jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is little political will or impetus behind properly funding programs for Native Americans, or running agencies like the Indian Health Service, because Native Americans don't have the visibility or political clout to force the American government to take them seriously, as do other groups like African Americans.
Their website seems to be down now, but I read the TechCrunch post yesterday http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/winning-the-app-store-lotto...

On your comment about ad-revenues, you may also want to consider the fact the $20,000 comes from ads and in-app purchases. The TC post doesn't provide a breakup and the revenue split isn't clear
Yoų can say the seven words freely tho.
Distribution is mining nonces also not random
Gotta laugh at your definition of "good career". Plenty of "short and fat" jobs provide relatively failed career. Not everyone wants or needs anything else.
> I don't require any evidence, if given practitioner helps me with my problem, while traditional ones can't.

Let's say you wake up with back pain, and there's nothing obviously wrong with your spine.

You can go to a physical therapist, and they will check your spine and muscles, move your body, tell you to do some exercises to improve your posture. There is no clear diagnosis beyond some muscle tension and no immediate relief, and you are disappointed, and when the pain goes away on its own in a few days you think visiting the therapist was pointless. You tell your friends how pointless traditional medicine is.

Or you visit a chiropracter. He tells you a very satisfying diagnosis, promises to heal you, and makes a few movements that feel surprising. You are impressed. After a few days the pain is completely gone! You are stoked! This person healed you! You don't need evidence from scientific trials, because you experienced the power of alternative medicine yourself!! You tell all your friends how you were healed by this persons magic hands!

Of course, without any treatment at all, the pain would also have gone away after a few days.

This is why we need evidence based medicine. (And this of course applies to traditional medicine as well -- just because real doctors went to university doesn't make them immune to this problems. There are plenty of doctors who prescribe inefficient treatments.)
I think ReachLocal does this to the tune of 40M/year in revenue.
The Perkeo database used by some German polices contains hashes of known child-porn image files. Probably not SHA256, though, given that it was started in 1998.
Any chance you are planning on selling this commercially? I would definitely purchase. Awesome work.
Statements which directly answers all of the hypothesis in this and all the other BS posts:

"Apple does collect anonymous location data from iPhones in an effort to improve its own database of cell tower and WiFi hotspot locations. Devices running iOS versions older than 3.2 still rely on the databases from Google and Skyhook for these locations; these two companies are the “partners” with whom Apple shares data to determine the location of iPhones, iPod touches, iPads, Macs running Snow Leopard (which has a systemwide CoreLocation API), and Windows machines running Safari 5 (which uses the HTML5 location APIs)."
I know the color of my eyes because people told me but I could not pick my kind of green/brown from a set of pictures if you showed me. I just never look at my eyes in the mirror. It might sound weird to you, but thats just as it is.
When it comes to other people: I do not know the color of their eyes unless there is something that reminds me (e.g.: we talked about it. someone told me and I remember. ...). I think that is even stronger because I have the tendency to concentrate on people's lips when I talk to them. (at least I once talked about this habit with friends and 100% of those present told me that they look at almost only the eyes of people they have a conversation with.)
it's not commercial, it has commercial possibilities. It's about as commercial as craigslist once was, maybe.
My previous answer (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454874) was: They're greenhorns.
>why are we bothering with the human form-factor?

it's a human world. doorways, windows, cars, sidewalks, elevators

> A insect-like robot or something with wheels or tank treads would outperform legs

task specific robots will exist and outperform for the predetermined task, but the focus is on replacing humans and being able to complete human tasks, whatever the future task may be.

open doors designed for a human? open a window like a human? climb a tree like a human? Check the mailbox like a human? burn a grilled cheese like a human? Do ______ like a human? rather than build for a task, build to match the form that we know can complete these tasks, and viola! you've replaced the need for a human without designing for and testing all tasks that could ever be requested of it
Excel.

I can live without all of the rest. It's not only a great tool for my own use, but it's widespread enough to be a de facto standard.
That's all well and good with a trivial function like foo :: (a,b) -> a, but for most non-trivial functions it won't be so obvious, and that's exactly when it's most helpful to know what's going on.
It depends on the client. TextSecure is an open-source XMPP/Jabber client for Android which does end-to-end encryption (OTR?), and adds contacts based on your address book automatically.

It also supports adding a new contact by phone number, and replaces the stock text messaging application, automatically upgrading text messages to OTR XMPP sessions if the other party is on the same network.

It doesn't do federation though, as far as I know.
I am from Spain, some of oldest dirty jokes/limericks date back to Middle Ages, too.
And there goes my ~$50 worth of credits unused :(
Anyone know what school he is talking about? When did this article come out? $5500/year sounds like a good deal. I've seen private schools for the rich and famous, like Dalton, that charge $35,000 a year for K-12.
I'm still not really convinced a huge ecosystem can be built solely on advertising. Under this view of the future, the problem is advertising supply shoots through the roof, and even before we consider advertising-specific issues like saturation, we're already looking at a quickly-dropping price. Consider the fact that someone getting constantly beamed advertising isn't really getting anything out of it and the prices drop even further. You can't count on making money that way. Even today it's already not a panacea and you can tell from HN comments that it's generally considered a weak business plan today to count on advertising to fund your startup. There's still a "step 2" missing here for me before you can really build a long-term platform out of it pervasively.
Agree, we're working on an embedded page, we intend to release the code during our May release. Also agree with having a page about the different languages we currently support (c/c++, Lua, Go, Python, Ruby) and others we're working on (e.g., Rust, Java). Always interested to hear which languages and/or frameworks people are interested in.
Does tiktok even bill itself as a digital town square?

Also, if you've ever had the misfortune of helping run a forum, you would know that this isn't really workable. Without proactive moderation that goes above and beyond the bare legal minimum, a tiny minority of individuals will just take over the space and completely ruin it for everyone.

There has to be some moderation beyond that the government does to public spaces. At the same time, I don't want people to be functionally excluded from society purely for their political opinions not least of which because I believe people can change. There has to be an equilibrium, and I think that purposefully harassing minorities should be outside of that equilibrium.
It's pretty sad that none of the news reports on this cite the event or provide a link to the speech - oh well, can't have the public knowing where their news comes from or they might stop paying for it.

http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Speeches... for those who are interested; this is becoming a pressing issue for American courts as well.
The question is how many they had in the 70s.
I'm using Spreedly.com as my payment processor. They prorate and either credit or charge the account based on upgrade or downgrading. I've tried my own billing before it was a major pain in the ass.
Yeah, that seems like a fair assessment. One big win Locale has (unique at least as far as I can tell) is that it has a plugin API, so you'll find it can integrate with a few other apps.

Using Locale has made a huge difference to me. My set up is that I have two major modes, plugged in and unplugged. When I'm in plugged in mode, it turns on bluetooth and wifi, connects to my bluetooth speakerphone, and sends notifications to Android Notifier which I have running on most of my PCs. This allows me to have my ringer off and get an IM-style Growl notification when someone calls or texts, which is awesome for work. The unplugged mode is basically a typical cellphone configuration.
I'd like to see LinkedIn come up with an app for the Android and for the iPad. It would certainly make it easier to reach out to my business network.

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>someone needs to add a "WhatProgrammersCanDoWhenProgrammingIsNotFun" page

It's a wiki. Go for it! :)
With the Intent system, this is quite literally true. Android is much more in line with the unix "small, sharp tools" philosophy, while iOS apps seem like they would fall victim to Zawinski's Law. AFAIK, in iOS you interact with yourself or the OS, while on Android, you can interact with anyone who registers an intent.
Not all applications embed a UIWebView, and many that do also offer opening in Safari as an option. There are also between-app communications like Twitter's "Save Draft to Birdhouse..." or sending addresses to the Maps application. Not as flexible as the workflows you describe in Android, to be sure, but in that data is being passed between its apps, I believe it was overly broad to describe iOS as focusing only on "bite-sized" and "self-contained" apps.
How does gI differ from I?
This would have the potential for nice second-order effects.

I'm thinking about places in AZ/NV where some companies and even some municipality groups (i.e. bureaucratic/permitting type) have moved towards four 10 hour days instead of five 8 hour days.

This is a bit better for those employees QOL (since they get 3 day weekends all the time) and also benefited the employers since they could lower their power consumption for an additional day.
See Annual Report as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284669
Indeed, it looks similar: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stories_of_Amir_Hamz...
They don't know what to do with the money, when there's no R&D anymore.
To note though is that those config files aren't meant for modding. They're meant as easy ways for the gameplay designers themselves to tweak things without needing to rebuild the whole game each time.

They just usually ship as side effects of that process, because no body really cares that much for single player games.
Noob question here: why can't you install anything on corporate servers?
How about none-custodial payments?

https://depay.com
This is already possible using gitgutter in both Vim and ST, and I've never noticed an impact on performance.
Great news! I use PhantomJS, and I'm going to use this Hacker News thread as a really thinly veiled attempt at advertising my startup!

We use PhantomJS as a headless browser, sometimes taking screenshots. I know, crazy. Anyway: http://www.mystartup.com
…until they look too hungry and startups become scared to build on top of a platform controlled by Twitter. Look at all the Twitter clients that vanished when they bought Tweetie and released it for free.
Turning the Mind Into an Ally - is a great book to ease your way into a mindfulness practice. Great, practical, real-world, without being preachy. http://amzn.to/90fIv1
None of them are "selling" access though, all of them are trying to push with minimal friction where as Twitter is trying to introduce friction for BD sake.
I think people are able to evaluate their odds of winning in Vegas better than the odds of their tech investments paying off.
I really like your bonus idea. But it's surprising that after you explain how complex licensing scenarios can be you still recommend to force a very inflexible single-license-per-repository model. What about dual licensing? Differently licensed code in the same repository? (e.g. for vendored third party code etc.)
Actually...I really am interested. It's kinda been echoing around my head all day. Do you have an email address I can ping you at?
That's easy, hire young people.
I understand and appreciate the irony for sure :) I have a small tick that I cannot downvote someone on HN without explaining why, even though the author won't actually know I was the one downvoting. But downvoting without explaining why, feels wasteful. At least now I get to explain why I feel that comment doesn't live up to the HN standard.
For some history here, the most famous example is Option<&T>. References cannot be null, and so the Option can use the null pointer to represent None.

At first, this was special cased in the compiler, but then generalized.
It isn't the law that is broken, but rather the enforcement.

All the concerns you raise here are covered by the law. It's illegal for it to take longer to reject tracking than to allow it, which should ban all these web site that try to get you to scroll through several hundred options turning them all off. "Legitimate interest" means that the whatever data they want to process is a necessary step in order to do what the user has asked for - for instance, the web site has to be able to set a login token cookie when you log in, and that's allowed because you literally just asked to log in, and that's the only way the web site can do what you asked.

All these web site are illegally making the cookie experience dire. They are doing it so that they can:

1. Collect data from people who get fed up and click accept, people who accidentally click accept, etc.

2. Annoy everyone and make people think that the laws are broken, which increases the chances that the laws will be changed in the future.

Enforcement would help with this, but there's little sign of it happening.
sigh.

as a business. you actually have a "bottom line"...

if the cost price for a factor of production goes up. of course you fight it. starting with the cheapest methods.

as productivity goes up. the end game probably looks like lots of automation and few people employed. and those employed would pay taxes. so that others can be "employed" to do unproductive things.
No. This is yet another urban myth.

"Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, belief in fan death persists to this day in Korea,[further explanation needed] and also to a lesser extent in Japan.[1][2][3]"
Ceylon was (is?) really beautiful. At least type unions/intersections found their way into Typescript.

IMO Gavin's biggest mistake was picking Eclipse for the IDE platform at a time when every professional was moving to IntelliJ.
"The Beijing-Shanghai Backbone Network (BSBN), the world’s first long-distance quantum-secured communication route, was put into service on Aug. 30. It links the two cities with a highly-reliable and expandable secure communication expressway"

http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/archive/news_archive/nu2017/2...

and some others for now I remember: quantum-cognition brain

just google, bet their occurrences will be increasing in next weeks
This. It amazes me how bad GIMP is and yet how great Photopea is given it's a project by one guy that runs 100% in client side JS. When I need to edit a photo on a machine without PS installed Photopea is the way to go. I can't image why I'd ever resort to GIMP.
https://www.bidoun.org/articles/kiarostami-s-close-up-revisi... is interesting too.
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This has been WalMart's strategy for decades so it shouldn't surprise anyone.
Pence made clear he doesn't want to be the kingslayer.
> If you think the answer is no, then why don't you share your network details with us and let's have a go? Then we'll see how much of an extra risk upnp might be.

The cheap and fast attacks are DDoS and they're trivial to aim at a cable modem. Avoiding becoming a target is at least 50% of security posture. There were already 4286 ssh login attempts today so I don't really need more attempts than the automated botnet scans provide.

It's a risk/convenience tradeoff. I could probably package up a vpn.exe and force the kids' friends to run it before playing games, or force them to host games remotely. It's just not worth it.

I'm also reasonably sure that there are plenty of 0-days in all networks, given their relatively frequent discovery. So, again, don't be more of a target than necessary, and keep offline backups current and tested.
Oh no same crap of mixing hash symbol and string keys as in ruby? You didnt have to borrow that Elixir! Does Elixir also have HashWithIndifferentAccess?
That's a good point. You think most of corporate america would notice Amazon and try to do similar, instead they buy back stock. Buying back stock is a less risky short term strategy to improve stock performance. Maybe tax stock buy backs?
Nice name, cool project. Keep it up Aavash!
Unions not having an abundance of good will is a pretty sad excuse for bad policy

Thatcher was voted in for one reason: that taxpaying voters had just experienced the Winter Of Discontent and wanted something doing about it once and for all. Whether that's good or bad is a matter of perspective but that's the context in which it happened.
Why would larger countries allow/trade with you then? If you are being used as a tax avoidance loophole heaven, larger countries can just cut off any trade with you. They don't own you squat, if you will try to undermine them, then can just cut you off.

All they have to say: no business in my country, are allowed to do any business with little loophole country, and no trade will be allowed between our countries. Good luck little dip-shit country, you are on your own.

Which will defeat the purpose of your small tax heaven strategy. Unless your little country is a full blown 'autarky' (which is impossible now days, unless you want to look like Cuba), you will have to play by the rules of the big boys.
Combustion engines have much higher power densities than batteries
I think this is only true for people living in densly populated areas.
If you live somewhere where it takes the car more than x minutes to pick you up, people still have to own their own car.
"...a good way to be happy..." ... "...should aim higher than living an happy cattle life..."

I'm not sure. Some other posters also brought up a similar argument. I'm not convinced that there is a moral ordering or ways to be happy, as long as the criteria are constrained to internal ones (i.e., as long as the criteria don't affect others - a society of 9 male rapists and one woman is presumably one where 90% of the population is happy, but that doesn't make it a just or right society)

I don't agree that hardship and/or grief are required for great achievements. On the contrary, I think that most achievements are done by people who are already in the 5th layer of Maslow's hierarchy. It's subjective what 'great achievement' is, but in the trend of this site, let's take some big software companies; were Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg living in mud huts, going to sleep every night feeling hungry? I don't know the details about any of them, but it seems from a cursory Wikipedia glance that all of them grew up in environments where the 'happy cattle life' was the norm, and it was some other internal motivation that drove them to create and not a desire to get away from hardship.

Also, note that I didn't say 'intellectual snobbery', but 'pseudo-intellectual snobbery'. Being a rebel for rebellion's sake, agitating against everything that is mainstream, is not intellectualism, it's mostly a trait of wannabe students and hipsters who are still in their formative years and derive their self image from contrasting themselves with the rest of society. Now actual intellectual thought can also be contrary to mainstream thinking of course, but it needs to be backed up with solid reasoning from data, axioms etc. and not with 'most people are stupid, so what most people are thinking is wrong' (even leaving apart that by definition it's impossible for most people to be stupid, unless one sets the benchmark for stupidity at an arbitrarily high level, at which point it's just definition again).
Easier than you'd think maybe? There are some VERY wealthy artists that might take a personal interest in an effort like this. A few big players could start the coop and bank roll it.
That you can claw back some performance by using a partially conforming alternate language implementation does not prove the "trolls" wrong.

Yes, with enough engineering effort you can move mountains, but if performance is critical and you don't have a legacy code base like Facebook does, reaching for the php hammer is insanity.

The real reason why performance isn't a big downside with php is that it usually just doesn't matter.

If a php implementation can service 100 req/s, and a Java implementation (an ad absurdum) 100,000 req/s, and your site peaks at 5 req/s, either is just fine.

In other words, "You're probably not Pintrest".
Is the thesis that nature is so efficient that it is near the limit of what is physically possible?

I don't quite believe that thesis. While nature is vastly more efficient than our current technology in things like storage density of information and energy efficiency of computation, the arguments that it is near the limit of what is physically possible are flawed, as HNers are pointing out.

Will our technology ever reach the physical limits?

Does our technology advance by copying nature's examples?

Will our technology surpass nature along the way to the physical limits?
How long does it take to replace the drive?
Apparently Monster Cable has a history of suing left and right, see http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Monster%20Cable%20Pr.... or http://madmartian.com/legal/

E.g. they sued Disney for Monsters Inc, also the job posting site monster.com (which now has a link to monster cable in the footer)...
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Some people value principles higher than human life and that is noble not psychopathic.

Millions of men died for their principles so you could sit here, and call having principles psychopathic.

Are the millions of men who purposefully sacrificed their own lives for this idea we call liberty psychopaths?

Modern Liberty is an anomaly in human history where the rule has been repression and subjugation for millenia.

People forget so easily. The decisions we make when we're comfortable will comeback to haunt us when things get uncomfortable.

Also, I'm flagging you for blatant personal attacks which violates like every HN guideline.

Without a coherent argument it's just an emotional attack.

You need to think about how unaware you are and maybe get some principles yourself.

Please keep the personal attacks to yourself and discuss ideas.
Sadly that you are supporting the censorship of yourself. Especially about banning Yandex whose maps showed Crimea as Ukrainian's for any visitor with Ukrainian IP.