jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even worse- it won't work if you don't believe it won't. It's a clear placebo effect type of situation.

I'm one of those weird people that thinks medications- even ones given to me by a doctor- won't work. As a consequence, even biologically active drugs often fail to do anything for me. It's called the nocebo effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

Anyway, for me, I'm so skeptical about things that self-help books are as helpful to me as being hit on the head with a frying pan. I actually did get the 4-hour work week out of the library but my eyes spent so much time rolling out of my head they started to hurt, so I threw it across the room.
You might be surprised how much good ten deep, slow, focused breaths can do your nerves.
shows ebay.com all the time, nevertheless of what i've entered
Opera pretty much has this with it's new tab stacks. I think Firefox panorama is a bit of a misconceived concept where they've gone more for what's "cool" than practical.

The idea with panorama is that the browser is like your desktop and gives you the tool to setup and arrange it like one. But the browser isnt the desktop and there's seldom need for such persistent configurations of browser windows. Furthermore panorama feels one step too removed where you have to go into the panorama view to change group.

Opera's tab stacks feels much more natural and immediate, simply drop tabs you want to group, for instance, a "to read stack" and you can switch to it and it's browser windows immediately. Also pinned tabs are great for putting common windows to the far left, showing only the favicon and preventing it from closing
The black Friday bug seems to have hit HN. Two purchasing suggestions in two days with loads of social comments (making it enticing of course).

So why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
My first speaking gig scared the crap out of me. I was still in college and one of my professors had recommended me to someone on the managing committee for a large, private technology conference called TTI/Vanguard. They approached me with an idea but ultimately it was up to me to find out what to talk about. They gave me a 45 minute block of time (!!) but it was setup for about 20-30 minutes of talking then Q&A. The thing that really freaked me out was that every seat in the room (hundreds) was wired with a microphone. Anyone could buzz in, and was encouraged, at anytime to ask a question. The room was filled with people I had only read about - Nicholas Negroponte, Len Kleinrock, Aaron Swartz and others.

I wanted to decline it but it included a trip to Rome with first-class everything. I reluctantly accepted and flew out, writing some notes and thinking up my talk and making some slides on the flight. I did it wrong. I had all of my sentences more or less memorized (instead of just a few talking points) but then I got there and had the most unfluid talk you've ever heard. Lots of ums, fast talking.. the works. Fortunately people in the audience chimed in and asked questions. I say fortunately because this was actually a good thing! They asked for clarification about certain things, or even off-topic things, which broke me from my robotic train of thought where I was trying to replay a speech I had in my head and made it more into a conversation and into a more fluid talk. A series of questions from the audience diverted my talk from cloud computing stuff to an explanation on my usage of Twitter and what it was (this was a few years ago), but I was happy that my talk was progressing.

In the end the trip was amazing (dinner with Negroponte! http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls/2663284169/in/set-7215760...) and I ended up randomly meeting Johnny Galecki (Leonard Hofstadter from Big Bang Theory). http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls/2663383147/in/set-7215760...

I still dislike speaking in front of large audiences but people keep asking me for some reason. I did Ignite Atlanta (and spoke too fast as usual) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYDfjaWc3Mc a while back. At least now I have no sweat talking in front of smaller groups and that happens more often.

Funny thing is I also ended up making an Ask HN plea for speaking advice about it back then hehe.
There are a lot of good motivational/business advice passages in the Bible, I'd be interested to see if somebody's assembled all of those into a collection.
Because HA, simple to use solutions are very expensive, closed source, or operationally costly.

if you think you've got the secret sauce, and you've actually had to put it into action and still hit five nines, awesome. But IME doing that with something like PostgreSQL is non-trivial (read: costly). That's why FoundationDB looked so appealing (to me).
I do not understand the relevance of that quote.
I don't need it. But I'd like to have a dozen or so of them spread around the house near wherever I'm likely to notice I'm out of something.

You may make a trip to the grocery store about 1.5x every week, but I "never" go to the grocery store any more - it's all delivered. I can not imagine going back to shopping in person other than the odd "emergency" purchase.

More importantly to cover the various other uses I could see for this, such as printer toner, just the grocery store would be insufficient.

This is a solution in search of a different demographics than you. Like me.
Yeah, but is that really TS-specific? High volume is high volume, regardless of the type of data, and to address this you may need to use something like a fast key-value store.
It is the same as NYU did in 70s. But now NYU merge NYU-Poly as its school of engineering.

I am always amazed at what criteria are used by school administrators to decide which departments to fund. It is very surprised to me as a foreigner born that U.S. doesn't need engineers from Ivy League....
> They use it for their own advertising purposes, but they don't sell it to anyone, in any form.

Some people wouldn't distinguish those two.
And even if it had CGI, it still wasn't a web app.
I would love to read the article because, based on the comments here, it seems interesting. However, regardless of what I do, I can't seem to have the math load for me. I have tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge with no luck.
What is “modern web” here? That can mean so many things.
> If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook.

Fixed that for you...
No. Really. You do have a choice. Exercising unpopular choices frequently requires a spine.
Well, they show it here in Russia, but even then - you are still landing on a pinterest page instead of the original (say instagram or pixiv, or whatever).

And for the majority of people - this will be the final destination..
The images in the repo should be accompanied by descriptions of what we can see. It is not obvious for most of them.

I say 'should', but that is pretty relative of course. The don't have to, but in order for most people, or at least me, to understand them, they should.
Just wondering... Does anyone actually want to look like that guy on the HST page? I took one look at that and said "this is not the workout routine for me".
Not going to happen. The administration at West Point wanted to give every student a cell phone back in 2007 but that never happened. Do you know how hard it is for the military to accept new technology? We are still using Vista!
Every Tim Ferris thread I see on HN, has nigh 10 - 20 posts that all essentially say:

"Tim Ferris is a charlatan. He's relies on spin and marketing to sell his products. His methods encourage people to be lazy and not make a genuine effort to reach their goals. His advice is counterproductive."

But while Tim makes every effort to support his claims using facts, anecdotes and citations these sorts of comments are rarely supported by anything other than the commenter's opinion. I'm not saying people shouldn't post Tim-hating comments, to the contrary I'm asking for Tim-haters to form a strong argument against his ideology by citing studies and literature that clearly contradict what he preaches.
the difficulty of the calculations is adjusted so that 50 bitcoins will be released every 10 minutes. so this would only affect the distribution of bitcoins, not generation speed.
Graphically the site is designed beautifully.

Functionally; I hate it. My eyes have to travel all the way to the right side to view a skinny panel. The text is tiny, and is hard to read. Most of the fields in user's profiles are shown as empty.

I like the concept though and will watch it.
Thanks. Wrote that out in a hurry before leaving, and it's now too late to edit it though :(
It was my first programming assignment, actually. I was a co-op student, working in a factory. A database used to communicate between the fab area and the order/sales types, suddenly stopped working. The original author was no longer around. I have no idea why I got picked to fix it... desperation, I suppose. I vaguely remember that some poor secretary had to do everything by hand while I figured it out.

I plunged around stupidly for a long, long time. I called it a database, but really it was more like a process-- a collection of one-off tools, on a variety of machines, that slowly massaged factory data into a form useable by the front office.

Eventually I blundered my way to the solution. Reading the manual for one of the languages used, it mentioned using EBCDIC codes when writing characters. A little bell went off in my head-- somewhere I had read that another machine in the pipeline used ASCII encoding.

None of this meant anything to me, but I knew that all the programs assumed a certain line length, and defensively stuck in a line terminator character just to be certain. A little poking around revealed that, sure enough, somehow a single record of the wrong length had got into the original data file.

So in the end, changing a single character in a single program made the whole apparatus wheeze back to life.

It was a great moment for me, seeing how such a little thing could have such a huge impact. There was also a heady feeling to the fact that nobody around me seemed to have any idea what I was talking about-- they were just happy the thing finally worked again.
thanks for sharing the numbers! found that very interesting.

one suggestion that may make me pay, add collaborative multiplayer (where only one person have to pay for the game)
presumably you mean the sushi eaters :-)

yeah, its easier for the technical person to learn the business stuff than vice-versa.

Adeo Ressi told me (roughly) "And while you're building your product, they'll be out 'businessing"
No one has mentioned GBC yet (Great Ball Contraption). GBC is a great hobby for adults, especially if you have kids. Bricklink is indispensable to find parts for GBC.

Here are some GBC examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWd3vgLaA_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_b6PzrqyQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBa59oOjVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XqnTFSPG1I

See also: http://www.greatballcontraption.com/wiki/Main_Page
If I don't even know what data type my input is, what meaningful output can the system give? I wouldn't consider that cheating.

Also, you can do feature engineering on a training set that you collect, as long as that is similar to the distribution of end user inputs. That's a pretty standard ML workflow.
White backgrounds make for so much distraction when it comes to eye floaters for me as well.

For me it's nice when I can use a pure black background on an OLED screen and just have that much less light being produced beyond just turning down the brightness on a screen.
The only time I was allowed to use a graphing calculator in college was a statistics class. My batteries actually crapped out right before the final and the professor was nice/trusting enough to let me use a TI-89 emulator on my phone.
I think this is far more likely because software engineers are drawn to arguments based on first principles over ones based on empiricism.

And the majority of libertarians arguments are both based on first principles and appeal to people who like this type of argument.
I am pretty sure I remember tuning in and seeing sex multiple times. Maybe I misremember...
beginners to reverse engineering, nothing otherwise implied
Reading this thing is an incredible downer and it makes everything sound black and white. It is literally poo-pooing on everything. Life is never this black and white, although the thesis make for a good read it is still an inaccurate model of the real world.

> Moreover, increasing numbers of engineers, even at the most prestigious companies, are hired on temporary contracts. When the artificial growth model stalls, employees can expect mass layoffs, “anti-hierarchy” propaganda not­withstanding.

As an example, I dont find this to be true at all especially for great engineers. Our company is trying to move completely away from contractors.
Not on a salaried basis.

One path is to migrate your thinking from the terms of labor and income to terms of capital and asset development and accumulation. In software this usually means starting a business (eg SAAS) which becomes an asset by establishing a reliable income stream from a customer base. That income stream asset can be sold, yielding a net capital accumulation of more than 300k per year for the time that was put into it.

This is of course extremely difficult to do, with a very high (99.9+%) failure rate, and success is almost always more dependent on non-technical skill factors.

I would advise instead seeking the path of gratitude, finding the capacity to more deeply appreciate your incredible good fortune, and address your psychic discomfort in the value of your labor by performing work that tangibly helps others less fortunate than you.

Good luck to you.
I think you might want to actually list the benefits of what this tool does, or at the very least will do instead of a 'coming soon' box.
This seems really vulnerable to vote buying, unless the person receiving the vote delegation isn't informed that they're voting for two. Otherwise, your boss will say "delegate me your vote, or else". If he doesn't straight-up fire you for refusing[1], he can write bad performance reviews for two straight quarters and then dump you. Or imagine if a church threw caution into the wind (sacrificing their tax-exempt status) and said "delegate your vote to your preacher/pastor/etc., or you're going to Hell". Unless you can lie about delegating the vote, then you may as well not have it.

In the above cases under the present system, I can just say "sure boss, I'll vote for Obama/Romney/whoever" and then walk into the booth and vote for whomever I like.

[1] - This is arguably not illegal in some "right to work" states in the US.
Where the results showed that the community wanted comment scores to stay and yet nothing happened.
Focus on a good user story & a nice design, I'd assume?
You could also use it for providing one-time or shielded email addresses for people who wish to subscribe to mailing lists or newsletters, but don't want to give their email addresses.
Keep in mind it's hard to separate imaginary threats from real threats.
The list is unordered and I try to gather points from different demographics, and of course I'm biased.

- Alchoholism and the sorry state of health. There are too many people in Russia who seem to drink too much. Which kills them slowly, but also increases crime, decreases health and life expectancy and certainly isn't benefical economically. Male life expectancy is comparable to poorer African nations.

- Degrating infrastructure - most of out infrastructure (houses, roads, power grid, but also schools, hospitals) is inherited from USSR, and it got no love during 90-s. Presently it is unclear whether it is improving or still degrating - of course some things are getting done, but some other things break as well. There are fears that (any) health care or education reforms detoriate their subjects.

- Some smaller towns and most of countryside aren't viable economically, some people leave, most people basically rot there.

- The combination of declining core population (low birth rate, bad health) and influx of immigrants from Russian Caucasus and asian CIS countries surely create some tension.

- Political system is stuck. It's debatable how bad it is, but it's certainly non-transparent and not too efficient.

- Culture and education tank. TV is awful, radio is absolutely horrible. Soviet high level of cultural involvement mostly vanished, people don't care about anything. Some okayish films got produced from time to time, there surely are some bright spots, in bigger cities you can find any leisure you can possibly imagine, but the average cultural level stinks bad. The church seems to like the idea of derailing education and promoting obscurantism, and government just does not care.

The list goes on and on, seriously.
oblig. negative LoC story http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

> I think the weakest way to solve a problem is just to solve it; that's what they teach in elementary school. In some math and science courses they often teach you it's better to change the problem. I think it's much better to change the context in which the problem is being stated. http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.htm

I've often changed a problem so the difficulty disappears; but it's usually after I've worked on the problem a bit. I must admit it is kinda disappointing when I have to sack all my clever and complicated ideas, that I've become attached to.
Hoping the new MacBook Air redesign comes in smaller than the current 13” model. I’m looking to upgrade from a 2014 11” MacBook Air, which was one of my favorite computers I’ve ever owned, but the performance was never great. Vastly better performance in a similar form factor and a jaunty color to boot would be a really great upgrade.
> I keep them written down because they are hard to remember.

With the Feds involved, that would be sufficient to crack the data.
I imagine it's very very very boring for a while, with relatively brief moments of satisfaction.
the file was encrypted, but the fbi hacked it after already having gained access to the account (via warrent).

Which is to say, this isn't how they actually got cought, it's just how the nail will go in the coffin (and thankfully for those impacted, some funds recovered).

FWIW, if you ever find yourself in this position of owning a large amount of stolen crypto, I believe the best way to wash it would be to "robin hood it out" to a bunch of random wallets. You just happen to own 10-20% of the wallets, but the feds now have to try and track thousands of different people over years to try and identify the true thief, and there will always be plausible deniability.
Why would anyone consider Tiktok or YouTube to be legitimate or illegitimate in any measure? They are literally just places where all kinds of people upload all kinds of content. That the platform carries a certain video, doesn't mean it has some stamp of approval.
The swapping is crazy good, I had an insane memory leak on a process I was running and my swap was up to 60 gigs before I realized what was happening (slight UI stutters at that point) and killed the process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpH5L8zCtSk
Oh wow that is awesome, very Shire-esque
you're not correct. The amount of bandwidth is increased by a small constant factor, but still likely far less than doubling the total packet size.
I hope you're making those judgments on a broader set of sources than HN and its ilk. HN has smart users, but there are big sampling biases in more areas than just intelligence.
C++, only because it was what I was best at and most comfortable with. The performance does not hurt, of course.
RVM, pow, heroku, homebrew... all things I had to deal with as a Ruby developer. I was shocked at how often it is recommended when I had to set up a new Ruby dev environment on OSX.

Too bad seeing Rust following that trend as well. I was hoping new platforms would evolve past that
What other alternatives are there? Socialism? There are plenty of socialist countries, but I'm not aware of any that would prevent Apple from buying a relatively small company like that behind Foundation.

Economic freedom is a scale. On one side, there's 100% freedom of exchange/ownership, pure propertarian capitalism, which doesn't exist on Earth right now. On the other side, there's pure communal communism, which also doesn't exist on Earth right now. If neither extreme nor minimal economic freedom would address the issue, how could some intermediate level do any better?
Awesome to hear that.

@joshmoz Hopefully, you can re-run the image and share it with us in case we can find something else. :D
Doing it manually? Now we've got www.cpancover.com
Engaged users are directly convertible to money.

I don't see how this is a given. Monetization is no simple task, otherwise Snapchat etc... would have a fairly straightforward way of implementing it without disrupting the core business. Last I checked there is no good strategy and the in-app purchases doesn't seem to be working that well outside of games. The idea of push ads like they are doing with their snapchat self-promotion stuff is a recipe for disaster from unsolicited companies.
The problem with "MRI as spec" is that nobody really knows how the language is defined.

E.g. large parts of the 1.8.x series behaved differently from what most people thought it did in terms of the bootstrapping of inheritance of core classes. I wrote a blog post about Ruby behaviour based on introspecting the 1.8.6 interpreter that some people insisted was wrong because it worked differently than intended. Yet the behaviour persisted for years until it silently changed at some point (I don't know which revision).

In that case it was no big deal since the reason the real behaviour was pretty much unknown was that nobody depended on the behaviour, but from what I've seen this is fairly common with MRI.

As a "spec" it is one of the most unstable environments I've worked with. Though I love Ruby the language, MRI is a problem as the default implementation and atrocious as a "spec".

I frankly hope one of the other implementations gains enough traction to force the core team to the "negotiating table" over a proper specification.
> surely there's not an electric compressor out back?

There is a diesel generator powering a compressor.

I believe (anyone please correct me here), this has started as a need to keep the milk (one of the top products sold by the Amish) cool. It was one of the government requirements for them to be able to sell it legally. So they basically desided that running a diesel generator powering a compressor somehow worked out ok.

Then someone had the idea to just use compressed air to deliver or store energy for other needs. Then a whole side business of converting electrical appliances to pneumatic power developed.

For example here is a picture I found of a pneumatic ceiling fan:

http://amishamerica.com/amish-ceiling-fan/
I work for the incumbent Telco in some of those Canadian arctic communities.

The price of their broadband is about to go down by at least an order of magnitude. Speeds will also increase dramatically.
I have found Verlet integration with an implicit velocity to be really good in this regard. It doesn't conserve energy very well, but it is very easy to work with (predictable) when doing animations since constraints are expressed by updating particle positions directly. I wrote a half baked paper on this once:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/191705/uiphysics09.pdf
So far I've been promoting it on reddit and telling friends who play the game. I'm going to try and get some reviews done and reach out to some streamers on twitch. Do you play CS:GO?
Easy free birth control and family planning will reverse that trend quickly. Look at Iran for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning_in_Iran
Sustainable infrastructure enables cities to function for the benefit of both people and the environment. Now there are many global initiatives that are aimed at changing urban infrastructure, for the better, of course.