jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or is downvoting tdons' comment bad form given YC's guidelines? Is there something I'm missing here?
Signal isn't meant to be a mainstream one-size-fits-all, even tptacek admits as much:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371316

He actually seemed annoyed that everyone insisted on using it for everything :-)

If you need bulletproof cryptographically verifiable encryption - use Signal.

If one wants to plan dinner, use whatever fits your bill.

(And if in addition to the same supposedly bulletproof encryption as Signal you also want NSA^HGoogle to back up your messages and Facebook to know who you talk to and when so they might better customize their ads^H^H^H your experience you can also use WhatsApp :-)
> Their worst right now is much worse than expected, I would be ashamed to be associated.

This doesn't follow. Trump has been promoting violence since 2016. There have been multiple attacks carried out by Trump supporters. Most Republicans think the election was stolen thanks to Trump. Anyone who was surprised by this hasn't been paying attention to the blatantly obvious signs that have been on display nor to the repeated warnings by many, many people saying this is where things were headed. I'm in no way surprised this happened. Why were so many other people?
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Sorry, I'm just reading it again [1], why in the name of all things holy would you ever take this guy seriously?

This is embarrassing. I would not want to remind people this guy was on my side, let alone present his evidence at the vanguard of my case.

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020...
> I wonder if that (is true, and if so whether it) imposes some kind of maximum life on these drives.

It does. Most helium-filled drives expose a SMART attribute (ID 22) for how much helium is remaining.
It would be great if (a) you could safely prevent it from releasing its energy when you don't want it to (KABOOM!), and (b) you could efficiently capture and use the energy it releases, which is going to consist largely of gamma rays.

Now where did I leave that dilithium?
It doesn't escalated because neither Moscow nor DC are willing to go nuclear over Tallinn while Beijing is overwhelmingly inferior in their nuclear capability compared to either.
So you're agreeing, right? Have my town be free of "central planning" and set it's own course in terms of zoning.
I always liked the idea of budget-based taxation, similar to the way that condos do special assessments:

1. Decide how much money the state needs in taxes to fund the various pieces of infrastructure (roads, schools, etc).

2. Value everyone's property. Divide up the tax proportionally based on property value. If your house is worth twice as much as your neighbor, you should pay twice as much tax.

The interesting thing about this approach is that it creates a stable tax income rate for the state and mostly eliminates market fluctuations. Did the economy boom? Ok great, your house is now worth 50% more but so is your neighbor's house, so the ratio is the same and you pay the same tax as the prior year. Same mechanism works in reverse during a crash.

With this method, the tax paid directly relates to the budget. Spending too much? It's not the economy's fault, it's yours: maybe try voting for different initiatives (or representatives) next time.

This also aligns the incentives for older residents. If an area is economically static you should expect city budgets (and taxes) to increase roughly in line with inflation. If the area grows and develops and becomes a much more interesting place to live, it's no longer the same city. You have the option to pay for those increased services or you can move... similar to the way that you'll pay more rent if the landlord remodels your apartment building. But in fact, the effect is moderated: a house built in 1930 will probably be less valuable than new 2021 construction so the hold-out retiree should see taxes that increase at a rate less than the average.
I appreciate the story and the kind advice, definitely helps to know I'm not alone. Regardless, my hair has been part of my identity and is something I take pride in. When I envision myself in the future with something I no longer have, it can be traumatic because I always assumed my hair wouldn't fall out until maybe my late 20s.

Maybe its my excuse but I haven't reached the stage where I need to completely shave it off (diffuse thinning) but I pray and hope that better treatments are available when the time comes. Or maybe i'll get a hair system lol..
I've seen numerous ideas, such as this, in many of the bigger companies I've worked for; the ones that come up with it seem to forget the fluid nature of the web. What they should worry about is the search ranking for any given url and heavily searched keyword search term - not the name of a url. That's just stupid.
It's actually a very common practice for companies to do this. Just whois xcompanysucks.com
Marginally, a high bandwidth user would not cost that much extra than a "normal" user because most of AT&T's infrastructure costs are probably fixed.

However, the opportunity cost of a high bandwidth user is much greater, because their use might be denying 100 other "normal" users access to the network. If 25% of those users decide to cancel because their service sucks, then AT&T has lost significant revenue.

*Note I am not apologizing for AT&T at all, in fact I think they are evil.
He probably could have saved a lot of time with a shell script :)
Every single proposal you make is very much welcomed and needed.

Wondering if any of this is feasible with a Xcode plugin or should we just wait/wish for Apple to pick this up?
The reason I bring it up is that while we as hackers may choose to only look at the accomplishments of someone as a hacker it is how they are perceived socially that matters to the rest of the world.

As a hacker I also understand that social skills comes with the field. If I want to become someone in the world and I want to present then I have to have some hygiene, I've gotta be socially presentable. It is not acceptable for me to walk around in a banana hammock covered in dirt and grime and then expect people to still look up at me.

There are two types of hacking, and they go hand in hand, hacking in the sense of accomplishing something great (whether that be technological, code wise, or anything along those lines) and social hacking. Any well adjusted hacker knows how to balance the two to make society believe he is a productive member and can be related to, yet at the same time bending the rules that society has set forth to do great things!
What makes 'natural language' 'natural' is not really the appearance, it is what it is used for. A natural language is one used for communicating between humans. It only works the way it does because of what is on the other end of it -- another person.

And that is why software must be different. Software must always be an 'un-natural language' because its (ultimate, essential) purpose is different: it is not communication but design. It works the way it does because it is for constructing an artifact.

If you want to build complex things, that is equivalent to saying you will have complex requirements. The complexity cannot be squeezed out, substantially, by changing language -- as Brooks said in 'No Silver Bullet', there is a hard core of essential complexity.

That purpose of design seems to mean an essential dichotomy of simplicity vs. control. If you want more simplicity you have to give up some control, and if you want more control you have to give up some simplicity.

One opportunity is that it seems likely true that we over-specify much of our software: we are using more control -- hence complexity -- than really needed. But the solution is not in changing language -- that would be the result. It is in figuring out what to do behind that -- AI figuring out what you want without you saying so. Maybe one day, in particular limited areas . . .
The sqlite test suite is a fantastic example of how to produce solid software. I wish it were used as a case study for all software engineering courses.
Because Wikipedia -- to its credit -- has no intention of being acquired by anyone.
I'm just hoping you are not one of those people that believes that I should follow everyone (on Twitter) that follows me. If what I say interests you, follow me. I'll do the same.

Something like this: http://powazek.com/posts/2754

I agree with araneae, this would seem to be an awfully rare thing to do.
Here's some code for doing this with Qt Webkit for a local app:

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2008/11/03/thumbnail-preview-of-web...

What you'd want to do is make a little server that does the same thing but can serve the resulting image, or just a simple utility that makes the thumbnails on demand and just saves them as images and call that from your web app.
I think you mean http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913109 (without the trailing /). Yes, you defended this choice well.
I have a suspicion that eBay are Altavista to some other company's Google. I don't know which company that will be, but surely it's possible to be 10 times better than eBay and overcome the network effects.

(Plus I did some consulting for eBay and saw first hand how ineffective and stupid their management are)
Reminds me of a trade-show where we exhibited a new product about ten years ago. The product in question was designed from the ground-up for the real-time processing of very high resolution images. This entailed custom FPGA boards with gobs of custom and innovative Verilog code to make it all go. We also took pride in designing a very nice lightweight aluminum enclosure for the product. Price was about US $8,000. All up, about a year and a half of development time and a non-trivial financial investment.

The product was introduced at this trade-show and it was a success. However, of the hundreds of people I spoke to at the booth only one made a lasting impression that I remember ten years later. This Italian buyer comes over to get a demo. After a 20 minute presentation he asks for the price. Then he picks-up the unit and says: "8000 dollars! Why so light!".

He actually thought we were charging too much based on how light the thing was. Never mind that there was a year and a half of heavy-duty development behind it. He had a mental image of what an $8,000 product was supposed to weigh and that was the end of it.

We switched to heavier steel enclosures (cheaper too!). I couldn't count the number of times I heard people make comments about the weight corresponding in some way to the price of the product.
Why do you think self-driving-cars are so far fetched? We already have some pretty good prototypes.

Additionally, what would be those massively positive effects? I can see less car accidents and reduced amount of mundane driving, but I wouldn't consider those effects as dwarfing everything else.
Hopefully this article clarifies why Java deserves to be considered a cool language, even in 2011.
What justification do you have that facebook is "more important" than google?

Google has something like 30x facebook's revenue, and is still growing at a tremendous rate. Facebook has been growing faster but it'd be silly to imagine that their several hundred percent growth rate could continue forever. Worse yet, facebook's per user revenue is so poor that if we were to assume that their user base expanded to include every computer owner in the world they would still not match google's current revenue.

Facebook gets a lot of exuberant press these days but make no mistake, they still have many huge challenges ahead of them. Even if facebook were to double its revenues every year it would still take 4-5 years to catch up to google. A lot can happen in that time.
Someone should build a zombie sniper game into a gigapan like this.
That is an interesting insight. I wonder how restaurateurs project customer default rates when analyzing new opportunities? They must teach this in hospitality management schools...

Regarding the housing comparison, the nature of the credit, the goods exchanged and the fact that maturities are so much shorter in restaurants (1:8)[1], allows (requires) restaurants to engage in riskier business practices. Mortgage lending risks are obviously much more complicated, but you are correct to point out that risk is an inherent part of issuing credit.

[1] Assumes 3 hours credit issued to the average customer, with average inventory borrowed for 30 days.
Ive cut sugar and refined grains out of my diet. Now just a spoonful of ice cream is way more rewarding than any amount of sugar I would have eaten in the past.
Just donated. I like this "vote with your wallet" method of financing shows. Reduces upfront financial risk for new ones with possibly niche audiences, I imagine.
You could work for later-stage startups that can afford your fees. Someone who had just closed several million in funding, or someone whose business was going like gangbusters 4 years in, might not have to log in to online banking prior to every purchase.

I do (very occasional) consulting, and do not accept payment in ramen. Some folks who have contacted me about prices are dissatisfied with this. I've just learned to be OK with that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk
Yo.
As an aside, he probably wasn't short for the period.

The French inch was longer than the English inch at the time and the press either didn't know this or knew it and thought it'd be funny to miss-characterize.
Lol, no! The baby boom was after WWII...

You are confusing the boomers with thw Greatest Generation.
That discord server sounds fun.
I meant more along the lines of tracking an issue through transitive dependencies, and then having to make a change at each step before the fix is apparent in the code you were actually writing.

I once found a weird import issue in a Google App Engine demo that, IIRC, traced back through to pip, virtualenv, and eventually setuptools.
This is pretty late in the cycle for O'Reilly to not realize that the adaptive 'algorithmic government' he is describing would result in government optimized for clicks and highly responsive to weaponized performative umbrage by groups acting in bad faith. Which is, of course, exactly what we have.

Maybe we need something stable that can maintain a functional equilibrium and act in the defence of the norms of the whole system. Responsiveness and stability are usually antithetical, and systems designed to be responsive to the immediate urges of large masses of humanity are rarely anything but monstrous.
> The bigger issue is most of us said/did dumb shit 20+ years ago, but luckily there was no widespread put everything on the internet movement

Well, I found some of my conversations on BBSs or Fidonet from over 25 years ago are now on the Web...

So what you say was right as long as it was indeed just 'said', but as soon as something was written and/or recorded somewhere, it may resurface on the Internet one-day, even though it was never intended to appear on the Internet.
Rust is not a programming language it’s a syntax error.
You realize that h.264 was started in the 90s, right?
0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'anonymous'.

Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword:

0 sites are already indexed.

-1 is the average Page Rank for the top results.
0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'xkcd'.

Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword:

0 sites are already indexed.

-1 is the average Page Rank for the top results.
"...wording should compliment each other."
"...for woman and young girls"

Also, they're using two different font weights and different kerning at different points. There is also a superfluous space in one of the bullet points.

The point? Have someone proofread your landing page, too.
Unless the graph changed, the spikes are showing up on Sundays on my end. My guess is simply from weekend use - people going home and using their ipv6 connected computers, then using their ipv4 work computers during the week.
There are not alot jet but consider that clojure is pretty young but there are great projects on the way. There are some pretty new ideas how to do webdev. Intressting times.

the-deadline.appspot.com/ is one example I know off. I know off some other but I don't have the links. A lot of people build front ends in ruby but backends in clojure (the flightcaster system for example).

In Clojure we don't have the all powerful big framework. Witch makes it hard to overlook but very dynamic.

http://www.glenstampoultzis.net/blog/clojure-web-infrastruct...
"Ask HN"-types posts (i.e. without a link) are heavily disadvantaged. They take more upvotes to get to the front page, and fall down faster.
You should try htop and iotop as well. Although atop is generally better for more sysadmin-type things than htop is.
So basically:
1. A content creator takes photos of objects and tags them (links, texts whatever)
2. I take photos of those places and linkapic shows me what the content creator tagged those photos (objects) with.

Right?

I think that a twist to your idea might be interesting.
Say Content Crator tags objects/photos. The way you have it now I have to take a photo of the same object to see the tag. Instead how about that if I am walking around you can show me nearby tagged images based on GPS.

There would be more discovery for me and less work. Taking photos of things and then waiting to see the notes sounds like work. But walking down the street and seeing interesting things that other people have taken photos of in the vicinity and tagged becomes interesting.

And it can be a tour because one tag can have directions to the next object etc.

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A side note: The discussion in your blog is meandering in my opinion (SEO/democracy etc) and the point is not well made. It would be best to just stick to the basic use case w/o pitching/marketing as pg likes to say.
There's insane amounts of great stuff hidden in the various nooks and crannies of the NIST website. Some of my other favorites:

Engineering Statistics Handbook
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm

Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
http://dlmf.nist.gov/

The Quantum Algorithm Zoo
http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/
Everything in this article applies to non-"gifted" children as well. They also get enormously pressured to get better grades, are overscheduled, forced into music lessons, come from broken homes, have crappy parents, get picked on for any number of reasons, are sensitive, etc., etc.

You could just as easily write a narrative about Joe Average, who didn't have things come easily to him, who struggled, who was never told "you can accomplish anything!", whose parents said, "yeah, we don't expect great things from him", who envied all the gifted kids and their opportunities and their parents who believed in them.

The biggest problem with being gifted is the sense of entitlement that comes with it. That you shouldn't have to suffer like the rest of the plebeians because you are special, or that all your problems are the result of your special curse.

It's just another part of the general case of "mismatch between reality and your unrealistic expectations".

At some point everyone is faced with the challenge of throwing off the yokes of other people's expectations and conditioning and finding their own way.
I don't blame the guy for being a hustler. Jason knows how to work the game, so sue him - or is that already been done?
Have you tried LMDE - Linux Mint Debian edition? It is faster than Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu. That said, I do think MX is better optimised for performance than even LMDE and find it perceptively to be a tad bit faster.
My understanding is that with the lagrangian approach then the free parameters are not all interacting with each other because they are part of different terms. This means a change to a free parameter doesn't necessarily break experiments.
I like to think of myself as a fairly critical consumer of this sort of media, but I had no idea just how specious this hit piece was.

I still think DeSantis is a monster, but his COVID19 response is looking more and more like the winner.
Why is it rude to send a PM but not rude to demand attention via physical presence?
The write-up doesn't appear to have any author details, but the main page [1] credits Andy Nguyen.

[1] https://google.github.io/security-research/pocs/linux/bleedi...
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> Sure but this ignores benefits. The question is if remote work is a net negative, in terms of utility.

And the obvious answer is that for some jobs it is, and for some jobs it isn't. There isn't a hard and fast rule here, and like I say it depends on the software you are selling. You probably aren't going to sell and implement a $20m ERP job entirely remotely, but on the other hand you aren't going to be driving around and doing customer visits for a $50 a month SaaS contract.

But in the absence of any hard-data, my gut strongly tells me that working from home is a net negative for most jobs and most people. My team has gone back to the office now and our ability to get stuff done is just rocketing.
That's called double billing and is considered unethical [0]:

> In law, double billing refers to charging an hourly rate to two clients for the same time spent working. The American Bar Association prohibits double billing. It is tantamount to overcharging, since the amount of time actually spent working on any one client's work is less than the amount billed to that client.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_billing
ok, that's a fair point. i guess i just believe bcrypt does a better job than that. :)
I really agree with you.

The issue is in the culture itself, where corruption happens everywhere (top and bottom of the chain). This leads to a corrupt police, corrupt government and everyone trying to gain advantage on top of the others...

The public schools are really bad, but the private ones are ok. But the issue is not education, but this terrible culture of corruption.
That is a string bet and would get you thrown out of any real card game. Despite the fact they do it in every movie.
I think he means it in a different way. Nobody is saying that the work of medical researchers and doctors is unimportant or they aren't smart. However figuring out new ways to connect the population and make them more aware of their health is exciting and with the low barriers to entry with all the technology we have now, it will allow many more people to participate in this field.
This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25913083, where the article was more of a press release. We merged that thread hither.
There is a public list, though perhaps not linked from the page you were on: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/178054...

The exchange currently trades BTC-USD, which means you must have a USD balance, and for that to be allowed you must be in one of the above listed states. If you live in a state which is not yet supported, you can write to your state representatives and let them know your wishes.
I look forward to the iphone hack to make it work with verizon