jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's good for 97% of the time, but not for the 3% where prices either crashes or goes way-up (volatility blackswan). These stressful situations tests the 1:1 peg. (which is why I mentioned the $4000 price crash). They probably have 1. good reserves ratios and 2. very liquid assets as reserve.
They = winners, FB = winner. Consumers and their customers = losers (?)
Yeah, but tech is not a zero-sum game, and the path of history is not linear. Email is becoming a pay to play system where you’re spam if you’re not one the approved senders, and this seems like an elegant idea to correct that.
Yes, the generators literally have to push harder and slow down.
We can't really talk about the sucess or failure of Surface, actually. Microsoft sold a few of them at $12,000 each to hotels, luxury stores, etc... but never intended to make it a mass-consumer product.
Great advice, but it's not realistic to assume that people will do this.
NPR's Planet Money. The Moth.

I also +1'd This American Life, and Radio Lab.

At some point I liked You Look Nice Today -- it is really funny, but intellectually vacuous.

Econtalk is quite good, but a bit dry.
It's got to be coincidence that 40.48% of the marketing sites got less than 1000 visitors, and 40.48% of the businesses in the survey had a single founder right?
Is that an opinion, or a fact backed up with evidence?

(Not being snarky, I would really like to know)

Edit. Oh yeah of course. wooshes self
Google "bitcoin market" - they are quite fungible, for now. There's really very little risk in accepting them, as long as you don't hold them.

That said, how many people will try to pay you with them?
When I Spotlight for "Applications" meaning "the folder with all my applications in it", instead it finds (only) a folder named Applications somewhere deep in the XCode example code with sod all in it.

Any ideas how to get it to do what I want instead of something else? (or at least, also do what I want).
The apps you ship on the marketplace are your portfolio. Focus on making quality apps.
Don't be too afraid. Nvidia's driver come as a module. There's lots of documention out there, how to make them work.
For my own personal projects (which admittedly have very modest requirements) I quite like waf. It neatly avoids the problem faced by most non-standard build-systems by distributing itself as a self-extracting bundle of python scripts small enough to add to your repository (<100KB). There's recently been a new release (1.6) with some API changes, but as the standard model is to redistribute the whole system this won't break anyone's build.

http://code.google.com/p/waf
There's a nifty tool called IETester which allows you to render a page in every version of IE simultaneously. It works pretty well.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
I really liked this article.

I've been using dropbox in much the same way you use Google docs. I like that added feature that the files are available on my computer and I can easily get them through the drop box site if I need to.

I've also been using my ipad in much the same way as you use your kindle. I've read so many books since I got it.

I could probably increase my online participation. I think this is my 6th comment on HN. I should really fix up my blog too.
You as a customer are not expected to replace the card at all. It's intended for the manufacturer.
- Launch a couple of apps into the Market, and get some good numbers (number of downloads, rating). Yes, this is easier said than done, but this is essential for your learning too
- Have a personal page where you showcase your applications. Ideally accompanied by a blog
- Update your LinkedIn

I'm not interested in consulting, but I've had several requests. Usually they have had a look at the three of the things I mention above.

I guess generic advice by freelancers on finding clients should help you too.
This tutorial is great for beginners, but if you have some experience with Python, you might want to try sjbrown's advance tutorial using Pygame and Twisted.

https://github.com/sjbrown/writing_games_tutorial
This has historical precedent. The far-right in the Weimar republic were treated far more softly than the communists were. The complicit behaviour of the authorities definitely played favourites and can probably be partially blamed for what happened.
The reflexive "both-sides"-ism needs to stop. One chunk of the population is (mostly) tethered to reality and the other chunk has descended into insane, delusional, conspiratorial rabbit holes. The two "realities" are not equally valid.
Nice! How does the screenshot thing work?
There's already a word for the "suckers": HENRY - High Earner, Not Rich Yet

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/24/magazines/fortune/tully_henr...
They are the only U.S. media outlet that doesn't just blatantly make shit up. Unlike the NY Times where it's rare to make it through a full page without finding a blatant error, Salon is almost never wrong.
Race to the bottom! ;-)
I just signed up and did an accessibility review for the Cancer Council, South Australia :)

I didn't really care about signing up to see what was available as I was curious and it was very little effort to type in my details, and a pretty quick process.

I can't see how to add my company name which I'd like to do if I'm going to continue to volunteer my time and expertise - especially if Sparked is going to be making money out of it.

One of my primary motivations for doing pro-bono work is as a P.R exercise.

It's cool - there are some very specific types of work that this will be good for and I intend to return and try and do one a week.

My only complaints?

1. The page randomly refreshed while I was typing my post and I had to retype everything (this time I drafted it OUTside the browser!!)

2. The "verify email" doesn't have a valid plain text part so I had to open the email in gmail rather than copying and pasting the link from pine into my browser.
The most interesting part there, to me, was the currently first comment by poke111. I'll reproduce it here:

Imagine the government found some way to fund itself without any tax revenue at all. Say, a giant reserve of natural resources were found on federal land, and now tax revenue isn't needed to fund the government. As a libertarian-leaning conservative I personally would be delighted to see all federal income tax go to zero. After all, we've always been told that taxes are needed to fund the government. But somehow I think some people would not be happy that even "rich" people wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore.

And here I think is where the real difference lies: libertarian and conservative type people see taxes as a necessary evil. If the government wouldn't need the money, the ideal situation would be zero taxation. But I think liberals tend to see things in the opposite way: Taxes are a way to acheive fairness, and funding the government is a convenient means to that end, in the absense of which they would find a different means.

Conservatives want to set the level of taxation to match their preferred level of spending (at least in theory), and liberals want to set the level of spending to match their preferred level of taxation. The difference is whether taxation is the means or the end.

Any truth to this technically? It feels right to me but I'm neither an economist or much of a politician.
Try Cornell Law's extensive on-line collection of statutes and rules -- the Fed. R. Evid. are at http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre
> If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well

That is not how monitoring should work. But this is also not how status pages should work.
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At the cost of being practically forced to write your own initramfs, since few of the distro ones actually support this. Surprisingly how few projects use uswsusp anymore...
I had the impression that they are still run like mostly independent companies who only share some data on the backend.
I'm hoping the only concessions will be battery and maybe camera. A 4" iPhone 6s with an A9, 2gb of RAM and 32gb disk would be my next phone.
I agree with your comment except the last sentence. Engineers also value heroics, so it's unfair to lay the blame at the feet of 'business people'. Plenty of tech startups exhibit this pattern long before there are 'management types' around.
But what does that have to do with with the HN audience?
I know many many extremely intelligent, driven, and practical people that want to start a startup (or have started one), but lack the mentorship to put them into the right mindset. Great mentors are really difficult to find, and it's fantastic that you're offerring your advice to people that would otherwise have a hard time getting it. (Of course some funding is nice too, though I'd argue it's less important).
I agree that the problems science/engineering PhD's are facing are similar (though not quite as severe) to the problems experienced by PhD's seeking academic positions in humanities and social sciences.

There's one big difference, though - the CEOs of Sun Micro, Intel, IBM, and so forth all testified in front of congress that a shortage of science/engineering PhD's endangers US competitiveness, prompting congress to increase supply through visa programs (and PR programs aimed at young Americans). This almost certainly made (and continues to make) the glut worse.
Dose this include VBA interoperability?

From the Excel systems I have seen a lot of the business logic is coded at the VBA level. So without full VBA support you only have half the a solution.
Technically, 100%. I'm full SSD right now though which has a seriously noticeable difference from from HDD but for what I do most days NVME isn't justifiable. I see others who can take advantage of the speeds and do so with huge returns.

I do have 2 super SFF HP boxes that only take NVME in the M.2 drive so have one on hand but it isn't installed at the moment.
Most real economists go much further than the sound bite types of stuff. I mean, the article itself says:

"A number of peer-reviewed academic studies have found little to no impact on hiring as states and municipalities have raised the minimum wage."

Those are economists doing that research.
I don't think OP meant that we are expected to train other people, unless you are a licensed therapist whose job is to do so.

I believe their implication was that we can and should be training ourselves, which is something we already do every day.
That solution requires a routable, Non-RFC1918, IPv4 address somewhere to work. If I understand CG-NAT correctly, you don't get a routable address on your equipment.
For my parents, I removed ie and replaced it with chrome. I told them its faster for gmail and works better in general. Plus that it auto updates (which are important to apply quickly due to malware) and I wouldn't have to be called as much. They totally bought into it and I didn't even need to tell any white lies.
> So far I think I prefer the visualizations in http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

A thread from 2015 about that book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183725.
I’d just like other browsers to show an inkling of support. I’m tired of chro[me/nium] being so far ahead I can’t risk the learning.
I’m in the ARIN region. Two things:

1. My home has Verizon fiber. No native IPv6. I have a tunnel for this, but such solutions aren’t going to work for the masses. The other in-region residential provider, Comcast, has great native IPv6 service, but had layer 2 performance issues versus price.

2. At $dayjob I just ordered a circuit from Level3/Centurylink for a branch site. No IP justification form was required if I needed only IPv4 /30. But for dual IPv4 /30 + IPv6 /126, I was required to provide written justification. Shouldn’t this be the other way around? Unencumbered IPv6 for all, with paperwork for IPv4?

EDIT: these are not site allocations, just point-to-point link addresses, hence the /126. Still, I’m being asked to justify IPv6 but not IPv4.
You can consider becoming a consultant. See "Don't Call Yourself a Programmer"[0] by Patrick McKenzie. Also see the link he posted to another thread.[1]

You're being nickel-and-dimed because you don't value yourself enough. Stop charging hourly rates and stop working for middlemen.

[0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960#up_4247615
Google can't prevent an OEM from installing Android on a crappy device, but they could refuse to pass it in the CTS, which would mean they couldn't include Google Play, Gmail, etc.
The recruiters did indeed lie to you about the size of the buckets and how far up they went. They say they try to keep things statistically significant, but the number of people in my band was pretty low, and it was clear that some good people were going to get screwed.

Something is wrong when you are shafting great people in one part of the company while promoting knuckle-draggers in another. Part of Ballmer/Brummel's trouble is that they couldn't seem to recognize who was honestly contributing versus who was parasite, or an under-performer, or someone toxic who was pushing out good people to serve their personal gain.
If it makes you feel any better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

"Recent scholarship confirms that merchants made far more money than miners during the Gold Rush"
I have been an owner of the 87-key version for 4 months. Cherry MX.

My observations:
The keyboard itself is heavy and feels nice. I love the lack of obnoxious branding. The backlight is actually pretty useful and has a few settings for brightness. I primarily use this one at home, but I've considered getting another one for the office. Would recommended.
Saving the world economy from a pandemic and creating the equivalent of a vaccine printer
= 2x their stock price. If anything i d say investors are being pessimistic
Nothing! Since quitting my job and becoming self-employed, there are now no bosses or coworkers or anything else to stop me from coding (except HN of course!)
Interesting how judgment is assumed in this question. A question like “why aren’t you living in Istanbul” feels very neutral, whereas OP’s question can feel like a moral suggestion. Seems unfair to presuppose such things, though especially in a caustic way
Yes, this is definitely possible. You can maybe try computing some kind of image distance between frames or some keyframe extraction.

Once you compute the features, the search is very efficient! I tried it for searching in the 2M photos dataset from Unsplash and it takes like 2-3 seconds: https://github.com/haltakov/natural-language-image-search

I plan to run my personal photos through it :)
Perhaps this is because many problems are fundamentally the same. Understand the requirements, research the tools, combine the tools in a clean architecture, ...

And the more tools you have used the quicker you can figure out new ones, at least for what you need.
Just use Java, then your FooClassFactory instance can just be named fooClassFactory :)
Um, C has complicate low level features. Not sure how that is better.
It seems that a manual-ad summary service seems to attract self-promoters.

It may also scale poorly against YouTube submissions.
Metal is written in Objective-C and C++, with Swift bindings, it isn't going away.
This is such an inspiring story of how @thenickfrost literally launched a startup while at war in Afghanistan, and is now full time on it. Amazing.
From his Youtube page:

"UPDATE: Lady Gaga has approved the parody!!! Album release information coming soon!"

Apparently, the manager was making decsions without actually consulting her. Typical PHB from my experience. I'd fire the guy.

http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/gaga-update/

Edit: link
If stalkers and other unsavory types have unmonitored access to my computer and phone, them getting a file listing places I've been is the least of my worries.
(2) You shouldn't have to manage them manually. Also, but orthogonal to that is that the multitask bar blows from a user experience point of view. (Just by way of example, if you do decide that the user should manage memory manually, you should at the very least provide some kind of indication about how much memory/threads/resources each app is currently using, otherwise the user is just shooting blanks in the dark (sic)). You didn't previously (need to do this) under single tasking. For most apps therefore single tasking provided a superior user experience.

The obvious exception is apps that do some kind of notification, e.g. if you wanted to write your own SMS or twitter style client. Given the vast numbers of apps coded for the single tasking paradigm, it would have been better to create some kind of 'opt-in' notification API (a good one, not whatever they had previously).

(3) to an experienced eye the performance degrades as it reaches those limits and starts having to do app level garbage collection. Also, this means that apps need to pay more attention to their own memory management and the low-memory messages they are receiving from the OS. In a perfect world this would have already happened. Given the ... how shall I put it ... journeyman level of experience of most iOS developers this is an utterly unrealistic expectation. This is a big issue.
I guess I can't blame you for philosophical differences. Personally, I do a lot of research before investing my time in building something. Not only do I try to avoid NIH, but I prefer investing my time in clever and useful things not done before -- I tend to think I'm good at producing novel things. I suppose others doing something similar a year later and getting more attention comes with the territory.

Now... open source vs commercial, that's a whole different discussion (although probably not what you'd expect).
Ever since the redesign their sites are almost unusable on my machine. When will sites realize that floating part of the page so that only part of it scrolls not only leads to lag but also makes for a visually confusing user experience. Slashdot did this exact thing with their header when they redesigned their site several months ago, luckily they have since switched to a fixed header.

Not only that, but I seem to get a 2px gray line that fills the width of the page and scrolls with the content. Ever since the redesign, every time I stumble upon one of their pages I click the back button.

But if that was not enough, they traded a system where each site had its own look and feel for one where every site looks exactly the same (except for a small logo in the header).
There is a general tip about not friending your Mom. While I appreciate that, in my case I mostly use facebook for keeping in touch with close and extended family spread across the world. So in my case, it's the friend that gets the ditch.

In an ideal world, though, I wouldn't need to ditch anyone. I have no qualms with my friends because no relationship is black and white and every relationship has a context. By Facebook showing my comment on a friend's picture in my Mom's newsfeed, it's showing the content alright, but without any context.
Harder to infect others if you’re dead.
On the other hand, this is quite sensitive data, which is why a respected nonprofit organization would be much more trustworthy, and which is why I understand the decision of the referees.
There are reasons other than zoning affecting supply. Regulations exist for a reason. While some of those reasons are of debatable merit, some are good.

You probably don't want to place housing in an industrial area. There are environmental implications that can affect public health. Likewise, you probably don't want to place a ten story apartment block in a neighborhood filled with single family housing since it is going to interfere with other property owners enjoyment of their own land.

Yet there is more than zoning to consider. Building codes raise the cost of construction, and ultimately cost of housing. Historically, parts of cities have been lost to flames because of how building were constructed (among other reasons).

Now I am not saying that all of the regulations are good. On the contrary, I believe that they are too restrictive to meet housing needs. On the other hand, you will always have someone calling shenanigans based upon the philosophy behind those regulations and how the community views that philosophy.
I think you would be surprised. Millions of undocumented immigrants (and a lot of citizens as well) in the US do this all the time, for years and years.
Just another aggregator of Amazon affiliate links (tag readthistwice-20) using photos and content from other sites.
Parent was probably referring to outgoing people who don't spend most of their time in the Internet.
Originally to protect the patient in surgery, not the surgeon.
That makes no sense. Selling snake oil to sick people results in, among other possible side effects, dead snake oil customers. That's a historical fact, which is why there is regulation.
Like that's every going to happen.

Online training though - a whole other thing. Imagine math and physics with interactive 3D visualisations.

Or for kids, a virtual version of one of those 30-in-1 electronics teaching kits.

And so on.

If this works it could be a game changer, and it could also create a whole new app industry.

I just hope the technology is non-crappy, and it doesn't get managementised into uselessness.
I like this objection, because it illustrates why category theory (or the category-theoretical way of thinking) is valuable even in elementary discussions.

“Isomorphism” is a great example of a word that is not well-defined out of context. An isomorphism of rings is not the same as an isomorphism of groups, for example.

In category theory, an isomorphism is a morphism that has an inverse. Category theorists sometimes use the punning device of treating “iso” as an adjective, so that an “isomorphism” is an “iso morphism”.

But before you can talk about morphisms, you need to know which category you‘re talking about. An isomorphism in the category of sets is indeed precisely the same thing as a bijection, so in that sense bijections are necessarily isomorphisms. But the word is traditionally used in the context of categories of algebras (e.g. groups, rings, fields, etc.): the morphisms of those categories are the homomorphisms (i.e. functions that preserve the algebraic structure), and so of course the iso morphisms in those categories are also homomorphisms.
The coating will be nearly the same of the copper wires and regarding the fragility i guess they are not deploying a single fiber, so the cable composed by multiple fibers should have the same mechanical characteristics of the copper one. Imo, no particular differences from the weather endurance point of view.
I don't think this would be any different to bartering--governments generally tax that too--so you'd still have a tax liability.
Does community have expert economists? I mean the traditional currency markets have been around for quite a while and a lot of really smart people participated in their development. Bitcoin has a small and immature community and there are a lot of things which require certain expertise and experience to judge about correctly.
That comment should not be downvoted. Unshielded electronics have problems with high radiation, because gamma particles are apt to corrupt memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
Given that the fiber is placed inside of duct that it's strung from the poles you could reasonably expect it to have the same resilience as existing copper infrastructure. Hanging anything from the poles, especially if they are used for delivery of electricity, is heavily regulated so there shouldn't be any weather related issues that wouldn't also take out copper. Those should consist primarily of things like downed poles.