jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do not get an ink printer. Do not get an ink printer.

Since my student days in the early 2000s, I have been buying laser printers, only two in total since then. They have been affordable even as a student in Germany with no money. The first was 180€ I think (not sure), the second slightly more expensive but comes with a useful scanner. It doubles as a photocopier as well.

I'm not printing very often, but also not never. The first printer got relatively heavy use during University, the second one saw large visa-related bouts of use.

Among the two printers, I only remember replacing the toner cartridge... two or three times. In almost two decades. More parts than that are replaceable, I just did not have to.

Printing is quick. Really quick. A page comes out in a second or two. Quality is amazing. Inkjets are painfully slow, expensive, break down easily, and the quality looks like crap.

My printers have every only been monochrome, but I never really missed color so far. I don't know if color lasers are significantly more expensive, what their toner usage is, or how easily they break down. The scanner part is of course a color scanner.
That security guard was performing the important function of allowing the management to legally tick the "we have a security guard" box on the insurance form.
>Fellow HNers, I don't know where to begin dismantling this post or what to say that wouldn't be construed as a personal attack. Can someone with more skill call out the terms for the paranoia and hypocrisy here?

Given the lack of specificity and details, GP's claims are absolutely suspect. I'd suggest just leaving it alone, since the vagueness of the assertions made makes it impossible to refute or argue with GP about it, since we really have no idea what they are blathering on about.

Pull at one thread and the response can be "that's not what I was talking about" with more unsupport[ed|able] assertions, potentially with a goalpost move as well.

To quote a terrible movie[0], in the case of the comment you're replying to "the only winning move is not to play." IMHO, YMMV, etc., etc., etc.

As such, I recommend backing away slowly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
If someone invites you out to a sushi dinner, you are free to decline simply because you do not eat sushi; but you should also consider your audience when communicating your rejection of their offer.
A guard who adopts the heuristic "there are no robbers" can be replaced with a rock, but has adopted a heuristic that almost always works.

Guards that do not adopt that heuristic cannot be replaced by that rock.
> an extra management structure

Not necessarily - it could be as simple as a change to the existing structure that benefits everyone to some degree (or at least doesn’t harm others).
Russia has has something 130,000 troops positioned just outside Ukraine's borders and in Belarus. They have tanks, missile systems, amphibious landing ships, medical units, established supply lines, etc.

They actually invaded Ukraine in 2014 and took Crimea.

I mean, the possibility of an invasion is not exactly far-fetched.
> the Universe is able to solve them in real time

Not just the Universe - analog computers can do that, too.
I know with Disqus comments you can sort by Most Popular or Highest Rated. Not sure if you can default to one of those.
On the basis that he's putting in $250k cash at a post money valuation of $750k:

What really determines whether this is fair is down to what a 'home run' would look like.

If you are getting some traction towards a possible goal of $xx million a year if all of your ducks line up, then $500k pre money sounds low.

But if you're not going for such a big win, $750k post money for a company with that kind of burn rate sounds reasonable to me. Putting $250k cash into a company with no revenues is an incredibly risky thing to do, and he quite possibly well deserves a third of your company for taking that risk.

So much of this comes down to market opportunity and how impressive your traction is.
The vast majority of languages outside the Lisp family have no procedural macro system - and Nim's is more powerful than that of many that do. It's difficult to imagine how that's "primitive".
Yup. Got bitten by that last year.

When reading the docs [1] it's pretty obvious which one should be used so I am left wondering why I ended up with 'o' in my code. I suspect I copy-pasted something from some random blog post or whatever. Serves me right. :(

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
They'd probably get rejected for jobs at their own portfolio companies. That's how out of whack hiring is.
What law did Google break that caused gmail to be shut down? According to the article the Chinese government denies doing anything.

I also don't think you understand HN very well. What is supported is not supported on grounds of legality but on what is viewed as good for people as a whole. "What is legal is what is right and what is right is what is legal" is the antithesis of how most hackers think.
There was a game console for vector games, named Vectrex.

The games that ran on it were really interesting.

Many modern games use the now high-resolution of raster displays to imitate Vectrex-style graphics.

http://www.binaryzoo.com/games/echoesplus/echoesplus_4.png

Note that the corners between straight lines are brighter, it is because on Vectrex the way to control line brightness was to draw it over itself, also line crossings were brighter too.

Important to mention that many vector displays could NOT make curved lines though.
I think this is good practice also
> And I think global variables should just be removed altogether, as many problems as they cause.

Hi, I'm curious what your thinking is?
Is it because global variables make testing hard?
Is it because global variables are can not be optimized well?
Is it because of bugs in julia related to global variables?

I would like to use a language that doesn't have static variables, global variables, or static functions to make writing tests easier, but that makes it really hard to interface with C and the JVM. I often need functions like write() and System.out.print.
That's the company that made a ton of money while providing an entertainment service for millions, who happily used part of their discretionary income for the experience, creating untold millions of hours of enjoyment for wide segments of the populace previously underserved by the video game industry, and still has over a billion dollars in cash on hand.
Oh, I meant website logs I might be willing to send like that. But they tend to be a tiny fraction of all the logs out there.
Note the "probable cause" part. The TSA doesn't have probably cause for most of its harassment, and there is definitely no probable cause to justify molesting children whose parents don't want them irradiated.
Heh, going beyond tsunamis ... some folks in New Orleans should consider this idea. If your below-sea-level city is next to a massive body of water, preparedness is smart.
He was not conscripted, he volunteered.
At least here, there's the alternative of using existing ad-blockers for Safari, which are typically SIMBL plugins or otherwise sidestep the official plugin channels.
That is the "GSM noise" (http://www.corporatetalkradio.com/thatnoise.html).

Slightly OT: One of my favorite easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto IV is that the GSM noise plays just before the in-game cell phone rings. That really had me confused for a second.
There's not enough blue and red lines there really. They should try it with around 20 lines of differing colours so you're really tested. Decent idea though!
I'm not sure what logical fallacy I'm committing (perhaps genetic fallacy?), but whenever Tim Bray talks about photography, images, typography, or really anything involving visual appeal I close the window.

Look at his blog. Look at his photography. Look at his outputs. He is a competent writer with technical knowledge , but when he starts making aesthetic arguments I think he's out of his depth. Especially when he uses other people's informed decisions to justify his uninformed ones (e.g., JDD's choice of monitor being good enough for him).

That'd be fine if this article was a researched technical argument, but it's not. This article is a "120ish seeems good enough for me, and I got this stuff from JDD and I seem to remember old printers being good at..."
image isn't everything.
I don't think I said anything about being "good" at art. There are sadly a great many artists that aren't particularly good.

I don't know what the admission standards are to get into an undegrad art program, but at least at my alma mater, there are a great many pieces of junk littering the grounds that are apparently supposed to be showpiece works of the art students, apparently actually being "good" is not a prerequisite.

I'm just not sure what exactly is "hard" about getting an art degree, and I'm perfectly willing to say that's because of my own ignorance. Some of the art history classes might be toughish, perhaps learning specific techniques, or comparative art across cultures or something. But nothing more difficult than say, a technical writing class.
Do Kiwis even have >100Mbps leaving New Zealand? :(
Oh I agree wholeheartedly! I usually don't comment much anymore, but this one was egregious enough to make me login and post a warning.

The unfortunate thing is I've seen an increasing amount of this garbage on HN that purports to be "scientific" or "logical" but is clearly just pop pysch or just the ruminations of someone who sounds intelligent.

Of course everyone dismisses that as "Oh, it was at least interesting and thought provoking"... to which I say that there's no point in wasting time eating garbage in the kitchen when there's a dinner table full of steak in the next room...
The obvious answer is that it becomes much harder for the NSA (and related entities) to do their job when their tactics and capabilities are known to the world.

Harder as in how?

That handwavy excuse gets thrown around a lot, I have yet to hear someone back it up with anything tangible.

Domestic spying is something that needs to be reigned in and tightly controlled

Well, we tried with blind faith for a while. Turns out that didn't work all too well.

So, how do you propose we control something that we are not allowed to know anything about?
It's certainly being used as a pretext to lock down legal control of independent computation. The proposed updates to the CFAA and Obama's siding with Cameron on the intolerability of government-opaque communications have more credibility as a result of it. And it lends credibility to the steady reports from "a government official with knowledge of the matter" that US infrastructure is only an exploit away from being disabled by a hostile nation state, and to possible anti-hacker propaganda like the movie "Blackhat."
As pseudo-elements, :before and :after don't have any real semantic meaning. But yes, it is a complete abuse of pseudo-elements that isn't immediately understandable. There are some more practical and simple pseudo-element hacks too - http://nicolasgallagher.com/multiple-backgrounds-and-borders...
The idea around commuting is this: With the 9-5 workday, nearly everyone commutes at the same time which causes epic traffic jams. If we staggered the workdays so that some worked 8-4, 9-5, or 10-6, 11-7, etc then the traffic problems of most cities would disappear.

Yes, that's still an 8-hour workday. But it's not the same as the current 8-hour workday model we use right now.
This is good brouhaha down with the man confirmation bias feeding writing, but...

-The commute has nothing to do with the work day. If you work less or more, you still have to commute to get there to do the work.

-The author presents no alternative, except hints at the digital nomadic work style. If you're going to try to dismantle a structure that, as written in the article, has kept big business in America running for so long, please provide a reasonable sounding alternative so if we agree with you we can do something about it.
The Yiibu link at the end of my article shows how you can build sites that work on low-end phones and older browsers, as well as Android and iPhone and modern desktop browsers. They do it by reversing some of the more common development practices. Rather than use CSS and JavaScript to transform a desktop site into a mobile one, you can start with a mobile-friendly site, and then use CSS and JavaScript to progressively enhance it in more advanced browsers.

If you haven't seen it already, their presentation is highly recommended:

http://yiibu.com/articles/rethinking-the-mobile-web/page-3.h...

...in particular, the part starting with "the absence of support for @media queries is in fact the first @media query" (slide 85).
This feature didn't exist last month -- it was added publicly on november 17th, in other words two days ago.
From years of consulting I'm always surprised when I feel like I've worked a full day over 8 hours, but am only billing an honest 5-6. Distractions, life responsibilities, break time, etc. all mean 8 hours is not 8 hours. I do think most employers know this and it's acceptable - after all salaried employees are not paid by the hour and being there can be as important for overall productivity as it is for the same person to be individually productive.

Personally I'd be in favor of a 4 day 10 hour work week. I think it could be similarly productive, cuts down on commute time, and yields a better quality of life.
Note that the Mint now has measures in place to detect people doing this, and they will block people from the program if they suspect abuse.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB126014168569179245-lMy...
Hiding part of the URL is what every browser currently does, when the URL gets long enough. Does that count as "destroying information?" The Opera alpha shows the whole URL when you click on the address field.

I think I'd be more likely to notice typos like "yahooo" or "gnail" with the new display method, without the noise of a thousand-character URL surrounding them. That is by no means the be-all and end-all of anti-phishing technology. It's just giving me one more chance to see something that might be amiss.
Wow! Thanks for that. I really need to break the habit of assuming the world follows US patterns because Google, Silicon Valley, etc are in the US.
They are still 95% effective after 6 months at preventing death. They are unknown effective against new variants. I've seen a variety of studies with different variants tested against Delta. At best I read 92% for Pfizer (but a previous test had them at 60%), other vaccines as low as 30%. The new variants like lambda have shown it responds to antibiotic poorly, it spreads quickly and is more deadly compared to delta. I'm not sure the vaccine strategy will continue to work.
I came here to post "the exact same" comment.

The assumption of smart people being good at communicating the explanation very well, is not necessarily true. In my personal experience, two of the most smart people, I have come across are basically not the best in communicating. They are so sharp, that thing obvious to them, are not obvious to most of the people.

However, for most people, I find the observation to be correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents
The iPad is an older project, when it started, on single task iPhoneOS 3.2, 256MB of RAM was the "right amount".

Now with iOS4, simil-multitasking and a lot of video to edit, 256MB seems just a bit to tight.

We have to wait and see if the release of the iOS4 for the iPad will bring come new hardware with it.
I'm not sure what you're saying. That ASP.net MVC or dynamic typing in .net isn't new?
I like it, but don't see the need for the Foursquare stuff (possibly because I don't use or get it). I already know where I work and what restaurants I go to. A site where I can filter on must be within N minutes walk/drive/bike/train ride of these addresses would be great. The trick would be, not to simply measure the distance between two points, but to take into consideration public transport, cycle paths, traffic levels and similar things.
Every company has this problem (including Google). What point are you making?
Not sure why you were voted down, but I tried to get you back up. This guy says:
"I need money, only way of getting it is doing Java, C# or PHP".

So he's basically whining instead of doing something about it. Why hasn't he started a profitable Haskell project? Or why doesn't he learn Ruby or Python, which are at least far better than Java? "Spoiled child" is exactly correct. If you really want to use a niche language, you can hope, but not expect that the world will give you a job programming it. Create your own, profitable opportunity. Otherwise, get used to being a starving artist.
I know a few very attractive women who use dating sites, because it is quicker and more time effective than any other approach. They have jobs which take up most of their time and they don't want to spent the little free time they have trawling for partners. Don't think of dating sites as a service for people who cannot get dates any other way, think of it as a service for people who don't have the free time.
Yes auto repair is a big problem for me and for a lot of other people too I guess.

Just last week the garage that took my car misdiagnosed the problem and charged me much more than necessary.

Usually I try to get a grasp of what the problem could be and try to fix it myself if I can. This time I was under pressure to get it fixed quickly so I directly brought it to the garage. Had I tried to identify the problem (which I did later on with a lot of web browsing), I would have fixed the problem under 72h and $20 vs one and a half week, a lot of hassle and $150 at the garage.

I wish there could be a robust platform to help you identify a problem. The forums are often full of people that really don't know what they are talking about but they still come and confuse you.

I'm thinking about a website where you could identify you car's problem with community approved answers (based on their own experience or solid references from the repair manual).
My understanding is that the original code for Amazon was written in hip Lisp nonsense with some ironic-retro C thrown in.
I initially thought that myself but this is covered in end note [4]:

"[4] I think I once heard of an MSN chat transcript dataset that was really awesome, but I can't seem to find mention of it anymore. Let me know if you know where I can find that or any other instant message datasets. I know that some IRC rooms get publicly logged — is there a single place where one could grab all of them at once?"
If you are pretentious, then yes.
http://akshat.posterous.com/patio11-says-hello-ladies
Does anybody know if any Yahoo employees are going to AVOS at the same time? (Also, are there even any employees with full-time responsibilities on Delicious?) Is AVOS going to try to re-hire some of the old Del.icio.us team?

This is good news but I am thinking that things at Delicious might be a bit rocky as new admins adjust. If you're a happy Pinboard.IN user, or use some other service, it's not necessarily a reason to switch today.
I wonder if Netflix is going to buy them to create an anime division.
Fair enough, so in context your piracy is all about fresh content :-)

I try to be strictly legit in my digital content. The areas where I skate the line would be when I use the photocopier at the library to make a copy of a paper from a journal which I'm unwilling to pay $50 for a reprint for but I want a copy in my files. That being said, there is money being left on the table. If the reprints were $1 I would definitely buy them, if they were $5 I would still buy the ones I felt were seminal. Just another example of price elasticity in the digital economy.

In my research on this topic most studies posit a more uniform distribution. Some specifically call out first sale doctrine issues like reselling last years version of AutoCAD on ebay. Perhaps our different understandings may be that I'm not thinking specifically of movies.
The author makes a great point, however, about the ability to link those two together. I'm sure you'd end up with a lot of false positives from IRC as even if it's attributed (ircuser: TWSS!) the flow of IRC conversations is such that it's not always the last thing ircuser said that is being replied to (because of network lag and just general reply lag in IRC).

Although now that I think about it... twitter probably often suffers from the exact same issue, although somewhat mitigated as people often include the original tweet in their reply.
That's very odd. I was sure I remembered somebody getting rejected very recently for running code written by the user. I must have been dreaming. Thanks for the correction.
I wish something like the ATV SSTO[0] had been built. A small, reusable, single-stage-to-orbit crew transport.

[0] http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/atv.htm
>an [MS] Office version for Sun Microsystem's Solaris //

Are you sure you're not thinking of StarOffice, which became OpenOffice.org which begat LibreOffice. That was Sun's answer to MS Office, supposedly started by realising it was cheaper to buy a company that made an office suite and develop it in-house than it was to pay MS for their suite.
I've never understood why online reviews, at least on sites as large as Amazon with a competent technical team behind the company, aren't better. First step, if I review a product, then you should immediately be weighting the visibility of all reviews by reviewers who posted a review which agrees with my own. So if I rate Avengers: Endgame bluray a single star, guess that I have similar opinions to the others that rated it the same, and when I go look at some other Marvel film bluray, if those others have reviewed it, push them to the top. As I review more and more things, the weightings should get better and better. And gaming it would be basically impossible unless you managed to tailor bot posts to match the way I rated dishware, movies, books, videogames, food products, and the dozens of other things I've rated. Fake reviews would get pushed to the bottom with almost instantaneous speed if they would do this. If they cheap out and decide to aggregate and 'bucket' reviewers rather than training a recommender engine per-customer, its performance will fall short and still be gamed, but even that would be better (and seems to be the way big companies handle the computational load per-user systems would incur... personally I'd prefer they push the calculations clientside, but they haven't gone that way).
I don't use iOS much as I only have it on an iPad Pro, but Safari has this annoying thing where you tap a button or a link and nothing happens. The CSS changes so you know the tap event has occurred, but nothing happens. You have to tap again to navigate or submit a form.

Of course this happens on all iOS browsers since all are running on Safari web views.
I think is referring to abstractions in general. Levels and levels of abstractions. Not always a bad idea but sometimes it ends up complicating things too much and burning new comers brains.
Are you similarly opposed to gnome having a logo? k8s? linux? What is the actual issue with having a logo and basic design guidelines?
I'd like to know the land use requirements of direct air capture technology. Will it use enormous amounts of land? What is currently on that land? Will this entail scalability issues?
Both parties care, but one side wants government to do less or not interfere with things, and the other side wants government to do more or redistribute things. One side has an interest in government functioning properly and the other doesn't (until they need Medicare anyway). I think this contributes to the "win at any cost" appearance of the one side.
Why would it be unique?
But chinese government is not a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

North Korean is also human too. So is those in nazi Germany für Ibm.