jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The whole CCSS (Common Core State Standards) is an example of groups with power/influence in the system pushing changes that benefit the true customers of the 'educational system' (which are not the kids, but Pearson et al.). New educational standards mean new textbooks, new revenue streams, new consulting engagements, teacher trainings, golf outings to wine/dine superintendents - it goes on and on.

See also, the demise of Outbox

> What does “Disruption” mean to DC?

When Evan and Will got called in to meet with the Postmaster General they were joined by the USPS’s General Counsel and Chief of Digital Strategy. But instead, Evan recounts that US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe “looked at us” and said “we have a misunderstanding. ‘You disrupt my service and we will never work with you.’” Further, “‘You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.”’

According to Evan, the Chief of Digital Strategy’s comments were even more stark, “[Your market model] will never work anyway. Digital is a fad. It will only work in Europe.”

Evan and Will would later call the meeting one of the most “surreal moments of their lives.”

Donahoe’s comments are even more incredible for people with technology backgrounds. In tech vernacular, “disruption” is an extremely positive term for when an old market model is displaced by a new market model that is better for the consumer and often cheaper to provide.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667068
I'm using snap in a freelance project right now. Haskell is also great for web development, keep at it!
if (2) { console.log('yes') }
> yes
> undefined
if (2==true) { console.log('yes') }
> undefined

I would have thought these would be the same - what's the difference between being "truthy" in the first case, and being ==true, as in the second?
It still does mean happy!

Nothing has changed there. We've just added homosexual to the list of things associated with the word "gay."

When "gay" is used in the "happy" sense, context is what differentiates it from the more recent homosexual sense.

"hacker" is no different.

Really then, it's about more effective writing, insuring the context of "hacker" is clear from the surrounding context.

What we lost in both instances was easy, utilitarian use of the word as more words are now required to convey information accurately.
But remember that the us, UK, canada, and australia and some other are major cooperators and likely won't compete.
As long as Hospitals and Law firms continue to hire competent Doctors and Lawyers, this would be a win for society. More people getting health care or access to the legal system, at lower prices, would be a good thing for society.

And I don't see any reason why an increase in the number of Doctors or Lawyers would cause Hospitals or Law firms to hire incompetent employees.
I'd like to show this to my company, but I'm afraid I'll offend coworkers who make their money at the company "doing Agile" and I'll get lynched, not to mention fired.
That doesn't mean the expression is unreadable. It is still extremely straightforward in what it does.
What about "R Tools for Excel"? I worked on "R4Calc" 6 years ago (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/R_and_Calc) and this project received over 25K downloads before it became inactive.

Having something as easy to use as Excel, with access to R's scripting language, would make my life immensely easier.
In normal countries freedom of research is written into the constitution. What do use rights and reproduction rights have to do with examining works of engineering, even if they come with copy protection?
To be fair, "recognizing returning customers via cookies/fingerprinting" by itself doesn't require JavaScript. It's the tracking of the user's activity once the page has loaded which does.
When "man" is used without an article it means "mankind" - that is all humans, male and female. When used with an article ("a man") it indicates a male human.
There's one (or 10) born every minute. If I were a scammer I'd want these folks email addresses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8914956
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) would like to announce a new initiative known as the “Arts-Business Incubator (ABI).” We will provide up to 10 NYC-based start-up arts enterprises with critical support over a 3 year period. The support will come in the form of professional services (legal, accounting, fundraising, marketing, technology, and more), as well as intensive mentoring and coaching.

The deadline for the applications is January 23, 2015. Applicants can be either for-profit or not-for-profit, and must be either brand new enterprises or within the first 18 months of operation. The application can be found on the program’s webpage:

www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Arts%20Business%20Incubator

For any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact abi@nyfa.org.
Extrinsic motivations displace intrinsic ones. Once you have the magical internet points, the intrinsic motivations fade.
First, putting a want ad on Alibaba is asking for trouble - i doubt any good playing card manufacturer is monitoring that and the one that do respond probably don't specialize in card printing and don't have the equipment to make them efficiently at high quality. In China, its common for someone to say they can make something even if they can't do it well - they re hungry for business.

You need to search Alibaba to find companies doing the manufacturing for Bicycle or other big companies and ask them if they do custom printing. I found a lot: http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=playing+cards...

If you say you are looking for 10k+ decks, they may do your samples for free. I've never had printing done over here, but with metal and plastic parts, we have engineering drawings for them with tolerancing, surface finish, etc. so they know if the part is good or rejected. Perhaps you could make a similar document showing placement of the die cut, lamination info, etc.

I'm traveling in China now visiting factories. DM me if you have questions or need a translator.
This article contains a link to the paper: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting...
Right, but the received wisdom was that the ‘winner’ of the internet race to be the number 1 portal would look more like Yahoo, Excite or AOL. A big front page with lots of content and big juicy adds. If Google had been acquired, they would simply have become the tiny little search box on the Excite front page. That could have left space for another company to develop competing search tech and beat them with a minimalist approach. Or for another heavy duty portal page site to develop competing tech. Maybe it was only Google’s radically minimalist focus that allowed their superior search tech to really stand out.
Because there are far too many working environments from America to Kazakhstan where that is the default action.

Also the psychology of the original panopticon applies. It's a source of stress to be watched when you can't watch back.
it doesn't show up on the books. All companies over optimise for things they measure and under optimise for things they don't. Nobody has a reliable measure for development productivity so it oft doesn't receive the love it deserves.
There is nothing wrong with doing stuff just for fun.

There is nothing wrong with being focused on just few issues.

But I have doubts when you claim some knowledge without being able to use it practically, which is what I see here.

If I'd say I'm jack of all trades, as I'm interrsted in software - but i hire a guy to make all the code for me because I don't know how - and that I'm very interested in knives - but my wife sharpens our knives as I don't know how - I have doubts about your actual knowledge if those fields.
Or at least someone would have come up with an app already, had it been that easy.
Screen and radio are both data movement tools, so I don't understand the OP's classification process.
Ah right! Should've made the connection.

Since I have you for a moment, let me just say I admire the work you do for Rust.
When I go to the hospital I trust the local doctors to make good decisions on products to buy, I don't trust the products themselves let alone the products manufacturers. Moreover it's not so much trust as resignation to the fact that I have no better option but to hope they don't do something stupid.

When I use a car I trust the combination of the manufacturer and the regulator to have used parts in a fashion such that they won't kill me. I don't know or trust the individual part manufacturers, that's the automakers job.

There is no equivalent to the doctor, or the automaker, or the regulator here. It is not at all similar.
since you can't weaponise the mixture, and it's just stupidly hot and dangerous for a while and then inert, I can't see why anyone would try to sabotage one. (apart from terrorists just out to cause mayhem, but that argument also works for cars, roads, planes, train stations, etc right?)
Microsoft was there as an epiphenomenon. If they didn't exist (at all) the PC industry would still be here and some would argue that without the monopolistic innovation stifling practices, it would be much more vibrant today.
The most interesting detail to me is this mentioned so off-handedly that it's easy to miss it: "At one point during Mayer’s early years at Google, she and Page started dating."

Now, I'm not saying that this had anything to do with her later success, on the contrary -- she obviously proved repeatedly that she is amazingly capable. But it's interesting that this kind of power shuffle that's going on in large companies inevitably includes some dose of sexual attraction; it reminds me of Salman Rushdie's Moth podcast appearance[0], where he described something similar in a Latin American coup.

[0] http://www.podcast-directory.co.uk/episodes/salman-rushdie-w...
I felt a small amount of humor -- indeed, what a small attempt it was, I didn't consider it that amusing -- was welcome in the thread discussing the shortcomings of the accompanying infographic. Unless you'd like to have a serious discussion about the shortcomings of the accompanying infographic? I'm not sure there's much intelligence to be had in a discussion responding to "Wow is that ever a terrible infographic".

Can we discuss its poor choice of color? Its lack of visual appeal? The obvious selection of a Home Depot paint swatch to represent Google's old index, and what that means for their database technology? Not really. Not in response to "Wow is that ever a terrible infographic".

I'd be hesitant to flag everything that you don't initially understand. Cut HN some slack, we're intelligent people and we enjoy humor as much as the next man. I certainly appreciate when someone makes me chuckle in the comments, and I'd loathe HN if that went away by your hand.

Given something like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1403672 is it HN that has to change, or the person in the chair? I realize your time may be valuable, but you don't have to read everything and get offended by its presence -- including my comment.
Never underestimate the placebo effect. You're gonna need a few weeks on your new diet to really be sure.
Have you had a colonoscopy?
Ever wondered why Dundee in Scotland has a lot of game companies? In the 80's Timex made the Spectrum there, so all the local kids ended up with the machines thanks to (sometimes ahem 'unofficial') employee discounts.

So you have Clive Sinclair to thank for both Lemmings and GTA!
My theory about alt text showing as correlated to higher ranking is that it's a result of people optimizing their pages. SEOs have been saying to add alt text for a while, and it's easy to do compared to changing URLs or a domain name. It's hard to prove whether it's a cause or an effect, but my gut feeling is it's an effect.
Oh the memories of Chuckie Egg, R-Type, Daley Thompson Decathlon, etc....
From what I remember (and I may be mixing up phones here) it was use of 4G that chewed battery life. Are you using 4G at all?
If it didn't matter you wouldn't have mentioned it.

Unnecessary description.
Yes it is: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Telegram's backend is closed-source.
https://sunsetcss.com/ has some nice demos.

I liked most the wobble: it works great for giving feedback on error when a button cannot do something.

However I would not use many of these effects. You are showing them in terms of their implementation, instead of functionality/use case.

My advice is to offer ready to use effects tailored for specific usecases.

Maybe also combine with popular frameworks; Tailwind combined with this might be interesting.
Social media censorship has pushed the right-wing to go to alternate sources for information. For example, after extensive censorship and harassments on reddit, the Donald sub simply created their own separate website, thedonald.win, and now it is ranked at #430 for traffic rank in USA by Alexa. That's a huge website considering it was just a sub on reddit at one point.
This seems unintuitive as I would expect one electron by itself to be more closely attracted to a positive nucleus instead of when there are two or more fighting to remain in "orbit".

Your definition would make sense to me if you can think of electrons adding to an over all single electrical charge instead of individual electrons, but in that case, I have to ask, what is the original reason a single electron is repulsed by the atom. I.E. why does it stay so far away until more electrons are added. What is the force keeping electrons from falling into the nucleus in the first place and have an "orbital" or "cloud" at its set distance (like one Angstrom or Bohr)?
I've trained in HEMA, in the German Kunst des Fechtens tradition for about 3 years (this past year, not much). Wiktenaur is my primary resource for sources. It's a brilliant website. They've also published a 3-part side-by-side compilation of the major Liechtenauer treatises which I use regularly, and I believe an updated 5-part compilation is in the works.

I was pleasantly surprised to see this link up on HN.
There are several organizations finding ways to work with software engineers in Gaza, so I don't view it as her being a winner of "the hunger games", I view it as an expanding talent pool. What I like about the approaches that I've seen is that the administrators are finding the interest in software development to be less gendered, compared to other markets, which is something I find interesting.

For me, this thread is seeing one of the approaches come to fruition. I was interested in this thread to see which approach was tried and her experience with it.

This thread isn't about how we got here. This thread is about the privilege of being able to ask "feckless questions" because she is going to be a 19-20 year old in Europe. Many immigrants have their own causes and people they want to support financially, and that's up to her. This thread is about what's new in her life and how her career in the broader software engineering world can develop.
That’s not the case where I live in the small non-American West.

We’ve all seen the American TV show/films where some Mega Loser has failed to move out the year they become eighteen and graduated the year they become twenty-two. Maybe it comes off as a trope for non-Americans.
Asia and other areas, there is the support from extended families for baby care. At night, there are grand parents / other in laws (brothers sisters) that take turn taking care of baby at night. And during day time too, you can leave babies with them and take proper rest.
Yes you should! The Manara community is amaaazing. They are super smart motivated people who already have computer science or engineering degrees. Manara teach us how to interview at companies… both technical and soft skills… I have a bunch of friends in their 5th cohort who are looking for opportunities right now.

By the way the CTO of Manara is from Gaza too. She often tells me I remind her of her a few years ago. :))) She lives in Silicon Valley now and started Manara because she knew how many smart people there are in Palestine.
I think it's still not available, so this tool works with cgroups v1 only at the moment. I can add support for cgroup v2 later though (there is workaround by hooking on cgroup v2 pathnames in iptables to achieve the same goal).
Pretty cool. What are the long-term plans with stuff like this? How is it helping education & learning? Because it looks like a game people will be more motivated?
Does Mendeley allow you to follow the publications of researchers on a paper-by-paper basis like this simple app myPeers (http://codingseed.com/) or is it mainly for recommendation of papers based on matching key words?
You can "fake" mobile support using Twilio. It will not have an experience as good as a native smartphone application, but the cost is lower by (plural) orders of magnitude, and the reach is far greater.

I'm writing Appointment Reminder, which features a scheduling interface (in a web app). I have heard from customers that it would be really, really handy if they could access their schedules while away from a computer. One of them specifically asked for a Blackberry app.

I could write a Blackberry app. And an iPhone app. And twelve Android apps. And... no, wait, this is insane. I have enough on my plate just getting the underlying service and web interface to work.

Instead, I am writing something responsive to the underlying need ("I need to check my schedule when not at a computer") with Twilio. Call the number you programmed into your phone, hit 1, bam, here is your schedule for today. That gives me 100% coverage on all handsets, including feature phones, for approximately an afternoon of work.

Now, if that feature blows the doors off, it might be worth surveying my customers about what phone they have and implementing e.g. an iPhone, BlackBerry, etc app as resources permit. If nobody uses the feature at all, or if I can't get the marketing for Appointment Reminder to the point where I have any customers to worry about not having an iPhone app, then I didn't spend several tens of thousands of dollars in vain to learn that.
I absolutely love this idea, especially if those are otherwise-expensive books. For example, those 10 books for me would be Machine Learning-related, but I can imagine several popular packs : Harry Potter, Twilight, etc; would be a hit.
even that doesn't seem usable, if you read the details.
Quite so. Cancer, for example, is a catch-all term which is more a genre of diseases rather than a specific disease. Our understanding of biology and disease is still fairly primitive.
And it would be perfectly fine at any number of other large businesses, including some of the country's largest law firms, some of the largest financial services companies in the world, and several health information providers.
Yeah, this seems like a necessary building block for an academic social network, but an index of journals isn't very exciting by itself. I already have RSS subscriptions to the journals that have high impact in my field and I won't be looking for new journals with this "browse" feature.
Then I still wouldn't upvote his cheap shot? Nothing really hidden in that sentence.
Not only that, but he fails to grok the reason for there being a limit with the database size on 32-bit systems. It's directly a result of MongoDB using memory mapped file IO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file) which gets better performance, but on a 32-bit system you're constrained to the amount of memory addressable by a 32-bit process. So rather than do somewhat hacky (and complex) code they opted to be forward looking and just leave the limitation in place. Thankfully, with a 64-bit OS the upper limit goes up to 256 terabytes.
A number of YC companies were founded by non-americans who ended up staying in the US, it might be worth approaching them to see how they did it. Possibly some hack involving an H1B for the company or maybe even an E2 for a VC financed company.
You read the part where he said he has lived in the U.S. for 8+ years, right?
Vaccines don't have a shelf life of forever, and storing components to defeat a disease that no longer exists beyond a few petri dishes in a military lab isn't really efficient.

Odds are there is barely any.
A major loss of shellfish is much more likely.

The cause is that CO2 in the atmosphere becomes carbonic acid after it dissolves in water, and if the ph of the seas changes even a little bit, then calcium carbonate shells (which is what everything from clam shells to coral is made out of) becomes unstable and starts to dissolve.

According to the best current projections this is now hard to stop given current CO2 levels, and a major die-off is likely around the middle of this century.

The effects of this on global ecosystems are hard to estimate, but will definitely be large.
Or better yet, split assets over 4 asset subdomains:

ActionController::Base.asset_host = Proc.new { |source|
"assets#{source.hash % 4}.example.com"
}
It's interesting; for internecine that's what I had always used as the definition as well. However, the OED only lists two definitions:

1. orig. Deadly, destructive, characterized by great slaughter. internecine war, war for the sake of slaughter, war of extermination, war to the death.

2. esp. (In modern use.) Mutually destructive, aiming at the slaughter or destruction of each other.

And a non-obvious etymology:

[ad. L. internecn-us murderous, destructive, f. internecium slaughter, destruction, f. internecre: see next.
App. first used as a rendering of L. internecnum bellum, in Butler's Hudibras (to which also is due the unetymological pronunciation, instead of interncine). On this authority entered by Johnson in his Dictionary, with an incorrect explanation, due to association with words like interchange, intercommunion, etc. in which inter- has the force of ‘mutual’, ‘each other’. From J. the word has come into later dictionaries and 19th c. use, generally in the Johnsonian sense.]

(And 'baldenfreud' is a bit out of place on a list like this; a neologism if I've ever heard one.)
Opportunity for a quick score - reregister as many of those as possible under unregistered foreign TLDs, then sell for a hefty markup when those companies come looking for a safer TLD to reregister their domain under.
I, too, am very confused by this. Maybe it's only matching on time, and not date?
A bit OT, but if you'd be interested in writing something for jsmag, please ping me at michael@gmail.com and/or register at http://webdevpub.com/wdp Thanks.
As this amounts to A record forgery, yes DNSSEC clients will prevent this. There is really no technical difference between this practice and the poisoning that DNSSEC is defined to defeat.

Of course there are plenty of other ways to blacklist or redirect IPs - using routes, RBL subscriptions in software firewalls or through browsers like the google safe browsing subscriptions. DNSSEC won't be the place to do it, though.
On issues that deserve outrage, Denninger's rants are second to none. On issues that don't, he's good at explaining why. And he's got a solid track record of discerning the difference.
Usually when this happens to me, I close Dropbox (quit the application), wait a few minutes, then re-open it. Typically that fixes the slow speed and ramps it back up to capacity (I'm on Verizon Fios).
No, this case is an argument for a focus on natural language processing and sentiment analysis. The Google way would never involve manual curation, and we'll get some cool NLP research out of it.