jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Actually Bing shows a random professional image, not one of your choice from your photo album.

I think you kind of missed the point. To whit: putting an image behind the search engine homepage is a stupid gimmick which adds nothing to the value to my search results.
Exactly what I thought, why did the blow out preventer fail? It looks like it was designed for just this sort of thing
PalmOS did a lot of things right. One thing I'd like to see make its way to mobiles again (or iOS at least), is better handling of "app data". PalmOS made it a point to separate the executable and it's data, in the form of a database file that could be easily backed up.
This is a great improvement. Should definitely help with sites like TechCrunch where they litter their articles with about 5,000 links to previous articles they've written.
> I expected to see Ballmer saying something outright idiotic. I didn't see it

He didn't say anything worthwhile either, just weasel words.
Actually Maven 3.3 was released recently which has a smart builder for building separate parts in parallel, and using Takari plugins you can use the Eclipse complier which is parallelising in itself. See http://takari.io for more details.
Thanks! Out of curiosity: in the interim of having an IntelliJ client, do you think your team would use a browser-based client and/or integration that was built into GitHub? I’m working on this right now, and I just wanted to check with you on the applicability of that for your specific team.
I agree with this. For most of my adult life, I lived paycheck to paycheck. And when I look back on my earlier years, I didn't have to. There were opportunities to start building up a reserve, and I failed to recognize them or take them. And when the previous recession hit, I learned the hard way fast that having no reserve can quickly lead to bad times.

In addition to your point, I'd dare say that one has a duty to his fellows to build up a small reserve during times of plenty, not just of monies, but basic living supplies, like food, water, hygiene products. When one has just a bit more security of his own, he's better able to help others. One's less likely to panic buy and contribute to a shortage. It's easier to remain calm when others are freaking out. The reduced stress makes it easier to not get sick(er) and remain as able-bodied as one is normally. And that's the kind of person I'd want as a neighbor or part of my community in a crisis.
> The 8-bit PIC architecture lacked some features that frustrated writing a proper C compiler for the chips. But that wasn't a problem if you moved up to the 16- and 32-bit processors, which also had some lovely peripherals such as a 12-bit A to D converter.

Isn't this problem solved by writing C on a bigger machine that transpiles down to the assembler that PIC can work with?
Your friends being concerned about your well-being and speaking to you about it are much better than those who don't.
I don't think it's unique to geniuses, or that Mr. Musk is a genius. I think it's just mathematical odds, and also human beings being human.

If a homeless guy says that drinking pee is good for your health, people say he's crazy. If a guy with 20 million Twitter followers says drinking pee is good for your health, people say he's a genius.
In emergency situations, it's possible misleading the public might be somewhat necessary to reach optimal health outcomes. There is substantial literature on this question with regards to climate change messaging.

The government already misleads the public when it exaggerates things like the actual threat of terrorism to the average American, at least this time it is lying with some sort of societal good in mind.
I think the thing is that most people will naturally treat things qualitatively. A mask either protects you or it doesn't. A substance is either a poison or it isn't. Etc.
someone with a stolen credit card, probably
I do the same with online shopping when I can, and I always appreciate a site that doesn't need me to create an account.
I think a useful yardstick is how many people died. IIRC a sum of around 25 deaths was attributed to all of the "BLM protests" last year, and I don't recall any police deaths that weren't eventually attributed to right-wing folks.

The events of this Wednesday, a single (what I would call) medium-sized protest, got 5 people killed including one policeman, right? So just in terms of the ratio of deaths to participator-days, I think this Wednesday's event probably has last year's protests beaten by at least two orders of magnitude in the loss of life department. Even if you take away the two people who didn't die from the use of a weapon or a savage beating, I think they still got the high score by far.

To be sure, mob violence should be condemned wherever it appears. But in judging movements like these, I think it's important to keep in mind a sense of proportionality, among other things.
What exactly do you think would have happened to the Congresspeople had they this mob encountered them? The mob sure looked prepared to take some of them into "custody." And some of them clearly had no qualms with beating that Capitol Police officer to death.

Clearly Congresspeople, regardless of party affiliation, were not interested in finding out.
It's DriveWire4: https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
(Can't edit the previous comment anymore) I switched to allowing TLS-v1.2, hopefully that fixes the issue for you. Let me know if it doesn't and I can take another look!
This is like saying "a phone should just make phone calls!"

It was true in the past, but is no longer true today.
> of which the issuing organization controls 85% of the supply.
> [citation needed]

This is based on the original whitepaper which says they pre-sold 15% of the tokens (to investors) and still own the rest. They claim to have not followed that whitepaper but the new one only says they start with 100% ownership and will not answer questions of how much they still own. So all we can go on is their original plan which was to hold onto 85% of the supply as long as possible.
(Can't edit the previous comment anymore) I switched to mozillas Intermediate preset, seems to work on TLS-v1.2 clients according to SSL-Labs. Thanks for the feedback!
Aha; I'm working through it right now. This quote is from Cicero's speech to the senate condemning Catiline for trying to overthrow the Roman republic for the second time
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catiline#Second_Catilinarian_c...)

"Quid facis, Catilīna? Quid cōgitās? Sentīmus magna vitia īnsidiāsque tuās. Ō tempora! Ō mōrēs! Senātus haec intellegit, cōnsul videt. Hic tamen vīvit."

"What are you doing, Catiline? What are you thinking? We know your great treachery and plans. Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things, the consul sees them, and yet this man lives."

(I like the gentle reprimand of the 'and yet this man lives' line)
Work where your perceived value is disconnected from actual real work, where you can hide your actual productivity or where the company has set so low bar that you will be shining example even when actually working 1h a day.

- Providing advice, if you already have experience. Ideally general advice that would not require you to spend a lot of time investigating client-specific situation or do it relatively quickly.

- If you run circles around other developers and want to earn well, DO NOT get paid for time. Your time is much more valuable than other developers but you are most likely going to be paid roughly the same (within a small factor).

- Fixed price rather that time and materials, provided you can choose your own technology and you are good at it (see above). Make sure you are well insulated from any impediments from the company that contracts you. Make sure contract is very, very well specified.

- If you are good developer, get hired well below your ability. Get hired at a shitty company where average productivity is very low. You will be running circles around other developers working 1h a day.

- Spend significant part of your time (say over half of it) learning stuff. Over time you are going to become much better than other developers and be able to do things in fraction of the time. Even if the project doesn't work you are still taking the knowledge with you.

- Contracting. Contracts will make it difficult for you to get promoted but you don't care. You just want to get decent money for little work. In general, you earn more on contract than full time employee, but you can hack the system and earn as much as a regular employee for less work.
Johannesburg, relatively speaking, is similar to this. People will use the Internet in business parks to do their jobs, but you don’t see people walking around staring at their phones. People use WhatsApp to curb high talk and text rates, but that is a lions share of what phones are used for. It feels very similar to 90s America technologically and it’s strangely relieving.
I think that iMessage is simply a feature of iOS, same as iCloud Backup. They can't be installed or used separately, they are a single atom. A single atom with message plaintext escrow enabled by default: a backdoor.

By your reasoning, would "iOS is insecure" be an accurate statement?
Looks like it wasn't very successful considering only 500 people installed it...

The message it sent was very poor IMO. A better strategy would be:

Reply with "Here's that Netflix-anywhere app I mentioned a while back. https://bit.ly/whatever"

If there is a follow-up message from the same contact, reply with "Oh sorry, meant for someone else, but you can use it if you like too! Grab it now, I'm about to delete the link".

Then if there is a third or any further replies, simply mark them read and block them from appearing to the user for 24 hours.
Out of line - really? I was initially floored at how similar they were, given the vast differences in survey methodology and time between the two surveys. We even see the same blips (exaggerated preference for Notre Dame, for example) that they see.

The Avery data is from 1999. They collected theirs by sending out surveys to dozens of "elite" high schools and asking them to hand the surveys to their top 10% (this is from memory, probably not 100% accurate but close).

My data is collected from the 50,000 students who have used my site to track their ~250,000 applications to college -- the bulk of which are from 2009 & 2010.

It's not surprising to me that my results look a bit more, shall we say, "democratic" than those from Avery. I say this because of their selection methodology vs ours (elites vs all-comers). Also, it seems that Caltech is seriously over-favored (relative to the preference of current college applicants) in their survey. I say this only based on Caltech's current acceptance rate (17%) and yield (34.4%). Whereas Avery put Caltech above MIT back in 1999, the modern (official) statistics hint at a different picture. Now, MIT still has an extremely impressive 66% yield (and 12% acceptance rate). Their 66% yield trumps Caltech's 34%, especially if you consider geographic rivals such as the entire Ivy league (for MIT) vs, largely, Stanford and Berkeley (for Caltech). (I'm using yield here because it gives a broad-strokes hint of revealed preference when no better data is available. I don't have data from 1999, and Avery don't have data from 2010, so there is no direct way to do this comparison.)

I'm not sure that there is much to learn from trying to compare preference for Dartmouth vs MIT, frankly. MIT (perhaps along with Caltech) holds a special place in educational mythology. For quantitative people, it's sacred. For some others, it's probably not even on the radar. I don't know how much direct overlap they have in real life, but on our site we don't even have enough direct cross-admits to make a statement about preference: http://college.mychances.net/college/tools/college-cross-adm...

Edit: As an aside, Caltech is not on this list because it didn't have enough applicants to give us a fair sense of its ranking. Given that only 4,000 people a year apply there, this wasn't that surprising to me. I think we'll have enough data to rank it this year.

Edit 2: If you have any methodological suggestions, I'd absolutely be eager to hear your thoughts.
I signed-up, but later received an email asking for a photocopy of my credit card and photo id. Did I get suckered?
Your age is only as relevant as you choose to make it.

What kind of coding (languages, systems, projects) have you done so far?
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Might I add there are a lot of single women there as well.
This is actually the most inspiring part for me. Why we all strive to make it no matter what the cost...
>In case you don't have something you must do, then just do something, anything

Wasn't he doing 'anything' by listening to rap music and watching the World Cup? I find your summary paralyzingly vague. :\
Why are they out of fashion? Is it because it is too hard to figure out why a particular neural net makes certain decisions? Are they generally too unwieldy and unpredictable?

I'm very interested in neural nets but I don't know much about alternative tools/models, so I'm keen to hear your reasoning.
I use CentOS on all of my live/dev servers, and it's wonderful.

It may seem stale, but I think a better term is - "incredibly stable". The servers haven't been rebooted in 4 years, and the only downtime has been due to programming errors or (web) software updates.
That's right, it's really just a plain ol DNS server that happens to read its records from Mesos.
Another option in some cases is to just map the space to something else. Like in this case, x and y are unconstrained and are what the optimizer sees, a = x and b = (1 - a) - abs(y).

Not always easy to do, but can work in some cases if the optimizer cant deal with it natively.
A) Here is a computer communication protocol that can be used for many things. One of those things is infringing copyright.

B) Here is another computer communication protocol that can be used for many things. One of those things is infringing copyright.

The internet, being the IP protocol and the bit torrent protocol built on top of IP each are described above.

Differentiate A from B identifying which is IP and which is Bit torrent.

This demonstrates the silliness of the argument made. You either have principles and rules applied equally or you don't. I'm very, very much for the former. Being a an utterly essential foundation of functioning democracy, the rule of law and opposition to the tyranny of government by whim.
It's an admission that I don't know the answers. Honestly, I'm suspicious of somebody who claims to have the answers, here; they'd have to have a pretty darn good argument behind it, because people have been trying to solve this since before WWII.
Considering that the data on prices is pretty much complete garbage I wouldn’t be surprised if they just multiplied the ‘average’ price and per capita consumption they obtained from WHO (they seem to be implying as much in the methodology section).
Again: you either invest into a realty, that happens to be your home, so that you don't have to pay rent, or you pay a rent and you invest into something else. You have to always consider the opportunity cost before you decide which one is a better decision. And it will depend on the market.
Those jackasses¡
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=raspberrypi+boot+root+ssd

Rpi can power many SSDs without issues. If not, just grab a powered USB hub.
I don't care what great-grandparent said. I just added that _in Germany_ a 33cl bottle will usually be more expensive by volume than a 50cl one since that's the standard.
Insiders have reported on this previously. Basically the "new" rendering engine is a fork of Trident which removes backwards compatibility and legacy code. They might call it something else, but the new engine is basically Trident, refactored, and without the legacy cruft.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/internet-explorer-12-big-changes-...

Validated by a few other insiders, including Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren (The Verge), and Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet).
Possible, yes. But not equally easy.

It's not like he was trying to hide from the NSA or anything. The goal was "I don't want my patients to see my blog on the first page of Google results when they search for my real name". The NYT completely obliterated that.

Additionally, the fact that the NYT chose to smear him means that now many potential patients may google his name, see the hit piece and nothing else, and decide "yikes, better not go there".
I assume you didn't read the article? The answer is they are still using Scandium but just not branding it that way.
> But if the intent all along was to return it the next day, stored safely the entire time, that's not theft.

Legally, this isn't even remotely true.

If you deprive someone of their legal possessions without permission, even with intent to return it later, you are guilty of theft.

There is no loophole that allows you to temporarily steal things as long as you intend to return them.

Intent only comes into play if the person had no intention of depriving the other person. An example would be if you accidentally pick up someone else's jacket because you thought it was yours.
> Their main experiment was pretty simple: they randomly gave a group of workers a large portion of their compensation earlier in their work period rather than at the very end.

> The authors conclude that giving workers cash upfront helped alleviate the mental burden of their financial problems and freed them to be more productive.

Hmm. I'd be interested in how a third group who are simply given a single amount equal to the upfront payment would fare. They wouldn't be told it's related to their employment or work. How much of their improvement is merely from having current debts paid vs the concept of getting paid first then being trusted to deliver?
They do, but they are planning on the common experience of extremes.

Texas' weather is colder now than in the past 40 years.
First, talk to me when the CAPE of any market has a CAPE of 100 like the Nikkei had:

> What if an investor decided to detach from the herd once the CAPE ratio hit 50? At that point, the Nikkei had already delivered 263% over the previous ten years, or 13.8% a year. Not too bad. But once the CAPE ratio broke 50 in 1986, it wouldn’t peak for another 45 months, and it would add another 145%. Could the person who sold at CAPE 50 really sit on their hands for another 4 years as the mania sucked everyone else in?

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2017/08/10/stock-bubble/

Second, the CAPE is fairly good at predicting future returns. Current S&P 500 CAPE:

* https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

So at 35.83, as I type this, the expected returns are 2.79%. If you can find an investment that earns at least that (or more), then you should be putting your money there. Can you list an investment that has that expected return? Indian, Bahrainian, or Mexican bonds perhaps?

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/bahrain-government-bon...

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/india-government-bonds

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/mexico-government-bond...

The actual lessons to learn from Japan, one of which is diversification:

> Diversification, as always, is the key to avoiding a blow-up. The entire point of diversification is to avoid having your entire portfolio in a Japan situation. The global stock market has done just fine since 1990 even when you include Japan in the results.

* https://ritholtz.com/2017/10/japan-greatest-bubble-time/

There are plenty of "markets" out there:

* https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Callan_periodic_table_of_inv...
This battery is exactly the kind of backup infrastructure the parent was saying we need to account for, and and, to my sibling comment's point, an obvious submarine marketing blurb lazily "reported" by a news outlet.
- We've known about the value of talking to babies since Hart & Risley published their study in 1995: http://www.amazon.com/Meaningful-Differences-Everyday-Experi...

- We've known that there is basically no value in reading to your kids since Scarborough & Dobrich published their report in 1994.

Very important to know, but not news.
We've banned this account. You can't do flamewar like this here, regardless of how right you are or feel, or how wrong others are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Good. Rentals charge 2 months rent and a deposit. The only reason I can afford housing is because of airbnb. It's the only place I can find housing that doesn't do that BS.

Security deposits and upfront rent address the problem of deadbeat tenants who may destroy the property or simply not pay the rent. It’s skin in the game to show you’re responsible.
I don't think so, but its definitely a contradiction in logic...
The stock is at $100. I purchase the option to buy it in the future at $100. I pay $20 for this option. I'm currently $20 in the hole, because I paid $20 for the option and got nothing.

In the future, when the stock is at $120, I exercise the option and buy the stock for $100 with money borrowed from ETrade, and then sell it for $120. I've spent a total of $20, and gained $20 from the sale after paying back the loan, and am thus even.

In the farther future, when the stock is at $140, I exercise my option and pay $100 for the share with borrowed money. I've paid a total of $20 and I get $40 after paying back the loan. I'm $20 ahead.

Since I paid $20 out of my salary for the option, when it went up 20% I broke even, when it went up 40% I doubled my money.
Researchers always talk about what could be but not necessarily what should be. Don't worry too much, in practice what you suggest will most likely happen.
Not a personal project, but I've recently decided to start contributing to the Vala compiler. If you're bored and have any interest in compilers, I recommend it. It has a relatively low barrier to entry and the code organization is decent by the standards of 90000 line projects. The barrier to entry is I think a little lower than with rustc, although to be fair I only know a little about rustc.

Other than that—not a coding project, but I have been messing with a novel cement composition. It's stalled due to coronavirus making it hard to get equipment.
I switched from an iPhone to a Passport last fall, and have been very happy with it overall. I am a consumer, so this is just for personal use. My reasons for switching were:

1. Real keyboard. I carried the iPhone for 3 years and never liked the soft keyboard. Most of my usage is text entry (messaging and email), so being able to do this quickly and accurately matters. I much prefer text entry on the Passport, both because I find it easier and more accurate, and I don't give up half the screen to the soft keyboard.

2. Dev / unix tools. It might be a bit surprising, but the BB10 dev kit is actually pretty good: Several API options; no barriers to getting started (download and go); and you can access / expose / augment the unix userland underneath. With a command line app, it feels like a real computer. The keyboard makes this experience better.

Since switching, I have also been pleasantly surprised by the size and quality of the screen - 1440x1440 is kind of awesome (more pixels than my laptop). Blend has also been unexpectedly good.

Anyway, that's me and my reasons. I'm just a unix nerd in the consumer market. I'm not into flashing ROMs or jailbreaking or anything like that, and I find the BlackBerry keyboard lineup pretty compelling. YMMV.
There is a nice Ignite talk by a female Google engineer at http://igniteshow.com/videos/im-barbie-girl-cs-world

She argues that Matell is actually breaking with stereotypes here for a change (though inadvertently)- and that it's a good thing.
Great read, I leaving a comment so I don't loose track of this article!