jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's quid pro quo to include an obscure scam coin out of the blue into an entirely unrelated product, with a public promise from the scam club owners to donate their money to your business. The fact the the owner of signal had already been associated with MobileCoin for a long time makes it worse, not better.
As a trend, I've noticed that there are more companies with python/ruby/go/js based stacks than java/c++ stacks. However there are more jobs for Java/C++ than all the rest.

Large firms like Google/Amazon/Apple etc. tend to have an unquenchable need for skilled java/C++ devs. Going beyond the top firms large startups like Square/Uber/SalesForce similarly use java stacks.
I agree but disagree. A tendency towards strategically placed hard work is a talent of its own and to have that tendency is a form of luck, although there are those who believe they are self made and others are lazy. There really isn’t anything we are capable of doing that can’t be broken down into luck and innate ways of interacting with that luck.
Getting rid of “newstainment” and 24-hour news programs significantly improved the quality and breadth of the news I consume.

By just reading a quality daily newspaper and a couple of newsmagazines, I’m better informed than when I was a news junkie with cable news on in the background and news websites refreshing on my phone.

“Breaking news” is broken. Print media, especially weekly newsmagazines, have the luxury of time to actually think about their coverage and provide adequate research and follow-up. Conversely, space is limited, so if it’s not adding value, it gets chopped.

Live news, on the other hand, needs to alternate between being first to report, then filling time until something else occurs, all while making whatever is occurring seem more important than it really is.
> This kind of anti-feature is not what I signed up for.

At the risk of sounding like a Signal simp: don’t use this feature if you’d don’t like it? I have no idea whether this is a good or bad idea, I figure the proof of the pudding is in the tasting and I haven’t had a chance to try the signal payments feature, but I’m willing to extend the benefit of the doubt here at least as far as “I’ll withhold judgement til I can try it for myself.”

I really don’t get the ire on this. I think it’s good that whisper systems is forward looking and trying to be innovative and dynamic and go where users are rather than just sit around waiting to become irrelevant. Not all experiments or risks will pay off but that doesn’t mean risks and bets are bad.
> FinCEN distinguishes custodial exchanges with noncustodial wallets. It looks like signal is doing the latter.

We agree. There is a legal difference between a custodial exchange and noncustodial wallet. Just as there is a difference between a non-money messaging system and a noncustodial wallet. The comment you are responding to concerned itself with the latter.
I think a lot of people are surprised by statistics like “x% of people don’t [thing every modestly privileged person does]” because it’s easy to forget that society has a lot of fringes if you’re not regularly exposed to them.

My first reaction was “7% sounds low”, but again, that’s probably biased by my own experiences.
It looks impressive, but it would help to be able to tell the hype from reality:

"Sensors flood the device with terabytes of data every second" ... somehow I doubt the aggregate bandwidth of the device is > 1TB\s

Makes it harder to know how much of the rest of the 'explanations' are accurate.
That's a good point -- ensure you get the same class of shares as the founders. Yes, sometimes even founder shares get diluted to worthless, but it only happens when the alternative is the company folding, in which case the shares would be worthless anyways.

Here's the math I do:

share of company * realistic potential valuation * chance of hitting it * expected dilution.

chance of hitting it ~= 3%
expected dilution = 50%

So using your example:

0.0005 * 1B * 0.03 * 0.5 = $7500
I want ACID in my databases:

- Atomic -

Yep, but done with a global lock.

- Consistency -

Yep. Since it's NoSQL, there's no referential checks, so this is easy. Git itself probably wants index / commit tree has to be readable, and all attributes.json files be valid. I don't see any reason it wouldn't be.

- Isolated -

Sure, works fine, due to that global lock.

- Durable -

Check. Once it's written, it's written.

So, git doesn't get you any of this for free, and getting Atomic / Isolated is done by introducing a big ugly global lock. I guess I don't see the appeal of using git (or even a model like git) because it doesn't get you any interesting necessary features for free. I see the backup and history thing as a secondary feature -- neat, but not worth sacrificing ACID for.

That said, cool idea -- there's not a lot of code you need to get to a reasonably small codebase.
I believe he's using Seadragon, I'm a fan of it myself. It turns our Microsoft still produces some cool stuff. It lies on top of Silverlight I believe and a similar technology underlies Bing Maps w/ Silverlight which I highly recommend trying out.
what did you tell them when they said 'i have already bookmarks in my browser'?

i started hacking on a similar idea (a chrome extension that monitors every url I visit and logs them with a web service that performs snapshots and full text searches), but then realized chrome's history already performs full text searching.
$30-50M? Seriously, I will quit tomorrow and get a five person team of proven entrepreneurs also put together tomorrow, if I can get a $30M valuation with a VC coming in for 20% of that.
You missed his point. You aren't normal.
It's such a big area that it's hard to know where to start. Have you taken an intro class or something? That might be the best way to figure out what's out there.

I'm not sure what your computational background is but if you're not familiar with the basics like sequence alignment I suggest you check out a book. I'd recommend An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms by Neil C. Jones (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Bioinformatics-Algorithms...). In addition to describing the algorithmic techniques, it gives synopses of current research issues and big names in the field. There are also hundreds of sample problems - some of which are active research problems - and no answer key (because often these types of problems don't have clear "best" answers). It's kind of like being taught how to swim by being thrown in a lake. If you survive, you're better off for it.

Also, before approaching professors it helps to have read and understand their description of their research interests and maybe have read a few of their recent papers. This will give you an idea of whether they're doing something that you might be interested in or not.
OK.

I only read a compendium for a course I didn't take. :-) Was a cool subject.
Leonard Peltier is still in prison. It's extraordinarily unlikely that Manning will ever be paroled; the U.S. Government holds grudges, as Greenwald's spouse has so recently seen.
Thanks. I would have never guessed. Even as a child I had big hands, so... :)
From Wikipedia: "Historical materialism is a methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history first articulated by Karl Marx (1818–1883) as the materialist conception of history. It is a theory of socioeconomic development according to which changes in material conditions (technology and productive capacity) are the primary influence on how society and the economy are organised. Historical materialism looks for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life. Social classes and the relationship between them, plus the political structures and ways of thinking in society, are founded on and reflect contemporary economic activity." [1]

From about.com: "Carol Hanisch's essay explains the idea behind the phrase "the personal is political." A common debate between "personal" and "political" questioned whether women's consciousness-raising groups [during the late 1960s and 1970s] were a useful part of the political women's movement. According to Hanisch, calling the groups "therapy" was a misnomer, as the groups were not intended to solve any women's personal problems. Instead, consciousness-raising was a form of political action to elicit discussion about such topics as women's relationships, their roles in marriage, and their feelings about childbearing." [2]

It is essential from any angle to talk about and recognize social, cultural, and economic historical and present systems in any discourse, even about one's personal experience. Activists and academics have been recognizing this for centuries, and the principle applies as much to supposedly democratic, egalitarian "technology" as any facet of life

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

[2] http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/a/consciousness_r...
I liked the part about "To support user interface widgets, NeWS expanded the original PostScript stack-based language into a complete object oriented (OO) programming style with inheritance."
the article makes the day i ship my shit be the next week, not next month
Seriously I am trying to avoid screen before sleep
Agreed, and it also ends up setting user expectations more realistically in terms of actual supported features. No more of users asking "why doesn't this work in IE" and blaming the site developers.
In Australia you need ID to get a pre-paid phone or SIM. Organised crime just imports their mobile connectivity from Mexico - the roaming fees are nothing to them. http://www.theage.com.au/national/bikies-trafficking-in-data...
Yeah, it's a very nice way to get around this well known problem. However what surprises me most is that if they ever want to be adopted on a large scale the clients ought to be better than this. ALL TRACE of your money is stored in a single file (wallet.dat) and there is no way with the default clients to back it up and encrypt it (very easy to do with dropbox etc). In real life we never carry all our money with us and we can block our credit cards should these be lost...
It sounds to me like you're coming at the question without understanding all the facts either. Strong static typing doesn't mean you need to specify all your types. That's an orthogonal issue. There was actually a variant of Smalltalk, called Strongtalk, which turned it into a statically typed language but allowed existing Smalltalk programs to run unaltered.
This ignores the number one rule of just about everything that involves dealing with other people: know your audience. True, there are some generalizations one could make about hackers. But by and large, we're all different. Rather than trying to figure out what hackers want in general, try to figure out what the hacker in front of you wants.
It's embarrassing to make the claim, but I think I have a solution worth trying regarding the display of scores.

1) Revert to showing scores for top level comments. This will allow people to know whether the top-of-page responses are well-liked by the community, and how fast this approval drops off as one scans down the page. It will also privilege top level comments, subtly discouraging people from pinning their answer to the current top-of-page comment when it's not really a reply.

2) Keep hiding scores for replies (as it is now). This seems to be increasing civility, and discouraging quick quips. It might even make sense to discount the points internally, giving yet more emphasis to the top level. This emphasis is important because the top level dictates the overall position on the page (things move as blocks). Hiding the response points will also encourage people to vote up threads as a whole, which helps with the case of useful questions which lead to good answers.

3) Now that top-level is emphasized, add a 'fold' to the page. But instead of basing it on number of comments, cut off at a negative point level. As they currently do, downvoted items will migrate toward the bottom, becoming fainter as they go negative. But rather than eventually displaying a fixed negative number (-4), just put it below the fold and only visible with a 'show all' link. This will discourage trolling and piling on, as once a comment is below the fold it's unlikely to attract many additional viewers. And it will encourage others to 'clean up the page' if they feel their vote will have a clear consequence. Starting to fade at 0 and folding at -4 seems like a good start, but one could also fold earlier or even bring new unvoted comments in mid-fade.

I think this hybridized approach would be easy to try and has advantages over both individual systems. Thanks!
This is a parody account, it’s not real.
Love the use of quasiquotation here:

import Database.PostgreSQL.Simple.SqlQQ (sql)
...

let index :: Handler Markup
index = do
tweets <- query_ [sql|
SELECT "user".name, tweet.contents
FROM "user"
INNER JOIN user_tweet ON "user".name = user_tweet."user"
INNER JOIN tweet ON user_tweet.tweet = tweet.id
ORDER BY tweet.time DESC
|]
Which bank is this, if I may ask?

Most of the popular Financial Institutions seem to be on board with Plaid.
Tesla Model S and 3 in terms of collision safety are the safest cars ever sold in America. There is a giant crumple zone where the engine would be in an ICE vehicle. The Cybertruck will be the same.
If you can fuel your truck with your wind generator "for free", it could have more than a few heads scratched.
Could you live in one of these cybertrucks? Put in a sofabed in the back, small kitchen, work table, router...
Not an expert, but I'm pretty sure the DA is part of the executive branch.
Maybe this is controversial, but I really like the aesthetic. It definitely has a futuristic, industrial cyberpunk vibe. I wouldn't call it "pretty", but it's distinctive.
More mass = less acceleration when the same force is applied, and acceleration is what really kills you. You can't argue with physics.
No, but I think a lot of people group Musk and Jobs together. It's not that one is "better" than the other or anything like that, but rather they're very different people.
It's starting from basic ideas. This was posted in ELI5 or askscience. Talking about what "everyone thinks" about gravity, a complicated science thing, is silly.

Your post boils down to, you don't like how cute it is. OK.
JPEG2000 had awesome option of having progressive quality. During compression user could specify number of quality years, with each layer having specific compression ratios. Browser could download a chunk of JPEG2000 and render it, and depending on bandwidth available the browser would keep downloading and improving image quality.

Both Jasper support this (ilyrrates) and OpenJpeg (-r and -q) support this functionality.
There are some languages heading towards this. ATS [1] provides a restricted form of dependent types [2] that allows you to do what you want and is designed for systems programming. You can do safe pointer arithmetic for example.

Idris [3] is another language with dependent types (and is more Rust-like) designed for systems programming. I don't think Idris has type level presberger arithmetic though making some things a bit verbose.

[1] http://www.ats-lang.org/
[2] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2010/09/01/dependent-types-in-ats.h...
[3] http://www.idris-lang.org/
> using some kind of Accept header.

That would be way saner, the problem is that it seems no one wants wants to touch HTTP. Browser vendors work under the assumption that whatever feature they implement, it only has a chance of being adopted if it can be hacked in other browsers with javascript shims.
Does Soylent explicitly and specifically claim to be a total food replacement?

Or do we all just think that because of the original blog post?
There's a spectrum of concerns... Same as there's a whole range of options between "I live in a compound guarded by genetic clones of me, conditioned to do my bidding" and "my house has no doors, I trust everybody"

As such, an encrypted file system even on a VPS provides slightly more protection than an unencrypted one. If it's worth the effort depends on your threat model.

So, if you're really the person who needs a tamper-resistant box that's untrusted after unexpected downtime, even renting rackspace is a bad idea. You probably want it under physical control.

If you're however an average user, a VPS with encrypted FS provides decent protection against most casual attackers. For many of us, that's enough.
Well, we have a production-quality optimizer (LLVM). So it'll always take some time to compile.

Eventually once all of our LLVM patches are upstream and the versions including the patches make it into common repositories you may be able to use your system LLVM to compile the Rust compiler, at which point the compile times will drop dramatically.

We continue to work on compile speed of Rust code all the time.
I assume you're familiar with ATS? What don't you like about it?
If your home line is down and nearby cell stations are not operational, then what? Pigeons? :)
You don't need an IDE, but for larger scale projects, I find that IDE features do save time.

However, with some effort (and some rough edges), Emacs can be configured to do anything a "dedicated" IDE can do.

The main timesavers for me are navigation (quick open file, browse tree, jump to definition) and refactoring (find & rename references). Emacs can do all these. You might want to look into setting up ctags, speedbar, syntax highlighting & indentation prefs etc.

A quick google finds a couple of guides:

* http://truongtx.me/2013/03/10/emacs-setting-up-perfect-environment-for-cc-programming/
* http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html

Which both seem quite approachable. I didn't see refactoring covered, but it's also do-able.
So...Karnov? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnov
Then again, you might be a hacker on the NSA payroll and are currently reading my raunchy emails to the hot chick in the marketing department.
Lisp and ML (as in Haskell) are dark magic from the early days of computing that are continually rediscovered. Currently they form an undercurrent, not just of language features but programming philosophy, that is shaping the new and emerging languages of today. Many of us have observed how learning a language like Lisp and becoming familiar with the idioms of programming with it can have a profound impact on how we write in other languages.

In this spirit, consider a lesser-mentioned language from the same era- Forth. Discard any preconceptions you may have about stack-oriented languages and take a few days to sit down and read "Thinking Forth"[1], which delves deeply into the architectural philosophy that goes along with the language. Forth is at once mind-numbingly close to hardware and surprisingly well-suited to readable, high-level expression.

[1]http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinking-forth/
It sounds to me like this Cornucopian belief is just the same 'let the market handle it' position with better branding.

So the counter-argument also remains the same: 'the market' moves in fits and starts, and there is very real and severe socio-economic cost to disruptions between the start of price shocks and the emergence of alternatives.

It's not unlike advocating a central bank to (theoretically) smooth out natural business cycles, not because the market would implode without it, but because you believe you can fill in a bit of the extreme troughs at the cost of taking a commensurate amount off the extreme peaks.
kinda unrelated, but is there proper framework to do this? I remember hacking the volume button for the camera back when I was doing stuff in the jailbreak space and all i remember was it was hella annoying
Are you the same Skywing that used to post on Genmay like 6-8 years ago? I think I bought a Toshiba laptop from you.
When I needed to get my wisdom teeth removed I googled local dentists and found one that had a decent website with an online contact form. I made my reservation through email. The only reason it isn't more common to do this yet is precisely because most websites are complete garbage. (Flash-only with no contact info is particularly common.)

Having a good website will get you a competitive advantage in the market segment I'm a part of. (And my segment, people who don't want to deal with automated call systems or dead trees of phone numbers is growing every day.)
That's the kind of bet that you can win repeatedly ... until the time comes that you don't, and break the bank. Like betting on prices rising in a bubble.
They have done this with Facebook, after setting up your People hub becomes a merged list of both your contacts and facebook friends. Status updates from both etc.

I believe similar Twitter integration is in the works.
Makes me wonder how many people just punch in "Maiden".

Of course those security questions are nearly useless anyway.
Indeed, there is a market. It's not huge, but it has some potential. Look at this page (http://codecanyon.net/category/plugins/wordpress?sort_by=sal...) and you'll find out that the top selling plug-in made over $45K in sales in less than one year.

Certainly not all plug-ins sells that much, but having been in CodeCanyon and ThemeForest for a while, I learned that people pay for "Premium". Premium is when you don't find something like it in the Open Source world.
TipTheWeb ( http://tiptheweb.org/ ) lets you tip almost anything, as long as it is free to access. When a publisher claims their site, they'll find the tips waiting for them. (If tips go unclaimed for a really long time, they get returned to the tipper's account).
It has to be open source (at least the PHP code). Not that I agree with it, but they (WP guys) consider plugins and themes derivated from WordPress.

As far as the market, it is hughe, but not very friendly to paid stuff...
> Need to change something, put in a a request to IT who might get around to it in a week if you are lucky.

If the change happens at all. The IT department might say "we don't have the time to do that," or "other users depend on the app being like this so we can't change it to be like that," or even "why do you need that, your justification isn't good enough."

Excel is the non-programmer or non-admin equivalent of "I'll just bang that out in [php | python | perl | powershell]." We've all done it, we will all continue to do it, and yes it will look like an absolute mess...that probably winds up powering a Fortune 50 company.
Shame it doesn't work on Firefox, I'd love to try it out. Maybe someday.
Here's Google's approach to web standards, for example: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1356125702513418249?s=20
Diet is most important, you can exercise as much as you want but if you're eating 2 Big Macs for every meal you won't last long on this Earth. Most diets I agree are supplements that are designed to make people "feel good" without doing the extra effort to track the foods they are eating. Maybe you mean meal plans/diet plans, because actual dieting is really what slims you down/bulks you up
I just realized something. Riffing on how Excel is UI/DB/biz logic in a huge unbounded zone, I think the reason it’s so popular is that people use it to build PRODUCTS. They don’t call them products, don’t sell them, but a well-built and complex spreadsheet is basically a mini app.

What else do we have that’s this powerful? And don’t say Airtable, although they clearly “get it” - it’s not about files, it’s about building mini products.
There doesn't seem to be anything apparent about Suryavarman's origins, at least according to what I've read from Cambodian scholars.
What public money do you think is going toward producing PhDs? PhDs are funded by teaching and research work. They aren't paid to get the PhD.
You need some kind of documentation or a video demonstration. It's not at all obvious how to make an animation with this.