jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
(co-founder here)

Yeah, we could do SO much with that presentation. It was put together very fast because people didn't understand what we do. And you know what? They still don't :) We're working on it as we speak, and sometime next week we're presenting a completely different front page.

As a test to what we do, try sharing 30 random audio and video files. Then immediately open the Ge.tt link in another browser (or another computer). You can choose any file you want and start streaming or downloading the file. It does not need to be uploaded first. Also, does not need flash or java.
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> NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack

> from https://www.wsj.com to https://stags.bluekai.com.

> Suspicious data:

(URL) https://stags.bluekai.com/site/4454?ret=html&phint=serverDomain=www.wsj.com&phint=primaryProduct=Online Journal&phint=pageName=WSJ_Multimedia_Collection_Appl Still Hasnâ€™t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm&phint=section=WSJ_Collection&phint=contentChannel=WSJ_Collection&phint=articleType=WSJ_Multimedia_Graphics&phint=contentType=Multimedia&phint=isSub=WSJ_free&phint=edition=North_America_USA&phint=__bk_t=Appl Still Hasnâ€™t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm&phint=__bk_k=Apple keyboard,Apple butterfly keyboard,MacBook keyboard,MacBook Air keyboard,MacBook Pro,MacBook Air,AppleCare,Apple keyboard problem,Joanna Stern&phint=__bk_pr=https://news.ycombinator.com/&phint=__bk_l=https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-macbook-keyboard-problem/&limit=10&bknms=ver=2.0,ua=0dd7c7d553f2517fa22a86fdfb24611b,t=1553703693224,m=4b4e4ecaab1f1c93ab1f1c93ab1f1c93,k=1,lang=07ef608d8a7e9677f0b83775f0b83775,sr=1920x971x24,tzo=420,hss=false,hls=false,idb=true,addb=undefined,odb=undefined,cpu=4b4e4ecaab1f1c93ab1f1c93ab1f1c93,platform=1c17637dbf2f8edebf2f8edebf2f8ede,notrack=,plugins=4b4e4ecaab1f1c93ab1f1c93ab1f1c93,cn=38593d014c984362435c7473ff6387ce&r=16711535
yes thanks for the feedback but is not the purpose of the project. The idea is that the user will add the feeds to be imported. I will release this feature shortly
>You get stories about reddit users in the stock market that somehow try to paint them as the alt-right while completely sidestepping any discussion of wealth inequality. Love it!

Or similarly, you get screeds accusing random bloggers of spreading "alt-right" views that completely gloss over the role of, say, Robin Hanson at George Mason University in spreading the notion that it's actually a humanitarian act to outsource manufacturing to Bangladesh.
I always check the topics on Bellard here on HN, really insightful.

Let's don't forget the obligatory:
"Can he invert a binary tree on a whiteboard though?"
Brain Pickings is a good place to start for techies who need a poetic counterpart to HN.
There's so much ego involved. "I'm a misunderstood genius" is enough of a trope that it translates to "I'm above average intelligence, stubborn and can't relate to people" in my experience.

>In 2018, Crawford announced that he had halted his work on interactive storytelling, concluding that it will take centuries for civilization to embrace the required concepts.[1]

"No, it's the children who are wrong."

Being married has taught me that in life you can be right all the time, or you can compromise and be happy. I can appreciate the people who are unbreaking in their resolve to make the world a better place, but his particular philosophical hill is not one I'd choose to die on.
It is essentially the same as arguing that after huffing paint for 30 years, one is qualified to huff more paint.
Airports in the US are usually not secure, but the passenger terminals usually are. It makes sense to secure the passenger terminals instead of the individual planes to reduce the amount of equipment and staff needed. LAX for example has 150 gates across 8 terminals. Securing each plane would mean placing TSA agents, metal detectors, scanners, and X-Rays at 150 gates instead of just 8 terminals.

Come to think of it, US airport security is pretty weak compared to an airport like Manila NAIA (in the international terminal). Passengers get checked curbside for passports and tickets, and again at the door. Then they must pass through metal detectors and bag scanners to get into the ticketing area to get boarding passes. Boarding passes and ID are checked again at immigration. Then there is another bag scan and metal detector to get into the passenger terminal. The last check is the most thorough. To get to the individual gate, there is a checkpoint with one station where all carry-ons are opened and inspected, one station where passengers remove their shoes for inspection, and a final station for a pat-down by security. This last security check must be repeated every time you go to the bathroom or visit the shops or restaurants.
As much as I love Opensource, projects need to see the writing on the wall. Companies WILL profit off of your "free" project, you have two options.

1) Accept it and live with it
or
2) Change your licensing. Eg, if used to beyond personal use x y fee will be incurred for usage of the software. Free for personal, small business & non-profit but everyone else you better pay up.
> Since when did 100 lines of web application code become innovation?

When it makes executing and polishing the products easier.

> I am not sure if there can be a scale for innovation but a 100 line web 2.0 application is no match for the integrated circuit.

So, |EE| > |CS|?

100 lines of well written code in a functional programming language can do marvelously things. Just look at: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html and then tell me how connecting AND and OR gates compare intellectually?

> Where is the innovation that focuses on the hard problems?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585850

> code is just code

Or education material so those that come after us skip 10% of our problems.

> Pasting code on blogs and sites is just show-off

Or marketing

> What seems to be also missing is the appreciation for incremental and painstaking detail oriented innovation.

In aggregate, you get to see the results of people's pain staking details in whatever form they market it as. A post may represent a good night of hacking or a year of research to produce one moment of clarity.
In Australia, the major banks already do, such as Westpac, nab and ANZ.

I'm guessing the potential to provide a public focus point for negative sentiment towards the banks could scare quite a few away from it perhaps?
I'm pretty sure that is the idea behind the clear pass http://www.clearme.com/
What has it come to when we have to pay more, just to be treated as humans?
haha, yea RVM is an amazing tool. I'm working on creating a tutorial for setting up your local machine to have it ready to start working on RoR. I just need to do a little more research about the best ways to do it for Windows since that is an OS I'm not to familiar with.
They have quite the suite that you can host on GCE. If I can eek out the time to deploy it, this looks like a winner, thanks.
My biggest gripe with form elements is when sites (and browsers) expect the default to be black text on a white background, and change the foreground text to a near-black color. This wreaks havoc on systems with a dark colorscheme, where system input boxes have white text on a black background. This is the sole reason why I no longer use light-on-dark colorschemes, which I find much more pleasing, on my desktop (and laptop).
Yep.It's a long complicated boring story but I lived in a car from the ages 2-4 (kidnapped by my dad). During that time (we had no money and were on the run from the RCMP) we ate only fish. Once I was 'rescued' by the RCMP I was returned home but lived there only briefly then left home young and lived on the road/cars/in Colombia and various deserts because in South America and in deserts I have no allergies. This is a way of saying the food doesn't matter ( I was raw food vegan for 3 years; vegetarian for 20 and eating very very simple foods as I am happy that way as any)
And are touchscreen and can run software on it.
This does pretty heartily violate Kant's categorical imperative.
We started building with that approach. We're looking for people to tell us what's cool and what's not!

We at GeoG are building a safe, easy and sustainable platform for IoT. We can totally do everything if we put time and effort into it - which we are ready for!
What we want you to do, is start hacking and building things with us. No strings attached!

We recently set up a Community page http://community.geog.co where we want to start listening to you, your needs and suggestions.

Did we mention we have an API? We'd like you to start beaming data and create cool things with us. http://api.geog.co

Also, if you have reasons to hate us, bring it out! We're listening.
It's the same thing in France, but that's why the OP repo is great: you can see the actual change as a usual diff (https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/0d5337622...).

I'm not sure how they do it, but I guess that it wouldn't be extremely hard to have a small grammar to automatically convert the legalese patch into an actual git patch (most of the time, the sentences which wrap the editions are the sames).
This guys sell components that enable battery free operation(according to their claims) using rf energy:

http://www.powercastco.com/

BTW, rf energy is generally among the lowest energy harvesting sources, and in many cases environmental light, vibration(for example on a machine) ,and heat are much stronger energy harvesting sources, and most likely available at low cost.
In contrast, the list of Wales-only laws is (or used to be) maintained by one French woman at a Welsh university:

"But any queries may well be referred to Marie Navarro, the editor and chief researcher of Wales Legislation Online.

Like everyone in Wales, the judges use this website when they need to find out whether the law in Wales on a particular topic is different from English law.

The database is not run by the judiciary, by the Welsh Assembly Government or by one of the commercial publishers that pride themselves on keeping their subscribers up to date with English law.

It was set up in 1999 by Cardiff University Law School, and is run by Miss Navarro, a French lawyer who came to Wales on a European scholarship 13 years ago and decided to stay."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12674539
Exactly, that's where these vast NSA's datacenters could make sense and actually do something useful.
I have many times found things more expensive on Amazon than other sources. Most of that I put down to shipping being factored into their prices, vs added in at the end for online retailers or just being aggregated across the whole inventory of physical retailers. But a big factor is time to me is time. I can get this thing for $2 cheaper at the store, but then it would be a dedicated trip out for something I can have on my doorstep in the morning.
I'm talking about things like the employer being able to put a mailbox at the place where employees exit, mailing things to their home addresses, putting posters on the walls at work, and so on.
> What reasons are there to believe that someone who‘s in the middle of a lawsuit (...)

The lawsuit is literally about how Amazon's infosec employees have been fired in retaliation after repeatedly alerting leadership to vulnerabilities.

Also keep in mind that Amazon's spokespersons stated that the allegations were inaccurate and dated, not wrong.
What's curious here is that this implies epic's game store only has 436 games..? They've been pushing it pretty hard with their free game promotions, so that total is a bit pathetic
fyi they never actually implemented that "purge inactive accounts" thing. I remember people bringing up the issue of dead people's accounts being deleted/taken over, but idk if that was why they shelved it.
Hey wow, I love this idea, this design philosophy, and this commitment to reuse. It occurs to me it may also solve another complaint I've always had with laptops, that you have to find the machine whose screen, trackpad, keyboard, weight, etc. ALL match your wishlist (with a desktop you buy the display you want, the external keyboard you want, the external mouse/trackball you want). This device lends itself to customization, almost like an ecosystem: hopefully some day they will offer a Dvorak, Workman, and Colemak keyboard variant, or similar customizations. Better yet, open it up to niche customized hardware manufacturers and make it a market. Suddenly it becomes the substrate for an ecosystem of customized components. I love this idea. (For reference, my current approach to hardware reuse is to sytematically only buy used laptops. I save a ton of money too).
Another option you might wnat to look at is itelescope.com . They're an Internet Based Remote Astronomy Company.

They've got a bunch of telescopes based around the world which you can try out.

You might^ be able to infer the characteristics of a telescope you like, and the types of astronomy you enjoy by using their service.

^I'm a total newb here. But I did do my highschool work experience at Sydney Observatory. I could imagine that there are factors that might mean that you get better results on their service than in real life.
I think its really cool. This is how wearable computing finally creeps up on us. "Wearable computers" in the past were a non-starter because, lets face it, they were dorky looking.

This has style enough to be worn without seeming too moronic and really does put a lot of power on the wrist. Better battery, tight "PAN" integration with the iphone and ipad... can awesome cyborg-ery be far behind?
It's customary in software engineering to "wrap" and augment system infrastructure with your own portability layer. You can see this everywhere; the Linux kernel, for example, bundles its own little library for emulating floating-point processing, for x86 systems that don't have x87 (very rare!).

The whole point of the C compiler -D argument is to allow you to enable features at compile time. GNU Autotools exploit this by inspecting the host environment and enumerating the available "features", allowing the build scripts to selectively compile your portability layers when a feature is missing.

With Android, you can use runtime reflection to instantiate the right objects, based on system parameters. I.e. your compiled APK can behave differently on two systems, say, by enabling extra functionality on older OS versions.
Thanks - I like good, easy suggestions - the best kind!
No, that is the "Broken Window" fallacy. A common fallacy in economics: http://freedomkeys.com/window.htm
I used to use VIm for years before I got my mac, and I've been moving back to it recently.

One thing I'm surprised nobody ever mentions is the ! command.

If I'm working on a file and I want to, say, commit my work, I can do

:!git commit -a -m "committing my changes"

I used to do this a lot when working with Oracle and Bash. It's much quicker than opening another terminal for one-off commands.
Those who don't know IRC are doomed to reinvent it... poorly!
Thanks so much - I knew I could rely on HN'ers to find these things. I'm hoping the Rogers one is a one-off (we're just adding it this morning), but I'll double check all of this. Thanks again.

EDIT: just fixed the 'TED' (company doesn't exist) issue. Thanks!

EDIT2: just fixed the Rogers issue too. Thanks! (Plus, I love Coda for making my life easier/faster for versioning and uploading changes!)
It picks up on any Twitter/FB updates that we can measure a discerning 'sentiment' for, so although it's limited to companies/brands at the moment, it could certainly be used for other things.
Yes, very often it does.
MaxMind

http://www.maxmind.com/
Yes, used to be called "liquidity event".
Thanks, but I'm looking for a downloadable database that we can load up in our ip-location infrastructure and use for high-volume realtime querying. We already use IP2Location but I'm trying to find any viable alternatives so we're not locked into one product.
this has been around for a long time w/ various smalltalk versioning systems. i hope that something like this makes it into other versioning systems soon.
I'll turn that on it's head. To me the interesting question is: do you need 100,000 or 1,000,000 lines to express the same ideas?
I'm interested to see where he goes with this line. A checklist of Business Logic items could be very powerful when collecting user requirements. Although I would expect that it would always be missing something and would need to be flexible depending on the project.

It also means that your system is partially (or more) documented from the start which would save some effort when before you hand it over to the customer or support team.
I've often wondered how bog standard DVD players can ignore these intentional errors and get on with things, whilst ripping software like AnyDVD seems to be in a constant arms race against ever evolving DRM.

Of course the problems start when you have a player that isn't bog standard (like some Sony players), or if you want to do something far out like watch a DVD on a PC (even a Sony PC).
If you swear at that chat bot enough times with enough profanity it forwards you to a google search for 'cleaning supplies'.
Each technology will have it's own way of scaling.

For example:

- for django you will have an easy way to add more instances

- for mysql more slaves

- for celery or resque more workers
> Can someone explain to me why Signal is so very bad compared to telegram?

The Signal desktop app is Electron, where as Telegram is native. That's why and it's that simple.
I’m pretty ignorant of electric cars, but are you saying that different cars have different charging networks? There isn’t something standardized like with gas stations? Or do you mean that charging stations can charge whatever, because they support different types like we currently do at gas stations regarding diesel vs gasoline as well as different octane ratings? The former sounds incredibly wasteful. The latter isn’t that bad I guess.
Thanks for the positive comment. But I would say that LO is not only a RemNote-like app with a few more features, but also is completely different in its core (how to turn note-taking into a form that can take advantage of Spaced Repetition). This is a difficult part to experience until someone actually uses it.

Also, I would appreciate it if you could tell me which parts of the design are worse than RemNote, in your opinion.
Tesco seems to be using wireless price tags. Maybe their transmitter is sending a signal that is strong and continuous enough to cause this?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/86895/how-el...
Very true, and this is in large part a function of the voting system in the US. Suppose you are choosing between primary candidates A and B, who will run against C. You'd prefer A over B, but B has wider appeal in the general election.

A better system would be a voting system that doesn't split the vote, because then you could forgo the primaries altogether. Have A, B, and C all run against each other directly. This is impossible with today's first past the post system, because that would immediately hand the election to C.
Runs on Saudi what?
I saw this at its first run at The National Theatre in 1993. I certainly enjoyed it a lot but even at fifteen my feeling was that it was a kind of imaginative con job making people think they had understood something complex when in fact one came away understanding nothing at all, but having enjoyed a good story and some beautiful but empty analogies.
Nice, but still wondering if I should know vim since nano is enough for me :)
in other words, I = ^i and gI = 0i
> Edit to add: I'm beginning to think HN is full of really lazy people.

Because of downvotes? That's probably just because you brought partisan politics into the discussion.
On the one hand, MySQL has offered this for two decades, by virtue of pluggable storage engines being core to its design. Some storage engines use clustered indexes and some do not. The user can decide which one matches their use-case; very large companies can design their own custom special-purpose storage engines; etc.

On the other hand, mixing storage engines in a single db instance has operational downsides (especially re: crash-safe replication). And InnoDB is by far the dominant storage engine, and is probably unlikely to offer nonclustered indexing, so from that perspective I agree with your point.
Thank you for confirming my suspicions :).
Making the absurd "drill, exam, forget" process flawless? That would be so sad to see.

Instead, the material+process should be adapted to support long term memory. We know how to do it, already have spaced repetition and mnemonics, sadly teachers mostly ignore them.
1. coronavirus isn't the only thing that cause coughing 2. coughing isn't the only way people spread out water droplets 3. you also don't want water droplets from other people landing directly on your face 4. nor you want to accidentally touch your face after touching potentially contaminated surfaces 5. people like you are being a hazard to their communities with this kind of behavior
I think it is a philosophy thing was well. Latency and network speed are key Unix heratige features which carry over to Linux. Windows has always considered this as something we should do, but not core.
It took me longer to realize that my browser tab wasn't frozen. The linked pages are designed show no sign of scrolling down until you swipe three wheels/trackpads worth. UX genius right there.
At 2 billion it’s < 1% their revenue (265b)
Why did you not decline if it was costing your own money?
counter-anecdote: I encountered multiple sites that break because of blocked scripts. and this is with ublock origin, which has shims for common analytics scripts: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#url...
In high level texts, the "obvious" problems often aren't easy. I think there is a strong element of mathematician arrogance. If you can't figure it out, you don't deserve to know. This may go all the way back to Pythagorus, who ran a secretive cult.

There are actual exercises, where solving it is just a matter of applying some concept. However, a lot of math books have things where you have beat your head against the wall to figure them out. Although, the internet has made it easier to lookup, nowadays.

School textbooks often try to make things simpler. However, when these texts are written based off of older texts, which skip steps, they may inherit the style of the older works.
What? When is a stalker ever not referred to as crazy? I've heard about plenty of stalkers of either gender, and while male stalkers are portrayed as more dangerous I have not seen them portrayed as any less 'crazy'.
No, Clozure Common Lisp is an implenentation of Common Lisp that runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. Clojure is a different language that targets the JVM and it's very different from Common Lisp.
LoganCale, get them to watch the movie Brazil and then read 1984, and for good measure hit them with a copy of Animal Farm just for the heck of it.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
You wouldn't. Certainly not in any company or organisation that I'd work for.
>.... except for those inventions that ... [r]elate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer

Seems pretty clear on the "similar business" front. IIRC that's been the wording in many if not most of the contracts I signed while I was still working as an employee in CA.

I've mostly worked in games, too, and so that pretty much meant "no game dev in my free time," period. A strong motivator to go indie/consulting.
He's definitely low balling it, I spent an hour in court for some preliminary motions and it cost me $3500. And yeah, I had to edit their documents for them because they were so fucked up, it was like they had someone who dropped out in grade 8 writing the documents. This was basic shit like fixing the year from 208 to 2008.