jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A strangely perfect fit.

I use both Survey Monkey & Wufoo daily at work, and consider both of them to be fantastic tools, which both could both use some love on the visual customization end.

Survey Monkey's visual customization is limited to changing colors and uploading a logo. With Wufoo - it's possible to generate custom CSS (or do completely custom forms with their API) - but much more difficult than (I feel) it should be.

So - congrats to both companies, and hopefully they'll now move in the direction of more & easier visual customization.
I've actually seen arguments that we shouldn't really have settlements in those areas -- more lush states aren't short of space, and it takes a large amount of infrastructure to make it work.
Woohoo, you mean all I need to do is carry around a 175lb antimatter backpack and I can float free! ;)
Oh, very cool. Thanks for the heads up-- If I get some free time I'll do this.
Wow, you could teach a class on rhetorical fallacies from your comment alone. Let's try to unpack it here.

First, you've tried to claim access journalism as part of accepted journalistic ethics. In fact, access journalism is not part of any accepted journalistic ethic, and is in fact the subject of great consternation among journalists themselves.

Second, you've implied that I'm somehow proud of the practice of access journalism. Once again, the fact is that I, like you, find the practice repugnant.

Third, you've tried to use this supposed anti-ethic to thus dismiss the entire ethical foundation of journalism via some sort of guilt by association. Of course, even if some aspect of journalistic ethics were to be found suspect, that still wouldn't negate the rest of the practice. In fact, like all ethical pursuits, the whole is greater than the parts: journalists, like lawyers and doctors, bind themselves to ethical practice. There are always those willing to violate those ethics, but an access journalist no more discredits his entire profession than a negligent doctor.

Fourth, you've made a false appeal to common ground ("It's fine if Apple wants to retaliate") which mischaracterizes my argument -- you'll note I didn't once mention "Apple" in my comment -- and sets up a false equivalency where Apple's behavior somehow excuses Gizmodo's. In fact, I think Apple's actions are clearly retaliatory, but that wasn't the argument I made, and is still unrelated to Gizmodo's unethical behavior.

Fifth, you've argued against the claim that Apple "is defending the honor of all journalists." That's indeed a specious claim, and one worth arguing against. Except that I didn't make it. In fact, you've again mischaracterized my argument which, for the record, was simply that Gizmodo needs to choose which side of the fence they sit on.

Finally, you've enclosed the word "journalists" in air quotes as a sort of argument-by-ridicule: you've tried to assert stylistically that journalism is something to scoff at, and thus that anyone -- like me -- who defends journalism is similarly subject to ridicule. In fact, journalism is generally accepted as being a requirement for democracy -- see, for example, the Bill of Rights.
Very interesting question. We founded Plug in SEO a year ago and at the time came up against lots of anti-SEO prejudice. The scene has definately changed, at least here in the UK. The prejudge has been replaced with robust questions about its benefit.

As for recruitment, if your SEO solution is genuinely an arms race of outmanouvering search engines, as an engineer myself I'd have passed over the opportunity. Personally I relish solving problems but not reinventing the wheel or gaming search engines.
Check out University of Massachusetts Amherst:
http://cs.umass.edu

Read about courses offered this fall:
http://www.cs.umass.edu/ugrad-education/fall-10-course-descr...

You can complete one of the 11 tracks leading to a B.S. in Computer Science.

As well, you can complete the new B.A. in Computer Science. Instead of requiring Calc I, II, III, Linear Algebra, and three science courses like Physics I, II and Biology, this program requires only Calculus I and II for Life Sciences. The B.A. is designed for students who want to double major in a non-science field, and are required to take four courses relating to computing/technology in that second major. (As well, the student must take five Computer Science electives, like students pursuing B.S. degrees do.)

It's not difficult to do undergraduate research by doing an independent study with a professor for a grade, or by working for a professor for money during the school year (which is probably a bit harder than for credit). One would probably be expected to have completed the introductory coursework (data structures, algorithms, discrete math), of course. Yet another option is joining the honors program and writing an honors thesis, which could tie into the undergraduate research you could do.

In the summer, there is an official REU program with a stipend and housing. On top of that, professors also frequently have funds to pay skilled/upperclassmen undergraduates for conducting research, similar to what happens during the school year.
Because it would take work and time to put such a system in place, and they are overwhelmed right now. Plus, it would certainly cost money which is probably not in budgets that have been cut to the bone.

There's also a cost/benefit analysis. Having gone through a few hundred such applications, they have probably come to the conclusion that the likelihood of finding a gem is too low to be worth the effort. If you are employed, you are likely only sending out resumes if it's a very good fit; therefore, from the hiring HR guy's point of view, there's a lot of value in that self-selection.
Slightly misleading headline and statements in article.

A more accurate headline would be - "Further evidence uncovered that does not contradict theory of life on Titan".

The article also states - "They have discovered that life forms have been breathing in the planet’s atmosphere and also feeding on its surface’s fuel." - not true. That assumption stated as fact is based on the following two findings -

1. "The first paper, in the journal Icarus, shows that hydrogen gas flowing throughout the planet’s atmosphere disappeared at the surface. This suggested that alien forms could in fact breathe."

2. "The second paper, in the Journal of Geophysical Research, concluded that there was lack of the chemical on the surface. Scientists were then led to believe it had been possibly consumed by life."

Too much conjecture and assumption making in the article. Less sensationalism please.
> The established ethic of "cover people artificially warmly so they give you access" isn't necessarily something to be proud of.

Uh no the ethical issue is that they broke the law themselves by buying stolen property. And they acted like dicks. Not sucking up is irrelevant and fine, buying stolen shit and flouting that fact isn't.
My experience is that HR doesn't have a core competency.
...so long as we balance the long term cost in future maintenance/extension work against the short term gain.
Pretty neat project. I just signed up and I noticed a little typo. When choosing experience level for matches it says "I would not mind helping someone with less _experienced_".
Agreed. Some other entries on the list speak more to the current topics than readers' vocabulary, like Renminbi and Manichean.
They're both great frameworks.

Most of the complaints I had about Rails have been addressed by the upcoming Rails 3. If you're learning Rails for fun, you might as well start using the Rails 3 beta since there are tons of new goodies in it.

Network effects are very important for these kind of things, so I'd recommend checking out local user groups for both languages/frameworks to see where you'd fit in best. It seems a good deal more people in my town (Portland, OR) are familiar with Rails than Django. Anecdotally, while there are more Ruby/Rails developers around, their average proficiency is lower than Python/Django devs. Also, the culture surrounding each framework has a different vibe.

I don't want to draw too many generalizations, but in my personal view differences in culture do exist. Getting to know other developers who use both tools should be an important part of picking which language/framework to use.

Or, learn to use both. It'll be good for you. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each language will make you a better developer, and reduce the chance of you becoming an--excuse the term--ignorant zealot.
I wonder what happened to the agreement everyone here in Europe had in 2009. Even Apple agreed with the USB-Charger.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10274953-94.html

EDIT: Ah they (all) got time until 2012.
Finding the value from an authority is not the same as deriving the value.

Get ye back to remedial science education.
Yes, I believe you are being unreasonable. ThemeForest items dont come with support. And the email he sent to you was perfectly reasonable. The dude is probably from Eastern Europe, so dont expect him to have perfect english. I highly doubt he was intentionally trying to be rude.

How long have you been using wordpress themes? It's pretty much DIY, paid theme or not. There's no way to get around having to fix things yourself when they break.
The problem with this list is some are micro-optimizations while others are rather important and dramatic, but they are all listed together in no particular order or weight.
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That is crazy. Because NT is an excellent kernel done by a industry legend (David Cutler). It runs on 80%+ of all desktop, is the grid below a cloud platform, is a game console and has a track record of being flexible enough to run on microcontrollers, phones, etc. And the complete hardware industry supports it.

There is no reason to switch to Linux, considering that they would need to reinvent the whole UI stack of Linux like MacOS did. Keeping a 50 people hired for Kernel development sounds cheaper.
Fenix seems to have that.
It depended on the distro. Red Hat was using it for a long time, which I suspect is why systemd has it, too. Look here at 24:40 - this is Red Hat 9, released in 2003:
https://youtu.be/QKtzfwyspU0?t=1300

Gentoo also did it from the get go, although it's not SysV.
Don't get me wrong, I was saddened to notice that I couldn't easily just use .local name resolution for a P2P app and have it easily work out of the box on Windows 10 in every application stack I could wish (more so than file share discovery, it's disappointing to me that Windows Browsers don't support .local well or at all because the default Win32 DNS resolvers don't consider mDNS at all), but on the flipside, the APIs that do speak mDNS work and work well. I'm sympathetic why the new APIs are opt-in WinRT/COM++ APIs instead of just another opt-out magic kludge in the Win32 stack, but yes it's harder to think of it as a platform-wide service when it isn't on-by-default and requires development effort to support.

> Microsoft also got us LLMNR with Vista/2008... So they were aware about Bonjour, but they made their own.

Vista was the hangover after the ivory tower perfection attempts of Longhorn. In retrospect we should probably be excited they didn't reinvent more wheels than what they did. ;)
"[We are canning YC China because of the macro political environment]."
A real CO2 tax would need to compute that number for every imported good or service.
Many of the "no attempt" 2018 missions were because they were reflights of older models of cores (pre-Block 5) that weren't worth keeping around. Expendable launches for Block 5 boosters are far less common.
Also very true. Going into V2 deploy that I've open sourced. Will publish it this evening.

Thanks for all the feedback y'all!
> If we believe in the "market place of ideas" where validity and accuracy are the sole determiners of success
then none should have artificial support.

The "market place of ideas" makes no mention of the speed, likelihood of transmission, or intended audience. The best candidate with the best message still needs to get the message out in a timely fashion (before the election and to the core constituency!). The best product at the best price doesn't matter if the business runs out of money before it can drum up sales... not to mention, real world concerns like collective action problems.

I'd argue the market place of ideas is only the best idea in comparison to the rest.
I'm actually laughing out loud at that statement.

>What a neat game, let's see what it does. Nah. Let's kill it.

Humans. So weird.
That is a blatant misrepresentation of that decision. That decision was upholding a lower court's preliminary injunction that prevents LinkedIn from blocking hiQ while the main case between the two is litigated. It is not a final decision and it doesn't purport to say that scraping is legal (it even points out other laws besides the CFAA that might be used to prohibit scraping.)
I'm not criticizing the New York Post for being too indie. I'm criticizing them for being profoundly untrustworthy.
https://www.overdriveonline.com/do-truckers-pay-enough-for-h...
naive question, won't any deep faked video leave some pretty readily detectable artifacts in the underlying video file?
Part 1: https://archive.org/details/1990-01-computegazette/page/n24

Part 2: https://archive.org/details/1990-02-computegazette/page/n35

Part 3: https://archive.org/details/1990-03-computegazette/page/n43
perhaps even charge people for it? like... it's part of a google business accounts?

unless it's going to bring in multiples of billions of $ per year - and accelerate that growth - they're probably not interested in doing that though.
I took an exam which presented a drawing of a logic chip and a description of its pins and asked us to implement some functionality using this chip plus the minimum number of external gates.

I managed to implement it using only wires, with no extra gates at all. Apparently this surprised the instructors; the best known solution used two extra gates. They gave full marks to me, but also to the many students who used two gates. Given that the exam was designed to not have anyone answer everything correctly in the time allotted and was graded on a curve, I found this distasteful: I had devoted extra time to finding the optimal solution, at the expense of spending more time on other parts of the exam. The instructors were not sympathetic, and I got a B on the exam despite teaching them something new.
So you are going to try to burn bridges with a non-negotiated (a more accurate term would be fraudulent) invoice? How impressive.

Almost as impressive as your reactions in both a. handling the original situation by waiting ten weeks and b. responding to negative feedback here by telling people essentially "flag or GTFO."

You're quite an endearing person and I just can't see why they passed on the chance to have you around.
> you have the right to flash whatever firmware you feel like... Apple simply is under no obligation for it to be easy for you to do so

This is disingenuous. Apple is not being called out for failing to create desirable functionality for iPhones. Rather Apple (et al) are being criticized for deliberately acting to purposefully constrain functionality. The first criticism would be asking manufacturers to do work to improve their products. The second criticism is telling them to stop crippling devices they sell.
This is great idea. I've signed up to wait list. Interested to know period to launch/full access?
I am truly amazed and impressed with how many different software you bothered to create a consistent design language for with this theme.

From Ableton, one of my favorite DAWs to Blender, one of my favorite tools for modeling.

Like seriously, WELL DONE, friend. I'm happily making my way to checkout right now, thanks for sharing this with us
I worked for someone back around 2013/14 in which we tried to implement some tracking pixels, and what you described was exactly what we ran into with Gmail recipients. When the e-mail lands in the inbox, Google was retrieving the image from your server, caching it, and then displaying the cached version to the user -- so all you knew was that the email was being delivered to the inbox, but couldn't tell if the email was opened. I don't know if that's how it currently works, but that's what we ran into at the time IIRC.
Would agree Google Adsense is the giant but they still have competition. A quick search on duckduckgo revealed at least some to investigate.

Note - many of these are probably just as scummy or moreso than adsense but they, at a minimum, are not part of Google.

Media.net
PropellerAds
Amazon Native Shopping Ads
Adversal
Sovrn //Commerce (Formerly VigLink)
Skimlinks
Monumetric
InfoLinks
ylliX
Evadav
PopCash
PopAds
RevContent
Adsterra
SHE Media
AdRecover
MadAds Media
Bidvertiser
Adbuff
BuySellAds
AdClickMedia
> The problem is that stateful connections suck and create artificial complexity when you don’t need them. Instead of managing the state of your app you’re now managing the state of your app and a connection to a remote server. HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident.

Seriously, try phoenix liveview if you haven't already. These problems of dealing with stateful connections over questionable tranport and managing them are what the Erlang vm were designed for, and phoenix was designed by rails core team members.
> I’ve never understood why people⁰ care so much about trackpads.

Because it's nice to be able to use my laptop without having to find a tabletop and dig out my mouse. In bed, on the couch, on a bus, as a passenger in a car.

Smartphones have taken over a lot of those situations, but a small laptop is still much better for a lot of tasks. I don't use Macs anymore, but their touchpads are actually as precise as a good mouse, and it just feels really nice.

Same thing with knobs and graphics tablets, though it's not a use case I have personally. A dedicated peripheral is probably more powerful and precise, but sometimes it's nice to use your laptop from your lap.
Guys, we teach children that two wrongs don't make a right, don't we? Is there a reason we teach them this or do we just like the phrase because it rhymes?

Well, she may have made an "honest mistake." Or she may not. We can debate whether she should lose $600 or the author should lose the tickets, but that debate can only happen if the author made a decent attempt to prevent the loss, for example by offering the tickets second chance to other bidders or by driving down to the game and trying to sell the tickets for cash. He then could have pursued her for the difference between the $600 she promised to pay and whatever he managed to obtain for them using reasonable means to sell the tickets.

However, the author took it upon himself to defraud her out of the $600. He changed the situation from getting her to pay for the tickets she bought for herself into getting her to attempt to make money from arbitrage based on a false and fraudulent promise of his.

This is absolutely wrong, and it makes no difference whether she had originally backed out of the transaction or not. The story sets her up as a "bad woman" to play upon some of the most vile behaviours social animals have, namely believing that there are two classes of people, "good" and "bad," and the bad people don't deserve any decency or protection under the law.

I see defrauding her into paying for the tickets exactly the same way that I see bullying visible minorities or depriving persons we think are guilty of a crime of their legal rights. It stems from the same "They're a bad person, they don't deserve consideration" beliefs.

It may seem like a horrible Godwin-esque comparison, but how is this different from torturing a petty thief into making a confession? I don't mean to suggest that this is bad because "They might be innocent," I mean even if they're actually guilty, don't we as a society still want to treat them with decency?

This woman may have acted badly. But we should still treat her with decency, lest we as a society become vile ourselves.

In my judgment, both parties should be investigated by eBay. I don't know her side of the story, so I can't say what eBay ought to do about the choice she made initially. But if the author acted as described here, I would expect eBay to condemn his choice.
Are chips with this feature sold in consumer devices? I'm planning to buy a new computer soon. How can I avoid or boycott the chips in question? Or can the feature be definitively disabled through the BIOS?

If I buy a computer, then I want to own it completely and not have arbitrary DRM bullshit remove capabilities. If I wish to take a screenshot of copyright content and share it with friends (fair use), then I should be able to do that, and I will be seriously pissed if my own machine gets in the way.

Does anyone know which chips include this feature, and/or whether it can be disabled?
>but everyone will understand the latter, and many people may misunderstand the former...

And the analogy breaks in that all German speakers will understand the former.
But to get to that point you have to basically kill 50 mobs to collect 10 Items hundreds of times for 70 hours (hyperbolically spoken).
Musk from the AMA: There is a great quote by Churchill: "If you're going through hell, keep going."
Downvotes? What exactly sounds controversial about the advice? Anybody read 20th century history?

Besides, it's not like "terrorism" is some constant in societies. With the exception of nutjobs, organized terrorism is a response to specific political circumstances and relations between countries. You don't see any terrorism between the Swiss and the French. But there has been between the Irish and the British, for the well known historical reasons. Or in Spain with the Basque countries. Or in the Middle East / Latin American.

It's a political issue, and can be solved at that level, not some natural force that we no other mean to stop except to always be prepared for it, like earthquakes.
From his interview[1] with Sarah Lacy, I believe he would agree with you. The paraphrased quote[2]:

At this point, the still unsophisticated investor got caught up in the realities of human nature that make people attribute their successes to their personal genius while attributing failures to bad luck. In reality, he says, the exact opposite is the case.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUG2_cmZ6I
It is long. I recommend watching it fully nonetheless.

[2] http://pando.com/2012/11/01/how-chris-sacca-turned-his-stude...
My company/startup uses iChat AV for video conferencing pretty much daily. Huge fan. My wife uses it with friends and family. My mom and my sister use it several times a week.
... and of course, XSS here means "attackers can turn the crypto off."
So Nexus One has 960x640 300+ ppi, IPS LED backlit display?
Its 5Mpx camer is with backside illumination?
How is Nexus One increased battery life compared to iPhone 4?
10 hours of video, correct?
Yes. You are right. It is the problem with pretty much everything. The issue here is that you haven't solved that problem. So your application is no more secure than anything.
Engadget seems to have them in a flash wrapper of some sort. YMMV.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/apples-iphone-4-promo-vid...
Another reason is that the operation may already be needed as a component of a trigonometric function, and it doesn't cost much to promote it to a separate opcode.
Typical marketer move - steal the term from even more advanced tech to hype an incremental, quantitative advance on current tech.