jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have a pet theory about the older women part: they're a remnant of gender segregation. When teaching was one of the few professions available to women, the lack of competition from other lines of work made such teachers cheaper and more plentiful. I had a similar experience further south. Though, notably, many of my best teachers were older black women. I suspect combined gender and racial segregation led to that.
You don't really see animals running for hours in the wild. They sprint to hunt or survive, then they walk.
I don't really have a system -- or anything that would make worthwhile reading.

I just practice, a lot. I exercise my brain like a power lifter exercises their body.

For instance, I know the names and some basic information of everyone at the bank branch I frequent. I go up, say, "Hi ____, how're the kids, did you have a good time last weekend?" It's nice for them and a little mental workout for me.

When I'm out and about, I briefly memorize random things: movie showtimes, things I heard on the radio and want to look up, prices of things in the store (so I can price-compare later; e.g. I know Safeway has my cereal for $3.99/box with the club card discount, which is slightly better than regular price but not as good as the occasional 2-for-$4.99 sale at Raley's). I try to really look at the people around me and memorize different facial features and notice different things about them, and if I'm not distracted, then I try to flip through them all mentally when I get in the car. (But this also makes big crowds more overwhelming.)

I play Go. I have a small local club with some friends, and we play religiously once a week, and I play or study more often in my spare time. It's a game where you can improve quite a lot by visualizing the game board several moves in advance, and the game board can get pretty complicated. It's a really good workout for my working memory.

When I'm reading, I try to memorize most of the previous paragraph immediately, memorize the bullet points of the previous page when I get to the next page, and the next day I try to remember the gist of what I read. If I can't, I go back and re-read it until it gels.

Stuff like that. It all sounds silly written out, and like a lot of work, but it's second-nature now. I just do it automatically.

Exercising memory is kind of a two-part process. You have to be able to put things in your brain (typically this just means practicing paying attention), and you have to be able to recall them later. I think the recall part might be the bit that a lot of people forget to do. I quiz myself all the time on what I just memorized, so my recall is pretty good.

Oddly, the harder thing I've been struggling with more recently is forgetting on purpose: there's a bunch of stuff in my brain that I don't need, and learning how to forget that stuff is a trick I haven't figured out yet.
I'm in the exact same situation as parent. Except i skipped to biking. It seems to me that Foam rollers ( or in my case just stretching on a tennis ball) are good for relieving the pain a bit after you've stopped running. But what do you suggest to stop having the pain in the first place ?
This is totally awesome. Nothing bothers me more than seeing that awkward noise around images I export from Photoshop. Someone mentioned this already, but I hope this finds its way into the apps I use.

On a totally unrelated note, Denny, the dude that dropped the first comment on that post, is not a stand-up guy.
> If what you say is true, then before "taxation of the rich and the highest-earners in general was massively lowered" occurred, the concentration of wealth stayed constant

Actually, it only means that with that taxation system, the concentration of wealth was slower than without that taxation system.

Regarding the wealth "naturally flowing towards the already rich", define "naturally".
More likely high and fast is the answer, it's just ICBM's are faster and go higher than hypersonic rocket planes...
http://biditserver1.appspot.com/homepage.png

Isn't this a big enough news???
In response to your question, your post currently has 9 points, and virtually all it offers is an ad-hominem implication (people who are merely interested in this article aren't "critical thinkers", presumably unlike you) and an unsupported claim (a right to food will be disastrous).

Please re-read HN's approach to comments. Not only is the linked article potentially "deeply interesting", your comment appears to be "empty and negative". You could easily fix that by offering a persuasive argument.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
(think MS suing Garmin over FAT in Linux)

OT: That was TomTom, not Garmin
Wow, thank you for taking the time to write all these suggestions. I agree with most of them, and sharing/collaboration is definitely the next step for this project. Looks like I have some work to do :) Thanks again!
Wow, they expect to be selling half a million
vehicles/year in six years.

No no no, they expect to sell batteries to power half a million vehicles per year.. They intend to supply other auto companies with battery packs.

That would make make a Tesla a major automaker,
roughly in the same league as household-name auto brands.

It would still be a magnitude smaller than all 'major' manufacturers. Toyota sells ~10M/year, GM ~9.5M/year, VW ~9.2M/year, Ford ~5.5M/year, Chrysler ~2.4M/year, BMW ~2M/year..

There's no shame in being a wildly profitable smaller manufacturer though.
Similar to the way Bitcoin was HN upvote bait for a long time.
The original mouse from Englebart's SRI Augmentation Project was wheeled. Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse – U.S. Patent 3,541,541), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, sometime before 1965. [Wikipedia]

Dick Lyon made one of the first optical mice while he was at Xerox PARC. His report on the project is a great read: http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdf

Dick Lyon made one of the first optical mice while he was at Xerox PA
I would have considered if this project was using Node.js instead Python as well.
I am a mechanical engineer. Mechanical engineering jobs ask for SolidWorks/AutoCAD/CATIA/Creo/etc experience, not just computer-aided design; ANSYS/ABAQUS/NASTRAN/etc expertise, not just finite element method; Fluent/CFX/OpenFOAM/etc knowledge, not just computational fluid dynamics.

With the exception of OpenFOAM, all of these software are proprietary, largely non-interoperable, and expensive—like thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for the cheapest option with basic functionality kind of expensive; like I can never imagine opening my independent consultancy business because how expensive the basic tools are kind of expensive.

Outside of programming, this is the norm. The number of free and/or open-source tools available to a mechanical engineer or an electrical engineer are infinitesimally small and it is almost impossible to do a serious engineering project with only free tools.

Since this is quite lucrative for the companies making those tools, I can only imagine tech companies would be more than happy to lead us to a future where software engineering is similar in this regard to other engineering disciplines. Perhaps this is what happens when a field matures, and since software is maturing, it will become more and more like this as the time goes on.
If you are ready for some more cringe, take a look how the ghu-neh-ses block for blockchain v2 was "mined" live, instantly doubling the coin balance for several million members and raising the circulating supply of OneCoin from 2 billion to 120 billions, because that's how cryptos run in the Ponzi land: https://youtu.be/1x7gur0JgkY?t=378
These are extremely bold claims. So it would require some solid proof.
From the report the police officer did not seem to doubt the existence of the call.
Also, for this to be true, at least Musk, the head of security, and the person working at the call center, would have to be ok with participating in a scheme to try to get someone killed.
You need some very solid proofs for this to be taken seriously, do you have any? Or at least any tangential circumstantial evidences more than "it looks to me.."?
For those not in the know, Galton invented the simplest way of understanding normal distribution. Here's a copy you ca ceck on your phone.
www.intromath.ca/aakkozzll

A quote from Galton: http://www.aakkozzll.com/docs/order/galton.htm
Terrorism is to Terrorism.

Both sides are selling fear. Both sides are terrorists.

More here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261416
Haven't you heard? They're doing helicopters now too.
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
A big piece of google's continued growth is going to be in mobile commerce. Take offers, maps, search and self-driving cars and put them into an amalgamated new product. Google's future is an ecological approach.
It's "the confidential memo" in bold. Yeah, I spent a couple minutes going "so where's the memo?" too.
ya. but in reality adobe also doing like this now. more on passive income. But i do financial software and thinking open to SAAS mode.Some investor potential high cost and some are not.Building financial saas are complex but it's much easier in long term like me. don't have to go client place everyday.
Now they have a quarter million more in leverage.
In the presence of packet loss that does not signal congestion, treating it as if it is congestion provides a lower quality result. http://1024monkeys.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/game-servers-udp...
A "miscarriage of justice" implies an occasional event. The system is rigged in favor of those individuals and groups that hold power in this country.
It boils down to risk tolerance. If Elon Musk were to say "I'm thinking of doing something new, just not sure what yet", someone will throw $7.5M at him. On the other hand, if you're not a big name with an established track record then showing up with just an idea isn't going to get you very far. The more you can demonstrate to reduce risk, the more likely you'll be in successfully raising funds.
The main difference is that hair stylists don't have any money to invest these days.
Did you not read the relevant portion of California's constitution? If any judicial ruling or people like yourself find any ambiguity to those words, we'll make sure to clear them up for you in future legislative acts.
What we really really need is cheap, high resolution, fast refresh eInk displays.

I’m talking 27 inch, 4K resolution, color (even just 4096 colors might be enough for a lot of software development work) monitors running at 60Hz or higher, with eInk technology and backlight that can be dialed all the way from full brightness to no backlight at all, which should be sold at a price somewhere between the same and 2x to 3x or 4x the price of what LED displays of similar size and specs currently cost today.

I hope we may see that on the market one day.
I'm glad that it has tmux compatibility. Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with tmux? I hate its scrolling and buffer behavior, its almost impossible to get right. Been waiting for a good replacement for tmux to come along for a while now that isn't just i3. Right now I just use tabs in the terminal app most of the time because I dont want to mess with mouse mode, etc.
I only have a few apps on my old Mac that have a dark mode UI. Pixelmator is one of them and the small tool windows blend into each other and it's hard for me to discern their boundaries. And I strain with the tiny text on them. I really wish it had an option to turn that off and rarely use it because I can't.

I don't like it at all. Makes me wonder if it's because I'm getting old and my vision isn't aa sharp as it used to be.

My main monitor has a "low blue light" setting that I do like though. It took me a bit to get used to it but I can really feel the difference if I turn it off now. I've since adjusted my two peripheral monitors to lower the blue light settings and that's helped reduce eye strain a lot for me.
Do OpenBSD use CVS?
And Bitcoin is too hard to figure out for 99.99999% of the population, which is why it'll never reach mainstream adoption?
Except that taking funding is a voluntary action. Living under a hereditary monarchy is not.
Let me tell you an anecdote why I think Ballmer was incompetent and largely responsible for the sorry state that Microsoft is in at the moment. Yesterday there was a long article in the Israeli newspaper Globes about the success of the Israeli adware companies. Israel has in recent years become a world leader in software that installs unwanted toolbars on your elderly dad and mom's PC and "monetizes" them until they get their son or daughter to come over and fix it.

The list of such companies includes some really big ones, like Babylon and Conduit. These companies are making their profits by degrading Windows users' experience. Not only didn't Ballmer do anything to fight them, Microsoft actually has affiliate agreements with these companies to take a slice of the profits. Screwing your own customers like that cannot end well for Microsoft.
As a German, I find this highly disturbing, given my country's history. Maybe I am just a bit naive (probably), but I had not expected to read about something like this happening in a ____ing democracy that claims some regard for human rights.
The way the the images move during evolulution kinda reminds me of worms or maggots wriggling around in soil.
We were both at Chico State in comp sci together. I remember you although we didn't know each other. Dude, you do great work! Every time I see your guide mentioned somewhere it always makes remember that time, and puts a smile on my face.
You can also use the "MacBook Air or whatever" to compile code just as fast [1] as the 16" MBP.

If that isn't a cpu-demanding task then I don't know what is.

(not trying to be rude, just that the Air is currently a very capable and pro-tier machine)

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/17/apple-silicon-m1-compil...
> Clubhouse is extremely popular.

Among the people who can get an invite. :(
That’s a great article! I have no background in either Haskell or CS but was captivated to read until the end. Great job!

Nit: I think this would read better if the author replaced “personal theory” with “hypothesis”.
He was not exactly a technical illiterate. In fact, I get the feeling quite a few media folks / commenters (not the parent post) who say he has a lack of technical knowledge have does less electronics work than Jobs did.
Huh! Today I learned that w and who aren't the same. I always thought they were.
There are examples for CakePHP and Flask but none for Rails. Do you know of any? I have a simple traditional Rails which I am looking into porting to use Backbone and Rails as backend.
written in Coffeescript? Oh God how did we get to this...poor old Vim...
Wrong. If you are a serious Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience you will easily fail their stupid interview process.

Why? Because most of the people on the loop have far less experience than you. They aren't any good at measuring those who are truly skilled and are just looking for clones of themselves that are happy to reinvent the wheel constantly.

The basics aren't really crucial to developing most software. Not the way Faceboook is testing them at least. They want you to spout off the typical college explanations for things you do in just a call to a library.

No serious systems developer gives a shit about how to implement sort these days. It's a waste of time.

The only way to measure the value and experience of senior developers reasonably is to have in depth discussions about their experiences. Using college type tests is just absurd and idiotic.
I know that, for some reason I had misread the parent as saying that more murders occurred per day. My brain may have translated rate as change over time....
I doubt that anyone would take advantage of the ability to automatically identify a screen reader visiting a website to scam blind people. In any case, I think that lack of usage data is a much bigger problem.
I noticed that too, at some point last summer.

I guess, death numbers weren't growing as expected.

It's a bit like climate warming temperature predictions.

I appreciate it's hard to do forecasts but the media doesn't help selling actual problems to the public by constantly twisting the narrative.
I respect that perspective, but did you know that Signal uses a private protocol so that your contacts are never sent to their servers?

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
I'm not sure what you mean, a webpage can't just randomly snoop on all your device's keystrokes if you don't have it open AFAIK. Do you have an example of this?

Browsers already use a sandbox + permission model very similar to mobile. A webpage can't just silently obtain your location data, for example, it has to ask permission first. Any hypothetical hardware API will probably use the same permission flow.
I'm no expert on prose/literature, but I really enjoyed Malazan Book of the Fallen for the story/adventure side of it. It has an enormous universe, many story lines, lots of good characters, etc.
I mean, he’s saying that but also saying the election was stolen at the same time.

As others have said, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
well there's the mitigations=off kernel command-line switch in linux :)
My prediction: After there are loads of MD5 rainbow tables with all the passwords a human could use, people will make rainbow tables with salts. First one byte of salt, then two. Granted this gets exponentially harder, but eventually it'll be close.
A big feature of limiting yourself to the functional subset of #2 is that you can access it 100% from anywhere you can install Chrome (e.g. a full Mac, Windows or Linux desktop or laptop) and probably 80% of it from any device with a browser, and thanks to #1 all your data is right there so you can hop from big screen desktop machine with a comfy chair to a lightweight low power laptop on the road (and back again) with minimal disruption. Compare with current road warriors who probably dock their travel machine when at home to achieve the same goal.

It's like accessing your email via a desktop client but always having the option to access it via a web interface. If you shift the assumptions slightly so that you've not always got access to the exact same desktop machine then just a good web interface across all the machines you use starts to get competitive.

Plus there's the security benefits of a limited core functionality.
You didn't purchase a book. You licensed an ebook. Big difference, in Amazon's mind.
Mine uses an 8-digit password for the website, plus another 6-digit one for transactions. On top of that you have to authorize the computer you use (they send you an SMS with a code if you log in from a new computer).

I don't know how they uniquely identify your system, but the technology is Java-based.
I really like the idea of using email for, well, everything. And I prefer blogging by email (like posterous) and implemented it myself for App Engine (https://gist.github.com/462907).

As for this generic crud service. I think the problem is, just as you don't know how it could be useful, neither do others. A hosted db would be useful through an API, but communicating with email programmatically is probably a larger overhead compared to a standard GET or POST request.
Yes. My father used to write encryption tools in the 80's. I remember when I was a kid he would tell me how much he got customers complaining that he was overcharging for software. Because it looked like something simple that completed the encryption and decryption really fast. So he added a few useless routines to delay the encryption on a timer just for it to take longer. And magically his costumers stopped complaining about overcharging.

Something to always remember when dealing with consumer products.
So ask for a tamale with less cheese.
bandcamp ftw.
Whoosh recursion?
The G1 has one of these in. Not sure about other Android based phones, but I'm assuming it's going to be fairly common if it was available in the original Android phone...
Very nice overall. Thank you and kudos!
Jobs said that Apple had worked out "an arrangement" or some such with Cisco.
Did you use Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.1? One of the benefits of upgrading to the latest version of Rails and Ruby is supposedly performance. As many people haven't yet converted to the new version, I wonder how much of this discussion is a byproduct of running the older software. Thoughts?
Is there any good, sound, technical reason why iOS4 won't run on 1st-gen hardware (iPod and iPhones)?

I understand some hardware may be missing (bluetooth on 1st-gen iPods and 3G on 1st-gen iPhones) but the computer that runs the show is pretty much the same as the 2nd-gen ones.
the part I loved the most: that ain't nuthin' ta f*ck wit.
Yeah, I wonder about this too. Granted, the existing technology for video chat is not very good and could certainly benefit from Apple's UI team... but I'm not sure it's something people even want. I'm not sure it's useful.

I have the ability to video chat with many of my contacts through Skype or Google Talk yet I pretty much never take advantage of it. Not sure adding that feature to my phone changes anything.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896643

Even though it's a different URL.
It could very well be a case of quantity leading to quality. http://www.lifeclever.com/what-50-pounds-of-clay-can-teach-y...
I'm in the same boat as you. I probably wouldn't go so far as to refuse both and get kicked out of the airport (although I would like to), but opting out of the scanner and going for "the grope" is probably the next best thing.
http://github.com/tylerhall/yui-app-theme
"You could probably get emacs to do that without major trouble."

Hehe, this is true and it's why I am an emacs user, but "without major trouble" means spending 30-50 hours of my life developing it from scratch. That's rather hard when one has a demanding job and two kids under 3 at home.
A massive number of Top Grossing games use this model. Just looking at the Top 20: Tap Zoo, Restaurant Story, FarmVille, Kingdoms at War, Touch Pets Cats, Zombie Farm, We Rule.

I suppose there should be a setting (perhaps even the default) that allows parents to always require a password for every in app purchase. Wonder how much it would affect sales...

What's funny is I bet that most people who complain about "expensive" (read: more than $5) apps wouldn't blink at spending a bunch of money on virtual coins/berries/gems/stars/whatever.
Also be sure to check out The Little JavaScripter if you haven't already seen it: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html

It's an extension of this review and includes a toy Scheme REPL written in JS.
How idiotic:

As he was leaving the airport after being escorted back to the ticket counter, an official told him to return and be searched, "he explained that I may have an incendiary device and whether or not that was true needed to be determined".

So could anyone else who just walked into the airport in that area.

Everyone should explain to their TSA patdown-partner that they have a headache and aren't in the mood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)#Japan