jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This seems utterly groundless to me, especially because it doesn't describe my eye movement.

Perhaps it's because I'm left-handed. Perhaps it's because I know content is always left-justified (and let's understand each other- I'm not at your web page for anything other than content). Either way, I don't pay much attention to the bottom right area of a web page.
You can use www.yourpane.com, it does the exact same thing but with no installation necessary...
Thank you, this is brilliant. Just what I needed.
This submission has the lowest comment to vote ratio I think I've ever seen on HN.
You're right, an inflation-adjusted dollar should buy some fixed fraction of e.g. a loaf of bread at any time in history. It's just such a multidimensional space that any one number is bound to leave out some pretty crucial information as to how much money a given person needs to be happy.
And "I find the harder I work, the luckier I am." – Thomas Jefferson
The 100k mainly refers to the cost of hiring a team of engineers to tweak Windows NT for benchmarking!
> AT&T is one example of such a situation. After the breakup of AT&T, long-distances prices dropped dramatically

Long distance prices dropped when the long distance monopoly ended, not when AT&T was broken up.

That monopoly was a creature of law.
If you are on a Mac, I would look into Adium [1]. It provides the multi-service functionality that you're looking for, which is probably the hardest part of the entire operation.

Persistent logging and the ability to synchronize your edits could easily be accomplished by storing your logs in a Dropbox-synchronized folder.

The logging changes that you are looking for could easily be done by modifying the Adium source code (it's an open-source project) to suit your needs. Unfortunately, this will require that you dive into the Objective-C yourself, as I do not know of any plugins that make this happen.

1: http://adium.im/
If you can edit the logs, what is the use of maintaining them? I can understand deleting part of the log, but editing?
Downvoted? I can't imagine how this could be wrong, care to explain?
That's very nifty. We built a little assembly language interpreter in F# over here (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/endjin/Samples/master/Endj...) for our learning to program series. It doesn't have any IO (yet!), mind you. You just get to inspect the memory.
The most common use of p2p streaming today is pirating live sporting events. Will there be any problems with using Swirl for that purpose?
What code did they steal, exactly? They re-implemented all of the functionality, and I'm not sure they took take the JS either. So at this point, it leaves CSS + Look&Feel, and I think they took some icons, though that seems like more of an oversight as it's still a young project from the looks of it.

I don't see this as any different to such works as OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe) and CorsixTH (Theme Hospital). Both open-source remakes of the popular closed-source games. Obviously they don't bundle the media (graphics, etc), and just ask end-installers to point to the installation files of the originals. You could argue that hot-linking css is quite similar to that, though not exactly.

The real problem is them putting this not-yet-sanitized-of-all-copyright-infringment onto a public-facing site with a domain and everything. If it was still on Github, then that's fine. But they jumped the bandwagon a little too soon, and people are escalating it incredibly quickly.
The recent advancements using RNN is much more than sign recognition. It's about language generation, control and reinforcement learning, and attention.
I don't know much about archery, but it seems Mongol-style horseback archery would differ a lot from longbow-style stationary shooting in terms of speed and being able to shoot on the move (just like snipers are very different from cavalry in that sense when it comes to rifles.)
Cool :)

I wonder how hard it'd be to do 'squirrel recognition' with the camera
So are you asking if the government could create such a database ?
Oh, you're right! Thank you.
Alternatively, no operating system needs a realtime antivirus, and they're actively harmful. It's fine to run a daily or weekly scan to deal with commodity malware, but otherwise they add no value.

The other day we were writing an exploit and defender popped up to block it. It was literally faster to bypass defender than to figure out how to disable it in the UI.

Linux is a hilarious security disaster but AV is not the solution.
What about progressive taxation: taxing larger companies more?
Lucky for you, it's also a golden age for frontend GIS. I'm a big fan of https://vis.gl/
Ah, so all the crazy stuff Ive seen from them I should blame on the editors and not the individual writers? Good to know, of course just by reading it you know its the Oxbridge types in charge, and I dont consider that a good thing...
Manuscript to final product is a long pipeline.
I mean, someone using the name Paul Graham signed an open online petition. His city is listed as Palo Alto, and pg lives in London now, so I'd take this with a grain of salt.

It does seem to align with his opinions overall; I'd just be wary of putting words in anyone's mouth.
> Also a surprising number of people in the US believe that poverty is a moral failure of some sort.

Yep, there's a marriage in the US between business and religion that seems contradictory until you realize that these people believe the "invisible hand" of the market is God.
Signing this is probably a good way to get added to Twitter blocklists and cancellation lists, ironically.
Hey, I replied[0] to your submission[1] a couple of weeks ago and elaborated on our internal platform for collaborative notebooks, scheduled notebooks, and model management. How is your effort going so far?

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940923

- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25938654
If the developer intentionally caused that outage they'd be fired and in court before you could finish saying qualified immunity.

Accidents and mistakes happen, but a great deal of these incidents are not individual mistakes, they're often an escalating pattern of behaviour which has been ignored or excused until something terrible happens.
I don't understand 'stack'. What's it doing, exactly?
Ah well I'm safe then because I thought Force Awakens was pretty shit and never even saw the following two movies in the ST
Keep in mind capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system.
Yes, the question is whether to make it a standard.
But why one earth would someone living of KS money live in SF - one of the most expensive places to live, even on crazy SF money
> The average working-class person, due to lack of free time and interest

The average American watches three hours of TV a day. People have plenty of free time. If they’re not interested their political opinions are irrelevant, politics will happen to them, not with them.
I know they have tried signs to help drivers but having driven there, sometimes you have about 6 signs on one post and 6 on another pointing the opposite direction, and at 40mph (which nobody around you does - they're all in a rush or seem to be living in a high-speed time warp with a distortion of how long a second is...) it is nigh-on impossible to read all of the signs and make a sensible decision without changing lanes at the last minute to the anger of your fellow drivers and peril of your own life and safety.

If they introduced one-way systems to reduce the number of signs in a given area, it'd still lead to having to have "knowledge" to know about the one-way system and how to get on/off it at the appopriate place so that wouldn't be an improvement.

If they reduced signs, it'd require knowledge of the area.

If they added more signs to help make it more navigable, it'd be impossible to read at speed (like it currently is).

There is honestly no solution. At some point you will have to actually learn something of the locality. We wouldn't apply the same logic to writing software - "people shouldn't have to learn a programming language! It's not fair!" - no we have to have knowledge of the machine we are writing for and an understanding of the language we are using.

And I say this having driven there before GPS and driving into the (new at the time) congestion zone accidentally and getting a fine.
> Conscription is not as effective as a regular volunteer force.

Switzerland's terrain wouldn't see regular war but guerilla warfare (including mined bridges and everything). Having trained marksmen in almost every household helps a lot in such a situation.

> Atomic weapons or other WMD goes against the ethos of neutral countries which traditionally are pro-Human Rights.

I think Switzerland would adopt a "whatever it takes" approach when attacked. At least that's what they credibly project, and so it's unlikely that they'll end up having to play it out.
Same here, "only" a vegetarian but when my falafel/döner place use the same fork to pick meat and my falafel I cringe a bit (and still eat it, yes).
One provision among many which stack the deck in favor of the U.S. and other rich nations. Even something as seemingly uncontroversial as the anti-corruption provisions would be deal breakers for many states. Compliance with such would require the establishment of a government arm specifically to investigate and punish corrupt officials. Who is going to pay for all of those bureaucrats, in a place like Vietnam, where people are literally selling their children just to stay alive?

And investor-state arbitration? The ability for some random joe schmoe to sue a foreign government for violating a trade treaty? We saw how that shook out with the tobacco industry; the experience was so unpleasant that tobacco was actually banned from making use of the ISDS system laid out in TPP. Interfering with a state's ability to make and enforce it's own laws is NO BUENO.

TPP makes sense from the perspective of a walmart shareholder, but to the states which walmart exploits, it's complete and utter lunacy backed by big guns and fat wallets.
90% chance it's empty. Only way it's possibly not empty is if previous owner died.
I think you've taken my cynical description as some mathematical claim which it isn't.

> Why should an unsatisifability instilled in us by evolution be reckoned as more ethically valuable than our actual well-being?

It shouldn't, but it still means that people might do potentially bad things even if everyone's physical well being is ensured, because contentment trumps ethics. I'm not saying it's right jus that it is.

> What evidence shows the unsatisfiability is even there?

The only specific study that I remember off-the-cuff is the one mentioned here [1] (search for "Mike Norton"), but, of course, I think this "unsatisfiabilty" is what brought us here to begin with. Without it, we'd still all be hunters-gatherers. Some of it probably has to do something with social comparison[2]

EDIT:
This is a published study: http://jeffreypfeffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/DeVoeMo... (overview here: http://www.upworthy.com/why-do-rich-people-seem-to-always-ne...)

> Long-term studies have showed that many people live contented lives for what appear to be understandable psychological reasons.

The problem with that is that much of that contentment appears to stem from the fact that others have less [2],[3]

> Provided it is, why could you not find or produce genuinely engaging challenges

Perhaps. But it is also possible that we have destructive urges that require satisfaction. Freud spends half of his Civilization and its Discontents exploring the "death urge". It isn't science -- far from it -- but it's pretty compelling.

> argument that simply solving one human problem will not immediately bring about utopia ...

I wasn't discussing a specific utopia (even though I personally dream of both a communist utopia and an anarchist utopia), but my thought experiment is meant to doubt that any kind of utopia is possible for a significant period of time. Imagine not how to get there, but what there looks like, and then, think for a while on whether people will really be happy for long in your utopia. That is not to say that we shouldn't strive to build our utopia -- in fact, the impossibility of achieving it is what ensures we'll always have something to do.

> claiming ... that human happiness is categorically impossible

Again, my "approximation" wasn't a well specified law of nature. People are happy with their achievements for a while -- until they're not. In fact, most people are happy some of the time, and some people are happy most the time, but I don't think all people can be happy all -- or even most -- of the time. It's quite possible that people's happiness depends on others' misery. I don't think happiness is impossible; I think utopia is.

[1]: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120092/billionaires-book-...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_comparison_theory

[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/your-money/02shortcuts.htm...
I started reading this but had to stop because it was ruining too many books that I haven't read yet.
You could try SendGrid http://sendgrid.com/
Big O.

Sometimes it is nice to just bask in the way disagreements are carried out on HN as opposed to e.g. Yahoo news.
Life Hack:

Buy a box (10 or so) of small LED flashlights. Place one discretely behind anything you routinely have to peer behind. I have one behind my fridge, my television and inside my computer rack.

Work Hack:

When hosting a meeting, never schedule more than 30 minutes. This requires keeping things on point and moving ahead. Start on-time, state the point, tease that the meeting should only take 20 minutes. Avoid rehashing for late-comers, explain that you'll get with them after the call/meeting. Participation goes up when people have incentive and when you have a reputation for starting on time, people will arrive on time. The ones that don't probably don't need to be there.

If you're at a larger company, greet everyone you pass in the hallway regardless of title, position, or rank. Get to know their names and use it in the greeting (there was a famous book somewhere . . .). "Good Morning, Joe" is enough.

Completely disconnect for more than two days every once in a while, especially if you're in a rut somewhere (dead-end project, writer's block). I'd take short cruises and spend the majority of the time watching the water (this was back when cruises didn't have internet access or cell service, and even now the cost is prohibitive enough that you can tell work "You can reach me for $9.00 a minute"). The first day or so is discomforting, but after the third you stop thinking about what you missed on Hacker News.

You didn't say Vacation Hacks, but I have a few:

- Schedule trips during the common first/last week of school. Parents usually can't take trips at this time, so resorts/cruises are usually under-booked and less expensive.

- If you like cruises, watch NYC launches that happen over one of the big Jewish holidays, especially themed or promo cruises. Cruises are usually booked several months in advance. Cancellations are common, the cruise company gets paid partially and wants to fill the room. I got a $500 and $400 balcony on a 7-day in East Caribbean on a great ship this way. Both were themed cruises, so this may make a difference (much earlier booking, perhaps).
I know what you mean, I have one of Lian Li's "mini fridge" cases because it has a ludicrous number of HD bays. But I also have an Antec p182, and it's frickin awesome: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129... (slightly newer model)
Only Colbert could get away with this! Genius.
The blog posts will stop rising once a sufficient number of people figure out that trolling the App Store reviewers and getting banned, even temporarily, is a great way to generate free publicity.

Then the ratio of people crying wolf to legit complaints will grow and grow until we all get bored to death.
Why are we wasting time on this then? There's nothing new or interesting about making dumb stuff that appeals to dumb people.
Not being a spammer doesn't mean you don't want to send your e-mail from a machine that you control. If you want to do just that, a closed smtp port is a deal breaker.

If you're happy to have Google send your e-mail for you, or control another machine that does that job, you're not in the same situation, of course.
I consider WP and Drupal (And Joomla and magento etc) all part of the PHP ecosystem. I consider them part of PHP.

Just like Rails is part of the Ruby ecosystem. Technically, it is wrong to blame Ruby for poor design decisions made in Rails. Like Rails monkeypatching stdlib classes. But Rails can monkeypatch stdlib classes because Ruby lets it. It did a lot of monkeypatching stdlib classes, because it was common thing to do in the Ruby ecosystem back then. So, I therefore, place just as much blame on those poor decisions in Rails as I place them on the language, Ruby. Whats more: I blame both for promoting this idea in the first place. A new dev may open the Rails code and conclude "if a popular framework is doing X, X is probably a good way to solve my issue".

The latter is, and always has been, my largest gripe with PHP. No, WP is not a good example to learn proper PHP development, but it is the thing most new PHP devs encounter PHP and are then stuck with horrible "best practices" for the rest of their carreer.
Way to go, Nate Silver. I hope you stick with it; I've consistently appreciated your analysis of politics.
>Many subjects cannot really be learned from books. Regardless of how many history books you may read, for example, it will not shed the same insight as a profound discussion with a highly-experienced academic in the field. This is true for many aspects of the humanities.

My undergrad humanities courses were 100+ students packed into a giant lecture hall listening to a professor talk. There was essentially no interaction.
Reminds me of iPhone's Japanese "Ten Key" Keyboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVy1p0v0Pow
You may want to know that Alt + Print Screen copies the currently focused window to the clipboard.
That's actually the first place I announced it. Wasn't sure if it was solid yet, but the traffic came so I had to roll with it. It somehow hopped straight from HN to 4chan and out from there.
UBS (one of the world's largest banks).

I worked there for 4 years. As a developer, I was able to install other browsers (that was against the company IT policy, but I didn't care). When I was working on the business side, though, I didn't have admin access to my machine, and so I had to use IE6, like everyone else.

All the internal apps were built to work on IE6, too. And there are a lot of internal apps. Half of them wouldn't display properly on Firefox when I tried opening them there (this was a few years ago, I didn't try Chrome or Safari).
If a degree is just intended to show that you're not an idiot, there could be cheaper and less time consuming ways to do that.
So maybe we need a more grown-up fantasy...
It was on App Engine, but now it's just a plain Django site. Updates are polled every second, which probably isn't how I'd make it now, but it's help up well.
MajorMud
I have never used an IDE for python. Actually I have never used an IDE at all.
I think a good editor and a linter is enough for me.
I used to use vim but I'm mainly working with Sublime Text now.
I live in Fukuoka, Japan. Here's my antidote to the Tokyo rush:

8-10am Wake up, lounge a little, read. If I'm feeling very energetic I'll wake up at 7am and hop in the pool for a bit.

10-1pm Work on software projects, research papers, lesson plans.

1pm Quick snack. Cup of tea.

1.30-3.30pm More programming. My co-founder is probably up and useful by now, maybe run some by things, maybe not. Almost always via slack.

3.30pm Quick blast in the gym, usually weights.

4.00pm Biiig meal. I only eat twice a day.

4.30pm Get my things together for going to my teaching jobs.

5-9pm Teach English, Science, Math, all sorts to keep my rent paid.

10 or 11pm go to bed.

For a while I did a full time programming job at a company while doing the teaching in the evening. Definitely too many ours. If there's anything missing I thing I could do with a bit more outside time. What do you think?
"Don't pay women less for being women" is unenforceable.
All hail the internet :)
use twitter, you have a lot of educators / teachers there.
I live in a country when employees are more protected, and my client told me: I'm ready to pay more so you get a higher salary.

I didn't get a higher salary and left a few weeks later, anyways service at BigCo (230000 names in the phone book) was not my thing, I blew everybody away in the IT department by showing them SVN (it was before git), they were commissioning the development of a custom versioning system.
That's what the sarcasm quotes were for.
Out of curiosity, what areas did you find were the most challenging for your students?
> Overall, if Linux security issues cannot be solved systematically, then I really doubt they could be solved with an antivirus.

No one is arguing with that but a native AV for Linux could potentially add a layer of protection.
"Wasted" is doing a lot of work in that last sentence. Unfunded spending on primary education and healthcare is going to generate more current period monetary inflation than near term output, never mind transfer payments to the unemployed, but it's a helluva stretch to argue that this makes those areas of spending a waste of money
My point is any of the auto companies could have done what Tesla did and done a better job. Except their managers in large totally suck. How bad to they suck? Musk is actually mentally ill.

Consider Toyota. 25 years ago their upper management was capable of fostering the development of hybrids. Now they seem to be unable to change direction.

VW is doing a better job. Probably because Germany threw some of the previous management in prison.
> unapologetically break internal policies

I mean, Amazon has an internal policy that you are not allowed to collaborate on any games related projects with anyone who is not also an Amazon employee. Did you go to a game jam? You've just unapologetically broken internal policies.

It's absolutely the case that Amazon can construct policies that are never enforced and easy to break so they have something they can fall back on to say, "Well, they broke our policies, sooo...."
This is a personal website more for showing off than for being useful.
> In my anecdotal experience, the same external service written with Elixir+Ecto was 25-50% as performant as a Python+SQLAlchemy program

I'd be interested to see an example here. Using Plug+Ecto has been roughly on par with most real world examples I've seen with SQLALchemy and Flask for single request performance. Python might be a bit faster for some workloads but once you start saturating the CPU, Elixir/BEAM really shines.
Easy to stay away from when the server has been done for the last couple of hours.
Actually, this is one of the long lasting issues with RoR: most people want to try it on a recent version, but Linux distros try to package stable releases instead. You shouldn't blame the distros for not having the absolute bleeding edge version.

If really need the absolute latest version of Rails go on, have a separate install compiled from source, but there's no need to be rude with the packagers. I'm trying to learn Rails 3 and I found that JRuby works really fine with Rails 3, and using Warbler gives me nices WAR files to deploy on Tomcat, and I don't mess my default Ruby install.
Since we're off topic anyway, here's my favorite Trotsky quote: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you".