jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm so fucking sick of this. This level of ass-clownery makes Japan look so bad, and so diminishes its national prestige in the world, that it's almost like when Bush the junior was president of the USA.

Yes, TEPCO is a private company. But it reflects on Japan the same way it would if the US government just left BP and Halliburton to decide entirely for themselves how to clean up the New Horizon oil rig disaster, with no meaningful oversight nor repercussions.

Except that the Fukushima disaster is about 100 times worse than the New Horizon spill.

TEPCO should have been nationalized, or at least put into a decade of receivership, within a few days of the fail, when it became clear that they were completely unequipped to deal with a disaster of this magnitude and their president checked himself into a hospital for stress/mental issues.
I agree that this overzealous cross-promotion of services and unification into the One Account (to in the darkness bind them) is annoying and clearly only in the best interests of Google and not their users. There may be a minor benefit to users, but if it were about providing convenience, it would not be pushed so aggressively.

I've stopped recommending Chrome to my friends/family when it sprouted that evil "Not signed into Chrome - you're missing out!" button, trying to lure them into sharing their live browsing history with Google.
I love nginx and have been a huge evangelist for it. I also understand the need for the developers to make money. This makes me sad, though. I don't see good things coming from it.

Open Source works because the motivation is purely based on making the best product possible. Once you have this open core model, the stronger motivation is on the money making side of things. This means likely the free version will stagnate.
and would scripts written for openresty work for tengine?
Pathgather - NYC - Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer (pathgather.com)

We’re a Techstars NYC 2014 startup looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer, a Javascript expert that can come in and own one of the most engaging interfaces in the enterprise market today.

Our product is an enterprise learning platform that - unlike traditional systems - is one employees actually want to use. We’re solving a big problem felt by almost all large companies: how to continuously train and educate your workforce with modern/relevant content. More than 75% of all companies use a Learning Management System (LMS) for this, but their > 60% dissatisfaction rate shows these systems simply don’t work. We’re changing that.

What we're looking for:

* Javascript/Coffeescript expertise

* Strong experience with AngularJS

* UX focus

* Design skills a huge bonus

* Ruby/Rails knowledge another bonus, but certainly supplemental

What we can offer:

* A (more than) competitive salary & equity

* Opportunities to contribute to the open source community. Every Friday, you have the opportunity to work on anything open source: you can contribute to existing projects, work on your own, or open source a part of our codebase.

* An awesome team to work with, in an awesome location (Union Square in NYC)

* A chance to have a truly influential role at a fast-growing, ambitious startup!

If any of this sounds interesting or if you have some questions, please reach out to me at jamie@pathgather.com. Thanks!
New York, NY - Octopart (YC W07)- http://octopart.com/jobs

* Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, Python, Solr/Lucene, Puppet/Ansible, MySQL/PostgreSQL)

* Full time Frontend Engineer (React/Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)

At Octopart, we're opening up access to electronic component part data through our search engine, http://octopart.com and our API, http://octopart.com/api .

We're connecting hardware hackers to the information they need to design the next generation of hardware devices.
We're building the most intuitive, fast and beautiful interface for searching for electronic parts.

We're compiling the most extensive database on electronic components by combining data from tons of different sources.

We're behind the Common Parts Library, http://octopart.com/common-parts-library speeding component selection for connected devices.

We're all in NYC (no remote), we're a team of 13, our backgrounds are in Physics, CS, EE. We've been profitable since 2010.

We're from the YC W07 batch. We write a lot of Python and JavaScript.

If you're a software hacker who wants to build amazing tools for hardware hackers, tell us about yourself and include your resume in an email to jobs@octopart.com.
Hello, this is 2015 and people learn in totally different ways than 20 years ago.

In other words, if your students are staring at Facebook maybe is because your lecture is boring as hell. That's what you should be worried about.
I'd say so. Maybe even echo"Hello" if you're in a hurry; it's just that it's then treated a raw string :p
That sounds like a poorly designed roundabout to me. One recently added to my relatively small city has a speed limit of 20 MPH (yes, I'm in the US) and much more than 20 MPH seems too fast to me simply as a result of the radius of the roundabout.
Location: Bangalore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Android Expert: Mostly AOSP internals(frameworks, systems, HAL, BSP, build scripts). Also dabbled in Application Development, Mobile backend Services.(github.com/adnaan)

Resume: On request.

Email: badr dot adnaan at gmail dot com

Middleware person. Worked on a tablet, a smart watch, couple of android apps, few web servers in Java, C, Python, Go.
(Not actively looking but you never know. Curious to find out whether this thread works)
More information here: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/news/2015/four-new-os-...

With the data sources here: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.h...

TBH I'm not too sure what is new and what isn't here, I'm sure I've used a mapping app that was based on the OS Open Map data. But the OS Open Names is not something that I've heard of before.
I use vimium for chrome; it's wonderful.
Exactly. How can I build and test a system when you change the system requirements and scope every 6 months?
in response to the quote from the article which really reminded me of the corporate world of Aliens.
Probably because the fee market will turn out to be non-viable, and bitcoin would collapse without mining rewards.
> These are insane fees ripe for disruption.

Wouldn't this just cause Coinbase to lower their fees like any ofther commodity? Alternatively, they could also be in the position to offer differentiated services.

This seems analogous to any other brokerage services. This will likely play out like when discount brokerages arrived on the personal investment secene.

The more I think about it, the more this feels like traditional banking/investing.
500,000 dead in the US, largely due to failure to wear masks and observe distancing protocols, is a strange way to "beat" COVID.
It'll presumably take more than one second to convert it to a usable currency, i.e. Euros.

How often do you need $50k without being able to wait a business day?
Opened without any problem with ublock origin.
You lost me there, their CentOS products are in a separate area then the rest of the OS's?

Couldn't you just reformat with what ever OS you want?
"I'm hit by a very annoying "log in to see more" banner"

This is a fairly recent change to the site and I agree it's obstructive and intensely irritating. Imagine if Flickr were to do something similar? Clearly Pinterest want to drive further registrations to their site, but this seems like such a rude and intrusive way of doing it.

Pinterest is an excellent source of visual inspiration and research often overlooked by many designers and developers. There are lots of excellent boards that collect examples of website, app and tablet designs. There is also a huge variety of illustration and graphic design examples of every style and colour imaginable.
However, the new restrictions they've placed on viewing content mean that I no longer recommend Pinterest links.
But are they? They did this, so unless you think they're completely naive (which in itself seems completely naive) you have to see fault here.
Oops. Thanks for the heads up.
Or in another way. The fact that we do not differentiate (in terms of "life value") between mentally handicapped, or otherwise helpless humans and the rest, is a result of a separate ethical choice that regulates relations between us as human individuals. This choice does not logically require accepting the notion of any animal rights.
This is the essential point. GC may not be appropriate in all contexts, but, when it is, it tremendously improves the expressiveness of the language.
I wonder why HN only focuses on the financial part. There are several complex ways in which racial injustice works. Nigerian Americans will still get racially profiled at the store and have a harder time with the police.
It's not murder if it's legal. If you don't want to get shot, don't invade the seat of government during a constitutionally prescribed transition of power, break through a barricade, ignore a cop's orders and approach a cop pointing his gun at you. Hard, I know.
In World War II, navy code books were bound with lead covers to make it easy to safely jettison the books overboard if necessary.

Such code books where a bit like dictionaries containing random alphanumeric sequences for each useful plaintext word. This was then subjected to an additional layer of encipherment. Such a code was generally beyond the ability of foes to break.

Many years past the battle of Midway, it was finally revealed that the US had broken the Japanese Navy code known as “Purple”, explaining the United States lucky outcome in that important battle. I believe it was through a combination of obtaining one of the code books and cryptanalysis.
They are people who put bomb in RNC and brought one to capitol a day before yeasterday. They includes nashville bomber and whoever organized Mitchigan terrorist plot.

They are also proud boys starting fights. It is not like US would have shortage of organized political violence lately. It is pretty easy to find "they".
It’s not just Congress, it’s Nancy Pelosi.

Mitch McConnell’s documents would be similarly interesting.

I’d love to see how these two speak to their donors and each other vs how they speak to the public, for example.
> insurrectionists

Peaceful protestors.

Were the BLM people who stormed city hall in Seattle insurrectionists? Where the Black Panthers who took the California State Capitol in the 1970s insurrectionists?

Stop with the bullshit name games. These were not rioters. They didn't set anything on fire. They should not have stolen or broken anything. That's wrong and bad and should be condemned. Those people should get federal time

But man...you have to admit...there is something beautiful about the peasants entering the royal court, and the town idiot putting his feet up on the table that belongs to the Hand of the King.

The villagers entered the royal court and the senators clutched their pearls.

America has had a long history of occupying federal buildings. This is certainly not unprecedented.

These people were not a coup or insurrection. They had no plan. There was no person with a new founding document they were going to read. They didn't bring in an armed force and take and occupy the capital.

The overreaction to what happened is fucking insane, especially compared to what actual Rioters where allowed to get away with for the past year. In May, DC was literally on fire from the BLM riots, and we didn't see this type of DoubleSpeak.
I would trust Apple over Facebook or Google any day for the simple reason that Apple makes its money by selling hardware (and being a monopolistic gatekeeper of many of the apps that run on that hardware). WRT the gatekeeper aspect, which I don't like, at least it is very clear what the business model is.

Suffice to say, they aren't depending on our data for marketing purposes to earn money. If Apple opens an advertising division, then I will start to distrust them as much or more than the other two.

Sames goes for Microsoft. I would not be surprised if MS used my data to try to sell me Office or Windows, but I would be very surprised if they were selling my data to outside parties.

In summary, if the company proving the service you use primarily provides "free" services, then they should be suspect. Find out where their revenue comes from. Chances are, it comes from mining your data.
This. Signal devs should understand that different people have different use cases as well as different tolerances for (theoretical) secrecy/privacy. Some convos/groups are worth keeping history for, others probably not. Signal does not have anyway to know which so should let the user decide and allow for an easy(ier) backup/restore option.
you can't divorce socialism from its history by pasting a happy face on it.
They turned down an offer from the Pentagon to supplement manpower

Hmm, why turn down an offer of assistance from a military whose commander-in-chief wants to overturn the election? I can think of a few reasons...
As far as "without consent", one can as well go to Settings>Location and see all the apps which access your location.

Also a point to note is the device these are on (iPhones and iPads) is making them accessible to these, so saying "without consent" seems like the wrong word. The device will have that information by default and nature of it being the middle layer.

Why Apple is putting it in an unencrypted format is a different story altogether.
Lisp and Prolog are still huge in AI, at least in academia, or at least at my university. For instance: ICARUS [1], CCalc [2], and answer set programming solvers [3], all of which are part of active and recent research, use Lisp or Prolog.

Prolog was and still is used precisely because it is so (relatively) easy to specify some facts and behaviors as Horn clauses [4], which is important, because it is one of the few places I ever hear the phrase "solvable in polynomial time" in KRR.

[1] http://circas.asu.edu/cogsys/papers/manual.pdf

[2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tag/cc/

[3] http://potassco.sourceforge.net/

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_clause
Such is life -- something unexpected comes up and all of the sudden you're out of your livelihood.

This actually happens to normal people all the time when layoffs or illness occur. The adult industry has to do what everyone else has to do in such a situation -- find a way to make ends meet until you come up with a viable way to re-establish a comfortable income.

The question is: is it viable to order threatening robocalls demanding money out of people? Is this going to be a good long-term solution to their problem?

I recognize that porn has limited opportunities because of the details surrounding its consumption and use, but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. Whining and lawyering up doesn't seem like it's really going to do much for them, just as it hasn't done much for the RIAA or other content trade associations.
"variable = getattr(my_types_module, string_from_file) (arguments)"

Right, and how is that more readable or more clear than the PHP equivalent?

$myclass = new $classname; vs variable = getattr(my_types_module, string_from_file) (arguments) and you claim the second is cleaner?

Furthermore you are making several normative claims like 'Right Thing' but don't offer anything to back that opinion up. Function pointers are strongly typed too, does that make them superior? No just different, and I think the PHP way fits perfectly well with a consistent theme: you can substitute any name that you'd hard-code with a variable and it will work.

$var = 'test';
// Call function called 'test' with argument value of 'test';
$var($var);
// Set variable called '$test' to a new instance of class 'test'.
$$var = new $var;
// Call method 'test' on variable '$test' with argument 'test'.
$test->{$test}($var);

Straightforward and no need for strange 'getattr' indirection functions (see how I turned an in itself neutral design decision into a normative statement there?)
cobol on cogs
It's hard to know the exact drop in traffic. It's probably more than Nick Denton's claimed 7% but probably also less than the ~85% drop this article claims. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. In any case, even 7% is a pretty massive drop following a redesign.

It's interesting because the content is the same, only the packaging and user experience has changed. It seems that reader-loyalty on news sites like the Gawker sites, Techcrunch etc, and community sites like Digg, is actually very low. Probably much lower than the sites themselves believe.

I dropped Gizmodo before the redesign, partly due to the stolen iPhone incident, but mostly due to every other article being Apple related, with the ensuing mindless and juvenile MS / Apple bashing in the comments.

Lifehacker I dropped after the redesign, as it just didn't work very well any longer.

Lucky for me, and everyone else except the blog networks, is that other content more suited for my tastes, is only a URL away. I have no commitment, no subscription or any other reason to ever look back.

Thus I think the point to take home, is that you should listen to your users / readers, no matter how obnoxious or "trollish" they might chose to express themselves. It's easy to just dismiss and ignore a point of view, if it's expressed with profanity. But below the profanity, there is usually a reason or argument, which you must find and listen to. At least if it's a recurring theme (i.e. "the new design sucks").

If you don't listen, you risk loosing your "loyal" users, probably much faster than you ever thought possible.
mirror

http://google.com/search?strip=1&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fww...
The upper bound is going to change with the material, because the quality is most fragile at high frequencies - the place where the most data is needed. Speech uses a different frequency range from distorted guitar, and a different range from a synthesized bass tone. When you hear the metallic-swirl artifacts in low bitrate MP3s, it's always coming from the highs of cymbals and electric guitars.

With the lower bound recommendation, they are guaranteeing that you will affect _any_ material by going below 32kbps, which is a useful piece of data; one can optimize material for size by starting there and gradually moving upwards until the sound is as transparent as necessary.
☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝

One cold night, when the temperature was just at that comfortable temperature below freezing, clouds began to form in the heavens. Before long, these clouds let forth a surplus of unique, sticky snowflakes. These snowflakes came to litter the ground. A child looked out and observed his frontyard which had been transformed into a winter wonderland. Rushing outside, he rolled the snow into 3 large orbs descending in size; thus he made the snow into the likeness of a man. The sun was shining warm as he worked. All was happy.

However, as the sun continued to come out, the falling snow quickly turned to rain. The rain came down upon the snow, and working with the sunlight, the snow quickly went away. As the snow disappeared, so too did the snowman. The snowman bore a slow death as he melted to the ground. Such sorrow was wrought, until the final death had at last approached.
That's a danger with any management - it is all too easy to overvalue what is easy to measure and more or less ignore what is hard. I have read about problems caused by that in everything from the military through software engineering in the present. It is also referred to as "you get more of whatever you measure".
what is the point of telling hacker news? those that use gmail will know it's down, those that don't, don't care.
What's the deal with Tumblr, GoodReads et. al no longer being allowed in Facebook?
Interesting.

@edw519 get more karma in a day than me in some 388 days.
All I want for xmas* is for others like me to get healthier. To that end, I am working on rewriting the index page to my website this very evening, in hopes it will make more sense to people and make the site more useful/helpful/effective and make it less likely my "kooky" ideas will be rejected out of hand by the folks who could most benefit from them.

* (and $150,000 -- but it's for a good cause, I swear!)

PS -- What is the correct spelling of "kooky"?
If you have a slightly slower connection, it's not really gibberish. It's a page that has a ton of binary data in it, and then some JS to introspect itself and evaluate it.
I think unique has a specific meaning in your context which isn't what the standard definition of unique means. There are never two people in a carrier's database assigned to the same number. It can however be assigned to another person as long as it is deassigned from the previous person. The number, at any point, is always unique.
> There's no reasonable way to implement this.

Oh, really? Azure wants to have a word with you ... Yes, currently they don't enable this for subscriptions with commitment plans or with pay-as-you-go pricing, but it is not because it is not possible or feasible, as you argue - the technical infrastructure in the form of spending limits, spending budgets and quotas is there [1-3] and is available for select plans [4].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billi...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/set-an-azure...

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...

[4] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-detail...
If your physician diagnoses a 3 year old child with ADHD, find a new physician.
It sounds like you’re assuming I’d want unqualified people to comment freely in an open debate

Actually I am not assuming anything. I clearly said I wasn't sure, which leaves the possibilities open.

assuming that every biologist/chemist/virologist came to the same conclusion

Not really, because I don't know every single scientist. I am still talking about the ones in my area. A couple of which I've talked to and those all agreed. And again: the conclusion at the start was not "there is high risk", it was "we do not know how high the risk is". The default mode of scientists is "we do not know" so I hope you see it's pretty easy for a group of scientists to all agree on that. Much, much easier than agreeing on something else because that requires thorough research. But basically you are right on this one: I obvisouly do not have hard evidence all possible scientists agreed they didn't know the actual risks for surface transmission, I just assume they all admit that.

I don’t recall hearing all sides of the issue.

There are many factors which influence that of course. Media in general can be problematic passing through everything.

Somebody out there surely saw this coming

Of course, but that still doesn't mean those people wouldn't agree with "we do not know for sure".
Hygenic macros are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, though.

The whole point of macros is to control evaluation. Sometimes you want intentional capture; it's not accidental. Throwing out the chainsaw just because a few people use it improperly means you won't be able to cut trees so easily.

But, different people can feel differently about it. :)
I believe that OP is talking about estimating deadlines for yourself. If you estimate a deadline and then due to some reasons your mental state deteriorates, that makes it considerably harder to achieve it. Sales targets and deadlines provided externally would have very different connotations imo.
Location: oakland, ca
Remote: ok!
Willing to relocate: let's talk?
Technologies: full-stack web dev, technical writing, documentation (sphinx/rst, markdown, latex)
Résumé/CV: http://karabonne.com/resume2020.pdf
Email: kara at karabonne dot com

i'm mostly looking for support engineer and technical writing positions - need help putting together a support database, FAQ section, or API documentation? hit me up!