jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is the easiest/most feasible defense I can think of.

Use a laptop with a camera. Have the camera require that your face is in the picture to avoid activating the screen saver.

My cell phone already does this, so it's got to be easier with a full powered laptop.
Yes, although granted when I said "almost all repairs" I did not have in mind major automotive work, but more along the lines of general maintenance and little things going wrong. Of course if you're doing something like rebuilding the transmission you'll need more tools than the average bear.
I appreciate the thoughtful response and I don't really disagree with you on any of this. In fact, if I were interviewing for positions, I'm not sure I'd handle it any other way -- it's human nature to choose the "safe" option -- but that doesn't make it right or optimal. But it's also taken to an extreme: I have a BS in CompSci (from 12 years ago), but "never been a professional coder" almost always outweighed everything like a fat kid on a see-saw. It's a double-whammy: not only are they looking at self-taughts harder, self-taughts are naturally going to be less comfortable with best practices, lingo and other general experience they'd pick up in a month's time on the job.

In trying to put my thoughts into words here, I found it easier to whip up some pie graphs instead.

http://www.fivedogit.com/2015/the-problem-with-technical-hir...

Damn! I forgot to include "Do you have exp with the company's stack?". Oh well. That's more about getting the interview in the first place, so I guess it's ok.
It depends how technically interesting your app is. If it's just an RSS reader, then HTML5 is probably the way to go.

But you've got the factor in the audience that the App Store gives you. AFAIK there's currently no decent way of discovering mobile web apps (unless you count Google?)

Perhaps PhoneGap is a good compromise, but I've not seen how well it works in practice...
End-users aren't who you need to tell. Just site owners. Posting this to HN before it was fixed constitutes (IMO) completely irresponsible disclosure.
I have a friend that works on the iOS platform - and his first client wanted a digital brochure for a well known luxury sedan. They paid well over six figures for the application and because of all the assets in it, it was over 600MB.

I wonder how many downloads that prevented. What is Apple's policy with putting a small app on the store that just downloads the rest of the content once run?
Definitely inaccurate, but how inaccurate is a bit cloudy. The NV gaming control board/gaming commission isn't exactly transparent when it comes to what the cash requirements are (on-site or in the bank) for non-restricted casinos.

http://gaming.nv.gov/documents/pdf/06feb23_bankroll_instr.pd...
We were told that it was the individuals responsibility - with there being a clear hint that they didn't care.
My favorite thing about npm is its 'utils' code:

https://github.com/isaacs/npm/tree/master/lib/utils/

I use code from there at least as often as I use actual modules.
You may use Cmd+tab and keyboard shortcuts in Gitbox as well. It is even faster than in Terminal and you don't have to type "git status" or "git log" (even with aliases)
Nope -- it's entirely visual for now. If you like to chat about it, drop me a line: matt@jmockups.com
There's nothing to stop you. I imagine Google's algorithm(s) will determine the probable original source as the one with the most citations (along with timestamps and other secret google-fu) and penalize sites that fake citations by giving their citations less weight in the future.
Fake Steve Jobs, http://www.fakesteve.net/2007/11/this-writers-strike-cracks-.... There's an attribution after the last quote.
Does anyone have any sales statistics comparing volume of iPods purchased from apple.com to volume of iPods purchased at retail (including Apple retail stores since they don't offer engraving?)

Because even if what he is saying is true I doubt that the fraction of people that get engraved iPods and then resell can influence the secondary market filled with iPods from almost all technology retailers and Apple's retail stores themselves.
Old post, but...

FYI, it uses the epoch of caker -- i.e. the birthday of caker, Linode's founder.
If you are looking for a good camera, traditional phone manufacturers(Nokia, SE) are a much better choice. My several years old Nokia has a 5mpx with a real flash and autofocus.
While I have previously wondered about the fabric shape, I don't think the similarity is great enough. Unless there is significant variation in brains, the silhouettes differ in way too many places and only really share a couple of major features.
It looks like being exhausting was the point of the application.
What would make sense I think it just using your hands on the table instead of using a mouse. Touchpads do some of this but they don't work very well and the surface is usually very small.
"Gruber continually comments about topics unrelated to why people are reading his blog. It's like, great dude, you like Stanley Kubrick. Great dude, you're a liberal. Great dude, you like baseball. No one gives a fuck! Write about apple and tech. DF is too popular to digress and distract into a personal blog like it still has only a few thousand hits a day."
An epic fail col_kurtz because you were overly snide and because you failed to see the elucidation to your gripe within your own missive.

"Because staying on point isn't a civil rights issue, jackass" ... not only vapid, but again, anomalous. If staying on point is of no consequence why get soooo perturbed about it?

Does Gruber randomly digress during a product review? I personally have never noticed any such skylarking, besides, even if he has occasionally or even if he did habitually, so what? that would be his MO and thus would partially explain why you either enjoy his discourse or not, evidently you don't.

"most blogs aren't considered real journalism".
"people like Gruber are pseudo-professional journalists"
"legit journalists do" (as in get paid?? I think??)

It is necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff, obviously, just because a writer is paid to write does not imply that that writer is good (look up the word "good" in a dictionary as it covers a lot of ground, seriously look it up) and just because a writer is not paid does not automatically deem them to be bad (see dictionary for "bad")
This is really cool. However, one of the advantages of using vi is that you use it on any machine without really needing your configuration files, the defaults are comfortable enough.
In today's culture that's damn hard for a lot of people.
At least their way of life must be sustainable (this is a cynical, bitter joke).
Aside from a tiny VM written in C++, nearly all of Factor (http://factorcode.org/), including its parser, optimizing compiler, and code generator, is written in itself. The author of Clay (http://tachyon.in/clay/) is working on a new version of its compiler written in itself too.
:) Yeah, not the end of the world... but many, many people use the same password (or one with slight variation) on many sites. Sure, they "shouldn't", but, still...
Really choppy on Fx4b7, Linux x86_64, nvidia blob and GTX 285, C2D E6600.
Winnipeg has a population of 650,000 (actually a larger city than Miami).

That's a little misleading...in the US, big cities are usually part of a much larger metropolitan area. Miami proper has a population of about 400,000, but the South Florida Metropolitan area has 5.5 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami). Expanding Winnipeg to the Winnipeg Capital region only increases the population to 735,000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Capital_Region).

You're right about Montana and Wyoming though...
Make them write a smaller version in a test environment from only say a couple of pages of notes they can bring from their long paper. Style changes would quickly become apparent.
This would imply a large variance of ability in the group, not a lower average GRE score. Although it could be speculated that as the GRE score regresses to the mean (of the general population), the variance likely increases.
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centred in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the centre of our galaxy. "What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic centre," said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who first recognised the feature. "We don't fully understand their nature or origin..."

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoft...
It's not at all clear to me why they have to choose. ChromeOS seems to me like an experiment completely unrelated to Android -- "Can we use computers without any desktop software at all?" Like any technological stretch it's highly likely to fail, but not because of Android, because its hypothesis has been proven false.
A non-transient false-positive does not typically get you the sort of treatment that the author got. Usually you are out of there in minutes.
"Both are terrible ideas. Mostly because they're pumping the biological arms race as well as the side effects."

The notion that the genes spliced into crops could spark an evolutionary feedback loop that spirals out of control -- the evidence doesn't indicate any great cause for alarm, afaik. And the toxic side effects are unlikely to be of greater concern than from chemicals made in labs. I think the amount of public alarm about GMO is way out of proportion to the actual risk. This technology holds the promise of making agriculture less damaging and more efficient. I think the fixation on this issue is related to traits that make it a good a viral meme, and have nothing to do with rational risk-assessment.
Forgive my ignorance, but what mechanism did they use to not damage their retinas by staring at the sun through a telescope?
Maybe some very corrupt departments would try to pull this, but it sounds like the cameras are a boon for cops too. Fewer complaints, fewer lawsuits, more cooperative suspects, and less time in court. What's not to like?
Why even bother notifying the landlord? I would imagine they wouldn't have qualms about picking a lock.
You have obviously never been to an actual city. Real urban centers are not interchangeable with strip malls. The Continental Club is not found in Round Rock.
We haven't edited the current post! It does state that a year ago we published the first set, but that assumes you read last-year's post :)
Not irrational at all, the equity is most likely worthless. If you are young and want to roll the dice then it's OK.
Nobody actually knows. People have been banned for violations of the stated rules on each board despite not actually violating them, people have been left alone for flagrant violations of said rules. Board features like names, macros, and so on are toggled on and off more or less on a whim.

To say that 4chan's enforcement is inconsistent would be an understatement. But, the chaos is a feature, not a bug. Something to keep in mind.

But for everyone else, this is one of the reasons I think seriously that 8chan is the next big thing, it's basically Reddit, but for image boards. Mod abuse (real or perceived) will result in community fragmentation but on the same site, rather than exodus to other sites.
Plenty of WWI ordinance being found, now a hundred years on. Much of it still dangerous, and as recently as March of 2014 two people were killed by a WWI bomb in Belgium.
So what is the solution to bikes getting stolen? It seems like we cannot really make locks that are cheap enough to manufacture to prevent thieves from stealing bikes/harvesting them for parts.

Do we put GPS trackers on all bikes? Can we enforce harsher punishment for bike thieves?
I took a course[0] this semester on computer vision with Python, and all of the course material is public on GitHub. It assumes you have experience with Python, basic linear algebra, statistical methods. The projects included stitching panoramas, creating depth maps from stereo images, and tracking objects in a video.

[0]: https://github.com/ut-cs378-vision-2014fall/course-info
Putting your foot down can end up badly as well, as you simply be removed from the project if you don't agree to deadlines.

Then management wonder why it failed.
Almost the exact same story here. I never thought to change the region to see what was causing a $3 charge every month, and at $3 I didn't have the energy to investigate further until about a year of needling frustration built up and I reached out to Amazon support directly and they clued me in.

Years later I'm using AWS professionally, and it all seems easy now. But when you are first introduced to AWS and want to kick the tires on a toy project, it can be confusing and overwhelming.
ThePirateBay is a terrible precedent. Pointing at criminals should never be a crime.
I wonder to what extend the intensity of bike theft will incentivize bike users to buy and use bikes of low value. I have conflicting anecdotal experiences about this. I lived in Rotterdam, where bike theft is intense, but where people usually ride cheap bikes every day, and where you know you can buy a cheap bike to someone in the street, for a price as low a ten euros. Bikes are a cheap commodity in Rotterdam. In San Francisco, also a bike theft intensive city, people seem to be undeterred in riding expensive bikes, and the expected price is in the hundreds of dollars.

The difference might be that bikes sleep outside much more often in Rotterdam than in San Francisco.

edit: typos
> MediaWiki is basically a turing-complete applications platform.

Perhaps MediaWiki should figure out how to use a weaker form of computation?
Porn, online VR gambling, VR Sims / Minecraft / Farmville equivalent, and casual VR puzzles.

Online gambling is bigger than the porn industry, in terms of monetary value. They'll spend a lot of money building virtual worlds to gamble in.

Video, images, and travel will also of course big massive.
> time dilation in response to movement is directional, with only the moving object undergoing time dilation.

What?

Maybe the reporter messed up, but this flies directly in the face of relativity which states there is no such thing as absolute movement.

And saying:

> Absolute Lorentz Transformation ... "preferred reference frame" ... linked to centers of gravitational mass.

Doesn't help in the slightest because it is completely wishy-washy. There is no limit to the centers of gravitational mass.

There is the center of my body, my house, the earth, the solar system, the galaxy, (the universe too?? possibly not). What makes one center more important than another?
I hate to be a downer...but this has been all over the news and I don't get why. Bus conversions have been around for ages. From the most basic to the most space shuttle like...
It's a nice project and congratulations to Hank - I converted a van myself recently - but I fail to see the wow factor here.
I've been talking about the Dotcom issues with a number of people for a while now, and I (or we) have come to the conclusion that there was one surprisingly simple reason that action was taken to bring him down: the promo video. It featured like 20 superstars who're all really big. From the perspective of big media it was something dangerously close to legitimizing piracy on an unprecedented scale in the eyes of the public as means to get music, movies, etc. If the video was never released no big raid would have taken place (it was more symbolic than anything, anyway -- Dotcom made the big flashy promo video, something equally dramatic needed to be done to dethrone its legitimacy -- something that your aunt tells your mother ("oh, your son uses Megaupload?! You know that Kim Dotcom -- the guy who made it, he was on the news -- he was arrested you know that right?"). I think gov't was convinced to take action by big media probably with an appeal like "hey, they don't buy our stuff, that means no tax dollar for you".
Voltage means A LOT. A regular 12V car battery is a perfect proof: it has enough current to kill you, but at only 12V it doesn't overcome your body's resistance much under most circumstances.

400V can overcome your body's resistance no problem. And obviously an EV has a crap ton of amperage as well.
I think we're staring ourselves blind, straining to see any possible high-tech solution that will solve climate change neatly, easily and without any significant sacrifices.

The problem is not technological. It is political and societal, and those cannot be solved by technology.

At this point, even trying to mitigate the consequences of climate change will take large-scale mobilization, on a scale we have never seen before, much larger than the wartime mobilizations of WW2. Considering our current stumbling response to a global pandemic, with possible consequences much lesser than what climate change will bring, I'm sorry to say that the outlook is quite grim.

We have act as humanity collectively, not as individual bickering nations.
Somewhat tangentially related, the for-else-statement of Python is something that I occasionally miss in every other language that I seriously use.

And sometimes I really wish that the scope of variables inside a do-while-loop in C-ish languages would extend into the loop condition of the final while...
The original link is a parody of BuzzFeed article construction, which is the point.
I've had some success on elance. The trick is to be extremely selective about who you will talk to. Also, refuse to compete on price. The good clients will see the difference; if they're comparing you against a large firm, you will be competitive on price even if you're making a reasonable hourly rate.

Lately I'm starting to think that both of these points apply to freelancing/contracting whether it's online or through some other channel.

Also, build a decent portfolio of your work.
It isn't like the internet because electronic ledger technology and instant money transmission services already exist, and indeed are used by basically everyone that BTC is accessible to. If using the conventional banking system occasionally seems like mailing floppy disks to people, the hurdles to effortless universal payments are regulatory rather than technological

"Access to news, music and videos in minutes from anywhere in the world with a computer modem" is a much more revolutionary pitch to the consumer than "but see, not only is blockchain technology better than those old mainframes your bank uses... it's decentralised... here's a CATO institute article.... yeah, and you can convert it back to dollars too"
This is why I believe there is no religious, political, or any sort of particular war. Men (or male I think) just like to kill each other for some very strange reason. It may even biological.

EDIT:

The downvotes seem to prove my point. We just like to hurt each other. Disagree with someone downvote. Disagree with another punch them. Disagree with another, to the sabres.

Why do we do this?

If men did not have a proclivity for harm, I would not get downvotes when people disagree. They would instead correct me and put me on the right path.
in my experience, they want you to just buy high price items online.

(a) Free shipping at $50.

(b) limit on quantity of item purchased (e.g. only 4 bags of flour at time)

So, you cannot purchase large quantities of a single low priced staple, you have to buy 4 of a lot of items. Or buy high priced items.
I know that in Europe Millers were treated and depicted literally satanic for their use of cleverness to gather work passively and riches without conquest or subjugation. Their greatest sin was not fitting in with the expectations of the social order.
Not actually true. In a sprint race, yes, but in a 24 hr race the human will outdistance the horse.
Interesting use of ray (https://github.com/ray-project/ray). I think a lot of people are sleeping on that package, as it solves many of the difficulties in parallelizing ML/DL models.
Running UTM with Ubuntu Server 20.04 ARM64 ISO image, it prompt UEFI and I couldn't install like it did work a few month ago.
Don't forget about Nimrod which performs extremely well for a garbage collected language. And D which does too.
Using standardized questions for part of the academic evaluation gives the schools and students some sort of objective benchmark. If all I know is that 'X% of students passed a test set by Professor Y,' it's not very informative, because I have no idea how rigorous or easy that test was.

Schools competing for student applicants want a meaningful way to measure the performance of their faculty against those of other schools, so as to attract more students and thus more funding. The same is true for students who work to achieve a good score on exams such as the LSAT or MCAT which can aid them in getting a scholarship; graduates competing for jobs want to demonstrate good performance at a school which is known for high standards. Academic brands can have a considerable impact on graduates' future earning potential, and so the tuition fees a school can charge, and the quality of the applicants for admission, are heavily dependent on how well its brand stacks up against those of its competitors in academic rankings.

Unless a school already has a good academic reputation - either because it is considered elite, or as a new school hiring a demonstrably well-qualified faculty - it may well be more effective to outsource part of their evaluation process than to spend years trying to improve their reputation by word of mouth. Excellent schools will tend to graduate excellent students who go on to do well in their academic or professional fields; but it takes a long time for such a pattern to become apparent. An external evaluation tool provides results within a single semester.
To clarify - time it took to complete the challenge was never factored into the application process. We simply pulled this data because we thought it would make for an interesting metric to display in the post.
Well that trick is certainly not what the earlier introducing paragraph tells: "Rather, you can engineer your appearance to give off a sense of size."
The real flaw is that he focuses on fake work involved in servicing the bureaucracy itself (useless reports, etc.) when in actually the end product is just as likely to be fake work, due to positional externalities. Many (perhaps the majority of) products beyond basic subsistence are (in whole or in part) meant to provide status. Increasing the status of one person roughly proportionately decreases the status of another, rendering that product more or less useless from a societal point of view.

The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen puts forth a compelling argument along these lines.
> But if that's going to increase your conversions by a significant amount, that benefit may outweigh the moral cost.

It's never right to do wrong to get the opportunity to do right. Morals do not budge.
I like getting downvoted for not knowing the minutia of a program's memory handling. Thanks, people.

To Osiris: Given I'm not aware of that 150+ MB being dynamic, I assume that's 150MB I'm not getting back if and when I need it. I play memory-eating video games and use VMs; 150MB for a web browser looks like a lot when you've got to trim the fat off your running processes.

Does Opera reduce its memory footprint when you are low on RAM?