jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having all companies in one location also, to an extent, inhibits each company from growing or fostering its own personal culture. At the very least, their culture changes as a result of being in that environment.

My takeaway is that YC would rather each individual company decide with whom and where to work – it's all in the spirit of encouraging entrepreneurs and not forcing them down a predefined path.
I sympathize. But could you please explain how that email was "auto-generated"? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, I love what dropbox does, I understand the need to protect yourself from people looking to abuse the service, but... come on... was it really autogenerated? I think that is the part that has everyone scratching their heads.
> COMPACT SOLUTIONS LLC 4 SOFTWARE ENGINEER 1801250

> EMORY UNIVERSITY 12 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 794454

> COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC 3 ENGINEER II 308533

Does this surprise anyone else? Wow!
Someone complained that their fork on Github had been summarily deleted: http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-ope...
This isn't Facebook doing "everything", this is Facebook capitalizing on precisely their greatest asset: customer data.

No one is in a better position than Facebook to facilitate group buying. The synergy-meter has burst into flames.
untrackerd routinely wipes iPhone location data on jailbroken iPhones from Cydia.
I've never used google checkout from the merchant side, so I just poked around for a bit. I'll avoid doing the whole lmgtfy thing, but this appears to be what you're looking for:

http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer...

There's also this page, which I found by just clicking "content policies" under the merchant section (look at "fundraising"):

https://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answe...
Why is HN a terrible market?
This is a ridiculous post and can be upvoted only here.
I'm going to need a little more...
Thank you for making this point. I've been going mad trying to explain to friends that, in this case, the money isn't "funding" in the traditional sense. Selling pre-orders is entirely different than receiving funding. In normal funding scenarios, the person providing the capital does so in order to receive some financial benefit in return for risking their money on the project. In this case, you're just pre-ordering various product packages. There is no return on your investment.
1. PHPs popularity is caused by the fact that it is very often the best tool for the job, not by some fluke or accident of history or position.
Yes. Academic research need not be done only at universities. Even industrial labs award PhD degrees and do solid research which is one of the things a PhD trains you for.
I'm very happy with Google Mail Tasks: https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas

Using the great GTasks App (http://www.appbrain.com/app/gtasks/org.dayup.gtask), I always have all notes/tasks perfectly synchronized in my pocket.
It wouldn't make the site easier to maintain. This stuff is all generated by software. All that would change is what the software generated as output.

How much faster would HN pages render if they used "semantically correct markup?"
A phD; you put in time, humanity gets out knowledge. Presumably it's only waste of time if the knowledge humanity gets out wasn't worth the time put in. This article seems to think that a phD is for turning time into money.
Mate, if I lived in Burundi I might have a cuppa local coffee and enjoy the environment. But its not so healthy overdosing in Europe - not just for the locals but for Burundi as well. Its a vicious cycle that will break sooner or later.
The problems of corporate concentration and privacy on the Internet are inextricably linked. A new regime of interoperability can revitalize competition in the space, encourage innovation, and give users more agency over their data; it may also create new risks to user privacy and data security. This paper considers those risks and argues that they are outweighed by the benefits. New interoperability, done correctly, will not just foster competition, it can be a net benefit for user privacy rights.
straight terrible
> Big Media and the apparent massive degradation in truthfulness of the 2010

The "degradation of truthfulness" has been going on since the times of William Randolph Hearst.

Each time...

- ...a news anchor has an opinion about what is being reported...

- ...a political analyst or book author is interviewed in a news show...

- ...a news outlet follows a partisan editorial line, tells you who to vote for...

... that's when journalistic integrity is lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...

True journalism is descriptive, not prescriptive. It's about describing events, not forming an opinion about them. That's your job.

In this regard, most mainstream American journalism sucks. CNN and Fox News. Both indulge in the same behavior.

No news outlet is a replacement for your own critical thinking.
Generally, the number of people that will stand up to a crowd or a mob and hold their own is dismally small. It goes against your own raw survival instincts to be accepted by the tribe (we are social creatures by nature) and sets your body into fight mode.

I think pg is off on this particular essay. You may want to pick your battles, but you still have to have battles to win the war. You can't hide in your basement. You can't risk nothing.
I don't believe that I said they were, I just said they were more powerful.
I blame the person in charge at the time, who widely under-reported and downplayed everything the entire time they were in office.

All of the ills in policy and lack of transparency flowed down from that malignity of leadership.
This is not a judgment on you. It sounds like you really challenged yourself, and may have done well in such a program.

This is just an explanation of how admissions offices work: Bio programs of any flavor at most halfway decent schools are so over-subscribed that there are far more people who exceed the minimum requirements than there are spots for them. Admissions offices have very limited resources to review enormous #'s of applications. 3.0 is a pretty good low-pass filter that eliminates a lot of those applications while still retaining applications from students who, from a probability standpoint, are most likely to succeed in the programs. Extra curriculars & volunteer work at labs show that you're willing to work hard, but not the quality of that work, so those become distinguishing factors only for students that already jumped the GPA hurdle. Academic success from someone with < 3.0 GPA would represent an outlier, and there are no good ways identify who those outliers are, and finding them isn't important when there are plenty of qualified applicants who are easier to identify.

There's probably lots of students in your boat who would have contributed well to the body of scientific knowledge. But for every one of them-- and I have literally seen these students-- there are dozens upon dozens that are let into more lenient programs, unable to do the work & burdened with $100k+ in debt & nothing to show for it.
Not all partisan mouthpieces are equivalent. You can be factually accurate while leading people to the wrong conclusion. However, it’s much less work to find someone willing to lie, and much harder to detect lies than misleading statements.

Journalistic integrity is therefore critical when selecting which biased sources to pay attention to.
Aaron never received any penalty at all. The government offered him 6 months in jail, with the opportunity to argue for further leniency. There’s a very good chance that he would’ve walked away with essentially nothing.
The web is evolving very fast these days. It seems to me that because of our connections and web browsing habits, people reading this are often disconnected from how "normal" people view the web. Let me assure you, this web 2.0 craze we are seeing is no bubble. What will happen? well, in a sense, web 2.0 is really interactive web 1.0. The future leaders of the social web will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of today's leaders: Google, Facebook, Myspace, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and Craigslist. (technology increases exponentially: never forget this)

When a website incorporates all the positives of these types of websites into 1 all encompassing tool for organizing the unlimited information of the Internet, then we will see something great. We will see an evolution of these tools and it will not only be something people can use to get more efficiency out of life, it will actually improve people's lives and societies (globally).

If you think the effects social networks and human/computer interaction are amazing, wait until you see the children of these sites. It is *absolutely* not a coincidence that the founders of Reddit played WoW. They realize that power of a website is directly correlated to the amount of user input into a website. The dilemma we entrepreneurs are faced with today is creating systems that encourage maximum participation.

How does this tie into the 53,000 theory? None of the big winners, and I am talking the big ones, facebook, myspace, google, msnpages, orkut, (these are the sites that lead the world in user participation) succeeded because of blog recommendations. They succeeded because they were better ways of experiencing the Internet, not because some Ã‚Â“expertÃ‚Â” on techcrunch told the geeks it was a cool product.

Well, there are many amazing "web 2.0" websites out there that will never be used by the masses until their friends, not techcrunch, invites them.

On the Internet, the best solution always win. Humans are economical; they do what is best for themselves. When we create a search/browsing tool that is at the same time more rewarding and fun than myspace/wikipedia/delicious/digg we will see the whole world adopt this method, the same way the world has adopted the Google search, the same way all the Ã‚Â“coolÃ‚Â” people are on myspace. This website will not only be as "cool" and as fun, it will actually enhance people's lives.

This is the future of the web. It is also no coincidence that VC's like the one whom this post is referring to, have seen a lot of "like delicious but XXX" or "Digg killers" This is not just hype, one day it will happen. One day there will be a delicapedieddit that will emerge as the new Internet powerhouse.
Downward pressure and stability margins have been added recently by forcing people to amortize their loans, seemed to cool the market for a year or so until continuing to increase.

Loans above 70% of value needs to be amortized by 2% per year.

Loans above 50% of value needs to be amortized by 1% per year.

If your house loan is more than 4.5 times your yearly income, regardless of the percentage, then you need to amortize another 1% per year until below it.

This has of course made it even harder for young people to enter the market, but it seems to make for an overall more healthy long-term market in the current debt climate.

For many the hardest part is the by law required 15% down payment, this can be financed by private loans but that comes with it's own catches. Many instead end up relying on parents who has ridden the wave taking out a loan on their home, if you are fortunate enough to have home owning parents.
My guess would be that developing the NES emulator turned out to be a relatively simple project and they still had left-over time/budget to experiment with copy protection mechanisms.
>I'm happy the workers are getting relief in the form of more coworkers to help cover shifts and higher wages.

How do you know this? Did you apply, and they said your help was not needed at this time? Is your name on file, will they call you back if there is an opening?

Have you called all local charities in your area and offered to volunteer your time for free?

You're waiting for magical strikes and magical ventilator companies to show up, yet you are eager to volunteer other's time, while coming up empty on actually volunteering your own.
I looked at their one of their patents and it looks like they might be using something like rolling circle amplification instead of traditional amplification techniques for faster speed (I don't know off sure but it's one of the options in their claims). Kind of like LAMP pcr where you can amplify really quickly to get a signal really rapidly (although the dna at the end isn't really useable for further synthetic biology - it just provides a strong signal). They also mention a couple other types in this patent like strand displacement etc, so there's a lot of options they could be using.

Edit: the keyword to look for might be "isothermal" amplification, which means same - temperature amplification. Again, no clue if that's what they're using, I just see that they have patents on using isothermal techniques. These allow for amplifying DNA without cycling the temperature, usually letting the reaction accelerate quickly until a signal is detected, and it can accelerate really quickly sometimes. You know those videos of supercooled liquid water where you bump the bottle and the whole thing freezes? Imagine that you have a situation like that where adding non-coronavirus dna bumps the bottle incorrectly and nothing happens, while adding coronavirus dna makes the whole thing freezes. It's a rapid signal that just gets generated, but often (like with lamp) you just end up with a polymerizated mess that you can't use for DNA engineering in synthetic biology which is why you might use your temp. cycling methods for those uses. Also, they're good for telling you if something is or isn't there, but not so good at telling you how much dna you started with. To figure that out you again use a cycling reaction with the amount of dna doubling each step until it levels out so you know how many doublings happened and can calculate backwards (quantitative rt-pcr, or qPCR).

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8900828

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_circle_replication

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop-mediated_isothermal_amp...
The current incarnation of the Democratic Party resembles republicans of roughly 30 years ago, while the Republican Party has spun further right.

Yes, Republicans will gladly give huge corporate tax cuts. They're in the pockets of big businesses too, make no mistake. Dems may act like they give a shit, but considering they take in just as much lobbying money from billionaires and corporations, they really don't. That's why the party can hardly agree on reforming our medical system, something which is considered profoundly popular among their voting base. That's why they're willing to give concession after concession to the Republican party until they get a completely neutered bill with everything the Republicans want.
Are there any ruby libraries that would depixel an image in a similar fashion?
> I've always felt like authentication is one of those things that should be completely black-boxed, to give developers the following:
> - Faith in their security, without understanding the underlying representations of data.

Isn't this contradictory - how can a developer have faith in a black-box if they can't see for themselves what it's doing? For security, in particular, this approach seems troublesome.
I'd prefer not to sweep problems under the rug because they are not suffered much by my "class".
Path On The Surface Of The Earth is a neat one, took a while to realize why there were multiple answers.

SPOILER: Obviously the North Pole is one answer, because if you're 1 km south of the pole then it doesn't matter what longitude you're at, if you go 1 km north you'll be back at the pole.

The other answers are more interesting, though, and involve the south pole. The key observation is that at certain locations fairly close to the south pole, going east by 1 km will bring you back exactly where you started because the longitude circles are very small, so there's a set of latitudes where your 1 km journey will wrap you around the world any number of times. From that observation you can figure out the rest if you care to flex your trig...
And WikiLeaks summary: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/press.html
I obviously do not and can not trace the entire code path from a print statement through the class library, the operating system, the display driver and the hardware, some things I will still take for granted. But if there is a really critical aspect to what I am doing, say some thread synchronization, I will definitely not just follow some sample code, but read the relevant parts of the memory model of the language specification detailing why this works as expected. If the underlying hardware matters, I will grab the reference manual for it, too.

A lot of this is surly curiosity and you can get away without it most of the time, but at least as soon as I run into the first problem it really helps me a lot to have at least a basic understanding of what is going on in the layer of abstraction I am interacting with and maybe a layer or two below. And it gives me a really comforting feeling, that I know what is going on better than describing it as some black magic.
I personally don't understand the vitriolic posts on Go. I personally do understand the vitriolic comments about PHP, of which there are examples that are well-reasoned and go beyond "no generics!"[1]

[1] http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design
Heck yes, anything but "center". Even "academy". Anything.
I understand the issues with English and well Latin is a great scientific language BUT...

English is the most spoken language in the world. There are 4 times as many second language speakers for each native English speakers. I totally get the issues listed. I am a native English speakers with horrible Spanish skills and 4 years of ancient Hebrew and Greek studies.

English just works as a language for people and it is 100% about the content that is available in English as opposed to every other language.
When a pen-testing company has a contract in place with their client absolving them of any fault, it probably makes peoples confidence in carrying out social engineering (and not getting caught) much greater.
You cannot be a pacifist without a protector, ask Tibet.
Interestingly, it seems these things change over time. There was a time usury was seen as a scourge and homosexuality was not seen as something to counter, people were just left alone. I'm thinking eight to ten centuries ago. Usury was seen as pretty vile, but that seems to have changed over the past few centuries. Why? I have no idea, except societies change over time but don't know what brings about that change in sentiment... Some times forward sometimes regressive sentiments.
The spelling leaves lots to be desired though. Luckily it is among the easiest things to change in a language.
I really don't understand why people are whining so much about this.

I think native is justified given that (1) they are (finally) JITing their JS and (2) their graphics renderer in using the new DirectWrite lib which is very close to what the WDDM graphics drivers talk. They're saying that they're running much closer to the hardware than they did in the past.

Why are people being so negative about it? Better browsers are better for the web. Period. Exclamation point.
Yep, I've been looking for a linux laptop for a while that is actually compelling compared to my mac book pro. It seems just about everything is a downgrade in terms of shitty trackpads, lower resolution screens, memory, etc. Linux UI is not a problem for me; I can deal with that. The hardware is a problem though.

Here's what I want:

- Something that is faster than the last Apple laptop I loved which, I bought in 2012. I currently have a 2017 model which is barely faster and has the famous cluster fuck of a keyboard that I loathe with a passion. The 2012 model would have been a MBP 15" with a quad core i7, 16GB, and 256GB. Anything less than those specs is beyond pathetically and woefully inadequate. Anything not at least 2-8x better than that is still unimpressive given that we've had 4 iterations of Moore's law since then. Right now, I'd probably settle for 64GB RAM and some nice 8-16 core CPU. I'd take more if I could. Those AMD chips look pretty nice. Core i-9 also not too bad.

- 13-15" hdpi, non negotiable. I will never downgrade to anything less than a 4K screen. I'm writing this on an imac with a 5K screen. It's from 2014. My current laptop has a retina screen. It's four years old. It's 2021. I don't want/need a screen that was outdated and underwhelming 6 years ago.

- A trackpad that doesn't suck. I don't want want/need physical mouse buttons. I'm not ever going to use an external mouse. I want something I can use that doesn't actually suck. Apple nailed that more than a decade ago. Some manufacturers come close to this platonic ideal of a trackpad. Bot most don't even pretend to bother. Also, linux support for this seems to be a perpetual work in progress.

- A keyboard that is comfortable to use. Seems obvious but again hard to get. Apple messed this up and is in the process of correcting that mistake. It matters. I use laptops, a lot. My wrists matter to me. So do ergonomics. Or having an actual escape key (seriously, WTF Apple).

- Modern ports (USB-C, thunderbolt), bluetooth and wifi that work and with recent specs. I don't actually care about legacy ports that much and certainly not about the extra space and weight that seems to imply. But I do care that my headphones connect and that I can plug in a fancy screen with high resolution and its own assortment of ports. I.e. a thunderbolt screen that I can daisy chain to other screens and my laptop.

- A sensible design and weight. I don't want a ten kilo brick in my backpack.

- Lap friendly cooling. I actually use my laptop on my lap. I don't want it leaving scorch marks on my pants. Nor do I want it to sound like a vacuum cleaner.

What I described is a pro laptop. High end requirements. I know of a handful of models that come close to this. All of these have issues with Linux support. Key components that don't work or are not fully supported or require lots of hacks to get working.
Nope. I run Pop OS and I get A2DP on all my Bluetooth headsets. I'm running a cheapish Clevo laptop.
> That only works to access the service from other pods inside k8s, it doesn't help you make that service accessible to the outside world. Tell me how you'd run Dovecot on k8s?

Quite the opposite. I’d re-read the docs[1]. Specifically this page[2]. If you’re on AWS you’d probably wire this up with a NLB and a bit of terraform if you’re allergic to YAML. Seems like a 5 minute job assuming you have Dovecot correctly containerized.

> I'm just pointing out one (of many) extremely obvious warts on k8s. You act like this is some misconception on my part

It’s hard not to point out misconceptions like the one above.

1. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/

2. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/serv...
1. MobileCoin premines 250m coins

2. Moxie gets paid for being on their advisory board

3. Moxie directs his non-profit to integrate MobileCoin in secret

4. MobileCoin offers 1/5 of their premine for sale.

5. Signal announcement spikes price to $60

How accurate is this?

via:
https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/1379536536459431937
As others pointed out, this might not mean "Google is deliberately trying to avoid defining the applicable privacy labels", it could mean "Google has prohibited developers from pushing updates until they legally figured out what the applicable privacy labels are".
One of the best-preserved urban walls is in Tallinn, Estonia, in fact, the entire old section of Tallinn is really amazing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Tallinn
We're actually using macOS accessibility APIs to manage local and remote windows and are therefore optimistic we can sort this out - eg by moving windows via keyboard. Detailed requirements are welcome!