over quarter. I have not seen data for Q4 of last year yet, but considering the chromebooks' growth rates it will probably be even higher.

So, no desktop linux market share is not non-existent and it is definitely not shrinking.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebook-shipments-leap-by-67...
John Galt, is that you?
I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect Google to update a device to the latest version when the hardware manufacturer has exited the market -- http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-samsung-galaxy-nexus-owne.... While Google does control Android, that's not the only software that is present on the phone. Short of the Nexus series starting to have open source baseband and radio firmware, we'll be at the mercy of hardware manufacturers.
...and I have no plans to add NLP tools in gensim. The connection between gensim and tokenizing/tagging/parsing libs is intentionally loose and flexible.

I'm a fan of "do one thing, do it well".

Having said that, it would be great to facilitate "spaCy + gensim" pipelines for users.

For example, the "word vector representations" can be trained easily with gensim, on arbitrary user-specified corpora, whereas spaCy loads something pre-trained, in a specific format. Maybe room for some interoperability there?
Well, sure. Here's the thing: with anything, the dose makes the poison -- and "low levels" and "small amount" are pretty important phrases in those claims, right? (https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/MMG/MMGDetails.aspx?mmgid=216&toxid...) People aren't talking about the amounts in apples when they're referring to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Indonesia_food_scare
Pff tell me about it. I made the choice of buying real estate instead. My tenant has everything serviced for them. They lost half on the stock market, but fortunately own crypto. Also lost a bit on crypto but they earn plenty. My estate doubled in 10 years and the rent they pay paid for two more properties, but i have to deal with the hassle of fixing pipes and such - all in all i pay in maintenance a month worth of rent, but the stress of calling contractors is too much - sometimes i need to get my arse out of the pool to dial people. Also have to spent few hours total a year. I just cant. Should sell everything and invest in crypto. My Porsche is too boring - need a lambo so it loses value sooner. After all what else can you do other than keep money in the bank. Buy estates and turn highly paid tech serfs into tenants? Hah. Best chase nfts.
I don't know about 2230, but I have used this with the 2280 form factor.

I have used this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Z8Y85GL/

It works, but it runs hot so I added one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WJVFQQ9

I've tested it with 8TB nvme flash. Don't know if it can support anything higher.
Power levels can depend on the service and region. For an example in the US, this Wikipedia page outlines part 15 fairly completely, and links to most types of services with more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_47_CFR_Part_15

E.g. I followed the link to '802.11 wireless LANs', thence to to '2.4_GHz_radio_use' where I was surprised to learn that US 'Amateur Radio operators can transmit [video&audio] ... in the 2.4 GHz band—and all ISM frequencies above 902 MHz—with maximum power of 1500 watts.'
Thanks, psyc. I'm really glad I was able to ... connect? lol ... how do talk person? I was going to say comfort you, but I dunno... it felt weird to say. I'm glad you can relate and got something out of it. How's that? Am I doing this right?

Relationship with your mom sounds awful... I'm strained with both of my parents for different reasons.

Let me know if I can help with anything. I'm datafaucet on twitter http://twitter.com/datafaucet
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It would be interesting to see this challenged for the case where interstate commerce isn't involved. I know the federal government has regularly asserted jurisdiction under the premise that drugs that don't cross state lines still affect interstate prices. I doubt it would be successfully challenged, but it would still be interesting to see it challenged. (I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.)
Bullshit. We did just fine, and the populace did just fine ignoring the quacks, just like we'll ignore all the quacks without tech companies censoring everyone. Lord above, we might come to terms with the fact we're all nuts, which would be a far more productive and unifying form of civil discourse.
How do you get around the CAN-SPAM act and GDPR for the sending of emails in response to posts, when the people being sent them haven't already signed up on the site?

I had to bend over backwards to try and make a workaround for that issue, basically by letting people manually send invite links if they weren't already registered for the site because of the restrictions around who you are allowed to send emails to, when, and for what purpose. It's a real pain in the butt, but maybe I didn't have to go that far?

It was articles like this one that got me paranoid about it, really set back my prototype as I went around trying to change features related to email as a result:

https://privacyvox.com/news/social-media-inviting-non-user-f...
Call it metropolitan instead of metro. Metro might be short for metropolitan but it means subway, not city.
I find Caps Lock quite useful - about half the time when I have login problems, a simple tap on Caps Lock key fixes the issue...
It's unlawful to hire full-time employees as contractors, and there is a somewhat elaborate test (in the sense that its results can be unpredictable when applied under duress) used by the USG to tell the two apart.

This is, in fact, what several companies have done to resolve this problem for foreign workers. But there is a downside.

It's a very bad idea to treat US full-time employees as 1099 contractors. This, by the way, is one of the reasons that freelancers sometimes have a hard time establishing a master agreement with Fortune 500 companies.
3DES has become fairly weak, and it seems like most cryptographers wouldn't recommend it - especially if you are trying to defeat the NSA - originally it had a 168 bits, but with known attacks, it's reckoned to have around 80 bits of security left, which given DES was considered insecure with 56 bits makes it sound iffy at best.
It's so true! NASA is suppose to be working towards "Deep Space" flight, but SpaceX seems to be beating them at that too! The Engines Musk is working on are based on the F1 and he is revolutionizing them by using 3D printed metal components and reusable rocket motors.
There's no slots. Memory is soldered.
> But if I had said that I wouldn't be getting sweet Internet points right now.

Yes, you would. Criticizing and complaining about HN is popular on HN.

I think you nailed it though, it's the "points" thing. You're creating an incentive for people to desperately say witty things to get more points, but when people forcefully try to be witty or helpful they end up being formulaic in the worst way ... they find patterns that people almost always approve of and use that.

I wonder what would happen if you actually hide all the numbers ... all karma/etc is still there, just not visible to the user.
I used to believe that too, but actually banks don't fully trust customers. About 40% of all chargebacks are resolved in favour of the seller.
On any decent size project real senior programmer / architect with years of active product design and development under the belt would beat the crap out of the person who learned to screw size 8 bolt into size 8 nut and been doing this and nothing else for years. And seniority does not come from knowing every last function/class of some framework.

Personally I've never had problem doing project in new languages and had never have client making a point out of it. They just look at the references and products I've completed personally or as the lead. But those clients are business with real needs and problems to solve. Not architecture astronauts who would go to holy wars over things that do not matter much in real world.
I’m a huge Elixir nerd and after some annoyances with JS stacks I decided to try going with Phoenix and LiveView for my pet project.