jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well done guys, shipping a hardware and a software product was never going to be easy! hopefully you can now reap the rewards though of having a hardware product, thats far far harder to replicate

pre ordered back in April so looking forward to receiving sometime in the new year I suspect, as it will be an international order.
here is the thread about it

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5139...
> There was no downtime, and no slow access.

There was for me. I tried signing up after that comment but had trouble. In fact, I thought the site was just slow in general. It was the first time I've visited, so I don't know if that response time was normal, but it was slow nonetheless.

Based on other responses here and what I've heard from friends and seen on Twitter etc., I don't think I am the only one that felt this. I'm glad you're happy with your performance, and I think it's great you guys were a destination a lot of delicious users chose to head to, but I was just expressing an opinion.
How about Wepay, which even hired PHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf.

ETA: And I see Rasmus Lerdorf released a deployment tool he developed there written in PHP because Capistrano couldn't do everything he needed. I have been looking for something like this. Thanks for asking this question, I would likely have never found this otherwise! ;)
Riot (https://github.com/thumblemonks/riot) is a nice compromise with just-enough-DSL.
I just remembered the article "Pornography Drives Technology: Why Not to Censor the Internet" while reading the article:

http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no1/johnson.html
I would have used two Ps and called it CrappWords, as both a play on crap and app.
The biggest thing is exchange support. There were a few others mostly security updates and speed increases.
There are no forces involved in Einstein's gravitation. You can see it as a pseudo-force (like Coriolis or centripetal) if you like, for practical (and mental sanity) reasons. But it's not a true force.

See "equivalence principle".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
Yes, human intent makes a difference, to some degree - shooting a tiger that's about to eat you is different from raising an animal in awful conditions to eat it later.

But there's also the issue of scale: while laboratories do kill quite a few animals (ideally in a somewhat humane fashion after a decent life, but that's not nearly always the case), the food industry kills a lot more.
Well sentiment analysis for news seems to have gained mainstream acceptance, with major providers like Reuters offering apps in that space.

For twitter, etc. it's still a relatively new field. There's a paper on it at http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003
This is rather cool, but data in ArangoDB will not survive docker container restart, so, sadly, this setup is still just a toy.
I love to code at 3am but I was always tired with a full day of work to do that. What worked for me was to change my sleeping schedule so that I was the most focused, alert, and hungry. I go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 3am. This gives my side projects the most focused, well rested me. The funny thing is, I'm so excited to get up and code I get up without an alarm clock.
Are you looking for Japanese translations or an app that teaches you Japanese words?
Determination to solve problems, and the willingness to stay with them until they are solved.
For devices which do have a VNC viewer, is it possible to periodically (e.g. every 15 mins) wake up the device, refresh the screen via VNC, then power off or switch into very low power state running only the timer?
some comparison between the two

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36590.0
Other important changes that will improve the ecosystem:

"Do not post an app where the primary functionality is to:
Drive affiliate traffic to a website or
Provide a webview of a website not owned or administered by you (unless you have permission from the website owner/administrator to do so)"

and

"Apps that are created by an automated tool or wizard service must not be submitted to Google Play by the operator of that service on behalf of other persons."

I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of all apps in the Play store fall in those categories.
Rust has the most potential at being a true successor to C++. But it's not very usable at the moment (it suffers from far too much change within the language and standard libraries), and it will still take a lot of work before it is a production-grade language.
"It's much better for people to use C++ when they realize that they need the powerful functionality it offers"

Relevant anecdote: I know a number of C++ programmers who said they would use Haskell / Python / etc. to "prototype" a system, then switch to C++ when they needed what C++ has to offer. None of them made the switch back to C++ and their "prototypes" became finished products.
> Is "since the 70's" some sort of ironic joke?

No. Some time ago the United States was a world leader in terms of the standard of living for the average citizen. Now it's dead last among developed countries, and by many measures, it's solidly among developing countries.

I, personally, think that fall from grace began around the 70's (ish) when the "We're the greatest" mentality put a stop to innovation.

Basically, the United States has remained where it was all those years ago, while other Developed countries have shot ahead.
Sussman (MIT,SICP,SICM) did a class reversing a watch, very interesting.

http://video.mit.edu/watch/an-electrical-engineering-view-of...
Interesting, so are you saying you actually really don't care a whole lot about this Neo4j thing one way or the other, such that "If enough random folks will sponsor it I'll work on it, otherwise I'll go do something else." ?

Your actions and your words are not in alignment and so there is some confusion around this whole thing.

The original point was if you care about this project, then make it happen by finding someone willing to pay you to make it happen. If there is value in the project then this will be helpful for them, and paying you $1,000 is chump change (seriously its like a couple of hours of a mid-tier lawyer's time, for example).

If you don't care one way or another, then you don't need to "Beg HN" you just say "BTW, I had this out there, it doesn't look like it is going to fly, but I'd mention it one last time here before it expires to see if someone missed it." If on the other hand you actually do care, (which the wording suggests) then, as the progenitor of this thread suggests you should use a different funding approach.
When they say "acquired by Instagram", does Instagram have the authority to do that, or does it just mean "acquired by Facebook to be used for Instagram"?
DOS and Windows are not the same age -- you are not comparing apples-to-apples. MS-DOS is a modification of x86-DOS, and x86-DOS is a near copy of CP/M (which has the same API and a many other low level similarities) which is from 1972/1974.

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
I think the key is "feedback loops". We're not failing to price in inherent differences, out of some moral ideal - we're trying to fix a larger inefficiency, which is that some groups of people are unable to reach their full potential. It's not a cost - it's an investment. It's regulation to fix a negative externality.

[digression into risky territory, here be dragons]

...at least, that's the idea if you believe that racial differences are 100% socially constructed. It gets super tricky if it turns out there is an inherent component, which is why the very idea is such a taboo. It wouldn't be especially shocking, from a scientific standpoint, if it turned out that different "races" tended to have subtly different inherent personality traits that might be of interest to creditors or insurers. But it would cause major headaches, if you want to convince people to break those feedback loops! Even if the inherent differences are only a seed, and the feedback loops account for most of the differences in outcome, you have a massive "political" problem on your hands.
Tyler at zerohedge is certainly prolific in his posting and definitely lacks the editorial oversight found elsewhere (thankfully), but most of what he posts is relevant and worth considering.

If you think what he discusses is purely "conspiracy theories", presumably because it doesn't jive with the official sanctioned arbiters of information, I have to ask, how weird does it have to get before you'll start to consider that perhaps the official sources aren't telling the truth.

For example:, the ratings agencies, who are supposed to give unbiased information, do anything but.

Or....the formula for calculating unemployed workers. This had changed drastically in the last decade, yet we are constantly presented with the current numbers compared to historic numbers, when they are using entirely different formulas.
Searching HN for "cola" by date finds many threads about this.
I think computer and office supplies are just as essential as home repair goods, auto parts, or household goods in the economy. They're not as essential as food or running water, but they're in that very next tier I think.
It's amazing that a ~$500M contract could be 'lubricated' with $100k. A similar ratio to Tesla paying you $10 to buy their car.
> How did you check that assumption?

This is a guesstimate. Most well-to-do individuals will not stick to old phones that do not match their outward looking status.

> Does the stack to be used represent the innovation itself?

No. But the stack should help easily build web app that look and feel like mobile app. The users of the app will be on-the-move individuals. They may not like visiting a website everytime they want some information. But building a mobile app(iOS and/or Android) is not affordable at this juncture.

> Are you doing this in order to learn a new stack (i.e: a fun project where the objective is learning about single page application stacks)? If not, I'd disregard that and go with the stack I'm most productive with to solve the actual problem at hand and deliver value.

No, it is not to learn new stack. The original question I posed stems from the requirement that the web app should be as easy to use as mobile app, and should not put off the users from using the app regularly and also should not drain their device battery.
One of the interesting insights in differential privacy is that to provide privacy protections that can't be reverse-engineered, the process has to be random rather than deterministic. The sort of algorithm that OP describes is really neat, but in addition to what dp_throw says, deterministic algorithms like this that choose how to anonymize things based on private data can reveal information about that private data in the very way that they format the final data. (This may be less relevant in the case at hand, but consider a setting where it would be sensitive to know if someone is in the database at all, e.g., a medical study.)
Error establishing a database connection (TM)
Three off the top of my head: soft skills, public speaking, seeking mentorship and mentoring others.
No, I'm implying that the post doesn't have enough context to say one way or the other. That said, I do personally avoid language like that for exactly this reason. Avoiding ambiguity is just good writing, and I've had enough "[marginalized group], right?" encounters to not want to give horrible people any notion that I might agree with them.
Legal according to whom? Poker websites are a good example: legal in most of the world, but not in the US.
I wonder long before they're shutting down foreign .com sites for the 'crime' of infringing US patents.

Having only a .com for a business feels a lot like having all your eggs in one basket now.
But there's no question that television had a huge impact on culture - especially when everyone watched the same unique channel.
Not really. The only thing a company can do is let their commercial liability insurance bear the costs. That's why it's such a big deal to document, document, document and force all employees to undergo certain training repeatedly throughout the year.

That way the business can show the insurance companies that they did all they could to prevent the employee from the error so that the insurer is liable for the expenses.
> We need fundamental reform of IP protections for software anyway.

That really is the root issue here. So many problems we're seeing (Pai's clownshow in the FCC, SCOTUS legislating from the bench, federal agencies trampling citizens' rights, etc.) stem from the legislative branch abdicating their authority to third parties -- the librarian of Congress, the FCC, SCOTUS, and even (by legal reference) professional organizations and laws in other countries. It's ridiculous.

A first principle of a democratic government is that citizens can soon fire someone whose legislation and/or executive decision they do not like. We would all have voted Pai out if we could have... but he shouldn't have had the power to do what he did in the first place (remove network neutrality rules). Congress gave him that power - which I would argue was an abdication of authority vested in them.
Why get rid of them? Automatisation should not mean getting rid of people, it should mean letting them do other things. In this scenario the editors could spend more time on their own writing instead of having to look at junior writer's texts
The publications that were replaced by a neural network?
You have to laugh - the full statement is:

“The Google platform just got bigger and market power greater—the barriers to entry higher and the ability to compete lower. They stole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can. This behavior is exactly why regulatory authorities around the world and in the United States are examining Google’s business practices."

— Dorian Daley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
They do the same in their podcasts: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/

Well worth a listen, even it does end up with me muttering curses at the 'radio' sometimes.
How do you tell if a dog is a service dog though? The ADA already allows excluding misbehaving service animals, which should cover a good portion of 'fraudulent emotional service animals' considering how well most people mistrain their animals.

There are legitimate service animals for a wide variety of real conditions that a lay person could not be expected to consider. Dogs that can detect incoming seizures or problematic psychological states, and they could look very similar to an 'emotional support animal' but actually be a legitimate service animal.
Wow is this the greatest # of points EVAR?
So, what an iPad can do, is everything you've stated except (for what I know) basic web dev. You could go to docs.google.com and write long documents and the screen is ideal for reading and Safari on the iPad is phenomenal.

A netbook is most likely a better choice for what you want to accomplish. A physical keyboard makes writing long documents trivial, and you get access to a terminal for your web development.

The iPad was made for recreational use, basically for 'having fun', playing games, going on Facebook, ect.
Mod Tracker + SimCity, even I of no musical talent was able to make something amusing with it. Neat.
What I think is interesting, which they don't address in the article, is at least for Android (I don't own an iPhone) the app store tells you that this is possible. But not exactly.

In other words, it'll say: This app uses the internet, and this app uses geolocation - but you have to make the conclusion that the pieces are all there for the app to transmit your location to anyone it chooses.

Being a programmer I'm not surprised that all these apps do it, but if I was an average consumer, these types of atomic warnings do not generate the conclusions that they do for me.
Dude, there's a whole javascript engine:

http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/

ah someone already posted it :)
MSR developed a (Bayesian) enhancement to Elo that apparently is used by XBox Live: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/
If I wrote a book, our consulting rates would not go up.
Did you want a QM text or a text on the Standard Model?
Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker but what does "divide into" mean?
So essentially, we are "shakespeare" produced unknowingly by the infinitum of proverbial (and literal) monkeys :)
Exactly.

For example you don't charge VAT for intra-EU invoices and in practically every EU country you're liable to pay taxes there in case you stay there for more than 183 days.
There's just no blanket solution here - at least not at the small-fish level.
I think it's right to call out the double-standard in reporting. There's a big dissonance in the eyes of folks who watched CNN stand over a burning building proclaiming that the BLM protests were in fact entirely peaceful. And in the eyes of folks watching FOX right now, saying the assault on the capital was largely peaceful. I'm not joking. Both of these things happened.

I think it's also important to call out what's different between the two instances. The BLM protests were in response to a real, meaningful threat to the safety of a group of individuals. American citizens. There were real life body counts that were being fought against, and an attempt was made to renegotiate the role of policing in modern society.

The capital assault was over something that didn't happen. The capital assault happened because the president has been fanning the flames of violence in America for four years. Seeding dissent. Destroying faith in governance and in the rule of law. Simply because of the fragility of his ego didn't allow him to accept defeat.

I'll come right out and say it, violence is never ok. It's also not fair to equate the two of these situations.
FYI: There is a small, low traffic group for blind developers: https://groups.google.com/g/blind-dev-works

I'm one of the co-owners.
This is federal government property with many many thousands of federal law officers available to protect from across many departments.

This was either an unforgivable lack of intelligence/preparation OR another example of the gross disparity in treatment between the armed MAGA crowd and for instance black Americans and BLM protestors.

As a comparison, the feds deployed thousands of officers in the District and across the county during BLM protests, often times pushing beyond fed building perimeters which many don't think is legal. Some of the videos with scary unmarked officers/arrests which are terrifying. I use this photo as an example of the crazy policing Trump ordered to scare voters

https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/national-guard-lincoln-memor...
It doesn't even address racism or (gasp) inequality!

Neither does the wheel, btw.
I’m fine with that as long as _I_ am the dictator, otherwise no.
Yes, seems to be very hard to grasp for some people that they would fight and use whatever means necessary to stop people who would literally stab, shoot or set them on fire if they turn their back also they demand them to kneel in front of them and what not. Some of them where directly coming for the cops directly attacking them or setting buildings on fire where they where inside. While the people who stormed the building today had zero interest in the cops. The protest was against the other people in the building not the cops. Even after the woman got shot there was no sign of revenge against cops. There is even evidence that cops where immediately given access to the victim to save her (which apparently wasn't possible anymore).
A boiling frog variant of social scale depression. Not enough positive news, too many cracks, doubts. The rest is human nature regressing due to this imbalance. Absolutely not helped by hectic shallow news and social tissue of the day.

My 2 cents
> excessively large public transit systems

Because the "real" solution is for every single person to own and drive a car that seats 4, but 99% of the time only has 1 person in it?
As an Packt author, can you opt out of those everything-free discounts?

How do you feel that a huge number of potential buyers gets your book today for free?
Of course one could also argue it's not the price of gold that fluctuates, it's the dollar/euro/yen gold is measured in that does.
would the electronics / magnetic storage thingys survive that far into the future if it was outside?
Anyone can send mail using "Referer" header?
The big deal is that this goes against the original intention of copyright law. Copyright law is only supposed to provide incentives to create works of art. The restriction on personal freedoms is supposed to be outweighed by the cultural (and economic) benefits this has for society. When copyright is used to restrict non-competing derivative works, this is not the case.

I think many feel there is an implicit social contract between content creators and the public. Art borrows from and adds to culture. Protecting artists is a good idea, but when you use those protections to stifle people messing around with your art, then I think that's going too far. People messing around with art is an important part of how culture progresses, and without the cultural context of the time Top Gun would never have existed.
Currently, this event looks like about the third or fourth-largest crisis of the currency and has had very moderate on the valuation, although this might change in the coming weeks.

Many people in the field are very ethical and think that an improvement to the current financial system is of great benefit to humanity.
I remember how I hated my warez Frontpage '98 :)
When x86 started going over 4GB and getting the 64-bit extensions, it was thought that a 64-bit address space would be so big (more than 4 billion times bigger than a 32-bit one) that it would take many decades before we run into that limit; and that wasn't too long ago either - the first AMD64 CPU was in 2003, only 11 years ago, and it supported "only" 52 bits of physical address.

Now we have 64TB, which is 2^46, which means there's only 18 "unused" bits of address left - 256K. If you could connect only(!) 262,144 of these machines together and present the memory on them as one big unit, you would have exhausted the 64-bit address space. That is what I think is really incredible. What's next, 128-bit addresses? Or maybe we'll realise that segmented address spaces (e.g. something like 96-bit, split as 32:64) are naturally more suited to the locality of NUMA than flat ones?
So, the fact that conservative family values keep the number of single-parent households low is a sign that abstinence works?
I've tried to be a volunteer, but it seems nobody cares in hipchat channels.
Thanks for this, very interesting, I'll give it a read. I've long wondered if the aversion to complexity in SV is at times pathological, that is, "it adds complexity" is often used as a reason not to commit to building something that would absolutely add long term benefits that outweigh the costs. I guess it's just harder to quantify potential future benefits against immediately obvious complexity, but all the same, I think pathologically avoiding complexity is just as bad as pathological complexity :)
The same can be said of firemen, who absolutely love their job. There is nothing wrong with questioning the actual utility or riotousness of an action, but predicating it on the feelings of the actor is illogical. Yes, the concept of a hatecrime, and the additional weight given, is illogical.