jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
the problem with that site is it doesn't really work as advertised .. in the ideal scenario, you get an alert if Female > Male ratio goes above a certain threshold for places in your town .. however, most of the checkins span across a few hours .. i.e. it's no where close to realtime or where it should be ..

I had an idea about an anonymous dating app per se with focus on women ... no idea how feasible it is but here it goes:

men and women check in to an event or at a club or wherever .. men cannot see details about women beyond a certain basic demographic (age interests etc.) .. men "poke" the women they find interesting, women get the alert, they get to see all dets about the guy and if they think he's interesting, poke back to reveal their details and/or a message. they can take it from there .. ofcourse, this has to catch on for people to really have pick and choose from potential matches ..

now if anyone wants to work on this idea, feel free to .. or hit me up to work on it in detail hah ..
Years ago, the USPS proposed to give everyone that had an address an email account, for receipt and payment of bills. Then they priced it at the cost of two first class stamps. The program died, and we lost what might have been a vaulable piece of new infrastructure.
How many of these orgs are you part of?
There is sass in node.js/express framework. cant see why it cant ne adjusted to be use client side.
Let me give an example use case, something I've wanted.

Lots of developers will tell you that it's fine to use systems like the 960 Grid System for rapid prototyping, but you shouldn't use them for final, "production" sites. Their argument is that "littering" your code with classes like "grid_4", etc. is not semantic (and they're right).

So here's what I would love to do: use a system like 960 in development, but instead of using names like "grid_4", use actual, semantic names. But behind the scenes, I'll use less to "inherit" the grid_4 properties into the semantic name.

E.g., assuming I have: "<div class="grid_4 article_header>", I'll remove grid_4, but use less to make "article_header" inherit grid_4's properties. That way my html remains semantic, but I get the full power of systems like 960.gs.
Where specifically are you located? Northern East Coast is a little vague.
30 is hitting hard on me and I agree with the other posters here and yourself, am stressing but its just a number!

I have a need, its simple, I need to be financially independent. This doesn't mean I need multi-million pounds and be able to afford lambo's. I am a basic person, so for me, to have enough income to live, a house paid off and little excess money to go out every month although this latter isn't a requirement, considering I have gone out every weekend for 2 years and have spent no more than a couple hundred pound. I don't drink and my friends don't let me ever pay for theirs.
> I'm seriously considering writing a Python-based "Preprocessor" language which lets me drop in Python code on any file

You are probably interested in Pyratemp – a simple, well-designed and well-documented template engine that allows arbitrary Python expressions:

http://www.simple-is-better.org/template/pyratemp.html

BTW, I personally use the XSLT template language. It is language independent, but still extendable with user-defined functions written in the programming language of your application. Note that despite its name, XSLT does not only provide for XML output, but handles text output and HTML as well. In Python, you can find a excellent XSLT processor in the 4suite package:

http://4suite.org/docs/CoreManual.xml#xslt_engine

However, the syntax of XSLT is a bit clumsy, so I'll probably switch to XQuery in the future.
Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but you can have a box model that includes padding and border in the width using CSS3:

box-sizing: border-box

with -ms- (IE8), -moz- and -webkit- prefixes.

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/box.html
Vegans are extremely likely to have many deficiencies anyway.
>Google doesn't really get to exert control over the web with their rendering engine or V8

Just because they're failing at it doesn't mean they're not trying (AMP, needless degradation of Google services in non-Chrome browsers, etc). They only have to succeed once.
I don't know why people are like this. You can be pro human rights and also not dedicate your entire life to supply chain audits.

I'm making a point that the largest company in the world not only does so but actively took steps to ensure they wouldn't be legally prevented from doing so in the future.
> As long as you're doing something malicious-y (like crypto mining, exploit testing random websites, distributing malware or a phishing site, etc), they will work with you.

Is this an extension of the Russian Business Network, or did you miss a negation in there? :-)
> Nothing existential about it at all. It's an actual threat to Facebook's business model.

"Existential threat" means a threat to the very existence of a thing, so a thing that is an "existential threat" is a very big actual threat. I think maybe you're confusing "Existential" with "Hypothetical"?
Nothing highlights the MBA takeover of large American companies quite like the Intel story has.
While that might be true, it does not change the fact that modern tracking practices are intrusive and anti-consumer. Frankly, I can't sympathize with any business, no matter how small, that is dependent on tracking to thrive.
If it didn't have wierd issues when you start stacking in docker file.
Yeah Eevee and grease pencil are the two standouts.

To your list of subjective metrics I'd also add scalability and performance. Also maybe pipelineibility. Each DCC has very different characteristics on those as well.
The last BTC crash sent a lot of used equipment to the market, even though it wasn't permanent.
The option is OS provided, yes or no.
I often find it useful t do a calculation while I am editing. For example when I write a invoice I have to calculate taxes.

I have not had to use the more advanced features. I did not know that they were there. Now I know, perhaps I do need them?
Wow, I love the transparency. That's definitely refreshing
Sorry, but none of these are studies about the relationship between depression and inflammation treatment.

Such a study would have to provide a measurement of the severity of the depression. Then split the patients in two groups. Give one group a placebo and the other one the inflammation treatment. And then compare the depression severity in those groups after the treatment.
> Do you think bitcoin will gain in value from this point on or do you think bitcoin will fizzle out, and why do you think that?

If I knew the answer to that, I'd be off making money rather than arguing with random strangers on the Internet :-)

Gold and silver have valid (if limited) practical utility and thousands of years of history as stores of value. Bitcoin has neither. And gold and silver only became synonymous with money and value once they began to be used in coinage i.e. as a currency, issued by the state, and you could pay taxes with it.

Your thesis is "Bitcoin is a good investment because it appreciates". It doesn't answer "why does Bitcoin appreciate?". Practically everything that can be called an "investment" or "asset" has at least one of two properties:

1. has practical use

2. generates income

Say all you want about investors buying up houses and driving up prices (and the Bay Area's housing problems run deeper than that), but they're getting an asset that has actual value. Even if people stop believing in the value of houses, a house will still shelter you, and afford access to good jobs and/or surroundings/weather.

I'll grant you that Bitcoin has one property that can't be found anywhere else. It's a store of value that can be exchanged without intermediaries. So it has exactly one practical use.

But the point of a store of value is to...store value. The idea that "someone will pay more for this later" has been the basis of innumerable bubbles and crashes throughout history - as recently as the Great Recession to as far back as the Tulip Mania, and probably farther still. Volatility isn't a great property for a store of value to have, because most people don't like crazy gyrations in their net worth every day.

And if Bitcoin isn't a store of value, but is a currency instead, then it has a different problem. As you said, it's non-inflationary. So people are incentivized to hang onto it rather than spending it.

> Looking back obviously there would have been no better place to put it than into bitcoin but nobody knew that back then.

Past performance is no predictor of future performance. Someone putting a million dollars into Bitcoin in 2017 would be pretty sad right now. People believe in the stock market, not (just) because of its past performance, but because it represents companies that deliver actual, real-world value.
Every dollar invested into nuclear is a dollar not invested into solar/wind/etc.

Building new nuclear just usn't the most effective use of limited capital to reduce emmisions at this point.
The problem with that plan is that broadcast radio does not let two stations (in the same general area) share the same frequency, period. So you need to have frequency coordination.

Compare with the ISM bands, like 2.4 GHz, where you can use complex digital signaling (e.g. CDMA/TDMA combined with robust error correction and detection) to effectively timeshare the frequency. The only reason this works well is because the frequencies are two-way and severely power limited - and even then the WiFi channels are congested.

Your home WiFi network has a range of a few hundred feet. A broadcast radio station can easily reach hundreds of miles. The reason those broadcast licenses cost so much is because there's just not enough broadcast spectrum to go around.

A better option for most users is to just stream over the Internet.

(That said, I would certainly love to see a chunk of spectrum set aside for low-power ad-hoc/community stations. But I don't think it would work reliably if it ever got popular.)
That is quite a positive spin for the real reason, which is that Audi's car sales are stagnating since 2015.
It is pretty crazy. The government swears up and down that it is completely safe but yet the concrete bunkers are already wearing away now after just a few years.
The particular attraction to me that Julia advertises is that it is much easier to read other people's Julia code. I recently tried Julia and found this to be quite true. It still lacks some critical features I need in the ML library but I can definitely see its attraction to users who want to understand the libraries they use.
Battery life is maybe the only thing on that list that has anything to do with productivity. I'll even be generous and throw in the high res external display as an added productivity perk. The rest of the things on your list are nice to have, but many of them are available in much cheaper laptops. The screen working outside in the sun is also debatable unless you're talking about the matte screen, which costs extra.

Again, I use a MBP as my primary computer and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thanks for doing that research! It's great to see that you have made the correlation between StartupLi.st and BetaCandy.com. StartupLi.st will launch first, and BetaCandy will launch in June. Those two brands are both under Beta Inc. Please read http://BetaHacks.com for more details.
Maybe they can finally start importing the nice looking 65mpg cars that Europe has had for years.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b40990604...
I think this would be viable if you interviewed doctors and asked what questions they would ask patients if they had access to them 24/7, and then showed a significant increase in success in treating these patients. Also, I think there's a big connection between what you eat and your health (especially chronic illness), and a lot of people keep food diaries. Mixing a food diary with a symptom log could be excellent.
1a. Come up with strawman idea. 1b. Come up with real idea. 2. Publicly "pivot"* on HN. 3. Funding?

A least there's a step two...

* Could we please declare "pivot" an exhausted concept and move on to the next start-up buzzword?
If your Mac is powerful enough, why not just run a VM? With the great

For the past 5 years, I have yet to have a web-app dev environment meaty enough to require more than a small VM (Oracle CRM can be nightmarishly huge) which ran fine on my macbook.

With git/svn scripts, it's easy to build and unit-test on your local VM, then push to your stage/prod-test box.
I'm working on a rather large and (in my opinion) unwieldy C#-based project right now that....well....tries. However, when your stack is at a point where a Google Wiki isn't enough to document it adequately, there's an underlying problem, namely that the people I'm working with have reinvented the wheel a few times.

As a developer coming into a new environment/stack, there is nothing worse than having to read through hundreds of pages to figure out how to run unit tests. It's probably as bad, if not worse, than getting the "send an email to ___" treatment.

Keep your stack as simple as possible. New developers may not be experienced with it, but we have this wonderful thing called Google. If you're using common libraries, our Google-fu is strong. If you're reinventing the wheel, you should probably reconsider your stack.
> Wanting a global minimum tax is like one mafia asking the others to increase their protection charges so their clients don't leave.

No, it's to ensure that countries with extremely low operating costs thanks to few citizens and not a lot of space (Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland come to my mind) don't run price dumping on everyone else, allowing the rich elites to concentrate and extract profits while the countries that made that profit possible (by, for example, providing an educated workforce or a secure legal framework to solve conflicts) get nothing in return.
> I think you are failing to consider those who faced trauma and failed to handle it.

I would have previously agreed with you, and I think that is an important viewpoint that is useful to contemplate deeply. But, I now wish to reject the point of view that I should be proud because I faced my individual trauma somehow 'better' than those other people.

Those other people shouldn't have faced that trauma either.
replace "product a business can package and sell" with "serves the most users" and the point still stands.

Serving the most users (ie. NOT power users) is usually the best economic decision as well.
I'm downvoted because it's an unpopular opinion in the US that people shouldn't force their pets on others who are uncomfortable interacting with them or just being around them and HN readership is largely US-centric. In my experience many recreational dog owners in the US are incredibly selfish people
The rail gauge change is tough. While there are several systems for making bogies that can change width, they're not used much on freight cars. Here's a video of the SUW 2000 gauge changing system for freight cars mentioned in the article.[1] If that can be made to work, the whole process becomes much more efficient. It's been done for passenger trains for decades, mostly at the border between France and Spain, but it's rare for freight. Without that, there has to be an "inland port" at the gauge change points, where containers are unloaded from one train and onto another. China and Europe use the same gauge, but Russia and the former USSR use a wider gauge. All new Belt and Road construction is to China standards, which are similar to US standards.

Single-stack container trains with one car per 40 foot container (2 TEU) seem to be the standard for Belt and Road shipments. That covers most of what needs to be shipped.

China, like the US, uses the AAR coupler on freight cars. The US standardized on that, by an act of Congress, in 1893. Russia uses the SA-3 coupler, which is incompatible but a good automatic coupler. Most of Europe is way behind on freight cars, still using small freight cars with buffers and couplers that require manual attachment. There was an EU plan to standardize railroad coupling across the EU, from 2008, but they gave up.

Not sure what the train length limit is. That's set by the length of sidings.

Those are the physical limits. Paperwork at borders remains a problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjiJoAjqVHs
Before my internet addiction distracted me from it, I made a sport of writing letters to newspapers, and my success rate for over a decade was about 8/10 published to submitted. I had one or two in the Economist, with many more in the Financial Times, and others in lesser known papers. They're all in a drawer somewhere now as some very humble personal trophies.

However, my final one was edited so horrendously and offensively in print that the only charitable interpretation was that English was not the letters editor's first language. After a few emails back and forth, and the terse revelation from a very piqued editor that English was in fact her first language, she graciously corrected the online version. My advice to anyone who wants emulate the house style of The Economist is that they should read P.G. Wodehouse first.

I stopped writing letters after that because it signalled a shift in culture at the papers, where the people working for them didn't seem to have the same relationship to truth they once appeared to. The feeling of opening that salmon coloured paper to find your letter in it (with only modest surprise) and giving your morning coffee a smug celebratory sip is one of the things upvotes on the internet have not yet been able to replace.
Is AAudio really low latency, or "low latency" in the same sense as low latency modes in Android Audio and OpenSL ES? It's surprisingly difficult to find actual numbers that would compare between these three.
> I think desktop operating systems need to start including robust sandboxing and permission systems that are turned on by default.

https://qubes-os.org
I think there is something to be said for the danger of losing or stagnating the progress of the poor and middle class if the wealthy become so rich and powerful that we effectively revert to a fuedal system.

The worsening social mobility measurements are one reason to be concerned.
We love new electronic products, but hate the research needed to shop for the best.

So we figured why not collect and combine as many expert ratings and customer ratings as possible from all over the web (only trusted websites), then aggregate their score and rank them so that days of cross-referencing is done in seconds.

We are constantly adding new categories. Would love to hear some of your hacker feedback/suggestions.
Agreed - I don't think people say "I'm so OCD" or similar out of malice.

A lot of people genuinely don't know what OCD is or why it might be harmful. Hence I do think politely and briefly educating folk is a good thing, if only so that one day if they experience the same symptoms they realise what they are and seek help.

Really glad your OCD is under control, and well done. I'll add that post to my informal list of OCD resources!
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at kwf.dyndns.org:5821.

well, I guess that was expected for a website that is hosted on an alarm clock :)
On HackerFollow (http://hackerfollow.com), we created a leaderboard of most-followed users. There's also a bookmarklet for when you're on a user profile to add them.

This seems like a pretty similar service. Love the market validation ;)

Current leaderboard:

AndrewWarner
bdittmer
davemc500hats
dcurtis
dhh
erickerr
gyardley
keysersosa
kn0thing
loganfrederick
mojombo
paul
pg
treblig
self-plug: GithubFinder http://sr3d.github.com/GithubFinder

Much better code/repo browsing for Github repos, especially with the bookmarklet or the Userscript plugin.
Wow. Speaking as somebody who's bounced off Lisp more than once, I find this really attractive.
patio11
grellas
tptacek

off the top of my head...
Look below the "You are not following anyone yet" and click a name to follow them.
Coursera has lots of data science courses:
www.coursera.org
"companies have high hiring standards that border on the unreasonable (e.g. min 5 years of Ruby experience for a junior level job) and have little interest in training"

Those are related. I can help translate. It means you'll have a non-technical boss. You must be comfortable with learning from google, and your non technical boss is not tech savvy enough to learn from google for you.

For example, its humorous to see this story on the front page adjacent to the "I'm a freelancer and can't find work" story. In that story, theres a comment with a link to the periodic "hiring" stories you'll see here on HN. One of the most recent has a very entry level back end data processing job where (paraphrasing) they need someone to write a python script to open a text file, connect to a database, read the text file and import into the database, and then the javascript frontend guys take it from there. For this, which sounds like a first programming assignment in baby's first python class, they demand a "Python Expert". I cannot possibly imagine how bored a real python expert would be, taking care of something like that. They don't really want or need a "real" python expert, they are signalling that the boss will be totally non-technical and don't expect any training or hand holding at all, which for some noobs with self training skills is perfectly OK. Or by the standards of a totally non-technical businessman, a guy who can "apt-get install python" then write a hello_world or fizzbuzz that actually works is, relative to the businessman, a python expert.

Another reason you'll see weird job offers is H1B legal requirements. There's a large energy company about a mile from my house that periodically posts its legally required H1B job for a CCIE with 25 years experience and similar BS for $50K. All it means is they have a H1B working there and can't find a local willing to work for, say, $45K with 30 yrs (real, not resume) experience, so they don't have to deport the poor guy who's currently working there.
How are they a problem? Firefox/Chrome/OpenSSL can still pick up Curve25519, and Microsoft can still hold out for their own proposal; neither cancels the other out and we're already stuck with NIST curves (rfc4492). In fact, TLS specifically advertises what curves are available so that an upgraded server/client can use stronger curves in the future - optionally.

I know MS will be dicks and try to force their own version of everything, but i'll bet Apple will implement anything that there's a half-decent reference implementation of. That just leaves Microsoft, and the easiest way to defeat their proposal is to get their customers to demand they support the thing everyone else already implements, which would be Curve25519.
Oh hi, which of my (recently former) coworkers are you?
The other day I was surprised to learn that the equals sign was invented in 1557. I wondered what the hell everyone did in algebra before then, and it turned out that a lot of the earliest examples of algebra are essentially word problems.

By the time the equals sign was invented, it was commonplace to use the abbreviation "aeq." for equality, for "all equivalent (or equal) to".

But the equals sign turned out to be a really important development in mathematics, because it helped to visually distill mathematics down into just their number and equation components, without the visual noise of written words.

So I wouldn't be too quick to discount the value of good syntax. I've never personally cared much about it in the past, but looking at it from the point of view of the equals sign, it's probably fair to guess that syntax does a lot more for code clarity and readability than we think.