jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The sole purpose of some PhDs is to serve as cheap labour for the research efforts of a professor.
This is a great article, but I prefer this solution:

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/uk-games/2010/05/10/the-totali...
Well, I have never applied to FB and don't plan to in the short term, but I can tell you that I don't see any reason not to.

They offer me a service which is quite useful: Keep me in some form of contact with long lost relationships I had while I lived in the UK, Germany and several cities in Mexico. I've done really good friends in those places over the years, and it makes me happy to see what's happening in their lives and even "react" to minor stuff that they post there after months of no interaction with them.

Before I had facebook (around 2004) I used to write an email every December to a list of friends I had from different places, just to make sure we had some contact. And I also used to ping them in chat (Windows Messenger), but the problem there was that the conversation was just "what's going on", "nothing here, what's going on there...." , "nothing". Whereas with Facebook, the moment one of my friends opened a tatoo place, I could write some small comment and we would "virtually hug" and exchange thoughts for a minute.

Regarding the "conscience" thing, Personally I don't see anything terrible that Facebook is doing. As long as people understand that this is the internet, and whatever you upload in ANY place in the internet is inherently public, all is fine for me.
> I have the feeling that all the bitterness towards this interview process comes from people who refuse to do the initial investment of time to learn the foundation for solving coding challenges.

My bitterness comes from the fact that the interview process does not reflect what happens in day-to-day work. If I had to invert a n-ary tree, I would google how to do that, which I can't do during the interview.

> Once you go through and understand a few hundred coding challenges, things start to repeat themselves and then it just takes practice and consistency.

Assuming you spend about an hour to solve and understand a given coding challenge, that's a couple of hundred hours. Assuming an hour a day, that's about 3 months for 100 questions. That's not a trivial amount of prep.

>Personally, I find coding challenges fun and even quite enjoyable at times, so I don’t see why it’s a waste of time to get good at them.

Personally, I would prefer to spend that time enjoying my life. Whatever floats your boat.
This is the same case in the US. Nobody is getting cancer treatment without insurance or the ability to pay. Hospitals in the US only need to stabilize an uninsured patient, and that doesn't include treating cancer or chronic conditions.
That mailing list is - indeed - gold :)

Thanks for bringing it up ...

Also, the slow(er), ranty sometimes nature of discourse in mailing lists ...

... one misses that sometimes.

Usenet, little did you know what "online" would turn into ...
I clicked on "Interest Categories" deep in ad settings and FB is reporting an error. Is there another way to get at its assessment of me?
Using a third-party domain means you're already blocked in most cases involving adblockers and non-standard CDNs.
There is, hence the emails and phone calls that were missed.
I’ve heard the term dogfooding before but this is ridiculous
That begs the question of where do you search to find them then? If you don't already have an ear in the business, how do you reach out?
Didn’t he just step down. So worrying about Amazon is not his problem any more.

$20 says he’s suddenly in favour of corporate taxes because he fears the alternative: wealth taxes.
The difference between humans and other apes is genetic, but anything more than that is not. Humans have nearly no genetic diversity because of population bottlenecks, there are barely any interesting differences between us.

It's also not that useful to think about. Phenylketonuria is a condition that makes you less intelligent if you drink Diet Coke, and most people don't have the gene for it. But not having phenylketonuria isn't a "gene for intelligence", it's just not having a disease.
can you avoid that by tweaking the cost factors in postgres config?
Yes, I imagine you're spot on there!
As someone who dealt with not having internet on a computer before, I’d say it’s pretty limiting these days. You can do stuff but only if you know how to do stuff to begin with. And the software preloaded on some OSes isn’t exactly enough to keep you entertained for eternity.

If you don’t know how to do things then not having internet is pretty limiting. After all, most software out there doesn’t come with robust documentation built in. It’s been all online for a while.

You might be idolizing your younger years when there were quite a few pain points that you’re glossing over. If you don’t like certain parts of the internet then don’t visit them. It’s not like you’re forced to be on social media. It’s clear from people I meet on forums that they don’t go almost anywhere else but that forum...
I'm assuming PHP is a victim of it's success here: Widely used systems feel incredible pushback to breakage of existing functionality when "everything is working". In this case, fixing the password security would've required breaking everyone's ability to commit to the PHP codebase, so it was not done.

This is pretty much... all large scale enterprise IT: Everyone's good with security improvements until it interrupts a business unit, and then someone up the chain decides it isn't worth the disruption to deal with a hypothetical security risk.
They denied the flights, they did not deny their citizens entry - a different distinction, even if the immediate effect for an individual plays out similarly.
Childrens' growth and development is also seriously affected by things that happened before they were born, like their mother's diet and exposure to local pollutants, that causes effects that could be mistaken for genetic differences. This is why twin studies and such things don't actually prove anything.
I think there is just a misunderstanding in how the site works. There is no code being hosted on rysolv. The code and issues are on Github, and users can go to rysolv to add a bounty on those issues.
Looks like this uses a templating pseudolang with html comments. I had hoped that we were leaving that behind
I'm having a hard time nailing down the math. I know that the estimate is that we were at 280ppm pre-industrial, and that one recent reading was 412ppm. I think that corresponds to 2187 GTCO2 and 3217 GTCO2 respectively. But the IPCC - a while ago - said we had to stay below 2900 to have a 2/3 chance of remaining below 2 degrees. Another source says we're at 2300 anthropogenic GTCO2 now. How do I square that math? I know that there's a difference between "total" GTCO2 and anthropogenic GTCO2, and I also know that the planet absorbs about 55% of anthropogenic.
Interesting. Seems like you could work around the caveat by splitting your paycheck's direct deposit allocation between your checking account bank and HM Bradley, so that from their perspective you're saving 100% of your direct deposit.
The thing about the "incriminating" gate videos that gets me is that there are obviously already civilians behind the barricade and officers.
Let me restate that for you.

The richest 760 million people are responsible for half of all CO2 emissions.

I am imagine that includes the cars, big homes, the electricity, and all the products that we buy from China.

I’m not sure what you want us to do with that information. There’s nothing actionable in that observation.

We should’ve stopped using coal two decades ago. I’m sure we can spend all night talking about this, but it’s all been said before.
Okay. So let's unpack here.

The only cheaper energy source (that include pilotability) would be nuclear. Its not as portable, but it exist. Fission is limited (not really, but minerals will be expensive to mine after a while).

So We have Fusion left. ITER will be up before 2028 hopefully. We just found a better way to make our fusion magnetic fields, so this is not a pipedream. BUT even this advance is not enough for sustainable fusion. We have to find an even better way to create our magnetic fields, sustainable under high temperature (probably with high pressure). We recently found a supraconductor that is interesting because it work at "high" temperature (high for physicien is death for people), high pressure. sadly we don't understand shit about all those new supraconductor, we don't even understand CuO supraconductors yet.

If we have fusion in 2080, it will be because we invested heavily for this (and we're not). And it is a silver bullet, that we're not allowed to miss, or else.

We are signing checks without provision unless we find the right tech, at the right time. My guess is that some will have to pay. Most of us here aren't to concerned (i know i'm not, probably only people living close to the Ohio river should be less concerned than me), but people living in Florida and south of Texas will want to buy a climatised suit if they hope to be able to be out more than 10 day a year by 2080.
I think, and I am no expert in this.. but a genetic correlation is between two traits.

Negative genetic correlation: if X increases then Y decreases

Positive genetic correlation: if X increases so does Y

I think each trait on the graph should be paired with educational attainment as a second trait.

So:
GeneticCorrelation(Cigarettes, EDUCATION) -> Negative

GeneticCorrelation(Longevity, EDUCATION) -> Positive

My take is this: The chart shows the relationship between the genes responsible for higher education X and {insert trait} = Y, where X is further split into IQ and non-IQ..
IMO its reasonable to require that users have close to the most up to date software that their devices support. So its fine to kill off browser support after a year as long as the site can still be accessed on a 10 year old bit of hardware.
It's in the "Go" menu, along with the keyboard shortcut. You can also put it in the sidebar, either via Preferences->Sidebar or dragging your home folder there.

I'm guessing that the reason it's not there is that for most casual/GUI users, Documents/Downloads/Desktop (which are all in the sidebar) takes the role of /home in traditional Unix.
"parking" is relative. we all have bike racks around somewhere; they work just fine.
While not intended in that way, I found it really funny.
> assert(p);

> if (p) {

Do you want me to have an embolism?
How would you market those? It's been a very long time since I bought a book on software.
I'm on this M1 Macbook since it has both blazing fast performance and 20+ hours of battery life at the same time. No hardware on the market compares.
> What about interfaces that don't have a right-click, such as a touch interface?

Are you suggesting that we switch to TUIs/CLIs on touch interfaces? If not, what's your solution?

> I've found that doing one-off things is massively easier and faster in a TUI than in a GUI!

For example?
All the time on ssh sessions, otherwise I use Forklift. https://binarynights.com/
The low self-esteem is a very valid point. I've had some very strong negative reactions to people telling me to "get over it" in terms of a couple of personal insecurities and faults, and going over the thoughts makes it worse, at least in terms of dealing with the emotions as valid. In fact, thinking about these faults conventionally leads to a deepening of the unwanted behavior.

Having started to meditate in the Vipassana style has started to teach me to accept, but not embrace these emotions. In a less hippy-dippy way, there could be actualization training that helps people get on the right path first, defeating these types of emotions.
Tucows acquired Kiko in an eBay auction: http://gigaom.com/2006/09/05/tucows-bought-kiko/
I generally tell them to summarize their offering in e-mail, with no guarantee of privacy. If its good enough and they're serious, they tend to invest in marking something up. I also ask for examples of business practices (things they've actually gotten accomplished). There is a ton of talk but little work these days...

Nice job. I'm specing out a similiar concept for a different geo. Drigg & D6?
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That's a great idea, thanks. "Send me some bullet points." is a great, hard-to-refuse response.
ARM is not really friendly with competitors especially those not paying the high license fee. Do you remember the nnARM project at OpenCores? this has been removed on request by ARM limited. If ARM wants to "own the market", they should allow in some ways competitors to build compatible CPUs.
There's certainly stage creep, or more generally "legit creep." We get a lot more applications from startups with eminent founders, who are profitable or have already raised money, etc. But we are very wary of becoming conservative, so we make a conscious effort to make some risky bets too. The result is that batches end up becoming more and more diverse.
If you feel creative, you could try to build your own temperature probe using Arduino + LM35 sensor + stainless steel tube + some solder.

The datata sheet claims, it can read temperature between -55°C - 150°C, but I never tested its limit so I have now idea how far you can actually push it :)

In any case, like HeyLaughingBoy have said, if you want something which goes higher, check thermocouples.
clouds :/
In a parallel universe, when Microsoft released Windows 3.1 they also introduced a certification program requiring that they approve all applications. When NCSA developed Mosaic, Microsoft recognized the long-term danger to the Windows platform that it represented, and rejected it on the grounds of security/privacy/instability/resource consumption/whatever. It was available only on Mac and Unix platforms, and never became mainstream.

This gave Microsoft time to develop their own hypertext platform, one that was deliberately tied to Windows. With great fanfare they released it a few years later, and it was widely adopted. Of course, only Windows machines could serve the documents that it used, and they worked best on Windows clients. The inevitable result was an entrenched Microsoft monopoly and technological stagnation, but hardly anyone complained because to most people the very concept of an alternate OS or browser was meaningless.

If this seems absurd, consider South Korea where IE's monopoly is guaranteed by law: http://www.mobinode.com/2009/01/16/activex-regulations-in-so...
Very much agree. I've really come to accept the best way for me to work is with my brain sitting at a desk.

If I want to create with my hands the fight for free time becomes imperative. I've been working to find a sustainable lifestyle that has room for a little extra time off for years. Free time has the single biggest effect on quality of life in my opinion. Having time for physical work is great, but the beauty is free time can be used for anything.
This was also my idea..I would like to see more documents from totalitarian regimes like Iran, China, North Korea, etc. Maybe Russia.

On the other side, that guy is not American, and he is not responsible for U.S. national security. Is he obliged to cooperate with Pentagon? And if he refuses, can they do him (legally) something bad?
Cool idea! Would love to hear a bit more about the technology & platform behind it.
And yet, the Nazis were evil.
Apparently ;-)
(I'm a Web Developer) The big issue I have with Flash Developers is that they use Flash for everything as it's what they know. Which I get, and sometimes that is the right route to take. Learning a new technology takes a long time and you often aren't going to get it right the first time.

But a professional website needs to use the right tool for the problem and very very often Flash is a substandard tool for the problem and is simply used because that's what the developer knows.

Flash Developers don't want a move away from Flash because they already know Flash and appreciate a lot of it's capabilities. And Web Developers want people to stop using something that crashes their non-windows browser and is often used to create low quality interfaces and break browser features.
Which is poorly equipped, hungry and depressed.

But that's not the point. The point is the potentially very high civilian casualties.
I was under the impression things were easier to understand without context.
They are neither modern nor recent, you are completely wrong about this. And when people abolish capital markets people have a tendency to starve, see the russian revolution, maos great leap forward and the de-colonization of the third world. Today the us is at a level of prosperity that would make sure people didn't starve if financial markets disappeared, it got that rich trough a process of economic growth for wich financial markets were essential.
Maybe the tracking of hands for the controls do not work outside. At least with the kinect, the IR projection that it depends on to map the 3d space will not work well (or at all) in direct sunlight. When I was working with robotics that had kinects mounted for 3d vision we always had to put the blinds down when the sun was shining into the office.
Totally disagree. Yes, in your very simple example, it's possible the current format is easier to understand. But the point is, it's seldom as easy as "no parking 10-6".

You would need to "stop and study" the sign the first time you see one. After that, it looks like every day planner used in school and business, paper and app alike.
- You can park anywhere on this block for a cumulative 2 hours per day.
hey Yev, how about something secure like TLS 1.2 on the blog? RC4 and 3DES are great if you are playing hackme's at defcon to let people break your 'secure' connections on the fly using laptop GPUs, but not on supposedly Secure Cloud Storage company blog.
Right, it's a little old. But it's not fundamentally broken. And one of the proposals in Project Spartan is for the browser to be in the MS App Store, and for it to update automatically. That would be huge.
Well, on one hand, glass is supposed to be something that you wear around like an asshole.

This looks like at least its marketed more towards being an alternate or augmentation to your display. So if you're wearing it, it's going to be in your house or in your workplace, as opposed to in a coffee shop or chatting with your friends.

e: I don't even know if it can be operated without some other computer doing the processing for it. It was really demoing it like a display rather than a wearable computer.
Hopefully the end-goal of all these posts and pages is somewhat real-time (maybe updated daily or weekly) data on hard drive reliability. Then the blog posts just serve as a layman's write-up of the interpretation of the data.
I found your pricing page confusing. What does this mean:

> I can show my visitors up to 12,000 minutes of streaming video
> I can upload & process up to 600 minutes of new video

Second what do you mean by "you pay only once"?
According to Marco Arment and Dan, the Steelcase Details Series 7 is the way to go if you can afford one: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/21 . But they're insanely expensive.

I think the desk discussion starts around minute 50.
I understand your question is about icons and logos, but this might set you along the right path, as the post links to many other resources: http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course

I'm still figuring it out myself.
I did most of the design work for our travel app (Room 77), it certainly can be learned especially since there are some well established app design patterns. If you are developing for iOS, most of the built-in libraries look pretty good and you won't need to do a lot of tweaking. I'm not as familiar with Android. Keep in mind that although you can learn graphic design, would your time be better used on other parts of the app?

I recommend the following resources:

1) Glyphish Pro icon pack - $25, pretty much everyone uses this high quality icon pack in their apps.

2) Tapworthy - Designing great apps - Great book with a lot of case studies and practical advice on grid based design, etc.
In a community where the future of the economy is claimed to be tied to the growth of tech accelerators, I found this article quite interesting.

In a community where tech accelerators are declared to be the start of the next tech bubble, I found this article quite interesting.

In a community where Paul Graham Fanboy-ism accusations are often tossed around, I found this article quite interesting.

As frequently as I jump between the above opinions, I found this article quite interesting.

The article isn't about taking the high road. It's not about sticking it to the man. It's a glimpse into their thought process when they turned down something a good chunk of the people here on HN spend their time working towards.

I don't think these guys are wrong for wanting to do things their own way. They've even got the humility to say that they might even screw it all up. But they aren't jumping on the tech accelerator bandwagon, for better or for worse. Since they are the only ones familiar with their product model, they know best what would help them. I imagine they felt quite a lot of pressure to take the interview, but they let their judgement prevail over the emotional/social pressure. Props.
Scratching my head how they collected this data. The comScore MobiLens[1] site doesn't seem to be any more forthcoming than the report[2] itself.

Anecdotally I don't know anyone who owns an iPad that doesn't own an iPhone. Not saying they don't exist but it does make the report a little hard to swallow when there is no insight into their research methods.

[1] http://comscore.com/Products_Services/Product_Index/MobiLens

[2] http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/4/A...
Comments with high scores seem to have slightly higher scores than they would have, but comments with low scores seem to have about the same. Probably because the -4 limit on displayed comment scores was already concealing the actual score.
Because it attaches a set of names to straw figures who are clearly only props in a parable about bad security practices? I saw no implication that Honest Ahmed was anything other than honest. The story isn't about shady sleezeball's strip clubs, slot machines and ssl certs. It's about any joe with no special capability setting up shop as an entity implicitly trusted by the entire planet due to a poor security architecture.

I think it may make use of stereotypes that arabs are always willing to make a buck, don't care all that much whether there are hoops to jump through, and frequently involve their family in small business dealings. Dear lord, he's trying to personalize his straw men and did not choose to use American rednecks! String him up!
What a surprise that you're an American who believes that your visits to such locations give you the divine right to tell us off (looking at your ignorant comments in the other threads). And that you would use 'lah' inappropriately.
> In my opinion, web browser extensions are not a viable way to deploy the solution to this problem. As far as I can tell, DNSChain has no buy in from web browser vendors. That makes it undeployable.

One of the reasons why browser vendors are having a tough time actually fixing this problem is because CAs make a lot of money off of selling SSL certificates.

We're working to remove obstacles out of their way by making it easier for them to support auth systems that do not rely on today's broken system.

> What is relevant is that Google is willing to implement CT, and not willing to implement DNSChain. Yes, this has nothing to do with technical merit, but it has a lot to do with actual merit of the solution in improving the current situation.

Google hasn't made up its mind on DNSChain-type solutions.

Remember, CT wouldn't have prevented this attack. If they actually want to prevent such attacks, they have no choice but to actually fix the problem.
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