jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Someone needs to run high res pics of this through one of the bird recognition phone apps
I don't agree. A lot of NFT artists come from humble roots, poverty even and these are their first sales. If you look beyond hyped artists like beeple, it looks a lot more like patreon for digital art
No HQ need not mean no office.
Googler, opinions are my own.

We actually created a portal where you can report unknown charges to Google directly; https://payments.google.com/payments/unauthorizedtransaction...

Credit card companies tell you to work with a company before issuing a chargeback, as chargebacks are a last resort. The above form helps you keep you account active without being swept up in the chargeback process.

It's something we all want to keep improving. I'm hoping as SCA (strong customer authentication) rolls out across europe and maybe other countries pick it up, it should cut down on issues like this.
That's how the proper antitrust regulation worked in the US before Borkism took over in the Reagan era.
That's why creative commons licenses are useful. If the content they want to use is under CC, they don't need to ask because the terms are perfectly clear.

There's also fair use, but IANAL and I think that they should definitely ask (because of the "all right reserved" part).
This is off topic for HN. Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Don't they do something like that to boost the resolution of space telescopes? Also I seem to remember reading something about processing a stream of images from an earthbound telescope to cancel out atmospheric distortion.
As someone who actually needs/wants to visit about 50% of the recaptcha-using sites: Do the audio challenge. Type something close, the audio challenge barely cares what you type, it has fewer repetitions than the image challenge and is just generally easier.
Are you sure you’re using a build of Chromium with VAAPI support patched in? Support for hardware video decoding in Firefox on Linux does not exist at all, and Chromium does not support it either except in a set of patches which are not included upstream.
Loved playing this when I was a kid. I still have a memory of picking it out on the shelf of the computer store.

The battle animations made chess a lot more interesting - one of the favorites: the knight v. knight homage to Monty Python, taking one limb off at a time. Merely a flesh wound!
Diversification.

I don’t mean to generalize, but there’s a aspect to Saudi culture where they look at down upon people who work - regardless of whether you’re a doctor or a rocket scientist - they look down upon folks who work for a living as if they’re lesser people.

In that micro culture, you cannot rely on your own population for economic output. You rely on foreigners or you directly invest in foreign companies and hope to find the next Amazon, Microsoft, or something like that.

Source - I married right after high school and my first husband (15 years older) worked in Saudi Arabia. I went there to live with him. We lived together there for 3 years. I eventually left him because I didn’t want to be in a cage (at least that’s what it was like to live there as a female) and wanted to go to school and have my own career and freedom.
The original song is pleasant, "Lady in Red," by Chris de Burgh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HMDUtirtJM
Pivot by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
For those annoyed by the YouTube app or website bloat: https://invidio.us is an AGPL alternative front end for YouTube that truly feels premium. It doesn’t have pop up ads and even plays videos without javascript.

Source is here: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
You are aware the Big Bang and many other scientific principles/theories were brought about by Catholic priests right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Science and religion are not intrinsically at odds with each other please stop spreading that extreme non-sense
We didn't touch either of the two posts you linked to—they were flagged to death by users. I actually unkilled them to respond.

As for controversial stories about YC startups, we bend over backwards not to apply the standard HN penalties to them. That was the first thing PG told me about moderating HN and as well as the thing he emphasized most often. (Though I admit that today, I completely forgot that Dropbox was funded by YC.)
So this works because you have neighbors who are also on Comcast and you can leach bandwidth from them?
Why is that I also have the biggest urge to code something fun when the time is best used to get good grades?
> Like it, but wish the author had done this without so much braggadocio. It could have been done the same way without so much self-reference and would have come off better, IMO.

You know I see this sometimes and I'm not sure it's a good thing - a person describes their achievements tangibly and concrete, and then someone says, "You're bragging!"

I got three thoughts on that -

1. It's a damn shame that people can't talk about their achievements in tangible, concrete terms without somebody whipping out the b-label. I mean, the author just posted his schedule and how much he sacrificed, and shared some encouragement for people wondering if they're not normal, and shared a good quote and a video. That's not empty braggadocio, no way.

2. This creates a strange sort of culture where the high status thing to do is to be all nonchalant and indifferent, and it's impossible to tell who is full of shit and who isn't. Earlier today, there was the "dealing with hostile lawyers" post, and a bunch of people said, "Who is this joker? Don't take his advice." But that joker happens to be a self-made millionaire with a crazy-good track record. But if he mentions "My win-loss record is literally 100% in this area" he'd get hit with the brag label again.

3. When someone says, "you're bragging!" - I think that reflects more on the person saying it than the original author. C'mon guys, celebrate when someone wins. Winning is good. Sheesh.
Nice contrast, huh? Instead of some guy who fights for freedom and democracy and symbolizes a struggle against a tyrannical regime, let's choose some smug rich punk who is working with the government to catalog info about every citizen in the US.
Quite. And 4/8 comments, all enthusiastic, were made by accounts 1 hour old. Flagged.
Only if he kept it to himself and didn't mention it to anybody - I don't think that's what the OP meant.
I use Janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus) for my vim setup and then customize it via .vimrc.local (https://github.com/misham/.dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc.lo...)
ISO standardization also makes things too static at times. For instance, the hash table omission accident gave us non-standard hash tables for years, until TR1 was finally settled.

Boost is nice, but usually only ancient versions are available on clusters (where RHEL 4 or even 3 is still common). The more complete the standard language library, the better.
I've been beta testing VorePad for a couple weeks now. It's a good iPad app, and really impressively fast.

In fact, it's kinda gotten me hooked on Convore. I don't have any especially important reason to spend time on there, but now I keep finding myself checking it like Twitter. I usually use VorePad or the official iPhone app, which is also very good.
We've become spoiled.

open source has different levels ranging from "made in basement and released to the world" (one maintainer, patches welcome) to "throw over the fence" (you can see the code, but nobody cares about patches) to "we're an open source corporation" (apache, patches welcome if you follow steps 1 to 22).

Hadoop falls under apache governance which means jira, contributor license agreements, and spending a week of your life trying to get your point across. It's much easier to complain like the spoiled developers we've become.
For the same reason, if you're in the market for a used car you should check your nearest desert-area craigslist (e.g. http://palmsprings.craigslist.org/). I learned this valuable tip from a college roommate who grew up restoring old cars in Indio, CA.
> What about changing out the whole battery? (You no more own a battery but you rent one from the gas station.)

People already steal copper wires and screw up our infrastructure that way. I honestly can't imagine a world in which greedy idiots don't screw everyone over given how expensive those batteries are and that makes me sad.
As far as I can tell N.World was a modelling and animation (and rendering) package comparable to Maya. See this press release from 1996: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1996_August_6...

"[... ] our tools were used to model the characters for Super Mario 64".

I bet SM64 was written in C++.

EDIT: ... and possibly large chunks of it in C, too, since the C++ compilers always seemed to lag several months behind the C compilers on new platforms, and SM64 was a launch title.
They do stop real spammers, as a real spammer works on extremely high volume and the cost of doing the captcha is way too expensive to do at the numbers they are at.

I do agree that they are outdated.
Try this if you use Safari

http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/06/09/youtube5-html5-conv...
that's not really the point because we are dealing with algebra and not the numberical values. The error is the assumption that (x-y)^2 equals (x^2-y^2), which is not the case.
Here is another way to see what is happening, that may be more clear from an intuitive sense:

From the puzzle, name the square object S and the circle inside it C_1.

Imagine another circle C_2 that circumscribes the square S from the puzzle. i.e. the corners of the square lie on the circle C_2. Then for each step, when we invert the outer-most corners of the square, we constrict C_2 such that the circle lies on the new outer-most points of S.

What happens is that as you repeat this process more and more the outer circle C_2 gets smaller and smaller, approaching the size of the original circle inside the square, C_1.

Also you can infer that the area of S is equal to the area of C_1 and C_2 since (area C_2) -> (area C_1) and (area C_1) <= (area S) <= (area C_2). Which makes sense intuitively, too, since they all enclose the same space.

This tells you nothing about the relationships between the circumference of the objects, though.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Obviously no one can replace your mentor. However, I am sure your mentor would have wanted to pass down the things they did to someone.

As you go through that process you will find that sooner or later anew pursuit pops in mind that is connected to your mentor.
Baby jogging stroller
You mean using Google App Engine (either Python or Java) as an "external" storage, separate from your Node server?
I use the youtube-dl python script for that; I love not having flash installed.
Castling on the queen's side is very clunky. If you move the king two spaces, it should castle for you. It works just fine on the king's side, though.
This is a small point, but regarding Ableton Live not having an analog on Linux: anyone who wants to do pro audio editing on Linux needs to try Ardour. It's a fantastic project that represents the best of the open-source tradition, and it is in constant and active development. Right now it's better than it's ever been. It's not always simple to get it running on Ubuntu, but it is well worth it; while Ableton Live might have some performance perks that few other DAWs have, in terms of strict potential for pro audio engineering Ardour matches it on every point.
I could see it going a couple of different ways.

1) It actually has improved comment rankings.

2) or I am just experiencing a placebo affect.

- 1: If it actually fixed the problem, this would mean that quality comments will appear higher on the page, not cluttered by mediocre comments that enjoy the group bump. I pull this assumption based upon the way I use the upvote system. So of course, I could be wrong.

- 2: Maybe the site just feels better to me, because I don't have to see comments get high upvotes that I believe are poorly thought out, or based highly on emotion/fanboyism/or other non logical motivations.

I could see it going either way, but my money is on the first possibility.

All I know for sure is that I now rarely find myself thinking.."Whaat? People think that was a good comment? People thought that added value? People think this guy knows what he's talking about?"
But is your goal to write the script? Or is it to enjoy your time here on Earth?

If writing that script at that time made sense and you were enjoying it, nothing could stop you from doing it. If you were wasting time and an unfocused individual, you'd see that.
Not that I plan on trying it, but how do you really know that?

Such a broad statement strikes me as saying something akin to 'I can prove there is no God.' As much as I believe it to be true and want to see it proved, I just can't say for sure.
I agree with other commenters that you've advertised for a coufounding CEO, rather than a sales guy. Be your own CEO, or officially hand over the reins to a CEO hire -- don't hire a sales guy for the wrong job. But, here's my advice for an early hire startup sales guy, should to go that way:

First, make sure they're a startup sales guy, not just a traditional sales guy. Other comments in the thread have given enough perfectly good reasons. There's lots of individuals who want to be (and are good at) doing startup sales. I'd liken the difference between big sales guys and startup sales guys similar to coders who perform best in large companies, versus strong first technical hires. You have to be a risk taker, and willing to go with really low/no pay for a while. Traditional sales guys are often very well paid, are strict 9-5 workers, and wouldn't handle the early startup stress

Also, every job I've ever taken at a startup as a "sales guy" has been one where compensation is linked to performance. Not commission specifically, though that play a part; I mean that to get a salary, I have to deliver in regards to traffic, conversions, or any other measurable factor for the company. Basically, each week I'm called to be accountable for what I accomplished at a quantified level. I don't get paid until I hit a threshold ($15,000 in sales, x new clients based on my efforts, higher SE rank).

Do the same for your hire. Do a 4-5 month contract to see if it's going to work, make compensation based on performance, and shake hands and part ways at the end of the period if it doesn't work out -- its business.
I saw Zed live too at SuperConf in Florida, I had dinner with him, he's really what he represents, just a very good programmer, professional and guy, by far the best I know in our field.

He gave me some advices about my career and programming in general (and specific: Testing in Python), we even joke about silly stuff (e.g.: The Social Network movie).
I think you're brushing off sales & marketing too easily. RIM's problem isn't that they just don't have compelling hardware/software, it's a market perception now, too. Fine, say tomorrow they come out with the "iPad-killer" - how do they convince people of this? What about all these people who have invested in the i-ecosystem (Pads, Pods, Macs etc.), why would they switch? And how do you win the hearts of devs who can build HTML5 apps + jQuery mobile for the already existing platforms? RIM has so many chicken-and-egg problems.

They snooze, they lose (lost?).
I agree with much of what you said.

It's slightly off topic, but your statement Power and flowed around many aristocrats and one Catholic church makes me think of Neal Stephenson's book Anathem [1].

A core theme of Anathem is a society in which science and technology are pursued in monasteries that keep themselves aloof from "secular" society. Government power and religion then interact with a much different dynamic. So the role that the church played historically in mitigating the power of monarchs is, in this world, played by the scientists.

I don't think that Stephenson develops the idea far enough to start drawing any conclusions, but he does inspire enough thought that it's quite an interesting read.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anathem
> If you, or the company, is in California go ahead and sign it. Non-competes are not valid or enforceable in the state of California.

Making an agreement you have no intention of adhering to is not ethical, regardless of whether the law backs you up or not.

It's better to simply strike out that line and say it's not valid in California so why have it in the contract.
You’ve just written an excellent foundation for a privacy policy. It clearly explains most of what data you need and what you’ll use it for - that’s exactly the fundamentals of a good privacy policy. Add some stuff on where/how you store and secure it, when you delete it, and who to contact to update/delete info or complain, and you’re 99% done.

I think it’s lazy and bad form to ask for extremely broad catch-all consents to personal data usage, which basically become meaningless as a result. Those remind me of a famous “meme-ified” scene from Parks and Recreation where Ron shows a homemade ‘permit’ to an inspector that says: “I can do whatever I want. /s/ Ron.”

At least in the EU there’s the GDPR mandating that consent be specific and freely given. If only data collecting organisations would stop focussing so much on the cookie consent nag screens and take their compliance with the rest of the GDPR equally serious...
If tether is such a scam, how is it still trading close to par? Is anyone willing to buy a non-trivial amount of tether at par (other than tether co. and Bitfinex)?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/USDT-USD/
Except you can turn that off
This is Minecraft with MCMMO

http://defend.avalon.today/
They could just say "4gb" or "250mb" and reserve the words "unlimited" until they truly are. I'm on Three and use 20-25gb/mo. They say it's unlimited, but it certainly isn't limiting.
This was posted to HN today, and seems to me a very interesting approach: https://github.com/square/apropos
I currently use Jekyll + GitHub Pages. The work involved in correcting a one-character typo is annoying if I'm on my laptop, but nigh-impossible if I'm on my phone.
Do you have a "data liberation" type policy? Eg, if someone wanted all their content, how do they get it out?

I've gotten burned by that before with Blogger and Posterous, and now use Octopress for this reason. Open to better alternatives, but need a clear and easy way to get my content back out if I ever decide to change services.
Most end users can use a SPV (Simple Payment Verification, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Simplified_P...) based client like Multibit (https://multibit.org)
Yep. Come to Houston, get fucking awesome food and dirt-cheap living.

Problem is, everyone who doesn't live here think its some kind of crazy right-wing shithole. :(
Two previous mac books died on me after a year or so (they were already used for a year or two when I bought them). One died due to GPU solder problem. The other due to some unspecified damage to HDD controller.

Hope our new retina will live longer. If only my girlfriend that actually uses it would allow me to kill the osx and put Windows 10 there it would save us both a lot of frustration.

Mac OSX is hardly usable. I get how developers can get used to it. Once you start Terminal you have a fairly usable sort of linux computer. I still don't get how graphic designers use it. Its UI is so buggy, glitchy, uncooperative towards hardware (wacom tablet! or just ordinary mice).

As for the hardware it's really powerful and the price is right or better than right for those components. The thing is that you wouldn't build PC out of those component yourself, because you'd rather use processor that's 8% weaker but costs half as much.
I spent many hours reading the magic-wormhole docs to study for my p2p IB project, thought I'd say thanks. :-)
I don't think you're being very good faith right now.

Clearly a lab studying coronaviruses is interesting. Clearly its possible that the lab could have had a leak. Clearly it's possible a farmer could have wandered into a cave, or run into a bat in the wild. Clearly it's possible that it didn't originate in China.

There is certainly enough evidence to investigate the lab being a possibility. It definitively being responsible or not is definitely of interest. There was a lot of cover up at the beginning, which implies to me a party who knows they are responsible.

From everything I've read on the topic, the best going theory that I understood is that in order for the lab to perform tests on coronavirus found in bats, coronavirus samples are collected from bats. A person must collect these bats from caves, not in Wuhan. A person might have collected the samples improperly or with insufficient gear, resulting in contracting and then spreading the disease.

That's not a "controversial" (read: conspiracy) theory, that's not an act of the state being evil. That's something that could happen anywhere in the world. That's something that could happen on accident. That's something that could be prevented by improved process/standards/equipment. By denying the possibilities of such things, it makes it look like there was a coverup or an explicitly guilty party. Everyone should want to know the nature of it's origin. It should obviously be a possibility.

> Occam's razor says it's another one of those.

To me occam's razor says that Wuhan is a first apparent epicenter. So it stands to believe it's the first place with major outbreak. Wuhan has a lab that studies this very disease specifically for it's epidemic properties. The most simple occam's razor explanation to me is that it has to do with the lab.
That YouTube channel that definitely maybe isn't actually run by Adam Curtis uploaded his latest BBC docuseries Can't Get You Out of My Head.
> in most of the cases you are priced out of property ownership

This is only true for a selection of coastal cities. The property ownership ladder is still available all over the US to the lower middle class and up.

The narrative you are parroting that this is because of corporations is another distraction designed to keep people from actually addressing housing issues with large legal reforms crushing NIMBYism.

Take as much money as you want from Google and Apple, it won’t change the fact that there are only enough houses in the Bay Area for about half of the people that live there.
>the oil shocks of the 1970s were short term disruptions which unsettled things

Which led to the removal of the gold standard by those who knew the outcome would proceed as it has.

If Reagan didn't shift the tax burden the very wealthy would not have been able to recover their massive losses as rapidly.
I didn't perceive the NYT article as negative at all. As for naming him, that's their choice as journalists, and a risk he took with recording his thoughts online just as all of us do.

I wish folks would rid themselves of the notion that the internet is anonymous or deletable. We'd all be much healthier by acknowledging the possibility that whatever you write here may be etched in stone. And if you become well known people may try to identify you. This isn't an OSC book it's the real world.
Why is this a .com site and not just a post on Medium? :-$
What things? and where can you see them? And are you sure you can see them with enough clarity to truly judge the proper statistical relevance? For instance polls say that people who watch the nightly news believe that violent crime is getting worse... they can see it with their own eyes. But if you believe some purported science, violence has been on a decades long decline.

Unfortunately people can be prone to mass delusion and moral panic. Check out this for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi...
Ah, so this is why there was a line outside the Apple Store today. I didn't think iPads were still that popular.