jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Played with animals (I swear my dog could sense something was up... never seen him in such a lovey mode).

Psylocybin (however you spell it) actually tends to leak out through your sweat pores, so your dog was probably having just as fantastic of a time as you were.

When we did shrooms last time, we petted our cats for about an hour. Shortly after that, they went into the hallway and started chasing imaginary flies on the walls - leaping full-on into the wall, only to bounce off. They've been prone to that sort of thing ever since. :)
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If you haven't already, consider HtDP instead. It is designed to require no knowledge of mathematics beyond basic arithmetic. It fulfils a similar role to SICP. It is often argued that HtDP is a weaker text than SICP, but I found it a very useful course.
I've read a few books over the years that touch upon the subject, but I don't remember anything online (It's been quite a number of years since I've visited the subject).

I do know that Colin Wilson subscribes to the theory, so some of his nonfiction works might be helpful (I seem to remember something in The Criminal History of Mankind).
Apple no longer applies DRM at all in their music store.

It still does in the video store though.
Thank you. Much appreciate that. It was a ton of fun -- first foray into hardware hacking.
It's even more annoying when you learn new words mostly through a text channel (like, say, most of the Web).

For instance: I've read elsewhere that no common word rhymes with "orange". But what about "range"? If it doesn't rhyme, then I'm pronouncing one of them (or both) wrong, but how would I know if it weren't for that "nothing rhymes with this" tidbit?
SLAM2 uses Z3 for a few things, AIUI.
Here's some more coverage from CNN (NCAA-focused but talks about Salesforce and GenCon):

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/politics/mike-pence-religious-...

Tweets from Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce):

https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/581108959337136129

https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/581118618127101953
On the issue of sock-puppets, it seems like you can have sock puppets for any issue.

After reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9269760, I suspect there are not only "right" or "left" wing sockpuppets but corporate pr puppets too. I suspect some sockpuppets could drive up controversy to increase ad revenue or product awareness(viral marketing?) as well.

disclaimer:I have no opinion on this Atlantic article nor am I familiar with site. I just didn't think the original criticism of "conservatism" on HN was accurate.

Also I don't think I understand why an article(I don't feel the Atlantic piece is propaganda) can't be propaganda, and the comments section can't be propaganda in another direction.

I'm still looking at evidence,but a big and bold claim should have some fairly bullet proof evidence.
I'd also hold something like Crispr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171039
to the same standard.

Game changing gene therapy ? I would like some good fairly bullet proof evidence.

Otherwise I think its reasonable to fall to a skeptical position.
Yeah because of exactly these two reasons, I switched to iPhone Mini. Love it so far. Now working on removing Google and Facebook dependencies from rest of my life.
The current price of Bitcoin is irrelevant to its long term success.
Maybe the difference is that you actually need to copy the actual assets to be thrown out?
You're assuming that the content has to have the same format as movies. Short videos (like the ones produced by CollegeHumor) can have a good script and quality visuals without involving a big budget. The market isn't "films". It is "entertainment".
>Accepting that it's OK to use violent force on people to go along with your plans takes the argument out of the territory of what means are acceptable and only to what ends are acceptable

Any means has to be weighed against the alternatives to decide whether it can be accepted. You are proposing to entirely eliminate an effective means to raise money for beneficial programs without providing any effective alternative. "The market will provide it" is empirically false with regards to e.g. environmental protection or education services for the poor.

> You don't need force to run a fire department or a school, you do need force to run a police state.

You do need force to run a fire department or a school. You need someone who is going to impose a penalty on suppliers when the school or the fire house pays them for equipment and they don't deliver. That isn't any less a use of force than imposing the same penalty on someone who doesn't pay their taxes.

The argument you want to make is that the supplier agrees to provide the equipment but taxpayers may not agree to pay taxes. But you still have the same problem: I never agreed to the existing allocation of resources in the world. I never agreed that the gold in your vault or the land that you mined it from should belong to you and not me but you are still going to have to exclude me by force in order to exercise dominion over it.

You have to argue that someone who participates in a market transaction solely for the purpose of avoiding starvation or freezing or dying of a preventable disease is doing so "voluntarily" notwithstanding the complete lack of any viable alternative, which is ridiculous. The only way to avoid that is to somehow create a world in which everyone who refuses to work for existing owners of capital in lieu of pursuing their own interests will still be able to procure the necessities of life. We aren't there yet, so we have to pay taxes.
My first thought was "Holy shit, is this guy Daim?", a street artist I had forgot about a long time ago. Very nice homage!
I've had no problem finding articles about this in mainstream publications, including the NY Times. Maybe it's only TV news that is silent?
Don't upgrade org mode if you don't have to. I only update org when I move to a new major emacs version and it comes with a new org bundled.
Cause it's a 14 hour flight each way.
You really shouldn't give children's privacy away by posting their images and information at companies like Facebook.
well then give me a link to your marvelous BASIC program that I can run without installing anything. (I use a macintosh computer)
That was an awesome project using pretty much the same tech! For those who haven't seen it:

http://makezine.com/2014/12/15/laundry-text-message-alerts-w...
I had a math teacher in primary school who used to shout with an exaggerated accent, "simple is not the same as easy!" She really wanted to drill the idea into our heads that just because you know exactly how to do something, doesn't mean that it will be quick or easy to accomplish.

Like, for a schoolchild, long division. The rules are simple, but given big enough numbers you'll probably mess up at least once. And then the same thing turns out to be true with algebra, geometry, derivation/integration, and on. It's not a bad mantra.
The fucking problem is now that everyone has an SUV, driving something of a normal size makes you feel like you're going to get crushed to death in an accident.
"are not as effective as everyone sharing the same physical workspace. Yes, they do help mitigate many issues of isolation and they do help collaboration but there's still some "bandwidth loss" when people are not in the same room or even down the hall from each other."

Agree. Which, in fact, was one of the reasons that both Bell Labs and the Manhattan Project achieved what they did. (For sure a different time which lacked many of the advantages we have today.) And you could also argue about the negatives, the distractions etc. [1] But there is no question that in many cases it's an advantage to be located near others working in the same area and not in near isolation.

[1] If you don't like listening to music (I don't) use a set of 3M "tarmac" grade earmuffs which will block out nearly everything.
Code doesn't capture intent in many critical cases, so figuring out what a piece of code is supposed to do is different from figuring out what it does. This is true in part because there are very different levels of abstraction involved.

To take a trivial example:

norm = sqrt(x[0]2 + x[1]2 + x[2]2)
x[0] /= norm
x[1] /= norm
x[2] /= norm

This could be described as "take the square root of the sum of three values and then divide each value by the result" or "renormalize a vector". The latter is by far the more meaningful and useful description because it is presented at the level of abstraction that the user is likely interested in.

You could say "well why not create a function called 'renormalize_vector' so it would be self-documenting?" Fine, but now you have a function call per renormalization and that has a cost that may be unacceptable. For many simulations renormalizing vectors with a norm near unity is a big overhead, to the extent that I've written custom code to handle that special case and implement it as a macro that I could call "FAST_RENORM_NEAR_UNITY"... but what does "near unity" mean? And what trade-offs went into the design choices? What code isn't there because I tried it and it didn't work well?

People who advocate self-documenting code generally talk as if self-documenting techniques come at zero cost (adding a function call is an unacceptably high cost in some cases) and that the code that exists adequately captures all the thinking that went into it (it does not and cannot.)

So while I'm all for as much self-documentation as possible, any non-trivial code is going to require additional documentation to a) describe the purpose in high-level terms and b) capture the alternatives that were rejected and why.

Unfortunately, for open source projects especially, there is a law of documentation that says power*documentation=constant, so the most powerful code has the worst documentation, and there are projects with great documentation that simply don't do much.
Meh. Keep the barriers high and the labor market tight for as long as possible. Let companies compete for workers like the good ol' days. Let startups use more of that VC cash on its workers and also help keep rates up for IT workers across the country.

I know we Yanks get no sympathy from the rest of the world, but labor here has taken a beaten long enough.

And, I say this as a dev-turned-founder who would presumably now want to see low rates and a bigger pool. I guess I just appreciate more a little "economic justice" from time-to-time!
Thing I've learned through hard experience: programmers (and yes, I am one) generally over-value individual productivity and under-value communication. So yeah, you can "hold a good conversation" via Skype, but you still have to plan the call, set up a time, etc. There's friction to spontaneous collaboration, and spontaneous collaboration is what people really care about when they talk about the benefits of in-person work.

Programmers tend to want to squirrel themselves away and work on stuff to maximize their own personal productivity, whereas organizations want to get a bunch of people working at a group optimum. That means that every individual takes a productivity hit for communication purposes, but that the organizational output is much higher than any individual could achieve. Hence, we get the fruitless debates about working conditions: what you see as interruption might be, from the context of the company you work for, be the most globally productive use of your time.

There's definitely a fine line between communication and distraction and it's hard to hit the balance (I've worked in some horrible "open-plan" environments too), but in my experience, programmers nearly always err on the side of too little communication, especially early in their career.
My school's IT department just banned DC++ and implemented some technical measures against it. This may well be the replacement.
So does that mean that it is no longer a zero-day after a day has passed? Or does it remain a zero-day because it first got released in the wild before vendors had any awareness of it?
You should post a blog post about this to HN. It's not related to tracking and it's still really interesting, so it deserves more than just a tangential comment here.
Hedging against inflation buy purchasing an unproven hype currency that very few people use as a currency (it’s more like a tulip) makes little sense imo. Buy crypto if you dig the hype and get fomo, but if you actually wanted to hedge against inflation you’d starting hoarding gold or silver.
So if I happen to look like Brad Pitt (I don't), then I can't have a role in a movie because of his "brand"?
Once you have more than about two years worth of salary invested in a brokerage account, you don't need a cash emergency fund anymore. You can withdraw cash from a brokerage account instantly, up to a large percentage of your total balance, without selling anything.

This creates a margin loan, and then at your leisure you can sell your investments to pay the loan, only paying a few days worth of interest at most. Or you can keep the loan. The rates are far better than credit cards and there's no minimum payment or required repayment schedule. Interactive Brokers' current margin rate is 1.57%!
Actually, it would be bad for YouTube users and that would violate YouTube's own claim that she can't selectively choose just the Content ID system based on their "all-or-nothing" proposition.
Keep at it. One of our products basically a shopify for photographers and does really well.
I wish they would sell it back to @joshu.
I think that using password schemes is bad. Because in order to be useful, the method needs to be fast, simple and replicable.
Suppose that someone creates a fake website in order to grab one of your smart passwords. If he understands that you use a method, he will try to deconstruct the method based on the fact that his website surely is included in some manner in the password itself.
Also, since many people who use these methods tend to divulge them to the community, there isn't even a need to create a fake website to understand your passwords.
The only solution that really works is to use a password manager. My favorite obviously is Passpack, because I am a co-founder, but regardless of which software you choose the important thing is that you use it.
My advice is not to relay on any clever schemes because you may be in for a bad surprise.
We started going down the whitelabeling path with Doorkeeper, but ran into the issue that we were competing for mindshare with the whitelabeled version. I'd be interested to hear how you plan to approach the whitelabeling of Appointment Reminder.
I don't think conversion numbers are comparable across industries, products, etc etc. Heck, BCC's aren't even comparable across BCC! They're quite sensitive to, most prominently in my market, the season and traffic mix: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/conversion-rates

There are a lot more parents in the world than teachers, by necessity. Parents typically don't need 16+ cards. The free trial lets you print 15, which means it is essentially free for parents.

My mental frame of comparison is usually "young Japanese salaryman" rather than "guy flipping burgers."
What do you like to do when you are not working on your businesses? (e.g. you seem to spend so much time producing - what do you consume?)

What holds you back from selling your knowledge via a webinars or eBook?

How do you track/manage life outside AR,BCC,Consulting? (e.g. do you A/B test life or do you just go with your instincts?)

Congratulations and thank you for inspiring!
Great field, this is a very common request we are getting but it's not a true market fit for Shopify. Consider building it as a Shopify app so that you can market it to our customer base and through our sales.
Sure, it's a consumer app intended to help people with productivity and goal-achieving by directly influencing their behaviors through a psychological/behavior economical approach. Too many apps focused on technological efficiency (ie. a better way to list your goals, how to track your time, etc) and not much on the psychological aspect (ie. maintaining long-term motivation, getting started on chores you hate, etc).

In terms of stage, I'm pre-mockup at the moment since the last 2.5 months were spent on researching and designing the psychological framework before I could get started on the technological parts. It took up a lot of time but necessary since there was no previous framework for guidance.

I don't have a visual mockup yet, which I plan to start working on next week, but I do have a very fleshed out textual description of what was needed for the prototype to work.
"... your favorite charity"

Tried to sign up because I want to do this. But there are only 7 charities to choose from, none of which are my favorite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

(Are you implying there was some large war fought over the mistreatment of Jews?)

"The right to be a bigot, and to have one's bigotry projected by a company one creates, a company whose rights are enforced by the state, is not worth defending." - kimdouglasmason

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Hall to Voltaire

"If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky

[This not to invoke the authority of these fine individuals, but to reference their bodies of work (too long to include in this post) which are carefully articulated.]
There's also Wade[1], maybe you can merge efforts?

[1]: https://github.com/gowade/wade

edit: I've just seen that you already mentioned it. I hadn't drunk my coffee then, sorry!
That sounds fantastic, you should consider releasing that in some form.
One weird trick to get website traffic.

Flagged. Pure clickbait bullshit.

> This situation is almost unique.

Except for the iPad. Which was exactly the same situation.
It's not only MOOCs that use videos a lot. There are so many self publishers who sell videos as a bonus to an ebook. At a premium price. Nathan Barry and Brennan Dunn may be the most prominent examples for this and Barry even advices this practice in his book "Authority" - and he is successful with this strategy. So obviously some customers perceive videos as an extra value and are ready to pay the premium price.
That's a great idea. Right now it's using Wikipedia's random article generator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) to drive content, but it would be cool to group by a given category.
Ah, I think that was it. They were vague about how the copy was produced, so it might have been a bunch of interns.
Now that you mention that, I remember the book a bit better. I personally need to re-read it. It was so long ago and although I liked the book a lot, the experience was spoilt by English Lit class.

Catch22 is another I remember only vaguely but need to reread.
Yeah, definitely makes it much less fun. I've added filtering to address this.
If he had just Google'd the hashes he'd have saved himself $2, considering there was no salting.
I keep a patched version of Chromium around for that very reason. All you have to do is change one line in the sources. I'll dig up the patch and send it to you once I get back on a real computer.
This is arguably the best book on JavaScript. It's a great way to understand the prototypal language, and serves as a good guide on building "proper" code in the conventions best suited for the language.

While I do think this is the best book to learn the language, I think you'll want to dive deep into a framework like jQuery to get things done. Straight JavaScript is very bare-bones, and you'll spend much more time in library code than with bare code.

While I love this book, and I finally feel like I 'get' the somewhat odd prototypal style of JS, it didn't help me get things done any faster.
I think they shouldn't be mixed. JSON has its strong attributes as also does XML. I started working with XML on 1999 and started doing AJAX style web applications on that time using XML/XSL and Internet Explorer XMLHttpRequest. So now we have JSON, good, excellent addition. Is fast and simple to implement.

But to deprecate XML, I don't think so. Imagine just an EDIFACT document in JSON?
You can do TOTP authentication on any device that you do trust. It's just an HMAC of a timer. I use oauthtool: https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/
No, I don't mean baseline, I mean extra CO2 emitted by a human riding a bicycle.

Again, many people need exercise so this might just replace that. But if you exert extra, then you need extra food. Food costs CO2, and humans are not very efficient.
> You might have seen a Facebook ‘like’ button on websites outside of Facebook.

Why not address this to webmasters?
It's easier than that. If she's posting all 5-star reviews on products that don't get rated 5-stars by other customers, those other customers shouldn't be seeing her reviews. Preferentially weight the visibility of reviews from reviewers who match the individual customers reviews on other products. This incentivizes users posting honest reviews and makes 'gaming' the system almost impossible.
Android updates are another good example.
It’s most likely due to the changing climate for companies (especially American and Canadian) operating in China. Check out this article: “how to survive an increasing difficult China”

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/how-to-survive-an-incre...

Btw if you have a smb or an European company that doesn’t think it applies to you, you are signing your company’s death sentence
> Solar is cheaper than coal in China.*

Bullshit. Not at the scale they need. Solar might be "cheaper" in very confined, specific contexts. But China needs on-demand capacity for a billion people. Renewables + batteries cannot accomplish this.

Plus, solar is cheap partially because you don't need to source that much of it. Try to source that much solar and see what happens to the price.
TBF, depending on data size I’ve had much better results with awk and friends than with Excel.
> Maybe it has a future role (>2050? >2100?)

It absolutely must, or else it's basically already too late: https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...

> This image should terrify you. It should be on billboards.

> As you can see, in either scenario, global emissions must peak and begin declining immediately. For a medium chance to avoid 1.5 degrees, the world has to zero out net carbon emissions by 2050 or so — for a good chance of avoiding 2 degrees, by around 2065.

> After that, emissions have to go negative. Humanity has to start burying a lot more carbon than it throws up into the atmosphere.... Thus far, most demonstration plants of any size attaching CCS to fossil fuel facilities have been over-budget disasters. What if we can’t rely on it? What if it never pans out?

> If we really want to avoid 1.5 degrees, and we can’t rely on large-scale carbon sequestration, then the global community has to zero out its carbon emissions by 2026.

(emphasis mine)
Why did you port your number to Twilio? Isn't it a pain for things like group messaging?
"If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear"

Or I forget how the quote goes, but anyways I thought we supported the concept of privacy in general on this site. Governments need privacy to serve the interests of their people for the same reason people need privacy to serve their own interest.
Every empire has a propaganda apparatus. I'm sure he thought he was doing the right thing, more or less, when he joined.
The view of (a)symmetry in an interview is very generational. Those who turned 20 in the 90s or earlier are more likely to feel the bottom side of asymmetry, while "Gen Y" or "Millennials" (for lack of better terms) are more likely to simultaneously be interviewing the company for fit with their ideals.

New (inexperienced) hires are also more likely to feel the bottom side of asymmetry, which can counteract the effect for the youngest.

So yes it is, and no it isn't, depending on the candidate and on the company.