jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No leading zeros?! [1] I'm pretty sure most math/engineering fields recommend leading zeros for readability, e.g, NIST: "For numbers less than one, a zero is written before the decimal marker. For example, 0.25 s is the correct
form, not .25 s." [2]

If it's to make the resulting css file a byte smaller, shouldn't be the preprocessor be able to strip it out?

[1]: http://sass-guidelin.es/#zeros
[2]: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf
Bill Gates has essentially "won the game" of capitalism.

He has spent time as "the richest man in the world".

There's nothing else he can do in that sphere.

Like many uber-rich men before him, he's spending his later years giving money away to help mankind.

Personally, I suspect that as people get older and start thinking of their own mortality, some people want to make sure that when they step into the great unknowable beyond, they do so with some good deeds under their belts.

Call it Heaven, Valhalla, Stovokor, Shangri La or whatever else you like. He can't take it with him and if it makes him feel like it's giving him a chance to get in by helping the needy, I say good for him.

His financial resources give him the ability to help more people than 99.99999% of us. I won't automatically ascribe nefarious motives to him doing so.
You're right that you may get a lot of noisy authentication spam texts. Alas, none of the companies involved seem to care. Judging by their popularity, most of their users don't seem to care much either.

Is a captcha enough? I've never worked in bot/spam mitigation for a large public platform before, so I don't really know. Based on how universal phone number requirements are for these services, and how much trouble they seem to have gone to in order to block using easily purchased numbers, I'm going to guess that captchas aren't enough.
It is kind of impossible to say unless you provide a sense of what their compensation is. I do get the distinct impression though that you feel you would be better off without them and that is likely an important little voice to listen to.

The worst case scenario will be that you have already given them 50% of the company (or any % really). Have you? You will certainly be required to articulate ownership explicitly as part of any "round".
Full disclosure: lost a fair bit of money on this whole debacle.

It seems like the short squeeze ended fairly early in the price escalation, and everything that followed was mainstream media advertising one of the largest pump and dump schemes of the century.

There's a large following of "bag holders" concocting conspiracy theories about stock ownership and future squeezes, and there might be, but that jumping to $450 was retail investors creating a huge ponzi scheme.

I doubt we'll ever get the full story about what happened, but a lot of people lost a lot of money in what were probably their first purchases in the stock market.
Only Fools and Horses is legendary still in the UK. There is a classic scene where Del leans casually on a bar which is opened a few seconds earlier and falls through it. Unless your friends are toddlers, it is very unlikely that they have not seen it - even if they don't know what it is. Another classic scene is when Del and Rodney ... search:"del rodney chandelier".

Also you should be able to out any Brit over the age of say 40 (possibly younger) simply by saying "four candles" and look to see who starts giggling.
People will think twice about posting threats, child porn, and other illicit things when they have some skin in the game. This definitely cuts down on moderation requirements.
Are jobs where developers make $7k per month that common in Poland, though?
There is little surprise this best ever European investment comes from the edge of the EU, from Romania.

A corrupt country with plenty of laws but which are laxly applied, it offers enough freedom and opportunity to still allow innovation and creation.

While the old, Western Europe is busy making up rules and barriers against much envied high-tech US successes, in Romania the American dream is still alive. While unions and never ending worker rights suffocate private initiative in the West, in the East meritocracy is still a thing (when not subsumed by corruption).

And while the West sees the Internet as a dangerous medium that must be reined and brought under control, at the edge of the Empire it is still seen as a Wild West, a land of opportunity where anybody can stake his ground and make his money. Sometimes that means scams and malware but sometimes something good may come up.

Because you can't have one without the other - you can't have reward without the risk. The more you try to control, the more you try to pacify, the less success and peaks you have. The more rules and regulations you impose, the less innovation and creation you get.
For the benefit of those who can't/don't want to watch the video, can someone summarize what Lessig's "cause" is?

EDIT: More specifically, I am wondering why he's calling for the help of "technically enabled" people. What is the relevance of technology here?
No. I think cleaning up, manually or automatically, after objects go out of scope is not the same as garbage collecting. "Garbage" here implies objects that linger beyond their usage scope, from construction to destruction, and now have become garbage taking up memory that can only be reclaimed by an extraneous routine, ie the GC.
http://www.howtogeek.com/141953/how-to-encrypt-your-android-...
Some people see the normal or basic state of affairs as one in which any employer can hire any employee in the world ... Other people see the normal or basic state of affairs as one in which people can only seek employment in their own countries of origin

No. Most people simply compare plans for change with the status quo, with what actually is. And to me, that seems like the most reasonable starting point.
When I was asked to send my resume to Google I fired up Emacs, wrote one page of previous positions and what I worked on there, and one page on what my interests are. Both professional and spare time interests. I spent about 15 minutes writing that resume, read through it once and then emailed it to Alan Eustace.

I don't remember if I even mentioned which university I had attended and whether or not I had finished a degree. Nor did I make a single mention of what programming languages I know or any of the tedious stuff people tend to use for bulking up their CV.

(I was told that Jeff Dean, who was one of my interviewers, said that he couldn't wait to meet someone who writes software, races cars, welds and has just finished a course in logging timber using an good old-fashioned chainsaw)
Synopsis for Episode 6: In this episode, Kristine Lauria, the country manager Elance-oDesk in Singapore joined us for a conversation on her interesting work in building and managing communities in Singapore (TheList.SG and Walkabout.SG). Starting from San Francisco, she told the story of her adventures in Asia through her blog: UrbanHikers. After settling in Singapore, she created two major initiatives which have infused the culture of community building and engagement in the Singapore entrepreneurial ecosystem (and they are still in running today): TheList.SG and Walkabout.SG. She also discussed her thoughts on Blk 71 and the startup real estate in Singapore, best practices on community building and engagement and on a larger scale, on her thoughts about other rising entrepreneurial ecosystems across Southeast Asia.
UTF-16 covers the full Unicode space just like UTF-8. You're thinking of UCS-2 (limited to plane 0) as implemented by Windows.
This is not a Java bug.
I don't think so. I think that at the extreme (say, the consistency of peanut butter), the amount of force you expend simply in inserting and extracting your arms (that is, not in the direction that propels you forward) becomes excessive.
There's something about human nature where we definitely prefer to make recurring payments.

I think I'd rather pay a one time fee for software. My fear (and I doubt this is only me) is that I'll forget about it and wind up paying for it long after I've used it. Great for the services I pay for, but bad for me.

Is there any software you pay a recurring monthly fee for? If so, what is it? And if not, why do you think that is?

Consider a hypothetical example: You can pay $50 once for Textmate, or $8/mo. Which would you prefer? How about $4/mo?
This leads me to think that Free Software, while a good, ambiguous ideal, can't be made into a strict moral system because it's impossible.

Stallman is right on both counts. Software running on another computer isn't unfree to you, you just have to be careful what you send to it. And, there's really no difference between that and having a server running proprietary software in your living room. Or on a guest user account on the same computer. Really if you treat proprietary software as a dangerous black box it's no different from interacting with the outside world. So, unless you never send data to the outside world, you can't reach the ideal.
FWIW, that other product has since lowered their price to be more comparable to QLab, and all those recent figures hold in a world of more price parity.
"...as little contact with non-technical people, with one exception..."

Meaning: when it comes to love, don't shy away from people just because they're non-technical.
A really weird side effect of this is that there are "objective" tools for comparing the dynamic range of different releases.[1] Vinyl releases will consistently measure much better and have "nicer" looking waveforms, even if they were mastered identically.[2]

[1] http://dr.loudness-war.info/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AE9dL5FG8
Indeed you're correct, and even orbiter dicta in the Supreme Court (nee House of Lords Appellate Committee) has suggested that Parliamentary Sovereignty is not as solid as one might suggest. However, that's never formed part of precedent.

All that said, the scope for the Supreme Court disregarding the express will of Parliament is incredibly narrow, and that scope seems only to really be "access to justice".
In my experience, uTorrent/mac tends to have better performances than Transmission/mac.

Still looks and feels pretty not nice (though it has much improved since the early days), so I'm staying with Transmission for now.

Also, uTorrent is much lighter on disk (uTorrent.app 4MB, Transmission.app 22.3MB) and a bit lighter on memory (private/real/virtual 7.9/24.5/50.9 vs 14.4/25.9/61.1 unloaded in both cases)
It would enhance my daily life by reducing my exposition to advertising, which I consider an unmitigated nuisance (a mix of freeriding, deceit and propaganda).
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grabop/id1478285475
Rust has an equivalent to `typename`, and it even requires it more often- the turbofish.
HN does not use markdown, otherwise a lot more formatting would work; it's four leading spaces to code block something, and asterisks for italics, and that's it AFAIK
Having helped build a product based on Google cloud print I can only say I'm not sad.

At the time it had a ton of political backing, and so we were kind of compelled to use it despite the fact that 1/ it was a nightmare from an authentication perspective for our use case, 2/ it had "I've forgotten how to count that low" rate limits, and 3/ didn't map cleanly onto anything we were trying to do.

Nevertheless, we wound up shoehorning it in at the insistence of both that team and our management until it predictably failed without support, at which point it became a crisis.

May something better replace it, but I won't be shedding any tears for what I saw.
Good news, they're backpedaling. Just got this in a support request:

>We really appreciate your feedback, and we hear your frustration. We're sorry for the impact this is having on your ability to communicate with your team and on your overall productivity. We made a mistake by forcing everyone into this feature without providing an opt-out for customers like you: people for whom the existing behavior was working just fine.

>We've started working on a preference that will let you return to the previous message composer. We don't have a specific release date to share right now — it's this team's top and only priority, however, and we expect to have it available on the desktop within a couple of weeks, with Android following shortly thereafter.

>We will follow up with another note when this option is available to you, and we'll include instructions on how to enable it.

>Again, we're sorry for the disruption and we're grateful for the feedback. We missed the mark on this feature! We will do our best to learn from this and avoid similar mistakes in the future.
I know, I used expense trackers but they are not pretty good to track net worth, because of this I did track net worth in excel before creating the app)
The only way standard of living goes down is if, and to the extent, the replacement technology costs more than the existing technology -- even after it's being deployed with economies of scale. And that's the minimum amount we can pay in order to cause it to actually happen regardless.

Since the alternatives are very close to cost competitive already, that isn't a huge hit if any, and greater economies of scale may even invert it and increase standard of living once they hit critical mass. All the tax does is cause people to have a preference for the new technology over the old one when it would have otherwise been about even.

And by the time the dividend goes to zero because nobody is buying fuel anymore, that also means that nobody is paying the tax anymore either. The only difference is that then every car is electric, which by that point cost about the same or less to own than gasoline cars traditionally did.
So would you rather HN display points on comments?
Probably because it and the accompanying crystal are 1) marked up 100% relative to the comparable equivalents on e.g. Amazon and 2) seem to be aimed squarely at homeopathic "alternative" "medicine", within which 4096Hz tuning forks and quartz crystals and essential oils are all the rage.

In Kondo's defense, though, at least the product descriptions stick with vague weasel words like "believed to help restore a sense of balance" instead of actually making borderline-FDA-enforceable medical claims like snake^Wessential oil peddlers do.
if you go like 5 min back in the stream it seems very fluid, living 5min in the past is worth it to have a fluid stream :)
Same, not 100 meg, but should be more than enough.

Also, you can see how big an influence was Steve Jobs for the tech world.
You can watch it without flash -- at least it works perfectly on my phone.
That's correct. Prices for the first iteration of this project is limited to a handful of major registrars[1]. I'll be adding more over the upcoming weeks (suggestions welcome).

[1] http://tld-list.com/registrars
This is really great!

A couple notes for anyone trying it: 'Notes' has to be running & there has to be an existing note with the first line 'Terminal Note'. Both could be handled if anyone wanted to make it more robust.

This will be great for shooting specific tidbits of info from my work computer to my iPhone (which aren't connected via iCloud).
Some embedded devices actually cannot send or receive fragmented UDP packets, and some even have a 500ish byte packet size limit.
In a few words CLAP features:

- per sample and ramp automation

- per note automation

- you can play a note at any frequency

- extensible design

- preset browsing

- parameters grouping

- event based

- the plugin can say which parameters are used and which aren't

- the plugin can dynamically add new parameters

- the plugin can expose multiple ports configuration, including repeatable sidechain input which lets the host connect any number of inputs to the plugin, and name those inputs. It is useful for an analyzer.

- The plugin can inform the host that it does not need to process the next block, like when all the voices are off. It will help to save a lot of CPU on big project when you have hundreds of plugin instances idle.

- The interface is very easy to understand and use, anyone can get started from the example synthesizer and host.
There are a couple of libraries listed below. Would using any of them make life easier with ElasticSearch + Python?

- https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-py (low level lib, from ES)

- https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl-py (high level lib, from ES)

- https://github.com/mozilla/elasticutils (high level lib from Mozilla)

There are a few more, but they are either obsolete or don't have much traction. There's also django-haystack, but that's specific to django.
Regardless of what we think about Facebook, the talk looks not good as a minister.
Did you try https://github.com/Redocly/redoc ?
Ok, we'll put that in the title.
It's great to see such a significant improvement, but it goes to show just how limiting the CGI era architecture really is.

A modern persistent web apps running in Python/Java/Ruby/etc is able to perform preparatory work at startup in order to optimize for runtime efficiency.

A CGI or PHP app has to recreate the world at the beginning of every request. (Solutions exist to cache byte code compilation for PHP, but the model is still essentially that of CGI.) Once your framework becomes moderately complex the slowdown is painful.
I wish!

$100/mo cap would save a lot of these accounts from being hacked. My mistake was not unique, and if you browse around on Google you will find other authors who have had the same issues.
Your comment just sparked an idea for me.

I keep a cooking journal where I write down the effects of a particular iteration, but I don't do the same for programming. I think I might start doing similar for programming excercises.
I'll keep a log and have a series of "recipes" that I iterate on and record the results. It should be both fun and help increase my skill set.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/expenditures/tables/table_03.asp...

$10,300. That is what we actually spend per pupil as a nation.

Look here: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/expenditures/tables/table_01.asp

See the large variance in state and local spending? Much of that is inequality.

To address your question: your assertion is factually incorrect. Some cities spend more in inner city schools, and some spend less. The real inequalities lie in rural schools.
There's a TechCrunch meetup in KL coming up: http://www.meetup.com/TechCrunch/.
I predict that a 8x6 or approximate tablet with multitouch and 10 hour or more battery life will be produced soon.

Both the iPhone 4G and the HTC Evo are plays for doctor's money. The larger or more detailed screens of these devices can still fit in coat pockets.
They gave me mine back. It's useless without a unique ribbon connector though.
From talking to the mathy-side CS faculty in my department (UofC), the crackpots all think they've solved it. Genuinely, honestly, and completely.

These faculty complain about getting e-mail spam and sometimes even visits and phone calls out of the blue from people who claim to have solved it and want their proofs checked.
Famous last words "a reactor melt down isn't possible". Russian disasters aside, the Fukushima meltdown happened because the backup power needed to pump water to keep the core cool as the plant shut down failed.

Now, it's not a far stretch to imagine that a CME event causes a power station shut down, as you describe, but without the generators working to keep the reactor cool as it fully shuts down you have a disaster on your hands.

Furthermore chances of this sort of thing happening are increased when the whole planet is affected.

As for hospitals, lots of things came to mind including hospitals. Just in my mind a nuclear disaster seemed to have a much higher potential for wiping out lives.
As long as you get one with 16GB RAM you’ll be okay. The SSD in 2015 MBPs can also be upgraded - MacSales sells complete DIY kits. I knew I was going this route and managed to find a 16GB RAM/128GB SSD and just upgraded to the 2TB drive[0]. It screams.

[0]: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3DAPT4MB20K/
No, but there was - it's since been taken down[0].

To me, the wording and lack of detail in original post, the apparent lack of understanding of clauses agreed upon in the Ts&Cs, the admission to using the keyword 'monkey' for one's app, when this is a known (admittedly: lesser so in many circles) product, along with the implied no-wrong doing with comparisons to how allegedly other brands do not mind similar, makes me think this could likely be someone learning the hard way why keyword stuffing isn't a thing. But I might be wrong, I often am.

But something certainly smells a little bit fishy to me, in all honesty.

It's a bit like: "Can I really not use the brand name of a competitor's app in my App Store keywords? Really? Even though it is plainly stated in the agreed upon terms and conditions, what, really?". I don't really get it. It seems rather naive to me. But hey, I'm getting old. (Hey kids: gerroff my lawn already!)

Called out, multiple times apparently, for keyword stuffing using competitors terms, when that plainly isn't allowed in the agreement - not a winning strategy. Would be somewhat high-risk if a business were to be relying on that, no?

https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-the-monkey-ap...
It is a little disappointing to see npr resorting to internet ad spam style headlines. Unless of course this truly is the chariot my archeologist does not want me to know about.
Has anyone tried spacevim
> This suggests airlines don't realize they are selling experiences to customers rather than just hauling potatoes around the country

Are they? Time and time again low cost companies (what's a codename form the hauling potatoes ones) are successful, every place they offer their services.

I suspect you are wrong on this one.
You'd like this read: https://danluu.com/input-lag/

And it's only worse in modern systems that round-trip EVERYTHING to the "cloud" for reasons understood only by Google.
How far have we come to even consider poisoning the data on our own devices, because we know it will be harvested and resold by 3rd parties.
The feedback indicator for volume adjust on iOS reduces to toothpick thin finger nail high placed immediate to the button, not an improvement on the squircle that used to occupy half the screen. That deterioration in usability rests on the shoulders of higher pay grades political infighting, Apple beige era bigcorp bad old days ladder climbing gaming, resulting in lack of oversight on aesthetic overview effect. Or, nobody can say "no" anymore.
http://www.mtgox.com/
Baby steps.

Try starting out using an eWallet, such as MyBitcoin:
http://www.mybitcoin.com

Then buy your Bitcoins with PayPal here:
http://coinpal.ndrix.com
use the bitcoin address generated at MyBitcoin. You'll get your bitcoins in less than an hour at MyBitcoin.

Then those bitcoins can be spent using your example, at StrongGames.
Very surprised they didn't pay the breakup fee, simply to avoid articles and threads like these. Reputation is all you have in this business.
Sounds like computerized http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
The harm to society is also fixed, so charging a % of profits is a strange way to tax. Think of degree inflation as being a form of pollution.

Now think directly about pollution taxes. Emitting 1kg of pollution to create an iPod is not a bad thing - iPods are more valuable than having 1kg less pollution in the air. Emitting 1kg of pollution to make a sandwich is bad, however, since the value of a sandwich is much lower than 1kg less pollution. The end goal is to pollute only while making iPods, not sandwiches.

Charging as a % of profits or revenues would not create this incentive.

Similarly, the goal of an education tax is to create a disincentive for acquiring a degree for people who won't gain a lot from the degree.