jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This looks awesome! I bought an Amazon Fire TV Stick when they were accepting pre-orders at $19, and while it works well for that price (or even the $39 current retail price), I would much rather it be hacker-friendly. It doesn't even have a web browser! I could see using it for all sorts of additional projects, if it were more flexible...and given how much horsepower they've crammed into it (it's comparable to a decent laptop from a decade, or so, ago, and can even do 1080p video, which even modern laptops can't always do reliably), I could imagine using it for all kinds of cool stuff.

Stuff like a project dashboard that users could update from their phone or laptop, a party music playlist determined by partygoers, so many cool things a tiny little device like this could make easier (it's not the only way it can be done, but it's certainly nice having a tiny little dedicated device, and would be better for being open).

In short, this looks really cool, and I'm actually really eager to start developing for Firefox OS, even though I currently don't have any Firefox OS devices.

Edit: Reading the other HN thread about this device raises a lot of concerns about their dedication to Open Source and Open hardware. It seems to simply be a marketing lie, which is troubling, and makes me far less interested in the device (maybe not interested, at all, since I already have a proprietary HDMI dongle in the form of the Fire Stick).
Is that for OEMs or for end users? I thought it was just for OEMs.
My ebook purchases also skyrocketed after I got a Kindle. But it didn't rise because the kindle made it easy to buy ebooks, or even because I prefer ebooks (for technical stuff, I actually don't). It's because I was reading a lot more. I went from 1 or 2 books a year (if even) to 1 to 2 books a week.

My experience is anecdotal, but it might be worthwhile to ask your acquaintances why they buy so many ebooks after buying a Kindle.
Not over an 8 year period
You're talking to someone who has absolutely no clue what he's talking about.
Depending on the nature of the application, you may be able to sign up for Microsoft's BizSpark program. That includes $160 of credit for Azure per month for three years. That would be more than enough to host your application on either an Azure website or Azure Cloud Service.

I've been running applications on Azure Web Sites and Cloud Services for several years now and have found it to be much more reliable and better performng than the cheap shared hosting option I'd been using previously.
I agree. Funny how people worry about documentation going out of date, but not code going out of date.

I guess it is more acceptable to have a bug in the code than a mistake in the documentation.
The limit of "really relevant ads" is automatically emptying your wallet and delivering things you "want". Even if you didn't want them until you saw the ad.
Tastes are very malleable.

Among people who have gone without meat products for a while, who then taste meat products, either accidentally or on purpose, it is common to be disgusted by the taste, and find it in no way resembles the one they remember.

I've had the same phenomenon related to me by people who radically alter their diet in other ways, such as body builders.

So, ultimately, clinging to meat 'because you prefer the taste' is more about avoiding temporary discomfort, rather than permanent dissatisfaction. Though, of course, it doesn't appear that way until after the fact.
I'm not at all convinced that's true. I pay for Ars Technica because I want them to have money but I don't want to see ads.

Edit: looks like Google might be thinking the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
Oof. Had a hilariously similar experience doing data entry at my first internship, which was at a financial services firm.

I knew nothing about programming, but I had taken an intro stats class that had a few assignments in R. A super simple R script did half of my day's work in seconds (plus some debugging because of course I did next to no error handling).

In retrospect, I've realized that if I knew a thing of two about regular expressions at the time, I would have been able to automate my whole summer internship.

So it goes.
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (the show, first two seasons) is definitely some of the best and most sophisticated sci-fi in the genre. Really quite amazing.
Are you a touchpad user? On a PC you get that behavior by simply clicking again, but accurate double clicks are somewhat hard on touchpads, so I get why that'd be annoying.

This may just be laptop/touchpad users complaining, and mouse users not comprehending what the big deal is.
Well, sure but I’m advocating to trust your instincts in terms of their general health and well-being. Abuse or gross neglect are entirely different matters. Abusive parents are probably not going to be online doing heavy research on what is the optimum thing to do as a parent. They probably just feel tired and bitter about their children, or worse.

A lot of modern, new wave parenting to me feels an awful lot like meddling in natural child development. Like too much of a good thing, helicopter parenting.
Can confirm. Have lived in NH for years, working remotely for companies headquartered in other states. Haven't had to pay their state income taxes.
This is similar to what Indian education startup WhiteHatJr was trying to do & lost badly after being exposed for coming up with fake children who received magical job offers from FAANG cos, random applications being submitted to app stores, fake profiles for underage users boasting of their work in generic tweets.
I'm curious -- are there any examples of what ping time would be from SF to NY if something specific like this existed? How much of current (additional) ping is due to queueing vs speed of light in copper?

Or would this just make it more reliable -- instead of jumping around a bit, a consistent connection with reliable, predictable responses?
Why would they mean that over the most popular coin that is trading for over 50k usd?
If you earn money from a "New York Source", you have to pay NY State income tax even if you live in another state.

https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/nonresident-faqs.htm#nystax
I worked in stress analysis in the civilian aircraft world and it was obvious to me that probably 85% of my job could be automated away, and most of what remained could be shifted to the design side if the right software were written and design processes were revised around it.

But the right software would cost a lot of money, and since it would be new, it would need customer buy-in up front (aerospace is in some ways very risk averse when it comes to adopting new workflow tech).

I think there's a revolution waiting to happen in bringing down aerospace design cost and schedule and increasing the ability to iterate on designs. I'm hoping NGAD is the sign of something big that will trickle down soon to the civilian aerospace world.
They may have to change it now since the fork, but before there was no problem since they were not trying to deceive customers, they were running elastic search.

You can sell a Honda with after market parts and still say its a Honda. You just can't sell a Kia and call it a Porsche trying to trick people.
Thank you for your response, I will comment per paragraph:

SE has good rules which keep questions relevant. I would say that if the question is closed and there are no existing duplicates, then the question itself doesn't have much value. ( There are of course outliers. )

There is a misunderstanding here, moderators on SE don't actually close most of the questions, normal users with privileges to do that, do so by voting. So such a question doesn't have value because users decided so, not moderators.

The last paragraph shares the misconception with the previous one. Users vote on and close question. Inf fact moderators are so rare on SE, that they only do critical things that should not be trusted to users, which do the rest.
If SpaceX succeeds in significantly reducing launch costs, then they will enable a tremendous increase in all sorts of science (and industry, but you're talking about science.) There's tons of stuff to learn outside of Earth's gravity well, but right now we're restricted by the absurdly high cost of getting there. Most of the money now spent in all areas of activity that take place off-Earth is spent on or because of the high cost of getting there: launch services, making the machines light enough to launch affordably; making them robust enough to survive without maintenance; making them super-fancy to justify the cost; doing lots of simulations because you can't afford to test in the real environment.

For one small example: Space is by far the best place to put observatories. Yet only a few special--and small ones--are there. What if observatories were routinely space-based?

SpaceX may not be doing the science themselves, but have the capability to act as a huge multiplier to those who are doing it. A much higher multiplier than any feasible amount of money shovelled into the existing system would create.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration
A 2003 C230K, which is what it sounds like the author was driving, could be worth in the low single-digit thousands, depending on the miles. You might find a similar vintage Subaru for hundreds of dollars less, but the risk of swapping an old car you know for one you don't to extract a few hundred dollars makes no sense. One repair could wipe that out several times over. Moreover, this car is probably paid for. They might have to finance a replacement at very unfavorable rates.
Well, if you get people using it and then feeding their data to a server then that's a starting point.
Another aspect: people generally get to the point a lot faster in text, or you can skim/search to the point. (It may be surrounded by adverts, clickbait, or gifs, but at least it's there).

But so many videos are unedited. Some guy rambling about stuff, advertising himself or his social media presence, while slowly setting up whatever the actual point of the video is. Possibly this is because editing takes skill (which most people don't have) and tooling (video editing software is hard and/or expensive).

The last time I had to get information out of a video because there was no other source was for a minor car repair issue. It was useful to see which screws to undo and how the parts come apart and go back together. But that was one minute of a ten minute video.

The "rule of 30%" (immediately skip the video to 30% in) helps quite a lot.
I think these are fair concerns, but it also sounds like this person comes from a more iOS native development background. Why not stick with that? I like the idea of react native as i use react more and more in the browser, and I enjoy the workflow.
This, I do agree with. Like I say, I'm not bothered about this issue, but I'm sick to death of seeing the endless stream of internet warriors throwing themselves at it. A clarification blog post would help a lot.
I've thought about this too. Instead of "tip creep", I hoped technology would have enabled us to emerge from this nonsensical tipping culture (the US is in dire need of change in this regard).
My wife would shoot me on site for suggesting this.

I’ll let you know how it goes.
I guess my point is more: the top reply was "Tesla will face problems if traditional car manufacturers don't do so and so"

Tesla has dwarfed them by such a nonsensical amount that what the other manufacturers do doesn't even seem matter any more.

As far as I can tell even if they do die out Tesla faces "problems" ever justifying this valuation

I won't ever spend my money trying to short it, especially when blind faith in the ponzi scheme continuing has been so profitable, but one really has to wonder what will happen when in say 30 years, Tesla is the new Toyota and the current valuation still doesn't make sense, let alone what ever truly ridiculous valuation they'll have tacked on along the way...

I feel like some machinery to stop this kind of thing from happening should exist though.

Imagine that GM was considered "too big to fail" at one point and compare it to what Tesla has become, truly something.
Nothing in that graph indicates a “99% Biden” vote dump. The steep vertical line you see in blue is painting over another steep vertical line in red, indicating trump also got a significant number of votes in that dump (although much less then Biden. I’d estimate something like 75% Biden from eyeballing it). If it was a 99% dump, the red line would be seen continuing on its original path to the right.
What is specifically a "browser engine"?
True. But it was not all linear progress. In 1995 I had Turbo Pascal for example, that had ide with decent editor, fantastic debugger and profiler. And don't even start me on context sensitive help.
What I have today is way crappier or non-existant.

LightTable is tool that one guy started as a futuristic tool, yet it is what we had before.

Complexity of our work is ever increasing and fun definitely never stops, I wish tools were better so we can enjoy languages more. As tools augment our ability to do work, having excellent tools would allow you to do more and be easier.
More like LinkedIn
Actually the python equivalent of "Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive)" would be random.randrange(0, n, 1)

random.randint(a, b) returns a uniformly distributed int value between a (inclusive) and b (inclusive).

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I've found it helpful when interviewing and it's becoming obvious the interviewee "really needs to hit Google" that you just say, "Just write the function down with some appropriate parameters and keep going". For instance, it's easy to have year and years of very detailed experience in a language, yet still not quite remember off the top of your head how to open a file and read some lines out of it, which turns out to be something that you do far less often than you might think, because it's often totally abstracted away. If you haven't got any clue what to do with a string, on the other hand, that's probably a problem.

You still get what you need as an interviewer; even if you don't know the parameters, you should still see basic error checking, you can learn a lot if they don't provide the correct parameters, etc. This approach also allows you to implement the "don't know the language" interview; I don't really know PHP but I've interviewed people in it, because I know it well enough to see the things I am looking for. In that case I don't even know the precise parameters to open to "nail you" on them in the first place! But that's not what I'm looking for.
Never do business with friends!!!
I've seen enough "programmers are interchangable cogs" thinking and solitaire-playing, email-reading managers get large flat panel monitors (back when they were more rare), while engineers scraped by with crappy resources to decide to put a stake in the ground for our new startup.

You'd think the "hacker as maker" is more generally understood, but just recently one of the (super brilliant) people we interviewed told a story of how he interned somewhere, hired as a linux hacker, and then he was given a 5 year old windows laptop and forbidden from installing linux on it.
In volumes of tens of millions of units.
And even a regular, non-provisional patent application does not enter into the public domain (i.e., published on the Patent Office web site) until 18 months after you file it. In fact, you can even request that the Patent Office NOT publish the patent application at all, until it actually becomes a patent (an average 3-year wait).
Screw it. Ya caught me. So, you surmise ADHD doesn't exist, and that all the phenomena is is that it's a convenient excuse for people to take performance enhancing narcotics? Is that about what you're at?
I agree; regimenting your day is a poor substitute for short-term planning. It looks very orderly to have items like 9:00am, read email, 9:10am, Make sure Jira tickets are in correct states, 9:20am, respond to email, etc., filling your calendar from now until eternity, but it makes more sense to spend ten minutes at the end of every day planning the start of the next. Maybe you know your Jira tickets and email are in order and you can sleep an extra half hour. Maybe you have an important presentation in the afternoon and it would be best to spend 8am-9am nailing down the answer to a question you know will come up.

It's very hard but very important to stop working a few minutes early at the end of the day. You want to keep coding (or whatever) right up until the minute you need to stop, but that leaves you unknowingly disoriented at the start of the next day. You will either pick right back up with the coding, forgetting about everything else, or start aimlessly and waste the first hour of the morning trying to restore your awareness of priorities.
> What you may not believe is that you are no longer in control of wanting to get more. That’s the reality of a drug.

Here (and in other comments since last night) you've made a lot of comments like this one. You're essentially telling everyone taking ADHD medication that they're budding druggies and need to get off the train before it's too late.

That's your experience. And it flies in the face of what many, many people here are describing.

You've made your point repeatedly, over and over. Would you mind letting the rest of us discuss it in peace without telling us that we are borderline addicts? Your comments are not helpful or substantive; they're just divisive and mean at this point.
What saps the intellectual potential of humanity, is the marathon of horrors. From the first teacher out to extinguish curiosity in his students, for a easy time to the last professor, praising this golden age were all "important" things are discovered. In fact, one thing discoverers have brought to the table in the last century, is the ability to keep a distance to society from the start. Nothing good comes from mingling..
That's a significant price jump between the plans.
As much as I despise gambling companies, Denise Coates, boss of bet365 in the UK made the headlines this week having paid herself a salary of £465m. I believe this was then properly taxed by HMRC in the UK, making her the #1 tax contributer in the UK. Whilst googling, one of the results mentioned she's paid more tax in a year to the HMRC than Amazon has in a decade (please correct me, internet).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/bet-365-denise-c...
At least Yahoo! Answers entries were short. Quora is basically the Y!A of today, but with essay-length responses that don't still don't answer the question.
Yea, it feels like a parody of a Tesla vehicle, especially when you see the interior.
>It looks like the attempt of a “futuristic” vehicle in an early 90’s low polygon video game.

In a world where every manufacturer makes cars that look basically the same as every other car in the world, I'm fucking stoked on this.
That's an interesting change from the 50's retro scifi look.

Looks like Ark II style scifi from the 80s.
> A key point is protection from attackers.

Who is going to be attacking you? Seriously. Even with all this crazy stuff going on we live in one of the most peaceful times is history. Especially in the West, which is where most of these are going to sell (few people that live in these violent places could afford this. Except maybe the authoritarian regimes themselves).

Personally I'd rather get the extra miles that a lighter vehicle offers than knowing that I can shoot my truck with a pistol. If you feel like you need this kind of protection then I feel sorry that you live in such unjustified fear.
I'd never claim to be representative of 99% of truck buyers. Like most here I work in tech and live in the city.

Do I see this turning up on construction sites in the next few years? No, probably not, for many reasons. Can I see it capturing some of the market of recreational truck buyers? I can, just as the Model S took part of the luxury sports car market by appealing to people who could likely afford more expensive "status" vehicles by being different.
And ferromagnetic too! Seems extremely interesting and weird.
I prefer katex [0] over mathjax these days. Seems to render a lot faster. I wonder how this compares to Pandoc in terms of features. I really would like a complete solution to take .tex files (theorems, references, figures) and turn it into a html page, instead of a pdf. Pandoc is not quite there for me (theorem environments!).

The main issue is that things like LaTeX theorem environments don't translate exactly markdown (plus the theorem numbering/referencing), but there should be some choice of convention. Seems like there was a focus on features that map directly between different formats.

[0] https://katex.org/
It's actually a version of Carbon that has interesting and strange behavior, so I'm not sure it's inaccurate.
The door is either bent and can't physically separate from the opening or it's jammed against something like a tree/rock/road/another vehicle. Either way explosive bolts wont help you.

Breaking the window creates an instant smaller opening that's still big enough to get out of.
Doesn’t matter. Orgs are moving to Teams in droves. I personally know four 50k+ orgs moving to Teams just in the last 6 months. Slack’s pricing is not helping them either.
I don't see how mass adoption can be sustainable.

On the other hand, if worst comes to worst, maybe they will carry cell phones in their ankles?
Libertarians aren't YOUR definition that conveniently makes your point for you, they're MY definition which conveniently makes my point for me!
Nice choice of words. Web sites usually own your accounts, even if the internet is open.

Magazines cater to advertisers by claiming to sell "eyeballs" and carefully picked "readers", while acting all nice to their customers. I imagine websites do the same when it comes to exiting, talking to advertisers, etc.
Or buy them - it's chunk change anyways :-)
More importantly, government is an organization.

The foremost motive for an organization (like any organiam) is self-preservation. Transparency is usually perceived as a vulnerability that might allow enemies to attack.
Isn't there enough evidence that this is the status quo?
1. Extensions

2. Google
Thanks, I'll try and redo the screen cast tonight! Also, do you think it's too long? Should I produce a short-short version?
Hipmunk should be the person of the year ;-)
The OAuth 2 spec addresses some of these points by providing the user-agent flow.

The only place where it falls down some is when it comes to actually creating users. It's fine with one of the other flows because you can authenticate as an application with client credentials.
And what is funny is that I noticed this morning some users with admin privs (long story) were ahead of my already delayed patching schedule (I am not in the US). Adobe has a distribution page for companies to deploy Flash and other stuff internally with "enterprise-y" installers, and I had to refresh until like mid-afternoon local time to see 16.0.0.296 and wondered if it was laziness or rushing.

Well, question answered.
This is not true and was disavowed elsewhere. Wish I had the link.
"... but those other states' property taxes rise with the value of the houses every year, ..."

In Michigan, it's a bit more complex. The assessor calculates a State Equalized Value (SEV) on which the tax is based, and that cannot rise faster than the rate of inflation, or 5%, whichever is less. I assume lots of states have odd property tax quirks.
Can't you use stuff like gcc's __attribute__((always_inline)), or just straight-up C macros, for cases like those? Worst comes to worst, you can always use m4/cpp/some other preprocessor, although that does tend to hurt...
That’s the nature of any consumer-oriented product, though. Unless someone starts making a phone for hackers, they’re all going to be designed for media consumption.

With that said, you’re right about the locking down. It’s a good thing that we’ve CyanogenMod and Replicant.