jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
agreed, ebooks are absurdly priced.

on a related topic, i recently purchased an amazon kindle and was looking through the list of books that i had bought hardcovers for, shouldn't there be a discount from amazon or the book publisher? that would be instant revenue to allow purchasers of hardcopy books at a certain store to download the digital version at a heavily discounted (or free) rate.
"... To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. ..."

Chumby ~ http://www.chumby.com/pages/compare

the authors build page ~ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/chumby-webserver... and there is an foss version CHB available ~ http://wiki.ladyada.net/chumbyhackerboard from Ada Industries
A self-sustaining settlement on Mars is not that difficult. Mars is not nearly as barren as the Moon.
That's not what they said at all; they said they some autistic students that were nasty and rude without being aware of it.
I'm curious about which bits have been "blown away" compared to other languages and frameworks.

I've done testing versus PHP for basically every sort of function related to web development (for my workflow) and can't think of an instance where one was better over the other in terms of speed...however CFML always won out in terms ease-of-coding (example: CURL -vs- cfhttp, db queries, REST API development, XML Parsing, etc.)

I can't say I've ever used Flash for anything on the web ever. I think it's nice that CF makes it easy, real easy, but I have never needed to use flash for anything.
OP has a point.. Minification devolves to obfuscation for the most part once zlib compression enters the picture.

The next version of Userify.com is not going to be minified, just gzipped.
At a guess you believe they're not actually doing something good even though you are, on average, less informed about their mission and activities, less intelligent, and lazier.
That's exactly why I was considering buying a raspberry pi for. Have you also considered the chromecast for this (maybe by creating a custom app/plugin for your dashboard)?
Her Bach recordings are world class, I can't wait to hear what she can donwith these masterpieces (both the music and the instrument)!
The Chinese government is for sure a plausible culprit here, but consider that the American government (NSA, or another TLA) is also a plausible culprit. If this ends up successfully blamed on the Chinese, it builds support for "cyberwar" defence funding in the US.
The situation described here looks to me like a team drowning in technical, product oriented difficulties that prevent anyone from having the available bandwidth to introduce new methodologies because of the chaos that doing this on the run would ( or would be perceived to ) introduce.
In my experience, engineers need the headspace to learn new tools in a non impacting situation, which usually requires the introduction of low risk side projects to learn the new tools and techniques.
In a way, this is actually a staffing / time related issue.
Yeah, if we had a way for governments to legally and openly block arbitrary IP traffic we could prevent this. It's all necessary to fight against these commu... terrorists. It's totally necessary if we want to keep our freedom.

/s
1) No I can't. Can you prove the opposite? No. Pointless argument. Yes! So why even make it?

Can you find North Korea on this map?

http://paradoxoff.com/north-korea-night-map.html

I bet there aren't too many hackers staying up until dawn hacking on Notepad++. Why does a country with no electricity want to be on this list?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_wea...

People in power, or anyone else for that matter, really don't have the time to debate the finer points of the export laws (which includes free software), so it's probably better that they just made a simple law that even developers can understand.

Someday, this will go away:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone

Then software developers can find another problem that they can solve from the comfort of their Aeron chair.
Vladimir Arnold passed away last Thursday.

http://www.physorg.com/news194804767.html
What on earth are you expecting? Should Apple load pictures of your friends off Facebook or Flickr?

Models used in advertising have always been more attractive on average. Even the comparatively unattractive models are more photogenic on average. And what does this have to do with the topic?

Stop cluttering HN with petty complaints about Apple.
CPanel does not scale your websites nor does it help deploy changes.
Pulse is doing what New York times should be doing. Making an aggregator of all news both from themselves and other newspapers and sources and instead fight over who has the best newsreader.

This is so obvious and yet pride and politics completely cloud their minds.

I want to read news, the best news by the best sources. I am willing to both pay for that and would even accept advertising. I don't care who it's from, it doesn't matter. Just serve me adds but at least give me one entrance point instead of twenty.

It's incredible that newspapers don't see the opportunity.

They don't, believe me my company have tried to convince a couple of them.
All of the apps are for that.
Add 'if you want to continue living' to the end, then, and you can avoid worrying about such things while keeping the same example.
I know a guy who recently tried to build a social application, starting outside of Facebook. It was actually a very good idea and well implemented; unfortunately, the complete lack of connectivity to groups of people sealed its fate. By the time he got to integrating into Facebook Connect, he was almost out of money.

I think entrepreneurs wanting to build a social product are in better shape today because of Facebook and its built-in social network. But you are, of course, correct that building on somebody else's platform is always dangerous.

Lastly, "Open" is not really a feature to end-users. Diaspora will win if they can build compelling features that Facebook, as a result of its closed network, can't. Otherwise, I doubt highly it will be successful.
"Different" means exactly that. I'm not downplaying it, just saying that it's not as easy to compare as saying that the number of deaths is similar.
This is a classic web security problem; most famously, WinAPI systems have a "flattening" function that would convert things like PRIME U+2032 into ASCII 0x27 (the tick that terminates SQL statements). Database engines can also interpret character sets differently than the rest of the app stack, leading to similar problems. UTF-7 cursed Wordpress for something like a year in which multiple preauth SQL injection flaws were discovered.

The answer to these problems is whitelist filtering and neutralization; if a character isn't known-safe, substitute its HTML entity alternative. If you're writing blacklist filters that need to know what spaces are, you're already playing to lose.
I have fond memories of the Mac Plus disk scan sound and startup beep as a kid. But then one day, the computer delivery guy came by with a Mac Centris 660AV, set it up, and turned it on. The orchestral chime blew my freaking mind. I literally felt hairs standing up on my neck.

edit: The Mac Plus sounded like the "Macintosh SE" file, and the Centris is marked as Quadra AV there, since they renamed the Centris line later.
19 upvotes but no comments?
This is another valid point and disturbing point.

Italians are most likely counting most if not all deaths as SARS-Cov2 deaths.

1) A large amount of the elderly are going to hospitals because of pre-existing conditions that might be flaring up or presenting as they normally do. They enter the clinic > get complications > get marked down as dying from SARS-Cov2. And/or they acquire hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP).

2) I’ve read the ISS report cover to cover and yes, nearly ALL deaths are due to 1) age greater than 70, 2) 75% showing 2 (two) or more per-existing conditions with a staggering 99% showing 1 (one) or more pre-existing conditions. Let’s not forget the above comment (HAP or other hospital acquired infections from SARS-Cov2, Influenza, whatever).

3) Seeing a death count YOY would be beneficial here indeed.

I don’t think ANYBODY will be able to answer my initial question here.

There is NO WAY in hell the Italians have tested over 200,000 patients for SARS-Cov2 in a matter of 2-3 weeks due to:

1) such capacity simply does not exist

2) Italians have been under quarantine and when they weren’t they were drinking coffee and not lining up for tests.

3) the time of test > result trajectory > reported data is impossible

4) such high throughout testing capacity simply does not exist

Where are these magic numbers coming from? :)
If the average number of cases in some small area (e.g. a block or blocks of buildings, a part of town, a town) is e.g. two patients with symptoms X per MONTH, and the symptoms include FEVER and not being able to breath, i.e. something people can't just make up and can be easily measured, and THEN you get a patient from a block of buildings with symptoms X and THEN you test him and get a positive result and THEN you get ten more people from there with symptoms X, AND in the same small are some people have the same symptoms and are in such a bad condition that they need to be connected to the MACHINES and some DIE, you can be very sure it's a virus which never existed among the humans before generating these symptoms.

Otherwise, it would have to be some OTHER virus not known to humanity appearing at the same time, behaving unlike the viruses we know and watch every year, magically appearing exactly in the community where you verified the existence of the one for which you test.
Thank you for the informative comment! Your example of the water bottle is perfect
My experience differs. Consistent and well formed prose in docstrings and comments absolutely helps reason about unfamiliar code. Nitpicking for good formatting, spelling, and grammar is valuable in code comments just the same as in documentation or any other form of technical writing.

If the comments aren't important enough to spend care and thought on, they should be deleted.

> If it has a meaningful impact on the ability to read it, it’s not a nitpick.

This is boring semantics. Given what you describe as nitpicks, we draw the line of meaningful impact on readability in different places. So I'm claiming that some of the things you describe as nitpicks in fact aren't.
Get a simple pulse oximeter.

Telemonitoring symptomatic coronavirus patients requires thermometer and pulse oximeter.

Google

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/clinical-care/how-health-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/hospitals-using-digital-tool...

> Patients who are identified as likely positive for COVID-19 in an emergency department but are not admitted are being sent home with a thermometer and pulse oximeter to monitor their symptoms at home under the supervision of the health system's telehealth team.

When temperature raises and blood oxygenation drops you should be rushed to ICU to save your life.

I am sure one can make fancy iOS app for that.
i believe he is talking about the built in set of midi generators and bars
Hes just talking about housing density.
AOL Instant Messenger wars returned.
It's been said elsewhere but just in case, they recently started using different import provider(s) and many accounts that were broken before now work great, including MFA ones.
The client in question here doesn't use Electron at all, so I don't think that'd be too relevant.
I love the Amiga/C64/ZX Spectrum/Atari ST community. The spirit of still tinkering with your hardware as you did in the 80s/90s in these machines and something that I think large groups of people outside of the UK missed out on

How many people learnt to solder on a £99 computer that you could then use. How many people learnt basic by typing in lines from a magazine and then fiddling about with the code to give them extra lives in the game?

It really was a golden age in the UK, and I wish more countries got to experience that
What ratings in that table do you feel are unfair?
The official client is basically a chrome instance. You can press ctrl+shift+I and put in any script you like.

So far (to my knowledge) discord hasn't made any effort to prevent modding of its official client. Most people just do it to inject css etc.
Yes, they have "haptic touch", which means long press. Force touch specifically requires you to apply more pressure than a normal touch.
You are misinterpreting it. He says:

"But now I look back & realize that we did the right thing. Seriously, how risky was this feature?"

By "the right thing" he's referring to checking in a relatively minor and risk-free feature late at night without going through the corporate bureaucracy at Microsoft.

Besides, I think you're making a big deal out of it. It's supposed to be an entertaining story about how favicon.ico came into existence, not a deep analysis of whether it was the correct way to implement it.
we're a video culture - most people are consumers, and video is the easiest way to consume. reading takes too much time for most people.

I agree with the frustration, but we've got a system now that rewards video makers for this stuff, and doesn't reward people posting this information in text format.
JohnMeacham's entry is some diabolical shit. I've been burned by that same bug, along the lines of:

bool foo = rx&0x0800; // set foo if 11th bit of rx is true

which works in C++ or if you have stdbool, but not if you have 'typedef char bool' which occurs in header files of projects that should know better.
Some of the most effective compsci related MOOCs I've found are the Udacity programming MOOCs that have live coding. You can just drop right into a python REPL and try using what you just learned. We need more of this in a variety of domains.
Definitely - Reiserfs for the win. Great FS for tons of small files like email, news.. ok, when you really think of it, only multimedia and database files tend to be 'large'. Everything else tends to be rather small. Btrfs is far too unreliable. I've been using Reiserfs on hundreds of servers for 16 years and the last time I can remember having any trouble with it was in 2001... great FS. Too bad distros are killing it off, but when the author's in prison, it's a bit understandable.
Check out

https://github.com/tamarott/SinGAN/tree/master/Downloads

They ran it on the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset; the human faces came out a little interesting...
Selecting the features seems complex and very alienating for less geeky customers.

"Idea Tagging"

Okay, the average user has no idea whatsoever of what you're trying to sell. He clicks for more information.

"Allow your users to tag ideas. Top tags are optionally displayed in a tag cloud widget you can drop into your layout."

Now there's more questions than answers.

I'd suggest that you'd keep in mind these two valid concepts:

- Design for people who don't read
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062....

- You can't tell people anything
http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
Thank you. I didn't know about that site, and it's exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for. Perfect for planning my next holiday.
Uhm … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Social_Democrati...

They even have bona fide anti-tyranny credentials: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Social_Democrati...

And that’s just one example.

I should probably clarify that I really have no qualms with the first sentence of the grandparent’s comment. A generalization, maybe, but markets do work great in many situations and freedom created tremendous wealth and happiness. I just think that you shouldn’t use the term “Socialism” in the way the grandparent did. It just has too much history and too many ideas, concepts and methods connected with it.
If you are using ASP.NET you may check the Web Application Toolkit: REST Services http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LostInTangent/Web-Application...
just an addon, #git channel on irc.freenode.net are skilled and very helpfull.
Yea, I was actually seriously looking into the idea of starting a travel site like that a couple of years ago. But it all basically fell apart once I realized how much it would cost to get the necessary data I'd need.
comm bank down under
"Say, you move a file from one folder to another: in the Terminal you would have to “git rm” the old path (the file is gone, so no tab-completion) and “git add” the new path" -- from the homapage. well "git mv" is doing that just fine...

It doesnt appear to serious on the homepage of a git product :)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-mv.html
I'm sure someone already mentioned this, but I would pay for YouTube premium at a lower price just to remove ads. I have no interest in their music service.
Stiglitz weighs in on this very topic in today's Guardian:

”It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21623150
> Neither the BBC nor I are American.

Good, so no need for you to feel addressed then.

> how you would discuss the topic of these chinese camps

I would want to see international sanctions against the Chinese government enacted in some world body. I would like to see the very same sanctions enacted against the USA. In both cases we are talking about serious crimes against humanity. Fat chance this will ever happen, precisely because the most powerful parties in that forum are both guilty of the same transgression. If not for that this might have a (slim) chance of success.
But it’s complete in other countries? I guess they pull you bag back out of the system if needed in other countries. Optimise for the common case if not needing to look in your bag.
> If you walk into a shop, you have an expectation to be observed (both to check you're not shoplifting, and also to see how customers behave). They don't tell you that you'll be observed, it's just one of those things you expect when you walk into someone's shop.

The problem is that this is a poor analogy to computer networking. I send you an HTTP request; you send me an HTTP response. I'm not visiting your shop; we're sending each other messages.

My expectation is that you won't follow me around, observing how long I look at certain parts of your message, gauging my reaction to different parts of your message. That this is the norm on the web is an unfortunate reality, but it doesn't make it okay.
I think the problem is your "better than even" chance she's "swimming with the fishes", based on little evidence. She doesn't look terribly distinctive. Being in a friendly country around friendly people or even in a neutral country under an assumed identity while being quiet can last you a long time. You do not have to go full Osama bin Laden.
So you have a good argument, but that basically means all that stands between someone making $10million is getting the credit to start their business? I’d love to offer you that credit and take half your profits after interest and taxes.
It's not hypocritical to look at a Chinese app and question the motives of the censors there. Obviously their censors are controlled by the CCP. I dont have children yet but if I did they would not be allowed on TikTok, period.

But then, I also think the free world shouldn't do business with the Communist Chinese. So that's just my opinion.
I watched the video. Not sure why there's an assumption that I didn't, and I don't think my question is answered.
Miller columns! I have fallen in love with this UI paradigm after using them for graph-based tools. Some thoughts:

1. Once you open multiple panes from the same column, and go out to 2+ levels deep, it quickly becomes unclear which panes followed from which. There is an underlying tree structure that you are hiding from the user. Explicitly surfacing this tree somehow could greatly increase the usability of the tool. At the moment, opening two reference panes from the same parent column immediately becomes difficult to manage. Some ideas: clicking on a reference pane should highlight the code pane that it is associated with, something similar for code panes might also be appropriate. Highlighting up- and down-stream dependencies would make it much clearer what panes I'm about to delete by deleting a given pane (the user can drag a pane to a different column in order to "disconnect" it and keep it around).

2. If I delete a pane from a column, its descendants stay open, making it even more confusing why I had them open in the first place.

3. The header breadcrumbs are brilliant.

4. You have two types of panes: reference panes and code panes. I'm not sure that's a good idea, since a reference pane is tightly tied to the code pane it came from. It may make more sense to show references in code pane itself, and then let me follow references from there into the next column.

5. I'm on a Mac with a trackpad, which makes horizontal scrolling very very easy. This is not true for all your users. It might make sense to add thin left/right buttons so that I can quickly move a column at a time. At the very least: if I open a new column, the window should scroll to make it visible if it is about to be cut off. Since users screens will most likely be able to handle at least two columns, this shouldn't be too jarring (as long as you use a smooth scroll! quick but clear, 100-200ms)
I have a friend on FB who said he did the same thing, minus the verbal agreement, and made sure the loan didn't have a pre-payment penalty. He then paid it immediately, which I assume led to a strong talking-to for the employee that authorized that sale.
Why do you say Trump was not close to fascism? I thought the combination of populism + nationalism + law/order + charismatic leadership + monied interests was close to fascist.
Half of the population has a below-average IQ. Maybe 10% of those with an above average IQ are Dark Triad personalities somewhere on the toxic spectrum between narcissism and sociopathy.

Economic values operate to reward them, and to punish - or at least inconvenience - those with less toxic values. So naturally the Dark Triad types have a very strong incentive to exploit the below-average. And the more below average and cognitively unsophisticated they are, the easier it is to exploit them.

This isn't even about Left vs Right. It's about how you design a political and economic system that can handle these challenges without imploding.
Even bigger news is that as of yesterday there were just 46 free ICU beds (out of 1300+) in the whole London
If they could have, they didn't during the invasion -- a not-insignificant number of videos on Twitter/Facebook/TikTok showing individuals actively gaining access to machines in the buildings. I'd really like to know about how this can be handled from a national security perspective, but not finding any resources that can teach what protocol is/needs to be in this case.
Telegram's MTProto 2.0 encryption protocol was recently proved correct, but I haven't seen any peer review or discussion on the paper yet.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03141
> And yet none of the gun videos I watch are remotely political.

Sure, but to assume that you _probably_ hold conservative beliefs due to having an interest in guns is way more often the case than not. Same is true in an opposite way if you watched some video on abortion rights.
People seem to get creative about terminology. It's not remotely like what I'd consider a walled garden (xBox, iOS, Playstation, etc).
As an aside, the haircut and shave are optional. But be careful, you may end up with a nickname like "Q-Tip" or "Voltan".

-- "Sasquatch"