jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is not the goal of Habitat for Humanity, right?

To build more houses they do really need to recruit the lifetime donors. The whole point of the donor's doing some of the work is to get the donations in the first place. It generally is pitched as a team building exercise.
No, if that's what happened, that's indefensible. But that's only what the plaintiff alleges.

Wouldn't critical thinking also mean that you should keep in mind that an expelled student describing the situation in his legal complaint will be necessarily be biased? The complaint is literally written in the way that is best for his case.
That’s debatable and misses the gist of the interviewer’s question. It was literally “what do you get from contributing”.
Oil and ff interests bought them some politicians laying down FUD at press-conferences and policies just how industry wants them.
Incredibly enough, this kind of phenomenon really is almost magically turning from "0" to "1" when a certain threshold is met. This goes by several names depending on the field but "phase transition" and "percolation" are usual.
Have you tried taking notes?

Maybe a silly question, but I do this a lot when I'm trying to pick up technical information from a video or a presentation, and it seems to help not least because the result is a durable, textual reference that also can provide starting points for further research. Too, you can pause a video and add a timestamp to your notes as an indexing tool for review.

I do this with a pen and a notebook, not digitally. I don't know about the vaunted "writing by hand helps memories form" effect; I can't say I've observed a dramatic difference, but maybe that's just because I keep my work and technical notes close to hand and refer to them when I need them. That said, I do recommend paper notes over digital ones for stuff like this, if only for the sake of simplicity, reliability, and ease of use.
I agree with you, in theory. But the real world is messy. There are only two choices here - don’t participate in social media. Or if you do, don’t expect everyone to respect your privacy. It sucks, but that’s the world we live in.

Parents post pics of their babies all the time. It would be easy to make wikibabies, like wikifeet. Who is at fault in this case? At least this lady is an adult and posted her own pics.

Real world is messy...
Sometimes it seems like TX and FL are in a bizarre secret competition...
http://www.xkcd.com/221/
19 is drinking age in most of Canada.

19 feels too close to the nice, round, important 20 to count as properly random for me.
It is telling that this article is in the business section and not the science or technology section.
It appears their margins are razor thin.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/12/15/xiaomi-pro...
It is patently absurd that, for example, the maximum council tax levied by The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is currently £2133.58.

You can own a £10m property in the borough, earning upwards of £1m per year in rental income and appreciation, and only have to pay £2k to the local council.

Meanwhile, those living in the absolute worst accommodation in the borough still have to pay £711.19.
Maybe pretty resumes are useful if you are applying for executive positions. My experience as an applicant for tech jobs is that style and beauty of resume are lost upon HR software programs that match candidates' resume to opportunities. Maybe its only here in Canada, but most major employers here use an ugly web software where they force candidates to stuff their resumes into small textareas and check off on industry buzzwords.
> but less content per page

This is why engineers are not designers. Left up to engineers, every pixel would be crammed full of "content", all at 11px font.
Am I the only one who finds the goalposts gave moved for FP? it used to be lambdas/lexical closures that were the big must-have FP feature, then it was immutability. Now that we're seeing traditionally-OO languages sport a raft of immutable types and good support for lexical closures, now it's all about higher-kinded-types.

For a while, the big feature was homoiconicity and tail-call-optimization until lisp fell out of favour with language geeks.

Does FP just mean "has features of my favorite self-proclaimed-functional-language"?
This a thousand times. I'll blacklist a domain for that. I'll kill by browser if I can't close it. I'll never, ever be coerced into even reading a fucking popup on leaving a site, as a matter of moral principle. Its like a salesman sticking their foot in the door - I have a gun for that situation.
Read http://darkpatterns.org/

I'm not even sure if I'd call exit intent pop-ins a "dark pattern", let alone call it the most bullshit and annoying one, considering the examples listed on the darkpatterns.org site.

I think I'd argue the "sneak into shopping cart" one as being the worst.
Good point. Might, then, also reflect pressure from governments to keep flying, no matter the pax load factor.
Ok FB. You can keep the data. Give me FB options instead. Thanks.
A pretty good list of tips, however I've gotten more mileage over the years by digging deeper into my procrastination to understand its roots. Most often than not there is some fear or dissatisfaction tied to the procrastination that needs to be heard. Checking in with myself and becoming aware of these deeper feelings forms the foundation on which long term productivity is possible.
I just go with 'dub dub dub…'
Whenever I'm about to make a purchase, a dialog pops up telling me this, and it also requires my password.

It is hard to imagine how Apple can be sued over this, even in a parents/children situation, because the device is clearly set up to make it difficult to purchase by accident. You are supposed to know what you're doing.

Apparently this lawsuit comes from parents who turned off all the warnings on their device and handed it to their children. Sorry folks, time to do your own parenting and not rely on the law to do it for you.
Thanks - didn't realize there was a dropdown, as I had only looked at the article, not the actual calculator (not living in the US).
Sounds like you should be using Mercurial. The only thing it really lacks is the ability to change history, but this is more of a feature than a bug.
All the websites are available of course. Whether or not you can make use of the Flash content is a different story. At least to Apple it's a different story...
Is there a reason that I never see -5 on HN? Does the comment dissapear after -4?
>After using so much aluminum in recent hardware designs, it’s interesting that they’re using stainless steel for the iPhone 4.

I wonder if this is related to the steel frame serving as the iPhone's antenna. Would steel be a better material than aluminum for this purpose?
From what I've been reading, the hardware seems rather nice.

Not sure I like the iAds (concept) though especially if the ad data downloaded is counted against the data limit before extra charges occur. Has anyone seen anything on the details for this?

Still thinking Android since I have a choice of vendors.
Assume user #1234 requests a page with an A/B test on it. We hand them the page and a Javascript challenge, and mark them as a bot. If user #1234 successfully passes the Javascript challenge, which if it happens will almost certainly happen within the next few hundred milliseconds, we revise our opinion about their character. Anybody who fails to convince us remains flagged as a bot.
Seriously. Where does he come up with nonsense like:

> I suspect that unless you’re preparing high-quality print work, there’s no appreciable benefit for a photographer, and perhaps some downside, in an ultra-high-res display.

Count me among (amateur) photographers who would just love to have a 300 DPI display on which to work on photographs.

Here for example is one quite obvious appreciable benefit: I can see at full resolution what my prints will look like with varying amounts of sharpening applied, in a roughly accurate simulation. Previously, if I opened an image up at 100%, the proper amount of sharpening for print would make an image look extremely “crunchy” on screen, because 100% on screen has pixels three times as big as a 300 PPI print resolution. If instead I looked at the image scaled to 50% on a typical display, I could no longer notice any difference from fine-resolution sharpening, because the screen display would be interpolated.

More than that though, I’d love to have a 300 DPI tablet-scale device to show off work on. Photographs would be absolutely gorgeous.
Have they added Undo Close Tab?
Don't see this anymore. Some temporary glitch while updating the page?
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It's not just about nudity, it's about social acceptability.

Apple seem to be on some content policing crusade which is ill judged IMHO, but it's fairly obvious why this is censored.
One issue with Google Voice is that if you already have a personal GV number pointing to a phone number, you can't create another GV number (ex. for business) that points to that same number.

A GV-like service that was built for businesses is Phonebooth (http://www.phonebooth.com/). Give it a try, it's freemium!
I don't understand why this distinction is important. You have to click past the same "Are you 17?" scare warning to download both apps that can access external content and apps that are adult-oriented by themselves, and both can be limited with parental controls. The former can access far more pornographic material than this, and yet Apple is going out of its way to black this material out? That makes zero sense.
i just want geolocation in opera mini. To many people that use my web app are using from opera mini and I have to tell them to go to the phones default browser. (Hate doing that)
jl: Is it possible to upload the founders at work series to itunes? I usually listen to podcasts on my drive to and from work on the iphone...I'd guess there are others like me
They are close to equal in features, as of the last round of browsers. I prefer firebug just because I have used it forever and am a creature of habit.
It's fine as a forwarding number, but it's a little odd dialing out.

Twilo and Tropo (which runs on voxel) are both alternatives you may want to look at.
If I did, it would be more like a consultancy thing. I'm not a developer, and I do security stuff (all kinds) for fun and profit. I'm 31, married, wife needs insurance with lots of medical issues. It would be a bad time for me to go off on my own full-bore right now. It sounds like you're in a great position to make a leap of faith, though, and there's a lot of other good advice from the HNers. Best of luck!

Also, I have to ask: With a name like oz, are you in Kansas like I am (Lenexa/KC Suburbs)?
> If the Chinese do not behave as the United States wants on those stretches of highway, the highways will cease to be accessible to the Chinese.

China never "behaves" as the US wants. Where have you been for the past 50 years?

Furthermore, the direct beneficiary of Chinese mineral wealth is you, the US Citizen. Who do you think produces a majority of the goods you consume as well as finances the majority of your government's debt?

US and Chinese interests are inexorably linked - which is probably why the US Army is protecting Chinese infrastructure.

Step into the 21st century and let go of your borderline racist delusions like "If the Chinese do not behave..." - or what? The US will launch another proxy war and lose just like in Vietnam and Korea? The powers that be in both hemispheres have realized that there are better strategies to wealth, and they have been implementing them efficiently.
"Your moral compass is so fucked up, I'll be shocked if you manage to find your way back to the parking lot."
I'm also a math teacher, and agree that there's something about American culture that's really messing with mathematics education. As a student, I was always annoyed by applications questions. Not because I have anything against applications, but because they were usually contrived, and often outside of my field of study. There were all sorts of physics questions that would pop up in the lower math classes (Never took physics) that I could do the math for, but had no reasonable physical intuition about how the system in question should actually behave. I was mostly just crunching numbers.
I can't imagine any decent VC who wouldn't invest in the next big thing because it wasn't located in Silicon Valley.

So that would be a useful filter, and if at some later point you do need VC then you can always take a plane trip.
Boardgamegeek.com
Renting in general (cars, housing) is one of those things that people want other people to do, but not for themselves, at least not on things they consider important. For example, if you rent textbooks, you give them up at the end of the semester... but a lot of people want to have them around for years later.

An example is that, following the housing crisis, people quipped about how all "those people" who were taking out bad mortgages should have been renting instead of buying their homes, and there are a lot of arguments for why renting is superior to ownership for real estate (repairs done by professionals, more mobility, etc). But few people actually want to live by this. They'll gladly rent in their 20s when they're starting out, but they want to own the house they raise their children in.
> And a person successful in selling web apps or in selling drugs is not a successful mobile developer.

is webapps -> mobile apps as big a leap as drug dealing -> real estate?

isn't it likely that, within 5 years, many mobile apps will actually be webapps?
In an ideal situation, you would not be okay. BP wouldn't have even the potential of protection, and your investment would be wiped out.

Your punishment would be proportionate to your involvement.
I learned recursion in C. Visualizing the stack, which was encouraged for whatever reason in the books I was reading, was useful to me.
Can you point to any links for the MIT research?
Mu. Buying a hitman lunch does not make you an accessory to murder.
The site's down :(

I wanted to hear about why Pfizer shouldn't make iphone apps...
Apple didn't screw up. The disadvantages you cite are inevitable consequences of the strategy they consciously chose (selling premium devices differentiated by user experience).

If Apple hadn't waited until carriers (especially Verizon) to come to them, iPhones would be as full of branding and bloatware as any other carrier-sold phone, not to mention interference with updates, interference with retail launches and who knows what else. Limiting the range of phones they offer means they miss niches, but also helps control costs (allowing them to use premium components more affordably), simplifies the buying process for customers, supports a broader and deeper accessory ecosystem and so on. Not jumping on many new technologies (e.g. LTE), creates an opening for competitors, but also lets Apple avoid the associated growing pains so they can provide a more consistent user experience.

If Apple had followed the path you advocate, they'd have picked up many of the disadvantages of the Android ecosystem, without the corresponding advantages (most notably rapid improvements via intra-ecosystem competition). That seems obviously worse than the path they actually chose.
The idea of scaling probabilities (by 10^6) misses the point. Log scales are better at revealing orders of magnitude! How about dbMorts instead?
Agreed. And to add to it, even though Yosemite has OpenSSH 6.2p2, it has most of the newer features disabled.

FWIW, this is what I have in my config file on Mac.

Ciphers aes256-ctr,aes128-ctr
MACs hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1
Interesting how dated it looks after the Tesla announcement, ugly as the Cybertruck is. Wheels, door panels, steering wheel, everything looks a bit too traditional. Maybe that was one of their goals, but will be a shame if it ends up driving healthy competitors out of business.
Someone said that the wise (person) knows that they know nothing.

I'd prefer to say wisdom is knowing what you know and what you don't, and it's much harder and more valuable than you might think.
> git log | grep ^bug - Doesn't work because 'git log' puts spaces in front of commit lines

No, but this does work:

git log --grep ^bug
I’ve always heard Peirce’s pragmatic maxim in the hum of Philosophical Investigations.
Used Nissan leafs are pretty affordable, might make a nice powerwall.
That’s what Evernote did: binary protocol and implementations in a bunch of languages. Their API was apparently easier to develop this way.
Given the history of private equity in hiking up drug prices, I'm guessing the answer to "what is the magic number" is whatever number generates the most profit, regardless of what is just or whether small organizations can afford it.
how do you recommend getting into this sort of stuff? i have some basic experience with microcontrollers and i'm interested in some dsp hardware projects but i'm not sure where to start as the classes offered do not touch hardware..
If you're interested in how the sausage is made, I believe Netflix uses Microsoft's Smooth Streaming[1] to accomplish that (I know they use it for the in-browser client, but am not 100% positive about the native mobile apps). Smooth streaming is an under-appreciated tool, IMO. Given its power, you might reasonably assume it would be complex and expensive to set up, but it's a free extension to IIS if you have any recent edition of Windows Server and is amazingly simple to get up and running with your own video.

[1] http://www.iis.net/media
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."
— E. B. White

I think that answer at Quora, while awesome, should sufficiently kill TWSS.
Tell that to the countless successful web apps. Facebook is a web app.
The hidden cost is having a switch/router/both to handle the rates, as well as using Gig-rated cabling which is surprisingly not the same as 100Mb. When I hand crimped a number of cables and tested they weren't suitable for Gig.

Full Disclosure: I'm a shitty crimper.
well it's about time

(looks pretty good on first impressions, anybody know how it works on a tablet?)
It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology.
There is a song "Shut up and drive". Thats all we have to do, just shut up and do it! :-)
Exactly! As much I have tried to switch back to browser bookmarks, syncing and other social tools, nothing seems to do the job as well as Delicious. The browser integrations are very fast and the overall implementation is extremely simple.
I'm sure Java was chosen because it was the dominant smartphone programming language at a time.

And not for any actual good reasons.

And we (Android developers) still need to suffer through their poor initial choice of platform; things would be so much better if they exposed a C API as a first-class citizen of the OS, rather than making Java the only first-class way to access Android.
Is there any evidence that diversity based on racial appearance translates into business strength? I'm guessing that two random, say, Ivy League grads are more similar than two random <specific race> individuals.
go for it :-) I look forward to watching and learning.
For any layperson who wants to understand what mathematicians think about math, I cannot recommend _The Mathematical Experience_ highly enough.

It is accessible to a high school student. Yet has insights for a PhD in mathematics. And more than any other book I know, it captures the experience of mathematics. Both good and bad.

I like to say that I went into mathematics for reasons given in that book. And I left it for reasons given in that book.
It would be interesting to see more complete statistics.
I just saw this,
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2009-Decembe...

How is Santa Claus hat not a Christmas reference?
I'm not sure developers want a sense of of adventure when it comes to job descriptions. Relatively speaking, most job posts are about the same. I can't imagine many great developers read a job post and are so excited by the description they have to email in to find out more details. This is why recruiters have a tough time finding great developers. How many great developers read a job description from a recruiter and are so excited they take the time to seek out the company name?
Out of curiosity, what do you think of the pattern where a SaaS provider says, "Give us your credit card and you'll automatically be charged after a free trial" vs. "Don't give us your credit card, you can upgrade any time"? The former might be okay if the SaaS provider sent an 11th hour email saying, "Hey, last day of the trial. Charging starts tomorrow!"... but most don't.

What percentage of SaaS trial users forget to cancel?

That's always fallen into my "slightly shady" camp, but I can say with some authority that it's a huge needle-mover in terms of revenue.
This is the one with the comments that got killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2021100
I didn't meant just the bakeries or any other niche. Its just an example for a business. I'm sorry it looked that way on my post, I kinda rushed it :)

Thank you all for your comments.
Censorship does happen. Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, was censored to avoid an NC-17 rating. You're correct NC-17 movies do get made, but how often can you go to your local cinema and see an NC-17 movie?
Any specialized field becomes obscure to the uninitiated. While it may be possible to use metaphors to give them a glimpse into the field, it's ultimately a false picture. And so, analogies should be used to whet appetites, not attempt to explain expert knowledge.

Feynman on magnetism: "I can't explain that attraction in any of the terms that's familiar to you. For example, if we said that magnets attract as if they were connected by rubber bands, I would be cheating you[...] and if you were curious enough, you would ask me why rubber bands tend to pull back together again and I would end up having to explain that in terms of electrical forces."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
It doesn't seem to me that if someone from 1915 was transported to the present day, it would be impossible to explain to them what was going on and they would die from the culture shock.

What's so hard to explain? Airplanes and cars? You had them then, they're just more common now. TV? Yeah, it's like radio and movies combined. Cellphones? Ok, phones are portable now. Computers? Alright, just tell them what a computer is.

They can handle it. They were human then too, not some alien species of comparative primitive idiots.

(If the argument were instead that it's unreasonable to expect someone to accurately predict the world of 100 years hence, I would agree; long-term prediction has not historically been something anyone has been all that good at. But the difficulty of predicting the future doesn't mean one couldn't handle exposure to it.)
> Jodd is set of Java micro frameworks, tools and utilities, under 1.5 MB.

Curious, what do they mean by 'micro'?
The image would definitely be user-visible.