jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with this. I run ArmbrustUSA and can make about 1MM masks per day, and we started at the same time as this company.

I think they are just bad at sales.

We have government and hospital contracts. But, we are really good at sales. My team is really good at sales. Previously, My President and head of sales ran a medical sales division at a company with 300 sales people. We have about 17 sales folks. And we wouldn't be thriving without that team.

They also might not be great at manufacturing.

There stuff is really expensive. They are selling an ASTM Level 3 mask for $37.5 + $8 Shipping! That's $0.90 a mask delivered.

https://shop.demetech.us/collections/surgical-mask-astm-leve...

I can buy a Chinese made ASTM Level 3 masks delivered for $0.18 FROM CHINA.

How can they win charging 5 times more? Because "America"? That argument is many a 3x multiple :)

If I were to guess by looking at all their photos, it looks they have a very manual process for making masks and packing masks. We've had to semi automate the packaging process to survive (which no one else has done). When we fully automated it later this year we will be able to sell our masks much much cheaper than China can.

Our masks sell between $0.20 - $0.59 which is still too high, but all of our margins go directly into investing in the product.
According to the doctor that was explicitly not the policy. His version is that the health department made it clear that they should do whatever they had to do to keep from wasting doses.

This lines up with what I know from family members doing vaccinations in other areas.
On the other hand, most standard jobs have documented procedures and managers that respond to questions about policy accurately. The NYT reporting turned up no such things.

And seriously on the other hand, most jobs are not potentially life and death situations. There are few, if any parallel situations to this. Maybe it would be akin to parking a company vehicle incorrectly so you could stop and help an injured person.
The really telling part to me is that (seemingly) no one from any of the organizations involved (the hospital and the prosecutors office) will come forward and outright say that what was done was immoral. They are all hiding behind a veneer of "what he did broke the rules and my job is to enforce them", which is about the weakest argument one can make in defense this sort of thing.
Why does the site need access to my VR headset?

https://i.imgur.com/Tg5G6Ma.png
>the sacrifices needed to ensure Java compatibility entail many quirks that I find frustrating.

That reminds me of that dead JVM language called Ceylon. It didn't compromise anything to ensure Java compatibility. The combination of OOP+FP was executed with zero friction. Meanwhile Scala did it so poorly it created a stupid myth that OOP and FP shouldn't mix.

Of course everyone knows that nobody used Ceylon, not even Redhat who sponsored the language. The compiler was also dog slow. Typechecking complicated type unions/intersections can get really slow with bigger projects. The metamodel also created a lot of JS bloat if you were brave enough to use it in the browser. Lots of practical complaints that ultimately make you stop using it. But oh man the idea and design. It was very well thought out and enjoyable to program in.
Its about time that regulators looked at these punitive commissions. Lower rates mean more money in the pockets of consumers and businesses. Better apps (fuelled by better revenues) might actually increase spending on apps stores and encourage consumers to purchase newer devices.

Apple's maintenance of this 30% is short-sighted.
I offer no commentary on the actual content, but this is a truly horrible piece of writing - almost every sentence is clunky, poorly phrased, ungrammatical, or repetitive. I guess you don't need to be able to write decent prose to make $18B!
Constants getting overwritten is such a footgun.

Hopefully syntax highlighters and linters will mitigate this.
It's not about the language or expressions. He just isn't very familiar with the standard library. His code was not unclear or overly verbose... it just didn't use libraries to replace most of his code.

So, yes, it was exceedingly obvious that the author had not made any appreciable investment in learning the language.
We do have a mode where the software generates random phrases like "the [noun] [verb] the [noun]" generating about a million possible combinations (100 x 100 x 100)

But the space of three consecutive words in Yahoo News is even larger, and frankly, most passwords are chosen from a small space anyway. And finally, the examples are just meant to inspire, so people don't select "password" as their password.
I think what Brendan is trying to say is that Dart simply had no influence on ES6 and ES7 except for the idea of SIMD. That means no specific implementations, and no high level ideas.

Any resemblance you might find between Dart and ES6/ES7 would be because of Darts resemblance to either CoffeeScript or TypeScript, languages that did in fact influence ES6 and ES7.

My personal view: I don't think Dart is the sort of language Javascript wants to be like at all. Also, totally off topic regarding your comment of 2 years ago: Java has never kept up with C# has always been years behind and still lacks many features that C# has had for ages. The only reason people still use Java is that C# had no enterprise backing on non-Microsoft platforms and its main implementation was proprietary. These things are changing, and I think that will be the end (finally) of Java.
The book appears to be available as a PDF at:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...
> I am on linux mint and do not have root.
> I am new to terminal ...

So what do you know, what experience do you have, and what are you trying to achieve?

How much of this are you familiar with?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_For_Newbies/Command_Line

Without knowing the package you're trying to install, and then going away to install it myself and noting all the steps in minute detail, any assistance will have to be generic, and will depend on how much you already know.

Why are you on Mint, and yet not have root access?

For reference, there's also this:

http://linuxnewbieguide.org/
If it's an exception - no. It's fun and it gives a new fresh look to big, evil corporations (but Google is not evil anyway [1]).
If it were a rule - yes, definitely infantile and weird.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101923422
At the time when XMPP was getting standardized and was still mostly known as Jabber, I started implementing a Jabber chat client with a friend.

The problem with XMPP isn't that it was based on XML. No, what made it annoying was that the dudes who made it decided that instead of basing it on exchanging individual messages, i.e. XML documents like everyone else does, everything must instead be put inside a so-called XML stream.

IIRC it basically meant that the exchange started with a start tag that wasn't terminated until the connection was closed. Since nothing at the time was designed to work with unfinished XML documents (remember the end tag doesn't come until you're done), all the convenient standard XML tools/libraries wouldn't work.

So I don't think XMPP is a stellar piece of work. But it's of course much better than some proprietary crap, and it's sad to see it lose support, although I imagine to Google and Facebook who both probably couldn't care less about interoperability, having an open XMPP interface is probably more of a liability (spammers, enables people to skip their ads) than something they get much perceived value out of.
Url changed from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/01/apple-accelerates-us-.... Some of the comments below make a bit more sense if you know they were replying to that one.

This is a bit of an exception to the HN guidelines' call for original sources. We generally prefer a high quality third party report on news like this to the company's own press release. The latter tend to read like press releases.
Wow. I've had some girlfriends who I was not strongly limerant about, and that always bugged me when I thought about it, to the point that I thought marriage was probably out of the question. This despite the fact that I really enjoyed being with them, and had "compassionate love" for them. I tried to remind myself that that was probably Disney talking, but it's as if it has been almost hard coded into my brain.

Best article I've read in months.
Breaking News!! Protests break out by people who sold investments yesterday!!

(Just kidding. The value gain to existing investments from this new law will only cause a small immediate jump in prices, and the rest will ramp up gradually over the days before the change goes into effect.)
Most people in Afghanistan would be far better off as citizens of Saudi Arabia. All three of these countries are categorically worse than the US or Europe, but "worse" is not a binary condition.
The iPhone 4 isn't even available for purchase yet and you're already complaining that the "next thing" doesn't exist yet? Slow down!
Well I have no "grand plan", but it has nothing to do with a disaster either. It was simply a decision I made. What makes you say I should consider other options?
Most of the supposed reasons behind the "curse" assume that there's an already-functioning economy to wreck. Minerals in Afghanistan aren't going to wreck their nonexistent licit agriculture output. Further, Afghanistan is already in a state of chronic intense conflict, which neutralizes another arm of the "curse".
Man, that is amazingly cool. Does this have implications for other problems that have to this point been limited by the difficulties of predicting the outcome of protein folding?
A very clever hack. I wonder how much total memory is used versus the image-based version? A couple potential disadvantages: more http requests and more dom nodes. But I'm guessing the author did this just because they could, not as a demonstration of how things should be done.
If it works, nothing wrong with playing sensationalist games and since you anonymized yourself, well kudos for having balls to take a shot. I personally can't imagine it being particularly effective vs just talking about your skills, but if you went this far did you post it on craigslist in SF, LA, NYC as well?
If justice were rendered the Afghan people would get a dividend a la Alaska oil and amazing infrastructure to bring forth an Arab/Islamic renaissance on the doorstep of economic giants: China and India.

In our world though, powers will struggle for control of the purse strings. Strong men will rule, aided by the US, the Taliban, both, or more. The mines will become inland islands to themselves as the people get promises of a better life.

Let's hope something along the lines of the former happens - would be world changing.
The nature of Elo should mean that competitions against weak opponents are not free. You should be very likely to win them, yes, but when you lose them, you get penalized harshly for it. It's kind of like betting on a roulette table that has no zeros (eg, no 'house advantage') on every number except for 36. You are likely going to win (probability 35/36), but your winnings are very low (36/35), and so the expected value of the bet is still no gain (35 * 36) * (36 / 35) - 1. Occasionally, you lose all of your money. The really bright kid with the 1550 SAT from the middle class family decides he'd rather take the full ride to state U than go to MIT because the family doesn't really want to pay the tuition.

On the other hand, the model just might not fit, and it could be over-predicting rare events, I haven't looked at the data.
That's true. My uncle's address is just Quartermire, County Clare and he gets his mail. Its basically the road he's on.
It's silly to generalize on the mental capabilities of all 9 year olds. [..] I know of many examples of 9-year olds who are more mature than many 20 year-olds I know.

Sorry, I'm out of my depth. It's beyond my rhetorical capabilities to have a serious discussion about it being OK for even a "mature" 9 year old to be having unrestricted access to cybersex chat rooms and hardcore porn.

That said, I thank you for opening my eyes. I think I understand how many conservative, Christian folks feel when confronted with things like gay marriage. Perhaps they're not evil - they just can't shift their worldview up by 10 orders of liberality. My own sexually liberal views are as alien to them as yours are to me. So sorry, and good luck, but I can't engage with this.

That said, if you allow your own mature 9 year old daughter or so to have laissez-faire, unmonitored sexual relationships and write an article about it, I'd love to read it.
Go ahead and code up a prototype, then run it by the folks here for feedback.
http://www.trustico.co.uk/products/rapidssl/cheap-rapidssl-s...

Cheap, no certificate chain, and everything seems to have the roots installed.

It doesn't really matter where you get them from, the whole thing is a bit of a scam anyway. Since your security is as weak as the worst issuer, there's no point in buying a "premium" certificate.
my next HTTPS cert will be from DynaDot since I liked how they run their DNS registrar service (with optional API, yeah!) and generally got a "smart" vibe from them. I've gotten certs from VeriSign and generally found it surprisingly expensive, complex and slow. Fundamentally, a file needs to be generated. Generating that file should be pretty fast on a modern computer, and a commodity service. Yes there's some extra stuff potentially involved. But at it's core it should be a pretty simple and fast and therefore cheap process. IMO.
maybe something's wrong with how you configured it. Maybe the host name doesn't match?
I usually have to struggle to make things work on Windows.

I have a friend -- an electronics hacker -- who insists on using Windows for everything. He recently wanted to play with a couple of web frameworks so he could pick one for a website he's building for an early stage startup. Getting him set up with Symfony and Rails was crazy. Now I fear the day he might want me to set up Django or Pylons :(

I once tried to set up a decent development environment for myself on Windows 7. Needless to say, I failed. Windows is excellent for .NET development (VS has no competition), but for anything else you're better off with a decent UNIX.
> Atom is free during the beta period.

Where does it say it won't be free after the beta period?
Why isn't it arrogant to make language ambiguous in a way that it hard to ever recover from? Prescriptivism tries to preserve the information content of language.

We can all communicate if we speak the same language. We can't if language forks until a million incompatible variations.
I'm glad that you had such a positive experience! After years of web development I'm just burnt out by the tooling.

Layers upon layers, just make debugging so unnecessarily hard.
The tooling is brittle and buggy.

I've seen typescript compiler bugs, webpack segfaults, and whatnot.
I've started to ban typescript and jsx from all future projects, and it's better, but still a nightmare.
I'm in Europe. I'd work US hours for a US salary.
trueeeeeeeeeee
NPR comes to mind.
> It feels like people are trying to erase fundamental concepts like files or downloading, and instead offering a bullshit rental model where anything you can do on the net is at the pleasure of the content owner. It is disempowering to users as it changes them from masters of their domain to digital peons in CC's feudalistic kingdoms.

This is why I find it so disheartening that Khan Academy doesn't allow downloads natively. I understand the incentives for a provider like Youtube are overwhelmingly in favor of streaming-only, but an educational nonprofit like Khan Academy? If even they don't offer downloads, what hope is there?
Arguing for population control is arguing for limiting growth - it's what no capitalist wants to hear. The only reason the stock market is climbing is because the Fed is artificially inflating it. Investors want growth no matter what. As far as I'm concerned, most investors are cancer.

They don't want to solve problems. They want to get rich, and if "solving" problems helps them achieve that goal then that is how they will sell themselves.
What would you use tools like those for, out of interest?

Edit: I might have mis-parsed your comment, although that might not have been clear from my question. I now guess you were expecting tools that assist with CLI argument representation. That's an interesting area too, but Argdown is intended to represent natural language propositions that people can debate.
I hate to be the guy who say back in my day... but back in the 90's there was a tool by Borland (anyone remember them?) who created a no-code, low-code tool called Delphi. It was awesome, I used it on a few front end projects and it active data source tools made laying out complex UI's so painless.
Of course this was back before Rest APIs and the internet for most part. But it kicked some serious ass.
Discovery of tree notation, are you kidding me?
I hope this episode ends with Apple pushing an update to truncate and encrypt the file and people get over the fact that location services by definition use location data.
Providing invalid information == black hat

/thread
Fine. It doesn't have a giant hammer or throw lightning bolts or... wait, what do non-religious people report about gods?
I'd recommend a Tonido plug. Who wouldn't like a server the size of a wall plug that uses only $0.50/month in electricity? It runs Ubuntu with root SSH access so the possibilities are endless. It's under $100 too.
Almost all home routers and DSL boxes are running some form of Linux. Therefore, almost everyone uses a Linux box in his home to access wired internet.
I’m pretty certain that this marketing campaign stars prominently in the wet dreams of many marketing guys and girls.

The iPhone and the iPad “Will It Blend?” video have ten million views each on YouTube, other videos usually clock in at between a few hundred thousand and a few million views. The videos themselves have shoddy production values, I would be surprised if producing one costs more than a few thousand dollars. All this makes for a ridiculously low CPM. Oh, and those ten million views are high quality contacts, they all actually wanted to watch the video, unlike, say, a pre-roll ad on YouTube that’s forced on them.

A pre-roll ad on YouTube has a CPM between $10 and $15. Blendtec could have spent $100,000 on the production of their iPhone video (I doubt they spent even a tenth of that) and still pay less than a company which tries to get an ad on YouTube the normal way. (Those companies pay for the production of the spot, just like Blendtec, but they also pay Google for running the spot.)
etherpad - now a part of google apps.
Nowadays the diagonal of a square is not double it's width, but the square root of two times the width. This article actually seems to be the long-lost proof that space was curved in thos days!
I can't emphasize enough how much I agree with this. Since I started "dogfooding my API", my applications have gotten cleaner and more logical and my APIs have gotten a lot more usable.
Who would host a porn site on an iPad?
I would be ecstatic if I could pay $8/mo. for YouTube with no ads. Instead I use AdBlock and no one gets anything.
I believe he went to Google.
"Of course the carriers could instead use some extra BW and transmit the actual background noise of whoever you are talking to."

Another effect is the overall system would get more complicated and latency would increase because you'd need some fancier echo cancellers.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Because JSON is based on JavaScript, its data types are often called by their JS names: a name/value pair collection is an "object" and an ordered list is an "array"... But of course an array is an object as well, so there's ample room for confusion.
You generate the key from your username and password and/or store it locally?
basically, the government could try to make that type of request independent of backend implementation. what protects users against such an obtrusive action (effectively violating every user's privacy in search of the bad guys) are the provisions of the electronic communications privacy act.
Client side. If you upload a very popular 500+mb file, maybe try a popular linux distribution iso, it will sync instantly.
I'd bet that the net present value of your CMU CS experience is quite a bit higher than you estimate.

As a credential, it's very well known in tech-heavy industries and will help open doors there. Further, it's a good enough school that it will help open doors if you decide to pursue a graduate degree in the future.

As an experience, you got the opportunity to work with top professors and it sounds like you actively sought them out to get those experiences. Further, you almost certainly got to know a lot of students and if you were smart, reliable and hard-working, likely created a situation that could open professional opportunities in the future.

I'll concede that the correlation between a conferred degree and the value captured by the student is not perfect, and that a degree is not the only opportunity to capture value between the ages of 18 and 22. But I largely believe the "debate" consists largely of overblown, hyperbolic rhetoric and oversimplification.
I see no problem with happiness. However, happiness will always remain fleeting - a momentary feeling of contentment and fulfillment where you convince yourself that you have achieved your goals.

A dedicated, mindful person can achieve many of the benefits of happiness - the stronger relationships, the untroubled and healthy sleep patterns - by focusing on maintaining those benefits directly. Do you want to sleep like a baby? Get to bed and rise regularly, 22:00 - 06:00, and declutter your bedroom to dedicate that room entirely towards the function of sleep.

Do you want to maintain healthy relationships? Work on them. Build and maintain trust. Act without expectation of reward, and feel delight when your puzzled friends respond to your new found generosity of spirit.

You'll quickly discover the inadequacy of money alone in providing happiness. True, too little and you will find paying the bills a struggle and life somewhat problematic. Join the club. However, too much money attracts entirely the wrong people, drawn by the prospect of loosening the money from your grip and nothing else.

Myself, I strive not for happiness, but for mindfulness: for the awareness of the fact that I exist; that I live; and that, at any time, I have ownership of this precise moment on this marvellous world, this incredible universe.

Quiet focus and calm, mindful determination. That works for me.
> now it's being faked as a friend told me

That's a pretty low standard.
>First, the 5th amendment protection against revealing a password seems completely wrong to me, i.e. I'd expect it to get overturned at some point. The point of the 5th amendment was to prevent forced confessions, not to somehow block access to evidence (which the justice system is otherwise entitled to).

This slope is arbitrary and slippery. There's a reason to stand on the extreme principle here. There are very few violations into a person's right to remain silent that cannot be weaponized.

I'd rather not empower the next arbitrary group of political appointees to wield that kind of power just because you think "the justice system is entitled to" evidence.

That sort of short term thinking without long term consequences does massive damage. Think harder.
Helping someone do legitimate commerce online isn't making the internet worse. Quite the opposite.
> there hasn't been an intra-european war in a long time

Former Yugoslavia aside, this is no guarantee there won't be and with the rise of nationalism things are not looking good.