jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It doesn't go away very long. I press the X and I still find myself having to press it again fairly often.

I'm probably not a good benchmark but personally I find Jimmy Wales really smug and annoying. This is due to my experience as an active WP editor back in the day. I hate the false sense of urgency that this campaign is pushing.

I'm not "outraged" by any means and haven't stopped using Wikimedia sites, but it is definitely asinine and repetitive. How long has this "urgent" fund drive been going on now? Are they just going to keep it until they hit their stated goal?

Wikipedia should find a way to become more useful, there's no need for all this crap. I wouldn't have any problem at all if WP just implemented an advanced history or page stats viewer and charged people $10/year to use it. Then they could stop with these humongous, recurring banners, the constant begging, and Jimmy Wales could quit pretending to be the saint that he definitely isn't.
> It can be pretty amusing watching these academics fight over what is in the realm of behavioral accounting and what is within economics. No one really knows;)

If they have to argue about this, then they've probably drawn the dividing lines between their categories wrong, and they're trying to shoehorn new ideas into an ill-fitting taxonomy rather than making the taxonomy accurate.

(Related: where the hell does computer science fit? Is it a science, or a branch of applied math, or a craft, or an engineering discipline? Or perhaps an exotic species of potato? Sometimes I think we need the ghost of Alfred Korzybski to rise from the grave and harangue people.)
For many types of companies in the US, you have to basically convince the government to let you have one other than jan1 - dec 31.
> make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more.

I'd think you'd also want to add some sort of decay on the threshold price to keep people spending.
Article says that cells sent to device prerendered it doesn't say ALL cells prerendered.
I disagree. If Eminent Domain is used for public good, it could be justified. Here, they forcefully took the property for a private organization [It does not matter whether it's profit or non-profit]. I completely understand the need for Eminent Domain but it's clearly being abused here.

Also, how does your friend's example make any sense? If the seller doesn't want to sell at a particular price, it's seller's choice.

Let me take another example. I bought my first car (a used 2001 Altima) in 2004 from some guy. As it was my first car, it has a special emotional value to me. In 2010, the value of the car is around 2000$ [I don't even drive it anymore]. Let's say tomorrow Nissan finds out that it's their 1 millionth car sold and they want it back to put it in Nissan Museum. They offer me the 2000$, the market value of the car. I refuse because the car more than 2000$ to me. They offer me 10,000$ and I still refuse. What if there is no price at which I am willing to sell the car? Should US Government deposit 2000$ in my bank account and give the car to Nissan by force?

[On a side note, I believe that their is price for everything. But seller should be able to decide the price, not buyer.]

Looking at the actual case: There were two businesses involved. Tuck It Away and a gas station owned by Gurnam Singh and Parminder Kaur. From their names, I can tell you that they are from state of 'Punjab'. Most likely they are immigrants to America and they would have worked hard to set up their gas station. Don't you think it's morally wrong to seize their business property just because another private organization can benefit? What if US Government forced you to hand over your company (which you built it from blood and sweat) to McAfee for 3x multiple of your revenue? Would that be okie to you?

Please do not get distracted by 'small business' example of Patrick. We are talking about 'private property' (either small business, real estate, car or what have you) and using (or rather abusing) eminent domain to seize that private property and giving it to another private organization.
The name makes me immediately think janky, not something I'd want to trust :)

Is the name some kind of reference I don't get (beyond Django, obviously)?
It would be nice to read this on my Kindle.
Since the author wasn't interested in trying to fit into canon, that doesn't seem to be a fair basis for dismissing his/her writing.

However, there are plenty of others (standard IMO disclaimer applies). ;)

(As a very quick & somewhat quantitative example, look at how many words the author spent on the contrasting views & strained relationship of Ma Potter & Pa Potter WRT magic in the first chapter, vs. the approximately zero words spent on that same topic in the second chapter when magic is demonstrated directly for them.)
Interesting related Metafilter discussion:

http://ask.metafilter.com/161150/Jolicloud-10-Vs-Ubuntu-UNR-...
Ha, how ignorant I was? Thanks for enlightening. As I mentioned before, I have never been to 4chan.
Maybe instead of begging you could try to find someone that needs it willing to fund development?
I wonder if a variation of this would work for home-grown produce.

Our house has a 1/4 acre yard, huge garden beds, and a drip system. Even with a household of 6 we've got zucchinis, tomatoes, and lemons coming out the wazoo[1]. Every block in our neighborhood has a few giant avocado trees and more and more people seem to be setting up chicken coops.

On the weekends, my kids will pull their wagon around the neighborhood and sell lemons[2]. On a good day, they'll make $25.

Would be cool if people could request some lemons or eggs and a text could be sent to the closest people who might have them.

1 http://instagram.com/p/dDishZi9tI/

2 http://instagram.com/p/WFiKiEi9u-/
And in the roadmap: async/await, macro paradise, scalaz 7

scalding, spark, delite and associated big data cutters

Play, lift3, slick

(look at talk topics to see a lot of what's happening, but not everything

http://scaladays.org/
That is what happens when you have a page which is genuinely tiny even for the early days of the web, served over a modern internet connection, and it is cached so it does not have to go all the way to the server. The web could be so much faster than it is.
It's 6.004, and it looks like they are still teaching it, which I was pleased to discover. Students are no longer asked to carry around the suitcase-sized breadboard "nerd kit" and they aren't using 74XX TTL chips any more. Now it's all done using simulators.

The name of the course is "Computation Structures", or, as MIT students would know it (since nearly everything at MIT is numbered, including buildings and departments), 6.004:

http://6004.mit.edu/
everytime i run npm install i feel i'm about to embark on a bunch of side missions
Does anyone working in software honestly feel like their work gives them a strong sense of purpose? Honestly I'd imagine the far majority don't, working on proprietary code for companies driven solely by profit, within agile factories where a developer's sole role is to churn out tickets on an assembly line, and have no real ownership or stake in the company's success. Hence the high rate of burnout despite the job being relatively cushy and high-paying. It certainly is a spectrum however (for me adtech felt the most meaningless).

Any job where you're someone else's employee naturally means you're sacrificing autonomy and freedom over your work, probably in the name of private profit over social good, so will probably not be as enjoyable being able to work on one's own terms unless one feels they are accomplishing more through this arrangement than they could be otherwise.

For me what personally excites me most in the tech world right now is tech that is open source, modular, and decentralized (basically the goal of web3). The idea of building a decentralized, modular, open source <insert big tech platform> sounds more interesting than golden handcuffs at <big tech company> (who IMO have also been fairly stagnant innovation wise outside of just performance and scaling under the old centralization paradigm).

I haven't made the jump though. And at the end of the day I'm still kind of a slave to money until I'm financially independent, and if I'm going to sell my labor to someone else, I might as well sell to the highest builder (assuming it ethically aligns). Haven't spent much time really looking though, with the crypto/web3 boom it may finally be reasonably possible to do that sort of work and still get paid handsomely.
I'm not sure how much we are in contact with them through idefine. We should definitely encourage patients to signup on genida. This increases awareness at many levels. Thank you. I'll study genida's website.
I'm still not clear on what personal recourse you believe you have against a government. I wouldn't consider negative press a personal recourse.
If your choice of window manager makes a measurable relative difference to your productivity then you are probably not a good programmer.
> This did not, perhaps, always result in better code.

Personally, I make no effort to write good code when I'm programming in Haskell.

It was in fact a hard to get paradigm change, because I am a careful developer that makes quite an effort to avoid future problems when programming. But Haskell code can change at any time, so the optimal path is to go from the proof of concept into the fully featured software redesigning as you go.
Agreed on most points there. On the flip side, I was running away from That One Language (Java). I was put off by its verbal diarrhea (when it came to naming classes - blame it on Spring perhaps). And the gratuitous use of OOPs concepts (which I attribute to being a scripter for much of my working life). Perhaps it was more to do with the organization I worked for, it might have been a very (toxic) culture thing that they encouraged - 1) If you didn't know Java you weren't cool. 2) If you didn't know Java you didn't understand OOPs. Lots of companies have such culture issues over languages. Its managers/leadership's job to ensure the tool doesn't become the master, to the detriment of goals.

I've been deliberately been a slow-poke when it came to absorbing languages, far from the bleeding edge within the ecosystem I was in. Hasn't hurt at all. Pushing back on trends (once you're 'inside' a language) means you are looking around, and absorbing more of the problem (business domain).

If you emerge from an old-job into a new-job, and the only take away is bleeding-edge language/platform features, there's some richness of experience that's been missed IMO, maybe its useful at early career stage, but you need to see the whole picture, not just uber details about a language.
And how is that different than browsing any other website on the internet? Each page needed a permalink so that you could instantly show a specific page to a friend.

Again I ask, how is this breaking your back button? Or are you just trying to imagine something to complain about?
No it isn't. 23 years ago Woz was a "motivational factor" at Apple for the preceding 4 years. The prior two+ years he was off after an accident. Before that he worked with Jobs for 4 years.

His real contribution to Apple was for four years of the company's 34 year history.
The author missed one of the more subtle signs of quackery:

Research intended to "show the validity" of a hypothesis, rather than to disprove it.
They didn't have their winter coats and it was early enough that they were still in the summer pastures, so later in the year, even with the rain, they would have been fine.
The review of a hands-on user should be ranked above speculation by a competing dev team. Unfortunately, that relationship is currently reversed. No offense to the competitors.
Well, given no other piece of information, assume the annual rate is constant and calculate it like that.

Or rate the cube root of 200% (30 year period = 3 * 10 year periods) = 26% increase in cost
He's always been known for his extreme drug use. While doing a presentation at Toorcon (I believe) a few years back, he was tripping fairly hard, and even made a comment not quite off mic to that effect. This isn't remotely shocking, really -- only a matter of time. Of course, most hackers I've known have had a similar love of drugs, just tend not to have, well, all of them at the same time.
What does this service do that can't be easily done by a client-side library? Also, S3 already has a REST API (see http://mashupguide.net/1.0/html/ch16s05.xhtml ), you've just eliminated the URL signing bit.
No is the basic answer. Low-level optimization while a valuable skill is more of a commodity, algorithm development tends to require a combination of skills in maths, finance, programming and creativity which is a much rarer combination.

Saying that people who are good at low-level optimizations are still pretty well paid.
What actually more interesting is that he is able to make money from coupons: http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-...
This reminds me of the Millet system used under the Ottoman empire. The central government had very little direct involvement in what we would today call "personal law" or "social policy"; instead, these were organized into separate communities along religious lines. Muslims, Jews, and various Christian denominations each had their own sets of institutions.

A more modern example is Belgium, which has a kind of double federalism, where regional governments for Flanders and Wallonia have territorial jurisdiction, and community governments for the French-, Flemish-, and German-speaking populations have separate "social" jurisdiction.

In these cases, the social jurisdiction was determined by religious or linguistic affiliation, with only a handful of communities and very limited mobility among them. It would be very interesting to see such a system organized on a much more pluralistic and dynamic basis, in which people could charter their own communities and change their affiliations freely.
The number of tech employers in Austin is extremely high for any non-silicon valley location. Sun, IBM, Google, Intel, Dell, Motorola, Apple, Cisco, etc. all have offices in, or very close to, Austin.

It's not as many as in the valley, but it's not crazy for a nerd to move to Austin, even if the job that takes them there is fleeting.

But, I'd rather Austin stays just the way it is: just big enough to be exciting and just small enough to be friendly, affordable, and not cramped. So, don't move to Austin. It's terrible there. There are no jobs, no nerds, and the women are ugly and mean.
Code is not people.
Wikipedia on Almere: "Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands: the land on which the city sits, the Southern Flevoland polder, was reclaimed from the IJsselmeer from 1959 to 1968. "

Reclaimed isn't quite the right word. They turned ocean into land. This was possible because of a megadike construction project:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works

This created buildable waters. But rather than just building land on the water and houses on the land, one can directly build houses on the (buildable) water.

The scope of ambition is truly inspiring.
...because [under the "loophole" / arrangement we're discussing] Delaware doesn't tax (any of!) the income from those intangible assets[0]?

https://udel.edu/~pollack/Downloaded%20SDP%20articles,%20etc...

> if delaware had a low corporate tax rate

Hard to set the corporation tax rate (for income on intangible assets) any lower than zero.
> I have lots of friends who've taken Ritalin and Adderall. I've noticed a much higher rate of alcohol dependency among them

This is reverse causation. All evidence shows that taking Adderall prevents addiction and substance abuse, it doesn't make it worse.
I think they're right for the wrong reasons. It wasn't that it was done to be "on the right side", it was done because it was cheap, visible and allowed everything to continue as it was with as long as we all "just wash our hands". Instead of being a method to control the spread it became "the" method and other far more effective measures (masks, WFH) were ignored.

Months into the pandemic they were deep cleaning public transport in my city several times a day but not mandating masks. The cleaning probably wasn't a waste, but it was by far the less effective option. A year on the opposite is true because it took so long for science/guidance to update and for that to filter through to public policy.
There's a whole bunch of scripts available online to create bootable macOS images, they're often used by the hackintosh scene. You do need another computer but it doesn't have to be a Mac.

Of course, that's in no way an official,. supported solution, but it'll work.
> Aren't you also providing 100% of the resources if they are using your IP

100% of what resources? Bandwidth, yes - you need to download the answers and then upload them to the archive. Fortunately it compresses fantastically so the uploads are fairly inconsequential. Even more fortunately, Yahoo! Answers is text-based, making the bandwidth usage pretty minor compared to almost any other past Archive Team project. It's really the overhead of each individual network request that they're trying to outsource here.

But for storage? You're providing approximately 0% of that. Files are only stored on your device for long enough for your computer to hand them off to a more permanent home at archive.org. CPU usage is also very minimal - again, thanks to text compressing super easily, the compression settings don't need to be particularly aggressive.
> The gender symbols at the bottom are male/female not male/male.

Do you mean the symbols next to "This is you"? I think you're misinterpreting them. That's the character's sexual orientation. It's always there, regardless of the character's marriage status. And gay or lesbian characters can and do marry people of the other sex even if that would not be what they want. The sexual orientation symbol doesn't change.
Happens every time I fly from Europe to Newark, and then on to another US city. You go through customs, pick you bags up off one belt, walk a hundred meters, and put it on another belt. And in doing that you leave security so you have to do it all again!! Why not send bags automatically through?
Not to mention that smart people usually do amazing things by just changing the rules and making the problem easier to solve (you can only make a horse go so fast or pull so much, but you can invent an automobile or train)

This whole analogy I realized after thinking about it is just computer science baby babble.

Fundamentally it comes down to not formally specifying the problem (not saying I can, I can’t and neither can anyone else that I’m aware of)

People always want to cling to quantitative interpretations of qualitative problems, and then declare QED, despite the whole thing being predicated off a false premise to begin with (like the thing we’re discussing is an appropriate candidate for an
algorithmic interpretation to begin with).

And without a formal specification of the problem, we have no formal way of checking our solution.
Assessing crypto problem is itself a problem. Vitalik maybe 10 times smarter than me. But his track record is poor. He hasn't really proposed a solution that is worthy contribution to crypto.

I have solutions to some of the problems he lists.

10. Stable-value cryptoassets

13. Proof of excellence

My solution is to add inflation into supply. A percentage point inflation, not tail emission.

Inflation will discourage HODL behavior and stabilize token price. It's not perfectly stable. But it'll be more stable, more efficient than DAI and its financial engineering on top of Ethereum volatile price. That solves #10.

For #13, with inflation, we don't have to worry about bag holders. Everyone has incentive to drive the system. Otherwise, their tokens will worth less over time.

I designed a crypto that can help bootstrap inflation. My solutions are simpler. I think they'll work.

https://bitflate.org/post/2019/04/14/bitflate-cryptocurrency...
> I’m curious what the median App Store publisher makes, though.

I'm guessing less than the average of the 99% tail.

But you also have to wonder how serious the median publisher really is.
I'm curious if you think social networking might affect the way people journal. I'd be a little concerned that people might try to post things they think others will find interesting.

Interesting concept anyway, I'll be following along!
i'd be worried about occupational health and safety in an environment like that. In fact, you can sue the employer for such an environment as unsafe. and if it turns out that they didn't do their due diligence to provide a good env, they might even have to cough up compensation. Food for thought !
To be fair, the + issue is a mistake many other languages have made too. Incredibly, PHP, poster child of bad languages, gets this right and splits + and . (though this may just be because it copied Perl).
All sorts of ways around that, so it's unlikely you would get a contract that precludes you not being out of support before the term is up.

As a thought experiment, if the company just went bankrupt and had no one working for it any more, you contract won't help right? Second part, what happens if someone just buys the assets (IP) and closes the company, then hires the old team? There are many possible variants here.
Well, yeah, you always have tracking.

What I was more imagining is where if you are in some cube-hell and your boss walked by and saw you on some website typing away, it is easily recognizable. But if you had Outlook up, typing away, it isn't near as noticeable.

One of those office work things, sort of like how old video games had a Boss key.

I've seen enough people doing slack-off stuff like this.
It may applies to large corporation, but I don't think that for Startups it applies. We want a mix of those two ways of thinking to

1) Get some features out to gain traction/user

2) Make sure it works and that the user experience will not be negatively impacted.

We have to learn from our mistakes and also learn from what our users want. For that we need to experiment even if it means refactoring / do things differently when we need to.
Sounds just the targets at tesco.com, vitually impossible to hit. For some it is unmotivating to keep missing targets, but I like a challenge. If targets are easy I don't think you get the best out of The best people.
Well, I'm heading to Tied house at 8pm. I'll be the tall Canadian in jeans and a blue striped shirt. And goofy hair.
Pseudo-closures. They capture variables by value, though you can use PHP's referencing mechanism to have something sort of closure-like.
That's one hell of a first try. Good job!

You should post it to r/Android as well with a similar headline.
uBlock will do it for you while keeping the point-and-click ability to un-block on a per-site basis. For example, a site which breaks if it can't connect to Facebook.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzB6tESynM
Perl gets bashed for all its quirks all the time, although there is a huge amount of tooling to write clean and readable Perl (Perl::Critic, Moose, etc). What really amazes me, is how everybody seems to be cool with using tons of tools to work around the many inherent language deficiencies in Javascript (with Coffeescript being the most insane "solution"), but it's a totally different story when it comes to Perl.
I think, at least for the SF peninsula, you suspect wrong :-)