jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> you'd invest in a more expensive technology

How can collective transportation be more expensive than cars, as a whole? Most western countries had really well connected railroads going in all the very small towns and did that for pennies compared to the overall price of car society.

The overall cost of cars is not just the individual car. It's also infrastructure that caters to cars, which requires roads everywhere (otherwise your car is pretty useless), parking spaces.. etc..

While i agree with the conclusion (better for the environment, and probably for everything else), and i agree manual labor is usually (though not always) preferable to industrialized labor, i don't understand why collective transportation would require more manual labor.
I wondered the same thing. Rimworld on the ice sheet biome.
If we go far enough back, we are all natives of Africa. That's not a helpful way to look at things in the present though.
Engaging in political activity would require leaving my room.
If they've already answered all of your questions, let them know what you were intending to ask, and what your take on their answer was. It shows that you did have questions, were intersted in the answers, and that they did a solid job of explaining the company/position to you.
It's a bit too slow and not nearly painful enough.

I want to hear all those useless executives screaming in agony.

It's time to bring back impaling.
craigslist and newspapers

amazon and local booksellers or borders

netflix and blockbuster

google and {altavista, yahoo (on their way), excite, ask, infoseek, inktomi}

oracle and a long list of competitors
HN ate up my first comment so here's a shorter one (relatively).

1) Becoming a Top 5% coder will end up being a much better thing to focus on than how much money you can earn by leaving grad school.

2) I got a 48% pay increase once. An article at Quintessential Careers - you never name a price/desired salary and never disclose your past salary. There are a TON of little things like this that programmers just don't realize.

Most companies are losers - they would rather pay you $50K for $100K of work and have you miserable than pay you $100K and have you happy and contribute $1 million worth of work.
You have to get them to pay you a lot.

3) Do you really want to leave grad school for an offer like this? Is it the money - because if you like grad school but would leave for a job that you don't like just for money then it would be a colossal failure.

4) Eastern Wa and Portland. Waste of your life if you're a developer.

Ideal - Silicon Valley, NYC.
Very Good - Seattle, Austin, Boston, perhaps places like Colorado etc.

Portland people are cool and girls are amazing. However, if you want to be the best you have to go where the best are.

5) Your post about 'Let down by School' etc. Get out of that thinking - You are responsible 100%. You were let down only by yourself.

6) You have to figure out what markets out of the ones you like are hot.

iPhone and Android App developers are charging $100 per hour or more. So 470 hours (10 weeks) for what you are saying average salary ($47K). It's going to become even more. I'm not even talking about the best. This is top 15% of mobile app developers.

7) Why exactly do you care whether you make $50K a year or $100K?
> It was the very first time that I used 'structured programming', a technique a friend of mine had shown to me.

Huh? How old is this guy? I thought structured programming was something that came out in the 30's or something.
We've been using EngineYard for 8 months and have been very impressed. They're built on top of AWS.
I love seeing creator's lists of the works that inspired them and they love.

Great list, too. Nice to see a Tom Swan book, as I fondly remember devouring one of his books - my first "serious" programming book - the summer before college.
You've never been inspired by a piece of music or a cleverly designed piece of hardware or software?
Good advice.

There are companies that will hold money in trust for you until an agreement is reached on completion of work, which is the arrangement I should have been using.
I have to agree. Two weeks notice? WTF, Google. The evil meter is dancing.

If you want people to trust you with their data, you should demonstrate more responsibility. And just because the hosting's been "free", doesn't mean you haven't made your pound of flesh off the advertising (speaking generally, at least).

Here's a thought: Shove it through YouTube. Heck, just keep the data around and convert and cache when an item is hit (those who really want it will wait out / return after the conversion). I suppose you need to be able to tie back to Video accounts for ownership, DMCA, etc. Still, there should be a better solution. And a couple of weeks' notice simply isn't fair. What if someone's tied up? On vacation? They're hosed.

Put it this way: Demonstrating yourself to be a source of "public" data loss, is rather bad PR.
Why do you think people write these blog posts.
Some interesting hacks appearing i.e. modifying a single ventilator to support two or even more people.
There are people not only hijacking copyrights in this genre, but in every genre.
I wonder if you can create a fallback easily instead of serving 503 , you get a static fallback version.
Checkout Re-Collections:

http://www.scruffmonkey.com/Re-Collections.html
There are lots of wildlife in big cities as long as there are some relatively quiet ecological tunnels left there (usually around the rivers). I'd expect it to take weeks, maybe even days with good weather and some luck, to get animals like deers or boars to roam freely across the whole city (they already do at night in some places) if humans had suddenly disappeared.

However, unlike those from some of the currently viral reports, these animals are already there - they're just pretty good at hiding from humans, so most people don't even realize it.
I've been working on an restaurant order system for a client lately.

Instead of doing the obvious thing and build a database connected web application hosted in the cloud; I opted for a local application that generates static files for customer ordering, uploads them to a web server and polls for orders. On the server there's a simple PHP script that writes a chunk of JSON to a file when the order is created.

The main motivation was to allow them to continue taking orders in the restaurant and perform maintenance even if the internet connection isn't working. Generating files also simplifies the implementation of customer specific customizations.

And since the database isn't customer/web facing any more and therefore doesn't need to scale beyond a couple of simultaneous users, I opted for a simple file based solution.

The fact that the customer order part runs blazing fast is a nice bonus.
Well, in a democracy the largest mob will win the vote, and not the one with the best arguments.
And this largest mob is influenced by the mass media very strongly, so the 'vote' of the majority is really that of a powerful minority that controls the mass media.
(which obviously presses for stronger control to be even more powerful)
This is an issue with democracies everywhere in the world. I'm not sure how this 'recurring theme' can be broken, if at all.
I'm working on a plugin for a chat server for my uncle and building a site for the hacker news communities. More news on the latter once I've finished.
Chorus makes it super easy to embed live timelines from twitter, facebook, friendfeed, hackernews and github into webpages.

https://github.com/sharkbrainguy/qorus is a port from the original MooTools module https://github.com/sharkbrainguy/Chorus to a jQuery plugin (it's a popularity contest right?).

check out the live demo: http://gerardpaapu.com/qorus/demo/
In the given example, the careless guards are analogous to a safe, non-malicious recipient connected to an unencrypted channel. In your example, a drunken guard is an unsafe (hackable) client.
No, thank you, I was indeed being imprecise, you are correct that double colon doesn't exist as punctuation in English or Hebrew grammar so it's not a "punctuation symbol". I guess I meant "programming symbol", but it is also used in other contexts such as ratio equivalence in math, or abbreviating analogies e.g. dog:house::fish:bowl. I guess I don't know what to call it, really.
I flew out of SFO last week and set off the explosive detector after opting out. My experience was rather different. The TSA agents took my backpack and made a cursory hand-search, doing explosive swab tests on my electronics. After failing to find a source, they took me to the booth to do a more through check. They didn't ask me any questions at all about myself or why I might have set the system off other than the normal 'any sensitive areas' questions. I did volunteer that I'd spilled a small amount of gasoline on myself when fueling my car the previous day and that I was wearing new clothes that had not been washed since purchase. They seemed entirely disinterested. The whole thing took maybe 15 minutes longer than a regular opt-out pat down.

So, apparently that's how it goes when a white male sets the thing off.
Even if you ignore the fact that the US government considers airports and a 100 mile border zone around the US to be a "constitution-free zone" [1] and assume that the TSA, FBI, NYPD, and Homeland Security officers would have respected his rights fully and treated him with courtesy, invoking the 5th guarantees that you will miss your flight, and the security apparatus at airports is well aware of this. So you can invoke your right to remain silent, but only by sacrificing your right to move about freely in the process.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-co...
The reason is porn on Tumblr. People going through pages and pages of porn on Tumblr...
In next iteration of this feature, please provide an option for sticky column and row headers - ie. scroll table down with headers in place. Such solution helps inspect large files with many columns. Surely you can do better than rendering a standard html table?
I've had this happen to me before as well, but in Australia, and the similarities and differences are interesting.

I set off the explosive scanner for TNT when flying to see my family at Christmas (and was told straight away what I was found positive for). Was immediately taken into another room with my carry-on, and had my checked-in luggage located and brought in as well.

A lot of things were very similar - I had the full pat down, the numerous questions, and everything was looked over. However they did it all just once. They took everything out of my bag and it was full of Christmas presents, which they then wanted to open, but I persuaded them to put them through the X-ray scanner still wrapped.

I also had a 'guard' watching over me and making sure I didn't leave, and multiple people coming in to ask me questions and verify my answers.

In the end they were able to X-ray all my stuff to their satisfaction, re-checked my bag, and I was was on my way in about 20-30 minutes.

They never did figure out why I set it off btw, and it's never happened again. Very strange.

The thing that sticks out to me from the experience, was how on alert everyone got once the explosive detector went off. Suddenly everyone was _very_ uneasy and wary of me, especially when it came up positive a second time.

So although I think the recent incident was poorly handled, I do understand to some extent the measures in place - i.e. being taken away to another room to be checked, having all their stuff looked over, etc.

And although it seems nuts they didn't let him leave, if he did show positive for explosives then what else should they have done? It's a difficult problem - surely they are compelled to investigate him if that happens?

Does anyone know if it would even be legal to search his place while he was away btw? Surely not, since he checked out and they were happy to let him go.

And how ridiculous Jet Blue denied him boarding (and yet were happy to let him board the next day!)
How does this count when parents get new partners they live with? Is that extended? The new partner didn't adopt the child so isn't technically a parent.
Maintenance is a bitch for sure, but within our budget the cheapest PHEV on the market (the Prius Prime) was our only option for an electric car. We took the plunge, knowing that this car is a middle step, and we don’t intend to keep it past its rental period. In our price range, the only other electric options were a golf cart or a bike ;)
"self-styled"

Freedom of speech gets no respects anymore. Flynt was once celebrated by the media, now a fraud.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
> It is a major hassle though getting people suited up, you would go through gear pretty fast, and if people were taking falls without the direct use of their eyes some might get hurt.

Yes, as with any other entertainment park, there will be safety requirements for this park too, but with different challenges. Those will have to be worked on as we go along with the project.
Hm that sounds interesting! Did I get you right, would that be a section in our README.md named "Showcase" where we would list projects made with Wasp?
It doesn't seem that disruptive to me, but trying to portray it as a Marxist anti-family statement is still a stretch. It appears to advocate "disruption" of the nuclear family model through greater community involvement rather than "disruption" through dismantling it. It's still not an anti nuclear-family statement per se, it's just against having the nuclear family unit being the only relevant influence in societal upbringing.

Which in a rural white community would literally be a Sunday church sermon.
What about everything Apple makes?
Then I obviously misunderstood you, sorry for the confusion.
Ruby does all of those things. The story sounds ancient, and even then a consequence of naive production design far more than any emergent property of language.
Maybe I am naive, but I would expect some chain of responsibility from the CEO down to the lowest intern. And "all our apps just stopped working world wide" or "we haven't released an app update for 2 months for most of our apps that are used by... probably billions of people worldwide" should be events that would receive scrutiny from upper level management?
For people interested in Crispr, Rich Horgan started a non-profit called Cure Rare Disease working to fast-track customized therapeutics for his brother and other families with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy using in-vivo gene editing.

https://cureraredisease.org/
what do you use now? i find that there are almost no alternatives to niche communities.
I watched the mainstream news and I walked down the street. The vast majority of news coverage was very favorable to chaz/chop. It was extremely unsafe after sundown, made that way by the residents of chaz/chop.

Source: I lived 2 blocks away
Sure, 1 million users.

You're free to quibble with the specifics, but there's your magical mark.
Yes, this breach is awful because of its massive scale, its inherent irreversibility and the uniqueness of the data (phone numbers).

We try to shine a light on the implications of this on the website itself (you may need to scroll down a bit).

Short term, just being aware of it should make things better, as there is going to be a massive surge in phishing and other types of attacks.
It does increase traffic but probably not extra sockets/processes which is why they say battery life isn't an issue.
SpaceTime (that channel) in general is of impeccable quality and production value. Definitely worth subscribing.
At least in the US, the problem is mostly regulatory.

If you want to plug an EV in to charge, put a circuit in and have fun.

If you want to backfeed any power to the grid, well, you need an application with the power company (which usually has an application fee), plans that often have to be reviewed and approved (which is a giant pain in some areas, mine included), then the new rate schedules, inspections of the generating facilities for initial operation and continuing operation, and it's a giant pain in the rear. Plus, there's really no strong incentives to actually do this sort of thing, financially - if you've got a solar install, OK, but just a battery... eh. A backup generator is an awful lot cheaper in most cases.
Voting is primarily a way to express that you agree/disagree without adding a redundant comment. Maybe you're thinking of other sites that are indeed intended to be used that way.
I'm Toronto-based. While I was working on my first startup, I received many more job offers than when I was salary-based. A large part of this is, of course, that when you're working on a start-up you do a lot more networking, by necessity.

The offers were from other startups or small companies, though... are large companies in Toronto willing to pick up entrepreneurs? I don't know.
Very true, payscale just doesn't match to what the offerings are south of the border. Some say there more attraction for 'senior' talent - with families,with reliable and free healthcare and fairly family friendly city. That is however not what startups need. They need daring fresh talent, and such talent requires a fertile soil to be planted on.

Just as article pointed out, Haze of Finance covers everything. That may mean smarter, brighter people will go to finance in Toronto, or go south work on exciting projects.

One great thing Toronto, has rest of Canada has less of, it 'lets do it' attitude. Whats hindering it though, very canadian attitude to seek consensus. We like to get permission, something disruptive business models do go against.

It seems there is a lot of hurdles Toronto has to overcome before making it huge as an IT Startup Hub. I believe New York is also having some sort of cultural issues as well in trying to grow up as the fertile place for starups. [ Its this whole east coast thing :) ]
my 2c
Good point. With that said, the main value lies in having it and thus in the execution. The value of the idea itself without execution is only in inspiring people towards execution.
The iPad's app library basically breaks down into two categories. Games and Date Front Ends. If you don't want to write a game than what I'd do if I were you is to find a website that doesn't have a good iPad experience and write a parser for it (icombinator.net is a good example of this type of thing)
Summary: "I wasn't scared by the threat: I avoided the threat trigger and now 7 years later have the courage to complain about it. That is why in my mind I have prevailed."
That was a poorly written post on my part.

I am starting out using Android (getting an HTC Incredible soon as well). If I can get things working well with Android and want to start selling apps and/or start a software company for mobile phones -- I will start out with Android. If things go well enough that I am capable of pursuing another platform as well, then I would do the iPhone next but only after Android success. If I were to fail here, I would stick with Android because of the flexibility and I believe there are more opportunities there. I don't see Apple's ecosystem allowing business software to truly thrive on iPhone/iPad in comparison to Android and others -- I also believe this is intentional.
Sorry, I'm skeptical about that. The movements are big so that they will be captured and correctly interpreted by their pattern recognition system. I think they would not be able to detect very subtle movements like ASL. It is ingenious to claim that it was made artificially big and clumsy for the audience.
As someone with a philosophy degree I can say that your thought is immeasurably underestimated. Every philosophy 101 course teaches you Plato, but the differene between the Plato you find there and the actual Plato under scholarly anaylsis is immense. Aristotle is even worse: his Attic Greek has almost nothing to do with his common English translation EDIT: when it comes to the key terms.
I kinda meant the class of MSFT workers that are responsible for making the image look a bit brighter. I felt that way, because I've not seen positive content about MSFT in a while.
It seems ridiculous that Apple denounces responsibility, but if we think this through, it's better to keep disputes like this is in courts. There are laws and systems in place for handling this type of thing.
Finally a venture capitalist I can trust.
Same for property rights. So get rid of property rights? But then that would have to include sexual access to other people, which would also be violence.
I'm going to guess that Canadian construction is inefficient because they just take their time. It feels like there isn't the drive to get things done quickly and consequently cheaper. The work is good but just takes longer.
What specific level have you already achieved? Are you looking for optimizations, manifolds or something else?
So I went in thinking this was going to be a massive abuse of power, but it seems... reasonable. Either because it is intrinsically or because of the messed up relationship with the truth most politics seems to have these days.

I for one would welcome a mandatory fact check on all political speech, with clear separation of facts and opinion.
Browsers aren't about just reading documents, they are about interacting with the web. That's why there's such a good argument for upgrading browsers.
strong online communities where everyone feels safe and welcome

A “strong” community necessarily has members and non-members, insiders and outsiders. If it doesn’t it’s not a community in any meaningful sense, it’s just an amorphous crowd. The idea of a community that welcomes everyone literally is a contradiction in terms.
Yep! It's astonishing how many articles about price never mention supply and demand.

Neither the article or HN comments (so far) mention supply and demand.
I had an issue using quiche as a dependency via JNI and it was a blocker (I've moved on). The event would lose its reference and segfault; I was unable to track it to an actual cause in the debugger; lots of time wasted.
cache == a flash drive or group of flash drives (although it could also be a USB HD, etc.)

Not through the internet. Through moving from flash drive to flash drive. If you follow the "testing" section along with the network maps for both the "basic configuration guide" and the "large configuration guide", that should clear up a lot of the magic.
I disagree -- their value proposition on their BasecampHQ homepage says "the leading web-based project collaboration tool". That sounds like it should be pretty generic, and applicable to many different use cases, and definitely to the small web development startup, right?
Intensive meat production as we know it isn't exactly all that great either due to all the methane it puts out there and i'd expect it to easily outstrip all the benefits gained from the trampling and cooler ground due to less shrubbery.

We need to pump less greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
Such a true point.

It amazes me why every site seems to need the latest and greatest framework just to tell me a paragraph of text.

We have to stop teaching junior devs react and start teaching them more static site generators.

I personally use hugo and love it.
Can anyone with a better economic understanding share their thoughts on how viable this is? From a layman's point of view, it seems like the FED are using up a lot of their arsenal very quickly.
> rightly so

Debatable
The credit crisis just beginning is what locks in a protracted difficult recovery. As you can see though the market agrees with you.
Oops, should be fixed now.
For electronics, B&H photo is good, too! (Also I'm in NYC and they're a local company with local distribution centers)
Thank you for posting this on a less hostile platform :)