jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The "watches" feature video actually made me say "wow" out loud in the office. Such a simple idea but I can instantly see how amazingly useful it will be.
You could probably fix that with a small userscript, if so inclined.
You looking for explicit mentees? :)
looks like pikaso is a tool used for screenshotting tweets for usage on sites / other marketing. and this is a demo / marketing for their tool
If Google had pop-ups I would never have used it, ever. I probably wouldn't even have used it if it had any image-based ads, the banners and such that yahoo was making a killing on.

The primary reason I started using google was its speed, simplicity, and the fact that it put search results I wanted exactly where I expected them. It felt good to use Google. It did not feel good to use search sites where half my time using it was spent downloading image files for advertisements.

What's your revolutionary improvement in the domain name registrar market?

That's a good question and I suspect if someone can implement an answer they'll get very rich.

A key factor would be marketing their trustworthiness. In a market where dark patterns are rampant, a reputation of being "the one company that doesn't suck ass" can be very valuable.
And I as a customer am happy to have Ryanair, Airasia and other low cost carriers like those. Even if they do use dark patterns, they provide me with possibilities I didn't have before they appeared...
Having done a fair bit of integration work, I refer to the US Healthcare bills as an IT industry stimulus (integrating hundreds of HMOs / you gotta be kidding)
If they're only checking up on him when he appears to be hiding something, that's nothing.

You see, a former co-worker of mine spent about a month (spread out over many weekends!) in the infamous "Tent City" jail in Phoenix, AZ after a DUI conviction. He said that the guards would come through the room several times a night to perform ID checks on every bunk, basically assuring that you couldn't get a reasonable night's sleep. The 100F+ temperatures didn't help either.

He also said that the leaders of each ethnic group/gang (whites, blacks, Latinos) had access to contraband mobile phones, and had made deals with the prison wardens to keep them. Apparently they also had their own food supply.

If PFC Manning is being treated in exactly the manner described in the article, then he's in better shape than many prisoners in America, where it seems torture is practiced every day.

(I'm not condoning the practices of either).
I think that there is a confusion here: making mistakes is not a necessity for success. Making mistakes is necessary for learning, but not for success. Any lottery winner can confirm that.

It is all down to this philosophy that says that success comes from hard work and recovering from failure, and that if you try hard enough you eventually reach your goals. But you also need sheer luck.

And please, don't translate luck as "being at the right place at the right time" because that amounts to trying hard enough, but is not. You can be at the right place at the right time because of... sheer luck.
Single Page:

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/robert-lane-gre...
It's worth remembering (I think this has been forgotten) that the original leak Manning is suspected for is the "Collateral Murder" video.

That is very much of public interest and a prime example of what whistle blowing is for.
> Also, this is a total aside: what if there actually was a way to stuff like C++ on a computer in sandboxed environment that could be loaded automatically by a user in a seamless way? If that happened, if you took away Javascripts monopoly of the highly portable and convenient environment, it'd be dropped so fast you could blink and miss it.

This is what asm.js enables for non-garbage-collected languages, and what Binary Data enables for garbage-collected languages.

But I think you're overestimating how much people want to move away from JavaScript. The overwhelming majority of Web pages never leave the JavaScript interpreter in Firefox, because they just aren't bound on JS execution speed. What is far more important than raw JS speed on most Web pages is ease of development and DOM/CSS performance. I think it'd be hard for C++ to gain much mindshare on the long tail of Web sites, even in a world where asm.js was universal, easy to use, and 100% of native speed.

JS has plenty of faults, but one thing it's never lacked is convenience. Conversely, C++ has many virtues, but one thing it's never had is ease of use. Given that calculus, I expect JS to continue to dominate for a long time.
Thank you for the great list of resources and insights.
The wiki with much more information: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:Main_Page
If women stopped getting pregnant then maternity would cease to be a societal cost, however the economy might get a little screwed as the human race dies off.

Parents are your most productive employees. They are the only ones who are making more employees.
Every death and injury caused by those ignition switch failures was a tragedy. The attitude of the managers involved was wrong. The technical understanding of the complete system was unacceptable. It should not have taken as long as it did, and the defects should not have left the planning process, much less the plant.

That being said, I do still think that the course was changing. The ignition switch in question was designed in 1997. Vehicles are hideously complicated; Conway's Law[1] would indicate that the organizations involved would also be hideously complicated, and they are! The Valukas report mentioned above calls out specific shortcomings in this regard.

If your small business produced vehicles on the scale of GM, I would be very very surprised!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
> This talk was presented at Google I/O in May 2013.
You seem proud. Slap yourself on the back from me, too. Such great work! And lay one on for Shaddi. What a dude.

Not.

This is ... centralized, US-led, heavily geopolitically partisan communications networks sold with vague economic development overtones. Any realistic evaluation would find it hard to conclude other than that such networks will chiefly be used to justify further US and Australian meddling (eg. extreme communications interception... such as the Indonesian president earlier this year) in this region.

Instead, we should lobby for FirefoxOS to drop cellular as de-facto and embrace alternate link-layers, ad-hoc and mesh! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047
Read the list...

> I notice when my mind is arguing for a side (instead of evaluating which side to choose), and flag this as an error mode. (Recent example from Anna: Noticed myself explaining to myself why outsourcing my clothes shopping does make sense, rather than evaluating whether to do it.)
Somehow I knew before clicking the link that it would be this book.

I also read it several times, my father's copy in junior high, a copy I bought in high school, and another copy in early college.

Though I'd probably recommend the Art of Electeonics as mentioned up thread, along with the student manual. I took that Physics 123 class at Harvard taught by Horowitz and Hayes, and it was amazing.
I would suggest you spend a few minutes reading about Twitter's Flight[1]. We've been using it for a year and it's been a pleasure.

[1] https://flightjs.github.io/
> I'm a developer, I fork it and make changes that I don't publish because I don't have to.

That's all fine, because you're only exercising Freedoms 0 and 1. The MIT/BSD licenses and many others are sufficient for these. As soon as you come to exercising Freedom 2 and 3 though, users of the code are susceptible to losing all 4 freedoms for that software. It's at the whim of any of the middle-men distributing or modifying it as to whether any of the freedoms are preserved for all users.
One very simple reason that one of my friends has been enjoying for some time: it allows you to continue your programming career past age 35-40. This part of the market, where they care if you already have a clearance and can do the job, but not your age, is much more efficient than the civilian US market.

And I'd be surprised if the pay is much better in the private sector for equivalent IT jobs; I've never heard any programmer with a clearance being upset with pay or not being able to live the lifestyle he liked (well, as long as it was average American suburban).

"Fucking up" is pretty easy to avoid; you can talk about the technology you're using (e.g. Suns/UNIX, .NET, Java (the CIA was a 100% Java shop in the middle of the last decade), just not about the domain. Which is often true in the civilian market, it's just that the penalties are higher.
I agree. There is much less interesting discussion here than on sites without karma. The groupthink on HN is even worse than on reddit.
Nice 404 you have there.
>>somebody had to figure out how to build [rocket engines] and that somebody was NASA

Exactly what are you talking about that was totally new and not done/planned 1945 by von Braun et al?

(Or, for that matter, by Goddard.)
There are private sector jobs that require security clearance and pay well. Consider Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, etc. Lockheed on GlassDoor: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Lockheed-Martin-Salaries-E40...
If dragging would just select text on the page that means that the script was has not even initialized. Something was blocking the JavaScript to run at all.
>There's a unique interpretation of the Bible, the catechism, which supports "directed evolution"

Actually, doctrinally, Catholics are free to believe in believe in evolution or not. The Church accepts scientific evidence of evolution, but does not make it a policy issue, so to speak. Contrast this with, say, the Church's stance on belief in the literal historicity of Adam and Eve (and a whole slew of specific claims besides), which is core Catholic doctrine and a non-negotiable belief.

You don't need to take my word for it, the Vatican has the Catechism full-text online. You can read the Catechesis on Creation for yourself, where you'll see:

"The question about the origins of the world and of man has been the object of many scientific studies which have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life-forms and the appearance of man. These discoveries invite us to even greater admiration for the greatness of the Creator, prompting us to give him thanks for all his works and for the understanding and wisdom he gives to scholars and researchers..."

Which hardly seems to be taking as forceful a stand as you imply.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2...

>Catholics can't fundamentally choose what to believe in

Seriously? Have you met any adherent of any organised religion ever? :-)
Believing in something that can't be explained and has no supporting evidence is fundamentally at odds with science.
If they have now introduced it, that's great. I was never offered it; perhaps it varies by region (us/fr/ie). I suggest making sure that you get automatic renewal before signing up for any services. (And then be sure that your credit card doesn't expire!)
Probably not, just trying to keep the facts straight. Offsite backups should always be encrypted on the client side, so it doesn't really matter where the provider is located or if it's trustworthy. (except for things like reliability / retrievability).
I've needed this for so long. Thanks.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789
I'm bothered by the out-sized number of negative attacks on this comment. Not because they are negative, but because they are personal. I wholeheartedly believe in constructive criticism, but discounting someones viewpoint based on another subjective viewpoint is not constructive criticism.
There was a Forbes article[1] last year that linked to a number of studies. If you're looking for a less "journalistic" take and want to poke around with the data/studies yourself check out GENERA[2] (a database of peer reviewed GMO studies).

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-...

[2] http://genera.biofortified.org/
I think these are engineering-wise fantastic. Though, I do worry that they look a little too non-local. When you take care of someone, sure you start at the base of Maslow's law of hierarchy, but it is important to take cultural, personal, etc. issues into consideration as well. This hold especially true when dealing with prolonged displacement where identity and self-worth can be challenged.
And until the early 1980s we had the Flight Engineer to keep an eye on the two pilots. They drove, he managed the aircraft and made sure they didn't bend it.

It was not unusual for the Flight Engineer to be senior to the drivers.

But the airline accountants highlighted the personnel cost of Flight Engineers and eliminated them, without ever considering the operational cost savings they provided. Even in mundane matters like resolving departure issues without having to wait for the on-call engineer.

"How long to fix it, eng?" became "What's wrong with it now? Back to the gate."
The title was correct then, as you can see on archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210221170918/https://fred.stlou...
It's worth noting that this sort of racially divisive workplace training has been made the subject of a recent executive order, banning it for all federal contractors. So this might be a good move from LinkedIn.
Do you allow literally anyone, regardless of situation, to claim "woe is me"?

I understand that "one-downmanship" can be used to dismiss legitimate claims, but the existence of such tactics does not automatically validate anyone who claims their lives are hard.

The original article used a line from Hobbes regarding existence pre-society, which does not apply. The author could have used many valid other things in the US (homeownership and marriage rates, opiod addiction, savings rate) that would have made that part of their argument valid, but decided to go to the rhetorical extreme.
None of these are the real question as regards a publicly traded company in the business software space. The better questions are:

- Why is the Company holding so much cash? Most companies do not hold 60% of their market value in cash or other assets unrelated to their core lines of business. Why is MicroStrategy making this choice?

- Why will the Company not return the excess cash to shareholders instead of running an investment book on the side?

- Revenue is declining in a market that is experiencing growth. Why is management focused on the minutiae of treasury management instead of fixing the core business?

It's not fiat vs BTC, it's about why is the company holding so much cash in the first place?
Yes it would require a hard fork of bitcoin, which of course would also mean that everyone using bitcoin would have to agree to adopt the new forked version.
> Nigel Farage, reform UK leader and senior editor-at-large for Newsweek's "The Debate," also criticized the racism training materials.

Of course he criticised it.

https://giffenman-miscellania.blogspot.com/2016/08/nigel-far...
Fair enough. But my point is to be disruptive.

I don't think the author has a point here. I think he's appealing to the fact that, on an emotional level, humans think they're entitled to always have their standards of living be equal or better to what they were before to make people think they live in uniquely hard times.

Looking to the world outside of the US might provide some badly-needed perspective as to why that is not true.

I think it is important to differentiate people's subjective feelings of being let down from there actually being a problem, or their lives being "nasty, brutish and short".
It’s a toy for developers who are building it. No real target audience, other than maybe some extreme Amiga geeks, who will launch it once every few months.
You cannot guarantee suppression but you can discreetly reduce frequency until very few available versions exist, and hope they quietly die in the long run. You see this happening with certain videos and pictures, typically sex-related.
While I really hope these develop into good resources, The first one isn't out. The second one is not remotely usable by itself at the moment. Most of the chapters are empty. There is a smattering of code that revolve around some very basic things can be found in other Lift books (which are now outdated). The 4th longest chapter (ch 15) is a wall of text & self promotion that goes on about how Scalable/Better Lift is than other frameworks.[1]

BTW Here is another book, that is, to my knowledge, the most complete free reference available for Lift: http://groups.google.com/group/the-lift-book?pli=1

Here is a [link](http://main.scala-tools.org/mvnsites/liftweb-2.1/framework/s...) to the Lift Scaladocs.
Most methods do not have any descriptions, several classes don't either. This forces digging through source code / searching and asking question on the mailing list to figure out how Lift wants you to do something.

Ultimately, with how fast Lift moves it's really hard to have any faith in any book keeping up.

1:
Even when using Lift’s session-afﬁnity dependent features, Lift applications have higher performance, identical availability, identical scalability, better security, and better user experience than
applications written with web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Struts, and GWT.
> how realistic is it at this time?

Quite realistic, as there are many bare-metal offerings at this time, as a quick Google search will attest to. What exactly the packet.net people mean when they say 'premium', however, is unclear.

> That model entirely disappeared. I miss it. Is anyone doing that now?

Heroku still offers a free-tier to start.
I would personally love an opportunity like this and would not turn it down.
And then, on the other hand, there are the things no one
wants to say: the advantages tables have over CSS. In
particular, it's obvious to me that CSS was not designed
with modern layouts in mind. The fact that it works at all
is really just an accident: it turned out that you can make
columns using floats (how 'bout that?).

Oh, come on. If some are still stuck with IE6 this does not mean that CSS is only capable that much. Time to learn some modern CSS, folks (hint: IE8+ supports display: table-*).

And anyone who thinks that tables are easier to deal with either did not work
enough with CSS or did not care enough. In 1996-2003 I was building stuff tables way, in 2004 I went full CSS and never looked back.
This is wrong. The rate of integer and logical instructions that can be run per clock is equal to or higher than floating point instructions. For example, AMD GPUs 5-way VLIW units can execute, per clock: 5 integer/logical op, or 5 single precision flop, or 1 double precision flop. Nvidia GT200 GPU streaming processors can execute, per (shader) clock: 1 integer/logical op, or 1 single precision flop, or 0.5 double precision flop.
OK, I'll bite (and show my ignorance regarding security). What should we use in place of SHA1?
I love these "Help me name my business" kind of questions on HN. It allows me to go a little crazy with my creativity. Anyway, here are my ideas.

First, the serious ones (stupid ones to follow)

Parts Smart

Parts Mart

Car Gutz

Purr-fect Auto Parts

The Autocrat (or The Auto-Crat)

The Auto-Dialler

The Auto Loader

Now, as promised, the ridiculous ones (the ol' reverse-psychology trick of telling your customers you're serious by giving yourself an un-serious name)

Mister Smarty-Parts

Major Partz

Underhoods

Captain Sparky

The Great Crate

Heap o' Fixin's

Drivin' Monkey, The Car Parts Junkie

I Heart Parts

Mister Friendly's Autocracy

Sloppy Jalopies
It also means having root access.

All kidding aside, that is the central question of being a start-up CTO. All non-business building aesthetics and measurements are out the window until you have customer #1. After that, the goal is to support the customer as best as you can. If ugly code is making modifications difficult, then you rewrite only then. If it is working, then for all that is holy leave it alone. If the code is beautiful and a change will make it ugly, then it will be ugly.

One of the lessons I wrote about goes core to this. There is more value (to a company) in learning how to navigate, manipulate, and fix large bodies of ugly/shit code than trying to rewrite it in a perfect way.
I love the abstract level on which luminary scientists who still choose to contribute write papers. This is perhaps the best example I've seen. Each section is a distillation of knowledge spanning multiple fields of study and decades of results. This made my day. When humanity is without GH we will truly be weaker.
law and med schools act to limit supply..
> I'd argue this is a very clear-cut case of letting perfect be the enemy of good and software engineers thinking they're lawyers.

That's why the Fedora commit was stupid. It didn't solve any technical issues, it didn't consider negative side effects, and was completely unnecessary.
Haha, I saw that, too before I posted the youtube link to a Mercedes-Benz GPS from 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6EQXiLPkY

People forget what older car and handheld units used to look like and how to input them, but then again, this was over 2 decades ago.
Thank you for the reply, which you must get tired of giving but which you nonetheless gave politely.

I understand that the needs of any one user, such as me, with a particular idiosyncratic set of needs and preferences are at odds with those of the body of users as a whole, who need an appropriate balance between customiseability and useability, together with, of course, deliverability—it's no good having a product custom-tailored to fit every possible combination of needs if the developers collapse under the maintenance weight.

I didn't really mean what I said as anything other than a cri de cœur: it sometimes seems that Firefox rode to its current position on the wave of the love and passion of power users, a group of which I am on the periphery, but now cares more about its numerically larger but less devoted casual user base. This is probably the right decision, but it's still frustrating as one of those long-time users (from back in the Phoenix days!).
Having read the book, I'm just amazed anyone could have read it and go "we should make a movie out of this!" And I love all of Lem's writing.
If memory is going to be measured in powers of two, shouldn't disks be, so that you can easily tell how many multiples of your memory size they store?
French and Belgian layouts.
New developers (less than 10 years professional experience) seem to become fascinated by "cool" language features

The classic analogy is with young musicians. Just because you can put a fancy ornament in or play real fast doesn't necessarily mean you should. Sometimes it's best to play something simple, so long as it's just the right something simple.