jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love Chicago, you just can't beat this city for the kind of value you get for the price. The closest competitor is New York in terms of food and culture, but the costs are astronomically higher.

When I'm contacted by a job recruiter for a position that pays more, but requires moving to somewhere like Mountain View, I will rarely entertain the idea. Sure, I'll fly into the office, I'll do it quite regularly actually, but there's no way I'm picking up and moving to a city with considerably less to offer, yet which costs substantially more.

I understand the value of social capital, and working with people face to face. But how often does that really need to happen? As developers, our job is ultimately to write code, and that can happen anywhere.
OK, here's plan B. You just start a new network and seed it with a copy of the old block chain (to bribe old users into at least trying it out). No need for elaborate and potentially expensive takeovers. Then you advertise the new network as the one sanctioned by Your Friendly Government.

What does the OP's elaborate, hostile, expensive plan buy you over plan B? That users will have to opt-out of your branch, rather than opt-in? Is that wise PR?
So, this is less of an observation and discussion about the perception that technology has to have a certain set of trendy doodads (for instance, it seems every startup has to deal with mobile or social networking or else it's insta-fail). Instead, it's more a very short two paragraph advertisement for a service that has absolutely nothing to do with the summary line.
Pretending to be human is problematic if the server thinks you are a robot because of User-Agent, IP subnet (dynamic IP cloud systems) and DNS look-up patterns (CNN and similar sites).

So "behaving like a human" on HN might result in an IP ban because /x is denied in robots.txt. And this gets really funny when you get banned randomly because of dynamic IP addresses in cloud infrastructure.
Karma breeds elitism. But low or negative karma individuals may preserve diversity, preventing fitness plateau, stagnation and, as you suggest, perhaps decline.

Would be nice to be able to fork HN, like git, with parameters of the forkers choosing. Kind of a deme model, where you could possibly merge your fork back into HN if it had enough meta-karma.

An example of a simple fork, would be to limit posting to once per user per thread. This might concentrate the contribution of certain overactive users? Would be good to be able to run the experiment, in a fork, and abandon if it was not fruitful.

Another fork might be a PG-free zone, deus abscondicus... this might prevent the suppression of dissent? Because users would not use votes to magnetically align with the Founder.
could you spot plagiarism?
It's proprietary and owned by Facebook. If that doesn't scare you away, nothing will.
Magic is not possible. Whatever the HPU does is still constrained by physics. They can't explain away the engineering problem with an invented new name for a device we know nothing about except that it defies the laws of physics WRT computation.
I've never used a Kinect; how does the promo video live up to reality? It's looks almost identical to what I still assume Kinect is like, minus perhaps some of the highest fidelity parts like the skateboarding and soccer which I imagine have been attempted but turn out too clunky to be worthwhile. Am I wrong?
Would love mongo import :)
I think your screen is to small for the message window. There is a button below it which dismisses the white window and enables the scanning.
Seconded. Please stop writing articles that look like they're aimed at 14 year olds.

EDIT: If you feel the need to use cutesy graphics to get your point across, at least make them static. Animated gifs are incredibly distracting when trying to read anything more involved than a tweet, or a silly meme macro.
Part 2 of the article is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/412131/
Scenario 1: Your DVD player is connected to your TV with a cable.

Scenario 2: A DVD player is connected to your TV via several cables (The internet).

I don't see a great difference there, other than the length of the cable.
At the end you could start over and do it again. If you published to Twitter the could count that as 1 person, you may of done it on the NYTimes site 5 or 10 times before doing that though.
Or they just charge $1000/copy for 'rental' DVDs with a license saying that the retail DVDs can't be rented.

That's what used to happen in VHS days - the rental copy to blockbuster was $100, then 6 months later the retail copy came out for $10.
Its easy to scrape the data post mortem from twitter users, since NYT gave them specific links. I imagine they didnt think to record users data until it was too late: twitter happened to have a log available.
Seems like in-flight fds should still count against the sending process's open file limit. (So that all fds are counted against some processes open file limit).
Seems like a good case to me, what do you have a problem with?
GNUstep being more or less a re-implementation of Cocoa (and prior to that OpenStep). I'm not suggesting any copyrights have been infringed upon (indeed, I'm an avid user of GNUstep), but I always wondered if GNUstep would fall foul of the same kind of patent threats that Mono detractors seem to feel it is at risk from if it ever gained commercial traction. In fact, Apple has already made legal threats against manufacturers of Android phones, Android having nothing to do with Cocoa or Cocoa Touch.
> at the time the design decision was made, Tesla was still a startup.

If you're going to sell a product, the Model S, at the same price range as a BMW M5, 7-series, or the equivalent Mercedes S class, it had better be a premium quality product. Start-up or no.
Sold for a high price and andertised as a working solution is equivalent to a working product, in the mind of a normie.
And Walmart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728502
I often "see" and get the feeling of motion from music, but it is way more abstract than this. Those videos showing a moving shape or character in time with a baseline, or percussion are familiar to me, in this sense, if that helps to understand what I am trying to convey.

Smells will also invoke shapes, and maybe odd colors when they are very strong.

I get the impression this work was done by someone who has not experienced synesthesia. Or perhaps a very different kind.

Smells and sounds triggered other impressions for me as a kid. For a long while, it grew more dormant. Muted.

An acid trip with musicians one weekend in my early 20's brought most of it back. And the experiences have endured since then.

Almost seems like my mind was congealing in some basic way, interrupted by the trip. Epic trip, BTW. Great people, trust and all the basics were there and experiencing music with those people under such an influence was amazing. I treasure that weekend. Have never seen reason to repeat it.

Down deep, I know that was one of those, "all things in moderation" tests. I plan on passing. And am glad I had the experience.
That's a $7.50 charge, this is cheaper. I do however use those methods if the client won't pay in crypto.
The point about skill is that an unskilled/inexperienced user is typically going to have more trouble navigating a keyboard based interface than a mouse based one - nothing about how easy or hard it is to gain that skill.

Agree context switching between both too much is a pain.
coinward has a nuanced opinion
once you make it open source, how do you plan to make money with it? if you will dual license, how will you monitor commercial use by companies without a license? how will you monitor and prevent people ripping off (part of) your code and publishing it under another license? or integrating parts into a closed source commercial product?

consider that most people will not contribute and will seek ways to profit from it without paying you.

you could provide support or services but that will not scale.
Facinating article! I wonder how it would compare to, say, the PDP-8/E.
No that’s not quite right. Nobody is going to do anything if the bully shoots the weak kid.
Yeah, maybe posting it on Hacker News was a bad idea. I should have tried somewhere with fewer visitors first.
Yeah that is in the same ballpark as (and probably more on the money than) my suggestion. If he gets a few more big shareholders on his side then he could simply put in proposals and sway the retail investors into following.
Fascinating! Seems like that could be an effective way for hobbyists to attach BGA components to a PCB without a reflow oven - any idea if that’s been tried?
While gymnastics is a great all-around sport, it's sadly one of many which is not viable to do your whole life. Gymnastics is very hard on your body with tendon and ligament injuries being commonplace. Most gymnasts retire in their early twenties at the latest, often when faced with the medical reality of either giving up the sport or having joint pain for the rest of their life. While the sport is a marvel to see as a spectator, it comes at the cost of wearing out the body of the performer over a fairly short period of time.
There is nothing wrong with investing in science per se. But there is a choice how to spend your money within science. If you are already a rich country, sure go ahead, burn money on CERN or whatever it is. It probably won't provide a tangible benefit for your people, but it is worth it for everyone in the long run. Nobody disputes that. But this depends on the economic reality in your country. Most people who responded to my comment basically ignored that reality. It's about priorities.
In short: money, money, and money.

Ruby has what, a handful (if that?) of people at Heroku who work on Ruby some of the time? Not sure if Matz does full-time or not.
I don't "expect" anything, I'm giving reasons why startssl might not be an option.
This is the story adapted into the movie Spare Parts [1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3233418/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The updates for Android 4.3 are in Android 4.4.x and 5.0.x. Blame the manufacturers and carriers for devices still running 4.3.
Yeah I worked there in the early 2000's for maybe 6-8 months. It was miserable. Having any technical knowledge or interest in learning new things was zero help at all. All they cared about was how many new cell contracts you sold and as this was the only way to make more than minimum wage, we were quickly broken down and begrudgingly pushed those contracts and upsold those extras.

The whole place was terribly hostile to employees and we actually had to drive out of town once a month for "sales meetings" where a bunch of middle management patted each other on the back and talked about the new acronyms for whatever their current dipshit strategy was to squeeze a few more points of growth onto this month's charts.
>there is no reason that efforts to develop are better flu vaccination system need to be traded off against efforts to assure the reach of the current system

I'm not sure that this is true. From a purely market-driven perspective, pharma is able to successfully move this product each year, without risk of liability, and without additional R&D. As long as there is a PR machine around this current product that continues to "reach" and drive customers, then what's the incentive to engage in expensive R&D needed to develop the next round?
Do you have a proposal? Something like "code signing" for HTML/JS would be doable in theory, but where do you get the keys from? If you re-use the certificate authority infrastructure, you've only complicated things; a web-of-trust may work for some early adopters, but look at PGP's lack of mainstream success to see how that would work out...
When I thought of this example, I had imagined Mint.com querying my credit card company to ask what the due date was and whether or not I had already paid the bill.
I'm not an expert in this area, but since homomorphic encryption exists (though is still impractical) and obfuscators do not exist (http://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto2001/21390001.pdf), it follows that the former can't be used to construct the latter.
I love The Onion's take on our work-life imbalance:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/wild-unattached-twenties-sp...
His implementation leaves much to be desired, but there are better ways of doing it.

http://pastebin.com/JiEXp6Za
I just recommended a Droid 2/X/whatever the latest version is to a client because they advertise support for Exchange. Supposedly it works great, etc. etc. Anecdotes seemed to indicate it worked fine on Froyo so I had her get something with that.

Then she emails me saying she can't get it to work, and apparently the Moto ROM has some issue that can make it difficult to get Exchange support working. Makes me seriously bummed out and feel bad inside.

My wife and I have G1s running CyanogenMod 6.1. Mine works pretty well, but my wife is having pretty constant issues, and has with all the ROMs we've installed. These include the wrong app launching, text messages going to the wrong people, unbearable slowness, and more. The only conclusion I can reach there is that her phone is defective.
You're only overworked if you do activities each day at work that don't strengthen you. If you're doing stuff you love why would you want to go home and try to find a hobby or something else to do in the rest of your time that you also enjoy as much?

This is why you see many people "lost" in retirement. Not because they didn't have hobbies but because those hobbies were never as fun to them as what they were able to do at work.
Just as a piece of context, this video was created as part of a competition called Ludum Dare. LD is a competition where a bunch of indie devs and hobbyists get together and make something in a short time frame (48 hours in this case) and share what they made.
Similarly OS X 10.4 Tiger and later bundle a utility called Grab which does selection, window, screen and timed captures.
I don't know how they did, specifically, but I could easily imagine it being like Google Maps. You need only load the tiles you see (and a few surrounding ones for good measure).
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trial+balloon - "An idea or a plan advanced tentatively to test public reaction."

Read the document's self-description quoted above.
Snipping Tool is great - I use it every day for mockups. Find a web page, change it around with firebug, take a snip and send it along ...
I've had the exact same experience. Admittedly, I was usually taking screenshots of the iPhone to share amusing UI bugs... but still.
If by "your company" you mean the $DAYJOB, then it's "other." My dayjob company makes an enterprise document management system that is meant to serve as a repository for all sorts of documents and reports and stuff. And since we eat our own dogfood (more or less) we use it internally.

OTOH, if you mean "my startup oriented activities" then the answer is a combination of miscellaneous files scattered all over the file system on my laptop, email spread across two or three accounts, some documents in Google Documents, a Google Wave or two, and all sorts of notebooks and whiteboards full of scribbles and crap, spread around my apartment. :-)
If your idea is just a CRUD type and not tech intensive (like a search engine or something) i would say just hire someone from odesk to create the prototype...You can create a MVP for just $10k and may spend another $10-20k until you find a product/market fit.

Yes this initial code will be messy and not scalable. But after you zero in on the right working model it will be easy to hire good programmer(s) to rewrite the entire thing from scratch!
Why only the eastern front? Pilots of the RAF were completely exhausted during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz since they had such a numerical disadvantage compared to the german air force.
The technical solution wasn't even tried, I will agree with you after that fails. Also for example subsidy for Firefox and other independent browsers (of Google/MS/...) could be tried. Law should be the last resort.
Not dissing your comment, but I am not a believer in any "compile to" language because ultimately when things go wrong you are forced to deal with the underlying language in any case. Rather become an expert in the underlying language and learn to deal with its idiosyncrasies.
The article keeps using the word "whistleblower", which I think may be inaccurate. A whistleblower is someone who breaks secrecy in order to expose something that's wrong. But leaking 260,000 state department cables just seems like leaking for the sake of leaking.

The ethics of this are, at least, peculiar.
Not enough vowels ;)
Yes, it probably is too serious. And the Soviets were about as disgusting as the Nazis [1]. (Not to mention how the Chinese communists turned out.)

War makes strange bedfellows.

[1] They were still brave soldiers--probably on all sides.
> I'd consider a library to handle i18n in javascript to be extraneous, thus the comment.

It may be extraneous, but it has nothing to do with the size of jQuery core: it's a plugin, not part of the actual library. jQuery has a plugin system that lets people add features to extend its functionality.

Actually, most of the posts that mention jQuery are really plugins, not features of jQuery itself.

The list of things actually included in the latest release is in the API docs. It's actually not a very long list of functions; I expect most of the code bloat is for dealing with browser quirks.

http://api.jquery.com/
When I learn to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaoLbKWMwoU

I'll definitely use Mixlr.
They aren't IPS, but i saw one at Best Buy and it is really good. It's up there with the MacBook Air on color and viewing angles. Definitely the two best displays I've seen on a laptop in a really long time.
Indeed it's a bit brief... more of an overview. I'll definitely try to find some time to work on something more detailed.
Amazing seeing the chaos of some of the wet races, the early laps of Brazil 2012 is a pretty good example.
Author seems to think creator coin price is tied to some magical measure of a person’s influence. It’s not. Price goes up when people buy the coin and price goes down when people sell it, that’s it.
It's probably more related to the fact that the basic building blocks in Factorio are much higher level than in Minecraft. You create these out of wires (adders), arithmetic combinators (any other arithmetic operator), and decider combinators (comparisons). Additionally, you have 2 "channels" for data (red and green wires), and "data" is actually a vector of numbers (since each wire carries a "count" for each "item type").
I guess the question is how precise monitoring and reactionary system Amazon wants build for this, for an arguably marginal use case anyway; they do already provide Amazon Budgets for automatic actions when exceeding budgets, but it's quite not as real-time. And then making the niche cases favor the customer is an invitation to abuse.

But least all Amazon accounts are tied to a credit card, so abusing in a scale similar to e.g. the GitHub case is not that easy.
If you're an excellent coder with social anxiety wouldn't you rather demonstrate your skills in interview rather than pontificate?

One of the best interviewees I ever had was super quiet and softly spoken initially but he shone when i gave him a laptop and a task. Moreover, he opened up afterwards.

(agree that whiteboards are terrible, but I hate take home tests - 90% of them are ridiculously overscoped. "This 16 hour test should be doable in 3 hours")
The UI could be updated by magicsquared.net.
It's a little inconsistent.
About half of the users of JetBrains Software have a development environment on linux (beating MacOS). And about 60% of the projects that the developers code are being targeted for linux (presumably for Servers, but still a lot)
Source: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020/
I hope this is a joke, but..

Go a head, take OSX and Windows 7 and compare between them, see how much it takes Windows 7 to crash and tell you: "do you want to send us a report?".

The report should be sent automatically and analyzed by computers before it reaches humans.
In my understanding, Radeon Instinct cards are not doing that bad. Yes, they're not supported by CUDA, but they're not slouching either.
I always thought this is why things in your mind are safe. The reason never seemed philosophical to me, simply that there is no way to prove the difference between not knowing and not telling.
Great project by MS research: good to see they picked a great license! See http://rise4fun.com for more great projects like that.
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Good catch.

This would make a good case study in Heisenbugs. GC delays that only happen when you're collecting GC statistics.
Andrew has spent a lot of time and energy compiling this reference. I don't think it is unreasonable for him to get an email address in exchange. We all love free content but we frankly are not entitled to it.
Is React Native for iOS able to take advantage of JavaScriptCore's JIT compiler on any version of iOS? Or can it only use the interpreter?

If the latter, I wonder if the React Native developers have considered using Duktape rather than JavaScriptCore. Duktape might be better for memory usage, since it uses reference counting, with mark-and-sweep GC only being necessary to break cycles.
I think it would be equivalent to at-most-once delivery, unless it also guaranteed that you could always spend the currency once.
Yeah no issue except the muggers, rapists, murderers, and other criminal predators you have to fend off.

As someone who lived in NYC most of my life, hold on to that pepper spray and that 4" pocket knife real tight.

And make sure no cops see it, because they love collecting souvenirs and couldn't care less about the legality of your self-defense items.

Now, with the police budget cut $1B dollars, crime is skyrocketing.

Gotta love how this kind of stuff can happen in broad daylight with little no immediate security response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaF2AdlXAus

Gotham is back baby!

And if we aren't gonna talk about crime, let's talk about that beautifully sludge smelling runoff from the subway tracks whenever it rains. Quick way to a nice putrid hair conditioning!

And let's not talk about the condition of the tracks and how much electricity is being wasted by the poorly lubricated trains and tracks. Those thunderous sounds when the subway passes? That is the sound of energy being wasted, being converted to sound energy instead of locomotion.

I hate everything about NYC except the melting pot of intellectual diversity that it is.

P.S. I still live here, so don't tell me that my perspective is an outsider's one.