jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Now... navigation on or over land by performing SLAM on ground features... that would be interesting.

DARPA does have a plan for All Source Positioning and Navigation using radio-spectrum "signals of opportunity" for position tracking http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/STO/Programs/Adaptable_Navigat... .
The best explanation I've ever heard of it is the concept of "luck surface area", which I was first introduced to on the TechZing podcast. It's the product of "work you do" and "people you touch with it."

There are hotel maids that work harder than any of us ever will. Nobody knows their name. This does not result in them getting appreciable amounts of career-enhancing luck.

There are people who achieve a brief bit of Internet stardom, on the basis of a shallow connection, such as e.g. being the person a photo a meme was based on. You will probably not retire on being a meme.

However, if you've written OSS that is key to 100 companies or if you have a blog read that 5k developers would cite as one of their top five or if you got two dozen people their jobs or yadda yadda, you'll be freaking amazed how many lucky opportunities come your way.
Do you agree?

Personally, I could not agree more. And five years ago, I think if you'd asked that question on this site, and overwhelming majority of respondents would have said that this is a no-brainer, where the answer is clearly "yes".

Now? The dominant clique here now will laugh at you for saying this, and accuse you of believing in Horatio Alger stories, and will tell you that all success is good luck, and that you can claim no credit for your work and any resulting success. Work ethic, dedication, passion, sacrifice - these things are verboten now. Now everything is luck, "white privilege", "male privilege", "western privilege", or some other excuse to disparage the individual and encourage a feeling of helplessness.

As for me? I say "you make your own luck".

An interesting thread on this topic from a few years back is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083826

My comment (well one of them) is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6086079

And just for encouragement:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Horatio+Alger
This is what really gets under my skin about this:

The ticketing technique “interferes with United’s ability to sell unused seats on the final leg(s) of connecting flights, resulting in the loss of revenue that United would have earned by selling the unused seats,”

So, A/B/C you charge be 100 but A/B you charge me 150. Then you get upset when I buy the A/B/C and don't use the B/C portion. And the reason you are upset is because you could have sold the B/C leg to someone else?!? I paid for the seat, for me. If I choose to leave it empty, SO WHAT!
Camera-reboot issue for anybody curious https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67113
Some roundabouts (most of them in my region, Sophia Antipolis, Ftance) are designed with a tilt to the outside, so that the car would be ejected if it takes them too fast.
alias rm='trash-put'
They why aren't they trying to market diesels to those of us who were born less than half a century ago..?
I believe the flag option here is most appropriate.
Hackers are good at design too, but not in the visual aspect but in the structural and architectural ones. Hackers do strive for simplicity and elegance in the smallest hack.
Best example is of Unix. It has this inherent "design" in it, which makes it appealing to all hackers. Add a layout of awesome UI and you have the Mac. All the rich features with a decent packaging.
Is it legal to short a company and enter the market with an OSS solution or other competitive offer?
my vacation house is 200 km away and have barely enough electricity to support itself, many other Swedes drive further away and have less electricity available.

I agree that for routine day-to-day driving, visiting friends running errands or even shorter trips, electrical is the way to go but it really depends on you situation.
This seems like one of those big turning points in history, and we get to watch as it unfolds.
Couldn't resist.

https://igot99inputs.appspot.com/andthisainttwo%3Cimg%20src=...
I was agreeing with the previous posters until I realized this has kind of happened to me. Tastypie was the go-to REST package for Django 3 years ago. Now it has kind of been abandoned and everyone is ranting about Django-REST-Framework.

Fortunately it is stable (for my use cases), and it doesn't actually seem ton be that big a deal that it isn't being worked on. Django_REST_framework is a lot nicer though.
I wonder if there is something like this for the whole web? So you can comment on any web page you want.
My personal estimate is that Taiwan will become a forgotten remnant after Pooh Jinping goes into the void in 20 years.
Regardless of what view point you have, it's become painful to watch/consume news on either side if you don't subscribe to their same left/right view point as what is being presented. The MSM has overplayed its hand over the past several years to the point they've been written off by their opposing sides. So that forces a dividing line so you don't even bother looking at the opposing news sources, and when ever you do it's so biased it makes your head spin. But hey, ratings are through the roof!

That has allowed traditionally marginalized news sources that embrace less-vetted news to shine. Say what you want about Alex Jones, but he was covering Jeffery Epstein's lolita express/island in 2008 and no one would touch that story back then. So now we have the marginalized news sources ending up larger viewerships than the national evening news. So while you do get real news which is less skewed left or right than in the MSM, it is wrapped with plenty of crap and is less vetted.

The news industry, politicians, and big tech censorship has made this problem. Now they get to lay in their beds. It sucks, I'm not a fan of what's going on in DC right now, but I also don't blame those doing what they feel they must for their country. They are merely products of the system that made them. Until the MSM and politicians decide to stop twisting everything for market share or political gain this will continue to escalate. And we know that won't happen sadly.
America is number one for imaginary racists as well. All of your other firsts are pretty easily verifiable though.
I was not sure if this needed a response but here it goes: I don't think this is a negotiation but rather a tactical withdrawal.
Note: your ISP and third-parties probably won't like this very much.
Adsense could also try enforcing their policies once in a while too. I remember complaining about a series of shady "Download Now" ads earlier in the year, including full URL trails, etc, as required by the complaint process. Needless to say, not one damn was given and the ads continued unchecked.

THAT is why people install Adblock. Content owners crying butthurt because "Adblock hurts the sites you love" ignores that the sites you "love" can often just not be trusted not to accept ads that are shady, scummy, or worse. And there is no excuse for that. If your business revolves around spraying dog mess over people's windows, don't be surprised when people put up fences. You reap what you sow.
Use a compose key system, native on Unix (Linux, Mac, etc) and available on Windows. It's very intuitive and will open up your character vocabulary considerably. I use the caps-lock key for compose.

http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/
I've noticed similar behaviors in my own sleep patterns. But for me, another problem arises - there's a huge chance I might wake up at 3 am, hungry and unable to go back to sleep.
The military is a "young man's game." Most new recruits are 18. But the people in charge, who do the strategizing and so on, are not. It sounds to me like the article is suggesting another way for experienced programmers to be held in high esteem, not suggesting that old programmers are no good. So I honestly do not understand most of the criticisms of this article being posted here on HN. Maybe there is no real difference between a "software scientist" and a manager. Maybe there is. But it doesn't sound to me like this piece in any way insults older programmers.
1. Yes. Because we are service company. We track both billable and not billable work. We Also use Harvest. On my previous company we use WR Timetracker self hosted. Using SaaS time tracker is way better than self hosted (less to maintain).

2.The interface is simple, have android and ios app. What I don't like so far from harvest is when you submit timesheet with expenses it will give you confirmation page that have button to click below. I was thinking already submit where I haven't because I haven't click the submit button on confirmation page. Perhaps this is feature :)
Work in progress, but looks very promissing: http://www.omnisharp.net
I watched The Wire about 3 years ago and I nearly stopped after the first few episodes because it did look 'cheap' or 'old' to me. I'm glad I persisted, it really is brilliant. Definitely watch it in HD if you can.
Besides Firefox, Sublime Text is the application I use the most in my day-to-day professional life. It is faster and easier to configure than any other code editor I've used in the past. I would say it's one of the few pieces of software I've encountered that is a joy to use.

If you also use ST regularly and can afford it, I highly encourage you to support development and buy a license right now.
There is a suggestions thread for this kind of stuff. Or you could email the,. Or there's a github. But, if you're going to make this kind of thread it might have been better as a poll. "Do you want links to open in new tabs? 12345 where 1 is "YES" and 5 is "NO".

Me, I'm going to say strong no. I prefer predictable links.
Windows 8 introduced a sandbox and users hated it. (Probably because it also forced digital signatures but hey, specifics)
This is a very mission-specific technology.

No, it's really not, there a ton of engineering and scientific uses where it may be useful to measure acoustic emissions off a vibrating surface, but it may be infusible or too resource intensive to attach/deploy conventional acoustic transducers. For example, characterizing sound sources in moving vehicles like trains (which currently require microphone arrays and a lot of post-processing) or wind turbines (which require expensive sound intensity measurement equipment).

If the cost of high-speed cameras come down, this could be a valuable alternative.
Aw, c'mon... I'm saying (with probably too many words for the internet, I'll concede) that changing any (not all, any of the details of Flappy Bird makes it shit. I tried it.

That's not seeing random patterns - that's double-blind testing. Well. Kinda.
Curiously, they've also had that issue and wrote a dedicated tool to clean up unreachable code after old A/B tests:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/uber-piranha-unreachable-...

I also know it first-hand as just last week I've been doing a mega-cleanup of years-old A/B test flags in our own code.
Not only is the intent of those snippets rather different, you've rather misunderstood the original to the extent that it's broken.

The bash version looks for the pattern `search` in every line of `test.txt`, the Python version treats `test.txt` as a file of patterns, and look for each of these patterns in the file `search`.

And of course you wouldn't implement the bash version in python that way as it's rather trivial to do it in Python:

out = [line for line in open('test.txt') if 'search' in line]

or somesuch.
It's simply the distance, I suppose. Poaching in the backyard is much easier than going long distances and crossing streets.
Condition: never used. Still in box.
They are heavy and fragile, while the prints can be kept in books which prevent folding and are loosely "airtight"
I have a rtlsdr dongle.. I don't know anything about gnu radio, but these are all useful, and using them isn't super complicated.

https://github.com/antirez/dump1090

https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
Wow, very DRAM centric view of computer architecture. Where is Tomasulo algorithm, for example.. Not as much about caches that I would expect..

Maybe there are other courses for this stuff.
I'm working on an app for a startup to build diagrams using SVG and React (...lots of ForeignObject elements to embed HTML forms in the SVGs, bezier curves joining stuff together, etc). It's a really nice way of building a responsive 2D diagrammatic UI.
Changes to the way that DHCP works. There are now different methods if you're handing out subnets to a router, IPs to an end device or allowing devices to (automatically) self assign. And not all devices support all methods.
The US had no laws restricting immigration, period, until 1882. The national origin quota system didn't exist at all until the 1920s.

Ethnic diversity has been part of the fabric of the US since before it was a country. Per census figures, the percentage of the population that wasn't born in the US was higher in 1910 that in it today.

And, of course, the very concept of "immigrant from Europe or descended from them => white" is a lot more recent than 250 years ago. The Irish weren't considered "white" when they arrived en masse after 1820. Italians, Greeks, and various Slavs also weren't considered "white" when they arrived in the early 20th century. Suspicion of divided loyalties for a Catholic president was a big issue in the 1960 elections (JFK vs Nixon).
I moved from CA to MT 20 years ago and my first experience with the DMV (MVD in local parlance) was transformative. No line, friendly helpful employees. Not the result of some governor project: we just always had efficient government, presumably due to low population and small town values.

I recently had to figure out how to register a vehicle bought out of state: rather than research online it was quicker and more pleasant to just walk in and ask.
I can't agree enough with this advice.

You could be the best CS student on the planet, but when you start at a company that all goes right out of the window. Not only is it an entirely different environment to academia, you'll (very slowly) discover that what you lack is the soft skills that more experienced programmers may have. You learn how to speak to clients, how to work alongside others in a non-technical setting, how to handle expectations, and most importantly how to say no; the kind of things that just can't be taught properly in academia.

I interned at a medium-sized company where I live, not expecting anything too great. I probably learned more in the nine weeks I spent there than I did in an entire year at university. Sure, I went to a crappy university, but I've worked alongside people from top universities (Oxford/Cambridge/ICL/UCL) that really struggled. They had their own issues alongside my own. They went into work as top students in their class, solving fairly complex problems, to maintaining a crappy web app that would fall over twice a day because the company that originally built it did it under an unrealistic timeframe, and dealing with clients that couldn't care less than Newy McNewerson had written a Raytracer in C++ over the weekend, because their site was down during a sale.

I cannot recommend internships enough. It'll kill some time over the summer break, you'll earn some money, and it'll set you apart from most of your peers.
Defi does bring more value to Bitcoin since BTC can be put to use in defi protocols.

Bitcoin is mainly rising for the first reason though, the growth in defi isn't the main driver.
I think you actually have a fundable idea there.

You've also accidentally found a very interesting side business model for Mapillary.

(except that afaik they've done considerable amount of work on actually detecting and blurring license plates, so I guess Peter would rather sink Mapillary than entering this business ;-) )
My situation is for an intranet environment, so I suppose I could just ask nicely that they don't change validations. But chances are most of my target users aren't familiar enough with Google Spreadsheets to even get that far.
Thank you! I was thinking exactly the same thing!

Want a cheap database? A Postgres RDS micro instance costs $51 a year upfront or $0.018 per hour. Medium is $200 or $0.073, and that medium instance will probably be more than enough for a dozen projects.

You get the solidity and ease of use of PostgreSQL with all the admin details abstracted away by RDS, and you can be up and running in 10 minutes or less. Get AWS account, spin up DB, write to DB.

Should one of your projects take off and require more, it's a one click upgrade. Or you can pg_dump in seconds, and rebuild it on a separate instance and account and point your app at it. And you get backups and all kinds of nice things out of the box.

I seem to be in the minority in this thread, but I personally much prefer using UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE in the command line to modify data, than clicking on a cell and typing the modification.
Zoho Creator is probably the closest thing to a web-based Access product that I've seen, and it's still not quite Access. Access occupied a very strange space in between an actual application framework, a database GUI, and an IDE.
THe point isn't being kid-friendly, it's whether it's directed primarily to kids.

If it's deemed to be that way (by the FTC or by Youtube) then it overrules what the creator claims and can eliminate their monetization and open up legal risk and fines.
Need to mention GridCoin because context. Uses BOINC for proof-of-work.
Whats the big deal? Structural typing explores the concept that the implementer contract and the user requirement is separate and tries to gain some composability out of that. You still have the public methods as the implementer contract.
There are many keyboards like that, they are called split keyboards [1]. They use the same underlying principle as a standard keyboard, but just distance and angle the keys differently. The DataHand is a completely different paradigm, using different switches, keys and layout - closer to a chorded keyboard [2], but ergonomic and split.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic_keyboard#Split_keybo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
I rock a custom QMK keymap that only needs 34 keys [0], so I was expecting not to be impressed by this board when I saw the prototype [1], but highlights on this repo look quite good actually. Here's the ones that stand out to me:

- detachable lift bar

- swappable switches

- integrated dock

- per-key RGB

- QMK

- open source design

I'm also a fan of two choices made with the layout. First, the split spacebars - it's better to give each thumb it's own job. Second, the minimization of modifier keys requiring stabilizers, because smooth consistent stabilizers are hard to get right.

[0] https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/_sb4dv_refa...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/03/18/linux...
Most impressive! I have used iCircuit 2D before and loved it, and looking forward to upgrade.
Yeah, but the Chinese masks likely overwhelmingly wont meet the standard.

The first batch might...
Yes, because in the political desire to solve the pandemic they lifted lots of regulation that make the approval of new medicines prohibitively expensive
Sorry maybe I missed this from the article, but why not sell to common people through Amazon? In some Asian countries, it's freely available from online marketplaces. The price now down to 1/10 of what it was during the early days of Covid, but since mask is mandatory whenever you go out, it's like staple.
I had a herp derp moment recently after installing OpenVPN then discovering that Nginx refused to restart because port 443 was 'bound by another process' or something like that. This looks like a pretty easy workaround.
You don't have to leave it at just reviewing online code, but it's generally a 1st level filter. If someone has already written moderately advanced stuff online, have them write something at that level. If they can't do that, they wouldn't be able to do fizz buzz either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge
You may be amused to learn that Mr. Noakes' sanctimonious rudeness has got him into a spot of trouble in another thread here.
> SF is about one of the last places in the US to develop new things.

Don't believe your own hype. It's bad for you.
Also, every specific denial by Clapper and his supporters is getting refuted. I'm interested in who will be revealed to be the victim of some compaign using the porn-browsing habits, and what corporation(s) will be revealed to have benefitted and been victimized by economic espionage.
I wonder what they are doing with all the d#k pics? Making a database and cross referencing them with d#k pics of known terrorists? To use in conjunction with full body scanners at airports so they can more easily spot a potential terrorist just by looking at their junk? Stranger things have happened.
Yes, and this is actually a sane coding rule. Without it, badly written macros (using several ;-separated lines for example) will cause subtle bugs like this one.
From a usability aspect at least, you could keep the same distortion until the interaction ends, and then tween the distortion values to the new orientation over a second or two. Technically it'd be 'wrong' for a short time, but it'd be nicer to use.

Awesome work regardless though.
I would also be shocked if Amazon isn't giving Netflix preferred pricing because it's such a high-profile customer.
You don't necessarily even need their phone, you could use your own phone as the tracking device and have the person willingly, but unwittingly deliver the data. Just "forget" your phone in their car before you suspect something and after a the suspected event, ask for it to be returned.
Not sure what you had in mind by "large", but instance storage goes up to 1.7TB: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
The orifice size needs to be fairly consistent, which requires talented artisans, but some variation is unavoidable, so they have sands of different coarseness for varying sizes. The timing is calibrated by adding/removing san [1]. Scroll down to "The Manufacturing Process" in the footnote link.

1 - http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/hourglass
I think which physical data center "us-east-1a" etc. corresponds to differs from user to user, to load-balance given that people will probably be more likely to use 1a than the other zones.
no, you are not the only one.

Managed correctly I don't see how this won't benefit each party. Nokia makes good phones. The software, less good. Microsoft has tonnes of experience creating user interfaces that are user friendly.

I'm a long time linux guy who uses a 6 year old Samsung dumb phone, but I bought NOK and MSFT after the initial announcement. No guarantees in this world, but I think it was a good bet.
You guys doing anything with visas? I'm a very experienced .NET dev looking to work in the UK.
8) Dating. I have been trying online dating for about 4 weeks now. I am damn near close giving up. The process is too damn painful and it nows seems it is much much much easier at a bar.

If anyone wants to take a crack at it, here what I would advise you build: A simple app that asks you your very very basic info (name, picture, age, location, add 20 word description of yourself). Then simply, simply, simply show me pictures of women. If I like a girl I click "like". If the girls Likes me as well, then we can email each other. I dont need to email her through on your app. You can use the craigslist email style.

That's it. Nothing else. No video chat, IM, levels of communication etc... I don't know about girls, but most guys will only talk to women they are attracted to, no personality match can do the trick if I do not like what I see.