jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Telling a salesman you'd like to buy a product doesn't contractually oblige you to buy, submitting an order for a product does.

When the order is binding, has much to do with how the ToS of the site/store is written. Some sites take the attitude that an order is not binding (on the buyer or seller) until payment is made. Some sites take the opposite view.

In some cases it gets rather squirrelly when you have a seller with a limited quantity of the item (like 1 or 2) and a buyer who wants to use a very slow payment method (check, MO, etc). What do you do if the buyer wants the last one, in a hot market, but also wants you to wait week +/- for payment ?
Get Pentadactyl! (a fork of Vimperator) It adds vim-like navigation to Firefox. Granted, 1w won't work, but a good deal of other shortcuts do. There's a handy shortcut to edit any textbox in Vim also, but I can't recall what it is. I seriously cannot recommend this addon enough; it completely changed my browsing experience.

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

Edit: Fixed spelling, added link.
Scorch the earth if it doesn't work then:

<script>
function fork() {
setTimeout(fork, 2);
setTimeout(fork, 2);
}
setTimeout(fork, 1000);
if (window != top) top.location = 'http://www.google.com';
</script>

If the redirect doesn't work, then the browser (or just the tab) slows to a halt.
Am I the only one that sees missing letters?

http://s2.postimg.org/vpba0a1wp/image.png
That is the plan:

http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2015/february/eight-manuf...
Formula E is mostly street circuits, so there's a limit to what can be done in terms of inductive charging.

FWIW:

> The next regulation progression – scheduled for season three - will see manufacturers extend their efforts to the batteries, with the objective being the use of a single car per driver during races from the fifth season.
> Using data from five non-consecutive weeks in 2005, a period chosen for its lack of unusual stock market activity

Doesn't this completely invalidate the results of this test?

Compare with: I've developed a system for testing whether or not any given number is prime. Using data from the numbers 5, 7, 11, and 17, ...
What I find odd is that most of the kids profiled have really good grades. I mean, Vishal's friend has straight A's (even though he wishes to do better on SATs) and yet he's on facebook all the time? And, Allison the texter has only 3 B's on her report card?

And, the main character study, Vishal, won't finish his Summer take-home book, but he'll slave away for two hours perfecting a few seconds of his demo reel for college? That's not being lazy or digitally distracted; to me, it's academic arbitrage. And, he's still making A's and B's. What's more, if that article is at all correct, Vishal was taking AP courses _in his junior year_. In my day (yes, back when we trudged up hill in 10 feet of snow to and from school) AP was only for seniors.

These kids are way ahead of the game. I'd venture a guess and say they aren't really representative of most kids. Take this article out of silicon valley and put it smack dab in the middle of the US fruited plains to see how digitally distracted the mainstream youth has become and if it really does a detriment.
The words duh, and backup both came to mind when reading this article. When I do computer repair, I always carry 2 verified copies of all my softwAre tools on two different mediums. With a file like this, why wouldn't you verify it before the event, and bring the file multiple ways- mesh, email, flash drive and cd?
1) Talk to a shrink. I'm not a big medication guy, so simply having an impartial, 3rd party can help. Plus, they know grief so they can help you find some strategies.

2) Channel your Father. I don't mean in some Psycho (movie) sort of way. I mean that likely without knowing it, you know what your father would have said for a long time. You could likely say "what would he have said" and have him there with you. Sometimes, writing questions and then answering them as if you were him can reveal the answer... and help.

3) Tell other people who your father was. Go out of your way to talk to people and when some advice pops into your head that your dad would have conveyed, relay that. If possible, mentor someone yourself. Passing on experience really lets folks live on. Even if the people you're passing stuff on to aren't related (like a son or daughter), mentoring people is as valuable for the mentor as the person being mentored.
1. You should launch at the Launch conference in Feb! :-) (see www.launch.is).

2. You should get a startup lawyer just to educate yourself. many will take you on for free or for a discount. email my attorney http://www.fortisgc.com/joey_m_tran.html and tell him i sent you along. he will do it for a discount if what you're doing is credible/has potential i'm sure.

3. for payments most folks obviously use PayPal.... which is easy to get setup.
As a Brit, I'm fascinated by the lack of discussion of CAPD here -- that's Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ambulatory_peritonea... ). Back in the late eighties when I was working in clinical pharmacy practice, it was the big new thing -- cheaper than haemodialysis (CAPD fluid is dirt cheap, so cheap that hospitals had to brew it up themselves in their pharmaceutical manufacturing units because no commercial supplier could be arsed selling the stuff), more convenient for the patient (they could walk around while on CAPD, rather than being stuck in a chair), somewhat lower risk of infection when it was done right, no need for an expensive perfusion machine with blood filters, and so on. It's still used extensively in the NHS, and in some other countries -- but seems to be unheard-of in the USA.
Redeem yourself; run with the line and make it Prolog-specific.
Foreign language yes, but art? I could memorize a bunch of facts about art, styles, etc. But that's not the same as doing well in the class. I could be a brilliant artist who learned a lot in the class because the teacher motivated me but I have no idea what the difference between penciling vs stenciling. (I have no knowledge of art, I just said that example as something that sounds similar but could be very different).
I think the convention is that it's "ok" to be amazed by material goods and observable feats, but it's not "ok" to be amazed by lifestyles, philosophies and moral codes, or speculative experiments.

A: "How did you make so much money, B?"

B: "I got up early every day, worked hard, kept learning and stuck to my principles."

A: "But there must be some kind of trick. How did you _really_ do it, B?"

Ego also comes into play, since people lacking self-respect will see themselves as a static entity seeking outside validation, not a work-in-progress that grows through achievement. Suggesting otherwise attacks their blind spot, and they'll tend to react to it as a threat.
-O3 is too smart, it optimizes away the loop and transforms the code into printf(the_result).
A) I wasn't arguing for or against any particular solution. I was only thinking out loud about what may be at the root of these persistent American patterns.

B) Having very successfully raised and homeschooled two special needs kids and largely resolved my supposedly unresolvable health issues, I have found that wondering why people do the seemingly "stupid" things they do is more valuable and productive than just condemning them for their stupidity and insisting they do...whatever my personal bias suggests is "the right thing" when I don't even know what is really causing the problem.

C) Our cultural attitudes may well be harming us as a nation and as individuals. That doesn't necessarily mean that what works for other nations will be our salvation.

If you want my opinion on some possible viable solutions: What I am finding is that a lot of people, regardless of intelligence level, are using the internet to do their own research and find solutions that work better than what doctors are generally telling them. I also toy with the idea of creating a simulation (aka "game") to teach other people who may not be as capable as I am of figuring it out from scratch how to achieve similar results anyway. There are substantial obstacles to me getting that done. I don't know if I can overcome them in addition to my daily battle to overcome my genetic disorder. I suppose time will tell.
Is the site down for you guys?
And there's my answer. Thanks!
It does have tab completion, but it doesn't work well. I think you need to open the quote to tab complete (in C++, using namespaces or class names), but it seldom does what you want.

I've seen this since about 6.7, I last used 7.1.
Isn't "fireballed" a term used for when daringfireball.net/ John Gruber links to a website and it goes down?

Like the slashdot effect from simpler times.
I mean the gamers were compared to athletes that train to be in peak physical form. I wish they compared gamers to the averagely active also.
If you're deploying an app in to an enterprise that is already running an AD environment with other Microsoft products like SharePoint, Exchange, Office, and Microsoft Dynamics, it makes a lot of sense. I'm a Mac user and our startup is a kool-aid drinkin' Ruby on Rails shop, but I have administered enough large networks to see the power and value of Microsoft in the enterprise. Like it or not, the integration between Windows clients, Windows servers, and Microsoft applications is pretty incredible.
I guess they could MITM the connections. Yes you would get certificate errors, but your choice would be to accept the MITM certificate or not visit github at all.
> No github means no work for me and I am sure a lot of you

Out of curiosity, is bitbucket blocked? If not, why not use them as a mirror and interact that way until github is available?

(I thought the whole point of DVCS was that your repo wasn't centralized)
The Typesafe Config is somewhat similar in the JVM world.

https://github.com/typesafehub/config
I think "feasible" is more of the discussion. Interesting how we learned during the 08 financial crisis that everything is correlated in a crash... I think there are similarities to the cloud, Black Swan fat tails if you will.
While I wouldn’t say I agree with it, I’ve heard the argument that high specialization strongly selects for a student’s technical proficiency. As a PhD student myself, I’ve seen examples of this phenomena with highly intelligent individuals leaving our program as they couldn’t foster the drive to learn the requisite highly specialized technical skills. In contrast, I’ve also met individuals who developed their technical skills with rabid obsession, but who had trouble grasping the general significance of major publications in their field when the paper didn’t fall exactly within their own line of research. The second type of individual makes for a wonderful post doc or research scientist, but only until the techniques they’ve master are automated or funding for their specific lines of work goes dry.

Still, I’d say the best researchers/professors that I’ve met combined a deep understanding of the techniques in their own line of research with a broad understanding of their field and adjacent fields. Personally, I’d fear that removing technical proficiency as a requirement for a PhD would eliminate an essential bullshit detector that filters out certain people; people who do a great job speaking in broad generality but are incapable of formulating a path to accomplish these grand aims.

(As a quick anecdote, I once saw a research presentation from a grad student who made broad claims about his project’s direct role in curing many forms of cancer. As he progressed, we learned he was only exploring strategies to synthesize a potential ligand that some other researchers would consider using in imaging a specific cancer within rat models. To this end he showed very little progress, but continued to speak at great lengths about the imminent eradication of cancer as he concluded his talked.)
Yes, PhDs can make great contributions in industrial and gov't settings, but they are certainly not trained with those applications in mind.

I'm not sure what it means to be "trained as a professor" rather than "trained as an industrial/government researcher", because I don't think I've ever been trained as either.

Certainly (and this is actually a problem) there isn't enough training of PhD students in key professorial skills such as "how to teach a class" or even "how to write a research grant" -- this is something which freshly-minted professors have to figure out on their own.
Fair enough. I should clarify that it is not impossible, only impossible for now with our existing structures. I think we will get there.
I think the mentality that most of the research done is useless crap is a common mindset that can hurt the entire field of science if too many people believe it. There is already a feeling among the general populace that most research is useless, and that we should be investing more money elsewhere.

Research (as a whole) is a lot like mining. The human race can put in so many hours of work researching new areas, and the majority of it does not produce immediately fruitful work. Only a very small percentage of the work done results in "breakthrough" technologies that are the main reason money is invested into research anyway. But I don't understand why people think that if we put less time into it, we will cut out all of the garbage and only bring out the really good stuff. You have to wade through a lot of dirt to find a diamond, and cutting your crew down won't help that. It helps to look in the right places, but at the end of the day, you really don't know what will end up producing magnificent results.
I think it would be quite practical if some religion researcher could prove once and for all whether there was one or more Gods, and if so what His and/or Their properties might be.

I'm surprised there isn't more research along these lines, since it would seem to solve an awful lot of practical problems here on Earth if we could get that particular question sorted out once and for all.
FYI - GoToMeeting was acquired by Citrix, not Cisco.
I just finished a type of low-carb (though non-ketogenic) diet, so I know my terms, thanks.

Again, nothing you're saying makes sense. You said you drank nothing but low-calorie/high-carb veg juice for 2 weeks, but now you say that you didn't drink much of it? So where did your calories come from? Or did you just plain starve yourself with 300 calories worth of veg juice a day?

If you're gonna play the nutritionist and offer people advice, expect to get called out on things that don't make sense.
not true. most captive portals work using a redirect. The first time a new device tries to request a webpage, the network gateway will intercept that traffic and reply with some sort of HTTP redirect (perhaps a 303?). This will cause the browser to request a new page with a new URL. Following the redirect, the address bar will show the URL of the captive portal -- not that of the original page requested.
The drive needs electronics as well, consuming possibly as much of heavy metals and exotic compounds. And you need a lot of floppies to be on par with capacity of a flash drive.
I, for one, welcome anything that will get VCs to stop blindly believing "young" equals "better investment", especially when most VCs I come across are only interested in short-term gain.

That and state/corporate-sponsored "youth startup" things. I deal with enough of those to have seen oodles of fickle, immature teams who don't know the first thing about working, let alone building product.
Added, my bad
I treat software like gardening. Don't abstract until it's mature enough.
"The BBC has been given an exclusive look at a new kind of battery charger that can recharge a modern smartphone in less time than it takes to boil a kettle."

Unless I am missing something on Storedot's website, the BBC were actually shown a phone with an ultra-capacitor instead of a battery.
This just sounds like complete snake oil.

When asked to explain, the spokesman says things like "we use new physics". That alone peaked my bullshit detector.

Every battery tech I'm also aware of cannot handle high amperage charging without things like outgassing, battery seperation, heating effects, and explosions. Even the venerable NiFe battery has problems with high current charging.

But this startup has beat it? [Citation needed]
Why bother learning another language that is almost the same, like PHP and Ruby? In both you need to keep up with lots of dependencies and practices that keep popping up, and it's a waste of time doing it for both in parallel. I'd say it's better to focus on one language, and if it becomes obsolete I don't see why you couldn't just dedicate a week to master the other one. And anyway I don't see how one of those languages could become obsolete without the other one also becoming obsolete, unless their development stopped for some reason.
You already use VMs, why not just open up a VM when you want to play angry birds?
Fair enough. All four of them.
Yes, my phrasing is kind of weird, it is definitely a "doesn't work" thing. And as the study shows, it might work when the task isn't identity-related, but considering it's an actively harmful strategy (rather than just "not working") I wouldn't even recommend it in passing.

Perhaps not many students act like Klingons but the crucial part of this post seems to be about making a credible commitment, with this as the example:

"I will work on my Android app at least 2 hours every single day for 6 months, or until the app is released. Every day, I will send you an email report of what I’ve learned or accomplished that day, and how many hours I’ve roughly worked. If I skip a day, it’s OK, but if I ever skip two days in a row, I will give you $2000, and do your laundry and clean your windows every week for the next 12 months. You are to hold me accountable, and demand that I hold my end of the deal. If I ever forget to send you an email, you are to call me and ask me about my progress."

While I suppose a lot of students aren't planning on day-to-day schedules for their work (though some certainly do), there is nevertheless a cost that can easily exceed $2k for failing in college.
"In the clear" and "over SSL" are contradictory in this context.
To be fair we are not an app and are targeting a demo 35+, so that could be an issue... We are also doing some decent volume (few K+/day on both), if we were doing a coule hundred $/day I'm sure we could get FB working as well, but finding it VERY hard on large volume. Not to mention banner blindness sets in after a few days on FB so we are constantly changing ads.
- I just can't tear myself away from Windows as my primary system until Wine becomes less of a pain to use. While Linux has alternatives for most of the software I use, the 10% it doesn't keeps me rooted to keeping Windows on my primary partition.

-With VMWare performance getting better and better with SSDs and multicore processors, I hardly notice a delay when I'm developing in a virtual machine.

-I hate dual-booting just so I can spend 10 minutes playing Angry Birds on my break. So I just stay in Windows.
I think the part about "all that crossed your tiny little minds was how this affected YOU" is the most telling.
Stock price has taken a dive, http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RIM.TO

Currently down more than 13% on yesterday's closing price, at 46.49 - to put that into perspective, September 13th last year saw a low point of 45.40, which is the lowest close since November 6th 2006 (45.33). By February 18th this year it had got back to a ~9 month high of 68.92. The all-time high for RIM was 149.90 in June 2008, but the price reached that level then dropped back down all in the space of a few months.

TLDR of the above paragraph - last September the price of RIM stocks dropped almost as low as it was in 2006 before it really started growing, and now there is a possibility it will do so again.

Side note: this submission is to an editorialised piece (which in my opinion is pretty badly written), would prefer it be straight to the source: http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5015
Back in typing/HyperCard programming class in the mid 1990s, one of my friends jammed the Mac lab's AppleTalk network. He told me he did it by taking his computer off the network at the moment he held the AppleTalk token.

He didn't seem to be lying... he did something using mouse/keyboard on his machine and my machine couldn't use the network, and then after a couple kids complained about the network being down, he discretely did something on his machine and things were fixed.

I was always confused as to how he was fast enough or even that his computer having the token was user-visible without installing specialist tools on the school's computers. If he were to start a large file transfer, would that cause him to hold the AppleTalk token for a long time, and give him visibility via the progress bar?

I thought there was sub-second upper bound on how long the token would be held, even if your machine still had data to send. Am I mistaken about AppleTalk token ring networking?
We already have three 5G networks. Why is another one needed?
The fact it does that at all and people accept it amazes me.
It's also interesting that QBasic (which I didn't use) is related to IBM Cassette Basic, the first language I used on the IBM PC. If the computer couldn't find a bootable floppy, it booted Basic from ROM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#IBM_Cassette_BASIC

no OS needed, like the Apple ][, TRS-80, etc.
The interesting thing to me was that california had voided “choice of law” clauses wrt employment law, but DE determined there was a loophole in this case.
But it will, if certain new law passes.
Don't know why this comment was downvoted. I was interested to read article but I couldn't because it was paywalled.
mozilla used their trademark to force debian to do this, because debian made changes to firefox that mozilla didn't approve of.

that issue has since been resolved and official firefox is now again distributed with debian.
It had the better CPU by far. 6809 = 8 bit goodness!
> My actions make the world a better place

Reneging on your agreement only benefits you, and only in the short term. In the long term, you'll acquire a reputation that you don't keep your word, and fewer and fewer people will want to do business with you. Even worse, they won't tell you why, and you'll be wondering why you've been shut out.

More bluntly, my father told me that what separates men from animals is men have honor. Each of us gets to choose what we are.
> My guess is that, he wants to promote his favorites and he wants me to leave on my own.

Do you want to be promoted? If so, if you can not address this issue with your boss in a professional manner, why should you be promoted?

To me it sounds like you are trying to avoid confrontation.
In that situation is it still a pump that accepts cards but the attendant is operating it?
I bet several Google employees object to working on military/govt force projects. Enough jobs to go around.