jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I really appreciate this. I had a job where I was pretty much the best at what I was doing (not Python; SQL Server). I really wanted to get better at Python, so I got a job doing Python. My boss has a serious understanding of this stuff, and I'm learning a ton. He's really showing me how much there is to learn.

I guess I'm just impatient to get better faster.
Here's a "gist" for demo:

https://gist.github.com/peter-conalgo/c31e134e3213949bef70
I 110% agree with this. Provide a location and amenities for workers to come together to collaborate, but don't force them to be there all the time if there's no reason for it!

In many ways, I feel like "employment" is far too similar to high school, when it should be more like college -- define a task or project, set up periodic meetings to go over it (like class or lab in school), provide a place to work on it collectively (like a computer lab or library in school), but don't define where and how the work is to be done -- unless the worker can't figure it out himself and frequently fails to complete the task!

(and that, I think, is the root of the problem -- some people can't discipline themselves enough to do work on their own, so no one gets to....)
In some cases, software allows the rapid accumulation of wealth for owners and that fits the definition of a capital good.
I don't buy the idea that oversight is profoundly lacking. The FISA court has ruled on many of these programs, Congressional intelligence committees and the leadership have been briefed (funding has to come from somewhere!), and as I said, we have an election every four years to pick a guy or gal who can call the head of the NSA or CIA into the Oval and demand whatever changes they'd like. That's one of the reasons elections matter.

Anyway, this is way off topic from the Patriot Act, which of course happens more or less in full public view.
Yeah sure $50 is ridiculous but as something on the side and in light of the turbulent market dynamics post ad blockers proliferation, it's really remarkable.
uBlock supports this - you can right click on any element and select "Block element", which then pops up an editor allowing you to refine the CSS selector to only get the bit you want removed.
> Am I crazy to say I prefer the ownership and copy/move system of C++11?

Yes you are, and the only reason for that is that Rust's system is checked by the compiler, C++ is not.

It's really easy to screw up with C++, forgetting to make something noncopyable and then causing double free or use after free issues.
Chaucer predates cafe culture. Chaucer predates coffee, at least the drinking of.
Me too, I thought it was a startup called Jacuzzi that had just been kicked out of China.
That font rendering, someone save my eyes.
I think it's just manifestation of huge diversity among us. Once I started to appreciate the idea that we're not the same inside, I can see some very fascinating differences in the way we operate, think, see the world, etc.

Our brains are only superficially similar - isn't it as simple as that?

EDIT: fixed (hopefully) grammar mistakes.
Are rockets an emerging technology? There have been commercial launches for decades.
Suggestion: forget about what people here would buy. Figure out what people who can't program would buy.

Poster above says "to do lists" and I agree enough that a To Do list was #1 on my "list of software product ideas" before I started the current one.

What's wrong with RememberTheMilk? Once you figure that out you'll know what to build!
I see an ad if I click on the page.
For a second I thought it said Twitch.tv. Twitch has found a profitable niche from which to attack youtube. Don't stop at video games, go for the jugular twitch... Become youtube before youtube can become you.
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They sell to corporations. Citigroup and similar companies give their employees blackberries and generic dell laptops. Their employees are sufficiently un-excited about it that there is no buzz.
"The most basic market research you need to do is to identify the size of the market you're attacking."

I'm sorry but that's wrong. These numbers you mention serve no purpose whatsoever. "Online commerce is a x billion market and x% of people aren't happy with current options", that's just marketing speak (and I mean that in a bad way, this time).
This is infinitely more maneuverable, especially in the house e.g. the kitchen. A house has to be made wheelchair-compatible. This avoids that cost. And makes you look more human.
Apparently Microsoft has one:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1307...
Well, from this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy

The techniques I'm using are:

== Stereopsis: in this case, simple linear transformation in X-axis proportional to Z-axis as an approximation to a real 3D transformation

== Occlusion of one object by another: basic Z sorting, i.e. "painters algorithm"

== Subtended visual angle of an object of known size: I scale the object size proportional to its distance in the Z-axis

== Haze, desaturation, and a shift to bluishness: I interpolate the object color proportional to its distance in the Z-axis

If you can get the effect to work well, it goes from being a fairly incomprehensible jumble of grey circles (too information-dense for 2D display) to a box of bouncing balls where you can easily track individual objects as they move around.

EDIT: looking at the code, it seems I forgot about a technique that I used! I also threw in the "Vertical position" bullet point from the Wikipedia article, but without a frame of reference in the rendered scene you wouldn't be able to tell.
Looks like you have to stoop forward constantly to stay in motion. Not useful as a vehicle, not even for a short while.

Maybe useful as an office-chair replacement?
Why are trite comparisons with "the real world" (whatever that is) always the refuge of those who scorn others in public? "Well, if they can't take a little criticism from me, just wait until they hit the real world!"

Give me a break. Opening your comment with "big whoop" is hardly frank or straightforward. You offered no real advice or help, and you're effectively anonymous from what I can tell, so your claims of "experience" are worthless. Your comment just reeks of a condescending snark that HN is better off without.
Sounds like an ADA lawsuit is in the works...
Use https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx or something like it to verify that you have a clean VPS IP before putting any effort into setting it up as a mail host.

Use https://www.mail-tester.com/ or something like it to check how completely you're set up to maintain a good sender reputation. Having one doesn't guarantee you'll be able to deliver to places like Gmail, but not having one does guarantee that you won't, so keep fixing things until you get a 10/10 score. (The tool will tell you what it doesn't like, so this is easier than it might sound at first.)
I remember not too many years ago (2011/12?) Yahoo was the best source of free APIs for weather/stock/news information.

It was well documented, fully-featured, had a great web dashboard, and most importantly of all it was super stable.

Not sure if it shut down or if it just became irrelevant in the modern web. But many a engineering student plugged into it to make "hello world" weather apps.
Not impossible. Just that how well a language works for building things depends on at least three things:

1. The quality of your software engineering practices.

2. The quality of the programming language itself, i.e. how well it fulfils its purpose as a tool for allowing the programmer to express their intention through language.

3. The context – interoperability with particular libraries or existing code, availability of programmers and support resources, etc. affects which tools are good choices.

In a particular situation, COBOL or VBA might be the best choice (3) even though they're not particularly great languages (2) and you will have to compensate by increased effort spent on good practices (1) to work around problems with the language.

So what I was trying to say is simply that there is such as thing as better or worse when considering a tool in isolation. A hammer that failed QA and was later fished out of a lake with rotten handle could be used to great effect by a skilled craftsman, but it's still a bad hammer.

For example, if Brendan Eich had six months instead of ten days to design JavaScript (ignoring the business realities of the time), with a few rounds of feedback, would it not potentially have been a better language? What if he only had one day – would the quality of the language be exactly the same?
Eton is at a high-school level though.
It’s been my experience the US is against illegal immigration and abuse of things like H1-B but not immigration itself.

The US has the most immigrants than any other country by almost 5x at 48 million.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13401/2018-10-08%2010.38.0...

The lid is made of copper and as you see there are additional layers. Plus the interfaces between the materials are also limiting thermal conductance. As far as material science goes there's a lot of room, it's just not practical to throw liquid nitrogen cooling or diamond substrates at the problem when you're making a mass market product.
You can block cookies from quora.com, or, equivalently, open in a "private window", to avoid the paywall.

It's similar to news sites which block you after 3 visits -- clear your cookies and you can go back to them.

Some sites have anti-anti-tracking technology, and you must enable cookies and/or JavaScript to even view one page, but Quora isn't one of them (yet).
It's not repetition, it's the deliberate creation of a comprehensible perceptual model which lives in the sweet spot between trivial prediction and surprise.

Repetition is one way to enhance predictability. Stock musical transformations - modulation to a related key - are another.

This is a known thing in perceptual psychology, based on something called the Wundt Curve.

Too little novelty is boring. Too much novelty is incomprehensible and frustrating. Just the right amount is an enjoyable sweet spot.

Of course this varies for different listeners. If you're a fan of modern "squeaky door" contemporary classical music you're going to demand a very complex and unpredictable experience that pop fans find unbearably unmusical - and vice versa.
Why are you a better person to make these judgments than the people it actually affects?

When you start making rules for/against certain activities "for their own good", you need to be extremely circumspect, especially when these are consenting adults. Just because you feel strongly about something being bad for you doesn't mean it's your place to make the call for someone else.
Regarding CC rewards: how on earth do these 4-5% cashbacks work for US CC holders in Europe? Here, the CC fees are capped at 0.3%, so who is paying the difference if neither the merchant nor the customer pays?
I’m surprised they get realistic browning. In real life that’s caused by the Maillard reaction. They did not mention this in the video. I wonder it they specifically modeled this process, or if the behavior emerges from their other chemical models.
I have this mental model that I borrowed from the space industry. Just like how SSTO (Single-stage to orbit) is extraordinarily hard, although not impossible, I've always held the opinion that bootstrapping a startup in hard tech is similarly hard but not quite impossible.

An less riskier approach IMO, would be the multi-stage approach, by solving a series of less capital intensive problems and progressively solving harder and harder problems while accumulating capital for the ultimate goal.
Porn isn't about storytelling. It's about sex. Otherwise it's just a story with gratuitous nudity and sex. And yet it lacks actual sex and intimacy. Making it a poor, distant ersatz.

Same with marshmallows. They're food, technically, but a poor, distant ersatz of a real meal. Both in taste and nutrition.
Already in 2015, Emily Taylor warned [1] that ICANN could become the Internet's FIFA -- a small organization with great power that doesn't answer to any government. Here we are. A private company run by former ICANN people will be given the right to collect massive rent from a locked-in client base on a public resource.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/icann-int...
Oh man I can't believe I'm seeing this out in the wild in 2021. I used to love The Palace back in the days; would go around an awesome Harry Potter themed server (or room, can't recall the exact structure) and kinda play around in Hogwarts.
Talk about failing unsafe
If boycotting and consumer education worked, we would not have this discussion. Console and title sales are through the roof, despite tech-savvy people and press all over the world calling bullshit on DRM.

It's time for more drastic measures.
> And use what, though? Pirate Bay?

I know of no place to legally purchase DRM free content that you would find on Netflix. It's a sorry state to be in.

> Maybe launch a startup that has only public-domain videos to start?

See: http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/05/03/a-kill-hollyweb-plan...

Feel free to take the idea and run with it.

> There has to be a good solution.

I think you or I or someone else needs to make the solution. Though the problem is not simply technical. It's social and political, too.
Note that word 'repeatedly'. When people post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20958824 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20902321 and ignore our requests to stop breaking the guidelines, we ban them. If we didn't, the guidelines wouldn't mean much.

Sadly, it's my business to deal with flamewars, personal attacks, trolling, and other abuses of HN. If flames are allowed to burn this place to a crisp, HN won't be HN anymore. And eventually there wouldn't be anything worth running or anyone to run it for.
If work also counts as things like performing mathematical calculations, communicating between people, data entry, and most other unskilled tasks, then your point still applies.
> For personal users and not businesses, Google and Apple offer good enough alternatives

Not until iCloud folder sharing is available.
Just a guess - but a more efficient shop will sell stuff faster and then need more people to up-keep.
This doesn’t seem true.

In 2016, American universities hired about 20,000 tenure-track faculty [1]. Adding up the major pro sports leagues, there are very very generously 10,000 American pro athletes, (i.e. people who don’t have day jobs).

I guess things change if you include all the minor league and farm teams, especially for the MLB.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/10/12/about-three-q...
I think it's obviously in their best interest for the Epstein story to die, and their actions have demonstrated that. Including labeling anyone who doesn't think Epstein killed himself a "conspiracy theorist".

There should be no doubt that many people don't believe he committed suicide. He escaped punishment once, none of his co-conspirators have been punished, the media has been caught manipulating the story, many powerful people have been caught lying. Why should anyone think the corruption all the sudden stopped?

When people start getting punished, then maybe we can believe the people who held them accountable. Until then, all we've seen is corruption and deception and enough people have noticed that no amount of media manipulation will get people to believe that Epstein just happened to kill himself at the most convenient possible time for some of the most powerful people in the world, in an environment where that's only happened once in 40 years.
Never heard of an oyster flown in from the Northern hemisphere. Pacific oysters (from Japan) are cultivated in Coffin Bay and Tasmania. Native oysters predominate in most of NSW, where Pacific oysters are classed as a noxious species.

I never touch Pacific oysters in the later summer months - mainly because spawning makes them taste awful. Sydney rock oysters are great in the summer fortunately.
Interesting tie but:

Approximately 75% of the aluminium ever produced is still in use today as it can be recycled endlessly without compromising any of its unique properties or qualities.

Aluminium’s life cycle provides significant benefits through recycling, saving 95% of the energy it would take to make new aluminium metal.

https://aluminium.org.au/sustainability/recycling-sustainabi...
I worked for a prop firm that briefly did a foray into coin trading.

Coinbase's trading fees are *outrageous** compared to what we're used to in the world of normal equity/option/future/fx trading. Literally 100x+ what we're used to paying. You have to do absolutely enormous volume before they'll give you anywhere near a sane rate.

I'm not surprised they're printing money.
I'm kinda surprised Amazon hasn't taken the opposite approach and just said you want a union? Fine, here's our opening position.
No, but the Jordan Belforts of the world very much are.
Although the difference with airlines is nobody is pooling the wealth of the world into airlines, investors think tech is going to take over everything. Your cloud providers are being valued like they are going to either run the world at some point or get some compensation for being dismantled by international policy. And when your investors think this way, and you make as much money as these companies do, you might as well make your own chips.
It depends on where in the world you are, what kind of work the company does, etc. It even depends on where within a country the company has its principal activity.

Of course it is not necessarily the case that what works here in Norway would work in the US even if the legal framework were changed to support it.
The Ubiquiti stuff has a lot of automatic channel selection stuff built in to use the best frequencies for your conditions.
You nailed it!
Internally we don't really assign dates either, but certain user profiles like the idea.. if not the practice :)

One of those marketing features- like buying a plane ticket with Siri.. Cool idea, never happened :)

We plan to get a lot smarter with enrichment in future - like referring to docs or projects to bring them into the conversation.
There is no data in the article to back up the author's hypothesis. Further no control for colors or even action/offer button language. I have read other papers with data and conducted my own UX studies that show completely different results.
[UPDATE] I forgot to mention, one of my clients had 'inadvertently' agreed to a 4-year Comcast business agreement with a $4,000 termination fee...and the guy next door has FioS (they won't write any contract for longer than 2 years), so yeah, fuck Comcast.
I have cataracts just outside the center of my vision, and they are more visible against a white background. For this reason I prefer dark mode, as they are not visible, they just distort.
Anecdata:

After 20 years of not having credit card problems, about four years ago my wife and I had to replace our card about twice a year due to the number getting stolen. This happened six or seven times. The best is when the credit card company asked us to confirm we had sent a payment of $200 to a prisoner in Venezuela.

Since then I have strictly paid with cash at gas stations, but haven't changed my credit card use anywhere else. We have had to replace the card exactly once in the past three years.
Because I want to present a list of items, or some reference URLs, or a poem, without tons of unnecessary white space.
>Wouldn't salt destroy the homomorphic property?

It depends on how salt is applied. If it is concatenated, the homomorphic property persists. To really destroy it, you would need to mix it up. But then you would lose the malleability, and all that would remain is an equivalence operation from the ring, but not + or *. This still can be useful for some tasks, but not for encrypted calculations or ML.
This is an uncharitable and condescending take, although it does follow a sadly pervasive rhetorical pattern.

Essentially it erases the question of whether this might be a case of protecting the fundamental rights of our society from erosion, and reduces the problem to the immediate material circumstances. With all of that difficult nuance and caution gone, anybody who disagrees with the foregone conclusion is just a poor and stupid rube.
I can't tell if you think that's fast or slow. They're not just rolling back the feature; they have to add a new user preference, and replace the A/B test with the ability to run either way. Add in testing and such, and given Slack's scale, getting that released in a couple weeks sounds about right.
Interesting topic, but the blog post is milking it for two long. It could be shortened to one paragraph with no loss in information.
My gf had to take her laptop into the Genius Bar a little while ago for an airport issue. Apparently, a routine part of the intake process is to ask for the user's account password. This pissed me off so much I almost caused a scene in the store.

Obviously, if they have the hardware, they can do pretty much whatever they'd like, so it wasn't that they would be able to use it to look at her personal files or whatever (we had already removed anything personal before bringing it in).

It was that they, acting as a trusted authority, were telling people that it's okay to give away your password. It also means that anyone who uses the same password for their machine as they do for their email or their other accounts is handing their life over. Of course people shouldn't be doing this, but of course very many do, and it's just completely irresponsible of Apple to explicitly put people in a position where this could easily be exploited by some faceless tech behind the counter.

As much as I love their products, I really hate how Apple operates sometimes.
I think the parent and grandparent are missing the big picture. Having a verifiable digital currency with no central authority was a massive accomplishment, and PR and how fast things sync were (rightly) secondary concerns at the time.
That was an excellent article, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to getting a copy of the author's book - it sounds fascinating.
That was a very patient and kindly-worded response. I'd think that a psychology background would teach exactly the wrong lessons about the use of statistics in hard technology problems. In psychology research, the function of statistics is to persuade other psychologists, and persuading other psychologists of the importance of your research is the sole measure of success or failure. They're not used to find flaws in one's own work.

As for poorly-reviewed papers, it must be embarrassing when they make headlines.
The level of position being interviewed for matters a lot, too. When I hire a "senior developer", part of what I'm hiring is someone with the experience and ability to teach junior developers. Someone who is unable to articulate basic concepts in a conversational context is not that developer.
Is this criticism not the basis of the article itself?
It's a nice idea that people could simply start themselves up as a tour guide for x (Oxbridge dons apparently make good beer money touring colleges and quoting Coleridge)

However like a lot of these connect the world to one person ideas, the money is scant. They even admit most of their revenue will come from hotel bookings - so despite the YC, despite the new paradigm for marketplaces and providers, it's just a new hook for Hilton hotels.

I have a sneaking suspicion that vast amounts of the value and wealth being created by the Internet is effective unmonetisable - affiliates and ads will only stretch so far.
Safari on iOS 6 crashes every time I add a solid to the scene; which is kind of fascinating.
Yep, it's a bit gnarly. But at least linux/MacOS is straightforward: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/yRkGpw624-I/htJt...
I think that is probably a sensible way of doing it - it did seem a bit extreme that Letterpress is pure OpenGL. How much do you rely on QuartzCore/Core Animation rather than regular UIKit animation?