jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm really curious. Are you avoiding work? School work? Something else?

I can easily spend an entire day on just HN and SO.

You could also just play with new programming languages (as in, new to you). For some reason playing with programming languages that are new to you is much more fun than programming in some language you already know.
AOL still makes money on dialup. You can safely bet that Oracle still makes money from Java ME.
I'm hardly a YC fan boy (not a hater either, I guess indifferent) but I didn't really find it that funny.
It seems to be more of a block sorter than a factory; admittedly, that's only slightly less impressive.
Mind you, there's another alternative, even more depressing than the one you mention:

90% of the human population finds it impossible to transition to a life of plenty, where there's nothing to do other than enjoy yourself and/or pursue abstract notions, and so a great world war emerges, destroying everything that we've spent a million years of evolution to achieve, and ending humanity's brief reign on this planet.
Wish were able to download our ebs snapshots, which are supposedly hosted on S3. What does everyone else do?
Yes, and there's nothing preventing your client from reselling it to other potential clients.

Other than the fact that they're probably not in that business. If I sell, say, a GPL'd CRM system to a Widget manufacturing company, why would they go out and start trying to sell CRM systems just because they can? Same reason all of Red Hat's customers don't get into the "selling Linux" business. It's just not what they do.

Red Hat, BTW, make a decent bit of coin selling a product that's largely made up of GPL'd code.
If anyone wants to vote for a feature of client side encryption there is a votebox here: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/21/client-side-encryption
"Today, b-school is trying to position itself as an entry vehicle into the working world."

I do think there needs to be something that fills this position though. I think the ideal would be for b-school to work more like BYU or a salmon farm, e.g.

* Students show up straight out of undergrad and learn for 3 - 4 months.

* Students start their own project and work on it for another 4 - 6 months.

* Students apply to Y Combinator or one of the other seed accelerators, and continue building out their business over the next two years.

* Students who have shipped something significant are then allowed to come back at any point between two and ten years later.
Another content-free idle speculating navel-gazing post from the armchair analyst Asymco aimed squarely at Apple fans.

>If Apple bought Google (it already has a third of its value in cash) and it shut down Android, it could create $300 billion in value. If could even throw away all of Google and still walk out with a profit.

If that happens, Motorola, HTC, Samsung et al. are not going to go 'Oops, we lost' and then shutdown. They are going to move to a new OS, most probably Windows Phone which already has Nokia in the bag, and then the battle lines would be drawn up like in the late 80s and early 90s, Apple with it's single line of devices mantra and Microsoft with the OEMs competing to drive down price.

And not to mention Android is open source, so 'shutting down Android' doesn't make much sense. The OEMs would probably gang up to continue development which Apple can't do anything about.

What if Microsoft buys Mac OS X from Apple for forty billion dollars in cash and then quadruples the cost of Windows? Obviously it can make the money back because of the monopoly!
The Nolo Press catalog contains several helpful books on the topic. (I've no affiliation or stake in them - just like their stuff.)
I'm loathe to find myself on the same side as Lieberman, but giving The President the power to "kill switch" the internet seems like it's not THAT big of a deal considering he has a secret service guy following him around with a briefcase that he can use launch nukes.
You're "not talking about how we build them", but you were responding to my post where I am talking about how we build them. I'm gonna say it again: I don't understand this tendency to shift attention away from the "how"--rather insistently, in your case.
If it is truly a service with no actual product, you need to incorporate, A good accountant will charge you around $500 to set it up and can guide you to the best set-up for what you will be doing. If you have to build something first then build it before you do anything. If you can't swing $500 then there are some online sites that will do it for cheap, just understand that they provide no legal or accounting advice. If you go that route, be safe and file an SCorp, you can change it later, but it is the best one for the little guy just starting out. You may need to get a local business license, depending on what you are doing.
Agreed. Plus, that's a computer that you shake and keep in your warm palm all the time... That will need to have a really good cooling system.
4.5 star rated sqlite development tool. The pay what you want feature is only available via the web store, as apple does not offer any such service.
draw a circle with C#
This should be a document of shame to us as a community. There's not a single woman or person of color on this page, from what I can tell.

We're doing something seriously wrong.
But the data is not that important, relatively. The assumption is that some "Bad Guy" has gotten a hold of your phone. Here's a list of other vectors that this person could use to identify you, your residence, etc.

1) Your cell number is going to be readily available from the device itself. Using this, he'll be able to look up your address information in the Address Book.

2) Unless you notice the missing device right away and change your passwords, this guy also has access to your email accounts. Ever order anything online? Your address is most likely in your emails.

3) Ever use Google Maps? They can look at your recent searches. "3 different searches originating at 123 Main St? Might be his home address"

4) Phone app. Recent calls/favorites. With a little social engineering, your address is known. "Hi, I found this phone on the ground, can you tell me where they live so I can drop it off?"

5) SMS. Ever text someone your address?
Actually amazing accomplishment is a "distributed currency", that solved the double spending problem without backing by central authority.
This is great, look forward to reading the second part.

At first, the price seems expensive, but when I think about it, it's really not. You are offering a lot of functionality when it comes to scheduling tweets and that's a feature people will find super useful (unfortunately a lot of those people may be spammers, but at the end of the day as far as your concerned, your business is your business and theirs is theirs).

I'm not a huge advocate of freemium and I would not suggest lowering the price, however you may want to extend the free trial period a little longer.
Yes, that was by far my favorite comment. Well played.
You probably want to ask this question to happy parents of happy children, not just any parents, including overcontrolling parents who makes their own and their children's lives miserable.
Did you really experience it (as in, you were in NYC at the time) or were you just a casual observer?
I think you need to show a connection between storing gold in a bank vault and how somehow, that affects it being used in scientific purposes.

I would have to guess that perhaps at most, 1 gram of gold would be needed for a space visor? The process involved in deposition must be considerably more expensive than the actual material involved (a gram of gold is about $44 at today's prices).

(Actually about 300 square feet can be covered by 1 ounce of gold (31.1 grams per troy ounce) I believe; so the amount would be less than 1 gram, but maybe they would waste some, etc. )
Haters gona hate. You can't make everybody happy, but there are enough frameworks out there you pick one you like and let everybody do the same
The line of questioning is almost entirely useless in the first place, and the way that they will interpret the evidence is likely the opposite of the way it should be interpreted.

Ordinary people know basically nothing about explosives, or what everyday compounds might be explosives. At best they might say "Oh, I did some gardening, so I handled some fertilizer", or "I was at a shooting range yesterday". They might remember a chemical they had read off the label of something they used recently, if it's common enough, so if you told them what you found, they could tell you where they saw it.

Terrorists, on the other hand, are likely to know all about common chemicals that can be used in explosives. If you tell them what you found, you aren't giving them any new information, and they can just tell you it came from whatever they got it from (and claim they were using it innocently).

So giving a satisfactory answer should actually be evidence of the person being a terrorist. Of course, if a TSA agent were smart enough to realize that, a smart terrorist might pick up on that, and say "I don't know, I used some bug spray this morning?"

Most terrorists don't actually seem to be smart, but in the case that you were evaluating the evidence correctly, you'd have to downgrade its strength on that basis (even more so once you factor in the non-terrorist chemistry geeks, who are probably orders of magnitude more common than terrorists, and less likely to consider that you might take a plausible answer as evidence against them).

In short "what have you handled recently that might have lead to you having explosive residue on you?" is a pointless question, whether you tell them what you found or not.

As a side note, it's overly simplistic to say that "giving hints" is invalid in general, because the definition of "giving hints" is vague. Should they just ask "Why did our screen flash red?" instead of telling you it was the explosive detector? Should they be even more vague and ask "Why are we interrogating you?" Getting useful information from someone requires that you communicate specifically. So if the line of inquiry were useful at all (and if it is even meaningful to reason about such a hypothetical), it would be more useful to ask about the specific substance.
According to this, 50.7:49.3. I would not call that "damn skewed". http://www.city-data.com/city/San-Francisco-California.html

Also the same article suggests that 2.2% of households are gay male, while .8% are lesbian. That means the heterosexual ratio is even better.

Now I'll grant that it's easy as any place to run in circles that are skewed, and as much as we might wish (and often work) for it not to be the case, there are many more men involved in developing. If you only work and go to tech events (or other heavily gender skewed events, like Magic:The Gathering events), it might seem pretty skewed. But it's really not. There's a lot going on in the city.

Even then, "[the] odds are good, but [the] goods are odd" sells developers well short.
It turns out when you actually get tested for HIV, they do two tests. One has a high false positive rate but a low false negative rate. If that comes positive, they do a second test that's the other way around.
Most airports have layers of ETDs: Quick and "convenient", but slightly more prone to false-positives at screening, and then expensive, slower machines for secondary screening. In a similar way that a breathalyzer positive might yield a blood test.
Do we really need to send all of our browsing habits and website data to Google? I can't imagine the amount of data they will be able to mine from this.
Apparently there are still 5 lamplighters on the payroll of British Gas.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/01/15/377470376/carr...
Thanks to MobileRead users NiLuJe and hawhill, the Kindle can be used as a second display:

https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html

Here's one in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQQvQx2ep1o

The refresh rate isn't really fast enough to use a mouse/trackpad comfortably, but for keyboard-based work like vim, it is swell.
This sounds like a bad idea if the site is still comprimised.
At what point do you decide something is too big for jQuery? Lines of code? Number of developers? Certain features needed?

Does it make sense to begin with jQuery and switch at a certain time?
One could make the argument (and it has been made by others) that company founders are essentially glorified project managers, And VCs and especially incubators are just a mechanism to reduce risk by treating them as independent contractors and paying them well below the market rate, with e promise of some a lottery-type payout if they work every waking hour and are really really lucky.
You are right about the video, demanding to have it available in at least one free codec would suffice.

About the software: Lets say you stop updating your fork after some time, and it fails to run on a newer system, but it is something that someone really wants to use.
If he has the source code available he can rebuild it / port it / fix bugs in it and continue to use it even after the original developer abandons it.

A somewhat similar idea: I can still run, change, apply security updates for Linux software on a very old laptop (until the hardware eventually breaks) that runs mostly FOSS.
But I can't do that on an Android phone that uses proprietary camera/phone/gps/etc. libraries because after some point the vendor stops supporting it and without the source code it is hard to make it run on newer versions of the OS.
Had the license been GPL I could've asked for the source code and keep using it. An MIT license would allow more freedom for the vendor (to link/modify use in proprietary applications), but it doesn't require distributing source code so it provides less freedom for the end-user.

I think in the end what matters to me are the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guideline... and the GPL is just one way to ensure freedom #2.
The way Square's library Mortar handles it in Android is that you essentially have a Model-View Model-View-Presenter sort of situation, where your View Model is JUST your data, your View is JUST the view logic, and the Presenter takes care of knowing how to inflate/deflate the view. It's pretty clean if your design is clean but can get hairy easily if it isn't; that's a feature not a bug for me.
I've seen your other projects from years ago, e.g. your bookmarks site. I think you have great ideas and skill. I appreciate the effort towards being no bullshit. May I suggest a no-BS approach that replaces highly subjective humor with a copy that focuses on (hopefully also no-bullshit) aspects like

1. clearly stating how you gonna scale image delivery
2. clearly stating how you store files
3. clearly stating how you're financially sustainable

I love businesses with personality. It's just hard to do good humor. This humor reminds me of a 20yo me in college, a time when my sense of narcissism was way outperforming my sense of good taste.
This is what you should say as an investor.
Excel is a piece of software that I would absolutely not hesitate to pay for... but I'm unfortunately stuck with LibreOffice.

I used to work in an insurance company on an actuarial pricing team where the preferred tool was Excel (the modelling was pretty simple). Needless to say, I became very accustomed to and adept with using Excel. We definitely pushed the limits... but what was nice was being able to grab 600K records (maybe 20 cols) from a DB, throw it in Excel and get some results in a matter of minutes. You might have to wait a few seconds based on what you were trying to do, but Excel could handle it.

At home I run Linux... where there is no Excel, so I use LibreOffice instead. Just a few days ago I was poking around the Himalayan Database[1] and one of the tables has about 50K records. LibreOffice absolutely chokes when I try to do any filtering or calculations. As well, the pivot tables in Excel are in a totally different league than LibreOffice in terms performance and flexibility. It's unfortunate because I try to support OSS as much as possible... but LibreOffice is just so painful.

You could argue that I'm using the wrong tool for the job. Ultimately, I do throw it in SQLite or Pandas, but Excel is just so nice for ad hocs if it fits in memory.

[1] https://www.himalayandatabase.com/
It's mostly environmental and zoning regulations. Lots of California cities like punishing their citizens with environmental or historical regulations with cities like SF being the poster child of the latter and LA as well as San Diego having a lot of the former. Somewhere along the way it got decided that memories of the past and swamps matter more than making it as east as possible to provide infrastructure so now infrastructure is lagged.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. What kind of devices are they? IoT type stuff, smart TVs, etc?
I did because a lot of our clients and partners were non technical people using complex excel spreadsheets with macros and vba.

And since Excel is the de facto standard, shouldn't Libre Office offer a 100% compatibility to whatever Excel has if it wants a piece of that market share? Also $150/year for something that does it all and just works it's really not much. The same reason why we don't ask how much Visual Studio Enterprise costs or IntelliJ products even if you have free alternatives.
That's still 1000x different than realizing you have no chemistry with the person you're talking to at the bar and simply turning 90 degrees and talking to the next person.

Meanwhile, a date you eject from still consumes most of your evening. ...And it's extremely uncomfortable and emotionally taxing to be in that position for both people.

That said, I think almost everyone would be better served if they shot out a "wanna grab drinks at X at 8:00?" much earlier into the conversation. The sort of "Tinder convo" I see on r/tinder is almost exclusively men sabotaging themselves instead of making a move.

I mean, once you've established you're not one of those "send pic of vagene sex sex sex pls" people, I'm not convinced there's all that much more rapport you can build over text.

Then again, I imagine men who are able to talk themselves into a hole over Tinder chat are sending useful signals to women.
Japan is getting away with it because there is no radioactive rain impacting other countries.
> I hope this isn't a flippant remark

It wasn't intended as such, no. I wondered if it might have something to do with her timing. It sounds as if I may have been misled by Orange is the new Black.
Completely changing the parent comment like that and making this comment on a child doesn't make sense to me. You should have added another parent comment, or added an "edit: __" in the original comment.
I've heard this phrased as always stop after some sudden progress that makes you eager to do more - as opposed to stopping when you're stuck and giving up:

if you're stuck, then when you think of the task it will be in your mind as a bete noire, as opposed to stopping where you've just made some progress and are eager to continue - then it will always be in your mind as something great to return to and make more progress.
Tesla has had “driver monitoring” in that you had to apply some torque to the wheel, while the comma does gaze detection to make sure you aren’t watching a movie or sleeping.

AFAIK Tesla is adding driver monitoring cameras.
One could argue the same for almost any field in software development. Despite that, game development has always been lower paying thanks to its passion industry roots. Meanwhile, web development still dominates most of the job market and makes big bank even for average developers doing mostly data plumbing.
Wasn't Incognito pretty much built so you could go to PornHub without every time you type P in your address bar it shows everyone looking at your screen what kind of porn you're into?

Did Incognito give anyone any indication that it was somehow making you untrackable? It just meant that the browser itself wasn't storing what you were doing.
You don't have to load the entire file to RAM, you can read just parts of it.
Nice. I'm personally not a fan of EMACS style control codes everywhere, but I like the simple and straightforward interface.
Thanks so much for this amazing guide!

I had a side project that I was desperate to get across a finish line, and I rarely do any CSS at a day job, so I hired a freelancer just to help me get a few CSS issues fixed. One of the things he did was add a few CSS transitions, and the smallest transitions can turn a boring, static site into feeling slick and modern. Simple things like just having elements fade in a little when they appear make a huge visual difference.

As someone who's very far from a talented designer, I realized, transitions are such great value. You can learn a few CSS transition tricks and elevate the perceived design skill of your project greatly relative to the effort spent on learning them.

I'll be using this!
I thought you were going to take your pitch in a different direction.

I have found myself a part of a community organizations which practically live in the stone age. There are a lot of people and groups who are GREAT at organizing, but there aren't any technologies (besides phoning, text, and email) that one can use to enhance their ability to organize.

My best advice would be to unplug from the engineering community - see what real people are living through. Use technology to enhance arms length organization. I feel like you are doing what MeetUp is doing - creating a platform for human connections. I apologize in advance, I'm certain that I don't have the full picture.

People are tired of platforms. Give them a tool and let them use it how they see fit. Consider the blog post author. Think of a tool that allows them to better organize and communicate with their community of hobbiest painters. Tool to engage with other humans, not platform to spread your seed.
Yeah and google can do all of the above considering just about every website uses google analytics and all that analytics data is sent back to google's servers. Then they can sweep up whatever they missed using Chrome or Android or google-owned service metadata (i.e. google search, google maps, etc).

Google Analytics is the service that connects it all and google has convinced companies to give them this data access for free. (well, in exchange for visibility to parts of that data displayed on fancy trinkets)
It seems that pacifists like me and climate people like yourself should be natural allies. Can we agree that USA should not fight wars in the Middle East, since that seems to increase the burning of fossil fuels?
There’s a lot of guesswork there. It’s even worse than that actually, they assume that their advertising operation will grow as Facebook’s. It is extremely implausible under current conditions (no tracking and ads limited to the stores). So yeah, if Apple were Facebook, ads would be important to them.

And even the wildest estimates put it far short on the actual money maker, which is hardware sales. When push comes to shove, if they have to choose between ad and devices, they won’t hesitate long.
Buy two types of socks: over-the-calf navy for work, white for exercise.
Project Euler has something similar.

After solving each challenge, you're given access to the message board for that problem where people post their code and discuss how they solved it. The problems tend to become more focused on math implementations than programming after a while though, so this may not be the best example for you.
In Chrome, prepend ? to the paywalled URL to get a Google search for the article's URL, then click the link there so that Google is your referrer.