jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wonder what the lengths are. Anything that you can share, particularly that could scale to more people?

Serious question. I wouldn't even know how to approach it. China is the world's factory - throw a dart at a random non-food storefront, and anything it hits was almost surely made entirely or in part in China. Hell, a quite a lot of locally-made products get packaged in China. I personally know of local producers in Poland that send their products to China to be packaged there and sent back - it turns out it's much cheaper to do that, even accounting for multi-month round trip on a container ship, than to pay locals to do the packaging...
Yes, I need transcriptions, so I spend half a day at https://audext.com/
I bet it is possible but that does not mean that it is going to be easy. Try training yourself to wiggle an ear or to lift a single eyebrow if you cannot do that yet. It's possible but it takes quite some time.
Two companies (let's say Coke and Pepsi) are engaged in an advertising war.

Coke hires a graphic designer to draw a cool logo.

Pepsi has to fire back and do the same.

In the end both of their brand statures remain them same, and two artists who would rather have spent their time working on something else had their time wasted, due to a particular incentive structure.

Everyone acted in their own interest, and individually had a positive ROI. Yet collectively, the ROI was negative. Coke's action had a negative externality on Pepsi; Pepsi fired back with an action that had a negative externality on Coke.
Stuff I seem to always have open:

GMail

Hacker News

Reddit

Twitter

localhost:8080
It wasn't obvious to me that a population that diverged from ours a million years ago would still be able to interbreed with us less than 50,000 years ago. That's tens of thousands of generations. I'm not surprised that they tried, but mildly surprised that they produced viable offspring. After all, there was previously some doubt that we could have interbred with Neanderthals, and we diverged from them only 500,000 years ago. We're twice as many generations removed from the Denisovans.

Or maybe those dates are wrong; the diagram in the article seems to say that the Denisovans and the Neanderthals diverged from the human lineage at the same time. I got the dates I cited from this article from earlier this year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8583254.stm
Thanks!

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Oh wait, there's one more thing: http://blog.hipmunk.com/hipmunk-is-excited-about-2011
With great power and complexity comes great responsibility. Not many people can write decent C++ programs given the complexity of the language. It's pretty easy to abuse the power and write horrible code.

Currently Scala is less affected, since there are not many users at this pont. I'd say this group consists of more sophisticated users, too.
i have one of those, they work very well.
This is just an anecdote, but perhaps other people can comment, since the plural of anecdote is data...

I personally know several people who voted for the proposition under the impression that it was a pro-worker proposition that would guarantee benefits for drivers. There were 3 other people for whom I explained the context around it (including the fact that it was preempting a flawed bill from the legislature) before they mailed their ballots in and they changed their vote.

I also know several people who think that we should eliminate the rules for treating workers as employees in general, and they voted for the bill as well, so there's definitely some support. Its definitely clear from my point of view that a significant fraction of the people who voted for the proposition did so because they misunderstood what they were voting for.

OTOH that's probably true about all ballot measures ever, and probably most legislation as well.
I don't work there and I'm not a fan of unions but this makes me want to vote YES.
It's worth saying that the sourcing roles is probably the easy part of their business - sourcing candidates being the hard part.
I was thinking that this might be a great choice for DIY powerwalls. Right now the favorite seems to be LFP. But even as they have gotten close to the price of lead acid, they're still expensive if you want a decent size battery to be an emergency backup for grid power. But a quick search suggests that demand for these is too low to offset the potentially less expensive construction, so they are really overpriced for the capacity.
> people voluntarily join a company too

A choice between starvation and warehouse job at amazon where you’re penalized for taking a bathroom break is not a choice made freely.
What I'm most interested in is what the trends will be in how those specialized circuits are developed.

Circuit design has been marching steadily along for decades, and between the tools available to allow non-specialists to go from abstract hardware description to image-ready chip specification and the ever-cheapening, ever-broadening capabilities of custom chip fab, are we approaching an era where fabricating mid-range specialized circuits is on par with the difficulty of writing and compiling software, only a bit slower?
This is common to many lower income countries.

You can live like a poor student in Poland for very cheaply but an upper/upper-middle class lifestyle (a couple of nice new luxury cars, always having the latest iphones/ipads, fancy clothing/watches/jewelry, a nice house/apartment in a good location, etc) will cost the same or more in Warsaw as in Berlin or Vienna.
That's retail diamond though.

There is a price list index for wholesale stones

http://www.idexonline.com/Diamond_Index_Drivers.asp
Not to diminish the good sides, but multi-device XMPP experience is a quite complicated matter even today. For example, you'll have to give up on OTR, and you'll have to choose the software carefully.
This is one of the most interesting parts of the article to me:

Right around the same time that barbed wire was invented, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. At first, telephone companies were laying telephone wire in cities, but they weren’t interested in the rural market. But farmers also needed phones, which meant that they needed a network of wires to connect the farms.

Barbed wire fences could serve this purpose. The barbed wire couldn’t transmit a signal quite as clearly as a nice insulated copper wire, but for many years, it did the trick. A dozen or so farms might be connected on one system; for about $25, farmers could buy a kit to rig themselves into the network. In 1907 there were 18,000 independent telephone cooperatives serving nearly 1.5 million people. Because of this, farmers were some of the earliest adopters of telephone technology.

A great reminder that technological advances don't happen in a vacuum, and new innovations spread best if they can work over already existing infrastructures.
You say that these images are highly optimized to produce this effect and would not occur by chance, but have you looked at the images in the "fooling" paper?

http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling

Some of them are very simple, and DO occur a lot in the world. For example, the alternating yellow and black line pattern would be encountered by a driverless car, and it would think it is seeing a school bus.
Almost all software shops are not unionized. Jobs move overseas because companies are not expected to act as beneficial actors in other countries, they know they do not have to respect basic human rights or pay a fair market value wage for labor.

The corporation freely signed a contract with the union to follow certain stipulations. There is no bullying on either side.

The breakthrough unions provide is a power balance from which your profession can advocate for setting base pay, working conditions and benefits. It provides a front against mismanagement/abuse and ensures you get the protections regulation and contracts provide. These are problems that existed in the past, exist now and will exist in the future as long as organizations of people are around.

You have a mischaracterization of unions of simply existing to force money out of companies, when their purpose has been explicitly stated many times.
> someone once tried to tell me an xbox 360 was a memory constrained environment... jesus wept.

Depends on what one is used to and what needs to be done. If you're used to PCs that have at least as much GPU RAM and bandwidth as an entire 360, then sure, a 360 is memory constrained.
I agree, but assume by "comments" you mean community. If it was just random comments it would be terrible.

Also, just to give a little insight in some data -- on my Hacker Newsletter side-project, the HN links (which are included for every article) see about 15% of the total clicks. I don't have an easy way to look the ratio of article/hn, but I'm going to look into that more and see if I can pull that as well. That ratio has dropped over the years as my newsletter pulls in more and more non-HN regulars.
>That stuff has come a long way - but it's still no replacement for valves driven to within an inch of their lives.

Yep. I had to sell my tube amp when I moved to New York City and the modeling pedal I have comes nowhere close to the warmth and feel of the tube amp. I'm a horrible audiophile and I only played guitar for fun and even I could tell a massive difference. It's like trying to describe a person with presence - words never seem to work and you're always left with "you just feel it"
IMO: It's just awful.

1. Forced waiting for transitions everywhere. For a page I'll probably only ever visit once. You want to ease-in to things. I get it. But you shouldn't hide them. If you want a dithering transition as you scroll, do that. Don't fade-in. There's almost never an excuse for that.

2. What's the point of the "meteor"? To look cool? Is there any point at all to the businesses scrolling in it? Because I don't know how many there are. There's no link to view them all. There's no points to click to go back a pin and re-read one that caught my eye.

I don't know. It just feels like people are obsessed with having the coolest Flash splash screens again.
There are phones that have WWW access that do not run Android or iOS.

Whatsapp apps miss very many people who'd use it if they could.
> Summary generated by smmry

Please don't post these here. HN threads are for conversation between people.
This breaks the rules at the top. Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749613.
The following is my little story of how I "retired" young.

I am 34 and "retired" 8 years ago. I still do some consultancy now and then to keep my brain active and up to date with how things are done in the "real world". Money isn't a big factor for me as I have enough for everything I want. I don't have any expensive interests, I don't care about owning a high-end car or a huge house, etc. I live in West London (technically Surrey) which is kind of expensive but I am comfortable.

I was lucky more than anything being able to give up work in my mid-twenties though. I got some inheritance, I had a decent job that paid well, I sold my house a few months before the 2008 crash, etc. With some long term investments and a simple lifestyle I realised I didn't need to work not long after I separated from my wife. As I wasn't really enjoying life much after my divorce I ended up quitting my job and living with family for a year while I "found myself". I met my partner and we had a son who turned five a few months ago. My partner still works but doesn't earn a huge salary, we could live with her not working but she enjoys what she does and I suspect we would kill each other if we spent 24 hours a day together so it works out well imho.

I have enjoyed almost every minute of being "retired" so far. I usually just say I am a stay at home dad as saying you retired in your twenties is a bit pompous sounding I feel. Now my son is at school I am toying with the idea of doing more consultancy but I also don't want to make a big commitment to a large project plus we are currently looking into moving to France to be closer to my partners family. Out initial calculations show living in France will be about 15% cheaper than where we currently live (mostly due to living in West London). Maybe France will bring some different consultancy options that will take my interest.

Not entirely sure why I posted this comment if I am honest. I guess to see if there are other early retirees here who might want to chime in with their experiences to add to mine?

Feel free to ask me any questions. I am happy to answer if I can. Also if anyone has any [technical/general] project management questions feel free to drop me a message (username @gmail.com forwards to my personal email).
Because english isn't as standardized as we would like to think. The written and spoken forms are not a one to one translation. Written english could almost be classify as a seperate language that happens to share words and similar syntax. At least the written version has a modest level of standardization. The spoken language is very fragmented.
Looks Like Toucan Sam had sex with Q-Bert and this is their offspring.
There should also be lots of ways to permanently brick a computer with software.

In the good old CGA/MDA days all you had to do was to program the wrong scan rate in your CRT controller and watch as your monitor exploded, fireworks included.
I think it actually depends on the language that you use. When I used languages based off C, that didn't lend as well to rapid prototyping, that didn't have a good repl; I would do a lot of design work on paper. I usually ended up over engineering things with this approach though.

Now that I think and write in Lisp, I find it is a much better approach to draw up one or two UI frames and then code up the UI with hard coded data. Then I just slowly build the hard coded data out and the actual app in. I don't actual engineer much at all. I just let it flow out. This leads to a much more efficient design process in terms of the time to quality ratio.

It also seems to me that every time I try to program bottom up on paper, I do a terrible job at it. It works much better when I have actual code.
Got stuck in snow and therefore am no longer out all day :)

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> If we lose that, we lose what's great about America.

How can you not only prevent this loss but also export this into other countries? How can we spark this in other cultures? How can we get rid of "negative greatness"?
Can you post a link when you get a chance?
AR looks an awful lot like a "real" startup I'd you squint at it the right way. If I were willing to commit to the growth curve (and implied lifestyle) that taking investment commits you to seeking, I'd do it and start hitting up people for money. At present, that doesn't fit in with my plans at the moment, but if I ever decide to roll the dice YC will be among the first to know.
Recent discussion that might inspire you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909
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You don't get to decide what is and isn't "Ubuntu", Canonical does. Did you likewise declare that Ubuntu isn't Ubuntu anymore when Canonical dropped Unity? or when they added snap? Or when they added or later removed the Amazon search plugin?

When I'm paying for an official Azure version of Ubuntu on Azure, I darn well expect there will be a closer support relationship than the free desktop version.
I finally got around to installing a PiHole, and it blew my mind that the default behavior was to use an upstream resolver. I had never imagined that the countless folks more privacy-oriented than myself, would tolerate this.

After reading up on it, okay, I get that those upstream forwarding resolvers will be faster due to being geographically distributed and having a huge number of users (== very current cache), but man. Seemed to be defeating half the point.

I'm using the supported Unbound config now, but.. still surprised it's not the default.
You don't. It's a total nightmare for newbies.

I ended up putting off learning Python for years as this kind of stuff kept happening (first the 2/3 transition, and then massive pip breakage).
There's probably enough money on the books to acquire the "inventory". Especially if the "company" never pays out the profits.

I.e, a $10,000 outside "investment" allows you to sell 100, $100 gift cards for $120. Those profits get reinvested on the books, and now you have $12,000 to sell 120, $100 gift cards. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Yes, it’s very different. Here’s a Chinese interrogation video of a “suspect” being interrogated for posting a comment mildly criticizing the local police on QQ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiMLVYK4hEc
J2ME was an utter nightmare, I know because I worked in telecoms back then. Mobile app development as an utter shitshow in 2007 with no signs of it getting any better.

It just seems weird to complain that the company that made mobile apps mainstream "didn't allow it" earlier. The only reason they delayed a year is because the SDK wasn't publication ready yet. They hadn't even finalised the APIs yet and they were still very buggy at the launch of the first phones. We know that from interviews from former employees, the iPhone OS changed hugely between launch and the second phone a year later. A lot of the internal apps were extensively rewritten. Not a great time to push third party development.
This is a bad move by the US. In the short term it creates political impact, but in the long term it merely cements a multilateral world as we all have to implement multiple payment systems to reach disparate markets. The key beneficiary of that is China. With Alibaba now getting squashed by both the Chinese and US governments, I guess Bezos will think twice before stepping in to consumer payments.
Partially agree. But developers have to often create custom algorithms that are very specific to their business requirements, and these algorithms cannot be simply googled. I agree they would never write a "sort" algorithm, I suppose interviewers use these generic algorithms, rather than take the additional time needed to explain a real world, custom set of requirements.
His book on the same topic is absolutely enlightening and surprisingly enjoyable to read, despite the sobering topics.

Being Mortal.

http://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/...
I had a doctor back in my home country who was fascinating. He would give me hard facts about everything and he would explain all the reasoning behind his recommendations with numbers, probabilities, etc., putting everything down on paper. I loved being treated by that guy. I wish every doctor were like this.

Here in the US I've only so far had the tipical experience of:

1) Telling my symptoms.
2) Observing that half of what I'm saying is being ignored - this pisses me off because I'm very obsessive about my health, so any interested doctor can hear me give them extremely accurate descriptions of what I'm feeling, and how those things relate to daily activities, eating habits, exercise, other symptoms and a number of other things.
3) Being diagnosed with something I'm very sure I don't have (and I'm right most of the time). It's usually something super generic, like "upper respiratory infection".
Seems like a necessary evil for any sufficiently large company. Get big enough and everybody wants their say, including various local governments. You can't avoid them completely, so the next best thing is to have a very good relationship with the one whose jurisdiction affects you the most to keep them as uninvolved as possible.

Now, when that kind of relationship turns into getting the government to go after your competitors, overlook actions that are themselves unethical, make life more difficult for anyone not as large as you, that's highly unethical. On the other hand, trying to make sure that you don't suddenly get treated differently as a large company than an equivalent small company doesn't seem unreasonable (though having to do it in the first place does).
Just guessing here, but he assumes that the thermal energy of that gramme traveling at 7 miles/second needs to be applied instantaneously or nearly-instantaneously, when it can instead be given to that gramme over the course of several minutes via, say, a Saturn V rocket system.
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I've often wondered this. I have acute astygmatism, and like very few outdoor pursuits. I'm not nearly active enough as a person and wouldn't be surprised.

I do remember before I was diagnosed having terrible coordination, I'd really struggle in games like Tennis and Cricket, whereas with Computers I had no handicap. It made sense to me to focus on what I enjoyed and computing was easier than Cricket.
I have a list of pages that I find inspiring. The thread link and http://dribbble.com/ are great to find new ones.

Every once in awhile, I'll look through them and try to emulate something that is within my reach.

Here's a few recent ones:

http://dustincurtis.com/press_on.html

http://nerdcommunications.com/

http://www.thecleanestline.com/

http://letteringjs.com/

I started learning Photoshop & Illustrator about a week ago. Youtube is great for tutorials on specific things such as tool usage, colors.

Just found this one for Illustrator:
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/tutorials

Fonts are also quite important to catch people's eye. I'm dabbling in the free stuff now, but I think TypeKit is also quite nice.

http://code.google.com/webfonts