jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you might be right. I don't know. My gut is, no. But, for what it's worth, here's the current app store lists:

Featured, New:

* Apple Remote - control iTunes & such from phone.

* Path - the social network.

* Airbnb - the iPhone interface to the rental service.

* ComicStrip CS - a comic strip creation app.

* Edmunds - car ratings.

* Pushpin - grocery coupons on your phone (incidentally: what a great idea! Wish I'd thought of this.)

Featured, Hot:

* Pageonce Bills - track your bills (Comcast, etc) on your phone.

* Cinch - an A/V microblogging app.

* Steinway Metronome - a metronome.

* MotionX GPS Drive - turn-by-turn GPS

* Instagram - the very famous photo sharing app

Top, Paid

* TuneIn Radio - AM/FM from 40,000 stations

* Food Network In The Kitchen - iPhone FoodTV recipes

* Perfect Photo - photo touchup

* Color Splash - another photo manipulation app

Top, Free

* Google Voice

* Doodle Buddy Premium - a drawing app

* Facebook

* The Find - price comparisons

(Top free is just dominated by games).

Utilities, Top Paid

* Perfect Photo

* Skyfire - Flash video browser

* Barcode Scanner

* Alarm Clock Pro

* Splashtop Remote Desktop

* Flashlight

* Battery Management (BTW, the closest thing I see here to one of those maintenance apps that seems to top the Android list)

* Craigslist Pro (our version of that Craigslist notification app)

* 5-0 Pro - Police scanner

This is today's snapshot. These are not the killer iPhone apps (with the possible exception of Instagram). This is just the noise you'd have to beat with one of those Android apps to have a shot at being an iPhone killer app.
This is becoming a religious war like vi/emacs spectrum/c64 , i think that everyone should use the phone that needs or wants. Find the apps you like or need and choose the phone stop talking about it like if it's a matter of life. I think we all know Gruber has embraced the Cupertino church , that's his choice. If you don't like it don't read him, at least when his talking about how good are Apple products and how wise is the word from the prophet Jobs. If someone finds a good app is good to read about it, but to make it a song about how good is a platform i think is childish.
You mean graphene...?
Would love justification on the downvote. They mention they're noobs on the topic, and this is very noob friendly.
Do you know when the Durex logo was done? I can't find the date. I am wondering who influenced who.
this is written by mickey shalayeff, a former, long-time openbsd developer.
False comparison to ES.Next. Once you accept cross compiling as a premise for Dart the comparison is to every other innovative/productive language out there.
You're giving the producers and distributors far too much credit.
No. :) From my experience, working such jobs, you put on a "diaper selling mask" to shield yourself from the blows. Some people get really angry when you call. Unless you're a total sociopath it's a job that gets you depressed if you do it for to long.
I've used Twistypedia to learn about such roads https://www.twistypedia.com/
In fairness, the course was a course in FPGAs, so it was part of the requirement, but I take your point. I happened to find the project when looking for some FPGA resources and thought it was pretty awesome :)
I would have raised it and got it corrected.

Titles are not worth much anyway; one more reason to insist on your title being what agreed.
The title is something you can spend (on your CV, in your relationships with other colleagues).

Also, look around and see if you can get a better role somewhere else. No reason not to switch seeing how they're treating you.
That "the article" was https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brain-typical....

(We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740085 hither.)
Correction: industries without an irreducible reliance on labour haven't seen productivity surges.
Excellent suggestion. That was a great post by Steve, and I can see his points. I especially love the answer to the C++ question ;-)

However, I ask you, please revisit this post in 20 year, when you've run the gamut of jobs, startups, and made a ton of money, and then ask yourself, "Did I ever really use any of the knowledge I gained in my compiler design and application courses?

You already know the answer will be "no".

I'm not saying it's not important for some people. For some, it's truly foundational and life changing. For others, it's a complete waste of time, and I'm not saying that to one-up or make myself seem super-hero-like. It's just the way it is.

How am I qualified to make such statements? I have coded assembly by hand since the 6502 and Z80 processors came out, since before there were compilers, and I'd happily list projects I've done in assembler if there's interest.

Cheers
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Because a $55 Samsung 1TB drive is 80% as fast as a SSD ?

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/common_drives.html (HD103SJ)

I actually use the 500gb model @ $40 each, I have three that I rotate for full backups which take only 1 hour with a sector-to-sector based copy.

But seagate just bought samsung so best stock up on these drives soon as they are sure to disappear.
Or more customizable: http://boodler.org/
Google needs designers? Wow.
Recent developments allow for efficient consumption of small replicas of big ideas. However if youre seeing life through these summaries and replicas then I think youre losing the work ethic required to create the big ideas.
My French father-in-law who racks up hundreds of kilo-airmiles a year refuses to fly Air France because of CDG (he prefers Lufthansa).
One ought to be able to consult a lawyer or ombudsman during these attacks on your civil rights.

You haven't committed any crime. Who's supposed to be serving who here?
Car salesman are Dishonest.

At last here, more than half of car sales man are of arab origin.

Hence that made me laugh and I do not feel like I'm a racist.
We'll come and find you haha
> Roughly 20% of those who catch COVID19 will require hospitalization. Of those, 20% will require ICU treatment.

Where do you get these numbers from? California has about 50k new cases per day, with probably another 50k cases that were not tested. According to your stats 20k people will require hospitalization and 5k will require an ICU bed per day.
> do you want a private corporation to dictate whether or not the government of the United States is able to communicate to the citizens?

The US govt doesn't need Twitter to communicate with its citizens.
We all know this, but the simple thing to assume is this is an html file.
I think it's a lot of little things.

- Blender came out of commercial, and the community was never really anti-commercial. Lots of classic FOSS communities have trouble identifying with paid development for example, worrying it will lead to a form of classicism in the community, etc. Blender, OTOH, tried to make sure there's core staff doing it fulltime basically from the get-go, I think. This makes a lot of stuff happen - taking care of not-fun things, having stable contact points, professionalism, doing good fundraising, etc.

- Blender took dogfooding seriously, with their open movie projects

- Blender took user research seriously, running events and inviting artists over and watching them use the software

- Blender did good community management, with Blender Artists and other initiatives

- In Blender's area integration, automation, tooling are all very complex, and they made some good key decisions, e.g. adopting Python for scripting just when Python was becoming the default programming language for non-programmers

- Because the application domain Blender is in is so complex, training is important, and the competition probably underestimated making their products affordable for teaching institutions (call me out if wrong, I am not as confident on this point). Blender supported creation of training materials pretty well, too

They simply got a lot of things right. Projects that paid attention (e.g. Krita) are also blossoming.
It's very easy to make a throwaway SQLite in-memory database for processing... not so much for a traditional RDBMS.
Why didn't you just put that link in your first comment?
Apologies to you but I was referring to commenters on this thread, not your post. Specifically, the 9/11 stuff. I should have replied to those directly, but was disgusted.

My apologies once again because it has nothing to do with you.
So every down vote is a +1 for bringing back the vote count display, right? Or was the subtlety that thick?
Even LGPL is a pretty steep price for the value being offered. The LGPL requires that is it possible to substitute a modified version of the library, which can be a logistical problem. Do you really want to have to link your malloc() as a shared library? How do you let the user substitute inline functions? What do you do when people start bugging you because they weren't able to substitute a modified version of the library due to some technical edge case?

Too much legal baggage for such a small piece of functionality.
I don't think anyone can argue with is, and it may be stating the obvious for some. But as an example, I found myself recently effectively running my company's web-dev arm of the business, which meant doing pre-sales and proposals as well as having to concentrate on the actual coding and web-dev activities. I simply had to remove myself from the environment I was in (open plan office with 10 other helpdesk guys as well as sales guys constantly talking) find a desk with a window and a view, and no harsh air-con or server noises (and no other people!). I had found my zone.
I believe that "mouse" may be a Pika, a real animal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika
Do you mean Chrome or the Chromecast? The Chromecast totally ignores network-configured DNS and uses 8.8.8.8. The Chrome browser has its own DNS client, but it doesn't phone home to Google DNS - it still uses the DNS servers configured by the OS.
I get into it by telling my self its time to get it done and then continue to do it. Everything else people use is a crutch of some sort. HN is turning into a cesspool.
> forces don't exist in relativistic contexts

Yes, they do; the difference in General Relativity is that gravity is not a force, but non-gravitational forces are still there.
Ironic in light of your username, but what the comment you're responding to is talking about is the experience of reality rather than reality itself.

In the context of learning, and of survival, it's counterproductive for the brain to spend time and energy on outliers instead of what is consistent. The brain has a lot of innate capabilities at birth, but whatever reality the person experiences shapes them, whether it be language or culture. And unless the experience is traumatic, isolated instances get subsumed under the volume of everyday experience -- outliers are noise and repetition is signal.
It could be, but the broader frustration is that these factors you cite aren't even researched on a local level.

You say the trains run on time in Japan, and people don't respond by researching transit infrastructure in Japan to figure out why that is. They respond by throwing their hands in the air and staying it's impossible, unfundable, politically untenable, whatever fluff reason that's indicative of an unwillingness to think analytically about the problem.

The underlying cause is that there is no thought or scholarship in local government, just electoral risk assessment.
I wasn't making a moral argument about the uh, merits, of child pornography, but rather the practical effects of trying to police patterns of bits stored on private computers and transmitted between consensual peers. This level of complexity is relevant, as it describes the scope of the activity, and implies what is required to actually control it.

If most child pornography enthusiasts are caught due to having their computer fixed at Best Buy, have you actually criminalized viewing child pornography, or would it be more appropriate to say that you've criminalized patronizing Best Buy? As stated, that's obviously hyperbolic as bona fide CP enthusiasts are an extreme minority. But we can imagine tripping up innocent people with the letter of the law (eg botnets, teen sexting, unregistered pornography), as well as similar dynamics around much more common "patterns of bits" like say pirated Hollywood movies.
There are also the White pages duplicates. Search for a phone number or some digits that resemble a phone number and the first 5 pages of results are all autogenerated reverse lookups under various domains catering to the different plausible personas.
It is at least according to the law, i.e. that you don’t discriminate against protected classes, regardless of why.
They definitely deserve answers, you are right. But jumping to "This was an op and the DC police as a unit were in on it" is approaching wheelhouse of the crazies who instigated this whole debacle. That runaway cascade of believing lots of little things that could be possible is what led to millions believing in dumb stuff like Mole Children being kept as slaves by Hillary Clinton and friends.

Unless something more sinister emerges the simplest explanation is probably the best - there some cops who are far-right sympathisers and there are incompetently managed and organized Police forces. Both of those things are already demonstrably true and explain how the response quite well without introducing a grand conspiracy.
Spacebar does that on Zoom :)

Mute yourself and then hit spacebar. You'll be unmuted until you release

Not sure if this is on by default, by the option for this behavior is in Preferences > Audio > Press and hold 'Space Key' to temporarily unmute

Though tbf, Zoom has to be in focus in order for that to work
Why would the earth speed up? Are we going downhill?
I don't know what the best practice for doing this would be but I would change the default shell from explorer to mstsc (the terminal services/remote desktop client) and disable task manager and internet explorer. I don't think that would perfectly lock it down, but it would do the job for ~90% of use cases.
If the shootout is in a low-light situation, then IR-reflective items light up like xmas lights in NODs.
Snowden's leaks were largely NSA presentation materials. Not implying that Pelosi had TSCI/noforn materials but just saying, being used as presentation doesn't mean much. Especially if it's connected to internal networks.
This was nearly 10 years ago.
You didn't address my point. What about undermining the concept of ownership? You're saying that if I produce a website I should not be allowed to control what is posted there? Who is going to enforce that? I suspect you or your children would regret that sort of thing as well.

Perhaps the issue isn't that black and white.
I understand most of these points completely. The problem I am having is finding the RIGHT cofounder. I have run with my idea for about 18 months now, and I am now just starting to get serious about it from a business stand point. Now I am frantically looking for cofounders to join me but everybody seems like they are missing a key component. A lot of people are "stoked" about the idea and thought of starting their own company and are great to bounce ideas off of, but when it comes down to it they just don’t do the work. I don’t want to settle just to find a cofounder quickly, but I also feel like investors won’t take me as seriously unless I have a founding team.

What do you think?
The statement >>1 hour in a coal mine and you get black lung<< is completely wrong.

By staying in a coal mine for 1 hour you increase the chance of death by 1 micromort, that by definition means if you did that for about a million times you would very probably die. If the average life expectancy is about 613000 hours, and if you spend every living hour in a coal mine you would still live every other lifespan.
The code example he gave in ruby and PHP demonstrate perfectly that the PHP version is verbose (not to mention that the ruby code isn't the most concise one). It could be just me, who, as a develop, is sensitive to every single unnecessary characters in the code, which happens a lot in that couple lines of php code.
That really depends on what you're writing and how you are doing it. How is this php[1] code uglier than this python[2] code?

[1]: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/src/Illumin...
[2]: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/controlle...
Thanks for the suggestions - I signed up for Brennan course and yours. I am on the "interested but not ready" side of consulting and want to learn as much as possible before jumping in. Looking forward to your course!
Working for only a minority equity share seems foolish. I could instead work on my own ideas and keep 100%, and my ideas are better than those of people expecting me to work for equity/revenue share/free.

Other red flags:

Meeting me in a Starbucks.

Asking for an NDA before telling me their stupid idea.

Fixed-price contracts.
It's a superficial and incendiary analogy.
That baseline danger is not negligible. You could read forever on the negative health implications of PAHs, invite you to do a google search. Does that mean the carcinogenicity makes coffee a net unhealthy beverage despite all of its health promoting qualities? Current studies would suggest no. Does carcinogenicity of other consumed roasted foods make them “net unhealthy” rather than not consuming them at all? As per current data, certainly for all types of meat, probably for all other types of roasted or smoked foods, obviously dependent on the amount of roasting/smoking involved.
Negative interest rates doesn't mean no loans are available, it means the central bank is charging banks for the deposits they hold and typically that gets passed along to savers.

One theory behind it is to force savers to spend, by adding a cost to their savings. And to force banks to lend, by adding a cost to their cash holdings.

Something the parent comment doesn't seem to realize, is that having negative interest rates is a sign your economy is not functioning properly. If you have to resort to negative interest rates to keep assets from falling in value, and to drive consumer spending or bank loans, then you're already in deep trouble. Sweden's negative interest rates are likely an indication that a storm is coming for them; were they to raise interest rates it would cause a recession; and if they don't raise interest rates, their real estate bubble will continue to inflate until it explodes. They have to take their medicine one way or another.

Here's a good summary of how it works:

http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/negative-interest-rat...
> Who would pay for it without a reasonable expectation of getting more out than they had to put in?

Perhaps no one, in that sense limiting technological advancement to things that would benefit people.
Yes: Seattle/Portland/Vancouver BC via plane take only about 45 minutes of actual flight time, but 2 hours or so of hassle going through airport nonsense (more if you cross the border).

The drive is two hours, but a waste of gas and time if you're only going for a weekend. Highspeed rail is the perfect intermediate and at a reasonable price (read: $100 or so round trip) would be well more than enough reason to ditch my car for basically all trips greater than 100 miles.

Just because there are some places in the USA where highspeed rail doesn't make sense doesn't mean that argument extends to the whole country.
I didn't say they were unprofitable.
The first time I heard this stat I followed up with the Jenkins Group, the group cited here. I couldn't find anything about it on their site: http://www.bookpublishing.com/ and I tried to contact them for more information but never heard back.

I think it's complete BS.
I really hope SYCL (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYCL) can gain some traction (since Intel also jumped on the GPU competition and are backing a substantial amount of it)
This is why it will always be worth paying inflated salaries for FAANG companies. Taking all the top talent is a moat.
Appsec person here with a potentially unpopular opinion.

I find OWASP guidance generally lags behind latest research by at least a couple of years.

All too commonly the projects seem like CV padding pieces that get abandoned and not updated (I re-iterate, not all OWASP projects, just a lot of them).

If you are developer who wants to learn more about appsec, I’d recommend checking out pentesterlab.com and working through the exercises there.
Imagine having state income tax, couldn't be me.

- A Texan
"I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses" - Michael Crichton

Consensus is not science. Computer Models are not science. Elegant equations are not science. Science is science. Science is testable, repeatable, falsifiable.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122603134258207975
What do you think about doing it sort of like how RSA does their 2fa bits?

Say it worked like this:

You typed in your username, scanned your fingerprint for the rest of the username, and then typed a password / passcode?

That makes it virtually impossible to have username collisions (good) and still uses a password. If you were ultra paranoid, you could use a key fob such as a Yubikey and enter a OTP in addition to the above.
if you have used both, can you go over why someone might want to choose one over the other? I suppose since they share the same file format, it shouldn't be that hard to switch between them.
> So it's totally rational for kids to be more preoccupied with whether joining the right gang will keep them from getting harassed on the way home from school.

There is a reference that I can't dig up right now. Basically, it was talking about if how you diss someone with a stable job/relationship/adult identity - they don't take it that personally because they are 'stable'. But if you diss/disrespect someone from a gang - who has a singular-faceted life of the gang, you may end up paying with your life because you have basically diss'd the person by disrespecting their identity. Even as simple as making eye contact and not breaking it. The gang is their life.
Yes. The key in many ways is the piece of wood used to suppport your forearm at the correct height. As I said before, you want your hands to droop onto the keybaord and trackball. Also, note that the trackball is positioned to be able to hit the "Enter" key on the numeric keypad with minimal motion.

The arm support is sanded down with 800 grit sandpaper and then treated with Tung oil. The edges are generously rounded. This makes it very smooth and comfortable.

I should also note that the underlying structure is welded steel. I tried drop-down trays on conventional desks. They are flimsy and have enough give to make them uncomfortable. The cavity on my desk is strong enough to stand on so it feels very solid during normal use.
Only three? I'm pretty sure I can already count at least 3 UI fads that have come and gone in my Windows 10 install. Somehow it's gotten worse each time... I'm trying not to sound like a grumpy old man but it feels like each revision is more geared towards mobile device users and the product sees a corresponding loss of flexibility and configurability.
See "Effective Altruism" as a topic and the book "Doing Good Better" as a more in-depth exploration of what's being said here [1]. It's really interesting to see how psychology and outcomes are interrelated.

[1] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/doing-good-better/
On the About page: "...requires a huge amount of work to be done, as Apple Silicon is a completely undocumented platform"

It "is" a well-documented platform. I'm hoping that Apple makes it available to the open source community to make Linux on M1 happen sooner than later.
Google is in the middle of refitting the former Westside Pavilion, located at Westwood & Pico, as a new Los Angeles office. The last I'd seen a few months ago, it'd been taken down to the floors and structural risers; all the walls and other partitions are gone, so they'll be able to include natural light however they see fit.