jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I totally understand this mindset... I had it, too. And so I lived in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill and paid through the teeth for tiny, mouse infested holes.

But, I think that the NYC-to-NJ barrier does tend to be just that, a mindset. Because after all -- you still have to take a train back to Brooklyn, no? And its not like Hoboken doesn't have a street-filling, bar hopping main street. As for friends and what not -- the startup I work for: No one person lives with 15 minutes of another (in the technical team.) NYC is spread out enough that I think it is rare to have a ton of friends living close by, unless you're living in the trendy parts.

It has been my experience (after moving to Hoboken) that any "negative" that people perceive about Hoboken is either just made up (they've never visited Hoboken) or, and this I totally understand, is "I don't want to live in Jersey." Which is why I say I'm still a New Yorker.
Great explanation. The price discrimination of note here is third degree price discrimination. I think the most vivid example of this type that people here have seen is how Apple's product lineup is composed and the various pricing they offer to different types of customers.

Also, most startups that have incremental pricing on their products (eg: wufoo, heroku) do this as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination#Third_degr...
Alright, I'll answer the question then.

It's probably quite easy to implement technically. It's probably much harder to come up with a logical, coherent, and consistent model of how it "should" work in all ofthe corner cases.

It's probably extremely difficult to accomplish socially (nobody will use the fork, and nobody will want to touch code that works on the assumption you're running the fork). Finally, it's probably actively damaging to the community as a whole to even attempt to fork over a relatively minor, ambiguous and, and opinionated like this, and I hope nobody tries it.
Please don't start a witch hunt on the basis of a handful internet comments. We should be better than that.
Yes, it does rather take away from endlessly extolling the virtues of the man.
6 months? I think you're doing something wrong here. Keep teflon coated material to low temperatures, use plastic/wood/silicone utensils and avoid abrasive cleaning techniques.
Thanks to @Delapouite for the link to LiveScipt

"LiveScript is a fork of Coco and an indirect descendant of CoffeeScript"

http://livescript.net/#
I was expecting another story on Bitcoin :-) But this is great, too.
I doubt it. You can't exactly mass-produce houses or land, so it seems that the gap will only grow as factory efficiency rises.
There was already a law suite in 1962 (Bell Telephone Laboratories vs. Sperry Rand) where the court upheld the validity of the ENIAC patent. There was another case in 1964 where Shaw, Sharpless and Burks required that their names would be added as inventors to the patent, which was not successful.
Literally says so:

"Let’s presume that was true"
As a kid I raised chickens and in the morning I could wait in the coop for an egg to drop. This egg always stood up in the pan. All fresh eggs stand up. The whites in store-bought eggs tend to be watery and spread out quickly, indicating that they've been sitting outside the chicken for an extended period.
Yea, for the most part, it doesn't matter if news is false, I don't think. We don't do anything with that information, just experience feelings.

You might say, what if it has real consequences like who gets elected, having a war, or making personal lifestyle choices? Yes, but true news already influences people to make bad decisions like that using its emotional tricks, so what's the difference? At least if it's all false, people won't take it so seriously. I think the truth in news is mostly there to enhance entertainment value, like a movie that's "based on a true story" is more satisfying than one that isn't.

I wasn't thinking of this particular story. Doesn't seem vary hate-inducing to me, but the meta-story about how journalists aren't doing their job does!
I don't understand the problem here. You can manage the application stack until you can't anymore, just like every tool that simplifies the stack for you. This tool lowers the barrier to get something out there. DevOps engineers are not threatened in the least by this, it just reduces the amount of toil for people who have a hard time with a minimal deployment.
> if you can't find something

You don’t always know what you don’t know.

If I don’t know about YouTube-dl and I search “download YouTube command line”, how am I going to know that ddg is hiding the best result from me?

This definitely isn’t a small annoyance kind of problem, in my eyes. It’s a deal breaker. I’ll never use ddg again. If they’re going to censor like Google does, then I’m going to use Google because it generally has better results. Ddg needs to offer something beyond what Google offers to make up for their bad results, and they aren’t doing that.
Here's a nice example of the "contingency" of scientific success by Bol, de Vaan, and van de Rijt (2018). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1719557115

Grants are reviewed and ranked by a panel of experts. While they often agree in the broad strokes, their scores also have random or subjective components: different reviewers might prefer different approaches; even the same reviewer might give slightly different scores if they re-reviewed a grant (e.g., due to their mood). However, someone eventually does need to set a payline, or threshold for funding.

As a result, you'd expect people who submitted the worst funded grants and the best unfunded grants, which have very similar scores, to have similar career trajectories. After all, their abilities--as measured by grant scores--are virtually indistinguishable. However, the winners go on to win nearly twice as much funding in the next eight years. This presumably reflects the fact that funding begets more funding (you can collect more and better data for subsequent work) and prestige begets more prestige (you've now got another thing to put in the "awards" category).
Uh, what? youtube-dl.org is the first result for youtube-dl on Google, followed by GitHub repo, ytdl-org.github.io, Wikipedia, etc.

TPB is the first result too. IIRC at one point searching for TPB only returned proxy sites, but that doesn’t appear to be the case now.
> The barrier to entry is low

Wrong, MS fanboy. There's a whole industry of word processing and spreadsheet apps out there that sell themselves as "easy to use." One guess what they're comparing themselves to.

> What's your basis for asserting that packing these programs full of features was a bad idea?

When you state an opinion, you don't need to provide a link. It's an opinion. Yours is different. There we go.

> Would the lives of excel pros using those esoteric features really be better...

They would piece together the functions out of, e.g. exporting to CSV, or writing a Macro, or something. But everyone else who's not a pro wouldn't have to see that feature and feel they OUGHT to understand it. It doesn't mean the functionality is gone; it just means you have to work for it.

There's a discipline in meeting constraints. I'm not in any way a Google fanboy, but Docs and Sheets have the right combination of things you really need, and none of the things you don't. So do lots of other products.

Even though Word has, supposedly, everything you could ever need, it's still not adequate for writing a book, and I use Vellum for that (with Google Docs as the first draft).
The French newspaper Le Monde in France requires a printout of a cancellation form sent via physical mail with tracking to unsubscribe, even if the subscription is digital-only.

From their terms [0]: "Unless otherwise stipulated in the Special Conditions, the cancellation of a Subscription must be sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the Customer Service department.

"A Customer who wishes to terminate their contract must print out (or copy on plain paper):

- For a digital subscription, the cancellation form is available here

- For a paper subscription or a mixed subscription (paper + digital), the form is available here

Cancellations received by Le Monde before the 15th of the month will take effect at the end of that month. Cancellations received after the 15th of the month will take effect at the end of the following month.:"

Back when the UK was in the EU, I also had to call long-distance to British newspapers to unsubscribe.

It's the same for many Canadian and US subscriptions. It's not cultural, it's common practice by newspapers. The best way to protect oneself consumer is to carefully read cancellation terms before subscribing to any newspaper or periodical and purchase subscriptions through Apple's App Store if you own an Apple device (as it lets you cancel without hassle) when you can.

[0] https://moncompte.lemonde.fr/cgv-en#ancre_engagement
No you're missing the point, the point is that the "formatting and code structure" conventions haven't been developed for scala the way they have for java over many years.
What a hoot! At UCSB back in the day there was one student who always wore a wire-frame pyramid on his head.
Here's original article http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
My uncle observed this in his thesis: 'the combined weight of lock and bicycle is a constant'.
It's a shame that a non-violent way to resolve the dispute could not be found. In some ways this is a 'positive' story about signals intelligence - after all it meant more North Vietnamese deaths to fewer Americans. However during the Vietnam War and even now the public was very strongly in support of trying to resolve the conflict peacefully; recognizing that any death, be it Vietnamese or American, be it a fighter jet a soldier or a guerrilla, is a tragedy.

My hope would be that signals intelligence can be used to 'dissolve' rather than 'resolve' disputes - to learn enough key information to find mutually amicable nonviolent ends to disputes.

So on the one hand it feels good as an American to cheer for the destruction of life that is not ours that advances our interests. On the other it feels even better to advance our interest and the interest of others at the same time. As the destructiveness of weaponry continues to increase all conflicts will converge on mutually assured destruction (or mass causualty). That is to say that the future of warfare is, and this applies probably even to the present, that typical weapons are weapons that cause mass destruction. In this world of massively destructive weaponry denying a country access to weapons of mass destruction means denying them the capability to defend themselves as their own sovereignty against the nations that do - which is a form of imperialism that has a very long history.

All of this is a long winded way of saying that the way forward, if it isn't to involve hegemonic imperialism, is to find ways to use non-violent capabilities (like signals intelligent espionage, but most importantly diplomacy and interdependent cultures and trade) to make violence the least attractive way to end conflicts of interest.
What is stopping me from putting away in a saving account (or any separate account) some 20-30 bucks every month/year so I can retrieve them later in case I need them to replace my laptop/phone/tablet/whatever, instead of giving more than what I'd need to somebody else and effectively lose that money?
Related: You can also donate your spare CPU/GPU cycles to similar projects with http://folding.stanford.edu/

Someone's even trying to make the points awarded for time spent folding into a basis for a crypto currency http://foldingcoin.net/
Just curious, why did you use bit.ly there?
The big problem for VR is not the goggles and head tracking, it's going to be the interface bits.

The physical props you have to hold on to explore the virtual whatever you're looking at. If VR takes off, this will be a major peripheral market as companies form to sell everything from steering wheels to VR gloves with individual finger tracking to all sorts of stuff.

The problem of course has always been that wire going to your PC keeps you from doing lots of obvious stuff.

When I saw the early demos working off of smartphones, I saw the path to acceptance open quite a bit. It absolutely changes things quite a bit.
The first https uses CAcert. I'd suggest using http instead.
It's on the back of the sign in front of the campus: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back-...
I'd rather be removed from a project than to agree to something that can't be done.
You ll get a weird color from all that screen tanning
No, you can still eat your soup with a fork. It will work. Nobody will stop you. It will just be very ineffective, and your soup will get cold long before you finish it.
I'm in the same situation as OP, only the location is different (East Europe). I've been at it for 5 months already but I'm on verge of quitting every week since I started. The only thing that stops me from doing it is fear of not being able to make similar amount of money monthly to able to pay bills and rent. I've been trying to work on something on the side but the job leaves me exhausted and the only thing I can do in the evenings and weekends is sleep.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone - we use terrible tech(php and ftp), I haven't learned anything new in months, only taught my (senior) coworkers some tips to work even faster. I'd write more about it but my break is over.
I prefer ESR's take on the subject:
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch20s05.html
There is literally a movement to ban pointed kitchen knives in England. https://www.google.com/search?q=pointed+knives+uk+ban
I don't mind sociopaths; they are what they are. What I mind is the sugar-coating of sociopathic behavior that's actually flat-out unethical as 'naughtiness' so these people can be treated as innovative rule-benders rather than creeps.

Doing many of these 'sociopathic' things is a lot like going to a small country town where people leave their doors unlocked and burgling the houses there; you're violating a lot of unwritten and only mildly enforced rules. What bothers me is the idea that you will be specifically rewarded for this kind of behavior if you can spin it as a 'Country Town Social Hack'.
I'm very skeptical at the following claim, if taken at face value:

> Germany house prices have about doubled in the last 10 years

In the capital, prices 10 years ago were extremely low. People who bought apartments between 10 and 20 ago bought them as low as 1000€/sqm, which is exceptionally low for a European capital.

Under such conditions, price doubling is expected independently of any policy.
There's M-x zone, a bunch of games - anything from Tetris and Bubbles to Zork, morse code handling (M-x morse-region, unmorse-region), inserting interesting phrases for NSA spooks... There's a lot.

There's also nyan-mode, made by yours truly, but unfortunately it does not ship with Emacs by default :).
ECC could have been common, if there was a meaningful CPU support for. Intel basically did - "you need Xeon to do exactly what an i7 does + ECC, it just costs 5 times more... We just fused the ECC part of memory controller of i7, so buy Xeon."

The entire discussion is about why ECC is not common and why ECC matters. There is no technical reason for ECC to be uncommon aside purposed market segmentation.

Of course, there is no intrinsic availability of ECC udimms for the retail market currently, however that does mean ECC has no use or benefits for a small extra production cost.
Kinda surprised they're not buying Boeing 737 MAX for cargo. You'd imagine there would be some good deals to be had
I confirm that DosBox-X runs Imphobia disk magazine which is doing some very accurate vsync timing (basically switching color palettes several times during the screen refresh to display 48 colours on a 16 colours EGA display)
Yeah I guess we're thinking similarly in that case :)

It IS annoying though that it seems like the "last step" to produce measurable results requires a global integration though even though all the field interactions are local. The path integral QFT approach even makes this explicitly manifest, and modern QFT is the gold standard of reality-matching-predictions no matter the field..

Oh BTW re your edit: I'm not sure what "local interference" would mean. If interference effects could be solved locally, there would be no entanglement, no violated Bell's theorem or EPR experiments etc.
You are right about the house prices in Germany, but your statement about ECB is not entirely correct.

ECB does not "insist there is no inflation" in Germany or in Europe: in both cases it has been around 2 % for the last 20 years: https://portal.dataviz.ecb.europa.eu/views/HICP_dashboard_ET...

There is a reason why the ECB estimation of inflation (HICP) seems lower than expected in your experience: it does not take into account owner-occupied housing (OOH) prices, which include O.1.1.1.1 (Purchases of new dwellings index).
Mario Draghi (former resident of the ECB) was in favour of that, but the European Commission thinks that OOH is not suitable to be included in HICP yet.

References:
- https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2018/EN/COM-2...
- https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.mepletter180615_...
I see.. but that's something else. These are strategies to not get distracted, actually a big part of ADHD is having these strategies, otherwise there would be no productivity whatsoever.

However, the OP is talking about distractions which cause ADHD to be present, something I have not heard about.
I'm just trying to help. I didn't think people actually used Mac function keys since apple hides most of them under the function layer.

If the extra keys are necessary, why not just get a macro pad? Keyboard-wise a focus FK-9000 will probably cost you less than a Matias board and give you 20 something more keys. No need to treat me like I am a friggin idiot for not guessing your rather fringe needs.
Do people actually check their messages on LinkedIn?
I suppose the title could be slightly more accurate by replacing "solves" with "proves", but I think it's fine. The fact that proof is only 2 pages long is highly notable. This is not a case of a headline making a typical event look more notable than it is.
The results are gonna move in next year when the little old lady down the street croaks and her house goes up for sale.
Why should everyone be compromised because fuzzers want to use the simpler rand() API instead of something different?

I'm not saying we shouldn't have a way to generate predictable "random" sequences. But the default, simple, API for random numbers in any given language should be secure.

The vast majority of software does not need pseudorandom sequences. Developers shouldn't have to think every time "is pseudorandom good enough for this use case?" It should just be strong random every time. If you need a pseudorandom we should have a separate API for that.
As a potential neighbor: no, it's not ok. If I can hear your music, you are intruding in my space. I need at least one place on the planet where I can get some actual quiet without earplugs.
Same as other commenters, you removed the information about that this coordinate means. Does <point x=10 y=10/> means I will trace a line to 10,10, move to 10,10, trace a bezier curve, ...

This could be a better format, but still a lot heaver in term of bandwidth.

<path>
<move x=10 y=10/>
<line x=90 y=10/>
<curve x=90 y=90/>
<end/>
</path>
How could I prove my blog doesn't track you?
So if I said I'd pay you x more amount than what you're currently making, to don a rubber smock and pack pickles for a living for the rest of your life, is it just a question of what x is?
How about a reverse translator that lets me write more lua and less javascript?
I completely agree with you... in theory.

But in my experience, companies tend to look down at issues which affects customers, but don't affect the company directly, the risks are understood perfectly, but the choice almost always is "we will be as negligent with our customers as we can be, no matter if our customers die".

An old example which features "no matter if our customers die" is the Ford Pinto[1].

Fortunately, there is not a current example as fatal as the Ford Pinto, but the practice to overlook what affects customers remains in effect. At the end of the day, Risk Assessment is just a way to say "what matters to partners and investors", which is was what I tried to summarize with my previous point of "only 
money
 profits matters".

[1] http://myweb.whitman.syr.edu/pjcihon/LPP%20255/Ford.Pinto.Me...
VR, Augmented Reality, Holograms, etc. are currently abuzz in the news. It's probable that these headsets will become popular consumer devices within the near future. And they present a conflicting opportunity for advertisers and consumers:

1. Advertisers will probably want to use AR devices to superimpose their product logos on the real world, thereby advertising more at a lower cost. No need to rent billboard space when you can beam your corporate logo right into the eye of the consumer.

2. Consumers will probably want to use AR devices to remove product logos from the real world, much in the spirit of AdBlock and this video (using machine vision to detect advertisements, and then to replace them with something less objectionable).

What effects will these opportunities have? Who will come out on top? Will it be like advertising on the internet, all over again?
"As all these results were obtained, not by any heroic method, but by patient and detailed reasoning, I began to think it probable that philosophy had erred in adopting heroic remedies for intellectual difficulties, and that solutions were to be found merely by greater care and accuracy. This view I have come to hold more and more strongly as time went on, and it has led me to doubt whether philosophy, as a study distinct from science and possessed of a method of its own, is anything more than an unfortunate legacy from theology."

- Bertrand Russell, "Logical Atomism"

Could someone explain this quote more?
I had to laugh at that part, as well. Sure, a B-24 is a "Liberator", and B-17s were, uh, friendly???

I think they meant to write "desperate", rather than "diabolical", for a plan to blow random holes in the countryside. Not that I would want to be under one when it came down, regardless of country of origin.
I basically have a variation on this set up but I use Vagrant on top of VirtualBox. Then I keep the Vagrantfile and ancillary files on github. So I can theoretically show up to a computer and be able to quickly recreate my environment. I customize my VMs for Python or Clojure development and have a nicely set up emacs as foundations for both. This set up is really useful for Python where different Pythons coming from different package managers (brew, conda) tend to clash on my regular (OS X) OS.
Here's a baby step in that direction for NYC:

http://a841-dotvweb01.nyc.gov/ParkingRegs/ViewController/Loc...

CSV and shapefiles can be found here:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/datafeeds.shtml#parki...
Well the biggest difference is that the dutch signs would completely fail to communicate the parking restrictions for a busy street.

Its not uncommon for streets to allow parking but not at night or during rush hours so that all lanes can be used for traffic.

For instance the usual restrictions are no parking before 6am and then no parking between 7 and 9am and then no parking between 4 and 6pm and then no parking after midnight.

The dutch signs are fine for sleepy towns but wouldn't be acceptable for a city.
I agree. I've used rclone and another ML based program (forgot its name) with varying success for GDrive on Linux. RClone seems to be the best so far for my use case.

I wish Google provided better integration of GDrive w/Linux...
That's OK. It's not like the potential energy goes away just because you stay overnight. Plus there's a solar panel for all that power you are going to use while making hot toddies in the camper.