jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’s the opposite, before the Internet groups of nutcases could not organise themselves around fascist ideas as easily as today. We have the president suggesting crazy conspiracy theories that half the US population believe. Half the US population don’t wear masks as a political statement. I think someone made a wise connection between the downward spiral of public education standards and where we are today. These people unfortunately are screwed unless welfare in America helps them... they are going to get poorer and angrier. I wonder if the GOP are starting to realise a lot like tea party playing with the Trump nationalist agenda can create something you won’t necessarily be able to control.
Yes that's what happens when protestors get into buildings. They bring their weapons with them. 5 people dying, mainly protestors themselves, for the amount of people pouring in to a secure building, is fairly minimal.
I didn't know either of those things. Deleted.
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought "1-2-1" was some jargon I was missing.
> but the creationist has a point that some of the more fantastic parts of evolution are harder to directly observe in the same way as, say, gravity.

Honest question: which parts?
And yet (anecdotally) when I was in France cycle the drivers were so much more polite to me. I saw bad driving in terms of lack of consideration of other drives, but when it came to cyclists they were generally extremely friendly, indicating and passing very wide and only when it was safe to do so. This was for both country and city cycling. In the UK most drivers seem to treat cyclists pretty poorly.
Ravi, Many thanks for your compliments :) Email me, I will give you a link to our prototype - b.ghose at infinitelybeta.com
The iTunes Store is "the Internet", and it does use HTML5.
If you're wondering what Xcode 4 will be like, skim through the Developer Tools State of the Union slides.
Yeah, but it seems like peoples are doing a kind of witch hunt on him. I mean they don't have to like him, but the amount of time some peoples invest just to prove how bad his business is, sending tweets to Matt cutts, I mean, I really don't get it, so some peoples have time, a lot of it, and they choose to use it this way.
When someone drops out of communication with you for more than a week it almost always means they're not that interested. This is true for potential employers, investors, mates, etc. While its unfortunate that people aren't more direct, the fact is, rejection takes work and provides very little upside for the person doing the rejecting.
Time is a resource more valuable than money because you can't get more time. How many hours can you work in one day? How many tasks are on the list? Prioritize those tasks and go over the list with your co-founder. Tell him / her how much time it will cost. Is it still worth it? If your co-founder doesn't understand coding, then he / she should understand cost of resources, especially the resources of someone as critical as a co-founder.
> People do choose oat milk because it is supposed to be a healthier or more sustainable alternative to cow's milk, but the reality is that it could be worse.

Surely the environmental costs associated with feeding and raising cows far outweigh whatever environmental impact of Oatly’s plant-based ingredients. Not sure about the health aspect though.
I do remember often being frustrated when mostly useless Yahoo Answers content would appear at the top of Google search results. I never understood why it was ranked so highly. YA seemed like what Quora would be like if you were required to flunk a literacy test in order to participate.
I updated the the quote. Thanks!
> Store money including the smallest possible subdivisions.

This is fine as long as everybody follows ISO4217. In my experience many 3rd party systems _mostly_ do it and of course you get bitten by the edge cases.

For example, Stripe decided HUF doesn't have 2 decimals (I know that's how it's used in practice today but we're talking standards and system interoperability here), or that ISK subdivides into hundreds ("cents") in contrast to the ISO tables. Compare https://stripe.com/docs/currencies with http://currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html. As Stripe notes for UGX, backing out of this is nearly impossible because of the subtle break in backwards compatibility. And who knows how other payment providers deviate in their own way.

For my own sanity and that of my coworkers (e.g. easier analysis for extracted tables in the data warehouse) I strongly prefer avoiding this headache and use decimal instead. You can do the appropriate rounding for a currency in your money object as for example https://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/money.html does.
Considered using this algorithm for simple robotics.

Specifically, a "dark seeker" robot that prefers to hide in dark places.

Sure, wire a photocell to a simple turtle-like robot and send them on a random walk to wander and measure how dark their environment is. But how to decide what is dark?

It's dark under the table, but even darker under the chair. Should the robot stop under the chair to "hide"? Perhaps the robot might have wandered a bit more and found that it was even darker still under the couch. But is it darker still somewhere else?

Never mind that the value it reads varies depending upon the time of day and which environment you drop it into.

I think you can see how I imagined the Secretary Problem algorithm to step in. Let it wander for some fixed amount of time simply to "sample" the environment. Then after that sample period the robot stops as soon as it stumbles into an area darker than the darkest it had just sampled.

Seems like a reasonable algorithm for a robot with fewer than two neurons to rub together.
I don't care. In fact, people should actively despise and ridicule soulless uninspiring millionaires who do nothing but amass wealth and evangelize to benefit their own vested interests.
Make this a PR issue for Google. It is the most effective way to get effective, timely customer support from them.

A blog post with judicious images of their boilerplate emails, incredulity about how they seem to repeat the same thing over and over, a timeline, a punchy title (I kind of like "Grand Theft Google" but you could dial down the tabloidism several notches and still be effective), and seeding with a tech audience will work pretty well.
By "real time" presumably you mean tick data. This is generally not available for most contracts on most exchnages unless you are prepared to stump up a fair wedge of cash. However, i did once find on some russian website per-second historical data for various currency pairs - although I forget the site now.

However depending on your trading strategy I doubt you'll need tick data. You may be able to find per-5-minute data for free on some stuff. And EOD is generally free for most contracts.
Thanks for the link! I'm surprised how many of the unusual measurements I take for granted, even though they're imprecise.

Ha...
"New York Second

Theoretically the shortest period possible in Quantum Time, this is the time that elapses between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the taxi behind you honking its horn"
Fake traffic? I have access to a few mid/high-traffic sites on GA. We do a lot of event tracking, so unless these are very sophisticated bots I imagine I would pick up on a lot of bot traffic.

Mind expanding on the fake traffic you're getting?
That might be useful for fingerprinting visitors but, perhaps ironically, it's much worse than javascript & cookies for actually seeing big picture trends on your site. There are many, many bots that request files off your server but only a relative handful execute javascript.
> pg or my investors wouldn't care about the social issues of the young people working in my sweatshop

I think it's rude to accuse people of hypothetical malfeasance. If there's evidence that someone is callous, show us the evidence. If you think you know of scenarios in which they would be callous, then just tell us what evidence led you to that conclusion instead.
Hopefully this prize won't, like its namesake, require a lifetime of argument to claim.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
Yes, but not because of EasyPrivacy. As I found out at one point, EasyPrivacy does not block everything from Google Analytics. [1]

The one that does the job is Peter Lowe's [2]

I wish you would see how convoluted is your suggestion "to let users opt-in to not be tracked by Google Analytics". (paraphrased) [3]

[1] https://www.diffchecker.com/r7v1cq6x

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/thirdpa...

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/564

Edit: "being" => "be"
I don't think that counters what OP is saying. Netflix is publicly traded. Their CEO, who sets the cultural tone, only lasts as long as the shareholders allow him to last. If they start floundering for enough consecutive quarters, I guarantee you Reed will be gone and a PHB who will "maximize shareholder value" will replace him.

If the Mikes can be ousted from RIM, you can bet your rear that Hastings can be ousted from Netflix. And once "maximizing shareholder value" becomes the goal, "culture" becomes an afterthought.
The correlation to this instance would be..."If someone is constantly sexually assaulted to the point where they EXPECT EVERYBODY to sexually assault them..."

In that case, I would offer this same advice... ask yourself if you are projecting an image that leads everybody to sexually assault you.

I am not justifying the behavior of walking over people (or assaulting people...)

I am simply offering a strategy to improve your lot if people are screwing you constantly.

There is a definite correlation between the image you project, how you are perceived and ultimately how you are treated.

Ignoring that reality is just being naive.

We are also talking about someone who is constantly being screwed, not someone who was assaulted once.

Robert Ringer, in his book "Winning Through Intimidation" postulates that the result you get from a negotiation is inversely proportionate to how intimidated you are."

just think about the last time you had to talk to a big VC or someone you were initimidated by, and consider whether you stood up for yourself or whether you were too scared to stand your ground.

Branding and image building is all about exactly this. Creating a deliberate impression on people before they need your product.
There is an Android version but it was removed for violating terms. I'm trying to appeal the rejection.
The problem with this article is that they went and asked MBA colleges, not computer science colleges.
hmm--it could be
I'm a big fan of es5-shim (https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim/), which monkey-patches these handy methods in older browsers.
The post was in response to http://cdixon.org/2011/04/26/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-i...

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You wrote a post saying there are “two kinds of people in the world” putting founders in a different plane than everyone else including the early employees who put their lives on the line to work with you.

There are more than two types of people. And when you say that you undervalue all the early employees at a company who are putting their careers on the line working for a no name company that may fail any day. It undervalues every engineering manager who went without a pay check the last two months but has to hustle to hire an employee to get product out the door on time. It undervalues every early employee who lived in the office all week to get your product out the door. It undervalues every business dev guy who is being asked “who do you work for again?” and puts on a smile to sell your product. it undervalues every engineering manager who is working their ass off to hire good people when the top companies are hiring like crazy.

I didnt found a company but I wanted to make the one I joined as an early employee succeed at all cost. And I gave it 8 years of my life. I got a pay check but I gave it much much more than I got paid for.

* I skipped both my brother’s and my sister’s weddings in India.

* I visited my dad who had a stroke once in 5 years as I was working non-stop.

* I did long distance for 5 of the 8 years I dated/married to my wife.

* I travelled non stop for 2 of the 3 years we lived in the same apt.

* I went without a pay check for months at a stretch to keep the company going when times got tough and I hustled to get the company back on track.

So Chris please dont tell me that only Founders matter.
Amazon charges ten percent of a HIT, so they probably dropped that charge. The rest goes to the worker.
Actually, neither précis nor résumé is native English. They are French, and in French they mean "summary".
I agree that it's mostly pretty good, but here's one flaw that always annoys me: when I tell it I want something under $50, and I only want stuff sold by Amazon, they'll include an item even if Amazon's price is $60, as long as at least one seller has it for under $50.
when self-hosting goes wrong . . . site is down, can anyone summarize?
Redis is i/o bound, while this approach eliminates i/o and copying data from Redis to the client ;)

Not sure about memory efficiency. You can use __slots__ in Python or custom data structures (e.g. blist) if you have specific needs.
My proposition has been take all the support staff of Congress and convert them to Representatives(by firing them, yes). It works out very close to the ~60k citizens per House Representative. My idealistic vision is that this will force the representatives to work together to create our laws.

Before the American Civil War, members of Congress did not have staff assistance or even offices, and "most members worked at their desks on the floor."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_staff
> You could say it's non standard

Isn't PATCH standard?

What is non-standard about it?
And it reads "ally" ?
They don't call it out in the announcement, but this was published in the same week as the "Supercomputing" conference - GCP hasn't had an answer for HPC workloads thus far, so maybe this is their attempt.
We hear about puppeteer-cluster _a lot_, and we hear the same thing from folks (that's it's great). browserless.io essentially does "clustering" at an infrastructure level, whereas puppeteer-cluster does it at the application level.

Both essentially solve the same problem, just in different ways.
Heh... just chiming in to say the affiliate person wasn’t me :-)
> I've been thinking about this, and you can only do quick dependecy checks if the input is in files, right? So if the actual data is in a database then you do have to have some process to dump the changed data into files from the database, so the build system can pick them up.

You can run diffs across in-database data as well, so that you only need to make the exact changes you want. (You could use something like SQLite's sqldiff, or Python's difflib, etc.)
My question is: Do you take turns smoking and driving?
file system access, yeah! It should feel like node.js (on purpose): http://mozilla.github.com/chromeless/#guide/filesystem-acces...

databases, IndexedDB should "just work", and thinking exposing SQLlite is worthwhile.

only the most basic network libraries at the moment.
Correlation != causation. I suspect that the reason you see tons of folks from Stanford/Harvard/MIT at Google or successful startups is because those people tend to be smart, and smart people tend to rise to the level that's appropriate for them. I also know a fair number of people at Google that are pretty awesome but don't come from elite universities. Actually, some of the best programmers I know at Google come from places like Colgate, Virginia Tech, Ann Arbor, UT Austin, San Jose State, and no degree at all.

Going to an elite school basically makes things easier. It tilts every initial interaction in your favor, so that you only have to maintain an impression instead of creating one. But it won't let you do things that you otherwise wouldn't be able to do, nor does it give you a free pass for the rest of your life.

If you get stuck with a bad degree, the way to work around it is to kick ass in your field. Be the best employee you can be, and then look at how you can improve things outside your company and be the best innovator that you can be. Eventually, everybody knows who the real folks are that get shit done. If you can chalk up a couple big successes, nobody cares where you went to school.
Transfer to a better school. It is often easier to transfer than to get in as a freshmen.

As far as where you went to school not mattering it is all but a lie. Your first job out of college pretty much depends on where you went to school and how you did. That second job may not depend on where you went to school but it certainly depends on that first job which depends on where you went to school. On the other hand is it really that big a deal if you never work at Facebook?

In the end is more about what you do and what you are capable of than where you went to school or where you worked for that matter, a fulfilling life doesn't come from external sources but internal ones.
totally. check out webian: https://github.com/webianproject/shell
it's homegrown. I spun off the docstract project which pulls docs outta .js and outputs them in json. From their you can render the docs however you want. Docstract itself is permissive open source you can use, here:

https://github.com/lloyd/docstract
This is also an excellent counter to the argument "I have nothing to hide."
Interesting idea. As I understand it, most of these drugs take the place of existing neurotransmitters like seratonin, or modify their action on receptor sites.

Let me put forward a metaphor: you're currently experiencing reality indirectly, through an imperfect lens which throws into focus an internally coherent system of perceptions we might colloquially call a "seratonin hallucination". You could think of the changes that occur after taking e.g. LSD as replacing that lens with another one.

Is it a less accurate one? Almost certainly it's one less valuable in helping our ancestors adapt to the evolutionary pressures they faced than our normal neurochemistry; in terms of representing an "objective" reality though, there may be some ways in which it affords a more faithful depiction.

Or perhaps not; it's hard to say. I think the value lies not in the affordance of new and more authentic powers of perception, but in shaking up the assumptions we make about how objectively truthful our "normal" experiences might be.
Actually, no. PayPal is licensed and bonded in 47+ states. Coinbase is licensed in 0.

I don't think it's the best regulatory framework, but it's all we've got.
The Gluten Free nonsense drives me the most crazy. Of course they don't have Celiac disease, but they are "Sensitive" to it, which there is no way to refute. There is so much pseudoscience crap floating around I'm glad there's one book out there refuting it, I just wish he was a nutrition researcher doctor or something instead of a pharmacist, which doesn't sound very impressive for a diet book.
According to this random stackoverflow response, Yahoo video just uses JPEG 2000 compressed frames. If true then Yahoo chat is probably super easy to pick individual frames from. That's likely why the GCHQ picked it for their project...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257228/do-you-know-what-...

There isn't really any new moral here; other than the idea that some unprotected data is in a sense even more unprotected than other data.
"WSJ reporter?!" But this is Ogi Ogas! The BU neuroscience researcher who won $500K on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and had a remarkable showdown with Ken Jennings that I highly recommend (search YouTube for "ogas jennings grand slam"). Seriously -- watch it.

Er, sorry, enough quiz show geekery. He's a pretty thoughtful source.
Well they didn't do that much software before. But just look at QT -- they're managing open source project and they're doing it very well. Also they opened it more. Now think what would happen if Oracle were to buy Trolltech.
This is absolutely false and points to exactly what's wrong with certain mentalities regarding web technologies.

I'm not sure at what point programmer's decided that everyone needs to conform to their technologies, or why so many designers have meekly gone along with it, but designers should not have to learn obscure things like HTML and CSS simply to design. It is possible to know the limitations of a medium without knowing the medium, and more importantly, they should not constrain their creativity by these systems.

At Apple, when designers made mockups for desktop apps or iphone apps or whatever, they don't do it by hand coding it in CoreGraphics or whatever drawing technologies are being used by the programmer, they do it in Macromedia Director or Photoshop or whatever it is they're comfortable with, because it would be ridiculous otherwise.

The idea that the proper way to design is by typing text still astounds me today.

If the argument however is that regardless of the way things should be, pragmatically in today's web world you need to know CSS, then it points to a failing of CSS/HTML/web tech/tools.
My favourite suggestions from the comments:

JavaScript would be Seventh Day Adventism. Though it portrays itself as a mild-mannered flock of Christianity, it plays a secret role in the ultimate worldwide armageddon. Those who casually 'browse' will ultimately burn, when JavaScript is enabled. (anon)

JavaScript is Alcholism - the more you do it, the more it rots your brain as you realize that functions are objects, your prototypes are polluting namespaces, and you just can't seem to get any closure. (Kevin Hutchinson)
> From the article: "my ass has round corners too" ... priceless.

Interestingly, in the German, he used a completely different example:

"What the devil is the whole web 2.0 crowd doing all day? I mean, other than sitting around in St. Oberholz [1], sucking down Bionade [2] and Twittering their brains out?"

[1] Berlin equivalent of Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View

[2] Trendy organic fruit soda
having it be a trailing fifty comments actually increases the incentive to avoid writing anything that won't get upvotes. Ultimately, you have to step back and ask whether you're trying to encourage upvotes or not. Upvotes are useful for helping readers choose what to read in a thread. But just because voting is useful for guiding the behaviour of readers... Does it automatically follow that we wish to guide the behaviour of writers?

The current system of total karma encourages people to avoid comments that will get more downvotes than upvotes. Avoiding more downvotes than upvotes is not exactly the same thing as avoiding comments that won't get upvotes.
The most complex thing I've done with it is this Twitter client: http://jchris.couchone.com/twebz/_design/twebz/index.html

It uses OAuth and all that good stuff. The "fragile" parts are handled by an asynchronous _changes based process (Node.js is a good fit but really anything works).

The key is to get anything that could go wrong, out of the request / response loop between the browser and the server. The asynchronous handler pattern is a best practice anyway (resize an image on POST, or in a queue?). Keeping the request / response critical path simple makes for more reliable apps.
there was once a guy that said that wages, at the end of the day, trend toward the employee's means of subsistence. seems like companies now are doing away with the window dressing around the employer-employee relationship.
I guess it stems from a time when all you really had to work with was physical evidence and the only records being what officers had written down. So it really wouldn't have worked any other way. A suspect is always going to say whatever makes them seem innocent. "I wasn't holding that knife when you arrested me" would be impossible to disprove if the suspect was wearing gloves at the time or forensic evidence wasn't yet available. So in some ways the officers word had to hold more weight.

It seems like the only solution is for every single interaction to be digitally recorded.