jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We built a similar proof of concept just this weekend, at London Startup Weekend. http://london.startupweekend.org/

It doesn't contain any real information, and is targeted at people who want to take holidays, instead of just flights, but is the same concept.

It'll also do some analysis of your facebook profile to automatically sort results so you instantly get relevant places to go.

It's still purely a proof of concept, and a bit crashy on Heroku because of a bug in the facebooker ruby gem (don't facebook connect right now!), but that should be fixed when we have more time to work on it.

http://www.zolidays.com/
"Have Budget, Want Holiday"
It's like saying "grownup".

There is no hard-and-fast rule or time.

IMO, there is some factor or ratio to where you are now vs. where you want to get to and a matter of risk and acceleration involved in doing so.

EG: if you're selling website templates and making $100K/year and want to make $250K/year and can do so mostly through basic growth with minimal risk, you're not a "startup".

If you want to get to $25M/year and you're going to take some huge risks and leaps of faith to do so at a rapid pace, you are a startup.
They're definitely showing you historical prices from their cache. Kayak gets such a huge volume of traffic that they can use the lowest price on that route seen in the last 24 hours and have pretty good coverage/accuracy.

Personally, this thread is eye opening because I work on a similar product. I saw this when it came out (a couple weeks ago maybe). My first impression wasn't that it was particularly impressive, but apparently I just don't know what's cool for users in a travel product =P
Would a search tool other than grep change how you write code?
Once the gov't collapses under its own weight people will start singing a different tune.

"The only problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
> Who gives a crap?

I would agree if 'male' and 'female' were arbitrary labels. But they're not. Gender is far less arbitrary than, say, race. It is reasonable to suppose that even a small shift in power between the sexes might affect how they interact, and by extension, society (and not necessarily for the worse, of course). In other HN articles it has been claimed that big changes happen when the sex ratio is put out of balance by even small amounts.

> In other words, treat people like the individuals and stop ANY form of discrimination based on irrelevant categories, sex-based or otherwise.

This is beside the point. As a demographic, men are becoming less privileged without there being overt discrimination against them. This is newsworthy.
Believe this is what you are waiting for, just like myself!

You can get it directly from:

http://blog.libinpan.com/SafariExtensions/HackerNews/HackerN...

Hope you will like it. Thanks!
I was disappointed there was no actual robot in the article.
Ah! Hadn't heard about this. Professional programs usually don't offer need-based aid a lot, so this probably still doesn't go a long way. I was thinking more for undergrad programs, where need-based aid is much more common, and not too many students (none for internationals) qualify for gov grants, which might have similar provisions.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but isn't this trivial to solve by just having a deduping filter at the lower level? When the higher level starts keeps sending duplicate packets, just ignore them. Duplicate packets at this layer will always be useless, because your lower layer is already implementing reliability semantics. Then, when you get ACKs from the other side, translate those packets to match the sequence numbers that the higher level is expecting (i.e. the most recent sequence number that was sent out corresponding to a packet with those contents).
I use BitTorrent Sync.

http://www.getsync.com
The same thing seems to happen in many mailing lists or newsgroups once they reach a certain size, as well as on discussion boards, stackoverflow, and other sites like wikipedia. One person called them 'RTFM jerks': http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006033100126OPCY
On the python lists, they were called NIMPY ("Not in my Python!"): http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=87182

You combine a power structure (control over others in some respect) with pseudonymity and you'll accelerate this problem. Even without a power structure, people will try to dominate, bully others, by posting more frequently than anyone else in an effort to drown out other opinions or contributions. The anonymity disinhibits this behavior further (called the "greater internet fuckwad theory"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
Here's a java simulation I wrote about 10 yrs ago showing visually how a single quit behaves under various operations. Didn't quite get to completing the two quit case (which is where entanglement enters the picture and he's more interesting).

https://github.com/jeffwass/Squankum
this week i found that IA has hundreds of magazines scanned about a hobby of mine (wood working). That's awesome! I can read these on my ipad for free and don't need to hit up shoddy sites, bad apps, or expensive digital subscriptions.

http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Home%20and%...
Author of blog post here: That has been my experience as well. People tend to overestimate their performance requirements. Then, in the name of improving performance, they do all kinds of things that bring down their productivity and increase the complexity of their code (choosing C++ as the programming language is one of those things), but they never verify if any of those things really made enough of a difference, if any, to create value.

Another thing I noticed is that of those people who do have serious performance requirements (OS kernel etc.), many choose C over C++. We all know what the most famous example is. I have no experience in this area. I wonder if there is any data on the use of C vs. C++ vs. other languages like Go in that realm.
Azure in the private cloud has been a flop though, in fact I'm not even sure you could run a equivalent Azure cloud privately. Meanwhile OpenStack is going gangbusters.
Isn't the "go up by a factor of ten" pattern you describe more of your parents spending behaviors (until you are old enough to get odd jobs by yourself) than anything else?

The concept of "save money and put your loose change coins into a piggy bank" could be much older than how much disposable income kids[1] today have. My hypothesis: Maybe the intended lesson was more coherent with the reality a century ago.

Here is the first graph I found with a search engine of USD purchasing power: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032048/value-us-dollar-... . After the Napoleonic wars until WW2 or so the purchasing power of 1 U.S. dollar spend most of its time increasing followed by sudden drastic drops in value during ... the Civil War and WW1.

[1] Or a random HN user got as a kid.
What CPU is it running? Because last time I checked the Intel microcode wasn't open source
This essay has a lot of good points but seems to be unwilling to bring up the elephants in the room:

Do we need to be productive? If not, should we aim to be productive? What should we do with those who are unable, or choose not to be productive? (Ignoring, of course, the issue of how we quantify productivity...)

Are we not socially useful merely by existing? Is a smile between me and a stranger worthless, merely because it's not 'productive'?
How does your team scope out and schedule work? For us, we do two week sprints and then have a few hard launch dates a year. It's often hard for us to finish all work we commit to without working a bit of OT.

I've always wondered how google manages this process.
The use of "Britons" sounds tone deaf to me, and hence a rather bad choice given that they presumably actually want to stop this (British, but more confused than anything).

http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/engl...
We used PSpice at uni: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSpice
> To summarize, the design of biological systems is random. It was a hard pill for me to swallow.

There are so many things about our universe that are very non-random, such as the physical laws, and more specifically the spherical shapes of planets/stars, the flatness of their surfaces, the flow of energy from stars to planets, etc.

An analogy could be that life forms randomly evolving with these constraints are like water particles randomly floating through a river. There are plenty of variations in where the particles can go, but they flow in a general direction.
Panasonic rugged devices are modular, so it's technically feasible, even if the economics are not there yet.

ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/panasonic/business/toughpad/downloads/Panasonic-Toughpad-FZ-M1-Configurations.pdf
Do you spend most of your life sleeping on public beds, lounging on public sofas, and public furniture? Eat most of your meals in restaurants? Rent your clothes? I'll spend some time in a hotel if I have to (i.e. far from home, no friends or family where I'm going), but I don't pay to sleep in a hotel or couch surf in my own neighborhood, nor do I rent cars unless I'm out of town.

I own my own home, means of transportation, eat most of my meals at my own table...the idea of being a renter of all the major environmental necessities of life is simply not appealing to me in the slightest. I'd rather sleep in my own natural latex, bed bug free bed, and sit on my own sofa or read a book on my own chair, call me crazy. There's never sticky goo on mine, or weird smells. I like private ownership.

For me, Uber is the opposite of "people I know and trust," and I have no desire to have them monetize my movements.
"1M shares at 0.2 BTC each" is correct, but that's 200k BTC or roughly $60 million at current prices. The S-1 was originally drafted when BTC was at ~$100 back in June 2013.
E: actuality we’ve just found a way to do X. 24 hours regained!!
Digital cameras very quickly became a commodity. The underlying technology is very scalable and it is harder to distinguish oneself in this space.

I think a more apt analogy is film vs. CCD, rather than film camera vs. digital camera. Kodak was a films company, not necessarily a camera company. In that sense, Kodak is (was?) a manufacturing company, with strength in manufacturing films, etc.

Would Kodak have the same competitive advantages if it switched to manufacturing CCD arrays? Probably not... The nature of the sensors are so different.

In hindsight, they probably lost the game much before the advent of digicams. Some decision at some point in 1970s or 1980s, Kodak executives/management probably decided against diversifying.

Edit: Sure enough, found an article that talks about how Fujifilm continues to thrive: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702037504045771704...

Answer: Diversification. Quoting the article:

> What Fujifilm did was to look further than simply moving to digital photography from analog. Instead, the company tapped its chemical expertise for broader uses, such as drugs and liquid-crystal display panels. Cosmetics, as well: It seems the process for stopping photos from fading can be used on skin, too.
> "The most decisive factor [for our success] was how drastically we were able to transform our businesses when digitalization occurred," Mr. Komori said. What set Fujifilm apart from Kodak, he said, was the Japanese company's effort to branch out by employing technologies originally developed for photography.
> And one of Fujifilm's latest endeavors is cosmetics—it has its own Astalift skin-care line—that use antioxidation technology for preventing photos from fading.
>The company also has spent ¥650 billion since 2000 to acquire health-care companies. Fujifilm acquired midsize drug maker Toyama Chemical Co. for $1.4 billion in 2008 and last month agreed to buy U.S. medical-equipment maker SonoSite Inc. for $995 million.
How is this better than Google maps, which is also available on both platforms?
No you wouldn’t take CRT.
This sort of article also seems to pander to a certain sort of personal control-freakery - "if I just change this one more thing about myself, then I'll be truly successful!"
This looks awesome, but needs a privacy policy (at a minimum) before I'm giving it any of my customer info.
I have family from all sorts of sides in WW2.

If they managed to feed themselves despite naval blockades and bombings, without the country completely falling apart, I don’t see why we can’t.

Of course, this might mean more agricultural land for vegetables instead of livestock. Changing our behaviour. Make do with less-than-straight carrots. People starting their own vegetable patches on balconies. Not throwing out half the food we buy. Maybe rationing. It might very well suck.

We’re from a cushy world. It will take time to adapt. But in the face of necessity we’ll manage.

The last thing we should do is to prepare (and hope?) for total anarchy. Serves nobody.
This is related to the Euphoria language which has a long history so I gather this is not something that was quickly slapped together. http://phix.x10.mx/docs/html/eucompat.htm
It was just the last 10k lines right? That used to just be a few months of backup chats with my girlfriend. I'd have to have made about 20 different backups (and somehow time them right) over time and pieced them together to get a full picture. And then it'd still be text-only.
Yes. That is correct. The expectation is to run these on RISC-V hardware (mostly emulators are used now due to limited hardware availability but that is not the end goal).

* Technically it may be possible to run RISC-V on Intel/AMD CPUs by modifying the microcode but not that much is known about what exactly the microcode does and it will likely not be very performant.
Oh damn, good catch. This is the default Ghost team we're using. Let me see how I can remove this. Thanks!
I think the ship would be loaded with a big stack of one time pad, not just one, because that'd severely limit the number of message they could send
> There is a pending patent dispute with Blackberry and a German court ordered them to remove the chat export for German users.

A patent on backup up files?! Oh frak this system is broken beyond repair...
> It was strange how reticent doctors were to prescribe something and instead just told us she was going to die. If she’s believed to be terminal anyway, why not prescribe a relatively well known drug and see if it helps?

Because according to EBM nothing exists and nothing works unless it's proven with a big RCT.

Yes, it's ridiculous. Especially as in your case.
That's strange, here in Sweden electric heating is seen as old and wasteful. In cities most use district heating, others use heat pumps or some kind of bio fuel. At least for new houses, but it's also common as a retrofit.
I am no expert, but "Signal rolling their own crypto" isn't the same as "X rolling their own crypto":

1. Folks spear-heading the Noise Protocol Framework (upon which Signal's protocol is based) are cryptographers [0].

2. They built upon existing standards for one specific purpose: Creating two-way secure channels [1].

[0] https://signal.org/docs/

[1] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3gipxdJ22iM
Quite. We're talking about a company that's under commercial pressure to systematically learn all it can about you, in other words, to bypass/do away with your privacy. And has a person at the helm with a revolutionary zeal that's perfectly aligned with that commercial pressure.

Somewhat like Google+Schmidt.
The original D compiler was written in C++ and used bits of the C++ compiler (like its optimizer and code generator), and was eventually converted to 100% D. It still kinda looks like C++.

It's like my early Fortran code looked like Basic, my early C code looked like Fortran, my C++ code looked like C, and my D code looked like C++.

It takes a while to write code idiomatic to the language your using.
It's not that people wouldn't approve a tax increase to support it. The issue is that every politician in the state would attack a light rail project for the city.

The city managed to complete a street car after ten years, but it faced opposition from the mayor, the governor, and federal congressman. The congressman in question even pushed a law that would prohibit any federal funding from going to the operation of the project. How fucked up is that? A congressman who prevents federal funding from flowing into their district.
So, who else noticed that the form actually works and applied?
I think they are solving this with Roslyn on VS 2015.
Nice to see someone who's not swallowing the snake oil.
Yes. However, I think how well this works depends on how many cores you have and how evenly you spread those processes across each core.
Orders of magnitude less than will end up with cancer because of the altitude jets fly at.
How should we send in updates/corrections? Seems that the doc is read only.
"iTunes LP" includes extras, and always cost more on the iTunes store. I don't know why standard versions are not available.
In a startup cash is scarce. You can find best ways to give other than cash. For example, take your team to do some volunteer work in your community. Extra karma if your cause is consistent with your company's story.
You can afford a MacBook Pro but you can't afford an SSD that costs 25% of that?

(A really fast expensive SSD is around $400.)
I remember reading something about an anesthesiologist who got into hacking the scheduler targeting desktop use cases. He generally said that the scheduler gets a lot more attention from people who care more about server work loads and such. He had his own custom kernel patches that people used to get directly from him that weren't in the mainstream kernel -- This was before the era of multi-core, but people said his scheduler had better responsiveness than the default one.
Same, in Safari 5 on Leopard
This reminds me of the $300 million button: http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button

They significantly increased their revenue by simply allowing customers to purchase without having to create account.
MIT undergraduates in the class of 2024 are 42% Asian. White is 39%. What makes you think MIT discriminates against Asian students?
> “Unwitting silent parole” allows the F.B.I. to issue foreign nationals a document that looks to them like a visa but in fact grants them permission to enter the country only for the Bureau’s purposes.

So anyone entering the United States could actually be walking into a trap. Good to know.
Excellent to see the continual progress of my favourite text editor. So long as the quality bar stays high and the price doesn’t become unreasonable, Sublime Text has a customer in me.
Many person-lifetimes of work have been spent on fighting spam/abuse/harassment on internet platforms. The idea proposed here is to greatly reduce this cost by making users pay a small, fully refundable deposit.
I also dream of becoming a sky pirate :)
It's not a book, but Christophe Pettus' blog (https://thebuild.com/blog) has a lot of really good information. In particular, his talk "Breaking PostgreSQL at Scale" goes through the problems you run into as you hit different levels of scale (https://thebuild.com/presentations/2019-fosdem-broken.pdf)
The data would have been either from abuse of API's by third party apps or find your friend. From the dataset, it seems to be exclusively limited to the data immediately viewable on your profile, hence the reason so few emails appeared in this leak.
I agree that, in any objective sense, God doesn't exist outside of the human mind.

But there is the rub -- the way I experience my own existence is largely through my own mind. Sure, sometimes I'm aware of senses like physically feeling a texture, or smelling or tasting food. But, say, approximately 90% of the time I experience the world through my thoughts and emotions and whatever else would fit into the rough category of "mind". So it's easy to get confused.

Like I said, I don't really believe in God, but I also don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, as it were. Spirituality and religion are still very powerful forces in people's lives, and are interesting subjects of study. For example, I have found Buddhism and mindfulness meditation to be especially helpful in my life. But the benefits have come from more than an academic study -- it has required actually meditating and struggling with ideas and changing.

I think that it's important to study them in an academic sense, and also really dive in and live the experience. Ideally there is a sensible balance between the two extremes.

I guess that this post was more of a way for me to share that I'm not a strict atheist, like it seems a lot of people are here on HN. I think there is a lot of valuable discussion and understanding still to be gleaned from the topic.

If I had to sum it up in one sentence I'd say: "God doesn't exist, and God doesn't exist in a really interesting way"
> only downside anyone else on your ip or range you specified can use that proxy too.

If you have ssh access, you can set up a proxy on the remote server, and use ssh dynamic port forwarding (-D) to forward the proxy connections on your local machine.

Using this trick you can safely use any ssh capable machine as a proxy. It works like a charm.
> You mention not being able to share a browser which makes me think of the times where it would have been convenient to look something up for a moment while my pair experimented (two pronged problem solving approach... :).

Definitely. Occasionally we'll read docs in w3m, but often it's good to go async on looking up some boring details.

What we do is probably more driver/navigator since whomever is hosting usually has better latency. The remote guy can still get around just fine, but it's just barely noticeable enough to give an edge to the host. Since we work in a language that makes it easy to do strict FP, (Clojure) test-first is not as important as it would be in an imperative language, though we do have pretty good coverage.
There were 44 deaths in Canada

https://globalnews.ca/news/6458609/looking-back-toronto-sars...
I haven't heard of most of those, but if you want to avoid crunch, Heavy Gear is the wrong direction. I played a one shot a year or two ago and I was overwhelmed by all of the player stats/skills/attributes I had to keep track of.
I've seen plenty of graphs where people plot the epidemics correcting for start date in each country, that seems pretty useful.

Edit: Here you go, here's one corrected for day of 100th case.

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1241149458089418752
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn (which links to databases collecting a particular kind of plausible misunderstanding).
Are you implying that the reason the hospitals are overwhelmed is that they are admitting people that could just "ride it out at home"? Because that is certainly not the problem. Many COVID patients need to be on 24/7 ventilation in the ICU to stay alive, including young and healthy ones. Way more than the hospitals can cope with.

This is not about people's attitudes towards healthcare, this is about thousands and soon millions of people suddenly requiring emergency medical treatment, way beyond what the health system can cope with.
Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley because I want games that won't exacerbate my already high-strung anxiety from the current news.
I had a couple of weeks paralysis as a result of a bad flue in my teens. Scary as hell.
> Are other major metropolises locked down similarly? Beijing, Shanghai?

Kuala Lumpur has all unessential services and schools closed. Supermarkets are open.

People aren't allowed outside apart from going to work or the shops. Police are enforcing this and they've brought in the Army to help stop people spending time in parks.