jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals."

-Ben Bernanke, circa 2005.

I couldn't help myself. I really admire Sam and the current tech bubble(if there is one) is nothing like the credit crisis. Funds existed in 2008 whose sole investment strategy was to buy the opposing side of credit default swaps just so the bears had something to buy. Just wanted to poke fun :P
True, and overall China has little arable land and comparatively even less woodlands.

In Beijing, there are some thujas (cypress-like trees) around but I agree that Beijing winter is not very colourful. And the yellow wind (i.e. sandstorm from Gobi) that you're about to get there just now isn't nice either, despite being a natural phenomenon.
Doesn't that counter argument amount to "but it's easy, and tempting"?
So John Doerr, a venture capitalist, "lost" an impromtu argument at a Web 2.0 Summit and this is supposed to mean that Google and Facebook don't innovate?

This is a really weak submission.
What is it that any of these stores offer that the browser doesn't? Could we (as an industry) focus on fixing those things, so that we can have an open standard to develop apps across all devices, but at the same time take full advantage of whatever the hardware offers? Which version of HTML is going to support the multiple cameras that are (or soon will be) present on most of the high-end phones sold?

Making software for full-featured mobile devices that degrades gracefully for those with less features is a hard problem, but a very real one for phone developers. The iPhone isn't going to be the extensively polished de facto monopoly Apple dreamed it would be. Developers do want to write cross-platform applications (and no, Adobe doesn't have the right talent to write a solid "higher order platform").
Maybe the paper-cnc machine cricut? http://www.cricut.com/ .

It's an awesome device that's locked up into buying cartridges that are basically little disks of svg files. These cartridges cost about $60 a piece, but scrap-booking moms pay for them because they don't know any better.
Thanks for the links, especially Amy Jo. I read her book, "Community Building on the Web", and it is an excellent read (still relevant - written in 2000).
What's wrong with green text on black backgrounds? That is how I have always had my terminal configured. I think that may be because that is what I became comfortable with on my VIC-20.
A better test to see if IE9 is cheating is to remove/rearrange code and rename variables. I'd avoid changing operators. Adding a 'true;' or 'return;' may seem harmless, but if their analysis is fragile they may just throw as "may have side-effects" on those statements or (in the case of the 'return;') it may not do liveness analysis on the other side of the block.

This code (taken from this thread) seems like a good test:

function numNumNum() {
var I;
var num = 10;
for (I = 0; I < 10; I++) {
num = num * num * num * num * num % num;
}
}

Except it uses two new operators: '*' and '%'. Test the same code using '+' and '-'.

This will give a much better idea of it the analysis is just fragile or if this code was being targeted.
It is "qsort.m" which provides the context for understanding the icon below it. However, the icon isn't more representative of a quick sort than a bucket sort or a bubble sort. It's simply an arbitrary mapping of a textual token (qsort) to a graphic token (example of arbitrariness is that lighter colors on top maps to lowest values to the left).

The arbitrariness of the mapping between text tokens and graphic tokens quickly increases beyond convention the ability to establish a convention (example: "Number of cheeseburgers shipped from Peoria to Toledo last month."
What investors of Kayak and Hipmunk must be thinking about Google buying ITA Software? I mean Google is going to become the provider of flights data and at the same time a competitor.
Many U.S. cities have historically granted right of way (to run cables) to one "phone" company and one "cable" company. In my area, we have AT&T and Comcast. It's up to the cities to allow more competitors, and many are unwilling to do that (or unable, if they have long-term agreements with the existing carriers).

It's a classic case of public policy lagging behind technology, with politicians having no concern for technological progress and free market principles, unwisely entering into long-term agreements with telecom companies.
They're all just ground up peanuts, right? Some brands have an emulsifier to avoid separation. Big brands add a little bit a sugar.

Have you tried making your own and adding a sweetner? Easily made with a food processor.
The Azores. They're virtually unknown here in the US, but they look like a nice place to take a vacation.
This is likely a net good for the consumer, since it nominally lowers costs, increases reliability, and reduces time to delivery. However, there is an antitrust risk of monopolization. It's a case in which Amazon, the producer and the consumer have aligned interests, until Amazon turns around and screws everyone who have become dependent. Undercapitalized niche middle men still running on ancient oasis merchant middle man business models are the immediate losers. Bezos, the Genghis Khan of the internet, famously states Your margin is my opportunity. If you are an importer I'd recommend obtaining both exclusivity and patents or running scared.
I think you need to accept that your own momentary satisfaction / alleviation of boredom doesn't outweigh the harm done to victims of crime. You'll be tempted to rationalize it, but you shouldn't. Instead, learn to live with discomfort. This should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wdsJayLhnM
> Plus, they remember their history, like outsiders toppling their democratic leader, because he was getting too "socialist", and establising a lackey into power to play the king.

If by "they" you mean the IR, they were and are (though nowadays they are more undecided) opposed to Mosadegh. (Check out what streets are in his name. The IR reveals who they favor quite accurately in their naming scheme.). The people mostly don't care that much about Mosadegh, as the school history books are written by the IR, and Mosadegh is not painted all that well. Most Iranians also hate communists now (communism has long since been out of the overton window).

> Or outsiders funding their neighborhood country to go into war with them, praising their leadership, and then come back a decade later, do a u-turn, to invade them, hang their leader that were their ex-allies, and occupy the country (that thet turned into a civil war hell-zone).

A war which brought a lot of power to the IR and especially the Guards. A war that the IR itself protracted for years, perhaps because they were gathering power and clueless, fungible young people were dying, which was quite cheap. Their domestic strategy ever since has been to give merits to a minority that follows their orders, and crush their opposition thoroughly by any means necessary.
I will not test this, as I don't want to give valid phone numbers to Facebook.

If what you are saying is true, then OK. I was making my statement under the assumption that Facebook would indeed show profile picture and name, which then would be a violation of GDPR confidentiality and consent principles.
I stopped using Google Photos after a bug I experienced few years ago when I configured my phone to upload everything to Photos and remove local copies:
I knew photos are not exact copy and will be kept up to a certain resolution, yet some photos, due to network fault I believe, appeared on Photos as a tiny pixelated copy of the original copy. The pixelated images were probably a result of a interlaced progressive compression. The main problem for me was that client removed the local copy thus costing me few dozens photos forever lost.
The Dos & Windows Configuration Manager... if I remember correctly bridged the gap between DOS and Plug ‘n’ Play (or Pray) functionality.

If one were not touched by good fortune whilst specifying, assembling, and configuring one’s system, then one might reasonably expect interact much too often with this obscure system component.

(Kind of like mDNSResponder on OS X.)
Ah, it's quite simple using pdfpages.
> Alternatively, don't commit passwords/API-keys/sensitive-info to your repo.

This is, of course, the right answer.

However, it's frustrating that several frameworks make this very easy to get wrong. Anything that has an application.yml, database.yml, or similar configuration file that normally lives within the same directory as the source code, and which is intended to contain credentials, means that lots of people will make that mistake.

It's one of the fundamental errors that you see so often in web frameworks like Rails, this whole idea of mixing application code and configuration files into one big tree. I don't know how this practice caught on, but it has, and it so frequently causes mistakes, both big ones like accidentally publishing credentials, and simply frustrating ones like confusing the difference between application code and configuration in ways that make it more difficult to have multiple local configurations and updating the application code independently.
I am not from Germany, but I seem to remember reading that the GEMA licensing is mandatory even for bands that give their music away for free. Can anyone clarify if that's the case?
what is the issue with CAcert?
Did the US have a right to intervene in the Vietnam civil war, on behalf of the South, with the South's permission?

The North was the exact opposite of innocent. They ended up with even more blood on their hands than the Americans (and French and British) that should have never been there.

In the big picture, the US military ordered the killing of North Vietnamese soldiers that were part of a plan to see South Vietnam conquered by any means necessary so a Communist regime could be installed across the whole of Vietnam. The North was an extraordinarily brutal regime, hell bent on military conquest, and murdering anyone that tried to stop them from achieving the acquisition of the South under their ideology. How about we not pretend they were innocent, passive, peaceful, freedom loving peoples that just wanted a unified progressive democracy for all of Vietnam.

It was little different from what happened in Korea, except thankfully the US stopped the North from slaughtering South Korea and installing a dictatorship there.
All I am saying is it does not matter. I may be unethical, a criminal or immoral - but unless the three constraints to consume content legally are removed, I will do the wrong thing.
"Here’s how it’s going to work. You pay $25 a month and every month you get a book in the mail that hasn’t been released yet. You’re invited to a moderated online discussion with the author at the end of the month which we’ll edit and run on The Rumpus as a feature article. You can also write a review of the book and we’ll run the best written review on the website. You don’t have to participate in the discussion or review the book, you could just subscribe to receive a new, unpublished book every month."
I think the point was that Agee, like Silk, didn't consider the possibility of misinterpretation. I'm sure if he did consider it, he would have dismissed it as remote. Even so, the ambiguity of the term was current in the 70s, and Agee, given his profession, probably was aware of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (book, 69; movie 73) about a black agent, the title playing on the ambiguity. The Human Stain came out 16 yrs after Agee's article.
Leave-behind decks are for when the deliverable is the deck. It can be a useful tool for the company because the content is conveying information that they need for whatever project their working on. While working for a consulting firm, I did a marketing analysis for a grocery chain--it was a 150 slide deck packed with data about each of their geographies. It's something they'll refer to hundreds of times in the future.

As entrepreneurs, we're rarely delivering data in this way. it's usually our job to distill all the potential data points down to the 1 or 2 most important.

It comes down to whether you're persuading or informing. For persuasion, Tufte>MBA every time.
I don't really have much of a dog in this fight one way or the other (nor, for that matter, did I up- or down-vote either of you) - but I'm sort of getting a bit of a tickle in my irony bone from personally insulting someone repeatedly for having different priorities than you ("pathetically arrogant", "narcissistic", etc.), in an attempt to argue that they should be less judgmental.
But good SEO is mostly easy, common-sense techniques that don't change very often

This is sort of like saying "good programming is mostly easy, common-sense techniques that don't change very often", and since programming is a solved problem, anybody willing to pay a lot of money for programmers is clearly getting something hinky done.

Programming is not a solved problem. Neither is marketing. SEO exists at the intersection of programming and marketing. Every site and every business brings their own unique challenges to the mix, and they're not all addressable with "Slap some alt tags on those images and you're good to go", any more than you can solve any programming problem with "Rewrite it... with more AJAX!"

SEO for many startups will involve, among other considerations, "How do we convince our users to create? How do we convince our users to share?" Those are core product/marketing questions for many startups, but they're equally core to the SEO strategy, and they're tricky to get right. For that sort of startup, you could imagine someone looking over their widget's viral activity with the amount of intensity that Zynga spends on its viral channels, because sharing via the widget creates several types of value for the company (via direct traffic, branding, and ranking effects).
Blake,

Thanks for following up. My personal email address is indexed, but is nowhere else on the internet. Shoot me an email at hi@corywatilo.com and I'll give you the address.
Research shows that business schools do not contribute to business success: http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp

From "The End of Business Schools?: Less Success Than Meets the Eye" by Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford University) and Christina T. Fong (University of Washington):

"Although business school enrollments have soared and business education has become big business, surprisingly little evaluation of the impact of business schools on either their graduates or the profession of management exists. What data there are suggest that business schools are not very effective: Neither possessing an MBA degree nor grades earned in courses correlate with career success, results that question the effectiveness of schools in preparing their students. And, there is little evidence that business school research is influential on management practice, calling into question the professional relevance of management scholarship."

Far better to skip the MBA and teach yourself. Better results, and far less debt.
Fair points.

We're working to figure out what works and provide software to message that and help businesses optimize. It's not just for search engines (we try to help with, for example, how/why people retweet, link, share content, "like" on FB, etc), but the point is a reasonable one; optimizing against existing systems vs. creating something new may be part of the issue.

Thanks for sharing, Brian.
Again, it's not about a formula. I can't say "X for y minutes will yield z."

Exercises that don't require any weights are pull-ups, dips, squats (with no load, obviously), burpees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4H92emcabA ; harder than you think). All of these exercises will increase your strength at first, but eventually it'll just increase your conditioning. That is, once you're at the point that you can do, say, three pull-ups, being able to do more pull-ups won't add any muscle mass. It'll increase your conditioning (your body's ability to continue doing something), which is good, but you won't put on weight.

Really, if you want to add muscle mass, you need to lift heavy things.

Also, I have to agree that if you are indeed 6 foot, 125 pounds is startlingly thin. Have you ever had a doctor check if you have, perhaps, a hormonal problem that makes it difficult to keep weight on?
This was specifically a discussion of the impact of purposefully breaking a strict interpretation of a POSIX API, though. They looked at where it was used, which is appropriate.
gee i wonder what company that would help...
// Out of curiosity, what niche does Linkedin fill for your day-to-day work?

Not the original poster but I'll take a stab:

Someone says "I know a guy you may be interested for your team." Guess what the first thing I do is?

I have a meeting with someone (internal or external) that I hadn't met yet. Guess what I look up before I meet them?

Who do I know who works at Bank of America (or whatever.) Guess where I can find an answer in two seconds?

If you life doesn't involve meeting/evaluating/finding people then I guess you don't need LI. But really - you can go through your whole work life and not be interested in the professional background of people you are meeting etc?
I think "defer" is coming [1], along with other goodies that simplified the life of C++ developers, but time will tell.

I really hope they approve the following:

* auto
* constexpr
* lambda function
* __typeof__ used as typeof; it behaves like decltype

It would lead to cleaner code without excessive macro magic; only where would be needed.

[1] https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-f...
Eat our lunch? They already had dinner and dessert. Public urban transit in tier 1&2 cities is world class.

In 2014, Shanghai began line 17 construction and opened the line with 13 stations by 2017.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_17_(Shanghai_Metro)

In 2014, Washington DC started the 6 station silver line extension(phase 2) to connect to the airport at Dulles and it's still not done.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Line_(Washington_Metr...

As for passenger trains, the US is not even a contender. https://youtu.be/0JDoll8OEFE
“Tie your camel and trust in God.” - Prophet Muhammad
You're Beej?! I learned all about socket programming from your guide, back in high school. In college, during a group project, none of us had taken a networking class yet, but I was armed with your guide and I pushed us to make a networked game. It was a great experience, the game worked well, and the networking teacher was brought in to take a look (he was impressed!).

Thank you so much for your time. I hope you realize how useful it's been.
That isn't much of a solution if you do business in the foreign country whose requirements are being circumvented.
No it’s a cognitive framing thing. The concept is to make a toddlers tumbles into not a big deal for them. I think it is also in part an overreaction to the common “oh you poor baby” response which is thought to encourage children to be upset when they fall. I favor the Montessori guide approach of observing|ignoring and giving a kid a chance to make up their own mind to ask for help or deal with it themselves. The optimal approach probably depends on the kid.
Not even sure where to start with this level of elitism, but Elon Musk is certainly an expert in batteries, automotive production, rocketry and telemetry, and financial services all at once and not just a brand.

The kind of sentiment you are expressing is directly antithetical to having any kind of real democracy.

If you've ever met the people in power, many of them are quite dumb. It's easy to listen to experts (or not) and give commands. How often do you hear that executives don't know what's happening in their companies but the people on the line know exactly what to do but were not consulted seriously?

To answer your question about airline pilots, I would probably accept (and in fact do, the FAA) a system designed by what is allegedly a democracy. Usually people don't have direct popular elections for technical positions, but design rules in consultation with people familiar with the field. If the voters were in fact other airline personnel, a direct election could be viable though I would require some qualifying criteria (e.g. people with XXXX hours of flight time).
Texas S owner here, people are still getting their cars here despite these restrictions. Here is a pic from May of last year when I picked up mine. Most of these cars are being prepped for their owners. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13941904/cars/teslas.jpg

It makes buying more cumbersome and we paid 20% down on something we never seen or even driven a test model. I also was not able to put TX sales tax into my loan and had to pay the lump sum when registering the vehicle here.

Keep in mind you can now see the S at the service center and take it for a test drive but you need to make an appointment. The problem is they can't (or not supposed to) help you with buying or financing there, you have to do it over the phone and on the website.
> After recent payment-card data breaches, including one at U.S. retailer Target, credit card companies stressed that consumers bear little risk because they are refunded rapidly for fraud losses.

This is not exactly the case -- the amount needed to pay the fraud detection services will surely be passed on to the credit card users in the form of higher APRs.

These days I'm wondering how to go about changing my Internet to a new, secure one, where there are no financial predators.
Calling the media companies "outdated monopolies" is the height of absurdity. It's ridiculously easy to compete with the media companies: just film in digital, process in digital, and put up content on P2P and charge in Bitcoin. There is nothing stopping you from doing that today.
In that case your situation is different because you're complaining about how they attempt to limit you after you bought their product. You have valid complaints. Almost all complaints on the pro-piracy side are not valid.
I wouldn't feel comfortable using a shotgun. I'd use one of those net throwing guns instead.
> support requests from people who'd lost the email containing their tickets

"Losing email" is a problem completely distinct from the UX question. Since "losing email" is more-or-less impossible in year 2015, it isn't a reason to force people to make accounts. There are other ways to deal with this problem.
The problem with the military is that it has unlimited downside. You're literally giving up your freedom. I don't really think western armies experience the realities of war either, at least not to the extent of their opponents.

I think pretty much anything you can do in the military you can do better in civilian life, you just have to be a bit creative. You rarely hear about it though, because no one is trying to recruit people for it. Here's kind of one example though: http://www.theamphour.com/220-an-interview-with-shaun-meehan...
> If, on appropriate occasions, the members tell, enjoy, trade, and/or devise transgressively funny jokes about their denomination, it's a church.

> If such jokes reliably meet with stifling social disapproval, it's a cult.

An interesting definition I totally disagree with. It's the social disapproval that turned any of us into geeks, and guess what - I personally like it that way. Society approves mostly things that are pointless or boring anyway. An example: why do you think HN guidelines advocate against posting mainstream news?
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