jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I know of several people that had their account suspended that way (because they used copyright-infringing artwork or music or whatever).

From what they told me, it's a "three strikes" policy, very much like what the original poster said: they warn you once, very vaguely, that your software infringes a section of their policies.

If you try a second time, they refer to some subsection of the policies (still pretty vague, but pointing in that direction).

And if by the third time you don't clean up your act, suspension.

It would be nice if they said "you're using copyrighted material" or something to the effect, but that's Google for you :( . It actually seems in the poster's case they were a bit more specific.

There are still plenty of apps using copyrighted material out there, I guess it depends on the copyright holder and/or their lawyers.

Edit: that (alleged) three strikes policy is per account, not per app, so if he had 2 previous rejections, and only one for that app, they're unforgiving.
This resonates with me. I don't think you could successfully put banner video ads on Facebook's main page without a serious backlash.

It makes sense -- on facebook, the user is providing the content. Facebook just organizes and connects it. With most other sites, they are producing content. People will sell their attention to access content produced professionally. I don't think they'll do that for content that is user generated (and so clearly user generated).
They make it sound like all copies of the public domain book are being restricted. But reading the article it sounds like only the access to the repository's copy is restricted.
Just because something is in the public domain doesn't mean I have to give it away for free.
Also considering this:

"Android Jumps Past iOS in Overall U.S. Smartphone Usage"

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1143384
Try saving a marked up document as JSON.
Then again, most sports coverage is like that.
Thanks daimyoyo. If you're learning Python, have you checked out Zed Shaw's http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ ? It's a solid resource for people with no prior programming experience.

That said... please feel free to get a hold of me with any thoughts, criticisms, problems, or praise with Hackety. There's a reason it's not 1.0 yet, and feedback is the only way I can make it better.
What do people see as the pros and cons of publicly discussing that you have a YC interview?

If they get rejected, now every investor they talk to, etc. knows for a fact that they got rejected from YC. That may not be a situation they'd be happy with.
Embrace the fear, use it to do something better.
Unless your OpenID provider is you. Which it can be. Which is not possible with username+password.

It's also about not having to trust the site owner to not misuse your password or release it or get hacked, which has happened before (though not to me). Loads of people use the same password on their email as they do on website-X, however stupid that may be. This is essentially giving website-X access to your entire identity, as nearly everything is keyed around your email account. Identity theft, here we come; already a tens-of-billions-of-dollars industry in USA alone.

Instead, you choose who you want to trust with that information. Your OpenID provider. And you restrict your logins to 1, instead of N, making it far simpler to use a more secure login for even the most computer-inept.
Only when I actually log in, which is... uhhhh... damn near never, actually. The situation has marginally improved, but it's still "everyone" (big and important) wants to be a provider, "nobody" is willing to be a consumer.

Believe me, I'm not claiming OpenID is teh awesome. I'm just saying that certain criticisms can be mitigated if you are in control of a web page. As claims go, this isn't very strong.
Unlikely. Celsius degrees provide quite practical numbers that are easy to relate to: 0 = freezing, 20 = room temperature, 16-25 = range of pleasant but not too hot outside temperatures (tastes will vary), 37 = body temperature, >40 = too hot, 100 = boiling water. Although my room thermostat allows itself to be set to half-degrees, not all thermostats do, and you don't really need those in practice. On the other hand, I see Fahrenheit numbers often being used like 60s, 70s or 80s, which seems to indicate that Fahrenheit has a bit too much detail.

It is really a matter of what you are used to.
Even if they do it for the PR, what's the harm? It just encourages even more companies to try to out play Apple and more companies to follow suit. I really don't see any harm - I think it actually helps more companies from doing good gesture. This is also quite surprising coming from me because usually I am very cynical.
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Every once in a while — certainly not often — I’ll be looking out the window, and I’ll think, I feel pretty good. My bills are paid, my wife is healthy, the weather’s nice. That’s really all I care about: when, apropos of nothing, I happen to look out the window and think, This is good.
"

For a person who doesn't get zen. He has it at times it seems.
A chemist's blog took a look at the drugs mentioned in Neuromancer. He speculates about the nature of the surgery to put in a new pancreas and "liver plugs".

> Here Gibson quite clearly took artistic license with his chemistry, and I don’t necessarily blame him. Beta-phenethylamine refers to an extremely broad class of compounds (of which amphetamines are the best-known members), similar to how “tropane alkaloids” does.

http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2018/04/16/the-chemistry-of-wi...
Kids these days have so many awesome tools at their disposal. Thanks for sharing!
Just tell him you're going to wait to see if he's successful and then sue him and take half of it. That should bring him back to the discussion table ;-)

Really though you guys need to sign a legal agreement dissolving the partnership and specifying who owns what. Otherwise neither of you can re-use any of the existing IP safely.
If getting the insurance will prohibit you from starting - then why not just skip it and protect yourself personally through an LLC/Corporation structure. If the business gets sued it would go down due to lack of litigation insurance, but that's a risk <100% whereas failing due to not starting is = 100%.

not a lawyer
If the prices of energy go sky-high every time there’s a supply crunch, that’s a good thing for the investor, is it not? Am I missing something here? What is supposed to be the incentive to avoid that situation exactly?

You double your investment, and profit falls. Or, you invest nothing, and rake in the cash. Great plan. I just don’t understand why they expected anything else to happen. Markets are not magical unicorns, they’re just one way among many to set prices, sometimes they’re the best way, sometimes not. Conservatives deify capitalism to the point of absurdity.
True. They issued Palm-Pilots at West Point as well. They were hardly used and often lost.
There is absolutely nothing competitive about coordinating about moderation policies.

If Twitter and Facebook software engineers were coordinating about what rules to define in their respective orgs for a company-wide JavaScript linter then that would not be considered anti-competitive.

That is precisely what content moderation policies are — rules to prevent filthy code from perpetuating. Filthy code can sometimes come in the form of incitements to violence. Other times it’s a recursive function with no base case.
The problem with most methods to improve ref counting speed is that it generally breaks existing C extensions. For that reason alone, I don't expect cpython to significantly change its way of doing things in that area for a long time.
Chocolate also has caffeine, which may be what’s keeping you up.
Zeihan is an interesting counterweight to the "America is a declining empire" crowd of analysts, but IMO he goes too far in the other direction even while he makes some good points. This article doesn't even feel objective to me - it feels like a paroxysm of America-worship.

Statements like "America has a near-infinite capacity to act, a near-immunity to blowback, and a near-zero concern for consequence" are silly given that there are multiple independent nuclear powers in the world which are capable of striking the US mainland.
Yes, things we so much better in the 20th century before the Fed existed. A glorious time when President Ayn Rand enacted a flat tax. No currency crises ever occurred, no wars were fought and no social programs stole our money to give away to poor people.
Thanks, good links but you don't demonstrate (though I presume in your case its the case, otherwise you made a poor decision) to what extent you lose clicks by stopping vs. the money you waste by bidding on your brand.
I couldn't find the original but this gets into it a bit:

Using Orleans to Build Halo 4’s Distributed Cloud Services in Azure
http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2014/3-641
I think you would be surprised if you took the time to learn about the differences between these systems. Some of them are closer to the US than they are to each other.
>How does this relate to various tribes native to hotter parts of the planet, that like to walk bare-ass all the time? How much of is it biological, and how much is it cultural?

There's an underlying premise here that "cultural doesn't really matter" or that we should just do what's a biological necessity.

As humans, we do most things because of cultural reasons, or in other words, because we collectively came up with some rules/trends/fashions/etc. We're not mice or ants to just do stuff because of biological imperatives.
It works with the bash shell that comes with git for windows
That's not to hard to do on your end, but it would be asking a lot of a free website: they'd have to actually download and pick apart the file.
Yes, those silly people with bad vision.
I get that, from your perspective, this is a forgivable thing.

But if I'm Google or Rackspace, and I'm reading about this process from your side, I have to be asking myself "why am I paying these clowns?"

Hiring is one of the most important things companies do. If they are this disorganized, and if their cultural commitment to hiring is so poor that people are regularly brought in and interviewers are not present or available or confused about why either of you are there, then there is a huge amount of waste going on and there's a huge amount of missed opportunities.

I don't know you, but let's assume you are really good at what you do (and going by the number of people you had recommending you, you're probably pretty good at what you do). The fact of the matter is that Google totally missed the boat here and burned a lot of extra money in the process. Beyond that, for the two years or so that they were jerking around, you could have been a part of the team, making solid contributions. Instead, you were elsewhere making solid contributions that they may have had to defend against. So, the real waste is in the opportunity cost.

What I'm getting at is, if I'm a senior executive at one of these companies, I have to be looking at my hiring process and going "WTF?". Because that's what it deserves. Something is seriously broken and it is potentially a strategic threat.
Actually, I'd wager otherwise. It'll be for psychics. Keen.com was this (voice only, all experts) back in the 90s. Ended up being entirely psychics.
Yeah, those are definitely all possible. I would have preferred to use personal income but it's not available via the API, and I figured that using household income was better than nothing.
What a bunch of pedantic garbage. The Japanese were willing to commit to total war to defend their right to conquer and massacre Chinese people and Pacific islanders and surprise-bomb the USA while they were at it. The only significant debate about the A-Bomb is whether it was more or less deadly than an invasion of mainland Japan. Any fourth grade history student would understand this.

When people talk about the decline of HN, I think it's this sort of information-free, pointlessly contrary posts that they talk about.
I stand corrected! I swear last time I checked in you were using OVH's network...or maybe it was some other France-based company!

I would actual be more inclined to use you now that I know you* don't use OVH...There's no love lost between me and them
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467892
No way. Having your own static IP can get very expensive. Dyndns is a horrific pita. Fiddling with routers is annoying. No serious developer is judged by a client on any of these things. And none I have ever worked with as an indie developer (like an $8 billion/yr company who depends on software I built every day) would ever care or even ask about any of those things. One's professionalism is not determined by these things. I made a lot of money as a serious developer without any client caring or knowing if I had a domain, static IP, etc. But I made stuff work, and that's all that ever matters.
You'll often have NAT to deal with as well, and have to set up explicit port forwards to your local device (and give it a static IP address) in your routers.
I think this would be easier if:

- You could click a font's name to set it as the fallback font for that element,

- and to display the selector that font applies to (I assume you're getting this from the CSS).

However, this is a very useful tool, and saves having to pop them out by hand; kudos.
i think you're talking about console gaming perhaps, xbox and wii use powerpc variants, but ps3 uses the cell processor and nds uses an arm processor. in terms of mobile gaming, powerpc is nowhere to be found, this is owned by arm. in terms of pc gaming, intel and their we're-not-totally-a-monopoly division, amd, own that realm. though arm is starting to make inroads into low powered servers so it'd be interesting to see where this goes in the long run.
The impact of a repeated CBC IV is less significant than that of a repeated CTR nonce, so in that respect CBC is more conservative. CTR is the better choice for modern code, but the security implications are a coinflip difference.
From what I have heard, they are not. They are literally going full speed ahead moving all of their infrastructure (aside of streaming) over to AWS.
Thanks, I'll make sure to have a look at those, state by state!
What a brilliant kid. I'm only 21 right now, but I look forward to the day I can bring new life (and accordingly hope/intelligence) into this world.

Inspiring.
As I understand it, IMAP is bolted on to gmail so labeling is never quite right in any client.
Do they offer a “business” connection? Often costs more for the same cable but is unmetered and comes with a static IP.
Lol. But the author is also using Fathom on that same site, not sure I understand the need for both The Beast and Fathom.
> The model authors have since argued that the data was correct, but people responded to the pandemic by changing the way we live. That's OP point: that feedback cycles and corrections exist and they make modeling dynamic systems very difficult.

Were they actually so naïve that their model did not allow for the possibility that human beings change their behavior in fear of death by pandemic?
Accidental electrocutions are brief.

In the chair you are looking at a minimum of about 90 seconds of agony, which some taking in excess of 10 minutes.
The mention of hydrogen in the headline made me think they were talking about nickel-hydrogen batteries, but this article is actually about nickel-iron batteries. Not sure why they made such a big deal about the hydrogen production as it is an undesirable side reaction that lowers the efficiency of the cell and creates a fire hazard.
Really? Seems like a problem for the site & server itself rather than WooCommerce. Is there any evidence for this?
I completely aced the national math exam to enter university. Bringing a vintage HP-15C was one of the key reasons. They forbade alphanumeric and graphing calculators to avoid students storing text or plotting functions.

But they didn't know that non-alphanumeric / graphing calculators can still implement sophisticated numerical methods. And in case the calculator doesn't have whatever you need, it can always be programmed.

I used these algorithms to verify huge linear algebra and calculus problem solutions. Plus, learning RPN makes calculating a pleasure and can motivate the student to understand other CS concepts. The 15C or the 42S are great choices.
Aren't you saying pretty much the same thing? Upgrading from a 10 year old AP almost certainly means upgrading to 802.11ac since Wifi6 AP's are so rare.

I don't know when 802.11ac AP's became common, but the first iPhone to support it was the iPhone 6 in 2014.
> It must be one of the best selling novelty products of all time.

Indeed it is. As I mentioned in my comment, I own three of these novelty products. My post wasn't really intended as a knock of the RPI foundation, despite the fact that it's been read that way.

> Can you provide a source where "open hardware" was touted as an ideal for the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

I never presented it as an ideal for the RPI foundation. It's the ideal for hardware tinkerers, and the fact that RPI isn't really friendly to that market undermines the idea that hardware tinkering is the Pi's niche. That's the overall point of my comment: the Raspberry Pi doesn't really have a niche.

That said, they did brag on their blog back in 2012 that "the BCM2835 used in the Raspberry Pi is the first ARM-based multimedia SoC with fully-functional, vendor-provided (as opposed to partial, reverse engineered) fully open-source drivers, and that Broadcom is the first vendor to open their mobile GPU drivers up in this way." I think it's fair to say that this seemed like more of a priority in the past, and many of the geeky people who initially jumped on the Raspberry train were hoping to see it move more in that direction. (I was one of them: I was spamming the refresh button when the Pi was released to try to get one.)

There's also, I suspect, a bit of frustration from the open source hardware community towards RPI for capitalizing / cannibalizing that market. For example, this Ars article [1] refers to "the open source nature of Raspberry Pi (even the schematics are online!)", which we all know is untrue, of course.

Anyway, I guess I was just airing a few frustrations here. The Raspberry Pi is fun to play with, and the community is great (if you stay far away from the official forums). It's just that it's a bit of a jack of all trades, and isn't really ideal for any of the purposes I'd think to use it for.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/raspberry-pi-4-uses-...
Good luck with the launch!

I've been DIY'ing exactly this full time over the last year. Rolling out my own system using Polygon and IEXCloud for market data, DolphinDB and Shakti for time series processing, and Pandas/Dask for verification and parameter optimization.

I totally underestimated the magnitude of the problem, so I'm really looking forward to trying Enombic.

Given my frustration with the DIY approach, I started evaluating some prosumer tools a couple of weeks ago. One of them uses Morningstar data, and the other uses FactSet data. They are in the $100-$200/month range. I had some decent success building statistically sound models to the point where I'm considering dumping my DYI toolset and pay for a ready-made solution.

One of the alternatives has an active forum and community that even sells subscriptions to the user models. I bet you can tap this for your own good. I won't share their names here to avoid crashing your launch, but I'm happy to chat over email if you want to learn more.

Some of the questions that I'd ask myself before putting my savings on autopilot on a system like Enombic are:

1. Where is fundamental and price data sourced from? Is it free from survivorship bias? Is it point in time?
2. Can users backtest/simulate their ideas? How do you help users from curve fitting their models?

Anyhow, I'm on the waiting list now and would love to evaluate Enombic and give you my feedback.
How do you expect Indian Physicists to get employment by building toilets ? Or by going around with begging bowls to Germany and collect some food. Your argument is so much racist in multitude of ways, why the heck there is Royal Society of Science when there was poverty in London in 1800s. May be India has no right to build labs till all Indians are fed ? FYI, India produces more grain than it consumes the problem is logistical, economical and political. There is no wide spread hunger deaths, even though abject poverty is a reality. Having a mars program or science lab is not stopping India from resolving these issues. Please just go away, when you have no idea what you are talking about. There are 47 million people on food stamps in america and 1 in 3 children in US go hungry at night. So may be we should close NASA and Stanford and wait till this problem is resolved.

Correction: My 1 in 3 was based on ads of North Texas food bank, apparently it is incorrect. As others replied it is close to 1 in 5.
Why is that a footgun? If it just piped the output to stdout, then to convert a file, you then have to

$ dos2unix file >x
$ mv x file

In my mind, overwriting the file is the Right Thing.
>Making you do an extra allocation is a bad way to do that. And the only way I can think of to avoid that would give up having the function be generic.

Sure, if you want to optimize that, then create your "foo" string with the extra capacity instead of doing `"foo".to_string()`, eg `{ let foo = String::with_capacity("foo".len() + "bar".len()); foo.push_str("foo"); foo }`. It has nothing to do with the generic `add` function; it can stay generic as it is just fine. Even a function specialized for adding String and &str could not go back in time and change how much capacity the String was created with.

Edit (1h later): It's also worth noting that:

- This desire of `Add::add(&str, &str) -> String` only seems to come up with people learning the language and bringing expectations from other languages. I've never seen production code that would've benefitted from it.

- As much as the ship has sailed with libstd functions hiding allocations via the global allocator where you may not expect them, the less new cases get added the better. So I'd rather not have `impl Add<&'_ str> for &'_ str { type Output = String; }` added to libstd.

- If you really do have two str literals that you want to concatenate, just use `concat!()`. Not only does it work, but also it works at compile-time and without any allocation (it evaluates to a `&'static str`).
Your link doesn't say that at all.

And the IPCC model didn't predict the "warming hiatus" of the mid-2010's. Which apparently now never happened?
> Both. We're not even close to our limits on research capacity.

Really? From the outside it seems to me like we are beyond our limits on research capacity.

The progress seems to be slowing down everywhere while the price per discovery of a new drug skyrockets with many having rather disappointing efficacy (high NNTs).
Imo the original WoW flight paths were the best. Allowed you to travel far within reasonable time, while not giving you a drop point in nevery nook and cranny. You had to actively think about which way to choose to get from anywhere to anywhere: "Is it faster if I go a little back and fly closer to my destination, walking the rest? Or do I run directly?". I think it was Cataclysm that placed gryphon masters everywhere, what a shame that was..