jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’s even more interesting when you consider that most people block ads, or they block them in their vision. How many of us actually look at ads anymore? I would say that very few people even pay attention to them, and we sort of block them out of our attention. Online advertising does not work, and the metrics are inflated. I would love to see a major company stop spending on Facebook advertising, and doing analysis to see if their sales actually drop.
A side project doesn't need to be profitable, or an actual business. It can be anything you want to do as a hobby.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Dani

Looks like Zoltan is a baker now in his home village in Serbia after retiring from the military.

If he was a US general, he'd have a book, do media tours all over the country, and perhaps even run for office.
Internet Explorer 6 is dead.

Developers need to forget about it. IE7 is the oldest MS browser our company will test for, unless we are specifically asked otherwise by a client, which will obviously cost more. Supporting old and broken software is not reasonable nor is it even necessary.

If a company can't be bothered to upgrade their systems to support standards which are now years old, my company won't be bothered to support them.
For learning Javascript, I used http://eloquentjavascript.net/
It's really thorough, and if you get stuck somewhere you can email the author for help.
Finally a coffee shop I can mooch wifi off of all day on one drink and not feel bad..
I've watched a lot of movies, and the time which went into that has been enormously paid back in the form of increased wisdom, self-awareness, empathy, aesthetic sense, and interpersonal skills. And depending on how intently you watch YouTube or World Cup, you may be getting volumes out of those activities as well.

You may be calling these activities time-wasters automatically, or because that's a common way to look at media consumption. But they may instead be important learning activities for you, useful in some of the ways college is useful.

I agree very much with others here that "doing" and "doing as a means of learning" are fun, fulfilling, and important, but sometimes the emphasis on those methods disparages other important activities we engage in.

Try planning your weekends and incorporating a sense of balance, e.g. figure out during the week if there is a game or movie you might get a lot out of on Sunday and fit time for other goals around it.
Perhaps not quite as "famous" as other suggestions, but one person I know locally is Lucinda Duncalfe Holt (http://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindaduncalfeholt). Lucinda has been CEO of a few different tech companies: Destiny Software built an early "web application server" and exploded to nearly 200 employees before imploding in 2002; TurnTide was founded, grew explosively, then was sold for a few tens-of-millions, and ClickEquations, where she is currently CEO, is on its way up.

I have worked for her and I can say that Lucinda is an extraordinary leader with an unusual but effective leadership style. I would be happy to provide an introduction if you like, although it is probably not necessary: Lucinda is also smart enough to take advantage of free publicity! You may, however, have to schedule around an extended trip to Korea (I think that's where she's going) because she recently won an Eisenhower Fellowship to study and do business development abroad.

-- Michael Chermside
You have to admit that is pretty sweet. Come on!
Actually the analysis didn't focus on streaks. It focussed on the correlation between the outcome of one shot and the outcome of the next. Even a slight tendency towards streaks in your sense should show up in sharp relief. Yet it didn't.

Yes, I know how it feels. I also know the tricks that memory can play. I also know how much we tend to see patterns. And I know about statistics.

Of all of those, I trust statistics the most.
I believe the truth is a bit different. Resources are irrelevant. What's relevant is local governance and culture, that'll make a bigger difference to individual success or suffering than having or not having resources.

What resources change is how much outside observers notice. Are the millions of people living in squalid hell-holes under corrupt regimes any better off for not having resources? Hardly, it's more just that the world doesn't give a shit, because their plight isn't interesting.
While Apple’s success has earned rock-star status in Silicon Valley, its low-wattage approach in Washington is becoming more glaring to policymakers.

This to me sounds like senators saying, "We see that you're making a ton of money, and we want our cut."

I'm glad Apple doesn't spend much money on lobbying (see http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-lobbying-spe...). If the government starts intentionally causing problems for them with the intent of forcing them to increase their lobbying budget, well... that's a scary future for my country.
> I don't know enough about Ruby's community to say whether they have their own view about the relative merits of the clever/clean approaches or if they value something else entirely.

Although I think some groups are starting to pick up an anti-clever view of these (the Merb movement probably helped), but you can almost pick any random ruby github project and there will be some custom magic under the hood.

Not saying that's good or bad, just sayin.
I may be wrong, but weather cannot be simulated because real version is running over the complete globe. Brain, while hard to simulate with present technology, still is a 3 pound thing. Computational resources obstacle will be overcome.
Why is Chrome Developer Tools meh?

It's something people are familiar with and has a full debugging suite
You have to keep an eye on the long term. You can be in financial trouble now, but next month you can find a job and you need a car. Then what? Buying a less reliable car, paying for a new registration and taking an unfavourable loan to finance it? Selling all your assets at once is almost never the best way to manage debt.
correlation != causality. There's probably a zillion other things that Yahoo! uses that also run on Linux. Maybe that has something to do with their support of Linux?
A much stronger argument against patents, which the OP only touched upon, is the existence of FOSS. Patents exist to encourage the disclosure of ideas but FOSS already provides an excellent mechanism for this. Not only that, but the existence of software patents is damaging to the FOSS community which generally cannot afford to navigate the idea minefield. Software patents don't even require disclosing enough information to actually implement the idea so in many cases there is zero benefit to society.

Judges also need to be made aware just how much of the modern information age is built upon FOSS.
Could you expand a little on how Amazon does stack ranking in a more palatable way? As a consumer, I love Amazon, but I have heard a lot of horror stories first-hand from an Amazon employee about this very thing.
I was in high school when I got the news that he had died. Having grown up treasuring a hardback copy of Cosmos that my parents had got for me when I was 5 or so (still on my bookshelf today of course), I had fallen immediately in love with the phenomenal PBS series of the book and looked up to Carl Sagan as someone very special indeed. It was no wonder that my parents helped me to become a member of Carl Sagan's Planetary Society back in grade school, a membership I held all through high school.

In utter shock and disbelief when I received his news, I remember I had been walking to our school's computer lab. By the time I reached it, my brain was numb and I just sort of walked aimlessly to a computer along the south wall. As I approached the desk, I told our lab teacher what I had just learned, sat down, put my head in my hands, and cried.

Looking back on it now, I'm still not entirely sure why news of his death had so profound an effect on me, but I suspect it had something to do with Carl Sagan's "real talent for being profoundly inspiring on a deeper level," as burke so eloquently pointed out.

EDIT: Just finished watching the three videos. Absolutely blown away. And no, it's not really a mystery why he had so profound an effect on so many: between the eloquence of his words and his hypnotic speech and diction, who couldn't help but we swept away by his lessons? Only he could render in such convincing detail "the view that Kepler dreamed of," (if you have a copy of Cosmos lying around, you'll recognize that particular caption's stunning photo), and so much more in the universe beyond.
It's not. Not even close. It doesn't even have my last name for instance. And that's a western name.

Then there's also the following issues:

- The list contains mostly names in basic latin script, which already excludes most of the world population.

- It's also pretty bold of the author to assume that everyone even has a "first" and a "last" name. Not all names work like that.

- The list contains a bunch of extraneous stuff like "�" and "</pre></body></html> (>\k���� " and "रामकिशो&amp;"

- The list is converted to lowercase. You can't just change the capitalization of names and expect them to be the same. Not all scripts work like that.

- In some languages/cultures a first/last name could be pretty much any word you can find in a dictionary, or a combination of them. You'd pretty much need to add that language's entire dictionary.

I could go on but instead I'll just link to this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
One rarely mentioned thing is that most PhD degrees are worthless.

This IMO is a key factor to understanding many problems plaguing postgraduate world. Of maybe dozen PhDs (spanning two different countries and fields of mathematics, physics and CS) I've been acquainted with, only one had uncompromising, endurance runner attitude that serious research takes. He was the only one who landed at research career after the defense.

I fail to fully realize the reasons behind the motivation of the less successful ones. Whatever it was, it was certainly not a thirst for knowledge. Their contribution to advancing the state of art was zero. Those in the fields were I have a glimpse of understanding, should not have defended. They were net waste of grants/taxpayer money, and their own life.

As it is now, postgraduate research is like uranium enrichment: a costly process with majority of output being waste. Of course the thing wasted in this case is people's effort and time which could (maybe) better spent elsewhere.
Netflix works for me...all you have to do is attempt to signin...then when it fails, you can watch netflix
Chess is a revered institution. What kind of heretic plays chess once and immediately presumes to do better?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qs/einsteins_superpowers/
The programming model would look a lot like a GPU does today. If computation was regular and uniformly distributed across the memory then life would easy and everything would work quickly. When computation patterns get chunky there would be a hellish fight to make it fit the architecture. So processing trees and graphs would require a lot of tricky coding to work around the memory model.
I learned so much when Spotify came out, the recommendation algorithm was remarkable and I'm truly grateful for the music I've discovered.

But that was many years ago. Haven't used it in probably two years. Every time I try to it only suggests me crap. I don't know what happened.

YouTube is my go to when I want to find something new.

For listening to stuff I already know, I'm old fashion and have folder with my audio files. My most precious backup.
> If you employ a caloric restriction diet, you must do something to keep your metabolism from down-regulating

No you don't. You will always burn calories by simply existing. You can get no exercise and still lose weight simply by cutting calories. Cutting 100 calories from your daily diet may be matched one-to-one with metabolism decreases, but I guarantee that if you cut 1,000 calories from your daily diet you will lose weight.
No, the buying drugs part is what's 'wrong,' if you consider breaking the law to be a bad thing.

But you're right to point out that, in sheer usage, Bitcoin really has nothing on the USD when it comes to buying drugs. Still, when you're asking why anyone would consider buying drugs with bitcoin to be wrong, you have to understand that not everyone considers that to be a positive or even entirely neutral act. Most people consider a currency whose primary use case involves breaking the law to be a net negative for society.
Honestly I would assume nearly all people with a Mac Pro also have a laptop of some sort, and they have a Mac Pro it's likely the laptop is also a Mac.
You have to have mysterious software running to use a bank website? That sounds terrible, I would just go in person.
Volatility doesn't matter because 1 BTC = 1 BTC
Neat! I used these as an excuse to play with / work on WASM build tools / WASI interop. I've uploaded a built version to github so you can play them directly in your browser:

https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/cargo-html/wiki/Examples#ru...

I've sent a couple of PRs for things I found useful - feel free to ignore them if they're not to your liking ;)
Have you tried eye control of the cursor?

The below link is software that came up in internet search to check if eye tracking was in fact a thing:

https://precisiongazemouse.org/
It's possible to build iOS binaries without a mac but you have to collect a bunch of the tools yourself since Apple has made it illegal to distribute them. Of course you can't actually get the app installed on your phone without sending it to apple first (this is what eg cydia impactor does.)

IMO: that whole platform is so extremely user/developer hostile it's better to just avoid it entirely unless someone is paying you to work on it.
> Make the Start Menu Full-Screen

I'm surprised by this one. I couldn't stand Windows 8 because of the full screen start menu. Maybe it was because it was too animated. But I think it was more because I didn't like getting kicked out from my desktop and losing context of what I was doing.

I much prefer pressing the Windows key and typing the first few letters of the app I want. Seeing a full screen of apps is way too distracting to me, especially with live tiles.
Today a lot of projects looks like simple apps but uses a ton of abstraction layers (that help them to deliver in no time a complete app, but at the cost of performance and optimizations, I'm looking to you electron apps), also there's a C developer that a while ago did a rant about Visual Studio that at in a Pentium 4, more or less 13-15 years ago, it took like 1 or 2 seconds to launch while today it takes more than 10 seconds to launch in a decent computer that is way faster than before, yet it do a lot of maybe unnecessary things or has been built over too many abstraction layers that makes the software slower and slower.
Direct correlation of female workforce participation and poverty shows no trend: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/female-labor-force-partic...

The macro trend of poverty <> birth rates points in the opposite direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

Data points on the very poor end are all over the place, though.

The high workforce participation -> low birth rate correlation is definitely visible over time: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fertility-and-female-labo...
The idea came from what NASA has for tourists. And it is on similar lines to the US's Space Camp or the UK's Space Centre. But as I mentioned in my post, these centers do not scale. Not sure why; could be because they operate mostly using government funds.
http://brennanmke.github.io/Portfolio/

I created a basic portfolio to share on GitHub. I'd like to see more developers do that. It's quite easy to do with markdown and GitHub Pages.
I wonder if Web 3.0 will miss Silicon Valley.

I've found that the less technical and "webby" people are, the more they understand Web 3.0

A lot of that is that, in Web 3.0, perhaps 70% of what's necessary for Web 2.0 is superfluous... Perhaps nice to have, but frankly, the next generation systems need a community the same way that "The Terminator" needs people.
in addition to others already reported: Object Oriented Software Construction by Meyer.Mostly because, like other great books, it proposes a problem and then presents a solution which exposes another issue and so on and so forth. Even if in the end one disagrees with all the proposed choices, the reading is great and the reasoning sensible.
There is no line that defines what's copyrightable and what's not. That's why we have courts to decide the borderline stuff.

The 80:20 ratio of software development applies to the legal system as well. Tightly specifying the legal code for the borderline 20% would require so much work and added complexity to be almost impossible. Hence we instead use the court system to decide on the borderline cases.

Generally a wide range of factors are taken into account when quoting a work. This includes the length of the quotation (in proportion to the whole work) and the context the quotation is used in.

So for example short poems (<10 words) have received protection in the past, because the 10 word quotation forms a substantial proportion of the work.

The argument for protecting headlines comes down to whether headlines are works in their own right. Given that they can stand on their own independent of the articles they're associated with means that the probably do qualify to be treated as works on their own right.

The creativity and originality criteria are tricky, it's likely that some headlines are copyrightable but others aren't. Only a court judgement can clearly but a headline in one category or other.

But as I said elsewhere, this is only relevant if you are copying from another source. If you write a headline that happens to be identical to another headline then that isn't a copyright violation (regardless of length).
corprew: the situation with hardlinks and the app size will improve over time. I just had a lot of more important things to do.

(sorry, cannot reply to you directly: no reply link)
pretty interesting, but i think I found a couple of strange things worth reporting (hovering on your own user generates a "messy" tooltip, some race conditions seem to appear). Where would you like them to be reported properly? :)
"The Old New Thing" by Raymond Chen. It is full of fun stories, and also an excellent viewpoint into maintaining backwards compatability in Windows.
The Bieber effect is an important point. I think RIM realized that they don't need bleeding edge tech to stay competitive. That's how you sell to people like Bob Lefsetz and David Pogue, but those guys aren't even close to representative of the largest segment of the consumer smartphone market. The way to sell to the everyday smartphone user? Influence. Product placement, both in media and the real world (i.e. putting new units in the hands of celebrities), is an extremely powerful trick. I think it's worked, and will continue to work, very well for RIM. Think about BlackBerry as a brand. Take the wealthiest and most powerful people in America: CEO's, celebrities, politicians. Mostly BlackBerry users. Hell, they even got Obama using one. They've married the ideas of affluence and power to their brand. Sure, those of us who care about innovation and moving tech forward want them to do something groundbreaking like they did with mobile email, but isn't it cheaper to just comp a 15 year old popstar a phone and watch the money roll in? The market rewards big companies with well-marketed mediocrity, so that's what we get. I mean shit, just look at Microsoft.
Nah, bro. Sping/LINQ are all work that could be easily by Java/.net shops in India. Any enterprise work is easily outsourced to India.

Stuff that can pays high six figures because they can't outsourced. Computer security (especially if you could get security clearance); geology simulation for oil exploration (high-level domain expertise knowledge); quantitative modeling and trading system design for HFT (domain and quant skills required); risk modeling in actuarial science.

All of these are if you want to work for BigCo. You could also make a lot of money by going consulting in some obscure and corporate package such as SAP modules.
I don't see this making much of an impact beyond killing his career as what I would assume to be a philosopher. Wouldn't it have made more sense to take the degree and then turn it back around in some way that uses it as leverage against the company? Saying that you won't accept your degree until someone does something you want is a bit like saying I won't let you help me until you help me. Why would the school care?
Why do you say the Eurozone is an aristocracy?
GitHub Enterprise is an appliance VM you run internally. It's charged per seat. The last enterprise-y company I was at used it primarily because you keep your code inside the firewall, but also because the pricing model is more aligned with the usage in that environment, as you suggest.
I like the evil part... No, to be serious I just wonder what could be useful. Github (for projekts) and MDN (for docu of core JS) are doing great.
Thanks for your suggestion.
A review of concurrency vs parallelism[1] maybe useful when reviewing this link.

[1] http://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-...
Thanks for the share. It's very interesting to see such statistics. It also gives a lot of insights regarding the technology used behind.
"Rails is a ghetto" is what you're looking for.
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto
Youtube does that if a video doesn't load right.
If you're worried about privacy, why not use duckduckgo?
cell == division
'True' fans don't just stream a musicians music. They buy bundles where a physical copy of the album comes with a t-shirt + poster etc. and costs $60. They go to every gig + spend $50 on merchandise. They pay $25 to watch a live stream.
It's under MIT License
https://github.com/pilu/web-app-theme/blob/master/LICENSE
What does rent typically run with utilities? I noticed that it looks like the address you gave appeared to be posted before the house was ever moved into, and judging from your post it looks like you all have been there for a while now.

I do not currently live in SV but I do travel back and forth some and plan to move there within the next 18 months full time
Tumblr is funny.

4chan is more DDOS idiocy.
Of course, if you learned assembly first instead of Java or somesuch, pointers make 100% intuitive sense, and if you didn't grok them completely you wouldn't have been able to write your first program.
this same css code also works for android. the trick is the "max-device-width: 480px;"

important note: no decent modern phone, including iphone and android, uses the css "media: handheld;" at all. so its not even worth implementing that stylesheet anymore.
This is encryption that accomplishes nearly nothing.

Your email messages themselves may be encrypted but the addresses and other metadata -- who you converse with, when, and how often -- is completely open. If you exchange mail with a person B, who exchanges mail with a person C, who exchanges mail with a person T that is the subject of a "terrorism" investigation, your mail will be collected and, whether encrypted or not, the fact that you are thus "implicated" will be noted. Indeed the fact that you are "hiding" your email will increase the level of interest in you.

In addition, email encryption does nothing to protect your text messages, web browsing, ftp transfers, skype calls etc.
Main source of latency will be network. The main problem are synchronous GET requests as then performance == latency. Better go async instead of reducing latency with hardware accel.
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