jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see the problem more in the fact, that a lot of publishers try to squeeze out some ad money from every single blank space still left on the page and fill it with third party services where they have no control over the actual booking. It is simply impossible to foresee what inappropriate ads might be shown if you don't now the pool.

In contrast to the directly sold banners, where the marketing team might just postpone a whole scheduled campaign for an airline when half the front page is filled with stories about a plane crash.

Still I think it's impossible to avoid some inappropriate ads at time and one has to live with it.
Seems reasonable. In the UK the break-down is typically:

60% gross profit
30% wages
10-15% rent
5-10% overheads (rates, bills, etc.)
5% advertising

Leaving a profit margin of around 5%.

Most restaurants are lifestyle businesses, simply because they don't make enough money to be anything else.
Their uses overlap in that they both broadly serve as a language for defining structured data being transfered between two different systems. For most use cases in this space, JSON is a) expressive enough and b) far easier to render, read and parse.
I've posted another thread with the details:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904562
Looks like a good ol' fashioned HN/Reddit up/down system would be a welcomed addition there...
The solution I came up with is 80 percent raising taxes, 20 percent cutting costs. I guess I really am a lefty.

But, I didn't touch military budgets at all, except for cutting civilian overhead.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/d...

The biggest shock for me was how little 'cutting earmarks' actually accomplishes, at merely $14 billion. I'm shocked because of how much political hot air is exhaled on it.
Not to mention it's used as a substitute for other, less well subsidized US grown produce.
I have many restauranteur friends in my country, and their profit ranges between 50% to 60%. I have trouble believing that in the USA their profit margins are so crappy. I bet there's a lot of stuff going on under the table (pun intended).
Stanford psych professor Carol Dweck has research and written extensively on how your adoption of either a "growth" mindset - achievement is largely work-based - or "fixed" mindset - achievement is largely gift-based - is largely determinative of the long-term success of those to whom things seem to come without effort younger in life.

https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/cdw...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck
depends on who is dining, but that might make the type of person who is trying to accumulate opentable points mad.
So you have 20 containers each running their own version of the OS? Don't you have to spend a lot of time keeping all of those up to date with OS/library/app updates?

It seems like the kind of thing that makes sense if you have a big deployment anyway, so you might as well hive stuff off, but makes much less sense if you're a "small" shop.
But what about all that profit? Wars are nice little earners for the military industrial complex.
You've hit the nail on the head. The US system is just more automated and advanced than the Cuban. The pricinples remain the same. Watch all the people all of the time and when someone gets interesting then have the knife ready in place to twist it as hard as possible to 'neutralise' the risk to the status quo and those in fiscal power.
I agree - take a look at http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepMitteldorf.html
http://mathforum.org/~josh/Mitteldorf&Martins_Programmed-Agi...
If the goal of the patent system is to encourage innovation and patenting software or math accomplishes it, then patent it.

You assume that "patent(ing) it* will encourage innovation. I don't think that's in evidence. In fact, the exact opposite seems to be in evidence.
I'd much, much rather just pay an honest price for both the printer and the ink refills.

Though, what you propose is more likely to have actual success...
Now if Cloud9 had an android app I'd buy it or at least try their service. Thats going to be the make or break for any of these fancy cloud services for me. Basic utility increase.
It's a donation system. Lots of people want to donate.
I've been wishing for something like this for a while.

...except that I'd need it to be able to queue up things that I can watch later on a mobile device, possibly while offline. That's what makes Instapaper awesome.
I had this built to scratch my own itch: I would always find videos that I wanted to watch and bookmark them. And then I'd lose them in a sea of bookmarks. Whenever I wanted to watch something, it was hard to find something that fit how much time I had. So this solves both those problems.

I say "had this built" because it was my little experiment in management. The whole thing was put together by a team of 4 (including me) and now we've launched it without me writing a single line of code. Since I'm the guy who's usually coding nonstop to launch something, it was a refreshing change and a fun experiment.
It was discovered that light has some weak magnetic properties, then an actual experiment was done that discovered these magnetic properties were strong enough to generate useful amounts of electricity. Patents were issued.

This is just semantic wordplay. I bet the legal literature is the same way. Even if we somehow fit these clunky classifications to reality, we would be no closer to designing a sensible patent system.
A pittance of a fine and a slap on the wrist? There's no justice in that.
I've heard people say, when speaking of potential partners, that there's nothing better than a widow/widower. They've already proven they aren't afraid of commitment, that they can get along with someone, and they are single through no fault of their own.

The equivalent in this case would be people who did good work, but at a company that went under for reasons out of their control.
Shocking! If you drop a complicated electronic device with a glass touch screen, it might break.

The durability of the glass is surely to prevent breakage when you sit on your phone or drop it from a reasonable distance, no?
I don't understand why Windows 10 doesn't take an encryption first approach. When you install Windows 10, it should default to having disk encryption checked.
The Million Man March's attendance didn't include people with an established history of bringing weapons and wearing body armor at ostensibly peaceful demonstrations.
I had the same experience so I switched to Edge when I need a Chromium browser. Still use Firefox as my main browser though
A lot of very good counter-arguments in the comments!

I'd like to add one: don't use full icon fonts, use only the icons you need with a tool like icomoon.io => it generates font files with only the icons you choose!
how many years it took since flask to reach fastapi ?
3) get rid of cloudsql-proxy. Another huge speed increase

^ Do not use cloudsql-proxy ever. GCP docs are wrong. DO NOT proxy all your db requests through a single VM.
I have the same experience; I think what school you get to attend is just the happy byproduct arising from your internal combination of intelligence, self-motivation, and emotional resilience (mostly! I am speaking in generalities).

I remember reading a study about this exact topic and it turns out name brand has little to do with career success in meritocratic career paths - i.e., upper-middle white collar professionals such as engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc.

I guess my conclusion is to be aware of your child's personality. If they aspire to be an engineer, they could probably go anywhere, even gasp Virginia Tech and do fine. However if they aspire to be a politician, then they'd probably be best served to attend the highest grade institution they can so they can be socialized into that in-group.
How is fiat on the way out? Seems like a bold claim to make with no evidence.

Also, how do you tackle the environmental effects of crypto?
I use FA for most clients. Is there a problem with FA icon scaling?
Neither is AWS Support. But they do have much lower priced offers though.
We're discovering that zoning is a tragedy of the commons style issue where it may sound good for any individual city, but is detrimental if everyone does it. It makes no sense to put on blinders with respect to the problems cities create just because of some notion that cities can operate in a vacuum, narrowly focused inward at the expense of good citizenship.
It's even worse than that. This isn't cash MSTR has on hand; they're raising new cash by issuing convertible bonds.

As an investor, if I want to bet on BTC, I can just buy BTC. Why would I buy this weird hybrid of business intelligence software company and holding company?
So basically you're wasting your money supporting those outdated browsers because someone refused to waste their money upgrading their browsers?

How about security?
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/microsoft-and-google-collab...
This is really only a problem for land close to cities. Outside of the cities, agricultural land is taxed at appropriate rates. To be more specific, both a house in the city and 100 acres of agricultural land in the boonies are worth roughly a quarter of a million dollars and pay roughly the same amount of land taxes.
Anecdotally, this is the U.S. government's infosec philosophy. Software crypto is looked down on as a toy. "Real" security applications use hardware crypto (smart cards, HSMs, other ASIC-based crypto).

The civilian world might need to catch up.
If the sleep were cryptographically random, I can imagine it working out actually. But I wouldn't approach the subject unless I were more confident in my knowledge of cryptography.
That post doesn't mention Netflix at all?
True, but at some point we all have to make an effort to move past that as difficult as it may be.
I can't find the article now, but there was something here a month or so ago about the new parking meters in San Fran. I believe you'll be able to add time to your meter and get alerts that you're running low via mobile phone with these new meters.
"Cars are unsafe.

Not especially so, compared to a lot of other things."

Compared to other forms of intracity transportation they are horrifically unsafe. They are the leading cause of accidental death in America. They are safer than motorcycles but far, far, far more dangerous than other forms of transportation (which themselves are often dangerous only because of the risk of being hit by cars).

"Caring if other people use energy efficiently sounds way too much like ideology to me."

Highways are public infrastructure. Public infrastructure is by definition a public decision--you can't use public money to build freeways all over the place, fail to allow any other form of transportation, and then pretend it's a matter of individual choice whether people drive cars. And it's impossible to build car-friendly infrastructure without making unusable all other forms of transportation infrastructure as well.

Since public infrastructure is already a public choice, we have to consider all the consequences of that choice, which include safety and energy efficiency.

"Perhaps, but pedestrian-friendliness, bicycle-friendliness and mass transit friendliness are directly opposed to another kind of human-friendliness: the kind that allows people, especially families, to live at a comfortable density. The only way to make a city navigable by non-car means is to cram people in at high density: okay for some (heck, I live in a thirty-storey building myself) but not for others."

Research shows that human beings are not actually all that happy living in suburbs, especially if they have to commute two hours a day through traffic jams on freeways. People like towns just fine, but not suburbs. And a town doesn't have to be car friendly either.
If the problem is absorption in the stomach, then drinking B12 isn't going to help.
New Google is the new New Coke. I guess that makes Bing Pepsi.
Microsoft's limited access to the GamerTag/Gamercard XML feed is the barrier of entry. I've looked into building a similar app but still awaiting MS approval. Although there is an application to gain direct access to the feed, I suspect it is mostly limited to developers who are already part of the network (ie. a paying member of the Xbox Registered Developer Program).
I agree completely. Python isn't perfect but, for me, it solves the issues I listed. I don't like Java and Perl can be the Pit of Despair. I don't have to worry about 4.days working depending on if I loaded a library that loaded another library that properly patched the integer class and the Scheme/Lisp (perceived by me) clusterfuck of libraries, reader macros, slight incompatibilities etc is just non-existent.

I would drop python in an instant of a better language came along. For me, the question isn't what it fixes, but what it succeeds at. It makes my professional life less painful and that's really the only reason I need.

edit: Also would like to not that the original article seemed fairly pointless. It's not really saying anything of substance.
Thanks! And great writeup by Matt. You should do a blog post on your video workflow - GAE and a transcoding API like Zencoder. :)
Sure, I just meant that they were replaced by a more exotic instrument. That's not a bad thing -- RSUs are way better for employees IMHO.

But yes, I am poking fun at the problem solving methodology which says "just make a more complicated derivative."
The most important thing is to put yourself in a context that stimulates your growth. Some examples:
[1] start hanging out at a hacker space, [2] find a friendly university research lab (this is what I do), [3] find a company that is willing to train you, [4] dive into Ruby/Python/Lisp/... and start hanging out with the club in your area.

Just being in the presence of other people who are working in your field will inspire you, show you how to act and what to do, and lead to opportunities that you can't imagine in advance.

You need to learn how to learn how to be a programmer (or whatever else you want to be).
we have rubbles in Belarus too. But they are not russian rubbles, but belarussian rubbles (like there is canadian dollar, australian dollar, etc).
It's interesting that some products make the most sense to subsidize when they are very expensive, and other products make the most sense to subsidize when they are almost free. It's not really clear to me that subscriptions & eReaders interact in such a way that they fall neatly into either category. For example, as eReaders approach free are you really going to want a separate crappy eReader for each subscription your have, or would you rather have a really nice eReader for all your subscriptions? And if it's the latter, which I think it clearly is, then does it really make sense to tie one subscription into the initial purchase? The only way it makes sense is if you make something that's like the iPad of eReaders, so that it is the expensive option in a sea of other cheaper options. So even though eReaders will be almost free in three years, it seems like it could be another 6 years before we have the technology to make a luxury version of an eInk product. So in short I guess I would expect some sort of subsidized version in the three years, but I don't see it being done really well for another 6.
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” –Edsger W. Dijkstra
I'd love immutable auto-properties. They'd make a lot of my code cleaner.
First, it is not a browser. You actually do commits, merges and manipulate branches.

The size is that big because Gitbox is bundled with official Git binaries so you don't have to install anything else. I will see how to bring the size down in the next versions. Anyway, this fact does not affect the performance and does not eat much memory.
There seems to be also another git client coming out this month: http://www.git-tower.com/ — Git Tower

The UI seems a little bit more confusing, not something simple.
I still use GitX.
holy crap. this might actually get me to finally make the jump from hg to git.
I also thoroughly enjoyed my undergraduate research opportunities and they played a large part in how I chose my university. It's also an area where I think the US does very well--introducing students to research early in their careers.
I did some extremely light programming late in high school on my TI-83 calculator (before I knew that gotos were considered harmful and before I would have understood that reference). Soon after high school (graduated in 2005) I decided I wanted to be a programmer, but I didn't really know what programming as a discipline or career entailed, and I honestly didn't know where to go to learn. In 2008 I enrolled at a university, and my first real exposure to programming was my university's intro to CS course, which of course used Java and covered basic OO and some basic data structures. I liked it and learned quickly enough.

Now, a few years later, I love both CS and programming, but obviously I am in no position to judge how good I am at either. Here's what I can say objectively, and maybe someone can give their opinion on how legit I am or how much my CS degree did for me: I took a national standardized CS test for to-be graduates (MFAT I believe it's called) and scored in the highest bracket >95%. I read, comprehended, and loved GEB. I read, mostly comprehended, and loved SICP and The [Little, Seasoned] Schemer. I had to give up on a book about Gödel's incompleteness theorems because I couldn't hang with the math. I did the Grepling challenge a while back in Python without cheating.

I've learned how to learn new languages on my own. I'm decent with Python, and have created some nontrivial web apps with Django. That said, I still make mistakes when programming that are embarrassing when brought to light, and I still discover new things that I feel I should have already known. I've never made a start-up or even contributed to an open source project, so I'm still probably near the bottom in this community.

I definitely needed a CS curriculum to become a programmer at all, and with any luck I'll end up becoming a good programmer.
It is also completely irrelevant to the study at hand, as one of the conclusoins was that the right diet helps without counting calories.
One article which I read recently was rather eye-opening:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/college-cost...

In it, inflation adjusted prices of dental services are plotted against time, along with the price of higher education. Amazingly, they track each other extremely well, which would suggest that the price of services in general are increasing at a rate higher than inflation....It would be interesting to see the price for other services plotted on the same graph. If the curve is "universal", then it might be an indicator that we should look to causes in the broader economy...
Because your body is not a bunsen burner - it burns different kinds of foods differently.
I`m going on a holiday soon and this tips are very useful for me ;)
Did I say this wasn’t for developing nations? This pledge is for everyone. All people from all places worldwide.
I think it is this very post that made me realize how sharp but also how double-edged of a blade mmap was.
OP said they work for FANG and they are likely in California or Washington. It’s very relevant.
Where did I ever say this pledge was only for the West? This is for all individuals world wide.
The memristor is a real thing, just hasn't been implemented yet right?
Would that Java application be capable of running in the browser? JavaFX, maybe?
Posts like this reminded me how spoiled I am now with the visual studio debugger for c#. I think it's still one of the best in the industry.
In a similar vein, I use pypi-install to directly grab Python packages as Debian packages.
Oil is primarily used as fuel for transportation. How can I power my kilowatt car with these? How about flying a megawatt plane?

This seems more like a milliwatt application. Probably nice and useful for phone, but not to replace oil. The title is misleading.

What is the efficiency of this technology compared to the usual solar panels?

We need terawatt-scale energy sources if we want to meet actual demand. How many square kilometers of that glass do we need to install to meet that demand?
I have been following the project for a while, I believe it has a strong team behind it and, from what I've read on their channels, they have been working on their tech for 4 years now. I'm really looking forward for an alternative, decentralized Social Network: Synereo even rewards users and content creators for their attention and artwork. This is too good not to support! Looking forward to get hands on when they'll invite people to beta test.
I am suprised that there is no such thing. Not even a curated web page. Or maybe my Google-fu is not as good.
It's still up. They just broke search-by-date, which makes it fairly useless for finding particular posts.
Two points:

1. Yes, the "products" of the three industries (Films, Books, Music) with low(er) sales are transferable. But that has only become the case in the last 10-15 years. Prior to that it was harder (with movies and music: both being distributed on different media) or even impossible (books: being distributed on paper only; not counting audio-books) to separate content and media. Yet, over decades these industries have done everything to protect themselves.

2. If you try to copy the way some software works (by re-writing it) you can get sued. Damocles sword is always hanging above your head.
No, only the people dialing from numbers he's added to his "Gate" group in GV.
I really don't like fries of this style. I'll take a real, honest fench fry where one can tell it is made from a sliced potato. Five Guys, for instance, makes excellent fries. They appear to do so by cutting up a potato and immersing it in boiling oil. Imagine that!

I have absolutely no desire to eat processed, partially synthesized corporate potato product.
Very true, but other techniques from the school of thought to which speed reading belongs do still apply to math texts, I think.

For instance, many people, if they start getting hung up on some difficult material in a math text will slow down (an ok thing to do), then if they have more trouble, they slow down more (maybe also ok). But at some point as progress approaches zero (several moves that seemed ok in isolation accumulate), and the reward/effort falls below that needed to have the reader keep reading the book, some other activity always occurs as a better use of time (the accumulation of ok moves has defeated the entire enterprise). Sometimes ending a book that way is probably ok, but surely it can't always be for the best (unless pretty much every book is organized so as to have monotonically increasing difficulty and monotonically decreasing worth-it-ness to the reader). So the attitude of not treating the book as sacrosanct is helpful here, if the material gets tough and there is any threat of motivation dropping, just skip to the beginning of the next section, summary, or chapter as the case may be. Later material may illuminate the previous difficult material, or maybe something else later on will be worth learning even without the stuff that got skipped (if one removed a random ingredient from every sandwich you ate, they will still have nutritional value).

Speed reading is just one of a number of methods all built on a presupposition, that between the realms of "worth reading start to finish carefully" and "not worth reading" there is a landscape of books that can be worth spending different amounts of time on. So then the issue becomes, for book type x, and time one is willing to spend trying t, what are the heuristics available for getting a positive return out of that book.

This has reminded me to order a copy of _How to Read a Book_. It has been years since I gave that book a two hour reading, and it still shapes how I think about allocating time for a book like making a bet and choosing strategies based on the time and book type.