jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Assuming you do charge a cover for men, this is a really good way to get sued.
See Angelucci v. Century Supper Club, 158 P.3d 718 (CA 2007) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_night#California
Ya, I think he was pissed at designers makeing non-functional "pretty" sites
Here's a piece I wrote about JSON v.s. XML back in 2006: http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/20/json/
They don't give you enough options for cutting the defense budget. There is far more fat there which could be trimmed.
This study documents an association but fails to prove causation. Therefore this headline is misleading.
I've looked through the IRS site and there are explicit statements that if you have profit from a hobby, that should be reported as "other income". I think the author could have made a very reasonable mistake.

It is pretty clear that he should have been deducting his expenses from the site and only reporting the profit as self employment income. If he was actually making $10k in profit, then he should have been aware that it was more "business" than "hobby" and used those rules.

For those not familiar, the IRS has a category for a hobby because some people may have a hobby that looks a lot like a business that loses money. You can't deduct losses against your outside income, as you can in a serious business that just happens to have not made money that year.

Not a lawyer, not an accountant. Just someone who can read.
> anyone who cries foul about a shortage of workers

Those people generally use the phrase to mean "a shortage of workers willing to accept below-market wages and invest all of their time and energy in a company while bearing the downside risk of a entrepreneur but none of the upside."
Yes & dont forget about usign of a license software on your machines) Or tech preview of it, because many think what all license soft you can only buy.
i like it and i would totally use it! good job
I'd approach it like this:

"How can you help me?"

And then have a simple answer, one you wouldn't mind giving a friend or relative, because you genuinely want to help by providing a valuable service.

I see commercials for legal and financial services all the time that say "Get money now" over and over again. I don't really like those commercials but their message is simple and clear.
Yes, they are overwhelmingly negative because they have all struggled and mostly failed.

Taking years to get to $2,000/mo revenue as some of the commenters say? That is truly sad. Somebody seriously needs to teach these guys some business skills.

Hopefully it will be me.

I wrote a positive comment - I've made gobs of money and my SaaS made $1300 its very first month, after the first round of trials ended. And the reason is because I created a truly different product in a category proven to make money, and used my blog/twitter audience to spread the word as I was launching (and before).

It's really, really, really not that hard.
There was an article on hacker news recently about a study that found slouching is actually better for the back than sitting upright.
Hmm... I think maybe this is where a big part of the problem lies. SEO hasn't been "black magic" for a long time now, and most of the "black magic" that worked from 1997-2003 is dead and gone, replaced by creative marketing, accessibility and best practices.

But perhaps that message has been drowned out by the ongoing perception from those early years of SEO?

BTW - this might be good material to explain my point above - http://ycombinator.posterous.com/the-first-yc-conference
All those things are communication. Comment threads leaking IP addresses is slightly different from email in that you can only reply all, but it's not that huge of a leap.

Unless someone knows exactly how the internet works, getting their IP address via social engineering is trivial. Facebook's behavior was not a big deal, though fixing it was a positive thing.
The points you make are disturbing. As far as I can tell, the reason why people shy away from SEO is not that it doesn't work. Indeed, it seems like people shy away from SEO because it works too well. At least for me, there's a perception that SEO is evil and crowds out legitimate content. I would hope that these startups are not going over to SEO just because it works; I would hope that SEO is trying to show that it works legitimately.
I imagine some people are downvoting this story too (if that is even possible). However, a new instance of privacy violation is a lot more important than an HN reader's personal decision to cancel his Facebook account. The quickness with which people tire of one type of information versus the other should scale accordingly.
Thinking on this further, HN could have flagged the submission, instead of being drawn into attacking it.

There are so many interesting articles on the web, why give their space to an abusive one? If HN has civil standards, shouldn't we ignore articles that fall below those standards?

Any argument that an article makes - even the most subversive and intrinsically inflammatory - can be articulated in a civil manner. And I think these would be extremely intellectually stimulating.
PSA: old bombs are dangerous bombs. If you find something you suspect may be unexploded ordinance, contact the police or (in the US) regional ATF office. Many of the compounds used in older explosives (e.g. TNT) grow more unstable as time passes, actually increasing the change of accidental detonation

Case example: while I don't remember all of the details (it was 15 years ago), there was an exhibit in a small museum in my hometown that had several civil war era percussion fuse cannon balls. An explosives-certified agent at the local ATF office heard that one of the curators would occasionally show children visiting the museum how neat they were, since they would warm up when you shake them. Ends up they were still live, but that the explosive had degraded; a little more energy (say, from dropping it after shaking it for a while) could have set the charge off, killing or seriously injuring the kids at the exhibit. They were safely destroyed, but it stuck in my mind as a cautionary tale not to screw around with old ordinance.
tldr:

git clone git://github.com/feature-expressions/clojurescript
cd clojurescript/feature-macros-demo
make deps
make demo
I respect your opinion but disagree.

> That bug is legit (although it was caused by an inexperienced developer who didn't read the manual).

Well that's exactly the problem, as I said before, the fact that this is documented doesn't make it not horrible. At least to me, as a non perl person.

> He is like an english person complaining about the fact that pronouns are gendered in german.

Valid complaint in my opinion. And that's my mother tongue.
I do agree that Buzzfeed does some great stuff, but their homepage rarely reflects it.
I have been shy for years, slowly getting less shy. The more confident I get, the more of what I want in life I get, and I still have a long way to go.

What I found helped is just going out there and doing those excruciatingly uncomfortable things. Asking boys/girls out, asking for a pay rise, public speaking etc.

However you WILL absolutely need some kind of moral support.

If friends and family are not helping then go find some friends that will. Get away from negativity from other people that can be holding you back. That is a massive topic in itself. Hopefully you are not dealing with that problem too.

A great positive example is Toastmasters. Participate and you will get better at public speaking. It will reduce it from a deathly experience to mild anxiety! More importantly thought the people there WILL encourage you and forgive your for forgetting your lines or being shy or whatever. Keep going and you will get more comfortable and you won't get derailed.

Getting some kind of therapist or psychologist to help you can be a good idea. Because getting over shyness is a hard knocks experience and you need this assistance. It doesn't mean you are crazy / mentally challenged etc. It means you are investing in your own personal development.

Also to reiterate the point - pick your friends wisely - try to associate with people who will encourage you be more confident. Also having some confident, easy going friends who you can emulate will help. Humans learn by imitation. Pick (or dump!) your partner wisely for the same reasons.
Its almost never in your (an employee/interviewee) best interest to disclose that. You are essentially saying "here is the minimum I will work for" (and that's usually what you'll get) - let them try to figure that out!
Would America surrender if SF or NYC was nuked? No.

Would America surrender if we were essentially defeated, blockaded, and the enemy were bombing our cities with impunity? Of course we would.

It isn't like America just snuck two nukes into Japan. It had totally defeated the Imperial Navy and was essentially bombing Japan without any resistance.

The comparison between Japan in August 45 and UK during the Blitz is just stupid.

Even if the Soviet attack was the last straw, it was only a straw. They were trying to use the Soviets to negotiate a better peace and it failed. This is like blaming your QB for missing the Hail Mary for losing the game. It was the first 59 minutes of game that caused you to lose.

People online (not real historians) like to hype this up to bandwagon the "US didn't win WWII, the USSR did" mythology. The truth is it was a huge combined effort.
Corruption is a problem, but it's an inherent part of our system, just like crime. Pretending like it can be eliminated is a massive time waster.

As for dealing with hackers, they can't really hack things if their systems are compromised, can they? Ask Iran how their nuclear development is going, thanks to Stuxnet, for example.

You're just being sensationalist and melodramatic, and you're why places like HN become echo chambers of stupid and untenable ideas, with your worthless phrases like "murder and human rights violations", and "find a way to make them care".
I don't want to pull up my password manager to buy my lunch.
> If you know the concepts behind these, you can quickly grok any other programming language.

"Grokking" a programming languages is just a means to an end, and far from being the most important means (well, for interesting problems, at least). Most (though not all) of important concepts in CS have absolutely nothing to do with the choice of language.

At my university they taught Scheme (SICP) in Intro to Comp Sci, and C -- both in the first year -- and all the rest was just data structures, algorithms, computational complexity, operating systems, numerical algebra, compilation, and electives in vision/graphics/PLs/DSP/whatever. We could do the exercises in whatever language we chose (usually C). In short they taught us just theory and one practical PL (maybe Java, too, for concurrency problems) so that we could actually do the exercises, and boy did we have a lot of good programmers who came out of that school. I owe to my university the realization that the programming language is one of the least important things in CS and software engineering.
I think the fact that Ruby didn't even make the list tells a lot about how far it has fallen in terms of mindshare. I have nothing against Ruby, its people or its ecosystem, but it's beginning to seem like a bit of a flash in the pan.
I've affectionately dubbed them "Haskholes"
What is clean air worth? What do you pay for it? In the US, you pay taxes which are distributed under the purview of a democratic republic, whose officials may decide to create an EPA, which may enforce rules, etc. Tautologically, clean air is now worth something in the US, because the system pays for it. But it wasn't the case 100 years ago. Or in another timeline where Nixon didn't create the agency. It's worth something because the conditions of the system aligned its interest with that outcome, not because of some direct preference of the populace. In many countries, clean air isn't "worth much" because you can't pay for it, even though the people want it badly.
Seriously downvotes? Lol. Terrible configuration and what a way to silence. At this point I’ll take my thoughts elsewhere. Enjoy your echo chamber.
I mapped caps lock to escape and liked it so much I did it on my thinkpad too.
> Any actor unilaterally choosing to transmit at lower power is going to experience worse signal quality, even if it's only marginally worse in some cases.

Yes, your received signal to noise ratio for that transmission will be somewhat decreased, and that might (or might not) hurt data throughput meaningfully. But it also means that your transmissions are causing less interference for your neighbor(s), and as a result your neighbor's equipment will not have to send as many retransmissions that potentially interfere with your own communications. It's a second-order effect, but also one that's proportional to how many neighbors you have in range that are trying to use the same slice of spectrum. So it's entirely possible that by unilaterally shouting less, you cause a significant reduction in wasted airtime that benefits both sides (though probably benefiting your neighbors more than you, depending on where your priorities lie between throughput and latency). It's not always a zero-sum game.

In general (at least for WiFi), it's better to worry about airtime as the scarce resource rather than focusing on bytes per second. For fixed-rate wired networking, transmit time and bytes delivered are exactly proportional, but a variable-rate shared wireless medium decouples the two.
Which city do you live in? I've been trying to figure out which FL cities are most attractive to the HN crowd and tend to get mixed answers.
I've still got an open dispute from KLM back in 2018! Every month I get a brief update to say it is still ongoing:

> We’re contacting you about your claim for compensation for your KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines flight to Helsinki on 2018-09-11.
Get a course on monitoring, so that you can use that to speak with authority and tell others that they are in fact incompetent. Spoiler: case (2) is a big no-no for paging alarms. And "err-on-potential-issues" is a synonym for "crying wolf", which is an antipattern. All paging alerts must be actionable and have a playbook, period, and no exceptions.
While not on GW's level, one of the two writers of TiHyLtTW (Gladstone) is one of my favorite newer authors. I think I ended up liking Empress of Forever more than Time War (both came out in the same year) but both are fucking fantastic.

When he described a star fighter as a hate fractal I admit I cackled.
Ryan are terrible and I do not fly with them because of it, but they are far from the worst. Chinese budget airlines like Spring Air have the hostesses talking through a megaphone trying to sell you shit for the entire flight. When the cockpit door opens at the destination, you can smell the cigarette smoke.
I can understand the policy and I'm not sure it makes them evil. You could build a publicly facing system that was simply an API into their database, thus providing the public with the data you licensed.
> you have a fairly usable sort of linux computer.

You have unix computer.
> Basically, she's fucking crazy.

This is hate speech and has no place on HN.
This seems to be a common middle income nation problem. A country gets somewhat wealthy but huge inequalities exist still and crime is harder to tackle. Mexico is going through it. China and India are on track to becoming violent and crime ridden.
Sorry, but that's pretty crazy. Not everyone you meet has to have the exact same set of goals and priorities as you. It's good to broaden your circles and be friends with people who don't always agree with you or enjoy doing what you do.
Now I'm a bit sad that I don't have a comment system on my blog. It would be awesome to collect these stories!
The ideal is an expert who sets up the project, builds the guard rails, creates the patterns and basically sets up a framework for everyone to use. Then they teach everyone how to use it and why

And from then it’s a mentoring role. The expert spends more time PR-ing and adding to the framework than building end product features. They build stuff that touches every feature.

Force multiplier is the game.
I hope that regulatory agencies start cracking down on these "alternative sources" for credit-worthiness data. Researchers have shown how it's very easy to attribute things like political party, race, sexuality, etc., things that are often illegal to take into consideration when determining credit, to other things like where you live, TV shows you like, apps you have on your phone, etc.

And strangely (or not) this blog post from the IMF barely touches on the huge privacy concerns with this stuff.
I pushed a small update and you will now see a heatmap displaying the score of the search query for each frame.
I think it is important to note (for those who didn't read) that much of the work on the Core of the language is being upstreamed.

https://forums.swift.org/t/differentiable-programming-for-gr...

https://github.com/rxwei/swift-evolution/blob/autodiff/propo...
That hill-shading algorithm explains why forests are so staticky.

In theory, you could combine terrain and surface models[0] to detect and colour features… but that's tricky.

[0]: https://lle.gov.wales/catalogue/item/LidarCompositeDataset/
More like Uber spent too little time trying to keep their app development process manageable.
Gotcha. I think it's worth a shot. As it stands, too many minds whither away because they weren't born with the chance.
You could double that number to account for the "fraud and error" spend at DWP: I would presume that further spending in this regard is dedicated to other departments.
The hardware is open-source, you can theoretically update the firmware so you're not vulnerable if a researcher finds a bug after your purchase, there's currently no support for getting it to act as a keyboard and type the password for you AFAICT, to name a few.
I don't believe she is breaking any rules. Having seen some of her streams, her behavior belongs more on a porn cam site than Twitch.

She constantly is like "Stop objectifying me, I am just playing video games" but she wears extremely sexualized clothing, bends over into the camera and from seeing her streams multiple times, seems to only play dance games (if you see where this is going.)

She isn't breaking any rules but Jesus Christ she is a really bad look for the platform.

I have nothing wrong with sexualization. Heck, Twitch should add an 18+ category. Do it. But you can't have people like Amo and say you prohibit sexual content.

I would not feel at all comfortable watching her streams at work if that's a metric.

Go to 43m57 seconds in this video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/972822254 (Partial nudity, sexualized behavior). "Don't mind me, innocently shaking my protein shake in my bra on camera"

1h05m34s: "Don't mind me doing splits and checking that the camera is well-positioned"

Oh and she is wearing a sports bra for a sit-down gaming stream, then at ~5h she moves her stream to a kiddie pool wearing a pretty loose bikini top.

I mean, absolutely get that money. She is absolutely in her rights to do this and I genuinely support her, but you can't have her on the same platform as streamers like SodaPoppin getting scared for showing a dildo on camera.
Matrix has E2EE cloud chats
The infantile hyper-moralization of online discourse, on social media but also elsewhere, is starting to get really, really tiring.

Is there any solution other than total anonymity, keeping one's online and IRL personae hermetically sealed off from one another?

What do you all think? Is this atmosphere here to stay or do you expect the winds of culture to shift anytime soon?
We're already way beyond that. I saw someone get fired because their wife tweeted something that wasn't PC 10 years ago and a coworker found it.
Imagine if ISPs had rules like this. Oh, somebody from your company said or did something we don't like? We will suspend services for your company to combat this behavior.
If there was a single force in the beginning, there might be more forces branching out in the future of the universe, who knows.
I don't wish it on you, but imagine that the fed stops propping up the financial markets though QE.

"Irresponsibly over-leveraged and nearly bankrupted banks and corporations", allowed to crash and burn.

If this happens, everybody will be worse off - rich & poor alike, but the poor will pay the brunt of the cost. Except this time it won't be just "taxpayer money" that is on the line.

Consider it is possible for the fed's policy to be unfair AND the right thing to do at the same time.

There is no doubt that financial collapse leads to economic collapse. I find it difficult to claim both to be in favour of the common people, and to argue for a course of action that would set the whole world aflame.
Turns out this was a bug – it wasn't properly adding `--wait` when opening the editor. Its fixed in 1.1.15.
Was wondering if I’d see this model mentioned. I’ve bought four of these, given one away.

One in living room, bedroom, one is boxed for an office I’m setting up.

Couple notes on this: It is the iPod of air conditioners in its UX and look.

The lights on the top are too bright and can’t be dimmed, we cover them in the bedroom with a taped piece of heavyweight paper.

The filters do need to be either clean or replaced on a reasonable basis but catch all manner of stuff that you’d either inhale or clean off other things.

Better air is like less noise pollution. I believe you can improve the quality of ambient environment you should.

It isn’t always obvious it is helping. I can’t measure how much faster the fried food I cooked no longer smells because of it.

That said there’s a reason we use AirPods Pro’s to isolate from distractions. I think air filters can be a simple way to improve quality of life.

I would use a box fan if we had fires in Oregon again. (Our coways had the angry red light on and ran full speed for days, they were not enough.) But it’s not practical to have a box filter going every day of the year.

One more item, this Coway _occasionally_ goes on sale for $120 on Amazon. If you see it for that price grab it because it lasts only a couple of hours.
As opposed to being a luddite?

These inefficiencies aren't a big deal, and as I said they'll continue to shrink.

People are also totally unaware of just how much progress is being made. There's a global rush to deploy as much hydrogen infrastructure as possible right now. Too bad some pro-EV people still think it's the year 2015.
“You don’t introduce your dirty changes onto perfectly good staging without some testing on production first”.
I sincerely think you’re taking Gary and the software industry too seriously. Wat is nowhere near as reputation damaging as, say, “PHP a fractal of bad design”, and PHP is doing great. People have aped the talk to highlight rough corners in their own preferred ecosystems. It’s fun. Programming is dealing with a lot of broken stuff. Embrace it and have a laugh.
That's a cool library! Well done!

I made something similar to it being inspired by the C++ standard library. But it is for C89:

https://github.com/d26900/JamaisVu

I use tombstones for my hash table (unordered_map) though.

Another drawback of my lib: for each hash table entry, I allocate an extra byte for the tombstones.