jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. I actually had sleep working really well on 9.04 then upgraded to 10.04 and it broke. It's that type of pattern and the frustration that is worth the premium Apple tax I guess.
https://www.readability.com/about
Search is ripe for disruption, and ddg is the lead candidate right now. One wonders if such a strategy could give rise to more challengers more quickly. I’ve certainly considered it myself (alexa top 10k though).
You're not thinking your argument through.

A quick Google search says that a dollar in the year 2000 is worth half as much as a 1980 dollar. Yet, during that time, federal minimum wage went from $3.10 to $5.15, an increase of only about 66%. That means my parents had an easier time surviving off of minimum wage than I did.

How is that fair at all?
What happens when you have OT and CRDT interoperating? They are different algorithms, so wouldn't they see different results?
>> "autogynephilia"

Saying this will make people, including any trans friends you have, go "hmm" at you if you're not careful.

There are probably cisgender people with this as a kink, but the concept is almost exclusively promoted by people who fear trans women and think transitioning is all about sexual gratification. Which is complete nonsense.

Besides...it's just another kind of transformation fantasy even for those hypothetical cisgender people. It's harmless. It's not a dysfunction unless you're some kind of weird prude who thinks sexual fantasies are dysfunctional. Go off and imagine yourself as some fantastical creature being gently, consensually railed by a dragon. It's fun.
I knew I was going to get picked up on that. I mean brought the web out of academia and made it the universally recognised platform it is today.
What was the acronym for "accessibility" again?
I worked on a project that made over $100M for my employer and then got axed. (Or technically, it got axed by my department after 2 years and then was picked up by another department because it was still making money, and then got axed again 2 years later in some priorities reshuffle.)

The real answer has to do with org charts and executive attention. If your VP is told that anything less than a billion dollars doesn't matter, he's not going to want to be distracted by anything that you know is going to be worth less than a billion dollars, and is going to want to focus 100% on those opportunities that could be worth more than a billion dollars (even if they have a low chance of success and an expected value much less than $100M). It's possible that some other VP might be interested in it - for example, if you have a product that's made $100M and has a decent chance of growing 2x and another department has a mandate to make $100M this year, it could be an easy win to adopt the $100M project off the $1B department and take credit for its continued growth. But then next year your growth target is $200M and the project may only have $50M worth of growth left in it, so your incentive is to axe it and concentrate on newer initiatives.

Same reason that VCs only fund companies that have a potential to single-handedly return the fund, or that hedge funds & private equity will drive well-known brands like Sears into the ground so they can strip the assets and sell them off to more productive companies. Manager attention is worth something, usually in proportion to the amount of capital they're already managing, and so it may not be worth spending the attention needed to make $25M when the resources you have at your disposal are expected to make $250M. That same opportunity could be very attractive to a team of 3 with no outside funding, though, and that's why we have the full-employment theorem for entrepreneurs.
Sure, and if BK decides to market specifically to people with meatatarian, vegan, halal, kosher, and hindu dietary requirements you would expect them to actually deliver, not just pay lip service - the same as any other offer in the marketplace.

This "impossible burger" isn't the result of vegans picketing BK HQ - it's a marketing ploy by BK... how are vegans being painted as the bad guys here?
My impression is that we have committees for introducing legislation because congress can only debate so much legislation in the time they have. If any representative could introduce and vote on any legislation, most of it wouldn't go anywhere because the support wouldn't be there. However, congress could have many bills in-progress at any time and no bill would be blocking any other for bureaucratic reasons, or because some committee was stacked with people who hate that bill.

Perhaps committees are an outdated idea, that when you get down to it they're only a roadblock to getting stuff done and an impediment to democracy. (We can still have committees for hearings, and things like that. That's fine.)
I think you're probably right, and that it doesn't make much sense to not give your child a drug that would fix their bone growth even if it isn't literally life-saving.

As long as the side effects are well studied and strictly less bad than the alternative. If the side effects were awful then it would be much trickier, but it seems like that's not the case.
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Rice actually has a lower-% of students receiving need based aid.[1] I think a key reason why Rice enters a lot of conversations re: value stems from Houston's low cost of living.

[1]http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
Step 3. Build bike cages so you can safely park bikes w/o worrying about theft.
If you make $60,000 a year for a job, you are doing decently well on a US-wide perspective (and very well on a global perspective). However if your coworkers, doing the exact same work as you exactly as well, make $120,000, you’re in fact being underpaid.

And the solution to the first issue isn’t to attack the people making $60,000 but to bring everyone who is underpaid up.
It’s unreasonable to present things as fact without evidence. The difference between sealioning and people citing no evidence or poor evidence is important.

If I’m presenting evidence based material, I’d rather err on the side of too much discussion about quality of evidence than firing or expelling the single person who asked questions of my evidence.
They mention 44 clots out of 9.2mm doses given

Lots of medications have risks. For example, a common birth control can cause or increase risk of pulmonary embolisms.

Unless there's reason to think the actual rate will become much higher than 1-in-200k people, it seems like you could make a decision on trade-offs. Covid has killed many many more people already. I'm sure we'll uncover risk factors that'll help us avoid higher risk populations too, further decreasing risk.
While the risks for AZ vaccine are not yet 100% clear, more and more younger people are dying from the Covid-19.

In poor countries and some parts of Europe the vaccine availability is scarce. So everyone should decide for themselves

(I've received my first shot of AZ, not exactly young, not exactly old, but I'll take my chances vs Covid)
Depends.

At the peak of summer I might get up at 5:15 am and feel unable to go back to bed and go for a six mile hike, then go to work. Around 7pm I go hike another six miles.

The weather is worse so I am going to the gym, the main thing on my mind is crowding. I like going on weekends but I can only get one lifting session in. After work Planet Fitness is crazy crowded. I am mostly going after work these days but I've had some of my best workouts when I got up really early and started at 6am. (Like the time I dropped a friend off at the airport) I should either do that more often or I should see if the gym at work is less crowded. In the after work time I am trying to also fit in other things because I need more social connections and the gym is the absolute worst in terms of people being defended -- it sounds crazy but I think I am better off going to happy hour and drinking a few non-alcoholic beers.

Last summer we had group fitness classes at my work and these are about to start again. I find these are a lot of fun but if I want to do them I have to fit my schedule to what's available.
I believe these stressor services use dedicated servers from hosting providers rather than consumer devices like routers or IoT
Aging is optional; it will improve the wine, but there's nothing stopping you from drinking it immediately and it will probably taste pretty decent. Many wines are perfectly drinkable after secondary fermentation has finished (and you've added the metabisulfite to fully stop it unless you're making champagne and you want additional carbonation). The longer you age it and the more work you put into it, the better the end product, but that's true for most things. Many store-bought wines are less than a year old.

To me wines are actually less work to homebrew than beer. Especially if you're working from a kit, there's no need to cook anything - just dump everything in the fermenter and go. Beyond that the process is largely similar. Primary fermentation -> secondary fermentation -> bottling -> drinking. They're pretty forgiving too.

In general, whites take a bit more work to get a really good looking product than reds. For a white, I'll usually rack at least three times over about a week, and then filter it so I get a nice, amber-clear end product with no sediment. Note that this doesn't really impact the taste much, just the appearance. Reds I usually don't bother to rack more than once or maybe twice.

When I am done I usually sit my bottles upright in a cool, dark area for a few days before putting them in the wine rack on their sides.

This one [0] specifically is a family favorite. Has a nice light, somewhat fruit taste that's great for a warm summer evening. This one is best kept cool (I keep a few of my bottles that we're about to drink in a wine refrigerator.)

[0] https://www.midwestsupplies.com/collections/riesling-recipe-...
Flexibility + smart is the ultimate smart.

It’s hard enough to figure out who has smarts, let alone real flexibility:(
One reason I can think of is that GPUs are a much newer invention than CPUs, and as such there is less history behind how they work and there are far more active patents on their technology.
At my previous work it was pretty much an open secret. Plus there was lots of trust & the progression was pretty predictable so you could pretty much ask someone straight what they were earning.
In regards to this comment: https://github.com/pannous/xipher/blob/b62a3b864d435a1e61066...: /dev/urandom isn't insecure. Both /dev/urandom and /dev/random use CSPRNG. There is a wonderful artical (with diagrams and all) at http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
If you do that on mobile you can view the image through a portal about 20% of your screen size - the rest is crowded in with some sort of chrome.

So it's like he grabs the mag from you, scolds you and then leaves the page you wanted to see open behind the counter where you can stand and squint at it for a bit if you like.
I am still not sure about this whole subject. You are absolutely right - with internet access education is basically free and ubiquitous.

But the more important thing is in my opinion some kind of "drive" or "stickiness". We all know about the ridiculous high drop out rate from most MOOC courses. I think it might be that it is far less about education what makes kids succeed, but parents who are able to show their kids - may it be by example, by preaching, by pushing them - that they have to stick with things, even when it is "not fun", in order to succeed.

But this can compensate this with money - it allows you to push a kid in some kind of system (boarding school, etc) where it is more painful (social pressure, etc) to not stick with something (school) than otherwise.
Sure, first websearch result [1] , although I was talking about EFF's evaluation [2]. Of course there is -some- encryption, not plaintext, but it was better before Microsoft came in, or so I hear. But I worded the original post poorly, sorry about that.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...

[2] https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
what technology you are using for it - Ruby , Python etc,
Ok, you are right, it is indeed cheating if students gained access to the test bank illegally.
Gah, might have to repost when I can resolve the issue of the poll not being unlimited as claimed, it has been capped at 30 votes :(
Cheers for the reply, and nice domain name ;)
I will definitely consider that even if that isn't the winning section, and it looks like on the blog someone else has asked a similar thing.
Posterous has been pretty nice so far :)
Edit: regarding goals, the first thing that I notice that put me off was just the lack of an interface screenshot (though obviously that isn't representative of the apps quality, and that's just my opinion).
I tried to compare the two to rule that possibility out, but it's possible I'm mistaken. That would be good though, I'd hate to think they were scanning things with all that scratch damage getting on every picture.
Next step: something that can scan the ink printed to the page and recreate the music that the printer played when printing!
I like the effects but the fact it only works with Chrome is a no-go for me. I don't see it being be too difficult to get this working in safari, firefox or modern IE..
Yeah, the reason I said that was because if a guy can read books and learn how to build rockets then I should be able to figure out search.
Just for comparison, I had phones (flip-phones, mind you) from Samsung, LG, and Motorola with NFC in 2006. We could use them at MCD's, 7-eleven, and a few other places. Fast-forward 9 years and there has been little uptake, except that there are phones actually available to people with NFC, and acceptance is more commonplace.

In general, people take much longer to adopt new technology than we would like to see.

edit: grammar
Yup. It's all about communities and building out on top of things that everyone finds value in. And we don't mind doing some of the boring work (testing, reliability work) to make those communities even more successful.
Here's the full context:

"Snell’s argument is that Apple should do this to nip the argument that the iPhone is too closed. But if Apple did exactly what Snell argues, critics would still harp on the closed App Store. iPhone critics have seldom let facts get in their way."
"The value of an idea lies in its execution"
Mine's also absent, though I suppose that's to be expected: I did it in Python.
"Does he honestly believe that a movie about Batman eating a bowl of shredded wheat in a dimly lit room has the same probability of succeeding as a movie about me?"

You're confusing execution with the idea. The idea of you sitting around eating a bowl of cereal might seem boring, until you look at other ideas.

An author sitting around a hotel in the middle of winter. (The Shining)
A mother and son sitting in a car. (Cujo)
Office workers dealing with life. (Office Space)
A man trying to get a rug. (The Big Lebowski)

The idea (A Dilbert movie) isn't the execution. It's merely the idea. A movie about you doesn't have to be boring. But the execution of it could result in a boring movie.

The problem with ideas is people always refer to the idea as bad, yet point to perceived execution as the reason. Just because an idea is good doesn't mean it's going to be a good movie.

A good idea for a movie doesn't mean it's a good movie.
A bad idea for a movie doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

I think Hogan's Heroes is an excellent example. Really, a comedy about POWs in WW2? Really?
There's a lesson to learn here.

By the way, a thing about your product: How do I "monitor" visitors and why so few? (i.e is 200 visitors completely over the top?)
Here's another vote for Audible.

A couple years ago I had to weekly commute from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. Audiobooks not only kept me sane on the 5 hour commute, but I began to wish the commute were longer.

And just yesterday I finished a 3 day driving trip across the US. Had an audiobook running the whole time and it made the trip great.
Frankly I don't really get why it's "hacker news" at all.
...good luck finding 50 hours a week of work in this economy.

First, I cited statistics from 2007, before the economy went down. Second, the statistics show that 80% of the poor are not looking for a job and that only 10% of them work more than 35 hours a week. Third, only 3.5% of the poor want to work more than 35 hours/week but are unable to find work.

Lastly, minimum wage is more or less irrelevant. Only 1.7 million workers (373k of whom were under 19) earned minimum wage or less in 2007. Assuming everyone earning min wage or less is poor [1], that's only 4.5% of the poor.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2007.htm

Also, to respond to a statement you made in your previous post: I work more than 50 hours/week, yet I still manage to find time to exercise and to cook healthy food. (Yesterday: work from 9 to 7, 3 hours of martial arts, dinner, work from 12-1.) If I can do it, why can't the poor?

[1] Teenagers earning min wage, but living in a non-poor household are not counted as part of the poor.
Especially Thomas Fuchs, the creator of one of the major frameworks :) He's a very pragmatic fellow.
you mean in principle or in the actual detail/technology?
How does it feed the data to the repo? Is it parsing reports from the parliament? If yes, how smooth did the process go?
Except Ellion Hughes shows up elsewhere as elliot...@google.com

https://code.google.com/p/enh/
Would be good to have a demo area -- "Get started" leads right to "log in".

Also, journals are inherently private things, yet there are no assurances of the lengths you go to to protect the information that I might write in there...

Why would someone use this instead of something like evernote, or just the notes app on their phone?

I don't think the value-add of this app is quite clear...
I actually just get all of the data from allflicks.net and supplement that with additional data from trakt

https://github.com/brentvatne/tinder-netflix/blob/master/bac...

https://github.com/brentvatne/tinder-netflix/blob/master/bac...
I will [subjectively] confirm it. I've rebuilt two startups from Scala / Python messes with Haskell. Turn around time was counted in weeks (original build time was > 6 months), code is clearer, many unhandled edge cases were illuminated by the type system (some simply due to the rewrite), bringing in another Haskell programmer was painless and he was able to safely refactor the entire code base to make it even cleaner and robust while operating in production with zero regressions and no unit tests.

We can iterate faster, the type system prevents us from doing dumb, fallible human things, it makes it easier for other programmers to get up to speed, it is fast, the community is brilliant, and because of its static guarantees open source tooling (even if abandoned) is possible to use because of the aforementioned ease of coming up to speed, the type system is a stringent form of documentation, and you can tweak without fear of introducing regressions (mostly, I can't say all but definitely most).
Also note, https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/4/20947850/tiktok-bytedance...

-->Fears tiktok is or can be, contributory as a an indrect tentacle by the CCP for domineering memetic platforms.
Superb, as always. Dan is a phenomenal presenter. Would recommend to anyone in software engineering.
I know Pieter[1] uses SQLite for Nomad List[2] and Remote OK[3], both high-traffic sites. Maybe you can tweet him to learn more.

[1] https://twitter.com/levelsio
[2] https://nomadlist.com
[3] https://remoteok.io
That's nifty! I spent a while trying to figure out how it worked before realizing it's a Voronoi diagram. Simple yet beautiful.
For a stats class, even n=10 is tedious and absolute overkill. N=3 or 4 is entirely sufficient to prove the student understands the process.
We will be taking a 10% cut on the funding which will go to further development of the platform.

The OpenPartner's are responsible for creating the product roadmap in liaison with the development team. This includes a clear budget for where the money is going, just as you described.
> I understand what [a slide rule is] FOR, but as a means of calculation they're obsolete.

As a pedagogical tool it is much superior. People who spend a few months using a slide rule come to a strong intuitive understanding of logarithms that no number of purely symbolic exercises with logs can ever match. Slide rules are also quite efficient tools for doing approximate calculations, much faster than pen and paper.

For anything too sophisticated for a slide rule to handle, students should use a general-purpose programming language and a full-sized keyboard.
Likely, none.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xnvgOlHaY
Wow, this is going to be the best thing for MSFT stock (and probably the company) in the past 10 years. I'm excited about having a real force to counterbalance Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon again.

This, and the other company response to it, might be good for +0.05% GDP growth or something crazy like that.
Wow. I thought the article was downright misleading:

Friday, August 23, 2013, 10:31 AM -	NASA and the European Space Agency's
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has managed to capture a comet
colliding with the sun, **appearing to explode as it approaches.**

Upon seeing your comment, I scrolled down and looked a little closer:

At approximately the same time, the sun let out a large coronal mass
ejection (CME), looking as if the comet triggered the event.

In fact, the CME was caused by an explosion on the other side of the star.
The icy space body was simply too small to have any impact.
Or get a newer phone? Or not do that, for that matter. As long as there's no major security issues and you don't feel a pressing need for hardware or software improvements not available on older models, why upgrade at all?
This honestly doesn't surprise me at all. I used to work at Wayfair and the average age there was staggeringly lower compared to everywhere else I've been. It's easy to foresee how the employee walkout that they had a number of years ago resonated with them but child care responsibilities may not. Employees that were pretty high-profile and just had newborns were pretty well treated, as far as I knew. The vast majority of the managers there at best were newlywed but still no kids.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

This is a huge collection of charted data which shows that there may indeed be something going on that is a little harder to explain away than the average conspiracy theory.

The study of how wealth accumulates to capital holders has been reinvigorated by Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century".

Since then, a huge amount of research has been done on the driving forces behind wealth inequality. Skimming the surface, I'll throw out https://angrynomics.com/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pay....
She had me with the history of income inequality and then she lost me with “wage gap” talk. Why is a plea for bipartisanship always followed by throwing shade at white men? It’s wearing on me.
A lot of people have a zero-sum mindset about everything.
> more tether being created out of nothing

How do you know that? Can you see Tether USD bank account, and can confirm that no USD is deposited there when Tether is created?
My dyson cordless vaccum (v7) was 399$ (CAD) so it was not insanely expensive and I would not go back.

Their tech can probably be imitated at a lower cost, but I won't take chances with the cheaper knockoffs, the tradeoff is not worth it.
For recurring revenue… selling only the fan, you get one sale and you’re done. Selling the fan but with a filter unit, some subset of customers will replace the filter every 6 months as “recommended” and you have recurring revenue on that fan forever.