jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, there's also good old "trial and error".

A lot of impressive feats from way back when were accomplished more by experienced extrapolation than by deep understanding. In the case of those churches, they built a lot of churches, with a lot of different designs. Each new architect would try to build something a little bit taller, a little bit thinner and more ambitious than his predecessors, without really understanding the mechanics of the structures. Sometimes they pushed too far, and buildings collapsed and people died. Sometimes they were too cautious -- I've heard the Brooklyn Bridge is hilariously over-engineered, because of the lack of computer modeling. What we see today are the best of the best, the most ambitious ones that didn't fall down. The ones that were too unambitious or which were too ambitious to succeed have been forgotten.
Burns: I actually had the chance to meet Klein, and his research is (IMO) amazing. See his booklet and his product [1] (I use it and it works amazingly well).

Throat: "Garlic Tea" which sounds disgusting... is fantastic for anything in your throat (allergy, cold, injury, etc):

Bring a saucepan of about 4 cups of water to boil.
Peal and crush about 10 garlic cloves, toss in water, turn off heat immediately.
Let cool to palatable heat.
Add a couple table spoons of vinegar (natural, with the "mother" if possible) and raw honey to taste.
Magic.

[1] http://www.betterthangreens.com/Amish-B-W-Ointment-Dept/536/ [edit: I pasted wrong link, oops]
Grid layouts should be built using some sort of <grid> - not a bunch of hacky nested <div>s. HTML is a mess.
'when scanning “stress documents” to PDF—which can include very small font sizes, stray pixels and be difficult to read'

That's some impressive wording there. It makes it sound like only documents which have very small font sizes and are difficult to read are affected, but it actually says the exact opposite - that the issue can affect documents with large, clear fonts and no stray pixels.
As much as I hate to say it, your right.

As I type into my girlfriend's macbook, I feel ashamed, but at the same time I cannot get myself to buy a laptop because they all suck.
It's really not a defining moment, in any sense of the word.

Same old, same old.

In actual fact though, The independent has stated that it wasn't leaked anything by the government, so the original post is moot. This is no better than gossip about celebrities.

So governments monitor the internet. Wouldn't it be really bizarre if they didn't monitor the internet?
Well, Google certainly builds walls for its garden. Looking at things like nuking Reader in favor of G+, nerfing its applications on iOS compared to Android (funny how quickly iOS got turn by turn Google Maps once Apple released its own map application), and even initiatives like Free Zone in developing nations that provide free internet only for checking G+, gmail, and sites opened directly from a Google search). Just look at the shenanigans Google is pulling right now with Microsoft and getting Youtube on mobile there.

All of these companies throw walls up for the sake of profits and strategic benefit. Different heights, different locations, some hard walls, some soft, -but they all build them.

The entire free Android operating systems itself is just vendor lock-in for Google, which is an advertising (not search) company.
This concept seems to be catching on. Whisper is the app thats leading right now in a similar space.
Lots of good questions here:

* The "sign-in before you'll let people follow" is just a straight forward result of A/B testing. It was like a 9-to-1 difference for single site returns. And despite the developer in me saying "gross", it was just a stat from our metrics guy that we couldn't refute.

* We're in Minnesota and Amazon's been playing games with our affiliate revenue to encourage some legislative changes... But even if the affiliate revenue was working perfect, it wouldn't be enough to keep the lights on. TrackIf is really just a platform to demonstrate our business solution (like how Home Depot does back-in-stock notifications)

* What's a UK based site you want tracked? I could wire it up for you.

* Amazon does all sorts of price games, geography/time-on-site
/Prime-status/etc.
Frankly, I've never understood people complaining about Perl's references. Me, when I first learnt about it, I felt in familiar territory, for it reminded me of C pointers. Hell, even the '->' notation was easy to remember since it's the same as in C. And as mentioned above, the sigil system of Perl makes it impossible to confuse a reference with the object it refers to (PS. except maybe for references to scalars, but those are arguably very rare).
ex googlers startup

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508176/get-ready-for-ad...

browser fingerprinting is old school and almost outdated by now

All Google needs is few hours of your online activity to associate a fresh newly installed system / browser / ip with a trace of crumbs you usually leave on the network, your 'online routine' - often visited pages, order of visits, time of day, time stamps, all thanks to ever present adsense. Not to mention everything you type in the Chrome address/search bar is reported back to the mothership one letter+timestamp at a time in the name of instant search/autosuggestions/autocomplete (keystroke dynamics), Google knows most common mistakes we make when entering urls/words (limited stylometry), Google has a whole warehouse of stylometry data inside gmail.

Everyone is doing it, Google, FB, Amazon all have acres of server farms grinding such data. Google even offers free DNS servers just to collect more of it. Small companies offer free url shorteners, image hosting, all great sources (who you share with, how popular you are, how far it reaches, for how long). Six degrees of separation etc, everyone wants to know your interests, ip, os, browser, email, phone numbers, address, friends, contacts, social graph influence. The more data sources the easier to correlate and aggregate. Just an example of visible usage - Amazon will give you different price depending on who it 'thinks' you are.
Could be interesting...It would also have a link so that other people can go and learn/read about it I guess.

Best way would be to put a MVP out there and test with people.
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What are the laws that make the other 25% legal? What should a host watch out for as the biggest factors?
You bring up a good point. There is a tendency on the part of figures of authority to pretend they have more power than they do. For Obama to take "responsibility" is total hubris. He's about as powerful to stop the spill as you or I.

The question he must ask himself is, "how can I act like I have power?"
Most of what Trip talks about is FB connect and recasting. I like the flash to html switch, but can someone explain why the flash to html5 conversion would increase time on the site for regular web users?

(I find it easier to understand why people who discover scribd through FB would spend a lot more time on site than someone who reached scribd via search)
I was under the impression that ETF had to be pro-rated now, but the information in the article seems to indicate that they are still flat fees are Verizon... is this true?
I think the article is wrong and Peter Thiel is right.
I've worked for 4 startups, the first 3, the CEO paid himself exorbitantly and they all died horrible deaths. The fourth, where I now work, the CEO is paid $32K/yr and we make more money per day than the other startups made their entire existence, combined.
I'm on a 450 minute plan... and have accumulated thousands of rollover minutes, so there's no risk of a marginal overage minute costing a lot. A small plan makes sense if you're not that chatty, or the people you're chatty with all fall into unlimited nights/weekends/in-network minutes categories.
Lax regulation? Not only was regulation lax, but there was a liability cap on spill damages. That's a regulation that amounts to a handout!

To your second point, at the critical moment of public outrage Obama lowballed the estimate of how much oil was flowing into the gulf. His actions have mainly had the effect of buying time and preventing public outrage.

What if he handn't acted this way? Maybe the American people would have demanded an end to all offshore drilling.

I think it's relevant to point out that if Obama were the kind of guy who would even remotely consider cracking down on oil industry excesses he would not be in the oval office today.
If you really want to do a thorough job, you'll need a Vogon and a bulletin board.
I agree; it's really not that similar to Medium. Medium don't have a trademark on off-black text on an off-white background!
It would also breach the work contract of many developers. Most work contracts tend to (1) prohibit you from taking on other paid work (2) claim copyright of the work you do while under employment (which is why the FSF & Apache foundation require employer waivers from contributors).
Jake does indeed see yakuza lurking behind every pillar...
but he's far more a "real" journalist than Christopher "Gaijin Gulag" Johnson (who also has a habit of posting anonymously: CJ, is that you?).

http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/01/20/christopher-johnson-und...
I'm interested whether that would mean that Monty Hall problem solution can be applied here and whether switching lines would actually improve your chances for being in the fastest line.
I can't help but to always sense and underlying message of "are the rich too rich?" whenever a story like this gets published.

Rather than just looking at the raw numbers (which these articles always love to do), I think the more relevant questions is, do or don't the "rich" deserve their wealth? If they deserve 85% of all wealth due to their involved in the economy, job creation etc...well, then they should have it.

I think few here in the HN community would argue against some entrepreneurial fellow HNer making a buzzillion dollars off of some cool and desirable product/service which instantaneously puts then into the 1st 20th percentile of the graph. Why? Because this person created enough value to earn that money....and maybe those other Americans in that top percentile did too.
>If I have to spend 2 months searching for a replacement for an Erlang developer that quit, well, that's not good at all.

First of all, by requiring Erlang you will get mostly "above average" programmers.

Second, your "senior Python guy" will still nede time to get into the problem domain, from a week to half a year.

And third, any sufficiently capable programmer can peek Erlang to his own productivity level in two weeks. If he has previous history of functional programming - one week. Again, functional programming indicate "above average" programmer, even plain interest matters..

So you're better with Erlang than Python. I know, I was. ;)

I think that your "senior Erlang" friend just loves to change companies or have talent for it.
They're extremely different though. Facebook has a good, proven business model. They kept control - people generally go to facebook.com.

However, twitter gave away control to 3rd party clients. Only a tiny number of twitter action comes from twitter.com.

When most of your userbase uses 3rd party clients, you have very few monetization options.
I was in the interviewing process for a job last month, and jettisoned it because the interviewer/CEO was fixating on details from my resume rather than talking about subjects relevant to my career or technical expertise.

Going to aim for/hope for an interviewer that is an engineer or PM next time.

Might chop my CV down some more too.
taking things by force from people performing better

And this is where your argument will completely derail, not in consistency, but in it's ability to convince anyone with other basic assumptions about the goal of income redistribution policies. Asserting this, you've already lost and are preaching to the quire.

The pertinent point is that people perform better through a combination of 'working hard', 'being more able' and 'luck', where the latter is not to be underestimated. You're elevating 'economically better performance' to 'being morally entitled to a greater share of our aggregate affluence'. That is as hard to defend as any other moral standard and probably not a debate you wish to engage in. I certainly don't believe all those bankers have 'performed better'. Many have merely been lucky, many others have gamed the system.

It also shouldn't be necessary to argue that point. What we care about is 'what works?'. How much wealth should people be allowed to keep, to optimize the sum of their performance not just in terms of economy, but also in terms of humanity. What have they added to this world, to all those around them?

I gladly give up half my income to live in a society like the one I live in. I love the Western European welfare state and regret the American winner-takes-all mentality that disregards how lucky you are to live this specific life in the first place. I'm not just me; I am everyone I love. You cannot convince me of allowing you to retain more of your wealth, unless you can convince me that it would not decrease the wellbeing of people I love, including those that are disabled, without a job, etc. Today you, tomorrow me.
Two (or more) doses are fairly standard for vaccines. The first to trigger seroconversion, the subsequent ones to exercise the secondary immune response (and for those relative few individuals who did not seroconvert after the first jab). The interval between them is typically quite long, often on the order of years [1]. From that pov, the 3-4 week booster interval for the COVID vaccines is tiny. It's likely the minimum possible interval given that seroconversion takes >= 14 days (I'd guess the short interval was chosen to get trial results as soon as possible). There are many reasons to think that alternative dosing schedules would be not only viable but better than the current default.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
I think that Oracle doesn't view Open Source projects as assets, full stop. They're cost centers, not profit centers.

I don't think Open Office factored into Oracle's analysis of the Sun acquisition at all, and I doubt they'd notice if it disappeared. They've got other things on their minds.
I couldn't agree more. Too bad we spent all of that money on World War II. That was just a whole ton of wasted government stimulus.
Those are point totals, not ages. Granted, it's unlikely that someone will have a high total without having been here for a while, but he's asking about age.

I think I came here pretty soon after it was made public, but there was a 'trial period' where only PG and some of his friends were here, so beyond the "pg" account, you'd have to ask him about the invitees.
The legitimate purpose of law is to protect rights, or at least to benefit society. Eg, speed limits should be in place for safety. What makes people angry is when the law is used for plunder. When speed limit laws are used to raise revenue, ie, when tickets are issued not because people driving unsafely, but simply to extract money from them, people get upset. Governments who do this are acting more like mafia than protectors.
The problem is that it's a really tailored solution for Panic's team and that's why it works - for them. Some careful considerations should be put forward to create a interchangeable system that any business could tailor to its needs (easily). A good start, although graphically speaking it's not sex on screen.
I would suggest to take a good look at LimeJS.
Because the market prefers oil, is why. And it's easy to see why: oil packs an awful lot of kilojoules of energy into a given volume. That matters whether you are a motorbike or a cargo ship. And its price per KJ is pretty low too - remember that most "electric" solutions simply burn fuel in power stations instead of in engines, and use that to charge batteries, losing energy at every step of the conversion.

We will go battery/fuel cell/whatever - but the cold hard fact is, that technology just isn't ready yet.
It looks like a small progression, but it failed. Rocket science is hard! Remember, no one has ever done this before.
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Please can this spam account be banned?

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kkunal
You're only counting his Unix stuff. He's credited on the chine nual[0], he wrote bit-twiddling hacks, he published an AI paper with Sussman, etc. His WP page mentions a bunch of stuff.

[0]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/two_pi_r/264672507/
If you're going to read a paper on n-back you should read gwern's FAQ on it.

http://www.gwern.net/N-back%20FAQ.html
It ought to make it impossible to lose.
That would mean a 25% price hike on all services. Rather a lot for a situation when the biggest issues seem to be lack of preparedness and planning for failure by a lot of people.
But precisely as much as you don’t take into account the environmental cost of every other unit of electricity you use.
Could a website be re-designed from HTML into a Wordpress Platform?
Your argument isn't logically consistent. Whatever justification you use the argument is the same: You think the government should be able to decide what people's contributions are worth and act as an intermediary between the person getting paid and the person willing to pay them that money.

So you can't make an exception for people who "create new things". Because the precedent you've set is that Government should be the one judging what someone's individual efforts are worth and in order to even make that judgement Government has to then evaluate everyone's contribution.

Hence there are no exceptions because everyone must be judged.

So in the case of someone like Sergey Brin you'll get people asking if what he did is really worth $15.9 billion dollars? Or those who ask "Isn't $1 billion more than anyone needs? Wouldn't society be better off if we took the other $14 billion and distributed it to poorer people"
For a colony further up the gravity well that produces resources locally, "rods from god" style weapons suddenly make much more sense than for earth-based nations. Nukes might simply not be worth the effort.
Improvised explosive devices were found in several locations in Washington, D.C. A device suspected to be a pipe bomb was discovered adjacent to a building containing Republican National Committee (RNC) offices. A search of the nearby area found another suspected pipe bomb under a bush at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters.[4] The devices were believed to have been planted prior to the riots.[124] Both the RNC building and the DNC headquarters are a few blocks from the Capitol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_St...

An explosive device is found at the R.N.C., and the D.N.C. is evacuated.

An explosive device was found at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington and the nearby headquarters of the Democratic National Committee was evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious package on Wednesday, according to three people briefed on the discoveries.

The device that was found at the R.N.C. was a pipe bomb that was successfully destroyed by a bomb squad, according to an official for the R.N.C.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/electoral-vote#pi...
Yes, but speaking as a citizen of the USA, we spend the most with the least progress to show for it.
Fwiw multiple police/security leaders have been fired or forced to resign due to this.
Black Mirror is about the way our current and near-future technologies expose and amplify our psychologies, and it's absolutely brilliant about it.

Brilliant and brutal.
Hilly topography doesn't really make it prohibitively expensive to make 2+1 roads, or at least they're relatively common in Finland. (Although 2+1 roads are rarely separated by fence here).

Even hilly roads tend to have straight sections that can serve as the 2+1 area.
Use password manager -> generate high entropy passwords -> Victory.

It's pretty easy to keep your password manager secure against the threats that most people actually face, and this removes the worst elements: password reuse and low-entropy passwords.
This kind of stuff still happens.

When I was employed by a university; capital purchases had a lower overhead rate than regular expenses. We didn't buy 5 workstations, we bought a five system "cluster".

When I was employed at IBM, we were under expense controls, so anything over $250 needed to be approved by the Research division comptroller. Instead of purchasing a PC, PC parts were purchased and assembled.
5 minutes is that valuable to you?
For something fairly recent, I read Collective Intelligence cover to cover.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop/updates/lib...

Your wish is granted.
working with ~1PB of remote sensing data and station derived data. never used the word 'Big Data' in any work context.
> to just _search_ a C++

Please, be serious.

> but I can't use _my_ grep, _my_ freetext indexer, _my_ editing constructs

Oh, but you can! These are _your_ tools, you can easily extend them by either scripting or modifying source, no problems there. Really, how much of a problem is adding a switch for underscore insensitivity to your program? Because I assume case insensitivity you had already coded.

Oh, unless by "_your_ grep" you meant a tool that someone else wrote and you're using without any real understanding of how it works and without required skill or knowledge to modify it. Right, this can happen, you're a busy man, have many obligations and no time at all to fiddle with grep. I understand.

But that also makes you completely outside of a target group of early adopters of new programming languages. So maybe stop commenting on them?
No, I mean terrible compared to the Objective C/C/C++ Xcode toolchain, normally used where Swift may come in the picture. It needs at least one more year of development and design.
The course provided by UON didn't have any programming assignments, so that could count as an important difference.
Agreed. My then-3 year old daughter danced to the tune of Da Funk and I uploaded it. The sound was removed, even though it was in the background. It was Fair Use for sure.

Shame on YouTube, quite seriously - I didn't cost Daft Punk anything!
That doesn't mean anything.

The true cost is when the network is saturated.

You can also have this same fee in BTC. If there are no competing transactions, this fee transaction will be mined.
"A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. Say, "When all of the Python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try to learn it." That should keep them busy for about 10 years. I repeat, do not use Python 3. Python 3 is not used very much, and if you learn Python 2 you can easily learn Python 3 when you need it. If you learn Python 3 then you'll still have to learn Python 2 to get anything done. Just learn Python 2 and ignore people saying Python 3 is the future."

I don't think it is useful for a beginner to start with python3.