jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The properties of the language listed on the websites are compelling, but I wonder what are you using the language for except the compiler?
10x would be ridiculous, but so far LEGO's limited run models means that if you buy a popular model at the end of its run for its normal store price, you can effectively double that money by just having it in a closet for 1~2 years. Are you going to get rich off of a LEGO buy-now-sell-later scheme? Heck no. But is it a perfectly sensible way to double a small amount of money over a 1~2 year period? Absolutely.
The effects of serotonergic psychedelics(LSD, psilocybin, DMT) are reduced by SSRI medications.
For someone wondering "how is this different from screen?/ what problem does it solve?", this article was actually quite nice:

https://medium.com/@grassfedcode/what-could-be-better-than-s...
Why not just change it to a high value? Or prettier-ignore exceptional lines?
At what stage does everyone consider a society complicit in its governments actions, through inaction?

Traveling Americans have historically been held accountable, sometimes fatally, for the actions of their Elite.

Curious if any traveling Chinese are facing the same kinds of blowback.
You should try making ~/Dropbox a symbolic link to the Windows Dropbox directory -

ln -s [path to windows directory] ~/Dropbox
Is that the coolest thing I have seen recently ?
This is absolutely my #1 complaint about android after going from an iPhone to a nexus one. Even though the hardware is probably 4x more powerful than my old iPhone, the scrolling still manages to be significantly slower and less accurate. With the iPhone the illusion is complete - that your finger is connected to something physical that you can move effortlessly. With android you are acutely aware that you are working with a rough approximation of something physical. It may or may not behave as you intend.
Just bought it, this is indeed impressive stuff. I bought both English -> Spanish and the other way around. Not being a big speaker of Spanish I wasn't sure how good the translation was but the Spanish to English is good enough for my travels next year.
Tech support is non-existent so far. T-Mobile doesn't support this phone because it's a Best Buy exclusive, but Best Buy just says "you'll need to ask Google".

This could be a really big problem for the phone - sounds like the same exact tech support woes that lots of Nexus One owners reported. In 2010 how do companies not realize how detrimental it is to the customer experience to not provide an easy, clear way to get support for a product?

The data speed is terribly slow compared to the other new T-Mobile phones like the MyTouch 4G. This is because the Nexus S uses the older, slower network (3G-speed HPSA) whereas the MyTouch 4G uses the newer, faster network (4G-speed HPSA+).

Don't you need to pay extra each month for T-Mobile's 4G/HPSA+?
omg.. please no "click here"
yeah YC does love it's steaks...

here is the difference, with YC, you actually have your own company at the end. YC gives you 20K when you have nothing.

In this case, you get $0...and only if you hit a homerun, do you get $10K.

Completely different
> I would say that it's OK to walk into a store and price compare with other stores, however I personally agree that it's immoral to use the brick and mortar store to discuss the options and decide what you want to buy, then buy it online.

If the brick and mortar store's only value-add is providing the same information I can find online by reading the online-retailers website, then why do they deserve my business? I go into brick and mortar stores to see if they can offer me something else. Sometimes this happens, and the value makes me purchase it from the local store.

> It's immoral to steal the stores time discussing what to buy then buy it from Amazon because it's cheaper.

Except, that's an incredibly small number of people purely doing this. People don't go into the store to learn what to buy and then just buy it on Amazon. They go into the store, learn what to buy, learn about what the store can offer, what Amazon can offer, and then make a decision based on the value. Or they might go onto Amazon and learn what to buy, and then go to the store and buy the item now rather than wait for it.

Stores need to adapt (as demonstrated in the article) and even mom-and-pop stores can compete in this arena. I'd say that they can compete in certain areas easier than online or big-box retailers.
I would love this. While I enjoy reading scientific papers, some are just over my head.
We had very different governments in Germany in the last 200 years (Kleinstaaterei, Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazis, Communists, Social Democracy). Conditions didn't change that much in the last 100 years.
UK roundabouts enter at a tangent. That's a main point of their design, altering the angle of potential collisions, sometimes to the point of reducing visibility to force people to slow down. The curve also should slow people down.

Roundabouts are a UK invention, fwiw.
Same here, works from Hyd, India. No VPN whatsoever used.
India is second most dangerous country for journalists, after Syria
http://www.trust.org/item/20130820143515-t7ap0

Why are you surprised at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Pastebin-D...
well, is this problem solved (?) because I can access each and every website on the list.
They're stocking up for the next Emacs vs Vim thread.
If you're familiar with the Willy Report (Google it), the simplest working theory is that someone figured out a way to award themselves USD/etc balances inside of the Mt. Gox system, purchased large amounts of Bitcoins with them, then transferred them out in the ordinary course of business. This caused positive improvements in the set of metrics that Gox and the community actively monitored, and the metrics in which the discrepancy would have been obvious were apparently not actively monitored. (e.g. Comparing the sum of all USD/etc liabilities as reflected in the database with the sum of balances at Mt. Gox's single-digit number of bank accounts.)

You could call it the most total failure of accounting controls in history, if one had any reason to suspect that Mt. Gox possessed meaningful accounting controls. There was no reason to suspect this, but many people were willfully blind to that, because it appeared that Bitcoiners were making money hand-over-fist.

Edit to add: One reason Gox may not have done the math on the assets vs. liabilities is because they knew they were insolvent from some point in early to mid 2013, as a result of some combination of external events, including the since-reversed freezing of their US bank accounts. The clearest publicly available evidence of insolvency was persistent unwillingness to allow people to withdraw USD/etc and ludicrous excuses for why this was the case. (At one point, the CEO alleged that their daily wire volume had overwhelmed the second largest bank in Japan. This kind of claim is very useful because it is trivially falsifiable.)
it's a meta-search engine (a search engine that searches through other engines). I self-host one myself (although I host SearxNG, a fork). You could argue you can be identified because of the same IP, so you shouldn't self-host for yourself only - but there's very real legal and practical limits to tracking without cookies, so I'm reasonably fine with this, especially since I'm not the only one using my instance (although the user count is under 10).
Universities around the world collectively pay billions of dollars to gain access to journals, many of which their own researchers contribute to. The University of California cut ties with Elsevier because of the extremely high cost of accessing their work.[1] And that is a huge deal for a major US university like that to end things with the world's largest academic publisher. The universities are not making money from journals -- they're paying exorbitant amounts to for-profit companies with some of the largest profit margins in any industry.

If someone were to snap their fingers tomorrow and make it so that scientists could publish their work without having to deal with these for-profit publishers, universities would save millions of dollars (per school), taxpayers would save money, and the general public would also have greater access to the work that they themselves funded through public grants.

[1] https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-uc-split-pub...
I remember at that time feeling almost bad for Linode because they had built up so much valuable educational content about what you could run on their services, and I was using it step-by-step on DO. The only differentiator was the price. Of course DO quickly replicated and excelled in providing that tutorial value as well.
Either Reddit or Twitter, years ago. I'm fairly sure they were cribbing off someone else at the time.
I think you're correct, it seems speech-dispatcher was made an optional dependency for firefox build and that Arch requires 'festival-freebsoft-utils'[1] along with 'speech-dispatcher' for narrator but the former hasn't been updated in a long time. Not sure whether that's the reason, but narrator doesn't work even after installing those packages although the speech-dispatcher gets triggered in the firewall when the reader mode is accessed.

Interestingly, this is a closed bug in Arch. Guess it's time to reopen it.

[1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/festival-freebsoft-utils/

[2]https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50886
Yeah I understand not everybody has the same use pattern. But my right hand about /lives/ on those keys half of the time. I got a new work laptop a few months, some 13inch Fujitsu with same arrow keys. It's also not a matter of time; I /still/ cannot properly use them. And though I'm Caucasian, I do not even have big hands. I honestly do not get it, there is easily enough place even on 13 incht laptops..
That is an incomplete and misleading definition of "at-will employment". The most important part of at-will employment is that the employee is allowed to leave their employer for any time, for any reason; i.e., they can't be forced to work for their employer even by contract. It is literally just an anti-slavery law, and yet somehow some folks have turned it into a bogeyman. Imagine being against an anti-slavery law because ____?
This can't be a Show HN, because the product isn't out yet. Signup pages and fundraisers are explicitly excluded: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Also, upvotes from friends and (especially) planted comments from friends are super not ok here. This is in both https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Dwarf Fortress could account for some part of that, too, even though trolls don't show up until later in the game. Actually, there are probably quite a few games and such where that sort of thing could happen. But I'm guessing that most of the weird data came from spammers, even if I think that some of those are real.

It's too bad they can't get n-grams only from published books. That would get rid of most of the spam, provided they filter out that book spammer who reprocesses Wikipedia into gibberish-filled books.
After having read about the Nintendo 3DS all day, I've been dying to see this 3D effect in action. This is really awesome.

Now the question is, is there an easy way to do this with our own content? I would love to mess around with this technology.

EDIT: These images came from here: http://abduzeedo.com/stereoscopic-images-inspiration

I now know that these are stereoscopic image examples. My question still stands though, what would be the easiest way to go about reproducing this effect? It seems like mounting two flip minos could be really cool if this would work.

Anyone know of any really smooth examples of this technology?
I have seen this kind of thing before, but the specific images on this post were well worth seeing. You get such a more intimate sense of the environment, especially in the third and fourth images.
I think you might have an issue with forgetting to replace text like that. It should be much easier to spot black bars / repetitive latin ('gibberish') than standard sentences.
You can somewhat mitigate that with something like LittleSnitch (macOS) / OpenSnitch (Linux). I', quite sure I've heard of something similar on Windows, but I can't recall what it was. But I think that the included Windows Firewall is able to do per-application filtering, although I don't know if it's dynamic.

The main advantage over a classic "filter firewall" is that it's able to work at the app level.

Forbidding outgoing HTTPS traffic is going to be painful if you regularly use a browser. But that doesn't mean random_local_only.app should be able to reach anything on the internet.
Please don't do the online callout/shaming thing on HN. We're trying to avoid that here. When someone is mistaken, it's enough to provide correct information respectfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Somebody wrote this comment. It was spot on.

"UE5 is very pretty because Sweeny is a rendering god. But its hell to do any real programming with. A project that took me two weeks or so in C# is taking months to reproduce in C++ and Blueprints.

UE5 is a very pretty FPS engine with a low-level plugin interface and a scripting language. The further you get from an FPS the more unwieldly it becomes.

Unity is a programmable physics simulator that happens to have a render pipeline bolted onto it. It is much more flexible, though sadly not as pretty,"

Am also asking myself. Did the company behind Unity going public last year or so not help with the situation? I mean extra money and public scrutiny usually do.
That is pretty cool!

So, basically, if a merchant requests payment of $5 and the buyer only has a $4 and a $3 token then the buyer exchanges her $3 token for three $1 tokens with the exchange (without involvement of the merchant) and then pay the merchant with a $4 and a $1 token?
I might start using that when people suggest adding new tech. If they can't explain it at that level, then it's going to be a difficult sell.
Furries have known this power for decades.
And when it goes off the rails: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud_syndrome
That's fine (and not terribly different from how I use Facebook and other stuff, actually). But then your question becomes "What do I really miss out on for not using Facebook exclusively?" to which the answer is "Absolutely nothing. kthxbye."
Thanks a lot for the recommendation, it's a great collection of short stories.
This literally reads like I would describe my parents. Dot for dot, it's same reaction to the same statements that I made to my parents.

What really enlighten me, however, is reading this site: http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html

This is about the world of estranged parent's forums, how they react, how they write about their children when they don't want to contact them, or when they make it clear why they treat them such way.

If you care enough to learn about this behavior more (although, I've to admit, it's hard to accept what is said there on the site), I strongly recommend giving a read of this site, it takes about one/two evenings to go through all the stories there.

Tl;dr is that some people are just wired this way, it's like they literally have a blockage somewhere in their mind, that doesn't allow them to express themselves any other way, such as more compassionate people do it. Once you learn that, talking with them becomes easier once you recognize the patterns.
It's hypothetical. They have never built this material.

Lately I think the Chinese are publishing bunk science like this in an effort to sap money out of the Western military's productive research efforts.
An anecdote to counter yours: I am French, my wife is Japanese and we live in Barcelona in Spain where the school is in catalan. Our four years old understands Japanese and Catalan quite well (similar to a monolingual kid) and can speak French, English and Spanish a bit (I speak to him in French, adn with my wife we speak English) but not as well as a monolingual kid. Ofmcourse we have to see how it will turn out for him, but to me in terms of languages he's pretty much like a sponge.
I'm just saying in a previous life I used to spend a ton of time fighting with IPSec NAT traversal issues. With TCP encapsulation (e.g. SSL VPN), you don't have that problem. Most NAT firewalls do a good job dealing with TCP. Other protocols are more questionable.

When I'm using wifi at a coffee shop and start getting a bunch of packet loss, I will switch to a tethered 3G connection. When my SSL VPN reconnects, the VPN server hands me back the same IP address I had before. In some cases, my SSH sessions don't even drop.
Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks
Gealic is not mandatory. English-only schools in west of ireland are underfunded. Parents could sign their children into English school with 50 another kids in single class, or into Geelic school with 20 children in class.
I agree. Another one is the rsync logo, which also works as a good image of its functionality.

http://rsync.samba.org/
Things will definitely get a bit longer if you make the source more uniform. I sympathize with you on the quotation marks, though; I think it might be nice to toss just those. Lemme try that.
I never found inventory object hierarchies to be a sore point in developing games (hobby games admittedly).
You can have a look at the Go implementation: https://github.com/facebookgo/inject/blob/master/inject.go
Would the experience be similar to a hangover? Or is my understanding biology that bad?
You don't have uBlock Origin?
To be honest as a user you don't see the difference with 2000s-era featurephones: the UX is the same (same kind of menus, same D-pad navigation, same slowness here and there ...). You don't have any idea it's all a bunch of javascript files; it's not like you have ad-ridden bloated sluggish websites.

As a user I don't believe it matters that much what OS or what language you're using as long as it's stable and functional. KaiOS definitely fits the bill
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In the Netherlands, the police will put out "trap" bikes, and wait for you to buy it from a homeless person. Then they'll swoop down on you and charge you with something like conversion.
Yes, F# relies on a JIT, but not just as Node does. F# compiles to CIL, the .Net runtime bytecode format. It is much more like Python bytecode (pyc) or JVM bytecode (jar) than like Javascript.

FAFAIK Node doesn't compile to an intermediate language, it either compiles to minimzed (lets-just-remove-all-whitespace) Javascript, or it generates a native binary.
I think CLIs should be able to provide a very generic UI from their command definitions like this:

https://github.com/hediet/ts-cli/blob/master/cli/README.md
Hmmm, what stops Google from doing it anyway? Chrome is the de-facto standard nowadays with every other browser being under 10% market share except Safari holding out around 20%.
I suggest renaming it to "woq", pronounced "woke".
I couldn't agree with you more. We have a fundamental culture of constant growth. It is by definition unsustainable.

My hope is that if we did manage to ward off death for a bit longer, we might transcend some of our flawed notions.

Who knows? Maybe young humans are fools, and that's the problem.
> I think the most amazing thing about SICP is that there are so FEW people who hate it: if Knuth were right, then only 1 out of 50 people would be giving this 5 stars, instead of about 25 out of 50.

This presumes that the people reviewing the book are a random sampling of the population, rather than being significantly skewed toward a subpopulation in which the "the one person in 50 who has this strange way of thinking that makes a programmer" was overrepresented compared to the population at large.

People who have enough interest in programming to pick up a text on it, enough concern about programming texts to bother to write give feedback on one, and -- more importantly -- all that for one with SICPs reputation for rigor and focus on a language that isn't the currently-industrially-popular language-du-jour are going to include people who have the "strange way of thinking that makes a programmer" at, one would expect, a much higher rate than the general population.

> what should we optimize for in a intro to CS class and why?

That depends, among other things, on the role of CS in the broader curriculum. There's more than one right answer: SICP has one focus, HtDP has another -- and both are appropriate focuses for an intro to CS course. SICP represents a focus that is appropriate for a first course for majors in an environment where CS isn't part of the "core", HtDP has a focus that is appropriate for a first course in CS as part of the core curriculum.
Oh, just an admission that when you pull the workbench down, what you find might not be very exciting :)
If the negatives outweigh the positives, would there be improvements?
this is incredibly disheartening to read...
A quick summary of what Mesosphere is working (DCOS - the datacenter opearting system) on is at https://mesosphere.com/ .

Apache Mesos, the core of Mesosphere's infrastructure, has been in use by companies like Twitter for years to manage clusters with 10s of thousands of servers. http://mesos.apache.org/
There is nothing usual about private companies raising $4b.
Note to self: Add to list of things I should make.
re chopping the top off: LCD manufacturers appear to be transitioning from 16:10 displays to true 16:9 (which i guess is for better movie displays?)... This seems stupid to me as well.
1. Dangerous means causing injury, not just death.

2. How many times has autopilot disengaged and would've caused injury without human intervention?
I will confess that I'd struggle to go back to java now. Kotlin has all the sensibility with just enough power to make me happy. I get to live in the JVM eco-system without the song-and-dance of something like scala.
Congrats Dalia! Thank you for sharing your story. I just about teared up in public reading it. I hope you have a great summer.
Hey author here,
I Would love to know why :)
> You just need to remember to open results in a new tab instead

Google[0] and DDG[1] both have user settings which allow you to open results in a new tab by default.

Sources are first results which appeared accurate:

[0] https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how-to-have-google-bing-search...

[1] https://ccm.net/faq/40410-duckduckgo-open-results-in-new-win...
The median valuation in Stockton would be $350K. Your poorer 1/3rd millionaires will be screwed also. Which is pretty much everyone in CA who has owned for 10 years.

I guess they can all move to trailer parks in the Mojave and make way for the real millionaires.
> Just like US did not fail in Vietnam

In the alternate history where the US did not turn tail and run out of Vietnam like a whipped dog, abandoning their former allies in the south to be utterly subsumed by their enemies from the north, how did the 1976 election turn out. Was it still Carter?