jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been meaning to put some of the principles laid out here to practice in my personal life. I've always been the guy with the cluttered desk. Though I feel no compulsion to keep it tidy, I must admit that when I do decide to tidy it up, I feel a sense of ease and relief - like some invisible, slightly intangible burden has just been lifted off my shoulders.

I think this is the feeling that people get when they simplify things and try to adhere to minimalism. It's easy enough to focus first on your digital life, like the author noted. Get rid of all the unnecessary things on your phone. Then perhaps move to your computer - tidy and organize all those random links and shortcuts on your desktop and organize all those digital photos.

Then of course, applying the principles to your own life in physical reality. Automating monthly payments, getting recurring shipments of things you need (I get monthly shipments of coffee, but you could probably get things like toilet paper, soaps, etc.), tidying up your house or apartment. I believe we all heard the stories about how Steve Jobs had multiples of the same shirts/pants to simplify his decision making in the morning and free his mind. Personally, I went and got 10 pairs of the same socks and did away with most of my others (socks of various sizes, colors, lengths, etc.) - now, whenever a sock loses its pair, I can simply pair it up with another sock as they are, after all, the same.

Minimalism has quite a few benefits, how you can best implement it in your own life will vary depending on your routine and lifestyle.
I made a slideshow in LibreOffice Impress for my grandfather's funeral last week. We ended up playing it via PowerPoint because of how the chapel's AV system was set up.

PowerPoint rendered the images in the ODP poorly, like it jacked the contrast up to 100. Saving the document as a PPTX within LibreOffice and then playing it on PowerPoint fixed the issue. From my naive perspective MS Office seems to have issues with ODF just like LibreOffice has with docx/pptx/xlsx/etc.
JWT's generally are not used without setting the expiration date, just like you wouldn't have a server-side session continue forever as long as the user presents their session cookie.
I dislike a lot of things about imgur, you can't even save a gif on mobile. I would rather use an alternative. I might pay if the service meets my needs. But I have to use btc, which many don't realize can cost 4-5x more than what you charge. For example $10 for me means I have to get btc for $50 to avoid using creditcard(they charge many times more to use cash,etc.... Than using creditcard on an exchange which also asks for ID.)
You're making the common logical fallacy of equating physical goods with digital goods. Digital goods are replicable at zero cost to the original producer. Unlike a chicken sandwich company, the producers of the content don't lose any money if the pirate wasn't going to buy the product in the first place.
I'm saying that, as far as I know after watching the news, the NSA has done nothing that's comparable to the historic examples of "secret lists of enemies of the state that public sector employers agree to not hire" or "attempting to drive a political figure to suicide".

The most egregious offense I've heard of (and this is not the NSA) is the harassment of Applebaum and the like at US borders. Based on Laura Poitras' public statements, this has stopped for her. I hope it has for Jacob as well, as I think that's a really obvious move in the right direction.

The rest of the news I don't find to be especially egregious violations. Perhaps we differ in world view w.r.t. the NSA and the role that it serves in our society - what do you see that role as being?
http://whois.domaintools.com/atom.io

Domain : atom.io
Status : Client Updt+Delt Lock
Owner : GitHub Hostmaster
Owner : GitHub, Inc.
Owner : 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St
Owner : San Francisco
Owner : CA
Owner : US
Then you probably haven't seen Numb Res.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56900

(author's comments: https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/ )
To me software freedom is a bigger issue than minutiae of GPL v2 vs v3. The overall problem is still that you don't have the ability to control the software that your TV runs, regardless of how this realized technically and legally.
The industry and the k8s project are still figuring out the right way to do things that don't require the organization, size, and technical choices Google made.
GNU poke is already really promising. You can have a look at this presentation from Kernel Recipes 2019 to get a rough idea of what it looked like ~two years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Sykut06N8

Think of it as the missing tool between an hex editor and a programming language. Hachoir, Kaitai, linker scripts or most reverse engineering toolkits (radare, etc.) all try to address a similar problem, but from a different angle.
Reading these posts it seems to me that there is a huge opportunity for an entertainment-oriented entrepreneur in Palo Alto.

For Heavens sake, someone open up a bar for these guys and don't charge a cover for women!
http://www.media.mit.edu/about/organization

Frank Moss

More about him on

http://www.media.mit.edu/people/fmoss
Yes well many wanted me to write a tips to retirement book and not an apocalypse memoir. I can't write some of it, or am not ready to. But, no one should do it. It's just total privation and lack of self care, or would be to someone coming from a healthy home. I started in stripping for seed money to start buying houses, but it's such boring work and dangerous too (I ended up being an activist and helping nurses immunize strippers from Hep B ) You obviously cannot drink or use drugs - I never tasted alcohol until I was 35 (retired - still don't like it). When I went out I never took money. Ever. I lived on powdered milk and horse cereals while I was making very good money. I worked constantly (various business from pools to landscaping, tenants, house flipping, production company, and went to university part time and had no hobbies except running and I started that by just running in what I had. I only buy cars with all cash and they are always old. I mean, feel free to ask questions. TL;DR: Be a hustler, but not like one from the movies. One that is really boring, hated by everyone for seemingly being aloof and judgey, eccentric and annoying.
doesn't Wal Mart still use drop shippers for some of the online inventory?
100% this. Advertising is the new smoking, it's bad for us in ways we're only beginning to understand.
I suspect people think that along the lines of

A high tide causes floods, but that's like a 4000mm tide. What difference does it matter if it's 4002mm?

And they'd be mostly right - if it was just 2mm higher that wouldn't be an issue.

What's missing is

1) 2mm is average, some places it's far higher
2) 2mm in 2 months is 12cm in a decade, or 30cm after a 25 year mortgage
If someone says "now I'll hand you over to my colleague..." that's a dead giveaway. In other shocking news, bankers don't do their own PowerPoint slides either

Yeah ok that just plain isn't true. I worked at Goldman Sachs in FIG investment banking, and now at McKinsey and Co in New York as a consultant. While we do have a graphics department that we can call on to help spruce things up, as well as workers in India to help with tasks such as following simple instructions to translate spreadsheets into charts, 95% of the work is done by the bankers/consultants themselves (i.e., me).

In fact, the reason I left Goldman is because as an analyst 80% of your time is spent line editing charts, checking footnotes, and making sure everything is aligned. We even used MS Word with built in macros because Power Point wasn't precise enough. When you're working 110 hrs/week, that's not fun. McKinsey is better but not much different - which is why I'm moving back to SF in 4 weeks to be an entrepreneur.

Same goes for the "I'll hand you over to my colleague" statement. Often times an Engagement Manager who is well versed in the overall project presents for continuity sake (so the audience doesn't get confused by 5 people all chiming in), and questions are directed to the analyst in charge of the section.
I don't know; people were pretty excited about the AMOLED screen. The excitement was tempered, however, by the fact that it's useless in daylight. Also, people liked the industrial design of the Droid. Take this quote from Engadget's review: "an industrial design straight from a gadget enthusiast's fever-dream"; and this: "they've made a device which is truly lustworthy, even next to the best efforts of Apple, HTC, and Palm."
wasn't this already posted on here a few months back? I had a serious sense of deja-vu while reading it.
Get a job on Wall Street. If wealth is the only goal, that's the easiest way.
The depth at which this leak is happening elevates it to an entirely new problem compared to any previous spill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill

The spill in 1979 was 160 feet deep compared to the current spill's depth of 5000 feet. The 1979 spill took 10 months to contain as all top kill attempts failed.
No, just RSS. I hang out on SO a lot these days though.
Clifford Stoll is mine.
That's for a hollow shell.

For a solid sphere, there is always force toward the center. (And the closer to the center the lower the force, reaching 0 in the middle.)
I thought Joel on Software's job board was nice, mostly because they include twelve questions from their "Joel Test," which is a nice way to differentiate job listings:

http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?pg=pgPostJob

The 37signals job board is nicely designed too. I dig the preview function and the ability to post a job without creating an account (which Joel on Software doesn't require either):

https://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/new

One job board that isn't as nice is the TechCrunch CrunchBoard, mostly because the UI is cumbersome and it requires you to create an account:

http://www.crunchboard.com/registermember.php
I realized the importance of memorization in math during college calculus. In high school, exam integrations were easy, so long as you knew the material covered over the past few weeks. In college though, exam integration questions were brutal, unless you remembered all of the trig identities and formulae. Our textbook had a list of 180 or so equations that were required knowledge to complete the sample questions at the end of each chapter. I just had to memorize a lot of them, as the derivation was not something I was capable of doing.

Being able to quickly recall facts is really important for problem solving, even though we live in an era where you can search online for just about any fact known to humanity.
How will they manage to package twice the cores at the same TDP? (3990X vs. 3970X, both apparently rated at 280W).
I would also add many things that are taught have a lot of historical cruft.

For example, calculus. What is taught currently by most high schools is a horrible mess that mixes infinitesimal calculus as devised by Newton-Leibniz with late 1800s epsilon-delta formalisms. Clarifying this would shed a lot of light into student understanding.

Same thing can be said about linear algebra, where lots of algorithmic stuff hides a simple abstraction that is rarely mentioned. Matrices encode linear transformations.

I was taught way too many algorithmic tricks without proper conceptual motivation.
I can't help thinking that although it's a worthy cause it won't make any substantial headway as gov/com have infiltrated the current Internet so pervasively. What we'll end up with is something like the United Nations: shiny, shouty but ultimately ineffective.

I think what we'll also end up with is an "underground" Internet of the type that's always seen in dystopian SciFi.
Did the same man create the website? I can't seem to be able to access it
Seems to me that a lot of things on that list were in my curriculum, at a fairly typically crappy rural school system. I'm guessing that it was in OP's as well. Did they just miss it because it wasn't explicit?
Not really, but I do think Common Sense Media does a better job describing why a film is rated for content by providing spoiler free details of the contents. TWs are not in service of age warning, but of content appropriateness.
If you're trying to start the next Google, by all means you should move to Mountain View and put it all on the line.

Someone could easily save $20k a year between lower rent (1500/mo vs 2500/mo) and lack of CA state income tax (9k?).
Instructor here. We'll be doing a v2 of the course after a few months and will repost the materials at that time (we've learned a ton from the first MOOC run).
> She laughed and said that no, I did not understand what it was to have secret police following you about

You know, it strikes me that one of the large differences between most of these countries, and the US, is the relative size of the population to the government+military. For having a population of 300mm people, somewhere less than 5 million people (~1.7%) work in the US public sector.

What this means is, we could have just as many secret police following people as happens under any repressive regime--but the vast majority of US citizens would never be aware of it, since in relative terms "being followed around by a black van" would be about as rare per capita as "being struck by lightning." You wouldn't personally know anyone it had happened to, you'd only read about it--and so you'd think it wasn't really a thing that happens here.
Looks good. The only app I miss from my iPhone, after moving to Android, is the Transit app: http://thetransitapp.com/
They were specifically highlighting the pointless use of the word "repeatedly" for emphasis, I believe. Well of course it happened "repeatedly"; they just repeated the same test with the same articles.
They haven't been around too long, but for the two months I have seen, I have been delighted at the quality of their articles.
Somewhat unwillingly, but I agree with your comment. There was an acceptable level of suspicion given that triggered the event. Sure, this whole thing went far to long and the missing picture story is mysterious, but most of the other "bad" stuff can be attributed to typical bureaucratic incompetence combined with playing dumb in the hopes to trigger up some reaction.
The RAND study clearly showed that much of the demand for healthcare is elastic.
If only it were that simple, that it's just serving people what they want. Running with that idea for a second, isn't what people want partly a function of propaganda, brainwashing and so on. The narratives that we're fed are largely those of the rich and powerful or, in the case of fringe views on social media, those of often unqualified people at best (and lunatics at worst). The metaphor of a market of people autonomously choosing news obfuscates a much more complex reality about why so many people want to hear nonsense or views that undermine their own interests?
Historically, lack of a shared reality has been the rule. The idea that we all inhabit one reality is a construct of modernity, with the rise of mass production, mass media, and mass culture. Before the printing press there was no way for ideas to spread far enough to create a shared reality across a whole nation; indeed, the concept of a nation dates from this time. The closest you got was religion, but religions had a knack for splitting into sects and then bitterly fighting each other - witness the Protestant Reformation and the Wars of Religion that followed. Those wars were specifically fought over whose version of reality (both of which seem very quaint today) was true: each believed that the other was an existential threat to eternity.

The Internet just ushered in post-modernism on a global scale, which undoes a lot of the thought-unification (some would say thought-control) that came with modernity.
This is one of the few things it's critical to have a defense force for, but it's not what police are primarily used for.

I would love less counter-protest action in general, but it feels pretty reasonable to demand equal counter-protest action in comparison to other protests historically. What we see today is not the former.
Someone replied "Go read the court documents and see why they shot it down."

They shot it down because the accusations made in court were all petty nothings. For all the big talk of fraud and theft, that's not what was in those filings.
CSPAN reporting at least one law enforcement officer transferred to the hospital with a gunshot wound.
A tantrum.

Nobody serious is under any illusion that Biden will not assume the Presidency. In a way, I think this kind of rhetoric empowers these kinds of protests and inspires people into thinking these actions might actually work.

In reality, the long term impact of these actions is only going to hurt Republicans. As per The Economist [1], in 2000 the election was decided by only ~600 votes in Florida but still only 36% of Gore supporters felt the election was fraudulent. Only 23% of Clinton voters felt the same in 2016. Yet now, with an election decided by margins an order of magnitude larger than in 2016 and three orders of magnitude larger than in 2000 a staggering 88% of Trump supporters surveyed said they believed the election was fraudulent. This kind of brazen hypocrisy, and now coupled by the actions today, are going to stick with the Republican party for a long time. Most of the Republicans I know are aghast. I'm sure the set of Republicans I talk to are not representative (mostly college educated professionals), and that they'll alter how they communicate with an outwardly liberal person like me (deliberately or instinctively). But I think the Republican party is going to recognize Trump as a catastrophe that is leaving a deep scar in the party.

1. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/21/donald-tr...
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Well... no bubble is the same, otherwise we'd be able to spot them and avoid them every time, right? If there is a common factor in housing bubbles, it's the extent to which housing moves away from its primary purpose (ie. a roof over a family's heads). In China housing has become a massive source of income for local governments, income for developers, and an investment vehicle for rich people. It has all the signs of being a classic bubble and the only question is how/if the government can deflate it. Also don't forget that a lot of people pay cash because they can't get a mortgage or don't trust the banks, but they still borrow money from friends, family, lending circles or other informal sources - there is often still a wobbly chain of debt behind each purchase.
Why isn't vector good enough?
this would be trivial to code and could search for one of the bip 39 dictionary words. github key thieves do this already.
I don’t think anyone is claiming it’s 100% true or complete. But there is literally audio recording of the precipitating event that led to the court case.

We probably will never know everything. But from what we know now, that’s helpful for forming opinions.

The case wasn’t dismissed, and it was explicitly not dismissed and continues. 3/4 counts were dismissed. But one was not, thus its continuing.

It’s inaccurate to say that the case was dismissed.

And of course we want to know more, that’s a given. But in this situation we already know a lot.
That's exactly my thoughts. I convincd all my friends and family to switch over to Signal, and now this bullshit. I should have trusted my gut feeling about Signal not wanting to use a decentralized protocol to be a bad sign in the long-term.
> Everyone I actually know agrees that submodules are basically never the right solution or a pleasant solution.

I generally prefer submodules to other solutions as I tend to fix / change a lot of stuff in the libraries that I'm using
Did you ever try to salvage data off a dead phone? Many of us only buy a new device when the old is fubar.
Because they want to get rich!
Yes, I was hired at Google to do dedicated testing (Test Engineer was my title). Note that at Google, many test engineers were "supposed to" build test infra, not write tests or do testing. I was brought on to test some systems that were critically important, but built by a team that focused more on operations than coding. I set up a continuous build, fixed all the broken tests, and prevented team members from checking in broken code. I don't think developers can be entirely trusted to QA their code.
Thanks, I understand what it's for, and I personally didn't want a potential security hole added to my work environment. It's just an FYI for others who are concerned about security. Here are the security details: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/faq-about-code-with-me-s...
I'd prefer to first read an article about why I would ever want to work for Microsoft in the first place.
books on Lift 2

http://manning.com/perrett

(Manning's always running some promo codes, so ~$20 for MEAP and final PDF book)

http://simply.liftweb.net/Simply_Lift.pdf
From the comments on Amazon, it appears it has the usual issues with quality control that most ASUS laptops have. I was all set to buy a 1900x1200 ASUS laptop until I read the reviews of it on newegg. I just couldn't buy it after reading those. I ended up with a 17" Apple laptop, at $1000 more. I haven't regretted the decision, but the decision did hurt the pocketbook.
There's probably an interesting correlation-vs-causation discussion somewhere beween the poor and the wealthy. Are the poor not saving because they don't have any money to save (probably an easy argument for the very poor)? Or is it that people are poor because they don't save (or rather, because they are poor at managing their finances)?

There's plenty of examples of people that win the lottery, only to spend it all within a few years and be back to where they started.
The lack of IPOs in the market is more myth than fact:

From PWC:

With 154 IPOs completed, that raised a total of $37.5 billion year-to-date, 2010 activity represents a 123 percent increase in volume and 49 percent increase in value, compared with the $25.2 billion raised from 69 IPOs in 2009. In addition, PwC says the surge of activity in the fourth quarter of 2010 confirms the IPO market has recovered from the doldrums of 2008 and 2009.

Source:

http://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2010/us-ipo-market-v...

Specifically in tech:

Since the beginning of 2010, 37 technology companies have gone public, with total proceeds of $5.1 billion, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm. That's a big uptick from the same period last year, which saw 17 IPOs priced.

Source with top 10 IPOs of 2010:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10928161/2/techs-top-ipos-of-...

Just because the big consumer names are choosing not to go public, does not mean that IPOs are not happening.
I'm not the founder, but IMHO such a project can not be developed on your spare time.
I guess the process that Marco used can be replicated for simple freemium saas web apps and mobile applications.

280North and Dropbox are developing brand new and break-trough technology; they need a full team of experienced hackers, loads of money and a grand vision to realize that.

Of course the payoff is different..
May I recommend http://di.fm ? I've been listening to it for years, and all the ads on any of the trance streams are related to server hosting. They know their audience..