jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've deleted my WhatsApp account 2 months ago even though I also live in a country where WhatsApp is mandatory.

How am I doing so far:
* I miss a lot of work stuff even though some update me on the important stuff through Signal.
* I lost contact with friends I can't communicate with anymore.
* I feel that I have more free time to focus on my family and close friends. Probably because my neighbors can't sneak into my head with things that don't really effect me.
* The frequency I check my phone dropped by 80%.
* Since I closed my instagram account and Facebook acount 8 years ago, I am now "Zuckerberg free".

It's hard but It's Worth it.
Meyer didn't start it, but she did put distinctly more marketing and hype into her role than predecessors which shone a brighter spotlight on the already ensuing downfall. I'd be more inclined to pinpoint the start of it to sometime around Jerry Yang's departure and the revolving door of CEOs between him and Mayer when their tenure was more akin to flailing than building leadership.
Less old, and a little less british: the linn rekursiv was an odd case. http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/rekursiv/
Founder here : We're a startup that uses AI to build web apps. We're planning to launch an alpha by end of feb/early march. Traditionally what people do is hire a programmer (or program themselves).A huge majority of apps these days are data-intensive and they do one or more of these things :

Send Email
Authentication (fb,twitter,etc)
Payments
Save a form
Add an entry
Edit an entry.
List all the entries

Most of these tasks are mundane, take a lot of time to build, test, debug, and deploy. We automate all of that for you. All you do is - drag and drop few things around and our AI engine will build an app + the UI (That'll amaze you for sure) in minutes - saving you weeks of your life. If you want to add features or pivot - Its simple, takes few minutes to edit and publish.
We will not be a compelling product during our alpha, but we will mature over time (in a few months).

Let us know if this sounds exciting, If it does - signup for our alpha program at http://www.cloudboost.io /

Thanks a ton for your time. :)
Would you mind elaborating? As a young developer who wishes to remain a in the engineering track long term, Id like to understand more about how you realized your skill set was no longer “up to par”. I’m surprised computer vision is becoming less relevant, is it because the techniques have shifted from known algorithms that work to using machine learning to develop better algorithms from training?
Do you think any women get ignored on dating sites?
Why single out and question veganism specifically?

Wouldn't vegetarians, religious folks, and alpha-gal syndrome sufferers also want a zero animal-product burger? The market is pretty diverse for this demand.
Vetted properly and consistently like John Worboys was?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
> Vegans have a variety of motivations and yes - some are disgusted by animal products.

I find it hard to believe that such a person would willingly go inside a Burger King in the first place.

I mean, every surface in one of those places is eventually coated with a layer of grease, right?
I don't presently have access to the data. When I did, the relationships were informally noted, though a general relationship seemed to hold.

Looking for "commute distance vs. income" I'm not finding much by way of useful results, though a commute time by state/city (tracked by the US Census) is available. That conflates private vehicle vs. transit use (transit tends to take longer), and congestion vs. distance. For the most part, the data show longer times in urban and coastal states, and much shorter especially in the intermountain / western plains states.

... Except for the deep south, where you'll find both low incomes and long commute times.

That's very broad-scale data, but provides a hint of disparity.

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/aver...
> Pointing out the environmental impact of having biological children is always unpopular here.

1) Because you're treating an idealized version of "the environment" as a terminal goal.

2) The people most likely to agree with your argument are precisely the ones who should be having more kids.
Well, let's extend that argument out to the marketplace:
Any company can make any claim they want about their products and then if it becomes too expensive to actually deliver that product they can swap in something inferior and in fact contrary to the original offer.

This is a problem between BK management and the franchises. You can't blame the consumer for expecting to receive the product as advertised. If it's too complicated to produce, don't offer it.
The only sensible answer is opportunity cost. I’ve worked with a few startups that have axed entirely profitable products because they could get a better ROI by defunding those products, and directing that investment into their core competency. In the cases of this that I’ve been involved with, it’s always turned out to be a very good decision.
Not true. Read it again -- the partnership is different. Readability was stripping away stuff long before it's partnership with Instapaper, and Safari incorporated it long before said partnership.
The resource is internet access everywhere. Everyone benefits from open wifi, but any individual benefits by locking down their own wifi. So everyone locks down their own wifi, and nobody has internet access, and we're all worse off.

I'm not sure it's a tragedy of the commons per se, but it's a collective action problem of one sort or another.
Holy crap that's awesome. FF4 = no choppyness w/ my mbp '10
I like his arguments since they are logical and backed up with data. But at the same time I never would have bought the app if I didn't use "free" for several weeks and got the idea it was useful.

This is after reading about Instapaper everywhere and hearing from close friends that it's almost the main reason they even have an iPhone (which was probably an overstatement on their part).

Edit: Can we please stop the tired argument of "you paid 600$+ for the device, what difference is 5.00$..."?

It's like people who pay 6000$ for a HDTV don't mind paying 100$ for the HDMI cable. Some people do indeed do that, but I for one determine the value of an app or accessory based on the sunken costs of the device. I value a HDMI cable's value at about 5-10$ because that is the cost of a quality one from Monoprice.
Man, Ubuntu's changed a lot since I used it last (8.0 days). They've taken a lot of UI cues from the mobile space (app stores, launchers) and adapted it to the desktop.
It's more that demos by JavaScript programmers tend not to use jQuery — I think it's a pride thing: “I'm not going to load this huge JavaScript library to support this ten-line demo, and I'll look classier for it.”

jQuery doesn't much care what web server you’re using, and it (or similar) is bound to turn up in any project of significant size or browser compatibility.
As far as I can tell, the closest things currently in existence are:
1: Writing workshops
2: Short-fiction magaziness

#1 is open to anyone who has the cash to get in the door, but isn't well set up for establishing long-term mentorship relationships.

#2 is good for long-term mentorship relationships, but you have to already be a pretty good writer to get your foot in the door and the price of entry is selling the rights to your work. Also, a "slow-starter" with the potential to become a world-class novelist might never get off the ground under this system.

I'd love to see someone establish independent coaching services for developing writers, but I think there are some significant difficulties. The biggest problem is: where do you get the coaches? Good traditional publishers and editors are good at mentoring authors because they have years of experience acquired by slowly working their ways up through the traditional publishing industry.

I'd like to believe that there are other ways to make great editors, but there's no substitute for experience. You would need a seed of experienced editors from the traditional industry and they would have to do double-duty mentoring both aspiring authors and aspiring editors. Eventually you might be able to get to the point where you have a self-sustaining community where the authors have reputations based on their work and editors have reputations based on the quality of the authors and editors they have mentored.
It was turned off too
I think it is a matter of experience : we learn to ride bikes at 3yo and are expected to bike to school at 11/12yo on our own.

It sounds like the vehicle overtaking was a situation we would have recognized and adapted to ( the other vehicle probably was taking a left turn ).
new visual basic / Delphi?
That might work, but it might be better to ask directly. She should be able to control how her music is released. Someone should talk to Google directly about how that can happen and get a clear answer for everyone.
4) I remember seeing somethig that compiled LoC totals for the major erlang projects, and they were very compact repo's. I can't find it right now, but e.g. rabbitMQ core is ~12K, couchdb is 20K incl. javascript (ejabberd is a much bigger repo)

http://www.rabbitmq.com/resources/RabbitMQ_Introduction.pdf

http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/17618
Care to enlighten us the exact APIs you consider archaic? "Unix/C APIs" isn't exactly precise --- there are the POSIX APIs which are fairly standard that Linux and the BSDs mostly support; in addition, there are the platform-specific APIs that are constantly updated for modern use-cases. I find most of these APIs intuitive and stable.

In contrast, I don't like some of Python's abstractions, the "subprocess" being (IMO) a particularly weird way to abstract a pipe.
Violent crime is a broader category than murder. Although the UK has a lower murder rate than the US, it has a higher overall rate of violent crime.
Here's the original report: http://pewforum.org/Income-Distribution-Within-US-Religious-...

And a breakdown of the unaffiliated grouping: (The sample size is said to be 35,000)
Atheist:
100k+: 28%
50-100k: 31%
30-50k: 20%
<30k: 21%

Agnostic: (whatever the difference in reporting means)
100k+: 25%
50-100k: 35%
30-50k: 22%
<30k: 18%

I think in this example, religions affiliation is mostly an indicator of social and economic class, educational trends and the economic reality of immigration opportunities (like in the case of most Hindus) rather than the prevalence of certain religions to earn more. It's also interesting to note that the makers of the graph choose to include such small groups such as Hindu and Buddhist (At .4% and .7% of the population) and attribute the atheist and agnostic population to 1.6% and 2.4%

Further differences in these statistics are the age breakdowns of the different groups and the cultural and social trends that influence the senior members to remain working a longer time. There are differences between religious belief between age groups, and differences in income as well (generally getting higher with age).

The study goes into detail, comparing the educational levels of the different religious groups. Compared to the national average of 11% with post-grad degrees, Jewish and Hindu practitioners are at 35 and a staggering 48%. Atheists and agnostics are a about tied for fourth at 20%, after Buddhists at 26%. Gender seems to play an issue as well, for example atheists are more than twice as likely to be men.
It's awesome you want to help development of the this magnificent text editor: you can help in two ways I can think on top of my mind, if you browse the www.vim.org site, I'm sure you will find more ways.

1. it's open source project: donate your development time, write documentation, develop useful scripts, anything you can really...
2. you still can donate money, regardless of helping the children in Uganda, because "donations increase Bram's motivation to keep working on Vim". That's a good cause, wouldn't you agree?
I've switched Youtube to HTML5 video and that solved their problems. :)
Indeed, Flash is a lot slower on non-Windows platforms but if you have to use it, it's usable.
I just realized, I only gave you descriptions for your options, although I did give my suggestion (work at small startup).

If you have a great idea and feel comfortable with the entire web stack, apply to YC or other comparable programs. If that doesn't work out, then work at a small startup. If you can't get that, maybe you go to grad school. Thats probably my best advice.
Correct URL:
http://operawatir.org/
I don't have confidence that (in the case of the EU) the same politicians that just claimed that they couldn't foresee any problems with mass production, did everything they could've done to ramp up production last summer. On the contrary the EU ordered quite late and less than they got offered from the vendors. In addition, the EU doubled the ordered doses only this January from 300M (100M of those were optional) to 600M from Biontech, after some EU member states also made additional orders. Imagine these orders would've been made in July. That might have provided the financial incentive for the vendor to e.g. ramp up an additional production line or factory in summer. I can't say whether this would have helped or not, but I certainly don't have the feeling the EU did everything they could have done to make the vaccine available as soon as possible.

My 81-year old grandparents will get their first dose of vaccine on February 28, while other countries are already vaccinating much younger people.
They were already paying what they were paying. You can either get same talent at lower salaries or higher salaries and better talent.
>The vast majority of essential services (e.g. food, housing) are not publicly funded, so the analogy doesn't really work

Those aren't "services", so there's that.

In many countries, however, power companies, the water company, central banks, rails, the hospital system, universities, etc, are, or were before the neoliberal attack, public.
I call this Vuvuzela Justice; without the piping-sounds. Rock On Venezuela!
That doesn't make any sense. It has eyes and ears and the training data is the environment.
Unfortunately np.vectorize doesn’t do anything smart.

From the docs:

The vectorize function is provided primarily for convenience, not for performance. The implementation is essentially a for loop.
that's the scary part: daytime demand is much higher.
Germany is fine with you not being able to ingest their documentation. If there is ever a need to do anything it would be the need for you to learn German and the need for anyone monolingual to learn a second language. The more balance in the world the better place it would be.
I had to check to double-check to make sure it wasn't April 1st today.
Finding someone who can setup Postgres wal archiving and replication

Your $50 database doesn't need that. A simple backup works fine for a great many people.

I don't think your argument holds any merit at the level of hosting costs we talk about.

In order to match the performance of a measly $50/mo dedicated server you'll pay in the ballpark of $1300/mo to Heroku (16GB DB + 16 "dynos"). In between these two figures there's a lot of merit to be had.

have you looked at what is involved in upgrading to say Postgres 9.3 from 9.1

Yes, you stop the db, run pg_upgrade, and start the db.

But as you correctly state, most people in this bracket have no reason to upgrade their database software ever.
100x 0 lines = 0 right lines
For places like San Diego (sprawled and in a climate without snow), in the worst case you can opt for a motorbike or a scooter. That will give you mobility and avoid some of the car's drawbacks. It would be better if you won't have to own any transport though.
Another small step of society pulling the moral wool over their eyes in exchange for convenience...
It really only needs to be on for a few seconds after pressing the button to connect to wifi, and submit the order. No need for it to be in sleep mode.

I doubt the battery is even replaceable.
You still have to make the effort to scan it though, right?
>It’s the whole Ruby sexism debate all over again, I guess.

I must've missed that one. Sounds like a barrel of laughs.
I didn't add my FB Account at all, so it had nothing to pull from there.
But on a more general note - are these devices just to keep kids entertained? Might not be a bad idea, but it needs to be positioned as such.

My guess is that the game portion of the device will be mostly used by kids. Adults will probably try it once out of curiosity.
Sure, but do I want to deal with the consequences ... no.
PHP has its own beauty, such as arrays which can support numeric and string indexes at the same time.

Rarely do I actually spit on my keyboard.

Not only do most other languages do associative arrays properly, so, you know, numeric and string indices don't clobber each other, but they also don't explode when indexed with, say, anything but decimal literals. You seriously think this is beautiful behavior?

http://aphyr.com/journals/show/fun-with-php-arrays
Many major airports accept "boarding passes" that are actually 2D barcodes displayed on your mobile phone. I'd expect those would work on the Kindle just fine.
Native for sure. It's too hard to make a web app, let alone a GOOD web app.
> PHP has its own beauty, such as arrays which can support numeric and string indexes at the same time.

What's the difference between PHP's arrays and hashtables/dictionaries/etc in languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript?

As a Python programmer (who started with PHP years ago), PHP's arrays now seem sort of muddled or confusing. I prefer Python's dedicated list/dict types (though nothing is stopping you from mixing numeric and string keys in a dict).
I never claimed that his version wasn't better, but the parent stated that "It takes up less space, and you have to carry around only one object instead of two."

My point was that you didn't necessarily have to carry around 2 things.
Ehum.. What? Yeah there were a lot of shit webpages back in the day, but there was also what became came ebay, facebook, google, etc, etc.

I don't see a lot of debian apps doing better than facebook..
Everyone seems so concerned about the Linux desktop. I don't see the problem with Linux as being the dekstop itself. Coming from using only OS X, think that the problem is the applications available to run on the desktop. In my experience, there are no Linux apps that match the ease of use and well-designed-ness of whatever the closest analogue would be on Mac.
Yes, just like the dot com boom, this growth is unsustainable.

But again, just like the dot com boom, once the market has matured to blow away the chaff, what remains will have proven pretty game-changing.
Hehe, a proxy cashing PUTs can spice up your REST experience. How exactly will the proxy know someone else haven't updated a resource between 2 requests and it's safe not to pass the 2nd request to server?
> Words like "insurrection" and "coup" are being thrown around, even though there was clearly no path from "protesters enter capital" to "protesters seize government power"

The protestors were the agents, not beneficiaries, of the coup, and the path that was sought was intimidating sufficient members of Congress (counting the VP as such) into action associated with, or making sufficient intransigent members unavailable for, the completion of the electoral count to have Trump declared the winner.

> Using the word "insurrection" also portions people for activating the"Insurrection Act" and using military for policing.

If one wanted to use the assault on the Capitol overtly targeting legislators including the Vice President to justify using the military for policing, there’s no reason to use the Insurrection Act, one would simply cite the provisions of the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970 regarding “Congressional, Cabinet, and Supreme Court assassination, kidnapping, and assault” (18 USC Sec. 351; which includes attempts) and “Presidential and Presidential staff assassination, kidnapping, and assault” (18 USC Sec. 1751; which includes in its scope both attempts, and completed and attempted acts against the VP); both of which include explicit authority for assistance in enforcement from “from any Federal, State, or local agency, including the Army, Navy, and Air Force, any statute, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.” The Insurrection Act is actually much more narrow in the purposes and manner in which the military can be employed.

> Trump supporters had absolutely nothing to gain from storming the capitol

I tend to agree, actually; while it clearly was an attempted self-coup it was a mind-bogglingly ill-conceived attempt.

But they clearly thought they had something to gain, and many of them (including Trump himself on inciting them, framing it as giving courage to members of Congress who he portrayed as secretly supportive in the attempt to detail the count but cowardly without reinforcement from the mob) made very clear what it was: assuring that Biden’s election was overturned and Trump retained power.
I don't believe that repealing or modifying 230 is right, all websites deserve the protections it provides.

However, I do believe that social media feeds and the companies or people that thrive on them are a cancer on society that need be to regulated into hell and never brought out again.

If people are going to get upset about recent events and how companies are reacting, I would really prefer it if they focus on what the root cause is, instead of trying to get a one up on their enemies.
Great initiative: FYI: I help devs find indy (and regular) books on crypto (programming). The good books @ https://openblockchains.github.io/crypto-books/ The bad and ugly @ https://openblockchains.github.io/bitcon-books/

PS: Again the website sources and data are public domain / open. Fork aways for other languages / topics more than welcome :-).
Probably putting the comment too deep to be noticed but racism (or xenophobia) has always been there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Polish_craftsmen#Str...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1619_Jamestown_craftsmen_strik...

The Jamestown craftsmen's strike of 1619 took place in the settlement of Jamestown in the Virginia colony.[1] It was the first documented strike in North America.[2] Skilled craftsmen were sent by the Virginia Company to Jamestown to produce pitch, tar, and turpentine used for shipbuilding.[3] When the colony held its first election in 1619, many settlers were not allowed to vote on the grounds that they were not of English descent, and they went on strike.[2] Due to the importance of the skilled workers in producing valuable naval stores for the colony, company leaders bowed to labor pressure and gave full voting rights to continental workers.[1]
Demeaning someone is free speech. It is speech. People are not obligated to like you. They're not even obligated to have a good reason to dislike you. They're allowed to say that they don't like you for whatever stupid reason they have. That's freedom for you. The alternative is worse.
My issue with Signal is inability to send SMS to short codes (premium/service codes). There is a very old issue [1] which was closed by an automated cleanup bot. Every other SMS app can send SMS to short codes, Signal cannot.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/5866
“Wall of text rationalization”

That’s a great term. They write dozens of inaccurate statements stitched together with their own emotional baggage. What’s the result?

You have no idea where to attack/address/start because their entire wall of text is riddled with false assumptions and straight misinformation.

Never seen one Trump supporter have clear, cogent thoughts.
Minor nitpick: After all, T-3 was in some sense the literal high seas, being high-latitude frozen seawater.

T-3 was an iceberg calved from a glacier, and thus frozen freshwater.