jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We have beta SDK's available for Python[0] and Ruby[1]. There are free test listings available if you're interested in trying it out (no signup required).

My brother and I co-founded SimplyRETS earlier this year to solve the real estate industry's archaic data problem. We built a modern, RESTful API in Haskell that normalizes MLS data and makes it easier for developers to build websites and applications.

We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

[0] - https://github.com/SimplyRETS/simplyrets-python-sdk
[1] - https://github.com/SimplyRETS/simplyrets-ruby-sdk
Also https://www.cocoacontrols.com

(n.b. I make Cocoa Controls)
Lots of people aren't drinking the koolaid.
The first step in the standardization process is to register with IANA. We've done that. Then, you get a bunch of implementations. Then, you go to the IETF.
In England: There's no such thing as "common law wife" or "common law husband", so marriage gives the spouse important legal rights that are trickier to get if the couple remain unmarried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Clear_Channel_memorandum
Marketing is not an optional expense that companies engage in only when they make a profit. The withdrawal of such spending, especially during tough times, sends negative signals to their markets that might have produce more losses of income than the losses from mere diminished branding and exposure.
Seconded. There is no fact to support this analysis other than the author's personal opinion — though I may still agree with him, he should provide data to support his affirmation.
> Dr. Ghaly told reporters that the June 15th date was chosen because it falls about 8 weeks after all California residents become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. However, that date could shift if the vaccine supply is interrupted or if health officials see a spike in hospitalizations for the coronavirus.

The selected date is a planned date with the possibility of it shifting. It's based on crunching the numbers. A large percentage of the state (nearly 50%) and a very large percentage of the older (and more vulnerable) population (around 70%) has already been vaccinated. Now that eligibility will be opened up to all residents and based on the rate of vaccinations the selected date means not just a simple majority but a vast majority of their population will have received at least one, if not both, doses by June 15th.

EDIT:

Some more number crunching. Per the article they're distributing 2 million doses a week. They have an approximate population of 40 million. At least 20 million have been vaccinated today. This gives them about 10 weeks (from now) to distribute 20 million doses (if they are to hit 100% or very near it) which fits with their current rate of vaccinations. So the date is reasonable on the surface using these projections depending on what their target threshold for vaccinations are. They should easily have 90% with at least one dose by then and can conceivably have 100% if everyone goes in for vaccinations (which won't happen, of course).
I tried that in Windows when they first implemented it, but didn't find it very useful. I'm one of those that actually use my Desktop for stuff I want quick access to (docs to read when I have time, docs I'm working on, etc.). Having the icons obscure parts of the webpage just didn't work all that well.
Whatever you have be glad. It is a rare and precious thing to be born a human being.
The car example works perfectly fine if you're modeling cars. But my point is very few applications work along these simulative lines at all.
> The apps were more useless than malicious, but could have been updated to capture customers' banking credentials, said John Hering, chief executive of Lookout, a mobile security provider.

Seems like more fearmongering aimed at Google's open market. The article reads like "open == insecure" and subtly implies that Apple's market is too open. Um, what?
Everybody says that the big draw to San Francisco
is the weather. True, it can be pretty nice at
times. But it can also be pretty miserable.

I tuned out a bit after reading this. San Francisco has terrible weather compared to Silicon Valley, and someone who doesn't know the distinction between the two cannot, in my opinion, be taken seriously when sounding the death knell of the entire region.

Paul Graham said it best, “Silicon Valley is
soul-crushing suburban sprawl.”

I lived in Silicon Valley for 7 years and didn't find it to be particularly soul-crushing. It's a nice place to spend some time. It's a very nice place to raise a family, if you have one (I don't).

It's great that startups are springing up all over the world, but that doesn't mean Silicon Valley is dead. Silicon Valley doesn't have to lose for others to succeed.
this is pretty nice

I am pining to be able to properly set a webpage as my background in ubuntu and osx, but its proving annoying (needs to be interactive)

feels strange to be begging for a feature that was enabled in windows years ago.
those clouds are real[1]. So it can be used to predict weather :)

> Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery.

Also it's possible to do this automatically in Windows 7 if there is some sort of RSS[2]

[1]: http://www.die.net/earth/

[2]: http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Get-a-Live-Updating-Bing-...
I got my dad a chromecast. He's tech-illiterate, for the most part--can check his email, type in searches, but he doesn't really know where he's typing his searches. He might want a youtube video but type it into google, the url bar, youtube's search...which all work, but he's not seeing the difference.

Anyway, he loves it. He used to watch pool videos incessantly in a really bad computer chair, now he can watch them on the couch. Probably average of 3 hours per day. He had some trouble with the interface, and he kept pointing his iphone at the TV like it was a remote, when I showed him how to control it via the phone.

Anyway, any chance this is simpler from that perspective? Or should he just suck it up with the CC? (I think he's been doing fine now, honestly)
Not for spacesuit visors though, right?
Why is it not packaged within the Lighttable.app anymore? Unzipping it's a folder with a .app inside and all the NW resources next to it instead of inside. Confused…
I don't like the way Google Cast always needs to connect to a service before playing any media. This could be a little bit annoying with audio. Its okay for me to wait a couple seconds to connect for watching a movie.
But let's say you wanna switch from Google Music to Spotify, it's always gonna take some time.
That was not at all clear from the article. So the (fruit fly) intervention happens one cell at a time? And only if by luck it's a gamete that is affected?
What about adding greenness to comments? Comments which are in order are black no matter what, but if a comment is above another comment with more upvotes because it's newer then it's slightly green to indicate the disparity in votes.
To a large extent, the "God of the Gaps" argument often made by skeptics is quite true. I say this as a deist who believes in a God. Nonetheless, it's obvious that throughout most of history, people have ascribed to God whatever they didn't understand (weather, geography, biology) and then removed "him" from the explanation once more precise understanding was available. In this light, it makes sense that people in the Bronze Age would believe in a God who's somewhat of a dick. If you believe that God is omnipotent and interventionist, and then watch innocent people get sick or trampled by elephants, you're going to think God is a jerk. We're more philosophically evolved than we were at that time, however, and can consider more possibilities that wouldn't have even occurred to people before the advent of modern philosophy circa 800-400 BC.

I believe in a God who is omnibenevolent but electively non-omnipotent on account of deliberate non-interventionism. I believe that free will exists, and possibly at a very low level (even a quantum level, perhaps). Free will makes the future nondeterministic and therefore it makes sense that God would pursue an evolutionary plan that is robust no matter how that free will is exercised. And since all the suffering and "evil" we experience comes from being evolved organisms at a rather low point in our arc, this doesn't contradict the concept of a benevolent God, especially if "he" settles the score at some point in the future (e.g. by allowing us to reincarnate into better forms, either in this world after they are produced by evolution and technology, or in another).
Rule of thumb : If it makes you money, close source it. Otherwise, open source it.

You only stand to benefit from getting feedback on your code.
Nice data, good conjecture with solid probabilistic reasoning.

But beware: none of this is even the start of a proof.
Thanks Will look in to it
Learn what CSRF is. Your form for resetting passwords is trivially exploitable to change other peoples account passwords. Anyone can just create a form in a hidden iframe on their own site which auto-submits a POST to http://www.co.vu/account/account_password with password_new_password and password_retype_new_password params set.

Not only should you fix the CSRF via normal CSRF protection methods, but you should also add a second layer of protection for resetting passwords in that you require their existing password to be submitted as well.
People talks about "the rocket" but who's building the other stuff to survive and then come back from Mars?
Targeting 10-20 years is basically wishful thinking. The time horizon is too long to make serious estimates. Look at fusion! Workable fusion has been 10-20 years off as long as I can remember.
I think so. I was talking to a friend at ESA the other day and he seemed to be pretty positive about getting to Mars soon.

Of course, getting /back/ from Mars is an entirely different proposition altogether. It's pretty likely the first man on Mars will be taking a one-way trip (and there are definitely people willing to do this).
It's probably rare, but I speak from experience (specifically with the game "Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb"). Installed with DOSBox, worked fine; when opened in DOSBox-X, graphics were all screwed up, and all the settings were set upon install, so I would have had to reinstall anyways. This was more than a year ago, so maybe it wouldn't happen today given how many new releases they have, but I don't feel like testing it out.

Still, great project, and I prefer it over the OG DOSBox.
Many clever computer tricks I saw in high school were ways to get around restrictions set by school admins, including an IP blocker that my classmate helped me bypass so I could check my personal email for college admissions results.
If it just about learning chip design then there are two ways you can go about it:

1. Get a job in a VLSI/EDA company(Qualcomm, Synopsys, Cadence, Intel etc) as a software engineer and slowly switch teams and learn.

2. Get a basic understanding through courses like Nand to Tetris, or any other VLSI course; then buy an FPGA and tinker with it until you are reasonably confident.
Are we back in 1990?

Internet and computers are a critical part of everyday's life and will probably grow even more in the future. Childrens should definitely have screens and learn how to use it safely and smartly.

When my parents limited my video-game and television time during my teenagerhood (because it "makes you idiot/violent/whatever") it made my life worse, not better. Not being able to talk about the last video-game, movie or event, I had no idea what people were talking about most of the time.
Technically Clojure is a commonwealth, not a state.
Location: Bloomington, IL.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Python, Scala, PostgreSQL, TensorFlow, UIMA, DKPro.

Résumé/CV: https://www.seanbethard.net/bethard_cv.pdf

Email: sean@seanbethard.net
"I don't know about all of the other reserved characters, but the colon is the path-separator character in classic Macintosh APIs and I doubt they would have ever been able to "fix" that."

The fundamental issues is that users should be able to type any characters including colons that appear in day-to-day use, whether it be a book title, report name, movie title or whatever without ever having to worry about it.

The fact that they cannot do so and that they deliberately have to transcribe a name to another or shorten it to accommodate an operating system's limitations wastes time and leads to errors and confusion (anyone who has ever run an IT help desk in a large organization knows this).

I'm aware of the Win 10 'long paths' fix and I've also seen the registry patch which some suggest possibly fixes earlier versions of Win 10 (I've not tried the patch). That said, the filename length limitations remains a problem for two reasons - the filename is still too short and that many programs are likely to crash if filenames were to exceed 255 chr$ (as they'd be unaware of it). To overcome this, the operating system would have to also present a shortened 255-character filename to the program in the fashion it did back in the early days for programs that only understood 8 * 3 filenames. As I see it, it's only a halfhearted too-little-too-late tweak and the job needs to be done properly.

"My number one peeve for a long time was "Documents and Settings" instead of "Users" on Windows XP..."

This is still a problem, in fact it's a real pain. Right, D&S was a pain but so too is 'Users' and 'ProgramData', both should be completely movable even to the extent of having them work from a USB stick. Whenever I set up Windows it takes me days to configure my programs so as they dump their data/save files to specific locations on other drives (this makes transferring data to Linux etc. much easier and it's much safer too if files can be kept in locations where they aren't expected to be found). In fact, this should apply to all user info including users' program files. As I see it, these limitations are just bloody-mindedness on Microsoft's part (where the user isn't an administrator, the administrator would be able to still lock user directories and files to suit the local policy).

Yes, there was an excuse for the problem 20-30 years ago but not nowadays. Unfortunately, this is a 'mindset' problem of programmers. They're so used to acronyms and shortening things that they don't realize or care that ordinary users do not understand why they just cannot type anything as they did on typewriters (and something I've not yet mentioned: why they cannot type between already-typed lines or within margins, as the old-timers continually claim they once could do with ease but can no longer do so).
We just need to look at how they handled the San Bernadino shooting and requests for a phone unlock to find a supposed "lying dormant cyber pathogen".

Every other company would have been falling over themselves to unlock a terrorists iPhone.

Apple said no, hired Ted Olsen, and litigated (along with lots of other less well known cases).

This may have even hurt them in some consumers eyes (hard to understand them protecting someone who killed a bunch of people). So the PR risk was very significant.

So they do seem to have a pretty committed consumer focus (and now make money because of that).

It is virtually inevitable though that someone will go after them (anti-trust etc) because this is a game of billions and folks who for example do in-game loot boxes (fortnite) and marketing (facebook) etc are going to be in regulators ears and in ny times ads and op-eds calling for this horrible situation to be broken up.
So we want government setting pay rates for anime artist?
How about quotas.
Government pays on a per episode completed. More content created the more is paid.
This is fantastic rhetoric in the service of a fundamentally anti-intellectual point.

Note first that it proves too much. Richard Nixon referenced this speech as he was resigning the presidency after Watergate. Was Nixon the "man in the arena" who deserved praise for "striving valiantly"? He thought so.

Not also that it assumes what it is trying to prove: that the critic does not have practical experience, that the cause of the criticized is "worthy", and that "daring greatly" is more important than daring correctly. But perhaps most importantly, it assumes that critique is epiphenomenal, that it will not have any effect on the course of events. But we know this isn't true.

In this case, many of those critiquing the project of manned planetary exploration are experts in the field. They are in the arena as much as those being critiqued.
I hope it's not going to be so long we have to remember - we need to actively release non-violent, smaller offenders and clear their records.
Lol this made my morning
I'd be thrilled.
It’s not that books are better than YouTube, in many cases (like visualizing math) books are much worse than video, but for a lot of topics books are the only source that goes in depth on a topic. It won’t necessarily be the case a hundred years from now, but right now if you want to study a topic that had been around for more than 30 years you’ll probably have to invest time in books. And the part that isn’t mentioned here is that most of those books are out of print so you will need to dig through libraries and maybe even use the Inter-library loan system.
This American Life and Radiolab are great podcasts you can find online for free. No commercials, no pledge drives to interrupt your listening, and thought-provoking, interesting content that makes long drives go by remarkably quick.
except that the alarm may disturb your girlfriends sleep pattern as well (I emailed them about this and they were considering adding wristband vibrate functionality in there one day)
pg mentioned in passing that he would not get involved with Android projects. He'd rather fund Chrome projects. Wonder if he would elaborate on that ?
Yes, I definitely want to stop making it my friend's problem, and I'm not worried if it's fair on the boss. I am planning to email him, not to send a letter. Sorry if that wasn't clear on my post.

You make a good case for calling first, but I don't think writing is a cop out - I will have a record of the correspondence, it gives him the option of just transferring the money and replying "done", and there's less risk of saying something I'll regret (which is unlikely, but still). After this, for sure I won't let him off the phone before he agrees a payment date.
I'm quite sure that I could accomplish that. Bulk brown rice, lentils and beans are extremely economical. Combined with some greens and fruit/vegetables from my own garden plus the bounty of nature (you can walk outside and pick raspberries here, for instance).. well, that's how I eat anyway. I'd just have to give up the bags of chips and jars of salsa.
While I don't personally have a reason to use this, I'm sure a lot of people will find it quite useful.

One suggestion though, the user should be able to select their own URL if possible, and if they want to. I know it'll pose some security risks, but having a totally ridiculous address is going to make your notepad less than memorable.
> As the coronavirus epidemic spread around the globe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided restrictive guidance on who should be tested, archived pages on its website show. While agencies in other countries were advising and conducting widespread testing, the CDC, charged with setting the U.S. standard for who should be tested for the virus, kept its criteria limited

Well, "other countries" also did the same. Spain, for example, seems to be the 3rd country with most infected and I got pneumonia about 2 weeks ago. Called the agencies here but they still didn't want to test me, even with pneumonia! Still got a cough since then and they still won't test me.

So, the US is not alone. And it does make a bit sense, I didn't require hospitalization, so makes sense they want to save the resources. But I feel like the article author could have done some better research.
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It absolutely has. It’s basic physics and it definitely applies to batteries or in fact any static charges, which is what is being discussed.
Does the UK also have price gouging laws in this crisis?

Those are what produce the empty shelves.
> More pollution == “better”

I'm hoping this is just a temporary indicator giving analysts a hint as to where to focus their attention, and not a lone metric plugged into whatever model they're using.
For us, sit-down meals for two at a restaurant were usually at least $50 including tip.

I'm comparing Blue Apron specifically to a sit-down meal because for us the point of dining out was to relax and spend time together - something that cooking at least three meals a week together gets us to do. It also gets us to try ingredients we wouldn't normally consider.

That's just why it works for us, specifically! Definitely not for everybody. I don't work for them and the only stock I own is chicken stock. :)
"As Richard Wiseman illustrates in his book “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot,” the problem is that the majority of self-help books actually promote exercises that “destroy motivation, damage relationships and reduce creativity; the opposite of everything [they] promise.”"
The exceptions that prove the rule.
Just want to give you a kudos!

First off, I grew up in Malaysia (next door neighbor to Thailand). My first time learning programming from a teacher/lecturer was rather horrid (I wish I had someone like you in my class). I have seen most of the challenges were due to the difficulty in visualizing how the codes transform to the end product.

I found Alice to be quite useful to introduce basic (types/conditional) to the first time programmer, but as soon as we transition from Alice to JAVA, many still struggled (dropout rate shot up).

If we can have a real time JAVA/C or any complied language, real time IDE. Student may not need to suffer from the pain of transitioning.