jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here are the kickstarter guidelines:

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines

I don't think those read as though they rule out startups/for profit businesses, but they do rule out some of the destinations of the money (payroll, business expenses), so I'm guess you'd be limited to spending the money on the creative part.

In the case of diaspora for instance, they claim the money should go towards their 'living expenses while they work on the project', but that's pretty broad.

I'm curious what their motivation is to limit what the money can be spent on, after all that's hardly relevant as long as the project succeeds.
Keep in mind Belo Horizonte is in an extremely rich agricultural area. This model would be extremely hard to duplicate in most of the world.
"One of the most cunning tools of the patriarchy is the assignment of woo as a feminine virtue."

Kind of sad that he has to use a pseudoscientific theory of mind to make his point.
My first two submissions aren't even on the graph. :-)
Assuming no actual possible customer reads this blog, this doesn't influences the number of new customers, but it does changes the overall numbers.

But, if people know they are being A/B tested, this allows them to make a decision about what they think they prefer.

Sometimes what people think and are willing to vote (say, by complaining they don't like their option, or by buying a product to support it) isn't what they would have actually picked.
Boy, as the Free Software Foundation, I'd be displeased with their GnuBio name.
C'est une bonne idée!
What's the difference between a press release and a tweet? Letterhead? A press release is just an email. What if a press release is published by tweet?
In a recent paper [1], I argue that intelligence cannot ever be accurately measured by any one particular game or 'environment', but rather, it's better to think of each such environment as being a voter, with just one vote out of many in the universal "intelligence contest".

A bot fine-tuned to dominate Go, or Chess, or whatever, is like a candidate fine-tuned to have perfect appeal to one specific voter. It's no surprise if such a candidate gets that one voter's vote, but it should also be no surprise if such an overtrained candidate performs horribly in the election as a whole.

[1] https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEIVU.pdf
I think the real reason is that OSM is, practically speaking, not important enough for countries to bother with censoring it.
I wonder how much they're interested in resuscitating their reputation with this product vs hoe much they're interested in targeting a demographic they may not have had a lot of in roads into. A demographic that has time and money to spend: the Baby Boomer generation and older. They're generally not technically savvy like the generations after them so Facebook built a device that all they have to do is talk to. Every time I see an ad for Facebook Portal it includes a person from that demographic.

Meanwhile, Facebook gets to suck up all that valuable data they so lust for and start selling ads to the elderly Portal users. I thought it was bad that my parents friends are falling for scams and buying too much stuff on QVC. I don't think they stand a chance at Facebook targeting them.

I hate that I'm so cynical about this. I really do. But Facebook has proven time and again all they care about is our data to sell to advertisers. So I can't help but see any new products of theirs through that lens.
The review doesn't touch my longest-running gripe with Ubuntu... does it still run tracker/nautilus/baloo in the background, sporadically choking on a developer's filesystem and hanging the entire UI? Because I'm really not impressed by a clean install being snappy.
I wonder if anyone is familiar with how these things played out in the days of published maps?

Pretty much the same. Map is tailored to its audience.

Visit a mid-tier antiques shop in a large global city (New York, London, Vienna) and you may see some old maps with some interesting borders.

One of the walls in my home office has one of those big pull-down school maps of the Middle East. There isn't a date on it, but based on the borders it's probably about 80 years old. A number of... unconventional... names and borders on it.
And what, may I ask, are your pea shooters going to do against the firepower of a corrupt nation state?

I find it interesting to observe that most 2A defenders are totally willing to support bills funding their potential adversaries and limiting your ability to organize.

I would argue that in the modern world strong encryption and other safeguards against surveillance much more worthy of of 2A protection than firearms..
So their plan to reduce the number of tracking cookies is to introduce another tracking cookie? There's an XKCD comic about that.
I aim to earn about 50K a year. That's my treading-water level. Does that sound doable? My wife and I have discovered that it is possible to lead a rich life within that income in the Bay Area -- international travel, more books than we have time for, eating well with friends and so on. Insurance comes out of this amount as well.

A young person with desired skills could easily be making more than twice this amount in the Bay Area. Owning a house is strictly optional (and a bit mad, to own a house in earthquake country, esp at those prices!)

Point is, many people vastly overestimate how much they need to enjoy a rich life. There's plenty of room at the bottom :)

Now, 50K is huge for the vast majority of the population, so this is all still rich talk. But the HN community is probably in the top 2 percentile of the world's population, so I feel little freer in saying so.
If you consider plane propellers, they do not have de-icers and must avoid known icing limits. The rotation of the blade causes the ice to fly off the blade up to a certain point. After that point, thrust will be impacted and altitude cannot be maintained. Dropping to a lower altitude will usually resolve the problem. Wing surface deformation is a larger issue for planes and probably not the solution here
If you are interested in deep learning with spiking neural networks there is also the norse framework: https://github.com/electronicvisions/norse
They care, but not enough to slightly inconvenience themselves when shopping for a new contract. I have a lot of family that come to me for IT / device help and I make a big deal out of all these issues to them. I can't say I've ever had one do anything other than go ask the Verizon store (or equivalent) for the latest iPhone or Galaxy the minute their old one is paid off. The one exception is the relative who will buy whatever the absolute cheapest, most heavily subsidized device is. I don't see him buying a Pine either.
Just about everyone I know - including people who play FarmVille - agree that it's really not very fun, but the app (I hesitate to call it a "game") compels them forward with a number of addictive mechanics.

No offense, but it really sounds like you have a horse in this race - do you work for Zynga?
Type II error? ß-error?
+1. There's nothing like running an emulation of a 2 MHz 64/20-bit CPU (with a 4-bit programming model) implemented in a language that compiles to a virtual machine, running on a 1 GHz processor in your pocket. It's just awesome.
It seems they made another 2010 prediction in December 2010:
http://www.applematters.com/article/10-apple-predictions-for...

My fav:
5. Apple Finally Releases a Tablet and it Fails

The more you hear the rumors the more it seems like Apple is intent on releasing a 10" iPhone to the world. Supposedly, it will be low priced and you'll be able to have constant connectivity with the thing. Sounds good on paper but why would you want a 10" iPhone if you already have an iPhone that fits in your pocket?
reference != recommendation
That got me to switch over. The ability to dual boot into Windows for work purposes considerably lessened the risk of buying a Mac. That, and the fact that I was sick of my Windows machine.
I used to work for CSFB (now Credit Suisse) in London's Canary Wharf. It's the most I've earned in my entire career.

Unless you've worked for an investment bank you have no idea how much money they have. It's like a giant gulf-of-mexico-style money gusher that doesn't quit.

How do they make it? CSFB flies on the bleeding edge of what's legal and always have. I was there when Frank Quattrone was involved in the IPO of VA Linux. The share allocation resulted in the US vs Quattrone lawsuit. Imagine you facilitate an IPO and you get to hand out shares at $80 a piece to your buddies on and the first day it pops up to $300/share and you can sell - right then.
http://bit.ly/cBMdqb

I was also there when James Archer, Jeffrey Archer's son was found guilty of manipulating the swedish stock exchange and banned for life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1459638.stm

In investment banks there is what's known as the Chinese Wall. It separates investment banking from the brokerage divisions to prevent conflicts of interest. Imagine you have a bunch of guys buying and selling stock for the bank's account and another group of guys recommending to customers which stock to buy and sell. They're all in the same building, using the same elevators, the same mens rooms and the same lunch hall. Quick entrepreneurial quiz: Anyone see a business model there?

They take their licks though. I was there when the LTCM fund collapsed and they lost $600M. Also when the Russian economy collapsed and they lost another $600M. Layoffs? Nah - business as usual.

If you're a developer or ops guy and get tired of startups, I strongly recommend going to work for an investment bank. It's very very hard to get your first job - you're going to have to network your ass off or have a seriously hot resume - probably both. But once you're in, provided you're good at what you do, it's very easy to move between banks and promote yourself into better jobs in other banks or divisions.

So what the fk am I doing running a startup? Good question. I ask myself that sometimes. When you look at the opportunity cost from the "I could be in an investment bank" perspective it is scary. I don't have some magic answer or a bunch of bullet points. I guess what draws me to it is the fact that I own my own business. It's also completely honest. Your success is your own and so is your failure. Working in banking feels like cheating. Perhaps it is. But it pays cash and lots of it.
This is a false dichotomy. The financiers who made this list were all entrepreneurs. James Simons, John Paulson, Steve Schwarzman, David E. Shaw, etc all successfully founded companies. Their companies just happen to be investment firms. The fact that more founders of financial startups have made this list in past decade than founders of tech startups speaks to the dominance of the investment industry in recent years. It says nothing about finance vs start-ups. The Forbes list will always be dominated by those who took an entrepreneurial risk and had that bet pay off. Nobody, finance sector or otherwise, makes this list by being an employee. Not even top employees can reach this level. Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, John Mack are not on here.

Now for more modest monetary goals, there's still no better field than finance. The only path to the Forbes list is through entrepreneurship, but finance opens up additional paths to millionairehood. Make it to Managing Director at an investment bank? Become a successful trader? You'll get 7-figures in yearly comp. Wanna do that in the tech world? You'll need a successful exit.
"- 17 were from technology."
Seems like we only consider technology startups.
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That has been known since 2012
Not the blossom of song not the veil of music

I am the sound of my own breaking

You toy with the length of your dark curls

I am captive to my own dark thoughts

We brag to ourselves that we are different

this weakness has burdened our simple grief

Now you have come and I find myself bowing

this blessing a sadness this prayer a longing

I am a fragment sounding the dawn

you are the walls of my every echo
~~~ The Palace ~~~
by Rudyard Kipling, 1902

When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled --
I cleared me ground for a Palace such as a King should build.
I decreed and dug down to my levels. Presently, under the silt,
I came on the wreck of a Palace such as a King had built.

There was no worth in the fashion -- there was no wit in the plan --
Hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran --
Masonry, brute, mishandled, but carven on every stone:
"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known."

Swift to my use in my trenches, where my well-planned ground-works grew,
I tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and reset them anew.
Lime I milled of his marbles; burned it, slacked it, and spread;
Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead.

Yet I despised not nor gloried; yet, as we wrenched them apart,
I read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder's heart.
As he had risen and pleaded, so did I understand
The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned.

When I was a King and a Mason -- in the open noon of my pride,
They sent me a Word from the Darkness. They whispered and called me aside.
They said -- "The end is forbidden." They said -- "Thy use is fulfilled.
"Thy Palace shall stand as that other's -- the spoil of a King who shall build."

I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my sheers.
All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.
Only I cut on the timber -- only I carved on the stone:
"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known!"
It's interesting to see the salary in different countries. I'm starting in a junior developer position in Norway with a salary of €56k/year ($82k/year). However, we have reasonably heavy taxes and cost of living. Another important aspect is that our currency is crazy strong right now. Just 10 months back it would have been about $65k/year.
I wonder how much RAM the iPhone 5 will have.

The weird situation of the iPhone having double the RAM of its iPad counterpart could be repeated.
$3K is way above average in Moscow, and Moscow salaries are much bigger than anywhere else in Russia. To give a comparison, a salary of $1K per month is considered above average in most of the Russian cities, except for 2-4 largest ones.
FYI: the list of Emacs implementations:

http://www.finseth.com/emacs.html
All software has holes, and all software development teams have vulnerabilities. It is impossible to fully secure anything, and all information will eventually leak out and become public. All of the intelligence agencies around the world are in a race to build databases containing all the same data, originating in reality.

Posting my general opinion, site linked only seems to have a couple sentences, so I'm guessing it's designed for JSers.
I wonder if we'll ever see FPGAs in consumer CPUs, given AMD's expertise with chiplets and interconnects. Say, for programmable specialized instructions. The relatively recently published patent "Method and apparatus for efficient programmable instructions in computer systems" (https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2020/0409707.html) seems to point that way.
The friction of owning a car is much, much higher than having to care a few times a year on how to carry your skis or sporting gear on a train and renting a car afterwards.

Personal anecdote: I was born, grew up and lived up to my mid-20s in São Paulo, Brazil. It's a city where a car is a basic necessity, much like in the US, public transportation sucks and is spotty, never on time. I owned cars, I loved the frictionless way to get out, getting the elevator out of my apartment, down to the underground garage, turning my car on and driving away, easy. But that car sat idle 98% of the time, I paid road taxes, maintenance, parking spot, etc. for the convenience of having a car ready to go at an instant time.

Nowadays I live in Sweden, I never need a car apart from moving houses or carrying some large furniture. A few times for a road trip here and there, I can just rent a car when needed and I come out on top of expenses still, the peace of mind of not having to take care of a car is another huge bonus.

The pre-COVID world will still exist, cities are a necessity if you want to have good public services, without higher density a city has no way to fund high quality public services.

I would like to know what clear downsides, apart from disease spread, has COVID showed from living in high density cities? And I mean cities like Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and so on.
I think the article is spreading false information as it's similar to mis-configuring ssh and then blaming the software itself when you get compromised.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-...

Jet Brains published this statement.
Good thing there are multi-billion private companies out there that can pick up the slack and punish the real criminals.
I suppose you're right. But I don't necessarily think that's evidence against what I'm saying in fact I think it speaks to what I'm saying which is that curing is inherently not that profitable so there's an incentive to kind of spring up a variety and a proliferation of industries around that so that now you have you know all sorts of support services for you know remission stage or cured breast cancer survivors. I'm pretty sure that's interacting with the fact that a surgery that completely removes and cures the cancer is probably cheaper than a long-term treatment option.
Of course at some point it will not be fair. No system is and people make mistakes. The question is - is it going to be less fair / more biased than not applying the same policy.
The name itself could be part of it: "Flag" could mean anything. In my E-mail, I "flag" things that I want to read again and take action on. Back when I was an HN newbie, I thought that's what flags here were for. There is nothing in the name "flag" that indicates it should be used to mark naughty posts.
Here’s the problem. In a rule of law jurisdiction there’s no value provided. In one without they’ll just hit you.
It's such an annoying metaphor for those of us who live in a country where all swans are black.
i think constraints will help which are part of generics at least you'll be able to limit the types your functions accept. but otherwise no, generics do not solve sum types by themselves.
That's not the case here.

Here they have a way to confirm that what you gave them produced more meaningful plaintext. And considering how large this PDDB might be, you might never be able to give them enough passwords to produce as much meaningful plaintext as could have been stored in it. Therefore they might never be satisfied that you have produced all of the meaningful plaintext plausibly stored in the PDDB.

You might as well say that giving the user plausible deniability also means giving their adversary plausible never-reaching-the-end-of-the-barrel. The former is good for the user if and only if the adversary is willing to pretend the PDDB thing isn't a thing, but why would they?

No, plausible deniability tools are not useful to most users. They are plausibly useful to a class of users (spies?) who might have resources or recourse to leverage that can be used to a) get them set free, b) without much or any torture, and c) without having to reveal their secrets. That class of users must be very small.
Every bank I've used has had a pretty absurd amount of trackers that I've blocked, often 5-10+ third party javascript domains. I don't know of any that don't have any, but I'm sure some small ones exist somewhere.

There doesn't appear to be a huge market for services that do little/no tracking, as users are all unaware of the tracking that services do to begin with, so they would not even notice the difference.
Does China not buy potatoes from the US? I don't understand why the executives wanted to wait...

I'm sure we've all had soggy fries before in the US so its not a new problem isolated to fast food delivery...
I was a pretty regular user of the Go store near my commuter train home.

Lately there are numerous items at my store that have gone out of stock, some of them for a few weeks now, and telling them about it gets a shrug and a "sorry, 'corporate' controls inventory" response. Not sure what 'corporate' means here but okay.

Long story short - Go is a fun thingy but I don't think they're ready for retail. I deleted my app.
May want to make sure your EC2s are in the right placement groups: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placemen...
This kind of regulation will lead to a monopoly. It will make it harder for upstarts to compete. Anne then we’ll really be trapped.
I don't see why a truth, expressed roughly and bluntly, is any less 'serious' than one cloaked in the trappings of wealth and class that are academia.
> Pornhub has recently removed that download button.

News flash: there are many (many many many) softwares out there that can 'catch'/downlaod a video, mp3, etc. from a website.

I listen a daily radio show. Not live though. I wait till the recording is done, then wait till they upload it on the station's website, and I am using a SW to 'catch' the mp3, download it, and listen to it later at my convenience (and offline). I have written and asked them to make a podcast for each of their radio shows, they're in the process of setting it up, I just cannot listen to them live, so I do this 'illegal workaround'.

That same software can catch videos (and streams) from YT, Vimeo, and most sites I visit. I don't 'pirate', but I do download some old-time music videos because I fear that one day they will disappear (e.g. Van Halen - Right now, Chicane - Saltwater). I want to be able to watch them when I'm (very) old, and I don't know how 'old music' videos will be treated. I do pay for Spotify, so I do pay for the music I enjoy (to avoid any responses to the contrary).

> Every time there is juicy drama and a micro-outcome

(not picking a fight with you): If that was your sister, mother, daughter you wouldn't even think of writing something like that. It is cases like this though, that can bring a $50m penalty to the big bullies and their minions ("marios", "kevin"). And large corp don't give a poop for the little people. They care to not lose money. Slap a $50m penalty to PornHub, and see them changing their tune within 24h and fixing this problem within 2-3 months.