jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Unhappiness: It seems that the typical 9to5er is living for the weekends. Radio stations say things like “it’s hump day, you’re almost there.” Almost where? Why are we constantly trying to get a destination other than where we’re at?"

This is an interesting point that I realized myself not long ago. A lot of people want to get from weekend to weekend, from vacation to vacation. It is a great escape. Their everyday lives somehow seem not very worth living to them. What I find amazing is how many people admittedly live that way, instead of changing something about their everyday life (especially work). Regarding the percentage of our awake time that we work over the course of our lives, it cannot be very healthy to say: Come saturday everything will be alright.
Waking up isn't going to do squat.

I don't challenge them because I know that they no longer value the US Constitution. I know they will rip me from my wife and kids (who rely on me to provide for them). They are all who matter to me.

Unfortunately, the situation's going to require martyrs[1] to be subjected to these abuses and get them traction in the public eye. The San Diego incident is a good example.

As a veteran, what's going on enrages me to no end. People are under the perception that the federal government are supposed to be our rulers. They cannot violate the Constitution, the 4th amendment. They cannot dictate what is a right and what is a privilege. They were not granted that power.

And the civil rights abuses are getting worse under Obama, but few are pointing fingers at him.

[1] Not in the suicide bomber, or any other violent sense, so don't kick down my door.
Here's Neil's original article on the Business of Software blog about the 'accidental incubator':

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/08/the-accidental-in...
same here - it was working yesterday though
Attenuate with a temporal component. Share short bursty material with the people you frequently interact with and dither out over time. Pin things you want your infrequent contacts to see. You keep your “free” speech while slowing the spread of batshit insane brain worms naturally.
1) Property is a positive right. It requires that the state enforce your property claim. This does not come free; it requires taxes, a police force, etc.

2) Property is delimited in scope. You own your parcel. You do not own the neighborhood, even partially. If someone else wants to put up dense housing on their parcels, their property, there is no negative-right violation against you. You are, at that point, just a rent-seeking highway robber.
Immediately made me think of VTubing. A lot of vtubers now are among the most popular streaming channels on Youtube and many of them are probably what you could call above average performers in terms of what content they put out, from music to narrative fiction.

Also reminded of me of an interview with Buckethead explaining his alter ego:

""Because I was always super scared to play, and I didn't really link that together, I just thought 'This is weird.' Like a horror movie guy. And when he saw it he was like 'You should just go for it!' I was like 'That would be cool.' Because I could do everything I liked doing as this character that I'm totally scared to death to do otherwise. And it applied to all the stuff I like, like Disneyland and martial arts and dancing, all that stuff I liked. I was like, 'I can't do it just like me.' It was a great way to get all the stuff out."
Render doesn’t require you to use a YAML file though.

I’ve deployed a couple of things there and never used the YAML files, just the UI.
> It could be personal bias, but a lot of LVT arguments seem to implicitly assume that more rental units is a good thing, which I don't really agree with.

This is a personal bias because you are trying to prevent other people from making their own decision on how they want to live. An uncharitable interpretation of your comment could be that you are forcing your will upon other people against their will.

The fact that an LVT increases personal freedom is usually ignored because personal freedom counts for nothing these days. I find it particularly amusing that we have this group of people called liberals wanting their fake freedom.
Elevator programming... anybody remember this commercial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3rKBw5ZNL4
You get what you (let people) pay for. A drivers license costs ~1500€ here.
About 50% of market economies is centrally planned, via the existence of large companies that plan and organize production not through market signals but simply by issuing commands to their workers.
Is it really any more limiting? They can make programs in Scratch or other web apps on their phone. It's not "real" native software but it wasn't in the 1980's either. Kids then used BASIC interpreters. Compilers for "real" programming languages like C were unaffordable. Even assembly language and machine language were often inaccessible because computers didn't have an assembler or hex editor and you couldn't get new software like that without spending money.
But you wouldn't be able to meaningfully audit a retail bank at all by looking at the ledger, because meaningfully auditing a retail bank involves understanding their loan portfolio (in particular whether the entities loaned to are likely to default more than predicted in future and whether assets loans are secured against retain their value). You're not going to get all that from a transaction ledger, and particularly not one designed with privacy in mind

Simply knowing how many reserves the bank holds gives you no indication whatsoever of its solvency.
Details could be usefully hidden, but also exposed or partially exposed in unexpected and undocumented ways.

OOP is only an attractive and helpful conceptualization of doing something with a data representation in a computer's memory, not a magical way to suppress differences. It doesn't help with incompatible representations, operations and expectations about them except by providing some tools to deal with problems.

On a more formal side, as already noted in other comments, if everything is an Object everything is nothing more than an Object: a one-type programming language is certainly coherent but no good if one wants to write meaningful programs.
I meant that given your app works within the restrictions of GAE you get the benefit of a lot of brainpower from men with long beards.

Maybe the association was temporal as I'd just finished watching an IO presentation about how to scheme data for appengine where the detail was primarily the same as Bezos' first few paragraphs.
I don't think facebook is overvalued. The bubble aspect of the current situation is due to the increased allocation of capital into the tech industry because of big successes such as Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, etc. The worry is that this infusion of capital will result in 'bad' companies getting funded.

Considering how many startups are being founded by MBAs these days (MBAs will always follow the money), you have to wonder if they are all really creating something worthy of their sky high valuations.
One cool thing is that a converted transparent PNG will display properly in IE 6, even though the original doesn't:

http://imgur.com/XA6OE
Good riddance. Her vacuous posts, a step above a "social ninja/guru" need not tarnish the fact that she somehow managed to get a PhD, by making the revelation that Myspace is old, Facebook is new.
Not the same as being a founder is not == nothing.

Being an early stage employee takes guts, it's respected and often they are going play a ginormous role in the success or failure of the company.

But's not the same as being a founder. There is nothing to get bent out of shape about. It's just different.

Similar to how the President bares the ultimate responsibility and stress even though the brave soliders in the field and the generals that command them pay the ultimate price at times.
Sure, but I think it depends on the vendor.

And when your vendor is a bunch of Yahoos that you aren't even paying......
Firefox 4 also has built-in sync (of bookmarks, history, and some configuration stuff if you like), so not the best reason to switch :P Go to Preferences->Sync to set it up.

(It requires both a password and a sync key because they store all your data encrypted. The sync key is used to decrypt it client-side.)
This is pretty amazing and inspiring! Hey care to share the conversion rates - so how many visitors sign up for the trial and then how many of those end up paying?
I don't believe anyone that's applied would know by now if they've made it to the interview. Here are the dates of notification + interview:

Notification of interviews: Thursday, May 12
Interviews: May 23-26
Final Selection: May 26
WOW, that's radical. Next up, she'll add a "/" to her blog name, and we'll all remember that it isn't 1985 any more.
>>But, we do know that those procedures and processes exist for that very reason : to ship a higher quality product

Not always. It is possible for procedures and processes to exist simply because someone somewhere is trying to justify receiving a paycheck. This is especially true for large bureaucracies.

And sometimes, procedures and processes exist because the organization simply does not realize that they are outdated and unnecessary. "This is how we have always done it" is a common saying in large organizations that have been around for a long time.

Bottom line: don't put much faith in procedures and processes. Question everything.
"Kay, this needs to be fixed.

Suggested fix: just use the 'seq_printf()' interfaces, which do the
proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various packetized data.

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it
was a good idea to read things ONE FCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system
calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fck does
idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering
that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?"
- linus https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495

do you want some data on the people who don't even bother dealing with sort of talk? he could easily replace the second paragraph with something like

"This is an extremely bad way of doing things; reading one byte of a time is terrible. Please research the system calls you are using before submitting another patch, it's unacceptable to submit code that hasn't been thought through thoroughly."
yes, quite clear that they didn't give it the priority it warranted (aka giving a shit) - just wanted to point out that there was a friendlier option timing wise. For my money, I'd have seen this disclosed 11 months ago - it's a serious vulnerability to the extent that I'm glad I've never used moonpig.com - but I'd have seen it disclosed in the UK daytime when the company was awake to be able to shut down its API. There's even an argument to be had that waiting as long as this is a little irresponsible - although that's covered to some extent by following up.

I don't know if it's legal to give advance warning of public disclosure - that could easily become a minefield as it might be interpreted as a threat, and linking it to a request to fix could seem coercive.
Yes. What I meant was: voice + sms plan does not replace a data plan. A data plan plus WhatsApp (and perhaps Skype) can replace a voice + sms plan.
"taking a placebo knowing(or hoping) placebo can help" pretty much works the same way as taking placebo without knowing it. Why it is surprise?
The article for me pointed out just how unlikely the entire movie is. I already knew there were a lot of impossibilities in Gravity (changing orbital planes etc) - but reading just how much work it takes to keep two orbiters aligned, and how much work it is to get into and out of a spacesuit. In the movie she gets out of one space suit and then into another, and then out of it again. That right there is impossible from the reading.
OK, 4-5 years ago I was hired by a startup building a data storage/sharing hardware solution that emphasized security. Each storage device could be a an ad hoc member of a group of devices and there were multiple users for each device/group. Individual chunks of data (be it files, filesystems, dirs, etc) had ownership and privileges as did the devices themselves.

What the startup did NOT want to be is the single source of authority or federation for permissions, group membership, user management, etc (they would not only become the single point of attack but the devices themselves would be dependent upon the existence of the company continuing to provide federation services, so going-out-of-business would render the devices useless).

The most obvious solution to those issues was a blockchain-based system. As long as devices existed they could continue to interop, the entries in the blockchain provided audit trails, the entries could be replayed for sync purposes, etc.
Having said all that, I probably would be biased towards someone that has Haskell on their CV (doesn't need to be commercial) as it would indicate intellectual curiosity (and probably some capability) in their profession!
Peyote is the plant, a cactus, and the active chemical it contains is mescaline. Peyote is only legal for native americans religious ceremonies, afaik.
I think it's great. It's not like companies weren't shafting people before; we're just hearing about it more. For decades, companies with money had a big communications advantage. The web has re-leveled the playing field.
Nice,

I've been doing some genealogy research recently (caution: if you are obsessive this can become a real time suck), some of this has involved reading old German and Austrian newspapers, A typical obituary page might have Swiss, Roman and Gothic (black letter) faces, in particular the gothic tends to make extensive use of ligatures
Hmm,

The first part of your statement actually points towards "crazy overreach".

But you could interpret this action using all permutations of the imaginable adjectives and nouns:

{crazy, calculated} X {overreach, legal action}
>>
{"crazy overreach", "crazy legal action",
"calculated overreach", "calculated legal action"}

And I'd be against all of them!
This is utterly shocking. I had no idea that solitary confinement was used in cases other than to prevent physical harm to an inmate or to prevent violence.

It looks like the technique is being used the same way as a "stress position" to slowly turn Manning into a hopeless wreck willing to say anything to see the light of day again.

Regardless of what Manning did (and regardless of whether or not I find it offensive) I don't think anyone -- especially nonviolent offenders -- should be subjected to such inhumane treatment.
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008925

Many comments.
Tires have always been one thing not to skimp on. I've done the junkyard tires once- never again. This is even more important on 2 wheel vehicles, which aren't inherently stable.

In short, if there is one thing in your life you don't try to get away with as cheaply as possible, make it tires. (though, I suppose with bicycles it's not quite as life-or-death as motorcycles)
By the sounds of it, Seattle is very similar to Vancouver. We average about two weeks of snow a year - roughly one week in November/December, then another week in January/February. Each time there's only about 3 or so inches of snow. Usually it's not a problem on main roads, but this year we got a little more snow than usual. The zip-ties would come in extremely handy for the several days of on-road-snow we actually have to worry about. For us Pacific Norwesters, $100 studded tires is overkill.
THIS. The whole lack of communication, the dead quiet, no explanations attitude. It's so easy to just admit what happened but they're deliberately keeping people in the dark. Giving out only enough information like "we're monitoring the situation and will react accordingly" to let people know they're working on something and prevent themselves from being sued (for now). I don't blame them for doing what they're doing at this point. They're trying to be realistic in their approach to fix it as best as they can. Driving down the price to 100-300, buying up coins and waiting till the whole market goes back up to 800 and selling them to pay off the losses is really all they've got.
But they were caught, right? And even then it was (and always is) a small handful of vote. Is there any proof that something like that could be doable at scale, across multiple states, each with 10K+ votes difference?
To give an idea, I think Matrix (and hence Element) borrowed the e2e design from Signal. So if they did it right it should be secure.

I demoed it recently as a Slack alternative and it's not very user friendly. Our groups ended up just using Signal.
Yeah, it was certainly cherry picked to illustrate a point.

Australia is even higher than Sweeden, yet both the UK and Australia are currently governed by conservative parties.

I'm an Australian myself, and in favor of socialized medicine, I just get annoyed by characterization of left vs right as a good vs evil scenario, as our polarized political discussion so often likes to do.
I don't think a correction is necessary, the article just says Wadler 'took advantage of the monad pattern to solve this problem' (the problem of Haskell needing to side-effects eventually to be of any practical use). Implying the monad idea already existed.
Ugh, that's a piece of non-news if I ever heard one. NYT: Wi-Fi Slow at Conferences.

Is there a point to this article, or are they just stating something that no one cares about?
Joel Spolksy posted about this problem on his blog last year:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/10/08.html

Here's the related ServerFault post:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/10/08.html
Lots and lots more agnostics and aethiests than Jewish people in the USA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#M...

But fair point - would be interesting to test a happy holidays message earlier in the season.
RefControl extension: set HTTP Referer to news.google.com or similar.
Do post more Amit. your input might be of value here.
Preach it, brother! If your stuff will improve someone's life, not hearing about it is the most severe bug you can think of!
"Maximum reVivification Potential" gets my vote.
Basically, Google is creating an advertising tier. Those who can pay get to be displayed in Boutiques.com, those who cannot end up on Google Products, eBay, or any of a thousand other venues. Google is in effect, creating a specialty sub-section of Amazon. Keep in mind that Amazon has restricted the entry of new resellers for clothing. Sounds like the market is getting a bit crowded.
sort of. it's a little less fps and more rts style engine but still it's nice
In those instances, the BBC is paying for a product. In the case being discussed here, the BBC is being shaken down.
More and more stories like this have been popping up in the Silicon Prairie. It's awesome to show another example of a great startup, working with local companies, taking the next step.

Congrats guys!
This is the first time that I see spam make it to the comments of an articles. Is there a way, other than flagging the comment, to report the account as well?
The problem with this analysis is that it discounts the possibility of interactivity. There are many who cannot think through the logical steps needed to complete a task, but can watch a system stepping through a task, stop it when it seems to go wrong, and provide an explanation as to what's wrong about it. There are a whole lot of problems for which this trial and error process would converge to a mostly working solution.

Hell, there are many programmers who code things this way - try it, change it, repeat. Natural language would just allow non-programmers who aren't familiar with the syntax to join in on this process. Continued practice would likely improve the reasoning abilities of the user and make the process faster.
Delivering Happiness By Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com

Great book on Tony's journey to building startups and finding what truly makes him happy
This is really amazing. I love data, but the real value comes when I'm able to translate that data into a story. Programs like this are going to become increasingly important as we become deluged with data, but don't know what it means.

All that being said, I want to start hacking around on something like this in a different domain. Any tips on how to get started on the data-to-language transformation? Code or academic articles welcome.
The post you link to has edited it's previous findings.

They now state that IE9 is certainly cheating on the sunspider.

I hope you now realize it would've been wise to wait before passing judgment on lordgilman ( especially in a public forum )
Remember, you don't have to have a good copyright protection scheme to limit circumvention. You could rot13 something and the DMCA applies.
This article really reminded me how much Apple screwed up to let Android get a foothold. Look how unassailable the Apple and Android are now -- you can't get a foothold at the bottom of the market because it's hugely fragmented and there are no profit margins, while at the top of the market you're taking on beloved brands and have to try crazy over-the-top bets to get in the door -- which usually backfire.

Android could have been the Fire Phone of its day. The earliest Android phones were just amazingly bad compared to the iPhone. But iPhones were only available on AT&T. Do you live in an area where AT&T had no service? Your only choice was an Android. iPhones insisted for years on having exactly one clearly unpopular screen size. Want a 4" screen? Your only choice was an Android. Apple refused to develop a downmarket phone. Want something less than a flagship? Your only choice was an Android.

That window has closed. iOS has finally filled in all the places it used to suck (well, maybe except for developing an economical model, but last year's phone looks better now than it used to, and in any case Android filled that niche to the overflowing).
Frankly, people concerned about surveillance and civil liberties is a hive mind I'm proud to be a part of. We're definitely a very small minority in our respective countries, so no argument can be made that we're part of some oppressive majority.

So yeah, guilty there.
why are you trusting these people?
Does anyone else see the irony in this statement? Manning's defense in this argument is almost the exact thing he was supposedly rebelling against. The most glaring example is on one hand he says patriotism was used as the justification for many horrific actions and on the other he says he broke the law, disclosed classified information, and endangered others due to his own love of country.
You can say the exact same thing about drone strikes.
Yep I think he literally wrote those 2 sentences in a Yoda-style, intentionally, for playful effect. Rest of article is well written, with above average attention to sentence structure.
If you freeze up in interviews, then it doesn't seem like the problem is with interviews -- the problem is with you freezing up

If a person is interviewing for an air traffic controller position or any position with continuous stress and confrontation, well yes.

But if the job isn't a constant stress, constant demand affair but rather an affair of creative, constructive activity, then no.

Now, I suspect one problem might be that more jobs are becoming constant, chaotic stress affairs. In a large sense, that seems like a problem society has but that's just me.
They are creating their own little DSL inside a tag attribute? This "1x", "2x" stuff in the markup looks awful.

I can see from here the compatibility and complexity trainwreck we're going to have down the line.
It is a great OS, they do focus on security. On the other hand they use old compilers for license reasons and threading is not yet on the same level as in FreeBSD or NetBSD.

The kernel itself should hopefully be unaffected by these issues though.