jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's good news. Recently I've been unhappy with the amount of spam in Google search results, so I switched to DDG and it's been great so far. I've started to recommend it to others. It's also surprisingly good with finding German websites. Even shows the zero-click boxes for many German things. Better design would be great though.
It would be wonderful if someone more familiar with Perl 6 could give a code break-down of what is going on.
Don't forget Eli: http://eliweinberg.com/father-sonin

While it is true I'm still the only one full time, I would be remiss to not highlight that there are many people who are helping out. We have a great community at http://duck.co/ as well as some great official and third party tools largely not written by me: http://duckduckgo.com/tools.html

Also, I've started to work with a great designer on further improving the search UX.
I am currently sitting at a Honda dealership in Los Angeles, just talked to a salesman.

Info:

- ~25 new cars on the lot compared to 200+ before shortages. He said they have a good amount of used cars. Funny enough 15 minutes after they took my car they call me and ask if I want to sell my car to them!

- Lease prices are double what they were 2 years ago when I looked. Specifically Civic sedans were ~$250/month with $3k down but now are closer to $600!

- $5k over MSRP on everything which they say "can be worked on" but that seems to be the current standard. I went to Subaru few months back and it was the same.

- For financing, manager said around 3.9% interest is around the lowest they do in-house (assuming max perfect credit). Not sure what auto loans are like with big banks at the moment.

So until shortages normalize buying a new car is just not a wise financial decision (at least for me). $30k+ for a Honda is just pretty bad. With $700/month to finance I'd rather get a Model 3. With gas prices and the $800 maintenance I'm paying just for today it's looking like a good option.

If anyone is interested in current maintenance cost breakdown on my Civic w/ 60k miles I will update this post when i get my bill in an hour or so ballpark $800 total.
I know you're just being funny, but go check out this page on the [Underwood typewriter](http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/underwood5.html)
I feel ag (silver surfer, a grep-ish alternative) should be mentioned (even though he dropped it in his final awk/mawk commands) as it tends to be much faster than grep, and considering he cites performance throughout.
Certainly having the ability to read all messages is not built with the intention that we will find a message from the chief of ISIS emailing his top generals.

As a strategist, to disintegrate/infiltrate any terrorist cell, you will not begin from the top and work your way down.

Every organization is more fragile at the bottom, hence you can expect someone will make the mistake of using the system and leaking information, allowing national security officials to work their way up from there.
While i'd love coffee on demand, it seems like the margins are so low. Already I feel ripped off paying $3 / cup. Add another $3 delivery charge and I'm really getting gouged.

With everything on demand, I wonder if even the most succesful will ever come close to profitability. I use Favor frequently, which costs $5 per delivery no matter what. There's no way they're making much money on this if it takes a courier 30 minutes to get my order. I hope I'm wrong but just my 2 cents.
Is this a fabricated controversy to drive readers to medium? The author of the rebuttal is a medium employee, and the original article was utter drivel to begin with (and completely on trope: a grandparent quoting pseudoscience to explain biases about their grandchildren), written by someone with no audience.
Seems like they committed/pushed their Flickr API key[0] secret? Or is it just a dummy value?

0. https://github.com/bsansouci/fuzzbeed/blob/master/server.js#...
What toolset are you using that you can run both locally and on a Hadoop cluster?
his painting looked exactly like the photo. So it's like a painted version of the photo. It was very realistic. And like I mentioned, the craft of painting was great. But he took the time to take a nice portrait with a camera so he can paint it.

Since I'm a photographer, I guess I didn't get why he would need to copy a photo exactly.
It looks like this is the original source, but it's from 2007, not 2010. This 2007 Slashdot article links to the same URL: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/07/1352242. Maybe the current year gets auto-added by whatever CMS he's using? Either that or it's been updated.

Incidentally, while I was looking for that link, I found an implementation in the form of a Photoshop filter: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/10/08/recovering-censored-te...
Except Amazon does... Their free micro instance only supports EBS. For some of us who just want to dip our toes into AWS without too much money or commitment, EBS is our only choice.
Good to know. I only have problems when switching between internal and external on an MBP.
Akamai only worked right 75% of the time even when it was first launched. Large ISPs that operated a single set of DNS servers for nationwide customers had the same problems.

All OpenDNS did was start offering the same thing ISPs already did as an external service.
Who cares...everyone has an API these days. Pick two of FB, Twitter, Twilio, 4sq and combine them into some dumb (or useful!) app.

Try a facebook puzzle.

Getting onto the BlackBerry PlayBook dev program is free right now. Register asap and make SOME app for it...who knows, you might even make some money. Though you should keep your initial 3-5 apps free
Why haven't I seen this blog before? Loads of interesting stuff....

I'll definitely be trying this out. Utterly awesome idea.
That isn't the test for whether something is Hacker News-worthy though?

However a notable developer hit a problem on a well-known site, diagnosed, proposed and explained a solution, and did it in a friendly, humorous way.

So there are a few lessons there on how hackers can conduct themselves in a positive manner in online communities.
This is the sort of case that should be Amnesty International's bread and butter. They were an amazing organization throughout the 70s and 80s, insisting that repressive regimes treat dissidents as humans, with dignity.

I think they lost their way after the end of the cold war. I didn't find any mention of Magnitsky on their website. It's rather depressing.
The Project Owl discord had satellite imagery multiple times a day during the Kabul evacuation and continue to with the Russian military buildup along the Ukrainian border. You can ask them how they did it:
https://discord.gg/projectowl
Is it correct to assume a Texas resident may order one from another dealer and drive it home? Can they just drive it home and legally have it registered in Texas?
OK, thanks. Why did you think that? Looks like, at least some, is indexed: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=darekkay+site%3Adarekkay.com
My cousin went through a similar thing after a bad motorcycle accident. In his case his dreams were terrible creatures torturing him.

I can imagine this sort of experience is where hell and heaven spawned from.

He’s now absolutely fine and doesn’t ride motorbikes and is still a staunch atheist.
I like Nim.
All very deeply true.

Many moons ago I worked in a briefly-successful UK "dot com" integrator, and then took a break from work for personal reasons.

When I came back, I rejoined in the design department, rather than return to a role in engineering, where I had been mostly front-end. (I described myself whimsically as a "pet engineer".)

What we realised then is that the design team needed an engineer on their side of the divide to act as a go-between with implementation, but also to translate requirements in both directions, explaining what each side thinks (as well as urging some respect for the designers' craft).

Nowadays this is reasonably commonplace but at that time it was pretty radical.

Technical teams often make the mistake of thinking that their knowledge, their language, and their problems are supersets of or at least the essence of the problems of the business. They are quite wrong.
Agreed. I'll be looking forward to quoting your post when this social network grows and takes off over the next few years.
Are you specifically answering this about Algorand or are you thinking of other platforms? Algorand seems to be sufficiently decentralized, and I wouldn't describe it as "an inefficient database", but I'm happy to be proven wrong if you have evidence of otherwise.
If you take the position of life being a simulation, it could just be that every entity upon termination, simply summarises key aspects of their life to be forwarded, collated, and further summarised by a higher entity, in order to test some model.
I think they clawed back unvested options from many employees, who had unvested options with substantial value. That breaks the implied social contract of a startup. If the company is wildly successful, they'll try to claw back your unvested options, which makes startup equity even less attractive than it would otherwise be.

Zygna isn't the only one that did this. Didn't Facebook also do this?

(So in a startup, you can be screwed with options in three ways. If the startup fails, your equity is worth zero. If there's a low-value buyout, the common shareholders can get nothing. If the startup is wildly successful, the company will claw back your unvested options. Why join a startup for equity if you're going to get cheated when you hit the 100x home run?)

Zygna got what they deserved. With changes to the way Facebook promotes their feeds and the switch to mobile, they lost most of their market.

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/06/04/why-zynga-is-fai...
Maybe if it were Apple these would be the only two options. Unfortunately Google does a lot of "half ass" launches. By that I mean they release a product that is the "Google version" of something else that is out there. But they do no marketing, so unless it's amazing like Gmail or Chrome the most likely option is what happens to most things Google clones:

c) Google launches, and some people use it... but not enough to make a dent in Groupon, but just enough people to justify running the service
Sorry, Groupon, it's not like you didn't have a buyout chance.

(does this sound coming from the future?)
Well, currencies have been "distributed" for most of history -- they're distributed into your pocket and you can't spend 'em twice because they're physical objects. An electronic currency without a central database is admittedly novel.

Though didn't I hear there's a terrible scaling problem? That every single bitcoin user needs to have a database of every bitcoin transaction that has ever taken place?
Thanks, I'd missed that!
I'm more interested in an ec2failureanticipated.com. Sites that have a substantial operational presence in US-East that routed around the outage. I'm only aware of Netflix. Others?
http://status.heroku.com/ ---> yep
It is a good chair but you really need to sit in it and its competitors before plunking down the cash.

I'm partial to the steelcase leap.
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

- Michael Arrington (@arrington)

http://startupquote.com/post/2497463236
I wrote a blog that got like a million hits. Made more than 50 hit iPhone apps (in the charts). Travelled to asia and africa. Started a masters degree and finished the first semester with the second best scores in the class (not done yet with the degree). Paid off my sisters debts. Became more courageous.

On the other hand, lost a lot of friends. Faced many of my limitations and discovered how lacking I was in many areas.

This year, I hope to focus on creating beautiful software. I'd also like to improve my general condition and health. And of course, I'll finish that degree.
"Maybe 20 or 30 messages a day get through my spam filter."

He must have a pretty awful spam filter then - I checked my work Inbox and I have one bit of genuine spam in the last month - we use an outsourced commercial spam filtering service (I'm not going to give their name in case I sound like a shill).
Direct link to the application:

https://insidestartups.wufoo.com/forms/apply-to-join-inside-...

"Referred applicants are given preference and referring additional candidates weighs positively in both your and their consideration."

Feels like a scam. I wonder if anyone from any of the companies listed as a participating company can vouch for this.
Where is there any useful/intelligent content in this article? Obviously we should not start killing spammers, because capital punishment is barbaric. Even if you agree with the death penalty, you would surely agree that it is not warranted for unsolicited emails. What is worse is that the guy is advocating not just capital punishment but vigilante justice. And we all know there's no way that can ever go wrong!

The numbered points are also all moronic. The little bit about suing them was just barely interesting because of the link. I think someone has been playing too many army based video games and has a little too many fighty/sexy chemicals sloshing around their brain. He would be wise to note that a large volume of spam is sent by very well resourced chinese and russian criminal organisations, and he should probably think twice before threatening violence.

The other possibility is that the article is an attempt at ironic humour. In this case, it is one of the worst examples of this that I have ever encountered on the internet. The author (anonymous I see) should have posted a selection of LOLcats instead.

Should we kill people who write shitty content-mill blog articles?

EDIT: so that my comment cannot be accused of the same things, here is my solution to the spam problem: we need to stop using email. spam is a problem endemic to SMTP. lets all support the apache wave project so we can work on an alternative with proper end to end authentication.

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WaveProposal
Mocks and fakes are not directly supported, however if you are rolling your own CATCH allows test code to be called back by your application code.
Although I haven't tried it yet there should be no problem using CATCH with a third-party mocking framework.
I hacked up a simple script to automate submissions (https://gist.github.com/757221). It handles a single file per puzzle, so an executable or an archive.
You make a good point and I have put in some workarounds for this already. I'll probably put more in over time.
The trade-off is that I didn't want to over-use expression templates so I have kept it to one level. But my aim is to at least allow arbitrary expressions to compile and correctly report failures. It should also detect when the expression cannot be decomposed and report this in the output so you can rewrite the expression if you do hit it. I have done this for some operators already.
Many psychological findings are remarkably un-surprising in retrospect. And I agree with you, this seems stupidly obvious once I know the answer. But I took an undergraduate course basically dedicated to the history of IQ testing and this gem never came up. A lot of things seem obvious if you know the answer. But I guarantee you, this never occurred to many, many people who have devoted their lives to studying IQ. Also, a lot of things that seem fairly common sense turn out to be wrong when you subject them to empirical testing, so be careful about the applying the 'common sense' filter.
No offence, but firstly I don't really understand the site or it's purpose. Limiting me to only 3 words or less on what I'm trying to do doesn't really seem to have much purpose?

It's not clear what I or anyone else using the site is trying to achieve?

- Secondly and more seriously, the site seems to be open to XSS / SQL injection, I wouldn't be surprised if the user passwords are stored in clear text too in the database.
Just my 2 cents.

I think it is not fair to rate programmers by the language they use. What would be fair is how they are able to deliver in the real world. Successful start-ups and other services like Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Hipmunk, etc. came to be not because they hired programmers simply based on the language they used but rather on the premise of what they can execute towards improving the company's services.
It's a wildly varying experience that depends on your hardware and the distro. What I've noticed with Ubuntu, though is that hardware support keeps getting better with each new version. Before I buy any new piece of hardware, I check for Ubuntu support.
There are quite a few who feel that way today.
I do agree that books are the primary source of information for most subjects pre-2000, but at some point the books become so obscure that outside of a special reading room request made to the central library of a large country, no one would be able to verify the one or two book references on a Wikipedia article that would adequately describe the subject.
Yeah it's an important skill. I knew an engineer that was about as smart as me in school. If there was a real stumper of a question on the exam, we'd be the only two to get it right. He was a hard worker. But that guy was incapable of discussing things at the 64,000 ft view, let alone the 30,000 ft or 10,000 ft. As a result, he had a really tough time working with anyone else, and the entire program was deeply focused on teams. You became like family with the other students by the end of the 2nd year. Your reputation in groups was incredibly important. This guy, he could be completely correct, and yet somehow get other smart engineering students to turn against him, including myself. No one could work with him. One instance of that still haunts me... It's really unusual that I don't listen to someone else and consider what they had to say, and yet I did exactly that on a really important project with that guy. He was completely correct about a very important and fundamental thing, and yet I just couldn't see it until it was too late. 10 years later, that still bothers me.

That lack of skill haunted him in his later career. The last I'd heard, he had gotten fired from a job with a company that didn't fire anybody. It was bizarre to watch someone that could think about such technical and difficult things effortlessly, yet be unable to reason about them (or at least communicate) with nearly any level of higher abstraction.
Someone’s already been working on it.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
There's a reddit story of a dude who had the mirror experience. After some blunt trauma, he fell on ground unconscious, during that time he experienced a lifelike dream of a whole existence (job, meeting a girl, getting married, buying a house, etc). Unrelated: but he was traumatized waking up realizing his dream reality was gone.

World of memories and dream is strange.
Jellyfin is awesome, but scrubbing isn't its finest feature.
Always encrypted with the public key of the other side and sent.

Mostly PGP, otherwise signal.
China has moved from the 3rd world to the developed world in just 30 years. Their laws and social development have yet to catch up with their economic development. Most of the people in any kind of power position are in their 50s-60s ie those that grew up in a very harsh world. It will take another 20~30 years for it to change.
No. Virtually no scientific papers with errors are ever retracted, in any field. That's how you can end up with fields where more than half of all claims are probably false. We're told science is "self correcting" but that's just one more lie on top of so many others. In reality science doesn't get corrected even when people go above and beyond to try and correct it, as in this story.
Elixir has most job offers, if I'm not mistaken. But that's just what caught my attention recently.

I hear many people complain that they can't find Haskell jobs. Could of course be that OCamlers, F#ers, ... don't complain that much ;)
Ah! You quoted me but you put a very convenient [...] in place of learning about "yourself". I think the reason you did that is because your criticism is only coherent if you zero in on learning about "the world" and leave out that messy other business of self-discovery. But learning about yourself is pretty important for personal growth, too, in my opinion so important that I even listed it first when writing that sentence ;)
Americans using cal/foot/elbow/galon system of measurements is quirky, but bearable.

AM/PM thing is silly, but bearable.

Malformed MM[/-.]dd[/-.]yyyy date format is one of the most confusing thing I have ever encountered and it generates serious problems.
TY, probable Moz Rustacean. :hands together emoji:

I've been living on savings in self-sabbatical mode while catching-up on life, projects, and reading while keeping current with Rust.

I'm soo itching to jump back into workaholism mode.
> It doesn't seem to explain why it's a complex Hilbert space.

It's surprisingly difficult to motivate complex- (rather than real-) valued quantum mechanics. See eg https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4021, for example.

(As they point out, though, motivating "not quaternions" is pretty easy at least.)
"I didn't pay for sex your honor, I simply left money on the nightstand."
I read it just fine. Thanks for your concern though.
Maybe early in my career?

In general, as I've adopted good conventions and know-how, I find code that I've written a few years ago quite readable.
I don't patch my clothing but I absolutely do repair appliances using guides I find on Youtube and blogs. I've also always been a custom parts pc guy, so it appeals to me, and I think there are tons of people like me based on Reddit's communities for this stuff.
I agree that's one of the strongest arguments in its favour. All the now useless ASIC devices out there also make any new coin that uses SHA-256 vulnerable to attack. It's likely that only one blockchain/coin per algorithm can ultimately succeed.
HTML 5.1 will feature DRM ("Encrypted Media Extensions"): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standard...

Sadly Microsoft, Google, Netflix and BBC want this in HTML 5.1. We can only hope that Mozilla [1], Apple, Adobe, etc. won't support DRM in their products.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872125
Saran Wrap. I hate the stuff. This is not a software problem though haha.
> Or, do I run one box that magically supports them all?

A computer? That's what I would use.
Pretty much every HDTV sold today is 3D ready. It's just not a selling point any more.
I thought CodeBox was using the ACE editor as part of their system like Cloud9. And I believe Orion and Codenvy (my company) use CodeMirror. Looking forward to trying out Atom. I can see many advantages already of it as an editor.
I take homoeopathic medicine for hayfever. I was recommended it by a friend when I was much younger, and found it was very successful.

I now know it's homoeopathic and what that means, but I still find it greatly improves my symptoms, and assume it isn't having any negative side effects (as the pills are just tiny sugar pills). Part of me doesn't like taking it, but it does help, and it doesn't seem worth stopping at this point.
Yes. To all three questions.

Two points:

First, the concept of LSD user is misguided. In soviet Russia LSD uses you.
Second, the world is larger.
It always amazes me to see the sheer amount of API keys left around in GitHub repositories. You can search anything like Twilio API Key and come out with hundreds of thousands of results. I wonder to what extent these keys have been exploited.
Thank you. I am embarking on a course of independent study which I expect to last for a year to four, and I have a feeling that this course will pay for itself in both time, effort, and increased understanding.
I agree to what Hadley said in some ways. It takes a bit more time to get used to the [i, j, by] notation and I personally feels its unlike most of the R syntax. But I dont see that stopping me from using something as fast as data.table.