jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The error message given for a message that's too long is somewhat ambiguous. It states, "Message are limited to 140 characters"-but doesn't say that "I love Dropbox because " is included in that. It should say, "Messages are limited to 117 characters" and include a character count--on editing a message, the count doesn't work.
I can see a case for using it as the mute switch. I can't see a case for changing the behavior and not providing any way at all to get the old behavior back.
The thought occurred to me, but don't you have to be logged in to developer.apple.com?

It also occurs to me that a torrent would solve the problem.
In terms of actual learning, rather than the sort of grade optimization, it probably was valuable in terms of spaced repetition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
I don't see the problem. Facebook is not a government entity, and thus is not required by anyone at all to not censor.

If the statement that you are making is that Facebook is hypocritical in that on the one hand they operate under a mantra of openness and on the other hand they censor, then sure, that's a problem; however, hypocrisy is a global problem that in some way is applicable to every human and every company.
Agreed, in 10 years I'll probably still be driving that car, will I still need the proprietary Apple connector? Probably not.
Nice pdfs, there does not seem to be a single item in there that matches your $10K fine for anything the guy did, in fact he has a bunch of police officers on hand as witnesses that he behaved impeccably.

What specific reason (instead of links to a bunch of documents) do you see for them slapping a civil suit on him ?

The gawker article reads:

"He said that once I start the screening in the secure area, I could not leave until it was completed. Having left the area, he stated, I would be subject to a civil suit and a $10,000 fine... He again asserted the necessity that I return to the screening area."

That is not the same as actually being charged with something and having such a fine levied against you, especially not in a civil suit (which is separate from the fine).

I don't see any proof such a suit was brought or the fine was actually levied.

There would have to be an infraction and this guy was not detained (he would have been if there were such an infraction, you can just about count on that).
You may have meant プッシュ天 in your title, graphics, etc.
The billing doesn't actually transfer over from AppSumo, so if you go over this plan you'll need to sign up for a real paid account.
He might have expected a modicum of respect from the interviewer, and not a gimmick to "win" an argument.
>Without it the world can still grow crops (we SOMEHOW have for thousands of generations).

Historical yields were tiny compared to what we get from contemporary farms. I don't know if we need Roundup in particular, but if we went back to traditional farming methods half the world would starve.

There's no going back.
Funnily, I was looking at the requirements for a Security Engineer at Slack.
https://slack.com/jobs/dfd75111/security-engineer
The secure coding practices or protection against attack part of the job is minimal.
Compared that to Google Information Security Engineer.
https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#!t=jo&jid=29144&
Well, job descriptions in advertisements are not indicating much. But one gets the reason.
No, I haven't. What's your point? If I had, do you think I would be less likely to ask those questions, or something like that?
> For each of them you need to choose the implementation provider

... or simply use those that come with your certified application server.
The ad-hominem attacks aren't necessary. I think this boils down to:

- has Monsanto been knowingly misleading about the toxicity of their products? If not, then this is a non-story.

- is this any worse than anything already sprayed on our food (or is it actually less toxic than the cocktail of herbicides used before Roundup?)

If you knew half the things sprayed on your crops you'd be appalled - but there are 7 billion people to feed and at least 300m of them expect their food to be exceedingly inexpensive (and look to the FDA to help define just how much toxic crap they can stomach before the trade-off is no longer worth it).
"Hacker School would be far worse if it didn't take place in person. Friendship, comfort and trust, all of which are necessary for effective learning, are more easily built in person than online."

I'm curious if this is more a consequence of the medium (internet/phone) and its lack of tools or this specific goal (developing software). I would imagine that it is easier to build a friendship through, say, playing World of Warcraft together than pair programming. Perhaps this is because software development tends to be a more solitary activity and we're slower to accept others in it.
Yes. No way they're going to spray it in their mouths, caffeine is horribly bitter. Assuming it absorbs well through the skin, this is advantageous as a delivery system because it won't go through first-pass metabolism by the liver and kidneys as anything absorbed by the gut does. Theoretically, this means that a much lower dose is necessary.
We had some major issues using MongoDB for time series data due to the write volume (real time sensor data). The solution for us was Riak, mainly because we never need to update a vector clock, leaving us without the need for conflict resolution (and last write wins is fine for sensor data).
You know, I went looking for help on something this morning (why does ntop crash so much?) and at first all I could find was a post asking a similar question, and a reply about how to ask the question better.

The GP replied (paraphrased) "there are a lot of posts on this board asking for help and 95% of the replies are about how to ask the question better. You would do well to try and read between the lines a little bit, just try interpreting and answering some questions instead of just posting all about how poorly the questions are asked."

The point is, that guy wasn't offering money. He was supporting free software. I agree it's easy to make a blanket response for posts not providing enough information, but if they can't fill out the form correctly enough for the reviewer to duplicate the result, why should they get the money?

Just to close the loop, I did find another post eventually where the author explains he "is aware" that ntop crashes frequently when it's configured to monitor multiple interfaces, and you should use the SVN builds since they are more robust. The bug still exists in FreeBSD and I update my ports tree every day.

Searching for "ntop quits" again to put some dates on these posts, I see the complaint was in 2003 and the post addressing my issue was in 2011. I guess it still hasn't been fixed, but the software is still well-known. Anecdotes are like...
I believe problem is lack of due process (i.e. it is civil matter) + incentives for local police do this due most of proceeds awarded to agency who confiscated it.
Not as far as I know. What I can tell you is that web component polyfills like Polymer end up partially recreating the shadow DOM, and that's a lot of work, unlikely to have been undertaken unless it was necessary.
This makes me recall an old cliche..."the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
>The keynote is the only part of the event open to the press

What's with the WWDC defensiveness? Seriously, relax.

They keynote sees a lot of press, many of whom got press passes. Yet it also sees a lot of less credible press (e.g. Gizmodo) who buy standard event tickets, clogging a spot, to be there. The same thing happened at I/O.

And I've met enough non-developers who were sent there for whatever reason to realize that it isn't the core of developers.
Basically my point is that, however you cut it, this service introduces complexity because you have to set up a server.

What makes dropbox so successful is the utter simplicity of something that used to be hard. The internet is littered with companies that have tried to solve this problem but didn't gain traction because it didn't just work. Dropbox is (to my knowledge) the first service of its kind that you install and forget. The thing that most people forget on HN is that 95% of the population don't even know what a server is - and they don't care.

The thing is, sadly, that open source has a pretty dismal track record of creating software that is easy and intuitive to use. There are many reasons for this. One is that open source software tends to be targeted towards developers instead of end users. Another is that it's often design by committee and mailing lists.

I'm not saying that this project doesn't have merit, or that it wont work. I'm just saying that they'll never be able to target my mom.
This argument makes no sense. Mobile "killer apps" already exist, I'd say they are Maps, Facebook, YouTube, email and Exchange support. The iPhone has all of these, just like every other smartphone. Apple is under some threat from these apps in that Google or Facebook or Microsoft could pull them, but Apple hasn't avoided them.
My brother has been waiting for his withdrawal of $700 for over 4 weeks. This isn't good news. I hope Mt.Gox takes care of things soon.
I wouldn't expect them to buy hardware, but I definitely could see them going to a dedicated hosting service like Softlayer (where you still just pay monthly and can usually bring up more capacity fairly fast, but you get whole machines instead of virtualized machines).

It seems like that would make a lot more sense for Reddit, since I/O is so slow and flakey on EC2 (from what I hear), and it's not like they're really taking full advantage of the elasticity that EC2 provides (by massively scaling up and down to fit major load variance)
I'd think they wanted a "25% to 30% premium" and use a value close enough that people can't find the ratio mentally.
The dashboard of my 240Z agrees.
That's what I thought. It's not very humble anymore is it?
Don't worry. I missed it the first time and enjoyed it tremendously.
"http://achene.co/WebSonic/

Aren't you missing the top-level domain there? (i.e. it doesn't resolve for me, and googling only gives me .co, which won't resolve)
> Do you think it is fair for a person who owns $2M worth house to still receive benefits paid from taxpayers money?

Does this apply to all people who have $2M regardless of whether it’s invested in a house?

> For someone with $2M (or 1.5M, or even 1M) net worth possibilities are endless and living off of taxpayers money shouldn't be one of them.

It isn’t one of them.
Yeah.. a few other folks have mentioned the line spacing issue. I made that choice because I wanted the book to feel "open" and "approachable". Not sure it was the right choice in the end, but it's the one I made.

As far as the drawings, I'm not sure what you mean by cloy?
Because the economy stopped growing, which means there is little demand for money. If there is a large demand for capital then interest rates will rise. It's ordinary supply and demand only applied to money rather than some good or service.
I just started something very similar for the DC area (http://dcstartupwiki.com/). It makes sense to have a centralized location for all this startup in, but delegated by locale. That way, there only needs to be one location to goto to get started and from there you can choose where you are looking for relevant startup info about.

I know PG owns http://startupwiki.com, and has some longterm plans for it, but it'd be nice to see a easily rememberable centralized location for all this information. Somewhere down the line it could gain sponsorships in order to pay for itself, and (BFAD) become a centralized location for startups to lobby for things then benefit all of them (i.e. legislation, at least in the US)
If you can afford it, I'd recommend both the G1 and the G2. The G1 is pretty much the lowest end device you'll have to deal with. I still have and use mine regularly, and it is impeccable, though it's stuck on Android 1.6.

The G2 is the other end of the spectrum. It's far more cabable, modern, bigger, yadda yadda. It's probably more like the top end phones you'll see more frequently.

If you have to only get one or the other, go for the G2. If you want to make sure that your stuff works on lower end devices, pick up a G1 too -- you should be able to get one for a song.
PS3 firmwares can now be downgraded. Somebody discovered a service dongle key, which allows for downgrading FWs (but not the latest). That would make it slightly easier to find replacements.

Also somebody is working on some patches which allow
linux to run on top of the same gameos hypervisor that the commercial games do. This allows access to an extra spu and
slightly more ram too. It does require an exploit to allow the execution of unsigned code. Here's the git repo:
http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=asbestos.git

Hector Martin has been playing with kinect for the past month so that explains the lack of progress.
So you're saying that the fact that the PS3 is sold at a loss has very little to do with the cheapness of this supercomputer? I still have trouble believing economically that Sony gets it's processors ten times cheaper than normal. Why couldn't the Air Force just buy the processors from whoever makes them for Sony? Yes, Sony probably has a discount from the processor manufacturer for buying in bulk, but a factor of 10 doesn't seem possible.
"big budget entertainment will increasingly have to compete with more and more free and low-cost entertainment options on the internet"

By "free and low-cost entertainment options" do you mean pirated content? I do not see non-pirated content competing effectively with big-budget movies and television the way that non-pirated textual content (blogs, sites like HN) competes effectively with newspapers and magazines.
The moral of the story is that, while the Maginot Line would have been a perfect defense in World War I, it was ineffective in World War II. People are always preparing to fight the last war. Very common mistake. A failure of imagination.
Ferguson did not involve the transfer of power of the executive branch of the USA.
Isn’t a call to violence illegal?
I think it was the battery swelling and affecting the top case more than anything. trackpad has long been cracked.
This irritates me to no end, however, the Quora is that one email digest that has an extremely high CTR for me: I often click on 5-7 entries from each digest because they send me stuff I'm actually interested in. No other email digest or newsletter comes even remotely close.

However, that stupid popup of their or suggestion to install an app is beyond bad.
It’s sounds like a lot of issues could be addressed if the development of Python Tutor was sponsored.

I’m all for open source, but that doesn’t have to mean free. If millions of people use something, and get value out of it, they would only be right to return a small amount of that value.

Particularly the point about never responding to issues/emails. Would you if they came from sponsors?

But to counter my own point, this is academia, which is all about doing what the individual wants/deems important. Dr. Guo would probably turn down the money for the same reason he doesn’t want to excessively maintain/improve this project.
> You mean just like what is happening at the US southern border?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Tip: Short term hack: If you do wish to cross the walled garden for a particular quora page, simply add a '?' at the end of that particular link, and then you will be able to view the page. Rinse and repeat every time you want to quickly glance at the posts.

Long term: Use uBlock origin.

Edit: This is for viewing non-tech posts in general. For anything tech, we have other pretty good sites.
No they intentionally put those sources higher in the results even when there’s more popular content below it. They get extra priority as they’re deemed “authoritative sources.” So if you’re searching something political you’ll get a Washington Consensus result every time pretty literally. If you search names of recent mideast wars, CFR appears to be a preprogrammed result like Wikipedia.
The Microsoft he was writing about was the feared monopolist of the 90s. He was right about that and still is.
These are families with heads of households did things like train with the Taliban across the border.
The point is the words "great" and "broad" are relative.
Pareto distribution strikes again! This is a non-story.
Fair enough then :)
I tried to upgrade, but it said I was using the latest.
What I find particularly interesting is that the slogan "The Other White Meat" is targeted specifically to infringe upon the marketplace position of chicken as "white meat".

The NPB is completely fine with messing up chicken, but is concerned about the Unicorn Meat market infringing on pork products.
Maybe they stop to run up the meter more
Running and walking seems to be particularly good for thinking. Could be a link to our evolution, or the fact that it’s a simple exercise you don’t have to focus on and are free to think.

Sports are great for getting in the zone but usually too mentally taxing for background thinking. Boxing, for example, is amazing relaxation but you really can’t think about anything else during a round.

Sometimes high intensity stop all other thoughts is exactly what the brain needs. Other times prolonged low intensity gives just the space you need to hear yourself think.
I love this post. I'm a big believer that one and two man startups will continue to build more and more impressive products. My one man startup 42papers.com (A community for top trending papers in CS/DL/ML) has the following stack.

1. Firebase Hosting for the React frontend
2. GraphJin (Automatic GraphQL to SQL Engine) on App Engine for the backend
3. Cloud SQL Postgres for DB

https://github.com/dosco/graphjin
Wow you should patent that. Or do a kickstarter. That sounds pretty useful.
"What the fuck do I need to do to stop seeing feet on my timeline why do people keep posting them? Is there an app that blocks all feet? Send help not feet"

helpless giggling
280k homeless?!?!? Japan claims they are down to ~4k nationwide and AFAIK they don't have nearly as much support for the homeless (could be totally wrong on that). What they do have AFAICT is a culture of self reliance so that someone who is homeless generally feels guilty about asking for help (not saying that's good or bad thing, only saying that's what I believe is the culture)

They aren't often easy to see but if go into a public park, if you see blue vinyl tarps in the bushes those are often a homeless person living there. There's a few in Yoyogi park and some in Shinjuku Central park (next to Tokyo's gov HQ). Otherwise in the winter some people try to sleep in the subway stations close to closing time.

Japan does not have "free" medical support AFAIK. You have to pay into the national health insurance or otherwise pay your own medical bills. On the other hand, prices are regulated.
The data was intended to back up the GP's point, pointing out the growth in the underlying population of those diagnosed very closely mirrors the growth in number diagnosed.
There are enormous subsidies for the homeless in San Francisco to the tune of hundreds of millions a year. Due to incompetent governance, those subsidies are actually making the problem worse.
Yes, it is a false sense of security, but in this case it is static content being served. This should not be used in eCommerce sites.
Many of the people I know that work in the vast world of "other people's money" feel exactly the same way, FWIW - on many occasions I've had discussions with them about the fact that all the only value they ever create is to shave the odd basis point off a spread here or there, and they have no illusions that it matters one bit.

But it's an assload of easy money, and once you're in, it's trivially easy to stay in (it's like gambling for a living, where you get a cut of whatever you win, except that you don't actually have to win consistently to continue to buy in because there's always another fool willing to trust you with his money), so it's very easy to end up deciding that there's not enough rational incentive for you to do anything else.

More than anything, I weep for the brain drain that Wall Street inflicts on the rest of the world. Far too many of the smartest people I've ever known were sucked in, people who could otherwise be creating real value doing jobs without which, the financial industry couldn't even exist. IMO, this is the great danger of having a society where the money shufflers are outpaid by 10:1 compared to people of similar ability in other jobs, that too much of our real talent will be wasted on an industry that is practically by definition (as a zero-sum plus fees industry) incapable of creating much more value than it currently supplies.
Just write what you need into the ad. No requirements for buzzwords.
There's a hat for that.
Oddly someone changed the title I submitted, removing the reference to Shanley and making it deadly dull. No wonder no one has read and voted on it.

Does anyone else operate a site like Hacker News with a decent following? I'd like to post somewhere where my contributions aren't arbitrarily deleted or renamed. Getting a bit tired of the invisible authoritarianism of HN.
You may need to update the app on your device.
You keep saying this over and over... that they are not 'new', or that they are 'mundane'. I don't see a whole lot of explanation from you as to how they are wrong.

Edit: as for your 'appeal to authority' idea, it's an opinion piece, and clearly marked as such by WaPo. By your standard, every opinion piece ever written by anyone powerful or popular is an appeal to authority.
The original point of the .99 pricing is so that the cashier needs to open the cash register to make change, thereby producing a record of the transaction. It reduced theft by the cashiers.
Dude stop thinking about Greece and write that notifo Android client!

Also: I'd love to meet up.
I said that it's not comparable, as the browser only stores the title and gives you lists, etc. Something like Google Bookmarks is a more direct competitor, but I don't think that's the thing to watch out for either, as it seems to be someone's weekend project and they don't really develop it any more. I'm much more worried about Pinboard, for example.
>"Christian Dominion" in which it's a religious duty to consume all the resources possible before the second coming

Question: is this a doctrine as they would state it, or an exaggeration? I've heard of doctrines of "man has stewardship over the earth" in the sense of all nature being for man's use, and also doctrines of "God will provide" and thus that overpopulation cannot be a significant issue. but I haven't heard official statements of the "use everything up before the Second Coming as a moral imperative" before. Sources?
Not if you do it by being evil. I'm pretty convinced that "don't be evil" works fine as a strategy for business and life.
The equivalent to chef-solo in puppet is "puppet apply". It's very handy for developing puppet recipes on an offline virtual machine.
Excellent to have this up. I'm glad that you made it available. I'm doing web crawling w/ Drupal, so always interesting to see how others are doing it.