jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think we want that extreme either because not all costs are equal. It is entirely different equation for a family making $50k to write off their groceries versus Jeff Bezos writing off a $400m superyacht.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dissident#Reception
and
:sh

drops you into a shell

Very handy.
I would really appreciate any help/advice/contact info. If you have any thoughts at all that could help me out I'd be most appreciative.

Thanks again!
A lot of intersections in residential neighborhoods in Berkeley are very small roundabouts, about twenty feet across. This is part of the city's traffic calming policy (http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/contentdisplay.aspx?id=8238) , which also includes such things as random intersections that you just can't go through if you're in a car. As someone who doesn't have a car, I appreciate this, but I imagine that if I drove in town I'd be quite frustrated by the inability to use side streets. (Indeed, the main roads seem to be quite crowded.)
Or just use App::whichpm
I live in Oregon. Wyden had that election won long before election day. The focus was in the governor's race here and even Wyden's opponent, a Lewis and Clark University law professor named Hoffman, admitted the state Republican party put all its money into the gubernatorial race. The outcome of this bill wouldn't have made a difference one way or the other.
Why not write this in HTML5?
"Especially at Google, where a bottom 1% employee would likely be considered a top 1% employee at any smaller company."

What?
Very cool and very difficult to operationalize. If I was a VC, I would (cruelly) sum them up as "features of Citrix". Also, if you want to sell an enterprise security team a security product, saying that it reduces the need for stuff like Citrix would be a pretty good pitch.
Maybe this is something like what you described: try the 'Blob Test' example from Box2D-html5

https://code.google.com/p/box2d-html5/
I'm sure there are some people who could safely drive on the roads without speed limits and other traffic laws, but the number of people who could not is far greater. So it is with careful, responsible investing. Many laws are designed to work on a statistical basis, for the greater overall good. This is one of them.

It's not designed to prevent 'ordinary' people from sharing in investment profits, it's designed to protect the public purse from having to support millions of people that lost their savings due to unwise investments.
Great Read! I have been mulling over the idea of creating a curated list of interesting Programming Stories. Here are some of those which I can remember from top of my head:

* 500 Mile Email [http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html]

* Infinitely Profitable Program [http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55]

* The PGPi Scanning Project [http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/]

* DirectX vs OpenGL [http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/75581]

Think anyone can contribute?
Here's a breakdown of who gets what fees during payment processing:

1. Credit Card issuer. They get the bulk of the fees because they assume all cardholder risks. Besides fraud risk, they also care about the riskiness of the loan to the cardholder.

2. Gateway / Third Party Processor. The gateway helps a merchant process some part of the fees(e.g. tokenization, authorizations, settlements, etc.). Generally, they get a smallest percentage of the transaction. Authorize.net or Stripe would be examples of these.

3. Merchant's bank. They basically buy a merchant's credit/debit sales. They get a percentage of the transaction. If your transaction volume is high enough, you can probably convince your bank to lower your rate.

4. Visa/MC. Technically, they don't get anything. However, banks are required to pay dues in order to offer or process MC or Visa cards.

Some other things to note:

Online sites often use a Gateway directly and don't have a merchant bank. In those cases, the Gateway is acting as both a gateway and a merchant's bank.

Issuing banks (the bank that gives customers a credit card) charge higher fees for reward cards so that they can provide customers with rewards. Rewards cards are annoying for merchants because one can't always tell if a card is a reward card or a regular credit card. Additionally, fees for different rewards are different. These fees can be found in the voluminous fine print in your credit card agreements.
Great write up Tommy! Love the detail and how you explained the process...I've tried the meetup tactic but not with the follow up you've outlined. Pretty creative approach and I'll have to try that in the future.
"the primary purpose of the infantry rifle is not to kill, it is to suppress"

Isn't this a chicken and egg issue? After WWII, where the snide might note that the only country employing such infantry rifles lost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44 and I know it was not for that reason, and that the StG 44 was not evolved for the mission, e.g. no straight line recoil), first the Soviets adopted this concept (I gather after experience with a submachine gun and such tactics), and then a purely political decision forced the AR-15 and 5.56x45 on our Army and Marines (the Air Force loved it for guarding their planes, very much not the same mission).

IF we had a better cartridge (but certainly not 7.62 NATO, including for the reasons you cite), and more emphasis on individual marksmanship, might tactics shift a bit? Not a lot, I understand the concept (to the extent someone who's eyesight kept him out of the military might), I just think we went too far with it. Especially since a fair amount of this was motivated by fraudulent research (SLA Marshall).

Let me also bring up the issue of our past, current and no doubt future "dirty" wars: rifles are potentially more discriminating than those more powerful weapons, so potentially less "collateral damage" and harm to our own.

Then there's the morale issue: how many of our men trust their rifle to save their lives when they're depending entirely on it? I've heard way too many accounts, including
forca's on this page, about 5.56x45's lack of stopping power, and seem my comments on Martin Fackler's elucidation of how it works, or doesn't.

Then again, and echoing all of our comments on the completely screwed up procurement system, the failures to stop he cited would be less common with 20 inch barrel M16s instead of "Made By Colt" 14.5 inch barrel M4s. And because of that screwed up system, and $$$, this discussion is academic at this time, we should have done the right thing in the '50s :-(.
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This is a mistake on Gogo's part. I can't think of anything legitimate they could do using this that they couldn't also do in a more reasonable way. The illegitimate things they could conceivably do with this (if they wanted to do, which seems unlikely), they can't do reliably or without getting quickly discovered. A lot of people are going to see the pinned browser warning and wonder what's up.

Of course, that this is a mistake doesn't mean it will be corrected soon, so VPN is probably the way to go, which maybe it is anyway.

EDIT: perhaps this is intended to plug the hole mentioned here: http://bryceboe.com/2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-inte... That really should be only applicable to people who haven't paid, however.
Medicare is universal health care for hospitalization (i.e. emergencies. The second you’re not in the hospital, you’re dealing with means testing and various insurance company offerings.
Predicted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23498142
I completely agree with you! Thank you for the comment.

But isn't it a tiranny anyway the way government acted? Where leaving your house has become the biggest sin you can commit and where police is one step away from entering our houses?

Btw I want to know more... You talked about "West failure", with which conditions the covid-tracing app was able to work? For which sacrifice?

And there were any benefits out of that?
Decades isn't long enough. If Healthcare costs are rising everywhere, then no-one has a stable solution.

And I'm talking about universal healthcare, not American healthcare; the difference being that there are more than one factors that goes into the end-result of American healthcare, so if you start talking about universal specifically and then switch to American outcomes, you are implying the one follows from the other, and the burden is on you that that outcome is purely due to that one factor (and not, say, a culture of litigation; or cultures of corporate lobbying/corruption etc).

I'd also wonder which part of my post drew downvotes. I hope it's not that I dared suggest that Obama lied. But that was one reason it was controversial, and that future efforts at something similar are now damaged; who'd trust a similar proposition when even wunderkind Obama couldn't be straight about the deal?
I hate pooping where I eat since I’m trying to finally move to Safari, but all the writers saying how easy it is to port an extension now still have no idea.

Here’s what I need to port Chrome extension to Firefox:

1. Upload a zip file
2. Fill in very few additional details
3. Wait for review

Here’s what it takes for Safari:

1. Own a Mac
2. Download 12GB of XCode
3. Run the conversion tool (this is the point that everyone talks about)
4. Well done, now you have an XCode project you’ll have to maintain
5. Pay $99/yearly
6. Fill pages of senseless details and read scary-sounding notices about encryption because your extension is enabled on HTTPS
7. Wait for review
8. Get denied because of an “entitlement” that the conversion tool added for you
9. Wait for review
10. Fix a number of slight incompatibilities you’ll find over time, from basic features that other browsers have had for a long time to the APIs actually not being standard.
That's more of a problem with the school system, which force-feeds maths (and other subjects, most of them hated just as much) into kids at a pre-set pace, with no regard for quality or making it interesting for the children. Which is why I'm also worried that including coding in the basic school curriculum is only going to make people grow to hate it.
That reason being...?
I'm 45 and I used to pick potatoes in the autumn in Scotland when I was at school - the holidays in October were known as the "Tattie Holidays" (tattie being Scots dialect for potato).
>trying to figure out what was the last 20 years for

Basically, don't get involved with exams either as an instructor or a student.

Why? Exams hurt all that encounter them (including teachers, markers and even successful students).

And they're pointless by their own terms because knowledge can't be measured.
Funny, but someone needs to add a "WhatProgrammersCanDoWhenProgrammingIsNotFun" page that talks about entrepreneurial activities, business, etc. that people bored of development can get into.

I'm burnt out on programming, mostly because I find joy in business and doing good. I have very little joy in my current job, but I do it because it's my job. I would leave, but I have a family, I don't have income to replace it yet. I want my own successful business, and I'm here to hopefully on HN learn more about that.

I think it would be interesting for someone to do a survey on programming burnout. I know some former programmers, so I know there would be more than people think out there.
This is really cool! I can't wait to come back and give it a proper read through. Hurry on weekend :)
"However, after some time doing it professionally, it loses its fun-ness."

I'd claim this applies to any hobby turned into a profession.
> Nonetheless, my experiences with US (university) classrooms have generally been positive. As long as it's relevant to the topic of discussion, students are free to pose a wide range of ideas without fear of social or academic reprisal.

In university, yes, after 13 years of the exact opposite.
You are a bit late...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Bitcoin_by_country
It's an amusing exercise, but for actual practical use, the right solution is to share make's jobserver. If you have a build rule that wants to run multiple things in parallel, put + in front of the command, and then your command will receive the file descriptors for the jobserver pipe on the command line. Then, when you want to start a parallel job, do a blocking read of a byte from the read fd, and when you're done with that job, write a byte to the write fd.
Since moving from NYC to Boulder I've become much more aware of the sources of my food.

I've begun purchasing beef in bulk from a farm down the street from my house, trading crock-pot meals with co-workers who have chickens, asking where meat comes from in a restaurant, etc...

I've noticed this pattern with other transplants as well. Perhaps we're genuinely interested in creating a better future?

Nah....it's the pot :).
English wasn't the main language of commerce or science until about 100 years ago. Before then, French and German were pretty dominant, if I'm not mistaken.
Didn't the almost exact same thing happen 2 weeks ago? A plane did a nose dive (but that time recovered) - or ?
- SubtleTV plays trending videos from Reddit and other sites in a continuous stream. Users can see what’s popular across subreddits or within specific topics.

- SubtleTV is designed to make it easy to find related content. Users can see videos other users recommend, and easily watch more from that subreddit or author without interrupting your viewing experience.

This has been a project of mine for a while now. I'd love to hear feedback about the UI and features from fresh eyes.

Thanks in advance!
> the market can never afford to marginalize any individual or effort, via political means, that could threaten a working business model.

Isn't the 20th century sorta proof of the opposite?
> Why do we use such large networks then? For a given trained neural net, there might be a much smaller one that does the same thing, but in practice, it's difficult to get the same performance by training a smaller network.

Also, because it's cheap to run a network with a billion parameters. Lots of real-world applications are constrained not by compute, but by size of the training set.
Mobile browser hiding the URL makes this approach work almost too well.
It's a brutally honest look at the shortcomings of a startup backed by a product, that seriously, looks to be at least decent.

Their intent is to get you to convert, but instead of giving the usual flowery bullshit, they make you laugh.

Fine, I'll try it.
Anything that you can do with a calculator you can do/demonstrate in Desmos.
I think this company made me laugh and destroyed their brand in one shot.

I'm not sure what to think, especially considering this is a legitimate product.
Yeah, gotta agree here. I've lost a significant amount of weight, which I've talked about before, and I never had to resort to anything that horrific sounding.

Here's my advice for quick cheap healthy meals: get a microwave steamer. Throw frozen veggies and meat bits (I use Morningstar brand fake-meat strips but I assume real meat equivalents exist). Takes about ten minutes to make a meal, you can mix up the vegetables and any sauces you want to use on the whole thing.
Shameless plug for https://ultimatemealplans.com - all meals are 15 minutes and 5 ingredients.

Supports paleo, keto, AIP, banting and general real food "clean" diets.

You can calorie count within these, but focusing on food quality and satiety helps a majority of the people fix the mentality side of fixing what they put in their mouth.
I don't own a Tesla (nor do I plan to buy one soon), but I have seriously considered it in no small part due to my disgust with dealerships and how they obviously are against the consumers interest.
I'd like to second this question.

I've thought about producing demo/stub apps on a similar basis but my lack of marketing expertise/foresight/interest has been a real blocker. I'm curious to hear how you got into this project, when it started to become a business interest, when you decided it was 'failed' (I note these target iOS 7, but hope all is not lost with iOS 8)
I used to complain about JS a lot, and from an OO standpoint it is annoying, but after I started getting more into functional programming, I started to like JS more and more.

Although a shorter function syntax with default-return on everything would make it a lot nicer (and more similar to LISP).
Why? You assume that little experience with Haskell is not enough to make conclusions about its productivity. I disagree with this assumption, I think you can sometimes make a moderately confident conclusions from little experience. And I understand I can be wrong of course.
Once Airtel gets going, others will follow the path.
Keep a commit streak. My current streak is at 153 days[1]. I've seen that I have grown as a developer, learning new languages and writing better code. It's awesome that git quantifies commits and puts it on a graph. I've adapted this from Seinfeld's productivity strategy and has played a large part in my streak[2].

[1] http://github.com/xasos

[2] http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
No one? It is an open standard originally created by Apple.
Source? Politifact rates that False.
> If Apple thinks the violent content on Parler is out of control and needs moderation, isn't that Apple's own decision?

Apple/Google are utility level companies and effectively control almost all of the apps/phones OS in a majority of US citizens smart phones.

This leads to a really slippery slope where what if you as an individual say something people in power do not like? You get fired thats for sure, then Chase your bank de-platforms you, you can no longer use their banking services(they have a right to remove you as customer like you said right?) or Verizon says they can no longer have you as customer as well? So you no longer can communicate electronically, or do banking. Lets go further, say Google shuts off your gmail account, you are basically put into the stone age for exercising a right guaranteed to you by the 1st amendment. Scary stuff and we are heading towards this dystopia sooner than you think.
This power has been used in ways I disagree with since before Trump ran for office. I still prefer a rules-based society to anarchy.

However, I also prefer anarchy to oligarchy: People have even specifically demonstrated that Trump was receiving special privileges which prevented him from being banned, and they did so by getting themselves banned for tweeting copies of his tweets.
This spirit of the law? No the law says the government can’t infringe on some ones right to free speech. Twitter isn’t the government, it is a private company. Your type can yell till your face is blue about this stupid public square argument but that doesn’t make it true. Do you have the right to go into the biggest restaurant in your town and yell and instigate a riot and then complain about getting kicked out?
It is accurate to say BLM incited riots? I'll counter with this: BLM organized protests which were peaceful and then bad actors incited riots. What happened on the Capitol was not peaceful from the outset--people came up, climbed the wall, broke through the entryway, took a podium, etc.--they started it.
Here's a couple elementary examples that are useful:

f[x_Integer]:=x^2

Basically the pattern for the argument of f must match the pattern _Integer, which means that the argument is an integer. If the pattern does not match, then it stays in an unevaluated form; you could have it throw an error by having an extra pattern f[_]:=Assert[False] or whatever.

f[x_] /; x>2 := x^2

Same, but in this case only if x>2.

Basic symbolic manipulation:

Sin[x^2 + x + 2] /. x->3

Evaluate at x=3.

θ^2/r /. {r -> Sqrt[x^2 + y^2], θ -> ArcTan[x, y]}
One more fix... if you have group names with spaces this will throw the field number off and you'll see the modification time preceding the mark name.

Adding '-n' to the ls command works around this by causing the group id to be printed instead of the group name and all works, i.e.:
\ls -ln "$MARKPATH" | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- | awk -F ' -> ' '{printf "%-10s -> %s\n", $1, $2}'
iOS and Android are largely for consumer devices

Gee, when have we heard this before. Oh, yes: when the iPhone was released.
Maybe I'm a little jaded, but isn't feedback "your copy is confusing, doesn't explain the project or why I should support it" sufficiently actionable advice?

If you really care about this project, I recommend taking the initiative on everything instead of waiting for someone to give you the answers.
Now that they're shutting it down, I would love to hear your thoughts as founder on why delicious didn't live up to its potential.
They did try to standardise the test formats, but the big companies (who didn't actually want interoperability) just turned it into a big XML snowjob, subverting the standardising groups in a similar way to Microsoft's OOXML debacle.

There is some interoperability, mostly because the open systems like Moodle reverse-engineer stuff. I believe some of the systems now encrypt their output to prevent this, which is absolutely shocking to me, but typical of big corporate software which is what these big players are.
Great! It just lacks an option for case-insensitive search.
never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting.

It's a shame they didn't, because many of us users sure did/do. By virtue of its popularity and simplicity, you could know almost every page with any merit was in its system and tagged, making it easy to discover stuff you hadn't even bookmarked yet.

Example: Want a good Python tutorial about threads? http://www.delicious.com/tag/python+threads+tutorial - You can pretty much pull things out of your ass and constantly find gold on there. Yahoo has no spine.
I guess I just don't believe the legal transmission of factual information can ever properly be labeled "vigilantism," especially when its recipient is a legal authority or someone who might be liable for the bad behavior reported. Is informing an employer of an employee's unsafe driving vigilantism? Because the actors in that case have analogous financial and moral roles as the ones in this.
My mom knows what delicious is. That's pretty mainstream in my book.
Why not create a DNS webhop?
It has got to have happened at least a few times. Since the stakes are high (life/death) the risk gets blown out of proportion.
It goes up a penny every 10 users (see here: http://pinboard.in/help/fee/)

Right now it's 6.97, so at least 50 signups since the parent (~$350 in revenue in 20 minutes)
Yup, "The service is not available. Please try again later."
Oh I know how to implement it, I was just responding to your claim that it was "an implementation detail of JavaScript functions." It's an implementation detail of method calls, the function itself is completely this-agnostic. I guess I was just being pedantic ;)
Interestingly, when the big banks were caught laundering drug cartel money they only had to pay fines a fraction of the amount laundered.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-31/money-laundering-ba...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-t...

In March 2010 Wachovia cut a deal with the US government which involved the bank being given fines of $160 million under a ”deferred prosecution” agreement. This was due to Wachovia’s heavy involvement in money laundering moving up to $378.4 billion over several years. Not one banker was prosecuted for illegal involvement in the drugs trade. Meanwhile small time drug dealers and users go to prison.