jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It isn't really bizarre other than on paper. Yes, in theory launching a rocket into space should be more expensive than hosting photos.

Right up until the point you become successful at hosting photos and then suddenly hundreds of servers do not seem cheap.

Also, good software engineers, good rocket scientists, probably same price - maybe even former more expensive.
I really, really don't think this is a good idea. Even minor debugging information can help me attack a site but Django debugging can actually leak your source. If you want I can run a simple audit on your site but I already retrieved the contents of your urls.py
Or press Snooze.
Isn't it possible to mitigate the problem in limiting the number of sockets an user process may open?
wouldn't this be in violation of the tos and/or technically impossible? If not, why can't I write a fb app that syncs all my friends' data to my server?
By change, do they mean waiving my arms around all over the place, or are we talking something more subtle? Here's the rub. A remote control is a means to an end. It is a pathway for my cognitive decision to change channels or search for content. Ideally, the remote should disappear in to the background. I shouldn't think about the fact that I'm using it. I don't see how the Kinect puts me any closer to that goal. What I've read so far -- and this may change -- is that the Kinect works best when you're standing up. Even if it did work well when sitting, I can use a remote by lifting my thumb. The Kinect would require some sort of gesture that involves a lot more motion. The usual gorilla arms arguments apply.

What would be far more useful is if home entertainment manufacturers solidified a protocol for devices to talk to one another, so that we could ditch all these remotes.
I spent the last 2 months building an app on rails and I've really enjoyed it. The available plugins and docs are great. With a bit more of a python background, I've really enjoyed Ruby. The ruby way of doing things seems more intuitive to me now, and I struggle a little bit when programming in python (not much, but I feel pythons stricter syntax and grammar to be a little bit of friction)

Someone else here compared ruby to python. They said ruby is quicker and smoother for UI programming, python is faster and better developed for computation. I think that answer is dead on.
Thats a reason you should opens source your project. Solicit feedback, and become a better coder...or realize help you to realize that _all_ code is 'ugly'
For base 2, you can use Pascal's triangle to find out how many numbers with x zeroes (or ones) exist up to 2^n: http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/2010/10/combinacoes-de-digito... (portuguese only, I'm afraid).

From base 3 onwards, I would expect to see some "subparticles" inside each number in the triangle. I would start from there.
How do you know it's downvoted? I sort of miss the karma number next to each post :(
Except healthcare! You're required to buy it in the US now, but regardless...the hospitals would negotiate with insurance companies to <50% of the bill (and I've seen >90% reduction)- you can't do that as an individual and will generally be stuck with the full price.
Posted a day ago, but it got no up-votes, and no comments. Is it worth knowing that? If the built-in dup detector had worked then this submission wouldn't be allowed, that submission would've got an up-vote, and it wouldn't've made any difference.

What should happen?
Of course this assumes that users would want to migrate their data to a replacement service.

Or, for that matter, that users would share their tags with researchers who build on social tagging data:

http://groups.google.com/group/get-theinfo/browse_thread/thr...

Here is a (scraped?) delicious data set, for those who are interested: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/116137.html
>"an angle" refers to any angle other than the angle directly from the sun.

So do these conceptual glasses have a way to find the direction of the sun, and adjust the moire patterns in real time? Based on the description, it sounded like it would always block rays normal to the plane of the lens, while allowing rays to pass through at any other angle. Rays from the sun will only rarely be normal to the lens, and so they will only rarely be blocked, without an active adjustment to change the "rejection angle." Short of that, I don't follow how the glasses can "tell" sunlight from ambient light, and I don't think it can be done without active logic.
This point:
Monopoly Economics and Culture: Microsoft's 2 core businesses -- Windows and Office -- are natural winner-take-all monopolies. What it takes to maintain these businesses in a financially successful way is very different than what it takes to create successful new businesses.

Really doesn't ring true at all. "Windows" and "Ofiice" as natural monopolies? That's not at all the stock definition of natural monopolies. Natural monopolies classically are said to occur in markets like electric power, phone service, natural gas service, where there's an inescapable (ie not legislated or state-maintained) huge cost of entry into the market, and then each additional customer has an almost neglible marginal cost.

A "winner-take-all monopoloy"? I dunno, that smacks of network effects, a la Hal Varian. (http://www.inforules.com/models/m-net.pdf.pdf ). Do Microsoft boosters really want to go there? Because in the case of a good that's got really, really strong network effects, a little sub rosa action could go a long ways to tipping the balance one way or the other.
Related news: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-social-login...

Google is more used than Facebook by Janrain users.
There is a Twitter petition to Yahoo getting a lot of action: http://act.ly/2ul
that's ridiculous. potential of the company is not about who owns the stock or how much cash changed hands in the process.

having been part of one particular exit I know all too well that startup founders and ex-employees have deep emotional connection to their former company, no matter how much they got for it.
1,2,3,one,two,three

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1%2C2%2C3%2Cone%2...

for a short period of time in the 80s and 90s, 1 was more popular than one, where from the 1700s through 1950s, 1 was half as popular as one ...
I remember hating ML when I had to use it in school. Yes, the compiler can infer all sorts of things about your code, and yes, it can use that to detect errors. But God help you figuring out where those errors are.
I've only just begun to look at Facebook development but the Oauth part sounds like a cluster-f*ck in the making.

Even though I don't intend to be them, I sympathize with the developers who get it wrong because a hand-off from app-to-web-to-app-to-web on a poorly, inconsistent and changing platform looks hard.
https://github.com/mozilla/servo/issues/1289

I think it was this issue that talked about porting using Java -> Rust and C++ -> Rust translator.
A cheaper CRM that I can extend with plugins. Really, right now these things are super expensive for a small company in, say, east Europe. Also, there are tons of them for developers, none very good for businesses. I want the “standard” goodies (teams, tasks, admin panel, etc.), but then I want to be able to easily build on top of those.
Maybe he meant x86 as opposed to ARM(32 bit)?
with all the hate php gets now, people forget how it changed the game back at the turn if the century. it was so easy.
Let me clarify -- let the user choose what music they would want to hear. I.e. let them listen to the music on their iPhone and then have the conference call interrupt their music playback when ready. Not sure if technically feasible.
Do you mind sharing the original author's name? It sounds gorgeous, but I can only read Japanese, so I'm not sure if I'm just completely wrong in getting the images from the Chinese.
There is currently a very basic api in place @ http://shrtn.co/api/*your-url*

Custom domain names are a great idea. Thanks for the feedback!
Are there any blogs online mags etc or something like that who does this?
Yeah, the latency of their hiring amazes me. I lean towards small shops, but for some reason I entertained a phone screen from them a few years ago. Well, they called me several weeks later hoping for an onsite, but I had already interviewed for, accepted, and started another position in the meantime. I don't see why they would expect anyone good to remain available long enough for them to have a chance with, unless the candidate has singled out Google as the only place they're even considering for a month if not an entire quarter.
And it works well on Opera as well on Day 1. (Unlike Wave)
At the moment most of the merchants are added via CPA networks, so the dev time is fairly minimal. I expect this will change when we exhaust all of the top merchants on the affiliate networks and go looking for more 'premium' merchants.

There's no location detection just yet, but it does work with .com/ca/co.uk, you just have to put the relevant URL in the first place.
I'm shocked, shocked to hear there's such little ML going on in France. After discovering OCaml and its progenitor INRIA, I've always just assumed that MLs and functional programming was more of a European thing, especially since they're more oriented toward proofs and program correctness, which I also thought was more a characteristic of European CS and software engineering. But no?
As much as I would love to see that happen, it wont.

What is developer trust and why does Oracle care?

As long as CIOs trust Oracle to run their business on Oracle products, they are fine.
> if we were able to instantaneously transport ourselves

That is simply not interesting. We aren't able to instantaneously transport ourselves. So what we think might happen when we do that, is pure fantasy.
It’s time to impeach the president, he’s a threat to the republic. Some things ought not be tolerated by a polite society.
This comment made me realize what my mentor did years ago. He would have the entire team list all possible solutions to a problem, including the obviously bad ones, then have us whittle down the list based on pros and cons of each until we reached consensus on what to do. It was a teaching exercise and I didn’t realize it.

I’ve repeated it that exercise with junior engineers to great effect. Some catch on over time and start intuitively considering the trade offs of a few reasonable solutions to a problem; some don’t.

I never reflected on what he was doing there; thanks.
Good job barely hiding your political alignment. Wait, I mean bad job.
Ahh, a balmy 47ºF in Simferopol. I guess it's all relative.
I wonder how long until Discord starts blocking things like Matrix or IRC Bridges. That or the Bot API may already be useful enough to say something "works", but is so functionally useless that you have no reason to use it. (e.g. you can bridge to a channel, but not bridge instant messages)
This isn't really surprising since Discord owns the whole API and it was only a matter of time this would happen which is why I have little hope for third-party clients for GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube etc, since they have official clients for them. [0]

Either the API gets blocked for third-party clients, or you purchase a high price for it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609319
I wonder if is possible to have it so that when circles are moving towards each other they behave as spheres, but once they have “touched” and begin to move away they have the metaball behavior. That way they look like droplets when separating but don’t have the droplets “magically” seeking other droplets when moving towards each other.
They don't typically care about client mods as far as I can tell, the use case they ban accounts for is using a third party client entirely.

That being said I don't think slack/discord should be a thing for open source communities.
New Zealand is one country that refuses to allow nuclear-powered anything near.
The idea of making this pandemic last longer in order to prevent a future pandemic seems to fail any reasonable cost benefit analysis. That's because it is not based on any such analysis, it's based on people myopically looking at RCT for answers and ignoring all other forms of reasoning.

To those that suggest we don't have data on the regime are wildly incorrect. (1) we have data from the 2 dose trials in Pfizer and Moderna (2) we have data from Astrazeneca showing improved efficacy with a delay (3) we have priors based on other vaccines, where a delayed second dose almost always confers more immunity. (4) our models of the human immune response suggest delayed vaccination helps more.

So there is every reason to believe, and all data suggests, that delaying the second dose is better. We also have the ability to change our mind if it looks like it doesn't work.

If the proposed standard for any medical treatment was to ban any use that has not had a randomized control trial, then we should issue fines for people who don't complete antibiotic regimes, people who don't show up to their follow up appointments, and disallow off label use.
> Look at what I’m not running

Cue http://dhh-soundboard.herokuapp.com
> compared to millions of customers storming your shops and demanding refunds

And yet somehow Apple is able to push updates without carrier approval and this doesn't happen.
It's not just the countries. Even individuals are isolating more than ever. That's probably the best defense we have against the proliferation of the virus. If done in tandem by everyone, it might be the best ever co-ordinated exercise ever carried out by humankind.
Working on applying machine learning to source code to increase code maintainability.
It started with a semantic search engine for Javascript codebases: https://codecue.com/ and now working on the accompanying code analysis tool that would guarantee efficient searchability of the code
I don’t know about the other cases you mention but the AMADEUS terminals don’t seem very efficient. You ask the woman at the counter to change seats and mashes away at the keyboard for a good minute before she tells you there’s no seats sorry.

But in any case, we’re really talking about ipads, 99% of users buy them precisely because of the friendly UI with its animations. Efficiency is the last thing on their mind.
A lot of cryptocurrency altcoins are completely flat.

5 years ago, I was sure that cryptocurrency was a bubble and I would never have imagined that cryptocurrencies would be a safer investment than stocks in a bull market, let alone during a bear market.

Banks are printing too much money and it's been used inefficiently. The fact that cryptocurrencies have been able to grow and then hold value for so long is proof of that. The message is clear: Popular assets which have global exposure to investors are somehow getting free money from the Fed. The free money will give value to anything. If it's an asset and investors all around the world can invest in it, they will invest in it and the price will keep going up; no matter what fundamentals are behind it. This is the reality of our global fiat economy. Cryptocurrencies are backed by nothing but they will keep going up simply because the popular ones are in limited supply (and the slots to be a 'popular cryptocurrency' are themselves limited).

Large corporations and other high-exposure financial assets don't make a profit from their business activities (that's just a pretext), they make a profit by being a conduit through which money enters the system and 'trickles down' through the rest of the economy. Their actual main line of business is being a financial conduit for the Fed by creating jobs and hiring contractors.

Advertising is not as valuable as it is made out to be (even targeted advertising). It's just were all the surplus fiat money which businesses don't know what to do with ends up going. Advertising is valuable for the same reason why crypto is valuable; because money is constantly losing value and no one wants to hold any surplus.
They can just test for Covid-19 antibodies. It's not really reliable, but it is much faster than the genetic tests and should quickly discriminate between Covid and the common flu.

Italians are triaging, so they have to quickly sort the cases. They have to sacrifice precision and allow for some false positives.
Yeah but the stand is much larger, the question is what can be achieved in the tiny sausage!
Probably inverted in 2020.
Yeah and I'd say OpenOffice would give them both a run for their money.
They aren't exactly clear on that, though they seem to imply they are looking for other revenue streams:

> As a heads up, in the future we may partner with like-minded companies, but any sponsorships will not involve the sharing of your data.

It is easy to be cynical about statements regarding the protection privacy these days since many of claims are so distorted that they should be treated as outright lies. On the other hand, there are people behind every business and it is possible those people have become uncomfortable with what they are doing. They may be willing to make some compromises until they find a solution which fits their values. Alas, the problem lays in figuring out whether the latter is true.
From what I can tell the salaries of american surgeons are high enough to justify training more. There is no need to restrict training of more surgeons. Heck, by your logic we should train as many surgeons as we can and then get rid of the worst ones instead of being dependent on a small subset that we let into the training program in the first place.
> Until I met my girlfriend

Did you meet her in London, or did you meet her when you were a hermit? I'd guess the former. Another good reason why a large community provides certain things that living in quasi-isolation doesn't.

In any case, thanks for your thoughts; I value them, despite my comment above.
I'm not comparing them?

I'm saying the owners behind the scene don't matter. The brand is the brand, and the owners are the owners.

Supreme could be owned by Blackstone and I don't think anyone would care.
If you are going to spend hours playing online games / watching netflix then I can't imagine why you wouldn't just stay comfortable in the city or the suburbs. Living off grid you are going to spend a lot of your free time just living. If you've ever camped in a tent it's probably not dissimilar, by the time you've made breakfast and cleaned up afterwards its almost time to think about lunch, or at least it can feel that way.
I'm sure Microsoft would be happy to pay for Bing to be the default in Firefox.
sadly he did not foresee that two thousand years later in the valley those two personas more or less ended up being the same person, so now we have to contend with Zuckerberg as our new Augustus.
FYI you can (for now) get the "View image" button back with this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image/
In this country we have the Second Amendment to our Constitution which explicitly limits laws against arms technology.

Besides export controls, what laws do you think we should implement?
it also literally turns your bodily emissions blue, needs to be administered intravenously, and has some ugly side effects:

Common side effects include headache, vomiting, confusion, shortness of breath, and high blood pressure.[1] Other side effects include serotonin syndrome, red blood cell breakdown, and allergic reactions.[1] Use often turns the urine, sweat, and stool blue to green in color.[3]
Nothing wrong with React. React has built in server rendering. With frameworks like Gatsby that render to static assets and netlify for deployment, this becomes radically easy.

I’ve seen plenty of new devs take this approach.
I really don't understand why Amazon is getting a spike of demand.

What are people ordering now that they didn't usually order? I don't think stuff like facemasks and gloves can justify the huge difference in volumes, and amazon isn't providing the supplies for emergency rooms and hospitals (is it?).
What? Of course America/NATO put boots on the ground. That's the whole point. NATO ground forces going into Kosovo stopped the Ethnic cleansing.

The air campaign did nothing. Boots on the ground saved lives.
It's like it's gone... viral.

Probably it spreads from company to company as people organized video conferences with external companies, introducing the tool to those people, who decide to try it out, etc.
Lots of voices missing the mark: the fed is acting to keep the corporate bond market from seizing up.

Corporations finance part of their borrowings through bonds. These bonds need to be paid in full + the interest when the bond matures. Corporations and banks typically repay some of these from cash, and some by issuing new bonds.

Right now no one is getting to issue new bonds at all. Banks cannot lend because the risk rating on these bonds has gone up, meaning they in-fact need to sell said bonds to reduce their risk exposure.

Thus the FED is acting as a lender of last resort directly to major corporations. Without this last resort said corporations would need to either fire-sale off assets to pay the principle on these bonds or face a technical default.

Covenants on their other bonds mean that if the corporation defaults on any of their bonds, all of the bonds become callable. It is 110% not good to have any major corporation go into a technical default. We are talking about companies which have plenty of assets and strong businesses.

Thus the Fed and US Government are/should be acting to avoid any such rapid deleverage. It took Japan 2 decades to reduce leverage in the corporations. Without intervention the US could undergo this same deleveraging in a matter of months. It would throw the American people into such a deep poverty the likes of which we've not seen since the great depression.

Which is to say: these bailouts are going to happen. No one who understands what is at stack would choose to "let the house fall".
In fact they grab your whole contact list, and according to the updated policy, they share it with the other Facebook Companies. So even if you refuse to use the app, it's still very likely that your contact information will end up on their servers because you're friends are probably using the app.
> I'd change to Signal or Telegram in a heartbeat, but the inertia is so great it's not possible.

It has to start somewhere. It is possible, but it takes will, and the acceptance that you will lose some contacts.
Good point.

To kind of latch onto what you said, I'd say that there is 60% of those 74 million who would have benefited from a Twitter ban which was well justified. They are more on the fence and can be persuaded by the tides of big business and what seems like an over reaction on their part. The 40% are probably hopelessly convinced of anything that Republicans say.
can you list any you can think of please?
Using the phrase "is what he says he is" to describe a politician who admitted to lying during an interview on a major nightly news program strikes me as a rather creative interpretation of reality.

Luckily for him actually being honest and consistent is an absolute irrelevance, all he needs to do is give the appearance of being a straight up guy.
I was talking purely from personal preference, but would be interested to know if there were any studies done on this.

Widescreen movies on a 4:3 aspect TV always use black edges, but maybe that's just tradition or to do with contrast or something like that.

EDIT: Just noticed that HN has a grey content area with white around the edges, which I like, so maybe my preference is more to do with having different colour sides than dark sides - i.e. some kind of boundary to the content area.
Seems to make it more readable. As well, some quick Google searching turns up studies and opinions that it is most readable around 130% of the font size.
It doesn't universally solve the problem, but a given platform or website might be able to make changes to rewrite links to include the archive.org prefix to make them functional again.

Still requires work, but perhaps a tiny step in making them somewhat accessible again.