jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the whole site is blocked from Search Engines with NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW tags.

I can imagine why they would block product pages, given that its basically an affiliate site, but even the homepage? Google sure is playing it safe.
Other news articles have said that the 50M number is just a placeholder, but speculate a company value between 700M and 1B
I don't watch often enough. I'd consider microtransactions in the iPlayer, but not a flat £145 per year.
I consider message passing programs harder to learn and develop scalable applications for than shared memory. While the errors in a shared memory program (this includes Pthreads, TBB, OpenMP - any programming model that uses multithreading in a shared address space) can be more subtle, you don't have to have as deep an understanding of the runtime behavior of your algorithms. It's easier to rely on shared memory in hardware than to use explicit send/receive on all of your data.
I agree, I thought this article was going to be about public transportation, since in many places outside the U.S. a "metro" is a subway/train.

I was actually looking forward to a comparison of actual metro fares.
> Why should it matter to you if other people up or down vote your comments and submissions?

If I'm not getting any votes or other feedback, I take this as evidence that I'm shouting into the void and wasting my time.
Exactly, and they were suggesting that it would be $200 USD more than that per week!
And unresponsive websites are soooo 1999 ;)
I try to use "I" whenever possible. It makes the message more personal and invites comments and replies. "We" is best when talking about collective decisions.
I should have clarified that a bit more, I guess. This was primarily directed at unemployed recent graduates who cannot find work in their field of choice. "Just because you got a degree does not qualify you to be employed in your field" would have been more appropriate.

If you are only willing to put in minimal effort and a drab of creativity, there are many low-paying hourly wage, or other, jobs out there for you. However, I firmly believe that just because you graduate with a degree does not qualify you to a career in your, or any, field. There is a lot you have to prove about yourself outside the classroom.
Yes sure.

Arstechnica, Engadget. Hell, even gizmodo does a better job.

Have you never heard of tech journalist with tech backgrounds? Or finance journalist with economics background?

I don't think a single TC bloggers have any tech background and they continue to spew out rubbish day in and day out.
How thorough would an interview need to be to match thousands of thumbs ups by thousands of tech-savvy (to say the least) people?
It's actually possible to drag and drop images from other tabs, but there's some weird almost unavoidable issues. Google Docs's presentation app allows you to drag and drop images.
Random semi trailer would have definitely thrown them for a loop when it drives 8hr straight out of their jurisdiction.

Shipped to Mexico would have been a good one as well.
Have you ever driven off-road before?
This is not far north because of winds, it's just the shortest line!

Great circle distance (Curves in Mercator, straight lines on globe) vs. Rhumb lines (Straight in Mercator, constant course angle against meridians)

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ComparingLoxodromesAndGrea...

[edit] added picture for explanation

http://i.imgur.com/wJS0ry1.png

Lines of same color have identical course
Can I have an invite please? joshux321 [at] gmail.com
Why do people keep repeating this myth that Bitcoin is "efficient"? It's not, even hardcore bitcoiners like Peter Todd admit this. [1] And the most important point is, it cannot be, this is a mathematical fact underlying trustless systems based on the blockchain.

If I give a $100 to you, a centralized entity like my bank just has to subtract 100 from a database which contains my my account balance and 100 to your account balance. And now the transaction is complete. In the case of bitcoin, you still have to do this, but you also need to run a proof-of-work competition among a whole bunch of miners. This proof-of-work competition has to cost significant money in comparison to the amounts being transacted on the network, because if it didn't, a 51% attack would become easy.

Suppose for the sake of argument that the cost of a bitcoin transaction, by which I mean the money invested in mining equipment and cost of electricity of the the mining network, is $1. Assume for simplicity that there's only one transaction per block. Now suppose I'm a malicious actor who just paid you $1000 through the bitcoin network and would now like to execute a double-spend attack. Amassing more hashpower than the rest of the network and "overtaking" the longest chain after 6 confirmations is, on average, only going to cost me 7 * $1.01. In other words, this network with a cost per transaction of $1 is insecure for transacting amounts like $1000. The point is, the mining rewards + transaction fees on the btc network, which in turn are equal or slightly greater than the the cost per transaction block, have to be roughly similar to the amounts being transacted on the network for it to be secure.

The TLDR is this: for a secure btc-like network, transaction cost ~ O(transaction amount). For a centralized ledger (bank): transaction cost ~ O(1). By no means can you call this "efficient."

I'm not saying bitcoin is useless. It is a very clever trustless distributed ledger, but this trustlessness comes at a significant cost.

https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/513195104023359488
Oversight is definitely the key to limiting the possibility of government overreach, but it is wrong on the populace's part to think that just because they aren't privy to the oversight that it isn't there.

There is much the same problem with those who work in the political realm in D.C. They are constantly derided as do-nothing on a macro scale, but on an individual basis a lot of effort is put into how laws are constructed and amended. This is analogue to the situation in the intelligence community -- a lot of work is done by individuals and the organization they are a part of to preserve civil liberties, but disclosing the nature of their collection abilities in the interest of the transparency of their protection of civil liberties is absolutely counter-productive. A big difference between the two, is that the political worker can disclose their work while the intelligence worker can not.

I'm not denying that there are instances of overreach, but I'm merely making the point that the framework for protection of civil liberties is not a piece of glass that shatters on the first stone thrown against it. It is an organic process, which is subject to upper and lower bounds in order to come to rest at a medium level with which both the public is suitably comfortable, and which gets the job done.
That is completely overshooting it. Rent in a safe area starts at $2k a month. At the 2.5% rule, that's 80k of income to qualify.

If you network and land in a rent controlled apartment (a friend of a friend has the 4th floor of a mansion in the haight for $900/month) you can do it for even less.
So they have already been accepted... Not a truly random sample.

“Nobody studies for it” is surely an overstatement. Do not underestimate the fear of tests.
This is fascinating. I wonder if doctors and engineers and other knowledge-based professions have a similar distribution if you look hard enough.
> Many of us deliver much of our results publicly all the time.

I didn't imply otherwise.
Holy cow. No wonder they have trouble retaining visual design talent.
Stossel also did a show on it on 6/3, but I guess not as many people watch him.
http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/06/03/tonights-sho...
Surely there must be some motivation for disallowing special characters, though... it's certainly not for security purposes. Maybe it's a weird form of overzealous SQL injection protection?
None of us are responsible for the oil spill. We did not choose or make choices that caused the oil spill. We are accountable for the demand that spurred BP's attempts with drilling, but not the spill itself.

I always find it fascinating that people uninvolved in the going-ons for random markets are blamed for unwanted side effects. BP could have just raised their prices, but they chose not to (therefore taking responsibility) and failed. Shame on them.
Fascinating. One thing that stuck with me was how Otzi was discovered after 5000 years intact, only because the glaciers he was trapped in melted.

Why would 5000 year old ice melt? (rhetorical question)
Likely for the same reason Fermat's Last Theorem was called a theorem for hundreds of years before it was proved. My guess is cultural inertia.
Why would google do this?
Well, that's the opportunity -- you can't sell crude oil to just anyone, and most likely no one will buy crude that these kinds of small scales, so a bunch of smaller sellers get locked out of the market. A refinery has the process and equipment, but not the crude. And the purchaser potentially pays less than market rates based on difficulty of preparing the crude for refining if it isn't as pure as market rate oil is (because it contains sand, water, other ocean debris). People with ideas on how to clean it up get a chance to try out their ideas, with a possible payout to boot, without having to wait for Big Oil to get around to trying them.
Issue was with the AT&T website, not the iPad.
In America healthcare is a serious, for-profit business! Heaven forbid that bluecross(I'm assuming) loses revenue to Watsi.
I disagree with the recommendation on not filing for trademark registration. Sure, actually finalize your branding first. But once you do, the filing is comparatively cheap (a few hundred bucks total), and provides remedies against copycats that common law trademarks don't have. Even a letter based on a registered trademark is often enough to get people to change behavior. This is actually a case in point.

[In general. I am not YOUR lawyer.]
I saw some red flags as well (see my comment), so I asked a question:

http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/5841/is-it-univers...
I'd say yes. Another Cathedral bazzar is Meteor. Open source, but with a relatively centralized organization.
You probably mean Helsinki is the coldest capital in Europe?
I can answer #1 it is a major cruise port. Many Alaskan cruises start in Whittier. If you ever take an Alaska cruise you'll likely take the train into Whittier then get on the ship without spending a lot of time there.

It is a town of only 200 some odd people.
If the comparison is winter temperatures, rather than year-round averages, it would make more sense to compare the coldest month (otherwise you mix together the effect of cold winters and cool summers, which are very different experientially). Helsinki has colder winters than Whittier does, though not by a huge margin. Whittier's coldest month is January, with average high -0.4 C (31 F) and average low -5.1 C (23 F). Helsinki's is February, with average high -1.9 (29 F) and average low -7.4 C (19 F). Whittier has a lower year-round average because it has cooler summers (highs around 60 F / 15 C, versus Helsinki's ~70 F / 20 C).

Helsinki is a pretty temperate city for Finland, though, being on the southeastern coast. Oulu and Tampere are a lot colder!
Given Alaska's high cost of living, that $2k doesn't make much of a dent.
Note that author Kenneth Jeyaretnam is the son of J.B. Jeyaretnam, a veteran opposition policitian who got royally screwed over by the Singaporean government, and the leader of a (small) opposition party himself, so take that with a grain of salt. Not that this invalidates his views, but he's certainly not a neutral observer like Gibson was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Jeyaretnam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Jeyaretnam
If you can utilize a cloud API, speech transcription route is likely the simplest.
Recognizing spoken words is challenging and data-demanding when it can be spoken by many different speakers.

But if you want to do this on the audio you chop up your audio stream into fixed-length (in time) analysis windows. These length of the window should be a bit longer than the sound of interest (the word). Overlap is normally used for the windows. Say with 90% overlap the next window is created by moving forward by 10%. This gives the model multiple "shots" at detecting the word as it passes by. This is suitable for spotting a word and giving the time within something like 50ms resolution.

For each analysis window you apply feature pre-processing and a model such as the one shown in the article.

This task sounds like what is called Keyword Spotting in academic literature. Which can be seen as as specific version of Audio Event Detection, applied to spoken words.
According to Steven Levy, Excite CEO was visibly upset when Google won better result in “search backoff”. Now he says he didn’t saw difference. Much better coverage is here: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/11/the-real-reaso...
> As far as I know, the only way to fix this situation is by building tools so much better than the free tools that the absurdity of refusing to pay for them is overwhelming, and expectations shift.

This of course will only work for a little while until someone who has more time than money (or is a big company that wants to commoditize the tool) will build a command-line version of it on Linux. Weird UX and the need for a spaghetti of shell scripts to integrate with vim/emacs/vscode/sublime/ed will soon follow with an Eclipse addon that nobody will use a bit later. After a macOS port, assuming these are still a thing, Apple may create a nice looking UI and integrate it with Xcode or someone like Panic may create a good front end and sell it for ~$99.

Most people will keep using Windows, think Visual Studio has the best debugger and everyone will be happy.

Those that learn about the "overwhelmingly better approach" will consider the free one the best one and its spaghetti of shell scripts approach the obvious best approach, because they wont have any real deep experience with the paid tools (either the original one or the macOS shiny wrapper - which will be considered as unnecessary by most anyway) to properly judge.
I tend to look at it from the perspective of "what can we do" more than "what is right". While moral values certainly set the direction we should head in, having strong values achieves no good in the world without practical action.
I don't see why they can't just show an "Allow Atom to check for updates?" on startup, just like so many other apps I've used.
They look surprisingly similar to a modern vertical axis wind turbine, although without the "lift" shape to the blades.
Somewhat unrelated but why dos Atom even exist anymore? MS should just fold the Atom team into VSCode and go full in on VSCode. From Microsoft's perspective, I don' see any reason for Atom to exist. It's not like Chromium vs Chrome where Google wants to ship an open-source project with some important proprietary bits and pieces.
There was a building in my city that was constructed in the 70's to be a shopping mall, but the owner got bankrupt in the meanwhile, and the building was repurposed into a parking lot that run for a couple of years.

By 2014 is was imploded. There were around 30 cars still parked there.
Qualcomm will supply whatever customers will demand, Die area of apple chips is significantly bigger than qc chips, if qc were to make similar chips will microsoft or for that matter any other vendor pay for it? it all comes down to that.
Sure, there are plenty of bewildering mysteries in this field.

But I don't think they apply to these rather basic questions about how these mRNA vaccines work.

The theory for how they work is clear, and strongly confirmed by the studies showing 95% effectiveness.

Is there really any reason to think that a booster shot that provides 95% protection when given after 21 days will be damaging after 12 weeks?

Or that when two shots gives 95% immunity, 1 shot might give negative immunity?

This what's being implied by the "you never now, so let's do NOTHING" crowd here!
probably Google Image Search
'For everyone asking, but why use a browser technology server side? Just run a binary' or 'Whats old is new again, java etc' - I am sure you've heard of a browser technology that is used server side, javascript, ever hear of nodejs?

The rise of javascript and its server side runtime is due to the immense pressure that language had to evolve to make the web what it is today.

Web-assembly is the next step and evolution of this runtime. I can only imagine the sheer number of man hours poured in to javascript to offer the functionality it has today while balancing with security and sandboxing. Nodejs is a different story; Take a look at Deno and its origin.

Web-assembly is sandbox-able run anywhere, ubiquitous runtime which isn't owned specifically by a corporate overlord, and is also which has/or is set to have the evolutionary pressure javascript has.
This is huge! Way to go Wasmer :)
>They have an alpha that's fun to mess around

They've spent nearly 10 years and close to half a billion dollars, and all they've produced is a glorified model viewer with some extremely buggy and half-baked gameplay mechanics tacked on. There is no visible progress towards a viable MMO or indeed of server instances supporting more than ~30 concurrent players without breaking in bizarre ways.

>If CIG folds after a decade, that's not a scam... that's just a mismanaged studio

It became obvious years ago to anyone but the wilfully ignorant that CIG are incapable of delivering, and to continue to take people's money in this circumstance is indefensible. If they cannot deliver they should gracefully admit it and refund backers and investors as much as possible. Instead they continue to pump out new ship models while making no progress towards core tech required to actually deliver something resembling the game they promised.

>CIG has delivered a product. You can judge whether it is a good product, but they have delivered and continue to deliver.

That is the problem - they continue to deliver eye candy to attract new victims, but nothing of substance. Star Citizen is vapourware with just enough bait to keep luring gullible whales into dropping cash on ship models.
My favorite is Carl Butananadilewski, but I just ended up making him say actual phrases from ATHF in the end. Was hoping to see Meatwad as a character option.
I still can't access my company's org private repos (a company incorporated in Hong Kong, with only European employees) because I opened my laptop in a hotel in Iran 3 months ago.
Don't be so sure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468892
You get what you pay for... There's no free lunch... Etc...
Factories around the world are taken offline all the time, for one reason or another. It's only newsworthy when it causes significant problems elsewhere.
Until last week in NZ interest was a business expense...
Choices are real. Free will is not.
Because you wouldn’t be able to run your existing Java code on their VM?

The whole point was interoperability
Did you ask him? Surely he knows more about it than some random person on HN. I am glad that he did not remove his previous statements though, it would be akin to rewriting history, although I think that a note saying that he changed his opinions would be nice.
>They are there because some plant is illegal.

That's a common belief, but it isn't true. More than half of people in state prisons are serving sentences for violent crimes. I see you were in the Feds, so it's almost half that are in there for a drug-trafficking offense. Your perception is likely somewhat skewed since you were in a low or camp, not a medium or pen. As you certainly know, there are security classifications in the BOP, and non-violent drug-traffickers typically won't be housed with the rapists and murderers. Someone with 0-11 points isn't going to be around someone with 24+ points.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths...
“Majority” is a tricky term here since the hallways are so subjective and the recommendation engines are in flux.

I personally see maybe 1 blind dating room a week and only a couple NFT rooms in a 24 hour span.
IANACT, but over the years this is the system I have developed and it has worked well for me:

- if nothing else, buy a cheap crimping kit on amazon that includes a cable tester and basic crimper.

- invest in good patch cable. the cheap stuff is much harder to work with and you'll realize the dollar you saved wasn't worth it. I've noticed the boxes (e.g., 1000ft) seem of much better quality than short length patch cables that you re-purpose. $80 for a 1000ft that will last for many years has been a good investment for me.

- cut off an inch or more of outer cable jacket

- cut off that annoying fiber string

- before you untwist the pairs, spread them wide apart in the order they'll line up: when looking at the clip side of the plug, it will normally be Brown, Green, Blue, Orange. I've memorized this order because it's the order of colors going from ground to sky (brown ground, green grass, blue sky, orange sun).

- now untwist the pairs, solid color goes on the left, striped color on the right.

- green striped wire is the exception that gets separated from its pair; move it between the blue and orange wires.

- hold the well-ordered wires tightly between your thumb and index finger and use a rocking side-to-side and back-and-forth motion to bend and comport with its final positioning. This lessens the chance it will mis-align when inserted into the plug.

- Use scissors or some other tool to clip the wire ends so they are of equal length and can extend inside the plug completely. after years of practice this has ended up being the length of my thumbnail, which is convenient since that's where I'm holding the wire as I cut.

- Put wiring into plug and view that wires enter their correct slot. Be sure to enter via clip side facing you (as that's how wires were oriented above. I prefer the clip side because it's easier to see that wires are entering properly.)

- Push cable jacket snugly into plug and rock back and forth to ensure wiring enters full length. Cable jacket should be well inside the plug past the crimp wedge.

- Crimp!

- Check that contacts have all been seated properly. As the crimper gets older it will have a tendency not to seat the contacts properly. This is a sign that it's time to invest in a new $10 crimper.

- Check that opening side of plug has wedged on top of cable jacket and not the wiring. Cable jacket should not be separable from the plug. If you don't do this, over time the jacket will separate from the plug and the wiring will eventually fail.

- When both ends are crimped check with the cable tester.
It's been shown that caffeine shortens telomeres, while alcohol lengthens them [1]. This could be the reason why they offset each other.

[1] - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205142127.ht...
FedEx tried off-peak passenger carriage in the early 1980s when they received their first 737s. The seats were on pallets installed through the cargo doors.

UPS tried the same idea with 727s in the early 2000s but in both cases it proved too disruptive to normal operations.

However several European airlines today operate the inverse service with quick-changers, primarily passenger service and remove the seats at night for mail carriage.