jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love listening to the current week's "The Economist" podcasts (promptly/free on TPB) to get high-quality / succinct insight on the world. The format is great for commutes: you can get through the magazine in a week's driving and the articles stand by themselves - as opposed to audiobooks which are long-format.
Different situation. Developers make more money on the iPhone/iPad/iPod than Android at the moment. Developers will continue to target the platform where they make the most money.

Apple treats Apps as a switching cost. The more Apps and content that a user purchases, the less likely there are to move to a competing platform.

Microsoft won because Office, Outlook, games, etc increased the switching cost. Once you were over in the Microsoft camp, you were there forever. There was zero user churn.

The whole point of the Get A Mac campaign was about how the switching cost was now low.

Google treats Apps and content as a commodity. Ship your App and make crumbs from AdSense and AdMob. Google's switching cost is in the data in Gmail, Google Apps, etc. Google needs to ship Google Checkout worldwide and then store your purchased Apps like mail and docs to build up the same competitive advantage and attract developers.
"In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place."

Maybe this article isn't that well written or I'm not reading correctly, but I did get the impression that they are trying to charge for something
My scheduled zeppelin tour ended up getting rained out, but the next time I'm in the bay area and have the time to spare, I'm totally going to give it another try.
For non-digital goods they seem pretty similar. Boply also enables you to sell digital goods like access to a link or a File that people can download. In addition it seems like yardsellr charges the buyer a transaction fee when they purchase while I just add the small transation fee for the seller. Also Boply does not require the user to login Facebook to make a purchase. In fact it can be done without any login just have to go through Paypal to enter your credit card info.
Electronic voting?
MobileMe was never really successful because it costs. I would have tried it the first time I heard about it if only it would have been free. Indeed, I found it quite interesting. Dropbox didn't cost anything for the basic usage so nothing stops you to just try it out. And then word of mouth does the rest.
Thanks, that's a useful resource. (I spent a lot of time Googling and searching HN for posts about the enigmatic interview before mine.)

Could you kindly update the Theoryville link to point to http://databraid.com? I'm going to take down that old Posterous...
(Well) encrypted data is fundamentally indistinguishable from random data.

De-duplication requires commonality between files, which could not be found in encrypted data if users had unique keys.

Thus, if they have the ability to de-dupe _after_ you've uploaded a copy, they have the ability to decrypt your entire archive.

I'm not saying that's how they do it, but it would seem the logic is that your data never was particularly well encrypted.
The slickest way I can imagine to do it would be be using HTML5 Webworkers on the clients and Websockets on NodeJS for the server. I've been thinking of doing some experiments in this direction, I'd be surprised if at least a few folks aren't already doing this.
Right, and liquid democracy is really a specific application of proxy voting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting

A startup working with this idea:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8394883/J...
I haven't played with this yet, but it's nifty. I tend to use keychain (http://docs.funtoo.org/wiki/Keychain), originally from Gentoo Linux and now included in Ubuntu, Mac Ports, etc. It's essentially a cleaner interface to ssh-agent, but with some of the same issues Josh writes about in this writeup.

I'll be trying this out.
Can someone actually provide a definition of free will? Apart from the legalistic definition - the ability to make decisions without being coerced by third parties or external factors - any other meaning seems to require dualism, the existence of some external force that can affect the brain and make decisions with some magical non-causal mechanism, which is to me a rather illogical concept.

It seems it is just a nebulous, ill-defined concept used to soothe discomfort with the idea that people's decisions are caused by physical processes, governed by the same laws as the rest of the universe.
I don't present it as something bad. I adjust a timeline by a decade or so :)

And as somebody who currently resides in USA, I am well aware that it's better compared to local state of affairs
But what are we talking about though? We're talking about how this technology is unavailable for nearly all usage, and prohibitively expensive for any actual use. It effectively doesn't exist.
I know this is just a matter of opinion, but I feel it would be hard to over-estimate the value in getting humanity off centrally planned currencies that are manipulated to cyclically transition massive amounts of wealth from the poor to the wealthy.

Of course there's no guarantee that bitcoin or any of the other cryptos will resolve this issue for us, but they are our best chance at the moment.
1. As others have pointed out, you can change the style to alert

2. The system notification center (the icon on the upper right corner or a two-finger swipe from the right on a trackpad) lists every notification you haven't cancelled:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0o7gq7ndcbokin/Screenshot%202015-...
I recommend checking out Reagent as an Om alternative. I've tried both and like how simple and "pure" Reagent is. There's almost nothing to it (where as Om is a bit more complicated)
Coming from a first world country, I've never registered clean water as a significant contributor to quality of life.

Thank you for the interesting perspective, I wish you good luck with your short term endeavours.
The email address listed at the bottom is Bryce Roberts from OATV: http://oatv.com/
I don't buy Apple products and I don't use a smartphone. But in 2014 I borrowed an iPhone 5 from a friend and I found it truly well designed. Thickness and weight were very satisfying for 1-handed operation. I haven't found the successors to be anywhere close.
> An excellent counterpoint to object-oriented thinking.

What exactly?

That you can write code that isn't OO? That's hardly a surprise, given that code has been written in other programming paradigmas for 50 years, before and after the invention of great OO languages like Smalltalk.

Or that you can write good Python code without "self"? Also hardly a surprise, as the OO-ness has been tacked onto Python afterwards.

That's exactly the reason why there is the "self hell" in the first place.
Desktop Linux is mostly install an work. I have not done any tinkering for a long time.

But the Yosemite upgrade on laptop brought back my memories of initial Ubuntu distributions. I had disable few setting to get some performance. I had to change few UI setting to get a decent look. It looks a transition phase OS.But ubuntu on that m/c had few touch pad issues otherwise it would have been the default OS for me on the laptop.
It really isn't, not for professional (web) designer work at least. It might be ok for removing a couple of red eyes, but honestly the interface is so clunky it's just a PITA to use.
Usability also has taken quite a dive with recent iterations of OS X. iOS, Windows and Android are all not only much more obvious to use for the average user but are also much more pleasant to look at. For a lot of basic stuff I need additional software on OS X (e.g. Spectacle) and the OS feels burdened by all the various UI approaches for basically the same thing (Launchpad, Dock, Expose, ...)
It's amazing a person can make such a nonsensical comparison without thought, between a movement for non abusive policing and racial justice to an attempted coup
Every state already did that. There is no evidence of widespread fraud. Georgia, in particular, was crystal clear about this.
One difference is that nonviolent protestors were being gassed and arrested. I see nothing strange in an American politician saying that nonviolent civil rights protests should not stop.
I don't think any Democratic politicians literally told BLM to "go forth and riot". That's the difference. If someone is sympathetic to a movement, it's hard to say they had a hand in events. If someone literally says "hey everyone, let's do this thing!" then it's very obvious.

You could also argue that Trump's previous tweets, the wink wink nod nod tweets to white supremacists, also fall under a similar category as the BLM tweet. Sympathy and possibly support but not actual incitement.

This time was different. Trump was literally inciting sedition. "Go to the capitol and stop the steal" was the message.
It is not possible to downvote this comment and also be a good human being. Any downvoter of this should be sick with themselves over such shameful behavior.

The best I could hope is that it’s some sick-minded person downvoting just to troll. The idea that a right-minded HN viewer seriously down votes this is absolutely unconscionable and completely beyond the pale.

It’s literally the same as downvoting a comment that says “racist murder is wrong.” Literally!
It’s simpler than that: intolerance can’t be tolerated.
Rationality is only half the issue. Not only are some people extremely irrational, many people are dishonest and knowingly feed bullshit to the irrational people to use them as an amplifier. That can be used to promulgate a false idea, or simply to steal the time of people in refuting it.
The original link is now a 404.

Calm down and stop typing.
The real estate situation happens sometimes, in countries without proper cadastral mapping and central registries. It's why title insurance exists.
And have you tried to use it without internet access? It completely refuse to work.

My ISP had some problem that let 200 families without service for a week. Although I have my local network fully working, the dongle refused to boot
> I can't actually think of anyone in that category in the Lords.

The two that immediately spring to mind are Lord Robert Winston and Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
>The bazaar seems to have permanent and crippling ADHD and seems mostly dedicated to reinventing wheels.

ADHD at the strategic level, but hyper-focus at the tactical level. Because when you're a professional developer (as I'd imagine the majority of people writing non-core open source packages are) why doesn't "reimplementing {wheel} in {new language/framework/architecture}" sound more interesting than "bug fixes".

Nobody likes fixing someone else's bugs.
I don't necessarily disagree with any of your points, but 2.0 is doing the exact opposite on all three points. The front end UIs are now _more_ complex, does _more_, and requires more Angular tie in.
Dunno, but kava is over the counter in many places.
Because often the image that was indexed was in the related/other area of the page and is not on the page when you click on the link. Ever since Google removed the direct link to image feature from the search results page anything from pinterest.com is basically SEO spam.
Yelp is another I’d rather not see since it is crippled on mobile.
I agree but they should only lower the reputation. Most of the answers are obnoxiously misleading and others are basically spam.
My browser (FF) displays the link in a slightly lighter grey if I've visited it.

To clean up my feed, I hide topics that I am "done with." That is, I gave it the amount of attention I'm willing to give it. This keeps my feed updating quicker as new items enter the stack at the bottom to replace the ones I've hidden.

I started doing this because it mimics the behavior of one of reddit's settings, which is to hide all topics I've voted on. I found the feature so convenient that I started using the hiding behavior here in the same way.
We knew. FDR is even on record making statements about how we weren't there to save the Jews. The US had opportunities to bomb the train system being used to transport the Jews and didn't. I can't provide links right now (I'll try to circle back later), but we absolutely knew what was going on. We just didn't want to believe it.
Quora reminds me of Yahoo Answers
>Then I saw that American greed is actually one of the best shows on TV.

It is:) Over the years I have watched every episode and now have status of "All caught up" Hulu.
I need to understand why my customers are not clicking on the "subscribe" button.

I'm not selling adverts to them. I'm not capturing personal information. all I'm doing is trying to understand who my customer is and why they're not buying my product.

Why is this unethical?

And why is it OK to analyse server logs, but not OK to use javascript, to do this?
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"... capitalism’s intrinsic reliance on taking
more than its share in any one economic transaction. "

What does that even mean? Capitalism the ideology takes more than its fair share of any one transaction? How does an ideology take a share? Does he mean bankers take more than their fair share?

What is a "fair" share?

If that is in the first paragraph, what hope can the reader have that this guy is going to think rigorously about things in the rest of his paper?
This perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Heron-1
I don't understand. There's no guarantee that every write to an mmapped region be synced to the disk. Indeed, AFAICS, the OS isn't obliged to write any changes through until you call msync() or close the file. Given that, I don't see why a memory write should ever block.
I don't think most members of the IF community would argue that IF is the only way to tell a story through a computer. It's just one particular approach with its own advantages and disadvantages.

And IF need not be pure text. Text with graphical accompaniment has been part of the genre almost since its inception, just like books can have illustrations.
Your efforts in burning the midnight oil are laudable, but becoming a good developer takes time and experience; there is only so much you can do to speed up the process. And you also need some work-life balance, especially at your age.

Nothing wrong with a bit of confidence. You need enough humility to ask questions when you don't know how to do something. But you also need a bit of attitude to carry you past the inevitable obstacles and push development projects to completion.

It sounds like you've fallen in with a bunch of idiots. You don't have to be apologetic about being a newbie; we've all been there. Get out and find another job. Good luck.
Stanford. If your plan is to start a startup, potential employees and investors alike will look to see some sort of indicator that you have potential. It sucks to admit, but pedigree IS important.

Think of it as you filling the "Please tell us in one or two sentences something about each founder that shows a high level of ability." box on your YC application

edit: I didn't see you were considering top companies. I would say
1) top company
2) Stanford
3) startups
You can use it on App Engine Managed VMs:

https://www.dartlang.org/server/google-cloud-platform/app-en...

App Engine decided to go that route to add new languages, rather than sandbox each language individually like with Python and Java (The Go backend was created by the Go team before Managed VMs).
This is actually the most insidious misperception that a wide swath of people appear to have about American education.

It's not that the government spends too LITTLE money - it's because it spends too MUCH without any in the form of cheap student loans with no risk based pricing.

Any 18 year old with no credit history can go and and take out over a $200k of student loans ($57,500 / year) from the government, without any regards to school or risk.

Barely graduated high school and majoring in underwater basketweaving at BoneHead U? As long as it's an "accredited school" (a sham process in and of itself), here's your money - at 3.5% interest! Nothing secured against the loan, no evaluation of your ability to repay, nothing - just free money with the not-so-insignificant fact that these loans are mostly non-dischargeable in bankruptcy or in some cases even death[1]

Majoring in computer science at Stanford? Here's the same loan at the same terms!

Now tell me which student is more likely to default and which is the better risk?

It's ABSOLUTELY because loans are underwritten by the US government willy-nilly in the name of "education for all" that we're in this mess, with universities building movie theaters and lazy rivers[2] at taxpayer expense.

It's a trillion dollar bubble waiting to pop.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_Sta...

[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/fashion/college-recreation...
The DEA's budget is nearly $3B. I'd doubt RC technology can compete against that.
> The sticker price is misleading... There are scholarships... Work study... employers... offer loan repayments... public service makes some eligible for loan forgiveness

Most of these (scholarships, work study) are available in other countries without the sticker price in the USA. Employers don't need to offer loan repayment as a starting bonus in other countries because the sticker price isn't so ridiculous.

It worries me how you rationalize this away - what happens if you don't get a scholarship or that loan repayment as a starting bonus and don't want to work for the government? If you just want to work for a mid-tier accounting firm then your education could be costing you an astronomical portion of your paycheck.
It's likely that when he was trying to put out the hit, as it appeared, he knew he was talking to the guy who was blackmailing him (who didn't know that he knew that) and he was trying to get him to believe that he was willing to kill to end the blackmailing. So he was never actually planning on killing anyone.
Someone should push for gender quotas in fields dominated women in earning & number .... just to remind people that both genders , have an edge that causes these disproportionalities
Does that mean retargeting won't work anymore on Firefox?
I don't know about you but I didn't choose to study physics based on the demography of physicist. It's always strange to hear people argue that correctly gendered "role models" are so important.

The main difference between an average female physics student and Isaac Newton is not their gender, she is just as different from him as I am.
Frys of 10-15 years ago was a fun, vibrant place. I can't even estimate how much money I dropped in those stores. Lately, however, I can't bear to go in. Empty shelves, sad employees wandering around who know absolutely nothing. The one in Sunnyvale closed their appliances area some time ago and have a big curtain strung to block off about 1/3 of the retail space. I can't say I'm sorry they're closing but I definitely will remember it for their glory days.
I have the cheapest one and I have much better stats, and I use it for development, pretty much compiling everything, all the time, rust, rm -rf node_modules, that kind of stuff, every day, 12-16hs for two months. Looks good.

Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 10,224,513 [5.23 TB]
Data Units Written: 9,526,626 [4.87 TB]
They didn’t set the price or make any decisions around the storm, they set a price limit.

“Last week, the price shot up to the legal maximum, set by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), of $9 per kilowatt hour.” https://krdo.com/news/national-world/2021/02/24/how-texass-d...

It’s the market that chose that price, with sufficient generation is would have stayed at normal rates.
> In reality, we only have about 10-15 years before complete ecological collapse.

"In reality, climate change is a pre-text for Marxist takeover of the economy.... Question is, what's in it for you to repeat the lies of communist revolutionaries?"

If we just ignore the scientific consensus, we can play this game all day.
That's where I think things like Tesla's Powerwall becomes so handy. Imagine 95 kWh just sitting there on your wall. Or in your Model-S. When there's an adverse power event, use your battery. Or, sell it back to the grid if there's money to be made.

Having a massive virtual peaker plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant) is a neat idea. Telsa, another new business idea for you!
I will look into this. Sounds intriguing.
While under the law a transportation company must accommodate people with disabilities, I don't believe that they are required to have accommodation for every disability available on every vehicle.

They can have a fleet of vehicles with a mix of accommodations ranging from none to fully equipped for everything, as long as when a disabled person calls for a ride the company can send a vehicle, about as promptly as they can send a vehicle to a non-disabled person, that can handle that person's needs.

So if we were talking about a normal taxi company, that is one that acknowledges that they are a taxi company, then it would make sense for the company to ask when someone calls for a pickup if they have any particular requirements for the vehicle sent or will need any assistance from the driver. Then they could dispatch an appropriate vehicle.

It would also make sense to tell the driver, since sometimes there is extra work or preparation the driver has to do or special handling of the pickup or drop off.

With a taxi company like Uber that is pretending it is not a taxi company, it is a more difficult situation. If they just keep on as is, they will have more and more cases like the present case.

I only see a couple of approaches Uber can take if they don't want this to keep happening and they want to continue pretending they aren't a taxi company.

1. Only allow drivers to use Uber if they and their cars are able to handle all disabilities at all times they they are in service.

2. Allow a mix of drivers/cars like the normal taxi companies have. Users can specify what they need and Uber only shows the ride request to drivers that can handle it.

Should they tell drivers that a ride involves a disabled person? That would aid the driver who goes to handle the ride for the same reasons given earlier for normal taxis. On the other hand, it might lead to drivers giving preference to non-disabled requests, and so still land Uber in hot water. Maybe not tell the driver until after a driver has accepted the ride, with heavy penalties for cancelling after they find out?

They could also just continue as is, except offering early settlements with any disabled person who can't get service rather than trying to fight it and running the cost way up when they lose. That might be financially sensible in the short run, but it bolsters the argument that they undercut normal taxis by skimping on compliance with the law, which strengthens the case for cities to regulate them as heavily as taxis are regulated.