jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I never have in maybe half a dozen times, but if I and more people did it would happen less. I believe the consequences to the driver are quite steep. Usually if you are refused and not in the cab yet the driver won't stick around for you to get a good look at the plate/medallion/driver info. Another anecdote: I had a cab passenger open their door into my car once and while chatting with said passenger the driver (who saw what had happened) sped off as soon as the door was shut.
I can't wrap my head around tipping. Why do I have to pay extra? Why doesn't their employer pay them. Can someone explain tipping to me? Because apparently I'm the worst person on the planet for not tipping.
Imagine taking SpaceX away from Elon, putting the funds into to the government stuff buying system... and ending up with Boeing getting it all.
well, the congressional police shot one of them. If they had shot any of the BLM protestors there would have been more riots.
I think you and the op are in agreement...
TIL HN has polls
Nice moving of your goalposts.
Same here. Except joining rooms on federated instance need something beefier than my $5/month VPS SSD. And much more storage for data (pet peeve of mine: 4K avatars pics that are not resized and stored as is on my end of the federation).
Ugh o/c sorry, my bad, I should just have done it in slime to start with (esp since I've compared it ipython); was just too lazy:

The value
NIL
is not of type
(OR (VECTOR CHARACTER) (VECTOR NIL) BASE-STRING PATHNAME
SYNONYM-STREAM FILE-STREAM)

when binding PATHNAME
[Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

Restarts:
0: [RETRY] Retry SLY mREPL evaluation request.
1: [*ABORT] Return to SLY's top level.
2: [ABORT] abort thread (#<THREAD "sly-channel-1-mrepl-remote-1" RUNNING {1004894CD3}>)

Backtrace:
0: (MERGE-PATHNAMES NIL 69988797066848 MERGE-PATHNAMES) [external]
1: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (MERGE-PATHNAMES NIL) #<NULL-LEXENV>)
2: (EVAL (MERGE-PATHNAMES NIL))
3: ((LAMBDA NIL :IN SLYNK-MREPL::MREPL-EVAL-1))
--more--

This is nicer than "raw" sbcl but I still have trouble seeing how anyone could prefer looking at common lisp backtraces (with the caveat that I only have used open source lisp implementations; I have no idea what allegro or lispworks are like).

However, as I wrote common lisp is much nicer in some other respects (as you undoubtedly know). For a few other toy examples let's say I do:

(/ 1 (random 2))

This will cause DIVISION-BY-ZERO 50% of the time. But if that happens one of the possible restarts (also seen above) is just try the same thing again. I can try as many times as necessary to get (/ 1 1). Of course this is a silly example, but realistic cases are not hard to come up: you forgot to copy a file to the right place or the disk is full and you need to make some space before retrying. Or you have a transient network failure etc. Similarly

(mapcar #'sine '(1 2 3))

The function sine does not exists, but one of the possible restarts allows me to supply something else instead:

The function COMMON-LISP-USER::SINE is undefined.
[Condition of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTION]

Restarts:
0: [CONTINUE] Retry using SINE.
1: [USE-VALUE] Use specified function
[...]

If I press 1 and then provide #'sin I'll get (0.84147096 0.9092974 0.14112). But the more fun thing to do is to just implement the missing function there and then. Whilst the debugger window stays active, I can just write my "sine" function in the editor or repl and then retry, e.g. writing (defun sine (x) (sin x)) will give the same result.

This is pretty cool, because it means you can start writing some topdown code start running it an incrementally fill in the missing functions you are calling bad haven't yet defined without ever losing your state.
No, it really wouldn't be more interesting. Does it matter precisely what "liberalism" is when 98% of the current grad students identify themselves as such? Do you really think you're going to be able to slice and dice words until this isn't a problem anymore, in the face of such a percentage? We're not talking 55%/45%, where the question of exactly what the borders are might be an interesting question. We're not even talking the overwhelming dominance of 80/20%. We're talking effective monoculture. It defies belief that this is just the error bars talking. And especially so for social scientists... are they really the people you want to accuse of being unclear on the meanings of the words "liberal" and "conservative" in some context? Betcha they could go on about the distinction for a great deal longer and with a great deal more precision than either of us!
So presidential succession was stopped and congress was killed? No? I think you are making shit up.
Create an index. Sort the notes into sets of 1000 and label them, add the label as a column into your Foxpro database.
Did this actually block the "Reseller Club" spam or are you just regurgitating the same posts? I'm aware that the traffic doesn't come to my sites and I've already filtered the known domains. This is showing up in organic search traffic. Does anyone have any idea how this is even possible? Are they spoofing Google and then hitting Google Analytics? This is a real annoyance. There's a clear pattern to this stuff so I'm amazed Google isn't filtering it before it gets to my dashboard.
Ah, yeah.. That's a good point. And the bandwidth probably exists to transmit images from the goggles to someone else in near-realtime.

Now I'm really excited about this.
https://sites.google.com/a/trinity.edu/csci1320-f14/
If there is one thing I have learned over the years it is this. If you can really master C (not just the language but actual low level programming using it, like the Linux kernel), no other language is necessary. And as already pointed out, you never need to worry about job security.
Great headline :D

Interesting read, too.
It's possible.. they dropped their hugely incomplete Google Wave rotten egg on the public only a day before Microsoft announced MSN's Bing rebranding. Various project domains (waveprotocol.org) were only registered 2 weeks prior. Wave seemed like a weird and frivolous product until you look at it from this angle, at which point distraction seems like it could have been the only reason it was released.
I've also found it easier to secure my apps. The attack surface seems to be much smaller.
I recommend looking up the history of the word "computer." (hint: it predates the thing you're typing on right now.)
>At the time those statements were made it was thought the vaccine would prevent transmission

Okay. How did they come to this conclusion? We'll never know, because we're in this asymmetric war about information, where dunking on your political enemies is more important than just being transparent. Showing us how they came to that conclusion, and then going through your points 1-4 would go a long way to restoring that trust (partially), but alas they won't do it.
To date, the Hobbit trilogy has made $2,759,130,028 globally.

This cut may be a better single experience, and maybe would have increased the monetary single experience, but I dunno if it could make up for $1.4b in revenue.
China has the death penalty for many crimes, including tax evasion. This seems to be an appropriate sentence on those levels.

Hopefully there will be people left to run the country after their property and construction bubble pops.

Here are a list of financial crimes punishable by death, per Wikipedia (hope this is a reliable source since there seems to be a debate above!)

* 12. Whoever, for the purpose of illegal possession, unlawfully raises funds by means of fraud
* 13. Whoever commits fraud by means of financial bills in any of the following ways:
o (1) knowingly using forged or altered bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques;
o (2) knowingly using invalidated bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques;
o (3) illegally using another's bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques;
o (4) signing and issuing a rubber cheque or a cheque, on which the seal is not in conformity with the reserved specimen seal, in order to defraud money or property; or
o (5) signing or issuing bills of exchange or promissory notes without funds as a guaranty, in the capacity of a drawer, falsely specifying the particulars thereon at the time of issue, in order to defraud money or property.

* 14. Whoever commits fraud by means of a letter of credit in any of the following ways:
o (1) using a forged or altered letter of credit or any of its attached bills or documents;
o (2) using an invalidated letter of credit;
o (3) fraudulently obtaining a letter of credit; or
o (4) in any other ways.

... AND if the amount involved is especially huge, and especially heavy losses are caused to the interests of the State and the people.

* 15. Whoever falsely makes out special invoices for value-added tax or any other invoices to defraud a tax refund for exports or to offset tax money if the amount involved is especially huge, and the circumstances are especially serious, thus causing especially heavy losses to the interests of the State.

* 16. Whoever forges or sells forged special invoices for value-added tax shall, if the number involved is especially huge, and the circumstances are especially serious so that economic order is seriously disrupted.
Not exactly the best use of money. It would be kind of like Time Warner buying AOL.
No. I was tired. Hence my failure to properly punctuate and clearly enunciate.

My apologies, to all.
Here in Indiana, the same is true of oaks - so I'm pretty sure it's the oaks, not the climate.
Yep, as anyone who watched the World Cup learned: see the phantom foul (no one even knows who it was allegedly on) that took away the US victory over Slovenia, or the referee denying a game-tying goal by England against Germany that the whole stadium got to see on replay, to which FIFA's response was to ban replay from the rest of the World Cup.

It's not good in sports and it's far worse in government.
This should be upvoted a lot more. I'm still giggling about it.
Thanks! That's a concern I have as well.
I've always had a theory you can make a black hole visible again by "simply" increasing it's surface area enough.

Eventually there will be enough area to reduce gravity just enough for light to escape.
Banned?

FTA:
“Tweet” may be acceptable occasionally for special effect.

Definitely not banned.
A. It’s a headline.

B. It might not mean what you think it means.
Really? What's the natural meaning of the hue number?
my understanding is they naturally evaporate over time, a process we can't really impact but which is significant because... if a black hole that has sucked in M units of mass evaporates, where does the mass go?
I found this kind of a very odd statement. Isn't the event horizon a consequence of the stuff going on underneath? The image I have in my mind is of water draining out of the tub and wanting to strip off the top layer of water to see what's "going on" inside the whirlpool, when of course stripping off one top only reveals another and so forth.
Brilliant game. Just perfect for the iPad, with its touch interface and excellent color accuracy.
Focus is not underrated, it's under-utilized! And I would pick genevine!
21. Sex toys, for obvious reasons. However, just because that hacker guy next door always working on his startup has them lying around for the right occasion, it doesn't mean they have ever actually been used. Not to worry though, hackers can't get a date? There's an app for that. ;)
It's only a matter of time before someone puts up a dickerdoodle.
i get that but what are its core competencies? what is actually making them money other than their ad network?
If you are hosting your site in the US, this might fall under gambling statutes. Your options are probably: a) this is illegal just like other online casinos, or b) this isn't illegal but you may fall under contest regulations which are different from state to state. If you are hosting outside the US, you might fall under whatever gambling or contest statutes apply in that country.
> A college degree is hardly insurance for anything.

Usually, but it depends on the degree. A Women's Studies degree, for example, doesn't make you that much more employable. On the far other end of the spectrum, someone with a Nuclear Engineering degree will be all but guaranteed steady, well-paying work for a long time to come.
Boo. My pic lasted all of 40 seconds.
It's up on the dev blog:

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/whats-nex...
The rewards is only for predicting the outcomes of the matches. But heard from friends that you need to check the legal aspect of it. Got concerned and wanted to double check and get HN user's feedback.
Damn only up 7 minutes..!!
It's also a filter for kids that came from more financially pampered backgrounds, family-wise.
There's been a drive towards "full stack developers" lately: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-...

That said, most of human history has involved specialization, modularity, and abstraction driving greater productivity.

So on one hand, you have work-silos, on the other you have the power of modularity. I think difference with software is that most of the productivity constraints happen at the interfaces. Teams need people that can integrate. They can be generalists, or specialists in a few areas.

Earlier in your post you suggest:

"But, as you know, many of these problems are either solved or non-existent in Big-Monolithic-App-land.
So -- take the things that worked there and use them. Like I said, a common set of shared source code that handles all persistence means all apps can talk to each other using the same code. Changes don't break the chain. Stuff can be fixed in one spot. And so on."

IME, multiple teams using the same library can be helpful (if voluntary) or a complete disaster (if forced). The incentives of the library maintainers are not always that of every team.
Don't we all use our nose for a keypress or swipe every now and then? :P
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810251.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think that it's a problem that the world even needs this in the first place?

I expect splash screens and slightly longer load times from desktop apps... if I click on a link to something in my browser, not so much. TBH, if a page/app takes more than a second or two to load, I assume there's something wrong with it (or my net connection).
I'd have to unearth the screenshot I took some years back, but that strays from the point, doesn't it?

They weren't asking for home number, work number, and mobile number. Or as you mentioned: daytime number, evening number. It was more along the lines of: Name, Address, Mobile Number, Company Name, Job Title, etc. They specifically wanted a mobile number and no other type of number.

Were they wanting a mobile number so they could more easily research an applicant using their internal tools? Only they would know. But it drew my attention to the possibilities and the importance of obtaining a mobile number.

Back to OP's question, part of the reason a mobile number is required to create a Facebook account may be to help tie different types of records together. Of course, as mentioned, there are other reasons, such as security. Users will understand and provide a mobile number for that reason alone.
It's so we can have the appearance of rights. Same reason why China has kangaroo courts.
Impressive but some of the relighting falls into uncanny valley for me, and to be honest the movement looks artificial too somehow. No doubt it’ll improve.
Not only 80s! Plenty of sci-fi shows had something similar as a generic future car design base, except with a proper paint job and extra lights here and there. This car can be easily turned into something that looks properly modern.

Related, this seems to be something of a theme with Musk's companies. Landing rockets is an old-school concept, and Starship looks like it was taken straight from the cover of some pulp sci-fi work from the 60s.
I'm not quite sure how to place your comment, maybe because the term credibility revolution is new to me. Yes, RCTs are used to test and provide evidence, and the null results can be very informative. But I think the external validity point made in the article is absolutely fair. Note that I work in RCTs so I'm definitely not opposed to the approach, but I think there are still a lot of improvements to be made on this - in the field people really do generalize findings quite aggressively. This is "practical" because you need to make decisions when setting up new projects and RCTs are incredibly laborious, expensive and take a lot of time to complete. I'm also surprised about your remark about deworming because it is generally touted as one of the big wins in the field of RCTs, by the RCTs people - Michael Kremer frequently mentions it and so do Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee in their courses on EdX. The concerns that you refer to don't tend to be mentioned (I think they should be!).

Totally agree that Esther Duflo is fantastic and that the contributions of these people go beyond just RCTs, e.g. Esther Duflo's work on the returns of education in Indonesia.
Person of the year should go to Amy Hood - she brought the divide under control by starving funding and driving consolidation. It’s hard to have internecine fights when you can’t afford the guns.
They are literally ahead of schedule with their next vehicle; the Model Y.
it isn't about poisoning the mind, it's about filling the channel with noise so important facts don't get through. note that fake news are being produced, reposted and boosted consistently and continuously, they aren't one-offs.
> Would Tesla create a second version of the truck for Europe?

I don't think I've ever actually seen what Americans call a 'truck' on a street in Europe.

(Slight exaggeration, but not really.)
The design is such that it's hard to tell if the video on the website are real or animations.
Yeah ... I'm not sure whether it's a good trait or not! When I was young, I could entirely live in my mind if I was bored (or being bullied) and if I hadn't got a job that required me to "play the extrovert", I'd probably be writing fiction. At a minimum I'd be the introverted engineer that looked at his own shoes when I talked to you.

I still have a fondness for books that I might not otherwise have. Some movies seem to be plucked right out of my mental images (The Hobbit and LoTR movies) but others are really disappointing (Ender's Game was way better as visualized in my head).
Are her parents going to be her friends?
> diversity is a form of strength

Is that necessarily true? Do you have some kind of data backing that up or is it just one of the Good Things that people like to say? For example, this article[1] discusses civic involvement, but it's conceivable that diversity in a business environment could have a similar effect. Before the downvote brigade steps in, let me mention that I don't think diversity is a bad thing, just that it might not be inherently positive. I think diversity needs to be coupled with some sort of unity (whether it's a corporate motto like "THINK" at IBM, or a common religion, etc.) in order for it not to negatively impact a group.

[1] http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/04/t...
The number one way I have obtained good freelance projects is through friends who are primarily artists. They want to do art, hate to code, and are happy to call me when they come across something bigger and more complicated than they can handle (weeding out the $40 and $100 jobs).

Also - Ansible and Docker are... neat. I see/use/talk about these a lot during the day in the big corp world. However, I've never had a freelance client need either. What they generally need is help customizing off the shelf CMS/CRM/POS systems or creating custom replacements.

They also seem to have language/platform preferences from lots of hearsay (nothing solidly informed). Being able to work in their language/platform of choice (despite if its a good choice) has helped me land a lot of work. So I'd keep boning up on your english, and learn the ins and outs of all the major programming languages .net, Java, PHP (yes PHP!), and most of the major Database systems.

I have to imagine that if you do all that and it doesn't work out at least you'll be set for another corporate gig.
I've used blackVPN and IPredator in the past. Running openvpn on your own box is pretty easy too (if you've ever set up something like a HTTPS server.)
> make their devices real productivity tools

I don't see this ever happening on mobile or tablet. No one is going to sit there and create a spreadsheet on a smartphone, no matter how big the screen size is. Once you have email, a PDF viewer, and a spreadsheet viewer (already available), what more could you possibly need?

Apple's pricing is right. It's uncomfortable to sit and stare at a tablet or smartphone for hours at a time, nevermind interacting with it (no matter how good swipe is, it will never replace a keyboard+mouse or a game controller).
Unsurprisingly, this is very much a personal choice. I vastly prefer BitBucket's issue tracker. I love their side-by-side diff (somewhat recently added to GitHub). I love that they don't try to force this 72 char commit message on me and seem to handle it rather nicely via hover text. And I very much liked that they didn't support emoji and inline GIFs (since implemented, lamentably).

The more GitHub seems to adjust itself, the less I enjoy it. The more BitBucket seems to try to copy GitHub, the less I enjoy it. At the end of the day, I probably want GitHub circa 2008. I find when they really became opinionated about things to be the inflection point about whether they pushed things that were truly more usable.

That's not to say your view of things is wrong for you. But I don't think it's clear that "in this case, it definitely bears out".
Nice thingy, I always loved the writing style of Rasmus. Good work, and stellar exposition.
If you accidentally make an infinite loop, you can no longer load the page :(
I sometimes do quick patches of things that get in my way. Sometimes I do pull requests on github. Sometimes (usually?) I don't. And I use AWS, Google, Drop Box and Github to hold things for me in the face of (yet another) hard drive crash.

I like git well enough. Github seems nice. What is this gamification of which you speak? I'm not saying that it isn't staring me in the face, but I'm probably looking right past it.
Are there any security risks? Aside from air safety risks? I just wonder if body scanning/x-ray/metal detector is required for this sort of thing.
"And doesn't glide" -- as opposed to, say, autorotation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2a9H8Xw8Mo
That kind of wording has been polluted, as opposed to Jings, which I've literally heard for the first time.
IE6 is probably backward compatible with IE4, and most 16-bit Windows 3.1 apps will run on 32-bit Windows XP or Windows 7 (you can find screenshots of Windows 1.0 programs running on Vista). I suspect IE6 introduced a lot of non-standard features like non-standard Javascript functions, more VBscript, more ActiveX, etc.
Try going to the same webpage on the Droid and an iPhone 3G (yes, 3G). Start scrolling around; you will definitely notice stutter on the Droid that isn't present on the 3G.
As an Emacs user, I've never found Emacs-ish keybindings in other applications to be helpful. Take Textmate, for example. Its default keybindings are a little bit Emacs-ish, and they're just enough to lull me into a false sense of security. Control-[f,b,a,e] do what I expect, but as soon as I try to go forward a word (Meta f), the Find dialog box pops up and steals focus.

In applications that don't try to emulate Emacs, I get slapped on the wrist the first time I try an Emacs command; it's immediate feedback that "hey, bozo, this isn't Emacs".
I say this with all seriousness and not to be a goof but:

Does anyone here actually care?