jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's been suggested before, but the actual problem here is that the functions of the up/down arrows are overloaded and used differently on other sites. Some people use them for correctness, some people use them for entertainment.
Personally, I think admitting defeat on the UI is the best option here. The arrows should become essentially placebos. Separate the mechanisms for rewarding insightful comments. Perhaps something more like the "thanks" mechanism in some forums where there is a scarcity to the votes--each user is allowed only 5 thanks/day whether they use them or not. The limit could be seniority based. But if I was running the site, I would leave the arrows and just give up on re-educating the masses to use the arrows differently and move on. It's a battle that cannot be won.
Schaft has unfortunately removed themselves from the competition[1]. It's a shame because they dominated the trials and were definitely the most entertaining to watch.

1. http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/content/drc-finals-annou...
Look at the link to the talk about this project I posted above. Frank used Cowboy (Erlang web server). It was in used in 3 ways -- serving static files, websockets (you can use that for signaling) and streaming binary data (video) using Motion JPEG.

Other projects might use MQTT -- a messaging system built for smaller devices (instead of say AMQP). RabbitMQ has a driver for it:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/09/12/mqtt-adapter/

But if you can get any server that supports websockets and have websocket clients in your client code (if you don't use a browser). Then you can roll your own messages using JSON or even binary.
Interesting comment on that article:

Index investing (applied to extremely wide market indexes) makes an assumption that there will be a continuous and infinite increase in the total market capitalization of that index. As time marches forward I beleive we will experience a deceleration of worldwide market cap increase.

Anyone have thoughts on this?
IMO that's not a valid reason to ignore deep-seated fears of others.
What you describe is not delay, but consideration of options. You aren't delaying if you are thinking, you are doing. To delay is to do nothing for no good reason, to delay is to kick your feet up, allow time to pass and not do any thinking of options, which is what happens all too often in a world where public works are worked upon by private contractors who are financially incentivized to stretch out projects as long as possible.
Can you point to a place where they have looked at the C-SPAN discussions leading to the law? I was not familiar with the fact that they ever do.

They do look at the history of legislation, yes. But the rationale ("commit message") does not appear there.
There has been a lot of growth in the States and the UK over the last 40 years. yet within both of those countries inequality has grown a lot. Few people under 40 can afford to buy a house in the UK these days, as opposed to 20 or thirty years ago.

Maybe I am just more politically aware than I used to be but I feel discontent is rising.
Now we only need batteries that don't self-discharge within decades.
None of them are developers tho, they're mostly managers.
> The comments are available for us to use, as citizens, but when the system is executing, it only cares what's in the code.

In that case, the comments are entertainment.

We are not the users of this system. We are its input/output.
So it's really only viable because it gets rent free land from the tax payers.

It seems like it's just some magic accounting trick to not count the revenue that the tax payer would have received for the land currently being given tent free.

In other words, public transport is just not a profitable business.
The article makes me really sad, but describes the best time in Rally sports. Group B cars made the rallye an event which had as much popularity as the formula 1. It was a time when Racing was 50% raw power and 50% talent, and it is no that it's major racing series, say Group B rally, Group C touring cars or the formula one gave birth to legends like Rohrl, Bellof or Senna. This is an attractivity that is completely lost in modern racing, really, with its small, fuel saving, ecologically correct "cars". Hell, it's racing, not a children's playground. Thank God there's LMP...
I think the failure was most in the inability to explain to the consumer why they’re just buying a controller. The past year being a disaster probably didn’t help with any plans to market bringing it to a friends house to play together or whatever.

Just because it’s possible to stream realtime input and response, that doesn’t mean generations that grew up with physical devices are coming along for the ride without trust in the platform.
Tonnes of good stuff is written in haxe - Northguard, Papers Please, just to name a few well known ones (more here https://github.com/Dvergar/awesome-haxe-gamedev#games )

i think typescript has stolen the thunder for web development, but in an alternative universe where typescript didn't exist, i say haxe would be the better altnernative over javascript for web frontend, and possibly, backend as well.
Nope, it's a java/javascript thing.
That would be 5G iot stuff. Sort of like wifi you don't own.
.su isn't listed because it's still active.
Forget qualified immunity and civil liability.
Why are police not being held criminally responsible for criminal acts? I am far more concerned about that.
2 points;

the “Buffett Halo” effect I dont think is fair to include. This is very real but its also temporary. Consider stuff like his failed Tesco investment. Long term we get back to fundamentals.

The big advantage I think worth mentioning is Buffet also buys control much of the time he invests. You and I buy shares to go along for the ride. He buys in on value + they ability to control direction + typically do share buybacks that further increases the per-share value and uses the companies own money to grow value further. This is a real game changer beyond the traditional value approach you and I will never have.
They give it high-level commands like "run this flight pattern at 11am", but there's no human controlling a joystick.

It takes radio waves 3-20 minutes (depending on orbit position) to travel from earth to mars (and vice versa), so direct control would be impossible.
> The task bar must be at the bottom of the screen and not on the sides, this is something that will hopefully be fixed soon

That's a shame, I look forward to this restriction being lifted so I can check it out without rewiring my brain in two ways at once instead of just learning the new tool.
Well I can be sure that there isn't another phone somewhere with my Signal logged in. When I get a new phone it makes me pick.
I was really, really into DiscworldMUD for a while. I played as a wizard, and had so much fun casting brassica oleracea ambulata on NPCs, then watching the cabbage follow them around. Then I'd equip Collatrap's Instant Pickling Stick and zap it into coleslaw, which I would feed to my loyal chicken. I'm not sure whether that accomplished anything, but I thought it was hilarious.

I obviously found the game very enjoyable and memorable. If I had more free time, I'd love to pick it up again someday.
I don't understand why any app store still allows this. Literally worse than gambling since that at least gives people an actual chance to win actual money. These games probably even vary the winning chances to hook new players and make rich players spend more.
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Depends on what you mean by consulting. Accenture, deloite and friends have little to do with startups. Culturally, they may be a step backwards. You will learn a thing or two about enterprise sales at a place like that, however.

If you mean freelancing or small company consulting, then yes, you'll learn a lot of practical skills that will be directly applicable to a startup.

In a broader sense, working anywhere will help you with a future startup - some jobs will just be more useful than others. High end consulting, banking, and the like are way down on the utility list.
It would be a huge win if the scanners were removed because of corruption. It would be an even bigger win if people went to jail because of it, but I'm not holding my breath.

"The heart of the matter" is restoring our rights at the airport. Exposing the corruption that's part of the surveillance-industrial complex can play a big role in this. Privacy, effectivness, civil liberties, impact on business, and kids rights are all good avenues as well.
This isn't "regrettable" it's simply par for the course from everybody's favorite tech company.

The only thing they will regret is getting caught, much like any sociopath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfine_structure
Well said. There's more on the lack of transparency, and GAO's criticisms of TSAs testing, at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20023079-10391695.html
No matter what you need to be able to produce something valuable, if only to be a good potential partner for a tech person. The most straightforward valuable thing to produce is code.

Without that you may find good contractors but probably not someone that will stick around. Tech-enabled startup people tend to have scorn for people with ideas but little else.
Not much different. He generates sales for Rapidscan, in return they buy consulting service from his company.
Just used the first one: JWPHYFA3WP3N. Checking it out now.
Try typed functional languages next. You'll be a newbie again.
Without question the number one thing novice designers don't understand is how long it takes to create a good design. Even great designers that have years of muscle-memory can spend hours upon hours on a design.

Novices generally don't appreciate this and just don't take enough time to produce good work.
I believe that this article mischaracterized the argument against business schools. While some may go to the extreme of saying that MBAs are poor startup founders, the majority lie in another camp: that business school may be the wrong school to learn to be an entrepreneur.

This is effectively the argument for the Durant School of Entrepreneurship; Business schools teach corporate management (generally speaking), not entrepreneurship. While many schools may offer entrepreneurship courses, they are often just thinly veiled management courses.

More on this can be found on Steve Blank's blog: http://steveblank.com
Facebook is Microsoft's trojan horse to win two wars: search and mobile. Microsoft is a major investor in Facebook and thus far has been losing both search and mobile to Google.

With Facebook as the home page, Microsoft becomes the de facto search engine for millions of people because Bing is already integrated into Facebook.

Also, with more people communicating via Facebook mobile, Microsoft slowly but surely inches its way to winning the war on mobile through integration with Facebook on mobile devices.
The problem is you are relying on TechCrunch for tech punditry.

Techcrunch is one of those tech blogs that has very little knowledge about technology.
I often wonder if it is this attitude that has caused the rise in fat and lazy people.
What's the best way to reach you privately to discuss about technology that works with ad exchanges? Also, are there any blogs/resources for someone interested in building something similar to invitemedia? Thanks
When you can tap your entire social graph for answers to your queries, sites like Facebook have the ability to push aside search engines like Google as the first site that springs to mind when people think about surfing the WWW to find information, connect to other people, communicate with friends, and so on.

Am I somehow connecting to the wrong Facebook or something? Because whenever I log in all I get is dull status updates from people I somewhat know.
The second link I included in the comment above was to DannyBee's discussion of implicit vs explicit patent grants.
Point taken, short intro added.
Lost in Translation: "Macker" in german means "Dumb Bro", which would be quite the opposite of a HackerNewsClient… ;)
Dickinson, Tennyson, Yeats, Whitman
It might a combination of these few things:

1. Only a single interview
2. No interviews with actual YC-backed founders
3. Has a spamwall
4. Has a bunch of audio ads at the start

Edit: Andrew has addressed all four issues almost immediately. I believe that my fourth issue was just me making a frivolous point. My initial impression was that there were no interviews at the moment (besides the one with Jessica Livingston) and hearing a few ads after jumping through the hoop felt like I was deceived. Thanks for the clarification, Andrew.
I just wish they'd do it for free .

No ads ,no charges.
I'm not so sure. The brain's ability to process and interpret visual information and form an intricate understanding of 3d space seems to me a "hard-wired" process.

Sure, you could convert information encoding 3d space around a user and convey it to them in any number of methods, but that wouldn't leverage the brains very specialized mechanism for processing and interpreting visual information(which I rightly or wrongly conceptualize as a mix of hardware(some analogue of a video coprocessor for the brain) and software(the algorithms the brain uses to interpret the data).
I saw loads of servers that looked like this: http://151.217.171.219:6080/vnc.html?autoconnect=true&token=...

They appear to be automated viewbots. I would have thought that there were more efficient ways of generating views.
In bootstrapped startups, it's not unusual for distributions to start happening immediately. One of the good features of bootstrapping is that it forces you to rig the business sustainably from day one.
The down votes are, if I had to guess, due to the use of M$ as a "clever" euphemism for Microsoft.
I think part of the problem with these discussions is that there are countless cases where the police won't stop just because there's a law that says so and so.

They often work hard to find workarounds or ways to charge you with other things to punish you anyway. The most obvious example is being innocent until proven guilty, and yet there are a lot of cases where the police shot someone to death because they raided the wrong home for example (which is why the tool is called SWATd I believe)
Europe is more diverse than people make it out to be. Plenty of European countries are very hostile to gays....
> Current routers can change preset channels, or can even find them automatically, but they do not offer real-time adaptation.
Once again, types are way overrated. However, Shen is an interesting new Lisp to watch. Needs a more open community, though (like a free book and/or deep documentation).
We do indeed, but only for bailing out megacorporations.
Considering what women's shoes cost, maybe it would...
But the police can take out a hit on me if I start a commotion and flee. Then they will pursue me with the intent (or legal right) to kill me and I will be blamed for it.

So it makes sense to blame the police for starting a commotion that set in motion a situation that would not have arisen otherwise.

Just playing devil's advocate, but the only difference I see here is that the government has a monopoly on law and they hire the police, and the killer that person allegedly hired is not working for the law the government made, but for the law that person made.

So there's no need to pontificate here. This is just the difference between an organization having a monopoly on violence and then acting surprised when others want to make contracts with rules based on violence as well.

Not to mention our current president has ordered the murder of US citizens before but no one is arresting him.
No? That's well outside the scope of its design... what's your point?
I'm not sure what you mean by better sales. Some cross platform games which sell better on consoles than let's say on PCs? And why would you think that DRM is the reason for that?

A lot of such games have poor quality on PCs, and more focused on console UX, or there can be tons of other factors which affect it.

Also console manufacturers cultivate lock-in approach and push for exclusives rather than preferring cross platform games. So sales numbers aren't indicating normal competition.
mikeryan -
good point, as I pointed out myself, I started this without loving the space (which implies that I didn't have the domain expertise I should have), but we started all the same. I agree many issues can be solved by having better domain "understanding" but if we wait for domain "experience" nothing innovative will happen. Nobody had domain "experience" when Netscape was building their first browser.
"... anyone who thinks replacing 10's of thousands of systems is a cakewalk is simply ignorant."

Anyone who conflates 800 workstations with tens of thousands of systems is a damn sight worse than ignorant.
In his lectures, at least, he argues not only that the system was better than others at the time, but also that the founders designed it in a far more democratic way than people give them credit for in retrospect. Perhaps this was not emphasized in the book; it's been awhile since I read it.
how can i check someone friends when I am not invited
This is somewhat silly without having a specific art object to debate, but I see variations of your argument all the time made as an attempt to discredit or dismiss a work of genius that they simply don't get.

For instance, you talk a lot about what a piece of art means, but much of art embraced concepts of subjectivity and meaninglessness before social psychology even existed as a proper discipline.

In fact, some of the seemingly obscure art is a meta-critique on obscure art.

The very goal of looking for the meaning of a piece in the sense of a message it is trying to convey is going to be wrong-headed in a large number of cases right out of the gate.

What's the meaning of jazz music? What's the meaning of architecture? Or the movements of modern dance or a Rothko painting?

My point is, while you can imagine a scenario in which the artist is being smug jerk trying to look smart by being impossible, that's much, much more rare than someone approaching a work of art and arrogantly saying, "That is just garbage," about something that a large number of educated people recognize as brilliance.

And Calvin's got a good point about art snobs, not artists and not the audience for art at large.
I'm curious. Email me at techiferous-at-gmail-dot-com. I've been programming Rails professionally for the past four years.
Getting off into a bit of a tangent here, but you may have an idea. I'm looking for the cheapest possible tablet with 1 or more USB host ports and WiFi. It doesn't have to be pretty, large, or have decent software, just needs to be open enough that I can roll a little Linux distro for it to ship some custom software on it. I've got a SmartQ v7 on the way (for unrelated purposes mainly), but they're upwards of $200, so they aren't a perfect fit. If you have any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Moniker is the most reliable, speedy and trustworthy bulk domain lookup in my experience. It requires username registration. https://www.moniker.com/domains/batch_reg.jsp
That actually would interest me incredibly if students were the majority.
ssh, tmux, vim, git, more ssh, python, bash.

Depends on project, if it is JavaEE app, or Android, then you're screwed and might as well work on a local version, because you need IntelliJ.
The adjustable Ikea Bekant sit/stand desk is "only" about three times the price of the non-adjustable Bekant desk. (I don't have one but have been tempted.)
What a great service. What most people don't realize is the majority of ecstacy-related deaths are due to non-ecstasy pills. The drug war is one of the most futile and frustrating things in the modern world.
I am sorry to say this, but the entire article sounds like you are rationalising an irrational decision. As the studies show sitting is bad for you and while is understandable that not everybody can get used to work standing, just arguing against the research will not do any good. The final conclusion:

"The key is to do some activity every day. It doesn’t have to be a five-mile sprint. A walk to and from work, taking the stairs, or some squats while you’re waiting for your lunch can be enough to do the trick."

Sounds exactly like the stuff smokers say to justify their smoking habit.

I don't want to defend any religion (the standists? lol), i can just say that i like it, and i like it so much that after 3 years of standing i would keep doing that and i would really suggest to everybody to try for at least 3/4 months. You need time to get really used to it. After that make your decision.
Avo is a next-generation Admin Ruby on Rails framework that use ViewComponents and Hotwire.
You are a particularly good writer and reading your writing over the last ten years has made me a better writer thereby.
Sounds cool is it on github?
“Glassholes”

Yeah, there’s a difference between someone having the ability to take pics in their pocket and having a camera pointed at you all the time.

Is it more of a reaction than a logical thing? Maybe.
I don't think that's legal in Denmark. The police aren't allow to set traps that would make you break the law. Maybe it would accepted, because you where going to buy a stolen bike anyway... I'm not sure.

Mostly I think bikes stolen in Denmark end up in Eastern Europe anyway.
>plenty of medical progress was made via Nazi and Japanese experiments on live subjects during the second world war

[citation needed]
Bi-directional interfaces are not necessary for BCI to be useful - I would pay good money for a digital copy of my memories. Just think about how that could be used to treat patients with Alzheimer's if they had a library of memories on-demand.
I believe Larry and Sergey said this is the ultimate goal with self-driving cars
I support docker in its efforts. However, docker is too cute, too hyped, and too rapidly developed to trust with your security as yet. Quite frankly, you have to understand a bit more than how to call an API to have faith in your infrastructure's inherent security.

For example, in this article the author links to the 'list of dropped capabilities in the Docker code'. As it happens, I wrote that list quite some time ago, and wrote it for lxc-gentoo, a guest-generation script for raw LXC against an earlier kernel version with an earlier LXC userspace. Not only is the list now out of date, it's no longer using the preferred approach. Why is this? Instead of explicit drop ("allow all, deny some") after some months of raising the issue one of the LXC devs finally added the 'lxc.keep' (ie. "deny all, allow some") which is architecturally more secure against things like kernel upgrades which add or modify kernel capabilities.

Furthermore, the docker people only included this when I added https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/commits/v0.5.0/lxc_templa... ... things as important as WARNING: procfs is a known attack vector and should probably be disabled if your userspace allows it. eg. see http://blog.zx2c4.com/749 and WARNING: sysfs is a known attack vector and should probably be disabled if your userspace allows it. eg. see http://bit.ly/T9CkqJ

Again, I fully support docker's efforts but the article is ... misleading at best.
I am a Russian, but I was not at all offended. I just feel that the topic is a bit too serious for an offhand joke.
The edge of the blob on that chart represents the color that can be achieved by mixing the three chosen primaries. If you wanted to expand the curve outward along the top edge of the blob, you need yellow pixels with a more intense color than can be produced by mixing red and green.

What this will achieve is not just brighter yellows. The whole curve expands upward, leading to more intense colors along that entire portion of the gamut.