jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From the Wikipedia article:

Prefix code: The first byte indicates the number of bytes in the sequence. Reading from a stream can instantaneously decode each individual fully received sequence, without first having to wait for either the first byte of a next sequence or an end-of-stream indication. The length of multi-byte sequences is easily determined by humans as it is simply the number of high-order 1s in the leading byte. An incorrect character will not be decoded if a stream ends mid-sequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Comparison_with_other_en...
But if we can only access, interact or see a bubble of 62 billion light years like the paper says, do the rest really exist for us?
I do forget that Chromebooks are a thing.
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/special-features/use-caution-when-...
If Finland's great teachers were to teach in U.S. schools, they would encounter significant pressure to conform from students, parents and administrators. The ones who tow the line and preserve the status quo would get to keep their jobs while the others would be mobbed, manipulated and discarded. Administrators would fabricate a false narrative using negative performance review. Parents would blame the teacher for failing to "teach" which means graciously ignore their child's poor behavior and hand out high grades. This is what would happen to the great majority of great Finnish teachers were they to work here in America. The few who by good fortune places themselves in American school communities which closely resemble Finland would fit right in.
> Just being upper class seems to turn most people into assholes who would rather let the poor die. "Why can't they make it, I did" is a common theme.

That's dumb upper class. Smart upper class realizes their wealth and lifestyle are entirely dependent on keeping the rest of the world working, and satisfied enough they don't try to tear everything apart.
safe* nuclear energy.
The pro version of coinbase is a tool to exchange crypto directly with other people with smaller fees.

I thought that coinbase is more of a store that buys a stock of crypto then resells it with huge fee mark up.
Ohhh that's true! Thanks for catching that ;)
People who made a $50k leveraged bet which is now worth $1M are who we're supposed to ruin our schools, parks, infrastructure and housing market for?
I guess you may think of that in the same way the incumbents considered Amazon “another e-commerce play” or Google as “another search engine” while being blind to the real changes happening underneath.
Thank you so much Taylor!
> more friction, slower transactions, higher transaction costs.

Bitcoin, sure. Plenty of other cryptocurrencies which don't have these issues.

Cardano has faster transactions than any monetary transfer method (besides cash), with low fees. You also get

Bitcoin cash has negligible transactions fees with 10-20 minute transactions.

Nano has fee-less, near-instant transactions (could actually compete with cash for p2p transactions)
Yeah, I'm aware, that this is probably not the most effective way. I'm mainly curious and now I've an opportunity to try it.

Chances are, that I return to classic graphical video editing if it doesn't work. I think an instruction video could be possible to 'code', because you can build it with basic shapes, animations and text--if you want to explain something, you need to keep it simple anyway.
76 millons bananas are approximately between 220 and 500 TEUs (standard containers) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28volume+76+million+ba... Let's multiply that by 2 to account the overhead and space between bananas.

A cargo ship can carry up to 16000 TEUs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship
Why is it more mathematical to use e? (Hint: depending on what you're trying to do, it's not.)
My personal view (as a computer scientist) is that you shouldn't call yourself a "user experience" designer unless you have a background in cognitive psychology. Otherwise you're simply a designer.
Care to post a link?
So what? Does it really matter if comments have higher scores or not? The only thing they are good for now is getting karma to show off on a profile page? Why not just remove karma all together then?

The value of the points on comments before was to help distinguish higher quality comments. Comments that added value generally got a higher score, and we could browser for that.

That can no longer happen.

By all means do not display the points on comments, but do not remove the ability to scan for higher quality comments. You can use some other visual method or indicator to suggest that certain comments are higher quality.

Otherwise, the karma does nothing except provide an encouragement to post comments and links so you can get karma...? I just don't see the value.
Python solution. http://pastebin.com/KyFTXpEr
O(N) / No additional arrays
I believe that radicals are the most influential when they contrast against (and serve as a warning about ignoring) the moderates.

Imho, the problem the FSF has is that they don't have a MLK to Stallman's Malcolm X.

Eben Moglen? maybe? Is he active anymore?
Believe me, the front end of web apps (and even the simple part of the backend, i.e. the parts without high scaling etc) are quite easy and high-level compared to the alternatives on the desktop.

I've done plenty of work on both sides and this is only true if you're developing the kind of app that looks and acts like a fancy web page.
jQuery's normalized event object handles that issue automatically when you call its preventDefault method().
Historically, 'equal initial distribution' hasn't seemed necessary for a money to be adopted. Equal initial distribution might not even be desirable for spurring adoption; among other things, it implies a 'big bang launch' rather than 'money MVP', and giving a new thing mostly to people who (quite reasonably) won't understand or value it.

But I suppose it's possible. First, assign all 7 billion persons a unique ID and ensure they have a secure communications channel. Then, create a Bitcoin-analogous system with different initial parameters, whose difficulty of minting coins only escalates after you create the first 7 billion in private. Then, send those first 7 billion coins to everyone via the secure channel. Voila, the 'potential benefits' of equal distribution should arrive soon thereafter.
This isn't the case for the desktop apps I care about at all. Ableton Live, Photoshop, XCode, MetaSynth, dozens of plugins for same, any number of video editors, look and feel nothing at all like a web app. Web-based versions of these will not be competitive any time in the forseeable future.

Your concerns about Apple's policies are legitimate but orthogonal.
Keep in mind that CCDs can be sensitive enough to background that they're usable as chaos for random number generation[1]. I am not a physicist or photographer, but it may be that some of those spots are the result of settings, damage, camera quality (an old Sony?), or just responding to lower level radiation than you'd expect.

[1] http://www.lavarnd.org/what/process.html
Keynes doesn't say what you think he does. But I can see where you are going wrong. Look at the way you use water as a metaphor, but use it to mean simultaneously (1) the money supply (increasing/decreasing), and (2) the wave-like boom-bust flow of economic activity.

Conflating these things leads you to paradoxical statements like "no new water is created" when you are taking about governments increasing the money supply. Or the way you say "all the splashing is magnifying the distortions" when this is theoretically impossible: preventing deflation by printing money cannot cause worse deflation by definition.

What I think you want to argue is that MAN-MADE changes to the money supply are bad. But not only is this empirically wrong (read about "The Great Moderation"), it brings us back to the point that Keynes made above, when he asserted through a very simple analogy that there is no such thing as a natural economy as long as your idea of one is based around a currency (like gold) the supply of which can only be increased by digging it out of the ground. In this situation you CANNOT be worse off by having your government increase the money supply, because market forces will slowly encourage people to "print more money" themselves by just digging it out of the ground. Which means we're all better off to skip the shoveling and spend the labor on building an airport or something with at least the potential for social return.

My contact information is in my profile -- I'd be happy to carry this on over email if you'd like to continue. And I'd encourage you to read Keynes. And also Kindleberger and Eichengreen if you genuinely believe that the worst of what we are seeing these days is anything like what the world has gone through in the past.
Ask rich people what problems they have. Ask business people what problems they have. Ask business owners what problems they have.
I'm not at all knowledgeable about the solar industry, but I'm curious: how would software reduce the "soft" costs described in that third link (NREL)? It seems to me to be a bunch of costs related to the actors involved, and I don't see how software would help with that. Also, do you have examples of such software?
Just out of curiosity - what is the time stamp for?
I also keep noteboks. I have a rough idea of what months / years they span. I've never needed to know the exact date or time I had an idea. Are you trying to find out which part of the day gives you the most ideas?
Yeah I often only read the comments, because after a while you get a feel for what a typical article in subject X will look like.

Of course you also learn to identify typical comments like here http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ but they are still more fun to read
>What an investigator says during an investigation isn't testimonial. There isn't even any obligation that it be truthful; it's OK for investigators to lie in the hope that it'll lead the suspect to incriminate themselves.

Who cares if it's legal testimony? It's still racial profiling, which is still uncool for any reason.
> What happens when you have no network connection?

I wait until the end of my commute, and then use the network there. All places I work form have internet access.
Sorry for the intervening (as this wasn't exactly a reply to my post).

I really would like Americans to understand that there is a great concern outside of the US about the directions the US, its government and its arms are taking.

The US had built a great reputation in 20th century as "the beacon of freedom" – and lost some of it during the G.W. Bush administration. Remember the very warm welcome Obama had when visiting Europe just before the inauguration (for example in Berlin)? This was really an expression of the wish to get back to terms as they used to be and to close the books over what seemed then to have been just an episode. Or take Obama's (quite premature) Nobel price as an example for yet another expression of this wish.

In the meantime things have changed. But it wasn't the change expected. From outside, it looks a bit like the US became out of balance. When naming the State department and other arms headed towards foreign policy, not much of them is perceived outside. (I really can't remember when the US State department was in the news last time, but it feels like to have been years ago.) What's perceived, is the intelligence, the DoD, drones, the NSA, etc. From outside it appears, as if the US with a self-description as the "blessed nation" has lost interest in co-operation on a large scale as it even targets its closest allies. What had been the epicenter of freedom, cool, and hip, now has started to feel a bit like a looming shadow. (It might be worth to note here that most political parties in Europe have their origins in the revolutions of 1848, which were essentially a revolt against surveillance and police control. Even in the social network age there are some of these values still alive and are nurturing some sensibility on this subject.) There's even saying of the cold war returning, but this time with the US featuring the bad guy. This is not, what the allies of the US have learned to expect from their partner. Nor is it, what its friends would wish them to be. This is not, how people would like to perceive the US, but eventually they start feeling being unable to help about it. There's a feeling of disappointment. And there's a great wish for co-operation and trust.
> Also, having his house broken into and possibly bugged does not seem utterly reasonable to me.

Now c'mon. By treating this like fact given the evidence from the story, you are engaging in the same unjust leaps and "profiling" that people are accusing the TSA of. No one, including the author, knows what happened to his picture or if any law enforcment agency was involved in its disappearance.
That’s so unfortunate. Southern accents are so cool.

Now I know yer fixin to stamp out your past and I know we’ve met but we ain’t shook, but I hope you might could embrace it again some day. :)
well, you could change your culture/way of living. But you can't change your race. If it turned out that race is indeed a component, with proven confidence and evidence, that indicates financial stability or security, then being the wrong race will cause problems for you.

But then on the flip side, if you look at say, athletic selection for a sport like basketball or athletics, you'd find that race is inherently a criteria, because certain races seems to have an inherent advantage (or more correctly, certain races seems to have a _disadvantage). But nobody ever says anything in those cases.
You can't easily throw away code that somebody else depends on.

If you put something useful up, you're stuck with it for a long time, and getting rid of it is another time investment
For me, coding is a great way to explore the solution space when you're down to the last few details. Because coding is implementing a concrete solution, exploration in code tends to only cover a very small subset of the real solution space. On the other hand, if I take a few steps back and look at the problem from a wider angle, I can often find a solution that is both better for everyone and easier to implement.
Why are you the way that you are?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmOqPFyJPw
I set up a daily "meeting" at 1pm after lunch to batch all those questions together.

People tend to have similar questions, and other team members have answers I don't, so having everyone in a room together is handy
All the stories I hear add up to the USDA basically being pound-for-pound the worst federal agency. (DoD is bad, but so much bigger, and has redeeming bits like DARPA. I don't know of any redeeming bits in USDA off hand.)
> I have heard too many stories of injuries and paralysis.

There is a saying that every doctor has a graveyard. Chiropractors are no different.

I don't require any evidence, if given practitioner helps me with my problem, while traditional ones can't. It amazes me that people always need someone to blame. How about taking responsibility for your own health and your body well-being?
I’d be interested in reading it if anyone finds a link.
Yes, exactly. If you lose it or it's stolen, then you'd want to rotate to a new key quickly. Some of these devices have a pin too, so the attacker needs to crack the pin before they can actually use the device. This should hopefully buy you enough time to bring up a new device and switch over accounts. That's why it's probably a good idea to buy your second device when you buy your first one and store it in a separate, reasonably secure, but more importantly, quickly accessible, location.
seems like getting 10 million people to come to your site was the key ingredient
Sorry about that. Will check it out. We've tested on all major browsers/operating systems so we'll revisit.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/71lsqt
From the TSA to Ron Paul in one easy step.

This is what you get when you start with the politics articles.
When you sign up you can change your header. If you go to settings, design then you can change the colour of the headers and icons
Minor'ish: On the main page I was confused if "Display Name" was an alternate name for "Network Name". It was only in following through that I properly understood it was the name for the User.
Is it made in ASP and .Net? It's a pretty strange technology for a web startup. Can I ask why you chose to use it?
You should be able to use the DHS logo any damn way you want other than for the purposes of fraud or impersonation or fake recommendation. The FBI tried Copyright with their logo and got nowhere: http://www.eff.org/press/mentions/2010/8/3 Parody is surely covered.
"Social networking with private spaces."

Informally, you can just say "Facebook with private spaces." Yeah, it's probably more than that. But it's easier to key off of concepts people already know. See http://steveblank.com/2010/11/08/hubris-versus-humility-the-...
> whereas applying Objectivism to the idea of a guaranteed minimum income is a very straightforward exercise

I could not disagree more. You should read the debates Objectivists had over the NYC mosque issue, for example.

> I've grown out of it

I'm 30, and I've been studying it on and off for the last decade. I don't think I'm going to "grow out of it."

I'm interested in hearing what your most fundamental criticisms actually are.
That's not entirely accurate. Any number of things can affect a grade on a test. Included in this list is: personal issues, slightly (but sufficiently) different content, ambiguous questions (remember, these new questions were made in 90-something hours).
Note that it's mostly distilled water you should worry about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OXM4mr_i0 (Mythbusters exploring it)
This could get the creative juices flowing for those developers who are stuck on what kind of app to build for the iPhone. Possibly drive insight and get people "un-stuck" or remove the roadblock.
There’s a video from athlean x “the perfect home workout” [0], which I tried a couple of times now. I didn’t expect me to be that sore even after months of regular gym.

[0](https://youtu.be/vc1E5CfRfos)
Those that won't respect your ethics are not your friends.

I lost many of my contacts moving to Matrix but earned a lot of new high value ones that share my worldview to continue building a decentralized censorship resistant internet.
It's a bit of a fine line though; and wouldn't Trump just start tweeting at the @POTUS account? In fact, if I check it, it already looks just like @realdonaldtrump accounts since it's just retweets from there.
The user seemed to only omit HTTPS. It certainly is configured for SSL.

https://investors.kape.com/about-us
Without arguing about what factors cause it, it's undeniable that

1. Non US rich countries have much less mass shootings.

2. Non SF major US cities have much less street poop.

This shows that neither problem is unavoidable.
Yes it’s okay. People are more important than animals. Europeans cut down all their forests and killed most of the native wildlife, and now live wonderful lives driving around in cars and drinking lattes. The people in the rest of the world have the right to do the same thing.
We[1] are building on a new project called Handshake[2] which is trying to create a more secure (alternative) root of trust for domain names. It does so by storing certs on a distributed ledger instead of relying on CAs. Though this isn’t the main goal of the project, one of the benefits is that anyone can register their own TLD through a vickrey auction which is much more fair than the current ICANN system.

[1]https://namebase.io
[2]https://handshake.org
Great list. (1) and (10) seem at odds, or alternatively are tautological; I think the important thing is to acknowledge that social and isolated modes are both required to develop software, and that getting the balance right is hard, and isn't the same for everyone.

Seems to take people a long time to figure out (4) and (6).

(2) and (3) and (7) really apply to most things.
They didn't. That is a misconception borne out of reading our methods of economic policy onto a different context. The MoF, not the BoJ, controlled not only monetary policy but pretty much all aspects of the economy (they even directed lending by banks at the level of individual loans). This changed in the late 90s but through to the early 90s, it was all the MoF.
Is dm used widely wherever you’re located?
Google cache version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
Children are primarily their parent's responsibility, however if their parents are not present or able, then the responsibility is that of all other capable adults. But they are not yours or anyone else's investment and they do not belong to anyone.

They are people, not property.
from the article (it sounds like an alternative beginning for some thing[1] directed by John Carpenter):

> Smith, 33, [...] started preparations for his trip to Antarctica as part of the European Space Agency's research into the long-term effects of isolation and how the body and mind adapt to extreme environments.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAoONl2P8fw
How can you tell whether the payments are structured if senders are anonymous?
Same here. They're basing their decision on old data for starters, with the multitasking option in iOS4 it's more likely that the average user will use more data - I'm thinking specifically of streaming radio - but am sure there will be other examples.

And if it's such a small portion of users using so much data, how can that be causing such a problem unless their network is woefully inadequate anyway. They're - rightly - worried that the strain on their network is going to go up, but instead of fixing the problem they're trying to "scare" people into using less data

Where by "scare" I mean that people will be more conscious about hitting their limit, and thus avoid high-bandwidth apps. For the less savvy user, who doesn't realise how much data is used up, they may even find themselves actively trying to avoid using their internet.

Obviously we don't know this for sure, it's just my opinion... and I'm not happy.
This is a good example of the trade off between pretty/terse/clever and safe/correct/maintainable. Nginx is well-respected mature software but it's hard to see these issues as anything other than a design blunder. The trailing-slash path traversal thing looks to me like a file system analogue of SQL injection.

I think d3.js is another example of this. It's obviously written with incredible skill but I could never get on with the ultra declarative and implicit style, it always felt like a fight.

These days there seems to be a trend towards a verbose, explicit style, e.g. Zig (no hidden control flow - compare to C++'s operator overload-fest) and Go.
In many cases it is probably goood choice to keep the coins in custodial, but the fact that you have a possibility for self-custody is great.
> Unless people want to argue the Shopify has a monopoly on Shopify App Store.

They're trying to enforce exclusive control over transactions made on their platform, which sounds a whole lot like Apple to me.

And also not unreasonable, IMO (since it's the business model their platform is built around), although their CEO trying to ride the outrage train for political points is pretty distasteful, especially when his own company is doing the same thing.
I give out a certain coding question to my candidates. I recently interviewed and was given the exact question - and I blanked! Like, this was a coding kata style problem that I’ve done in several languages and seen done in others. I just absolutely blanked. Brains are strange.
"Representation is the essence of programming" - 'The Mythical Man Month', Fred Brooks.
I don't think scarcity in ad space is particular artifical. Attention is a limited resource.