jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Car2Go has some major downsides that Zipcar doesn't:

1. All the cars are Smart cars. If a Smart car can get me by, I can just take an Uber and not have to worry about parking. Zipcar has actual, streetworthy cars at cheaper rates and a wider variety.

2. With Zipcar, I know where the cars are. The cars live somewhere. They have a home. They don't all disappear when I might need one.

3. Although this is a minor point, the RFID frequency on the Car2Go card is the same as the ORCA card so they can't live harmoniously in the same wallet. The Zipcard is a different frequency so there's no issue.

4. Car2Go does not come with Van2Go. Every so often, Zipvan makes my life so much better.

5. Round trips are a non issue. I live in one place so I use the Zipcars nearby for my driving errands. For one way trips, like my commute, I can walk. For one way trips to a drinking excursion, there's Uber. But I mainly drink within stumbling distance of home.
The domain name should have told us that.
Unrelated to the content of your post, but your website has mixed content (which is blocked by Firefox 23): [13:47:59.462] Blocked loading mixed active content "http://openwhispersystems.disqus.com/embed.js" @ https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/:184
I suspect it is like any market. Some will be there within the hour, some will need ramp-up time. However, regardless of the attorney, I would suspect that any criminal defense lawyer would be able to effectively navigate the particular situation at hand. If it were me, I would tell them they can arrest me and charge me, or let me on my way. I would be shocked if the results of this finicky machine are admissible in court (given that polygraph results are not). Does anyone know whether or not that is the case?

Come get me, coppers!
...is this comparing "Yahoo! sites" with "Google", as in all of Yahoo! vs. www.google.com? Or are GMail, maps, docs, etc. included as well?
When those in power (in the U.S.) take as a prior that gov't can't/won't work, then they're given an excuse to not really act in the public's interest in good faith, or to try hard to design a regulatory framework that could actually function. Belief in government dysfunction becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (that conveniently most benefits those who are already most powerful, those individuals whose power can only be checked by government).

The solution to "regulatory capture" is sometimes less regulation, but at other times transparency and better regulation. This is the real world, and there aren't any silver bullets.
Trump had a lot of clout years ago. They're scolding him now not out of moral superiority, but because he's on his way out.
Is there an open source alternative to ChartMogul? I feel like it makes sense, at least I'd like to avoid having to share financial information with a 3rd party, would much rather use some self-hosted open source solution.
Pay attention to who was the lead dev on the code you are using. When you see that you are using 2+ (sometimes 5+, rarely 10+) projects from the same person, then you've found a master. Start looking closely at what they are doing, what they are reading, what they are saying on their blog, twitter, etc.

I think of Linus, Lars, Anders, TJ, Rich, etc
So IANAL but could you use this if you owned MS Office? Presumably there is some kind of license for clip art specifically since it's for reuse.
TLDR: This is in Italy. The discrimination was the result of an otherwise “objective” algorithm: counting shift cancellations. The discrimination was due to the cancellation not considering legally protected reasons for missing work - sickness, etc. That meant people work discriminated against for exercising legal rights.
> it's not because they aren't fair to Trump.

You must be living in an alternate reality but whether you like Trump or hate him you can't deny the fact that the media was completely against Trump from the very beginning. No doubts about that!
How is NRG different from virality?
This twitter "bug" is still around: https://i.imgur.com/3YJrvhc.png
FYI this isn't how gene pools work, mathematically; there's no specific profiles of genes which are "Caucasian" or "Asian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse will get you started on a better understanding.
Congratulations!

You mentioned profitability.
- What is the source of revenue?
- Why do they pay (they being paid customers)?
Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21595493
I anticipate mesh networking picking up. It goes almost hand-in-hand with AR, and it's very consumer-targeted.
they could be so much more effective in my experience.

Amen! I can count on one hand the number of recruiters that I'd recommend to either a company or someone looking for work.

As an industry, they must be being 'effective enough' because they're still doing it. I'm waiting for a disruptor to hit that market and radically change the way things are done. It'd be huge.
> Well, that's a textbook example of confirmation bias. There was an awful lot of news about NSLs & friends when GW Bush was in office. He signed the damn Patriot Act!

I was unclear. I meant that you didn't hear the "it's how the system works" defense/excuse offered above very often. Instead you heard "those evil Repubs/Bush", and, as you point out, it got a lot of play.

Now that Obama is in office, these things don't get nearly as much play. What little there is is a combination of "that evil Obama" and the above defense.
What will most likely happen is that MS will release web direct x and we'll begin to see a bunch of libraries (a lot like the js ones) that create a common interface for advanced graphics in a browser.
I used blueprint in this case. I have a good history with it, and it always gives me clean, crisp results.
I simply can't think of the situation today as a browser war. In the late 90 there was the .com boom, making it feel like whoever wins the war will dominate the world, it was a more fuzzy world in terms of standards, so a lot of sites had to choose whether to make their site Netscape-friendly or IE-friendly, since it was almost impossible to do both. Add to that Microsoft strong-arm tactics and the existence of Netscape as a single-product commercial entity and you got a much messier, much dirtier war with higher stakes.

Today, the stakes are not that high. Most of the dirty fights are at the search and user details area. The standards are more strict and developers are fast to call on either side deviations. Lock-in is harder, and, to be honest, it's pretty obvious that whomever the "winner" will be, it won't give them the 99% dominance that IE had at about 2001.
Sorry, but your reasoning isn't logical. You accept that point three recurring is one third, presumably because you accepted it as a young child - but you don't make the leap to accepting that point nine recurring is 3/3, by the simple correspondence that every digit is multiplied by three.
Even with a large service, you can immediately identify a fluctuation in the number of complaints

Immediately is a relative term. I would say "1 hour" is pretty much as immediately as it gets on these scales.

I wouldn't be surprised if a significant complaint fluctuation only manifested long after amazon discovered the problem in their own monitoring.

statistically identify an uptick in the number of complaints per smaller time interval

Yes, but volume is not everything. You also have to qualify (triage) the input, get engineers on the case, confirm the issue, perhaps get clearance for a public announcement. All the while many of the key people are busy either trying to figure out what is going on, or trying to dispatch information the right people, or just running around waving their arms furiously.
I'm presuming this only includes downtime since the latest outage began?
Thanks gus!
You seem to be under the impression America does not work this way.
I'm boggling at the concept of doing PHP "the wrong way".

Only small, single-paradigm languages can ever do things "right". With PHP you can do almost anything, in ways that are almost not wrong. ;)
♫ I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine, smiling next to Oprah and Paul Graham. ♫ Heh.

Congratulations, pg. If nothing else, being on the cover of Forbes must put a smile on your face.
That's what I thought for a sec...and then realized he probably wouldn't prefer to be searched, even if they weren't going to find anything.
My first job was at a national laboratory where I wrote an application to extract data from text files using FORTRAN. I started when I was 17 - it was a school program where I went to class in the morning and went to work in the afternoon.

Of course, knowing what I know now, the fact that I was using FORTRAN for data mining is rather embarrassing, but I was young and stupid, and my boss gave me a bunch of functions to help out, so that's what I did.
I would hear that question as a political filter: "We only hire leftists".
I'd love an adblocker with a blacklist instead of whitelist so I could keep the ads on for the long tail of my browsing and remove them only on sites that go overboard.
I use bookmarks too. The way it works is that while I read I open up links and make notes as I work my way through a page, by the time I'm done there is a few lines added to the notebook and maybe a few new tabs open. Little by little I exhaust the subject and at some point all the links on the subject are already visited. A bit like a human crawler. But the peaks in the middle are easily in the 100's of tabs. This is the most efficient way that I've found, bookmarking works but then you will still need to open those bookmarks later, much easier to just open the tab right away.

It's very much a paper analogy, highlight the interesting bits, add new stuff to the 'to read' stack, and when the 'to read' stack is empty you're done and the notes file contains the extracted information.

The note taking extension I use is called scrapbook and I couldn't live without it. I also use vertical tabs which makes it much easier to work with large numbers of tabs.
Joke question: Is your self esteem low?
Yeah, having an option to pay for the site instead would just be crazy.
tl;dr humerous Haskeller takes steaming dump, rejoices; one may think that one is not being productive, and yet one's actual productivity sky rockets, whereas in other languages (exception, LISP) one's actual productivity is less than one feels, especially in the case of PHP where delusion apparently reigns.

Seems to be a riff on the text editor comic graph where emacs morphs into dragon-eating-its-tail recursion as one approaches unreachable mastery [1]

[1] http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_fun.html
I'm not sure if PKD was a visionary or just a whacked-out drug addict, but he was something. VALIS is still one of the most mind-bending books I've ever read. I'm really looking forward to digging into more of his works one of these days...
Some of the cartoons, like the ones showing thought bubbles and multiple perspectives, are quite appropriate. I appreciated this post.
Copyright only exists to stop humans from being upset over their work being appropriated. The AI, no matter how much you program it to pretend to care, can never be sentient enough to actually care, therefore they do not deserve rights like this.

AI are tools and no matter how close they get to humanity it would be dangerous to consider them human.
By the letter, sure. It was alredy too late.

They did punish her in every other way, shutting off other phones and other accounts. Not exactly indicitave of integrity.
I doubt they'd free up the usernames. Username reuse has problems with reputation hijacking, either for paid likes, spam, or making it look like the user said something they didn't. It also creates a bad experience with historic @users in tweets, and no one wants that bad PR tweets pretending to be from someone deceased.
The other information is "using Atom".
They will likely be forced to 'mess with mods'. Unfortunately the mods enable song piracy, and Facebook is a much more lucrative target for litigation.
https://fibery.io/build

Found this one particularly charming. First time I've ever been pleasantly surprised by a mouse-over-background-effect.
Pretty much all GMs in the 80s had problem with summer heat eventually separating the headliner cloth from the padding.
It is only by definition deflationary if you are specifically talking about price deflation. I know that has grown to be the popular use of the term but inflation/deflation is much better defined by the increase/decrease in the supply itself. By that definition, BTC is still inflationary for the near future until it hits the 21 million BTC limit. It's just far less inflationary than USD.
if anyone else here uses tiktok, highly recommend checking out her page. lots of pretty funny content about the tech industry
Browse around github for a bit.

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
https://github.com/railsdog/spree
https://github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm
https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms
Android was not written as a general-purpose OS, it's a mobile-centric API/OS optimized for low footprint and low CPU. Some of those concerns translate to a netbook/tablet environment, a lot of them don't, but IMO Android would have to have a significant re-write to become a full-fledged rich client OS that developers would want to write for. The iPhone/iPad gap is a lot smaller because both were built on top of an OSX and Cocoa-derived core that is general purpose.
if only they put this level of attention to use on their adaptive payments checkout flows
My LLC was one sheet of paper and $100 to the state, plus $25/year renewal. Some states charge considerably more (CA, for example) but I think most states are similarly easy.
>if it is determined that it can cause cancer in much higher rates than previously expected - then something must be done about it

Even that is going too far! "much higher rates than previously expected" could still be miniscule.

I want to discuss the issue. But a prerequisite is a risk ballpark. Anything before that is useless guesswork.

I suppose we could split off five different threads to discuss what to do in each risk bracket. But that seems terribly inefficient. There's no way to have a good unified discussion about "might exist somewhere in these eight orders of magnitude"
The software industry is at most, what? 100 years old? 55 years old if you want to start from the beginning of the rise of business computing? It's an industry created in the midst of massive social changes that has been chasing moving targets from the beginning.

Orchestral music (as we know it, an argument could be made for orchestra-like organizations going back another few millennia) has been around since the 16th century or so. That is a much longer time for exclusive traditions to develop.

I'm sure they're both traditional and opinionated, but I would expect that the scale at which they manifest them will be very different.
I would stay away from OVH until they fix their billing system. At least on the server side, you have to log in and pay an invoice by PayPal each month. And if you forget, they delete the server without further warning.

Love the services, but the billing system must cost them a huge amount of customers - both customers that find it too time consuming, or customers that forget and are forcibly ejected!
Bet you $1000 that some of the commenters here work for Monsanto. :)
hubiC had a great campaign a while ago which made me try it out. their client crashed and produced dialog boxes every time my notebook was offline or didn't get an IP address fast enough.

My experience is about half a year old now but back then it has been a horrible piece of engineering not only from the client but also from their website (EULA in french only).

Personally, I felt it was not good value for money but rather a cheap service that I wouldn't want to trust with my data let alone backups.
Since the request and response sizes can reveal what public page you are browsing over https, OE in the proposed form would not prevent user tracking: http://sysd.org/stas/node/220
It looks like it's combining a thermal sensor and a 3D camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S6nKV3UJUQ
You forgot their atrocious treatment of women and the issue of rape and sexual assault. Yep, the Amish have crime, too, but they tend to blaming the victim in these cases.

The article also failed to mention the reason there are so many German Anabaptist sects in America: they got kicked out of Europe when they couldn't find a home sympathetic to their hyper strict version of Christianity. These sects were often started by lay-people who disagreed with the lack of beatings being dolled out by their church leader.

I grew up around a lot of Amish people. At least when it comes to dealing with "the English", they are vain, sanctimonious assholes. I see little difference between them and the fundamentalist sects of Islam that we get forced in our faces by the news to paint all of Islam with the same brush.
That's good to hear! I only guessed the missing parts were censored because a lot of them came after comments that implied the following code was security critical, like here: http://referencesource-beta.microsoft.com/#PresentationFrame...

I apologise if this isn't the case, and I'll definitely use the feedback link if this issue comes up again.
Yup. Excel is the best IT requirement documentation tool, with its auto-filter and indentation (using columns)

Full traceability too. Just look at your emails in Outlook, and tie 'em all together.
That's amazing. If I'd subscribe to see that article, I would be pretty pissed.
It doesn't have to be a successful currency to be a successful distributed peer to peer payment network that extracts it's value from eliminating the likes of Western Union for international payment processing. Bitcoin is better seen IMHO as a utility rather than a currency. It can function along side official currency as a means of exchanging wealth online globally for relatively little in fees with the risk or trust required by credit cards. As a commodity, it's infinitely divisible to any number of people, so while it's value with always slowly deflate, it doesn't really matter.
"The word 'bank' is derived from the Italian word 'banco' signifying a bench, which was erected in the market-place, where it was customary to exchange money. The Lombard Jews were the first to practise this exchange business, the first bench having been established in Italy a.d. 808." - http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/English-Manual/Chapt...

In 867, the Macedonian dynasty took over Byzantium and started its golden age.

The 860s was the start of the First Bulgarian Empire. Bulgaria became Christian (864). The Cyrillic alphabet was developed shortly afterwards as a written script for church books.

The Muslims conquest of Sicily started in 827. They conquered Crete in 820.

Leo VI formally abolished the Roman consular dating system in 888. The 800s is when we started to use Anno Domini widely. (BTW, Leo VI also composed hymns which are still sung in the Eastern Orthodox Church.)

The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution started in China in 845, in part to get the money needed to pay off the 843 victory against the Uyghurs. The fall of the Uyghur Khaganate caused the Uyghurs to migrate eastwards.

Judaization of the Khazars mostly took place in the 800s.

The 800s is the Pueblo I Era, when the Ancient Pueblo population (the Anasazi) constructed and lived in pueblos. 850 is the start of a major drought in the area, which lasted for 50 years.

It was also the terminal classic period of Mesoamerica. The oldest date found at Chichen Itza is equivalent to 832 AD.

FWIW, the world population then was about 225 million. It's about 7 billion now. That's a 28x difference, which surely affects how much change can occur.
How do we know there isn't some predictable pattern from common urandom sources?
What is meant to make the state non-predictable anyway?
If I cared about it, someone could just add a library on top of it that combines them with more entropy sources. Like camera noise, temperature changes, audio static etc.
For some reason the author says not to build libraries on top of urandom because they might be hacked.
Well if something has compromised your system anyway, why does that matter?
Recreation.gov has been around for years and it doesn't seem to have been updated substantially recently. It's a great resource and I hope people use it to visit US wildlife areas, but I am curious why it has been submitted.
No, it's my personal interpretation of the demand for short URLs. But there were lots of articles when they started jacking the prices of SMS:
http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages

Twitter is basically the same idea but applied to blog posts, and that is what created the market for short URLs.
I use to have a professor that actively encouraged us to review old tests, question banks, friends, anything we could get our hands on. Hell his tests were even open book/notes.

The tests were genuinely difficult. You could pass by looking at the material because some of the questions were just lecture examples with numbers changed. But to really ace the test you needed understanding of the material.
As an entrepreneur, perhaps not pay the fare at the end but pay ten times the fare, to compensate him for having taken a big risk with uncertain reward, which benefited you. Same idea as offering equity which multiplies the investment if successful to those who join your start up early on.

Those who take risks that are successful should not be rewarded on a 1:1 basis as if they had not taken the risk.
The just queued the restart at some very low value of a unix timestamp, which translates to 36 years ago. Strangely, not the unix epoch at midnight Jan 1 1970.
I use Chicken Scheme. I prefer Scheme over Common Lisp for practical
reasons. None of the Common Lisp implementations that I'm aware of can
compile code to nice, small, executables that start fast and don't use
a ton of memory. They all either produce a huge image file or generate
bytecode that has to be run in a VM.
There are a lot of plugins for Open X offering additional functionality. A case could be made that as OSS, it's got the potential to face more challenges than DFP, though obviously offer some additional ones as well (like having to manage your own servers).

It sounds like the poster has a niche market he (or she) understands. In that situation, I don't think technology needs to be a selling point.
This is true. But once you've gotten in the groove of exercising, then a 10 minute jog/run to the gym from cold should not be a problem if there's no underlying problems.

If all your doing at the gym is weights, then that jog/run is most of the warmup you'll need. Just throw up some stretching to deal with any kinks and a warmup set and you're good.
It's nice that someone is actually pointing them out, not that most people don't already know that these statements are but-heads to begin with. Everyone knows "I'm not racist, but..." is followed by a racist statement. So the article in and of itself is essentially nothing more than blogspam.

What would be nice is if they provided some counter-interjections to use right after someone uses a statement like this. If someone says "I'm not saying X, but..." it would be nice to know a polite and decisive way to respond with "Oh yes you are".
I know native desktop applications are considered passé, but I still wonder: How many common/popular native desktop apps can people name that aren't obviously written in C/C++? I guess in the Mac world, Obj-C is common, but that's only a half-step away from C. I thought OpenOffice was a good example until I was educated that it is based much more on C++ than Java. The original bittorrent client was Python, but the Steam Hardware Survey indicates that µTorrent is the client of choice in practice.

I ask because the very common argument that it would be more effective to build apps in higher level languages always made sense to me in theory. But, I don't see it happening in practice. Can anyone provide good counter-examples?

Edit:

Minecraft is Java. That's one.