jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You need to have divs in your html to achieve certain layouts.

I'm not saying that semantic HTML is working today. But just because it isn't working doesn't mean we should start calling what is working for semantic HTML.
The problem with QE was that banks did not lend the money. When you give money to people in the 99% they get injected into the economy immediately. They buy instantly goods and services. Although vouchers would have worked better though instead of cash. So people are forced to spend the money.
Where does the POM specify the path to the JDK you should use to compile with?

Where does the POM specify the project specific code formatting you want to use?

Where does the POM specify the exact JVM flags and params given to various launch configs?
The "issue" in question is the marginal productivity of imported ICT labor. Your generalization about nominal wage effects holds only where an economy faces constant (or diminishing) returns to scale from immigration [1]. This essay argues exactly the opposite, that US government policy should compete to attract people who will increase economic returns to scale.

> ...it's easy to imagine cases where a great programmer might invent things worth 100x or even 1000x an average programmer's salary.

Moreover, there is evidence that even IT workers in identical, commoditized roles are sufficiently more productive in the US than than in India so as to justify an extra $75k per capita in client billings for they US-based workers [2]. PG's essay is not sufficiently described by a rudimentary labor supply curve as you claim.

[1] http://www2.hawaii.edu/~noy/362texts/immigration.pdf p.156, particularly footnote 8

[2] https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2013conference/program/retrieve.p...
God damnit I don't know what to believe any more.
That's what open source is for, my friend!
So Verizon is becoming a content company as well, just like Comcast.
It's a ratchet.
It would be great if you could deploy this as easily in places other than AWS.
There are some great images here: http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Whittier.htm

This one gives a great aerial view of the town: http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Aerial_Photos_Whittier.htm

It is one huge parking lot.
They do "live off tips" though. They take the job with the expectation of making more than minimum wage.
You should try stepping outside of your fortress of irony for two seconds.
The problem is that when you fight against the new technology, you mis-educate your own people. Ideally, Gates would have liked to denigrate the web and promote desktop apps to the outside world while pounding a completely opposite pro-web message into his own stuck-on-the-desktop developers. Unfortunately, with a company as big as Microsoft, it's impossible to keep the two messages separate.
Does anyone know how much each credential would worth on average? I also imagine they will filter out "possible celebrity" credentials for higher bids/price.
> It's over a weekend ...

So call some employees in!
I think you're on Apple's payroll, working to undo the damage Gruber does as he reveals the master strategy to competitors.
Yes. There is one situation in which you may omit a semicolon in PHP.

This does not create a situation like the semicolon insertion in JavaScript, however, and I don't perceive as an ambiguity or inconsistency issue.

Are you saying this detail about PHP causes problems of some sort? I can't think of any. If JavaScript were to work like that, and only let you omit a semicolon before a closing script tag, that would be absolutely fine with me.
Yeah the NSA would never try to break crypto anyhow coughDual_EC_DRBGcough
It is a very good point. Although they have equally good or better innards than the Mac mini, these stickers add to the cheap knock-off look in the pictures. People like attention to detail, they want to buy stuff a team was proud of building.
"Legal limits usually don't really reflect what's safe with today's cars,"

Correct - Legal Limits results in many deaths a year that would not occur if the Limits were more strict. People who violate even those rather dangerous limits, result in even more carnage.

I find it fascinating how overconfident people are when it comes to cars, and just feel that because they aren't getting into accidents, that cars are safe.

There isn't a single country in the world that believes that human life is worth more than the convenience of speeding around in cars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero is a great concept, but until automation is fully extended, most of the traffic laws, speeds, car spacing will continue to result in people dying in numbers greater than if there were more strict regulations.
Of course, it will likely be a dystopia in which tens of thousands a people's lives will be saved, so there is that.
Obviously you can't get stocks or options, but why wouldn't they be willing to pay bonuses for a job well done/performance or provide free food, if that gets the right kind of people into the door? I don't get it.
Clouds, fog and smoke are the obvious issues. Dense tree canopies too.
Google's cars are programmed to break the law in a number of scenarios. They will inch into an intersection if they don't sense that another car is going to take advantage of their right of way. They will speed faster than the posted limit if they sense that cars are traveling faster than that limit.

Obeying the law, in some scenarios, particularly when you might force people to make lane changes (which are dangerous in and of themselves) results in greater fatalities. In that situation, it makes sense to break the law.
Is this a satirical response to something Mozilla did?
Interesting. Fwiw, my best work has actually been done standing at a terminal in the data center, coding to the hum of big iron (or the lots of little iron that passes for it these days). And that was even before I was aware of the health benefits of standing desks. That's the one thing I really miss about working for a big company with its own datacenter, now everything is just in the cloud somewhere.

My best learning/studying, in the library or bookstore. There's something about being in an environment where most everyone is focusing and concentrating that makes it easier to get into Flow.
This is not exactly "black magic", it's fairly well-known and explained directly in the official documentation: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#private-variabl....
I believe you, especially as it makes a number of lines I've heard around this make more sense... but why? Especially in this case, where there is a standard and it's already been implemented by several? Is it just pedantry because they don't get to call the shots?
> Naturally I logged in and deleted absolutely everything in sight. :-P

...and you probably completely screwed over some hapless soul who was a victim of the same guy who cracked you. Do you think these guys put their IP address and FTP password out there for anyone to collect as evidence? Most likely, he hacked into an FTP server and hosted his malicious files there along with everything else that was already hosted there. Congratulations on breaking the law and ruining someone's day.
... such is my brain.
Right - my issue was with the MySQL gem. The entire system is great because you can type

"gem install mysql" or whatever and it just works.

But the issue comes in when it doesn't work, which it didn't for me. It took hours of debugging. MAMP gets me up and running in < 5 minutes. A proper LAMP setup takes me < 10 minutes. I'm failing to see the advantage of Rails (at least from a setup standpoint) when it works perfectly most of the time, but fails so hard.
The point is that "salting" doesn't slow down the GPU attack.
> It's basically burnt bean water. Roasted is just a marketing term.

So, does that make toast “basically burnt bread”?
To reduce the focus of grant-funded labs on obtaining their next grant (i.e., ensuring their continued existence), funding organizations should deliberately force a soft cap on the number of research PIs. In the context of biomedical research, US universities have been on a hiring spree for the past 25 years. The number of BME departments increased 150% from 1995 to 2005. This expansion was partially funded by Whitaker Foundation money, which ended in 2006. Consequently, the NIH award rate for R01 grants, which are they main lab support mechanism, fell from 27% to ~ 15%. Naturally, funding a lab in a 15% award rate environment takes much more time (probably 3× more; it's nonlinear due to competition), to the detriment of time spent on research and training. This has a corrosive effect on every aspect of publicly-funded science.

The NIH has strong leverage to correct this. Grant awards include both "direct" and "indirect" costs. Direct costs go to the applicant (PI). Indirect costs go to their /institution/ (employer). Indirect costs are calculated relative to direct costs, generally 70% (so the total awarded sum is 170% of direct costs), but the rate is negotiated and institution-specific. The NIH could penalize institutions with too many soft money (grant-supported) positions by reducing those institutions' indirect cost rates, or even requiring institutional matching, until the number of grant-supported positions falls to a level at which they can place their main focus on doing the work they are nominally funded to do. This would reduce the number of publicly-funded scientists, but would let them act more like scientists and less like marketers.
We’ve gone large in our house with ShitCupboard (tm), a much bigger deployment of roughly the same framework
Protein as well, Our bodies roughly prefer to burn sugar, fat then protein but if all that's available is protein we'll metabolise that (including our own in starvation scenarios).
Same reason Tinder ( Match Group who owns all the apps) sent user location data all over the place.

Normal people will never learn about this , and doing it right would take too much effort. While I would love new better social media to take over, I don't think social media which serves it's users is possible.

Hell, I self sensor more here than I do in real life. In real life if I say something odd it's forgotten within minutes.
Some other comments in this thread better describe it, but a ringing in your ears that goes away is not tinnitus.
Doesn't the live cd present a boot menu with a direct install option like others do? If not, that's even more annoying; it already requires a DVD these days because they have to include too much software, they should certainly be able to include a tui installer.
Because, generally speaking and on balance, a least in American society, women have things worse off than men. The pay gap, gender roles, access to reproductive healthcare, representation in government, no paid parental leave, violence against women.
BLUF: Hispanic and Black officers make far fewer stops and arrests and use force less than white officers, especially against Black civilians.... These effects are supportive of the efficacy of increasing diversity in police forces.

I support increased diversity as a policy matter. However, this scientific conclusion would require determining whether white officers were over-using force or minority officers were under-using force. While the former situation is more likely due to P200/N200 disparities inherent in interracial encounters, I am not convinced this study is complete enough to come to that conclusion as a matter of science.
You're right again. I guess the right question would be who is growing and who is shrinking.
that was the conclusion I came to when googling.
you should try sleeping. it's super-effective.
Few people I know classify watching TV as "fun," but it passes the time and is entertaining.

Bad argument--few people classify any form of passive entertainment as "fun". That word seems to be reserved for active forms of entertainment, like games. When there's an extremely popular game out there that no one characterizes as "fun", we have an interesting situation.
Mathematics is not a product of the mind any more than physics is. All theorems are true (or, more precisely, all theorems follow from their axioms), even the ones we haven't discovered yet. That a mind can choose an axiomatic system to explore does not mean the relationships between those axioms and their theorems are created by that mind.
As a huge Mint.com fan I'm having a hard time figuring out why I would use this. I also have the Android app which lets me see a whole bunch of info about my budget automatically.

Is your target market people without smart phones? I could see this working with them. My biggest worry would be the fact people are lazy when it comes to budgets. I know I am. I like Mint.com because I can spend like normal without manually tracking it and eventually they send me an SMS saying STOP SPENDING MONEY. :)
> the DMCA was passed through the normal legislative process.

Wrong. First of all those treaties took place before DMCA (including 1201) was passed. And there was nothing normal about it. Normal process actually rejected such idiotic restriction outright (since DRM proponents first attempted to pass it normally).

When they were kicked by normal democratic process, they turned to WIPO treaties which have no democratic oversight. Corruption there is much easier, so they squeezed anticircumvention provisions into such treaties affecting US. Then they turned back to the Congress and said: "you can't ignore your international obligations! Pass this law". And Congress passed it without much of opposition. That's not called a normal democratic process, it's called corruption and backdoor dealing.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty
I received a gracious reply from the Hankinsoft developers. They have already added a disclaimer to the website and are promising to make the distinction between their product and SQLite even clearer over the next few days. Hopefully any confusion will be cleared up soon.
From the article: "In discussing about potential safety advances, Tony Tyler, the International Air Transport Association director general, said earlier this month that 'even though aircraft cannot be tracked in all cases, flying is safe. Over 100,000 flights operate safely every day.'" That's important baseline information. I would much rather fly on any of the airlines that serve the major airport in my town than drive here, and that's even though some website has just identified the drivers in my state, incredibly, as the safest drivers in the United States.[1] Airline flying as it is currently regulated and implemented daily is an astounding safe way to go to places near and far.

[1] http://bringmethenews.com/2015/01/04/study-finds-minnesota-h...
There are a lot of valid concerns with regards to Singapore's excessive central planning, governmental and social disapproval of nonconformity, etc. But this piece really does sound like the perspective of a disappointed poverty tourist. There is a huge difference between visiting filth and slums and red-light districts and desperate people struggling to get by, and having to live there all your life.

Singapore did a lot of things wrong, but part of the reason it is so (unnervingly) clean and prosperous and ordered is because the government has made an effort (not completely successful, and again perhaps with not all the right methods) to provide the denizens of the country with places to live and ways to make a decent living.
For the average Joe Dev, what would be the recommended pathway to becoming proficient at SEO?
I don't have a question, though I do have a suggestion, Patrick. At risk of spreading yourself too thin, you could leverage your fame among the crowd at both hacker news and Joel's forum to deliver a how-to ebook in which you summarize and methodically organize advice on how to go from zero to hero with a software product. If you were to sell such an ebook at somewhere around $29-49, you could very easily stand to make make six figures out of it.
Not yet. That's fairly straightforward, though. Long term, there will be your standard bookmarks style exporter, as well as RSS/JSON/XML feeds for consumption.
Neurofunk. Try on the lifted music podcast from Spor and Chris Renegade on for a good dose.
Not true - you can generate a new address for each transaction without affecting your "wallet".
By "ecosystem crash", what we really mean here is "an environment in which nobody will want to live". I am not at all skeptical towards various warnings about the environment, but we do have to acknowledge that the Earth has supported life for long before we ever came around, and will continue to support life long after we're gone.

And, humans are resourceful. It's likely that, even in the worst of scenarios, at least some humans will find a way to survive -- even if it's subsistence living.

The question is, would it be an environment that we would want to live in?

I think that's an important distinction that might help sort out some of the ecological "debates".
or as a way to make sure the demand does not shift
http://dormontplumber.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=dormont+plumber
http://bridgevilleplumber.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=bridgeville+plumber
http://bethelparkplumber.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=bethel+park+plumber

This plumbing company seems to be getting away with it just fine. I really wish Google did a better job at smacking down this sort of thing.
added: http://173.203.58.79/scatter/sc.transactions.php
Anyone heard a story of Indian government sending a condolences letter for the death of a high-ranking Pakistani official? A letter set in Comics Sans.
Here it is: doing auto-trades with history.

http://173.203.58.79/scatter/sc.transactions.php
chrysb's HN profile says "CEO of Vidly"
That's what everyone thought about Russia before 1998. But they chose to default on ruble denominated debt rather than hyperinflating the currency.
Just saw a bunch of that riding a train there last week. Then spent the weekend in Madrid with friends who are grad students in this stuff, pushing the envelope and adding efficiency.

Meanwhile, mention the idea of funding this stuff in the US and all you'll hear are a bunch of nonsequitors about Al Gore's waistline or maybe some dude in Holland published bad research once.
If you're friends with a broad range of people, you'll see all sorts of things that get shared or liked without much inherent virality to them. There are entire sites dedicated to phrases associated with like buttons that have absolutely no content at their endpoints (e.g. http://fblike.net). They basically just let users say they like something in their friends' feeds. If you add a like button to that page and set your Open Graph meta tags to make it say "natrius liked I Hate Meetings on MeetingMix.com"[1], I think you'll get plenty of traffic.

[1] I think the page would have to be on the meetingmix.com domain for that to work correctly. It might just make "MeetingMix.com" link to fixmeetings.com.

og:title = "I Hate Meetings"
og:site_name = "MeetingMix.com"

On fixmeetings.com and meetingmix.com:

og:type = "website"

You might need some of the other meta tags in each place. Note that after 10 likes, you won't be able to change the title.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph
It seems like you think that redistribution == robbery.

I'm curious what is your preferred solution for financing public infrastructure. All private? Every street and sewer line is a company's property?

Even human societies like hunter gatherers redistributed food within their groups so some of them could concentrate on child rearing and basic tool making while others acquired food. Even if duties were shared, they couldn't all be done at the same time.

Redistribution of surplus was a major contributing factor which led to the specialization necessary to develop early technology like agriculture, which ultimately led to where we are today.

It was certainly a critical part of the creation of the American middle class and consumer culture after the second world war.
The locking doors aren't theatre though, they are a specific action that has a clear impact (control over commercial planes is limited to a much smaller set of people).
Since when is any publicity ever bad? Isn't this Marketing 101?
I agree. This is just another article of someone speculating what has gone wrong, possibly in order to get hits on his or her blog.
Yes, but you realize the factor uniting that crowd is a hatred of Prius drivers, right?
Does it not being mainstream even matter, though? Because at least here in AU, and I believe in the EU, to even register it as roadworthy it needs to not compromise its collision protection which includes pedestrian collisions.
in some orientation? most likely.
but not flat, the bed is 6.5' long, so no 4x8s.
You seem to have missed part of his comment: "the problem is when companies introduce recovery numbers and make it back into 1FA".
So what’s the worst thing that can happen? They pull their money out?

I’d have thought YC, given their history, wouldn’t have any trouble raising money.
> Yeah, a lot of people talking about how ugly it is. But that's exactly what a pick-up has always been.

That's not universal, these things are common in Australia and look pretty sleek: https://www.google.com/search?q=commodore+ute&safe=active&hl...

But even the less pretty ones had that sort of brutal, functional, serious look. This ... does not.
Ah that's the guy. He drove the new roadster last time. I kept wondering who the guy is. He looked really like Reed Hastings...
I hadn’t thought about this looking like the Aztek of Warthogs, but you’re right.
Huuuuuuge plus one here. Netrunner is such a good game. They could really work on their templating, though, but that's Fantasy Flight...
Mindcrime, your post has been the most inspirational and informational. Thank you!

I will share these articles (especially the first one from the CS professor) with a lot of my business colleagues. There is an unspoken feeling that "business guys" can never learn to program to implement their ideas. Or, "hackers" are completely inept at understanding business, and should focus only on building their application.

This is the conversation I wish my post would have evoked - the "marriage" of business understanding and technical ability. (Admittedly, my tone may have come across as obnoxious to technical readers, which was not my intent.)

After your post, and comments from other readers, I am much more inspired to gain at least some technical skills to building a working prototype for my idea. While I feel my skills are best suited to pitch the idea, write the business plan, raise capital, sell to potential customers, etc. I feel having the technical ability, to a certain extent, would enable me to execute the idea. Or, if nothing else, give me more credibility among programmers who may otherwise see me as solely an "idea man".

In any regard, thank you for your comment and advice.
Building the reals out of lambda calculus would be cool. I don't think however that your definition of mult_real is correct. For example if a=b=10 and eps=2, then a(eps/2) x b(eps/2) could be anything between 9x9=81 and 11x11=121, whereas you'd want it to be between 99 and 101? How to fix this?
Argh! Well, he managed to get something tangible out first, but I still think I've got a shot with V13.
It would be great if that worked, but it's not like this is the first time corruption in government has been an issue and it's not the first time people have tried to get rid of it either. It comes back as soon as the public stops watching closely.
Any plans for an API so users of other blogging software could implement it?
Maybe not. From the article:

>> "My personal hypothesis is this would not happen without a positive doctor-patient relationship," Kaptchuk said.

>> Others agreed.

>> "What seems to be the active ingredient is the warm, personal relationship," said Dr. Howard Brody of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.