jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So is what they're doing some sick joke? I doubt people couldn't care less about the damage done by functionally worthless companies. People are pissed at the perception of manipulation by wall street. This is hilariously myopic. People aren't upset about losing money. They're upset that the game _looks_ (and ostensibly is) rigged. That is where all the lack of confidence stems.
Regarding B -- why can't the user just pick the category from a menu? Personally, I despise being asked to categorize my ask in English to an AI, as I have no way of knowing how much detail I need to provide to get my request into the right "bucket", or whether I've succeeded in doing so. With a menu I can do that in 3 seconds and one click, with immediate feedback.

Regarding C -- why does the date selection need to occur in WhatsApp? If a user has WhatsApp, they have a web browser. If a 3rd party has servers running WhatsApp bots, they can host a web server. Why not, from WhatsApp, link the user to a website to select a date?
There are for some languages.

https://github.com/dhall-lang
Voice interfaces are fantastic in specific realms. Controlling complicated things when you don't have the bandwidth to control it with your hands is ideal. Also text messaging and dictation.

Outside specific realms, they are far less useful.
I bought sqair from https://smartairfilters.com/en/ and it's same principle. One of them keeps my 700sq ft village flat clean. First year my daughter doesn't need doses of siflex at night.

Can with a HEPA filter is good either as proven by an article shared on HN about 6 months back.
I think is not that is harder but that is easier to tell a bad animator than a good one than it is with programmers.

Unless you see coding as art, animation jobs are going to be more fulfilling and that is always exploited (people willing to do it for less because it feels better) by the market.
Within a single submission, no. Globally, yes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
Delicious isn't a collection of bookmarks.

It's a community of developers and plugins.

That's why these solutions aren't right for me, and neither is copying and pasting my delicious bookmarks to an evernote page.

The developers and plugins that worked with delicious let me do cool things like auto-store and auto-tag the links that people tweet at me.
I would have followed the official manual. I see that you are putting together some tutorials, so I will definitely check those out.
I can see both sides. I appreciate these documentaries for raising awareness as you said.

The reason why experts don't "try to explain it to us" probably is exactly because they think it's complex and nuanced. They probably don't even think there is an "issue" that need to be explained to begin with.

Think it this way: you're in a field, and you know its pros and cons. You are not going to randomly speak anything about it because that's just.. like everything else in the world. Now, suddenly someone, likely an "outsider", wrote an article to describe the field/area in a certain one-sided way (good or bad). Of course you now suddenly have a strong opinion on it.

Note: above is about the common question I saw "why these experts only appear to refute others but never explain the thing themselves", not about Seaspiracy in particular.
I don't appreciate your use of such a broad stroke as you could alienate people who haven't thought much about their privilege but have a knee jerk reaction to anything that seems to undermine their status.

Many people browse these threads, from all walks of life, races, colors, religions, classes, and privilege. Maybe I'm being down voted because of the error in my last paragraph, or my language. Maybe I'm talking too authoritatively about my proposed solutions and someone whose experienced them doesn't want to engage me but knows first-hand of their flaws. Maybe they just don't like the democratic process.

Who knows? Unless they comment their voice goes unheard. At least mine does not. Social structures work best when people reason amongst each other about problems. Failures of this process rapidly degrade the quality of communities.

Perhaps dowvotes should only be allowed with a comment? Obviously That presents its own problems... Meh.
They’re often not met with a show of police force. Here’s a picture of the Million Man March in the 1990s: https://images.app.goo.gl/WSvMYDK4asyav5HX7

There are hundreds of thousands of people behind the camera, going all the way to the Lincoln Memorial. You can see some security milling around, but no large show of police force.
The font rendering is excellent, to the point that I'm willing to deal with its higher latency and lack of daemon mode.
Confirmed. Just take the demo app and insert the line 'this is some text.' anywhere in it. It looks like it's particularly bad if you put it into a nested element: the compiler treats everything after the line (including html markup) as javascript.
Learn what "statistical power" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power) means, and then understand that the fact n% of users prefer one option doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. Statistical significance is far more important than the actual result. This is a really good paper about it: http://www.qubitproducts.com/sites/default/files/pdf/most_wi...
I said begin reducing carbon dioxide output by 2017, otherwise by the IEA's calculations our entire carbon budget will be spoken for. We have known about this for a long time, but we have done nothing, indeed we have increased carbon output, so no we don't have much time left. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fu...

Absolutely I agree that we can't solve the problem of global warming in the West alone, it's a global problem that needs a global solution. I do not agree there is zero chance of it being implemented, but it will be hard work. The problem humanity faces today is a concentration of power and control, exhibited by the growing inequality in the world (the latest figures from Oxfam show the top 1% now have 48% of the wealth, forecast to pass 50% next year, and 80 people have the same wealth as 50% of the worlds population). It is a system that is rigged against the people and environment for the purposes of wealth generation for the few. It is a system that it's proponents truly believe in, and who deny the reality of climate change because if they are wrong, their whole model collapses. But things are changing, and fast. Particularly in the UK at the moment we are seeing the rapid ascent of the Green Party, particularly among young voters, as the population is becoming fed up of the establishment and austerity. The Green Party's message is 'The politics of the future doesn't have to look like the politics of the past'.

Leaving the market to solve the problem is clearly not working, we need substantial government intervention. Things like 'polluter pays' taxation and not allowing global trade agreements to take precedence over activities that would produce a lower net output of carbon dioxide like localised food production and subsidised, localised renewable energy production.

I strongly recommend reading Naomi Klein's 'This Changes Everything' for a background on the history, current situation, future solutions and what will happen if we don't take action. http://thischangeseverything.org/
It's hard not to empathize with the author. However, I think Sandi Metz put it well in Practical Object-Oriented Design In Ruby when she said:

"Concrete code is easy to understand but costly to extend. Abstract code may initially seem more obscure but, once understood, is far easier to change."

So, as with most things in life, it's all about balance: Readability vs Maintainability.
Because someone in the household lost their job.

Deflation makes employees more expensive even as demand slows. Even in some kind of ideal economy without downward nominal wage rigidity (which leads to people getting outright fired instead(, their wages get cut. But that can end up being almost as bad: almost everyone has mortgages, student loan debt, car notes, or credit card debt, and suddenly that debt is consuming more of their annual income, forcing them to cut back.

It's a problem with aggregate behavior and feedback loops. As long as you're zoomed in on the individual level, it doesn't make sense.

This is exactly what happened during the 2008 recession. Once triggered (in that case by the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, etc) it spreads through the economy and it's hard to break out of - we still haven't really done so. The Fed is still failing to meet the target inflation rate despite extraordinary monetary measures.
If the operators seem reasonable, you contact them privately with the IP and point out the implications. If they don't seem reasonable, you post it on Reddit and destroy their reputation. Unfortunately, quite a few operators are fools, knaves, or both.
Isn't what the author is descibing known as homesickness ? Not denying the feelings of isolation he is experiencing but loneliness in your usual environment and loneliness in new environment doesn't seem the same to me.
This is Carl, cofounder of Minus. Thank you for the suggestion, Ryan. We've been designing and iterating on an API and have just about finalized it. We'll implement this in a week's time or so, after we fix a few bugs first that folks on this list pointed out to us.
BTW, supposedly all Kodak Gallery photos are now on Shutterfly although this transfer happened quite a while ago: http://www.shutterfly.com/kodakgallery/
It was clear it was technologically possible to do mass electronic dragnet surveillance for a long time, but NSA officials have lied thousands of times about the breadth and extent of their collection activities and people that like to trust the government(and authorities in general) gave them the benefit of the doubt. Now it's out of the bag though and the public is apathetic so it's likely to continue.
But then when the 'servants' are replaced by robots people will complain that 'jobs' are lost.
The annoying thing about sous vide is that you need to be home at least 1-2h before dinner. If you're a lot at home, it's great though.
If you're going to be in Hong Kong this weekend, ping me. I'll be around. :)
Reminds me of the GIF Detectify got from Google after getting into their production servers because of a vulnerability in the "Google Toolbar" portal [1] :

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/blog.images/google/niceme...

[1] http://blog.detectify.com/post/82370846588/how-we-got-read-a...
This is probably the CRISPR technique article is talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

" By delivering the Cas9 protein and appropriate guide RNAs into a cell, the organism's genome can be cut at any desired location."

Holy crap, I had no idea the field was this advanced.
Off topic but your HN profile description still says Hacker School.
For the same reason an ant can be squished by stomping on it and an elephant can't: because they're bigger.
Yes, people foolishly gravitate toward trucks and SUVs, fattening the wallets of the car manufacturers and fueling the insanely stupid 7 year auto loan industry [1]. Of course, this is also disastrous for mitigating carbon emissions [2]. Additionally, they are a menace on the roadway through increasing pedestrian accidents and death [3] and likely increasing cyclist deaths [4]. They should be much more heavily regulated, for commercial use only, and require special licensing requiring regular accident avoidance training/testing.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/america-s...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...

3. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/05/09/study-links-rise-of-s...

4. https://nypost.com/2019/10/24/transportation-chief-says-suv-...
Because a system where companies maximize profits and government punishes unethical behavior according to the rule of law is a cornerstone of liberal society that many highly respected thinkers advocated for since the start of the Age of Enlightenment.
But it is rising anyway.
Yes, that was not lost on me.

I am however appalled at how many people chose to discuss attribution of the quote when the very quote itself instructs them not to. Reminds me of murderous zealots killing in the name of their merciful god; not in their savagery of course, but in the blinding irony of the situation.
I can see one problem with these benchmarks - you test dev version of Chrome and compare it with stable/released version of Safari...

Having said that - I'm using Chrome 6 on my Mac - it _feels_ faster then Safari 5.
Oh right, because compressing video adds information...
The language I use to build software with is precious to me. It's capabilities are often key to what I can do, how I can express myself.

The editor I use to write code is a commodity. Will switching to emacs help me write better software? Solve harder problems? No, it'll help me sling text faster -- which, unless you're doing fairly pedestrian things, is the least interesting, least common thing you should be doing each day.
One method can work in complement with the other.

Basically, with the Tim Ferriss, if you get to profitability in your experiment, you are 100% sure that you will get profitability as a business.

But if you don't get such result, it doesn't mean you should n't keep testing your idea the Customer Development way.
I'd also like to know how you are approaching this... We're also working on a SQL Azure project but still in the beginning phase
Yeah, that's why I picked 2010. In 2010 the File menu is no longer the round button like in 2007; it is labeled "File" again. And, it is pretty clever, especially regarding printing; print preview is build right into the print dialog box and updated in real time as you change options. It's already saved me time & paper.

Each cycle, Microsoft does usability tests with new users doing moderately complex stuff. One of their designers did a series of blog posts and videos about their approach to usability and usability testing for Office 2007 that was really interesting. The whole point of the Ribbon UI for Office 2007 and later was to make it easier for users to discover and use the advanced features of Office without training.
A resume is supposed to reflect who you are and what you can do. If yours doesn't, you are doing it wrong.
and 'aply' and 'gorvernment'?
It is much easier to contain bad software than it is to contain an virus that spreads using aerosols.

It is also much easier to stop bad software than bad biology. Software is much simpler than the human body.
That's it. I believe, like in any market the top earners, who are hard to get and hurt when they go will continue to get high pay. Since even if you include the world (and most jobs don't, they include some timezones, jurisdictions only) the market is still rather small.

But if you're just the average developer, like most of us really are - the higher competition will surely make it harder to negotiate higher pay.
> front load your high earning activities

That's a nice thought, but I'm sure this idea would be lost on 90% of the US population.

But if you think the remaining 10% "going back to be teachers" is going to save education, well, God help us.
But how much would consumers pay for clothing if mass-market clothing (which is only possible due to low wage labour) wasn't available? What with clothing being pretty essential to everyday living, I'd guess quite a bit more than the current market value of a t-shirt.
"Authoritarian regimes.." - oh I see, it is the "authoritarian regimes"..

Now go and check (it contains a story about FOIA requests to the UK government on Assange's case)

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/18/signs-of-u-k-misconduc...

It is the 6th (!) year that the litigation to obtain the information goes on.
What's missing from these debates is optionality. A company pays you not only what it takes for you to do the job, but also their perceptions of your options. Two people working the same job on-site at the same company can have a substantial pay difference even without negotiation because one is self-taught and has only high school while another has a master's degree from Stanford. Yes, the former's competent and shows drive and ambition and that's nice. The company just scored a dark horse. But the company also knows the former employee (likely) isn't as aggressively courted by other companies which can pay well, so they feel they can pay that person less.

If you're the only person in the world who can do what Facebook really needs done, they'll pay you $1M+ to do it from anywhere in the world.
> it schedules an "idle thread" that spends its time slice throttling down the CPU

Specifically (AFAIK, at least back then) on x86 the kernel schedules an interrupt and sends a single HLT[0] instruction, and only wakes up when the interrupt triggers. A smartly set up interrupt would have the CPU wake up only as needed for what is required to unblock the pending blocked operations.

Smarter schedulers would go as far as coalescing active events together to rush to idle yet wake up less often, and spend as much time down as possible in increasingly deeper C-states[1].

Back in the day some kernels would loop over NOP[1] instructions, so the CPU would effectively never sleep!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT_(x86_instruction)

[1]: https://gist.github.com/wmealing/2dd2b543c4d3cff6cab7

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_(code)
If we assume that people who did well in school end up being a positive return for the government, then this sounds good. Even if people abuse it by making their kids study hard or have multiple kids, it would end up being a positive return for the country and the pressure wouldn't be much different than what is seen in some east asian countries.
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Hahaha thanks. I'm not smart enough to consider second order effects at this point. It's more of a personal crusade that I know is right so I'll just have to do it see what happens .
Yes, it is strange. It's a scathing put-down couched in a pleasant tone. The author believes Gladwell is a fraud but doesn't have the guts to come right out and say it.
What studies have been conducted about the news covered by HN/its users/its karma system etc.? Is crawling of HN discouraged? Is there an archive of all HN data available somewhere for download? I noticed an "Ask YC" archive at http://ask.searchyc.com/ Are there other such places or lists?
There was a lot of talk about this subject at GDC this year. Lots of designers feel really uncomfortable with the Skinner box overtones of some of the facebook games and constant reinforcement that's become a standard part of the design toolkit. If the only thing you're offering is a slot machine or Skinner box without something else, then I personally think ethical questions start becoming important. But I also think that you've moved beyond the realm of designing and developing games and into the realm of gambling systems.

Addictive games that are addictive because they're compelling products that people have fun with? I find it hard to have any ethical qualms about making those. I have been a victim of Civilization's "just one more turn" effect since the early nineties, but I don't think there's any ethical stain on Sid Meier, Bryan Reynolds, Soren Johnson, or any of their teams. Sure, parts of these games could be viewed as psychologically manipulative, but then again, so could changing elements of a website according to psychological principles to increase conversion. The ethics and morality of using these tools hinges on intent.
You're entitled to a full refund.
I'd argue not failing but carefully emasculating. Old-fashioned masculinity has been systematically devalued, and many of its' traits demonized.
How is that an alternative theory? It reads to me as the same statement, except with an implicit value judgment (men deserve/should-be-entitled-to something better suited to them) layered over top of it.
Thank you. Visual Studio is the best IDE I've ever had the pleasure to work with. Any arguments about having to use a 'clunky IDE' just fall flat if you've ever used it.

Same goes with debugging. I love Go, but I hate the stance "You don't need a debugger to be a good programmer, there's nothing a few well-placed printf's can't solve". This is true but it doesn't say anything about the costs compared with it, how much more time you lose by not having a good debugger.
Please don't do this here. If you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't post until you do.
VT-d is branded as a virtualization feature, but it's also a killer security feature. It should be treated as a hard requirement for any system that has DMA-capable external interfaces like Firewire or Thunderbolt. It can be used to protect the system from exploits that run on the GPU or any of the other processors that are included in peripheral devices. But nobody's going to completely redesign the driver model of their OS if only 3% of their users can reap the benefits.
What if the sky were peuce?

If you expend more energy than you take in via calories, you lose weight, period. With a rational approach to food intake, that 10-15% the researchers claim is like cutting the crust off of a sandwich. It's nothing. You don't see a lot of obese animals in nature, regardless of any genetic metabolic mutation, because they have to actually work to acquire their food.

It's funny that when I see people stick to traditional diets, they gain weight at a vastly slower rate than people who eat fast food and drink sodas. They may still end up being technically obese, but it will be at age 70 instead of age 35.
I'd check myself, but I can't find my copy. It'd be a little surprising if that bit was included in either book, and even more surprising if it is more than a footnote, considering how well received Grossman's work is in the military. Traditionally mental health and psychology are areas the military has actively avoided, which is an obvious void when you look at the amount of resources dedicated to performance enhancement.
Open any freelance site like oDesk.com and search for opened job offers. You can see what is current ask for software development and make some money.
If you can't get "big project", then you're doing something wrong, for example you don't market yourself properly.
They should be talking about battery life; and battery life with 3G on. They left it at "Exceptional battery life" and "Battery capacity: 1100 mAh"[1], the latter definitely didn't do anything to boost confidence.

This is too much to ask, I agree. But then if I just want a phone to make calls and text then I would buy something even cheaper than this phone.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/215/specifications/
Thanks! :-)

My novel took 5+ years of blood, sweat and re-writes.

Writing a passable screenplay took five days, about six hours a day (evenings 6 - midnight). I don't expect I'll ever sell it, but I'm as certain as anything that it's better than a lot of screenplays that have been sold.

I'm mostly a poet, and love structure. Once I understood the structure of a screenplay, it just happened. Novels in contrast are these huge unstructured messy awkward wobbling teenage flailing morasses. The lack of structure, the lack of constraint, the lack of form is something I struggled with for a long time, and while I expect my next effort won't be quite as painful, I don't ever expect it to be easy.

"Form is liberating", as the engineer's proverb goes. Novels don't have it, and are therefore much more work.