jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Good for you! I saw that mention and thought the exact same thing. Even said to my girlfriend "You know what, I should go over and buy beardguru.com right now just for fun"

I'm really glad that someone did and that we all get to hear about it.

Based on the performance of the rest of my projects, 500 visitors would be a dream! On the road to easy street baby :D
Here's a more simple task I was able to perform for 50GB of space:

1.) Sign up for a $9 50GB membership.

2.) Go through their wizard to set up a recurring $9 Paypal payment.

3.) There is no step 3.

Time spent: 3 minutes

Karma spent: You support a great company that doesn't screw you over.
It's fine, there's nothing wrong with the same story from different sources. My only point is that discussion can get diluted, and I think that's a Bad Thing(tm). Hence I provide cross-referencing.

I wish there were a way to combine submissions, so we got a single story with multiple sources and a single discussion thread.

But there isn't, so I just cross-reference. Sometimes. I might not bother much longer.
Very good ! Congrats on launching. If I could add anything, how about an option to view more than X icons per page. I searched and scan very quickly with my eyes. Would love a see 100 or 200 icons per result page.
I like the A1048 that immediately followed this one even better[1]. Sharper keycaps and (imo) a crisper feel, though that could be subjective. Definitely also a crumb tray!

Most keycaps could be interchanged between these keyboards and the truncated one from the original iMac (M2452)[2] which I did on a couple of keyboards, mostly because I liked the way it looked. I only stopped using my 2452 last year when I decided I really, really needed a keyboard with a forward delete key.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Apple_Keyboard_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Apple_USB_Keybo...
(cf. Dwarf Fortress)
One company is the whole industry, Google
Here's the bill: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3531&... ("Bill Status of HB3531 102nd General Assembly")

The synopsis of the bill (provided at the link above):

> Amends the Violent Video Games Law in the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes provisions that restricts the sale or rental of violent video games to minors to prohibit the sale of all violent video games. Modifies the definition of "violent video game" to mean a video game that allows a user or player to control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal. Modifies the definition of "serious physical harm" to include psychological harm and child abuse, sexual abuse, animal abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, or motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present inside the vehicle when the theft begins. Makes conforming changes, including repealing a Section concerning the labeling of violent video games by video game retailers.

I am gonna take a atypical/non-standard opinion (for HN) on this -- I wholeheartedly support this proposed bill.

We already have First Amendment restrictions when it comes to the depiction of a certain type of crime (i.e. a certain type of pornography). If that 1st Am. exemption is legal and permissible, then it should constitutional for that exemption to cover other crimes as well.

I see no reason why the depiction of the commission of other types of crime should be legal, permissible, and even popular (as shown by how many buy games like these). You can still make a lot of interesting video games that don't involve gratuitous user-directed violence / other crime.

Heck, I think the whole video game scene will become a lot more interesting and creative once a ban like this is put into law.

One last note: I don't think this bill would lead any reduction in real-world crime. I know that was the reason this bill was introduced, but I find that kind of connection to be spurious at best. I think a real reason we should ban depictions of crimes and violence (often where the player is the one perpetrating it), is that it simply is distasteful, and if I may say so--a tad bit morally not-good.
“We were doing our jobs.”
This needs a ..... blockchain! /jk
That happens for high end stuff. Common cars end up in chop shops and the parts are sold to collision and repair shops, frequently under the same roof.
I love FP, but this just looks messy. if you are afraid of the state changing, just marshal/dup whats passed inside. or used immutable options hash.

https://www.rubydoc.info/github/immutable-ruby/immutable-rub...
Right, but that solution ('make the hardware more complex, because who cares when it's all to support literally the fastest CPU cores you can buy') comes with a different cost tradeoff. Other than servers, ARM isn't really in the same niche that can handle that additional gate/licensing cost to paper over the differences.

And quite frankly, ARM's standards that you've given the example of "just buy more ARM IP blocks" feel more like a cash grab on ARM's part than a real attempt at a standard. "Just pay us for a GIC, and implementing a GIC interface yourself or buying from someone else will probably have our lawyers calling you" is not a real solution in the cost conscious space like SBCs.

Response to edit: ACPI doesn't make time to market any better, and they'll just phone it in there too. I think the ACPI tables of the PS4 would crash Linux if you try to boot without going in and manually editing them because they cared about time to market and only booting their OS on their hardware.
Israel stops Iran from blowing up or conquering the entire Middle East. Also, military intelligence. Also, the military industry is probably more beneficial to the US by being based there rather than being outsourced to China. I think the tax money given to weapons manufactures is paid back in double by tax. Also, you wouldn't want to fight wars with allies in Chinese planes. Hope this answers your concerns.
The proposed new trucks look pretty wonky, like a cartoon: https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images...
Is this comparable to Erlang on Xen and OpenMirage (ocaml)?

Are there any examples of network-facing services which use this library to execute on a minimal Linux kernel+userspace? What do you think of supporting MiniOS in the future?
It should be noted that the author of this post co-founded Vox (a very left-leaning outlet by any measure) and worked there up until a few months ago. That in itself shouldn't shield him from criticism, but I think the piece is a lot more nuanced than you're giving it credit for.
>> The article says India has 1% of cars globally

I find them referencing the number of cars as very suspect. I know from other studies that the majority of road deaths in India involve passenger busses. There are far more people travelling by bus than private car. And when a bus crashes it is a much larger incident. After the busses are all the two-wheeled vehicle crashes. So them talking about car statistics, which are a minority on most Indian roads, seems out of place.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-roads-share-bl...
>I never read that blog and don’t read the NYT but I will say in response only to your comment that racists and sexists don’t seem to enjoy Star Wars like they used to.

Most of the ire is directly at the sequel trilogy, notably the last two movies thereof. So if one of your coworkers says they hated The Last Jedi but loved The Mandalorian, then you can reasonably report them to HR for engaging in discomforting behavior.
One of the things that distorts these discussions is that it's not just SF proper that's expensive for the most part. It's also the South Bay, Marin, and even parts of the East Bay. It's hard to have a decent daily commute from anywhere that's relatively inexpensive. That's not the case with most cities where a 20-40 mile drive (or even a commuter rail) to where the jobs are (which may or may not be in the city proper) can get you into fairly reasonably-priced housing.
> Think the programming talent pool is increasingly getting split into run-of-the-mill and superstar developers.

That doesn't conform to my experience (European / working in the industrial sector / hiring developers but not a developer anymore myself) at all.

Pay is mostly based on the sector you work in and the origin of the company you work for. You will have an incredible salary if you work for an American web company especially a big one. You will have a fairly good salary in finance which might become an extremely good salary the closer you get to trading. Meanwhile, some of the guys working with me were experts in sensors fusion, embedded development and highly available systems with decades of experience and were paid peanuts (that was in the defense industry). They all stayed out of a mix of loyalty and the conviction they wouldn't find something as interesting somewhere else (probably right founded from what I have seen).
I believe this is his new blog
http://sattrackcam.blogspot.mx/
I can't place calls with the 2000$ box on my desk

Of course you can. Get a Softphone[1], a SIP account[2], and you're good to go.

[1] e.g. https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/telephone/id406825478?mt=12

[2] Here's a good list (calls to USA landline & mobile are free on most of them): http://www.mobilevoip.com/supported_brands
It was called conning before it was called social engineering.
Would be interesting to compare that number to the same stat but for installing programs on your computer. Once I have my set up, I don't really change it all that frequently, regardless if it is my phone or laptop.
Whatever the intentions behind Apple's move were, they seem pretty clear to me after what they did to the community. All of those contributions, companies using and hard work from people forking and making it better for nothing. I think it was a pretty bad move. They don't want people publicly having access to the source code which leads me to believe they are moving it in-house and keeping it for their own stuff or they are going to start charging for it. Apple are within their rights to do whatever they want with the code, but some kind of public explanation around why they took it down and what's happening with it would be the right thing to do.
I still have fond feelings for my Motorola V195, which I accidentally left plugged in to charge at the San Francisco airport a decade or so back.

I'm occasionally tempted to try building my own device, with a QWERTY keyboard, 320x240 monochrome LCD, and hardcoded apps for SMS and email. It would be big and clunky but it would be kind of nice to have a gadget that did exactly what I wanted.
You know, it is pretty funny that some people on Reddit linked to a talk from aaronsw (AKA tenderlove) about Ruby on Rails performance issues and performance regressions. In the middle of the video he cracks up and points out he went down a tangent path because that Ruby profile was built of a gem that called into Ruby MRI's C API. So he worked his way through the gem developer, and then the Ruby dev who wrote the C API. Neither knew what was going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JM...

Turns on the profiling data where there was a discrepancy between CPU times and Wall times was only OS X because of a problem with a trap() call on OS X specifically, not any other platform. His moral of the story: even profilers have bugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JM...

I think I am seeing a pattern today.
After thinking about it on my walk back to work, I tend to agree. Nothing from that thread was going to be productive.
As some of the commenters on lifehacker point out, taking some kind of moral stance on GoDaddy over the elephants is going to leave you short on time and products in your life. Are you now going to research everything you buy and make sure you are on board with the CEO's personal agenda?

I agree GD hosting is horrible but and shouldn't be used for anything but buying domains. With the flotilla of discount codes available you can almost always get your renewals/new domains very cheap at GD.
I don't have any sort of access to the user's mail, I can use a small widget that imports contacts from your email provider but for anything more involved I'd basically have to write my own importer, which is a lot of work.
I remember when the first couple games were 'complete' and I said to my friend '2 games are done and they've only shaved over 1.5 hours. Seriously? Why bother?'

I didn't have the Steam version pre-ordered (I ordered the PS3 one, which had a code for the Steam one in it for free) so I didn't have any stake in the matter, but if I had, and I had bought the Potato Pack, I'd have been a little upset at them.

But then, I remember thinking that about almost every ARG I've ever seen. When you try to mix reality with a game, you almost always end up with a very thin game with very thin rewards. You rarely get more out of it than just enjoying the ARG itself, even though they present it as a chance to get something better.

In short, I think the expectations were set wrong. Had they presented it merely as an ARG with no 'reward' at the end, I'd be less disappointed with it.
There are jobs that pay 500+k / year for 30 years with little risk. The number of start up founders that make 15+ million in their lifetime is vary small. So, going into startup's to maximize lifetime earnings is probably not a great piece of advice.
Currency (at least metal coins) was, at first, distributed and did not depend on banks for transfer. Banks came about later on, as an additional help in some business and private money handling. Currently banks are pretty much necessary for two reasons: network effect -- everybody has bank account and expects you to interface with it, and better loan rates -- banks can give loans at lower percent than small time lenders, thanks to pooling of risk and economies of scale of processing.

It is expected some Bitcoin users (be it private or institutional) will become quite bank-alike in some future (as per various posts on blogs and HN in discussions of Bitcoin).

In short, Bitcoin doesn't remove banks -- neither need for them, nor ability to operate them. They just haven't moved into this space yet.

EDIT:

first episode of ``The Ascent of Money'' [1], `Dreams of avarice', explains how banking, as we know it, came to be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ascent_of_money
> extremely fast

In what way is, for example, Hangouts slow?
One of the things I really dislike about modern sexuality studies is that they never take into account the fact that humans are primates. At least, none of the trendy ones do. They also tend to focus on a microcosm of sexuality.

This one is quite a bit worse, as the baity math lingo in the title has nothing to do with the actual content of the article.
Nothing in the Universe is completely objective
I've never understood claims that function keys are convenient, but I guess it's because I don't use them that much.
How does it compare to existing stuff such as HTTrack ?
This is truly amazing. I’m super excited. It might be time for me to get my hands dirty with C# again :)
A good point.

I know this is not a good reply, but I have to say it. Why didn't humanity die off between when we discovered agriculture and before we invented pesticides?
75 percent of Americans are God-­‐fearing Christians; 75 percent of prisoners are God-­‐fearing Christians. 10 percent of Americans are atheists; 0.2 percent of prisoners are atheists.

Correlation doesn't mean cause and effect, of course, but it's a striking difference. If it's true. He doesn't give a source for these numbers.
Are they serious? Flex on the desktop is a terrible, bloated framework built on top of an already slow runtime.

I can't imagine how it will run on a phone.
The thing about taking risks is spot-on. I noticed that where I work, every project is treated as though failure would mean death to the company; there is no agility or experimentation, and projects that should die because they suck last forever because failure is absolutely not an option. If we said, "hey, let's try this out" once in a while, we would have a lot better technology.
We are ruled by idiots.
I think Java is a great language for web programming. I would recommend one of these two books to get started:
http://www.amazon.com/Murachs-Java-Servlets-JSP-2nd/dp/18907...
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Servlets-JSP-Certified/dp/0...

These books cover jsp, servlets and other important aspects of java web development. Once you fully understand these concepts then you can branch off and use a framework such as: Spring, Grails, Struts, or Play! to ease the development of web applications.
I really wish that medium.com would not disable pinchzoom on iOS devices.
The right answer is probably to rebalance a bit towards property.

I appreciate your use of "a bit" to qualify your statement, but I'll also note that rebalancing towards property in the form of REITs or REIT-like structures makes sense. But on a personal level it may not, since it depends on a) picking the places that'll be important in the future (picking, say, SF or Seattle from 1980 – 2001 was not an obvious bet) and b) depending on a contemporary NIMBY framework to keep more property from being built. Point b is particularly interesting, because Yglesias and others have proposed that height limits, parking minimums, and similar choices should be removed from small governing bodies like cities (where many stakeholders want to limit supply for their own benefit).

Will that happen? From here, the answer looks like "No." But seeing the NIMBY madness and price rises in many coastal cities makes me wonder.
That's only really true when you have a powerful entity like the government stifling competition in favor of their preferred actors and cronies.

True competition allows people to choose the actors they want, good or bad.
You know it’s bad when a loss this large isn’t surprising or interesting in the slightest.
It just doesn't work that way. Price competition is still a thing. Businesses will be just as happy to have more customers at their current prices. Money from those extra customers will find it's way back into the economy, to lawyers and accountants and programmers. Economists are far from certain as to whether rising wages drive price increases, or rising prices drive wage increases. There's no reason to assume that prices will rise linearly.

Multiple studies have shown that it's better to give people money and let them decide how to use it than it is to create layer upon layer of social programs. We can figure out how much 'basic' housing, food, medical and child care cost and give everyone that amount. They can figure out how best to use it to suit their individual needs.
They will keep producing their whole life. However, production drops way off after 3 years. My wife isn't keen on butchering or I would make soup with old hens. I have some freeloading birds right now that will get to live out their life while only giving me manure and an occasional egg. When they die they become compost.

I do keep dual purpose birds in the event that food supplies require a sacrifice to feed my family. It costs a little more to feed heavier hens but the security is worth it.
Author here, see heresy 12 - https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/20-modern-heresies?s=w
I am confused by the way the Economist phrased Mr. Rognlie's argument. The crux of Piketty's argument is that when global returns on wealth (r) is more than global economy growth (g), capital will start snowballing into the hands of the few very quickly.

The mechanism of r getting bigger than g is not an increase in r, but a decrease in g. The increase of the global economy is dominated not by increasing technological efficiency, but by population growth. There is an upper limit of the number of people we can fit on this rock (whether 9 billion or 100 billion, we will hit a limit at some point). Once we bump into that ceiling, growth will slow dramatically, and those who have already managed to create a sizable stash, or who have the talent to regularly beat the market, can accumulate wealth to no end.

In short, as I understood Piketty's book, the fact that r might not increase if we put the right limits on housing development, doesn't change the overall hypothesis made by Piketty.
The positivity and encouragement is one thing, but it's also a very interactive and immersive experience. Sure, there's a large catalog of pre-recorded classes, with different instructors, different styles, different music, and different languages. However there's also live classes where you can be seen and interact with people. They also gamify the experience with a live leaderboard even if you aren't in a live class.

The tech is also pretty well rounded. You can get pretty much all info that the bike has at any time on the app. During a workout, the Apple Watch communicates back biometrics.

I'm a pretty cynical and skeptical person, but after just getting one, I can definitely see the appeal.
The (alleged) criminal only has to make one mistake to get caught, if the pursuers are good. Steal enough money and the best pursuers will be assigned to catch the perp.
I just hate using the camera for conferences. Zoom can highlight the profile of the speaker, so you don't have to recognize people's voice.

People calling in from a phone is a separate issue.
In before the subscription is opt-out required auto-renewal.
You seem to have descended into some sort of monologue.

I hope that it's cathartic for you; I just wanted to discuss how possession works in cryptocurrencies.

My apologies for using the word ownership instead of possession, lazy language on my part.
In this case, I suspect that Mark is interested in the distribution of jobs associated with Haskell as much as in the language itself. Haskell shops tend to solve certain kinds of problems and have certain philosophies about software. If you're interested in these problems and philosophies, a good way to find a job aligned with your interests is to find a job writing Haskell.
> never generate a puzzle with two solutions, or accept both solutions.

I think there's a very popular game making the rounds at the moment that flies in the face of this "wisdom"
> Even if the police raid him (hypothetically), they cannot raid the houses of his family and friends at the same time

...why not? Police coordinate raids all the time.
Yeah. Maybe what we love from Laravel isn't only great docs and painless upgrade process, but also the great ecosystem.
Well, yes. Because they're actually men. So you end up with absurdities like the 'actual lesbians' subreddit being full of (and moderated by) fetishistic dudes talking about their "girl dicks" and other such nonsense.
Well, they say you should stick to what you're good at.
Same for me in the UK, can't remember the last time I clicked a Gawker link and ended up reading the content.
I don't see where and why you find the need to make such as Shakespearian dilemma out of it. Nokia, RIM, Android, you-name-it, don't record your position with a day to day resolution. There is no need to do that. Apple does it; it does so in an almost hidden way and without apparent reason. Anyone should at the very least be quite suspicious or concerned about it while you seem to come up with a lot of ethical bullshit.
I think this statement applies to great product managers as well.
it seems to be occasionally drawing staff lines on partial values to where the aliasing falls half-alpha on two pixel boundries. probably just need to drop the precision of the y.
Same in the UK. You have to hit the url twice to get it to work. Cannot believe they didn't test it.
I've found Bratko's book to be an amazing tour de force.

http://www.amazon.com/Prolog-Programming-Artificial-Intellig...
Unethical? Really? I don't think it is that at all. A mistake it isn't encrypted? Yes.