jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hmm and there is a lot of discussion about it being a barrier to adoption.

I think it is a good tech choice to be honest, I want my blockchain carefully built and audited.
Wow, what a horrid and cool way to create a function that accepts generic types in Go :-)

func add(a interface{}, b interface{}) interface{} {
if a, ok := a.(int); ok {
if b, ok := b.(int); ok {
return a + b
}
}

if a, ok := a.(string); ok {
if b, ok := b.(string); ok {
return a + b
}
}

panic("incompatible types")
}
This is an important addition. My request list would be from easier to harder:

- Strong anonymity

- Offline and cloud encrypted backups that can be imported to the new IDs (also potential monetization source)

- Secondary IDs per user and one off IDs, with the nature of said IDs communicated to the other party (primary, secondary permanent, one off). Of course it could create problems but with a proper blocking mechanism within signal (e.g. block one off IDs and secondary IDs from unknown numbers) by default would be seamless.

-Mobilecoin usage seamless across IDs, retaining anonymity
Holy cow; you're right. I always knew it as Atari BASIC, then later (apparently mistakenly) learned that it was made by Microsoft. I was referring to Atari BASIC above, not realizing my error.

Thank you!

I also had Basic-A+ from OSS. I seem to recall it had a few slight convenience items (and better disk commands), but that I wished I hadn't spent the exorbitant amount of money it cost me as a 12 year old.
I'm scratching my head at you believing VW is being "very" quiet. They give pretty regular updates on their Twitter account, break down targets, current production and construction progress by factory, and the company as a whole seems proud of their progress.

For instance Zwickau is at 800 per day for ID.3/ID.4 lines combined, and targeting 1400 this summer for the same (keep in mind it's a five day work week, this annualizes to 330k units). ID.5 is in test production there as well.

I feel like I know roughly as much about what the VW group (including Porsche, Audi etc) is up to as I do about Tesla. Many other car makers are keeping their cards closer to their chest, and it's presumably not because they're holding a winning hand.

https://twitter.com/vwsachsen_de
And I was using it to illustrate the problem of treating individuals like corporations for this purposes. A company is not allowed to hire a nanny for an individual because it’s not essential, but an office janitor is.

The difference between childcare and nanny is huge. Treating individuals like companies for tax purposes would be super regressive and a benefit to the rich that would not apply to the poor.

Daycare costs $5-25k/year and that’s lots less than a nanny. Why should other taxpayers subsidize your nanny preference?
I think we should start small, today Ball's Pyramid, tomorrow the world('s 5th largest nickel producer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid#/media/File:B...
> To a considerable degree, this commercial imperative determined the journalistic style, with its impersonal voice and pretense of objectivity.

This completely ignores the fact that - in the US at least - many newspapers started as organs of the local political parties. They always wanted to get their news out to their people. Then it went into full fledged "yellow journalism" that was all about the headline and engaging emotions vs objectivity.. which should sound familiar. And that was the late 1800s!

Around 50-60 years ago, as "mass market" became a thing and ad revenue exploded, newspapers and journalism as a whole veered towards objectivity because the local furniture store wanted to advertise to everyone not just one party. But if you read interviews, memoirs, notes, and the like of the journalists for that era, their stated goal for being a journalist was "to change the world." We can debate the specifics of what that means but it's not interchangeable with "neutral observer and reporter of facts."

Like many things, this appears to be a pendulum and it's swung from neutrality/objectivity back towards the opinion-based, light on facts approach for now.

How long we stay there and the consequences are yet to be determined..
I suppose in three-valued logic the equivalent would be a… quaternary conditional operator
Then it shouldn't matter whether you can modify a hibernated Linux image to gain arbitrary code execution in ring 0, right? (That is, the benefit of securely implementing Linux lockdown hibernation would be a direct benefit for Linux users who care about lockdown and hibernation, as opposed to an indirect benefit for Windows / BitLocker users who don't want to be attacked through Linux.)
In many languages like those used to compile to WebAssembly (c++, c#, rust) enumerating standard dictionaries is non-deterministic. A javascript object is a dictionary, it is not surprising that it had an undefined order. If you need order use an array, if you need to lookup a value quickly use a dictionary, if you need both then you compose some ordered dictionary structure that internally has a dictionary and an array.

I guess since so many js devs never understood this and built code around one js engines property order behavior they had to go and specify it as a standard and now all js engine must add extra overhead to track and maintain property order...

Not sure how webassembly helps object enumeration order, it doesn't have objects to enumerate! To make objects you compile to webassembly from languages that most likely have undefined dictionary order and may not even have reflection to enumerate an object at runtime.
"If you don't love the Eagles, then you ain't from Philly" could be meant as "If you don't love the Eagles, I will argue that you weren't born and raised in Philadelphia and shouldn't be allowed to claim you were". However, it's also possible to read it as "Virtually everyone I know who cares about sports and who lives in Philadelphia enthusiastically cheers the Eagles", and without the context of politics and the culture war, the first reading seems really weird.

So, consider that Biden might have just said a hyperbolic thing in the moment without intending to imply that 5-10% of a voting demographic should be canceled.
> saying I just wanted a job and was not being entrepreneurial.

I'd probably respond, "and you just want to hire me and take most of the revenue, so it sure sounds like a job offer to me. What is the problem?"

Yes, you might be blowing the offer. But if they don't want to pay you what you feel is right, is that so bad?
Sorry I'm completely forgetting the name of the theory I'm thinking of. It involves planets moving on circles on harmonic spheres (as opposed to sjmply following great circles) and accounts fairly well for celestial motion.

Its now mostly forgotten due to being a complete tangent on the way to Newtonian mechanics, but it was pretty clever.
Is Tor not an option? I thought it could hide itself pretty well via HTTP tunneling. Maybe the performance makes it a last resort.
What? I didn't that your nasal mucus froze. I thought your body temp would keep it from freezing. How does it feel? Is it a beginning sign of frostbite?
A lot of features in Nim show a similar kind of designed pragmatism. It's big, and has a lot of stuff that you just won't use in everyday situations, but the uncommon features tend to hit really specific engineering problems that do come up in the real world. I like it a lot better than what I see coming out of Rust, at least at this moment.
I'm always amazed by how many words journalists manage to write about a something without actually stating what it is. Here are the rules of the actual game, as explained in the linked PDF:

"A bar game involves three players, each of whom reveals either a clenched fist or an open hand; they do so simultaneously, by the usual ‘three shakes method’.

"A person ‘wins’ this game if he or she reveals a hand that differs from what the other two players present, in which case the latter two ‘lose'. Otherwise (i.e., if all three reveal a clenched fist, or all reveal an open hand) the game is a ‘draw’.

"Suppose each player decides his or her strategy independently, and chooses between the two strategies with equal probability. If there is a winner, this player must drink a glass of tequila, while each of the two losers is required to toss a fair coin, and drink a glass of tequila precisely if the toss lands heads. If the game ends in a draw, then each player independently rolls a fair six-sided die and if the number that comes up is a 3 or a 6 that person drinks a glass of tequila."
Same use (albeit with less nice syntax) as the ruby symbols.

Many frameworks based on ruby (like Rails) make heavy use of symbols.

They are handy as they are immutable, very cheaply comparable for equality and (in ruby) very light on syntax and they can be made out of thin air whenever you need one.

some_array[:foo] = 'bar'

instead of

FOO=0
some_array[FOO] = 'bar';

(think how error prone it's going to be to add more keys like this. Forgotten declarations, duplication declarations and so on).

You could use strings, but they are often heap-allocated (slow) and sometimes (ruby) even mutable and thus way more expensive to compare for equality and require some kind of hashing to put them as keys into hash tables. Symbols don't. And never conflict.
I like this idea. Unfortunately the small cost to each individual site operator is too great for their own motivation - despite the value it might add. I guess that value would be more intelligent filtering which may actually be a good thing. A lot of innocent content gets blocked.

It won't cause everything to get blocked - if they were going to block everything, they could have done that already.
Great story. Glad you managed to get out of the street.
I agree with the "lack of anything other than a signup for is off-putting".

Sorry, but I won't sign up for something that I don't know what is. This is probably obvious, I know, and that's exactly why I'm stating it here again.
I think you're confusing these:

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
I love how simple it is :) Nice job guys! The one thing which I would change is jumping to the other window to add my files to the crate I just created. I see the crate I just created added to my list but then the screen suddenly jumps to the other view. Other than that it's very nice!
Core CPI is around 1.7% in the US right now. Energy is affecting the non-core value (currently at 0% or slightly negative). The non-core value is typically very volatile.

The Fed has a target of 2% inflation. Krugman makes good arguments that the target should be 4%.

Meanwhile the Fed is talking about raising interest rates later this year (which is deflationary).

There are two clearly different views forming and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Canada has a target 'between 1 and 3%' and our core is currently sitting at 2.1%. We just had a interest rate decrease.

Some recent comments from Krugman about why we didn't see deflation during the recent recession:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/missing-deflatio...
Yup, I don't see how this helps Xilinx users. At best it creates some shareholder value and creates opportunities for advancement within each company.
The mass testing story is not what you think it is. The tests are optional, self administered, self reported, only available to staff (not students) in many cases and have a 50% false negative rate.
This is wrong. Let's take children as an example. COVID could spread at a rate higher than 1 in schools, but if all teachers, parents and grandparents have been vaccinated (at a high uptake) then the spread in children won't spill into the older generations and therefore the overall reproduction rate might still be below 1. This is really just simple maths and I don't understand how one could make it easier to understand. It's literally a single number with a binary meaning:

R > 1: Infections rising
R < 1: Infections declining

If we remove all restrictions and remain R < 1 due to vaccination then we have by definition reached herd immunity (key word is herd, not individual).
Good idea, but for data-security reasons, they disabled all the USB drives. It would have been quite a challenge to get the code out without a trace. Probably no one would have cared if I emailed it to myself, but it would have been a very bad look.
I just can’t recommend using it for new code in light of the sexy new alternatives that can compile down to the same binary with source code that’s way more intuitive and readable.

I do have nostalgia for C since it was my first language, and I think a lot of people are in the same boat, which is a problem. That’s why I think we need to stop teaching C. Kate Gregory has a good cppcon talk on the topic: https://youtu.be/YnWhqhNdYyk
I don't want to be a downer, but I don't like this concept. I understand the desire to educate yourself about the medicine you need for your pet, but the best thing you can do is find a good vet that you trust to give you this advice. In fact the mechanism that you have where by you allow the user to buy said medication from Amazon makes it seem like your putting this list out as an alternative to proper medical care.

There is much more to taking care of a pet then reading the packages of some medication and then buying it from amazon.
Since you can’t use addons with Firefox mobile, how is the browser compared to brave or safari for privacy and ad blocking?
Web-hosting startup fully embraces solar
http://www.net4now.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=4399
While large companies such as Microsoft and Google have gingerly plugged into the sun's energy, a newly announced web hosting company, called Greenest Host, is fully basking in it.
Amazon funds digital music site startup
http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/technology/bc.amiestreet.amazon.reut/
AmieStreet, which prices songs according to popularity, gets first round of financing from online merchant.
Ask HN: A solution for click bait headlines?
I'm getting really tired of seeing incomplete headlines on news articles all over the web and in my news feeds. What specifically irks me are headlines that tell you virtually nothing about the article, but try to arouse your curiosity or interest on what usually ends up being a flimsy premise.

When I first noticed it happening, I would be slightly annoyed that my attention had been stolen and my time wasted. That annoyance was compounded by the fact that my stolen eyeballs had provided revenue to the publisher via ads.

At this point, if I see a mildly interesting link, I don't know whether to click it and risk rewarding poor behaviour.

Are there any existing solutions I can use to determine if an article is something I want to read? (Or even nullify my view of the page if it was useless!)
Casetext (YC S13) is seeking a designer to rethink long-form writing
ABOUT THE ROLE

Casetext is seeking a designer to help us rethink the process of writing long-form commentary (both in general and as it pertains specifically to law), improve user profiles that thousands of attorneys are already using to promote their expertise, and seamlessly present lots of information on a beautiful platform that avoids information overload. You'd have a huge say in the direction of the product, while working closely with our whole team.

The ideal candidate will have experience designing for information-rich and text-heavy sites.

This is a unique opportunity to take a leadership role on a growing team tackling a social mission, and earn substantial equity in a company taking on an $8 billion industry.

HOW TO APPLY

If this interests you and you'd like to chat, email us at jobs@casetext.com with some example of your work (links to Dribbble/Behance/personal profiles are very helpful) and a resume/work history.

ABOUT CASETEXT

Casetext is a team of attorneys and developers reinventing the way lawyers and the public interact with the law. We use data science, machine learning, legal community crowdsourcing, and beautiful design to upend outdated ways of writing and sharing legal commentary. In doing so, Casetext is making the law free and understandable.

WHO WE ARE

We’re lawyers from Stanford and Yale’s law schools with experience in top law firms, state and federal government, and academia, working with engineers and data scientists from places like Google and IBM to reinvent the way people share legal knowledge.

WHAT WE DO

* We take on tough challenges. We’re taking on a huge, traditional, inefficient industry that affects everyone’s lives, whether they realize it or not.
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We play. The team is super sharp and dedicated, but also silly, sweet, and hilarious. We only hire awesome people.
* We reinvent law. Innovation is long overdue in law. We’re nudging the field into the 21st century using strategies that have already transformed other industries.

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HOW TO APPLY

If this interests you and you'd like to chat, email us at jobs@casetext.com with some example of your work (links to Dribbble/Behance/personal profiles are very helpful) and a resume/work history.
Windows Azure Table Storage Part 2
http://compositecode.com/2010/11/22/windows-azure-table-storage-pt2/
In the first part of this two part series I reviewed what table storage in Windows Azure is. In addition I began a how-to for setting up an ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application for accessing the Windows Azure Table Storage (sounds like keyword soup all of a sudden!). This sample so far is enough to run against the Windows Azure Dev Fabric. However I still need to setup t...
Innistrad, available on September 30, 2011
http://mtgmintcard.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/innistrad-available-on-september-30-2011/
Innistrad is Magic’s September 2011 large set and the code-named is “Shake”. Innistrad, Horror Lurks Within will available on September 30, 2011.If you’re looking forward to buy Innistrad boxes, be sure to check mtgmintcard.com to see if they’re up for pre-order!
Ask HN: What's interesting to do in SF the day before Thanksgiving?
I live in Seattle, but my girlfriend and I are in the Bay Area for Thanksgiving visiting her family. We were planning on going to SF MOMA today for the Cartier-Bresson exhibit, but just discovered that it's closed for the holiday.

Any have suggestions on interesting things to do in San Francisco today?
Pandora's new html5 interface
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Pandora-HTML5-Music-Streaming-Unlimited-Facebook,news-12615.html
It rocks
Mathematical Sculptures Made Out Of Office Supplies 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/mathematical-sculptures-made-out-of-office-supplies_n_1170370.html#s573597
oops. here's the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/mathematical-sculptures-made-out-of-office-supplies_n_1170370.html
AboutOurWork - Private Beta
http://www.aboutourwork.com
AboutOurWork.com private beta. Build your business profile. Share your business graph.
Life is Too Short for Meetings - Death Toll Counter for meetings
http://www.lifeistooshortformeetings.com/
Life is too short for pointless meetings. Time is limited. Use it wisely.
Getting thins done
http://www.efficientsoftware.net/resource/getting-things-done-infographic.htm
It talks about what is GTD, the benefits of GTD, and the reason why choose Efficient Calendar
Bodega: A Marketplace That Lets Gamers Swap Virtual Currencies For Cash
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/04/bodega-a-cross-platform-marketplace-that-lets-gamers-swap-virtual-currencies-for-cash/
Interesting for game developers in facebook/myspace
The mac hacker
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0412/technology-apple-hackers-charlie-miller.html?boxes=Homepagemostpopular
flame on
A time of the open source
http://www.parseco.com/a-time-of-the-open-source/
Parseco's new blog examines why this particular time is probably the right time to build things.
Code Review Solutions [Infographic]
http://blog.smartbear.com/development/code-review-solutions-infographic/
Rather than putting all of the pressure on the testing teams to investigate and find as many bugs as they can, many developers and development managers reap the benefits of finding defects early in the process via peer code review.
Visualizing Sorting Algorithms Statically
http://www.hatfulofhollow.com/posts/code/visualisingsorting/
aoeu
The definitive start-up guide for challenging environment's
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/05/the-techzim-definitive-start-up-guide/
For most technology entrepreneurs seeking venture capital is the norm and a rite of passage. However, in challenging circumstances and locations where VC funding is scarce creating needs to come to the fore. Some tips for building value for the long term in the absence of VC funding
New Cisco System Help Customers Build Clouds,Deploy Business Apps Faster
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5715694/new-cisco-unified-computing-system-innovations-help-customers-build-clouds-deploy-business-applications-faster
New Cisco Unified Computing System Innovations Help Customers Build Clouds, Deploy Business Applications Faster
Risk I/O Founder Wants to Improve Vulnerability Intelligence
http://electronicstaff.com/2013/risk-io-founder-wants-to-improve-vulnerability-intelligence
Risk I/O CEO, Ed Bellis, discusses how he's improving vulnerability intelligence through Risk I/O, his vulnerability intelligence platform.
Chinese planning to snatch enough Facebook shares "to matter"...
http://matei.org/url/1cd
With the Facebook IPO looming, Chinese state controlled investors show an interest in the company shares. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes?
Ask HN: Selling a car - Dealership vs. Private?
Anyone have experience in selling cars? What are the pro's and con's of selling through to a dealership vs. privately (Craigslist, Autotrader, etc)?
Hacker menargetkan Saudi Israel bursa saham dan operator Nasional udara
http://zakir-hacker.blogspot.com/2012/01/hacker-menargetkan-saudi-israel-bursa.html
Saudi maya Hacker OxOmar menyerang lagi pada hari Senin. Kali ini mengganggu situs-situs Israel bursa saham dan operator Nasional udara. Minggu lalu ia telah membocorkan informasi pribadi tentang lebih dari 400.000 Israel. Perusahaan kartu kredit mengatakan sekitar 25.000 angka, beberapa dari mereka berakhir, telah diposting . Kelompok pro-Palestina adalah merujuk pada dirinya sebagai " mimpi buruk . "

Situs El Al jatuh, tetapi pejabat di pembawa bendera Israel tidak akan mengkonfirmasi atau membantah insiden itu pekerjaan hacker. Seseorang yang akrab dengan situasi di El Al Israel Airlines mengatakan pembawa menurunkan situsnya Senin setelah jaringan hacker diduga Saudi di balik serangan sebelumnya memperingatkan bahwa kedua situs akan menjadi sasaran.

" Ada serangan oleh hacker pada rute akses ke situs (Tase). kegiatan perdagangan Bursa saham adalah operasi normal , "kata Orna Goren, wakil manajer pemasaran pertukaran dan unit komunikasi.
Setelah media Israel berlari apa yang mereka digambarkan sebagai wawancara yang dilakukan dengan OxOmar melalui email, surat kabar Haaretz mengatakan seorang blogger telah melacak hacker bawah dan menyatakan dia adalah warga negara 19-tahun dari Uni Emirat Arab belajar dan bekerja di Meksiko.