jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see if this trend reverses. Of course we've all seen the photos of students sitting in classes and only one guy has a Windows laptop and everyone else has a Mac...

... but that was back when Vista was at its prime level of stinkiness. General feedback on Windows 7 (even if it is just a glorified Vista service-pack as some claim) is that it is a lot better.

I've had a couple of opportunities this year to use Windows 7 desktops set up by different organizations. And I noticed an improvement over Vista. I wouldn't say it was completely pain free, but it is comparatively closer to an OS X level of experience than Windows XP was back in the day (whereas Vista was a decrease in that regard).

The question is, would you pay 70% of the price (keeping in mind student discounts on Macs) to get 75 or 80% of the quality? To a lot of people that will seem like an acceptable trade-off, and so we might see a resurgence in Windows laptops on the campus.
It is investors who are investing their portfolio money and time. If you want to, please go-ahead and write apps, raise money and become successful.

Let's congratulate the folks who raised the money to build something.
Awesome. What an amazing, inspiring human being.
This brought to mind the documentary series Metal Evolution[0] and the episode on shock rock. The episode progressed from the origins of the genre to what we have today, from Alice Cooper to Marilyn Manson and to Rammstein. What would probably be the money quotes come from Alice Cooper and Till Lindemann, of Rammstein. Everyone was asked the question "what would it take to shock an audience today" - Cooper said something along the lines of eating your own arm. Lindemann said killing oneself on stage might do it. Something that struck me when I started writing this comment is how I don't even consider Rammstein's schtick one bit shocking, and considering the finale of the last concert I attended involved Till riding a giant phallus cannon spraying white foam on the audience while singing a song titled "Pussy". Seeing that in an arena with 15,000 other people would probably have been inconceivable just a generation ago, and makes some of Manson's tearing up a bible look innocent, which in turn made Cooper's guillotine routine and boa constrictor look quite quaint.

It seems each generation has become "desensitized" and it would take an act more shocking than ever before to provoke a reaction. But in an age where you can pull up the most depraved acts of sex and violence at will, people are finding themselves (acting?) shocked at something so laughable it seems unbelievable.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Evolution
Or maybe getting paid to watch a video feed of naked children?
Once you've reached an advanced level of knowledge about any given language, my experience is that the best way to get better is to find someone who knows more than you and learn from them. Pair coding works well for this.

If you have a job that exposes you to these people, that's great. This often gets confused with "having a job is the best way to get better," but it won't help you one bit if you're the best at what you do for your company.
Also when I was in academia (masters). If my university didn't subscribe to a journal (and it wasn't available via an inter-library loan (In the UK you can ask for a journal from another university)). I would just shoot an email to the author asking for a copy

Edit: Actually I usually sent emails even when we did have a hard copy but no online access. Just because I couldn't be bothered to find the physical copy
To all that are wetting their diapers at the _ridiculous_ thought of robots hunting you down (a rather pompous thought in my opinion — why would anyone expend any resources to kill _you_?): please remain in your bunkers for the sake of society.
Perhaps. But there is a common ends (i.e., profitting from data collection) and common means (i.e., Privacy? What's that??).

There doesn't have to internal coordination any more than FB has to coordinate with (e.g.) Google. Priorities drive action.
And yet people still buy T-bills.
Russia seems to be the go-to nation to be blamed for hacking activity, and so I am by default skeptical. Is there actual evidence of it being a Russian state attack or was Russia
blamed out of habit?

Skepticism of course stems from decades of government lies and misrepresentations of truth in order to justify horrendous actions ie. what was done to Iraq, Lybia, Syria.
They were founded in Toronto but they are American.

The notion that there's any degree of shadiness about them is completely unwarranted. The company and tech are perfectly legit.

If there are any 'issues' at all with the election, it's more rooted in the fact that the US can't very easily identify people, doesn't know who is dead, who is alive, and who are actual residents.

If you dig into the 'voter roll purging' issue in Georgia, it reveals that much of the problems derive from the grey areas there.

That said, the elections are clean and fair, these ambiguities don't provide necessary for widespread fraud.
> But despite best efforts by the community to verify builds, Google and Apple can be forced to upload a malicious app to a particular user, meaning they aren't using the same app at all.

Hi there! Signal-Android developer here. App signing verification is done at the OS-level, and Google does not have our signing key, so they wouldn't be able to give an existing user a different APK and have it successfully install.
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It seems the students (parents?) who are inclined to spend every waking moment doing "college prep" of some sort are already doing so.

Personally, I hate the whole test industry - it incentivizes poor behavior (ie the existence of the entire test prep industry). But, I don't have a better answer. I wish colleges could rely on GPA, course selection, and extracurriculars, but apparently that doesn't work either.

At a macro level, I'm not even sure it matters much. The students who are marginal for acceptance to MIT or other top-tier universities are already going to be successful wherever they land. The real stand-outs are going to get in regardless - they're just that good. And everybody else will do just fine at the best state u. (or whatever other selective but not "ivy tier" college) in their region.

Anecdotally, my friends kids are getting into top universities without the insanity. A bunch to UVA, W&M, and VT (we live in VA), a few Ivies, a few to Stanford and Berkeley. The few kids I know doing test prep and other stuff like that are mostly getting into 2nd tier privates, which they likely would have gone to without the insanity.
I suppose a manager might be able to handle that by forming different teams with varying policies.
Doesn't seem that better compared to Codec2 which is already fully Open Source (LGPL), even taking into account that Codec2's examples originals are already of much worse quality than the ones on Lyra's website. I'd be curious to hear both working on the same set of audio samples.

https://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452
Pretty much any of those actually available to most people early on? [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/coronavir...] or even as of November 2020? [https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...]

The emergency use authorizations allowed anyone who plausibly had a test to market it, even if it had not been independently validated in any way by anyone. Many folks just bought what they could find, even if it didn’t have an emergency use authorization.

Combined with porous borders, e-commerce and the internet, lack of consequences for someone in China to ship junk here? We got buried in (at best) untested junk, and often outright scams.

This has resulted in a rather predictable disaster when it comes to data and awareness - very few of the tests are being cross referenced to other data sources or tested against an independently verified data source, and even fewer (if any) are being evaluated by a independent party. The vast majority of tests in April have since been removed from authorization because they don’t work, don’t work well enough, etc. You can read a very nice paper from the FDA here summarizing it. [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2033687]

As far as I am aware, there is still no clear picture on which tests have actually been validated, by whom, and to what extent against what data set. Will they pick up variants, and if so which ones? With what accuracy? What are common field errors (collection problems, etc) that can lead to problems? What about manufacturing variance and supply chain issues?
I was a TA at your school (Stanford). I like that policy, but I also witnessed cheating firsthand. Specifically, I graded a take-home midterm exam where 3 students handed in the same bizarrely wrong answer. The students received penalties on that test, but no other disciplinary action was taken. This was in the mechanical engineering department in a graduate level mechatronics course (that I suspect you've taken).

If I were making the rules, those students would be out of the university the same day. There is no shortage of smart people who would love to attend Stanford, especially the engineering school. I have no idea why enforcement is so disgracefully lax.

In the electrical engineering department, I regularly had classmates ask me if we could "compare answers" on homework problem sets. Sometimes (rarely), this was for a genuine goal of education-- if your answer is wrong, you want to know that so you can figure out the right answer. More often, it was clueless people trying to collect answers from multiple other people. Drove me up the wall.
There's a big difference between copying conventions and literally copying the colour scheme/gradients.

Many of your examples have the competitor creating a slightly different style, be it button style or menus. Open Office/Microsoft Office. Windows versus MacOS.

Hell, look at DuckDuckGo and Bing. Sure they are both search engines (just like Google) but they still have a slightly different visual identity and results page than Google.

HN is very similar to Reddit but still tries to do small things that differentiate it.

The original post looks like literal translation of Tumblr. Even if they changed the colors so that it fit with it's own identity I could agree with your point but this is not even close to being the case.
I liked this quote:

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
Apparently, a significant background of 10^19 eV neutrinos is expected: http://web.phys.ntnu.no/~mika/taup.pdf
I agree with you, though I think we are as yet unable to point to the actual differences the supporting technologies have created in our lives. It's easy to point to the invention of the internet, microchips, battery technology, etc. etc. Telling somebody about Hadoop and how it is changing the world is more difficult for the average person to grasp.
Yeah, German calls them "Doppelpunkt" (double point or double period) and "Strichpunkt" (and "Strich" is normally a dash, so dash-point or dash-period, depending on how you want to translate "Punkt").
I'll have to see if I can reconnect with him
Back up for me in multiple regions.
People skills. Unless you're solely writing for yourself, you will be making software either for people or with people.
Testing beats imagination.
You mean the thing that conservative pundits have been doing pretty much nonstop for at least 13.5 years while constantly whining about how political correctness is violating their first amendement rights?
Traditionally good journalism includes credibility checks and at least gives some kind of possibility to see uncertain facts in bigger context.

Just reporting ( alarming / scandalous ) claims have been usually called tabloid journalism.
That's still a tough one though. Do we stop at just the words of Jesus, or do we include the teachings of the apostles? And if we include the apostles, what about the Catholic 'continuation' of that? Or what about reinterpretations by self-proclaimed prophets that are part of the many fascinating, sometimes scary, and sometimes sizable 'sects'?
Atom runs like a dog. If ever there was an argument for native apps, Atom makes it. The one thing you want, nay .. expect, from a simple text editor is that it doesn't LAG.

The git source tree highlighting and the image previews are the only two things I liked about it.
RescueTime's user-base is hardly representative. They're very computer savvy, avid social-media participants and care about their work and productivity improvements enough to get an application for it. A very low, one-digit percentile of computer users.

I would trust this data if it came from an anti-virus vendor, Skype, or any other application with a huge and diverse installation base.
Ticketleap, Nearverse, and Duck Duck Go are a couple of other Philly tech companies.

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threading maybe?
If I'm away from my computer, I use email, but if I'm at the computer, I always post from the admin interface.

Honestly, I think this is more of an indictment of the current state of desktop email than anything wrong with Posterous.
From the article, Post-by-email is Posterous' core essence, and the simplicity of that central feature has leaked to all other parts of the service making it an awesome product to use.

The author's argument is that the attitude of "email is the simplest way to post to a blog" is part of why the rest of the design is clean.
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It sounds like maybe you're being a little too hard on yourself. The only person telling you that you have to be a millionaire by age X, or that you have to get a job right this minute, or that your project has to be completely perfect is you.

It maybe sounds cliched, but I say just do the best you can and set expectations realistically. If you're not getting callbacks for jobs it doesn't mean you suck - it probably just means your resume/CV or your approach needs to be tweaked. Maybe let some other people look things over and see what they think? You're obviously motivated, so I think you're one step ahead of a lot of people already...
All graphs end around December 2009. I wish they have included more recent data in the charts.
Making a campaign and calling it "viral" doesn't make it so.
It's really pretty weird. Google certainly has the capabilities to offer a great search experience, but it's very incosistent.

For example after learning i like the results of a certain journals ,their personalization engine offered me those in releated searches. and usually i chose content from them.

But somehow, after some time, Google's personalization engine forgot that i like them ,and stopped offering me content from them, so i'm back into drowning in shitty results. Why ? no idea why.
This is amazing work.

But please don't just go there to check if you have corona unless you have some of the symptoms. Otherwise you are going to flood the already strained system.
Apples? Lettuce?

I mean, I cook some carrots, potatoes, broccoli, yes, but I don't want to risk cross contamination at this time.
If someone didn't need mechanical ventilation but would benefit from some assistance, couldn't they use a CPAP? There sure are a lot of those in use across the world.
There's always someone ready to say that 2KB/s is too much for servers. There is never a real explanation or evidence of course, just vague hand waving, predictions about the future, assertions they hope people won't think about or validate, etc.

The person in this video was adamant that the sun revolves around the earth (yes really) possibly stemming from radical religious beliefs that most reasonable people would take as a sign of mental illness. Don't forget that he is essentially arguing that something that already works won't work.

I can't believe anyone would believe that cryptocurrency blocks can't go over 1 MB every 10 minutes when plenty already have. Most users don't even sync with the main chain even though they can. The whole thing is mind melting.

Why keep doing this? The second layer stuff is a solution in search of a problem and everyone behind it keeps trying to convince everyone there is a problem.
If you contribute to Open Food Facts though, you're helping contribute to the database, making it better for everyone. An API to contribute directly from the app would make that super awesome.
Thank you for the work on this.

I have a tangentially related question, hoping that someone knowledgeable can answer. What are the main bottlenecks to scaling testing, in particular in the following stages:

- the supply of virus-specific reagents (primers, perhaps virus-specific reporting probes - are these necessary, or can just generic reporters be used?)

- the supply of other reagents (in case of PCR, polymerase, nucleotide material, buffer)

- the supply of disposable testing equipment. I know that swabs are in short supply for some reason, anything else?

- safety in handling both the samples and the amplified product (can you basically flush the processed sample down the toilet, or do you need to handle it with extreme precautions)
Slow clap ...

This is amazing. Thank guys so much for building something like this. Rapidly building up access to, and information on testing sites is one of the most important things we can do right now.

Our leadership (in the USA) certainly isn’t doing it. I feel like anytime I say we should follow the example of countries who focused on testing, I’m immediately rebuffed with talking points, excuses why it won’t work, or why we should just hide in our house for an undetermined amount of time.

This is one of the best Covid-19 related projects I’ve seen come across the front page. You guys identified one of the most pressing problems, and figured out how to get it done.

Thank you so much!
Nice! Only 5mos til Burningman.
this really sucks. they're pushing everyone towards the widgets-only page-integrated checkout process "Login and Pay with Amazon".

the problem here is that it kills the uniformity on our site. paypal has a leave-to-login & come-back-with-token process if you need auth-only charging or physical goods. we prefer this because our UI is the same for all payment methods, including paypal, our own processor and amazon.
True, but they've been well-crafted to make them so. Just as they'll (I assume) continue to be worked for finer motor control.
At what revenue would it start calling a full company rather than just a side-project?

It's a little different for Gumroad because they started as a company with an office and became this, but for many side projects, they start out without meetings, without offices and remain that way earning a couple of thousand USD per month.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25687395
It's interesting to think about the ramifications of decoupling our measurement of time from the earth's position in the solar system. For example, when we read that something happened around 11 AM, we know that it's probably daylight time, but if we allow for drift, then we can't make that assumption anymore for certain timescales. If the error is small, we can probably deal with it the same way most people understand that dollars in 1950 don't have the same value as dollars today.
Not clear why the downvotes. This is literally what happened despite Trump winning in 2016 before this re-adjustment of weightings. I am sure the slide deck will come out in FTC, congressional or court hearings in the next few years.
The link rot on wikipedia is pretty bad.

I don't really have an easy solution. People aren't doing it in bad faith. Do laws prevent archiving for the purpose of referencing? IANAL but it certainly sounds like one of the copyright exemptions.

If so there could be a "wikisource" that fetches sites when referenced and then archives them. This isn't IA, it's a different goal really.
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> That's actually Tesla's only source of profit.

So do they get hit 2x then, if not only will they stop getting the credits but the other automakers will start getting the subsidies that Tesla will no longer be getting? Right now it seems like Teslas are also artificially cheap, since they can't be repaired affordably or in any reasonable timeframe.
I agree that Esperanto isn't an great example, as it gives more than 40 millions of results on google (7 millions of them if you search only for pages writen in esperanto), much more than Dvorak.

And you imply that esperanto is less expressive than some other language? What language would be that? And from where you got this impression/finding? Or you just afirm it like it was truth having never researched on the subject?

I'm sure that languages based on the roman alphabet are much less expressive than the chinese or japanese, because it is so simple, small and somewhat artificial, isn't? IS NOT!
All of which is a workaround for the fact that there is no explicit way to declare a c++ class to be abstract-only.

What happens if you do have shared logic to put in the abstract base class's destructor? It can't be pure virtual, and you're back to being able to instantiate your 'abstract' base class...
> Military spending secures the US role as world superpower. You take that away and businesses working abroad have a much harder time creating factories with exploitative labor pricing. Prices rise.

Sounds very outlandish to me. But then, by that understanding, say, Germany is probably just freeriding on American oppression.
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Interesting. Is there an API or download link? I am having trouble finding one if there is.
Your idea that you either have it or have it not is rubbish. You absolutely can't be a decent guitar player unless you have rhythm. Three years ago I had none whatsoever, now I have a little. :) Same thing with affinity for details.

So practice, practice, practice!
No, the shell is the integration. The shell provides plumbing, not the environment itself.