jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regarding 2. That's what doctor's receptionists do all day. They must be doing it for some reason. I guess old people don't like annoying web forms? I'm old and I don't.

For example, I've formed a habit of opening terms and conditions links in another tab because I've experienced forms that clear your data when you click them directly then try to to "back" afterwards. But just a few weeks ago, I did that and when I returned to submit the form, it was gone with a message telling me I'd opened another tab and had better close them all and start again. Web forms are full of aggravating problems like that. Web developers have had 30 years to get this right and they still can't, so I don't have much hope for the next 30 years. On the other hand, a whole new technology seems more promising.
They took a lot of investor's money.. So in a sense it was a success.
The usual wholesale price of electricity is around $0.11 per kWh. The retail price of electricity is around $0.16 per kWh. So you save about $0.05 per kWh used in an average month -- not bad! That's a free $20!

Until a "100 year" storm comes along, and makes the wholesale price of electricity $9 per kWh. Now instead of saving $20, you owe $8,800 more than usual.
It could be an imaginary language. There are certainly stranger examples, like the Codex Seraphinianus: https://www.openculture.com/2017/09/an-introduction-to-the-c...
It feels overwhelming that there are so many arbitrary, seemingly pedestrian articles of this world being boosted in value to such stratospheric heights. Society's measures just keep seeming so out of balance, so wildly over-inflated, on so many accounts, & it just seems like, with valuations, there's almost never any means for these belief structures to be countered. The structures of faith supporting these valuations have no maintenance costs, & any element of scarcity fuels a FOMO that further stratifies. Everything feels unmoored, decoupled, floating off the planet. I hate that I yearn for reckoning, on so many areas, but economically, faith only ever accrues, builds, escalates.
It's not on by default. It's in the "strict settings" not the "standard settings" so it's opt in.
There was a bizarre phenomenon around the national reporting on people getting crazy electricity bills after the crisis. Very few of them mentioned Griddy in the headline, or even anywhere near the top, even though its customers were (I believe) the only Texans who actually got crazy bills. All the ones that I saw buried their mention of Griddy deep in the details, which gave the impression that many or most Texans were having this problem.
I did switch to them for a month, 2 summers ago. My typical summer bills would be around $100-$150. After a $350 monthly bill from Griddy, I immediately bailed. Glad I did...
Griddy says "ERCOT took our members." Bloomberg says "ERCOT revoked Griddy’s rights to conduct activity in the state’s electricity market due to nonpayment."

Apparently Griddy couldn't pay the bills their customers racked up, or is waiting on customers paying their $10k power bills?
In some countries (eg France), there are exemptions for tracking purposes if the tracking is done only to the benefit of the site's editor.
There are already sorting facilities everywhere though.
The new system is causing consistency problems or memcached?
If you can hide your IP address (a big if if you ask me), you can still remain anonymous. The transactions are public with their public keys, nobody needs to know your private keys and hence what transactions belong to you.
> I'm sure we'll see free speech absolutists in arms about this, but today is a good day for democracy.

Yeah, I think I'm done with this industry. When did everyone become a fascist all of a sudden?

Edit: Fascism literally means big corporations and governments imposing a moral structure on society. What Apple is doing is fascist. It's also stupidly anticompetitive by not booting Facebook and Twitter off for the same reasons.
Sorry, by ”this thing”, do you mean an iPhone? That it looks less professional to use a phone than a dedicated card reader? I can see it, I was just genuinely a little thrown by the wording.
There is nothing that prevents one from making opensource laser printer. Except the fact that the whole mechanism is decidedly non-trivial to get right. You get precision mechanics, high voltage, large resistive heating element and multimegabit serial datastreams that have to be phase locked to mechanical movement in one little box that can be bought off the shelf for <100USD. For that matter many "printer manufacturers" actually buy the whole print engine as a module from somebody else as there is not much to be gained by designing and manufacturing it in-house.
Looks good! Now the tricky part-- driving traffic and SEO.
Hm. So since companies do hire from dev bootcamps, are the candidates quizzed about CS theory during the application process? It seems pretty standard to be asked about data structures and algorithms for engineering positions and I can't imagine someone attending these bootcamps to also be well-versed at those over the course of their quick training.
Roughly how much did you have to invest in the first couple of sets? Most manufacturers have a minimum order, and I imagine that would be the case for you considering you were getting something custom made.

Thanks!
I've been teaching myself how to resolve deadlocks occurring in our database and completely removed one deadlock scenario from occurring (it was occurring hundreds of times per day) and reduced another scenario down to about 1 deadlock per day from about 200 per day. It was really hard stuff for me at first (although I think I've got the hang of it by now).

My managers will simply not do anything about the phone ringing on my desk that several other people at the office can handle (including themselves).

On the one hand, I feel like acting like a child and just giving up on the problem I'm currently solving since nobody asked me to do this but on the other hand I know every year during our peak season these deadlocks bring our system to its knees and it doesn't look like anyone else is going to do anything about it (I just got access to the codebase a couple months ago and thought of adding error logging a few weeks ago which showed me the thousands of deadlocks that were happening everyday).

I'm not sure why I even try to help if they don't try to help me.
44 and 55 all day, baby. 40 is only rough around Forest Park and 270 during rush hour. And when I say rough, I mean 5-10 minute delay. Which isn't much compared to other cities.

I went to college in Chicago. There's a magnitude order of difference between traffic here and traffic there.

St. Louis businesses are pretty distributed between the city and county so there isn't a huge downtown rush in the mornings and evenings. The most traffic you'll see downtown is when the Cards are playing.
Tinfoil hats for everyone.
"server boxes are far faster, cheaper and greener. Worse, it's an un-upgradable device to buy and throw away."

How many of these devices would you have to buy and throw away to match the environmental material footprint of even one 1U rack-mount server? They're tiny. Orders of magnitude matter.

(Similar effect: However "disposable" USB flash drives may superficially seem, compared to the floppies they replaced they are nothing. And I do not just mean that the USB sticks can hold lots of stuff... I mean that if you pile a normal computer user of the 2015 era's USB sticks in one pile, and a normal computer user of the 1990 era's floppy disks into another pile, the floppies would tower over the entire pile of USB drives and almost certainly have a much larger environmental footprint. I hedge only for the possibility that the nasty flash memory might dominate the floppies manufacturing, but the floppies do irreducibly have an awful lot more plastic in them, so I'm still guessing the floppy pile comfortably "wins".)
I hope some teachers "cheated" on the tests for principled reasons, not just for personal reward, like this UMass teacher:

http://books.google.com/books?id=x3ertj1IcaAC&lpg=PA62&#...
That is absolutely fucking awesome!

http://adioso.com/se/stockholm-to-beach.html

One thing I would love to see is adding larger/fuzzier destination areas such as "the tropics", "the carribean", "the mediterranean", "Africa", "South America", or "Mexico".
It makes a lot of sense if you think about it as optimising code readability for the case of seeing it through the lens of

diff -pu -c 3

which is basically what Linus does all day. This also implies that the argument has little meaning in the context of projects that aren't comparable in scale (both code size and contributor pool size).
What makes that the web the web is that everything is possible (even if it's illegal)
Is it just me or are a lot of web apps using the same layout as animoto.com?
I've been wanting to move over to jquery for my newer sites for a while, but it's always been just a bit too big to force users to download. Worse, every time I hear about them, it's because they've added more extraneous crap to it.

Is there a subset of jquery that I can pull in that just does the basic DOM stuff that makes it so useful, yet fits into 5k?

The smallest I've seen it pack down to is about 70k, which is bigger than most of the pages I server. Hell, that's bigger than the entire javascript component of Twiddla!
It's funny that the say that's the "wrong way" to do an image gallery, as image galleries in Flash are something that really annoy me, since it's so unnecessary.

Luckily you don't really see them anymore.
Yup, good point...you could be right. Only one way to find out...I'm going to give it a try, (and will probably be my entry to the next round of YC).
I can't resist asking something that's been bugging me for a long time. The issue of insane travel schedules has openly plagued AnandTech for a long time now, both delaying reviews and severely impacting their quality when they do come out. Every tech website out there covers the big events in roughly the same way, very few do proper deep dive technical reviews like you've done in the past. Is it really the best use of your time to (partially) squander the comparative advantage you have in favor of rushing from one event to the next, reporting the same things everyone else does?
I wasn't talking about Kodak film, I was talking about any arbitrary Kodak branded product. When companies die they often sell the brand, which then gets slapped on lots of random, usually low quality, products unassociated with the original company. This is why I would have been, until I found out that Kodak still exists as a real company, been extremely hesitant to buy something with "Kodak" on the box.
That's specifically limited to Google services. It says nothing whatsoever about the rest of the internet!

Also note that for Google services there's no point in collecting that data because Google already has it.
The mortgage was 240k. Even with 0% down payment, a 3.92% rate would result in mortgage payments of ~$1,100 a month. The couple was making 120k a year combined. I think this is more than reasonable.

I couldn't understand the gut negative reaction I had to this story. I understand why these programs exist and am not necessarily opposed to them. But I feel that people (within their means) should structure their financial affairs to not have to rely on these programs and not use them unless they have to. Unemployment for college educated workers barely crossed 5% at its worst so the two should not have been unemployed for years.[0]

I would be hard pressed to accept food stamps even if I qualified but I would likely accept unemployment insurance. In that sense, it's funny that food stamps are faux pas, unemployment insurance is acceptable and tax minimization is applauded. Even knowing that, I can't help but hold those same biases though.

[0] http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/what-happens-when-pr...
From the mechanics section:
>To solve a mechanics problem is to obtain the equation of motion x(t)

This is exactly the type of bullshit that confuses people. To a regular person what the fuck is x(t)?
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, comments are coming! :)
It is a large part of how people in the US make money. Most people have their retirements tied to the stock markets (401k, 403b, and other options are basically just a huge collection of stocks, commodities, and bonds). If growth doesn't occur, the markets don't do as well and may even fall causing a LOT of people to take a hit in retirement funds.
"It's relatively easy to read"

Not as readable as Smalltalk.

"...and doesn't punish you with too many horrible compile errors"

Yes, it absolutely does. In fact, Ruby is probably the most syntactically complicated language after Perl and C++. Smalltalk has six reserved words and its syntax fits on an index card.

"It's a real language and you can point to a lot of apps using it and people who've made lots of money doing so. Kids are smart enough to get irritated if you just hand them something that isn't a real thing. My little cousin is mercenary enough that the mention of this being used in a large number of new things that made lots of money was really exciting to him."

Smalltalk is a "real thing" and has been used professionally for years in the financial sector and recently has experienced a bit of Renaissance in web apps, and even found use in a YCombinator startup (Auctomatic). Granted, the community isn't as big as Ruby's, but it is quite healthy and continues to grow.

"There seems to be a proportionally higher number of people in the Ruby community who are into helping kids learn to program."

No, there aren't. Squeak _started_ as an educational project, and the Smalltalk community still has a heavy educational bent to it.
If you roll over the different options 'post, share and chat' it gives you some more info about what we are trying to do. We will look to make it clearer.

There is a return to neetly home in the top right hand corner (after you have clicked sample network) - again can make this clearer.
by private "network" I thought you meant some sort of VPN
>Market share is massively over-rated as a metric - someone in the circulation dept of a major newspaper group

Market share is much more important for platforms than for newspapers, because a high market share draws in developers, which makes your platform more useful.
From what I remember of my OpenID provider search a few months ago, not all providers have chosen to support delegation. Google doesn't support it, but myOpenID does (I went with the latter, then never used it again). But it's not a "screw up", it's a (questionable) policy decision.
True, but I think when people make that point, they are implying that Google's main focus is making sure they can make good money selling ads, not that they make zero profit on Android. Or in other words, their main goal is to sell ads, not to sell Android, even if they do make some profit selling Android.
YES! YES THEY DID!

This was a no-so-directly stated purpose and intention of Android since day one. That any late to the party analyst looks at the situation and thinks they've discovered a hole in the plot speaks more to how ill informed the field of analysts are than to Google's strategy.

Google's intention with Android -- they haven't been quiet about this -- was to create an open, competitive ecosystem that isn't controlled by any one vendor (incl. themselves). If Apple dominated and decided to cut Google out (and smartphones continued their path to dominance), that single point could decimate Google. However if 20 handset makers make Android, and one of them decided to cut Google out, the damage is limited. If Google provides an experience that customers want, they would vote with their wallets because they could.

(see the negative reception of Bing on some Verizon handsets)
"Energy isn't spent moving the door around?"

Energy is a tricky thing, and you have to pay really close attention to the concept in physics class or you'll miss out on it, because it is not at all intuitive. As non-intuitive things go it's actually not that difficult to understand, but it doesn't match with our experience, because our bodies are set up in such a way that even doing nothing requires a certain amount of exertion, and our intuitive attempts to match "exertion" to "energy" produces very bad results.

How much energy does it cost to suspend an object one mile in the air, without it moving up or down? None. The problem is not one of energy, it's of an inability to counter the force of gravity. A hovering helicopter is indeed using a lot of energy, but 0% of the energy is doing work against gravity, it's all going other places.

How much energy does it take to keep an already-in-orbit object in orbit? None. Motion isn't energy. (It can't be, that would crack relativity wide open.)

How much energy is it to work against gravity and go uphill? X. How much energy is it to work against gravity and go back downhill to the same location? -X. Whats the net energy used against gravity? 0. Again, if we try to do this with our bodies, we are using lots of energy to do it, you can trace the chemical energy going out of the ATP and being used for things, but if you sum it all up after a round trip it is all going to things other than gravity; every joule of gravitational potential energy you gained going uphill was precisely returned to you on the return trip.

So yes, Maxwell's Demon can, in principle, use no energy manipulating the door. It'll need a bit to open and close it, but since we're in a thought experiment, whichever direction is increasing the potential energy of the system, it will get 100% of it back moving the other way if you set it up with a force to work against, like a 100% perfect spring. (Or it is balanced, moving across the set point, and since it's 100% efficient we never lose any.) Movement is not energy.
Would I be incorrect to assume you're a Peter Singer-esque utilitarian ethicist?
My understanding of your legal system is that before a bill introduced in the House becomes law, it needs to:

- be amended and approved by the appropriate Representatives committee

- be passed by the House of Representatives

- be amended and approved by the appropriate Senate committee

- pass the "filibuster" gate

- be passed by the Senate

- have any amendments reconciled

- be signed into law by the president

See http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_law.html for more details. Each of those steps are difficult and require a lot of politicking about, building consensus, getting public support from other politicians across both houses, and so on. Successful bills are usually announced with political support from leading figures right away, particularly when they touch on a controversial topic.

So, proposing a bill with no meaningful consensus-building or public support is effectively just a PR gesture. It is utterly and completely fucking pointless when you're known as a politician associated with crackpots. Except, of course, for the purpose of getting the aforementioned crackpots worked up that "something is happening". Hence my point:

Is Ron Paul just capitalising on yet another libertarian crackpot movement and actually hurting the very legitimate cause of telling the TSA to keep their grubby paws and scanners away from travellers' bodies?
Yes, I am not sure why one would "move". Learn Python, presto, you now know two handy languages and can use them at your discretion.
I made some changes, what do you think?
Harriers. I don't know if ordinary fighter jets would even benefit from a ski jump, but the ski jump is to make up for how short the deck is (generally too short to launch a jet).
Is it okay if I link to it from historious for formatting webpages?
I fixed it! I've added an auto completion javascript, it should be more usable now (let me know!).
It's all secret or noforn. If he was working as an analyst, he'd likely be badged for it. It also depends on his particular job responsibilities. My guess is that he was cleared to access a document archive for his day-to-day operations and started grabbing random stuff when he figured out a way to transport the data. There's no rhyme or reason to what was leaked, it's looks like wholesale whatever could be retrieved so it was likely a fire-sale type data grabbing.
indeed, you are right
Comparisons between Java with exception handling and a scripting language with a one liner that does no error checking are pretty worthless.
This is where discretion comes into play.

You're sort-of talking to the air here. I am not Wikileaks and no one on this forum is wikileaks.

If we have a world-wide free flow of information, we'll have people releasing stuff. Wikileaks claims to release everything with the minimal redacting possible but necessary. If they did more redacting, the actual leaker could well go elsewhere.

Are they responsible enough? That's not really the question. The question is, should they be stopped?

Democratic society pretty much involves the assumption that while most people are responsible, a minority is irresponsible and that the cost of forcing everyone to be responsible ("benevolent" dictatorship) isn't worth the benefit. That's because any dictatorship gives the bad people who happen to get on top a much free-er run than democracy. And free speech is an important of the democratic equation. Lots of the speech is stupid and even irresponsible. But it keeps those on top honest. That is the democratic "equation": less efficiency in exchange for avoiding the "big bad" of despotism.

But if it makes you feel better ... I hereby urge everyone in the world to be more responsible and discreet and only do good things. Are you satisfied?
According to The Guardian:

"There have been suggestions that an alarm system to detect suspicious use of the network was suspended for US military personnel in Iraq after they complained it was inconvenient."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/siprnet-america-...
If someone's failing to question Jon Stewart, who outright announces that he's not a serious journalist, they're going to need something a lot less subtle than wikileaks.
An unsatisfying article. Judging from the code, I am not convinced that the author gets Ruby. At the very least, Proc#curry doesn't make a very compelling example.
Tangentially related, the heft of a power supply is a good rough indicator of its worth.
I'd love to see something like this for milling machines.
As a platform that sells tickets to events (https://www.theticketfairy.com/), I feel that I should make a counterargument to not making users create an account.

Our checkout process requires no existing account, so you click on the buy button, enter your name, email address and billing info, and you create a password at the end, after which you DO have an account. We feel that this is much better UX than most other ticketing sites that send you to registration forms before you can continue the checkout.

We used to receive many, many support requests from people who'd lost the email containing their tickets. We then added order history and the ability to download their tickets by logging into their accounts and this resulted in a massive drop in support emails.

Another key point is that most people realise they've lost the ticket email only a few hours before the event is about to start, so we get very panicky last-minute emails from people freaking out that they're not going to be able to get in. Just giving people the option to log into an account and retrieve their tickets not only dramatically reduces our workload but also provides them with peace of mind.

We're adding 3rd-party login shortly (primarily Facebook) but will keep email/password as an option. However, even with 3rd-party login, we'll still need to confirm the email address as most people are used to email as their delivery method.

Saying all this, most of the advice in the article is valid and we follow many of the points. Our username is the email address and we enforce HTTPS on all pages (with HSTS headers).