jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can we talk about their insanely bad UI for a moment? The UI to play through things NOT as shuffle is unreal. Just look how hidden it even is on their website [0]. Consider how hard it is to play an audiobook, or an album in order.

Further, I have never once wanted to shuffle-play (I just don't like it). But I constantly have to uncheck shuffle on my playlists.

I would conjecture that it is intentional at Spotify to balance out per-play payments. But I doubt Spotify will confirm/deny this.

[0]. https://support.spotify.com/us/article/play/ <- search for "To play in the order listed" . good luck.
Yeah, there is a trope that environmentalism is a(the) new religion, popular among climate skeptics/deniers.
In fact it turned out to be 10 minutes when I first did it and I am very glad that I did.
I believe this is the original syntax for describing a virtual DOM.
>Oh, and also I have 1 gigabit internet service to my house which is much faster than what I had at work ;-)

Same. I am fortunate t have gigabit in a very rural town as we are 2 blocks from US40 which apparently has some serious fiber runnning along side it, it's MUCH faster than the internet at work which is wonderful for work-related searches as we often have to research what something is throughout the day to figure out what it is and when you have a hundred something people crammed onto some crappy connection a simple Google query can sometimes take several seconds just to load when people are using their work computer for trying to stream something (a big no-no) bogging down the speeds for everyone.
True. Another difference is that in a stratup you get frequent and continuous feedback about your idea, and as long as you manage to adjust accordingly you have good chances to survive.

In academia, instead, there can be gaps of years between starting an experiment and seeing the first results, so "moving slowly" and "de-risking each step" is really the only way to achieve anything.
Over the past two seasons there have been 9 total fumbles by Patriot running backs - only 1 all this year. All of those backs are still employed by the Patriots. Over those two seasons, the majority of fumbles came from Brady and Edelman.

Of the backs that fumbled in 2012, only Woodhead is gone. He fumbled only once.

Two backs fumbled in 2011, once each. Woodhead (who is gone) and Ridley, who is still a Patriot.

Patriot backs simply don't fumble. Brady and Edelman do, and Welker did a bit. Your explanation isn't supported by the data.

Source. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/2014.htm

EDIT - I'm not sure my source differentiates fumbles from lost fumbles, although that doesn't seem to impact the conclusion regarding parent's comment.
If maternity and paternity leave is leave without pay (unless one elects or has to use available accrued paid time off) then it shouldn't matter. Except having to plan around a short term vacancy can be an undesirable problem for a manager or company No matter the position goes vacant for that period of time or if a temp worker is hired to fill it, you will have a loss in productivity.
The depressing truth I find in all of this is that often, seemingly irrelevant viewpoints seem to trump actual issues that are actually under the control of the individuals concerned.

Gay marriage is an extremely important issue. No doubt. But the CEO of Mozilla has hardly any influence upon that. He runs a software company. He may employ a few homosexuals, that's about it. His donations are relatively meagre and Firefox doesn't censor content its' viewers access.

Where's the backlash against negative practices perpetrated by a few that impact on huge swathes of the population? Companies conspiring with the USG (see PRISM), anti-consumer practices (Apple, Microsoft etc), companies that kill (tobacco, fast food, etc).

It seems like we're stuck in a place where social issues that affect minorities result in visceral, emotional responses, whereas the bigger stuff is 'just business', like we're just bored of it. That bugs me.

Perhaps it's just the attribution onto an individual.
Well, there's also a question of what you're getting for your money.

A ten-by-ten one-roomed shack with a stove in the middle, no running water, no bathroom and no foundation can be had for about a few thousand dollars, and if you put it on an undesirable quarter acre in the middle of nowhere the land will cost you another thousand.

A well-built small home, a few hundred square feet with a well, a septic tank, electricity and the appropriate four or five rooms will cost you thirty to fifty thousand dollars.

The problem isn't just economics or regulations or technology; it's also one of standards and social status. I'm willing to wager that far more people buy a big expensive house because either they want the extra features -- air conditioning, plumbing, and enough bedrooms and bathrooms to qualify as a small mansion -- or because they want to impress their friends, family and neighbors, than do because the market doesn't make small, cheap houses available.
It does, but not in the same platform-antagonistic way. Clojure instead embraces many different platforms and runs on them through various dialects; Kotlin wants to become a platform.
You are very misinformed.

Austin is not "new". It was at competition with Silicon Valley and used to be referred to as Silicon Hill. A lot of hardware manufacturing happened in Texas. At some point, between favorable business laws and Google starting large scale recruiting events it sucked a lot of the talent out of places like Texas.

So your statement is more accurately framed as, "Austin is finally recovering as a tech hub."

While businesses these days may move to SV because of the large population and other businesses, that was not the case in the beginning.
You can't possibly be serious. As things stand, even just redefining a struct field requires restarting the interpreter, which forces you to wait ~10-30 seconds for everything to compile, over and over again. Maybe you only use Julia for small scripts, and can afford to never restart the interpreter?
You can see this on nearly every season of "Hell's Kitchen", where they have a taste test challenge. Pairs from the two teams go head to head having to taste and identify things while blindfolded and with their hearing blocked.

Here's the one from season 12 [1] where of the 16 items they were asked to identify, one team got 6 right and one team got 4 right.

[1] https://youtu.be/b-YwHQh6RaM?t=398
Who is “you guys”? You don’t get to be the gatekeeper on biology and medicine. This is a very reasonable concern. The mouth is one of the dirtiest places on the body, which is why human bites are so dangerous. Bacteria transfers from hands which is why we promote washing hands. The logic follows this hypothesis.
I think this is too harsh. It's fair to acknowledge the reality that doing good things doesn't erase bad things. Even if he has changed, damage that he inflicted onto others lives on.

But, yes, I'd rather he fund these great companies than disappear.
> You could conceive of a GUI as merely a projection of internal state.

That mental model has been the most natural for me as well. It really clicked for me when reading Trygve Reenskaug's descriptions of MVC [1], particularly this paragraph (emphasis mine) and the illustration that follows:

> The essential purpose of MVC is to bridge the gap between the human user's mental model and the digital model that exists in the computer. The ideal MVC solution supports the user illusion of seeing and manipulating the domain information directly. The structure is useful if the user needs to see the same model element simultaneously in different contexts and/or from different viewpoints.

[1]: https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-in...
Burnt rotted seed mush, even! The yeast fermentation step is essentially a controlled spoilage. And the result remains delicious.
this is really important, you can actually buy a u-lock that has parts built to be flexible just for that reason. This thing would be naturally hard to saw through
Actually, Google does care deeply about paid link spam. A very relevant example is the exposure of JCPenney a few months ago when the NYTimes investigated how they were getting so much traffic from Google (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html). Subsequently, Google penalized their rankings.

@fleitz - I agree that it's not "illegal" but unethical, probably. I disagree regarding "why would Sequoia care?". If they are earning a significant amount of their revenue and growth by relying on Google, then once they get caught their growth will slow and if due diligence in this arena wasn't done, Sequoia may have invested with an inflated valuation. Of course, if I were a VC, during due diligence something like "Google drives 75% of our inbound traffic + revenue" would set off all types of alarms and require further digging.
> Microsoft spends a significant amount on basic research, like Bell labs used to and Microsoft research publishes a lot of publications.

I've always felt they spent so much on "research", in part, as a way to reduce their reported profits. Because Microsoft was notorious for mostly just copying what others did first (see Apple --- and yes I know about Xerox PARC), or acquiring/rebranding/integrating (Spyglass -> IE, etc.), and only a small percentage of so-called original/in-house stuff. When the original version of C# and .NET came out it was so hilariously obvious what they were ripping off at that time (cough-Java-cough), they didn't quite shave off all the boilerplate for those in the know. But They Capitalized Differently. Oooooh. ;)

On a related note, I once knew someone who officially worked in software R&D. And I noted they mostly spent a lot of time surfing the web and then parroting some sexy sounding thing they read about recently. Ironically (or not?) I think that's a not un-legitimate way, and certainly can be an effective way, to introduce new thinking inside a particular company, or introduce a new technology, like say as a pilot project. But to describe this process as requiring heavy spending (on software R&D mind you, not talking about hardware stuff) sounds ridiculous and an unnecessary money sink. Find a smart creative engineer. Take them off the leash. See where they go, what shiny nuggets they bring back. That's how you do practical software R&D, outside of academia. Doesn't require billions. Just brains, and it can be a side product of what your staff is already doing anyway -- if you have the right staff.
I think that’s too flat. There’s no easy place to put the width and suchlike. I think you’d want something like:

(path (M 10 10 H 90 V 90 H 10 L 10 10) :color red)

Though probably I would prefer something more nested if possible, so you have a list of instructions rather than needing to parse them out of a flattened list. And I would likely use an alist rather than a plist for attributes like colour or stroke width.
Thanks Aaron. Your office hours with us were some of the most valuable parts of our YC experience. Happy trails & look forward to seeing what you do next.
So if I write a piece of software that eventually makes it to Debian and Ubuntu, am I entitled to your name, address, phone number, email, and a data feed showing every time you start or stop your Ubuntu instances on Azure? After all, I am a third party software provider at that point. And look, Azure doesn’t even have to tell you they are sending me all that stuff. It’s in the TOS you didn’t read!
Even superior:

path 10 10 M 90 H 90 V 10 H 10 10 L #000 stroke
You seem to know what you're talking about. Any recommendations on learning resources for this type of flow? Or really understanding which platform works for in each situation?

I'm learning proper data flow in real time as I look to transition ETL of product data into Postgres to a more applicable system.

Finding the right learning resources is difficult! Cheers.
> I don't think many people ever doubted that giving everyone an extra $12k per year or whatever made out of thin air would help some people, but in real life, the money has to come from somewhere.

No, in real life money (especially in a country whose debt is denominated in currency it controls) is, almost literally, just made out of thin air. There are consequences of having more money around, and sometimes it is useful to destroy some money in a different distribution to offset some of the effects of creating money that was created and distributed a particular way, but that's a different issue. (This is the relatively uncontroversial part of Modern Monetary Theory; the controversial part is the follow-up “...and, therefore, we she engage in deficit spending a lot more freely than we do now.”

The myth of the fisc (a metaphor held over from commodity money times when it was a decent repres5 of reality) is that money has to come from somewhere.

> Plenty of people don't want to pay the increase in taxes that would be necessary to help the homeless publicly like that.

The idea that taxes are necessary to pay for spending is the myth of the fisc. It's true only to the extent that the government decides it should be true. (Which, as much as people in government talk about it when opposing spending they don't like or promoting tax increases they do like, isn't all that much, hence the absence of anything approximating long-term fiscal balance.)

> Whereas if you take that same increase in funding proposed and instead, say, expand housing programs, fund food banks, or provide mental health treatment, you know all that money is going to help people.

No, you don't; waste, fraud, and abuse in selectively targeted government programs is a very, very real thing, and a lot of the money that doesn't go into waste, fraud, and abuse goes into control measures to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse, instead of to the actual program purpose.

Source: more than 20 years in public sector work, the part of it that wasn't in IT specifically in fiscal management aimed at accounting for proper use of funds.
Huh, I'm actually surprised it's not OTC in Australia. Any idea why it's not widely available?

I haven't tried CBD oil at all (save one time I accidentally got a canned coffee with cbd added to it). I have one friend who reports positive effects but doesn't use it consistently.
Kotlin is one of the very few languages to have a compiler plugin API, this allows Facebook researchers to make it auto-differentiable on demand
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25128251
It's funny, this is like a how many engineers does it take joke.

The whole point in finding a room temperature super conductor is that it's difficult to maintain those low temperatures in practice. So if we want to put super conductors in practice, we need to figure out how to do it a different, more practical way. 40x the pressure needed to make diamonds doesn't seem practical. Maybe there is some material property magic like thermal quenching or tempering that could allow for a final product that has those kind of internal pressures in a steady state object.

You see this everywhere in the engineering world. I'm not saying this particular work will not lead somewhere, just that it is an example of a broader challenge I've seen in engineering, bridging the gap between practical every day use and research.
Delivering. Fantastic community and contributions. Love them.
I tend to agree with you. What about the student who is trying to concentrate but who has a bunch of distracted colleagues playing games or checking social media?
This is an interesting case where the linkbait title in the HN submission ("Gmail crushes UX") is less effective than the true title. (although the true title is still linkbaity)
This lacks nuance. You ignore the effect they have on the ecosystem as a whole. Mentioning the "Go community" and their "agreement" of Google's decisions without acknowledging this is disingenuous at best. They have already swayed and gatekept large swaths of the (web)development "community" by their decade-long dominance and no one can make an impactful, meaningful decision in that field without their implicit approval. Their dominance is felt best by the way they control the conversation i.e. what we don't talk about - i.e. the web among other things they touch sucks, continues to suck and it is going to get worse and less free and they are significant negative contributers. So yeah, I'd rather see them cut into pieces.
A wallet, in bitcoin terminology, is a keychain. It's a collection of private keys, each corresponding to a bitcoin address.
Depending on your industry, IE is still a major player.

But people should be more worried about how it looks on a mobile device, at least 50% of our clients traffic are from mobile devices now a days...
Using Mint 17 with Chrome and it's working great.
C++, especially when using features provided by the newest standards (C++11 and C++14), cannot be likened to C in terms of security problems. In theory, yes, it's backward compatible with C so any security issues present in C can be reconstructed in C++, but using managed pointers, standard containers, RTTI and other features can considerably reduce the attack surface... but I'd argue that not a great amount of applications could benefit from being written in C++ vs. some safer language.
You keep using that word "classical." If by "classical" you mean frequentist, then sequential testing is the appropriate frequentist method to have been using all along. If by "classical," you mean "old and established," then sequential testing is still the appropriate method to have been using all along.
That's why I like to present counter-arguments with questions for the assumptions I'm not sure about. If someone can show you you're wrong, with evidence, they probably exist on HN and will do so. To be clear, that's a very good thing. :)
edit: decided to delete all that tl;dr stuff

My point is this: Hackers are still great hackers, if they call themself differently. And then they would spend considerably more time solving "hard" problems "playful" instead of discussing about words who actually don't matter at all.

Mass media calls people whatever makes the most money for them. They are happy with that. And they have won the masses in this case. So hey, let's go on to the next fight.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or a new company to build a better browser than Safari. Apple is using an open technology implemented by several competing organizations.
The mechanism by which masks would reduce transmission has been repeatedly studied in a laboratory environment, so in the absence of a properly designed randomized control trial, the prior should be that it works. Instead, in this thread, you have cherry picked tortured data and used flawed methodologies to say that they don't work. Saying that there are similar poor studies on the other side does not update my prior.
I don't recall any governor who ran on a platform of, "here are all the possible scenarios that could impact anyone in my state and how I would approach them."

You vote for a governor because you believe they will make a decision you generally agree with when presented with facts. Your vote says that for the next little while you think this person would represent your interests, no matter what happens. Some governors have mild terms, others have catastrophes they have to navigate.
Inflation affects both in the same way and by the same amount. Ditto taxes, mostly. It's probably best and simplest to compare nominal returns.
Really? It’s so much cheaper to maintain digital documents than paper copies.
That and the ads really add insult to injury.
GitHub's is also not clean: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=github.c...
I completely agree that low interest rates are to blame for these high valuations, but your numbers example seems off. By that logic, shouldn't company valuations shoot to infinity if interest rates reach 0% (which they effectively have).
Probably something like http://shop.gopro.com/EMEA/mounts/3-way/AFAEM-001.html which obviously won't be used in the real game.
That is pretty sweet and completely mesmerizing!

But, the thought of soldering all of those junctions together; what is the process for testing something like this as you build it? What if you make a mistake and don't catch it in time? Like you hook up a diode backwards...

Serious craftsmanship.
I was trying to get something from Nim to build like this, but I probably need to understand linking a bit better.
Thanks for your feedback.

I agree that there are both sides to the argument.

> you could include in the processed email both the original link (tracked) and the destination. Then, you as a reader can decide if you want to be tracked (and give feedback to the publisher) or not.

That's what I initially tried to do, but it was too hard to make it work when the link was an image (or a social media icon) instead of text. I could give it another try but it will have to be another time.
It is surprisingly easy to find, as that stuff is pretty thoroughly covered in academic/industry journals. The only hinderance to access is a credit card number for the paywall.
I think the parent was implying that steam groups could have improved to the point where Discord would not be necessary.
This is a great example for why I think these sorts of data sharing agreements need to just be made completely illegal. Somebody will come around and say "well, if you don't like it, nobody is forcing you, you can just go somewhere else". And that might work for something like a blogging platform where there is so much competition and very few barriers to entry. But for a huge number of things, there are no alternatives, or the only alternatives are also operating in the same way.
Indeed, hooking the timer (or keyboard) interrupt was also the way to do "multitasking" (TSRs) in x86 real mode under MS-DOS.

The much-maligned x86 segment registers do come in handy here: they provide hardware-accelerated position independent memory addressing! Most DOS utility programs were small enough to fit in a single 64K segment, and provided they never touched the segment registers, these programs were trivially relocatable to any memory address.
Valve only recently implemented a semi Discord-clone(with way better quality voice chat, give it a try some time if you haven't yet).

Their chat system has been famously bad and mostly unchanged since the early 2010's, and only very recently was reworked into this.
Because the “gamer” customers will still be there after Bitcoin crashes and it makes sense to not piss your long term customers off to please the short term ones.

At least that’s the argument. We’ll see how it plays out.
Intel NUCs are pretty good if you want something a bit more powerful than a Pi. Very small form factor and low power usage. Low-end ones start at about $180[1]. There are also kits for a bit less if you want to supply the SSD and RAM.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits...
Same would apply for a VPN company or a company selling a proxy (like the person i replied asked for) if you paid with credit card/paypal, governments can and do hit these with requests

If are worried about privacy you should be using bitcoin (and know how to use this anonymously, which i am not going to go into), You could then buy a vps with bitcoin quite anonymously with likes of chunkhost.com or bithost.io (reselling digitalocean for btc)
I second Poor Economics, great book. It's fascinating how the book shows that entrepreneurship is actually MORE prevalent in poor societies than in rich ones.