jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
{} are approximately as far but they’re in the same direction that your fingers naturally point. () are farther but as words in the languages of vi and vim they're a powerful operator that have no mouse equivalent (unlike w[ords] and {} paragraphs/lines which have double-click and triple-click). Editing the middle of a sentence, then deciding to move it to a footnote is IMO easier with `<Esc>di(}p` or `<Esc>di(Gp`¹ than with `bend thumb/wrist backwards / arm up and to the right, drag thumb to end of sentence, double-click drag to select one word at a time to the other end, release and drag sentence down precise number of lines to next paragraph or all the way to the end of the document (or how I would move the selection, Backspace, PageDown to the end, Shift+Insert)"

¹Let me test that. I like digraphs a heck of a lot more than scrolling through a symbol list btw. This was also a nice use for marks.
I agree. Let non-users vote, but make people sign in to add comments or post their own predictions. You can include some kind of measures to make sure someone doesn't vote more than once or twice.
Avoiding microsoft will not make you secure, but using microsoft products will make you more vulnerable.
Something I whipped up in the last couple days. I know the landing page does an awful job of explaining what the app does, so if you have suggestions about that (or anything on the site), it would be appreciated :)
Someone should make an app for jailbroken phones to disable this location logging (or delete it regularly).. many would likely pay for it!
It doesn't seem to me that the sheriff is trying to start a business here. All this is is one page on the sheriff's office website, set up purely for public amusement.
and can even defeat password protections.

yes, with access to a plist file from iTunes

[credit to morganpyne http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465752]
Does no one else agree with me that this is awesome? I love being able to visualize my comings and goings. It's the story of the last year or so of my life, in colored dots.

I hope Apple doesn't respond to the "outrage" by no longer collecting this data. To a first order approximation, I am with Scott McNealy over in the "Privacy?! Get over it" camp:

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538

As an aside, can real outrage even exist anymore in this age of the easy forum post or re-tweet or tumblr entry or Facebook post? And if it does, how do you identify it? And if you can identify it, what does it mean?
oops! Thank you.
Not all questions need to be answered. What really are the questions that drive you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjPcgb0pZI&t=1m37s
man thats so bad ass
Clickables:

http://github.com/MegaMark16/django-puzzle-captcha

http://puzzlecaptcha.apprabbit.com/
Long before the Wikileaks report there was the report by Major General Taguba which included in it the fact that a man was forced to rape his son while under U.S. custody. In the Wikileaks documents we come to know that the Iraqi forces routinely torture. Our leaders knew this and yet did little to stop it. They refused to allow Red Cross personnel to have access.

One can hide behind the fact that it was Iraqis doing this but given our sway over their forces this doesn't hold water with me. We did nothing to stop these abuses. We turned over detainees to people we knew were going to torture. It makes us just as guilty as the ones who were doing the torture. Getting other people to do the dirty work is no less reprehensible.

The leaked documents show that our forces deliberately killed people while in the process of surrenduring. Our forces have executed civilians. The picture painted by these document is indeed a bleak one. It also demonstrates that we, as a nation, have no moral authority. The meme that we are good and they are bad is a false one that has been destroyed by our actions in this war in the minds of the rest of the world. It just hasn't sunk in with the average American.

I don't advocate that we leave Iraq right now. It's a mess. I do advocate that generals and former Presidents be arrested for war crimes though. It's sad to me as an American that we have sunk so low so fast.
I am a recruiter and this is pretty spot on. I don't know who the author is, but it sounds like using one recruiter or nothing is the only option and that if you choose to work with a recruiter, you must do what they say.

In reality: Recruiters open doors and give you a shot at a job. Sometimes the firm can't pay what they need to, sometimes the candidate isn't good enough for the role. Thats why recruiting is challenging.

When I approach a hiring process, I am absolutely doing everything I can to make sure the deal has the potential for closing:
1) I do ask for the candidate's compensation expectations.
2) I do ask for the clients compensation expectations for the role.
3) I do frame things for both parties in order to get those expectations to line up.
4) I do share information with both parties on what is happening in the market (sometimes a company will think they need a junior guy with a 80k comp expectation, but if I tell them they are wrong, and that they need some with more experience in the 120k range, they listen).
5) I don't have perfect knowledge of everyone that is hiring in my industry. I'm good, but especially in my niche of Quant Trading, its so secretive, there is just no way I can know everything (unlike realestate brokers that more or less have an industry database they can use to get good info on the market).

Ultimately, I will do what it takes to get an offer on the table. If its too low, Ill try to get more, but sometimes that won't happen and then its up to the candidate to make a hard decision.

Your other points are all valid for executive recruiters (help with resume, deep domain knowledge, real relationships with hiring managers), but the vast majority of recruiters are in paper-pushing process shops where the person you are dealing with is purely gathering resumes, and not selling you in, learning about the market, etc. I know that it seems like splitting hairs, but the difference is huge. If you are making over 100k, dont both with the big companies, find a niche shop or an executive recruiting firm where the recruiter holds the hiring relationships himself. It makes a huge difference.
I give props to MS for its progression, but MS's web-based editors just can't compare to Google's. Some of them require Silverlight plugin. Also, its word-processing editor cannot do concurrent editing in its web app.

Also, this is surreal, but if the documentation is to be believed, this new Google plugin supports more versions of MS Office than MS's own cloud apps do.
I know - we made the mistake of the setting the target platform to iOS 3.1 but only ended up testing it under iOs 4.0 devices - simply because no-one seemed to use iOS 3.1.

Wrong !

Although 93.6% of our users use iOs4, the other 6% were pissed off when they found out that the app crashed on iOS 3.1

The icing on the cake ? After the app crashed, the users deleted it - and were prompted to rate it. I'm sure that you can imagine the rest.

Thank god that the 'rate on delete' feature was removed from iOS4 - although that is scant consolation.
Did you guys ever fix the bugs that were there during the initial launch of this page, when you tweeted, or more accurately did you check that the accounts that did this while it was initially broken a few weeks ago got credited?

Also keep up the good work!
I really like the interface, especially the drop-to-combine graphs.

How is data piped to it? Can you point it dynamically at differing data sets?
Same ol' Russia. Not much surprise here.

Video report by Hermitage CEO who can no longer visit Russia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW0AnZLSCcg
Why do you say the inclination is different? You can go into LEO at any inclination.

I also don't see why you need more delta-v to go from launch orbit to circular orbit to transfer orbit compared to the transfer orbit directly. My orbital mechanics are rusty, but it seems to me that since you need to lift the perigee from Earth's surface to Mars orbit, you'll pass the circular orbit on the way.
Any political party that decides to fight wall street will find it incredibly hard when their bank accounts are closed, their paypal donations confiscated, and their credit cards canceled. Try paying your phone bill in cash. Occupy Wall street was quashed because it was a disorganized leaderless mess, and Wall Street would rather it stay that way.
But only one side is actually trying to negate the legitimate result of a Presidential election at the moment, and it isn't the Democrats or "the Left."
> After all, there are neighborhoods in Bangladesh far poorer on an objective scale than the worst ghettos of Chicago, that nonetheless have bustling local economies.

This sounds like a documentary that needs to get made. Any aspiring filmmakers here?
Beans and rice, cilantro, maybe some onion or bell pepper. Fake cheese, if you're into that kind of thing. Tofu, if you eat that. Guacamole. &c.
Ack, yes, thanks for pointing that out! Fixing now.

(This is the problem with carefully grep'ing your code base and then completely forgetting about some of the parts of your site stored in the database :\)
This could be a signal that Uber is exiting.
Yet another reason high-performance code will continue to be written in c/c++. Every abstraction layer from actual machine architecture severely convolutes the optimization process.
“[…] to make the source available under the same terms.”

You are omitting what is probably the most important part of the GPL.
This is especially true in Asian cultures where (as cited) rice is such a central part of the cuisine. The way that foods are prepared are tied often to tradition, family history, etc. Shifting even small habits is a huge undertaking:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/an-iron-...
lens attempts to solve that. Though it does so at the cost of unreadable types.
None of deficiencies have been corrected. Just are added tons and tons of new features, leaving the old-cruft there.
Because the software platform is the valuable part of IoT. The technology behind most of the hardware is commoditized and cheap; VCs are investing in "hardware" companies because you need to sell hardware to get your software in the door. VCs know that hardware gives a lot lower potential returns than software, so they just focus on the value of the software because that's what they know.

The big problem is that IoT isn't really a hockey-stick business: the configuration of even a modest whole-home setup is so complicated that consumers can't do it themselves. You won't see the valuations that accompany software startups because user acquisition is so much harder that they will never give the growth returns that a software company can. Contrast an IoT platform that you have to buy a $50 device to use with a service like Dropbox where there is little to no barrier to becoming a customer.

Ultimately, I think IoT will enable spiffy home automation systems to come down to the price range of mere mortals. But I don't think it's the next $10B market simply because it doesn't solve any problems that most people have.
It's a deal breaker for me, yes. It took years to persuade Spotify to fix this problem.
Think of it as a template for this new essay. Of all of the hard optimization work occurring, most of it is embedded in LLVM. But the process of going from stringly syntax to intermediate language to back-end compilation is an important journey and doing it as Steven does using Haskell is an elegant way to scope out those steps.
"the patent system is (for most of the computer arts where I spend my time) not very useful as a store of knowledge"..."This is due to the incentives"

Actually, the problem is more fundamental than that. For thing like medicines, the standard naming scheme for chemicals means you can reliably find patents covering a particular compound. Rice's theorem [1] means that that this cannot be done for software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem
if it's a bug in a closed source Google service, how HTC released a fix? even if they roll back the service on a new system image it will self update... unless they hacked away and bumped the version...
I don't think that's the main point. The main point is to use the approach "make it easy to make the change you want to make, then make the change" and this article is a concrete example of how Martin did that in one instance.
Downvotes, but no rebuttal.

Thanks for sharing your enlightenment.
Although since it's open source, it shouldn't be too hard to remove this restriction.
I think tech people take for granted that other people can be as mobile as us. If you're currently working for minimum wage at a convenience store, you probably have very little in the way of skills or education, and there are so many barriers to just getting out from under your bills. Even traveling very cheap requires some savings, and most people have $0 in savings and many thousands of dollars in debt.
No opinion I can give about this will result in anything less than 48 comments of pointless political argument about the Commerce Clause and health care and moral hazard and libertarianism and how someone's mom was totally able to haggle perfectly good health care out of a hospitals for pennies on the dollar and it's all the fault of people who consume HFCS and let's just bypass all that.
I suppose you might conceivably actually call them "contagious" zeroes rather than contiguous zeroes in that case.
If they want it to succeed, they need to add a VPN client, and run the VPN servers themselves. In the era of Firesheep, nobody should be trusting public wifi networks.
> Campervan, or enclosed truck. They often park semi-legally overnight and move every few days to escape harassment. Bathrooms are problematic (gym? work?).

My neighborhood has had an increasing influx of these in the past few months. At first I figured, "Live and let live. If this is all they can afford until they get back on their feet, more power to them."

Since then, I've learned that the solution to the bathroom problem is often "shit in the alley behind my house", and their daytime activities typically consist of dealing and doing drugs and scattering trash. I ran out of sympathy right around the time I found a used needle near the front yard where my toddler likes to run around and play.
> This sort of text-transformation is something I've long wished my text editor did.

Emacs does this in some cases: specifically for camelCasedWords (http://www.masteringemacs.org/article/making-camelcase-reada...) and for the word 'lambda' which can be displayed as a symbol. There are many other modes which "overlay" some text over how it looked originally.
You never know. Some developers might not be smart enough to use an SSL connection from their app server to their DB server. The influx of newb devs out there is growing and security is usually not high on the learning list or the new devs priority list.
If so, hackers could possibly get access to the DB without even needing the app server in the first place. Get your certs folks!
We DO have a good understanding of the human immune system, and how the mRNA vaccines interact with it. The effectiveness shown in the trials confirm those theories.

Sure, there could be some odd unforeseen effect. If so we'd learn as we go.

> it would be way worse if it turns out we have to re-vaccinate everyone

Worse than 3000 people dying every day? Because of the extra expense of making more doses?
I really tried with Dying Earth (I particularly was interested in seeing the roots of D&D's magic system), but man the misogyny got to me real quick. I suppose it was just a product of its time, and different people's tolerance for that sort of thing will vary.
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Maybe learn something other than a programming language like algebraic geometry, dunno I feel learning only "computable" things is very restrictive because we live in a hyper computable word.
Yeah. I'm wondering if there's somewhere that actively tracks this stuff, especially the popular ones.

The park & diamond helmet for example (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/park-diamond-foldable-bik...) raised over 2.5MM EUR and I lost track of how late it is but they've easily sent 10-15 updates saying "sorry, we didn't get it in time for [MONTH], but we'll be ready in [MONTH+2], promise!". They gave me a refund when I asked for one, at least, and since then I've only seen more of the same.

Hard to tell if it's a scam or utter incompetence.
Sometimes it is not even vans, but old crappy passenger cars.
It was temporary in a sense that it applied for 10-15 years, so until 2025-2030. Whoever won in 2016 simply didn't need to worry about it in their first term. Iran did nothing to provoke it, IAEA repeatedly confirmed that, and Trump simply decided to undo it because it was Obama that reached the deal.
I just enabled it with Google Authenticator. And tried using on my phone. Didn't seem to work. May be they are getting DDoS right now due to the announcement.
paul graham has some interesting things to say on working environments and distractions, quote: "a working environment is supposed to be something to work in, not despite [of]".

listen to:
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail188.html
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail657.html
Amazing.

It would be really cool to be able to change the number of rows and columns and also the instruments and tones/chords for each row/column.

It's fun opening more than one browser tab and having more than one of these going at once. I refer you to my comment about needing to be able to change the instruments.
HMAC-SHA1 has been added to BETA2.
encfs didn't work for me either. See this comment from a year and a half ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895660

Dropbox supposedly encrypts server side. If you want to encrypt client-side, use SpiderOak or TarSnap. These hacks on top of Dropbox don't mesh with the semantics of Dropbox properly and will cause problems days, weeks, or months down the line unless managed extremely carefully.
I see. That's better I suppose. You just need a relatively easy way to update the seed nodes in case all of the included nodes are down. Does this exist? If not, maybe I'll add it to the client.
At this point you aren't really playing Monopoly anymore. You've developed your own game using the Monopoly pieces.
"Out of nowhere"? One of the perennial topics of the mid to late 90s was the idea that Perl needed major fixes to remove common pitfalls (e.g. the object model, syntax warts (nested structures are just horrid), etc) and be more suitable for large projects.

Years passed.

Perl 6 was talked about.

Years passed.

Nothing happened. People gave up and moved on. The same thing's happened to PHP - years of broken things not being fixed eventually causes people to distrust the language's future and prevented it from moving into new niches.

Lisp is more complex, with far more redeeming features, but by now it shares the same failed-promise challenge: I've been writing software for a couple decades, so I missed out on the early history of Lisp, but for most of that time I've kept hearing about how great it is and how it'll soon be as productive as the inferior languages people actually use to get work done - and that point's always been in the future, never the present. Clojure is the only potential exception which I see to that and, to be honest, a large part of that would be due to the Java community's foundation.
I hope this becomes an industry standard. Thanks for sharing, Avi
It amazes me everytime that nobody made a better alternative for MySpace yet. They can't win because everything new they make is really crappy. Two recent examples: they are the place with more concert listings and still their new "I'm going to this show"-thing is really weak and focused on selling tickets instead of giving a good user experience (can't find shows by venue, etc); the new music player reminds me of old 90's, I believe it's a step back.

The alternative is really easy to create: it's a place where you can upload your songs for free and use open graph from Facebook for comments, etc, because bands are now trying to slowly move to Facebook. That or Facebook gets a better way for artists to customize their pages.
I've had a number of really weird experiences with Ambien. I know, from some things I've said to other people while on it, that there are a number of things that I experienced of which I have no recollection. The things I do remember are fairly crazy in their own right. I'm not sure if this is the place to discuss this, but I'll mention a few things that I've experienced. At the very least, this should serve as a warning to anyone considering taking Ambien.

I was once convinced I was on the set of the Goonies, because my comforter happened to look like a cave. I've only seen bits and pieces of that movie, so I have no idea why I hallucinated about it. I told someone "this lady needs to sell some chickens" because I saw a woman in the middle of my room selling chickens. I saw pixies dancing in the middle of my room. I saw a little girl, about the height of the toilet, that was sucked behind it as I approached. I also called or texted a number of people and told them a bunch of things that made absolutely no sense. Things like "I don't trust you. You might read my books." Or telling them I was flying and how much I loved them. I have a subtle recollection of the latter, absolutely none of the former. I never had a "bad trip", in that I never experienced anything that made me fearful or feel bad. It was all very euphoric, but, from my understanding, this isn't true for everyone.

If you're into the whole recreational drug thing, I can't say that Ambien is a bad choice as a hallucinogen. The hangovers were mild, and only came about from large doses (~30mg). I never took it for that purpose, but I realize there are people (not necessarily here) that might be interested. As far as using it as a sleep aid, I wouldn't suggest anyone go near the stuff. It's great the first few times you take it, but the tolerance sets on rather quickly. I ended up just hallucinating until the time I would normally fall asleep. I never became dependent, but it seems that addiction isn't necessarily uncommon for those that take it for long periods of time. If you are having trouble sleeping, try melatonin supplements and light therapy. Melatonin doesn't work for everyone, but, honestly, I'd rather have a few nights where I'm unable to sleep than the hangovers and hallucinations I got from Ambien.

TL;DR: Ambien makes for a really shitty sleep-aid.
More knowledge means more neural connectivity, which means a greater level of creativity (as long as you also develop critical thought at the same pace.)

For art, you need creativity. People tell artists that "the best way to paint/write/draw/act/sculpt better is to go out and experience the world." Well, in the same way a degree in the sciences offers a good topical coverage of the knowledge the world has to offer, a liberal arts degree offers a pretty good topical coverage of the experiences the world has to offer, so you can decide what to dig into. They're useful from that perspective.
This is why businesses involving direct distribution of physical goods are, to use a technical term, "teh suck".