jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385722702/
It's obviously not universal, but I doubt that the stereotype of glasses-wearing nerd is pure coincidence either.
Besides the Christmas timing, Yahoo quite recently upgraded the Delicious servers. Apart from whatever capital expense was involved, the occupation of the Delicious team in implementing the migration might have left them with the impression that they had a future. It's impossible to know in a corporation who knows what and who's blowing smoke for the company. Still, the tenor of pre-layoff comments from the team in their unusually candid support forum suggests that at least some of them were totally blindsided.
Cheapest, sure. But the alternatives are better devices. Their main competitor (sleeptracker) looks much more professional.
Pandora radio on "Mr Scruff", lots of chill nu-jazz and such. Not much vocals, aside from samples here and there. Love it, stream it all day.
I dare you to take a thick PE panel/plate, paint the surface with regular non-flammable interior paint (enough so you can't see through), and then light it with a match or a cigarette. Preferably in a vertical position through the painted side.

If unconvinced, try the same with a piece of old sofa, fake leather or vinyl flooring (with or without paint).
That is short-term thinking. What happens if this is left to slide. Someone hears about it and then you have more open vials that needed to be used late at night - “my family was the only ones awake so I gave it to them”. Bribes could be paid too.

It only seems like one dose here but that’s how corruption always begins and then one day you become Russia.

It underlines a large ideological difference in politics that exists...let’s help people in front of us here and now...vs let’s do things that will maximize benefits on the long run and reduce risk of negative consequences.

A wasted vial here and there is nothing compares to thousands wasted via corruption.
They allow scam ads too.
Like money generator android app,
Binary option.
These ads want to steal peoples money/time!
Holycrap

These bad guys feed the company.
Thats how they get big profit by doing unethical and weird things.
Onsite and local only to Austin, TX, unfortunately
Agreed, violins are green not red (not a joke, I 'm synaesthetic)
Not to mention Linux itself being developed remotely
No personal attacks & no flamebait.
String should be an interface/protocol. When I log a message, I want to pass a string. If I have to append large strings for a log message I don't want to run out of memory, I should be able to pass a rope/cord [1]. We've known how to abstract this for forever and should work to optimize our compilers/runtimes accordingly. I'm not aware of a language which has got this right, for example, Java has the ugly CharSequence interface that nobody uses. StringProtocol in Swift (can I implement it?) makes you pay a character tax rather than to just pass a string. Rust/C++ give various non-abstracted types.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
If this is what globalisation means, sure. It is more like the marketing message of it.
The current POTUS asked them to do this (both during today's rally and previously); it's literally an attempt at a coup.
ha, really? conflict of interest much?
I've used Firefox since the first available versions. Technically, it doesn't matter to me.

What does matter (as you've mentioned) is that Firefox is created by a company whose purpose is to make web browsers. Chrome on the other hand is created by a company whose purpose is making money from advertising. They do that better by datamining...
Moreover, by conflating the two, we delegitimize relationships that do involve respectful power differences, and destroy the mutual benefits that they can create. I also agree that the destruction of trust is central to this process.
Someone else pointed out that some of his earlier articles (written in the same style) got >1000 points on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358902
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653

Do you also think these were bad / annoying to read?

(The reason I ask is because I started a newsletter at the beginning of the year and have been trying to emulate his style. But if people genuinely hate it, then I obviously don’t want to follow it. :))
So true. The Fed is essentially a dam built to stop the existing machinations of capitalism from flowing as they were intended. The longer it remains in place, the harder it will be to prevent these forces from occurring until eventually (like now) the economy no longer resembles a capitalist system.
He definitely should have blurred out the name of the salesperson in the original image.
> W3C is defining SVG Native [1], which is a subset of the full SVG spec.

Cool, that's only the third time they do that (after Tiny and Basic).
I'd think so given the number of Government Contracts. Looks like this includes things like Colt Canada which is the provider of small arms to the armed forces. C7, C8 etc.
Hmm, are you sure that is legal?
The dream and goal of every tyrant and despot ever is to reduce the martial capacity of their "subjects".
I wouldn't be surprised if there is no Mac in a few years. Recall that one of Jobs's less-noticed, er, innovations was removing the word "Computer" from the company's name.

Yes, you need a Mac to write iOS apps. No, that is not some kind of immutable law of nature, as any game console developer who works in Windows or Linux can attest.

On a long-enough timeline, being in the "computer" business may turn out to be more trouble than it's worth to Apple.
C# is from 2000. Go is from 2009. Give it time.

Besides, there is an iOS port of Go here: https://bitbucket.org/minux/goios/wiki/Home
My laptop once tested positive for TNT residue at ORD. They asked if I had any idea why it did, I said no, and they let me go after testing my shirt.
The audio just announced they have time today for another attempt. Yay.
And the downloading app only works on Windows and Mac (not Linux).
The "conventional thinking" already produced numerous successful titanic movies, so I'm not sure what you're getting at. They were successful without Cameron's various flourishes, but that's aside the point anyway.

EVERYONE knows how it's going to end,

Just as with every movie based on any war, any book, any real-life story, any standard hero/villain setup, etc. In ancient Greek drama, almost every play was based on well-known stories. So, the audience knowing "how it's going to end" has been conventional for several thousand years, at least.

one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history,

Replace "disaster" with the word "tragedy" and I think you can see how the titanic, again, fits in perfectly with conventional, time-tested, subject matter for dramatization. Maybe I'm missing your point, but many, many, many movies are based on bad things happening to people. The worse, the better, in fact.

Cameron's warping it into a chick flick has nothing to do with Adam's assertion. It's not a question of 1000 million vs. 100 million in revenues.
Would have also been nice to have an actual javascript repl.

Chrome has it built in and Firefox has Firebug.

Was a bit shaky on tree traversal, but I think that's correct.

It's much simpler with recursion. Your contains method is "correct" but doesn't work in this case because objects with the same keys and values still aren't necessarily equal.
Interesting point. When I think about it, my life on the web is probably also whiter than it was before the web.
splain to me why chose Midori vs Google Chrome for linux? Honestly Firefox's startup time is what sets me off and hard to get Flash working (comes out-of-box for chrome) but other than that I see no need for a 3rd browser.
What are your criteria for analytics?

If you require third-party reporting for vetting your traffic numbers to potential advertisers, there are services such as Quantcast.com.

The big fish in the game is Omniture.com, recently acquired by Adobe. It's worth looking at their documentation because they have become (arguably) the de facto standard in many areas of web analytics, particularly marketing analytics for websites. Knowing their jargon and how they bucket data can be useful in those conversations.

Many people want free as in zero out-of-pocket expense and freedom to customize. More on that below...

The trade-off with completely free techniques is that you lose any demographic or psychographic profiling that a larger service provider might offer. If this subject matters to you, BlueKai.com would be a good starting point, but be prepared to talk about marketing "funnels". (Not sure if they accommodate beyond US, though.)

For leveraging this class of data, real-time ad networks such as Adchemy.com use these technique to drive traffic. They'll likely be expanding beyond US soon. [full disclosure: my current employer is a partner of theirs]

Back to free:

If you simply want to know basic facts about traffic landing on your pages and considering the HN crowd, you could likely get by with a little JavaScript code that generates a URL with query-strings identifying those facts. Then use JS to insert an image into the page, fetching a 1x1 transparent pixel from your own server, thereby logging the facts. Various tools for analyzing HTTP logs are available for bucketing, graphing, etc.

The Nginx HTTP server has native support for serving transparent pixels and has a very light load (e.g., an Intel Atom CPU on your DSL line is more than adequate; under US$200 complete). Since it's all under your control, this approach can still work with dynamic IP addressing of the pixel server.

Some relevant JS fields and function calls include: navigator.cookieEnabled, screen.height, screen.width, screen.colorDepth, navigator.plugins['Shockwave Flash'], window.ActiveXObject() with "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash" [but search for caveats regarding known bugs with Flash 6.0.21, .23, .29].

Add your own session ID to the query-string, and you have unique visitor journey tracking as well. Usual caveats apply due to visitors who clear cookies, etc.

Again, considering the HN crowd, this minimal treatment should be sufficient.
Don't despair SpaceX fans, it took 4 tries to get Falcon 1 into orbit.

Warning, going to plug my blog

I wrote something about it back when it happened:

http://michaelgr.com/2008/09/30/spacex-falcon-1-rocket-reach...
How many sales do you lose because you can't sell it for $0.99 with a single tap, though? And you've gotta take on your own credit card processing handling. (Or you could do ads, though still it'd be easier on the App Store where iAds are practically a drag-and-drop component with no extra signup/relationship to handle.)

None of these are insurmountable, of course, and a web app certainly has advantages and is appropriate for lots of things. But for lots of apps, that 30% cut to the App Store sounds totally worth it.
Yes, but we're comparing executives, not companies. Jobs returned to Apple in 1996. Ballmer became CEO of Microsoft in 2000. It's relevant to compare the stock performance under their tenure.
DC resident. They came here with bombs, knives, guns, pepper spray, zip ties, set up a gallows on the lawn that's usually covered with families and little kids. They attacked police officers—one died.

DC is more than capable of handling rowdy protests, we have first amendment activity every day. Capitol Police chose not to be prepared and declined backup from the other police agencies for over an hour after they were overrun.

This was not a joke.
> anyone with the chops to make $200k/yr from Facebook could start their own SaaS and make $400k/yr without too much effort.

Or, I mean, they could start their own SaaS that for any one of a thousand reasons ends up making them $0k/yr.
Clinton successfully faced Outsourcing with Insourcing.
Obama is trying to counter Outsourcing with Protectionism.
Lots of software authors have made a fortune, Paul Graham & viaweb is an excellent but hardly unique example.
And, for all that money, they can't seem to keep any of the features working.
I don't necessarily agree with your observation. The issue here is that companies like Facebook hire a ton of entry-level (E3) engineers each year that come from their intern pool. Although many of them get promoted, not everyone can pass the bar. The need for more senior engineers is persistent in the company. Another thing to mention is that typically there is no headcount for E3 engineers at Facebook (besides returning interns) for external hires.
> You have: 1|6 cup

Is that a pipe for division?
I think my solution is fare and has only little pain. I think that the public would support it:

http://t.co/2Gkg0xP

Maybe there should be some sort of public voting on issues such as this to see what the majority thinks should be cut.
Everybody but Netflix has a good Netflix browser
>Did it fail because it didn’t replace the F16? What if it makes the F16 viable again? Did it still fail?

Yes, because lots and lots of F-16s have been replaced with something that isn't what it was bought as. So unless you count it as a win that allies now have worse capabilities than they should have had and paid for because it might make them also buy F-16 parts, I would say it is a huge fail.
What's worse is that when they ban you they refuse to talk to you. No explanation, no justification, no appeal. Just an automated reply to look at their ToS and you can never hold a coinbase account again.
I don't think there's much point trying to agree on every case, only on the principles, since different people will always call different cases differently. From my perspective, the comment wasn't innocuous. It clearly steps away from the specifics of the OP's story into generic ideological themes. Asking HN commenters not to do that is standard HN moderation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). It did that repeatedly (though subtly, because it superficially takes the form of a friendly congratulation) in a way that was bound to land as flamebait in the thread. When a friendly congratulation comes with a political agenda, the political agenda will forever be the high-order bit.

"You will still face difficulties because of your gender and ethnicity" seems particularly subject-changing, and also patronizing, since it replaces the author's specific story of her own experience with a generic story based on different filters. We can't know and shouldn't presume to tell her what her future experiences will be.

I feel bad spelling this out because it makes the GP comment sound worse than it was—it doesn't deserve an exhaustive critique. But when people question what I posted, I feel obliged to share my thought process. Which requires figuring out what it was, since a lot of it by now is instinctive pattern-matching.
The solution is obvious, make the city walkable and ban cars. The carjacking rate would plummet.
> Modula-2 isn't that much big influence on OCaml,

It is ... check out https://dev.to/yawaramin/ocaml-interface-files-hero-or-menac... ... it quotes the OCaml creator (Xavier Leroy) directly on this.
How old is the hack? I used it years ago for half a bitcoin which I hope I still own.

Edit: If I remember right, I used it in 2016 and I opened a private window, disconnected the Wifi, created the wallet, closed the window and reconnected. Meanwhile I think I watched the devtools too. I still wonder if some data got queued in some web workers and was sent via websockets even after closing the private chrome tab. Back then browsers have been less privacy focused.
You cannot force an MP to vote in any particular way. You can only retaliate afterward.
Watching TV at home "wastes energy." Going out to dinner "wastes energy." Doing anything except working on a cure for cancer "wastes energy." In fact, even people working on a cure for cancer or a covid vaccine will only see the fruits of their righteous labor used to enable millions to....waste energy.

This is literally the worst argument against crypto.
+1 for letting the browser do what it's good at. So many people try to re-invent the browser in HTML/the DOM and end up doing it poorly.
your answers and the fact that no one is defending polygraphs indicates to me that i'm not far off the mark. In which case, why on earth is the FBI messing around with it? My conclusion, corroborated by this story is that they are not so professional as they would like you to think. This is compensated, probably with interest, by being very heavy handed. But surely that is no way to run a large agency.
That assumes that the primary purpose of higher education is education, instead of maintaining social stratification under the auspices of meritocracy.
Of course, it's totally centralized. The 'cryptocurrency' marketing just exists as a regulatory dodge.

So far this scheme has worked out fine for the original creators of Ripple-- who've extracted hundreds of million selling their massive premine to an ignorant public, then abandoned the original and did it again. What we're seeing from signal now is just a third generation of the same scheme, preempting the ripple founders from doing it again (or maybe they're involved behind the scenes, who knows?).

So long as there seems to be no consequence except a massive windfall (SEC fines against ICO/premines have tended to be a fraction of 1% of the funds raised), it's unsurprising to see them continue.

The fact that it may kill one of the more useful secure messaging apps as a side effect? Welp. This is why we can't have nice things: Collectively, we're better at funding borderline scams than public goods.
Hi, I work in the tracking space, specifically first party trackers. This approach is not effective.

Here are the reasons: 1) rarely care what client the user views the email in; 2) any request to the server is enough information to identify the user, email, and open/received; 3) a tracking pixel is an antiquated form of tracking; 4) the list provided doesn’t include some big names (FB for one).

The only effective way to stop the tracking, that I’m aware of, is is to cache the result of the request. Even that doesn’t stop newer techniques. Instead what you need to do is to cache the request and then apply a model to determine if a similar request leads to a similar result for other users and serve that from the cache. To the best of my knowledge no one has built that yet, and could probably be circumvented.
How do they prove they sent it to you?
The title of the article is a bit misleading, as it implies that Norway (the state) tried to make this gesture.

According to the article, a Norwegian person tried to persuade the Norwegian government to “gift a mountain” peak to Finland via a border change, but the idea was ultimately rejected by the Norwegian Prime Minister.
This post should be more prominent in this thread. People are claiming hyperbole here but what happened was literally sexual assault. I think the case could also be made for young since they are not able to legally consent to the activity.
This is a pretty sick response and all too common.

If you did not consent to be being touched in a certain way by another human being, no matter the circumstance, they have no right to do so. That is an assault on your person.

She was not informed that this person was going to do the things they did to her. She was molested in public by a figure in a position of (supposed) authority. I cannot imagine what she must felt. However, I cannot deny that she was a victim!

I think it's disgusting that you would dismiss this as "not a real crime" for reasons I cannot even begin to understand. Your logic is incredibly weak. There was a crime here and just because it wasn't violent doesn't make it any less criminal.

After reading about several of these cases, I know for a fact that I will not fly in the United States ever. Neither will my wife or anyone in my family. And if I can help it, neither will anyone I know. "Enhanced pat-down," is a shockingly sick euphemism for "molestation policy." Let's call it what it is and demand that this be stopped before the idea catches on in other, still free, countries.
It's even more impressive when you know Amazon started AWS to take advantage of excess capacity they had during the off-season when they weren't dealing with the crush of holiday orders.
Like others have already mentioned it does (at first glance) seem have a passing resemblance to Io (http://iolanguage.com).

Here is the Greeter example in Io:

Greeter := Object clone

Greeter new := method (n,
Greeter clone do (name ::= nil) setName(n)
)

Greeter sayHi := method (
(name .. ": Hi!") println
)

Greeter new("Alex") sayHi

Very close. However even though I've tried to make it look identical you can see the differences poking through. And reading through the Atomo docs there are (naturally) other divergences.

I would say that Atomo is probably more closer to Ioke (http://Ioke.org) than Io. The philosophy behind Io is to keep it small & simple. Whereas Ioke is Io + extra syntax, literals, etc baked in.

Worth keeping an eye on Atomo... as is Io & Ioke. For reference here are the other examples in Io:

File with("out-file") open do (
write("hello, world!\n")
)

fib := method (n,
if (n == 0, return 1)
if (n == 1, return 1)
fib(n - 2) + fib(n - 1)
)

list(1, 2, 3) sum
Range 0 to(5) map(* 2)
So upgrade already!
Call me a cynic, but I think it wouldn't be long until those trees were chopped down by someone wanting to extract the gold to sell it (a bit like how people steal cable from construction sites, or even old church roofs for the metal value).

The thought made me a bit sad since the idea of magical glowing trees lining our streets was so beatiful. Hm. I guess that at least means I'm not as cynic as I thought, which is good, I guess. :)
Novels are written to enable immersion and focus on the actors (protagonist); academic articles are written to be clear and neutral and focus on the subject matter.

Hence "I realized I loved her" and "the solution was lightly stirred for 10 minutes".
You could try Crunchbang Linux. It's rather neat.
I love the random quote from "Withnail & I" in this - "A certain 'je ne sais quoi' oh so very special", spoken by the late, great Richard Griffiths.
Well, let's talk about the reality now. By definition, most people are mediocre, not very smart, not very healthy, not very pretty, etc. Most! That's whom Slack targets - most.
This is cool!

Have you guys built any? Can we some real photos? I think all the stuff on your site is renders.
I think out of all the new keyboards, I like this one the most: https://www.roli.com/seaboard/
As a side note, I think the current US anti-discrimination laws are probably flawed, not because discrimination is not bad but because of problems with enforcement. I am thinking of imposing anti-discrimination conditions on specific companies instead.
To echo the others, I'm not sure why this has been so heavily downvoted.
This feels so ripped. The soundtrack alone feels like someone just chopped up pieces of Mario 64's theme and randomly pasted them together.

And maybe changed the pitch.
There are a few people with intense biases on any controversial topic, and they often vote first. Over the years I've gotten used to seeing a sudden negative dip followed by a slower positive trend when I make comments on some contentious issues. I agree the gp is well worth people's time.
An inadequately-tested update is going to carry some risk of causing its own harm. If this Flash update is indeed not-ready-for-prime-time (heck, they may even know of specific issues) then it becomes irresponsible to push it out to all users. You've essentially traded a known problem for an unknown problem, as well as complicated the process by which the original problem is resolved.
Rule out anywhere not tropical AND humid. Belo Horizonte's climate is somewhat like Phillipines, parts of India, etc.
You're correct. It's an "infinite" plane, depending on what integer overflows first. It would be easy to make a torus or sphere version.