jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A steady forward trend of progress seems quite reasonable. As long as you are not the one who was on the receiving end of past injustice.

In basketball, if someone gets fouled while trying to make a shot, is it unfair that everyone has to stand back while the person fouled gets to shoot free throws just because they are wearing the same color uniform?

It would be great if we could leave race out of the equation when trying to right past wrongs. Unfortunately, when a past wrong was committed based solely on race, given limited resources, the remedy likely needs to be based on race as well.
Advanced tactile feedback technology!
But that same technology is also available for nickel based batteries. So the relative performance doesn't change when comparing chemistry.
Does anyone know what theme he's using?
Some of the features have sizes comparable to the wavelength of visible light. I would be very, very surprised if you could see clearly through a surface patterned like this.
>In short: you know too much. These salaries are taken by fresh college grads who don't know better, and think the adventure of "a startup" is better than working for a larger company (it can be, but there's no guarantee).

While you are right, you make it sound like $90K is underpaid for someone right out of college. $90K is pretty good for a promising kid with a fresh degree but no real experience. More than fair; they are unlikely to get much more at a real company. It's kinda silly for someone with 10+ years experience, but those 10+ years are worth something.
I only see a black bordered box. I'm on WinXP and latest dev channel chrome. Am I missing something?
Seeing this puts most objectivist / libertarian arguments in a new light. I can certainly see how they're hot under the collar about government regulation and how it creates unfair market places. That said, I'm still far from convinced that an unregulated market is the answer.
Not sure that's better than the Wiki article, but the PostGIS mention is really handy if you're generalizing data for maps or to make paths from GPS data.

Protip: If you set the epsilon low enough, the PostGIS implementation has a good chance of repairing invalid geometries, even when ArcInfo can't.
Once you have VC's, are really raising money, have advisors, this is definitely the place to be. That doesn't mean you can't ever leave, or work in other places from time to time. If you absolutely hate it in the area, your product will suffer. If you also like to bounce around sometimes, and are very productive, you should do it. Bring your co-founders with you. Make sure they have the same mindset of working in different areas.

That being said, have a headquarter. Probably in Silicon Valley. Be a resident in the bay area. But by all means, don't subject yourself to never working elsewhere.
One solution that comes to mind for this is for CDN's to have an edge node just outside of the great firewall of China. Even with a simple edge side include, the impact on Github's servers should be near zero.
What about using a mini-pc with a TV tuner to bypass your TV software???
I do not understand your last sentence.

Internal TLDs are "free" in the sense that they are not registed with IANA.
FWIW, I recently bought a 50" Acer monitor [0] I use for all my viewing needs. There is a Google Chromecast and a Mac Mini hooked up to it; previously I also had an Amazon Fire stick (not needed any more since Google allowed casting from Amazon apps) and a Raspberry Py (I was never really able to find a good use for it, so I removed it). I don't watch live TV, so I don't need a tuner.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-EB490QKbmiiipx-Monitor-Black-P...
I think you'd have a fairly good case that you could not be held liable for for injury that occurred on an easement (actually, scratch that, I changed my mind and IANAL... given that an easement is non-possessive, you still own the property... but at what level are you required to make it safe?)
Presumably that means a built-to-order SoC that is mostly Intel parts with some Amazon special ingredients. I believe Sony & Microsoft have similar deals with the chips in their game consoles.
We suggest you be your own VPN: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1221503813/protect-your...
The service is ran by CrowdSource, who uses Mechanical Turk to divvy out the task of responding to texts at a very small rate. So, it is a lot cheaper.
Quantum Mechanics includes special relativity.
i think skip the outrage and kick the cops, thieves and scammers and pedos off the internet.
> But Deep-SCINI also encountered... a handful of other marine invertebrates that the team has so far declined to describe.

Why would they decline to describe some animal? That's an odd way to put it.

The only reason I know that deep sea ecosystems are considered sensitive is if the presence of species suggests oil. E.g., diatom fossils.
And folks are apparently already hacking their in-cabin sounds to sound like higher-performance models! (cf. http://jalopnik.com/someone-hacked-their-bmw-m135i-to-sound-... )
You are entitled to your opinion but try to keep in mind that you are describing three milestones in an evolutionary process. These are performers who are in every sense building off of the work of the one before them. You are outlining the construction of a machine that began with Stewert in 1999, Colbert in 2005 and then Oliver in 2014. A machine with elements from 1999 that don't work as well anymore and elements from 2014 that wouldn't have fit in 1999.
I'm pretty sure something similar could be done with shell history logs.
If it is immutable from the client’s perspective, it’s immutable. Anything else is ill-defined.
Not at all the same as Tesla.

Tesla expects you to use its product on the road and expects it to work within the constraints they tell you with you also paying attention.
I never visit Twitter normally, so when I actually click an
interesting link I always land in a 5-10 tweet chain that should
have been a short blog post.

But somehow people put up with it and rather use external web
services that automatically compile tweets into continuous text.
There are no technological obstacles per se, but it will increase the rate which the size of the blockchain grows.

It's true miners have obstructed attempts to make these kind of changes but they don't control the price of Bitcoin. If market demand for a higher transaction rate becomes great enough and they don't adapt, then another coin with bigger blocks will simply outcompete Bitcoin.
> YouTube creates a different kind of relationship between viewer and content creator, one that's particularly intimate and consequently persuasive.

It may, but should that relationship be enforced? Letting well-backed productions get away with not disclosing while the less well-backed have extra rules they have to follow is just favoring incumbents. It's similar to the discussion surrounding "real journalism" and bloggers/youtubers.
They're just not that exciting, to be honest, in a way they're the SAP of the 21st century. Their HQs are just a block away from where I write this comment, I have a former work colleague who works for them as a director of development or some such, but for me as a HN-er it very rarely crossed my mind to want to work for them.

To be honest I have close, non-IT friends working in the corporate world who are scared of UIPath and what it could mean for their jobs going forward, but, again, those friends are not HN-ers.
Does OS X' swappiness affect performance?
Single data point (me):

The pains of switching were greatly exaggerated in my head.

First you get a good base: Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora (?), etc.

You may have to spend a few hours sorting out drivers. I personally haven't had to do so for ages.

Then you ditch Unity (or $default) and try out a few window managers until you find what you like.

Then you "fix it" by customising away your annoyances and tailor it to your workflow.

I'm too tired to re-write this to sound less preachy - so downvotes are welcome - but I was a diehard OSX (up to 10.6) user until I put my toe in the Linux pool. I was expecting it to be freezing and "braced for impact", but actually, it was quite warm and inviting.

Exception: If need OS X apps, your path may be met with more friction. If there's a Windows equivalent to the OS X app, give Wine a try (Windows Emulator) - I keep hearing about how it gives people grief, but as far as I've seen, even my (distinctly non-technical) mother has installed and used small Windows applications without a glitch (or even realising that she is running Windows applications on her Mint). I think I read about some Mac-wine kind of thing, but not sure how mature it is - Google will help you.

To borrow a slogan: Just do it. You may be as surprised as I was.
I did the same last year. 2 weeks and I moved my life out of the Apple ecosystem to Win 7/android. It's nice to feel happy to sit at a computer again and have everything just work and feel mine again.

I recommend you look at your options and consider the same.
The reason--the only reason--I'm seriously considering upgrading from 10.6 is that new programs increasingly don't support it anymore. I download a simple little helper app and it says "The program requires OS X 10.8 or higher."

My best guess is that programmers build with the latest libraries, and the latest libraries require the latest OS version. If the dev is running on the latest version, it never crosses his mind to do otherwise.
Listening to the Reply All, it sounds like that app requires explicit consent from the patient. That's pretty different from what happened here.
That's the concept. The implementation can't distinguish between 'fairly large minorities' and 'large amount of wealth', nor can it distinguish between 'intense' and 'extreme.'

Or non-primitive recursive! I just invented the AV (Ackermann-Function-Voting)!

Honestly I don't see how it's an improvement at all to turn votes into a commodity nor how one would balance the conceptual idea of 'giving rights to a minority with intense preferences' (picking a function that grows relatively slowly) against the threat of 'giving control to a wealthy minority with malicious aims' (picking a function that grows extremely quickly). And as far as I can tell it's pretty much impossible to do real world case studies with to get empirical data without putting some very fundamental things in jeopardy.
Uh-oh, looks like I made a mistake. I get the same behavior on Chrome on Windows too.
Why choose any one operating system at all?

It's pretty tough to a buy a run of the mill laptop (as I do every few years) without Windows pre-installed.

I have been triple booting Windows, Ubuntu, and Arch linux all from the same laptop for the past few years now and loving it.

Windows is great when I need stuff to "just work". For example, when I want to quickly plug my laptop into the hdmi cable to watch a movie in better quality on my TV. Or if I need to quickly print out something on a random printer the plug and play features built into windows are amazing.

I spend most of my time using Arch Linux, with Ubuntu being my fallback if I really run into trouble (Arch can be... finicky. But I wouldn't use anything else.) with what I am trying to do with linux.

I would probably have OS X on there too if it came for free with my laptop purchase to be honest.

With an SSD Hard Drive any operating system you desire is only a reboot and 15 seconds away. So why choose?
I'm not going to turn in the theif. It is enough to know that people will steal.

(The difference here being that in one case the government is the judge/jury/executioner and in the other it is the realm of public opinion.)
This is really interesting, because in many cases these employees go many, many without being able to sell any of their stock. One thing stuck out to me, though:

"Terms of the deal call for Mr. Ballenegger to pay back the money if Chartboost goes public or is sold"

So if the company is acquired for less than the valuation made when he established the transaction with the derivative seller, he'd be up shit creek, no?
I think if anything, this type of arrangement will only increase.

it won't be long until this gets securitized so you can buy a basket of pre-ipo stocks that are at the mezzanine level of funding.

Employee's get to take a bit of risk off of the table, investors get to buy into pre-ipo stocks.

As long as we can create a suitable vehicle to get around the share holder limit, and I'm pretty sure this is a well researched area, I can't see how this doesn't become another securitized product.

If the alternatives are private secondary markets or employee's being locked up util the company chooses to go public then this seems like a clear win.

This fixes one of the biggest problem with valuing startups. Right now startup valuations are high because, just like free agent sports stars, you only need one person to cut you a check for the valuation you want. Meaning, even if everyone else thinks you are extremely over priced you still get the valuation/money due to the one rogue investor/owner. This has the effect of pushing valuation only upward.

Imagine an ETF that pools shares in pre ipo stocks. Now you can take the positions that the unicorns are over priced and short them. This should give us much better insight into what the entire market thinks these startups are worth.

EDIT as pointed out, companies may change their option plans to counter this, I disagree that this will happen in a meaningful way. I think the good companies to work for won't and the bad companies will be left with the choice of hiring only people who can't get better jobs or following along.

30 years ago stock options for everyone wasn't common. 10 years ago, perks like free food weren't that common. Eventually if people are hard to find, companies come around.

You could be right that this will never fly, but I'm betting on the good companies dragging the rest of them along.
I've never had a chromebook. How bad is it? What if I just want to browse the web and watch hulu, netflix, and youtube?
Are you willing to bet it's an April Fools' joke? If you're not willing to bet, you don't really believe in it. I'll wager $200 against your $20 that it's not an April Fool's joke.

Before you give me your money, consider:

* You can have as many buttons as you want. They want you to have as many buttons as you can have. They have hooks and adhesive, which means you can basically have a button physically on every product that needs to be replaced. Your toilet paper holder can have a button. Your shower can have a button for shampoo and conditioner. Your mirror can have five buttons on it. Personally, I would fucking love for my house to be covered with buttons that I can just push to get things sent to me. That's the future I want.

* The button generates a notification on your phone and doesn't respond to subsequent presses, so you can cancel the order on your phone if your kids press the button. But the real solution here is to not have children. The world is overpopulated enough, and with the money you save by not having kids, you can just get more stuff from amazon. Which would you rather have: A new gaming PC, iPad, and iPhone every year, or some brat that won't appreciate you, won't call you more than once a month after you spend the best years of your life trying to raise them into a halfway decent person and failing because their snot-nosed friends ruin them, and keeps asking for money? The choice is obvious.
It has shown most problems of interest to us can't be adequately solved with computers. They can give us some suboptimal solutions, which can be useful, but do not live up to the expectations for the IT field.

See the No Free Lunch Theorem.
Indeed. I'm wondering if the parent attack somehow bypasses open file hard limits.
That's awesome feedback, thanks! I agree with pretty much everything - my plan is to have a lot more on the site (which is based on a theme I bought), but I also wanted to release early and iterate.

Sounds like I have some iterating to do, but it's nice to be busy :)
Also notice that "Titan" made some wonderful DVDs of amiga demos and game compilations. He's a great Amiga specialist (he wrote some well known games on the platform back in the time, too IIRC).
This isn't just about US foreign policy. Let's take a different example that removes the interventionist "bad smell" of the NK example. Let's talk peace.

E.g. Imagine A and B want to negotiate a peace treaty. They represent large and diverse constituencies. Officially, they're not talking to each other -- there is ongoing violence, and hard-liners in both the A camp and the B camp will replace the A or B negotiators if they are deemed to be too soft.

So, there's a secret summit of A and B negotiators. Publicly, neither side can budge. However, because the talks are secret, the negotiators are free to make initial concessions to get the ball rolling.

How could making those talks public possibly be a good thing? It might actually scuttle peace and result in more violence.

It's easy for rogue elements to spoil a sensitive negotiation. There is a real need for secrecy in order to have productive negotiations on sensitive topics.
This is awesome. Zynga has data mined their users for value and Brian mined their game for the insights they gained. The links between the sharing-creates-personal-value mechanism and virality becomes really clear when someone describes the game this way.
Perhaps, but creating enemies of the US does more to damage its citizens than it does the government.
The vintage animal pictures are from iStockphoto, but yes, I asked Colly where he got his animal pictures - he directed me to iStockphoto.
The author wasn't really talking of academia on its own but rather how well academics transition to industry.

It does seem the author's description fits recent phd's better than experienced academics for the two points you refer to.

I don't know that "amateur" is the right word for someone who just graduated. They should have been trained to be a legitimate world-class researcher, despite their possible inexperience in the others sides of tenure-track jobs specifically. Unless you're suggesting they leave but still dabble in academic research on the side or something.
Most billionaires don't own their wealth in money. It's stock and real estate.

Therefore are you advocating that no one person should be allowed to control a large company or own large houses?
The problem is stunningly difficult and widely believed (but not proven) to be intractable.

However, there's good work advancing the state of the art in this field. Look at Object Role Modelling implementations like ActiveFacts ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ActiveFacts ).
Plz n00b, http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fdi/wayfinding-sans-pro/

;)
Selling on a $5 price for quiz question seems much more than I expected.

After all, its free material all over the internet.

Dont really expect to learn anything from a quiz, but to remind of things.

To be honest, I was quite surprised it is "Paid App".
In the vaguest sense. But as an adjective with no modifier, it implies "of everyone". Does that seem appropriate here?
"However, the whole point of object encapsulation is to provide that independence, right? ...the issue is how that independence of interface is maintained."

OK, a different way to put it is that the relational model provide one kind of independence and object orientation provides another. The way that a foreign key column is not OO encapsulated but does reference a different column allows SQL expressions that aren't dependent on which value is the "real" value.

"you can bridge them by creating stable, defined interfaces"

Yes you can. At any one point in the development of an application, you can pick a mapping and say "no problem", this is true.

The problem is that if you develop an application further, have an object return an object instead of a value say, then the problem of how to change you mapping to reflect the development is hard, harder than one would think. It's not the snap that's hard, it's the evolving application that uses OO and relational models that becomes weirdly hard, where the "impedance mismatch" become evident.
And the code itself can be found at: https://github.com/MSOpenTech/vagrant/

Have had a quick look, and hopefully will get the chance to install and use it soon. It appears they are shelling out to Powershell scripts to do the heavy lifting, which means this needs to be run on the Windows box that is the Hyper-V server (Hyper-V is included in Windows 8 desktop as well). While thats kind of expected and certainly the easiest path, it would be great if they implemented a Ruby WMI client (or Powershell remoting client?) that could interact with the Hyper-V API directly.
My first guess is that he's passing current over his skin, by touching a power source. The switch has a simple transmitter that turns it on and off.
Thanks much. This is helpful for me.
You can find most relevant talks on youtube.
I didn't really read it that way. I read it more like treat people with respect, don't force them to create work that is a nice or should when they should be relaxing... but people who love their job will be happy to go the extra mile, work weekends, etc when there are Must or Mission Critical things that need to get done.
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Then there was NoRedInk.

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Of course! Thanks - great tip.
The sooner people actually ask me for money instead of force me to be brainwashed by people selling sugar water, the better.
> Keeping the profits trending upwards is his job and he seems to have pulled it off despite a lack of true technological innovation.

That statement is truly worrying. There is no such thing as a healthy tech business if all you're doing is 'keeping profits trending upwards despite a lack of true technological innovation.' It's too risky, and it's dangerous precisely because it's so comfortable.

If experience is anything to go by, Microsoft may well turn out to be the next IBM: large, profitable, and irrelevant.
There are still questions to the morality and legality of ad blocking in respect to copyright law I'd imagine.

Personally I could give a crap. ;)
I didn't mean to suggest that it would be a good thing :) That's the point—it's a parasitic corner-case of the rules, and should probably be patched up somehow.
Yes... exactly.
Chrome and Firefox have a plugin architecture and don't have ad block built-in as shipped. Huge difference there.

(On a sidenote I'm still using Firefox over Chrome as Firefox is still the superior adblock platform. ;)
Did The Onion buy a new domain name?
Wasn't Ars the site that was whining at it's readers about how adblocking screws them? It would fit in with their previous complaints.
I wonder if apple could use this to get out of the exclusive deal without penalties?
Yes, my comment is very specific to the US.