jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> “I think that’s something that’s so powerful too — people will always be three inches taller or whatever you made them,” Debiparshad said. “They’ll die and be in their casket and decompose three inches longer. It’s very permanent.”

Possibly the best argument against getting this kind of bizarre cosmetic surgery.
It's just not true. Even investing in treasury bonds today has risk of loss.

There is no such think as risk-free investments. It can be risk-favored, for sure. And it is definitely a benefit to the receiver. But its not a "guaranteed killing".
classicalarchives.com does the the best of anyone out there, right now. Go see for yourself. Unlimited streaming from a huge catalogue for $10/month. And the site is well-organized; easy to find anything.
I'm working on a site for people like us : http://www.onebigmenu.com
It's still in development, but the basics work. :)
yes, but it was NOT in the red at the tune of 2 billion USD a year...
I can see three possible universes here, all of which end on everyone assuming that classes are going to be removed from React.

> There are no plans to remove classes from React.

They're totally going to remove classes from React.

> We are going to remove classes from React.

They're obviously going to remove classes from React.

> No comment.

They're totally going to remove classes from React.
> It seems the publication is in the midst of a takeover by woke radical authoritarians

It'd say towards the end of it. And yes, it is a very bad and concerning trend.
Also sort of interesting to see the date that the data was added: http://i.imgur.com/Te60ErW.png

Day of the week the data was added: http://i.imgur.com/XqebDJM.png

Most Alcoholic brands:
http://i.imgur.com/a1u6iNM.png
I agree, my few experiences don't prove anything. He mixed LSD, cannabis and alcohol on that night. I also agree, I knew very little about his mental health before that day. His section (involuntary confinement to a mental institution) was not taken lightly. What I do know is Doctors said the drugs (cannabis and LSD) had triggered an underlining mental illness. He developed severe paranoid personality disorder (PPD).

The other point you made is incredibly important, taking such drugs does not guaranteed you will become more creative. It is important you research, why you want to take it and your current/past health problems.

After a lot of research I have personally have taken nootropics on and off for many years. As a programmer I often work long hours, I need to function and problem solve. I found them to aid in learning and memory. Nasty ADHD drugs give me side effects and are just legalised amphetamines. Nootropics like Aniracetam seem to have the same effect with little to no side effects (for me).
Caveat: I don't really know the relation between State Department, Defense Department, intelligence agencies, lobbyists and who-the-fuck-knows .. but to follow my earlier random speculation...

Sure the various agencies as a whole aren't well coordinated or able to act against the present whistleblowers.

But hypothesis would be that the smaller-groups-that-matter are coordinated enough. And they're the ones whose secrets matter too. They're the "historical actors" and big bureaucracies are just guff. Sure, the bureaucracies are following their standard procedures and so-forth.

And yes, creating a large mob angry at Wikileaks is useful. I'm sure we can use that for something - we've got some copyright infringement to stop...
This was Microsoft's second logo:
http://www.solarnavigator.net/sponsorship/sponsorship_images...

It was changed to what we see now because focus groups thought it read "Micr Soft." Design can bite you when you're not looking.
hq4x vs Scale4x (i.e. EPX/Scale2x applied 2 times)

normal: http://plus.mobianlegends.com/emulators/Gens-gs-r7-win32-pkg...

hq4x: http://plus.mobianlegends.com/emulators/Gens-gs-r7-win32-pkg...

Scale4x: http://plus.mobianlegends.com/emulators/Gens-gs-r7-win32-pkg...

Scale4x seems better to me on this pic.
It is never ever about the money.

Offer them a small bonus, but not at full 20k value.

If these are experienced investors and you want them around, let them know you value them, but as much as you want to give them a bonus, you want them to know that they realize you value the relationship more than the bonus you are able to offer, as a "recognition" and "thank you" for continuing to have faith in you.

Tell them you don't care whether this is the norm or not. But you prefer that it is not the norm, because you want them to feel good about this, and not because it is an entitlement.

Then apologize that you couldn't offer more.
I have no idea how to interpret that. I can't imagine anything merry (for humans, anyway) about Cthulhu.

<eyes cross>
They disappeared from reddit, they did not disappear from reality they just moved on to other place often time even more radicalized places with absolutely no chance of encountering differing opinions.

Reddit has become a Political echo chamber, I was pretty active in libertarian and a few other political subreddits years ago, i no longer am because it is just a Authoritarian left wing echo chamber, even the so call "conservative" and "libertarian" subreddits

My political views have not changed simply because I am not longer politically active in reddit, but to you that is "win"

It is not, it just makes it seem that way because your little corner of the internet is now a safe space free of any dissenting thought, in reality the cultural wedge is only getting larger
It's only until the end of your post where you say "unless it builds some of those features into its app". That's kind of an important qualifier. Signal has been steadily growing for a while, and while doing so, implementing plenty of features from other competing apps: disappearing messages came, stickers came, group video calling came, etc.

I'm not saying they're definitely going to overtake WhatsApp, but they've found a niche, are slowly expanding from there, and are doing so by implementing desired features. That's how most social networks have gotten where they are. There's no reason why Signal's current feature set is forever set in stone.
Your comment would be more appropriate for HN without the condescending "Uh, no." at the beginning. (It's in the guidelines.)
I think there is some of us here. I'll give you feedback if you write up your product idea.
Seriously? On this holy day, when Jobs was so good to the world he sent his own son, you choose to blaspheme that Apple did not invent the App? Do you know know of the teachings that Apple is the one true source of all good ideas, and others are mere knock offs. I shun you to the corner for an hour sir.
If you (Witnesses) are happy and fulfilled with that income, then OP's schadenfreude is misguided, anyway.
Well, I was thinking of doing this with Linux, since that's what I use. I'd have Windows be the decoy install and use LUKS for dm-crypt to encrypt the Linux install at the system level. And setting up the default boot with no countdown in GRUB is trivial. All the pieces are there, and while there's no definitive guide on how to do it, I don't reckon it would be very difficult. Since I don't use Macs, I have no idea whether this approach would be feasible for them as well.

The main thing holding me back is that now that I've moved to an SSD, my laptop only 64 GB of space, so I'd rather not waste 10 GB on a decoy Windows install. Perhaps once I get a bigger SSD.
I wonder why that is not a problem for example for EC2 US-West (the cheapest EC2 availability zone)?

us-west-1 is a great success. Just two weeks after its official launch its level of activity is 73% of eu-west-1, which has been around for a whole year!

http://www.jackofallclouds.com/2009/12/comparing-amazon-ec2-...

California is twice the area of Ireland AFAIK?
Read the story to the end. It's all about the intent behind how you give something. That is what matters. Merry Christmas!
Is there anything Tim Ferriss cannot do? Sometimes I catch myself thinking that Tim Ferriss is the next Chuck Norris.

Joking aside, he is a really good marketer. Congratulations on hitting the #1 on the NYT bestseller list yet another time.
> "pursue rationally unjustifiable interests"

I disagree of how you define rationality here. If someone feels it serves them fine to play 14 hours of a game, it seems perfectly rational for me. Especially in the case that you mentioned, where they were playing before any big money was on the table. It means they liked, despite a lot of people judging them with an air of superiority.
dlerror is entirely irrelevant here.
>It's kind of hard to take a coherent message away from that. Should you become a competitive gamer for the millions?

If you told these guys to be a competitive gamer for the millions, they probably would have stuck to competitive fishing or whatever they were doing anyway. Taking a message or leadership from it is kind of the antithesis of the point. The point is that some social pursuits are the birthplace of the next big thing and some people who are focused on socializing need to make the choice on pursuits that have a potential and pursuits that don't like. Dance class is pretty dead as a career, but we're going to need people who can sort quality from quantity in a few years, the people focused on a qualitative pursuit socially need to pick a field where it's obvious that's needed like journalism or the swath of video games sure to flood the market.

It doesn't have much to do with rational decision making in detail and is instead a generalized story about the different directions in life you can choose.
Sure, that was back in 2017 as per the date in the blog post itself. Then this month from Kape themselves I've described here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614447
I don't have prior experience with controllers, and I don't know what is standard. But I can play my steam games with the Stadia controller and use it with https://html5gamepad.com/ (on Windows).
Or just hire a van - I do this once a year or so when I need to move a lot of stuff. It's £30 for a day with a small van, £70 for a LWB transit (which is massive), or only £100 for a box van with a tail lift (basically a small lorry).
Considering that’s less than a weeks worth of iPhone sells, do you really think that’s going to help Google’s negotiating leverage when it’s time to renew their search deal with Apple?

They’ve had over a decade to create an ecosystem that people are willing to actually spend money on. But statistically, people who are willing to spend money on a high end phone, a watch, $160+ headphones, etc veer toward Apple.

Google has been selling its own branded phones and tablets for six or seven years unsuccessfully.
Archived copy of the transcript (without GDPR nag screen):

https://web.archive.org/web/20191121194422/https://www.npr.o...
Curve fitting is a useful tool, even in non ML contexts like a simple linear regression. There's the hype, which will eventually die, and then there's the business/engineering aspect, which will likely stick around.
Is it feasible to create AI on top of a bunch of other AI?

Current AIs seem more like specific, fairly simple, brain regions. Maybe we need a level up.
I used SuSE Linux with KDE 2 and KDE 3 more than 10 years ago. It was a good Win95 style shell with many customization options back then. Later I switched to Gnome 2 because of the KDE 4.0 fiasco and no one forked off KDE 3. Thankfully Ubuntu decided to change the shell, as Gnome 3 was another fiasco. Nowadays I just connect from a Mac, Windows, Android or iOS shell to Linux servers. It seems both Gnome 3 and KDE 4 (5?) lost their UX-design goal - that's why Linux Mint MGSE emerged, and Ubuntu created their own shell. It seems that HTML based shells like ChromeOS/ChromiumOS, WebOS and FirefoxOS are the future.
I've been waiting for years for something uglier than the Aztek. We have a new champion.
we take as firm as stance as possible on user privacy (google faces and fights these very issues)

the government needs to comply with the provisions of the electronic communications privacy act by obtaining a warrant supported by probable cause (or in some cases a court order from a judge). these safeguards protect user privacy, even when the government is involved.
Joel ("On Software") Spolsky might say never. If you have a system that is smelly but working, then rewrites of individual subsystems lets you evolve the working system into something cleaner without any discontinuity of service.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
cryptographic signatures of files are never transmitted over plaintext. yes, the current incarnation of the mobile apps don't encrypt the names of the files but we are working on a fix for this as soon as we can adequately improve the SSL performance of our mobile apps.
He died from lung cancer, apropos.

He died from colon cancer.

http://www.bookrags.com/highbeam/r-a-fishers-life-and-death-...
I was just like OP for a long time. If I couldn't sleep until 10 or 11AM I was just desperately groggy until mid-afternoon. It just didn't matter how early I went to bed. At the same time I could happily function on seven hours or so of sleep, as long as those seven hours were between 3-10AM. Trying to work a day job with regular office hours was hellish.

What finally saved me was a combination of herbal sleep aids and caffeine pills. Every evening I put a caffeine pill on my nightstand and popped it the second the alarm clock went off. Mid-way through my shower, I would actually start to wake up. (For some reason, just drinking coffee in the morning never helped much). I can't tell you how good it felt actually to be awake in the morning, I can't imagine heroin feels any better.

My body still wanted to stay up past midnight many nights... I found that taking kava or valerian before bed would allow me to get enough restful sleep before the alarm went off.

This regimen changed my life and made it possible to be a much more productive and creative person. After about five years, my internal clock finally adjusted somewhat, and I was able to do away with the pills and function normally in the mornings without them. I still keep some around for backup, but I find I can now make reasonable choices of sleep and wake time without recourse to drugs.

I don't know if it's wise to recommend such a plan to another, but if I could go back 20 years and tell myself one sentence, "valerian" and "caffeine pills" would be in it.
You know, I was at the Sun 'n Fun airshow at the end of March (I was helping man the GlobalNavSource booth). Those other apps were also in attendance, and I answered that question a lot :)

WingX and FF are both great apps, but one main thing is we really tried to tailor the app to in-flight use, as opposed to preflight planning. You can see this in how we did the UI to give the pilot fast access to the plates (swiping and sets of favorites), and also in how we do the search features (autocompleting searches, nearby and recent airports).

We also have really great maps, and part of this is a legacy from approaching the same problems in both the marine and hiking apps we have worked on. For example, we can compose any base map with any overlay in our app (i.e. VFRs + METAR data, and in the next version of the app, VFRs + METAR + radar). EFB also nicely does a course-up view of the map, which lots of people at the airshow appreciated.
I think "to that level" means "to the point where you give up all interests in your work just so somebody else can sue." Selling your rights is one thing; simply assigning them away to a troll with nothing to show for it is somewhat less common.
If the service provider can ever decrypt the file, then you have to trust them, and then it isn't secure. When it comes to security, you can't trust anybody.

The only way to secure your files in a Dropbox style situation is to use your own client-side encryption that the service provider has no access to... IE the Truecrypt solution that keeps being suggested.
There was a really good thread in /r/netsec a few days ago about encrypting your dropbox:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/gowvu/doityourself_e...
I've used this technique myself to handle belligerent co-workers. Make them think you're subtly mocking them and it throws them totally off their game.
Had 'under strained conditions, debug console comments negatively about your mother.'

A debug line someone thought wouldn't ever see the light of day.
Don't get my position wrong, I'm all for freedom of workers moving around and working from wherever they want.

The issue is the current regulatory and taxation structures aren't built for that. You're encountering friction because of these current systems.

The way to properly address this js to overhaul the system itself, this is by legislation and having representation that is aligned with what you want.

"Hacking" around it isn't the way to go.

To take a coding analogy, you're currently frustrated with the limitations of the architecture, which is understandable and I emphasize. But adding hacky patches to get around it isn't the way to go.

Unfortunately architectural overhauls in society are slow and take a long time.

I strongly encourage you to get involved in any grassroots movement to further the way you want to the world to become.
No they completely stopped buying ads. The brand keyword experiment gave them the confidence to run an experiment to completely turn everything off.

>TADELIS: Yes. So, for non-branded search, we actually had no idea what the results are going to be. Because here, if I am searching for, example, a studio microphone I’m sure that on eBay I might find a variety of used ones. But if I’m not thinking about eBay, and I just search for “studio microphone,” if eBay doesn’t pay an ad, they might not even show up on the first page. And by the way, the automated machines at eBay that were doing the online bidding, they had a basic library of close to 100 million different combinations of keywords, because eBay has practically everything you could imagine for sale on the site. So, we really had no idea what the returns for the non-branded searches would be.

>TADELIS: And we took a third of these D.M.A.’s, and we turned off all paid-search advertising. This was an extremely blunt experiment where we’re saying, “What would happen if we didn’t advertise at all?” And to our surprise the impact on average was pretty much zero.
These are a very interesting questions and invite to write more about in detail, which makes me think to write blog articles about it. Stay tuned! ;-)
Interesting that those three industries are the most heavily regulated and manipulated by the government.
In my college experience, students weren't permitted to use graphing calculators in math classes, and other math-heavy classes (eg, physics, chemistry, etc) used simple math on exams and permitted laptops during labs/classwork.
Basically a panel found in favor of an earlier Judge's ruling that because the previous owners charged a fee to enter the property, it isn't a public road/beach, but instead a permitted use road/beach, giving the owner the right to not permit ANYone to enter the property.
>> they allow the mind to think unimpeded by usual thought patterns, and simply accept raw data as it comes in

> Is there a way to induce this feeling without the aid of psychedelics or breathwork?

Depends on what you means by "induce". (Usually) many, many years of practice (if ever)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensh%C5%8D
I'm disappointed that the (formerly?) built-in Scala XML handling could not be used for JSX vs these:

Slinky:

div(
h3("TODO"),
TodoList(items = state.items),
form(onSubmit := (handleSubmit(_)))(
input(
onChange := (handleChange(_)),
value := state.text
),
button(s"Add #${state.items.size + 1}")
)
)

scalajs-react:

<.div(
NoArgs(),
Hello("John"),
Hello("Jane"))
In highschool, I had a TI-83, and had fun doing things like programming blackjack on it, so I could look like I was doing work while having fun. I went to an engineering school and switched to an HP-48GX for my years at it, and fell in love with the RPN input. I miss that calculator, but not the TI.

I think I sold the HP 8 years after I bought it for $20 more than I bought it for. They were discontinued, and surveyors and others that had special modules that could plug into it would pay a premium for a replacement one.
Snappier! You mean "with more spinners, now with added lag". (Get off my lawn.)
When they moved the "Advanced Search" button below the fold on the Advanced Search page, I sighed and scrolled down.

When they made the links at the top invisible until your mouse moved, I sighed and moved my mouse.

But now that Google looks like Bing, I just sigh.
I believe I understand your points and I respectfully disagree (even over the term "new"), but we should probably leave it at that.
You're making me miss my Thinkpad T60p. Compared to my new W500, it wasn't especially fast, ran annoyingly hot and didn't waste any time burning through its extra-capacity battery. The screen was vastly better though: IPS with a 1600x1200 resolution.

I don't actually need color accuracy, but I find myself slightly shocked by how bad other laptops look after getting used to the T60p. Laptop manufacturers: I'd pay extra for IPS (don't invent your own cute name for it or I won't know you have it) and I'd pay extra for high-res 4:3.
Lenevo has a series on x treemly portable computers called x-something or other which do have a 4x3 screen.
Don't get too caught up in being "smart". I think the hacker community and HN overvalues this idea of inborn differences or raw brain capacity.

Clearly it matters, but for almost any real-world measure, focus, hard work and moderate brainpower will leave lazy, unfocused, and brilliant in the dust. Not only in achievements like earnings, but even in intellectual pursuits.

So, my advice is to do something hard, or something that scares you, or something that just seems creative and fun. Anything that stretches your abilities in any direction is a plus, as long as you give it your full attention.
Bing has long "featured" random background images on their home page. So it seems that Google's confidence and self-restraint have finally slipped:
http://www.windowsobserver.com/2010/06/10/is-google-directly...
I've noticed a pattern every time any website launches a redesign: users immediately and vehemently dislike it; a couple of months pass; everyone looks back and wonders what the fuss was and would hate to go back to the old design.

I seem to be missing the part of DNA or conditioning that causes most humans to react negatively when anything familiar changes. I'm one of a rare breed who sees changes as intriguing or exciting (to a fault, I almost always like redesigns at first).
> the dumb terminal paradigm

Hehem. The paradigm you're referencing is letting you do what you want to do (because it's a powerful paradigm). We need more of that if anything.
I have seen projects where the developer(s) would say things like: "This feature request sounds good to have but we don't have the time for this now. So, I'm closing it. Could you please create it again in 6 months?"

I'm lost for words. Can't you just put a tag and park it? What is this obsession about keeping the issue count low?
No, don't feel bad. That's awesome. I knew that thing about adding true, I just didn't realize that exec was private.
Re: your first point, it's not a standalone markup language, it's a 1-to-1 replacement for HTML. Markdown is transformed into HTML, but doesn't have to be -- you could PDF it instead, for instance. It's mostly just a way to use structure to eliminate line noise.
They should make the submitted applications available as a shared Google Spreadsheet.
Looking at the number of outside contributors shows a bright future for Servo even if Mozilla doesn't fund it beyond research. It is much much more friendly to newbies than trying to contribute to gecko or webkit/blink. And webkit started out entirely unfunded as KHTML.
Immediate window?