jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I recently read Scott Burkund's "Confessions of a Public Speaker", which was awesome. In it, he details much of the finances and logistics of being on the speaking circuit.

Some interesting points that are related to your question:

The elite speakers (current and former presidents (our penultimate president hopefully excluded), CEOs, popular authors, etc. have a set speaking fee. The range is wide, but can be anywhere from 10k to many hundreds of thousands per engagement.

Everybody else gets paid whatever the event has budgeted. You and your talk don't get to have a fee. An event has a budget and they may offer you something better than the next spot, but at the end of the day, they decide.

Lots of speakers are presenting at places that are barely paying for travel and accommodations, in hopes of attracting more influential and higher-paying gigs.

So, your talk sounds great, and has a specific target audience. I'd seek out the best conferences for that audience and try to get in. Once you're there, you'll see what the pay day looks like, but probably not until then.
I see a lot of YC startups create blogs on posterous rather then on their own domain. Is their a SEO reason/advantage to doing this? WOuldn't you want to send traffic directly to your site?
Wait, McDonalds offers wifi?
"[Let me respond to what Mike just said:] Shit, Doubleshit, and Bullshit." - Anu Shukla
Again; I see no ambiguity there.

I never said the policy was ambiguous, I said it was nonsensical.

Apple are directly responsible for content on the App store. So, surely, to avoid this sort of ball ache their policy isn't ridiculous.

My point was that a pissed-off parent doesn't care where the content came from, and that Apple, if anyone, is smart enough to realize this. Simple logic:

1. 3rd party content will piss people off as much as hosted.

2. Apple perceives scare walls and parental controls to be sufficient to manage the issue for 3rd party content.

3. Therefore, Apple ought to perceive scare walls and parental controls to be sufficient to manage the issue for hosted apps.

4. But, nonsensically, they don't.
Hadoop: designing MapReduce jobs is fun once it "clicks" for you. Hadoop Streaming is a good way to get started because it's an incredibly simple interface that uses stdin/stdout. Increasingly more companies are using it, from the big guys (Facebook, Yahoo) to startups (PowerSet pre-acquisition, LastFM, FlightCaster). Most schools don't teach it yet, so if you're willing to learn something in your free time it's a great way to get ahead of the competition for jobs too (not that that's the only reason to learn it).
Yeah, seriously, the WiFi has always been free for actual customers. The only thing that's different is that now it's free for homeless people too. I'm not really sure how this is an improvement.
They are awful.

Sound in general makes it so hard to concentrate; human voices are worse. I suspect brains are built to pay attention to human voices, or at least mine seems to do so. Noise attenuating headphones don't help; they work ok at blocking out trucks but poorly on voices. Earbuds plus music do an ok job, but the studies I've seen show decreased performance when listening to music. Even if you think you aren't, part of your brain is paying attention. And really, why do I have to listen to music all day to drown out the noise of people.

And let's not forget visual distractions -- all the shit waving around in my field of vision doesn't help either.

Like I suspect many of you, I'm consistently far more productive late at night. In my case, that's because it's the only time I have where it's quiet and I'm left alone.
Actually we have an example, you can see it lower on the landing page!
Here is link to deployed real world app: https://wasp-rwa.netlify.app/ , while source code is here: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp/tree/master/examples/realw... .

Right now we have only client server routing really, while server side routing is abstracted away and replaced with RPC - but we will make sure soon to provide better customization support there too.
One thing that is useful to keep in mind when considering boxed errors or error-like objects, e.g. anyhow::Error, is that they famously do not implement std::error::Error trait [1].

This could be a problem if you want to use a third-party API where generic functions or structs use std::error::Error in their trait bounds. For example, fn use_error<E: std::error::Error>(e: E) { ... } will not compile with a boxed error as the parameter.

[1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/shouldnt-box-t-where-t-error-i...
"Financial aid" as such in the U.S. typically means for undergraduate students, not graduate students. Graduate funding is a fairly different system, mostly consisting of competitive fellowships, research grants, and RA/TA jobs.
That was great. Do you have a blog series sonewhere?
I read the article with great fun. The question is, how do I run the bcc script in the article? Is it on a sidecar container or on a worker node machine?
Thank you everyone for contributing resources! I am slowly learning testing and I found it weird how there aren't many good resources.

I'm favoriting this comment so I can get back to this later.
Wikipedia is a great example of a web site that has resisted the trend! It is a pretty ideal democracy for those of us whose ISP or nation-state[0] doesn't prohibit us from viewing it.

There was a project similar to Wikipedia, but for semantic data. It lasted for a little while before being swallowed up by Google and shut down[1]. Granted there are some alternatives, but after investing some time working with freebase data, I should be allowed to hold a grudge.

Google played a key role in muzzling more widespread usage of RSS[2], along with Twitter and Facebook discontinuing support for it. Similarly, jabber[3], XMPP[4].

These days it's risky to even host your own mail server, since most people you correspond with are likely to use one particular email service that may arbitrarily block messages from lesser-known mail services[5].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/WEn...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/3013890/reader-may-have-died-to-...

[3] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2006/use-twitter-by-instant... (couldn't easily find press of the discontinuation of this service)

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769

[5] https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_i...
The trouble with HATEOAS is that it requires extra work on the client. The client is supposed to start at the root of the API, request URLs, and cache them. Getting the data one wants requires multiple HTTP calls, many of which are supposed to be cached.

I tried implementing this and found it toilsome. It was far easier to use versioned URLs that followed a documented pattern.

When I checked about three years ago there wasn’t much in the open source community that I could build atop for clients. I also didn’t want to maintain an SDK client in addition to the API itself.
> Anyone interested in powerwall vulnerabilities would find them trivially.

What about those who become invested in powerwall vulnerabilities because they read an article on HN that showed how easy it is?

> When you disclose such things quietly with the vendor, it mostly just saves their face.

I don't see how. They still get put on blast for ever being vulnerable in the first place. If you're goal is to get them in more trouble at the expense of their consumers, then that seems like pretty irresponsible disclosure to me.

> Not everyone values saving Tesla's face.

And not everyone cares one way or another about Tesla. This is about responsible disclosure. It's about protecting the consumers. It has nothing to do with the vendor.
The project is now called Rhombus, not Racket2. A project plan was posted on the Racket mailing list about 6 weeks ago: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/racket-users/rhom...
Docs and Drive were also acquisitions. I'll give you Maps and Translate.
My bad for misunderstanding you!
If you see unexplained or fraudulent activity in your account, it's natural to reach for an explanation and natural to attribute it (correctly or incorrectly) to the
PSN data breach.

OTOH, a good security mindset should probably assume that the attackers will use the ill-gotten data in some malevolent way, not just for lulz.
1) Actually I was wrong in that I meant to type 9 instead of 5 (I didn't reach high enough on my number pad). I got the number from here: http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_tot_tax_bur-total-tax-b...

2) The Economist calls itself a "Classical Liberal Newspaper" in their advertisements. Beyond that they endorsed Obama, Kerry, and Clinton (and it may go back further those are only the ones I could get off a quick Google Search)

3) But would you trade it if Republicans had a majority? It's easy to want to abolish a 2/3rd requirement when your party has the majority. But in my experience all things are cyclical (California voted for Republican Presidents until 1992 so it isn't that far fetched)
I think the idea is certainly neat. I guess it's very useful if you need a lot of bandwidth/CPU power when working from a mobile device.

So the idea is that you provide grid computing support from Python and an in-the-cloud IDE? Like a "matlab in the cloud"?

In that case, a very important feature would be chart drawing support, and ways to import/export data.
Here I have mirrored Dropship on gitorious, enjoy.
https://gitorious.org/dropship/dropship
AZMN stock climbed over 8% during the AWS outage, the market is disconnected from reality.
Why not have more direct democracy at the local level and make it so that initiatives don't apply to the entire state? Split things up into smaller regions that are closer to the size of Switzerland :)
I thought about going to Amazon when I decided to get out of the startup world about 6 months ago. I went through the standard application process, and promptly closed the tab when I found that they would only accept my r�sum� in MS Word format -- rejected PDFs, HTML, and even plaintext. It may seem like a silly reason not to work somewhere, but I think that the hiring process says more about a company than just about anything else.
Interesting how AMZN jumps 5% after missing earnings, yet GOOG drops nearly 10% with nearly the exact same results (increased hiring and expenses resulting in lower than expected profit).
If your golf handicap is "liable to kill someone", I'm fine with you being banned from the course.
The price of an asset goes up when money is being poured into the asset. For many exchanges "money" means USDT, so it makes perfect sense that USDT would be printed before a rally, regardless of malfeasance on tether's part.
I hadn't really thought about this before, but it's likely WhatsApp's recent change requiring you tie accounts to Facebook is likely linked directly to Apple's privacy policy changes.
Agreed. Also...nasal vaccines are far more effective as they follow the same path as the virus itself. This would be a good thing if they can pull it off.
Honest question, why do people seem to love rare meat so much? I agree that tough meat doesn't taste good, but I would argue a properly cooked pot roast is about the most tender cut of meat you can find.

Ribeye, lamb ribs, and lamb leg are all relatively tender. Beyond a certain point, I don't need my meat to be that tender. Frankly, ribeye is probably too tender to be optimal for health and physique -- it would be better to develop that Chad-like jaw to eat something a more tough cut ...

Rare meat is not only juicier, but too me it tastes a lot better. Rare meat tastes good, the denatured proteins of pot roast do not taste good. And while there is a tremendous amount of social conditioning and idiosyncrasies that determine people's tastes, I don't think is just me -- most people eat their steaks plain, but almost everyone I know adds sauces and fixins to their pot roast and brisket and other meats that have been cooked forever. IMO, they ruin the meat with over cooking and then add in sugars and other flavorings to make it palatable.
The article mentions qtconsole interface. Does anyone know how to install and run this interface? I could not find such information either on the linked page or the SymPy docs.
That depends on whether you are claiming your code is written in Common Lisp (the language) or for SBCL (the implementation).

The former will run on other implementations.
> Tame canines can guard against predators and interlopers, carry supplies, pull sleds and provide warmth during cold nights. But those benefits only come following domestication. Despite more than a century of study, scientists have struggled to understand what triggered the domestication process in the first place.

Is it so hard to believe that early humans could imagine the benefits and purposefully domesticated canines? I mean, we’ve gone to the freaking moon, for no immediate benefit at all... Humans do a lot of things for the hell of it.
Since webrtc uses UDP jitter is occasionally an issue. If you monitor the ping on the site you'll likely see occasional jumps to 100-200ms every once in a while. These can cause irregularities in the rhythms but for the most part you can still make out the phrase even when there's jitter. (I think this is kind of like how we can read those scrambled word sentences because we read not letter-by-letter, but word-by-word.)

For a jitterlesss demo you can also check out piano.jminjie.com (central server, not p2p), where I've introduced an artificial delay so that the notes can be snet with timing info, and scheduled ahead of time to avoid jitter.

Latency can also impede a smooth jamming experience, but seems to be manageable in general when it's under 20ms one-way delay (I have been able to achieve this on a wired connection at 50 miles distance in the middle of the day). There's also relationship between bpm of the song and acceptable latency similar to the concept behind sampling frequencies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)). The faster you're playing, the more latency matters.
Apart from the fact that there are transaction costs and time delays (it'll take about half an hour after you bought BTC on Binance that you can sell them on Coinbase), what guarantees that the BTC price is the same on Coinbase and Binance?

Well, arbitrage! But suppose BTC it is much higher on Binance. You'd then take USD and transfer them to Coinbase:

USD (Coinbase) -> BTC (Coinbase) -> BTC (Binance) -> USDT (Binance) -> ??

Now you need to take these USDT and turn them into USD, to keep the arb running. But that is precisely what doesn't work.

So: the chain you outline is NOT a way to "directly sell USDT for USD", as links can break down.
From what I understand (layman here), general AI research is roughly divided in two school of thoughts. One school believes GAI will be achieved by incrementally working on the different components (vision, language, learning, etc.) separately and eventually gluing those components together. The other school believes we should try to understand the human brain at a biological level and simulate it. The latter school believes general intelligence will emerge from a relatively simple algorithm and we should concentrate our efforts into discovering this algorithm. The former school seems to be a lot more popular these days although research is being done on both fronts.
Sure, because what fun are facts? What have facts ever done for us? Other than cured disease, ended hunger, doubled lifespan. But lately, I mean!

Why anyone would ever choose bullshit over facts is beyond me. Facts are interesting. Facts are fun. Bullshit is just the unrestrained spew of the ignorant ego. There's no point to it other than mate competition, and making what amount to factual claims that are known to be false so you can score is what created a vast amount of human misery for untold thousands of years, and continues to do so in the less enlightened parts of the world (philosophy departments, for example...)

I'd much rather find out the facts and discuss them--and there is always something for anyone who isn't completely brain-dead to discuss--than listen to some egotistical ignoramous spew nonsense, and then have to argue against them knowing that in the absence of facts the standard of proof is "what just makes sense", which only an idiot would take as an interesting guide to reality, because reality, in the absence of facts, does not make sense.

Quantum mechanics? Totally incoherent.

Evolution? Pull the other one.

The Earth moves in an elliptical path around the sun and the wandering stars are huge balls of gas and rock? Ridiculous!

In a world before we invented the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference--that is, science--people based their ideas on the "game" you are describing. If you're a member of SCA I guess it might be fun to continue it, but from an epistemologist's point of view it looks about as civilized as cat mauling as a means of social entertainment.

Such things are best left in the Middle Ages, where they belong.
thought the same thing, the devil would be in the details of the robot itself, the "how to get to same place" bit seems fairly straightforward
As a 'hobbyist' programmer who makes his money outside of the software game, this is something I've really taken note of. And I have to say the programming tech treadmill is one of the most cringe inducing phenomena I've ever witnessed - particularly in scripting languages. Software folks tend to see themselves as futurists in the fast lane, and as a Hacker News-er I tend to carry myself this way as well. But I kid you not, I can't count the amount of articles I've come across where the title is 'X tech is the new ish! - so rockstar lol' and the article is a simple example of http routing or process spawning. It is SO easy to get caught up in this drivel when you're starting out as a programmer.

I've since learned to use programming languages to solve problems I care about. If that makes me the forever-novice then I'm cool with that.
When demand increases for Apples, the price of Apples increases. When the price of Apples increases, the demand for Oranges increases.

Fed demand for Investment Bonds increases the price of Investment Bonds. When the price of Investment Bonds increases, the demand for other investments increases.

Textbook Econ 101, as the parent comment noted.
Creator of the graphs and author of the original post (here:
https://medium.com/mattermark-daily/why-is-the-number-of-see...)

All the quarters from Q1 2005 through Q4 2014 were plotted. The axis labels do not show all of them due to space constraints. Apologies that this was confusing, I will make sure to add all the tick marks and labels in the future.
Hopefully this new era will also gradually mitigate lazy generalizations and atavistic class distinctions.
Your lawsuit would be thrown out, there is no obligation in US law to issue stock in this scenario. "Fiduciary duty" has been quite well-defined by courts and this isn't even in the same galaxy.
According to the story that decision was made, per procedure, by a nurse.

He didn't create the situation. He just tried to do the best that he could given the situation that he was in.
> As long as he made a good faith effort to distribute the doses he had available, then hell yeah I endorse him vaccinating any warm body available to him, whether it's his family or not

I agree, but I think if I were in the position of having an extra dose that needed a warm body I'd try to find someone outside my family to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Yes, if you look at the actual PR for this change, you'll see that doing this is using a rustc-specific interface, for similar reasons.
Before:

if predicate() { Some(thing) } else { None }

After:

predicate().then(|| thing)
I live down the road from Kennedy Space Center, and it has a fairly large scale :). It is also quite commercial, or rather the 'theme park' part of it is. By scaling, I presume you mean to spread, similar to a franchise model. Or do you mean a single park which grows really big? A little more detail about your vision might help.

Most of these kind of places have either a 'draw' or a 'museum' model. Ones which have a draw have something which is not elsewhere, which is what draws people to go there. KSC for example has rocket launches and moonshot facilities which are quite unique. A museum on the other hand can be built anywhere, even though it may contain some unique things. For STEAM it doesn't need uniqueness, just cool stuff would do. An example of that type would be www.mosi.org.

Museums are great, but in our day and age, building one is usually not a way to get rich. They often have some kind of subsidy. I don't know a ton about their finances, but most are operated as non-profits. I'm sure you could talk to someone who runs one and they'd be happy to tell you about their costs.

Having a STEAM draw might be good, but probably won't scale in a franchise fashion. However, linking up with a science institution can lend prestige, which is really important in the education/kids market. If SpaceX were to open a STEAM-themed kindergarten, parents would be fighting to get their kids in. Of course, this can also be done poorly - Florida Tech should have the prestige of being basically 'NASA school', but instead you get the grey MBA-ness of https://www.fit.edu/education-centers/locations/spaceport-ti....

The most important thing to find out if you want to scale, is what is the cost structure for existing places (i.e. how much goes to rent, salaries, exhibits, marketing, etc.). Then figure out what you are doing differently that will beat the pant off that. If you can't figure that out, you can't scale. For comparison, take a look at the cost structure of those tutoring centers (like Sylvan Learning); they do scale, but they are almost certainly not what are envisioning.
If there is one argument that convinces me that Tether is unlikely to present an existential risk to Bitcoin, it's that some of the largest companies are supporting Bitcoin, adding it to their balance sheet, etc. I've got to believe they are well aware of this risk and have looked into it, and have at least decided that it isn't a large enough issue to expose them significantly.
Travis Goodspeed gave a talk at HOPE about the RFID badges, and touched on his work with the IM-ME. Smart (and neighborly!) guy.
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How about the courts do it, instead?
> WhatsApp kept accepting messages on my behalf. People didn't know I wasn't getting their messages.

As an FYI to you and anyone reading this, you can convert your account to a business account using WhatsApp for Business. It has an auto-reply feature that you can enable with a custom message, to inform people you've moved to whatever platform you've decided to move to.