jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Data analyst / OP / Space Alien Cat here.

Methods: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/nAya9WqdemIoVuVWVOYQUQ

(linked in the article)

Pastebin of the 4215 "active" profiles sampled for activity. In quotes as some actually aren't though they passed my initial regex screen.

http://pastebin.com/tmdcsKLZ

Source for the sitemaps is the G+ robots.txt file:

https://plus.google.com/robots.txt
On what platforms/systems do you enjoy building things for? Software/internet isn't going anywhere. Everything appears to be gradually shifting to mobile, but I still think websites will be just as important.
You know, I was going to add a bit about the debt, but I knew this comment was off topic enough/

I couldn't advocate an actual purchase now, but at one point it seemed interesting. I just wasn't thinking big enough.
It's not. There's an under-appreciated NPM module which is/was shared by Socket.IO that only handles the low-level WebSocket protocol for NodeJS:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/websocket.io

You can use that, and the built-in WebSocket object in modern browsers.
I think governments should wake up to defend monetary sovereignty/independence before it's too late, like with the web/the ad market.
I don't think that people are ranked by talent. This is also true for academia. You don't have to be more talented than the next guy to show better results according to some metric. Right place + right time + avoid confrontations = a huge boost for your success.

See http://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/too-many-mach...

Roughly speaking, about 50k papers are published every year in arxiv/ML by perhaps 20k different researchers. Since some people still don't publish there, you may say there exists about 50k ML/AI/DL researchers.

Say 5k of them are pushing the field forward, most of them have a PhD. The remaining 45k deliver various local optimizations/adaptations, many of them don't have a PhD. Now it depends on the size of your normal tech hub employer. If it is big, then you have a few people from 5k and many from 45k. Otherwise, a few people from 45k.
Oh… wow. It's like 23andme but for dog poop.
Let's hope it supports IPv6 RA/SLAAC and DHCPv6.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams.

Turns out the creator of Dilbert was at one time a mid-senior level manager in Corporate America, who attempted several failed entrepreneurial ventures over the years. He's also a brilliant writer. Totally hooked by Chapter 3: Passion is Bullshit > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17859574-how-to-fail-at-a...
Tough for them to do anything about that because of agency pricing imposed by all the major publishers (even Random House recently got on board). Not sure why that's not collusion, but there you go.

Separately, with free cloud locker storage and now lower prices, should anyone be buying songs from iTunes anymore?
Gary now is selling a subscription service of his own with screencasts: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts. There's a free sample one (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/how-a...) and then it's $9 a month.
He should have donated 30% to MIT and 70% to a good marketing school.
This is an incorrect title; the wrong conclusion may have been drawn.

Although he has given them majority shares they are nonvoting only. The terms of.the gift forbid them from selling the shares or participating in any management or governance of the company.

Bose is remaining a private / independent company still run by said founder. This is essentially a gift that should pay nice stock dividends for MIT.
I was just reading this section yesterday!
Stocks move for odd reasons. Not based on the news directly, but based on the news relative to what the market thought the news would be.
No. The outlook when we are all reduced to breeding engines that have to like talking about children or else -- that's depressing.

I don't see anything depressing about having a walk in the sun, and then eating whatever I like, while either focusing on the food or a book or whatever I actually want to.

And then there's this prevalent assumption that this means I wouldn't get along with my colleagues, or that I would hate my job. Well, you're wrong, I'm just a person that needs actual alone time. Not headphones-on-head simulated alone time (I actually rarely do that) but real alone time when the nearest coworker is half a mile away.
Yeah, you know, beyond earth.
Percentages.

Some percentage in a CD. Some percentage in corporate bonds (BulletShares ETFs are good for your purposes). Some percent in a lower-volatility index ETF (say dividend-yielding stocks -- DVY being an example). Maybe some percentage in a lower-volitility ETF (say dividend-yielding stocks in developed non-US markets -- IDV being an example).

You might also consider things like US Treasury bills and notes, for the tax advantages.
Also remember Apple having to back pedal from developers even generating code from non-sanctioned languages. It was the first time in history, that I recall, where a vendor not only specified a language, but also specified how code for that language was generated.
Would highly recommend this book, with the caveat of only if you are a common lisp user with a fair bit of experience using common lisp.

This book goes into some of the more advanced uses of macros and I don't believe most carries over to other "lisps".

I really loved the section on reader macros!! That's a topic that doesn't get enough attention from people coming to common lisp.

I don't believe clojure, for example, supports user defined reader macros, atleast I can't remember it having them the last time I used it(circa 2011).

EDIT, it looks like clojure does have reader macros now. Clojure just keeps getting better:)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Clojure/Reader_Macros

In addition to Let over Lambda, my common lisp reading list includes:

http://www.amazon.ca/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec-eb...

http://www.amazon.ca/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-Appel-...

and
http://www.amazon.ca/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Progr...

I'd love to hear if anyone else has book recommendations in a similar vein. I'm in the middle of a month off to read books and research papers so this is pretty timely for me:)
The real estate sale cost does not eat half of the value.

The loan interest has nothing to do with real estate. That's just what happens when you take a loan for anything.

Jewelry is nothing like real estate. If it was, you would see billion dollar hedge funds buying up all of the jewelry.
...which I'd already toned down from CNET's article, "Boeing patents 'Star Wars'-style force fields",

http://www.cnet.com/news/boeing-patents-star-wars-style-forc...

where I first found the patent link, but using the actual patent title as you've done is better still.
Sometimes the comments, sometimes the link I spent more time to.
Haha, I hear you. I also personally thought LevelDB would be a strong contender on mobile, but I was surprised by how few developers use it. Maybe the lack of queries, counts, etc. is turning developers away, the same way few mobile devs end up relying on direct file storage even though it’s much easier & faster for simple apps. As far as the chart is concerned, it was just getting awfully crowded, so we had to draw the line somewhere; staying focused only on strict-sense databases as opposed to KV stores seemed as good a place as any to stop listing technologies.
What if the results of what are exposed show that there is only enough real work for 25% of the current staff? Would the administration implement the layoffs?

What I've learned is that if you think like you do (and I do), you should not work with people that think like this. The best way to avoid this sort of bureaucratic thinking by the administration is to work for a small business. However, the trade-off is much too hard for many of us; if you work with people that value business more than family, you might be working for some real assholes.

So, it requires a careful balance. Enough people in the business so that the companies led by assholes are limited, but small enough so bureaucrats like the ones you mention can't flourish.
That assumes a flexibility which isn't the case for many outside the young and single though. As soon as you introduce extra people and responsibilities into the equation you can't just up sticks and move because your job has changed.
We're confused because you appeared to contradict yourself.

Besides... the point you're not getting is that the content is copied because people value it. No one is digging and filling holes pointlessly and expecting compensation for useless "work". We're talking about content that is created that other people like and use.

The difference between what you did and kept your compensation for vs what content creators do that they don't get compensated for is a matter of the proper protection via laws and technologies.

While I would agree that maybe technology-wise it's a losing battle - legally and ethically, saying that the world would be better off if these people would produce what others want for free is problematic.
The Gas core EM reactor looks like a real breakthrough, giving away complexity and improving efficiency a lot. Very elegant solution, reminds me of betavoltaics.
If you effectively make the law, then ipso facto you can't be clueless about the law... maybe clueless...

The questions remains whether this will wind-up being Homeland Security making the law...
As a european I use ISO 8601 for everything since about 5 years.

One point is also: if you manually write a date, the easiest to remember part (the year) comes first, then the month (which is usually also easily remembered) and then the thing that you can forget at times.

This feels better than the other way around.
Quite nifty and clean; I think this could play well with support for the duration (P-Y-M-D...) format in ISO 8601 that declares a positive offset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations
The business is making money, they are just spending it growing the business. Most tech companies that are still in the growth stage will lose money because they have to spend a lot on R&D and keeping employees at the company with compensation. The tech industry is highly competitive and you have to spend a lot to stay competitive.
Twitter is the mother of all rabbit holes. Even the best threads don’t justify opening this portal to hell just to feel used, abused and filthy after 5 min using it.

No matter what the topic, it turns peer groups into toxic waste.
It's part of the military training. Find your physical and mental limits and then break them.
I omitted this detail on purpose to not distract the reader who doesn't know much about date formats.
"When things run on electricity, the power grid becomes ready to be de-centralized, the power can come from anywhere."

More accurately, it can only come from anywhere that has adequate transmission line capacity to get it to you. Even if you had unlimited solar energy available in California, you couldn't get enough of it to New York to make a difference there. And very few people want to have new high voltage power lines (huge steel towers) built on or near their property, so that limits the ability to add more capacity to the system.
Effiency For The Win!
It's already been touched on elsewhere in this thread, but considering the market affluence of Tesla vehicles, it's equally valid to argue that a solar garage (see: http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2009/09/18/ex20090910...) would provide that same emergency power source for transportation. In fact I would make the case that it's better, because it can be replenished without relying on infrastructure. It's not feasible to secure automobile-grade petrol from your backyard.

I suppose that's really the beauty of solar. It has the potential to decentralize energy production.
At 10lbs per gallon, water is heavy. Remove the engine and transmission and fill the trunk and engine compartment with foam, and I'd be very very surprised if that car-boat couldn't stay afloat with a full load of passengers.

Of course, if you're going to do that, why not just buy a cheap boat in the first place...
I agree absolutely. But try explaining that to people whose immediate response to this every time it comes up is "I ain't got nothing to hide, if Obama wants to read my texts he can go ahead and be bored."
Gold's use as a currency is apart from its use as a commodity. It makes a good currency for several reasons - it is durable, storable, standardized, portable, easily divisible.

Beyond its use as a currency or as jewelery, I don't have much to say beyond what you could find at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Applications . Dentists used to use it for crowns. It is used in photographic equipment. It is used in satellites. It is used in heat shielding. It is used in electronics.

Before the industrial revolution, gold was not used for industrial uses all that much - instead of good china for the dining room, people who could afford it would have golden goblets to drink from and the like. This, plus the lack of industrial mining methods, is probably one of the reasons why it is estimated that 80% of the gold ever mined has been mined since 1910 ( http://www.goldsheetlinks.com/production2.htm ).
This reads like a kid whining in a candy store. The guy got a bad review, it happens to everyone in academia. Best thing to do is address the review in a clear manner in your rebuttal. Yes the review processes needs some changes but all this guy cares about is his paper.
I got the same ID on Chrome on Windows.
This is a technique that's been in use for about a decade (in GenPass and SuperGenpass). There are, in fact, flaws in an all JavaScript bookmarklet solution, as the site you're visiting can snoop your JavaScript data structures and could readily figure out your master password. This is resolved by use of a Google extension that does not share a JavaScript interpreter with the page you're visiting; and it's reportedly been fixed in the bookmarklet version of SuperGenPass though I haven't read it to see how it is resolved.

But, your suggestion of a JS function that take the domain and secret key is how the GenPass and SuperGenPass bookmarklets have worked for years (and the flaw in that method has only been fixed this year, I think).
"Under" taxed in what sense? These taxes pay for things like street lighting and street sweeping, which is the same on every street. It should be the same fixed amount for everyone.
I'm sceptical that the person hacking your console lived in the same apartment complex.
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Checked out Adioso. The biggest problem is it does not show any instant suggestions for destination names, and its kind of hard to make sure you are typing correctly.
>How about a social network for very rich people?

http://www.affluence.org/
The contracts I usually see are at least 6 months, and I've never, ever seen a case where it wasn't extended (not just for me, but for anyone I've worked with - including some "programmers" who simply couldn't program).

The few shorter contracts that are around pay have to pay extra to make it worthwhile - I've seen a few 3 month contracts that pay around 25% more.

Funny story: there is a large government department here that was famous for hiring people on 3 month contracts, but keeping the people there for years. It turned out that the reason for this was that the expense for a contractor for 3 months was around $50,000 (including agent fees and the 25% loading for a short term contract), and $50,000 was the limit for that the department managers could sign off on without going through a long, expensive procurement process.
I'm not sure how trustworthy the following is, but they say that Medvedev's office unofficially recommends NGO to nominate Assange for a Nobel Peace Prize.

My guess it's because the cables regarding Russia are ridiculous beyond any recognition, they don't have ANY hard data and consist mostly of hoax and whatnot, there isn't anything there what you couldn't read in opposition media.

Public reaction here is more like:

Cable: Russian government is mafia
Russian citizen: ha-ha, oh wow
How about a social network for very rich people? Charge something like $1,000,000 to keep the riff-raff out.
People are risk averse and therefore think it more important to be informed about bad things that are happening and could happen to them?
Thanks!

I was aware I will need a proffreader to go through texts, but I wasn't aware it's so obvious and noticeable. I will try to find someone ASAP. Thanks for heads up!
I first got into transfinite numbers through a book by Rudy Rucker, "Infinity and The Mind." I tried explaining this subject to a Doctoral candidate once, at around 2am - and he accused me of having come off my meds.
I dont understand - why is it racist??

I took the phonetic version of the Japanese word for link (rinku) and added an extra n - http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|link.
"most widely known novel to come out of Africa" [Citation needed]
Countries like Africa?
Reading on, at first the title feels exaggerated.

However, the end of Elmo Keep's piece on Medium (linked from the article, or at the end of this comment) leaves little room for doubt:

Mars One has almost no money. Mars One has no contracts with private aerospace suppliers who are building technology for future deep-space missions. Mars One has no TV production partner. Mars One has no publicly known investment partnerships with major brands. Mars One has no plans for a training facility where its candidates would prepare themselves. Mars One’s candidates have been vetted by a single person, in a 10-minute Skype interview.

https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously...
I actually find writing ideas down helps me clear out the cobwebs.

It allows me to move something that's consuming a piece of working memory and or subconscious processing into a concrete form that my mind can let go of.

I can come back later and decide whether to do anything with the idea or not. As a bonus very often the process of writing it down revealed a bunch of the complexity or awkwardness of the idea.
I agree with this, the process of mechanical design very much involves messing around with things visually.

I've interned in a place that still used "good old" 2D, non-parametric autocad, and a lot of the "premilinary" design work took place on scratch pieces of paper. Sketch stuff up quickly, see how it looks and fits together iterate. Move to autocad for a to-scale sketch, then to drafters to the official engineering drawings.
Nightly versions of Zig now include LLVM 13.0.0.

So you can already use it to easily compile and cross-compile code (Zig, but also C and C++) to many targets including WebAssembly and Apple Silicon, using LLVM 13.
You've got to love that! Great entry point.
I usually like Greenwald and in general agree with his argument here. But I sure as hell don't like the ad-homing of Lamo as a mental patient and convicted felon. Not relevant, Glenn.
Did you really just put the word 'profit' in scare quotes?
> The media has been all over Assange (especially his personal life), but they've been minimally interested in the leaks themselves.

I disagree strongly with you. The NYT (as an example) has entire pages dedicated on their website for both the war logs and and diplomatic cables. Even several days ago their front page (print) story was from the leaks. The media is not dropping the ball on this, it's just that alternative media talking heads desperately want them to drop the ball and so just keep saying that they have.

Like it or not, Julian is the face of Wikileaks and his eccentricities and the intrigue surrounding him is part of the story. A compelling part. One that gets more people reading about this than otherwise would have. Reporting isn't just about telling facts no matter how unbiased a reporter or news establishment might be. This is precisely why Wikileaks releases raw data to their media partners for analysis under an embargo in the first place; analysis which comes with some bias.

Would you consider it good reporting if the media were to never address the rape allegations when interviewing Assange? Even if they're fabricated?

> In fact, many media outlets have gone so far as to condemn the Wikileaks organization or to dismiss them as "not containing anything we didn't already know".

Which media outlets are those? Suggesting that outside of the context of an Op-Ed would be pretty unethical, but I haven't see that and I haven't read it anywhere.
Why not just make a new theme? Integrating with Gnome seems a lot more work.
I think it is, in certain fields. Nowadays, a lot of scientists need to interface with things like databases which are completely foreign to them, so a whole host of tools has sprung up to take some of the work out of common tasks. For one example, I've been working on an application that helps acquire scientific data from published text files in various formats, clean it all up (removing weird things like -999 being used as Null), and put it in a database. It has received very positive reviews so far.
Looking only at the functionality and completely ignoring the design is superficial.

Animations are a core part of the design, they make it much easier for normal people to understand transitions and spatial interfaces in the UI, e.g. when going from one screen to another in a hierarchy. And they make it look nicer. (When was the last time a consumer bought a car by specs instead of by looks?)

First we had text-based UIs (hello /bin/sh). Then we had static GUIs. Now we have animated GUIs. Many old-school unix gurus couldn't see the need for GUIs, e.g. BrianK said "What You See Is All You Get" about WYSIWYG because he thought GUIs were more limited than text-based UIs. But for normal people, the 'G' in GUI was the important letter and is what enables them to use the computer.

edit: added missing word: 'limited'
We got so many of them that my friends and I started using them as frisbees. Although the software was shoddy, the hardware provided some entertainment.
Keeping score with "earnings" doesn't make you a sycophant.
check this out.. heroku-like deployment. The concept is simple enough to hack to your own needs

http://remi.org/2010/01/03/phd_passenger-based_heroku-like_d...

https://github.com/remi/phd

https://github.com/remi/pushand
Many people mistakenly believe that the defining characteristic of humanity is the ability to use tools. More fundamentally it is technology, the ability to learn and to teach and to create new tools which makes humans special. And thus the ability to surpass genetic evolution via technological evolution.
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I'm confused. Isn't McDonalds franchised? How come it can direct its franchisees to hire people that it (maybe) does not need?

Can someone clarify this, since it appears that I'm the only one confused?
Child porn is the literal embodiment of a "think of the children!" tactic to erode civil rights without resistance.