jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's a whole world of people doing this. Some even package it up into solutions to sell you as though it's this black box solution you can plop down and just make money out of it. The combination layers of machine learning and quirkiness of the market, often require some small hand holding, and if you venture into certain areas of the market HFT's and other traders smarter than you will take advantage of your algorithmic trading by placing orders ahead of you.

Point is, it's not without some heavy risks, and regular attention.
I am working on something similar for forex. Did you use an existing neural network library for this or make your own?

Also care to share any pitfalls you fell into at the start? Right now I am working on building modules with the purpose of collecting data for training.
Cool app, is there something similar for Windows? Frequently people ask me for simple web editing software...
IIRC, Gox was accepting deposits (both bitcoins and fiat) until very recently.
Yeah, just to emphasize oliverthrowaway's point. It was the call to arms to increase donations to other women's organizations that really made that piece brilliant.

And really, I think that is the brilliance of John Oliver's work. It is not all just a mocking of news. Often times there is a call to arms at the end. Even if the goals are ridiculous, it is getting people acting. And that is huge.
> Static typing inherently requires you to prove things about your program

Doesn't it just require you to express the interface you're already using and expecting to use?

> The problem for python is that it originated as a language for less-formal programs but cultural and labor-market forces resulted in those programs getting shipped as production software.

That's not a problem at all, as Python's type annotations and mypy clearly demonstrate.
No, we are not live yet, we are still developing the system and focusing on getting the basic functionality working 100%. But the mechanism I described would be fairly easy to implement.
As far as I can tell, this is indeed all 'empty hype chasing' on the part of the founders, but the people who actually believe in it probably end up trusting in a central authority - which means a database would have sufficed.

Still, it's amazing how many people are willing to shell out money for this - many of them are likely trying to sell their acquisitions to the next sucker, though.
Though I'm not a user and never liked the service myself, I'd like it to be preserved. It is part of internet history. Let's not let happen to answers what happened to geocities.
It's one thing to steal algorithms but for interoperability to remain possible it is necessary for API to remain "fair use". I can't agree with you that this is a bad thing for them to copy Java SE interfaces.
Cool. It's probably not an original idea, but it's good one. I might even steal it from you at some point. Good luck with the project.
I'll unwaveringly go with whatever the hardass valid-date-enforcing mechanisms in java.time and PostgreSQL enforce.

Add a month to the epoch time? Can't do it because that doesn't adequate indicate what day we think it is. "select '2021-01-30'::date + make_interval(months := 1)" says Feb 28? Done!
Can’t stand the final sentence witticisms. Reduces the credibility of the entire article. You can almost hear those Oxford and Cambridge PhD’s chortling about their own cleverness. And no byline is a form of slavery.
That one is really nice because it’s an actual website with information that you get without having to put much effort in.
Clicked a couple of items - only metadata is available, other items are "access restricted". I wonder how it works.
> Yet is absolutely equivalent to a vomiting drunk in terms of cleanup expenses

I know which I'd rather clean up after
Sigh, I made a mistake mixing up the order of judicial and legislative in the sentence.
I went to an Ivy that made a "no loan" guarantee for me. Each successive year, their aid package got successively worse so I received less grant aid. I ended up with $10k in debt by the time I graduated.
I remember the first time I came to San Jose how surprised I was. This was the Silicon Valley of lore, and it basically looked like every other boring, nondescript suburb in America.
yep, wanted to do something like this always. How do I get it?
My company was so ahead of the curve they decided to get rid of the office a full year and a half before the pandemic started!

Of course that was just to save money, since it was an expensive lease, apparently, but it did have the benefit that I didn't have any worries they'd force me to come back into the office once the pandemic started, or I'd have to go back to pack up my desk like my wife eventually had to when she changed jobs.

Other than a really rocky shift of our in-house data center into one of the main corporate data centers, it hasn't resulted in much difference as far as productivity, in fact we've been getting away with about half the staff maintaining the same systems (probably to our detriment if people end up leaving, we don't have much redundancy anymore).

Just makes me a little hesitant to find a new job because after three years I'm really used to WFH and I'm worried most other companies are itching to get people back into physical offices (like my wife will probably need to by the end of the year at her new job), even though there's not really any more room for me to grow at this organization in the next year or two based on what I've heard lately.
I've never been refused by a taxi at the airport. Generally, in CA, a taxi that refuses to drive a passenger from the airport is violating the terms of their airport medallion/license and will be removed from the lineup if the airport taxi office receives complaints.
Not sure what was the particular issue you faced, but ASP.NET Core has come a long way – you can run .NET Core apps on Linux as well, not to mention the whole thing is open source under DotNet Foundation [0].

0: https://dotnetfoundation.org/
Regarding communication, I find I actually communicate with people more when remote than not. Walking over to someone's desk is pretty distracting, while firing a quick message and waiting for when they're free has nearly zero cost. Plus with video chat we can share both our screens at the same time so we can see what the other person sees, which is very valuable for diagnosing problems that only happen to one person. I can't videochat at the office because the noise will absolutely disturb my other colleagues, but it's trivial at home. It's almost like having infinite quiet isolated meeting rooms that you don't have to reserve in advance.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This is a perfect example of what the HN guidelines ask you not to do:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nice. Still putting everything into memory make algorithm go brrrr is not too surprising :-). I'm really happy that folks continue to improve it though.
One day, voice cloning may become so powerful that only word data and intonations will become part of the datastream. There could be various 'layers' in which encodes/decodes can occur. Voice Cloning would be at the very top of the stack.
"It fundamentally changes the relationship between people and state." is the most ironclad argument I've heard. Albeit a bit of a cliché these days.

There's some advantage to the tin foil hat, too. It's probably fine for now if you're not Muslim, but if you are then your associations and visited websites could be used to put you somewhere very uncomfortable without a trial. Say if libertarians or socialists or christian conservatives started carrying out attacks, your political and personal affiliations could make life very uncomfortable.
This attitude will change over the next decade or two. As @gojomo said, the vast majority of people already use common cabs, buses, trains and planes. Convenience and price will win out. Street parking or off-street parking will become rarer and more expensive in cities.

First it will be the occasional users or those with a second car or on a budget, but eventually most of us will either pay per use or have an account for regular use rather than outright buying a car like we do now.

For commuting, many will be taking shared vans (possibly pod-based) that pick an efficient route rather than plying a typical bus route.

And we'll get the vehicle we need when we need it. You won't take a ute to dinner with your partner. You won't have a three-door hatch when you need to choose and bring home large items, or transport the family on a road trip.

The future Uber won't even be people you know or don't know. It will be a driverless car.
I get the Sunday SF Chronicle, and am <25 for another 6 months.
Dropbox helps a lot with that synchronizing thing. :)
I'll be moving out to Kansas City next month and would love to work at a startup. Do you know of any that are hiring?
CODEIGNITER

I use a variety of languages and frameworks, and CodeIgniter is the closest to what you described you're used to with some great boiler plate code. I've done everything from simple one off CMS apps to very robust multi site automated apps, all in Codeigniter.

Check it out, it's easy to get started with, you don't need the command line, there's no magic. Just helpful code.
> ... Where would they be...

Squeezing every last cent out of the market

No, seriously. They don't care about fulfilling consumer demand; whatever they predict will be most profitable is naturally what they will do. They are a company after all.
That seems rough. I'm actually going through a similar (albeit not as extreme) situation, which is why I'm at home on a Saturday night trying to generate leads for my freelance business.

Two major points from me:

First, you shouldn't get angry. You're there of your own volition and have to make the best of your situation. I know it's rough to hear, but getting angry will just waste your time and make it harder to be proactive about improving your situation. I need to remind myself of this constantly.

Second, I cannot attest to the legality of what's happening within your company. However, it would seem that if the founder is such a tyrant then many people would defect (clients as well as employees).

It seems like you could start a competitor business which serves the companies clients better than they are being served now. Who knows, any illegal behavior might nullify a non-compete clause (I am not a lawyer so please verify).

At any rate, best of luck. I do believe that businesses who don't value their employees pay for it in the long run so hopefully these things work out.

Short term, try reaching out to some people for freelance work. It's probably the best and quickest way to raise your income.
I've had spammers looking for open e-mail relays on a contact form on a personal site that gets one or two legitimate visits a month. Small sites can be an ideal target for spammers, as they're less likely to have time and money for intensive security analysis.

Just use common sense measures to avoid things like SQL, JavaScript, or HTML injection and external abuse (such as from spammers, pirates, or script kiddies looking for an untainted host for their malware), have a DMCA procedure in place in case a user does find a way to host illegal content on your site and you're in the USA, and deal with any other issues as they happen.
You might try CakePHP (http://cakephp.org/), the rails inspired framework.
In the US, there are separate state and federal taxes. The sales tax in California is a state tax, whereas the VAT idea that's being floated would be a federal tax. That's why adding a VAT in the US would not supplant any existing sales taxes (or state income taxes).
I realize that feelings of loyalty to an employer can skew one's perspective on things. (Oh boy, do I.) You need to hear someone say this, so I'll be a bit blunt:

1) You are being drastically underpaid relative to your market worth.

2) The fact of you being underpaid will cause material hardship for your wife and children.

3) Your boss is exploiting you. Illegally, to boot.

4) Your boss will not stop exploiting you.

5) You are being used as a tool to justify the exploitation of other people.

Don't "begin looking for other jobs." Mentally commit yourself to quitting, and to negotiating (you CAN negotiate, it isn't evil) a salary commensurate with your worth at your next position. You are a working professional. It is standard to receive fairly generous benefits, including but not limited to healthcare. Should you not receive benefits, you get paid an absurd amount of money to purchase them yourself. $2,000 a month does not even approach the ballpark of what employees like that cost.
They sent out a different email to Explorers that returned Glass (I did) --

Hi there,

It’s been an exciting ride. We learned A LOT and now we’re hard at work building the future of Glass.
You gave Glass a chance-even if it wasn’t right for you right now, you were still part of the story. That means a lot to us, so we wanted to share this collection of photos and stories from the early days of Glass.

Download Vol 001

Shots from the Glass yearbook

You’ll start to see new versions of Glass when they’re ready, and they’re built on what we heard from Explorers like you. We’ll be eager to hear what you think.

Best wishes,
The Glass Team
http://puu.sh/eCJOd/14a633f932.png

I'm in Germany and this is while logged in. I can't reproduce what you claim. But Google is known to fragment their search results depending on previous usage patterns, I have never expressed interest in a particle accelerator though.
I'm an Android and Frontend Web Development mentor at Bloc. I've had a few of my students get hired as a direct result of their coursework at Bloc, one whom I was able to place with a consulting firm myself.

Most of the students that are super successful at the program have some form of previous exposure to development and are at least computer power users. However, they do learn a substantial amount through their work at Bloc (12, 18, or 36 week programs). Many of these students would be attempting to learn the material on their own so having a structured curriculum that's still project-based seems to be useful to them.

Also, companies very often hire people that don't fit the standard "2-6 years" model, even if the application states that, because asking for "2-6 years of experience" really just means they want someone that can get up and running quickly. If your interview consists of showing off the apps that you've built and demonstrating how you'll solve their problems, most companies don't care how many years you've been at it.
I don't think it can be tied to payments though. It would really be just what you think is more important on your network.
Any os that has a software repository(with sources) is going to be inherently more secure. If novice users only get their software from APT then they will be eliminating a whole slew of exploits that could infect their computer.

In this regard, Ubuntu is lightyears more secure than Windows.
so, i built something almost exactly like this for myself to use, except it doesn't display itself on a google map. instead, it cross-references itself with a database of people.

i use it when i'm hiring sports officials, to find the ones that would be the cheapest to fly in. never really considered how useful it would be for others.

i feel dumb as hell, looking at this and seeing what i could've done :*-(
I'm not making value judgements (yet). I'm just saying that, for instance, programming with templates, or modeling events as objects that are stored and passed around, or just basic nuts-and-bolts stuff like what your go-to code is for an array of elements; these are very different in C++ than they are in C. The idioms are different, the libraries are different, the principles are different.
> ... most commercial products on micro-computers were written in Assembly language, not a high-level language. This was done for performance. This was common.

The exceptions were interesting. A common approach was a byte code interpreter/machine. This had the advantage of being easier to port, as you only had to port that piece rather than the whole app. Hardware used to be a lot more interesting back then with all sorts of variations on memory addressing modes, size of units of information (bits & bytes), overlaying (you couldn't fit all your code and data in memory at once), file access, and even something as simple as drawing text or graphics on the screen.

An example for games is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM

UCSD Pascal, and later large parts of Microsoft Excel (plus Word I believe) also used the approach, especially in the latter case because it needed less space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine

Programming back then was very different to today. Virtually everything was constrained by cpu, memory and storage. Writing products involved working out how you could do things despite those, and debugging was not fun. Just like using 9 inch monitors, it seemed fine at the time, but now I really like having almost unbounded everything, and several freaking huge monitors!
That is energy vapour surrounding individual photons.
I generally consider that most advice that people give is either incomplete or fundamentally wrong.
"While his day job primarily involves Java code, Jon is a huge C# enthusiast."

Nice. I wonder what he thinks of stab:

http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/

So far, stab is a 1-man hobby project, but the guy seems incredibly prolific. Besides the compiler, he recently started work on an Eclipse plugin as well.
Three or four times as cost effective? Not unless someone starts selling electricity for cheaper.

This is just rubbing up against the laws of physics. If you wanna move a one-point-something ton hunk of metal around it takes a certain amount of energy. All the components are operating at reasonably high efficiency, so you're not going to get a threefold increase in efficiency by any clever tricks.
Because the government never breaks its own rules.
I can't speak to Boston particularly, but I have never seen a gifted program based any art of IQ test or proxy. In fact, I am almost sure that a vast number of people I knew in gifted programs, including myself wouldn't have scored particularity high on an IQ test. In fact I distinctly recall one gifted student asking me if their ASVAB score (commonly claimed by HN users and other to be correlated with IQ) of 20 was good.
Is there a good maintained alternative?
I find it on par with WhatsApp but still not on par with Telegram.
> So they are only starting to be careful after several years? I addressed that point in the post.

No since you’ll get to the “battle tested” point much fastener.
That's because Bitcoin taxed the same way as other forex, at least to my knowledge. If you buy goods with Bitcoin you should presumably pay sales tax, not capital gains tax.
I actually don't see what you said as being rude, just honest, and I appreciate that.

I actually let myself cool down before I wrote the post. I was going to write the post right after I saw the GitHub issue, but I sat on it for awhile, thinking through my thoughts.

It's unfortunate that such a dust-up (which wasn't minor, by the way; it got published in LWN, see https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/) was a perfect way to make arguments against Rust that I have wanted to make.

And I wanted to make them because if Rust can be as portable as C, I would LOVE that!
Entry was designed to protect end-user privacy against malicious actions in the first place. Not just because we want to "do good", but also because it is commercially viable: End-users get full control of their data forever free, while organizations deploy Entry to solve tactical issues like fraud, security, and phishing prevention.
But, I guess, without an independent audit by "the big four" or alike, these are just my words.
You could actually use IFTTT with Griddy to set alarms via text or other home automation.

https://ifttt.com/griddy

What do you do when the limit is hit? I suspect people wouldn't want AWS to start turning off EC2 instances, let alone have your electricity simple turn off. (though rolling over the balance to the next month, presumably when it will be cheaper might have been an option)
My point was that both seemed awesome at first, but then just stopped improving. And yeah, I still think the joke is funny.
Many bits of Atomo are written in Atomo, including Eco (the package manager), the REPL, and so on...

http://darcsden.com/alex/atomo/browse/prelude/
Just when I thought I wouldn't be surprised by a new language anytime soon.

Getting the source right now to see what's inside.
I received neither an error nor my sent mail. You might be onto something ...
To be perfectly blunt, the 'social' aspects of Amazon drive me up the wall. I really don't care what other people bought or thought.
Maybe the "shadow scholars" that do know math are too busy with their even better-paid assignments (supply vs. demand, after all) to interview with the Chronicle.
But is the security any better? Back in the 1990s the procedures were faster (because there was less checking) and better explained (because there were fewer things to explain). Does 3-1-1 and taking off of shoes make us more secure? If not, then the professionalism is unwarranted.

And every study report I've seen says that outside of a few things (secure doors, which the airlines fought against in the 1990s; and halting the practice of responding to hijacker demands), the overall security is not made better by this ever-increasing level of passenger scrutiny.
Friends go to Canada on holiday, they go to a bargain basement store which is full of logo-ized t-shirts and baseball caps from American companies. The kids get clothed for next to nothing.
Which turned out to be a bunch of hyped up marketing talk. Why does every person in SV I know seem to love the narrative that we’re being mind controlled by micro-targeted FB ads, which to be fair is what I used to believe.

Everyone on HN switches between “ads don’t work and targeting is BS” to “ads are manipulating our entire country by taking our data”
System administrator at some big old company. No devops stuff but old school monitoring and caring about some old solaris servers that nobody want to turn off.
In short: shared values.
The trope of wealthy people standing atop their terrace, drinking and partying, while the poorer people below fight between themselves is a well known one.
How do you get good at legacy mainframes without owning one?
Money is not speech.

Words are not taxed.
On the other hand, the true positive rate of the TSA is zero. Not one single person detained by the TSA has been charged, much less convicted, on terrorism charges.
Passing a belt buckle through a metal detector repeatedly and passing a sample through an explosives detector repeatedly demonstrates nothing except that the alarm was not transient.

Just because it isn't transient doesn't mean it isn't a false positive as this story demonstrates.

With such an overwhelmingly massive chance that the alert was a false positive, the response the author received is indefensible.