jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with those games, but I'll bet they don't have level 160 elf mages either. What they all do probably have, like most games, is some sense of progress or accomplishment that has nothing to do with the real world.
I got in on the free for a year student promotion just before I graduated, and it definitely changes the way you buy things, or even think about buying things. Almost anything you want is 2 business days away. Combined with free returns, it turns even $500 HDTVs into an easy impulse buy.
I think the downvotes are simply because you're being a dick, nothing at all to do with anyone's opinion about Apple
This was such a good thread, I wrote an entire blog entry as a followup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945814
We should all have a legal monopoly on who we are. Protection from others pretending to be us. That's all a trademark is. Its not at all like a government granted monopoly that enables a company to be the sole provider of phone or automobiles.
I think I'll pick up Coda eventually, but for now, I really like how TextMate works.

Capistrano is new to me, albeit interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
Means he used version control. (should be ordinary and expected but is quite rare for grad student code, in my experience)
luck = preparation + opportunity

and you'll have more opportunities the longer you stay in the game, and the more you expose yourself to other people. I've heard it described elsewhere as "maximizing your people surface area" in order to maximize the chance/frequency of opportunities that will available to you. do that, plus be prepared to act on them, and you're golden.
That's another way of expressing a desire for people to go insane when medicine could have cured them because you have enjoyed the output of the insanity. I realize you may not have thought about it that way, but I hope that once you do you realize that that is an awfully impolite thing to ask of others. We've got enough brilliance around that doesn't destroy the hosts after shredding the best years of their lives to keep you satisfied, I think.
The "-ng" prefix has served the programming community quite well for some time.
The picture I have is Starz did deals with Disney and other content providers allowing Starz to offer unlimited movies on demand through cable companies.

But the deal language was general enough that they were able to fit Netflix in as a distribution partner - http://bit.ly/Tnbpb .

When the Starz deals are up, for instance the Disney deal is up in 2012, it seems likely that the studios will up the ante.

For instance, Netflix's deal with a group of studios including MGM was reportedly worth $1b over 5 years - if you divided that by 16 million subscribers it would be something like $12.50 a year per subscriber (ballpark, you would have to know the details, make assumptions on growth, discount rates etc.)

For now, it's a great deal for consumers, bring your high-speed Internet plus $8 and get unlimited streaming movies. But it seems likely that the $8 might go up to get better content, or get tiered for earlier access to more and better films. And ISPs might cry that it crushes their bandwidth and raise prices (especially the cable ISPs whose $100/month cable TV bills are getting canceled in favor of Internet and over-the-top video).

I suspect cable companies will not suffer too much, unless cutthroat competition unexpectedly breaks out for high-speed Internet subscribers. The big losers will be cable networks that depend on being bundled in basic cable. Why should I pay $30/month for 150 channels I don't watch? (see for instance http://bit.ly/9LTiYk )

The Golf Network and Food Channel can stick it as far as my own bill is concerned, and unless networks can find people to pay a la carte they will have a hard time staying in business.
I should probably print these out and stick them to the wall.
Thank you.

It is no easy task finding music to specifications.

I should add I am looking for someone else. So we have to fogs to fly through, their description, and my description of their description. In this case would you recommend creating a playlist of known liked tracks and let processes work from that list? Or is that (obviously) implied?!
My approach is similar but different: I unfolllowed everyone and now use lists exclusively.

I have a politics list, a tech list and a couple more. If I want to catch up what’s going on in politics, I just check my politics list.

> The mute function is also highly useful.

This feature didn’t do anything for me. It still shows you tweets but muted (you have to click to see them). The FOMO in me makes me always want to click on them to see what I’m missing out on. I wish they would just completely hide them.
Apple is not a monopoly and can do what it wants.
But that does not allow you to manipulate it automatically (think about moving domains or something like this), nor does it help you to detect errors (which few tools do, but many actually should do).
Food is great. Weather is better than UK but perhaps not as much as you'd think especially in coastal areas and winter.
But sadly a lot of interesting fun and research that could be done with this code won't ever see the light of day because lawyers are scary.
Suing Apple for what, exactly?

And no, as a user, I don't want Chrome on iOS. Here are just some of the reasons: https://webapicontroversy.com
It was such a let down to hear that after all that work, apparently the ports are what made PoP successful.
>Cuomo OTOH has been quite effective at working with the administration to ramp up testing to the highest throughput in the nation

Let's be honest, Cuomo just went out and outbid everyone to get the materials his people needed. He didn't work with the admin to do a thing, he waved money around in the global marketplace. Not hating on him, that's his job. He's supposed to look out for New Yorkers. But a lot of states out there don't have New York's bottomless checkbook. Nor do they have New York's influence.

Easy to look good when you're not really depending on the federal government for testing throughput. Again, guy's done a great job. But he's done it by circumventing the limitations set by the administration not really by living with them like the rest of us have to.
For people wondering what this is useful for:
I've been using this as a protocol for a project connecting a Raspberry Pi to a microcontroller project. Currently I'm prototyping using the serial transport, but at some point I will likely switch to using I2C to accommodate a more minimal interface between the two and allow for more devices to be connected to the RPi. This makes it so that I can swap out out with minimal changes to the code on both sides and keep a standard protocol in place. Also the libraries are pretty easily to use, so it's a little nicer to work with than rolling my own serial framing protocol.
Finally I found one of you! Thanks for doing this!!

I read the whole thing every time it shows up in my inbox. I love that you guys have so many links embedded in each newsletter. There are insane amount resources I didn’t know existed. I love space and you guys are doing a great job bringing my childhood curiosity back. Again, thanks!
I've seen this claim around a lot - is there a handy link that shows the testing that NY is doing and/or their true positive rates as compared to other regions?
the death stats aren't subject to that effect. today it was +58 in NY and the next highest state was GA with +9.
It's a little tough to generalize about salary in academia.

Obviously, a 'professor' covers multiple ranks in the academic hierarchy, but if you look at the published pay scales for assistant professors (I believe the lowest professor ranking with tenure) at University of California, it looks like large majority of them are breaking $100k [1]. I don't see a way of breaking those results into discipline, I'd imagine that those individuals in fields like CS vs. more academia-exclusive fields like literature or geography (relatively, anyway) are making towards the higher scale of that. Some of them in with clearly medical-related title are making much more, but I think that's to be expected.

Also, it's possible I'm mistaken, but I believe professors are allowed to be paid to act as advisors or "resources" for external organizations to act as a secondary revenue stream? Combined with topping off their salary with research grants as you pointed out, and the nice perks academia offers if you can get tenure (job security, etc.), I'm not sure that even this data fully encapsulates compensation either way

[1] https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/ (type in "asst prof" to title search, with ALL location selected)
> Terrible hurricane? Show up with a massive floating power plant and water treatment facility plus air logistics.

The US has a disastrous recent history of failing to respond to multipld hurricanes with adequate support, from Katrina to Maria.
Now is probably the worst possible time to reveal this news.

Because right now, people have much more pressing matters and need to communicate.
The company I work for will be hiring PM's in the 1st quarter. We're based in London, UK. Got an email add.? I'll send you a note when it happens if you're interested.
+1 on this, Ember + Rails is a really cool combination, also check http://ember-cli.com/ (and if you want to learn Ember, I wrote a book https://leanpub.com/ember-cli-101).
The robotic snake just sounds hella inaccurate. Like it's so out there it's bound to be unreliable.
I appreciate what you're writing about demoscene programming, but the GP comment does not seem to me to be shaming. It most likely was just about the commenter not having time themselves. HN has a guideline for cases like this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As an European, Amazon Go seems like extreme over-engineering, with its vision-based system and all. I can already quickly scan items as I put them in my basket, either using a handheld scanner you pick up at the entrance, or my own mobile phone. You can also do it all at once in the self-checkout station. It already takes little to no time, and simply adding a very fast barcode reader to the basket itself or RFID would completely eliminate any time spent there. Payment takes five seconds with contactless / Apple Pay. Most small supermarkets already have only one or two cashiers working at any time.
> Not sure what 'corporate' means here but okay.

They mean someone outside the store manages it. Someone who manages across the corporation rather than just at the retail location.
I like Gatsby - it's very easy to use if you are familiar with React
Not really. Western music is driven by harmonic progression, which is largely absent in most other cultures. The lack of "chord changes" is why its so easy to discern western vs eastern music.
What do people here think of Bazel [1]? In my understanding it is an open-sourced version of the build system that Google uses internally.

[1] https://bazel.build/
In the subsequent decade that this tool fell short of world conquest, containers and CI/CD pipelines have grabbed much mindshare.

The question is less: "How do we derive a simpler tool?" and more "How do we convert enough of the prior art to hit a tipping point?"
No. I’m saying it’s naive to think that it is their investors intention of building a business that takes on the big chip makers. That seems to be thought in many of the comments.

After seeing Apple design processors that are performance competitive with Intel except on the very high end and they will probably make better modem chips than Intel could by acquiring PA Semi and the remnants of Exponential Technology and seeing Amazon design custom server and embedded chips for its own use, I think we are seeing a renaissance in chip design we haven’t seen since the 80s and 90s.

Microsoft and Google are also dipping their toes in custom designed chips.
My experience in corporate and government is the opposite. They require functional scanning. Always.

But they also required expensive functional scammer/scanner subscriptions. I see this basic tool plus some scraping of changelogs (included in suse and redhat binary rpms) for cve numbers should substantially reduce the false positives. For the price of another 50 lines of python.

Don't know what other distros or the BSDs have available.
Your suggestion that people need to curb their 3G usage to help AT&T's poor towers is precisely the logic they're employing. It isn't valid, though. The capacity of AT&T's network is not a finite resource. They can make more. In fact, the government gave them money to improve their network, but they just pocketed it and opted to create artificial scarcity instead.

In other words, AT&T's towers are overwhelmed because AT&T didn't build enough capacity. That's not my fault and I shouldn't be paying for it.
They say 3 million people use their software.
Commercial banks in the US receive a 6% annual dividend from the USFRB.
Shamir's Secret Sharing and multisig Bitcoin transactions support arbitrary n-of-m pieces/keys, e.x. a 3-of-6 scheme would require 3 of the 6 pieces to reconstitute the key/sign a transaction, so any 3 pieces could be lost.

2-of-3 is common for end-user multisig. Generally you'd have 1 key physically backed up on paper in a secure place, 1 key on one of your devices (phone or computer), and 1 key either on another device (hardware wallet or phone) or controlled by a 3rd party that does risk analysis/fraud detection on your transactions.
Just take the resting mass of an hydrogen atom and multiply it by c^2. Try feeding Wolfram Alpha with "(mass of hydrogen) * (speed of light ^ 2)" or something, if you are lazy.

It's not very much in everyday units.
I have a basic javascript implementation of a mega-menu here http://minimul.com/because-mega-dropdowns-are-better.html .

Yes, by default it does columns, however, it also has an option for doing rows.
Download Selfcontrol, set it for 8 hours, and block HN, Fb, news sites, etc.

It blocks those sites you waste time on, and you cannot change the settings by quitting the app or even restarting your computer. It's great.
I found that Aaron Hillegass's book was decent enough as a tutorial, but halfway through it left me feeling like it raised too many questions without answering them. I was making toy apps but I didn't know what the hell was going on. Just my two cents.
OP fails to explain the situation as well as: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/bellagio...

The casino flags all of the stolen chips, and switches to a new set of chips for all games. If you are going to rob a Vegas casino, take the cash.
Thanks -- maybe I'll get to it soon.
I saw that, his comment was more around what the future could look like in 20-30 years. I don't think he was talking about their next product. Think Sturgeon and PKD vantage points and timelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_data_graph_execution

And now I have fallen back down the Epiphany [1] rabbit hole. The main thing that graph processors get you is being able to avoid the von Neumann Bottleneck [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
There seems to me to be a missing step there; I don't get how mirror bacteria somehow automatically hoover up all the resources. They'd be in competition with the normal bacteria, and it is not immediately obvious to me why they so automatically win. Because, again, this is a mirror competition, so whatever putative advantage the flipped version has, the normal version has, along with overwhelming starter advantage. It seems to me there's only really two possible resulting outcomes, based on symmetry arguments: The flipped versions still die out, because life favors the already-dominant hand for some reason, or they compete themselves into a 50/50 standoff because the forces don't favor either side once they reach parity. Life favoring the side with the numerical advantage and crushing the other side also happens to explain why we have one-handed life, so arguably it's the dominant hypothesis at the moment, too, though I wouldn't care to bet the fate of the planet on it.

Now, the bad thing about the 50/50 case is that it may be a much, much lower-energy biosphere, because now all life has to deal with the existence of proteins it can't do anything with and absolutely nothing is evolved to deal with. Could still be a holocaust of epic proportions with the biosphere not really recovering for several million years and almost all non-directly-photosynthesizing life wiped out by starvation as the biosphere has to rebuild from the bottom. (And by "biosphere recovering" I still mean that we're basically wiped back to the Great Oxygenation Event [1] in complexity terms, assuming there's nothing we can do to fix it after the fact.) Could be a disaster, certainly. But I still don't get the claim that it would somehow automatically utterly outcompete the existing biosphere.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Verizon fixes BB's for free and often while you wait (its usually the trackball) so it may be rough waters profit wise.
Our failure to connect on this point seems to be getting militant.

I'm not suggesting that nothing should be done to solve the plaintext password problem.

I'm suggesting that your proposed solution does very little to address the incident that motivated you to post it (the Gawker compromise).

Instead of advocating for your solution, I'm encouraging you to advocate for a much, much better solution. The only downside I can see to my suggestion over your suggestion, apart from the fact that it requires approximately 50 lines more code, is that you didn't come up with it.
A password on a post-it is only bad if it's the password to gain access to your machine. If I put my password for HN on a post-it next to my home computer, it's about as safe as it will ever be.

Honestly, if someone has broken into my home, my password to HN will probably be amongst the least of worries (and lowest on the list of priorities for the thief to pick up - I'll loose my computer before I loose the password).

Biometrics are only useful if the remote database and the transmission path is secure. If not, they can re-create & retransmit the biometric hash much like they do your password.
> Or does it just have to offer tax breaks and subsidies?

I wish the definition included this, there are so many shitty corporations which depend on subsidies and tax breaks but happily privatise every penny they can.
Ask HN: Where do you turn for good data on market salaries?
Hi,

When negotiating salary with HR (or as HR) for a software engineering position, what sources do you usually rely on for numbers about market salary and total compensation?

Sites like glassdoor/payscale/salary.com/indeed give numbers, but they do not make it clear how old the data points are, how many they include. They also do not account for biases of self-reporting by employees or companies.

In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gives general information[1], but since their numbers are often a couple years old.

Are there any good sources you would recommend? What about for large cities outside of the Bay Area?

1. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm
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There is no one more aware than me of all the bugs and feature deficiencies in the mobile apps. You think you see a bug :)? I see a dinosaur :) and it keeps me up at night.<p>But the team is listening and constantly fixing. The apps are not perfect but they will be :)
Try out my 'spy' app to watch social converstaion in real time across many services.
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Love your feedback on this application.

Been iterating on this tool/site on Google App Engine to visualize the real time conversations across Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr and more using common companents like jQuery, python, app engine, etc. Blog post on why I created: http://bit.ly/Az4c
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Silicon Roundabouts unofficial Movember Party
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Hi All, the organisers of www.silicondrinkabout.com have put together a little Movember party and it'd be great to see as many of you lovely people there as possible. Nice one!
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Google Text to Speech with Correct intonation
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2012/11/text-to-speech-with-correct-intonation.html
This post shows how to use the unofficial Google text to speech API in order to have a correct intonation avoiding the restrictions of the API.
Fiksu upgrades FreeMyApps to reward users for actions, not just downloads
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/24/fiksu-upgrades-freemyapps-to-reward-users-for-actions-not-just-downloads-exclusive/
If you are using an app to earn free gift cards on either iOS or an Android device would you mind sharing those apps? I would also love to know what things about the app you both love and hate from the user experience stand point.

Thanks in advance to all!
BP buys 'oil spill' sponsored links for search engines
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Indo-Canada civil nuclear deal: prime minister to sign agreement 
http://www.rajthackeray.info/Indo-Canada-civil-nuclear-deal-prime-minister-to-sign-agreement.html
Raj Thackeray News: India and Canada will sign a civil nuclear agreement during prime minister Manmohan Singh's forthcoming visit to the G-20 Summit in Toronto later this month.

The four-day visit commences on June 26.

The agreement will be signed after a bilateral meeting between Singh and his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, who will be hosting a special dinner in honour of Indian prime minister on June 27, official sources said yesterday.
Manage MySQL Server at shared hosting providers
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(Canadian) Venture Capital Breakdown
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Canada's challenged system forcing entrepreneurs to turn to the U.S. for cash.
How many users does it take to change a paradigm?
http://relativesanity.com/2011/09/22/199/
CoffeeScript and SASS are awesome, but when asked, nobody seems to be using them yet. Is it all just hype?
How to stay awake in class
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OnLive creates virtual Windows desktop on your iPad
http://www.winbeta.org/news/onlive-creates-virtual-windows-desktop-your-ipad-gives-you-microsoft-office-too
How about this. An iPad app that gives you access to a virtual Windows desktop running on a distant server that has software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint? Yes its possible, thanks to the new OnLive Desktop app for the iPad.