jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That this story is being silenced out in so many places... blows my mind. HN should be ashamed to participate in the censorship.

The President of the United States is blatantly violating the Constitution (in one of the worst ways), and nobody cares.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135423586/when-the...
A lpMUD I used to play is still up and running 25 years later. At this point though it's just a chat room with spells for the admin staff.
Taking a page from Bane, just get a bigger drone to grab it.
My attempt at a basic smart algorithm. Not so easy...

https://gist.github.com/kballenegger/e275a99d50de2ee07f97
To downvoters: the truth hurts, doesn't it?
Ryanair, too. They will fly you to $MAJOR_CITY* for just €0.50†!

* Where we actually mean "a smaller airport 150km away from that city and you're on your own for getting to it"

† Plus €20 ticketing fee, €20 payment-processing fee, €20 boarding-pass issuance fee, €20 checked baggage fee, €20 carry-on baggage fee, €20 fee for no baggage, €20 plane-boarding fee, €20 airport use fee, €20 fee-handling fee and other additional fees as indicated in the terms and conditions
Good to see we're moving on from arresting people for videotaping cops doing things they shouldn't be doing.
Not only is this a great talk, but sitting below the video is a humble link to his custom presentation hardware kit that drives it. Amazing!

http://www.linusakesson.net/music/elements/presentation.php
So much this. Who were you building it for? What are their problems, and why won't they pay you to solve it?

Despite your progress on code, I would say you still only have an idea. A working idea, but you don't know if it's marketable.

Read Steve Blank - get out of the building and talk to people. Right now, you don't seem to know exactly what the problem is you're solving.
I’m reminded of this video https://youtu.be/WAXLTG9n7Kw
>As always, gimme a call when I can buy a latte and groceries with it.

Same problem as when you're in let's say Uzbekistan and only have Rubles, an exchange has to happen in order to spend your Rubles in local currency.

Not going to try and disuade your from your position but bitcoin is not going anywhere and might as well accept it.
And how is that different except that the same information is spread over more screen space and hidden inside tabs? White space and tabs also works in immediate mode UIs.
You can also commit Excel files to a git repo. That lets you get back to old revisions and look at the commit messages. But you're not going to get a diff or git blame, which is what the parent comment really meant.
Due to popular demand, the Khan Academy test-prep materials have been archived in the Kolibri Channel called "Khan Academy - Standardized Test Preparation" see https://kolibri-catalog-en.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/t...

If you want to continue accessing these, check out the instructions about setting up Kolibri posted in the thread above, then in step 3 download this channel using the token "nojon-baraz" or simply select from list. Once you download to localhost (might take a while), you'll have all the videos and exercises locally so not a problem even if this materials are taken down from the KA website.
This is useful for the novices among us, especially because it's extremely easy to tell someone "don't use var" and not really follow up on why.

But one thing I'd like to know more about is how const and let are handled under the hood (at the engine level). I have some (probably wrong) theories about what happens, but I'd like a comprehensive explanation if anyone has a good link.
The vast majority of SF's population don't make anything close to tech salaries either. Working at a FAANG or adjacent company in the Bay Area is roughly equivalent to working in finance in London.

But even outside of the big tech companies, wages for software engineers are relatively higher in the US than the UK (90th percentile vs 75th) and the higher paid are paid more (2.6x the median at 90th percentile vs 2.0x the median.) If you compare median salaries / rents on pre Brexit and 2008 financial crash exchange rates SF and the Bay Area come out pretty similar.
FWIW, I'd argue that Theil's actions were a rare example of that sort of thing happening semi-openly. It's probably always happening behind the scenes to all other publications by all people of that class. The rest of them just have better cut-outs and relationships already established to quietly kill anything they don't like.
Nullifying DDOS doesn't take ingenuity, it takes a big wallet, which Github no doubt has, but let's not pretend that its some engineering feat. If it was, a small company being ddosed would have a chance at fending it off all the same, but that's just simply not the case.
> Not everyone does (pregnant or nursing women, or the sick, for example), and not everyone fasts for that period of time. Some people in different roles in the church (what non-Mormons might call a prophetic / visionary role) are encouraged to fast more often.

Indeed. I wanted to put that in my initial comment, and forgot. If you are sick, pregnant, or there are other health concerns, or doctor's orders to prevent you from fasting, then you don't.

Also, you are encouraged to fast more frequently for spiritual matters indeed.
I didn't know Perforce at the time so I couldn't comment. I learned it later on which helped to understand that side of it. Still doesn't explain why they thought they can switch to a different tool but continue the same workflow as with the previous tool. (I can certainly explain that part but it would be out of context here, heh.)
Not quite. People simply aren't spending like they did before, and you're at least expected to have some reasonable revenue model. Having worked in the startup world for 7 years now, I've heard plenty of stories of the excess of the late 90's, and it certainly seems we're still quite a ways away from that.
Joshua Schachter started Delicious on the side while working full time. At a trading firm no less. It seems like the keys were (a) to work on something where there was no big initial step to get over-- something that was interesting to a small number of people almost immediately, and (b) to make constant incremental progress.
Thanks for the info. I was going to get the double extra large on my db server and double processor for the web servers.

Don't know what to do, I am finding myself pricing up SAN's etc this morning.

It's all down to time, I have the knowledge to do it all myself but I don't really want the responsibility. I don't want to go on holiday and the whole of our system to depend on me. I can make it as redundant as possible but as usual there is a cost behind that. More servers are more money.

We currently spend around 17k a year though on dedicated servers so to seriously save some money I would look at spending around that on actual hardware.
As much as the RIAA has done terrible stuff and earned their status as a boogieman, aren't they the main representatives of the music industry? It isn't like the music labels are not the ones behind the RIAA's actions.
Hey there, added a "Portfolio" section to the bottom of my page as you suggested. I also made each sample a link to a larger form of the image.

Thanks for the suggestion
Yacht guy can just as easily set up his legal residence in Barbados while actually living in the U.S. and get the same benefits (and many do).
Is there some income level where everyone can agree that nobody is a "sucker", and you're just rich at that point?

I would imagine all but a handful of doctors make less than 2 million dollars (40 times the median household's income), and those that do I'd be fine calling rich. If you create a new tax bracket for the rich at that point, you're losing only 2% of the increased tax income on the 100 millionaires, but not harming the struggling, debt-ridden doctors of the world.
Well, the picture at least is cited as "Photo by: Courtesy", but you can find a bigger version on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_centrifuge_cascade.jpg
Keep a pencil and paper on your desk, and use them to guide your thinking. This eliminates any ambiguity as to what you are doing, while at the same time actually helping your thought process along.
Its a 2D map of the tip position which is a function of the tunneling current over a surface. Its not frequency.
Only for a few of them. I think the vast majority will vote based on what’s hip, and the most recent memes.
Do they usually?
Heavy lifting works the CNS like nothing else. Granted we don't think of recruiting motor units as having anything to do with cognition, but fact is it's all one system.
That was my thought, too. I'm usually ready to kiss the Earth after a 16+ hour flight. I can't imagine 5 days, and not even in the luxury of a coach class airline seat.
The only part of the Wuffs spec I just read that I dislike:

Strings. I would really prefer strings to work like existing C and 'bash' style quoting. At least the simple aspects of it, the parts of the rules that are easy to remember and simple. A string should always be a sequence of octets, but easily coerced by a casting operator to a numeric format from any index. I'm not sure what the syntax for that would be offhand.
Can we have RSS there, please?
On this point, you might enjoy "A Fortunate Universe (Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos)" by Lewis and Barnes. It discusses this "fine-tuning" problem in a detailed and up-to-date way, and avoids the theological speculation found in some other treatments. (That is, fine-tuning is sometimes presented as evidence for God.)
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I'm going to simplify this down.

1. I believe the type of person who is capable of being a great programmer has a very large number of career options open to them, most of which don't involve becoming a great programmer.

2. Thus, I believe there is a set of people who could be great programmers who are not actually are great programmers. I believe this set to be fairly large compared to the existing set of great programmers.

3. I believe that a good sized percentage of that set of people could be motivated to become great programmers if the rewards were increased substantially. I believe they have chosen other paths which they believe will be more rewarding. If you want to change the number of great programmers, you need to change that calculation.

My position is fairly straight forward. You can agree or disagree as you wish.
"Predicting" stuff is easy. The hard part is: do your predictions perform better than a coin flip?
They still have alot to catch up with. Start with allowing developers from more countries to put up paid apps on Market.
An old teacher told me "yesterday is dead and gone, and tomorrow will take care of itself, all you can change is what you do right now."

Start today, make the most of thirty minutes and stop. One hour every day is more valuable than seven on Saturday, it'll let the lessons percolate while you sleep and do your other job. A small daily goal won't seem so imposing but it will maintain your mental momentum.

Most importantly, though, do something you really care about. Mess around and try things until you fall into it. Build a cause and a story around it and inspire yourself. You're only the first person you'll have to sell. When you wake up in the morning with a burning desire to change the world your way, don't worry, it won't feel like work any more.
I agree with you on that. The Ikea anecdote was really not well fleshed out at all. Not only does it not really come inline with the essay, but it's barely explained and touted throughout the paper as a name-drop.

I also thought the detail that he rode his bike around the Hamptons as a testament to his thrift was dubious. So someone who buys a house in the Hamptons is thrifty because he rides a bike? Could it be that he's biking as some sort of recreation perhaps? Big loss only driving the Lexus in a and out of the area.
> The roads always need paved.

Yes but someone might invent a labour saving device that makes it easier to pave roads. This is what has happened with farms. The paved roads are not as important to humanity as food. Food is the most important thing to humanity, that doesn't mean going into agriculture is a good idea.
<off topic>

Well, then again, Chinese girls are (IMHO) a lot more pretty than Western girls.

You also know Chinese characters (which is a massive accomplishment in my book).

The current stereotype is also that Asian people are good at math. So it is not all that bad ;)

</off topic>
again, rents here are economic rents, not rent payments, which is an unfortunate name collision. economic rents are, by definition, unproductive capture of surplus. rent payments can fall into productive (for the provision of services, upkeep, and expansion) or unproductive (excess cash flow resulting from restrictive policy) uses, but that's really beside the point in respect to a land value tax.

the land value tax is aimed squarely at taking economic rents of real property down to zero via taxation. in the ideal scenario, the land value tax would be exactly equal to the economic surplus (generated by poor policy or anything else) for each property, to negate the ability to extract economic rents, leaving only productive uses to generate income (perhaps in the form of a rent payment).
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This article is paginated. Annoying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605904
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3763907
> This ludditic reverence for user-hostile text editors is one of the more perplexing and frustrating things about our industry.

I feel the same way about our industry's enslavement to faddishness.
You have some really responses to your question. There may be more coming, but with what you have here, it is a goldmine of great anecdotes,stratgies,tactics and facts.
Good luck.
"Share what you want, with who you want"

Sorry to be a grammar troll, but shouldn't it be "whom"?
He is located in Pennsylvania, and he's only 21 so its a bit odd that he's married with 2 kids...
I understand the thing they just released allows on-the-fly compiling. I'm just suggesting is that since the existing options remain available, you can still use them.
Are there any current browser standards for validating that the served JS is ‘safe’? I can see such a thing being also useful for applications like ProtonMail, for example?

What about something like a browser extension that queries an audit server for a list of signed hashes of ‘safe’ JS?

- Well-known code auditors could perform reviews of JS

- They could sign JS they find safe with their PGP keys and upload it to some server

- Users could choose to trust certain auditors

- Every time you visit a site that you choose to require this kind of validation, you could check that the hashed JS matches the key

I guess we’re going the way of PKI+SHA hashes of distributed binaries all over again though. Also, if the website updates JS, you’d need to wait for auditors to review it, and there’s a whole mess there (websites would probably have to serve beta versions of their code ahead of release so auditors could have time to review them). Finally, JS would have to be static across all users and I’m not sure how feasible this is.

There is some benefit, though? Now you are distributing the trust over ProtonMail and your trusted auditors. This could be useful if we find ProtonMail to be compromised one day. This might even spawn businesses aimed solely at reviewing websites’ code.

There has to be a better way to do this. How can we bring ‘code review’ to web applications?
It's grown significantly over the past year or two. It got a big foothold at universities and has been gaining steam. It came at a time when Skype was pretty terrible to use, and the only other major player was Cisco WebEx, which was also pretty bad. Now all these universities are doing classes online, and they're using Zoom because that's what they have.

My biggest complaint is that, for new users, it seems to choose either the wrong speakers or the wrong microphone about 80% of the time. Once that's fixed, it mostly works well. The interface is a bit clunky, but I can usually get it to do what I want without too much trouble.

Source: I've been a mostly happy user of Zoom at a university for two years.
How about this: what would the lives of these children be like without that work? From your Western perspective, you judge this to be awful and evil, but what if the work they're doing is actually allowing them to make their families more than they could otherwise? What if it's the best option that currently exists? What if it contributes to increasing living standards in their country over time?[0] You can't look at a third world country through the lens of Western standards of living. A dollar a day is worth a great deal in some parts of the world.

The question isn't "why are some people poor", it's "why are some people rich". Human beings are born poor. We receive or make (or steal) whatever we have.

[0] Obviously, I am discounting political corruption that might keep wages artificially low.
> What are people ordering now that they didn't usually order?

When the grocery stores ran out of tp, people started ordering from Amazon. When Amazon ran out of 2-day-delivery tp, people started ordering bidets.

People who suddenly WFH are now ordering extra supplies to do so (webcams, ethernet cables, whiteboards, privacy screens, headphones, etc). People with children out of school are ordering extra books, crafts, boardgames, videogames, etc. People SIP are now turning to Amazon for groceries and daily supplies. (Yes, grocery stores are open, but many don't want to go out if it can be at all avoided.)

In short, almost everyone who thinks of buying from Amazon is ordering something they don't usually order and/or ordering the normal items more frequently.
You say "none of them sacrifice their own benefits", but I do know people who make sacrifices to choose others' well-being, such as researching the products they buy, forgoing certain foods, products, and services.

So I'd say not everyone is "pretending to really care".
The dollar index is well within its normal range.

No amount of buying corporate debt will keep people employed.

This is to artificially reflate asset prices.
The joke was (at least to the best of my knowledge) that nudging people to use chrome is further reinstating their monopoly, leading to a browser landscape comparable to IE days, which would not quite be the 90s, but close.
https://www.google.ca/#q=Cost+of+Destiny

At least this "Buggy, Half-Built Game" will allow for more than 30fps.
You should actually read the article.
A lot of developers have this: https://xkcd.com/303/

I think there is a positive and a negative to this. The positive is that you are constantly moving forward, so you have a lot of practice to sustain a higher level of mental productivity. Sometimes you just want make the high-impact decisions and outsource the mundane details to others, provided you can trust them.

The negative is that you constantly feel that you are pulled somewhere. Which means that you are not really the center of your life but something is always missing, there is somewhere you have to be, there is some unfinished business. So you can never really "stop and smell the roses". This also becomes a habit, to the point where you have trouble settling down and enjoying a moment when you need to.

Both muscles need to be exercised.
The most important thing of these Chromebooks, at least for me, is the quality of the touchpad and keyboard, as if I ever get one they will be used mainly for typing stuff/chatting. There is a reason why I still us an almost decade-old Lenovo Thinkpad R61 as a reserve machine and something that I can use outside/on the go. Granted it is a big heavy but for me, it's worth it.

So, is there a chromebook, that can offer me a good quality of keyboard/touchpad?

Sadly I don't think there is one with a trackpoint, which would pretty much make these the perfect notebook for my use-case.
Haha...this whole article...."we got a bunch of cheap and hungry kids to sell our product that pretty much sells itself to other kids just like them and they did it! Yay us!"

Now why don't you try this out in an industry you actually need domain knowledge in and let us know how it works out.
> How often do you need laundry detergent? Every two weeks? If this button saves you ten seconds each time, that's a total of 4.3 minutes per year saved. And that assumes you buy the stuff one at a time instead of getting a bunch at once.

Eh about once every 2 months.

It's taken me 2 weeks so far to remember to get it. I go to the store almost daily. :(
A keyboard is a bit more fundamental to a computing experience than a hardly-used peripheral is to a gaming experience.
IMHO one of the greatest current problems in computing is how to have openness and freedom on a platform without sacrificing user experience or letting it turn into malware hell. The walled gardens are walled to keep out the riff raff -- or at least the benefit of doing this is why vendors can get away with it. If there were no benefits, the market would reject this.
I think this is the most interesting direction of research in CS one can get involved with today. In 10-20 years, half of CS graduate will be working in computational biology and the other half developing SDR-based machine intelligence.
Use Swift's nil coalescing operator: a ?? b
> As a teenager, I read Ayn Rand on how any work that needed to be done day after day was meaningless, and that only creating new things was a worthwhile endeavor.

Ayn Rand advocated the exact opposite of this. (i.e., that all productive work is morally worthwile.)

I stopped reading here. Lying about Ayn Rand is not respectable journalism, though attacking Rand is now a badge of honor among certain groups.
A good idea but tainted by association with Stallman and therefore with Stallman's made-up, non-empirical, false morality.
Why's that more alarming? "72 hours to stop the bill" is pretty alarming, but with the bill still in committee, there's still a a little longer for it to go yet. The third reading is scheduled in a fortnight.
Actually, they are in better position to be acquired by the existing bigger luggage companies in few years. It is a lot easier for the bigger luggage companies to acquire them than create a software/hardware group.
it’s running inside the EM-DOSBOX system, since Windows 3.x was essentially a very complicated program running inside DOS. (When Windows 95 came out, a big deal was made by Gates and Co. that it was the “end” of the DOS prompt, although they were seriously off by a number of years.)

Nitpicking just a little bit: Windows 3 didn't run inside DOS. Maybe "on top of it" if you want to put it that way, but not "inside".

It changed the processor and graphic modes and when shut down it reverted to the prompt. But by no means was it "just a big DOS program".

Guess what: Windows 95 also was a program running "on top" of DOS. That was somewhat hidden, but I remember clearly that I booted to DOS and then executed either Windows 3 or Windows 95 (I was programming a compatible 16/32 bits application). There was some tweaking needed but it worked nicely.
Those units are very different from milliamps per hour (which is basically a nonsense unit) and watts (which are a unit of energy per time, therefore saying nothing about how long the battery will last).

I'm just trying to address the confusion here. Battery capacity is a relatively mundane detail, and I don't necessarily expect the people writing marketing copy to understand electrical terminology.