jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This test seems imperfect.

I imagined what you said, but my thought was focused on the ball, and so the person was "unfocused", or "not as detailed" - I'm not even sure what gender they were.

Oh, and I'm colour blind (which is relatively common), so probably don't think of colours in the same way as others.
Thanks! I was hopping someone would interpret that.
Also, your boss probably hates these talks just like you do, and want to get you out of the room as fast as possible. So go low and often.
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Not right now, possible in the future

Technologies: Objective-C, Swift, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, SwiftUI

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TxfvHocdUp6yHqP-sKBjiUE8nzi...

Email: in CV

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I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of commercial experience in iOS/iPadOS app development.

I'm interested in application security and enjoy learning new technologies.
I did it few times; it was accepted at check-in, but cannot be scanned at the gate (is is too tiny), so when the people at check-in saw it, they issued a paper boarding pass for me.
British Airways still throw a hissy fit when ever you present them with an electronic version of the boarding pass.

Lufthansa for great justice.
So you're saying that the program doesn't fail a single student?
Browse through the listings to get an idea of what is selling. http://codecanyon.net/page/top_sellers

They have quality standards that you must meet to get approved. Browse through http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Inde... to find out more.

http://codecanyon.net/make_money/become_an_author
The “police have been devoting a huge amount of resources to track down peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade
like Charlie Shrem and the operators of the Silk Road Market,” Ver says, “while evil hackers were busy terrorizing
quadriplegic Hal Finney and his family.”

"voluntary trade" makes it sound like said trade wasn't actually illegal (in other words, like something the police are actually supposed to stop, peaceful or otherwise.)

This is meant to suggest that the police were harassing innocent people while completely ignoring the actual crimes described, of course playing up the typical Bitcoin narrative of the violent, thuggish and incompetent police state.

Left completely unmentioned, is the fact that Bitcoin is designed, and intended, to make it infeasible to track users and enforce laws against transactors. It's an explicitly anarcho-capitalist system. Extortion rackets around Bitcoin are not a bug, they're a feature.
Sounds like it was a bad decision to get into this contract in the first place.
Apart from, you know, the Bitcoin transaction fees. Plus the fees to convert money into Bitcoin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

> Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Every source is WP:PRIMARY. Every one of them. Googling turned up posts to online discussion forums but nothing useful. Additionally, I note that the decision to delete at the previous AfD was unanimous for the same reasons.

> Perhaps think of it this way: a language becomes notable when people who haven't been involved in its creation start writing about it. If/when this language gets to that point you'll have no problem creating an article. At the moment, though, there just hasn't been enough uptake to get the coverage we need for notability.

The problem is that most sources about Nim are by Araq or not reliable enough.
Could crowdfunding sites require ACH transfers instead of credit card network processing, thereby substantially reducing their processing fees?
masscan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM
If by "that approach" you mean not developing it in the public, that's always been Apple's strategy. They benefit from developers being locked in to building for their platform.
This is a fantastic article and illustrates a HUGE problem in government systems, where data gets aggregated, but not associated.
Trucks, and everything else your tax dollars go to that the US government doesn't want, all sell at auction on http://govliquidation.com for pennies on the dollar.
Maybe you should try FAAN where engineers are 1st class citizens.
I agree it's a scam but are they recognized in mobile phones? I cannot find a cheap one that is good for my android phones at work.
I've used them and they work fine. They say they don't provide IIS support (indeed, the format of their certs doesn't work for IIS, but you can use an online convertor to get them into the right format).

I believe they just resell comodo from when I used it last, but you could probably check
I'm surprised the author didn't mention Yahoo and their purchase of Associated Content & rumored interest in Huffington Post.

http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/entry/51608/yahoo-eyes-huff...

I suppose the content quality of HuffPo is debatable (I find their headlines to be a bit sensationalistic for my taste), but it appears Associated Content has been criticized for their lack of quality content:

"It is a wasteland of bad writing, uninformed commentary, and the sort of comically dull recitation of the news you'd get from a second grader."

http://www.slate.com/id/2237107/
> smart phone

It’s not hard to get a cheap smartphone (something like 60-80% of homeless people own a smartphone based on a quick google) and if you qualify for SNAP, you can almost certainly get a free smartphone through the lifeline program.

> data service

Amazon Go stores have free WiFi.

> credit card

Edit: Originally stated you can use gift card credit, but that’s incorrect. You can get a secured card with no credit check though.

> amazon account

Free and obviously easy to get if you have access to the internet, which virtually everyone does through a public library.
am i the only one who wishes mobile wikipedia were the standard default layout? i tend to put ".m." in those links now. big fonts, straight forward structure, clear spacing. it is so much better ah :)
I can believe in Dark Matter. I can believe in Dark Energy. I cannot believe in both. It’s an epicycle for sure.
It's not even that bad for users. Paypal sucks for people on the merchant side of the transaction. People who actually accumulate money in accounts are those that always complain. Merchants feel like they have to stick with it just to open up more payment options to their customers though. Now paypal even keeps all fees no matter if a customer returned an item. So if you are selling say cameras for $1000.If someone returns the camera. Paypal keeps about $30 - actually you are out $30 for every return.
> Hundreds of thousands of fatalities on both sides of the war are directly attributable to his policies.

Millions of fatalities on one side ( 4+ million innocent vietnamese died - mostly civilians ). Tens of thousands on the other side ( 58 thousand - mostly invading soldiers ).
Don't want a camera on your doorbell? Don't install one. I would like to have the freedom to decide differently.
OF course there's going to be people posting stuff to reddit? Theres people posting about not like their chosen furry animal on reddit.

Medicine does not have multiple schools of project management controlling them.
Agile, waterfall, V-Shaped, Iterative, Spiral, and the list goes on.

Medicine is not a shit show by default because peoples lives are on the line.

Software is extremely disposable so it's super easy to turn into a shit show and treat devs like commodities.
Oh I haven't given up at all. My cell phone service expires Dec 10 never to be renewed.

The massive amount of data your phone collects about you is quite relevant. Thanks for the downvotes which have now
throttled my new account, and given me a bit of a bad impression of the community here.

Can you explain what you mean by "your handle betrays you?"
Location: New Hampshire, USA
Remote: Open to remote
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JS, Ruby, Rails, React, AWS, Linux, VMs
Résumé/CV: Available on request
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-ballou/
The speed-critical parts (like HotSpot) are most certainly written in C++.
The music goes a way when I switch tabs! It is a shame more games do not do this.
"GeoCities could have conceivably become a social / blogging / personal site platform that we'd be hailing as the next big thing."

And the Canadians could have won the space race.

I mean, in some possible alternative reality both could have happened, but the number of changes there would need to be is staggering. Geocities, as it existed in this reality, was always doomed to failure and ridicule.
I've known Bijan for a few years now. He's consistently been forthright, honest and remarkably generous with his time. He's also not one to badmouth a company that he and Spark chose not to invest in -- he's classy enough to not take part in a mudslinging match.

I don't know what happened -- nor do I expect to find out -- but I'm certain that there's more to this story. And that Bijan navigated what may have been a bad situation with as well as he could.

Happily mixing metaphors, I believe that is sour grapes blown out of proportion and then fanned by a TC article.
The worst part: look at the HTML they replaced it with!
+1 anecdotal to Flux.

I went all kindle | paper in bed (no more backlit things), and simultaneously also started using Flux, and it seems to have helped me actually stop working and fall sleep.

You get used to it in about three days, and then if you use the temporary-disable command to see what your monitor looked like before, it really does sear the eyes like when those nazis opened the ark...
Only 5000 will be able to reserve their spot and the closed beta
I try to give myself adventures and goals for the morning to at least make it interesting. Some I've tried:

- Figuring out the most efficient way to make an omelet and coffee, in the least amount of time. Since you only get one shot at breakfast, you will have to try again the next day, and eventually build up your craft.

- Outdoor bike rides for both exercise and exploration. I luckily live in Berkeley, so there are plenty of bike-friendly paths and streets, but having the wind in your face, getting exercise, and exploring new areas of your city helps wake my mind up.

- However, the best for me when I was in a corporate job was to set my alarm for 5, have my gym bag and work clothes packed the night before, take the subway to the gym and shower there. I'd eat breakfast when I get to work. Breakfast for a while was granola (carbs), Siggi's yogurt (nice protein boost) and Yerba mate.

It's a shameless plug, but since I'm proud to be a morning person, I'm writing a series of posts called "Morning People Unite" that might help you and others get motivated:

http://www.richpalmer.org/good-morning

http://www.richpalmer.org/morning-people-unite-2
Speaking of passwords, I believe hackernews account passwords are transmitted over plain-text HTTP. Even the password reset is plain-text HTTP. Perhaps that will change soon?
I'd put mid-career as late-twenties to late-thirties, depending on the person.
After 'working' with Canadian immigration for a couple of years to get my status secured I gave up. Any country that doesn't value what its immigrants bring to the table deserves to be ignored.

Given that your route seems to be full of friction why do you persist? Is there some unique element to your business that requires you to be in Japan?

Consider me impressed. Canada was easier than what you describe and yet, I couldn't stomach it after a couple of years of being given the run-around.
Actually they host on their own, here is the first lecture https://video.ethz.ch/lectures/d-infk/2019/autumn/263-2210-0...
I don't really think that representation theory is required here, it's easier than that. (Although representation theory is really cool!!)

Every finite dimensional vector space over the real numbers is isomorphic to R^n, for some n. But there is not always a canonical or "unique" isomorphism. I think the real difference -- and it is a subtle one -- is that R^n always comes with an "obvious" choice of basis, and many vector spaces don't.

I think the following may be the easiest interesting example. Consider the subspace of R^3, consisting of all (x, y, z) for which

x + y + z = 0.

This is a 2-dimensional real vector space. It is isomorphic to R^2, although in some sense it does not "present as such": you have to choose an isomorphism to R^2 if you want to "treat it as R^2", and there is no single choice that stands out.

In practice, one would not necessarily construct an isomorphism to R^2, or (more or less equivalently) exhibit a basis, before working with this vector space directly.
What happens when you have a vm on a core that's running avx-512? Will it also be down clocked? This is important to me since I'm orchestrating workloads on prem machines and my clients might want avx-512.
> what is the purpose of philosophical work such as Bostrom’s?

This is a good question. This paper is popular well in disproportion to its impact, because it's a sexy scifi topic. I don't know Bostrom but I suspect it's popular far in disproportion to his desires also - it's just one small piece of his work on superintelligence, which is in turn only one part of his work on measuring existential risk.

The paper, it should be noted, is not an argument we are living in a simulation (it's often taken as one, but the simulation hypothesis predates Bostrom, the 20th century, etc.). Rather, it's an argument that there is a trilemma of which two options are material, and potentially even testable - so in a sense, it does allow the simulation hypothesis to be tested, if you buy his trilemma and reject the other options. (Based again on his other work, I suspect Bostrom may personally believe #1 - I personally am suspicious of both the validity of the trilemma and independently suspect #2.)

So this plays the kind of role in philosophy that a discovery of some unique way to synthesize a chemical we already have plenty of ways to synthesize in chemistry. It's a workaday paper - interesting if you are interested in the field, but of no great impact to most people's lives.

The result is that there's also not a lot of great ways to engage with the paper, in the same way it's difficult to engage with a refinement of the equivalence between inertial and gravitation mass.

If you want to engage with the simulation hypothesis and metaphysical realism more broadly, I would begin with Putnam's Reason, Truth and History. The philosophical work around the simulation hypothesis is maybe best thought of not as an attempt to actually answer it conclusively, but as particular lens on the relationship between reality, self-perception, and sense-perception. Clarifying those relationships is of immense use to the average person.
Take the Zen interpretation of that and empty mind is what one should strive for.
Wonderful! I remember struggling to make it through linear algebra in college because the teaching style was so unapproachable and disconnected from real applications. It wasn't until I took computer graphics that I really grasped a lot of the concepts.
Hey! We will be happy to give you an infinite access to our search API: https://serpapi.com

It will be slower than regular Google but at least you are not going to be blocked.

Edit: Create an account without credit card details, send an email to julien _at_ serpapi.com with it, and I’ll make sure you have an active account.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a bit better here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20218608
That's a pretty absurd statement. Are Nokia and Novell massive competing companies? KDE seems to be doing pretty well. There are also plenty of small successful open projects like battle for wesnoth or the innumerable open libraries that make a programmer's life so much easier. Major projects tend to attract corporate sponsorship as they become useful, and paid developers go at a faster pace than hobbyists, but to say that open source requires contribution from huge companies is just silly.
Competing with etsy is awesome, but two things:

1. How will you drive traffic to the vendors? If they don't get any sales, they won't stay.

2. You have to make it look prettier. These artsy types care about looks :)

Hope you can get this going, good luck!
Oh, I didn't know that jacked means muscular (I thought it has something to do with drugs). How many hours did you spend exercising per day? I think that indeed it's probably not worth it for most people.
Ask yourself a simple question: Can my customers effectively use my software without those features?

If yes: Launch immediately. Do _NOT_ make a blog post saying 'upcoming features.' Just release them when they're ready. That way noone's expectations will be set and you will impress them.

If no: Add only the features that MUST be present for people to say 'ok, I will pay for this.' Then go from there :)

There is no 'cat' to be let out of the bag yet. Your first few weeks after a PERFECT launch will lead to what.. 10 people coming to your site? Maybe 100 if you promote it well?
I also agree 100% with him, I just meant that Apple will never allow that to happen.
Just like I think Microsoft SHOULD open source NT and XP, and that will never happen either.
Ah, nerd tourism, like Neal Stephenson's epic-length 1996 article for Wired on FLAG, a transoceanic fiber optic cable.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
The product of a bored afternoon... The article seemed like a prime target for its usage :)
You can test all you want, but spikes in demand can still take you down. I dont care how big your VPS is, there will be a point that it can't take anymore, and in real life, that point will probably be sooner than your testing will predict.

I repeat, infrastructure problems will kick you when you least need it.

You have a point about lock in, but there are many cloud providers that just supply hosted versions of open source software (amazon RDS, mongo HQ) so you can still use the cloud, but have the ability to take your data away with you.
Thanks so much for your feedback.

We do have some case studies on the site http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/case-studies.php -- did you mean you wanted to see such case studies?
Yeah. I also noticed how some games e.g. Reckless Racing "brute-force" controls usability by offering a handful of different options – virtual wheels, accelerometer, simple buttons, etc.
Good to see I wasn't the only person who thought the author was crazy when reading that article.
Only ~6500 instances up and running on EC2 today? That seems to me to be too low by at least a couple orders of magnitude.

Yes, it's utter nonsense. The EC2 instance-count is in the millions, not thousands. The author just doesn't know the difference between instance and image.
I don't know, I think it reads like bad advertising copy. Cliche'd metaphor made on a tenuous link but without any of the added wit and je-ne-sais-quois that makes (good) copy fun to read.

I strongly disliked a number of things about it.
I strongly advise against getting shot.

My limited first-ass experience: I got hit by a 9mm FMJ ricochet. Someone put a round into a concrete floor near me, and the bullet broke apart and a piece hit me, or a piece of concrete hit me in the back of the thigh; it left a mark, but didn't break the skin; we found the bullet completely deformed with the jacket shredded in several pieces). The worst part was the sound; despite shooting a lot, it was the first time I'd ever been next to a firearm fired inside a 3m x 2m x 3m concrete room without wearing hearing protection. I also had a sore throat from yelling at the guy for the next ~15 minutes. Strangely, I wasn't actually afraid until the next day (when I realized how easy it would have been for the guy to have shot me in the leg instead, or for the ricochet to have hit me somewhere important nearby, etc.)

Temporary deafness (wax basically protects your ear from further damage by blocking the ear canal; I used hydrogen peroxide to clean it out later, and let a medic look at it with an otoscope to make sure the eardrum wasn't too damaged).

The whole experience made me 1) trust people even less and 2) want to become a certified emt or paramedic at some point, mainly to deal with trauma.
Thanks Paras,

I always like to see startups getting into CRO, and it's very generous of you to make it easier for some to try it out :)
Speaking from years of experience working as an ER nurse in the Chicago ghetto...

He drew a short straw on the weapon of choice. .22 caliber slugs tend to bounce around inside a person. Anything carrying more energy would likely have shattered his scapula, and gone clean through him. The energy of the slug wouldn't have been used up bouncing around his chest.

I took care of a person shot in the ankle with a .22. The entrance wound was in his ankle and the exit wound was in his groin. Another client had a single hole in his skull with no exit wound. Needless to say, the poor sap didn't do well after having a slug rattle around inside his skull for a while.

But I digress. I just finished watching the first season of The Wire tonight. It reminded me a lot of my stint in Chicago, and I guess I have ballistics on my mind. Back to coding...
The first three are 3 events over nearly 100 years. That's not very common.

The last one, I'd argue isn't new but the internet's ability to provide direct-from-the-source accounts of events and access to opposition sources allows the media to be fact checked in real time (or at least to notice incongruities with other stories). I'd be surprised if the situation is at all new. In fact, I'd argue that the media are the root cause of the previous three phenomenon you describe.
To put this into context, at the time you would have been going via cgi scripts or maybe trying to embed directly into apache. Mod_python did not exist, asyncore was the only thing you had to do async callouts so that you did not block the thread, etc. There is a reason perl was considered state of the art for serving web pages at this point in history. To give you a bit of an example, YahooMail (nee RocketMail) was basically a bunch of html wrappers around python code to read/manipulate mbox files and you would have been amazed at the amount of hardware it required to keep that performant; google had to be faster and was doing a lot of background work that we never had to deal with.

In the late 90s there was just not the same set of options available in the standard library, people were just learning what was required for horizontal scaling, and I can easily see how the added burden that Python 1.4 would have imposed compared to C or C++ would be a deal-killer when it came time for a re-write.
A better article would be "Why Google should pay to have the music industry killed painfully and slowly".

That I could get behind.
He was definitely clueless about the implementation of Ruby. MRI started as a half-assed Scheme implementation, which is easy to see when you read the MRI source code. Scheme has lexical scoping, while Ruby has...python/perl-style scoping.

Scheme has first class anonymous functions, while Ruby has blocks, which are a hack around MRI's slow function calls.
In MongoDB you could theoretically have a JavaScript injection, which I'd argue is pretty bad.
...1987, of course that's when interest would've spiked. IIRC, that's the year MacGyver debuted on TV.
That’s a mischaracterization of what the paper says.

Quoting from it: “Climate change affects the severity of the fire season and the amount and type of vegetation on the land, which are major variables in predicting wildfires. However, humans contribute another set of factors that influence wildfires...”