jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
i agree. i have the same feeling of not getting it.. but they are skipping a step

look at what happened to baseball sports cards in the late 90s and still continue today

holograms, refractors, patch cards, "printing plates" cards. these cards are "valuable" because of the perceived scarcity but the issue is trying to get one is completely random and based on luck whereas the original value of baseball cards was people didn't keep them in mint condition and kids put them on their bikes to make cool sounds.

same thing with comic books. the comic book makers produced the scarcity or collectible, and then produced too much of that scarcity and the whole comic book market imploded.

this guy's art is cool, and good for him for making tons of money off it. but it does feel like partly FOMO and also some people have too much money during the pandemic that they don't know where to park so they dump it into stuff like this.

i think the biggest issue with this stuff is it's already skyrocketed well outside the range of even relatively well off individuals. i certainly don't have the money to outbid someone who put in nearly $800K for basically a blockchain entry. like how are you going to get normal people to care about this other than, "it sold for a lot of money" which is basically the only reason this stuff got an article in esquire.
European nations have signed a commitment to invest up to $145bn in local design and production of processors and semiconductors. https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/145bn-boost-europes-semico...
Just like in Man in the High Castle :D (or Atlantropa...)
I just launched my first Google Chrome extension, a minimal RSS Feed Reader that pulls in media, video, and images from feeds and source links. Its intended to work great for youtube channels, reddit feeds, and photo blogs.

Please take a look - I hope some people might enjoy it!

More about me here: https://github.com/iamjohnmills
> The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebay#History
Hello world (in case this helps anyone):

I drew a circle on the canvas. I hit the plus button in the bottom left twice, to create a new board.

Selecting the new board, I moved the circle to another location on the canvas, and I clicked the save disk on that new board. I hit the play button.

The site animated my circle being moved from its location on the first board, to the location I placed it on the second board.

Edit: Using the hamburger menu, I exported it and downloaded my animation as a .webm video.
It is interesting to think about this in the abstract, but I think that Peter is right. The real collaboration only comes with getting the code published, design proposals on extension points in the core engine, and so on.

This isn't the sort of thing that is decided with blog posts, but personally I am glad to see there is interest in this project.
Many faculty getting the most funding are never involved in writing the papers attributed to them. (Source: years spent at the top five universities and my own faculty experience)

Would work simply: fund students directly. If faculty contribute training or ideas students can grant authorship. Faculty/postdocs still peer review papers.
This is about C, not C++. Though I haven’t been there in years, I chuckle to think what would have happened if you made this mistake on that news group.
With DSL (given the slow speeds quoted here it would be DSL), the deal is that you pay a fixed price for DSL service, which theoretically will go up to ~24Mbps for ADSL2+ or ~90Mbps for VDSL, but it will degrade to lower speeds depending on the conditions of the wiring. Conveniently this removes any incentive for the ISP to improve the quality of said wiring, and even more conveniently is that you can't determine said quality without signing up to a plan (you can't just connect a modem on a disconnected line - it needs something on the other end, and while it would be trivial for the far-end equipment to allow any modem to connect and sync, it would remove said convenience, so it's not done).

I have yet to see a DSL plan whose price scales with the real-world modem sync speed or where you can find out with 100% reliability what kind of speed you would actually be getting.
RIP: British Scientist John Yudkin - The man who tried to warn us about the perils of sugar..
Source(s) : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/diet/10634081...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yudkin

Lest we not forget his arch-enemy Ancel Keys
Yep, I've created multiple frames, altered them, hit play and nothing...

It's a bit mysterious.
This is an interesting point: that a commitment to practical free speech for everyone, everywhere, will tend towards consolidation of platforms and natural monopolies. Cancellation, deplatforming, etc. might actually drive platform diversity and innovation which will, in turn, further freedom of expression far more effectively than public pressure to tolerate everything.
That's not hard, what's hard is

//person[@alive="true"]/pets//dog[@hair="long"]/*/flea[@name]
You appear to be confusing Java and Javascript.

JSON stands for Javascript Object Notation.

In Java the equivalent would simply be serialization.

NB: if XSLT and XPath is the solution, you've already lost.
Ah! Fixed now :)
In the discussions after the AWS outage, a lot of people seemed to be assuming that Netflix was able to stay up because they had the $$$$ to spread their service across multiple regions, not just AZ's.

It looks like that wasn't the case, they stay in one region but avoid EBS like the plague(among other things).
Shut it down for a week. Reopen it as the indie iTunes (audio, video, games, whatever) Also, completely change the look, go for something far more uniform. I'm not against, say, user backgrounds and changing colors, but no animated gifs, no auto-start material, no changing layout.

You get basic functionality (private messages, mimicking "Wall" functionality calling it a "space," commenting on items/posts,) and can follow friends and artists. The space should show your friend's purchases (unless you check a "do not broadcast this purchase" box.) You should also be able to do public recommendations that show on all of your friend's spaces. "Jeff Warren recommends DJ Z-Trip's song "Kiss (Remix ft. Murs)!"

Every item you look at should include general ratings, friends ratings, and a list of friends (and artists you follow) who've suggested it.

As an artist, you can put up music, video, HQ images. They should undergo a cursory inspection (I'm sure there's software to match audio against known audio,) and then be uploaded to sell.

Bonus points if you want to do an "online library" akin to Amazon's Cloud Player. I'd also let you regulate people's ability to see your library (everyone, friends, no-on) on a per-item basis. Hide those guilty pleasure!
What we need to focus here is this...despite the decrease in PC sales, Microsoft managed to grow. They did not just grow a little, but they grew tremendously. 30%? that's a huge number for a company like Microsoft. Nonetheless, Apple has reached another huge milestone in their history.
You mean suing a bogus email address sent by a random Internet troll? Yeah, that's what they need to do.
Search would probably be based on likes and submissions by people in your friends group.

Personally, I think Facebook has peaked and is headed downward, so hopefully we don't have to find out what the Facebook empire would look like.
This is a bad idea on so many levels. You should always talk to the most specific version of your settings rather than have the super generic one try to add extra stuff from another module that it loaded.
Planes have deicing boots. Holes in the leading edge of the wing that has a balloon on the inside. A non freezing gel is usually pumped in which expands the balloon out of the hole and causes the ice to crack. It then retracts and this process repeats keeping the wing clear of ice.
I definitely agree -- the "Silicon Valley" has expanded in meaning from the Santa Clara Valley to the whole Bay Area anyway.

I've always wanted to write up a "so you just moved to the Bay Area; everything you know about living here is probably wrong" post, and I may just contribute to the wiki instead.

San Jose is debatable

Huh? Isn't San Jose in the Santa Clara Valley?
We teach Ruby. Students learn about:
- variables
- notion of different data types (string / integer/ array / hash)
- string interpolation
- iteration / enumeration
- looping
- boolean conditionals
- defining/invoking methods
I've got to imagine any photographer trying for a YC photo would look at the Inc cover which reprised The Last Supper and just despair.
This is pretty enlightening, thanks for this! This is monumentally better hearing it on here than from my professors...
I see the digg crowd finally came to HN ;)
Nice. May want to rule out images that are too common (the search magnifier) or routine/small (nationality flags, though I got most of those right).

Also, especially after answering, I'd like to click through to the real article to see the image in context -- so it's be nice to provide that link.

It might be interesting to use the same corpus in a different challenge -- for example, five articles and five pictures, match each to the right article.
Print version (with single page view): http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-...
Talking about Commodore & Atari 8 bit machines: "I consider those a brochure for why you should buy an Apple II or Macintosh. I think people have already determined that the sub-$500 computers don't do very much. They either tease people to want more or frustrate people completely."

Seems like he's believed that you can't make a good computer at the $500 price point for a long time now (his take on netbooks is pretty much the same).
I think this is a repeat of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831471
Here is the actual cover:

http://imgur.com/gOyI9.jpg
Well, it's not so much "contains" as "has had read into it".
i thought the virtual absence of women was interesting. Jessica Mah got two paragraphs near the end, Demi Moore a passing mention, and Jessica Livingston merited two sentences. she co-founded YC and is married to Paul, and they couldn't even ask her for a quote?

other than that it was guys, guys, guys. http://bit.ly/ycturgor2 has more.
Interesting. Wish there was an open source version on F-Droid, does anyone know of any?
Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of the web tutorial.

Thanks for posting this!

This tutorial is being used as a textbook for the 'Interactive Theorem Proving' course at Carnegie Mellon University (http://leanprover.github.io/cmu-15815-s15). It's mainly written by Prof. Jeremy Avigad (CMU) and Leonardo de Moura (MSR), with help of many contributors. While the course is listed as a graduate-level course, I think the tutorial is kindly written and readable for one who has basic understanding in logic and wants to learn more about interactive theorem proving. In fact, we do have undergraduate students in the class taking this course for credits as well.

The tutorial is (and will be) including the following topics:

- dependent data types
- type theory as a proof language
- inductive data types
- declarative vs. tactic-based proof style
- classical vs. constructive logic
- encodings of structures and type classes
- elaboration and unification algorithms
- homotopy type theory
- ...

The course is based on a new open-source theorem prover, Lean (http://leanprover.github.io), developed at Microsoft Research.

We've tried hard to make the tutorial on 'Interactive Theorem Proving' really interactive. It contains many examples and exercises, and we provide an environment where you can load, modify, and execute code blocks. Technically, we use emscripten to compile C++ code into JavaScript. As a result, everything is running on a web-browser without a server-side help.

PDF version of the tutorial is also available: https://leanprover.github.io/tutorial/tutorial.pdf

The tutorial is still in-progress and your contributions are welcome. We host the repository at https://github.com/leanprover/tutorial . Please feel free to open an issue or make a pull request if you find typos or have suggestions.
It is a negative because Amazon doesn't have that many resources or talent. They are short on engineers. The people building things like amazon movies are being taken off of key things like product search. Bugs I fixed there were regressed in later years and are still broken-- this is key product sales bugs that are still there. The team I was on that wrote the code got dissipated away.

Here's a key thing that people miss about amazon-- it is NOT a tech company. It should not be mentioned along with Google, Apple & Facebook.

Amazon is a retailer, most of the employees are retailers and the whole management structure is retail guys. Not engineers. Outside of AWS there's very little engineering resources at all given what they need to do, just to maintain the core business.

They're running 20 year old code that 10 years ago was crashing regularly-- eg Amazon.com going down so you can't b uy cell phones or whatever.

I've worked for a lot of startups and a lot of big tech companies, like Apple, Microsoft etc. Amazon is not a tech company.

If you're an engineer you should never go work there-- the management is all non-engineer types. My bosses training was to be a prison guard! He could barely handle excel but was criticizing our code. His boss was no better- a DMV reject. (literally), and all the way up to Bezos who is not an engineer either.

My boss, by the way was dealing weed in the PacMed garage to other employees. The entire team left because he was such an asshole-- and he got promoted as a result!

Company is pretty much a joke.

I know on HN you're not allowed(?) to say negative things about big "tech" companies. I may be shadowbanned for ti, but Amazon was a terrible, TERRIBLE place to work. Microsoft had too much bureaucracy and was too "corporate" for me, but you can understand why they were the way they were-- amazon on the other hand was absolutely terrible. It's run by people who are extremely arrogant and have no regard for anybody -not investors, not suppliers, and least of all employees. It is the most employee hostile place I ever worked. All advancement is political and because of stack ranking its really easy to stab people in the back. Terrible company. (I've had a lot of jobs, worked for disorganized startups-- but the key difference is whether management gives a damn about employees or not. Amazon they don't, they're hostile, everywhere else has not been that way- even bad management is usually just incompetent, not hostile.)
I am reading the graphs incorrectly or does ShadowStats claim inflation rate has been 10% per year for the past 24 years? That would mean prices are 1.1^20=10 times higher now that they were in 1996.
oh it will have full doors, we shot the video when we did not have one for the prototype, haha. It's a good idea to thing about quick swapping of the batteries, thanks for that. Not sure if it is viable enough, looking from engineering perspective.
There is a huge difference. People have no choice but to work, and once you are employed, you cannot have any democratic control over the company.

In contrast, for the union, even if you were forced to join, you'd still have democratic control over the union itself.

So there is a big difference. It's the difference between choosing in which dictatorship to live and living in a (sometimes direct!) democracy.
No, no, big public businesses like facebook routinely use evidence of child sexual abuse to coerce adults into doing their nefarious bidding. The complete lack of evidence is in itself proof of how effective their methods have been!
Definitely get something ICE that is compatible with the new open source tool chains. I recommend the Icebreaker[1], though you can get the Icestick for cheaper[2], it's not as good a deal.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
[2] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu...
Yeah it's like a good premium motorcycle
Interesting, I didn't get the impression there was this bias at all. If it was intended to be an article and gallery about paintball per se, then I would agree you. My understanding was that they were writing about and photographing specifically the subset that recreates battlefields, both real and imaginary.

And even though the writer touched upon issues of militarism, even those were even-handed in my opinion. There was no antiwar preaching to be found.
Routers that don't even have the option to turn WPS off make me sad (without dd-wrt, tomato, etc).
Having played electric guitar for 30 years and recorded about ten albums, I've learned a thing or two on the subject...

First, when you're playing, you can hear incredibly tiny details that no one else can hear. The other day, I spent a half hour choosing which of four different variants of Dunlop Jazz III picks I liked best. (I'm a pick nerd and I'm always fussing over them. My drummer can hear when I change picks, but no one else can.)

Second, those differences are lost in the big picture. I have recordings of my own playing I love, where I couldn't tell you what guitar or amp I was using without looking at my notes.

Third, playing in a full band is a fundamentally different tonal experience than playing by yourself. Again with the subtleties. A lot of the subtleties that make gear nerding fun actually make for poor tone in a band context. More importantly, gear that sounds bad by itself can be magical in a band context.

Fourth, guitar playing is an incredibly physical and sensual experience. You feel it in your bones. Part of the fun of big tube amps is "getting your hair blown back", feeling the vibration literally shaking your body. It's a blast (motorcycles have the same physical presence). For me at least, it means I don't like guitars that are too easy to play - I want it to fight back and make me work for my tone.

On the subject of tube amps versus solid state modeling (Sansamp, etc) versus digital modeling... remember, not only is the guitar a physical thing, it's a very sensitive and responsive thing. The real problem with digital modeling imho is getting the response right, that precious moment when the pick leaves the string. This gets worse when the subtleties of harmonic distortion come into play - clean and mildly overdriven sounds (there's no such thing as really "clean" electric guitar).

What's worked for me in recording situations is to rely on analog pedals for the attack, and track into really neutral digital models. It's less hassle than miking amps, for sure, and the results can be very good.

Tubes are great for power more than drive. Transistors and op-amps have been part of the overdriven sound for almost as long as electric guitars have been around - starting with 1960s fuzz. Solid state amps tend to fall down delivering live power in a band context, although modern Class H switching amp technology (basically digital amps heterodyning the signal several octaves outside the range of hearing, so digital distortion artifacts are inaudible) is getting brilliant.

Me, I've more or less quit using tube amps, due to reliability issues. My beautiful Mesa Mark I and my monstrous VHT Pittbull 45 are both sitting with blown power transformers. I use a vintage Yamaha solid-state jazz amp and pedals, and I'm happy.

Oh, and studio recording? Anyone who demands "realism" from their hi-fi gear has no idea how recording is done!
I do love picking Minneapolis or Chicago when I want a ND location (look at North Dakota in the TZ database, we have some funky stuff going on). Looks like this question has some API for that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16086962/how-to-get-a-tim...
I built Sweetheart.io for myself, originally -- then had several friends request access so they could send postcards, too.

The basic idea is that you can subscribe your girlfriend/wife/husband/boyfriend* to receive small tokens of your love every month -- in this case, well-designed and romantic postcards with a sweet message on them.

The potential "downsides" to this idea are people perceiving this as being lazy, or automating something that should be personal. In my opinion, though, it is sweet to subscribe a loved one to a service like this -- my wife is very happy when she receives her monthly card in the mail!

* While I'm targeting men -> women from a marketing perspective, I've made sure to keep all of the cards gender-neutral, so any partner can enjoy this service :)
Congrats on the launch!

Has it been challenging to get landlords to agree to a common rental application?

What's the plan to differentiate from companies like cozy.co in the application/leases/rent-payment space?
I can definitely tell the difference. A friend of mine has the AXE-FX. We tried testing its Mesa Boogie model against my actual Mesa Boogie amp -- and the difference was night and day.

Like one of the comments from above, part of the magic of tube guitar amplification is that it is much more responsive dynamically to inputs. You can turn the volume up a tick, or hit the strings harder or softer, or change your picking style, and the results are drastically different on a tube amp.

This gives the artist more space to express themselves -- which is why tube amps are still favoured amongst guitar players today -- decades after transistor's have taken over the rest of the electronic industry. You can't get the nuanced expressiveness in a crystal lattice that you can in the free space of a vacuum. [1]

[1] I'm paraphrasing from H. Alexander Dumble, one of the gurus of guitar amplification.
tl;dr it's the pick-up, and effects are added once you leave the guitar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_%28music_technology%29
Still, I think it's a bit strong for a "so you want to learn programming" email. If I was looking for advice, I'd rather start with the technology and learn the cultural differences myself.
I guess YAML has the best solution to nested scopes, just indentation
> It's a mess putting Linux on a Windows 8 laptop.

I can see how it affects the price and things gets a bit more expensive due to the Windows-license, but how on earth is it "a mess" installing Linux on a laptop which previously had Windows on it?

Especially given all the loopholes and workarounds people have to resort to to actually get Linux running on these locked down so-called "Linux" laptops?

I mean... This article itself is proof that Chromebooks are worse than Windows-laptops, right?
It's not even that complicated. All the large shared hosting companies have cPanel and Fantastico installed on their servers. You can sign up for hosting, log into the control panel, and install dozens of web apps including WordPress with the click of a link.
Source? I thought that Diesel was a fuel for peaking plants in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant
I couldn't disagree more. Knowing more about your body is always a good thing -- the fact that many people won't know what to do with that information is inconsequential. It may not make sense for many (most) people to buy into 23andMe, there are a lot of people out there that can understand this, or at least find it interesting to be able to peer into their genetic makeup.
As nice as the concept sounds, they probably should have pointed it out. It's too subtle, seeing as most of us missed it. Even something like "You think this is hard to read? Imagine being..." would make it work better.

Making your entire message a pain to read seems like a bad idea, either way.

I sat there expecting a background image to load but ended up closing the tab, assuming the page was broken.