jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Now if we ever issue this award again we will be obliged to repeat the mistake forever. :)

Had I thought about it I probably would have written "most unusual". Still, I'm not sure the pedant's case holds up on this one. Two things may differ from everything else to varying degrees; both are unique, but the one that stands apart more is arguably more so. Even among the unique support requests of 2014, Rob's email stood apart the most by a long shot.
Part of me wants web browsers to be working on fixing problems that are actually practical and needed rather than these kind of Virtual reality toys.
if you are logged in, you can go to your watch history and delete the entry for it, that does something to get it out of the algorithm. But yes, YT really likes to latch onto you watching a single thing once.
What is maddening is that Netflix when it was just DVDs it was IMO it was pretty amazing discovery wise. I felt like the users folks posting reviews were amazing at suggesting movies / giving you a good feel for the film. But maybe it was because those folks didn't have a background motivation to push, like advertising dollars or etc.

Or maybe it was an eternal September problem or just the fact that DVDs meant there was more content that could be found, but I've not found anything as good as the old school Netflix community reviews.

Meanwhile amazon is convinced I'm a woman and won't leave me alone about that ... Google is convinced I love a college football team that is in fact a rival because I google something about them once in a blue moon .... Trump was really interested in me filling out a happy birthday card for his wife (nope, that's creepy)... and they stand to make money on that, a still get it wrong.
"A lot of people" is a bit different to "most people". SMS is free in the same sense that Whatsapp is free and you need a phone contract to use either when you're not in a wifi network. In fact there was a period where adding 3G to your phone contract was noticeably more expensive.

Regardless, my point is that there is a logical path that some people will take to move to more private options. I'm doing exactly what I described in my comment, a bunch of my friends are doing it and I don't think we're that exceptional.
That was my thought, I was wondering if it did ANYTHING that isn't already in Mumble/Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Discord-- about the only thing I can come up with is that it's probably easier to set up for non-technical users (the one place Mumble/TS/Vent fall apart at) but even there I don't think Discord loses out on that.
Maybe the big unicorns who surely got hefty profits off of his work should pool together a billion dollar reward for him.
As far as I know it's not actually true. There was some speculation that the US might ban vaccine exports, and apparently this was why the UK wanted at least one locally-produced vaccine, but I'm pretty sure only the EU actually went ahead and did it. In fact, there were some suggestions that the UK might actually have to switch its source for the Pfizer vaccine to the US as a result.
I'm kinda surprised no one's asked what "under-using force" even means
This trick worked for me: find an amazing woman with bad eyesight.
From a thermodynamics POV, we're very mild. We only ever really want to cool about 20F. Heating is nominal. Most places to the north end up with significantly more expensive heating needs AND roughly equivalent AC needs.

You are still being insulting, or absurdly reductive. Neither is especially welcome. Normal humans value all sorts of competing concerns when evaluating a home where they may spend many many years. Maybe YOU only value thermodynamics and care nothing for aesthetics, but that doesn't mean people who don't share your POV are only trying to project status or whatever other uncharitable thing you envision.
He wants to make server chips. Apple doesn’t sell servers. It would be more of a Google thing to invest money on random products that either and fail inside the company.
'expect' is definitely for edge-case automation, but in the few cases where it is useful, it is extremely useful. Despite the fact that it's quite 'old fashioned', it is a dependency of DejaGnu which, itself, is a dependency of the test cases for a huge number of GNU projects. This leads me to believe that it'll still be around for a very long time and will continue to work the same as it does now.
People aren't going to vote against the hand that feeds them. Money is a proxy for the top of the hierarchy of needs, and if people are going to be voting merely to satisfy their hierarchy of needs then other policy comes second.

Say you've got one party running for office that promises to continue handouts, or perhaps expand them, but also is highly authoritarian, but there's another party that wants to protect fundamental freedoms but wants to reduce handouts. Who do you think has the upper hand in that scenario? It'd be one thing if the populace was well educated and had an interest in their own freedoms, but we're not exactly known for that these days.

This is one of the reasons that California is in the state that it's in. It dwarfs all other states in welfare spending, has the most homelessness, has an exponential feces and public urination problem in its big cities, and the return of medieval illnesses. The problem is unlikely to resolve any time soon because enough voters are dependent and detached from society that those in power can sit back.

That's why there are people who are wary of handouts. It's not that they don't want to help other people; it's that handouts are an easy way to influence the populace, and once you give out handouts, it's extremely difficult to take them away, lest you are willing to lose elections.
> But if you're currently a PIA user, it would be foolish to keep using them while you're waiting for them to prove that. Cancel PIA for now, and if a year from now they're still on the level, you can make a more informed decision about whether or not to go back.

how will they prove it in a year?

and what threat is it you think the shady guys are going to pose? they'll start spending more money to keep logs? i guess they could get in bed with law enforcement but i doubt that pays well. maybe the RIAA/MPAA will pay them off?
Important context from that article:

Payne also noted that the findings reinforced the importance of supporting efforts to prevent the species from going extinct.

“Animal species do come and go over periods that can be most conveniently measured in units of tens of thousands of years,” he said, but added, “To say that we should just let some species go extinct because it is ‘natural’ is nonsense.”
I think all this information should be added to Fadi's Wikipedia page [0] so that people can be made aware of it.

That is one good way to bring corruption into light.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadi_Chehad%C3%A9
I've never worked there nor want to. I know plenty of people who've worked in and around the company, and they've painted a good portrait of company that isn't worth working for in 2019.
Privacy.com offers an alternative where you generate a new VISA card and they lock it down to a vendor. You can set limits. Once it gets leaked they notify you. Someone here on HN mentioned they were able to report it to their water company that their card was compromised on their site.
Would you be able to provide some examples of these untranslatable concepts or ways of thinking? I suspect that the fact that you can provide them, in English, means that English is as capable as any other language to at absorbing that idea and making it expressible.

If different languages contain unique ways of thinking that can't be expressed in other languages, then what benefit is there to the preservation of that language? If the idea cannot be communicated outside its language, then what impact can it have on the world outside it? If it can be communicated, then why not simply use loanwords (as languages like English are very prone to doing) to absorb that particular concept into the set of concepts that can be expressed in the language?
Your left or my left? Seriously, I assumed he was describing the one on the left for most of the discussion until showing the posters again, when I realized he didn't do his job.

The question was "which one looks cleaner?", not "which one makes it easier to find information?", and to my eye the one on the right has more noise (the balance of spacing, border around the image, more varied fonts). I guess there are arguments for both or neither, but it's clearly not cut and dry.
Sure, but it's still a single point of failure, no? Someone gets that key, they've got my whole digital life. I'd rather keep the key airgapped.
Yes, at FedEx, we considered that
problem for about
three seconds before we noticed
that we also needed:

(1) A suitable, existing airport at
the hub location.

(2) Good weather at the hub location,
e.g., relatively little snow, fog,
or rain.

(3) Access to good ramp space, that
is, where to park and service the
airplanes and sort the packages.

(4) Good labor supply, e.g., for
the sort center.

(5) Relatively low cost of living
to keep down prices.

(6) Friendly regulatory environment.

(7) Candidate airport not too busy,
e.g., don't want arriving planes
to have to circle a long time
before being able to land.

(8) Airport with relatively little
in cross winds and with more than
one runway to pick from in case
of winds.

(9) Runway altitude not too high,
e.g., not high enough to restrict
maximum total gross take off weight,
e.g., rule out Denver.

(10) No tall obstacles, e.g.,
mountains, near the ends of the
runways.

(11) Good supplies of jet fuel.

(12) Good access to roads for
18 wheel trucks for exchange
of packages between trucks
and planes, e.g., so that some
parts could be trucked to the
hub and stored there and
shipped directly via the planes
to customers that place
orders, say, as late as 11 PM
for delivery before 10 AM.

So, there were about three candidate
locations, Memphis and, as I recall, Cincinnati
and Kansas City.

The Memphis airport had some old
WWII hangers next to the
runway that FedEx could use
for the sort center, aircraft
maintenance, and HQ
office space. Deal done --
it was Memphis.

That's how the decision
was really made.

Uh, I was there at the time,
wrote the first software
for scheduling the fleet,
had my office next to that
of founder, COB, CEO F. Smith.
Here's a python function we use to calculate haversine distances:

import math
from collections import namedtuple

def haversine_distance(origin, destination):
""" Haversine formula to calculate the distance between two lat/long points on a sphere """

radius = 6371 # FAA approved globe radius in km

dlat = math.radians(destination.lat-origin.lat)
dlon = math.radians(destination.lng-origin.lng)
a = math.sin(dlat/2) * math.sin(dlat/2) + math.cos(math.radians(origin.lat)) \
* math.cos(math.radians(destination.lat)) * math.sin(dlon/2) * math.sin(dlon/2)
c = 2 * math.atan2(math.sqrt(a), math.sqrt(1-a))
d = radius * c

# Return distance in km
return int(math.floor(d))

LatLng = namedtuple('LatLng', 'lat, lng')

origin = LatLng(51.507222, -0.1275) # London
destination = LatLng(37.966667, 23.716667) # Athens

print "Distance (km): %d" % haversine_distance(origin, destination)
Rename that to curious and I get it, confused seems a bit heavy
I like the left hand side of the left one and the right hand side of the right one.

Maybe the idea that the right one is more appealing to everyone is a lot more subjective than he would have us believe.
No, because a particle can interfere with others and itself. And the interference pattern changes once it's observed.

The only thing that I don't get is what's new about this article.
They're clinging to a relic of the past: a Kodak that thought it could adapt. They're clinging to the hope they had that they can adapt. They're not adapting.
marathon-ui was deprecated and went unsupported in favor of the proprietary DCOS UI.
Yea it's my main laptop at home.

I got the Pangolin model, it's not slim, it's probably thicker than a typical Macbook.

Performance wise, it's great. Although my judgement is probably not reliable because the only thing I have to compare against is a 4 year old laptop with a dual core centrino processor.

Usability-wise, there are a few things:

* Keys like ctrl-pageup aren't easily accessible. That's common to all laptops > 14", which is unfortunate. I got around that by configuring the terminal emulator to switch tabs with Ctrl-Shift-H and Ctrl-Shift-L. (On the other hand, none of the macbooks I've seen has the home/end/page-up/page-down readily accessible either).

* The trackpad goes crazy sometimes. This is a given for most laptops (well, except Macbooks). I use touchfreeze to mitigate that.

* The microphone is right next to the trackpad, not good for recording a live streamcast, unless you have an external wireless mouse.

* The proprietry ATI driver is not that good, the open-source driver is better. (I found it somewhat ironic). Nvidia would've probably been better. HD videos don't necessarily play as smoothly as I'd imagined they would. You'll see some tearing on xfce, but gnome on compiz looks fine.

It does generate a lot of heat so I try not to put it on my lap a lot.

But don't let that discourage you.

It's a great laptop, it's not too heavy and it's got a LED screen, which means the picture will look good regardless of your viewing angle.

While not as pretty as a Macbook, it does have a clean and elegant design.

I wouldn't exactly recommend it as an entertainment platform, but that's not why I bought it. I bought it because I wanted a powerful machine that's not too bulky. I wanted a machine that I can move around, get work done on it, and have it be powerful so that it doesn't slow me down.

It can run virtual machines without sacrificing performance (that's a big one).

It can apt-get install stuff without taking too long to read the database (my old laptop used to spend a long time in "(Reading database ....").

It can run tons of programs without ever slowing down. In fact I can't remember it ever slowing down or becoming unresponsive, which is something that I'm not used to.

The SSD really does make a difference. Say goodbye to the sound of the spinning hard disk. (Although you still can't say goodbye to the sound of the fan)
I don't believe this poll for a second. Liars!
Career-wise, a "won an international search algorithm contest by MS Research" line in your CV is worth much more than 10K.
This reminds me of my Schnitzelconf talk from last September. Slides here if you're interested: http://bit.ly/cotoletta
First export your bookmarks, just in case:
curl -k --user user:passwd -o backup.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all

Second Find a new home.

I'm using now Diigo but better look around to see which one of the different services suits you.
Especially when you look at the vast number of unprofitable products they offer. (Pipes and YQL come to mind)
> the relevant VCs are very puckered up right now when it comes to biotech/pharma.

There are some great posts on the LifeSciVC blog on this topic (and I highly recommend reading all the posts on there for anyone interested in biotech startups):

* Where Does All That Biotech Venture Capital Go?: http://lifescivc.com/2015/02/where-does-all-that-biotech-ven...

* Venture-Backed Biotech Today: Reflections On Exits, Funding, and Startup Formation: http://lifescivc.com/2015/01/venture-backed-biotech-today-re...

* Talent: The Biggest Issue In Biotech Boardrooms Today: http://lifescivc.com/2014/09/talent-the-biggest-issue-in-bio...

* Early Stage Biotech Venture Scarcity: Fitness, Fear, And Greed: http://lifescivc.com/2014/09/early-stage-biotech-venture-sca...

* Startups, Exits, And Ecosystem Flux: Bullish For Biotech: http://lifescivc.com/2014/09/startups-exits-and-ecosystem-fl...

An excerpt (italics added by me):

> Why is biotech startup supply so constrained? First, there aren’t dozens of breakthrough biomedical ideas created every day; while substrate for startups is very rich, figuring out which are likely translate successfully into high impact medicines diminishes the viable number of big, attractive ideas quickly. Second, there are very few biotech venture investors still active today, and fewer still that are focused on early stage company creation. Third, and of critical importance, it’s not easy to start biotech companies, and in most cases requires entrepreneurs with decades of apprenticeship inside larger R&D organizations – navigating the drug discovery and early development process requires experience well beyond simply advanced degrees (MD/PhD).

* High-Performing Boards in Early Stage Biotech: http://lifescivc.com/2012/03/high-performing-boards-in-early...

Another excerpt:

> The nature of the problems and people involved are very different [between tech and biotech]: Internet-enabled Tech startups launch products on tiny amounts of capital, led by Lean Startup Ninja’s and 22-year old soon-to-be-billionaires, these companies can iterate rapidly around things I don’t understand, minimally viable products, and real-time market feedback...Compare that to Biotech. We are trying to manage the challenge of science-based businesses: biology is full of “unknown unknowns”, drug R&D has long and unforgiving timelines, we face very high project attrition rates, we have to work in a highly regulated environment, capital intensity is typically higher, etc… The people involved are also different: the typical senior team has some grey hair and often collectively has 100+ years of experience in (or biases from) drug R&D.

Life science VCs see themselves and their industry as very different from the tech industry.
It's great they are giving new employees some flexibility here. It would be really hard to exercise a grant on an $11 billion valuation. Especially without knowing the details of the liquidation preferences.
It would make their offers more appealing to prospective employees with limited capital.
What's wrong with that, if it works and is correct? What's the point made there?
Set up an Apache mod_proxy from port 8080 on your server's localhost to a vhost at showoff.yourdomain.com.

You'll have to make sure to build your app to not make any assumptions about where it's running (ex: links to "http://localhost:3000/path), but you should be doing that anyway.
It was funny to see the lack of a "Programming: C" category.
Within any culture there are individuals who will act like dickweeds. Likewise, not every feature that you propose is likely to be accepted. Are these cultural problems?
Perfect, I was emailing you all about this last week but haven't heard back yet from support. This is really nice and works for the organization I signed up for Weebly to run their site from now.
I've failed to make myself clear:

at the pricepoint of 1100PLN, the Vertex 3 offers only 0 IOPS, transfers measly 0MB/s and stores appaling 0B for me. Because it's way over my budget.

Your arguments were that a modern SSD is faster. That's pretty clear. But will such an SSD (of 64GB+) be available at the pricepoint of my budget? If not, your argument is moot.

A fast harddrvive can be had for reasonable price, as I'm willing to buy a second-hand ones. No such option exists for the Vertex 3 yet.

reitzensteinm found a more expensive offer for the harddrive -- that hardly invalidates my original point. Btw., newegg doesn't ship to europe, Amazon adds some heft fee ($77 S&H last time I considered ordering headphones, itself $134) and I don't feel like using no-brand, mail-order hardware from Hong-Kong for my home folder.

If I had spare $300, I'd first buy a pair of noise-cancelling (or at least well sound-proofed) headhones -- would be a better boost of productivity than faster storage.

I hope that's enough of excuse-making for not buying an SSD yet.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/browser-serve... has similar functionality
I was usually top of all my classes up until my teenage years (and got lazy and became the chancer I am now!) so I was pushed into playing chess, joining the chess club, etc, and I totally sucked! I could randomly beat people who barely knew the rules of the game but otherwise I was at the bottom of every ladder going, despite practicing.

So I'm not convinced chess is a natural fit for everyone or a way to increase intelligence. It did nothing for me except make me realize I couldn't be good at everything that was vaguely academic. Or maybe it says something about a certain type of intelligence that I totally lack(ed)? Scrabble, OTOH, I can win any time..
a long time ago a chess-playing friend of mine said "a good chess player has developed their mind. a great chess player has wasted their mind."
I remember people saying this about the Wii before it came out.
The OP seems to be implying that B&N has to pay very little for OS development (Google picks up most of the tab). And in terms of HW, the NC isn't a cutting edge device, so they can get 2nd/3rd gen parts. And coupled with good volume, gives them a low supply chain cost.

I don't know if its lower than Apple's, but it's probably lower than anyother Android vendors except probably Samsung.
I'm another data point. Built my own standing desk and bought a drafting chair; I frequently stand most of the day, and it's improved my posture markedly.

I'd gone through a series of various expensive "ergo" chairs, and yet I would get a feeling of suffocation when sitting for too long. Now I can work for extended periods without the need to "get up and walk around."

And when particularly good music comes on the radio, I can dance to it during compiles. Yes, I work in an office where no one can see me. ;)
If you're mad at your client for any reason, it only means you're not charging him enough. It's very hard to be mad at a client who's paying you a ridiculous amount of money for something you're fabulous at.

I totally agree. It really helps you prioritize projects based on what's more important to the client (whose proxy is their willingness to pay), and make both of you happier.
I can't agree with this quote enough:

"If you're mad at your client for any reason, it only means you're not charging him enough."

Tripling my cost per hour made working with one of my clients much more palatable. Please consider raising your cost if you're not happy with your clients.
But which provides more value to the economy over time? That such a large percentage of the economy was able to stop driving and work from home does say a lot about the value of computers today.
Kudos to Neuralink engineers and doctors. We are still far away from human trials but this looks nothing short of SciFi
But given this math, everyone will always see a drop after the 4th year. You can kinda level off the drop if you get promoted exactly as your initial grant runs off, but that's mostly coincidence. If you get your promo grant a year sooner or later, you'll get different drops and hikes.

The author trying to connect the 5th year cliff, which is a common issue, to the lack of promotion, seems a bit misleading.
I'm not sure Nike would be able to block secondary sales.
That was difficult to watch. While the technology is impressive, it is sickening to watch. The part where they can pair the phone via bluetooth made me want to vomit. It is obviously unnatural, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Something about seeing that animal, oblivious to what's happening, and that implant with the ability to directly record thoughts and/or remote control. The whole thing doesn't sit well with me.
Noted. I think that’s likely the first thing to do. ie. that when a person’s interested enough to download the tool, they actually get to understand the basics of what it does...

Sorry for wasting your time.

In a nutshell:

- cells are code blocks that form a directed acyclic graph (like cells in Excel)

- cells can have a name (v=10) that can referenced in other cells (w=10*v)

- the whole thing is not exactly javascript, the viewof keyword represents the “html element of the cell”. This needs more than a comment on HN...