jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was responding to this:

> It's taken me 2 weeks so far to remember to get it. I go to the store almost daily. :(

This is a behavior that isn't going to change by having a thousand buttons all over your house. Maybe you won't ever worry about running out of detergent or dogfood again, but there's always something else. "Oh shit, I bought pasta for dinner but I forgot to buy pasta sauce!" What's the solution, get a pasta sauce button?
Well, the USA engaged in a mass spying operation. Should we kick the USA off the internet?
You're more than welcome not to believe.

Feel free to contact Riny Assink who was my boss / co-founder at the time for corroboration, I'm pretty sure he will remember because (1) it was a pretty memorable occasion in its own right, (2) the neon installation was intended to be used on a trade show the next day and my action meant we did not get to use one of our nicer eye catchers which really pissed him off, (3) he built the stuff that I blew up in the weeks leading up to the event, which pissed him off even more. I'm sure a bit of googling will turn up contact info for him.

As for Ohm's law, when dealing with large transformers made for 50Hz dumping the full charge of a (pretty beefy) HV power supply into the low end of a circuit looks roughly like a lightning strike would, only with a much lower amount of Joules behind it. So it's not so much Ohm's law but Maxwell. Chances are some protection circuitry said 'better safe than sorry' and disconnected.

FWIW when you receive a bit of data that contradicts your knowledge and assumptions in general the more interesting bits of knowledge are found by asking how things could have happened rather than to disbelieve a priori the facts as presented by eye witnesses. I have fuck all to gain from relating this story, and would happily stake my reputation on it being 100% the truth without any embellishment whatsoever. The whole reason I told it is because the person I replied to made roughly the same claim that you did.

I agree that it should not be possible, and yet it happened.
Nextdoor <https://nextdoor.com/> is exactly this!
I have used Grooveshark for a while now and I do enjoy what they have on offer. It's companies like Grooveshark that the record industry need. If they are doing what they say they are doing then they contribute heavily to the music economy.

I look at the actions of Google in two ways, they have either received a lot of complaints from the governing body and their hand was forced or they really are releasing their own cloud music store and they are getting rid of potential competitors.

I hope its the first reason as I really like Google and their ethics.

I have had personal dealings with the music industry though and how licenses work. In some cases they do not even check the legality of a music provider and presume they are acting illegally because their business model looks illegal. They are going against their own policy of innovation to get them out the mess they are in.

I hate to say it but I think if/when Apple/Google release their own version of the cloud music player, the rest are screwed anyway. They will find some way of making the software so integrated with their phones that it's pointless to use any 3rd party software like Spotify or Grooveshark.
Blog posts which bring in organic traffic.

Listing on the Chrome Web store.

Asking friends and friends of friends.

Asking former colleagues.

Participating on relevant forums just answering people's questions, NOT pitching your product.

Tweeting product updates.

Using Olark to stalk visitors.

Emailing 3-5 popular, connected and intelligent strangers everyday to get feedback.

Writing a book.

Cross promoting and selling other popular products in the field to get to know customers.
Is there a reference to this story from a reputable source?
Actually, no. The first version of GWS was based on boa and written in strict C.
no ssl support?...
On Unixy systems, spaces are uncommon because so little software can deal with them, so that people are trained from the very beginning to treat spaces like the plague. I do it too - I've been burned by treatment of spaces in shitty 0.x level software so many times (25+ years ago) that I now have an intuitive aversion of anything with spaces.

Spaces in filenames are a reality though, especially on Windows (where the home directory itself used to have spaces in it, and also where many home directories on corporate networks are on network drives and start with \\), and any software that can't deal with those kinds of paths has just not been exposed to much (if any) real world use. That was the point I was trying to make - software that can't handle anything but the most bog-standard path names in its core configuration is 'hey guys look at what I hacked up yesterday evening' quality at best. (yes yes it is possible to imagine exceptions, like software that is decades old and ported across platforms; I'm talking about something new that is meant to solve a general problem).
Great project. It's funny that we are at a point where even keyboard apps are spying on your personal and private data. Crazy.
It depends on the organisation, to be honest.

For instance, in my experience at a FAANG, the issue was often that a new technical solution was proposed, architected and built before any business/market people got involved with the result that loads of amazing, brilliantly architected and completely useless projects got built.

(My favourite time was when a (really smart, to be fair) software engineer rediscovered the normal distribution while looking for a way to reduce storage requirements for an analytics product).
Ooh this is good to know, thank you!
> You should watch a documentary about flat-earthers, because you sound like one. Or a 9/11-truther. If someone says something that disagrees with your beliefs, you don't think "Maybe what I've believed so far is wrong?", you think "They're also part of the lie!".

Do you think this is a good way of persuading people to question themselves?

> I saw your fellow conspiracy theorists's YouTube analysis of the "thumbdrive hand-off".

I'm not sure I appreciate being associated with whoever but thank you for watching the video.

> It's not even clear it's a thumbdrive in her hand.

Ok, perhaps. What else was she attempting to steal from the election building?

> And the logic leap is incredible. How does this "hand-off" mean election fraud?

For some reason, votes are stored on removable storage media. There's no incredible leap of logic to understand that sneaking one of these drives out and modifying it or losing it without affecting the chain of custody or being seen would be a component of vote fraud. This appears to be that, therefore when someone asks for video evidence that suggests there might have been vote fraud, here is an example. But if you don't care about election integrity then its probably super boring anyway so don't fret yourself.

> Did you watch another video of someone on the Internet saying "It means this, it can mean this", etc, and if so, why hasn't it been investigated?

No, its pretty obvious what the logical implications are. And I don't know why it hasn't been investigated, probably because the voting system isn't even set up to defend against this type of fraud.

thanks for the link, very interesting.
Wow cool! thanks
This is always trotted out.

There’s not a single piece of access I’ve lost. It’s a couple of dialog boxes.
Incidentally, I was just looking at Mac M1 mini display support. I have LG UltraFine 4K USB-C and 5K display port (not the LG one) monitors. M1 can support 5K only through USB-C. This leaves me with HDMI to USB-C so that LG too can be connected. It seems LG speaks display port under USB-C, so there might be a way. Adapters would be some 60-100$ just to test this, though.

Other than that I’m all set for M1. My 2018 MacBook Pro needs power 2-3 times a day no matter how much I try to weed apps. Something remotely strenuous happens fans take off.
+1

We have to keep in mind that not all software systems are designed by savants, and even ones that are might be constrained by business needs from rearchitecting them when they need it
By "a little internet", do you mean a low-bandwidth connection, a connection that is often / usually unavailable when you want to use it, or something else?
aha, right! I meant, static typing
I believe that was changed to only happen on a browser you've used that account with before. I haven't checked, so I could be wrong. Still not great if you login to your account on a public system.
Yeah, it's refreshingly honest. Certainly the best I've seen recently - I wonder how it compares to others HN readers have seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721749
That's just the default way of handling I/O on MVS descendants, but it's not the only one - pretty sure you can allocate and configure new "file open records", but it would make your program less portable ;) and there's rarely a need.
Your post wasn't hidden or shadow-banned, it's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715817
I mistakenly read: "the antidote to civilization: collapse'. The mind play unfair tricks.
The post is a bit dishonest regarding prior funding and risk.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/24/andreessen...
This was a much better article than I was anticipating. (A lot of Apple criticism is either shallow or vitriolic, I guess a side effect of inspiring so much fervor on either end of the spectrum.)

My new favorite anecdote of Apple's deficiencies in the services side of things is how the App Store and iTunes Connect was just down for at least half a day a couple weeks back, with no visibility except a press release:

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/03/11/the-apple-app-store-i...

Or back in late January, where iTunes Connect had a bug that just randomly logged you in as a different user:

http://9to5mac.com/2015/01/29/widespread-itunes-connect-issu...

It's hard for me to imagine another company for which either of these incidents wouldn't inspire a round of warranted criticism -- especially given their bad services track record.

Still, it makes sense that Apple would continue to deprioritize developer relations (either implicitly or explicitly.) Put frankly, we're a tiny sliver of their consumer base: while the App Store might be raking in billions from that 30% its still more valuable to the company as a method of selling devices than as a revenue stream in its own right.
Actually you don't need many qualifiers, just "Imagine in your head that I ask you if you're suitable to marry. What do you answer in your head?"

If you speak to a liar, this gets two lies (negations) out of them. So anyone has to tell the truth.
4 filed != gone public yet :)

I'd say probably only 10% of companies I hear about that are "getting ready to IPO" actually do it given the hurdles to making it happen.

That said, if this were true, it's got to be primarily driven by his/her cleantech investments.
This file contains an example of how you could do similar things (printing \lambda for lambda functions) in emacs using font-lock.

http://dishevelled.net/elisp/lambda-mode.el

(string 54091)

Gives some Chinese character; the unicode character for Lambda is 955, though. Replacing it with (string 955) works.
Good one, took me a minute to realize that the mistake occurs in the step with the squares--you have to square the units as well. So what you really get is:

0.01 (dollars)^2 = 100 (cents)^2
0.01 (dollars)^2 = 100 (1/100 dollars)^2

Taking out the 1/100 makes both sides equal.
Could it be about LiveSocial? Amazon was rumored to be investing in them..
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out the link. I know it will be hard but I'm excited to dig into something new.
Sorry, I wasn't expecting to be hackernews'ed and pythex.org is running on a tiny Gandi.net slice with 256MB RAM. I'm temporarily redirecting it to a mirror in App Engine: http://pythex.appspot.com

Hope you can try it now!
If there's a lesson here, it's the dangers of overconfidence.

Most people, it is said, have a novel inside them. But for most people, that novel is shit. Your average person will start writing that novel, realise how shit it is, and give up. But if you're an all-powerful god-king, you're probably gonna finish and publish that novel without ever realising that you suck at writing.
For comparisons to be useful, you don't have to take everything literally. As far as the question of consent is concerned, the comparison is apt.
This is a serious move into local commerce. Late in 2010, eBay acquired Milo.com for $75 million.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/confirmed-ebay-acquires-mil...
Mailchip it gets a little annoying after a while
This was noted last September by C. Vance here:

http://blog.csvance.com/?p=39

Good detail on how and why it is generated.
Agreed on the first part, unfortunately most functional languages are difficult for most developers (read: non-academics or HN readers) to grasp. As somebody who taught me ML said: "if it's difficult to write, it should be difficult to read". Perhaps this will change, but it will be a while before we have a functional language that's as mainstream as JavaScript.

Most big websites have asynchronous components to address their performance bottlenecks, but the bulk of the business logic uses synchronous I/O and unfashionable languages like PHP as per the 90/10 law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization#Bottleneck...
AIDS has not spread very rapidly. It has taken nearly 4 decades to reach its current spread. Covid has the potential to infect most people in the span of 12-18 months. It’s categorically different. And AIDS is easily avoided!
The issue isn’t so much that skills aren’t transferable — they are. F1 drivers even practice with sims.

The question is whether you can keep that level of focus and consistency for 2 hours of a real race under all that physical strain. And most people just can’t. That’s what’s impressive about real racers, doing all this stuff at 6 lateral G.

They really are like fighter pilots.
My father lost his job in the 2008 recession at an engineering firm.

He started his own consultancy.

Dozen or so years later he's pulling in mid 6 figures by himself working 40-60h a month at home.

Do the same. Have skills, learn to sell them.
All video games are an artificial time waster.

I couldn't disagree more. It depends on the video game, but a lot of them really get the brain working hard. And it's simply impossible for most people to be purely "productive" all the time. Video games are a great way to break from the grind but keep the brain engaged in something more challenging than, for example, watching TV.

You either get roguelikes or you don't. You clearly don't.

Once again, I couldn't disagree more. I've played Rogue-likes for more decades than I care to remember, and I "save file scum" to avoid perma-death. Sure, some individuals might "cheat" and jump to the "conclusion" of the game quickly, but that's their problem.

I don't care to repeat the same beginning of a game over and over (and over and over). It's just repetitive and annoying.
that's error 500
Looks nice but who knows if it will be maintained five years from now?
Are you suggesting that hardware and software should be worth more of zero than sales?

Good luck.
Some of the numbers in this article don't make sense to me.

Today "cars are driven just 4% of the time". If you assume for a moment that people's transportation usage time stays the same, and "the number of vehicles on the road will be reduced by 99%", then the average car must be used 400% of the time. That would be possible if every self-driving car is carrying 4 passengers 100% of the time, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, which seems very unlikely. What am I missing?

I also don't see the justification for saying "90% reduction of vehicles in operation would reduce our overall emissions by" 90% of their greenhouse gas emissions. There might be 90% fewer vehicles, and you certainly save on environmental impact of vehicle production, but they will be used more per vehicle.

In fact, per-person transportation usage time may increase. If catching a ride is easy, fast, and cheap and allows us to work, sleep or play while riding, then many people will ride more often, or might buy a house that means a longer commute.
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/11/06/google-lawsuits-sky...

Ups, there was not bullying.
And, by the way, your claim was that Google forces OEM's to have enabled slurping of wifi data. So, I don't know why you bring the Skyhook case. Perhaps you will bring the Oracle case next.
Still waiting

> I know, it will never be enough.
Yes, it will never will be enough if you only bring unrelated thing, and wrong things, by the way
HN has that reputation, but it isn't entirely true.

Some of my highest-voted comments have been pure humor. A few examples, with parent comments included for context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893 (86 points, and 24 for the followup comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447007 (43 points)

Even this silly one-liner got 23 points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863205

That one won't make sense out of context, so here's the article it refers to:

http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2014/06/bizarre-secret-...

My point in sharing these is to give some examples of kinds of humor that have gone over well here. Of course as they say, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
https://twitter.com/GitGoHQ/media seems nice though.
It must require an Xserve, they had serial ports. :-)

(But more seriously, USB->Serial converters work with Mac OS X, I used one to connect a Palm m105 to a G3 iBook running Mac OS X 10.1 way back when. More currently, it seems the OS itself ships with drivers for FTDI's converter chips nowadays, although I haven't used that capability).
Gave me a good laugh... but hey, i'm not sure I wouldn't say the same thing today about something that seems crazy then turns out to change the world.
You're absolutely right that, if we define life generally as a self-replicating system implemented in chemistry, there is no a priori reason to assume that extraterrestrial life would use the same elements as we do. However, there are a couple good reasons that this might be the case:

Abundance - Broadly speaking, the prevalence of an element decreases with its atomic mass, which means that, while elemental availability will differ from planet to planet, lighter elements will always be more abundant. Thus, statistically speaking, it is likely that extraterrestrial life uses C,H,N,O just as we do.

Bonding - When you study the chemical bonding of elements in relation to their position in the periodic table, what you realize is the "first row," i.e. C,N,O, is actually an exception and the rest of the periodic table is the rule. What this means in practice is that these elements are capable of a much greater diversity in bonding than those below. It is this diversity that allows for the development of the complex biomolecular machinery necessary for life.

Edit: Here's a great essay by Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann on the differences between Si and C and the implications for life: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/80th/print/silicon.html
"If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much." - Kierkegaard
Looks similar to Code Bubbles.
Good article. I heard an interview with the author Nicholas Carlson on NPR recently.

I think it is clear that Google's two largest problems are their difficulties with advertising on mobile and people going directly to Amazon (or other huge online sellers) instead of via a search result. An example: last week I wanted to buy a Windows 8.1 laptop (I just had OS X and Linux laptops and I wanted to play with Windows 8.1) so I went directly to Microsoft's web site because they sell computers with no "crap ware" installed. No search company got a cut on that transaction.

I worked as a contractor at Google in 2013 and it is a fun place to be. That said there are so many smart and aggressive people at Google and I think this type of worker is prone to want their own company.
When I first discovered this, I found all this bafflegab about alligators and eggs only served to confuse the issue. If you understand that a lambda expression is a rule for generating expressions which, when applied to a value, substitutes the value for the lambda variable, that is sufficient to have an intuitive grasp of what LC is all about.
> and I see requests for testing for all sorts of bizarre things

It would be interesting: Can you list a bunch?
Thanks! I am new to Y and didn't know it was referenced and commented before.
I suspect the truth is closer to:

"Our goal is for no single employee acting alone is able to access your files. However, there is a procedure where multiple people working in concert can recover your files and provide them to law enforcement. Unfortunately, it is possible for a hacker / programmer to create a backdoor and there is nothing we can do about this."
Sort of. There are out-of-core learning algorithms (e.g. SGD) that work on data that doesn't entirely fit in main memory. Please see: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/applications/pl...
I fully agree.

That's one of the reasons when I'm a part of a team and I need to make a decision about a framework, I usually go with Backbone. It's source code consists of one file that can be understood for less than an hour.

Last non-sense in this complexity is the boom of JavaScript framework specific languages that pop up. Like ReactJS and recently Angular 2.0 is preparing their own language for using it's platform.
> Since you are Australian, you are probably not aware of how biased the immigration system is, against the Indians.

I am not aware of such a bias, and I have a half a dozen Indian relatives living in the USA (I am an Australian with one Indian parent, currently living in the USA ). I have not studied any current place-of-origin biases in particular (I know historically they were dreadful and for all I know they still are. Certainly the rhetoric is).

> ...that of Canada and Australia where the most productive humans with greatest potential are allowed in...

Ah, but it's all about who decides what is deemed "with the greatest potential". It's what is believed to be needed now of course, whether nurses, plumbers, or geneticists, but what about poets, lunatics, or those who write music I don't enjoy?
That's a good question. That seems like important context. What does the "official system" consist of, exactly, and why do so many entrepreneurs apparently raise funds outside of it?
I'm interested to know why you ended that last statement with "unfortunately."

I'm a web developer who currently uses Ruby for my projects, and I've been looking at Clojure. I've looked at Ring, Compojure, and other things, and it all feels like "Hey, Clojure can also do web! Isn't that cool?

I don't think it's unfortunate at all that people use Rails for making web sites. It's what it's for. Want to make a multithreaded concurrent backend queue? Probably not a good fit for Ruby, but sounds to me like a great thing for Clojure.

But I'm interested in your "unfortunately" statement because wonder what I'm missing. What would using Clojure give me, as a web developer?
Let me get this straight. The community bails based on Oracle's reputation and Oracle makes a business move to withdraw from the failing project as a result... And somehow Oracle are the dicks? Right. You don't have to like Oracle, but this one ain't that cut and dry.
Because those numbers would be too disappointing.
> just use a DNS resolver outside of the country that re-introduces domains which get taken out by oppressive governments.

But outside of which country? You'd have to read the local news for every country in the world that currently has them, every day, if not hourly.
The usual trick is to use only the first letters of each word: e.g. something like "Mttboom1cuia!Igdtdts1flIkohd." is reasonably strong and is easy to remember (it's just a song).

Or you use all the characters ?