jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder what is the purpose of all those comics included each few paragraphs for all the text extension... To make the people distracted and thinking in happy talking animals whereas his lives are scanned?
Prices are stated per 30 days to make them easier to evaluate. Since actual pricing is per use and even pro-rated to the second the numbers would be really small and not really helpful otherwise.
Pretty slick. I think I might be using this at Global Game Jam this weekend.

On a side note though, it seems that there are some issues if you get things moving fast enough. I was consistently able to fling shapes through the walls on the first demo.
Shouldn't be a problem. The Big Dig did extensive noise monitoring for almost 10 years and maybe had a couple of monitors messed with.
I applaud anyone willing to quit their job to follow their own passions. Does this guarantee success? Of course not.

However, do not underestimate the value of truly knowing that you control your own destiny and do not have to 'grind it out' at some desk for the next 30 years.

FWIW, I believe that if you hard worker & are a kick-ass programmer you can make up for a lot of supposed 'deficiencies' i.e.: market analysis, planning and product development.

Good Luck!
Well it's the internet, i reserve the right to hyperbolize.
I guess i was pretty far wrong about KG though... my bad.

But, threes are up like 40% over the past 10 years. Over the past 5 years the games have been more shooting oriented than ever before. The WSJ had an article a while back suggesting that the real reason is because the league hasn't been doing that great financially, and it's cheaper for teams to get a set of 3 point shooters vs. one LeBron or KG.
First, I applaud your enthusiasm, and for not responding in kind to some of the negativity in the comments. While I'm sure that there are a few who are just negative, most of the people offering criticism probably genuinely want to help. You'd be wise to listen to them.

And in the spirit of offering advice, here's my two cents: read "Four Steps to the Epiphany" and actually follow the advice. If that's too much, then just call or email 100 potential customers, outline your idea, and ask them what they think. These should be real potential customers who you envision would really want your service, not friends who once sold a piece of furniture on Craigslist. I can tell that you've got some emotional attachment to your idea, so this step might be hard, because you could find after 10 or 20 calls that things aren't quite the same from your customer's experience as you thought. But just keep going. By the time you have talked to 100 potential customers, you'll know exactly what they need, what they don't need, how they find new products, how to market to them, etc.

Good luck, and please do keep us posted with your progress :)
<imaginary bq>it seems they’re still interested in putting liability onto their members when there’s an accident, like the time when Zipcar member Dale Douglas rear-ended Leslie Minto. Minto took Zipcar to court, but Zipcar won, saying that it was not liable “for harm to persons or property that results or arises out of the use, operation, or possession of [their vehicles] during the period of the rental or lease”.</end bq>

Isn't this precisely why drivers/owners are compelled to purchase insurance? Dude is lucky he didn't kill someone.
Well, you can structure it both ways. You can specify IDs, and perform extra queries, or you can "inline" the data, duplicating it across the hierarchy, but saving yourself extra queries.

It all depends on your use case.
Ditto SAP, BEA, EMC, IBM, HP, CISCO, AVAYA, etc

Maybe it's coz they don't hire hackers!
wow thanks for that, I thought it was just my eyes/monitor this morning.
I've been a happy customer of SpiderOak for a few months now. Windows, Mac, and Linux clients, with file syncing between your computers, and public sharing of any files you've backed up. Data is encrypted on their servers, and restoring files is very easy.
Personally, I'm all for it because of Moore's Law. Particularly because we seem to be approaching a plateau (he says hesitantly) in hardware growth that may invalidate it for hardware, but we've only just started the exponential spurt in network, connectivity and bandwidth increases that proves it for networking.

Imagine the ability to connect to anyone in the country from anywhere at 100Mb/s. Imagine the apps and cloud stuff that currently is infeasible but won't be then. We are already at the conjunction of the browser being the app and this bandwidth speed will help that. Imagine apps that we just can't imagine right now because we're constrained to 1.5Mb/s thinking.

I think this will be the equivalent to communications that was the hugely expensive push of rail networks from the US East coast across to the West coast proved to be. Hugely expensive at the time, and cheap in comparison to the benefits in hindsight.
It's hackish, but you can do Unicode in LaTeX with the inputenc and ucs packages. If you do:

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ucs}

then the inputenc macro package does a first pass on the document, handing off all non-ASCII characters to ucs to replace them with LaTeX commands to generate the appropriate characters, if supported. So, ö gets replaced by \"{o}, א gets replaced with \hebalef, etc. Doesn't work for everything, but handles a good portion of common languages.
There are a variety of "next levels" one can catapult oneself to. In the last batch we had one pair of founders who'd previously been CTO and VP of engineering at a public company, and another pair who were 19.

It's an interesting question where the limit of our utility is. As I said in another thread recently, I'm pretty sure we don't bump up against it in practice, because once startups raise sufficient money, their investors wouldn't let them do YC even if it would be a net win for them.
Yes it is. But this is not sentence, it is equation. And every word in equation is capitalized. At least words can be reordered.
Never? Try asking people who worked at Guerrilla Games for example [1]. Not the craziest crunch place ever, but far from flawless.

"Ultimately, we work crazy hours and weekends just to ensure we make something many people get to enjoy, so thanks for taking the time to express concern."

[1] http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/06/04/guerrilla-games-tease...
It's kind of absurd. These companies are trying to build a moat in an industry with very little barrier to entry and regional compartmentalization. The only thing Uber has going for it is the network effect of being available across multiple cities and countries.
So non-uber drivers don't want to be uber drivers and uber drivers want to be uber drivers? Or what? There was practically nothing else in common between each driver other than their desire to continue working with Uber as they do now. Where's the bias? 500+ rides (probably significantly more bcs I have two accounts) are large enough sample.
What you're describing is a dilution of responsibility. The first firm didn't do their due diligence, and assumed that Flint was doing something it wasn't. The second firm didn't do their due diligence, and simply overlooked the lead issue. I don't find this to be terribly convincing; it sounds like the both firms should be on the hook, because they both failed. As water engineers, they should be on top of this stuff. That two firms failed doesn't demonstrate that they shouldn't be responsible, it means that the city hired two incompetent firms which individually assumed and then neglected their responsibilities.
Sweden is a great example for sex work laws: they made it illegal to consume and to pimp, but sex work itself is legal. Which fits with most labor laws: when there's exploitation of labor, it's hardly the workers' fault
Well, first, intent does not mean desire; and you can intend due to a desire of something else.

So, for example, suppose I'm a driver who takes a bribe so that I expose my passenger to a sniper somehow. I had no desire for my passenger to die - I just wanted the money, but - in some legal systems anyway - it can be argued that I intended the natural consequences of my actions.

Alternatively, even if I have not "intended", I have certainly gone beyond negligence. The commonly-recognized middle level of criminal responsibility is _recklessness_:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recklessness_(law)

There's something inbetween, which
>having to actually call someone on a phone

The horror!
> that's not what I'm talking about and you know it. I mean large well-known and easily accessible versions of those

Not particularly.

They existed at a small scale. Always. Smartphones let them knit together. That scale produced efficiencies. Authorities tried to clamp down but consumers loved them and policy adapted. The path from point A to point B looks linear and altogether unsurprising, albeit ex post facto.
(In Rust) the ugliness for me stems from the fact we got this array from somewhere and now we're overwriting it, and I start to think probably the code should actually make the data structure instead, whereupon the need for these to be indices goes away and it's some sort of iterator into collect ?
>The discovery is seen as taking us one step closer to the Holy Grail of physics: "unified field theory". This is a single theoretical framework which succinctly explains all the forces of nature.

how would this help. if anything it would make it harder, especially if there other forces, by calling into doubt preexisting assumptions about how physics works
Mods please change the linked telegraph article it is awful.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dark-matter-parti...

is better

or the Arxiv

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10459
> "this is merely a ploy to manipulate the stock or destroy the company."

Well, the most favorable thing you could say about $TSLA is that Musk hasn't managed to destroy the company, in spite of his well-known and recurring antics.
Holup. I run my own company and there's loads of shit I have to do and I hate it. There is not a perfect job out there. Really I don't know if it's anymore/less enjoyable than other things - just different.

As a cog in a big machine some idiots tell me what to do.

As the owner of a small business 100s of folks tell me what to do. And I get the added joy of paperwork, legal crap, buying healthcare for my employees, all stuff that takes away from the fun of creating cool stuff.

Maybe it's a bad idea to have work be fun? Work is work 100% - then my fun can be fun 100%
No. They meant to stop him from his compulsive interest in electronics. They wanted him to play with other kids, play sports, run around. He seemed weird and they thought he would seem weird when he grew up. And running shop that fixes radios didn't look like success to them. (Until recently, "nerd" was a very offensive insult.)
I find the E8 lattice incredibly interesting, if for no other reason to find out if it's truly representative of particle physics. It predicts more particles we haven't observed yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory...
[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-m...
Interesting, I had always assumed that they made the switch to be more vegetarian friendly, but it actually was because of the "fat scare." I googled around to learn more about it, and found an article called Why McDonald's French Fries Used to Taste Better [1] that's worth a read.

[1] - https://blog.cheapism.com/why-mcdonalds-fries-used-to-be-bet...
Author should take advantage of this suggestion. It's awesome and side-steps the noise around the current name.
The interesting thing about Linux is that, since it has focused so much on backwards compatibility, it's a great target for emulation. A few years ago there was a great paper and presentation[1] by Jon Howell et al from Microsoft research that's still worth getting familiar with, even more so now that WebAssembly is solid.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi13/technical-sessions/...
my initial thought was: why didn't they choose monero (another coin that is privacy-focused but sort of more established). However monero is already much higher than that mark, in its valuation.
> In-person and online interactions with the same person would vary wildly in tone and emotional intensity

I suspect that even without anonymity, arguing when there's an audience has that effect on people.
It's surprising how many people here equate "the Internet" with "social media". It's like having access to 1,000,000 x the Library of Alexandria every day and only being interested in keeping up with what people are talking about in the lobby
Very beautiful cover and interesting topic. I'd have liked the full table of contents to be visible somewhere on the page or in the sample otherwise it's hard to know what you're buying.
>Manual QA promotes bad habits

I could understand Manual QA does not scale, but why bad habits? What if the person doing Manual QA of an application also then writes tests afterwards based on what they have determined are the likely problems in the application - which is what I would do if I was going to write (ui) tests, test it by hand first.
Really interesting, there's a smart comment in there about capitalism appropriating its critics and their criticisms.

Now the question is: is Curtis the person first doing the appropriation of capitalist criticism and is this guy actually doing an appropriation of the appropriation of capitalist criticism? Again, I find it very interesting nonetheless.
HN can definitively be brutally dismissive of things that doesn't match current perceived wisdom of what is the right way of doing things, much beyond the initial few comments.

But I don't think there's a way around that while maintaining open discussion. At least here the disagreements are mostly civil.

Part of what makes announcements like this tricky on HN, and what I think triggered the comment you replied to, is that while part of HN values "cool hacks" and simplicity greatly, part of HN evaluates everything based on whether it's useful at scale, as a product, right now, and can grow big (there's certainly a big overlap, and I'm oversimplifying), and an announcement relating to a commercial project that aims for the former crowd unsurprisingly strokes some of the latter crowd entirely the wrong way as a weird niche project seemingly massively lacking in the features they think are essential.

I think that with DragonRuby that is particularly unavoidable. What makes some of us find it awesome is an inherently alien way of thinking to a lot of people in a way that look backwards to many.
In answer to a comment on the article the author states that they're using Elastisch with the native driver (which provides 5X better performance than the RESTful driver).
I am not sure how it works in Ubuntu, but you might need also to set the `inferior-lisp-program' variable to 'sbcl' in emacs.
You have summed up my problem exactly.Talking to the university may not be the best option in this case but I will give it a try.Thanks.
Thanks - yep, design was done in-house by our design/UX director (http://www.signalhq.com/about-us/team/drew-myler). We're now focused on cleaning up our message so that you immediately know what the product does when hit the home page. I think a few walk through videos will be helpful, it's a great product.
If documents are categorised by apps, why have a separate browser for them instead of keeping them in the app? If I want to view my Pages documents, I'd open Pages not Documents or whatever it might be called.p
I don't know if any are hacker-specific, but you might check the list of communities here:

http://directory.ic.org/iclist/geo.php
In some period of time a user is only able to do some amount of login attempts, after that he has to wait until he can try again to login. You can do that per IP or per username, doing it per username its not good because someone can abuse that to block the genuine user to log in. Doing it per ip is the best option you have and i didn't say that its not good, what i said is that if the user uses a weak password even if you put a rate limit they will be able to find the password soon enough.
Some will say that it’s necessary to balance privacy against security, and that it’s important to find the right compromise between the two. Even if you believe that, a good negotiator doesn’t begin a conversation with someone whose position is at the exact opposite extreme by leading with concessions.

And that’s exactly what we’re dealing with. Not a balance of forces which are looking for the perfect compromise between security and privacy, but an enormous steam roller built out of careers and billions in revenue from surveillance contracts and technology. To negotiate with that, we can’t lead with concessions, but rather with all the opposition we can muster.

http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to...
> Lawyers exist to fight. That's their job.

Lawyers fight? We are not from the same hood...
>There’s a whole usenettish genre of Trek apologetics dedicated to this kind of thing.

/r/DaystromInstitute
No, we do not have to remain pragmatic. Pragmatism is the cowards way out of doing something hard or right.
Signal's tie-in with cryptocurrency MobileCoin:

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...
There also seems a propensity for packing the maximum amount of information into every sentence.

Which leads to the narrative equivalent of a PowerPoint presentation where every slide is just plastered with numbers from corner to corner.
It actually works fine in a pseudo-historical setting IMO. You just need to replace the space magic with regular magic.
>too tight a clearance a the corners in the case for the batteries, causing bending of the internal electrodes, leading to short-circuits

That turned out not to be the cause.
https://news.samsung.com/global/infographic-galaxy-note7-wha...
This has nothing to do with gold. He is comparing the exchange rate of the Argentine peso and the USD.

That exchange rate is appalling over time because Argentina relies heavily on USD denominated imports and issues debt denominated in USD to obtain them.
A lot of countries have experienced serious inflation at one point or usually multiple points in history - all countries that are not young (>300 years). It is not perfectly reasonable to expect that yours will not experience it during your lifetime, particularly if you're young. Volatility has this nasty property that it's only bounded from below, but not from above.
The SGLR parser in Strtego/XT is not state of the art, at least not for production use. It only supports pure seven bit ASCII, it is a throwback to the 1970ies.
In the last few years I've enjoyed reading letters (Annual Reports as they call it) written by Frank Martin of Martin Capital Management LLC.

https://www.mcmadvisors.com/newsmaterials/
"Street" doesn't mean anything about the manufacturing entity. Polos, Nautica, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Timberland all have company origins that are anything but street. But their brands took hold in the streets. I mean, Nautica is all about sailing imagery, what street level individual gives a damn about a schooner?
> The ego of some people on HN never ceases to amaze me

The hypocrisy is strong with this one.

Your comment is 10x more arrogant than the comment you're replying to, as far as I can tell.

From your perspective, so long as you can sell it and make money, you're providing value to the world as an entrepreneur. Not only that, but you pride yourself on it.

But to me you're just a parasite maximizing profit by exploiting people's ignorance for your own personal benefit. The fact that you pride yourself on this leads me to believe you are likely a psychopath.

Also holy fucking shit, you're condescending to someone for being "working class."

One thing is obvious. Money can't buy class.
Just so you don't have the wrong idea, Osterholm's suggestion is that everyone who has already been given the first dose already should get the second dose as planned. Only for new vaccinations should we apply the new plan.
> Which countries are you referring to, exactly?

The answer to that is the GP's: "In much of the rest of the world". Australia is considered to be a rich, "Western" nation. Much of the rest of the world is poor, not rich. They do not have Apple stores or, in many cases, fast wired Internet connections. You've got to break out of your mind's box where thinking that Western countries dominate; in terms of population, they don't. At all.

> I think it makes sense to compare phones of similar capabilities.

What about in places where the iPhone isn't for sale, directly? What will you do then? If you would like an example, take Tanzania. They have wireless networks, but (to my knowledge) no iPhone.

The vast majority of the world cannot afford iPhones, but they are able to connect to wireless networks.
No, it's only exactly the same as the high end Android phones.

Here's a list that shows the huge variation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices

I have a phone that's at the same price point as the iPhone (Samsung Galaxy S) but there are lots of phones at the other end of the price spectrum such as the HTC Magic, Dream or Tattoo or maybe the Motorola Quench or Backflip. All phones that are half the price or less than the iPhone/Galaxy S.
I like how he says:

> Apart from these specific instances, I’m genuinely sorry for all the hateful speech and contempt directed towards individuals and groups just because their line of thought didn’t align with mine.

And then he spends the rest of the article ridiculing Hacker News.
What is fundamental to most peoples' lack of accomplishment?

Is it a lack of understanding of the meta behind fame and accomplishment, or is the fact that they have done anything yet?

Priorities man. :) Lets try to promulgate what will get people productive and moving and then we can start nitpicking over the peculiars of how people come to fame in their field.
I am not talking about tribal hatred or matters of perspective or what the public thinks or votes about anything here.

I am talking about the masterminds and their intent. Trump clearly intended to steal the election. Wells Fargo and Wall Street clearly intended to cheat for profit.

It's as if intent doesn't matter, when it truly is the source and agency of the bad actors. Wrongful intent continues to enjoy protection in America under the "tricky things about the law", to borrow your words.

You shouldn't be able to steal something just because the lawyers agree with you. In America, that's how it's done (probably everywhere else too, but).
The article speculates that its use as a way of communicating regular instructions to the military is "unlikely considering the station transmitted the simple buzz tone for at least 15 years before any words or numbers were broadcast." Yet: "The station transmits a buzzing sound that lasts 0.8 seconds, pausing for 1–1.3 seconds, and repeating 21–34 times per minute."

Given that the transmission even of the "buzz tone" isn't entirely regular, couldn't messages merely be modulated into these varying patterns? The rare portions of speech could just be a red herring.
I consider text objects and the f/t motions to be the core Vim editing motions. I'm always annoyed that vim intros go through teaching the w/e/b motions when you can easily get by with f<space>/t<space>/T<space> and the search commands generalize to things like replacing the first part of a camelCase word (ctC) or the end of a string (ct").
Robert Fortner's article "Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition" was discussed recently on HN, a must read for those interested in speech recognition.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1313679
OK, someone downvoted this. That's OK, but can you say why you think it's good for the default in Python 2 to not act like Python 2?