jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Don't look outside for purpose, try finding it within.

Which things do have intrinsic value to you? Think of things you do that give your joy which can not be replaced with money. Those things don't have to be static until eternity. The hardest is probably to not 'do' anything and just feel joy and gratefulness for the present moment, whatever it is.

Congrats on escaping the hamster wheel, good luck in facing the bigger challenges of being human!
Ah, yes, the Google strategy. Accidentally break the feature, then look at the analytics six months later when nobody uses it because it doesn't work, decide that it was a useless feature, just remove it instead of fixing it.

And I mean, I'd lodge a formal complaint about the broken feature but I'm not even sure I can file a bug report with the specific Google service, and the last 10 complaints I managed to file all got bitbucketed anyway so why even bother.

So I'll just grumble and stop using your product, because you can't seem to write features that work.
I would be fine with either. But what I really don't want is a search engine that gives me what it thinks I should want.
It's not magic per se. I will caveat that I never liked the way Rails does MVC, so I've always used Rails as logic source (api and SaaS "brain"). I abhor Rails View approach, as it's kludgey and requires a Rails team to make front end changes. But having a common language (js) works for me. And scaling Rails while is much more work (and I think requires a bigger team) than with Sails JS (which I use). Development seems faster (no measurements - just a feeling). Granted Sails built ins make the difference on moving faster in node.
A million thumbs down for the author stealing Louie CK's stand-up routine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk) and reapplying it to Javascript in a way that just didn't fit. Also nothing substantial was said. Boo!
I can read the website perfectly fine. It may not be shiny like all the iCrap, but it doesn't need to attract "average" users (e.g. spoiled, rich 12-year olds).

I would rather prefer kernel hackers to do something useful, instead of wasting time and money to make every LKML archive look aesthetically beautiful.

hackers != designers
Hmmm Peanut butter doesn't even seem like a liquid, aerosol, or gel, though the TSA would probably put it in that category these days.
You can also use developer tools and view the requests coming in, look at the obvious file type (usually flv/mp4) and grab the URL from there.
Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell to name two well known ones.
You asked for something similar. Obviously there is nothing that you will admit is equivalent.
Obvious in retrospect, but I never realized that ++ and -- were created specifically to map to native instructions and not just as a convenience for "_ = _ + 1".
How do you go about building a portfolio? Do you do free/cheap work for people, or do you just make things you think people might like or be impressed by?
define coup: "a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government"

Sudden: check
Violent: check
Illegal: check
Attempt to sieze power from a government: check
Why is Apple waiting? When will AWS drop them?

My theory is that the companies are getting some tough calls from Nancy Pelosi- along the lines of you stop supporting violence right now or we will deal with you unfavorably later.
No it's not. Thank you, 2 month old anonymous account, for confusing the issue.
I just got 3 of my groups migrated to Signal. I expect many more to be migrated by the end of the month. While many may still remain lots of people will be off WA by 8th Feb.
also most of northeast will be blocked off for multiple months in winter due to snow accumulation on streets and on people's doors
It wouldn't work. The pointers would take on average just as many bits as the original file, if not more.
The problem with this mindset is that it conveniently ignores the fact that these people pay into this handout programs every pay check.
It's akin to paying for health insurance every 2 weeks and then paying all costs out of pocket because you don't want to rely on others.
No disagreement on crappy readability and accessibility. Never an excuse for that, it's just dumb, bad to users and even bad for business.

But if you're implying 'shouldn't get ads' because you pay... I can get a sub at $4 a month. Don't think that quite covers costs. So I can certainly imagine how they'd still show me ads even if I pay and accept that. The sub is geared not for removal of ads, but rather the option of reading more than the limited few articles a month you can read for free. (which is extremely easy to circumvent as they have no login system but that's another story).
I believe they are referring to the article

> The skills and time load sections both re-inforce that Python is more heavily linked to Data Science than Ruby. Ruby is more of a web technology with strong affinity to front-end technologies and iOS.
> Alcohol is not just a problem for those who start yumg or who've had abusive childhoods. Alcohol is a causal factor in many deaths and accidental injuries; alcohol is involved in many suicide attempts; alcohol is involved in a lot of violence. It is wrong to suggest that all those people started drinking young or had abusive backgrounds.

Alcohol is involved in a lot of things because it's the only legal consciousness-altering drug available in many countries. If you're going to start making statements for or against alcohol, you need to account for this cultural fact.

> People tend to under-estimate the number of glasses they have, and under-estimate the size of the glasses, and under estimate the amount of alcohol in each glass.

They do because they have a reason to, nobody wants to be seen as a drunk. If they didn't they'd self-report more accurately. Studies on the social effects of alcohol probably don't account for this, considering the difficulty of doing so.

> You've said that 3 beers produces a de-stress result.

The beer I typically drink is 3.2%. At my bar they serve 14 oz pints. Strong beers can be anywhere from 5-10%. I know roughly how much I've been drinking both because I keep track of my intake and because different amounts feel very different.

For me, the line between "comfortable buzz" and "achey, dizzy, ready to throw up" is a skinny one. So in order to keep my nights and weekends fun, I have to moderate pretty strictly. On weekends, I've learned to have a few beers during the day, go home for a few hours, then go back out for the evening. At bars there's pressure to drink more, I mostly manage to avoid that pressure simply because it can ruin my night fast.

> it is wrong to suggest that it is a healthy activity.

I honestly don't know whether it's healthy or not, I personally have a tough time understanding what is meant exactly by "healthy", but there's some recent archaeological results that suggest that our evolutionary history with ethanol is long, meaning our brains and bodies would have had ample time to adapt to it.

Personally, I'm convinced that stress, both self-induced and external, has a far worse effect on a person's quality of life over time than any of the physiological effects of moderate drinking. So to compare the effects of drinking alcohol to not drinking alcohol, you also have to understand the effects of the stress that's being relieved. Of course, there are social costs that one can incur as well, the most dramatic of which seems to be DUIs or worse, alcohol-induced accidents, but again, I suspect that on the whole, especially if one can avoid getting those, a stressed person is better off drinking moderately and letting it go than he is holding it in. Of course, there are other ways of relieving stress, but they may not be as effective or as cheap. Alcohol is incredibly reliable at doing this, that should count for a lot.
By Ben S. Bernanke, former Fed Chairman
I typically post using alts since it's harder for third parties to profile me and I don't like karma influencing the content of my posts.
My understanding is that these signs are more "polite recommendations" than they are enforceable rules. My suspicion is that the card companies have a clause against this in the merchant agreement and don't want their payment method to be perceived as "costing more" to consumers.
It's a pity it is only available in US layout. I can't get used to that small Enter key having used ISO layout my whole life.
I personally use a Filco with MX Browns and am really happy with it.
Well, the passiveness of that income probably depends on how timeless your book is.
I'd rather have our current lighter, generic HTML spec that can be enhanced by running code in JS than a heavy HTML spec that tries to do everything in pure HTML/CSS just so that way we can avoid running JS by default.

The more complicated HTML/CSS gets the less efficient it will be and the harder it will be to get all the browsers to maintain compatibility with each other.

In a way the current scenario where a lighter, shallower HTML and CSS are enhanced by custom code in the form of JS is better for the ecosystem because it allows creative freedom in development without overloading the core engine with cruft.

If you choose to do so you can create a bloated abomination of an HTML page powered by tens of thousands of lines of JS, but since the core engine itself is very light it is also possible to make a clean and simple page that is extremely light and which uses no JS at all.

On the other hand baking lots of functionality into the core engine would force everyone to experience the bloat and cruft, even if you were trying to make a clean and simple website.
In Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.
My impression is that Objective-C is pretty big (for a minor league language) in the US, but that elsewhere in the world its use is nearly non-existent.

Most places I've lived you could throw a shoe and hit a Java developer or a Windows (VB/.net) programmer, but you could set a nuke off and not kill any Objective-C programmers.

I think NeXT and Apple never really bothered promoting it outside of the US. Australia has just about the highest level of iPhone usage per head of population, but prior to the iPhone coming out jobs for Objective-C were running at something like one per N-thousand Java jobs. Now the iPhone pops up, and all of a sudden everybody wants an Objective-C programmer with 5 years experience and proven commercial success on the iPhone... well... guess what... you reap what you sow. Because virtually nobody in Australia invested in Mac programming for all those years, you now don't have a deep pool of talent to dip into.

But a similar thing may happen with Android ... anyone that didn't invest in Linux programmers is at a disadvantage.
and practice, practice, practice.
The "360 view" (like Google's Street View) data for my city (Toronto) is wildly out of date. Across the office where I work there is an entire entertainment center complete with a 50 story condo on top -- which is entirely missing (and still shows a parking lot with cars parked in it) on MapQuest 360.

[edit: from the looks of some movie billboards at this intersection and a few other hints, it looks like the data is from mid-2006].

[edit 2: I just checked my own neighborhood and the building I currently live in, along with the neighboring building are both not yet built. Two condo towers south of my building are still only half-way built. MapQuest Maps == Street View Wayback Machine?]
> "Lifestyle management programmes which include sleep hygiene and care should be incorporated as a policy matter in the IT industry."

I really wonder how would they consider puling this off. :)

Most coders(like me) are by nature caffeine addicted and expose themselves to insomnia just for the fun of getting some really cool job done. It's up to the coders to find out for themselves where are their boundaries(biological), and since most coders are probably intelligent people, I think they won't have much difficulty with this. In other words: we need no nanny.
If I really had to choose, I'd prefer people to use stronger passwords than to have them expire.

Quite often in companies I work for, forced expiration leads to passwords written on post-its, because people cannot follow the pace.

Maybe having a biometrics authentication coupled with some kind of 1password would be better!
So, wait a minute... jacquesm contacted you with an idea for a relatively harmless experiment (I was contacted too, so I know what it was about), and your response was to post it all on HN without even talking to him first?
Please don't upvote me, I just felt like commenting: It's threads like these that make me want to check Hacker News every day. So much good information, both in the post and the comments. That is all.
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

Winston Churchill
I was not here when it still existed. However, I have heard stories of:

1. Cops getting shot for being in the area

2. It being run by gangs

3. Airline shuttle being shot at. (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-07-31/news/010731019... Crap, I've been to that hospital they were transported to)

If this article is trying to make me feel bad that Cabrini Green was shut down, I consider the author and the individuals who put it on the site completely lacking in any credibility.
The choice of register vs stack for bytecode doesn't make any difference for a modern JIT like HotSpot. The bytecode gets transformed into an intermediate representation (IR) and optimized before being translated to machine code. A register based bytecode like Dalvik that has 65,535 registers certainly does not map directly to hardware.
What are the good arguments FOR "trigger warnings?"
>Because her kids could do absolutely nothing and live off of royalty checks or whatever her media empire generates and still be very very rich

Sure, that could happen. But it happens all the time with drycleaners and steel mills and car dealerships and whatever else too.

It takes a huge amount of work, not just creative, but business work, to get build something that lasts like that.

What about brands? What about people who build a large brand in retail or fast food or cars or whatever? They can leave the fruits of their brand building to their children. Why is the Harry Potter brand the odd man out?

And there's certainly a lot of work to be done keeping the business going. Someone is running the James Bond empire, the Disney empire, the Tolkien empire. They don't run themselves. Actual work is involved.

Anyway, like I said, I don't totally buy the argument, but it's not completely invalid either.
I tweak my motivation setup, but for me, currently:

1) http://thinklegend.com/commit/ - I have "do 30 min X project per day", which isn't much but usually the hard part is starting. It's easy to kick out 30 minutes work, feel good and add a link to the chain.

2) Yesterday I itemised a bunch of push and pull factors about my current job and my side project. We regularly build amazing things for customers but forget to do what's important to us. We get caught up in "urgent" and forget about "important".

3) Startup podcasts. In the absence of a mastermind (Anyone else in Johannesburg?) they keep me in the mindset of building. They're like a small daily escape into a world of possibility. I listen while driving, so after the work-day drudgery I'm reminded of what I'm working towards.
Same. I've never intentionally flagged a story I don't think but had a dozen or so that I guess I fat fingered
Or they're just sociopathic and sadistic and actually enjoy what they are doing. Wouldn't be the first time a DDOS was done just for the lulz.
Thanks! Is there a way to compile all installed packages into the sysimage? If so, why isn't that the default?
In a world where no companies scale pay based on employee location:

- It's rare that employees in expensive areas do not get to work remotely - because there would almost always be someone of similar skill in a cheaper location to hire

- It's rare that a company that has in-office workers in an expensive area would hire someone working remotely - because they are certainly paying the local workers more than what would be considered normal for a remote worker... because those local people need to earn more to have the same quality of life. And if they hired the remote worker for that "normal remote rate", they would need to cut the pay of their local workers (otherwise they _are_ scaling pay based on location).

_(Note that certain "this is one of only a few people in the world that meet our criteria" situations would not follow the above)_

So it seems like either

- This world does not have in-office worker in expensive areas, or

- All areas have the same cost of living, or

- There is a hard split between companies that hire remote workers and those that do not.
In Florida, a significant %, I'd estimate at least 10% of FL teachers, have come here from the North East to find a teaching job, because the job market is so competitive.

My early education was in the NE, and I had many distinguished teachers, and many were even from the south. Very few young teacher.

In FL, many young new teachers. Many from PA, NJ, and other competitive markets.

> pay varies greatly from area to area

In the SF Bay area, average SE comp is upwards of 200K, representing a small percent of the full market for software engineers...
tl;dr: Don't use batch norm for preventing exploding gradients but adaptive gradient thresholds.

For this they compute the Frobenius norm (square root of the sum of squares) of the weight layer and its gradient and take the ratio of these as clipping threshold.

That saves the meta search for the optimal threshold but also is better than a fixed threshold could ever be.

Very simple idea.
...it's a programming language, not an Excel competitor.

You could use Julia to build some kind of GUI plot-making tool.
I don’t see how patents acquired from SGI could possibly still be protected and require licensing.
It’s funny how the power of markets seems so easily used to reinforce the current market outcome. Like wage prices are artificially high or right where they should be because the market must be right. Without looking at the factors closely (like one should when discussing labor especially), there’s the possible outcome that current wages are held down below their market clearing prices by external factors and market power.
Actually admins still see points, and I don't see any difference in this respect.
>A coworker's android phone (Droid 1) died during an OTA upgrade due to lack of battery. This bricked the phone (he had to get a replacement)... combine with the fact that his phone wasn't backed up, and he was a very upset guy for a week or so as he redid all his settings and hacks.

It's possible to avoid this, though. Just have the loader require the device to be in charging mode/running off of AC before it allows the update to be applied. That way, it lowers the chance of bricking due to lack of power considerably.
Thanks! I was motivated to dig up the article which I had vaguely remembered, when I read that apparently desk less offices are a growing trend: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/03/18/brave_new_of...

Made me wonder whether this trend is because companies have learned from the previous failures, or whether it is because they have forgotten about them.
> 7) People will move away from native app development

I don't really see this happening. At least not in 2015!
IMHO nothing gives better performance than native apis. Nothing at all.
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003769

1 comment there.
Exactly. The author is certainly free to put up a website with the stories in a Kindle-compatible, DRM-free format, making them available for free, or using some kind of payment system, perhaps voluntary.

By being knocked out of the store, the author loses easier access to readers, and payment processing. But the author is not blocked from publishing and getting his or her work on the kindle through routes other than Amazon.
A bunch of things. Planning is hard, real estate is so expensive that people fight anything which might obstruct their view or lower their hard-bought property values (understandably), rental laws are skewed heavily in favor of tenants, and the whole process is hyper-politicized at the neighborhood level. I'm surprised the planning commissioners get anything done sometimes. Public hearings sometimes go on until 2 or 3 in the morning if it's something contentious.

Any large building requires several million and several years before it can even break ground; last year a developer who had already dug a foundation ended up filling it in again and selling the land after a 3-year delay. Also environmental law is used obstructively in a great many cases. I'm generally in favor of public consultation, regulations etc., but sometimes the big projects suck up all the political oxygen and that makes it harder for smaller developers to move forward. The recession hasn't helped either of course.

I'm not in real estate or anything, just a bit bummed that our city government hasn't been running well in recent years.
The same old condescending Microsoft. The only difference is that nowadays they arent winning.
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010277

Many comments there.
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008064

No comments there.
You can make wealth, but lets be realistic it is often easier to steal it (not with guns, but with things like patents, lobbyism, etc), so why make it?
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997869

No comments.
Beautiful. If I were teaching the class, you'd get the A and I'd remember when it was time to write recommendations. But I remember some professors who might have failed a student for pulling something like that. Or even accused him of cheating, for "sneaking in an unapproved piece of rogue equipment." You need to pick your spots.
Both the UK's move and, obviously, the Chinese response are political.
> All of my friends and family I convinced to buy and hold have been texting me how I changed their lives.

Because they're enjoying life without private banks? Or because they've realised gains from the bubble? If you "understand Bitcoin" as you claim, you must realise the latter cannot go on forever.
There is next to no reason to buy a Dyson v11 if you can also get a Roborock H6. I made my experiences here and prefer the vastly cheaper Roborock which has precisly the same build quality.

To be fair, the Dyson outperforms it very minimally in suction (I'd say like 5% better) but that doesn't justify the near double price. Also the Roborock has a 'lock' button and a much better wall mount in my opinion. It's battery is Lithium-Polymer and cleaning the vacuum is easier.

Marketing is the only reason why anyone would buy a Dyson v11 over a Roborock H6.
A fascinating counterpoint to this is the German government, who not just as probably the first country did something distinctly different to quarantine (it's called contact prohibition and you can go anywhere you like as long as you don't meet with more than one person not from your household), but also rejected mass cell phone surveillance plans by a large margin.

People here are mostly calm, cautious and despite a few outliers have largely high compliance rates from everything I see on the streets.

More authoritarian governments have the clear upper hand in fighting COVID-19, but I'm very curious how this will play out and if we can weather this situation just as well as a free and privacy-sensitive liberal democracy.
Snarky questions deserve snarky replies. It's a give and take.
the human spirit is a combination in the human brain

Is it? How do you know?