jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for letting me know but I'm not planning to change it - though a moderator is welcome to, if they're reading this.

There's no semantic difference between upper and lower case in a proper name and I suspect more people would complain I'd typoed or got the name wrong if I corrected it to the "right" version. It's like transliterating the French "é" to a US English "e"; technically erroneous, but a better fit for Anglophones.
Too bad that Google doesn't touch the customer service standards at Amazon.
I found myself wanting exactly this recently - a single conversation stream for each IM peer and multiple views into the stream, synchronized between themselves.

Found Trillian beta that appears to support it, but I am very wary of it, because previous versions were the buggiest software products I had a misfortune to use. Any other implementations with native clients and with the hook ups into ICQ and others?
Could you expand on this thought? I assumed that free() was invoked in the dealloc method, which was explicitly called if the release method reached a zero ref count.
Same what? How are local German culture and EU culture in opposition?
Hence my comment, perhaps positioned less than optimally in my statement, about preventing the cascade to next stage. The degree to which these drugs address the various issues is still in flux. In the UCSF grand rounds recently, there was some question as to the role of immunomodulators.
Lol Cuomo at his press conference today was saying "Don't be reactive, be productive"
Probably a good idea - someone out there must think it means burying your face in your cellphone while out with friends.
Ha. Now I think it's redundant. The default meaning of distance is "physical" distance.
He probably wants the most for his money and in this case iOS/Android is the way to roll in 2014.
It's awfully hard to talk about the problems (and they're HUGE) of outsourcing (really, "offshoring") to India without sounding racist, even if you don't intend to.

In the USA at least, since the early 80s, "Human Resources" departments have trained managers, directors and up to think of employees as coming in "plug-compatible" categories. Naturally, management has extended this incorrect mindset to offshored workers. The vast cultural differences between USA and India cause a lot of problems, as does the time difference.

But nobody can say anything because of the danger of inadvertantly sounding racist.
Oh, didn't know that. I was referring to Dell using it as a way to figure out what the market wanted from new products, and the analogy being, "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would've said a faster horse -- Ford"
I understand what you're saying, but I don't come to the same conclusion. I don't think that there is any amount of certification or 'fair treatment' that could have come from the press that would have made Trump stand down. Every inch of leniency trump and his most ardent supporters get they take a mile. As long as he's up yelling on his soapbox his people are going to try to find reasons to believe him.

Yes, sometimes dead people 'vote', but that happens in all elections and more importantly happens in both parties, but not enough to swing elections.

I have a pet theory (maybe a conspiracy theory, idk) that the reason the Republican officials have been so quick to shut down fraud claims is because any investigations will find just as much or more fraud on their side.
If not wrong, it's really simplistic (probably for the sake of this news piece). I just finished listening to the Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick. It is a really good account of Facebook's history. It shows just how uncertain things were in the beginning. There were loads of little decisions along the way which made Facebook what it is.

Zuckerberg, no doubt, turned out to be a visionary. But even he wasn't sure Facebook would last long, so he was hedging his bets with Wirehog.

Before Facebook, he was already experimenting with random hacks. When he saw Facebook absolutely exploded as soon as he put it out, he doubled down on it. Wouldn't any hacker do that?

I think Facebook's success lies in Zuck's ability to rally top people around him and to keep them focused on one vision, even when he's not clear what that vision is. Just "something big" seems to work until you figure out what it is.

This news story probably doesn't do justice to Ting's story, but did he really give up without even a hard fight? Who said becoming a billionaire was easy?

Edit: The coolest thing about listening to the book for me was that I found an old school friend of mine was a key early hire at Facebook. I hadn't spoken to her in years, but it was so cool to connect with her again. Of course, via Facebook.
I think the writing metaphor is a good one; we are writing source code for other humans to read after all.
Yes, an important point. This is one thing the Netherlands is far better at than Germany (Frankfurt). I think it's because Dutch is spoken by rather few people globally, whereas German has ~100m speakers, so the pressure to learn English there isn't as strong.
DNT was never going to work, because you're asking scumbags, who make money in scummy ways, to please not be scumbags.
Giving the money to the employees in a much cheaper way to avoid unemployment. Temporarily banning foreclosure is an easier way to avoid foreclosures.
> Is this somehow tax related? Or does it give the EU power over those companies in a way?

Yes.

New York law is dominant in finance because New York City is a financial nerve centre. This gives high-tax paying persons like bankers and lawyers and investors an incentive for being nearby.
> it does according to Dang.

fairly sure it doesn't, but I'll email just to check.
Do you have a link to the relevant comment by Dang?
Well, historically when people were most equal in the US the taxes were very high for the upper class, something like 90%. Look at post world war taxes.
I'm not sure if you're framing it this way, but how is this a problem?

The concept might be foreign to most HNers, but lots of people lack entrepreneurial spirit, they instead attempt to minimize pain in their lives.

As long as it's sustainable, why worry? Do we want to drag people into productivity or just let them live their own lives?

I think it's inefficient to do the former.
When people do do that, it's called a bank run: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run

This happened to Northern Rock in the UK in 2007. The bank failed and was nationalised as a result.
It's been one month since I launched my climbing news website, so I thought I'd give those that wished me well an update (and possibly gain some new users too ;).

First thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915280

Second thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924941

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What's happened since then:

- Two redesigns

- Over 80 topic posts (57 of which were from me)

- Approx 50 unique visitors/day

- Defeated: 2 spammers

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Traffic: http://i.imgur.com/7Oo29.png

Visitors: http://i.imgur.com/jM5UM.png

The first and second traffic peaks are from the HN posts. The third peak was when I cross-posted an article to various climbing forums. I got criticized heavily for it, but it was a good learning experience.

I think it's important to get periodic bursts of traffic from other sites, but at the end of the day, regular contributors are the most important, especially when setting the tone of the community.
If the US military can save us from depleting IP addresses maybe they'll save us from running out of oil, too.

Damn... It seems to take a government agency to keep the world spinning.
The current version of Riak uses Bitcask as the default disk storage engine, but InnoDB is an option that you can use. They each work well for specific workloads - Bitcask scales up until your keys (not total data) can't fit in RAM.
I know a few amazing designers that are on Dribble all the time, because it's an outlet for fun things they're making that have nothing to do with client work.

This is also true of GitHub. But both GitHub and Dribbble are places where you show off evidence of your work. HN is more a talking shop.
What, Gruber used an overly selective example from Apple to prove some point while subtly asserting their superiority? No way!
It saddens me when I work with a non-governmental organization (NGO) and need to copy some text from a website, only to find that the name and contact information is embedded in a graphic, with no text equivalent anywhere in the content. A simple search engine query usually confirms that the site's pagerank suffers.
From my dealings with Nissan quite a bit of their code is written by third parties. And those third parties have locked in the car manufactures to the point where they share hexadecimal logs that only the third party can read.
Another option is to use an IBLT (Inverted Bloom Lookup Table). it is easy to implement. I recently wrote a file repair tool that uses it: https://github.com/thomasmueller/tinyStats/blob/master/src/m... (not production ready)
I’m not an epidemiologist, so I’m going out on a limb with this, but:

Looking at the infection rate curve, I think the lockdown was working right up until the more-infectious strain took over.

(“People tested positive” graph: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/)
That's not a useful definition of better though. WhatsApp, Messenger, etc. are better because they're reliable and the people I want to talk to use them.

MMS messages are hot garbage but they're still better than a lot of alternatives because everyone with a phone can receive them.
The i7-2600K (Sandy Bridge) benchmarks at ~5000 on Passmark, and the i7-10700K at about 20,000. So it seems they've had quite a bit of improvement. Note this is going from 32nm to 14nm.

Intel is in a really bad place now (in a forward-looking sense), primarily due to their fab process falling behind TSMC and others. You can't design your way ahead while using old manufacturing technology

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K...
> Nah. You need to donate real money.

You mean gold?

Or are you talking about the toilet paper handed out freely by the USG in 2020?
As a counter, you cannot have bodily sovereignty if your dead (lest we tempt the tyranny of the dead over the living), and if your body is making others dead, that also deprives them of bodily sovereignty. This injustice is offset by the vaccine (it seems to be effective and safe) and so we prevent possibly many violations of sovereignty with the single certain injustice of the vaccine. This utilitarian argument may not be palatable, but we may not have our choice of actions here (the virus doesn't care!)
While I don't disagree with your overall sentiment (I can't imagine relying on a RPi powered device -- even if it is just a display -- for clinical use), I think you're overthinking the motivation here...

> To be frank, I'd rather pay a nurse $50k in cash to pump a vent bag next to me than rely on your "project".

From what I've read (admittedly not much) -- this project isn't trying to disrupt the ventilator industry or make a bunch of sales. It isn't designed to give you a choice of a ventilator to remove a nurse. It's for situations when you don't have another choice... for when a hospital has run out of proper ventilators or there isn't a nurse available. This is not a first-choice device (even if it could be adapted to that in the future).
I'd like to add to this. I used simple for a couple years back when it was first released, and it helped immensely in getting out of debt and on the right track. I've since moved on to other banks (at the time there were no joint accounts or savings, and I needed both), but I had friends reach out to me today in a panic because I'd recommend they use it over the years.

It was an excellent tool that absolutely improved my life and the lives of others I know personally.

Well done.
Dog whistles work because they proved the fig leaf of plausible deniability. Trump's presidency has been a series of dog whistles. Why would it have stopped just because he lost an election?
Ahhh...I see. Unfortunately, we don't own SockAndAwe anymore (we sold it rather soon after it was built!), so have no control over what is put there now.

However, I think it would be prudent to add your suggestions to the article and warn users who go and visit it now. I'll make those changes this evening.
>Police officers are required to read you your miranda rights.

No, they aren't. Police officers are required to read you your miranda rights in order for information from an interrogation to be admissible in court. But if they don't care about what you might say to them, there is no law that requires them to read you your rights. It isn't uncommon for rights not to be read in mass arrest situations, such as at protests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning#Confusion_regar...
I'm just looking at the implementation on sockandawe.com today: the prompt for submitting an email address is, quote, "Submit your score to the leaderboard and find out your global rank.", and then the prompt for a friend's address is "Challenge your friend to beat your score."

Neither of those is exactly best practices for collecting addresses.
Doesn't matter, it's indirected away. All you know is that you were done asking it for data.
Compare corruption, happiness, and poverty levels of countries against the size of their class-gap, and you'll have your answer in rather stark detail.
Two stories:

1) Last week I got a wedding invitation from my cousin in Connecticut (well, a "Save The Date" technically. That seems to be a purely American invention, but seems roughly comparable to a wedding invitation in my Canadian eyes). This was on the same day I found out about these new "enhanced" patdowns.

2) My dad loves NASCAR, and his birthday is in February, right around the running of the Daytona 500. For years, I've wanted to take him there for his birthday. It's a whole week of different races, and I'm sure he'd love it. It appears I've waited too long / didn't get the money in time.

Two scenarios where I'd really like to visit the States, mostly for my dad. With these new "security" measures in place, however, there is no way I'm going to subject myself to such an ordeal just for a vacation. It might not necessarily be the sexual assault some people claim, but if my only option is to be either photographed nude or have some agent grabbing my junk, I'd rather just stay home.
Ten years ago I thought Stallman was a well meaning, but a bit cranked fanatic. Nowadays, I realize he was right all this time and we been blind.
No it doesn't. It's called a progressive consumption tax. The first $10,000 you consume is tax free, the next $10,000 is taxed at 10%, and the next $10,000 at 15%, and so on.
My understanding is that the Online division is only responsible for standalone consumer-oriented services, specifically Bing plus MSN. Online services that are tied to other products, such as Windows Live or Xbox Live or Office 365 are part of the respective divisions for those products, and more platform/infrastructure-oriented services like Azure are part of Server & Tools.
Oh my god, dentist's websites. I've one full year of dental school left, and as I'm looking around for a job, I sometimes wonder if I should just be a dental website designer instead of a dentist.
> A lot of the Mac vs. Windows scenario is more a myth than anything else. Look at the actual market shares in 1984 or 1985 and what they are now (hint: the C64 was a bigger player than the Mac).

You are confused.

The Mac came out in 1984, and Windows 1 in 1985.

We are talking about the 90's, and Windows certainly crushed Mac during that era (and most of the early 2000's too).

And since Mac's world wide market share hovers around 6%, you can probably still argue that Windows continues to crush it today.
I suppose the alternative would be a stable monetary policy.

The difference would be that under a stable policy you would only print money to keep the currency stable as inflation occurs, rather than printing money to fund government initiatives.
> Who will be #1 again? HTC? Motorola? Samsung? LG?

Next time, please read the article you are responding to.

The answer to this question is in the first line of my post that you quoted.
Inertia. From a technical standpoint the game industry is about customer-facing features that happen to also be technologies. You can go from one product to another carrying along many of those features, but change the language and you blow them all up.

Today you have a "legacy" group of AAA developers with huge, well-tuned C++ engines designed specifically around that dev model(typically, lots of scripted and hand-crafted static content with photorealistic graphics and in-game cutscenes), and a growing number on the indie/mobile/web/social side who are using whatever is convenient, and often rolling their own thing to fit their own projects. For many that still means C++ since they're already familiar with it, there's plenty of examples and library code around, and some targets still demand(or literally require, in the case of consoles) that mix of tooling, performance and features. For others it might be Java, Objective C, Actionscript, or Javascript.

The value proposition of a new language isn't great for the AAA developer because the engine coding effort - on a large project - is tiny compared to the content. For tiny games most of the pressure to ship is on programming - but once you're past the core engine(resources, scene/entity/rendering management, collision, events, etc.), the benefits are still unclear since most gameplay coding uses the same patterns in any language - lots of intermittent special-case logic, blobs of state accessable through various indexes, timing, and sequencing. These things can usually get parceled out to a scripting language for faster iteration(or, at minimum, designer-driven iteration, vs. coder+designer pairing).

I haven't mentioned parallelism once yet, notice. Despite Tim Sweeney's focus on this in his slides, it's not a big concern for anyone but the AAA guys who are specifically aiming to max out the hardware. The gameplay proper is hard to enforce in-parallel because most game designs are massively stateful and interdependent. That leaves rendering and miscellaneous auxiliary processes. Rendering quality is now bottlenecked mostly by the content creation process, not by runtime concerns. We can always throw more polygons into a scene, but the details of shading, texturing, and animation have become far more important to image quality.

Look at what Valve and Blizzard are doing. They've both stayed far away from the cutting edge in their own technology, and that hasn't hurt them a bit in sales. So again, there's just very little reason to move forward on the tech if you aren't an indie, and if you are then you have to weigh your choice against how difficult it'll be to ship the final product to consumers. The math tends to favor one of the languages mentioned earlier(C++, Obj C, JS, AS3, Java).
A better book than any of the books from the Terman study about the Termites is Joel Shurkin's Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992). (ISBN 978-0316788908)

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-31/books/bk-1247_1_lewis...

Joel Shurkin worked for the Stanford News Service as a science writer, and was the first independent researcher to have access to the Terman Study files.
And a way to fix it would be for google to release an updater client so you could update an android phone without being pushed an update from your carrier.
I haven't used Action script but Scala has really nice support for Xml - it is properly the only language that allows you to do pattern matching on XML.
What?! Have all the sages had it right by telling people to live in the moment, to become more present? :)
Did anyone else read further into the thread where a fellow has been monitoring the TSA agents using a yeasu vx6r HT and recording the conversations with a digital audio recorder?

He would then burn the inappropriate conversations to CD and send them to the TSA's office.

Live streaming online would be great.
I'll make a tangentially related assertion that I think is a bit more defensible: people tend to become increasing resistent to training in new skillsets as a function of their age.

Like you, I think they are perfectly capable; the problem is motivation. The longer someone has been doing something, the more it becomes a comfortable habit. Not just in economic skillsets, but in most everything, people will rabidly defend comfortable habits, to the point of declaring that society should be forced into steady state if that is what will keep them comfortable. Every human interest story we hear of someone who saw their industry vanish out from underneath them, and then they indignantly plant their feet and declare that we must bring their industry back is an example of this.

We become resistant to change, but I do not really believe this is an inevitability of age; I think it is something that we societally accept from older people far more than we do from young people. They've worked hard their whole lives, they deserve us subsidizing the comfort they now deserve as a result. Young people haven't worked hard for long enough yet, and so they not only don't deserve comfort, but we should steal away the comfort they do have to pass to the older generation that has earned their stripes.

Accusations fly in all directions, each group screaming to the other that they are the entitled ones, and that all this group wants is fairness and consideration. It's ridiculous; they are all caught up in a sense of entitlement, and all participate in an economic system that fundamentally doesn't care what they think they deserve. No matter who you are, you will never get what you think you deserve; best leave this sense of deservedness at the door, and realize there is a large random component to all of life's happenings.

You might not deserve, in some existential sense, to lose ten straight poker games holding a flush or better, but the worst thing to do if you do is get indignant and either declare the game is rigged, or try to rig it yourself.

So, agree with Vivtek; people in their 30s are more than capable of learning new things. But capability is orthogonal to willingness, and along that vector I think we have a lot of motivating to do.
I have some questions for you:

1. What state decided the 2000 election?

2. What state has a huge retiree population?

3. What state, which was once a safe Republican state, was a swing state in 2004 and 2008 and will likely be a swing state in 2012?

Hint: the answer to all three is "Florida".
> I think it’s going to come out of religion, I really do. I think there’s going to be a resurgence of religion.

Well, not religion but identity (which could be cultural or national). People no longer want to hang around with people of different persuasions just because they were forced in the same space at birth. There's an opening for radical new movements like charter cities and a new nomadism. It looks like the nation state may be a bad fit for the 21st century
> Some engagements in EVE will literally involve thousands of players in the same system all interacting with each other in big groups

That's a tough workload. I guess it would appear in MMOs, bidding markets, wonder where else.
In addition, I don't think that it is as effective as telling them that it isn't ready yet and asking them for an email to let them know when it comes out.

If they risk providing their email for a product that isn't even ready yet, it shows stronger interest than for a product that they think that they will be able to use right away.
DJ Girltalk or anything else I've heard a million times. The more I've listened to something the less I pay attention to the words and the more I let the beat take over...
am I the only one always quite surprised that the universe is 'only' 13 billion years old?