jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Robin Williams (Same name, different person than the comedian) makes s set of books targeted at the non-designer. Amazon has lots of them.

Non-aff link http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

To learn to draw, Mark Kistler's Draw squad isn't a horrible thing to get you going and to start to look at shadows, etc (however is aimed at children).

As far as tools, trying out the following are good:
http://www.pixelmator.com/learn/ (Scroll to bottom of the page)

http://qrayg.com/learn/fireworks/

visual photoshop:
http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/30-useful-abstract-photoshop-d...

And while I think the actual lessons are sorta ugly they're not bad on tool usage fundamentals: http://www.pvmgarage.com/2010/11/top-ten-photoshop-website-d...
What does LPUSHX/RPUSHX do differently?
Customer acquisition cost: $100 sounds like a good target for a VPS service.
Like it, but wish the author had done this without so much braggadocio. It could have been done the same way without so much self-reference and would have come off better, IMO.
Authority is important in advice sites, esp. in fashion, I think. However, there are three aspects of this particular demographic that I think would make the job easier: (1) they are by their nature more or less anti-authority and anti-establishment, (2) AFAIK, there are no sites that do this sort of thing, and most importantly (3) we are much more connected (except, perhaps, for teenage girls) so word of mouth is very powerful.

The only thing that sort of comes close in fashion are sites such as Threadless, betabrand, etc., mostly geeky t-shirts. But no site for how to do the whole look.

What you are proposing, I think, is to take the idea even further, give advice on relationships, dealings with pointy haired bosses and so on. I think that would be great.
finally someone got it!
Oooh. I used to have a Radio Shack Color Computer, and I loved the 6809. So much cleaner than the 6502. Two 8-bit accumulators, A and B, which can be combined as a 16-bit accumulator, D. MUL, which sets D to A * B. Four 16-bit index registers, all of which can be used interchangeably in any indexed-mode operation. (Two of them can be used as stack pointers.) A rich indexed mode, including constant offset, accumulator offset (A, B, or D), and offset from PC (allowing position-independent code).

The 6502, by contrast, had one 8-bit accumulator, A, and two 8-bit index registers, X and Y. X and Y were used differently: IIRC, you could do (in C syntax) * (addr+X) or (* addr)+Y, but not the other way around. No easy way to do position-independent code. (I suppose you could hack it with OS support, though, by providing a routine at a fixed location that reads the caller's address from the stack.)
I'm not sure it's amusing to make a game that is unfun because it reflects an unappealing part of life. In this case it was just amusing because reading the comments made it seem like they were talking about real homeless people, especially when the article slaps you in the face with the relationship to real homelessness over and over and over and over.
What kind of wrapper?
I'll check it out in the morning. Thank you for your feedback.
#3 isn't true for taskqueue tasks or cron jobs anymore, the deadline is now 10 minutes ( actually will be once 1.4.0 SDK is released in about a week or so )

Also at first glance there is no indication of how the author got to a value of 15k€. My best guess, and a guess at that, is that they put the value of a line of code at 1€ and had to migrate 15k lines, but I hope there is more scientific than than.
Thanks, I see the issue.
Get some bereavement counselling - coming to terms in something that must seem so unjust, can't be easy.

It will be very useful to be able to process the hurt you're feeling, in the company of someone who has good experience helping people who've dealt with similar losses.
It's not so strange when you think about it. My understanding is that soda costs basically nothing to produce (I could be wrong, of course, but part of the benefit of not drinking alcohol much is that lots of bars don't charge me for soda, and refills are often free at restaurants), so it doesn't really doesn't matter what they charge for it.

With that in mind, it makes a bit of sense to charge less for more, since people will see the big drink for "little" cost (which still has a massive margin) to be more appealing. They think they're getting a better deal.

If the large drink doesn't fit in a standard cupholder, then those people have to pay a premium for the convenience, and the retailer wins again. It's market segmentation, and it works.
Because I do not want to become a person who doesn't care about his effect on others.
I wouldn't bend Drupal in any way.

You're suggesting there is no modern CMS , and I should build it?
No, it is true. After the recent update you could use a combination of queries and offsets to retrieve more than 1000 results. To get 1001 results or more you need multiple calls.
Strangely enough, Greece (which I had in mind when I wrote the blog post) has plenty of processes, procedures, bureaucracy, and comprehensive regulations AND also ranks quite low in the Transparency International Corruption Index, in part due to endemic clientilism.
They should just write a law that includes diegetic music in not for profit non-fiction public servant videos in fair use. Then if your video gets flagged you can indicate it is fair use.
I need this app. But that’s not what it does :)
It sounds like you are trying to bring in a CEO not a sales/business guy.
I've tried pen and paper and it doesn't work well for me.

I have no time or desire to rewrite my tasks every day. There are literally hundreds of them, each with tens or hundreds of sub-tasks needing to be finished before the main task is considered complete.

Basically I want to use a computerized system because I believe that it will be far faster, easier and more flexible for me.
I agree. You make several statements about explicit lack of features in the description. This begs a qeustion.

What, _exactly_, am I paying for? What do you differently from free apps that justifies a cost (and one more than $0.99, too)?
Thanks for your feedback, especially on the pricing. As I mentioned below, I know its due for a change, but have received wide range of advice so I'm holding off for now.

I removed the "Requires an HTML5 compliant browser" -- It sounded fancy at the time, but agree that it's confusing.

Appreciate it --
> Getting good UI controls are almost impossible, but that's not the biggest issue - which is more about the overall user experience. Different platforms have different ways they expect you to use them that alter the entire experience design.

In my experience, he is right, but it's more subtle than that.

We once built an iphone app with phonegap and HTML5 (back when phonegap had native iphone tab controls). It looked native, it seemed native, but it just didn't feel right.

Our current iphone app uses titanium mobile, which (from a UI perspective) is native - and it feels completely native.
Even though under the hood it's interpreted Javascript and not objective C.

The advantages of using Titanium over Objective-C are; I'm already quite handy with Javascript, and Titanium comes with a honking great API example called KitchenSink.
Unfortunately he didn't really have any specific examples from some of these cross platform toolkits or SDKs. I've played with Appcelerator/Titanium, and the drawbacks are obvious : no IDE and debugging is painful.

What about some of the others: Airplay, Corona, Cocos2D-X? Has anyone actually tried some of these that could give more insight?
What many people probably don't know is that Nokia started as a company manufacturing paper in 1868, it moved into electricity generation, footwear, etc before creating the first phone in 1960s (100 years after it started). It is hard to find a company that survived this long in business.

I wish they do well, but the MS path does not seem right.
>in the couple of months I've had it, I've had three lock-ups

Everybody has hated on Microsoft my whole life, but you know, I can't remember the last time Windows 10 locked up on me. I don't even know if it "blue screens" the way windows used to. For all its faults, it "just works".
> The only way to beat scalpers is to raise prices beyond what people are willing to pay, which forces scalpers to charge more to turn a profit, further raising the total price.

No, this can't happen. If you raise prices beyond the market-clearing point, scalpers would need to charge prices higher than that -- and sell all their inventory -- in order to turn a profit. This can't be done; the higher prices prevent them from selling everything they bought.

> I guess I don’t see how an initially higher price would stop scalpers at all, they’d just keep buying the entire stock, anyway.

Again, this can't happen. Scalpers are not able to keep buying products they can't sell. You can only buy the entire stock if your revenue from selling the amount you can sell exceeds your cost of buying the entire stock. Exceeding your cost of buying the amount you can sell isn't enough.

Your economic model implies that all goods are controlled by scalpers who can never be dislodged. That's not even close to the truth. Why do you think that might be?
iirc in TI-BASIC, assignment goes the other way so you could have "B + 5 -> A" which also helps seeing that the expression would be evaluated before storing (the button to input -> on the calc is STO, short for store).
No, that's not it.

If you read the parent issue to what you're posting (which is also not exactly what I'm asking for, I need something more granular wrt routing), you can see clearly from the discussion that this is completely orthogonal to what Tailscale is aiming to achieve.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/102
I fail to see how "people should vouch for new members or be careful with my personal information" is "self-righteous tech elitist drivel".
are aware of it and are saving up

Still much better than e.g. Ubisoft which repainted safety borders from red to blue and removed shadows in TM2 Canyon few years after release, also breaking a lot of user tracks. (If you’re not sure why, it was before a new iteration of the game)
Pedantic moment (Lumi): "Everyone is starting their own business, and everyone needs help getting their brand out their."

This is a typo, right? Or is it a pun that I'm not getting? :)
How much of the world from OSM could you fit on a 128GB SD card?
I used to do my calc and some CS homework in LaTeX. Seemed easier than trying to write slowly enough to make my handwriting legible.
> had systems in place that effectively blocked the export of COVID-19 vaccines

You mean contracts courted and signed months in advance of you pulling your finger out?
Since when is a background check of employees required for a coorperate deal? CEOs change, new people come and go. Such an accreditation is between companies and should be continuously be re-evaluated.

Like ISO certification.
I don't think it is an issue of can't. These batteries offgas hydrogen, meaning they are not good for portable electronics and they have a poor charge and discharge efficiency, meaning they are not as good for excess energy storage. At 65%, even something like compressed air might be more viable. They do seem to be extremely durable however.
Except that BTC is a terrible store of value, possibly the last option in a long line of better classical options such as real estate (or related funds), stocks, bonds, basket of currencies, commodities.

We already have tons of options for 'store of value' why on earth would we invent another, worse one?

BTC is not a store of value or a currency - it's a weird social movement.
Ah, good to know. Our admins set up Zookeeper with Cassandra, so I had always assumed it was part of the deal.
It can work, but it's harder than stateless. The web works with crappy code because the persistent state is in the database, which is of higher quality and stability than the applications. If you have persistent in-memory state server side for each client, the server has to maintain that state correctly. The server has to be much more bug-free.

Also, every background tab in the user's browser now consumes server resources although idle.

You do not need this for your 1 to 5 stars rating thing. Most web pages do not need this. They're rather banal. We have huge overkill in web technologies now. We have WebGL, which is little used, and WebAsm, which is little used, for when you really, really want to have full interactivity in the browser. There are a few nice applications using those, but only Google Earth is mainstream.
That’s not what I said. I’m saying that the baseline behavior is not illegal. The fundamentals of disincentivizing unions are legal. I don’t know if this particular instance is illegal. On print doesn’t sound good.

I was replying to the parent commenter who seemed to think that desincentivizing union formation/joining is illegal which is clearly not.

I agree with you that law isn’t binary, but the final interpretation of a law is a binary decision. You engage on what you think is lawful behavior or you don’t. If they did this, they clearly think that the pros outweigh the cons, and they believe they are operating within their legal rights.
You have to remember that all of these companies are either part of a large company or a startup. Locking you in is the reason they can justify their stock, their IPO, their exit and their high developer salaries.
When reading this, all I can think is:

Family members, friends, and co-workers might, at first, give you some strange looks when they take a look at a “YOUR-SANDWHICH” written on one side with a sharpie. This is where you explain that you made a “custom sandwhich” just for them.

How do they try it out? Simple. I recommend that you build your custom sandwhich using your own ingredients, similar to a regular sandwhich . That way, people can eat it, and it won’t chmod whatever is already in the fridge. It’s a great way for people to try out other sandwhiches whenever they want.
> There are much better arguments for net neutrality than this one.

for example...?
Somebody who works at Kaplan told me the other day that all of their databases were in Excel. Insanity.
And you can add Google and Microsoft to that list, too.
That's awesome, I'd love to see more when you've got it up.
I guess I just disagree with your premise. We can choose what we do, and we can influence our destiny, but we cannot choose our destiny. You can have a great business plan, eager customers and a wonderful revenue model and get hit by a drunk driver tomorrow. I wouldn't then say, "Well, that guy should have chosen a destiny where he didn't get run over."

We can't choose whether we get run over, and we can't choose whether we "find success" or have an opportunity to "cash out." We can try to influence things the way we want, but choosing our actions is not the same as choosing our results.
Ha we deadpooled in december 2008. This was a demo video from back then, but I did ressureect the code on my localhost last night for fun. Shoot me an email: j@jasonlbaptiste.com
Does this redirect work with all of WSJ articles? Nice.
Offtopic, but why big success or failure? The drama makes for more interesting interviews?

Seems kind of sad that the most common outcome (middling success, never quite finding product/market fit, running out of cash with an orderly exit) isn't represented. Considering women are already rare in our industry, it's not surprising you are having difficulty here.
This is a shameless plug, but at http://transfs.com (transparent financial services) we have a free webservice that helps you compare various payments options.

It's strictly private and requires no commitment of any kind. Basically it's like Kayak for payments.

However, we don't do international yet, so probably can't help the original poster. International payments are really hard, there are many fewer options in most foreign countries.

Even in Canada and UK the number of merchant account providers is many fewer than in the US, giving the customer less choice and enabling the providers to maintain more of their archaic practices.
As for the article's claim of homophobia, I don't have the grounds to claim the reviewers who censored this app were motivated by anti-gay sentiment, but I also wouldn't be surprised.

This is the sort of reverse thinking that makes no sense.

You've made a judgement there about the person who made this decision; in my mind there is no data on whether the reviewer has homophobic motives, but there is certainly data to show you've decided he/she probably is.

This is bad anti-think.

I'd argue the fact that the kiss is not blacked out is pretty solid evidence this was not motivated by homophobia.

EDIT: it was unfair to suggest Aphyr made a judgement. What I really meant is that bringing the suggestion of homophobia into the matter, with no grounds (which is what the article does) is counter-productive and damaging. I shouldn't have jumped on Aphyr to make that point :(
I think that's partially the reason why some singularity folks focus on "friendliness" - they see it as quite possible that a superhuman intelligence would be a threat to us, for the reasons you state.
They erected a gallows. Not the kind of party I'd want to attend.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/noose-hung-outside-capitol...
I worked in gambling for the start of my career too. It’s a toxic atmosphere at absolutely every level. They generally run on a principle of assuming IT is worthless to the company and just a money dumpster fire. The way they treat you has no reflection on your ability. At times, just the weather alone dictates the mood of management. Others, management is actively alcoholic, on the job!

I’d do everything and anything that could make your life more stable. The biggest, positive place to start is, and this can take a lot of work, sleep. Make proper sleep your first priority every day. There’s a whole lot that can make sleep better or worse, so there’s no way for me to be complete. But maybe consider going for a walk, writing in a journal, and consistent, exactly on the same time every day melatonin slow release - and low dose.
care to elaborate?

Afaik, oracles are used to synchronize the blockchain to the real world and there are sophisticated mechanisms to keep them honest.
Tell that to Elnaz Ghasemi, who has been arrested for posting videos on Instagram of her dancing.
nope

You can disagree with having cats as pets and still post pictures of cats standing up
Thanks for taking time... I live in south-eastern Europe. Gambling/betting here is rampant. I feel like I’m contributing to the problem, but can’t seem to find the way out.
Not exactly.
Money used to be backed by something valuable like gold (while the gold itself was mostly faith-based valueable).

These days, it is backed by debt. Money comes into existence in some federal bank/central bank out of thin air, and is then put into circulation by granting loans i.e. creating debt. So money was and is really an IOU. And governments guarantee that you will be able to collect on it, one way or another.

crypto on the other hand comes into existence either by proof of work (work that cannot be recovered and it lost forever and therefore worthless) or blind faith, with not even an IOU backing it.
I think Smith is almost right, a _conspiracy_ is likely in the broadest sense but he's wrong to suppose it will necessarily be against the public.

So, the CAB is maybe a useful contrasting example. The CA/Browser Forum (CA/B or CAB for short) was a meeting that happened as a mixture of conference calls and email lists back in 2011 or so. This is where Extended Validation (the green bar) comes from, but ultimately CA/B metamorphosed into a standing (in the sense of ongoing, not you can't sit down) meeting, still going on today, for the Certificate Authorities and the Browsers (today in practice the Operating System vendors, but with Mozilla standing in for the Free Unixes) to get together to figure out what the rules are.

Because of what Smith notes, the CA/B's rules are explicit that discussion about prices, product offerings and so on is prohibited, if you want to conspire to raise prices you'll have to do it somewhere else.

But plenty of _good_ things can be agreed this way. Contrast the many years it took to get rid of MD5 from certificates (which happened before CA/B existed) despite collisions being known - against SHA-1 where CA/B was able to co-ordinate industry wide discontinuation of SHA-1 with only a handful of minor defections before even a single proven collision of the hash was published.

More broadly I'd argue that the IETF, and certainly the thrice annual IETF physical meetings (the most recent was in Singapore last week) are exactly "people of the same trade... meet together" and you could characterise plenty of the work done at many Working Groups (obviously DPRIVE and QUIC but I don't see any reason you couldn't make this claim for KITTEN for example) as a conspiracy, just that it's only "against the public" if you think global surveillance was what "the public" wanted...
Yes, and that was the 5th time it had been sold.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
My favorite part of his videos was him campaigning for Trump. \s
This article is in the list of "The 10 Strangest Mathematical Titles Ever Published", by Clifford Pickover, in his book "Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning"
I downloaded the files for my country the other day. There are some links on an HN page that might point to pages with the files:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26690044
You’re describing taxes. But why specifically taxes on profits? Why not taxes on things like property? Payroll? Sales taxes on things they buy? The myriad of taxes their employees pay?

Why tax profits?
People not wanting videos of them being raped to be uploaded has nothing to do with them being prudes.

I wouldn’t want someone to upload a video of me being mauled by a Tigre or suffer some other horrific event being posted online without my consent.
Gunna miss those classic Ken M Answers as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_M
The reason we (GitHub) kept the new tokens to 40 characters, matching the length of our old tokens, was to make this change as backwards compatible as possible. We’ve never documented or committed to our tokens being 40 characters long, but they’ve been that way a long time and there may be software out there storing them in a fixed length database columns.

If you use a service you’re worried the change may break I’d recommend minting a new token and trying it, perhaps on a new account on that service, before revoking your old one.

(We do plan to increase the length of our tokens in future, but not before July 2021 at the earliest.)
I hope this is not flagged into oblivion like other Stallman threads.

RMS was truly beyond his time, even when everyone thought he was crazy. It's sad to see a legend go down because a misinformation campaign.
If your agreement had guaranteed you investment rights you would have had them. Since it didn't, it was at their discretion, and they could have used many different criteria to make that decision. Now as a general rule, when you have an option in the matter, you don't want non-accredited investors in your deal. But assuming that accredited status grants follow-on investment rights (or that lack of them prevents it) as a rule is wrong.
I would say the tiered pricing is the best. The other method may lead to confusion and lost conversions. Customers want simple, and tiered is simple. They know exactly what they are getting and how much they are paying right up there.
Any idea how Airbnb actually implements the craigslist posting?

Yes it's auto submission, but with craigslist's new security measures and login requirements, that looks really hard to do purely from a URL standpoint. I'm almost wondering if there is some private API they are using or if they have some sort of partnership going on.

Any ideas?