jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the interest! What I've been playing with in the project is not really a summarizer, though I think it could work well with a summarization model. This one is simply about highlighting relevant bits of a certain text (be it the original or a summary), so that you can then "scan" it in interesting ways.

I totally agree that people's summaries of the same original article are different, and moreover that the best summary for you personally is different from mine, and different from anyone else's. It should not tell you what you already know, for instance. But again, whole different can of worms..
What about these?

- don't leave local variables uninitialized.
- don't try to hand-optimize lines unnecessarily.
- don't mix assignments into boolean expressions. (Which is really an unneeded optimization.)
Tesla is a bit more than a brand name though, and has some seriously impressive tech behind it which will be worth an awful lot even if the seriously impressive personality behind it can't make it turn a profit.

Soylent by contrast, is a good brand name and a (replicable) recipe, and there's really nothing that revolutionary about maltodextrin-based food substitutes, even if you might need to buy a vitamin pill separately to top some of the others up, or consider eating actual food from time to time, like the overwhelming majority of human beings actually enjoy doing. There is money in such things; Kraft make >$1bn in revenue worldwide from selling Tang, but Kraft are very, very good at selling food.
> If post sale it turns out the money was fraudulent, does the artist need to pay it back?

Maybe? IIRC, if you unknowingly buy stolen property, and they trace it to you, I think you have to surrender it to its rightful owner (without compensation from the police).
It actually isn't a sensible reason to downlevel.

Let's think about it this way. I apply to Xibalba Corp. for a Senior Dev position. You're a recruiter at Xibalba Corp. and you use YoE to rank candidates (as a shortcut for critical thinking which is much too hard). Why would you move past the screening stage knowing how many YoE I have? It would be dishonest of you to move past that stage with my candidacy knowing that you would later downlevel me.

(I am not claiming Shopify did this, merely an example.)
Can you list a few reasons you think Haskell isn't pragmatic?
Agree; but note the study of the Swiss swimming team Limmat Sharks on fat reduction and cardio:

"The results suggest that in terms of beneficial effects on body composition, there is no difference between aerobic exercise on land and in water as long as intensity, duration and frequency of workouts are comparable. [..] However, swimming as the exclusive sport could be problematic, because the small load on the skeleton is not favourable to prevent osteoporosis"

http://limmatsharks.com/Swimming%2BFatReduction/index.html
http://www.limmatsharks.com/Fatburner/

Generally, the articles of Limmat Sharks are great reads on swimming. I can't recommend them enough.
Gmail is now very heavily used in foreign trade in China, by completely blocking it they just necessitated Chinese companies buying VPNs that would never have felt the need before.

As a side note this does not really effect foreigners here since all of use pretty much use VPNs full time.
Scraping your wishlist print page. Caveat: the prices will be shown as if I was a user living where my server location is (it actually varies a lot).
Is there any evidence that Facebook/Google/Microsoft are productive? They have a lot of money and a lot of engineers to throw at a problem.

When I worked at an investment bank, the code quality was crap, and the staff turnover was high. Didn't matter, because they literally had enough money to throw at the problem and keep hiring more people.
nope RTT even for these kind of network hardware is >=10 microseconds (I deal with such stuff professionally). Still a big gain going async :-)
I'm not sure if this was targeted at me or the general public.

If the former: I was aware of that, but a ~random~ plugin is no reason for me to jump to a different (and ultimately not interesting, from my personal view) browser.
LOL... net-filters in my job mark this site as porn...
> in a case with many competing WLANs, the algorithm would typically tend to reduce the bandwidth consumed by each WLAN

Wouldn't that use more battery, since for a narrower channel the radio would have to be kept on for longer to transmit (or receive) the same amount of data?
That theory kind of breaks down when they get into specifics about military service, clothing, scars, etc. Things that a cold reader wouldn't have any access to.
Ah, but if only people switched to Persona.

If only people looked into it more than 5 minutes and realized that Persona is still maintained and is by far the best way to do authentication on the web. Really, the most correct protocol out there.

But then of course, if only Mozilla had a marketing team worth a damn and didn't make it look like they gave up on the whole thing in the first place, we wouldn't have this situation.

I get sad trying to promote it. I get the feeling that whoever is in charge of decisions around Persona has no idea how important a project like it is for the web. Everybody is tying a core and extremely security-sensitive part of their websites, authentication, to other websites in a non-decentralized way. And every time there's a damn post about "Facebook auth is down!", "Twitter auth is down!"... how long is it going to be until those are down for good and people just can't log in anymore?

Blergh. Sad.
This is a terrible idea. The rules are the rules, and that's what makes bitcoin bitcoin and not some bank to be bailed out when things get screwed up.

This would do far more to hurt bitcoin in the long run, because now no one could trust that the rules will be followed.

I'm sorry to all the people who lost money at Mt. Gox. I have a friend who lost $800,000 (sold in January, cash never made it out), so don't think I'm just heartless. But the rules are the rules, and everyone should have known to stay away from Mt. Gox. They didn't because they were greedy for that higher price.
Sure, good point. I know a few MBAs from great state schools who are also struggling to find work.

Regardless, his point is not that "money rains from the sky" but that people should develop the life they want, irrespective of making money. Money will generally work itself out (whether its by making money off your passion, or working to support your passion as a hobby).
Is there really much difference between freelancing and a job? In both cases you need (should) be building your personal brand and networking with people. I have bounced between jobs and freelancing. I see them all as my clients. The only difference is in how taxes are done and expectations.

Maybe tell your employer that you are taking other projects and offer to stay on to do certain projects as a contractor, but at your freelance rate.

There are a ton of threads on Hacker News on freelancing. I suggest you do some heavy searching. There are some real gems.

Edit: The great thing about freelancing is that you can always fall back to regular employment. As your pool of contacts gets deeper, you begin to feel like you could never really be without work.
Yes, Redcar is pretty cool!
This is an inspiring talk on how to hack on it - even though I'm still mostly using vim/sublime it was pretty eye opening to me, rubies all the way down:

Crafting iOS Dev Tools in Redcar - Delisa Mason (#inspect 2013)

https://vimeo.com/69745309
I'm guessing he didn't think the company wouldn't fix such a huge issue...
While I generally disagree with you here, I actually do agree about "return". Hopefully we can deprecate it in favor of pure now that all Monads must be Applicatives.

My broader disagreement is that these names do mean something - they mean the same thing they do in math. Using the same name makes it easier for me to find more relevant things, and it can be tremendously useful to be able pull over results and intuitions from other contexts. There's no good reason to demand an additional translation step when we're talking about the same things.
Wikipedia also has a video but this picture also illustrates it well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
But then posts like yours are at risk of saying "you only think you had depression, but you got better, so fuck you for faking it you liar. I have real depression".
The current model of bundling channels actually works really well and all the people going on about cutting the cord in the future will soon realize how much its going to cost to pay for individual channels.

Regular people will find that paying for cable is the better deal and will continue to do that.
Re the pot bust, it seems the constitutional backdrop may have forced both sides into a tacit understanding that pot is fine so long as it stays at home:

Dave Schofield is the chief of police in Whittier. He is also the only officer who lives in town. Alaska’s laws often reflect the needs of a sparsely populated state, which presents challenges for policing within Begich Towers. For example, the state constitution has written into it a right to privacy; if something is occurring in your own home, you have the right to keep it private. This means that although there is a pervasive smell of marijuana in Begich Towers, the police can do little about it. “The law says you can’t have drugs within 500 feet of a school; there’s not a unit in this building that’s 500 feet from the school, but we have the right-to-privacy issue.”

The pot bust itself appears to have stemmed from this event:

A few years ago, a pot grower on the 10th floor had just finished a harvest and decided to get rid of some of the evidence by flushing it down the toilet. In the process he stopped up the plumbing on the floors below him—a neighbor called city management to complain that someone had flushed large amounts of dog food down the toilets, but it turned out to be pellets of grow medium.

http://reedyoung.com/project/whittier-alaska/r-young-whittie...
Not really. "Luxury" though.
It seems to have now been restored.

I imagine it was your resume that triggered it, particularly the Keywords section.
In my company they use Excel for Newsletter mailing. True story.
> "Of course, a single number can only tell you so much -- it's a very gross generalization of skill."

In a system where new players can enter after competition has begun (and others have accumulated points), there's also a good chance that a new player will not yet have had enough time to accumulate a score that's in line with their actual skill, which can lead to some misleading matchups. Depending on the details of the ranking system and the ease of finding similarly-ranked partners, it can take a long time to converge to a "true" rating.

For example: I had friends in college who played competitive card games that had some sort of lifetime ranking (Bridge, perhaps?) Because they were young, they were often the lowest seed in tournaments. Despite above-average skill, they were normally eliminated by the very most skilled teams in the first round, and therefore had few opportunities to accumulate points against more equal competition. Once they finally broke through and won a couple of tournaments, there was a bit of a snowball effect as they moved out of the lowest seed.
Rails has since caught up quite well: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Yes, my "how do I..." question was retaining to all of what you said. Support, attention, users, contributers.

I know how to do the site, front and back. I know how to host. I know where to host. I was simply looking for feedback on those questions as well as some general feedback on the idea.

And I will do. I'm a long time lurker, and this is my first post.
The first time a user goes to StartCom on Windows XP on IE6, it will pop up with a "cert error". This is because the user hasn't recently updated their root certs through a super-optional Windows Update install. However, any subsequent loads will work as Windows will check and update their root certificates in the background.
Since your security is as weak as the worst issuer, there's no point in buying a "premium" certificate.

True for most of us here, but not universally true. Extended validation certificates are expensive but provide an unparalleled level of reassurance for users: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate
The blog engine is just a proof of concept - I don't think he is interested in actually scaling his blog...
We are getting there with the rump kernel (rumpkernel.org). It now runs PHP, Lua, LuaJIT, C, C++. This is very much work in progress and it is not particularly user friendly, but it is improving rapidly. I plant to look at Go soon, which has built in syscall traps, which need replacing with library calls. There are a whole bunch of environment assumptions, like existence of dynamic linkers, build systems and so on that need to be worked around.

OSv is another option, it makes life easier by supporting Linux binaries modified to be dynamic libraries, and runs several languages too, although it was initially mainly targeted at JVM languages.
CLEAR in Chicago is pretty reliable, and speeds hit as advertised. I haven't come across any filters or throttling, but I didn't like the USB-only options or the pricing for roaming (3g) and ultimately went over to Sprint/Overdrive.

CLEAR in Chicago offers month-to-month for $40/mo. You sure about the 2 year commitment in Houston?
The UK is an island but our borders have more holes than a colander. Illegal immigration and people smuggling are a huge issue here, and a political hot potato. The problem must be 10x worse for countries with land borders.
Drama crap. Flagged.
They don't need to provide it for all attendees, just those that are liveblogging. The rest have little need to use the internet during the keynote.
thanks for the tip. looks like a great choice. My MacBook Air is toast...that's what happens when you solder the RAM onto the mobo...$900 repair fee, ouch...I'd rather just buy a new laptop.
For the Jak and Daxter games, Naughty Dog used GOAL, an in-house Lisp dialect, for almost the entire game.
Click bait article. But what I find interesting about the whole affair is apple didn't plan for it to happen. Guarantee there'll never be another demo done over WiFi. If they need wireless, I bet they'll setup some very short-range signal in another frequency. Or would that be illegal?
Cool. I'm Malaysian too but located in East Malaysia. I'm working alone on a web project too. From my experience, going alone is emotionally tough, working first may help find people who share the same ambition. Don't give up...."how can you fail if you don't give up" :) Tell yourself you're going to take 4 years (or more if you're still young) and giving it all you have. Even if you fail, you would have gained valuable experience and knowledge.

Be careful of saying that the software is done and launching it big. What you have is probably a product that you think what others will want. Until you get feedback and slowly releasing it to the world, you do not know. Probably getting those unmotivated people around you to try your software might be helpful as a start.

I think historically there's been a higher chance of failure but as long as you learn from the mistakes, you'll do fine. Fail fast.

fyi, I used to lecture CS in Malaysia :) and I failed trying to launch an ecommerce site in Malaysia. But I'm at it again.:)

This article may shed some light on your dilemma
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/10/03/harnessing-e...

Keep reading and learning. If you don't already know, I find the following things helpful
- http://ecorner.stanford.edu/
- http://steveblank.com
- twitter

It's not about the idea. It's the execution. If it's a good idea, someone else is probably doing the same thing...unless you have a crazy idea. Know your competition and realised that you are one person against probably a whole team of people if it's not a niche enough market you're targeting.

Well that's my opinion anyway...:)
Or this plane happens to be travelling in the direction of the satellite?

EDIT: here's another plane with the same (grey, red, green, blue) sequence: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&ie=UTF8&gl=us&#...

The sideways offset seems to be roughly half as much as the offset in the direction of movement of the plane, so at least that component would be due to the sensor platform moving...
Really cool idea. I signed up!
A theory isn't completely abandoned just because of a single contradicting observation. The theory may explain a host of other phenomena very well, in which case then new observation merely shows a limit past which the theory no longer applies. As an example, we know of many observations which contradict the predictions of Newtonian gravity, but we still use that theory for planning space probe trajectories.

I would like to know what you mean when you say "big bang theory". I think that would help ensure we're all talking about the same thing.

When I say "big bang theory", I mean the idea that the universe we live in was in a very hot, dense state roughly 13.7 billion years ago, along with some other details such as a brief period of cosmic inflation.
The thing that's bitten me on the ass a few times with that strategy is failing to upgrade sites from "I don't care about" status.

I'll use the 'insecure' password to drop a comment on an interesting discussion on a site I've just found - like, say HackerNews or Twitter, then two years later I'm still participating in the community there, and it _could_ have still had the password I used that time to comment on a ValleyWag story. All of a sudden I _do_ care a bit about any reputation I might have. I was fortunate this time not to have any sites I cared about still using the same old password Gawker leaked (mainly 'cause I'd learned that lesson when my twitterstream started spamming acai berry sites when PerlMonks exposed my low-grade password back then.)

I think Schenier's right - the world isn't a place where "remembering passwords" works any more. We need too many of them and we don't have enough control over how other people store them.

A password safe with a strong passphrase backed up by somethig like dropbox or zumodrive is probably a minimum sensible approach now. Some care is needed with the devices you access that password safe on, and awareness of how software like browsers or your OS caches and stores any passwords it sees you use. Even with a properly secured password safe, a fair number of my logins are probably hosed if I lose my laptop... Firefox, Chrome Safari, Mail.app, Twitter clients, IM clients, IRC programs, FTP programs - all of them store credentials for me, _mostly_ in Mac OS X's keychain, but not in a "reliable enough way" to be considered "secure" if the physical hardware is in someone else's possession.
I am know AR is still new, but can you shade light on traffic numbers related to AR?
I have a wild and semi-unprovable theory that whenever you feel fear in a life-threatening situation, you are in fact feeling the simultaneous multiple-universe death of your other selves who don't survive the life-threatening situation -- sort of the way identical twins report that they can sense each other's feelings, or know when the other is in danger. It's probably total BS, but it's fun to think about.
As I remember FreeBSD 5.0 (and 5.1 and 5.2 for that matter) were always labelled -RELEASE (and not -STABLE, that didn't happen until 5.3).

It was a chicken and egg kind of problem, where a lot of stuff in the new kernel was rewritten/redone, among other things to get rid of the GIANT lock and enable SMP support in the kernel. There was also a new threading implementation, a new I/O block layer and all sorts of stuff that needed more exposure.
> You can't do this for games.

Sure you can. For example people need to move around in the game. You can add rideable objects - or not. Usually you don't need to ride something for the game - it's just cool. So this is complexity you can remove.

You can take it a second step - assume riding is required. Do you want various types? Say you ride a horse - do you need multiple colors and sizes of horses?

Or something as simple as allowing the character to change hats.
Current title is "Increase in Denmark’s autism diagnoses caused by reporting changes". I think a more accurate description would be "60% of the Increase in Denmark’s autism diagnoses caused by reporting changes".
Let's not overreact. This is a bug report on an outdated phone and outdated operating system in a use case that will likely only be experienced by a very small subset of users. Should Google fix this? Probably. But that does't mean that not fixing it is a sign of fundamental problems with Google, the mobile industry, or consumer culture in general.
I bought a G1, The Google special edition.

It is still a perfectly usable device but gets no love or updates. Apps decay as new versions don't support it. I keep it in my room as an alarm clock with an incoming only Sim in it.
And you're not afraid? Do arrests seem legit when you hear about one?
No, it's not. Several people have signed up saying "I don't know Perl, but this seems like a good opportunity to start learning it".
> I haven't experienced faster updates

I thought the Nexus devices were the first to get new updates. Does this not apply to Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus?
A different activity: physical/mental or switching context ?
As far as Facebook iconography goes, this isn't nearly as creepy as That Guy from Facebook's old logo: http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/facebookguy.P...

Frankly, it seems to be in the general category of vaguely strategy-conveying graphics that a lot of companies employ. It's nowhere near as bizarre as, for instance, the graphics underlying the rationale behind the Pepsi rebranding last year, conveying such concepts as "Relativity of Space and Time", "Gravitational Pull of Pepsi", "The Pepsi Ratio", the comparison of "The Earth's Geodynamo" to "The Pepsi Globe" and "Magnetic Fields" to "Pepsi Energy Fields", and the not-quite-orthagonal axes of "Convention to Innovation" and "DNA to Future" projected through the old Pepsi logo to create the new one: http://www.fastcompany.com/files/PEPSI%20GRAVITATIONAL%20FIE...
> opposed by some of the most important players in the industry.

And these are? No, Apple is not one of "the most important players in the industry". Safari has only some 6% market share.
This is a common misconception. In fact, HTTP Live Streaming as proposed by Apple has nothing to do with chunked encoding. The former splits the video into multiple "chunk" files, using an m3u file as a playlist. Stream variants are supported by having multiple sets of video and m3u files, but dynamically switching between them based on bandwidth is left to the client.

See:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-...
I can't recall the last thing that made me giggle as much as realizing what they were doing. I can't see any time I'd really use this, but the audacity is inspiring.
You're totally right. As a matter of fact, in undergrad I had a professor (Dr. Robert? Hard) who found even more correlates, some of them environmental, and plugged them into a GIS that would highlight good candidate sites for archaeological digs. Amazingly, he would go to these places, and often find important sites. Foremost among these was Cerro Juanaqueña, where Dr. Hard (at least a decade ago) earned the distinction of finding the oldest use of corn north of Mexico.

So yes, there comes a tipping point where agriculture becomes the most attractive option, and when that happens, humans begin the sequence that causes them to lose a few important things and gain a lot of great things.

And strangely, it looks like we're getting some of the things we lost back.
In Pittsburgh, NREC (a division of the Robotics Institute) offers $5000 bonuses for referrals that result in a hire.