jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Because you can sell them something other than the one thing they are looking for.

Contrived example: I search for "buying new SUV" so clearly you should show me new car ads and car buying articles and reviews. But if I am a mid-30s married person, you might also try to sell me car seats for the babies I demographically am likely to have or want to have soon. OTOH, if am an older 60s retired widow, you may want to advertise warranty and car maintenance plans for my peace of mind about taking care of the car.

Actually it's a little more nuanced than that, because I could be mid-30s and married but choosing to be childfree, or I could be a 65 year old widow and former car mechanic who is more than capable of taking care of my own vehicle. So collecting the demographic data is about building a gradient of probabilities, things that are ranked in likelihood of value/relevance, and using that information to inform the demand side of advertisers deciding how much to bid for my eyeballs.
Yesterday my wife asked me how can I work with music playing, doesn't that distract me? My response was my work boils down to figuring out what to make, then making it. The figuring out part is hard, and requires silent concentration. The making part is usually straightforward and music helps me crank along.
In fairness, over 9 years it got significantly nicer to program for.
>>work force

If you want to tax that why not payroll tax?

>>Enforcement of private property

Land value tax?

>>Bailouts

While they are people benefiting from that it's people in specific industries and/or connections to politicians. Your average 1%'er is not in position to benefit.
We can all agree though that bailouts are bad but it's not a tax problem is a problem with a flawed system that induces a lot of short term pain if a given company fails and politicians being able to convince the public bailouts are necessary.
Subscribed. Cool idea. Will it be taken over by robots and people gaming the system for upvotes? Most definitely. But maybe there can be some interesting conversation before that happens.
Yes, of course they have. How does a company losing a sum equal to nearly 2 years of profit not have the most dramatic impact on senior officials at said company? Where do you think the executive bonuses and value of shares (not just options, senior officials will already be vested) come from?

Beyond those losses, the head of investment banking and the head of risk were both fired yesterday.

The real problem is lower down the ranks, where someone on the trading floor can take outsized risk to boost their potential bonus, where worst case scenario they're fired without much ceremony and get another job somewhere else.
My understanding of the dump is that it was scraped, thus it's non exhaustive by nature. There's only half a billion accounts in it after all, and Facebook has far more.
The phone scammer, no. Just some idiot trying to get me to do stuff I should not be doing. Given how he conducted himself on the phone, he probably does not have a great conversion rate. People that do this are not exactly criminal master minds. But I guess some people get bullied into handing over their private keys, which I assume is what he was after. He clearly had some setup that auto dials numbers. After this, he apparently removed me from that list. So, tip: annoy the hell out of them and waste their time as much as you can when this happens to you. Putting him no speaker got a few giggles out of the team.

The criminals that got into my account got too greedy. The bank's fraud detection system kicked in and rolled back the transactions. But at that point they had complete control over my account. Very scary. If they had been more subtle, they could have likely stolen quite a bit. So, also not criminal master minds probably.
This raises the larger question about how much influence hackers and developers really have in terms of product adoption. There seem to be two schools of thought:

(1) Hackers/nerds are early adopters. Thus, they will influence "normal" people to use products that they judge to be superior.

(2) Hackers/nerds are a tiny proportion of the population with no real influence. They might push esoteric but superior technologies, but large-scale adoption will ultimately be driven by how quickly cat pictures can be shared with the largest group of people.

The author of the article clearly believes in (2), but Apple seems to be making money off (1). So which is it? Or is this some sort of false dichotomy to begin with?
True, but the addition of stickers and GIFs makes it much closer to real life where there are dozens of visual and physical cues as to your headspace.
I get it. We wanted to have this to really help people customize the space the way they like. Gather has a different interpretation of it and more in line with what you are looking for.
... or you can lock down, eradicate it and go back to normal (except for international travel). It passed that point in many places now unfortunately. I’m in Auckland, NZ and it’s a normal summer. We have also learned that NZs terrible road toll is unrelated to tourists, who we previously blamed.

Have you considered that of 100 friends, family and acquaintances you’d see two die and 10 would have a painful and difficult future?
Two things:
1) Amazon is not deleting the books from the devices. It is simply removing them from the web-based "Archive" of purchased books. Any books on the device remain on the device, BUT, if the book is deleted on the device, it will be lost forever.
2) Amazon is refunding purchases of these books.
You of course have a point in that "you can't argue with taste".

However programming languages live and die by the size of their community. Erlang has, by choice of an over-brewed and bitter syntax, drawn itself into a niche much smaller than it deserves. The only chance to escape would be to adapt a more popular taste.

Otherwise it will eventually be obsoleted by a language "as powerful as erlang, but minus the arcane syntax".
The main aim with the limited number of allowed modifications is to keep the cost of entry low, such that the brand new championship actually gets entrants. It's hard to justify a large budget for an unheard of championship.
Definitely, this is a huge opportunity for innovation if they would open it up.

I would like to see there be no rules on the cars except that they must weigh in under a certain number.
> I believe the teacher should act as the role model. An anthropologist who could inspire you and generate the curiosity and interest would be the ideal role model for a captivated future anthropology student.

That's how I felt about that professor. He's sparked interest in a new to me topic. As for the waste of money, I'm not certain how the university system works outside of Canada, but here at UToronto, after you've picked 3 or more courses, the fees for the term become flat, i.e. you can pick 4 or 7 courses, and the total is the same. I personally think taking 5 purely major related courses at a university with so many potential topics of interest to explore is complete madness, so the flat fee system works quite well, IMO.

Even if it ends up costing you more than you'd like, in case of a student loan exceeding $7,000 annually, the Canadian Government forgives anything above that amount, which is great if one is living alone and has to pay rent and bills.

Add to that all the possible term grants you can obtain, based on your marks, or in case of me, a low income, and it starts to make more sense to explore things a bit while at university.

While a bit off topic, I just wanted to justify taking seemingly unrelated courses for personal and not necessarily career related gain under the current education system.
You and michael_dorfman are probably talking past each other, on account of being from different countries with different "Medicare" systems. The US, Australia and Canada all have systems called "Medicare".

In the US, Medicare is only for old people, and it's uncommon for them to attend university. Also, "uni" isn't a usual American colloquialism. So it appears that michael_dorfman is talking about US Medicare, and you're probably talking about Australian Medicare.
"Do you code outside of work?"

No, I code for my startup, if I'm coding outside of that, then it must be a really light week.
E-Mail or other interface? MMS are relatively expensive for many people I know (nobody uses them and therefore nobody cares when selecting a phone plan what they cost, vs. people with a smartphone nearly always have data plans)
Color me old-fashioned, but I think this sounds horrible. The noise is annoyingly like a high-pitched screech. Grating on the ears.

Then again, F1 cars have terrible sound as well. Too high rev to have a nice sound.

edit: I find it interesting that they have a Senna and a Prost. Coincidence?

edit2: their top speeds are apparently also over 140km/h lower than F1 (225km/h vs. ~360km/h). I wonder why they decided to limit the cars to that and if it's ever getting raised?
He could also try building something... I'm always trying new ideas like my latest : GlitterAndPoop.com -- a clone of the ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com site, don't know if it'll make money, but took 3 days to build--and everything on your portfolio makes you look better and better.
Bear in mind that here, something which is a minimum from the point of view of the OS is a maximum from the device's point of view. If the OS is allowed to use any value above 10ms for TRSMRCY then the device can take at most 10ms to prepare itself because the OS can send a request at any point after that.
I wouldn't give any credence to anonymous hearsay.

If those mockups end up looking like the real thing, I'll eat my iHat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
https://www.virustotal.com/fi/file/d0d418efb07df4378b24bccac...
If you download the package, it will be unique malware packet for you. So if you check it with virus total, it's not the same file.
Well spotted, you're absolutely right. My hunch is that it's doable to maintain the semantics but I need to play around with the example a bit to know for sure.
You should stop posting false information. A simple wound is enough. 5A @ 20V is 4 ohm. A wound is lower than that.

And you don't need 20A to kill anyway. 20V with sweaty salty skin is right at the edge of dangerous territory.
Same here w.r.t. destressing. And when I need to cook but am not particularly in need of the mental break, I'll load up Ruby Rogues or another dev podcast and get some learning or inspiration added to the mix.
> twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow

Are you using the reverse chronological timeline? That's the only way to fly.
I read the built in help and the recommended parts didn't take too long (30 - 90 minutes somewhere I guess).

Used the GUI version (the menus are usueful for reference when I started) but learned the new copy / paste keys instead of using Windows standard and generally try to pick up every shortcut.

I've tried a few "distros" and found one I liked. I also spent a little (too much?) time on implementing org-mode, mostly according to http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

Wouldn't use it for window manager though for roughly the same reasons I wouldn't use the tractor to go shopping with the family.

(Background: I've used vim for configuration for the last few years and ST2/3 + Netbeans for developement, never touched emacs before last fall except by accident.)
> Feedzirra, Mechanize, Python Twitter Tools

Except these are exactly the kinds of libraries that are easy to write in Clojure. Yes, it's important to have these excellent utility libraries, but having those is just a function of time and the size of the growing community - nothing inherent to Python itself.

But then you start looking at these really, really powerful mature Java libraries like Joda, Lucene, Neo4j, Netty, Colt, LWJGL - and you realize that creating or adopting a simple idiomatic Clojure wrapper for your use case is going to be downright exciting and fun!
In the interest of increasing angel investing, why not remove the legal barriers (accredited investing) and bring a whole new class of players in the game?
Huh? It's talking about glee clubs, and in particular the glee club on Glee, who mostly do live performances. The article begins, "For a show that regularly tackles thorny issues like teen pregnancy and alcohol abuse, it’s surprising that a million dollars worth of lawbreaking would go unmentioned." But this premise seems to be faulty - there's no indication that there is a million dollars worth of law-breaking involved in performing songs live as part of a glee club which is most likely covered by the absurdly cheap school/town ASCAP, BMI etc license.

Certainly I haven't heard of them talking about releasing a recording on Glee, although I missed a couple episodes...

EDIT: I see that the article discusses in particular the videos that were created which would constitute "recordings". On the mashup issue, presumably they aren't actually recording mashups but writing them to be performed live - these aren't lip syncing groups, and most glee clubs probably don't make videos either so it seems fairly moot.
Things are about to get a lot worse with ACTA. Imagine you Internet access being shut off for sharing an unauthorized, amateur remake or mashup like those disccussed in the article!
"He said: ''Someone of this age should be much fitter, but perhaps this is the occupational hazard of the professional gamer who can spend around 10 hours a day in front of a screen. "

Not the best news for those of us who _work_ 10 hours a day in front of a screen.
Clojure feels like a true "next step" after Python, for me. Before Clojure, I casually observed Lisp and thought, "That's nice, but I'd lose the benefits I currently get from Python's standard library." But with Clojure, taking advantage of Java's libraries is almost as good. The power of lisp with a vast library of existing libraries.

Is it a good idea to base a language off of another, in the way that Clojure runs on the JVM and relies on Java libraries for the places where there isn't a pure-clojure alternative? I go back and forth, because I don't want to see Clojure take a hit if Java starts plunging. But when I look at it from a more practical perspective, the interop gives Clojure an essential ingredient -- without it, I doubt Clojure would thrive.
The problem is often, the company doesn't know how much activities actually cost. Often, balance sheets are political or they're manipulated by sales people to show the P&L numbers they want. They're also unaware of the cost/quality relationship. This is often assumed to be a flat graph.
I'm gonna go ahead and flag this story, because at least two brand new accounts have popped up in the last hour just in order to make rather non-specific comments about how "great" and "amazing" this site looks. I suspect something iffy may be going on around here.
Right, so my only mistake was "It pulls. It doesn't push". In the future it might all get better. Great. But I was responding to what we have now, not what we might have next year.
This is exactly the same problem faced by people in every domain. It's hard to make a dent in the universe regardless of your mode of attack. Activists often become jaded for exactly the same reasons that academics do. It's hard to do something that is manifestly meaningful, yet occasionally it does happen.
You're right. What I really meant was that instructions were processed 'in order'. An uncached memory access slowed things down a particular amount and there was no way to cover the latency with other instructions.
You write "stop the world" and "concurrent access" in the same sentence. What is up with that? When we manage to go for 10 years without getting 5 or 6 papers claiming to "solve the concurrent/pauseless GC problem" then, perhaps, it might be reasonable to present the problem as "solved."
I agree with most of your thoughts except the 'fashion company' bit. What fashion companies do is 'frivolous' design, a shirt is a shirt is a shirt. What Apple does is on a totally different level - mouse is not a scroll wheel is not a multi-touch sensor. They are all fundamentally different ways of interaction that change the things you _can_ and _cannot_ do with the device - you can't have the precision of the mouse on the iPhone but you can't do the iPhone's multi-touch gestures with the mouse. The design fashion companies do, doesn't have the same impact. Totally on-board with you on the rest of your thoughts.

As an aside, for people who are interested, at MacWorld 2007, Steve summed up the whole thing in just 1 slide... http://i.imgur.com/gMIjp.jpg

To a lot of people 'design' means white/gray rounded rectangles, but that's really not why Apple is where they are today. As Steve said 8 years ago - “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
John doesn't make money based on whether or not he gets a cup of coffee, so this whole question is worthless in my opinion.
I thought about including some mention of this. I'm sure Amazon though this specific crisis as a six-sigma event. Taleb points out in the book Black Swan, the sum of all possible six-sigma events happens a lot more often.
I'm not so sure. I read the OP to say that they're making efforts to ensure that no demographic group is getting a larger proportion of scrutiny.

She says nothing about how this correlates to actual crimes. I assume that she's intentionally trying to keep that out of the picture -- but doesn't that make them less efficient? If young adult males account for a lion's share of the crime, then why force yourself to look away from them and choose an old lady?

Surely there's a difference when you're trying to prevent a very small number of high-profile events, versus regular police work. In trying to stop a terrorist organization, they've (presumably) got the resources to play this to their own benefit by intentionally choosing that old lady as their agent. On the other hand, in day-to-day police work, I'd think that statistics are everything: the potential criminal is a young man, and there's precious little he can do about that, so (assuming that's what the statistics say), that's where one ought to concentrate.
But, that will always happen as TSA can only plan for what past happen not future happened.

The FBI, Secret Service, Treasury, CIA, etc have a record of 75% or higher of catching terrorists before the act.

Guess what TSA's record is? ZERO! Think about that for second. How many Congress people are connected to the companies supply and benefiting from TSA's obvious miss-management?

For security you hire law enforcement or military. Guess who does security at embassies? That is right law enforcement and the military not TSA.
I think they would ultimately want to control them better. They could use NK to issue crazy threats and manipulation to the world, which they could not do directly. They could also use it to export arms and nuclear technology to foreign countries.

US has those countries and I am sure China would like them too.
And nothing says "this is a desperate grab for page views" like unnecessarily splitting your article into 3 pages.
I suffered from this. I have a couple of ideas that I did not think much of, only to have it (or a facsimile) go IPO/public about a year later to much fanfare. I still remember my "private payments between friends" idea which came along before PayPal. The concept came about after lunches where someone would pick up the tab for someone else due to "forgot my wallet" syndrome. For me the trust barrier seemed too high - but ventures like PayPal prove that people sometimes part with information easier than I assumed. And I never imagined the size/transaction volume that PayPal would grow to - props to them.

In the end, execution is the key and it does not have to be perfect on day one. Half baked can be made 3/4 baked and so on...
So the problem isn't government having information on you, it's that 'because America' they're allowed to distribute and even SELL the information non-anonymized for no good reason.
Kinda interesting ... I'd be really interested in an exploration about how a sizable number of American adults have become Disney(land/world) fanatics. It strikes me as very strange and regressive behavior.
Lots of people on EBT have credit cards, it’s not like you need to be in extreme destitution to quality.
GIMP's UI consists of medium grey on slightly dark grey with occasional third shades of grey. It's low contrast and not particularly accessible.

GIMP's UI is spread across a huge pile of small windows with overlapping jurisdiction such that you're never sure where anything needs to go.

I've copied an image and would like to work on it. Let's go create a new image. Oh, it hasn't changed the size to match the clipboard - that's fine, let's pick something small and let it expand.

Oh, when I paste, it doesn't offer to expand the canvas. That's unfortunate. Let's expand it manually and paste......but it still tries to paste into the tiny rectangle I originally had rather than the whole larger viewport. I give up, I'll manually guess a few sizes until I get close.

OK, let's edit my picture. I click on the paintbrush tool in one window......then select a brush in the "Layers - Brushes" window, but it's too big. How do I fix that? I look for the "Brush Editor" window (different from "Layers - Brushes") and see a "Radius" selector. But it's read-only and I have no idea why. I have to go back to "Layers - Brushes" and find a tiny "Edit this Brush" button.....then go back to the "Brush Editor" window to make changes.

Let's add some text to my window....oh, the text properties window appears over my image, translucent (even less contrast!) and the font select window is.......a free-form text box? No dropdown to see the names of my fonts, much less a preview of them? I'm done. Time to go to Paint.NET or Photoshop or literally any other image editor.
> So what i have in mind is that always when searching for a free domain i must look with a "dig" command

The domain can be registered and still not have its DNS setup, so a command like "dig" gives no guarantee that it's available. The better way is to use the whois command to check if it's registered.

> to a encrypted dns server

Unless you believe that your ISP is giving out this info to godaddy, there's really no point in the encryption.

What I do is check a domain with the whois command, and if it's not registered, then I'll check for the general prices of that TLD by checking with different registrars for the price of a domain like randomcrapdfjalijdflijasdlfijasldjf.com if .com is the tld I was going for.

Anyway, the moment you put the actual domain you want to buy into a registrar's text input, you must consider that there's a very real risk that in a few minutes the price may rise, so you better have already determined what price is acceptable for you before you input that.
The Cyber Truck is 1000-1500lbs heavier than an F150 (depending on models/options). Weight is a huge factor in towing as you need a heavier tow vehicle as your tow weight increases, otherwise you lose handling characteristics when said trailer starts to push and pull on the tow vehicle through normal (and abnormal) driving circumstances.

The added weight of the Cyber Truck will actually help it in terms of stability during towing and, in many cases, it will likely tow better than most half ton trucks currently on the market. I'm curious to see how it plays out in reality. And your points help as well - since trucks are naturally higher CG vehicles the batteries are also going to be a competitive advantage in making it more nimble all around. I'd happily trade my current tow vehicle for something that can do 500 miles towing 6k lbs. That would cover 95% of my use cases I have a tow vehicle for in the first place.