jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I thought the sum of several dice rolls was a Gaussian distribution to start with. What more do you need just roll say 10 dice and then pick a threshold value?
A few thoughts.

One: Short deadlines can be really effective. I know 37signals isn't always a popular source here, but their idea of setting a deadline and then adjusting the scope of your project down to meet the deadline and just release the thing is a powerful one.

Two: Do you have any sort of accountability? A co-founder? Having someone you're answerable to can be really useful. Don't be worried about them taking your idea and executing it better than you. Have someone who can challenge you. Ideally, you can challenge them on a project of theirs.

Three: It sounds like a lot of your distractions are online. If your spreadsheets don't require an internet connection, give your router / ethernet cable / etc. to a friend. Or you can use a tool like Freedom to cut out internet access. I'm working on a startup that will give you specific, granular control of your internet connectivity (http://monotask.com), but we haven't launched yet, so we're not going to be super-useful just yet. Existing options include Concentrate, Freedom, Self-Control, and RescueTime's "block" feature.

Four: The motivation you mentioned is being rich. While there's nothing wrong with that, it's a bit of an abstract goal. I generally prefer for my projects to solve concrete problems that I'm having. Is there any way to pivot your focus, off of money, and onto solving the problem? That might motivate you more than money. YMMV.

Best of luck with it.
The most stable outcome is for no one to possess it, and for the country to remain in ruin. But from time to time, a Great Power tries to seize the area, drawing a response from the other powers. That time may be again be approaching.

The Taliban seem to have the organizational resources to rule a country. Wouldn't a Taliban ascendancy in Afghanistan also be a "stable" outcome in the short term? (There would be concern that their ideology would prevent stability in the long term, given the existence of Israel and secular western industrial powers.)
> a friendly, easy to use chat app with stickers & voice messages (also strong encryption).

Except it's not, strong encryption and privacy emphasis goes against easy to use. I recently got my family to switch to Telegram (because I like the interface) - my sister works in an environment where she has to have a separate work phone without a camera and everything synced up out of the box, history, etc. Brother lost his phone - same thing, has chat histories and everything is back to normal. I use Telegram on desktop and mobile and it synces instantly.

Compare that to Signal, you don't even sync between active devices and you can forget about having old conversations on a new device. And just to give you a scope of how important messaging history to people is (I've seen people say nobody cares about IM history) - designer from work is lugging around her Android phone year after switching to iPhone just for WhatsApp history (it doesn't sync between OS-es).
Hopefully to clear some things up about polygraphs in America:

1. You almost never go through them unless you're in the process of obtaining a security clearance (I'd be quite surprised if the UK didn't do something similar for their clearance process). In fact, I have never heard of any other instance where someone was required to have one, as they are generally not admissible evidence in courts.

2. It is my understanding that the accuracy of polygraphs is mostly down to the skill of the person reading the device and giving the test (hence why they aren't usable as evidence).
Fun idea, but as always making this an NFT doesn't add anything at all. It could just be a written, or even an oral contract.
"Remove google background" button doesn't actually remove the background. It defaults to a background with a landscape and a metal slide? So, how do you remove the background?!

EDIT: even if it is forced for 24 hours, at least put a message up on the site or remove the non-working buttons!
I've done it for a similar reason: it cuts down on support requests (ever so slightly).

No matter what you tell them, users will store passwords in text files and email them around in spreadsheets, and spaces interfere with cutting and pasting in a way that other characters don't.

It's not a strong reason, but no-one's ever complained about not being allowed to use spaces either.
That's a great looking machine, and the specs are awesome, but I refuse to buy Sony Vaio. They have some of the worst driver support ever, supporting the exact version of Windows shipped and nothing else, ever. Forget about Linux support, it doesn't exist. Forget about even supporting future service packs of the Windows release.

When Windows 7 SP1 comes out and Sony refuses to update your drivers, enjoy your $3,000 paperweight. Been there, done that, refuse to buy a Vaio ever again.
Oh good, a sponsored Google homepage.
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Some objections:

Write once/run anywhere would be a motivation. - "Run anywhere" is not true for most desktop programs and definitely not true for embedded stuff. When you're at 64k, you usually don't even reuse stuff like display handling, because your PCB layout is different enough that you'd have to rewrite the i/o layer anyways. Or because you a specific way to get the data. Or...

I can't imagine much reasonable code reuse outside of standardised platforms like Arduino. Much less any "run anywhere" programs.

It's a dynamic language so you can do things you couldn't do with C - There's nothing in language X, that you cannot do in C.

Since it seems to be a google project, I guess they're just trying to create something that can be pushed onto Android, much like their own Java VM.
Yup, that's why I submitted it originally. Where are you guys located?
I did some recon on eBay looking for used units w/ the affected SKUs for sale and they appear to be Samsung units.
Anybody have any good links to any studies on Tummo? It's become very popular with Wim Hof (or, I've seen his practice ascribed to Tummo techniques and it does involve cold exposure). I'm curious particularly if there's negative effects from the hypoxia component.
The article is looking for gossip where none exists. If the guy leading the charge into China is stepping down, that's entirely sufficient to drop it.

If it's not a well-established and ongoing concern, a bus factor of one is wholly plausible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Enterprise tax. On-prem licenses are going to be used by large enterprises, who are more challenging to do business with, so you need to charge them more.
Capitalism can't do that without redistribution in the form of severe taxation of the wealthy. That's why we need to revive estate taxes and inheritance taxes: in their absence, great dynasties of incredible wealth are formed and then sit idle for decades or even centuries, protecting themselves in trust fund fortresses to no particular end than their own existence.
If you're into JSX, then probably Bindings.scala is a better fit for you:

https://github.com/ThoughtWorksInc/Binding.scala#step-3-crea...
HNers assemble! Build an app/api for that....joking...kinda
It’s largely a solved problem. My insurer USAA has a ride-share add-on that costs an additional $10 a month.
Ah, I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you meant. You're talking about screen reader compatibility only.

I was interested in hearing about browsers that do what Lynx does, but are better. Unfortunately, the browsers you mention are graphical, and so are not Lynx replacements.
I'm always explicit when asked for an estimate. It's not the most political or business savvy answer, but I say things like "this will take 2 hours. On average I'll have two hours of focused time per day, so 10 days."
The reason why the Economist articles all read the same is that they go through a process called "subbing" or sub-editing by the same small group of editors who own the Economist's "voice".

I interned at the Economist one summer in college and wrote two articles for it - the published articles bore a small relationship to what I had submitted. The sub-editors seemed to be mostly George Smiley-type Oxford and Cambridge PhD's of a certain age with an eclectic range of expertises, as far as I recall.
> How does OpenPrescribing fit here? https://openprescribing.net/

After my time that, as mentioned this was 20 years ago, but interesting. Had a quick play, certainly few aspects come to mind and that would be looking at methadone usage in an area in regards to buying a house and seeing the trend.
Which does raise the whole aspect of which on-line estate agent will be first to link such data and analysis it in ways that would indicate the health of the area and insight as well into general lifestyle above and beyond crime data from the police.

So for me, the question is - should open data have some control upon how it is used. Certainly don't want Domino's Pizza doing leaflet bombing of area's based upon an increase in that area of people with known eating disorder medications. Or a spoon company targeting an area because there is an increase in methadone usage.
Certainly some dark marketing aspects that such data does open itself towards, if it's not granular enough. Surgery, is too detailed for public IMHO. Also be flawed as only some chemists/surgery's can prescribe certain medications, so you would see artificial bunching in some area's due to various reasons. Which without such information to go with that data to interpretive it correctly, you will make mistakes in processing without that area weighting aspect factored in. Things like that skew the data in a way that sets it up for interpretation abuse. Wait until Estate Agents start tapping into this - they already include school data and police data, so will only take one and then the rest will follow as it would be a competitive edge otherwise.

All this reminded me - Census in the UK this year, I'll pop Jedi as religion again, good for the credit rating one day I hope.
Classic paranoia and misinformation has infected your worldview.
> Silicon Valley felt like a magical place back then.

I ditto that! I was fortunate to spend a fair bit of time in SV (including Fry's) back then. That time+place was inspirational.

SV (and Fry's) are nothing like they were back then. Perhaps ironically, the rise of the consumer Internet coincided pretty closely with the death of that era of SV.
That's mostly fair, but worth noting that insofar as Bitcoin is mined on a schedule the inflation can be priced into the current price, so it's less deceptive than when the government suddenly prints a ton of bills and whoever was unlucky enough to be cash flush at the time takes a big haircut in purchasing power.
I'm not really surprised all that much. Having moved from the middle east to north america, the culture is so different that I'm surprised marriage is still practiced over here.

Marriage is mostly a social construct but a large part of it is also religious in nature. In large part it serves to conserve the tradition and culture of society or a community.

As social relationships become less centered on family bonds, marriage will weaken. And as western societies become less and less religious, there's less motivation for any couple to get married.

This is not even unintentional. I think at the heart of the feminist movement lies a belief that marriage is a tool devised by society to control women, or something of that sort.
Glancing at Why's poignant guide is probably a good step too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whys_(poignant)_Guide_to_Ruby
So, you're not married. Family bonds last forever. Deep and lasting friendships do not. Just because marriage is valuable doesn't mean everyone should be married.

Home ownership is also a good thing. Clearly, everyone should not be buying houses; even if you have the means, it often makes the best economic sense to rent. But neighborhoods are still built on a foundation of homeowners.

There is a notion that everyone should own a home. There is a notion that everyone should be married. Those notions are what is archaic.
What if there was a new service that simply takes the blacklist and "fixes" the DNS. You could type something like http://blacklis.tr/piratebay.org and get forwarded to the correct IP. They could monitise the same way OpenDNS does by providing a DNS service as well.
Um, actually somebody tried to storm the cockpit shortly after they mandated that the doors be locked.
I believe it's an Apple policy. For example, see: http://www.macservice.com/applemacbookair.html?_kk=macbook%2...

The old drive (working or not) is returned to Apple. If you wish to keep your original drive, Apple charges a significant core charge.
Even for most applications "running non-stop on servers", VM is almost moot these days. For anything computational, swap is the kiss of death. For many applications where the working set is larger than available memory, the work is typically done inside a DBMS which usually has it's own systems for managing paging. Algos in DBMS are certainly aware of non-uniform access time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
I've got a question: is that capital "For" in the title correct? It's been bugging me, because while I think in this particular context it's an actual meaningful part of the title and should be capitalized, but at the same time, I'm so unused to seeing a capital "For."
I hate how long it takes to come to Europe!
I find this NDA thing deeply disturbing. It's like EULAs that prohibit you from publishing benchmark results. Seen a couple those. It's a policy designed to fragment the developer community in a way they have only Apple to resort to.

Not healthy, IMHO.
Another design thing: people don't read when they don't expect a story (they think they're not interested in). Sincerely, I wasn't expecting anything from that page (I was just interested in the comments). However I visited the article and I saw a series of pictures (that based on my experience) does mean a comparison.

Unfortunately to me, the Simple Version 1, 2, and 3, seemed all the same (even the text). So to understand what was different I had to read the paragraph above the Version 1 picture, to learn that was the 1st 2 words that changed.
Non-Apple shops, obviously.
I wanted the OEM harddrive. From what I understand, they are difficult to source for unauthorized service providers. (The link I responded was an Authorized Service Provider.)
Appreciate the example case. Is there a public web listing for VCs that use and have activated these type of clauses. I'll do whatever I can to avoid this color of money.
I am curious as to what you mean by that?

An image by definition would always be represented as a 2D array. Unless you are using hologrophy or a projection field... which still in essence require a 2D array of representing the light field, often needing a higher resolution.

Images aren't always processed in 2D arrays though but are always represented in 2D arrays for display.
What kind of sports? Do you feel a team sport is more challenging due to the social component?
Learning C trying to figure out how to deal with a large 2D array (a map for an RPG) on a calculator (limited RAM and program size) when it finally clicked what a pointer is. I was hooked from that moment on.
Looking through the bulleted list on Razor. One use case for Genesis that drove its development is "Auto-Discovered Real-Time Inventory Data".

Genesis tho is intended for much more. It is both a linux image, a framework implementing a DSL which you can use to write tasks utilizing all of ruby.

Ex: Genesis allows you to configure hardware raid based on asset policies/attributes in Collins. Would this fall into "Policy-Based Provisioning?"

On "Open APIs and Plug-in Architecture", it is correct to state that Genesis is built around utilizing functionality from Collins, however there aren't specific limitation in Genesis which cannot be addressed to support other asset management systems, tho, this isn't a priority.

On "Dynamic Image Selection", currently we have an additional internal system that in conjunction with Collins provides support for OS versions, some aspects of this may at a later time be introduced into Genesis.
In an individual manner commensurate with their contribution and market value, as simply and clearly as possible. It is not complicated, and making it complicated is how we end up in cultural negative feedback loops. The standard performance assessment does more harm than good, and we absolutely should not use it.

Some external resources:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201211/wh...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-case...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/01...

http://www.amazon.com/Abolishing-Performance-Appraisals-Back...

And finally, Deming's own brilliant opinions:

http://blog.deming.org/2013/02/the-idea-of-performance-ratin...

"The merit rating nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, [and] nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unfit for work for weeks after receipt of rating, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. It is unfair, as it ascribes to the people in a group differences that may be caused totally by the system that they work in.

The idea of a merit rating is alluring. The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good.

The effect is exactly the opposite of what the words promise. Everyone propels himself forward, or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. The merit rating rewards people that conform to the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system."

-- W. Edwards Deming

And even more in depth: http://blog.deming.org/2012/10/dr-deming-called-for-the-elim...

In short, the method by which you determine fair pay is very much irrelevant — so long as it does not involve the detrimental practice of performance appraisals. The main focus of both you as a manager and your employees should be on the system of work, not on the individual. Deal with the individual's fair compensation simply and clearly, and discard all by-products, as they are unproductive.
You said "It's a bit juvenile to blame building codes without also admitting why we have them: they save lives."; namely, for safety reasons.

yummyfajitas pointed out that safety has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

Your follow-up post here now raises a bunch of reasonable issues, but none of them are safety-related.
Some features seem interesting. Most of it is easy to implement in Backbone, too, but it is a nice benefit to have everything organized together.

The coding style is a bit off putting though. Why did you use underscores and Kernel-style, especially with the backbone-compatible API, where you use CamelCase?

It is irrational, but this lets me hesitate to dig deeper.
Great demo. Looks very useful and easy to use.
"years of learning French" is not, however, "at the same time you're learning simple words like 'fat', 'thin', 'pink', and 'summer'".
I do this too, some nights (and I have young children). It's a good time to reflect on trickier emails with no time pressure. Of course sometimes I blow work off completely and hang out with the mrs, or get some gaming time. I'm very cautious about burnout, having ridden that line for the last few years pretty hard.
Tricky problems
That would be awesome. I've occasionally done rescues and it can be really fun. So often people aren't willing to listen about organizational problems. But once you have solved some ugly, expensive technical problem, they are suddenly much more willing to consider changes that will prevent them from having the same problem in the future.

Perhaps some sort of league would solve some of the problems in doing that sort of work. E.g., the burstiness, the sudden need for specialized skills, the pipeline issues.
"You look nice today". This habit of saying horribly false compliments to the user is an awful trend that is affecting programmers everywhere.

See https://www.npmjs.com/login, for example.
There might be cases where that is true, but I haven't found that to be the case. I've caught a couple services distributing my email with the '+' in it.
Excellent idea. I think maybe having strict type interfaces for the implementation so you could roll your own would be a good idea too; à la perl's tie HASH => TIEHASH, FETCH, STORE, et alia, TIEARRAY, FETCHSIZE, STORESIZE, et alia, etc. Obviously then you can have slices, arrays, maps (hashes, dicts), that can be use whatever backing store / behaviour you want / need. This will mean that behaviour of individual data collections may not be as clear cut in their behaviour (skeuomorphically) but the upside is more flexibility.
I've been playing around with creating a toy language which treats '-' as a name for a function. It means there always needs to be white space around a - (the syntax of the language isn't like LISP), but that increases readability at the cost of two extra key presses.
Strange I thought that's what a masters degree was - a bachelors + 1 year. Is there another type? I always thought the extra year would have to be in the same field of study but apparently not. I don't think it even has to be in the same 'school' (i.e. someone with a BS can do a 1 year engineering masters).
You realize that this is exactly how wordle works right?
Are there any "gotchas" in this setup? I remember trying to set up my Pi 4 to boot from an external SSD a while back and there were a few annoying manual processes to deal with so I just decided to use a SD card instead. But nowadays I'm running so much on my Pi (pi.hole, minecraft server, jellyfin instance, vpn for all my devices) that I'm getting worried about SD wear. Curious if you have an SSD recommendation (I'd love to get 2TB of storage or so on there) as well.
From the comment section:

https://twitter.com/dnunan79/status/1491073564447244288/phot...

It is interesting, how the concept of misinformation is bound to time. Imagine 1 year ago, somebody would say:

"if you are vaccinated, you are still able to catch covid and spread covid", or
"cloth masks don't work", or even the first "misinformation" from the whole pandemic
"covid was leaked from a Lab in Wuhan"

All those 3 "misinformation" and many more were policed pretty hard until 2021.. Today 2022, they were either proved to be true or have high probability to be true.
POS and payment hardware used to be a fairly high margin vertical hardware business, but I don't think so any longer. The real goal now is merchant / customer acquisition and service lock in. Basically I'd expect the hardware will be given away at some point.
The Steam Deck should be able to install Windows. Honestly, I'm probably gonna do that when I eventually get one.
> This is a rhetorical trick being misinterpreted as some baseless claim.

That part of the story is comparatively easy to check - the audio is available if you follow the link in the article. The relevant section is at about 1:10 minutes. The quote is “I’m sorry you’re ok with children being raped.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/pblodlr/status/148758898845411328...

That’s not a rhetorical trick.
It’s an attempt to smear a person or organization by slinging dirt that has no grounding in reality. Dealing with this kinds of baseless lines of reasoning is part of the problem.
I am just curious, what determines the front page of Hacker News? Because this post has 17 points and the one below it has 130 at this time
Happy Digital Christmas :D
Has some serious issues updating tiles. When I zoom in all the way, it's totally hit or miss if I get image or grey gears.
Don't pig-valves qualify?
Hi, I'm the author (admittedly still quite new to Unix). I did play around with the !! and realized it does a lot more. Thanks for clarifying though!

Edit: Typos