jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> commodity

It's not really a commodity. More of a currency.

> you want high price for a longer period of time, but are turned off by the exact and only mechanism in which it gets there - large % and large $ amount price increases. fascinating.

I'm not saying it's worth nothing. If bitcoin stays above 5k for a long time, i'm willing to say it's worth at least 5k. If it stays above 50k for a long time, i'll come around and say it's worth at least 50k.

> I’d like to leave you with an alternative tool for valuing, and its just scarcity.

Scarcity alone doesn't mean anything. I can create a cryptocurrency any time that's scarce. Doesn't make it valuable.

> Bitcoin’s not a company so dont use company comparisons.

The only commodity that it is comparable to is gold and maybe a few other precious metals that serve as value stores. And gold, for one, has held high value for thousands of years. Maybe it doesn't have intrinsic value in the way that canned beans do, but the chances of it being near worthless tomorrow are very very low since it has a 5000+ year track record. On the other hand, yes, there's seasonality and volatility in things like oil and pigs, but there are also real world use cases for those.
Just speak to him :)
I use http://www.minklinks.com/ to email links to friends and to myself. I'm eating my own dogfood, beta should hit before christmas, signups are still available.
Cool hack, and I noticed that as well (on other non-word objects). However I'd rather it be over- than undereager or slow.
"they still haven't figured out scrolling properly"

Probably because 'proper scrolling' isn't something you can log a job ticket in trac to get addressed by a developer at some point.

It's likely so tied into OS performance that it has to exist at very nearly the top of the hierarchy of goals/needs.

I'm sure it does at Apple... it's a reflection of their DNA.

I'm convinced that the overriding factor in there not being Flash on iOS is because when they were making the first gen iPhone, they would not have been able to get the browser to scroll 'snappily' if they entertained the notion of including the plugin.
But are prisons primarily for rehabilitation or deterrence?If someone were to hurt or kill someone close to me, I would want him to go to prison for punishment, if we couldn't just kill him and be done with it

And this is why the justice system is about punishing people in regards to what is best for society and the community/public as a whole, not judgments based on the need for personal retribution.
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Read recent phd theses. They always have a few chapters at the front giving an overview of the state of the art of their subject area, to prove that the candidate knows it. As for subject area, just sample widely - it's impossible to know what will be useful in advance, and in any case it's all exercise for the brain.
Yeah, I just ran around showing all my coworkers, even the non-tech-savvy ones. Each was blown away. Gladly paid $10 for this.
I'm sorry to be so negative, but I disagree with a lot of those points.

> short_open_tag: Always use the long PHP tags: <?php echo "hello world"; ?> Do not use the echo shortcut <?=.

It's just a minor point, but why are we advocating the longer version which is also more difficult to read? It's not like there are typically any other XML PIs in a PHP file, so there is really no potential for confusion here.

> Use Value Objects (VO)

It may be a widely used J2EE pattern, but that in itself is no justification for using it. I love VOs in JavaScript, they're handy and light-weight, they're the core of what's awesome about JSON. But PHP has perfectly good associative arrays that can do the same job, without all the declarative overhead of VOs. If we're not going to implement behavior inside these objects, really what is the point?

> Use Data Access Objects (DAO)

And once again with the J2EE worship. Why?

> Generate code

This has got to be the most unnecessary of all. Sure, if you're going to use lots of VOs and DAO, you'll probably need code generation, but that's just circular logic. But this is also thoroughly besides the point, and it's a performance nightmare. What happened to efficient, terse code? A CGI call in PHP is not made against a static class environment: all this stuff has to be initialized for every single request. At a fundamental level, this betrays a failure to understand the crucial differences between the PHP runtime and, say, a servlet container. It is essential that programmers make use of the individual strengths those systems have, instead of translating Java code and design patterns blindly into whatever environment they happen to work with.

That said, there are very many valid design points that benefit almost any code in any program language. But in the cases above, PHP best practices simply should not be derived from a wish to mimic Java (probably stemming from a misguided attempt to fake the appearance of sophistication and academic validity).
You might be interested in the lectures from MIT on Comp. Sci

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Whatever your opinion on Shanley Kane, nobody deserves this kind of treatment. It amazes me, continually, that the same sort of people who are quick to defend the "meritocracy" of technology are also the sort who are equally quick to violently silence anyone who disagrees.
"But... what if you can't do 'X' ? What if v, (0,0) and Av are not colinear?"

That's the point of the simulation -- to wiggle things and see what happens. You drag stuff in and out of colinearity on the third one down and see how repeated steps get pulled along the eigenspace, getting your steady state (I'd love to see an example using these sims to explain underdamped/overdamped systems).

I think the meat isn't in the words, but in the play.
Wow thats the exact opposite to the environment I'm in. The lecturers in my department are pretty much omnipotent in that regard. If one of them were determined enough he/she could kill a students career in the field (accounting & auditing) completely & permanently. Student gets blacklisted at all universities providing that qualification country-wide for ethics violation of that nature. Its only for that qualification though not a complete blacklisting & the other departments aren't nearly as strict or powerful.
Twitter lets you register without a phone number. All you need is a email
Incandescent bulbs are labeled and classified by their electricity consumption. It's literally in the product description: 40W bulb, 60W bulb, 100W bulb, etc.
I like to add one more step. Close all tabs in my browser. It is like rebooting my mind into a Zen-like mode.
They absolutely pay for the process. Without huge capital asymmetries, price competition actually works and the underlying costs actually set the floor of the market. It's a much more sane system.

It's when we decide that design theft is defensible because it creates inferior, copycat goods that are cheaper, and that's somehow been defined as laudable progress by you in this thread.
> On October 3, 2019, we disclosed...

> We reported this bug under a 7-day disclosure deadline rather than the normal 90-day disclosure deadline. We made this decision based on credible evidence that an exploit for this vulnerability exists in the wild and that it's highly likely that the exploit was being actively used against users.

It's now nearly two months since discovery of the bug and that it was being exploited in the wild, and my still-in-support Pixel still doesn't have the patch for this. What the hell Google. How is this even close to alright for a CVE such as this? Totally unacceptable.

Give me my damn PinePhone already!
No, I do the same thing. You generate the TOTP seed once and simultaneously install it on both Yubikeys.
ok, thanks for the clarification. It's a big assumption but I see the problem.
A properly engineered DAC system will be much less expensive than the number they found.

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30225-3
OP here (no affiliation with YC in anyway), posted the link because was surprised it wasn't already on HN.

I first got to know about it on WeChat actually. There was an announcement from the official WeChat account of YC China in regard to the split-up (link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/SnSsli_ZGo0yI58YD-ddaw), though the announcement took a much more positive and exciting tone than its English counterpart. The announcement from YC China talked a lot about 本土化 (which is not to be confused with sinicisation （汉化））。 As someone who has moved back to China recently, I noticed that 本土化 is actually a really big thing in China and it basically means localisation on steroid to become more similar to other products/services in China in every aspect (including HR, internal operations, etc).

Anyway I'm fascinated by all the comments here, none of which discussed the cultural and sociopolitical differences between that of the west and that of China, which I believe is one of the main factors that have enabled the disintegration between YC and YC China.

The Chinese government is one thing. But "the Chinese way" is another thing. And "the Chinese way" actually underlines how the Chinese society works and how the Chinese government functions. To understand "the Chinese way", one has to try to emulate a generalisation of how a Chinese person thinks and acts in this day and age after all these revolutions and wars and pandemonium that have shaped the land and the way people interpret things and interact with one another. Without great knowledge in the modern Chinese history and a good grasp of the contemporary Chinese language and culture (from a none-bias perspective as much as possible), it's extremely difficult to form a proper mental representation of "the Chinese way". The thing is not many Chinese people are aware of this too (since they are already operating under "the Chinese way", emulating it would be like running a meta-circular interpreter - not impossible just highly difficult for an average person). Perhaps this is why people (Chinese and none-Chinese) often resort to understanding China through the lens of the media (i.e. state-sponsored or company-sponsored) and that is akin to looking at a 2d projection of a higher dimension object.
I'm a rackspace guy.
It's not e-Ink, that's its sister device the "Nook", the "Nook Color" has a very good but otherwise standard color LCD with a high DPI.
That's the beauty of the political process that decides these "technical" decisions. If you give protection then you're admitting there's a problem, if you don't then they can attack you for not being prepared. It's a catch-22 that people are happy to attack you with while claiming they just want the technically superior codec to win.
Oh and regarding:

"Only problem is that we don't live in 1948 or 1984 for that matter."

You forget one thing: human nature hasn't changed that much.

There are still plenty of modern examples of leaders that are blindly followed by people. E.g. cults, certain countries, etc.

Perhaps the risk of this happening in the West has gone down, but it's still there.

Do not underestimate the power of TV and the like.. and do not forget how fear is an effective method to sweep people into action. Perhaps not invading other countries.. but things like body scanners and privacy invasions are common place now.. why? fear + media outlets = powerful.

Different effects, same underlying principles..
Yes. They've basically just formed an MPEG-LA like patent pool with no royalty. This is effectively what MPEG-LA requested, except of course they running the pool.

This is a good move on Google's part, although I am still skeptical that during this process they may hit patents that are already in one of the MPEG-LA pools.
So did I. Makes me suspect it's not completely random...
> and an email from a friend is merely that, an email, not your friend

Excellent point, and one that can't be stressed enough.
What fascinates me about Miyamoto is his tendency to allow form to follow function. Whether it's the design of Mario (to maximize visibility), the choice of music to suggest the nature of a stage or the instant recognizability of an enemy (spiny - don't jump on it!), his background in industrial design shines through.
I've been getting more and more invested in functional programming to the tune of Haskell and Erlang over the last two years. Unfortunately, the jobs seem to be all Java and Ruby on Rails, because that's what my resume says I have experience with.

Me: "I'm really interested in functional programming and scaling distributed computing."

HR: "Well, I see here you've worked on Java in the payment industry. We're always looking for more people to work on our reporting team. Let's put you over there. I think they have a J2EE web-app from eight years ago that needs a few more features."

So I find myself settling and maintaining my sanity with pet projects.

I am taking steps to rectify this.
To your first point: Firefox still lets you easily override a ssl error with 2 clicks. Go to the site, click "Advanced" and then click "Accept the risk and continue". Using the most up to date version of firefox on MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Um... Bitcoin IS a fiat currency. Its backed by nothing except demand, just like USD or EUR. Not one guarantees to exchange bitcoin for a fixed amount of gold or oil or grain.

And even if you're right and bitcoin somehow becomes a global reserve currency, you still don't want to buy right after a price spike do you? Wait for one of the corrections you yourself forsee...
Commonly solved on modern upgrades with voltage level converting components... 5V to 3.3V and vice versa.
It's not always the same. They change it constantly and it's probably not the only small thing that they look for.
Thank you! That's very gracious of you to say so, and Unclack is cool :-)
I mean work/project meetings, not "social gatherings". Essentially, when an encounter serves more that just a social purpose and information is shared, I either want a record of that meeting (information) to be kept or for that meeting not to take place at all if there is nothing noteworthy (again, does not apply to meetings that have a predominantly social function).
> mostly wandering around taking selfie

And the ones not taking selfies were running around with zip ties and IEDs. Just because some of them were idiots, doesn't mean they all were.

Edit: how do you think these "idiots" got in? https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20m04s&v=cJOgGsC0G9U
True, but I don't think that invalidates my point: The left would've technically chosen a more authoritarian policy, where they charge everyone for healthcare (via taxes) non-optionally and with no provider choice.

It's also likely true the outcome would've been a better system too.
You can get more than 8 without going to external enclosures. I have a tower case with 15 drive bays in it.
Nope. Dartmouth.
No, the replacement is Search Tools --> Verbatim
"How do I make a pivot table in Excel X like I do in Excel X-1?"

People will need help adapting to the new software whether it's FOSS or expensively licensed. Unless your suggestion is that they stay on Office 97 indefinitely, those types of training costs will always come up.
>Nevertheless the interviewer asked me to write it down on paper (using python). I've done so, but made a few mistakes. I still got the job offer, so the mistakes weren't a factor

I think this is an important consideration. I do interviews quite often at my current company. And two steps of the interview process is a technical phone interview and a technical on-site interview.

I always ask coding questions, but before I start, I clearly tell the guys that they can use any language they want, and that I do not expect the program to "compile" or parse (in case of interpreted languages). What I always try to read is 1) that the person is not completely lost about programming, 2) What is his approach to solving the problem, and that he can explain it to me.

The problem I have with technical interviews (I also have always hated them when I've been in the interviewee sit), is when interviewers setup an "all or nothing" style. Usually it is because they were told to interview you, but they really don't know to do an interview, so they just read a bunch of problems to you and wait for you to solve them... without trying to read anything from the process.
This "news" is meaningless. Quality, not quantity is the name of the game.
So true, it's the abuses of these laws that really catch the general public's attention, until that happens it's all academic.

And this is a real life example that really strikes home to the heart of all journalists. Short of shutting the entire media down, this can only be a bad move.
We haven't gotten to 1 yet.
You don't need reasons to chose a different language/toolset. You need better reasons for dismissing something like C/C++ for not being appropriate.
It sounds a great solution also for SEO optimisation.
Hidden comments won't be indexed or badly indexed, right ?
And generally, we don't want texts of comments to spoil/rot too much the words indexed in the article.
However sometimes we might want to let some comments, especially the most appreciated, it should give meaning to the text above. So maybe you could add "leave the best 2 or 3 comments below the article"
Did those uprisings have similarities in that, without leaders they typically move into a bloodshed phase? If leadership could avoid this, it might be a better route

Not saying presence or absence of leadership is the cause, but don't assume because of no leadership it is the best way.
> think it's largely because she is a woman

Really? I haven't read anything like that.

Seems to me most of her critics are from people who want Yahoo! to sell (or merge) so they make tons of $$$$$$. Before she came in they were set to strike it rich as Yahoo! went down in flames, now their money is tied up until she "fails" (from their perspective).

These people have just lost faith in the company after several consecutive failed executives promising similar things to Mayer. If she actually made Yahoo! profitable again they'd likely change their tune pretty quick, but she hasn't just yet, and she's spent a lot of "their" capital buying other companies which has further upset them.

Honestly I've seen very little "she's a woman" criticism, and rather a lot of broad criticism about the overall strategy. Although there has been a discussion of her interpersonal skills (however I've also read that about a lot of other, male, CEOs).
I had a similar idea, but these guys beat me to it. Good luck with the service!
It's interesting that the article you allude to, and this one, both reference the same book.
The "harm" is in misinformation, and damage to the brand.

The Hitachi 5K3000 and Hitachi 7K3000 are amongst the most reliable hard drives in the report. Those drives are 3 years or more old and yet have some of the lowest failure rates in the study.

Unfortunately, Hitachi doesn't exist anymore. Hitachi as a company was split and sold in pieces. It is either HGST (owned by WD) or Toshiba.

I want to buy the 7k3000 today. Which hard drive manufacturer is making the modern equivalent? Is it the Toshiba DT01ACA300, or is it the "HGST Deskstar" ??

Despite sharing the same branding, I don't think HGST Deskstar is in fact from the same factory as the Hitachi Deskstars. When you look at the HGST Deskstars, they have WD Technology in them ("Coolspin" RPM).

The Toshiba DT01ACA300 has very similar performance characteristics to the old Hitachi 7k3000 drive.

So its a confusing situation. Which is why I'd like clarification. I bet that the Toshiba DT01ACA300 is actually the super-reliable hard drive that I want, but I admit that I'm a bit ignorant on this front.
We've used Campfire and are now using HipChat. What are the things that Slack offers over these?
can you elaborate on how you are going to make investment of $100k to private app companies like Uber, Snapchat, and Tinder given that you didn't get to invest in their angel rounds and it was hard to tell that those apps were gonna succeed?
At weblogic, http, https and t3 (custom protocol) were all on the same port (since '97). No real need for multiple when they all have different negotiation protocols.
This breaks virtually all paid webfont services, messing up referring websites and frequently making them completely unusable.
The 3D modelling is already done!
>Evergreen, now there's a euphemism. :-)

It's not a euphemism. It's a standard term in web content for articles that are not time-sensitive. An article on how Quicksort works is an evergreen article. One on predictions for tomorrow's stock market moves is not.
MIT's SSH server pool (athena.dialup.mit.edu) listens on port 443 for both web-based login using a JS terminal and for actual SSH, using sslh as the multiplexer. SSH on port 443 is useful for people who are behind weird guest that only allow certain protocols out.
It's ok, but inform 6 is better for this.
Glad you like React so much!

Maybe have another look for Riot on a later time and you can perhaps see the reason for it to exist.
The problem with current approaches to AI using backpropagation is that while gradient descent is effective for learning a task, the brain is not a task learning machine (parts of it are but not the parts that produce human intelligence) and does not do gradient descent. Achieving human level intelligence (strong AI) will require going beyond the gradient descent paradigm.

The new paradigm that must be followed is building an agent with a neural network that evolves according to the 'neurons that fire together wire together' approach combined with reinforcement learning.
Here is a theory.

Builders chargé maximum what they can.

Home prizes has increased rapidly in Canada, some say possibly to a bubble level.

Banks create new debt out of nothing through fractional reserve banking. Central banks support negative interest rates.

A conseque of low interest rates is that many can afford to borrow to high real estate prices.

The high real estate prices drive up building costs, since builders can charge higher prices. Ie want a piece of the cake.
One way to look at this is as the rise of a new priest class in the secular West, with the fall of traditional organized religion.

People versed in the obscure academic language of the different branches of grievance studies, who, not only now have managed to obtain tenure for themselves and their disciples, but now are sending apostles into the industry to obtain power in those spheres as well. They are in charge of, and the only ones properly trained, to help regular people atone and repent for the original sin of privilege. They're being given progressively more say and power in academia, in the industry, while actually not dealing with anything backed by hard science or evidence-based research.

This is not to say that some of the causes of parts of the grievance priesthood are not worth fighting for, such as equality and inclusion, but that it's likely not about those causes anymore. It's now a self-replicating organism that is primarily interested in acquiring more authority. It's reminiscent of Christianity (as a value system) vs the Church (as an organization) tension that's existed for ages.
Right that makes more sense now! Agreed.
Servo is not a browser, it is a browser engine. To quote the Mozilla Research page about it: "Like WebKit, the Servo project is not a complete browser. It is an experimental project that delivers components that can load, run, and display web sites and applications." Given that, it doesn't make sense to talk about users "…switching from Firefox to Servo."

c.f. https://research.mozilla.org/servo-engines/
The comments about neo liberalization at the end make me wonder if the “20s” will be remember as an era of Anti globalization and nationalism.

We saw it start to take hold about halfway through this decade and I wonder if the trend will continue.
> How do they get people to use it?

call it Firefox v100 and automatically update
I would pay a monthly subscription fee to Google to have the Play Store be ad free.