jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm signing up for this. Its time we get a 1-800 number for my online retail business.

I also agree with the article: I personally receive all of our customer calls (which happen like 3-5 times per week). Its a great source of information and it helps our branding that we are a small, customer oriented online retailer.
The alternative route where you walk across England to Birkenhead and then take the ferry to Belfast is also pretty awesome. Four and a half days! Thank you, Google Maps Chaucer Edition.

I know the train is expensive, but it may be worth it to get to Edinburgh in seven hours rather than 3-4 days...
Take the train! and stare out the window. The time spent on self reflection will be more valuable than the random facts you can pick up when you're dead tired and going to work
And the damage to the environment (but yeah, I understand that sometimes you really have no option)
This is a link to the web cast:
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That's fine for development, but it's simply untrue to show features in development and claim that they represent usable support for standards.
I don't actually see what's wrong with that. If you ask to walk from Southampton to Edinburgh it's going to give you the fastest route. Obviously it includes the possibility of ferries, and so it's found the fastest route is via France, Dover and Belgium.
What does that have to do with anything. Minecraft runs on ARM.
My son uses a Chromebook for homework and a Windows PC for games. I consider it a huge feature that they are separate devices. Much too tempting otherwise.
A few different observations:

First, Epic does a lot of custom work--as noted in the article, each installation is "customized" to only have particular alerts. This makes it hard to count on a standard system behavior, because there isn't one. This continued coddling of clients makes it very hard to introduce new software into the market, because you can't do it without deep pockets and sloooooow sales cycles.

Second, the physicians are very much overloaded with alarms and alerts--and instead of saying "Hey, let's figure out why we keep ending up with so many alarms" they instead do the short-term thing and just ignore or turn them off. The entire profession is rooted in split-second decisionmaking, for reasons I cannot fathom. They really, really, really want to be the heros that come in and save the day, and systematic approaches to operations optimization just aren't a priority.

Third, the data coming off of these things (and at work we've seen this) usually indicates large operational deficiencies. Unfortunately, you can't just tell the clients "Hey, you all are doing things wrong, and here's the proof", because they either won't care, or they will fire you and bring in somebody who keeps them happy, or they'll care but be unable to make changes because that introduces uncertainty into their line of work and that could hurt someone--nevermind all the existing casualties.
For those interested, here is a review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8784/hp-stream-11-review-a-new...

tl;dr: "...if you have been wanting a Chromebook running Windows, be sure to check out the HP Stream."
Good. What can we do to make the stigma harder?
It is a derivitative product, you're just splitting hairs.

As squeaky clean as everyone in the valley believes Google to be, even most Googlers would be surprised with the type of work and contacts taken on by Google Federal (hint: it's not just Google Apps for the military). Here is a list of their current unclassified military contracts: https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull...
I'm aware of very few business that routinely violate privacy to anywhere remotely near the extent that the US government violates privacy.
Thanks for sharing these points, from a quick look at the site I couldn't figure out differences with GitHub pages.

Do you know how is the CDN working across the planet?

HTTPS & proxying look great! I'm hosting HasGluten.com [1] on GitHub and HTTPS is a big missing. Also, I'm using Google spreadsheet API (instead of a database) and proxying via my domain could be cool.

I was asking about the CDN, as one of the good things of GitHub+Google spreadsheet is (free) geo-distribution.

[1] http://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten
I didn't know about the current events portal, that's awesome! Thank you :)
Out of curiosity - what is the correct way to write the BR tag in XHTML5?
nice article, i totally agree with the suggestions.
It's interesting that people keep using the word "better" when it comes to new editors/languages/frameworks/etc, yet as an industry we have very little evidence to proof it.

I've been doing this programming thing since the 80's, and the only thing I've seen that has really made software development better have been better practices.

Maybe we should first review our definition of "better" before we label something with it. Too often it's used as a synonym for "ooh, shiny!".

Having said that, Atom looks nice and shiny.
In my case it just saves a lot of time on "plumbing" code. Having DB entities represented consistently as objects is helpful for doing all kinds of things. - having events fire on save or delete, hooks for business-logic validation, etc. boring stuff perhaps but time-saving and keeps things really well organized.

My ORM of choice doesn't take away the ability to write raw SQL when you want, though. I wouldn't want to use an ORM where you couldn't extend it with your own SQL.
You don't need let's encrypt for a dev environment, you can use something like https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert and run Caddy locally to reverse proxy to whatever you need for development.
I don't like it in theory either, but you can write a dummy cron job. It is wasteful in the sense that their system relies on 'garbage collecting' dormant apps. But it's not something you're going to see hike your monthly bill.

The initial load is slow. I can't remember the average wait but it does add on several seconds to a pageload. Given that 1/n users will deal with it, it's probably not an issue, but it did always bother me.

In general the overall performance has degraded in the last couple of months. I only use it as a hackish-CDN at the moment but I have seen deploys timeout up to 10 minutes. I guess the datastore is dealing with some serious growing pains as well.
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Hard-nosed professors can be selfish. Students have a number of classes to attend, and a professor that insists their class requires more work (are they really that insecure?) is stealing time from the "nicer" (and possibly better) profs.
Did you check out Tastypie (http://toastdriven.github.com/django-tastypie/)? It is also RESTful, and explores some similar ideas as a replacement for Piston, but approaches it in a manner similar to Django models.
I don't think you can say someone is "appropriating" the style of a modern artist by virtue of using the general design aesthetic of the late 1970s. I followed your links and I don't see any particular borrowing beyond the general idea, which can hardly be said to belong to anyone in any sense.

The 1970s belong to us all†. For better or for worse.

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Hookers and blow profitable of course.
Because the fake wood paneling and wood-grained contact paper was cheap, ubiquitous and (trust me on this) looked better than the equally prevalent pink-n-purple color scheme. To wit, the PDP-11/45: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef/422559909/
Wow. He's crazy, loves God and Fred Phelps.

http://www.queerty.com/andrew-auernheimer-saved-your-ipad-fr...
OMG! Gruber farted an opinion about apple!

I wonder if he thinks their new products and direction are the future of technology.

If anything, he might have been too hard on apple, in suggesting that they do something different than the exact thing that they did, because apple is flawless with marketing and product differentiation. And the iPad is _fast_.

I can't wait for more footnotes from the revolution.
I mean, they got your money... and people are still falling all over themselves to give Tesla their money... their stock price has gone extremely high... so I guess I wonder how much of a problem this really is for them. Doesn't seem to affect their brand, even if one thinks it should.
i recently purchased a vacuums on sale and i am very happy with it. what problems have you had with the vacuums?

I also bought a pair of beats running earphones that work better for me than the apple airpods because they do not fall out, they were both about the same price.
And I'd doubt even more that they're running Gentoo -- especially on older hardware, where having to compile everything from source is even more of a burden than usual.
This could be a HN submission in it's own right. Really interesting 'home' science.
Phone hardware's been growing up considerably faster than PC hardware over the last decade-plus, I think, but you're right that planned obsolescence exists and there's a tradeoff.

For me, these are professional tools, and reliability therefore outweighs just about everything else in my consideration of what to use. Tools that don't reliably help me complete the task at hand are the wrong tools, no matter what their other virtues, and nothing else I've tried has been more reliable in that sense than Apple hardware - granted, I haven't had as good a time with the Touch Bar-era laptops, but even they have still been head and shoulders over any past or present Windows laptop I've tried, and I'm not even going to talk about my experience with Linux on laptops because I have enough problems today without attracting a crowd of angry partisans. And from what I hear about the M1 laptops, Apple seem to have gotten their act together, in any case.

Outside work, I still need the appliances I use in daily life to be reliable. Apple's phones aren't up to the standard I prefer, but they come closer to that than anything else I've tried, so they're what I prefer in that regard too. I would like it if they seemed likely to ever again make a phone that's comfortably sized for my hands, but nobody else does either, so that's life, I guess. It's a lot of why I learned how to repair my SEs and where to get parts for them. When it's no longer tenable for whatever reason to keep using them, I'll figure out what to do next. Probably that will be a newer iPhone, because I don't think it's likely anyone else will come along to compete on the combination of compatibility, reliability, and active concern for privacy that matters most to me. I think it would be great if someone did, though.

In any case, as I think we've both said in this conversation, there are tradeoffs, and these are mine. I generally assume that other people who talk here about using an iPhone have made that decision after a process of consideration not wholly dissimilar to mine, and that anyone regularly on Hacker News probably has a good sense of alternatives given how they're regularly discussed here.
You are so wrong.

Spending crypto using a card is actually what people want in order to avoid taxes on crypto as it's treated as a security from the IRS tax perspective.

Anyone who has made money on crypto would love it if they can just spend the crypto as currency and buy every day things with it and remove the tax liability from having to convert to fiat.

15% tax capital gains, no thanks, let me spend it on food and furniture.
Raspberry pi needs proprietary blob to boot. It is not "fairly open".
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You've broken the site guidelines egregiously here.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Not only does it take the community further into hell—just what we don't want, and good for nobody—but you actually discredit your own point of view when you post like this. If you happen to be advocating for the truth, or some aspect of it, that means discrediting the truth as well. This hurts everybody.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I know how difficult and frustrating it is to be advocating a minority view whilst feeling surrounded by endless wrongness on the internet, but at least on HN, if you're going to wade into such swamps, you need to build capacity to do so thoughtfully, neutrally, without swipes, and so on. That's not easy, but we all need to work on it.

Railing and fulminating against wrongness (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661759) actually feeds the wrongness you're seeking to counter. You're gifting it with new feelings of validation and righteousness when you do that. This is not in your interest, and it's damaging to the community (such as it is) here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I briefly used this but ended up giving up because it was hard to debug. Like all I wanted was a simple FIFO queue but that proved to be quite a challenge. I'm not sure if things changed since 2019 but that was my last crack at building a p2p app.

Support from dev is fantastic and is very active, I just wish it worked for my case, I think it has potential still.
In this case you had people with flags bearing a specific person’s name on them. Certainly muting the only person bearing that name will have a direct effect.
So what may be confusing is the term. The full term is coup d'état

It specifically refers to the overthrow of a government. Trashing a single courthouse comes nowhere close to that.

The goal is power. Taking power from your political enemy and securing it for yourself.

The word coup by itself has a broader definition, but is usually used as a compliment. Such as "Heather just closed a $30mm deal with Acme Corp. Her entire sales team scored a coup with that sales pitch"

But when used in the context of gun-toting insurrectionists? "Coup" is shorthand for the full phrase. Coup d'état.
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Yes. It takes time, but yes
Have the "misinformation" flags been tested in court? It seems like that could possibly be covered by the "Good Samaritan" provision, although it seems it would hinge on if the definition of "restrict access to or availability of material" would including additional labeling rather than flat out blocking.
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https://jointoucan.com is a similar concept for the browser.
It's not just that.
People do develop neutralizing antibodies against HIV.

HIV, like other retroviruses, embedds itself in the cell DNA.

Some cells remain dormant for weeks and then start producing virions.

So the other problem with HIV, even if it didn't attack immune cells, is the hidden virus reservoir, I guess, just like other incurable viruses, like herpes and some hepatitis.
There's an existing community around the term. E.g., https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/
Hacker Culture, to me atleast is somewhat broad.

Here are some places where I found good representations:

1. Halt and Catch Fire: 70s/80s tech scene. Full stack hackers building products, companies. Depicts the hackers, code monkeys, visionary types, managers, financers- everyone. Also shows the transition of the business scene from analog to digital.

2. Westworld (Season 1 only) is brilliant. It depicts the ambition, the hubris involved in creating something new and grand.

3. The Travelling Salesman: P vs NP is solved. What are the implications, what are the uses, how will the State react? What is the role of the people imvolved?

4. Primer: Mind bending movie on time machine.

5. and 6. Imitation Game and A Beautiful Mind: I believe most people on HN will like these.

7. Agora is a hidden gem not many know about. It is anout Hypatia.

8. Dangerous Knowledge is a documentary about paradigm changing science. Godel, Turing, Boltzmann are covered.

9. Fractals is also a nice documentary with interviews from Mendelbrot.

10. Codebreaker is a mich more accurate biography of Turing that covers other aspects of his, not limited to his codebreaking and homosexuality.

11. Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz: very nice and left a deep impression in me.

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I am yet to watch:

1. Hidden Figures

2. Stand and Deliver

3. I'm In

4. TPB: AFK

5. Pirates of Silicon Valley

6. Triumph of the Nerds

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Harvard Professor Oliver Knill has a list and clips from movies where math appears: https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/

____

I came to know a lot of these movies through Kagi search and Reddit search. "Best movies for mathematicians and computer scientists" and similar searches.
"TLDR is that with just a new anode made from carbon nanofibers and sulfur"

The new material they discuss is for the cathode side (not anode). That's side where the lithium ions go when the battery is charged. The cathode of traditional Li-ion batteries is made of metal oxides: Cobalt, Nickel, Manganese (lately trying to get rid of the expensive Cobalt).

The sulfur cathode promises to remove all of the expensive metals in the cathode and make the cathode much more energy dense.

The anode is where the lithium ions go when the battery is being discharged. In traditional batteries the anode is made of carbon fibers (burnt coconut shells). The holy grail of anode is pure lithium anode - there is nothing more energy dense. But the problem with pure lithium is that it tends to get deposited not in an even layer, but in the form of dendrites that eventually poke through the dielectric separator creating a short. In this work they explored lithium anode, but as I understand that was not the main focus. I don't think they solved the dendrites formation problem.
Confusing how they could take away shares he already owned and had fully vested.
The Sprite vs Coke thing is surprising; Coke vs Diet Coke is not. I regularly find that I'm given Diet Coke even though I asked for regular. Aspartame and most other artificial sweeteners have a very distinctive flavor and I can generally detect it even in items I don't expect to find it in.
all Stallman is saying, is that this is bad for us.

That is just plain not true. If it were, that would be fantastic. Unfortunately that's only part of Stallman's message, and a good portion of the rest of it is either simply unworkable or batshit insane.

To quote David Schlesinger after RMS got up on stage and talked about how "women who have not been introduced to emacs are emacs virgins and 'relieving them of their virginity is a sacred duty of all members of the church of emacs'", Stallman continues to embarrass us all
> but rather that it worked out in practice to be a fairly good filter for whether people actually had (enough of) that skillset.

How did you rate your negatives to judge the filter was correct? You know the "Positive" status, you know your true and false positives from the interview question (People you hired that performed well or didn't. Or said another way, the predicted value was positive while true value was positive or negative).

But did you know your true and false negatives (the people you didn't hire that would have been good or bad. Or said another way, the predicted value was negative but true value was positive or negative)? Did you know the candidates you rejected who would have been good at fulfilling the roll at your company (False Negatives)?

To be clear, I don't know the false negatives either and the interview question may be the best litmus test for the behavior desired, minimizing false negatives and maximizing true positives. But I just don't know for sure if the question did work out in practice to be a good filter of people with that skillset without a true negative dataset. The Precision is good, but the recall/sensitivity may not be. Then again, you probably know how the candidates you hired performed before you used the new question and after - which may be an indicator on false negatives.

Also, that does seem like a really fun interview question to answer for me. Kudos.

EDITED: Changed the question at the same time the response came from OP. Original post asked if they hired those who failed the test to know more about the negatives. They did.
I've been thinking about something like this for a long time! But mainly focused on security and privacy features! This one looks good as a starting point!
PBS Spacetime just released a video on this experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ko7NW2yQo
> It's amazing to hear they put it together in one night at a diner! :-D

I will bet that he had half formed ideas of how it could work from the previous pain with the "original UTF". The best people I work with are constantly looking at things that are wrong and coming up with idea for how they could be better even if 99% of them will never be used.
Overpass is great: All hospitals in Western Cape of South Africa: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/on

Else there are more manageable regional extracts of OpenStreetMap XML: http://download.geofabrik.de/
> Or, the content just wouldn't exist

I mean, on the whole, the vast majority of ad supported content is in fact clickbait trash.
Suddenly, it feels like the 21st century!
A very big object can be made of lots of small objects, but that doesn't mean big isn't the opposite of small.
The Hummer was hideous as well, but it sold like pancakes for a time
Not as small, but my car is a Prius C. I feel dwarfed by most cars on the roads these days. I'm always needing to inch out juuuust a little further for a turn just so I can see if the road is clear for me to proceed.
What’s the point being argued here? Seems to go all over the place.

Seems like it’s a rant mainly about semantics.
Are you really going with the "they made it ugly on purpose to avoid selling too many of them" defense? Come on just because this is tesla doesn't mean you need to be realistic. It's a multiplia, someone had a brain fart and we end up with a fugly. It happens.
Because it's not a car that is not armored and just looks like a stealth fighter.
And because it's not a car that is armored and looks like a regular car.

It seems to me people like the martial aesthetic and function(!) as a status symbol, maybe without reflecting why the martial aesthetic is what it is. To keep people in a metal shell with guns on it from being shredded.

A civil society should find these things ugly but respect their necessity, not celebrate them. And if civil society has a real need for these things, it's in a sad state.
According to http://www.stroustrup.com/papers.html the paper is from 2009. I wonder if Stroustrup's views have changed since then.
Populations might move uphill if they are unfamiliar with "dike" technology. About one third of the Netherlands lies below sea level, with the lowest point being 22 feet (6.7 meters) below sea level. Perhaps other nations might be capable of building small walls to keep the sea back as well.