jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's one half of Alan Moore's spreadsheet for the unfinished Big Numbers

http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/05/2005...

Best picture I could find, sorry.
>According to the study, in 2015 the poorest fifth of Americans will pay on average 10.9 percent of their income in state and local taxes

This is purposely misleading. Yes, the poor do get hit with state/local taxes (this may or may not include sales tax, gas tax, etc) but often will not pay federal tax. That's on top of various aid programs like food stamps, section 8 rent assistance, etc. These articles are really disingenuous statistics, often used to push an agenda.

A less politicized article here on who does and doesn't pay taxes:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/w...
This is not a recent phenomenon. Even in the 80s it had a negative connotation, fueled mostly, I think, by Sherry Turkle's The Second Self (I wonder how many young hackers are aware of that infamous book) where the hacker culture was shown to be macho, masochistic, and closed, see Sex/Machine (http://books.google.com/books?id=vo5b6XA2F30C&lpg=PA369&...) for a summary.
Oh yes I agree, the UIs are horrible. I think Nokia wants and needs to make current Nokia users happy with the new phones by implementing "Nokiaisms" (even though the underlying OS will change).
I'm glad I found you all, 'cause I so desperately wanted to comment on Joel's post, but his discussion group is closed.

I'm one of those people who eats lunch alone everyday, mostly just to take a break from work and catch up on my reading.

So the statement that bothered me the most was this one: "Maybe they’re reading a book or checking their email while they eat so they don’t look sad"

I don't understand why so many people think that reading a book is only something you do, when you don't have anything else better to do. I read 2-3 books a month and lunchtime is when I get a vast majority of my reading done. It annoys me to no end when people interrupt me because they think I’m “lonely”. No, I’m READING! If I was looking for conversation, the book would be closed and I would be looking around to make eye contact. What part of the whole nose-in-a-book-with-a-totally-engrossed-expression do you not understand?

Having said that, I do think Joel simply makes the office environment conducive to eating together. I just hope he doesn't look down on people who don't take advantage of it.
> All three of them.

Three? There's atleast 4 in the US, HTC, Samsung, LG and Dell.
"As long as Nokia and Microsoft continue to see the carriers as their customers, rather than the people who are touching them everyday"

When it comes to Windows, I keep reminding people Microsoft's clients are not those who buy computers with Windows installed, but the OEMs who build them. Nobody buys Windows 7 - the ordinary user buys Dell (or Lenovo, or Acer, or Sony)
If you can post a URL and/or provide some reasons why you say this is a good one, that would be helpful. (edit: I found a program called "Getting Things GNOME!" that is probably similar to the one you referred to as "things". Thanks.)
| In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable.

It's not specific to the coding field.
There is a danger to open sourcing code that you won't be maintaining. Many employers now ask for your github account. If your coding habits change over the years, employers will look at your older, non-maintained work, and draw conclusions. Further, if you show a large number of abandoned projects, they may decide you "don't finish things."

Something similar bit me recently. I didn't have any of my TDD code samples available to send on short notice, so I sent an older project that, while it showed I could code, was not TDD, and not nearly up to my current abilities--I think it cost me the job. If that was what was in my github account, I may not even been asked for a recent sample. My recent work belongs to my employers, so that's a non-starter.
It may be more common, but I think that if it's stated the first way, it seems less planned and deliberate and it's more likely to rattle the market - or at the very least, send the media off looking for nefarious, non-business-related reasons for the retirement. It's almost as bad as suddenly retiring to "spend more time with the family".
A similar idea is used in practice in a building I'm frequently in. Beads of wax in the concrete floor keep it cool in summer by melting when the temperature rises, and recover overnight when the windows are open and resolidify.
> Isn't the whole point of "going public" to raise money?

It used to be. Regulations introduced in the past decade have made it very expensive to be a public company - there's a lot of accounting and legal overhead. These days it's easier to raise large sums of money privately and only IPO when those investors want to cash out.
Unfortunately I can't find anything in English, although Babylon was going to do an IPO in the US earlier this year, so you would expect there to be some information about them in English. The Hebrew article talks about how they are
"diversifying away" from Google by making affiliate agreements with Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. The Hebrew article is here: http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000874482.
Right, I see what you mean.
* throwing chairs @ people he doesn't like
One wrinkle to this is that it is quite possible to become passionate about something which is initially a grind, at which point the state described in the article of it not feeling like work would kick in. In fact there are several successful entrepreneurs out there (eg. Mark Cuban) who openly advocate passion following work rather than the other way round.

If you do know of something which doesn't feel like work to you, but does feel like work to everybody else, there's indeed probably something there. But if you don't, it may be possible to create such a something...
Important to start with a beginners mind, and do a 'reset'. This can be 20 mins meditation each morning. It's better than any 'lifehack' you will read on The Internet.

Sounds like too much maintenance too - what happened to the laptop lifestyle / live life out of a suitcase thing? It's still very much viable, and always has been.

All you need is a notebook and a pen...(And lots of experience)
Sweet calculations! Thanks! Check out my above comment again, since I was apparently writing out an "EDIT 2" while you were doing these awesome calculations.

Basically, what do you think about the fact that it's not a long, straight tube? The rollers would need to dynamically bend the steel tube in order to carry the expansion all the way to the station, wouldn't they? Is that possible?

Even if there aren't any rollers, the tube still needs to re-bend itself somehow. But how? That would mean steel curves near the endpoints would move a whopping 150 meters in total. So it seems like part of the tube manufactured as a curve in summer would need to become a straight length of pipe by winter.
It's not 5 v 100, you have to be at a certain threshold of points to vote to close a question.

I don't agree with closing questions like this either, but there are rules, those rules work most of the time and the question is broad. SO is not a Quora, it's not a discussion site, even though it would be nice to use the brain trust of SO in that way.
Got to love those stock photos.
there is only one character in Russian, which would mark either "V" style sound - "veterany" or "W" - "dvor". In most cases direct transliteration from Russian to English uses "V" character for that Russian character, even though it may sound more like "W".
Yes, appointments are part of it, but also simple timekeeping for hourly employees, managing schedules, etc. So, a cleaning might be scheduled for 3 hours, but it may take 5 hours--this needs to be accounted for. We may also integrate scheduling based on spatial analysis of available employees.

We're still early in the process (much earlier than Patrick is w/ AR), but we've also explored the idea of integrating Twilio. It's nice to see how it's being used.

Edit: it's not a general purpose appointment manager and reminders are not central to my product. More of a basecamp-like app for cleaning services, of which appointments are a part. What are you working on?
Thanks for this guide.

I'm following the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book by Michael Hartl and chapter 3 covers tests:

http://railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#sec:TDD

I was having difficulty getting Spork configured, so this information is great.
Phoning to say "you're an utter asshole", while not a nice thing to do, is still not exactly the same as lynching someone. Tone down the hyperbole a bit, please.
Her business is to work "with small food-oriented businesses and farms to get the word out on their works/products". The vehicle is publishing, and I get the feeling she's using the magazine the same way a lot of normal people use their computers: as a means to an end.

If I had to guess, I'd wager that's why she doesn't understand copyright. Her area of expertise (and I use that word with a HUGE grain of salt) is food and local business.
I would argue that it's also a smart bet by Zappos in the sense that just such a gesture on the part of management is appreciated by the employees, as well as the public.

And besides, the screening process for new employees probably filters out a decent proportion of the people who actually would be likely to take such a deal.
I have a similar way of thinking or at least intellectually try to remind myself of.

Also somehow this reminds me of a go term "honte". https://senseis.xmp.net/?Honte

Interestingly it seems to mean shame in French.
Yep, we've built a number of pre-production units. Hoping to go into production later this year.

There are a few non-rendered photos on our media page:
http://www.reactionhousing.com/media/

And another few in an article about us in Popular Mechanics:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a14357/exo-shelte...
> One such model is the observation that women remain under-represented in areas where the working conditions are terrible, the career prospects are nil, and the tangible effect of their efforts on others are zero, all of which conditions pertain to tech, but not to medicine, law or politics.

I think you have an over romanticized view of the vast majority of careers in medicine, law, and politics.
What you describe is a little bit working for free. If you’re not being paid for those hours and you do not have a stake in the business, then you are effectively giving money to the owner.
The uh, selfie thing though..
It is certainly looking that way to me. At least ~80% of them. They're all going along with this bullshit apart from a few more principled ones who are in it for the money/ self enrichment only.
D'oh, of course!
There are many old wood houses around Boston built in the 1900s. When maintained (The roof and siding are renewed to prevent water damage and termite prevention) their frames seem to hold up well.

Is your 50 years a guesstimate or do you have a source for that?

It is interesting why brick or concrete - preferred materials in other parts of the world, are not so common for residences in the US.

To me wooden houses have a charm that concrete or brick construction does not. Also, I feel that I can fix/update things in a wooden house more easily than in a brick or concrete house because of the drywall construction.
What is a "normal physical phenomenon" and what is a "non-normal physical phenomenon"? It would seem to me that something is either physical or metaphysical.

Not once in the entire history of human inquiry has something turned out to be provably "because magic". Lightning was not Zeus having a fit, plagues were not the vengeance of the gods, birth defects are not the disdain of our ancestors, and humanity did not get created from clay.

The scenario you put forward is the "Chinese Room" argument, and it's incredibly flawed but is a great example of flawed philosophical thinking regarding consciousness. It's main problem is that it was directed at Alan Turing's "Turing Test" which was also flawed. The Turing test boils down to, "If a machine can make you think it's a human, it's true artificial intelligence". The Chinese Room argument rebutted and put forward the idea that if you have some in a rule with a algorithm to associate symbols from one language to another(lets say english to chinese), and another room with somebody who actually speaks Chinese and English, externally they would be indistinguishable but these is clearly a difference between the two. I, for one, totally agree with this sentiment, but it doesn't really speak to consciousness, but just how bad the Turing Test was as defining artificial intelligence. The problem is that the philosophers then applied to Chinese Room Argument to not just the very narrow (and completely wrong) definition of AI outlined by the Turing Test, not just to artificial intelligence (which would be incorrect), but consciousness in general (which is a horrendous error), no matter how defined, it's just a plain logical incongruence.

You ask questions such as "are we creating 100% real pain", while not describing exactly what IS pain? I think it's pretty hard to say that thing A(let's say an artificial intelligence living in some super computer cluster), is not equal to B(A fully conscious entity), when we can not yet even define what B is. While I think it's pretty safe to say that such a AI would never know what it is like to be you, and you it, that hardly means it's not (fully, real, actual, insert whatever word you want to call it here) consciousness. Once or if total mastery of artificial is achieved it seems reasonable that you would be able to create a artificial intelligence with capabilities very similar to the humans. With the same sensors, neuronal network capabilities, even an artificial human body and at this point the differences between the way a human experiences reality this theoretical human-like robot experiences reality would more resemble the differences between the way I perceive reality/exercise consciousness than the differences between a pile-of-sand computer and a human.
Original Kinect data rates, measured empirically by a third party:

Colour: 10.37 Mb/s
Depth: 29.1 Mb/s
Skeleton: 0.49 Mb/s

So roughly 40Mb/s (4 * 10^7)

Does this device produce > 1Tb/s (1 * 10^12) or 25,000 times as much data? I'd be surprised.
Same with VPS servers. Same with internet infrastructure; hubs, switches and fiber. Or ultimately any physical area in which people uttering heresy and atrocious opinions stay while uttering them (the latter point would ultimately be of concern to any owner of private property, or the state itself in the case of common public property).

How are these distinct from imageboards, forums or reddit? This is a very slippery slope which implies censorship from the very beginning. Are you prepared to follow your reasoning all the way to its conclusion and stop people from having any platform for speaking their mind? Once you go there, you no longer have freedom of speech, which I agree with Hitchens et al. has to be protected even when it is uncomfortable.

I agree that there is a very tricky ethical case when it comes to harrassment or terrorism, but I have no good ideas on how to resolve it. We should err on the side of not censoring stuff we don't like.
Hadnt read about this. Just confirmed that ideas are not unique :)

Really good list, and most of them are viable even now.
Would you really care about a single hash collision in a database of 500,000 users?
How long have you lived in the country, other than seeing 'articles' about it?
I think you are looking for the "greater internet fuckwad theory" from Penny Arcade.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
If your server is currently overloaded for reasons entirely independent of this app, just move it to a new dedicated server. 50 requests per second is not a huge amount of traffic for a dedicated server, so I don't really see where the problem is.
At short notice my mother-in-law decided that she needs more space in the house, and wants to dispose of some of her paintings. She has decided to have a sealed-bid auction, culminating on June 25th.

She wondered if something "web-like" could be done, so I took a few hours and knocked up this. It's not perfect, and in some ways it's not good, but she seems thrilled by it, so "the client is happy".

Just thought some of you might like to see it. All done in hand-crafted HTML (and almost certainly not standards compliant) and in hand-crafted Python, with no frameworks or libraries.

Comments welcome, but be gentle.
I'm actually more of a filmmaker than I am a startup guy, but I can see lots of overlaps.

Each film project essentially is a startup. Most are the results of special purpose, one-off companies. You might work with a lot of the same people, but the situations are always fluid. You're creating something from scratch, most of the time, building up something from nothing.

I've made dozens of short films, most via a loose collective of filmmakers, mostly for festival screenings and for the learning experiences. Some with a slightly more formal organization, intended to make money via short film distribution networks online and on cell phones. Which we did, by keeping our production costs very , very low. Some lessons learned there about cofounder selection and clear responsibilities.

Working now with some established producers on securing funding for a indie sci fi feature film. The whole funding cycle is a long, drawn out process, like it is in most businesses. A real roller coaster of emotion, like a startup. In the end, like a startup, the funding is as dependent on establishing belief in the people involved as it is in the idea itself. If not moreso. And of course it's all spare-time after-the-day-job stuff, like a lot of startups.

It's fun, though, and I wouldn't trade the ride for anything else.
I think those characterizations are rather context-dependent, though. Restating my point somewhat differently, the "what should be done about it" reaction lies on a somewhat independent axis from the "how angry am I about this" reaction.

For example: A business that refused to hire gun owners would probably get a far more rage-filled reaction from a rightist than a leftist, but it's very roughly analogous.
Programming Abstractions in C: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Abstractions-Second-Comput...

there might have been others but that was the main one where afterward recursion no longer confused or scared me.

there may be other books that are far more suitable. i would be surprised if there weren't, even. but that's the one i used.
Off-topic, but apparently he also runs a Circuit Hacking Monday group at the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Mondays
Where I live, Los Angeles, U turns are only allowed in intersections. I'd gladly trade you.
So it's both luck and skills.
No social media today qualify as “critical social infrastructure."
On the other hand, Away luggage raised $100 million relatively recently.

I have an Away carry-on and it’s nice, but no technical wonder.

Surely Roblox’ platform’s sophistication, reach, and financial potential are orders of magnitude higher than.. a suitcase.
It's a lot more complicated than that. There is very real and powerful anti-democratic fervor over here. Hundreds of members of the House of Representatives are involved in it, and several members of the Senate also. One member was actually heard outside on a loudspeaker yesterday invoking Hitler, by name, as a virtuous figure. There is white-supremacist anti-government infiltration of the police involved, including the Capitol Police. These same white-supremacist anti-democracy people have even stormed a military base in recent years, and they were NOT met with lethal force in that instance either, so it's not just because the Capitol represents a symbol of democracy. It's a complicated dynamic over here, but that doesn't make it any less chilling.

I live in Florida, and just a few minutes ago on the way to work this morning I passed a white commercial truck with a large commercial logo on the side. The logo reads "Confederate Electric, Inc." laid over a waving Confederate flag (which is a flag of treason and white supremacy.) Anti-government fervor is right in your face, and taken as a very normal and matter-of-fact way of life here now. Florida's Senator Rick Scott last night voted against allowing Pennsylvania the right to participate in representative democracy in voting for the new president. It's a very serious and very sad thing what's going on in America.
Or the can partner with Google and Apple and get those backups from them, like the government does.
Perhaps these questions are appropriate for this post.

I'm beginning to delve into this space and I've not managed to get any satisfactory answers to these questions, despite my month(s) long search.

1) How does one build a traffic (i.e state-space system), forgetting the visualization aspect of things ? Just generating sparse matrices, and adding elements to interact (add/subtract) from these matrices would be a great start! Any way to do this in a compiled language ?

2) Are there any libraries out there that help you simulate traffic in an existing network of roads, extracted from OpenStreetMaps perhaps?
That page, is also an article from 2017 :-)
> If you trust the developer to implement things properly (use PDO prepared statements when storing data in DB, properly check for permissions, write efficient queries, etc.), shouldn't that automatically exclude common bad practices?

That depends. How tired is the developer? How under pressure? How over deadline? ;-)

I do get your point and I understand where you're coming from.

But this model of PHP (where every URL entry point is its own script) is the thing that most encourages expedient development rather than good development, because you can just hack on that one thing without affecting anything else.

It also (traditionally) encourages somewhat riskier hosting configurations, because any PHP file the web server can route may need to be executable, and because a failure of web server configuration can expose PHP files as readable. Whereas with a single point of entry (index.php router), you can locate your codebase outside the document root, refuse to directly execute anything but your endpoint script, etc.

These are partly old-fashioned concerns, admittedly, but it's surprising how often the approach you're outlining is still the source of malicious PHP exploits where a script file gets buried in a hacked release, or where some server vulnerability can be inveigled into executing PHP code by some image file upload mechanism that didn't do adequate checking.
> You can say bad things about him before the judge does

Yup, I don’t understand how people is not used yet to public trials at social networks
I find on Facebook these days I often have to use some substitute Unicode characters and obscure out words in pictures if I want my post to be seen by my own friends. Even if it's a scientific, reputable piece of content, all it takes is a word like "COVID" or "election" to trigger their censorship system and my post doesn't show up in their newsfeeds.

I'm tired of this censorship bullshit where companies play gatekeeper between me and my own friends. Even WeChat in China doesn't censor this much. Almost always if I post something on WeChat my friends see it in their feeds within seconds. But on Facebook, nope. Their algo stands in-between and decides whether or not it should be censored from each friend.
What is different in your product?
math/other/idk exactly tbh:

- [bytle](https://jamesl.me/bytle)

- [hexle](https://jamesl.me/hexle)