jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They seem very happy indeed. So happy they have recently striked over pay and conditions [1]. A MIT study also showed the big profits they have (26% make more than minimum wage in the US!) [2].

>Your imposing your own morals on people who don't want your morals.

You are wrong. It is not morals. It is the law. Uber is bypassing laws, full stop.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/08/uber-driv...
2: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/02/mit-study-shows-how-much-d...
A lot of products you buy, especially those featured on The Price is Right, aren't sold directly to you they're sold to other companies/distributors for wholesale prices then they sell it on to you (or sometimes another step through a distributor). The manufacturer has no association with you at all and having them fix a price would remove competition from all those stores. It's coming really close to being a price control cartel too, it'll just mean stores can't compete on price to get you into their doors which will probably mean higher prices.
The problem is that Germany lacks knowledgeable people in public service.
> I wonder how they deal with meme and parody accounts. (will making fun of people this way now be criminalized?)

The Singapore Law Minister has come out and said that parody and satire don't fall under the "fake news" law [1].

Note, however, that this particular law was rushed through parliament despite much criticism. Ministers are empowered to issue correction orders (which must be complied with immediately), and affected parties (which may include parody and satire) are required to spend time and money to go through the court system to dispute the order.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/fake-news-law...
Coke was also a nickel for a long time, and since it was frequently sold in vending machines it was advantageous to be able to sell it for a single coin. So they actually lobbied for the production of a 7.5 cent coin.
There are various guides for enabling it in web servers that support it. It requires HTTPS as a prerequisite.

For testing it in the browser: in Chrome at least, the developer tools Network tab details the protocol of each request/response. I believe Firefox has similar functionality.
> two windows of chrome, 20 tabs each, 5 or 6 instances of PHPStorm open

Jesus Christ, that sounds excessive.

Vim can be run well off of a $35 Raspberry Pie if that means anything to you. That machine has 512 MB of RAM. Basically every laptop will be able to handle it just fine.
Is the video based on applying the algorithm to the entire screen, or is it applied to the sprites individually, then they are plotted to the screen?

Just wondering, because the samples in the paper are all lone objects against a clear background. If the same object is drawn in front of a detailed background and then the upscaling is applied, this would affect the patterning. It's a little tricky to tell from the video, since the graphics (especially the backgrounds) use large blocks of plain colours.

Worst case, you could imagine Mario walking in front of the background and his shape shifting madly with every step he took?

(Edit: From freeze-framing the video, I'm guessing that the algorithm is being applied to the whole screen. The scaling works great when Mario is in front of the pale background. There are small artifacts when he crosses the black outline of the green bushes. Very minor in this video, I wonder how it would affect more intricate backgrounds or those that aren't such contrasting colours to the foreground?)
Walnuts have more omega-6 than omega-3, so you're probably not getting any of the effect from it. The two cancel each other out.
> it has pretty good tools of ensuring the expected goods and services flow back to the buyer: chargebacks, courts of law etc.

The existing financial (and legal) system is terrible at enforcing contracts, settling dispute, and establishing credit.

> There's no way cryptography and peer-to-peer consensus protocols will provide verification for goods and services.

Crypto-currency is one of the key pieces needed to build a better system. I strongly believe crypto-contracts are also needed.
They give us the instruments to tackle the problems you mentioned. The ethereum white paper (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa...)
does a good job at explaining how contract enforcement can be coded into the blockchain.
I anticipate that Tesla will enter the grid battery intertie business, possibly even buying off peak electricity and selling it during high demand.
I would venture to guess that interoperability with existing projects and services is important to some people. Also, there are Java libraries which are significantly better than their closest corresponding Node package.
Now if meteorjs does Dart too... one language to rule them all
This is a great (and refreshing) perspective on how to inspire employees by crafting a truly flexible work environment. We (especially the creative class) aren’t cogs to clock in 40 hours a week and leave. We want more from our employers.

The details of an ideal employee policy can be debated, but you’re right there with the 4 hours hard work, 2 hours social interaction, and the rest up to the employee. Especially a free trip with the staff every now and then to bond. Something you can’t really find at big companies anymore.
> Why can't everyone go to MIT?

Everyone can, online. All of MIT's course content is available for free online:

https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
> Is this the case of someone guilty getting 25 years in jail for not wanting to snitch?

This is an absolutely disgusting suggestion.
With online schooling this is true now more than ever. Why _cant_ i just follow along online, have a bot grade the assignments, and get a degree? Makes you start to question what going to prestigious schools is really about.
Me neither! As long as those balanced views are only posted on the secret internet, where mature and sophisticated programmers such as the two of us can read them.
Preface: I scored extremely well on the SAT/ACT so I would have every incentive to keep the status quo. I think these tests should stick around as an option for students to prove their aptitude but that the requirement for them should be dropped.

Being smart does help you on these tests but not as much as you would hope. The things that meaningfully affect your score are studying for them and learning the specific material on the test. So there are two ways to do well: you study your ass off with test-prep materials or you go to one of the "good" high schools that tailor their entire curriculum to the ACT/SAT, AP and IB tests.

tl;dr these exasm only test how good you are at school and leave very little room to prove your aptitude in areas that aren't the primary subjects in school. CS being one area that until very recently was completely absent from all but the very best schools.
I assume for intel, they make more server CPUs per year than the entirety of AMDs output.
I think it's the opposite,

ACT/SAT scores are more representative of your socioeconomic level rather than just straight up smarts.
Ah, the classic "We take a loss on every sale but make up for it in volume" strategy?
...and then interesting to see which client app is first to filter them out.
I can't see that making a good enough seal with the seafloor to be a viable solution.
I guess what I was trying to point out is that they're not the crazy greens social enviro anarchist party that you'd tend to think of if you heard of the 'greens' for the first time (generally). They're 'closer' but I agree I wouldn't consider them equivalent or overlapping on an absolute scale. The US center being quite different from the Aus center of course, but normalising across countries is bound to result in a loss of direction.

I do wonder if voting wasn't so constrained to party lines what we'd end up with though.
Handbrake is the only GUI I would recommend on any platform.

This isn't because I really like it - the implementation of presets is broken, for one thing - but mostly because so many other ones are license violators.

If you aren't doing DVD ripping, I'd consider it a failure of the CLI tool if it's not easier to use than any GUI frontend.
x264 is nearly there, since "x264 -o out.mp4 in.something" should be all you need to get a good encode after this GSoC.
This wouldn't be needed if they drove on the correct side of the road.
In a very generic answer to your question, suppose you're moving a 1GB file from A to B with an 8GB flash drive. It doesn't cost anyone anything to move an extra 7GB of data that somebody might need later. You can 8x your throughput for free.

But, at the same time, you don't want a flash drive to be in a constant state of being near-full so it can't fit the new StarCraft beta.

So there's some logic that takes files that seem to be spreading around anyway and sort of spreads them around ahead of when they're requested. This both increases redundancy and increases network throughput. It's not exactly machine learning, but it does, in practice, provide decent results.
It's interesting that when the guy demoing is asked if a publisher can block a game or platform from being available on OnLive, he responds by saying they can if they have a business deal that allows them to block it.

So does that mean OnLive will offer all new games on all platforms supported unless a publisher pays them money not to? I wonder what the licensing issues are there.
I agree that they aren't a crazy greens social enviro anarchist party, but I think many people might be surprised just how left wing they are. Their economic policies include things like:

only allowing losses from an investment to be offset against income from the same investment;

introducing a tax on extreme wealth applied to the wealthiest 5% of people.

return the company tax rate to 33% and broaden the company tax base by reducing tax concessions.

etc etc

http://greens.org.au/policies/sustainable-economy/economics

Having said that, I'll probably be voting green (and have before). Not sure about my preferences, though.

I wish there was a socially progressive, economically centralist party in Australia. Pity the Australian Democrats collapsed.
This sounds and looks like a great idea, I can imagine using it to show individual users how to do something in response to a support ticket, and then having it as an online reference to send to others with the same questions.

One question I had that the site didn't answer: can you only record from windows computers? Or OS/X and Linux too? It looks a bit like an air application, so if you can do it on any platform that's worth shouting about somewhere too.
It's the disadvantage of recreating historical martial arts in a realistic way; if you actually did it completely realistic, you need to figure out what to do with all the bodies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131207020421/http://ericnieble...
This is exactly the reason example.com exists
I get 3 kinds of ads mostly - ads for scammy crap no one in their right mind would click on, ads for expensive enterprise software packages, and ads for stuff I just bought.

I'm not the decision maker at work. I can't influence a decision on the purchase of a $XX,XXX software package. The ads for things I've already bought are particularly sad, because it's too late. I'm not buying another bunk bed, but after I bought a bunk bed (with no help from advertising engines) I spent the next month ignoring ads for bunk beds.

Someone is not getting their money's worth on these ads.
I think it's worth it to note that "a sufficiently complicated game will spend a lot of time dealing with memory issues" applies to all games. The memory issues might just be different. Or they could be simpler. Most games (especially large ones) tend to end up with multiple ways of garbage collecting eventually, even if written in pure C++. And that isn't even taking into account cache coherency, NULL pointers, double-freed pointers, etc. At least with something like JVM or CLR, you only have to fight the GC. Whether that's good or bad, that's left up to the developer fighting whatever memory issue is happening at the time.
Completely off topic and likely to be downvoted (ugh)... but those stock blue buttons and website format is being used more and more for for vaporware type products/projects... I noticed today that I get an immediate negative reaction to seeing this style.

Anyone else think bootstrap stock format (is that what this is?) has turned into a negative connotation?
Bingo... pretty trivial to stick an `rm -rf /*` shell call somewhere in your code. Not sure what difference it makes whether it's in a package manager file, or the code. Lesson... read the code before running it.

Title of the post should be "Running code you haven't read can be dangerous"
or you can create a ponies alias, even more harmless-looking
I've struggled for years with getting up at a respectable time. I can't overemphasize this. There are classes (yes, multiple) in college I failed because I just simply could not get myself up and to class at 8am three days a week. That was when I was 18-20.

I'm 28 now, almost 29. I go to the gym 5 days a week at 5:30am. I'm up at 4:45 whether I set an alarm or not. I'm sure part of it is circadian rhythms and the fact that I'm going to bed at 9pm instead of 1am now. And as a result, my most productive coding hours have shifted from 7-11pm to 9am-12pm (give or take). So I keep my morning schedule open for the real work, and pack my afternoons with meetings and administrative work.
The money goes to Akshaya Patra, they can provide food for a child for an year for just Rs.750, everyday when a visit to the app is made, 10 paise is donated. Hope that answers your query. Furthermore, we started on 22 Jan, donations will be made bimonthly, hence the first donation will be made on 23 March.
It's called the Bob Rubin trade. For years you stack up risk and profit immensely from it ($125 million). When things eventually blow up you simply... step away.

So sure, people were fired, but it's not like they are giving back all the money they made.
> Why can't people create additional teams and play exciting matches that draw paying audiences? Is the bottleneck that spectator attention is already maxed out?

People do create additional teams and play exciting for them matches. That is how amateur leagues work. People create whole additional sports and compete among themselves in them.

The spectator attention is really maxed out, because spectating sport is massively social thing. People do it because of excitement of who win, but massive part of it all is being part of culture, having common topic with friends, feeling like member of big fan club etc.
20+ is technically correct.

NC State was celebrating 40 years of CS in 2006 or so and they weren't the first. CS degrees have been around since the 1960s, so 50+ years at this point of CS as a separate degree program in the US. Apparently Cambridge offered their first CS degree in 1953.
I also have a browser extension in the works for the app I'm coding up, so I might go that route. Anyhow, thanks for your feedback! Context.io will definitely be something I look into as well.
Yeah, that's how I unplugged myself from Google totally. Gmail can be replaced with any paid or free mail service with IMAP.
> More intuitively

Not for me. I get the dimensions but hell if I can remember it.

But mnemonic 'ReturN' (for the Windows style \r\n) helps (well, a bit) here:

\r: carrier Return
\n: liNe feed
No. But do note that H&R Block (along with Intuit and others) pay lobbyists to make filing your taxes a difficult costly process. I'd recommend using https://freetaxusa.com (legit, great site for only $15) or paying a local, independent CPA, to file your taxes instead.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
>we just choose not to do so because we don't value the time of the worker enough. When you get a package delivered for $2 instead of $3 you're implicitly putting a lower value on the time of someone else.

Is that bad? Like it or not, different types of work provide different value to the economy.

>maybe we do not need someone to deliver a package of rice from Amazon for an unlivably low wage to a recipient who could have just gone to the supermarket.

Sure, that MANGA programmer could have gone to the supermarket himself, but why should we stop him from spreading the wealth around by paying someone else to do it for them? Would the delivery guy be better off if he had 20 minutes of his time back but was $5 poorer?
Do you even know any privates?
Athletic Greens has some selenium in it
> I still don't get it. If rich people own land with value X, and you tax it and produce Y amount that gets distributed to everyone, doesn't that Y directly increase the cost of food and shelter or any other thing that the poor people would want to buy?

You seem to be presuming inelastic supply of all of the stuff they'd ever buy. This is relatively true for some stuff (housing supply in the largest urban markets).

But, most of these things are elastic and/or have larger world markets to bid against. Food, consumer goods, housing in other markets, etc. Therefore, while a UBI would be somewhat inflationary, it would still increase the purchasing power of the poor and lower middle class.

> The only things it can buy are things that are subsidized by the government anyway and exists already, such as low income housing and food-stamp-eligible food.

This isn't true, but this is the biggest benefit to UBI: unwind the administrative apparatus involved with entitlements, and remove the lower income regions which have over 100% effective marginal tax rates. A complicated patchwork of programs can be simplified and reduced in scope (SNAP, section 8, EITC, disability insurance, etc..) and we can ensure that people always have a positive marginal incentive to work. Milton Friedman himself proposed a UBI in a form of a "negative income tax" to avoid these economic distortions.
Both may be true at the same time: “being good may correlate with being popular” and “the more you read the more likely your favorite book is obscure”

The math is the same as hot/crazy/marry plots: draw popularity vs. goodness (random correlated dots: more popular more goodness). Define which books may be favorite e.g., above G line goodness a book has a chance to become favorite, define threshold for obscurity e.g., less than P popularity level. Consider what happens to the number of obscure books the more you read the more of them can become popular.

If you model it with a single threshold then the math is the same as for «the better at programming competitions the worse at “some other metric for coders” among google hires» (imagine you sum two metrics and hire only those who have the sum above a threshold -> you get the positive traits in reverse relationship).
I think Booking.com was actually a client of Persuasion API; a competitor of Conversify (coincidentally all three Dutch companies.)

I think they actually ran this experiment only through their mailing list though but either way Booking.com was already using all these conversion tactics before though so at best they actually used this to occasionally turn off some of the less effective social proofs.
It's still necessarily got a worst case complexity of O(n) - e.g. consider the case where the contents of nodes are perfectly disjoint. In that instance, you'd require O(n) space.
That might be true in the very short term, but in the medium- or long-term, no one actually enjoys working with "fun" people who have zero or negative productivity.
Mailing cash is obviously very different from a Bitcoin transfer (speed, security, legal issues).
The second foundation is here!
On the signup screen, I typed in my email address, then reflexively hit 'tab' before looking at the next field. That cleared the field and I didn't know what field I was in. I had to tab out and back in to figure out it was the password field.

Otherwise, it looks pretty cool, and I'm looking forward to having a Chicago version.
The "application" nowadays is usually GMail or Yahoo Mail or some other website. It seems like this is really a browser failing.
There's one for the creative fields already.. vfxwages.com. I posted a news release about them below. I think they still need some work to do, but it's getting more relevant.
In which case you join me in disagreeing with the statement that 'the only real-world metric that matters is "how much other people want to work with you'."
Come now. Most of the people who drive pickups rarely if ever use them to tow or haul things. They drive pickups because driving anything else means you're gay, or communist, or smoke marijuana.
Looks like it was manufactured by the soviets. And oh my gosh I was hungry, but looked up teratoma, and am no longer hungry. Not safe for life. Yike.
If you're an American, wave apps might be good.
Same in German
There might be a practical reason it's not painted: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18291091/tesla-epa-fine-ha...
I really miss that design. It's a lot more relaxing to look at than modern "flat" UI, IMO. Depth and consistent use of UI elements make it so easy to tell what's what. Modern UI seems to be designed to look like a static glossy brochure, even when it's full of interactive elements.
Yeah, despite 20 years of "progress", I don't see today's desktops being any more usable than Win 95's, for the typical mouse-and-keyboard setup. There's a couple niceties that have been introduced since then, mostly keyboard shortcuts for window management tasks, but otherwise it's all change for the sake of change, and change for the sake of advertisements.
I could easily see them finding that the board was mislead about the process involved in selecting himself as the best option to lease building from which would remove the 'but the board knew about it' wrinkle.
But what else would you propose? Only thing you could do which would be more accurate is to try to exploit all the issues it found, which isn't really practical, because POCs are not always available and if they are, you would have to build some kind of database with all of them. Maybe it could be combined with Metasploit...
Mathematics not only allows us to calculate complex equations, but also helps us in everyday life. Learning is not always easy, and someone is not interested, especially in the school version, so it is better to find exactly the format that suits you best. There are so many different platforms to explore now, such as Udemy, edX, YouTube. Perhaps you can find something interesting there.
Or you completely misunderstood my point.

I was not agreeing or disagreeing with the OP, nor with you. I was pointing out that there is another way to look at the speed situation, besides the obvious one.

Perhaps we could say that the way one sees the speed difference depends on what speed one expects from the software one uses.

If one does not regularly use software that fits in 512k, then maybe one sees the speed of such programs as a "huge boost".

But, if one is accustomed to using small executables that fit in 512k and one does not regularly use software that is, e.g., 5, 10, 20m or more, then maybe one sees having to use such larger software as a "huge slowdown".