jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Shared hosting make it simple. You can spin up a LAMP website on Dreamhost in an hour. The DB is basically just a few clicks with default values and dropdowns.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/uq6zOSv.jpg
I'm confused - what is the reason behind it ?
All hardware companies I've seen on the inside are like this. Philips, FEI, Cisco, ASML, Océ. Somehow, when software isn't the only part that matters, people stick their heads in the sand and pretend like the 1980's never ended. I've given up trying to figure out why or change it.

It's the only reason I only do web stuff now. I like both domains, but the hardware / embedded software industries are just retarded.
I went to Stanford as an undergrad just a few years after this bidding war between top universities began. The additional financial aid I received saved my family and me more than $100k -- that figure would be much higher if we factor in the interest on the loans I didn't have to take -- and I will be forever grateful. I applaud Stanford for expanding this program.

But I'm also a little sad about the way this is playing out, because the net effect is to set the top private universities even further apart from the many great universities that nonetheless can't afford policies like this. There's already so much pressure on a lot of kids to get into a top private university, and now many of them are in a position where if they don't get into one of the top four, their only option is a public school. (And yes, there exist public schools, such as Cal, which one can argue deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as H/P/Y/S, but certainly there isn't a UC Berkeley in every state, and going to a public school out of state can be as expensive as going to a private school.)

If you really want to be sad, take a look at how short is the list of schools with need-blind admission that claim to meet all demonstrated need:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission#U.S._insti...

This is a supremely low bar, because schools get to define how much you need; there's no standard for this. And of course schools can meet your need with loans. But even still, the schools on this list are the only ones in the country which even claim to be meritocratic in their admission of US applicants.
Because it creates a situation where it becomes stupidly risky to be affluent; people do make mistakes with e.g. speed limits - not everyone crosses them intentionally - and paying a € 50 000 fine for doing 21 km/h over a speed limit really makes people consider emigrating and taking their businesses to a more reasonable place. It also makes it more difficult to attract high-income workforce from abroad, thus having a negative impact on high-tech industries.
So I have a small project I wanted to get into using Arduino, for which bigger full PC solutions like RPi aren't suitable (small embedded controller for home automation). The Arduino 'ecosystem' was confusing before this, now with this infighting it has become a total clusterfuck.

So, what alternatives are there? I need a simple, very cheap and very lower power chip that I can program easily using a regular PC and that can interface with a few optocouplers. Would it make sense to go directly for an ATmega? Or would I need additional circuitry to make that work? If I can program in C that would be OK, I don't need the software to be 'easy to use' - the hardware I'm unfamiliar with though so that needs to be plug and play.
This has been going on since early Friday for me.
Well, indirectly, the Turing test does allow you to test for learning, as long as it can be taught during the period of time available for the interview and using a chat. Assembling furniture might be hard to test for, but you could certainly ask it to write a sonnet.
Everyone agrees there are no absolutes.

I think you'd find there are many people who find it acceptable to act contrary to how they expect others to act and moreover acceptable to pretend to be that which they are not.
Plus a strong safety net encourages entrepreneurship, since failure doesn't have to mean losing your house, your kids starving on the streets, or going without medical care.
> Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) describes how glass balls filled with water could set clothes on fire when placed in line with the sun.

Really? Sounds like a job for Adam and Jamie.
I love Neruda, specially "No culpes a nadie". It helped me a lot to stop complaining. C&P a possibly wrong translation

## Don't Blame Anyone

Never complain about anyone, nor anything,
because basically you have done
what you wanted in your life.

Accept the difficulty of improving yourself
and the courage to start changing yourself.
The triumph of the true man emerges from
the ashes of his mistake.

Never complain about your loneliness or your
luck, face it with courage and accept it.
In one way or another it is the outcome of
your acts and the thought that you always
have to win.

Don't be embittered by your own failure or
blame it on another, accept yourself now or
you'll keep making excuses for yourself like a child.
Remember that any time is
a good time to begin and that nobody
is so horrible that they should give up.

Don't forget that the cause of your present
is your past, as well as the cause of your
future will be your present.

Learn from the bold, the strong,
those who don't accept situations, who
will live in spite of everything. Think less in
your problems and more in your work and
your problems, without eliminating them, will die.

Learn how to grow from the pain and to be
greater than the greatest of those
obstacles. Look at yourself in the mirror
and you will be free and strong and you will stop
being a puppet of circumstances because you
yourself are your own destiny.

Arise and look at the sun in the mornings
and breathe the light of the dawn.
You are part of the force of your life;
now wake up, fight, get going, be decisive
and you will triumph in life. Never think about
luck because luck is
the pretext of losers.
I bet you've broken at least one law today, and yesterday, and you'll break one tomorrow. Should we have no pity on you? Would it be reasonable to say that you should make better decisions?
I realize I'm a little late to this party, but I thought I would try to ask anyway.

As someone who has used what is probably considered a mass market ergo split keyboard for a long time (10+ years), what would be a reasonable new one to try?

This is definitely better than a straight, standard keyboard for me, but it is not really good. The keys require too much activation force. I still have to bend my wrists a lot. Some keys are hard to reach.

What else can I try? I do not have RSI that I know of. I don't have pain. It is just not very good.

Anyway, I don't know if this is enough info for a recommendation.
Isn't that what this article is about? eShares? I'm not a founder so I'm not sure if that's what it is "exactly" what you are looking for.
There is something paradoxical about funding companies building virtual reality, autonomous drones, and Bitcoin markets, using Excel and paper certificates.

Not if you understand that investors and the market are not optimizing for founders with good management experience/understanding.
https://github.com/pgrest/pgrest

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HTTP_API
This reminds me that we should have sufficient power to pull off very realistic AI in videogames, but the research and implementations are insufficient.
Video of it running the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYukdJam6gk
Reminds me of the problem my parents just had with Dell. My mother broke the USB port on her computer and got a technician to come and fix it. For some reason, the technician replaced the power supply and motherboard (which clearly were not causing the problem). After he did this, the computer would not boot and he decided it must be due to the hard drive having too much data on it. When I was home later that night, I moved that hard drive into another computer and booted it. It worked. Obviously this technician had no idea what in the world he was talking about. He came back the next time, he replaced the motherboard once again and gave us another hard drive. Now we have 2 hard drives in that computer (we have to send one back. We may clone the old hard drive onto the new one since the new one obviously has a longer life left). The USB port issue has still not been solved. TECHNICIANS SUCK (for the most part)
The amount of data that's created daily is so huge for even Google to index. I am really skeptical how any search engine is able to solve the relevancy of the search results to the keywords and the integrity of the search results given that there will always be blackhat SEO methods.

Given that you are able to solve the above, how to store the terabyte of index generated daily?

Assuming you solve that, next come the user experience, how to make it easy for users to adopt your search. How can they filter the search results? How to data visualize so that users can better understand it, etc.

Now, does $1-$2 make sense?
If you're American, or if you live somewhere else where Christmas cards are a tradition, it's virtually guaranteed that you'll see a wall mural of received Christmas cards many, many times per year, especially at businesses but also in homes.

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1608&...
This assumes that "goodness" is an irreducible, ontologically basic property.
How could/would two factors (as opposed to SSS) solve e.g. the use case outlined in SLIP-0039?
Reddit isn't people who have made at least a 25k investment in a terminal communicating under their real name and job title. That's worth something.
I haven't read through the paper in detail (so I could be entirely wrong) but the proposed solution appears to be based on decades-old technology (David Chaum's ecash, which dates back to the mid-90s), which is completely centralized. Every single transaction must be signed and then checked by the central bank.

"..blinding is done by the customers, who blind their coins before transmitting them to the central bank for signature."

"..to be sure that the coin has not been copied and already redeemed by another payee (i.e., has not been “double-spent”), the merchant must deposit the coin so that the central bank can check the coin against a file of redeemed coins."

The paper claims that the CBDC is proposes is "a genuine digital bearer instrument" but to my mind, "a genuine digital bearer instrument" should not be entirely reliant on a centralized trusted third party.

Several years ago, we (the Zcash team) came up with a proposal for a wholesale CBDC for use by commercial banks, that has strong privacy protections (based on the zero-knowledge proofs-based protocol that underpins Zcash) that would prevent other CBDC users from being able to observe transaction details or balances, while allowing the central bank to monitor activity on the CBDC ledger. It's designed to sit alongside and provide a decentralized alternative/backup to existing RTGS systems (which would have been useful during the FedWire outage yesterday!). Several major central banks showed enough interest to sit through the presentation but nobody was interested in doing a proof-of-concept or a pilot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can see a diagram outlining how it would work here: https://twitter.com/JackGavigan/status/1364669769639690246
Even if technically impossible, by simply not supporting it - which is already happening - FF will just lose additional market share. I'm at a point where I keep an additional Chromium installed along with my nicely configured FF, because of how many sites doesn't work.
Django (2005) to DRF (2011) is a better take as the products a linked and packed with features, many versions in the making.
Fixing the Ctrl+Q issue is great, but I still think extensions such as Form History Control are essential for all other situations. I'd very much appreciate if Mozilla could vet it for security; I'm always afraid of some developer selling out or being hacked and a future update introducing a backdoor.
Baffles me that anyone would want to live like this. The sooner this bizarre culture dies out, the better.
Spamfilter prior to HashCash based on Proof of Income
I copied it from the headline, I wanted to make sure I was following guidelines. Agreed it should be changed.
Which one do you mean? It is true that owning stock does not entitle you to labor of a company of employees. Paying wages does.

And the "value theory of labor" states that the value of labor is determined by how hard the work is. So why should I not be paid for digging a hole in front of your door?

If you say you didn't want that hole to begin with, we are veering into "people should only pay for what they want", and I think the "value theory of labor" already gets in trouble. You have to admit that how much people want something, or how useful it is to them, should factor into how much they should have to pay somebody else. So the theory that only labor should determine the price is debunked.

"All value derives from labor" is not even true (what about trading rare items, for example - or lets take a house. Is a house by the lake the same value as a house on a garbage dump, because they both take the same amount of labor to build?), and it seems a very vague statement. How do you derive the value of something from that statement?
Reader was always a pet project by a few engineers who worked on it in their spare time.

When they moved on, nobody else wanted to take on support
in their free time, and no department wanted to pay someone full-time to work on it, so it was killed.
Hey hackers.

For the past three years, I've been working on LearnObit: a tool that helps users learn information as quickly as possible using various learning theories and tricks.

When I first started programming, I used Anki and the old tried-and-tested spaced repetition algorithm. It was great for word-pairing (e.g., learning foreign languages), but didn't work for more complex, general topics like Mathematics or Physics.

This drawback has led to spaced repetition being overlooked, despite its proven effectiveness in learning and retention.

I wanted to unlock this effectiveness for a wider audience — that's why I made LearnObit, a notetaking tool that lets you structure complicated information and learn it as easily as possible using spaced repetition and other learning features.

It's been a year since I released it to the public. For a while, people told me they loved the concept but found the interface lacking — yet finally, I think the tool is developed enough to be useful.

If you take learning seriously, you need to check it out. Who knows, maybe it could change your life!

In the meantime, I'll be here if you have any questions. Thanks for your time and support.
For those wondering, the types of domains and sites that
still use .su today (according to my personal experience)
are:

1. Sites that were created back then and just stayed (a
very low number).

2. Sites of organisations operating in most of the ex-USSR
or CIS countries.

3. People who are nostalgic or associate themselves more
with the Soviet Union than with any of the states that
exist in its territory today.

4. Just-for-fun types of people.
What is actually the appeal of a (smart) TV - especially for the tech-friendly scene on HN? Why doesn't a large monitor cut it? (Serious question)
> identify yourself in whatever situation

What situation? Other than crossing a border, or maybe appearing in court, I can't think of any situation where I need to prove who I am. I might need to prove my age, or that I have a right to a particular service, but I shouldn't need to provide my identity to do that.
You should probably read Myers-Briggs' book Gifts Differing, they do say it over and over again that traits are preferences.
I've never understood using vans over caravans. With a van if it breaks down you are pretty stuffed as all of your kit is in it. Plus if you have to make trips into a city/town you are wasting fuel carting all that stuff around, and the risk of theft would make me nervous.

Caravans don't have any of those downsides, but I guess people make it work?
"Cool Runnings". Not about business, but based on a true story about the first Jamaican bobsled team. About pursuing your dreams against all odds, about "showing up" ("80% of success is showing up" -- Woody Allen), and about keeping your priorities straight. One of my favorite movies, for a great many reasons.
Check out CRM114 Discriminator (http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ ), it's an amazing machine learning package tuned to filtering email. It can do good filtering right out of the box (with a little config and training).
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/12/...
Is there a reason you need to involve css here? what's wrong with just embedding a data: url inside the html?
This may be true, yet its a great indicator for both parties to see how many users are willing/current in the system. It certainly can be a line in the sand fir future comparisons.
Has anybody reviewed the terms & conditions, privacy policies etc. Is there anything in them to make me concerned that Avos will do anything with my data that I won't like above and beyond what the existing Delicious T&C were?

I presume these guys have taken over Delicious because they see it as a good business opportunity and I'd like to know that their opportunity isn't going to be at my expense.
One minor problem being that it takes the "short" out of "URL shortener."

Decent for making a point, but those characters are a precious commodity on Twitter.
I've actually tried the command I posted above; seems to be working. 'consolidated.db' is symlinked to /dev/null just fine. I'm curious though, which part is erroneous? So I better understand for the future :p
FYI, you can prevent new entries from being added to the shortener database without shutting down the shortener altogether.
Again, some schools are running this better than others.
To midnightreactor: You've been shadowbanned by the HN hivemind. Better luck next account. :(
No offense, but web tech on the desktop has been tried before (a la Java) and the user experience sucked everywhere. I'm not convinced this will be any different from the user's perspective.
Might be that fat was as scarce as carbs prehistorically. Have you ever eaten wild game? They are drastically leaner than farm animals. I imagine they were even leaner back when there were more wild creatures competing for the same food supply.

It's not an accident that our palate has evolved to reward us for finding salts, fats, and sugars.
These stories JetBrains is defending against are sadly what passes as "Jounalism" in our society.
As someone who was paying attention to the old days of online censorship (2000-2010) when the RIAA/MPAA were the big baddies, yes, it's going to get worse. Biden unfortunately was/is the the MPAA's man in congress for many years.

https://www.cnet.com/news/joe-bidens-pro-riaa-pro-fbi-tech-v...

http://techrights.org/2020/11/09/biden-riaa-and-mpaa/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dem-vp-pick-bidens-tech-policy-...
As far as I know, the Signal protocol was developed for TextSecure back in 2013. Noise actually references the Double Ratchet Algorithm by Moxie and Trevor Perrin as an inspiration. Not the other way around.

At some point in time, all now well-established cryptographers will have developed their first own cryptosystem, without already having established a good reputation. Whether or not someone develops a cryptosystem without being famous for cryptography work is simply not a good argument for discussing a cryptosystem. The properties of a cryptosystem are a good argument for discussing it.
Don't put too much hope on that. The only country that would realistically single Tether out to "outlaw" it would be the US.
They may do so, but even then they won't be able to stop the redeeming process from taking place abroad. That may mark the beginning of a slow decent, but no threat to current holders of the token IMO.
No aerial surveillance was in the air at the time—at least, none of the typical aircraft that show up on OpenADSB during protests in D.C.—so one hopes that there are ground-level IMSI catchers or something similar in use around the Capitol.
Every diet has its grifters, scammers, and celebrities of questionable character attached to it. Actually, every human interest group or endeavour has grifters attached. The carnivore diet being more of a fringe diet, the associated grifters are more fringe characters. Whereas something like the big label on Honey Nut Cheerios indicating that it is good for your heart -- https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/75ba3310-8be0-4e36-91e6-62f... -- is also a grift, and it is a grift that is supported by our biggest corporations and most prestigious institutions.
> does sound like a racist caricature

But it isn't. How about we stop assuming offense by default and instead we try to expect that other people are as reasonable as we are? For that matter, that one is in the guidelines here.
Thank you. This is exactly it.
I'm still unclear as to the benefit given that you're required to attend to the road and it detects distracted people in the driver's seat?
I think it's the other way around. The BBC public radio are (were?) not allowed to condone -any- private businesses or products.

Then it get's a bit tricky. Trademarks are a consumer protection device which affords the consumer to differentiate between competing products.

As the song appeals to a chewing gum, and it's assumed that the general public are aware of one brand, two brands or 50 brands of spearmint-flavoured chewing gums for purchase - the radio may reason that the lyric would be unfit according to their mission.

It's less about any actual trademark such as a Spearmint® Chewing Gum, than it is a public association to some marketed goods (and the BBC's stated mission to not condone such).

This is just a random reasoning of mine, so a grain of salt etc.

This entry mentions this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_Your_Chewing_Gum_Lose_Its..., but the issue is marked 'dubious'.
> Building apartments is not a pox on a community.

This is an opinion which is not universally agreed with.

> are you seriously asking why people may want to live someplace for reasons other than it being an undistinguished suburb? School, weather, jobs, community?

No. If you look at the comment you are replying to, you’ll see that the question I asked was:

> what right do the people who don’t live in his neighborhood but want to have the right to immiserate the people who already live there by building high density blocks?
> Ad hominems are totally alright in my book

Zed, find a therapist, please. You are a talented person but your mind needs debugging.
The "acting white" derision is pretty much exclusive to blacks, as far as I know

"Acting white" by definition isn't going to be present among whites, but anti-intellectiolism certainly is. See: GOP 2008 presidential campaign.

It's certainly not present among Asians

You've never heard the insult "banana"?
African Americans (and Asians) are excluded from comparison simply because Finland doesn't have them.

Oh yes, Finland has a lot of Africans and Asians (just not proportionally as many as the US "melting pot").

So your editorialized title should have been:

After correcting for demographics, US whites fare better than EU/Asian schools

and that my friend was pretty racist editorialization (if it makes any sense at all to compare apples to oranges)!
They might not be going to startups only. Does HotJobs cater to other tech companies, too?

I'm a PHP developer, and I don't think I'd consider my current NY employer (worked here for about a month now) a startup.
Surely they have some sort of process to make sure the rules are applied somewhat evenly. It's not like modifying the function of hardware buttons is subjective, like some of the other criteria for inclusion in the App Store.

Does the App Store approval group have any sort of developer community liaison to manage this sort of thing? Sounds like a cool job to me.