jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am certain that this is a scam. After having worked extensively with Census data there is no place, AFAIK, that the Census Bureau collates mortgage, credit and tax data or has the capability to. The datasets listed here sit in 3 disparate organizations - IRS, private banks and credit bureaus. There exists no mechanism to collate it in one place - you would need releases from individuals to get the credit data. IRS data is almost impossible to get (cf: DJT tax records). Finally, mortgage records are public but payment history sits with the banks.
These comments all say "x hours ago" but I swear I saw this thread and the exact same comments a few days ago. What twilight zone am I in? @dang
The US always does this. Consider the response to World War I and World War II.
Couldn't get it to work on the latest FF Beta on Ubuntu 19.10 but the web client worked totally fine on Chromium.
I would like more details on this. What kind of development are you doing? What was the specific tablet and bluetooth keyboard you got?
The cynic in me says the signs are confusing because it increases revenue.
But then I may be ascribing to malice that which is the result of incremental institutional incompetence.
Your link to Ajour at the end of the article is broken. Link should be to: https://github.com/gopatrik/ajour as your link to to your main github page and is missing the "http://" and so it's getting appended on the end of your post URL.
I couldn't agree more. I'm anxious to see it build up a rich developer ecosystem like Java has. The availability of so many 3rd party libs for Java is a huge advantage. If Swift gets to that point I can see it taking over all of my server-side development.
The condescending language indeed makes people uncomfortable, especially for the newbie of this field. Funny experience and a good guide that encourages me in doing the same thing as the author: remove the condescending language from various documentation.
I think anything that is a danger to Earth that is not human caused would receive more attention.
My father has hemochromatosis which causes high iron uptake. He didn’t discover this until his fifties and it’s like he has rust in his joints. I did 23andMe and I only have one allele so I don’t have it. If you suspect you do, a dna rest will tell you. Please get that checked out. You can deal with it if it’s early in your life.
To some extent. I think pry comes closest to re-creating a truly interactive development experience but the browser is slightly better especially with source maps.
There's value in giving people choice and making them uncomfortable with the consequences of easy options. The Witcher series is famous for that, and I'd like to see more games took that approach (show what can be done, even give in-game bonuses for evil behaviour, don't judge but show consequences).

DF skips over this problem because it's more abstract, and it's just not this kinds of game. Another example - Crusader Kingdoms 2 - this game is all about incests, backstabbing and assasination, but somehow it's funny not deep.

I agree it's probably not good idea for games targeted at children.
Well, yes, realizing that when I walked into the door of my job my mood changed. I wasn't happy. I didn't smile. The only conversations going on were technical. If I needed a new mouse I had to get 3 signatures.....They pay for it with my own funds and get reimbursed.

We all have "Office Space" or "The Office" type situations at our jobs!

Now when I come to work it involves walking upstairs to my DEDICATED office after a nice breakfast, some music and my two cats...
As a sports fan, I have a problem with this statement: '...picking the number "7" implies that number 8 got on base.'

Most of the time, at least when it comes to sportscasting, picking the number 7 implies that's the total number of batters faced up to that point. You don't say a batter has gone 2-for-3 through 6 innings when they really went 2-for-4. When a guy is doing baseball play-by-play he doesn't say the "last 5 of 7 batters" and mean there were more than seven total and he's just choosing not to tell you about them.

Look at the kid who had a hit in every college baseball game he played this season. His hit streak was 56 games long before his team was eliminated from the post-season. If his streak ends during the first game of next season, they won't go on Sportscenter the next day and say he's gotten a hit in 56 of his last 56 games and try to hide the fact that he didn't get a hit in game #57.

Last night, during the Celtics-Lakers, game they mentioned that Ray Allen was 0-16 on three point attempts since his last make and that he was cold. No one would sanely argue he wasn't having a tough time shooting but I'm sure a math nerd could explain this away with a large enough sample size of shot attempts over a longer stretch of time then one playoff series.

But the point of a streak is that it's based on a finite set of recent attempts. No one is saying Ray Allen is statistically a bad shooter (he's actually one of the best in the history of the game) but you can't argue that in recent games he's shooting poorly from distance. It doesn't get much worse than making 0% of your shots.
Found a copy!

http://www.indopedia.org/index.php?title=List_of_strange_uni...
Yep, totally agree. The mobile version of Buzz is dedicated to Buzz and it's an order of magnitude better than the 'embedded in Gmail' version for desktops.
A little of both, there's the constantly evolving system that powers ICHC and the ~50 other sites (not exactly lolcat derivative...the content is pretty diverse) as well as the growing niche social network on cheezburger.com.

One big thing that we're trying to do is make the users' profile pages more of a destination in themselves, where your account on cheezburger is where you express your sense of humor to the world and consume aggregated funny stuff from the people you care about.

A lot of people (myself included) use multiple social networks/online communities for different things. Personal example: Flickr is for my "serious" photos, I use tweetphoto for cameraphone snapshots and bestc.am for more artistic cameraphone creations.

Picture using Twitter for current friends and celebrities, Facebook for family and old high-school friends, and Cheezburger for your online humor friends. Naturally there's overlap (we support sharing your funny stuff on Facebook and Twitter) but we already have a growing number of people who use our (very simple) systems for friending and messaging.
Great news! Hardware innovation typically means new software opportunities. If this is turns out to be a generally accepted workhorse server design and not just a hotrod box I wonder who will be the first in here to develop a profitable software product for it.

Dell products have features and services that make them enterprise friendly, they are more than just hardware to the customer. So trying to compete with Dell head on might not be the company's best strategy at first. Perhaps following the strategy EMC used with CLARiiON to sell through DELL would be more of a money maker for the company.
Is this also possible for the regular notes app on iOS/OS X? It does sync with iCloud but I am not able to check if it's available in iCloud Drive.
"if you read this book you too can be a pro like me"

Linking to an illegal copy of a book doesn't make you a hacker. The book is on sale at http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook/dp/1597499579
I've got an HTC/Droid Incredible and it's been pretty pleasant to work with. I suspect as long as the carrier or manufacturer hasn't disabled the "USB Debugging" option in the settings, they are all probably about the same.

I suppose what makes the Nexus platform good for development is that it's usually running the latest Android version several months before the rest of the market. Are there any other development benefits to having a Nexus?
I weren't proposing any form of value with my statement. Just pointing out that on the scale of {run-time..compile-time} object model, Ruby is closer to the run time end.
If you like that, you'll like this:

"Elegant New Theory Explains Origin Of Asteroid Belt (technologyreview.com)"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991448
Yes, and the place they mention is 34th slot in Top500 ~ 190TFlops

So, suppose a bespoke 190TFlop beast would normally cost $20M - at a bargain $0.10 for one flops!(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS -Costs of computing)

Looks like with their setup they are getting $0.01 each flops.
Ditch your travel companions. The best way to travel is alone. You are more free that way. Meet new people along the way, but ditch them also when it's time to move again.
I'm curious: Was this facetious? or were you serious?
You can have multiple blogs associated with the same email. I'm just not sure if it's possible to create a new one by sending an email as the first post.
You're as wary of JS as anyone. Browsers themselves may need to change to admit to your solution. But you'll advertise it as secure today.
Some hyperbole, but the general idea that employees are on the bench for a very long time is true. I spent the first year of my career at a large services company and saw a number of friends go through this. It may seem surprising that people are paid when they don't have anything to do, but that's part of the business model. The companies want to be able to say, "we have 300 people ready to start now if you sign the contract". If I'm not mistaken, 20-25% of the workforce can be on the bench at any given time.

The sad part is that new college grads are thrilled that they get paid without having to do anything, which is dumb. Some of the most productive time of their lives is lost forever.
Geo lookup for the win.
He's connecting to his neighbor's router seemingly without permission.

"When you rent a cable modem/router combo from Comcast (as one of my nearby neighbors apparently does)"

It may be illegal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking

Comcast is not on the EFF's list of Wireless Friendly ISP's (referenced in the Wiki article):

https://www.eff.org/pages/wireless-friendly-isps

Even if it were:
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelessfaqs/f/legal_free...

"Using a neighbor's wireless access point may not be legal even with their permission. "
I liked this answer in particular:

"These are actually metamathematical (false) beliefs that many intelligent people have while they are learning mathematics, but usually abandon when their mistake is pointed out, and I am almost certain to draw fire for saying it from those who haven't, together with the reasons for them:

* The results must be stated in complete and utter generality.

* Easy examples are left as an exercise to the reader.

* It is more important to be correct than to be understood.

(Applicable to talks as well as papers.)"
"Going into a business negotiation thinking either you or them are deontologists is selfdeception that will hinder you in your negotiations."

Maybe. But in practice, it might be a simplifying assumption that either you or them are "deontologists" in the context of the negotiations because there is nothing you have to offer that has any chance of budging their position.

In other words, she may be that kind of girl for a million dollars, but you don't have a million dollars.
I thought there were Ethernet LAN in Xerox Parc in the 70's.
If you haven't heard it, The Conet Project [http://www.archive.org/details/ird059] is a collection of the numbers stations recordings. Pretty neat and eerie.
downvoted? really? Wouldn't a reply have been better?
LastFM and Spotify should be compared with having your videoclip on MTV or your song on radio, not with selling albums.
This is the third time I've seen this, but I have to wonder if the guy is actually trolling in a Borat-esq manner. Some of the things he's saying are so outrageous that he's either trolling people in Uganda and spreading false information, or the entire video and his online presence is falsified.

Who else aside from someone trying to do a Borat would call it 'poo poo'? For the sake of Uganda, I hope I'm right.
Conceptually simple, but the licensing agreements with the labels would kill you, not to mention the problems with divvying the money amongst the artists that you decide to "keep."

That brings me to another problem: you'd have to pay $25/month for this service. $5 for unlimited streaming (the Rhapsody way), $20 for 20 tracks at $1 each. Or you could do 5/15, or something like that, I guess.

It's a lot of risk for not-so-much reward, and as such is a bad investment proposition from where I'm sitting. If I were a VC, I probably wouldn't invest in such a company. It'd be much easier for an established player to make this happen. They have the infrastructure already built, the legal expertise to make it happen, and the connections in the industry already.
spreading out the (unknown, but actuarially estimable) risk is insurance ... 'spreading out' (known) costs is something other than insurance
Have you met our politicians?
>Does FB become the arbiter of what we are allowed to protest and what not?

no, they become the arbiter of what you are allowed to do on facebook. there exists a whole world outside of facebook, they only control their product.
Thanks for the reply. Nice to see you guys are so appreciative of feedback. Thanks for linking the issue I will probably track it now since I was not able to find the nomenclature to find it before. I will probably ask our company account manager to point out that we would be interested in this since we do pay for your product in the end.

Whenever Code review surpasses the UX of GitHub, and i think they're close but just have different approaches to some stuff I think GH for Teams will have no advantage over GitLab. GitLab CI blows GitHub out of the water in my experience.
All this hard work to create the most bland visual identity.
Also found some great stuff at thedatabus.io
That's the elephant in the room with inflation measures (CPI CPIH RPI) the selection of the basket of goods can have a massive effect on the actual recorded rate - which may not be what the average person on the ground experiences.

Governments have incentives to use this to flatter the results or change inflation measures eg the UK and its switch to CPI from RPI for a lot of things.
congrats Dalia! Amazing achievement & you've a great writing style. Would be interested to hear more of your journey throughout your placement & beyond!

Great inspirational story for a grey Thursday morning! :)

Will also keep an eye on Manara Tech — missed that when it was on HN previously.
I’m willing to foot that bill in exchange for getting rid of my two hour round trip commute. It probably evens out with the savings on fuel or ticket costs. It doesn’t even factor in the stress of commuting and being on time into the office.

The luxury of able to wake up and just walk into your “office” in your pajamas is priceless to me.
Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP Tweeted: "The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. The sites that have removed objectionable content and/or cooperated with the on going investigations, are being unblocked."

This is bad. archive.org by default should have all sorts of offensive things on it. Pastebin and github should not be responsible for people hosting code they don't like. May as well block google too, I'm pretty sure you can find pro-ISIS sites on there as well.
I once spilled an entire glass of water into the keyboard of my macbook while it was on. It automatically shut off. I thought I was hosed. I almost smashed it on the table in fury. Luckily I didn't. I quickly removed the battery, took the computer COMPLETELY apart, and blow dried it for a few hours. It came back on and has been working ever since like a charm. Its been over 5 years now. Same with an iPhone 5s. I dropped it into a glass of water. It didn't work for awhile but came around after a few days and worked fine afterwards.
As I understand it, minification is basically removing whitespace. Why would that make the code behave differently?
That's my initial reaction. At the very least this is destabilizing, until they can refine how courts may/may not order such blockages in such surprising ways.
They're going to trade Bitcoin under the NASDAQ symbol COIN. I love it!
I quit odesk this year. For a significant part of the year I was out of work. In retrospect I could have made a smoother transition.

A couple of bad clients. Didn't listen to my gut feeling and worked with them. Sucked up months of my time first in working for them and then getting them to pay me. Lesson: upfront payment :) as a sign of good faith.

I think I did okay with friends and family which always a relief to know :)
I'm not using "authoritarian" in a pejorative sense, but rather a descriptive sense. Anarchist versus authoritarian is a spectrum, depending on how much you believe government is necessary to prevent negative social activity. Most liberals and most conservatives are pretty far on the authoritarian side of the scale. E.g. a liberal might think government is necessary to prevent racial discrimination, and a conservative might think government is necessary to prevent deviant sexual behavior. In contrast traditional libertarians are somewhere in the middle. They believe the government is necessary to prevent things like classic property rights, but not say gender discrimination. Anarcho-libertarians mostly reject the use of government to protect even things like classic property rights.

Sunstein endorses using the government to do things like increase the amount and diversity of political discussion in society, or decreasing how much people buy fast food and soda, which is pretty far on the authoritarian side of things.

It's not an inherently pejorative label. For example, it's authoritarian to argue that the government should interfere with private real estate transactions by preventing people from discriminating against potential buyers based on race. But most people support laws of that nature.
No, because I'm afraid that providing one would cause me quite some legal problems. Over here (in Germany), a lot of movies / sounds get blocked by GEMA or you have to pay horrendous fees to be allowed to use them.

But for development, I used this 5.1 YouTube video for testing the surround simulation: http://youtu.be/juIJGBxj-4w

And for testing the music enhancer module, I used Far Too Loud, Circle of Alchemists and OVERWERK. So these should sound pretty cool with my app:
https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/conquer?in=overwerk/sets/con...
https://soundcloud.com/far-too-loud/far-too-loud-doomsday-ma...
> Apple makes quality hardware. If it were otherwise, they wouldn't be able to charge so much.

How's that Kool Aid taste?
I'll put my money on the porn industry and not the gaming industry being the make or break for VR v2.0. If there was a killer porn app for Oculus, they would fly off the shelves.
I don't have any knowledge of these markets, so I'm just speculating here.

Your query might be a problem. Maybe in a job ad for an entry-level role they're not using "Android" in the text as they presume only "programming", "computer science", "mobile", "devices", or "java" are the skills a junior dev would have.

Also, after putting out a job ad with skills keywords, employers are flooded with crap resumes and every candidate claims to be an expert in said skill.

And maybe companies don't need junior devs devoted solely to Android but need general Java devs.
I'd suggest to read Hunter S. Thompson's obituary on Nixon

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-...

"It was all gibberish, of course. Nixon was no more a Saint than he was a Great President. He was more like Sammy Glick than Winston Churchill. He was a cheap crook and a merciless war criminal who bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II, and he denied it to the day of his death. When students at Kent State University, in Ohio, protested the bombing, he connived to have them attacked and slain by troops from the National Guard.

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful."

Journalism should not just stick 'to facts'. Journalism's objective is to speak truth to power by whatever means necessary and to bring truth to light. This often requires to get into the dirt. Facts you can find on Wikipedia or in the phone book, that's not what journalism is about. Good journalism is adversarial. The tech sector dislikes this in particular because they rely on the fact that they are not perceived as centres of power.
Everyone who works there is extremely talented. Fabien, Sean, Allen, etc. Jeff has a very keen eye for it.

He's funny, too. Highly recommend The Jeff and Casey Show for podcast content.
I've been meaning to buy a Yubikey. What is the best practice for using a security key? Is there a mechanism for backing my keys up somewhere safe so that a loss of key doesn't mean a loss of my accounts?
I suspect the Google/Facebook deal for "free backup of WhatsApp chats on your Google account" is exactly that.

WhatsApp had perfectly usable encrypted backup - which took up space on your Google backup. And then, all of a sudden, it wasn't encrypted and didn't take up space. But you don't have access to it yourself - only Google does (and WhatsApp if it is recovering). This is a perfect way to provide all the data to various governments for 99.9% of users, without killing the E2E encryption.
Why would more money make it more attractive?

My experience is that it is full of laws, information silos, and tons of local govt to frustrate the hell out of anyone. As a technical person, I want to work on a problem because it is interesting, not because of money.
Key points: sales is a conversation, attempting to automate a conversation makes you look like a chatbot and puts you at a distinct disadvantage over competitors who are willing to have a real conversation and engage in an ongoing dialog with prospects. Marketing is a broadcast and is amenable to automation until you have initiated a conversation (gotten a response from a prospect).
There's obviously no way for anyone to claim that you specifically don't, but one of the studies I looked at (and there have been others) specifically used patients who believed they got headaches from aspartame. They turned out to be more likely to get one from the placebo control than from aspartame.
Amazing story. Brought me to tears.

My step-grandfather found himself in a similar position about 5 years ago. He'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and was in for a long decline. He opted to refuse food, and died within a few weeks. Sadly, that's the only option available to many who are ready to move on.

I remember him comforting his wife and daughters, telling them not to be scared, even as he lay hallucinating and dying. He'd lived a good life to an old age, and he was ready.

We owe our parents better. Death is a part of life.
I don’t see any monthly pay-as-you-go hosted SaaS options on their pricing page [0]. Instead they seem to be making money selling Enterprise editions, so a closer parallel might be DataStax or Apigee. Why do you think it is copying Parse?

[0]: https://realm.io/pricing/
But that wouldn't affect forks such as Brave, would it? Or maybe they would engineer in some way to force the forks to use a Google blacklist or else....