jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The other problem with "1 left in stock" is that I might want to buy two, and if you claim to have only one, I'll go to another site rather than order from you and wait an unknown amount of time for you to restock
I agree, this is one of the books that most influenced me as a person. It surprising how many times you see these tactics used by salesmen or even trial lawyers. Read this book because it will prevent people from taking advantage of you.
Does this have anything to do with the existing Utopia network or will it be a completely separate build-out?

I was in college when iProvo was building out, but it didn't live up to the hype. Over 10 years later and the dream of fiber in the front range is finally coming to fruition.
We live in a society where we can only be extreme and radical ...
If you distinguish a 'software engineer' from a 'programmer' this article makes sense to me. But the article does not even use the word 'reduction' which seemed to be 90% of what we did for homework in my computational complexity class.
Genuinely a bit scary
You should maybe read the book called "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" - http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...

A great deal of what you're saying (and many more) is explained there.
How does firing a founder dilute his share? Vesting schedule?
One way: take in new money at a lower value than the founder would like. There is always a reasonable difference of opinion and majority shareholders can exploit this to dilute the value. They don't even have to take risk. Just make the company cash rich instead of cash poor. That's one reason why early investors demand anti-dilution clauses. But if you are a cash poor founder it won't do you much good.

I'm sure there is a lawyer here around that can help prevent such shenanigans. Anyone?
Ask an attorney. Don't end up jeopardizing your legal status over a few dollars.
I am in support of free speech but at the same time twitter is a company and they can choose who they want to provide service to. It's the same terminology with gay couple and religious baker that went to supreme court. Companies are similar to people in the eyes of the law. Personally, it's my opinion that it's for everyone's good his account is terminated. He is just deranged. Twitter just doesn't want to be associated with someone who incites violence and mob. Wise choice.
> Coup for me utilizes the military to seize key assets.

The reasons the phrase “military coup” exists is that “military” is a significant modifier when applied to “coup”.

> This was a crowd destroying things like the BLM/ANTIFA crowd

It was only a crowd limited to property damage and injuring/killing security because the primary targets they were targeting escaped.
I think the parent poster means that if you focus on the proclivities of a leader, then you’re missing the point that they won a democratic election and that you might have bigger problems on your hands than a blowhard.
Well there were pretty heavy gun regulations that were enacted under Obama.

I guess Obama did allow cartels to have guns by continuing Fast & Furious so you're half right.
You seem to be contributing to the discussion, but people are downvoting without actually voicing any disagreement.

This seems to be common when you take the conservative "side" even if it's not really a partisan position you take, simply disagreeing with implications that the entire right are dumb racists.
Sadly the law is written in a way that let’s the optional part be disregarded if the business considers the data that’s being shared necessary to run its business model... and advertising companies like Facebook will argue all data can help them sell ads better or for more money, hence all sharing of data shouldn’t need to be optional. This has yet to be tested in court, but both google and Facebook have taken this approach in their implementation of gdpr, leaving us wondering what the point was anyway... law without teeth :( the eu should have already slapped down google hard for their lack of an opt out, but it’s been years and still nothing. Seems the law makers aren’t really on the side of privacy after all.
That makes a lot sense and is pretty cool.
Thanks!
There is only one relevant graph and it's the bottom of these two IMHO

https://twitter.com/Hello_World/status/555454120258457601/ph...
Volatility is the result of several factors and liquidity is only one of them. For example, the oil market is very large and liquid, yet still fairly volatile.
Volatility is obviously undesirable for anything that is intended to function as a reserve of value. This is why, for example, there is no discussion of oil being a reserve of value, or a currency.
As for the example above, greater liquidity in the Bitcoin market will not automatically make it less volatile, or lower volatility enough.

Bitcoin's volatility is structural (it goes well beyond the issues with the exchanges). Effective currencies have several
mechanisms designed to protect their value and minimize volatility: Bitcoin lacks them and hence it's structurally fragile and volatile. So, Bitcoin cannot represent a reserve of value.
Stable preservation of value is a key characteristic of a currency (this is one of the reasons inflation is monitored by central banks, for example), hence, if Bitcoin cannot work as a reserve of value, it cannot work as a currency.

Perhaps, other crypto currencies, in the future, may be structured with more robust mechanisms and work better.
Who is backing/funding you guys?
Yeah, I wrote a long rambling comment which said pretty much what you just said. Mt. Gox manipulation plus desire to speculate equals $1,100/coin, and now people's desire to speculate is settling.

Maybe Mt. Gox's initial manipulation caused the price to curl upwards just enough to entice everyone else to jump onto the bandwagon back in August of 2013, but the manipulation probably wasn't the reason for the surge to $1,100. That was probably herd dynamics, like you said.

(To be clear, there's some pretty hard evidence that Mt. Gox was manipulating the market, so if you're asking whether any manipulation ever occurred, it seems pretty clear it did: https://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-repor...)
Touché ! What is so sad is that it can still be avoided.

But the current situation where we simultaneously have a high number of active case and high number of vaccinated people over a sufficiently long time because of slow vaccination schedule, is a recipe for creating vaccine resistant variants.

As soon as we start vaccinating we are giving the virus opportunities to pressure-select against the vaccine. The more active case we have and the longer it takes the better for the virus.

I'm no epidemiologist, but with the apparition in a short amount of time of 2 variants which affects the spike protein, it seems the current level of active case we are entering a red-zone, where the virus is given too many opportunities to mutate. And we should try to contain it via the current measures (masks, tracking and lock-downs), before sabotaging our best card.
CNN is a biased, but highly credible source, there is a difference.

We're not talking about 'Conservatives' or 'Republicans' because Trump is none of that, this has nothing to do with ideology.

Trump is neither a Conservative nor a Republican really.

Hardcore Trump fans are Trump fans, not ideological fans.

It's a cult of personality.

His words are the source of Truth to most supporters and that's that.

They believe him when he cast doubt on the election, and enough of them believe him completely.

That's not a 'left/right' or ideological issue.
> Why is almost every spacecraft design in reality and sci-fi “pointed” like airplanes and sea ships, as if it’s only going to move in one direction on one plane?

Because they have directional main engines. That does not strictly necessitate them to be pointy on the opposite end, but it at least requires some design that can distribute the force through the ship's body with the minimal amount of structural mass. E.g. an axial design that only has to withstand compressive forces, not shear forces.

A bigger issue is the lack surface area for cooling. Not even The Expanse gets that one right.
How are Khamenei's tweets any different from those of US politicians against Iran or other "enemy" nations? Should we apply the same standard to US politicians who have tweeted threats to Iran or supported actions aimed to the collapse of Iranian regime?
Or someone cutting their funding because their research area wasn't immediately useful.
That’s pretty old news, it already hit >$41k.
There's a lot of revisionist history around what AWS allowed.

RackShack and other companies offered pretty cheap (started at $99/month IIRC) dedicated Linux servers which loads of startups used before AWS. There was also various virtual machine providers in the market.

These articles make it sound like every company before AWS had to build their own datacenter or at least buy a million dollars worth of Sun hardware to put a website online.
For the same reason that Hillary Clinton got nominated in 2016. Because too many politicians are completely out of touch with the movements, conditions and perspectives of working people.

Where I live, grassroots organizers are doing all the hard work. I'm not talking about protesters. I'm talking about people who are building and connecting organically, who are facilitating workshops and popular education sessions, who are raising awareness about what's going on in local government to enable democracy to happen. Democracy doesn't function without grassroots participation. This country would be a hell hole without the hard work of local organizers everywhere.
Offlineimap and mbsync are two separate tools that do the same thing. I've had a good experience with offlineimap. In both cases, however, the hard part is not picking the tool but configuring it.
Just because I don't expect it to happen to me doesn't mean it isn't relevant. The actions of our government are relevant to all.

If WikiLeaks were around in 2001 do you think it would have been as easy for Bush to feed us lies to justify going to war in Iraq? I don't. I applaud the actions of WikiLeaks.
Title says hacked way into Harvard, not hacked way to scholarships. Then again, it's not theft, it's fraud.
It seems a little preemptive to dismiss this idea and frankly I don't think you are looking at this in the right perspective. Trust could be built over time between both the people and their account.

I for one welcome a future where my social interaction isn't a product or service owned by anyone else but myself.

Why so fast to dismiss it?
This looks really cool! Unfortunately, there don't seem to be *nix build instructions in the source repo - it's only for Win32. Anyone have any tips on building this on OS X?
I run at least 5 miles, sometimes 6, 7 8 etc. also varying terrain, indoor, outdoor and so on.
Very well, I concede the point.
Maybe do some research into nootropics. But, overall, motivation and ambition are related to ypur own psychology. I find that honest self examination (keep asking yourself why) resolves issues like these far more effectively than any chemical or supplement
Why yes, that is a more concise way of saying the same thing I said. Thanks!
> That said; it is amazing how many sign languages can come to similar conclusions due to "always trying to find the simplest way of explaining yourself".

This is fascinating. Do you have an examples that stick out?
This is super sad. Chartio is a great tool, but not communicating clearly (that blog post is just marketing nonsense), and just leaving existing customers out to dry like this is not cool.
Is this FUD or just a lack of understanding? Staying anonymous is very easy. You can choose between a number of ways to move coins into a separate address in an untraceable way. E.g. (1) CoinJoin transactions (which are natively supported in the protocol), (2) through Lightning, which is also an official extension, usable in production right now, or (3) using a third-party mixing service. Those are just off the top of my head.
Interesting context for this on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar#Week
> Should serialized data allow comments though?

Hum... Why not? Serialized data can be written and read by humans too.

Besides, if comments are out of scope, there is no reason for them to be textual either.
Take a look at Stripe Tax and TaxJar for tracking and filing.
How about when I break my wrist and it's in plaster for a couple of weeks? Seems unlikely that I'll maintain my characteristic typing pattern well enough to be recognised...
As a matter of fact, I have a 4-node kubernetes cluster running at home which is exposed through a CloudFlare tunnel on the internet. Works like a charm, and you don’t have issues with firewalls, NAT, and/or dynamic IPs.
I mean, "not safe for work" doesn't mean "immoral". Beach volleyball isn't something you should be watching at work, at least not in the kind of open office plan where everybody sees your screen. There's a lot of talk about workplace "lad culture" being hostile to women these days -- possibly enough to mean liability; also you probably shouldn't be hostile to women in that specific way.
Same. Flux is really simple and most of the implementations just remove some boilerplate and add some conventions. Given more time there might be a framework that has everything that I want, informed by comprehensive, mature, real-world use cases, but I haven't yet seen anything compelling enough in the dozen or so libraries I've looked at. I've found a lot of value in having granular control so I can explore different conventions and optimizations.
Now that is a very clever idea, thanks for bringing it up :)
I'm all for civility, but unfortunately it seems the people who are complaining about the loud assholes are attempting to conflate "being rude" with "being anti-feminist" and therefore "being a racist misogynist".

I'm not about twisting peoples words to push the feminist agenda.

edit: please HN, enlighten me before you down vote. Are you guys against the civility part or do you disagree that people are conflating rudeness with being racist?
Likely counter-measure will be more drones. It's easy to knock a drone out of the sky with another drone, especially if the counter-drone is disposable. Avoidance technology becomes complicated. It's relatively easy to program an autonomous drone for clear skies. Adding threat detection and avoidance is a lot harder.

Or the US could just go with something that actually works, like the Portugal system of scrapping all drug laws. After fifteen years none of the imagined horrors have come true, addiction has dropped to half the previous value, law enforcement costs have gone down, and things are generally better.

People look at Portugal, see that the facts contradict their imaginary scenarios, and deny the facts, but that doesn't change them.
Yep. Even looking at quartiles, min, mean, and max for each of your (numeric) variables can yield a bit of insight for prettymuch no effort.
Notably missing: drones. This is a seriously expanding new industry.
You usually need something strong for the frame; big drones are carbon fiber - and I don't think you can print anything like it right now.

Other things on the parts list are the motor controllers (motors are controlled by current, and you usually need at least 40Amps for each), battery and sensor board (GPS, compass, 3D acceleration and gyro).
Boys are intentionally misdiagnosed with ADHD to give medication to alter their behaviour?
What a great service to gather phone numbers even from those who haven't been pawned!
AFAIK there's already a Facebook "clone" in Russia : Vkontakte (AFAIK it basically has been nationalized, which is indeed even worse.) I'm sure China has its own version ?

There's no "level playing field" while Facebook exists.

You might be under the sunk cost fallacy ..?
The word for "decompiled C++" is "disassembly".
I see, you don't want to "concede" so you're arguing about semantics now. I'm not gonna go there. You "won"!
By all accounts, anyone can create an account, but then the account invariably quickly gets suspended, requiring a phone number for “verification”.
I prefer Gitlab's "merge request" to Github's "pull request", too bad Kalithea chose "pull request" (super minor thing that does not really matter though).
More on (no) root causes: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-onl...
All warnings are an indicator that things are not going as planned - which means some aspect of the code is either unplanned/misplanned/misunderstood. A warning is a clue that things are not as they seem..
Focusing on the big lifts (squats, deadlifts, bench press) made the biggest difference in my strength gains, and was when I added the most muscle.
I really like my N5, and i have been enjoying Lollipop as a user experience. I use ADW launcher and keep my device very trim in terms of apps; the only niggling issue currently is that TextSecure does not receive group texts from iTards when WiFi is enabled, but they are aware of the problem so it is a m00t point.

It bears consideration that the N5 is not carried by Verison [CDMA].
The vans are simply for awareness and transport for the investigators who visit a percentage of addresses that do not have a licence.

Here is a TV Licencing employee admitting as much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg5t4jVBemE

The backs of the vans are empty, and are sometimes parked in prominent places with a lot of passing pedestrian or vehicle traffic, e.g. supermarket car parks, as a reminder/scare-tactic for people to buy a licence, in locations where TV licence evasion is suspected.

This is how TV detection works:

1. TV Licencing (actually the BBC, see below) maintain a database of every address in the UK, compiled from various sources.

2. The vast majority of addresses are covered by a TV licence, because, seriously, who hasn't got a TV.

3. The remaining addresses without a licence may be randomly select for investigation ('detection'), and an investigator sent to the address in a 'detector van' (just used for transport), or may be selected on the basis of 'intelligence', i.e. snitching neighbours, disgruntled employees, etc.

4. If the address doesn't qualify for a TV licence, e.g. non-permanent resident of a static caravan or other extenuating circumstances, then the address details are amended as such in the database.

5. If the address would normally qualify for a licence, then the 'detector' (human investigator) will see if there is evidence of watching TV, and may knock on the door to talk to the occupants.

6. At this point, TV Licencing can, if satisfied, mark the address as (temporarily) not requiring a TV licence, or pursue further action, e.g. legal action. Periodically, the address will be sent letters reminding them that they don't have a licence, and should probably get one, regardless.

No 'electronic detection' equipment is used, other than laptops and PDA-type devices that have access to the address database, or portions of it. These are the rumoured 'handheld detectors'.

That's it. All the detection equipment rumours are just that: scare-mongering tactics by the BBC.

"TV Licencing" itself is maintained as a brand distinct from the BBC to avoid tarnishing the image of the BBC's main brand with such rumours of snooping, scare-tactics, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if the BBC itself has not actually used any RIPA powers, but is just spreading the rumour that it has done so. Hence the vagueness of the report.
Good question, maybe they're doing something special for their own blogs.
I'm going to say that I think this article is mostly nonsense. Unfortunately a lot of news articles are designed to manipulate rather than inform. This one stinks of manipulation.

The core premise of the article, which can neither be proven or disproven, boils down to "let's get real, there's no way the little people did this." This premise is not once backed up with any real data, only expert opinions, the usual types of opinions that keep people pumping their capital into these markets to the benefit of wall street.

Second, it basically character attacks the whole phenomenon by identifying a leading voice as a professional investor. This is designed simply to disillusion participants and deplete any morale.

Finally, they ended the article equating your random guy with a few hundred bucks playing a game hoping to screw over some rich people and make a little money to the institutional leaders that have the secretary of treasury on speed dial.

You want to get an idea of what really happened? Look at the reactions by institutions and media while the thing was happening. They were clamoring to get it stopped. There were people going on CNBC to argue that it should be illegal to talk about the markets on the internet. Many of them may have found ways to stop the bleeding at some point, but the big winners here were not the big guys. I suspect this article is simply designed to disillusion naive people and maintain the illusion that Wall Street has some crystal ball, which is their real power, built on a lie. The article is weaksauce.
The antibody tests do have a degree of cross-reactivity with other coronaviruses, but if this is reliable it's a fascinating finding.
> No one is willing to pay for unbiased news

http://Ground.news is a startup that's attempting to falsify that hypothesis. I hope they succeed.
While this is a good description of Armenian government’s general mismanagement, this article refers to this crucial bit of information far too deeply buried in its narrative to the point it starts to make me doubt its impartiality:

“Karabakh is an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan, and Armenia is seen to have occupied the territory for over 30 years.”

In other words, it appears the whole territory is Azerbaijan’s, and the whole planet, EU, US and the UN confirms that this is so. Turns out, Armenia had an 30-plus year invasion force holding Azerbaijani territory.

That’s the kind of thing they should have put front and centre, because it completely changes the narrative.
I'm stealing this point from Twitter, but Africa is the most diverse continent on Earth - culturally, linguistically, even genetically. There are 250 ethnic groups within Nigeria alone, most of which have little in the way of shared language or culture, and had even less before colonists drew a circle around them and insisted they were a single nation. How on Earth does it make sense to say that all black people have a shared culture, especially if you simultaneously insist that white people don't?
I would file a lawsuit (I'm sure there are more than one legal claim that can be brought against NYT in this situation), and the "settlement" should be a public retraction and apology from NYT (and the author and chain of editors) plus significant financial damage to attempt to make up for the job and professional cost to the claimant.
Yeah, visual studio is absolute and complete garbage with C++ code, it always identifies correct code as having errors, and it's not just a "big project" thing, it happens in very small projects, even "projects" that have a single file. I really don't get it... I also don't understand why intellisense doesn't update itself with the results from the compiler.
I mean, for those of us who aren't versed on the Armenian politics, would you care explaining what exactly makes it a propaganda article? To my untrained and unfamiliar with the region eye it just looks like reporting on the situation there, but I'd love to know more.
Some of our applied social scientists are being allowed to work with very large datasets at places like Facebook and I believe they are increasingly in a position to make quantifiable statements on what racists or any other cluster-able groups of humans like. If by spectrum you mean “distance from a centroid” it might be more precise.

Marketing is essentially the working, reproducible arm of the social sciences, and marketers know a lot about human preferences and how to link them to motivation.