jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For essays, a revision database is useful. They're constructed of elements, single arguments for a collaborative effort to prove an argument or illustrate a point.

When I write fiction, I don't want to remember where I came from. If I remember my source of an idea too well, I risk full out plagiarizing an idea instead of making it my own and building on it.

I can't write a story about a boy going to a magical school and focus too heavy on the obvious source without making a fanfic of Harry Potter, and you can't focus on the less obvious source without making a fanfic of Earthsea.

An essayist needs to remember their source to stay on point. A fictionist needs to forget the source and get lost in the literary woods. You build a universe and have an adventure.

Stephen King for example finds an idea and simply asks "what happens now?" Asimov had the problem that he played the formulaic method and some of his stories were extremely weak because of the lack of freedom. He dedicated his whole work to the source, and only really succeeded because his ideas were at least original. However, Asimov is my personal least favourite of the great SF writers. I'll drop dead for any Arthur C. Clark or any Heinlein, but I'll get bored with the vast majority of Asimovs work because it's so A,B,C formula that it kills the fun.
Honest question: does that really include all of your data? All the messages, comments, friends, any friend ID or contact info (email addresses, IM names, phone numbers, addresses, etc.)?

In other words, is it enough data that you can just export and jump ship to another social network without much interruption (assuming some reasonable transformation effort for the data)?
The guys behind Wakemate have already stated publicly that the battery lasts 2 to 3 days (actually 24 hours) depending on your sleeping patterns. The reviewer said that the apparatus ran out of juice at the end of the third day. It doesn't take a genius to realize that he should charge the damn thing every second day. Would you NOT (on purpose of course) charge your smartphone on the second day, when you know that it just doesn't last the full third day? Instead of charging the device every second day the reviewer decided to keep pushing for the three days that he fully knows the device doesn't last for him and his sleeping patterns. Battery estimates are just that, estimates, and vary greatly depending on the amount of usage a device gets. The reviewer knew that that thing is not lasting three days for him, and the review is a sarcasm ridden piece on how he was fooled to think that it would when the website clearly states that it might not last 3 days for everyone and actually depends on your sleeping patterns.

Read the review again and you'll notice that the Wakemate does have all those things you want in an analytics package, but the reviewer dismissed it with a wave of sarcasm because according to him the only use for analytics and tags (for events, as you mention you want) are to tell you that you had a "crummy night." You will also notice that he states that the Wakemate works with YOUR movements as opposed to the movements of whomever you're in bed with, but he says this in a way that it's easy to misinterpret it the other way around. Immediately after the fact he starts complaining that the alarm might wake your significant other, which any alarm will do.

My point is not that the review speaks negatively of the Wakemate, I don't even own one and really don't care much about it, but the review was completely lopsided. It belittled every good thing the device has (the analytics, the tagging, the raw data, the fact that it works even with other people on the bed, etc) and made a big deal about something that not only is not a bug deal, but works exactly as is stated by the product manufacturer. Other than the pairing issues the reviewer had, the rest of the review read like a sarcasm ridden payed "anti-advertisement" against the Wakemate.
> I don't think I understand how currency trading works. If you owned EUR the value of the EUR only changed relative to the CHF. If you owned CHF you gained 15% against all currencies.

> How do people lose money on this? Are people somehow trading on the CHF/EUR exchange rate? And is so, why? The CHF was pegged to the EUR.

When you currency trade you go long one side of a currency pair and short the other. So you borrow 40000 Euro and buy Franc or vice versa. There is always a specific currency pair involved.

The usual reasons to take a position in a pegged currency is either to bet that the peg breaks (which people being long Euro obviously didn't do), or to extract value from a difference in interest rates (the carry trade, I don't know if that applied but there must have been something attractive about shorting CHF....)
The top keywords, by the price Google charges to advertise on, are: insurance, loans, mortgage, attorney, credit, lawyer, donate, degree, hosting, claim, conference call, trading, software, recovery, transfer, electricity, classes, rehab, treatment, and cord blood.

None of those are the sort of term you type into Amazon.
This isn't science. At best it's philosophy with a bit of mathematics thrown in.
because Google always likes to do things the most difficult way possible. They've screwed over too many products over a long period of time for it to be surprising anymore.
So you are trading on the exchange rate? What's happening in the background? I guess someone is writing these option contracts and backing them with real currency?
Those are the exact words I'm looking for. Can I use this on the front page?
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"aging scientists"
Location: Paris, France

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: YES, specially in North America

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I think it is unfair to call this document biased, from the document:

> This document is a distillation of convoluted generics discussions and it is not an official opinion of the Go team, although it does incorporate their opinions.

I think the document simply amalgamates all the points that have been made on both sides of the debate. I would agree that some of the points made against the generics do seem to be somewhat biased (or debatable or flimsy/whatever), but I think the document itself merely tries to collect all of these arguments together, so that when someone says, "what is the argument against this point?", people can point to this document and say that someone raised the argument that "The generic structures are less useful than a concrete one". I think then that can be used as the starting point for discussion (someone can raise the counterpoint that they think this is wrong).

I see this as separating the discussion of the validity of the points from an enumeration of the points made so that people can refer to them (which I think is helpful). In addition, with all the arguments for and against collected together, people can more effectively discuss the proposition.

EDIT: I am all for go having generics, I just don't think the document itself is biased.
Is it really so hard to run a PubMed search on someone with a distinctive name?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Mitteldorf%20JJ%5BAu...

Biochemistry (Mosc) is a hotbed of programmed aging theory, and much of the theorizing in this area is generated by the Russian gerontology community.
Yeah... I need to stop doing this. Hangover from pre-VCS academic code-soup habits.
In the spirit of providing reasonably good analogies, there's a game some people play where given a programming language the scissors are unleashed and a statement or construct disappears from the language temporarily and now the players try to implement "whatever" in the now slightly neutered language. The general spirit of ... write me a fizzbuzz without the mod operator or a function reimplementing mod.

Now there's plenty of space for jokes like do this to C++ and that language is so fat most people won't notice if a random component disappears. Or do this to PDP-8 assembly language or a turing tarpit and the language is so small that one component removal might make it no longer turing complete, maybe impossible to complete the challenge. But generally speaking, yeah, remove a big part or enough small parts and you'll take a 10x performance hit, sure.

Now there's "know" and then there's kyu/dan ranks from go. Too much binary thinking means people who have a correctly applied checkbox don't really know what they're doing, or maybe they do. Thats why its hard to predict.
Anything to do with crypto is a "10x problem", or at least a "careful specialists only" problem.
The danger is that increasing your income often leads people to spend more on higher quality things that they might not need, thus forcing you to work longer, or to make even more money.

The trick is to be happy living well within your means, even if that means a lower quality of life than you could afford (but not a low quality of life)
Having to squint is not a solution, especially if you have poor eye sight. Using both hands is a minor convenience at best.
I went the other direction: I moved from an iPhone 6 to a 6+. I'm over 40 and I find that the bigger screen (with the phone's new "Display Zoom" mode turned on) makes it much easier to read the screen. As a result, I use my phone much more. Previously, with the screen so difficult to read, I only used the phone for voice calls (basically, never) and used an iPad for actual app use. Now the iPad sits unused, while the phone meets all my needs.

I've got small hands, so I'm still figuring out how to best hold it, but being able to read text on my phone screen more than makes up for it.

Lately I've been considering switching back to the iPhone 6 (better for pocketing, less likely for my small hands to drop) and using an iPad Mini for everything, including voice calls, via Continuity and bluetooth.
Yeah, looks like it's slowly coming back for me now too.
this thing is interesting if it's Sean Parker that's being accused, note that this person has called Sean out personally a tome or two before[0]. sadly, all of this information feels true, but i don't know if it's just a personal bias at play. the link between power and a need for sexual "conquest" is something i find very odd. i wonder why the two fall together so often.

0: https://memeburn.com/2011/09/early-facebook-app-developer-cl...
If you don't want people to be able to fork your product, make it proprietary. Don't pretend to be open source and then attack people for exercising the rights that development model affords them.
Won't be complete until it can send mail though.
I am willing to wait until the dust settles before passing judgement, but if the facts in the linked article - that the exchange backing this basically unknown currency is financially tied to Signal in some way - then it's hard to not see _potential_ conflicts of interest here, and be suspicious of the motivations involved.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... etc..

As for Moxie.. he has indeed done great work, but a lot of people, ethical or otherwise, get to a point in their life where they just want to get paid and move on.

I'm not saying that's the case here, I have no insider info, but it has certainly happened before.

All I hope is that this is an opt-in feature that you can easily ignore or disable, and it's not constantly being pushed on us and getting in the way of just sending messages.
"Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies" is a very good book on what makes companies great, and a lot of the points echo this twitter thread, especially "cult-like culture".

It's also very interesting because quite a few of the "visionary companies" have failed in the 30 years since it was written.
This is great! :)
Disposing of a crytoasset requires paying Capital Gains Tax, not Income Tax
Because it doesn't matter how much money you throw at customers right now, it's not going to produce cashflow in <some hotel chain>.
Are you talking about the parliamentary left and right here?

"laissez-faire leftist" are two words otherwise seldom heard together.

If so, I don't think Orwell was discussing Parliamentary left and right divisions, but cultural ones. And so in his case "laissez-faire leftist" wouldn't make much sense.

on edit: oops, sorry, I saw it was your last word. So I guess I will never know what it is you're actually talking about.
The Trump administration greatly mishandled the crisis.

There is a theory that Trump's mishandling of the crisis is somehow what sets the United States or the west as a whole apart from the wealthy liberal East Asian states of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

The problem with this theory, though, is that it doesn't explain why countries like Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Australia all dragged their feet every step of the way. (At the beginning, Germany seemed to respond extremely well, but once it became epidemic in other countries, they gave up.) People were not tested if they showed signs of the disease; they were only tested if they were connected to a known case. Travel was not restricted till the disease was already present in the target markets. When travel was restricted, it was too often done on effectively a racist basis. If you're Chinese, you're banned. People acted as though we would somehow be immune from this disease since our political/health system/language is just so.

In China and in the West, the response was always F-grade. Trump and the US deserve extra comment, but they are not the unique failures. It's the difference between 15 and 45. A huge difference, but a passing grade is 50.
GP gave some good points about benevolent dictatorship.
Can you elaborate on why it wouldn't be "the best thing" in general?
And ideally weight that against all the other scenarios where it is.
Yes, this is inevitable if you're going to run this plugged in over a significant amount of time. Should remove the battery.

I found no mention of this in the article, which I think is dangerous. Unfortunately I didn't find any way to contact the author on his site (except an unused comment plugin).
Depends on whether you think Yelp is ‘targeted’ advertising.
Please point to some concrete examples of this... Screenshots?
Either take a class, or do it like most self-taught programmers: Find a need and start looking up how to make it happen. It's going to be VERY painful at first if you teach yourself, but if you stick with it, you'll get there.
All stuff that stereotypical wife is supposed to do.
Good stuff I found recently is electronic composer Maximillien Mathevon. He does music for documentaries mostly I think but also releases albums of good chillout music. 'A Pause In Your Life' is a good album/collection

'Moving Immobility' :

http://open.spotify.com/track/4Wcwk5QWQusi1t8KejoHw3
WE integrated with Amazon FPS. But customers didn't have AMZN accounts etc, so we started using the POMC method. "Plain Old Mail the Check". No more cuts. no more hassles.
Honest question: Do you know anyone who has successfully redeemed the Kryptonite anti-theft protection?
They just say that cubicles are bad:

> it has become increasingly clear that far from offering a clever compromise between the economy of open-plan and the privacy of individual offices, cubicles are in many ways worse than either.

But also say that open office plans are bad:

> And last year Swedish researchers studying the link between office layouts and illness found that people who worked in open-plan offices had the highest risk of becoming ill. The reason, they concluded, was more than just the easier spread of infections. Stress caused by lack of privacy and workers’ inability to control their surroundings played a part, too.

> Open-plan offices are noisier and more interruption-prone. Too much noise causes high blood pressure, sleep problems and difficulty in concentrating. And cubicles’ flimsy walls do little to dampen sound. In studies where sound levels were raised from 39 to 51 decibels—roughly equivalent to moving from an average living room to a road with light traffic—participants were more tired and less motivated.
GoatCounter[1] or Plausible[2]

[1]: https://www.goatcounter.com/
[2]: https://plausible.io/
https://ide.kaitai.io/ has a yaml syntax, and its online editor has tons of examples.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." I'm not even sure the intentions were originally good, but if we give them the benefit of doubt, we are learning slippery slopes are slippery and not a fallacy.

Twitter is now basically approved editorial content.
There's a problem using the Internet for training, because the Internet is often not a nice place. Reminds me of Microsoft's misadventures with Tay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
Sure thing, since im only a week into iOS, i'm changing my default to insight, will give more feedback as i use it!
They are not in control of their car if they cannot stop without crashing. Sometimes this requires not driving at all.
In this case, it's really more optics. He has zero chance of ever being re-elected to the Presidency.
If you want to play with TCO in a node-type environment, the built-in JSC on MacOS is one option. It doesn't include system integration tools (file operations, etc.) and isn't suitable for production (at least not in any way I'm comfortable with).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6830192/how-to-run-javas...
The vast, vast majority of "bitcoin evangelists" couldn't care less about the actual mechanics of Bitcoin. They don't care that it was created as a digital F-You to fiat currency, and they don't care that it enables you to be your own bank. Just look at /r/bitcoin. It's 99% price/hodl memes, and 1% posts about the protocol & enhancements to the protocol itself.
In 2019 Tether's lawyer was talking about 74% backed by cash and "short-term securities".

Edit: I forgot to add the link, here it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/tether-sa...
For what it's worth, I don't think he'd disagree with you.

Additionally, I would probably translate that to be, "Unwilling to put up with what appears to be needless effort."
The second step would be noticing that objects of the same weight fall at different rates. When your predictive power fails you seek more refined models. For everyday phenomena we can guess at truth, maybe 'the wind'. The deeper you go the less clear it becomes as you don't have any direct interaction with the things you're modelling.
This is interesting I did a bit of Googling, I guess it varies by sport quite a bit.
https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/around-the-league-nfl/20...

Some sports, most coaches came from players, but the NFL notably does not.
> conclusion: the placenta is the product of that virus. We would never accept that kind of mythology in software

Seems like a very reasonable hypothesis if that virus is a retrovirus [1]:

> Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are endogenous viral elements in the genome that closely resemble and can be derived from retroviruses.

> ...not all ERVs may have originated as an insertion by a retrovirus but that some may have been the source for the genetic information in the retroviruses they resemble.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
I'm afraid not. The best I can do right now is offer an example outline of what I do. That said, if I'm working with a good project manager my format will differ: I'll focus a lot more on the technical details and leave all organizational aspects out (e.g. timelines, dependencies and impact on other teams, etc).

The key principle is that anyone (sales, marketing, support, product, etc) should be able to benefit from reading it and find it intuitive to see where you're getting into the technical details and skip ahead to the next major point.

1. Overview

A paragraph of two explaining the what and why of the project. Maybe some links to other related key documentation. Don't put anything technical here.

2. Change Log

Bullet-point list of dates and major changes. Think of it like a git commit history.

3. Scope

What systems are affected? Are there phases to the project to be called out? If its principally one system/repo/etc in question, what major components are changing?

4. Requirements/Tasks (the main body)

Use a numbered list and aggressively refactor as you go so high-level items rise to the "left" and all related details are broken out as sub-lists. You can loosely think of it as something like "[section] > [epic] > [task], [task], [task]". Prioritize the list based on dependencies so you're always referring back to already-mentioned requirements instead of yet-to-be defined things.

5. Supporting Docs

Put long-form examples, scenarios, diagrams, etc in their own section. Some people will only care about these, especially if they provide integration examples.

6. Concerns and Questions

Ideally by the time a first draft is done this section no longer exists, but usually you'll find that you need to do research or get feedback from others to finalize the whole thing.
Kindly requesting Australia. :)

(Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide... Take your pick.)
"Very rarely is there simply not some kind of existing solution."

Yep, when you talk about known problems. Still often both the problem and solution (which is just another view of problem) lie just outside current scope of people imagination, and are only found by prospective minds when the way is open (other conditions met).

There was not simply some kind of existing solution for Internet 50 years ago.
Context is always important. And there's no such thing as blanket advice that applies to every circumstance. Software development is a hugely varied endeavor, ranging over more orders of magnitude and more variety of application than almost any other industry. It stands to reason that most practices will vary rather considerably depending on context.

Linus writes from a systems perspective. He cares about every nanosecond and every byte. And that's appropriate and even laudable in the context of the linux kernel and core applications. But it's not always appropriate for every situation.
For something much lighter (1/10th the size of pry) and less opinionated, see http://github.com/cldwalker/ripl. It's designed to be extendable and thus already has 20+plugins and 5 shells built on top of it.
Django isn't the only popular Python web framework. I suggest taking a look at Pylons also.
It is a Django site using Pinax and GeoDjango. It is hosted on Linode and Github, the code is documented and a lot of time and energy has been put into it. It has a really nice simple and edgy design. Music/touring/concerts/fan-analytics/ticketing is a cool yet highly competitive area, and I don't want to take the conventional startup route. I'm not sure the conventional startup route will work.

I think it could be an interesting way for people to get involved in a startup without the stress.
Sitting right behind that propwash with no windshield isn't going to be fun either. Even if you're cruising at 70 the wind is going to feel more like 140.
This paper is very interesting. Deserves its own news entry on the main page.