jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Communicating assurance is challenging. Finding a balance between "FAR/FMR/FNMR metrics" and "it's safe to use" is an art. Apple's faceID. for example, claims "1:1,000,000 chance a random person can unlock an iPhone", which, I guess, is a good enough proxy to communicate assurance for the intended audience.
Answering the question, yes we thought about it, but still a work in progress.
It was changed the other way. I originally posted with your suggested link, but then moments later it was a "404 Not Found" error page. Your web site might be unreliable. Also, until I found the other link, I was unaware that there were any images. I had seen only plain text. Currently there are images, but will they stay? Do you know what went wrong with the web site? Might it go back to being "404 Not Found" again?

If you are certain that your web site isn't going to go "404 Not Found" again, contact dang.
'need' probably isn't the right word.

Really expensive small batch beer is often 10+% alcohol by volume.
serious question: what informs your opinions on this topic? i ask because cities are, in fact, already paying for settlements. however, the problem is deeper: settlements often times in results in the cities going into debt that wall street buys. the taxpayer ends up footing the bill. they're called "police brutality bonds". you might find this interesting:

https://acrecampaigns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ACRE_PB...
https://acrecampaigns.org/research_post/police-brutality-bon...
Exchanges reduce risk and make things easy for casual users. By casual, I mean people who just want to invest and don't care much about the mechanics of bitcoin which was always going to be ~99% of users.

What are the other options? Using an exchange is risky (or at least seems risky to me, a person with almost zero crypto experience). Bitcoin ATMs? I know they exist, I've never personally seen one. Handing cash to a stranger? Definitely risky.
Until DNSSEC DANE TLSA is implemented in OSes, an interim solution that is easy and costs nothing is to publish binary hashes into a GitHub repository. It's not checked by UAC, but it is free and humans can check the hashes with standard tools if they want formal validation. A code signature is actually little more than third-party validation of a hash of a binary file that can't be easily altered. GitHub is your third-party and a repo contains your binary file hash that can't be easily altered. Other than the "scary" yellow UAC dialog and SmartScreen being temporarily annoying after each version release, problem solved!

DNCSEC DANE TLSA is the real solution though to all public CA woes. TLSA lets you run your own private CA publicly and be trusted without root certificate stores.
I don't live in the US but asked some colleagues in New York how much it would be for a self employed person with a family (of 4 as an example) and they told me around $20K/year. Your figures are very far off that, what gives, is it because there are so many options it's like choosing anywhere from a low end to a high end restaurant?
> an assumption that something is not malicious.

It's not even that. It's just a statement of fact. The things that you put in positions where they can fuck you are de facto the things you trust. You might know for a fact that they are untrustworthy garbage, but you're still trusting them.
Good teachers manage to prevent their school enacting bad policy like this: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/19/us/school-lunch-debt-dona...
I cannot even think of a single person in any of my networks of people who would buy this and put it in their home. It has "hell no" written all over it. It's almost arrogant or bizarre that they would try to launch such a product given how people feel about Facebook and privacy.

I suppose it's simply to satisfy shareholders who think Facebook needs to compete in this market????

It's the Zune of the Living-Room Assistant space in my opinion.
Exactly. Belgium is trilingual and just makes aliases, even to domain names.
Thanks a lot! I've tried to be as transparent as possible along the way.

That would be great, it is valid until midnight this Friday PST. The coupon code is BLACKFRIDAY50
So the US homeland of Security set up a fake university, put it in the official accreditation website, and then arrest international students when they apply and join? WTH?
Indeed, engineering is about tradeoffs.
Well, in terms of sound energy, but our hearing is also logarithmic, so 140dB will sound about twice as loud.
Data helps. But you still have to know how to apply it.
I share your love of Gorecki. I heard him on the radio once and it was some of the most beautiful music I ever heard, so I ran out to buy the CD.

I like some of Glass's music. Also his more monotonous pieces, but like almost every composer with a large body of produced works there's quite a number of pieces that I do not like at all. So yeah, check him out!

As for the suggestions: I'll add them tomorrow morning.
A loudspeaker is nothing but a coil, a magnet and a piece of cardboard and it too is capable of incredible tonal quality and a huge range of polyphonics.

This one really got me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
I dont think they thought the plot through... this looks awful.
I too thought it was good "food for thought" but sometimes have concern about the "analysis paralysis" these sorts of things can create.

This might be required for larger investments and bigger projects, but sometimes there's just no substitute for just doing something.

FOR EXAMPLE look at AwesomenessReminders - I'm honestly flabbergasted that it's as successful as it is. He recently posted that he now has 750 paying customers, if each of them bough his minimum program and didn't renew that's something around $7500 (right?)

Who thinks that would have survived a multi round business plan customer segmentation / value proposition etc.. etc...

However - he simply had the idea, did it cheap and quick and it's turned out to be pretty sweet. I find that really inspirational.

Was a great example of the 'best case' scenario - but - there's still plenty of room for an 'elbow grease & just do it' solution.
lazy students given only voluntary homeworks might reach the exam with little preparation

And that is bad, why exactly? You're unprepared, you fail, you learn a lesson, you retake. Repeat until done. I too was a lazy student and found that failing a few classes and having to resit the exam was a fine way to motivate you to study.
This might be obvious, but maybe it will be helpful for someone:

Wikileaks: http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ Diary dig: http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/iraq/diarydig
War logs: http://warlogs.owni.fr/

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq-war-logs
Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/iraq_war_logs/
Bureau of Investigative Journalism: http://www.iraqwarlogs.com/
Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/secretiraqfiles/

Video - Bureau of Investigative Journalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDxADbXhuU
Al Jazeera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU718vXkrwY
> the instructor should create whatever conditions they want to so that they can exercise the students as they see fit

I don't disagree, as long as the instructor is able to defend the pedagogical purpose of the limitations he demands. The OP is essentially contending that few situations warrant such limitations, and I agree with him about that.
Microsoft here is just a temporary buffer for those who can't get H1-B visas. Once they're approved, MS will ship them to HQ, Redmond.

apike, one of the commenter in this thread, used to work for Apple, he might be able to give more info (and the location of this secret building).

Vision Critical looks promising since they seem to be growing quite rapidly. Another company in the same level with Vision Critical is Elastic Path.

90Degree Software used to provide BI solution as well and has a few ex-BO people (seems most of them came from Sales though). They got bought by MS either last year or this year.

One thing that strikes fear for me is the stability of these local companies. I saw somewhere that Vision Critical did a round of lay-off before. A friend of mine was going to replace my co-op position with 90Degree software couple years ago was met by a "Sorry, we made a mistake in filling our government paperwork thus unable to give any co-op opportunities for this intake". After that, I haven't heard any hiring/co-op placement anymore from 90Degree Software.

I also heard that once BOBJ was acquired by SAP, the culture seem to take a hit. Some people seem unhappy with the new overlord's action (cutting costs across the board). I suppose that's quite normal post-acquisition?

Indicee seems like a promising company a'la Web 2.0 for BI (saw the website, saw your CEO demo-ing the product in front of vicious audiences). When I browsed LinkedIN last time about Indicee, I saw many short-term employees, say 8months to 1.5 years kind of employees plus a view contractors. Care to share stories about that?
or how about lamebook creating bit.ly urls for each post?
This makes sense. Macs don't support their hardware. Researchers and scientists who need CUDA get platforms with the power and capability to support them.
Yes right after Mosaic 1.0 was released. RIP
Can some people from the crypto space give a quick tl;dr of what’s going on in the space that’s of note? Seems like I hardly hear about interesting stuff after the bubble burst (kind of at least).

Are there any people using crypto to actually do work for clients and solve fiat currency based businesses problems? I am curious if the crypto start up space is mostly filled with crypto-to-crypto services or if there are many successful crypto-to-regular business cases.

Edit: I’m interested in if there are many people making meaningful money from doing client work or building a business, mostly in the crypto space. There seems to be two camps: crypto idealists that don’t care about making money, and the crypto application people who might be a little idealist, but also want to make money here and now. This is more geared towards the latter.
Except that all Blockstream projects are not only allowed, but promoted on r/bitcoin. If the subs own rules were followed they should be banned.

For example how Liquid, a centralized sidechain that goes against the idea of cryptocurrencies, is promoted as a "solution" to many of Bitcoins problems. But any critique of it is banned.

It's obvious that the mods are somehow associated with Blockstream. Only a Blockstream employee such as yourself would disagree.
Big Brother is originally Dutch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Dutch_TV_series...
> And you can be sure some people staying there will try to push the "lewd act" boundary for fun, bringing in more views.

> Ultimately, this will be a better advertisement for that hotel than comparable money can buy online.

Until someone does go too far, and the hotel finds out that they're expected to police these livestreams to ensure certain meeting certain standards that are wide and seemingly arbitrary, and the hotel becomes liable for the behaviour of one of their guests.

Japan has a lot of rules and regulations around what can be seen, produced, etc. for sexuality, just as a small example.
Bitcoin is no different. It's just a scam on a much longer timescale.
I think you can be a peaceful nut-case though. I am the living proof ;-)
No seriously though, "peace of mind" and "madness" or insanity are not necessarily contrary to one another.
I think software is part of the disruption, some apps will appear on the iPad that are better than those on the Mac. Apple's tight control means a simpler experience for most, there is no malware, spyware or viruses for iOS AFAIK.

The iPad could run those OSes and it's not really down to Apple if you replace the whole OS, though Windows isn't available for ARM and nor is OSX in it's desktop form. Linux could be made to work on it. Android has already been made to work on the iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A
Well, Gmail will archive most of those :P (or Hotmail, Yahoo or your webmail provider of choice).
It needs to be fixed up a bit. You can somewhat resolve this issue by compiling with -Wall, at which point it will warn you that your pattern matching is non-exhaustive.

import System.IO

divide :: Int -> Int -> Maybe Int
divide x 0 = Nothing
divide x y = Just $ x `div` y

printResult :: Maybe Int -> IO ()
printResult (Just x) = print x

main = do
putStr "Type a number: "
hFlush stdout
x <- readLn
printResult $ divide 42 x
How little of the world you've seen then.
Which is why we need to work on dispelling the myth that static typing requires explicit typing. Type inference gives you many of the advantages of type checking without having to explicitly type every variable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
While I agree it seems absolutely abusive to throw people in jail without explanation over a $250 credit card debt, the principle of being jailed over debt is not always shocking to me. It would have been very appropriate for the banking executives who committed their bank's customers assets to credit market swap agreements worth billions while knowing perfectly well that they weren't able to honor the bill if it ever came due like it did last year! Isn't that also jailing over debt? Wasn't that due in this case?
All good points--I don't completely agree on the LegalZoom issue. Our company incorporated in Illinois through LegalZoom and it worked out great. I've done LLC/partnerships on my own and the paperwork is easy. It's good to think of LegalZoom as a paralegal service and not as a lawyer. We had an actual corporate lawyer draft contracts and other important documents but I'm not paying someone $300/hour to fill out forms.
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What isn't wrong with using Notepad? If you use Notepad you are either a) too lazy to see what else is out there b) ignorant c) stubborn or d) don't care enough about your workflow to improve. There is literally no way you could form an argument that Notepad makes you more productive than any other popular editor.
Congratulations on the release. I am currently a deep shade of green as I am a devops engineer who has a pipe dream of creating and releasing a game really just for the pleasure of just doing it and learning a language (and hopefully a personally successful future as a freelance dev). I have been looking at C# and Unity. I started digging into c# but I am a weak python guy so it's frustrating :)

You are a great motivator! Your work is appreciated. Congrats again.
I've asked the same question before, and the answers I've received are basically:

A) People like to compare frameworks (e.g. Rails) to the PHP programming language, rather than an apples-to-apples comparison, and therefore PHP always falls short in their eyes.

B) The abundance of poorly written, insecure legacy code has besmirched PHP's reputation beyond repair, even if its actual security isn't bad.

C) The fact that n00bs can pick it up quickly and get a dynamic website out of PHP with minimal effort leads elitists to look down on it from their glass enclaves.

D) Academic reasons that no one outside academia cares about.

Full disclosure: I read and write PHP every day regardless of what people say about it. :D
"A startup I worked for made the applicants do pair programming for two days. Needless to say, the people getting hired were very good."

How is this even possible for people that already have a job? Are they supposed to take two days vacation or do it in the weekend?
Doesn't help that PayPal has bought the main challengers for p2p payments (Venmo) and Infrastructure (Braintree). Stripe will save us in one of these regards, however.
The job postings are only for YC companies, of which there are not-as-many non-web/mobile companies.
Saying we could afford both is the excuse of people who don't want to admit there are opportunity costs and the federal budget is not unlimited.

It's like me saying I have a choice between two news cars and deciding that I can afford both (by ignoring my mortgage, food, and all other expenses)
Without the use of a third party? Bitcoin transactions need to be confirmed in the blockchain which requires third-party miners to exist. Mining costs are relatively high considering the value provided. The blockchain is not at all (and was never intended to be) an efficient way to transfer digital funds. It was created to be decentralized and it serves that purpose, but using it to back a centralized system would be self-defeating, hence this comment thread.

Transferring value in the form of maintaining electronic accounts isn't comparable to wire transfers of fiat where the funds are made available in local currency. Banks don't just track numbers in accounts: providing liquidity and ensuring those numbers actually mean something is not trivial. If bitcoins were globally accepted it would be a more competitive service, but even then there would be the issues of fraud protection and compliance with money laundering legislation that bitcoin doesn't handle well.
Was just about to write something similar. It's absurd that the original argument characterized any opposition to the space program as born of ignorance or backwardness. Since when has science been about dogmatically supporting any endeavor?
Thanks, didn't know that. Right now i was using libsass for some projects. It compiles faster than the ruby sass.
Can we please move this thread to tomorrow (or even Monday next week)? Today it will get missed by a lot of people because almost all offices are closed.
You need it more in LA than any place else, why: sprawl = time and effort invested in getting anywhere around the city is the highest. NYC, you get up and move 2 blocks, on foot, LA you gotta drive, pay for parking everywhere, deal with traffic and cops if you drink, and then find out the spot sucks. I travel b/w NYC and LA a lot, and in NYC its a nice-to-have (don't like this spot go necxt door, or next or next... or take a $10 cab and go across town), in LA its a must-have (no walkable areas except 2 blocks and we just have 3 or 4 of those in a city that is HUGE).
A few years ago, I signed up for a Borders rewards card. Gave them an email address of borders@mydomain.com. Weeks later, began getting tons of spam to that address.

So uh, I'm guessing that this Borders employee isn't the only one who knows about this.
You mean latin-9 hopefully. The one with the euro sign.
people count on being bailed out so why would they save?
I beat Paul Tracy in a mountain bike race when I was a teenager. I can only imagine the thrill of beating a pro driver in a driving game
I don't think progressive disclosure applies in the cases the author is discussing.

Slide 8: "Most of the writing in the world is for information." Readers looking for information aren't interested in being teased to keep reading. That's a recipe for 'unhooking' them. They want to know what the author thinks they should know.

No pussyfooting.
Questioning the end-user value of technical decisions (or more broadly, aversion to complacency). It's easy to give merit to past decisions: "this feature is obviously necessary otherwise it wouldn't be there, even though I can't understand how this is useful to anyone". I believe a stronger engineer won't let this slide, especially if the feature is proving painful to support.

I've seen others (and have myself) supported costly features of questionable value. Sometimes a few conversations with product managers and customers have resulted in us entirely dropping a feature.
Put a bunch of smart, pragmatic people in a room and you’ll only end up with the current state of the software industry. The stricter the rules, the more durable the movement.

He could definitely benefit from coming across as more pleasant and affable, though.
I wonder What Stallman would think of ROM hacking, and other mod communities that reverse engineer proprietary games, and fundamentally transform (either through direct hacks or rebuilding from decompiled source) them into something more akin to open culture. Legally? No, which is why I doubt he'll ever comment on it, but I imagine he might say that this is a distopian notion where people have to break laws to take ownership of culture because everything is fundamentally non-free.
They are not. The twitter commenter is confused as to the difference between selling things and sponsoring things. Github sponsorships is intended for sponsorships, but the tweeter wanted to use it as a platform for selling stuff.
If the purpose is merely to understand how people different from you view the world, then why take the test at all, rather than just reading about the ~sixteen personality types MBTI distinguishes between? The MBTI consultant who administered the test to me couldn't answer that question.
IQ tests measure the g factor and also happen to be the best way to measure it. So those opposed to IQ should either come up with a better way to measure g or be open about their rejection of the existence of differences in cognitive abilities.
I picked this up recently, but haven't started working through it yet: https://www.manning.com/books/api-design-patterns
It's expensive, sure, but the money would be there if the government wasn't so innefficient and corrupt.
And cast it to a TV using Chromecast and/or Apple TV. I basically never use the "smart TV" features on my TV.
My experience matches yours precisely. Certain viewpoints here are ruthlessly censored, to the point of insanity. The justification is always "that is so wrong as to be offensive", which of course is absurd to a community that purportedly values free speech.

If the views are so absurd, why not allow them to stand and be downvoted? Why the need to flag and ban?

For example, regarding the Pao issue, numerous reaction articles from differing viewpoints were instantly flagkilled.

I find that HN is a group of clever people who conform an extremely narrow ideology.
It is. But you can't really run an HTML file locally without at least setting up some type of server (if you plan to make requests). And I know setting up a server is extremely easy, but it's almost impossible for someone who hasn't programmed before.
Relatively small != Very low

Additionally, young people without chronic diseases excludes some young people. Your original comment didn't exclude them and made the wrong association.

Chances of dying because of a thunder strike or in an airplane accident is very low.

Having long term covid issues as a young person is not.
We already do surrender some rights, like the right to eat your neighbors, which other animals have.

That's what makes us human I think.

It's called the social contract.
The idea that the US is better than China seems key to Thiel's perspective. Many people simply do not accept that idea, they protest that the US is just as bad as China, or there's no meaningful distinction between the two in moral terms. My point was that, if you want to understand Thiel, you have to understand that value judgement.

I don't think that Thiel is "in support of US becoming more like China," though I understand where you're coming from. His argument is that China is a closed society where industry and research are subservient to the state. He's saying that Americans should voluntarily pursue their national interest, not that they should be subservient to the state. In Thiel's perspective there is a distinction here: it's the distinction between convincing someone and forcing them.