jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Flattr is not rare on German sites and those who use it seem to be doing reasonably well if they are fairly well known.

Tim Pritlove, for example, (a podcaster) is making close to 2.000€ per month (chart and German blogpost: http://tim.geekheim.de/2011/04/14/ein-jahr-flattr/).
Yahoo! has quite a few impressive engineering teams that appear to be saddled down by terrible management. Maybe this can be a new business model for them - a high-end tech incubator.

Of course, they'd first have to stop habitually buying companies and letting them rot on the vine.
Never heard of it until today.
I didn't fully read it but doesn't it look like there is potentially a big survivorship bias in the data?

They touch the subject with their 3rd hypothesis but in general it's possible that you still have a higher life expectancy being born from April-June in the Northern Hemisphere because you have increased chances of reaching 50.

So why this limit of 50 years? What is the expected lifespan for newborns depending on their month of birth?
Great news business insider. Thumbs Up.
I used it for about 8 months, Hated it. Its like a big wall between you and the DOM.

I guess its good of you hate html and javascript. But once you grow up and realise your making a web page and need to control the DOM in a particular way, it just gets in your way.
The Sony ones are pretty hackable

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/how_to_hack_sony_rea...
I enjoyed the sole comment on the article at the time too:

"It's 'homepage' not 'browser window'... unless you're 80"
Why spend all your focus hours on work?
Hey, I wasn't a weird loner. I was a trend setter!
Well maybe the author should start to adopt HTML5, before asking others to do so...

I get a nice "Missing Plug-in" in the middle of the page !
For what it's worth, I've been allowed on planes with misspelled tickets (multiple times).

A travel agent I asked about it once told that if the names match 80% or more of the character they assume a typo was made.
If you are good at your current tools and aren't frustrated with them in any major way, there is no need to think about anything else other than for "expanding your horizons" type of thing. LAMP with PHP is just as good as anything else. Remember there is no silver bullet.
It's all just a matter of abstraction. "In Chinese, a bus is called a "public wagon"..."

Ok. What's "public"? What's "wagon"? Would it not be easier to use "all people carrier"? Then, what's "people?

Since it's turtles all the way down, the article is picking an arbitrary (and comfortable) turtle to stop at and say, "this is the right spot".
Here is a list of English words about horses:

horse, mare, stallion, gelding, foal, colt, yearling, filly, pony, equine, Equus ferus caballus, mustang, brumby, mount, steed,...

and so forth, without getting into different breeds of horses or special-purpose horses.
Your quote reminds me of this one:

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them”
-- George Bernard Shaw.

---

They are both posted on my wall.
My personal prediction is that CJK will use up all the representable codepoints. Why? Well, a Chinese Hanzi character essentially corresponds to one Mandarin morpheme. And there are a lot of them. You've basically chucked all the short Mandarin words in the dictionary into Unicode. And their traditional forms. Oh, and the Japanese kanji. And the Korean hanja. And the other Chinese-derived systems. Oh, and every single variant throughout history. And their future forms.

32 bits will not be enough room to encode entire vocabularies of languages with ideographic writing systems, let alone 21 bits. We can cope with syllabaries and alphabets. But CJK will kill Unicode.
> I'm having to look to Eastern European remote talent

My experience is that as soon as I mention that I'd soon move back to my home country (in Eastern Europe), the conversation dries up, as 99.9% of the SV companies that contacted me are only looking to move talent to SV, and don't want to have remove positions.
Yeah, we can all take a bong hit and crank out some pseudo-science babble. Doesn't make it HN-worthy.
absolutely not, i had to pay to upgrade Leopard to the next OS.
Too bad the people who actually need it, are not signing up. Not to mention the people who HAD coverage are now getting cut off of their insurance and forced into the exchanges. A complete failure anyway you look at it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/01/18/coverag...

"Instead of expanding coverage to those without it, Obamacare is replacing the pre-existing market for private insurance. Surveys from insurers and other industry players indicate that as few as 11 percent of those on Obamacare’s exchanges were previously uninsured"

But wait a minute! Obamacare was supposed to cut my rates my $2,500 A YEAR right? WRONG. Apparently, it still costs too much for the people who really need it:

"Of those that didn’t sign up for Obamacare-based coverage, 52 percent stated that “affordability” was their biggest complaint with the exchanges’ plan offerings. Only 30 percent cited “technical challenges in buying the plans.”

"Joan Budden, chief marketing officer at Priority Health, told Wilde and Mathews that Michigan’s health insurers had expected 400,000 uninsured Michiganders to enroll in exchange based plans during the initial enrollment year. According to the latest data from the Obama administration, as of December 28, only 75,511 had “selected a marketplace plan.” Of those, only an unknown fraction had paid their first month’s premium, and therefore were actually enrolled in new health coverage."

So if this is such a success, why isn't the White House trumpeting the real numbers of people who've signed up then??

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/4/white-house-s...

"For the fourth day in a row, the Obama administration on Friday declined to release figures on how many Americans have purchased health insurance through the just-opened online markets tied to the new health care law.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that millions of people have visited the federal HealthCare.gov site, which directs people to coverage options, but he did not have “specific data” at this early stage in the enrollment period."

There are better ways to do this than handing over 1/3 of our economy over to the Federal Government. You want competition? You can start by letting insurance companies deal across state lines. More competition, increased quality of care, lower costs and better care for everyone.
Additional details here:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/deep-b...
Do you have any involvement with the individual State websites? I've had so many technical problems registering in California.
If you just need to get some data - maybe use something like this:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/87809?hl=en

http://www.wufoo.com/

If you want to develop it all yourself, you'll need someplace for the submitted form data to go. This means building some software that resides on a server ... so you'll want to learn Ruby or Python or PHP or something like that to process the submitted data.

There's lots of online educational resources. Maybe check out http://www.codecademy.com/ where they'll step you through the basics of building a webpage.
Only on recent hardware. My dad had an older iMac that was aged, but not unusable. He got a new iPhone, which required the newest version of iTunes, which further required an upgrade of the OS to 10.8, which was blocked because he didn't meet minimum system requirements.

It's free, but only after you pay for new hardware.
i guess you're optimizing for most number of clicks
How would we know? Why?
the way you're thinking of classes is very romantic and idealistic. another way to think of them that may better model the way employers think about your GPA is to think of your GPA as a signaling game in game theory. your GPA is less of a reflection of what you know and more a reflection of your ability. if you have a high GPA you've demonstrated yourself to be a high ability intellectual, whereas if you have a low GPA you've demonstrated yourself to be a low ability intellectual. in this model the content of the class is completely irrelevant, but some employers may just be trying to employ based on potential ability, rather than on specific knowledge base or content exposure. for this reason, a kid that failed 99 classes has "signaled" that he is a low ability type. while this kid has great resolve and has probably been exposed to some interesting things, it is unlikely that his ability is very high, and therefore employers would not be psyched about hiring him.

obviously this kind of model gives a very bleak valuation of education, but i think its a thoughtful one that probably is truer than we'd all like to think.
I still feel that some things people prefer to keep private. If I bought something at a discounted price I personally don't care to share that with everyone who I am connected to on Facebook, maybe just a few close friends and family members that's it, and that I do by emailing them.
Thanks for the feedback! You can add family members to contribute and they can elect for immediate, daily or monthly digests. Although not "automatic" yet, you can choose to share individual moments (and only those) of your garden to Facebook and we'll even show the comments in your garden.

We hope you like it, and feel free to send any comments/questions our way!
I was happy to get a job with salary and benefits when I had no "real" work experience, but it turns out this is a pretty frustrating place to be.

You know that old phrase "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member" well right now for you that applies for employment. Any place that is willing to hire you with 0 experience and 0 education, has something wrong with it enough to make them willing to take what they can get.

Basically I would recommend a two prong attack. Start looking for a new job, you are slightly more marketable now that you have some experience, and since you are currently employed you can be a little more picky about work conditions etc.

Second, improve what you can. They don't use automated testing at work? Build it anyway but keep it out of the repo. Don't have a repo? Set up mercurial on your box. Since those kind of places tend to not do rigorous code reviews you might be surprised what kind of freedom you have because of the poor work conditions. Find the places your boss doesn't pay attention and improve those, automate the build, automate deployment, write little tools that make your life better, etc.
This actually looks pretty similar to what I already use.
Thanks for letting us know. We're fixing this as we speak.
Cool! we'll make it happen. A website is much more agile than the app. Thanks a lot!
Linux is a bit different than people expect:

To me linux is everything under the hood. The File System, The Kernel, the Open Sourcing of the two, and everything built on top of that.

"I can't stand linux" only tells me that you need to log off from the internet because guess what most is run on.
It sounds glamorous going to work for Google and it definitely looks sexy on a resume, but if it's not a good fit for him, then the right thing to do is pass on it.
It was a hypothetical situation. "If [AT&T] suddenly starts throttling..."
I'm really very fond of notifo and the service that it offers is invaluable, but what I think is wrong with it is the packaging. I can understand what notifo does, but I don't think anyone else in my family would ever understand it.

If I were them, I'd pivot notifo to become a kik-like instant messenger, but with a little twist : it's the IM that webservices can send messages to. So you grow on the consumer front because people can just use it for normal IMing between friends, but then you make revenue on the back-end by selling the website to user offering (when it exceeds a certain size).
Also, for those of us on netbooks, the bottom 1/4 of each "page" is cut off.
As far as I know, all networks over a shared medium are vulnerable to ARP poisoning.

So in the old days, that was networks using hubs (instead of switches), these days it's wireless networks.
The crux of the matter is the linear program. All that math using vec(), diag(), and Hadamard / Kronecker products serves only to build the Q matrix.

If the numbers of bookies and outcomes are small, then you can build the Q matrix by hand (like I did in the example at the end of the post). However, if m and n are relatively large, then it's nice to have an algorithm that builds the Q matrix automatically. Note that vec() and diag() in MATLAB are reshape() and diag(). The Kronecker product in MATLAB is kron(). If one's acquainted with the esoteric matrix operations being used, then it's very easy to convert the math into code.

If you know basic matrix theory, and you learn the basics of linear programming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming

then the following matrix cookbook should contain all the recipes (vec(), diag(), Kronecker / Hadamard products) you need to follow my blog post:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/minka/papers/m...

Any questions, feel free to ask.
this place is the watercooler. last I checked, there wasn't an electric fence around the watercooler.
and that's exactly what the chinese are trying to avoid.

every country does that to some extent.
As my great grandmother used to say ”It’s the user not the wiki.”

Add your knowledge of tapes to the list and make this an excellent list by your own standards and add to the joy and collective success of the human species.
"There is just one problem: [biological neural networks] are physically incapable of running the backpropagation algorithm."

From the linked article.
Interesting, I think I read something about this before... I'll have to make a point to actually give this a go.
If you type "help", it says:

sh: run an executable file
There's an excellent book about The Economist called "Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist." Here's a good review:

https://newrepublic.com/article/155962/liberalism-at-large-b...
Negative lines of code are a good day's work.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
> Too bad they were not invented until SQL-89, and could thus not be considered when the JOIN syntax we all know was designed and formalized by ANSI in SQL-86.

TIL!

> After renaming the foreign keys

The idea about using FK as a JOIN target is interesting. While developing a syntax for PostgREST resource embedding[1], I also reached the conclusion that FKs would be a convenient way to join tables(also suggested renaming them as you do here).

IIRC, self joins are still an issue with FK joining.

[1]: https://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/api.html#embedding-disambigu...
But there is a level where the cost of water treatment by far outweighs the health impacts of an atom of lead remaining...

The question is where is that level?...
> PFAS is an emerging contaminant and isn't strictly regulated yet

It's not emerging, it's been around a while. Big business just keeps regulation at bay.
hi thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, I plan to implement './' which is the expected behavior for running executables. I also plan to implement 'cd' and organize the content into nix style directories.
I'm not entirely sure you said what you meant. In wall installations of any cabling in the US requires CL2 grade.
Well, it's inflammatory because it depicts opponents as monsters who prefer to see children suffer. That's plainly one meaning of such language, regardless of whether there's also an abstract factual interpretation. It's not as bad as if you had accused someone personally, but it's still bad. It provokes a downward spiral in the discourse. HN threads are sensitive to this.

There are places where inflammatory, provocative language does well: in the rough and tumble of political debate, for example, or battles of literary wit. The trouble is that if we have much of it here, it rides roughshod over everything else. It's a tradeoff. The values of HN are intellectual substance and personal civility, and those are fragile in a public anonymous forum, so we all should consciously protect them. This still leaves lots of room to make one's point, so it shouldn't be a problem.
I remember the fun times of being in the basement.

But I also remember the sleepless nights, the 24-hour cycles around a launch because between the N of us, none of us had either process experience or the knowledge to choose a better one, and the resulting shouting matches at 3AM because everyone was on edge and nerves were frazzled.

More importantly, unfortunately, my stomach will always remind me of those things. I got out of the startup scene for my health; some people just don't cope well with that kind of stress.
I've been working on a project lately that uses search APIs and various social APIs to gather information about a given term. I'd like to add Twitter and Facebook and other support, but I worry about things that put me at the mercy of those providers. I would like to think this kind of "maybe I will kill you, maybe I won't" attitude of Twitter and Facebook (in particular, but others also do it) is counter-productive for them, but I guess they have a strong business case for their decisions to cut companies off when those companies start encroaching on turf that Twitter or Facebook thinks of as theirs.

In my ideal reality, we'd have an open Internet free of this kind of near-monopoly on specific types of content. Lots of small, federated, data feeds, and people free to move about between commercial and open options and interconnect regardless of who's hosting the content. But, that Internet is still pretty far off, and maybe getting farther away, as the biggest players build bigger walls to protect their data silos.
A big congrats to Nate Silver; this is the journalism equivalent of being bought by Google or Microsoft.
Walmart: "coming into towns and destroying mom and pop drugstores" = evil
but
Microsoft: "tried to drive their competitors out of business" = not evil
?
possibly also that he doesn't seem to consider MS as a consumer company, pandering more to enterprises and OEMs.

And he seems to dismiss his competition with hyperbole.

...it's a wonder he's the CEO, really.
Actually, you can implement this with nginx + client-side JavaScript to merge "sub-pages" right now, you don't need any server-side language or framework.

Guys from Taobao (http://www.taobao.com) have open-sourced pretty much everything you need to do that:

- ngx_echo (http://github.com/agentzh/echo-nginx-module) for asynchronous pipelining,

- ngx_drizzle (http://github.com/chaoslawful/drizzle-nginx-module) for fetching data from Drizzle/MySQL/SQLite,

- ngx_postgres (http://labs.frickle.com/nginx_ngx_postgres/) for fetching data from PostgreSQL,

- ngx_rds_json (http://github.com/agentzh/rds-json-nginx-module) for converting database-responses into JSON.

Also, this isn't new concept, at least few Chinese companies I know of use similar rendering process.
Hmm, I see how some people might be confused by that, since page views are typically talked about in monthly terms. I updated the registration page to list both daily and monthly limits.
Err. Never mind. Found what I was looking for in my inbox, buried. Thanks for the interesting experiment.

Edit: I suspect one of the clusters will be people like me who use array access syntax rather than pointer access.
http://www.hogansheroesfanclub.com/images/magazineMad108Janu...
I love the second comment on the post. I can't imagine a tenth of what Google has to deal with every day.
This is a qanon-style conspiracy theory going on for years now. Just follow the money: tethers are freely traded vs USD on multiple markets, including anonymous exchanges. If the conspiracy theory were right, the price of 1 Tether would be less than 1 USD. Meanwhile, it's very close to 1.00 USD on all the exchanges.
"Rape fear keeps US students out of India" --Nancy Powell

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rape-fear-keeps-US-...
Sssh! Don't disturb their precious dreams. The patriarchy will win if you do!
For a detailed analysis of this, look:

http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=af22f2c6-e794...
In which case you have a currency backed by the underlying assets of the trusted party. A "one free donut" voucher from Krispy Kreme is almost as good as owning a donut, since I'm fairly confident that they'll be able to produce the donut upon demand. Whether "donut vouchers" deserve to be called an asset separate from "donuts", however, is pretty debatable -- the value of one is clearly tied to the value of the other.

This is, of course, nothing like Bitcoin, which isn't backed by any actual assets of any trusted party. In fact, it is entirely incompatible with the massive inflation which is Bitcoin's most appealing feature for its early adopters.
Depends on the yield of the bond. The riskier, the more interests.
oh you're one of those climate deniers. nothing you say is valid or worth listening to.
sad that this didn't catch on more broadly. I find that the difference between `=` and `==` is consistently confusing to beginners. it's actually worse when someone has a strong math background. that and the fact that `1/2 * x` is zero in most languages...
Could make for an interesting iteration on Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension.
My thoughts exactly. Look at what happened to Europe in the 30s. Germany just started occupying places left and right. Even when they occupied Poland they still did nothing but defend.
He then however goes on to describe a real problem that hurt his crew - safety as a talisman.

I fight that in my company by being a bit flippant with ladder safety to remind them of the danger of getting complacent.

"Use the ladder safely while I'm looking at you, but after about an hour get really complacent and over-reach and fall off and die."
Isn't the only thing here that is enabled by microservices the separate tooling part? Couldn't the rest of it be achieved somewhat easier with a standard service-oriented architecture in a monolith? Why do we need to insert network calls between everything?
Cut off internet contact with the country that holds a ton of US debt, and manufactures all the little doo-dads we all use in our day-to-day lives?
I pay for a business account (but I work from home). No caps, no torrent or other throttling, no port blocking (back in the days when I ran my own mail server), optional static IPs. But you definitely pay for it.
> That's weird. Since it defeats the purpose of expanding their WiFi hotspots coverage. If people have capped plans, they are likely to disable that hotspot altogether and use their own routers to begin with, to avoid anyone switching it back on. If they wanted such thing to work, it had to be excluded from both monthly data caps and active bandwidth limit.

I think what he's trying to say is that as an individual using the xfinitywifi network the traffic counts towards your data cap. As the person hosting the access point, other people using it does not count towards your cap.
I really, really like the Joyent SDC stack... It seems like a really nice solution. Though I wish they had the equivalent of S3 or Azure blob storage. Having to run your own VMs for archive storage seems like a pain, especially relative to the cost/amount of storage you get per VM.
Tenacity can also be defined as doing things you don't always want to do, like taking a skills test.
Off topic: my house was built without blueprints. Talked to the contractor, sketched what we wanted. He built it. Standing 25 years later, great job.

An experienced carpenter/contractor can build a house, without excruciating detailed notes. In fact they can build it faster, adapting to conditions as they change and solving problems efficiently.