jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The protests were mostly peaceful, which still leaves room for plenty of looting and killing. Don't forget that a lot of the killing was actually performed by policemen and fascist groups/individuals AGAINST the protesters.

The attacked federal courthouse is also a nice contrast - despite weeks of trying, the protesters never made it inside the courthouse. The fascists trying fruiessly to overthrow the election last night however made it inside Congress while it was in session.

The Russia conspiracy theory was a massive red herring, but it also didn't succeed in motivating people to try to overturn the election. Hillary Clinton conceded her election immediately following the result estimates, and Obama immediately started the transition process with Trump's people. There were no lawsuits seeking to disenfranchise 5 million voters for vague reasons.

The democratic quibbling about Trump's legitimacy was just that - quibbling. To compare this to what Trump and his cronies have been doing since the election is laughable.
Just a note for anyone checking it out, Simple Keyboard doesn't support spellcheck (which is why I use OpenBoard instead).
I'm inclined to agree that no paper trail is a bad idea. It's interesting that of all the states you listed, only NJ went blue this election. You'd think democrats would be the ones more vocal about potential fraud from electronic voting.
Nope, never heard of anyone using it locally.
Yeah, fuck anyone else not in a car.
Am I the only one that associates loud noise with a weak engine?

To me a powerful car just has an acceleration whine, and that's all.

It's like a rocket exhaust: the "wilder" it is the weaker it is. A powerful, well tuned, rocket has a very sharp, and clean (i.e. not noisy) flame.

Same with a car - if it's making a lot of noise, it's poorly tuned or designed.
> This discussion is about what Google actually delivered

So you say. I was taking the conversation in a related direction. Somehow the idea that we can't talk about technological potential seems a bit out of place, even irrational for HN.
I'm not American, but kudos on the bigotry.

Incase you didn't notice, I wasn't spelling any word - just phonetic punctuation which is common in online chat.
> ...the more that Windows tries to be like OS X the less I like it.

I am with you! It started with the default Taskbar configuration and "pinning" things. I find it completely useless and I always disable grouping. Furthermore, I use 7+ taskbar tweaker to make the Taskbar act exactly the way I want it to and I have actually written a couple Microsofties in an attempt to get them to buy this company and integrate it :)

The one thing that I'm really disappointed in though is the Ribbon. I just wish that I could hunt through it with the keyboard or mouse as easily as I can with regular menus. Hunting with the mouse is too clicky - you can scroll the middle wheel now, but I'd rather just activate each tab when I put the pointer over it. Hunting throught the Ribbon with the keyboard is ridiculous too because all of the tool-tips just get in the way of seeing what's there. I like classic menus and toolbars way, way better except when I'm on a touch device.
Agree entirely! The article led me to believe Skype Translator had shipped, which is why I focused there and not on the obviously experimental HoloGoggles.

No bonus points for "one day" - keeping over promising and under delivering and nothing will change.
There is a genuine push to help people become more charitable. Every company I have worked for previously says they will support this or that, but it's not really that important and more PR or nice HR policy. Where I am now it is almost compulsory to pick and support a cause on company time each year, this being done in a good way...as 'almost compulsory' might come across as a bit heavy but it isn't that at all.
Not at all. If I fix a production issue it's fixed. Either it is or it isn't. In an interview, I'm trying to impress another human. Who knows if I do a good job at that. Computers and their problems are simple in comparison. Judging a humans reaction, A LOT of developers are seriously bad at that. I'm pretty good at it myself but I hate it. I've had very few interviews that I didn't receive offers from but even I dislike the human part of interviews.
On a related note, I found an app called Haroopad which is a cross-platform offline Markdown editor[1]. It even supports some GitHub flavored Markdown.

[1] - http://pad.haroopress.com/
Maybe its just money. Of the 15000 apps, only a handful make money. Apple could just sell those, preinstalled, and be done. Apple may just think there's not much blood left in that turnip, so who cares about new apps.
I assumed from the title "Atomic Peace" that the essay was about how the atom bomb prevented full-scale wars. But still, there's its own answer.
> And should this surprise anyone? Does anyone here think there's low price/quality correlation in beer?

Perhaps...there's some superb regular day drinkers that run under $2/bottle...and some of the more expensive specialty beers can cost upwards of $8/pint and taste like sewage.

(of course the really cheap beer is pretty universally bad)
Welcome to the Cloud!

Seriously, companies must take responsibility for the data. It's important to note that delicious also has private bookmarks so it's not possible to just backup the repository and distribute it.

In my opinion the best way to solve this is to set up an auction for the "delicious asset".
I really have to think hard about which products from Yahoo! that I actually use. I used to have a Yahoo! email account, but Gmail came along and blew it out of the water.

Aside from Flickr, all Yahoo! is useful for now is checking the latest sports scores.

I remember as a kid back in the 90s, Yahoo! was the place to go if you ever needed to find something. That's been heavily supplanted by Google now.

Hearing about the recent layoffs is pretty depressing. Is Yahoo! ever going to recover?
Yet. Given that smartphones and tablets are now being produced with more powerful CPU's than netbooks, it's really only a matter of time.
I was watching this with interest, actually. I think it would be great to somehow tie threads together. blhack is right when he says that social bookmarking is about finding things interesting, not unique, so dupes aren't evil in themselves. It's the dilution of discussion that's the issue. So if you can solve that issue elegantly, you win.
I can't seem to find common sense in the itunes store, is it perhaps under a different name?
So you decided not to use framework because there is website with video courses about it? Interesting reasoning. Isnt there website with videos about the other framework?
Then I would have lost a lot on my Apple investment years ago. My only mistake there was to sell years too early.

Also, I'm not sure how I can go short on the house I intend to live in.
> Self-censoring is crudely how civilisation works. We accept some restraints on our biological urges for the safety and order collective society provides.

Are you saying our civilization is no longer working?
google+ loss was a true tragedy.
I don't think evidence supports the idea that selling alcohol in special stores will avoid alcoholism. Hard drug users go to much more trouble than visiting a special store, and their numbers remain significant despite a variety of efforts to make access to hard drugs prohibited.
I was once asked a (programming) interview question and suggested solving it with differential equations (it was a system of odes but could be made into pdes too). But that wasn’t the solution they were looking for.
This is why society develops bigger and bigger problems at scale: A few clever powerful actors can easily manipulate the masses by virtue of these built-in logical failings of most people, often to achieve their own evil or immoral goals.
You're moving the goalpost way further or have a completely different goal in mind than I do.
The only thing that you need if you want to publish content online is an nginx config and a machine with a public internet access. And that's it. No CMS, no wordpress. Almost nobody has a need for 100% uptime so I don't see why you would mention that. If someone wants to DDOS you you have completely different situation and it is very likely your content will be offline, which is fine, no? It's costing them money and the only downside on your side is to not have your publications available for some amount of time. If you're talking about business services, sure, that's a big deal, but for a person sharing their writing, that's a non-issue. It takes what, something like 30 minutes to get another machine, setup nginx, then upload your content?

A $5/month server with debian + nginx serving static content can survive way more than a HN hug of death.
Sure, but if the word on the street was that Company X fired somebody for something as petty as disclosing salary, which again is not enforceable in most States in the US, then I'd love to see them be able to hire effectively in this market.
I'm an electrical engineer (power systems) by background and this is my little project - an automated cable sizing tool to IEC standards. A little background to how it was conceived:

Over the years in the design consulting / engineering industry, I noticed that cable sizing was either done by hand (tedious) or by integrated power systems packages (overkill). Cable sizing is a pretty well defined task with all the requirements set out in international standards (e.g. IEC, NEC, BS, etc), so there's really no reason why it should be done manually. And yet there aren't many standalone tools to do it. So I wanted to make a simple tool that was also completely transparent - all the information is there for you to check the outputs yourself against the standards should you desire.

I'd like some feedback on how useful this is and whether or not its clear enough to non EE's. Thanks!
When I still used to live with my parents we had a pool as well. Even if I went swimming an hour or two before bed I would just become more refreshed and more awake and still not go to sleep. For some reason swimming triggered my brain to wake up and start working on more new problems.

So this advice may not work for everyone.
you will eventually need to go fixed fee and use intellectual property to do things faster. This will let you get bill rates in the 300-500/hour or higher range.

The downside is that you are solving the same problems over and over again.
To be quite frank, as a foreign national I'd be a lot more worried about visting the US than I would Cuba.

That's hardly a ringing endorsement for the land of the free, is it?
But: Safari 5 has hardware accelerated graphics on both Mac and Windows for HTML5 video. Which I imagine is as relevant to most people, even geeks like me, as a 10-20% speedup in Javascript.

For example, watch the video at http://videojs.com/ in full screen on Chrome and Safari. Last time I checked it looked way better in Safari. That said, Chrome team moves fast and maybe they will have it fixed soon.

If you're interested in progress you can track the issue here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38969
"Poor / incomprehensible error messages and stack traces are far and away the most common complaint."

I wonder if this is because of the high slime usage. The slime debugger doesn't play well with java exceptions because the stack gets unwound. JSwat is the advertised debugging option--wonder how many slime users have tried it.
The print media needs to come up with a system for micro payments, and fast. I am not going to pay for a subscription to NY Times online, but I will hit a TipJoy-like button to give $0.10 - $0.25 every time I watch a NY Times cooking video! This problem is bigger than the NY Times...
That's why I believe you are claiming "womanness" would increase corporate profits - because you completely discounted everything besides that.

Ah I see. My apologies for my lack of clarity then. In the original comment, I was assuming women traders with some level of skill and experience since I can not fathom a world where Wall St hires people with absolutely no knowledge of finance to run trading desks.

Also, your result for retail investors at a discount brokerage is irrelevant. Average trader at financial firms >> average eTrade user.

It seems quite relevant. Does it prove beyond any doubt that Wall St should have 100% female traders? Of course not. But it does suggest that Wall St firms could reduce risk exposure and improve profits by hiring more women and/or altering their culture.

what do you believe is the typical background/skillset of a non-quant trader, and what fraction of people with that background/skillset are women?

Wait a minute...you're a quant and you're asking me about traders? Don't you already know?
I'm only talking about the physical exterior.

It's well known that Apple's laptop LCDs are average at best. I can only assume their PCBs are produced on the same equipment their foxconn et all use for their other customers.
> The Terms of Use on our RSS feeds makes it clear that the RSS feeds are available for non-commercial use only. By charging for an app ($3.99) that gives users access to our RSS feeds, they are violating that provision of the Terms of Use.

How amazingly stupid and unenforceable.
Hey silverstorm --
Awesome, shoot me an email and let us know your interests -- titojankowski at gmail.com

Tito
Looks nice enough, but my laptop doesn't easily allow me to scroll. Maybe you could make + and - do the right thing?
> We are nowhere near living in a post-scarcity world

I agree that we're not near living in a post-scarcity society, but not necessarily because of technical limitations. Humans don't need infinite amounts of land, water, minerals, etc.

The biggest problem is that a scarcity-based economy hinders the development of a post-scarcity society, by creating artificial scarcity.
Hi there. I work at Rackspace and would like to try to help. Can you send your account number and/or ticket numbers to my team at help@rackspace.com? I'll personally look into this for you. Thank you!
Oh look, Wikileaks leaks.

http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-costs.htm
Most of these icon sizes are provided by the developer only optionally. Any sizes not provided are generated on the fly by resizing with some kind of bilinear filter. If you're not doing any better than that bilinear filter, why provide the files?
Right, I have that same ongoing beef (embedding images is another area where PDFs are completely brain-dead) but if you're scanning pages direct to PDF to produce a professional e-book, you're fighting an uphill battle anyway. On the other hand, scan the material into inDesign, clean it up, typeset it appropriately, and then export that to PDF. This is the way to beautiful PDF typography and it's an area where the PDF format really shines. (And this is coming from a guy who hates PDFs as a rule.)
Did it, with clients, my perception was about 200 less than that per person. Other restaurants, incl. some named here: much more expensive.

The wine selections, btw? Totally worth it. Made the meal. And I'm not a crazy wine person.
I don't fucking get it.
There goes all the uniforms from Star Trek II to VI. :(
"Do you have any insight into Zynga's development of the game? If not you have no grounds upon which to make that hyperbolic statement....Unless you're arguing that anything you don't find entertaining was therefore designed solely to be addictive."

That's a false dichotomy. Please stop throwing around universal quantifiers like that, it's quite reckless.

"Are you saying that its entertainment value is lessened by its addictive aspect, or that it's not entertaining at all? If the former, your original statement needs modification."

I think it's pretty clear what I'm saying. I also think you're engaging in message board gamesmanship here, which is tiresome and boring for others to read. If you want to keep this one-on-one going, my email address is in my profile.
Right, this does put an emphasis back on efficiency but the bugbear of ubiquitous concurrency seems to have been at least temporarily set aside.
And, in fact, reddit already lets you save stories, which could be expanded into a general bookmarking system.
The only problem with the Galaxy S is the buggy software it was released with and the appalling length of time it took Samsung to get Froyo out the door. I'm running it with JPU Froyo and it's a lovely bit of kit.
I know that Google Translate is not word-to-word, but it is not perfect.

For example, a few years ago, some students of my wife give to her a homework about clocks and gears. When she read it, she was annoyed because the redaction was incredible horrible. But later we realized that the students didn't write it, the "homework" was a web page translated with Google Translate.

Another time, I need an example of the differences between JPEG and JPEG2K for a internal talk. I found a photograph with a zoom of Lena's eye with a legend like "JPEG2K 1% vs JPG 1%", but the webpage was in Japanese, and I can’t reed it. So I use Google Translate to be sure that it was a comparation of the two methods with the same compression level.

So Google Translate is very good to get an idea of what some web page means, but it is not good enough to make a final version of the translation.

This app have some additional difficulties that GT doesn't need to solve: they need to OCR the text in the wild, they have less computational power and they have to do it in real time. It is almost incredible that they can solve these things. With a word to word translation, I think that you can get a good enough translation 90%, 95% or even 99% of the times, but the corner cases can be really unintelligible. The translation of "Tongue Bolivian ..." is fine, and the user can understand what it means, so it is useful. The translation of "Dead End" is something that they should improve in next version.
so its official?
2.2 offers big theoretical performance improvements over <2.2. We all know that.

The graphs on this, however, are ludicrous. It's putting the 2.2 device up against 2.1 devices, adding questionable statements like "Even Samsung's 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird chip can't compete versus the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chip in the Streak, when the Epic 4G is running Android 2.1 -- but over a 3X improvement from Android 1.6 to 2.2 on the Streak?"

Yes, JIT offers big performance improvements. It doesn't somehow make the Snapdragon a better chip, however.
Well I would say 'significantly different' from the pictures I've seen. Same materials used though so you might have a point there.
One of Microsofts bigger problem might be that improving anything might break their stranglehold on consumers and other companies.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991950 / http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ej32l/we_are_the_hotma...

where the hotmail team seemingly can't understand the reason why someone would need IMAP support when ActiveSync exists
Creating ghettos isn't the answer. Letting the free market dictate where people live is a much better solution.
Just tape a Mountain Dew button to the back of my xbox controller.
Probably (let's hope - but, if I have seen anything in the last 4-years, it has been a constant, non-stop erosion of competency in the US government) - and, most likely the insurgents just didn't plan anything "long-term" or tricky.

Question though... Don't hardware-based keyloggers present as a "keyboard", and isn't that a generic device which would probably be whitelisted?
Full disk encryption is only as good as the TPM and I’d imagine that nation states have plenty of exploits they could use to bypass them.

Not to mention cold boot attacks if the laptop was still running.
Am I missing something? That's how their backups work currently
Certainly Turing Drawings should count? http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ (no pun intended.)
10% is really low. In Germany it's min 14% and you don't have a choice to opt out. Everybody needs to pay this.
Wow! Well, add me to the list of people jealous of your students! Not so surprising to discover you are in the Netherlands, however, as it seems to fit the mental model I have from my limited exposure to your country. :)
I don't think so because:

a. I often miss stuff in my email; and

b. This site serves that general purpose for me:

https://hckrnews.com/
That's the theoretical argument Assange pushes.

Wikileaks does, however, keeps tons of information about its internal operations secret...
What's the performance evaluation process(for promotions or otherwise) at Elastic like? At most big companies I have seen perf to be a major headache
Hyderabad/India/Full time/No REMOTE

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I can understand why my comment reads "salty" - I apologize for that. In all honesty, based on what you said, I actually think you and I have much in common (having undergone similar technical exercises for the pure sake of understanding).
My issue was/is your delivery (albeit typed and perhaps it is just the medium, again, apologies) - you didn't start a discussion, even when the parent responded you hardly even acknowledged what they said before you simply doubled down on speaking "at" them/us about yourself and your interests in affirmative statements (that in all honesty read like you're "one-upping" everyone for some reason) that leave open very little room for an equitable response.
I guess, what I'm trying to say, is that I think human nature is such that people want to feel comfortable with another human before diving into a technical topic with them (even on HN!). That rapport is subtle and relies on so much more than just factual knowledge or a common project; it needs genuine, mutual interest in other people, and if I could make any suggestion (advice I try to take myself) it would be a more polished delivery. Or, as my mom always told me, "it's not enough to be right all the time - you have to be kind, too."
Crime has gone up in other spots too, such as oakland
I made an account pretty early on, before the thought had crossed my mind that I might acquire some perceived associations I wouldn't want. I had a silly reason, I just wanted to follow a conspiracy theorist friend of mine that moved there. They're certainly not joking about their theories but I find them hilarious.

After seeing it was back online I figured I would log in and post communist memes until they banned me, but it seems I am unable to login. Looks like their technical problems continue.
except chatroulette was random and didn't really have user accounts?

Unless chatroulette became something different than the video window 1:1 with random people and usually phallic symbols... did I miss something?

Very very different from chatroulette, in my opinion.
Belgium is a small, densely populated country. One of the highest average salaries in Europe. Not to mention great universities and flourishing biotech sector. Bottom line: this country can afford to pay for, and should be able to produce a lot of vaccines. Yet it doesn’t, I guess it’s some kind of EU bureaucracy thing. The UK seems to be doing much better since they’re not tied by the EU supply strategy.
The same argument was applied to China in 2000 that trade would transition them to democracy. Instead, we got both poverty eradication AND the entrenchment of their corrupt government in an even stronger position thanks to a stronger economy. I would be very reluctant to support trade with a despot regime.
Or you can pay the price for it and use GKE.

Of course, not for a home lab :)