jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For many novice developers, web development imposes its own barriers to entry. First of all, you need some server somewhere, which means you need to know something about servers, maybe have some sysadmin skills, and likely that you'll have to make some sort of ongoing cash outlay for it. Secondly, if you want to get paid you need to figure out how to process payments, or at the very least what ad network you want to attempt to embed.

On the dead simple end where you just want essentially a blog with ads, it's easy. On the not-so-simple end, where you want to build an application you can charge money for, the app store model is very straightforward. You don't have to make any decisions about servers or hosts, do any sysadmin work, worry about traffic spikes and scalability, and your cash outlays (aside from development time) are all upfront and totally predictable. Similarly, payment processing is already there and handled for you. And lastly, you don't have to worry about SEO or distribution channels because you don't have a choice in the matter.

It's easier to put up a web page somewhere than to build an app for the app store . . . but for a large number of people building an app for the app store is much simpler than putting up a web application. And that, I think, is a big reason why the app store exploded.
It helped and is helping people escape oppressive regime in Venezuela. Your snarky question comes from the place privilege as you've never experience this kind of oppression.

More info: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-adoption-venezuela-research
>but even then, it's worth noting that some placebos work better than others, and likely placebos work differently for each individual. So for something like pain, which can be controlled somewhat by psychological intervention, a better placebo could have merit.

Do you think it's ethical for manufacturers to advertise sugar pills as real drugs being able to treat illness, even though their effects are purely placebo?
HN killed it.
Coding prototypes without design direction, that is the real time waster from my point of view.
> I have no idea who the CEO of any other car company is...

On the topic of a good story, allow me to introduce you to the story of Carlos Ghosn, who assembled together Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi into a single conglomerate, was arrested and possibly framed for financial crimes, and then snuck out of Japan by staging a fake party while he was under house arrest, and is now an international criminal.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/06/16/the-wild-h...
Exactly, the whole piece seems designed to allege nebulous, nefarious indirect ties that somehow lead magically from Silicon Valley to bad things
It always has been. Financial news is always the best for objective opinions without bullshit spin.
I meant 1900s. Thanks, fixed
If you read this article and know the types of things that Scott writes, remember this experience and try to imagine how many other nytimes outrage articles are similarly full of lies.
And (genuine question) how do the Tiger Lake laptops compare with the M1 MacBooks thus far?
As you are right with the general simplicity of additive solutions, it is in differential maths where many great insights have come from.

* Infinitesimal differences or to the derivatives of functions in calculus, differential geometry, algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.

* General relativity with it's underlying differential geometry and differential topology for manifolds, pullbacks and covariant derivatives or differentials of vector fields and tensor fields

* Difference in differences between treatment group versus a control group

I couldn't imagine what our understanding of the world would be like without subtractive solutions.
Java runs only on the Java interpreter. C and C++ run on the bare metal of the CPU.

Is Java modeled around a central repository of all dependencies so users can download random binaries off the internet?
I think it is more crucial because most people only got the one car they need so once a car go out of use you need to immediatly manufactur a different one to fill up the gap.

With electronics it is a bit different, people hoard them and even if someone's tablet breakes there is a good chance that there is another one in the house or you can use a laptop instead or your phone or whatever.
I'm not familiar with Dhall, but that looks pretty neat! Thanks for sharing.
Any chance you're going to release a nude version of classy finder?
I tend to believe in the value of those magic moments and think we should raise expectations in terms of training and practice to appreciate and understand them (I've never used Finagle so I don't know the specifics of it, maybe it is beyond any reasonable standard of comprehensibility).

The problem is when the magic isn't happening. How do you convince yourself or someone you work with to take off the wizard hat, come down out of the clouds and implement the naive/verbose/ugly solution because the elegant stroke of genius hasn't come and the feature is taking forever?

This is where Go and PHP shine, less temptation to guild the lily.
I'm listening on noise cancelling headphones to instrumental music.

+ turn off all notifications

+ block enough time for uninterrupted work

+ write down all steps and goals before starting to work
Damn great car! I hope you still have it!
Someone in the past must have invented a wide encoding unlike the popular transition format. I wonder if using that for some use cases would have been less pain because it would remove the whack-a-mole symptom: nothing would work at all until you did all the work to consume/transcode as appropriate.

I suppose it's moot at this point.
I believe that is a type of brake, a press brake.
Google makes a crap ton of money from Android, both directly and indirectly. It's not going anywhere. ChromeOS I'm less sure about.
Here is an Epson page on setting up Google Cloud Print with their printers: https://epson.com/Support/wa00605b

As you can see, it was really valuable to just set up a printer once, and everything internet-enabled could just print to it. When this goes away, everyone in the world who relied on this setup will need to dig out manuals and figure out a custom solution for every device and user, because nothing replaces the Cloud Print functionality. (DNS-SD discovered Driverless Printing isn't even necessarily supported on such printers, and is local-only)
I'm not sure the governmental form of republic is terribly useful to discussions of fairness or freedom in societies. Norway, Sweden, Denmark and New Zealand appear at the top of the Democracy Index, and are democratic constitutional monarchies. North Korea, Syria, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic are republics and among the most tyrannous societies.
That's a really unfair characterization of Go's error handling, and something only really novice Go developers do.

https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/27/dont-just-check-errors-ha...
The point is that if BestBuy refuses to make it right for you, a manufacturer who cares about customer service and their brand may step in and give you a refund/replacement even though they're not obliged to. Which is what OP is doing instead of saying "not my problem, deal with Apple" to his customers.
I studied one year of medicine in Switzerland and switched to something different afterwards (at ETH Zürich, a more technical university). My expectations of what medicine would be like were completely different than what it actually was.
In my experience medicine was:
- too many entitled people (due to the student selection process)
- huge competition between the students (no one cooperating, or sharing learnings)
- a lot of learning by heart (which I'm not good at & is very boring)
- not very difficult to pass the exams

These were all reasons why I switched, but the main reason was the job I would end up with in the end. It's so much harder to work remote, have a good work life balance and move abroad (depending on where you live) once you start working than in other jobs.

I think even if you don't end up in machine learning in the end, having a strong computer science and math background opens you so many possibilities in this world that I would give it another go if I were you (after some rest, like others already recommended). Maybe you could make an exchange semester in another country? that can really help motivation wise :)

Good luck!!
I agree it's really tough to motivate kids to make games and program when they have massive instant libraries of high quality stuff online. My supply of good software was so limited growing up that it was easy to stay focused and build things. Now it's really hard to motivate kids with starter graphics programs and little interactive things. Hopefully the Minecraft tie-in will help overcome this. I'll give this a try with my 9 year old.
Yes, this move is an over reaction. Especially, banning archive.org... India was just hit with a terrorist attack in Bangalore very recently. The techdirt article should mention this part.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/bangalore-bomb-blast...
RE: The Waldo Moment

Having seen the show and reading your reviews just made me realize what I do not like about the cartoon South Park. While I realize that Matt and Tre have had excellent resolutions in their show and have occasionally tackled issues in a daring and unique way, I feel as if the net effect was to lower the level of discourse to potty humour and political cynicism.
Is this the only way to cash out a large amount of BitCoins?
That one is a classic. You have a connoisseur's eye. :)
I should have communicated my ideas better there, poor wording on my part.

Solar thermal could be huge in the South too. If you can generate heat you can generate cold:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_air_conditioning
Slightly OT but if you have access to iplayer and missed it yesterday, Charlie Brooker's "2014 Wipe" was brilliant (including the sneak preview half way through of Adam Curtis' latest documentary due out next month which looks fantastic).
> You keep saying 60 of them, it's 54. You're so quick to question someone else's accounting skills earlier...

Could you go ahead and read the first sentence of that link you just sent me?

The one that says,

"After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 60 lawsuits..."

If you could go ahead and read the first sentence of the link you sent me, that would be really great.
Viswanathan Anand himself had a quote which reflects this mentality and is a good way of looking at it :

"[...] but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It’s bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use."
Amazon doesn't sell every product themselves. Most are Amazon Marketplace sales, which are entirely 3rd party (some are Fulfilled by Amazon, which gives you the Prime shipping but is still 3rd party). In these cases, Amazon can't control the prices at all; it's all up to the 3rd parties to set the prices.
Network, network, network. Referrals are the prime driver of business for many, if not most, freelancers. When you get a client and have done good work, ask them "what three other people do you know who could use my services?"...things like that. Don't be afraid to ask for it. Get out of the home office and attend events and conferences. Start meeting people and ASK for their business. Don't be shy about it.

Also, don't expect much from cold emails. It's way too impersonal. Telephone calls are only slightly better, but in-person events are by far the best. Your goal should be to MEET as many people in-person as possible.
I would be rather concerned when a person has indeed been programming for 12 years and the only language he or she used was Perl.
Fair enough, but wouldn't you agree that "the modern world" vague to the point of meaninglessness?

Based on the headline, the article could be an article about food, pollution, education, social media, work habits, mobile phones causing brain cancer, vaccines causing autism, etc.
You could manually set it via the "inspect element" I guess? If you realllly must set something.
Not even industrial chemicals - colgate plax mouthwash causes my tongue to develop weird flat patches within a day of a single use. Takes two weeks to clear up. There was a Bloomberg article not too long ago about them using, iirc, triclosan in their Total toothpaste, which is considered dodgy by many. This chemical soup experimentation is way too close to home for me.
in my experience, if you can grab a couple of not-too-underpriced gigs on a freelancing website (my preference is PeoplePerHour as it's less price-war-y) and can get a few regular clients from that, they'll be more happy to pay a reasonable fee for a reliable and familiar developer. Bear in mind that there are a LOT of unreliable and flaky developers on these sites so once you've proven your value to someone they'll be more likely to pay higher rates to retain you.
"public static void" is more boilerplate per method than Perl has per module.
> The only difference between that and terrorism is the rhetoric.

Also, the terror.
Yes, everyone is biased, this is not a deep insight, it's the common denominator we can subtract from a meaningful discussion about specific events.
Personally, I think that it could complement NFC. It reinforces the idea that your iPhone is the new way to 'do business.' NFC would enable person-to-person or person-to-merchant transfers. This would also enable person-to-merchant transfers although, only the merchant needs an iPhone.
Code that is working and in use is worth roughly 10x your imaginary code that doesnt exist. So unless you could prove to me that the savings or value is 10X the cost to rewrite I wouldnt do it.

Can you be more specific about why the code is bad? There are a limited set of architectural reasons for which I would support a complete rewrite. They typically correspond to non-functional requirements:
1) scale - the system architecture simply cannot support scaling
2) reliability - the system architecture is built in such a way that the system often fails
3) multi language - the system needs to be modified to support multiple languages
4) security - the system needs to be modified to support a more robust security access model
etc (there are many items like this)

These things all touch every single bit of code and so could warrant a rewrite. Im skeptical of most other reasons. In most cases you can just modularize the most dangerous aspects and you will be fine.
http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=06122n3x4j5d6o7t8q...

Very fun!
I'm a full-time applied math student and tutor, but in my spare time I work on http://www.getachiever.com. I've wanted to build a service and business for a few years but only started work about a year ago.
I've been working on language modeling. I built a word generator which makes medical-sounding names. I wonder if you could rank japaneseness, polynesianness, medicalness, etc.
>Why would a car-size airlock be required? A simple airtight hatch for the car to dock to (similar to a suitport) would work fine.

Fair point. I don't see how that would work on this specific vehicle, but it is certainly works in general.

>The first car on the moon was unpressurized because the program was a once-cancelled afterthought designed to fit into a spare cargo bay and unfold, with tight mass constraints. MOLAB was impractical because of the upmass required, not because pressurization wouldn't have been useful.

A lot of those requirements still stand regarding mass. It isn't a question of whether a pressurized vehicle would be useful on Mars, it is a question of whether its usefulness is enough to justify its weight and this vehicle appears to have a lot of extra weight that would need justification.
I don't care about algorithm automatic censorship.

Probably a few perfectly fine posts would be deleted. But the amount of hate speech and manipulation in social platforms is way too much and it is an annoyance.
Don’t think I’ve driven a car without ESC, it’s been mandatory in new cars for almost a decade now.
Every good vuln scanner needs a custom typeface — excited to hear about Flan Scan Sans!
> in that market how important are the extra cargo pounds or trailer capacity?

Not really important. What's important is that it _look_ like it can haul stuff. Like most Ford F-1-2-whatevers, Rams and other pickups, most of the time they're empty and car-wash clean.

I actually like the looks of the Tesla pickup. It's about time they went more avant-garde with their designs. This is supposed to be the future, dammit, Mr Musk's other company makes spaceships. Why NOT futuristic cars instead of Lexus look-alikes?
Are you listening to the police scanner or something? How do you know where or how they have been dispatched?

I live in a small northeast city off of an avenue where there are two trauma centers, a firehouse that does about 5,000 calls/year and a police HQ. I see and hear plenty of these vehicles. When you see it enough, you can spot the different patterns in how police, ambulances and fire trucks respond.
Nothing for most of my accounts, except one which somehow was falsely attributed to someone else. Odd given I do have a LinkedIn profile; Their scraping must be far from perfect.
To be fair, internets would have been equally outraged if there wasn't such requirement, because sure as hell somebody would have found an exploit and cancelled a bunch of account, just for funzies
The author of this blog post is notorious for poor scholarship, which has cost him a former job as an editor of a highly speculative journal that claimed to have peer review when it really didn't.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100318/full/news.2010.132.ht...

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5971/1316.full.pdf

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/elsevier-fires-journal-edi...

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41...

http://journalology.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-...

Perhaps his capability peaked in 1975 and has since declined.
I love Ayn Rand! Atlas Shrugged had a huge, positive impact on my life, and it's still my favorite novel over a decade after I first read it. I love the way that Rand stylizes her characters because it makes for very clear mental images while reading. It also it creates the framework for all kinds of subtle things that you don't notice the first time through.
fwiw the khan academy runs on app engine and is open source:

https://sites.google.com/a/khanacademy.org/forge/for-develop...

pretty easy to keep up with the progress by running it locally and occasionally syncing.

one note: on my nexus one, the back button in the upper left of the mobile site doesn't work. specifically, after clicking on one of the list items, sliding to the right, I can't go back by hitting the button on the upper left.
Wow.

> Taihuttu has two hiding spots in Europe, another two in Asia, one in South America, and a sixth in Australia.

> We aren’t talking buried treasure – none of the sites are below ground or on a remote island – but the family told CNBC the crypto stashes are hidden in different ways and in a variety of locations, ranging from rental apartments and friends’ homes to self-storage sites.

I hope this is all a decoy or else it’s the worst opsec I’ve seen since about five hours ago.
It almost goes without saying, but in some cases, there's a fine line between sarcasm and strawmen.
The article suggests each location contains 100% of the key, not using Shamir’s Secret Sharing.

> Taihuttu is trying to put a crypto cold wallet on every continent so it’s easier to access his holdings.

I hope it’s at least encrypted with an additional passphrase, otherwise it’s only as strong as the weakest bank’s security.
The flip side of this, is that if the rock is 99.9% right, and the high-minded rationalist is only 99% right, what does that say about the value of his rationality?
Why do you all dream of Airs and not of Pros?
In a skill-based game, N+1 has less incremental risk than adding 1 more trial with N-1 games did.
I think you are listening to the wrong futurists then.
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satisfies the conditions described in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(b) of Section 17538.5, (B) the vendor discloses the actual street
address of the private mailbox receiving service in the manner
prescribed by this subdivision for the disclosure of the vendor's
actual street address, and (C) the vendor and the private mailbox
receiving service comply with all of the requirements of subdivisions
(c) to (f), inclusive, of Section 17538.5.
I am on Bsnl and many isps lease from it, so many are affected.
That's exactly the irresponsible and useless anecdotal evidence the comment you replied to mentioned.
I believe what he meant by money making a person increasingly smug was perhaps that (Western) society holds the expectation that the amount of money a person controls is directly proportional to their overall success or fulfilment in life. This is not always the case but it does create the expectation that a person with money should represent themselves or think of themselves as more successful. This attitude is often interpreted (often correctly) as smugness given that it is rather the opposite of humbly acknowledging the fruits of work or fortune.

Happiness means many things to many people. For some, work itself brings them joy whether or not it results in earning a great deal of money e.g. charitable work. For others it is close relationship with their family, a situation that increased wealth often worsens. Many work their entire lives without recognition or compensation to pursue art, giving up comfortable or successful lives and careers in pursuit of something that, more often than not, they are the only ones who see value in. Religious or aesthetic devotions have perhaps the longest history of eschewing wealth and what most would consider a normal life.

As a society, I think that we are beginning to understand the faults in our current model of a successful life and so we've been seeing more of a trend towards simplifying our lives to make room for these other generators of happiness. We are starting to see that the freedom of money is not the same as the freedom from money.
More karma burn and no explanation whatsoever. I think this answers not only my parent question, it also gives a glimpse on human nature of our time and what are we currently surrounded by. The humanity that I've mentioned earlier has apparently still a long way to go.
With 30-40k LOC, could you please share the extent to which you feel protected when refactoring given that Clojure is dynamically typed? Some of my colleagues argue that often times a static compiler is the only thing keeping the ship upright in a large org with a big codebase, and unless your team is small and very smart, it would be foolish to use a dynamically typed language.

My experience can't help me much, but I sure want to try it.
I was getting excited about the Spiral but this thread has decreased the wind pressure in my sails considerably. Theoretically speaking, is any big mobile device company capable of supporting a modular device that can compete with the top of the line devices?
Could also have a look at BitBucket instead: unlimited private personal (or teams of max 5) repos at $0/month. Or for $7/month you can host your own at DigitalOcean/Azure/...
The whole embracing and promoting the industrial ugliness of the Droid was a stroke of genius. It was such a good marketing ploy it is sort of surprising to learn that it wasn't intentional.
"be bloggered" would be more approp