jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
good question. We like to have them both in our toolbox along with other mpeg tools such as gopchop.
Does anyone else enjoy the semi-colors and parentheses around predicates? I like it only because it helps me scan that much quicker.
Sounds kind of like YC for movies, complete with a "demo day"-style first-look for Warner Brothers for the best. Interesting.
I used to work on an Apache project full-time at Yahoo!
They said they aren't profitable, they're hiring too quickly for that. They're using the money to hire quicker, just like most other people use investment for.
If they encrypted it, Slack would have to hold the key, so that all users in an org can then read existing messages.
I was actually thinking about using this on the surface of titanium on a catamaran.
Your first price is about two times what top shelf, domestic black market prices are presently at.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/is-the-universe-lopsi...
Not to be confused with the forthcoming ETF [1], Gemini [2] is the first US-regulated bitcoin exchange.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/0001193125144...

[2] https://gemini.com/
{init:function(){world.transportedCounter=999999},update:eval}
Take a little jar of soap and wash out the stuff that needs washing out. For a 2 week trip, I'd admittedly typically check luggage though. A lot depends on the details of the trip and the climate.
> Cataldo said if drivers are smoking, or offering rides in unkempt vehicles, consumers will decide if they want to hire them.

Remember this only works if there's an "arbitrarily large" number of other drivers competing for the same fare. As always, deregulation only works if the markets being deregulated can become healthy and stay that way long term.
Is there some reason that you don't just hash the whole column or table though? It does everything you described, except also makes even the bcrypted passwords available in the event of a db dump. It just seems like a half-measure where a whole-measure is just as easy to implement.
Why not? Or rather, why do you think technology is but clinical psychology is not?
I've made a few attempts to use Atom on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I continued to experience crashes with the linter, autocomplete, and Haskell-related plugins--or the plugins would work, only to break during the next Atom update. It also wasn't possible to use my favorite ligature-based font without breaking the cursor position. Not to mention the rendering/performance issues.

There's a lot to admire about Atom. But Sublime is stable and silky smooth. And I continue to use Vim happily every day without issue, despite its ~25 year age.
Not as fast as my Fortran!
I have a mustang still. I just find it a pain to use though. My tube amp just sounds better.

Of course it was also 5-6 times the price, which might have abit to do with it.
There are lots of alternatives other than CoffeeScript[1]. HN has recently been full of "[some language] transpiler to JavaScript" posts. A strong type system and more sane error-handling seem to be major motivators.

Glad to hear you've been learning Go -- there's a transpiler for that!

1. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
Given the context is scraping, I'd argue enumerating a customer ID is pretty obviously wrong -- if that wasn't obvious enough, the response data is. And to accidentally, unknowingly harvest and store that data is much more of a stretch.
Does anyone know what Facebook is using the AI for?
The amount of blind conservatism on HN is pretty rattling. Here's the formula:

"Headline Claiming That Anything About Welfare is Positive, with Supporting Evidence"

Top comment: "Sorry, but the evidence doesn't support that." Evidence provided to substantiate claim: none.
Code size in an embedded context is one use case for the modularity here. Another is limiting access of Ruby code to the host system.

For example, one may wish to use Artichoke in a game engine for scene scripting. It’s probably undesirable for Ruby code run in this context to modify the host environment, so `ENV` can be disabled at compile time. But maybe you have existing code that uses `ENV`. Toggle a compile time flag and you can get a compatible `ENV` implementation that is backed by a hash map.
Outside of Hacker News, Google's moderation gets a lot less attention, whether it be regarding spam or politics or the complexities of managing communities.

I waver between Google's aggressive algo moderation being just because they don't see it as a priority to fix or because overzealous moderation might actually be a better strategy when dealing with a relatively casual userbase. Overmoderate and get a few wrong, but make sure that those errors have a path to resolution if they are popular enough (basically Hacker News). Otherwise when in doubt, ban.
One reason is the huge number of R libraries available for doing statistical analysis and graphing.
I'm in Singapore. Can you name a few startups here that pay like you think they do?
I hate to be harsh but I'm inclined to think the type of guy who wouldn't follow his dream because his girlfriend told him not to is not the type of guy who will be able to weather the amount of rejection and emotional stress that goes along with starting a business.
In my experience the hardest professors were the best ones. I remember grafitti in the mens bathroom that I read as a freshman about one. When I finally had a class with her as a senior she turned out to be the professor I ever had. The lessons I learned in that class have stayed with me throughout my career.

I relayed some of the grafitti to a female alum many years later. I said it's glad she never got to read any of it. She burst out laughing and said what they wrote about her in the womens bathroom was far worse.
There is a very big difference between non-lethal cancer and lethal cancer. "Treating" a late-stage cancer is an order of magnitude more expensive than treating a cancer that was diagnosed early.
The payment details may vary widely from country to country, but it's unconscionable that tens of millions of Americans are an accident or diagnosis away from permanent financial ruin.

I would bump that to "hundreds of millions". Even when you have insurance, most of it's garbage. Health insurance means you're probably OK, but not always.

The PPACA ("Obamacare") outlawed some of the worst garbage insurance plans (that almost qualify as scams) but that left people with no insurance, and the "market solution" isn't working at all.
yes, no, do you own it?
Cool project, unfortunate domain name.
It definitely trends away from in-house operations for companies who view their systems and operations to be cost centers that are not intimately involved with the product/service. And companies that do keep in-house operations will have the same kind of competitive advantage that companies that don't outsource their developers have (whatever that may or may not be).
Maybe instead you have to be sponsored by somebody in order to view posts, but instead of banning people outright, let the sponsor's karma/reputation be affected by the people he sponsors. That way someone who creates a lot of value to the community can mentor someone who is not currently providing a lot of value, and help them understand the community or decide it isn't for them. Then if the relationship isn't working out the sponsor can stop sponsoring them and the person will have to look for a new sponsor if they want to do anything but view the stories and discussion, but the community will be kept fairly intact, except for the people the system is still trying to figure out or vice versa.
It looks as we still don't know what exactly NSA did that was unconstitutional? Do we? If not, then what's the use of the disclosure as it is now?
> Compare that to the failure of Windows-on-ARM.

I don't think that failure occurred due to anything other than mismanagement.

The Win8 cycle produced many things:

* An OS for desktop PCs
* Under the hood improvements vs. Win7, like faster boot
* A tablet UI
* A tablet
* A port of NT to ARM
* A tablet based on the above which could only run code signed by Microsoft
* An app store with a new set of APIs that nobody cares about

In a weird attempt to distinguish all of these bullet points they muddied the message. What was Windows 8 exactly? They produced oddities like a Windows tablet that won't run Windows programs (not even after a recompile), and a tablet UI that ran on desktops.

Imagine a world where they shipped some other combination of these bullet points. Example: A laptop running ARM and recompiled Win32 apps, with a UI that more resembles Windows 7. I'd argue (and argued at the time) that would be more successful than Windows RT.
Sexual assault may include rape, forced vaginal, anal or oral penetration, forced sexual intercourse, inappropriate touching, forced kissing, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the victim in a sexual manner.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault

It is certainly up to the courts of the juristiction to determine whether "inappropriate touching" consitutes a part of what is called, "sexual assault."

So you see, I am not in fact mixing terms.
TLDR: Check this instead: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-8/

The signal-to-noise ratio of that article is incredible low. What did I get out of the post?

- You can now type wolframalpha-style in mathematica.

- You now have over 3000 built-in functions (i.e., too many to remember ;)

The rest was just Wolfram telling the world in many different ways how great mathematica was/is/will be. Adjectives include: huge, important, dramatic, breakthrough, major, slow & lumbering (to describe others), etc. Hell, "great" is mentioned 6 times in the post!
A revolutionary new product that will allow one person to send a char[] to another person.
Did it strike anyone else as intellectually dishonest (or really sloppy?) that that entire article seemed to come from a parallel reality where SSDs don't exist?

I get that this would be an improvement over current SSDs. But to not even mention them while at the same time saying thigns like:

"In a first step, one could envisage attacking the Flash market and replacing the USB sticks with something much faster..."

"One could imagine the technology being useful for both small mobile devices (such as smartphones) and large systems (such as servers)."

Yes! If only there were some sort of non-volatile, low power, shock resistant, storage technology which were orders of magnitude faster than rotating hard disks! We could call it some sort of Solid State Drive, and it would totally change the storage market!
I know these devices have a similar form factor but I think most comparisons should stop there. The HP slate is something that could be moderately successful being sold to businesses with few consumer purchases. The iPad is wildly successful being sold to consumers with few business purchases.

It will be more interesting to see if there will be consumer demand for HP's real iPad rival, the Palmpad.
Do you have an option for that on your preferences page?

Serious question, because I don't.
15 level deep? That's nothing. Try http://www.telsiai.lt/
I did not count the nesting level, but the total number of tables according to my bookmarklet is 348.
Yep, we do have some wonderful CMS over there…
Rafael, thanks for sharing this great post. As my startup is building tech talent, the github magnet and contracting advice came just in time.

How do you pay programmer during contracting period (by hour or by project)? If pay by hour, how do you evaluate their work ethic? How long is your default trial period? Thanks!
I would like to see net neutrality force uploads and downloads on service provided to consumers be equal. 50megabit service, allows 50megabit upload.
For context: this question was asked in '11. PyPy is really really fast now. I'm not sure exactly how it stacks up against v8, but it definitely holds its own. It's roughly 7 times faster than cpython.
Doesn't Julian time start at dawn or the day start then and end after sundown? It's something weird but I'm not sure even after looking it up.
Can't speak for other analytics systems, but this is definitely not the case for Google Analytics (which is what most utm_* parameters are targeting).

Google Analytics' default attribution (outside of Multichannel Funnels) is last touch attribution.
It's not just specificity. Take for example the physical sciences' tradition of using passive voice, exclusively, when writing about the methods used in an experiment. You never write "We poured the mixture" or "We measured the transmittance", but rather "The mixture was poured into a 250ml Erlenmeyer flask" and "Transmittance was measured using a model 500 spectrophotometer with a 580nm filter".

The reason, as anyone who has read and followed more than a few "Materials and Methods" sections can tell you, is that this style of writing makes it very easy to skim through and find the relevant bits. The last thing you want to have to do with a pipette in hand is wade through someone's flowery prose to find out how many microliters to dispense.
Yes the most interesting revelation in Cringely's rumor was that IBM made software.

Let's be honest: An big IT product is about 25 programmers and 25 diverse people (incl marketers, designers, accountants) working for 3-10 years. With this you make a GitHub, a Word, an IE. IBM could be owning the planet today. But no, they're in the business of hotels, golf, and conferences.
I saw Buterin's talk that same year at the Texas Bitcoin Conference. I believe he's laid out the organizational baseline for a distributed future. But I am worried about possible malicious use cases like NSA-backed botnets.

Can someone tell me if it's even possible that these types of contracts be blacklisted?
Totally agree. There's a raft of modern realist painters who's work is so similar to photographs that they're utterly devoid of the main criteria of good art... feeling

A lot of this is compounded by the practice of working from high def photographs. Working from life is worlds apart from working from photos. As an illustration of this, try and take a photograph of a beautiful sunset and compare it to what you see
you may be biased by your 9-5 job, but a lot of people work first shift, 7-3. i don't have any numbers to back it up, but since you made the claim do you mind?
You seem to forget about Issues, Milestones, Projects, Wiki docs and more.
And nobody will change their behaviors because all but one of them suffer no personal consequences. They got the benefit of the crime and have to pay no price.

Corporate crime needs to be prosecuted like personal crime, with 20-year-jail sentences in a jail full of Crips and Bloods and Aryan Brotherhood. Your Harvard MBA dude truly knows that he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of surviving a place like that.
Yup, magnetic drag is a definitely a thing, see https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202... . To have a real effect the magnet would need to be ginormous, specifically effectiveness would be proportional to a ratio of distance between magnet poles and the target object. The distance between poles is important because if both poles are equidistant to an object the net effect would be 0.

So with that constraint in mind I doubt anything we can do at our current Kardashev scale can top Earths magnetic field. (Note the above is for a permanent magnet, it is possible that electromagnet would fare better. However given that magnetic force strength decays proportionally to distance squared, a magnet powerful enough to be effective would mess up real satellites too.
My biggest surprise is how no one told Mr. Ma it is not a good idea to publicly say what he said neither did he recognize the consequences growing up in that environment and seeing so many precedents.
Is Curve25519 arrival into browsers imminent? Last I checked the IETF was still turning their noses on it and saying it's "unnecessary" (seriously?!).
I've found it fun to think about the subjects of complexity theory and chaos theory as a layperson, and there's something really enticing about it (from a naive perspective) in pop culture in general.

I think there's a general base belief that it can still be tamed, that if you zoom out enough, all these crazy variations in dynamic systems can still be bounded within predictable parameters.

Silly examples - the Emperor's big plans in the Star Wars saga, or the second Foundation in Asimov's Foundation series. In the latter, he did allow for the fact that chaos theory meant that the psychohistorians couldn't predict small outcomes, but that they could certainly predict big ones. In both of those, the authors were enjoying a fantasy that you could plug in some key inputs, put up with a ton of variation, but still get the general output that you originally planned for. And then closer to home, there's public policy planning or even bigger planning like the introduction of the Euro.

Is that true in chaos theory though? Are there mathematical ways to create and predict dynamic systems with behavior that is truly bound within certain parameters?
Piketty's data doesn't prove any such thing. Even the poorest people in the US can now have an iPhone, a piece of technology that was unavailable in any form to anyone just ten years ago.

The rising tide does lift all boats. The data only shows that return on capital will always outstrip wages as a way to accumulate wealth.
This is a very important idea that doesn't get enough attention.
It may be that that's the next step here.
Drugs and lifestyle changes such as getting more exercise.
I'd say that doing both things is not just common, but almost mandatory.

I've been to a lot of psychiatrists in the last 15 years, and all of them made a point to tell me that I should also seek a psychotherapist.
Interestingly, that's part of the issue in OP right? The existing private access road was grandfathered, so he could close it. But if Khosla made any changes requiring e.g. new permitting, providing access would have ended up as part of that. The difference being public vs private land, and you could theoretically come up the beach (not fully encircled).
Netflix, Roku, Uber, Spotify, etc all make profits?
> I feel like a grumpy fossil for asking this, but if your problem is “Sometimes you have to use non-personal computers where it's not possible/undesirable to install desktop Emacs,” why not run emacs the way it has been run in exactly those sorts of situations for almost 50 years? Remotely, via shell?

Ugh.

So I did this. Not recently, but in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Our startup was moved across the street from its incubator (Idealab). WiFi wasn't a thing, broadband was far from mainstream, and most generic office space wasn't wired for networking. So we had a microwave link (I think) connecting our workspace to fat pipes across the street.

For anything interactive, it was awful. Waiting >500ms for each keystroke to appear is a very difficult experience.

Thankfully after a week or two, I discovered TRAMP mode.[1]

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
"What I have is fine" is a perfectly valid reason not to go changing things, IMO.
Funny analogy. Because most of the mp3 players I had before the iPod I actually preferred. I still miss my Rio Karma ;)
Yes - this should work.

There are even other ways how you might be able to exploit this. I don't exactly know how Dropbox verifies if your file is already on the server. But if they only check a hash of the file it might be sufficient to know the hash of any file stored on Dropbox to gain access to the full file.

Of course, this is just a speculation and there might be more security precautions in place. Such as, e.g., sending the client various challenges about the hashes of particular byte ranges.

In addition, also the copyright implications of this are interesting. Consider that you've shared a directory with your friends and that you upload some copyrighted movie (that is already on their servers and not really uploaded). Are you then the one liable for the damages (if sued), or is the original (first) uploader of the file liable?
Interesting read. One of the most important reason I use open source software as opposed to proprietary ones is the confidence that open source software will not try to do anything evil. I believe that message can reach China also.
And using anything tained with the "enterprise" label would completely kill your street cred in the freelance / hacker / startup world, darling!
The people of Seoul are pretty relaxed about this sort of thing. I, however, am a foreigner and thus am terrified. People keep stopping me on the street to explain to me just how terrified I am.
Don't talk to cops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
The funny thing is, interesting as some of their projects may be, these days they still have the same mundane shit to complain about as everyone else (IT changed the security policy on my desktop so now I can't run MATLAB, etc).

I do get the impression Skunkworks is not what it once was.
The fact that others have worse problems does not negate the illegal treatment of a blind woman.

There is a terrible tendency to brush of problems by pointing other issues.
PFCs and PFAs are not strictly the same but closely related. Both are still heavily used today and considered to be the next gen PCBs.
You don't have to choose glob&loop or find&xargs as a zsh user, as there is a built-in zargs function:

zargs -- $crazy_glob -- $command

Much like the `find | xargs` version you can begin with `zargs -- $glob` until your filter is correct and then tack the command on when you're ready.

Hmm, now I really like the idea of an oil-y version of this where you could do something like `oargs { $clearer_glob_DSL } { $command_block }`. It might even be possible right now using stest from dmenu¹ as a stand-in for a more advanced globbing alternative.

I believe part of the reason zsh users find the extended globbing functionality useful is the basic usage matches their expectations with other tools, unlike find's quirky syntax. The common filters use the same values as you'd see in `ls --classify` output. For example, you want executable files tack a `*` on or for sockets use a `=`.

FWIW, the find comparison isn't quite right. Out of the box `**/file` wouldn't traverse a .git directory anyway, unless the GLOB_DOTS option is set or you provide the equivalent flag as in `**/file(D)`. The less specific point is quite true though as adding negation and toggling flags in a single glob can be extremely difficult to read. See the examples at the bottom of zshexpn(1) for proof of that.

Edit to add: I hope this comes across as an attempt to be helpful as was intended, and not some awful stop motion attempt.

¹ https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
I stopped using mice for trackpads and tracsticks and touchscreens.

Too much pain.

And rarely able to replace a dying one with the same model.
I remember hearing about Bitcoin in HN in 2011. I'm sure that same post convinced a lot of people with better hindsight than me to start mining.
From what I read, it has no advantages in the marketplace - except for a high price...