jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> For instance, they could easily jam or run out of product. They could erroneously dispense several bank notes instead of just one—all without the owner's knowledge.

I think this impresses me the most about ATMs. I've never personally experienced an ATM dispensing incorrectly. In fact, it wasn't till many years and many ATM transactions before it even occurred to me that mistakes could be made.

I presume they don't happen very often because I have no idea what I would do if something did happen? Who do I talk to if it debits 100 from my account but only dispenses 80? What if it's a bank error in my favor? Is it mine to keep?

Unrelated - I now use my phone to deposit checks rather then the ATM.
Unrelated 2 - I now use ATMs to do currency exchange rather then dedicated currency shops.
Yes, that is an uncredited photo of my CA rule, also known as Rudy's Ranch. By the way, if you want the "real" story on Turing, check out my SF novel, TURING & BURROUGHS, of 2012, available in paperback, ebook, and free CC ebook. http://www.rudyrucker.com/turingandburroughs/
I don't need a control case to observe that the whale's movement pattern at least identifies the drawn wakes.
Hm, that guide has lot of bullshit. Who cares about 4 different forces? Just invent unified theory and compress it into single formula :-)
> All of a sudden I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class

Isn't it at least a bit more important whether she was frustrated? Did she want to be "pulled out"? Or did she leave?

I say this as someone who switched schools a few times, both of which was due to having a terrible time and my parents offering.

But I had a normal highschool experience, learned a lot about civics and a bit about history and literature. I mucked about with computers in my spare time, did a math undergrad, work in software dev now. I had a lot of support from my family, but they never made my decisions for me.

Ed: And I'm literally one of those devs who was given a book on programming at age 10 and never looked back. But at no point was highschool a waste of time. (Middle school, on the other hand...)
I'm not saying I disagree that it's stupid, I'm saying the downvotes are because people here don't want to read comments saying "if you can't do this you are stupid" (and nothing else).

Although I do actually disagree - it's like the saying "if you agree to give people 'just a minute' of your time then very soon, all together, they will take 100% of your time and clamour for more" - in computing and many other everyday things, every system you deal with has "something trivial" that you "just have to learn" until it seems my whole life is taken up with "just a simple thing" details that I don't care about which don't help me achieve anything.

As has been mentioned elsewhere in these comments, new Apple keyboards in the UK do have these symbols on them! So why not in the US? Then 'just learning' wouldn't be relevant and the whole scenario would have passed by unremarkably.
Obviously the command line version is going to suit most people here better. That is completely missing the point.

This will be perfect for those of us who work in teams with less technical people who still need r/w access to repositories. This will save us from training the designer and manager types in our organisations to use the command line tools, and as such will pay for itself.
Sorry, but that just looks confusing. Easy to stick with the shell tools.
Command line version suits me well. If I need xcode integration, I can use xcode 4 preview, which has merging tools and code comparison boiled in.

By the way the site talks about a discount until Dec 1, I guess I'd skip that discount no matter what, as others mentioned a tool called Git Tower which seems to have a pleaser UI.

Some sites also suggested another open sourced Git UI called Gity http://gngrwzrd.com/ other than GitX which to me is just another blend of git-gui.
In the OSS part Gitnub (https://github.com/Caged/gitnub) is a UI for Github and Git in general, but this one is not pure Cocoa (requires RubyCocoa.
I've thought the argument in "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" is very insightful. Viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM. Pointing out that the Atkins diet (no carbs, fat okay) and the Japanese diet (mostly carbs, low fat intake) have in common that they eliminate sugar, the major cause of obesity.
You can also control virtualbox from the command line such as:

VBoxManage startvm "Your Machine Name"

http://andunix.net/info/virtualbox/cli
Your obligations are spelled out in the contract, and defaulting is (normally) a legitimate course of action.

The bank and you made a mutually beneficial contract: the bank loans you money, and in return you promise to give them back their money plus interest or your collateral. If you've elected to assign a moral value to one of your options, it can only hurt you.

I've never done this myself, so definitely make sure you know what you're getting into.
PhD students are essentially junior employees of the university. They're either teaching or conducting research, so they're getting paid (largely in the form of free tuition).

Masters students are customers buying an extra year or two of education.
What about using `wget --mirror` (with the set of right command line arguments to adjust it to your needs) on a local dynamic site to obtain a fully functional static copy that you can then upload to any server?
I can't say this enough. The most underused tool in OpenSource community.

https://build.opensuse.org/

Quote:
The openSUSE Build Service is the public instance of the Open Build Service (OBS) used for development of the openSUSE distribution and to offer packages from same source for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise and other distributions..
A cross-platform code builder and the missing library manager (Atmel AVR & SAM, Freescale Kinetis, Nordic nRF51, NXP LPC, ST STM32, TI MSP430 & Tiva, Teensy, Arduino, mbed, libOpenCM3, etc.)

PlatformIO is independent from the platform where it is running (the only requirement is Python, which exists pretty much everywhere).
Harmony has been replaced by Dream of China already. lol
But it makes them misplaced. It's not about Apple, or Apple Watch; it's about luxury items in general. But if you remove the apple watch from the title, it suddenly becomes an ordinary anti-capitalism rant instead of Apple-bashing clickbait.
Capitalism is just a social control system to replace previous control systems like "religion" and "nationalism." It provides a general rules-set for the average person to follow and believe in while allowing for greatly artificial and generally negative social gradients and stratification.

For example, why should an ignorant hotel-heiress be afforded one of the limited opportunities to flee the degraded Earth simply because she happens to possess more imaginary points than a skilled technician or competent farmer? Her real-social-utility is quite low compared to someone with functional capabilities and her "great wealth" is directly derived from the environmental degradation she is hoping to flee.
Back from the days when Uber was not the 362.874kg gorilla, there was a nice write-up about how it made a difference in underserved neighborhoods.

> There’s no way to tell which will happen until it happens—and so, I rarely bother to try hailing a cab. Neither do my neighbors. And the paucity of potential fares in my part of town—a relatively low-income, low-density neighborhood—also makes it harder to get cabs back home from other neighborhoods. Technically, it’s illegal for D.C. cabdrivers to refuse a fare within the District, but then, technically, it’s also illegal to drive above the speed limit, jaywalk..

The cabdrivers have their own litany. They drive long hours for little money: the average cabdriver earns $27,060 a year, before expenses. They are at high risk for traffic accidents and, because they carry a lot of cash, for robbery. When drivers turn down fares to neighborhoods like mine, it’s not because they don’t want to miss a second of The Diane Rehm Show while they take my cash and make change. Those trips, where they probably won’t get a return fare, and must instead burn time and gas while the meter’s off, can mean the difference between profit and loss for the day; cabbies can’t afford too many of them.

What I’m describing is a classic market failure: people who are willing to do business together can’t make it happen. If taxis and passengers only knew how to find each other, and could strike deals that would appeal to both, everyone would be better off. Why can’t we fix this?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-...
Isn't this what history -d is for? I always delete passwords and important information from my bash history.
What is the point of putting the tl;dr at the bottom, or the middle, or anywhere but the very top?
Why in the world do you need XML over USB? Analysis of what? Blood pressure measurements consist of two freaking numbers (and it's not the small daily fluctuations that people care about to begin with...)

FWIW, wrist monitors do go for around $30
http://www.google.com/search?q=blood+pressure+monitor+wrist
Anybody knows which NoSQL project they chose?
But I already get all the fine art I need from Limewire...
i use ssh -D plus FoxyProxy on a daily basis, it's made my life a whole lot easier!
I don't know that this discussion has anywhere left to go, but I thought I quoted the relevant part in the HIG already. The desktop is a metaphor. HIG says don't redefine iPhone OS metaphors. The picture frame app invokes the desktop metaphor. The iPhone OS already has a desktop metaphor, in the form of Springboard. Therefore, picture frame app is redefining an iPhone OS metaphor, and the app gets rejected. This is a reasonable application of the rules. You could certainly quibble with it. But reasonable does not imply optimal, or that the rules couldn't stand revision.

Also, this is the sort of issue we can obstinately disagree over without consulting data, but I really doubt that even non-tech savvy users are going to identify a screenshot of this app as a picture frame. I've never seen a picture frame with a bunch of widgets on it, at least until I saw this app. I'd consider it far more likely that non-tech savvy users have seen a computer desktop with widgets on it and a picture for a background.
MSFT has a history of spouting out bs claims about its own browser superiority over others. They have recently going after Google Chrome at full stream[1]. They obviously feels threatened by the new comer. As for me, I can't wait for them to die.

[1] http://geektechnica.com/2010/04/microsoft-continues-its-trad...
Metacomment: I find it amusing that I got more upvotes for providing attribution for a refutation of my own minor criticism of Etude than for my original comment actually discussing Etude.

I guess I'm being rewarded for admitting and embracing my own wrongness!
Thanks for the link! Appscale looks a bit limited for production use, but definitely will play around with it!

Re: open source. We might just brute force it for now. If not, we'll definitely pretty it up at some point and open source it. At the very least we can publish our learnings.
This is a good site for "regular people" suggestions:

http://www.experienceproject.com/groups.php?c=health-wellnes...
Only hiring people who you think view the position as their dream job tends to be the same companies who will proceed to milk every bit of life out of the applicant as possible. Some people take work, work hard, and do an excellent job for the paycheck, not so they can join your corporate culture.
> Almost none of the past predictions have turned true. Ever.

Could you link to a meta-analysis of climate research that shows this?
I solved a bug at my company that was costing $10k per month. The whole thing was not acknowledged because the leaders were embarrassed and probably afraid of repercussions for not realizing they were pouring that much money down the drain. (this was at a small company). Then I was sidelined by the CEO (a marketing guy) because I wasn't "senior enough" to do the job, whatever that means. I wasn't good enough, but the system I built for them is apparently still running several years after I left and looks the same.
That doesn't work.

The attack recovers an ECDSA private key for one account. So e.g. maybe your Google account. But this key does not exist when you receive the Titan in its packaging, it's created (randomly) when you enroll the key for your Google account.

These devices create entirely random ECDSA private keys for every single enrollment, and this attack recovers one key, using a real challenge from the relying party for that key. If they want your GitHub, or Facebook or your US government account, those have separate keys which need a separate attack.
I don’t have much experience here. There are a lot of recommendations in these comments though.
No, because they're going to get pardoned, and Congress will not take the only remedy that prevents it from happening.
Surprisingly many of the people who stole souvenirs from the Capitol were willing to tell reporters their full names and hometowns
There are lots of symptoms and consequences, but the core reason is the simple fact that people don't want their child to be put at a disadvantage; consequently they are reluctant to a) experiment on their own child with an innovative program, for fear it will disadvantage them or b) allow others to experiment with innovations that their own child does not have access to, for fear it will give the others an advantage.

For a public school to innovate requires them to first overcome a) by showing clear evidence that the innovation really works (not easy when you're talking about educational programs that take years to bear fruit), then overcome b) by implementing the innovation broadly enough for everyone to participate (generally much too expensive for the community to support). All the other usual scapegoats (unions, standard tests, Texas textbook companies) are marginal influences compared to this pervasive feature of human nature. As usual, we have met the enemy and he is us.
When I replied earlier I missed the productivity bit.

That was just one point that came out of the TC chat, but arguably it makes sense when you think about it. Those little bits of exercise now and then really do refresh you and help with stress... There's a lot of discussion in general on HN about the benefits of exercise.
I think what you have here is more an argument for making sure there are redundancies in who has access to your vital systems.

Not so sure how my loved ones would feel about my employer asking to go through my personal effects if I was in a coma.
I hadn't heard this story until I listened to the latest Java Posse episode (http://javaposse.com/java-posse-332-newscast-for-dec-10th-20...). Thought it would be a good Friday read.
That and the amount of exercise I do each day is increasing (from zero before I started using FitFu...) and I actually WANT to do it now, which has never been the case before!
I don't think he did... took me a couple of passes, but it parsed in the end.
Too many stupid people are saying too many bad things about the OpenBSD project for this to be a net positive for him.

After all, he doesn't really profit from a free audit, and all the auditing I've seen so far has been done by the OpenBSD team itself.
Yes, only build those things that will increase usage metrics. Get daily feedback from users and delight them with your solutions. Rinse and repeat to greatness.
Does there need to be a 12-step program for gadget addiction?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program
Galbraith was arguing that the current level of government debt is managable, not that any level of government debt is managable. If your interpretation were true, the government could spend limitless amounts with no tax. Do you think that is a viable scenario?
This is an amazing slide:
http://imgur.com/MbIuc.png
Even after you weed out all the consultants and what not, how many of these are actually sellable businesses? And how many are things like photo studios, etc?
A "Flash crash" triggered by Apple? Funny.
Maybe he wants to apply the cluebat from the inside? If some at Sequoia saw the wisdom in what they were saying, that might have been why they hired him....
I strongly disagree: the author is trying to make a specific point, mostly by using long quotes from the original article, but he adds various links about the point and his own commentary.

And it's an important point: if you accept VC money in this post-Sarbox don't expect an IPO exit environment keeping control is going to be nearly impossible. The best possible outcome is selling your company to another and most of the time that doesn't end happily for the founders.
While this seems interesting, what the hell is it?
The 140% tuition increase over the past decade might contribute to the sense of urgency about graduating.
There's http://dromaeo.com/?jslib by John Resig. Chrome is pretty good at it.
The problem with employees losing interest because they've already gotten paid is one we've faced before, and one that's easily solved. Vesting. Hell, if you don't want your employees to sell out before the IPO, simply set your vesting schedule so that nobody vests pre-IPO.

Really, the only difference here is that now it's /possible/ to let people vest and cash out before the IPO.

To me, this seems like a simple work-around to the regulatory rules that make IPOs difficult. If the market was regulated like it was 1998, twitter, facebook, groupon, etc, etc... would all have IPO'd some time ago, and employees would have cashed out the old fashioned way.

I guess this does mean that companies need to be more careful about vesting schedules... the article seemed to say that the guy doing the selling worked at facebook 6 months. It seems pretty funny to me that much anything would vest in that time period.
Any other examples of bugs that you can search for?
In V8 Object.create(arg) is implemented roughly as var o = {}; o.__proto__ = arg. The first statement sets the default hidden class for the newly created object. Since hidden classes in V8 capture the prototype structure as well, it has to change in the second statement. Now the problem is that unlike with normal properties no hidden class transition happens and we get a brand new hidden class each time.
Get around the blogger problem by generating a referral token for each blogger to use in linking to your site, and show them the token/link in their account page.

Make the rules so that a blog post referral only requires a single click - that way you can verify that the blog post is from who they say they are

Once you have that infrastructure, you can use it as a more generalized referral system for people that want to tweet out a link to your product, etc. For eg. every tweet referral signup gets you a free month

There are hordes of freelancers out there who do nothing but affiliate marketing. For those types, you want to send them 30-50% of revenue. There are entire products to do this for you - cj.com et al. Their referrals made up over 50% of new users on a product I worked on previously.
I always assumed it was because HN is somewhat specific to YC and SV startups, and pretty much everything that YC and other VCs are investing in right now is mobile and/or web stuff.

There are plenty of other tech jobs, just not necessarily in the startups that YC focuses on.
The only way to learn a language not by memorizing it is listening, reading and talking. There are no shortcuts.
My first thought on it was that I love it and I want one, my second thought was that its really sad they don't have a thinkpad-like rubberized alloy case but only a subpar mac-like shell available. Tastes differ, I guess.
This is a great example of a problem where Apple has placed their own financial interests above their users.

They could make their computers and phones highly upgradeable and repairable, they're brilliant at these kinds of engineering challenges, but they choose not to because they would (presumably) not make as much money as they currently do.

But that leaves an opportunity for others to come along, like this company, and serve the market better than Apple.

I hope this company succeeds at least enough to force Apple's hand, in the way Tesla forced automakers to move to EVs.
> Who made these accusations

Random redditors, and they were quoted by CNBC and the like

The post I replied to asked what people are demanding. They are demanding that institutions not lie to manipulate the market. I am not claiming this lying ever took place.

> The only "evidence" I've ever seen in support of those accusations is repeated citation of short interest.

In addition to that, they claimed that volume in GME was not high enough for the shorts to be closed. I'm not familiar enough with the markets to know what I don't know here though.
both replies to this question are equally correct :-)
Shorting is risky since it's not solely a bet on that the asset value will go down, but rather a bet on when exactly it will go down.
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." - History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Thank you! I am planning to continue my studies after the internship :)
note that matomo makes it very hard (impossible?) to automate updates when self-hosted, which is the reason i abandoned them on my personal projects in favor of goatcounter (for the time being until i find a simple, self-hostable option).
These kinds of ideas always get traction here on HN or similar places (slashdot), but I think that ship has long sailed. People, by and large, seem to be totally okay with storing data in the cloud -- from Dropbox, to Google Docs, to InVision. All things considered, data breaches are rare, and if they do happen, they're usually to be blamed on configuration blunders, not the services at large.

Other than a few highly-specialized niches (InfoSec, government, military), the de-facto reality is that online-first collaboration pros seem to outweigh the cons.
You are confusing two things here: 1) the problems that for-profit journals bring, and 2) the supposed problems that all academic journals have, regardless of whether they are published by a for-profit or a non-profit publisher.

In certain fields, journals continue to be published by non-profit learned societies that now, in the digital era, make their articles freely available to all. And they certainly do verify what they publish inasmuch as the peer review process is rigorous and challenging, and even the most esteemed authors end up having to make major corrections to the paper to pass that review.

If you think journals as a vetted, reputable venue for scientific debate no longer have a place, just go look at Academia.edu today where anyone can sign up and participate in discussion sessions. The result: crackpots, cranks, and wacko alt-history or racist/nationalist extremists take over those discussion sessions, drowning out the actual scholars. Thank goodness for journals.
>pornography has been linked to human trafficking

Water has also been linked to human rights abuses in the form of waterboarding.
> and there's no broad reason to use Python 2 anymore, with minor exceptions.

If you count big chunks of legacy python 2 code a "minor exception", I agree.

Anyway, the big difference between python 2 -> 3 transition and the Perl 5 and Perl 6 coexistence is that nobody within the Perl community tried to end-of-live Perl 5.

Yes, that means less incentives for migrating to Perl 6, but it also reduces the risk for Perl 5 users.
I'm a current Stanford undergrad. Most Stanford kids are able to pay for their "student contribution" by getting on campus work-study jobs (like in the Library or career development center), working as dorm staff in the underclassmen dorms, or working as paid researchers in professors' labs.