jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Plus the stroller serves as an easy way to store books, bottles, snacks, etc while walking.
It's not clear that economic growth is a good marker for technological or societal growth.

In fact, I'd suggest that technological growth benefits from economically lean periods, when people have to strive to make things less bloated and more efficient - exactly as you say.

Is this a good thing? It's not as clear-cut as you claim.

I would personally take peace over growth, any time.
While the amount charged to the public (and the deleterious effects of liberal incarceration on communities) is real, the costs cited may be exaggerated. The "Kids for Cash" kickback system comes to mind. They can turn a profit.

It isn't the majority of all people that matters, just the most consistent individual groups of voters. And felons can't vote. How do you disenfranchise and silence entire communities of people? Disproportionately charge them with felonies. It's obviously broken.

Civil disobedience makes sitting ducks of powerless people. Idealism doesn't change laws, or political culture, or us-vs-them mentalities, or nepotism, or corruption, or revolving doors. Law makers change laws, and not easily. Occupy changed what exactly? Maybe it influenced the adoption of Cop Cams a little, but it had little effect on banking practices, and that system affects pretty much everyone.

Change isn't hopeless, but it doesn't work the way you'd hope it would.
Nice thread there since I'm pretty new in Web Dev+Design freelancing (2y part-time, 7m full-time), but I think I've got in touch with a hint of an answer few days ago.

Someone came to me 2 weeks ago with a clear idea of copying a website, because her business was in the same market. We finally met 3 days ago about her project, and she told me she has seen 5 freelancers and 2 agencies for her website, but she still wanted to speak with me because she wasn't decided yet.

The first thing I asked her was: "Can you explain me about your business ? And what process the customer is going through ?". Then we went through a pleasant hour-long brainstorming phase, until she realized her point was totally different from the existing website she wanted to copy, and that we ended up with a way better and more suited solution for her. She surpisingly said : "You're the only one that asked me those things, and I loved it!".

Then I asked her how it went with those 7 other clients and she told me nobody cared about her business, and how they only seemed to want to get the contract, at any price. Even though some of them looked professionals, she wasn't sold.

After this meeting, I understood that a freelancer shouldn't be positioned as an "expert" sitting at the opposite of his client, but as someone sitting alongside his client, as a friend caring about their goals. When you're the right person, your time is invaluable, and your price will be the right one.

In conclusion, there is a lot of bad freelancers out there. Just be nice, get close to your client by genuinely caring about their problem, be honest , and you will build a strong network that will like you, trust you, and pay you well.
Tear It Down

We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. by redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
we can break through marriage into marriage.
by insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.
we must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
but going back toward childhood will not help.
the village is not better than pittsburgh.
only pittsburgh is more than pittsburgh.
rome is better than rome in the same way the sound
of racoon tongues licking the inside walls
of the garbage tub is more than the stir
of them in the muck of the garbage. love is not
enough. we die and are put into the earth forever.
we should insist while there is still time. we must
eat through the wildness of her sweet body already
in our bed to reach the body within the body.

-Jack Gilbert
My theory is that every casual game is just a cover to collect data. Its actually worse in App stores outside of the US and Europe.
My reading: Bell Labs folks would have ordered it Programming > Math >> Computer Science. RTM was good at programming, was being taught CS at college, and took too long to learn that neither that nor math were for him and that Bell Labs had it right all along.
"AI" in this question could be replaced by: alien, God, singularity, a guy/girl from future or the Terminator.

Given above "options" are mutually exclusive, (e.g. both God and alien are watching at us), it's reasonable to suggest we are just fine. don't worry.
yes, but drawdowns are very important to investors as well, not just ROI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawdown_(economics)
> there is nothing surprising about the US spying on the EU and vice versa

Yes, the comforting normality of the cold war between the US and everybody else. Just don't be surprised when US products and services become a target of widespread boycotts around the world.
Indeed, the point is that working and buying a new device would net me more money than spending the time I could've worked on fixing the device. I agree with you, though, I'd also rather fix a broken part that cost a dime, instead of throwing the whole thing away. It's just not worth it, if I only look at the money angle.
I just looked it up in a comment [1] I wrote about a month ago - 250 PHash/s hash rate with 1 GHash/J mining efficiency, 100 $/MWh energy costs and 100k transactions per day. Sources for these numbers in the linked comment. But even your hypothetical $0.60 or $0.06 are still way to high for real micropayments if we, for example, think about paying maybe $0.10 for reading a news article as an alternative to subscriptions based or ad-financed online news.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8782877
I can’t get used to it, that’s the major problem. My previous company used communicator then lync then Skype for business and then teams. I worked there for a few years with teams as the “primary” conversation platform (though my team also used slack- but that meant you couldn’t contact anyone outside of my team using slack ofc)

No doubt Teams improves some things from Skype for business, but the issue is that the UI is generally inconsistent with itself and notifies people randomly. “You might like x”

Maybe it was mismanaged, maybe my org was too big (20,000 people), maybe the groups were setup wrong.

But when I am in a chat with someone and I can’t type to reply because I get pop ups that steal my keyboard focus, or I have to dig through a bunch of IM chats I’ve been having to find the right conversation to continue. Or I post something accidentally in a discussion group and it posts as if it’s a forum post and due to the rules of that group I can’t edit or delete it… then get notified of all the replies… I get frustrated.
.xyz is blowing up and gaining a lot of reputation. It's the new .io and .ai. Incredibly hip for your startup.

abc.xyz

block.xyz

Look at all the HN articles pouring in with this TLD: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

But you're right. Spatial domain products should jump all in on this.
Hum... You mean you can replace some text with some other text?
I think it's more underestimating the attention span of governments/law enforcement.

When someone steals your bike, the cops could spend weeks investigating, interviewing witnesses, searching Craiglist, Facebook Marketplace, staking out the neighborhood for anyone riding the stolen bike, etc.

But they don't, because it's a bike. But steal $3.6 billion, you'll hold their attention for a bit!
It seems that ARWINSS is purely a replacement for a few userspace components (specifically user32 and gdi32, not that those are small by any means (having written my own implementations, my hat goes off to anyone who attempts it)), not the ROS kernel and all that entails. Am I incorrect here? The reason I follow ROS is that it allows compatibility with existing NT drivers, which is huge in my opinion, so moving away from the ROS kernel would be a Bad Thing (TM) in my eyes.
I know a group of 80+ year old Japanese-American men. During WWII, one was in an internment camp, two served in the US military, and one was visiting family in Japan and was drafted into the Japanese military.

"It's complicated" is about the best explanation I've ever heard.
I'm sorry that you felt the document viewing experience went backwards. If you're wiling to contact me directly I would definitely like to understand what is bothering you about the new experience and whether there is anything we can do to correct it.

Undoubtedly, from a PR standpoint we ended up timing the launch just right in the wake of the Steve Jobs fueled anti-Flash fervor. Total coincidence, though; I can't take credit for foreseeing that six months before it happened.

The press doesn't have anything to do with the user engagement (more specifically, "time on site") change, though. Only a tiny fraction of Scribd's users read TechCrunch or have any idea what HTML5 is. The majority really don't care and just unconsciously find the viewing experience less annoying, so they stay longer.
Yur second point is dead on - these companies aren't the "champions of capitalism" some think they are. They are benefactors of government policy, like the fractional reserve system, Federal Reserve policy, etc.
This post is just a (cleverly headlined) wrapper around the original story, http://www.membercon.com/from-police-reports-to-email-subjec...
I love Emacs but the painful training period is too long and too painful for most people.
There are a lot of jurisdictions in the world where this is impossible due to common restrictions in the employment contracts. California, yes. Many other places, no.
“To temporarily silence bucklespring, for example to enter secrets, press ScrollLock twice (but be aware that those ScrollLock events are delivered to the application); same to unmute. The keycode for muting can be changed with the -m option. Use keycode 0 to disable the mute function.” — the paragraph after the section quoted in my OP.
All four also have off road racing teams (those were the only ones I was familiar with, sadly). I don't follow Formula 1 or Le Mans, I'm afraid.

As for Formula E, that's a great question. It seems like it should be right up their alley, but I'm almost positive AI is verboten and that would be a non starter for Tesla.
I keep getting impressed by the EA-proponents ability and eagerness to frame EA as “true altruism” (an actual quote in this case!), as if EA is some purely-rational approach with no philosophical baggage or assumptions. How utterly self-congratulatory.

Another problem I have with EA is how incredibly fragile it is: because it is so reductive and narrowly-focused, you are likely to optimize for the wrong thing (the map is never the territory) and might even do more harm than good. In the best case scenario you might do a lot of good, though.
It stands for "the f-ing article," i.e. the link in the original post.

(When you have to explain it, you realize that a lot of common terminology in the "tech community" kind of sucks!)
The (government) bonds in Netherlands are negative going out 30Y:

* https://ca.investing.com/rates-bonds/netherlands-government-...

Commercial bonds may not be too far off, so the spread may be enough for them to make a profit.
> There are a lot of European countries that are willing to hire Syrian refugees without having to make it a humanitarian cause.

Not true.

Basically you have no idea what is sanctions and how it works.

And it is "humanitarian cause" I am not making things up. This is the definition of humanitarian cause.
Interesting project and wish them best of luck.

On the claim:

>However, no modern device is “fully open” - no usable computer exists today that has completely open software and hardware (as much as some companies want to market themselves as such)

Doesn't RaptorCS[1] offer a fully open modern device? Or is there a closed part I'm not aware of?

[1] https://www.raptorcs.com/
It's hard to give credit for something indiscernible.
What? You mean like nearly everyone does all the time? I guess the exceptions being those with mental illness.
I think everyone can agree that the employee is the #1 scumbag in this story. I think a 4 year sentence is woefully inadequate for someone who effectively stole her employers retirement years, years he cannot replace.

Some blame can be assigned the business owner. How can you go so many years without a 3rd party audid, or Some kind of second opinion to your finances? Though trust shouldn’t be so harshly criticized.

The casino is in a tough spot. If it returns any money, it sets a precedent that would turn its industry on its head. It’s also not necessarily fair to its investors, and it would be hard to unwind all the hires, raises, and investments that were made with the fraudulently gambled winnings.

It almost feels like a charity should be established and funded by the casino; a vehicle to right wrongs such as these, without admitting fault/setting a precedent. Heck the casino would even get tax write offs for the charitable donations
Probably every operating system that can somehow do block IO asynchronously has a layer that tries to sort IO requests to spinning rust disk as to minimize seek distances between the requests. And in fact all of the current "canonical" Unix filesystems even have on-disk layout that is somewhat motivated by minimizing the seek distances (and in fact, this idea is what the first F as in "Fast" in "BSD FFS" stands for).
I think you could probably abstract away some of the differences between djangoORM and SQLalchemy. Maybe something like a model class that uses sqlchemy for the underlying orm interactions. Not that i really blame them for using their limited dev resources elsewhere.
Any paperwork professional (eg accountant, realtor, other type of attorney) will be happy to refer you to an appropriate attorney because they'll make a referral fee off of it. Whether that attorney is any good is another question. However, generally all attorneys are decent at supplying impersonal "default no" answers, which is most of what you really need at first.

The bigger issue is that you'll then be paying at least $300/hour for their services. So now you're burning money to have this conversation just so the FBI can fantasize about being heroes.

Don't talk to the police without an attorney is good baseline advice, but also misses the mark in many ways. Any way you look at it, getting into government crosshairs (whether it's merely civil questioning or a literal gunsight while being used for target practice) is a perverse reverse lottery that survives because of regressive politics and the just world fallacy. And this won't change until there is reform that fully compensates suspects/witnesses/etc for their time, expenses, and other damages incurred as a result of erroneous law enforcement.

FWIW as much as I hate the term, having a relationship with an attorney that you could call for urgent representation is a form of privilege.
Exactly. And when most of your time is spent bringing people into your office to ask them for a project summary you could get online, remote shines a bright light on it.
Why not cover your camera? Some MacBooks are so delicate that Apple itself warns stickers can break them IIRC¹, but to me that’s just one more great reason never to buy a MacBook. For other cameras, if someone can look into my windows, they can also watch a lock-picking video on YouTube and IIRC learn that something like ≥70% of American homes have locks from the same 1–2 brands, and break in easily, but I still close curtains, because why not?

¹(Edit) You can't make this stuff up: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211148
I value code well written, maintainable, and testable but sometimes I'm a bit put off on certain conclusions. Once I read a report by a guy who had come in into a business to re-work an, by his words, unmaintainable mess. This had been written over five years by a single guy and no-one seemed to be able to make sense of it.

The one re-writing touted what they had accomplish, a full re-write with a team of 15 or so people, in a couple months. I can believe that some guys are dickheads and do crap and are anti-social or don't want anyone touching their stuff and think they're the last cookie in the packet.

On the other hand, there's a real difference between writing from scratch something, with features tacked on week-in week-out, contradicting requests, no time to work through issues or problems, being the only one allocated to the problem and having no real plan or feature map laid out, during 5 years and then coming in, when all the system is laid out, all the bugs and domain knowledge have been made visible, there's a working system that can be used as base to understand the objectives, the rough edges, problems and pain points are also known, and rewriting it from scratch better.

Lastly, it's also not known if they had been the ones writing from start with the same constraints if it would have been so pristine as they claim, and it hasn't stood the time for 5 years yet. Maybe it'll end problematic as well but now it took a team of 15 or so that probably cost more than that single guy for 5 years - and still made something that helped keep the business throughout.
It gets old after a while. The first 8-10 years are fun then you just want a change.
It's kinda nice living in a different area code from my phone. I know that if I get a call from 415, it's spam.
As a masshole that doesn't even register on my "paternalistic-authoritarianism-ometer". At least he's aware that the public won't like what he thinks needs to be done.

Sure a NH or ME politically appointed administrator would follow that acknowledgement up with something about being bound to serve the will of the public/electorate but acknowledging public opinion is a thing that needs to be considered probably puts him in the top half of Massachusetts political appointees.
This blew my mind when I first came across it:

deck = ['%s%s' % (n, s) for s in 'HDCS' for n in '23456789XJQKA']

It creates a deck of cards.

Also, you can easily shuffle the deck using the standard library.

import random
random.shuffle(deck)
You can even subscribe to the magazine in Stanze ebook reader for iPod/iPad by adding this address as a repo:

http://pragprog.com/magazines.opds

(from http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/134/topics/2905)

Edit: I just noticed that this address can be used in an RSS newsreader like a normal feed.
"If your developers are saying they aren't ready to ship, it's because you've asked too much of them."
"No developer worth his salt wants to ship a product with bugs. To ask them to do so is to ask them to violate their personal ethics."

I've been looking for other words to put this, but I can't find any that get the emotion across equally well, so here it goes: this is bullshit. One shouldn't ship a product until the artificial, self-set criteria of the developer have been met? When to ship is determined by the product manager, and the developer should stick to fixing the areas that are deemed most important by the team. The developer should then work with the rest of the team to work within the given limits to reach the best result possible.

Fixing bugs is not 'personal ethics', it's at most 'professional pride', which is a laudable goal but not in the same league as 'personal ethics'.

(I am a developer myself, fwiw)
How difficult is it to understand the rules and what does it say about the jury if they don't?

Edit: I really don't understand HN's obsession with downmodding legitimate questions. Either provide an answer or move on.
I'm imagining the hordes of frothing con artist sociopaths that are about to create flashy demo videos and cutout companies with lots of fakey "social proof" and cutout demos sold as real products.

Equity crowdfunding for the general public should be a good idea, but unfortunately I'm afraid it's not. The asshole to elbow ratio is just too low. I'm deeply concerned that the entire seed stage market is about to get shat upon rather copiously. The frauds will actually drown out the good deals, since they'll almost by definition be better at flash and promotion.

A lot of people are really naive about this stuff. Organized crime will likely get involved. It will not be pretty. But hey, those companies that make flashy startup intro videos are about to do a lot of business.
...and what about the married man who was also in that relationship, and lying about being married for those six months? And not just a lie of omission, but "We aren't together any more."

Yeah, maybe she ... "showed questionable judgement" for believing his lies, but he actively lied. What does that say about his judgement?
Easy to cherry-pick a successful one.

As much as I find the idea of crowd funding an interesting, potentially innovative idea that should likely be allowed, I cannot see a situation where it doesn't end up creating literally the exact same scenario as unregulated penny-stocks.

A huge slough of shit companies who can't get funding from respectable investors and then proceed to aggressively pursue the average joe with 10k in the bank to invest a few grand "in the next big thing!"

Someone please tell me how I'm wrong.
And satirized by XKCD: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/locke_and_demosthenes.png
The far away airport is indeed buried in the fine print, but under current law (at least where I live) the advertised price has to be the final price; Ryanair skirt this by having one obscure credit card that they'll accept without a fee and a big fee for any other kind, but unavoidable fees on top of the advertised price are illegal.
I find it interesting that this is so easy on iPhone and so hard on Android.

For some reason, I think of taking screenshots as a poweruser feature (which might or might not be the case), and that Android would make it easy, while Apple wouldn't make it available to regular users.

I wonder what the thinking behind those decisions were. Did his Steveness demand the easy screenshot functionality to capture UI feedback on the go?
> could probably run the demos.

I tried the demos in Firefox and Chrome. Not all of the demos worked in either of them, so much for "could probably". It's not about Safari trying to make itself look better, it's about Apple not letting html5 look bad. If someone not-so-knowledgeable surfed to the demos with browser X and not everything worked then they may proclaim that html5 is crappy and doesn't work. Apple is trying to show-off html5 and that would be the opposite of their goal.
Vim has a scp handler to allow you to work locally.

Here is how you do it: vim scp://server//path/to/document
There's a major risk to that ... one person in the group gets discredited and that compromises everyone in the group.
Here's good audio of that voice. Listen to Capt Sullenberger calmly tell the tower "we're going to be in the Hudson"

http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cact...
I think the notion of OS X being pretty good until up to 10.6 and then getting worse, with many new features feeling "strategic" (for Apple) instead of useful resonates with people. I have this impression too, at least.
I've tried head tracking devices and found my neck and shoulders get stressed. I imagine the same thing would happen hunched over a trackpad with the nose. The small neck movements are similar to head tracking.

Check out the Imak SmartGlove with Thumb, I can't use a computer without it. Well, of course I can but it is much less comfortable. The glove plus a Kensington Expert Mouse (which is actually a trackball with a scroll ring) plus a good chair (eg Steelcase Leap) will help a LOT.