jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know what would be required to "crack" my iPhone (hardward? software only? can it be trusted? etc.), but I think this is the only time I'll need it internationally before AT&T will unlock it for me (and if they damage it, they replace it).

More important is for me to figure out how to buy mobile hardware / service from now on. Will it be easier if I switch to Android? If I pay full price for the hardware up front? If I use something like Google Voice or something newer and better? Or what?

I don't know, but one way or another I need to figure it out.
> I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys...

Just adding another note, on the firms you mentioned.

Reliance, is a known to be a crooked player that uses non-ethical business practices and is a major crony-capitalist player. Modern business practice followed: profit at any cost.

Infosys, on the other hand, isn't ethically/morally corrupt and is actually known for setting standards in corporate governance. But these days, it seems to have lost the game and run into troubles by fanatically adhering to the "maximize shareholder value while minimizing risk" rule. Modern business practice followed: keep shareholders happy no matter what.

Both followed 'modern business practices' too much to the word, or so it seems.
I think there's also this naive notion among people who haven't thought it through and/or aren't very familiar with manufacturing processes and the like that if you have the "blueprints" for something, it's straightforward to cart them down to a general-purpose factory and build the thing. After all, if we built it once, how hard can it be to build it again? And even some who may understand that it's not quite that simple still don't necessarily appreciate just how complex and intertwined the relationships are between suppliers, tooling, processes, experts in very specific and narrow domains, and so forth are when building any sort of complex machine.
Nice! I wrote something similar in node.js a while back; so far it's gotten me banned from Heroku and nodejitsu :p
"The runtime-modifiable classes use a macro that registers the files themselves to be monitored. Whenever one of those files changes, we pick it up and recompile it into a DLL. By linking that DLL we can switch over to the new code, leaving the original EXE file untouched. This way we avoid any interpreter and use native compiled C++ throughout."

(from http://www.runtimecompiledcplusplus.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/t...)
Are there any other databases that can do what you're describing here?
The odds may have been based on simulation rather than "real data"
you have watched too many episodes.
he just need some help and some direction in the right path.
I'm an investor. I've talked to a number of companies that have done this, and it seems to work. However, I think the amount you're raising matters.

If you're raising 500k or 700k, then cutting that in half will make investors wonder why you're raising so little. There's not much runway that you can buy for $250k.

On the other hand, let's say you're raising $1.5m at a $6m valuation. You can start by telling people you're raising 750k or 900k. Once you get to, say, 500k, investors will feel pressured to invest if you only have 250k left to go; they won't feel pressured if you have 1m left. Furthermore, if you're struggling to get to 750k, you can stop when you're there/almost there, and not look bad for hoping to raise 1.5m and then quitting. On the other hand, if you get to 750k quickly, you can use that momentum to get to 1.5m and look great doing it ("Wow, she only wanted to raise 750k, but she had so much interest that she ended up taking 1.5m!").

It's kind of silly that this works, but it does seem to work.
The free data is such a life saver when I go to India. It's so liberating to be able to tell my Mom I've landed ok, to coordinate transportation, and find my way around with maps from the moment I land.
please spread the word!
"Never" was hyperbole.
This seems pretty awesome. Can someone please tell me where this could be useful?
They pursued The Work, whatever that might have been for each individual, not because being known to many humans was important. Let go of your Ego and your works will flourish and spread even a bit more light in the world.
> public cleanliness is just a side effect of development. new york and london were the same way in the 19th century.

I agree, but

a) India's cities are largely unplanned, and way denser than NY. Not sure about London.

b) Waiting for another century's worth of development is not an effective way to make your country an attractive destination for tourism and investment.
Just because it's old doesn't mean that it's useless, or widely known.
The authors third point has an error. He wrote inversely proportional. From his later arguments, he clearly means proportional.
Bitcoin is extremely volatile. As sibling said, it's even volatile enough to change price significantly in the time it takes for a transaction to be validated and move through the system!

Currently the only reasonable way to deal with this issue is to pay through an exchange (where they can validate internally), which isn't in itself a problem, but then it won't be anonymous (unless your exchange is participating in money laundering, they are legally obliged to verify your identity)
This should be required reading for anyone in this discussion: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
and a company whose business is bypassing privacy to learn about consumers, will have a record of all telecom between those consumers
Obviously if you want to follow your friends' activity and exchange messages with them over Facebook, you have to follow your friends' activity and exchange messages with them over Facebook. I'm not sure what the objection is here.
ok, i put up baseball, basketball, and football:

http://football.rawsignal.com/
http://basketball.rawsignal.com/
http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/
http://baseball.rawsignal.com/

had to refungle some code to speed up our analysis, but it should be working. hope you like it.
haha its worse than you realize. I was in a cafe in jakarta and I noticed this guy was giving another guy lessons in php. We ended up talking after and I mentioned I use vue. He wanted me to teach him how to use vue so that he could run a workshop where he teaches vue!

I feel like there's something a bit off about charging money teaching a skill that I haven't personally used extensively in a professional context. I guess others feel differently
Qualify that the people in those videos, for example Italy, were very very obese.
The problem with the internet is that you can find endless sources of interesting new information that would be wonderful to learn. Unfortunately, unless you have some kind of weird memory talent, you probably forget most of what you hear and read. If you really want to remember something, you have to study it at more than one sitting. Your commute is perfect for that. While you drive to work, you can talk to yourself about whatever you learned last night, as if you were talking to a different person. Recite foreign language vocab lists, practice your grammar, summarize the last section of the book you're reading, or think of ways to learn the new Unix command you just learned.

Unfortunately, I only have a fifteen minute commute, so I can't personally vouch for what it's like to do this every day, but I've done it a few times when driving to other cities, and it seemed to help a lot.
Decide what your life purpose is. Work towards it. Use the money to help you along. Don't worry too much about it. At least, that's what I think I'd do in your situation.
Yes. Very yes. Very, very yes.

I use audible.com. Started with a gold account, and jumped right to platinum. Been using it for more than a year, and I've been incredibly happy. The only complaint is that the site sometimes feels slow. But I'm not on it often. Usually just once a month to get my new books, though I've been buying books as well recently to fill in gaps.

Couple audiobooks with podcasts and you'll do fine. I like stuff from Twit.TV. And then the d6Generation does a good podcast, too.

I find the audiobooks and podcasts are great ways to handle not only the commute, but most mundane activities I need to partake in. Folding laundry, shopping for groceries, cleaning the house. Anything where I don't need to think, I'm usually listening to something.
Like all prominent bloggers, Gruber could use some insightful criticism. Too bad this post doesn't offer any. A thousand words that add up to "I can't really put my finger on it or name any specifics, but Daring Fireball seems more uncritically approving of Apple lately" is fine for pub conversation, but it's not much use as reasoned argument. How could Gruber respond to this?

The only specific point of Gruber's that the author cites is "iPhone critics have seldom let facts get in their way." I'm sure there's something to criticize in that statement, but it's a pretty slender reed on which to hang a blanket condemnation of dozens of articles.
iTunes U is another source.
Very interesting.

My initial thought (unencumbered by any actual knowledge) is that the folks who download the client version (instead of sign up for the web version) don't do so for any particular reason, so I don't think that removing the option should actually hurt.

Sounds like a good fit for Bayesian probability, using the old numbers as priors.
I don't think it is as much being told they cannot do science (as incapable) as much as it is being told they are odd and less desirable (consciously or subconsciously) if they embrace math/science/tech.

It also depends on the woman how difficult these standards of beauty are achieving. Many of my female friends are engineers (comp, ee, cheg) and look excellent. Not because they "dress to the nines" but because they put on a little makeup and a nice shirt. The ones who were less accepted socially tended to be those who didn't take care of themselves, including the men.
$ export WATCH_COMMAND=`fish -c`
fish: option requires an argument -- 'c'

Those should probably not be backticks.
Can't believe this wasn't post yet!
I think you're missing my point that even if you willingly impose Google surveillance on yourself, Google Drive is still worse than Google Analytics because your personally identifiable activity is visible to the author and/or other readers, not just Google.
I would expect it to be possible already, given that imgcat is a thing
China surpassed the EU average already in 2012.

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=booklet2018&ds...
Do you mean "not the best choice" in that even if you do come out ahead with $1 mil+ net worth, if you ended up using your time just doing it to make money, you will regret that?
Second time I saw an ad for this product on this site. Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of innovation in this space. But I think they should just buy advertising space.
That's not a new thing. Maps have been political for ages. Mandating the shape of border lines on maps has been a part of many border disputes.

Also, it's eye opening to read or watch news from other countries. There's a big country-specific bias in the selection of international news stories. This bias is a necessary evil, but it can have a huge political and cultural impact.
It's not the absolute cost, it's the incremental cost. For example, the world has about a billion vehicles; just replacing those with electric vehicles would cost tens of trillions. But you don't count the whole cost of the car, you count the price differential between an ICE vehicle and equivalent electric one. And that differential is dropping rapidly -- the most shocking thing about the Tesla Cybertruck announcement wasn't it's ugliness, it's that it is at price parity with a comparable ICE truck even without a subsidy. Similarly wind power is now cheaper than gas.
I just added another 3 chapters to the book preview that you get from clicking the cover. That brings the total to 7 chapters, nearly 20% of the 36 chapters in the book. If you're not excited to get the book at that point, you're probably not going to like it once you buy. Which is totally cool.

As for your second question, there are 6,000 books in the "Applied Psychology" category on Amazon, and 28,000 books in the "Success". Between all of them, I'm sure that none of the ideas I've presented in this book haven't already been said.

What this book offers is my unique take on those ideas, the personal stories I've shared, the way I've presented the research, and the voice through which I've expressed it.
We've taken the title from their press release which is https://blueorigin-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/orb...

(Submitted title was 'Orbital Reef – 'Commercial' Space Station by Boeing, BlueOrigin and Co')
>2) MobileCoin Inc. intends to maintain an extreme minority of the coins once the dust settles.

In other words, cha-ching! then what?
Yeah, continuous regulation and supervision is unavoidable. Unless you can stop operations at any time, the miner probably doesn't have a financial incentive to do the right thing.
The mythical AR glasses of the future should be able to do everything your proposed projection table setup can. I see both setups as just two different manifestations of AR as a concept.
Interestingly, it doesn't look like the author is self-hosting email. I know mail-in-a-box exists, but even with that I find it's worth the peace of mind to pay someone else for mail hosting.
In the first example, there is nothing inside the lambdas, doesnt that mean that _nothing_ will be captured? ie: including `this`?
Totally agree. You can graduate from your state school with <$100k in debt easily. You can get much lower debt levels if you don't stay in the expensive dorms (with expensive meal plans) after your freshman year, if you plan ahead and graduate in 4 years, and if you apply for many local/state scholarships (in my experience the national scholarships are a waste of time).

As an engineering student, you can also get paid internships each summer (can often pay >$10k) or can be a paid research assistant for a professor during the year for ~10 hours week (pays for groceries each week).
Most pop-and-pop stores only had a few copies of each movie, so it was not always easy to get ‘in-stock’ content.

Alot of the videotapes in my friend’s parent’s home was either dubbed or recorded from a pay tv station.
I'd almost say "introversion" or "selfishness" is the right term, if the latter weren't so prejudicial. You aren't collecting bus tickets or obsessing over infinite series to advance your own material interests or standing in the external world.

"Disinterest" doesn't work at all in any sense of the term. In the absence of overt mental illness, the bus-ticket collector must see it as being in his best interest to spend his time collecting bus tickets, or he'd do something else instead. ("You are your calendar.") The search for gratification, however externally meaningless, is certainly a valid expression of self-interest.

Put another way, if you would object if you were forcibly stopped from pursuing a goal, then you cannot be described as "disinterested."
See the 1% rule of the internet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

“... only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk.”

This is why “social listening” companies (which often amount to “Twitter listening” companies) present a very warped picture of reality when they try to extrapolate general consumer interests from the content and frequency of posts by a tiny minority of Twitter’s users. I also discussed this a little in “Twitter’s growth conundrum”: https://muckhacker.com/the-twitter-growth-conundrum-8339eda1...
Because the alternative - that people actually behave like that in their real life outside work - is not supported by my interactions with people outside the work environment.

Everyone has a level of friendliness. You step inside a restaurant and it gets ramped up dramatically. Some US places feel like the Disney store which has almost oppressive levels of forced-friendliness. (Where -employees- "cast members" are instructed to "spread the magic".)
This custom homepage idea has been around since Google Home and probably any number of internet portals before that.

MS's version just ropes you into the MS App Store ecosystem. Found anything you want to download there recently?
This is one of the biggest complaints from my students. We have so many beginner books that show you the basics, for loops, if statements, variables etc..etc.. but don't show you how to create a widget. We need more intermediate books that skip all the basics and just show you how to create things. So whats the solution till then? Start searching through github on a particular language and see how the rockstars do it. If you can read code then you should be able to learn how to create widgets and lookup whatever you don't understand.
Abelson and Sussman's _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp
Please don't do this here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12544564 for why.
I seem to be a 'know about finance HN user'[1]. I work for an Agency Broker[2] in London but the knowledge really comes from:

* How to Read the Financial Pages [3]

* Money Week subscription [4]

---------

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304249 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667324 and others I'm too lazy to locate right now

[2] as a Java Dev

[3] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Read-Financial-Pages-Michael-Brett/d...

[4] http://www.moneyweek.com/
To me, it's just being so much tired when I go to sleep that I simply cannot afford insomnia and I instantly sleep :-)
Google's Chrome is currently a fringe browser and one that was never the subject of antitrust lawsuits. There's an unfortunate disparity between the two situations; understandable, but still a pain in the ass for webdevs.
Well, here's the countries you can fly to from the US in august:

http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-from/us/august-2010/august...
We have taken part of the hole interwjue and found it very interesting. The interwjuer made a good job and we thaught that Rikard hade good answers.

Ingrid and Bo Kjellberg
I may be missing something, but: what about showering without washing your hair?
Location: Moscow, Russia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Java & other JVM langs (Groovy, Clojure, Scala), Hadoop, Python, Javascript
Resume: on request
Email: michael.savelyev@gmail.com

I am language agnostic, prefer backend development.
Looking for a challenging job in a startup or small company.
Basically what this article is talking about are two breeds of entrepreneurs:

1. Lifestyle business guys like the ones featured in the article

2. Big exit guys who are after the Forbes cover, the big IPO / acquisition, the VC funding, etc...

There's merit to both styles of entrpreneurship; style #2 obviously brings with it a lot more stakeholders (employees, investors, etc...) and therefore a lot more responsibility and accountability on the part of the entrepreneurs / founders, but the potential rewards reflect that.

Style #1 doesn't have all of the fame and glory, the 8-9 figure exits, but it creates a self-owned source of income which can be really liberating. The trick with a lifestyle business is to make your operation lean enough so you don't have to hire a tremendous number of people to run the business.
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I am currently reading Dune and I promised myself to never watch the movie so I can keep the images alive in my head. Did the same with His Dark Materials. And even though the movies were good epic movies, I miss my own Lord of the Rings.
The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries, and often comparable to developing countires in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, rate of firearm deaths, rate of accidental firearm deaths and injuries, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.

See for yourself: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
Fayetteville, AR. You won't find a better quality of life as a developer than in AR. The tech scene isn't huge, but good developers here live very well.
I suppose by definition efficient advertising only informs me about products I need and/or want when I want them. The result being the highest possible conversion rates and best customer experiences also ensuring that customers will rave about it.

Inefficient advertising takes advantage of law of large numbers low-cost spammy channels, inundating a large majority with crap they don't care about, wasting their time and even successfully selling people who don't want or like your product.

So in that sense it would seem to be more "moral".
The second I saw the arrow style I thought of Daim and when I scrolled down, sure enough, there was a piece by Daim. Very nicely done. Props.
Probably he waited for Keynote to be available, and had been using Concurrence on Openstep.
With the exception of rental trailers and boat trailers electric brakes are literally the standard until you get into trailers big enough that any vehicle you'd tow them with will have air brakes. Electric drum brakes are literally the standard. For the sizes of trailers a truck like this would be expected to tow you would have to go out of your way to find a trailer that does not use electric brakes (once again, boat and rental excepted).
It's not very useful on gas engines but it is for diesel
> Scanning barcodes isn't really necessary when you have everybody with a credit card and every local merchant accepts NFC payment.

The QR codes are quite cool in that anyone with a printer can print them out. I can't pay my friends with my contactless credit card in the same way I can pay a merchant.

Its a different approach with different pros and cons.
Agreed. People who willfully commit crimes know what they are doing is wrong and can get them in jail or worse. Those around them and before them have likely been caught before.
I think what you're missing is that economics has a serious case of physics envy. They like to imagine that their handful of reductionist principles can model a scenario as well as Newton's laws can model n bodies. The experiments are only needed to fine tune a handful of parameters.

What is represented by this pivot towards emperical testing everything is a concession that there are no universal economic laws from which outcomes can be derived, just an ad hoc corpus of facts. I see why they don't want to give up.
Is there an archive with all the data ever received, or is the "uninteresting" data dropped after some time?
Existing forests don't do much in terms of CO2 reduction.
I have a Silverado diesel truck which I inherited. I don't tow often, but I do use it a lot for landscaping work -- hauling mulch, brick, and lumber in and yard waste out to the recycling center.
Frequent use of these patterns is a good smell test that one should reconsider design choices. Are there times when usage is justified? Yes. Should it be the first / default mechanism? No. Learn the rules first, and then it will be more clear when you should break them.

I have no problem with the general rule nor a built-in mechanism for breaking them.

Simple example: if I ever have a row lock I wrap the corresponding block in recover to ensure that I never have a deadlock. But I certainly don’t wrap every function in recover...
The thing is, if you the math, owning a small car and renting a larger vehicle the 2-3 times a year you need it is vastly less expensive.