jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Slightly off topic: A shout-out from the wonderful Schlock Mercenary web comic: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-08

(Context: Set in the 31st century. The lady who says "That was Watterson studied ancient Earth memetics.)
most of the things I want to "code" have problems with them I can't solve. I don't have the time or money to solve those problems so why start? I have some potential business ideas/big projects but I can't figure out how to make those things pay for themselves and some of the engineering requires solving problems I don't know can be solved.

I can't drop out of my job to start working on them because people rely on the money coming in from my current job which consumes all my time and energy. I could try to raise investor money but as I said, I don't know how to monetize these ideas or at least keep money coming in so no good investor would give me money and I refuse to commit fraud.
I'm confused... Where's the list of violations?
Because I'm updating my work log. Because my employer wants me to keep a log of everything I spend my time on. Or, because I'm updating my ticket statuses. Because my boss wants to see updates in tickets periodically even if there is no progress, so sometimes the udpdate is just "no progress."
Agree. We need some old school style trustbusting.
> You know, the “currency” problems and not the “crypto” problems.

You seem to be looking for fiat currency, that already exists.

The point of cryptocurrency is that not everyone wants fiat, some people place more of a priority on certain things and less on certain other things.
It seems the larger point here is that more evolved type systems allow for a better bidirectional decoupling of interfaces and implementations. Rust has a lot of things that make this easier-yet-governable. The commenter (
jstimpfle) who mentioned C is also right - C properly used allows one to do things, since it's not bound by OOP strictures.
Digital assets are obviously the best possible use case for blockchains and smart contracts, but can it really work outside of that use case? And even for that use case is it really more convenient than centralized solutions?

From what I can tell browsing through this website those digital "assets" seem to be yet another speculative outlet with some limited gamification on top. It's cool from a technical perspective but where do we go from there?
So I moved into industry out of post doc and I can tell you as long as you're getting your day job done and it isn't that expensive you can test most any idea. I'd say it's even easier to do it in industry because "not that expensive" to industry is like 10-fold more than in academia.
> if usable outside MacOS software stack

Except, of course, according to Apple’s history regarding the matter, it won’t.
The mass of the result of 2015 is close to the current claim, so I have to correct may comment and say that it has not disappeared (yet).

But they have a 13.45+-.30 MeV result in 2012 with a significance of 3 sigmas [1] and a 12.0+-2.5 MeV result in 2008 (I can't find the significance, it looks like a 2 or 3 sigma) [2].

If it possible to get a false result by chance like 1/20 or 1/100 of the times, but they already got 2 of them. So I'm very skeptical of the new third claim.

(Also the story about the protophobic particle is strange. There have been more strange things, but this is strange anyway. And it's also not clear why the protophobicity hides the particle in all the previous electron-positron collision experiments in many other laboratories.)

[1] https://www.lnf.infn.it/sis/frascatiseries/Volume56/Krasznah...

[2] http://www.actaphys.uj.edu.pl/fulltext?series=Reg&vol=39&pag...
man, remember when we were kids, and everything was so easy? now we're MIDDLE AGED (PERSON)[1] and those young whippersnappers are breezing in.

[1] https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/middle-aged-ma...
I noticed (and was surprised at) vans.com using asp.net.
I think we can all see how much more straightforward Greenwald's job would be if he had all the chat transcripts, but their release is Wired's prerogative, not his.
Mirror here (tested with VLC - File - Open Network):

http://ha.cx/DJB.mp4
You listed six of the seven signs of the apocalypse
I'm pretty convinced I could get the dog to use an iPad. I wonder if there is a simple iPad soundboard app.
Honestly, off the top of my head I have no idea. I've registered a few trademarks but its been a while so I need to refresh my memory and do some due diligence before I give you any numbers or facts. Sorry, but I'll definitely write a post and record a podcast that will go over the highlights and specifics.
What was asked was, what sets Greenwald apart from OTHER pundits? I attempted to answer that. I didn't attempt to say he's not a pundit. I happen to think he's a particularly good pundit; others might disagree.

As an aside, there certainly seems to be a lot of downvoting based on disagreement in this comment thread.
With the recognition that those functions have a common protocol / interface, and consequently have more in common that is usually noticed.

Monads aren't a new thing, rather they're giving a name to a concept that has been hiding in plain sight. Trying to look at them directly is confusing at first, like suddenly being able to explicitly manipulate continuations.
The hardware costs for disk/RAM/chassis swaps when they break are zero, they come from cannibalized servers probably from the same lot that are long-since amortized.

The labor? Negligible. Most dedicated server providers put their engineering dollars into services, automation, and network capacity. I know a dedicated server firm in San Francisco that pays it's button pushers and hard drive swappers $15/hour, or about 50% more than they would make at McDonalds .. In comparison, the nominal cost of labor for the average task is almost zero. Most dedicated server companies also have banks of systems administrators working in India for $5 per hour to further reduce their costs.

I've run two companies that provided dedicated servers as part of their overall offerings, worked at another two, and consulted for another two. The numbers say: Old Hardware Is Profitable But Expendable.
That's easy - a graphic designer! I am whiz-bang with code and databases but have neither the skill nor time to make it look pretty.
I absolutely agree that it is not a problem.

Issues has a full api, as do most other parts for exporting/importing/manipulating data. I can't find the wiki api right offhand.

And yes, I'm ok with companies keeping some of the secrets of the sauce, as long as they're reasonable about the data, I put in, which they are.
anything like this in california?
... except the results don't have much to do with Feedburner, do they?
Do the news articles about Health insurers using the question "do you have any past health issues" and only looking into your past if something expensive comes up.

I read about this woman who had something minor, such as ear infections as a child you, and forgot to put it on the intake form. So years later when she got cancer the Insurer dugg into her past and found the minor issue that she forgot to put on the intake form.

This was such a big deal a Senator grilled the insurance company about it but they responded with "we are just doing what we our stock holders hold us to" or something like that.

I wish I could find the article that talked about this.
Looks to me like the results all include short URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl) that when expanded go to feeds that do use or include FeedBurner.

This JavaScript turns short URLs long:

javascript:void(function(){if(typeof%20jQuery%20==%20'undefined'){var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);}var%20l=document.createElement('script');l.src='http://www.longurlplease.com/js/longurlplease.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(l);function%20runIfReady(){try{if($.longurlplease){%20clearInterval(interval);%20$.longurlplease();}}catch(e){}};%20var%20interval%20=%20window.setInterval(runIfReady,100);}())

Or http://www.longurlplease.com/
But why pretend that this would actually happen? Compilation is transforming programming language into machine code; writing in this case is the act of typing out your program in programming language. 'Originally written in Obj-C' means the code was formed by you in Objective-C before being transformed by a compiler. It is now machine-code, it was 'originally,' ie. before compilation, Obj-C.

They care not a jot whether your adopting code from a Python project. Technically it's not the same program then anyway. Everyone knows this! C'mon
Typically you don't pay employees when they strike. So the contract is essentially put on hold, where you aren't paying them for that time, so they aren't contractually obliged to do any work for you.
Because everyone likes riding on the high horse and the prospect of moral superiority is too sweet.

Kidding aside, if it's not your money and time on the line, it is hard to see people taking the side of a big co against a normal employee, even if the said employee was actively sabotaging the big co from inside. We are habitual to view all such scenarios as "David vs Goliath" kind of stories.
100 ^ 3 if you read the whole thread (or even just read backwards from the end)
>> In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.

Yikes - this seems to go beyond labor organizing within the company.
EventSource is only from the server to the client. Pub/sub goes in any direction: client to client, client to server, etc.

Crossbar.io provides that with websocket.

Eventsource + the sync rfc would mean everybody would build a non standard bridge for this to link a publication, a sync from the server and an event source. And because we only need 2, and they are overlapping, several completly incompatible de facto solutions would emerge.

Pub/sub is useful for any kind of communication that doesn't involve a resource: notifications of events , communication between microservices, etc. Basically anything that doesn't have a need for an history.

Of course, you can always create abstract conceptual resources you sync with to obtain this effect. E.G: the "streaming service is down event" could be a sub to a "service/streaming/heartbeat" event that you sync, and ignore versions and give no parents. It's just a bit twisted.

It feels more natural to have a pub/sub primitive that goes back and forth in any direction, and build the specific case for sync with that. Even if sync is 90% of the time what you want.
Neat idea, but why can't it spoof the Wifi authentication page/popup? Can't it dress up as a new device and try to connect to the wifi network, and then see what kinds of authentication page is returned by the router? Then just copy that.
It's a little bit more involved than that.

What you have described is effectively a "checking account" and a "savings account."

Simple lets you have multiple goals you can fund simultaneously, where other banks required you to have multiple accounts to do so.
Hi, how is your project different from alpine.js?
you can ask to split paycheck direct deposit into 10 different checking accounts, if you in US at least.
Reminded of Java simulations that show yielding control of your vehicle 100 yards before a 4-way "smart" intersection can allow the central command to get every car through safely without adjusting anyone's speed more than 5 MPH.

Wish I could find it again.
in some ways we are similar to those guys, but we are different as we allow users to differentiate their posts between private and public. All posts are recorded in a diary, but public entries can be seen by anyone and they are displayed on a blog-like page. We believe that there is value to such private entries.
I vote for 2...
but you should submit this as a poll:

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
"Muses have no respect for deadlines"

This phrase is wonderful.
I like things like this, but if the doing new Array(x) is in the list of top 13 mistakes then we are doing pretty good! Also, I've never seen people assign undefined instead of a null.
I'm surprised by the number of people in msdn comments rejecting the author's proposal. I agree with the author, you can't produce a better project by trying to cram more work that has to be done than the time that is available.

Even in our environment, people need to understand that you are in a marathon and not a sprint. Trying to sustain 60-80hr weeks is counter productive, and will only burn out your employees rendering them useless.

Good ideas need time to develop, if you are constantly in work-work-work mode, you don't get the chance to reflect, think about what you are actually doing and make good decisions.

If you want a good product, hire people who know how to pace themselves, people that know how to accurate estimate how long it takes to deliver a feature and most importantly, people who have a consistent vision of what the product needs to be.

Otherwise, you are just blowing your money on a crapshoot.
At $250 it's not cheap, but there's a lot of really great process and information in the Sitepoint Web Design Business Kit; including sample contracts.

It's kind of like a franchise kit for freelancers.
Yes. Seriously, don't even try. In B2B, you need to make a lot of phone calls, on-site visits, etc. The only way to do this on the side is if you have someone else who is full-time sales. Could be an employee, a co-founder, or a rep. But don't try it by yourself.
1. A/B/C test it on your actual users. Everything else is a just a guess.

2. Having said that, my guess is that the first would generate the most opens. The second seems spammy and the third sounds invasive plus "more work."
That is basically what Chalmers argues in "Facing up the problem of consciousness." Basically, by the general approximation theorem, it is possible to find a neural network that acts externally precisely as you would, up to an arbitrarily small epsilon. However, one wonders if such a thing would be consciousness and if so, where does the consciousness sit, in the matrix multiplication or the graphics card.

So, you can argue something like our brains are nothing but curve fitting machine with enough parameters, but then you are probably forced to argue that consciousness is very closely related to computation, to the point were a coin flip, or a hello world program has some sliver of consciousness.

There are of course two possible ways around that, either one can argue for p-zombies, that is intelligent but not conscious beings, which then seems to require a super natural explanation for consciousness. Or you can argue that the brain is different, and that this gives rise to consciousness, and to general intelligence, which is the explanation that at least corresponds most closely to my subjective experience (but that is precisely what a soulless machine would write, isn't it?)
Hello masonic,
I've been checking, permissions are necessary for the following:
- Storage: The application can be shared with friends, for example by whatsapp, facebook, twitter, etc ...
- Phone status: The application is in 2 languages, to know which one to load, need to know what language your device uses.
- Location: Admob needs it
- Netwotk: It's for admob

In addition, the permissions are not activated, because it only uses what is necessary, such as to share the app with friends via twitter if you wish, you can try and see it for yourself in the permissions once installed.
The application uses it locally to work, it is not shared, for this I use a privacy policy.
They're likely being judged on an app adoption / time spent metric.
Seems like he posted a lame joke. The appropriate response would be for other users to downvote him. I've seen his other comments and he'll regularly be downvoted, but I think you're overreacting a bit. Perhaps you should stick to making sure HN runs, and aside from that mind your own business?
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21605719
Most top athletes have excellent work ethic but they also have natural ability. No amount of work ethic can compensate for lack of natural ability. You absolutely need that to get to the top.
Out of date. Reinforcement Learning makes truly ‘smart’ actions, courses of action. Calling something ‘curve fitting’ pooh poohs it (especially ‘just’ curve fitting) - calling it ‘distilling’ gives it the respect that it deserves.
I just looked at the Box stock. Google Finance says institutional ownership of 0%. Never seen something like this before - perhaps gFinance has buggy data or else the smart money is not on Box.
Perhaps similar story on Dropbox. Not sure when their IPO is, but I hear the rumblings of it.
I'm sorry for your loss. Dealing with technical issues at a funeral sounds terrible.
Yeah, I know more about my compatibility with someone after talking with them for a few minutes that I do from reading a perfect list of their interests and opinions.

It's why we date instead of picking our spouse from an Excel spreadsheet.

Dating apps cannot fix this, but they can make it easier to meet more people.

I thought a great take on this was the Black Mirror episode where your dating-app compatibility score with someone was the percentage of times your virtual clone escapes the simulation with them. How else can you predict chemistry?
They're making some seriously questionable allocations, for example nearly /9 or /10 of v4 to a Hong Kong company that has zero connections to anything in the Afrinic region, that appears to almost all be announced in Los Angeles and running proxies, with the rest being used for fraud/spam.

I'm wondering how much justification validation they are actually doing, or if something worse is going on.
Dating as a foreigner in Estonia: Everyone completely ignores me because I don’t speak any of the four local languages and they think I’m going to get fed up and leave in six months anyway
I would prefer if anyone posting a link would append the year of the original article, regardless of whether it's a repost or not.
The doctor was complicit in doing something disgusting and, one hopes, illegal. Why wouldn't you name him in a lawsuit?

classicsnoot mentions that the doctor "physically did everything he could to help their dead relative" but that very obviously didn't include helping to preserve his patient's dignity by keeping a camera crew away from him.

What a nightmare. I'm still slightly in awe that a hospital would put their patients through this. That TV people would put someone through it is, of course, not shocking at all...
especially numbers that are contextless. right now one of the biggest bubbles are 1 and 2.
Implied subject first: [you] read the fine article.
People worried about surveillance should read the story "The Dead Past" by Isaac Asimov. Here is a link to a copy of it [1]. It makes a point, which is probably not apparent until the twist ending, that is often overlooked (although I see a few commentators here have touched on it).

[1] http://www.redlibrary.net/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html
If by having an "iTunes" library you mean it has some old DRMd 128kbps AAC files, I believe they'll let you download non-DRMd 256kbps versions which will then play in most decent media players. AAC achieves transparency at lower bitrates than MP3, and compatibility really isn't much of a problem these days. Windows users seem to like foobar2000, MusicBee, or dBPowerAmp so you can move on from iTunes.
This is great for current defendants I guess, for now. Perhaps I'm confused and this is a bigger deal than I thought, but won't Stephens Media and Righthaven just modify their agreement and then get right back into the copyright-trolling 'business'?
I used sparrow for months and really enjoyed it but eventually had to switch back to mail for exactly these reasons. I agree whole heartedly with all of the points against sparrow but I'm not sure about the solutions...not that I have better suggestions.

Either way, I won't bother opening or even updating sparrow until it gets a universal inbox. I love the UI for the most part and I'm anxious to switch from mail.app but for now the problems sparrow introduces are worse than the ones it solves.
John Markoff's book "What the Dormouse Said" tells the tale of 1960s "acid tests" for the explicit purpose of mind augmentation or enhancement. It's a terribly fascinating read.
Examiners don't have that kind of discretion. They have such high quotas to meet that they're basically required by management to do a large proportion of shoddy work. The more time they spend pushing back on bogus applications (which is legitimately part of their job yet counted less favorably than rubber-stamping), the more they put their jobs at risk.
My Deleuze reading group imbibes heavily, and it seems (in a totally non-scientific way) to have no ill effects. Then again, it's Deleuze, so it's almost impenetrable anyway. The 1960s in California were full of AI and comp. sci. people doing brain enhancement/augmentation experiments with LSD and other drugs. I see no reason why alcohol can't perform a similar function.
The lack of search across multiple accounts is a huge pain.
Is there any reason this is specific to alcohol? From the article that doesn't appear to be the case. There are heaps of drugs that activate the same parts of the brain mentioned here, without (as many of) the deleterious side effects.

Curious that alcohol was singled out.
Same, converting that price to AUD/Litre is about $1.25 per litre, which is quite cheap considering fuel prices are about $1.40-$1.50 per litre here currently.
Most other commercialized open source products do the same. One could argue that GitHub has done their share for the open source community already, however.
If the way of the parent comment is not the way, what is a way?

I for one am looking forward to migrating to a lotus position desk from my standing treadmill one.
I think technically gambling online is illegal in the US but it's covered by the wire act and not UIGEA.

I'm not 100% sure as it's been a while since I've kept up with this but I believe that Poker has always been in a sort of gray area. I think there is suppose to be a distinction between games of chance and games of skill. In the past only online sports books or true online casinos had ever been prosecuted in the US.
You can chose which letters you want to 1337, you can double some letters, you can uppercase others, etc. The key is to stick to your own secret trick :)
Except it's BSD licensed and not necessary to share the code.
I mean, Western Union can have way higher transaction fees, and people still use that for some reason.