jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love seeing this, HN members teaming up. Let me add some strategies:

"Dog Strategy" - Use timing to win. Certain times of the day or month or year goals are easily accomplished and obstacles easier to overcome, use those times to your advantage. For instance on HN, certain times of the week it is easier to get a post on front page.

"Leopard Strategy" - The leopard strategy stresses taking actions based on your strengths and directing this action at your opponent’s weaknesses(Differs from aiming at your opponents weakness, in that you use your strength to target their weakness). For instance, in selecting your major choose something you are good at(strength), and when choosing modules, choose lecturers with a reputation for high class average(weakness).

These were taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Secret_Teachings
The site isn't actually down. I can load the pages, it just takes a minute or two. Give it time.
Aside from the topic of landing pages - BuckyBalls seems like an extremely slimey company. Look up Buckyballs vs. Zen Magnets, or see http://boingboing.net/2010/09/24/buckyballs-magnet-ma.html
http://www.dreamhost.com/unlimited.html has details.
You should disclose everything you can about the site, including the tecnological aspects.

That said there may be items that you feel are your "secret sauce" then let users know that if they want that information, they need to DM you or you will tell them what you do generally and then tell them you will provide all the details/contacts etc. post sale.
How dysfunctional are these doctors? I was in urgent care last week for a foot injury, and right on the wall in the exam room were some awareness posters about Ebola and antibiotics, yet every time a discussion of some awareness issue comes up, people talk about how doctors aren't even on top of things (maybe I'm stretching a bit to call generics vs marketed an awareness issue, but I don't think so).

(My foot is fine, I got a cold, yay hospitals)
Hitler was not elected.

Please stop propagating the myth. Hitler did have genuine support, but he lost the 1932 presidential election. The Nazis never achieved a parliamentary majority as a party until all the other parties were banned.

In 1932 Germany, the Chancellor was appointed by the President, who was elected. Paul von Hindenberg won the election. He appointed Hitler to the Chancellorship. Hitler achieved power via the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act, not ballots.
The fact that can and does occur means the ideas of laws are broken.

But that's just the anarchist in me speaking.
The punchline is the second to last paragraph:

> Today, De Beers hold on the industry supply chain is less strong. And yet, price continue to rise as new deposits haven’t been found recently and demand for diamonds is increasing in India and China. For now, it’s less necessary that the company monopolize the supply chain because its lie that a diamond is a proxy for a man’s worth in life has infected the rest of the world.

So the monopoly is gone, prices are rising because of fixed supply in the face of increasing demand, but diamonds are still bullshit because their value is based on a consumer irrationality.

I hate to break it to the guy, but half of the consumer economy is built on irrationality (and half of silicon valley is built on advertising that irrationality to consumers). Pretty much every luxury good is purchased for signaling reasons. Paying more for a diamond with a particular clarity grade or color isn't any less irrational than paying more for a top-end BMW, even though you'll never take it over 60 because of all the traffic.
Watson is a very nice tech, a strong example of how machine intelligence extends human capacity. If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, Watson is a moon rocket.
A mixture of private security firms, local police and a Federal Rail Transport Police, depending on the exact situation?
IME, the best way to get that is to work at a larger, more developed company that's remote-friendly.

For example, I used to work for LivingSocial. They're based in DC, but have offices + developers around the country.

I worked in their SF office with a handful of developers and the other half of our team was at the headquarters in DC.

Also, developers on related teams were scatted across the country. Occasionally, getting help from someone meant snagging their time over Skype/Hangouts.

Now, I can put on my resume that I have remote experience.

This link lists some companies that would be a good start (CMD+F 'remote DNA'):
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
I typically read the comments after I read a link, but yeah I do value the comments. Sometimes they're bullshit but most of the time I enjoy them.
I was involved in these discussion for Ubuntu ... back in 2011.

You can see some discussion here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop-...

and even more here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop-...

net/net even back then, no matter how much effort we put into it, we could never make it work on even most machines because there was just too much variability. The OEM team could make it work for specific machines that Ubuntu was pre-installed on, but otherwise, hibernate was just a bug farm.
I think Element is unable to do this since they have nobly chosen a federated protocol.
This article mirrors my feelings toward this announcement well. I spent a significant amount of time trying out different messaging apps and convincing my friends and family to move over from Telegram and WhatsApp. I used my reputation and their trust in my expertise.

The whole blockchain industry is just too mixed with scams that I feel comfortable to have my non-tech relatives dealing with it. It's enough that I have to educate them on 'investments' in random coins (it's gambling) and cure their FOMO regarding NFTs. Now the technology will be integrated into the messaging app that I endorsed, well-packed together with the smelly involvement of Moxie with the currency.

What now?
I like your IIFE there. It's more elegant than the way I usually see this one fixed:

for (var i = 0; i < domElems.length; ++i) {
domElems[i].onclick = clickHandler(i);
}

function clickHandler(n){
return function(){
console.log(n);
};
}
Holy crap. I count over 100 cases of Monster suing people/companies so I have zero sympathy for them in this case. The real kicker on Monster Cable is that their products aren't even worth the price being outperformed by "inferior" cables costing way, way less[1][2].

[1]-http://gizmodo.com/282725/the-truth-about-monster-cable---gr...

[2]-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxfLXH6qe9w
Between 20-30% would be my best guess. I'm including business emergencies as well, regarding client support. These emergencies get me out of the groove, which also adds up wasted time, while I try to get back into what I was working on.
Companies that want that sort of environment need to structure the entire business process around spontaneous collaboration, not just pay lip service to it.

The reason I didn't hit deadline X? 5 "spontaneous collaborations" happened at my desk in 3 days. Wait... I don't get my bonus because we missed the deadline? But... my collaborations helped the marketing dept hit their goal ahead of time, and they did it by coming to my desk and asking me questions. Oh... that'a a different budget?

If you want to foster that sort of behavior, make sure all of the aspects of the business line up in support of it, not just the facilities budget because "open plan" is cheaper than private offices with doors.
Doesn't having a time-series index -- where new entries are only being added to the end of the index, never updating the middle of the index -- make it a little less expensive?
Then, how does Garage achieve 'different geographical locations'? I only have my house to put my server(s). That's one of the main reasons I'm using cloud storage. Or is the point that I can arrange those servers abroad myself, independent of the software solution (S3 etc)?
I'm not "in the space" but there are many reasons a detractor might give for being doubtful.

- Intel is not already experienced in designing high-end graphics cards, so there's less institutional knowledge in the company

- Intel iGPUs have a mediocre reputation

- Intel has a history of failed attempts to enter the GPU/accelerator space (e.g. i740 and Larabee)

- DG2 has been delayed from the timeline that was expected in the techspace when we first heard about it

- The person leading Intel Xe is Raja Koduri who led AMD graphics during AMD Vega (though it's unclear how responsible he is for its shortcomings) and arguably has a history of overpromising.

That said I'm pretty bullish on Intel GPUs because supply still hasn't caught up with demand, so as long as they are reasonably functional, I think they will succeed.
This game is simultaneously more stressful, less challenging, and less fun than wordle. I especially hate the timer
Summary of what the article is about:

> The good where 3D printing is most common is hearing aids. Nearly 100 percent of all hearing aids consumed in the world are produced using 3D printing.33D printers transformed the hearing aid industry in less than 500 days in the mid-2000s, which makes this product a unique natural experiment to assess the trade effects of this technology. In particular, we use the example of hearing aids to examine the effects of 3D printing on international trade and to study how trade patterns have changed as production technologies shifted.

Spoiler: 3D printing of hearing aids increased trade.
If you are doing everything by hand, perhaps. But if you are working at a higher level of abstraction using something like Apache Airflow, it will take care of making the map for you.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no mention of confidence intervals for the testing framework they use.

In testing concurrency constructs and primitives with a framework like that there is always a non-zero probability of ending up with a false positive. I mean, it would make sense to at least hint at the results not being the ultimate source of truth. I have seen no mention of this.

What am I missing?
You're not left wing. You're a liberal.
Caddy is cool! Redbean is magic :p

Thanks for sharing.
Thx for suggesstion, but the images that can be downloaded out there aren't matching the description that is given at the article (they seems to be processed in some way), nor they are sequenced and can't to be downloaded in batch. Based on article, i am expecting to get 1024x1024 monochrome images.
> But there is truly no practical benefit for mankind to be had in trying to answer to what extent various dinosaur species were endothermic and feathered.

Except we’re an insatiably curious species and it sates our curiosity.
Sorry, I think my comment came across the wrong way. I wasn't criticizing your approach, but rather advocating that it's an effective and well-tested method to earn, potentially, good money. As long as the product is solid, like it is in your case, I really don't see an issue with what you are doing.
ORM and MVC are not the exclusive domain of a web framework. They are frameworks in and of themselves. That is the problem, people think of the data (ORM), the controller and the view framework as the same thing because they have all been lumped into these "Super Frameworks". They are not and they do not need to be. The old page-post model of web development is antiquated and the frameworks are now trying to deal with that fact by bolting AJAX on top of them and making an even bigger "Super Framework" but there is really no need and it actually pollutes the frameworks with opposing development philosophies; creating more complexity rather than reducing it. The fact of the matter is, that the server only needs RESTful endpoints and an ORM framework (if you are using an OO language). Services by definition represent server logic controllers.

As for the view, they are better served by an event driven framework than they are by MVC in which UI elements are encapsulated and message the greater system via events. I have done it the page-post way for a long time and was a resistant convert, but after building web and mobile apps the new way I have come to find that it is much cleaner and faster to pull the UI off of the server, if it had not been for the browser wars we would have been here a lot sooner.
I did not downvote you, but if you asked the next 100 people ,whom you do not know and own a cellphone, "What is Symbian" noone will answer.
You're assuming that Apple's traditional branding has anything to do with Apple's actions nowadays. Apple branding has been about being an iconoclast, identifying with '60s rock and drug counterculture, embracing openness and freedom — remember Steve Jobs talking about how Bill Gates should drop acid like him? remember the Apple pirate flag? — and now Apple rejects pin-up girl apps from the App Store, even with a 17+ rating, and tells people that if they're that kind of deviant, they can take their counterculture-tarnished hands over to Android.
Thinkpad T series, DELL Latitude (some at least), most business-class laptops meaning integrated graphics and lots of ram, and possibly a SSD. These don't change as fast, if you want a cooler laptop don't get anything with a discreet graphics card or that is advertised as being made for gaming.
Ok, let's take another one. Consider me to be doing fuzzy experimental math philosophy. I am not a mathematician and never want to be one so the universe won't explode.

I'm going to reject the Continuum Hypothesis, ok? (Math tells me I can take it or leave it, so I'm going to leave it.) Now I take a subset of the reals, including Q, with lower cardinality but uncountable still. So now "almost all" of reals aren't these guys? And "almost all" of these guys are transcendental or uncomputable? And I can keep injecting infinities in there like this, ok...

Math doesn't tell me I can or can't do this!! So I think I can choose my intuition, and math isn't even going to tell me otherwise.
Yes, the chain would be different. MCS Holding cannot become Comodo (Comodo = AddTrust, btw), so the chain would change to CNNIC -> MCS Holdings -> *.ycombinator.com.
I've found Python to be a rolling disaster and a source of technical debt for any source code which starts to get beyond a single file or 150 lines. (5 years professional Python experience). I hope to transition somehow to write Java or another language with better design framing.

edit: (I know a boatload of different languages - Java is the most comparable and least shocking for developers who aren't FP nerds. Go is inadequately expressive.).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avcJdb8MVXM&noredirect=1
Your post reminds me of those occasional posts where an entrepreneur will post something like: I started a company and now Google has built a near exact copy. Something in the past the entrepreneur should have been worried about. Now, I agree with you: Sit back and wait for Google to pull it, and profit.
Yep, and that's one of the possible futures we do have.

Also Mad Max might have as well been set on Mars, aesthetics matches :)
Too much emphasis on interfaces than on programmability. I don't even know if they follow their own rules too.

Also, they define DELETE as idempotent, which is a little different from how some of us write APIs.
The IP address in question does not seem to be working at this time. Clearly whoever runs the server has shut off access. I wonder if someone managed to save a data dump somewhere?
Station wagons, being lower and not outfitted for 4wd, have taller cabins than most suvs. The physics are pretty clear cut. You have not done your due dilligence and are talking without knowledge of wagons.
In the US, for many folks, their vehicle is an identity statement. Generally minivans, sedans, and econoboxes are the exceptions, but the marketing here for most other car models tries hard to sell some demographic that they can claim somehow to be special. And interesting. I suspect the majority of pickup owners want to make such a statement. For them, driving an SUV would send the wrong message.
When people ask me about home printers for very occasional use, I advise them to use Staples/Office Depot/FedEx office printers at 12-14 cents per page. Saved a lot of people from buying printers.
I've known people who have bought bumpkeys.

That said, it is not that hard to design a lock that cannot be opened with a bumpkey, and there are now some locks that are so designed.
Maybe its the WikiLeaks debacle lately, but somehow my first thoughts were "cool, like that" and then "i cant use it, because i cant trust posterous with my data"..
I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images.

Good job!
Remember this prank image from a few years ago? http://craphound.com/images/netneutralpricing.jpg

Yesterday's jokes are tomorrow's PowerPoint briefings.
http://static.arstechnica.com/12-15-2010/allot3.jpg
It appears that the cancer relative donation isn't actually to the relative, but to a charity. I don't know if that makes much difference to your point, but I think it is the right move if you're going to put up a donate button.
Just because the measure can be gamed doesn't mean it's not worth fighting against.
Well, it's data. I guess it does reduce to "what you have" given that it's not memorable, but as we all know, "what you have" is less convenient than "what you know".
I followed the links to each startup's site. If they didn't provide an address on the site, I checked their whois. If that was private, then I didn't add them to the map. So there are definitely a few that didn't make the cut because they're being extra stealthy.
The author claims that he is a professional developer, while bashing at a programming language (Ruby) because he wanted more abilities from an ORM (AR) of a web framework (Rails).

He thinks that DattaMapper is trending, when it's clearly not(!!) and doesn't know Sequel (another popular actively developed ruby ORM). Hence it's easy to deduce that he doesn't have a clue about the landscape he is talking about.

Yet he is bashing Ruby as if it's hard to write a module with a couple of complex, custom-made raw SQL queries.

... blah! ...
It is amazing how "dumb" modern hardware is. Contrast this with all the stuff on deep neural nets and the coming age of AI and I can't help but wonder how people think you can build smart things with such rigid and "dumb" processors.

Good write-up though.
This. Absolutely this. Also see [1].

[1] http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
I have my own reasons, namely the logistics part of the equation.

What initially gained my interest about Soylent was that it seems that they are developing it in such a way as to reduce logistical burden and ensure ingredients can be found and produced with relative ease.

I'm no expert, for sure, but that they immediately gravitated toward the logistics of food as one key area to attack got my interest. I still have more research to do to fully understand the space, but my gut feeling is that they have a massive potential that is slowly being unlocked.
Awesome work! I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while – you beat me to it :)
Hey guys -- I'd love to get your feedback on Lean Designs, a new web design tool for web developers.

Some of you might be familiar with jMockups [1], a high fidelity mockup tool that was the precursor to Lean Designs. The overwhelming feedback that I received was that people wanted the ability to export their mockups to HTML/CSS. Lean Designs is the result. For additional details, check out the Lean Designs blog [2].

Thank you all for your feedback along the way; the app wouldn't be what it is without your direction.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829657

[2] http://blog.leandesigns.com/2011/04/introducing-the-lean-des...
Wow, that's a very good idea.

If anything, I think you might be able to charge more. I think 3 free designs/month is very generous.
I was just listening to "Space Night Earthviews" :D
(A late night show in Germany combining great music and visuals. Can be found on YouTube.)
Maybe some good content here, but jesus, does it have to come off as an infomercial?

Although I thought 40 hour work week had some neat ideas in it, my biggest complaint is the army of Tim Ferris clones it has created. I am so tired of the posturing, the "I will flaunt my (real?) success to create success" and other random personality hacks.

I know nothing of the author of this post, but the tone and writing style just makes him sound like he should be screaming the blog post to me, telling me how it is a limited offer.

No offense to you Mr Successful author, this was just the straw that broke my back.

Please.. stop.. the.. madness..

</rant>
Thanks -- I've received a lot of conflicting advice for how to price the app and honestly I'm not sure what direction to go so I'm leaving it as is for now. Might change it down the road (grandfathering in existing users) depending on the feedback. Thoughts?

PS: It's a three design limit period (not per month).
Don't know what's wrong there.

Anyways, it's just a width, line-height, font changes. Just to show a little bit of CSS could have helped and is just for the homepage. Could make a custom css for it, if you want. The site is immensely useful, though.

also, here's a screenshot if you want to compare. http://i.imgur.com/fnu8L.png. again, nothing big though :)
Two days of extra planning would have saved you.
"in the clear over ssl instead of hashing them"? am i missing something here?
is ssl insecure? is there some way to charge a credit card that doesn't actually involve sending the number to anybody?
All the articles listed there have been in the last few weeks. It would be nice to see an all time best of list.

Maybe look at the upvotes vs registered users at the time? That way an article way back with 100 upvotes would be able to compete with a current one with 500.
Wasn't this debunked?
On my first game I got an even better bug:

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After performing en passant the computer went crazy and the King started taking all the pieces between down row 8. I ended up with a very easy checkmate as I walked my pawn the remaining three rows, unfettered even when it was under double pressure from the night and queen.

I wonder if this is perhaps an issue caused by the fact I used OS X's BSD sed.

Edit: Hmm, can't seem to format it right. Anyways, the bug seems to be present in gnu sed as well. Really the whole game was screwy. I started with e2 e4 and it all went down hill from their for my opponent :).
I completely agree with this, to the extent that I enforce this in every place I plan to work with/in. Work in with a small contract, get to know the people/business. Keeps options open for both sides without losing out on time/momentum.