jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks, but I already use another service to handle sending transactional email. The ability to receive emails is what I'm looking for. I think sendgrid does it.
I'd love for someone to correct me, but this conclusion just doesn't ring true to me. They say "the world's most popular 'erotic' site for women is FanFiction.net".. and it only gets 1.5 million visitors a month. Something tells me there are way more women than that surfing the web for erotic material.

Also, this whole article seems to disregard social norms.
But hey, that's why we're both here, right, shooting the shit on a site called "Hacker News." Because we believe there are -- and will continue to be -- better ways to do things through the appropriate application of technology.

Right? If your bio isn't a joke, you'd better darned well have that attitude. Otherwise I don't see how you'd get through a typical workday.
I'd be wary about buying one for this application. I read underfloor compartments somewhere, and these tend to preclude the use of ISOFIX rear-facing car seats. A problem I'm facing right now; we didn't take a future child into account when buying our current car those two years ago, and now fitting a child car seat is a PITA.
It's a blog to start. It's more about the content now.

If I can figure out some way to "appify" it I certainly will. I'd love to make it so that people can more easily explore advertising through these mediums as a cost effective and conversion effective means.

For the time being, though, it's just a blog showing the results of my experiments. Blogs are way easier to get up and running.
There's also Nengo (https://www.nengo.ai/).
He'll often include a little bit at the end of him verbally celebrating when he gets it in one take, and it's always delightful.
I think some _would_ define free will as necessarily separate from physical processes in the brain. Absent the existence some kind of magical soul-like concept, the free will debate in general seems like more of a semantic argument than a real philosophical one.
My rule of thumb:

- If there's some boring business process (that usually involves copy-and-pasting)

- Which you just know could be automated easily if only there was an API, but there isn't

- And everyone who's ever asked about an API has been told it's too difficult/expensive/etc to create an API (e.g., for an ancient legacy system)

... then there's the RPA opportunity.

In my opinion, it's not popular on HN for the same reason that legacy systems aren't popular on HN.
It's not that it's a speculative investment, it's that the dollar is continuously plunging in value and taking everything tied to it down too.

BTC (and several other cryptos) are the only safe place to store money in the long term.

> Let's chat in a year.

Indeed. No one who's bet against crypto has come out looking prescient.
Burning and looting are violent, just like murder.
Its worth mentioning you used to be able to extract Ki from the SIM card by bruteforce. Second version of SIM cards included response throttling to prevent it and came out somewhere in the middle to end of the nineties.
You're not in business until you get sued.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but I would say your position is more like trying things that have historically failed many times, but thinking it might work this time. I'm trying to think of a parallel in startups, but I'm drawing a blank.
It depends on whether you think Hacker News is a community or not.
Better design: if I open my dishwasher while it's running, the interior action immediately stops and water has never splashed out.
I find this group pretty interesting, Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking, http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~wddd/

In particular I find this paper, Is Transaction Programming Actually Easier, illuminating: http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~wddd/2009/papers/wddd_04.pdf

This paper shows that even though students "felt" that STM was harder to understand, their programs tended to be correct!

While with fine-grained locking almost all programs exhibited errors! Even though the students thought they knew what they were doing.
Thanks dyc, I will be sure to use the site as I try to develop my technical knowledge.
This hits home for me since I just finished reading The Design of Everyday Things. The two improvements that Jason suggests can be traced back to some core design principles that Donald Norman lays out in his book:

1. An indicator to inform the user of the object's current state. Based on the comments in the original post, it seems that the dishwasher actually does have an indicator light but for some reason it was accidentally covered up.

2. A forcing function, which is meant to constrain user actions in order to prevent error and/or guide the user toward the intended behavior.
What does Computer "Science" have to do with programmer productivity? That's like claiming Physics is not a science because you can't measure physicists' productivity effectively.
Haha! Well, If anyone is reading these comments - you can email me your mailing address too. No break-ups required! We don't want to encourage anything like that :)

Enjoy the trip to Malaysia! Can't wait to visit one of these days.
>few hundred patients so far.
Did you consider non-US companies? few_hundrend x $500/month...

Did you talk with universities/academia? They have laboratories and students who may be will be glad to help.
Well I guess you should take a look at this video then :
http://vimeo.com/jamesfields/headtransplant
Yeah, I can feel with them and it IS hard to make money with FOSS software. I think the problem is that the argument "You can sell support and consultancy to your software." is a little bit flawed as it contradicts with one fundamental purpose of software development: automating things;

So things should just work and if you are able to build a software that is easy to install, start and configure the user has no demand for support.
this ability of humans to perpetrate horrendous things under the guise and in the name of the greater good.
And anyone who wants to can folk it.
You're suggesting that the worldwide price of tea or market conditions are causing these nearly monthly fluctuations, between two set prices? I'm skeptical, the graph doesn't suggest that to my untrained eye.
Good on you for working to create your own framework. You'll learn a ton. I tried to look in a mobile safari and it did not look great. Frameworks need to be mobile compliant in today's web world.
The reverse would also be very useful - an alarm that goes off when you're close to your stop on the train/bus/other public transport.
I am not sure it's fair to imply the statement "I am a maker" is equivalent to "I am only a maker; it is the whole of my identity" any more than the same would be true for "I am a dancer" or "I am a cyclist". Even for people for whom it is very important, I am not sure it amounts to some sort of rejection of care or support for others (isn't part of the romance of the maker movement that people support each other, rather than relying on whatever is handed down from corporations?) Certainly one obvious criticism of identifying making things as a masculine activity in modern society is that the problem is excluding women and girls from these activities, starting early in the educational process, and reinforcing it with films, books, etc. that downplay making in favor of caring. In essence, this article cements that traditional division, by saying 'making is male, caring is female' which doesn't seem like a promising route to increase either encouraging more caring from men and boys, or more making from women and girls. As to whether we "need to make more things" at all, we clearly do and always will - not just for the sake of making them, but because we need clothes, homes, tools, etc. and those, I would suggest, can always be made better.
I think this would still work for that scenario. To beat it, you'd need like-bots that only liked/upvoted one or two sponsored things, then never did again. An algorithm like this would at least prevent you from re-using like-bots.
If I recall correctly, that doesn't hold up within the US. Dollars spent on education don't correlate all that closely with regional performance IIRC.
32 and I had the exact same thought while I was going through the quiz. Its funny at how much can change, if you take a few risks and chances.
I'd love to have the data to graph the ratio public_monad_tutorials/haskell_programmers over time.
Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're enough to influence education statistics. It could mean, for example, that Finns are just easily riled up in general.
It's fear-mongering because the media is selective about what it gets huffy and indignant about.

Where's the outrage over Google's behavioral retargeting? And have you ever tried to buy an ad on Facebook? The granularity with which you can target ads is insane (or insanely awesome, depending on your perspective)

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=863

For example: What is birthday targeting? Birthday targeting allows ads to be targeted to users on their birthdays. Wow.

Mobile ad networks are in the stone ages compared to this.
Wait is this Salon or the Onion?

> It seems that when Altman and Manning presented the name Jamcracker to a client recently, the reception was not everything they had hoped for. "I put the name up in front of their creative people," Manning says. "There were a couple of women sitting in. One of them got up and said, 'Oh, that's disgusting.' Another said, 'This is really sick.' I said, 'Excuse me, what are you talking about?' They said, 'We can't explain it, but that name is just creeping us out. We don't know what it is, but could you take it off the wall, please?'" Manning remains mystified by the incident. "There's apparently some strange, uncomfortable meaning attached to it in the minds of some women," he says. "God knows what that could be."

Seriously, I can't stop giggling at this whole article, especially gems like this!
I remember the day a 56kbps frame relay circuit was installed in our house in 1997. It was connected back to my dad's office and I could use it to access the Internet via their connection. It was amazing the day that I didn't have to dial anything.

I think I was the only person who was in my freshman college class in 1998 that knew you didn't need disk up to connect to the Internet. Sharing that single T1 with 2000 other students sucked.
I like HP better than Agilent. HP reminds me of playing with dusty and obsolete but once-really-expensive electronics, like atomic clocks and multimeters accurate to 10 decimal places (I have one in my apartment!). Agilent reminds me of white people wearing white bunnysuits in white clean rooms playing with brand-new overpriced (and off-white) electronic devices, developing weapons of mass destruction to wipe out humanity once and for all.

But hey, that's just me. I can't afford their products anyway.
I have to say, I had no idea what monads were before reading that article, and after reading it, I still don't.

It sounds like something to get the benefits of object-oriented programming while using functional programming, but I'm really confused.
Gresham’s Law.
NOTE: Hey guys, OP here, just to clear up the confusion the github.com/sapanbhuta repo is mine. I included it for comparison purposes. The elance site is the other person using the code as his own. Hope that makes more sense lol
At least with labels, if you were sufficiently successful and your current label started tightening the screws on you, you could go to the others and try to negotiate a new deal with them.

If Google decides to tighten the screws on YouTube performers, where else do they go? Where else can they go?
It's strange to me that they couldn't test several dosing regimens in parallel.

Surely this would present no more moral dilemma than having a control group in the first place. It's just a question of numbers and resources, and if there's ever been a vaccine trial in history that could afford to throw numbers and resources at the problem, this is it.

Was there some legal or regulatory reason not to do this obvious thing?
Furthermore, they still have tens of millions which they could do just that with, and haven't done so, and don't have any plans to do so. Why on earth is "they could have done XYZ with that money" an even remotely useful rhetorical tool?
People keep saying that, but I don't really buy it. Scanning barcodes isn't really necessary when you have everybody with a credit card and every local merchant accepts NFC payment. Everybody using crappy unencrypted JS-based WeChat mini-programs instead of an app ecosystem is not an innovation but rather a way to lock and monitor the entire population with no privacy. Same goes for police-state facial recognition.
I don’t think it is a good book. From a didactic point of view, I actually found it one of the worst resources out there. The math intro at the beginning is too superficial - either you know it and skip the chapter, or you need another resource to learn. The rest of the first part is okay, but parts 2 and 3 are really not very helpful to someone who doesn’t already understand it.

I strongly recommend fast.ai instead. Although often looked at as the resource for people who can’t deal with the math, I actually found it to be extremely good at explaining the math. Compare, for example, the deep learning book’s explanations on various gradient descent methods with Jemery Howard’s explanation - in the book it looks very complex, whereas in the course it’s actually really intuitive. And Jeremy doesn’t gloss over things, he actually implements the various gradient descent methods in Excel (!).
I really don’t like Hillary and I refuse to use google.

I do enjoy reading DARPA funded research on occasion.

Smear starts here:

“ Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has. Schmidt’s tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of US power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation.”

This is actually a systemic problem and seems more like a passive criticism of the US overall. The interesting tactic here is the Hillary+Obama+LiberalGoogle to get those divisive flames going.

Then it paints DARPA research as bad by trying to connect it directly to intelligence. WHAT defending your country is bad now?! Look at what you’re implicitly agreeing to if you accept this. Say NSA is bad or oversteps bounds or hacks to much or whatever those are separate arguments.

DARPA research is good stuff and supporting defense technology is too.
I apologize if I'm duplicating info here because I didn't read TFA or all the comments, but the resources I've use are the offline maps in Backcountry Navigator (paid), ViewRanger (free), AllTrails (paid), Maps.me (free, no topo info, but a surprising amount of trails). If bought custom waterproof maps from mytopo.com and I've downloaded maps US topo maps from https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/ and then had them printed at Office Depot (at a readable size, but not on waterproof paper). Having multiple sources of truth helps, and also I've had glitches downloading maps offline that I didn't discover until I was on the trail, so the offline maps of apps back up each other. And also I've used Guthook for the PCT, which is wonderful.

I'll add that I carry an extra battery anyway to power not just my phone but my Kindle and my Garmin Inreach Mini.
Dear GOP: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

(also please stop persecuting our media for publishing reports of atrocities in Afghanistan — if you don’t want to be punished for war crimes, don’t commit war crimes)
Some things, such as shiny white boxes from Apple, seem to have universal appeal.
That quote is saying that N95 masks are no better than medical masks, not that medical masks have 0 effectiveness.
I think this is just fragility, not cheating. I don't know JS super well, but in some languages you might see some rules associated with certain operations and preserving over/under flow exceptions and such.

In any case I think a few things happened here:

1) For whatever reason the "true" statement caused the compiler to think there was a side-effect potential. I suspect the compiler simply didn't know what to do with it, and they hadn't handled 'true;' or 'false;' as standalone statements in their optimizer. I bet if you put 'true;' in the middle of that loop it will break the DCE.

2) The probably don't do liveness analysis. So they can see that a block doesn't change global state, but don't look to see if the proceeding blocks use any of the variables. So if there is any code after a block they assume that they can't DCE that block.

3) '*' and '%' causing problems may be very specific to those operations, and I'm guessing '/' too.

All in all I'd say it is a target incomplete implementation, but not cheating. Based on what I've seen thus far.
Anki?
http://ankisrs.net/
So I went through the last big crash with my consulting company and we never reduced our contracted rate to try and save a gig, but we did other things. My suggestion here would be to reach out and just tell whomever is managing your contract that you recognize we are in trying times and that you are there to help and if there is anything you can do that might help them keep the level of support or increase it you are happy to discuss it. What you have to remember is most of the time they will cut a FTE before they cut a contractor in a time like this because you are cheaper then their loaded FTE's likely. There are exceptions to when that isn't true of course, but in general contracting gets better during downturns not worse. When there is uncertainty in the market companies still have demand and need people but they are cautious to bring on FTE's so instead they hire out to contractor at market rates.

If they reach out to you, always start it with you are willing to give them an extra 5-10 hours (depending on how much time you are doing) for a period of time to help through this without billing for it (you will put it on every invoice but show it as good will). Yes, effectively it is the same thing as lowering your rate to a degree, but it doesn't lower your contracted rate. Lowering your rate for an existing client is always the absolute last ditch effort, because it sends the wrong message to them and it will generally hurt you in the longer term, at least with medium to large businesses. If you are working with a small business or startup the opposite is fair, lowering your rate a bit will help them.

My goto was always to offer them a bit more time, or offer to give them a higher monthly discount for paying timely during this time. e.g. it solves two issues, you get paid timely while keeping your gig and they get a break on costs. If you haven't been through this before, the thing that typically happens is companies will sit on invoices longer during tough times, especially for existing small vendors, so a discount is a way to help incentivize them to pay on time but give them a break someone else may not.

Your other option is to offer them fewer hours which means lower cost but lets you open yourself up to finding other gigs, but I'd work to avoid lowering your rate. One other point, if this is a larger company they will want to formalize any rate change in a contract adjustment, which once you open that up and it goes to legal it could open a whole can of worms, so avoid it and use discounts, increased offerings and/or total billable hours to adjust best you can.
> Mentioning a politician’s name isn’t partisan politics

Of course it is, why would you think otherwise? By calling out a particular politician by name, especially a controversial one, OP introduced a political slant to the discussion. Could just as easily have said "this is a problem we commonly see with politicians, or other people in leadership positions" without calling a particular one out.

> Don’t be like that.

Like what, exactly? OP made a comment, and when it started to go grey he maligned the HN commentariat as a whole as being full of lazy people. All I did was help him understand what aspect of his comment was the likely trigger for the downvotes. HN by and large does not like political discussions, it's even right there in the moderation rules.
So basically, "I see you've written me with some advice. However, you may have overlooked the fact that I'm Richard Stallman."
Come on, Vietnam isn't measured the same way as Russia and China, which was the topic of conversation. That's the other side I was talking about, not US vs. non-US, or democracy vs. non(?)-democracy, or habeas corpus, or etc. Read the article, "the other side" is specifically referring to a country large enough to acquire a mythology of punishing existence as well as economic power that the US has to pay attention.

EDIT: singularize topic of article
Look at Carnegie Mellon's HCI institute's site...it has a publicly viewable job board. I remember being impressed by the quality of jobs posted

This post is awesome! I'm a computer engineer (electronics+programming) but I really want to foray into the design/hacking space which, for students, translates to HCI labs. Thus, I'm also looking for internships in the field from Sept to Dec.

Good luck Kai, keep us posted!
Also the praise on the landing page ``I would say I will probably order again from them'' by an anonymous beta user makes the service seem pretty mediocre compared to the other quotes.

But I love the idea of it. I'm just north of SF (mill valley)---so close yet so far!

If Munchery continues to expand I could definitely see myself ordering from it.
You'll probably have to look outside of science, but actually you are qualified for lots of policy and business jobs. The trick is to look for jobs that sound more social science/humanities, and then your science degree (despite being only a bachelor's) will be viewed as "hardcore."
>How else can users express whether or not they find a comment suitable unless they say so?

Isn't that what the upvote-downvote system is for?
Yeah it was more of a pun with an allusion/shoutout to the software/tech world, but I see that some of the HN readers don't dig it. Thanks for checking it out.
I don't see any complications or deep thinking required before pointing fingers. It's the criminals who are to blame.

No amount of educating end users will magically fix these kind of attacks, whether or not people write articles about their ransom payments.
worth noting that the HN admins often silently change submission titles so the poster wasn't necessarily responsible for this
it depends, for some critical line of code you can't make mistakes (for example if you are writing something involved with security , or in some worse case if you are programming an airplane consolle). So my point is: you can be drunk while coding but you have to be 100% sober while planning your tests for that code. Accordingly to a lot of studies alchool (also drugs) helps our brain to "think different" so while you are drunk you could find a solution for a problem you were stuck in just because while you are drunk your brain discovers different patterns. However i don't have much experience about this ... i've coded something while i was mildly drunk and i saw no difference.
It probably unhosted itself.