jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So I met them on upwork and establish a partnership, I was a minority partner in the firm, so it exceeded the scope of upwork. Then an extensive contract was signed.

I would get deferred income, per the contract. Deferred income is placed on the balance sheet as a liability. Unfortunately, isn’t on the balance sheet, so it doesn't exist. I think it's a breach of contract. Because services were rendered and deferred income wasn't even placed on the balance sheet. Investors in the firm would be miss led by the fraudulent accounting.

As for the code, you can't copyright code or algorithm. I took a very basic idea, such as buy above the 200 moving average and sell when it hits the 37.5 moving average. I took that silly type of algorithm that didn't work and made it profitable.

The reason they are moving to another "developer" is that I refused to do more work, without compensation. I should have known by the of parade of previous coders before me they shop for coders in an effort to make the silly algo work.

I will never see the $500K I might be able to get pennies on the dollar is my current thought. Aside from this last issue, I have come out stronger on the other side and I have developed my own profitable algos.

I do look forward to seeing this train wreck in my rear view mirror.
You didn't see the results of last year conflict? Iron Dome was overwhelmed but still managed to give pretty good defence and Iron Beam is much cheaper and quicker.
Most of my experience is on continental Europe, where it seemed like multilane highways topped out at 55-65 km/h. So you're probably right.

No need to go on the offensive though. "Gaol" is a pretty dead giveaway of Britishness.
I just like little cute miniature things that are all just a little bit different. They all look like they go together like a family but are all unique. But when you put them all together they look complete.
I come from a family of collectors, motivated both by personal joy and sometimes potential dollar signs. No one on this side of my family is wealthy, quite a few struggle to make ends meet. To our credit, none of us spend more than trivial sums for any such collecting[1].

It is possible to make money collecting, but it’s very time sensitive and an active hustle. You pretty much only want to do it if also get joy from the collecting itself. Which is the thing.

Collectibles are a terrible financial investment. They can be an excellent personal life enriching investment. If you have a good healthy attitude towards it acknowledging it’ll probably yield low financial gain, and high positive emotional response… go nuts. Just don’t let it usurp your long term plans.

1: Except me. Anyone want to buy a really nice acoustic guitar that could use a more attentive home? I have a laughable number of them which I never play! I’m not in need for cash but it’d be nice to reclaim some space, and any proceeds would go to helping out my fam with much tighter budgets.
https://iwaspoisoned.com/product/lucky-charms?utm_source=hom...
Zagg keyboard for my iPad Air. It slides onto the edge and turns the iPad into a small usable laptop. Backlight keyboard makes it usable in any lighting condition. It also works well for bed reading propped on my chest. From 2014-2020 I went through just 4 of these keyboards. Switched to Air2 and still using them today. They are just wonderful.
>What questions did you have in mind?

How about the 4-5 I already posted in the direct ancestors of this thread (e.g. the the one you originally responded to [but did not answer]).
False. Bandwidth and hosting and keeping site working is not nothing.
The general results I tend to see, with a bit of my theories as to why:

New at top + box at top => more, usually less relevant (often worse) comments. Because people are more likely to leave a comment and less likely to read others' first.

New at top + box at bottom => fewer, varying quality. Because people are less likely to comment at all. Where there are few comments, they tend to be pretty good; where there are a lot, nobody reads them all, and you get the same as above. And a bit of annoyance at having to scroll past things to get to the box (is this necessarily bad, though?)

New at bottom + box at bottom => fewer, threadier comments, varying quality. People think more like forums. You're also setting yourself up for "fp!", as those stay at the top forever. Similarly, good comments only rarely get a chance to be read by anyone.

New at bottom + box at top => worst of all worlds. Lots of comments, nobody reads, and people get frustrated because theirs never gets seen, leaving the world to the loud and annoyed and nobody else.

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All that said: new at bottom + box at bottom anywhere you intend to have communication. Twitter is both-top because it's not a bi-directional communication platform; it's a shoutbox. The newest stuff matters, and yours is the newest. Focus decreases as you scroll down, and as things get older.

Most chat systems are both-bottom, because you can read conversations like a book, and add yours logically close to where it will appear, and where the likely-most-relevant things are (newest in a thread = likely most relevant to your comment). Focus likely increases as you go down, as things get more relevant; a downside to long-running threads if you have to reload the page, but no real problem if it updates in place.

Choice here can have a pretty profound impact on how people approach and use your system. What do you want it to be used as?
I would guess that people are interested in the newest context available.

In something like Twitter or Identica, messages are largely unrelated to each other, therefore the unit of individual context is a message, and the newest messages appear at the top.

In something like IRC, messages tend to be very heavily interrelated, and the unit of individual context is the entire channel - or at least the past five or ten minutes. Until IRC clients learn to split channel contents by semantic context, they present the entire context (i.e. channel history) in chronological order for your perusal.

In something like email, messages tend to be somewhat interrelated, but because each message has links to its related messages, it's easy to break up a mailbox into threads. Generally, I would expect this kind of system to show the newest thread at the top, but the individual messages in that thread chronologically.

Since some email threads grow to enormous lengths, it's not always useful to have the first two thirds of the page occupied by messages posted a month ago, when all the activity is occurring in the leaves. In this situation, it might be useful to only construct threads based on activity in the past week or so - that way, the individual sub-threads of the Monster Thread can take their appropriate places among any other threads that have occurred recently.
I've having a lot of fun with WNYC's RadioLab podcast. It's more of an experience when you listen to them, you feel like you're in the world they're describing. Every episode is really well done, and the guys put a lot of effort into it.
http://www.radiolab.org/
In the interview case it's the victim's privacy that prevents monitoring, not the interviewer's.
Isn't the whole purpose of pre-encoding before uploading is so that you shrink the file size and upload faster?

Why would I want to upload 4GB of video when I can encode it down to 700MB then upload?
http://xavvy.com/up-in-future

about this

I have strong feelings
Now that science has found a ovulation inducing factor (OIF)in human semen, we may now know why the Rhythm method has a high failure rate.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/semen-ovulation-fertility/
Could you provide an example? I'm using node and are pretty satisfied with the performance I have.
I'm sorry that I didn't clarify above; I do have my GED. I got it when I turned 16 because I knew I needed atleast that if I wanted a chance.

There doesn't seem to be any local software related companies but I've looked into several potential options. I also know that Atlanta seems to have a lot more options available, and will be putting in some more applications to places in those areas as well.
Going community college isn't so much for your own skills, it's to move you into the "Some College" box for HR. It's make you look less like a risk and to give you a chance to at least get a chance to get in front of someone to show them what your made of and your github portfolio. Having the correct skills for the job is entirely separate issue from being an acceptable candidate.

I think school is for the most part total bullshit and you don't learn much for the amount of time and money you invest in it. All the best stuff I know I taught myself because I was interested or on the job. I have a masters degree is CS and teach community college CS classes, I did it not for the knowledge but to open opportunities for myself which others might not consider me for because I'd look like the risky option compared to others applying for the same job. In many places management and hiring processes are just as broken as the educational system.
Don't focus entirely on programming.

Find small IT services firms in your area, call them, and ask if they're looking for people. I guarantee you're at least 2 steps above who they normally get, and depending on their size and customer base you may be able to get good local freelance development projects and references while helping them keep their customers happy. You may also get a variety of experience with both business needs and end users that may be very valuable to you later. You'll also help with things that seem incredibly simple to you like basic spreadsheet or macro stuff - something you'll spend 15 minutes on that will literally save a business staffer or manager days of error-prone tweaking by hand.
Sincerely... all I can think about is not that she found a good solution to her problem, but the fact that she "achieved the same level of accuracy" (and I suppose speed).

This is not something about her capabilities, but about the limitation of current input devices regarding our hands.

This is the proof that using a touch pad with your nose is not worse that using it with your hand. There is something wrong in this: try using any real-world interface with your hand, how the shapes, the stiffness, the flexibility of any handle, pen, button, spring you interact with give you some kind of information and let you operate with a superior kind of consciousness.
>Wow, racist much? "Christians be like this, Muslims be like this"

Please don't abuse terminology.
Developer here! Thanks for all the feedback. Appreciate all of it, including bug reports! Pull requests also welcome.

Especially I would appreciate help with adding more challenges, and/or making them all balanced and interesting, for a good and reasonable difficulty curve.

It is very simple to tweak them - they are defined at the bottom of challenges.js:
https://github.com/magwo/elevatorsaga/blob/master/challenges...
Thanks! Do you know of any organizations that want such a platform? There are a lot of players in the LMS space, like edX, Canvas, etc.
Golden Frog's Chameleon protocol does something like this. It's based on OpenVPN256, but adds packet scrambling for the header and footer.
Seems like you'd have to include all possible components and toggle them based on a variable.

It doesn't seem like you can apply an if attribute to a component directly - the second component here never disappears, but the first is wrapped in a <div> and does:

http://bl.ocks.org/insin/5e0bf04cf1f701c235ad
Yes. Soda, wine and ice. Of course I am not endorsing to do the mix with good wine ;)
Sure, but at that point, by their behavior, NYT devolves from "sacred guardians of democracy" to "fucking troll."

Sure, it's not "their job" to worry about SSC. But then, nobody's paying me to be nice on HN. That's fine! I don't want money! I'm civil because it's good for the space, and because it's the right thing to do. If I weren't, I would, effectively, be an enemy of the space.

SSC has been a beacon of...reasonableness, of niceness, of clarity (though not necessarily agreement), on the internet, for near a decade. You know what we call people who screw that up online? Trolls. Why should companies be any different?

Nothing will happen, nobody is going to light their building on fire or whatever. Their name will just carry that much less weight in the future.
It's easy to believe. Haskell has a much steeper learning curve than... well, really any other (even remotely practical) language. I put in a fairly concerted effort a few years back and didn't make it over the first productivity hump. That's never happened to me with any other language, and I think I'm not alone in that experience.

Regardless of its practicality or lack thereof, Haskell is definitely at least hard to get started with.
Picking up cocoa as my first language over the past few months. Been scripting with jQuery for a while.
Perhaps overly ironic given my pedantic tags before, but the year 0 issue is something where I see no point being technical. As far as the population of the world is concerned, 2000 was the start of the new millenium, etc.

Either way: while you can claim that 2011 is the start of the next decade, 2010 is definitively the start of "the 10s". I was born in `90, I would listen to an argument that I was born in the same decade as someone who was born in `85, but to say I was born in the eighties would be undeniably incorrect.
Can’t tell if you are joking or if you really believe this.
> How do you do notifications from a CRUD app on a mobile device if you can't have a native app on the device?

Facebook and Twitter are older than push notifications. SMS and email are pretty obvious replacements with little functional difference.

> Let's not kid ourselves. People rarely use the browser for something they really like on mobile if there is a native app. The experience is very different.

Sure, but you are pretty clearly moving the goalposts. Is it any more difficult to enter "news.ycombinator.com" into a mobile web browser than it is to download a mobile client?
It wasn't specific to MRI clinics, but they elimited two tiered healthcare opti9ns as some perception it benefited the wealthy, and would attract doctors to privatized healthcare, further impacting public healthcare.

Same thing for non-elective surgeries.

You can't goto a private clinic for a surgery offered under public healthcare

Basically removed being able to pay to skip the queue, some people felt it was unfair, and to uphold integrity of public healthcare...

2 good recent sources on the topic.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7326893/bc-supreme-court-ruling-p...

https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/private-two-tier-healthcare...
> It's not terrorism.

I think you undermine your own argument here.

The problem is that "terrorism" does not have an agreed-upon definition. As far as I can tell, the smallest common subset of definitions -- ie, what everyone will agree on -- is "violent crime that should carry particularly harsh punishments." If you use the word before agreeing on its meaning, that's the definition you fall back to.

Historically, western liberal democracy believes in the rule of law -- that the punishment should fit the crime, rather than our opinion of the criminal. Obviously this is violent crime. Without choosing a more specific definition, the only thing left to argue about is whether it deserves extraordinary punishment, given the same set of facts. Treating that as a valid argument to have is rejecting the rule of law.

The alternative is to decide on a definition. What makes terrorism different from breaking and entering? Assault? Murder? Mass murder? Rebel? Revolutionary? Etc. If the answer is "nothing", then use the other word instead. Keep loaded terms like "terrorism" out of the debate unless they're needed.
I think it's something like this: you can't prove the consistency of a formal system using that same formal system, unless it is in fact inconsistent, but you can model a formal system from inside a larger formal system and then prove things like consistency about the smaller system from inside the larger one. But then the consistency of the larger system is unproven and you're stuck with an endless regress into ever larger FS's as you pursue the chimera.
Not that guy but I bought one of their strength templates. I found them through Alan Thrall's YouTube channel.
I often wonder if all these projections about self driving, VR, and before that, 3D printing, are essentially wish fulfillment for and from a biased audience. I'd want to say that self driving cars are just around the corner, because that's the future I want to live in.

In that case, I wonder what it says about our present reality. The need to make such gloriously optimistic projections about self driving cars essentially indicates that driving isn't fun to a lot of people (ergo, car makers are making boring cars), or that commuting is too unpleasant (ergo, city planners have been slacking)
Can you please not post in the flamewar style here? We're trying for curious conversation, which that kills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is an interesting story about the high power side of broadcasting. There was a station in the US, WLW that was 500 kW. This one station reached almost the entire country. The FCC finally limited the maximum power to 50 kW. Mexico had no such restriction, so "border blasters" appeared- high power stations on the boarder transmitting into the US. They ran ads, made money and had huge audiences. Most famous is Wolfman Jack on XERF.

http://www.ominous-valve.com/xerf.html

http://www.theradiohistorian.org/xer/xer.html

http://www.ominous-valve.com/wlw.html

Anyway for low power community radio, the situation is ridiculous. Some part of the FM dial should just be reserved for low power self-regulated radio. The rules are the way they are to protect incumbents and the same thing is happening on the internet. A recent example is when the David Pakman youtube show got dinged by CNN and NBC because he was rebroadcasting CSPAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43JMffa1x0
sorry for pedantry but you do mean "this will take 20 hours", yes?
Attribution is important, but the episode centers around the question of whether or not the AI can demand that the publisher pull the novel from the market, which is copyright, not just attribution.
Why did you delete your comment? I really appreciated it and actually bookmarked it specifically. I know it probably wasn't popular among consumers, buy I liked it and agreed with it. I actually have witnessed exactly what you describe in people I know.
>Why are we okay with profits being more important than ethics?

Both are continuums, with profits being accurately quantified, and ethics being quite vague, subject to culture and people and history - it's no surprise not every actor comes to the same actions given the same situation.
To be fair, Google did have autonomous cars by 2018, including fully driveless ones, and available to select public users.

So in that sense, they didn't lie, but the scale of the roll out has been much smaller and slower than what most people expected. I don't think Google specifically made comments about the scale. Elon on the otherhand did mention big numbers, which is a different story.
There is more information regarding trends --

50% of the smartphone purchases in the last six months were android.

From July-Sept'10 to Jan-Mar'11 people wanting an iPhone dropped from 33% to 30%

From July-Sept'10 to Jan-Mar'11 people wanting an android increased from 26% to 31%

With no iPhone 5 until fall and a big bump in iPhone sales in Jan-Mar'11 due to Verizon, this only means the trends will continue to favor android until Fall.
Are you open to relocating to San Francisco?
I find the rationalizations made in these iPhone/Android threads fascinating. Not sure doing so is healthy though.
http://linode.com its a vps so a little more manual, but full control over your stack

http://www.linode.com/?r=bde45b7ba8346eec9a56d7276f536caea70...

is a referral link :)
While I think I agree with you, but rule #1 when doing client-server development is: Never, ever, trust the client.

And, ironically, something which I think Sony forgot here. :)
I'd position pd not against low-level stuff but as a complementary to them, just as Matlab. It is easier to prototype new ideas and algorithms in an environment with higher abstraction level. After you know what you want, HC-implementation can begin.. :-)

I can certainly appreciate your appetite to drive DACs on a breadboard!

For likeminded hackers with an itch to solder, I suggest also looking at some analog synth projects, such as the great x0xb0x: http://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/
It's a precise clone of the legendary acid synth Roland TB-303 and what's best, it's completely open source! :-)
I'm building mine just now..
Absolutely agree. With the amount that you have produced in the last 6 months, I am envious. I did the CS degree, a year of grad school, an internship, and a couple undergrad research projects. Still, you've produced much more than I have in that time. Get out there and talk to people, someone will hire you.

Also, take it from a guy who 'wasted' ~12 years working for a grocery chain, you've got plenty of time left. Forget the engineering stuff, do what you (obviously) love.
This will quickly devolve into the Four Yorkshiremen skit, but...

> I recently worked on a project where the microcontroller had 768 bytes of RAM and around 32k flash.

Luxury! I'm in an entertainment industry startup. Our main product uses an AVR board with 512 bytes of RAM and 8k of flash. Program size optimization for 8k is a significant challenge for us.

We also use an embedded networking device with 8M of flash, which is about the sweet spot for Lua...Perl, Python, and Ruby are all too bloated for this context.

To the author, embedded apparently means "phones." With the rise of Arduino and hardware hacking in general, I think there are more and more opportunities involving development under extreme constraints, not fewer.
One person ignored
Mozilla is using Mozilla's website to explain why one of their security products is useful.
Parts per million, not parts per billion. [1]

Yes, H2O is the strongest greenhouse gas, but its concentration (~5000ppm average) is limited by temperature and it will condense out as mist/clouds/rain. CO2 is nowhere near saturation levels, so atmospheric levels of CO2 have been growing. [2]

By all means you can tell the world that we should go back to a planet that looks like it did 15M years ago (miocene), but a 40m sea level increase is a pretty hard sell and IMHO does not match the "this is fine" tone of your post.

CO2 tends not to liquify but forms solid dry ice, so CO2 is not present in "liquid air" [3] (nor is anything with a boiling point <80K). Your proposed "obvious and dead simple" experiment is flawed.

"an engineer that has spent WAY too many years going down every single rabbit hole" is hard to justify based on the easily-debunked assertions you make, but even if you are correct and farming is the biggest cause and that it can/should bear the brunt of reduction efforts, it does not follow that we should therefore ignore all other avenues to address the problem. Yes, iron may be a part of the solution, but can you not see that building wind turbines, insulating houses and having electric cars is less risky than dumping huge quantities of iron in the sea?

Please consider that there _is no conspiracy_ and that scientists are mostly underpaid humans with a deep interest in their areas of study. Also consider that we know that fossil fuel companies have been funding AGW-denial. If you want conspiracies, try looking there.

[1]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
[2]https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesci...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_air
Maybe I have a wrong perception but I think weed is more widespread today and more acceptable than it was back then.