jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Completely agree with you on the points about the risk of brainwashing and impulse buying and people not realising how powerful and dangerous ads can be.

I would not go that far and claim all ads are brainwashing and manipulative. Going this route it means all communication is manipulative as there is an intention behind every word.
I miss when youtube-dl wasn't getting so much attention and just worked. Ah well.
Sure, but not everyone can. Realistically Search and Maps should be public utilities.

And quite honestly, Google is completely scamming anyone who pays for my views. They know damn well I don’t see ads, let alone click on them (except through automated means a la ad nauseam).
> what's the difference between 99.93% availability and 99.95% availability?

Quite literally a 40% reduction in crashes
Atmospheric hydrogen hits you at around 10^3 m/s. Relativistic hydrogen hits you at around 10^8 m/s and has more mass, up to infinity.
Just noticed I'm being downvoted for this? hahaha This wasn't even a Trump reference, just an alliteration... PTSD much? I'm on the other side of the world
Holy crap is that image at the top an actual photo? That's straight out of a Le Corbusier drawing. Kinda nightmarish.
I'm not sure if this article hammers home the key point: extracting carbon from the air always takes more energy that was gained by burning the fossil fuel to make that carbon. This is inevitable due to the entropy cost of de-mixing CO2 from the air, and from the limited efficiencies of thermal power generation (~33-40% for a coal power plant, perhaps 20% in an internal combustion engine), and limited efficiency of the carbon capture technology.

So it only makes sense to spend energy on sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, once you've already de-carbonised everything which you possibly can.

Maybe it has a future role (>2050? >2100?) to start using excess low-carbon energy to take CO2 levels back to their pre-industrial level, or to constantly offset hard-to-decarbonise technologies such as air travel.
You don't have to be careful with laptop charging cables from any other manufacturer. This is not a problem intrinsic to multiwire cables. It's a problem limited to cables from this particular manufacturer. You could strangle an elephant with a charging cable from Dell or Lenovo and the cable would be none the worse for wear.
>What do you think the word 'poor' means when referring to quality?

poor (adjective): of a low or inferior standard or quality.

>Might be kinder to say 'less advanced' or 'simpler' or 'earlier'.

Kinder towards what? Is a multinational like Disney sensitive or is the technology sensitive to the choice of words criticising it? Or will the researchers take offense to their technology, which is objectively inferior, being described as "poor"?

We're stretching this too thin, inventing issues where there are none...
It's not hard to picture this having been a regular feature before that, though. I pretty much assume every review of 5 stars is a shill review, and 1 star is someone who's a moron and bought the wrong thing, used it wrong, what have you. The ones in the middle are where you'll find real people who often tout both the pros and the cons, acknowledging that while a product isn't perfect, it's still good, or just saying that while they see the value in it, the construction isn't up to par, etc. etc.

Consuming reviews well is a skill you learn as you shop online. Frankly I think Amazon should stay the course. You can't possibly eliminate all the fakers. If they want to improve the service, they should just stop selling knockoffs altogether and be done with it.

For example: When I was shopping for surveillance cameras for my home, I found ones of apparently good quality that I liked. The 1 star reviews were nothing but bitching about spyware and the NSA, and the 5 stars didn't mention any possible drawbacks. A long and well written 4-star review, however, described the picture quality in detail, the issues with installing, but that once it was installed it was indeed a good product. And they included the technical details needed to establish firewall rules to prevent them sending data back to Singapore.
I sympathize very strongly with this position, but I think there is another way to look at it that's at least worth considering.

Think of it as advocating for all work to be paid more. Those people doing "real work for a living" should be being paid enough to live comfortably.

Workers don't actually owe financial sacrifice to the machine because they feel bad about other workers that get paid less. The politics of your loyalty is somewhat misplaced: out of loyalty to other workers, you want the corporate structure to benefit?

Money paid as salary to employees goes towards useful things like housing and childhood education and food. All across the board.

Or, to put it more delicately: suck as much money from the greedy bastards as you can. They're trying to do the same to you anyway.

I suppose that's exactly the 'us vs them' mentality you're worried about, but for the most part programmers aren't real money. Yeah, you might find it easy to buy a house or two, but real money has a million as the lowest denomination bill.
Yes in fully aware of his history, probably nore so than most here
He has been blogging about Apple at Mondaynote since 2008.

https://mondaynote.com/archive/2008
I ordered two 24V transformers that were delivered in a two days. The initial delivery estimate was 4-5 days, but in retrospect that was conservative.
Russia implemented measures earlier, and has almost defeated covid-19 with only one death.
Curious to know if you reached out to her to see if you could build a new theme for her and then resell it. Would have been nice to keep that lead coming.
400K users at the moment, but what's their rate of growth? Maybe it'll be 1m in a few months. Facebook is how you interact with friends, Twitter is SMS, and About.me is how you present yourself to the Internet public at large.
I refer to Facebook as professional when viewed through the eyes of a teenager (not to mention the large number of over 50s that are on the site). Even with Facebook's new UI redesign they've added a more LinkedIn like feel to the user pages. On mine for example, the first things you see are where I work and where I went to school. That's not very cool to someone who is 16.

As for hip and cool, its all about the users and perception. If the user base for Tumblr is hip and cool, it will have the effect of making Facebook's user base look anything but; or, at the very least, creating that idea for the rest of the hip and cool kids, wherein they'll join Tumblr to be with their peers (however stupid that sounds). Imagine if Justin Bieber decided facebook was lame... That's a mass exodus of about 10 million people right there.
If you want to call it cronyism, fine -- but if you want to be successful in business, learning to give yourself an advantage by creating influence with opinion leaders is an important part of becoming recognized and trusted.

Those who refuse to do it out of some sort of misguided morality mission typically can be found on the sidelines crying foul at the players making the big wins.

Building a good product is not the only part of being a successful entrepreneur. It's not even always the most important part, depending on the market and the entrepreneur, though it always helps, and is often necessary.
An interesting question: When someone is suspected of a crime, they are often imprisoned leading up to their trial. Yes, so that they cannot flee, but also so they cannot continue committing crimes (if they are the guilty party).

Could it not be said that seizing the domain name is the most logical & effective way to 'hold' a webpage/internet company in their equivalent of jail?
The hardware will be cheaper. These things run on ARM processors and a free Linux kernel / firmware. With a few OEMs on board, I think that it's absolutely feasible to see these things around $99 - (perhaps free if paired with Wireless carrier and a data contract)

Think about that for a second: A $99 'laptop' that you don't need to worry about upgrading or going out of date like a regular PC, that has a much longer battery life, is lighter, smaller, and 'just works' for it's intended purpose better than a PC.

It sounds nuts, but after having used one of these for the last week, I am more convinced than ever that Microsoft/Intel is in big trouble unless they do something pretty radical and perhaps painful to their immediate existing business.

*edit -- I've just read that Cr-48 runs Atom. I was told it was an ARM chip. Certainly the chipset requirements factor into my argument here.
I may have this opportunity as early as January and would like to be smart about it. I can leverage existing property equity at ~3% APR and I'm sure I can use it wisely to pull in much better than that. Any example ideas? I'm just now starting to look into this.
I agree with the general point but.. I actually do want a million dollars for something specific ;-)

My family wants to move to the US (from the UK) and I want to continue working solely for myself. I could come up with a clever investment using the E-2 visa but that'd realistically take a cpl hundred thousand and then involve renewing/funding a business/etc. Or I could spend $500k-$1m on an EB-5 depending on locality. Beyond that, we'd need extra money to cover how expensive the US is. So, yeah, we could do with a million <g>
production yield of a victory garden is still vastly smaller than a scaled-up effort. You can't avoid the economies of scale. Europe has long used stacked housing (people live in 'flats', etc) in place of a discrete hunk of land with their own castle to sit upon.

10 people can work together and use 10 plots of land more efficiently than 10 individuals using 1 plot of land each. We just don't have a land shortage to the point of making availability an issue.
Another solution is "floating time" which disregards timezones entirely. This is an option in iCalendar datetime formats.

In floating time, 10:00 in Chile is "10:00 in Chile". No timezone offset.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

https://scottworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/how-to-miss-...
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Yep, lawyers is USA is a real problem. Seriously, I don't get why somebody in USA believe that they have a choice to elect a president. Just think: if elections would be free how many candidates would they really get? Every second person would like to be a president! :D They elect somebody who scream aloud and has a lots of connections, but they will never elect somebody who is smart and have good political skills. So there is no freedom of choice, just a stupid illusion like Santa or something.

I don't think that we have fair elections on this planet at all. Sorry, but communists are the same shit - they do not give you real choice, I'm from ex-communist country, I know that for sure. How they can agree to lose power?
Say what? The black market is completely defined and dominated by the heaviest form of government control, literally men with guns kicking down your door.
Bill Gates is not a self-made millionaire, if that phrase is to have any meaning.
They should really be including Pincus as a defendant. There is enough public knowledge of his shady actions surrounding the IPO that he should personally be held accountable, as opposed to the company he pumped and dumped.
I don't understand the psychology of making billions of the backs of the grotesquely underpaid and over-worked masses (Foxconn suicides [1] and illegally mined tin [2] for example) and then turning around and saying 'oh, this is too much for one person - here, you have it.' If you want to help people or even just preserve the environment, why not start with what you have direct control and responsibility over in the first place.

Fucking billionaires [https://youtu.be/iko4s3CfBi0?t=44s]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-02-13/apple-supply...
I did this, and played up my ability to analyze real world situations when applying for a quant modeling job. A lot of my lab work was empirical modeling, so transitioning from student to my current job wasn't difficult. It also helps to have some background in coding. I did c++/matlab/java in college for lab work and classes. Everyone that is under 35 in my group has a scientific background, ranging from me (MSE in Mechanical Engineering) to PhDs in Chemistry and Physics. Most of my day is spent doing c++ or java development and the rest is R.
Anyone start a github repo yet?
It is not a workout. It is repetitive work, the same motion literally hundreds and thousands of time. You will be injured far sooner than you will get in better shape.

If you want a job where you can be paid to get in shape, join a military reserve force.
Kobo Clara HD, has Pocket support!
"used widely" is very relative.
Controlling the ecosystem it created is not anti-competitive. There seems to be confusion over not being able to distribute apps on Apple's platform, and not being able to compete against apple.
I don't see this article or the people it quotes advocating recreational use by any means. I think those who have studied psychedelics the most are the strongest proponents of moderate, intentional use in a safe atmosphere. I don't think the substances themselves should ever become a lifestyle, but the clarity and spiritual invigoration that they can help to provide and maintain, along with other practices like meditation, can make life much richer.
It's interesting that they're expected to just take what is given to them and not try and not be allowed to control their financial income.
I wonder why they settled on '69'.
He did.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Is 'learning programming' in quotes because it is sarcastic?

You don't program anything until the final exam, and the final exam is two relatively trivial tasks.

Just start with the final exam, and then build it out until you have something relatively substantial. Do all of the other reading and stuff as you learn.
Love it! The only thing that gets me is the name - I always think of Grandma's Boy when I hear it...
It is hard to test emergent behavior in large distributed systems, you pretty much have to actually run the tests live to see what is going to happen and see if it aligns with your predictions.
I am not sure what you are getting at. Why is your focus on giving up - mine is on not letting it matter. I am not claiming to have given up on food - giving up is not what I am trying to do - my focus is happiness with understanding and minimalism. Minimalism does not equate to starving yourself to death. It involves doing everything "needful" without attachment or false pretenses or expectations. Doing nothing extraneous.

I am also not claiming to have been 100% done - it's my steady journey towards that goal that I was sharing. It's all about changing gradually with full understanding instead of looking at it as a means to some end.
Welllll... Gimp one is fine.

I agree with the rest though.
... use the monster of a custom build system.

Now that, I can totally see. IDE-based build systems drive me up a wall.
Humans assume attractive people don't share the same interests as the unattractive. I'm male and just attractive enough for people to not believe I'm a software engineer.
So I guess it won't be of much use with my linux box...
Very interested in seeing how he'll deal with lexing Haskell. It's a major pain, tools like Parsec are very good out of the box with whitespace insensitivity, but not whitespace sensitive stuff.
Posting as a reminder of sorts.

I love podcasts and don't have enough dev related ones, so I'll give this a listen. Looks like it will be nice!
I found it amazing too, but I don't know how legal is in another countries.
All of the samples seems to be from open source projects that already are on GitHub.
It's not so much the language itself the issue, as both C and PHP weren't made with safety in mind, it's the kind of programmers that the language encourage.

IMHO, C cell defined semantics makes it simpler to master. PHP is an easy language to get stuff done, but a pretty hard one to master, I would say possibly harder than C. E.g. very few people actually make no mistakes about the behavior of the == operator... (http://habnab.it/php-table.html)

C is safer in the sense that it filters out the incompetent better than most languages, people which don't have a decent understanding of it are unlikely to produce something that doesn't crash fast if it even compiles.

PHP permits anyone to be somewhat productive, that's good in some cases, but in most cases you want someone who understand what he's doing...
construction industry document management.

there needs to be a medium.com for rfp/rfi/rfq etcs that has digital signatures, and allows anyone, no matter how little technology experience they have to jump in and make and collaborate on industry documents and contracts.
"I don't invest in markets I don't understand." --Warren Buffet
You aren't going to look at a monitor from the same distance as at your phone or rMBP. "Retina" is a function of distance. 1x1m pixel is retina when viewed from 1km ;-)
It’s kind of like a little speeding on the highway. In many places, a lot of people are OK with it and the risk of being ticketed is very low. Yet in other places, it is not OK.

Something being on paper is basically meaningless. It’s all the “soft” cues that we use and you pick up those cues through experience.
Back the the defense could ask for Jury nullification. Now the defense can't.
Would you count patent protections as technical or legislative? Patents are supposed to be used only to encourage technological progress, but all too often they screw up the competitive landscape on an entire market in ways that are obviously unfair. If we could reform our patent system to get rid of software patents and raise the bar for physical inventions, then it might be okay to say that technical advantages [protected by patents] are fair.
I've seen several offers of mobile-optimized CSS for this site over the past while, yet this feels like a half-done job. On my iPhone 5 the margins are all off, the vote icons are still impossibly small, and the header is a mess. It looks like this isn't much more than an added viewport meta tag.

It is still an improvement, but it could be much better. I know the YC crew are busy folks, but you could throw a few bucks to the poster with the best mobile CSS and I'm sure people would be up for the challenge.
From what I've read, the exact definitions of imperative and declarative vary a lot. The most useful rule of thumb I've come across is to consider imperative to be concerned with HOW something is to be done, while declarative concerns primarily WHAT is supposed to be done.

SQL is usually classified as declarative in that you're not telling the database how to retrieve the top ten entries from a table - you're merely informing it that you are interested in those entries.

It struck me at some point that this definition must be relative to the level of abstraction you're operating at. For example, when using (go …) blocks, I'm declaring that I want the code contained within the block to be processed asynchronously, but I'm not describing how that is to be done. Perhaps a callback might be described as being "more imperative" since it contains more implementation details?

So, am I correct in thinking that this discussion would hinge on what you consider to be "concrete" and not? That something executes in sequence is hardly enough to decide whether it is to be considered declarative or imperative in nature.
Immediately after college I quit drinking coffee. For fourteen years afterward I always had a feeling of incompleteness, something felt missing whenever I was in a relaxed state, like there was something I was missing/needed to do, but could not put my finger on the cause. I often considered the source of this phantom yearning and speculated whether I was exposed to crack in one of the roach apartments I afforded in college; perhaps my mom was more of a hippy while I was gestating than has been shared; perhaps I was a junky in a former life...

All of these thoughts were immediately vanquished when I was visiting Hawaii and somebody convinced me I had to try their delicious Kona coffee. Within a few seconds of the first sip I felt like I had been waiting for that sip my entire life. It felt as if an unfulfillable hole in my soul had been filled. T^hank god it's legal, I guess.

Don't even get me started on the 24 hours of absolute misery after giving up sugar AND caffeine on that fateful day in 1994...
Yes, it's at the bottom of the page and Wells Fargo too.
If you have client and server on the same computer communicating via 127.0.0.1 you aren't exactly using the full network stack, more or less you are just using a Unix Pipe.

Generally try to bench mark with some network topography.
And the Winchester Mystery House [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
> Instead of a homeless guy offering to squeegee your windshield, you’ll see crowds celebrating your passage. A Tuscan village will take the place of your crummy suburban cul de sac.

Does anybody else find this train of thought disturbing? That "if I can look at screens instead of out the window I won't have to see the homeless" is one of the first things to come to the author's mind speaks volumes.
I don’t know about obtaining LSD, but growing mushrooms is not all that easy. You have to ensure that the substrate on which you grow them is free of contaminants, because psilocybe mushrooms tend to be sensitive, and can easily succumb to local moulds. In addition, it takes a few months of keeping them at the right moisture level to produce a healthy crop, during which many things might go wrong. It might very well be more cost-effective to buy grocery-store dehydrated mushrooms and lace them with a few drops of LSD than to go through the hassle of learning how to grow your own shrooms.
routers are more expensive and less flexible these days. industry decided that.
what you could get for 50usd (and runs linux, reflashable with your own fw) is now around 200usd and does not support open firmwares like openwrt.

because you know, capitalism and stuff.
According to PassMark, a CPU benchmarking website, the Intel Core i7 5557U isn't that fast:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5557U...

Now it only has a single sample, but a rating of ~5000 is a third of the performance rating of a top of the line Core i7 5960, which comes in at 15969:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X...

This is not what one considers a powerful CPU.
This should be a feature of all social media apps ;)
Whenever I read an article like this—in advocacy of AI controlled objects, I always wonder: who would be to blame if an unfortunate circumstance would arrive? As in, say there was an accident, how could 'faulty software' be blamed, or better put, how would it stand trial? Perhaps it could go through another update (think ios 8). Problem solved?
Off-topic: I wonder sometimes at the use of "read" for audiobooks. I don't mean it as a slight -- 25 books a year is honestly more than I take in in any medium, unfortunately -- but it feels like the wrong verb for the action. "Listen" doesn't really feel like it conveys the active retention process generally going on, either.
I did not make any straw-man arguments. You wrote specific words (I've quoted them) that denote things that I know to be false. You now seem to admit this. Are we done yet?
You don't need to wonder. They are. One example follows.

> "Yes, China Is Spying On Skype Conversations" https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081002/0903442435.shtml
Very welcome. I've been wanting to play with GNU Radio for a while but I didn't quite know where to start.
Are there any reputable news publications you read? Subscription required is fine.