jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In california, it's like 20 bucks[1] to put a lien on someone's property, business etc. Attorneys do this all the time as well as just turn the bill over to an agency to collect.

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/smallclaims/collectlien...

EDIT: Yes, it's lien. Proofreading, spelling and slowing down. It's life long struggle :)
"Major offenses...first possession of marijuana or underage drinking..."

That's what qualifies as major? I don't give a damn if my classmates drink and blaze; I do care if they cheat and implicitly lower the value of my degree in the process.

Then again, nobody at my school cares about liquor or pot, so I guess it's hard to compare it to schools that view either as an actual issue.
Unfortunately it's also the case that: simple fact recall -> less need to cheat. Non-trivial calculation -> more need to cheat.

There are other reasons to not use simple fact recall type tests, of course. Like actually testing transfer.

But, in support of what you said: I went to Uppsala University in Sweden, and all exams were 6h long and happened in a giant special-purposed exam hall with 6 feet spaces between each desk. Cheating by communicating was a lost cause and even if you could, the amount of info you'd need to transfer to make a dent in a 6h-long test would be way too large. I don't recall anyone trying to cheat, but if it was to happen, it would have been done by adding notes to the bible-sized book of tables and formulae that we almost always were allowed to use.
Ah, thanks. But do installing application from Amazon App Store works that way too?
High school essays are generally not 60 pages.
I desperately want an iPad competitor to come out. I don't own an iPad, but would like to make a purchase on a more open bit of kit. But the very basics are being ignored. Apple has spent time researching and has built a large team to put it's products out. Why is it so hard for these other companies to just spend the time and do the same, and for just the basics at least. Touch that works, email, browsing, maybe music. Lets start with that, and take baby steps to more functionality.
Funnily enough, I saw many comment trolls defending Toyota during the "rapid acceleration" fiasco. I believe this is a very commonplace thing for both governments and businesses with image problems.
To be clear, the controversial political opinions you believe should be platformed by Twitch are:

"If that means white redneck militia dudes mowing down dipshit protesters that think they can torch buildings at 10 PM, at this point they have my fucking blessing."

and

"America Deserved 9/11"?

Because those are the literal quotes from things that got people pulled from Twitch and you've labelled "controversial political opinions." I'm sorry, but suggesting that we unilaterally kill innocent people or that innocent people deserved to be killed by terrorists is absolutely beyond the pale and should result in consequences like losing partnerships or facing suspensions.
Wearing your arms out wouldn't be a problem in a bakery that's properly equipped, there are machines for that.

I can definitely see the use case in a coffee shop though.
There was a reward offered by Bitfinex. It's possible someone simply dropped a dime on these guys and after that everything fell into place.
I mean Google doesn’t exactly have a track record of successful products when it comes to chat and video conferencing.
Hmm, well then it really comes down to "Do 2% of your Amazon Purchases equal $140 or more?" (Aka, do you spend more than $7000 at Amazon), last year I did spend more than that so I guess Prime pays for itself in my case.
If you park against the rules in Canada and obstruct others, can they sue you to recover any costs that is/may be caused by the obstruction? In a small claims court, perhaps?
That sounds like it would have privacy concerns. I don't want everyone to know when I last was on my phone.
> Proponents of MMT also advocate spending to maintain full employment, to the point when inflation occurs, at which point it becomes necessary to cut deficits.

So do Keynesians, relying on the Phillips Curve, which has to be one of the most embarrassing, historically invalidated concepts of all time.

> Also, anyone who says things like “it means money printer go brrr” likely has spent close to zero time actually attempting to understand even basic facts about MMT, and likely gained anything they know about MMT from memes or shallow criticism.

Waves macro finance degree here. MMT, magic monetary theory, is very much "money printer go brrrr" in practice. They rely on a qualitative understanding of inflation like the Austrians as opposed to a CPI quantitative understanding. Where Austrians see nominal credit expansion as money creation, MMT proponents see credit expansion as being able to be cancelled out via taxation at the aggregate level. It's argumentation via definition.

MMT also is of the "heads I win tails you lose" style of argumentation, because it pretends that state extraction of resources via taxes nets out the impact of state extraction of resources via inflation. Implicit in the (false) argument of no net impact on inflation is that those taxes will be transferred to deserving members of society via fiscal transfer payments, and therefore CPI-style inflation is mitigated. It's monetary communism and a philosophy promoted by charlatans.
Is there a need for an algorithm to efficiently check if a transaction is in a particular list?

I have a fairly good idea on how to make a very efficient algorithm for this. If there is a need for it, I would love to help in any way I can.
>Could you elaborate on this? I personally find that Signal's interface couldn't be simpler, and have on-boarded hundreds of "non-techies" without support or explanation beyond "download an app called Signal and message me on the same number, but on there".

Telegram feels more polished and distinct, for example it has very nice animated emojis. Signal looks like programmer art and a random system SMS app - it's hard to convince people to use it, I started using Telegram with my wife just for the animojis and stuck with it because of a nice desktop app. I got my entire family and some friends on it eventually.

>Given those tradeoffs, Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp is probably a way better choice than Telegram.

I actually like Telegram as a chat app more than those two - Messenger is bloated garbage tied into Facebook which is another bloated garbage platform so I avoid those if I can.

WhatsApp doesn't do cloud sync well actually, my phone needs to be active for webapp to work and when I switched from iPhone to Android and back I would lose history between the two.
Nope, something different here. Google results are personalized (not just by user preferences but also history, location, time of day, etc). Seems like Google assumes you want to to visit that page, so it's third for you (after Wikipedia I guess?). In my case Oracle AI is third and Microsoft Azure AI fourth. Google AI isn't even on the first page for me.
Are they supposed to be "photos", or are these paintings or something? I honestly can't tell. Doesn't look that much different from stylized wallpapers I see all the time in the West, to be honest.

Edit: Yeah ... I think these are photoshops, and they're done so poorly that I couldn't distinguish it immediately from a painting. Maybe the style is intentional, if I'm giving benefit of the doubt.
Okay so capitalism bad -- what alternative do you propose? Because as far as I can tell capitalism is the best we have.

Think about what capitalism has brought us. More and more people on the planet are lifted out of poverty every year as a direct consequence of capitalism.

Why did the colonials, when they arrived in west Africa, find they had basically done nothing for thousands of years? Because they didn't have capitalism in my eyes. Capitalism brought you the computer you are typing on.
Right, the creation of Bitcoins only redistributes the value. The value mining provides is actually in outcompeting potential attackers who might want to change the consensus of the network.
Of course the people who want to move in don't get a vote.
2.2% of Americans produce 97% of political tweets

I guess people act the same online as they do at Thanksgiving dinner.
No, not at all, quite the opposite, actually.

It's also much easier today to write good high quality code than it was when I started professionally, which was ~15 years ago.

However, I never worked with a boot camp grad, only people with degrees.
Me too. I read it, and its sequels, in a bookstore, around 1998. Looks like Bentley's retired, sadly: http://www.research.avayalabs.com/gcm/usa/en-us/people/all/b...
The format of TechStars is pretty different from YC.
whenever I'd seen this book mentioned in 'best programming books' lists, on Stack Overflow and the like I'd figured it was a cutely named book to do with Perl and skipped over it.
Refund is not exactly easy though. There is the initial challenge that puts off a lot of users from even attempting to. A google style model(using a time limit from purchase to deletion) would be much fairer.

Though it does seem obvious to me that these people are just after a way not to pay for software. This tool will just increase the pirated crap.
What she says is a good first approximation. When you're learning about anything, you don't dive into the nitty gritty and all its nuances first.
When it comes to software tools, the cost of running a small business is lower than it's ever been before precisely because you don't need a huge amount of capital to purchase "integrated" solutions. A small business owner can select the tools they need when they've outgrown a home-grown solution. With the 37 Signals tools (and many others) this usually occurs when multiple workers are collaborating on one or more projects.

As an added benefit, thanks to the fact that most of these services use monthly billing it's possible to stop using the service when you need to or at least allowing you to downgrade a to a version that meets your requirements, helping reduce monthly burn.

The only downside is that integration between various services often involves bubble gum and duct tape. Or maybe that's an opportunity for entrepreneurs. :-)
Indeed, and you can even go earlier than that: MySQL.
Seems like this article needs references.

AMD and Intel are both working on building out more cores, and building in new instruction sets (AVX, etc.) that allow for vector FP. That said, we're not seeing the single core clockspeed increase like in the late 90's.

On the other hand, the chip shrink is getting us stuff like Flash SSDs and very nice power reductions so those 4-8 core chips will go in new 10-hour laptops...
I've generally had good luck with the AT&T customer service. I play the "standard customer" role to navigate first-level troubleshooting, get escalated, then talk to the tech about my actual debugging results. (It helps that, in addition to network admin experience, I design telephony integrated circuits; I'm very familiar with their testing procedures, since I've designed circuits and wrtten firmware to do it.)

Generally once I'm actually talking to the tech it's only five or ten minutes before they get a truck roll scheduled and I'm on my way. It helps to have multiple DSL modems available before calling them so you can rule out equipment malfunctions, and to directly connect the DSL modem to the service entrance after disconnecting your home wiring to rule out internal wiring problems.

In the several years that I've had my DSL, AT&T has piecemeal replaced pretty much all the copper between me and the DSLAM---no surprise, since most of it was 25+ years old. Each time, it's taken one phone call of no more than 30 minutes to get things done. The only trouble I've had that didn't require copper replacement was when a tech disconnected my (dry loop) line because he didn't hear a dial tone and assumed the connection was superfluous.
I don't agree with the Cato article either, but this just sounds hopelessly naive:

"There is an obvious and simple solution to [players with a special interest to try to game the system] - transparency and openness in decision making."

Couldn't your argument be applied anytime someone objected to the unnecessary intrusion of government regulation? "Oh, we'll just have the government make decisions in an transparent and open way. Problem solved."
I think enough folks have covered the fact that you should be able to discuss how long things take with your boss.

However i want to make a point about cutting corners - in my experience, its a jusdgement call on what's essential, and whihc corners can be cut. I've seen engineers spend loads of time on things that in the end did not matter, etc. So I would say that's an inportant conversarion to have.
https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/APPX-I-201
GP is clearly not talking about vaccinations.
for garner it says 'means store and not gather'. OED says gather or acquire. Not sure how they distinguish this in articles or interpret it.
Old timer here, and I struggled with this when I was younger. But I figured it out by working at a lot of different places. I always get great reviews and am considered a highly valued programmer, so you can depend on this advice :).

When your manager (never say "boss", because you are your own boss, they are the manager) says "2 weeks", at that point it's their responsibility. So as long as you don't say "I can do it in 2 weeks", it remains their responsibility.

So an easy way to respond is "I'll do my best", or "I'll see what I can do". In your head, you say "YOU said 2 weeks, NOT me. So if it takes longer, it's YOUR fault, not MINE". And then you work on the project like any other project. It's not about you being bad at your job, it's about the person being a bad manager. Keep the manager up to date on the progress.

Next step is to educate your manager. Don't fall in the trap of making estimates in 5 seconds on the spot. In this case, you could respond "2 weeks? I don't know, I haven't made an estimate on that." This way you indicate that YOU are the person who should do the estimate, not them. You could follow up with "Do you want me to make a detailed estimate?". If no, then indicate "ok, I'll see what I can do" as above. If yes, make a realistic deadline (NOT estimate, see below).

Bad managers come with all kinds of tricks to pressure you, like for example "The customer expects this to be ready in 2 weeks". At that point, you really need to educate them and show how reality works:

"Wow, I hope for your sake that you made a correct estimate. I didn't estimate the work, so I have no clue if this is possible. But you might be in a lot of trouble when you made the wrong call here". See what I did here? Managers try to push problems on you, don't let this happen. Always make it clear that the responsibility is always in their camp as long as you didn't make the estimate. If the 2 week deadline is not met, it's their fault of not asking you for a proper estimate in the first place, secondly for making a wrong estimate themselves, and never because you are bad at your job and should work overtime. Don't let bad management be your fault, because it isn't.

So when you can make estimates yourself, make sure you know the difference between an estimate and a deadline. Most managers think it's the same.

An estimate is "I think it takes around 4 weeks", which basically means "Best case it takes 3 (which it never will), and something might go wrong so it could be 6 weeks". A deadline always has a buffer built in. It's a worst case scenario. Your manager will ask for an "estimate", but 99% of the time it will be a deadline. So make sure your "estimate"=deadline includes a buffer of worst case scenario. If you estimate 4 weeks, they will promise it to the customer in 4 weeks. This is wrong of course, since there is no buffer. So say 6.

And this is how you keep your sanity as a developer. Educate your managers, because a lot of them are not really knowledgeable and experienced in dealing with proper software development.
The US made a political decision. They certainly have the financial means but they decided against spending on infrastructure. Obviously with time this means that the cost of repairs accrues.
She was interviewed on February 4th 2021 as part of their digital events series ("An audience with Ann Wroe, obituaries editor"). Worth a listen: https://economist-subsevents.zoom.us/rec/play/5b6CntzRCPHSJz...
This kinds of things came up when I was looking into wood block printing as a hobby.
https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking/videos
This is an old trick.

It works much better to test the viability on people in your social circle than random strangers on the internet. Cheaper, too.

If you are trying to sell to people entirely outside your social circle, the probability is that you don't know enough about the field to penetrate it - not without a lot of extra effort (compared to something you know about). It also drastically increases the likelihood that your brilliant ideas are moot or unwanted. Yes, you could find that out this way, but you might not - you might not even know what search terms to use, or the ads for them might be very expensive.

If you don't have a social circle, ditto.

FTR, I pre-launched Freckle exclusively to our blog readers/twitter followers and we got 900 email addresses, which led to $1300 the first month post-30 day trials, never spending a penny or chasing after random strangers on the internet. Doing the same again for Charm (http://charmde.sk).

I'll be writing about this specifically in the next week over on my biz blog, btw: http://unicornfree.com
Me too (opensrs). This includes processing fees, I'm reseller of my company reseller account :), so I do it manually.
Sure. Though Jonathan Ive has gotten a fair amount of credit/exposure of the years, too, for the industrial design side of things.
If you can't afford the tip, then you can't afford the service.

Kudos for not letting the will to frugality operate at the expense of others.
We've been using FastSpring for ThinkCode.TV since day one. They are a very good choice.

In my opinion, their main weaknesses are:

* Relatively expensive if you sell low priced items like we do (there is a $0.75 transaction minimum).

* Their anti-fraud algorithm requires customers to complete a huge form before allowing a purchase. This has been, in my experience, a major turn-off for customers.

* No support for recurring billing.

* Their upload applet is a nightmare if you are uploading large files like we do (e.g., 150+ Mb files). Transactions fail all the time.

Other than that, they are a good choice.
..just as there are no famous scientists anymore. Seriously, how many of you can remember the names of Nobel prize winners after the 1960s?
Fame is almost as fickle as Luck and in many ways more so. In our day and time, being recognized by our peers is fame enough. Aspiring to be famous well beyond your chosen discipline requires more than genius. The right moment in time. A moment right not just for you but for your entire field. A moment that captures the imagination of people who have nothing to do with your work, but can still feel its impact. And sometimes, even that is not enough. Case in point: How many of you know the name of the person who discovered/invented/designed Viagra? :-)
His calculations for the cost of commuting take a wrong turn (no pun intended) somewhere. A 40-mile commute is 10K miles per year, which at IRS mileage rates is $5K, not the $10K he cites. He gets this math right for the 20-mile commute, but somehow multiplies the cost by 4 when he multiplies the commute distance by 2.
I would rather have nobody collect the data.
I agree, so many people spend so much time saving money, what if they spent that time building a business or educating themselves? There's a hard limit on frugality, but there is no such limit on building wealth.
Will existing devices benefit from the improved accuracy?
I agree with several statements here that the HN lost some information level since the removal of the karma.
One more voice here would like to see some statements from PG and how the change affected the community.
If there is a donation button to get the karma back I would contribute.
This is why video game companies hire more artists than programmers.

Counting frames is often not productive though, cut-out animations (which PvZ appears to be using) allow artists to render many frames from one base illustration and some extra work. They're not necessarily easy but they're often a large time savings over frame by frame.
I disagree. First, disconnect the actual score with something that indicates a high quality comment. You can display something as high quality without showing a score.

Next, a high quality comment need not have comments. Some of the best comments do not need followup. We should also discourage comments that merely parrot the parent and offer no content of their own. This is probably the biggest argument I have against not having any soft of indicator. If a comment is good, it deserves an up vote to indicate quality.

Next, replies still do not solve the scanning problem. For me to deduce the quality comments using replies requires I read through all the comments. Sometimes this is not an issue, but posts with a larger number of comments, this becomes problematic.

Finally, the above also means that replies of comments, and replies of replies, suddenly makes it really difficult what others deem quality content.

At the end of the day, up voting comments is meant to distinguish good, high quality comments from the normal run of the mill comments. If it's not being used for that, then up votes are merely being used as a way to obtain karma. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that by removing karma from showing which posts are of higher quality, it serves no real purpose other than to obtain more karma. I'm more interested in reading quality comments than obtaining karma, something the current system doesn't assist with. It only makes karma something to "brag" about.
It really is a labor of love, best advice really is do as little organic / moving items as possible. They can be added later without feeling the need of "Oh my god not another batch!"
Yes, complexity is the enemy. However, I'm afraid the answer isn't that simple. If I understood you, you advocate using a low level language, mainly because that makes it hard to "get fancy." But by doing so, you are forcing complexity to go up significantly in a different way. For example, how much harder would it be to code a make tool like Rake in C than in Ruby? Yes, C might handcuff the programmer from getting too fancy, but it will result in 2 or 5 or 10 times more lines of code, and that in and of itself is complexity -- which, as you correctly stated, is the enemy.
No votes showing up, is bad for "Ask/Show/Tell HN" type of submissions, where the submitter is asking to see what "wisdom-of-the-community" says (even if he has the entire knowledge for subject matter).

For example, asking for feedback or feature suggestions on the recently developed product to the community, will not be much helpful, if comment votes are not shown up.