jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
His rise in the app store happened after he was featured on a popular Youtuber's account.

A couple of million people seeing someone play your game will tend to drive sales in a way that pushes your app up the charts.
> Also, I still do eat with spoon, fork and a knife, but I do not call that "war on spork".

Because the barrier to entry to creating your own fork, should Big Cutlery™ decide they want to prevent your access to one, is very low.
Can someone post a short summary explaining:

(1) What the MPAA's move was

(2) How it screwed the studios
>This does not affect our E.U. trademark for Candy and we continue to take all appropriate steps to protect our IP.

So only half the battle won then.
A common response to why criminals sometimes do stupid things, but I haven't actually ever seen this substantiated.
Thank you, but I still don't get this part:

> The Landsat images seem to be much larger than they need to be for the level of detail they provide.

For the level of detail I'm seeing, the same information could be represented in a 2MB download (rather than 600-700MB that's currently downloaded).
Theatre of the Gods by Matt Suddain is an epic read. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is one of the few books I’ll reread every few years. Both are sci-fi.

And, while not technically a book but a manga, Appleseed by Masamune Shirow is another collection I reread every few years (precursor to Ghost in the Shell).
First off, you need to realize that the landsat program goes back a _long_ ways (the first generation was launched in the late 70's). Have a look at the Wikipedia article for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program

Most of the imagery you're looking at is probably from Landsat 7, which launched in 1999 and is still (partially) functional and active today. (Edit: scratch that, it looks to be all very recent Landsat 8 data.)

Due to the need to have comparable datasets over multiple generations of satellites, newer platforms (e.g. the recently launched Landsat Data Continuity Mission, a.k.a. Landsat 8) deliberately target similar spatial resolutions as the older platforms (This is a good thing!).

Next, Landsat as a program is focused on uses like landcover classification, monitoring broad changes over time, etc. There's a higher-resolution 15m pan-chromatic band on the past few generations, but the real value is in the lower-resolution (30m, 60m, or 100m) multispectral bands. The visible bands are just the tip of the iceberg, and they actually aren't the most useful for the "main" purposes of landsat (land cover classification, etc).

For many uses cases in remote sensing, we're much more interested in having good spectral coverage and a long record of changes than in having very high spatial resolution. Landcover classification has always been a key use case for the Landsat missions. Most of the information is in the spectral signature of a given pixel. (Some recent methods use texture, etc, but it's less useful than you'd think.) There's a trade-off between the wavelength being observed, the spatial resolution, and the exposure time. Because all bands need to be acquired in a similar amount of time, longer wavelength bands (e.g. mid-far infrared) will always have a lower spatial resolution than panchromatic or visual bands. (The transparency of the atmosphere is actually the main player here, but I'll skip the details.)

The Landsat program has been invaluable in documenting and understanding human, ecologic, geologic, and hydrologic changes over the past >30 years. We don't have anything comparable! It's really, really incredible imagery.
It would not threaten the dollar. In the best (worst) case it would become the new value backing of the dollar (i.e. "What could I get for this dollar?" "Well how many bitcoins can I buy with it?"). It could become this gradually and without any cooperation of governments or banks at all.

Of course, declaring it illegal would throw a pretty big wrench in that process, even though in theory Bitcoin is not really affected by government regulation.
Eric's site is down right now (presumably by site load), the advice is simply:

"every now and then I’m going to come into your office and ask you, “What are you working on that I don’t know about?” You should always have something to tell me."
One reason I never buy drm'ed media.
this thing works great, I do the same thing. I wonder if these integrated speaker devices will support playing content that is not audo-only... like youtube videos. it's great to be able to get music from youtube videos. I hope they don't limit the stuff you can cast to audio-only with these new google-cast for audio devices.
Thanks for your comment. I can't transfer ownership to the repo, because it's the Bitcoin core project and I don't own it (and I'm not even a core committer, so I basically can't do anything). But it shows up on my profile as "Projects contributed to". And since it's such a popular project, it's high in the list of projects contributed to.

I have considered a similar plan, really just an alternate take on your suggestion, which is creating a new profile and transferring ownership of my own (semi) popular projects to it. The problem is, I then give up my 2+ year old Github account for a brand new one. And then I also give up proof of other external projects I've contributed to, including some big name open source projects.

Github really should let users have control over what repos are shown in their profile. I mean, fine if employers want to use Github as a resume, but at least we should have control over which ones of our projects Github displays, then.

But the most important is that you don't think those contributions will be seen as a negative, good (anecdotal) data point. I'm beginning to think that I may be worried for no good reason.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I really need to do this too. Programming and social skills are each others' enemies.

How are you learning to draw? Did you check out http://drawright.com ?
No you're assuming that this is what happened because it contradicts your assertion. Your opinion flies in the face of my extensive experience and that of the majority of people, you may want to start considering whether it is you who is mistaken.

I don't think a candidate who I put at ease then absolutely hammered would compliment me on putting them at ease would they? Or does your theory stretch to them somehow having short-term memory loss?
FWIW, I expect he was running OpenStep on that laptop.

Supposedly he kept using OpenStep on an Intel laptop after he returned to Apple. I suppose he switched once OS X was running on PowerBooks.
I just tacked a list to my wall of varying levels of things to do to pick things up a little. Just that process feels good.

Can't help but think, too, that simply making a conscious effort to incorporate one/some of those things into every day would be a great preventative measure.
corrections are much appreciated. i would just post them here.
If searching in the appstore, "google voice" didnt bring up anything but "googlevoice" worked
I got a piano and started playing difficult pieces on it. The pain and inability to squeeze things went away utterly completely.
I posted a comment not too long ago, implying that Google modifies results when it suits them and I received a lot of downvotes. The comment was snarky, but I've talked to a lot of people that really buy into the "Don't be evil" mantra and think Google's results are never hand edited.
>Unary numbers are extremely cumbersome and confusing for proofs, because people are used to working with integers using arithmetic, not pattern matching. "x + 5" is infinitely better than "Succ(Succ(Succ(Succ(Succ(x)))))“.

Have you ever written a proof using decimal numbers? Unary numbers (Peano numbers) only have two cases to match on: Z and Succ. Decimal numbers have at least ten. Even writing proofs for binary numbers in Coq is much more cumbersome than proving things about unary numbers.
I had a TI-86 and then won an HP-48GX. At some point the TI-86 was lost or stolen, I don’t care, the HP-48GX was so much better. I especially liked working with units, which made everything in science classes that much more convenient. The only thing I missed about the TI-86 was the Mario clone, with level editor, and a puzzle game called DStar.

While the TI-83 and 86 had a pedestrian Z80, the HP series apparently had a weird nybble-serial architecture called Saturn that worked on 64-bit values.
>incentive for some to pursue something they shouldn't for longer than they should.

Looks like a good example of hindsight bias. If they have resources, and still think it's a good idea, why shouldn't they go for it? If they knew ahead of time that something else would be better, they would already be going for that instead.
Actually, I don't see any reinvention of Erlang's core features here:

- Erlang: a functional language based on actor model that allows to create distributed applications easily as actors don't share state (plus much more that I won't mention here for the sake of brevity). To share state among various Erlang clusters you have to use something like Mnesia (bundled with Erlang stdlib) or Riak (distributed database built using Erlang).

- Redis Cluster: a way to distribute state among multiple Redis (a simple database application) nodes in a manner transparent for the applications using Redis.
I've tried using Evernote and Dropbox, but could never make it work the way I wanted hence the motivation to work out keeping note in an ordered way in my notebooks.
That's pretty much my point. Your original comment sounded very much like "you're an idiot if you don't do what I consider right."

Objection withdrawn.
> evolving biological organisms that can pose a threat to humans actually exist

Depends what you mean. There certainly exist biological organisms that can pose a threat to individual humans; but AI can pose a threat to humanity itself, and is thus very very dangerous.
Is chatting with friends for dullards?

One who digs into deep issues

What does that even mean? In my observation there's a few hundred people in the world who actually "dig into deep issues". They are supplemented by about fifty million others who think they are being deep because have just taken a freshman philosophy class and/or drugs.
This is true if you are discussing creating organisms which are highly different from existing ones. _delirium was discussing genetic modifications which are simply tweaks to existing organisms.

There is no reason to believe that golden rice will evolve in any significantly different manner than ordinary rice. In contrast, AI will evolve via a mechanism which is unprecedented.
Quick question: Is this suitable for streaming video? Just wondering, thanks.
> "do you think you're smart enough for that?"

I've found, being a kid from a rural area with family that never went to college, that such people vastly overestimate how capable other people are, and vastly undervalue their own skills. I guess something about people telling you you're stupid and to know your place your whole life does that to you.

It turns out success isn't so much about being particularly smart as it is just knowing the right people.
That I really agree with. It's a great group collaboration tool, and a much better replacement that email.

But for task management, it still isn't better than a shared Google Spreadsheet, which is weird to me.
When I read this quote: "I don’t think it’s particularly healthy for a child to rely on one friend," said Jay Jacobs, the camp’s director. "If something goes awry, it can be devastating. It also limits a child’s ability to explore other options in the world." My unfounded but immediate assumption was that nobody really like him when he was a kid.

But more seriously, there is an approach implicit in the article that I have seen quite often in schools and large businesses. Because leaders are unwilling to do the hard work of examining problems on a case by case basis and creating solutions (Often because they are unwilling to suffer the criticism that indiviual decisions create) problems are approached from rediculous and overly broad perspectives. (See for example Zero Tolerance policies in schools, airport security, etc.) Being unwilling to confront bullies in this case is leading to the deliberate elimination of best friendships. By making it a policy, it eliminates having to make hard decisions, one can now simply say, "Policy says...." and punt.
LinkedIn is hiring. See http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobs for all open jobs.

I work on this team: http://sna-projects.com/sna/ that powers LinkedIn's search, analytics, and network. We've released 8 open source projects so far, including Project Voldemort. I specifically work on the Social Graph, and we're big users of Scala. LinkedIn will hire a few hundred more people this year, and the Social Graph team is currently looking for two great engineers!

Please contact me if you have questions.
There are several reasons. Depending on the startup, it may be one or more of these:

* Older and more experienced programmers may need a bigger salary, which startups cannot always afford.

* Older and more experienced programmers may be more suited to work in larger organisations with set procedures and practices, which is not suited for startups.

* Older programmers have other commitments which may prevent them from putting more energy in the startup. It may also be more of a risk (money wise) for them to join a startup which may or may not succeed.
I think this is an interesting analysis, and as others have pointed out, it's unfair to complain that RescueTime user's are representative - the only thing RescueTime can comment on is what their user's are using.

However I think it is slightly misleading to include "Gmail" under the umbrella of "Google Apps" when comparing them to Microsoft Office. It would be fairer to only include the individual Google Docs apps compared to what is included in Microsoft Office.

Many Microsoft Office users might be using Gmail for personal mail simultaneously while not using any other Google Docs products.

However most users of Google Docs are likely not also using Outlook (in isolation of the other Office apps) for their email.
LSD is a drug that produces fear in people who don’t take it.
–Timothy Leary

Love this.
Not really, they simply converted their monetary holdings into fame and high social standing; its a trade many people do small-scale when they by expensive dresses and designer-furniture in the hope of impressing others. These guys simply went all in.

The prison-sentences are short, and will only get them even more respect and higher-social standing within their peer group, broadly defined. Since girls tend to like such people, they can expect to be able to get young and pretty girlfriends and will have no problem becoming writers for various blogs/magazines.
All human rights are "figments of our collective imagination". Should we abolish them too?
The relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/793/

Frankly, being an ops person who was dev trained (CS degree, doing ops since) what I've seen from other ops people once exposed to a devops mindset one of a few things:

1. Fear - mostly people who haven't even scripted anything before (common in Windows and pre-OS X Mac environments)

2. Confusion - I'm supposed to learn what with the who now? Mainly this is a tool choice issue - there's an overwhelming number of options out there.

3. Relief - finally, someone ELSE understands what I've been trying to do for the last N years, and I can talk to!

My guess is that, for ops people to accept this is to get the #3's to work with the the #2's on tool choice and familiarity, and then have the #2's convince or prove to the #1's that it's a good idea.

Dev interaction would probably be with mainly the #3's, as that would be the best opportunity for dialogue that would be meaningful to both sides.
Very nice, congrats :)
Sure. We usually come up with job titles describing the "human" equivalent of what function the application performs; e.g:

The Warden - an set of scripts to manage chroot jailed workers

The Middleman - a heavily customized MQ/ESB

The Coxswain - an app that monitors/controls system components
I'd assumed the "poll" there was the connection to the server - I hadn't even thought about polling for modified files!
Let us choose which contacts to share too!

I’m boycotting all or nothing now that it’s been made better for photos.
Don't miss Silk Road Theory & Practice [1] by gwern [2]

[1] http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern
We also should include asset (house) prices in CPI. Yes, I understand you only need to rent to be able to have shelter, but there's clearly inflation going on, just not in the components of CPI. We can't ignore asset inflation.
This thing totally rules!
My guess is over time most free apps that depend on tracking will refuse to work unless allowed to track. And most users will acquiesce, just so they can use an app that they want to use.

Even the Facebook app itself could refuse to work unless tracking is turned on.

It's still a positive change overall, and still affects Facebook but it appears to me the effect will be minor, even temporary.
Nice graphics and all, but he has some weird bug. If you are at a scroll position somewhere in the middle and click the cheeseburger menu (2 lines instead of 3 I will call it cheeseburger) and close the menu again the content in the background will scroll up and then down to the previous scroll position for no good reason.

Ps....The subscribe cta button has one of the nicest designs I have ever seen, wow.
This, and the fact that (EFF and a few others aside) they're fought against only by an entity whose core business has nothing to do with mining users personal data, speaks loudly about pretty much every other corporation out there.

Do I qualify as too much alarmist when I'm horrified from seeing doctors and lawyers happily exchanging photos of clients sensitive documents using Whatsapp? (read: forgetting them in their phone gallery, ready to be exfiltrated by any malicious software or repair technician).
The sad part is that people is slowly adapting to not give a damn about their and others privacy because today's electronic gadgets and services are designed in a way so they're almost unusable by privacy conscious users.
even with a 200 mile range, ignoring the actual 330, you are making it from Dallas to Houston with a 15 minute stop in corsicana or huntsville.

I haven't downvoted you, because that doesn't make sense when you merely disagree with a person.
Ok, it shows a tooltip.

The `title` attribute should specifically not be used here; ARIA labels should. The title attribute is implemented differently across browsers and assistive technologies [1] and is supposed to be a title, not a duplicate of the content of the element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
Lucas was the inventor of "offline video editing" -- which became a spin-off company called Avid.

Avid was later based in seattle - but it was based on tech that LucasFilm invented - as was CG rendering called "the death star" which Steve Jobs bought from George for $10,000,000 and turned it into pixar.

George didnt think that CGI was going to be profitable, hence selling to Jobs.

Source: on the Presidio design team, I designed a majority of their data center in that facility - and had designed a cable interconnect matrix with the design requirement that any given workstation in the four-building facility could be made a render node when the engineer was not at desk (so at night)

Lots of crazy experiences from that --

1. being asked why I couldnt provide power over fiber

2. Being asked if I could design a facility in Singapore because paying "us Prima donnas" was too expensive when they could pay asian animators far less for the same work

3. Having see them in-bed with Force 10 networks

4. Seeing all their equipment stolen from the parking garage after delivery but before installation into the data-center by some construction guy

5. Them turning down my initial datacenter design which made it look like the inside of the death star. Telling me they hated it.

6. Watching the power struggle as the then CFO took control of the empire as Lucas stepped away.

7. Watching the distaste of all the employees as Lucas sold for four billion dollars to disney, but his accomplished and skilled staff got basically nothing because they didnt own stock in the company they built for lucas.

Yeah - fuck george lucas.
+1. My programming style normally consists of trial-and-error style prototyping for a couple of iterations, and then later refining that into something that's solid and robust. I find Rust's inofficial "prototyping mode" difficult to combine with it's regular "production grade mode" for practical purposes.
Last time I was in Texas, it was legal to drive 80 miles an hour on certain highways.

If you needed to make a u-turn while driving on the highway, you could pull into special areas in the median of highways to make those turns. The same places highway patrol often use to sit, wait, and monitor traffic.

Both of those things are illegal in Virginia.
I see, thank you for the information.
Well arguably we haven't evolved to survive past reproductive years - life expectancy past 40 is only about 150 years old. That's much too short of a time for evolutionary effects to have an impact.
Artists go where the fans are, and they're all on Youtube.
Heh, I think that's valid. Though IIRC Project Zero is called that because their mission is specifically to eliminate zero-days - that is, find and disclose them to vendors before the bad guys start using them.
It's not just entrepreneurs - working professionals who work long hours can overdo it. Pro tip: if it's Saturday night and you can't think of anything to talk about besides work, you are boring your partner and ruining your relationship.
Say your luggage is misrouted or mishandled. Does knowing the GPS coordinates actually help? In the end you still need to get the airline / airport to properly process and return the luggage. I somehow don't imagine that there exists a process now to get that information to the right places. Knowing that your luggage is stuck in London when you're in Tokyo doesn't really un-ruin your vacation, so I'm not sure about how that aspect is being marketed.
> Listening to a Vinyl is an experience, plus it's lossless

Nope, your record loses information every time you play it, because you're literally rubbing a needle over those tiny little grooves.
Large company. I was but a single cog in the process ... had nothing to do with anything prior to the interview, and little to do with anything after, other than noting my conclusions.
The various statements about this person's partner having horrible life balance are unfounded at best. Yes, this article could point to poor life balance, but it could just as well point to a well oriented but clearly dedicated and passionate person.

While the behaviors may not be normal, there is a line between enabling someone by sacrificing your own needs and simply accepting that everyone is different in their passions, drives and hobbies.
I had to look up those terms. We use different terminology in Ireland but it looks like we're talking about the same class of vehicles (also generally referred to as articulated lorries [1])

The ban[2] specifically refers to trucks with 5 axles or more and proscribes them from entering the city centre between 7am and 7pm. Previously, there was a large amount of trucks driving through main thoroughfares to access Dublin Port but before introducing the ban, the local authorities finished constructing a tunnel and motorway to bypass the city so the truck drivers have viable alternative routes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_goods_vehicle

[2] http://www.dublincity.ie/hgv
In college, I made cassette tape recordings of myself reciting various mathematical formulas, and listened to the tape on my way to class. That would have been a ridiculous way to learn the material the first time, but it was helpful for reviewing it.
Upvote ^10 if I could.