jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> BTW: Maybe you should also read my full post, before answering.

Heh, I see that you edited it to add more since I originally pressed "Reply".

You imply Google is "evil" because they write "only about Google+ SignIn", but I'm not seeing that. The link that you provided has two sections, migrating to Google+ SignIn if you are already using a Sign In with Google button, and a section on how to migrate to just basic OpenID Connect. It doesn't seem hidden away like you are implying.
SQRL doesn't solve any of the hard problems.

See my post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790768
Flights are almost fully automatic already. They saw data showing the pilot turned off autopilot and set the target cruising altitude to 100m. Putting a block in place unless you're in an area where that is safe (flat).

I was recently flying in a small airplane (SR22) and the terrain detection system was going bonkers when we were landing saying that terrain was getting close to us. They have all the data, they just need to build in some more protections.
A Magic Flight Launch Box and a George Forman grill. :)
Agree on all points.

I watch "over the shoulder" of many software engineers at my (Windows-based) work, and 90% of them work at a CMD shell/console with QuickEdit mode disabled; software that I'm responsible for spits fully qualified logfile names out to said console, but rather than copy + paste the filename into Outlook's attachment File Open dialog, they laboriously click their way thru the "Explorer" dialog pane trying to find the same file. I sometimes point out that they could easily copy and paste the name from the console into the dialog, and some of them have an "aha!" moment, but most simply don't "get" it.

OTOH I've watched experienced unix developers who type at fantastic speeds, but with a significant error rate: bzzzzz (a command line) enter [error]; bzzzzzz (a whole new command line intending to duplicate the intent of the first) enter [error]; (third time's the charm?). Slow down or use line-editing? No... These are far less the rule than the mouse-click-happy Windows users, but clearly there are many ways to be inefficient...

The fewer times I (a marginal typist) am forced to type out a copy of text I see on the screen, the more productive I am. My work processes are optimized along this axis: let the computer do the work instead of my fingers whenever possible.
Radiolab (a podcast that any HN reader would love) did a piece once about a Russian who had perfect recall of his life and could also memorize endless lists of numbers and Dante's Inferno in Italian (and didn't speak Italian). Unfortunately, he eventually went mad because his brain couldn't make sense of all the interconnections.

The podcast in question : http://www.radiolab.org/2010/apr/05/limits-of-the-mind/
"Of late in Atlanta, one news story about someone unable to pay to heat more than one room "

Meaning she probably was using an inefficient electric heater, in a poorly-insulated home in a normally-warm region, in an unseasonably cold period. I could see that raising the electric bill significantly. I once went away for Thanksgiving weekend and accidentally left my refrigerator or freezer door open a crack. That month's electricity usage was several times higher than any other month since I've lived there.

Was the HDTV a projection set? Those are cheap, especially second-hand. Might only be a 720p. EBay has larger TVs listed for $200. Hell, nobody wants those fuzzy room-hogging monsters anymore. Could have been a freebie from a better-off friend or neighbor who upgraded to a flat panel.

XBox 360s aren't particularly new, rare, or precious, so might have been acquired used, possibly as a trade. And might have been bought by a child, or received as a gift. Maybe her kid bought it then went into the military and left it behind.
A useful keyboard shortcut that I use when I write code is CONTROL+OPTION+COMMAND+8 which inverts the colors on the screen. It makes it a lot easier on the eyes IMO.

If you want to take a full screenshot hit COMMAND+SHIFT+3 or if you want to crop where the screenshot will be taken hit COMMAND+SHIFT+4 then you can click and drag a square around the area you want.
I agree with the sentiment of your point, but this does represent "normal mental faculties" in any way. They are clearly extraordinary in this one sense and that alone doesn't allow them to be classified as normal.

I watched this spot on 60 minutes and I am not convinced that these people are normal with respect to mental health. They had a very odd affect at times. Still, it was amazing to watch people recall things that happened over 20 years ago with clarity and precision.
Sounds a lot like Heinlein's rules for writing. http://www.sfwriter.com/ow05.htm
>This is fairly meaningless because lower income does not necessarily mean a worse living condition or less happiness.

I agree, only comparing income is rather misleading.

JW's don't smoke or do drugs and so have a far smaller problem with addictions which require professional help and counseling. So although on paper the JWs and the Black Protestant Churches look similar in terms of income one has to remember that the Black Churches have a significant problem with addiction to drugs and alcohol among their members which contributes to their low income scores.

Not smoking or doing drugs frees up more of the JWs disposable income, and the same goes for Mormons not drinking alcohol.

Also many JWs have a lower income because many of them only work part-time by choice so that they have more spare time for preaching, a by-product of this is that voluntarily being able to spend less time at work generally means less stress in the family and more time with the children.
The dvcs-autosync author is also looking at making it use git-annex for large files.
This would be a nice preference. I only say so because on an iPad opening links in a new tab is a pain.
Y Combinator's first all-female start-up. Lets hear a round of applause for that!
All music I've bought in the past decade was directly from the artist. That way I actually feel I'm supporting them.
I just hope 3D never becomes so pervasive that I actually have to buy one of these... Bookmarked just in case.
Relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/may-21-2011-judgmen...
I am actually not too worried about that. I enjoy being able to login, at a glance see that there is nothing new, and leave.
In fact, there are only 21 million names, and the monks have secretly tricked crypto-currency enthusiasts into calculating them...
> And here's the kicker, being extremely wealthy is the result of being good at the skill of resource allocation.

If you add skills such as 'externalizing costs', and 'diverting resources', sure, I'll buy what you're selling.
I've seen a fairly old codebase (started in the late 1980s) where the tops of the files have author details and changes but the author details are just initials.
> The Rust version requires you to use your intuition to figure out that `unwrap()` will never panic here.

You should not use `unwrap` in a production product. It's there for prototyping and I think it's a mistake they have it (though the language already requires a good upfront time investment as it is). Use `?` and have your error propagate accordingly to the top of the chain. Have your own error types and convert from other error types.

if !some_vec.empty() {
print!("{}", some_vec.first().unwrap());
// .. more code
}

I don't know why you would check the first element of a vector. Use Rust type system to your advantage, and don't "convert" PHP code into Rust. Re-design your program. Also you don't need to check that the Vector is empty if you are using "first". "first" returns an Option with None if your vector is empty. My guess is that you have yet to exhaust the idioms Rust offers and approaching it in a PHP-like manner.

> > At the cost of introducing a bug/technical debt.

> At the cost of shipping a product!

Okay!
Plenty of people in London have pushing two hour commutes anyway, and City Airport is so quick they don't bother with priority queues. I've stepped out of a Taxi at City and been sitting down in the plane in under 15 minutes, although I wouldn't count on it. If you miss one and have to wait for the next plane the bar does pretty good Eggs Benedict.

That's not my life anymore and I don't actually know the Schiphol end myself, but that's what it's like.
yes, this is all getsatisfaction's fault. surprised nytimes missed that angle.
I don't think that's the question. No one is always trustworthy. You hope to approximate the truth from multiple sources, and the diversity of agendas and perspectives provides the best prism to look through.

Corroboration, in other words.
I don't really have a particular beef with Americans. My statement is about people I know in Europe and other Western nations as well as the US - it's less about politics than people's (politicians included) basic premises.
Automatic Google Translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
No, the government is suing the property: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture#United_States

Yes, you read that correctly. As in USA v. $124,700: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700

Follow the "jurisdiction in rem" link for more about how this ... unique doctrine developed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction_in_rem
If this happened to me, there is NO WAY I would let my credit card company off. ... verbal acceptance/rejection of the charges

A very similar circumstance happened to me involving significantly less money. There are a few things I learned:

1) I have never seen a cardholder agreement that doesn't require all disputes to be done in writing.

2) This doesn't mean that the Customer Service Rep will tell you that in order to be fully compliant, you need to submit your claim in writing, nor does it mean that they will tell you anything other than "it's all set". If you're lucky, they might tell you that you should not pay the disputed portion of the bill.

It's not common sense because it's so rare to run into problems like this. Most people have never done a charge-back (I've done less than ten in my life and most were in the late 90s). It's incredibly important to research your terms when something like this arises and follow them carefully. For credit cards, the dispute process is usually written on the back of your statement.

Here's an example from a bill in my hand:

"If you think there is an error on your statement, write to us at:

<bank>

In your letter, give us the following information:
Account information...
Dollar amount...
Description of problem...

You must notify us of any potential errors in writing (their emphasis).

You may call us, but if you do not we are not required to investigate any potential errors and you may have to pay the amount in question." (I used the billing mistake section, but the charge-back section is basically the same with a few more restrictions and refers to this process in its writing).

The reporter did a disservice in not explaining where Ms. Rodriguez may have faltered in her dealing with Citibank and not providing a few tips for people running into this sort of jerk (or jerk-company-response). My personal tip, make copies of everything you send including the envelope and send it certified mail. If you still get jerked around by a large corporation and you don't have hopes of getting your story written up in the New York Times, send a letter outlining your problem with a detailed timeline to the same corporate address (or a more appropriate one if you can find it) and include a CC: line with whatever regulatory body oversees the industry in question ... along with your local and state representative. That netted me a triple refund (disputed amount was $45) after two months of getting nowhere.
The feature set in Opera is killer, and I had some loyalty because I feel like they've been behind some of the major advances in browser usability (tabs!), and haven't been given much credit.

But I eventually gave up. Google Chrome doesn't even have bloody mouse gestures working on linux, but it's fast and stable, and has high correctness.
Upvoted, not because I agree but because you have a good point (as all upvoting should go anyway).

To your point, though, I do not think the government has a general expectation of privacy. On the other hand some of these cables might have been private in nature or might have been sent with an implicit expectation of privacy, so this is a difficult area.

Still, I'd rather have us err on the side of transparency.
From memory there are around 100 million people living in the Ganges delta in Bangladesh. It's hard to imagine that India would welcome the kind of instability that climate change could cause right on their doorstep.
Fine! But you shouldn't be allowed to squat on desirable locations (ie: places where lots of people work), soaking up the property taxes from business growth while telling everyone who works at the business you love taxing to get out of your suburb.

You want the suburbs? Fine: live in a real suburb with little to no industry, and let the rest of us know how you're keeping the schools and municipal services funded.

Otherwise, let some housing be built, so that people have a place to live. Because the world isn't just about you: it's about everyone else, too.
Usually most sites won't have many additional features if they used a browser beyond IE6, like hacker news. But developers have to spend 2x time fixing things because of IE6's broken css implementation. Sites that don't explicitly target IE6 will just look strange, but may still function 100%.
I know that the lipid hypothesis is completely fallacious, these animal foods won’t hurt me or cause me ill health in anyway, in fact, the vitamins and minerals they provide, along with the nutritious cholesterol and wholesome saturated fat, will restore my health.

Great to hear that she sees the forest from the trees.
He is not taking away any choices. He just makes choices. A result of freedom. He is not forcing it onto anybody. He's just practising it.

Freedom is not a zero-sum game, but a optimisation problem. Take some people the right to parasite other peoples work is somehow lowering their freedom, but it gives much more freedom to the end user. It's up to you to decide what is more important.

But this debate already happened a millions times and I don't think this is going to be fruitful.
First, it is hard to take this article seriously when the author seems confused by what PG and Y Combinator actually do. For example, consider these sentences:

One obvious difference between Paul is that he’s an employer and I’m an employee.

We have too many people coming out of school who cannot find jobs, and not enough tech types for Y Combinator (or my various employers) to hire.

What would happen if a few large companies (let’s start with Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe from the lawsuit; I’d add Y Combinator, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle), all announced they would raise salaries in all H-1B categories by 5%/year for 10 years, while the US reduced H-1B visas by 10% per year for 9 years, ending at 8,500 (10% of current volume)?

In light of this severe misunderstanding, it is no wonder that this article makes so little sense. The author seems to make the point that H1-B visas tend to go to more average programmers. And, then argues that if companies want to attract more qualified people, they should start offering higher salaries/more options to top people. The problem is that they already do this and there is still a scarcity of truly amazing programmers.

This isn't all that complex, or am I missing something?
Is the best defense for Facebook that they don't have a body count?

RIAA/MPAA does not have a body count. Patent trolls do not have a body count. Ballmer's Microsoft did not have a body count.

"Not having a body count" is quite a low bar for a moral compass, don't you think?
There's no need to offer a huge explanation straight away. Just say 'oh I'm looking for $X' and smile. Most of the time people don't push it further.

If they ask for more info, just repeat & say 'well I'd like it to be noted that for this position I'd be looking for $x'

It can feel really awkward but remember it's equally awkward for the person asking your salary. Try & keep it light hearted with short answers, you only only have to be slightly more persistent than they are to keep the number secret.
Just open the image in Preview and you can crop, rotate and adjust color of an image

If you only need to rotate, you can rotate any image or video file right from the Finder by pressing Command-R. No need to even open a program.
The only trick I see is that the copy-paste-find-replace solution is preferable to the one that attempts to maximize reuse.
To everyone praising how good this challenge is, calm down. There's nothing great about making somebody sweat for 3 hours during an interview. It's even worse if "someone got so frustrated that they threw their laptop on the floor" like the top comment claims.

Yes, it would be great to avoid hiring people who have a bad temper and tend to throw tantrums when nervous, but, then again, it's beyond me why anyone would need to prove they can cope with such pressure without breaking down. We're talking about a desk job here, which requires writing good quality code according to some requirements during normal working hours, not disarming a bomb with a timer attached to it.
ankrgyl claims to be the author of the question; I don't think they're the author of this blog post about the question.
As the originator of the question addressed elsewhere in these comments, they gave advance notice to the candidates and worked with them to provide an alternative setup as needed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065861
Just some random feedback - I like the look and feel, but if I type quick enough, the order of my keystrokes doesn't match the order of operations.

For example, if I focus an empty text field to start entering list items, and I type this quickly: "1 (Enter) 2 (Enter) 3 (Enter)" I get something like "1" as the first item, "23" as the second item, and two empty items below, as if I had typed "1 (Enter) 2 3 (Enter) (Enter)".
Thanks for this link. Bookmarked.
I'd have to say TED but that's only because I'm not familiar with Davos. Are you referring to the economic forum? In that case TED because of the variety of topics. I stand to be corrected of course.
Actually, this seems to be the error of translation. At least in Polish (the original language of the press release), "a statistical law" (of how cells differentiate) means something different than "a law of statistics". The correct meaning is "a law based on statistical theory".
The heading ("QuietWrite", "Untitled") keeps flashing for me.
Sad news for those of us in the Feature Animation & Visual FX biz.

A few more links:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-anim...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/business/media/dreamworks-...

http://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-shuttering-pdi
A free press being a bastion of a free society, it's pretty damn troubling that journalists are being targeted. I'd argue that the press is more important to the UK's freedom than GCHQ any day of the week.
My favorite Git tutorial is http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/

> you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Merely memorizing which commands you should run at what times will work in the short run, but it’s only a matter of time before you get stuck or, worse, break something.
The global purl resolver for persistent URLs is throwing 500s this morning.

All pURLs are down. Internet meta just broke entirely unless you run your own purl resolver and change all the URLs.

http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description

What is a pURL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...

It's an alternative to using DNS, essentially, woven into the XML standards among other things.
Wells Fargo, eh? Your example is apt, but perhaps not for the reason you intended (unless you're making a subtle joke, in which case I apologize for not catching it.)

> This timeline charts the most significant events in the sales scandal that erupted at Wells Fargo [in 2016]

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/09/24/a-timeline-of-well...

> Wells Fargo(WFC)charged customers a monthly service fee to maintain a checking account that many customers assumed was free and the bank is mulling how to respond to people who feel cheated, according to the bank and sources familiar with the accounts.

https://thecapitolforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Wells...

> Wells Fargo and an insurance company it worked with have agreed to pay $432 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by customers who say they were charged premiums for auto insurance they did not need.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article237666879....

IMO only fools and masochists would continue to bank with Wells Fargo.

Anyhow, Goldman Sachs have no business being anywhere near DNS or ".org" at all, at all. They're a bunch of crooks who make Monty Burns look sympathetic in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies_an...
> If your competitor offers a free trial, and you don't, they get more sales than you.

Luckily, this would affect both me and my competitor. :-)
Mortgages. You don’t save up 100%, but rather 20.
sure, if by support you mean "embrace, extend, extinguish".

Today, Apple is every bit as monopolistic and anti-competitive as Microsoft was during Peak Ballmer.
Yeah, that's the real problem here. We've long known that limited forms of communism, such as cooperatives and communes, can function extremely well in small self selected populations, but fall apart when they get big enough to be taken advantage of by bad actors. I think there's a future for basic income, but I'm not going put faith in it for broader adoption without vastly broader study.
Another solution might be to simply dim the display and enable a "red only mode" in the app, similar to Star Walk. There might still be some white light bleeding through the LCD, but it should be quite small.
At most large companies it's not spending money that is a problem but the approval/budget process - its probably a lot easier to get approval for something that is already being used on a temporary free trial basis than going through the usual formal product selection process.
The Great Depression was a case of deflation transmitted internationally via the gold standard. Friedman followed Keynes here although this was not demonstrated statistically until Barry Eichengreen showed up with country-by-country evidence that recovery followed quickly once countries were forced off the standard (Golden Fetters). See also:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/200211...

China took a Keynesian approach in 2008 and rode out the international economic crisis fairly well. There is a massive real estate bubble in major cities, but this dates back to the late 1990s and is being fueled by China's lack of property taxes (making real estate free to own) and the lack of alternate investment opportunities (Chinese citizens cannot invest abroad). So China is seeing local bubbles and general inflation. The fact that local governments are financed by land sales creates a further incentive to jack up land prices and puts the central government in a bind. If you're interested in this stuff, you might find this podcast worth listening to:

http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica/attack-of-the-china-b...

It's a good question what will happen to the Chinese economy when the bubble bursts. But whatever precedes that doesn't have anything to do with Keynes or liquidity traps or deflation. And if you still have trouble with this think back to the basics and explain where Keynes' analogy is wrong. Why -- in the situation he describes of general deflation (a decrease in the money supply) -- would you ever want to increase the money supply by forcing people to dig rocks out of the ground? Why not just print more money and build an airport?