jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Governments aren't in the customer service business" - Errr actually that's exactly the business democratic governments are in. Not saying they don't fail regularly but when you are elected by the people for the people you'd better be prepared to provide customer service.
My experience with this type of road in america is that slow people go slow when they have one lane and then they speed up when their direction has two lanes, making it harder to overtake them in the designated section. This is infuriating, of course. In America drivers aware not trained in throttle control, speed control, or lane discipline so their behavior in these situations is usually a combination of the worst possibilities.
Agreed. Fortunately there's a media contact details at the end of the article. I'm sure they'd like that feedback as well. Did you email them in addition to posting this comment on HN? :) I just did, expressing similar sentiments.
I also started having problems with github which reminded me to update my DNS settings setting to Google's, now everything works.

Didn't even know till a few hours ago that thses sites were being blocked since they display a blank page.
There aren't any, currently. These libraries are ripped from an in-house framework which has some tests already, but none for the classes we extracted. We created the tests folder in anticipation of actually writing some.
It'd be nice if they started working on a Windows Phone app instead, but that's just a pipe dream.
You don't have to trawl through YouTube looking for them, you can find pretty much all of DC's broadcast material here:

http://www.duncancampbell.org/content/broadcasting
I was working on something that has a lot of overlap, but is more focused on scaffolding html from json structure. Mine also allows wildcard get and set :)

ex: obj.get('a.*.b') -> returns all b's in objects that are of the array 'a'

Shameless plug: https://github.com/dclowd9901/lscenery
Whatever the merits of the two methods, making the API a moving target really sucks for anyone might, say, be in the middle of writing to it.
Well, you're right to question what the reduction in risk these scanners produce, but your first point is way off. The cost of terrorist attacks is hardly limited to death. Those planes and buildings aren't free. Not that cancer treatments are, either, but if you weigh in the psychological damage to the public (you know, why they call it "terrorism"), terrorist attacks are far more costly.
Why do you hate that? You wouldn't be using your phone during the night anyway?

If you want the optimal wake feature to work you need to leave the app running. If you just want to collect data and wake up at a predetermined time you can background the app. Unfortunately this is a limitation imposed by iOS.
I think the scary part is that there isn't some sort of government-ran way for politicians to talk to their constituents in this day.
Slightly off-topic.

Ever since I came across the Proto-Zagrosian hypothesis [0] [1] and subsequent dravidian linguistics papers [2], I can’t stop looking at words like Ur and not make a mental connection.

Even some of the names here sound more plausible if I mentally substitute the letters with equivalent dravidian alphabets.

I was browsing Google maps around my home town and I coundn’t stop seeing the root words - Bangalore (Bangal - Ur), Mysore (Mys- Ur), Hosur (Hos - Ur), Coimbatore- (Coimbat - Ur).

I have no training in linguistics so I’m going to admit that many of these are probably just words that look similar. Any dravidian linguists here want to chime in?

I’m really excited to see how studies in Proto-Zagrosian evolve and what new connections we might find from it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elamo-Dravidian_languages

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7817/jameroriesoci.135.3.551...

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12284-011-9076-9
https://outline.com/DSmcfJ
> because they are the ones that show up to do that work every day

As I used to say back when I was a programmer, often in the context of fads like "quality is free," nothing gets done unless you do that thing on purpose.
Well, at the very least you can see Shane Mauss at Mycomeditations in January[0]

[0] - http://www.shanemauss.com/club-dates/
Most people intentionally stream movies illegally. The moral aspect of breaking the law is not a very strong argument here.

I think the bigger moral issue with buying street drugs is that you are essentially funding organized crime.
Irony is not lost, just like this pay-walled article
I can't be the only one thinking this would be an article on drive replication.
If anything, in the future I see iOS (or iPadOS) getting more and more 'MacOS-ified' and not the other way round. As the HW inside iPads get more and more powerful, I could imagine Apple eventually porting MacOS to iPads (and therefore to ARM); not to replace the Intel-based Macs with ARM-powered ones, but to empower iPad users with a much more productive OS. Sure, iPad users wouldn't be able to run x86 binaries, but with Apple incentivizing developers to build x86+ARM fat binaries, the software library available for 'MacOS iPad' users would keep growing over time.
maybe something along those lines would be mmt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
Why would a lockdown help? The virus will live in some animals and humans and once the lockdown is over, the spread will resume.
But you don’t have to shut down the economy to deal with AIDS because it’s sexually transmitted. That’s my point: the vast majority of people have never had to make serious changes to their behavior or lifestyle to avoid contagion before.
Well, yes, but that would be in order to emulate it or maybe implement it on an fpga or something.
Deno will fail at this, they are fixing something that isn't broken.
If you're an amateur like me there's one thing you can/should do with no downside: download the area you're going to using Google Maps offline feature.

It's not super detailed in backcountry but it will have major trails, major/minor bodies of water, and it will let you leave little GPS breadcrumbs for yourself when offline.

On weekend trips this has definitely made me more comfortable and it requires no skills.
An accessible business model that anyone can openly innovate on. Certainly, this must contribute to the $24B valuation...
> By your measure, Facebook is still not a large-scale engineering organization

"9,199 employees as of December 31, 2014" -- that's probably close enough to his metric to call it a large-scale engineering organization.

Of course, there's the real question of why Facebook needs to be a 10k+ engineer organization. For a minute it looked like they'd grow past their MySpace 2.0 roots. That becomes less convincing every day.
Thank you,

This is the reason I always share how I do it in hn! LOL
Thanks. Glad someone noticed, though aggressive overuse of 18 U.S.C. § 1960 at the federal level is hardly the biggest problem... See page 15:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20131118.hsgacstatemen...

The real issues are at the state level, but as you can see, it's all intertwined.
Improvements to real property [e.g. waste pipes] on the other hand, can't be returned. That's why mechanic's liens exist.
There's also EcoLink (www.getecolink.com) that uses shopping affiliate programs for the same purpose of planting trees. It's a Chrome/Firefox browser extension. I am currently fully responsible for it.

We're also currently working on new stuff but I am not able to share yet.

If you're interested and want to help please do watch our blog or follow us on Facebook. Exciting things are actually incoming.
Felix Dennis (†2014)

What’s It Like Then, Being Rich?

What’s it like then, being rich,

Knitting gold to warm an itch?

Very much like being poor;

Wealth is just a key — no more.

Why not share this magic key

To luxury — and start with me!

Surely better that you earn it;

Could I trust you to return it?

How does one become your ilk?

Is it bred in mothers’ milk?

Many paths can lead to riches,

Few in sunlight, most in ditches.

Wherein lies the difference

From us — this odd ambivalence?

Envy, malice, obligations;

Toadying from poor relations.

Grown far richer than his neighbour,

Why would any rich man labour?

Wealth is salt in wine immersed,

Quaffing but excites the thirst.

Salt my arse! It’s filthy greed —

How many homes does one man need?

For some the trick’s in trading it;

For others, in parading it.

I’ve seen. But surely, comfort pales

Perched on padded Chippendales?

When affluence holds no surprise,

Wonders come in other guise.

Aye, the eyes of tart and whore!

What might you miss, if you were poor?

Time. The luxury of choices.

First editions. Old Rolls-Royces.

Except his poems, I also recommend his great book on becoming rich http://www.felixdennis.com/books/how-to-get-rich/
Those were some of my favorites too. Maybe there's a profitable niche that isn't being exploited by game companies.
Flag uncivil comments. Downvotes should be applied to comments that don't add anything to a discussion. Never downvote because you disagree. If you respond to a comment, upvote the previous comment, as whatever it said sparked you to add something, which is hopefully constructive.

That's my take on comments, flags, and upvotes.
That window also came before the advent of today's high-resolution displays, leaving more budget for the unimportant parts like story and gameplay. (Though I'm definitely
wearing rose-tinted glasses, art drpartments for a big-budget game today are huge!)
I recommend the British documentary A State of Mind http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456012/ as another rare insight into North korean life.

It covers about a year in the life of a family who have two young girls training in preparation for the Mass Games. Utterly compelling and handles a very difficult subject matter with sensitivity and without passing judgement.
I like to imagine someone critical reading my code when I'm programming.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick
and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over
your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not
have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
- EWD
Myself, I want to learn basic programming to build stuff. Being just a designer, limited to front end – is limiting. I would think the same goes for some programmers, wanting to learn user experience and interface design. I think we'll see more people knowing how to build things, code and design. Like Shaun Inman.
I mean this in the kindest possible way -- but you're a snob. :-)

I was resistant to facebook at first, but I've found it a great way to keep in touch. Yes, sometimes people over-share, and sometimes there is a temptation to over-share yourself. But if you're an adult, it's easy to recognize that and make allowances for that in other people. It's part of the human social fabric.

And it's quite useful to be able to post vacation photos (as one example), or blast out an update and have group comments -- it seems less isolating, and frankly less annoying, than group email updates when your friends are geographically separated.

Do people "collect" friends? Yes... that can happen. But like anything else, you can use it like an adult, and play to it's advantages, rather than it's disadvantages.

To some geeks, uninitiated social contact that doesn't make their own special needs primary is an annoyance. But -- trust me, the resulting anger and isolation isn't really worth the curmudgeon act. You are not that busy, you're are probably not solving world hunger, etc... lay off the snobbery.

Now Twitter on the other hand, is a little different. Its nature is to be more of a public platform. Something public personalities use -- and in that case, the character limit makes something that should be deeper, much too shallow. I use it as a headline news ticker ('cause the existing RSS tickers are less capable than twitter clients), but don't bother following individuals.
I think the real insight here is that Dropbox solved an unsexy fundamental problem in a huge market. Dropbox is actually exactly what Drew's original YC application said it would be. (Aside: not all initial ideas suck. Some are good and just take a lot of work to execute).

If Drew had carried on working on the test prep idea, it would have probably grown into something bigger within the broader education market, which seems to be popular with a lot of startups now.

To achieve huge success with Accolade, the product would have to expand out into new areas, unlike Dropbox, where the basic product itself caters to a huge market.
Indeed. Imagine that you hated your boss and he was fired, but you still wanted some revenge. A few screenshots and a trivial "story" later, and you're in business.
> - Boss, these guys want me pretty bad, they have been harassing me for months now [...]

> He gave me a counteroffer and we lived happily ever after.

It's not a counteroffer the author talks about. She talks about "Boss, I'm
leaving" situation.
>...and occasional civil wars (small and large) reminding leaders to keep it that way.

And yet, oddly enough, countries with regular civil unrest tend not to be bastions of civil liberty, but violent mafia-run hellholes.
I am currently having Belgian Leffe Brune dark beer and when I force myself to describe it then I could say that I feel coffee overtones. It might be similar to Guinness but it feels more liquid and spicy but in general it is a beer that I just really enjoy.
Guess I won't apply for an internship there for the summer....
For me puritan culture is exactly what makes someone believe this is funny when it is not.

A kid does not find funny what it is not "tabu" or "forbidden".
And Google now tracks Bitcoin as any other currency.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=CURRENCY:BTC

https://www.google.com/search?q=50btc+in+usd
The way Coinbase words it, they may be only insuring 3% of your funds. The online wallet is insured[1], but there may only be 3% online[2] meaning a malicious employee or just a mistake leading to their cold wallet being lost probably isn't protected.

[1] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/95927658922/coinbase-is-insure...

[2] https://www.coinbase.com/security
> It also doesn't appear to jive with your earlier statement about managing your money in such a way that your day to day finances would be in any way similar to someone earning $10 hourly.

I never claimed my finances were similar to someone earning $10/hour. Just my lifestyle. (The fact that I don't have much to spend money on is part of the reason I've managed to accumulate extensive savings.)

> university life generally comes accompanied by prepaid meal plans, health insurance, counselling, housing, on campus services and student discounts

They do have housing taken care of, but that $4000 is used for meals. While those fringe benefits are tangible, I don't think they make a major lifestyle difference considering that most never use health or counseling services
I wouldn't be surprised if SETI did this to promote their cause and raise more private donations, but the journalist is spinning it into a "Government cuts science spending" story to suit their agenda. The story will still serve its purpose though. I just donated $10, only another 499,999 more and they're home and dry.
I have practically zero concern about thieves robbing my house. I lock the doors when I go out, and pay for insurance.

It’s happened only once to me in over 50 years, and that was because I foolishly assumed a 3rd story window was safe to leave open, when there was enough plumbing on the wall that a determined enough petty thief could climb through it. All I lost was a computer (a PowerMac 6100) but had recent-enough backups at work that it was only minority annoying to replace and deal with insurance. (There was personal email and the like on it, and stored passwords. I monitored the email server carefully for 6 or 12 months after that, and never saw a single login attempt. Whatever they did with it, they wiped it before they connected it to the internet and the email logged I automatically).

I’m also not so concerned about my government coming in for my computers. They’re too incompetent to do it well except for major targets. I do enjoy the thought experiments around “what would happen if the government ‘went bad’?”

(I’m also aware the I, like probably everybody, have data on my machines that if cherry picked by prosecutors would be awkward to have to defend myself against in court. I often rant about wanting to stab my idiot co workers in small group chats for example. If I were a prosecutor trying for force me into a plea bargain or an leo attempting to coerce me into doing something I’d prefer not to do, I have no doubt that a fairly damning looking case could be constructed by choosing only the parts of my data that when put together paint a bad but fictitious/out-of-context story...)
"Strong currencies are not the solution to poor governance."

Yes they are.

It's really upside down that you'd point out that 'governments can just print money to pay people!' as somehow being an advantage of good governance.

Well, partly, but it depends on a high degree of integrity, if absent, will entail total dissolution.

In absence of a government with integrity, then a 'strong currency' such as one that the government has no control over, say a Caribbean Island that uses USD for example, is preferable to anything else.

"Good governance and democracy makes a country and its currency strong. Not vice versa. "

First - democracy has nothing to do with it.

Second - 'good governance' is the opposite of printing money to pay bills.

In an unstable economy, USDs or Euros are preferable to worthless paper or Bitcons.
Did you mean Square instead of Stripe or does Stripe have a consumer facing side I wasn’t aware of?
How? Anyone can program something where you point-click and the color you see becomes paired with some sound. How is this any more insightful that that?
Holy again - was curious whether someone has preserved cracking screens, and yes - http://artscene.textfiles.com/intros/APPLEII/kq2.gif - aha!

whole list of them - http://artscene.textfiles.com/intros/APPLEII/
I remember those 7-colored green-on-green granpas, my school had them, and it was quite fun to work on them
> If you want predictable "random" numbers, you should have to jump through additional hoops

Why?

> By default random numbers should be cryptographically secure.

Why not both?
people who want to be assholes will always find a reason to do it. it doesn't make it another "side of the story".
Yeah, fellow former Treo user here. I loved that thing.

When people talk about how Steve Jobs invented the smartphone, I used to say, "but but but..." Now, though, I just sigh and nod like I'm still listening to them.
Its probably relevant that games, the law, medicine and start ups are all perceived as being quite glamorous by many.

The games industry seems quite similar to the music and fashion industries in some ways. They are all glamour industries that attract a lot of young people with stars in their eyes who will put up with poor conditions and pay that can be as low as zero. All for the chance to "make it".
prefer printing articles by default, but thanks :)
I've always been partial to this: http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-deve...
It's not that the style was "wrong", it's that anyone who writes java and doesn't know something as basic about the language as the style conventions. I would also reject a candidate that didn't know the rudimentary stuff. What else don't they know? Especially for Java, not so much for JS, but Java is an enterprise language which means you'll be one cog in a big machine and you need to know and respect the coding conventions to stand any chance of being an efficient member of their team.

I would actually say that coding style is a big predictor of how likely an interview candidate would turn out to be a good developer in a team. Casing isn't irrelevant at all, it's a predictor. It has nothing to do with piousness. Another indicator of bad java developers (in my experience) is those that write near 'c', lots of for(int i=0; i<.... and not using language constructs that are their to reduce bugs. Another good indicator I have found (in java) is little to no use of 'final'.

If you'd have prefaced your coding in the interview with "I'm not familiar with Java, I use X, but I'll take a stab at the problem" I'm sure the interviewer would have been less worried about your style, but if you claim to know a language, you'll know the conventions too.
Yes shutting down elementary schools for children that needs parental supervision is probably a bad idea since that leads to the need of a parent at home.

Parents who otherwise would be working at hospitals or other important features of a society. But there has been a lot of other options that just passed as you mention.
jQuery is just like any other framework. You can't really compare HTML tables for layout to using jQuery...
Wow, that is a deeply religious point of view.
Probably working together with a group, on an interesting and relevant project. The output will likely be better, and your skills will improve faster - because of the feedback.

Or, for medium scale ideas, maybe taking another language and forking it would be useful.
I have had to work on this, because what used to be a personal problem is now an occupational hazard. Here is what I've found. The compulsion to comment is trying to get rid of a feeling of irritation. That doesn't work, because the other side—which is probably just as irritated as you are—pushes back harder, irritating you more.

You can interrupt this compulsion simply by feeling the irritation without trying to get rid of it or channel it into something else, such as a proof of rightness. The more aware you are of how it's agitating you, the less likely you are to lash out.

It might seem like being more aware of something uncomfortable can't help, but in pratice it does. It gives space and time for the irritation to subside, and lessens the habit for next time.

This has given me a new perspective on tolerance. Tolerance is closer than we realize to the physical sense of "to tolerate", i.e. to bear a pain or stress internally without snapping. This capacity increases with practice. The best thing for tolerance is to experience the irritation, that buttons-being-pushed feeling, as a physical sensation and not an intellectual reaction. That somehow metabolizes it.
This is correct. There’s nothing technical preventing us from offering a pre-built bring your own OS system, but we figured there’s high overlap between that audience and those who want to assemble a kit themselves. This reduces the amount of pre-built inventory we need to hold.
Not only that. The basic problem is latency. We moved logic to the client to be able to update the screen without incurring the latency hit of a server roundtrip. Latency isn’t going down, thanks to physics, so it is going to keep making sense to run logic locally to improve apparent performance. Granted, you need data to render something useful and if an SPA does a data fetch on every click, it might as well be rendered server-side, but still, it is going to keep making sense to render on the device in many cases.
“Be a Doer”

I can’t help but think if this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqr6LBFelI

Can’t imagine this word could be used unironically
Your original statement "Tesla doesn't make a profit on every car" is a blatant untruth. That's an understandable mistake for a layman to make given the misinformation out there, but you claim to be in corporate finance and should have better standards.
Nice work Jiga!
Wireshark is somewhat usefull if the protocols in the binary blob are supported.

First, the buffer must be converted to ascii hex, then the following procedure is used to import it: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChIOImportS...
Agreed. I can't help but think that outrage is an addictive substance that would make Phillip Morris green with envy.