jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
After watching a number of videos captured during the 2011 Japanese tsunami, one of the things I learned is that cars will often float, sometimes for a considerable amount of time. So if I was in the market for an emergency tsunami-proof boat, I'd consider getting an old car and removing the engine, then filling the trunk and engine compartment with styrofoam or similar substance. Now you've got a car that will definitely float, and it should provide you a fair amount of protection from floating debris.
Please don't do this here. It isn't just flamebait, it's an internet forum cliché. Those are two of the things we're most trying to avoid on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Confusing (I used Color)
Definitely my favorite comment on the article.
dehog.com! I'd buy it if I had use for it.

Also, a clever use of this data set would be to run it against the Google Search API, and order them by the number of results. Theoretically, more results = better word. Or, less results means easier SEO.
NFL offers a fantastic service, similar to the one you want, called gamepass. There is a catch (of course!), you just need to be in an international market.

Its been a few years since I moved to the US so my memory is probably a little spotty but I seem to recall all games, live, HD with the ability to replay on demand (like gamerewind). You could also have the feed use the audio from teams radio network instead of the TV commentary. Man, I really miss that feature!
oh - didn't know that. Okay that makes a hughe difference IMHO.
Haha you are not alone as I do the same on an old CRM for non-profits. I'm thinking about going back to school to gain the missing math and science I need to get myself to a more challenging job. Boring business software just ain't fun. But it pays :)
Here I rush to add that I also don't work on pricing and packaging.
I guess I might not be interpreting you correctly, but pedestrians have no right of way. AFAIK, if someone is crossing the street you must stop your vehicle (which seems obvious because if not, you'd run them over). This doesn't mean that you can just cross the street wherever and whenever you may please, neither does it mean that you can actually walk in the street. Still focusing on Europe, it's not that uncommon to see drivers disrespect the law and not stop at a crosswalk when there's someone trying to cross it.
> Yes, trading value must be necessary in a system with scarcity.

Which our system is becoming less and less like thanks to automation - so at this point I really hope that people will drop this stupid meme that "everyone has to work" and push towards basic income. I'd provide much more real value to people around me and worldwide if I didn't have to worry about money that much.

Also, many (if not most) of the jobs related to tech sector, and especially web development, are bullshit anyways. We're cogs in the machine of advertising, which is a) harmful to society, and b) powered by negative feedback loops that can suck in infinite amount of labour and resources for no value to show.
Another good technique to reduce the number of robo calls is to have your PBX answer immediately, and play a fraction of a second of the "number unobtainable" tone, which is enough for many greedy "robo's" to give up and move on where as a human will barely notice.
Thanks for sharing. I didn't discover electronics until I was much older. I did, however, discover a passion for software at a young age and that has been one of my true loves.

In software, I have deep interest and am decent at it. I can't say that for my electronics pursuits. I've been at it as a hobbyist for a few years now and am probably equivalent to someone 6 months into a Bachelors program. In the past, I tried to justify my electronics activities as something productive but a few weeks ago I had a minor Eureka - I just accepted I love electronics for the happiness that it gives me. I don't really care to invent something new or be productive with it.
Kulak is on Wikipedia
""During the Russian Revolution, the label of kulak was used to chastise peasants who withheld grain from the Bolsheviks. According to Marxist–Leninist political theories of the early 20th century, the kulaks were class enemies of the poorer peasants""

TIL.
> I disagree - I trust much more strongly that Bitcoin will not be mismanaged than the USD, because bitcoin is governed by very simple and utile rules that are practically impossible to change, whereas the USD can be and has been inflated substantially.

Following fixed, unchanging rules is kind of the opposite of being managed, let alone well-managed.

> ...especially as Bitcoin comes to be the reserve asset of a larger and larger set of productive economic actors.

"If" not "as": that hasn't happened yet and it's quite likely that it won't happen.
Now that there is a possibility that arm machines may become more common, it would be interesting to be able to build multi-arch AppImages. Maybe Ryan Gordon FatELF could be part of it.
The downvotes on this are heartless.

My man, do what you can to improve your situation and if/when you can help out, do so. You will help the less fortunate by relentlessly improving your life. When you catch a breathe and life becomes fun, then spread some joy to others, but until then you are not in a position to feel guilty about it.
150 MB RSS of a single worker process (out of typically 4+)? Did the dude at least try running `free -h` before and after starting any Electron application? Multiple that by at least 5 and you're somewhat closer to the truth.
Thanks, always great to hear that people find it useful :)
>What’s the typical uptime for a Windows machine in daily use?

Only rebooted once in 2021 and that was me turning it off for electrical work.

Definitely been in the 2 month+ numbers at times with extremely heavy use like dual GPUs running 100% for 12+ hour periods at a time.

Honestly been very impressed with Windows recently as a place for where I get my high end work done. I still use a Macbook for browsing/writing sometimes.
Aside from that, the whole purpose of medicine is to prevent death and foster health/vitality . It’s literally there for that purpose specifically. Why research medicine at all if we don’t want to actually prevent death?
There is a big difference between an App showing you some data, and that same app collecting it, sharing it, and linking it to your identity.

For example, Google maps could show you your location in a map, without collecting that data about you or linking it to your identity, e.g., by having the local app who knows your location ask the google maps server for maps including that location, but without ever sending the location, and with these servers never linking who requested the maps with which maps they requested.
Hmm, I'm being badgered to reenable iCloud on every single minor iOS update and rather commonly on macOS as well. Are you sure you were never asked about it?
Scheme 'optimizes' any tail call. Whether that's a recursive call or something else.
Incredible. In other countries, they're "protesters". Here, only a day later, they're "insurrectionists".
> at worst ciminilizing people who do try and report an issue […] will atleast not send you threatening letters from their lawyers

Wow. Citation needed, please.
PHK simultaneously complains that HTTP/2 doesn't go far enough e.g. replace cookies with a stateful mechanism, while also complaining the header compression and other mechanisms in HTTP/2 introduce the requirement for the server to maintain state.

PHK also refers to HTTP/2 as a political protocol and casts various aspertions about those promoting it but you need to remember that PHK isn't a neutral observer - Varnish does't support TLS yet (though PHK is very clear on why this is the case).
> Given the paltry damages you likely get when you're not selling yourself and tolerating copying anyway.

Aren't there statutory damages?
They predicted two areas that encryption would come under attack, and then followed up with two examples where snooping only happened because encryption wasn't being used. Seems like a bad call.
"Most of our crime is confined to a small subset of our population and this subset is mostly absent from Europe."

According to those figures, the most effective way to lower the homicide rate is to get rid of men.
"Attacks on Lack of Cryptography"?
While not all practitioners of the Jewish religion are ethnically Jews (Ashkenazim, Sephardim, etc.) and vice versa, there's certainly a very strong correlation. That's certainly enough to produce an apparent religious-IQ linkage, if indeed there's a ethnic-IQ linkage. (It doesn't, of course, say anything about causation.)

You could similarly link the Hindu religion to dark hair, or other genetic traits common among ethnic groups who have a high percentage of Hindu practitioners. It wouldn't be true all the time, but it would probably show a significant correlation.
The author might live in a country where that is not the case. In Germany for example the term "app" was not used before Apple came.
On the child component you refer the parent data with `parent.` prefix.
I ran an open network for years, only giving up on it a couple of months ago. I tried to set up DD-WRT like they suggest in the article (high bandwidth encrypted network + and open encrypted network), but I didn't get it working properly and gave up. I'll switch my network over to this setup if somebody gives me pointers on an easy way to do it.
>The Google mentions and plugs seemed a bit nauseating

Not at all, he wasn't even using a Android tablet as a card deck replacement.
The BBC one looks like you should just copy it, with the caveat that it's tailored to their visitors and you should look at your analytics and adjust it to suit whatever your company's site visitors lean towards.

Their own visitors will be the missing reasoning behind everything they listed and the prioritization.
I'm sure a bank doing serious business with Google wouldn't mind filling a request for N hundred/thousand envelopes with 10 hundred dollar bills in them (no doubt for a small fee).
I like some things (Genius, the smart playlists, podcasts), am indifferent to a large swath of others (the store, video, radio, DJ, home sharing, library sharing, visualization) and am brought to a white-hot nun-punching rage by the (finite but unbounded) set of bugs, warts and misfeatures.

Why can't I have my view settings sticky across all the various views? Why do you INSIST on showing me the utterly useless genres by default? Why, in list mode, when reverse sorting an album by year (to, say, play your Cows collection from most recent to oldest) it reverses the track ordering? That last one, by the way, is marked "Works as Expected". Works as expected.
> Multi-threading seems like it would likely require a change to the Javascript implementations.

What about Web Workers?

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/
I would be all over it, if the public transportation system was there. It isn't, so I'm not. I looked into how long it would take me to commute via public transportation to work and it was hysterically beyond feasible: http://publictransportation.org/
Try bugmenot.
Sounds like you only read the under-headline summary.

The article goes on to predict that the end of the consortium indicates the WS-I standards are unlikely to be enhanced going forward, basically stating that REST has won.

kb
This is awesome! I'll definitely be adding it to my next newsletter email!

Thanks!
Only to the extent that “I’ll donate a million dollars to your campaign” counts as speech
It’s possible with rules, experience and guidance.

Granted, I learned to write C 25+ years ago, and have worked as a C programmer for 15 of them, writing mostly embedded software for mobile phones (pre smartphone), airport sorters, but have also written financial software (mostly for parsing NASDAQ feeds), but the point is that most of the software I’ve written has had close to a decade of “runtime”, and while I started out making the same mistakes as everybody else, you learn to put ranges on your heap pointers like strncpy instead of just blindly doing strcpy.

Checking the size of your input vs your allocated memory takes care of a lot of it. As for memory leaks, it’s not exactly hard to free a pointer for every time you malloc one.

People are terrified of C, and yes, Go, Rust, Java, C# makes it harder to make _those_ mistakes, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to write good C code.

And it’s not like projects written in Go or Rust are error free. They just struggle with different errors.

As for good C projects, check stuff like postfix, nginx, and yes Linux or FreeBSD.
What I said is true, sudden drops in mining power mean the immediate effect is slower block creation:

> a sudden drop in price will mean a sudden drop in mining power, which will mean a sudden drop in blocks being generated, which will mean a sudden drop in throughput

Over time (and blocks) the proof of work difficulty adjusts, but that isn't what I was talking about, which is why I said "sudden" over and over.

It takes the generation of blocks to adjust the proof of work difficulty and if the price goes down, miners shut off and the blocks needed to adjust the proof of work will get generated more slowly. Less blocks on average means the adjustment skews into the future as the throughput goes down.

Two factors that go _against_ a death spiral is that transactions typically go down when the price goes down, and when the transaction throughput is low, people with actual balances on the chain can't get their btc off of it.

When the price goes up and mining power increases (sooner or later) this isn't a problem, because faster blocks aren't a problem - they just make calibrating back down to a 10 minute happen quicker.

> "don't invest in something you don't understand", can I ask that you don't spread FUD about something you don't understand?

Easy there, you can always ask questions instead of making bold assumptions like this.
That is from 2018, and at that time I used deepin daily. However, since moving from their compositor to kwin, things started going off rails. I was on and off on their github pages posting and commenting on issues and what I learned is that at that time they had been pushing for solving technical debt in their codebase. But the system overall became so unstable that I was left with a choice of not updating my arch rolling install often or moving to another de.

I chose the latter, moved to KDE and never had any issues anymore. No weird hack to make WiFi work, no update breaking the compositor making me have to hop between compositors.

I mean, that was 2018, things might have stabilized a little. But a year ago a friend of mine, long time fan of deepin moved to KDE too because of these same stability issues.

By all means try it out. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
Nice - yeah that sounds like a great use case for it.
IIRC, Docker's first versions were only a high-level API to LXC. containerd/runc/... came after.
> Of all the social networks, LinkedIn has the greatest built-in policing mechanism: its users' fear for their own reputation.

I've seen so much blatant bigotry and thinly veiled sexism on LinkedIn that I'm having a lot of trouble relating to this one.

> You don't see trolling; you don't see fighting; no one will give you points for being shitty to others.

Same here, I've seen plenty of shitty self-serving or downright condescending comments get rewarded with "claps" or whatever emoji they use on there.
I think another reason Do Not Track failed is that advertisers (e.g. Google) didn't like it. Microsoft setting Do Not Track on by default in Internet Explorer was likely the death knell.
No joy there either, sadly.
It doesn't make it any less morally reprehensible.
The Kik fairy tale never made sense. One of the guys behind the company was a PM at RIM, if I remember correctly. The entire UI of the app is a direct rip of BlackBerry Messenger. It was only a matter of time -- I wonder when RIM will sue them.
> But one organization showed exceptional linguistic versatility, even solving challenges in Klingon.

Wow. So, was it just dumb luck that the nerd sitting there happened to be fluent enough in Klingon, or did someone just recognize the script and outsource it themselves as well, or what? I'd love to know more about that specific case.
Note:
This is really isn't a job post, so forgive me for posting it here, but I don't think there's a better place for it.

Location: Anywhere

I am looking for a number of freelance web designers and developers, around 10-12, with skills varying from web design, to interface design, to web and app development (frontend, backend, iphone, etc).

Each individual must be willing to contact, visit, and negotitate with prospective local clients.

I am a freelance designer who is just starting out. My objective is to form a collaborative web development firm where we all benefit from each of our specialization and our local reach.

Anyone interested can email me at alexwyser@gmail.com
I get paid for Ocaml (and perhaps Haskell, too, soon).
Can these guys predict stock market prices as well? :)
I find it fun to think back to the 1970s and try to guess which products would get bigger and which products would get smaller..

eg (UK-centric list, maybe):

* TVs - they were supposed to get smaller, they're huge now

* HiFi - bigger surely, and they did for a bit during the 1980s ("when you die they'll bury you in it")

* Womens' cars - are now bigger than mens' cars by far

* Men's underpant - bigger

* Women's underpants - smaller

etc
I do worry about this, when I consider working a few years at banks after graduating to save up some fuck-you money.
Not really, because having one something plus one something equal two somethings is pretty much the definition of discrete object.
Statistical significance is certainly an issue, but not the issue I was referring to. I should have said "depends on the type of traffic".

You'll get a much better conversion rate on clicks resulting from your users saying "hey, resdirector wrote this really cool app" than you get from you saying "Ask HN: Please review my app".

As a general rule, sites which produce more traffic tend to have much lower conversion rates, unfortunately.
To be honest I hadn't noticed a problem with too many smart-ass remarks before the change. Everyone makes poor decisions from time to time and punishing them more harshly seems unnecessary.
"Calculate the cost of fighting piracy and determine if subtracting that from the cost of improving your product is worth it. We decided that it wasn't We did however pretty much make the same deal open to everyone. Most people like the idea of amnesty particularly if it costs less than the original purchase price!"

You were lucky in your situation. It's very possible you wouldn't have gotten any money at all.

The problem is that if you don't fight piracy, it will only get worse over time. There will be more links in Google pointing to your cracked software (which potential customers may get to before hitting your site).
It doesn't fail the obviousness test at the USPTO, because they seem not to employ people with ordinary skill in the art of anything related to software. At least, that's the most charitable explanation I can come up with.
Removing the antialias doesn't make it look like it's part of the website. It make it look fugly. Come on guys, this is almost 2011, who doesn't have antialiased fonts on their computers these days?
The facts in this case make it clear the officer intends for it to be a public performance. The officer should be fired, and the copyright holder should pursue maximum financial damages.

Neither of those things will happen. The system is too corrupt for that.
I have worked with XML since it was a wee laddie. I generally prefer using JSON, but all my SDKs emit BOTH XML and JSON (and, occasionally, CSV).

XML Schema is the main reason I use XML. I hate Schema. Hates HAAATESSSS NASSSTY SSSSCHEMA..., but it is ironclad. If it is described in Schema, then it is guaranteed (or not; in which case Schema also accounts for that).

JSON Schema is a non-starter. No one ever seems to use it, and I don't think it ever made it out of committee. It pretty much goes against why JSON is popular.

If anyone wants REAL pain, then we should go back to BNF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus–Naur_form

I worked with a BNF compiler, and I still wake up screaming.
The real ugly with SVG is how frequently we request SVGs from designers or companies and they hand us an SVG file that contains nothing but a base64 encoded PNG image.
You should give dino.im a try. I've been using it for the last few months alongside conversations.im and it's been great with syncing even encrypted messages.
Maybe we're just hedging our bets for multiple zombie movies?
But FN is a Belgian gun manufacturer, how does this relate to CZG from the Czech Republic?
Your bar for privacy is very high and accessible only to nerds. That's great, but not helpful for average users.

Apple is not absolute, ironclad privacy. Don't rely on them for covert ops missions. But they ARE providing a very reasonable model of doing business that requires no special skills on the part of the user and does not engage in the unrelenting surveillance that other companies bake into every corner of their products.

Is it "privacy"? I'm not sure. But it is definitely "not surveillance". And that's a very reasonable place to start.
So the officers just claim they always listen to music?

Or that they were simply trying to send a message that they were done with the conversation with someone who is following them around on the job? Which seems to be the case here, honestly.

Or that they didn’t know that a random person with a phone had a massive YouTube following combined with intent to post this video online?

I know everyone wants to stick it to these cops, but let’s be realistic. Normally HN is very against weaponizing copyright law, but the second it feels useful for their purposes we’re flooded with comments from people who want to misuse copyright law as a weapon.
"For many organizations [upended priorities] included responding to the social justice movements...

"2. More companies will adopt stances on current societal and political debates.... Gartner research shows that 74% of employees expect their employer to become more actively involved in the cultural debates of the day."

Ugh! I don't share woke beliefs, and no others seem to qualify to be worthy of non-derisive attention. I hardly want employers to promote these beliefs. (Worse is that they may feel fake in doing it. If there were an organizations authentic beliefs, that might be slightly different.)

Interesting times.
Thanks for checking it out! Haha that's a good question. We grabbed a master list of the world's most valuable startups, based on WSJ's Billion Dollar Startup Club, as well as posts on Fred Wilson's and William Mougayar's blogs (listed at bottom of this post).

Then we realized we had a list of 300+ companies, some private, some public, some acquired, scattered across the world, founded anywhere between 1999 to 2013. Kinda all over the place.

So we decided to filter it down for now to give it some focus: i) founded after 2006, ii) founded in the USA, and iii) private. The list quickly shrunk to 86.

Deciding to keep it to the USA was tough, but we noticed many high-profile startups abroad don't exactly use Twitter very actively, so including them might skew the #'s.

Here's our current list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ue2UAoKaGf32rGewLXWe...

Sources:
http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club
http://avc.com/2013/11/the-billion-dollar-valuation-club/
http://startupmanagement.org/2014/04/20/the-global-unicorns-...
Currently there are many zero AIs, as far as we know.
http://raytracey.blogspot.fi/

Sam Lapere seems to have left Otoy around November 2014.