jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if you're bragging or complaining.

But compare to the US: I pay over $2200/month in health insurance (and company pays more on top of that). And of course there's a lot of stuff the insurance won't cover so it's typically an additional 4K-8K out of pocket on an average year.
You don't need to comply with GDPR, unless your business is located in the EU or you have a subsidiary in the EU. There is no legal framework that will allow EU to enforce GDPR overseas, except both countries have an agreement. Due to this limitation, some people including Edward Snowden called GDPR a "paper tiger".
I don't have an ipod nano and I don't wear any watch since I have cell phone, but I can definitely see the appeal to it. It looks beautiful.

People pay for looks, even if they are not practical.
1. Buy an Android phone on verizon and use for 1 year.
2. Cancel contract and get an Android phone on T-mobile.
3. Sync contacts/emails and never skip a beat.

You get a standardized platform that transcends mobile carriers.
The real question for me is, why are the Google apps closed source? The easiest way for Google to increase the quality of Android apps is to make development easy by providing great examples of how to do it right. Why can't we look at the code behind the gmail app or the maps app --- they'd all be great tutorials.
Heh. You know you've arrived when the competition just can't stop talking trash...
I always assumed it was born out of Microsoft's desire to make more money.
sorry, i don't get how characters repeating affects things
And somehow setting up a "trap" for a future colleague to walk right in to shows great "integrity".
They used to have them, most of them were made by Adobe.
GP might want to look here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/softbank-...
This HN thread gathered a few links to some data and graphs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22642370
Visual Website Optimizer setup is exactly like this. We documented it here http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/maximum...
It's far more scalable in terms of technology. It uses intuition techniques and minimal NLP. So we can scale it to almost any language. Moreover, the system is not only limited to answer questions.

Also, it requires much less data. Usually Q/A systems have this thing called the query planner. We don't. It takes a single run through normal search results to get the answer. The speed to get, process and return answers is less than 500ms when the index is not hosted locally, so that includes the fetching lag.

The algo is completely online. No corpus, whatsoever.

These are just some examples of the fact that under the hood, it's completely different from the usual Q/A system.
Can someone who has used BBM explain why it's so great?
pretty sure firefly is ChartBeat now.
I like this idea. Two questions/suggestions (not sure if they already work or not):

1. Can you make it so I can log in with OpenID/Facebook/something else that doesn't require me to sign up yet again.
2. Can you make this open source so we can collaboratively work on the algorithms behind it etc.
It's a weakly predictive indicator. Yes, it tells you something, but not much. Extrapolate at your peril.

Look at it this way: Most of the people interviewing you are other programmers – the exact opposite of skilled interviewers. Predicting the day-to-day reality of working with them based on their default interviewing style is just as unreliable as them judging you based on your performance at solving silly brain teasers under stress.

Despite how screwed up this all is, most people are going to end up in many interviews throughout their lives, probably on both sides of the table. So it's best to realize up front that the situation is screwed up but changeable so that when you end up in an interview you'll know to ask for changes.
I said that there are more operations than favouring and replying by id.

I don't understand how saying you're gonna access the timeline without looking at the values denies that.

Moreover, I did not object to using strings, I said you only want them to be orderable.
There's a package that does that: https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go
>I'll spend the weekday fantasizing about how productive I'm gonna be over the weekend, then spend the weekend watching movies.

Here. You've conditioned yourself to enjoy fantasizing about making money. Your brain (subconsciously) has an aversion to letting go of this pleasure. So it resists any move you might make toward realizing your goal, since this will remove the ability to derive pleasure from the fantasy.

Sometimes just realizing this and confronting it is enough to overcome it. But if that doesn't work, it's pretty easy to reverse the conditioning. Just consciously make yourself feel bad feelings (bitterness, sadness, frustration, irritation, really anything works) when you start thinking about the unfinished spreadsheet, and tell yourself how much better you'll feel when it's done. A couple days of this and you should be good to go.
How's that novel coming? Almost done, I'll bet.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/12/how_to_create_motivat...
This is the kind of article I can't stand.

So, one is an app directly reviewed by Apple, the other has been downloaded from an another app. I'm sure if that was brought to Apple's attention they would send an email to the app owner in order to remove that comic book or censor it. I understand that Apple might not be fair or whatever, but some of the complains are really ridiculous.
I do this, but usually fall back into my old habits. But you're right. Habits are God.

I'd rather not say what the spreadsheet is for, but it's not my end game. The proceeds of that will go to my other startups; for example my greeting card company (I hand-make greeting cards with paper and fabric, sold quite a few for Mother's Day and definitely intend to make a huge company of it). Stay tuned.
I heard anecdotally that a Nigerian guy was trying to raise money on Dragon's Den for a new venture in Nigeria (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/) and that he had like £5000 per month down for "Bribery Expenses". The dragons laughed but admired him for his straight up attitude (they didn't invest).

See the Excel sheet here:

http://www.doingbusiness.org/documents/Simulator_2010.xls

Nigeria is ranked 125th in the world for ease of doing business.

One of the requirements for a good business environment is stable, largely non-corrupt government, which is obviously lacking in Nigeria.
Excuse me? Blogspam? I haven't even submitted this story.
No it is NOT their platform! If I buy it, it belongs to ME. They do, however, own the store and it just so happens that they've rigged the phone to prevent customers from obtaining software anywhere else. That's why my next phone will be anything but Apple.
You sound almost like me. I bet you've already watched movies like "The pursuit of happyness".
My #1 question in this case is how do the various virtualization technologies scale out. I suspect they don't very well, but if they did, this obviously would be a huge win.
You're not wrong. I get the initial thrust. The problem is in the solutions.

The measuring of those things at the end could very well fall into the realm of "streaks", too, unless we have good consideration of sample size. To use one of your examples:

Let's say that I do 10 coin flips to determine bias, and I see those 10 heads in a row. Now I want to test this situation further. Is my coin biased? I run the test 10 more times. What happens if I get a "streak" of 10 heads again? Have I verified my claim of bias? No! I just have not flipped my coin a sufficient number of times.

From this I see two things: One, an interesting anomaly arose that suggested I need to look into things a bit more. My theory is that the coin is biased towards heads.

Two, to solve the problem, I need to narrow down variables where I can (you mention) and perform the test enough times (you did not mention). We know that 10 is not enough. How do we know this? 1000 is arbitrary. What is the right number?

In other words, I agree with the fallacy you pointed out. The solutions are just insufficient. The fallacy can continue with the right probability of occurrences, even if someone tried to narrow down the variables.
When the spec for software you're developing changes after you've finished developing it, what percentage of the time do you need to significantly refactor your logic instead of just making a minor tweak/extension?

Might not be a perfect measure, but it's a very noticeable one that in my experience has been going down sharply as I've gained experience.
A 'stock' that has no regulatory environment, either. But that's part of the draw.
Very true.

Facebook has definitely undermined trust on what data it shares.

However that is not it’s normal model.
>Adherence, or non-adherence to American military aid makes ZERO DIFFERENCE to that. In fact, there are now more receivers of American military aid in Chinese, and Russian pocket than ones who aren't. In other words, the net effect of US military aid is the benefit of allies, and satellites of Russia, and China. This makes no sense.

I never said anything military aid, just business ties.

>SECOND, you lose allies by supporting rogue regimes for reasons ethical, or not.

"we try and do fair business with everyone" has worked out quite well for Switzerland over the last ~500yr and Sweden for the last 100.

>THIRD, USA is not impotent at all to influence KSA. USA is fully capable of erasing KSA regime with a flick of a finger with both military, and non-military options on the table.

>1/3 of KSA population will raise in arms the second its given such opportunity. Economic sanctions on oil, and foreign assets will nuke KSA treasury, and lead to regime fall in at maximum of 2 years. USA military contingent in military bases on KSA soil is big enough to topple the KSA military in days.

>FOURTH, the new Saudi establishment will be naturally more receptive to US influence than the current one which sploshes moneys on states which are not by an inch friendly to USA. Cutting Saudi moneys to rouge states will instantly solve at least halve of USA's headaches in the region.

"QED that's why we should invade Iraq" (or alternatively, replace Iraq with some banana republic in South America). Seriously, listen to yourself. This is the same insane rhetoric that led to the middle east being what it is today. If you just finished it off with "and it's our duty to civilize them" it could pass for something written by a Brit in 1903.

What a bunch of tin pot dictators in a sanbox do isn't our problem. If they wanna do business, sure, fine but it begins and ends there should be keeping all these nations at arms length and not violating their sovereignty interfering with their domestic affairs.
Trivia: the Polish word "cuda" means "miracles", "zluda" ("złuda") means "a delusion". Nice pun.
> In some sense, it's not his fault. Berkshire has grown so large that it has significant scale problems.

I hear this often that berkshire isn't what it used to be because of 'scale'. What does this even mean. At what point does it become too big. Is there a general logic that after X billion $$, investment firms become inefficient?
Arcadia is amazing. I commented about it on HN years ago, and it seems to be quite popular among this crowd for good reason.
Moderate pricing is the right move. But a lot of folks are missing my main point here:
The more people and businesses are on fixed rates, the more inelastic demand is and therefore the more extreme the pricing swings are for those who are on moderate real-time pricing plans. We need to make real-time pricing as broad as possible so the price extremes are much smaller. and make it more feasible for small players (including middle class individuals) to contribute directly to supply.
Ha, no second screen, next you will be telling me you made it yourself out of rocks and sand.
How do they handle it? A keep-alive style ping, or something like a beforeunload event hook?
But Foxconn wholesale buying components from Japan, Germany, Taiwan, still should reflect in Chinese trade balance as imports though. So it can be argued the old system is more transparent and easier to account than this contraption designed to make U.S. trade figures nicer.
seems on brand for Mr. Musk to me.
We are probably okay. See "Superluminous supernovae: No threat from Eta Carinae", https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4274
In the next episode of Mad Max.
They could have rehearsed too often.

For example, Duralex drinking glasses, which are made from tempered glass, dropped on a hard floor have a habit of bouncing once and exploding on the second impact (cause: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage. Classical example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_drop)

These windows could have a similar weakness, being fine on x huge impacts, to shatter on a relatively weak later impact.
Welcome to dealing with the bureaucracy. You described it well and you are very likely correct in your assumption of how it went. I say that from my own deep and high level experience. What you essentially became a part of was someone’s justification for their loyalists payoff job, where the job itself is basically all about justifying its existence not actually achieving any purported objectives, and actually even actively avoiding achieving such objectives for both political and practical reasons.

You essentially, through the process you described, did the job of the bureaucrat for him (or her, to not hurt feelings) and at the same time filled the space of the job by producing the documentation that then required additional time to process, which then filled more space and time in the bureaucrat’s day. It’s essentially the vaunted self-licking ice cream cone, you feed the beast with which you came in contact with.

What makes it worse, is that you likely spent a lot more time and resources and probably money on satisfying this drive-by form of corruption, than the bureaucrat ever spent on doing any work. In many ways it’s an age old story of paying off the corruption in government, only a new instance of it Rather than the cop or person at a counter you pay off with cash.

I hope you look forward to more of such instances, with the federal government bloating its ranks of regime goons, there will be more and more bureaucrats seeking justification for their existence by making you do their work for them.
Wait! That's a picture from a cell phone? Man, my cell phone cameras (iPhone 2G, Palm Pre) are really behind the times.

Wait! You're browsing Hacker News on your honeymoon?!
import does just that, if you drop the "-window root" argument
Visit http://www.youtube.com/html5 and join the beta. It won't work for all videos though and not at all for embedded videos.
Honestly, you might not immediately, but if it happened often enough, you probably would switch clients. Back in the day, if AIM managed to screw up enough of mine and my friend's conversations by not sending messages quickly enough (and then sending 30 all at the same time), we'd have moved off it if something better was found.
Maybe you could talk to a few of your best customers. This is often an overlooked source.
I live in the TL, and have for many years. It could be 50->75% as bright and still feel as safe.

Except for a few streets in the nicer parts of the TL, it's quite bright enough to read a book on any sidewalk in the middle of the night.
Thanks, looks like I'd misunderstood the theoretical finding.

Recursion is hard.
Yea, I just started to put my VMs on a 4th partition, 200gb on a 1TB so that I can share VMs btwn 3 OS's natively, macOS, Windows or Linux. I picked NTFS for that scenario as I am more confident in ALL 3 being able to read and write to it properly - however I know there will always be a risk of data corruption when having an OS read a format that is not native to it. I still want the pro of being able to write large files though, so I've made the trade off.

One thing that I have also done is ensured that my actual Windows partition will never be mounted in write mode from any other OS by changing some settings. The VM partition is read-write obviously.

Windows for now is my primary OS but that may switch to Linux. In any event if the 200gb isn't enough space then I will likely just shuffle things around under Windows so that the VMs I am currently working with will be available to all 3. All in all I like this solution best, I dedicate the most space to my primary and I dedicate just enough to the rest while have the shared space as well. I feel confident this will not result in having to reload an entire OS, which is something I want to actively avoid and is a risk with dual or triple boot systems.
Wine was not really as much of an organized commercial endeavor so was not as much of a target
It does seem like people ought to just think more about the permanence of what we put online and act accordingly. There is no way to guarantee ephemerality for anything you send to another person online. They can always record or whatever in some way. We have to act like this stuff is entered into the permanent record and be OK with that. There is nothing we can do to 100% prevent stuff being recorded somewhere.

I agree we’d all be better off not judged on our younger attempts at “edginess” and stuff we said while figuring out who we are in our teens. But at a certain point we have to accept that posting anything online anywhere is _publishing_ and if you _published_ a racist letter to the editor at 19, instead of said something offensive at a party, there is a different judgement there & it’s justified.

I do think in time the answer “I’ve grown a lot since that time and regret those tweets” is going to become more acceptable & people will be judged more on recent stuff they say and do.
On one hand, that's true. On the other hand, 10 years down the road, all you have is 140 characters, and you lose the whole context in which something was written. You know, "Qu'on me donne 6 lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre" and all that.
Hmm, I was thinking of Zhaoxin.
>programming, where a rate of say 100 lines per day is a major achievement

Wait, what? 100 lines per day is an achievement?

I'm honestly curious in what branch of SW development this happens. I'd assume something that requires formal proof of every piece of code ever written?
You can get away with free meals, travel, education, housing, clothes, pocket money and entertainment now. These become expensives and are not taxed anyways. So no change on that front.

This makes profit tax-free. Profit is usually split with the shareholders or invested back. Shareholders are taxed if a capital gains event occurs. Why tax profits on money that will be invested back into the company?
I think you would pay taxes in monaco [1], barring any crazy corporate structure shenanigans that would certainly smell of tax avoidance.

So, the government of Monaco would tax the corporate profit from Year 3 onward, assuming your genius SaaS is a startup, at a rate of at least 25%. You wouldn't evade taxes altogether.

For the corporate tax, you'd either convert to Euros to pay taxes (at which point, your USDs flow back into the international monetary system that eventually leads back to Uncle Sam), or you'd pay in USDs, and the government of monaco would do the same dance.

But, you'd get 75%ish tax-free USDs, to pay yourself an untaxed salary with! That's a good amount.

[1]: https://en.service-public-entreprises.gouv.mc/Tax/Other-taxe...
In this context, we're specifically talking about young people, who are _literally not yet wired_ to properly evaluate consequences. It doesn't mean they get a pass for anything, but surely at some point in your life you've said/done something that wouldn't pass with modern standards, particularly if it can be cherry picked to the word.
But the root of the problem is not the technology, it is the people and the culture.

I have no doubt, using tweets to cancel people is a deliberate tactic of the far left activists to win the culture war. And they are winning, a lot.

After a few more decades, cancel the First Amendment and put people in prison bc of wrong speech is not impossible. Right now the focus is race, gender, identity politics, but it can be easily switched to economic issues. Dark days are ahead of us.
There are very, very few living billionaire musicians (I can think of only three, maybe four), and most of those few have a vested interest in seeing the industry remain the way it is (because they've built their fortune within it and have become moguls within that industry in their own right; for example Jay Z and Kanye West and Madonna who all have rosters of artists effectively in their employ, using the traditional indentured servant music industry model). And, the definition of "VERY wealthy" looks different in the tech industry than it does in the music industry.

I'd love to be wrong. But, I've been an indie and DIY and punk music fan almost my entire life, and I've worked in the music industry. It's better than it's ever been for independent artists in many regards, but Google and Apple aren't on the side of artists all that much more than the historic record industry was/is, and it's very hard to have them as an adversary. Would you want to try to compete directly with Google or Apple? And, if you were someone with tens of millions of disposable income would you want to risk it on a venture that is likely to fail and if it succeeds won't do much more than pay back your investment capital and a small bit of interest?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion
Who owns the cars? Who is liable for problems which arise? If I'm anywhere near home, I'm using my own self-driving car, not something used by tens of thousands of unknown people. If I'm somewhere else, I'd like to use a restricted set of cars of people that I know and trust and vice versa. Probably just trade favors and pay for gas/charging rather than a straight up fee. Would be nice to coordinate with a place to stay, so I don't have to do two separate tasks (esp if I'm visiting somewhere I have friends or family nearby).

Also, it seems like regulated utilities have been more effective at providing essential services widely at low cost than large private oligopolies such as cable and wireless, so I have no particular desire for an Uber/Lyft duopoly.
Swift's Optional is just Maybe with some built-in sugar. Sum types are supported, with the caveat that the compiler is sort of broken when it comes to generics.

Personally, I just want higher-kinded types, and for the following code snippets to work as-is:

enum Either<A,B> {
case Left(A)
case Right(B)
}

enum Tree<A> {
case Leaf
case Node(Tree<A>, A, Tree<A>)
}

The first breaks because of the "Unimplemented non-fixed multi-payload enum layout" compiler error, and the second breaks because enums have value semantics. Both can be worked around in full generality by declaring a 'Box<T>' generic wrapper class, but that workaround is inelegant and cumbersome.
She doesn't actually rationalize why you can't say that she creates / produces courses, workshops, or editorials. She just says it's wrong. (I don't disagree with the last sentence you quoted about 'making' people though.) Am I wrong?

To paraphrase my other response, so if I don't consider myself a writer, yet I produce articles and stories; is it wrong for people to consider me a writer?