jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So in the absence of explicit instruction - go to the Capitol, break through the barricade, enter the chamber - there is no responsibility? What if a leader uses phrases like “we need to fight and take back our country and you know what needs to be done”? I’d hope there is a higher standard for president of the United States
I've learned over the years that if I come up with something useful as I try to fall asleep, instead of hopping out of bed, I just consciously save it for the morning. It's like waking up with a gift. And often the brain has done some useful offline optimizing.

To shut down the problem-solving machinery I usually fantasize about being starting point guard for the Lakers. May sound silly for a grown man, but it works for me.
The worse belief is that science has anything to do with belief. Or, I believe so...
> But the places that you are substituting for, assuming the landlords there are self-interested, would also wish to charge the full rental value for their land.

Of course they do. But land doesn't have an inherent full rental value, it has a value for particular uses. If land in place A that is used for use X becomes more expensive because the landlord is trying to rent it for more than the minimum price to meet his economic costs with no economic profit, land in place B whose highest-value use was the less-valuable use Y (given that land A was already being used for X, driving the marginal value of additional X down below the marginal value of additional Y), might become viable for X at a price greater than it was already able to charge for use Y, but lower than A was trying to charge.

This potential for substitution is what distinguishes a competitive market from a monopolistic one. Now, substitutability of land is sharply limited when transport costs are high relative to the value of the things provided by the uses of the land, which was true to a greater extent when Ricardo and Smith were writing than it is today (and, given geography, is -- even with similar technology -- often going to be true more on average in Britain than in the US.)

In land rents as in most other markets, taxes on the supplier (the owner offering the land for rent) -- like other costs -- are in part passed on to the consumer, and in part born by the supplier, reducing the quantity supplied at any given price and increasing, all other things being equal, the market clearing price. Land rent is, in practice, not fully monopolized so that taxes on it only reduce monopoly rents (and even if it was fully monopolized, this would only be the case if the taxes were less than the premium taken as monopoly rents for the property where the least premium was able to be charged.)
Yes, they are calling it dynamic reservations:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2018

With a first draft of the user documentation at:

https://gist.github.com/mpark/e8ee4eb9671bdb252c4f

It will be really slick once this makes it all into Mesos 0.23
You could GPG encrypt your communications. Ayttm (http://ayttm.sf.net/) has a GPG plugin. I don't know about pidgin but I'm sure it has one too. Of course, the other end needs to have GPG capability as well.
I've purchased two pairs of boots online, yes.
I thought it was an interesting article, and the research sounds interesting and worthwhile, but I also couldn't help thinking of this:

http://xkcd.com/793/
Well, in general, I agree.

But what happens when you have two 50 point comments? I would like to signal which person I think is winning the argument, and enshrine the best comment with the most votes, forever on the internet.

If a comment already has tons of points, it's not going to get buried. But I think it's positive if the crowd judges the merits of the arguments and tries to distinguish the best comment for future readers.

Maybe it's less appropriate here where "right" and "wrong" are often unclear. But in forums like StackOverflow, I would like people to downvote the lesser answers, even if they don't totally suck.
Of course it's nice to have one's bookmarks organized and tagged, but the big benefit for me is seeing what stuff my friends have tagged as useful. I found so many quick references, interesting tutorials and guides for doing things I was interested in that it was far better than any social news aggregator could have been for me. The /popular page was also a news aggregator of sorts in its own right, except that it was searchable by topic and it skewed heavily towards links worth revisiting.

A couple of things lead me to gradually stop using delicious.

1) There was a horrible update for their FF plugin a couple of years back that essentially broke the way middle clicks worked (and the way I preferred to use it).

2) My friends stopped using it so much, and so it became gradually less useful for me as well. I still check out the /popular page for things I'm interested on occasion, but the utility from my friends bookmark feeds is almost gone.
Codes exhausted... anyway nice to read this.

DotCloud++ Miyagawa++ Perl++

Good luck !
I really didn't get the impression that the parent was disappointed he wasn't allowed to 'mess around'. If management doesn't give a flip about technical debt that's a problem.
Are cheap those eggs laid by anaemic, malnourished battery hens who are given growth steroids/antibiotics though? I realise that it is possible to find good deals direct from farmers but those prices sound insane!

Personally eggs and meat are things I will pay the extra for the animals to be free range and fed a natural diet, and I eat a lot less of them. With a diet such as the one in the post such things can become an occasional treat and their true value is appreciated.

A non-trivial part of the problems facing the human race is related to the growing expectation of a never ending, abundance of cheap meat.
I feel like this might be a good time to plug my project: http://swole.me/

It's a diet generator I made over the past few weeks that promotes adhering to certain proportions of macronutrients. I'll probably make a full post about it when I add some more features/food choices, but so far it's been a great way to learn to program. If you use it, let me know if you have any feedback!
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, anyone who lives here in Japan can confirm that these points are absolutely correct.
> Surgical masks are designed to prevent you spreading viruses

That maybe true but that doesn't change the fact they help you from catching it as well.

It simply doesn't make any sense going one way is 100% and the other is 0%

And what we want is to chip away at the R0 in as many ways as possible.

And that's skipping the fact people thinking they are protecting themselves are also protecting others.
IMO touch screens should be banned as a part of safety regulations. There's simply no need from them in cars, it's a gimmick. Physical buttons are better and don't you to look at them to use them while driving.
Sorry, I ment for ventilation. This is from a report in one hospital and it's possible other controls are being used.

We are all rooting for your sister.
They are using it wrong. I think when op said "war" op meant "public health policy" which is really far away from war. It's actually the complete opposite thing.
Wash your hands. Wash your mask. There aren’t enough surgical masks for healthcare workers and they’re reusing them after bleaching or exposure to UV. You can reuse a dish cloth after washing it.
Last I checked, "rock stars" didn't have the attributes you look for in a good engineer.
Silicon Valley is the new Wall Street
A native JVM system?
I agree, what a bunch of horseshit.
Are these people trying to desperately free themselves from wage slavery the same people who spend most of their time watching tv, playing games or caring for children nobody forced them to have? If so they don't seem so desperate to me.

Generally the people I've met who work hard to develop themselves and develop skills society needs end up doing quite well for themselves, although I admit that as an Australian my experience is probably different from the US. Here we have more socialised education and healthcare, so anyone with motivation can go to college.
Minus those 6 characters, of course. Those 6 characters mean a lot to everyone outside that bit of knowledge.
OP here, EmojiMailer is something I built for a bit of fun, it is an emoji-only postcard service. It was inspired by a friends want to send people violin emojis in the mail and emojli (http://emoj.li/) an emoji only IM messenger. Currently sending to USA, Canada and Australia.
And yet triangular tables are a fairly poor shape for restaurants etc.
Did not know about Houdini. This is awesome!
For context, I worked there while it was the original Basecamp and stayed past the Basecamp 3 launch. I left ~4 years ago.

This doesn't ring true to me:

> …went all corporate and introduced enterprise pricing at about 10x the previous rates … pay big or get lost.

So, Basecamp never "went all corporate" as far as I could tell, and I disagree with the "enterprise pricing" thing. Basecamp has always experimented with pricing, and tiers, and things did change, but as far as I remember the prices bounced around below the $150/month mark, and ISTR once settled on a single $99/month plan or something for quite a while.

It was always pretty affordable for the target market, small to medium sized businesses.

Dumping the free plan was probably something that they talked about at the time, I can't remember, there's probably a blog post about it somewhere, but ISTR it was something like because free accounts didn't really convert to paid accounts at anywhere near the rate you might hope for, and they still cost money to service including hosting and support. For instance, I seem to recall it being calculated that one single support request would cost about $5 or more to service. The Free tier was only free for the end user ;)

Now, I'm not in Basecamp anymore so I don't know what the reason is for bringing it back, but consider it an experiment. It's not set in stone.
Is it any good?

Is it price competitive with Uber?
If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that.

There are children and people from non-western countries who have trouble accessing payment options, I'll give you that.

> You just need a free tier. No way out of that

No, you need a free tier. Doesn't mean that imgz needs a free tier. Especially if their target market is "people who are already fed up with one of the free hosts".
There are probably ways you could make it manageable and less morally repugnant.

1) Let people set their own price. Then it's not the platform valuing you, it's how much you value your own time.

2) Provide "auto-pricing" as an optional feature. Use an imaginary unit - call it "stamps" and provide ways to earn "stamps" on the platform besides just buying them.

"How many stamps should it cost for somebody to send you a letter? Or you can use one of our auto-managers - do you want to receive lots of letters or only a few?"

You could still have some kind of invisible credit score under the hood even for users that don't use the auto-pricer - people with good credit get plentiful free stamps.

Then you'd have to get into a whole Google-style graph-based-ranking but for people, which I assume sites like Twitter are already doing under the hood.

Of course, the problem here is that you'd have a plethora of alts to farm free stamps, which would clutter the search list...

Everything is hard.
The word "ciorba" comes from Turkish "çorba": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba

Ciorba arrived on the table of the Romanians on a historical whim, being boiled first in the kettles and boilers of the Sipahi troops of the Ottoman Empire. It was so closely related to the image of the troops of the Ottoman military that the heads of the regiments of the Sipahi were known as "ciorbagii", perhaps because by their tent was always near the canteen, where the best tripe or ram soups were made, flavoured with leaves of mint, added vegetables, pepper and for ornament, parsley.

Tracing the name you can observe with precision the route of the Ottoman conquests. Greeks call it τσορβάς (ţorbas), Bulgarians cook tchorba, a.s.o. I asked some of my Hungarian colleagues if they also have the word in their language and they do... but only designating a single, special type of soup: tripe (in my opinion the quintesence of çorba). The regular word for soup in Hungarian is "leves" and being weirdos, they have another special word for cabbage soup: "lucskos".
This isn't exactly "real time" since he loads an MP4 file (`cv2.VideoCapture('upabove.mp4')`). I think it would be a lot more impressive if the drone was able to stream the film to a server of some kind, process it there then make decisions on it's flight path.
I know you guys take your FP pretty seriously. The closest I get to FP is Javascript applications, but when someone says "list-flavored" anything, my brain autocorrects to "shit-flavored". Unfair as it might be...
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reference to the gif vs jif debate.
Also, curiously enough tonight I just learned about reddit's growing way of organizing free books online. E.g., for econ (some finance):

http://www.reddit.com/r/econbooks
Upmodded for enterprise Java douchebag.

(and the good advice)
Didn't someone take this chart and scale it by marketshare (e.g. iOS version 2 and Android version 1.0 would basically disappear)? If they didn't someone should, because at the moment it's intentionally deceiving to make a point, but hiding behind its slant behind its boring tabular nature..
Ouch dude, I'm earning £17k/yr and I thought I was getting stiffed (Two years experience). If I'm still earning this kind of money in six years time I will be most unhappy.
The 85% apps being free is an important figure. That means only 15% of apps are taking advantage of the killer feature provided by the App store, easy billing. The overlap between the 85% that don't need billing and the X% that don't need high processing power is the sweet spot for cross-device HTML5 developers.

With that in mind it's interesting that Apple is moving into ads (a way to monetize without direct billing).
Built in syncing of read tweets between all clients.
Yes definitely. This app was launched yesterday and it hasn't got that far yet.

I'm also going to add OpenID login so Google et al. can take care of that security concern for me.
That's why I have a paid account - it includes so-called "travel mode" - an ability to stream data from abroad granted that all payments are made withing countries of availability.
Thanks. What do you mean by attracting a different class of entrepreneurs?

Could you also clarify how a wage level which allow for multiple staff with minimal investment/income would work?
Allow me to introduce you to the wonders of the Double Gulp. It's 1.9 liters of your favorite colored sugar juice, or Slurpee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven#The_Big_Gulp
Its depressing to see techcrunch's continuous berating of spotify

First of all, I don't see this article as berating spotify. The headline (which is inconclusive at best, not a clear "berating") aside, the article is quite positive about Spotify's stats and their potential over the next few years.

along with it and the last.fm debacle its hard to think techcrunch dont have an anti euro startup

Secondly, this article is on TechCrunch EU, by Mike Butcher, which afaik had nothing to do with the TechCrunch US, Arrington-led "last.fm debacle" if you want to call it that. For anyone who knows Mike, it's hard to accuse him of having an anti-euro startup stance. Mike is probably one of the most active people in Europe when it comes to trying to convince everyone that Europe is a great place for startups.

TC-EU organises events, gets people together, writes about them, and generally does everything they can to help the european startup scene pick up.
>they report the news

Good one.
That is also why the taxes are 52%. They have to nail everyone else who does work full time and earns a decent wage.
Fair point. But DoneCal is more suited for past events so to import for example all US holidays wouldn't be super useful. Google Calendar is otherwise great for future events.
Even Curtis Le May was worried about the psychological state of General Powers describing him as "not stable" and a "sadist".

There is credible deterrence and there is dangerous lunacy - Powers appears to have been uncomfortably close to the latter. Especially when he was wanting to initiate a strike which would probably have killed rather more than a billion people.
>I don't know why people keep saying this.

What I'm getting at is that determining which of 2 pieces of code are better is one of the biggest open question in the computer science/software industry. Further, it has been widely studied for a long time and across a wide variety of measurements and contexts, yet remains an open question.

If you have a measure that can be systematically reproduced by anyone for any 2 pieces of code that purport to solve the same problem, that would be a huge breakthrough worthy of wide publication and probable riches.

If you can make that machinable (even given caveats around provably impossible things like the halting problem) you could literally transform the entire industry.
Sure, use private repos for private projects but this is about open-source authors accidentally leaving their credentials in config files and the like.
Agreed, but i would appreciate the option, disabled by default.
On a (slightly) more practical level: there exists some largest integer type. You may someday need to sort it. If you want your sort to always work, you can't afford to overflow.
Only three problems with that:

Firstly, bait bikes are inevitably going to be cheap bikes. Thieves are more interested in expensive bikes - and if the expensive bikes are not only more profitable, but also safer to steal, then they're bound to step up their lock-picking and angle-grinding game.

Secondly, finding someone to organise this would be difficult. Any single organisation sufficiently large enough to do this would be bureaucratic enough to insist on the same make/model of bike (for the obvious homogeneity benefits), which would make them as obvious as an undercover Crown Vic. Conversely, any kind of grassroots or community effort would (by design) need to alert as many people as possible to the venture, including the bike thieves themselves - thus spoiling it before it even begins.

Finally, these things are chop-shopped almost the instant they get on-sold. Tearing a bike down can be done in a public park in 5 minutes flat with a pocket's worth of tools. The bike thieves can adapt a lot more easily than the sting operators.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Just curious, what software do you use for setting promo-codes, and time bounded ones?
And don't forget to add it to .gitignore, otherwise when overwritten accidently it might land in public repo.
How did you "plug" that one? And what is "that one"?

I assume "that one" is posting to /.well-known/.
Hasn't Big Oil been a leading edge customer of IT all along? Wasn't processing of seismic data one of the drivers for commercial High Performance Computing and then for Beowulf clusters?
So we could call this guy stupid, or hail him as a hero.
In which society would you like you and your children to live in, the one where heroes are acknowledged or the one they are dismissed as dumb and irrational?

Mind you, calling someone a hero cost you next to nothing in utility so I think the choice is a no brainier.
That was actually the entire comedic premise of an I Love Lucy episode. The gang is in Italy and wants to call back to the states so they have to wait for a long distance operator to call them back with an open line.

They, unfortunately, are on a higher floor with no elevator. So every time they have to talk on the phone they have to get 3+ flights of stairs.
Is somebody who watches people draw in their youtube channels interested in drawing, or in watching people draw? I'd say it's the latter.
Yes, which is why I posted this story to raise awareness. It's shocking to me how even many software developers don't know about this.

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
COBOL also failed so epically that it soured its entire core idea for decades. (That's just an additional observation, I'm not saying you claimed otherwise.)

I won't guarantee that Go will experience wild success and become an A-list language, but I will guarantee that barring some major change in approach or leadership, it will not fail so spectacularly as to destroy the entire idea of trying to create a language for programming at scale. While HN bitches, Go's penetration into exactly the space I'm describing marches on and has passed critical mass.
The WSJ specifically requires login to view articles (because they require an active subscription to read anything on their site). Most of the other newspaper sites (at least; not going to go and pick through the whole list) are the same, with different thresholds for when login is required.
Is there a search engine which returns only results which themselves use https?
Your comment does not appear to have any relevance at all to the topic of this discussion.
"I think they will guess."

I think tptacek must be ready to have his bib changed, with all the drooling he must be doing.
Even if you release some stuff as open-source, if "the whole caboodle" is not free software, then you're still one of the proprietary software vendors Stallman is railing against.
Because you drive 400 miles daily?

It seems you are stuck in a go till empty mentality. You don't drive an electric car until the battery is empty and then recharge. You plug it in at home and wake up to the battery charged to the same level every day. You'll actually save time not spent at a gas station in everyday use.
Something some have been saying for decades.
Read, drive salaries into the dirt.
Given that they've yet to do anything beyond DDoS attacks that aren't even complex in nature - the odds of them having a 0-day or any attack of any sort is pretty much 0. This is literally one or more teenagers "doing it for the lulz" and the attention.
My experience working on an open data project for the City of Los Angeles.
I believe this is the seminal work on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw
Interesting... Not at all what I expected. I have a lot of respect for Duck Duck Go.

But it's interesting to learn that his first startup got very close to a lot of what would be considered now gray areas... Creating thousands of dummy pages to get traffic from Google... forcing people who sign up to give 5 email addresses to promote the service...

Let's put it this way: my impression from that interview is that Gabriel got really close but eventually stayed on the right side of the fence. Kind of a success story :-)
Yeah, I've notice that ever since they were denied a press pass to WWDC, Gizmodo has been piling on some Apple hate. Before the WWDC snub, I think it's fair to say they were pro-Apple. Ever since WWDC, there's been more anti-Apple stories written, and there are little one-line cheapshots in some of the more 'unbiased' stories. I've gotten sick of Gizmodo/Gawker's childish behavior and have been sticking to other tech sites now.
Another great application of CRFs. Go AI!
> Additionally, how is Battlenet 2.0 going to "connect" Starcraft 2 to World Of Warcraft? How does your Starcraft 2 rank matter, at all, in World Of Warcraft? This is a genuine question, since I haven't played either game.

The only tie-in I've heard of deals with SC2 Collectors Edition. Purchasing it gives you a rare "Mini-Thor" pet in World of Warcraft.