jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
oDesk and elance leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The only real way I can see using one of these services is where the potential employers bid on my limited time, and not the other way around. That way your helping the workers to get paid more, and you are not helping the employers pay less.
Hmmm, I guess it's not available on Debian wheezy. I just installed sysprof and sysprof-cli wasn't included in it.

I'll install it separately; thanks!
Previous discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491686
Most of those eBooks are still being published by the big old publishing houses. Of the authors who are successfully self-publishing, most started out publishing through traditional channels, built up large fanbases that way, and then broke out on their own once they had sufficient popularity to sell books without help from the big publishers. People who jump right into self-publishing and experience dramatic success are way out in the narrow part of the tail.

The dime novels you mention were not just an entry-level publishing platform: their more important function was to let the editors and publishers work with new authors, mentoring them and helping them grow. A guy with "one sale and one fan" is still missing the most important part: regular, constructive feedback from successful professionals.
This is interesting because this was what I was going to do mid-last year but decided to go work for Google instead. There were other issues involved. Another key one was the biz dev side.
Air travel is already terrible. No real improvement in the last 40 years. Flight times have actually increased (to save on fuel), and airlines are playing the trick of "let's make posted flight times longer than needed, so most of our flights we'll land in time".
> But in the end, there are going to be survivors. Some of them are smart.

Agreed. They however will be spending their time doing subsidence agriculture, basic medicine, hunting, building etc. just like anybody living in premodern conditions.

With 95% population loss you can be damn sure there will be no internet, electricity, water/sewage, refined fuel for transportation etc.

People will quickly revert to the middle ages because they'll have to. There will be no time to tinker with reinventing microelectronics.

> There will be technologically advanced places that will persist—no matter what

You can be basically sure that there won't. The 5% left will be in small remote communities, not in a few big cities.
> Which is better -- a feeling backed by reality, or a feeling based on chemical reactions in your brain induced by a substance?

There are a hell of a lot of assumptions packed into this sentence.

I encourage you to go research the current understanding of mental health. There is a lot we don't understand, but I think what we do understand certainly doesn't support the perspective you are presenting.
Is anyone really surprised? This had to happen. And it won't stop happening.

1. Develop platform targeting the youth

2. Gain huge market share

3. Censor and curate to influence young minds worldwide

Many of us this saw this coming long ago. Unfortunately, no legislation appears to exist anywhere in the world which could possibly stop such social media companies which are controlled by foreign agencies with agendas from being launched in their countries in the first place.

China has a TERRIBLE track record of censoring information, of not respecting user privacy, and of KILLING people for speaking out.

Letting infrastructure, apps, operating systems or social networks controlled by them (eg. Android forks, WeChat, TikTok) into your countries is a terrible idea.
I also didn't, but some of the articles on the subject paint "the guy" as a down-on-his-luck hacker in developing country and ancient computer hardware trying to do the right thing. It's presented as almost a charity donation or a scholarship to someone in less than affluent circumstances.
Or maybe it'll go past button-pushing...

Knock, knock. "Hi, I'm Alexa, and my OkCupid profile is a 94% match to yours. Because of that, OkC unlocked your pre-selected social profiles for my perusal. Google Now alerted me to the opening in your schedule right now, Uber took me to your house, and plus I saw you like that Thai food joint down the street based on your FourSquare, so I brought some. Oh, and I thought we might as well watch a comedy flick you've been wanting to see according to your Netflix."

I'm sure someone (more creative than me) could write a better one
I am not sure what you consider an essay versus a blogger. I am a big fan of Andrew Chen's essays. I love how through he is. He does not gloss over critical points/how to's like many marketing writers do.

Link to his site: http://andrewchen.co/
There's nothing that runs on current-gen Microsoft hardware that doesn't run on all the others either, with the exception of phones (and Apple has that limitation too). There are no current-gen Windows RT devices.
Where do you see that the Whirlpool washing machine will be hard coded to use <brand name> products? The system is controlled via the smartphone app. I would think you could re-assign the product/brand associated with the button on the machine.
I tend to agree with this widespread statement of "coding is the new literacy".

I don't think that everybody should make programming their life's work, just like not everyone is earning their daily bread by writing. But given that quite about everything around us is programmable, someone who has no concept at all of how programming works could be left behind.
Yes, but we'd much rather kill ourselves than give someone else the satisfaction of killing us.

Who is the "we" and who is the "someone else"? "We" is a bunch of random people I don't know. And "someone else" is a bunch of random people I don't know.
Try to contribute to 1 open source project, especially one someone can remember. At the same time focus your expertise into one area - something popular, like jquery or laravel or rails. Once you can say you are an expert at one thing and have some experience behind you (open source or other released project), you can get a job easily, for $20-40/hr.
At some point, having a cloud instance acceessed by VPN and proxing all traffic through that could be good.

Until your proxy is hacked, I suppose.

Resistance is feudal.
The definition also fits Von Neumann perfectly.
Even Bill Barr says it's reasonable that conspiracy theories have sprung up, given the extraordinary series of "coincidences" which had to occur for Epstein to wind up dead in his cell. Of course, he goes on to promise that he has personally viewed the footage and everything is on the up-and-up.

Just don't look too closely at the fact that he worked for the law firm which negotiated Epstein's original sweetheart deal, or that his ex-OSS father plucked Epstein out of obscurity to teach at the Dalton school in Manhattan and also wrote a book about extraterrestrial sex slavers ....
It is pretty sad if we believe it is a good idea, but don't even try because it isn't "simple".
You can't block an IP address with a hosts file; you can't even use wildcards in them. You will need a firewall rule.
You’ve got it backwards. When the keys are lost or stolen you’re SOL. The dispute resolution process would restore proper ownership via existing legal frameworks like it’s been done for hundreds of years.
[EDIT: this was written before I saw the OP's edit]

There's a trial and there's real world data, and real-world data is eventually more important. Current real-world data in Israel does not indicate good 1st dose efficiency [0]. It's possible the detailed release of the Clalit data [1] will change our 1st dose picture, but judging by the fact they still demand a 2 dose regiment, I suspect that Clalit data shows the same result.

A theory is that the Pfizer data was accurate for the 'vanilla' virus, but 1st dose isn't enough for the B117 variant [2], and that's why the 1st dose efficiency was disappointing.

[0]
https://twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1359603522581454856

[1]
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/clalit-data-pfizer-vacc...

[2]
https://twitter.com/AArgoetti/status/1359994165979983873

[EDIT following OP's edit: Well, it's possible the data was misinterpreted, but there was a statistical attempt to attune for these effects, and antibody tests seem to give a plausible theory for why 1st dose was effective in trials but not real world. Even if you disagree, it's enough of a substantial objection that we can't say we know for sure 1st dose is enough.]
Lots of content in English as well

https://youtube.com/c/dwnews
So, lockdowns are worse than nearly half a million people dying in the US alone? Interesting viewpoint, care to expand?
So I live in an apt in Austin, which rolls-up to the city municipal power company. My usual electric bill is $5-8/week with all electric appliances including dryer and heater.
BTW, if you are ok to listen in Russian, I'd recommend to try to listen 2007 radio-version with Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Snout. It's just awesome. Listened it at least 4 times over a years and always found something new in it.
From what I've read and heard about the attack in the past, they had managed to find the supplier and had confiscated some blueprints or the actual structures (nuclear reactor?) that was used and then reverse engineered it from there with the help of nuclear scientists to find vulnerabilities in it.
> "Anyone--founders, managers, and executives--trying to break through to new customers can use this smart, ambitious book." -- Eric Ries

> https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Cu...
I connected a lot with this right until the Why Failure section. I thought he was going to admit that he had a blind spot, that thinking he was the one who needed to 'imbue (others) with (his) style of thinking' was solipsistic.

It reminds me a lot of myself. I'm always sitting with a feeling like I've got some special perspective, that I'm the only one trying to 'figure it all out' and I'm always on the verge to, and when I do it will be incredible. And as I get older at the heart of it I feel something much sadder - a fear and a loneliness. An inability to engage and stand my ground with the people around me. Though that could be just me.
I'm sure Sony didn't burn kraken decompression into hardware without a license saying all their third party devs can use the compressor for Sony's PlayStation console (and future ones for backwards compatibility at least) in perpetuity.
Gstreamer and FFMpeg would certainly run on a Switch, a PS4, or whatever else. We know this because it runs on devices with the same processor.

That said, yes, Bink certainly is a more turnkey solution, which can definitely make business sense to use. This is a byproduct of consoles being closed platforms.
The Max was developed under James McNerney who is an MBA with no engineering background.
I've heard good things about VA health care, when people are able to get care. But there's a lot of waiting to get care, and sometimes a lot of fighting [1] to show eligibility in addition to all the waiting. Psychiatric care is reportedly much more problematic, as well.

I agree, it wouldn't be the one to expand, because of lack of goodwill, and lack of capacity for more patients.

[1] One of my relatives has symptoms associated with Agent Orange exposure, but had a lot of trouble getting the VA to cover it until recently, because (as I understand) his service records didn't show that he was in an area with exposure. Some recent laws passed changed the criteria that granted eligibility, and he's been happy with the care he's received since.
>since it really did kill a bunch of people.

No one can prove a specific Boeing executive's actions caused people to die. There would have to be an email from the executive stating

"I think we should cut costs here and here and I acknowledge this may cause x% of passengers to die".

And they're not going to put something like this in an email either:

"Meet with the guy that used to work for us who now works at the FAA and get him to waive or lower so and so standards so this plane can fly and we'll owe him".
Welcome to The New Yorker. "If it doesn't digress, we don't go to press!"
Because he's pointing out hate speech by lampooning it. Very different
I'm afraid that I do not see this working in the way that you envision. It is hardly scalable is a "business". A startup is a full time commitment, and a successful one plays out over a number of years, not months (like Y Combinator). You can hardly expect someone to co-found with you if you expect to split your time over some large number of startups. Your network of "freelance people" would have to be massive and trustworthy.

There also exists an underlying issue in matching co-founder with co-founder: Founder relationships based upon personal connection are much more likely to succeed than those that aren't. Your process would fall into the latter category.
Good point uvdiv: if the ionization events are sufficiently rare in both cases we ought to be able to treat them as cumulatively equivalent. I guess it would depend on the error correction time and the size of the affected nucleotide sequence, especially in a double-break error. The dose delivered by these scanners is probably well-below that threshold.

My remaining concern would be that the biological effects of this particular energy regime are as-of-yet uncharacterized.
Non profit here as well and we get great rates from Digicert.
The truth is the reason they pointed to SQLite is because the proposed API was so obscenely complicated that it was easier to point to a reference implementation than to accurately specify a standard, which points to a rather fundamental problem with the proposed standard: SQL is too damn complicated, and embedding it in browsers is a bad idea.

For a web standard to succeed, you need either Mozilla or Microsoft support, preferably both. They have 75% of the browser market between them, so without either any standard is dead on arrival. Chrome, Safari and Opera individually do not have enough marketshare to be a significant influence on the takeup of web standards and still follow in the footsteps of the others. Incidentally, Chrome does support IndexedDB (http://peter.sh/2010/10/indexeddb-milestone-8-es5-strict-mod...).

Mozilla have made it clear they are supporting IndexedDB and not WebSQL. Microsoft have publicly posted remarks of support of IndexedDB on the IE blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/09/working-with-t...) and Pablo Castro, an architect involved with web standards has publicly favoured IndexedDB over WebSQL (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pablo/archive/2010/01/04/html5-does-...). It's not always easy to judge the inner workings of Microsoft, but I think it's a pretty strong hint as to what they are working on.

The IndexedDB spec seems relatively well-specified to me, and much more detailed than the WebSQL spec. Incidentally, the original authorship of WebSimpleDB was Nikunj Mehta, who was an Oracle employee at the time. The standard didn't originally come from any "braintrust at Mozilla".
You've got just as much control. Grab the console and 'drop table' - all that data, gone. You can even trash all the databases in most browsers pretty simply. And restrict their size. The difference is that client-side JavaScript becomes useful with a large-ish local storage.

Arguably, it's significantly safer than cookies, which are sent with every request (ie: Firesheep).
Maybe the Android Marketplace is "better" than the App Store because anybody can put an app up there, but the apps certainly aren't better, not by a long shot.
I imagine it would if Google Maps had National Rail data for the UK
Downloaded app can be used offline.
It seems like a lot of the "capping" methods are trying to contain the oil output using a single cap .... made impossible due to the pressure of the output.

Could a series of stacked metal "cones", with holes in the top, each one slightly more narrow than the previous one, work better? Each cone would slightly reduce the output diameter, reducing the flow ... and the additional weight of each cone would help hold down the cones on the bottom.
It says you need to download safari to see the demos. This is not true - I can view them fine from another page on apple's site using Chrome. That seems misleading to me?
Is self-awareness of your lack of originality really vital?

The guy who claims to have come up with the phrase doesn't seem to think so:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000817233601/www.jumptheshark.c...

Q. What is jumping the shark?

A. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it "Jumping the Shark." From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.
There's a lot of zeal in making fun of other people. He's become a bit of a bully.
Brings back Geocities memories.
> ...type of answer that Apple apologists often give to people when they ask for options that Apple simply does not offer.

How could Apple offer every option? You can ask for other options all you want, but thats probably a waste of your time and energy. The rational thing to do would be to just buy from a different brand.

It may surprise you to find out that no single company can possibly offer every possible configuration, option, and/or form factor possible. Luckily, different brands tend to cater to different niches.

> Did you consider that I might be playing a single-player game and there's nobody to be at a "severe disadvantage" to?

Interesting. Are there no enemies or objectives in your single player game? You're objectively better off with a normal mouse. Even a tiny portable usb mouse.
Are you sweaty from the bike ride ?

If so, how do you handle it when you are on the client site ?
They're the same problem. If you abolish DST then time no longer corresponds to what time people are awake/working/etc., in which case you might as well get the benefits of doing away with timezones too.
You'll get a Riker.
> Excellent reply -- a small but important (and elegant, I think) proviso is that in the king-minting-coins scenario, it's not actually necessary to require that citizens exchange goods for the coins; requiring them to pay taxes in the coins accomplishes that on its own, if the only initial source of coins is from the soldiers.

Historically, another piece of legislation usually followed governments trying to force their money into circulation: the concept of "legal tender". A currency having "legal tender" status means that all debts are payable in this currency, even those incurred in a different currency/money (eg. gold).

For example, in the US in 1862, government-issued currency was given legal tender status, to finance the Civil War. This act forced gold creditors (people who were owed gold) to accept payment in this government-issued currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Tender_Cases#Legal_Tende...

This essentially destroys the credit market for competing currencies. All debts can be paid in government-issued currency, and few creditors wished to lend out gold, only to be paid back in paper notes, albeit government-issued.

As far as I can see, free currency competition requires both:

1) The ability to choose the numeraire (eg. Japanese Yen, Euros, Dollars, gold, silver) yourself when reporting your taxes, and paying taxes in the chosen numeraire.

For example, say I hold an amount of US Dollars, and my chosen numeraire is gold, then if the gold price (XAUUSD=X) falls, and I buy gold using these dollars, I need to pay taxes on a capital gain, as the gold price of these dollars has gone up since I purchased them ("gold price of dollars" is the inverse of the "dollar price of gold" (the latter being XAUUSD=X)).

2) The abolition of legal tender law. Legal tender law interferes with the credit markets of competing currencies, by declaring that debts incurred in any currency/money, can be extinguished using government-issued legal tender currency.

So, in short, requiring capital gain taxes to be paid using government-approved currency as the numeraire disincentivizes people from hoarding competing currency, while legal tender law disincentivizes people from lending out competing currency. Both these activities are needed for any type of money to function as money.
The problem is that you have much higher understanding of the inner parts of software. You might group functions together by type pf operation you do, by used algorythm... Your mind knows that these are operations that work with memory so you look there.

For example average user has mostly no understanding of things like reading data into memory and that it must be saved aferwards. For him the edit is already on the screen, like when you write on paper.

Also ux quality is imposible to measure. Lot of times its desicions between Ok bot not great vs Ok but not great.

The biggest problem on opensource projects is no consistent unifying philosophy, no aim. Users can learn anything, it just has to be consistent. Lot of times there is one developer wanting to see every posible function on the sceen, second one is making contextualy avare menus and thir one believes in text input search. Three of those together are just a mess.
They explicitly want to test 443.
Clearly the solution is to not call people. Synchronous communication sucks.

I do like the time shifting to maximize daylight in the high latitudes.
> But we've just moved the problem under another shell. Now, in order to schedule meetings, I have to know what the universal "04:00" means for all participants. This is just the flip side of the same coin.

The failure cases are much better though. Say you screw this up, and you schedule the meeting at what you think is "09:00 Bangalore" but it's actually "07:00 Bangalore".

With timezones: You tell the guy in Bangalore to dial in at 09:00, he says fine, then he misses the meeting.

Without timezones: You tell the guy in Bangalore to dial in at 04:00, he either sucks it up or says "umm I'm still having my breakfast then" and you reschedule.