jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you want to look at even more dysfunction turn your attention to pondering why lovely Seattle was overlooked and was even cut off of Google's map (okay that was most likely just scaling).

Gigabit Squared seems like it was destined to fail the second it was announced, and where are they now? We have all that fiber already in place and no one to use it. Could Seattle not sell it to Google? Some of kind of partnership? Something?

The last I read about what the Mayor is planning on doing is try to make the fiber initiative into a public utility[1].

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xtsjb/why_i_oppose...
Last I checked there isn't even a good UI to perform simple file encryption on most OSes. It's awful. There are huge holes in the market. I would pay for that.
On my computer the page didn't load at all.
There is just a top fixed bar and everything else is blank.
Cool stuff.

Seems similar to a JS library I created that isn't specific to Angular.

https://github.com/JonAbrams/apiPrefetch.js
The app is using CSS transforms and it looks like it should work on all browsers since the styles are there for all browsers. I'm guessing the app isn't entirely complete for all browsers, which is why it is refusing to load on Firefox but you can look at the source code and search for the relevant CSS for the other browsers that you want to support, if they need prefixing that is.

<div id="scene3D"
class="scene"
style="-webkit-transform:rotateX(0deg) rotateY(0deg);
-moz-transform:rotateX(0deg) rotateY(0deg);
-ms-transform:rotateX(0deg) rotateY(0deg);
transform:rotateX(0deg) rotateY(0deg); ">

Edit: The dev just posted an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251831
Not to mention, to buy out Google, they'd need to offer at least 20% above the market price (probably even more).
Reminds me of this old story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
I think it's because for beginners it's hard to see why it would be useful (or not just turn into infinite regression). Proof by induction is often similarly difficult for maths students to grasp. The idea of solving a problem by breaking it down into smaller problems until each part of it becomes trivial is not something which comes naturally to most people, it's a learned and ingrained habit in those who have been taught it and used it.
$500 million fund for crash victims family members (346 human lives)
and $1.77 billion for its airline customers. Justice served. Now Boeing can rinse and repeat not to mention bail out from tax payers if there is a need to be. So who went to jail for this ? I know that if I steal from Walmart, I will be arrested and possibly get jail time.
Absolutely, the world should not tolerate aggression or deceitfulness like that from any country. Oh, I nearly forgot about Russia's polonium poisoning in the UK, and the massive state-funded doping program for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics where the majority of Russian athletes were doped. It really does feel like the past 7 years, Putin has really been testing the limits of what he can get away with, and sadly the answer so far is "as much backstabbing as he wants". Time for that to change
I'm not sure where the company nor the employees are based, but it does seem ridiculously high and probably more than what 90% of the people in this world earns while working full-time. With that high salary and low amount of hours, I would personally feel bad, as the contrast against my peers and people around me would be too high.
There is in fact such a thing as felony trespassing. I suggest you consult Google before firing off legal opinions.

You're not faced with losing your ability to vote, no chances to acquire work, hundreds of millions of dollars of debt, decades of jail time, etc.

You know anything involving a jail sentence of over a year is a felony, right? You seem to think felony crimes all carry a life sentence or somesuch.
I'm most interested in the application to SWAT teams and how that will or won't impact their increasing militarization and general overuse of force. It'll be interesting to see how much resistance there is (I'd expect a lot) to making SWAT teams wear them.
> 2900 classical guitar tabs in plain text format

> Use a maximum of 80 characters a line so that the tab prints out ok

> An 9MB downloadable zip file is available of the whole site

The fact that I had an upwelling of joy reading those lines on a nice, plain webpage just goes to show how far we go to lock down and bloat up so many things these days. Thanks for linking! The scrolling versions of the tabs are neat as well.

> do NOT use the 'Tab' character for spacing

I had no idea the "tabs vs spaces" debate raged in other corners of the universe...
Nature doesn't care how complicated it is. A bias towards beauty is a trap that any serious scientist will not fall for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKgIOX8IRE
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26736845

Wonder why HN didn't catch it.
I was hoping for a more detailed answer than what support has provided - maybe from a Dropbox dev
> A lot of people are scared of rebase and cherrypick and shut down or get defensive when you mention them or try to encourage their use.

Because a lot of people have been burned and way too many hours been lost due to a rebase gone wrong. Cherry-pick and stash are trivial operations, reset (outside of "undo a git add") and especially rebase are not.

The learning curve for both is steep, the potential for failure extremely high, so I understand why organizations go as far as entirely banning rebase.
You should move
> 22% were under the age of 18

Really makes me sad, kids deserve better. We can do better.
We do a matching with technology! We let accepted applicants rank their preference, and then we match to team's based on background, fit, and other factors!
htmx is super interesting: https://htmx.org
Reduce is trivially parallelizable if you can ensure your operation is associative, but you have to work in languages like Epigram and Agda to guarantee that.

(retract "he's wrong")
If currencies were perfectly elastic then yes, the price of the exports would increase exactly to match the inflation. But they're not, if a currency falls it takes years for that change to be reflected in the prices. For example the Canadian dollar has been hovering near par for years and is now 5% higher but the prices of US imports are still higher than they should be.
How do you get the median of 5 items in 6 comparisons? I can see how to do it in 9, but not 6.

Edit:

Found an answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4761405/compute-median-of...
Cancel the sale? As someone else said, that is always an option.
An official link: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/04/update-on-google-...
A quote from the article...

“Some of our senior politicians and market pundits say it every day: “America is broke.”

"We wonder if this is meant to be a joke. America is not even close to being broke. Household net worth is $57T. Public government debt – including the state and local sector – is about $12T. If we consolidate balance sheets to reflect the fact that the household sector is ultimately responsible for repaying this debt we arrive at a household net worth of $45T or 303% of GDP. This is at the high-end of the historical norm of 250- to 300% since the data began in 1952. The current level was surpassed only in the recent tech stock and housing bubbles."
It's not a serious threat and I think most people know that.
The bottle of soda is still an ad. Before brands advertised via their products you'd just get "a bottle of lemonade", it would perhaps have a label on that says "lemonade" [well you'd probably make your own ...] - but the bottle shape and colour, logos, label styling, images are all part of an advert that reinforces a specific brand identity.

Yes, if you want to buy a specific brand you'd need to modify the filter. I'd like it to say pick out the "cheapest lemonade that has lemon in it and no aspartame and scores at least 50% in taste tests" or "the lemonade I drank last time" and just show me that one at my behest!
I was designing something similar to Matrix at one point several years back. The different names confused even myself when I was dabbling into Matrix.

Matrix is cool, there's no doubt. The packaging is terrible, IMO. They really need a product manager.
The problem is that it doesn't keep working automatically, because federated servers are in practice a hot mess of mismatched versioning and application support.
This is cool. Inspirations to further cleanup my current setup. I have no toolbar and just work with two panes, the "Flagged and Unread" on the left and the content on the primary. Been using macOS Mail for a really long time that I'm comfortable with almost all the useful keyboard shortcuts.

I'm not too keen or worried about Inbox Zero but I try to clean up once a while. Here are archived screenshots from my yearly digital review/detox/cleansing sessions around the year-end.

2019: http://public.oinam.com/photos-oinam/brajeshwar-apple-macos-...

2020: http://public.oinam.com/photos-oinam/brajeshwar-apple-macos-...
The complete quote is

Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

So, he was talking about the license (it would also make little sense to say that an OS kernel is cancer).

> Gates himself who would routinely visit various heads of states lobbying for MS contracts

Gates was trying to sell his software to potential clients? What a terrible human being! :) Much worse were the anti-competitive agreements with OEMs, performing super strict license checks on business dealing with Linux and so on.
In my opinion, YYYY-MM-DD is the last unambiguous date format left.

I hold the line, and I will die on this hill.
> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture.

Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
Because mutable persistence in Kubernetes can be super annoying to manage and people might grasp for whatever lifeline they can find.

If you have a managed object store or even relational database outside of k8s, the thought of storing arbitrary data in secrets probably doesn't come to mind. But if your enterprise spools up a cluster and tells you to use nfs PVCs with no other storage solution, suddenly you might start getting creative.
Thanks for the advice but i don't think caching is the problem, as i'm using a local directory. It's parsing that takes a very long time. Or does caching take parsing into account? (that's not what the caching guide says)
Location is the hard part, but you can "Rent" from someone with some land. If an individual has a few acres, they may agree to let you park for a small rental fee. Also, if you buy your own land, technically a tiny house falls under the same classification as an RV, but some counties may want to "Keep the riff raff" out or to ensure a certain amount of revenue from property tax. Ask the local count if they will permit the use of property as a residence in a tiny home.

waste water can go into a holding tank, then disposed at an RV park for a small fee. if you purchase land, you can build a septic tank on your land and set up an RV hookup to your septic field. get it pumped once every year or two.
The recent pinball machine 'Wizard of Oz' by Jersey Jack under the hood runs Ubuntu and the recovery image is available at http://www.jerseyjackpinball.com/game-specific-downloads/ and it works quite well under VMware. If ever wanted dig deeper software wise into what goes into a modern pinball machine this is the place to start. Boot the image with 'init=/bin/bash' and your in.
I wish there was a to filter by things like the number of episodes or seasons.
Were there other circumstances, like you had to move for a job or something? Walking away in a downturn for its own sake seems like a bad decision, like selling stock because it took a hit.
I love the way Maciej Cegłowski describes his setup at Pinboard:

"Pinboard is written in PHP and Perl. The site uses MySQL for data storage, Sphinx for search, Beanstalk as a message queue, and a combination of storage appliances and Amazon S3 to store backups. There is absolutely nothing interesting about the Pinboard architecture or implementation; I consider that a feature!"

https://pinboard.in/about/
Hey, the brown M&M’s actually served an important purpose as a signal!
Satanism doesn't really exist in that way. There's a few edgelords that kind of practice what you would think about as "Satanism", mostly affiliated with the Temple of Set or the people doing the Goetia.

However, the vast, vast majority of the folks being harassed are just garden-variety pagans. But honestly, its none of people's business.

No one that's pagan is out there doing these outrageously awful things people are claiming. Those are predators. Target predators. Don't target pagan people.
It’s curious that you think these norms are not widely held.
Plenty of times. I've never threatened to do violence to myself or anyone else depending on their response, however - and neither has anyone I know, nor has any non-abusive person.
GCP doesn't support a cap, only alerts. You can use those alerts to implement your own cap mechanism, same as how it works on AWS except AWS billing is only on a one hour delay I believe so I'd say AWS wins here.
You can just iterate thru all possible phone numbers. It’s not that large, which is why anyone saying they are hashing your contacts to keep them private isn’t doing a lot of good.
Take Los Angeles where the median home is 900k now, homes sell like lightning, and you move into your apartment the week after you tour it because it's that competitive. There is demand to live here and has been forever, basically, probably always will given that's how it goes for large American cities. It is baffling how backwards the land use is.

It shouldn't be possible for a lot zoned for mixed use commercial and residential could sit as a derelict burned out building for years(1). It was burned out recently, but street view from 2007 shows it's been abandoned for at least 14 years now. This metro station takes you either to hollywood or downtown LA in 10 minutes, massive job centers as well as nightlife areas. Anything built here would get signed leases that week, just like everything else in Koreatown. Other notable pieces of land use for this corner precious steps from the metro station are a gas station, an abandoned hyundai dealership, and a drive thru offering unhealthy food to the community.

If someone quantified all the externalities, I'm sure poor land use alone causes trillions in economic and ecological damage to our cities in this country. This is our hardest problem.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0769362,-118.2918114,3a,75y,...
You may want to look into 'event sourcing' too. Which is an architectural pattern, very well suited to deal with most accounting problems you describe.

I've built a billing system for a hosting platform. Back when all I knew was MVC (and the then common index.php ballofmud). I wish I had known about eventsourcing then, because so many problems that I spent weeks on, would have never occurred, or been solved in hours.

Eventsourcing comes with its own downsides, requires your mindset to change (esp hard in a team that has been doing relational databases or MVC for years), and is convoluted. But it is a very good fit for a large swath of problems. Financial ones the most.
Bold statement. ERP is a billlion dollar market. If everybody in this space is so "lousy", why not disrupt it and bless everybody with your skills?
I think it's more like "minimum visible"
Like most of the "I wish I could be paid money for things without people paying money for things" ideas, this has some fundamental issues with it, and Not Quite A Classic Pyramid Scheme is only one of them.

The biggest issue is that customer acquisition for Flattr largely requires somebody worth paying money for to "sell" their audience on signing up for Flattr, and that this is an objectively stupid thing for them to do. If you're going to "sell" anyone on Flattr, you should be selling - no scare quotes - a subscription to your own site, where you would collect substantially all of $N a month rather than a fraction of 90% of $6 a month.

Flattr only makes sense for freeloaders on the system - and they'll squabble over < $5 apiece in revenue until the Pirate Bay founders move on.
Amazing work. This reminds me of those PC demos that pushed the limits of the environment and eventually found their way into the gaming engines of the time.

Seems to require FF4 (WebGL-enabled Chrome pops up error messages).

IE9 is looking pretty dated at this point. 2D acceleration when the competition is doing this?
This question sounds like crowdsourcing your research rather than doing the legwork up front, saying "Here's what I found:" and asking if there have been any gaps. It's the kind of question one might pay a virtual assistant in a developing country to answer for you, only people seem to be willing to do someone else's gruntwork for free.
Seems like a price floor would solve that problem assuming that's what the people paying for the contractors really want solved.
There are 2 possible ways for the next release
a) conservative - use libevent's http on top of libev-libevent emulation
b) reimplement them; maybe start with an http server that already uses libev, like bjoern

Conservative option might be chosen as a temporary solution if release 0.14 is delayed for too long otherwise.
I get where the EFF is coming from. From a technical standpoint, the notion that "WiFi everywhere" could be delivered easily if everyone just opened their networks is sound, but their arguments trivialize a lot of the consequences. Take this gem:

"...a desire to prevent their neighbors from "free riding" on their connections; and a fear that unencrypted WiFi is a security or privacy risk. Both of those reasons have a degree of legitimacy..."

A degree of legitimacy? The article goes on to state that the risks inherent to untrusted network access have "other solutions", but that's a pretty bold statement. Good security is about layers. If you don't want people snooping on your network communications, you need layered security.

Their proposed solution of link-layer security is cool and all, but it's a long ways off. There was a time when I was all about open networks for the common good, but the whole Firesheep fiasco changed my tune pretty quickly.
I think you use what works best for your problem set taking into account your expertise. I'm using (no demo available yet) nodejs, express, socket.io, and yQuery together. There's a jQuery wrapper out there for use with node, I think. jQuery makes my life easier on the display side, but I can see how if I had real-deal-holyfield javascript chops I'd gravitate to DIY or some slimmer framework.
doesn't work at all for me. macosx.6 / neither on chrome or ff4
Your job, now with more facebook spam.
When I was in high school, people used a tool for Windows called Fictional Daemon to get a remote telnet server that could access a command prompt, start, stop, and list running tasks, etc.
You can still add it! For completeness. That's the clearest writing I've seen in a long time.
I would agree even if it weren't self-serving (coughgazehawk.com/jobs/cough)...I worked in industry for a year before starting my own company, and I'm really grateful for it (my team was awesome!). At the same time, my experiences at larger companies (internships), while useful, didn't give me nearly the experience and exposure to different parts of businesses that smaller companies do.

My theory is the smaller the better, but I only have ~3 data points to support that.
Is it too much to ask to create separate sem_wait()
and sem_post() methods.

What happens when you want to do a sequence of waits and posts, and you want to do it atomically? You'd have to introduce an extra semaphore to control access to all doing your sequence.

With the semop() function, you put all your desired operations in one array of ops, and make one semop call, which does all the operations atomically.
Certainly. Even yrral's comment asking why his parent post was down-voted, was down-voted to 0!
I downvoted you, but also feel compelled to reply. There are many valid reasons to criticize ITP or to discourage certain people from going there, but you aren't criticizing, you're flaming.

Disclaimer: I come from a CS background (Stanford), but work at a company (Foursquare) where several of the non-engineering founders/early-employees come from ITP, but the engineering team is entirely non-ITP. Also, two of my closest friends have been in ITP. Other than that, I have never been personally affiliated with ITP.

The vibe I get from ITP is definitely a mixed bag of technology and art school. Coming from my background, it feels much closer to an art school than to a CS school. I have no doubt that I would be immensely frustrated in such an environment. Consequently, I've never seriously considered going there, despite the insistence of several close friends. I recognize that ITP is not for me: my technical skills would likely not improve much as a result of going to ITP, and the art-school-vibe would be both unpleasant and frustrating for me.

That said, I can see how certain people could benefit a lot from ITP. If you're an art-inclined individual that wants to get in touch with your tech side, at least enough to be able to build your own prototype without having to rely on someone else. (E.g., get rid of the "I've got a great idea and I'm looking for a technical co-founder" problem... surely everyone on HN can get behind that.) Or if you're a tech-inclined individual and want to get in touch with your art side, to explore how people interact with technology and how even simple technology can drastically change everyday behavior. I think both of these people could benefit from ITP.

The biggest startup successes recently (Facebook, Twitter, Groupon) didn't start with any kind of technological edge. They were a simple PHP website, a basic Rails stack, or practically a static HTML site. Of course, SIGNIFICANT and SOPHISTICATED engineering effort has gone into making these sites scale to their current success, but they proved their worth and achieved traction with little engineering effort. Generally, they distinguish themselves from the pack via their softer side, by building communities and human value through good product design rather than technical prowess. The initial version of Foursquare was a tangled mess of PHP code that was clearly written by someone who know just barely enough to get the job done. You could read the code and cry. But it was enough to get them to tens of thousands of users and millions in funding.

So yes, there are many reasons not to go to ITP. But even a technical person who aspires to be a startup founder could find many reasons to go.
"For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply."

Can someone please explain why this is true? If it can add, how can it not multiply if multiplication is repeated addition?
Engineers often do pure experiments. It was EEs that came up with ROC curves, and good data sheets for electronic devices commonly show histograms and statistics for operating parameters. Hard drive optimization is largely about measuring the data density versus signal-to-noise ratio curve, whatever shape it happens to be, then picking a suitable error correcting code. Chemical process optimization is balls-out experimentation, especially when compounds insist on crystallizing in inconvenient forms. Civil engineers measure degradation to know when bridges need attention.

I think the difference is that engineers must often be satisfied with boring things that must be useful, while scientists aspire to interesting things that may be useless.
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