jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Having to save them in your Dropbox, or having to move them to your Dropbox afterward, turns out to be a massive friction.

This also bothered me so I looked for a solution. As much as I love Dropbox, I still have data stuck on external drives and NAS boxes. I looked at some Dropbox competitors but you always get that half-baked feeling with them. I sticked with Dropbox in the end (especially after they introduced the 1TB plans) but I still wanted to get the files from my external drive in there.

I tried symlinks which felt neat at first, only to later discover their nasty shortcomings: imagine the horror of files getting deleted when my external drive was disconnected. Symlinks also don't get the updates so in order to sync changes I always had to close and restart Dropbox. Back to square one.

In the end, all I wanted was a simple way to have files synced from my external drive and NAS, without having to worry about it or doing voodoo to get it working. That's why I created Boxifier (http://www.boxifier.com). I wanted a super easy, set-and-forget, "it just works" solution.

I think Dropbox doesn't get enough credit for solving the sync problem for the masses in a way that feels so simple. That simple that it's easy to forget that it is a hard problem in the first place.
Lots of people were giving me the same feedback, so I just now implemented code that will ignore the char if the user types a second space after a period. Thanks!
Notice the dropdown menu when he types in the address: it says "Broadway 2.0".
Alternate format for browsing the catalogue: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSal...
I can't tell you the best or even the most modern ways, but one of the simpler ways I've seen this done is a massive dilution where key owners (investors, founders) have anti-dilution clauses coupled with new grants and acceleration for current employees. This works even if the liquidity event is so massive everyone involved is recouping well past their preferences.

My impression is that options agreements and grants that offer any real protection against being screwed once the company lacks any incentive to keep you happy are few and far between. If you don't _know_ you're protected from such things, you're undoubtedly not.
I feel like getting a trademark for letter "F". Then sue Facebook.

Jokes apart, is there an ALICE bot making decisions at USPTO?

The funny part is, this still won't stop Lamebook. :)
Are you planning on getting work done? Or are you looking forward to digging into the source of yet another GNU tool that is stuck 20 years in the past?

"One of the biggest new features for the Octave 3.8.x release series is a graphical user interface. It is the one thing that users have requested most often over the last few years and now it is almost ready."

If you're planning on spending more than a few hours in the tool, consider spending the $200 on the one that's from this century.

I picked up Matlab late and wish I'd done so sooner. It's a REPL for higher-level thinking and quick experimentation. It makes some hard things very very simple and some simple things very hard. They've dropped the price and fixed a lot of shit in the last 5 years. It's replaced a lot of goofing around in Python and Excel for me.

Edit: I have a love/hate relationship with R and more of a love relationship with Python but they don't do ANYTHING like what Matlab does.
Some time ago ImplicitCAD inspired me to try a somewhat different approach: using the same OpenSCAD source language, generate OpenCL kernels for efficient, explicit CSG splicing (no meshes, triangles and stuff, only the nice continuous surfaces).
Many Indians get exposed to computers at a later age, often not good at computer and programming concepts, their exposure is low.

Think of this initial job as internship, but after a year when they know their stuff and can clear technical interviews and with better communications skills the pay package increases significantly.

when people switch to more reputed companies in earlier years the hikes they get is between 50-100% . for first 5-7 years the hike is abut 30% by the time these people will settle in large indian or multinational companies.
Thank you for showing me a great, funny band!
The Nord Stage 2 (the red one you see in basically every music video/live performace ever :) ) supports aftertouch. If you're looking for something much cheaper than $5k, the Novation Impulse 49 does for $250 (and comes in other sizes, too).
What? The goal of journalism according to whom? Because Tom Wolfe--from whom a very large chunk of modern journalists can be said to descend--would laugh at that notion. There's also the natural fallout of "impartial journalism" having that imprint; Chomsky and others have noted that it leads to a massive endorsement of moneyed and powerful parties in most cases at which you'll point. Which may be fine for you, but certainly not me.
> One of the big open questions is "are APIs copyrightable?" The court skirted that question, and instead focused on whether it was fair use

Also what people fails to realize with fair use is that it is up to the defendant raise a fair use defense and then a judge has to approve of that defense as a valid one (Viva Frei explains this https://youtu.be/AzQz1LrjCWk?t=253 ).Meaning Oracle can still go on with its lawfare campaign against those who made the mistake of basing their tech on theirs.
Have you ever in your life seen someone look at a company's diversity stats before buying something?
Your boss doesn't micro manage

You should be taking care of this, not Billy
Solar panels would be fantastic at my townhouse in San Jose, where the sun shines 300 days a year.

Unfortunately, my HOA bans rooftop solar panels.
Has anyone found where to donate to this guy's legal fund? Seems like he wants to fight and I'm really curious how this plays out in court.
to be fair it's incredibly difficult to find people that are both technically and financially competent.
Don't you have to isolate components from the circuit to check resistance? Otherwise, you're looking also the other components look like the other arm(s) of a parallel circuit.
I did a little holiday baking myself this year - fixing my old Samsung 30" display in a similar way: http://blog.bn.ee/2014/12/22/sometimes-you-just-need-to-bake...
No, I don't think so. It will be 2016 and we'll still be having this conversation. Money.
I'm guessing you might find this hard to answer but, is your day rate higher accordingly? Or is it based on other independent factors?
this is a great collection. Thanks!
And I bet they're all just BOFFO!
Apple has reversed the block and the developers are being invited to resubmit the app in its original form: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/apple-reverses-block-of-osc...

For what it's worth, I specifically asked them if it was the kissing itself or the imagery of mens' buttocks that Apple objected to. Didn't get an answer to that question.
Strobes would also get nearby people's attention, possibly better than an alarm.

Then just add some loud techno music...
I think we are talking past each other..

As far as I can see it Apple consider the two things discrete issues. They slap an age 17 warning on apps which give access to adult material.

Plus content containing "pornography" on the App store is censored because they do not wish to distribute that content.

Again; I see no ambiguity there.

They're obviously fine with the idea that age warnings and parental controls are sufficient control for 3rd-party-server content

Fin in the sense they host the apps, sure. Fine in the sense they approve of that whole idea? Probably not. But how do you practically censor those apps (on their policy) without hindering the web experience for others. I guess they accept the trade off :) but are they fine with it? Who knows.

it's prima facie ridiculous that they would censor the same or similar content from their own servers.

I don't buy that argument, indeed you even make the counter point.

if adult content ends up on a kid's screen, a parent somewhere is getting pissed

Apple are directly responsible for content on the App store. So, surely, to avoid this sort of ball ache their policy isn't ridiculous.
50ms should be quite enough i think. That's 5X the minimum, more than any proper device should ask for.
If you want to be extreme you can make it 100ms but any more than that is way to extreme.
+1 I was just about to recommend coil, as well as state the "chicken and egg" problem ;)

I think GitCoin is interesting as well. Rewards from DeFi and staking could in principle be used to fund innovation.

https://gitcoin.co/
I don't know about Poland, but those factors don't really apply in the parts of the US I am familiar with.

- If buildings have climate control, which many schools and offices do, you are generally discouraged or prevented from opening windows. For example, a typical architecture for American public schools creates many entirely windowless classrooms.

- A significant majority of American restaurants, in my experience, only have indoor seating, except for maybe a small number of tables outside. This is because sidewalks are narrow, and many restaurants are located in strip malls with shared parking lots. The strip mall is probably the most common form of American retail development. While burger chains like McDonald's and Burger King will typically occupy free-standing buildings in the middle of a parking lot, they also rarely have any outdoor seating, probably because of the hazard presented by cars at the drive-thru line.

- In my experience, public transit in many American cities is insignificant. In the cities where public transit is a lifeline (such as the New York City subway, the DC metro, and the California Caltrain), ridership is high year-round and you also don't have much freedom to open windows. (And in a subway tunnel, why would you?)
Trump is a bad and scary man, but one of the only good things he's done is post this tweet:

"I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"
Hopping up is a typical conduct issue among canines. You might be irritated by your energized, excessively abundant canine assaulting you the moment you venture through the front entryway. Be that as it may, it can really be hazardous for little youngsters, individuals who have actual inabilities, some more established individuals, and individuals who aren't anticipating your canine's welcome. Fortunately you can prepare your canine to quit hopping on individuals and begin welcoming everybody all the more obligingly..
> Bad guys: we are not your friends. There are various ways of surveilling blockchain transactions that are far more effective than KYC. Not only will we continue to cooperate with authorities where required by law, but we actively collaborate with industry groups to monitor and root out sinister activity. We are here to protect good people, and as such, stand resolutely against evil.

"Against evil"...now where have I heard that before...

Translation: "We, a private corporation, get to determine what good and evil is. YMMV how/why you qualify for either or."
Politics maybe off topic, but this is partially our fault. It’s always frustrated me that politics are largely unaddressed on HN. Not talking about it doesn’t make it not so.
The 2000 elections were most probably stolen, but Al Gore played the safer card and accepted defeat. Since then I don't see how anyone can trust the process.
The problem is that these features are not discoverable. Who would ever think of dragging a window by the maximize button?
Could be that they are beginning to apply their approach to user and customer service internally as well now? I don't know.
Perhaps time in prison? In the sense that people assume having gone to prison is a challenge to the default assumption of whether you are a good person.
How about you take a long Apple/short Facebook position? (or something similar?)
I've been a Mac user since 2004. I switched my main computer to Windows right when Windows 10 released, mostly for gaming. Late last year, I've switched to Linux (Manjaro then straight Arch) with a heavily customized, simplified Gnome desktop (to fit my exact needs).

In my opinion, for what I need, Linux & Gnome is so much better than Windows 10. And better than Big Sur, I must regretfully add. UX has gone abysmally low with macOS 11, sadly.
The problem that arises here is one of pythons scoping and people reading this satire will have a hard time understanding what is happening (if they don't follow the links in the article).

Taking an example from a reddit comment[1] for the actual pattern matching. The command matched on is a list, and the matching condition in this case is the number of elements in the list.

command = ['cmd', 'somearg']
match command:
case [nonargaction]:
print(f'We got a non-argument command: {nonargaction}')
case [action, arg]:
print(f'We got a command with an arg: {action}, {arg}')
case _:
print('default, dunno what to do')

The case gives you named arguments representing the matched strcutre. The scoping problem is, that python will overwrite an existing variable at this scope.
Seen here with loops:

x = 0
for x in range(5):
pass
print(x) # = 4
m = 5
match m:
case x: pass
print(x) # = 5

Other examples and applications can be found in one of the relevant PEPs 635 [2] (634 is the specification I believe).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lgqhmj/stack_o...

[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0635/
Not if you can activate the layer immediately with your thumb.
> Will we reach a point where an M1-like full-desktop SOC includes enough processing, storage and graphics power that it satisfies any user's desktop/laptop needs?

I doubt it. It used to be that things requiring a cluster of computers 20 years ago now runs on desktops while clusters and HPC systems run even bigger calculations.

With more power, memory, and storage, things will trickle down and new approaches will take their place.

In my research, it would be great if I could use an algorithm scaling at N^5 which gives high accuracy, but it’s too expensive for most N, so pretty much everyone uses an N^3 scaling approach which is less accurate.
Depends. Let me start by addressing the HTML/javascript toolchains out there: they suck. One of my clients has experience of this. The first thing they tried was using one of those javascript/html systems. Its a fairly simple app that one would think was ideal for HTML/javascript, but it was barely usable and tech support was awful. Thats why they hired me.

What platforms are your target - the "etc" you mention? Blackberry? Blackberry is still huge but by iPhone and Android standards they are hardly smartphones. How about WP7? Interesting but so far tiny.

Next question: what kind of app? If its games, you use C/C++ and OpenGL for Android and iPhone.

Personally, I use C# and manage core business logic libraries with platform-specific user interfaces in Silverlight, MonoTouch and MonoDroid. I have a client who wants Android and later Blackberry, so for that we do the Android version in "normal" java so we can share libs with Blackberry in the future.

I don't think there's a one size fits all. The ones that do (e.g. Flash, or HTML/javascript) end up looking or running like ass.
I'd bet that ulimit, quota, and chroot would go a long way to solving those issues.
Bing does not change its title for airbnb http://www.bing.com/search?q=airbnb

Cool trick!
Here is another feed with out any of the ustream commercials: http://www.wpbt2.org/stargazer/
It's interesting how difficult this can be. I was recently evaluating Linode locations for a new virtual server, and though I'm geographically much closer to California, the Texas location gave me almost 20x the download speed. To be precise, I was able to download from a California node at 300K/s, while I got close to 6MB/s from Texas.

Comcast used to route my traffic to California through Seattle, Washington, then down to San Jose and then Fremont, but now, it's going to Texas first, then across to San Diego, then up to Fremont, across a saturated link.
Since when amazon started publishing this information?
I bought it. I don't like the way it looks in iPad, with the column on the right side that's cut off. I also feel like I should be able to swipe to view it, instead of just pressing the arrow at the bottom. But, otherwise, I like it and I think I'll use it to brush up on some fundamentals. PS, add Ruby!
Wiretaps conducted by the FBI apply to installations in the US. Let's say I'm a dissident in my own (not the USA) country. An FBI wiretap does not compromise me wrt. my own government. Tampering with Tor on a large scale, however, has very much the potential to do so.
At highway speeds it definitely does, but not necessarily at city speeds as the speed is low (and a stationary car makes no tyre noise but combustion engine still makes some engine noise).

This of course also depends on the road surface and tyres. Where I live we have rough asphalt (with large granite chips sticking out) and rought tyres, at least in the winter. The highway noise is practically all from tyres.
Here is an example project on github:

https://github.com/jlongster/gambit-iphone-example

I used Emacs which spawned a REPL connected to a live instance of the app and developed from there. Meaning, the app was running in the simulator/device, and I could evaluate code and instantly see changes.
Did Himmler have the technology to continuously monitor movements and verbal and written communications of every citizen?
An American lawyer writing about currency. Let us make unjust remarks about their narrow worldview!
A question of naivety--why bother with checking by "casting out 9's". Isn't it simpler to simply redo the calculation and check if you get the same result? If you're concerned that you multiplied wrong isn't it just as likely you'll perform a bad check calculation resulting in a false negative/false positive?
Don't ask for the 'Great Quake and Fire of 1906' path.
Insightful, thanks.

Ok now this may come across as ignorant but is language ever the problem? Maybe your emails are in english and the subtext doesn't translate over to Indonesian via written forms easily?

Also, any comments and insights on the Indian startup scene? Bangalore has been making a lot of noise lately...
> SpaceX is everyone's favourite private sector success story, but they're basically just a younger, leaner version of Lockheed— surviving off of NASA

In 2020, SpaceX did 26 launches. Only six of those had NASA as a customer. The rest were a mix of US military, commercial customers, foreign governments (Argentina and South Korea), and Starlink. Even if you add up NASA and US military, that's still only nine out of 26 with the US government as the customer.

So while no doubt SpaceX does benefit from NASA's business, it is now only a minority.
I half-seriously suggested that a project I used to care about set up a cron job to delete requests older than a year automatically.

The rationale was that they only did that sporadically every few years, when some other change mooted the issue. If they ignored feature requests on a schedule, it would better manage external expectations.

See also, The CADT Model (but copy-paste the link in to your browser bar to avoid a bit of unrelated commentary):

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Does this mean they'll have all the old trucks up for sale? Who wants to start a food truck with me in an old USPS vehicle
Oh come on.

> Median household income (in 2019 dollars), 2015-2019

> Cupertino: $171,917 [1]

> USA: $62,843 [2]

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/cupertinocityca...

[2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/INC110219#IN...
I know what your point was. But the expedience of those times came at an incredible human cost.
You'd want a fully regulated power supply for this, /especially/ because it's discrete. You want the LEDs to remain constant brightness, but, more importantly, you don't want an unregulated power supply to overvolt and destroy all this hard work.
> First off, this guy feels entitled to be able to trudge across private property against the owner's wishes to get to "public" wet sand area. There is plenty of private property that welcomes people to trudge across it. Why does he need to on this specific person's property?

Because state law in fact requires such access to be maintained for the public, specifies a process that must be adhered to for substantial changes to such access, and because access via the particular property in question was, in fact, provided through the property in question for a century prior to the present dispute.

The "entitlement" here is entirely on the part of Khosla, who feels that he should be freed without cost from limitations on the scope of property rights applicable to the property he acquired, when those limitations were well known in the market when the property was sold and priced into the price when he purchased it.
Sure, but shareholders are rarely responsible for a companies actions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

Anyway, my point is if bot's can create and run companies then at some point they could gain the use of corporate personhood.
>I can't find numbers on how many Americans own homes, but 67% of homes are occupied by their owner

...who has usually taken out a huge loan for the privilege, providing a stream of rents to the, uh, real aristocracy.

>52% own stocks.

Probably less than 1% could actually live off what they own, however, and rely primarily upon their labor for their income.

>The means to success seem pretty accessible based on these numbers.

Yes, well you intentionally made these numbers misleading didn't you? You didn't count the number of Americans whose incomes are derived wholly or nearly wholly from rents. You counted the proportion of Americans who owned at least one share.

As for owning one's home... were medieval peasants who owned a sliver of land aristocracy? According to you it sounds like it.
Do most people use Redshift for this sort of thing? Is that the best option out there?
Not sure how but I almost thought this engine would recognise speech and carry out actions.

The demo is nice. That said, SQL Server had a language processing plugin which could translate normal text to a SQL query, this was back in the days.

Which languages do you support?
There is a gap in the market for "searchable" voice clips - ie. auto transcribed to text, and allowing the user to see the text or hear the message.
Lyra is a good candidate for replacing the protocol already used in Whatsapps voice calls. The binary size of Whatsapp matters, so it would depend on Lyra not requiring a multi-megabyte neural net too. The 40 millisecond extra enforced delay might have a negative impact on user experience.

It might be a good candidate for use in the voice message feature of whatsapp. That feature doesn't require low latency audio, so there might be even better compression schemes that use forward and backward compression techniques.
Googled: "no dependency" javascript framework
37k+ results.
"no build" javascript framework
45k+ results.

At this point I'd be seriously impressed by someone saying "I didn't create a new JS framework, instead I contributed to an existing one".
Can't read tutorial on mobile
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-40-of-americans-cant-cov...
> "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" in Harry Potter is another example of a rhetorical device used to instill bloodcurdling fear and larger-than-life authority of a a Wizard-of-Oz-style villain. Note that this is a children's book. Every adult person should be able to see through that.

Moreover, that's a theme in the books. From the outset,Harry is one of the few (along with Dumbledore, the wise old sage) who are not afraid to say the name and consider such fear silly. He's also the only person who can stand up to Voldemort, and presumably those things are related. To him Voldemort is just a guy, not some kind of superhuman Satan, perhaps because he doesn't let himself get caught up the hysteria.