jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Receives more than 1 billion searches per day" ... "Google receives 88 billion searches per month".

Not necessarily wrong, but I wonder about their data. Then claiming "103 megawatts can power 80,000 homes for one month"? Do they mean MWh?
Against the site? What venue will that take place in?
The author of that article did not really give an honest interpretation of what was written in her diaries (about Hickman).
Note that it's not perfect for all cases, but it's certainly acceptable for small icons.

Here's a 32x32 icon I converted down to 8-bit alpha and then 1-bit, and then resized the whole group so they could be more closely examined:

http://i.imgur.com/XTksy.png
That's what happens (in the US) if you're hurt badly enough to need a helicopter: https://youtu.be/3gdCH1XUIlE
No, you're absolutely right, but the fact that many of our best brains are used to just sell more ads to sell more things to sell more ads is concerning... Same with the best brains being used to "disrupt" things without taking humans into account.
Because it fails to satisfy so many modern demands. It doesn't even understand user names that aren't a subset of ASCII. Most of the commands aren't really standardized. It doesn't support end-to-end encryption (which today even WhatsApp is using). It requires you to be always connected instead of using push notification systems which are way better for the battery of mobile devices.

Probably the only reason the protocol is still around is that it's popular among a certain group. IRC is so different from what you would want from a modern chat system that it doesn't make much sense to build upon it.
Actually I need to write a blog post about this...it was "foolish" in that it was learning two kinds of worldviews at once (CoffeeScript vs JS and AngularJS vs. other frameworks) though since I wasn't doing it for a on-the-job project that I (or anyone else) would have to maintain, it wasn't "foolish" in the disastrous way :)

But now that I think more about it, doing both at once helped me with how I generally learn things, which is: copy example applications and go through the motions, and slowly experiment/break things until it all makes sense.

However, the problem with this is that if you kind-of-know something, you just mindlessly retype the code without getting much benefit. I kind-of-know MVC (or whatever Angular is) frameworks so to make things a challenge, I took the Todo/Hello-world Angular apps and re-wrote them in CoffeeScript. There was enough mental exercise there that my brain didn't atrophy from looking at Todo/Hello-world-level code, and at the same time, I got some practice with CoffeeScript.

I guess the main "resource" that made this possible was with Yeoman, which chirped at me everytime I screwed up in CoffeeScript (i.e. missed a whitespace) and made it easy, via TDD, to slowly construct an Angular app despite being incredibly confused with some of Angular's magic.
It's not in SF or NYC or Boston, which means hardly anyone on HN or in VCland knows about it.
> I'm not worried about the creative types that can do this. I worry about those who can't. Meaninglessness is pretty wearing on the soul.

Is it better those people are forced to work in unskilled labour, like now?

Even with UBI, they could still voluntarily subject themselves to unskilled labour if they felt it quenched feelings of meaninglessness.
"Quite a few of these apps (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Keep, Duo) were updated on December 7, the very last day to get in app updates before the new privacy requirements"
Because the only effective language for communicating with the past is the language that the people of the past used, if those languages die then their stories and knowledge dies with them
I built a tool for playing around with different dithering effects and palettes if anyone is interested in having a play: https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this
Looks like Google is embarrassed to admit what they collect from user. Fortunately Google makes Android so they can hide the facts.
> A bit pedantic, but I think this statement "Probably the most popular non-POSIX shell" about fish may need this qualifier "For Linux Systems ...."

Both versions are true, given the chasm between the popularity of Linux vs other Unix clones.
Oh wow, the people that are are happy with things as they are and want to "conserve" those things are happier than the people that are downtrodden under the current system and thus want to change it.

Who could've guessed.
> … readline bindings: option-delete should delete the last word you typed. …

Alt-Backspace with tcsh in FreeBSD-CURRENT has the desired effect for me.

Alt-Delete produces this:

;3~

Am I missing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline
Oh, wow, so some people actually made a living wage. Yeah, that sounds great.
Wait, are you sure? If someone is acting as an agent of an entity then the entity is who you sue

I am definitely not a lawyer or even good at "law" but that would just be insane if the truth is otherwise
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...
No those cards aren't suspicious. And as I understand it, they were arguing TSA was wrong.
I have 2 Pandoras and it's amazing the number of stuff you can do with them. Either use them as gaming machines (mainly for emulation but not only), but also for a lot of more serious stuff (LibreOffice and R!) and coding on the go. It's awesome, while it's clearly not for everyone.
ASSUMING this is true...

The information industry in in an exponential power curve right now. Participants are either in the stage of disruption or already evolving democratization. The classic monolithic mega-company just isn't engineered to twist and turn like that. I'm amazed they've lasted this long.

One way to survive is to admit failure and do an emergency fracture. Break off all divisions with any profit potential into their own manageable chunks which don't suffer from upper management overload. Wow that would be an expensive proposition. And IBM stock would burn.
Yup. Message Broker wasn't all that bad, but the all-expenses paid trip to Vegas for a week was better.
Would concatenative languages apply ?
unless there is external regulation/certification, what incentive does one cloud service provider have to open a can of worms on themselves like this? It can only be assumed that all the others will follow suite and it would be comparable to price cuts ... great for the customer but from a game theory view point, best if Google, Amazon etc don't use this as means of differentiation
> Regardless, this is an example of why cloud communication (and ticketing and database off-loading [see MongoHQ] and...) systems probably won't ever become commonplace in most of the government space and the finance and health sectors.

I agree. We might not like rolling out our own instances, but it prevents hackers from being able to grab ALL THE DATA in one fell swoop. It really amazes me that some EHR systems have gone the cloud route.
I shudder to imagine anyone bothering to build bcrypt WITHOUT a salt. In general, salt is implied in bcrypt.
I'm not what they'd call very young (33), and I'd been programming from an early age; I just hadn't done legit software development with version control until about 2011, and hadn't looked up git's origins until about 2014.
Host your own IRC if you care about the privacy and security of your communication.

There is no reason why you can't take 10min to setup a IRC with SSL on your own.

Yes, Slack is awesome, lots of features, but it's not yours!
Yeah I wasn't trying to insinuate that they don't still have a great research department. But you can only see so many cuts happening over the years without thinking that it'll impact their bottom line eventually.

Whilst I'm sure these ~100,000 are from services and sales - I'm equally sure that if they had something unique to sell in the first place, they'd be doing a heck of a lot better.
wow looks sweet. will this run inside a tmux session?
Are you going to update the online version once you publish the printed version ?
If security is that important to you, buy one. A cheap Android tablet isn't exactly going to break the bank, is it?
As they say, you eat with your eyes and nose first before eating with your mouth.

This is an example of an amazingly good hack, which led to the creation of a whole new market and also reduce a lot of criminal waste. Smart.
That's a view I would see nothing more than government propaganda. 'If you don't like the law, then you should break it and peacefully accept any punishments.' Should we tell homosexuals in some areas of the world that they should go ahead and draft up their wills and turn themselves to be executed because they should accept their punishment for their crime?
Food is so subsidized that we may as well throw out any food that consumers dont want, the tax payer will eat the cost (but not the food).
Not my absolute favorite poem but one I always liked.

Madame quel est votre mot
Et sur le mot et sur la chose
On vous a dit souvent le mot
On vous a fait souvent la chose

Ainsi de la chose et du mot
Vous pouvez dire quelque chose
Et je gagerais que le mot
Vous plaît beaucoup moins que la chose

Pour moi voici quel est mon mot
Et sur le mot et sur la chose
J'avouerai que j'aime le mot
J'avouerai que j'aime la chose

Mais c'est la chose avec le mot
Mais c'est le mot avec la chose
Autrement la chose et le mot
A mes yeux seraient peu de chose

Je crois même en faveur du mot
Pouvoir ajouter quelque chose
Une chose qui donne au mot
Tout l'avantage sur la chose

C'est qu'on peut dire encore le mot
Alors qu'on ne fait plus la chose
Et pour peu que vaille le mot
Mon Dieu c'est toujours quelque chose

De là je conclus que le mot
Doit être mis avant la chose
Qu'il ne faut ajouter au mot
Qu'autant que l'on peut quelque chose

Et que pour le jour où le mot
Viendra seul hélas sans la chose
Il faut se réserver le mot
Pour se consoler de la chose

Pour vous je crois qu'avec le mot
Vous voyez toujours autre chose
Vous dites si gaiement le mot
Vous méritez si bien la chose

Que pour vous la chose et le mot
Doivent être la même chose
Et vous n'avez pas dit le mot
Qu'on est déjà prêt à la chose

Mais quand je vous dis que le mot
Doit être mis avant la chose
Vous devez me croire à ce mot
Bien peu connaisseur en la chose

Et bien voici mon dernier mot
Et sur le mot et sur la chose
Madame passez-moi le mot
Et je vous passerai la chose

It's by an 18th century libertine priest who was called l'Abbé de Lattaignant.
Aren't they, when Twitter now owns Meerkat's competitor Periscope?
This does not work for any non-trivial function because of missing stack map for the GC and stack copier.
Extrapolating by eye, with a biased look, one could describe that as "Total market is growing, Periscope briefly grabbed it, but will be gone within a week"

An eye biased the other way could say that Periscope managed to reach everybody interested in this kind of product, and made them all realize that they aren't really interested at the same time, whereas Meerkat was discovering that at a slower pace, concluding that both products are doomed.

Retention numbers might be able to prove either of these explanations wrong.

Either way, venture capital is aiming for greater gains by taking larger risks. Because of that, even if Meerkat fails, the decision to invest in it still might have been the right one.
We'll get there and definitely on our roadmap -- just launched 3 weeks ago :)
This probably wasted maybe 20 minutes out of their day. I was hoping to see them get counter-scammed, like has happened a few times.
Actually most council tax revenues (usually 40 to 50%) go to the local police.
The author also kind of channels my existential dread though it's worse in a way: every day I think "well I'll be a different person tomorrow so why should I do anything for that person?"

Then when I wake up the next day I am like "who messed up all of my stuff yesterday? Glad that wasn't me."
If the connectivity state doesn't matter to the user, why would you show it?
Out of curiosity, do you plan to add a sensor to every output breaker in your box?

I'm interested in a closed (for everyone but ME) system as well. I'm not sure I'll be able to fit much hardware in the breaker box so I'm unsure.
Done. Enjoy. I'm all out now.
> The chips also operate on the assumption that future software will involve programmers giving high-level directions while artificially intelligent computers write much of the nitty gritty code required to implement those human ideas.

I can't wait to stop writing machine code.
Wasn't this inspected by leading virus scientists and concluded that its way different to anything that lab ever found and there is no current technology to modify it so much? The lab isn't secretive about its stash of viruses they find in the wild IIRC.

I recall reading some interview with lead scientist in this lab few weeks ago someplace but can't find it now.
Have to recommend 'World at War' series by Harry Turtledove. It's like watching paint dry, it repeats itself, somehow, but, what's better in a HODL, don't actively trade -environment? I love it. Enjoy the kukuriknich and all the other skits dudes. Harry for life. Guns of the South is pretty good too! I'll try this gene wolf bs, it seems great.
As a life long meat eater, most of those things you mention are caused by agriculture which ends up feeding animals in the form of corn and soya.
> If you treat starving kids as important then you will have more starving kids

If you care about cancer patients you will have more cancer patients? This is nonsense because you framed it wrong. Caring about [something] isn't necessarily about perpetuating or creating more [something], it's about solving (on of) the problem(s) behind it. And this can have solid economic value. On top of it you can have a layer of humanity where you do something purely for the the well being of another.

To the point, "caring about starving kids" means "caring about solving starvation". This has plenty of implications, not the least of which are that you developed tech that can be applied elsewhere, or that you just created a new market where the participants have a chance of actually paying because they have a chance at a disposable income. You "created" new valuable members of society capable of producing and consuming your products or services.

The reason starving kids don't pull that much attention is that "solving" starvation has a shaky business case, far from guaranteed success, and very unclear timeline. Things most businesses shy away from.

Why do you think Facebook is investing in internet in India or Africa? It's not because they care about people with no internet so by your reasoning they'll create more people with no internet. It's because they are untapped markets that need to be brought up just to the point where they become profitable. You have to spend money to make money. So far the case for solving world hunger has that threshold too high for today's "make money now" stock price driven business models.
I'll give it a watch, thanks.
Yeah, i heard Twilio many times. I think we just go for it, Thanks.
A big part of the GeoCities content has been available as a torrent file from a group called the Archive Team and maybe you can still download it:

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities

The file was huge, about several hundred gigabyte. I didn't download it, because I don't have enough space and downloading it would take ages with my slow connection.

On http://reocities.com/ you can browse through some of the old pages and sites, but many things are broken now, missing images.
Neither do the TSLA motors, IIRC.
I think it can be as low as $250k if invested in certain areas.
I'm not sure what the direct relationship between the arrogance of Stephen Wolfram has to do with Wolfram Research.

Wolfram is outspoken about his work on cellular automata, which a lot of people think is overblown, but his company's work stands on it's own- and it's quite good.
redis-trib-ute :)
Congrats Marc. Really glad to see to see compversions launched. Beautiful design. Played with the app, really great; Especially the UX (it's terribly simple and straightforward)
It had to present the topic in a way that would be compelling to readers.

Lets consider two possibilities.

a) The author wishes to induce an emotional reaction in his readers to demonstrate this effect. In that case, he should attack taboos on both sides of the political aisle, in an effort to maximize the number of readers having an emotional reaction.

b) The author wishes to intellectually discuss some psychological findings. In that case, he could simply focus on a few small obscure groups with irrational beliefs (e.g., 9/11 truthers, UFO abductees) in order to minimize the number of readers who react emotionally.

I can't figure out what purpose he is serving by exposing only half his readers to the negative emotional reaction, while exposing the other half to the positive emotional reaction that comes from criticizing their political opponents and affirming their already held beliefs. (Unless of course the latter reaction is what he is going for.)
dont play this with your friends.
Err, its not one device, its ipad, ipod, and iphone. So its three devices and if you count versions, dozens.
Make your "free trial" text 5 times bigger.
great site, 10months to get that, was totally worth it and to know it is a bootstrapped even cooler, good luck the site is great
Good idea, and look well-executed.

I would add more images and examples of the application in use.

Also, choose more relevant examples... the only one I see is a comparison between the same image with color changes. Show something like a whole website project from early stage (sketched mockups) to later stages (details in coloring and font choices, or whatever).

Also, IMHO, the copy should focus more on the benefits for the designer (get better feedback faster, more often) than on the benefits for the client ("Save your clients the hassle of resizing browser windows, or printing...")

This is a great looking app and site, especially if you were learning as you went.

Good luck!
Adriano
We all "simply want to live". Not having microplastics in everything, everything we eat, everything we drink, etc, etc, goes a long way towards that.

I'm not "punishing them for the sins of the Great Polluters", I'm just expressing an opinion on a public forum. Sadly, the only way we have to change the behavior of "the Great Polluters" is showing them we care.

I see enough plastic garbage on our beaches, I try to minimize my own plastic waste and will call people out on it. It may not change the world, but it are the only tools I have.
How does the bicyclist get hurt when the driver changes lanes to pass? Bicyclists actually get more lateral clearance when that happens compared to when they're keeping further right and the motorist tries to squeeze their vehicle between them and oncoming traffic.
Nope. That assumption is wrong.

> The system programming was not carried out in the UK, and in the country where it was performed the title Miss was used for a child, and Ms for an adult female, hence the error.
One mechanism was discovered that could explain the brain fog, fatigue and other neuro symptoms - virus infiltration in bone marrow which leads to megakaryocyte cells (the cells that normally produce red blood cells) entering the bloodstream, settling in lungs, and getting trapped in small brain capillaries.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...
I have always assumed that weight-and-balance was assessed using load cells or strain gauges in the landing gear. Is that not so?
It's interesting because it's the first time I've thought about it (not a big listener of classical music) - but whether or not classical music is racist isn't really why I bought that one up.

The group seems to be sidetracked with every single cause, a subcommittee for every minority group... which, to me, takes away from the main purpose of a Union of Musicians - getting paid/treated properly (as a whole).

Which just reminds me of how this webpage gets sidetracked from the main issue. The main issue should be: listening in on conversations is creepy.
Honestly, the airline industry is quite fascinating in terms of how safe it is. But that safety is maintained by procedure, cross-checking, and (especially in the commercial space) aggressive investigation of any deviation from expectations.

This serious incident is a great example of that process in action. The initial issue they were investigating was that the flight gets computer-analyzed to compare the actual dynamics of the plane to the theoretical dynamics. That analysis revealed a 1kt difference between what the takeoff speed should have been and what it was measured to be (about a 0.76% deviation from expectation).

That <1% deviation led to an investigation and a 7-page report.

Such a level of scrutiny is expensive, but it's how commercial air travel has gotten to the "safer than cars" level it currently supports.
yes salary is negotiable in Europe but mostly within a range depending on your level (which is usually not transparent, you don't know the ranges).
people mostly avoid salary discussion because of cultural reasons I guess, but never due to the employer, I can't imagine HR telling someone to not discuss their salary.
In some areas of the country, yes.

In Washington state (Whatcom/Skagit/Island county), I would estimate that most of the fiber optics are aerial. Some extra work needs to be done to dampen vibrations due to the wind, but this is relatively simple.

Aerial fiber can be very inexpensive. In Bellingham, a pair on a 70km run could be had for the about the same recurring cost as a T1, and build-out is fast and cheap.
If you read the article it says that they are looking to optimize price for high adoption rates unlike many of the existing community fiber projects. Until pricing is announced no one knows what that means, but it does seem to be pointing towards more affordable high speed internet connections.
The tutorial is pretty killer but afterwards when I go to play I just feel plopped into nothingness. Do I have a team? Is the game played in realtime or slowly turn based? There are still a lot of unanswered questions.

More importantly, where is the viral loop? I would expect after the tutorial to arrive at a point where I have $x000 and I can build my team. Oh, and for each of my friends that I invite into the game, I get $x00. And a zillion other hooks like that.
Android did not initially support multi-touch. It does now.
Not sure if this is what you are thinking exactly but:

Sam Walton - University of Missouri

Mike Duke - Georgia Tech

Rex Tillerson - UTx - Austin

Alan Mulally - U Kansas

Warren Buffet - UPenn, U Nebraska-Lincoln, Columbia

James Sinegal - AA from San Diego City College

Bernard Marcus - Rutgers

Arthur Blank - Babson

Ron Brill - Fairleigh Dickinson

George Dayton - nothing after HS

Charles Rudolph Walgreen - nothing after HS

Michael Dell - U Tx Austin

Marcus Goldman - Nothing after HS

Richard M. Schulze - Nothing after HS

I think I'll stop. I'm just going down the Fortune 500 list, and if the company has an identifiable founder that didn't go to an A-list school for their education I'm listing them (I tossed in a couple CEOs as well). Schulze (Best Buy) is at #45 so I think that paints the picture.

Maybe a better question is, if the A-list schools are supposed to be so much better than other schools, why aren't the better represented in this list. Hell U Texas-Austin has about as many as Harvard and it's a state school.
That's a very good point. This seems to be a major point against an explanation based solely on encouragement/bias.

In a solely encouragement/discouragement based theory, it might be that for some reason, males are encouraged as well as discouraged more strongly than females. I don't know of any (even anecdotal) evidence of this happening, so I wouldn't bet on it.

In any case, the underlying origins of these statistics are no doubt complex, messy and controversial.
Yep, and Apple licensed the rights to the name.

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/cisco_and_apple_agreeme...