jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sweet...a wikipedia page that reliably causes an "Aw, snap" in Chrome (5.0.375.70 on MacOS X). Is it just mine?

(In case anybody is wondering whether I've done the right thing and reported the problem: yes, I have.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtunistan

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Maj...
I suspect that the economics will play out much like ROV submersibles. Over the long term, operating and insurance costs will be much less for the drones.
The Taliban have a lower bar. If they create some violence, then by definition they're succeeding and the government's failing. The government has a much harder job to do.
You need to start a habit of being productive. I like to tie going to the gym with working on a personal project. I find getting up and going to the gym first thing on a Saturday morning makes it much easier to sit down after and work on something productive. If I sleep in and ease into the weekend, it's almost impossible to overcome that initial inertia and get something done.
You can borrow money from a friend. Right? You can borrow stock from anyone who holds it. If your friend wants his money back, you can pay him cash and the bills don't have to have the same serial numbers as the ones you borrowed. Same with stock. (Entrepreneurs note: You are currency issuers. Think about that.)

The main difference is that everyone holds their shares at a broker so they let the broker handle this loan for them. You borrow the shares via the broker, the broker sells them, and then lets you have access to some of the proceeds (limited by regulation) and uses the rest as a low interest loan to itself.

Small brokerage accounts get nothing out of this even though they lent the shares. That's probably the main reason it seems so mysterious. Most people aren't aware of the mechanism. Your pension fund or insurance company is aware and makes sure they get a cut of the benefits of share lending.
Non-blogspam link: http://www.padrinorb.com/
One long documentary that includes that clip is "The Century of Self" by Adam Curtis (search archive.org for higher quality videos) which practically centers around Edward Bernays, the "father of Public Relations".

link: http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0 (part 1 of 4)
I agree with you that a healthy society is the one where the gap between the poor and the rich is small. However, I believe this must not be achieved by any kind of coercion coming from government. It may work sometimes (as in Scandinavian countries, but those are exceptions and I'm not gonna go into the details of why I think this cannot be duplicated), but ultimately, I think the gap can only be made smaller by free market and free trade, without government violence and coercion.

If you look at the wealthiest people in the world, those are the people who are either in power or close to power. Nobody will be able to make money by favoritism or coercion or corruption if there is no entity (e.g. government) that facilitates those things. Look at the world map. Which countries (again, with the exception of Scandinavian countries) are the richest and in which countries the lot of ordinary men is better? The ones where there's more free market, not less. The US, of course, is absolutely not in the top list of those countries, being highly regulated and taxed.
Definitely! I have a few creative agencies in mind to get in touch with.
What? discardorama was merely wrong - the real service DOES use the approach they considered!!
Put it there. Monetize it. Then, build the core fan community, yourself elsewhere to the extent that the core community continues to support you knowing why they support you there and don't primarily support you via your "brand-building" channels.

Cheap/free distribution for indies via various corporate entities is something that didn't exist as it does 10 or 20 years ago. This is the unstoppable future. Get ahead of it vs twisting, with angst, in its wake.

Previously, artists bowed down to record labels. The new "labels" were bound to fill the digital void. She, and other artists, can carve a better direct-to-fan relationship in other mediums by using broad spectrum as a funnel into the core fan community.

Then there will be niche services that grow to help cultivate that fan+ model and someone in there will dominate or be swallowed by the behemoths. Rinse and repeat.

Art that can be digitized will become freely pervasive and licensing models barely keep up. We are all running our own personal kickstarters if we aren't willing take a W2 from a corporate entity. Viva la 1099!
Also, we didn't have enough time to evolve greater lifespans and longer fertility spans, we've done so artificially much quicker than evolution can handle.
My #1 link for anyone interested in genetic programming is the language designed from the ground up to be programmed genetically: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html
Yearly Review was also totally broken if the language of your Facebook activities wasn't en_US. I don't know how well it worked for Americans, but across the pond it tended to pick up nonsense. Hell, the only photos that were in any way relevant or interesting on my Yearly Review were screenshots from Kerbal Space Program...

I say it needs much, much more work.
Better that they fix their own vulnerabilities than release them.

They do offer a bug bounty for their own products, to encourage third parties to do to them exactly what they're doing to Apple and Microsoft.
That's not exactly what happened. The FDA required 23andme to stop reporting health risks as if they were properly vetted medical data. I think that's the wrong decision, and it did have the effect of greatly limiting their market in the US, but you can still do a 23andme test and then just go to Promethease to get just as detailed a look at all the health implications as 23andme provided (and still provides to the rest of the world.)

The FDA did not shut down 23andme or make them stop offering DNA tests, they stopped them offering interpretations of those tests.
You have to remember a significant time in human evolutionary scale is probably something like 10k-100k years. Looking at wiki page for life expectacy at the Paleolithic [1] (even at 15 years) shows it lines right up with woman menopause.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
Repeat after me, correlation does not imply causation. While misogyny is not a cultural value to be perpetuated, it's not quite that simple. There have been serious discussions about the subject recently here on HN, and one thing I've learned that is a big part of the "women in tech" equation is that a large proportion of women find other work more enjoyable and remunerative than tech or engineering.
If someone can't work for a few days, or even a week,
just hangs around watching tv, playing video games
or reading, and after this time is again able to work,
then this isn't a depression, but just the need for a rest.

I have been suffering of depressions, and it's nothing like an unmotivated
mental state. By equalizing it, you're trivializing depressions. They're real
mental pain, they're about loosing any enjoyment.
It's really not that hyped up lately, but i really think that optional typing would be the best of both worlds in that matter. You can write your programs without thinking about types, and then you add types for safety/speed.

With a little bit of type propagation i think it would lead to quite a natural style of programming.

C#/CLR hints towards that from the other side with the dynamic type, but for syntaxic and cultural reasons, it won't be the same thing as a dynamic language allowing you to use types.

Also, Clojure type hinting is not at all optional typing, as it doesn't enforce types at all. It's purely for performance reasons, and i really think is the wrong way to go about things.
It TOTALLY depends on the type of site/service/product. I'm currently involved in two very different models:

ThatHigh.com - ad driven, completely free, entertainment. There is no chance to pay for anything (well, I sell stickers, but that isn't something that generates much money). This site pays my rent through advertisements.

Djangy.com - Heroku for Python. When we're ready for public beta, it will have a free version: basically enough to get something up and running. The paid features are scaling, addons, dedicated databases, etc. There's no way advertising would work here, for example. The numbers are a little tricky -- only a certain % of apps will be paid, so to break even or reach profitability means that the paying customers are supporting EVERYONE, which can be significant.

You can imagine many different models -- Facebook, for example, and twitter. Then there are subscriptions that give you "credits", and then there's something like Twilio that you pay for in advance, and then your account is refilled automatically once it reaches a certain threshold.

This trend of "pay for what you use" has some implications for the organization providing the value and charging -- namely, your product has to be ultra-efficient in order to compensate for the fact that your users are only paying for what they use, even though there may be lots of remnant resources that YOU are still paying for.

It's definitely getting interesting!
That will always be the case. Just know that the opportunity costs of not doing it will be a little bit higher.
Thanks for that, it's even included in Ubuntu. I'm just not sure if it will work if I install it on all my computers individually, because I don't have a router running Linux (pity me).
> The savviest webmasters (who promote their sites best, know SEO, etc.) are the first to play with a new tool like Google places, which is why you see their pages so highly represented in the top results.

By savviest webmasters you mean Google, since they generate the pages. Yes, they have very good SEO. Nonetheless, in many places this is deemed unfair competition
I was using that number to represent just the energy required to motivate the car, and assuming that an EV has near-perfect energy translation from battery to movement (and therefore providing an accurate enough representation of that energy). It gets a little complicated if you want to consider the fuel input, as you start getting into wells-to-wheels calculations. Depending on your power grid energy mix, it also makes things quite a bit worse for EVs.
See https://www.realtimerendering.com/books.html#recommended

The RTR site is an incredible resource for anyone interested in the field. Note that their book ("Real-Time Rendering") is not an introductory text, but an intermediate overview that is best read after you've made yourself comfortable getting a few triangles on the screen using whatever API you prefer.
The usage I've seen is to send log lines. In that case it's a lot slower than bundling stuff up into single requests/responses over HTTP.
The instructions imply each person should sign the outside of the envelope.

The outside of the envelope typically doesn't have any legal privacy protections. That means Amazon can collect a list of people who have voted.
>For technical books today, they expect the author to bring the audience.

So what's the point to go with them? We all can save it as a pdf and upload to Gumroad,or even send it to Amazon to print. I appreciate books on JAVA or Docker don't sell in millions but I'd at least expect the publisher to try to put my book on the shelves..
This is always, always the answer. It's not only the decent thing to do, it ensures you'll get an accurate representation of the quality of the prospective employee's work.
planes may not have worked well in the dark during WW2 (excluding night fighters), but that hasn't been true in decades thanks to thermal imaging and night-vision advances.
And of course this is all just emotional paranoia.

None of those things are real except as emotional gates on social agency so the privileged under the law can get first dibs.

Remember Thiel & Trump, probably the rest, really believe romantic notions like tough guys must rule as “that’s the way society has to be because that’s how it has always been”.

Trump literally said it the other day and Thiels ramble was posted here recently.
Do you have data? Or is this anecdotal?
I've seen it individually recommended in a number of places.

Why? Well unlike (say) GoToMeeting or Webex, you can use it for free (albeit with a time limit). Until recently it had a much more modern, easy-to-use interface than GoToMeeting as well. Also, apparently it's one of the few videoconferencing solutions that works reasonably well in China.

Also, it apparently scales pretty well; one of the groups in my church apparently had nearly 100 people in a zoom.us conference last week. I didn't participate in that one, but there was a distinct lack of "and that was a disaster" comments.

I resisted using zoom for about two weeks, specifically due to the "start a local web browser to work around Safari's security features" disaster; but ultimately, you need to say "no" to every other person who wants to have a meeting with zoom, and eventually I just had to give up and install the client.

(I've been recommending meet.jit.si since it's 1) open-source 2) unlimited time for the free version 3) doesn't need to have a client installed.)
> Do not forget that you represent a small minority of tech literate people.

You're right haha, plus I'm more of a minimalist so I just want to have less stuff in general.
nice but wouldn't the data be better formatted

[{ date: '', confirmed: 0, deaths: 0, recovered: 0}]

rather than sperate arrays.
I don't believe you. That sounds more like bitreverse and morton interleaving. If you're serious that it's actually big endian and that it has a real use case (outside human social traditions and legacy infrastructure maintainence), then I'd love to see convincing details.

As for strings, GCC/Clang are great at vectorizing normal byte-oriented code. It doesn't matter if it generates or you hand code VPCMPEQB vs. VPCMPEQQ either, since they appear to have the exact same latency. Modern compilers have also been moving in the direction of punishing folks who do things like `* (uint32_t * )p`, due to aliasing rules rather than endianness. Rob Pike had an amusing blog post on this subject: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallac...
> It is 110% not good to have any major corporation go into a technical default.

Q: rather than going into debt, would it be possible for the government to just... suspend the activation of financial covenants generally for a while? Enact a law putting a temporary patch on how contract law works vis-a-vis financial instruments?

Something like... any covenant with triggers written after date X would now be required to be written to include additional language Y; and any covenant triggers written before date X would be implicitly interpreted as if they did contain language Y. Language Y specifies that the activation of the covenant is suspended when the government says a certain named financial-market state "Z" pertains; and, when state "Z" is declared as having ended, only then would the covenant be evaluated for activation, based on the present state of the debtor, rather than its state during the historical period during condition "Z". Effectively, the covenant wouldn't be able to "see into" whatever happened during "Z" to apply its triggering logic to it.

(I'm picturing here how you can, in an RDBMS, create constraints that don't validate until a transaction is complete, such that you can temporarily put a table into a constraint-violating state during the TX, and—as long as you fix things before the end of the TX—everything will be fine, and the trigger won't run.)
You can certainly do it, but the rest of the users will stay vulnerable.
I realize everyone here seems to hate it but couldn't you just keep messaging and ignore the availability of a payment system?
Which, if Karpeles were very bright and exhibited much forethought, could have been entirely fabricated in order to provide evidence that he was not involved.

Email cannot establish identity, without additional side-channel information to verify it.
This course haven't had the chance to leak out into the open web has it? Someone from Google who has access please do, it's in the best interest of everyone. To be honest I'm kind of surprised they didn't release it already.

As someone who has completed Andrew Ng's course it would be interesting to compare.

> The lecture was followed by one or more case studies, whereexperts explained how the techniques taught in lecture hadbeen applied to solve important problems at Google.

That would certainly be interesting to watch.
It started working again :)
I read the Article. Dennis seems like a nice guy- rather a great guy! But I do think that this article does not particularly embody a spirit of entrepreneurship. Dont get me wrong, Dennis does not embody any negaative spirit, everything positive. It is fitting for MLK day. However, just because it makes us feel warm and fuzzy, it shouldn't be characterized to embody any particular quality that we choose to say it does. It embodies great human spirit, but, rationally thinking, is not fitting example of entrepreneur.
Just checked out the website, awesome idea! Hope to see this catch on with tech talks.
Basic09? Wow, that's the luxury version. The BASIC that came with the regular CoCo was simply microsoft basic ported to the 6809, nothing so nice as compilation.
I don't mean to overly offend, but something like this is not worth more than $5/month. Maybe $20/month for 1 million+ users. Your $19/month ($11/month if paid annually) is more than a lot of individuals and small businesses spend on VPS hosting. Your only target with this pricing would be medium-to-large companies, and yet your published pricing ends at an extremely meagre 100,000 users which would not begin to cover them.

By the way, your method of popping up the div overlay removes the scrollbar if present (at least in your demo), which makes centred layouts jump around. Raises a yellow flag regarding implementation quality.
If you can't remember to get up from coding, there are timer apps that you can get to remind you to walk around. Besides, it is good for creativity and debugging to get away from the screen and go somewhere else, even if it is only to another part of the office or to stare out a window. In fact, staring out the window also relaxes the eye muscles which helps prevent vision problems and/or migraines.
I doubt it will happen. One of Android's big selling points for phone manufacturers was that they could use Android as a free and solid base to add their own unique additions to. There really is little interest from them to make Android phones generic and interchangeable. If the platforms are too consistent then there is no reason people won't replace their Samsung Android phone with an HTC Android phone next time they upgrade, and Samsung certainly doesn't want that.
I wonder what sort of equity Y Combinator would take if they ran a similar operation in Europe. Maybe 30% is more to do with business conditions than with HackFwd's own preference.
Yeah, good journalism costs money.

To have a staff of correspondents reporting around the world isn't cheap. But I think it's worth it.

I think in order for newspapers to survive, people have to learn that they need to pay. Advertising alone isn't going to pay the bills.

I personally think that charging people money for things on the internet isn't such a crazy idea. ;-)
> I dont think the newspapers are the bad guy here.

It's not about good or bad guys here, it's about a business model being deprecated by technology. And part of the web's technology is that the user agent decides of everything. Including not displaying ads if it doesn't want to. Or reformatting layout. Or even displaying nothing at all and only voicing the text.

Welcome to the future, your business model is dead or dying, you might or might not survive but your model can not and will not. Unless you manage to stop the march of progress.
You're certainly an exception, not the rule. In my immediate circle of python programmers, most of them would name Guido, Beazley and maybe on a good day Alex Martelli.

I have to agree with Zed on that point.
Useless rant that doesn't add anything to my life, or probably yours.
There are a few extensions here: http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/
I used a marshall tsl-100 with no pedals forever but had the exact same problems with levels and it murdered my back. I tried using a power brake attenuator but wound up buying a Reason amp that weighs like 20 lbs and can switch between 10-20 watts. It is amazing.
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by minimum font-size? You've got me curious.
> Well, and the complex numbers, they're the only algebraically closed field.

That is very, very far from being true! There are algebraically closed fields of every characteristic and of arbitrarily large cardinality. What did you mean?
How does Synthego compare to Emerald Therapeutics and Transcriptic?
We've been trying to figure out how to do this, does anyone have the legal language that says how this works?
the comprehension version is actually clearer, though. consider: in filter(P, S)

1. which is the predicate and which is the list?

2. is the list filtered in place (destructively) or is a new list emitted?

3. does filter mean "select when P" or "reject when P"? both are valid readings of the english word 'filter', with common non-scitech usage actually leaning more towards 'filter out'

the list comprehension has none of those ambiguities.
I'm on FF 36.0 on Kubuntu 14.10 - I removed the certs for CNNIC and then to test went to the CNNIC website and rewrote the address as https. Website still shows the lock symbol and still shows the cert verified by the CNNIC root CA?!? Seems the removal is slightly glitchy somehow, third time worked.

2 things I notice:

1) there are a lot of default trusted suppliers, seems that this should perhaps be selected on install (trust all or trust local [geographic] or trust by selecting regions).

2) that unlike with cookies you don't get a record of how often a certificate (or CA) has been used - so I can't tell from looking at the certificate information FF holds whether I've ever used the dozen or so Turkish certs for example; this seems like useful information for users that's not being displayed. I only use Turkey as an example because I don't use Turkish websites [I barely know a handful of Turkish words] nor AFAIK any Turkish company's English language sites.

Why would I need to trust geographically and linguistically distant CA's by default? If I decide to do something with a .cn site that needs a https connection it seems that I should be able to get info like "these CA - you already trust - in turn 'trust' this CA which certifies the site you are accessing". That along with any warnings the browser wants to give on malware or phishing then would feed in to a decision to accept the cert and interact "securely" with the site in question. The sites I actual need secure transactions with are probably certified by less than a dozen CA; trusting hundreds by default then seems poor security practice [to this layman].
That's certainly an interesting approach.

It's got a maximum latency problem though.

If for some reason the unlucky thread that acquires the lock cannot process the batch faster than other threads are adding.... well that ends poorly
In 1999, I took a Sun Certification class. The instructor told us a story of a kid whose parents said, "we have a $200K college fund for you, you can attend 4 years of college or take every Sun Certification class". He chose the certs.

In 1999, this 20 year old kid (only took two years to get every cert) was making $300K/year.

I assume that got cut a lot in 2000, but at least for a while it seemed to be a pretty good strategy.
Probably the most important aspect of high school is learning to socialize and making friends. It's a shame you're taking that away from her. There will be time for coding later, she has her whole life ahead of her. Let her be a kid while she still can.