jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is also at the low end that things get interesting. Most people get caught up in this fight over Android and iOS, so they never see that they are completely divergent platforms. Android will achieve ubiquity over the next few years. Toasters to phones to tablets to GPS units to military handhelds will all run it. The only thing that has been holding back such ubiquity so far has been Google's refusal to license the Market to devices which do not contain a "phone". If and when that changes, things will start to heat up. We already have decent $130 handsets running 2.2. How long do you think before Android is the new Symbian, with people buying "dumbphones" with Android without realising they've got it? Fragmentation be damned, it is a by-product of ubiquity.
Does this update add a front-facing camera to the iPad? ;)
"Families with incomes at higher levels, typically up to $225,000, may also qualify for financial assistance, especially if more than one family member is enrolled in college. Financial aid offers vary by family, but the financial aid expansion for 2015-16 will allow Stanford to reduce the expected parental contribution for many families at these higher income levels."
And they can probably afford enough CPA to make that happen.
If it were economically beneficial for you to liquidate your family in an insurance scam, would you do it? Some people have other values.
wtf trust is pilot good English no fake all
My wife and I sometimes head to our local library for a change of scenery. It's incredibly well designed as a relaxing place to hang out, read and study.

- Private study rooms, and a conference room anybody can book for free.

- A dedicated auditorium for lectures, events etc.

- Children sections are on the first floor, behind a separate wall, keeping the adult areas quiet.

- Teen section is its own section, behind closed doors. It looks almost like a reference section at a more traditional library, except it's just for teens to hang out in. It too has it's own dedicated section.

- A cafeteria-like snack, study area. More tables and desks for study. Only you're allowed to eat and drink in this area.

- The rest of the library looks like a college study area, desks with power, comfortable lounge chairs by bright open windows

- Periodicals and magazines are next to an open air, casual reclining spot.

- Well staffed info desks are impossible to miss. They even have teens volunteer to staff special teen desks.

- They have a bank of computers for people who need to use one.

- They host numerous events through the week, from minecraft clubs to retrogaming clubs, reading groups, guest lecturers, authors, puppet shows, story time, gardening seed exchanges, lego builds

- High speed free wi-fi

- robust support for e-book readers, tablets, streaming music, emagazines, all from the county website.

I'd like to compare it to something else, but I can't really think of anything that's quite like it, and it's amazing. It's a place people actually want to come and it's usually packed. Even in the middle of a work day, when I've gone there when working from home, it's generally full of people and far more pleasant than any coffee shop I've spent time in.

I think the reason they're successful is that rather than just being a warehouse full of organized books, like the libraries I grew up with, the local library system has dedicated itself to being a more general community communication and information resource. They provide space, light, internet (all for free), and let the activities and groups use them for any worthwhile learning activity.

What it's not

- a community center, people don't rent it out for birthdays or parties

- a school, they don't provide a school-like resource, it's more like a college study area, the county offers other robust continuing education resources for people who want to take classes (I've taken some and they're well run, rewarding and absurdly cheap)

- a hang-out, you see plenty of groups of kids, but they're there to share learning experiences, not to hang around killing time
>Why are you putting the onus of blame on OP?

Because he's actively discouraging people, rather pessimistically, from trying to improve the situation.

How did Linux get to where it is today? Was it by people saying "oh, it doesn't work, so why bother, its just all such a huge hassle" .. or was it more like "you know what would be cool? If Linux ran on this great hardware .. that'd be cool .. I'll spend some time on it".

Honestly, is this "Hacker News" or is it "Lamer News"? The folks downvoting and justifying subservience to the OSX hegemony over forward progress for the Linux collective must not realize just how nice it will be, one day soon, to be running the greatest OS ever made on the finest quality laptop hardware made, so far. Hmm .. that's rather an unusual hubris.

Disclaimer: been running Linux since day one. Had it running on my 4 Apple machines for 5+ years too. I don't see the problems a lot of folks do .. but then again, thats because I scratched the itch of wanting to escape from the OSX hegemony.
It's not an exception, there are quite a few. Not a week goes by I don't come across an app that is clearly duping people into extremely expensive subscriptions, while at the same time, developers are having apps rejected due to higher than normal pricing.
I really hope Apple will disclose its findings on this matter, in name of the transparency they're advocating.
Imagine if Apple itself states something along the lines of "we found out that the line of code responsible for the bug was planted on purpose".
Should they make such a statement? Better: COULD they make it?
Oh, God, an Arm and Hammer cat litter flash ad popped up while I was scrolling through this site, playing sound automatically.

And I see no way to silence it or close it.
For some people, a regular lift (elevator) is always going to be more convenient e.g. someone in a wheelchair, someone on crutches, someone with a mobility impairment, someone who's blind or has a guide dog. Even someone with luggage or carrying a box who can't see the floor in front of him.

A Paternoster is probably fine as long as there is also a regular lift somewhere in the building for people who can't use the Paternoster easily.
I agree, and took it one step further. Even though I grew up in LA and am co-founder of an SF-based startup, I don't live there anymore. I choose to live in Chicago for a higher quality of life and lower cost of living. My attitude is thus: I'll move back to SF when I'm rich, but when I'm rich, I won't need to move back to SF.
"ripped the phone out of her hand, saying "App/OS UI integration is the future of mobile!" & then ran to get an Uber"
Ah ok. My initial thought was that there was no chance this story was real. It combined two totally opposite kinds of people in a way that didn't make any sense.
Be aware, anybody who is thinking of securing a Trademark for their product/business etc. A Trademark is not like copyright, you must enforce it as soon as you find out about a violation or lose it. That explains why many companies get tangled up in lawsuits that might otherwise not be in their best interest (shutting down fan projects, suing partners or non-related companies, etc.).

In otherwords, you better have a legal account set aside and stuffed full of money.
Don't forget that you are quoting the "What doesn't work" section. That being said, it can still work for some people.

Regarding the madman hack: It is definitely not something that most students do. How did you come to that conclusion? I have never personally met anyone who does it (beside myself), and I know a bunch of students. However, I've heard about some successful people that use it.
Well, It is true, but they are exceptions, not the rule.

Potential solutions

1. If the author feels like he is the authority and/or is the important part of the comment, he can always declare it in the comment itself. (The profile-link can always be verified by the users, to ensure that any such claim is correct.)

2. or you can click the links of the comments.

3. or even there might a functionality implemented to show all the usernames on the thread (by default, the author names would not be shown). Later PG can see, if default off makes sense, based on the data captured and user trends (eg. if 99% people are always want to see the commenter name) .
It's reassuring precisely because it acknowledges that conundrum -- fundamental understanding often comes after a tough, rote (and uncertain) 'getting used to it.' -- so "stick with it," as it were.
More actionable advice would be to read George Polya's seminal work How to Solve it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
I just took a look and there appear to be some risks associated with this vulnerability.

If you log in to Posterous and check the "Remember me" box, it sets a cookie scoped to .posterous.com (which means it's within the scope of this XSS). That cookie does not have the HttpOnly flag set, which means it can be accessed via Javascript. I'm not sure whether the auth_token cookie has any protections against session hijacking (ie: if it's restricted to the IP that was used to log in). If it doesn't, you can steal the cookie and log in as a user.

Outside of that, the site appears to use a cookie called _sharebymail_session_id, which is scoped the same as auth_token but which is marked HttpOnly, which means it can't be accessed directly via Javascript.

In order to really exploit this vulnerability, you would need to find a way to send requests to and read responses from posterous.com, the root domain, since that's where all the functionality is defined.
I wish I knew where customers came from, but the app Store and Android Market are both black boxes.

I'm sure some people find apps from within the store (e.g. searching for "swedish") - but I expect most to come from youtube (where there are lots of GoSwedish videos) and then search for the app by name.

Update: Or maybe I just need to do more to get the word out. I sold 10 Android copies yesterday! (Thanks HN!)
> Personal achivement: - I built my own OS and C compiler

And computer.
I just can’t imagine anyone who knows how to write assembly being one of the “JSON everything” people. But who knows.

Not knocking JSON. Just thinking it wouldn’t be the right thing for this situation.
Per Wikipedia:

"As of 1 July 2019, Australia's prime minister is paid a total salary of $549,250. This is made up of the 'base salary' received by all Members of Parliament ($211,250) plus a 160 percent 'additional salary' for the role of prime minister."

I can say it doesn't seem to stop people helping out their mates or avoiding the tough issues on the job over here at least.
I’d have to have been there, seen the list of features with eng estimates and trade offs, but yes I would have happily made the call to chuck one of them if it meant a measurably higher quality product, like this massive load time improvement. Hell, that zoom-out-zoom-in animation when you switch characters probably took as much time to code as it would have to fix this bug. I think anyone with good product sense and the balls to make a priority call that might get someone upset could make the right call here.
Did you read the article? Zero features needed to be cut, this is a 30 minute fix.
A kickstarter becomes a scam the moment the project creator realises their project isn't realistic and will never be fulfilled and fail to disclose it to the backers, while keeping giving them the run around for years. Projects don't have to start as a scam to become one eventually.
They mastered it and then lost interest.
They failed to have good backwards compatibility.
Actually Detroit did start building its own subway in 1929, right before the great depression. There is no record of it on the Internet. No one in current city government knows a thing about it.

My father remembers it being built, he would have been 13. A short stretch of tunnel and the beginnings of what would have been two stations.

When I was in college in the seventies some urban explorers found an entrance. But the city managed to get it closed. The only story on it was an alt weekly, long since gone.

One of these days I am going to spend some time in the Detroit library system and dig up proof and publish it on the web.
I added the loop customization to play commands in Handel v0.1.12.

So for repeating commands you can use this syntax:

play somenotelist for 1b loop for 5

Here is your code using the new feature: https://pastebin.com/bNwUHNaM

To make this more robust, I'll be looking to add looping constructs to allow more customized looping in the future.
Honestly? At least in Poland, I get the feeling that most cities would jump on having a subway, the problem is getting it started (as for various reasons Poland isn't exactly flush with investment capacity)

Some built other alternatives to buses or shared-grade trams, for example by putting fast local trains under same ticket system (train-based local transit was very popular in UK till Beeching Axe, too), others experiment with things like separate-grade trams - cheaper than proper train-line, but still achieve separation from car traffic.

Because the same thing that gives buses flexibility and cheap start, is the thing that makes the biggest problem - sharing space with car traffic.

If there's a traffic jam, buses stop too. If something takes out part of car infrastructure, the dedicated lanes might be lost for a time, too. When Lazienkowski Bridge burned down in 2015 in Warsaw, figuring a connection that allowed one to take train or subway became crucial, as previously very fast buses (bus/taxi lanes!) would give me a commute longer than commuting from Amsterdam to London by train.
Very interesting. Coming from the java world i'm very perplex at logging with nodejs and still haven't found a solution that makes me feel comfortable: you have to throw errors and analyze the stack to get the calling method or another thing that can happen with winston is that chronological order is not guaranteed
It is a building where the DoD and all of the top military brass work. All DoD aka "military" decisions ultimately come from the Pentagon, where the final say for all things DoD reside.

Disclaimer: I never worked at the pentagon, but am a US Army veteran who was in Military Intelligence from 2001-2005.
That is the problem. Hollywood is producing the products that the broad audience wants. Instead, the author desires for large financial risks to be taken on what he wants instead, because art.
Sony Pictures is Japanese in the same way that Budweiser is Dutch.
To build it? Yes. To run it? No. Go apps don't require a runtime. The only thing necessary is distributing the platform-specific binary.
Thanks so much! I only got a brief overview of Chinese poetry in school, so getting to appreciate more is really awesome.
Thank goodness it did. The things drivers can do with rally cars is amazing. By far my favorite sport to watch. I'm sad that it didn't really catch on in the USA. The format is unlike anything that would sell commercially here.
From Westerners, Raymond Carver, he is just plain raw. I like that. From east, Molana Rumi, Sohrab Sepehri.
> the entire reality they see and what they believe to be true is heavily distorted

I have to disagree with others that this part of your comment is a bit too strong. I lived in China for two years and many people I talked to would say something like "We admire America because it is so free, our country is just so corrupt" or whisper something like "when the US says our human rights are bad, we agree."
And people can change the status according to their current needs without any hassle. Perfect.
Probably not. I just said "grep" because it's such a basic standard, I really meant "easily searchable from a command line."
Well, they could try permuting your new password in a few different ways and seeing if any of those permutations match the old hash.
I have a 3d printer, but not a Kinect. Range data is not very good at all at creating 3d models. What you really want is that plus a turntable so you can get multiple views. To get a printable model, you need a mesh with no holes. A single range image has lots of holes, so you can't really print the image without filling them by taking multiple images and matching them. That said, I do think I'll make a 3d scanner based on this thing.
And that site will more than likely be your bank to boot.
"She would love to buy an individual plan that covered more than just catastrophic hospital visits, but she can't."

I am not that familiar with the US healthcare system. Why can't she buy a different plan for herself? Is it too expensive? Or would it also kick in too late?
e.g. you like to play a lot of chess. So you COULD theoretically monetize it by making content about chess (youtube, ebooks etc.), maybe even do some events but still.. that's not the same as playing chess which is what is your hobby is about. Thus, making money with your hobby would then indeed not relate (much) to the actually fun part about the hobby. (although you can argue that working as a writer on your hobby is better than being a writer about something you're not that interested about. However, it might sour your hobby.)
I think the theory is that he no longer has access to the keys... the implication being that the authorities are in control and he has to obey a gagging order.
I think requires/concepts do a few things:

- document an interface (without making you use virtual fns or any weird tricks)

- allow you to use SFINAE without more weird tricks

So yeah, this amounts to enforcing that your class can do certain things... but that’s hugely helpful!
Nothing to see here, people, this has been already reported as a bug and hopefully be fixed soon: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11177
Amazon = AWS >= ads > ecommerce
It's anonymous with some caveats. The transaction graph is still there, it's just that there are decoy inputs/outputs which provides plausible deniability. However, over repeated transactions the plausible deniability weakens. ie. having an output to a darknet market in one of your transaction is easily explainable by bad luck, but it's present in several transactions it becomes suspicious enough that the police can start investigating you.
It's my personal observation. In my experience there is a strong difference between people that study MBA for the sake of studying MBAs and people that are engineers or have other experiencing, want to create something but feel like they're lacking from a business perspective. Those people seem to do comparatively better, and seem to have better functioning companies if they choose to run them after the MBA.
More perspective is better. I always look for counter examples and deeper into success I can least relate to. For example, I spent a lot of time learning from startups in How I Built This podcast which were non technical and check what lessons can I apply in my life? How did Ben and Jerry succeed? How did Five Guys succeed?
I guess the Katamari Dama-C++ is finally big enough to start picking up the functional programming languages. Will the ball never stop growing?
One of RMS's points is that Uber exploits its drivers by paying them low wages. I've taken several Ubers in the past month. The drivers tell me that they get 80% of the cost of the ride. One guy said that his previous company took 60%. I also met a student who said that he liked being able to work the part time hours.
Granted there are several items that ... detract from the point, but there are some real problems here and I don't think it does them justice to gloss over them because of some errant points at the beginning.

We don't see eye to eye on the identification issue, but even if we put that one issue aside I can't agree that the list of complaints doesn't hold water for me personally.

Executives stalking passengers and trolling through passenger ride data to ferret out alarming narratives crosses a line in my opinion. This starts to get into discussions of which data belongs to whom, which is a discussion that I don't think has been had yet, and I don't like the assertion of ownership over my data that many companies are making.

We agree that part of building sharing apps is building trust and accountability, but I disagree that Uber has done a good job of earning our trust or demonstrating accountability.

Edit: changed some loaded phrasing
Hey Tommy, great article, what did you do in the meetups? Give an SEO talk or use it for networking and put money behind the bar?
Ah, the sectional I was viewing on flightaware.net didn't show that note. I was just reading[1] how a similar aerostat is flown from Cudjoe Key, Florida by the DEA. That one appears to be marked in its own 4 mile wide zone.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Key,_Florida

[2]: http://skyvector.com/?ll=24.664298,-81.482339&chart=301&zoom...
The current incarnation of the bots are programmable with JavaScript. We would like to potentially extend them to include some visual programming as well, like MIT Scratch or Blockly. The lack of updates on the site is just a bit of laziness on my part, we have done events with the robots a few times in the last couple of months. If you have an EV3 kit and are interested in trying it out, let me know.
"until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed."

Hand-waving pleb magnets like this (the statement, not the person stating) show a painfully inept understanding of how autonomous labor is going to work.

Once Moore's Law crosses the processing power/price ratios where robots can perform "good enough" object acquisition and manipulation, (pre-Singularity phase) no nation on earth can deflate their currency fast enough to stop charlatans from promoting wholesale human elimination instead of inflationary appeasement.

Meaning, after the "good enough" threshold is crossed, nations will engage in inflationary policies to bide time while desperately seeking a clearing price for human labor. But they won't find it for most labor because of two factors:

1.) At the most efficient time usage (under politically impossible configurations and assuming equal productivity), in which people work 18 hour days forever and utilize 6 hours of sleep, 1 machine's labor equals 1.25 human's labor. Typically, 1 machine's labor equals 3 human's labor. Accounting for productivity enhancement, the comparison will be about as worthwhile to make as comparing engines to horses today. (My drone is 500 plebpower?)

2.) It takes 12 years (again, under politically impossible standards) and ~18,000 pounds of food to make a human productive. It takes a drone a few weeks to be born out of a few gallons of fuel, and a few pounds of materials.

The real cost of labor is staggering. And if you think people are stupid enough to fall for the trap (again) to use the productive gains of a new technology to do nothing more than cycle it all back into a mechanism to breed more humans into existence, I think you will be in for a rude awakening when human costs drop so low from endless inflation appeasement that using said drones to harvest these surplus humans for their physical materials becomes wildly profitable. And if the charlatans can make even HackerNews believe North Korea was behind the Sony hacks and clamor for invasion, just imagine how easy it will be to manufacture some social justice narrative for mining populations centers for biomaterials. ("Those evil sexists need to be mined! For great equality!")

TL;DR: Once the price of human labor drops to sub-zero levels due to political appeasement via inflation to counter "good-enough" drones, it will be more profitable to crush human organization than promote it.
Neuromancer was spectacular. Count Zero was ok. I don't really remember anything about Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Everything after that may be written as well or better, but they simply aren't stories I want to spend my time on.