jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
100% upsell. Felt like sitting through a high pressure timeshare sales pitch to get the free gift at the end
I think it does well on desktop too. I deploy my app to Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Android. My initial testing of new features is all desktop, running on my Ubuntu dev machine, and I find it pretty reasonable.
> Then again, I'm German so I might have a high tolerance for long strings and syntactical pain.

You're certainly used to stropping your Nouns. Maybe `all` that `keyword` stropping `in` ALGOL 60 isn't so bad `if` you're used to that. 8-)
> If voting is mandatory there's no situation in which a majority decision is actually suboptimal

If majoritarianism defines optimality this is tautologically true, otherwise it is distinctly non-obvious.

> unless you believe that a minority should somehow be able to override a majority.

The belief in inalienable rights is exactly the belief that on some issues a hypermajority of all but one is suboptimal.

So, yes, it's true that majoritarianism is optimal unless one believes that sometimes it's not, but not believing that majoritarianism is sometimes suboptimal is equivalent to not believing in human, civil, or political rights beyond the right to an equal vote.
This is not true. The fed is targeting specific medium term bonds. It isn't buying every bond on offer, which is what it would do during a failed auction.
I dont do consulting as often now, but when I do need some money, I do UI consulting. It's a little annoying IMO, especially with all the restrictions and working with someone who has no taste in design whatsoever yet they still keep on pushing their ideas forward....But, here are the somewhat positive sides I've managed to branch out from it:

* The ability to keep on working even though you want to kill someone how annoying their project seems to be.

* The ability to keep on iterating small changes which unfortunately are just warm ups to even more iterations.

* It's very annoying, even though you are probably making a good chunk of money. Great thing about it, once you move onto your project/startup(which I really suggest you do as soon as you have a proven idea and market) you'll pretty much love it and become very good at building something good.

* Oh, not to mention that you'll have a better outlook on things after you've worked on a few projects for clients.
Just a heads up, this was posted twice. Everyone else is chatting up antimatter here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915155
Japan exported vast amounts to keep its economy afloat. If it was for the booming world economy of the 90s, Japan would have died. The paradox of thrift is the problem; if everyone experiences deflation, and cuts as a consequence, making debt repayments a bigger percentage of gdp, and the cycle repeating, where does it end? At least Japan had an untold number of trade partners who were willing to buy.

It all must be viewed in context.
You buy the assets of a non-profit (I think). Only rule is that the non-profit stakeholders can't profit from the sale.
Your equation is wrong. Why are you negating matter twice?

If you have anti-matter it will annihilate with matter making gamma rays. Those gamma rays can then participate in pair production making an electron and an anti-electron (positron), but that only happens in a strong magnetic field.

That positron will then annihilate again if it meets an electron (maybe even the same one, but it doesn't have to be). Which would then make gamma ray, which can start the process again. You can theoretically do this over and over forever, but realistically the gamma ray will probably be absorbed in something. Also, I think the annihilation may make two gamma rays, dividing the energy.

Edit: Is your equation a joke on the english words, ex and anti?
Having grown up reading a certain amount of that kind of Christian apologetics embedded in historical accounts of science, I think I have to mention something here that may be of interest to other readers who have read a lot of the same kind of thing. My childhood best friend is someone I met in two successive summer science programs (1968 and 1969) for gifted students arranged by our public school district. He was a very devout follower of a very evangelical denomination, certainly one of the most devout Christians in our school. (I was a church-going Christian child when I met him, and rather devout myself, but he helped me turn it up to eleven in being dedicated to what I was learning in church and Sunday school.)

He has pursued a very successful career as an electrical engineer in safety-critical industries such as aviation and medical device manufacturing. I actually skewed my studies to doing formal church work, missing out on a lot of the hard science courses my friend took during his university and postgraduate studies. Along the way, we each had to individually discover that the "creation science" we heard about in church has no firm scientific basis, and these days when I see friends here on Hacker News posting from a background similar to the background I grew up with, I gently remind them to refer to the multiple lines of evidence for macroevolution[1] so that at least we have common ground here on Hacker News to discuss biomedical research and other aspects of biological science. "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution,"[2] so it is very regrettable when we have discussions here without checking the facts about evolution first.

AFTER EDIT: Huh, I see I am still in my edit time limit here as I expand this comment to note that there is evidently strong disagreement with my comment here. Because there is a lack of replies here, I don't know what prompts the disagreement. I hope there is no disagreement here that the great weight of scientific evidence shows that biological evolution is a true phenomenon,[3] and I hope that everyone participating here is aware that not everyone receives factually correct information about evolution.[4]

Feel free to let me know what you really think about what I have written in this comment. I can't learn from you if you won't speak up. Speaking up with evidence is the way to convince thoughtful people that your ideas are correct. Oh, and happy new year to everyone here.

[1] http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/2/l_102_01.html

http://biologie-lernprogramme.de/daten/programme/js/homologe...

http://www.nabt.org/websites/institution/?p=92

[3] http://www.nas.edu/evolution/TheoryOrFact.html

http://jerrycoyne.uchicago.edu/

http://jerrycoyne.uchicago.edu/excerpt.html

[4] http://ncse.com/polls-evolution

http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intel...

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/public-opinion-on-religio...

http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/section-5-views-on-re...

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/13/opinion/willful-ignorance-...
I am Ch:ilm and Komah was indeed a legend. I lost track of him and to this day have not been able to find him online. Other members went on to become music producers, such as as Mekx (Ralph Barendse). It really was a great time. Thanks for the shout. I have met quite a few sceners indeed. In hindsight it's amazing what we did back then, on 28k8 modems and a 386!
Like Reagan's strategy of bankrupting the Soviets by forcing them to compete with SDI? Don't think that will work on China.
This. They had well defined, implemented, and tested technologies to support creating extremely bug free and working software. For some reason they decided to abandon all that previous work. I can not believe they were that inept, they must have done that on purpose.
While cost in certainly an interesting -and perhaps dire- discussion, I'm equally curious about what this will do to the work environment in Boulder.

A have a good deal of my friends in tech here in Boulder, many of who work for big names such at Twitter and Google. However, nearly all of them agree- they wouldn't work at those places if they had to work Silicon Valley Hours.

Boulder has long had a culture of not working 80 hours weeks like the Valley. But if Google massively increases their presence in Boulder, I wonder if that will change the normal work habits here? Or perhaps they will lose the workers that refuse to prioritize work over lifestyle?

I really don't know which way that will go, although I personally hope the latter.
Worse yet, some generations will misread the symbolism, as my current TV displays a bright blue screen when set to an input that's not in use. This is probably a passing phase, though, as the TVs of the current generation have strange media hubs with crappy builtin apps.
My kids have been doing LEGO WeDo robots [1]. They're targeted at a younger audience than the Mindstorms. They're kind of expensive, but both my six year old and my three year old love them!

The big reason I originally targeted WeDo was their programming interface didn't require reading, so both of my kids were programming before they could read :)

[1] -- https://shop.education.lego.com/legoed/en-US/search/navSearc...
The nine essential amino acids are the acids people can't synthesize, but all of them are available in plants. Not only are they in plants, many plants like tomatoes, brown rice, potatoes, peppers, corn, celery, carrots, etc. contain various amounts of all nine essential amino acids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2937?fg=&man=&lfacet=...
The push against irradiated beef happens because it'd allow most common levels of food handling mishaps to be sold safely without getting people sick, and as the article states, most meat is already contaminated with feces.

So many corners could be cut without causing problems, but standard irradiation can't kill prions. (They don't have DNA to irradiate.)

So theoretically you reduce the quality of food, increase the profit for the meat packing industry, reduce the frequency of food borne illness, but increase the damage when it does happen.

Irradiation really isn't a cut and dried benefit.
3) completely independent of Google+
Absolutely fascinating on a number of levels. Thanks for the post.
We added "computer" to the title.
Why are there so many competitors in the delivery/taxi type services, but in the short term rental industry Airbnb seems to be mostly unchallenged?

I would've expected to see a lot of VC money being thrown there as well, but I'm only seeing Airbnb raising their fees and actually making a profit.
Good idea, but it could be phrased a lot more amicably. Maybe, "Hi, I'm really happy you like [song name]. Just writing to let you know that you're entirely welcome to use the song in this video, free of charge, as long as you add an annotation crediting me (Zoe Keating) and linking back to my Bandcamp page (URL). Here's an article describing how to do that: [link]. Thanks!"
downloded will test and let you know later ...
I've given up worrying about it, think of CFML as our secret weapon OK?
Can you email me your bookmarks file (provided it's not too sensitive)? cheald at gmail - I will play with it and see what's up.

You can change your displayed name in the settings. :)
When presenting: Never, ever read from a slide. Always speak more words than you type. If possible, get rid of slides completely.
Nice, Clean interface. Fast, responsive.

It's broken right now (Won't import my book marks, refers to me as "4d0c26c34caddf4914000003!") - but I'm looking forward to trying it out.
;-) No. I found out the old fashioned way -- a friend saw the post and sent it to me. He reads YCombinator news much more frequently than me! It does help to have a unique name...
I'll respond in two ways.

First of all, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek.

However, yes I do take much of what I've learned at face value. After all, it would be foolish to take years of expert research and toss it out because I personally didn't conduct it. Unless it runs wildly counter to my personal experience, I have no real reason not to trust it as the best scientific explanation at a given time. Thankfully my personal experience most certainly corraborates it.

There is a world of difference between healthy skepticism (consistently questioning scientific theory through empirical observation) and doubting for doubting sake. I haven't personally verified that the earth orbits the sun, but I'm pretty sure we have that one right after all.
Its all he said.
www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
How can you implement a remote kill switch without also creating a permanent unblockable remote code execution vulnerability? The only way I see to do it would be to have the chipset monitor all network interfaces for the packet of death, and give the chipset the ability to inject packets for the purpose of authentication before it actually kills the system.
I think that's the author's point: x86 is now a significant abstraction from the actual details of execution.
Agreed. I just changed "Dart" to "Dartium" in my comment to avoid confusion as I realized that it wasn't clear.
Mostly Solidworks simulation tools. Flow and mechanical.
Any idea why the manufacturers haven't shown more interest in helping out crypto implementers? Surely timing attacks are a pretty prominent problem in microprocessor design circles by now.
This has been pretty much inevitable from the beginning.
I like it! It distinguishes you from coding bootcamps which you decidedly are not.
I'm in love with React and starting to use it everywhere. Should I already get worried it will be deep tied to Parse?
Very cool! That's just about as good as it gets.
But most major domains use domain keys / DKIM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKIM

As far as I understand it, you can't fake being an SMTP server sending mail from such a domain because their emails get signed with a private key whose matching public key is published by DNS.
This is better than the OP link! Let's get this to the front page.
There's an odd view among opponents of various issues (eg, environmentalism) that if proponents can't do everything, then they're terrible hypocrites who may as well not do anything. This is of course ridiculous.

You do what you can personally, and you try to influence government policy. But not everyone can be a full-time activist.
I think the consensus is, a neat project and perhaps will be adopted by some but not a replacement for the tools that have been crafted and tuned over years.
In my experience that has never worked.

1. First and most importantly, in a bootstrapped startup you simply don't have the money for a commercial license of any kind.

2. The authors usually aren't ready to provide one, so negotiations take months and involve things like revenue estimations and the like.

3. The authors usually aren't ready to provide one, so drafting a contract takes ages. And then you get into legal questions such as do the authors actually have all the copyright assignments in place.

4. The authors usually aren't ready to provide one, and in an academic setting it isn't always obvious they can license the work commercially. Again, not insurmountable, but takes time.

Considering all of the above, it just isn't worth the effort.
Somehow,
"I don't watch any of them"

seems to contradict your earlier statement:

"As for specific bias at Al Jazeera, the main thing that jumped out at me when I watched it is simple racism."

I have watched Al Jazeera very occasionally. As well as Link TV. While I may find some specific parts odious, there are other programs there that are shaking up the system in the Middle East. Al Jazeera is hated as much in Washington as it is in Riyadh. This, to me, is a good thing: if they're pissing people on both sides off, then they must be doing something right.
I wish this was a problem. What is completely missing (at least in my life) is offline "downtime" and solitude. People in large openspace in the office, crowded tram, crowded shop, people everywhere in the park, people around my favourite walking trail, and of course, roommates, everywhere. There's no escape, no opt-out, no nothing. It actually drives me mad.
For a shell you'd want rush (http://rush.heroku.com/) or maybe iPython.
It's not my startup (I'm an employee, not a founder), but I'll put in a shout out for R Systems, a bootstrapped startup providing high-performance computing resources. (http://www.rsystemsinc.com/)
They are both problematic. There are reports all over the net that the Apple store and AT&T stores are taking orders with pen and paper because the servers are down.

As for the app, I want to have the iPhone shipped to me. It looks like you can only reserve for in-store pickup with the Apple iPhone app.
Most of you aren't trying hard enough to come up with things we'll PROBABLY live to see:

1. California earthquake

2. global economic depression

3. war involving developed countries(N Korea vs S Korea, India vs Pakistan, Iran vs Israel, China vs Taiwan, etc)

4. 2 leading into 3(maybe)

5. pandemic

6. The Next Big Thing(biotech? nanotech?)

7. car accident resulting in serious injuries involving yourself or a loved one

8. serious illness involving yourself or a loved one
These for profit schools are the low cost carriers of the education world. Changes to student aid would harm traditional private schools much more dramatically because they have far tighter margins much like how rising fuel costs impacted the Aviation industry. And while federal funds prop up the secondary education system, they can continue to prop up an industry for decades ex: corn farmers.

Individually they may be susceptible to loss of accreditation, however without the massive legacy costs they are far more capable of jumping though new hoops. I would suggest rather than being dependent on an unstable bubble they are exploiting the inefficiency’s of an entrenched industry.

PS: There is a difference between profiting from a bubble (Home Depot) and being dependent on it (Lehman Brothers).
Given that climate is regulated by several different feedback loops that we only partially understand, the worst case scenario can be much much worse than a few cm sea level rise. Note that one particular failure mode for feedback control systems involves negative feedback turning into positive feedback as you make seemingly subtle changes to system parameters. The results are, needless to say, often catastrophic.

Cosma Shalizi illustrates this problem nicely here: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/543.html
How long 'til I can use Treehouse on my Android phone?
> The gulf oil spill is a canonical example of a "low-probability, high-impact event."

I think that what's going on is awareness.

There was a much larger deep-water spill in Mexico in 1979. There have been huge on-shore spills, some that ran into the sea. There have been huge tanker spills. And so on.

The difference is that this one is off the US coast, we have on-scene video, and folks who claimed to be uber-competent have, arguably, dropped the ball.

Yes, they've probably gotten more blame than they deserved, but they've also tried to exploit this incident for political gain, so ....
Good job. I had posted something similar to this idea on HN idea spreadsheet https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWb...
I never got around to doing it. But I've signed up for your project!
The website working like crap is a lot better than standing in line while having these problems.

//protip: download the app store app and order there
I'm guessing you didn't read the first sentence in my text opening the thread. :-)

DocuHarvest is for those that don't know what open source is, or those that don't want to pay for someone to monkey with it enough to make it work in their organization.

FWIW, open source solutions have fairly poor support for newer revs of various document formats.
I have tried ordering since 1AM PDT from both Apple.com and AT&T (the minute it was available for pre-order). I have been unsuccessful in both attempts for 12 hours now.

Not a very well planned product launch when you have a ton of customers wanting to pay you money for your product and those said customers are not able to do so.
On a related note, Blackberry is now hiring hundreds of interns for this summer!
It's in the documentation right where you'd expect it to be. http://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants
I'm working on extending the example to allow for use of Web Workers.
Ahh, thanks. Quite a peculiar mechanism.

EDIT: So apparently I have to sign up for an account with yet another service, Readcube? No thanks...
This is why I never use recipe blogs, they're garbage. I recommend this instead: https://recipe-search.typesense.org/
What does "improve" mean on an introvert/extrovert test?
Actually the real reason is probably that the GPS data isnMt that accurate nor real time enough that they can just go to the spot and it pinpoints the person, so they aren’t going to go on a wild goose chase to recover your private property while other more serious crimes are being committed.
I don’t think you really understand what professors make already. Even a CS professor at UCLA is barely breaking $100k, and they would be in dire straights for their market if the university didn’t back their housing loan. Sometimes professors have the option of topping up their salary out of their research grants, but that has a few problems in itself.
Some usage description of mine: http://perl11.org/blog/bolt.html

Propeller looks much better now.
So far the median age of German cases is 47. It is 63 for Italy. Also, Germany isn’t doing postmortem testing on people that are dying from preexisting conditions that could be suspicious. Italy has tested corpses that weren’t initially tested.

Global numbers are so tough to compare with different countries testing differently, reporting differently, and of course demographic differences.
I've been building a browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you're on a checkout page for a website and redirects you to a screen that shows you how long you had to work to earn the purchase you're about to make. The idea is to get people to more consciously consume and in general reduce their consumption.

It's currently working, but I've stalled a bit because I'm not sure of the best way to promote it. ProductHunt is probably a good first step, but other suggestions welcome.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curb-your-consumer....

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/curb-your-con....

More info: https://www.curbyourconsumerism.app/#faq
Try looking at traffic rules. No-one likes rules against speeding. But in places where there are hidden road safety cameras and significant fines that quickly arrive in the post, people speed much less.

Rules can be enforced even in western democracies.
Ok, so no sources, just biases about an opposing ideology that can only be filled with evil and irrational people (because if they were good people they would align with you) MIGHT think. Got it.
Yep. Every year the Windows security team catches 0days that are under development from the crash logs telemetry and is able to patch them before they're mass exploited.
The private industry, academia(atleast for STEM) are still worlds best, by a mile
> Point is, have fun. Don't be a walking talking wikipedia page of logical facts.

This is sort of what I am. I think it started long ago maybe when I felt as if this is one way I can provide value: to give you facts.

I'm aware that this is a problem, in that by doing this I'm not really engaged in a back-and-forth conversation -- I've been aware of this for some time, it's just that it's hard to transition away from this. I don't know how to do this, because this is who I am now, and changing who I am, that’s a deep change to make, it is hard, and I don’t know how I can do this.
> The overuse of DSLs in Scala is really annoying.

Unless, of course, that specific DSL is the sole reason for choosing Scala, like with Chisel[1].

[1] https://www.chisel-lang.org/