jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If everyone could have separate clipboards, but still copy from and paste into each other's windows, that would be ideal.

Also: this would be a major feature request from me. The ability for me to paste code into someone's else text editor (or copy out an error message) when I'm helping them would be a major productivity boost.
> With more studies showing teachers are not as critical as schools want to believe, maybe we can start focusing on other metrics to gauge suçcess.

Like cost of hiring? Seriously, if teachers are not as critical, why not hire less or pay less salary... any half decent person in the classroom will do.

I think the study is about right that teachers are not as critical as they'd like to believe. I just don't know what to think of the implications...
There’s a difference between “one factor that explains everything” and a dominant factor that explains most of the variation.
I'm curious how many Mac users have multiple monitors? I don't think I've ever seen a single one (I'm sure they exist). I see iMac users on one big monitor. I see MacBook/Air/Pro users either on their laptop or one monitor, usually with their laptop closed.

Where as pretty much all Windows users in game dev seem to have 2 or more monitors.

Are you expecting lots of mac users to buy a second monitor or use an iPad for this second monitor or is my experience just atypical and lots of mac users have 2 monitors?
I find it amusing that you are being downvoted for saying the same thing many others are saying, but less politely and more baldly.

We are at a point where men are starting to realize that gender imbalance works both ways, where lots of comments decry the article's inattention to the male decrease in performance.

But there's still a taboo.
Obviously everyone starts somewhere. At some point Steve Jobs was just a dude hocking do it yourself circuit boards out of a garage, after all.

If you know the person, and you know they have what it takes and you believe in them, then I would say go for it. However, if you take the group of all people with 'a great idea', the percentage who actually have any chance at all is so low that it is not worth the time to listen to them.

Simply put, if the expected value of listening to someone's idea (whom you have no other information about) is X, the cost in time and attention just to listen to them is some large multiple of X. I obviously believe that the multiple of X is so great that it is not only optimal to not bother to hear what they are saying, but it is actually profitable to actively discourage them.

Now, if you have more information about the person, such as your friend, then the prior probability that they will not be wasting your time goes way, way up. It is always worthwhile to take the time to hear out someone you have reason to believe is amazing. The other things I listed in the 'toolkit' were things that make that prior probability high enough that it is worth actively considering dropping what up to now has been your best bet (that is, what you've been working on for months probably) and jumping to whatever they've got cooking. It still probably won't be worth it, but at least there is a good enough chance they aren't just blowing smoke.

It's really not complicated. If someone is just starting out, they should partner up with other people who are just starting out. It's only fair, they can jump into it together and take the same risks with each other. If they wan't other people to give up something great, either what they have going now or in lost wages, they have to provide a good enough track record that the expected payout of working with them is not only higher than the alternative, but also high enough that it makes it worth the additional risk.
Great initiative by the Facebook team. Anyone knows if there's a similar framework for Android? (declarative description of the UI, rendering based on immutable models, single data flow, etc)
Unfortunately, being immobile for an entire long-haul flight severely increases your risk of clotting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_class_syndrome). For people with a predisposition to clotting, this advice could kill them.
Yeah, no. They never called me.
While it's great that people can be resourceful and ingenuous in times of duress, it's a bit off to praise the duress for that.
Unfortunately, this may just be caused by companies reclassifying existing workers and postponing the hiring of new full-time employees, instead preferring "contractors." See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/opinion/02reich.html?pagew....
the question is how many of these are actual startups, and how many of these are "consulting" companies, that people started in order to get/keep a job
In my experience, more megapixels is better, but after a point, other aspects make much more difference to the overall quality of the image for most purposes. Going from a cheap zoom lens (the sort of which often comes with the camera) to a cheap prime lens makes a huge difference... an extra 4 megapixels, not so much.
Pain symptom and cause have a non-local connection. A co-worker of mine was there too, same symptoms, but he had disfunctional pectoral muscles. So his exercises where different.

My exercises are hard to describe in words. I spend a week in physiotherapy at that clinic with 3 sessions a 1.5h a day, where they show you the exercises and correct your position.

I'll try to find videos for you.
Does it cover a different use case compared to Palisade @Risk?
> This is actually one reason to use webfonts, since you can be reasonably(ish) sure it looks more or less the same for everyone.

This seems to be a general conflict between "it should look like the person who made it intended it" and "it should look like I want it to". For instance prescribing fonts and colors gives you a nice uniform look, but causes problems with dark themes or wanting other fonts, not to mention hijacking scrolling for fancy effects.
Similarly, clientside decorations make apps like chrome look similar on all OSs, but also out of place on all of them.
You could have uneven rows for 69:

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(Copied from my reddit comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/cd6v6/a_mathematician_...)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
I completely and fundamentally disagree with Trump and his “ideology”.

But how can we agree on the principle of censorship?

I mean, if we agree with the idea of censorship, we also mechanically agree to get censored tomorrow by whoever is the new censor.

Shouldn’t it be the same rule for everyone?
>every town has a junkyard or two that buys junked cars for a pittance....

This guy became a billionaire doing the same thing as other guys in 'every town'. I think that's the point
I didn't say anything about the article. The trouble is that your comment was a step into ideological flamewar. Just look at the results it led to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618367.

You singled out a provocative point about an inflammatory topic and then made it even more provocative by using ideological flamewar language ("the narrative they have created"). That's going the wrong way down a one-way street. When commenting here, try to step away from provocation, not further in!
In my view, it’s analogous to a journal that will only exist once you have written (some of) it down in front of them. The encrypted content can only exist in decrypted form with the information in your head.
No, I'm not joking.

It's not so much e-commerce that broke everything. Although there were many who did argue that.

For me, it's been the shift from self-published (and indeed, self-hosted) to Google, Facebook and cloud services. And the tide turned in the late 90s.

Edit: When I first got online, it was AOL, CompuServe, EcoNet and The Well. I was on all of them except AOL. And then we had Usenet and websites. And networks of websites. The prospect of citizen-based journalism. But now we're back to something a lot more like AOL.
This is really the key and why I've never liked the comparisons to the Pentagon Papers. Wikileaks may have changed the narrative at the margins, but overall the leak didn't reveal much about the big picture that hasn't been common knowledge for a good while.

The Pentagon Papers, on the other hand, revealed that multiple presidential administrations had deliberately lied to the public about what was going on in Vietnam. The Downing Street memo is probably the closest Iraq war analogue.
See http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/... for more info about this upcoming title.
I am guessing you didn't read the article. This isn't about privacy.

It is more like the guy you are sitting to next to on the subway overhearing your conversation then grabbing your tongue and forbidding you to ever speak of the topic again.
I live in SF. Could just have easily been Boston College.
You can edit the message by clicking on the little pen icon next to the text.
totally not surprised. Twitter seemed like a great fit for Google.
What info do you get from Facebook? It's not that I don't trust you, I already trust you guys with all my files, but I'm interested. I also don't get why I'd want to post to Facebook from within Dropbox, got any cool use cases I'm missing?

5TB sounds good, but how long does that take to sync? I've got about 20GB in mine now I think and syncing it to a new computer seems like it would take several days (I get the "grab a snickers" message). I usually start of a new machine my rsyncing stuff over so not the end of the world, but it would be useful to download stuff at a speed resembling what my, not that great, connection can handle.

Dropbox rules by the way, it's changed how I use my computers :)
You cannot compare salaries in Europe and the US directly. For example, average salary after mandatory payment to health care, retirement and unemployment insurance is around 26000 euros/year for men in France (http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&id=38, official statistical institute in France, generally considered very reliable). This means something like 34000 euros / year before any taxes. So no, not many people earn 75000$ / year.
I don't see how they're going to hardware accelerate canvas much, unless you stick to very specific operations, i.e. never touch individual pixels. GPUs are great at splatting polygons all over the place; running arbitrary JavaScript to generate pixel values, not so much. Reading back pixel values from the rendering surface is pretty much out of the question altogether.

Unless you meant the fact that WebGL seems to be taking shape, or the hardware accelerated CSS3 effects. (I doubt HTML/CSS rendering is hogging the CPU here)
They have turned over the company to business people and lawyers.
I'm sure Github and free software is a goldmine to the country that built its economy on copying other people's stuff.

On the other hand, the capitalists running the communist party might scoff at the idea of software that everyone is allowed to copy, because that offers no advantage to the unscrupulous. At least I'd imagine they would scoff at copyleft, just like Github does.
Yep, it's in the plans! :)
To go further down the rabbit hole, there's also http://www.osnews.com/story/26838/Palm_I_m_ready_to_wallow_n...
Thom makes a point to dig up where a lot of the concepts of that era drew their inspiration from. I especially like the comparison with the speed and ease of pen and paper.
It is a great read, and I recommend studying the history of Palm in order to understand mobile device history until 2007.
That's a pretty stupid idea. Lot's occidental businesses are (or area trying) to expand their market to china. Give it a look to this map [1], and you'll understand why China is a massive opportunity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependenc...
Yes, logic wins arguments, but to continue with metaphors, I'm sure you have heard of the halting problem. Without upvotes, the thread will go on forever. Vote counts allows for closure. So threads are shorter and I'm happy to extract more information faster.
So many of the discussions around these points here center around the "TL;DR" point of view.

I wonder how these people ever managed to make it through a newspaper without scores telling them which articles are worth it.

Learn to survey, skim, and dive in. All your endeavors will be the better for it.

PS. Your method (don't read if don't like score) also ensures you won't be soiled by accidentally reading an unpopular but truthful point of view.
A demo page would have been nice

Documentation would have been nice, too.
I vote for hn'd
I think this is what is being planned. Browser will ask you if you want to allow the app to use local storage (and hopefully give it a limit). If not large webgl games are going to be a pain if you have to wait 30 minutes to play. I'm not saying 10Gb but 1-2 might not be a bad limit.
We need to make that more clear on the site, we don't entend the volunteers to get paid, but rather rewarded with discounts, early access, and recognition from the communities they help.
One of the big assumptions that's being made here is that people are dumb calculators.

I can tell the difference between a stupid comment that got a lot of points for being stupid, and a useful comment that got a lot of points for being useful.

When I look at amazon and see that twilight has 3000 5 star ratings, I don't assume this means it's a great piece of literature, but it is useful information to me: it's a popular book.

Same goes for comments.

I'm not stupid, I can tell the difference between "popular because it's funny/pandering" and "popular because it's useful"
Small nits:
- clicking on nyc pops up a pop up that it isn't easy to get rid of
- I would suggest defaulting all views to today, rather than forcing a person to based upon date on the left hand side

Large nit: I see in your about page: "Deal/coupon aggregation and maps. Integration with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla.Local Questions/Answers. Mobile application." - I would suggest to do one thing and do it well. I think just answering the question what is going on in town is a tough one to answer but answering it will make you a useful service. Trying to do everything at this stage will probably mean you don't do any of them that well...
That's more than a year old. This site is worthy of repost.
So, everyone fails and you think it is a good question? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I can't reasonably answer the question, because I haven't really needed to know it. When I need to know it, I'll learn it, and quickly. How is that question a good measure of me if you are not hiring me to architect a router or something where it pertains?

I could ask you questions in my domain that you'd be hopeless at answering. But I wouldn't, because it would be a horrible measure of you.
I think in certain contexts it could be a reasonable interview question. I think it could work well as a "here's a general topic, speak intelligently on it for a couple of minutes" question. You could even ask it for jobs completely unrelated to programming or computer networking.
600 km/L, that's very impressive fuel economy.
This is also why it's difficult for some of us around here to charge customers what our work is worth. It doesn't seem like work to us at all. It feels just like reading comics and playing WoW. It's hard to feel like we should be paid for such things.
Can't reply to sillysaurus3 directly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902595), so I'm replying here:

You make a great point! I didn't quite grok it before.

>Can that expansion really be pushed 175 miles north and 175 miles south simultaneously?

>Surely at some point the weight of the tube overcomes the steel's desire to expand, so the result would be the tube either scrunching up like an accordion or going in the lateral direction.

Agreed. I have a feeling some sort of active control (basically just motorized rollers) will be needed every couple of miles to prevent "sun kinks". I haven't done the math on that though. It might be sufficient that a large hollow tube shape is much more resistant to buckling than a rail shape.

"Sun kinks": http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-warp-railr...
I think it has a lot to do with cultural taboos and media whitewashing. In the 80's there was lots of media from the 50's on TV, like Donna Reed, Leave it to Beaver, The Andy Griffith show, etc. The popular media of the time is mostly about rich white people dealing with simple family problems that result in teaching situations. In the 80's we had Married with Children and Hard Copy, which I can't imagine being accepted on television in the 50s. In the 80s, the 50s seemed so different, a gentler and easier time, without the same strife (which is untrue, mind you). The 80's are relatable because we recognize the same problems in them that we see in ourselves today.

In short, it's not that the society of previous time period was more different during these ranges, it's that our perception of that previous period through their surviving media was more or less relatable to our current experiences.
I think you addressed your own question there. The answer is essentially, "I enjoy doing this, but I would never want to do this as a full-time job." I think deep down you realize it's a hobby that you enjoy in your free time but it's not something that brings you true fulfillment and sense of achievement you would doing something else as a profession.
>Nietzsche said, in his funny and somewhat misogynistic way: "Supposing truth is a woman, what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have been very inexpert about women? That the gruesome seriousness, the clumsy obtrusiveness with which they have usually approached truth so far have been awkward and very improper methods for winning a woman's heart?"

Maybe I don't know something about this Nietzsche guy, but how does that paragraph demonstrate a hatred of women?

You know you can use the word woman in a sentence without hating women, right?
Under "More Info" it says it's built with: Hardware.

Maybe it's a secret, but is it custom hardware? Could a Raspberry Pi handle this kind of image processing?
That's not completely true. At least with the GNU tools, 'rm' won't delete the root directory unless you specifically give it the '--no-preserve-root' flag. Since that flag has no use outside of deleting root, it's unlikely it has the flag on it. With that in mind the script must do some type of manual deleting for some reason.
> but now that I've been out of that field for several years and working in embedded firmware and data, I would have to relearn much of what I "knew" in my old

This seems to me this is mostly caused by being out of the field for so long, not because you did something else while being out.
set -o pipefail makes common idioms a pain. Consider using head, which simply exits after it has read a few lines. In this case, the input process gets a SIGPIPE and exits with a non-zero exit code:

Consider /tmp/test.sh:

set -o pipefail
yes foo | head

$ bash /tmp/test.sh >/dev/null
$ echo $?
141
Zuckerberg seems to know something, dislike is most requested and ignored feature on Facebook.
I was at a classmate of yours at Brown, although a few years younger. I like to play the prediction game too! Maybe it comes from all those hours in the Sun Lab.

I like most of your predictions, but I think you're at least half-wrong on the cryptocurrency side; the blockchain is real innovation. Do you guys know at Joyent that your data hasn't been modified, deleted, lost or added to and when? I bet you don't. The amount of data risk any modern company takes on is almost criminal, just like you refer to in your security predictions. The blockchain technologies let you solve that problem, among many others.

I'm not predicting a brilliant year for Bitcoin; I think there's a lot of building to be done on the currency side especially, but I just don't see the case for sniping at it too much, especially while transaction rates stay well in excess of $10mmUSD / day in the middle of falling prices. I'm going to predict some notable traction in smaller non-libertarian markets for Bitcoin by the end of 2015 in return. :)
nobody is
I think there is some economic theory that states the price of products will tend towards the marginal cost over time. I haven't seen anything that makes me think software is any different.

I don't think there is much profit in hardware, most companies seem to work on razor thin margins.
First, thank you for your answer.

Second:

> I have never learnt the art of work-life balance, but now I'm able to amortise it over the course of a year!

I took a similar approach and realised that with my attitude towards work I'd need to reduce the contract lengths to a week max, which is obviously impossible, unless I switch careers completely.

What I find really hard is to maintain a work-life balance in my _everyday_ life. I don't mind and occasional crunch—in fact to me it's something equally exciting and addictive. I keep switching between being excited, frustrated or depressed (bored).

It's something I'm trying to work on and recognise some of its triggers, but keep failing, miserably.
The most promising category of approach seems to me to be an adversarial one. Level 1 is having one side present their case—basically the status quo. Level 2 is having some group of people with a strong incentive to find flaws and what's missing, and with a platform on which to present their criticisms. Level 3 is to have people (possibly from the first group, possibly other members of the second group) critique the criticisms, and possibly iterate that. Level 4 might include live debates, although that has pros and cons relative to written arguments.

A tactic that I suspect would be useful is the ability to call out specific things—"Yeah, a bunch of this stuff is arguable and murky, but that thing you said right there is wrong and I can prove it; I will stake a chunk of my reputation on this, and we will litigate the issue, and if I'm successful, it should damage your reputation and boost mine"—combined with people expecting to be in the system for long enough that reputations are worthwhile. ("Wrong" will include "factually wrong" and might also include "against the rules of this system"—it might be sensible to have rules about claims needing to be backed up by certain kinds of evidence.)

I think at least some parts of academia were supposed to work something like this, and maybe a few parts of it actually do.
I have heard reports of gunfire being exchanged through the door to the House: https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1346905489561579532.

Surely that would qualify as "armed", and the "rioter" I would hope should be self-evident.
Why would Apple's labor violations be under CNN Politics? Apple is a business, not a political party.
We're at a weird mixture of competence.

Extremely good coordination with vaccine invention, extremely bad with all other aspects.

Humanity is irrational, most people believe crazy, inconsistent things, and are easily manipulated.

The average citizen is stupid, the government is vulnerable to sentiment from the average citizen (and partisan media orgs that seek to influence those citizens for their own power or money).

It's a bad situation.

It's basically like Asimov said, "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that JetBrains has bigger reach worldwide than NYT.
Is there any context to that number? I’d be very interested in seeing how many beds were free this day in 2019, 2018, etc. It’s not a secret that hospitals are designed to run at or near capacity at all times, I don’t know where the notion that hospitals run at 40% capacity at all times in order to account for the random once-in-a-century pandemic comes from.
"How we partner with Facebook" is an amazing piece of weasel-wording.