jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I will feed the troll:

He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about.

Patio11 is not your dancing monkey.

Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable.

Laughing all the way to the bank.

Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day.

Well, can't say we'd miss you if you stopped contributing, but I'd have to take issue with the first part. At this moment, the front page has 30 entries of course. I can't believe I'm doing this, but they are about Flash, SproutRobot, Falcon 9, bcvi, HTML5, ideas, diamonds, deflate, BigPipe, Falcon9 (again), Titan, YourWorldOfText, fivethirtyeight.com, being wrong, Toxoplasma, Soros, Readability, Google IO, Posterous, Steve Jobs, Wakemate, Amelie(), the FTC, patio11's a/b test, chrome dev tools, twitter employees leaving, Apple and HTML5, Bing cashback, a world cup calendar and John Gruber. I'll leave it to you to determine if "most tech stuff on HN is the cutting edge of web apps." I tend to think that most business stuff on HN is there to help educate someone to run their business, generally technical in nature.

Finally, there's printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up.

Why haven't you, then?
The banks I use in Singapore use dual factor authentication devices or SMS. Not sure if it's mandatory.
All the best Jason
This was an eye opening experience for me as a younger nerd, something that taught me how truly irrational many humans are. Diamonds are clearly pretty, but buying them props up a cartel and indirectly leads to warfare, enslavement, and death. Clearly a young woman would happily understand why I would have ethical objections to this...

...and to this day, I don't understand how some people's minds even work. (It was a hypothetical discussion and my life wasn't appreciably derailed by this conversation, it's just memorable to me because of the utter incomprehension I felt.)
Yep, it had me scratching my head.
Quite true man!
Have you heard his standup/music bit where he sings about fans always asking him the same things?

On the off chance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y
Let's say you have $10, you can feed yourself for $10 or you can go hungry today and invest that $10 for $20 back tomorrow... tomorrow, you can feed yourself and invest the rest for more back the next day.

Your vision lacks forethought. Tomorrow you can feed many times more people with the yield from today's investment than you could today if you didn't invest.
Amplification attacks can be used to gain huge boosts in bandwidth.[1] For example, in the attack on Spamhaus in 2013[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Refle...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker#Spamhaus
... and when there's not much free thinking, there's not much innovation that's going to happen either.
I work for a very large company, and have worked both freelance and in-house previously, and I can count on, ooh, maybe two fingers the times I haven't been in the situation. Unfortunately never had access to a copywriter, just access to endless frustration.

(Also, re the op, on-subject placeholder text works far better than Blokk, it's not particulary likely that you won't have at least an inkling of the subject of the design being undertaken)
If you liked this, then you will probably like this one too (56 pages, so it'll take you a while):

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

It's about the laying of an undersea fibre optic cable.
But writing a loop takes up at least 3 lines in my editor!
Sure, there are plenty of safe injection cities all over Canada. They save lives, not promote homelessness.

https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/ha...

edit:

> "oh gee they sure are nice not to arrest me for dealing drugs and smashing car windows. To thank them I will not poop in the street."

This is terribly reductionist, and apathy is not at all the same as actually providing help.
This comment is so egregiously out of touch I hesitate to even respond at all, let alone to do so civilly, however in the interest of discussion I'm going to try to.

Which "enemy" do you envision would use deep fakes for a nefarious purpose, yet will stop short once they realize there are - gasp! - regulations around them? And as far as I'm aware, at least in the United States, there are no regulations requiring the use of microdots in printers or copiers, they're done of the manufacturers' own accord to aid law enforcement.

The idea that we should have ill-informed, knee-jerk regulations in reaction to every mildly upsetting technological fad is antithetical to everything the vast majority of technologists believe in and stand for.
Because there's a point where continuing deliberations does more harm than acting without full confidence in the decision. It applies to governments as much as it does to companies and individuals.
It's been long superseded by various similar platform. I used to use Yahoo Answers in their heyday but the quality of questions and answers never up to scratch and it's a spiral down to obscurity.
Yes. See also a great little book from ages ago called "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, which examines and critiques this "Protestant work ethic".
> Its a promise about the future.

Which they haven’t yet delivered on, so the car doesn’t have full self driving.

> yes you do need to pay attention

Part of their promise is that it’ll drive off and park itself. Can’t really pay attention when you’re not in it.
Well, up to a point; there are plenty of laws which apply to anyone deemed to be marketing to the US, especially financial services and online gambling, and Megaupload got raided by the FBI despite being in New Zealand.
Gathering expends a lot of energy for not much caloric return. Hunting large megafauna expends more energy but for a much greater caloric return.
Honeybees are so important that huge colonies are trucked around the US to pollinate fields.

Which is to say: they're so important that local populations of pollinators are inadequate to requirements, so they have to be supplemented by these mobile colonies.
The site appears to be down. Does anyone have a cache/description?
These tools are awesome. For my money they are better than firebug.

However the dev channel has a tendency to break JS breakpointing. It seems like I can never fully delete some breakpoints.
looks like the steering committee recommends a hybrid approach with a shift towards google apps.

From one of the PDF's in the article:

Google Apps Projected Investment/Savings
Total Investment $2.1M
Total Savings $13.1M
Cumulative Benefits $10.9M
NPV (over 10 years) $8.1M
Break Even Point Year 3
Sustained Annual Savings $1.71M
> How is it different from Heroku?

Intelligent Scaling

"Monitor the performance of your app in realtime. Based on the current load of your app and your predefined performance objectives, Duostack automatically manages horizontal scaling of your app and vertical scaling of your database."
The specific trick he is doing is an interaction between Rails and the API I wrote, which is fortuitous but not planned. It wasn't unlikely, because A/Bingo is designed to "feel like Ruby", but I had never envisioned the software being used in that fashion. (I always do A/B tests on particular elements within a page.)
They did sue Bayer in 2003, though for a different drug. The suit was thrown out by a judge in 2008. Info in this article:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/honey_bees_ny_times.for...

Bayer gets sued all the time and they are probably pretty good at working the legal system.
I'm guessing this tool was using some sort of rate-limited API to get keyword data from Google, and it's been throttled. :)
Yeah, it's great until something greats in new and exciting ways.
It's equivalent to the halting problem because there exists a set of problems for which for any input that optimiser creates the optimal solution for, there exists another input for which that problem is not optimal. The parallel to the halting problem is that with access to the output of the optimiser, you can always construct a problem where whatever the optimiser produces can be obstructed by producing an input that makes the optimised program non-optimal for the given input.

A trivial example of such a program is a function that sorts it input and returns the sorted result, as no sort is optimal for all inputs.
Very good point - this sadly ties in with the rest of the self-consciously heavily marketed and branded project.

On the other hand, we should just double the science budget globally every five years and perhaps people would worry less about cashflow and focus on what got them into science in the first place.
No, in fact you should consider it a relevant signal contributing to the UX of a site: if you're appalled by seeing this on a site, you are vrey very likely not a good fit for them and vice versa.
This is a pretty good summary of the philosophical difference between Thomas's and Breyer's view of copyright.

I'll add that Thomas points out that if Breyer wants to talk about "thin" copyright, he should have discussed it within the copyrightability context, not skirting and discussing it in the "fair use" segment. If Breyer does so, Thomas argues, Breyer would find that "thin" copyright is still copyright, and Google will have no argument left to support fair use. All the remaining facts (such as competition, loss royalty, etc.) would support non-fair use.
To me not having to use another language is worth far more than they're charging.

Apart from being Ruby, the simplicity is a major selling point for me.

(Yes, I have bought it, though not had time to use it much lately)
The government that is able to borrow money at an interest rate lower than inflation? Yeah, they probably could tell you (and me) a thing or two about how to manage money.
Hilarious moment at 36:00. Sutton has just finished talking about how in real life, functions that learning agents wish to estimate will often be non-stationary because life is constantly changing.

An audience member complains that this is unfair (i.e. unfair to the learning algorithm), and somebody nearby the cameraman retorts "life is unfair".

This is a fact that even algorithms cannot avoid.
I read the article in its entirety. While what they propose (a very small fractional increase in taxes among the middle class) is entirely plausible, it misses the point entirely.

A consumption tax is optional. Meaning I only pay that tax if I consume above a poverty level. An income tax however is not. If I earn an income, I pay the tax.

The reason this is such a big deal is that it empowers the individual to change their financial situation. For example my taxes may decrease by 50% under FairTax, simply because I live a simple life style.

If someone chooses to improve their situation, they can take all the extra money, save, invest without capital gains, and see the turnaround much quicker.

This is in contrast to today's system which penalizes saving & investment and HEAVILY penalizes those who go out and start a business (I pay quite a bit more tax as a self employed individual).

It is also much more logical to be penalized for consumption vs. contributing to society (similar to the OP).
Ah! Thanks for the correction. Somewhere along the way I picked up the belief that in addition to the file-closing aspect, "with" ensured a line-at-a-time iterator, akin to adding on "for line in f:".

I'm not sure I understand your third comment though. As I understand it, iterables have an __iter__ method. __iter__ methods return iterators. So an iterator for the iterable f traverses f and sends f's values to, in this case, set(). I believe we agree there. My initial concern was simply that the statement could be read "The iterator, set(), uses f.", and I don't see where the disagreement arises.
Spectrum rights came up in the announcement video for the opening of the Space X satellite branch. The response was that spectrum to satellite is not scarce as long as roof penetration isn't required. Handset to satellite would work against that unless it did some sort of voip satellite/wifi handoff.
enter `<script type='text/javascript'>alert(1);</script>` as a note phrase, visit another note, then click the door icon
You can buy Google as a proxy. A poor proxy but proxy nonetheless. The "plus" side is Google might make similar investments in other ventures like this so your bet on space is more diversified.
Part of the problem with journalism is they're expected to publish regularly, even when they have nothing to say.
Why do you have to put a price on it?
Though it does throw away unused cyclic dependencies, so you don't have to do the same trickery as in Perl.
psql also has auto-complete. honestly i really like psql. have a look at its manpage for how much you can customize it to your needs!
Anyone got a source for this comment referenced in the article?

"In 2006, Princeton economist Alan Blinder famously warned that the critical economic divide in the future will 'be between those types of work that are easily deliverable through a wire or via wireless connections with little or no diminution in quality, and those that are not.'”
How paralelizable would Cassowary be? It seems it adds a lot of inter-dependencies between elements, no?
Fortunately The Atlantic is essentially free online if you erase cookies when it says you run out of articles. I am glad that Mrs Steve Lynn Powell Jobs used her billions to support this great magazine.
What are these medical interventions we do with patients that provide them with outcomes that are statistically more unsafe than inaction?
>>Because if you allow that, everyone will try to undercut the competitors prices to get the "good" customers, and nobody will bother to offer services to the not so profitable customers.

They're not a charity. If you want to help the less fortunate, then donate directly to them.

Or if you believe that helping the less fortunate should be something people should be required to do, under pain of imprisonment, then advocate taxing people, and using that revenue to directly subsidize the less fortunate.

There's no reason the mandatory charity should fall entirely on service providers. It's not even an efficient way to help the less fortunate. If they received cash subsidies instead, then service providers would crop up that specialize in servicing people who have their disability, and would provide a far higher quality of service per dollar spent.
By starting a long time ago.
Only the highest end rMBP has a discrete card, the cheaper one is just integrated.
With a detour through the ex-youtube-folks' company (AVOS), and then someone else. Yahoo did not sell it for $30k.
Someone somewhere said of content "let it breathe" and that got repeated until breathing content became a cargo cult. That cargo cult summoned the demons of flat design. They brought with them Metro, Material Design, Bootstrap 3, and iOS 7.

Content started breathing heavily, fonts got almost too skinny to read, and it's almost impossible to tell if text a button.
Roblox is a platform and an exchange.

While Minecraft has sort-of become a platform too, with people doing custom servers etc., Roblox is explicitly built to facilitate being a middleman skimming percentages of people buying and selling digital assets and game passes.

The marketplace added to the Bedrock edition of Minecraft is a baby step in that direction, but nowhere near as flexible.
In Germany we have a couple of politicians and scientists who every fortnight predict mayhem in a fortnight. No mayhem ever materialized though. We didn't have any actual Triages, ICUs are not overwhelmed. And this seems to be true for almost anywhere except for extreme shit shows like in Italy early 2020. So ... my emprical conclusion is that Corona is bad but not as dangerous as our governments want us to believe to justify their powergrabbing moves. And gathering outside is probably completely irrelevant anyway.
If you don't restrict yourself to novels in the classical sense, there's much to be read (and played) in the Civilization-like game Alpha Centauri.
That's just a link that's relative to the protocol, the same way /blah is relative to the protocol + host. If you load an https page with inlined image links like that, it'll attempt to hit those images over https as well.

This is fine if you control the source and can handle both http/https serving. It doesn't help for content inlined by users, though, it'll just result in broken images.
A one way mission doesn't necessary have to be either. I don't see why a person can't fly there never expecting to come home, then 20 years in the future after an unexpected discovery get an opportunity to have a return flight.

Another perspective, if something terrible happened to earth he/she could be the last person alive :\
Isn't the market rate defined as whatever you can get away with on the market? (Or do you mean, they hire unskilled labour below the market rate of skilled labour?)
I seem to recall that the rumor was he only ran OpenStep until 10.2 or 10.3. Before that OS X had been pretty rough around the edges, and kind of slow on portable hardware.

There may have been some specific functionality he was missing too.
Can you prototype the UI in GWT first, and then see if it's worth the trouble to port your existing app to GWT?

There isn't likely to be that much code reuse with GWT between the client and the server - maybe some validation code.

I'd look at jQuery Mobile before GWT if I wanted to pick a Javascript framework for mobile web apps.

Hope this helps
Try Eclim for your java work. It's a set of vim plugins which run and communicate with a headless Eclipse instance in the background. This allows you use Vim as your editor and pull many of Eclipse's fancy features forward.
Given the buzz around this incident, this could well backlash on the TSA.
I moved from the UK to France last summer (yes due to Brexit before you ask) and they do indeed take comic book and related things very seriously.

You are never far from a place selling comic books, graphic novels, trading card games, action figures and such.

Another thing I find different to what I am used to is how they all still buy DVDs and Blurays. Not just the odd one here and there but regularly and have a pretty impressive collection. What I find interesting is that they have good internet here. I got 1Gbit fibre with a whole host of extra (TV package, landline, SIM with 50GB data) for €55/month. And it has been perfect since I got it installed a few months back. I would have thought with such fantastic internet access they would all be using streaming services but nope they love their physical discs!

Edit: And not just movies but full TV show boxsets. Those are like €100-200 !!

I sat down to work out the value difference between a few streaming sites and how much they pay for physical media and streaming is way cheaper as DVDs and Blurays are not cheap! I know you can sell it on but it seems nobody does. They are often given away! It is quite alien to me.
"Few launches were so anticipated in 2010 as social network Path.com."

Really? Jeez I must've been in a cave to miss this.
Those were the conditions under which the gift was offered. They are controlling their financial income by choosing to accept the gift, which gives them revenue from dividends. It's very similar to how a trust fund operates.
> I don't want some random code providing this without understanding what's going on!

It's an open source framework. Gems and plugins are nearly all open source by nature. And meanwhile, I'd assume you're OK using web browsers and operating systems without reading all of the source code.
Submitted earlier. Twice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000973 - 3 comments, now deleted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2001237
Whenever I see a comment with 1000s of upmods, I'm usually expecting a good story, but there was literally nothing there. Lots of people have had car trouble pal. I mean, there are probably a full million people in the world right now with car trouble. Why is his anecdote special?
It got bought out within minutes of being posted. The price was incredibly low. Sure, I could build that app, but it would cost (in time) several times the buy-it-now price of $350 to get it to the same level of polish.

It doesn't hurt that the guy who built it is a somewhat known quantity around here.

I think the market for solid micro apps is strong, you just can't find them on Flippa and other site-selling sites. I'm definitely interested in buying these sorts of things, anyway.
I haven't noticed this. Do you have any example search terms?
Do the people who help out dave, know that they are being filmed?
Every company. Figure out what companies you are interested in, find people who work there, and write them a nice email telling them that you are interested in interning at their company and whom they think you should reach out to to talk about it.

One other interesting way to approach this issue is use LinkedIn to figure out where people who went to your undergrad school are now working. Find people who now work at the companies you want to intern in. Do the above (write them a nice email asking about their internship opportunities).

The key here is not to write 1-5 emails or to write 1000 to 5000 emails. The key here is to write about 10-20 emails that are hyper-specific to each company and each situation. What you are looking for is responses at this point, not internships.

Once you get a response, you can get started talking to the right people.
Why are they dumb and/or unscrupulous? I would hazard that the bright, somewhat-more-scrupulous minds are busy making it big elsewhere. Perhaps traditional finance.
You are right.

I do miss SGI. They had really cool workstations. Expensive as hell. We had to lease them instead of buying them.

Besides doing actual work, remember playing and compiling a bunch of OpenGL demos on them. Even found the Jurassic Park file browser, by accident, and only years later connected the two when watching the movie the 2nd or 3rd time.

I remember the "onslaught" of Windows NT and Windows 2000 workstations with larger, beefier graphics cards, more memory and faster processor. I could tell it was the end for SGI. But I will always remember them fondly.
I really can't wait for this to be released. I am a little pessimistic about the Vim mode. There are countless 80 or 90% complete Vim modes in various modern editors. But the absence of a truly native feeling Vim (that last 10%) is a deal breaker for many. I'd rather see more editor developers spend time finding a solution that provides a truly authentic Vim mode instead of spending countless hours merely approaching 90% compatibility. For the people who you're selling on that Vim mode (the people who would care that your editor provides it) 90% isn't good enough. There are other ways to integrate Vim modes in your editor such as using the (inappropriately named) "Netbeans interface" which actually allows Vim to run in the background while you integrate your UI on top of it across a serializable bridge. This allows a perfect recreation of Vim while letting you customize the application experience on top of it.

Aside from that approach, there are a few faithful Vim recreations that I've discovered out of the dozens that I've tried.

https://github.com/vicoapp/vico (Excellent project)
http://www.viemu.com/ (Solid experience in Visual Studio)
https://github.com/guillermooo/Vintageous (fairly close and getting better every day)

But I don't mean to sound like such a pessimist. The progress so far looks excellent and I can't wait to try it out. Keep it up!

Edit: I also notice that the logo looks like an iOS7 version of React's logo: http://facebook.github.io/react/
Mt.Gox is registered in the US as a Deleware Corporation

https://delecorp.delaware.gov/tin/GINameSearch.jsp
Maybe an announcement that git bought sublime and this is the web launch of it. I would be so excited if that happened.