jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"hack up some system to split the single name field that doesn't work very well."

You've correctly identified a problem, but misassigned the responsibility. The problem with the single-name split is that it is impossible, full stop. When you forcibly try to do the impossible, you always get bad results.

You appear to be proposing that we force the users to enter first and last names, then we can trivially sort them by last name. But for the exact same reasons you can't write a name splitter after the fact, you can't have the user break their names into "first" and "last" either. You haven't solved the problem of there being "no last name" by changing your input form. You've just moved it around. Now it irritates the customer instead of you, which is often a bad trade, and sort by last name still doesn't work because customers for who a first/last split doesn't work have fed you one or another variety of garbage data. Garbage data which is now even harder to find; at least when you had a one-word name you had a clue that there was no first/last split.
How does the research quantify "Fighting Ability" (hand-eye, violent nature, inherent strength)?
Does muscle development through intense training change the voice?
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Thanks for the opportunity. Will do. :)
From what this guy said, the maximum flow rate if the well fails is 150,000 barrels per day. If there are 2.5 billion barrels in the reservoir, then we'd be looking at a continuous leak at approximately three times it's present flow rate for 45 years before it stopped.

The consequences of that scenario are too horrible to imagine.
Rational thinking isn't always linked to intelligence( as problem solving intelligence ) at least in my opinion . I know this might sound irational but oh well.
This is true. Personally, I have always dealt with death in a strange way (compared to peers). Thank you for the insight.
The random admin passwords would be great if they weren't also leaving in backdoors.

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide
https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764
Yeah that statement also made sense to me despite not liking the guy. I like to think of "known unknowns" as knowing the question but not the answer, and "unknown unknowns" as not even knowing the question.

Of course knowing the answer but not the question is best left to Douglas Adams.
I'm not sure who the poet was, but here's an old Chinese poem that I love. My translation doesn't quite do it justice, but...

少小離家老大回
鄉音無改鬢毛衰
兒童相見不相識
笑問客從何處來

I left my hometown as a young boy and returned as an old man.

The local speech hadn't changed, but the hair on my head had.

The children looked at me but recognized me not.

Laughing, they asked from where this visitor had come.
Scrotum is marked as profane too, when I am not sure it should be.
My understanding is there are two reasons you want inflation:

(1) Inflation means real interest rates can go negative, which means it's harder to get stuck at the zero lower bound (as we are today).

(2) Wages are sticky, i.e. workers fight very hard against having their wages reduced. When there's inflation you can effectively cut wages by giving raises below inflation. Without inflation it's very hard to cut wages, and the economy becomes brittle.
I appreciate that you are relaying your sisters' experiences and I want to respect that they may be different from mine. I hope you can equally respect that I am speaking from personal experience as well, as opposed to watching those "staged" (huh?) street harassment videos. It is not a hyperbole to me, my twenties were spent getting hit on every 5 minutes while in public. Granted this was in NYC where street harassment is especially egregious.
So as a recruiter, why not just state the salary range for the position, if that's fixed?

Then if the amount of money I want from you as a potential employee isn't an option, I won't waste both of our times in applying.
Nim has some good ideas but I can't get over the syntax:

- Significant whitespace, but tabs are forbidden
- No block comments, save for `discard """ ... """`
- Identifiers are case and underscore-insensitive (FOO_BAR === fooBar === fo_ob_ar)
And not even that but unloading with less than a second after spinning around from facing the other way? It actually puts Legolas to shame.
I run accounts with hundreds of followers. Apologies!
No, the Python community consists of a mix of people who think that the manner in which whitespace is significant in Python (most languages have significant whitespace of some form) is advantageous, people who think it is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous that are attracted to the language for other reasons, and people who think that it is disadvantageous, but not so much as to negate other advantages they see in the language.

It is a mistake to conclude that because language X has feature Y, the entire community around language X thinks that feature Y is a positive feature.
py2app and py2exe are fairly solid in this regard, aren't they?
It seems like a good idea - but the site as it stands now doesn't give me any confidence that any VCs will actually see proposals, and even if they do, that they would take it seriously. Are any VCs on board currently?

You need to find some way to get way more information into the pitches... For example financials, forecasts, a plan. I can't imagine ever investing in something based solely on a short, free-form text pitch (and I'm not a VC.)

Also just a little note on tone - going back to my first point, I'm not sure any VC would take kindly to the idea of "Get Spammed" - You might also want to be careful with your test data ("some rich fart" for example) lest you put off any VCs that happen to see this whilst it is on HN.

Hope that helps. :)
OK, thanks, will do!

First plan of action is to build a small, (more or less) throwaway app that uses all the major bits we're interested in to get a feel for the platform before betting the farm on it.
Wikileaks is grade A movie material, by the way. Will be nice to see who picks that up.
You see this everywhere now. People get to act like they're being reasonable compromising middle ground moderates by opening up with a personal swipe against Assange and then following up with a vague statement of support for what wikileaks does.
Nice to hear this kind of break through! But is it attached to some kind of controversy like stem-cell research/cloning? If new bone marrow is the cure, then the next step might be a cloned bone marrow so you don't need to have pills for ever!
This might be opening a hole into advanced genetic research on cloning stuff!!!!
I didn't know it was so new of a feature. I've been using email article publishing since back when PostNuke was the hot web publishing tool.

But, it seems to be wrapping around as the "new hot tech" again because this generation of users has forgotten about it.
The passive investors are, in effect, copying the active investors. They're investing in the sum of what all the active investors are investing in. So they're return is the average of what the active investors are investing in.
I'm curious: are you being sarcastic here?

I honestly don't care about the founder stories (good for them, sucks for them, end of story). But the articles do really focus on the founders more than features, and people are known to be silly (hence the never-dying market for tabloids).
>the most hostile network out there

The internet?
You need not be a scientist to understand aging.
No doubt true, but surprising. I'd rather bag groceries somewhere else than be a programmer in Boston or DC.
It's not necessarily that there are no sidewalks. Walking through retail/commercial-zoned suburbia can be mind-numbingly boring.

Straight roads, boring 'architecture', giant parking lots between the sidewalk and the retail buildings.

Compare Atherton, UK - nice, homely "typical UK" town with busy high-street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.523623,-2.491372,3a,75y,92.9...

Now, San Jose, CA, USA suburbia:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.323192,-121.972195,3a,75y,25...

Boring. Thankfully planners seem to have recognized this, and now the trend is to build high-density housing, and right out to the street.

James Howard Kunstler has a FANTASTIC Ted talk about this subject, which cracks me up every time. Highly recommended:

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
Commodore 64 bought with a paper route money.

Sub poll, who's first program looked like this?

10 print "Mike Rocks"

20 goto 10
Still, helping non-compliant site owners into compliance would create greater revenue opportunities and a healthier market for media buyers and sellers alike, as well as a better environment for the middleman.
Not really?

For general tech? Sure. For open source? It's hard to beat the in-depth coverage of http://lwn.net and http://www.groklaw.net
I have become increasingly disappointed with Wired over the last few years, it has gotten to the point where I deliberately avoid them even though they have soem great writers.

I'm from Ireland but not living there at the moment so my go to source for quality reportage of all things Oirish is http://www.irishtimes.com

I like to dip into The Economist for geopolitical stuff but it's surprising how many of the stories that would interest me from The Economist hit the main page of HN anyway.

I have been on /. for many many years - I have a 5 digit UID :) - but I stopped going there religiously a number of years ago. Having said that, I have returned there more and more often recently as I have noticed an unusual amount of group-think on HN when it comes to certain matters and that kind of irks me.

I go to to http://counterpunch.org/ to counterbalance the establishment reporting of the traditional mass media. This because I find that my political, social and economic views (which I know to be held by most of my peers) are underreported and underrepresented by the corporate media.

There are other niche sites that I visit but these are particular to my tastes. There are a couple of blogs I follow on RSS because I like the author's style and voice, these are all political, philosophical or literary in nature.
I've had money refunded automatically due to Google detecting fraud later.
Is that really cloud hosting?
Actually not a dupe; Greenwald's response was in two parts, and this is the other (and somewhat more relevant) part.
Chiming in - Karen Pryor's Clicker Training is really tough to beat: http://www.clickertraining.com/
You could submit such articles.
If I could use alipay everywhere I'd probably stop.
Not to forget whatsapp. 1000 times more daily active users than IRC. Basically the same model as Skype. (And likewise quite unlike IRC.)
This is the real strategy. Phoenix looks at what the federal government needs and offers classes in those subjects. Students get federal loans to pay for it all. Money is funneled straight from US govt to Phoenix, with students on the hook for it.
Phone Gap tried to mimic native Android and iOS UI using HTML, CSS, and JS. React Native uses JS to control 100% native UI.
My favorite part of DoorDash is how they got the tipping right. Add it upfront and then they just quickly drop off the food. Munchery is awkward because you're never sure if the person that ordered it included the tip and the driver is hanging around awkwardly making small talk.
Be well versed in genetics / molecular biology! - If I had the time to finish school, I'd double in biology / math or CS. Man will that be a killer combo when that kid is 30.

It feels like biotech is where computing was in the 1930's... what's to come, and how it will change the world is both frightening and exciting.

On the "soft" side (whatever that means): ethics, the history of ethics, from every point of view.

Two lecture series I always recommend, and feel like everyone should watch with a gun to their head (as the instructor himself says):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY -- Harvard course on justice / ethics.

- https://youtu.be/NNnIGh9g6fA -- Robert Saposky (and guests) on the biology of human behavior.

Literary theory. Gaining a deeper understanding of how masters of symbolism, language, and creativity think and put together their work; the history of literature; etc. will open you up to new ways of thinking just like studying pure maths or programming would.

Now to invent a time machine and give myself this advice! Boy I could've used it.
I think (NO EVIDENCE!) that people using BTC over Christmas and in the sales is likely to be a factor in driving the price down. Retailers immediately exchange the coins for $$ to avoid the risk of holding them, so this is a substantial liquidity call on the currency.
Your tickets are linked to your identity (unless you pay cash and don't get season tickets) and bus companies have an interest in collecting data about where you travel. Bus tickets need a lot of information for auditing.

Also, In England we have CCTV on the buses. I'll take a photo next time I get a bus but there are about 5 cameras on the top deck.
I like the idea of following the money, but I would argue that iOS is actually in a worse state than OS X. UIKit used to be AppKit's clean and modern sibling, now we have to struggle with bullshit like automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets, the n-th way of implementing view controller rotation, the duality of AutoLayout and struts & springs and an UITextView that gets worse instead of better. If you want to see some examples, follow @steipete on Twitter and look at the radars he files (I think there were 3-4 in December).

Or just start using a custom keyboard full-time on iOS 8. It's still bordering on unusable for me on iOS 8.1.1. I love the empty screen the App Store gives me when I want to write a review.
Thanks for the nice feedback. Very good point! We just acquired hireasquad.com.
> I wonder if they get any leeway on licensing for the PR?

For production? No. Development machines? They used to.

The best you can hope for these days as a showcase ISV/startup is more direct access to devs, and you'll probably only get that if you are proofing a new system of theirs. Remember, the most likely gospel is that Microsoft is expensive to run - so dropping the licensing cost "for PR" is actually a bad idea.
Contact your rep in congress and tell them that. They dont read hackerness unfortunately.
I've worked in shared offices, open offices and for the last couple of years I've worked here http://imgur.com/a/13uvk (office on the cheap, it's my own company so I spend money only where it's important)

For me there is zero comparison, I enjoyed a shared office, loathed an open office beyond measure and absolutely love the peace and quiet that comes from working in a private office.

If my company isn't a success and I go back to regular employment I'm dreading that bit more than any other part of been employed.
I don't remember, but I keep seeing people using them in London. It's insane that there's people queuing to use payphones in the street in 2010.
Your mind is probably thinking about too many things. You can also try this trick.

I read about a simple technique in a meditation book (the purpose of this was not falling asleep, but it works for me). Close your eyes and start counting with a special technique to infinity.

The trick is to count one number while breathing in... slowly counting in your head until you are done breathing in and when your breath out immediately switch to the next number. There should basically be no moment where you have time to think about anything else besides the numbers. The switch from i to i+1 must be instant. Because if you are leaving gaps your mind starts wandering again.

If you find out that you got distracted start again at 1. Don't cheat.

Just run this JavaScript code in your head the next time (recognize that there are no calls to mind.thinkAboutSomethingElse()!):

___

var i = 1;

while(!body.isSleeping()) {

body.startBreathingIn('slow');

mind.thinkAbout(i++);

body.startBreathingOut('slow');

mind.thinkAbout(i++);

}

___
I think the one factor is purely volume. Apple has a very small range of laptops, compared with other manufacturers. And they have a relatively large market share for the segment of the market they compete in ($1000 plus laptops). Hence, for x dollars of sales, they sell 1 model - compared with their competitors, who all have to sell many more models. So they can spend significantly more on the R&D and design for each model, and still be profitable. This shows in their systems.
I 100% agree with you.

But I think the point is that the things that you can do with Flash today are the things that HTML5 might do in the future.

But to be quite honest I find the whole stacking HTML5 up against Flash to be lame anyway.

If anything Flash is a much lesser worthy competitor to the apps which in themselves are not well known.

But you are right. Let's not get into a discussion about the web as such :)
There's an upside of central hubs too:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/02/amazon-goes-do...

When they fail, it's not your problem. Better still, it fixes itself quickly, without you having to get out of bed at 3am.
well the ryanair flights seem to be there partially.

for example: LBC is only listed with two possible destinations but there are at least 6.
I fall asleep pretty easily when I read. Obviously something not too riveting! Takes my mind of my current focus and that's usually enough.

Also, I have some mp3's I bought from hypnosisdownloads.com. I think they have a few too many on there now (some look flaky), but there are a couple of really good ones. I'd never considered myself a candidate for hypnosis but have found they're able to knock me out for 15-20 min during the day, even when I'm filled with coffee! Works (for me) probably about 70% of the time - invaluable when deadlines are near.

[edit - at least one is specifically for insomnia]
Please don't take the thread further into nationalistic flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quara has quality information but it's never the info you actually want. I mentally skip over those links now.
What, you think this was all a long con and they're going to go back to Trident? That's the only way I can think of to apply EEE here.
Quora answers are astonishingly bad. People with fake credentials saying nonsensical things. I really hope people realize how bad it is, but I suspect that because its something people inherently don't know the answer to, they don't understand just how bad it is. Most people stop looking after they get their answer. Most people aren't going to keep looking after they've found their answer to find a primary, reliable source.
Doesn't sound odd to me, father of 3
No it’s not and the false equivalency is incredibly destructive. It must be possible for countries to judge others without being perfect themselves. South Africa was forced to capitulate due to international pressure. They took the moral high ground, even though their race relations at home were deeply troubled. But they could do that because people understood that there was a hierarchy of wrongs and racial profiling in the justice system, while bad, wasn’t as bad as de jure segregation.

When you say, well if America does something bad it has no business judging others, you destroy the ability to objectively assess right and wrong, wrong and very wrong, and bad from worse. It’s like gouging one of your eyes out and losing your depth perception. There are billions of people whose lives would be immeasurably improved if their countries were more like America (even with its faults). America can help those people, by showing moral leadership and acting from the moral high ground. It is imperative to the prosperity of future generations that the world come to look more like America and not like communist China. The “America is just as bad” rhetoric maybe makes you seem cool at parties with other moral relativists, but it’s bad for the world.
A lot of Quora spammers will play the long game. Some of them will take the time to get moderately familiar with a subject, write some organic answers, gain some karma on the site, then start shilling. It's an interesting incentive structure, but ultimately most answers on the site end up being the mediocre filler by spammers trying to build their accounts.
Why are you adding the cheese?
Sorry for bringing humour into this... but are they copying the plot of HBO Silicon Valley?

Then I guess adding AI is next.
in my opinion, it's all about time and motivation. I have neither, therefore i'm not a 10x programmer. but if i did, i could churn stuff out no worries.

but instead of that i spend a lot of time procrastinating and working like a 1x programmer in 1/10th of the time.
> I thought HN was purely community driven with only comments being moderated

I'm not sure I buy that, given how long you've been around HN and how much of the last 8 years I've spent explaining how HN is moderated. But FWIW, HN is a curated site, and always has been; there has never been any claim otherwise.

HN's system is a complex interaction between three subsystems: community, software, and moderators. All three are necessary. If you or anyone would like to know more, here are some links to past explanations to start with. If there are still questions after familiarizing yourself with that material, I'd be happy to answer them.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> Of course on the surface you guys say you only downweight petty drama

That is obviously not at all what I said.
Yep, sorry, I should do some windows guides down the road.
Will give a try on this book. Seems interesting
This article made the rounds among co-workers a few months back. Finally took some time to read it and I thought it was excellent.

Briefly: the article suggests the existence of two different thought patterns, mapping and packing. Packing involves cataloging knowledge packets and accessing them in a straightforward way, without considering why things are true or how ideas fit together across disciplines. Mapping involves reflecting on truths to build a map of relationships between them, and updating your representation of that map as you learn new things.

I found mapping to be a super-powerful framework for thinking about things effectively. Some of the article felt reductionist, but it's a fascinating read.
Thus it being "accessible".
because then they would have the right to a trial

there is a reason Gitmo was established
You do realize that it was another security leak that put that knowledge there in the first place?
erm... there's more issues than just the sea level rise. If it was that simple, we'd already have a plan. The overwhelming parts are the widespread destruction and depletion of usable farmland, ocean acidification & oxygen depletion, water scarcity, jumps in disease vectors, and the increased use of energy-intensive technology to mitigate the effects of climate change which in turn creates a vicious cycle.
Ruby can use both "{...}" and "do ... end", with a slight difference between the two (precedence):

def some_method { ... }
def some_method; ... end

obj.something # "something" is allways a method
# never a var, say accessor (getter, setter &c ...)
If you read that cable (which I have not) who will actually verify the authenticity of the content ?

I don't see the US or China confirming or denying anything.