jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And what do we learn from this? Make sure you trademark your application's name soon. I learned it the hard way too, BTW...
Sometimes ideologies and opinions are all we poor bloggers can bring to the table. :)

Yes, the revenue realities of today are true today. I am hoping that Google can work on the fragmentation issue and get that solved very soon, or at least made much more clear. Second, I think the Chrome Web Store will be a major help toward promoting the discovery and purchase of Android applications.

I know first-mover advantage has some weaknesses, but what I see is a growing user base with some needs. Where needs can be met, there is money to be made.
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The personal example was anecdotal. The same thought process applies to many people.

The GP opines that the Jobsian "he'll choose what's right for you" model is, as you quoted, right for most people most of the time. I would say that is absolutely not correct, and the iPhone has succeeded despite that model, not because of it: Great integration, software, and branding has overcome an incredible lack of diversity and choice.

It isn't a good long-term strategy though.
The best answer to that question is "no".
I think the advice to pick a story on the TV news and research it in more depth is wonderful, and even easier to do today with the variety of news sources from around the world easily available on the web.

But did Walter Cronkite really mistakenly write "effect" for "affect" twice, or was this the fault of some later transcriber?
I'd say "bland" is too strong; rather, they possess a particular design aesthetic that values clean lines and simplicity.
Wow, that was disappointing.

In _Shop Class As Soulcraft_, there's a chapter about the death of the tinkering spirit in American culture, where he takes to task Build A Bear Workshop (although, come on, they're kids!) and a bike manufacturer that allows enthusiasts to "customize" their bikes by custom-ordering variants of the bike or buying bolt-on kit parts. This site made me think of that.

It's all well and good, I guess, to stick decals on your Ikea furniture. I was just hoping for actual woodworking.
I'm only responding to the point that since the people are the same, the bias levels should also be the same.

As for specific bias at Al Jazeera, the main thing that jumped out at me when I watched it is simple racism. Arab minority being oppressed by non-Arab majority is a major human rights crisis. Anyone who fights back is a martyr. When a non-Arab underclass is oppressed by Arabs (or Farsis, they seem to be brothers in arms), meh. If they fight back, they are criminals.

My biggest WTF moment was reading an article about Kurds asserting their right to return to Kirkuk and take their land back from settlers. Somehow, the article managed to compare the Kurds to Israelis (rather than to Palestinians). I'll try to dig it up.

That's the sort of thing that I think most western editors would frown upon, except maybe at the Stormfront Newsletter.
Plan9 has a slowly growing community.

One Plan9 product got $35m VC money this year - Coraid
"Picking a subject out of the sky, like womens' studies, and declaring it "retarded" (classy in itself), is anti intellectual."

What if you declare it "retarded" after years of careful and intellectual consideration? What if you go on to point out that the field of study itself is intellectually bankrupt if not outright anti-intellectual?
Seems pretty realistic to me. At most they probably did a number of tries and included the most successful.
Lisp had this kind of interactive programming support for a long time using SLIME and Emacs. Why isn't this a more common feature in the more recent languages?
Which is why it is sometimes crucial to add comments to your code. I know certain code basically documents itself, but that depends on the person who reads it. In my eyes it is precisely edge cases that might or might not be known that profit from decent explainatory comments.

As a avid writer of comments I am convinced they also help myself, to form thoughts and remember them later, so at times I will write the comments before writing an actual function.

If that is to bold, commenting while the thing is still in your head makes sense anyways — saves you time later and helps everybody else who will look at your code.
People sign their vote, I'm not sure how the details work, you will need to look at the details of Devotee, look at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/04/msg00... and https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devotee
Why are you giving Google the benefit of the doubt, but not to the employee? Do you have more details about the situation beyond that letter Google sent out, or are you just trusting Google by default because...well, I can't imagine why.
I don't know. Designing governments isn't generally my forte. I'm just saying that "we can't have more representatives because nothing will get discussed correctly in our current format" is limiting for no real reason. It's entirely logical if you change the size of the Governing body, you'd have to change some other things, too.

The framers were smart enough to know their vision for the Government wouldn't be the best forever, or even the best a few decades from when they designed it. It was designed to be replaceable and update-able as needed.
oh please do it! so many people NEED that platform. If you want more information, for example mercadopago (the financial arm of mercadolibre) which is the leading fintech in Argentina doesn't allow charing cards from the united states (or countries outside latam).
Which for SAAS is terrible
Yeah sounds like exactly the kind of place I wouldn't want to work anyway.
Location: Europe (I am from India, but I am looking for a 6 month long international internship in Europe preferably Germany or Netherlands)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Role: Software Developer (Backend) / DevOps

Résumé/CV: https://www.varunagw.com/resume

Email: Varun@VarunAgw.com

I had 2 internships in the past and have participated in both Google Summer of Code and Google Code In. Other than this, I am self taught and need very little guidance to work. I am open to extend internship after 6 months if everyone is fine with it.
I get nauseous eating most store bought eggs, and it took me years and a couple of Reddit threads to realise this was the reason, as opposed to an allergy or whatever. Buying fresh I never have a problem.
I see it as the TVfication of the internet. The average Joe doesn't consume political debates on the situation of Western Sahara when he watches TV, why would he want to visit hacker news or TED.com when he comes online?
I completely remember that, which is why companies like Amazon should especially know better.
To the bathroom? Ew.
To roll your own:

- Interleave the bits of the coordinates to form a "z-value".
- Index the z value.
- "X miles around a" is a circle. Approximate with a bounding box if you'd like.
- Generate 1-d search regions to yield a set of z ranges,
and search the index using it.

For more details, look up z-order, or see books by Hanan Samet.

But a spatial index will probably do something reasonably close to this.

One big thing to watch out for: The spatial index or z-value index should be clustering, so that the points you retrieve are packed tightly into pages. If the index is not clustering, your index lookup will be fast but you'll pay a lot of IO to bring in all the pages containing the qualifying points.
More hilarious, though, is the local news coverage of the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2i_6j55bS0
SQL Server 2008 has Spatial Support.

They also let you perform spatial operations/queries. You can even store GPS 'polygons' and perform queries such as find ones that overlap, find the polygon which covers a specific point, etc. The spatial query support is amazing.

Indexing the Geography datatype is also supported.

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/spatial-data.a...
Changes in sales? Surveys of brand awareness? I'm not a traditional marketing guy but I doubt there aren't techniques that can be used to at least gauge the response to a campaign. They won't be direct necessarily but they must be there!
Community college can be a great way to save money and if you manage it correctly you don't have to lose any time. Going to community college for a year or two to burn through their math classes (high probability of transfer, and 4 year University math classes are often effectively taught by grad students anyway!) and you'll probably save in the neighborhood of 10-20k. Computer classes in those places tend to be more vocational and rarely transfer. Most states have a way to determine what would transfer ahead of time and guaranteed admission for Community college graduates above a certain grade point average.

So if you go that route you can do your last two years at the best state school in your state with most of your prerequisites done and well on the way to a math major. If they offer lectures to their CS classes online and you can test out of the classes, read through those and do so for the first year's worth (just introductory stuff anyway).

You can save a lot of money this way, and if you do well in community college, think college is your thing, you could always try to transfer to a more prestigious (expensive!) school.

The thing is, if your state has a good school and you go the community college route, you'll have as good a resume as anyone who did the whole four year haul there, but at almost half the cost.

If it turns out that you are one of nearly half who don't complete school, finding this out at community college costs doesn't sting very much at all.
You're correct, I just checked. At one point, I remember there only being "Connect with Facebook" on the quora.com page for signing up. Now, both Twitter and Email are options.

I guess I'll check this thing out now
Second Sekida's book, it's a brilliant guide, and quite light hearted as well. It's about 2/3rds practical content and instruction then some anecdotes and light philosophy.
> except the car or driving part

Don't threaten ME with a good time!
Literally probably the dumbest thing you could do. The point of money is for quality of life, if you can improve it without money that's perfect.
Because the admin detects HN referer explicitly and presents a joke page.
I noticed some time ago that Google refuses to offer up Encyclopedia Dramatica unless you use the site: operator.

There was some drama in 2010 over ED being censored in Australia, but it looks like Google has since quietly delisted it completely.
> I don’t understand how people can live on 45k a year let alone 30k a year

At these kind of wages you get quite a bit of government assistance: medicaid, social housing, food stamps, all sorts of tax credits, etc.

The US does have a social welfare state. Whether it's "good enough" is something I'll leave up to the reader, and it certainly does seem a confusing hodgepodge of different federal and state programs, but it does exist.

It's the same in much of Europe really; if you earn minimum wage you simply cannot survive without the social welfare programs.
And in OCaml:
https://github.com/janestreet/sexplib
This is a great article. I'm always in favor of flexible and scientific approaches to dieting. Lyle McDonald wrote a great series of articles on why diets fail (hint: it's a hormone called leptin) [1]. Caloric deficits lead to decreasing leptin, which explains why you feel like crap when dieting because this leads to metabolic slowdown by downregulating things like your immune system (why you get sick more when you diet) and reproductive system (why you lose your sex drive). Leptin's effects on the hunger-controlling hypothalamus explain why you may obsess over calorie-dense junk foods when you diet. It's your body's protection against starvation, but it goes all haywire in our obesogenic (obesity-causing) environment.

So what's the best way to acutely raise leptin levels when they're depressed from caloric restriction? Flexible diet solutions like the ones talked about in the article. High-carb "refeeds" - some people call them cheat days - are particularly helpful [2]. The trick is to binge on carbs (not fat!!!) while remaining at a caloric deficit, which is where a calorie journal definitely comes in handy. Things like sweet potatoes and pasta will fill you up and replete your leptin levels.

As an aside, while we're talking about leptin and flexible dieting, intermittent fasting is wonderful for flexible dieting. I'm working on a website right now that's based on the leangains method [3], which is great for folks in the moderately overweight category. For severely overweight or obese folks, Dr. Krista Varady (who I had the pleasure of speaking with on the phone recently), has published a ton of research on intermittent fasting over the past decade and just wrote a book called the Every Other Day Diet [4], which I highly recommend for anyone trying to lose a lot of weight quickly and safely and keep it off.

[1] http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-hormones-of-bo...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11126336

[3] http://www.leangains.com/2010/03/intermittent-fasting-set-po...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/The-Every-Other-Day-Diet-That-Weight/d...
Simple - because YC, a16z, USV, SV Angel, etc all have skin in the game.[0] There are some serious people with some serious money who have reputations to uphold. AFAIK Mt. Gox had none of that.

[0]http://www.crunchbase.com/company/coinbase
The situation with the workers versus the machines reminds me of the song about how John Henry competed against the steam-powered machine. It didn't end well for him, unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
I don't think any polls themselves gave odds, but I would say any aggregator that gave 99% odds was definitely wrong. Nate Silver gave about 70% odds, as did prediction markets - that is much more reasonable.
Yeah that segment is incredibly insightful. Tactics of deliberate misinformation and confusion reek of 1950s/1960s Cold War sentiment (on both sides).
And things are clear: the world only contains three powers: USA, Russia and Germany.
I don't think that's been litigated. A few years ago, the Sixth Circuit upheld FCC rules that put an end to some of the more egregious municipal licensing authority requirements, though those rules didn't address the situation you raise: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=132938372903668....
Is there a physical limit on improvements they’ll hit soon? I mean, there’s probably so much they can do considering heat and power requirements. But I’m totally ignorant about CPU architectures.
"Unlimited" should be banned from advertising slogans. It's like an "all you can eat" buffet that kicks out the customers that eat too much. It's a trick that companies employ because nobody reads their TOCs that let them kick out power users. It's misleading advertising. Why not promise people 100TB of storage? Because then you'd actually have to live up to your promises. Since living up to promises of "unlimited" data isn't feasible, this strategy should be banned. Same goes for Yahoo! Mail and their "unlimited" storage.
Yes, many shared hosts suck, but so do many VPS hosts. It doesn't mean shared hosting is an unworkable model.
Well, to be useful, wouldn't you need to be able to use it? Most people outside of physicists and physics-adjacent fields are very far away from the mathematical tools to deal with these equations.
or actually it is money launderers looking for tokens with no previous history they can use to evade some % of future scrutiny
I'm not even sure there, at least for another few years. No store, mom and pop or otherwise, would want to be "tap to pay only" as a means of taking credit card payments. There are still plenty of cards out there that don't have RFID chips.
If you can't see the difference between this and what's happening in China, I don't know what to tell you.

We can agree that solitary confinement is also bad, and still think that China's treatment of Uighurs is much, much worse.

Your whatabboutism is not helpful. Nor is it original, deep or interesting, to be frank.
> Civilisations have collapsed before, and will collapse again.

Civilizations have collapsed before... but none of those were nuclear-armed, global civilizations that have produced more artifact matter than there is biomass on the planet[1]. Our civilization is epic... and when we collapse it will be equally epic, so I'm wouldn't bet that the whole "it has happened before and will happen again" thing really applies here.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-made-stuff-...
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Flickr used (still uses?) tables for layout, when css and semantic html was all the rage. And they did fine (until they got bought that is).
Agree, don't focus on money until you're at least 30. Your 20s are for experiencing life and learning.

Confidence is best gained by mastery: get good at some things.
TL;DR: Here is an error message. It could be worded better, but I understand exactly what it means and where it came from. I'm going to get all offended about it, even though there was clearly no intent to offend.
This is really cool. I've thought about how a host-proof app might be built, but not very seriously. I actually have a pretty simple project coming up that'd benefit from it, too. Maybe this'll motivate me to experiment. Any resources/reading you'd suggest, or have you mostly been figuring this out on your own?

edit Ah, I see you've written a bit on it yourself (http://corte.si/posts/security/hostproof.html). Time to go exploring!

As far as the actual app goes, I have only one real gripe. Being used to Vim, I expect i to add before and a to add after (with I adding at the beginning, and A at the end). Not having i/I do anything confused me for a moment.
So, we save our computers from a DDOS by... shutting it off? I don't really see how this makes any sense.
The article ran in November of last year, so the interchange has (presumably) been used for half a year now. Surely Missouri's been collecting data about how the new system's been doing - I'd love to see it.
Is this a fact based on actual calculation/experiments, or your personal theory?

I don't think the solution is practical in this case for various other reasons, but the fact that offshore platforms exist incites me to think that long, underwater pipes can in fact resist ocean currents. They will also be naturally buoyant so long as there's enough air pockets in the material (or just floaters as the other person posted).
You're talking about the address bar, probably because this issue came up big last time with regard to Google Chrome.

They're talking about input fields in forms in the contents of the page.

So, you both know what you're talking about, you just don't know what they are talking about :)
I'd like to think the English stole it like all the other things sitting in London museums. Now put it back to where it was!
Comments like this are what keep me coming back to HN...at the expense of my productivity ;)
Don't undervalue your daily coffee. ;)
Yes, Very good idea. This is sort of how this whole endeavor got started was he would be searching over and over to find Apple items of interest and he was like I wish there was one place to go....He was very involved in the UI design and testing. Coding is hard for him as he really go back to the design elements first....
You've made an important distinction here - variations of the LNK zero-day exploit used by stuxnet to propagate were first identified in late 2008. This should not be confused with the idea that Stuxnet has been around for that long.
Man, this is serious! My wife is on a challenging treatment, and one of its side effects is depression. That opened my eye on a whole new meaning for the word. Thank you!
“Easy” is a word that’s used to describe other people’s jobs.

- Jason Fried (@jasonfried)

http://startupquote.com/post/2484215075
Incorrect would be the more precise term. The distribution of race/ethnicity across class is historical, not structural. In other words, no matter where you go, the lower class is always described as possessing ineffectual "attitudes towards education, ambition, work and success". It's rather uninformed to suggest these are inherent "cultural" attitudes rather than the conditioning of being on the bottom.
Yes there will be a decentralized mechanism for posting essentially a “petition for relief” where they can lay out their case, but it will be optional and at the discretion of the operators of the “masternodes” in the system whether to grant relief. If the petitioner can attract enough votes then it would nullify the original registration. Anyone can operate a masternode but it requires locking up a lot of the coin to prevent Sybil attacks.
Does anyone know where to find resources on how taxation works with NFTs? I'm in Canada. My understanding is the seller is supposed to pay 13% HST. Do they also have to consider it income, or does that only happen when transferring back to fiat?

Reading https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/programs/about-canad... it says "trade or exchange cryptocurrency, including disposing of one cryptocurrency to get another cryptocurrency" but are NFTs considered an asset rather than a security? (cryptocurrency isn't considered currency)

Not sure how taxes work out fair market value of art
Highly recommend this episode of Nova: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secret-mind-of-slime/