jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Belongs to Elon Musk / Paypal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Early_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
Sounds like the author likes hacking but loathes being a professor. Can't help but assume he's doing a huge disservice to his students by being so disinterested in teaching that he forgets about/doesn't even try to improve his lectures from the year before.
I think it was also supposed to be read as "new law based on statistical theory" not "new law of statistical theory".
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless
they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover
it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
it vibrates. Guess.

iPhone 4.
Now i don't exactly know why, but I'm havign fun ^^

Made one with a linux penguin saying "Noot Noot"! :D
It shouldn't, unless the mix down was done for headphones.

If it wasn't mixed for headphones, the problem is headphones exaggerate stereo separation. See: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~david/courses/perception/lecturenote...

The goal is to simulate playback on speakers. If it breaks music mastered for speakers, I'd consider that a bug.
It's probably not as simple as just the fiber in fruits protecting against fructose/glucose, but it does help. (EDIT: what I mean is, don't replace fruits with a glass of metamucil and sugar :))

Soluble fiber is just that: soluble in water. In your stomach, it absorbs water and turns into a sort of carb-trapping gel. While the carbs are still eventually digested, the gel slows down the absorption. This is good, because it helps to regulate your blood sugar (not as much of a big spike and drop).

Since blood sugar spikes == insulin response == hungry signals, this is quite useful.

Insoluble fiber is also useful, but mostly just for waste processing.
Ironically, I only make Google money through YouTube when I'm not a registered user, because when I am I have AdBlock on and it's only when I'm in an incognito mode or different browser/profile that the ads get shown.

So yeah, users not necessarily the most relevant metric there. Which, upon reflection, makes YouTube even more of a steal than it looks in the chart.
What I meant to write was that I don't think the encoding is what matters; incremental writes to tcp sockets are easy, and http is not much harder. What's hard is making your application code work well with this.
You can create new Models independent of the Collection and they will sync to the server asynchronously when you Collection#add() them, but note that all of the Backbone events ('add','success', etc) are triggered in response to the server. It'd be nice if this was more clear, and perhaps Backbone could trigger additional events based solely on clientside actions...
Lifehacker came out with a 'Learn to Code' series a few months ago (http://lifehacker.com/#!5744113/learn-to-code-the-full-begin...) and used JavaScript as the language for the same reasons that imechura has given above.
Oh man disabling right click I forgot about that one. The clients that were really concerned people would try to save images off their website cracks me up today. I can't believe that adding alert('This is copyrighted material.') was something I had to begrudgingly add on a routine basis
This is part of the horrible brokenness of IT labor.

I don't know the features of PostgreSQL that you want to use, but I'm totally willing to learn if somebody is going to cover my living costs. But I'm not even going to respond to your job ad if you put "PostgreSQL plv8 REQUIRED" in it.

For that matter, if you think it's simple enough for a part-time DBA, then why don't you just assign one of your existing IT people to learning and implementing the RDBMS that you need? Surely not all of them want to do the exact same job forever. PostgreSQL has excellent documentation.
Let's see him come up with IEEE floats on his own. Let's see him conceive of 2's compliment signed integers on his own. Let's see him come up with an assembler on his own. Without prior exposure to the concept.[1] You don't get Dijkstra's path finding algorithm with an ivory-tower attitude that doesn't care about the practicalities of implementation.

At least as far as the assembler, well, that's something that anybody who is sick of hand-keying in machine code and patching up addresses will probably think of.

As for the rest--well, modern CS folks (nor electrical engineers!) aren't coming up with 754 or 2's complement either.
You've generated something of a catch-22. If her information is already well-known, she doesn't need credibility - in which case, why bother with the article in the first place? But 'facts are facts', and if she had new information, then she would need credibility in order for it to be considered 'fact'.

In any case, my curiosity had nothing to do with her credibility. I was curious about how she drew herself versus how she drew others. Why she was in jail speaks to some extent as to who she is, and fills in a little more of the mental picture of her.
>I just don't understand why "freedom of religion" is a thing.

It exists because people want to to exist, and the US is a democracy.

Note that democracy means the rule of the majority (or plurality), and not necessarily equal rights for everybody, which would be an a-priori decision unrelated to the democratic process.
Because things can become bad or good depending on the reason and intention for which you do it?
People use the excuse "it's for the economy" in much the same way that people use the excuse "it's for the children", or "it's to fight terrorism". It's a lazy argument to shut up the opposition because how dare anyone do something to hurt the economy/children/help terrorists?

That being said, this law is insane, and it will be overturned or repealed. It's just a shame that people need to be discriminated against during this waiting period.
While I agree with the central thesis, why are we listening on any social subject to the CEO of a company that exports its manufacturing labor to a country that apparently has a much lower standard of living for its workers than ours, all for he sake of making expensive trinkets and baubles?
I worked on creating a similar service for a few months in regards to helping businesses (SaaS companies specifically) capture testimonials. I ultimately decided not to pursue the idea after having conversations with potential customers. SMS was not going to be a feature in the initial version and we may have been targeting different niches but I would definitely recommend getting it in front of your target audience as soon as possible or just talk to them about it.

I found that most SaaS companies wanted a few really well written and well placed testimonials rather than a constant stream of subpar testimonials and didn't really need a system for that.

It sounds like you may be going more towards local small businesses though and maybe they have a need for it. Happy to discuss any questions further with you if you'd like.
You've already proven you can do it.. why are you prioritizing "collecting data" over producing results?

I say this as someone who did the same thing in a similar time frame. Lost 50 lbs, set state records for strength, had lean muscle mass.

I will say that revisiting that accomplishment, for me, is burdened because it wouldn't be "new". Newbie energy, especially with results, is really strong. I'd be re-visiting some of those tactics at an older age, with slightly different life circumstances. I was single before -- and being hardcore when you're single can seem easier than when you have the distractions of a partner.
The days of old.reddit.com are obviously numbered. For those who simply want to lurk there are sites that scrap reddit and provide a less awful experience. One example is teddit.net, they even let you subscribe to subs with cookies so you don't even need an account -- which is probably a good idea since reddit has been collecting more and more data on users.
This is a bit much. It's a novelty product. A toy. I don't think we're at a stage where we can no longer make toys.
I'm interested in how you defend (if I'm reading that correctly) retaining those pests in Australia.

Further afield from my humble abode, yes, Phytophthora, lantana, black rats, blackberry, feral goats / pigs / deer, cane toads, camels, etc.

The reason we can export camels to the middle east is that when we imported them from there, we didn't import the various parasites that are now rampant in that part of the world.

Perversely this gives us an export trade and a massively out of control population of highly destructive and resilient beasts.

If we could remove all wild camels from Australia over the space of 10 years you'd be hard-pressed to identify any net negatives, and certainly it'd be impossible to identify any negatives that were detectable when mapped onto a graph of the positive effects.
You're quite welcome! Do you have any Bollywood films to recommend? I'll google Aamir Khan in the meantime.
You say this as if that list is fixed for all of eternity. If you don't want to call this a slippery slope, then how about the thin end of the wedge.
It seems most of the video was taken down like this one - https://www.facebook.com/163203180698293/posts/1165808300437...

Some things are still available though - https://www.bitchute.com/video/1Jr0ILcX9hY/

Social media seems to be doing a pretty good job of trying to pretend these things didn't exist.
>one of the great myths of nature is that predators have some sort of instinct to screw over their social group at every opportunity. even most animals know that there is strength in numbers and in fairness.

Citation on this? Your claims are contradicted by wikipedia articles like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_(zoology)
It's interesting because the food you eat makes a big difference then on your commute. A diet high in beef or fresh fruit could actually make your commute WORSE than an electric car.

Biomass is not a particularly low emissions energy source.
From my experience, software development is much more like writing than accounting or sports. In my experience writers vary a lot in their skill. Not everyone can write, and some writers are much better than others. Of course some not very good writers still create useful documents.
In my experience though writers are not fungible. No one would replace Shakespeare with a pulp hack, but that is really what a lot of this argument seems to me to be about
Do you have advice on publishing elsewhere in addition to Amazon? Specifically, are there exclusivity restrictions that must be negotiated away, etc.?
In a proper functioning freemarket, one without a central bank, interest is function of savings - delayed consumption, and thus those who earn it, those who loaned out funds, are deserving of their reward. That is the beauty of interest, it encourages people to work just a little bit harder and produce a little bit extra which allows for investment in the future.
I think Obama's against those policies, that's just a really tough political battle for him without a lot of payoff.

I mean, given the current lines of public rhetoric, how is "Obama wants to reduce drug offense sentences" going to go over?
<i>It's advertising</i>. How meta.

As I ponder the implications of Google engaged in this publicity stunt, I wonder. Was this device, sent off to sacrifice, my CR-48, lost in shipping?

As my desk maintains an empty spot, so carefully cleared, in anticipation of the arrival of the CR-48, perhaps now, my eagerness and expectation will turn regret, as I consider the future that may never be... Google, I beg you, send me my CR-48. <sob, tear>.
> They probably just want a substitute for religion, an authoritative source of knowledge.

Going on a complete tangent here. And I'm not disagreeing with anything you said.

The substitute for religion is philosophy, not science.
would be nice to see the number of upvotes for a comment like this. :)
A bit off topic, but every time I hear the name of your product, this is what springs to mind:

http://images.google.com/images?q=parsnip

I think it could only help your business if you commissioned a cartoonified version of one those photos to use as your logo.
He didn't make that error.

There are some industries, like restaurants, that are dominated by small-time entrepreneurs. As knowledge of web technology spread, Friedman was guessing that the internet would be one of these.
Certain I'm not the only one who raised an eyebrow at "it's a matrix problem" and the cranking out of Matlab to find solutions to x+y = 6
This looks really cool, but does anyone else have a hard time handing over any authentication responsibilities to a third party? What if they are compromised or DDOSed, are you locked out of your box?
It's a very nice idea, but you need to take in consideration the following: Managing 10 projects with 100 backers / project so you already have 1000 people to take care + the founders of the companies, you really need to come up with some simple way to do that, otherwise it will be very time consuming.

On the other hand check in with a lawyer, I know that there are some legal issue regarding this type of project, I had a client how was having this problem(I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I suppose so)
Good luck
A word of advice with Joy of Clojure: take up meditation. That book is surprisingly dense. I had to research topics ever few paragraphs. It is not a beginners books. Rather pair it with Clojure for the Brave and True. Combined the language comes alive.

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.braveclojure.com/&sa...
That's great if your eyesight lets you do that — it's like having 7-inch screen with previous iPhone's DPI.
The complex log function is a "branching function" [1] with an infinite number of branches. For comparison, the square root function has two branches.

sqrt(x^2) has two values, +x and -x.

ln(e^x) has an infinite number of values, x + 2nπi (for any integer n).

2πi = 0 + 2nπi for some n. (You can repeat this for, say, e^4πi, e^989781123972πi, e^-091784πi, etc. Those are all equal to 1.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_logarithm
Thanks. I just emailed Abby and asked her.
This is a pretty bad benchmark. Of course the harbor with pooling is faster. It's creating all 100000 objects outside the timer, while the harbor without pooling is creating them within the timer. If I change the code so that it creates the objects inside the timer, I get the following results which are nowhere near as good:

Total With Object Pooling: 633.393 ms
Total Without Object Pooling: 714.89 ms

This is hardly 2x faster and the speed increase that is there probably comes more from allocating the objects in a list comprehension in the pooled harbor.
That's fine, but it doesn't save it from the fact that programmers and entrepreneurs don't need to be overly pre-occupied with information about Apple, its products, or its CEO all day long.
I've never heard this story before. Didn't expect to get a history lesson on Hacker News about my country :) Thanks.
I wish I could upvote this ten times.

I loved the comment about not making your tutorial so easy that it becomes unrepresentative of the level required to use the technology.
Read my comment again. You can select elements using whatever CSS/XPATH selectors you want. Whether those elements have additional presentational CSS classes on them is completely irrelevant since the selectors will still work.
>but I think any purchase option is going to end up matching wealthy men with attractive women.

Isn't that how it normally works out anyway?
> And like the groups that promote austerity as a cure for economic woes, they have been proven wrong.

This is a strawman. Austerity isn't a cure, it's a consequence. If you spend too much and have too much debt, you can't borrow more to make the problem go away; you're just delaying the inevitable.
I found the Ribbon a good evolution. Especially if you use plugins for Powerpoint and Excel. Once you have a few of those (and if you work in finance or management consulting it is easy to have 3 or 4 installed by default by your Company) the ribbon layout ensures a certain cleanliness of the toolbar.
In Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143038702/ ), one aspect of male life the author explores is wooing and dating.

Her initial expectation is that, with her inside understanding of female thinking, she will have an easy time courting. But she finds that in person, many women perceive and are uncomfortable with her lack of masculinity. Relationships usually fail quickly once they reach the point of in-person contact.

But there's a major exception to this rule: she also found that women usually required an extended period of online correspondence before agreeing to meet face-to-face. And during this period, her initial expectation was completely correct -- women appeared to judge the man according to how much they liked his writing, and what they were looking for was feminine, not masculine, writing. She experienced unusual success in getting to the first date in the first place.

We can make a small interpretive leap to say that this suggests women are actually looking for the wrong things when they use online dating apps, proactively selecting men they are unlikely to be attracted to in person.
Don't forget the part where they all have access to running water and penicillin now. They're responsible for the greatest humanitarian success story in world history over the last 40 years.

Overlay that with how the US spent our cold war dividend over the same period..
I think the unethical part we get into with Target/Walmart/et al is the staffing of multiple shifts of part time work when it's obvious by the numbers that they're avoiding paying benefits for the hiring of fewer full time workers. The systemic question here is if we should allow it to be a financial advantage for companies to do that - especially large profitable ones with a footprint all over our nation.
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This might be the most valuable discussion I've ever seen on the internet. So much great information, people reaching out and connecting.
I'm guessing you're thinking about discoverablity? I think the comment to which you were replying was pointing out that you might want to serve different images out of different buckets (e.g. because they have different audiences) or use a different bucket for images versus other content.

But if you're happy with just using whatever S3 bucket you have, then there's no reason to switch.
direct link to Gundo, the undo visualizer: http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/

I don't understand why the post (and this submission) don't link directly to the project home page.

edit: previously ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851070 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807008
Even Rails has a standardized stack at this point.

It does? What is it this week?
Probably showing my age here, but to me it is very reminiscent of the IE4 DHTML tech demos (that's right, that's a four).

They were technically impressive in what they were able to achieve, but it was technology no one was ever going to (and never did to my knowledge) use.
It's not like there have been thousands of Flash movies and games made this way. No no no.

It's showing off that SVG movie playback is there, and that we killed the chicken and egg problem of another area of Flash: now we only need authoring tools whereas before who would build SVG authoring tools when there was no player?

Which brings us to how difficult it could have been to be made, as it really comes down to what authoring tools they did use. Interestingly enough, after the animation they offer a "simple mode" to trivially alter colors of the animation.

I see it as a strong signal of:
- cross-browser compatibility went a step further.
- one more thing we don't need a proprietary crashing blob anymore as there is an open alternative. I was also pleasantly surprised at how well it played on my Mac and Chrome. It was a bit slow at start on Firefox 4, and was (surprisingly to me) even faster than Chrome on Safari.
while cryptic at times, the messages in this article were great I thought. And on TechCrunch no doubt.

I think only a few of Twitter's users are really seeing the bigger picture use of the service and it's serious impact. I mean, beyond the user base, there were commenters who 'don't use it or know anyone who does' that were completely oblivious to the impact - even though they hear about twitter on tv/news/whatever constantly almost.

The obliviousness to the increasingly seamless nature of the platform is a problem for investors/patents/business models - because how do you define all that?
I'm assuming it's trying to load an OAuth screen - but the page is broken so won't even work to begin with.
I disagree. I view this sort of exercise the same way I view concept cars. These sort of "what if" exercises serve to push the boundaries and show what we can accomplish with this technology. It might also serve to spark an idea in someone who was previously unaware they could do something like that.
What about gems?

As someone new to both Ruby and Rails, I found the process of installing both + gems and anything else I needed to take most of my first day coding, not to mention if I install on two machines.

I'm no programming guru, but it seems to me that even Rails could be simplified.
Actually their core DVD is less profitable. It costs them something like $1 to send you a DVD, and a nickel to stream you a movie.

Notice that the Netflix site actually hides their premium packages (3+ disks at a time). People who aggressively watch and return DVDs to Netflix probably cost the company money.
The cost of screening apps manually will make it prohibitive in cost as a TLD. It's a catch-22, speculators actually make the registries a ton of cash. They love speculators. From a registry perspective, speculation IS a business model.
I assume the photo this poster is trying to link to is
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/73166

But really, even the samsung design isn't that 'revolutionary'. I see them all as an evolution of the Palm devices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA) Which may have been just an evolution of a previous device.
The page http://localtunnel.com does not show up, but it works like a charm when you get your own localtunnel URL.
Apple license agreement covering the collection of location data - http://pastebin.com/EdFJr6iU
For future reference, you can create polls after a certain (low) karma level by going to http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
We have an algorithm http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467043
I meant semantically, not literally. PHP has a class based object model that is basically copied from Java. One of the more absurd results of this transplantation is that in PHP, classes can implement static interfaces. This is useful in Java, to imbue some flexibility into the otherwise very rigid static typing, but in PHP it's utterly backwards.

As an aside, PHP gets compiled into opcode before interpretation, but the two processes are usually not separated. This is true for most interpreted languages actually.
Since this uses SSH, how do you deal with the fact that any user could login to the remote server? Is there a custom daemon running that implements the SSH protocol, or does the client use the real SSH daemon? If it's the latter, someone could easily get a command shell. In that case, there would have to be some sort of sandbox to make sure that user can't do anything dangerous. I'd love to hear how the creators deal with this - great product btw!
If you mean rich, say rich. If you mean poor, say poor. There are already perfectly good words for those exact concepts, and they're not "first" and "third world". Popular ignorance of the actual meanings of those terms does not change anything.

What is perverse is the widespread abuse of long-established academic terms with precise and well known meanings as co-opted euphemisms because one is too embarassed to simply say "rich" or "poor" when that is what one in fact means.