jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Stradivarius violins are invariably played and sometimes owned by soloists, who either literally play solo, lead a concerto, or occasionally play with a pianist or as part of a small ensemble.

First violin in an orchestra will usually have a more modest instrument.

Edit to add: of course there's a lot of Veblenisation in music, and this gets silly when people who are really collectors try to do music and end up being just a more extreme kind of consumer.

Hifi, guitars, synthesizers, and recording equipment are full of this - plenty of moderately wealthy doctors, lawyers, financiers and such of low-to-average talent buying vintage or custom signature whatevers and displaying them proudly on social media.

But there are also professionals who are super-sensitive to tone and expression and have a (literal) track record of making choices that audiences respond to.

Some of them have impressive collections too, but they're able to justify them for specific creative ends.

The difference is that if you take an expert and give them an average instrument they'll do miracles with it. If you take a collector and give them a room full of classics they'll produce mediocre mush.

But give an expert the classics and they'll wring an extra level of musical credibility and interest out of them. That zone is out of reach of the collectors, but audiences still appreciate it and pay for it when they hear it.
Thinking is impossible in our society.. and we naturally rely on stats and trust.
Are those articles suggesting how to fix capitalism or are they actually suggesting eliminating private ownership of the means of production? There are numerous example of the latter being crushed by, e.g. the CIA among others, for around a century. As for how they are marginalized, I'd challenge you to name a single instance of a capitalist state becoming anything else. There have been a few, e.g. China, USSR, PRK, Cuba, etc. which became state capitalism, but that's still a form of capitalism. The anarcho-syndaclists in Spain tried, but they were crushed by the state.

Private property is inextricably linked with capitalism. If there is no private property there can be no private ownership of the means of production, hence no capitalism. Conversely, within capitalism there is private ownership of the means of production hence there can be no private property, only personal property.
Do you use a controller? I’ve thought about trying one of the mobile ports but the idea of playing with a touch screen doesn’t seem viable. Is this solved somehow?
17.7%* https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pop+india+%2F+world+po...

but still...
Wow, do you at least have as mc donalds nearby so you can get a few of their cheap "child sized" burgers?

Hope you can find a better school!
29th has my vote, however for those of us still stuck at a 9-5, will the meetup still be going strong at 5:30 or 6?
erik, maybe you should give them a clue where to start...
I gave some clues of sorts in the comments.
"...I love my Nexus One and was hesitant to replace it but the Nexus S looks like the exact same phone, just better..."

Same phone? Really?

I was really looking forward to the S to replace my N1 but no matter how I slice it I keep coming up disappointed on the hardware. No SD slot, no trackball/touch-pad, no notification light, all items I use regularly. I really want to continue the pure Google experience and immediate updates but as of today I prefer the Desire Z specs over this phone by a significant margin. I am feeling really torn so I'm going to keep the N1 for awhile I guess.
All he said was that there is a higher learning curve to the bottom buttons and that purchasing apps was slightly more difficult. All of this was in self-contained in a single paragraph.
I also hope they don't "do a worse" than Yahoo. I'm a big Yahoo fan, actually. Call me crazy. I prefer their email service to gmail - I know that's not allowed, but I do. They have text email links that I can open in new tabs, look it up Google. Also I love Yahoo! Games, especially Chess and Go. Great service. Google, where are your games?
My, how times have changed for FLOSS. The project aims to "help keep Google, Facebook and Apple in check" with Microsoft making not so much as a blip on the radar.
The entire point of a getter/setter is to hide the internal attributes of the class behind a layer you can later change, and therefore they aren't "actually" exposing the internals, they just happen to be implemented that way at the moment but may later change.

However, the problem is that they are a code smell, specifically of a designer that doesn't really "get" OO. If you really have it all set up correctly, it should be rare for you to have one object do nothing more than query another object's internals, the first object should be telling the second object to do something, and shouldn't need the internals, wrapped by functions or otherwise. For all the teaching and the way it is the "official paradigm" of software engineering, very few people actually understand it well enough to use it properly. The end result is that the getter/setter user rarely finds they actually have any use, because anyone making pervasive use of them has so many other flaws in their design that they are going to have to rewrite everything anyhow.
I would imagine the functional programming advocates here already understand this. For the rest, audit logs are at least a baby step towards that. Progress!
Is living on knees like that really worth it? Find your hacker spirit.
Here is the story: https://imgur.com/a/K1utf

Note that this was unintentional ;)
Gerry Sussman mostly
Replying to myself because the above was instantly modded to oblivion.

Is free speech dead? Are we back to the ways of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Mao? Should all non-conformant speech be cancelled? What will our future be like if that is the case?
Back in the earliest part of my career (late 80's), I had a love for single-byte hex hacks, especially for apps that were timed to stop working after the trial period. Changing the date-check comparison branch instruction so that the apps would only work _after_ the trial period ended. Used this on various C64, Amiga, and VAX/VMS(!) apps. I thought I was so clever :)
Didn't he found the organization to begin with?
Billy did nothing wrong!
It's more like a live podcasting platform. I joined and gave it an honest shot, but I just don't have time to sit and listen to people ramble. The 1-2 hours per day I do have need to be spent listening to something purposeful and produced, like an actual podcast or audiobook.

I also think CH is very limited in the content it provides. At least that's my estimation after using the app for a few months. Either the algorithm is failing at showing me content I care about, or the platform is failing at attracting content I care about. Either way, the people I follow don't produce content, and I don't produce content, so the content I receive is mostly horrendous garbage.

Having said that, I could see content selection improving once CH finally gives up the invite gimmick. Something like a moderated panel of experts talking live with audience participation _sounds_ interesting, but the experts have to be experts and they have to interesting. How people can listen to celebrities or random nobodies ramble for hours on end about nothing is beyond me, but that's like 99% of the content I see currently on CH.
I'm a bit confused about containers. I know the ideas are quite old (keep hearing about the old Berkeley Jails and chroot). These days, I'm hearing about LXC containers, Warden, Docker, ...

They way I'm seeing it is that various projects are making it easier to use containers and adding more function. Is this correct or am I missing something?
I think there are more slaves coming in through San Francisco and Seattle to the US.
...or lawyers thinking they're judges?

...or law students thinking they are lawyers?
I find that a wee bit patronizing. You'd be surprised how rapidly the economy and priorities are changing in India. While basic needs are important, that's not the only thing we care about. Individual rights, technology, infrastructure, you name it, India is changing in every facet of political and social spectrum. This is very much in tune with the current level of policy awareness/activism in India.
Oh. Because things like public transport and City Car Club will take over.
Thanks.

I basically have this figured out, didn't see your comment until after.

The first hint was when Fs popped up in the first digit, which would make the color pretty red, so I thought F might mean "red". Red is the last color on the color spectrum and it was the highest letter that ever appeared.

So my first hypotheses was that every successive digit modified the previous digit, adding an amount of a certain color. But that didn't make sense because I knew FFFFFF was white. If my hypotheses were true, then it would be red.

I realized right there that I'm adding at least three different colors together. How did I realize this? You add colors to make white. From there I was looking at splitting the hex color into different pieces, and if each piece is at its highest intensity then you will have white (FFFFFF). F being the "highest" influencer of a color. I knew the first to be red.

I clicked a bunch, taking note of where the Fs popped up and the color. I was thrown off by second "digit" Fs. After figuring out which digits didn't influence the color much, I basically had it.

It wasn't hard to figure out. I'd like to know how long it takes someone who doesn't know that hex is sixteen.

Note: This really only took me about ten minutes.
In order to compete with dropbox youll have to be as easy to use. People dont use dropbox for the storage they use it because it makes collaboration easier - even collaborating with those not so computer savvy.
I work for a hedge fund.
They are the new Microsoft, steal and innovate.
Are they shipping nvi then?
People almost always act first, then rationalize later. Whenever someone gives a profound argument for their behavior, it's rationalization rather than reality almost 100% of the time.

Thus when someone claims that their mohawk and f-bombs are part of a calculated persona, you can almost always be sure that that was originally just the way that person was, then came the rationalization that it's a calculated move to achieve some goal, which in turn reinforced and exaggerated the original behavior.

The upshot is, if he worked at McDonald's rather than his own startup, he'd probably still have a mohawk and drop f-bombs. He's just a mohawk wearing, f-bomb dropping kinda guy.

(That's not meant to be judgmental.)
Given google is already starting down the ultimatum path, seems like there's not space in this game outside of the big two. Probably a good business move not to get involved.
And how are they doing compared to AWS and Azure?

Though I doubt that's the reason GCP is where it is, it doesn't really help your point.
Hi, I love libraries and I love projects. We moved from TX to CA in 2014 for the spouse's job and I focused on the kids' adjustment. They're in HS now so I' ready for full time work.

I've worked part time at the local library and done sound and projects as a volunteer.

Location: Los Gatos, CA, USA

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:
Project:
MS Project, SharePoint
Help Desk Management:
kayako, Footprint
Library:
ExLibris Aleph/SFX/Metalib/Primo,
Admin:
MediaWiki, Windows Server, RedHat Linux

Résumé/CV: http://natalie.vasquez.ws
Email: natalie@vasquez.ws
And coolness.
Establishing a connection isn't considered 'sending a message'.
I recall seeing a video of a presentation about trashing a device that's plugged in via exploits (I think?) in the USB protocol, but I imagine that the "do things when something is detected" part would be comparatively easy to reproduce.

Unfortunately, I can't recall where it was, nor can I seem to find it. Sorry.
There are a large number of truly astonishing things about the language, compiler and development environment. For example:

- the text editor supports elastic tabstops

Spoken like a true programmer. :)
The problem of evil maid attacks is at least trying to be addressed by the QubeOS team, and think it's an interesting concept. Otherwise, yes, FDE is only a part of what should be a holistic approach.
And before US Helicopter, there was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Airways

New York Airways had one notable accident: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/may-16-1977-hel...
Seems odd to think about a world where machines are making decisions. Is this really relevant? I don't think it will ever happen IMHO. But who knows.
One day, these people will be held accountable for what they sell. "We didn't know what they would so with it" is not good enough.
They are doing that well with Starship. I guess this fits the theme.

In fact it's made with the same steel alloy. I think I want to buy one now.
Pretty much all cars in the US are implementing laminated side glass to comply with FMVSS 226 occupant ejection mitigation requirements.

They just figured out an interesting way to demonstrate a feature that nearly every car sold in the US since 2017 already has.
https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/qd5qnhPT6

How does any copy-construction happen here?
And of course - has no special meaning to the shell or kernel. It is just convention that many commands treat it is a sentenal value (usually input from stdin or output to stdoht depending on the context)

The most important thing to understanding shell is that there are shell features, which have basically arbitrary parsing rules although they have some consistency, as well as commands which are parsed consistently into an argument list, but how that argument list is interpreted is completely up to the command.

Now while these may help you understand shell, they do not constitue a "good" programming language.
You make a good point, allow me to comment on both sides. I would love to be rich, absolutely filthy rich. However every time I buy a lottery ticket, I start daydreaming of what it’s like to be rich, and how much good I can do in the world. I wonder if I feel that way is because I grew up in a very lower income Midwest family. Is it an appreciation of money, how it was gained, or something deeper that turns rich people so cold to those who are not? Not at all rich people are bad, I think there are a lot of great rich people who do a lot of great things, but the richest of them are not as altruistic as they would like us to believe. It’s the ulterior motives I guess that really bothers me when the rich give.
aka "Swiss" ;)
https://www.cronj.com/truck-management-system.html was submitted to HN today and contains an animated video, not my startup.
How does someone become a billionaire? They typically have to have a good idea + other people helping them. Then beyond that them and their team have to do something people like. Apple is worth 2 trillion right now. They didn't get there by robbing anyone. They produced a product/service that people wanted. They produced a value without forcing anyone to do anything.

That creates an imbalance. Society now owes them in kind. I did something for you and now you do something for me.

That's where the 'enemy' part comes in. The rich are owed a value in return but people don't want them to get that value back. They want to increase taxes and take the rich people's money away. In effect they want the rich to produce a product/service and get little to nothing in return.

The problem is that you can never ever adjust for that. The original product/service is priced with taxation accounted for. NY increases taxes to take the money from the rich but in turn only makes the products more expensive. The rich then just get that much more rich because they still take 20% profit margin.
Where is your evidence of this overstated claim? "The very worst problem...overwhelmingly used to 'treat' normal behavior"...I studied ADHD pharmacology in graduate school and I saw no evidence of this in the dozens of articles I read. I think you lack a scientific understanding of ADHD.

Do you know WHY boys are more likely to be diagnosed as "combined type" ADHD and treated than girls? It is primarily because their motor-dominant brains develop differentially: the dopaminergic systems in their motor cortex make them move more and disrupt more than girls.

Girls, whose motor-cortex and executive function develop differently, are much more likely to be the primarily-inattentive subtype, which leads to day dreaming and aloofness, but not to the disruptive behaviors that boys with ADHD exhibit. Therefore, girls fly under the radar and are missed because boys simply move more and have less control over their movement.

Nevertheless, your post is a bit reckless in my opinion. Add some real scientific evidence to your generalization. These are children who have less friends, abuse drugs more, are more likely to have depression or anxiety, and are far more likely to kill themselves. This neurodevelopmental disorder really matters, it's not a flippant case of drugging boys whose parents didn't raise them right.
I concur with this. I helped build a Bluetooth compatible health device for a hackathon. I was responsible for the Bluetooth integration. Coming into this knowing absolutely nothing about the Bluetooth spec and not knowing the difference between Bluetooth and BLE; I tried to use both and only successfully built a BLE integration (as it turns out, it was the right protocol for transmitting low dimensionality biometrics).
The thing about systematically underestimating risk is that it causes you to lose money relative to correctly assessing risk.

Rationally assessing risk and correctly assessing risk are not the same thing. The former helps one to do the latter, but it is not by any means the only important component. Technical skill, time and effort also matter. A rational trader, without much skill, might correctly assess her strategy as having a 50% chance of success. An overconfident trader, with a great deal of skill, might assess his strategy as having a 90% chance of success when it actually has only a 70% chance of success. The skilled irrational trader will still make more money.

To prove that hiring women would increase profits, you need to show that female traders would make more profits than male traders, not show that they are more rational.

As for a PhD, most trading these days is quantitative. The era of frat boys throwing darts at a stock chart is over. Most trading strategies are designed by quants (i.e., the PhDs, sometimes ABDs, occasionally a masters in math finance), implemented by programmers (usually also having a heavy quant background), and occasionally executed by compulsive gamblers who go nuts over numbers. Most women don't fit this profile.

Also, why do you believe the financial crisis was caused by overconfidence, as opposed to an incorrect evaluation of the facts?
It using Canvas for the text and it's not selectable as a result.
Wow, a site with “Ajax” in its name that, on load, presents the user with a confirm() dialog that redirects them to the Flash install page? — while there is an unpatched critical zero-day bug being exploited in the wild? There is a reason I have Flash disabled!

(Also: My site, which is geared toward OS X users and web developers, has 2% IE6 traffic.)
You, just as many others here, have not noticed the sarcasm in the paragraph about not having kids. He has two himself.
Click the comments on each Reddit article, one recent and another from 4 years ago, both pointing to the same article.
1. I think you'd have to take into account how the majority of freelancers actually do business and interact with their clients. If you're dealing with 2-5 clients a month a CRM would be nice but unnecessary, at least for the amount of communication you'd need.

2. That crowded space you speak of is most of the tools an average freelancer would need. Maybe it's the high volume freelancer then that you'd need to address?

3. Probably not, unless you have a very very compelling reason for me to.
So does that mean if you add the RSS to your google reader, google is then breaking their tos because google display ads?
One thing that always gets me about blog posts like these, is that they never fill in the details in the post. He goes on about things he's struggled with, solutions he's found, etc, but never actually says what they are. I'm an Emacs novice, and I love to get little tips from articles like this one, but so often they just allude to it all.
What's the SoC in this NUC? Is this a Broadwell i3 ? Which one ?
> Get over yourself and quit drinking the koolaid.

Given these are disclosures from their internal presentations, it's their koolaid that we're discussing.
Luckily the title of babies first scripts as well as annoying autoplay, flashing gifs and terrible layouts had been taken over by tumblr. If you ever feel the need to know why 99% of professional devs aren't 12, check out a couple of "custom" tumblr styles.
I suspect google is already filtering your search results based on your behavior. I have no proof of this - only suspicion. I purposefully don't click on quora or pinterest. Lately I see them much less on my results feed.
I'm using DuckDuckGo since a year and a half and I'm getting nice results, including old content and less spammy websites like Pinterest or other places.
You can see it if you have showdead on in your profile.
I personally disagree. While it is absolutely true that there is a lot of garbage content on Quora, it is certainly one of my favorite sites on the web because for all the garbage you come across, you can come across some wonderful gems and actual helpful people, and in general I find it pretty easy to just mentally filter the garbage out. That might be because I have spent a lot of time trawling through it and answering questions though.

And perhaps I just like quora so much because it's the only place on the web I've gotten any meaningful amount of impressions and engagement on content I've produced (aka answers), so perhaps I am sonewhat biased due to that. All that being said, I can certainly see why someone might find it annoying, but I think that if you take the time to engage with it and understand the ecosystem within it, it'll make it a lot more tolerable.

Or you can likely just follow what I assume will be a suggestion from other users here as to how to filter quora results out of your queries :)
An interesting thread by nuke historian Alex Wellerstein that provides some context and pushes back a little on some of the claims about the importance of the information obtained through espionage to the Soviet nuclear weapons program:

https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1198668231457812482
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> MS turning Google owned guns,against them.

Not enough market cap for this yet.
Gosh I wish people would stop using exponentially as a synonym for "a lot".
This is such an outdated way of thinking (asses in seats). Your company then completely eliminates the possibility of remote work if this lunch time eat-along is so important to the cogs in your machine. You're not providing your employees with food because it benefits them. You're providing your employees with food because it forces them to always be working.

> We provide free food because we see a lot of value in everyone eating together and employees get a lot of value in just not having to think about lunch or spend the time to go out and eat somewhere.

This is literally saying that your employees get free food so that they can stay at work and only think about work and only eat with people from work...
I know. But maybe it's time to do it again :).
If you are genuinely curious about officially documented reports about UFOs (not aliens), then I highly recommend reading "UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record" by Leslie Kean.

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Offici...

In a field where many of the books are written by either true believers or debunkers, this is a fresh take on the phenomena, carefully researched and conservatively written by an investigative journalist.