jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you live in MA or NJ check out the SREC's. They cause panels on your roof to pay back in only a few years (~4-6) and earn a small income until 2020 in MA (not sure about NJ)

Looking at solar on my roof as an investment (never thought I would say that about solar) for an ~10K investment (after tax credits) over the next eight years it gives a positive return with the potential for a very positive return (And this is ignoring the house value increase which is ~20K for every $1k you save in electricity costs). A nice extremely stable investment that adds diversification to my portfolio. This is way better than a say a 5 year 10K CD if you are looking for something super stable to round out your portfolio.

(Not to mention you are not taxed on the energy you produce via solar unlike the CD's interest.)
Ok, I thought this was related to SSL certs and maybe wrong dates might have caused FB to go haywire.
We’re not that far off from every 14 year old being able to do this on their phone.

The rising millennial generation is not ready for the chaos their progeny is about to unleash on the world.
"Globalized world" is bullshit - quarterly profit driven mentality has reduced our manufacturing sector to the point where it's a security concern.

Also, the globalized world (re China) was, at one point, looking like they'd liberalize and join the rest of the world - we would all rather trade goods than bullets. That has proven to be a mistake, and we're correcting it by investing in manufacturing and infrastructure here.

"But the global economy" - nope. It turns out it matters where the factories are located, and we're trying to right the ship - finally!
Joke's on you. I'm in my thirties and still as much of an idiot. Think of my idiot vote as canceling out your carefully thought out one.
Single Point Of Failure
Quickly, let’s get shit done!
In general, you should be thinking about the delivery semantics of the systems calling your code. Many very useful callers offer "at least once" delivery guarantees, implying that your system should behave idempotently to their calls.
Arguably Elm takes this approach to SPA development. The language spec itself is general purpose but in practice it's been developed to serve a narrow purpose (too narrow for some!)
Another fun feature, from the FAQ:

Can I disable/inactivate my account?
- No. As long as there's money in your means
account, these will be used each month. When they
run out your account will be deactived until
you add more funds.

I signed up thinking Flattr was a way for people to pay me who hate paypal. It turns out it's not anything like that, at all. But there's no way to immediately get off Flattr and close my account, and each month they've been emailing me garbage I don't want.
Well also keep in mind that having gone through an Engineering program, all other things put aside, you know how to open up a book and learn hard things on your own. This means that anything that you do not know and need to know you can learn in short order. And as has been pointed out do not look to your short comings, real or perceived, look to your strengths. There are plenty of people who will be happy to tell you whats wrong with you, generally just ignore them.
Thanks for the suggestion jcr, we want to showcase our community, but it may have the same effect with just a subset of localos.

You are correct about the similarities with AirBnB, we think that personalized offers provide a better matchmaking mechanism for travellers looking to experience a city like a local.
Particular reason for scarequotes around 'good' re: botox? Cosmetic surgery connotations aside, botox is used for (quite effective) treatment of cerebal palsy / muscle spasticity.
I love how immediately following:

"It is an incredibly simple process and there is no downside."

is:

"The minimum amount of money needed to continue use of Flattr is €2 (about $3) each month"
Presumably, it looks like the sky over Chiba city. Maybe with a bit of the sprawl ghosting in it.
For the curious I put the libevent ATS wrapper and the ATS version of the download.c program mentioned at the end of the article in github: https://github.com/doublec/ats-libevent
Other than Vivato (who went broke), is there any shipping outdoor phased-array WISP equipment?
Up. Vertical hydroponics are absolutely the future.
You idea of "production" is too narrow-minded. You don't only produce products, you also produce communities of valuable, productive, happy employees. The people who work in your company are a product of your company.

Unions might force your company to spend more on something intangible, but they do not reduce production efficiency.
Or Plan 9, Haiku, OS/2, Amiga OS...
Yes, that's basically how it works ;-)
"...instead of teaching geography and foreign language classes separately, teachers will ask kids to name countries on a map in a foreign language. Instead of separate lessons on history and economics, they'll talk about the European Union."

It's depressing that this is considered "radical."
>>Brag until you Fail

AKA "How to lose friends and annoy everybody"
There's that utilitarian viewpoint again. No, I didn't miss the point. I'm taking a chiding tone, suggesting that by counting the cost, you miss the value. If you enjoy the meal, and its in your budget, then all is well.
It's possible it was staged. Part of the fun of Derren Brown is he will sometimes completely lie about how a trick was performed. For example, when he "predicted" the lottery numbers.
Semantically, I think the buttons this article talks about are radio-buttons (if exclusive) or checkboxes (if not).
I think there's a gap in the market for a tool like Electron/NW.js, but using the system webview, bundled resources, and just a few choice polyfills for desktop-specifics (e.g. reading the command line). Libraries like this are interesting as they look like they cover the webview piece of the puzzle, but with bundled resources and a couple of extra capabilities, you could actually start distributing lightweight standalone web apps for desktop. There's no need to distribute a full browser engine, it shares the system browser engine keeping memory usage down, and it auto-updates - fixing several common criticisms of Electron/NW.js apps. Maybe an opportunity for an enterprising developer...
At a basic level, you shouldn't have to declare that you haven't agreed to something. You have only agreed to it if you actually do something to agree to it. The only advantage this could possibly have is if the web sites stop asking you to agree if you tell them in advance that you won't. However, I can't see that it would be illegal for them to ask anyway, so they will.

Secondly, this is another thing that would be used to fingerprint the web browser.
im still waiting for fixes for https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/40552 and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/75263 in one of these releases

lots of upvotes for them too since its for privacy in the compiler
There is a Russian story about a farmer without a cow who lived next to a farmer with a cow. He fumed about the unfairness of it, but no matter what he did he couldn't scrape up the resources to get a cow of his own.

So he prayed about it, and God offered him a wish. Did he want a cow of his own? "No," he said, "I want you to kill my neighbor's cow!"
You could copy and paste most of my post and apply it to both of those contexts too quite easily. They weren't mutually exclusive industries. Quite the opposite in fact.

Take the Atari ST and Amiga for example, the amount of crossover games between consoles and those two computers is so big that many gamers considered those computers to be consoles in their own right (I know they're technically not correct but it does illustrate just how big the crossover library was).

As for arcades, they were often the worst for milking genres. How many Street Fighter clones were released after SF2's success? The Galaxian/Space Invaders example I made previously are arcade titles. Same with Space Harrier and Outrun...massive arcade titles who's formula got copied over and over (to be fair, Outrun wasn't even the first arcade racing game of its ilk to hit the arcades either). Then there's Streets of Rage / Double Dragon / Turtles in Time / etc. All pretty formulaic brawlers and there were hundreds others just like them. NeoGeo is another example of a publisher releasing a library of similar arcade titles. All of these are massive names too, so just think about how many similar games made it into arcades but weren't so successful that you still remember them these days.

That all said, one thing the Atari ST and Amiga were better at was innovative early 3D titles. There were a few really interesting mouse controlled 3D games that wouldn't have been possible on your traditional 80s/90s console. But those titles were far far far outnumbered by generic games (and "generic" here doesn't mean "bad").
There are numerous detailed guides online, including by the IRS, illustrating how to do your own taxes.

Unless your finances are extremely complicated, it's fairly easy to do it yourself.
If we find a way to solve that problem [...]

We will not. And you are hinting at the reason yourself.

[...] CRDTs, which are trying to make state changes commutative.

But this is slightly wrong, when you are using CRDTs you are not trying to make state changes commutative, you are limiting the allowed state changes to commutative ones. But some state changes are inherently non-commutative and if your system requires those, then you can not build it with CRDTs.
A great deal of UX knowledge and practises come from HCI studies, it has almost always been in the realm of IT. It's borders with service design is when it starts to pick up some concerns with identity, marketing, and a few others.

Design thinking was the big one years ago in trying to get alternative, yet profitable viewpoints in the boardroom. UX has done much better with this as it's much closer tied to the business lingo with things like conversion rate, A/B, etc.
You’re partially right. The problem is the pace. Right now there is a bit too much noise from that. But yes, i share your view that in many ways things are better.
I found Spinoza and Wittgenstein comprehensible. I've found many other philosophers not so. My comment is not satire.
Haven’t seen that in awhile. Used to help run some EDI and PPP services hung off an x.25 node right down the road from CompuServe in Ohio. The PPP router didn’t even authenticate the user lol, just welcome to the network! I bitched about it for a long time before a demo changed minds.
The Tesla Cybertruck and this are built by people who don't drive pickups and don't know why people really drive pickups. $125k and can only tow half of what a $30k F-150 can? For real?

Half tons by the 2021 model year will be pushing 15,000 lbs. towing capacity. The last 5 years have seen almost a 50% increase. The market has responded really well. People want a half ton (ride characteristics and price) that can tow like a 3/4 ton.
I wish submarine tech had more funding. It would be amazing if today we had the modern equivalent of an aircraft carrier that could also submerse itself completely underwater and travel to destinations all across the globe.
That's true but you can use electric bikes for those more hilly or hot places, take a look at Tel Aviv for example, everybody are on electric bikes or scooters even though the infrastructure there is much worst than in Copenhagen, but it is still better than a car.
Ah yes, my mistake, you only lock up convicted criminals, let's review that claim for a moment. Here's a visual:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/uKLej0KwcfGN583uqvyfQ...

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics

I've noticed a massive apathy amongst Chinese towards Xinjiang, the vast majority don't care and think they deserve it. Perhaps you have a lot more in common than you think.

Both countries have horrendous records and many from there feel not the slightest bit of shame about it.
Cyber alarmists would call a telephone directory: 'A verified threat incident'. Yet these are the same companies selling OSINT data. These alarmist groups need to put down the buzzwords, step off from their white horse and take a look at the hypocrite in the mirror.

If you use social networks, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. You've published your data publicly. If you want to keep this information private, then don't publish it on the Internet.

From: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/publication-private-facts

>2. Private Fact: The fact or facts disclosed must be private, and not generally known.
Virginia has a lot of deer, especially on interstate roads flanked by forest - 90mph is a death wish when one of these deer pop into your path.
AES_128_GCM is much much preferable to AES_256_CBC. AES_256_GCM does not have broad support (not supported by Chrome or Firefox) and isn't really worth the performance tradeoff.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=442572
the option price was 20% of the stock price.

20% off the stock price?
Funny enough, this happens in my company.

We have two products in market. An "old" one (that actually paid the bills for a looong time). And another, newer one that was supposed to replace the old one way to long ago as well (That didn't happen yet, but to be honest... it's complicated).

Every time I was shown what the new product does, it was a demonstration of how it works, related to the old one.

The question "what does this product provides to our customers that the old one doesn't" hasn't been answered in years.

Epilogue: Couple years back we got a beast of a sales man, and he's shoving the new product down the customers throat as if it was heroin laced candy. I'm not complaining, but would we had dedicated the dev time to the old product, we would probably be a main competitor in our market.
This is another good read about using automated terrain mapping for cruise missile guidance systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

Notably how it fit on older computer systems with limited memory by only sampling the terrain using a predefined path which a plane will travel over with imaging sensors beforehand. For minutemen style systems with predefined targets it would work well as the terrain won’t change significantly and there will be plenty of sampling data to support a high error rate and/or a relatively low resolution while moving at high speeds.

Of course it increased in quality and effectiveness over time (especially as whole topographical maps could eventually be stored, not just the path in question) but as an entirely ‘unguided’ rocket it seems to be relatively accurate for its era.
This seems much more beneficial for at least small biz owners. They don’t want to lay off staff because they probably can’t get all the same people back after this is over, so have to train up all new employees at once. But currently for employees to get unemployment, they must be fired first
If it were more effective, don't you think at least one country on earth would have thought of that?

Masks may be able to help a little, but odds are good that if you're in a bus with an infected person coughing or sneezing, you'll be infected with or without a (regular surgical-style) mask. Those masks are almost entirely designed to keep stuff in, not to keep them out of your nose/mouth/eyes.

The slightly reduced incidence of infection from direct contact would not at all affect the greatly increased incidence from much more frequent direct contact. Which is why no country is relying on it.
Pretty cool! I've done lots of work to unify data from different web/local/phone sources as well, you might find my post useful: https://beepb00p.xyz/hpi.html
Note that as thenewnewguy says, anyone who can MITM your connection can also inject JS spyware (well, more so than usual) to exfiltrate your comments. That's harder (and much harder still to avoid discovery) than just sniffing the traffic, so it might be a useful stopgap, but for real security you need to fix your web browser to reject MITMed connections.
A self-hosted analytics tool with heatmaps and session recordings that was a side-project for the last 7 years, turning it now in a full-time project after the company I was working for went bankrupt: https://www.usertrack.net (landing page has to be updated though).
> But you are not going by any other evidence than what the prosecution is showing here.

I haven't mentioned either the prosecution or the defense.

The defense makes noises too, and you are welcome to make your own mix of whatever you like.

But to repeat the point, you are under no obligation, it is the official system that is.
I'm all for accountability and improving.

The death penalty has the convenience of having very good other options and generally resources dedicated to a few events. Personally I see no reason for the death penalty considering the alternatives.
From the bio I’m friendly. I don’t bite. Feel free to say hi.

That certainly doesn't match the Open Letter.

Recruiters are there doing a job, and it's not an easy one. I have a lot of sympathy for them. Treat them nice, because at some point in your future, you'll be looking for a job too. The ones that you treated well ("This job isn't for me, but try calling X who is looking") will remember it.
TweetDeck is the one twitter client (at least, that I know of) that makes Twitter useful. The ability to have numerous columns all live updating lets you really see current trends across just about anything you want in the twittersphere. It took TweetDeck for me to finally see why Twitter was useful. I wonder if that angle has anything to do with all of this.
And the verb recurse is used in the name as an adjective when we already have a perfectly good adjectival form of the word—recursive—that is also more immediately familiar. People who consider recurse an ugly back-formation (preferring to recur) will wince, cringe, and decry the gramatical turpitude all at once.

But enough criticism—here's an attempt at something constructive: How about "Recursity"? The .com address is unregistered, and you can pretend it's a portmanteau of recursion and university suggested by a high-dollar naming consultant.

The Recursity is a free, self-directed educational retreat ...

Hmm. Maybe a mashup with the word sabattical could work.
I'm sure they and the rum vendor spend a lot of money on SEO, too, so it'll fluctuate over time. My point was mostly that the snark wasn't helpful and if you wanted to contribute something of value you could have suggested searching for the domain name which is more accurate.
So, no jail time for the executives who made these decisions and "criminal misconduct"? Amazing.
Why? They can still reach me for free and with all convenience one could hope for.
That is very true, and is the reason I was trying to find for lower-level, machine architecture and OS fundamentals.

Thanks!
AFAIK, no coffee producer competes on the basis of having the coffee beans with the most efficient caffeine delivery rates or gets a premium for being more addicting than strain A or B. Starbucks' stock price is not affected by how addicted to caffeine they get their users to become. If the consumer base decided to switch 100% to decaf coffee, they would still have a profitable business just the same.

WoW addiction? Bad for sure, but Blizzard does not make more money in direct correlation with the time that the people spend playing, do they? Does a 3h/day gamer makes only half the revenue of a 6h/day gamer? I guess not.
I would pick a stable currency with a predictable 2% CPI inflation rate. Why? Because I don't want people to sit on their money and do nothing with it. Remember all these people that regretted spending their Bitcoin? With a deflationary currency every payment you do with your currency is regrettable. You will always think that if you had waited 50 years longer your kids would have become trillionaires.
It always seemed like RAD makes the kinds of tools you want as a developer who likes to run its own core systems and license powerful components for key issues. To think these tools will now be locked into the bloated Unreal Engine makes me feel a bit sad. It's like a lot of game companies get bought up by giants in a "just because we can" fashion, recently, and I can't help but wonder how this de-prioritizes quality and diversity in the industry.
What tricks should I, as a founder of a company, maximize the valuation of my startup at government acqusition time, which revolving-door ex-regulator consultant should I hire to make sure my i's are dotted and t's crossed on all of my applications (and how expensive are they), who in the bureaucracy should I make friends with to ensure the smoothest possible acquisition.
So this is not a proper job as such but I raised $350 for my open source real estate website builder and I'd be happy to pay that to someone who is able to make a meaningful improvement to the product:

https://opencollective.com/property_web_builder

I know that sounds a bit vague but I guess if there is someone out there who knows a thing or 2 about Rails / Vue.js and wants to contribute to an open source project they can have a quick poke around the open issues and make a suggestion to me about what they would like to work on.
wait so now your saying that ublock will be used by lots of people who presumably know what it does and therefore you are saying that they are wrong?

IF you want to track my data you should be asking me.
Python being really fast to code means that the biggest optimizations (those that'll give you a million times or more increment in performance) are fast and cheap to implement. If after that performance is still that relevant, you can always replace parts of the code, with the biggest optimizations already in... And replacing code that already solves a problem tends to be much safer than solving it in "development time intensive" languages.

C++ does have its place (I'm not convinced about Java), but starting with it some project you could make as well with Python just because of performance isn't a good policy.
I'm really looking forward to my brain powered keyboard. I was close to buying an Emotiv headset a few times to attempt a build, but I don't think the resolution was there, nor was I able to build the machine learning end.
And that's really interesting - do you think you need to be 'outgoing' or at least appear that way, to be a good startup founder? Every single person I know, including my PhD advisor and my startup co-founders, thinks I'm extremely outgoing. But I hate cocktail parties and so on. I force myself to go and connect with people. I'm far more comfortable behind a screen unless I know people already. :)
Also always read before the lecture.
I once sunk thousands of dollars into that game. Once I bought a nice lakeside house for 500 (us) dollars and sold it for over $1100 - nothing compared to the players who spend thousands of dollars buying armor and weapons (mine was worth mere hundreds) but still quite amazing to me.

It is a pretty basic mmorpg, only got quests this year, but there's something extremely compelling about the game. Some people say the game is just gambling- I tend to agree.

There are massive amounts of money going through this game. It's both scary, and amazing to watch. And yeah, if you're a good businessman (or scam artist) there is a ton of (real) money to be made.
If everything was totally unbranded, just feeds of data, how would providers generate revenue? The obvious route would be by distorting the info in exchange for cash.

If Google couldn't show their ads on search result pages, they'd need to charge advertisers to prioritise certain search results in their feed.

If Facebook couldn't show ads on the sides of their pages, they'd have to start embedding marketing in your friends' actions - by emphasizing certain behaviours over others - for a fee.

I'm sure a bit of subtle manipulation already goes on, but I'll take branding and advertising any day rather than make that the ONLY option.