jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thinkpads are far from being uniformly good, some models flat out suck. Macs aren't immune to lemons either - see all the issues with their keyboards after 2016, or the failing GPUs in some MBPs. Some XPSes are good, but many models had horrible coil whine as well.

The LG gram was fine, if light and portable was what you're looking for. The HP Envy line has been pretty decent recently. Back in school I've had an Asus Zenbook I've quite liked as well. I've heard good things about some System76 systems too, and they're basically Clevo rebrands.

There definitely is good stuff on the laptop market.
I too favor German cars - although I did have a BMW that was manufactured in the US and I wasn't too impressed with it.

Having said that, I wouldn't mind owning the product of a certain Italian VW/Audi brand...
The real question is if this extra traffic is valuable, then how to monetize the blokes wanking.

I would suggest a tie-up with an adult website and limit daily viewing time. The blokes wank off for free, crowdsourced, those who have a cam get to watch others for free, but those without have to pay a small fee after so many minutes (say 45 minutes a day free)
Workgroup edition - which is $4 per month per account. It includes the first 10GB of storage on rackspace's cloud for each account, which seems to pool.
Rather then filtering the wavelength of the IR light (LED's have a very narrow band), it might be better to use polarizing filters. If you place a vertical polarizing filter on one Kinects LED's and Camera and a horizontal filter on the others they would only be able to see there own dots.
“Over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2017, the S & P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses.” - Warren Buffet

http://www.longbets.org/362
To dodge the question: I don't often find creativity to be the bottleneck of my output. Execution is what takes time.

To answer the question: Probably beliefs that act as rules. It's written somewhere in a PG essay that it's best to not know what is "impossible." To generalize, if I believe that Google owns search and it's not possible to enter that market, then I'll subconsciously prune any ideas stemming from "search".
> To say that Germans "invented modern thought" is pushing it

Kant was German. As was Hegel. And Marx. Maybe it's just me, but I'd say that the history (including that of intellectual thought) of the last 200 years would be completely different if it weren't for these 3 guys.
> * what i'd like is a tool with which to create online communities*

vBulletin has support for all of this, as does WordPress, and probably a hundred other pieces of software.

The downside, as always, is that you become a sysadmin and moderator and hacker and on-call technician.
Value is definitely and obviously not fixed. It increases with effort, creativity, work, inventions, etc. But you pay for value with money. And you don't control that, and someone else controls how much, or not at all, you have access to. ..ie, you get 100 to (try to) invent X. You deliver. You give a lot of value to the world. But the CBs decided to cut printing money, and tomorrow you have to pay back 110. Your work, gave (new) value. But that's irrelevant. You can't find the 10. You are bankrupt. The people on top, get your work (which is 100+50 in new value), for 20. You still owe. Have a good day.
This library is awesome, I am a massive fan of randomized and quick-check style testing. This type of testing has for me found so many bugs its surreal.

I love the fact that hypothesis is a proper quickcheck and not just the fuzzing part, and that the author has a crazy stack-based-vm-language-testing thing project that might be useful.

I have been using this library with py.test for 6 months now and its been a godsend.

If I ever meet the author I would buy him beers.
"...negative prime interest rate and [...] housing prices are all time high."

Wait. How does that work?

Negative prime interest rate -> no loans available -> housing (and other credit-oriented purchase) prices fall.
I'm not Russian and I like Lermontov :)
Perhaps, but the owners still have to pay-up. Otherwise, the failing is in the enforcement of the laws.
Not if you also need to search things that weren't at the end of the file when you started tailing - which is very common with log files.
HFT are making huge profit margins - their entire industry profit is estimated at around $1bn, or a percentage of what a single large financial institution will make in a year. It's all relative - they can only make so much profit before they move the market too much themselves, they are limited by their size.

Your pension fund is not trading in a way which is significantly adversely affected by HFTs, the CEO of Vanguard is even on the record as saying that HFTs make his traders more efficient. Fund managers employ their own dealers to ensure best execution, if HFTs were causing significant losses you can be sure they would be raising hell - and that regulators and governments would listen.
I think you have a somewhat skewed sense of what the "rest of the country" is doing. There is an overall urbanization trend in the US but I'm not at all sure that companies are especially shifting their offices from office parks to downtown locations. Furthermore, the vast majority of US cities are not particularly amenable to a walking lifestyle. Many are sprawling and have fairly limited public transportation options.
it's sweet but can't do basic go to definition?
I gave up on a dream about a year ago. I had been working hard, not very successfully, for several years to make a passion into my career, and it not only caused me burnout and depression, but also made me hate the thing I was meant to be passionate about in first place. Now I'm on a mediocre, safe, boring path (web dev). Of course there is still some lingering regret, but overall I feel very relieved.

My advice would be simple:
Try to take a few days off if at all possible so you can go into this with a clear mind. Then for each of your possible choices think about:

* What does a successful outcome look like here?

* What does failure look like here?

* Is there an in-between outcome?

* How do you feel about ending up in each of these cases?

* What is the likelihood of each of these cases?

* If you go all in on this and fail, what realistic backups do you have? Does this change your opinion on the previous questions?

Take however long you need to choose, then act decisively and look back as little as possible.

I will also say that your expectations of a PhD in medicine being way easier seems off to me, but I am clueless about both medicine and machine learning, so what do I know. Do make sure though that you are making your decision based on good information.
Citroen high-end cars got hydraulic systems that decoupled the steering wheel from the wheels in the seventies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRAVI
They lost all of that content because they were not moderating their uploads to begin with. Whatever valuable content that was lost, if any, was purely because of their failure to police their own site.
Those prices are far below normal prices. Normal is 28-50 cents in places like San Diego (https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/s...).
Is anyone else unable to access the site? I'm currently on Firefox 85.0.2 (Arch Linux). I've tried disabling advanced privacy guard but I still get stuck in an infinite refresh loop :-(
Policy differences are kind of hard to track and it gets abstract. Are we talking about the superficial policy differences (i.e. the ones we see in CSPAN performances) or those that represent the the interests of the corporate backers of each party? Sometimes the performative stuff aligns with the backers’ interests (e.g. democrats and immigration).

At the end of the day I’m mostly checked out from US politics. There is how I think things ought to be and reality. Reconciling the two will probably take many more years of reflection.

Mostly my interest in politics at this point is the internecine conflicts that arise in the various subcultures of political thought online.
That's why we are on constitution 2.27: they found that 1.0 was too minimal. The Confederacy tried to walk back in that direction a bit and found that it made their ability to run their "country" much harder (in addition to their other self-defeating pathologies).
Quote: "It is somewhat suggestive that none of Sweden's direct neighbours show significant excess mortality in 2020..."

Also, I wonder what you mean by Norway disavowing lockdowns? Because they did institute fairly strict measures on March 12, eventually going so far as forbidding people to travel to their cabins to avoid putting strain on rural infrastructure.

Was there some sort of public disavowal after the fact?
Rodney,

I worked at Unimation when Vic Scheinman came to demonstrate his robot to myself,
Maury Dunne, and Bill Perzley.

Vic set up the robot and the computer. The robot started, typed some words, and typed a command to stop itself. I took an 8mm video of his visit. I sent it to him about a year before he died. (I wonder who has it now).

Vic's arm failed while he was there. One of the motors died. He sent me out for some wire. Then he built a new motor from scratch on the Bridgeport in our lab. I was completely impressed.

Vic was later hired to design the Puma. His desk was next to mine.

I got the VAL language from Vic and Bruce Shimano. I modified and extended it to drive our Unimate from a PDP-11/03. It also drove the 2 arm robot for Ford.

Richard (Lou) Paul was at SRI using a Unimate. He taught myself and Bill Perzley how to use DH-Matrices and the Jacobian for robots. I extended VAL to use some of that math.

Later, at IBM Research (with Russ Taylor and others), we worked on AML, the robot used to drive the IBM robot. I worked on the vision subsystem (Gold Filling) and a multi-address space linking loader. I also added networking to link it to the Boca robot. Ralph Hollis left the group and all of that robot work went with him to Carnegie Mellon. I worked at CMU and visited Ralph often.

I researched a "design-to-buid system". The idea is to start with a CAD drawing of an assembly and automatically construct a robot plan to build it. This was used to assemble a flashlight, driven from AML.

Later still, I worked with Scott Fahlman on Robot-Human cooperation to change a car tire. We used a mashup of Scone (Scott's Knowledge base), a modified version of Forgy's RETE algorithm for rules, a modified form of Alice's natural language, machine learning (to recognize lug nuts), and a custom feedback system to dynamically learn new rules and knowledge from interacting with the human.

These days all of my robot work is in ROS.

Tim
D-K is real. The graphs he points out literally supports it.

What the author says is:
In any case, the effect certainly isn’t that the more people know, the less they think they know.
And he's right; the data he shows does not demonstrate that. The more talented people in those plots, at worst, think they know as much as the less talented.

What the graphs do demonstrate is that the less talented people consistently overestimate their ability, whereas the most talented people underestimate. So what's actually negatively correlated isn't actual knowledge and perceived knowledge, it's actual knowledge and the gap between actual knowledge and perceived knowledge.

In conclusion,

Personally, I'm getting sick of this kind of uber-skeptic mentality that's popular here and on reddit. I think there's something ego gratifying for the INTJ male about being this loud-mouth contrarian who tells everyone they're wrong.

Um...
> damping, adj

> 1. a decrease in the amplitude of an oscillation as a result of energy being drained from the system to overcome frictional or other resistive forces.

vs

> dampen, v

> 2. make less strong or intense.

I'm pretty sure they meant what they said.
It's this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Ab...

One of the best books out there on how to build and grow a business.
Are they "not tough enough" or not rich enough? If you don't have much saved, are running out of food and have a kid and your rent is due, turning down a job because it doesn't pay well means your kid goes hungry and your wife divorces you.
Bitcoin seems to make everyone crazy. I guess if you're prone to theft and dishonesty, it must be tough to look at a folder on some confiscated PC with files worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and not take them. Seems like everyday police corruption, like how drug dealers busted with thousands of dollars suddenly have a evidence locker inventory with zero cash.

I'm glad the system is working, at least to the point of catching these guys. You can't stop human nature, but at least you can punish the guilty.
Wow, do you have a link to the patent? It'd be surprising to me if there wasn't prior art. Might be worth asking http://patents.stackexchange.com/ !
The patent appears to have expired fortunately: https://daac.hpc.mil/gettingStarted/Marching_Cubes.html
I am not a US citicien, but as far as I know, black people are less likely to go to university so are less likely to end up in tech.

Now is this the fault of mozilla? Hardly.

But are they supposed to hire people because of their race and not of their skills? That would be the definition of racism, no?
You really can't do that much. Pick a good provider.

I'm using route53 from Amazon. It's dirt cheap and they no slouches when it comes to reliability. It's still relatively new though.
> The city made commitments to its then-workers based on the assumption that population and revenue would hold fast

Just a few years ago the pension board, without oversight, continued to give out 13th checks (a bonus pension check for the 13th month of the year) in years that they happened to have above-average returns. Of course, the years with above-average returns were supposed to balance out the years with below-average returns.

Google Detroit 13th check for more on that one. Some groups sued to get the 13th check turned back on, arguing that the issuance of them, even though it happened without oversight, created an expectation of them and therefore a contractual obligation.
I find Quora through DDG (not sure why this is specifically about Google), but regardless, 1/3 times the result is valuable. Quora often shows up when the other results look unreliable or ad farms - not that Quora's replies are so accurate, but about 1/3 seem okay.

Loading a few pages from browsing history, I don't see any walled garden.

LinkedIn results on the other hand... Google/DDG clearly didn't index the login page, so LinkedIn apparently shows certain content to the crawler that they aren't showing to the user, trying to get ranked higher for that query than the login page would be. Not sure how that isn't seen as fraudulent from the search engine's perspective.
> But if you're not using a framework, the obvious thing is to do in a nominally typed language like Java or C++ is the "extract interface" refactoring

I've seen such statements here and there, and it makes me feel I'm missing a whole subculture of our industry. Seriously, are we learning things by IDE operations nowadays? Is selecting text and applying an option from the "automatic refactor" menu a first-class programming concept nowadays?
Was looking for something like this. Thanks for great job, will check it out
It's not the nag screen. I have a pinterest account and want it removed because it's almost always a dead end and it's full of spam.

If you are searching for something and find a link to pinterest and click on it ... then what? You see a bunch of images of the thing you are looking for: no article on bobcats, no way to buy "winter running shoes", no way to buy that book, ...
> The Chinese government must have done a truly terrible job these last few decades, if they have so many radicals. One wonders why people tolerate such abysmal leadership.

The answer is pretty simple.

Prosperity.

The living standard of the average Chinese person has improved dramatically over the last several decades.

As long as that level of prosperity continues, most Chinese people will tolerate quite a bit from their government.
I've found a lot of amazing stuff related to some subjects: history, physics, etc. Anything that does not have commercial interest is spam free and really engaging.
But somehow it's the FANG that decide what to serve/monetize, not the ISPs.
Hard disagree. Open source contributions are definitely something EM look at. And a good EM knows to look at blog posts. “Can this person explain technical topics to a technical audience” is a hugely important factor.
One of the articles mention he speaks at something called CPAK which looks like some psuedo-science new agey non-sense forum: "Conference of Precession and Ancient Knowledge".

https://cpakonline.com/

Robert Grant is listed as a: "Polymath and Expert in Sonic Geometry"

I love this stuff, look at all of the listed "experts" each with books published ("Sacred Cosmology of Ancient Egypt"). Humans are so weird.
There are a lot of good movies here already, I missed these two however:

Big Fish
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/

City of Ember
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970411/
This is highly dependent on where you live. Varying wildly between exchanges.
"Nokia doesn’t seem to be doing a great job of communicating with developers."
The problem is that they offer only e-mail support and they're flooded because they lowered the store fees to 1 EUR and allow apps made with an RSS -> app creator into the store.
This is one of those decisions that can look good on paper, but in practice ends up having negative effects.

I haven't developed for Apple, but I do believe that the App Store is the best store bar none right now.
The response in the comments here is perplexing to me.

The article is presenting well-cited scientific studies, with summaries and disclaimers where statistical issues have been correctly raised. Together, the article's point is that the "climategate" emails were a distraction that the media followed instead of all of the numerous studies coming out in the same year on the subject.

With that in mind, yes, it may be political advocacy, but no one here has raised any real reason why the research behind them shouldn't be taken seriously. If someone posted a list of articles coming out at the same time that rebutted their findings, I might think differently, but as it is I can't help thinking from observing the response here that the article's point may be truer than even its writers imagined. There's real science here! Discussion about the discussion is a distraction from it. If you think we shouldn't be discussing climate change, show me why you think the research is bogus instead of just telling me "political issues don't belong on HN". It's political because there's a lot of money at stake, not because the science is controversial; and please, if you think I'm wrong about that, show me why. I really, really, really want to be. Other scientific articles are fine on HN, so why not this?
If you want a web-based approach that works on desktop and mobile, try the simple tool I built: http://minutestocountdown.com/

I'm testing a phone number that works via text or phone call as well and I'd love to have your feedback if you get a chance to try it.
Easy. The OpenCyc ontology includes all the simple terms (Cyc constants) and composed terms (Cyc non-atomic reified terms) that full Cyc does. OpenCyc includes that subset of of full Cyc assertions which match the definitional statement types of OWL (the web ontology language). E.g. the class cyc:Action is a sub class of cyc:Event which is a sub class of owl:Thing. What is left out of OpenCyc, but included in ResearchCyc (full Cyc) are the ordinary assertions that relate concepts, e.g. cyc:DougLenat cyc:president cyc:Cycorp.

OpenCyc's purpose is to spread the use of the Cyc ontology in the Semantic web and Linked Data.
Kayak has an api (limited to 1000 searches / day): http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/

I believe that Orbitz will require you talk to someone in order to get access to their api.
Yes I did click through, but I still stand on my original comment. You would think that for Google being as massive as they are and for the unique fact that this is spun off without the word Google in front of the site name that they would spend some type of ample effort presenting a more eye pleasing site. My expectations for other online fashion shops are far less being that they are not Google.
Competent programmers can learn Go directly from the spec https://golang.org/ref/spec, the playground https://play.golang.org/, and the standard library docs https://golang.org/pkg/.
Might be worth it to find out if your brand of peanut butter contains palm oil (many do).

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil
That was the same argument that I heard against ATM skimmers ... until my city was hit by a massive wave of skimmer-related thefts about 5 years ago. My debit card got cloned too -- I woke up one fine evening to the sound of SMSes announcing withdrawals from my savings account :) The next morning, there was a crowd of almost 300 people waiting to file FIRs at the local police station. Apparently there were similar scenes in other localities as well. It looked like a fairly well-planned and well-executed operation. (Technological) effort is not a significant barrier for thievery as long as there is enough money to be made out of it.
Google's webstore for extensions charges a one-time fee of $5 to mitigate the abuse problem. I think it's a reasonable compromise. Apple's $100 per year is also keeping my hobby extensions off Safari as well.
Well you could say that about any vocation.
> A kid today can't write software on a phone like you could with old computers

Sure you can, it's just not staring you in the face from the second you turn it on.

And there's just so many more distractions these days. I'm not even old enough for the BASIC days, I grew up with a Mac Classic, but you had maybe 10 simple games, an office package, a draw program and that was it. Then there was HyperCard where I could create all those other things. As a kid I didn't think of it as "programming", I was just messing around creating things.

On a device today there's a million free apps to spend your time on. If you want to do programming you have to decide "I want to learn programming" and look up the tools for that.
> chances are you're already browsing files using a GUI file manager

I haven't had a GUI file manager installed on any of my desktop computers since the early 2000s, and the last time I used one regularly was the mid 1990s.

Hacker News in 2021: Where the "hackers" think that "doing it in command line is pointless."
Imagine all the trouble we would have been spared if Yahoo purchased Facebook and ran it into the ground with the rest of its portfolio.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895008
The most appreciated perks at my office are out table-tennis and foosball games. I think they beat video game consoles / TVs / etc for a few reasons:

- even the minimal amount of physical activity they provide is a great break from sitting at a desk

- inter-office rivalry is great fun

Also, healthy food is a must, and like others have said office location is huge.
I wonder if some of the problem the OP is in this mess is because he's either using a do-it-yourself tax return system and not made the correct deductions or he's gone to an HR Block 'chop shop' who have not listened/understood his income streams.

I'm not sure CPA is needed (my rule is >$100k total income, use a CPA else just a 'tax attorney'/'accountant' type person). But someone who understands these things would be helpful.
Made it work - if you are talking about "Internal mechanics" well yah he did. But that's not all of 'How it works'

The way it is shaped and crafted has a reason - that's design (not beauty). Though reason creates beauty.