jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely wrong about the "useless to most people bit", but right about the Apple TV thing.

The point about HDMI and the 10w power consumption and the lack of a spare power brick is that this device is being positioned as a living room device, not a desktop machine. Add bluetooth keyboard and mouse, FrontRow, optionally an Apple Remote, and a big TV set and you've got: DVD player, Apple TV substitute for streaming movies/TV via iTunes, household iTunes streaming hub (streaming video to iPads in other rooms, streaming music to Airport Express-driven active speakers in other rooms -- controlled via Remote.app running on your iPhone), and if you enable internet sharing and use Cat5e to your DSL/cable modem you've got a servicable wifi hotspot as well.

This isn't being positioned as a desktop, it's being positioned as a replacement for the Apple TV box.

And for those of us who're into getting stuff done rather than sacking out in front of the telly, there's th slightly more expensive model with no DVD, more hard disk (RAID 0 or RAID 1, anyone: OS/X has software support for RAID), and a server-grade OS.
Yeah, a G6950 (core i3 2.8ghz 32nm) would have been ideal for this form factor.
How did they manage to get the figures for May a month ago?

edit: deleting this bit as I extrapolated a trend wrongly, got my years mixed up.
Aren't Visa & MasterCard owned by the same company? I thought that's why they always dump on Discover in the advertisements.
I thought this guy was being sarcastic the first time I read it. If he is serious, there are so many problems with it.

- Getting 823 requests/second should more than achievable with one server and memcache. Nginx can serve over 2000 requests/second in a single process on a single machine in 10Mb or so of memory.

- his benchmark only tests one page, the first one (with 10 posts on it)

- Cassandra is designed for high write bandwidth, which typically wouldn't be a single author blog using an external commenting system
I agree that it is not always an economic class thing. Of course, the stereotype is that college dorm rooms are notoriously messy. So it is sometimes just an extension of one's personality, habits, and aesthetics.

Other caveats include children and pets. With some kids and some pets, it doesn't matter how much money you have and how tidy you are by habit.
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the other way around!"
Postgres has earned the reputation for doing thinking features through, rolling improvements out reliably, and is pretty committed to doing things right (tm). This has meant fewer/slower hot features in the past, but solid when they arrive. It feels like they've pulled ahead in many features now. My favorite is all the indexing options.

It may be undeserved now, but MySQL had/has a reputation for a lot of sloppy work for good enough features or for performance. Mysql dropped MyISAM for InnoDB in an effort to undo some of that damage so it's hard for me to say they're not committed to quality now.

But reputations take time to rebuild.
Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...
A level sitting surface won't allow your spine to curve naturally.

I don't know why, but most people are not aware of kneeling chairs or the benefits they provide to back posture. There is literally no way to get healthy curvature in a sitting posture without lowering your knees below your hips.
I mean you might but not because of the discrimination law. With at will employment being the norm in most places and industries just annoying your boss or more (office) politically connected coworker is plenty.
I don't know. I've never misconfigured/insecure v6 CPEs in Europe. But if you're bringing your own device, all bets are off of course.

This makes sense, considering ISPs might not want to deal with a ton of pwned devices that are now part of botnets.
I worked with a guy who had the messiest desk. Complete disaster of books, cables, disk drives, tons of random geek toys, and whatever other detritus landed on it. But he knew where each and every thing was. If you touched anything he would notice and get very unhappy.

Our boss was a neat and tidy sort who kept his desk completely spotless. Nothing on it but a laptop. One day he came up and said "You know they say that a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind."

Ben didn't miss a beat and asked "Well Rob, if that's true, what is an empty desk a sign of?"
The Japanese are just the first country to tackle the demographic transition without gambling their entire culture and country on mass immigration. We don't know yet whether it's a bad bet. In favor of their approach: 1) the demographic transition will pass (since fertility is heritable), 2) increasing automation will probably reduce the demand for labor, 3) meanwhile life is still good for Japanese people.
I'm not 100% sure but I think the answer is no. You can however purchase a car via a trust if you want to obfuscate ownership. You can also have a law firm purchase it for you. Of course both of those things cost money and only really rich people do it.
I second this. I read some information on Unity and it all sounded so common to me that I thought WMII and the likes actually had an impact on how people making window manager think about window managers.

I'll stick with WMII though as it never gets in my way.
> 2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it.

Editing the date of the agenda seems quite counter-intuitive. I would think that editing the date would move all of the current events to that future date.
I'd like to see it run in a browser also, that would be awesome.
Many of these apply to developers, all of them are worth thinking about if you get the opportunity to work with designers
HTC's has a new 1.2ghz dual-core phone which already has it, I am expecting an upgrade to my Desire in a couple of weeks.
It's been there for about a week IIRC.

Edit: well, it looks like the link is not always present. Is it being A/B tested or something?
More links here: http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
a two-minute css-pivot to make homepage a little easier on the eyes.

http://www.csspivot.com/az9fT
How did they go about incentivizing tech talks?

Have you written anywhere about the things this company did?
> the police do not decide which laws to ignore and which to enforce

They absolutely do. For example, police in Seattle explicitly made marijuana enforcement the lowest possible priority years before Washington legalized it. It was a common sight to see policemen standing right next to people openly smoking pot on the street and completely ignoring them.

The police actually have a huge amount of leeway, and it can be a big problem. They often decide who to prosecute and who to ignore, and their decisions are often driven by race, revenue concerns, or other issues that have little to do with justice.
They can only go so low. Here's a pdf of Visa's interchange rates: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/visa-usa-interchange-... . (Mastercard is similar, and Amex is even more expensive.)

It's 10 dense pages of tables, but it essentially sets a lower bound on the pricing you can get from one of the companies discussed in the article. Everyone would love to see the card networks lower (and simplify) their fees, but that's not what's being railed against in the article.
By the way, how did you figure out that network was blocked? Is there a looking-glass-alike I can use to check?

The reason I ask is because that particular network you mentioned is only one of dozens that Google serves up as the A record for gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. From my location, it's on 74.125.25.26 instead. And the MX for Google Apps hosted domain customers (including google.com itself) is aspmx.l.google.com, which (again from this location) is 173.194.79.27 or 74.125.28.26 or 74.125.20.27 or one of dozens of other IPs.
I'm not sure I'd call the demographic changes a catastrophe, that seems a little dramatic.

The VAT changes weren't very well handled, if you know the sales tax is going up substantially then you will bring forward any planned purchases.

What Japan really needs to do is modernise the workplace especially in terms of gender equality but also just moving away from so much paper.
It is probably not worth extrapolating from elementary school performance. And it is probably even less useful to use grades as a measure of success at anything other than doing schoolwork.
>Add to that Microsoft strong-arm tactics

What strong arm tactics?
I'm pretty sure the UCMJ doesn't allow for calling people traitors before they've been convicted.
http://www.video777.com/images/general/FBI%20Copyright%20War...

There are criminal penalties for copyright infringement. You'd have to really piss off the judge and prosecutor to get charged with it for private piracy, but it's technically a criminal issue.
> When Robert Novak outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, he protected his source. At this time, Scooter Libby ... Tim Russert (a longtime member of the DC press establishment) who had passed along the leaked Scooter Libby information to Novak

Libby wasn't the source and Russert wasn't in the chain.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

"On July 14, 2003, Washington Post journalist Robert Novak, from information obtained from Richard Armitage at the US State Department, effectively ended Valerie Plame's career with the CIA (from which she later resigned in December 2005) by revealing in his column her identity as a CIA operative.[31][32]"

That said, "Why Armitage's role in disclosing Plame's identity to Novak was not pursued has never been explained."
Wouldn't established sites be in a better position due to domain longevity and links? Perhaps older sites have difficulty changing, but would think their positioning is better.
Ah, I guess that's my fault for using my terms too loosely. Greenwald certainly does seem to think Manning was the leaker. But he also seems to think that Manning is very possibly not guilty (or as I carelessly put it, 'innocent') on both factual and legal grounds. In the following link, for example, Greenwald both expresses skepticism about whether Manning is definitely responsible for all the leaking, as well as whether he had the state of mind required for criminal responsibility, remarking that '[..] Manning clearly believed that he was a whistle-blower acting with the noblest of motives, and probably was exactly that.' (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14...)

This reads to me - perhaps incorrectly - like Greenwald is saying that Manning may have a valid legal defense for his actions, as a military whistleblower. If so, I think - again, perhaps incorrectly - that Greenwald is wrong, and that the Supreme Court has put tighter limits on military whistleblowers than on the general public (Parker v. Levy 417 US 733 (1974) http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7171415278006906...). Please note that I'm speculating on what the law actually is, not what it ought to be.
They've also done a great job with the Fast Pass system, which has saved me from an empty visit on more than one occasion.
"We want to encourage development of ads-with-a-difference. Ads that engage our audience authentically, intelligently, delightfully. Ads that people will want to share because, like the rest of TED, they encapsulate ideas worth spreading."

Chris Anderson
Curator, TED Conferences
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine based on the science of clinical psychology.

The actions of a given pharmaceutical company hardly invalidate the discipline as a whole.

Furthermore, a prejudice is never a good thing to have.
And this indicates a breach how? You think that spammers data-mined the zonedit db? You don't think there is any other way they might have obtained your address?
I think pyre built his opinion of a programming language on the humorous first comment in the link... :-)

(I don't really like overloading, monkey patching etc in any language.)
That's a pretty stupid reason, though. The two samples of code are no where near identical...
In the video on the linked site, I think he draws too strong of an analogy to life. While you can think of the 1's and 0's that make up the code for the 3D printer file as a genetic code, the key difference is that every living thing carries its own genetic code within itself. If he can get the files to be quine-like,* then I'll be even more impressed than I am already.

That said, any possibility of getting the files so we can print our own?

* I see no reason this should be impossible or even exceptionally difficult for people used to doing such things.
The nerdiness is overwhelming and I love every second of it.
XSLT and XPath is about the only reason I can see to use this. But, you know, how hard is:

x.person.addresses[0].city?

I guess XPath is easier when you probably have to do something like this:

JSONObject json = (JSONObject) JSONSerializer.toJSON( jsonTxt )
String city = json.getJSONObject("person").getJSONArray("addresses").getJSONObject(0).getJSONObject("city");

Or however you'd do it in Java.
wow, the brevity and parsability of xml combined with the specificity and structure of json.
Those were great perks since no other classes I knew had them. Bose didn't offer these things so he could have impossible exams. He offered them because he was cool like that. :)

If you knew your materials, it would have taken about 1 to 1.5 hrs to finish the exam. The vast majority finished within 2 hrs (typical duration of MIT night exams). But indeed there were a few who stuck around for 4-5 hrs. At least one TA had to stick around too.
Its a project with good intentions but very likely to fail, because it is very hard to sustain a project like this, and there are many RISC processors out there. No gap to fill.

When you think about the linux kernel, the primary reason of success was non-existance of reliable unix clones. People were bound to use minix (and yes there was BSD) but linux filled a gap.
From what I read Java has one of the least good implementations of static typing. Most effort for the least gain. (From when I have asked about the benefits of static typing on here).
"Asshole's dead. Good riddance. Stole power on a platform of communism, moved to totalitarianism / familial nepotism, set up his 'wealthy, modern' state by money laundering for Burmese junta, struck up a cheap friendship with US (easy sale: naval positioning for the straits, cable taps on comms, aggressively purchasing regional comms providers in places like .au), did a PR job on .sg's great 'democracy'. His biography - Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going - is a disgusting exercise in narcissism attempting to rewrite history. Dirty man, dirty state, dirty legacy." You bravely waded in, ad hominem, on a dead man. And now you're complaining about personal attacks? How does one even start with you bob?
"Our problem will be a very simple one: sum a list of n integers. To make this fair, we will assume that the integers all fit in a 32-bit signed int, and that their sum fits in a 32-bit signed int."

What if my list is:
[2000000000, 2000000000, -2000000000, -2000000000]
This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
Google to the rescue!

Seriously, first they are both located at Mountain View. Second it is not that much money to begin with, at least for Google. Third it totally fits Google's pet project description - wildly awesome but realistically little chance to produce result.
You could pull in the tags for these stories from the delicious API:

http://www.delicious.com/help/api#posts_suggest

For your opinion pieces, you might have to use the original story's URL because that's more likely to have been bookmarked.

Thanks for making this.
Tried it on both FF4 and Chromium 10 on ubuntu and both got this error:

Error: Nonexistent or unused uniform in the description of shader shader/sky.jsonshader: u_normalCameraViewError: Nonexistent or unused uniform in the description of shader shader/sky.jsonshader: u_normalCameraView at http://achene.co/WebSonic/js/GraphicsEngine.js:96:11 at Array.forEach (native) at new (http://achene.co/WebSonic/js/GraphicsEngine.js:93:23) at Object.success (http://achene.co/WebSonic/js/ResourceManager.js:80:20) at success (http://achene.co/WebSonic/lib/jquery.js:5267:15) at XMLHttpRequest. (http://achene.co/WebSonic/lib/jquery.js:5207:7)
Does Bob create $1b of wealth or do the workers of the company create that wealth?
Are defined benefit pensions common anywhere outside of the public sector anymore in Europe? They weren't on offer for (smaller) private companies when I was in the UK 10 years ago.
I am going to assume he was being a bit sarcastic there.
I cannot agree that no garbage collection is a feature. It is just like saying poverty is a feature.

However, Apple might have good reasons taking garbage collection out of iOS. Here is my speculation. From financial and technical point of view, it is not worth to drain their manpower in writing good garbage collector and handling consequent complexity in this device. It gains no better user experience. If garbage collector goes wrong, the user experience is hellish. Everyone will blame Apple instead of application developers.

On the other hand, writing Objective-C code is not particularly hard. The key is to return memory to system as soon as possible. Once adapted to class pattern, coder is easy to manage memory because the memory alloc/release cycle is very structural. Just keep it in designated place. Also, Apple does not inhibit coders to use autorelease. And, XCode have some tools to detect possible memory leaking code.

I have worked on Adobe Flex for years. Flash player has garbage collection. But in fact, an application consumes lots of memory easily but there is no way to control it. Garbage collection is good, but only when there is a good garbage collector.

I am optimistic that some years later, garbage collector will eventually on iOS, as MacOS X now. Mobile processor and battery are expected to be more powerful.

From my experience, Apple does not really care about memory leaking of my application. (Or I never exceed their limit. Or it is hard to distinguish from other consumption.) Apple concerns more on application design and its content.
Not entirely weird considering the next iPhone will be released a few month later than the iPad and it is also more expensive.
API developer and authur who handcrafts via middleware (PHP) hates framework that automatically generates APIs from database features? Quelle f'ing surprise.
loans and swaps on toxic assets are essentially handouts. The real market value was probably less than 10% of the collateral price.

A different way to show it was a handout: What if the Federal Reserve gave out loans to all Americans with underwater loans (against the purchased price of the house, not current market value)? Why did the Fed give out loans to the CDS and loan holders of those very same assets? Isn't the default risk the same?
Try GameStop, nine years ago.

http://www.bravenewgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SZ9e...
>If it's worth a reply, why would I down vote it? If it doesn't contribute to the discussion, why would I reply?

This is very insightful, and I will be keeping this notion at the front of my mind when posting. Although I think this mirrors my natural behaviour to an extent anyway.

Thinking about it, this is probably part of the HN karma/ranking "secret sauce" anyway. If not, it should be.
Pacman or space invaders would not be interesting today like they were 30 years ago. You need design, music, smooth movement, multiple things happening at once... It would be a mess to do it in simple BASIC.
Regardless, he's laughing his $22,000/month straight to the bank, so it sounds like "fuck you man, that's not how we roll" is working out, eh?
I wonder who was the guy that got the job and how well he is doing now with that equity
andrew mason said when he moved from concentrating on the point, he used wordpress as the first groupon site
The sorting arrows for ascending/descending on the table are backwards...

Unless you want to be in the minority (aka wrong in the UX world).

https://hackernoon.com/sorting-arrow-confusion-in-data-table...

https://github.com/MoonStorm/trNgGrid/issues/53

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/338166/which-direction-s...
The day old.reddit dies is the day I'll stop using the site.

...which may actually end up being a positive thing, for my productivity and sanity.
I had a quick look at your app's web page. Seems like a quality tool that could indeed be useful for people.

My approach would be to do some traditional web-based paid promotion marketing along the lines of Google Ads and via Twitter. Hook into key words that you think your audience would connect with your product. Let it run for a bit and monitor any engagement that you get.

Only other thing I would suggest is have a simple video/loop on your web page, showing the tool in action. That is a bit more engaging than a static screenshot.

Having been in a similar position to yours in the past, I sincerely wish you the best of luck. This kind of scenario is a classic example of the commoditization of ideas, and the importance of execution (and the ability to do so, which is often constrained, as you've discovered, by resources).

Ideally you would probably want a little money behind you to launch a concerted marketing campaign, that would be a combination of paid promotion on a larger scale, as well as directly reaching out to certain small-medium sized organisations that you think your product could help to solve their business problems. A step towards that might be engaging with a startup incubator, which could provide such resource, or at least connect you with other like-minded people who might be open to collaboration.
Al Qaeda, ISIS, Proud Boys, it's cool how every major terrorist org is led by some kind of ex-informant or ex-asset of US intelligence.
Number one rule of distributed systems, "the network is not reliable"
Its really cool! I might use it as a backup for when I need to do annotated screenshots. Otherwise, it's just so quick to have the gnome extension "screenshot tool" automatically put my selection in the clipboard
I was thinking about this - a convolution filter with a long enough window would have a pretty good chance of identifying the right refrain location.

You're right about echoes, but it doesn't need to be perfect - the echoes are already probably below the detection floor for the takedown filter.

Also: If you identify and match up with a refrain, you'd still nullify that refrain. You'd just have to keep on your toes and move to the right location once you realized there was a mismatch. This is a classic cat/mouse "warring filters" problem!
She died because she broke a window to the US Senate chamber floor during a proclaimed riot on the US Capital. She was shot once, center mass by a trained US Secret Service officer. She died because of her belief that her white privilege would save her. She died because of her poor judgment of her own actions. Nobody told her she has a right to storm the US capital and attempt to break into the US Senate chamber. There are consequences for your actions. She died because of her actions, it's not the US Secret Service officers fault for doing what he was trained for, swore duty to and paid to do. Do not attempt to glorify stupidity.
Either would be better than some gross private equity firm gobbling them up and sucking whatever meat remains off the bones.
That's one cool looking gun. Like that futuristic FN Herstal's P90, featured in Stargate.
Changed the charging cable once, after 9 years. People still bring that up. Lightning has been around for 9 years already.

(Sorry if the changed magasine design was about something else.)
Bit uses cobra a little but for the autocomplete it uses https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt
I've done end-user support for laypeople for 30 years - including their mobile devices. The least tech-savvy of them understands the phone is still on, after the screen goes dark.